title: Alex Sodiqov

text:
Alex Sodiqov, born as Alexander Sodiqov (; Russian: Александр Cодиков; born September 7, 1983) is a political science PhD student at the University of Toronto, who was apprehended by security officials in Tajikistan on June 16, 2014 and charged with treason and espionage.

Overview
Sodiqov was born in the town of Panjakent, in northern Tajikistan within the Soviet Union. He graduated from the Russian-Tajik Slavonic University with a degree in international relations and received a master's degree in conflict, development and security from the University of Leeds in 2008. Sodiqov worked for the National Democratic Institute (NDI), Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and UNICEF, and lectured at the Russian-Tajik Slavonic University in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. He also blogged at Tajikistan Monitor and served as Central Asia Editor at Global Voices Online. In 2011, Sodiqov was admitted to the PhD program in political science at the University of Toronto, Canada.

Arrest and charges
He returned to Tajikistan with his wife and daughter in June 2014 to work on a research project funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council. Under this project, Sodiqov had a contract with the University of Exeter. The project was investigating "the failure of Western approaches to conflict management" in former Soviet republics.

On June 15, Sodiqov traveled to Khorog, the capital of the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Province in eastern Tajikistan, to interview a number of civil society representatives. There had been an outbreak of violence in Khorog in 2012, that was the subject of the study Sodiqov worked on. On June 16, he was apprehended by security officials during an interview with Alim Sherzamonov, the head of the local branch of the Social-Democratic Party of Tajikistan (SDPT), in Khorog. The next day he was transported to the State Committee for National Security (SCNS) office in Dushanbe.

On June 17, 2014, the SCNS issued a statement, claiming that Sodiqov had been detained for collecting information that "undermined national security". The SCNS alleged that Sodiqov was working for an unnamed "foreign intelligence service". Within the next several days, Sodiqov appeared at least twice on national television. The heavily edited video aimed at discrediting both him and the opposition politician he had been meeting at the time of his apprehension.

Following Sodiqov's detention, the project he had been working on, the University of Exeter, University of Toronto, and UK Economic and Social Research Council made statements confirming that Sodiqov was a scholar under a research contract with the University of Exeter, rather than a spy. They also confirmed that the purpose of Sodiqov's trip to Khorog had been purely academic.

Despite these reassurances, the SCNS formally charged Sodiqov under Article 305 of Tajikistan's Criminal Code ("High Treason"), which carries a prison sentence of between 12 and 20 years. He was placed in the SCNS pre-trial detention centre on 19 June 2014 and his case was classified as "top secret".

International pressure
Sodiqov's arrest on espionage and treason charges generated international outcry, with many rights groups and watchdogs calling for information, fair treatment and his release. Within days after the scholar was detained, the British ambassador to Tajikistan, the European Union delegation to the country, and the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media expressed concern about the detention of the scholar and the charges laid against him. Freedom House demanded immediate information about where and why the scholar was held by the authorities. Human Rights Watch called on Tajikistan to present credible evidence against the scholar or release him immediately. Amnesty International called Sodiqov a "prisoner of conscience" and claimed that charges laid against him were "politically motivated". Reporters Without Borders called for Sodiqov's immediate release, describing charges laid against him as "absurd". The Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE), PEN International, and a coalition of over 60 human rights NGOs from across the OSCE region also condemned Sodiqov's arrest and demanded that Tajikistan release him.

Academic institutions, societies, scholars, and academic freedom groups also organized a campaign to pressure Tajikistan into releasing the scholar and dropping charges against him. The University of Toronto that Sodiqov was affiliated with expressed concern about Sodiqov's detention and requested that Tajikistan resolve the matter with his detention. The department of political science at McGill University issued a similar statement. A number of petitions demanding Sodiqov's release, including one organized by Tajikistani students and alumni of foreign universities and one organized by a group of "concerned scholars," were circulating online. The scholar's academic supervisor and other graduate students at the University of Toronto set up a website, www.freealexsodiqov.org, and used social media to disseminate information about Sodiqov's cause, using the hashtag #freealexsodiqov. The Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) called on Tajikistan to "immediately release" Sodiqov. Scholars at Risk, an international group comprising over 300 academic institutions in 36 countries, sent a letter to Tajikistan's foreign minister, requesting that the scholar is released. On 23 June 2014, four academic societies (the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Association for the Study of Nationalities; Central Eurasian Studies Society (CESS); and European Society for Central Asian Studies) representing about 4,500 scholars of Eurasia expressed "strong concern" over Sodiqov's detention and asked the head of Tajikistan's State Committee for National Security to release him. In July 2014, a broader statement from 20 scholarly societies encompassing over 60,000 academics called for Sodiqov's release. Several French and Swiss academic societies supported the statement.

Although much less is known about international political and diplomatic pressure exerted on Tajikistan to release Sodiqov, that pressure was significant. Shortly after the scholar's arrest, the government of Canada requested that Tajikistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs keep it informed about Sodiqov's case. Canadian and British envoys in Central Asia were also discussing the case with the authorities in Tajikistan. Chrystia Freeland, who was at the time a member of Canadian parliament, said she was concerned about the scholar's detainment and that she was joining efforts to ensure his release. Another Canadian MP, Paul Dewar, sent a letter to Canada's Minister of Foreign Affairs, requesting information about the Canadian government's efforts to secure the scholar's release. The United States government was also in close contract with Tajikistan about the scholar's case, particularly because the US is the principal provider of training, equipment, and other types of support for the State Committee for National Security that had arrested Sodiqov. On July 17, 2014, the US envoy to the OSCE told the organization's permanent council in Vienna that the United States was "deeply concerned" about the scholar's continuing detention.

Sirojiddin Aslov, the then-Foreign Minister of Tajikistan, came under significant political pressure during his official visit to Great Britain in early July 2014. Shortly before the visit, a group of British scholars penned a letter to the United Kingdom's foreign secretary William Hague, describing Sodiqov's arrest as an attack on academic freedom and asking him to call on the Tajik minister to release the scholar. When Aslov arrived in London, Hague did not meet with him. Instead, the-then senior minister of state Baroness Warsi met with the Tajik foreign minister, raising the case of the scholar's arrest with him. The case was also raised at Aslov's meeting with British members of parliament, selected lords and ladies, and academics.

Release
On 22 July 2014, after more than a month in detention, Sodiqov was released on an understanding not to leave the city or talk to media about his case. On August 18, as the initial period of investigation into Sodiqov's case expired, the authorities extended the investigation and announced that the case was still open. On September 10, 2014, the scholar was allowed to return to his studies in Canada, although Tajikistan did not drop the charges against him or close the case.

See also
 Tajiks in Canada
 Scholars at Risk

References

External links
 Official website for the campaign to free Alexander Sodiqov

1983 births
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Academic freedom
Alumni of the University of Leeds
Tajikistani prisoners and detainees
University of Toronto alumni
Imprisoned journalists
Amnesty International prisoners of conscience held by Tajikistan


title: Phespia cercerina

text:
Phespia cercerina is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Bates in 1870.

References

Rhinotragini
Beetles described in 1870


title: Alan Townsend

text:
Alan Townsend (26 August 1921 – 27 January 2014) was an English cricketer who played for Warwickshire from 1948 to 1960.

Townsend was a constant member of the Warwickshire team for 13 seasons, batting in the middle order, bowling medium pace and off-spin, and fielding in the slips. His most successful season with the bat and in the field was 1953, when in 30 matches he scored 1227 runs at an average of 29.92 and took 46 catches. Of his performances that year Wisden remarked that he "at last justified expectations with the bat and he brought exciting moments to many games by his extraordinary catches in the slips".

His highest score was 154 in the first match of the 1957 County Championship, made in just under five hours, against Worcestershire. His best innings bowling figures were 7 for 84 against Essex in 1949, a match that Essex nevertheless won by an innings. His best match bowling figures were 10 for 95 (6 for 67 and 4 for 28) against Cambridge University in 1957.

Townsend was awarded a benefit match in 1960, but he retired later that year after a season of moderate form.

References

External links
 Alan Townsend at CricketArchive

1921 births
2014 deaths
English cricketers
Warwickshire cricketers
Marylebone Cricket Club cricketers
Cricketers from Stockton-on-Tees
Durham cricketers
Cricketers from Yorkshire


title: Phespia corinna

text:
Phespia corinna is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Pascoe in 1866.

References

Rhinotragini
Beetles described in 1866


title: Phespia gibbosa

text:
Phespia gibbosa is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Magno in 1992.

References

Rhinotragini
Beetles described in 1992


title: Ilya Antonovsky

text:
Ilya Antonovsky (born July 3, 1989) is a Russian professional ice hockey defenceman who is currently an unrestricted free agent.

Antonovsky made his Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) debut playing with HC Spartak Moscow during the 2011–12 KHL season.

Playing career

Junior
From 2007 to 2011 Ilya Antonovsky was in the system of HC MVD Balashikha and HC Dynamo Moscow KHL, playing in the newly formed farm team HC MVD-2 Bakashikha. U18

Youth Hockey League
Season 2009/10: transferred to the newly formed Youth Hockey League JHL to the new team Sheriff Balashikha as the farm team of HC MVD.

On Challenge Cup JHL Ilya was a defenseman candidate to team "West".

Supreme Hockey League
Season 2010/11: debuted in the reorganized SHL once again in the newly formed club Dynamo Balashikha, which become the farm team of the United Hockey Club HC Dynamo Moscow KHL. U21

October 2011: Antonovsky Ilya received the prize from the hands of the chief coach of Dynamo (Moscow) Oleg Znarok as become the best defender of the month in SHL. Sniper-defender had retained the 3rd place in the regular Championship SHL, although he was transferred into the main team of Dynamo(Moscow) (KHL). But to play for main team Dynamo(Moscow) was impossible, because at that time many games were lost and there was no chance on experiments with young players.

KHL
December 21, 2011: Antonovsky was exchanged to HC Spartak Moscow. On December 23, 2011 debuted in the KHL in winning match against Avangard Omsk. U22

June 5, 2012 the rights to the player were bought by the Metallurg Magnitogorsk KHL. In pre seasonal XXI international Memorial I. H. Romazan ILya was sent to the "Romazan team", united with five young players from each team of the tournament. The newly formed team took the second place in the tournament. Antonovsky received personal awards for the best defender of the match, the prize of the best defender of the tournament and declared in a symbolic top five of the tournament (Magnitogorsk 2012).

During the lockout in the NHL 2012/13 Ilya Antonovsky had the opportunity to play with Evgeni Malkin, Sergei Gonchar and Nikolay Kulemin in the Metallurg Magnitogorsk. But after 10 matches Antonovsky was sent to the farm team Yuzhny Ural Orsk SHL to save game practice. On playoffs Ilya was returned to the location of the main team Metallurg Magnitogorsk. The team finished in 1/4 final Eastern conference of the KHL.

