title: Benjamin D. Magruder

text:
Benjamin Drake Magruder (September 27, 1838 – April 21, 1910) was an American judge in Illinois. Graduating from Yale University before he turned eighteen, Magruder studied law at the University of Louisiana at New Orleans Law School. He briefly worked a law office in Memphis, Tennessee before establishing a series of practices in Chicago, Illinois. He served on the Superior Court of Cook County for seventeen years starting in 1868. In 1885, he was elected to the Supreme Court of Illinois, where he wrote the decision denying the appeal of the Haymarket affair anarchists. He served in this court until 1906, then resumed a law practice.

Biography
Benjamin Drake Magruder was born in Jefferson County, Mississippi on September 27, 1838. He entered Yale University at the age of fourteen, graduating fourth in his class four years later. He moved to Baton Rouge, Louisiana to teach at a school. In his free time, he studied law under Joseph Barton Elam. Magruder then attended the University of Louisiana at New Orleans Law School and graduated as valedictorian in 1858.

Magruder opened a law office in Memphis, Tennessee in September 1859. He moved to Chicago, Illinois in 1861 to escape the Civil War. George F. Bailey admitted him as a junior partner, forming the Bailey & Magruder law practice. He later formed his own law practice as Magruder & Norton. The firm later became Magruder & Kerr before Magruder joined in the formation of the Hervey, Galt & Magruder firm. Joseph Gary, a former partner of Bailey, appointed Magruder Master in Chancery for the Superior Court of Cook County in 1868. He served this court until 1885.

Upon the death of Theophilus Lyle Dickey in 1885, Magruder was elected to fill his position in the Supreme Court of Illinois. After finishing the rest of Dickey's term, Magruder was elected to two more nine year terms. He served as chief justice in 1891, 1896, and 1902. His tenure on the court is best known for his decision in Illinois vs. August Spies et al. in 1887 to uphold the convictions against the Haymarket anarchists. Magruder also wrote the decision denying the creation of the Chicago Gas Trust Company, which would have monopolized the local illuminating gas trade. He was not nominated for re-election to the court in 1906. The Yale Law School conferred upon him an honorary Doctor of Laws degree later that year. Magruder then resumed practicing law.

Magruder married Julia Maria Latham, the daughter of Philip Clayton Latham, on June 15, 1864; they had a son and a daughter. He attended Fourth Presbyterian Church. He died in Chicago from Bright's disease on April 21, 1910. He was buried there in Rosehill Cemetery.

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1838 births
1910 deaths
Chief Justices of the Illinois Supreme Court
Illinois Republicans
Lawyers from Chicago
People from Jefferson County, Mississippi
Tulane University Law School alumni
Yale University alumni
Deaths from kidney disease
19th-century American judges
19th-century American lawyers
Justices of the Illinois Supreme Court


title: Karl Burkhart

text:
Karl Burkhart (10 May 1908 – 1976) was a Swiss cyclist. He competed in the tandem event at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

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1908 births
1976 deaths
Swiss male cyclists
Olympic cyclists for Switzerland
Cyclists at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Place of birth missing


title: Swimming at the 2002 Commonwealth Games – Women's 50 metre backstroke

text:
The women's 50 metre backstroke event at the 2002 Commonwealth Games took place 2–3 August. The heats and the semi were held on 2 August, the final on 3 August.

Results

Final

Key: WR = World record

Semifinals

Preliminaries

References
Heats Results

Swimming at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
2002 in women's swimming


title: Sally Hughes-Schrader

text:
Sally Peris Hughes-Schrader (1895–1984) was a professor of zoology at Duke University, 1962–1966.

Sally P. Hughes was born in Hubbard, Oregon. Hughes was accepted at Columbia University where she majored in protozoology and obtained her M.A. in 1922, completing her Ph.D. at Columbia in 1924. She taught at Bryn Mawr College and later at Columbia University. She was Professor of Zoology and the head of the Biology Department at Barnard College. Hughes performed the first complete dissection of the cranial nerves of the dogfish and made studies of hapoidy, parthenogenesis, hermaphroditism, and the life cycle of insects.

She came to Woods Hole in the summer of 1918 as a student from Grinnell College and was enrolled in the embryology course at the Marine Biological Laboratory. In 1922, she was listed as an instructor at Bryn Mawr and was a student in the MBL's protozoology course. In 1925, she returned to the MBL as an Independent Investigator in Zoology and continued in this capacity for several years. She later became a Life Member of the MBL Corporation. In 1928–1929, she was awarded the Sarah Berliner Research Fellowship from the American Association of University Women.

In 1920, she married the cytologist and geneticist Franz Schrader. She was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1963.

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1895 births
1984 deaths
20th-century American zoologists
20th-century American women scientists
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Columbia University alumni
Duke University faculty
Grinnell College alumni
People from Hubbard, Oregon


title: Masters M35 pole vault world record progression

text:
This is the progression of world record improvements of the pole vault M35 division of Masters athletics.

Key

References

Masters Athletics Pole Vault list

Masters athletics world record progressions
Pole vault


title: Fritz Ganz

text:
Fritz Ganz (20 February 1916 – 31 March 1992) was a Swiss cyclist and politician. He competed in the tandem event at the 1936 Summer Olympics. From 1971 till 1983 he was member of the Swiss parliament.

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External links

1916 births
1992 deaths
Swiss male cyclists
Olympic cyclists for Switzerland
Cyclists at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Cyclists from Zürich


title: Masters M40 pole vault world record progression

text:
This is the progression of world record improvements of the pole vault M40 division of Masters athletics.

Key

References

Masters Athletics Pole Vault list

Masters athletics world record progressions
Pole vault


title: Tommy Valentine

text:
Thomas Ervin Valentine (October 21, 1949 – July 12, 2014) was an American professional golfer.

College
Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Valentine was a four-year letterman in golf for the University of Georgia team from 1968 to 1971, winning the Southeastern Conference  (SEC) individual title in 1970, and helping Georgia win the SEC championship in 1969, 1970, and 1971.  He was first team NCAA All-American in 1970.

Professional career
Valentine competed on the PGA Tour from 1977 until 1988, earning over $300,000 during his career, which included 14 top-10 finishes. Valentine's best finish was a second to Tom Watson in the 1981 Atlanta Classic. Valentine and Watson were tied at the end of 72 holes, and Watson won the sudden-death playoff.

Later years
After leaving the PGA Tour in 1988, Valentine accepted the position of head pro at the Lochmoor Club in Grosse Pointe Woods, Michigan, which he held until his retirement in 2009.

Valentine died on July 12, 2014, following a long battle with cancer.  He was 64.

Playoff record
PGA Tour playoff record (0–1)

See also
Spring 1977 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates
Fall 1978 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates
1983 PGA Tour Qualifying School graduates

References

External links

American male golfers
Georgia Bulldogs men's golfers
PGA Tour golfers
Golfers from Atlanta
Golfers from Michigan
People from Grosse Pointe Shores, Michigan
Sportspeople from Macomb County, Michigan
Deaths from cancer in Georgia (U.S. state)
1949 births
2014 deaths


title: Romain Guillemois

text:
Romain Guillemois (born 28 March 1991 in Marmande) is a French former cyclist, who rode professionally between 2014 and 2017 for the  team.

Major results

2009
 3rd Overall Liège-La Gleize
1st Stage 2 (TTT)
 4th Road race, UCI Junior Road World Championships
2010
 2nd Paris–Tours Espoirs
 3rd Paris-Connerré
 5th Chrono des Nations
2011
 3rd Overall Boucles de la Mayenne
1st Stage 1
2012
 1st Boucles Catalanes
2013
 1st Stage 2 Boucles de la Mayenne
 6th Overall Coupe des nations Ville Saguenay
 6th Road race, Jeux de la Francophonie
 7th Liège–Bastogne–Liège Espoirs
 9th Paris–Tours Espoirs
 10th Tour du Doubs
2015
 10th Tour du Doubs

References

External links

1991 births
Living people
French male cyclists
People from Marmande
Sportspeople from Lot-et-Garonne
Cyclists from Nouvelle-Aquitaine


title: Belmont Slough

text:
Belmont Slough is a slough on the western shore of San Francisco Bay separating Redwood Shores and Foster City. It provides estuarine and marine deepwater habitats in its subtidal waters, which are characterized as brackish and saltwater.

Course

The head of the slough is in Belmont, California, just east of U.S. Route 101, slightly north of the exit for Ralston Avenue / Marine Parkway. The slough takes a winding course generally northeast from there, passing to the north of the Redwood Shores Oracle campus (completed in 1989, formerly Marine World/Africa USA) and south of Port Royal Park in Foster City. From there, the slough turns almost directly north, then east, then north again, and finally northeast as it enters the tidal exchange zone with the San Francisco Bay, an area characterized by shallow mudflats.

Both the Foster City and Redwood Shores shorelines of Belmont Slough are protected by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife as the  Redwood Shores Ecological Reserve, which is northwest of the adjacent Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge and Bair Island Ecological Reserve.

History

In the early 1900s the slough was considered the best place to hunt ducks in San Mateo County, with the birds so plentiful, hunters could sneak up on them.

Foster City established the slough as a nature preserve in 1973. The main route of the San Francisco Bay Trail runs along the perimeter of Foster City, including the western border along Belmont Slough. The city maintains several spur trails off the Bay Trail along the western shore of Belmont Slough, including trails that lead to a beach area and the Foster City sign, visible from aircraft landing at nearby San Francisco International Airport. The intake structure for the Foster City Lagoon, which provides flood control and recreational opportunities for the city, is at the western end of Angelo Slough; Angelo Slough is a stub waterway connected to Belmont Slough running east–west, just north of Bat Ray Island.

The California State Lands Commission acquired the shoreline areas along Belmont Slough in an exchange with Mobil Oil Corporation in 1976.

Ecology
The salt marshes surrounding Belmont Slough contain stands of cordgrass and pickleweed and serve as feeding areas for rails, herons, and other shorebirds; the levees built to reclaim the land for Foster City and Redwood Shores host gum plant, which provides nesting grounds for the Bay salt marsh song sparrow. Small rodents that live in the area are predated upon by the white-tailed kite, short-eared owl, and marsh harrier. Other animals that may be found near Belmont Slough include the California black rail, California clapper rail, Western snowy plover, Alameda song sparrow, and pallid bat.

References

Bodies of water of San Mateo County, California
San Francisco Bay


title: OpenBiome

text:
OpenBiome is a nonprofit organization in Somerville, Massachusetts, which operates a public stool bank and supports research on the human microbiome.

History
OpenBiome distributes material to hospitals and clinics to support the treatment of C. difficile, the most common pathogen causing hospital-acquired infection in the U.S. OpenBiome provides frozen preparations of screened and filtered human stool for use in fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) therapies. OpenBiome can provide clinicians with three different formulations: a high-concentration "FMP 30" formulation for delivery via the upper gastrointestinal tract, a lower-concentration "FMP 250" for delivery via the lower gastrointestinal tract, and, as of October 2015, a capsule formulation.  As of March 2017, OpenBiome had provided over 20,000 treatments to 50 states and 7 countries.

