title: Baluse

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Baluse or Baloese is a traditional shield of the Nias people originating from Nias, an island off the west coast of North Sumatra, Indonesia. Baluse in the Northern Nias is somewhat smaller than those of the rest of the island.

Description
The shield is made of wood shaped like banana leaves and is held on the left hand which serves to deflect enemy attacks. The surface of the shield is carved with rib-cage patterns from top to bottom. There is a round knob at the centre of the shield, and the shield's handle is directly behind this knob.

Culture
The Baluse is used with the Balato (sword) or the Burusa (spear) during traditional war dances such as Faluaya (or Fataele) and Maena Baluse.

See also

Klebit Bok
Kanta (shield)

References

Further reading
 Joachim Freiherr von Brenner-Felsach, Eine Reise nach Nias: unveröffentlichte Manuskripte aus dem Museum für Völkerkunde in Wien : Materialien zu Exotismus und Ethnographie, Böhlau Verlag Wien, 1998,

Shields
Weapons of Indonesia


title: List of Chinese goat breeds

text:
The breeds of domestic goat reported to DAD-IS from China were in 2014:

 Baiyu Black
 Banjiao
 Chaidamu
 Chengde Horn Down
 Chengdu Grey
 Chuandong White
 Daiyun
 Dou'an
 Fengqing Horn Down Black
 Funiu White
 Fuqing
 Ganxi
 Guangfeng
 Guanzhong Dairy
 Guishan
 Guizhou White
 Gulin Grey
 Hexi Cashmere
 Huai
 Huanghuai
 Inner Mongolian Cashmere
 Jianchang Black
 Jining Grey
 Laoshan Dairy
 Leizhou
 Liaoning Cashmere
 Linchang Long-wool
 Longling
 Lubei White
 Luliang Black
 Maguan Horn Down
 Matou
 Nanjiang Grey
 Shaanan White
 Shanbei White Cashmere
 Taihang
 Taihang Mountain Goat
 Taiwan
 Tibetan
 Wu'an
 Xiangdong Black
 Xinjiang
 Xuhuai
 Ya'an Dairy
 Yanbian Dairy
 Yangste River Delta White
 Yichang White
 Yimeng Black
 Yunling
 Zhaotong
 Zhongwei
 Ziwuling Black

References

Goats


title: National Numeracy

text:
National Numeracy is an independent charity (registered no. 1145669 in England and Wales) based in Brighton, UK, that promotes the importance of numeracy and "everyday maths".

The charity was founded in 2012; its chair is Perdita Fraser and vice chair Andy Haldane. Its current chief executive is Sam Sims, who replaced Mike Ellicock in 2020.

The charity aims to challenge negative attitudes towards maths and promotes effective approaches to improving functional numeracy skills. Chris Humphries, former chair of National Numeracy and a former chief executive of the UK Commission for Employment and Skills, said: "It is simply inexcusable for anyone to say: 'I can't do maths.' It is a peculiarly British disease which we aim to eradicate." The charity's Theory of Change is detailed on their website.

National Numeracy has been critical of the UK mathematics curriculum, claiming that it is flawed and requires radical improvement to ensure that everyone leaves compulsory education with essential numeracy skills.

National Numeracy is supported by a number of celebrities, including Rachel Riley, financial journalist Martin Lewis of Money Saving Expert, author, television presenter and mathematics teacher Bobby Seagull, financial writer Iona Bain, Strictly Come Dancing's Katya Jones, Great British Bake Off 2020 winner Peter Sawkins, and the poet and comedian Harry Baker. It is also supported by organisations, including TP ICAP, KPMG, Experian, Ufi VocTech Trust, Garfield Weston Foundation and the Edge Foundation.

History of National Numeracy

A 2010 report commissioned by Lord Moser from New Philanthropy Capital recommended the creation of a national numeracy trust. The report, which focused on low levels of numeracy in the UK, showed how charities and funders can help people to be confidently numerate. These problems are a focus of National Numeracy's strategy. National Numeracy was legally registered as a charity in January 2012 with the press launch of the charity in March 2012.

Work and campaigns

On 30 October 2014 National Numeracy CEO Mike Ellicock was featured on an edition of ITV's Tonight documentary programme The Trouble With Numbers. Mike Ellicock spoke about cultural and attitudinal problems preventing people from succeeding in maths.

In 2014, National Numeracy launched the National Numeracy Challenge, a free online tool which allows users to assess their numeracy level and access resources to help them improve. By December 2020, 340,000 people had registered on the National Numeracy Challenge.

