title: Bill Viola (martial artist)

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William Viola II (born November 5, 1947) is an entrepreneur, martial arts instructor, and mixed martial arts pioneer credited by some as the co-creator of the sport of MMA. In 1979, he co-founded CV Productions, Inc., the first mixed martial arts company in America and the Tough Guy Contest. His life is the subject of the book Godfathers of MMA and the film Tough Guys.

Early life
Viola was born in Brownsville, Pennsylvania and studied martial arts in the early 1960s while in high school. He continued to study Shotokan karate while attending California University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 1969 and was subsequently hired as a science teacher in the East Allegheny School District. Viola established his first karate school, Allegheny Shotokan Karate, in 1969 at East Allegheny. He trained and achieved rank from Robert Trias (United States Karate Association), and George Anderson (USA Karate Federation).

Mixed martial arts career
In 1979 Viola co-founded CV Productions, Inc. with his partner Frank Caliguri. In 1980, the company introduced a new sport, the first regulated mixed martial arts competitions in the United States. Viola helped write the first codified set of mixed martial arts rules for mainstream competition and in 1980 created and promoted organized mixed martial arts competition over a decade before the Ultimate Fighting Championship.

Viola’s MMA promotions were outlawed by the Pennsylvania State Legislature in 1983 with the passage of Senate Bill 632, setting the first legal precedent for MMA in the United States.

Honors

In 2003, the USA Karate Federation inducted Viola into the Hall of Fame, honoring him with a lifetime achievement award and naming him Man of the Year.

CV Productions Inc.’s mixed martial arts league was honored by the Heinz History Center, an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution. The Western Pennsylvania Sports Museum unveiled an exhibit in 2011 to document Viola's mixed martial arts roots. As a result of Viola and Caliguri's developments, Pittsburgh is considered the birthplace of modern mixed martial arts as a sport in the United States.

He was the star/subject of the Showtime documentary Tough Guys.

The City of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania named September 23rd 2019 as "Sensei Viola Day" in region to celebrate the 50-year anniversary of Allegheny Shotokan Karate.

Bill Viola Sr. was recognized with the Illustrious Californian Award (2020) by California University of Pennsylvania Alumni Association.

Personal life
Viola has instructed all five of his children to the rank of black belt: Bill Viola Jr., Addie Viola, Jacque Viola, Ali Viola, and Joce Viola. In 1999, his son, Bill Viola, Jr., established the Kumite Classic.

References

Mixed martial arts executives
American male karateka
Mixed martial arts people
1947 births
People from Brownsville, Pennsylvania
Sportspeople from Fayette County, Pennsylvania
Living people


title: Smögen Whisky

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Smögen Whisky is a distillery in Sweden which produces single malt whisky and gin. Established in 2009 by Pär Caldenby, a lawyer, whisky enthusiast and author of Enjoying Malt Whisky, the Smögen Distillery produced its first spirit in 2010 after receiving a grant of almost a million Swedish krona from the government. The distillery is located on a farm near Hunnebostrand, on the west coast of Sweden, north of Gothenburg. The distillery is named after Smögen Island, which is nearby. Designed largely by Pär Caldenby the distillery has a 900-litre wash still, a 600-litre spirit still, and a production capacity of 35000 litres. The first bottling, of a three-year-old cask strength single malt whisky, took place in 2013. The whisky, "Smögen Primör", won a silver medal at the 2014 Stockholm Beer and Whisky Festival.

In 2014 the distillery commenced production of "Strane London Dry Gin". Strane London Dry Gin Uncut Strength  at 76% vol. was the strongest gin available from 2015 to 2017. In July 2018 the distillery released Strane Ultra Uncut Gin at 82.5%, to reclaim the record for the strongest gin  In August 2014 the distillery wrote an open letter to the Minister for Rural Affairs Eskil Erlandsson (who attended the distillery's opening in 2010, together with County Governor Lars Bäckström) and Systembolaget, complaining about the government's management of the alcohol industry.

References

External links
Smögen Distillery Website
Strane Gin Website

Gins
Distilleries
Swedish distilled drinks
Food and drink companies of Sweden
Companies based in Västra Götaland County


title: Eddie Phillips (quarterback)

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Eddie Phillips is a former American football player who started as quarterback for the Texas Longhorns in the early 1970s. In 1970, he led the Longhorns to a share of the National Championship while leading the Southwest Conference in total touchdowns. Despite an award-winning, record-breaking performance in the 1971 Cotton Bowl, Texas lost, breaking its 30-game winning streak and handing the AP crown to Nebraska.

Early life

Eddie Phillips played defensive back and quarterback for Mesquite High School. He was recruited by both Arkansas and Texas to play football and chose Texas

College career
Eddie Phillips started his career sharing quarterback duties on the freshman team, nicknamed the Yearlings, with Monty Johnson. He helped lead them to a perfect 5-0 record and the unofficial freshman team Southwest Conference Championship.

Phillips developed into a classic option quarterback, and during his sophomore year he backed up James Street in Texas' National Championship season of 1969. He appeared in 8 games, but only in mop-up duty.

In 1970, he became the starting quarterback and led Texas to a share of the National Championship, winning the UPI (Coaches) Championship and sharing the NFF Championship with Ohio State. He led Texas to 10 straight wins and helped set the Southwest Conference and school record for most consecutive wins at 30. The Longhorns, still relying on the wishbone, were an almost unstoppable force. In the only regular season game in which they were challenged, Phillips hit Cotton Speyrer on a 3rd and 9, 45 yard touchdown pass with 12 seconds left to win the game, preserve the winning streak and keep Texas' Championship season on track.

In the 1971 Cotton Bowl, Texas faced #5 Notre Dame with the AP National Championship on the line. Phillips played the best game of his career and was named the offensive Outstanding Player. He became the first Longhorn quarterback to throw and run for over 100 yards in a bowl game; set the Cotton Bowl records for total offense and most rushing yards by a quarterback (which as of 2014 he still held); and rushed for more yards than any quarterback ever had in any prior bowl game, but it was not enough for the Longhorns to win. Texas fumbled the ball 9 times, with 5 of those being turnovers, and the Joe Theisman-led Fighting Irish beat Texas 24-11, giving a share of the national title to the Nebraska Cornhuskers.

In 1971, Phillips was again the starter for Texas, but he had an injury plagued season and was replaced several times by back-up Donnie Wigginton. Phillips missed six games with injuries to his hamstring, ribs and shoulder. He was replaced by Wigginton in the first game of the season against UCLA after re-injuring his hamstring which he originally injured in August, and again with the same injury during his return against Oregon. He didn't play his first complete game of the season until facing Baylor in early November. But the next week he left the TCU game in the 3rd quarter with an injured shoulder.   Despite his many injuries he was the starter in the 1972 Cotton Bowl classic against Penn State, in which he shared quarterback duties with backup Wigginton. Many saw the game as a grudge match between the two teams who went undefeated in 1969, and Penn State dominated in a 30-6 win to avenge their denial of the 1969 National Championship.

Phillips played in the 1972 Hula Bowl.

Phillips finished with a 14-2 record as a starter and, at the time he graduated, he'd had the four top rushing games by a quarterback in Texas history. He was inducted into the Longhorn Hall of Honor in 2005.

Records
 UT - Highest Average Gain Per Pass Completion (min. 30 completions), season (17.8), surpassed by Randy McEachern in 1977
 UT - Longest run by a quarterback (63 yards), surpassed by Bret Stafford in 1985
 UT - Most rushing yards in a bowl game (164), surpassed by Ricky Williams in 1999
 UT - Most rushing yards by a Quarterback, game (164), broke his own record twice, surpassed by Marty Akins in 1974
 UT - Most rushing yards by a Quarterback, career (1,211), surpassed by Akins in 1974
 UT - Lowest Percentage of Passes Had Intercepted, season (3.1%), surpassed by Donnie Wigginton in 1971
 UT - Fewest passes had intercepted, career - min 150 attempts (8)
 UT - Total Offense, game (363), surpassed by Donnie Little in 1980
 UT - Longest run by a quarterback in a bowl game (63 yards)
 Cotton Bowl - Total Offense, game (363), surpassed by Graham Harrell in 2009
 Cotton Bowl - Net rushing yards by a quarterback (164)
 Bowl - Net rushing yards by a quarterback (164), surpassed by Mike Mosley of Texas A&M in the 1977 Bluebonnet Bowl

Bowl means active

Later life

Phillips was drafted in the 5th Round of the 1972 NFL draft by the Los Angeles Rams, but with the intention of turning him into a safety. During the pre-season he played in several games and during one, he collided with rookie running back Ray Jamieson of the Oakland Raiders. The collision broke Jamison's neck and ended his career. Phillips was waived just before the start of the season, one of the last players cut to make room on the roster for the start of the season.

After his career was over, Phillips married Tom Landry's daughter Kitty and became a banker in Austin.

In the 2014 movie My All American, Phillips is portrayed by actor Mike Seitz.

References

External links
 Texas stats

Living people
American football quarterbacks
Texas Longhorns football players
Mesquite High School (Texas) alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)


title: Xu Yongsheng

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Xu Yongsheng (born March 1966) is a former Chinese public official, and former deputy director of the National Energy Administration. In May 2014 he was investigated by the Communist Party's disciplinary body for corruption.

Life
Xu was born and raised in Fei County, Shandong, he received his MBA degree from Tianjin University in 1987.

Xu joined the Chinese Communist Party in December 1985 and got involved in politics in July 1987.

After college, Xu was assigned to State Planning Commission as an officer. In July 2003, Xu was transferred to the National Development and Reform Commission, he worked in there until August 2008, when he was appointed the Director-general of the Department of Electric Power of the National Energy Administration. In December 2012, Xu was promoted to become the deputy director of the National Energy Administration.

On May 23, 2014, Xu was being investigated by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection for "serious violations of laws and regulations". On May 28, 2014, Xu was relieved of his post by the Organization Department of the Chinese Communist Party.

