title: Narcissism in the workplace

text:
Narcissism in the workplace involves the impact of narcissistic employees and managers in workplace settings.

Job interviews

Narcissists typically perform well at job interviews; they receive more favorable hiring ratings from interviewers than individuals who are not narcissists. Typically, because they can make favorable first impressions, though that may not translate to better job performance once hired.

Impact on workplace satisfaction

Impact on stress, absenteeism and staff turnover
There tends to be a higher level of stress with people who work with or interact with a narcissist. While there are a variety of reasons for this to be the case, an important one is the relationship between narcissism and aggression. Aggression is believed to moderate the relationship between narcissism and counterproductive work behaviors. According to Penney and Spector, narcissism is positively related to counterproductive workplace behaviors, such as interpersonal aggression, sabotaging the work of others, finding excuses to waste other peoples' time and resources, and spreading rumors. These aggressive acts can increase the stress of other employees, which in turn increases absenteeism and staff turnover. Moreover, no correlation was found between employees under the directions of a narcissist leader and absenteeism. However, employees under the direction of a non-narcissist leader show a decline on absenteeism over time.

Workplace bullying

In 2007, researchers Catherine Mattice and Brian Spitzberg at San Diego State University, USA, found that narcissism revealed a positive relationship with bullying.  Narcissists were found to prefer indirect bullying tactics (such as withholding information that affects others' performance, ignoring others, spreading gossip, constantly reminding others of mistakes, ordering others to do work below their competence level, and excessively monitoring others' work) rather than direct tactics (such as making threats, shouting, persistently criticizing, or making false allegations). This is significant in the workplace because narcissists are likely to be more emotionally volatile and aggressive than other employees, which could become a risk for all employees.

The research also revealed that narcissists are highly motivated to bully, and that to some extent, they are left with feelings of satisfaction after a bullying incident occurs. Despite the fact that many narcissists will avoid work, they can be eager to steal the work of others. In line with other dark triad traits, many narcissists will manipulate others and their environment so that they can claim responsibility for company accomplishments that they had little or nothing to do with. A study was done in 2017, that looked at dark traits within those who hold leadership positions and that effect on employee depression. The research done supported the idea that employees mental health and stability was negatively affected by bullying (some narcissistic behavior) in the workplace.

Organizational Design Preferences
Narcissists like hierarchical organizations because they think they will rise to high ranks and reap status and power. They take special interest in acquiring leadership positions and may be better at procuring them. Besides, narcissists are less interested in hierarchies where there is little opportunity for upward mobility. The prototypical narcissist is more concerned with getting praised and how they are perceived than doing what benefits all of the "stakeholders". Some narcissistic attributes may confer benefits, but the negative and positive outcomes of narcissistic leadership are not yet fully understood. In terms of the internal functioning of organizations, narcissists can be especially damaging, or ill-fit, to jobs that require judicious self assessment, heavily rely on teams, and/or use 360 degree feedback.

Corporate narcissism

According to Alan Downs, corporate narcissism occurs when a narcissist becomes the chief executive officer (CEO) (or another leadership role) within the senior management team and gathers an adequate mix of codependents around him or her to support the narcissistic behavior. Narcissists profess company loyalty but are only really committed to their own agendas; thus, organizational decisions are founded on the narcissist's own interests rather than the interests of the organization as a whole, the various stakeholders, or the society in which the organization operates. As a result, a certain kind of charismatic leader can run a financially successful company on thoroughly unhealthy principles (at least for a time).

Neville Symington has suggested that one of the ways of differentiating a good-enough organisation from one that is pathological is through its ability to exclude narcissistic characters from key posts.

Narcissistic supply

The narcissistic manager will have two main sources of narcissistic supply: inanimate (status symbols like cars, gadgets or office views); and animate (flattery and attention from colleagues and subordinates). Teammates may find everyday offers of support swiftly turn them into enabling sources of permanent supply, unless they are very careful to maintain proper boundaries. The narcissistic manager's need to protect such supply networks will prevent objective decision-making. Such a manager will evaluate long-term strategies according to their potential for gaining personal attention instead of to benefit the organization.

Productive narcissists
Crompton has distinguished what he calls productive narcissists from unproductive narcissists. Maccoby acknowledged that productive narcissists still tend to be over-sensitive to criticism, over-competitive, isolated, and grandiose, but considered that what draws them out is that they have a sense of freedom to do whatever they want rather than feeling constantly constrained by circumstances, and that through their charisma they are able to draw people into their vision, and produce a cohort of disciples who will pursue the dream for all it's worth. Studies show that narcissists tend to be more proactive in their work in an attempt to achieve a higher, more prestigious status.

Others have questioned the concept, considering that the dramatic collapse of Wall Street and the financial system in 2009 must give us pause. Is the collapse due to business leaders who have developed narcissistic styles—even if ostensibly productive? Certainly one may conclude that at best there can be quite a fine line between narcissists who perform badly in the workplace because of their traits, and those who achieve outrageous success because of them.

See also

References

Further reading
 Gerald Falkowski, Jean Ritala Narcissism in the Workplace (2007)
 Samuel Grier Narcissism in the Workplace: What It Is - How To Spot It - What To Do About It (2011)
 Belinda McDaniel The Narcissists in Your Life: Coping with and Surviving Narcissists in the Workplace, at Home and Wherever You Are Forced to Associate with People Suffering from Narcissistic Personality Disorder (2014)
 Sam Vaknin, Lidija Rangelovska The Narcissist and the Psychopath in the Workplace (2006)

External links
 Anna Verasai Dealing With Different Types of Narcissists at Work The HR Digest 28 Jul 2016
 Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic Why We Keep Hiring Narcissistic CEOs Harvard Business Review 29 Nov 2016

Human resource management
Narcissism
Positions of authority
Workplace
Workplace harassment and bullying
Employment
Emotional issues


title: Gink Scootere

text:
Gink Scootere is the fifth studio album by King Creosote. It was released in 1998 on Fence Records.

Track listing
 Dr. Alcopop
 Huckleberry Homeboy
 Thinners
 Crushing Bach Piano
 Marsha
 Lone Pigeon
 Your Crappy day
 One and the same
 Breeze once more on me
 Leslie
 Outer Crail to Inner Space
 Whatsover
 Dankety Dank
 Hello for the last time
 Sighs Mattress

1998 albums
King Creosote albums


title: Enter the Dominatrix

text:
Saints Row IV: Enter the Dominatrix is a downloadable content pack for the 2013 video game Saints Row IV that includes an alternate story of the alien Zin invasion. The dialogue often breaks the fourth wall and its style is self-referential in nature. Enter the Dominatrix draws on its history as originally produced as downloadable content for the game's predecessor, Saints Row: The Third. It was first announced on April Fool's Day in 2012, later confirmed, and then cancelled to be incorporated into Saints Row IV, which drew on some aspects of the original idea and left the rest for this downloadable content. It was released on October 22, 2013 to mixed or average reviews. Critics appreciated the pack's treatment of its own history, what Eurogamer Chris Schilling called a "very postmodern conceit".

Gameplay

Enter the Dominatrix tells an alternative story on the Zin invasion of Saints Row IV where the simulation of Steelport is hijacked by a rogue artificial intelligence called the Dominatrix. The pack draws on its origins as Saints Row: The Third downloadable content that was later delayed and repackaged. It also frequently breaks the fourth wall—its story's incongruence with the larger Saints Row story is a recurring theme, where the characters self-referentially acknowledge the plot holes. The story advances through cutscene clips presented as "unseen footage" found by television journalist Jane Valderama, as "what could have been". Some scenes end in concept art or videos of Volition employees acting out the drama so as to give the game an unfinished feel. The pack also casts characters from Saints Row: The Third who did not return in the sequel. The player fights the Dominatrix—who appears as a cross between Maleficent and a sex worker—several times. Other missions include using telekinesis to cage furries at a sex club and a BDSM chariot race. There are five missions in total. The pack introduces new weapons such as a heavy minigun, a flamethrower, a grenade launcher, new vehicles, and new computer-controlled support characters ("homies"). Up to two players can play cooperatively.

Plot
The events of the game are narrated from the perspective of the 3rd Street Saints as they and Zinyak (JB Blanc) are being interviewed about the deleted scenes of Enter the Dominatrix. Because of this, the narrative features many retcons, plot holes, and over-the-top moments, which the Saints acknowledge.

The "director's cut" of Enter the Dominatrix takes place one year after the non-canon ending of Saints Row: The Third, although Saints lieutenant Shaundi (Danielle Nicolet) is inexplicably still alive. The Saints still rule over Steelport, and lieutenant Pierce Washington (Arif S. Kinchen) has been elected mayor following Mayor Burt Reynolds' death. One day, Zinyak's Zin forces suddenly invade the city, and the Saints fight them off, though Josh Birk (Andrew Bowen) is 'tragically' killed while fighting a giant cyclops. Eventually, the Boss (Troy Baker, Kenn Michael, Robin Atkin Downes, Laura Bailey, Diane Michelle, Sumalee Montano, or Nolan North) faces Zinyak himself and kills him.

Following Zinyak's death, the Zin's rogue AI called the Dominatrix assumes command of the remaining Zin forces and transports the Saints into a simulation of Steelport, which she controls. The Saints recruit several allies to help them fight the Dominatrix, who eventually summons a giant soda can called Paul to wreak havoc in the simulation. The Saints manage to build a spaceship to go inside Paul and destroy its brain, killing it and weakening the Dominatrix. After the Boss kills the Dominatrix, Pierce arrives with backup: talking velociraptors, who take them to their king, Cirano. Cirano helps the Saints escape the simulation and grants each of them a wish.

Development

THQ announced an Enter the Dominatrix standalone expansion for Saints Row: The Third as an April Fool's joke in 2012. It was confirmed as in development the next month, with the basic plot where the alien commander Zinyak imprisons the Saints' leader in The Dominatrix simulation of Steelport so as to prevent interference when he takes over the planet. The expansion also was to add superpowers for the player character. In June, THQ said the expansion would be wrapped into a full sequel, tentatively titled "The Next Great Sequel in the Saints Row Franchise" and scheduled for release in 2013. The parts of that expansion that weren't incorporated into the sequel (Saints Row IV) were later released as this downloadable content for the new title. It was developed by Volition, published by Deep Silver, and released October 22, 2013. Enter the Dominatrix was followed by the "How the Saints Saved Christmas" downloadable content pack. High Voltage Software ported the full game and all of its downloadable content to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One as Saints Row 4: Re-Elected, which was released in North America on January 20, 2015, and worldwide three days later. A Linux port is planned for release in 2015.

Reception

Enter the Dominatrix received "mixed or average reviews", according to video game review score aggregator Metacritic. Chris Schilling of Eurogamer, citing the game's development history, called Enter the Dominatrix "a fascinating case study in how games evolve". Electronic Gaming Monthly Eric Patterson also commented on how downloadable content in the industry is seen as content pulled from the retail release to be sold as an addition, which Enter the Dominatrix development history flips on its head. He added that in all of his industry experience, he had never otherwise seen a developer purposefully let its fans play "shelved" content, and thus found the experience "fascinating". Official Xbox Magazine Mikel Reparaz said it was fun to see what "could have been".

Eurogamer Schilling called the self-referential nature of the release a "very postmodern conceit", which he thought worked well despite the dual faux pas of parodying The Matrix and overtly "satirizing game mechanics". He felt that the satire was not good, though the writing was "genuinely funny", and that the repeated Dominatrix fight scenes should not have felt as low budget. He recommended the pack for those who love "wry gags about creaky gaming tropes with the occasional belly laugh", and said he had a better time finding his own fun than playing through the missions. Patterson of Electronic Gaming Monthly noted that those who are looking for cost benefit would be disappointed by lack of content, especially those who had already finished the main game, but he was interested in Enter the Dominatrix for its behind-the-scenes aspects, which he encouraged other developers to use more often.

