Xhevahir Sukaj

Xhevahir Sukaj (born 5 October 1987) is an Albanian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Flamurtari Vlorë in Albanian Superliga.

He has played for Vllaznia Shkodër and Elbasani in Albania, Hacettepe and Orduspor in Turkey, Ismaily in Egypt, NK Zagreb in Croatia and most recently Sepahan in Iran.

Club career

Early career
Sukaj is a product of the Vllaznia academy and in 2004 he was promoted to the first team at the age of just 16. The 2004–05 season was his first in professional football and he made 15 league appearances scoring 1 goal along the way helping Vllaznia finish 4th in the table. In the Albanian Cup, Sukaj managed to grab 2 goals in the 8–0 thrashing of Tërbuni Pukë in the 2nd round of the cup. Vllaznia reached the semi-finals that season but were eventually knocked out by Tirana after a 3–2 aggregate loss.

He was then loaned out to Elbasani for the 2005–06 season in order to gain some more first team experience, but Sukaj found it difficult to compete with the more experienced strikers at the club and only managed to feature in 4 league games without scoring, but he did win the Albanian Superliga that season with Elbasani. He reached the Albanian Cup semi-finals again but did not score in any game during his loan.

Sukaj returned to Vllaznia in 2006 and immediately established himself in the first team and was instrumental in helping Vllaznia finish 3rd in the league with 8 goals in 31 games. He also scored 3 goals in the cup where Vllaznia were narrowly knocked out in the quarter-finals through the away goal rule against Partizani Tirana. Overall, he scored 11 goals in the 2006–07 season.

During the 2007–08 season Vllaznia played in the Intertoto Cup where Sukaj made his first European appearance in the return leg of the 1st round against NK Zagreb, but after wasting chances he was substituted by the coach Mirel Josa for Vioresin Sinani in the 69th minute. Vllaznia were then drawn against Turkish club Trabzonspor in the next round where Vllaznia were beaten 10–0 on aggregate, with Sukaj only playing the first leg, as he was dropped to the bench by Josa for the return leg. In the league Vllaznia had a difficult season finishing only 7th, despite Sukaj scoring 10 goals in 28 games. His side did however manage to win the Albanian Cup with the help of 3 goals by Sukaj, including the winning goal in the final against KF Tirana. His goal tally reached 13 for the 2007–08 season and he won his first trophy with Vllaznia.

In the 2008–09 UEFA Cup qualification Sukaj scored 2 away goals against Slovenian side NK Koper in the first half of the 2–1 win. His goals put Vllaznia through to the second round as the 2nd leg finished goal less and his side were drawn against Italian giants Napoli. Sukaj's double in Slovenia earned his team their first win the competition in their 7 games played and Sukaj gained the record of becoming the first ever Vllaznia player to score more than one goal in a European game. He played his last game for the club before moving abroad in the first leg of the next round against Napoli, where Vllaznia were outclassed and beaten 3–0 at home.

Gençlerbirliği
His departure from Vllaznia Shkodër was announced on 4 August 2008. The club who actually secured his signature was Gençlerbirliği, who are the parent club of Hacettepe. He was loaned to Hacettepe, until the end of the season. After being unable to break into the first team he was loaned back to his homeland of Albania. He only started 2 games, but made other appearances off the bench.

Vllaznia Shkodër
On his first match back he was able to get a hat-trick in the match against Besa Kavajë, helping the team to win the match 4–1. In the other 14 matches that season he scored another 7 goals.

Orduspor
After an uneventful spell in Turkish top flight, Sukaj joined fellow Turkish side Orduspor by signing a two-year contract. He made his club debut on 30 August by appearing as a second-half substitute in the 2–0 home defeat to Altay. Two goals in nine appearances were not enough to impress the club directors, who terminated his contract in January 2010.

Ismaily
In January 2010, Sukaj signed a contract with Ismaily for the second part of 2009–10 season.

NK Zagreb
Sukaj signed a three-year contract with Croatian side NK Zagreb on 15 July 2010, after it was widely believed that he would join Vllaznia once again. He only made five league appearances and scored one goal before terminating his contract in January.

Vllaznia Shkodër
Sukaj returned to his first club Vllaznia Shkodër by signing a two-year contract in June 2013. On the opening day of the 2011–12 Albanian Superliga, he scored a hat-trick against Laçi to secure a win for his side, despite Vllaznia trailing the game after 43 minutes. Sukaj's goals came in the 73rd, 80th and 92nd minute of the game.

Sepahan
In January 2012, Sukaj completed his transfer to Iran Pro League side Sepahan by signing an 18-month deal. During the second part of 2011–12 season, he managed to score only two goals in ten appearances.

Sukaj won his third trophy with Sepahan in May 2015 after his club secured the league title in the very last week after beating 2–0 Saipa, where Sukaj featured in the last 14 minutes. After the end of the season, the club's directors decided not to renew his contract, leaving him as a free agent.

Partizani Tirana
He returned to Albania in the summer of 2015 and after being linked with a host of Albanian Superliga sides including his former club Vllaznia Shkodër he signed a one-year contract with Partizani Tirana on 21 July. In the opening match of 2015–16 Albanian Superliga against Laçi at Qemal Stafa Stadium, Sukaj scored a goal with free-kick in the 64th minute to secure his side one point.

Sukaj was one of the top form players in the league as he scored a goal in each of his first seven matches for the team. For his performances, he was awarded Albanian Superliga Player of the Month for October 2015. After that, he suffered a goal drought as only netted once after 17 October 2015, which was against Tërbuni Pukë on 2 December 2015.

On 19 December 2015, he immediately got sent off against Skënderbeu Korçë for an altercation with Renato Arapi only seconds after coming into the pitch. It was his first ever red card career. He was banned for 5 matches by the Disciplinary Committee of AFA.

He played his first match in 2016, coming off the bench to score in the 89th minute against Flamurtari Vlorë on 6 February 2016. With 21 league goals, Sukaj was the second highest scorer in the Albanian Superliga for the 2015–16 season, only six goals behind Golden Boot winner Hamdi Salihi.

On 21 June 2016, Sukaj signed a new contract with Partizani Tirana, keeping him at the club until 2017. However, he announced his departure from the club eight days later after being told that he was not on the new coach's plans for the new season.

Perak FA
On 28 June 2016, Sukaj joined Malaysia Super League club Perak FA on an 18-month contract, worth $500,000 per season. He made his competitive debut with the team in the matchday 14 against FELDA United on 16 July, playing 83 minutes in a 1–1 away draw. Three days later, Sukaj opened his scoring account in a Malaysian Cup Group C match against PDRM, which ended in a 2–1 home defeat. Then he scored his first goals in the league in his third appearance, netting a brace in a 2–1 win at Pahang. Four days later, during the next cup match against Johor Darul Ta'zim in which Sukaj opened the score in the 12th minute, he suffered a major injury which forced him to leave the match.

Partizani Tirana return
Following his departure from Perak, Sukaj returned to Partizani Tirana in January 2017 to train with the squad in order to maintain his form. On 5 January, sporting director Genc Tomorri stated that Sukaj will be part of the team. The transfer was made official on 30 January with the player signing until the end of the season. Due to injury, Sukaj missed February and half of March. He made his return debut later on 18 March by entering as a second-half substitute for Realdo Fili in a 2–0 win over Korabi Peshkopi. His first score-sheet contributions came on 23 April in the matchday 30 against Teuta Durrës where he scored in the last moments to seal the win 5–1. Sukaj was again decisive for the team five days later where he entered as a substitute against the city rivals Tirana, netting a late header for a 2–1 win which kept Partizani's title hopes alive. It was his fourth Tirana derby goal. Sukaj finished the second part of 2016–17 season by making 8 appearances, all of them as substitute, collecting 131 minutes as Partizani failed to win the championship once again, finishing runner-up to Kukësi. On 17 June 2017, Sukaj signed a new one-year contract.

Sukaj continued his cooperation with Partizani for another season, and despite suffering an injury in June, he was still included in the team for the 2017–18 UEFA Europa League first qualifying round against Botev Plovdiv. He started in the first leg at Selman Stërmasi Stadium on 29 June, netting inside 4 minutes with a shoot outside the zone in an eventual 1–3 loss. Then he played in the final 9 minutes in the second leg as Partizani lost 0–1 and was eliminated from the competition.

Sukaj chances to play were reduced under new manager Mark Iuliano, as the Italian preferred the 4–3–3 lineup with one center-forward, meaning that Sukaj would make space to newly acquired Edgar Çani. Even with the injury of Çani, Sukaj was forced to make space for the youngster Bardhi. He scored his first domestic goal of the season on 12 October at Teuta Durrës, netting a penalty kick to give his side the first league win of 2017–18 season. Sukaj found the net again four days later where he scored the opener in a 2–0 home win versus Luftëtari Gjirokastër; he was however replaced in the 60th minute due to an injury. Following the examinations, it was confirmed that Sukaj would be sidelined for 1 month.

He returned on action a month later as a late substitute in a 0–1 loss at Laçi. Sukaj returned to the score-sheet after more than a month on 30 November where he netted the lone goal in the match versus Pogradeci valid for the first leg of 2017–18 Albanian Cup second round. Sukaj left the club in late December due to limited playing time.

Vllaznia Shkodër return
On 5 January 2018, Vllaznia Shkodër announced to have acquired Sukaj's services on a contract until May 2018. Upon signing the contract, he flew out to Ulqin to link up with the rest of the squad on their winter training camp. His first goals came on 10 February in form of a brace in the 0–2 win at Abdurrahman Roza Haxhiu Stadium versus the fellow relegation strugglers Lushnja. Sukaj ended the second part of the season by scoring 8 goals in 18 appearances, a respectable amount which was not enough for Vllaznia who was relegated for the first time in 60 years.

Flamurtari Vlorë
On 29 January 2019, Sukaj joined Flamurtari Vlorë.