See also
 Liu Tienan, former Director of the National Energy Administration
 Wei Pengyuan, Xu's subordinate sentenced to death for bribery

References

1957 births
Chinese Communist Party politicians from Shandong
People's Republic of China politicians from Shandong
Living people
Politicians from Linyi


title: Halotron I

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Halotron I is a fire extinguishing agent based on the raw material HCFC-123 (93%) mixed with tetrafluoromethane and argon as propellants.

Global emission concerns
It was originally introduced in 1992 to replace the severely ozone-depleting Halon 1211 (bromochlorodifluoromethane). Halon 1211 has a global warming potential of 2,070, whereas Halotron I's GWP is 77, a 96 percent reduction.

Performance
In December 2011, Halotron I was tested against "hidden fires", spurred by the effectiveness its predecessor demonstrated on an in-flight fire aboard a Delta L-1011 flight on March 17, 1991. The test was conducted at UL, and demonstrated similar effectiveness as Halon 1211, with significantly less human and global harm. Although the fire extinguishing effectiveness is similar, Halotron I requires a larger chemical volume to get the same ratings as Halon 1211.

DOT classification
UN1956, Compressed Gases, N.O.S., Nonflammable Gas. IMCO CLASS: 2.2

References

Firefighting equipment
Fire suppression agents


title: Hopkinton State Fair

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The Hopkinton State Fair is an annual fair taking place in the village of Contoocook in Hopkinton, New Hampshire, United States. The fair began in 1915 and has continued to grow and become one of the most well known events in New England, and the largest fair in New Hampshire.

History
The Hopkinton State Fair was originally started as a two-day agricultural event by the Contoocook Board of Trade, which held the first fair on October 5 and 6, 1915, at George's Park in Contoocook village. The event was named the "Hopkinton Fair" or the "Contoocook Valley Fair". The net profit for the first fair was just under $5. There was no fair in 1917 nor 1918. In 1921, the board expanded the fair to a three-day event from Tuesday through Thursday. World War II caused the fair to be cancelled between 1942 & 1945.

The fair consisted of agricultural exhibits, food vendors, baseball games, horse races, games, amusement rides and sideshow tents. Other entertainment such as the Hopkinton Town Band concerts became quite popular over the years. Ribbon and monetary prize competitions were popular exhibits for livestock and other farm animals.

After enduring tremendous growth, in 1947 the fair moved to its present location behind the Hopkinton High School, as it needed more land for its ever-expanding exhibits. In 1953, the Fair Association acquired more property for additional expansion.

In 1980, the fair became a five-day event opening on Thursday and operating through Labor Day.

In December 1985, the association directors voted to change the name of the fair to its current "Hopkinton State Fair".

In 1986, the fair held a logo design competition. The winner was Doug Price of Contoocook with the original design of the current fair logo.

In 2014, the association decided to shorten the fair back to a four-day event, running Friday through Labor Day.

This fair has operated annually as a five-day event since 2021 after the COVID-19 pandemic caused 2020's cancellation.

References

External links
Hopkinton State Fair official website

Festivals in New Hampshire
State fairs
New Hampshire culture
Tourist attractions in Merrimack County, New Hampshire
October events
September events
Hopkinton, New Hampshire
Festivals established in 1915


title: Luke Keough

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Luke Keough (born August 10, 1991) is an American former road and cyclo-cross racing cyclist, who competed as a professional from 2012 to 2018.

His brother Jake also competed as a professional cyclist. In 2017, he married fellow professional cyclist Kaitlin Keough.

Major results

Road

2010
 1st Kelly Cup
 1st Concord Criterium
2011
 1st Witches Cup
 1st Exeter Hospital Criterium
2012
 1st Tour of Somerville
 1st Athens Twilight Criterium
 1st
 1st TD Bank Mayors Cup
 3rd
2013
 1st Overall Tulsa Tough
1st Stages 1, 2 & 3
 1st Overall
1st Stage 3
 1st Old Pueblo Grand Prix
 1st
 1st
 1st USA Crits Finals, Las Vegas
 2nd Overall Tour de Grove
 3rd Overall Tour of America's Dairyland
2014
 1st Overall USA National Criterium Calendar
 1st Stage 1 Tour de Taiwan
 2nd Overall Tulsa Tough
1st Stage 2
 2nd Overall Gateway Cup
1st Stage 1
 2nd
 2nd
2015
 2nd Sunny King Criterium
 3rd Criterium, National Championships
2016
 1st Rochester Twilight Criterium
 3rd Criterium, National Championships
2017
 Tour du Maroc
1st Stages 2, 3 & 9

Cyclo-cross

2006-2007
 1st W.E. Stedman Grand Prix Juniors
 1st New Gloucester Juniors 2
 2nd Caster's Grand Prix Juniors
 2nd Baystate Juniors
 3rd New Gloucester Juniors 1
2007–2008
 1st  National Junior Championships
 USGP of Cyclocross Juniors
1st Trenton 1
1st Trenton 2
 1st Portland 2
3rd Portland 1
2008–2009
 2nd National Junior Championships
 USGP of Cyclocross Juniors
2nd West Windsor
2009–2010
 2nd New Gloucester 1
 3rd National Under-23 Championships
2010–2011
 New England Championship Series
1st Northampton 1
1st Northampton 2
 1st Nittany Lion Cross
 2nd Baystate 2
2011–2012
 New England Championship Series
1st Northampton 1
1st Northampton 2
1st Warwick 1
2nd Providence 2
3rd Warwick 2
 3rd New Gloucester

References

External links

1991 births
Living people
American male cyclists
Cyclo-cross cyclists
Cyclists from Massachusetts
People from Sandwich, Massachusetts


title: Beddome's frog

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Beddome's frog may refer to:

 Beddome's bubble-nest frog (Raorchestes beddomii), a species of frog in the family Rhacophoridae endemic to southern Western Ghats of southwestern India in Kerala and Tamil Nadu
 Beddome's leaping frog (Indirana beddomii), a frog in the family Ranixalidae found in the Western Ghats of India
 Beddome's night frog (Nyctibatrachus beddomii), a frog in the family Nyctibatrachidae, endemic to the forests of the Western Ghats of India

Animal common name disambiguation pages


title: GeoMesa

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GeoMesa is an open-source, distributed, spatio-temporal index built on top of Bigtable-style databases using an implementation of the Geohash algorithm.

Description
Written in Scala, GeoMesa is capable of ingesting, indexing, and querying billions of geometry features using a highly parallelized index scheme. GeoMesa builds on top of open source geo (OSG) libraries. It implements the GeoTools DataStore interface providing standardized access to feature collections as well as implementing a GeoServer plugin.

Google announced that GeoMesa supported the Google Cloud Bigtable hosted NoSQL service in their release blog post in May 2015. GeoMesa also supports Bigtable-derivative implementations Apache Accumulo and  Apache HBase.
GeoMesa implements a Z-order curve via a custom Geohash implementation to combine three dimensions of geometry and time (i.e. latitude/longitude/timestamp) into a single-dimension lexicographic key space provided by Accumulo.

References

External links

GeoMesa Source
LocationTech homepage
Geowave

Hadoop
Free software programmed in Scala
Bigtable implementations


title: Flight 17

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Flight 17  may refer to:

PIA Flight 17, crashed on 2 February 1966
Evergreen International Airlines Flight 17, crashed on 18 March 1989
Emery Worldwide Flight 17, crashed on 16 February 2000
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, shot down on 17 July 2014

0017


title: Honeywell Aerospace, Cambridge

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COM DEV International was a satellite technology, space sciences, and telecommunications company based in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada. The company had branches and offices in Ottawa, the United States, the United Kingdom, China and India.

COM DEV developed and manufactured specialized satellite systems, including microwave systems, switches, optical systems, specialized satellite antennas, as well as components for the aviation and aerospace industry. COM DEV also produced custom equipment designs for commercial, military and civilian purposes, as well as providing contract research for the space sciences.

History

COM DEV International was founded in 1974 and specialized in microwave technology for the aviation and aerospace industry. The company would go on to become a leader in space satellite componentry and hardware, specializing in telecommunication systems; a global designer and builder of telecommunication components and systems for space satellites; as well as one of Canada's largest sources of spacecraft instrumentation.

In 2001, its space products division opened an approximate $7-million Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) development and manufacturing laboratory in its Cambridge facility.

In 2005, it purchased the EMS Technologies Space Science optical division in Ottawa, formerly CAL Corporation, from MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates for $5 million.

In 2007, it purchased a Passive Microwave division in El Segundo, California, for $8.75 million. In 2010 it purchased Ottawa-based space instrument supplier Routes AstroEngineering for $1.7 million. Later that year, it established a subsidiary called exactEarth offering global ship tracking data services. In 2015, it purchased MESL Microwave of Edinburgh, Scotland. Also that year, it entered the waveguide market with the purchase of Pacific Wave Systems (PWS) of Garden Grove, California.

On November 15, 2015, Honeywell announced that it would acquire COM DEV, which would become part of Honeywell's Defense and Space business. On February 4, 2016, Honeywell announced that it had completed the acquisition, and COM DEV has since been renamed Honeywell Cambridge.