References

2013 video games
PlayStation 3 games
Saints Row
Self-reflexive video games
Video game expansion packs
Parody video games
Organized crime video games
Windows games
Xbox 360 games
PlayStation 4 games
Xbox One games
Linux games
Cooperative video games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Video games developed in the United States
BDSM-related mass media


title: List of Slovenian sportspeople

text:
This is a partial list of Slovenian sportspeople. For the full plain list of Slovenian sportspeople on Wikipedia, see :Category:Slovenian sportspeople.

Alpine skiing

Nataša Bokal
Tomaž Čižman
Alenka Dovžan
Jure Franko
Meta Hrovat
Urška Hrovat
Andrej Jerman
Katja Koren
Jure Košir
Mitja Kunc
Bojan Križaj
Tina Maze
Rok Petrovič
Špela Pretnar
Boris Strel
Mateja Svet

Archery

Gregor Rajh
Dejan Sitar
Klemen Štrajhar

Athletics
Britta Bilač
Borut Bilač
Alenka Bikar
Brigita Bukovec
Gregor Cankar
Jolanda Čeplak
Primož Kozmus
Brigita Langerholc
Stanko Lorger
Matic Osovnikar
Merlene Ottey
Martina Ratej
Sonja Roman
Marija Šestak
Draga Stamejčič
Nataša Urbančič

Badminton
Jasmina Keber
Maja Tvrdy

Basketball
Nika Barič
Sani Bečirović
Ivo Daneu
Luka Dončić
Goran Dragić
Vinko Jelovac
Jaka Lakovič
Erazem Lorbek
Marko Milič
Boštjan Nachbar
Radoslav Nesterović
Matjaž Smodiš
Beno Udrih
Peter Vilfan
Sasha Vujačić
Jure Zdovc
Aljoša Žorga
Miha Zupan

Biathlon

Klemen Bauer
Jakov Fak
Teja Gregorin
Andreja Grašič
Tomas Globočnik
Andreja Mali
Janez Marič

Boxing
Dejan Zavec

Canoeing

Jernej Abramič
Dare Bernot
Natan Bernot
Luka Božič
Simon Hočevar
Jože Ilija
Andrej Jelenc
Peter Kauzer
Urša Kragelj
Jure Meglič
Ajda Novak
Špela Ponomarenko Janić
Benjamin Savšek
Marjan Štrukelj
Sašo Taljat
Eva Terčelj
Miha Terdič
Andraž Vehovar
Jože Vidmar
Milan Zadel

Climbing
Janja Garnbret
Jernej Kruder
Mina Markovič
Mia Krampl
Domen Škofic

Cross-country skiing

Vesna Fabjan
Petra Majdič
Katja Višnar

Cycling

Grega Bole
Valter Bonča
Borut Božič
Janez Brajkovič
Primož Čerin
Jure Golčer
Andrej Hauptman
Blaža Klemenčič
Jure Kocjan
Kristijan Koren
Marko Kump
Luka Mezgec
Matej Mohorič
Tadej Pogačar
Jan Polanc
Jure Robič
Primož Roglič
Simon Špilak
Gorazd Štangelj
Tadej Valjavec
Tanja Žakelj

Fencing
Rudolf Cvetko

Figure skating
Mojca Kopač
Teodora Poštič
Gregor Urbas

Football

Milenko Ačimovič
Marko Elsner
Samir Handanović
Josip Iličić
Srečko Katanec
Robert Koren
Tim Matavž
Džoni Novak
Milivoje Novaković
Branko Oblak
Jan Oblak
Danilo Popivoda
Zlatko Zahovič

Freestyle skiing

Filip Flisar

Gymnastics

Miroslav Cerar
Stane Derganc
Aljaž Pegan
Mitja Petkovšek
Josip Primožič
Leon Štukelj
Peter Šumi

Handball
Alenka Cuderman
Dragan Gajić
Ana Gros
Iztok Puc
Rolando Pušnik
Renato Vugrinec
Uroš Zorman
Luka Žvižej

Ice hockey

David Rodman
Marcel Rodman
Edo Hafner
Rudi Hiti
Žiga Jeglič
Robert Kristan
Anže Kopitar
Jan Muršak
Žiga Pance
Tomaž Razingar
Zvone Šuvak
Rok Tičar

Judo

Vlora Bedeti
Rok Drakšič
Petra Nareks
Lucija Polavder
Aljaž Sedej
Raša Sraka
Tina Trstenjak
Anamari Velenšek
Urška Žolnir

Nordic combined
Gašper Berlot
Marjan Jelenko
Mitja Oranič

Rowing

Iztok Čop
Milan Janša
Janez Klemenčič
Sašo Mirjanič
Sadik Mujkič
Bojan Prešern
Luka Špik
Denis Žvegelj

Sailing

Vesna Dekleva
Klara Maučec
Vasilij Žbogar

Ski jumping

Rok Benkovič
Jernej Damjan
Matjaž Debelak
Damjan Fras
Robert Kranjec
Franci Petek
Primož Peterka
Peter Prevc
Jurij Tepeš
Miran Tepeš
Primož Ulaga
Matjaž Zupan
Peter Žonta

Snowboarding

Rok Flander
Dejan Košir
Žan Košir
Rok Marguč
Tim-Kevin Ravnjak
Cilka Sadar

Shooting

Rajmond Debevec

Swimming

Anja Čarman
Anton Cerer
Damir Dugonjič
Sara Isaković
Alenka Kejžar
Anja Klinar
Igor Majcen
Peter Mankoč
Matjaž Markič
Darjan Petrič
Borut Petrič
Metka Sparavec

Table tennis
Bojan Tokič

Taekwondo
Franka Anić
Ivan Trajkovič

Tennis

Aljaž Bedene
Polona Hercog
Mima Jaušovec
Blaž Kavčič
Tina Križan
Katarina Srebotnik
Grega Žemlja

See also
Sport in Slovenia
Slovenia at the Olympics
Slovenia at the Paralympics

Slovenia
Sports


title: Iterated forcing

text:
In mathematics, iterated forcing is a method for constructing models of set theory by repeating Cohen's forcing method a transfinite number of times. Iterated forcing was introduced by  in their construction of a model of set theory with no Suslin tree. They also showed that iterated forcing can construct models where Martin's axiom holds and the continuum is any given regular cardinal.

In iterated forcing, one has a transfinite sequence Pα of forcing notions indexed by some ordinals α, which give a family of Boolean-valued models VPα. If α+1 is a successor ordinal then  Pα+1 is often constructed from Pα using a forcing notion in VPα, while if α is a limit ordinal then Pα is often constructed as some sort of limit (such as the direct limit) of the Pβ for β<α.

A key consideration is that, typically, it is necessary that  is not collapsed. This is often accomplished by the use of a preservation theorem such as:
 Finite support iteration of c.c.c. forcings (see countable chain condition) are c.c.c. and thus preserve .
 Countable support iterations of proper forcings are proper (see Fundamental Theorem of Proper Forcing) and thus preserve .
 Revised countable support iterations of semi-proper forcings are semi-proper and thus preserve .

Some non-semi-proper forcings, such as Namba forcing, can be iterated with appropriate cardinal collapses while preserving  using methods developed by Saharon Shelah.

References

Sources

External links

Forcing (mathematics)


title: Luka Majcen

text:
Luka Majcen (born 25 July 1989) is a Slovenian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Indian Super League club Punjab.

Club career

Early career
Majcen started his senior career with Interblock.

Churchill Brothers
In 2020, Majcen moved to India and signed with Churchill Brothers in the I-League. He was the second best goalscorer of the 2020–21 I-League season with 11 goals in 15 matches.

Bengaluru United
In August 2021, Majcen moved to I-League 2nd Division side Bengaluru United. He made his debut on 6 September in a 1–0 win against Central Reserve Police Force in the group stage of the 2021 Durand Cup, but their journey ended with a 4–2 defeat to Mohammedan Sporting in the semi-finals.

With Bengaluru United, he won the 2021–22 Bangalore Super Division title, in which he emerged as the league's top scorer with thirteen goals.

Gokulam Kerala
On 9 January 2022, it was announced that I-League defending champions Gokulam Kerala have signed Majcen for the remainder of the season.

On 3 March 2022, he made his debut for the club in I-League match against NEROCA, which ended in a 0–0 stalemate. Majcen scored his first goals for Gokulam Kerala on 7 March, in their 5–1 win against Real Kashmir. He scored his first hat-trick on 12 March in their 6–2 win against Kenkre. With Gokulam Kerala, Majcen won the league title in the 2021–22 season, defeating Mohammedan Sporting 2–1 in the final game at the Salt Lake Stadium on 14 May, as Gokulam became the first club in fifteen years to defend the title. Overall, Majcen scored thirteen league goals during the season.

In the 2022 AFC Cup group stage opener, Majcen scored a brace in Gokulam's 4–2 win against ATK Mohun Bagan. He also appeared in the remaining two matches when Gokulam was defeated 1–0 by Maldivian side Maziya S&RC, and 2–1 by Bashundhara Kings of Bangladesh, respectively, and was eliminated from the tournament.

RoundGlass Punjab
On 23 September 2022, Majcen joined another I-League side RoundGlass Punjab on a one-year deal. With Punjab, Majcen won the 2022–23 I-League title, his second consecutive I-League championship, and helped the team gain promotion to the Indian Super League. He was also named the player of the season and was the league's top scorer with 16 goals.

Majcen made his Indian Super League debut on 23 September 2023, in their 3–1 away defeat to Mohun Bagan, in which he scored the club's first ever goal in India's highest division.

Career statistics

Club

Honours
Interblock
Slovenian Cup: 2007–08, 2008–09
Slovenian Supercup: 2008

Triglav Kranj
Slovenian Second League: 2016–17

Churchill Brothers
I-League runner-up: 2020–21

Bengaluru United
Bangalore Super Division: 2021–22

Gokulam Kerala
I-League: 2021–22

RoundGlass Punjab
I-League: 2022–23

Individual
 I-League Player of the Season: 2022–23
 I-League top scorer: 2022–23

References

External links
Luka Majcen at Sofascore

NZS profile

1989 births
Living people
Slovenian men's footballers
Men's association football forwards
Slovenian PrvaLiga players
Slovenian Second League players
I-League players
Indian Super League players
NK IB 1975 Ljubljana players
NK Ivančna Gorica players
NK Rudar Velenje players
FC Koper players
NK Triglav Kranj players
ND Gorica players
NK Krka players
Churchill Brothers FC Goa players
FC Bengaluru United players
Gokulam Kerala FC players
Punjab FC players
Slovenia men's youth international footballers
Slovenia men's under-21 international footballers
Slovenian expatriate men's footballers
Slovenian expatriate sportspeople in India
Expatriate men's footballers in India


title: Sullivan Field

text:
Sullivan Field may refer to:

 Sullivan Field (University of Incarnate Word), the baseball field of the Incarnate Word Cardinals
 Sullivan Field (Loyola Marymount), the soccer/futbol field of the Loyola Marymount Lions


title: Ampel Mosque

text:
Ampel Mosque (; ; ) is an ancient mosque located in the Ampel sub-district, district Semampir, Surabaya, East Java. The oldest mosque in East Java was built in 1421 CE by Sunan Ampel where his tomb complex is located within the area.

