Derby Gilbert & Sullivan Company

Derby Gilbert & Sullivan Company, based in Derby, England, produced the works of Gilbert and Sullivan from 1966 to 2018.  The company won the amateur competition at the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival an unprecedented six times and have been called "one of the most highly acclaimed nonprofessional theatre companies in the UK". The company also won awards from the Waterford International Festival of Light Opera.

The company usually mounted one or two productions each year, with orchestra, performing for a week in Derby, and one performance at the G&S Festival in Buxton, England along with various concert performances.  They also performed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and Seattle, Washington in the US, in Lanzarote, Spain and in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada.

History

Origins and early years
The roots of Derby Gilbert & Sullivan Company reach back to the 1940s when in Spondon, a parish village on the outskirts of Derby, a choral group was started by the local school headmaster – Spondon Choral Union.  This choir sang both secular and religious music and performed in local and national music festivals.  After the headmaster retired, the choir continued under the leadership of several conductors and subsequently was renamed as Spondon Musical Society.

The choir's musical style changed in 1966 when a concert version of "Trial by Jury", conducted by Andrew Nicklin, proved so popular that the decision was taken to try out a full production of "H.M.S. Pinafore" in the school hall in 1967.  The success of this production initiated a series of yearly Gilbert and Sullivan productions in Spondon, which continued for the next dozen years until the society outgrew the potential of the school hall. In 1980, the society moved to The Derby Playhouse, where its first production, "The Mikado", received such a favourable response that they changed their name to Derby Gilbert & Sullivan Company to more clearly reflect the new city base and repertoire of the company.

In the 1980s, the company played a couple of 'guest weeks' at the Buxton Opera House with "The Mikado" and later "The Yeomen of the Guard".  Under the direction of co-founder Andrew Nicklin, the company began to build a reputation for presenting updated, or "non-traditional" G&S productions.

Competitive successes
Under Nicklin, the company took The Mikado to The International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival in Buxton, England, in 1996, the company's first appearance there. The production had a modern theme and setting that earned the company an "Adjudicator's Special Award" for innovation. The next year, the company's production of Princess Ida won the Derby Playhouse Eagle award for Best Amateur Musical seen by the adjudicators in and around the city during the 1997 season. Then the company presented this production at the G&S festival at its Philadelphia, Pennsylvania venue. The production was adjudicated the Festival Winner, and several of the performers won individual awards, including Deborah Norman for Best Female Voice and Andrew Nicklin for Best Amateur Producer.

At the 1998 festival at Buxton, the company continued to earn awards, as its production of The Pirates of Penzance received the 2nd Runners-up prize. In 1999, the company was again the Festival Winner at the International G&S Festival with their production of The Yeomen of the Guard.  The company's individual performers also won awards for Best Male Performer (Stephen Godward), Best Female Performer (Elizabeth Watkins) and Best Supporting Actor (Simon Theobald), with the production team being awarded Best Musical Director (Christine Nicklin) and Best Amateur Producer (Andrew Nicklin).  Other members of the company won awards for other performances including Best Male Voice (Nick Sales) and Best Female Voice (Debbie Norman), both with another Nicklin-directed company, Trent Opera, which staged Utopia Ltd futuristically set in Star Wars style.

2000 was another top award winning year for the company, as its production of Iolanthe was the Festival Winner at the 7th International G&S Festival.  Other prizes won by the company were Best Animated Chorus and Best Producer for Andrew Nicklin.  The Mikado in 2001 placed 2nd Runners-up, and individual prizes went to company members Patrick Dawson, for Best Male Performer, Stephen Godward, for Best Male Voice and to the chorus for Best Chorus, as well as nominations in most categories.

2002–2008

In 2002 the Company appointed a new President, Glyn Hepworth, who initiated the company's popular "Dinner and Operetta Evenings".  The company mounted The Gondoliers in the spring.  In the summer, the company flew to Seattle, Washington, where they were hosted by the Seattle Gilbert & Sullivan Society in three performances of Iolanthe.  The Seattle Post-Intelligencers review commented that "the Derby company made clear why it is so well-regarded. It brought its own performers, set, costumes and several staff members, but the company used Seattle G & S' orchestra. ...  Derby's lively production was ... a delight to ... the appreciative audience. ...  Although all this company is amateur, it has fielded some excellent voices that are well-suited to G & S; the choruses of peers and fairies sang richly and so clearly nearly every word was audible. Less than two weeks after their return to the UK, the company performed The Gondoliers on the Awards Night of the International G&S Festival at the Buxton Opera House.

In 2003, the company's production of Ruddigore was Festival Winner, the company's 4th top win. The following year, the company was forced to end its 23-year relationship with the Derby Playhouse and move its production of H.M.S. Pinafore to the Derby Assembly Rooms Darwin Suite, a much smaller "black box" space with fewer technical capabilities.  Nevertheless, the company placed 2nd Runners-up at the International G&S Festival.  In both 2005 and 2006, the company again was Festival Winner, with Andrew Nicklin's productions of The Sorcerer and Pirates. The company's six wins at the Festival are unprecedented and are still the largest number of first place wins. The company also took The Sorcerer to the Waterford Festival of Light Opera, where it won the awards for Best G&S Opera, Best G&S Director and Best Chorus, and Stephen Godward won Best Male Singer for his performance as Dr. Daly.  In 2005, the company also took its 2004 production of Pinafore to Nanaimo on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada.  As with all of the company's transatlantic trips, the cast, and in this case also the technical staff, paid their own airfare and accommodation.  Nevertheless, the company enjoyed the experience so much that they went again to Nanaimo in 2007, taking two productions, Andrew Nicklin's Iolanthe and Pirates.

In 2008, the company were invited to perform in the Victorian Theatre within Chatsworth House, where it gave three performances of 'Pirates.  They were invited to return to Chatsworth in 2009 and expects to do so annually.

Later years and closure
The Derby Playhouse reopened as the Derby Theatre in 2009, and Derby G&S Company were invited to stage its Gondoliers and The Mikado as the first productions on the newly opened stage. A review of The Gondoliers in This is Derbyshire called the company "one of the most respected companies in the city ... this is a group that has performed successfully both at home and abroad and has won the International Gilbert and Sullivan Festival no less than six times.  So no-one was surprised that The Gondoliers was a thoroughly enjoyable show, ably marshalled by Andrew Nicklin, who has an enviable reputation for staging quality productions."

In 2010, the company made another trans-Atlantic trip to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to take part in the US leg of the 17th International G&S Festival with its Mikado. It also performed The Mikado in Buxton in 2010 and Princess Ida in 2011, in both cases being ranked as the first runner-up.

The company also performed as part of the London Concert Chorus by invitation of Raymond Gubbay, conducted by Richard Balcombe, with impressionist Alistair McGowan who also appeared in Derby as the Mikado for Derby Gilbert & Sullivan in 2011. It closed in 2018.


Theresa Diederich

Theresa Diederich is an American soccer player.

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2016 Internationaux de Strasbourg

The 2016 Internationaux de Strasbourg was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the 30th edition of the tournament and part of the International-level tournament category of the 2016 WTA Tour. It took place in Strasbourg, France, on 15–21 May 2015.

Points and Prize Money

Point distribution

Prize money

Singles main draw entrants

Seeds

 1 Rankings as of May 9, 2016.

Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:
  Sara Errani
  Kristina Mladenovic
  Pauline Parmentier

The following players received entry from the qualifying draw:
  Lauren Davis
  Alla Kudryavtseva
  Alizé Lim
  Mirjana Lučić-Baroni
  Jil Belen Teichmann
  Xu Yifan

The following player received entry as lucky losers:
  Virginie Razzano
  Shelby Rogers

Withdrawals
Before the tournament
  Daria Gavrilova → replaced by  Olga Govortsova
  Camila Giorgi → replaced by  Shelby Rogers
  Danka Kovinić → replaced by  Kurumi Nara
  Monica Niculescu → replaced by  Virginie Razzano
  Magdaléna Rybáriková → replaced by  Elena Vesnina
  Anna Karolína Schmiedlová → replaced by  Donna Vekić
  Yanina Wickmayer → replaced by  Zarina Diyas
  Caroline Wozniacki → replaced by  Hsieh Su-wei

During the tournament
  Samantha Stosur (left wrist injury)

Doubles main draw entrants

Seeds

1 Rankings as of May 9, 2016.

Other entrants
The following pair received entry as alternates:
  Ema Burgić Bucko /  Victoria Muntean

Withdrawals
Before the tournament
  Kateryna Bondarenko (viral illness)

Champions

Singles

  Caroline Garcia def.  Mirjana Lučić-Baroni, 6–4, 6–1

Doubles

  /  Arantxa Parra Santonja  def.  María Irigoyen /  Liang Chen, 6–2, 6–0

External links
 Official website

2016


Nyoma kyamburensis

Nyoma kyamburensis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Adlbauer in 1998. It is known from Uganda.


Welcome to My Life (Jonathan Fagerlund song)

"Welcome to My Life" is a pop/rock song by Swedish singer Jonathan Fagerlund. He sang it during Melodifestivalen 2009, in a bid to represent Sweden in 2009 Eurovision Song Contest to be held in Moscow, Russia.

The song was written by Didrik Thott and Samuel Waermö and performed by Fagerlund accompanied by an all-female backing band on the first semifinal of the competition on 7 February 2009 inside Scandinavium in Gothenburg. The song failed to make to the final rounds.

But despite that, the song proved popular with the Swedish public and was released as a single accompanied by a music video in which Fagerlund roams the streets of Stockholm and various venues with his love interest on a motorcycle. The single made it to number 23 on Sverigetopplistan, the Swedish Singles Chart in its first week of release and stayed three weeks in the charts. The single was his follow-up to his single "Playing Me" that had made to number 4 in the Swedish Charts.

The track was included in Fagerlund's second album also called Welcome to My World that also made it to the Sverigetopplistan Albums Chart peaking at number 53 in addition to being one of the tracks in the compilation album Melodifestivalen 2009.

Charts


Nickel Ashmeade

Nickel Ashmeade (born 7 April 1990) is a Jamaican sprinter who specialises in the 100 and 200 meters. Nickel Ashmeade placed 2nd in the Jamaica National Trials in the 200 m behind [[Warren Weir''. He came 3rd in the 100 m behind Kemar Bailey-Cole and Usain Bolt.

Nickel Ashmeade ran the third leg for Jamaica's 4 × 100 m team at the 2013 World Championships in Moscow which won the gold medal. Nickel Ashmeade finished 5th at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics in the 100 m in Moscow and 4th in the 200 m.

