title: Marcus Williams (cornerback)

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Marcus Jeffrey Williams (born March 24, 1991) is a former American football cornerback. He was signed by the Houston Texans as an undrafted free agent in 2014. He played college football at North Dakota State University. He also played for the New York Jets, Arizona Cardinals, New Orleans Saints, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and Chicago Bears.

High school career
Williams stood out at Hopkins High School in Minnetonka, MN in both basketball and football, and decided on playing football at NDSU since he didn't receive a Big 10 offer for basketball.

College career
Williams set the NDSU school record with 21 career interceptions. Williams also set the FCS D1-AA record with career interception returns for touchdown with 7. He had 8 defensive touchdowns in total.

Williams received Associated Press First-team All-American honors in 2011, 2012, and 2013, as well as Walter Camp FCS All American Team honors in 2011, 2012, & 2013.

Professional career

Houston Texans
On May 16, 2014, Williams signed with the Houston Texans. On August 30, 2014, Williams was released by the Texans.

New York Jets
Williams was signed to the New York Jets' practice squad on September 26, 2014. He was promoted to the active roster on October 28, 2014. In his debut against the Kansas City Chiefs on November 2, 2014, he played for the majority of the game. He had a team-high seven tackles and one pass defensed, earning the praise of head coach Rex Ryan for his performance. In 8 games of his rookie season in 2014, Williams made 37 tackles, an interception, and seven passes defended.

On October 4, 2015, he made a game clinching interception against the Miami Dolphins in a game in London. One month later, against the Jacksonville Jaguars, he got two interceptions, a career-high, one of which clinched the game. On December 19, 2015, he made the game winning interception against the Dallas Cowboys, his third game winning interception of the season. Despite being a substitute cornerback, Williams would appear in 13 games making 21 tackles, six interceptions, 1.5 sacks, ten passes defended, a forced fumble, and a fumble recovery.

On March 9, 2017, the Jets placed a second-round tender on Williams. On October 9, 2017, Williams was released by the Jets.

Houston Texans (second stint)
On October 10, 2017, Williams was claimed off waivers by the Texans. On October 30, 2017, he recorded his first interception of the season, picking off the Seattle Seahawks' Russell Wilson in the fourth quarter. He finished his second stint with the Texans with twelve tackles and an interception in ten games.

Arizona Cardinals
On April 19, 2018, Williams signed a one year deal with the Arizona Cardinals. On May 21, 2018, Williams was released by the Cardinals.

New Orleans Saints
On August 11, 2018, Williams signed with the New Orleans Saints. He was released on September 1, 2018.

Tampa Bay Buccaneers
On September 11, 2018, Williams signed with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He was placed on injured reserve on October 13, 2018 with a hamstring injury. He was released on October 22, 2018.

Chicago Bears
On December 12, 2018, Williams was signed by the Chicago Bears.

References

External links
 North Dakota State Bison bio
 New York Jets bio

1991 births
Living people
People from Minnetonka, Minnesota
Players of American football from Hennepin County, Minnesota
Players of American football from Minneapolis
American football cornerbacks
North Dakota State Bison football players
Houston Texans players
New York Jets players
Arizona Cardinals players
New Orleans Saints players
Tampa Bay Buccaneers players
Chicago Bears players
Hopkins High School alumni


title: Baway Wala

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Baway Wala is a village in Punjab, Pakistan, near Tapyala. There are three poultry farms in the village and the head of the village is Haji Muhammad Sharif. His son Talib Hussain was also a poultry farmer. Now his sons Mudassar Hussain and Mubashar Hussain are holding his jobs. This village is purely an agricultural village.

References

Villages in Narowal District


title: Allen Treadaway

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Benjamin Allen Treadaway (born September 25, 1961) is an American Republican politician. He is a member of the Alabama House of Representatives from the 51st District, being first elected in 2006.

Treadaway served for 31 years with the Birmingham Police Department, finishing his career as the assistant chief as appointed by Mayor Randall Woodfin. Treadaway retired in September 2020.

References

1961 births
Living people
Politicians from Birmingham, Alabama
Republican Party members of the Alabama House of Representatives
21st-century American politicians


title: 2011 Rother District Council election

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The 2011 Rother District Council election took place on 5 May 2011 to elect members of Rother District Council in East Sussex, England. The whole council was up for election and the Conservative Party stayed in overall control of the council.

Election result
The Conservatives stayed in control of the council with a slightly reduced majority after having a net loss of 1 seat to leave them on 27 councillors. They lost 1 seat to Labour in Bexhill Sidley and 3 seats to independents, with all 4 independents who stood for seats in Bexhill being elected. However the Conservatives picked up a seat in Darwell, after independent councillor Wendy Mier stood down at the election, and gained 2 seats from the Liberal Democrats in Salehurst and Bexhill St Michaels.

The Liberal Democrats also lost a seat to Labour in Rye and as a result dropped from 8 to 5 seats on the council. Meanwhile, the Labour gains in Rye and Bexhill Sidley meant the party regained a presence on the council with 2 councillors. Overall turnout at the election was 48.2%, which was described as "exceptionally good" by the returning officer.

Ward results

By-elections between 2011 and 2015
A by-election was held in Darwell on 31 July 2014 after the resignation of Conservative councillor Bob White. The seat was held for the Conservatives by Eleanor Kirby-Green with a majority of 179 votes over the UK Independence Party.

References

2011
2011 English local elections
2010s in East Sussex


title: Sam Tuivailala

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Samuel Johnathan Tuivailala (born October 19, 1992) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals and Seattle Mariners.

Playing career
Tuivailala attended Aragon High School in San Mateo, California. He was a pitcher and infielder for the baseball team along with being a quarterback on the football team, as well as playing basketball. He committed to play college baseball at Fresno State University. As a senior, he threw a no-hitter in which he struck out 17 batters.
He is of Tongan and Mexican descent. He grew up a San Francisco Giants fan.

St. Louis Cardinals
Tuivailala was drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals in the third round of the 2010 Major League Baseball Draft. He made his professional debut for the Gulf Coast Cardinals. Tuivailala played in the outfield, shortstop and third base during his first two seasons in the Cardinals organization. After hitting only .178/.335/.256 in 42 games in 2010 and .253/.331/.329 in 44 games in 2011, he was converted into a relief pitcher before the 2012 season.

Tuivailala made his pitching debut for the Johnson City Cardinals in 2012.  He appeared in 11 games and had a 4.15 earned run average (ERA) in 13 innings with 23 strikeouts, but issued 13 walks.  The next season, he played for the Peoria Chiefs where he was 0-3 with a 5.35 ERA 28 relief appearances. Tuivailala started the 2014 season with the Palm Beach Cardinals.  In July, he was promoted to the Springfield Cardinals, and in August he was promoted to the Memphis Redbirds. In 48 relief appearances between the three teams he was 2-2 with a 3.15 ERA and 1.25 WHIP. He was promoted to the major leagues on September 8. He made his MLB debut on September 9, and played in two games his rookie season.

Tuivailala began 2015 back with Memphis. The Cardinals recalled Tuivailala to the major leagues on May 15.  On July 1, Tuivailala was named a PCL All-Star for 2015, his first recognition as an All-Star in his minor league career.   In 29 relief appearances and  IP, he was 3–0 with a 1.95 ERA and 23 strikeouts.  He also co-led the PCL in games finished (23) and tied for third-most with 11 saves, converting all 11 opportunities.  PCL managers and coaches rated Tuivailala the league's best reliever for 2015.

He pitched in 12 games for the Cardinals in 2016, going 0-0 with a 6.00 ERA, as in 9 innings he gave up 12 hits, walked 6, and struck out 7. He was optioned to Triple-A Memphis to start the 2017 season. He spent 2017 between Memphis and St. Louis; with the Cardinals, he pitched to a 3-3 record, a 2.55 ERA, and 34 strikeouts in  innings pitched.

Tuivailala made the Cardinals' 2018 Opening Day roster.

Seattle Mariners
On July 27, 2018, Tuivailala was traded to the Seattle Mariners in exchange for Seth Elledge. In five games out of the bullpen for the Mariners down the stretch, he logged a 1.69 ERA with four strikeouts across  innings pitched. In 2019, Tuivailala made 23 appearances for Seattle, recording a strong 2.35 ERA with 27 strikeouts in 23.0 innings of work. Tuivailala did not appear for the team in spring training the following year due to a right shoulder impingement. Tuivailala was placed on release waivers by the Mariners organization on March 20, 2020.

Acereros de Monclova
On April 18, 2023, after several years of inactivity, Tuivailala signed with the Acereros de Monclova of the Mexican League. He made four appearances for Monclova, registering a 8.10 ERA with one strikeout in  innings of work.

Coaching career
On September 29, 2023, Tuivailala announced that he had been selected to participate in MLB's Diversity Pipeline Scout & Coaching Development Program.

Awards
 Baseball America Pacific Coast League Best Reliever (2015)
 Baseball America St. Louis Cardinals' organization Best Fastball (2015)
 Pacific Coast League All-Star (2015)

See also

 St. Louis Cardinals all-time roster

References

External links

1992 births
Living people
Baseball players from San Mateo, California
American people of Tongan descent
American baseball players of Mexican descent
Major League Baseball pitchers
St. Louis Cardinals players
Seattle Mariners players
Gulf Coast Cardinals players
Johnson City Cardinals players
Peoria Chiefs players
Palm Beach Cardinals players
Springfield Cardinals players
Memphis Redbirds players
Peoria Javelinas players
Modesto Nuts players
Tacoma Rainiers players
American expatriate baseball players in Mexico
Mexican League baseball pitchers
Acereros de Monclova players


title: Garlaniyan

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Garlaniyan is a village in the Abbottabad District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. Abbottabad is the capital of Hazara Division. The village was founded in 1857. Garlaniyan is part of the union council Banda Pir Khan. Garlaniyan is about 26.5 kilometers (15.8 mi) away from Abbottabad. The nearest town from Garlaniyan is Qalandarabad, which is 12 kilometers (7.5 mi) away.

Garlaniyan has only one government-owned primary school, poor roads, and no gas pipeline provided by the government. Ayub Teaching Hospital is the nearest government hospital.

Populated places in Abbottabad District


title: Narrowmouth toad (disambiguation)

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The narrowmouth toad  is a genus of microhylid frogs found in the Americas between Honduras and the southern United States.

Narrowmouth toad may also refer to:

 Assam narrowmouth toad, a frog found in northeastern India
 Bicol narrowmouth toad, a frog endemic to the Philippines
 Kalinga narrowmouth toad, a frog endemic to the Philippines
 Painted narrowmouth toad, a frog endemic to the Philippines
 Philippine narrowmouth toad, a frog endemic to the Philippines

See also

 Narrow-mouthed toad (disambiguation)

Animal common name disambiguation pages


title: 2014–15 Celta de Vigo season

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The 2014–15 Celta de Vigo season was the club's 91st season in its history and its 49th in the top-tier.