Architecture
The mosque, which is currently one of the religious attractions in the city of Surabaya, is surrounded by buildings with Chinese and Arab architectures. In the left side of the mosque there is a well that is believed to be the auspicious well, typically used by those who believe to strengthen a pledge or oath.

The tomb complex built with a walled courtyard and gateways.  The structures led up to the grave of Sunan Ampel.  Panataran, dedicated to Siva of the mountain, comprises a sequence of three walled compounds called Jeroan, Jaba Tengah (with the ancillary temple or Perwara) and Jaba (the last and the highest, containing the main shrine).

Gallery

See also

Islamic architecture
Islam in Indonesia
Indonesian architecture
List of the oldest mosques in the world

References

Mosques in Surabaya
Cultural Properties of Indonesia in East Java
Religious buildings and structures completed in 1421


title: Rønninge Søgård

text:
Rønningesøgaard, also Rønninge Søgård, is a two-winged Renaissance manor house located  northwest of Nyborg on the Danish island of Funen. The east wing and the octagonal tower overlooking the waters of Vomme Sø date from 1596. The north wing was erected as a half-timbered structure in 1672 and completed in brick in 1757.

Description
It has been established that in 1326 Niels Jensen was the owner of Søgård and of a series of farms in the area. He was buried in the local church. Some  south of today's manor, there is a defensive site consisting of a hill and a moat which was apparently the first Søgard. The Crown had extensive interests in the area as Tvevad Castle, documented by Valdemar the Great, lay just 2 km to the south. The medieval castle can still be seen in Tvevadskov (Tvevad Woods).

The Søgård estate came into the Crown's ownership before the end of the 14th century. In 1537, just after the Danish Reformation, Søgård together with 16 farms is recorded as belonging to the Crown as well as two of the parish's three water mills. In 1577, Frederick II rewarded his steward Casper Markdanner with a deed for Søgård and part of the Rønninge estate. After marrying Sofie Oldeland in 1592, Markdanner set about building a presentable two-storey manor house with a vaulted cellar, commanding a fine view over the lake. The estate was also expanded although it remained a fairly modest property.

The estate remained in the hands of the Markdanner family until Frederik Markdanner, Casper's great-grandchild, died in 1677. Thereafter there were various owners. In 1757, a new wing was added in the same style as the original manor. Together with the main building, it formed an almost rectangular complex.

In 1823, Rønninge Søgård was acquired by Ulrika Cathrine de Mylius (née Rasch). After her death in 1731, it was passed to her son Johan Caspar Mylius. He was ennobled under the name de Mylius on 14 October 1840. The estate remained in the Mylius family until 1906.

In 1860, at the end of Vomme Sø, an octagonal burial chapel was built for the de Mylius's family in 1900-2018 Later it has been bought by various big farmers.

Today
The estate is now owned by chamberlain, count Stig Daniel Bille-Brahe-Selby. The estate was purchased for his grandfather, Daniel, a younger son from the County of Brahesminde with the main seat at Hvedholm Castle.

List of owners
 (1326-1340) Niels Jensen Rønning
 (1397)        Gert Andersen Rønning
 (      -1567) Kronen
 (1567-1577) Henrik von Raaden
 (1577)        Kronen
 (1577-1618) Caspar Markdanner
 (1618-1624) Frederik Markdanner
 (1624-      ) Sophie Oldeland, gift Markdanner
 (     - 1639) Frederik Markdanner
 (1631-1642) Hans Markdanner
 (1639-1641) Anne Gyldenstierne, gift Markdanner
 (1641-1674) Henrik Markdanner
 (1674-1677) Frederik Markdanner
 (1677-      ) Hilleborg Eriksdatter Kaas, gift 1) Markdanner, 2) Due
 (       -1684) Hans Due
 (1684-1705) Knud Sivertsen Urne
 (1705-1715) Helvig Sophie Urne, gift Friis
 (1715-1727) Christian Friis
 (1727-1728) Sigvard Urne
 (1727-1733) Christian Sehested
 (1733-1770) Johan Caspar Rasch
 (1770-1787) Mette Sophie Munck, gift Rasch
 (1788-1823) Christian Sørensen Lemwigh
 (1823-1831) Ulrika Cathrine de Mylius, née Rasch
 (1831-1840) Johan Caspar Mylius
 (1840-1857) Johan Jacob Mylius
 (1857-1885) Sigismund Wolf Veit Mylius
 (1885-1895) Albert Sigismund Caspar Mylius
 (1895-1906) Sigismund Ernst Mylius-Benzon
 (1906-1913) Oluf Bech
 (1913-1918) Preben Charles Bille-Brahe-Selby
 (1918-1950) Daniel Bille-Brahe-Selby
 (1950-1985) Bent Daniel Bille-Brahe-Selby
 (1985-2019) Stig Daniel Bille-Brahe-Selby

References

Literature

Houses completed in 1596
Listed buildings and structures in Kerteminde Municipality
Castles and manor houses on Funen
Listed castles and manor houses in Denmark
Renaissance architecture in Denmark
Tourist attractions in the Region of Southern Denmark
Buildings and structures of the Mylius family
Buildings and structures of the Bille family
Buildings and structures in Denmark of the Brahe family


title: P. maculata

text:
P. maculata may refer to:

 Panorpodes maculata, a jewel beetle
 Paragorgopis maculata, a picture-winged fly
 Paralopostega maculata, a moth endemic to Hawaii
 Parapercis maculata, a ray-finned fish
 Parasiccia maculata, an Asian moth
 Parasikukia maculata, a fish endemic to Thailand
 Parias maculata, a venomous pitviper
 Parochetus maculata, a plant with blue flowers
 Paropsis maculata, a tortoise beetle
 Paroreomyza maculata, a bird endemic to Oahu
 Pegomya maculata, a calyptrate muscoid
 Pempelia maculata, a snout moth
 Penicillaria maculata, an owlet moth
 Pentila maculata, an African butterfly
 Percina maculata, a roughbelly darter
 Peristeria maculata, a New World orchid
 Persicaria maculata, an annual plant
 Persicula maculata, a sea snail
 Phlox maculata, a flowering plant
 Phycodes maculata, an Indian moth
 Phyllonorycter maculata, a Japanese moth
 Phymata maculata, an ambush bug
 Pinctada maculata, a pearl oyster
 Pionycha maculata, a ground beetle
 Piruna maculata, a skipper butterfly
 Planaria maculata, a planariid triclad
 Planigale maculata, a marsupial mouse
 Platnickina maculata, a tangle-web spider
 Platysticta maculata, a closed wing damselfly
 Platythelphusa maculata, a freshwater crab
 Pleione maculata, a Himalayan crocus
 Pleurobranchaea maculata, a side-gill slug
 Pleurothallis maculata, a tropical orchid
 Polycarpa maculata, a tunicate with a folded pharyngeal basket
 Polyortha maculata, an Ecuadorean moth
 Polystachya maculata, an orchid endemic to Burundi
 Pomacea maculata, an apple snail
 Ponthieva maculata, a New World orchid
 Porcellana maculata, a porcelain crab
 Portevinia maculata, a European hoverfly
 Posterobranchaea maculata, a headshield slug
 Potentilla maculata, a herbaceous plant
 Potiaete maculata, a longhorn beetle
 Procapperia maculata, an Old World moth
 Prosartes maculata, a perennial plant
 Protolychnis maculata, a long-horned moth
 Psathyrella maculata, a dark-spored agaric
 Pseudacris maculata, a chorus frog
 Pseudaneitea maculata, a leaf-veined slug
 Pseudofentonia maculata, an owlet moth
 Pseudomantis maculata, a praying mantis
 Pseudomonnea maculata, a ground beetle
 Pseudostomatella maculata, a sea snail
 Psiloptera maculata, a jewel beetle
 Pterocalla maculata, a picture-winged fly
 Puya maculata, a plant endemic to Ecuador
 Pyrrhalta maculata, a leaf beetle


title: Russ Tolman

text:
Russ Tolman (born August 15, 1956) is a singer-songwriter who came to international attention in the 1980s as guitarist, songwriter, and producer of True West, a band associated with the Paisley Underground.

Early life and career
Tolman was born August 15, 1956, and raised in Northern California. His father was a sheep rancher, and his mother was a former burlesque dancer who worked during World War II as a "Rosie the Riveter". He is the grandson of noted psychologist Edward C. Tolman, and great-nephew of Manhattan Project physicist Richard C. Tolman.

While attending school at University of California, Davis, Tolman was a DJ at the student radio station KDVS, where he met a pre-Dream Syndicate Steve Wynn and Kendra Smith, who were also disc jockeys at the station. Together in 1978 they formed Suspects, which was touted as Davis's first New Wave band. Answering a classified ad in The California Aggie was drummer Gavin Blair (who would later be lead singer in True West) and bassist Steve Suchil. Active until 1980, when Wynn and Smith returned to Southern California to attend UCLA, Suspects played many of the Northern California punk and new wave venues of the day including San Francisco's Mabuhay Gardens and The Deaf Club and UC Davis's Coffeehouse. They released a 45 RPM single, "Talking Loud" b/w "It's Up To You," in 1979.

Following the breakup of Suspects, Tolman began playing with Sean O'Brien in The Meantime, which also featured bassist Rick Gates, son of David Gates of Bread. The elder Gates produced Tolman's song "Two For One" for the band's self-released 7-inch EP in 1981.

From 1979 until 1983, Tolman worked as a disc jockey at progressive country station KYLO in Davis, where he developed a love for classic honky tonk, western swing, and folk under the tutelage of music director Gordy Broshear, formerly of genre pioneers KFAT.

By 1982, The Meantime had changed their name to True West and Gavin Blair had replaced Sean O'Brien as lead singer. The band went on to coalesce around Blair, Tolman, and guitarist Richard McGrath and record two well received albums, which allowed the band to tour constantly in the US and Europe from 1983 through early summer 1985, including accompanying R.E.M. as opening act on their Fables of the Reconstruction tour.

In summer 1985, True West and Tolman parted ways.

Solo recording career
Tolman started work on his first solo album Totem Poles And Glory Holes, which was released in 1986 on UK label Zippo/Demon Records. The album was released in the U.S. the next year on Down There/Restless Records and received many positive reviews including being named New York Times music critic Robert Palmer's "Rock Album of the Week" in the May 29, 1987 Times, as well as making that writer's and many other's year-end "Best Of" list.

Tolman left Davis for Los Angeles at the end of summer 1986, where he helped manage Steve Wynn's Down There Records label, releasing albums by Tolman, The Romans, Divine Weeks, Top Jimmy & The Rhythm Pigs, Doctor's Children, and others via a distribution deal with successful independent label Restless Records.

Tolman did his first U.S. tour with a band that featured bassist David Provost (Dream Syndicate, The Droogs, Phil Seymour, Holly and the Italians), former True West drummer Frank French (later of Cake), and San Francisco guitarist Jeff Kane.

In 1988, Tolman recorded Down In Earthquake Town, which was the first of a series of albums he made at Westbeach Recorders with engineer (and sometimes co-producer and co-writer) Brett Gurewitz, founder of Bad Religion and Epitaph Records. This album was released in Europe on Zippo/Demon Records and in the U.S. on Skyclad Records. Tolman supported this album with a U.S. tour with a band that included keyboardist Robert Lloyd, bassist Brian Mazur, guitarist Jeff Kane, and drummer Dave Drewry. Johnette Napolitano of Concrete Blonde, credited as the Strawberry Neapolitan Singers, lends background vocals to the album. Tolman makes vocal noises on the title song of Concrete Blonde's 1989 album Free.