In 2015, OpenBiome announced the launch of PersonalBiome, a stool banking program through which individuals could store their stool for future use in fecal transplantation after microbial dysbiosis.

OpenBiome was founded in 2012 by Mark Smith, a microbiology student at MIT, and James Burgess, an MBA student at the MIT Sloan School of Management. It is the first public stool bank, and was founded to facilitate use of FMT. The logistical burdens associated with screening and processing fecal material have made it difficult for clinicians to offer FMT to patients with recurrent C. difficile infections.

References

External links
 Official Website

Feces
Organizations established in 2012
Health charities in the United States
Charities based in Massachusetts
Medical and health organizations based in Massachusetts
2012 establishments in Massachusetts


title: Masters M45 pole vault world record progression

text:
This is the progression of world record improvements of the pole vault M45 division of Masters athletics.

Key

IAAF includes indoor marks in the record list since 2000, but WMA does not follow that practice.

References

Masters Athletics Pole Vault list

Masters athletics world record progressions
Pole vault


title: William Logan (cyclist)

text:
William Logan (December 9, 1914 – October 2, 2002) was an American cyclist. He competed in the tandem and team pursuit events at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

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1914 births
2002 deaths
American male cyclists
Olympic cyclists for the United States
Cyclists at the 1936 Summer Olympics
People from Hackettstown, New Jersey
Sportspeople from Warren County, New Jersey


title: Murders of Nathan O'Brien, Kathryn Liknes and Alvin Liknes

text:
The disappearance of Nathan O'Brien, Kathryn Liknes and Alvin Liknes occurred on June 29, 2014. Five-year-old Nathan O'Brien and his grandparents, Kathryn and Alvin Liknes, disappeared from the grandparents' Calgary, Alberta home after what police called a "violent incident." An amber alert was issued. This alert was lifted on July 14, 2014 after the arrest of a person in relation to the disappearance. Later on July 14, 2014, police state that they believe O'Brien and the Likneses were murdered, but they did not recover their bodies. Douglas Garland was charged with two counts of first degree murder in the deaths of the Likneses and a second-degree murder charge for allegedly killing O'Brien. The second degree charge for Nathan O'Brien was upgraded by the court to a first degree charge in May 2015.

Trial
The murder trial for Garland began on January 16, 2017. The trial drew to a close on February 16, 2017, and it took the jurors just over nine hours to reach a verdict of guilty on all three counts of first degree murder.

The following morning, Garland was sentenced, with only the minimum sentence being determined, as first degree murder carries an automatic life sentence. After 10 of the 12 jurors recommended that Garland receive consecutive minimum sentences, Judge David Gates ordered Garland be required to serve 75 years before being eligible for parole. As Garland would have to live to 129 years of age to finish the term, this means he will, effectively, be incarcerated for the rest of his life. Throughout the trial, Garland never showed any remorse or emotion. Hours after being sentenced, Garland was sent to the Calgary Remand Centre located in the city's Northwest where he was physically assaulted by multiple inmates. EMS said the victim of the assault was transported to hospital in stable, non-life-threatening condition with soft tissue injuries.

See also
List of people who disappeared

References

2010s missing person cases
2014 crimes in Canada
Disappearance of Nathan O'Brien, Kathryn Liknes and Alvin Liknes
Child abduction in Canada
History of Calgary
Kidnapped Canadian people
Murder convictions without a body
Missing person cases in Canada


title: Masters M50 pole vault world record progression

text:
This is the progression of world record improvements of the pole vault M50 division of Masters athletics.

Key

External links
Masters Athletics Pole Vault list

Masters athletics world record progressions
Pole vault


title: Masters M60 pole vault world record progression

text:
This is the progression of world record improvements of the pole vault M60 division of Masters athletics.

Key

References

Masters Athletics Pole Vault list

Masters athletics world record progressions


title: 1508 in Portugal

text:
Events in the year 1508 in Portugal.

Incumbents
King of Portugal and the Algarves: Manuel I

Events
March - Battle of Chaul
Afonso de Albuquerque began his term as Governor of Portuguese India.
Duarte de Menezes began his term as Governor of Tangier.

Deaths
March - Lourenço de Almeida, explorer and military commander (born c.1480)
18 September - Jorge da Costa, Cardinal (born 1406)
Isaac Abrabanel, statesman, philosopher, Bible commentator and financier (born 1437)

See also
History of Portugal (1415–1578)

References

Years of the 16th century in Portugal
Portugal
1500s in Portugal
1508 in Europe


title: Masters M80 pole vault world record progression

text:
This is the progression of world record improvements of the pole vault M80 division of Masters athletics.

Key

References

Masters Athletics Pole Vault list

Masters athletics world record progressions
Pole


title: Masters M85 pole vault world record progression

text:
This is the progression of world record improvements of the pole vault M85 division of Masters athletics.

Key

IAAF includes indoor marks in the record list since 2000, but WMA does not follow that practice.

References

Masters Athletics Pole Vault list

Masters athletics world record progressions
Pole


title: Heino Dissing

text:
Heino Dissing (16 September 1912 – 27 May 1990) was a Danish cyclist. He competed in the tandem event at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

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External links

1912 births
1990 deaths
Danish male cyclists
Olympic cyclists for Denmark
Cyclists at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Cyclists from Copenhagen


title: Charleston Slough

text:
Charleston Slough is a former Leslie salt pond that is now reverting to marsh on the western shore of San Francisco Bay.

Environmental damage and recovery
In 1975 Leslie Salt owned the slough and used it for its salt water evaporation operations.  The company shrunk the channel and drastically restricted the tides within the slough.

In 1996, the City of Mountain View embarked on an ambitious project to reverse the damage cause by Leslie, and returned the slough to a much more environmentally-friendly salt marsh.

References

Landforms of Santa Clara County, California
San Francisco Bay


title: Bjørn Stiler

text:
Bjørn Stiler (24 July 1911 – 30 March 1996) was a Danish cyclist. He competed in the tandem event at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

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External links

1911 births
1996 deaths
Danish male cyclists
Olympic cyclists for Denmark
Cyclists at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Cyclists from Copenhagen


title: Jepson (surname)

text:
Jepson is an English language patronymic surname meaning "Geoffrey’s son".  The prefix "Jep" is also the diminutive given name. Jepson has alternate spellings, including Jepsen and Jephson. Jepson as a given name is rare.

People with the surname Jepson include:
 Arthur Jepson (1915–1997), English first-class cricketer and football goalkeeper
 Benjamin Jepson (1832–1914), American music educator
 Bert Jepson (1902–1981), footballer
 Brian Jepson (born 1970), American voice actor
 Duncan Jepson, British solicitor in Hong Kong
 Edgar Jepson (1863–1938), English novelist
 Harry Benjamin Jepson (1870–1952), American organist and composer
 Harry Jepson (1920–2016), English rugby league player
 Helen Jepson (1904–1997), American opera singer
 Herbert Jepson (1908–1993), American artist and founder of the Jepson Art Institute
 Jack Jepson, New Zealand footballer
 James Jepson Binns (1855–1928), English pipe-organ builder
 Jim Jepson (1942–1989), Canadian politician
 Joanna Jepson (born 1976), English Church of England curate
 Kristine Jepson (1962–2017), American opera singer
 Margaret Jepson (1907–2003), English writer
 Robert S. Jepson Jr. (born 1942), American philanthropist and businessman
 Ronnie Jepson (born 1963), English footballer
 Selwyn Jepson (1899–1989), British author, screenwriter and director
 Steven B. Jepson (born 1960), American opera singer
 Toby Jepson (born 1967), English musician and actor
 Tristan Jepson (1978–2004), Australian writer
 Vicky Jepson (born 1988), English footballer
 Warner Jepson (1930–2011), American composer
 Willis Linn Jepson (1867–1946), American botanist

See also
 Belita, Olympic figure skater, dancer and early film actress Maria Belita Gladys Olivie Lynn Jepson-Turner (1923–2005)
 Peter Jepson-Young (born 1957), Canadian AIDS-awareness educator
 Jepson (disambiguation), for other uses
 Jepsen
 Jepsonia

References

English-language surnames
Patronymic surnames


title: Roger Pirotte

text:
Roger Pirotte (born 31 March 1910, date of death unknown) was a Belgian cyclist. He competed in the tandem event at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

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External links

1910 births
Year of death missing
Belgian male cyclists
Olympic cyclists for Belgium
Cyclists at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Place of birth missing


title: Censoring the Body

text:
Censoring the Body is a 2007 book by Edward Lucie-Smith published by Seagull Books.

Content
Lucie-Smith's work explores the representation of the human body in art history and the way in which those representations show us changing attitudes to nakedness and sexuality. In the earliest extant artworks of humanity (works from the Paleolithic era) the focus is chiefly upon fertility—a focus that mutates at various points in history, particularly with the rise of Christianity and its associated ideas of Original Sin and the Fall of mankind.
He also explores techniques that have been used to limit the depiction of the human body on the one hand (such as the depiction of naked men hidden behind objects such as large taps) or, alternatively, to delight in it (such as the tradition of using classical mythology as a mechanism to create representations of naked femininity).

Lucie-Smith also explores the contemporary world of aesthetics and related ethics, discussing the way that photography has altered our perceptions of artworks relating to the body, and led to a general anxiety over photographs of juvenile bodies in ways that similar painted portraits would not have struck people in the Renaissance as being problematic. His final conclusion in the book is that contemporary political correctness is in reality a euphemism for de facto censorship.

References

2007 non-fiction books
Seagull Books books


title: 1510 in Portugal

text:
Events in the year 1510 in Portugal.

Incumbents
King of Portugal and the Algarves: Manuel I

Events
Portuguese conquest of Goa

Births
Paulo Dias de Novais, Captain-Governor of Portuguese Angola (died 1589)
Simão Rodrigues, Jesuit priest (died 1579)

Deaths
1 March - Francisco de Almeida, nobleman, soldier and explorer (born c.1450)

See also
History of Portugal (1415–1578)

References

Years of the 16th century in Portugal
Portugal
1510s in Portugal
1510 in Europe


title: Carlo Legutti

text:
Carlo Legutti (29 November 1912 –1 March 1985) was an Italian cyclist. He competed in the tandem event at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

References

External links

1912 births
1985 deaths
Italian male cyclists
Olympic cyclists for Italy
Cyclists at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Place of birth missing


title: Swimming at the 2002 Commonwealth Games – Men's 50 metre backstroke

text:
The men's 50 metre backstroke event at the 2002 Commonwealth Games took place 30–31 July. The heats and the semi were held on 30 July, the final on 31 July.

Results

Final

Key: WR = World record

Semifinals

Preliminaries

References
Results

Swimming at the 2002 Commonwealth Games


title: Ching Chow

text:
Ching Chow is an American one-panel cartoon that was created by Sidney Smith and Stanley Link. It first appeared on January 17, 1927, and ran for more than 60 years, under a variety of different creators. It was distributed by the Chicago Tribune / New York Daily News Syndicate. The title character was a stereotypical Chinese man with slanty eyes and a big, toothy grin. He offered pearls of Confucius-style wisdom, like "Beware of silent dog and still water."