International career
Sukaj was well established in the Albania under-21 team during the 2009 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification campaign. On 17 November 2007, he scored a hat-trick in Albania 5–0 defeat of Faroe Islands which marked the Eagles largest win in a UEFA European Championship qualifying match. He eventually finished the campaign by bagging 5 goals in 10 matches as Albania finished Group 1 in 4th place.

After enjoying a successful under-21 career, Sukaj was called up by then coach Arie Haan for the friendly against Azerbaijan in Baku on 19 November 2008. He made his senior debut in this match by appearing as a substitute in the last minutes of the match, which finished in a 1–1 draw.

Career statistics

Club

International

Honours

Club
Elbasani
Albanian Superliga: 2005–06

Vllaznia Shkodër
Albanian Cup: 2007–08

Sepahan
Iran Pro League: 2011–12, 2014–15
Hazfi Cup: 2012–13

Individual
Albanian Superliga Player of the Month: October 2015


Cotovca

Cotovca may refer to several places in Moldova:

Cotovca, a village in Dobrogea Veche Commune, Sîngerei district
Cotovca, a village in Carmanova Commune, Transnistria


Long Valley, California

Long Valley, California may refer to several places:
Long Valley, Lassen County, California
Long Valley Caldera, a depression in eastern California adjacent to Mammoth Mountain
Long Valley, California, former name of Greenwood, El Dorado County, California


Farrer Park Hospital

Farrer Park Hospital is a private tertiary healthcare institution in Farrer Park, Singapore opened on 16 March 2016 by Health Minister Gan Kim Yong.

Located above the Farrer Park MRT station, the hospital has a capacity of 220 beds, 18 operating theatres and is connected to Farrer Park Medical Centre which houses 10 floors of suites for over 400 medical specialists.

It plans to operate in a niche below top-end private hospitals and expects half the patients to be medical tourists.

History
Plans for the hospital were first announced in 2008.

In early 2019, the hospital was noted as having a lack of patients, with about 50 to 60 per week at most times, and 50 percent of the medical suites were unoccupied. This was mainly due to the reduced numbers of medical tourists in Singapore, which had halved over the past decade, as well as the hospital's inconvenient location.


Eclipse: A Collection of Rarities & Music for Film

Eclipse is a limited edition release album by the Canadian band Rhea's Obsession. Only 500 numbered copies were made and sold at live shows. with 500 numbered copies sold at live shows.  It includes music from the group's early days as well as songs later included on Between Earth and Sky.

Track listing
 "Anila (Theme from Dead Souls)" – 2:41
 "Between Earth and Sky (early mix)" – 4:37
 "Too Deep (deeper mix)" – 4:12
 "Spill Elixir (precipice comp mix)" – 6:51
 "Slow Acting Poison" – 4:32
 "Cun Lacoudhir (original acoustic recording)" – 4:59
 "Tabulae Anatomacae Sex Theme" – 4:24
 "Anxia (from the series Psi Factor)" – 4:44
 "Breakthrough (Projekt comp mix)" – 4:13


Chasles' theorem (gravitation)

In gravitation, Chasles' theorem says that the Newtonian gravitational attraction of a spherical shell, outside of that shell, is equivalent mathematically to the attraction of a point mass.

The theorem is attributed to Michel Chasles (1793–1880).

Benjamin Peirce followed Chasles work on that developed an analogy between conduction of heat and gravitational attraction:
A single current in a direction perpendicular to the level surfaces, and having a velocity proportionate to the decrease in density … is the law of propagation of heat, when there is no radiation, and hence arise the analogies between the levels and isothermal surfaces, and the identity of the mathematical investigations of the attraction of bodies and the propagation of heat which have been developed by Chasles.
Chaslesian shell is the figure that Peirce exploits:
If an infinitely thin homogeneous shell is formed upon each level surface, of a system of bodies, having at each point a thickness proportional to the attraction at that point, the portion of either of these shells, which is included in a canal formed by trajectories, bears the same ratio to the whole shell, which the portion of another shell included in the same canal bears to that shell, provided there is no mass included between the shells.
The conception of these shells, and the investigation of their acting and reacting properties was original with Chasles, and it will be convenient, as it is appropriate, to designated them as Chaslesian shells.
The Chasles theorem as expressed by Peirce:
The external level surfaces of a shell are the same with those of the original masses, and the attraction of the shell upon an external point has the same direction with the attraction of the original masses, and is normal to the level surface passing through the point. This theorem is due to Chasles.
The ellipsoid is recruited to bound the Chaslesian shells:
An infinitely thin homogeneous shell, of which the inner and outer surfaces are those of similar, and similarly placed, concentric ellipsoids, is a Chaslesian shell.


Bo Dickinson

Richard Lee "Bo" Dickinson was a professional American football running back who played six seasons in the American Football League (AFL). Dickinson was a 6th round selection (72nd overall pick) out of University of Southern Mississippi by the Chicago Bears of the National Football League in the 1957 NFL Draft. However, he would play for the Dallas Texans (1960–1961), the Denver Broncos (1962–1963),  the Houston Oilers (1963), and the Oakland Raiders (1964) of the AFL.


Umbilicus (genus)

Umbilicus is a genus of over ninety species of flowering plants in the family Crassulaceae. Many of its species have been given synonyms under different genera such as Rosularia, Cotyledon, and Chiastophyllum. However, those that remain in Umbilicus are listed below:

Umbilicus rupestris (called navelwort)
Umbilicus horizontalis (called horizontal navelwort)
Umbilicus intermedius (called intermediate navelwort)
Umbilicus chrysanthus (called Venus' navel)
Umbilicus chloranthus (called green Venus' navel)
Umbilicus erectus (called reniform Venus' navel)
Umbilicus oppositifolius (called gold drop) (also as Chiastophyllum o.)
Other (unnamed) species
Umbilicus aetneus (Tornab)
Umbilicus affinis (Schrenk)
Umbilicus aizoon (Fenzl)
Umbilicus albido-opacus (Carlström), sometimes referred to as opacus.
Umbilicus alpestris (Karelin and Kirilov)
Umbilicus botryoides (Hochstetter)
Umbilicus citrinus (Wolley-Dod)
Umbilicus coutinhoi (Mariz)
Umbilicus cyprius (Holmboe)
Umbilicus deflexus (Pomel, 1875)
Umbilicus denticulatus (Turcz.)
Umbilicus elymaiticus (Boiss. and Hauszknecht)
Umbilicus erubescens (Maxim.)
Umbilicus ferganicus (Popov)
Umbilicus fimbriatus (Turcz.)
Umbilicus gendjnamensis (Stapf)
Umbilicus giganteus (Battandier)
Umbilicus glaber (Regel and Winkler)
Umbilicus globulariaefolius (Fenzl)
Umbilicus haussknechtii / Umbilicus hauszknechtii (Boiss. and Reuter)
Umbilicus heylandianus (Webb and Berthel.), found in Spain and Portugal
Umbilicus hispidus (Lam.)
Umbilicus lampusae (Kotschy)
Umbilicus lassithiensis (Gandoger)
Umbilicus leucanthus (G.Don)
Umbilicus libanoticus (Labill.) — possibly Umbilicus glaber
Umbilicus lievenii (Ledeb.)
Umbilicus linearifolius (Franch.)
Umbilicus lineatus (Boiss.)
Umbilicus lineolatus (Boiss.)
Umbilicus linifolius (Rupr.)
Umbilicus luteus (Huds.)
Umbilicus malacophyllus (Pall.)
Umbilicus maroccanus (Gandoger)
Umbilicus mexicanus (Schltdl., 1839)
Umbilicus micranthus (Pomel)
Umbilicus microstachyum (Kotschy)
Umbilicus mirus (Pampan.)
Umbilicus multicaulis (Boiss. and Buhse)
Umbilicus multicaulis (Boiss. and Buhse)
Umbilicus oreades (Decne.)
Umbilicus oxypetalus (Boiss.)
Umbilicus pallidiflorus (Holmboe)
Umbilicus pallidus (Schott and Kotschy)
Umbilicus paniculatus (Regel and Schmalh.)
Umbilicus parviflorus (Desf.), found in Greece.
Umbilicus patens (Pomel)
Umbilicus patulus (Candargy)
Umbilicus pendulinus (Wolley-Dod)
Umbilicus persicus (Boiss.)
Umbilicus pestalozzae (Boiss.)
Umbilicus platyphyllus (Schrenk)
Umbilicus praealtus (Brotero)
Umbilicus pubescens (G.Don)
Umbilicus pulvinatus (Rupr.)
Umbilicus pulvinatus (Rupr.)
Umbilicus radicans (Klotzsch)
Umbilicus radiciflorus (Steud. and Boiss., 1872)
Umbilicus ramosissimus (Maxim.)
Umbilicus rodriguezii (Gandoger)
Umbilicus samius (d'Urville)
Umbilicus schmidtii (Bolle)
Umbilicus sedoides (DC.)
Umbilicus semenovii (Regel and Herder)
Umbilicus semiensis (A.Rich.)
Umbilicus sempervivum (Bieberstein)
Umbilicus serpentinicus (Werdermann)
Umbilicus serratus (DC.)
Umbilicus sessilis (Dulac)
Umbilicus seteveni (Ledeb. and A.Boriss.)
Umbilicus simplex (C.Koch)
Umbilicus spathulatus (Hook.)
Umbilicus spinosus (DC.)
Umbilicus sprunerianus (Boiss.)
Umbilicus stamineus (Ledeb.)
Umbilicus strangulatus (A.Berger)
Umbilicus subspicatus (Freyn)
Umbilicus subulatus (G.Don)
Umbilicus thyrsiflorus (DC.)
Umbilicus tropaeolifolius (Boiss., 1843)
Umbilicus tuberculosus (DC. and Streud.)
Umbilicus turkestanicus (Regel and Winkler)
Umbilicus umbilicatus (Lam.)
Umbilicus vulgaris (Batt. and Trabut)
Umbilicus winkleri (Willkomm)

Umbilicus gallery

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Charles D. B. Green

Lieutenant Charles Duncan Bremner Green  (14 August 1897 – 3 October 1941) was a Canadian World War I flying ace credited with 11 aerial victories. Postwar, he went on to success in business until World War II. After rejoining military life, he again served until his untimely accidental death.