Goodbye Joe was released in 1990 on Skyclad Records and on France's New Rose Records. The record was recorded at Westbeach Recorders with the nucleus of bass player Provost and drummer Drewry, then fleshed out with the contributions of lead guitarist Jon Klages (The Individuals, The Richard Lloyd Band) and multi-instrumentalist Robert Lloyd. It was after the release of this album that Tolman began frequent tours in Europe joining Steve Wynn and his band as solo opener for their 1990 tour of France, Spain, and Italy.

Tolman particularly was drawn to Scandinavia, looking to relocate to Oslo, Norway. With this plan in mind, Tolman based his recording band for 1992's Road Movie around drummer Ned Leukhardt (Wall of Voodoo) who had relocated to Scandinavia with the demise of Wall of Voodoo in 1988. With Brett Gurewitz in the co-producer's chair, the album features a core band of Leukhardt on drums, bassist David Provost, Jon Klages on guitar with guest appearances by Green on Red's Chris Cacavas on organ, Robert Lloyd on mandolin and accordion, Chris Bauer steel guitar, and The Long Ryders's Sid Griffin on backing vocals.  The album was released in Europe on New Rose Records.

Around this time, Tolman toured Belgium, the Netherlands, and Denmark with John Wesley Harding. Earlier, he had done a winter tour of Spain with Harding, Steve Wynn, Chris Cacavas, and Giant Sand.

In 1992, Russ contributed background vocals on Steve Wynn's album Dazzling Display.

Sweet Spot was Tolman's fourth album released 1994 on his own Brilliant label via several European record companies including PIAS. Once again recorded in Los Angeles at Westbeach Recorders, Sweet Spot featured a band that included guitarist Kirk Swan (Dumptruck), drummer Dave Drewry, bass player Nino Del Pesco, multi-instrumentalist Robert Lloyd (Steve Wynn, John Wesley Harding, Carlene Carter, Amy Rigby), and Canadian vocalist Wendy Bird (Barney Bentall).

Tolman, along with Kirk Swan, Wendy Bird, and bassist Spike Priggen, embarked on an acoustic European tour to support Sweet Spot that included Scandinavia, France, Spain, and Italy.

Late in 1996, Tolman left Los Angeles for San Francisco.  Living in the Mission District, he wrote his next album City Lights. During this time he made frequent trips to Portland, Oregon to work with songwriter/drummer Jim Huie on Huie's Girls Say Yes project that featured Huie's songwriting and drumming with vocals by Huie and several other Portland artists. Notably, True West guitarist Richard McGrath lends his considerable guitar talents to the project. Canadian songstress Wendy Bird also appears. The album was recorded with engineer Mike Demmers at Desitrek Studios. Tolman would later go on to record and mix part of his City Lights at this studio.

City Lights was also recorded in San Francisco with engineer Chris Von Sneidern with Steve Wynn co-producing several songs that include Linda Pitmon on drums, pianist Robert Lloyd, and Doug Freeman on bass. Guitarist Jeff Kane (who died from cancer in 2012) also participated in the album, both playing guitar and engineering overdubs. The album was mastered by the late Doug Sax and released on Germany's Blue Rose Records in 1998.

Tolman followed up the City Lights release with two tours of Europe. First in May and June 1998, he was solo opening act for The Cole Porters featuring his friend Sid Griffin playing in Germany and the UK. Tolman returned for a Fall 1998 tour with a band that featured guitarist Jeff Kane, drummer Jim Huie, and Portland bass player Roland Couture. It was on this tour in Cologne, Germany that Tolman met his future wife Kim Assing (now noted Hollywood production designer Kim A. Tolman).

In addition to songwriting and performing, Tolman has a keen interest in music production, having produced records for Barbara Manning's first band 28th Day, The Windbreakers, The Downsiders, The Popealopes, Lost Durangos, and others. In 1998, he started Innerstate Records, along with Pat Thomas. The label was active in the San Francisco Bay Area till 2006 with nearly 100 releases and spawned offshoot labels InnerSpace and WEED (which released albums by Thomas's band Mushroom). During the early 2000s, Tolman also worked as a reissue producer, overseeing re-releases from Willie Nelson, Bob Marley, Waylon Jennings, Lead Belly, Patsy Cline, and others.

In 2000, Tolman released New Quadraphonic Highway, which he recorded almost entirely in his Haight Ashbury district bedroom. It featured guest appearances by John Wesley Harding, Chuck Prophet, Tom Heyman, and Dale Duncan of Map of Wyoming and Flying Color.

In 2006, Tolman joined Gavin Blair, Richard McGrath, and True West newcomers Jim Huie, and bassist Ian Barrett for a series of True West reunion shows, which included several dates as opening act for old friends Violent Femmes, playing at venues such as San Francisco's legendary Fillmore Ballroom and the House of Blues at Downtown Disney, Anaheim.

In 2011, Tolman and wife Kim left the SF Bay Area to relocate in Los Angeles. Tolman reformed the Russ Tolman Band shortly after, featuring Kirk Swan on guitar, drummer Dave Drewry, Robert Lloyd on organ, bassist Dave Provost, and new addition Carl Byron on piano. They recorded and released the digital single "Los Angeles" in 2013.

In 2016, Tolman released the singles "Time Flies," "Everybody's Gonna Love Me," and "Vancouver Sun" on the 304 Stainless label.

Tolman released in 2017 a 20-song, 27-year retrospective album (CD and digital) entitled Compass & Map that covers the years 1986 to 2013 and includes songs from his previous seven albums, plus the best of his digital singles.

In 2019, Tolman's eighth solo album Goodbye El Dorado was released.

Personal life

In 2000, Tolman married Kim Assing (now Kim A. Tolman) in Cologne, Germany. They currently reside in Los Angeles, where Kim works as a production designer and art director for film and themed entertainment. She is also a fine art painter.

Discography

 Russ Tolman with True West
 True West EP 1983 Bring Out Your Dead (USA)
 Hollywood Holiday 1983 New Rose (F)
 Drifters LP 1984 Zippo (UK) resp. PVC / Passport (USA)
 TV Western 1990 LP / CD CD Skyclad (USA)Side A: EMI Records-demos recorded Dec. 1983 @ Bearsville Studios, produced by Tom Verlaine, Side B: Live at Rex Club, Paris France May 1985
 Best Western CD Skyclad 1988 (USA) (Rarities, outtakes)
 West Side Story LP / CD 1989 Skyclad (USA) (Rarities, outtakes)
 Hollywood Holiday Revisited CD 2006 Atavistic (USA) (reissue of first two albums, along with the 1983 demos produced by Tom Verlaine at Bearsville Studios.
 The West Is History: Live At The House of Blues" 2011 DVD Atavistic Video (USA)

 Russ Tolman solo
 Totem Poles and Glory Holes LP 1986 Down There-Restless Records(USA) & Demon (UK)
 Down in Earthquake Town LP 1988 Skyclad (USA) & Demon (UK)
 Goodbye Joe LP /CD 1990 New Rose (F) & Skyclad (USA)
 Road Movie CD 1992 New Rose (F)
 Sweet Spot CD 1994 Red River (Germany)
 City Lights CD 1998 Blue Rose (Germany)
 New Quadraphonic Highway CD 2000 WEED (USA), Blue Rose (Germany)
 "Los Angeles" Digital Single 2013 Innerstate (USA)
 "Time Flies" Digital Single 2016 304 Stainless (USA)
 "Everybody's Gonna Love Me" Digital Single 2016 304 Stainless (USA)
 "Vancouver Sun" Digital Single 2016 304 Stainless (USA)
 Compass & Map CD/digital album 2017 LOST (USA)
 Goodbye El Dorado CD/digital album 2019 LOST (USA), Blue Rose (Europe)

 Russ Tolman – Compilations & Special Releases
 Various Artists - Only 39,999,999 Behind Thriller LP Down There/Restless Records 1989. Russ plays "Talking Hoover Dam Blues"
 Various Artists –Live At The Kremlin Volume One LP/CD New Rose Records ROSE247 1991 (Concert highlights 13.–16. November 1990 in Espace André Malraux, Kremlin-Bicètre, 10th anniversary celebration of New Rose Records, Russ Tolman plays „Vegas“)
 Live At The Shop Cassette RUSS 01 1992 Get Happy!! Records (Live Concert 11. November 1992 at Get Happy! Plattenladen, Frankfurt am Main, limited to 20 copies)
 Various Artists - 39 Steps to Seattle 1995 Zippo/Demon Records. Russ Tolman plays "Everything You Need And Everything You Want"
 Various Artists - This Note's For You Too!: A Tribute To Neil Young (Inbetweens/Innerstate Records 1999). Russ Tolman & Richard McGrath play "Old Man"

 Russ Tolman as Producer
 28th Day -28th Day LP 1985 Bring Out Your Dead/Enigma Records
 Lost Durangos - Evil Town LP 1986 Armadillo Records (Canada)
 The Downsiders – All My Friends Are Fish LP 1988 Mammoth Records (USA) (Russ Tolman plays lead guitar on "She’s Alright")
 The Popealopes – An Adder's Tale LP 1988 Skyclad (USA) & Resonance (NL)
 Giant Sand - "Change Is Now" Time Between – A Tribute to The Byrds CD 1989 Communion Records (USA), Imaginary Records (UK)
 The Popealopes – Kerosene LP 1990 Skyclad (USA)
 The Windbreakers - Electric Landlady LP 1991 DB Records (USA)

Videography
 True West - The West Is History: Live at The House of Blues (DVD, 2011)
 Various Artists - Frozen Ghosts VHS 1989 Iceworld Video. Contain's Russ Tolman's video for "Domino."
 Various Artists - Slipping Through The Cracks VHS 1988 Iceworld Video. Contains Russ Tolman's video for "Talking Hoover Dam Blues"

References

External links

1956 births
Guitarists from California
University of California, Davis alumni
Living people
20th-century American guitarists
Restless Records artists


title: Mario Zepahua Valencia

text:
Mario Alberto Rafael Zepahua Valencia (born 1 January 1970) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party. He served as Deputy of the LIX Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Veracruz.

References

1970 births
Living people
Politicians from Veracruz
Institutional Revolutionary Party politicians
20th-century Mexican politicians
21st-century Mexican politicians
Municipal presidents in Veracruz
Members of the Congress of Veracruz
Deputies of the LIX Legislature of Mexico
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) for Veracruz


title: Utica, Maryland

text:
Utica, also known as Utica Mills, is an unincorporated community located in Frederick County, Maryland, United States, at the intersection of Old Frederick Road and Lenhart Road.

It is home to St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church.

The Utica Covered Bridge, also known as the Utica Mills Covered Bridge, is located nearby.

History

During the Civil War, the 18th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry arrived at the outskirts of Utica on Tuesday, July 7, 1863.

Dr. George F. Smith, one of the first druggists to serve Coca-Cola, and founder of the Rosebud Perfume Company in Woodsboro, Maryland, taught school in Utica for five years, before becoming a druggist in 1902.

References

Populated places in Frederick County, Maryland


title: Mannlicher M1890 Carbine

text:
The Repeating Carbine Model 1890 a.k.a. Mannlicher Model 1890 Carbine is a bolt-action rifle, designed by Ferdinand Mannlicher that used a new version of his straight-pull action bolt. It was introduced as an alternative to the Mannlicher M1888 as it was shorter and easier to maneuver with. Three main versions were introduced: Cavalry Carbine, Gendarmerie Carbine and Navy Short Rifle.

Variants

Cavalry Carbine
This variant was used by the Austro-Hungarian cavalry. A stacking rod, handguard and bayonet lug are absent.

Stutzen
This variant features sling swivels on the underside, a stacking rod and bayonet lugs. It was used by the Austro-Hungarian Navy.