Because Ching Chow was first published in the United States in 1927, the character entered the public domain in 2023.

Publication history
Comic strip expert Don Markstein postulates that Link illustrated the strip from the beginning, with the more well-known Smith's name being attached to give the strip credibility. When Smith died in 1935, Link's name was credited, until his own death in 1957. Link's former assistant Will Henry then produced the strip until it ended syndication in 1971.

The strip was revived from 1975 to 1976 by the writer/illustrator team of Rocco Lotto and Will Levinson. Henri Arnold wrote and drew the strip from 1976 until it was discontinued on May 12, 1990. Arnold created a new cartoon, Meet Mr. Luckey, "a virtually identical strip except that it now featured a life-size leprechaun." He continued with Mr. Luckey until 2009, when it was officially retired.

Concept
As with Charlie Chan, in later decades critics took contending views, finding that Ching Chow reinforced condescending Asian stereotypes such as an alleged incapacity to speak idiomatic English and a tradition-bound and subservient nature. As one critic wrote about Ching Chow, "It wasn’t as much a strip as it was a daily fortune cookie."

In later years, Ching Chow was viewed by many as a secret tip sheet for playing the numbers — the panel would appear far in the back pages of the New York Daily News. In a 1978 Village Voice article, one believer is quoted as saying, "Why you think Ching Chow has been in the newspaper all these years? Because it's funny? Hah, hah."

See also
 Hambone's Meditations
 Abe Martin of Brown County

References

External links

American comic strips
1927 comics debuts
1990 comics endings
Fictional Qing dynasty people
Gag-a-day comics
Gag cartoon comics
American comics characters
Male characters in comics
Ethnic humour
Race-related controversies in comics
Comics characters introduced in 1927
Stereotypes of East Asian people
Public domain comics
Comic strips formerly syndicated by Tribune Content Agency


title: Masters M55 pole vault world record progression

text:
This is the progression of world record improvements of the pole vault M55 division of Masters athletics.

Key

References

Masters Athletics Pole Vault list

Masters athletics world record progressions


title: Bo Utas

text:
Bo Utas, born May 26, 1938, in Höglunda, a village in Jämtland, Sweden, is a Swedish linguist, Iranologist and chess historian. He is professor emeritus in Iranian languages at Uppsala University, and a scholar on Persian historical linguistics and classical Persian literature.

Career
Bo Utas got acquainted with Persian literature in secondary school. In 1959, he started to study Persian at Uppsala University for his mentor Henrik Samuel Nyberg and defended his PhD thesis in 1973. His thesis is a critical edition of the Sufi masnavi poem Tariq to-tahqiq which has been ascribed to Hakim Sanai of Ghazna. Utas travelled extensively in Iran and Afghanistan in the 1960s and 1970s. From 1988 he became the first professor in Iranian languages at Uppsala University, a chair that he held until he retired in 2003. Under his supervision, no less than eight PhD candidates defended their theses successfully.

Bo Utas is a member of several learned societies, including the Royal Danish Academy of Science and Letters, Societas Iranologica Europaea, and the Royal Society for the Humanities in Uppsala. He was the first secretary of the Societas Iranologica Europaea.

Bo Utas knows several languages, including Avestan, Old Persian, Middle Persian, Sanskrit, Chinese, Russian, Greek, Latin, Turkish, Hebrew and Arabic.

A full list of his publications shows his broad and diverse scholarship on Middle Persian and New Persian language and literature, manuscript tradition and text edition, culture and religion in Greater Iran.

Bo Utas has translated several Persian classical and modern literary works into Swedish, including the Buf-e kur (Blind Owl) by Sadeq Hedayat.

Bo Utas collected essays on and translations of Persian literature in Swedish has been published with the title Persiska litteraturen: Essäer och översättningar and edited by his pupil Ashk Dahlén.

Selected publications (in English)
The Jewish-Persian fragment from Dandan-Uiliq, Orientalia Suecana 17, Uppsala, 1968.
 Tariq ut-tahqiq. A Sufi Mathnavi ascribed to Hakim Sana’i of Ghazna and probably composed by Ahmad b. al-Hasan b. Muhammad an-Naxcavani. A critical edition, with a history of the text and a commentary,  Lund: Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies, 1973.
On the composition of the Ayyatkar i Zareran, Monumentum H.S. Nyberg II, (= Acta Iranica, 5), Tehran-Liège 1975.
 A Persian Sufi poem: vocabulary and terminology. Concordance, frequency word-list, statistical survey, Arabic loan-words and Sufi-religious terminology in Tariq ut-tahqiq (A.H. 744), London-Malmö: Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies, 1978.
 Women in Islamic societies: social attitudes and historical perspectives, London-Malmö: Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies, 1983.
 Verbal ideograms in the Frahang i Pahlavik, Middle Iranian Studies = Orientalia Lovanensia Analecta, Skalmowski-van Tongerloo (eds.), 16, Leuven 1984.
 Jang u asti: War and peace in Iran, in E. Kahrs (ed.), Kalyanamitraraganam. Essays in honour of Nils Simonsson, Oslo (The Institute for Comparative research in human culture) 1986.
 Frahang i Pahlavik, edited with transliteration, transcription and commentary from the posthumous papers of Henrik Samuel Nyberg, with the collaboration of Christopher Toll, Wiesbaden 1988.
 The Munajat or Ilahi-namah of ’Abdu’llah Ansari, Manuscripts of the Middle East, Leiden, 1988.
 New Persian as an interethnic medium, Ethnicity, minorities and cultural encounters, I. Svanberg (ed.), Uppsala 1991.
 Arabic and Iranian elements in New Persian prosody, Johanson, L. & Utas, B. (eds.), Arabic prosody and its applications in Muslim poetry, Stockholm: Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, 1994.
 Traces of evidentiality in Classical New Persian, Evidentials: Turkic, Iranian and neighbouring languages, Johanson, L. & Utas, B. (eds.), Berlin & New York, 2000.

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Swedish male writers
Swedish Iranologists
Linguists from Sweden
Chess historians
Linguists of Persian
People from Jämtland
Uppsala University alumni
1938 births
Living people


title: All Circuit Review Extension Act

text:
The All Circuit Review Extension Act (; ) is an Act that extended for three years the authority for federal employees who appeal a judgment of the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) to file their appeal at any federal court, instead of only the U.S. Court of Appeals. This was a pilot program established in the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2012 to last only two years.

The bill was introduced into the United States House of Representatives during the 113th United States Congress. The bill was signed into law.

Background
The pilot program was established in the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2012 (WPEA) to last only two years. The Government Accountability Project (GAP) calls the program "landmark" and says that it was "the WPEA's most significant structural reform."

Provisions of the bill
This summary is based largely on the summary provided by the Congressional Research Service, a public domain source.

The All Circuit Review Extension Act extended from two to five years after the effective date of the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2012 (i.e., December 27, 2012), the period allowed for: (1) filing a petition for judicial review of Merit Systems Protection Board decisions in whistleblower cases, and (2) any review of such a decision by the Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).

Congressional Budget Office report
This summary is based largely on the summary provided by the Congressional Budget Office, as ordered reported by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on March 12, 2014. This is a public domain source.

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that enacting H.R. 4197 would have no significant effect on the federal budget. The legislation could affect direct spending by agencies not funded through the annual appropriations (such as the Tennessee Valley Authority); therefore, pay-as-you-go procedures apply. CBO estimates, however, that any net increase in spending by those agencies would not be significant. Enacting the bill would not affect revenues.

H.R. 4197 would extend for three years the authority for federal employees who appeal a judgment of the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB) to file their appeal at any federal court, instead of only the U.S. Court of Appeals. Based on information from MSPB and the Office of Special Counsel, CBO expects that allowing appeals to be filed in any federal circuit would lead to a small increase in the administrative burden of the MSPB and federal agencies. We estimate, however, that the costs associated with that increase would not be significant.

H.R. 4197 contains no intergovernmental or private-sector mandates as defined in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act and would impose no costs on state, local, or tribal governments.

Procedural history
The Al Circuit Review Extension Act was introduced on March 11, 2014 by Rep. Elijah E. Cummings (D, MD-7). The bill was referred to the United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, the United States House Committee on the Judiciary, and the United States House Judiciary Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law. On July 14, 2014, it was reported alongside House Report 113-519 part 1. The House voted on July 14, 2014 to pass the bill in a voice vote.

Debate and discussion
The organization Government Accountability Project (GAP) supported the legislation, arguing that an extension of the pilot program was needed in order to ensure that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and Congress had enough time to see the results of the program before deciding whether to make it permanent.

Federal Employed Women (FEW) and the Make It Safe Coalition supported the passage of the bill. They argued that "all circuit review is a sorely needed provision to ensure that the WPEA is enforced as Congress intended" because "during its 1982-2012 monopoly the Federal Circuit rewrote and gutted congressionally-passed whistleblower rights repeatedly." The Coalition reported that "the Federal Circuit had a 3-226 record against whistleblowers for decisions on the merits since October 1994, making it all but impossible for a whistleblower to prevail in court."

Rep. Elijah Cummings, who introduced the bill, said that this program is important to extend because it "allows whistleblowers to file appeals where they live rather than being limited to the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals." He also said that the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals has "an abysmal track record in whistleblower cases."

Rep. Darrell Issa also supported the bill, arguing that "whistleblowers are a critical asset for congressional oversight" and that extending the pilot program would give Congress "more time to gauge the impact of an 'all circuit' review."

See also
List of bills in the 113th United States Congress
Whistleblower protection in the United States

References

External links

Library of Congress - Thomas H.R. 4197
beta.congress.gov H.R. 4197
GovTrack.us H.R.4197
OpenCongress.org H.R. 4197
WashingtonWatch.com H.R. 4197
Congressional Budget Office's report on H.R. 4197

Acts of the 113th United States Congress
Whistleblower protection legislation


title: Masters M65 pole vault world record progression

text:
This is the progression of world record improvements of the pole vault M65 division of Masters athletics.

Key

References

Masters Athletics Pole Vault list

Masters athletics world record progressions
Pole


title: Masters M70 pole vault world record progression

text:
This is the progression of world record improvements of the pole vault M70 division of Masters athletics.

Key

References

Masters Athletics Pole Vault list

Masters athletics world record progressions
Pole vault
Pole


title: Bruno Loatti

text:
Bruno Loatti (26 February 1915 – 25 September 1962) was an Italian cyclist. He competed in the tandem event at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

References

External links

1915 births
1962 deaths
Italian male cyclists
Olympic cyclists for Italy
Cyclists at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Ravenna
Cyclists from Emilia-Romagna


title: Arden railway station, Denmark

text:
Arden railway station (previously Store-Arden railway station) is a railway station serving the railway town of Arden in Himmerland, Denmark.