On 1 May 2013 HC Vityaz Podolsk bought the right of the player In the pre-season period Ilya is fully trained with the team in Germany and played in three matches for the Cup of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan in 2013 Astana. At the last moment before the start of the regular season Antonovsky had not get into the main roster and already in the Tournament "Stone flower-2013" took second place, playing three games with Automobilist in Yekaterinburg. In the regular season Ilya played seven games with the main team, but then was sent in farm-club Sputnik Nizhny Tagil SHL to save game practice. as preference was given to their local players.

In the season 2015/16 Antonovsky began the regular season in the main team HC Metallurg Novokuznetsk KHL, but on November 23, 2015 decided to return to the hockey team Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg KHL.
On the 89th Spengler Cup 2015 Ilya played in three matches (Switzerland, Davos).
In playoffs Ilya was in the main team Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg.

Kazakhstan
During the season 2013/2014 Ilya Antonovsky was invited to the international top hockey team Saryarka Karaganda Kazakhstan SHL, which then became the Champion of the Supreme Hockey League of Russia and won the main trophy Bratina Cup.

In the season 2014/15 Antonovsky continued to play as alternate captain with hockey team Saryarka Karaganda Kazakhstan SHL. In the pre-season period the team did not lose any game. The team won the opening match of the season. Ilya become the best defender of the first week of 2015. HC Saryarka was the winner of the regular championship SHL. In the second round of the playoffs Ilya was the winner in the nomination "the best defender" in the seven matches 5 points (3 goals + 2 assists) with the value "+4" and one game-winning puck. The team won the 3rd place in the Championship SHL.

In the season 2016/17 Ilya Antonovsky played in Saryarka Karaganda Kazakhstan SHL as the alternate captain. The second half of the season played as the captain.

In the season 2017/18 Ilya was elected by his team as the Captain (ice hockey). In november he was the best as the defender of the week and of the month in the Supreme Hockey League. Finally after the regular season  Ilya Antonovsky was the first among assists(defensemen) and was on the 2-nd place among scorers-defensemen of the League.

Personal
From 2005 till 2012 year Ilya Antonovsky was a medical student of the I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University.

From 2014 till 2017 year Ilya Antonovsky studied in magistrature of the Russian State University of Physical Education, Sport, Youth and Tourism (SCOLIPE) and became the first who received the title of magister at the Department of hockey.
Ilya is the nephew of Denis Yuskov 3-time world champion and the world record holder in speed skating on the distance 1500 m. 3-time world Cup holder on 1500 m speed skating.

Ilya Antonovsky is married and has three sons Daniel, Artem, Fillip.

Career statistics

Awards
2000–2005 Champion of Moscow five-time for five consecutive years with the hockey school "Vastom-89".

2005–2007 Twice silver medalist of the Championship of Moscow and Captain of the teams "Vastom" (2005/06 and 2006/07).
The scorer and assistant of the Open Championship of Moscow (2006). The second scorer of the Championship of Moscow (2007).

2008–2009 Silver medalist of the 1st winter games of youth of Russia with team "Center" (Chelyabinsk, 2008).

2010–2011 SHL Defenseman of the month (February) with team Dynamo Balashikha.

2011–2012 SHL Defenseman of the month (October) with team Dynamo Balashikha.

2012–2013 KHL Hockey pre-season annual 21-th tournament memorial I. H. Romazan.
The best defender of the match against the Tractor Chelyabinsk and the prize of the best defender of the tournament.
Declared in a symbolic top five of the tournament (Magnitogorsk 2012).

2013–2014 SHL The Champion  and Bratina Cup holder.

2014–2015 SHL The winner of the opening match of the season and the winner of the regular season with Saryarka Karagandy Kazakhstan.
The best defender in the second round of the playoffs.
The first assistant defender at the play-offs.
The second scorers-defensemen at the play-offs.
The contender for the title of the best defender of the season SHL.

2017–1018 SHLThe prize of the best defender in preseason tournament the Cup of the Governor of the Orenburg region (Orsk 2017). The winner in the nomination "best defender" of the week, and Nov season 2017/2018 in the Saryarka (Karaganda) team. In the regular season Ilya Antonovsky was the first among assists(defensemen) and was on the 2-nd place among scorers-defensemen of the League.

2018-2019 SHL The Champion and Petrov Cup holder as the player Saryarka Karagandy Kazakhstan.

References

External links

Ilya Antonovsky player profile VHL
Ilya Antonovsky player profile KHL
Hockey League (Russia)

1989 births
Living people
Russian ice hockey defencemen
Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg players
HC MVD players
HC Dynamo Moscow players
HC Spartak Moscow players
Metallurg Magnitogorsk players
Metallurg Novokuznetsk players
Saryarka Karagandy players
Ice hockey people from Moscow


title: Mario Jurčević

text:
Mario Jurčević (born 1 June 1995) is a Slovenian professional footballer who plays as a wing-back for Cypriot First Division club Apollon Limassol.

International career
Jurčević made his national team debut for Slovenia on 7 October 2020 in a friendly against San Marino.

Personal life
Jurčević is of paternal Croatian and maternal Serbian descent.

Career statistics

References

External links
Player profile at NZS

1995 births
Living people
Footballers from Ljubljana
Slovenian men's footballers
Slovenia men's international footballers
Slovenian expatriate men's footballers
Men's association football fullbacks
NK Olimpija Ljubljana (2005) players
NK Radomlje players
NK Aluminij players
NK Osijek players
Apollon Limassol FC players
Slovenian PrvaLiga players
Slovenian Second League players
Croatian Football League players
Cypriot First Division players
Slovenian expatriate sportspeople in Croatia
Expatriate men's footballers in Croatia
Slovenian expatriate sportspeople in Cyprus
Expatriate men's footballers in Cyprus
Slovenian people of Croatian descent
Slovenian people of Serbian descent


title: Phespia simulans

text:
Phespia simulans is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Henry Walter Bates in 1873.

References

Rhinotragini
Beetles described in 1873


title: Paraphygopoda albitarsis

text:
Paraphygopoda albitarsis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Johann Christoph Friedrich Klug in 1825.

References

Rhinotragini
Beetles described in 1825


title: Meryl Poster

text:
Meryl Poster is the president and founder of Superb Entertainment. Until October 2014, she was president of television at The Weinstein Company. Poster was previously the co-president of production for Miramax Films, where she executive produced the Academy Award-winning Chicago (2002) and Academy Award-nominated Cider House Rules (1999) and Chocolat (2000). She is an executive producer of the Bravo drama The Girlfriend's Guide to Divorce, which premiered in December 2014.

Early life and work

Poster was one of the first female trainees at the William Morris Agency, where she began working in the mailroom in New York in 1986. In 1989 she began working for Harvey Weinstein as his assistant, thereby beginning her longtime association with the Weinstein brothers and Miramax Films.  She rose to co-president of production at Miramax Films.

Career

NBC Universal

Poster had a producing deal at NBC Universal for five years, and served as a consultant for chairman Jeff Zucker. She signed it up from 2005 to 2010 after leaving Miramax.

The Weinstein Company

In early 2011, Poster joined The Weinstein Company as president of television, having previously worked for Harvey and Bob Weinstein for 16 years at Miramax. While at The Weinstein Company, she oversaw all television development and production, including Project Runway and spinoffs After the Runway (2011), Project Accessory (2011), Project Runway All Stars (2012), Project Runway: Threads (2014), and Project Runway: Under the Gunn (2014). She has also developed VH1’s Mob Wives (2013) and spinoffs Big Ang (2012) and Mob Wives Chicago (2012), as well as Trailer Park: Welcome to Myrtle Manor (2013) on TLC, Rodeo Girls (2013) on A&E, Supermarket Superstar (2013) on Lifetime, Million Dollar Shoppers (2013) on Lifetime. In addition to reality television, Poster has paired with Amy Sherman-Palladino, creator and writer of Gilmore Girls, for an adaptation of The Nanny Diaries for ABC.

Poster ardently defended Harvey Weinstein when news of his decades-long pattern of violent behavior and sexual abuse came to light—engaging in public damage-control, and contacting accusers on Weinstein's behalf.

Superb Entertainment

	In October 2014, Poster left The Weinstein Company to expand her own production company, Superb Entertainment, through a partnership with A+E Studios. Through this agreement, Poster will produce both scripted and unscripted programming.

Other professional ventures and accolades

Poster is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, BAFTA, Women In Communications, and she serves as a vice chair on UJA-Federation's Entertainment, Media and Communications Executive Committee. She has been profiled in numerous publications, including Premiere, W, Vanity Fair, Mademoiselle, Elle, Gotham and Glamour and was ranked in The Hollywood Reporters Power 100 for five consecutive years. She is a member of the Tulane Deans' Council.

Filmography

Executive producer credits

Awards

References

 "One of the Few in Hollywood Who Can Say 'No' to Harvey Weinstein Meryl Poster By Emma Bazilian". Adweek. May 20, 2013.
 "The Formula for Success". Marie Claire. April 18, 2012.
 "Meryl Poster: Featured Panelist, Women of New York, 2012". Broadcasting & Cable. February 9, 2012.
 "Weinstein Company Plans to Launch TV Division with Meryl Poster in Talks to Run It". Deadline. January 11, 2011
 "Meryl Poster Poised to Return Working with Weinsteins". The Wrap. January 18, 2011.
 "Meryl Poster’s New Perch: Weinstein TV". WWD. December 30, 2011.

External links

Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)


title: Phygopoda fugax

text:
Phygopoda fugax is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Thomson in 1864.

References

Rhinotragini
Beetles described in 1864


title: Phygopoda fulvitarsis

text:
Phygopoda fulvitarsis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Gounelle in 1911.

References

Rhinotragini
Beetles described in 1911


title: Phygopoda ingae

text:
Phygopoda ingae is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Penaherrera-Leiva and Tavakilian in 2004.

References

Rhinotragini
Beetles described in 2004


title: List of Better Call Saul episodes

text:
Better Call Saul is an American television drama series created by Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould, which premiered in 2015 on AMC. It is a spin-off from Gilligan's previous series, Breaking Bad (2008–2013), to which it serves as both a prequel and sequel. Set primarily in the first half of the 2000s in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the series develops Jimmy McGill (Bob Odenkirk), an earnest lawyer and former con artist, into an egocentric criminal defense attorney known as Saul Goodman. Also shown is the moral decline of former police officer Mike Ehrmantraut (Jonathan Banks), who becomes a violent fixer for drug traffickers to support his granddaughter and her widowed mother.

Over the course of the series, 63 episodes aired over six seasons. The series premiere aired on February 8, 2015, and the series finale aired on August 15, 2022.

Series overview

Episodes

Season 1 (2015)

Season 2 (2016)

Season 3 (2017)

Season 4 (2018)

Season 5 (2020)

Season 6 (2022)

Ratings
Ratings of AMC cable TV viewers in the United States. Ratings do not include AMC+ and Netflix viewers.

See also
List of Breaking Bad episodes

References

External links
  – official site

Lists of American crime drama television series episodes


title: Phygopoda jacobi

text:
Phygopoda jacobi is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Ernst Fuchs in 1961.