Gendarmerie carbine
The Austro-Hungarian Gendarmarie was also in need of a carbine. It adopted a version which featured a bayonet lug but no stacking rod.

Conversions
M90/30 was a conversion of these rifles done in the First Austrian Republic. They carry the letter S stamped on the barrel.

M90/31 was a conversion of these rifles done in the Kingdom of Hungary. They carry the letter H stamped on the barrel.

M90/95 was a conversion of these rifles done in Ethiopian Empire]. Unlike other conversions, these were done by putting existing M90 carbines in M95 pattern furniture.

Afghan Contract
A small number of these carbines made for the Afghan Contract were ordered by Abdur Rahman Khan for the Emirate of Afghanistan.

References

Further reading

Austro-Hungarian Mannlicher M1890 Short Rifles and Carbines. Hungariae.com

8×50mmR Mannlicher firearms
7.92×57mm Mauser rifles
Straight-pull rifles
Rifles of Austria
World War I Austro-Hungarian infantry weapons
Mannlicher rifles
Firearms by Ferdinand Mannlicher
Weapons and ammunition introduced in 1890


title: David Dalton

text:
David Dalton may refer to:

 David Dalton (writer) (1942–2022), American writer
 David Nigel Dalton, British National Health Service administrator
 David Dalton (violist) (1934–2022), American viola player and author
 David D. Dalton (1822–1894), Secretary of State of Alabama


title: .dbf

text:
The .dbf file extension represents the dBase database file. The file type was introduced in 1983 with dBASE II.  The file structure has evolved to include many features and capabilities.  Several additional file types have been added, to support data storage and manipulation.  The current .dbf file level is called Level 7.  The .dbf format is supported by a number of database products.

Overview
The original dBASE database was known as Project Vulcan and was started by Wayne Ratliff in 1978. At the time the file that held the data was a simple table that could have data added, modified, deleted, or printed using the ASCII characters set. As the product became more popular, the underlying file type .dbf was expanded, and additional files were added to increase the capabilities of the database system. Despite dBASE being an IDE (integrated development environment), a database system, a compiler, and a database application builder, the original .dbf file was still used for the actual data storage mechanism.

History of the file format

Classical .dbf
Project Vulcan – CP/M (Level 1)
 There is no publicly available information on the original layout.  What is known is that it was a simple table which allowed adding, deleting, modifying, and outputting ASCII data.  It was written for 8-bit machines that ran CP/M.
dBASE II – MS-DOS (Level 2)
dBASE II was the first major release by Ashton-Tate.  It had many advancements beyond the simple table structures of Project Vulcan.
 Still written for 8-bit computing
 Increased the number of fields from 16 to 32
 Introduced a SORT routine
 16-bit version finally released in April 1983 (version 2.4)
dBASE III – MSDOS (Level 2sh)
dBASE III (version "1.0"), was released in June 1984.  This was a fully 16-bit application.  dBASE III's file format is a transitional step between dBASE II and dBASE III+.

Modern dBASE

dBASE III+ – MS-DOS (Level 3)
dBASE III+ was released in December 1985.  It ushered the modern dBASE file format.  It is incompatible with dBASE III's file format.
dBASE IV – MS-DOS (Level 4)
 1.0 x322 Oct 1988
 1.0 x55 Mar 1993 – dBASE Compiler
 2.0 x12 Oct 1993 Includes fixes in dBASE IV v2.0 x16 above (not x17 i.e. not VLM compatible, dB5D exe's are compatible). It's also a new version that contain new features not in the V1.0 product:
 32-bit generation
 Auto compiling and linking
 Smaller .EXE size
 Menu-driven user interface
 Linker can produce combined .DBO output
 Linker can produce a .MAP file
 Compiler supports alternate date formats
 command-line switches accept wildcards in file names.
dBASE V – MS-DOS (Level 5)
 1.0 x46 Jun 1994
BDE – Borland Database Engine 2.52

This was the last update to the 16-bit version of the Borland Database Engine (BDE).

dBASE V – MS-Windows (Level 5)
 5.5 b673 Jul 1995

xBase
xBase is a name applied to clones of the dBase, typically dBASE III+–V. Most xBase programs either use the format directly or uses a derived format with custom extensions. Erik Bachmann maintains an open-licensed description of these formats.

dBASE 7

The Level 7 structure is the latest supported by dBASE and BDE. It is incompatible with the previous file format, and is supported by few third-party applications.

dBASE 7 – MS-Windows (Level 7)
 7.0 b1345 Dec 1997 Full 32 bit version for Win 95/NT

Level 7 brought many improvements.  The maximum length for field names increased from 10 to 31 characters.  Some new fields types were added, such as the auto-increment field, which prevents creation of duplicate record numbers in the same table.

BDE version 5.1.0

Significant improvements over the prior releases. There are also some limitations with regards to what the BDE can handle.

File format of Level 5 DOS dBASE

The "modern dBASE" III+–V is the most common dBASE file format found in the wild. In "modern dBASE", a .dbf file consists of a header, the data records, and the end-of-file marker.

 The header contains information about the file, such as the number of records and the number of types of fields used in the records.
 The records contain the actual data.
 The end of the file is marked by a single byte, with value .

File header

Field descriptor array

Database records

Each record begins with a 1-byte "deletion" flag.  The byte's value is a space (), if the record is active, or an asterisk (), if the record is deleted.  Fields are packed into records without field separators or record terminators.

All field data is ASCII.  Depending on the field's type, the application imposes further restrictions:

Memo fields and the .DBT file

A memo (.DBT) file consists of blocks numbered sequentially (0,1,2, and so on). SET BLOCKSIZE determines the size of each block. The first block, block 0, is the memo file header.

Each memo field of each record in the .DBF file contains the number of the block (in ASCII) where the memo field begins. If the memo field contains no data, the .DBF file contains blanks () rather than a number.

When a memo field's content changes, its block number may also change.  I.e. the memo gets relocated.  In that case, the number in the .DBF file gets updated.

In dBASE III PLUS, the space consumed by deleted text in a memo field cannot be reused — the .DBT file size grows each time text is added, even if other text has been deleted.  dBASE for DOS may reuse that space for new text. dBASE IQ PLUS always appended new text to the end of the .dbt file.

Other file types found in dBASE

dBASE defines many types of files.  It also recognizes some operating system files and files from other products.  The table below lists the most commonly used formats first.  It was compiled from the documentation of dBASE III+, dBASE IV, and dBASE CLASSIC.

See also

References

Further reading

External links
FoxBase, dBASE III/IV file format specification (retrieved 6 August 2018)

Computer file formats


title: Josef Rasselnberg

text:
Josef "Jupp" Rasselnberg (18 December 1912 – 9 February 2005) was a German former football player and trainer who featured in the German national team as a striker. The summit of his international career was the 1934 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Luxembourg on 11 March 1934, in which he scored four times. In his other eight international matches he scored an additional four goals.

Honours
Benrath
Westdeutscher Pokal (West German Cup) (2): 1932, 1933
Gauliga Niederrhein I (2): 1934, 1935

References

External links

1912 births
2005 deaths
Footballers from Düsseldorf
Men's association football forwards
German men's footballers
Germany men's international footballers
Arminia Bielefeld managers
German football managers


title: American Workers League

text:
The American Workers League () was an American nineteenth century workers political organization.

The league was founded in 1853 by 800 German American delegates who attended the inaugural meeting in the Mechanics Hall in New York City.

Among their leaders was Joseph Weydemeyer, a longtime friend of Karl Marx. The organization adopted an egalitarian membership policy holding that all workers who live in the United States without distinction of occupation, language, color, or sex can become members. They opposed the Kansas–Nebraska Act because it had the effect of allowing slavery in the lands opening up in the American West.

References

1853 establishments in Pennsylvania
Organizations established in 1853
Defunct socialist organizations in the United States
Political organizations based in the United States
German-American organizations


title: Glenn Olds

text:
Glenn A. Olds (February 28, 1921 – March 11, 2006) was an American academic administrator, government official and politician.  Olds was raised in Oregon and attended Willamette University.
Olds served as the president of Springfield College in western Massachusetts from 1958 to 1965, of Kent State University in Ohio from 1971 to 1977, and of Alaska Pacific University from 1977 to 1988. In 1986, he was the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate from the state of Alaska, which he lost to incumbent Frank Murkowski.  He also served as commissioner of the Alaska Department of Commerce and Economic Development during the second governorship of Walter Hickel in the early 1990s.

Electoral history
 United States Senate election in Alaska, 1986

Blanket primary results

General election results

References

External links
 Martin Dobrow, "How the FBI Tried to Block Martin Luther King’s Commencement Speech", The Atlantic (June 14, 2014); extensively discussing the biography of Glenn Olds, and his involvement in this event.

1921 births
2006 deaths
20th-century American politicians
Alaska Democrats
Alaska Pacific University faculty
People from Kent, Ohio
People from Sherwood, Oregon
Presidents of Kent State University
Springfield College
State cabinet secretaries of Alaska
Willamette University alumni
20th-century American academics


title: Monocacy, Maryland

text:
Monocacy was a village in Frederick County, Maryland that was located along an old Indian trail known as the Monocacy Trail that ran parallel to the Monocacy River. The trail was known as the Great Wagon Road by colonial travelers; it went to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and later was renamed Monocacy Road. Early surviving historical records indicate that Monocacy was the oldest settlement in Western Maryland. The town is believed to have been located near present-day Creagerstown, but never has been precisely located after its complete abandonment in the early 19th century. There are signs of the town's existence going back as far as 1730.

History
From the earliest historical records, Monocacy, Maryland is considered the oldest settlement in Western Maryland founded in the 1720s. The town was settled near the Monocacy Trail, an old Indian trail that ran along the Monocacy River.

According to some sources the name of Monocacy was not linked to a definitive town but to the settlement area of the Monocacy Valley where Moravian Germans coming from the colony of Pennsylvania had arrived. If Monocacy was referring to the valley of the same name, it encompassed the region of 18th century Frederick County, Maryland settlements, which included Frederick Town founded in 1745.

The earliest Monocacy settlement that was recorded most likely existed between 1721 and 1732 and was composed of European-American traders from the colony of Maryland who ran a trading post and who co-existed with the local Native American tribes in Frederick County, Maryland.

In 1729, German settlers arrived in what later became Frederick County in 1748 then a part of the British colonial Province of Maryland. The first settlement created by the settlers of the county was Monocacy, which was founded between 1725 and 1730, making it the oldest settlement in Western Maryland. The town was settled nearby the Monocacy Trail, an old Indian trail that ran along the Monocacy River. In 1730, the Monocacy Trail was made into a wagon road. In its early days, Monocacy was the main settlement within the region of early Frederick County. The early dominance of the town of Monocacy or the other Monocacy settlements in the Monocacy Valley eventually was overtaken by the later founding and rapid growth of Frederick Town, now present-day Frederick, Maryland.

Other sources state that between 1732 and 1734, a church known as "the Log church" was built in what may have been the single town site of the early German settlement of Monocacy. Moravian Church missionaries visited the area regularly, and many of the people of "Manakasy," referring to the Native American tribe as the Moravians spelled it in their records, often visited the Maryland Moravian Settlements from nearby Pennsylvania.

By the time the log church was built, the village of Monocacy was somewhat important to the area. The town had a number of taverns and other places to sleep. "As late as 1747, it possessed accommodations better than those of Frederick." Sometime between 1760 and 1770, the nearby town of Creagerstown supplanted Monocacy because it was a better location for a town, being at the crossroads of a number of early Maryland roads, which gave easier access for stagecoach travelers and enabled town growth. By 1808, Monocacy Road was macadamized creating a more reliable heavily traveled highway.