Career
A St. Jago High School teammate of Yohan Blake, Ashmeade first enjoyed success in the sprints as a junior athlete: at the 2006 Central American and Caribbean Junior Championships he beat compatriot Dexter Lee to the 100 m title, was runner-up to Ramone McKenzie over 200 m, and teamed up with the pair to bring Jamaica the 4×100 meter relay title. Another medal haul came for the young Jamaican at the 2007 World Youth Championships in Athletics, where he was second to Lee in the 100 m, ran a 200 m best of 20.76 seconds for the bronze medal, and helped the national team to another bronze in the sprint medley relay. He competed at the Penn Relays in 2008 and represented his school, St. Jago High School – an institution renowned for producing track and field athletes.

Ashmeade focused on the 200 m at the 2008 World Junior Championships in Athletics and he took the silver medal in the event, narrowly finishing behind France's Christophe Lemaitre. A second silver came in the 4×100 m relay and he departed from his usual oeuvre to help Jamaica to fourth place in the 4 × 400 m relay. The regional CARIFTA Games provided him the opportunity for further junior medals: he won the 200 m title and two relay gold medals at the 2008 edition and almost repeated the feat in 2009, with the sole difference being a 4×400 m relay silver. His final international outing as a junior athlete came at the 2009 Pan American Junior Athletics Championships in Port of Spain and he won the 200 m gold in a personal best of 20.40 seconds before going on to take a relay bronze medal.

He made the transition to the senior ranks at the 2009 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics, where he won the 200 m race ahead of Rondel Sorrillo. After a quiet 2010, he made significant improvements at the start of the 2011 outdoor season. In May 2011, he completed his first 200 m in under 20 seconds in Kingston, running 19.96 seconds to surprise the more established Wallace Spearmon and improve upon his previous best by almost half a second. Ashmeade made similar progress in the 100 m at the Ponce Grand Prix later that month, setting a meet record to beat Justin Gatlin, 2004 Olympic and 2005 World champion, with a time of 10.05 seconds (an improvement of 0.24 seconds).
Ashmeade competed in the 100 m, 200 m, and 4 × 100 m relay at the 2013 World Championships. After finishing 5th in the 100 m and narrowly coming 4th in the 200 m, Ashmeade was part of the Jamaican 4 × 100 m relay team which won gold.

Ashmeade represented Jamaica in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. During his first Olympic Games, he finished fifth place in the semifinal rounds of the men's 100 m with a time of 10.05s and fourth in the 200 m semifinals with 20.31s. He earned his first Olympic medal as the third leg of the 4 × 100 m relay team, anchored by Usain Bolt, with a time of 37.27s.

Ashmeade has won a total of five medals representing Jamaica at the IAAF World Relays. The most recent being at the 2017 edition of the event in which he won a bronze medal in the 4 × 200 m relay. At the 2014 edition, Ashmeade won two gold medals in the 4 × 100 m relay and the 4 × 200 m relay running the first and second leg respectively. At the 2015 edition Ashmeade won a gold and silver. The gold was won in the 4 × 200 m relay whilst running the first leg and the silver was won in the 4 × 100 m relay running the third leg.

Personal bests

Achievements


KION-TV

KION-TV, virtual channel 46 (UHF digital channel 32), is a CBS/CW+/Telemundo-affiliated television station licensed to Monterey, California, United States and serving the Monterey Bay area. The station is owned by News-Press & Gazette Company. KION-TV's studios are located on Moffett Street in Salinas behind the city's airport, and its transmitter is located on Mount Toro, about  south of Salinas. The station is available on channel 5 on most cable systems.

KION operates digital translator KMUV-LD (channel 21), also licensed to Monterey, with transmitter on Fremont Peak.

History
KION started out as KMST-TV (Monterey-Salinas Television) on January 25, 1969, as a CBS affiliate, taking it over from NBC affiliate KSBW (channel 8) which had it as a secondary channel. KMST was available in markets that reached from the Monterey Bay area to San Jose, California. Retlaw Broadcasting, a subsidiary of Retlaw Enterprises, a company owned by relatives of Walt Disney, acquired KMST from its original local owners in 1979.

By 1993, San Jose's TCI cable opted to drop KMST. Later that year, Retlaw sold the station to a partnership between Harron Communications and Smith Broadcasting, with Smith Broadcasting having control of the joint venture). On October 4, the new owners changed Channel 46's call sign to KCCN-TV. The next year, Smith Broadcasting sold its share of the station to Harron, in order to purchase KSBW. At that time, KCBA (Fox 35), then owned by the Ackerley Group, signed a local marketing agreement with KCCN, with Ackerley taking over the operations of both stations. The beginning of the LMA came at a time when CBS' ratings were at one of the lowest points in the network's history, while Fox's ratings were on the rise. Although KCCN was longer-established, KCBA became the senior partner in the LMA. On February 23, 1997, KCCN changed its call letters again, this time to KION.

Late in 1998, Ackerley bought KION outright from Harron and sold KCBA to Seal Rock Broadcasters. It took more than a year for this transaction to receive Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approval, due to the then-pending license renewals for both stations; and the deal was completed on January 12, 2000. However, Ackerley continued to operate KCBA through an LMA with its new owners, resulting in KION now becoming the senior partner in the LMA. By that time CBS' ratings had recovered to be competitive with those of ABC and NBC. Two years later, Ackerley merged with Clear Channel Communications. Clear Channel added the -TV suffix to KION's legal call sign when what was then KTXX (AM 1460, also owned by Clear Channel) took the KION call letters on August 14, 2002.  From 1995 to 2003, KION and KCBA carried UPN programs such as WWF/E SmackDown! and the 2002 version of The Twilight Zone as a secondary affiliate.

On April 20, 2007, Clear Channel entered into an agreement to spin off its entire television stations group to Newport Television, a broadcasting holding company established by the private equity firm Providence Equity Partners. However, Newport Television could not keep KION or Telemundo affiliate KMUV-LP due to Providence Equity Partners' partial ownership of several media properties (specifically, several radio stations owned by Univision Radio that are located within the San Francisco–San Jose market) that serve parts of the Monterey market. KION and KMUV were sold to the Cowles Publishing Company, the owner of KHQ-TV and The KHQ Television Group in Spokane, Washington. The deal closed on May 7, 2008. On that day, Cowles Publishing took over the LMA for KCBA from Newport Television. However, for some time afterward, Newport Television's website continued to list all three stations (KION, KCBA, and KMUV) as being owned and/or operated by Newport. Subsequently, KION and the other former Clear Channel/Newport stations acquired by Cowles switched their website CMS providers from Inergize Digital to Worldnow.

On September 20, 2013, News-Press & Gazette Company (NPG) announced that it would purchase KION-TV and KMUV-LP, as well as San Luis Obispo sister station KKFX-CA. NPG would also take over some of the operations of Santa Maria sister station KCOY-TV, which Cowles initially retained but eventually sold to VistaWest Media LLC, under a shared services agreement, as NPG's holdings in the area already included KEYT-TV in Santa Barbara. The sale was completed on December 13. The existing LMA for KCBA was terminated on December 1, as that station's operations were assumed by Entravision Communications through a joint sales agreement (the license being retained by Seal Rock Broadcasters). Almost immediately after NPG closed on the purchase, Internet Broadcasting took over the operations of KION's web site, as for all other NPG station websites.

KION radio is no longer co-owned with KION-TV, as Clear Channel (now iHeartMedia) continues to operate the radio station. For several years after Clear Channel sold the television station, the radio station's logo continued to echo that of KION-TV's previous logo, with a "1" and a "0" added to turn "46" into "1460".

On June 20, 2014, KION redesigned its website with a new logo consistent with the rest of the NPG stations in San Luis Obispo, Santa Maria, and Santa Barbara.

Digital television

Digital channels
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Analog-to-digital conversion
KION-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 46, on February 17, 2009, the original target date by which full-power television in the United States was to transition from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate (which was later pushed back to June 12, 2009). The station's digital signal remained on its pre-transition UHF channel 32. Through the use of PSIP, digital television receivers display the station's virtual channel as its former UHF analog channel 46.

News operation
KION has morning and evening newscasts seven days a week, totaling 23 hours of news per week (including a broadcast on subchannel 46.2). On weekdays, a two-hour morning news block begins at 5 a.m., followed by half-hour newscasts at 5, 6, and 11 p.m. KION also produces a half-hour 10 p.m. newscast on subchannel 46.2, seven nights a week; this newscast had aired on KCBA prior to November 30, 2013. On weekends, besides the 46.2 broadcast, KION does not have weekend morning newscasts and only has half-hour newscasts at 5 and 11 p.m. The CBS Evening News has its timeslot at 5:30 p.m. KION previously had the CBS Evening News at 6 p.m. This station has no noon newscasts, unlike most CBS affiliates.

In October 2009, KION became the first station in the Salinas–Monterey market to begin broadcasting local newscasts in 16:9 widescreen high-definition. The 10 p.m. newscast on KCBA was included in the upgrade. KION broadcasts news in high definition using HD studio cameras, HD field cameras, and a new HD control room installed in August 2009. Remote shots are still done using standard definition signals upconverted to widescreen. KCBA and KION were the only stations in the Monterey Bay, and on the Central Coast, to broadcast their news in HD until August 25, 2010, when rival KSBW started to broadcast the majority of its local news, as well as weather and sports segments, in HD. This came after KSBW had been the first to launch a widescreen newscast a few weeks before KION, though the KSBW newscasts were in merely widescreen standard definition, and no pillarboxes were inserted until late-February 2010. Sports segments originate from the KCOY studios and are currently in 16:9 widescreen. When the 10 p.m. newscast moved from KCBA to KION-DT2, that newscast reverted to standard definition as the subchannel; although transmitted in 16:9 widescreen, it is not available in HD.

, the slogan at the start of newscasts has changed from "Your Eye on the Central Coast" to "Right Now". This slogan is used on other Cowles media stations in California that are also branded as Central Coast News, including The KHQ Television Group. KION previously used the Central Coast News branding in the 1990s when it was branded as "KCCN Central Coast News".

In late 2010, KION and KCBA introduced a new slogan, "A New Leader is Emerging". The new promos include viewership, news, weather, and political coverage. In addition, weekend weather anchors also produce weather segments for sister stations KCOY and KKFX.