Squad

Current squad

Out on loan

Transfers

In:

Out:

Competitions

Overall

La Liga

League table

Results summary

Results by round

Matches
Kickoff times are in CET.

Copa del Rey

Round of 32

Round of 16

Statistics

Appearances and goals

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References

RC Celta de Vigo seasons
Celta de Vigo


title: Falling Skies (season 5)

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Falling Skies was renewed for a fifth and final season, which began airing June 28, 2015, and concluded August 30, 2015.

Plot
In the aftermath of the destruction of the Espheni power core, the Espheni occupation of Earth is faltering. All forms of mechanized technology the Espheni have deployed including airships, mech robots, and harnesses have gone offline, and the remaining Espheni forces have begun retreating from the 2nd Mass and resistance groups around the world. In the midst of space, Tom finds himself rescued by a mysterious alien race named the Dornia, or the "Great Enemy", who are the Espheni's greatest enemy and the reason for their intergalactic expansion. They communicate with Tom using a memory of his wife Rebecca and later directly while still using the image of Rebecca, influencing him to show no mercy against the Espheni. They return him to Earth, where Tom leads the 2nd Mass on a series of raids against key Espheni locations in an effort to dismantle their war machine before they can restore power to their mechs and ships on the Earth. But along the way, the 2nd Mass face discontent from within and lose important members of the team.

The 2nd Mass learn of militias fighting against the Espheni worldwide with the help of the Volm, who also inform them that the Espheni are active in several capital cities around the world, and have placed jamming signals to prevent them from learning exactly what they're doing. They come to learn that the final battle against the Espheni could be in Washington, D.C., and they begin a slow march towards the city. Along the way Tom learns that the Dornians were the first race the Espheni destroyed, and the skitters that they've been fighting were once Dornians until the Espheni transformed them into their servants. Pope and Sara begin a romance that is short-lived when she is stuck and killed in an Espheni trap; Pope blames Tom for her death when he chose to destroy a facility that was mass-producing skitters instead of saving her. Tom, sick of Pope's constant complaining and vitriol, kicks him out of the 2nd Mass; several others including Anthony go with him. The 2nd Mass come across a naval station currently occupied by a group of soldiers under the command of female captain named Katie Marshall with whom Weaver once had a relationship. Tom and his sons are imprisoned for conspiring with the Espheni; Anne is eventually arrested as well once the soldiers learn that her daughter was half-Espheni. Weaver becomes suspicious of Katie's behavior, noting that she's not acting like her normal self (to which other soldiers agree); he follows her off-base one night and finds her talking to an overlord which he then kills after she leaves. Katie, under the orders of the overlord, tries and convicts Tom and his family of aiding the enemy and orders their execution. Weaver, along with other soldiers convinced that Captain Marshall isn't herself, refuse to carry out the execution. When Katie tries to shoot them herself, Weaver fatally stabs her. Katie dies shortly afterward, confessing that she wasn't the real Katie but an Espheni doppelganger sent to infiltrate human resistance groups.

Tom is again contacted by the Dornia, who provide him with a powerful bio-weapon to use against the Espheni. Ben, who has been listening to overlord communications through a recovered Espheni communication device, learns that the Espheni are ruled by a queen who has come to Earth to oversee the occupation and has made the Lincoln Memorial her base. Tom tells Anne and the others about the Dornian weapon, and they are unsure if they should use it not knowing how it might affect humans. Anne and other scientists manage to alter the weapon so it only targets Espheni, leaving humans unharmed. Its effectiveness is proven on an Espheni clone of Alexis Glass-Mason who is sent to assassinate Tom.

After learning that Washington, D.C., is too well defended for a direct attack on the queen, Tom instead leads a strike team in through service tunnels while the rest of the militias attack a defensive wall built to keep them out as a distraction. After an explosion separates them, Tom continues on alone and finally comes face to face with the Espheni queen in the ruins of the Lincoln Memorial. There, the queen explains that the attack on Earth is in revenge for a failed attempt 1,500 years before that led to the death of her daughter. Tom infects himself with the Dornia bioweapon as the queen drains his blood, infecting and killing her. The bioweapon spreads through the Espheni and their various slave races and wipes them out, freeing the Earth. Anne dies of injuries sustained in the assault, but the Dornia resurrect her as thanks. Months later, humanity gathers at the Lincoln Memorial to select a new leader for the now-united race.

Cast and characters

Main cast
 Noah Wyle as Tom Mason (10 episodes)
 Moon Bloodgood as Anne Glass-Mason (10 episodes)
 Drew Roy as Hal Mason (10 episodes)
 Connor Jessup as Ben Mason (10 episodes)
 Maxim Knight as Matt Mason (10 episodes)
 Colin Cunningham as John Pope (8 episodes)
 Sarah Sanguin Carter as Maggie (10 episodes)
 Mpho Koaho as Anthony (8 episodes)
 Doug Jones as Cochise (10 episodes)
 Will Patton as Colonel Dan Weaver (10 episodes)

Recurring cast
 Mira Sorvino as Sara (3 episodes)
 Jennifer Ferrin as Dornia/Rebecca Mason (5 episodes)
 Catalina Sandino Moreno as Isabella (6 episodes)
 Treva Etienne as Dingaan Botha (10 episodes)
 Taylor Russell as Evelyn (5 episodes)
 John DeSantis as Shaq (3 episodes)
 Todd Weeks as Marty (4 episodes)

Guest cast
 Megan Danso as Deni (1 episode)
 Scarlett Byrne as Alexis "Lexi" Glass-Mason (2 episode)
 Julia Sarah Stone as Caitlin (2 episodes)
 Melora Hardin as Captain Katie Marshall (2 episodes)

Episodes

Production

Development
Falling Skies was renewed for a fifth and final 10 episode season which premiered on June 28, 2015.

Casting

On October 17, 2014, it was announced that Catalina Sandino Moreno had joined the cast in a major recurring role as a character called Isabella. Her character has been described as an academic prior to the invasion, who joins the group after posing as a nurse.

Filming

Principal photography began on September 15, 2014, and concluded on January 27, 2015.

Ratings

References

External links

2015 American television seasons


title: Gordonia

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Gordonia may refer to:

Biology
Gordonia (plant), a genus of flowering plants native to Southeast Asia and the Americas
Gordonia (bacterium), a genus of bacteria
Gordonia (synapsid), an extinct animal from the Permian

Other uses
Gordonia (youth movement), a Zionist youth movement
Gordonia (film), a 2010 documentary
305 Gordonia, an asteroid
USS Gordonia, an American ship
Gordonia District, a district of Cape Province, South Africa

See also
Gordon (disambiguation)

Genus disambiguation pages


title: 2014–15 Elche CF season

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The 2014–15 season was the 92nd season in Elche’s history and the 21st in the top-tier.

Squad

Out on loan

Transfers

Summer

In:

Out:

Winter

In:

Out:

Competitions

La Liga

League table

Results summary

Results by round

Results

Copa del Rey

Statistics

Appearances and goals
Updated as of 30 May 2015.

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Disciplinary record

References

Elche CF seasons
Elche CF


title: 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup

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The 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup was the seventh ICC Men's T20 World Cup tournament, with the matches played in the United Arab Emirates and Oman, on behalf of India, from 17 October to 14 November 2021. The West Indies were the defending champions, but were eventually eliminated in the Super 12 stage.

Originally, the event was scheduled to be held in Australia from 18 October to 15 November 2020, but in July 2020, the International Cricket Council (ICC) confirmed that this tournament had been postponed, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In August 2020, the ICC confirmed that India would host the 2021 tournament as planned, with Australia being named as the host for the succeeding 2022 tournament. However, in June 2021, the ICC announced that the tournament had been moved to the United Arab Emirates due to growing concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic situation in India, and a possible third wave of the pandemic in the country due to the fears of Delta variant. The tournament began on 17 October 2021, with the tournament's final taking place on 14 November 2021. The preliminary rounds of the tournament were played in the UAE and Oman.

New Zealand became the first team to reach the final, after they beat England by five wickets in the semi-finals. It was the first time that New Zealand had qualified for a T20 World Cup final. They were joined in the final by Australia, who beat Pakistan by five wickets in the second semi-final. It was the second time that Australia had qualified for the final of the T20 World Cup, after reaching the final of the 2010 tournament. In the final, Australia beat New Zealand by eight wickets to win their first T20 World Cup. Mitchell Marsh was named the Player of the Match, with David Warner being named the Player of the Tournament.

Background
In April 2020, the ICC confirmed that despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the tournament was still planned to go ahead as scheduled. However, the following month a senior ICC official said that it would be "too big a risk" to host the tournament in 2020, The ICC also stated that reports of postponing the tournament were inaccurate, with multiple contingency plans being looked at. A decision on the tournament was originally deferred until the ICC's meeting on 10 June 2020, with a further announcement scheduled to be made in July 2020. In June 2020, Earl Eddings, the chairman of Cricket Australia, said that it was "unlikely" and "unrealistic" that the tournament would take place in Australia as scheduled. Eddings also suggested that Australia could host the event in October 2021, and India stage the tournament a year later in 2022. The ICC also considered moving the tournament to be played around the next Women's ODI World Cup, which was originally scheduled to take place in New Zealand for February 2021.

A month before the official postponement, Australian federal tourism minister Simon Birmingham announced that the Australian government expected that the country's borders would be closed to international travel until 2021. The ICC also confirmed that either Australia or India, the hosts for the tournaments originally scheduled to take place in 2020 and 2021 respectively, would host this tournament. In August 2020, the ICC confirmed that India are expected to host the 2021 tournament, with Australia expected to the 2022 tournament. In the same month, the ICC confirmed that Sri Lanka and the United Arab Emirates were being considered as back-up venues for the tournament. In April 2021, the ICC's CEO Geoff Allardice confirmed that back-up plans were still in place if India were unable to host the tournament due to the pandemic. Later the same month, Dhiraj Malhotra of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) confirmed that the UAE would be used as a contingency, if the pandemic in India continued to get worse. The BCCI were also in talks with Oman as a potential co-host of the tournament. On 1 June 2021, the ICC gave the BCCI the deadline of 28 June 2021 to make its decision on where the tournament would be played. Regardless of the actual location of the tournament, the ICC also confirmed that the BCCI would remain as the hosts of the competition. Later, the ICC confirmed that the tournament had been moved to the UAE and Oman. It was the first time for both the UAE and Oman to be hosting a global ICC event, and also the first occasion that a cricket World Cup was being held entirely outside of the Test-playing nations.

