title: Vicente Brun

text:
Vicente "Vince" d'Avila Melo Brun (born April 14, 1947) is a Brazilian-American Olympic sailor and sail maker that competed in the Soling class at the 1976 and 1980 Summer Olympics. 1976, he finished 10th together with his brother Gastão Brun and Andreas Wengert, and in 1980 he finished 6th together with his brother and Roberto Luiz Souza. He also won three Soling World Championship (1978, 1981, 1983) and the 1986 Star World Championship and participated in the Stars & Stripes America's Cup campaign. Brun moved to the United States in 1975.

Brun was inducted into the National Sailing Hall of Fame in 2018.

References

1947 births
Living people
Brazilian male sailors (sport)
Brazilian people of German descent
Soling class sailors
Olympic sailors for Brazil
Sailors at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Soling
Sailors at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Soling
Star class world champions
Farr 40 class world champions
World champions in sailing for Brazil
Soling class world champions


title: SS Empire Flame

text:
Empire Flame was a  CAM ship that was built in 1941 by Cammell Laird & Co Ltd, Birkenhead, United Kingdom for the Ministry of War Transport (MoWT). She was sold in 1945 and renamed Dunkery Beacon. A further sale to Finland in 1955 saw her renamed Rissa. Following a sale in 1961, she was renamed Augusta Paulin. She served until 1969 when she was scrapped.

Description
The ship was a CAM ship built in 1941 by Cammell Laird & Co Ltd, Birkenhead, Cheshire, United Kingdom. She was yard number 1060.

The ship was  long, with a beam of . She had a depth of  and a draught of . She was assessed at , , 9,905 DWT.

The ship was propelled by a   triple expansion steam engine, which had cylinders of 23½ inches (60 cm), 37½ inches (95 cm) and  diameter by  stroke. The engine was built by Cammell Laird. It drove a single screw propeller. The engine could propel the ship at a speed of

History
The ship was built by Cammell Laird & Co Ltd, Birkenhead, Cheshire in 1941 for the MoWT. She was launched on 12 May 1941 and completed in June 1941. The Code Letters BCLF and United Kingdom Official Number 166321 were allocated. Her port of registry was Liverpool. She was placed under the management of the Booth Steamship Co Ltd, London. As with all CAM ships, she was armed with a Hawker Sea Hurricane aircraft.

Empire Flame made her maiden voyage on 24 June 1941 when she sailed from Liverpool, Lancashire to the Clyde, arriving the next day. She sailed from the Clyde on 7 July to join Convoy OB 343, which had departed from Liverpool the previous day and dispersed at sea () on 21 July. Her destination was Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, which was reached on 23 July. Carrying a cargo of grain, Empire Flame departed from Halifax on 1 August with Convoy HX 142, which arrived at Liverpool on 18 August. Empire Fame sailed from Liverpool on 1 August with Convoy ON 12, which dispersed at sea () on 14 September. She arrived at Halifax on 21 September. Empire Flame sailed for Sydney, Nova Scotia on 27 September, arriving the next day. Carrying a cargo of grain, She departed on 29 September with Convoy SC 478, which arrived at Liverpool on 20 October. She left the convoy at the Belfast Lough on 18 October and joined Convoy BB 90 which arrived at Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire the next day. She sailed on to Avonmouth, Somerset, arriving on 21 October.

Empire Flame later sailed to Newport, Monmouthshire, from where she departed on 5 November for Milford Haven, arriving two days later. She sailed on 8 November to join Convoy ON 35, which departed from Liverpool on 9 November and dispersed at sea () on 27 November. Empire Flame was bound for Halifax, where she arrived on 27 November. She departed on 2 December, arriving at Sydney the next day. Laden with a cargo of grain, Empire Flame was a member of Convoy SC 58, which departed from Sydney on 4 December and arrived at Liverpool on 21 December.

Empire Flame departed from Liverpool on 13 January 1942 with Convoy ON 57, which dispersed at sea ( on 7 February. She was carrying the Convoy Commodore, Vice-Admiral Geoffrey Mackworth. She arrived at Halifax later that day, and sailed on 8 February for Portland, Maine, where she arrived on 10 February. Empire Flame sailed on 19 February for Halifax, arriving the next day. During that voyage, she rescued the 56 survivors from , which had been torpedoed and sunk by . Laden with grain, Empire Flame departed on 22 February with Convoy SC 71. The convoy arrived at Liverpool on 19 March. She was sailing without her Hawker Sea Hurricane at this time. Empire Flame sailed from Liverpool on 21 March with Convoy ON 78, which arrived at Halifax on 9 April. Laden with wheat, she returned to the United Kingdom with Convoy SC 80, which sailed on 18 April and arrived at Liverpool on 3 May. Empire Flame was a member of Convoy ON 94, which sailed from Liverpool on 12 May and arrived at Halifax on 25 May. She departed from Halifax on 9 June with Convoy HS 11, which arrived at Sydney two days later. Laden with general cargo, she then joined Convoy SC 87, which sailed on 12 June and arrived at Liverpool on 27 June.

Empire Flame was a member of Convoy ON 110, which departed from Liverpool on 6 July and arrived at Boston, Massachusetts, United States on 26 July. She left the convoy at Halifax on 22 July, joining Convoy XB 31 on 26 July and arriving at Boston two days later. Empire Flame left the convoy at the Cape Cod Canal and sailed to New York, arriving on 30 July. She sailed from New York on 13 August for Boston, where she joined Convoy BX 34, which sailed on 19 August and arrived at Halifax two days later. Carrying steel and general cargo, Empire Flame departed from Halifax on 22 August as a member of Convoy SC 97, which arrived at Liverpool on 7 September. She left the convoy at the Clyde, where she arrived that day. Empire Flame sailed from the Clyde on 20 September to join Convoy ON 132, which had sailed from Liverpool the previous day and arrived at New York on 8 October. She was carrying the Convoy Commodore, Rear-Admiral Sir Errol Manners KBE. She left the convoy at Halifax, arriving on 7 October. Empire Flame sailed from Halifax on 19 October to join Convoy SC 106, which had sailed from New York on 16 October and arrived at Liverpool on 5 November. She was carrying a cargo of grain and also fourteen passengers. Empire Flame was a member of Convoy ON 148, which sailed on 23 November and arrived at New York on 13 December. She was carrying the Convoy Commodore, Captain F H Taylor DSC, Royal Navy. She left the convoy at Halifax, where she arrived on 12 December, sailing the next day with Convoy HF 21, which arrived at Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, on 15 December. Empire Flame returned to Halifax with Convoy FH 25, which sailed on 28 December, arriving two days later.

Empire Flame sailed on 7 January 1943 to join Convoy SC 118, which had departed from New York on 4 January and arrived at Liverpool on 29 January. She was carrying a cargo of grain. She sailed from Liverpool on 12 February for the Belfast Lough, arriving the next day. She then joined Convoy ON 167, which departed from Liverpool on 14 February and arrived at New York on 8 March. By this time, Empire Flame was no longer a CAM ship. She left the convoy at Halifax, where she arrived on 6 March. She then joined Convoy HF 41, which sailed on 10 March and arrived at St. John two days later. She departed from St. John on 23 March with Convoy FH 44, arriving at Halifax two days later. Empire Flame was a member of Convoy SC 125, which departed from Halifax on 31 March and arrived at Liverpool on 15 April. She was carrying a cargo of flour and the Convoy Commodore, Captain R G Clayton, DSC, Royal Naval Reserve.

Empire Flame was a member of Convoy ONS 6, which departed from Liverpool on 29 April and arrived at Halifax on 17 May. She was carrying the Convoy Commodore, Captain M J D Mayall, Royal Naval Reserve. She then joined Convoy HS 86, which departed on 19 May and arrived at Sydney the next day. Empire Flame then joined Convoy SQ 49, which sailed on 23 May and arrived at Father Point, Quebec, Canada on 27 May. Empire Flame later sailed to the Red Islet, from where she departed on 12 June with Convoy QS 52, arriving at Sydney on 16 June. She then joined Convoy SH 87, which sailed on 18 June and arrived at Halifax the next day. Empire Flame departed from Halifax on 27 June with Convoy SC 135, which arrived at Liverpool on 11 July. She was carrying a cargo of explosives, grain and vehicles. as well as the Convoy Commodore.

Empire Flame sailed from Liverpool on 8 August with Convoy OS 53 km, which split at sea on 17 August to form Convoy OS 53 and Convoy KMS 23G. She was carrying stores bound for Oran, Algeria, She was in the part of the convoy that formed Convoy KMS 23G, which arrived at Gibraltar on 18 August. She then joined Convoy KMS 23, which sailed from Gibraltar that day and arrived at Port Said, Egypt on 30 August. She left the convoy at Algiers, Algeria on 21 August. Empire Flame sailed on 26 September to join Convoy GUS 16, which had sailed from Alexandria, Egypt on 19 September and arrived at the Hampton Roads, Virginia, United States on 15 October. She left the convoy at Oran, Algeria the next day, sailing again on 12 October to join Convoy MKS 27, which had departed from Alexandria on 4 October and arrived at Gibraltar on 14 October. Empire Flame left Gibraltar on 21 October for Melilla, Spain, arriving the next day and then sailing for Gibraltar, where she arrived on 23 October. She then joined Convoy MKS 28G, which sailed that day and rendezvoused at sea on 24 October with Convoy SL 138, the combined convoys arrived at Liverpool on 5 November. Empire Flame was carrying a cargo of iron ore. She left the convoy at Loch Ewe on 5 November and joined Convoy WN 502 which sailed on 7 November and arrived at Methil, Fife the next day. She then joined Convoy FS1268A, which sailed on 9 November and arrived at Southend, Essex the next day. She left the convoy at Middlesbrough, Yorkshire on 10 November.

Empire Flame sailed from Middlesbrough on 3 December to join Convoy FN 1194, which had departed from Southend the previous day and arrived at Methil on 4 December. She then joined Convoy EN 315, which sailed on 5 December and arrived at Loch Ewe the next day. She sailed on to the Clyde, arriving on 8 December.

Empire Flame sailed from Middlesbrough on 3 December to join Convoy FN 1194, which had departed from Southend the previous day and arrived at Methil on 4 December. She then joined Convoy EN 315, which sailed on 5 December and arrived at Loch Ewe on 6 December. She sailed on to the Clyde, arriving on 8 December. Empire Flame sailed on 25 December to join Convoy OS 63 km, which had sailed from Liverpool that day and split at sea on 7 January 1944 to form Convoy OS 63 and Convoy KMS 37. She was carrying stores and vehicles bound for Oran. Empire Flame was in the part of the convoy that formed Convoy KMS 37G and arrived at Gibraltar on 9 January. She then joined Convoy KMS 37, which sailed that day and arrived at Port Said on 20 January. She left the convoy at Algiers on 11 January. Empire Flame sailed on 24 January to join Convoy GUS 28, which had departed from Port Said on 15 January and arrived at the Hampton Roads on 15 February. She left the convoy at Gibraltar on 26 January. She sailed on 6 February to join Convoy OS 66, which had formed at sea the previous day and arrived at Freetown, Sierra Leone on 15 February. Empire Flame was a member of Convoy STL 12, which sailed on 22 February and arrived at Lagos, Nigeria on 29 February. She left the convoy at Takoradi, Gold Coast on 27 February. She sailed on 8 March with Convoy STL 13A, which arrived at Lagos on 9 March. Empire Flame sailed the next day with Convoy LGE 1, which later dispersed at sea. She arrived at Douala, French Cameroons on 13 March. She departed on 27 March and arrived at Lagos on 30 March, sailing that day with Convoy LTS 15, which arrived at Freetown on 6 April. Empire Flame sailed with Convoy SL 155 on 11 April. She was carrying West African produce, as well as three passengers and two bags of mail. The convoy rendezvoused at sea with Convoy MKS 46 on 23 April, The combined convoys arrived at Liverpool on 3 May.