On January 6, 2012, sister stations KCOY and KKFX announced a round of layoffs in an effort to cut costs, including eliminating the sports department, cutting the morning show produced at the Santa Maria studios to only one hour on weekdays, and having the evening newscasts based at the KION/KCBA studios. Layoffs at KCOY/KKFX included chief meteorologist Jim Byrne and sports anchor Kevin Roose, with KCOY weeknight anchor Arturo Santiago shifting to reporting duties.

Friday Night Blitz
Friday Night Blitz is a weekly program which covers local high school football. The show is aired during the 10 p.m. newscast on KION-DT2 and the 11 p.m. newscast on KION. The show features a "Game of the Week" segment which viewers vote for each week. The game of the week is featured during evening newscasts on KION. The show includes live coverage and interviews with players and coaches.

Fastbreak
During high school basketball season, Central Coast News features local scores and highlights from local games along with player and coach interviews, similar to Friday Night Blitz.

KION Questions
During Central Coast newscasts on KION, viewers can ask questions, directly via the station's website, relating to local issues presented by anchors, who respond during newscasts. Promos for KION questions are often shown during commercial breaks and station IDs.

Notable former on-air staff
 Art Bell
 Lois Hart (future first anchor for [[CNN], anchor for KCRA-TV in Sacramento)
 Pedram Javaheri, also known as P.J. Javaheri, weekend meteorologist; now at CNN International
 Craig Kilborn (former host of The Daily Show and ESPN's SportsCenter)
 Sharon Tay, reporter (mid-1990s); now anchor/reporter at KCBS-TV/KCAL-TV in Los Angeles


Mimail

Mimail is a computer worm which first emerged in August 2003; it is transmitted via e-mail. Since its initial release, nearly two dozen variants of the original Mimail worm have appeared. The Mydoom worm, which emerged in January 2004, was initially believed to be a variant of Mimail.  Mimail is written in the C programming language.

External links
 W32.Mimail.A@mm on Symantec.


William Henry Howell

William Henry Howell, Ph.D., M.D., LL.D., Sc.D. (20 February 1860 – 6 February 1945) was an American physiologist. He pioneered the use of heparin as a blood anti-coagulant.

William Henry Howell was born in Baltimore, Maryland and graduated from the Baltimore City College high school in 1878. He was educated at Johns Hopkins University, from which he graduated in 1881.  He taught at the University of Michigan and at Harvard before becoming professor at Johns Hopkins in 1893.  He was dean of the medical school from 1899 to 1911. He resigned that position to help William Henry Welch and others to establish the first graduate school of public health, the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health.  He was Dean of the School of Hygiene (now Bloomberg School of Public Health) from 1926 to 1931.

Howell contributed to the London Journal of Physiology, the Transactions of the Royal Society, the Johns Hopkins Biological Studies, the Journal of Morphology, and the Journal of Experimental Medicine.  He was associate editor of the American Journal of Physiology after 1898.  He wrote Text-Book of Physiology (1905; fifth edition, 1913). And this was a standard text book for medical students for the next 50 years.


Rupt

Rupt is a commune in the Haute-Marne department in north-eastern France.


Vladimir Smirnov (skier)

Vladimir Mikhaylovich Smirnov (; born 7 March 1964) is a Kazakhstani former cross-country skier who raced from the 1982 until 1991 for the USSR and, later, for Kazakhstan. He is the first Olympic champion from independent Kazakhstan and the most decorated Olympian in history of Kazakhstan. He is also a vice president of the International Biathlon Union. Smirnov is a former member of International Olympic Committee.

Early life
Smirnov was born in Shchuchinsk, Kazakh SSR. During the Soviet period, he trained at the Armed Forces sports society in Alma-Ata.

Career

Smirnov made his debut in the FIS Cross-Country World Cup on 18 December 1982 at Davos in a 15 km race, finishing in a 17th place. His first victory came in 1986, a classic style 15 km in Kavgolovo (URS). Smirnov gained a total of 30 victories in the World Cup, with 21 second and 15 third places. In 1994, he won the aggregate World Cup, thanks to seven victories in the course of the season.

At the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships from 1987 to 1997, Smirnov totalled four gold (1989: 30 km, 1995: 10 km, 10 km + 15 km combined pursuit, 30 km), four silver (1987: 4x10 km, 1991: 30 km, 1993: 10 km, 10 km + 15 km combined pursuit) and three bronze medals (1991: 15 km, 1993: 30 km, 1995: 50 km). His best result was in Thunder Bay, Ontario (1995), when he won three events.

In 1994, he received the Holmenkollen Medal (shared with Lyubov Yegorova and Espen Bredesen). Smirnov also won twice at the Holmenkollen ski festival with a 15 km win in 1994 and a 50 km win in 1995.

A very regular and effective cross-country skier, especially in long-distance classic style races, Smirnov took part to the Winter Olympics from 1988 to 1998. His best known victory was the 50 km gold medal at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, the first Olympic gold medal for Kazakhstan. He was one of the leading characters of that Olympics, as his unending rivalry with home ever-winning Bjørn Dæhlie had gained him the affection of the Norwegian audience. He also became good friends with his rival Dæhlie, even participating with Dæhlie in several popular Norwegian TV shows.

In 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics, Smirnov was flag-bearer of Kazakhstan Olympic team and won the bronze medal in the 25 km pursuit event.

Smirnov headed the bid committee to have Almaty, Kazakhstan, host the 2014 Winter Olympics, a bid that failed to make the short list that was announced by the International Olympic Committee on 22 June 2006. In 2011, Smirnov participated at the opening ceremony of 2011 Asian Winter Games in Astana.

Personal life
Smirnov moved to Sweden in 1991 and lives in the city of Sundsvall, where he was a co-founder and co-owner of a local brewery. He is married to Valentina Smirnova, and they have two daughters – Anna and Karolina. He became a Swedish citizen in 1998. Smirnov speaks four languages: Russian, German, English and Swedish.

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

Olympic Games
 7 medals – (1 gold, 4 silver, 2 bronze)

World Championships
 11 medals – (4 gold, 4 silver, 3 bronze)

World Cup

Season titles
 2 titles – (2 overall)

Season standings

Individual podiums
 30 victories
 66 podiums

Team podiums

 2 victories
 8 podiums

Note:  Until the 1999 World Championships and the 1994 Winter Olympics, World Championship and Olympic races were included in the World Cup scoring system.


Athletics at the 2016 Summer Olympics

Athletics at the 2016 Summer Olympics were held during the last 10 days of the games, from 12–21 August 2016, at the Olympic Stadium. The sport of athletics at the 2016 Summer Olympics was made into three distinct sets of events: track and field events, road running events, and racewalking events.

Competition schedule
Track and field events were held at João Havelange Olympic Stadium, while the race walks and marathon start and finish in Recreio dos Bandeirantes and Sambódromo, respectively. Apart from the race walks and marathon, ten track and field events held finals in the morning session for the first time since 1988. This was implemented upon the request of the Rio 2016 Organizing Committee and the Olympic Broadcasting Service to be supported by the International Olympic Committee, ensuring that they received maximum visibility for the sport across all time zones.

In the tables below, M stands for morning and A for afternoon.

Qualification

The Olympic qualification criteria were simplified by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) from a two-tiered "A" and "B" standard approach to a single qualification standard. Each National Olympic Committee was entitled to send up to three athletes per event that had reached that standard in the period from 2015 to 11 July 2016. Nations without a qualified athlete could enter one male and one female athlete who had not achieved the standard. Marathon runners had additional ways to qualify in that top 20 World Championship or top 10 IAAF Gold Label race finishers were treated as having achieved the standard.

The relay teams entered were the top eight finishers at the 2015 IAAF World Relays plus the next eight highest ranking teams on the seasonal lists (based on an aggregate of their best two times).

Nations with a strong tradition in athletics which had many qualified athletes available for events typically held selection trials to determine their teams (such as the 2016 United States Olympic Trials), or relied on panel decisions by their national governing bodies to determine which athletes could compete.

Daily summaries

At the opening ceremony two figures from the sport of athletics played a key role: Olympic medallist in the marathon, Vanderlei de Lima, lit the Olympic flame for his home nation, while Kenya's Kipchoge Keino became the first recipient of the Olympic Laurel for his efforts in promoting sport. Unlike most Summer Olympic Games, the athletics stadium in Rio was not the venue for the opening or closing ceremonies – that honour went to Brazil's foremost soccer venue, the Maracanã Stadium.

First three days
On the first day, the first gold medal was won by Almaz Ayana of Ethiopia, who broke a long-standing world record in the women's 10,000 metres by almost fifteen seconds. The race as a whole was historically fast, setting four of the five fastest times ever for the distance and seeing eight national records broken. China's Wang Zhen was the first male winner of the 2016 Olympic athletics, topping the 20 kilometres race walk podium. With her final throw of the event, Michelle Carter won the United States' first ever title in the women's shot put, preventing Valerie Adams from winning a third straight title. The first half of the heptathlon saw two athletes set a world heptathlon best: Belgium's Nafissatou Thiam and Great Britain's Katarina Johnson-Thompson both cleared  for the high jump. (Their marks would have been sufficient for the individual high jump gold.)

The second day opened with a first in Olympic history as a man succeeded his brother as Olympic champion. In a dramatic final round, German discus thrower Christoph Harting moved up from fourth to gold medal position with a personal best throw and topped the podium as his brother Robert Harting had four years earlier. Mo Farah – a double-Olympic champion from 2012 – defended his 10,000 m crown in spite of a fall which saw him slip to the back of the pack during the middle of race. Farah had been one of three gold medallists for Great Britain on a "Super Saturday" for the host nation at the 2012 London Games, but the two others of that day did not prevail in Rio de Janeiro. Jessica Ennis entered as favourite for the Olympic heptathlon but was runner-up to Belgian Nafissatou Thiam in an upset which saw the 21-year-old add over three hundred points to her personal best score. Defending Olympic long jump champion Greg Rutherford was reduced to third place as American Jeff Henderson won the closely fought men's competition. Another defending champion was dethroned in the women's 100 metres: Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce's attempt to become the first person to win three straight Olympic track titles was thwarted by Jamaican teammate Elaine Thompson.