References

Rhinotragini
Beetles described in 1961


title: Neophygopoda nigritarsis

text:
Neophygopoda nigritarsis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Gounelle in 1911.

References

Rhinotragini
Beetles described in 1911
Beetles of South America


title: Panamapoda panamensis

text:
Panamapoda panamensis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae, the only species in the genus Panamapoda. It was described by Giesbert in 1996.

References

Rhinotragini
Beetles described in 1996


title: List of songs recorded by Jessica Mauboy

text:
Australian singer and songwriter Jessica Mauboy has recorded songs for a live album, three studio albums, non-album singles and an extended play, some of which were collaborations with other artists. After she became the runner-up on the fourth season of Australian Idol in 2006, Mauboy signed a contract with record label Sony Music Australia. The following year, she released her debut live album The Journey, which featured re-recorded covers of the selected songs she performed as part of the top twelve on Australian Idol. Mauboy's debut studio album Been Waiting was released in 2008. The lead single "Running Back", featuring Flo Rida, was written by Mauboy, Audius Mtawarira and Sean Ray Mullins. She also co-wrote the album's title track with Israel Cruz, while Jonas Jeberg and Mich "Cutfather" Hansen co-wrote the second single "Burn". Kwamé co-wrote and produced the fifth single "Up/Down". The sixth and final single "Let Me Be Me" was co-written by Sugababes member Jade Ewen. Been Waiting was re-released in 2009 and included several new songs written by Mauboy and Mtawarira, among others.

In 2010, Mauboy contributed guest vocals on the song "Love Me Tender" for Elvis Presley's soundtrack album, Viva Elvis. Her second studio album Get 'Em Girls was released in November 2010. In addition to working with Mtawarira and Cruz again, Mauboy collaborated with American songwriters and producers she had not worked with previously. The album's title track, featuring Snoop Dogg, was produced by Bangladesh, while the second single "Saturday Night" was co-written by Brian Kennedy and Ludacris, who also appears on the single as a featured artist. Cruz co-produced the third single "What Happened to Us", which features Jay Sean, while Harvey Mason, Jr. co-wrote the tracks "Fight for You" and "Here for Me". Get 'Em Girls was re-released in 2011 and featured the new single releases "Inescapable", which was written solely by Diane Warren, and "Galaxy".

Mauboy starred in the 2012 musical film The Sapphires and recorded fifteen songs for its accompanying soundtrack album. She co-wrote the soundtrack's lead single "Gotcha" with Ilan Kidron and Louis Schoorl. Mauboy also co-wrote ten of the thirteen songs on her third studio album Beautiful, which was released in 2013. She reunited with Kennedy on "Honest" and "Go (I Don't Need You)", while Pitbull co-wrote and appears as a featured artist on "Kick Up Your Heels". The album's fourth single "Never Be the Same" was written by Mauboy with Anthony Egizii and David Musumeci of the production team DNA. The Fliptones and The Underdogs also wrote and produced tracks for the album. Beautiful was re-released in 2014 and featured the new single releases "Can I Get a Moment?" and "The Day Before I Met You", both of which were co-written by Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds. In July 2014, Mauboy released her first extended play iTunes Session, which contained a cover version of Frank Ocean's "Thinkin Bout You".

Note: Up to date as of 4 October 2020

Songs

See also
Jessica Mauboy discography

Notes

References

External links

Mauboy, Jessica


title: Armando Rivero

text:
Armando Rivero Luzardo (born February 1, 1988) is a Cuban professional baseball pitcher who plays for Criollos de Caguas.

Career

Rivero previously played for the Industriales in the Cuban National Series. After 2011 he defected from Cuba to pursue a Major League Baseball career. In March 2013, he signed a minor league contract with the Chicago Cubs worth $3.1 million. He made his debut in June of that year with the Kane County Cougars. He was later promoted to the Daytona Cubs and the Double-A Tennessee Smokies. He finished the season 0–1 with a 4.15 earned run average (ERA) and 45 strikeouts in  innings. After the season, he played in the Arizona Fall League. Rivero started the 2014 season back with Tennessee. He was promoted to the Triple-A Iowa Cubs in June. Rivero ended 2014 with a 5-1 record along with a 2.22 ERA. Rivero has been with Iowa since his 2014 promotion, posting a 3.16 ERA in 2015 and a 2.13 ERA in 2016.

On December 8, 2016, Rivero was selected by the Atlanta Braves in the 2016 Rule 5 draft. He was released on October 31, 2017.

On July 19, 2018, Rivero signed with the Piratas de Campeche of the Mexican Baseball League. He became a free agent after the season.

See also
Rule 5 draft results

References

External links

1988 births
Living people
Kane County Cougars players
Daytona Cubs players
Tennessee Smokies players
Iowa Cubs players
Defecting Cuban baseball players
La Habana (baseball) players
Industriales de La Habana players
Criollos de Caguas players
Cuban expatriate baseball players in Puerto Rico
Liga de Béisbol Profesional Roberto Clemente pitchers
Mesa Solar Sox players
Minor league baseball players
Baseball players from Havana


title: Isadore Rush

text:
Isadore Rush ( 1866 – November 14, 1904) was an American stage actress who performed in vaudeville and on Broadway.

Rush was born in Berwick, Pennsylvania. She was married to comedian Roland Reed, making her a stepmother of actress Florence Reed. Previously she was married to a man named White and by him had a daughter, Maud White, who was a young stage actress at the time of Rush's death and married to actor Tyrone Power.

Rush drowned off San Diego near the beach at the Hotel del Coronado in November 1904.

References

External links

Portraits in the University of Washington Sayre collection
Portrait in the New York Public Library Billy Rose collection

1904 deaths
Actresses from Pennsylvania
Actors from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
Deaths by drowning in California
Year of birth uncertain
19th-century American actresses
American stage actresses


title: Long Service Medal, Bronze

text:
The Long Service Medal, Bronze was instituted by the President of the Republic of Venda in 1985, for award to all ranks for ten years exemplary service.

The Venda Defence Force
The 900 member Venda Defence Force (VDF) was established upon that country's independence on 13 September 1979. The Republic of Venda ceased to exist on 27 April 1994 and the Venda Defence Force was amalgamated with six other military forces into the South African National Defence Force (SANDF).

Institution
The Long Service Medal, Bronze was instituted by the President of Venda in 1985. It is the junior award of a set of three medals for long service, along with the Long Service Medal, Gold and the Long Service Medal, Silver.

Venda's military decorations and medals were modelled on those of the Republic of South Africa and these three medals are the approximate equivalents of, respectively, the Good Service Medal, Gold, the Good Service Medal, Silver and the Good Service Medal, Bronze.

Award criteria
The medal could be awarded to all ranks for ten years of exemplary service.

Order of wear

Since the Long Service Medal, Bronze was authorised for wear by one of the statutory forces which came to be part of the South African National Defence Force on 27 April 1994, it was accorded a position in the official South African order of precedence on that date.

Venda Defence Force until 26 April 1994

Official VDF order of precedence:
 Preceded by the Long Service Medal, Silver.
Venda official national order of precedence:
 Preceded by the National Force Long Service Medal, 10 Years.
 Succeeded by the Police Medal for Faithful Service.

South African National Defence Force from 27 April 1994

Official SANDF order of precedence:
 Preceded by the Medal for Long Service and Good Conduct, Bronze of the Republic of Bophuthatswana.
 Succeeded by the De Wet Medal of the Republic of South Africa.
Official national order of precedence:
 Preceded by the Medal for Faithful Service in the Prisons Service of the Republic of Bophuthatswana.
 Succeeded by the Police Medal for Faithful Service of the Republic of Venda.

The position of the Long Service Medal, Bronze in the official order of precedence was revised twice after 1994, to accommodate the inclusion or institution of new decorations and medals, first in April 1996 when decorations and medals were belatedly instituted for the two former non-statutory forces, the Azanian People's Liberation Army and Umkhonto we Sizwe, and again upon the institution of a new set of honours on 27 April 2003, but it remained unchanged on both occasions.

Description
Obverse
The Long Service Medal, Bronze is a disk struck in bronze, 38 millimetres in diameter, depicting the Coat of Arms of the Republic of Venda.

The suspender is in the form of a pair of crossed elephant tusks and is different on the full-size and miniature medals. On the full-size medal, as depicted, the ends of the tusks reach to approximately the ten-thirty and one-thirty positions on the medallion, while on the miniature medal they reach to approximately the ten o'clock and two o'clock positions on the medallion.

Reverse
The reverse is inscribed with the number of years service in Tshivenda.

Ribbon
The ribbon is 32 millimetres wide and green, with 4 millimetres wide blue edges and a 2 millimetres wide brown band in the centre.

Discontinuation
Conferment of the Long Service Medal, Bronze was discontinued when the Republic of Venda ceased to exist on 27 April 1994.

References

Military decorations and medals of Venda
Long service medals
Awards established in 1985
Awards disestablished in 1994
1985 establishments in Africa
1994 disestablishments in Africa


title: The Madden Brothers

text:
The Madden Brothers are an American pop rock duo made up of twin brothers Joel Madden and Benji Madden, both of whom are also founding members of the rock band Good Charlotte.

History
Twin brothers Joel and Benji Madden formed The Madden Brothers officially in 2014 as a side project separate from Good Charlotte, but have origins dating back to 2011. While with Good Charlotte, Joel was mainly the lead vocalist with Benji being lead guitarist and backup vocalist. They released a total of five studio albums, two live albums, two extended plays, twenty singles, seventeen music videos and three music DVDs. All of their studio albums received certification including The Young and the Hopeless, which was certified 3× Platinum in the United States and reached number 1 on the Canadian Albums Chart. During their time with Good Charlotte, the brothers saw the sale of over ten million albums worldwide.

Joel and Benji had been working on The Madden Brothers project since 2011 when they began working on different ways of music. They released a free mixtape a short time later in October 2011. Titled Before — Volume One, it included collaborations with artists such as Casey Veggies, Wiz Khalifa, Machine Gun Kelly, Rockie Fresh, and The Cool Kids and was said to be made simply for the fun of music.

The Madden Brothers began working with producer Pharrell Williams and planned to release an album in late 2012. The plans fell through for the album release but both continued to work on the project. In 2013, the Madden Brothers lend their voices to animated versions of themselves in the form of two characters, depicted as twin lizard punk rockers and brothers (hence their tattoo-like stripes and/or spots on their scaly skins) created by Michael Patterson.

The Madden Brothers finally released their first single in June 2014. Titled "We Are Done", the song was placed in regular rotation in major markets and became a top 40 track on Billboard's Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles and Alternative Radio charts. It is a song about standing up for yourself according to Benji, made to inspire people to speak up for themselves.  The duo performed in the 88th annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade that same year.

The Madden Brothers were coaches on the inaugural season of The Voice Kids Australia as well as Benji joining Joel as a coach on Seasons 4 and 5 of The Voice Australia until their departure in Season 6 who then got replaced by Boy George.