Products

Since the 1990s the company has manufactured components for satellites including:
 Telemetry communication and control modules
 Multiplexer (MUX) switching networks and filters
 Crossovers for microwave
 Modulators, regulators
 Surface acoustic wave filters
 Assemblies for airline telecommunications
 Special satellite antennas

Projects

The company has developed and built satellites assemblies or components for over 900 satellite missions, including:
 Sapphire (satellite) Optical Imaging Payload
 Swarm (spacecraft) Canadian Electric Field Instrument
 ExactView 1
 Terra (Satellite) MOPITT Instrument
 CASSIOPE e-POP Radio Receiver Instrument
 Dextre Force Moment Sensors
 Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite WINDII Instrument
 Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer Fine Error Sensor
 SCISAT-1 MAESTRO instrument and CALTRAC Startracker
 Odin (Satellite) Odin-OSIRIS Instrument
 Herschel Space Observatory HIFI Local oscillator Source Unit
 Jason-1 CALTRAC Startrackers
 Genesis (spacecraft) CALTRAC Startrackers
 Formosat-2 CALTRAC Startrackers
 Nozomi (spacecraft) Thermal Plasma Analyser
 Akebono (satellite) Suprathermal ion Mass Spectrometer
 Freja (satellite) Cold Gas Analyser and Auroral Imager
 Interbol Ultraviolet Auroral Imager
 Viking (satellite) Ultraviolet Imager
 CloudSat
 Meteosat

Upcoming missions include:
 Maritime Monitoring and Messaging Micro-Satellite (M3MSat)
 James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Fine Guidance Sensor and Near Infrared Imaging and Slitless Spectrograph

Past projects have also included an Automatic Identification System (AIS) validation nanosatellite launched on an Antrix PSLV-C9 vehicle from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India in April 2008. The AIS experimental spacecraft was built under contract by the University of Toronto Institute for Aerospace Studies (UTIAS) Space Flight Laboratory (SFL), which also designated with the responsibility for its operation.

Research and development

COM DEV provided research and development work in aeronautics and space technology. Many modules of the company are used in many well-known space probes and satellites. COM DEV was known for cooperating with major space agencies, including NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), JAXA, Indian Space Research Organisation and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA).

See also
 Boeing Canada
 Bombardier Aerospace
 Canadian Space Agency
 CMC Electronics
 Héroux-Devtek
 MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates
 Spar Aerospace
 Viking Air

References

 Citations

 Bibliography
 Com Dev - Corporate
 Com Dev - Financial Results 2012, accessed on 12 November 2013 (PDF, 2.3 MB)
 Com Dev Fine Guidance Sensor for the James Webb Space Telescope, accessed on November 12, 2013

External links
  Com DEV - Corporate Website (English)
 Satellite Industry Association

Honeywell
Manufacturer
Aerospace companies of Canada
Manufacturer
Spacecraft component manufacturers
Telecommunications equipment vendors
Manufacturing companies of Canada
Companies based in Cambridge, Ontario
Manufacturing companies based in Ontario
Technology companies established in 1974
Space industry companies of Canada
1974 establishments in Ontario
Canadian companies established in 1974


title: Larry Mayer

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Larry Mayer is a distinguished professor of the University of New Hampshire and a former member of the President's Panel on Ocean Exploration. He has a broad background in marine geology and geophysics, reflecting his current contributions in the Ocean Engineering and Earth Science Department at UNH.

After receiving his Ph.D. in Marine Geophysics from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 1979, Mayer was selected as an astronaut candidate finalist for NASA's first class of mission specialists. He went on to a Post-Doc at the School of Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island and then to a faculty position at Dalhousie University in 1981 and then became the NSERC Industrial Research Chair in Ocean Mapping at the University of New Brunswick in 1991.

In 2000, Mayer became the founding director of the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping at the University of New Hampshire and the co-director of the NOAA/UNH Joint Hydrographic Center. The Centers focus on developing leading edge technology for advancing our ability to map and visualize the seafloor and the water column supporting safe navigation, coastal management and many other aspects of ocean research.

In 2018, Mayer was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for the development of techniques and technologies for coastal, Arctic, and ocean floor mapping.

References

Year of birth missing (living people)
University of New Hampshire faculty
American oceanographers
Marine geologists
Living people
Marine geophysicists
Presidents of the Canadian Geophysical Union


title: Wadi al-Hussein

text:
Wadi al Hussein, sometimes referred to as 'Wadi Nasara, is a wadi east of and adjacent to the city of Hebron. The valley connects the Kiryat Arba settlement with the Israeli-controlled H2 area of Hebron's old city. The borders of the valley are Othman Bin Afan Street, also known as Zion Street or Worshipers' Way in the west; Wadi Al Nassara in the north; the Kiryat Arba fence in the east; Wadi Al Ghrous and the road connecting Kiryat Arba with Zion Street in the south.

Wadi al Hussein is a valley cultivated and owned by Palestinians between the settlements of Kiryat Arba and Givat Ha'avot.

Israeli–Palestinian conflict
Since the expansion of the settlement Kiryat Arba in 1972, Palestinian inhabitants have suffered frequent attacks from settlers.

As of 2009, access to the Hebron H1 Area was only possible through four checkpoints, which were only available to settler vehicles. The Palestinian population is dependent of medical facilities in the Hebron H1 Area. Palestinian vehicles, including ambulances, are forbidden to enter the neighborhood freely, despite the fact that the population of Wadi al Hussein is entirely Palestinian. Due to the harsh limitations on the freedom of movement, many basic services, even basic access to health care in case of emergency, have become inaccessible to the residents of Wadi al Hussein. Other problems are the denial of building permits, inaccessibility of water sources, and unavailability of sewage networks and garbage disposal services.

References

External links
Wadi al Hussein on GoogleMaps

Hebron Governorate


title: Josephine Russell

text:
Josephine Russell (born 9 November 1994) is a British female acrobatic gymnast. With partners Jennifer Bailey and Cicely Irwin, Russell competed in the 2014 Acrobatic Gymnastics World Championships.

References

1994 births
Living people
British acrobatic gymnasts
Female acrobatic gymnasts
21st-century British women


title: Jennifer Bailey

text:
Jennifer Bailey (born 23 December 1996) is a British female acrobatic gymnast. With partners Josephine Russell and Cicely Irwin, Bailey competed in the 2014 Acrobatic Gymnastics World Championships.

References

1996 births
Living people
British acrobatic gymnasts
Female acrobatic gymnasts
21st-century British women


title: Cicely Irwin

text:
Cicely Irwin (born 13 October 1999) is a British female acrobatic gymnast. With partners Jennifer Bailey and Josephine Russell, Irwin competed in the 2014 Acrobatic Gymnastics World Championships.

References

1999 births
Living people
British acrobatic gymnasts
Female acrobatic gymnasts


title: Marlene Mortler

text:
Marlene Mortler (née Hengelein; born 16 October 1955) is a German politician of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria (CSU) who has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2019. She was a member of the German Parliament from 2002 until 2019. She also served as Commissioner on Narcotic Drugs at the Federal Ministry of Health in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2014 until 2019.

Early life and career
Mortler attended the agricultural school in 1981, in Roth and gained a master's certificate. In 1983, she took over her parents' farm in Dehnberg with her husband and focused on the production of grain and renewable resources.

Political career
In 1989, Mortler joined the CSU, and in 1996, she became a member of the Women's Union.

From 1990 Mortler belonged to the district council of the district of Nürnberger Land. From 1996 to 2004 she served as first deputy district administrator of the district.

Member of the German Parliament, 2002–2019
In the 2002 national elections, Mortler became a member of the German Bundestag, representing the Roth district. In the Bundestag, she was a full member of the Committee on Food and Agriculture and Deputy Member of the Committee on Tourism. From 2004 to 2005, she served as the CSU group's spokesperson on agricultural and consumer protection policies. From 2005 to 2009, she was the chairwoman of the Committee on Tourism. She was also the CDU/CSU parliamentary group's spokeswoman on tourism from 2009 until 2013.

In addition to her committee assignments, Mortler was a member of the German-Maltese and German-Hungarian Parliamentary Friendship Group since February 2010.

Since June 2009, Mortler has been serving as deputy chairwoman of the CSU district association Middle Franconia, and in October 2011 she was elected as a member of the CSU Board under then chairman Horst Seehofer. In November 2011, she was appointed chairwoman of the party's working group on agriculture.

In the negotiations to form a coalition government following the 2009 federal elections, Mortler was part of the working group on the environment, agriculture and consumer protection, led by Ilse Aigner and Michael Kauch.

In addition to her parliamentary work, Mortler also served as Commissioner on Narcotic Drugs at the Federal Ministry of Health in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2014 until 2019; she was succeeded by Daniela Ludwig. In the negotiations to form a coalition government under the Merkel's leadership following the 2017 federal elections, she was part of the working group on municipalities and rural areas, led by Reiner Haseloff, Kurt Gribl and Michael Groschek.

Mortler was always elected as a directly elected representatives of the Roth constituency in the Bundestag. In the 2005 elections, she received 51.0% of the vote.

Member of the European Parliament, 2019–present
In late 2018, Mortler announced that she would run for a parliamentary seat in the 2019 European elections. Since becoming a Member of the European Parliament, she has been serving on the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development. In 2020, she also joined the Committee of Inquiry on the Protection of Animals during Transport.

In addition to her committee assignments, Mortler is part of the Parliament's delegation for relations with South Africa. She is also part of the European Parliament Intergroup on Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs).

Other activities

Regulatory agencies
∗ Bavarian Regulatory Authority for Commercial Broadcasting (BLM), Member of the Supervisory Board

Non-profit organizations
 Versicherungskammer Bayern, Member of the Agricultural Advisory Board (-2012)

From 1982 until 2004, Mortler served as chairwoman of the rural women in the district Nürnberger Land and belonged from 1992 to 2012 as a district of the farmer Farmers Union Central Franconia and second deputy country farmer to the Bureau of the Bavarian Farmers Association (until 1997) on. From 1997 to 2012, she was the first deputy country farmer.

Political positions
In her role as a Commissioner on Narcotic Drugs, Mortler soon became the target of diverse criticism. Given her previous focus on agriculture, she was criticized as unqualified for the position.

The German Cancer Aid has responded with praise to Mortler's initiative to ban tobacco advertising in Germany. Her initiative failed and nothing happened in this issue until April 2015. By 2014 they wanted to "hold intensive discussions in the federal government", she said in a Die Zeit article. In 2018, Mortler criticized the portrayal of smoking in television and film programs that received public funds and urged the German film industry to produce fewer scenes involving cigarettes.