The morning final for the third day was the women's marathon, which saw Jemima Sumgong win Kenya's first Olympic gold medal for that event. The race was unusual in that two sets of twins crossed the line together: North Korea's Kim Hye-song and Kim Hye-gyong took tenth and eleventh while Germans Anna and Lisa Hahner were 81st and 82nd. Furthermore, Estonia's Lily, Leila and Liina Luik became the first triplets to feature in an Olympic final. In the women's triple jump Caterine Ibargüen won Colombia's first Olympic gold medal in athletics. As the first Olympics to be held in South America, Ibargüen became the first Olympic athletics champion from South America to be crowned on South American soil.  Brazil's Thiago Braz da Silva became the second two days later.  By the conclusion of the Olympics, Ibargüen, Yulimar Rojas (who finished second to Ibargüen) and da Silva were the only medalists from continental South America.  Usain Bolt achieved the feat fellow Jamaican Fraser-Pryce had failed to do one day earlier by taking his third straight Olympic 100 m title. This made him the most decorated athlete in the 100 metres at the Olympics. South Africa's Wayde van Niekerk provided the second world record performance of the athletics programme with his win of the men's 400 metres in 43.03 seconds. This knocked 0.15 seconds of Michael Johnson's time which had gone unbeaten since 1999.

Days 4, 5 and 6
The third and last athletics world record at the Olympics came on day four. Poland's Anita Włodarczyk was dominant in the hammer throw, becoming the first woman to throw beyond eighty metres three times in a competition and adding over a metre to her own world record with . Four of her six throws would have been sufficient to win. Another record was in sight for Ruth Jebet in the women's 3000 metres steeplechase, though she missed the mark by a second after slowing to celebrate winning Bahrain's first Olympic gold in any sport. In the women's 400 m Allyson Felix was stopped from winning an historic fifth Olympic gold by Shaunae Miller of the Bahamas, who dove at the line to win the race. Men's 800 metres world record holder David Rudisha defended his 800 m Olympic title, being the first man in over half a century to achieve that. A surprise victory for the hosts came via Thiago Braz da Silva, who added ten centimetres to his previous best to win in an Olympic record of 6.03 m ahead of world record holder Renaud Lavillenie of France. Departing from Olympic traditions, the home crowd booed Lavillenie while he was attempting his final vault and he was booed again at the medal ceremony after comparing his treatment to that of Jesse Owens at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Nazi Germany. The partisan treatment was criticised by da Silva, IOC President Thomas Bach and IAAF president Sebastian Coe, though defended by some as an intrinsic part of Brazilian sporting culture.

On the fifth morning, Croatia's Sandra Perković became the only woman to defend an individual Olympic athletics title that year, topping the discus podium. Christian Taylor became the only man in the field events to defend his 2012 Olympic title, repeating his American 1–2 finish with teammate Will Claye. The United States was less successful in the men's 110 metres hurdles: its athletes failed to gain a medal for the first time ever (bar the 1980 boycott) while Jamaican Omar McLeod won by over a tenth of a second. Faith Kipyegon was a clear winner in the women's 1500 metres ahead of Ethiopia's Genzebe Dibaba. Derek Drouin won Canada's first Olympic gold in athletics in twenty years in the men's high jump. In the women's 5000 m heats American Abbey D'Agostino and Nikki Hamblin of New Zealand fell during the race. D'Agostino stopped to help Hamblin to her feet, but then struggled herself with what would be diagnosed as a torn ACL, which led Hamblin to help in turn so the pair could finish. The pair were later given the Fair Play award by the International Fair Play Committee for their show of sportsmanship.

In his last Olympic outing, Ezekiel Kemboi failed to defend his Olympic steeplechase title, which went to his Kenyan teammate Conseslus Kipruto in an Olympic record time. Kemboi's initial bronze medal would have made him the first person to win three Olympic steeplechase medals, but a single step into the infield later saw him disqualified and Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad of France achieve that feat in his place. Tianna Bartoletta beat the favourite in the women's long jump, clearing a personal best of 7.17 m in the second to last round to leave her American rival Brittney Reese with a silver medal. Americans also occupied the top spots in the women's 100 metres hurdles with Brianna Rollins, Nia Ali and Kristi Castlin forming the first ever Olympic medal sweep by a nation in that event. The 100 m gold medallist Elaine Thompson completed a sprint double for Jamaica by defeating Dutch athlete Dafne Schippers in the women's 200 metres final. High-profile eliminations came in the men's qualifiers as two strong contenders for Olympic titles, Paweł Fajdek in the hammer and Justin Gatlin in the 200 m, failed to progress.

Final three days

The 400 metres hurdles finals were contested on day seven: Kerron Clement won the United States's 19th men's title and in contrast Dalilah Muhammad became the first American female winner. On a day of strong American performances, Ashton Eaton defended his decathlon title in an Olympic record score of 8893 points and in the men's shot put Ryan Crouser greatly improved his best to  to break Ulf Timmermann's Olympic record from 1988 (among men's Olympic records, only Bob Beamon's long jump had stood for longer). The women's javelin throw had an unexpected winner in Croatia's Sara Kolak, whose winning mark of  meant the 21-year-old had improved her best by over eight metres that year. The favourite delivered in the men's 200 m, with Usain Bolt taking his third straight Olympic 200 m title by a margin of a quarter of a second. The women's 4 × 100 metres relay heats featured the first ever re-run – Brazil has obstructed the American baton handover and the United States were allowed a solo run to qualify for the final on time, which they did.

The morning of the penultimate day began with two racewalking finals. In the men's 50 km walk Matej Tóth overtook defending champion Jared Tallent to win Slovakia's first Olympic gold in athletics while Liu Hong returned China to the top of the women's 20 km walk podium. Ekaterini Stefanidi of Greece won the women's pole vault after the pre-event favourites faltered. Dilshod Nazarov made history in the men's hammer throw by becoming Tajikistan's first Olympic gold medallist. Vivian Cheruiyot achieved a first for her country in the women's 5000 metres by outrunning 10,000 m champion Almaz Ayana to take Kenya's first ever gold in the distance event. In that race, Cheruiyot set the last of eight Olympic records in Rio. The 4 × 100 m finals delivered new highs for Olympic athletics. The American women overcame their qualification troubles by winning from uncomfortable lane one, making Allyson Felix the most successful female Olympian in athletics at five gold medals. Usain Bolt anchored the Jamaican men to the gold to complete a set of three consecutive victories across the 100 m, 200 m and relay (referred to as a "treble treble"). Bolt equalled Carl Lewis and Paavo Nurmi's record of nine Olympic gold medals in athletics.

On the ninth and final day of action in the track and field stadium, Matthew Centrowitz Jr. secured a tactical win in the men's 1500 m while Caster Semenya used her sheer speed to win the women's 800 m. Behind her Francine Niyonsaba won only the second ever medal for Burundi at the Olympics. In the women's high jump, Ruth Beitia became Spain's inaugural female Olympic gold medalist in athletics, though this was overshadowed by the fact her winning mark was the lowest since 1980 and she was outperformed by two heptathletes in Rio. Thomas Röhler cleared ninety metres to win the men's javelin throw. Mo Farah became the second most successful track athlete of the 2016 Rio Olympics by defending his 5000 m title, making him one of only two men alongside Finland's Lasse Virén to have defended both long-distance titles at consecutive Olympics. In the last track events of the games, the United States won the men's and women's 4 × 400 metres relays. The women's victory gave Allyson Felix the distinction of setting a medals record for women's Olympic athletics; six gold medals and nine medals overall. In the closing competition of the Olympics, Eliud Kipchoge comfortably won the marathon by the largest margin since 1972. The runner-up Feyisa Lilesa made a political protest by crossing his arms near the finish line in solidarity with the Oromo killed in protests that year and later suggested he would seek asylum.

The United States won the most medals in athletics and at thirteen golds and 32 overall they won more than double the next most successful nations. In the absence of Russia, Kenya and Jamaica placed second and third with six gold medals and the only other nations to win more than ten medals in total. In the 2016 Olympic athletics programme, 141 medals were awarded and 43 nations reached the medal table.

Medal summary

Medal table

Key
 Host nation (Brazil)

Men

* Indicates the athlete only competed in the preliminary heats and received medals.

Women

* Indicates the athlete only competed in the preliminary heats and received medals.

Records

World and Olympic records

Continental records
The women's 10,000 metres provided the first two continental records of the Olympics, in Almaz Ayana's African record and Molly Huddle's record for the North, Central American and Caribbean region.

Participation

Participating nations

Russia's athletics team was banned from competing at the 2016 Summer Olympics on June 17, 2016, when the IAAF voted unanimously to prevent them from competing. This punishment is because of the ongoing Russian doping scandal. Darya Klishina was the only Russian athlete allowed to participate.

The Refugee Olympic Team, in its first appearance, included six track and field athletes among it 10-strong team.

Competitors

Doping

The Olympic athletics competition was majorly affected by the ban of the All-Russia Athletic Federation (ARAF) by the sports governing body, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). The IAAF undertook this action to exclude all Russian athletes following the discovery of state-sponsored doping in Russia. The Russian President accused the body of discrimination against his country's athletes, saying the ban was a "collective punishment which has nothing to do with justice". The Russian Minister for Sport, Vitaly Mutko, was directly implicated in the investigations.

The members of Russia's 68-strong team were allowed to appeal the ban and compete under a neutral flag if they could present evidence that they did not have links with the doping scandal and received testing independent of the Russian national anti-doping body. Only one athlete, long jumper Darya Klishina, met the criteria and was allowed to compete. The IOC rejected the idea of Russian athletes competing under a neutral flag, and allowed Klishina to compete under a Russian flag. Her selection garnered negative press in her home country. The situation led pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva, one of Russia's top athletes, to announce her intention to stand for ARAF President to resolve the crisis.

Yuliya Stepanova, a Russian runner who was key in unveiling the doping issue through her whistleblowing, attempted to gain permission from the International Olympic Committee to compete at the Games as an independent athlete, but was unsuccessful on the basis of her having previously failed a doping test. Her husband and coach Vitaly Stepanov, who also acted as whistleblower, said that the decision sent "a message that the World Anti-Doping Code and the values of Olympism are merely words on a page". The couple's actions were widely denounced in Russia, with the president's spokesman labelling the couple as "Judas". Stepanova received strong support from Travis Tygart, the head of the United States Anti-Doping Agency, who approved of her application to compete.

Silvia Danekova of Bulgaria was the first athletics doping suspension at the Olympics, as the sample she had given on arrival was positive for EPO. Two Kenyan officials were also sent home on doping points: coach John Anzrah impersonated runner Ferguson Rotich to give a doping control and Michael Rotich was expelled following allegations of forewarning athletes of unannounced drug tests.

Officiating decisions
The judgement of track officials came under scrutiny at the 2016 Summer Olympics as a result of several unusual and contested decisions. Torrential rain began before the heats of the men's 110 metres hurdles but the decision was made for the competition to continue. The hurdlers fared poorly, many clattering hurdles, and the session was postponed after two races. The remaining three heats were done in clear weather and all four fastest non-qualifier spots for the semi-finals came from those heats. Upon protest, the track officials allowed the eight non-qualifiers of the first two heats to run yet another heat to try to achieve the time – an unprecedented move. Jamaica's Deuce Carter forced Serbia's Milan Ristić out of the semi-finals as a result.