The station is located on the Randers-Aalborg Line from Randers to Aalborg. It opened in 1869. The train services are currently operated by the railway company DSB.

History
The station opened in 1869 with the opening of the Randers-Aalborg railway line from Randers to Aalborg. The original villages in the area were Hesselholt a little west of the station, Store Arden a little east of the station and Lille Arden further east. After the opening of the railway line, a railway town quickly developed around the station. The name Arden for the railway town only arose later, and on maps of the town Arden was not used, Store Arden or Hesselholt being used instead.

The station survived a series of station closures in the 1970s.

Operations
The train services are operated by the railway company DSB. The station offers direct InterCity services to Copenhagen and Aalborg.

See also
List of railway stations in Denmark

References

Bibliography

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

Railway stations in the North Jutland Region
Railway stations opened in 1869
1869 establishments in Denmark
Railway stations in Denmark opened in the 1860s


title: Masters M75 pole vault world record progression

text:
This is the progression of world record improvements of the pole vault M75 division of Masters athletics.

Key

References

Masters Athletics Pole Vault list

Masters athletics world record progressions
Pole


title: RVNG Intl.

text:
RVNG Intl. is an independent record label based in Brooklyn, New York. Founded in 2003 by Matt Werth, the label is run by Werth and focuses on experimental dance and electronic music, often incorporating avant-garde genres. Release formats include vinyl, CDs, and digital downloads. In 2011, they were named one of the top 50 indie labels in America by Billboard.

In its nascent years, the label released the mix tape series RVNG PRSNTS MX, which was later followed by the Rvng of the Nrds 12" edit series. The ReRVNG archival series and FRKWYS series continue to this day, the latter of which pairs contemporary artists with influential musical pioneers. RVNG Intl. has also released original albums by artists such as Blondes, The Body, Holly Herndon, Julia Holter, Maxmillion Dunbar, and Stellar OM Source. In 2011, the label began releasing vinyl singles under the Beats in Space imprint, which Werth co-owns with Tim Sweeney.

RVNG Intl. was chosen as Resident Advisor's label of the month in January 2014 and Tiny Mix Tapes included RVNG Intl. amongst their favorite labels of 2015.

In 2016 Gideon Coe hosted “Label of Love is RVNG Records” on BBC Radio 6 and The Vinyl Factory featured RVNG as one of the top “20 Record Labels to Follow on Instagram”. The same year Apple Music Experimental Spotlight was on RVNG Intl.

In 2017 RVNG Intl. was listed as one of the best things/happenings of 2017 by The Ransom Note. The label also participated in the Prelude to Sleep series at Moogfest. An LGBTQ benefit compilation entitled “Peaceful Protest” was produced by RVNG Intl. in 2017, while in the same year RVNG pledged all profits from Bandcamp to benefit the ACLU.

The label is also noted for its charitable program Come Mend, in which a portion of record sale profits are donated to causes chosen by the label's artists.

History

Background and founding
The record label RVNG Intl. was launched in 2003 by Matt Werth. Werth was born in Madison, Wisconsin and spent his formative years in Little Rock, Arkansas. When he was 15, he started the punk 'zine Potluck and took over the record label File Thirteen. First established as what Werth called a "self-reflective journal fanzine" in 1989, File Thirteen was operated by Werth for 8 years.

In 1996, Werth moved to Philadelphia at the age of 18 to play bass for Aspera Ad Astra. While attending Temple University he met Dave Pianka, and together they came up with the idea of RVNG Intl., which was originally an event production company. A mutual friend, Michael Zwizanski, recommended the name, which is an anti-voweled version of "revenge", much in the style of Primal Scream's XTRMNTR, which had come out around the same time.

Werth said that the label's very first mix was intended for event clients, as proof that the label could select and manage good DJs. According to Werth, "Julian Grefe put together the first RVNG mix ―RVNG PRSNTS MX1, which was basically a spray-painted CD in a spray-painted case." Following the initial mix release, MX CDs became an infrequent series of albums from artists such as Tim Sweeney and DJ Twitch. After six years in Philadelphia, Werth moved to Brooklyn in 2002 in order to work at Flyer magazine.

First releases
The record label RVNG Intl was launched in 2003 by Werth. The label is based in its original location of Brooklyn, New York, Packaging is frequently detailed and unique. For example, a 7" vinyl from Purple Brain came with a hand-crocheted case by designer Dani Griffiths and 1000 prints of Pink Skull's Endless Bummer were letter-pressed with 1000 different variations on the album title phrase.

By 2010, the label had put out two original releases: These Are Powers’ Candyman EP and Pink Skull’s Endless Bummer LP. In 2011, they put out albums by Mirror Mirror and Bronze and were named one of the top 50 indie labels in America by Billboard. In 2012, the label released Blondes by  Blondes, which Sean Adams, the founder of Drowned in Sound, lauded with a 10/10 review, praising the music as "bliss" and his "eureka moment."

Other notable albums in 2012 included    Ekstasis by  Julia Holter, which was named Pitchfork's Best New Music and described as "music that's both haunting and life-affirming, something to make you dream and think", in addition to the critically acclaimed "Movement" by experimental composer Holly Herndon.

In 2013, the label released Swisher by Blondes, and notable albums from Maximillion Dunbar, Blondes, Gardland, and Holly Herndon. As of 2014, RVNG has also released a number of singles and albums from the likes of Bing & Ruth and others. Preserving past works from pioneering musicians is another focus, as exemplified by the release of a double LP set from artist and producer Craig Leon (Nommos and Visiting), titled Anthology of Interplanerary Folk Music Vol. 1 and K. Leimer's A Period of Review.

Series
Rvng presents Mx series
In 2003 the label first released the Rvng presents Mx CD & vinyl series, which included works from artists such as Tim Sweeney, Justine D and Purple Brain.

RVNG of the NRDS series
Starting in 2006 the label began releasing a vinyl series of disco edits, titled RVNG of the NRDS. The series ran for four years with album artwork from Kevin O’Neill of the independent design firm Will Work For Good. According to a review, the series was "carefully riding the edges of the nu-disco zeitgeist thanks to two obvious factors...the caliber of the artists involved, and the quality of presentation from Will Work For Good, a design agency that has helped form the visual identity of the label across its many releases".

Ten Rvng of The Nrds albums were released, including works by Todd Terje, Greg Wilson, and Pilooski. Each artist also contributed to re-edits of songs by artists such as Wire and R.D. Burman.

FRKWYS series

In 2009, RVNG initiated the FRKWYS series, skipping Volume 1 by initially releasing Frkwys Vol. 2. The first edition featured two remixes of the experimental band Excepter, remixed by Carter Tutti and JG Thirlwell and was praised as "evidence of what can make New York music great when its proprietors are willing to sacrifice expectation for innovation." The series title references Moses Asch's label Folkways.

In May 2010, the label released FRKWYS Vol. 3, an album-length collaboration between Arp and Anthony Moore. Arp reworked both original and unreleased music written by Moore in the 1960s, which was the result of working together at Atlantic Sound's Brooklyn studio in September 2009. FRKWYS Vol. 9 had Los Angeles-based artists Sun Araw and M. Geddes Gengras travel to Jamaica to record with the notable reggae vocal group, The Congos.

Beats in Space series
In 2011, the label began releasing the Beats in Space series of vinyl singles and albums. In 2015, Fact TV presented a documentary on Beats In Space and ranked BIS 25th in their Top 30 album covers of 2015. The BIS Boat Party at Mareh Festival was also a featured pick by Resident Advisor. In 2015 the Beats In Space 15th Anniversary Mix was named compilation of the month by Mixmag.
In 2016 the first issue of Record Magazine featured an interview with Tim Sweeney. Beats In Space also joined Bandcamp with Tim Sweeney being featured on Bandcamp's radio show.
In 2017 a Beats In Space photo book was featured in Record Magazine.

Freedom to Spend imprint
RVNG Intl partnered with Pete Swanson (formerly of Yellow Swans) in 2017 to relaunch his Freedom To Spend label, along with Portland record store owner Jed Bindeman. The label is described as "concerned with autonomous anomalies produced by musicians working within and outside the limits of technology to create intimate art. By virtue of this, the music of Freedom to Spend resonates across a broad sound spectrum, but thrives without rigid regulation." Freedom To Spend has reissued several overlooked and underheard experimental albums from the past few decades. Freedom To Spend was named one of the best electronic labels of 2017 by The Quietus.

Events
The label has been active in organizing art and music shows, partnering with the likes of the White Columns Gallery in New York City, the Barbican Center in London, and MoMa PS1′s Summer Warm Up series. RVNG worked with the Unsound Festival in Kraków, Poland, and presented a label showcase in April 2014 at Moogfest in Asheville, North Carolina featuring Blondes, Holly Herndon, and Craig Leon performing "NOMMOS" with the Asheville Symphony. Also in 2014 the 15th Anniversary of Beats In Space was celebrated at Corsica Studios in London. In 2018 RVNG featured artists and collaborated with Le Guess Who music festival. RVNG was also featured at MoMA PS1 Come Together Music Festival and Record Fair.

Artists

Current
The following artists are current as of August 2018:

Anna Homler / Breadwoman
The Body
Greg Fox
Helado Negro
Holly Herndon
K. Leimer
Craig Leon
Pauline Anna Strom
Sensations' Fix
Stellar OM Source
Sugai Ken
Visible Cloaks
Oliver Coates
Kate NV
Lucrecia Dalt
Mark Renner
Emily A. Sprague
Diatom Deli
Dylan Moon
Isik Kural
Horse Lords
Dialect
Flore Laurentienne
Satomimagae
Ka Baird
Oliver Coates

Alumni

Allez-Allez
Blondes
Bronze (San Francisco band)
CFCF
Clean Plate
Harald Grosskopf
Laurel Halo
Julia Holter
Lauer (Phillip Lauer)
The Congos
David Borden
James Ferraro
Sun Araw
These Are Powers
Daniel Lopatin
Regal Regal
Mirror Mirror
Pink Skull
Gardland
Maxmillion Dunbar
Mikael Seifu

Beats in Space (BIS) artists
The following is a complete list (as of August 2018) of artists who have released music as part of the Beats in Space Records series.
Antenna
Dukes of Chutney
E Ruscha V
Hidden Fees
Jacques Bon
Jee Day
Lauer (Philip Lauer)
Matt Karmil
Mount Liberation Unlimited
Paradis
Palmbomen II
Secret Circuit
Shan
Tornado Wallace
Gonno
Crystal & S. Koshi
House of Spirits
Jaakko Eino Kalevi
Guido w Georges Perin
T&P
Shy Layers

FRKWYS series
The following is an incomplete list of artists who have been included in the FRKWYS series:

Excepter
Carter Tutti
JG Thirlwell
Jack Dangers
Arp
Anthony Moore
Psychic Ills
Juan Atkins
Gibby Haynes
Hans-Joachim Irmler
Mirror Mirror
Alig Fodder's Pranayame
Stuart Moxham
Stuart Argabright
Gretchen Faust
Rico Conning
Julianna Barwick
Ikue Mori
Samuel Godin
Blues Control
Laraaji
Sun Araw
M. Geddes Gengras
The Congos
Steve Gunn
Mike Cooper
David Van Tieghem
Diamond Terrifier (Sam Hillmer + Max Alper)
Future Shuttle
Georgia
Helado Negro
Darren Ho
Eli Keszler
Hiro Kone
Megafortress
Blanche Blanche Blanche
Maxmillion Dunbar
Suzanne Ciani
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
Alan Howarth
Harald Grosskopf
Emeralds
David Borden
James Ferraro
Samuel Godin
Laurel Halo
Daniel Lopatin
Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe
Ariel Kalma

Freedom to Spend series
The following is an incomplete list of artists who have been included in the Freedom to Spend imprint:
Michele Mercure
Marc Barreca
Pep Llopis
Richard Horowitz
Ursula K. Le Guin & Todd Barton
Cheri Knight
Ernest Hood
Universal Liberation Orchestra
Rimbarimba
June Chikuma
Tiziano Popoli

Discography

Main album series

RVNG Prsnts Mxs series

RVNG OF THE NRDS series

FRKWYS Series

Beats in Space series

RERVNG series

Commend See series

Freedom to Spend series

Further reading
Interviews

See also
List of independent record labels

References

External links

American independent record labels
Record labels established in 2004


title: Rhodochiton atrosanguineus

text:
Rhodochiton atrosanguineus is a herbaceous perennial vine native to Mexico.  It has been cultivated as an ornamental plant since at least 1836.