Search for town site
As early as 1896, knowledge of the location of the town had been lost. In 1896, Rev. George A. Whitmore, a resident of Thurmont, wrote upon interviewing two residents of Creagerstown who were in "bordering on 80 years" about the location of the Log Church, he had been told that Creagerstown was built on the old location of the church. Whitmore mentions that one of the people he interviewed, Mr. W.L. Grimes Sr., actually helped tear down the Log church so that the new church could be built in its place.

Whitmore goes on to say that traditional lore states though that the town of Monocacy was located to the southeast of Creagerstown, at the intersection of Monocacy Road and Poe's Ford, near by Hunting Creek. Both Whitmore and his contemporary Mr. Schultz investigated the site and found flat land with a few dwellings. In a history of Frederick County, Mr. Schultz is quoted as saying that the location to the southeast of Creagerstown "agrees in every particular with the data that we have heretofore been able to obtain and I therefore believe that the few old houses and the graveyard are all perhaps that remain of the ancient village of Monocacy."

In the late 1960s, Charlotte Hearthly, then a senior in high school, mounted a search for the site. Many locals believe that their land parcels were the site of Monocacy. Much of the evidence for where Monocacy is located has been destroyed. Spencer Geasey speaks of a location where there was a school, a cemetery, and some other log buildings. He states that the area was developed and that a dig in this location would not prove useful.

There is no doubt that the town existed. In August 1756, George Washington mentions Monocacy in a letter. Two different riding ministers both wrote about the log church at different times. They were riding trails about 10 miles north of Frederick. During the French and Indian War, the site was mentioned in the Maryland Gazette. In 1729, a complaint was filed by a Mr. Carroll with the Pennsylvania government that referenced Monocacy. The complaint was filed because the area was under dispute by Maryland and Pennsylvania.

The town was located near Creagerstown and Jimtown. According to Paul Gordon, one expert has stated that the Sebastian Derr house may have been a church and might be the old site of Monocacy.

The site of Monocacy never has been conclusively located. There is a lot of evidence that the settlement existed, but not an enough tangible evidence as to where the town was actually located.

In the media
In 1999, a documentary film about the region, titled Monocacy, chronicles the history and pre-history of the area and the town. The documentary was produced by Chris Haugh for GS Communications.

See also
 Creagerstown, Maryland
 List of ghost towns in Maryland

References

Populated places in colonial Maryland
Ghost towns in Maryland
Frederick County, Maryland


title: Kolainiai

text:
Kolainiai is a village in Kelmė District Municipality, Lithuania. It is located about  southwest from Užventis. According to the 2011 census, it had population of 261.

In 1750, local noble Adamkavičius bequeathed his manor and land with serfs to the Carmelites. He also built a monastery and a church for the monks. In 1797, the monks took over the administration of the Kražiai College, a former Jesuit school. After Tsarist authorities secularized the college in 1817, the Carmelites established their own school in Kolainiai. The school was closed in 1835 after the November Uprising. The monastery itself was closed after the January Uprising of 1863. Russian settlers from Blagoveshchensk (Amur Oblast) were moved into the monastery; the town became known as Blagoveshchenskoye (). The Catholic Church was converted into an Eastern Orthodox church. Catholics reclaimed the church in 1922 after Lithuania declared independence in 1918.

In 1940, one of the residential homes of Kolainiai was converted into an Orthodox church by the local Orthodox residents, dedicated to the Smolensk icon of the Mother of God. The church was officially registered in 1947 with the government.  Services are several times a year by visiting clergy.

References

Villages in Šiauliai County
Shavelsky Uyezd


title: Hannah Fidell

text:
Hannah Margalit Fidell (born October 7, 1985) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Her directorial debut was the drama film A Teacher (2013). She also wrote and directed the romantic drama film 6 Years (2015) and the comedy film The Long Dumb Road (2018).

Early life
Fidell was born in Washington, D.C. and raised in Bethesda, Maryland. Her mother is Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Linda Greenhouse and her father is lawyer Eugene R. Fidell. She studied film theory at Indiana University Bloomington, from which she graduated in 2007. After graduating, Fidell worked at Ridley Scott commercial production company in New York City, before leaving to study media at The New School. At the time of making A Teacher, she was working part-time at a restaurant to subsidize her filmmaking. In 2012, Filmmaker named Fidell one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film. She is Jewish, as is her mother.

Career
In 2010, Fidell wrote, directed, produced and acted in the film We're Glad You're Here. The following year, she wrote, directed and produced the short film The Gathering Squall (2011). She also produced the short film Man & Gun (2011).

Fidell wrote, directed, and produced the feature film A Teacher (2013), starring Lindsay Burdge and Will Brittain, which premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival on January 20, 2013. The film follows an affair between a high school teacher and her student. It was released in the United States on September 6, 2013 by Oscilloscope Laboratories. In February 2014, it was announced that A Teacher would be adapted for television by HBO. Fidell will write and executive produce the series along with Danny Brocklehurst, the former showrunner of the UK television series Shameless.

In June 2014, it was announced that Fidell had written and directed the drama film 6 Years, starring Taissa Farmiga and Ben Rosenfield in the lead roles. The film follows a long-term young couple who are about to graduate college, when events threaten to tear them apart. The film had its world premiere at the South by Southwest Film Festival on March 14, 2015. Shortly after the film premiered, the global distribution rights were acquired by Netflix. The film was released on August 18, 2015 on iTunes, and globally through Netflix on September 8, 2015.

Fidell subsequently co-wrote and directed her third feature-length film, The Long Dumb Road, starring Tony Revolori and Jason Mantzoukas in leading roles. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 26, 2018. Shortly after, Universal Pictures acquired distribution rights to the film, with a planned day-and-date limited release in November 2018.

In April 2018, it was announced that Fidell and Doug Belgrad were developing a true crime series at Paramount Television based on Rachel Aviv's 2017 The New Yorker article "Remembering the Murder You Didn't Commit", with Fidell set to write and direct. More recently, she signed a deal at FX.

Personal life
Fidell married artist Jake Longstreth on September 23, 2017 in Inverness, California. Her brother-in-law is Dirty Projectors lead singer and guitarist David Longstreth.

Filmography

Awards and nominations

References

External links

1985 births
Living people
Film producers from New York (state)
Screenwriters from New York (state)
American women film directors
American women screenwriters
Jewish American writers
Television producers from New York City
American women television producers
English-language film directors
Film directors from Maryland
Indiana University Bloomington alumni
Mass media people from Bethesda, Maryland
People from Washington, D.C.
The New School alumni
American women film producers
Film directors from Washington, D.C.
Screenwriters from Maryland
Screenwriters from Washington, D.C.
21st-century American women writers
21st-century American screenwriters


title: Guillermo Zorrilla Fernández

text:
Guillermo Zorrilla Fernández (born 9 May 1963) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the Institutional Revolutionary Party. As of 2014 he served as Deputy of the LIX Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Veracruz.

References

1963 births
Living people
Politicians from Veracruz
Institutional Revolutionary Party politicians
Deputies of the LIX Legislature of Mexico
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) for Veracruz


title: Abandon Ship (Knife Party album)

text:
Abandon Ship is the debut studio album by the Australian electronic dance music duo Knife Party, released on 24 November 2014 by Earstorm Records, Big Beat Records and Warner Bros. Records. Its release in stores was postponed from the initial 27 October 2014 release date to 24 November. However, on 7 November 2014, iTunes Store released the album early, and the early release has been acknowledged by Knife Party themselves.

Recording
Work on Knife Party's debut album started in September 2013, after the conclusion of their previous tour. By 4 June 2014, progress on Abandon Ship had reached a completion of nine tracks out of a desired twelve for release, with "five [tracks] in the "maybe" pile and five in the "ideas" stage". The album entered its mastering stage in July 2014.

Promotion
The title of the album, Abandon Ship, was unveiled on 8 June 2014 by Knife Party through a post on social networking service Twitter, which was illustrated with the image of President Calvin Coolidge tipping his hat. Knife Party appeared at the 2014 Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas, Nevada on 20 June 2014 for the first show of the duo's Festival Tour during mid 2014. Their 70-minute set at EDC, which included new tracks from Abandon Ship in both demo and studio form, was streamed live over the internet. On 6 August 2014, Rob Swire released a teaser for the track "Boss Mode", from the forthcoming album. "Resistance" was released for free on 25 August 2014, also available for sale and supported by BBC Radio 1Xtra DJs including MistaJam. On 22 August 2014, the album was formally announced on Twitter, and is scheduled for release on 10 November 2014. "Begin Again" was released as the album's second instant grat on 22 September 2014, entering the UK Singles Chart at number 183. The song received widespread airplay from BBC Radio 1 DJs, including Zane Lowe and Greg James.

In a series of tweets on 11 October 2014, shortly after it was announced that the album release date had been pushed back by 2 weeks for reasons out of Knife Party's control, Swire spoke up about the decision to make the album; "So close to finishing this thing. Can't believe it. Before we embarked on this thing, some people in our sphere of influence told us "don't bother, just release your previous EPs as an album. EDM is dead, you should just release all your old material on one CD, fulfill the contract and then do something with Pendulum." I realised that if an artist I liked released an album of old tunes, I'd be pissed off. So we wrote 12 from scratch, and it took forever. But I'm so glad we did it. Even if it turns out they were right and no one buys it and we have to sell organs for food."

Track listing
All songs written and produced by Rob Swire and Gareth McGrillen. "Superstar" co-written by and featuring vocals by Bryn Christopher of I See MONSTAS. "EDM Trend Machine" co-written by Richard Boardman and Simon Aldred.

Reception

Abandon Ship received mixed to positive reviews from music critics. Andy Belt of We Got This Covered gave it 3 out of 5 stars, saying "Knife Party’s debut album will rouse you and get you in the mood to celebrate, at least for its thunderous first half. Its best tracks are Begin Again, Boss Mode, Reconnect, D.I.M.H., and Kaleidoscope- these tracks utilize not only EDM but also house, space and/or dubstep."

Charts

Release history

References

Knife Party albums
2014 debut albums


title: 2014 BYU Cougars women's soccer team

text:
The 2014 BYU Cougars women's soccer team represented BYU during the 2014 NCAA Division I women's soccer season. The Cougars were coached for a 20th consecutive season by Jennifer Rockwood, who was co-coach in 1995 and became the solo head coach in 1996. Before 1995 BYU women's soccer competed as a club team and not as a member of the NCAA. The Cougars entered the 2014 season having won back-to-back West Coast Conference championships and having made the NCAA Tournament each of the last two seasons and in 15 of the 19 seasons that Rockwood has been the head coach. The Cougars would win the WCC title and secure a berth in the College Cup, where they lost to Colorado playing in the snow.

Media

Television & Internet Streaming
For 2014 all but 2 Cougars home games aired on BYUtv. All BYUtv games were simulcast on BYU Radio. Spencer Linton and Natalyn Lewis served as the BYUtv broadcast team. The remaining two home games were streamed online through TheW.tv.
All road games had internet streaming capabilities. Two road games were televised. The game at Utah was shown on Pac-12 Networks while the game at Denver was shown on Altitude 2 (and streamed online through Pioneer Vision). The game at Cal State Fullerton aired on BigWest.tv, at Tennessee streamed on SEC Network+, at SMU streamed for a cost through PonyUp TV, and all conference road games were streamed through the school's website or on TheW.tv.

Nu Skin Cougar IMG Sports Network

For the first time ever the Cougar IMG Sports Network entered into a contract to broadcast BYU Cougars women's soccer games. Greg Wrubell provided play-by-play while former men's assistant coach Hugh Van Wagenen acted as analyst. For game where Van Wagenen wasn't available Colette Jepson Smith filled in as analyst. The games were streamed exclusively on BYUcougars.com and through the BYU Cougars athletic app.