In the men's high jump Great Britain's Robbie Grabarz rattled the bar at 2.33 m – the judge raised the white flag, but the bar fell off the standards immediately after and a red flag was instead raised. The Briton protested the decision and the jump was allowed to stand due to the premature white flag. The British team suffered reversed fortunes before the officials in the men's 4 × 400 metres relay. The team were the winners of their heat but were disqualified as a track side judge noted that part of Matthew Hudson-Smith's foot was outside of red-marked baton change over zone when he started his run. Great Britain appealed the decision but because no conclusive video evidence could be found to inform the appeal, the judge's decision stood and the team were disqualified.

In the men's steeplechase, the original bronze medallist Ezekiel Kemboi saw disqualification for narrowly stepping over the track line after being bunched out at the water jump. Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad noticed this and, finishing over three seconds in arrears to the Kenyan, celebrated his fourth position by raising three fingers. His appeal was successful and he became the first man to win three Olympic steeplechase medals, which Kemboi had himself expected to achieve. Kemboi had announced his retirement upon finishing third, but after the disqualification change his mind to seek to rectify the matter, saying "I have to bring back this medal not by protesting again but right on track. Kemboi is not retired I will be coming to London 2017 to re-claim my medal from France. No limits."


2016 Liberec regional election

Liberec regional election in 2016 was held as part of 2016 regional elections. It was a surprising victory of Mayors for Liberec Region (SLK) led by Martin Půta. Půta faced accusations of corruption prior election. Půta remained Governor of Liberec region. SLK formed coalition with ANO 2011, ODS and ČSSD.

Opinion polls

Results


The Heresy of Love

The Heresy of Love is a 2012 play by the British playwright Helen Edmundson, based on the life of Juana Inés de la Cruz. It was premiered by the Royal Shakespeare Company in early 2012, with a cast including Ray Coulthard and directed by Nancy Meckler. It was later produced at Shakespeare's Globe from July to September 2015. directed by John Dove.

Casts


Candex

Candex is a dietary supplement manufactured by Pure Essence Laboratories. It is marketed as an enzymatic remedy to treat the yeast infection candida. Having the status of a dietary supplement, its efficiency has not been proven in scientifically controlled and peer-reviewed trials. Similar formulas exist, such as Candigest.

Mechanism of action
Candex contains the fibre digesting enzymes, cellulase and hemicellulase. The manufacturer claims because yeast cell walls are built mainly of fibre, which is mostly made of the complex carbohydrate, cellulose, cellulase and hemicellulase are capable of killing yeast.

However, a review of the scientific literature suggests that this mechanism of action is unlikely to be true. For while plant cell walls are made predominantly of cellulose, yeast cell walls are not (yeast are classified as fungi).  For example, in the article, "Synthesis of the yeast cell wall and its regulation" in the Annual Review of Biochemistry, there is mention of many other complex carbohydrates found in yeast cell walls, but there is no mention of cellulose nor is cellulose mentioned as a cell wall component in candida albicans, the yeast strain most frequently associated with human fungal infections. Indeed, scientists have even modified yeast cells so they can make their own cellulases. This allows the modified yeast to ferment widely available plant material, which is made mostly of cellulose, and turn plant cellulose into alcohol for biofuels (cellulosic ethanol). One scientific article even called yeast an "ideal host strain" for producing cellulases. This is consistent with cellulase not being toxic to yeast and no mention was made of any toxic effect of cellulases on the modified yeast.

Furthermore, while many internet sites claim that cellulase enzymes might degrade the chitin found in yeast cell walls, once again no evidence is presented for this.  Enzymes are known to be highly specific and in general cellulases have not been found to be active on chitin. To quote one scientific article: "The purified cellulase was devoid of
chitinase, pectinase and mannanase activities".   Moreover, in contrast to the previously mentioned fact that yeast bioengineered to make cellulases remain healthy, when a chitinase gene was bioengineered into the same yeast strain it resulted in complete growth inhibition. This again suggests cellulases do not in general contain significant chitinase activity.

Similarly, although many internet sites claim cellulase degrades yeast biofilms, no peer-reviewed scientific evidence was offered in support of this. The exact chemical composition of yeast biofilms remains poorly understood and although there is evidence for it containing many different types of polysaccharides, there was no evidence presented that it contains cellulose or is susceptible to cellulase digest.

The manufacturer further claims Candex enzymes kill yeast but don't stimulate the yeast to release toxins, thereby avoiding unpleasant die-off reactions, contrary to using fungicidal drugs and herbs. But once again, there is no reference to a peer-reviewed scientific journal to support these claims. An alternative explanation might be that there are no unpleasant die-off reactions simply because the Candex enzymes do not effectively kill yeast.

The remaining enzymes found in Candex: amylase, glucoamylase, diastase, and invertase are involved in basic carbohydrate and sugar metabolic pathways and are not involved in cell wall lysis. For example, Invertase catalyzes the conversion of sucrose (common table sugar) into glucose and fructose. Much of the invertase used in the food industry is actually purified from yeast itself as yeast contain an abundance of their own naturally produced invertase.

Candex is sold in sizes of 40 or 120 capsules. 4 capsules equal one daily dose, which may later be reduced. 4 capsules contain:

Drug status

Being classified as a dietary supplement, it is not approved by the US Food and Drug Administration to diagnose, treat, or prevent any condition of disease.

Trials and tests
A non-verified study from 2002 by the Progressive Medical Group claims that after testing the remedy on 52 patients, all of them had "at least minimal improvement not only in any upper gastrointestinal symptoms (probably associated with the natural digestive enzyme), but also in lower gastrointestinal symptoms and yeast-associated problems (altered cognition, craving carbohydrates, arthralgias, myalgias, allergies, etc.)." The study claims that side effects were "minimal with only rare gastrointestinal symptoms (nausea, etc.) that resolved when association with food intake was altered", and that these side effects were deemed to not be statistically significant. The study has not been reviewed by scientific peers, nor published in medical journals.  Some have questioned its usefulness due to the lack of a control group.

As of January 2007, no peer reviewed articles were indexed by the National Library of Medicine referencing Candex.


Heffen

Heffen is a village and deelgemeente in the municipality of Mechelen in the Belgian province of Antwerp.

Geography
Heffen occupies 6,95 km² and houses 2122 residents (1 january 2007). The village is located to the north-west of Mechelen at the river Zenne. Heffen was added to the municipality of Mechelen in 1976.

Places of interest
 The parish church, devoted to Our Lady of Perpetual Help, dates back to the 14th century. Its baroque spire from 1755 was destroyed by lightning in 1865. Its octagonal spire from 1866 was demolished in 1899 and replaced by the current spire. The church and its surrounding churchyard are protected as a monument and a landscape.
 The townhouse dating back to 1877.

Demographics

Evolution of the population

19th century

20th century to 1976 municipal reform

Recent census results

Famous residents
 Koen Wauters

External links
www.heffen.be


Adam Adler

Adam Adler is a British television executive producer, who is currently the Managing Director of Gameface Productions.

He is best known for creating the triple BAFTA Award–winning television series The Cube.

Filmography

Career
Adam worked for Channel 4 where he was a Commissioning Editor for Entertainment. He previously worked in development at Endemol and Granada.

Adler joined Objective Productions in 2007, but is now the Managing Director of Gameface Productions.

Objective Productions

Adler and Objective Productions first approached Channel 4 in 2008 with the format for The Cube. It was made into a non-televised pilot by the channel, presented by Justin Lee Collins. Channel 4 eventually decided not to commission the show because it would have been too expensive. In February 2009, ITV purchased the rights to the show and filming began during April 2009 at Wembley's Fountain Studios with Phillip Schofield as host.

Adler was the executive producer for nine series of The Cube from 2009 until 2015. He also produced the American pilot of The Cube.

Adler was also the creator and executive producer for the BBC primetime game show Reflex in 2014. The format had originally been piloted by Channel 4 in April 2011, who also opted not to order The Cube following a 2008 pilot. A non-broadcast pilot of Reflex was filmed with Jake Humphrey as host in July 2012 at MediaCityUK in Salford. After being commissioned by the BBC, Reflex was filmed at Wembley's Fountain Studios during April 2013. Shane Richie presented the series.  The show began airing on 11 January 2014, but received a poor reception from critics and viewers.

Gameface Productions
With Gameface Productions, Adler has been executive producer for two series of ITV daytime game show Alphabetical, presented by Jeff Stelling and one series of Britain's Brightest Family, a primetime quiz show presented by Anne Hegerty.

The Golden Manor Medicine Show
Adler's band, The Golden Manor Medicine Show – a London-based Country Soul / Americana group released their debut album on iTunes in 2012.

Awards


Carmen Sandiego Returns

Carmen Sandiego Returns is a 2015 social studies puzzle adventure video game, part of the Carmen Sandiego franchise. It is developed by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and uses Intel RealSense Technology in order to enhance the immersive nature of player interaction. The educational game aims to teach players about world geography and culture to its 10–14 year old target market.

A different game was released on the iOS platform under the same name. This game marks the franchise's debut onto the smartphone market, and has a target market of people aged 9–11.

Gameplay
Players have to travel across the globe, uncovering clues to work out where crooks are hiding. In each location, the player hunts for clues using their naked eye, an x-ray, and ultraviolet light, similar to a hidden object game. Players undertake a street racing minigame when chasing down the crook. Each case has a time limit, with hours being used whenever the player goes to a new country. They can use coins to speed up this travel time. The game comes with an encyclopedia to help players who cannot decrypt a clue.

Intel RealSense Technology allows players to use gesture control to do things like pick up clues and fly a plane. The use of puns, which is a staple of the series, is continued here, with names of crooks including "Hal Apenyo" and "Bea Carefull".

The free version of the game contains Pack 1: Museum Heist! (5 missions), while Pack 1: Museum Heist! (5 missions) and Pack 2: Monumental Emergencies! (10 missions) can be purchased together.

In the iOS version, each level sees the player start a case, travel the world, collect clues, fill out a warrant, and finally chase the crook. Players can track their progress on the leaderboard via the Apple Game Centre. In this version, players have two travel options: normal, and express, the latter of which takes up in-game currency. In each location players search for clues via their fingers' manipulation of the touch pad, and as witnesses offer them information, they can start to build up their warrant.