Early life
Charles Duncan Bremner Green was the son of Charles and Annie Henderson Green. He was born at sea while his parents were en route to Australia.

World War I
Green began his military service with the 164th (Halton and Dufferin) Battalion, CEF, with whom he enlisted. He transferred to the Royal Flying Corps, and was rated as a Flying Officer while still a lieutenant, on 22 December 1917.

He was stationed in Salonika, Greece with B Flight of 47 Squadron as a pilot of Royal Aircraft Factory SE.5as. On 13 April 1918, he and fellow Canadian Gerald Gordon Bell destroyed an enemy Albatros D.III.

When 47 Squadron's fighter flights were incorporated into forming the newly 150 Squadron, Green went with them. On 6 May, he began a string of ten triumphs with his new squadron by driving down a DFW reconnaissance foe. He would accrue victories one or two at a time until 18 July 1918. By then, he had destroyed six enemy planes, including the one shared with Bell and another shared with Acheson Goulding. He had also driven down five other opponents out of control.

Post World War I
Green was finally awarded a Distinguished Flying Cross on 1 January 1919.

After his return to Toronto, he married Marion Wilton Baillie, age 22, on 9 June 1923. They would have three children: Bremner, Donald, and Elizabeth. He began work as a broker for Amelius Jarvis and Company, and would continue with this company until 1939.

World War II
Although he was married with three children when World War II broke out, he re-enlisted, this time in the Royal Canadian Air Force. He served near his home at Camp Borden as an instructor, with the rank of Squadron Leader. His service in this post saw him rewarded with the General Service Medal and the Canadian Volunteer Service Medal.

In the autumn of 1941, he went to hospital for treatment of an old wound. While being treated, he toppled off the hospital's balcony to his death on 3 October 1941. He died without a will, and was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Toronto.


Digital divide in Thailand

The digital divide in Thailand refers to the economic, educational, and social inequalities between the Thai people who have access to information and communications technology (ICT) and those who do not. Thailand is a developing country within Southeast Asia, and is currently confronted with this problem. There are a number of factors that determine the digital divide within a country, including income, choice of technologies (e.g., owned mobile phone, owned laptop and/or personal computer) and socioeconomic factors (e.g., gender, level of education, age). ICT development and mobile penetration are strongly correlated with economic growth and social benefits.

Internet access

The Ministry of Digital Economy and Society National Statistical Office

Mobile internet and wireless technology

Before Internet was launched commercially in 1995, there was a very low rate of users in Thailand. Mobile Internet access was first introduced to the Thai market in December 2000 by Advanced Info Service (AIS), the largest nationwide mobile operator. Since 2005, the Internet market has been liberalized. At the end of 2010, there were more than 80 active Internet Service Providers (ISPs). Ten of these are major ISPs, including mobile operators which provide mobile Internet. The price of Internet service is cheaper than it was in the early stage of introduction.

Wireless technology has shifted the world of fixed Internet access to mobile Internet access, thanks to the growing penetration of wireless devices and rapid technological development. Mobile Internet is significantly different from fixed Internet, in terms of mobility and convenience. The two trends that have driven the growth of mobile Internet in Thailand are the introduction of third-generation mobile technology (3G) and improved coverage of mobile infrastructure. At the end of 2009, the mobile penetration rate was 98.58%, while the fixed telephony and Internet penetration rates were 11.12% and 25.80%, respectively. By 2010, the mobile penetration rate reached 100%. The underdevelopment of fixed infrastructure has led to a low fixed Internet penetration rate compared with mobile Internet penetration rate. In 2009 more than 50% of Internet subscribers were broadband subscribers.

NTC survey

In 2010, the National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) commissioned a nationwide face-to-face, interview-based survey of people in Thailand. The questionnaire consisted of 10 parts: 9 regarding telecommunications and media services such as fixed telephony, mobile telephony, the Internet, public phone, radio, and television, and the rest were about socio-economic backgrounds.

Population

Survey respondents were selected across each region of Thailand: Bangkok, Central, North, Northeast and South. The sample consisted of two groups of respondents: 1) consumers who accessed mobile Internet as their primary Internet connection, connecting either via a mobile device or USB cards, and 2) consumers with fixed Internet connection as their primary access. All respondents were under 15 years, and non-Internet users and incomplete answers were excluded from the sample. The total sample size after data cleaning was 739 respondents.

Findings

The characteristics of the survey were compared with the National Statistic Office (NSO) database in 2009. The survey drew data from 9 provinces, and the typical respondent was 30 years old with a bachelor's degree and a monthly income of 12,384.90 THB.

Limitations and effects
As a developing country, Thailand is confronted with the digital divide both at a national and international level. The underdevelopment of fixed infrastructure has led to a low Internet penetration rate. On the other hand, the mobile penetration rate is higher than fixed in terms of network coverage and subscription. The price of mobile Internet service is inelastic, so an increase in price does not affect the need to access mobile Internet. The price is a result of the lack of competition in fixed connection, which also results in limited choices for consumers.

Factors influencing internet access

Education
Internet is readily available at universities for students attending the school. This internet service is available to students, teachers, faculty and staff. Educational software has been developed and available for students attending the university. Wifi is one of the technology services available at universities. Education is largely based from books but schools are now incorporating the internet into their studies. Education is largely biased to the upper class. The upper class has the funds to afford education. This contributes to the digital divide in Thailand from the perspective that the lower class can not afford education and therefore does not have access to the internet.

Income
Thailand since 1988 has continuously lowered their poverty rate from approximately 34% to 9%. However, there is a disparity among regions in Thailand. Such that the Northeast and North region account for about 40% of the 9% that are in poverty with the whole kingdom accounting for 9 percent. The South, Central and Bangkok combined are less than 9% of the poverty rate. Lower income families cannot afford the luxuries like mobile devices that allow access to the internet. Higher income families have the ability to use extra funds to purchasing Internet and wireless devices that allow access to the Internet.

Location
Statistics compiled by the National Statistical Office on household utilization of information and communication technology revealed that during 2005-2014, computer users increased steadily in number both in urban and rural areas. In urban areas, computer users rose from 35.5% of the population in 2005 to 47.8% in 2014, while those in rural areas the percentage rose from 19.7% to 30.4% in the same period. However, the gap of urban and rural computer users during this period remained at a relatively wide margin of approximately 15–19%, although this urban-rural gap showed signs of narrowing slightly after 2011.

In urban areas, Internet subscription increased from 21.2% of the population in 2005 to 44.9% in 2014, and in rural areas from 8% to 26.9% However, the gap of urban and rural computer users during this period remained at a relatively wide margin of approximately 13–19%, and this urban-rural gap showed signs of widening further in 2011 mainly due to a projected rise in subscription of mobile Internet services in urban areas.

Age
In Thailand, the younger generation is heavily populating the universities and schools. This will account for the age gap in internet usage. According to a study conducted in 2006 by Okazaki, affluent youth is the core segment of mobile Internet adoption The older generation is not naturally receptive to the learning of the internet. This will compound on to the age divide of internet usage, and furthermore add to the digital divide in Thailand.

Gender
According to a study conducted in 2010, the gender divide does not exist in Thailand. Gender has no effect in the digital divide in Thailand. Women and men are fairly even in the education system. This allows both genders to have access to the internet. This creates little to no gender gap in usage of the internet.

Solutions
To help resolve the digital divide in Thailand, the current companies need to expand and create more affordable options. Mobile Internet should be easily accessible in dense populations and rural areas as well. A more attended and better education system will help resolve the digital divide in Thailand.

Investment in infrastructure
In 2010, Chalita Srinuan, Ph.D Student, and Erik Bohlin, Professor, from the Department of Technology Management and Economics at the Chalmers University of Technology in Göteborg, Sweden conducted a study investigating the determinant factors that could explain the digital divide phenomena in Thailand. The results show that the availability of a fixed telephone at home, becoming a mobile subscriber and the availability of traditional media are the determinants for using the Internet. The demographic background also affects the probability of using the Internet, for example age, education and area of residence. The results suggest that policies related to infrastructure and education are important to bridge the digital divide. Telecom regulators and government agencies such as the National Regulatory Agency (NRA) need to build telecommunication networks that could adequately serve different regions of Thailand. Investing in fixed/fixed wireless and wireless infrastructure can stimulate the growth of mobile Internet by increasing competition. The Thai government, regulators, and other stakeholders are encouraging the ICT industry to provide communications and services for all by fostering investment and removing regulatory bottlenecks.

Mobile internet
The benefits of mobile Internet can be seen as offering an alternative for bridging the digital divide, in particular, for a developing country such as Thailand where fixed telephony is not available. The three main conditions for mobile Internet are accessibility, availability and affordability of service and applications, which are all applicable to Thailand. In terms of accessibility and availability, the wireless infrastructure, in particular Wi-Fi hotspots, only provides full coverage in populated areas.

Education

The results indicate that the digital divide cannot be reduced without an education program. The government controls education system. For the education system to progress, the government needs to invest more money and energy. This will help bridge the digital divide in Thailand.


Sui Lu

Sui Lu (, born 1 April 1992) is a retired Chinese gymnast. She started competing at the senior international level in 2008, and won a silver medal at the 2012 Olympics. Her strongest events were the balance beam, where she was the 2011 World Champion and 2012 Olympic Silver Medalist, and the floor exercise, where she won two World Championship medals.

Gymnastics career

Early career
Sui Lu started training gymnastics at the age of 3, and was selected into the Shanghai team in 2000. In Chinese national level competition, Sui has made many achievements for the Shanghai team. She obtained team gold at the 2007 national championships, and gold for balance beam and floor exercise in the 2008 national championships, beating her national teammates and later Olympic champions Cheng Fei, Jiang Yuyuan, Li Shanshan and Deng Linlin.