By early 2015, Mortler came under heavy criticism which mostly arose from social media. Under the Twitter hashtag #Mortler and on Facebook many concerned individuals and organizations voiced their discontent with the commissioner. A petition which called for her resignation garnered over 14,000 votes within a few days. She was criticized for incompetence, an inappropriate qualification in "rural home economics" (German: ) for the job, having a double standard (because of her promotion of alcohol consumption) and a preoccupation concerning suggestions about cannabis legalization. A main point of criticism are her justifications for the illegality of cannabis in contrast to the legality of alcohol - in interviews she stated that (translated) "in contrast to Cannabis alcohol is part of our culture" and "Because Cannabis is an illegal drug. Full stop." Due to the severe criticism, Mortler deleted her Facebook account.

Personal life
Mortler is Protestant. She was married to her husband Siegfried Mortler from 1975 until his death in June 2017. She is the mother of three children.

References

External links

, Ein Porträt des Senders Franken TV, 2009
, Barrierefreier Tourismus in Deutschland, 8–10 June 2009

Living people
1955 births
Members of the Bundestag for Bavaria
Female members of the Bundestag
20th-century German farmers
20th-century women farmers
German women farmers
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title: June Curry

text:
June Curry (February 8, 1921 - July 16, 2012), also known as “The Cookie Lady”, lived in Afton, Virginia, alongside the TransAmerica Trail, a cross-country bicycle route mapped by Adventure Cycling Association in 1976.  For more than 35 years, Curry offered food, lodging, water and showers to cyclists passing through her town.

Curry – who was born in Afton and lived her entire life in the same house – came unexpectedly to her role as benefactor.  Afton is at the top of a steep ascent, and during the inaugural Bikecentennial ride in 1976, she and her father encountered many tired cyclists in search of food and other provisions.  In Curry’s words, “I decided it was easier to feed them than to put them up!” Early on, Curry provided home-baked cookies to her visitors, which earned for her her nickname, “The Cookie Lady”.

Curry owned another residence close to her own house, which eventually she set aside for the use of cyclists.  The building, which became known variously as “The Bike House”, “The Bike Museum” or “The Cookie House”, accumulated an impressive collection of photographs, scrapbooks and other mementos of and from cyclists who had passed through.  Curry was also the subject of an episode of Charles Kuralt’s "On the Road" segment of CBS Sunday Morning.  It has been estimated that more than 14,000 cyclists visited with Curry over the years.

In 2005, Curry suffered a stroke and, thanks to donations from cyclists and cycling organizations who had learned of her misfortune, was able to hire a caregiver.

In recognition of Curry’s years of generosity, Adventure Cycling Association in 2003 established the June Curry Trail Angel Award to honor “a generous individual or group encountered during a bicycle tour that makes the cyclotourist’s journey easier or possible by helping the cyclist through an act of goodwill.”  Curry was the award’s first recipient.

References

External links
 Cookie House photo registry, CrazyGuyOnABike.com
 Haven, Bev, My Bike Family - A Collection of June Curry's Bicycling Anecdotes

1921 births
2012 deaths
People from Afton, Virginia


title: Arcade Depot

text:
The Arcade Depot was the main Southern Pacific Railroad passenger railway station, from 1888 until 1914. It was located on Alameda Street, between 5th and 6th Streets, in Los Angeles, California.

History

The land for the station was furnished to Southern Pacific by the City of Los Angeles, which was intended to lure the railroad to town. The Victorian style wooden station was completed in 1888. It was located on the site of the former orange groves of William Wolfskill, on the east side of Downtown Los Angeles towards the Los Angeles River. It was a massive wooden structure,  long, with skylights and an arched roof clearing  above the platforms below. A palm tree was replanted outside the station during its opening year.

The station replaced the Southern Pacific River Station as the main L.A. passenger terminal, which was located next to a freight yard farther outside of downtown L.A.

In addition to mainline steam trains, the depot was also served by Pacific Electric Red Cars.

The Arcade Depot was closed in 1914, when the Southern Pacific opened the Los Angeles Central Station, in eastern Downtown Los Angeles. The old depot was demolished soon after to make room for new outdoor platforms serving Central Station.

References

External links

 Los Angeles Train Time Departure timetable from May 1892

Railway stations in Los Angeles
Buildings and structures in Downtown Los Angeles
Demolished buildings and structures in Los Angeles
Demolished railway stations in the United States
History of Los Angeles
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Victorian architecture in California
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Pacific Electric stations
Railway stations in the United States closed in the 1910s


title: Karolina Nowak

text:
Karolina Nowak (born November 1, 1999) is a Polish female acrobatic gymnast. With partners Marta Srutwa and Agnieszka Rawinis, Nowak competed in the 2014 Acrobatic Gymnastics World Championships.

References

1999 births
Living people
Polish acrobatic gymnasts
Female acrobatic gymnasts
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title: The Cookie Lady

text:
The Cookie Lady may refer to:

 The Cookie Lady (short story), a short story by Philip K. Dick
 June Curry, resident of Afton, Virginia, known for providing refreshments and shelter to long-distance bicyclists


title: George Tucker Stainback

text:
George Tucker Stainback (April 4, 1829 in Brunswick County, Virginia – June 28, 1902 at Dyersburg, Tennessee) was an American classicist and Presbyterian minister; he served as a chaplain in the Confederate Army, and in 1877 presided over the funeral of Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest.

Early life and education
Stainback was the son of George W. and Lucretia T. (née Eppes) Stainback who had married in 1818 and moved to Limestone County, Alabama, and then, in 1835, to Memphis, Tennessee. Stainback attended the University of Mississippi in Oxford, earning his A.B. (1854) and A.M (1856), D.D. (1855) degrees. In 1855-6 he was assistant professor of Latin and Greek.

Ministry
During the American Civil War Stainback served as a chaplain in the Confederate army.

He maintained his ministry in Columbus, Mississippi, for 13 years before moving to Huntsville, Alabama, in 1872. From 1874-1878 he was First Cumberland Presbyterian Church of Memphis, but then returned to Columbus, Mississippi, in 1879. He was noted for having a profound impact on former Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest shortly after the latter's conversion in 1875; Stainback later visited Forrest as he lay dying, and presided over Forrest's funeral services in 1877. During the general's eulogy, Stainback declared: "Lieutenant-General Nathan Bedford Forrest, though dead, yet speaketh. His acts have photographed themselves upon the hearts of thousands, and will speak there forever."

Masonry
Stainback also served as a Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Masons in Mississippi, and Grand Chaplain of the Grand Lodge in Tennessee.

Personal life
Stainback married Clara B. Grady on October 19, 1854. Following Grady's death on December 5, 1864, he wedded Mary Gibson of Columbus, Mississippi, on January 4, 1871. He had seven children.

Stainback died in 1902 in Dyersberg, Tennessee, and was buried in Columbus, Mississippi.

References

Classical scholars of the University of Mississippi
Confederate States Army chaplains
1829 births
1902 deaths
19th-century American clergy


title: Agnieszka Rawinis

text:
Agnieszka Rawinis (born March 24, 1995) is a Polish female acrobatic gymnast. With partners Marta Srutwa and Karolina Nowak, Rawinis competed in the 2014 Acrobatic Gymnastics World Championships.

References

1995 births
Living people
Polish acrobatic gymnasts
Female acrobatic gymnasts
Place of birth missing (living people)


title: Marta Śrutwa

text:
Marta Śrutwa (born December 10, 1997) is a Polish female acrobatic gymnast. With partners Karolina Nowak and Agnieszka Rawinis, Srutwa competed in the 2014 Acrobatic Gymnastics World Championships. She is daughter of Mariusz Śrutwa.

References

1997 births
Living people
Polish acrobatic gymnasts
Female acrobatic gymnasts
Place of birth missing (living people)


title: Peda Waltair

text:
Peda Waltair is a residential locality situated at the northern part of Visakhapatnam, India.

Etymology
The name Peda Waltair is derived from Waltair, the name of a British officer who worked as a collector in Visakhapatnam in the 18th century.

See also
Government TB and Chest Hospital, Visakhapatnam

References

Neighbourhoods in Visakhapatnam


title: Kateryna Bilokon

text:
Kateryna Bilokon (born March 12, 1998) is a Ukrainian female acrobatic gymnast. With partners Olena Karakuts and Nadiia Kotliar, Bilokon competed in the 2014 Acrobatic Gymnastics World Championships.

References

1998 births
Living people
Ukrainian acrobatic gymnasts
Female acrobatic gymnasts


title: Olena Karakuts

text:
Olena Karakuts (born October 1, 1992) is a Ukrainian female acrobatic gymnast. With partners Nadiia Kotliar and Kateryna Bilokon, Karakuts competed in the 2014 Acrobatic Gymnastics World Championships.

References

1998 births
Living people
Ukrainian acrobatic gymnasts
Female acrobatic gymnasts


title: Nadiia Kotliar

text:
Nadiia Kotliar (born November 12, 1993) is a Ukrainian female acrobatic gymnast. With partners Kateryna Bilokon and Olena Karakuts, Kotliar competed in the 2014 Acrobatic Gymnastics World Championships.

References

1993 births
Living people
Ukrainian acrobatic gymnasts
Female acrobatic gymnasts
European Games competitors for Ukraine
Gymnasts at the 2015 European Games


title: Glen Brunman

text:
Glen Brunman (New York) is an American music executive.  Noted as an "architect of the soundtrack landscape,"  Brunman’s credits include more than 200 soundtrack releases which have cumulatively sold in excess of 150 million albums worldwide. In various capacities, he has been associated with releases which have won 21 Grammys and nine Academy Awards.

Early life and education

Brunman was born and raised in Forest Hills, Queens.  He was educated in the New York City public school system, and attended Queens College, where he became a leading student activist.

He served as student body president in 1968–69, and was a member of the National Supervisory Board of the United States National Student Association from 1967 to 1970.   Following his graduation, Brunman served as a statewide student coordinator for New York Senator Charles Goodell's 1970 re-election campaign.

Career

In early 1973, after a series of odd jobs, Brunman was hired as a political reporter and music critic for Good Times, an alternative newspaper based on Long Island.   He was promoted to managing editor in the summer of 1973; in that position, he increased the paper’s focus on music.
In February, 1975, Brunman was hired by Columbia Records as a publicist.