Development
The first hint of the new game was made on 22 January 2015 via a teaser trailer released on Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's YouTube channel entitled ACME Alert: Carmen Sandiego™ is back with a new game!. It said the game would be "available soon for free download on Amazon.com". A few months later in March 2015, Edutainment Weekly quoted Houghton Mifflin Harcourt communications director Jennifer Berlin as saying that there would be future developments regarding an iOS app. Further details were peppered throughout press releases leading up to the game's official launch date: Carmen Sandiego Returns was advertised as being a bilingual game in English/French, and was noteworthy for offering the company "an opportunity to leverage legacy assets with a strong brand and fan base". On May 14, 2015, the game became available on Amazon, while in November, the app version was released to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the original Carmen Sandiego game. EdSurge noted that "her re-emergence coincides with a resurgence in the popularity of educational games", which had been in decline since the turn of the millennium.

Reception
Much of the discussion about Carmen Sandiego Returns was in a new release that hearkened back to the first games in the franchise's thirty-year history. The Telegraph praised the game's educational content and "stellar graphics", noting it "has all the things 90's kids loved about the original character". According to GeekDad, the game " bring[s] the character back to life". The Livingston Post wrote that the game "revives the story and play of the Carmen Sandiego brand". MACNN said that "the voice acting is wonderful and the music and sounds have a cool edutainment circa '95 vibe." AppAddict praised the game's ability to retain its old gameplay while using new technology to enhance the experience, writing "Carmen Sandiego Returns is an excellent, modern addition to this beloved franchise from my childhood". AppleGazette had a very positive reaction to the game, concluding "Who wouldn’t want this app? Seriously," after listing the game's nostalgic summary. Slashgear noted that in an attempt to appeal to the next generation of gamers who may be unfamiliar with Carmen Sandiego, HMH decided to release the game onto the platform they prefer, iOS.

There were some negative reactions to the gameplay. Apple N Apps gave it a 2 out of 5, writing that its nostalgia is ultimately outweighed by its simplicity, blandness, and shortness, concluding that despite a "promising pedigree" it had a "poor execution". MakeUseOf disliked the price point for each set of three 15-minute cases, commenting that a more cost-effective way to experience the franchise would be to download the free DOS versions of the 80's games. Meanwhile, TouchVision was generally ambivalent toward both the PC and iOS versions of the game. TouchVision criticised the PC version for requiring the player to purchase Intel RealSense, and the app version for only having three short missions for free before the player has to pay for more.


Hugh Aiken Bayne

Hugh Aiken Bayne (15 February 1870 in New Orleans – 24 December 1954 in New Haven, Connecticut) was the son of Thomas Levingston Bayne, a lawyer who fought in the Civil War. His grandfather John Gayle was a Congressman and Governor of Alabama.

Bayne attended Yale University, where he graduated in 1892 with an AB. While at Yale, he published The Tales of Temple Bar: A Prologue (1891), a collection of his comic writing for campus humor magazine The Yale Record. He was a member of Skull and Bones.

He would later receive an honorary LLD from Tulane University. In the same year he was admitted to the bar, and began the practice of law in New Orleans. Bayne moved to New York City in 1898, where he would continue the practice of law until 1919. From 1905 to 1914 he was a member of the storied law firm Strong & Cadwalader of New York City.

During World War I, he served as a major judge advocate in the Adjutant Generals Office, as a counsel on the Prisoners of War Mission and served on the Liquidation Commission of the War Department. He was made a lieutenant colonel in 1919, but he never fought in any battles. For his services he was decorated with the Distinguished Service Medal and the Légion d'honneur.

After the war, he served on the Reparations Commission under the treaties of Versailles and St. Germain. During this time he served as a judge deciding the claim of Belgium vs. Austria, regarding the Treasure of the Order of Golden Fleece. The King of Belgium requested that the treasure be transferred to him as the new ruler of the former Habsburg lands of the Austrian Netherlands. The three judges, of whom Bayne was one gave serious consideration to handing the treasure over to Belgium. However at the request of Emperor Carl, King Alfonso XIII of Spain intervened and the treasure remained in Austrian hands. He also handled the claim of Czecho-Slovakia being the successor to the Kingdom of Bohemia, and a claim regarding 500 works of art stolen from Bohemia by Austria between 1616 and 1914. One of the most interesting claims he handled was Standard Oil Co. vs. the Reparations Commission. The commission had appropriated 21 oil tankers owned by a Germany subsidiary of Standard Oil to pay for Germans reparations. He also handled cases on disarmament clauses.

On 8 October 1895 he married Helen Cheney, the sister of Knight Dexter Cheney, Jr., one of Bayne's classmates at Yale and brothers in Skull and Bones.


Dana Ivgy

Dana Ivgy (; born April 3, 1982) is an Israeli actress and the daughter of actor Moshe Ivgy.

Career
As a child, Ivgy appeared in several television and film productions. Since graduating from acting school she has appeared in several critically acclaimed films.

In 2002 she garnered the attention of the Israeli Film Academy when she was nominated for the Best Supporting Actress award for her portrayals of Sarit in the sports drama Beitar Provence. She also received the nomination for her role of Tikva Ida in the drama, The Barbecue People based around a picnic celebrating Israeli Independence day. She also appeared in the critically acclaimed film, Broken Wings.

She received considerable acclaim as the protagonist in Keren Yedaya's 2004 picture, Or (My Treasure) a drama about a teenager (Ivgy) and her prostitute mother (played by Ronit Elkabetz). She was awarded prizes by international film festivals and won the Best Actress award by the Israeli Film Academy.

In 2006 she appeared in Aviva, My Love, which won the Israeli Film Academy's award for Best Film. A year later she appeared in Amos Gitai's French-Israeli film, Disengagement about a mother's search for the child she abandoned, amidst the disengagement on the IDF in Gaza.

In 2009 she reunited with Yedaya and Elkabetz for Jaffa, a Romeo & Juliet-inspired drama about an Israeli Jewish girl and an Israeli Arab boy who have conceived a baby and conspire to marry each other, before tragedy interrupts their plans. Her depiction of the pregnant protagonist led to another Best Actress nomination from the Israeli Film Academy. She shared this nomination with her work in Haiu Leilot alongside her father, Moshe Ivgy.

Ivgy has also established Tziporela, a theatre company and is currently writing and directing a short film.

Filmography


Kazemır Qudiyev

Kazemır Qudiyev (; born 29 April 1972) is an Azerbaijani professional football coach and a former player. He also holds Russian citizenship.

Club career
He made his professional debut in the Soviet Second League B in 1990 for FC Avtodor Vladikavkaz.

Personal life
He is the father of Vitali Gudiyev.


Huellelhue River

Huellelhue is a river in San Juan de la Costa commune in southern Chile. It runs from east to west and discharges into the Pacific Ocean about 10 km south of Maicolpue.


Gandomriz, Masjed Soleyman

Gandomriz (, also Romanized as Gandomrīz) is a village in Jahangiri Rural District, in the Central District of Masjed Soleyman County, Khuzestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 20, in 5 families.


EuroPride

EuroPride is a pan-European international event dedicated to LGBTI pride, hosted by a different European city each year. The host city is usually one with an established pride event or a significant LGBTI community.

For up to a month, numerous sporting, artistic and human rights events are staged throughout the host city. EuroPride usually culminates during a weekend with a traditional Mardi Gras-style pride parade, live music, human rights conference, special club nights, and an AIDS memorial vigil.

History

EuroPride was inaugurated in London in 1992, attended by estimated crowds of over 100,000. The following year, Berlin hosted the festivities.  When Amsterdam hosted EuroPride in 1994, it turned into a financial disaster, leaving debts of approximately 450,000 euros. In 1996, EuroPride moved to Copenhagen, where it enjoyed strong support from city leaders.  The organisers were successful on all fronts but not able to achieve a financial surplus.

Paris hosted EuroPride in 1997.  The festival had numerous commercial sponsors and was widely hailed as a success.  During the parade, over 300,000 people marched to the Bastille.  Stockholm was the host city in 1998.  London was to host EuroPride again in 1999, but the event was canceled when the organisers went bankrupt.
In 2000, WorldPride took place for the first time and, as has happened each time since, when WorldPride is in Europe, no separate EuroPride takes place.  The event took place in Rome and was well-attended by LGBTI people from all over the world.  After initially supporting the event, city leaders pulled their support just days before due to pressure exerted by the Vatican, which was organising its Great Jubilee.

Vienna hosted the 2001 EuroPride, drawing large crowds from Central Europe.  In 2002, Köln (Cologne), Germany, held the then-biggest ever EuroPride; officials estimated crowds to number well over one million.  EuroPride was hosted by Manchester in 2003, and Hamburg in 2004.  Oslo hosted it in 2005, with Ian McKellen as the guest of honour.

London hosted the event in 2006, organising a two-week festival culminating in a parade on the final day (1 July) in which marchers were invited to walk down Oxford Street, one of the city's busiest shopping streets, the first time they had been legally allowed to do so. The parade was attended by Mayor of London Ken Livingstone, Conservative MP Alan Duncan, human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell, and the first transgender MEP, Italian Vladimir Luxuria.

Following the parade, events were held in three of the capital's squares: a rally in Trafalgar Square addressed by Ian McKellen, and entertainment in Leicester and Soho Squares. EuroPride 2006 marked the first time that London's main pride rally and entertainment areas were staged within the city itself, rather than in open parks.

In 2007, Madrid hosted EuroPride, which took place in Chueca, the capital's gay village, during the last week in June. Madrid was chosen because of the gay marriage and gender identity laws Spain had passed during the previous two years. More than 1.2 million people attended the final parade as it passed through the downtown streets of Alcalá, and Gran Vía, ending up at Plaza de España. For the first time, Madrid City Hall contributed financing to the MADO (Madrid Orgullo) organisation. In addition, a private event, the Infinitamentegay Party, took place in Casa de Campo Park.

In 2008, the Stockholm Pride organization organised EuroPride for a second time, held from 25 June to 3 August in Stockholm, a decade after hosting EuroPride 1998.

Zurich hosted EuroPride in 2009 with a month-long roster of events from 2 May to 7 June, culminating in a parade through downtown Zurich on 6 June.

The 2010 event was held in Warsaw, Poland. Organisers prepared multifaceted events between July 9 to 18. The Parade took place on July 17. It marked the first time this pan-European LGBT celebration took place in a former communist country. The Warsaw EuroPride formulated, as its main theme, a demand for legalisation of
same sex civil partnerships.