During the 2014-15 FA Cup season, BBC Sport and BBC Learning worked with National Numeracy on Maths of the Day, a series of films shown across the BBC, as well as accompanying content on the BBC iWonder website, exploring maths in football. The films featured former footballer and commentator Robbie Savage and Countdown co-host Rachel Riley among others. In March 2015, there was also a Maths of the Day live event on BBC Radio 5 Live in which National Numeracy's Mike Ellicock and Rachel Riley talked about the importance of maths skills. It also included a feature from A Question of Sport in which team captains Phil Tufnell and Matt Dawson took part in a sport-related maths quiz with the audience, which was also made available on the BBC Radio 5 Live website.

In February 2015, National Numeracy made a complaint on Twitter about a L'Oreal Paris print advertising campaign, featuring Oscar-winning actress Helen Mirren, which included the tagline "Age is just a number and maths was never my thing". L'Oreal responded to the complaint, tweeting in reply "Thanks for raising this, we hadn't meant it to be interpreted this way. We're changing it right away and you'll see new ads soon." Speaking to BBC News about the change, National Numeracy's Mike Ellicock said "Throwaway remarks about being 'no good at maths' are so easy to make and so damaging in the way they normalise negative attitudes. It's unusual for a company to recognise and remedy their error in the way that L'Oreal have, so we really appreciate their response."

In 2017, the National Numeracy Challenge incorporated a series of resources to help people build their confidence and a positive attitude towards numbers.

National Numeracy Day 2023 will take place on 17 May for the sixth year running. This annual campaign celebrates numbers and how they are used in everyday life. The first National Numeracy Day launched 16 May 2018. The founding supporter was KPMG and the Day was covered widely in the media.

In 2020 National Numeracy launched the first Number Confidence Week to focus on the role of attitudes and confidence as barriers to using numbers in daily life. This year Number Confidence Week takes place 7–11 November 2022.

Research

National Numeracy commissions and conducts research to inform its project work.

2012: According to the most recent Skills for Life survey, almost 78% of people in England have numeracy skills well below A*-C grade at GCSE.

2013: OECD found England to be 21 out of 24 countries in numeracy, ages 16–24. The large study also showed that 8.5 million adults in England and Northern Ireland have the numeracy levels of a 10-year-old.

2013: Employers report increasing difficulties in finding potential employees with the desired numeracy skills. In 2011, 24% reported applicants for new jobs had poor numeracy, in the past year it has risen to 26%. Employers also report numeracy skill gaps among their existing workforce.

2014: Report on the causes and consequences of poor English and maths skills, including 55% of homeless people found to lack basic math skills (D-G at GCSE).

2014: National Numeracy-commissioned research by Pro Bono Economics found that over the course of a year, the cost of low levels of numeracy is estimated to be around £20.2 billion which is roughly 1.3 per cent of GDP to the total UK economy. This cost is distributed between individuals (£8.8 billion), employers (£3.2 billion) and government (£8.2 billion). This does not include costs of the higher risk of unemployment and underemployment to individuals and firms, and excludes wider costs to health, well-being, public services.

2016: The Mayor's Fund and National Numeracy published "The Parent Factor", which showed that parental engagement in school maths leads to higher attainment and better classroom participation among pupils.

2018: National Numeracy was funded by the Money Advice Service's What Works Fund to conduct research about the connection between good numeracy and financial capability. The report found that the higher an adult’s level of numeracy, the better their financial capability mindset was likely to be.

Since 2012, National Numeracy has commissioned an annual YouGov survey into British public attitudes to maths to find out why people are motivated to improve their numeracy. The 2015 survey found that most people wanted to improve their numeracy to enable better understanding of their personal finances.

National Numeracy’s aim & projects

Aim
National Numeracy cites its aim as "to enable everyone across the UK to be confident and competent in using numbers and data, to be able to make good decisions in their daily life and at work.". This is approached in three main ways:
By raising awareness about poor numeracy levels which exist in the UK, how numeracy differs from mathematics, and promoting the recognition that everyone can improve through campaigns such as National Numeracy Day.
By improving numeracy with the National Numeracy Challenge, a tool for users to assess and improve on their numeracy at their own pace.
By improving communication of numbers and data by helping organisations to use a ‘Plain Numbers’ approach, so that anyone can understand their information regardless of their numeracy level.