Less than two weeks before the start of the tournament, Oman was impacted by Cyclone Shaheen which passed only a few miles north of the tournament venue in Al-Amerat. Pankaj Khimji, chairman of Oman Cricket, stated that "we were so close to being virtually wiped out [...] had this had happened over here in this area, I'd have said goodbye to the World Cup".

Teams and qualification

As of 31 December 2018, the top nine ranked ICC Full Members, alongside hosts India, qualified directly for the 2021 tournament. Of those ten teams, the top eight ranked sides qualified for the Super 12s stage of the tournament. Sri Lanka and Bangladesh did not qualify for the Super 12s, instead being placed in the group stage of the competition. They were joined by the six teams who had qualified for the tournament via the 2019 ICC T20 World Cup Qualifier. Of the teams in the ICC Men's T20I Team Rankings, the United Arab Emirates and Nepal could only qualify through regional competitions. The top four teams from the group stage advanced to the Super 12s.

Papua New Guinea were the first team to secure their position via the Qualifier, after they won Group A of the tournament, finishing above the Netherlands on net run rate. It was the first time that Papua New Guinea had qualified for a World Cup in any format. Ireland became the second team to qualify via this route after they won Group B, also on net run rate.

In the first match in the playoffs, the Netherlands qualified for the T20 World Cup when they beat the United Arab Emirates by eight wickets, after the UAE only scored 80 runs in their innings. The second qualifier match saw Namibia advance to their first T20 World Cup after beating Oman by 54 runs. Scotland beat tournament hosts the United Arab Emirates in the third qualifier by 90 runs to secure their place in the T20 World Cup. Oman became the final team to qualify for the T20 World Cup, when they beat Hong Kong by 12 runs in the last playoff match.

In August 2021, concerns and doubts were raised over the participation of Afghanistan cricket team in the tournament ever since Afghanistan was brought under the control of the Taliban. Afghanistan's team media manager Hikmat Hassan confirmed that Afghanistan would play in the T20 World Cup, despite the political turmoil in the country. On 6 October 2021, the Afghanistan team left Kabul, travelling to Doha, Qatar, for a training camp before the start of the tournament.

Match officials
On 7 October 2021, the ICC named the match referees and the on-field umpires for the tournament. For the Super 12 match between India and New Zealand, umpire Michael Gough was replaced by Marais Erasmus after Gough was suspended for six days for breaching the tournament's bio-secure bubble. On 3 November 2021, the ICC confirmed that Gough would not officiate in any further matches in the tournament. On 9 November 2021, the match officials were confirmed for the semi-final matches, with the officials for the final being confirmed on 12 November 2021.

Match referees
  David Boon
  Jeff Crowe
  Ranjan Madugalle
  Javagal Srinath

Umpires

  Chris Brown
  Aleem Dar
  Kumar Dharmasena
  Marais Erasmus
  Chris Gaffaney
  Michael Gough
  Adrian Holdstock
  Richard Illingworth
  Richard Kettleborough
  Nitin Menon
  Ahsan Raza
  Paul Reiffel
  Langton Rusere
  Rod Tucker
  Joel Wilson
  Paul Wilson

Squads

Each team selected a squad of 15 players before 10 October 2021. Each team was also able to select up to seven additional players, if needed, with regards to COVID-19. On 10 August 2021, New Zealand were the first team to announce their squad for the tournament. All the teams announced their preliminary squads by 12 September 2021.

Schedule and broadcasting
With a total of 45 matches, the T20 World Cup was composed of two rounds. Round 1 had twelve matches played between eight teams (Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Ireland, Netherlands, Scotland, Namibia, Oman and Papua New Guinea), with the top four teams progressing to the Super 12s. The Super 12s consisted of 30 matches between the four teams from Round 1 and the top eight ranked T20I teams. Originally, if Sri Lanka or Bangladesh qualified from their first round groups, they would have retained their respective seedings of A1 or B1 for the Super 12s. However, the ICC later changed this rule, after Scotland topped Group B and progressed as B1. Those teams were then split into two groups of six each. This was then followed by the two semi-finals and then the final. On 16 July 2021, the ICC confirmed the groups for the tournament, which were decided on the rankings of the teams as of 20 March 2021. On 17 August 2021, the ICC confirmed the final fixtures for the tournament including the first round and super 12 matches.

The ICC named all of the official broadcasters for the tournament on its website, including details on television coverage, digital content for in-match clips and highlights, and audio listings. The official anthem of the tournament was released on 14 October 2021, by Sony Music India.

Venues
On 17 April 2021, the BCCI proposed the name of the cities which are scheduled to be hosting the matches. Bangalore, Chennai, Dharamshala, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, and New Delhi were the venues along with Ahmedabad, hosting the final of the event. On 18 April 2021, it was announced that Pakistan would play two of their group matches in Delhi, while Mumbai and Kolkata would host the semi-finals. On 28 June 2021, BCCI President Sourav Ganguly confirmed that due to the COVID-19 situation in the country the board has officially communicated to the ICC about their decision to move the event from India to the UAE. Some of the preliminary round matches of the event were also set to be held in Oman. On 29 June 2021, the ICC confirmed that the T20 World Cup would be played in the UAE and Oman. The tournament took place in four venues: the Dubai International Cricket Stadium, the Sheikh Zayed Cricket Stadium, the Sharjah Cricket Stadium, and the Oman Cricket Academy Ground. During July 2021, the Tolerance Oval in Abu Dhabi was awaiting accreditation by the ICC to also be used as one of the venues for the tournament.

Prize money
On 10 October 2021, the ICC announced the prize money for the tournament.

Warm-up matches
The following warm-up matches for the 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup were played between 12 and 20 October between all participants. The first set of matches featured the teams from the groups in the first round of the main tournament, before the teams in the Super 12 phase played their warm-up matches. These matches did not have either Twenty20 International (T20I) status or T20 status as teams were allowed to field all 15 members of their squad.

First round warm-ups

Super 12 warm-ups

First round

Group A

Group B

Super 12

Group 1

Group 2

Knockout stage

Semi-finals

Final

Statistics
The leading run-scorer in the tournament was Babar Azam, with 303. The leading wicket-taker was Wanindu Hasaranga, who took 16 dismissals, the most by a bowler in a single edition of the T20 World Cup.

Most runs

Most wickets

Team of the tournament
On 14 November 2021, the ICC announced its team of the tournament, with David Warner being named as player of the tournament and Babar Azam as the captain of the team.

Notes

References

External links
 Series home at ESPN Cricinfo

2021
2021 in cricket
2021 in Emirati cricket
2021 in Omani sport

International cricket competitions in 2021–22
ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2021
International cricket competitions in the United Arab Emirates
International cricket competitions in Oman
ICC Men's T20 World Cup
ICC Men's T20 World Cup


title: Nils Johansson (cyclist)

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Nils Johansson (16 April 1920 – 29 June 1999) was a Swedish cyclist. He competed in the individual and team road race events at the 1948 Summer Olympics.

References

External links

1920 births
1999 deaths
Swedish male cyclists
Olympic cyclists for Sweden
Cyclists at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Borås


title: Alessandro Bazzana

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Alessandro Bazzana (born 16 July 1984 in Alzano Lombardo) is an Italian former professional cyclist.

Major results

2005
 3rd Trofeo Banca Popolare di Vicenza
2006
 6th Trofeo Banca Popolare di Vicenza
2008
 7th Overall Rochester Omnium
 8th Tour de Leelanau
2009
 9th US Air Force Cycling Classic
2011
 10th Tour de Mumbai II
2012
 Tour of Austria
1st  Points classification
1st Stage 1
 7th Paris–Brussels
 9th Grand Prix de Fourmies
2013
 6th Le Samyn
2014
 4th Dwars door Drenthe
 4th Bucks County Classic
 6th Roma Maxima
 7th Volta Limburg Classic
2015
 1st  Sprints classification Abu Dhabi Tour
 5th Overall World Ports Classic
 6th Overall Dubai Tour
1st  Sprints classification
 8th Ronde van Drenthe

References

External links

1984 births
Living people
Italian male cyclists
People from Alzano Lombardo
Cyclists from the Province of Bergamo


title: Portuguese comics

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Portuguese comics (Portuguese: Banda desenhada portuguesa) are comics created in Portugal or by Portuguese authors. Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro, Carlos Botelho, and João Abel Manta are some of the most notable early Portuguese cartoonists.

History
The first Portuguese comic book was possibly Apontamentos de Raphael Bordallo Pinheiro Sobre a Picaresca Viagem do Imperador de Rasilb pela Europa (1872), by Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro. Pinheiro later created Zé Povinho, the cartoon character of a Portuguese everyman. Zé Povinho became first a symbol of the Portuguese working-class people, and eventually into the unofficial personification of Portugal. Between 1926 and 1929 Pinheiro regularly drew comic strips for the children's weekly ABCzinho, "and is the author of almost the entire front and back pages of each issue, in color".

In 1928, Carlos Botelho started a comics page in the weekly publication Sempre Fixe, a collaboration that he maintained for over 22 years and which was the stage for a caustic criticism of a vast range of issues, going from trivial matters of daily life in Lisbon to some of the most relevant events in international life, in a "style that mixed up chronicle, autobiography, journalism, and satire," making it an early example of autobiographical comics. On 8 December 1950, the date when Botelho ended that monumental cycle of work, his Ecos da Semana ("Echoes of the Week") made a total of about 1,200 pages, "in a continuous discourse with no intervals or holidays". "Ecos da Semana are a double, and triple, diary – of the author, between his 29 and 51 years of age, and of a country, or of a world."

João Abel Manta is of particular importance in the area of the cartoon, and is considered to be "the most extraordinary case of Portuguese cartoon drawing of [the 20th century], only comparable [to] Bordalo Pinheiro himself". Manta's activity as a cartoonist was from approximately 1954 to 1991, being particularly intense between 1969 and 1976. For about seven years his cartoons — dealing critically and deeply ironically with Portuguese reality — were published regularly in newspapers like the Diário de Lisboa, Diário de Notícias, and O Jornal. Manta's cartoons marked the period before the 25th of April (revolution) with their unique and meticulous graphic quality. He questioned the identity of a country in turmoil in drawings such as A Difficult Problem, where a group of outstanding figures from the past – from Karl Marx to Trotsky and Sartre – stare inquisitively at a small map of Portugal on a blackboard. Manta "will be associated in a very particular way to the best and worst that we lived through in Portugal during those years."