The Madden Brothers also began their own music company, MDDN. In 2015, they signed the band Chase Atlantic and worked with them. Chase Atlantic member Clinton Cave said, "The Maddens locked us away in a Burbank Studio for three months and threw away the key." The two brothers worked hard with the band together until they signed a deal with Warner Brothers Music.

Band members
Current Members
Joel Madden – lead and backing vocals (2011–present)
Benji Madden – guitar, lead and backing vocals (2011–present)

Session studio musicians
Dean Butterworth – drums, percussion (2011–2014)
Serg Dimitrijevic – lead guitar, bass (2011–2014)
Vintz Scheuerman – bass, rhythm guitar (2011–2014)

Touring musicians
Nick Maybury – guitar, backing vocals (2014–present)
Chris Joyner – keyboards, backing vocals (2014–present)
Grant Fitzpatrick – bass, backing vocals (2014–present)
Carl Carter – drums, percussion (2014–present)

Discography

Studio albums

Mixtapes

Singles

References

Good Charlotte
Capitol Records artists
Twin musical duos
Sibling musical groups
Musical groups established in 2011
American pop rock music groups
People from Waldorf, Maryland


title: Shawn Holley

text:
Shawn Katherine Chapman Holley is an American defense attorney.

Early life and education

Holley was raised in Los Angeles. Her mother was a legal secretary who earned an M.B.A. through night classes and became the manager of a prestigious law firm. Though Holley spent many hours at her mother's law firm, she was uninterested in the law until she met "a cool lawyer who did work that excited her". She enrolled in law school and one summer took a law-clerk position at the public defenders office which included interviewing people who had been detained.

Holley graduated from University of California at Los Angeles with a B.A. in English in 1984, and from Southwestern University School of Law with a J.D. in 1988.

Career

Holley began her career in the Los Angeles County Public Defender's Office where she worked for five years before being hired by Johnnie Cochran She eventually became the Managing Partner of The Cochran Firm and was a member of O. J. Simpson's legal defense team, dubbed the "Dream Team".

Holley is a partner at the firm Kinsella Weitzman Iser Kump Holley LLP, practicing in various areas of litigation. Having joined the firm in 2006, it was renamed to include her name in 2021.

She has represented a number of celebrity clients, including Kim Kardashian, Tupac Shakur, Snoop Dogg, Paris Hilton, Nicole Richie, Lindsay Lohan, Trevor Bauer, and Danny Masterson.

Holley was chief legal correspondent for the E! Network, as well as an on-air legal analyst for KABC Eyewitness News in Los Angeles. She has appeared on the Today Show, Good Morning America, PrimeTime Live, Court TV, Fox News and CNN. Additionally Holley is a visiting faculty lecturer at Benjamin N. Cardozo Law School at Yeshiva University in New York City.

In 2018, Holley was added to the Board of Trustees of Southwestern Law School.

Popular culture

In the 2016 FX Miniseries The People v. O. J. Simpson, Holley was portrayed by Angel Parker.

The character "Jax" in the 2022 TV series Reasonable Doubt is loosely based on the experiences of Shawn Holley, who is also a producer for the show.

Personal life

Her husband is musician Dorian Holley. They have three children Nayanna, Sasha and Olivia.

References

External links
 Shawn Holley partner profile at Kinsella Weitzman Iser Kump Holley LLP
 Interview with Shawn Chapman Holley for Insider Exclusive (2007)

Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
American lawyers


title: The Crown and Greyhound

text:
The Crown and Greyhound is a Grade II listed public house at 73  Dulwich Village, Dulwich, London. It is classified by CAMRA as a pub with a regionally important historic interior. The pub is affectionately referred to by locals as "The Dog", and sometimes as "The Dog and Hat". The pub is particularly noteworthy for its post-war connection to the British poetry movement. It is described by Nikolaus Pevsner as, "a cheerfully cross gabled pub".

History
The Crown and Greyhound gets its name from two former pubs in Dulwich Village, The Crown, and The Greyhound, which were across the street from each other up to the 1890s. The Crown is Britain's second most common pub name, and using a sign bearing a crown represented a convenient way to show support for the reigning monarch, without the need to change with the occupant of the throne. Pubs called The Greyhound are generally associated with hunting traditions, befitting of the Dulwich Village locality, which still retains elements of its rural origins to this day.

The two inns once attracted a different clientele, The Greyhound being home to the Dulwich Club and middle-class drinkers, whilst The Crown being more the 'local' of the numerous agricultural workers in the area. For many years, The Crown pub was run by the Goodman family, most of whom are buried in the Old Burial Ground, within a hundred yards of the present pub. By the end of the nineteenth century, with encroaching urbanisation in East Dulwich, the customer bases of the two inns had begun to converge, and shortly before 1900, both inns were demolished and replaced by the present Crown & Greyhound Hotel.

The present building was built in the Old English style in about 1897, on the site of The Crown. The Mosaic tilework at the left-hand entrance to this building (now hidden by carpet) still reads "The Crown". The original architects for The Crown and Greyhound were Eedle and Meyers, who specialised in pub design. The original plans included a billiards room at the back of the pub, a skittle alley as an outbuilding, a coffee room, and even a masonic temple room on the first floor. A contemporary account notes that one side of the drinking area at the front of the pub was still “carefully divided off for the better class of customer” and that some small bars catered for “the lower class of customer and for the jug and bottle trade”. The Cannon Brewery Company Ltd took over the running of the new pub when it first opened. The December 1897 issue of the Licensed Victuallers Gazette describes the pub as a "mahogany and plate-glass" monstrosity. The proprietor of the pub at this time was Robert J. Brinkley.

The pub retains its snob screens, although they have been re-sited over the partition between the main bar and former coffee room. The ground floor of the pub is subdivided into roughly 4 different rooms, which are described as exhibiting, "a spatial quality in the proportions, windows, and detailing that includes panelling, beams, etched glazing and curved bar which is continuous throughout". The Crown and Greyhound's friezes and ceiling decoration are particularly impressive. The pub also merits a Taylor Walker Heritage Inn blue plaque, by virtue of its historic interest.

On 13 August 1932, Alfred Edward Shervell (aged 49), the proprietor of the Crown and Greyhound in Dulwich Village, is reported to have died from his injuries in Nelson Hospital, Merton after falling in front of a train at South Wimbledon Tube Station.

Dorene and Sydney Kitching are recorded as being the licensees of the Crown and Greyhound for over twenty years from the 1950s. Sidney became a publican following duties as a fighter pilot in the RAF during World War II. It is noted that, in restoring catering to the pub, the Kitchings turned the entire pub into an open area, thus effectively eliminating the public bar on the left-hand side of the building, and unifying prices across the pub. Two elderly widows named Alice and Ivy, who were regulars of the public bar, are recorded as boycotting the pub for a short period afterwards, in protest at the increase of a penny on their pint of Guinness.

In the 1970s, the professional wrestler Mick McManus lived locally near Denmark Hill station. Nicknamed "The Dulwich Destroyer", he was regularly seen in the Crown and Greyhound at this time. The day after the General Election in 2001, Tessa Jowell describes receiving a phone call from the Prime Minister's office about an invitation to join Tony Blair's Cabinet, “There we were in the garden of the Crown and Greyhound in Dulwich Village and again it was a lovely sunny evening and my phone went. My agent picked it up out of my bag and said 'Oh, it’s Number 10 switchboard'."

The Crown and Greyhound's village roots, make this a regular venue for Morris dancers in the summer. The pub is also traditionally open on Christmas Day for locals in Dulwich Village to get together for a celebratory festive toast.

Dulwich Hamlet Football Club
The former Crown Inn (on the site of the current Crown and Greyhound) is documented as regular haunt of the players of Dulwich Hamlet F.C.  from the time of club's foundation in 1893, when players used to carry their goal posts through the pub's grounds, and stop by for a drink after matches. Supporter, Bill Kirby, aged 97, recounts the story of Dulwich Hamlet players returning to the Crown and Greyhound after their victory in the 1937 FA Amateur Cup Final, where the cup trophy, "was duly filled with booze, and an underage Bill was one of many to take a good swig from it". At this time, it is stated that the team used to frequent the Crown and Greyhound after every home game.

Literary Associations
The Greyhound pub in Dulwich Village, demolished (along with The Crown Inn) to make way for construction of The Crown and Greyhound, was where the Dulwich Club held its meetings. This association was established in 1772, for the purposes of friendly converse and social cheer among a large body of literary gentlemen, and entertained many distinguished guests, including Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, Mark Lemon, and others.

The Crown and Greyhound was home to a branch of the British Poetry Society, founded by local poet Lionel Monteith in 1949. The foundation of this branch was almost certainly in response to ongoing turmoil at the Poetry Society, precipitated by 29-year-old Muriel Spark falling out with the society's old guard whilst combining her role as General Secretary with editing the Poetry Review. Another local Dulwich poet, and Spark's lover, Howard Sergeant, resigned his position on the Executive Council of the Poetry Society, and became an influential figure in setting up the Dulwich Poetry Group in 1949, and again, when it re-formed in 1959. Guest poets such as Stephen Spender, Laurie Lee, Dannie Abse, Marie Stopes, and Michael Croft are recorded as attending meetings at the pub during this first incarnation of the Dulwich Poetry Group. It is recorded that the audience was invited to an hour and three-quarters of readings by poets, for a suggested donation of one shilling. The first recorded sighting of Michael Croft in the Crown and Greyhound was in autumn 1950, after an Alleyn's School Old Boy was stopped on the street by a burly figure in a duffel coat who inquired amicably, "Where can an old sailor get a drink around here?" Croft was then 29 years old, and had just started teaching at the school.

The Crown and Greyhound is particularly associated with the "Bards in the Boozer", who met there monthly during the 1960s. B. S. Johnson and Zulfikar Ghose, were invited by Howard Sergeant to organise some of the meetings, and celebrated writers and poets reading at the Crown and Greyhound during this period included Alan Sillitoe, Ted Hughes, Edwin Brock, and Jenny Joseph. A photo exists of B. S. Johnson "looking bored senseless at a Dulwich Group poetry reading", upstairs at the Crown and Greyhound. Zulfikar Ghose describes the Dulwich Poetry Group as, "not formed as such, but evolving into one", and states that the contemporary photos of a reading at the Crown and Greyhound, taken for the cultural magazine Scene were, "all posed". He also recounts that Harold Pinter and Theodore Roethke were both persuaded to give readings.

In the aforementioned article in Scene magazine, B. S. Johnson writes that the inaugural meeting of the reformed Dulwich Poetry Group took place in September 1959. Nicholas Hagger recalls attending a meeting of the Dulwich Poetry Group at the Crown and Greyhound, and talking to B. S. Johnson, a conversation which carried on while they had a pee, during which Johnson said: "I am concerned to push the technical experiments in the novel to their utmost." B. S. Johnson himself, in his 16 April 1966 article for London Life magazine entitled, "A Hard Glance at the Poetry Business", describes the Dulwich Poetry Group readings upstairs at the Crown and Greyhound as the best in London, "and audiences of over a hundred (on one sweltering occasion, three hundred) are common." He ascribes this success to the "informal atmosphere", and fact that, "the audience can meet the poets down in the bar afterwards."