Although the specific epithet is sometimes spelled atrosanguineum, chiton in Greek is masculine, so the ending is correctly -us.

Rhodochiton atrosanguineus has been known colloquially in the UK as the "black man's willy".  Another common name is purple bell vine or simply purple bell.

All Rhodochiton species are sometimes placed in the genus Lophospermum.

Description
Its dangling flowers have a pink, bell-shaped calyx of sepals surrounding a protruding, tubular corolla of purple-black petals. It has somewhat hairy, heart-shaped leaves, often with purple venation.  The vine can reach three metres in length in perfect conditions, but more-likely 1.5-2.5 metres. The seeds are 3mm across.

Taxonomic history
Wayne J. Elisens has outlined the somewhat confused taxonomic history of the name of this species. In 1829, Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini sent seeds and a description to individuals and botanical gardens under the name "Rhodochiton volubile", considering it to be a new genus; however the name was not formally published. In 1832, Zuccarini decided that it was actually a Lophospermum, and published the name Lophospermum atrosanguineum, writing that "I held it at first to be new genus and sent the seeds obtained in the summer of 1829 to several gardens under the name Rhodochiton volubile. The figure in the Botanical Register has convinced me of the identity of the genus." Not knowing of Zuccharini's change of name, in particular his publication of the epithet atrosanguineum, in 1834 Christoph Friedrich Otto and Albert Gottfried Dietrich published and illustrated Rhodochiton volubilis, an illegitimate name since a prior epithet existed. In 1943, Rothmaler provided a legitimate combination in the genus Rhodochiton, namely Rhodochiton atrosanguineus.

Cultivation
Rhodochiton atrosanguineus has gained the Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit.

This plant is undemanding if given full sun or near-full sun, well-drained soil, and general care.  It will tolerate cold temperatures, but not freezing.

Propagation is by seed sown in spring, or at 15-18 °C.

Plants can be pruned in late winter to manage size and shape.

Notes

References

Plantaginaceae


title: Masters M90 pole vault world record progression

text:
This is the progression of world record improvements of the pole vault M90 division of Masters athletics.

Key

Note:  Arling Pitcher (age 90) pole vaulted at the August 13-16, 1992 US Masters National Outdoor Championship.
His height was 0.61 m (2'-0").  The mark was never recognized as a record.

References

Masters athletics world record progressions
Pole


title: Richard Shawe

text:
Richard Shawe (fl. 1370s – 1410s) was a Canon of Windsor from 1376 to 1403

Career

He was appointed:
Rector of Littlebury, Essex 1361 - 1368
Prebendary of the first stall in St Stephen’s, Westminster 1368 - 1376
Rector of Farnham (diocese of Lincoln) 1371
Warden of the Hospital of St Margaret by Huntyngdon until 1371

He was appointed to the sixth stall in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle in 1376 and held the canonry until 1403.

Notes

Canons of Windsor


title: Ontario County Courthouse

text:
The Ontario County Courthouse is located in Canandaigua, New York, United States. The United States v. Susan B. Anthony trial took place in this courthouse in 1873. It is a contributing property to the Canandaigua Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

References

External links

Courthouses in New York (state)
Historic district contributing properties in New York (state)
Buildings and structures in Ontario County, New York
Government buildings completed in 1858
Canandaigua, New York
National Register of Historic Places in Ontario County, New York
Courthouses on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)


title: 2011 HTC–Highroad Women season

text:
The 2011 season was the tenth for the  HTC–Highroad Women cycling team, which began as the T-Mobile team in 2003. The main new riders for the team were the Americans Amber Neben and Amanda Miller and the German time trial champion Charlotte Becker. In January, Carla Swart died whilst training after being hit by a truck. After winning a stage, Ellen van Dijk won the Ladies Tour of Qatar which was the 400th victory for the team (men's and women's) since 2008. Ina Teutenberg won the fifth round in the Women's World Cup and the team won the seventh round, the Open de Suède Vårgårda team time trial. The team finished second overall in the World Cup. Judith Arndt finished fourth in the individual standings and Teutenberg fifth. At the end of the season Arndt took the third place in the UCI World Ranking, Teutenberg fourth and the team ended in second place in the team classification.

Roster

Riders who joined the team for the 2011 season

Riders who left the team during or after the 2010 season

Season

February

The season started for the team with the Ladies Tour of Qatar in February. In stage 2, Ellen van Dijk was part of the front group and took home the stage victory by winning the sprint. The day afterwards she defended successfully her leading position in the general classification and won the points classification as well. Van Dijk dedicated her victories to Carla Swart who died whilst training after being hit by a truck a few weeks earlier. The prize money she earned in Qatar was sent to her family. Van Dijk's victory was the 400th victory for the team (men's and women's) since 2008.

March–July

End of July – August
In late July the team won the world cup team time trial, the 2011 Open de Suède Vårgårda TTT and was over a minute faster than Team AA Drink. The team consisted of: Ellen van Dijk, Judith Arndt, Amber Neben and Charlotte Becker. The day afterwards was the World Cup road race in Sweden, the 2011 Open de Suède Vårgårda. Ellen van Dijk won the sprint of the peloton and finished second behind Annemiek van Vleuten, who had a small gap with the bunch. Teutenberg finished fourth.

Teutenberg won the first stage of the Trophée d'Or Féminin by winning the sprint and the team won the team time trial afterwards. Becker won the third stage. The leaders jersey was lost to Tatiana Antoshina after the fourth stage. In the fifth stage Teutenberg won the bunch sprint behind a breakaway of four riders. In the last stage Becker finished fourth but did not win enough time to win the overall classification and finished second.

September
At the Profile Ladies Tour, Ina Teutenberg finished second in the first stage. The day afterwards Ellen van Dijk won for the third consecutive year the time trial stage of this tour. At the same time the Tour Cycliste Féminin International de l'Ardèche took place. Emilia Fahlin won the prologue and the day afterwards the time trial as well. She lost however thirteen minutes on Emma Pooley in the thirds stage. Evelyn Stevens won stage 4 with over a four minutes lead over teammate Amanda Miller. Fahlin won the two stages afterwards. After finishing again second in the time trial, Miller finished fourth in the general classification.

In preparation for the time trial world championships, Arndt won the Chrono Champenois just ahead of Amber Neben.

At the Giro della Toscana Int. Femminile the team won once again the team time trial. Arndt won the sprint of the second stage and took the leaders jersey. The stage afterwards the team provided Arndt on the final climb with a train so she could also win that stage. After Teutenberg won the stage afterwards and Arndt the time trial the next morning the team booked five consecutive victories. In the fourth stage where Teutenberg abandoned, Megan Guarnier took the lead. In the fifth stage also Teutenberg abandoned. In the last stage Charlotte Becker won the stage by winning the bunch sprint.

End of September: UCI Road World Championships
Judith Arndt won, at the age of 35, the time trial at the UCI Road World Championships. Linda Villumsen won the silver medal, Emma Pooley finished third. Ina Teutenberg won bronze in the road race and Chloe Hosking finished sixth.

October – December
To the end of the road cycling season, Amber Neben won the Chrono des Nations in October.

At the Dutch National Track Championships in December, Ellen van Dijk won two national titles. She won the individual pursuit as well as the madison.

Results

Season victories

Results in major races

Single day races
Judith Arndt finished 4th in the final classification and Ina-Yoko Teutenberg 5th. The team finished 2nd in the teams standing.

Grand Tours

UCI World Ranking

The team finished second in the UCI ranking for teams.

References

2011 UCI Women's Teams seasons
2011 in American sports
Velocio–SRAM Pro Cycling


title: Ralph King

text:
Ralph King may refer to:

 Ralph King-Milbanke, 2nd Earl of Lovelace (1839–1906), British author
 Ralph E. King (1902–1974), member of the Louisiana State Senate
 Ralph King (American football) (1901–1978), American football player


title: Jan Linton

text:
Jan Linton is a British singer, musician and producer from Warrington who helped internationalise the music scene in Tokyo, Japan.

Biography
Jan Linton studied violin from the age of four, moving briefly onto piano, before discovering pop music and electric guitar as a teenager. When he was 17 years old, his first synthesizer exploded, leading him to try bass guitar instead.

After graduating from Birmingham University, he left for Japan in January 1990 after encouragement from P-Model's Tatsuya Kikuchi then subsequently Susumu Hirasawa, and secured a recording agreement from King Records after just three days. The project combined electronics with Asian pop and a world music flavour, including a performance by violinist and Chinese Kokyū player Masatsugu Shinozaki (who performed on the soundtrack to The Last Emperor). A change in A&R management delayed Linton's first CD, Oinaru Sekai (TrueNirvana); it was finally released at the end of 1992 from Polystar Records. The producer also worked with the Japanese boy band SMAP, with the result that the album swung between electro-pop and Asian World Music. The album was sung in ten languages, including Japanese, with a cover version of "Kimi ni Mune Kyun" by YMO.

In 1993, Roger Eno introduced Linton to renowned guitarist and artist Bill Nelson, of whom Linton had been a fan since his university days. Nelson contributed guitar to some new tracks Linton was recording. One was released by Sony in 1994 on Juliana's Tokyo's "Global Dance Network" (Sony Records SRCS7425) which sold 15,000 copies. This established Linton as one of the few non-Japanese musicians in the Japanese scene of the time, which centred on Juliana's Tokyo, modelled superficially on British style "raves". However, Linton's track "6 Ritual" was clearly going in a different direction.