Being a beam and floor specialist, Sui was one of the hopefuls to be selected to the Beijing Olympic team, which would later win China's first women's team gold medal. However, her inconsistent performances at the World Cup series in 2008 prevented her from making the final squad. Together with Xiao Sha, their pre-occupied position was substituted by Deng Linlin.

2009
At the 11th Chinese national games in 2009, Sui led the Shanghai team as their key gymnast. She competed and successfully executed on all 4 apparatus in the team final. Her final spectacular floor performance allowed the trailing Shanghai team to upset the Guangdong team by 0.125 points and take the gold. She also achieved bronze in the all-around, gold on floor and bronze on balance beam, receiving a total of four medals at the 11th national games.

Since 2009, Sui has established herself as a strong Chinese beam and floor specialist and won many national and international titles.

Sui debuted at the senior international level at the 2009 World Championships in London. Here she received a bronze on floor exercise. She also placed 8th on balance beam after a fall in qualifications, but could not participate in the final as teammates Deng Linlin and Yang Yilin qualified ahead of her, and only 2 competitors per nation are allowed in finals.

In 2009, Sui Lu also won medals in a number of World Cups, including gold for floor at the Cottbus World Cup, gold for beam and floor at the Osijek World Cup, and gold for floor at the Stuttgart World Cup.

2010
At the 2010 World Championships, Sui won a bronze medal with team China and finished 5th in the floor exercise final. She failed to make the beam final after a fall in the preliminary stage.

At the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, Sui won a total of 4 gold medals (in team, all-around, beam and floor), more than any other gymnast and athlete at these games.

2011
At the 2011 World Championships, Sui contributed in the team final on beam and floor, helping the team earn a bronze medal. Sui won the gold on balance beam after a performance that left her with a margin of more than 0.5 points over the silver medalist, her teammate Yao Jinnan. She scored 15.866 during the final, which is the highest score for a beam routine in the entire London Olympic period(2009-2012). She immediately proceeded with a performance in the floor final. She earned a silver medal behind Russian gymnast Ksenia Afanasyeva with a score of 15.066.

2012
Sui revealed in a subsequent interview that she considered retiring after being left off the Olympics Team in 2008, but that these 4 years of hard work had been worth it, and that she was glad she persisted after encouragement from her coaches.

Sui was named to the Chinese women's artistic gymnastics team for the 2012 Olympic Games, where she helped her team to a fourth-place finish in the team final, contributing the highest scores for her team on beam (15.366) and floor (14.6). She additionally qualified in first place to the balance beam event final (15.4), where she finished with the silver medal (15.5) behind gold medalist and teammate Deng Linlin.

Retirement
Sui Lu retired from gymnastics after the 2013 National Games.

Competitive history


Chiclayo metropolitan area

The Chiclayo Metropolitan Area is the name used to refer to the metropolitan area whose principal city is Chiclayo, according to Municipality of Chiclayo. According to population statistics of INEI It is the fourth most populous metropolitan area of Peru in year 2015.

Population

According to studies of municipality of Chiclayo the population of Chiclayo metropolitan in the year 2007 was of 697.871 people distributed in its metropolitan districts. According to estimated population of INEI for year 2015 in the following table is shown the population of Chiclayo Metropolitan by districts:

Graphics of evolution of the population
In the following Graphics the evolution of the population of Chiclayo metropolitan area.


I Am the Law (1938 film)

I Am the Law (1938) is a crime drama directed by Alexander Hall and starring Edward G. Robinson.

Plot
New York City law professor John Lindsay (Robinson) is asked by Eugene Ferguson (Kruger), a member of the governor's Civic Committee, to become a special prosecutor to fight racketeers and corruption in the city, but unknown to Lindsay, Ferguson is in association with the racketeers.

Cast

 Edward G. Robinson as John Lindsay
 Barbara O'Neil as Jerry Lindsay
 John Beal as Paul Ferguson
 Wendy Barrie as Frances Ballou
 Otto Kruger as Eugene Ferguson
 Arthur Loft as Tom Ross
 Marc Lawrence as Eddie Girard
 Douglas Wood as  D.A.  Bert Beery
 Robert Middlemass as Moss Kithell
 Ivan Miller as Inspector  Gleason
 Charles Halton as George Leander
 Louis Jean Heydt as J.W Butler
 Fay Helm as Mrs. Butler
 Emory Parnell as Detective Brophy


Athletics at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's 5000 metres

The Men's 5000 metres competition at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico. The event was held at the University Olympic Stadium on  October 15–17.

Competition format

The Men's 5000m competition consisted of three heats (Round 1) and a Final. The top five runners from each heat advanced to the final.

Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:

Results

Round 1

Heat 1

Heat 2

Heat 3

Final

Notes:
Q- Qualified by place
DNF - Did Not Finish


Pomona, Virginia

Pomona is an unincorporated community in Westmoreland County, in the U. S. state of Virginia.


Carlos Albert (footballer)

Carlos Albert Llorente (born 10 July 1943) is a Mexican former footballer. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1964 Summer Olympics.


Gnamptonyx

Gnamptonyx is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae.

Species
Gnamptonyx australis Viette, 1965
Gnamptonyx innexa (Walker, 1858)
Gnamptonyx obsoleta Hampson, 1913


Ronnie Sundin

Ronnie Karl Sundin (born October 3, 1970) is a retired Swedish professional ice hockey defenceman. He was an alternate captain for Frölunda HC in the Swedish Elite League.

Playing career
Sundin started his career in his hometown team Ludvika HC. At age 18, he joined Mora IK of the Swedish 2nd division and played there for four seasons. In 1992, he joined Västra Frölunda HC of the Swedish Elite League.

Sundin was drafted 237th overall by the New York Rangers in the 1996 NHL Entry Draft, after a good year when he reached the Swedish Championships finals and made his debut on Team Sweden in the World Championships.

An NHL one gamer, Sundin played one game for the New York Rangers in 1997–98. He spent most of the season with the Hartford Wolf Pack in the AHL, where he helped the club reach the Calder Cup semifinals. In 1998, Sundin returned to Sweden and resumed his career with Frölunda. Sundin has won the Swedish Championships with Frölunda in 2003 and again in 2005.

Sundin has represented Sweden in the World Championships 7 times, and 1 time in the Olympic games. In 2006, he was a member of the Swedish gold medal winning teams at the Olympics and the World Championships.

Sundin became the player with most games played for Frölunda HC in the 2nd game of the Swedish Championships final on April 11, 2006, when he played his 685th game for the club. The previous record holder was Stefan Larsson.

He retired after the 2008–09 season.

International play

Played for Sweden in:
 1996 World Championships
 1997 World Championships (silver medal)
 2002 World Championships (bronze medal)
 2003 World Championships (silver medal)
 2004 World Championships (silver medal)
 2005 World Championships
 2006 Winter Olympics (gold medal)
 2006 World Championships (gold medal)

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

International

Records
Frölunda HC club record for most games played (891)


BMW M4 Turbo DTM

The BMW M4 Turbo DTM is a "Class One" touring car constructed by the German car manufacturer BMW for use in the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters. It will be a turbocharged variant of its predecessor, the BMW M4 DTM that had a naturally aspirated engine. The M4 Turbo DTM is still based on the production BMW M4. The BMW M4 Turbo DTM made its DTM début in the 2019 DTM season and will be used until 2021 season. The M4 Turbo DTM is the BMW's second-turbo powered DTM car ever to date and first overall DTM turbo-powered machine since Ford Sierra Cosworth RS500 Turbo DTM in 1989.

Design

Chassis
BMW carried over the M4 DTM race car for it to undergo major development for the Class One project which will be used for the 2019 season and beyond and rebrand it as BMW M4 Turbo DTM. The aerodynamic packages of the M4 Turbo DTM also has significant changes including the front splitter length cut to 90 millimetres, radiator grill revamp, rear wing width increased to 520 millimetres and also DRS improvement to make cars aggressive for overtaking compared to the naturally aspirated BMW M4 DTM.

The design also features the new firewall interior cockpit protection to deflect debris away from a driver's head in the event of an accident.

New engine
The M4 Turbo DTM features a brand-new engine package built specifically for the car. The aging BMW P66/1  V8 naturally-aspirated engine—which had been used since 2012 with BMW M3 DTM—was replaced by a  inline-4 turbocharged direct-injected engine developed by BMW. The BMW P48 Turbo engine uses Garrett as the new turbo supplier.

Début
The first shakedown run of the BMW M4 Turbo DTM was on 27 October 2018, by Bruno Spengler at BMW headquarters in Munich, Germany. The official race début of BMW M4 Turbo DTM was at the 2019 Hockenheimring 1 DTM round on 4 May 2019. BMW Team RMG's Marco Wittmann won the inaugural pole and won the first race with the M4 Turbo DTM car.


Hr. Petit

Hr. Petit (Mr Petit) is a 1948 Danish crime film directed by Alice O'Fredericks.

Cast
Sigfred Johansen as Hr. Petit
Grethe Holmer as Fru Petit
Tavs Neiiendam as Naboen
Randi Michelsen as Naboens kone
Karin Nellemose as Marianne Boris
Inge Hvid-Møller as Bertha Gautier
Tove Bang as Isabelle
Lisbeth Movin as Marguerite Palsler
Betty Helsengreen as Henriette Palsler
Betty Söderberg as Fru Picot
Jon Branner as Franz Picot
Lily Broberg as Stuepigen Lisson
Jytte Møller as Fleure
Jessie Rindom as Guvernanten
William Jarlbak as Pateren
Tove Grandjean as Fru de Brisville
Karen Meyer as Hendes svigerinde
Preben Lerdorff Rye as Detektiven
Else Jarlbak as Søster Gabrielle
Børge Møller Grimstrup

External links


Major Jack

Major Jack (born 24 June) is a Riverian engineer and politician from Abonnema and the incumbent Deputy Chief Whip of the Rivers State House of Assembly. He is representing Akuku-Toru I constituency and is a member of the Rivers State People's Democratic Party.

He won as MHA during the election rerun on 19 March 2016 with 11,624 votes, defeating All Progressives Congress' Ineye Jack who got 810 votes.