Authors

Works
The Adventures of Dog Mendonça & Pizzaboy
A fórmula da felicidade
Hans, o cavalo cansado
Kuroneko
Março Anormal
The Positives
TMG - The Mighty Gang

Magazines
Banzai
O Gafanhoto
O Mosquito

Characters
 Zé Povinho
Tom Vitoin

Publishers
 Chili Com Carne
 Edições Devir
El Pep
 Goody
Kingpin Books
 Levoir
 Planeta
Polvo

Festivals
 Comic Con Portugal — held in Porto
 Amadora BD — Festival Internacional de Banda Desenhada; held annually since 1990
Festival de BD de Beja

See also
Portuguese animation

References

External links
 AmadoraBD official website
 Comic Con Portugal official website


title: Bugbook Historical Computer Museum

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The Bugbook Historical Microcomputer Museum  was a small display of several hundred key items from the collection of computer hobbyist David G. Larsen. The Museum was developed and maintained by the LCF Group (David & Gaynell Larsen and Dee Wallace) in Floyd, Virginia from 2008-2016.  The name of the museum comes from the Bugbooks and Blacksburg Continuing Education Books a, a series of instructional books created by the "Blacksburg Group" during the late 1970s & 80's. David was a part of the group. The museum closed in May 2016 and Larsen donated the majority of his collection to the Computer Museum of America in Roswell, Georgia.

History
The museum curator, David Larsen, collected computer artifacts and memorabilia for over forty years. He was interested in electronics at an early age and had his start in computers in 1957 with a Navy assignment at Remington Rand UNIVAC St. Paul. His entire career has involved electronics and microcomputers. This includes thirty one years as a Virginia Tech faculty member teaching instrumentation and automation. He is also an amateur radio operator and has been for six decades.

Significant collection items
The museum itself was focused on the period from 1971-1981 when personal computers were first in production. Among the items that the museum featured were:
Apple I exact operational clone on display and four original Apple-1 computers in collection shown by special request.
Mark-8
Altair 8800 low serial number #21
Commodore 64

See also
List of computer museums

References

External links

Computer museums in the United States
Defunct museums in Virginia
Museums disestablished in 2016


title: Hasselborg Lake North Shelter Cabin

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The Hasselborg Lake North Shelter Cabin is a historic backcountry shelter in the Admiralty Island National Monument, part of Tongass National Forest in Southeast Alaska.  The three-sided Adirondack-style log cabin, of which at best ruins survive today, was built in 1935 by a Civilian Conservation Corps work crew as part of a canoe route across the island.  It is located at the northeast corner of Hasselborg Lake, where a poorly maintained or abandoned trail leads north to Windfall Harbor.

The cabin site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.  At that time the cabin site had been flooded due to beaver activity, and its roof was failing due to an extended period of poor maintenance.

See also
 National Register of Historic Places listings in Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, Alaska

References

1935 establishments in Alaska
Buildings and structures completed in 1935
Civilian Conservation Corps in Alaska
Log cabins in the United States
Buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Hoonah–Angoon Census Area, Alaska
Park buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Alaska
Tongass National Forest
Log buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Alaska


title: Arimbra Bapu

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Kodithodi Ahamed alias Bappu (1 May 1936 – 4 July 2014) popularly known as Arimbra Bappu () or Bappu () was an Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) politician from the state of Kerala, India. He was the first president of Morayur Gram panchayat from 1969 to 1995, as he was elected continuously, sometimes without opposition. He avoided politics after he had a brain stroke, up to the second stroke, which caused his death on 4 July 2014. Several times the party called on him to be the state minister and MLA; he rejected the opportunities. He worked with many well known politicians of the IUML, such as C. H. Mohammed Koya and Chakeri Ahammed Kutty), and with the Panakkad Thangal. He was instrumental in raising party membership in Eranad. He served many capacities in the party and the government.

References

1936 births
2014 deaths
Indian Union Muslim League politicians
People from Malappuram district


title: Headbone Interactive

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Headbone Interactive, Inc. was an American children-oriented multimedia company located in Seattle, Washington founded around 1993–1994 by Susan Lammers and her husband Walter Euyang. The company folded in October 2001 when their official website went offline.

In 1996 the company signed a sales and distribution agreement with Broderbund, giving the company exclusive North American retail distribution rights for all Headbone CD-ROMs.

History
Susan Lammers graduated from Stanford University in 1979. After working for Microsoft for around eight years, she formed Headbone Interactive with her husband, investing her own money to create and design edutainment CD-ROMs for children. In 1995, the first title, Elroy Goes Bugzerk, was released. It was followed by a sequel, Elroy Hits the Pavement, in 1996. Around that same time, a collection of software called The Gigglebone Gang was created. Four titles were released under that collection (see below). In 1997, an educative and creative website, the Headbone Zone, was created. Around 1998, Headbone Interactive left the CD-ROM business, citing mediocre success despite positive reviews of eight titles, and cut down its staff. That same year, Headbone created Headbone Television and began creating televised programming. Lammers left the company a few months later. In 1999, two television series produced by Headbone began to air: first, "Fidgetmore Academy" on Fox Family, then "Hugo Takes a D-Tour" on Discovery Kids. Headbone was purchased by Bonus.com in 2000 and shut down in October that same year as the Headbone Zone website went offline.

Awards
PC Gamer US named Elroy Goes Bugzerk the "Best Educational Product" of 1995. The editors wrote, "The game's sense of humor is perfectly aimed at its intended audience, and the story is well-written and engaging. Elroy Goes Bugzerk does a better job of hiding educational content in an entertaining game than any other title from 1995." MacUser gave Bugzerk a score of 4 out of 5, and named it one of 1995's top 50 CD-ROMs. The magazine proceeded to nominate the game for its award for the best children's software of 1995, which ultimately went to Thinkin' Things Collection 3.

Games
Elroy Goes Bugzerk (1995)
The Gigglebone Gang: Pantsylvania (1995)
The Gigglebone Gang: Alphabonk Farm (1995)
Elroy's Costume Closet (1996)
Elroy Hits the Pavement (1996)
The Gigglebone Gang: Infinity City (1996)
Iz and Auggie: Escape from Dimension Q (1996)
The Gigglebone Gang World Tour (1997)
Elroy: King of the Jungle (1999) Limited release

Television series
Fidgetmore Academy (1999, 13x3 minutes) Fox Family Channel
Hugo Takes a D-Tour (1999, 10x1 minute) Discovery Kids

References

External links
Headbone Interactive on MobyGames
Article on Fortune
Headbone leap into television
Headbone layoff
Headbone TV series

1990s establishments in Washington (state)
2001 disestablishments in Washington (state)
Organizations based in Seattle


title: Jones County Courthouse (Georgia)

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The Jones County Courthouse, in Gray, Georgia was built in 1906 in the Romanesque Revival style. It was designed by J. W. Golucke and is noted for its arched clock tower.

The first courthouse, in Albany, Georgia (not to be confused with present-day Albany, Georgia), later renamed Clinton, Georgia, was the private residence of William Jones. A temporary structure housed the court until 1816, when a third, more permanent, building was erected. When the county seat moved to Gray, Georgia, the current courthouse was built in 1905. It is noted for its arched clock tower, which was restored in 2005–2006. The courthouse was rehabilitated in 1992. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

It cost $35,000 to construct in 1906. Dates and costs of later additions are unknown.

References

External links

www.jonescountyclerkofcourt.org
www.georgiaencyclopedia.org
www.georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu
www.jonescountyga.org

Houses in Jones County, Georgia
National Register of Historic Places in Jones County, Georgia
County courthouses in Georgia (U.S. state)


title: List of Irish mobile virtual network operators

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Mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) in Ireland lease wireless telephone and data spectrum from major carriers such as Vodafone, Eir, and Three for resale. As of Q1 2022, the market share of MVNOs in Ireland is 13.4%, including Tesco Mobile with 7.7% and Virgin Mobile with 2.4%.

Active operators

Defunct operators

References

Mobile virtual network operators
Telecommunications lists
Lists of mobile phone companies


title: Divorce Invitation

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Divorce Invitation is a 2012 American romantic comedy film directed by S. V. Krishna Reddy and co-written by Robert Naturman and Bala Rajasekharuni.<ref>{{Cite web | url=https://www.thewrap.com/jamie-lynn-sigler-star-indian-companys-first-us-film-29548/ | title='The Sopranos Jamie-Lynn Sigler to Star in Indian Company's First U.S. Film | date=28 July 2011 }}</ref> It was produced by R. R. Venkat and co-produced by M S P Srinivas Reddy. Upon release, the film received mixed reviews. The movie is based on director's own 1997 Telugu movie Aahvaanam.

 Plot
Mike Christian falls in love with a Jewish girl, Dylan Lipnick. Her grandparents initially disapprove, but finally agree to their marriage after Mike converts to Judaism. Dylan's parents' divorce badly affected her and she draws up with a long prenup that Mike signs without reading. They honeymoon and return to the house the grandparents have bought for them.

After four months of marriage, Mike comes up with the idea of franchising the family business to make money, he is joined in this by his best pal Scotty. After putting together a business plan they approach a large business only to find the CEO is on her way to a golf/business week. Dylan takes out a new Visa card to allow Mike to track the CEO down and broker the business deal because this will make for a "happy husband". Mike tracks the CEO down in Scottsdale, Arizona and finds she is actually Alex Birch, the girl he was supposed to take to prom 13 years earlier and did not happen due to interference from her dad. The spark that was there before reignites and they start a relationship. Mike e-mails Dylan to ask for a divorce and immediately afterwards finds out she is pregnant. Following the prenup, Dylan refuses the divorce; the prenup has a clause that a divorce can only happen with a formal divorce ceremony, with everyone from the original wedding and the bride and groom in their original clothes. This has to be followed by a formal ceremony paid for by the person wanting a divorce. Also, the person bringing the divorce has to explain the reasons.

Mike spends a lot of time organizing the ceremony and getting people to attend. On the day of the divorce ceremony, he decides he loves Dylan and apologizes to Alex, and stays with his wife.

Cast
 Jonathan Bennett as Mike
 Jamie-Lynn Sigler as Dylan
 Nadia Bjorlin as Alex
 Maeve Quinlan as Pam
 Elliott Gould as Dylan's grandfather
 Lainie Kazan as Dylan's grandmother
 Paul Sorvino as  Daniel Miller
 Richard Kind as George Mason
 Andrea Bowen as Melanie

ProductionDivorce Invitation was reported to be a remake of S. V. Krishna Reddy's 1997 Indian Telugu-language film Aahvaanam'', however, Reddy denied the same by saying that it's a completely different subject.

References

External links

2010s English-language films
2010s female buddy films
2012 films
2012 romantic comedy films
American female buddy films
American romantic comedy films
Films directed by S. V. Krishna Reddy
Films set in Chicago
2010s American films


title: Sunny M.R.