The poet George MacBeth, described as "the slim Edwardian dandy", is recorded as performing a reading at the pub in 1963. Edwin Morgan, widely recognised as one of the foremost Scottish poets of the 20th century, describes reading his poetry at The Crown and Greyhound in 1972. Alasdair Aston is recorded as being a leading light in the Dulwich Poetry Group which met at the Crown & Greyhound, being involved in the revival of poetry at the Crown and Greyhound in 1959, and serving as chairman of the Group from 1969-1975. In the 1986 book "At the Dog in Dulwich: Recollections of a poet" edited by Clive Murphy, Patricia Doubell, who also served as chair at the Dulwich Poetry Group, recalls readings at the Crown and Greyhound by Ivor Cutler, Seamus Heaney, and Stevie Smith. She also records the final reading of the Dulwich Poetry Group as taking place on 28 July 1983.

Recent history
From 2013, up until its closure for refurbishment in September 2014, The Crown and Greyhound was home to "The Goose Is Out" folk club. The pub was also home to the Dulwich Chess Club on Monday nights prior to its closure in 2014, and a venue for the annual Dulwich Festival, which takes place each May. Local amateur dramatic group, The Dulwich Players, also used the pub as its regular meeting place.

The Crown and Greyhound was runner-up for best pub or bar in the "Dulwich (SE21) and East Dulwich (SE22)" category of Time Out magazine's "Love London Awards 2014".

In April 2013, Southwark Council approved plans put forward by The Dulwich Estate for the refurbishment and extension of the Crown and Greyhound to create a 20-bedroom boutique hotel. The pub reopened in June 2017.

References

External links

Dulwich
Grade II listed buildings in the London Borough of Southwark
Grade II listed pubs in London
Pubs in the London Borough of Southwark
National Inventory Pubs
Tourist attractions in the London Borough of Southwark


title: A. Maceo Smith

text:
Antonio Maceo Smith (April 16, 1903 - December 19, 1977) was a pioneer civil rights leader in Dallas, Texas, whose years of activism with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and other civil rights and community groups led Texans to dub him "Mr. Civil Rights" and "Mr. Organization".

Early life and education
Antonio Maceo Smith was born in Texarkana, Texas, where he attended segregated schools. His parents were Howell and Winnie Smith.

Smith graduated with an AB in 1924 from Fisk University, a historically black university in Nashville, Tennessee where he would go on to be honored as Alumnus of the Year in 1949. Smith was awarded an MBA at New York University in 1928. He earned further master's degrees in economics and business law at Columbia University.

Careers in entrepreneurship and public service
Smith first owned an advertising agency in New York City, and then a real estate firm in Texarkana. In 1932, he moved to Dallas, where he taught business administration in the segregated Dallas public schools, and published a weekly black newspaper, the Dallas Express.

In 1933, Smith became the first executive secretary of the Dallas Negro Chamber of Commerce, where he spearheaded voter registration drives. He was appointed as the deputy director of the Hall of Negro Life at the Texas Centennial Exposition in 1936, and later that year, wed Fannie Fletcher. Turning from entrepreneurship to public service, in 1937, Smith became an administrative aide in the Federal Housing Administration (FHA). He was appointed regional relations advisor for Region VI in the United States Housing Authority in 1939. He went on to become assistant regional administrator for the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, and retired in 1972.

Civil Rights activism and community involvement
Smith fought against Texas' white primary system, which disenfranchised nonwhite voters. That campaign led to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in Smith v. Allwright, 321 U.S. 649 (1944), that did away with white primaries nationwide. Smith also fought against school segregation in a legal campaign that led to Sweatt v. Painter, 339 U.S. 629 (1950), a case that paved the way for Brown v. Board of Education.

Smith co-chaired the Biracial Committee for the City of Dallas, where he helped lead the city's desegregation. He served on the NAACP's national board of directors from 1953 until 1957, when he was forced to resign by his FHA supervisors. He was also a leader in the Texas State Negro Chamber of Commerce, the Texas Council of Negro Organizations, the Dallas Urban League, the Texas State Progressive Voters League, the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, the Rotary Club of Dallas, the Knights of Pythias, the New Hope Baptist Church, and at Bishop College.

Local legacy
The A. Maceo Smith High School building and the A. Maceo Smith Federal Building, both in Dallas, are named for Smith. The previous A. Maceo Smith zoned high school was replaced by A. Maceo Smith New Tech High School, now New Tech High School at B.F. Darrell, while Barack Obama Male Leadership Academy at A. Maceo Smith occupies the former Smith campus.

See also
 History of the African Americans in Dallas-Fort Worth

Notes

References

1903 births
1977 deaths
African-American activists
Baptists from Texas
People from Texarkana, Texas
20th-century American newspaper publishers (people)
Fisk University alumni
New York University alumni
Columbia University alumni
American marketing people
American real estate brokers
American civil rights activists
Dallas Independent School District
NAACP activists
Businesspeople from Dallas
Journalists from Texas
Activists from Texas
Baptists from Maryland
20th-century Baptists
20th-century American journalists
American male journalists
20th-century African-American businesspeople
20th-century American businesspeople


title: HMS Merlin (1803)

text:
HMS Merlin was launched in 1801 in South Shields as the collier Hercules. In July 1803, with the resumption of war with France, the Admiralty purchased her. She was one of about 20 such vessels that the navy would then employ primarily for convoy escort duties. She served on active duty until 1810, capturing one small privateer. She then served as a receiving ship until 1836 when the navy sold her for breaking up.

Career
The Admiralty purchased Hercules in July 1803, renaming her Merlin. From 20 July to 20 September she was at Deptford fitting out for naval service. Commander Edward Pelham Brenton commissioned her in September.

On 28 October 1803, Merlin and  were off Dunkirk when they pursued and drove on shore the French privateer lugger Sept Freres. Sept Freres was armed with two guns and had a crew of 30 men under the command of Citizen Pollet. Milbrook anchored close to the lugger and came under fire from some field guns on shore. Though she took some hits, the British suffered no casualties. Head money was finally paid in May 1827.

In December Merlin was attached to the Channel fleet and was in company with  on patrol off the Cape La Hogue searching for French coastal shipping and privateers attempting to slip out of the Normandy port of Cherbourg. At 8pm on 10 December, Shannon grounded on Tatihou Island, near Barfleur, during a heavy gale. Merlin spotted land thanks to a bolt of lighting and was able to wear off in time.

A shore battery fired on Shannon, killing some men. When it was clear that Shannon could not be gotten off, her captain surrendered. The French army then took the officers and men prisoners. Some French fishing boats took possession of Shannon but saw that her hull was so damaged that she would be impossible to refloat.

Merlin stood back into shore on the 16th and at 11.30am dispatched two boats of marines and sailors to destroy Shannon to prevent the French from salvaging her guns and stores. Despite heavy fire from the island's batteries the boarders were able to burn and destroy the frigate without suffering a single casualty.

Later in December, Merlin and  detained Traveller, Hall, master, which was sailing from Alexandria to Havre. They sent Traveller into Portsmouth.

On 25 May 1804 Merlin was part of a squadron of six vessels that captured Matilda.

In July and August Merlin participated in the squadron under Captain Robert Dudley Oliver in  at the bombardment of French vessels at Le Havre. The bomb vessels' shells and carcasses set the town on fire on 23 July. Merlin was one of only two British vessels that suffered hits from enemy fire and there were no British casualties. On 1 August, the vessels kept a continuous fire for three hours. Still, it is not clear that the bombardment did much damage to the French flotilla. On 22 July Merlin captured the Shepherdess, and on 31 July Merlin and the squadron capture the French vessel Papillon. Merlin also shared in the capture, on 15 September, of the Flora de Lisboa, off Havre.

Commander Robert Forbes replaced Brenton in January 1805. Merlin was in company with  , , and the hired armed cutters Frances and Nelson on 16 April at the capture of the Charlotte Christina. Merlin shared with  and Prevoyante in the proceeds from the capture on 11 June of the Prussian ship Edward. The proceeds were forwarded from Gibraltar.

In an enclosure to a letter dated 7 October 1805, Admiral Lord Nelson wrote, "Jalouse, Childers, and Merlin being unfit for the service of this Country, are ordered home with the first Convoy to be repaired".

Still, by March 1806 Merlin was in the West Indies, and under the command of Commander William Standway Parkinson. On 26 April Merlin escorted 16 vessels from Barbadoes to Demerara, Surinam, and Berbice.

Commander William Fisher replaced Parkinson on 25 February 1807.

By April 1807 Merlin was laid up. The navy paid her off in June at Portsmouth.

Fate
In October 1810 the Navy had Merlin fitted as a receiving ship at Portsmouth.

The "Commissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admiral" offered the Merlin sloop, of 395 tons (bm), lying at Portsmouth, for sale on 21 January 1836. The Commissioners sold her on that day for £510.

Notes

Citations

References

Nicolas, Sir Nicholas Harris (1846) The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson, with Notes. (Colburn)

Sloops of the Royal Navy
1801 ships


title: GMO Answers

text:
GMO Answers is a front group launched by the agricultural biotechnology industry in July 2013 to participate in public debate around genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in crops in the U.S. food supply.

Cathleen Enright, then executive director of Council for Biotechnology Information, said GMO Answers was not specifically created to advocate against GMO labeling, but rather to provide accurate information about GMOs to consumers: "We have been accused of purposely hiding information. We haven't done that but now we will open the doors and provide information."

Anti-GMO activists have characterized GMO Answers as a public relations ploy by the seed biotech industry to influence an intensifying debate concerning the safety of GMOs and GMO labeling. Huffington Post reported on 130 pages of Ketchum PR internal documents discussing the launch of GMO Answers with a strategy of "embracing skepticism." Ketchum's internal documents also discussed “ongoing development of relationships” with Washington Post columnist Tamar Haspel as well as The Motley Fool and Politico.

Background

The safety of GMOs has been described as the "most visible and contentious" public debate regarding food production technologies used in the U.S. food supply chain. In a January 2013 New York Times poll, 93 percent of respondents said that foods containing GMOs or genetically engineered ingredients should be identified. The Pew Research Center conducted a survey of 1,480 Americans and the results showed that over a third of Americans believe genetically modified food poses health risks. The survey made the statement, "GM foods are ___ for health than non-GM foods." 39% of the respondents responded "worse", 48% responded, no better or no worse, 10% responded better, leaving  3% of respondents that didn't answer the question. The data shows there is still a tendency for the average American to believe GM food is worse for health. Polls by the Oklahoma State University Department of Agricultural Economics have shown that over 80 percent of respondents supported mandatory labels of genetically modified food, but the same number supported labels for food containing DNA.