Manechaur

Manechaur () is a village in Sankhar village development committee Ward No-4, Syangja District, Gandaki Zone, Nepal. According to the 2011 Nepal census, held by Central Bureau of Statistics, it had a total population of 201.


Lake Bonny Park

Lake Bonny Park, is a park in Lakeland, Polk County, Florida, in the United States bordering  Lake Bonny. The park is home to Lakeland Skatepark, a $1.3 million state-of-the-art skate facility that opened in 2013 and which has been used in photo shoots by Nike and other national advertisers. The skate park won the "Build It" award from the American Planning Association's Florida chapter. The park is also home to a lighted softball field, two lighted baseball fields and a multi-purpose field. In addition, there is a fishing pier, a 1.3 mile long jogging trail, and several other amenities. It is located directly between Lakeland High School and Southeastern University


Susannah Jones

Susanna(h) Jones may refer to:

 Susannah Mushatt Jones (1899–2016), American supercentenarian
 Susannah Makeig-Jones (1881–1945), pottery designer
 Susanna Jones (born 1967), British writer


The Ballad of Big Al

The Ballad of Big Al (distributed in the North American market as Allosaurus: a Walking with Dinosaurs Special) is a two episode series of Walking with Dinosaurs specials following the real-world Allosaurus (Allosaurus fragilis) specimen "Big Al". It first aired on BBC One in the United Kingdom during Christmas 2000.

Plot

The special begins at the University of Wyoming, showing the bones of a sauropod followed by an Allosaurus named Big Al. After the ghost of Big Al wanders the museum passing by his own skeleton and a nest of fossilized eggs, the film then travels back in time to 145 Mya showing a similar nest. Al and his siblings hatch and are helped out of the nest by their mother. She brings them to a river bank and the hatchlings start to hunt for insects. When the mother leaves the hatchlings temporarily, a year-old Allosaurus comes out of hiding and kills one of them (luckily, the victim was not Al).

Al is then shown at the age of two years. He tries to hunt a flock of Dryosaurus . He has not yet learned how to ambush so he fails to kill one of the swifter, smaller dinosaurs. Later, he snatches a lizard from a branch to keep him satisfied. Al comes across a dead Stegosaurus  and an Allosaurus waiting for death in a pit of sticky mud. Meanwhile, a female Allosaurus, attracted to the Stegosaurus carcass, also gets stuck. She struggles to free herself, but fails. Al luckily avoids the same fate as he had learnt to avoid carrion and the large carnivores that it usually attracts. Unable to escape, the trapped Allosaurus pair die of exhaustion, their corpses left to Anurognathus.

Three years pass, and a herd of Diplodocus are migrating across the prehistoric salt lake. Al, now 30 feet (9 meters) long, is joined by several other Allosaurus and they manage to panic the herd into leaving a weakened sick individual behind. But as the Allosaurus gather for the kill, Al is struck down by the neck of the Diplodocus. The pack decides wait for a few hours until the Diplodocus is brought down by heat exhaustion and his illness. Though they feed, within the hour an adult female Allosaurus scavenges the kill. Al takes some remnants of the carcass for himself and leaves, trying to find a safer place to eat.

A year passes by, and Al, now 33 feet (10 metres) long with the crests over his eyes reddening, is shown drinking at a pond. His presence however makes other dinosaurs around the pond nervous and the smell of blood he brings with him puts off a pair of Stegosaurus that were attempting to mate. Away from the pond, he discovers the scent of a nearby female Allosaurus and issues a mating call. She is not interested, but Al's inexperience shows, causing him to get too close for her comfort, and the female attacks him. Al is lucky enough to escape from the ensuing fight with his life, although he sustains injuries to his right arm as well as smashed ribs. Later the dry season comes, and Al is attempting to hunt a flock of Dryosaurus. Whilst ambushing them however, a log falls in his path which he trips over and ends up breaking something in his right foot. As the dry season turns to a drought, Al's limp from the fall gets worse and his right middle toe -which he broke in the fall- has become badly infected. Soon, unable to hunt, he dies in a dried-up riverbed, where two hatchling Allosaurus are hunting for bugs and come across his emaciated carcass. He is said not to have reached full size, dying as a mature adolescent and that the process of his fossilisation was so perfect it preserved even the injuries and diseases he sustained in his lifetime including -amongst others- lumps where his ribs healed after their break and the raging infection on his middle toe.

Episodes

American Version
The American version was renamed Allosaurus: A Walking with Dinosaurs Special, along with combining the evidence with Al's life. Also they took out the one of the trapped Allosaurus and the birds and reptiles behavior, and shots of Al living in the 21st Century.

Critical reaction
The Ballad Of Big Al won two 2001 Emmy Awards, including Adelphoi Music Ltd's Andrew Sherriff and Ashley Bates for Outstanding Sound Editing for a Non-Fiction Program.

Merchandise

Book Adaptation
A children's book was made, called Allosaurus! The Life and Death of Big Al, and it differs from both the American and UK versions in some aspects.

The Stegosaurus was shown dead in the show, while it was alive and struggling (trying to fight off the Allosaurus pair) and soon died in the book.
In the show at the second and sixth years, Al is hunting Dryosaurus. In  the book he is hunting Othnielia.
Al tripped on a log in the show, while he tripped on a mound of dirt in the book.

BBC game
The BBC launched an online Role-Playing Game involving Big Al, now replaced by the Planet Dinosaur online game.


Heliswiss

Heliswiss AG is a Swiss helicopter company with headquarters on the property of Bern Airport in Belp, Switzerland, near Bern.

History

Heliswiss - the oldest helicopter company in Switzerland - was founded as „Heliswiss Schweizerische Helikopter AG“ with headquarters in Berne-Belp on April 17, 1958. This was the beginning of helicopter flying in Switzerland. During the following years Heliswiss expanded in Switzerland and formed a network with bases in Belp BE, Samedan GR, Domat Ems GR, Locarno TI, Erstfeld UR, Gampel VS, Gstaad BE and Gruyères FR.

During the build-up of the rescue-company Schweizerische Rettungsflugwacht (REGA) as an independent network, Heliswiss carried out rescue missions on their behalf.

Heliswiss carried out operations all over the world: in Greenland, Suriname, North Africa and South America.

The first helicopter owned by Heliswiss was a Bell 47 G-1. It was registered as HB-XAG on September 23, 1953. From 1963 Heliswiss started to expand and began to operate with medium helicopters like the Agusta Bell 204B with a turbine power of 1050 HP and an external load of up to 1500 kg. From 1979 Heliswiss operated a Bell 214 (external load up to 2.8 t). Since 1991 Heliswiss operates a Russian Kamov 32A12 which was joined by a
second one in 2015.

Current fleet

Swiss Helicopter's fleet comprises some 36 helicopters (as at December 2013):

Bases
Flughafen Bern-Belp, Samedan GR, Domat/Ems GR, Locarno Airport, Erstfeld UR, Gampel VS and Gruyères FR.
Gstaad BE(winter base)

Products
Flight-training (basic training, commercial pilot, mountain training, night-flight)
Charter flights
VIP-flights
Heli-skiing
Film- and foto-flights
External load flights (up to 5000 kg), logging
Firefighting

Partners/Subsidiaries
Air Grischa
BOHAG
Heli Gotthard
Heliswiss International AG
Eliticino
Air Zermatt AG
Rhein-Helikopter AG   (Liechtenstein only)


Henk Stallinga

Henk Stallinga is a Dutch multidisciplinary contemporary artist based in Amsterdam.

Biography
Henk Stallinga graduated from the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam in 1993, and established Studio Stallinga the same year. As of 1998, the studio is co-owned by managing partner Annemarie Galani.

Even though Stallinga was never formally educated as an industrial engineer/designer at university, his studio worked for the industry in the mid-2000s

Stallinga received international recognition at the 1995 Mondriaan exhibition in the MoMA New York, when the Garden Café of the MoMa was installed with work of Henk Stallinga, Joep van Lieshout, and others.

Stallinga’s visual language is rooted in De Stijl, Japanese architecture, minimal art and conceptual art. Earlier works of Stallinga challenge the perception of the industrial product, its functionality and meaning. At present, Stallinga works on sculptures and multimedia installations. His more recent works interweave visual elements with motion and sound.

Public collections
 MoMA New York
 Cooper Hewitt New York
 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
 Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, Paris
 Louisiana Museum Denmark
 Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
 van Abbe Museum
 Mizuho Art Collection, London
Achmea Art Collection
 Akzo Nobel Art Foundation
 EKARD collection
 Amsterdam Museum

Gallery


Mayor of Davao City

The Mayor of Davao City is the chief executive of the government of Davao City in the Philippines. The mayor leads the city's departments in executing ordinances and delivering public services. The mayorship is a three-year term and each mayor is restricted to three consecutive terms, totaling nine years, although a mayor can be elected again after an interruption of one term.

The current mayor of Davao City is Sara Duterte, the daughter of current Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte.

List

Santiago Artiaga (1937–1938)
Agustin Alvarez (1938–1940)
Pantaleon A. Pelayo, Sr. (1940–1941)
Alfonzo G. Oboza, Sr. (1941–1942)
Juan A. Sarenas (1943–1944)
Donato Endriga (1944–1945)
Apolinario C. Cabigon (1946–1946)
Fundador R. Villafuerte (1946–1947)
Leon A. Garcia (1947–1949)
Bernardo B. Teves (1949–1953)
Rodolfo B. Sarenas (1953–1954)
Julian A. Rodriguez, Sr. (1954–1955)
Carmelo L. Porras (1956–1967)
Elias B. Lopez (1968–1971, 1981–1986)
Luis T. Santos (1972–1981)
Zafiro L. Respicio (1986–1987)
Jacinto T. Rubillar (1987–1988)
Rodrigo Duterte (1988–1998, 2001–2010, 2013–2016, leave of absence in 1990)
Dominador B. Zuño, Jr. (Acting Mayor – Nov. 12, 1990–Jan. 11, 1991)
Benjamin C. de Guzman (1998–2001)
Sara Duterte (2010–2013, 2016–present)

Vice Mayor of Davao City
The Vice Mayor is the second-highest official of the city.  The vice mayor is elected via popular vote; although most mayoral candidates have running mates, the vice mayor is elected separately from the mayor. This can result in the mayor and the vice mayor coming from different political parties.