From 1994 to 1997 his releases were sporadic, as the Japanese scene had moved into instrumental techno and Linton was mainly a singer at the time. Only one track, the jungle (music) styled "Jungle Friends" was released on 12 inch vinyl from Ummo Records.

In 1998, his instrumental piece "Sarajevo" was chosen to open a Princess Diana tribute/charity album sponsored by the British Embassy, and it sold five thousand copies, even though the CD had no label or distribution at all. In 1999 he was able to release an EP of earlier tracks, and Sony Asia Pacific later marketed it. Linton formed a band called Dr.Jan (guru) which played frequently at large venues. Under the band's name, he released three albums over the next few years: starting with Alienshamanism in 2000  However, the live members often changed and rarely appeared on the albums; instead, a number of well-known musicians contributed to the recording sessions, such as Duran Duran's John Taylor. The albums also included reworkings of the unreleased tracks Linton had recorded with Bill Nelson.

Linton made several releases in 2000 in the UK, Japan, and Europe. The singles "Inner Sanctum" ("Can't You Feel") and "Sarajevo" were both number one hits on the MP3 electronic music charts in several countries. Linton also released the first of a series of experimental albums under his own name, on the "Kaerucafe" label, which is noted for experimental and sampling CDs. Inspired by the notoriously difficult to program Yamaha DX7 synthesizer as used by Brian Eno, Music for Aliens was the best selling sampling CD in national stores such as Yamaha. In 2001 a collaborative project with the former Japan and Porcupine Tree synthesist, Richard Barbieri, was again marketed as a sampling CD and titled Cosmic Prophets. This became a cult classic, and is still available on the UK Burning Shed label.

In 2003, Linton signed a European distribution contract for a compilation of new, unreleased, and re-recorded tracks. The album Communion included a cover of "Dark Entries" by Bauhaus; of John Taylor's "King Porn" (which the band had been playing since two concerts in International Stadium Yokohama in 2001); and a track of Linton's, "Lose Yourself With Me", which Taylor also played bass on. The album was released as by Jan Linton/Dr.Jan (guru).

In 2004, King Records signed Linton to make another album as Dr.Jan (guru) again. Entitled Planet Japan, it was in a rock/cyberpunk style (such as a cover version of the John Foxx-period Ultravox! song "Hiroshima Mon Amour"), and the controversial subject matter — Linton's occasionally bitter experiences in Tokyo — caused a slight stir in the Japanese media. Featuring the former Japan and Ippu-Do guitarist Masami Tsuchiya, Hoppy Kamiyama, and sounds from Richard Barbieri, (one instrumental, "Sequential Sakura" was credited as a Barbieri/Linton joint composition), it was released by King after being recorded in just seven weeks, an experience which exhausted Linton.

A UK promotional video (and later, CD/DVD single) of a drum n bass reworking of Bauhaus's "Dark Entries" (from the Communion album) followed, but due to label disputes was never fully released. This marks the last use of the name Dr.Jan (guru) to date.

He moved back to the UK in 2005 to study for a Master of Arts degree in music technology at Bath Spa University while supplying sounds for Roland's new sampler and demonstrating Roland and Digital Stage's Motion Dive Tokyo Console VJ software throughout 2006. A chance meeting in Bath with Leo Abrahams led to collaboration on "Anemone" and "The Kindness of Strangers", but other than the former, all of Linton's academic output from this period remains unreleased. In 2007, he translated the lyrics for various songs by Susumu Hirasawa into English, more than a decade since the two had last been in contact.

In early 2011, Entropy Records released Linton's 2009–2010 reworkings of the sounds of FM3's Buddha Machine versions 1 and 2, but following the 9.0 magnitude Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami and subsequent releases of radioactive materials in Japan (where Linton had returned in 2007) delayed the release until late March.

In 2012, he released a benefit CD for Sendai earthquake reconstruction with contributions from Matthew Seligman. In 2015–2017, he recorded two separate releases of an album entitled I Actually Come Back, collaborating in part once more with Seligman and Leo Abrahams.
In 2020, following Matthew Seligman's death, the Sendai EP was re-released in an expanded form, followed by a second EP of previously recorded material.

Discography

Albums
  (1993) Polystar HI-1023
  (2000) Kaerucafe 0104
 Alienshamanism (2000) [] Nap/25 FO26
  (2003) [] Kaerucafe 28186842354
  (2003) [/] Explosion RT0005
  (2004) King Records KICP1014
  mini-album (2011) Entropy Records EM 007
  mini album (2015) [ with ] Burning Shed
  Full album with bonus mini album "Buddha Machine Music" (2016–17) [ with ] Entropy Records/jansongs

EPs
  EP (1999) Global Vision Music GVM0010
  EP (2012) [ with ] Entropy Records ED 006
  Extended Reissue EP (2020) [ with ] jansongs/MRC
  EP (2020) [ with ] jansongs/MRC

Singles
  (2000) Groove 052

Collaboration albums
 Global Dance Music Vol.2 "6 Ritual" Dr.Jan (& Scorpio Family) Sony Records SRCS7425 (1994)
  track "King Porn" Dr.Jan (guru) mix 2-CD (2001) [] TTP TTP1201A
  sampling sound collection (2001) [ & ] Kaerucafe 0130
  step,uk garage and r'n'b'construction kit (2002) [Frame Shift] Kaerucafe 0143

Collaboration singles
  (2007) [ with ] Just Music/Bip Hop

Compilation albums
  download compilation (2015?) Burning Shed

References

External links
dr jan guru on Myspace
Jan Linton on Myspace

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Alumni of the University of Birmingham
British electronic musicians
Ambient musicians


title: Richard Prentys

text:
Richard Prentys (fl. 1390s - 1410s) was a Canon of Windsor from 1403 to 1404 and Dean of the Chapel Royal.

Career

He was appointed:
Prebendary of Seaford in Chichester 1398
Prebendary of the seventh stall in St Stephen's, Westminster 1395 - 1401
Prebendary of the third stall in St Stephen's, Westminster 1401 - 1404
Master of St Katharine's by the Tower 1402 - 1412
Prebendary of Stratford in Salisbury 1404
Prebendary of Grantham Australis in Salisbury 1406
Archdeacon of West Ham 1400 - 1406
Dean of the Chapel Royal 1403 - 1414

He was appointed to the sixth stall in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle in 1403 and held the canonry until 1404.

Notes

1509 deaths
Canons of Windsor
Archdeacons of West Ham
Deans of the Chapel Royal
Year of birth unknown


title: Harmeet Singh Sooden

text:
Harmeet Singh Sooden (born 1973) is a Canadian-New Zealand anti-war activist who volunteered for the international NGO Christian Peacemaker Teams in Iraq. He was held captive in Baghdad with three others for almost four months until being freed by multi-national forces on 23 March 2006.

Sooden was born and raised in Zambia. His parents are Sikhs from Kashmir. His great-grandfather fought for the British Indian Army in World War I and died in Basra in 1916 during the Mesopotamian Campaign. As an inspiration for peace work, he cites his grandfather who was a career soldier in the Indian Army. He says he was also motivated by the experiences of a friend who survived the World Trade Center attack on 11 September 2001, and the ordeal of Maher Arar, a university classmate who was subjected to extraordinary rendition and torture.

Sooden holds degrees in Computer Engineering from McGill University in Montréal, Canada and English literature from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. He was a member of the University of Auckland's chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine.

On 23 July 2006, Sooden did an extensive interview with journalist Sahar Ghumkhor, in which he discussed his reflections on his visits in Iraq before the kidnapping, his captivity, his release and the response of the media.

Christian Peacemaker Teams hostage crisis

Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT) is an international organisation set up to support teams of peace workers in conflict areas around the world. One aspect of CPT's work in Iraq during the US occupation was to collect and publicise evidence of detainee abuse. Investigative journalist, Seymour Hersh of The New Yorker magazine, who helped to expose the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse scandal in 2004, cited the organisation in his articles. In an interview with Democracy Now, he said:

The Christian Peacemaker Teams hostage crisis precipitated when four human rights workers of CPT, James Loney, Norman Kember, Tom Fox and Harmeet Singh Sooden, were abducted in Baghdad, Iraq on 26 November 2005 by a previously unknown group, the Swords of Righteousness Brigade. The kidnapping made media headlines around the world. The hostage-takers released videos accusing the men of being spies working for the coalition forces and threatening to execute them. On 9 March 2006, one of the hostages, Tom Fox, was executed. The remaining three were freed as part of a military operation on 23 March 2006.

Upon his return to New Zealand, Sooden was warned by Prime Minister Helen Clark not to go back to Iraq saying: "The New Zealand Government constantly says to Kiwis 'Don't go there. You are walking into a war zone. It is a very, very dangerous place and New Zealand is not represented in Iraq in any shape or form and we are not in a position to help'". One of the reasons Sooden volunteered with CPT (who were in Iraq with the permission of the US and Iraqi authorities) was to highlight New Zealand's role in the Iraq War.

Shortly after the release, both as a result of the kidnapping and the deteriorating security situation, CPT made the decision to leave Iraq. After a brief absence, CPT relocated to Iraqi Kurdistan.

Roy Hallums, a retired US Navy Commander who worked as a civilian contractor in Iraq and himself held hostage for 10 months, offered to assist the hostages in their healing process.

Appeals for release
Many individuals and groups asked for the hostages' release, including:
 9/11 Families for Peaceful Tomorrow, an anti-war organisation composed of survivors of the World Trade Center attacks, and friends and family members of the victims, called for the hostages' release in a press release.
On 5 December 2005, an online petition calling for the release of the hostages was signed by more than 13,000 people, including Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Arundhati Roy, Jeremy Scahill, Dahr Jamail, Denis Halliday, Tariq Ali, Cindy Sheehan, Kathy Kelly, Naomi Klein, Daniel Berrigan, Michael Ratner and the parents of Rachel Corrie.
 On 6 December 2005, Mahmoud Jaballah, Mohammad Zeki Mahjoub and Hassan Almrei appealed for the release of the hostages. At the time, they were being detained in Canada without charge under security certificates on the suspicion of being linked to terrorist organisations and posing a threat to the national security of Canada. Of James Loney, they said, "We care about his freedom more than we do our own."
 On 7 December 2005, Abu Qatada, described by a Spanish judge as "al-Qaeda's ambassador in Europe", called for the hostages' release from a UK prison.
 On 9 December 2005, Briton Moazzem Begg, a former detainee at the Guantanamo Bay prison, made a video appeal to the kidnappers. Begg said seeing the peace workers in orange boiler suits reminded him of his own incarceration in Guantanamo Bay.
 Bruce Laingen, Kevin Hermening and Kathryn Koob, three US citizens who spent 444 days in captivity during the Iran hostage crisis, said "the families of those kidnapped in Iraq have their sympathies and prayers as they face their own hostage nightmare."
 The Independent Activates, an Iraqi human rights group, began organising for the release of the CPT hostages as soon as they heard of their detention. They held press conferences, organised vigils, and distributed leaflets. One member of the Independent Activates publicly offered to exchange himself for the hostages.