Schedule

 *- Denotes WCC game
x- Denotes Cougar IMG Sports Network broadcast
y- Television Broadcast
z- Internet Stream

Blue/White Classic

x-Alumni Game

xz-Cal State Fullerton
Series History: BYU leads series 6–0
Broadcaster: Mike Martinez (BigWest.tv)

xy-Washington State
Series History: BYU leads series 3–2–1
Broadcasters: Spencer Linton, Natalyn Lewis, & Lauren Francom (BYUtv)

z-Tennessee
Series History: Series Even 1–1
Broadcasters: Brian Rice & Tori Beeler Watson (SEC Network+)

xy-Baylor
Series History: BYU leads series 1–0
Broadcasters: Spencer Linton, Natalyn Lewis, & Lauren Francom (BYUtv)

xy-Utah
Series History: BYU leads series 19–6–1
Broadcasters: Jason Knapp & Temryss Lane (Pac-12 Network)

z-LSU
Series History: Series even 1–1–1
Broadcasters: Robbie Bullough & Amber Wadsworth (TheW.tv)

xy-Long Beach State
Series History: BYU leads 4–2
Broadcasters: Spencer Linton & Natalyn Lewis (BYUtv)

xy-Oregon
Series History: BYU leads series 3–0–1
Broadcasters: Spencer Linton & Natalyn Lewis (BYUtv)

xz-Colorado College
Series History: Series even 1–1
Broadcasters: Robbie Bullough, Amber Wadsworth, & Colette Jepson Smith (TheW.tv)

xy-Denver
Series History: Series even 1–1
Broadcasters: Mike Evans & Kristen Hamilton (ALT 2)

xz-SMU
Series History: SMU leads series 1–0
Broadcaster: Lindsey Olsen (PonyUp TV)

*z-San Diego
Series History: BYU leads series 4–2
Broadcaster: Jack Cronin (TheW.tv)

*y-Portland
Series History: Series even 4–4
Broadcasters: Ty Brandenburg, Natalyn Lewis, & Lauren Francom (BYUtv)

*y-Gonzaga
Series History: BYU leads series 6–0
Broadcasters: Spencer Linton & Natalyn Lewis (BYUtv)

*z-Loyola Marymount
Series History: BYU leads series 4–1
Broadcasters: No audio- Video only (LMU All Access)

*xy-Santa Clara
Series History: Santa Clara leads series 6–0–2
Broadcasters: Spencer Linton & Natalyn Lewis (BYUtv)

*xy-San Francisco
Series History: BYU leads series 5–0
Broadcasters: Dave McCann & Natalyn Lewis (BYUtv)

*xz-Saint Mary's
Series History: BYU leads series 4–0
Broadcasters: Daniel Conlin & Ashley Neid (TheW.tv)

*z-Pacific
Series History: BYU leads series 4–1
Broadcasters: Alan Sanchez (TheW.tv)

*z-Pepperdine
Series History: BYU leads series 3–2
Broadcasters: Al Epstein & Jen Karson (TheW.tv)

x- College Cup: Colorado
Series History: BYU leads series 3–1–1
Broadcasters: Ann Schatz & Kyndra de St. Aubin (P12 Mtn & AZ)

Roster

References

BYU Women's Soccer
BYU
BYU Cougars women's soccer seasons
BYU


title: Worshipful Company of Arts Scholars

text:
The Worshipful Company of Arts Scholars is ranked 110th out of the City livery companies. Recognised as a Company without Livery in 2010, it was constituted a Livery Company on 11 February 2014 by the Court of Aldermen of the City of London.

Masters Arts Scholar

2006–07: Lord Brooke of Sutton Mandeville CH FSA
2007–08: Geoffrey Bond OBE DL FSA
2008–09: Jonathan Horne MBE FSA
2009–10: Dr Geoff Egan FSA
2010–11: Mark Bridge
2011–12: Philippa Glanville OBE FSA
2012–13: Christopher Claxton Stevens
2013–14: Nicholas Somers FRICS
2014–15: Alderman Ian Luder CBE JP
2015–16: Alastair Leslie TD
2016–17: Tom Christopherson
2017–18: Dr Loyd Grossman CBE FRHistS
2018–19: Paul Viney
2019-20: Dr Georgina Gough FRGS
2020-22: John Spanner TD
2022-23: Alan Cook

Company Chaplain and Church
 Church of St Peter ad Vincula
 Revd Canon Roger Hall, MBE

Clerk
Former Chief Inspector Alan Cook serves as Clerk to the Company since 2021. A CStJ, he was appointed Director of Ceremonies of the Order of St John in 2023.

See also
 Art

References

External links

2014 establishments in England
Livery companies
Charities based in London
History of the City of London


title: Dragon and Liberator

text:
Dragon and Liberator is the final book of Timothy Zahn's Dragonback series. It is divided into two sub-plots: one depicting Jack (a former burglar, 14 years old) and sidekick Draycos (a dragon-like entity periodically assuming two-dimensional form upon Jack's skin) opposing the criminal alliance intent on rendering Draycos's species extinct, and the other depicting Alison (an industrial spy of Jack's age) and her partner Taneem (a female of Draycos's species) in captivity. Both sub-plots occur largely on faster-than-light spaceships en route to an unidentified destination.

Publication history
The novel was first published in 2008 by Tom Doherty and Associates, New York.

Plot
Attempting to learn the location in space at which their enemies plan to destroy Draycos's compatriots and their humanoid symbionts, the Shontine people, Alison and Taneem are attacked and conceal themselves in the safe containing the location's record. Jack, trying to rescue them, is imprisoned for vehicle theft. He is rescued by the soldier Harper (sometime bodyguard to industrialist Cornelius Braxton, apparent in the first book of the series). In the safe, Alison speculates that Taneem and Draycos's ancestors were genetically engineered on Earth, by ancient astronauts or a lost civilization, to accompany humans; this becomes important later in the book. Having escaped the safe aboard an interstellar spacecraft, Alison and Taneem spy on their enemies and attempt minor sabotage of relations among the same. On the (fictional) planet Bentren, Jack and Draycos capture a spacecraft purchased by their enemies and therein infiltrate the hostile fleet, to sabotage the mission itself––chiefly by destroying the enemy's supreme weapon, located aboard the principal spacecraft. The weapon, called simply the Death, is described as a 'vibration of space' capable of penetrating all physical barriers and of instantaneously annulling its target's entire metabolism. Meanwhile, Harper, having ingratiated himself with the enemies' commanders, assists Taneem in espionage on them. Jack and Draycos, in turn, are assisted by Jonathan Langston, another soldier introduced in the previous book, Dragon and Judge. To delay and distract the enemy, Alison sabotages one of their spacecraft and presents herself to their leaders Col. Frost and Arthur Neverlin as the daughter of General Aram Davi, founder of the mercenary organization to which Frost belongs, while Harper shelters Taneem. When the mercenaries begin their attack on Draycos's people, Harper carries out a kamikaze strike in hope of exposing the Death to its intended victims; although this fails, Jack and Draycos re-create his attempt. Having unexpectedly survived, as the symbiosis of human and K'da (the name given, throughout the series, to Draycos's species) renders both immune to the Death, they transmit warnings to the friendly fleets including both the Shontine/K'da and Cornelius Braxton's own army (invited by Harper), which overcome Frost and Neverlin's forces. Alison is thereafter identified as Braxton's granddaughter, and Jack appointed Braxton's liaison to the K'da and Shontine.

2008 American novels
2008 science fiction novels
American science fiction novels
Novels by Timothy Zahn


title: 1910 Glamorgan County Council election

text:
The 1910 Glamorgan County Council election was the eighth contest for seats on this local authority in south Wales. It was preceded by the 1907 election and followed by the 1913 election.

Overview of the Result
As in most parts of Wales, the Liberal Party was once again triumphant and won a majority of the seats. The Conservatives made a further advance in the western part of the county where they also held on in a number of industrial wards where the influence of paternalism remained strong. A more striking factor was the advance of Labour candidates in several areas and there were also a number of Liberal members who were returned under a 'progressive' banner with support from the labour movement.

Boundary Changes
There were numerous boundary changes resulting from the secession of Merthyr Tydfil from Glamorgan to create a new County Borough. There were boundary changes at Maesteg, leading to the creation of a second seat.

Retiring Aldermen
All eleven retiring aldermen were Liberals, or Lib-Lab members as the Conservatives and their allies had been denied any seats on the aldermanic bench since 1901.

Contested Elections
Most seats were contested. In the western part of the county, industrialists standing as Conservatives continued to hold their found in some wards.

Aberdare, Mountain Ash and Merthyr districts
There were only two contested elections in the Aberdare district, and both were again more personal than political.

Bridgend and Maesteg districts
There were a number of contested elections in this area.

Swansea, Pontardawe and Port Talbot districts
In these areas the Conservatives again performed well, mainly at the expense of the Liberals.

Results

Aberaman

Aberavon
J.M. Smith held on to the seat he had held since 1889, increasing his majority over Labour. The result was said to have been greeted by a large crowd.

Abercynon
Boundary Change. The Labour candidate had entered the fray at the last moment causing a three-cornered contest in this new ward.

Aberdare Town

Bargoed

Barry

Barry Dock

Blaengwawr
In a contest between two Liberals, John Howell, first elected in 1895, was defeated by Gwilym Treharne who had opposed him on several occasions in the past.

Bridgend
Randall was again returned unopposed, with the Liberals deciding not to oppose him.

Briton Ferry

Caeharris

Cadoxton

Caerphilly
Boundary Change. The previous Caerphilly division was divided.

Cilfynydd

Coedffranc

Coity

Cowbridge
The sitting member, a timber merchant at Pendoylan, who had captured the seat three years previously, was now returned unopposed.

Cwmavon
Henry Davies held on to the seat he won in 1907.

Cyfarthfa

Cymmer

Dinas Powys
The sitting member had held the seat for many years and was again returned.

Dowlais

Dulais Valley

Ferndale

Gadlys
Following the recent death of Griffith George, a fellow Liberal was elected in his place. There was no Labour candidate.

Garw Valley

Gellifaelog

Gelligaer

Glyncorrwg

Gower

Hengoed
In this new ward, long-serving alderman David Prosser was defeated.

Kibbor
Henry Lewis again returned after many years.

Llandaff
Robert Forrest held the seat comfortably.

Llandeilo Talybont
First elected in 1889, Rees Harries was again returned by a substantial majority.

Llansamlet

Llantrisant

Llwydcoed

Llwynypia and Clydach
James Evans, grocer, elected following Richard Lewis's election as alderman in 1901, was returned unopposed.

Loughor and Penderry
John Glasbrook was elected unopposed following the retirement of Sir John Llewelyn.

Maesteg, Caerau and Nantyffyllon
Vernon Hartshorn, miners; agent was returned by a huge majority

Maesteg, East and West
This was a repeat of the contest three years previously with the same result.

Margam
Following the retirement of the Liberal member, the son of the former Independent councillor, defeated in 1904, won a narrow victory over Labour.

Merthyr Town

Merthyr Vale

Morriston

Mountain Ash

Neath (North)

Neath (South)

Newcastle
T.J. Hughes, vice-chairman of the county council was returned unopposed.

Ogmore
The ward was renamed Porthcawl. In a close contest a prominent Liberal defeated the former Conservative councillor.

Ogmore Valley
Alderman William Llewellyn was again returned unopposed.