The Vice Mayor is the presiding officer of the Davao City Council, although he can only vote as the tiebreaker. When a mayor is removed from office, the vice mayor becomes the mayor until the scheduled next election. Bernard Al-ag assumed the post after the resignation of the previous Vice Mayor, Paolo Duterte, on January 5, 2018.


HMS Invincible (1747)

Invincible was originally a 74-gun ship of the line of the French Navy launched in October 1744. Captured on 14 October 1747, she was taken into Royal Navy service as the third rate HMS Invincible.

During the early part of the 18th century British ship designers had made few significant advances in design, whereas French shipbuilding benefited from a remarkably creative period. At the time of the capture of Invincible, there was not one 74-gun ship in the Royal Navy. By 1805 at the Battle of Trafalgar, three quarters of British ships of the line were of this singular design and the 74-gun ship had become the backbone of all major navies of the world.

Invincible was one of the first trio of a new and longer type of 74-gun ships. Until 1738, French 74s had been little more than 154 (French) feet in gundeck length, carrying just thirteen pairs of 36-pounder guns on the lower deck, fourteen pairs of 18-pounder guns on the upper deck and eight pairs of 8-pounder guns on the quarterdeck and forecastle, with the balance of the 74 guns made up of four small 4-pounder guns on the poop.

This was changed by François Coulomb's design for , launched in 1739 at Toulon. The gundeck length was stretched to 164 (French) feet, and the four small guns on the poop were eliminated, replaced by new gunports for an additional pair of 36-pounder guns on the lower deck and an extra pair of 18-pounder guns on the upper deck.  This new gun establishment became the standard for all subsequent French 74s.  The next two ships, Invincible designed by Pierre Morineau and Le Magnanime designed by Blaise Geslain, were begun in early 1741 at Rochefort and were each even longer than Le Terrible.

At the First Battle of Cape Finisterre (14 May 1747) during the War of the Austrian Succession, Invincible was escorting a convoy of merchant ships when she was sighted by the British channel fleet of 16 ships of the line, which gave chase. Invincible attacked the British ships to give the convoy a chance to escape, and alone engaged six British warships. In the end with most of her crew dead or wounded she struck her colours. Gracious in defeat, the French Commander, Saint-Georges, handed his sword to Admiral George Anson.

HMS Invincible sank in February 1758 when she hit a sandbank in the East Solent. The ship remained upright for 3 days after its grounding allowing the crew to safely escape. The site of the wreck was rediscovered by a fisherman in 1979 and was designated under the Protection of Wrecks Act on 30 September 1980. In 1996 Amer Ved grounded at the wrecksite, although it is not clear whether or not this resulted in damage to the remains. In 2013 the wreck was placed on English Heritage's list of ten most at risk heritage sites due to parts of the ship being exposed by changing seabed levels. In July 2016 it was announced that £2 million of the fines imposed for the Libor banking scandal would be used to fund an excavation of the wreck site. In December 2019 the BBC was given a preview of some of the 2000 artefacts found at the site, due to go on display to the public in 2020 at Poole. These include parts of the ship's hull, tobacco pipes and ceramic hair curlers.


George Foottit

George Foottit (1864 – 21 September 1921) was an English clown who found fame on the Paris circus scene.  He is famous for being part of the clown duo "Foottit and Chocolat".

After retiring, he ran a bar and restaurant near the Rond Point des Champs-Élysées. He died from cancer in Paris on 21 September 1921.

His name was sometimes misspelled "Footit" or "Footitt", possibly to adapt it to French pronunciation rules. His real name was thought to be "Tudor Hall", but this is not the name that appears on his death certificate.

Bibliography


Youth Internet Safety Survey

The Youth Internet Safety Survey was a series of two surveys conducted in the United States in 1999 and 2004.   The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) provided funding to Dr. David Finkelhor, Director of the Crimes Against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire, to conduct a research survey in 1999 on Internet victimization of youth. His research was cited by the United States Department of Justice as "the best profile of this problem to date".

Crimes Against Children Research Center staff interviewed a nationally representative sample youth, aged 10 to 17, who used the Internet regularly.  There were 1501 subjects in the first survey in 1999, and 1500 in the second survey in 2005.

Results from the surveys have been quoted in support of the Deleting Online Predators Act of 2006, saying that "one in five children had received an unwanted online solicitation of a sexual nature".  This is a reference to the 19% found in the first survey (see "First Survey" below).  This is potentially misleading, since some have interpreted this as implying adults soliciting offline sexual contact from children.  The 19% includes solicitation from minors to minors, and are not generally requests for physical/"offline" contact.  The same survey found that none of the solicitations led to an actual sexual contact or assault.

The more complete results and recommendations are included below.

Definitions
Internet user: using the Internet at least once a month for the past six months at home, school, a library, or some other place.

Sexual solicitations and approaches: Requests to engage in sexual activities or sexual talk or give personal sexual information that were unwanted or, whether wanted or not, made by an adult.  Note that this includes solicitation from other minors, so unwanted advances by a 13-year-old on a 14-year-old are included in this.

Aggressive sexual solicitation: Sexual solicitations involving offline contact with the perpetrator through regular mail, by telephone, or in person or attempts or requests for offline contact.

Unwanted exposure to sexual material: Without seeking or expecting sexual material, being exposed to pictures of naked people or people having sex when doing online searches, surfing the web, opening E-mail or instant messages, or opening links in E-mail or instant messages.

Harassment: Threats or other offensive behavior (not sexual solicitation), sent online to the youth or posted online about the youth for others to see.

Not all such incidents were distressing to the youth who experienced them. Distressing incidents were episodes where youth rated themselves as very or extremely upset or afraid as a result of the incident.

First Survey (1999)
Known as YISS-1.  This was conducted between August 1999 and February 2000.  It interviewed 1501 youth Internet users, ages 10 through 17.

Highlights of Results

Regarding "Sexual Solicitations and Approaches", the survey found:
 19 percent of the young Internet users surveyed received an unwanted sexual solicitation in the past year.
 5 percent of the surveyed youth received a distressing sexual solicitation (i.e., the solicitation made them feel very or extremely upset or afraid).
 3 percent of the youth received an aggressive solicitation involving offline contact or attempts or requests for offline contact.
 None of the solicitations led to an actual sexual contact or assault.

One-third of the surveyed youth who had received a solicitation were male; two-thirds were female. The great majority (77 percent) of the victims were 14 to 17 years old; however, almost one quarter were ages 10 to 13. The younger group reported 37 percent of the distressing solicitations.

Regarding "Unwanted Exposure to Sexual Material", the survey found:
 25 percent of the surveyed youth reported unwanted exposures to sexual material.
 6 percent of the youth had experienced distressing exposures (i.e., the exposure made them very or extremely upset).

A slightly higher percentage of boys than girls reported exposures (57 percent vs. 42 percent) or distressing exposures (55 percent vs. 45 percent). Almost two-thirds of exposures were to youth ages 15 to 17. Less than one-tenth were to 11- and 12-year-olds, and none to 10-year-olds.

Regarding harassment, the survey found:
 Six percent of the young people surveyed reported harassment incidents (threats, rumors, or other offensive behavior) during the past year.
 Two percent of the surveyed youth reported episodes of distressing harassment (i.e., the incident made them feel very or extremely upset or afraid).

Second Survey (2004)
Known as YISS-2.  This was conducted between March and June 2005.  It interviewed 1500 youth Internet users, ages 10 through 17.

Highlights of Results

Regarding "Sexual Solicitations and Approaches", the survey found:
 13 percent of the young Internet users surveyed received an unwanted sexual solicitation in the past year.  This is a decrease from the 19 percent found in the prior survey.
 4 percent of the surveyed youth received a distressing sexual solicitation (i.e., the solicitation made them feel very or extremely upset or afraid). This is approximately the same as the 5 percent found in the prior survey.
 4 percent of the youth received an aggressive solicitation involving offline contact or attempts or requests for offline contact.  This is approximately the same as the 3 percent found in the prior survey.
 Two of the solicitations (0.1 percent) lead to sexual assault, compared to zero cases of sexual contact or assault in the prior survey.  For comparison, according to the FBI's criminal victimization tables' national rate for sexual assault, one would expect 4 rapes or sexual assaults every year in a group of youth this size.

Regarding "Unwanted Exposure to Sexual Material", the survey found:
 34 percent of the surveyed youth reported unwanted exposures to sexual material.  This is a marked increase from the 25% found in the prior survey.
 9 percent of the youth had experienced distressing exposures (i.e., the exposure made them very or extremely upset).  This is a rough equal increase from the 6% found in the prior survey.  The study attributed this rise in part to aggressive tactics by pornography marketers, and the increased speed and capacity of computers and Internet connections to transmit images.

Regarding harassment, the survey found:
 9 percent of the young people surveyed reported harassment incidents (threats, rumors, or other offensive behavior).  This is a marked increase from the 6% found in the prior survey.  Study authors said it was consistent with growing indicators of online incivility among youth.
 3 percent of the surveyed youth reported episodes of distressing harassment (i.e., the incident made them feel very or extremely upset or afraid).  This is a roughly equal increase from the 2% found in the prior survey.


Bernard W. Burton

Bernard W. Burton (December 24, 1898 – February 26, 1991) was an American film editor with more than forty credits in feature films and television, and dozens of additional credits as the supervising editor for television programs in the 1960s. He was responsible for editing James Whale’s 1936 version of Show Boat and a string of B-movies throughout the 1930s and 1940s.

Burton was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Film Editing for his work on One Hundred Men and a Girl (1937), which was directed by Henry Koster. Burton edited six films directed by Koster between 1937 and 1941, all produced by Universal Pictures.