In 2011, EuroPride returned to Rome. Hosted by Claudia Gerini, the parade closed with a performance and a speech by Lady Gaga at the Circus Maximus. That year one million people took part.

The 2013 EuroPride was in Marseille, France from July 10–20, focusing on gay marriage in France and celebrated the biggest gay wedding in Europe

The 2016 EuroPride returned to Amsterdam.  UK singer/songwriter Tara McDonald sang her single "I Need A Miracle" which was chosen as the EuroPride anthem and was remixed by Gregor Salto.

There was no EuroPride in 2017 as WorldPride took place in Madrid.

In June 2019, President of Austria Alexander Van der Bellen became the first Head of State to address a EuroPride parade.

World Pride

The European Pride Organisers Association, which licences EuroPride and owns the trademark, has decided that a World Pride event held in Europe also automatically carries the title of EuroPride.

The first World Pride was held in Rome in 2000 (see above). The second WorldPride was held in Jerusalem in 2005-2006.

London, also hosting the 2012 Summer Olympics, beat out competing candidate, Stockholm, in the fall of 2008 to hold World Pride 2012, which was held from 23 June to 8 July.

WorldPride 2017 was held in Madrid, and WorldPride 2021 will be held in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Madrid success

Madrid's EuroPride 2007 was the most well-attended ever, with an estimated 2.5 million visitors. This huge attendance was not only a success for Madrid, but for the whole LGBT Spanish community, due to the celebration of the change of terms in the laws related to gay marriage and adoptions.

Madrid was one of the first Spanish cities celebrating the legalization of gay marriage, with the support of all political parties, even the conservatives in the Government, headed by the ex-mayor of the city, Alberto Ruíz Gallardón from Partido Popular.

Due to these and other advances in same-sex freedom and social progress, Madrid was chosen in 2012 to host WorldPride 2017.

Host cities

European Pride Organisers Association

The European Pride Organisers Association (often shortened to EPOA or EuroPride) was founded in London in 1992 ahead of the first EuroPride. It owns the EuroPride trademark and licenses its use to one Pride organisation each year.

EPOA is a small organisation with eight elected board members, all of whom serve with Pride organisations in Europe. It has no paid staff, and has its headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. The board meets several times each year, often holding a meeting in a city holding its Pride event that weekend.

Any Pride organisation can become a member of EPOA upon payment of a membership fee. This gives the organisation voting rights at the Annual General Meeting, including on votes on future EuroPride bids. Membership to EPOA automatically makes a Pride a member of InterPride, its international equivalent. EPOA has more than 60 members across Europe.

The current President of EPOA is Latvian human rights activist, Kristine Garina.


Ercole Lelli

Ercole Lelli (14 September 1702 – 7 March 1766) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque, active mainly in Northern Italy, including his native city of Bologna, as well as Padua and Piacenza.

Lelli was a pupil of the painter Giovanni Pietro Zanotti, but he also gravitated towards sculptural work. He excelled in the study of the anatomy of the human body as well as painting.
Starting in 1742 he helped prepare artistic anatomical wax displays at the University of Bologna.
The wax modeler and anatomist Giovanni Manzolini worked as his assistant from 1743.
Manzolini resigned in late 1746 after three years.
He felt bitterly that Lelli had deprived him of recognition for his greater knowledge of anatomy and anatomical sculpture.
Nicolo Toselli was another of Lelli's pupils.

In 1746 Lelli became a member of both the Bolognese art society, Accademia Clementina, and the science society, Istituto delle scienze. He had completed many medals for the local Mint.  A few pictures are extant, including a Virgin and child with St. Anthony of Padua and St. Clara for the church of Sant' Andrea delle Scuole at Bologna; and a St. Fidèle for the church of the Cappuccini at Piacenza. He was an eminent teacher of design, and in 1759 became director of the Academy at Bologna, the city where he died. He has also left some engravings, such as Hagar and Ishmael. A posthumous book with a few engravings, titled Anatomia esterna del corpo umano (External Anatomy of the Human Body) was published in Bologna.

Notable students
Giles Hussey


Manteiga

David Henrique dos Santos (born 19 March 1990 in Maceió) is a Brazilian footballer who currently plays as a defensive midfielder.

Manteiga formerly played for Sociedade Esportiva do Gama in his country Brazil before signing for Feyenoord in 2008. After loan spells Excelsior and Ponte Preta he returned to Brazil to play for Grêmio Prudente.


Margaret Hartsyde

Margaret Hartsyde (fl. 1600–1640) was a Scottish servant, jewel thief, and landowner. A servant of the queen, Anne of Denmark, Hartsyde's duties included looking after the queen's jewels, dealing with the jeweller George Heriot, and handling large sums of money.

Margaret Hartsyde was a daughter of Malcolm Hartsyde of Kirkwall, Orkney. She married another royal servant called John Buchanan.

One of her letters to Sir William Livingstone of Kilsyth described how Anne of Denmark was surprised by his leaving the court, and had expected him to deliver a jewel to her which he ought to send to queen as soon as possible. She was hoping to buy a house in Libberton in Lanarkshire with her husband.

Margaret stole jewels from Anne in London and attempted to sell them back to the jeweller George Heriot. She was sent for trial in Edinburgh and convicted of "unlawful subracting and detening" in June 1608. She was not sentenced to death but banishment to Orkney was proposed. Anne of Denmark had hoped she would be convicted and condemned by the laws of Scotland and wrote to Lord Balmerino expressing her disappointment. The jewels, it was claimed, had been a gift from the queen. It was rumoured that Margaret had been indiscreet with the queen's secrets, revealing what a "wise chambermaid" would not have done. King James wrote to lawyers in Edinburgh querying their judgement, calling them "pettyfoggeris", and ordered the Privy Council to interview anyone who had set their hands to the case. A second hearing in Linlithgow pronounced her guilty of an "infamous" crime against the royal persons, and she was imprisoned in Blackness Castle.

Hartsyde and Buchanan went to Orkney and paid £400 sterling for the value of the jewels. In March 1618 the King, by Anne of Denmark's intercession, gave John Buchanan freedom to travel in Scotland, and freedom to travel anywhere in the kingdom was granted to Margaret and John on 15 March 1619. Eventually in 1619, James declared Margaret Hartsyde innocent, saying she had been "by the sinisterous information of certain of her unfrendis for the tyme, pursued criminallie".

John Buchanan was made Chamberlain of Orkney and Shetland in May 1622, and was keeper of Birsay Palace, Newhouse on Orkney, Scalloway Castle, and the house at Sumburgh Ness in Shetland.

Subsequently, Buchanan became "Sir John Buchanan of Scotscraig". Scotscraig was near Tayport, Fife. John Lauder, Lord Fountainhall saw their initials "SJB" and "DMH" for Dame Margaret Hartsyde, carved on the windows of the house at Scotscraig in 1671. One of their daughters, Margaret Buchanan, married Arthur Erskine (d. 1651), a son of Marie Stewart, Countess of Mar.

The date of Margaret Hartsyde's death is unknown.

Dorothy Silken, Piero Hugon, and Danish Anna
Hartsyde's successor in the role of looking after the queen's silver in the bedchamber, was the Danish gentlewoman Dorothy Silken or Silking. She married Sir Edward Zouch of Woking in 1612. After an inventory of plate at Denmark House was made in 1621 they were asked to supply a shortfall worth £493, including a gold casting bottle with the queen's arms. Zouch successfully claimed that a warrant signed by his wife was forgery, because she could not write her name.

After Anne of Denmark's funeral in May 1619, two of her servants were accused of theft, her French page Piero or Pierre Hugon and a Danish maiden of honour called Anna. Piero had been "her creature and favourite", and according to a letter describing the queen's last days, "Pira, and the Dutch woman that serves her" had been her closest attendants, excluding other courtiers. The theft was discovered by the goldsmith who supplied some of the items, either William Herrick or George Heriot. They were taken to the Tower of London and charged with stealing jewels worth £30,000. The French ambassador François de Bassompierre, Count of Tillières, tried to help Hugon. A draft letter answering Tillières gives more detail of the accusations. King James gave a chest in Paris taken from Hugon to Mr Herbert, a brother of Sir Edward Herbert his ambassador in France, compensating Hugon with £500. The missing jewels were worth £60,000. Hugon was also accused of sending the queen's money and some religious items after her death to a nunnery and to some Jesuits to pray for her soul. These accusations were not sent to Tillières, after Hugon was interrogated in the Tower and he made a deal or bargain.

Herbert discovered that the brother of Louis Richard, one of the queen's musicians, had carried packages to France for Hugon. Herbert made an inventory of two chests belonging to Hugon, and the contents were thought to include some of the queen's jewels. He was concerned by various Catholic items he saw . There were many items of jewelry and costume, two bezoar stones, and a string of pearls with Hugon's note that Anne of Denmark had given them to him on his wedding day with a large diamond, and the pearls should be sold and the proceeds used to say Masses for the queen. Marie de' Medici became involved, who declared via Pierre Brûlart, marquis de Sillery, Viscount Puisieux, that she had always been well-disposed to the service of the late queen. Puisieux believed that Hugon was detained in England by the Spanish-favouring faction at court.

Maureen Meikle and Helen Payne propose that Hugon had become a significant figure in the queen's household after the departure of Jean Drummond, Countess of Roxburghe. Assuming that many or most of the items in the inventory had belonged to the queen, including Catholic items, they suggest that Anne of Denmark had asked him to take them away to prevent their discovery, although the result was the exact opposite, and that Hugon 's confession that money was intended to found a monastery in France ought to be taken as evidence for the queen's Catholic faith.

Anne of Denmark had lost jewelry to thieves before. When she came to Scotland in 1590 she brought a German goldsmith called Jacob Kroger. In 1594 Kroger stole some of her jewels and fled to England with a French stable servant called Guillaume Martyn. They were captured by George Selby, imprisoned in Tynemouth Castle, returned to Edinburgh and executed.


Euderces bellus

Euderces bellus is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Giesbert and Chemsak in 1997.


Citipointe Christian College

Citipointe Christian College, previously known as Christian Outreach College Brisbane (COCB), is a K-12 Christian independent day school located in Carindale, Queensland. The school has a population of around 1700 students from preparatory to Year 12, including students in the International College. There are over 170 staff members employed by the school.

Christian Heritage College is a related tertiary education provider located on the same site.