Oystermouth

Penarth North

Penarth South

Penrhiwceiber

Pentre
E.T. Davies, auctioneer, had been elected at a by-election following Elias Henry Davies's appointment as alderman in 1902. He was now returned unopposed.

Penydarren

Pontardawe

Plymouth

Pontlottyn

Pontypridd

Penygraig
Penygraig appears to be a new ward.

Porth

Resolven

Sketty

Swansea Valley

Treforest

Treherbert
Enoch Davies, returned in 1901 following William Morgan's re-election as alderman, was elected unopposed.

Treorchy
Thomas Jones, Co-operative stores manager, was returned unopposed.

Trealaw and Tonypandy
D.W. Davies, the member since 1898, was returned unopposed for the second successive election.

Tylorstown and Ynyshir
Sitting councillor Dr T.H. Morris stood down to allow Alderman W.H. Mathias to be returned unopposed.

Ystalyfera

Ystrad
Clifford Cory, the member since 1892, was once again returned unopposed.

Election of Aldermen

In addition to the 66 councillors the council consisted of 22 county aldermen. Boundary changes following the secession of Merthyr kept the number of councillors at 66 through the creation of additional wards. The number of aldermen therefore remained unchanged.  Aldermen were elected by the council, and served a six-year term. Following the 1910 election, there were twelve Aldermanic vacancies rather than eleven owing to the resignation of John Davies, an alderman elected for a Merthyr ward.

The following aldermen were appointed by the newly elected council.

elected for six years
Thomas, W. M. David
G. h- Fleming,
Rhys 11 airies,
Dd. Hughes
G. J. Hughes,
W. Jones,
J. Jordan,
Rhys Llew- ellyn,
W. Llewellyn,
W. H. Matthews,
W. M. Williams, and
Rev. D. H. Williams.

elected for three years

By-Elections

Aberdare Town by-election
William Thomas, High Constable of Miskin Higher, who had been nominated at the initial election but agreed to withdraw to prevent a split in the Liberal ranks was now returned unopposed.

Llwydcoed by-election
Harris, elected when Llewellyn was initially made an alderman, was again returned.

References

Bibliography

1910
1910 Welsh local elections
1910s in Glamorgan


title: Coronophoraceae

text:
The Coronophoraceae are a family of fungi in the Ascomycota, order Coronophorales. The family was described by Austrian mycologist Franz Xaver Rudolf von Höhnel in 1907.

References

External links

Coronophorales
Ascomycota families
Taxa named by Franz Xaver Rudolf von Höhnel
Taxa described in 1907


title: Bertiaceae

text:
The Bertiaceae are a family of fungi in the Ascomycota, order Coronophorales.

References

External links

Coronophorales
Ascomycota families


title: Nitschkiaceae

text:
The Nitschkiaceae are a family of fungi in the Ascomycota, order Coronophorales. Species in the family are mostly saprobic on wood, although some grow on lichens.

Genera
This is a list of the genera in the Nitschkiaceae, based on a 2021 review and summary of fungal classification by Wijayawardene and colleagues. Following the genus name is the taxonomic authority (those who first circumscribed the genus; standardized author abbreviations are used), year of publication, and the number of species:
Acanthonitschkea  – 10 spp.
Biciliosporina  – 1 sp.
Botryola  – 1 sp.
Fracchiaea  – 35 spp.
Groenhiella  – 1 sp.
Janannfeldtia  – 1 sp.
Lasiosphaeriopsis  – 7 spp.
Loranitschkia  – 1 sp.
Neochaetosphaerella  – 4 spp.
Nitschkia  – 66 spp.
Rhagadostoma  – 7 spp.
Rhagadostomella  – 1 sp.
Tortulomyces  – 1 sp.

Species Fungorum also lists Sydowinula moravica  Nitschkiaceae.

References

Coronophorales
Ascomycota families
Taxa described in 1932
Taxa named by John Axel Nannfeldt


title: Martin Smith (Royal Marines officer)

text:
Major General Martin Linn Smith,  (born 30 July 1962) is a former senior Royal Marines officer who served as Commandant General Royal Marines from 2014 to 2016. He was previously commander of 3 Commando Brigade, and before that Commanding Officer of 30 Commando Information Exploitation Group and Deputy Commander of 3 Commando Brigade. Smith is currently a non-executive adviser of Texo Group.

Early life
Smith was born on 30 July 1962 in Pembury, Kent, England. He was educated at Sevenoaks School, a private school in Sevenoaks, Kent: originally an all-boys school, it became co-educational when girls were admitted from 1976. He studied zoology at the University of Bristol, graduating with a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree.

Military career

Smith was commissioned into the Royal Marines in May 1984. During his early career, he served as a troop commander, a forward air controller, a mortar troop commander and a special forces officer in the Special Boat Service. He completed postings to Northern Ireland during The Troubles, and to Norway. He went on to specialise in reconnaissance and was deployed as part of the Gulf War in 1991.

In 1995, he attended the Royal Navy Staff Course and completed a Master of Arts (MA) degree in defence studies. From 1996 to 1997, he served as a staff officer specialising in operations. He then joined Headquarters Royal Marines where he served as Staff Officer to the Chief of Staff. In the 1998 Queen's Birthday Honours, he was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE). From 2000 to 2001, he worked at the Permanent Joint Headquarters within its Operations Division.

Following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, he was posted to the United States as part of the initial UK advisory team attached to the United States Central Command. In November 2001, he was appointed Second in Command of 45 Commando. With them, he deployed to Afghanistan and took part in Operation Jacana in 2002. With the start of the Iraq War, he was posted to the multinational headquarters as Deputy Chief of Operations.

Smith was appointed Commanding Officer of 30 Commando Information Exploitation Group. In August 2006, he joined FLEET Operations as head of plans. In July 2008, he was appointed Deputy Commander of 3 Commando Brigade. He was deployed to Afghanistan where he served as Commander Battle Group
Centre South during Op HERRICK 9. In 2011, he was appointed commander of 3 Commando Brigade. In June 2013, he left to study at the Royal College of Defence Studies.

Smith was promoted to major general and appointed Commandant General Royal Marines on 13 June 2014, in succession to Major General Ed Davis. Smith was posted as a deputy adviser to the Afghanistan Ministry of Interior ('MOI') in June 2016.

Smith was appointed Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the 2017 New Year Honours.

References

1962 births
20th-century Royal Marines personnel
21st-century Royal Marines personnel
Graduates of the Royal College of Defence Studies
Alumni of the University of Bristol
British military personnel of The Troubles (Northern Ireland)
Graduates of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich
Living people
Members of the Order of the British Empire
Royal Marines generals
Royal Navy personnel of the Gulf War
Royal Navy personnel of the Iraq War
Royal Navy personnel of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)
Companions of the Order of the Bath
People from Pembury
People educated at Sevenoaks School
Military personnel from Kent
Deputy Lieutenants of Angus


title: Jesús Zúñiga Romero

text:
Jesús Zúñiga Romero (born 3 June 1949) is a Mexican politician affiliated with the New Alliance Party. As of 2014 he served as Deputy of the LIX Legislature of the Mexican Congress representing Coahuila.

References

1949 births
Living people
Politicians from Coahuila
New Alliance Party (Mexico) politicians
Deputies of the LIX Legislature of Mexico
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico) for Coahuila


title: William Henry Pierce

text:
William Henry Pierce may refer to:

 William Henry Pierce (missionary) (1856–1948), Canadian First Nations missionary for the Methodist church
 William H. Pierce (1859–1939), founder of Pierce Brothers Mortuary in Southern California


title: Archery at the 2006 Asian Games – Men's team

text:
The men's team recurve competition at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar was held from 9 to 13 December at the Lusail Archery Range.

Schedule
All times are Arabia Standard Time (UTC+03:00)

Results

Qualification

Knockout round

References

Official Results

External links
Official website

Men


title: 2017 World Figure Skating Championships

text:
The 2017 World Figure Skating Championships were held 29 March – 2 April 2017 in Helsinki, Finland. The host was named in June 2014. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pairs, and ice dancing. The event also determined the number of entries for each country at the 2018 World Championships and the 2018 Winter Olympics.

Venues

Hartwall Arena's main arena, with an ice surface measuring 60 m x 30 m, was used for all competitions and several practice sessions. The rest of the practice sessions took place at Hartwall Arena's practice rink (58 m x 28 m) and Pirkkola ice rink (for pairs, 60 m x 30 m). Hartwall Arena's main rink and practice rink facilities are in the same venue. Pirkkola practice rink is about four kilometres from Hartwall Arena.

Records

The following new ISU best scores were set during this competition:

Qualification

Minimum TES
Participants were required to have attained minimum technical element scores at an earlier senior international competition. The scores had to be obtained at least 21 days before the first official practice day of the championships.

Number of entries per discipline
Based on the results of the 2016 World Championships, each ISU member nation was allowed to field one to three entries per discipline.

Entries
Countries began publishing their selections as early as December 2016. The International Skating Union published a complete list on 9 March 2017.

Changes to initial assignments

Results

Men
Yuzuru Hanyu set a new world record for the free skating (223.20 points).

Ladies

Evgenia Medvedeva set a new world record for the free skating (154.40 points) and for the combined total (233.41 points).

Pairs

Ice dance
Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir set a new world record for the short dance (82.43 points) and for the combined total (198.62 points). Gabriella Papadakis and Guillaume Cizeron set a new world record for the free dance (119.15 points).

Medals summary

Medalists
Medals for overall placement:

Small medals for placement in the short segment:

Small medals for placement in the free segment:

By country
Table of medals for overall placement:

Table of small medals for placement in the short segment:

Table of small medals for placement in the free segment:

References

External links

 2017 World Championships at the International Skating Union
 http://www.isuresults.com/results/season1617/wc2017/index.htm

2017 in figure skating
2017 in Finnish sport
2017
International figure skating competitions hosted by Finland
Qualification tournaments for the 2018 Winter Olympics
2010s in Helsinki
March 2017 sports events in Europe
April 2017 sports events in Europe
International sports competitions in Helsinki


title: 30107 KM

text:
30107 KM is the designation of Russian-built guyed tubular masts for FM-/TV-broadcasting, which were built in the first half of the 1960s at different places in Russia and Ukraine. The 30107 KM-mast has normally a 151 or 182.5 metres high mast body with a wall diameter of 16 – 10 mm, and exists in versions guyed in three and four directions.

Its most unusual feature however, which gives it its characteristic look are the crossbars equipped with a gangway with railing, which run in two levels from the mast structure to each outmost guy. These crossbars are used for oscillation damping of the structure and are used for the installation of antennas.

In the former Soviet Union, guyed tubular masts for broadcasting without these crossbars were also built. However such masts are not something special as such structures also exist in Germany, Czech, Slovakia, France, the United Kingdom, Japan, South Korea, Austria, Sweden, Slovenia and Poland.

30107 KM-masts with crossbars

Other guyed masts with tubular body in the former Soviet Union

External links
 http://selenatel.ru/masts/masts-review/

Broadcasting standards
Antennas
Standards of Russia


title: NATO Rapid Deployable Corps – Spain

text:
The NATO Rapid Deployable Corps – Spain (NRDC-SP) is a corps headquarters of the Spanish Army. It was established in 2000 as a High Readiness Force (HRF) of NATO. Its facilities are located at the "Jaime I" Military Base in Bétera, province of Valencia.

History
The NATO Rapid Deployable Corps – Spain was established in 2000.

Structure
The NATO Rapid Deployable Headquarters can be quickly deployed for disaster management, humanitarian assistance, peace support, counterterrorism and high-intensity warfighting.

References

Military units and formations established in 2000
Army units and formations of Spain
Corps
NATO Rapid Deployable Corps
Spain and NATO