There is a scientific consensus that currently available food derived from GM crops poses no greater risk to human health than conventional food, but that each GM food needs to be tested on a case-by-case basis before introduction. Nonetheless, members of the public are much less likely than scientists to perceive GM foods as safe. The legal and regulatory status of GM foods varies by country, with some nations banning or restricting them, and others permitting them with widely differing degrees of regulation.

GMO labeling legislation

Growing consumer interest in transparency regarding food production has given rise to GMO labeling initiatives across the U.S. in several states. In 2012 and 2013, GMO labeling ballot initiatives were defeated in California and Washington state. Also in December 2013, Connecticut became the first state in the U.S. to enact GMO labeling legislation, followed by Maine a month later. The Connecticut and Maine bills required that any combination of contiguous Northeast states totaling at least 20 million residents must adopt similar laws in order for the regulations to take effect.

In August 2013, a Scientific American editorial called mandatory labeling of genetically modified foods a "bad idea":

GMO labeling initiatives by U.S. food producers

In 2013, several U.S. food producers announced plans to label or disclose the presence of GMOs in their products, including grocery retailer Whole Foods Market, restaurant chain Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc., and ice cream maker Ben & Jerry's. In January 2014, General Mills, Inc. announced that it began manufacturing GMO-free original Cheerios in late 2013.

GMOAnswers.com

In July 2013, the seed biotech industry and its partners in farming and agriculture launched the GMOAnswers.com website "to combat mounting opposition to genetically modified foods among consumer groups and activists."

Also in July 2013, Paul Schickler, president of DuPont Pioneer, the agricultural unit of DuPont, said anti-GMO interests had used the Internet effectively to disseminate their message, and that the seed biotech industry sought to employ the Internet and social media channels to similar effect: "[GMOAnswers.com] is an effort to increase the dialogue ... Over time I think we'll come to a common understanding."

External links
 Official Website

References

Agricultural organizations based in the United States
Organizations established in 2013
Trade associations based in the United States
Genetically modified organisms in agriculture


title: Trampoline safety net enclosure

text:
A trampoline safety net enclosure is a trampoline accessory that significantly reduces the chance of fall off and frame impact injuries.

History
The first commercially successful trampoline safety net enclosures were invented and patented by Mark Publicover in the United States and first sold there in 1997 by JumpSport Trampolines. By 2006 80% of all new trampoline sales included safety net enclosures.

Safety benefits
While a trampoline is safest when only one person jumps at a time, in practice the enjoyment derived from multiple simultaneous jumpers means that this recommendation is often disregarded. The benefit of an enclosure is that it keeps jumpers from falling off a trampoline or impacting the frame.

Safety net enclosures vary from one manufacturer to another, such as the opening in the net so that jumpers may enter and exit the trampoline.  The design of such openings may include: snap/Velcro system, zipper, or overlapping sections. The snap, zipper, and Velcro systems require the person entering to both open and close the entrance, allowing for the possibility of misuse, whereas the doubled over system avoids this requirement by being a passive solution.

See also

 Trampolines

References

External links
 Patent 6,053,845 – Trampoline or the like with enclosure
 Patent 6,261,207 – Trampoline or the like with enclosure

Trampolining
Protective barriers
Nets (devices)


title: T. moritziana

text:
T. moritziana may refer to:

 Tayloria moritziana, a moss that has spore capsules with teeth that are arthrodontous
 Tillandsia moritziana, an air plant


title: Marco Ciani

text:
Marco Tulio Ciani Barillas (born March 7, 1987, in Guatemala City, Guatemala) is a Guatemalan footballer currently playing for San Marcos de Arica.

Club career

San Marcos de Arica (2014–present)
Ciani was signed by SM Arica in June 2014. He made his debut on July 19 in the season opener against Colo Colo, coming off the bench for Kevin Harbottle.

Career statistics

References

1987 births
Living people
Guatemalan men's footballers
Guatemalan expatriate men's footballers
Universidad SC players
Comunicaciones F.C. players
Club Xelajú MC players
C.S.D. Municipal players
San Marcos de Arica footballers
Chilean Primera División players
Expatriate men's footballers in Chile
Men's association football midfielders
Guatemala men's international footballers


title: El Chaparral

text:
The El Chaparral port of entry or border crossing (Puerto Fronterizo El Chaparral) is as of 2012 the main vehicle crossing point from San Diego into Tijuana, Mexico, replacing the former entry point known as Puerta México which stood immediately east of El Chaparral. It is part of the San Ysidro Port of Entry. It is roughly in the same location as the former Virginia Avenue crossing, where trucks entering the US from Mexico prior to 1983, was located. The opening of El Chaparral roughly tripled the number of traffic lanes to 22, reducing wait times for vehicles entering Mexico.

Access is via a four-lane, temporary access road that is  long and leads west from the end of Interstate 5.

References

Ports of Entry in San Diego–Tijuana
Interstate 5


title: Boleyn Tavern

text:
The Boleyn Tavern is a Grade II listed public house in East Ham, East London, England at the junction of Barking Road and Green Street.

It was built in 1899–1900, with the entrance consoles bearing a 1900 date. The Tavern was frequented by West Ham United F.C. supporters due to its proximity to West Ham's ground, the Boleyn Ground. Often at risk from vandalism from opposing supporters, it would have its windows boarded up for a local derby such as West Ham and Millwall.

It is on the Campaign for Real Ale's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors.

A visit from Gandhi
The local tradition is that Mahatma Gandhi visited the Boleyn Tavern at least once in 1931. In that year Gandhi was in London for three months for talks on the future of India; he was based at Kingsley Hall in Bromley-by-Bow, and was enthusiastically received by East Enders.

It is said that Gandhi attended several West Ham games during his stay and visited the Boleyn Tavern, where he drank cream soda while discussing football and radical politics with local people. Gandhi was a keen football fan, establishing three teams in South Africa, and already had a strong connection to West Ham through his friendship with its founder, Arnold Hills, while living in London completing his law studies in 1888–91. During this period Hills brought the young Gandhi onto the executive committee of the London Vegetarian Society.

Gandhi took long early-morning walks during his 1931 stay in London, and often used the nearby Sewerbank (or Greenway) between Stratford and Plaistow. Gandhi met Charlie Chaplin in nearby Canning Town.

References

Grade II listed buildings in the London Borough of Newham
Grade II listed pubs in London
West Ham United F.C.
National Inventory Pubs
East Ham
Pubs in the London Borough of Newham
Commercial buildings completed in 1900


title: List of heritage-listed buildings in Rockhampton

text:
This is a list of heritage-listed buildings in Rockhampton, Queensland, organised by suburb:

Allenstown
Heritage-listed buildings in Allenstown:

 36 Larnach Street: St Marks Church
 Upper Dawson Road: South Rockhampton Cemetery
 170 William Street: St Josephs Cathedral

Berserker
Heritage-listed buildings in Berserker:

 20 Bridge Street: North Rockhampton Borough Chambers
 278 Ford Street: St John's Church

Rockhampton City
Heritage-listed buildings in Rockhampton City (the central business district):
 166 Alma Street: Shandon (residence)
 Archer Street: Training Depot Drill Hall Complex
 Bolsover Street: Block A, Rockhampton Technical College
 Bolsover Street: GS Curtis Stores (also known as AMV Warehouse)
 230 Bolsover Street: Rockhampton School of Arts
 201 Bolsover Street: Schotia Place
 232 Bolsover Street: Rockhampton Town Hall
 280 Bolsover Street: St Andrew's Presbyterian Church
 Denison Street: Archer Park Railway Station
 233 Denison Street: Railway Administration Building
 42 East Street: Rockhampton Courthouse
 80 East Street: Rockhampton Post Office
 183 East Street: AMP Building
 187 East Street: John M Headrick & Co Building
 203 East Street: Walter Reid Community Arts Centre
 112–114 Kent Street: Rockhampton Masonic Hall
 150 Quay Street: Criterion Hotel
 162–164 Quay Street: Bulletin Building
 166 Quay Street: Rockhampton Club
 170 Quay Street: Trustee Chambers
 174 Quay Street: C J Edwards Chambers
 178 Quay Street: Rees R & Sydney Jones Building
 180 Quay Street: Cattle House
 182 Quay Street: Australian Estates Building
 186 Quay Street: Queensland National Bank
 194 Quay Street: Royal Bank of Queensland
 206 Quay Street: Archer Chambers
 208 Quay Street: Customs House
 230 Quay Street: Heritage Tavern
 232–234 Quay Street: Cahill's Stores
 236 Quay Street: ABC Radio Studios
 238 Quay Street: Goldsbrough Mort Building
 248 Quay Street: Avonleigh
 250 Quay Street: Clewett's Building
 260 Quay Street: Walter Reid Court
 288 Quay Street: Harbour Board Building
 89 William Street: St Paul's Anglican Cathedral
 89 William Street: St Paul's Cathedral Hall

Nerimbera
Heritage-listed buildings in Nerimbera:

 St Christophers Chapel Road: St Christophers Chapel

Park Avenue
Heritage-listed sites in Park Avenue:

 North Coast railway line over the Fitzroy River between Park Avenue and Wandal: Alexandra Railway Bridge

The Range
Heritage-listed buildings in The Range:
 155 Agnes Street: Rockhampton Girls Grammar School
 248 Agnes Street: Rudd Residence
 263 Agnes Street: The Range Convent and High School
 Archer Street: Rockhampton Grammar School
 Canning Street: Medical superintendent's residence within the Rockhampton Base Hospital
 Canning Street: Therapies Building (incorporating Sister Elizabeth Kenny's Clinic) within the Rockhampton Base Hospital
 49 Jessie Street: Amla (house)
 30 Nathan Street: Wiseman's Cottage
 Penlington Street: Rockhampton War Memorial
 100 Spencer Street: Rockhampton Botanic Gardens
 25 Ward Street: Clancholla
 31 Ward Street: Kenmore House
 74 Ward Street: Yungaba Migrant Hostel
 86 Ward Street: Killowen, Rockhampton

Wandal
Heritage-listed sites in Wandal:

 North Coast railway line over the Fitzroy River between Wandal and Park Avenue: Alexandra Railway Bridge

West Rockhampton
Heritage-listed buildings in West Rockhampton:
 Canoona Road: St Aubins (house)

References

Buildings and structures in Rockhampton
Historical sites in Queensland
Rockhampton
Rockhampton
Rockhampton
Heritage listed buildings, Rockhampton
Rockhampton


title: Prayer in C

text:
"Prayer in C" is a song by French folk pop duo Lilly Wood and the Prick, originally released on their album Invincible Friends in 2010.

In 2014, German DJ and record producer Robin Schulz remixed the song, and the remix was re-released in June 2014. He used a CD of Invincible Friends as the source, and initially made his remix available as a free download, to the consternation of the copyright owners, Wagram Music.