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Sunny M.R. is an Indian music composer, music Producer, Sound Engineer and a Playback Singer. He is best known for his music in the Telugu films Swamy Ra Ra (2013) and Uyyala Jampala (2013). Musicperk.com rated the album 8/10, quoting "A fresh waft of cool music! Experimental Magic with simplicity". He won Global Indian Music Award, Mirchi Music Award for the Hindi film Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani (2013) as the "Best Music Arranger cum Programmer" and " Song Programmer cum Arranger of the Year " in 2014.

Early life

Sunny M.R. studied at St. Anne's High School, Patna and then joined as sound engineer to assist his accomplished brother, Shadab Rayeen. After 6 months Sunny became an Independent Sound Engineer at age of 15. He mastered mixing,arranging,composing various tunes primarily worked with Keerthana Digital studios,Hyderabad,Telangana for 6 years.

Career

In Keerthana Digital studios,Sunny collaborated 350 Albums mastering ragas from Carnatic Music. In Initial stage he used to hate doing Carnatic tunes but later realised that jazz is harmonised version of Carnatic music. Started loving and doing Albums with Carnatic ragas. Sunny moved to Mumbai to meet Sandeep Chowta and joined as Sound Engineer.Late Anil Kumar,Music Director and Krishna Chaitanya,Telugu songs lyricist inspired Sunny to join as Music Director.Sudheer Varma,The Director of Telugu Film Swamy Ra Ra selected Sunny.He is part of Innovative Open Music Community called Blogswara. The Blogswara team appreciated for Sunny's entry as Music Director.

Discography

As Composer

As Arranger & Record Producer

As Playback Singer

 Track "Mana Bandham" in Uyyala Jampala.
 Track Swamy Ra Ra (Reload) in Swamy Ra Ra.
 Track "aanati devadasu" in dohchay.
Track "Dil udd Jaare" in Paaglait.

Awards

References

External links

Living people
Telugu film score composers
Telugu playback singers
Musicians from Patna
Indian male composers
21st-century Indian composers
Male film score composers
21st-century Indian male singers
21st-century Indian singers
Year of birth missing (living people)


title: Mayakovo

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Mayakovo () is a village in Strugo-Krasnensky District of Pskov Oblast, Russia, located on the bank of Sitnya River, northeast of the town Pskov. Population:

Rural localities in Pskov Oblast


title: Multan Metrobus

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The Multan Metrobus is a bus rapid transit (BRT) system in Multan, Punjab, Pakistan. Construction work on the line began in May 2015, while operations commenced on 24 January 2017. It was the third BRT project in Pakistan, after the Lahore Metrobus and the Rawalpindi-Islamabad Metrobus.

Design

The Multan Metro route is  long, with a  elevated section. It has 21 bus stations, with 14 elevated stations and seven ground-level stations. The bus stations have been constructed with Multan's extreme hot and cold weather in mind. Each bus, typically, can carry 190 passengers. A private company will run the bus service for the time being.

Nearly 96,000 commuters are expected to use Multan Metrobus service every day. The official reports reported cost of Rs. 29 billion for , making it Rs 1.61 billion per kilometer.

Operational problems of project
Multan Metrobus service was started with 47 buses. However, the service was unable to meet its target of 90,000+ passengers. After experiencing losses, ten buses were sent to the Lahore Metrobus project. Nevertheless, the remaining 37 buses were still unable to attain viable passengers. To prevent the service from collapsing, 19 buses were parked and strength was reduced to 18.

Furthermore, 100 more feeder bus services were bought in the first phase, feeding passengers to the remaining 18 buses from far-flung areas. Later, 100 more buses were imported to make a total of 200, accommodating all possible routes in Multan. Afterward, Speedo buses were also reduced from 200 to 115 after a few months attributed to empty buses and lack of public interest.
Despite all measures taken by the Punjab government, the project sustained high annual losses due to the subsidized rate provided in the project. Several reasons for the failure of the project included:
Poor route planning and design of the project.
Difficult ticketing systems i.e. the electronic card used in the project and expensive card load requirements.
Qinqi rickshaws operating on same routes as the metro bus are cheaper and quicker.

Allegation and probe
An alleged scandal emerged on 29 January 2015, after Chinese firm Yabaite-China associated a huge amount of money in their accounts, flowing from the Pakistan-associated Multan metro project. It was revealed in an allegedly $17.5 million corruption scandal that a construction contract was awarded to Habib Rafiq Private Limited. Some part of the project was outsourced to Capital Engineering, a company owned by Faisal Subhan (alleged frontman of the Sharif family). Capital Engineering allegedly made suspicious deals with Jiangsu Yabaite Technology Co. Ltd, which possibly have provided a kickback to the Chief Minister of Punjab, Shehbaz Sharif. However, Sharif outrightly rejected the allegations and termed Faisal Subhan as a fictitious character. "I have done no corruption, I am ready for any probe", he added.

Despite all allegations, Zafar Hijazi, ex-chairman Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP), refused to forward the case to FIA and start an inquiry against capital international or Yabaite China. However, after Hijazi was arrested in a record tampering case in August 2017, SECP finally moved the money laundering cases against Chinese firm to FIA. In October 2017, the Senate standing committee of finance noted serious reservations on corruption scam in Multan metro. It was noted that Hijazi, who changed the record for the Sharif family, held the Multan metro corruption cases and impeded its referral to FIA, raising further suspicions. Multan metro initiated the first ever high-profile money laundering case against any Chinese firm.

After the Senate committee took up the case of Multan metro corruption, and SECP referred the associated money laundering case in October 2017, NAB finally took notice of the mega corruption scandal and ordered a probe into misappropriate of funds and use of substandard materials. In February 2018, NAB finally started the proceedings after long controversies and delays. Nadir Chatta, the Deputy Commissioner of Multan, faced interrogation from NAB on violation or procedures while purchase of land. However, on 31 August 2017, acting Chinese ambassador, Zhao Lijian, rejected the allegations by saying that Yabaite was not operating in Pakistan.

See also
Rapid transit in Pakistan
Lahore Metrobus
Rawalpindi-Islamabad Metrobus
Karachi Metrobus
TransPeshawar

References

Transport in Multan
Bus rapid transit in Pakistan


title: List of West Texas A&M Buffaloes in the NFL Draft

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This is a list of West Texas A&M Buffaloes football players in the NFL Draft.

Key

Selections

References

West Texas AandM

West Texas A&M Buffaloes


title: James Gordon Melville Turner

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James Gordon Melville Turner GC (1907 – 5 November 1967) was a British merchant seaman.  He was awarded the Empire Gallantry Medal (EGM) for actions on the cargo ship  on 6 September 1939.  The ship was one of the first British merchantmen sunk during the Second World War.  The award of the EGM was gazetted on 13 October 1939, and the medal was exchanged for the George Cross (GC) in 1943. Turner was also awarded the Lloyd's War Medal for Bravery at Sea, and a gold medal by the Liverpool Shipwreck and Humane Society.

Turner was the radio officer on SS Manaar, a  cargo steamer of  built in 1917 and operated by the Brocklebank Line.  En route from Liverpool to Calcutta, the vessel was attacked by the German submarine U-38 at , in the northern Atlantic Ocean about  northwest of Cape St Vincent  and about   west of Cape Roca. The merchant vessel returned fire, the first time that a merchantman had fired at a U-boat in the war.  Turner remained at his post, sending an SOS.

When most of the crew abandoned the stricken ship, Turner was accidentally left behind with two wounded crewmates, described in the medal citation as lascars.  He was ordered to escape to the master's boat, but refused to go until the two other crewmen had also been rescued.  While under fire from U-38, Turner tried to launch two lifeboats, but one filled with water and the other was destroyed by enemy action with one of the wounded crew inside.  He put the other man in the waterlogged boat, and they both escaped to the master's boat.  U-38 sank Manaar with torpedoes.  Seven of the 62 crew were killed, and survivors were rescued by the merchantmen ,  and .

When a ship on which Turner subsequently sailed was also torpedoed he lost a leg, then spent the remainder of the war in a German prisoner-of-war camp.

Turner survived the war, but was one of the 49 people killed in the Hither Green rail crash on Sunday 5 November 1967.  At the time of his death, he was living in Staplecross in Sussex.  He was survived by his wife and two children.

A painting of Turner by Bernard Hailstone is in the Government Art Collection, on display at the Ministry of Defence in London.

References
 "Courage Of Radio Operator." The Times, 24 November 1939
 "Mr J. G. Turner." The Times, 10 November 1967
 EGM citation
 EGM citation, London Gazette
 SS Manaar, Wrecksite
 Painting

1907 births
1967 deaths
British recipients of the George Cross
Recipients of the Empire Gallantry Medal
Survivors of seafaring accidents or incidents
British Merchant Navy personnel of World War II
British Merchant Navy officers


The Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Editing is an annual merit by the Africa Film Academy to reward movies with the best film-editing for the year.

References

Lists of award winners
Africa Movie Academy Awards


title: Church of St. Symeon, Mytilene

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The Church of Saint Symeon in Mytilene () is a church on the island of Lesvos in the city of Mytilene close to the old market.  In the archive of the Metropolitan Church of Mytilene documentation can be found regarding the church on page 30a and 38B beginning 1700.  The specific church is mentioned and it may have been built around 1700.  A church was built on the site around 1885-1891, it replaced the old church which was smaller and ready to be torn down.  This maybe attributed to an earthquake in 1867.  There exist architectural plans that show a huge church was on the site that predates the building of 1885.  Three saints are venerated by the church;  Saint Simeon Stylites of Syria, Saint Symeon Stylites of Lesbos and Simeon (Gospel of Luke)

Architecture

The church has a circular dome with an icon venerating Jesus Christ.  The outer portion consists of a biblical historical timeline with Hebrew stories from the Old Testament.  The church is a Basilica with a cross-like structure.  It was built with pendentives resembling the churches of the middle Byzantine architecture.
The cupola rests on pendentive like arches.  Pendentives can be seen in churches such as Hagia Sophia.  The Church Bell Tower may have been funded by a priest named Sotirous Lekatsas Papasotiriou.  He served as a priest at the church from 1917–1921.

The nave vaults of the church resemble romanesque architecture used throughout Europe during the time of the Byzantine empire on gothic cathedrals.  Examples include the interior of Speyer Cathedral, Speyer Germany around 1030.  The columns also resemble the Byzantine style of architecture.  The use of columns of this nature could be seen in the interior of Santa Costanza Rome Italy ca. 337–351.

The entire church resembles an artistic work of art.  The stone used to construct the church was brought from Sarmusak, a quarry in Turkey, located near the entrance to the bay of Ayvalik.  The interior church design is stamped with crosses and iconographic areas which were created by the local artist P Polichroni
of the previous century.