Projects
 The National Numeracy Challenge is a free interactive web-based tool that aims to improve numeracy skills among the adult population of the UK. The assessment tool asks participants to complete a series of everyday maths questions at various levels of difficulty, then revealing the level of maths skill they currently have and a score out of 100. Participants are then given a target for improvement and access to free resources to learn in the areas they need to work on, encouraging them to come back and take the assessment again to see how they have improved. In October 2015, the Challenge website was updated to include the ability to see which questions were answered incorrectly. In 2017, a series of attitudinal resources were incorporated into the National Numeracy Challenge, to help users build their confidence with numbers and maths.
 The Numeracy Review is for employers who want to have in-depth insights into numeracy levels and attitudes to maths among their workforce. The process assesses the state of numeracy in a workplace, both in terms of maths ability and mindset among staff, using attitudinal surveys and the Challenge Online, then working with employers to address any areas that need improvement.
 Challenge Champions are numeracy advocates who are based within workplaces and other settings to support colleagues in improving their numeracy and using the Challenge Online.
 The Family Maths Toolkit is a project designed to engage parents and families with maths learning for children aged 13 and under, encouraging them to support their learning in the home with everyday maths activities provided by National Numeracy through schools. The project was piloted as the Parent Toolkit with 10 school across the UK in 2014-15 to find out how parental engagement with children's maths learning improved their attainment in school. The website was relaunched in September 2015 as the Family Maths Toolkit.
 Passport Maths is an early intervention programme for year 7 secondary school pupils who need extra support in mathematics, helping them to progress from level 3 maths to level 4 and attain better outcomes at GCSE.
 Star Dash Studios is a free smartphone game for young adults, helping them to see everyday maths in vocational settings. It is currently available for Android and Apple mobile phones.
 Train the Trainer is a workshop for organisations to give their staff the confidence to deliver numeracy training in the workplace.
 Department for Education project. In 2018, National Numeracy made a successful bid to the Department for Education Flexible Learning Fund. The charity is working with six partners including the John Lewis Partnership and Civil Service Learning to deliver basic numeracy skills via an online delivery method.

References

External links
 National Numeracy Main Website
 National Numeracy, Registered Charity no. at the Charity Commission
 The National Numeracy Challenge
 National Numeracy Family Maths Toolkit
 National Numeracy Day

2012 establishments in England
Charities based in East Sussex
Educational charities based in the United Kingdom
Lewes
Mathematics education in the United Kingdom
Organizations established in 2012


title: Éric Dewailly

text:
Éric Dewailly (1957 – June 17, 2014) was a Canadian epidemiologist and medical researcher from Quebec. He was particularly notable for his research into human toxicology and the effect of contaminants on the environment in the Arctic. A professor of medicine at Laval University and the Centre hospitalier universitaire de Québec Research Center, he was also a scientific director of the World Health Organization's Collaborative Centre in Environmental Health.

Biography
The son of a gastroenterologist, Dewailly was interested in sociology in his teenage years, but his focus changed to infectious diseases and protecting public health after a trip to the Ivory Coast.  Dewailly's education included a degree in medicine from the University of Lille (1982), specialized studies in public health (CES, Amiens, 1983, a residency in community health (Laval University, 1983–85), a master's degree in epidemiology (Laval University, 1987), and a PhD in toxicology (University of Lille, 1990).

During his career, he served as a professor of medicine at Laval University, directed the Laval University Medical Centre's Public Health Research Unit, and was scientific director of the World Health Organization's Collaborative Centre in Environmental Health. He was also a professor and Scientific Director at Centre hospitalier universitaire de Québec Research Center, as well as director of the CIHR funded Nasivvik Centre for Inuit Health.

Work
An epidemiologist  specializing specialist in human toxicology, Dewailly's research focused on the impact of oceans on human health, and was noted for his work in the Canadian Arctic. He did much work for the International Network for Circumpolar Health Research.

Dewailly published notable work into breast cancer. In the late 1980s and 1990s, he conducted much research into the breast milk of Inuit women and was concerned with the high levels of chemicals found in it, containing over six times the nationally recommended level of PCBs. He made the discovery by accident after visiting the Inuit peoples in industrialized, heavily polluted Gulf of St. Lawrence in 1987 and testing a midwife from Nunavik. In 1994, he co-authored a paper documenting the unusually high level of cadmium in the blood of Inuit cigarette smokers. He was also knowledgeable about the effects of fats on the heart and human health, and spoke about the dangers of man-made trans fats and them being even worse than saturated fats. He expressed concerns about the calories in the Inuit diet consisting of more than 50% derived from fat. Dewailly once stated that he considered fats to have been "demonized" in the United States.

In 2003, Dewailly contributed to the book Northern Lights Against POPs: Combatting Toxic Threats in the Arctic with Christopher Furgal, writing about the "Discovery of Organic Contaminants in Arctic Peoples" in the 1980s. In 2011 he contributed to the book Oceans and Human Health: Risks and Remedies from the Seas, writing about the "Exposure and effects of seafood-borne contaminants in maritime populations".