Empire Flame departed from Liverpool on 2 June with Convoy OS 79 km, which split at sea on 11 June to form Convoy OS 79 and Convoy KMS53. She was carrying stores bound for Naples, Italy. She was in the part of the convoy which formed Convoy KMS 53G and arrived at Gibraltar on 13 June. She sailed the next day with Convoy KMS 53, which arrived at Port Said on 24 June. She left the convoy at Augusta, Sicily, Italy on 21 June, sailing that day with Convoy VN 48, which arrived at Naples on 22 June. Empire Flame sailed on 11 July with Convoy NV 51, which arrived at Augusta the next day. She sailed on 13 July to join Convoy MKS 55, which had departed from Port Said on 8 July and arrived at Gibraltar on 20 July. Empire Flame sailed on 23 July to join Convoy OS 83, which had formed at sea that day and arrived at Freetown on 3 August. She sailed for Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, arriving on 14 August. Empire Flame sailed on 26 August for Freetown, where she arrived on 9 September. She sailed on 18 September with Convoy SL 171, which rendezvoused at sea with Convoy MKS 62 on 30 September. The combined convoys arrived at Liverpool on 8 October. She left the convoy and sailed to Falmouth, Cornwall, arriving on 7 October, sailing later that day for Southend, where she arrived on 9 October. Empire Flame sailed the next day with Convoy FN 1506, which arrived at Methil on 12 October. She left the convoy at Immingham, Lincolnshire on 11 October.

Empire Flame sailed on 23 October to join Convoy FN 1519, which had departed from Southend that day and arrived at Methil on 25 October. She then joined Convoy EN 449, which departed on 26 October and arrived at Loch Ewe on 28 October. Empire Flame then sailed to Halifax and joined Convoy XB 134, which sailed on 15 November and arrived at Boston on 17 November. She left the convoy at the Cape Cod Canal that day and sailed to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, arriving on 18 November. She sailed on 10 December for Boston, from where she sailed on 13 December with Convoy BX 137, arriving at Halifax on 15 December. She sailed with Convoy SC 163 on 17 December, arriving at Liverpool on 31 December. Empire Flame was carrying a cargo of explosives and general cargo.

Empire Flame was a member of Convoy OS 110 km, which sailed on 11 February 1945 and split at sea () on 15 February. She was carrying a cargo of coal, stores and vehicles bound for Naples. She was in the part of the convoy that formed Convoy KMS 84G and arrived at Gibraltar on 19 February, but she sailed on to Naples, arriving on 24 February. Empire Flame sailed on 28 February for Piraeus, Greece, where she arrived on 3 March. She sailed a week later for Augusta, arriving on 12 March and sailing the next day for Bône, Algeria, where she arrived on 15 March. She sailed again on 18 March for Gibraltar, arriving on 21 March and sailing that day with Convoy MKS 90G, which arrived at Liverpool on 28 March. Empire Flame was carrying a cargo of iron ore. She left the convoy and sailed to Southend, arriving on 29 March and then joining Convoy FN1676, which sailed that day and arrived at Methil on 31 March. She left the convoy at Middlesbrough, arriving on 30 March.

Empire Flame sailed on 14 April to join Convoy FN 1688, which had departed from Southend that day and arrived at Methil on 16 April. She then joined Convoy EN 487, which sailed the next day and arrived at Loch Ewe on 19 April. Empire Flame sailed on the Belfast Lough, arriving on 20 April and sailing the next day to join Convoy ONS 48, which had sailed that day from Liverpool and arrived at Halifax on 4 May. She then joined Convoy XB 162, which sailed on 5 Mary and arrived at Boston on 7 May. She left the convoy at the Cape Cod Canal and sailed to New York, arriving on 7 May. Empire Flame sailed on 18 May for Nuevitas, Cuba, from where she sailed on 5 June for the Hampton Roads, where she arrived on 11 June. She sailed the next day for Falmouth, arriving on 26 June and sailing that day for Cardiff, Glamorgan, where she arrived the next day.

Empire Flame sailed on 15 August for Antwerp, Belgium, arriving on 18 August. She departed on 2 September for Cardiff, where she arrived on 4 September. She sailed on 7 September for Cape Henry, Virginia, arriving on 25 September. She sailed from the Hampton Roads the next day for Saint-Nazaire, Loire-Atlantique, France, arriving on 13 October. She then sailed to Brest, Finistère, France, from where she sailed on 13 October for an unrecorded destination.

Before 1945 was out, Empire Flame was sold to the Crawford Shipping Co Ltd, London and renamed Dunkery Beacon. She was sold in 1955 to OY Larus AB, Finland and renamed Rissa. The Code Letters OFVN were allocated. Her port of registry was Helsinki. She was operated under the management of Rolf Simberg, Malmi, Helsinki. The Finnish Official Number 1170 was allocated. She was assessed at , , 9,905 DWT. Rissa was sold in 1961 to Paulins Rederi A/B, Finland and renamed Augusta Paulin. Her port of registry was changed to Turku. She was operated under the management of Kommanditbolaget Ab Paulin Chartering Oy & Co Kommandiittiyhtiö. In 1962, she was assessed as Ice Class II and the Finnish Official Number 1396 was allocated. In 1964, Augusta Paulin was reassessed at 10,063 DWT. With the introduction of IMO Numbers in the late 1960s, Augusta Paulin was allocated the IMO Number 5030608. In 1967, her port of registry was changed to Nagu. The ship was scrapped in May 1969 in Shanghai.

References

External links
Colour photo of Augusta Paulin

1941 ships
Ships built on the River Mersey
CAM ships
Empire ships
Ministry of War Transport ships
Steamships of the United Kingdom
Merchant ships of the United Kingdom
Steamships of Finland
Merchant ships of Finland


title: Osnaburg (disambiguation)

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Osnaburg is a type of fabric.  "Osnaburg" can also refer to the following places:

Osnaburg, an archaic English name for the city of Osnabrück in Lower Saxony, Germany, for which the fabric is named.
Osnaburg Township, Stark County, Ohio, a township near Canton, Ohio, in the United States
Mehetia, island in French Polynesia, formerly known as Osnaburg Island

Osnaburgh can refer to:

Dairsie, also called Osnaburgh, a village in Fife, Scotland
Osnaburgh First Nation, the former name of the Mishkeegogamang First Nation in the Kenora District, Ontario, Canada
Osnaburgh House, the house for which the first nation was named
Osnaburgh, Ontario and New Osnaburgh, settlements of the First Nation


title: Masahiro Tanaka (baseball, born 1954)

text:
is a former Japanese baseball first baseman and outfielder.

Early life
Tanaka went to high school at Chiben Gakuen High School in Japan and went to college at Osaka Shogyo University in Japan.

See also

References

External links

1954 births
Living people
Japanese baseball players
Nippon Professional Baseball outfielders
Hanshin Tigers players


title: Hồ Trung Dũng

text:
Hồ Trung Dung  (born 1925) was a Vietnamese prominent French medical doctor in Vietnam for over 50 years from the 1950s until his retirement at the end of the 20th century.

Education

He completed the French Baccalauraete; He graduated from the French established Medical School in Saigon – Saigon Medical School Ho Chi Minh City Medicine and Pharmacy University

Family
Hồ's father-in-law was Minister of Health – Dr.Khuong Huu Long under the last monarch Bảo Đại. Hồ is a direct descendant of an aristocrat from city Vĩnh Long, Vietnam.  Hồ's wife was Mrs. Khương Hữu Thị Hiệp.  from a wealthy and well-established family Khương Hữu. He retired in the United States after the fall of Saigon in 1975 and died in 2002.

Medical practice

Hồ served as chief executive officer and president of Từ Dũ, an OB/GYN hospital in Saigon since the 1950s until the fall of Saigon in 1975. During this period he also taught medicine at Saigon Medical School and served as its vice-chancellor and Dean of Academy. He presided, judged, graded, and appointed hundreds/thousands of newly graduated medical doctors in Vietnam. Many Vietnamese-refugee-medical doctors' diplomas  (these doctors immigrated to Europe and the US since the fall of Saigon in 1975, have been successfully practicing medicine) have Hồ's signature as "stamp of approval".

Life in retirement

Hồ remained a private citizen and practiced medicine in the United States from 1975 and died in 2002 at the age of 85. His wife died in 2013. They have seven children; 2 have died and 5 reside in the US.

References

External links
Từ Dũ Hospital - Saigon, Vietnam
Bộ Giáo Dục - Hà Nội

1925 births
2002 deaths
Vietnamese people of the Vietnam War
Vietnamese Buddhists
Vietnamese obstetricians and gynaecologists
20th-century Vietnamese physicians
Vietnamese emigrants to the United States


title: John James Rudin

text:
John James Rudin, M.M. (November 27, 1916 – June 14, 1995) was an American-born Catholic missionary and bishop. As a member of the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America (Maryknoll), he was engaged in education in the United States before he was assigned to the missions in Tanzania. He served as the Bishop of Musoma from 1957 to 1979.

Early life and education
John Rudin was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, to John J. and Mary A. (Kelley) Rudin. He was educated in the local public schools in Pittsfield. He studied for the priesthood at Maryknoll Apostolic College and was ordained a priest at the Maryknoll Seminary in Ossining, New York on June 11, 1944.

Priesthood
After his ordination, Rudin earned a Licentiate in Sacred Theology from The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. He taught Latin and liturgy for two years at the Maryknoll Apostolic College before being assigned to the Collegio Maryknoll in Rome where he earned a Doctorate in Moral Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in 1948.  Rudin served as the Rector of the Maryknoll Junior Seminary in Brookline, Massachusetts, for three years before he joined the Maryknoll Seminary Faculty to teach moral theology in 1951. He also served as the seminary's Vice-Rector for three years.

In 1954, Rudin was assigned to lead Maryknoll's new mission field in Tanzania. He was appointed as the Society's Superior for Africa in 1956. On July 5, 1957 Pope Pius XII appointed him as the first bishop of the Diocese of Musoma.