The church has all the documentation which verifies the building from its inception.  The church is located in a small neighborhood with a huge backyard.  People from all over the island come and worship.  Around Easter week the church is bulging with people.

Artifacts

The Iconostasis (altar screen), the holy altar, the ciborium, the pontifical throne, the pulpit, mobile shrines adoring the left and the right of the church entrance and the canopy epitaph are now in the Byzantine museum of the church for safe keeping, these artifacts belonged to the original church from the 1700s.

The woodcraft reassembled in the church are evidence of the early construction of the church.  It is demonstrated in church archives.  The wood has elaborate carvings and religious motifs.  The Iconostasis (altar screen) and the holy altar are both wood carved and maybe over 300 years old.  Details describing the Wood sculptures were made by the late Metropolitan Iakovos Kleomvrotou in his film Mytilene Sacra.

In the current church there is an icon of Saint Simeon Stylites.  In 1975 it was sent for cleaning to the official Byzantine Ancient Artifacts Division, under the existing painting was found another painting of Byzantine Art.  An experienced researcher established that the painting originated during the time of Palaiologos.  The original painting that is at the church today is art of the 17th century, it belonged to the previous church.

Picture Gallery

References

Churches completed in 1783
Eastern Orthodox church buildings in Greece
Buildings and structures in Mytilene


title: Government Indian School

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The Government Indian School, also known as the B.I.A. School and later the City Multipurpose Building, is a historic school building in Haines, Alaska.  The building is a -story wood-frame structure,  long and  wide, built in 1906.  It is basically a Cape Cod style structure, an unusual form for Southeast Alaska, and an unusual sight when it was built.  About 1/3 of its interior provided living quarters for the schoolmaster, and there were two classrooms on the first floor, and an auxiliary finished space in the loft area that saw several uses during the building's use as a school.  The building is distinctive as a rare early school building built by the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs, and it was the first 20th century structure built in Haines.  It served as a school until 1945, after which it was adapted to other public uses. The building is currently hosting the Chilkat Valley Preschool.

The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Haines Borough, Alaska

References

External links
 Chilkat Valley Preschool website

School buildings completed in 1905
Bureau of Indian Education
Buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Haines Borough, Alaska
Native American history of Alaska
Native American schools
School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Alaska
Schools in Haines Borough, Alaska
1905 establishments in Alaska


title: Investigating Innocence

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Investigating Innocence is a nonprofit wrongful conviction advocacy organization that provides criminal defense investigations for inmates in the United States. Investigating Innocence was founded in 2013 by private investigator Bill Clutter to assist nationwide Innocence Project groups in investigating innocence claims. "Once we have a case that meets our criteria, we'll put private investigators to work on it. A lot of these cases need investigators," said Kelly Thompson, executive director of Investigating Innocence. Prior to his work on Investigating Innocence, Clutter was one of the founders of the Illinois Innocence Project. Investigating Innocence also has a board composed of exonerees that reviews incoming cases.

Clutter is also advocating for the creation of a statewide conviction integrity unit for the state of Illinois, where Investigating Innocence is based. Conviction integrity units, which investigate innocence claims, have popped up in recent years in major metropolitan areas such as Dallas, New York, and Chicago. As government organizations, these groups have a greater ability to access evidence and assist defendants than independent innocence organizations. Illinois has a conviction integrity unit, which has seen over 70 convictions overturned since 2017, but it serves only the Chicago area and smaller counties lack funding for such units. "It would be a financial burden for this office to have a truly independent staff of at least one investigator and one attorney to review the claims, and there are not enough claims like this in a county like Sangamon to warrant those resources," Clutter said. "But on a state level, it makes sense to have it housed in the attorney general's office."

Notable Cases

David Camm (Exonerated)

One of the organization's most prominent cases was the exoneration of David Camm, a former Indiana state trooper who was wrongfully convicted of the murders of his wife and two children. Approximately five years after he was arrested, DNA evidence identified a convicted felon named Charles Boney as having been at the crime scene. Boney is currently serving 225 years for the murders.

On October 24, 2013, David Camm, walked free after 13-years in prison after a jury in Lebanon, Indiana found him not guilty in a third re-trial. His case was the first exoneration for Investigating Innocence, which was started earlier that year. Bill Clutter, who started the project, was a member of Camm's defense team and suggested conducting an animated crime scene reconstruction, which helped persuade the jury that David Camm is innocent. Students at the Indiana University assisted Clutter and the Camm defense team in reviewing the case and provided a fresh set of eyes.

Clutter simulated how the actual killer, Charles Boney, infamously known as the "Shoe Bandit" who had been released from prison a few weeks before the murders after serving nearly a decade for holding women at gunpoint, braced his left hand leaving a palm print on the outside of Kim Camm's Ford Bronco as he knelt on the floorboard and extended his right hand to fire the gun that killed five-year-old Jill, and her brother Brad, age 7.

David Camm, a decorated Indiana Police Officer, was wrongfully charged with the murders of his family based on junk science.

On September 28, 2000, David Camm came home at approximately 9:26 p.m. and found his wife Kimberly, and his two children Bradley, 7, and Jill, 5, shot to death in the garage of their home in Georgetown, Indiana. His wife and two children were last seen leaving swim practice and heading home around 7:00 p.m., which was about the same time David arrived at the Georgetown Community Church to play basketball. David, a former Indiana State Police trooper, had been playing basketball with 11 other people at the time his wife and children were killed.

Three days later, David Camm was charged with his family's murder based on a misinterpretation of bloodstain patterns on his t-shirt. There were eight small stains of blood that were mistakenly interpreted as high velocity impact spatter by a crime scene photographer who had no formal training or experience in bloodstain pattern analysis. The photographer, Robert Stites, was sent to the crime scene by Rodney Englert, who was hired by Floyd County prosecutors as a blood stain and crime scene expert; since Englert was not available to visit the crime scene, he sent his photographer, Stites, instead.

Some of the leading experts in the country on bloodstain pattern analysis analyzed the bloodstains on David's T-shirt. They have concluded that the eight tiny bloodstains were actually transfer stains rather than high velocity impact stains from a gun. These transfer stains occurred when David's T-shirt came into contact with his daughter's hair when he removed his injured son from the vehicle.

The main expert used to convict David Camm, Rodney Englert, was also involved in convicting another innocent person, Julie Rea. Katherine Liell, who represented Camm after he was convicted, contacted private investigator Bill Clutter in June 2000 because her other client, Rea, was under investigation by a Special Prosecutor Edwin Parkinson (the same person who wrongfully charged Curtis Lovelace in Quincy, Illinois). Clutter was investigating serial killer Tommy Lynn Sells for the 1986 murders of Dyke and Karen Rhoads in Paris, Illinois, that led to two innocent men, Randy Steidl and Herb Whitlock, being framed for that murder. Clutter recognized similarities in Julie Rea's case (a knife from the kitchen of the victims was used in both cases, and the time was identical, with both crimes occurring at 4 a.m.). Since her client was facing the death penalty if she were charged, Liell planned to hire Clutter under a new reform called the Capital Litigation Trust Fund that was enacted as one of the death penalty reforms. Clutter suggested if her client was charged, the first suspect that fit the MO was a serial killer, Tommy Lynn Sells, who targeted children after his release from prison in 1997, the year Joel was murdered.

Special Prosecutor Parkinson, like prosecutors in New Albany did in the Camm case, relied on bloodstain "expert" Rod Englert to provide probable cause to arrest and convict both Camm and Rea in 2002. Englert claimed that there was evidence of cast-off stains on Julie Rea's nightshirt. Clutter was never hired by Liell because Parkinson filed notice of his intent not to seek the death penalty a few weeks before additional reforms by the Illinois Supreme Court went into effect that required that appointment of two capital qualified attorneys and enhanced discovery, allowing for depositions in cases where the death penalty was charged. Clutter conducted the post-conviction investigation for the Illinois Innocence Project, which Clutter started in 2001. His investigation found two key witnesses who placed Sells in Lawrenceville at the time of the murders, convincing Texas Ranger John Allen, who investigated Sells’ other crimes, to sign an affidavit in support of Rea's petition to overturn her conviction. She was freed from prison and received a certificate of innocence.

On June 2, 2003, an ethics complaint with the American Academy of Forensic Science was lodged against Englert by a number of other bloodstain experts alleging that Englert misrepresented his education, training and experience. This prompted Englert to sue them for slander.

The bloodstain experts who signed the complaint included Herb MacDonell (who established the professions of blood stain pattern experts in 1971, with the publication of his book Flight Characteristics and Stain Patterns of Human Blood), Stuart James, Terry Laber, and Bart Epstein.

MacDonell was also sued for slander for calling Englert among other things "a forensic whore", "liar-for-hire", "a very smooth charlatan" and "The Bin Laden of Bloodstains". All of these bloodstain experts that Englert sued have expressed opinions in support of David Camm's innocence.

Almost five years after David Camm was arrested, forensic science identified the real killer; a man named Charles Boney, a career criminal who was released from prison a few months before he killed the Camm family. Yet, despite this evidence, David Camm remains in jail today awaiting a third re-trial.

Police and prosecutors ignored a sweatshirt found at the scene that had been purchased from the Indiana Department of Corrections that had the moniker "BACKBONE" written in black ink on the inside collar. A male DNA profile indicating the wearer's DNA was discovered when forensic scientists from Cellmark, a private lab, swabbed the collar of the sweatshirt and obtained a full male DNA profile. In February 2005, Charles Boney, was identified by CODIS, which is a criminal offender DNA data base. His prison nickname was BACKBONE. In addition to this evidence, Boney's palm print was identified on the outside passenger door of the Camm's Ford Bronco, where he placed his left palm as he leaned in with his right hand holding the gun to shoot and kill both children. The children had been seated in the backseat when they were shot. Jill was still wearing her seatbelt. Her brother Brad was attempting to escape to the back-cargo area when he was shot.

Known as "The Shoe Bandit", Boney had spent almost a decade in prison for a series of crimes in Bloomington, Indiana, in which he held women at gunpoint while he satisfied his foot fetish by stealing their shoes. David Camm's wife had struggled with her attacker, who made her remove her shoes and her pants during the attack. Another key piece of forensic evidence is Kim Camm's DNA that was found on the shirt sleeve of the sweatshirt, consistent with Boney's arm around her neck and coming into contact with her mouth.