History
16 June 1974: The day Christian Outreach College Brisbane was officially founded.
16 May 1978: The day Christian Outreach College (West End) was officially founded and Pastor Ian Feeney was appointed headmaster. This date is also considered to be the day the college was established.
1982: During this year, the college was relocated from Kurilpa Street (West End) to its new and current location: Wecker Road, Mansfield.
1982: During this year, the college showed noticeable growth when a building was opened and named, A Block. In addition, the college went on to begin the construction of another new building called, B Block.
1985: This year marked the appointment of the fourth headmaster of the college, Pastor Ron Woolley.
1987-1988: B Block was expanded to cope with college growth.
1990: Another new building was opened and named, Kurilpa.
1991: In memory of Ian Feeney, a building was opened and named in his honour. The building was called, The Ian Feeney Building.
1993: The college opened its first arts building named, The Reformation Building (also abbreviated as R Block).
1996: The first library at the college was opened in the secondary school and was called, The Ted & Margaret Linke Building.
1998: The secondary school built a locker room to help support students currently attending.
1999: The college began to focus more on the development of the primary area and opened a Year 1 centre called, The John & Kay Gagliardi Building.
The college constructed its first oval after acquiring an adjoining property used for Tennis.
2000: The college opened an administration building to be used for staff and the headmaster, which was named, Grace House.
2002: An Integrated Technology Centre (also abbreviated as ITC) was completed to be used to help facilitate the increasing growth in the secondary school.
2003: The first primary Art Centre was opened.
2006: On 16 May, the secondary school opened its first Science Centre in conjunction with the college's Foundation Day 2006. It was designed by a team of architects, led by Greg Kearney, who had the goal of ensuring that the building helped facilitate students actively involved in science education. It was then built by a group led by John Maguire. Finally, the Science Centre was declared open by Len Morris and his wife. Len Morris is a long-standing member of Citipointe Church Brisbane and a former science academic at The University of Queensland.
A primary Quad Shade Structure was constructed to help primary students stay sun safe.
In accordance with the Governments Prep education requirements, a building was constructed and called PrepWorld.
A multipurpose undercover area was constructed over the existing basketball court and swimming pool to provide students with greater sun protection because adequate sun protection did not already exist.
2007: An extension was made to the primary's ESL Building, currently located beside the primary Art Centre.
2008: The International College was fully constructed.
2011: The New College Hall was fully constructed.
2017: New alfresco café  began construction.
2018: This year marked the appointment of the current principal of the college, Pastor Brian Mulheran.

Notable alumni
Tim Bettinson, singer-songwriter. Vancouver Sleep Clinic
Adrian Schrinner, Lord Mayor of Brisbane City Council.

Campus

Citipointe Christian College stands on a  campus that is shared with Citipointe Church Brisbane, Citipointe ChildCare, and Christian Heritage College (a private tertiary). It is situated in the south-eastern suburbs of Brisbane and is located between the suburbs of Carindale and Mansfield at the address: 322 Wecker Road, Carindale 4152.

Principals

Pastor Ian Feeney (1978–1980), first principal.
Pastor Lloyd Eastgate (1980–1982), second principal.
Pastor Brian Millis (1982–1985), third principal.
Pastor Ron Woolley (1985 – 2017), longest serving principal.
Pastor Brian Mulheran (2018 - present) fifth principal.


Takeki Manabe

is a Japanese politician who was the 43rd governor of Kagawa Prefecture in Japan, serving three terms from 1998 until 2010. In 2009 he announced he would not contest the 2010 election and was succeeded by Keizō Hamada.


Shofry Abdul Ghafor

Dato Paduka Awang Haji Shofry bin Haji Abdul Ghafor (born 21 October 1958) is a Bruneian diplomat who served as Permanent Representative of Brunei Darussalam to the United Nations from 2002 to 2006.

He was educated at the University of East Anglia (BA, Development Studies) and at the Australian National University (MA, International Studies).


David Guillas

David "Space Beaver" Guillas (born February 27, 1979) is a Canadian guitarist, formerly of Giant Sons Rough Music, and hardcore punk band Propagandhi. He left Propagandhi to pursue a career as a teacher.

Career

In early April 2002, Guillas played guitar for Giant Sons, a roots rock turned instrumental band in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The band broke up in August 2003, and ex-members of Giant Sons and Standstill formed a new band called Rough Music in February or March 2004.

In August 2006 he became a member of Winnipeg hardcore punk outfit Propagandhi, who are still active on the Winnipeg music scene.

A 15-track Giant Sons album titled Anthology was released on G7 Welcoming Committee Records in 2006, compiling their two earlier releases.

Guillas now teaches public school in Winnipeg's inner city.


Philip Petursson

Philip Markus Petursson (October 21, 1902 in Pinecreek, Minnesota – May 12, 1988) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was a New Democratic member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1966 to 1977, and briefly served as a cabinet minister in the government of Edward Schreyer.

The son of Olafar Petursson, he moved to Foam Lake, Saskatchewan with his family during his first year of life and then moved to Winnipeg nine years later. He was educated at the University of Manitoba, the University of Chicago, the Meadville Theological School. He was an ordained Unitarian minister, and served as an executive member of the Western Canadian Unitarian Council; in the 1930s, he studied at the University of Iceland so as to be able to conduct services in that language. He also served on the Winnipeg School Board from 1942 to 1951, and was a member of the Canadian Mental Health Association, the Winnipeg Municipal Hospital Commission, and the Welfare Council of Winnipeg. He married Thorey Gislason in 1926. In 1953, Petursson gained attention in Winnipeg's religious community for speaking out against the concept of hell.

He ran for the House of Commons of Canada in the federal election of 1949 in the riding of Norquay, but lost to Liberal Robert James Wood by almost 4000 votes. He ran again the federal election of 1965, this time placing third in Winnipeg South Centre against Progressive Conservative Gordon Churchill and Liberal Fred Douglas.

Petursson was elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1966 provincial election, defeating incumbent Progressive Conservative Richard Seaborn in the north-end Winnipeg riding of Wellington. In 1968-69, he supported Edward Schreyer to replace Russell Paulley as leader of the provincial NDP. He was re-elected by an increased margin in the 1969 election, in which the NDP formed a minority government under Schreyer.

On July 17, 1969, Petursson was named Minister of Cultural Affairs. It was always intended that he would return to the backbenches after a brief period in office, and he was indeed dropped from cabinet on November 4, 1970. Petursson remained an active parliamentarian, and was re-elected in the election of 1973. He did not seek re-election in 1977.

He died in Winnipeg at the age of 85.


Jordan Marié

Jordan Marié (born 29 September 1991) is a French professional footballer who plays for Dijon FCO as a midfielder.


Latrobe station

Latrobe is an Amtrak train station located about  east of Pittsburgh at 329 McKinley Avenue, Latrobe, Pennsylvania. The station is near the center of the city, and is currently served only by Amtrak's Pennsylvanian, which operates once per day in each direction. Until 2005, Latrobe was served by a second daily train, the Three Rivers (a replacement service for the legendary Broadway Limited), an extended version of the Pennsylvanian that terminated in Chicago. Upon its cancellation, the sole Pennsylvanian marked the first time in Latrobe's railway history that the town was served by just a single, daily passenger train.

History
The station was opened in 1903 by the Pennsylvania Railroad as part of a project to elevate the right-of-way as it passed through Latrobe. The architect, William H. Brown, used an eclectic Late Victorian style. It is a one-story, brick building, eight bays wide and five bays deep. It has a flat roof with parapet and a central cross gable. The gable end over the main entrance has a pediment with stone panels and terra cotta decoration. The station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

The historic station itself exists, but currently serves as a restaurant. There is no ticket office available at the small shelter (complete with bench seats) which serves as the current station. Due to the small number of passengers, Latrobe Station is a flag stop.

The Westmoreland County Transit Authority has one bus route, Route 9/9A - Greensburg/Latrobe/Derry, that stops adjacent to the train station and one other route, Route 20F - New Florence/Greensburg, that stops within  of the station. Greyhound also has an intercity bus stop about  from the station, at 803 Alexandria Street.


Aston Rowant Woods

Aston Rowant Woods is a 209.7 hectare biological Site of Special Scientific Interest near Aston Rowant in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire. Part of it is in Aston Rowant National Nature Reserve, and a large part is in the Chiltern Beechwoods Special Area of Conservation. The site is also in the Chilterns Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.

The site is described by Natural England as "of national importance as a large, unfragmented area of ancient semi-natural woodland characteristic of the Chilterns scarp". It is composed of Grove Wood, Aston Wood, Juniper Bank, Kingston Wood, High Wood and Crowell Wood. Flora include 52 species indicative of ancient woods, and there are over 100 species of fungi, while damp hollows and fallen trees provide diverse habitats for invertebrates. Uncommon species include the herb Paris quadrifolia and the flower green hellebore. There are small areas of scrub and chalk grassland.


The Christmas Album (Richard & Adam album)

The Christmas Album is the second studio album by Welsh operatic duo Richard & Adam, who first rose to fame on the seventh series of the ITV talent show Britain's Got Talent in 2013, on which they finished third. The album was released on 2 December 2013 through Sony Music as the second album of the two-album contract that they signed after the show. The album consists of cover of various Christmas songs, including "I Saw Three Ships", "Silent Night", "Once in Royal David's City".

Track listing

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Release history


Pocdol Mountains

The Pocdol Mountains, also known as the Bacon-Manito Volcanic Group are a volcanic group of stratovolcanoes in the Philippines.

Location

The Pocdol Mountains form part of the boundary between the provinces of Albay and Sorsogon, in Region V, on the island of Luzon, in the Philippines.

The group is located south-east of Mayon Volcano, between Albay Gulf and Sorsogon Bay, at latitude 13.05°N (13°3'0"N), longitude 123.958°E (123°57'30"E).

Physical features
The Pocdol Mountains have a triangular footprint of about .

There are several peaks above 1000 metres in elevation. The highest point is reported as  above sea level.

A fumarole field that contains sulfataras and chloride hot springs, is reported to be located near the summit of the volcanic group.

The group is described by the Smithsonian Institution's Global Volcanism Program as fumarolic.

Eruptions

There are no reports of eruptions.

Geology

Several Pleistocene K-Ar dates have been obtained from the volcanic complex. Most igneous rocks in the Pocdol Mountains consist of pyroxene andesites with minor amounts of dacite and basalts. The area is traversed by the San Vicente-Linao Fault, a splay of the Philippine Fault.

Volcanic cones in the western part of the complex are dissected, but those in the eastern part are morphologically youthful.

The volcanic area is the host of various geothermal systems collectively called the Bacon-Manito geothermal field.

Listings

The Global Volcanism Program lists the Pocdol Mountains as Fumarolic.
Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology (PHIVOLCS) lists Pocdol Mountains as Inactive.