Release operation
On 23 March 2006, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw announced: "The three hostages...have been released as a result of a multinational force operation which took place earlier today.... British forces were involved in this operation. It follows weeks and weeks of very careful work by our military and coalition personnel in Iraq and many civilians as well." It has been reported that the operation included the SAS from Task Force Black, a unit primarily tasked to kill or capture high-value enemy targets. Task Force Black have since been implicated in human rights abuses at secret detention facilities, including Camp Nama and H1. There were unconfirmed reports and speculation that elements of the Canadian special-operations unit Joint Task Force 2 also took part in the release operation. The identity and extent of the Canadian military contribution and the nature of its participation, if any, are unknown. Reports indicate that no kidnappers were present at the house where the hostages were found and no shots were fired during the operation. While it is clear the hostages were freed as part of a military operation, it is not publicly known how the Coalition Forces derived the information leading to their whereabouts, and whether they were rescued or released as part of a negotiated settlement.

TVNZ 'deal'
There was also controversy about 'chequebook journalism' on the part of state-owned TVNZ, which allegedly paid for air travel and accommodation for Sooden's family to meet him in the United Arab Emirates in exchange for the family's exclusive story. The deal was brokered with TVNZ by Sooden's former brother-in law, Mark Raymond Brewer, who has since been implicated in a number of other dubious business dealings. Sooden disassociated himself from the deal by travelling to New Zealand on a separate flight and giving an open press conference.

Trial of kidnappers
In October 2006, the Multi-National Force - Iraq (MNF-I) informed the ex-hostages that an unspecified number of men, alleged to be their kidnappers, had been captured. The authorities asked them to testify at what was described as their kidnappers' trial at the Central Criminal Court of Iraq.

On 8 December 2006, the three survivors publicly forgave their captors at a press conference held at St Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace in London, England. On this very day a year earlier, their kidnappers had threatened to execute them. In their joint statement of forgiveness they said, "We unconditionally forgive our captors for abducting and holding us. We have no desire to punish them.... Should those who have been charged with holding us hostage be brought to trial and convicted, we ask that they be granted all possible leniency. We categorically lay aside any rights we may have over them."

On 23 May 2007, James Loney released a public statement saying that he would not be testifying against his captors citing the lack of transparency in Iraqi courts, the limited access to lawyers and the death penalty: "I recently informed the RCMP that I will not testify. I cannot participate in a judicial process where the prospects of a fair trial are negligible, and more crucially, where the death penalty is a possibility."

Subsequent developments
There have been media reports suggesting the Christian Peacemaker Teams kidnapping is linked to the abductions of British aid worker Margaret Hassan in 2004 and United States journalist Jill Carroll in 2006, and to extrajudicial killings (for example, the death of Muharib Abdul-Latif al-Jubouri in 2007).

In 2009 and 2015, he briefly returned to Iraq with Christian Peacemaker Teams on short-term assignments.

International Solidarity Movement

In 2004, Sooden volunteered for the International Solidarity Movement (ISM) in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. ISM is an international human rights organisation composed of Palestinians, Israelis and internationals who monitor the human rights situation and protect human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories (OPT).

When he attempted to return to the OPT in 2008, he was declared a "threat to the security of the State of Israel" and removed from Israel after being injured and detained incommunicado for four days. The New Zealand Government launched an inquiry into his treatment by Israeli authorities. Ultimately, the New Zealand and Canadian governments refused to take any further action.

Cubic Defence New Zealand
Upon his release from captivity in Iraq, the New Zealand Herald revealed Sooden had worked as a software engineer for Cubic Defence New Zealand (formerly Oscmar International), a US-owned company based in Auckland that manufactures training and simulation equipment for various armed forces around the world. During his captivity, the New Zealand Government and New Zealand media agreed under the Terrorist Event Media Protocols not to publicise details of his employment at Oscmar in case it put Sooden's life at further risk.

Oscmar had been awarded a contract to supply the Israel Defense Forces. Shortly after he resigned, Peace Movement Aotearoa, a New Zealand peace organisation, revealed that it had received leaked documents showing that the New Zealand government had denied Oscmar an export permit. Oscmar, nevertheless, tried to fulfill the contract by electronically transferring the completed design to the United States for manufacturing. This exposure forced the New Zealand Government to open an investigation. The Government's final decision was that there was no case to answer and therefore no further action would be taken. Consequently, student demonstrations took place outside Oscmar's facilities.

In 2010, it came to light that Sooden was the subject of an investigation by the Special Investigation Groups (SIG) as a suspect for defacing Oscmar's premises with graffiti. The SIG is a New Zealand Police unit "dedicated to the investigation of national security-related crime including terrorism". Sooden was quoted as saying his case appeared to be "one of many in which individuals and groups are being targeted by the [SIG] on spurious grounds."

Officers from the SIG were also involved in debriefing him after his kidnapping, and later facilitating the attempts of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to persuade him to participate in the trial of his kidnappers.

2006 Fox journalists kidnapping

On 14 August 2006, Fox News Channel journalists Olaf Wiig (a New Zealander) and Steve Centanni in the Gaza Strip were abducted by a previously unknown Palestinian group. Sooden publicly called on the kidnappers to release Wiig and Centanni, while pointing out the context within which the kidnapping had taken place.

Abousfian Abdelrazik

Former hostages Sooden and James Loney were among the 250 Canadians who risked charges under Canada's anti-terrorism legislation in the spring of 2009 for contributing funds towards a plane ticket for Abousfian Abdelrazik. Abdelrazik is a Canadian citizen who was detained in Sudan by the Sudanese Government at Canada's request, tortured, imprisoned for two years without charge, and then denied travel documents to return to Canada. The ticket the Canadians purchased helped to expose how the Canadian Government was actively blocking his return and led to the June 2009 court ruling which forced the Canadian Government to bring him home.

Freedom Flotilla II

In 2011, Sooden joined Freedom Flotilla II aboard the Canadian vessel MV Tahrir to highlight the West's support for Israel's closure of Gaza. Other participants included Amira Hass, a prominent Israeli journalist, and Canadian Kevin Neish who was aboard the ill-fated MV Mavi Marmara in 2010 during the Gaza flotilla raid on the first Freedom Flotilla when Israeli special forces killed nine civilians. Sooden stated the New Zealand Government's stance on the flotilla initiative was effectively authorising Israel to 'kidnap' the flotilla participants in international waters.

See also
2005-2006 Christian Peacemaker hostage crisis
Christian Peacemaker Teams
Freedom Flotilla II
International Solidarity Movement
James Loney
List of kidnappings
List of solved missing person cases
Norman Kember
Tom Fox

References

External links
Christian Peacemaker Teams.
Sooden family desperate for news, New Zealand Herald, 11 December 2005.
Free The Captives: Petition for the release of Christian Peacemakers being held in Iraq – includes latest news and daily updates, 8 November 2006.
Statement issued on behalf of Harmeet Sooden, Peace Movement Aotearoa, 27 March 2006.
Media statement by Harmeet Sooden, Peace Movement Aotearoa, 31 March 2006.
RealAudio file of Sooden's post-release interview on CBC Radio's As It Happens: "I believe it's likely a ransom was paid for us", CBC Radio, 4 April 2006.
Harmeet Sooden website

1973 births
2000s missing person cases
Canadian activists
Canadian Christians
Canadian emigrants to New Zealand
Canadian people of Indian descent
Canadian people of Zambian descent
Canadian people taken hostage
Canadian Sikhs
Foreign hostages in Iraq
Formerly missing people
Living people
McGill University Faculty of Engineering alumni
Missing person cases in Iraq
Naturalised citizens of New Zealand
Naturalized citizens of Canada
New Zealand activists
New Zealand Christians
New Zealand people of Indian descent
New Zealand people of Punjabi descent
New Zealand people of Zambian descent
New Zealand Sikhs
People educated at St Edward's School, Oxford
Zambian emigrants to Canada


title: Hickory Museum of Art

text:
Hickory Museum of Art (HMA) is an art museum in Hickory, North Carolina which holds exhibitions, events, and public educational programs based on a permanent collection of 19th to 21st century American art.  The museum also features a long-term exhibition of Southern contemporary folk art, showcasing the work of self-taught artists from around the region.  North Carolina's second-oldest museum, Hickory Museum of Art was established in 1944.

National Accreditation
Hickory Museum of Art first earned national accreditation from the American Alliance of Museums in 1991. Following a meeting held October 6–8, 2014, The American Alliance of Museums announced that Hickory Museum of Art was one of nine museums which had earned re-accreditation. Accredited status from the Alliance is the highest national recognition achievable by an American museum. Of the nation's estimated 35,000 museums, 1,033 are currently accredited. To earn accreditation a museum first must conduct a year of self-study, and is then visited by a two-person inspection team reporting to the Accreditation Commission — a body of museum professionals appointed by the A.A.M. board.

History
In the early 1940s, Hickory, then a city of c. 15,000 inhabitants, was a leading regional cultural center. Founding Director Paul Whitener felt the city needed a visual arts center. With funding from local industrialist A. Alex Shuford Jr., Whitener organized a committee of citizens in September 1943 to discuss organizing an art association. In November of that year, though it did not yet have either a collection or a physical location, the Hickory Museum of Art Association held its first exhibition, of art borrowed locally, in the vacant Bradshaw office building in downtown Hickory, attracting about 600 viewers. In February 1944 North Carolina Governor Clyde Hoey officially recognized and chartered the Association at a ceremony in the ballroom of the Old Hickory Hotel. (Charlotte's 1936 Mint Museum was the first.) Hickory Museum of Art was formally dedicated four months later, and Paul Whitener unanimously appointed Director.

Location
Within a year of its founding the Museum of Art had acquired a dozen paintings and moved into the white clapboard W.W. Bryan house on Hickory's Third Avenue, its home for the next 14 years. From 1960 the museum occupied the former office building of Shuford Mills on the corner of 3rd Street and 1st Avenue NW. Here it was able to further develop its programs, including the art classes that had been initiated at the Third Avenue premises, and to expand its long-standing annual School Art Show.

By 1984 the museum was again in need of larger quarters, and to that end had raised $650,000. Buck Shuford, of the Shuford family which has been supporters of the museum since its beginnings, led a campaign to turn the redundant Hickory High School building (formerly Claremont High School) into an arts center, spearheading a drive that raised $2.6m toward its acquisition and conversion. Two years later the renovated building opened as the Arts & Science Center of Catawba Valley, providing a new permanent location for the Museum.  Today, it has been incorporated into the SALT Block, a cultural arts complex that houses the Catawba Science Center, Hickory Choral Society, Hickory Museum of Art, Patrick Beaver Library, United Arts Council, and Western Piedmont Symphony.