When Boney was first interviewed by the Indiana State Police, he denied knowing David Camm. Police investigators were the ones who suggested that Boney had met David Camm playing basketball when they questioned him. Boney initially denied ever playing basketball with Camm. He also claimed to have given his clothing to the Salvation Army when he was released from prison, which he later admitted was a lie. When police discovered Boney's palm print on the outside passenger door of Kim Camm's Ford Bronco a few weeks later, he changed his story again. At this point, he was given two choices. He could be either a witness for the prosecution to help prosecutors re-convict David Camm, or he could be a defendant facing the death penalty. After giving several contradictory statements, Boney claimed that he met David Camm playing basketball at a community park, after which he agreed to sell David Camm the gun that killed his family. He said he gave the gun to Camm wrapped in his sweatshirt. However, this story fails to account for how Kim Camm's DNA from saliva got on the sleeve of his sweatshirt or how Boney's hand print was found on the Camm family Bronco at the scene of the crime. Prosecutor's admitted that the credibility of its star witness Charles Boney is doubtful.

Camm's exoneration and Clutter's work on the case are featured on the Oxygen TV show Framed By the Killer.

Darlie Routier
Darlie Routier was accused and convicted of the murders of her two children based solely on controversial forensic evidence known as bloodstain pattern analysis.

She suffered the trauma of having been awakened by an intruder who slit her throat. This unknown assailant also stabbed her two boys sleeping next to her. Routier nearly bled to death waiting for help to arrive after calling 911. Then she was tried, convicted and sentenced to death based on the testimony of Tom Bevel, a hired bloodstain pattern expert. Bevel testified that he magnified small patterns of stains on the mother's nightshirt that he interpreted as cast-off patterns, which to him suggested that it was the mother who wielded the knife that killed her two children.

Bevel was the same bloodstain expert who was responsible for the wrongful conviction of David Camm. Camm, a ten-year veteran of the Indiana State Police, was acquitted and set free on October 24, 2013, after spending 13 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. A reconstruction of the crime scene, including a palm print and DNA, proved that the murder of his wife and two children was committed by a career criminal who was motivated by shoe fetish. Bevel interpreted eight tiny dots of blood on Camm's t-shirt and concluded these were created by high velocity impact spatter from having fired the gun that killed his family. Some of the most respected bloodstain analyst in the county came to a different conclusion—that these stains were transferred from the hairs of his daughter when David attempted CPR on his son.

Bloodstain scientists Terry Laber and Bart Epstein, who assisted with the defense of David Camm, were hired by Darlie Routier's public defenders. They analyzed the bloodstain interpretations of Bevel and came to a different conclusion about these patterns. They provided a favorable report to her defense attorneys. However, the testimony of the prosecution's bloodstain expert, Tom Bevel, went unchallenged. A private attorney was hired by Routier's family a month before trial and failed to call Laber or Epstein. He told the family he thought he could handle this through his cross-examination of Bevel. The attorney kept the retainer for himself, and spared the family the expense of flying the experts to Dallas. Routier's case is very similar to another mother who was wrongfully convicted of stabbing her 10-year-old son. On October 13, 1987, in Lawrenceville, Illinois, Julie Rea was awakened at 4 a.m. to the sound of her son's scream. When she rushed to his room across the hall, in the dark of the night, she collided with a child serial killer, Tommy Lynn Sells. He dropped the knife on the floor, and began beating her with his fists. Despite physical injuries, including a gash on her arm, a black eye, bruises and abrasions, Rea became the prime suspect. She was charged with capital murder three years later, after the elected prosecutor who resisted pressure to arrest her left office. A new prosecutor hired bloodstain "expert" Rodney Englert, who examined Rea's nightshirt and found what he interpreted as evidence of "cast-off". After she was convicted in March 2002, True crime author Diane Fanning published Through the Window: The Terrifying True Story of Cross-Country Killer Tommy Lynn Sells. Sells told Fanning about a murder in Illinois in which he had killed a child and was startled by the mother who came into the room. Two years later, Texas Ranger John Allen provided an affidavit in support of Rea's petition for a new trial. The Illinois Innocence Project had corroborated the serial killer's confession. Rea was acquitted in a new trial, and the courts have issued her a Certificate of Innocence.

Darlie Routier, however, remains on death row in Texas, awaiting execution based on the same bloodstain interpretation evidence that convicted Julie Rea. Private investigator Gary Dunn commented after the release of his client, David Camm: "Bloodstain evidence is mostly subjective. One bloodstain expert said it’s like looking at the clouds, they all see something different". In 2009, the National Academy of Sciences released a critique of forensic science practices in U.S. courtrooms, noting that since the introduction of DNA testing in 1989 that "faulty science" was found to be responsible for the wrongful convictions in a number of post-conviction DNA exonerations. Bloodstain Pattern Analysis (BPA) was one of the disciplines that was criticized because of the interjection of "examiner bias". The report noted "many sources of variability arise with the production of bloodstain patterns, and their interpretation is not nearly as straightforward as the process implies". The report found, "some experts extrapolate far beyond what can be supported", and went on to conclude that "extra care must be given to the way in which the analyses are presented in court. The uncertainties associated with bloodstain pattern analysis are enormous". (Source: Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward, The National Academies Press, Washington DC (2009), pp. 42, 177–179.)

Curtis Lovelace (Exonerated)
In 2017, Investigating Innocence was also instrumental in the defense of Curtis Lovelace, a former prosecutor who was charged with murder in Quincy, Illinois, in the death of his first wife Cory Lovelace. The organization referred the case to the Exoneration Project, based at the University of Chicago, which agreed to represent Lovelace pro bono.
Lovelace was indicted eight years after his wife died of liver failure, a condition known as fatty liver. Investigating Innocence helped develop key evidence that contributed to his exoneration.
In 1990, Lovelace was team captain of the Fighting Illini football team that won the Citrus Bowl. On a change of venue, a Springfield, Illinois jury took less than two hours to acquit Lovelace on March 10, 2017.

Rodney Lincoln (Exonerated)
Investigating Innocence conducted the investigation that linked serial killer Tommy Lynn Sells to the April 27, 1982 murder of JoAnne Tate in St. Louis for which Rodney Lincoln was wrongfully convicted. The investigation of Bill Clutter was featured on Crime Watch Daily, which triggered the recantation of Melissa DeBoer, who was seven years old and left for dead when she witnessed the murder of her mother. Melissa's mistaken identification of Rodney Lincoln led to his conviction in 1983. This new evidence persuaded Missouri Governor Eric Greitens to commute Rodney Lincoln's sentence. On June 3, 2018, Lincoln was freed from prison.

Randy Steidl
Bill Clutter, who founded Investigating Innocence, conducted the post-conviction investigation that helped free Randy Steidl from death row. Clutter's pre-trial investigation also helped free Rolando Cruz and Alejandro Hernandez from death row in Illinois. Clutter was among a handful of private investigators and lawyers who were credited by Chicago Tribune columnist Eric Zorn for helping to abolish the death penalty in Illinois.

Tom McMillen
As of 2019, the group is advocating for Tom McMillen, who was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the 1989 murder of Melissa Koontz. Clutter says that two key witnesses were never called to testify in the case. Their testimony would have contradicted key testimony against McMillen.

The Crime: On June 24, 1989, at 10:06 p.m., 19-year-old Melisa Koontz left work at Cub Foods where she worked as a cashier on the Southwest edge of Springfield, Illinois. Her decomposed body was found a week later July 1, 1989, laying face-up in a cornfield approximately 1.5 miles away. She had been stabbed multiple times.

Multiple witnesses observed a suspicious young white male lurking in the employee parking lot around the time Melisa exited the store.

Less than an hour later, at 10:50 p.m., her vehicle, a black Ford Escort hatchback, was discovered abandoned on the Waverly Blacktop Road, a rural country road that led to her parents' home in Waverly, IL, approximately 15.2 miles from Cub Foods.

There was circumstantial evidence of a sexual assault. The buttons of the victim's shirt were torn off and the clasp of her bra was broken. Her skirt had been rolled up. DNA testing on the bra and shirt have identified a partial male DNA profile eliminating Tom McMillen and his co-defendants Gary Edgington and Donald Johnston as the source.

Tom McMillen was charged with capital murder on May 15, 1990, accused of the murder of 19-year-old Melissa Koontz. He was convicted in July 1991 and sentenced to life in prison. His conviction hinged on the testimony of Donald "Goose" Johnston, an alcoholic and intellectually disabled person who falsely confessed to the crime and later identified McMillen as the killer in a plea deal that resulted in Johnson serving less than seven years in prison. McMillen was convicted by a jury based on the false testimony of Donald Johnston and was given a life sentence.

Gary Edginton was tried separately. He was also convicted and received a life sentence based on the testimony of Johnston. He is being represented by the Innocence Project in New York.

Donald "Goose" Johnston

Four days after Melissa Koontz disappeared, Donald Johnston sees a missing person poster and tells a police officer he had seen the missing woman in Carlinville, Illinois, 46 miles from where she disappeared. This was the first of many false statements Johnston would make about the case. McMillen was denied access to Donald Johnston's mental health records by the court when his defense attorney requested the records. Johnston recanted his testimony in a video-recorded statement in 2008, and signed a medical authorization allowing for the release of his mental health records. These records show he has an IQ of 54. According to the U.S. Supreme Court, "These persons are a special risk of wrongful conviction." (Hall v. Florida).

Tom McMillen's defense attorney Michael Costello provided an affidavit as to the significance of Donald Johnston's mental health records. "Had the mental health records of Donald Johnston been disclosed prior to trial I would have challenged Donald Johnston’s mental competency to testify."

Richard Leo is one of the nation's leading experts on the psychology of false confessions. He conducted a video-taped forensic interview of Donald Johnston in 2008. "In evaluating whether a witness is providing police with reliable information, a person who claims to have witnessed a murder should be able to accurately relate details to police that match up with the crime scene evidence. They should be able to provide facts of the crime that would not be generally known to the public. Based on my review of all available statements, Donald Johnston was never able to provide accurate details to police."

Danny Pocklington

Danny Pocklington was 15 years old when his cousin Donald Johnston told police that Pocklington was with him when Melissa Koontz was abducted and killed. Danny receives social security disability for intellectual disability since he was a teenager. He too, falsely confessed to the murder of Koontz. He served 6 years in a juvenile correctional facility until he turned 21. He brought a silver necklace to school and claimed it had been taken from Koontz. Police reports indicate the Koontz family was shown this silver necklace, but it did not belong to their daughter. There was no evidence at the time of the investigation that a silver necklace was missing. At autopsy the medical examiner removed a gold necklace that victim was wearing when her body was found. Pocklington provided another silver necklace to police claiming that he got it from Donald Johnston. Police failed to document whether this necklace had been shown to the family. Pocklington was mentally unfit to testify and was not called as a witness at the trials of McMillen or Edgington.