Working with Bruce Springsteen, Brunman designed a publicity campaign that de-emphasized interviews and feature stories and instead concentrated on getting as many journalists as possible to see Springsteen in concert.   The strategy proved effective as critics turned in "rave reviews," which helped to build the momentum that resulted in Springsteen’s simultaneous appearance on the covers of Time and Newsweek in October 1975.

Brunman continued to serve as Springsteen’s publicist through the release of Darkness On The Edge Of Town. He also led the press campaigns for Billy Joel’s breakthrough albums, The Stranger and  52nd Street.
In December, 1978, Brunman moved to Los Angeles to become Director of West Coast Publicity for Epic Records.  At Epic, in addition to representing other artists, Brunman served as Michael Jackson’s primary label publicist, working with him on the Off The Wall, Thriller, and Bad albums.

Brunman was named Head of Publicity and Media Relations for the label in 1988, a job that also included artist development and marketing responsibilities.  In addition to overseeing the media and artist development campaigns for Celine Dion,  Brunman served as a marketing strategist for her first two English language albums.
In 1990, Brunman played a pivotal role in Epic’s acquisition of the soundtrack rights for John Barry’s Academy Award-winning score for Dances With Wolves, and directed the marketing campaign for the album. Following that album’s success, Brunman was charged with creating Epic Soundtrax, the first major label imprint dedicated to soundtracks.

The label’s first hit was a 1992 country and rock Elvis Presley tribute album which served as the soundtrack for Honeymoon in Vegas. In 1993, Epic Soundtrax released the Judgment Night soundtrack, the first album where each track featured a collaboration between rock and hiphop artists.  Between 1993 and 1994, the label released three soundtracks for films starring Tom Hanks:  Sleepless In Seattle, Philadelphia and Forrest Gump.   The Philadelphia soundtrack reunited Brunman with Springsteen, who composed "Streets of Philadelphia" for the film.  The song went on to win an Academy Award and four Grammys.  As of 2014, the three soundtracks combined had sold more than 20 million copies worldwide.

In 1996, Brunman was put in charge of soundtracks for all of the Sony Music labels as Executive Vice President of the newly created Sony Music Soundtrax.  In 1997, in conjunction with Columbia Records, Brunman helped assemble the first 'inspired by' album, the multi-platinum Men in Black compilation.   Additionally, in partnership with Sony Classical, Brunman acquired the soundtrack for Titanic.  The album included the James Horner score for the film and the song "My Heart Will Go On," written by Horner and Will Jennings and performed by Celine Dion.

Horner won an Academy Award for Best Original Dramatic Score, and "My Heart Will Go On" won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in addition to four Grammmy Awards.
"My Heart Will Go On" was the fourth movie/music opportunity that Brunman generated for Dion.   It followed the title track duet for 1991's Beauty and the Beast, the 1993 "When I Fall In Love" duet for Sleepless In Seattle, and 1995's "Because You Loved Me" for Up Close and Personal.  "My Heart Will Go On" appeared on both the Titanic soundtrack and  Dion's Let's Talk About Love album.

Both were released on November 18, 1997; to date, each album has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide.
In 1998, under Brunman’s auspices, the Sony labels started to release soundtrack albums for television shows.  Between 1998 and 2001, they released four Ally McBeal collections,  two compilations each for Dawson’s Creek and The Sopranos,  and single discs for South Park and Touched By An Angel.  Combined, the albums sold more than 17 million copies worldwide.

Other notable releases included the movie musicals Chicago: Music from the Miramax Motion Picture (2002) and Dreamgirls: Music from the Motion Picture (2006),and the soundtracks for the independent films Garden State (2004) and Once (2007).
In June, 2007, Brunman was named Executive Vice President, Head Of Creative, for Warner Chappell Music, the publishing arm of the Warner Music Group.

At Warner Chappell, Brunman was instrumental in signing Katy Perry and Lady Antebellum, prior to their commercial breakthroughs. He also signed the Academy Award-winning songwriting duo, Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova as well as singer/songwriter Melody Gardot. In a 2007 interview regarding his position, Brunman said: “No matter what role I have been in, there are three things that have held true: Music has the power to change lives, great songs live forever, and rules are made to be broken.”

In 2009, Brunman established the consulting firm, Brahma Unlimited.   His first client was Columbia Records, who hired him to acquire and develop soundtrack projects for the label.  Soon after, Brunman brought  Glee to the label.

The first Glee album was released in November 2009; since then, the Glee cast has charted more singles on the Billboard 100 than any artist in history, and have exceeded sales of 13 million albums and 63 million downloads worldwide as of February 2014.  Brunman has been principally involved with the music from Glee since the series debuted.

Selected discography

References

American music industry executives
People from Queens, New York
Year of birth missing (living people)
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title: Hugh D. Young

text:
Hugh David Young (November 3, 1930 – August 20, 2013) was an American physicist who taught physics for 52 years at Carnegie Mellon University. Young is best known for co-authoring the later editions of University Physics, a highly regarded introductory physics textbook, with Francis Sears and Mark Zemansky (this book — first published in 1949 — is often referred to as "Sears and Zemansky", although Hugh Young became a coauthor in 1973).

Young was born on November 3, 1930, in Ames, Iowa, and was raised in Mondamin and Osage, Iowa. He came to Carnegie Mellon as an undergraduate physics major in 1948, and, by 1959, had earned a Bachelor of Science, Master of Science, and PhD in Physics from the university. He later earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in music in 1972, concentrating in organ performance.

Except for brief visiting professorships at the University of California, Berkeley, Young spent 60 years at Carnegie Mellon. He taught more than 18,000 students and attained international prominence as a leading author of physics textbooks, including books on the statistical treatment of data, laboratory techniques, fundamental topics in introductory physics, and a survey text, University Physics on which his collaboration with Sears and Zemansky began in 1973. Now in its 15th edition, University Physics is among the most widely used introductory textbooks in the world. Young also wrote an algebra-based version named Sears and Zemansky's College Physics, which is currently in its 11th edition. In 2001, the Mellon College of Science's College Council approved the Hugh D. Young Graduate Student Teaching Award in his honor.

His honors included many of Carnegie Mellon University's highest awards:  The William H. and Frances S. Ryan Award for Meritorious Teaching (1965), the Carnegie Mellon Alumni Service Award (1995); The Robert E. Doherty Award for Sustained Contributions to Excellence in Education (1997); the Mellon College of Science's Richard Moore Award (1998); the Andrew Carnegie Society Recognition Award (2007).  His lectures were often standing room only and showed not only Young's brilliance, but also his sense of humor.

Young died at the age of 82 on August 20, 2013, in Oakmont, Pennsylvania.

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title: 2014 Kyrgyzstan League Second Level

text:
The 2014 Kyrgyzstan League is the 23rd season of Kyrgyzstan League, the Football Federation of Kyrgyz Republic's top division of association football. Alay Osh are the defending champions, having won the previous season. The season will start on 21 March 2014.

League table

Zone A

Zone B

Play off

Statistics

Top scorers
Zone A

Zone B

References

Kyrgyzstan League Second Level seasons
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Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan


title: Reginald Dawson Hopcraft Lough

text:
Lieutenant General Reginald Dawson Hopcraft Lough  (5 August 1885 – 22 March 1958) was a Royal Marines officer who served as the Commander of the Royal Marine Depot, Deal.  He was made aide-de-camp to King George VI.

Early life
Reginald Dawson Hopcraft Lough was born on 5 August 1885 in Halifax, Nova Scotia.  He was the son of William J. Lough, a retired Army chaplain, and Jane M. Lough.  He was educated at Bedford Modern School.

Career
Lough joined the Royal Marines in 1903. During the First World War he was mentioned in despatches five times, was awarded the Distinguished Service Order, appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire and decorated with the Croix de Guerre with palm.  He was promoted to lieutenant colonel  in 1933 and colonel in 1936. He became commander of the Royal Marine Depot, Deal in 1937. He was appointed Royal Marine ADC to King George VI  (1938–39) and promoted to major general in 1939 and to lieutenant general in 1940.  He retired in 1941.

Lough died in Deal, Kent on 22 March 1958.

References

External links
Memorial Window to Reginald Dawson Hopcraft Lough
Generals of World War II
Royal Marine Officers 1939−1945

1886 births
1958 deaths
Canadian military personnel from Nova Scotia
Companions of the Distinguished Service Order
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
People educated at Bedford Modern School
Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France)
Royal Marines generals of World War II
Royal Marines personnel of World War I
Royal Marines generals
Military personnel from Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canadian emigrants to the United Kingdom


title: Yu Gang

text:
Yu Gang (born 1968) is a former Chinese politician and former secretary of Zhou Yongkang. Before Zhou retired in 2012 and was sent to life in prison, Yu served as the deputy director of the General Office that served the Central Politics and Law Commission, a body that Zhou headed. Yu was investigated for corruption and expelled from the Chinese Communist Party in July 2014, as part of the anti-corruption campaign against Zhou Yongkang and his associates.

Life
Yu was born and raised in Nan County, Hunan, he has two brothers and one sister. In 1987, Yu was admitted to Renmin University of China, majoring in law at the School of Law. After college, Yu was assigned to the State Council of the People's Republic of China as an officer. In 2000, Yu worked as a secretary of Zhou Yongkang, who was the Minister of the Ministry of Public Security. In 2001, Yu was transferred to Heshan as the Vice-Mayor, a position he held until 2002.

On July 2, 2014, Yu was removed from office and dismissed from the Party for serious corruption.

Personal life
The Radio France Internationale reported that Yu married Tang Can, who is a Chinese military singer.

See also

 Liu Wei (businessman)
 Liu Han

References

1968 births
Chinese Communist Party politicians from Hunan
People's Republic of China politicians from Hunan
Living people
Politicians from Yiyang
Chinese politicians convicted of corruption


title: River Station (Los Angeles)

text:
River Station was a Southern Pacific Railroad passenger station location, southwest of the Los Angeles River and north of Downtown, in Los Angeles, California.  The site is within the present day Los Angeles State Historic Park.