Permanent Collection
Industrialist A. Alex Shuford Jr. volunteered the funds for the first purchase of a painting in March 1944, for $140: Burke Mountain, Vermont, by National Academy of Design officer Frederick Ballard Williams. The collection grew rapidly over the following years. Whitener, using his artistic contacts in New York City, among whom were the painters Wilford Conrow and Henry Hobart Nichols, concentrated on acquiring affordable American art. A number of New York artists, including Whitener's friend Conrow, spent summers in the mountains of North Carolina and took an interest in the museum, with some donating their work. In 1954, the museum acquired a group of important works from the collection of National Academy of Design president Hobart Nichols including pieces by Thomas Cole, Asher Brown Durand, John Frederick Kensett, Worthington Whittredge, Edward Henry Potthast, and Robert Lewis Reid.

Today, the museum's permanent collection includes approximately 1,500 art objects, ranging from Hudson River School paintings, American art pottery, Glass Art, High-Speed Photography, and the work of regional artists.

Whitener's stated aim was that the museum should "embrace all the arts and crafts of the upper Piedmont region of North Carolina." and it also recognizes the folk artistic traditions (also known as "Outsider Art") of the Southern United States, North Carolina, and the Catawba Valley region in a long-term folk art exhibition to which the third floor of the building is dedicated. In 2004, the museum acquired more than 150 contemporary Southern folk art objects from the collection of Hickory residents Allen and Barry Huffman. This was the largest collection ever received by the museum, and has expanded considerably in subsequent years. The artists represented, integral to the region's social history, are typically self-taught and removed from the mainstream art world. They include James Harold Jennings, Richard Burnside, Miles Carpenter, Raymond Coins, Abraham Lincoln Criss, Minnie Adkins, Howard Finster, Russell Gillespie, and Minnie Reinhardt. Traditional Catawba Valley Pottery, including a number of iconic "face jugs", is also represented.

References

External links
Official Website
HMA on Facebook
United Arts Council of Catawba County
Lake Norman Folk Art Festival

Art museums and galleries in North Carolina
Institutions accredited by the American Alliance of Museums
Museums of American art
1944 establishments in North Carolina
Art museums established in 1944
Museums in Catawba County, North Carolina
Hickory, North Carolina


title: 1988 Indiana gubernatorial election

text:
The 1988 Indiana gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 1988, in all 92 counties in the state of Indiana. Incumbent Governor Robert D. Orr, a Republican, was ineligible to run for a third consecutive term due to term limits establish by the Indiana Constitution. In the general election, the Republican nominee, Lieutenant Governor John Mutz, was defeated by Democrat Indiana Secretary of State Evan Bayh by a margin of six percentage points. Bayh was the first Democrat to be elected Governor of Indiana since Roger D. Branigin's victory during the 1964 Democratic landslides twenty-four years previously.

Primaries

Republican Party
 John Mutz, incumbent Lieutenant Governor of Indiana

While the Republicans controlled the governor's mansion going into the 1988 elections, they were unable to nominate the incumbent governor, Robert D. Orr, due to term limits set in place by the Indiana Constitution. With Orr out of the running, the obvious choice to succeed him was his lieutenant governor, John Mutz. Mutz did not face a challenger for the nomination, and consequently rolled up 393,595 votes in the 1988 Republican primary election, a total that was nevertheless a little less than 100,000 votes fewer than his Democratic opponent, Secretary of State Evan Bayh, received in a three-way race for the Democratic nomination.

Democratic primary
 Evan Bayh, Secretary of State of Indiana
 Steve Daily, Mayor of Kokomo
 Frank O'Bannon, State Senator (withdrew)

While the Republican primary was a specific coronation of Mutz, the contest for the Democratic nomination was anything but. Three candidates initially contested the nomination: Evan Bayh, the incumbent Secretary of State of Indiana and son of former U.S. Senator Birch Bayh; Steve Daily, then-mayor of Kokomo; and Frank O'Bannon, a member of the Indiana State Senate. From the outset, Bayh was seen as the front runner in the race, and O'Bannon would eventually bow out to accept Bayh's offer to run for Lieutenant Governor, leaving Daily as the only challenger to the young politician who was being called "Indiana's Democratic boy wonder".

Hoping to prevent the nomination of a candidate who might upend their dominance in Hoosier politics, state Republicans led by Governor Orr filed a legal challenge to Bayh's candidacy, claiming that he did not meet the residency requirements for candidates for the state's highest office and demanding that he be removed from the ballot. The attempt backfired: rather than neutralizing Bayh, the legal challenge actually boosted his standing in the race. On April 28, the Indiana Supreme Court found that Bayh did, in fact, meet all residency requirements set forth in the state's Constitution, ending any threat to the candidate's ballot access. Simultaneously, the challenge allowed Bayh to cast himself as the underdog and a target of the Republican political machine, calling the challenge a "rather sad commentary" on Republican confidence in Mutz.

Bayh won the Democratic nomination with 493,198 votes, or 83.1%

General election
Throughout the fall campaign, Mutz attempted to capitalize on Bayh's youth by casting him as inexperienced and unfit to lead Indiana from the governor's mansion. Accusing Bayh of being more interested in a potential Senate run than in being governor, Mutz drew a distinction between his own extensive record in state government and Bayh's relatively recent arrival on the political stage. Comparing Bayh to an unqualified job applicant, Mutz wondered aloud if Hoosiers would "employ someone who has lived in this state only a handful of years, by anybody`s measure, and who has only a year's experience in that system?" Bayh returned fire by attacking Mutz as the candidate of the political machine. Despite the attacks, the two candidate's platforms showed remarkable similarity. Both Bayh and Mutz were committed to education reform, and both pledged to make government more efficient and to promote economic growth. Speaking to the New York Times, Bayh's campaign manager acknowledged that the Democrat was running on a relatively conservative platform. "I'd like to say that Hoosiers are an independent lot", he said.

On election night, Bayh defeated Mutz by a comfortable margin, winning 53% of the vote to Mutz's 47%. Bayh's victory was remarkable for a number of reasons. First, a Democrat had not been elected governor of Indiana since 1964, a year that had seen a landslide for Democrats up and down the ballot. Second, he was the youngest governor in the nation at the time of his election, his 33rd birthday taking place nearly two months after election day. Third, Indiana was carried by the Republican ticket (which featured Indiana Senator Dan Quayle as the vice presidential nominee) in the 1988 Presidential Election, and elections for the Indiana General Assembly resulted in a chamber that was evenly split between Democrats and Republicans.

Ancestral Democrats along the Ohio River in Southern Indiana delivered for Bayh, where he won every county with margins upward of 60%. He also performed well in Southwestern Indiana, notably in Vigo County, where Bayh was born, as well as where his father, Birch, began his political career.

Republican strength was mostly confined to the Indianapolis suburbs, like the affluent Hamilton County, which gave Mutz his strongest showing. The high racial polarization in Indianapolis, however, is notable. Mutz also did well in Amish areas in the vicinity of Elkhart County.

Bayh ran a conservative campaign that focused on education and economic nationalism, harnessing the discontent over job losses and using it to his advantage.

Bayh's victory in what was otherwise a good year for Indiana Republicans stood testament to his bipartisan appeal, which would allow him to be re-elected governor in 1992 and then to serve two terms in the U.S. Senate.

Results

References

Evan Bayh
Gubernatorial
1988
Indiana


title: Porta Ardeatina

text:
Porta Ardeatina was one of the gates of the Aurelian Walls in Rome (Italy).

The gate was built in the time of Nero. It stands at an angle in the Aurelian Walls.

It was placed in a halfway point between Porta Appia and Porta San Paolo, close to the modern arches under which Via Cristoforo Colombo runs.
The gate was probably locked very soon (it is no more mentioned starting from 8th century); on the base of the present remains, it can arguably be classified as a simple postern, framed with travertine, whose most interesting characteristic is the presence, both inside and outside the wall, of a stretch of paved road dating from the Roman period, in which the tracks left by carts traffic – that should have been quite intense – are still visible.

The gate had no defensive towers: this lack was fixed by means of a projection of the wall, which could therefore serve as a little rampart.

According to a statement by the humanist and historian Poggio Bracciolini, Porta Ardeatina bore the usual memorial plate, commemorating the restoration carried out by Emperor Honorius in 401–403. This could indicate that it was not just a simple secondary passage, but a real single-arch gate.

Close to the gate, on the inner side, remains of a grave incorporated into the wall are visible: this is consistent with the project of Emperor Aurelian who, in order to lessen the costs and speed up the building of the wall circle, integrated former structures within the wall itself.

See also

List of ancient monuments in Rome

Notes

References

Further reading
 Mauro Quercioli, Le mura e le porte di Roma. Newton Compton Ed., Rome, 1982
 Laura G. Cozzi, Le porte di Roma. F.Spinosi Ed., Rome, 1968

External links

Ardeatina


title: Leins Bal-Aire

text:
The Leins Bal-Aire was a US sports biplane designed and built by a professional pilot for his own use, completed in 1960.

Design and development
The Bal-Aire was designed and built by Ballard Leins, a United Airlines pilot. He spent two years on its construction.  It is a staggered biplane, with wings of constant chord mounted without sweep. They are wooden structures with fabric covering, the lower planes mounted on the lower fuselage longerons and the upper one supported over the fuselage on cabane struts. The pilot has an open cockpit just behind the upper trailing edge, in which there is a small cut-out to improve upward forward vision.

The rest of the Bal-Aire has a steel tube structure and fabric covering. A nose mounted,  Franklin 6A4-150
air-cooled flat six engine drives a two blade propeller. Behind it the fuselage is deep, with flat sides and bottom and a decked upper surface. The rear decking starts behind the cockpit at the height of the pilot's head, gradually falling to the tail. The fin is strongly straight tapered and square tipped, with a straight edged rudder that extends down to the keel; the tailplane is both strut and wire braced to the fin.  The Bal-Aire has a fixed, conventional undercarriage with faired legs and main wheels and a steerable tailwheel.

The Bel-Aire first flew on 8 July 1960.

Operational history
The Bal-Aire won second prize for outstanding workmanship at the Fly-in of the Experimental Aircraft Association.

It was restored to flight during the 1990s.

Specifications

References

1960s United States sport aircraft
Homebuilt aircraft
Biplanes
Single-engined tractor aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1960


title: John Ailleston

text:
John Ailleston (or Ayleston) (fl. 1410s - 1410s) was a Canon of Windsor from 1404 to 1405

Career

He was appointed:
Prebendary of the third stall in St Stephen's, Westminster 1404 - 1414
Vicar of Leverington, Cambridgeshire 1414
Prebendary of Newark College, Leicester 1405
Rector of Towcester 1408 - 1414
Rector of Stanwell, Middlesex 1408 - 1414
Master of St Mary’s Hospital, Chichester 1412
Rector of Worthen, Shropshire 1412
Prebendary of Ely 1414

He was appointed to the sixth stall in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle in 1404 and held the canonry until 1405.

Notes

Canons of Windsor


title: John Exton (priest)

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John Exton (died 1430) was a Canon of Windsor from 1405 to 1430

Career

He was appointed:
Prebendary of the Church of St Mary de Castro, Leicester 1404 - 1405
Auditor of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle 1410 - 1411

He was appointed to the sixth stall in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle in 1404 and held the canonry until 1430.

Notes

1430 deaths
Canons of Windsor
Year of birth unknown