Mary Pocklington

The mother of Danny, she was charged with providing false statements to police. She is the one who gave police the silver necklace that she got from her son. This silver chain was offered as a key piece of evidence at trial corroborating the testimony of Donald Johnson. The mother of the victim testified that the silver chain was similar to one that her daughter had. However, she made this statement for the first time in court and never told police about her daughter having silver necklace.

The biggest forensic lead in the case was an unknown thumb print on the rear-view mirror of the victim's car. In 2008, the Sangamon County Sheriff agreed to run the print in AFIS, which identified an identified an individual who had never been investigated in the original investigation. The investigation by police at the time of the crime interviewed the victim's family to identify people who may have driven the car. The individual whose thumb print was identified the Sangamon County Sheriff in 2008 was never mentioned as a person who had been inside the vehicle. His name never surfaced in the original investigation. He has refused to voluntarily provide a sample of his DNA so it can be compared to the unknown male profile from the bra that recent DNA testing has identified. This DNA is significant because who ever killed Melissa Koontz grabbed the front of her bra and ripped it open. The DNA profile excludes Tom McMillen, Gary Edgington and Donald Johnston.

Jamie Snow
This crime occurred in Bloomington, Illinois, on Easter Sunday 1991. The murderer walked away with approximately $60, as Jamie Snow ate dinner with his children. After several years without a clear suspect, Jamie Snow was arrested and improperly charged by police and prosecutors willing to convict him by any means necessary, even after passing a polygraph exam. The conviction was only possible using testimony of unreliable witnesses, many who had their own legal issues, people easily coerced into accepting deals, some more than willing to give false testimony. Jailhouse informants claimed that Snow "confessed" to them while awaiting trial. Many of which have now recanted their testimonies in sworn affidavits. There has never been any physical evidence tying Snow to this case. Information has also come forward that at least one jury member knew Snow and did not inform the court of same. Snow has spent the last 14 years in prison fighting to present new evidence demonstrating his innocence. The original trial violated his constitutional rights in several ways, many which stem from a lack of representation by his public defender, who presented little to no defense. Not surprisingly, this attorney has since been disbarred, yet Jamie's conviction remains. The Prosecution relied on one "star witness" who provided critical eye-witness identification. Yet this same witness was unable to identify Snow in photo books or during a line-up which occurred soon after the crime. It wasn't until 1999, eight years later and after Snow's arrest, that the "star witness" identified Snow upon seeing his photograph in a local newspaper. Only at the trial, 10 years after the fact, did the "star witness" speak of Snow's eyes being "unforgettable", yet he had seen Jamie in numerous close up photos and the in person line-up not long after the incident occurred. Approximately four years after conviction police radio tapes disclosed to Snow that "star witness" could not have seen what he testified to seeing. Snow has always maintained his innocence, and continues to do so. Snow is represented by Tara Thompson with The Exoneration Project.

Current Cases

Christopher Vaughn
On June 14, 2007, Christopher Vaughn from Oswego, Illinois, loaded up the family vehicle and headed for Springfield, Illinois with his family to spend the day at Knight's Action Park. Just after 5 a.m., his wife asked him to pull off the highway because she was feeling sick, a side-effect of having stress related migraine headaches. A passing motorist stopped to render assistance to Christopher Vaughn, who was found walking along frontage road of Interstate 55 south of Joliet. He had been shot twice.

Their three children, Abigayle, 12, Cassandra, 11, and Blake, 8, were found dead in the rear passenger seat when paramedics arrived. Each had been shot twice. His wife, found in the front passenger seat of the family vehicle had a single gunshot wound under her chin. A 9 mm handgun belonging to her husband was found on the floorboard near Kimberly Vaughn's feet.

Vaughn initially told a man who stopped to render assistance that he believed he had been shot by his wife. However, when later interviewed by Illinois State Police investigators he had no memory of the incident. During the interview, he defended his wife and told investigators "she couldn’t have done it. . . She’s not that type of person".

Vaughn was arrested on the morning of the funeral for his family. Probable cause to arrest Vaughn was based on blood stain interpretations that were later discredited by DNA testing.

A psychiatrist later explained that Vaughn may have been experiencing dissociative amnesia. This is a form of memory loss caused when a person witnesses a traumatic event like watching his entire family die in an automobile crash and being the sole survivor, according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders published by the American Academy of Psychiatric Association.

A forensic pathologist retained as an expert witness for the prosecutor later described Kimberly Vaughn's injuries as consistent with a self-inflicted gunshot wound when he was deposed prior to trial.

Vaughn faced the death penalty. More than a year after he was arrested, the Food and Drug Administration issued an alert in Dec. of 2008, warning that patients taking the prescription medication Topamax had a statistically significant risk of suicidal ideation and behavior. Kimberly Vaughn had been prescribed the medication Topamax for the treatment of stress related migraine headaches.

A week before her death, Kimberly Vaughn reported experiencing symptoms that the FDA would later identify as early warning signs of adverse side effects from the medication. On May 24, 2007, Kimberly Vaughn told her doctor that she was experiencing anxiety and a big change in her personality. Other family members reported witnessing agitation and an episode of a panic attack during a recent family outing.

Nearly two years later, on May 9, 2009, the FDA issued new warning labels and medication guides for Topamax. The warning label inserted into medications sold after that date advised patients to immediately call their health care provider if they are experiencing: "new or worse anxiety; feeling agitated or restless; panic attacks; new or worse irritability; other unusual changes in behavior or mood."

A state police crime scene investigator described how he was persuaded by his interpretation of the crime scene evidence that this was a case of murder-suicide committed by the wife during a deposition that was taken in the weeks before Gov. Quinn signed legislation abolishing the death penalty.

Former ISP Crime Scene Investigator Robert Deel said, "every time I would come up with something that the evidence would suggest or support or you would be able to at least follow the evidence to come to a logical conclusion, basically I was just given some other crazy way that this could have occurred or they would change their theory of what happened to try to match the evidence rather than letting the evidence dictate to you the events that occurred". Deel said he cautioned investigators to wait before leaping to any conclusions. However, after voicing his concerns, Deel was isolated from the investigation by the Will County State's Attorney's office.

"What he described was tunnel vision that infected the investigation of the Vaughn case", said Bill Clutter, who is director of investigations for the newly formed innocence project. Clutter was involved in the investigation that helped exonerate former death row inmates Randy Steidl, Rolando Cruz and Alejandro Hernandez. There were 20 men who were freed from death row in Illinois who were actually innocent. A Governor's Commission would later study the causes of why these men had been wrongfully convicted, and concluded that most of the cases had been plagued with tunnel vision. This is when police investigators leap to conclusions about a suspect's guilt, while disregarding evidence that points toward other suspects.

The Will County State's Attorney's office has been involved in other high-profile cases where it arrested and convicted the wrong person. Most notable is the case of Kevin Fox, a father who was mistakenly arrested in 2004 and convicted of the murder of his three-year-old daughter. More recently, a police officer was arrested as the alleged Honey Bee Killer in Will County, but charges were later dismissed after his alibi was corroborated.

A seminar called "Side-effects: Homicidal and Suicidal Behavior Influenced by Prescription Medications" was presented on February 18, 2013, at Chicago-Kent College of Law from 1-3 p.m., featuring Dr. David Healy. A Wales physician, Healy was the first doctor to link suicidal and homicidal behavior as a side effect of some prescription medications. He was one of the experts hired to testify by Vaughn's defense team.

However, after the death penalty was abolished in Illinois the resources of the Capital Litigation Trust Fund were no longer available to help defend Vaughn. His defense team was discharged from the case in March 2011, after the Will County Board refused to provide funding for his defense team. The case was handed off to a new attorney, who refused pro bono assistance from a major law firm that had been recruited by Rob Warden of the Center on Wrongful Convictions based at Northwestern Law School. Vaughn was convicted eight months later, in August 2012.

Clutter's work on the Christopher Vaughn case was featured on a 12-part podcast by I Heart Radio called Murder in Illinois, and in an episode of Dr. Phil.

Notable Members

Prominent Investigating Innocence members are exoneree Randy Steidl, exoneree Ray Krone, private investigator Paul J. Ciolino, Cyndy Short, a Kansas City attorney who recently freed Reggie Griffin, and attorney Jose Baez.

See also
List of wrongful convictions in the United States

References

External links

Wrongful conviction advocacy
Government watchdog groups in the United States
Legal advocacy organizations in the United States
Non-profit organizations based in Illinois
Overturned convictions in the United States
Criminal defense organizations
Innocence Project


title: 1998 Ibero-American Championships in Athletics – Results

text:
These are the full results of the 1998 Ibero-American Championships in Athletics which took place on July 17–18, 1998 on Estádio Universitário in Lisbon, Portugal.

Men's results

100 meters

Heats – July 17Wind:Heat 1: -0.3 m/s, Heat 2: +1.4 m/s

Final – July 17Wind:+1.0 m/s

Extra – July 17Wind:0.0 m/s

200 meters

Heats – July 18Wind:Heat 1: -1.2 m/s, Heat 2: -1.7 m/s

Final – July 18Wind:+0.7 m/s

400 meters

Heats – July 18

Final – July 18

800 meters
July 19

1500 meters
July 18

5000 meters
July 19

10,000 meters
July 17

110 meters hurdles
July 18Wind: +0.6 m/s

400 meters hurdles

Heats – July 18

Final – July 19

3000 meters steeplechase
July 19

4 x 100 meters relay
July 19

4 x 400 meters relay
July 19

20 kilometers walk
July 17

High jump
July 19

Pole vault
July 18

Long jump
July 17

Triple jump
July 19

Shot put
July 18

Discus throw
July 17

Hammer throw
July 18

Javelin throw
July 19

Decathlon
July 17–18

Women's results

100 meters

Heats – July 17Wind:Heat 1: +0.1 m/s, Heat 2: +1.7 m/s

Final – July 17Wind:0.0 m/s

Extra – July 17Wind:0.0 m/s

200 meters

Heats – July 18Wind:Heat 1: +1.0 m/s, Heat 2: -0.5 m/s

Final – July 18Wind:+0.7 m/s

400 meters

Heats – July 17

Final – July 18

800 meters
July 19

1500 meters
July 18

5000 meters
July 17

10,000 meters
July 18

100 meters hurdles
July 17Wind: +2.0 m/s

400 meters hurdles
July 18

4 x 100 meters relay
July 19

4 x 400 meters relay
July 19

10,000 meters walk
July 18

High jump
July 18

Pole vault
July 17

Long jump
July 18

Triple jump
July 17

Shot put
July 19

Discus throw
July 18

Hammer throw
July 17

Javelin throw
July 17

Heptathlon
July 17–18

References

Ibero-American Championships Results
Events at the Ibero-American Championships in Athletics