History
The location for both stations was at the Southern Pacific's Los Angeles freight yard, at the north end of present-day Chinatown in Central Los Angeles. Their former site is in 'The Cornfield' section of Los Angeles State Historic Park.

First station (1876−1887)
The station was opened following the Southern Pacific's acquisition of the Los Angeles & San Pedro Railroad in 1873 and the railroad's construction of line linking San Francisco to Los Angeles. The first River Station was a wooden structure built in 1876. Transcontinental trains started serving the station in 1881. The two-story station had both women's and men's waiting rooms and later had a hotel and restaurants added to it. It was the arrival station of many migrants drawn during the land boom of the mid-1880s.

Second station (1887−1901)

The second River Station was built in 1887, on the site of the demolished original one. It was a brick Romanesque Revival style building.

Because the station was not in the city's center, Southern Pacific built the Arcade Depot in eastern Downtown Los Angeles in 1888. The second River Station was used until 1901, when it was demolished.

See also
"Not A Cornfield"
 Zanja Madre

References

Railway stations in Los Angeles
Chinatown, Los Angeles
Former Southern Pacific Railroad stations in California
Demolished buildings and structures in Los Angeles
Demolished railway stations in the United States
History of Los Angeles
19th century in Los Angeles

Railway stations in the United States opened in 1876
1876 establishments in California
1870s architecture in the United States
Victorian architecture in California

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1887 establishments in California
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title: Iwona Sobotka

text:
Iwona Sobotka (born 19 October 1981) is a Polish soprano and Grand Prix Winner of the Queen Elizabeth Music Competition.

Education
Sobotka was born in Mława. She graduated from the Fryderyk Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw and continued her studies with  Tom Krause at the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid.

Career
At the age of 22, she became the youngest winner of singing edition of the Queen Elizabeth Music Competition. Other awards include first prizes at the Warsaw Polish Art Song Competition, the Paderewski Competition in Bydgoszcz and the East & West Artists International Auditions in New York, where she was awarded her debut concert in Carnegie Hall.

Sobotka has performed all over Europe, in the Americas and Japan, in leading venues as the Berlin Philharmonie, the Konzerthaus in Vienna, Salle Pleyel in Paris, Royal Albert Hall in London, Palais de Beaux Arts in Brusseles and Suntory Hall in Tokyo. She has performed with the most important Polish orchestras, as well as other European orchestras such as the Berliner Philharmoniker, Wiener Symphoniker, Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, NDR Sinfonieorchester, Bayerischer Rundfunkorchester, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, having worked with many of today's pre-eminent conductors including Sir Colin Davies, Sir Simon Rattle, Marco Armiliato, Sylvain Cambreling, Jesus Lopez Cobos, Jacek Kaspszyk, Aleksandar Markovic, Juanjo Mena, Massimo Zanetti and Antoni Wit

She made her opera debut in 2007 at the Opéra National de Paris and appeared also on stage of Komische Oper Berlin, Polish National Opera in Warsaw, Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre, Grand Theatre, Łódź, etc. Her operatic repertoire include roles of Violetta (La traviata), Tatyana (Eugene Onegin), Pamina (The Magic Flute), Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), Mimi (La bohème), Juliette (Roméo et Juliette), Liù (Turandot) or Micaëla (Carmen).

Sobotka is widely acknowledged for her interpretations of Polish vocal repertoire – in particular the works of Karol Szymanowski. In 2004, she contributed to a complete collection of his songs released by the Dutch label Channel Classics and was distinguished by National Academy of Recording Arts in Poland with the "Fryderyk" Award for the most outstanding recording of Polish music. On a subsequent release for EMI Classics in 2006, she performed Songs of a Fairytale Princess with Sir Simon Rattle and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, which received five stars from the BBC Music Magazine. In 2010 she participated in a 'Szymanowski Focus' program curated by Piotr Anderszewski to promote the music of Symanowski with concerts in Wigmore Hall and Carnegie Hall.

Sobotka is a frequent guest of Rundfunkchor Berlin with whom she appeared several times in Berlin Philharmonic Concert Hall, and also participated at the International Festival of Music and Dance of Granada, along with American superstar organist Cameron Carpenter. Other common projects include recording of Deutsche Motette op. 62 by Richard Strauss for Coviello Classics and appearance at Berliner Cathedral for Christmas Concert along with Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (2016).

Concert performances highlights includes concert tour with Berliner Philharmoniker to Japan and Taiwan in a performance of Beethoven 9th Symphony conducted by Sir Simon Rattle (2016), participation in educational project "The Two Fiddlers" in Berlin recorded for Digital Concert Hall also with Berliner Philharmoniker and Sir Simon Rattle, Mahler 8th Symphony with Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in Royal Albert Hall, Verdi Requiem with Radio Orchestra Berlin and Simon Halsey and Turandot concert performance with NDR Radiophilharmonie Hamburg.

Sobotka is a permanent guest of the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, where she received the 2007 Audience Award as well as a frequent guest at festivals such as the La Folle Journée, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, Musical Olympus Festival, Wratislavia Cantans.  In 2010 she made her debut in the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival in the title role in Stanisław Moniuszko's opera Halka, and continued that association in the summer of 2011, in the role of Liù in Turandot to great critical acclaim.

Discography

References

External links
Official website

1981 births
Living people
People from Mława
Prize-winners of the Queen Elisabeth Competition
Polish operatic sopranos
21st-century Polish women  opera singers
Chopin University of Music alumni


title: Artus Gheerdinck

text:
Artus Gheerdinck (1564–1624) was a Dutch harpsichord builder.

Gheerdinck lived and worked in Amsterdam, where he was appointed carillonneur of the Oude Kerk (Old Church) in 1595. This was the same time period that Sweelinck was organist there. Gheerdinck had a workshop in an attic space at the church, and tuned both the church’s organs.  There was also a Harmanus Gheerdinck living in Amsterdam in the mid-1600s, but his relation (if any) to Artus is unknown. Harmanus was also a harpsichord builder.

A single instrument by Artus Gheerdinck survives, a rectangular virginal. It has the range C/E – c´´´ (four octaves), and is currently housed in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg, Germany (Inventory No. MINe 95).

O’Brien believes that a harpsichord attributed to Hans Ruckers may actually be by Artus Gheerdinck. Though its present range is C—c´´´, its original range was C/E—c´´´. It is currently in the Germanisches Nationalmuseum (Inventory No. MINe 84).

Discography

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck: Organ & Keyboard Music. Siegbert Rampe. MDG 341 1256-2. Dabringhaus und Grimm, 2004
Peter Philips: Complete Organ & Keyboard Works. Vol. 1. Siegbert Rampe. MDG 341 1257-2. Dabringhaus und Grimm, 2005

Notes

References

Boalch, D.: Makers of the Harpsichord and Clavichord 1440-1840. Third edition, ed. Charles Mould. Clarendon Press, 1995
O’Brien, G.: Ruckers: A Harpsichord and Virginal Building Tradition. Cambridge University Press, 1990

External links
Gheerdinck’s virginal is illustrated here.
Further information on this instrument, including a sound sample, may be found here.
Georg Ott built an instrument based on Gheerdinck’s virginal.
J.C. Neupert also offers a virginal based on Gheerdinck’s.
The harpsichord attributed to Hans Ruckers, but which may be by Gheerdinck, is described and illustrated here.

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title: Société des designers graphiques du Québec

text:
The  (SDGQ) is the provincial graphic design association in the Canadian province of Quebec. Its stated aim is to advance the profession of graphic design in Quebec and to help its members develop both professionally and financially. Its activities include professional development, co-organizing the Grafika design awards competition, lobbying, and the DGA certification program.

The SDGQ has a reconciliatory role in the debate on graphic design certification in Canada.

History
The history of the SDGQ can be traced back to 1972 when Quebec graphic designers, Georges Beaupré and Roger Lafortune, formed a committee to found the  (SGQ). However, SGQ was not officially founded until 1974 when the new association was incorporated. In 1995 the SGQ replaced the word “” (graphic designers or graphic artists) in its name with “” (graphic designers), changing its name to  (SDGQ).

On June 14, 2011, during its annual general meeting, the SDGQ officially launched its certification program for graphic designers in Quebec.

In 2013 the SDGQ adopted a new visual identity, replacing its existing “dg” wordmark with a new “SDGQ” wordmark.

Certification
SDGQ members working in the field of graphic design who have accumulated a minimum of 7 years of combined professional experience and education in graphic design can apply to be certified. Candidates are required to submit their portfolios to a panel of three DGA-certified judges for an anonymous review. During the review, the candidate’s work is evaluated according to three criteria, namely, pertinence, responsibility, and creativity. Certified members are accredited with a , DGA.

DGAs are required to follow SDGQ’s code of ethics. There is a procedure in place to investigate DGAs who are accused of violating the code of ethics; violators can receive penalties up to and including having their DGA titles revoked.

A plan to align the DGA and RGD certifications was announced in 2012, and the written examination portion of the process was set to harmonize within 5 years. The DGA title is considered by the Association of Registered Graphic Designers to be the French equivalent of its RGD title.

Affiliations
SDGQ is a member of Icograda, the  (CIDQ), Mission Design, and the  (CICQ). It also has formal partnerships with the Society of Graphic Designers of Canada, the Association of Registered Graphic Designers of Ontario, and Infopress, a publishing company.

Publications
SDGQ has published two books, the  (the graphic designer’s guide to management and professional practice) for graphic designers in Quebec, and  (becoming a graphic designer: a guide to graphic design education in Quebec).

SDGQ also publishes a blog called , which has entered a period of hiatus since 2011.

See also
 Society of Graphic Designers of Canada
 Association of Registered Graphic Designers

Notes

References

Professional associations based in Quebec
Organizations based in Montreal
Graphic design
Design institutions
Communication design
Professional associations based in Canada
1974 establishments in Quebec
Arts organizations established in 1974


title: Demographics of Madrid

text:
In January 2020, the municipality of Madrid, capital of Spain, had a population of 3,345,894 registered inhabitants in an area of . Thus, the city's population density was about 5,337 inhabitants per km². Madrid is Spain's largest city and the second most populous city proper in the European Union, after Berlin.