Episcopacy
John Rudin was consecrated a bishop in an open-air liturgy on October 3, 1957, by Bishop Joseph Blomjous, M. Afr. of Mwanza. The principal co-consecrators were Bishop Edward McGurkin, M.M. of Shinyanga and Auxiliary Bishop Maurice Otunga of Kisumu. Rudin attended all four sessions of the Second Vatican Council. During the Council he served on the committee working for greater unity between the Churches of East and West Africa. In 1976, he believed the diocese was firmly established and a missionary bishop was no longer needed. His resignation was not accepted, however, and he continued to serve the diocese, until his resignation was finally accepted by Pope John Paul II on January 12, 1979.

Later life and death
After he returned to the United States, Rudin was engaged in pastoral work from 1980 to 1988, including a stint with the Glenmary Home Missioners in the Diocese of Savannah. He then worked with the Maryknoll Development Department until he suffered a fall in 1993 and was confined to a wheelchair. He moved to the St. Teresa Residence in Ossining where he remained until his death. He died on June 14, 1995, at Phelps Memorial Hospital in Tarrytown, New York, at the age of 78. His funeral Mass was celebrated in the Queen of Apostles Chapel on June 20, 1995. He was buried in the Maryknoll Center Cemetery.

References

1916 births
1995 deaths
People from Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Maryknoll bishops
Maryknoll Seminary alumni
Catholic University of America alumni
Pontifical Gregorian University alumni
American Roman Catholic missionaries
Roman Catholic missionaries in Tanzania
20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Tanzania
Participants in the Second Vatican Council
American expatriates in Tanzania
Catholics from Massachusetts
Roman Catholic bishops of Musoma


title: Leptogorgia exigua

text:
Leptogorgia exigua is a coral species first described by Addison Emery Verrill in 1870. Verrill initially considered this species a diminutive variant of L. cuspidata, but ultimately decided to consider L. exigua a separate species. It is native to the Pacific Ocean.

References

Gorgoniidae
Cnidarians of the Pacific Ocean
Animals described in 1870
Taxa named by Addison Emery Verrill


title: Elham

text:
Elham or Ilham may refer to:

 Elham (given name), list of people with the name
 Elham (surname), list of people with the surname
 Elham, Kent
 Elham railway station
 Elham Deanery
 Elham Valley Railway
 Elham Valley

See also
 Ilham & Wahi, a form of revelation in Islam


title: Kvissel railway station

text:
Kvissel railway station is a railway station serving the village of Kvissel west of Frederikshavn in Vendsyssel, Denmark.

The station is located on the Vendsyssel railway line from Aalborg to Frederikshavn, between Tolne station and Frederikshavn station. It opened in 1871. The train services are operated by the railway company Nordjyske Jernbaner which runs frequent regional train services from the station to Aalborg and Frederikshavn.

History
The station opened in 1871 as a railway halt on the new Vendsyssel railway line as the section from Nørresundby to Frederikshavn opened on 15 August 1871. It was promoted to a station in 1877, and the station building was constructed. On 7 January 1879, at the opening of the Limfjord Railway Bridge, the Vendsyssel line was connected with Aalborg station, the Randers-Aalborg railway line and the rest of the Danish rail network.

When the station on the line was built in 1877, it brought economic growth to the village, and the railway line would become the major growth factor for Kvissel in the following years.

The station was closed in 1982 but continued as a railway halt. In 2017, operation of the regional rail services on the Vendsyssel Line to Aalborg and Frederikshavn were transferred from DSB to the local railway company Nordjyske Jernbaner.

Architecture
The station building from 1877 was designed by the Danish architect N.P.C. Holsøe.

Train services
The train services are currently operated by the railway company Nordjyske Jernbaner which runs frequent regional train services from the station to Aalborg and Frederikshavn.

See also
 List of railway stations in Denmark

References

Bibliography

External links

 Banedanmark – government agency responsible for maintenance and traffic control of most of the Danish railway network
 Nordjyske Jernbaner – Danish railway company operating in North Jutland Region
 Danske Jernbaner – website with information on railway history in Denmark
 Nordjyllands Jernbaner – website with information on railway history in North Jutland

Railway stations in the North Jutland Region
Railway stations opened in 1871
Niels Peder Christian Holsøe railway stations
Railway stations in Denmark opened in the 1870s


title: Thomas Middlecott Academy

text:
Thomas Middlecott Academy is a coeducational secondary school in Kirton, Lincolnshire, England.

The school's curriculum includes GCSEs and BTECs, with some courses taken in conjunction with Boston College.

History

Secondary modern school
The Kirton County Senior School was built in 1879. The first stage was planned to open in September 1955, but opened in January 1956. It was built by Harold H. Adkins Ltd of Boston. Work began in early 1954. In total the cost was £99,942. There were nine acres of playing fields, next to the railway line. The metalwork room had power machinery, and oxy-acetylene welding, and cutting apparatus.

The official opening was on 2 March 1956 by Sir Herbert Butcher, the local MP. There were 332 at the start, which would be over 400 in three years. Building was hoped to be fully complete by July 1956, but it took until the end of 1956. The site was extended by two acres, near the railway line, in the mid 1960s.

In May 1987, the county council committee decided to change the name from Kirton County Secondary School to the Middlecott School, after Sir Thomas Middlecott, a former mayor of Boston.

Academy
It was previously a community school administered by Lincolnshire County Council, but converted to academy status in March 2015. However the school was renamed from Middlecott School to Thomas Middlecott Academy in January 2015. The school has joined other academies as part of the David Ross Education Trust, however the school continues to coordinate with Lincolnshire County Council for its admissions.

Notable former pupils

Kirton Secondary Modern School

 Chris Woods, goalkeeper

References

External links
Thomas Middlecott Academy official website

Academies in Lincolnshire
Educational institutions established in 1956
1956 establishments in England
Kirton, Lincolnshire
Secondary schools in Lincolnshire


title: Frouwke Laning-Boersema

text:
Frouwke Laning-Boersema (5 July 1937 – 10 January 2014) was a Dutch politician. She was a member of the House of Representatives from 1982 to 1994 for the Christian Democratic Appeal.

Early life
Laning-Boersema was born on 5 July 1937 in Groningen, Netherlands. She studied medicine at the University of Groningen between 1955 and 1960 and specialised as a general practitioner at the same university between 1961 and 1963. Afterwards she started working as a GP on the island of Vlieland, working there for two years. She continued her work as a GP in Den Helder between 1965 and 1983.

Career
Laning-Boersema was a member of the party council for the Christian Democratic Appeal between 1977 and 1982. She was a member of the House of Representatives from 1982 to 1994. Within her party she was the spokesperson for public health. Laning-Boersema was a nuclear pacifist and voted against party lines on the issue of nuclear armament.

Personal life
In 1963, Laning married, adding her spouse's surname, Boersema, to her own. She was made a Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion on 28 April 1995.

References

1937 births
2014 deaths
Politicians from Groningen (city)
University of Groningen alumni
Dutch general practitioners
Christian Democratic Appeal politicians
Members of the House of Representatives (Netherlands)
Knights of the Order of the Netherlands Lion


title: Karen E. Smith

text:
Karen Ellen Smith (born 1965 in Red Bank, New Jersey) is an American mathematician, specializing in commutative algebra and algebraic geometry. She completed her bachelor's degree in mathematics at Princeton University before earning her PhD in mathematics at the University of Michigan in 1993. Currently she is the Keeler Professor of Mathematics at the University of Michigan. In addition to being a researcher in algebraic geometry and commutative algebra, Smith with others wrote the textbook An Invitation to Algebraic Geometry.

Biography
Smith graduated in 1987 with a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Princeton University, where she was influenced in her freshman year by Charles Fefferman. She was a high school mathematics teacher in the academic year 1987/1988. In 1988 she became a graduate student at the University of Michigan, where in 1993 she earned her PhD with thesis Tight closure of parameter ideals and f-rationality under the supervision of Melvin Hochster. In the academic year 1993–1994 she was a postdoc at Purdue University working with Craig Huneke. In 1994 she became a C.L.E. Moore Instructor and then an associate professor at MIT. Since 1997 she has been a professor at the University of Michigan.

In 1991 she married the Finnish mathematician Juha Heinonen.  He died in 2007.

Honors
In 2001 Smith won the Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics for her development of tight closure methods, introduced by Hochster and Huneke, in commutative algebra and her application of these methods in algebraic geometry. The prize committee specifically cited her papers "Tight closure of parameter ideals" (Inventiones Mathematicae 1994), "F-rational rings have rational singularities" (American J. Math. 1997, and, with Gennady Lyubeznik, "Weak and strong F-regularity are equivalent in graded rings" (American J. Math., 1999).

In addition to the Satter Prize, Smith was the recipient of a 1997 Sloan Research Fellowship, a Fulbright award, and a University of Michigan Faculty Recognition Award for outstanding contributions as a teacher, scholar and member of the University community.

Smith was selected to give the 2015 Earle Raymond Hedrick Lectures at the Mathematical Association of America's MathFest.  Smith was chosen to give the Association for Women in Mathematics-American Mathematical Society 2016 Noether Lecture at the Joint Mathematics Meetings.

In 2015 she was elected as a fellow of the American Mathematical Society "for contributions to commutative algebra and algebraic geometry." She was named MSRI Clay Senior Scholar for 2012-2013. In 2019, she was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. The Association for Women in Mathematics has included her in the 2020 class of AWM Fellows for "her tireless support of women in mathematics; throughout her career, she has officially and unofficially mentored numerous female mathematicians at every level from undergraduate to full professor; she continues to be an incredibly strong role model for women everywhere". She was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2021.

Books
An Invitation to Algebraic Geometry (with Lauri Kahanpää, Pekka Kekäläinen, and William Traves, Universitext, Springer, 2000 and 2004).
Rational and Nearly Rational Varieties (with János Kollár and Alessio Corti, Cambridge Studies in Advanced Mathematics 92, Cambridge University Press, 2004).

References

External links
 Home page

1965 births
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
American women mathematicians
Princeton University alumni
University of Michigan alumni
University of Michigan faculty
Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Fellows of the Association for Women in Mathematics
Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
Living people
Sloan Research Fellows
20th-century women mathematicians
21st-century women mathematicians
20th-century American women
Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Science faculty
21st-century American women
Fulbright alumni


title: HNoMS Thorodd

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HNoMS Thorodd was a Royal Norwegian Navy patrol ship and minesweeper that served through the Second World War, first during the Norwegian Campaign that followed the invasion of Norway in 1940, and then from exile in the United Kingdom. Thorodd was originally built as a steam escort trawler for the French Navy under the name Fleurus, before being sold to a Norwegian whaling firm who leased her to the Falkland Islands Government. SS Fleurus served as a commercial mail ship in the Falkland Islands Dependencies during the 1920s, and was the first vessel to carry paying tourists to Antarctica. Following the war, Thorodd was converted to a fishing trawler and sank in 1955.

Construction and early service
Fleurus was constructed by the Foundation Company of Savannah, Georgia as a steam escort trawler for the French Navy. She was delivered in 1919, after the end of the First World War, and remained in French service for only three years before being sold to Huret Sauvetage ("Huret Rescue") in Boulogne. In September 1924, she was again sold, this time to the Antarctic whaling firm A/S Tønsberg Hvalfangeri, based in Tønsberg, southern Norway.