The Schulz remix topped the French Singles Chart. Outside France, the remix of "Prayer in C" topped the charts in Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Schulz's native Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Poland, Portugal, the Republic of Ireland, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, peaked within the top ten in Australia and New Zealand and peaked in the top 40 of the charts in Brazil, Canada and the United States. In September 2014, Kiesza covered the song in Live Lounge on BBC Radio 1 in the United Kingdom.

Formats and track listings
 Digital download
 "Prayer in C" (Robin Schulz Radio Edit) – 3:09
 CD single
 "Prayer in C" (Robin Schulz Radio Edit) – 3:09
 "Prayer in C" (Robin Schulz Remix) – 5:22
 Digital download – 5th anniversary rework
 "Prayer in C" (Robin Schulz radio edit) – 3:09
 "Prayer in C" (5th anniversary remix) – 2:59
 "Prayer in C" (VIP remix) – 2:44

Charts

Original version

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Remix

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Decade-end charts

Certifications

Release history

See also

 List of number-one hits of 2014 (Austria)
 List of number-one hits of 2014 (Denmark)
 List of number-one singles of 2014 (Finland)
 List of number-one hits of 2014 (France)
 List of number-one hits of 2014 (Germany)
 List of number-one singles of 2014 (Ireland)
 List of number-one singles of 2014 (Netherlands)
 List of number-one hits of 2014 (Norway)
 List of number-one singles of 2014 (Poland)
 List of number-one hits of 2014 (Scotland)
 List of number-one singles of 2014 (Sweden)
 List of UK Dance Chart number-one singles of 2014
 List of UK Singles Chart number ones of the 2010s

References

External links
 Full Lyrics at LyricsOnDemand.com

2010 songs
2014 singles
Dutch Top 40 number-one singles
Irish Singles Chart number-one singles
Number-one singles in Austria
Number-one singles in Denmark
Number-one singles in Finland
SNEP Top Singles number-one singles
Number-one singles in Germany
Number-one singles in Greece
Number-one singles in Hungary
Number-one singles in Israel
Number-one singles in Italy
Number-one singles in Norway
Number-one singles in Poland
Number-one singles in Russia
Number-one singles in Scotland
Number-one singles in Sweden
Number-one singles in Switzerland
UK Singles Chart number-one singles
Ultratop 50 Singles (Flanders) number-one singles
Ultratop 50 Singles (Wallonia) number-one singles
Songs against racism and xenophobia
Anti-war songs
Protest songs
Robin Schulz songs
Songs critical of religion
Songs with feminist themes
Songs about homelessness
Songs about old age
Songs about poverty
Tropical house songs
Warner Music Group singles


title: Carl Offterdinger

text:
Carl Offterdinger (January 8, 1829 in Stuttgart – January 12, 1889 in Stuttgart) was a German figure and genre painter and illustrator.

Book illustrations
Offterdinger was a student of Heinrich von Rustige. In the second half of the 19th century, Offterdinger illustrated numerous children's books, fairy tales, adventure stories, and broadsheets.

Offterdinger is particularly known for his paintings with scenes from fairy tales and illustrations of literary works such as The Nutcracker and the Mouse King by E.T.A. Hoffmann, Till Eulenspiegel, Robinson Crusoe, fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm, the Leatherstocking Tales, and Gulliver's Travels. In 1874, he illustrated the first edition of Theodor Storm's novella Pole Poppenspäler in the journal German youth.

Heinrich Leutemann and Carl Offterdinger illustrated a German fairytale collection, Mein erstes Märchenbuch (My first Fairytale Book), published at the end of the 19th century.

Some of his illustrations are now included in the Boston Harbor Museum.

References

External links

1829 births
1889 deaths
Artists from Stuttgart
Artists from the Kingdom of Württemberg
German male painters
German illustrators
19th-century German painters
19th-century German male artists


title: Wunonglong Dam

text:
The Wunonglong Dam () is a gravity dam situated on the Lancang (Mekong) River in Weixi Lisu Autonomous County, Yunnan of Yunnan Province, China. The primary purpose of the dam is hydroelectric power production. Construction on the dam began in 2010 and the river was diverted around the foundation in November 2014. In 2016, construction began on the main dam, which was subsequently completed in 2017. By July 2019, all four hydroelectric generators were operational and the power station was operating at its full capacity of 990 MW.

See also

Hydropower in the Mekong River Basin
List of tallest dams in the world
List of dams and reservoirs in China
List of tallest dams in China

References

Dams in China
Dams in the Mekong River Basin
Gravity dams
Dams under construction in China
Hydroelectric power stations in Yunnan
Buildings and structures in Dêqên Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
Roller-compacted concrete dams


title: Thermonectus basillaris

text:
Thermonectus basillaris is a species of diving beetle native to the eastern United States, southern Ontario, Canada, and Cuba. T. basillaris is a pioneering species that occurs in temporary ponds and readily fly. Adults are  long and  wide.

References

Dytiscidae
Beetles of North America
Beetles described in 1829


title: Uganda National Roads Authority

text:
The Uganda National Roads Authority (UNRA) is a government agency mandated to develop and maintain the national roads network, advise the government on general roads policy, contribute to the addressing of national transport concerns, and perform certain other functions. UNRA is charged with, among other things, the selection of contractors, the supervision of construction, the scheduling of maintenance, and the prioritization of national road works.

Headquarters
The headquarters of UNRA are located in the UAP Nakawa Business Park, at 3-5 New Port Bell Road, in the Nakawa Division of Kampala, Uganda's capital and largest city. The geographical coordinates of UNRA's headquarters are:0°19'40.0"N, 32°36'46.0"E (Longitude:0.327778; Latitude:32.612778).

Overview
UNRA was established in 2006 by parliamentary enactment of the Uganda National Roads Authority Act. UNRA became fully operational on 1 July 2008.

UNRA is governed by a nine-member board of directors, chaired by Angela Kanyima Kiryabwire. The first Chairman of the Board of Directors was Mr. Chris Kassami who spearheaded the process of setting up the original UNRA management structures. The pioneer Executive Director was Eng. Peter Ssebanakitta who was appointed to the post on 1 November 2007 and set upon working with the Board to recruit staff into the UNRA structures. UNRA became operational on 1 July 2008 with about 80% of the established posts filled. Eng. Ssebanakitta served as Executive Director up to 3 March 2013 when he resigned for personal reasons. He was succeeded in acting capacity by Engineer Ssebbugga Kimeze who was subsequently replaced by Eng. James Okiror when he was suspended following the botched procurement of a contractor for the Mukono–Kyetume–Katosi–Nyenga Road. The current executive director is Allen Kagina who replaced Engineer Okiror in May 2014. She replaced acting executive director James Okiror.

Completed projects
During the first five years of the agency, the road network increased from  to .

According to a published report in July 2015,  (19 percent) of the  national road network was paved. A total of  of roads were improved from gravel to bituminous surface between 2005 and 2010. A total of  of roads are earmarked for tarmacking before December 2016.

Some of the roads that have been completed since 2008 include:

 Kabale–Kisoro–Bunagana Road (completed in 2012)
 Fort Portal–Bundibugyo–Lamia Road (completed in March 2014)
 Gayaza-Ziroobwe Road
 Matugga-Kapeeka Road
 Soroti–Dokolo–Lira Road (completed in 2010)
 Jinja–Bugiri Road (completed in 2010)
 Kampala–Mityana Road (completed in July 2012)
 Masaka–Mbarara Road
 Lira–Kamdini–Karuma Road (completed in August 2011)
 Kazo–Ibanda–Kamwenge Road (completed in March 2014)
 Nyakahita–Kazo Road (completed in February 2014)

Ongoing construction projects
As of October 2017, the following major construction projects under UNRA's supervision were ongoing.

 Gulu–Atiak–Nimule Road
 Tororo–Mbale–Soroti Road
 Vurra–Arua–Koboko–Oraba Road
 Mbarara Northern Bypass Road
 Kampala Northern Bypass Highway
 Mbarara–Ntungamo–Kabale–Katuna Road
 Entebbe-Kampala Expressway
 New Jinja Bridge
 Mukono–Kyetume–Katosi–Nyenga Road
 Hoima–Kaiso–Tonya Road
 Hoima–Butiaba–Wanseko Road
 Kampala–Mpigi Expressway

Upcoming projects

As of June 2015, UNRA listed the following major construction projects as upcoming:

 Kigumba–Masindi–Hoima–Kabwoya Road
 Rukungiri–Kihihi–Ishasha–Kanungu Road

Re-organization
As part of a re-organization and re-structuring effort, Allen Kagina, the executive director, fired all the remaining 866 company staff and re-advertised all staff positions. The terminations were in addition to 80 managers fired in June 2015, and another 58 staff laid off in September 2015 when the procurement and weighbridge departments were outsourced. In January 2016, media reports indicated that the total staff allocation for the organization had been increased to 1,740.

Governance
In March 2017, new board of directors was named to serve for three years. The members of the current board are:

 Fred Omach: Chairman
 Allen Kagina: Executive Director
 Sam Bagonza: Member
 Umar Bagambadde: Member
 Joseph Muvawala: Member
 Laban Mbulamuko: Member
 Petra Sansa Tenywa: Member.

See also
Uganda Road Fund
Transport in Uganda
List of roads in Uganda

References

External links
Uganda National Roads Authority Website
Is The Huge Road Sector Budget Allocation Doing Wonders?
UNRA: Construction of the Kampala – Jinja Expressway
Regional Imbalance: The Story of Road Construction In Uganda
UNRA At 6 Years - 1 July 2014

Organisations based in Kampala
Government agencies of Uganda
Roads in Uganda
Organizations established in 2008
2008 establishments in Uganda
Transport organisations based in Uganda
Road authorities


title: Kirke La Shelle

text:
Kirke La Shelle (September 23, 1862 – May 16, 1905) was an American journalist, playwright and theatrical producer. He was known for his association with such successful productions as The Wizard of the Nile, The Princess Chic, Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush, Arizona, The Earl of Pawtucket, The Virginian, The Education of Mr. Pipp and The Heir to the Hoorah. La Shelle's career as a playwright and producer was relatively brief due to an illness that led to his demise at the age of forty-two.

Early life
Milton Kirk LaShells was born at Wyoming, Illinois the son of Sarah Williams and James Ralph LaShells. His father, the son of a prominent Philadelphia lawyer, settled in Stark County around 1844 where he farmed and later worked as a tradesman. La Shelle's mother was a native of Vermont. His father lost his first wife, Harriet, in May 1850 to tuberculosis. The same fate  befell La Shelle's mother when he was just seven years old. James LaShells later relocated to Biggs, California where he died in 1888 at the age of 80.

In his early teens La Shelle began his newspaper career as a printer's apprentice with the Wyoming Post Herald.