Historical change

The population of Madrid has overall increased since the city became the capital of Spain in the mid-16th century, and has stabilised at approximately 3 million since the 1970s.

From 1970 until the mid-1990s, the population dropped. This phenomenon, which also affected other European cities, was caused in part by the growth of satellite suburbs at the expense of the downtown region within the city proper. This also occurred during a period of slowed growth in the European economy.

The demographic boom accelerated in the late 1990s and early first decade of the 21st century due to immigration in parallel with a surge in Spanish economic growth. According to census data, the population of the city grew by 271,856 between 2001 and 2005.

The Community of Madrid is the EU region with the highest average life expectancy at birth. The average life expectancy was 82.2 years for males and 87.8 for females in 2016.

Immigration

As the capital city of Spain, the city has attracted many immigrants from around the world, with most of the immigrants coming from Latin American countries. In 2020, around 76% of the registered population was Spain-born, while, regarding the foreign-born population (24%), the bulk of it relates to the Americas (around 16% of the total population), and a lesser fraction of the population is born in other European, Asian and African countries.

As of 2019, the highest rising national group of immigrants was Venezuelans.

Religion
Most people in Madrid are Roman Catholic Christians. It is the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Madrid. In a 2011 survey conducted by InfoCatólica, 63.3% of Madrid residents of all ages identified themselves as Catholic.

According to a 2019 Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas (CIS) survey with a sample size of 469 respondents, 20.7% of respondents in Madrid identify themselves as practising Catholics, 45.8% as non-practising Catholics, 3.8% as believers of another religion, 11.1% as agnostics, 3.6% as indifferent towards religion, and 12.8% as atheists. The remaining 2.1% did not state their religious beliefs.

Metropolitan region

According to Eurostat, the "metropolitan region" of Madrid has a population of slightly more than 6,271 million people covering an area of . It is the largest metropolitan area in Spain and the third largest in the European Union.

References

Geography of Madrid
History of Madrid
Madrid


title: Pin to Kona

text:
is a Japanese romance manga series written and illustrated by Ako Shimaki. It is published by Shogakukan in Cheese!. It was adapted into a Japanese television drama series in 2013.

Characters
 Kyōnosuke Kawamura (Yūta Tamamori)
 Ichiya Sawayama (Yūma Nakayama)
 Ayame Chiba (Umika Kawashima)

Reception
It won the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo manga in 2011 and it was number eight on the 2012 Kono Manga ga Sugoi! Top 20 Manga for Female Readers survey.

Volume 7 reached the 29th place on the Japanese weekly manga chart and, as of 1 July 2012, has sold 35,767 copies. Volume 9 reached the 50th place and, as of 27 April 2013, has sold 24,319 copies. Volume 10 reached the 21st place and, as of 4 August 2013, has sold 67,825 copies. Volume 11 reached the 18th place and, as of 2 February 2014, has sold 62,372 copies. Volume 12 reached the 24th place, and, as of 6 July 2014, has sold 55,031 copies.

References

External links
Pin to Kona on TBS

2013 Japanese television series debuts
2013 Japanese television series endings
Japanese romance television series
Kabuki
Romance anime and manga
Shogakukan franchises
Shogakukan manga
Shōjo manga
TBS Television (Japan) dramas
Winners of the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo manga


title: Secular Pro-Life

text:
Secular Pro-Life (SPL) is an American secular anti-abortion organization. SPL argues against abortion and conducts advocacy, including on university campuses.

History

Secular Pro-Life was founded in 2009 by Kelsey Hazzard, who serves as the Board President. Hazzard identifies as an atheist, and attended law school at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. In 2021, Secular Pro-Life announced its first Executive Director, Monica Snyder. Snyder, who also identifies as an atheist, studied chemical biology at University of California, Berkeley and forensic science at University of California, Davis.

Secular Pro-Life ran a stall at the 2012 American Atheists conference. Their presence there caused some controversy within the atheist community.

In February 2014, Hazzard gave a talk at the University of Georgia titled "Pro-Life Without God". In the run up to the event, SPL posters were repeatedly torn down in an attempt to thwart Hazzard's presentation.

References

Organizations established in 2009
Anti-abortion organizations in the United States
Irreligion in the United States


title: Hüttenhohl

text:
The Hüttenhohl is a mountain pass in the Haardt mountains in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate on the boundary of the parishes of Maikammer and Neustadt an der Weinstraße. Here, at , the Kalmithöhenstraße (Landesstraße 515) branches off the Totenkopfstraße (L 514). By the fork there is a sign on a tree with the height recorded as "479 mtr".

The term "pass" here does not refer to the roads that meet here because they continue to climb from the Sankt Martin valley towards the Totenkopf and Kalmit, but to the saddle between the Sankt Martin valley and the Finstertal valley.

Location

The Hüttenhohl lies within the Palatinate Forest-North Vosges Biosphere Reserve and the Palatinate Forest Nature Park. It forms the saddle between the Kalmit (672.6 m) to the east, and its subpeak, the Hüttenberg (620.1 m) to the southeast and the Rotsohlberg (607.1 m) to the west and the Schafkopf (616.8 m) to the southwest. The pass enables a crossing from the Sankt Martin valley to the south to the Finstertal valley to the north.

References

External links

Anterior Palatinate
Palatinate Forest
Transport in Rhineland-Palatinate
Mountain passes of Germany
Landforms of Rhineland-Palatinate


title: 1974–75 FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup

text:
The 1974–75 FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup was the ninth edition of FIBA's 2nd-tier level European-wide professional club basketball competition, contested between national domestic cup champions, running from 6 November 1974, to 26 March 1975. It was contested by 22 teams, three less than in the previous edition.

Spartak Leningrad defeated Crvena zvezda, the former FIBA European Cup Winner's Cup champion, in the final, held in Nantes, and became the first and only Soviet League team to win the competition for the second time.

Participants

First round

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Second round

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Automatically qualified to the Quarter finals group stage
 Crvena zvezda (title holder)
 Spartak Leningrad

Quarterfinals
The quarter finals were played with a round-robin system, in which every Two Game series (TGS) constituted as one game for the record.

Semifinals

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Final
March 26, Palais des Sports de Beaulieu, Nantes

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References

External links
FIBA European Cup Winner's Cup 1974–75 linguasport.com
FIBA European Cup Winner's Cup 1974–75

Cup
FIBA Saporta Cup


title: Nyssocarinus bondari

text:
Nyssocarinus bondari is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Melzer in 1927.

References

Acanthocinini
Beetles described in 1927


title: Japan 2–15 Philippines

text:
On 10 May 1917, the association football teams of the Philippines and Japan faced each other at the 1917 Far Eastern Games. The tournament was contested by Japan, the Philippines and China. The Japanese team was represented by a selection from the Tokyo Higher Normal School. Paulino Alcántara, a renowned football player, was part of the Philippine squad who led the Philippines to its biggest recorded victory in an international football match which also became Japan's biggest defeat. However, Japan got their revenge 50 years later in 1967, beating the Philippines 15-0 which became the biggest defeat for the Philippines national team.  However, this match is not recognized as an official international match by the Japan Football Association.

Details

Aftermath
At least one milestone was reached, aside from the record scoreline made in this match. Haruyoshi Fujii became Japan's first goalscorer in an international competitive football match by scoring Japan's two goals.

The Philippines later faced the Republic of China in a de facto final, but this was abandoned after 55 minutes; after the Chinese converted a penalty making the scoreline 3–0, the Filipino goalkeeper punched the Chinese goalscorer in the face, which started a brawl involving both sides.

See also
 Japan 15–0 Philippines

References

Record association football wins
1917 in Asian football
Japan national football team matches
Philippines national football team matches
May 1917 sports events
1910s in Tokyo


title: Nyssocarinus humeralis

text:
Nyssocarinus humeralis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Monné in 1985.

References

Acanthocinini
Beetles described in 1985


title: Nyssocarinus vittatus

text:
Nyssocarinus vittatus is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Gilmour in 1960.

References

Acanthocinini
Beetles described in 1960


title: Men's foil at the 2014 World Fencing Championships

text:
The Men's foil event of the 2014 World Fencing Championships was held on 19 July 2014. A qualification was held on 16 July.

Medalists

Draw

Finals

Top half

Section 1

Section 2

Bottom half

Section 3

Section 4

Final classification

References
 Bracket
 Final classification

2014 World Fencing Championships


title: The Big Revival

text:
The Big Revival is the sixteenth studio album by American country music artist Kenny Chesney. It was released via Blue Chair and Columbia Records on September 23, 2014.

Content
Chesney produced the album with Buddy Cannon, who has produced his other albums starting in 1997 with I Will Stand.

The album produced four singles — "American Kids", "Til It's Gone", "Wild Child", and "Save It for a Rainy Day", all of which reached number one on the U.S. Billboard Country Airplay chart.

The album's title track was previously recorded by John Anderson on his 2001 album Nobody's Got It All, and later by Montgomery Gentry on their 2008 album Back When I Knew It All.

Critical reception

Stephen Thomas Erlewine saying for AllMusic, how "Chesney overhauls his core strengths, winding up with his best record in years." Writing for Rolling Stone, Nick Murray reveals Chesney "continuously brings a sense of musical energy and emotional urgency his previous easygoing albums have sometimes lacked." On behalf of Billboard, Melinda Newman foresees how "The Big Revival serves his faithful flock a generous helping of country salvation with all the breeziness of a long holiday weekend." Glenn Gamboa for Newsday proclaims the album to be "a big-tent collection of future hits that celebrates regular folks who stand up for each other."

Commercial performance
The Big Revival debuted at number one on the US Billboard Top Country Albums chart, becoming Chesney's 13th album to do so, selling 130,000 copies in the United States during its first week. It is also Chesney's 10th consecutive studio album to peak in the Top 3 on the US Billboard 200 chart, debuting at number 2.  As of May 2016, the album has sold 447,000 copies in the United States. On February 13, 2017, the album was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for sales of over 500,000 copies in the United States.