As built, Fleurus measured 406 gross register tons, with a steel hull and a triple-expansion steam engine. She was 140.1 feet LPP by 25.1 feet, with a draft of 13 feet.

Falkland Islands Dependencies
Fleurus was converted to carry mail and passengers, and then leased to the Falkland Islands Government, which used her as a mail ship in the Falkland Islands Dependencies, a scattered collection of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands. The Fleurus service included five voyages per year between Stanley and the whaling stations at Grytviken on South Georgia, and less frequent journeys to the South Orkney Islands and the South Shetland Islands, the bases for small groups of whalers and sealers. In addition, she carried mail and passengers from Stanley to Montevideo, Uruguay.

In 1927, Fleurus carried Arnold Hodson, Governor of the Falkland Islands, to South Georgia, where the governor inspected the whaling stations and the Discovery Investigations. This was the first time a Governor had visited the Dependencies. The following year, Fleurus took Hodson on a month-long tour further south, visiting the Palmer Archipelago of Graham Land in Antarctica proper, as well as the South Shetlands and South Orkneys. Such trips were not limited to dignitaries; Fleurus operated a commercial passenger service on the mail route, and advertised round-trip "tourist tickets" for the journeys to South Georgia and the South Shetlands, the first tourist cruises in Antarctica.

In addition to her regular government duties, it was briefly suggested in 1928 that she be used to patrol territorial waters and prevent unlicensed whaling, but the political problems arising from a Norwegian whaling company's ship carrying out British license enforcement rendered this impractical. Fleurus was also contracted to support the Wilkins-Hearst Antarctic expedition in 1928-9.

Royal Norwegian Navy
In 1933, Fleurus was sold to Einar Veim in Bergen, and in 1935 sold to A/S Thorodd in Ålesund, when she was renamed Thorodd. She was hired by the Royal Norwegian Navy following the outbreak of the Second World War, and taken into service as a patrol ship based at Hammerfest in the far north of Norway.

Following the Norwegian Campaign of April–June 1940, the surviving ships of the Royal Norwegian Navy were evacuated to the United Kingdom. Thorodd arrived on 17 June, and at the end of the month was sent to Rosyth Dockyard to be converted for use as a minesweeper. She was taken into the Royal Navy on 14 March 1941, manned by a Norwegian crew, as HMS Thorodd (FY-1905), operating with a group of North Sea minesweepers based in Dundee. She served for the next three and a half years, finally being taken out of service in September 1944 and laid up.

While serving as a minesweeper, Thorodd gained a measure of fame for her captain's dog, a St. Bernard named Bamse. Bamse was widely known among the local communities around the shore bases in Montrose and Dundee, and had the run of the town; he eventually became famous as a mascot of the Royal Norwegian Navy and of the Norwegian Forces in Exile.

Postwar
In August 1945, at the end of the war, Thorodd was formally returned to A/S Thorodd. She was later converted to a 600 b.h.p. engine before being laid up in Ålesund in 1951. The following year, she was sold to the fisheries company A/S Grindhaugs Fiskeriselskap, which converted her to a seine trawler; after conversion, she was lengthened to 151.2 feet, with a tonnage of 452 gross register tons, and a 408 b.h.p. engine, making her the largest seine trawler operating in Norway.

Outside the fishing season, Thorodd transported cargo between ports. She was carrying a cargo of ore from Visnes to Tofte on 6 October 1955 when a storm caused the cargo to shift and she developed a severe list. The crew abandoned ship and Thorodd sank.

Notes

1919 ships
Ships built in Savannah, Georgia
Merchant ships of France
Steamships of France
Steamships of Norway
Merchant ships of Norway
Fishing vessels of Norway
Patrol vessels of the Royal Norwegian Navy
Escort ships of France
World War II patrol vessels of Norway
World War II minesweepers of Norway
Trawlers
Maritime incidents in 1931
Maritime incidents in 1955
Shipwrecks in the North Sea


title: Benjamin Murmelstein

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Benjamin Israel Murmelstein (9 June 1905 – 27 October 1989) was an Austrian rabbi. He was one of 17 community rabbis in Vienna in 1938 and the only one remaining in Vienna by late 1939. An important figure and board member of the Jewish group in Vienna during the early stages of the war, he was also an "Ältester" (council elder) of the Judenrat in the Theresienstadt concentration camp after 1943. He was the only "Judenältester" to survive the Holocaust and has been credited with saving the lives of thousands of Jews by assisting in their emigration, while also being accused of being a Nazi collaborator.

Murmelstein spent his final years in Rome, repudiated by the Jewish community because of his role in the Holocaust. He was interviewed by Claude Lanzmann in 1975 and was the subject of a posthumous 2013 documentary, The Last of the Unjust, based on the interviews. He died in obscurity, but since the release of the documentary he and his role in the Holocaust have become the subject of increased media and scholarly attention.

Life up to and through the Holocaust
A native of Lviv, Galicia, Benjamin Israel Murmelstein was raised Orthodox Jewish, like his family. After completing his education in Vienna, Murmelstein established himself there, becoming rabbi of a small synagogue, an occasional lecturer at the Vienna University on ancient Jewish history, and—following a speech on the Jewish soldiers whose names were effaced from German war memorials of World War I—a person of interest to the Viennese Jewish community organization, the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde (IKG). As a board member of the IKG, he began after the annexing of Austria into Nazi Germany producing reports which were presented to Adolf Eichmann as part of that man's work emigrating and seizing the property of the Jews.

Murmelstein became deputy chairman of the Jewish Council of Elders in Vienna, a group created by the Nazis, and for years was involved in Eichmann's work to remove Jews from Austria, witnessing the Nazi policies firsthand. In his interviews with Lanzmann decades later, he revealed that he had observed Eichmann, armed with a crowbar, organizing the destruction of Vienna's Seitenstettengasse synagogue during the Kristallnacht pogrom. He worked with the IKG to help over 125,000 Jews leave the country by 1941, but in that year the Germans began closing the borders as their emigration policies were evolving towards the ultimate end of internment. In 1943, Murmelstein was himself interned in the camp of Theresienstadt, or Terezin, in a former Czechoslovakian fortress.

This camp was for many a scam and a lie. Eichmann promised to those Jews who paid him for the privilege the luxuries of a spa in what was billed as a "model ghetto," but while those who paid were "sent off in second-class train compartments well stocked with food and medicine," they found at their destination that they were to "be attacked by guards and dogs." Just as Murmelstein had been a leader of the Viennese Jewish community, he was to become a leader in Theresienstadt as well. The Judenrat of Theresienstadt was, at the time of Murmelstein's arrival, led by Jakob Edelstein. Murmelstein was quickly appointed to this body. He soon became its third-ranking member. After the deportation of Edelstein to Auschwitz in 1944 and the execution of Edelstein's successor, Paul Eppstein, for an alleged escape attempt, Murmelstein took the position of Elder himself in September 1944 and kept it until the camp's liberation by the Russians on 5 May 1945.

During his time in the camp, Murmelstein was actively involved in polishing its image through superficial renovation and beautification that was exploited in propaganda films in 1942 and 1944. These films reputedly contributed to hiding the true nature of the camp from the Red Cross during their 1944 inspection, leading them to declare that the camp was as it appeared to be. Nor was that the only behavior on Murmelstein's part that caused fellow prisoners to fear and revile him, leading him to be nicknamed "Murmelschwein" (conflating his name with the word for "pig"). Murmelstein developed a reputation for ruthless implementation of Nazi policy, for instance driving his fellow prisoners to work in spite of their starvation for 70 hours a week to meet Nazi quotas. This he later described as necessary to avoid the Jewish prisoners being simply exterminated. He also purportedly refused to grant exemptions for deportations to Auschwitz unless a substitution was offered, and he was alleged to accept bribes to keep people from being added to those doomed to that fate.

Controversy, criticism and life after the Holocaust

Whatever his actions and his motivations, for Murmelstein the liberation of Theresienstadt did not immediately lead to lasting freedom, as he was quickly detained by the Czechoslovak government on suspicion of collaboration. However, the Czechoslovak government was unable to build a case, and at the end of 1946 Murmelstein was released to emigrate with his family to Rome. There, he took some form of employment with the Vatican and also worked as a salesman. However, his release did not repair his reputation. The Roman Jewish community refused to enrol him in their registers, and on his death, he was refused interment next to his wife and relegated to a plot on the margins of the Jewish cemetery in Rome. His son was denied the right to recite the Kaddish over his grave.

During his final decades, Murmelstein had made some efforts to restore his reputation. In 1961, he published a memoir of his wartime experiences, Terezin: Il ghetto-modello di Eichmann. He also volunteered to stand as a witness to Eichmann's war crimes at Eichmann's trial before the Jerusalem District Court, but was not called. In spite of his efforts, he lived in obscurity until he was located and extensively interviewed by Shoah film director Claude Lanzmann in 1975. After Murmelstein's death, these interviews would become the basis of a 2013 documentary, The Last of the Unjust, which raised considerable attention to him and invited extensive evaluation of his role. While many reviewers praised the film for its exploration of moral complexities, others criticized it for portraying Murmelstein in a positive light and for factual inaccuracies.

Murmelstein has been compared to Josephus Flavius, a classical Roman-Jewish historian widely regarded as a Jewish traitor whose work Murmelstein himself anthologized in 1938, the same year he began working with the IKG. In his anthology of the classic writer, Murmelstein wrote that the "divided and ambiguous nature [of Flavius] turned him into a symbol of the Jewish tragedy." According to political scientist Anton Pelinka, Murmelstein himself identified with Flavius. He characterized his own behavior during the war and in Theresienstadt as doing the best he could in a bad situation. Israeli-Austrian historian Doron Rabinovici defended the outcome of Murmelstein's behavior. While not speaking to his motivations or endorsing his reportedly overbearing personality, he noted that Austrian Jewish leaders like Murmelstein could have chosen to flee Vienna before 1941 and thus evaded being caught up themselves in the Nazi concentration camps, but instead Murmelstein remained and saved countless lives.

References

Notes

Bibliography
Hájková, Anna, The Last of the Self-Righteous: Claude Lanzmann’s version of Benjamin Murmelstein,histoire@politique, September 2014

1905 births
1989 deaths
Theresienstadt Ghetto survivors
20th-century Austrian rabbis
Rabbis from Vienna
Jewish collaborators with Nazi Germany
Burials at the Cimitero Flaminio
Austrian prisoners and detainees
Prisoners and detainees of Czechoslovakia


title: List of Allied vessels involved in Operation Neptune

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Operation Neptune, a phase of the European Theatre of World War II, was an undertaking by the Allies to invade the Northern coast of Nazi-occupied France. Following is a list of Allied vessels that took part in the operation.