From 1942–1953 Burton has nearly 30 credits as the associate producer of films. With the coming of the 1950s, he migrated to television and worked on such shows as Burke's Law and The Big Valley. He retired around 1968. He died at the age of 92 in 1991.


Agathangelus of Rome

Saint Agathangelus of Rome (died 312), was a Roman deacon and disciple of Clement of Ancyra, was a martyr during the reign of emperor Diocletian. He met Clement when the latter was imprisoned in Rome, and traveled back to Ancyra with him where they were both beheaded. According to the Gregorian calendar, his and Clement's feast day is on January 23 but on February 5 according to the Julian calendar which is used in some Eastern Orthodox countries.


Western Naval Command

The Western Naval Command is one of the three command-level formations of the Indian Navy. It is headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra. As the senior-most of the three formations, the command is responsible for the all naval forces in the Arabian Sea and parts of the Indian Ocean and the naval establishments on the west coast of India.

The Command was formed on 1 March 1968. The Command is commanded by a Three Star Flag Officer of the rank of Vice Admiral with the title Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief Western Command (FOC-in-C). Vice Admiral Ajit Kumar P, PVSM, AVSM, VSM is the current FOC-in-C WNC, who took over on 31 January 2019.

History
After the independence and the partition of India on 15 August 1947, the ships and personnel of the Royal Indian Navy were divided between the Dominion of India and the Dominion of Pakistan. The division of the ships was on the basis of two-thirds of the fleet to India, one third to Pakistan. Two new appointments were created, the  Rear Admiral Commanding Indian Naval Squadron (RACINS), the commander of the surface fleet of the Navy, and the Commodore-in-Charge Bombay, a one-star officer who headed the shore establishments on the western coast. To bring the service more in line with other navies, on 1 May 1952 the Rear Admiral Commanding Indian Naval Squadron was re-designated Flag Officer Commanding (Flotillas), Indian Fleet,

On 30 December 1957, the office of Flag Officer Commanding (Flotillas) was re-designated Flag Officer Commanding Indian Fleet (FOCIF), while the command of the shore establishments was upgraded to the Two Star appointment of Flag Officer Bombay (FOB) in June 1958. The FOCIF and FOB reported to the Chief of the Naval Staff. On 1 March 1968, the FOB was upgraded to the Three Star of Vice Admiral and was re-designated Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief Western Naval Command (FOC-in-C WNC). The Indian Fleet was renamed as Western Fleet with the Flag Officer Commanding Western Fleet (FOCWF) reporting into the FOC-in-C WNC.

Area of responsibility
The Western Naval Command (WNC) is the sword arm of the Indian Navy and naval operations conducted on the western seaboard would be central to the outcome of any conflict at sea against Pakistan. The Western Fleet is the two-star level operational formation of the Western Naval Command. It utilises Mumbai and Karwar as its home ports, with INS Kunjali, its HQ in Mumbai.
The fleet at the WNC is based under Flag Officer Maharashtra Area (FOMA) and provides naval defence in the sensitive north Arabian Sea adjacent to Pakistan.
INS Kadamba, a large naval base, was constructed under Project Seabird and completed in 2005. This naval base, at Karwar in Karnataka, is used exclusively by the Indian Navy.

Capabilities
The Flagship carrier of the Western Fleet is INS Vikramaditya. The WNC is equipped with submarine pens, a carrier dock and main maintenance dockyards. The Carrier Battle Group of the Western Fleet consists of INS Vikramaditya, Delhi class destroyers, Talwar class frigates, Brahmaputra class frigates, INS Kolkata Indian navy's brand new destroyer and Sindhughosh class submarines. The Naval Aviation is provided by MiG-29K fighters along with airborne early warning Kamov Ka-31 Helicopters.

Full-fledged shipbuilding facilities on the western seaboard include the Mazagon Dock Limited in Mumbai, the Goa Shipyard Limited and the Cochin Shipyard Ltd in Kerala, which is India's largest repair dry dock.

Organization
The Western Naval Command is organized as follows:

Naval bases
Naval bases under Western Naval Command are the following

List of Commanders

Commodore-in-Charge Bombay (1947-1958)

Flag Officer Bombay (1958-1968)

Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief (since 1968)


Cannondale station

The Cannondale station is a commuter rail stop on the Danbury Branch of the Metro-North Railroad's New Haven Line, located in the Cannondale area of Wilton and Weston, Connecticut.

The station is 50.2 miles to Grand Central Terminal and the average travel time from there is 1 hour, 24 minutes regardless of through trains or transfers at Stamford or South Norwalk.

The station has 140 parking spaces, all owned by the state.

Cannondale station provided the name and original logo for what is now the Cannondale Bicycle Corporation.

Station responsibility

History
The Danbury and Norwalk Railroad opened the line in late February 1852, with the official opening on March 1. Charles Cannon of Cannondale was the subcontractor who built the route through Wilton. The train cost passengers 30 cents to go to South Norwalk and 50 cents to Danbury at a time when the day's wages of a laborer might not be a dollar. Two trains made the trip up and down the line each day. In the first few years, a freshet and a flood from the Norwalk River twice shut down the line for repairs. The station made travel suddenly much quicker than stagecoach transportation. After a few years, when speeds picked up a bit on the line, it took 28 minutes to reach South Norwalk.

In its early years, the railroad line had no more than 390 passengers a day using the service in its early years, and an average of 34 passengers per train, L. Peter Cornwall, a railroad historian, estimated that perhaps no more than a dozen people used the train from Cannondale in its early years. Although there may only have been a "flag stop" (in which passengers or railroad employees raised a flag if they needed the train to stop), by 1856 it was a regular stopping point for all trains, and the stop was originally called "Cannon's". In the early 1870s the station was no longer listed and was probably a flag stop. In the 1890s it was again listed as a station, now called "Cannon". Just before World War I, the station name was changed to "Cannondale". The station is currently a contributing property of the Cannondale Historic District, which has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1992.

The Cafe au Lait coffee shop that used to operate out of the station house closed on March 31, 2010 and a search for a new building tenant has been ongoing since that time.

Platform and track configuration
This station has one two-car-long high-level side platform to the west of the track. The Danbury Branch has one track at this location.


Saselbek

Saselbek is a short, little river of Hamburg, Germany. It flows into the Alster near Hamburg-Bergstedt.


Rampur Khalian

Rampur Khalyan  is a village in Phagwara Tehsil in Kapurthala district of Punjab State, India. It is located  from Kapurthala,  from Phagwara.  The village is administrated by a Sarpanch, who is an elected representative.

Transport
Phagwara Junction and Mauli Halt are the closest railway stations to Rampur Khalyan; Jalandhar City railway station is  distant. The village is 118 km from Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport in Amritsar and the closest airport is Sahnewal Airport  in Ludhiana which is located 40 km away from the village. Phagwara, Jandiala, Jalandhar, Phillaur are the nearby cities.


Huddart Parker

Huddart Parker Ltd was an Australian shipping company trading in various forms between 1876 and 1961. It was one of the seven major coastal shippers in Australia at a time when shipping was the principal means of interstate and trans-Tasman transport. The company started in Geelong, but in 1890 shifted its offices to Melbourne. By 1910 Huddart Parker had grown to rank 24th of the top 100 companies in Australia by asset value. Several of the company's ships served in World War I and World War II. Huddart Parker ceased to be an independent company in 1961, when it was taken over by Bitumen and Oil Refineries Australia Limited.

History

The company was founded on 1 August 1876 in Geelong as Huddart, Parker & Co. Pty. Ltd, by James Huddart, T.J. Parker, John. Traill, and Captain T. Webb. Earlier, in the 1850s, James Huddart's uncle, Captain Peter Huddart had made his fortune importing coal for use in the Victorian goldfields. He was the first major operator handling coal from the port of Geelong. Parker was a merchant who arrived in Geelong from London in 1853. The trading activities each built up through the gold-rush era and beyond led to a linking of the businesses of their descendants and successors, to become Huddart Parker & Company.

After 1876 Huddart Parker expanded rapidly. By 1886 it had inaugurated the Melbourne–Adelaide shipping service and in 1882 entered the Sydney–Melbourne trade. During the early 1890s its steamers were running to the principal ports of New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania, and in 1893 it was also trading with ports in New Zealand.

From 1889 there was a three-way competition between the Union Steam Ship Company of New Zealand, Huddart Parker and the Tasmanian Steam Navigation Company (TSNCo) on the Tasmanian routes (Melbourne–Launceston, Hobart–Melbourne and Hobart–Sydney). The TSNCo did not have other routes to absorb their Tasmanian losses, and was bought out by the USSCo in 1891. The rivalry between the USSCo and Huddart Parker lasted to 1895 despite an earlier agreement in 1893. There was undercutting by cheap fares and steamers shadowing each other from port to port. The USSCo Rotomahana and Mararoa would sail alongside the Miowra and Warrimoo, with other ships such as Te Anau and Manapouri sailing before and after thus bracketing the Huddart Parker ships. The 1895 agreement between the two lines pooled the Auckland – Sydney profits and losses; the Melbourne – Launceston profits were divided  to the USSCo and  to Huddart Parker; and the Sydney–Hobart passenger trade was excluded but the cargo and stock trade was divided  to USSCo and  to Huddart Parker.

One of the original directors, John Traill, had survived the other directors by 1886, and remained chairman until his death in 1916 aged 92. By 1890 Traill had moved the company from offices on the wharves at Geelong to 466 Collins Street, in the heart of Melbourne.

The company registered in Victoria in 1889 as a proprietary company and converted to a public company in 1911.

In 1921 Huddart Parker came to an agreement with the Union Company to establish a joint venture on the Bass Strait where each company owned a 50% stake in the company Tasmanian Steamers.

In World War I five of the company's vessels were requisitioned.  was sunk on 26 June 1918 following collision with a German mine north of Cape Maria van Diemen, New Zealand, killing 26 passengers. In World War II, three of the company's passenger ships, ,  and  were pressed into war service.

Huddart Parker was taken over by Bitumen and Oil Refineries Australia Limited in October 1961.