Newspaper years
While still in his teens La Shelle joined the printing department of the Chicago Telegraph and eventually rose to be a foreman with the same division at the Chicago Morning News. La Shelle later became a newspaper reporter, drama critic and would, during the 1880s, go on to hold a number of reporting and editorial positions with several Chicago area newspapers. In the early 1880s La Shelle spent a year or two in Bismarck, Dakota Territory as editor of the Bismarck Tribune and later founding editor of an evening paper called the Daily Advertiser. By 1884 La Shelle returned to Chicago, where he continued working on Chicago papers and at some point composed poetry that appeared in The Ladies Home Journal. In 1891 La Shelle left the dramatic desk of The Chicago Mail to join the English actor E. S. Willard as his business manager and advance man for an upcoming American tour.

Theatre
From 1892 to 1895 La Shelle served as general manager and director of the Bostonians, a theatrical troupe previously known as the Boston Ideal Opera Company. It was during this period that La Shelle first met with success  as a producer when the Bostonians presented the comic opera Robin Hood.

In 1895 La Shelle partnered with Arthur F. Clarke, the Bostonians’ former business manager and advance man, to back the  Frank Daniels’ Comic Opera Company. Their first production The Wizard of the Nile, a comic operetta by Victor Herbert and Harry B. Smith, proved to be a huge success that earned its producers a fortune. La Shelle and Clarke followed with Daniels’ successful productions of the comic operas The Idol's Eye (1897), by Smith and Herbert, The Ameer (1899), written by La Shelle in collaboration with Frederic Ranken, and Miss Simplicity (1901) from R. A. Barnet and Harry Lawson Heartz.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=FjcRAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Miss+Simplicity%22+%281901%29.%22+opera Barnet, R. A. 1901, 'Miss Simplicity: A Musical comedy by R. A Burnet] Retrieved June 13, 2014</ref>

In 1899 La Shelle directed a touring company headed by Wilton Lackaye that presented a stage adaptation of the Charles Lever novel, Charles O'Malley, the Irish Dragoon.

That same year La Shelle wrote the book and lyrics for The Princess Chic, a comic opera composed by Julian Edwards. The Princess Chic debuted at Boston's Columbia Theatre on January 16, 1900, with Minnie Methot in the title rôle, before making its Broadway premier at the Casino Theatre some three weeks later. After closing early in March 1900 The Princess Chic embarked on a road tour that, over the next several seasons, would see the Princess Chic of Normandy played by Christie MacDonald, who had assumed the rôle in Boston after Methot  withdrew due to a nagging injury, Marguerite Sylva, Maude Lillian Berrl and Vera Michelena.

In 1899 La Shelle produced the successful Augustus Thomas drama Arizona and, in 1901, The Bonnie Brier Bush, a drama adapted by playwright James MacArthur from the novel Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush by Ian Maclaren. Two years later he produced Augustus Thomas' 1903 hit comedy The Earl of Pawtucket, and the following year he produced Checkers, a comedy by Henry Blossom.

La Shelle produced and shared the writing credits with Owen Wister on their successful 1903 stage adaptation of the author's popular novel The Virginian. In 1905 he produced The Education of Mr. Pipp, a comedy Augustus Thomas based on a series of drawings by Charles Dana Gibson and, what would prove to be his final project, The Heir to the Hoorah'', a comedy by Paul Armstrong.

Personal life
On June 15, 1893, La Shelle married, in Chicago, Mazie Elizabeth Nodine, an Illinois native. The couple had two children, Mazie Maria and Kirke, born between 1898 and 1901. In 1904 La Shelle's health began to decline and he was eventually diagnosed as diabetic. La Shelle suffered two accidents early in May 1905 while at his summer residence in Bellport, Long Island—a badly cut foot from a lawn mower and serious burns to his face while attempting to repair a hot water pipe. The stress from these events were thought to have aggravated the diabetes that led to his death on May 16, 1905.

La Shelle was laid to rest at a small cemetery near his summer home in Bellport. Serving as his pallbearers were Frank Vanderlip, theatre manager Harry Hamlin, artist Lawrence Mazzanovich, author Henry L. Wilson, Digby Bell, author Ray Brown, writer William Eugene Lewis and friend J. Louis White. Not long after her husband's death Mazie La Shelle, as president, and J. Louis White, as secretary, formed the Kirke La Shelle Co. to continue to produce and protect his intellectual properties. On June 8, 1908 she married the noted architect Richard Howland Hunt at Frank Vanderlip's country estate in Scarborough, New York.

Resources

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1862 births
1905 deaths
19th-century American dramatists and playwrights
20th-century American dramatists and playwrights
American musical theatre librettists
American theatre managers and producers
People from Wyoming, Illinois
People from Bellport, New York
People from Butte County, California
19th-century American businesspeople


title: Walt Nielsen

text:
Walter Ring Nielsen (February 4, 1917 – September 22, 2006) was an American football fullback who played for the National Football League (NFL)'s New York Giants during the 1940 season.

A native of Redondo Beach, California, Nielsen attracted interest from the Arizona Wildcats and USC Trojans college football teams. Because he believed the Arizona environment would be better for his asthma, he spurned the local Trojans and accepted an athletic scholarship to play for the Wildcats. Nielsen played for Arizona from 1936 to 1938, and gained the nickname "Hoss" early in his career. In his first two years, under head coach Tex Oliver, he joined fellow future NFL running back Tom Greenfield as part of a team known as the "Blue Brigade". The Wildcats had win–loss records of 7–2 and 5–2–3 in those seasons. Nielsen was named to the Little All-American team in 1937, before a knee injury affected him the next year. In 1939, the Giants selected him with the 10th pick in the NFL Draft, making him the first Wildcats player to be taken in the first round of a draft.

Although the Giants signed Nielsen in July 1939, he spent the 1939 season as a member of the minor league Jersey City Giants, reportedly due to a case of hay fever. In 1940, Nielsen rushed for 269 yards in 73 attempts during the nine games he played in, and his average of 3.7 yards per carry was ninth in the NFL. In addition, he caught two passes for 17 yards and scored one touchdown. He accounted for the Giants' first score in a 37–21 loss to the Chicago Bears on October 27, with a one-yard run.

After 1940, Nielsen did not play another NFL game. He entered the United States Army, and participated in World War II; two days after the Normandy landings, he entered France via Omaha Beach. One newspaper reported that Nielsen went on to join "in a reconnaissance mission", along with "driving armored cars ahead of the Allied tanks to scout out Nazi positions." Following a period in "private business" later in his life, Nielsen died at the age of 89. Nielsen has been named to Arizona's Football Ring of Honor.

References

1917 births
2006 deaths
American football fullbacks
Arizona Wildcats football players
New York Giants players
Players of American football from Los Angeles County, California
Sportspeople from Redondo Beach, California
United States Army personnel of World War II


title: Takua people

text:
The Takua people are an ethnic group of Vietnam. They live in the heavily forested mountainous regions of Quảng Nam and Quảng Ngãi provinces in Central Vietnam.

References

Ethnic groups in Southeast Asia
Indigenous peoples of Southeast Asia


title: Ken Tschumper

text:
Ken Tschumper (born April 24, 1950) is an American farmer and politician.

Born in La Crescent, Minnesota, Tschumper received his bachelor's degree from Winona State University and went to graduate school at Saint Mary's University of Minnesota. He was a dairy farmer. He served as a Democrat in the Minnesota House of Representatives in 2007 and 2008. Tschumper was a 2012 Democratic candidate for District 28B of the Minnesota House of Representatives. In 2014, he ran for Houston County commissioner. One of his main points is to ban frac sand. He owns a farm in LaCrescent, Minnesota, with 3,200 acres and 35 cows.

Notes

1950 births
Living people
People from La Crescent, Minnesota
Saint Mary's University of Minnesota alumni
Winona State University alumni
Democratic Party members of the Minnesota House of Representatives
21st-century American politicians
Dairy farmers
Farmers from Minnesota


title: Dahuaqiao Dam

text:
The Dahuaqiao Dam is a gravity dam on the Lancang (upper Mekong) River in Lanping Bai and Pumi Autonomous County of Yunnan Province, China. The primary purpose of the dam is hydroelectric power generation. Construction began in 2010 and its 900 MW hydroelectric power station was fully operational as of 2019.

See also

Hydropower in the Mekong River Basin
List of tallest dams in the world
List of dams and reservoirs in China
List of tallest dams in China

References

Dams in China
Dams in the Mekong River Basin
Gravity dams
Hydroelectric power stations in Yunnan
Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture
Roller-compacted concrete dams
Buildings and structures in Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture


title: Rock 'n' Roll Cities

text:
"Rock 'n' Roll Cities" is a song by the British rock group, the Kinks. The song appeared on the band's 1986 album, Think Visual, and, unlike most other Kinks songs, it was written by Dave Davies rather than his brother, Ray.

The track featured former Kinks drummer Mick Avory, despite his being kicked out of the band in 1984 during the Word of Mouth sessions due to conflicts with Dave Davies. This was the last Kinks track Avory performed on. Dave Davies has since praised Avory's drumming on the song, saying, "I really liked Mick's drumming on Rock 'n' Roll Cities."

Release
"Rock 'n' Roll Cities" was released in November 1986 on the Think Visual LP, where it was the sixth track on the album. On the same day of the album's UK release, "Rock 'n' Roll Cities" was issued as a single in America, backed with another Think Visual track, "Welcome to Sleazy Town".

Music video
In order to advertise, the song was featured in a music video. In the video, Ray Davies goes missing, so the rest of the band (including Dave Davies, who is busy with a wife and kids) attempt to find either Ray or a replacement. Ray is found in the end, and after a concert, a groupie is rejected by the "family man" Dave. Among the many auditioning to replace Ray were people dressed as musicians such as Freddie Mercury and Rick Astley. Also notable is the appearance of the then-departed Mick Avory, who assists the band in their search for Ray. Marina Sirtis, who played Deanna Troi on the television show Star Trek: The Next Generation, made an appearance in the video as Dave Davies's wife.

Reception
"Rock 'n' Roll Cities" has received mixed reviews from critics. Stephen Thomas Erlewine in a retrospective review on AllMusic felt the song made the biggest impression. David Wild of Rolling Stone, however, was critical of the song, and wrote:
"Rock 'n' Roll Cities", the first single from Think Visual, is anything but a gutsy statement. This utterly uninspired tour song — written by Dave Davies around a woefully tired riff — engages in the worst sort of rock hucksterism. He even resorts to spitting out the names of a few cities, "from Buffalo to the Gulf of Mexico." This is the sort of desperate, airplay-seeking number that only a radio programmer could love.
Cash Box said that "This anthem is a tribute to the cities that are American rock and roll centers and is a genuinely effuive sentiment."  Billboard called it a "loud, jangly bit of life-in-the-fast-lane stadium rock."

Author Thomas Kitts said that the song "is a delightful spoof not only of touring but of touring songs as well."

Ray Davies also had mixed feelings on the song, once stating, "When I first heard that song it made me sick. But then the next day I saw the humor in it."

References

The Kinks songs
1986 singles
Songs written by Ray Davies
Song recordings produced by Ray Davies
1986 songs
MCA Records singles