Tallies

List of vessels

See also
List of Allied warships in the Normandy landings

References

Operation Neptune
Operation Neptune
Allies of World War II


title: 1968 RAC Tourist Trophy

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The 1968 RAC Tourist Trophy was a motor race which was held at the Oulton Park circuit, in Cheshire, England, on the 3 June. Although the 1967 race was part of the European Touring Car Championship, the 1968 and 33rd running of the RAC International Tourist Trophy Race saw a return to Group 7 sportscars. The world's oldest motor race was the fourth round of the 1968 British Sports Car Championship.

Report

Entry
The event attracted a total of 33 sports cars, with every entrant taking part in qualifying. Amongst the entries was the reigning World Drivers Champion, Denny Hulme.

Qualifying
Fresh from his second place in the 1968 Monaco Grand Prix, Richard Attwood took pole position for the Alan Mann Racing team, in their Ford P68, averaging a speed of 103.500 mph, around 2.761 miles circuit. Alongside Attwood would be Jo Bonnier, in his self-entered Lola T70.

Race
The race was held over 110 laps of the Oulton Park circuit. Denny Hulme took his Sid Taylor Racing prepared Lola T70 Mk.3 to his third TT win in four years, winning with an aggregated time of 3hrs 03:57.200mins., averaging a speed of 99.074 mph. Just 9.4 seconds behind in second place was David Piper, who shared his Ferrari 412 P with Richard Attwood. Attwood joined Piper following the demise of his pole winning Ford P68. Third place was attained by Paul Hawkins, in his Ford GT40, albeit one lap adrift.

Classification

Result

References

RAC Tourist Trophy
RAC Tourist Trophy
RAC Tourist Trophy


title: Necaise, Mississippi

text:
Necaise (also known as Necaise Crossing) is an unincorporated community in Hancock County, Mississippi, United States.

Necaise is the birthplace of professional basketball player Wendell Ladner.

References

Unincorporated communities in Hancock County, Mississippi
Unincorporated communities in Mississippi


title: Daniel Viksten

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Daniel Viksten (born 10 September 1989) is a Swedish professional ice hockey forward. He is currently playing for Färjestad BK in the Swedish Hockey League (SHL). He signed a two-year contract as a free agent with Färjestad BK on 6 April 2018.

Awards and honours

References

External links

1989 births
Living people
Färjestad BK players
Malmö Redhawks players
Mora IK players
People from Mora Municipality
Örebro HK players
Swedish ice hockey right wingers
Ice hockey people from Dalarna County


title: Krissie Illing

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Krissie Illing (born 8 December 1956)  is an English dancer, mime, clown, comedian, and ventriloquist,.

Biography
Illing took ballet dancing lessons as a child. She studied dance at the Royal Academy of Dance in London and embraces tap dance and jazz dance at the Covent Garden Dance Centre. In 1980 she teamed up with Patti Webb and together appeared as street performers in London's Covent Garden pitches and at London night clubs.
When she went to Paris in 1982 she studied the art of corporeal mime at Étienne Decroux's school in Boulogne-Billancourt.
Back in London, in 1984, she met Mark Britton and they paired up to form the comedy duo "Nickelodeon".
Today  Krissie Illing lives in Vaour in southern France with her husband Chris Adams, himself a British juggling artist. They have two children.

Career

Nickelodeon 1984–2000
"Wilma" and "William" were created in 1984, two burlesque characters that under the name of "Nickelodeon". They were a success right from the start, both with audiences and critics, and won the Street Entertainer of the Year Award (London) in 1985 A recording of this event was broadcast on Channel 4. Their first full-length show "Did you see that?" earned them the Critics' Choice Award at the Edinburgh Festival in 1986. From there they went to New York, Montreal, Vancouver, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Nagasaki, Barcelona and Dublin, among other places, and were invited to festivals. In 1990 a German Channel, Westdeutscher Rundfunk asked "Nickelodeon" for a comedy to be produced on German TV. They presented "Dinner for Two", directed by René Bazinet, and become one of the most popular comedian ensembles in Germany. "Wilma" and "William" were acclaimed by large audiences and the press. They acted on cabaret stages in Germany, such as Fliegende Bauten Hamburg, Tipi Berlin, Senftöpfchen Cologne, and Comödie Dresden. "Dinner for Two" was followed by "Great Lovers in History", with both shows being televised, and running in the theatres. They produced "Sally and Sam", again for the Westdeutscher Rundfunk, an educational series for German primary school pupils to learn English.

Solo career
At the beginning of 2000, the two members of "Nickelodeon" pursued their solo careers.

Krissie Illing's first full-length one-person show "Wilma's Wonderful Laundrette" premiered in Vaour at the La Commanderie Theatre. Illing then performed on various stages in France and was invited to several festivals, e.g. the Femin'arte in Antibes, the festival des arts burlesques in Saint Étienne, the festival Porte-bonheur in Yverdon-les-Bains and the Arosa festival, both in Switzerland. In 2010 she appeared at the Festival d'humour et de café théâtre in Rocquencourt, France, and received the public's award.
She was also awarded a prize in Berlin, appears in a TV movie with Dieter Hallervorden, and on TV shows in Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, and succeeded with her second solo show "Wilma's Jubilee". Her "Blind Date" is an example of how she uses nuances of facial expression and also of crossing the line between comedy and tragedy and to show the sadness in what seems to be hilarious, thus reflecting the Theatre of the Absurd.
In Germany she met comedian Astrid Gloria. Together, they created a piece called "Comedy Ladies' Night" and performed in Germany under the name of "Wilde Weiber" ("Women Unchained") between 2002 and 2008. From 2009 Illing could be seen in Gerburg Jahnke's show Frau Jahnke hat eingeladen as an invited guests.
Illing's career took her overseas again when between 2006 and 2008 she performs in the Teatro ZinZanni Spiegeltent for several months, both in Seattle and San Francisco. There performed a parody of the Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain, an act that combined several dance styles, a half-striptease, and a complete split, revealing the constraints of protocol which turn a person into a puppet and stifle all vitality.

Nickelodeon 2005–present
In 2005 Krissie Illing and Mark Britton were re-united as Nickelodeon. The duo presented a new version of "Great Lovers in History" but also a Christmas show: "Christmas Dinner for Two".  Since 2012 they have been touring with "Costa del Love": Wilma and William on their second honeymoon in Spain, trying to re-ignite the original spark of desire while at the same time fighting the trivial adversities of multilingual GPS, mosquitoes and slipped discs.

Awards

For Nickelodeon
1985 Time Out Entertainer's Festival, Covent Garden Street Entertainer of the Year
1986 Edinburgh Festival: Critics' Choice

Solo
2003 Das große Kleinkunstfestival, Berlin
2010 Festival d'humour et de café théâtre in Rocquencourt, Public's Award

References

External links

Krissie Illing, personal web site

German CV web site Theatertransfer

1956 births
English female dancers
English stage actresses
English television actresses
Living people
People from Beckenham
20th-century English actresses
21st-century English actresses
British mimes
English women comedians
Comedians from London
Actresses from London


title: Anuska Oosterhuis

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Anuska Oosterhuis (Enschede, 1978) is a Dutch media artist who lives and works in Rotterdam. She is founder of the Artememes foundation (2007), an art organization that aims to reflect on the position of man in a society dominated by mass media images.

Works of Art
 2014. PLAY2, flash video game with Internet home videos
 2013. Memetic Manifesto, art manifesto on mass media
 2008. My Favorite Funeral, staged reality show
 2005. PLAY1, flash video game with Internet home videos

Interviews
Daily Undertaker, My Favorite Funeral, June 18, 2011

External links
Official website Anuska Oosterhuis

References

Living people
1978 births
Dutch multimedia artists
Artists from Rotterdam
Dutch women artists


title: Up All Night (Alex Clare song)

text:
"Up All Night" is the debut single by English singer Alex Clare, released in December 2010. It is from his debut studio album The Lateness of the Hour. The song was written by Alex Clare and producers Diplo and Switch of Major Lazer and features addition production from Mike Spencer and co-writer Ariel Rechtshaid. It was first released on 9 December 2010 as a digital download in the United Kingdom. Remixes were later released digitally and physically on various vinyl formats. It has been used as the opening theme for the BBC science fiction show Class which is an official spin-off from Doctor Who.

Music video
The music video was first published through Alex Clare's YouTube channel on 10 November 2010. It is around three minutes in length and it was directed by Blake Claridge.

The video starts with three different people, two men and a girl, who wake up lying on the ground, after having passed out the previous night. Throughout the video, the girl is seen near a swimming pool, one of the men is seen running on a treadmill, and the other is seen playing the drums to the song. The video progresses to show how the three characters' actions led them to the beginning of the video.

Track listing

Charts

Credits and personnel
 Lead vocals – Alex Clare
 Songwriters – Alex Clare, Thomas Pentz, David Taylor, Ariel Rechtshaid
 Producers – Diplo, Switch
 Additional production – Ariel Rechtshaid, Mike Spencer
 Label: Island

Release history

References

2010 debut singles
2010 songs
Alex Clare songs
Island Records singles
Songs written by Ariel Rechtshaid
Song recordings produced by Diplo
Songs written by Diplo
Song recordings produced by Ariel Rechtshaid
Songs written by Switch (songwriter)


title: Never on the First Night

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Never on the First Night () is a 2014 French comedy film, directed by Melissa Drigeard.

Cast
 Alexandra Lamy as Julie
 Mélanie Doutey as Louise
 Julie Ferrier as Rose
 Jean-Paul Rouve as Marc
 Grégory Fitoussi as Ange
 Julien Boisselier as Charles
 Arnaud Henriet as Gilles
 Michel Vuillermoz as Viktor Bells
 Olivia Côte as TV Host

References

External links

2014 films
2014 comedy films
French comedy films
2010s French-language films
2010s French films


title: London Bridgez

text:
Jamara  Mychelle Wakefield (born January 25, 1982 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American spoken word poet, community organizer and writer, previously known by her stage name London Bridgez. She founded Neo.logic Beatnik Assembly, an idea shop and creative arts production company, and organized the TEDxRoxburyWomen event featured on Basic Black, a TEDTalks event in Boston.

Wakefield was born at home on 19 Mt. Ida Road in the Uphams Corner Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.

She has released two EPs, Love Words Soft Spoken and SHE. In 2014 she released her third studio album Children of the Night  In 2018, she released the EP titled Unplugged  In 2020, she released the album MARY

Although she started as a solo poet, she sometimes has an entire band or performs with a live scratch DJ.

Performances

She has appeared throughout New England and across the US. Performances include Bayard Rustin Community Breakfast sponsored by the Aids Action Committee, a YWCA fundraiser to support the production of VDAY Lawrence, Queer Women of Color Week Provincetown Women of Color Weekend, the Hispanic & Black Gay Coalition Panel Series, the Milwaukee Pridefest, Fresh Fruit Festival,  National Day of Silence, NYC Pridefest Stage, Sister's Talk Radio and the Aids Walk Boston Opening Ceremonies. She performed as "Lady in Green" in Pariah Theatre's June 2014 rendition of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf originally written by Ntozake Shange.