Notable ships owned by Huddart Parker

 , bought in 1888 for the Bass Strait trade.
 , bought in 1890, sunk on her first voyage, at the mouth of the Tamar River.
 , trans-Tasman passenger steamer, sunk north of New Zealand in 1902, with a large amount of gold aboard.
 , 1910–42, notable cargo and passenger vessel that was a troopship in both World War I and World War II, sunk in the bombing of Darwin.
 , Trans-Tasman liner, in service 1929–60; requisitioned for war service in 1939.
 TSMV Wanganella, Trans-Tasman liner, in service 1933–62.


Modren

Modren is a village in Dzhebel Municipality, Kardzhali Province, southern Bulgaria.


1983 Copa del Rey de Baloncesto

The 1983 Copa del Rey was the 47th edition of the Spanish basketball Cup. It was the last edition organized by the Spanish Basketball Federation and its final was played in Palencia.

The competition was played after the end of the 1982–83 Liga Nacional.

Round of 16
Teams #2 played the second leg at home. Real Madrid and FC Barcelona received a bye to the quarterfinals.

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Quarterfinals

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Semifinals

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Final
FC Barcelona won its 13th title after beating in the final CB Inmobanco. Previously, Real Madrid boycoted the semifinal against Barcelona due to the non-signature of the creation of the ACB by the Catalans.

As Barcelona won the Liga Nacional, Inmobanco qualified to the Cup Winners' Cup as runner-up, but finally was dissolved before the start of the next season.


Yasunaga

Yasunaga (written: 安永) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:

, Japanese Go player
, Japanese manga artist
, Japanese footballer
, Japanese footballer
, Japanese violinist


Zábřeh (disambiguation)

Zábřeh is a town in the Olomouc Region, Czech Republic

Zábřeh may also refer to:

Zábřeh Castle
Zábřeh, an administrative part of Dolní Benešov, Czech Republic


Alice Street, Brisbane

Alice Street is a central road in Brisbane, Australia. It is the most southern major road in the city's central business district, running parallel to the other female named streets in the city. It was named after Princess Alice of the United Kingdom.

In a pocket of land between a curve of the Brisbane River and Alice Street is the City Botanic Gardens and Parliament House. Access to the Gardens Point QUT campus and the Riverside Expressway is provided at the western end of the street.

The male-named streets from William Street to Edward Street end at intersections with Alice Street.

Brisbane Ferries operated from the eastern end as early as the 1860s.

Heritage listings
Alice Street has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:
 69 Alice Street: Parliament House
 147 Alice Street: City Botanic Gardens
 210 Alice Street: Britannia Foundry
 2 Edward Street: Old Mineral House (corner of Alice Street)
 Sections of Albert St, George St, William St, North Quay, Queen's Wharf Rd,: Early Streets of Brisbane

Major intersections
 Riverside Expressway
 William Street
 George Street
 Albert Street
 Edward Street


Mario Celon

Mario Celon (born: 29 August 1959 Verona) is a sailor from Italy, who represented his country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Savannah, United States as helmsman in the Soling. With crew members Gianni Torboli and Claudio Celon they took the 10th place.


Ould Lammas Fair

The Auld Lammas Fair is a traditional fair held in Ballycastle, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, every year on the last Monday and Tuesday of August. It is associated with the Lammas harvest festival.

The fair has been running for nearly 400 years, dating back to the 17th century.

Various goods are traditionally sold at the fair. These include livestock and traditional foods such as Yellowman, a local variant of honeycomb and dulse, a type of edible seaweed.

A ballad written by local shopkeeper and bog-oak carver John Henry MacAuley enhanced the local fame of the fair. MacAuley was also a well known fiddler, but died in 1937 before his song became famous.

On 28 August 2001 a Royal Ulster Constabulary officer discovered a large incendiary bomb in the centre of Ballycastle whilst the fair was running. After the area was cleared British Army bomb disposal experts defused the device. The attempted attack was initially claimed by the Red Hand Defenders. However, the RUC later suggested that it was carried out by the Ulster Volunteer Force.


1992–93 UEFA Champions League

The 1992–93 UEFA Champions League was the 38th European Cup, the premier European club football tournament, and the first season with the UEFA Champions League branding (originally adopted only in the group stage).

It was the second season of the competition in which the eight second round winners would be split into two groups, with the winner of each one meeting in the final. In addition, a preliminary round was required as this was the first season after the break-up of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, resulting in many new countries eligible to enter the champions of their own leagues into the competition. Israel and the Faroe Islands were also represented for the first time.

The tournament was won for the first time by Marseille, defeating Milan in the final. However, soon after Marseille's victory allegations of match fixing were levelled at them and their president Bernard Tapie. This involved a league game where Marseille, it emerged, had fixed their title-clinching Division 1 game against Valenciennes so they could concentrate on the Milan tie. It is believed that Tapie bribed Valenciennes to lose so that Marseille would win the French league earlier, giving them more time to prepare for the European Cup final. This resulted in Marseille being stripped of their league title by the French Football Federation (although not the European Cup, as the match in question was not in that competition). They were banned from defending their European title in the 1993–94 season, and contesting the Intercontinental Cup and Super Cup. In 1994, Marseille were also relegated to the Division 2.

Barcelona, the defending champions, were eliminated in the second round by CSKA Moscow.

Teams

Preliminary round

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First leg

Second leg

Tavriya Simferopol won 2–1 on aggregate.

Maccabi Tel Aviv won 3–1 on aggregate.

Skonto won 6–1 on aggregate.

Olimpija Ljubljana won 5–0 on aggregate.

First round

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Notes:

First leg

Second leg

IFK Göteborg won 3–2 on aggregate.

Lech Poznań won 2–0 on aggregate.

Rangers won 3–0 on aggregate.

Stuttgart 3–3 Leeds United on aggregate.

Play-off

Slovan Bratislava won 4–1 on aggregate.

Milan won 7–0 on aggregate.

Dinamo Bucureşti won 2–1 on aggregate.

Marseille won 8–0 on aggregate.

Club Brugge won 4–0 on aggregate.

Austria Wien won 5–4 on aggregate.

Sion won 7–2 on aggregate.

Porto won 9–1 on aggregate.

3–3 on aggregate. AEK Athens won on away goals.

PSV Eindhoven won 8–0 on aggregate.

CSKA Moscow won 5–2 on aggregate.

Barcelona won 1–0 on aggregate.

Second round

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First leg

Second leg

IFK Göteborg won 4–0 on aggregate.

Rangers won 4–2 on aggregate.

Milan won 5–0 on aggregate.

Marseille won 2–0 on aggregate.

3–3 on aggregate. Club Brugge won on away goals.

Porto won 6–2 on aggregate.

PSV Eindhoven won 3–1 on aggregate.

CSKA Moscow won 4–3 on aggregate.

Group stage

The group stage began on 25 November 1992 and ended on 21 April 1993. The eight teams were divided into two groups of four, and the teams in each group played against each other on a home-and-away basis, meaning that each team played a total of six group matches. For each win, teams were awarded two points, with one point awarded for each draw. At the end of the group stage, the first team in each group advanced to the final.

Group A

Group B

Final

Top goalscorers
The top scorers from the 1992–93 UEFA Champions League (excluding preliminary round) are as follows:


Belfast Transport Hub

The Belfast Transport Hub is a planned railway and bus station to replace Great Victoria Street railway station and the Europa Buscentre.

Context
The first railway station in Ulster was opened on the site of today's Great Victoria Street station in 1839. It became the northern terminus of the GNR's non-stop Dublin - Belfast express in 1947, and in 1962, having been taken over by the Ulster Transport Authority, platform 5 was closed, filled in, and turned into a bus station providing a truly integrated bus-rail station for the first time in Belfast's history. Northern Ireland Railways closed the railway part of the station altogether in 1976 and the original buildings disappeared beneath the Europa Hotel and Great Northern Mall. Railway services resumed, however, in 1995 with the opening of the present-day Great Victoria Street station, integrated with the Europa Buscentre, yards away from the site of the original 1839 station.

The Transport Hub will not be on strictly the same site as today's Great Victoria Street station, instead being in the corner of Grosvenor Road and Durham Street. Historically this area was occupied by the railway goods yard, until goods traffic ended in 1976, and at present is partly used as the bus depot.

The Transport Hub thus fits into a history of bus-rail integration linked to the Great Victoria Street area that goes back to 1962, save for a 19-year interruption between 1976 and 1995.

Proposal

Railway Station
The new station would have eight platforms (Double that of Great Victoria Street) under a large overall roof, composed of four island platforms with two faces each. Two of these islands would be short, covered entirely by the roof, and two long. Like the current Great Victoria Street, it will be the terminus of NIR's Derry, Larne, Bangor and Newry lines. The Enterprise will be moved from Lanyon Place as part of the Hub project, meaning the flagship express service between Belfast and Dublin will terminate here. Unlike at Lanyon Place, there will be a dedicated Enterprise lounge.

Bus Station
Like the present Europa Buscentre, the Transport Hub will have stands for Ulsterbus, Goldline and Metro buses. However, the number of stands will be increased from Europa's 18 to 26. There will be a dedicated lounge for Goldliner passengers.

Weaver's Cross
The area surrounding the hub will become a new neighbourhood which Translink has named ''Weaver's Cross''. This 100,000m2 site will comprise leisure, residential and commercial facilities.

Station Quarter
Weaver's Cross combined with the Hub and a rejuvenated Glengall Street, Hope Street and Durham Street will become ''Station Quarter'', Belfast's ninth Cultural Quarter.

Progress
As of February 2018, progress has mostly consisted of public consultation and minor preparatory work. In April 2016 the goods sheds in the former Grosvenor Yard were demolished to make way for the Hub. Stanchions and support beams from the goods sheds were donated by Translink to the Downpatrick and County Down Railway.

Controversies
Though the project is still in its early days a few issues have arisen, including:
 The demolition of the ''Boyne Bridge'', which has particularly upset the residents of Sandy Row
 The lack of integration with the new Glider rapid transport system, criticised as a missed opportunity for a transport hub