In Canada, the album debuted at number six on the Canadian Albums Chart, selling 4,700 copies in its first week.

Track listing

Personnel

Wyatt Beard – background vocals
Pat Buchanan – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
Tony Castle – synthesizer
Jim Chapman – background vocals
Kenny Chesney – lead vocals
Rodney Clawson – background vocals
Ashley Cleveland – background vocals
Chad Cromwell – drums, percussion
Eric Darken – percussion
Matt Dragstrem – electric guitar, background vocals
Nicolle Galyon – background vocals
Kenny Greenberg – acoustic guitar, electric guitar
Natalie Hemby – background vocals
John Hobbs – Hammond B-3 organ, piano, Wurlitzer
David Huff – programming
Alison Krauss – background vocals
Luke Laird – background vocals
Paul Leim – cajón, drums, percussion
Shane McAnally – background vocals
Randy McCormick – keyboards, synthesizer
Rob McNelley – electric guitar
David Lee Murphy – background vocals
Larry Paxton – bass guitar
Grace Potter – background vocals on "Wild Child"
Danny Rader – banjo, bouzouki, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, mandolin
Michael Rhodes – bass guitar
Mike Rojas – Hammond B-3 organ, Wurlitzer
John Wesley Ryles – background vocals
F. Reid Shippen – programming
Jeff Taylor – accordion
Dan Tyminski – acoustic guitar, background vocals
John Willis – acoustic guitar

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Singles

Certifications

References

2014 albums
Kenny Chesney albums
Columbia Records albums
Albums produced by Buddy Cannon


title: Walter Ian James Wallace

text:
Walter Ian James Wallace  (18 December 1905 – 17 December 1993) was Assistant Undersecretary of State at the Colonial Office (1962–66). He was Chief Secretary to the Government of Burma (1946–47).

Early life
Wallace was born on 18 December 1905, the eldest son of David Wallace of Sandgate, Kent.  He was educated at Bedford Modern School and St Catharine's College, Cambridge.

Career
Wallace entered the Indian Civil Service in 1928 and was posted to Burma where he became a Deputy Commissioner (1933), Settlement Officer (1934-38), Deputy Commissioner (1939–42) and Defence Secretary (1942–44).  He worked in the Military Administration of Burma as Colonel and Deputy Director of Civil Affairs (1944–45) where he was mentioned in despatches.  After World War II, he was appointed Chief Secretary to the Government of Burma (1946–47).

In 1947 Wallace joined the Colonial Office where he became Assistant Secretary (1949–62) and Assistant Under-Secretary of State (1962–66) until his retirement.

Honours
Wallace was awarded the OBE in 1943, and was made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1957.

Family life
In 1940 Wallace married Olive Mary, fourth daughter of Colonel Charles William Spriggs of Southsea.  His wife predeceased him in 1973.  Wallace died on 17 December 1993.

References

1905 births
1993 deaths
People educated at Bedford Modern School
Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George
Officers of the Order of the British Empire


title: Nyssodectes bispecularis

text:
Nyssodectes bispecularis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by White in 1855.

References

Acanthocinini
Beetles described in 1855


title: Waddani

text:
The Somaliland National Party (), sometimes referred to as the Waddani National Party and better known by its shortened Somali form Waddani, is a political party in Somaliland. The party was founded by Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi (Irro) in 2012, ahead of the second municipal elections later that year. On 16 November 2021 Hersi Ali Haji Hassan was elected as the new chairman of the opposition party.

Economically the party leans left, defending the establishment of a universal healthcare system, public investment and doubling resources in education. It is progressive on issues regarding minority rights and fundamental freedoms, such as proposing a quorum of 30% of women in parliament. The party also supports greater decentralisation. Additionally, the party places great importance on Islamic moral and cultural heritage, and intends to give it a more important place in the education system and in the establishment of laws. The party's economic and diplomatic policy is also more nationalist than that of its rivals, and this nationalism also applies to issues of defense, with the party promising to increase funding dedicated to the army.

The constitution of Somaliland only allows for the top three political parties to contest elections, to avoid the previous proliferation of clan-based parties in the 1960s. Waddani became one of the three in 2012, replacing the United Peoples' Democratic Party (UDUB).

2017 Somaliland presidential election

Presidential elections were held on 13 November 2017, the third direct presidential election since 2003. General elections had been scheduled to be held on 27 March 2017 to elect both the President and House of Representatives, but were postponed by six months due to the drought condition in the region. The elections to elect the President and Vice President were eventually held separately on 13 November. Incumbent President Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud of the Peace, Unity, and Development Party (Kulmiye) did not run for a second term.

The result was a victory for ruling Kulmiye party candidate Muse Bihi Abdi, who received 55% of the vote.

2021 Somaliland parliamentary election

Parliamentary elections were held in Somaliland on 31 May 2021, the first since 2005. On 6 June it was announced that Waddani had received 31 out of 82 seats and it will form a coalition with the Justice and Welfare Party (UCID). The coalition will have 52 seats combined, compared to previous ruling party Kulmiye which has only 30.

Electoral history

Presidential elections

Parliamentary elections

Local elections

See also
 List of political parties in Somaliland

Notes

External links
 Waddani website

Islamic political parties in Somaliland
Political parties in Somaliland


title: Nyssodectes concinna

text:
Nyssodectes concinna is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Henry Walter Bates in 1885.

References

Acanthocinini
Beetles described in 1885


title: James Browne, 2nd Baron Kilmaine

text:
James Caulfeild Browne, 2nd Baron Kilmaine  (16 March 1765 – 23 May 1825) was an Anglo-Irish Member of Parliament and landowner. He sat in the House of Commons of Ireland in 1790.

He was an MP for Carlow from January 1790 to May 1790.

He was the eldest son of John Browne, 1st Baron Kilmaine, and his wife, Hon. Alicia Caulfeild, daughter of James Caulfeild, 3rd Earl of Charlemont. He resided at Gaulstown House.

References

1765 births
1825 deaths
Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Carlow constituencies
Barons in the Peerage of Ireland
James


title: Nyssodectes dulcissimus

text:
Nyssodectes dulcissimus is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Bates in 1863.

References

Acanthocinini
Beetles described in 1863


title: Nyssodectes longula

text:
Nyssodectes longula is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Bates in 1881.

References

Acanthocinini
Beetles described in 1881


title: Nyssodectes roseicollis

text:
Nyssodectes roseicollis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Bates in 1872.

References

Acanthocinini
Beetles described in 1872


title: Nyssodectes veracruzi

text:
Nyssodectes veracruzi is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Dillon in 1955.

References

Acanthocinini
Beetles described in 1955


title: Nyssodrysilla irrorata

text:
Nyssodrysilla irrorata is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Melzer in 1927.

References

Acanthocinini
Beetles described in 1927


title: Nyssodrysilla lineata

text:
Nyssodrysilla lineata is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Gilmour in 1962.

References

Acanthocinini
Beetles described in 1962


title: Nyssodrysilla vittata

text:
Nyssodrysilla vittata is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Melzer in 1934.

References

Acanthocinini
Beetles described in 1934


title: Kimberly Moffit

text:
Kimberly Moffit is a Canadian relationship therapist and media personality. She is also a former member of the all-girl pop trio Untamed and a magazine contributor.

Early life
As a teenager, Moffit was a part of the all-girl pop trio Untamed, best known for their single, "You’re Not Gonna Score" for which she wrote songs and performed on vocals. The group toured North America over the span of three years and received airplay on Canadian radio. She graduated from the University of Guelph in 2006 with a Bachelor of Arts in Music and coursework in Psychology, having attended one year of school at York University as well. She earned a graduate degree in Music Therapy from Wilfrid Laurier University and interned at an addictions and mental health center in Toronto, Ontario. Her graduate thesis work was done at an area high school where she studied the therapeutic effects of songwriting in teenaged children. She then pursued a doctoral degree in Counselling Psychology at Middlesex University in London, UK.

KMA Therapy
Moffit is a relationship therapist operating in Toronto. In 2008 she founded Kimberly Moffit Associates Therapy (KMA Therapy), which serves as her clinic for patients and a team of psychology professionals. She deals largely with young professionals, and makes around one hundred television appearances per year as a part of her practice.

Media work
Moffit has served in the position of Relationship Insider with Match.com. She has also appeared on television media during holidays like Valentine’s Day and Christmas Day to discuss their impact on people’s emotions, and statistics regarding the dating behavior of people surrounding these days. Moffit has stated that relationship decisions and the emotions behind them can be related to the evolutionary biology of human beings, and that fear can be a driver behind poor decision making.

Additional issues that Moffit has discussed in the media include the impact of office romance on workers, both during a relationship and in the aftermath of ending one. She has also commented on the ending of relationship in general, in addition to indicators that a relationship may be ending. On the opposite side of things, she is also a commentator on relationship building and development.

In November 2013, Moffit gave the keynote address at the Ontario Women MBA Summit. Moffit has been a contributor to the Huffington Post, Post Media, Elle Canada, Fashion Magazine, and Flare Magazine.

Personal life
Moffit is married and has one daughter, Kassie. Her brother Mitch Moffit is a part of ASAP Science. On August 9, 2018, Moffit announced she was pregnant with her second child. On September 13, through a gender reveal video the family announced they were expecting a boy.

References

External links
 KMA Therapy

Living people
Canadian psychotherapists
Canadian women singers
University of Guelph alumni
Wilfrid Laurier University alumni
Alumni of Middlesex University
Year of birth missing (living people)


title: Atrypanius binoculatus

text:
Atrypanius binoculatus is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Bates in 1864.

References

Beetles described in 1864


title: Atrypanius cinerascens

text:
Atrypanius cinerascens is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Henry Walter Bates in 1864.

References

Beetles described in 1864


title: Atrypanius corticalis

text:
Atrypanius corticalis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Henry Walter Bates in 1864.

References

Beetles described in 1864


title: Atrypanius exilis

text:
Atrypanius exilis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by Bates in 1885.

References

Beetles described in 1885