Other performance credits include the Nuyorican, Tutuma Social Club,  Williamsburg Jazz Center Brooklyn, The Indigo Lounge Los Angeles, Manhattan Neighborhood Network TV One Different Community Voices Show, Nashville based BB KING's Restaurant & Lounge, Boston Greenfest, The Strand Theater- Boston, Acoustic Soul Lounge- Manhattan, MIT, Northeastern University, Emerson College, Anna Deveare Smith's Mattering Forum, and BAM Fischer. In 2016, she was a  short list finalist for the 2016 Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Playwrights. Her piece Why I Love Being Black: Reaching Deep Into the Earth was published in The Indypendent  a New York City-based free newspaper and online news site. On March 8, 2017 she performed at the Washington Square Rally A Day Without Women Strike performing two long form protest poems. In 2017, her play The Great Dismal Swamp was short listed for the Leslie Scalapino Prize for Innovative Women Writers. That work was then Directed by Imani in the 2017 LadyFest at The Tank. In 2018, her one-woman show play Jubilee! (Women's Debt, Women's Revolution) premiered at THE TANK NYC

In addition to writing for the performance stage, she is an arts and culture author for Shondaland (Shonda Rhime's media platform), Playboy, Broadway World, Broadway Black, Very Smart Brothers, CUNY Center for Humanities and B-Word Magazine.

References

American women poets
1982 births
Poets from Boston
Living people
American spoken word artists
21st-century American women writers
21st-century American poets


title: Bashaud Breeland

text:
Bashaud Breeland (born January 30, 1992) is an American football cornerback who is a free agent. He played college football at Clemson, and was drafted by the Washington Redskins in the fourth round of the 2014 NFL Draft. He also played for the Green Bay Packers, Minnesota Vikings, and Kansas City Chiefs, having won Super Bowl LIV with the latter.

Early years
Breeland attended Allendale-Fairfax High School in Fairfax, South Carolina, where he played football and basketball and ran track. In football, he played quarterback and defensive back. He was an All-state selection by The State and All-Atlantic Region team member by PrepStar. As a junior, he had 95 rushes for 789 yards with 12 touchdowns on offense, and totalled 76 tackles on defense. He led the Tigers to a 10–2 record as a senior after rushing for 1,270 yards and 15 touchdowns. He was also a starter on the basketball team.

In track & field, Breeland won the state title in the 400m hurdles as a sophomore and junior, and helped his team reach the state title in track as a junior. He captured two state titles at the 2010 SCHSL State Championships, winning the 110m hurdles (15.06s) and the 400m hurdles (54.78s). He earned a tenth-place finish in the 300m hurdles at the 2010 Bob Hayes Invitational at 40.69 seconds. He was also timed at 4.41 in the 40-yard dash and posted a 280-pound bench press and 450-pound squat.

Recruiting
Regarded as a three-star recruit by Rivals.com, Breeland was regarded as the No. 22 safety in the nation and No. 6 player in South Carolina by Scout.com, and the No. 56 safety in the nation by ESPN.com. He chose Clemson over Penn State, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia Tech.

College career
Breeland attended Clemson University from 2010 to 2013. He finished his career with 136 tackles, three sacks and six interceptions. He entered the 2014 NFL Draft after his junior season.

Professional career

Washington Redskins
The Washington Redskins selected Breeland in the fourth round with the 102nd overall pick of the 2014 NFL Draft. He was the tenth cornerback drafted in 2014.

2014 season
On May 16, 2014, the Washington Redskins signed Breeland to a four-year, $2.70 million contract that includes a signing bonus of $486,000. Throughout training camp, Breeland competed for a roster spot as a backup cornerback against Tracy Porter, E. J. Biggers, Chase Minnifield, and Richard Crawford. Head coach Jay Gruden named Breeland the fifth cornerback on the depth chart to start the regular season, behind DeAngelo Hall, David Amerson, E. J. Biggers, and Tracy Porter.

He made his professional regular debut and first career start in the Washington Redskins’ season-opener at the Houston Texans and made one solo tackle in the 17–6 loss. Breeland started the game at strong safety after Brandon Meriweather was suspended for the first two games of the season. On September 25, 2014, Breeland started at cornerback after DeAngelo Hall sustained a ruptured Achilles the previous game and was subsequently placed on injured-reserve. He made two solo tackles as the Redskins lost 45–14 against the New York Giants in Week 4. On October 17, 2014, Breeland recorded five solo tackles, a pass deflection, and made his first career interception during a 19–17 victory against the Tennessee Titans. Breeland intercepted a pass by quarterback Charlie Whitehurst, that was originally intended for tight end Delanie Walker, during the second quarter. He had a breakout performance in the Week 8 win against the Dallas Cowboys. He covered starting wide receiver Dez Bryant, limiting him to only three receptions, forced DeMarco Murray to fumble which was recovered by safety Brandon Meriweather, and broke up a pass on fourth down sealing the Redskins' overtime victory. In the Week 16 game against the Philadelphia Eagles, he intercepted quarterback Mark Sanchez late in the fourth quarter to help seal the Redskins victory.

On December 31, 2014, the Washington Redskins announced their decision to mutually part ways with defensive coordinator Jim Haslett. Breeland completed his rookie season with 66 combined tackles (57 solo), 14 pass deflections, two forced fumbles, and two interceptions in 16 games and 15 starts.

2015 season
Breeland entered training camp slated as a starting cornerback and competed against DeAngelo Hall to retain the role. On July 31, 2015, the NFL suspended Breeland for the first game of the 2015 NFL season after he was cited by Virginia Commonwealth University police for possession of marijuana on August 11, 2014. On exactly the same day, Breeland was injured during the second day of training camp during practice and was carted off the field. It was later announced that he sprained his MCL and was expected to recover in four to six weeks and would not be able to participate for the rest of training camp.

In Week 5, he recorded his first interception of the season against Atlanta Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan. In Week 6, Breeland had a solid performance against the New York Jets, having recorded one interception, one forced fumble, and two fumble recoveries. He finished the 2015 season with 81 total tackles, two interceptions, 16 passes defended, and three forced fumbles.

2016 season

Despite having a difficult time covering wide receiver Antonio Brown in the Week 1 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers, Breeland recorded his first interception of the season against Ben Roethlisberger. In the Week 16 win, he recorded two interceptions on Chicago Bears quarterback Matt Barkley, which made him the first Redskins player since Fred Smoot in 2001 to start his career recording multiple interceptions in three consecutive seasons. He finished the 2016 season with 73 total tackles, three interceptions, 11 passes defended, and two forced fumbles.

2017 season
Breeland recorded the first interception of the 2017 season against quarterback Kellen Clemens in the Week 14 game against the Los Angeles Chargers, which he returned for 96 yards for a touchdown.

Following the season, Breeland became an unrestricted free agent. On March 16, 2018, Breeland agreed terms with the Carolina Panthers on a three-year, $24 million contract, including $11 million in guaranteed money. However, he failed his physical after a cut on his foot from a visit to the Dominican Republic became infected; the contract was therefore voided and he became a free agent again.

Green Bay Packers

2018 season
On September 25, 2018, the Green Bay Packers signed Breeland to a one-year, $880,000 contract that includes a signing bonus of $90,000. The Packers signed Breeland after Davon House sustained a shoulder injury and was subsequently placed on injured-reserve. Head coach Mike McCarthy named Breeland the fifth cornerback on the depth chart, behind Tramon Williams, Kevin King, Josh Jackson, and Jaire Alexander.

Breeland's first game as a Packer was a 17–31 loss to the New England Patriots in Week 9, after missing several weeks to learn the playbook. In Week 10, against the Miami Dolphins, Breeland recorded his first interception of the season off Brock Osweiler. He injured his groin in Week 11 against the Seattle Seahawks and missed the next two games. Breeland returned in the Week 14 game against the Atlanta Falcons, where he recorded a 22-yard interception return touchdown off Falcons quarterback Matt Ryan, while also having a fumble recovery in the same game that helped seal a 34–20 win for the Packers.

Kansas City Chiefs

2019 season
On March 18, 2019, the Kansas City Chiefs signed Breeland to a one-year, $2-million contract that includes a signing bonus of $1.15 million. Head coach Andy Reid named Breeland a starting cornerback to begin the regular season, alongside Kendall Fuller.

In Week 2 against the Oakland Raiders, Breeland intercepted Derek Carr in the endzone as the Chiefs won 28–10. In Week 4 against the Detroit Lions, Breeland recovered a fumble by running back Kerryon Johnson in the endzone and returned it 100 yards for a touchdown in the 34–30 win. Additionally, in Week 14, Breeland made the game-winning pass deflection against the New England Patriots on fourth down in a defining victory, while seizing control of the AFC West. He finished the 2019 season with 48 total tackles, two interceptions, eight passes defended, and two fumble recoveries.

In Super Bowl LIV against the San Francisco 49ers, Breeland recorded a team-high seven tackles and intercepted a pass by Jimmy Garoppolo during the 31–20 win.

2020 season
On April 14, 2020, the Kansas City Chiefs signed Breeland to a one-year, $3 million contract that includes a signing bonus of $1.50 million. He was suspended the first four games of the 2020 season for violating the league's policy on substance abuse, and was placed on the reserve/suspended list on September 5, 2020. He was reinstated from suspension on October 6 and activated to the roster on October 10. Overall, he finished the 2020 season with 38 total tackles, two interceptions, nine passes defended, and one forced fumble.

Minnesota Vikings
Breeland signed with the Minnesota Vikings on June 8, 2021. He entered the 2021 season as a starting cornerback alongside Patrick Peterson. In Week 14, Breeland had eight tackles and intercepted Ben Roethlisberger in a 36–28 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers. On December 18, 2021, Breeland was waived by the Vikings after getting into a verbal altercation with coaches and teammates at practice on the same day. He finished the 2021 season with 63 total tackles, two interceptions, five passes defended, and two forced fumbles.

Arizona Cardinals
On January 4, 2022, Breeland was signed to the Arizona Cardinals practice squad.  His contract expired when the team's season ended on January 17, 2022.

NFL career statistics

Personal life
Breeland was arrested on April 28, 2020, for multiple charges, including resisting arrest, having alcohol in a motor vehicle with the seal broken, having an open container of beer or wine in a motor vehicle, possession of 28 grams or less of marijuana or 10 grams of hash, and driving without a license. The police officer who detained Breeland alleged that Breeland threw a “large blunt” into his car and he pushed the deputy out of the way and attempted to flee the officer before he was detained. Police found marijuana in the car as well as open bottles of beer and tequila. The morning after the arrest, he posted to his Twitter that the marijuana was thrown into his car, but quickly deleted the tweets. The arresting officer said that Breeland informed him that he was a “marijuana enthusiast”. Breeland was already facing a suspension for a failed drug test prior to the arrest. He pleaded guilty on October 2, 2020, and received a 30-day suspended jail sentence and $100 fine for each charge.

Breeland was arrested again on August 7, 2023, in Charlotte, North Carolina after police pulled him over and discovered the 2020 Mercedes Benz G550 SUV he was driving had been reported stolen in Florida. Officers searched the car and located a swath of concealed firearms, including multiple assault rifles and several handguns. According to the charging document, police also found copious amounts of drugs in the vehicle.

References

External links
Clemson Tigers bio

1992 births
Living people
People from Allendale, South Carolina
Players of American football from South Carolina
American football cornerbacks
Clemson Tigers football players
Washington Redskins players
Green Bay Packers players
Kansas City Chiefs players
Minnesota Vikings players
Arizona Cardinals players


title: Rasmus Andersson

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Rasmus Andersson (born 27 October 1996) is a Swedish professional ice hockey player and alternate captain for the Calgary Flames of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was drafted 53rd overall by the Flames in the 2015 NHL Entry Draft.

Rasmus' older brother Calle and father Peter were both drafted by the New York Rangers, in 2012 and 1983, respectively.

Playing career
Andersson made his professional debut in his native Sweden, with his local club from youth Malmö Redhawks. He appeared in 38 games in the HockeyAllsvenskan for 11 points in the 2012–13 season.

Andersson left Sweden and followed his family footsteps to North America by playing a major junior season with the Barrie Colts of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) before he was selected by the Calgary Flames in the 2015 NHL Entry Draft. On 15 September 2015, Andersson was signed to a three-year, entry-level contract with the Flames.

Andersson began his professional career during the 2016–17 season with the Stockton Heat of the American Hockey League (AHL), recording 22 points in 54 games. Andersson made his NHL debut on 8 April 2017, against the San Jose Sharks. The 3–1 loss was the Flames' final game of the regular season.

Andersson started the 2017–18 season with the Stockton Heat. He was called up to the NHL for the first time that season on 9 November 2017. His call up did not last long and he was sent back down to the AHL on 13 November, after playing one game. Andersson was selected as the sole representative of the Heat for the 2018 AHL All-Star Game. He was called up to the NHL for the second time that season on 19 March 2018.

Andersson participated in the Flames' 2018–19 training camp but was cut before the final roster was finalized. His reassignment to the Heat was short lived, however, as following the Flames season opener, they placed Travis Hamonic on injured reserve and recalled Andersson to the NHL.

During the 2019–20 season, having established himself amongst the Flames as a top-four pairing defenseman, on 8 January 2020, Andersson signed a six-year, $27.3 million contract extension with the Flames. Andersson was named alternate captain by the Flames before the 2023–24 season on 7 October 2023. On 21 October, Andersson was suspended for four games by the NHL for charging.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

International

Awards and honours

References

External links

1996 births
Living people
Barrie Colts players
Calgary Flames draft picks
Calgary Flames players
Ice hockey people from Malmö
Malmö Redhawks players
Stockton Heat players
Swedish expatriate ice hockey players in Canada
Swedish ice hockey defencemen


title: Hsieh Chia-han

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Hsieh Chia-han (; born 14 January 1988) is a Taiwanese pole vaulter. He is the national record holder with his personal best of . He was the gold medallist at the Asian Indoor Athletics Championships in 2014.

He made his international debut at the 2005 World Youth Championships in Athletics and set a personal best of  in the qualifying round. He cleared five metres for the first time in 2009, setting an outdoor best of  and an indoor best of . At the 2009 Universiade he did not get past the qualifying stages. He was a finalist at the 2009 Asian Athletics Championships (coming eighth) and took the bronze medal at the 2009 East Asian Games.

In 2010 he improved his best to  and placed ninth at the Asian Games. He won four consecutive national titles from 2010 to 2013. The 21-year-old Taiwanese record in the pole vault fell to Hsieh in September 2011, breaking Lee Fu-an's long-standing mark by one centimetre with a clearance of . He was the seventh-place finisher at the 2011 Asian Athletics Championships and improved to fifth place at the 2013 Asian Athletics Championships two years later. He improved the national record by a further centimetre in April 2013, but failed to return to the podium at the 2013 East Asian Games, where he was fourth overall.

He began his 2014 season in the United States and cleared  indoors at the Pole Vault Summit in Reno, Nevada. He followed this national indoor record with a win at the 2014 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships.

References

External links

Living people
1988 births
Taiwanese male pole vaulters
Athletes (track and field) at the 2010 Asian Games
Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Asian Games
Asian Games competitors for Chinese Taipei


title: Patrik Blomberg

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Patrick Blomberg (born 27 January 1994) is a Swedish professional ice hockey player. He is currently playing for HC Vita Hästen in HockeyAllsvenskan.

Career statistics

External links

1994 births
Living people
Borås HC players
Malmö Redhawks players
Swedish ice hockey left wingers
Timrå IK players
Tyringe SoSS players
VIK Västerås HK players
Ice hockey people from Stockholm


title: Nicklas Jadeland

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Nicklas Jadeland (born 13 May 1986) is a retired Swedish professional ice hockey player. He previously played for IK Pantern in the Hockeytrean after previously playing with the Malmö Redhawks in the Swedish Hockey League (SHL).

Nicklas is a enthusiast to all things that family and today lives a quiet life in South Sweden with his wife and four kids.

External links

1986 births
BIK Karlskoga players
IK Oskarshamn players
Living people
Malmö Redhawks players
Swedish ice hockey forwards
Ice hockey people from Malmö
21st-century Swedish people


The 2007 Melanesian Championships in Athletics took place between August 14–19, 2007. The event was held at the Barlow Park in Cairns, Australia, jointly with the OAA Grand Prix Series.  Many athletes utilised the competitions preparing for the upcoming IAAF World Championships in Osaka, Japan.  Detailed reports were given for the OAA.

A total of 38 events were contested, 19 by men and 19 by women.

Medal summary
Complete results can be found on the Oceania Athletics Association webpage, and at sportfieber.pytalhost.com.

In high jump, long jump and triple jump, as well as in shot put, discus throw, and javelin throw, there were separate open competitions for the Melanesian championships and the OAA Grand Prix Series held on different days.  In the sprint events, athletes not competing for the Melanesian Championships were assigned to the B finals.

Men

1.): The 800 metres event was won by Aunese Curreen from  in 1:50.59 running as a guest.
2.): The 1500 metres event was won by Aunese Curreen from  in 3:56.11 running as a guest.
3.): In the triple jump event, Buraieta Yeeting from  was 3rd in 13.36m (wind: +0.6 m/s) competing as a guest.
4.): The shot put event was won by Salesi Ahokovi from  in 12.55m competing as a guest.
5.): In the discus throw event, Travis Ambrum from / North Queensland was 2nd in 42.30m competing as a guest.
6.): The javelin throw event was won by Stuart Farquhar from  in 77.58m, Dexter Dillay from the  was 3rd in 45.37m, both competing as guests.

Women

7.): In the 400 metres event, Toea Wisil from  was 2nd in 55.66 running as a guest.
8.): The 400 metres hurdles event was won by Jacqueline Stresing from / North Queensland in 63.17 running as a guest.
9.): The shot put event was won by Valerie Vili from  in 20.03m, Ana Po'uhila from  was 2nd in 16.49m, both competing as guests.
10.): In the discus throw event, Cheryl LeBrun from / North Queensland was 2nd in 13.63m competing as a guest.
11.): The hammer throw event was won by Ana Po'uhila from  in 41.11m, Serafina Akeli from  was 3rd in 29.55m, both competing as guests.
12.): The javelin throw event was won by Serafina Akeli from  in 49.63m competing as a guest.
13.): In the 4x100 metres relay event, a team from  (Brittany Knee, Sarah Mackaway, Ashleigh Reid, Rebecca Robinson) was 2nd in 50.26 running as guests.

Mixed

Medal table (unofficial)

Participation
The participation of athletes from 7 countries and 6 guest countries from
Oceania was reported.  In addition, two local teams comprising athletes from the organizing Athletics North Queensland (ANQ) (representing North Queensland) and from the Athletics Australia's Jump Start program for indigenous athletes ("Jump Start Australia") competed.

 Jump Start Australia

/ North Queensland

Guest countries from Micronesia and Polynesia:

References

Melanesian Championships in Athletics
International athletics competitions hosted by Australia
Melanesian Championships
Melanesian Championships in Athletics
August 2007 sports events in Australia


title: L. exigua

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L. exigua may refer to:

 Laemodonta exigua, an air-breathing snail
 Leavenworthia exigua, a flowering plant
 Lebia exigua, a ground beetle
 Lecanactis exigua, a lichenized fungus
 Lepanthes exigua, a flowering plant
 Leptanilla exigua, a North African ant
 Leptogorgia exigua, a Pacific coral
 Lissotesta exigua, a sea snail
 Lomanella exigua, a daddy longlegs
 Lycosa exigua, a wolf spider


title: Holland Hospital

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Holland Hospital is a non-profit hospital located in the West Michigan lakeshore area. The hospital was founded in 1917 and it serves the greater Holland area and surrounding communities throughout Ottawa and Allegan counties. As of February 2014, Holland Hospital has a 189-bed main campus with more than 300 physicians, and a 2,000 member hospital staff that includes 550 registered nurses.

History

Holland Hospital was founded in 1917 in the home of a local doctor named Dr. Kremers. The hospital later underwent infrastructure expansions to meet the needs of a growing patient number. In 2000, the Lakeshore Medical Campus was opened on Holland's north side and it is home to Urgent Care and other departments and physician practices. In 2007, a 90,000-square-foot expansion to the hospital provided a new and expanded emergency room, intensive care unit, Special Care Nursery, and cardiac rehabilitation facility. In 2010, Holland Hospital opened a multi-use medical office building in Zeeland, named Holland Hospital Medical Building, serving people living or working east of the hospital.

In August 2013, the hospital opened its $10 million expansion of its orthopedic and neurosurgery unit with the 23,400-square-foot addition to the hospital. Room sizes were increased for orthopedic patients and 24 private rooms were created.

Financials

In January 2013, Moody's Investors Service assigned an A2 long-term rating to Holland Hospital's $37.0 million of Series 2013A fixed rate bonds to be issued through the Michigan Finance Authority.

Scholarships

The Holland Hospital Auxiliary awards annual scholarship for college students pursuing a degree in health care. Scholarships are available to college juniors and seniors with permanent residence in the greater Holland and Zeeland area.

See also

 List of hospitals in Michigan

References

1917 establishments in Michigan
Buildings and structures in Holland, Michigan
Hospitals in Michigan


title: ASLwrite

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ASLwrite (ASL: ) is a writing system that developed from si5s. It was created to be an open-source, continuously developing orthography for American Sign Language (ASL), trying to capture the nuances of ASL's features. ASLwrite is only used by a handful of people, primarily revolving around discussions happening on Facebook and, previously, Google Groups. ASLwrite has been used for comic strips and posters.

Its core components are digits, locatives, marks and movements which are written in a fairly rigid order (though in a fairly flexible configuration) from left to right. Its digits are representations of handshapes – or the configuration of the hand and fingers – where the locatives represent locations on the body (or, in theory, in space), the marks represent anything from location (e.g., edge mark) to small movements (e.g., flutter) to facial expressions (e.g., raised eyebrow mark ) and the movements indicate the movement of the hands in space by modifying the digits (and for shoulder shift /head nod modifying the body).

The order of the writing is from left to right, top to bottom, with locatives or certain marks often beginning words. Sentences are ended by the full stop mark (). Questions in written ASL are denoted by eyebrow marks bounding the question not unlike Spanish's "¿ ?." Question words or wh-questions in ASL can also form the interrogative.

There are in total 105 characters in ASLwrite with 67 digits, five diacritic marks, twelve locatives, sixteen extramanual marks and five movement marks.

Since its creation, it has evolved to include more digits, locatives, movements and marks as well as modify those already present.

History
si5s, a system built from SignWriting, was first proposed by Robert Arnold in his 2007 Gallaudet thesis A Proposal of the Written System for ASL. The ASLwrite community split from Arnold upon his decision to maintain si5s as a private venture with ASLized after the publication of his and Adrean Clark's book How to Write American Sign Language. Today, ASLwrite's website notes:

Use
Aside the small, but dedicated, Facebook group of around 470 in July 2023, ASLwrite is rarely used outside such online spaces. However, one of the most popular online ASL dictionaries, HandSpeak, has begun to incorporate ASLwrite as the primary written component of ASL definitions.

Type of system
ASLwrite is a somacheirographic system meaning that it represents the body (Greek: σῶμα sôma 'body') and hands (Greek: χείρ kheír 'hand') and relays phonemic information. However, it also incorporates logographs (questioning marks) and is featural.

Description

The general principle is to capture a single ASL word per segment, from left to right, registering non-manual feature(s), location(s), handshape(s), movement(s) and general orientation. It imagines the writer/speaker is looking down at their hands or viewing words from the profile such that words can be made either as if seen from straight-on or from one's profile.

The digibet captures handshape information as well as orientation, movement and some locations. Locatives are characters that capture location, though handshape diacritics like edge do capture some locations such as edge of palm. Diacritics, such as movements, modify handshapes and can indicate small movements or small orientations. Movements themselves are fairly flexible in their shapes and orientations, which makes digitising this script difficult.

From left to right, up to down, this is the order in which to write characters:

 Non-manual marks – Often, this is seen as raised or lowered eyebrows, but it can include body or mouth marks such as shoulder-shift and teeth-clench.
 Frontal or profile locatives – Captures the same location information, just from two perspectives. An example (seen on the right) is the shoulder locative is either a shoulder frontal locative that is written above or below the handshape(s).
 Handshapes – Can be written before or after the locative. A handshape can be oriented in 360° depending on its location and is written at the end of its movement path if there is one. Each handshape present is written, and when more than one handshape (of one hand) is written, a movement must be present.
 Diacritics/movements – Written as a part of the handshape, though larger movements or movements that affect multiple handshapes is written after (see below).
 Movements – Larger movements or movements that affect multiple handshapes. When a handshape changes without overt movement, the handshapes are written left-to-right with a single movement below, similar to an underline.
 Non-manual & punctuation marks – These are questioning marks such as why, who, how and how. The stop mark is denoted by a "o" mark.

Digibet
The digibet is composed of handshapes called digits that are modified by diacritics and movements. It shares 23 handshapes with ASL's manual alphabet. Digits are grouped together by features such as +thumb/-thumb or +closed/-closed. In practise, there are 67 digits in ASLwrite's digibet, though that number is growing as new digits are added representing diverse handshapes. Moreover, other languages may adopt this system which would add increasingly more digits.

Diacritics
There are five diacritics, of which one is a movement diacritic. They are: Hinge (, ), Rotational (, ), Rattle (, ), Flutter (, ) and Edge.

Movement
Movements are flexible and thus hard to capture in a digital or non-handwritten fashion. The movements are diverse and aim to capture the movements of the hands, arms and body. There are three points – an endpoint, a firmpoint and a contactpoint –, an orbit mark, a steering and a crank mark as well as the movement mark or line. The movement line follows the path of the hand(s) and can be as clean (e.g., – or | ) or as erratic as possible. The points denote the end of a handshape's path and the degree to which the motion is made. A contactpoint denotes an imaginary or in-the-air point with the contactpoint ending at a location and noted as being a firm ending with the firmpoint. The orbit mark indicates a central "point" around which the handshapes orbit; for orbital paths cut short, one would use a steering mark, and for parallel cranking motions, the crank mark would be used.

Locatives
The locatives are characters that denote a specific location on or near the signer's body. They are presented from a face-on and side-view. The two sub-classifications are frontal and profile locatives.

Non-manual marks
Non-manual marks vary quite significantly and can only be placed at the beginning or end of words or phrases. Eyebrow marks are denoted before and after the word(s) in question thus bounding the words that are modified by eyebrow marks. They are called: Raised (), Knit, Wan, Slanted and Squint. Questioning marks exist in ASL as logographs that denote ASL's wh-questions such as WHO or FOR-FOR. They are placed after a closed word's or phrase's second eyebrow mark and can exist as an entire sentence alone. Mouth marks are characters that relay what action the mouth is doing. It is placed inside the first eyebrow mark.

Body movements
Body movements are non-manual, non-facial features such as shoulder shift () or head nod. They, as well as nose crinkle (), stand alone and can be inserted anywhere, inside and outside of eyebrow-marked phrases.

Writing samples

 means Yes? in ASL composed of , ,  and  where the raised eyebrow marks at the beginning and the end indicate it is a yes/no question, and the hinge mark () denotes that the S handshape digit () makes a nodding motion. The circular point at the end is a full stop mark indicating the end of the sentence. Unlike in English writing, the full stop mark () is employed for all sentences, even questions (as seen here). Breaks in the sentence, as seen below, are denoted by the shoulder shift mark ().

The text on the right is from Chapters 1:2-4 of the Book of Ruth. The first quoted text is the verse in English and the second is an ASL gloss.

Encoding
Due to the complexity of the writing system and its need for flexibility for movements, it means that producing anything in a digital format is difficult. However, there are efforts to create fonts headed by members of its Facebook group, notably looking at proper font creation and using current keyboard characters such as ' } ' or ' _. ' to achieve minor forms of communication in ASL over text. An example phrase is " }_.U- " which means 'thank you' in ASL.

See also
si5s
Stokoe notation
ASL-phabet
Hamburg Notation System (HamNoSys)
SignWriting

Bibliography
 ASL Writing - Blog. Web. 13 Dec. 2011. <http://www.aslian.com/>.
 "Si5s Writing LLC | Facebook." Facebook. Web. 13 Dec. 2011. <https://www.facebook.com/si5swriting>.
 "Sign Language & Interpreting - Mt. San Antonio College." Mt. San Antonio College. Web. 13 Dec. 2011. <https://web.archive.org/web/20120426051755/http://www.mtsac.edu/instruction/humanities/signlang/profiles/arnold.html%3E.%3Cbr>
 Twitter. Web. 13 Dec. 2011. <https://twitter.com/si5s>.
 Write in American Sign Language! Web. 13 Dec. 2011. <http://www.aslwrite.com/>.
 ASLwrite History/FAQ. Web. 17 Feb. 2014 <http://www.aslwrite.com/about_aslwrite/>.

References

External links

American Sign Language
Sign language notation
Writing systems introduced in 2010


title: Bahooka

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Bahooka was a Tiki bar and restaurant in Rosemead, California, United States. The Bahooka was well known for its many fish tanks, one of which held a famous and frequently photographed pacu fish named Rufus. The bar was also known for serving over 60 different kinds of Tiki drinks, including their Jolly Roger Bowl and flaming drinks such as the Flaming Honey Bowl and their eponymous Bahooka Bowl. The Bahooka served Polynesian fare such as teriyaki chicken breast and their signature "Exotic Ribs".

History
Bahooka was founded in 1967 in West Covina, California and expanded to a second location at 4501 Rosemead Boulevard  in 1976 after losing its lease. This allowed the Rosemead location to expand its dining area, adding a new room as well as more custom wooden/fiberglass aquariums, which then exceeded over 100 aquariums, many over 100 gallons in capacity. Tiki mug producers Tiki Farm created a 40th Anniversary mug for the bar. The Rosemead Bahooka closed in March 2013.

In popular culture
Rufus who was known for eating carrots and for having appeared with Johnny Depp in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Rufus, planned at one time to be transferred to another restaurant in Glendale, will remain at the current site in the new restaurant.

References

Restaurants established in 1967
Defunct restaurants in Greater Los Angeles
Tiki culture
Tiki bars
2013 disestablishments in California
Restaurants disestablished in 2013
1967 establishments in California


title: Khương Hữu Long

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Khương Hữu Long  (1890  –  1983) was a prominent Vietnamese medical doctor for over 70 years, beginning in the 1930s.

Education

He completed the French "Diplome" (Thành Chung – thời nầy Việt Nam chưa có bằng Tú Tài cũa Pháp )-  from Hanoi.  He graduated from the only French-established medical school in Vietnam,  Hanoi Medical University – Fourth Class of Medicin.

Family

Khương was born in Vinh Long in 1890, a direct descendant of an aristocrat Khương Hữu family.  His brother Khương Hữu Phi  saw the potential in Khương, and gave him $5,000 piastres (at a time when a new car cost $200)  to pursue and complete his medical training from Hanoi Medical University. He married Nguyễn Thị Thạch (who came from the ancient city/capital Huế ).  They had 5 children, including  two adopted from his younger  Khương Hữu Lân : Khương Hữu Thị Ngàn,   Khương Hữu Cân, Dr. Khương Hữu Hỗ, Khương Hữu Hội, and Khương Hữu Thị Hiệp (wife of physician Hồ Trung Dũng).

Medical Practice and Political Life

After graduating from medical school, he worked for a French Hospital in Vĩnh Long for several years and established his own medical practice. This was the most reputable medical care center in the city at the time.

Subsequently,  upon the request of his Majesty Emperor Bao Đai and his colleague, Prime Minister-to-be    he joined the first Independent Self-Governed Administration [Cộng Hòa Tự Trị Nam Kỳ] as Minister of Health.  After finding out that the French Colonization government was using him to manipulate the Vietnamese people and that the return of independence to Vietnam was part of its calculated move, Thinh hanged himself in protest. Dr. Khương Hữu Long resigned with his colleagues and the government was dissolved.

Dr. Khương was responsible for teaching leaders in Vietnam such as Trần Ngọc Liễng, Trần Văn Hương, et al. Dr. Khương  recommended Ngo Dinh Diem to Cardinal Cushing, who later introduced to him to  Dwight D. Eisenhower and Senator John F. Kennedy.  This introduction and mentoring led to recognition of Ngo Dinh Diem by the French government and Emperor Bao Dai.

Life in retirement

Dr. Khương remained a private citizen and practiced medicine until 1970. He died in 1983 at the age of 93.

References

External links

1890 births
1983 deaths
Vietnamese people of the Vietnam War
Vietnamese Buddhists
20th-century Vietnamese physicians
Health officials
People from Vĩnh Long province