Personal life and death
Dewailly was married to Dr. Sylvie Dodin Dewailly, a professor of medicine at Laval University. He died in a rock slide accident on Réunion Island on June 17, 2014.

References

1957 births
2014 deaths
Canadian public health doctors
University of Lille Nord de France people
Academic staff of Université Laval
Canadian medical researchers
World Health Organization officials
Université Laval alumni
Canadian officials of the United Nations


title: La Bande à Renaud

text:
La Bande à Renaud is a series of two tribute albums to French singer Renaud, consisting of songs of his performed by various other artists. The albums were released in June and October 2014, respectively.

La Bande à Renaud

The initial album was released on Mercury / Universal Music containing 14 songs interpreted by 15 artists. The musical project was supervised by Renaud himself, assisted by Dominique Blanc-Francard and Alain Lanty. It reached the top of SNEP, the official French Albums Chart in its first week of release.

There were two official released singles from the single. The track "Mistral gagnant" was a major release single that appeared in the SNEP French Singles Chart and in Ultratop Belgian (Wallonia) Charts. Another official single was the collective singing "Dès que le vent soufflera". It charted in France and appeared in Belgium's Ultratipchart. Many other tracks appeared briefly in the SNEP charts.

The album shows photos of artists photographed by Barbara d'Alessandri wearing a red bandana, Renaud's signature paraphernalia. The album cover also shows a big "R" logo made of a red bandana.

Track list

La Band à Renaud Volume 2

After the great success of the initial album, a second album was released on 27 October 2014 containing 15 more tracks by 16 artists.

Track list

Charts
La Bande à Renaud

La Bande à Renaud Volume 2

Charting singles from the album
La Bande à Renaud

References

External links
Official website

2014 compilation albums
Tribute albums


title: John P. Varda

text:
John Patrick Varda (October 1, 1916 – February 20, 1993) was an American politician and jurist from the state of Wisconsin.

Varda was born in Hurley, Wisconsin, the son of Italian immigrants from the area of Turin, Italy. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin and a law degree from University of Wisconsin in 1940. John met his wife, Margaret in law school and afterwards they moved to Eagle River, Wisconsin and opened a law firm: Varda & Varda. In 1941, he served in the Wisconsin State Assembly as part of the Wisconsin Progressive Party. He resigned from the Wisconsin Assembly to join the United States Army during World War II. His wife Margaret was elected to the Wisconsin Assembly under the Progressive Party replacing her husband, but did not seek reelection and joined her husband in the military after her term. During and after the war, John served as the Deputy Military Governor in Aschaffenburg, Germany. The Vardas returned home from Europe upon the birth of their first child, John Duncan.

In 1950, the Vardas moved to Madison, Wisconsin where John took a job as general manager of the Wisconsin Motor Carrier Association. Varda became involved in commerce laws there, and eventually him and his sons went on to change laws regarding tractor-trailers and the Dormant Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution.

In 1981, John Patrick became Wisconsin Circuit Court judge for Iron County, Wisconsin and moved back to Hurley, Wisconsin. John remained in Hurley for the rest of his life, dying there in 1993 after suffering a heart attack a year earlier.

Varda had four sons: John Duncan Varda (attorney), Michael Varda (attorney), Anthony Varda (attorney), and Richard Varda (architect).

Notes

1916 births
1993 deaths
Military personnel from Wisconsin
United States Army personnel of World War II
People from Hurley, Wisconsin
People from Eagle River, Wisconsin
Politicians from Madison, Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
University of Wisconsin Law School alumni
Wisconsin lawyers
Wisconsin state court judges
Wisconsin Progressives (1924)
20th-century American politicians
Members of the Wisconsin State Assembly
20th-century American lawyers
20th-century American judges
American people of Italian descent


title: Buyer (disambiguation)

text:
A buyer is someone engaged in purchasing assets.  The term may also refer to:
Buyer (fashion)
Franklin Pierce Buyer (1878–1963), traveling salesman and city counsellor
Steve Buyer (born 1958), former US Congressman from Indiana

See also
Buyers (disambiguation)


title: 2014–15 Copa del Rey

text:
The 2014–15 Copa del Rey was the 113th staging of the Copa del Rey (including two seasons where two rival editions were played). The winners assure a place for the group stage of the 2015–16 UEFA Europa League.

Real Madrid were the defending champions, but were eliminated by Atlético Madrid 2–4 on aggregate in the round of 16.

Barcelona won the tournament by defeating Athletic Bilbao in the final, 3–1, thus achieving their record 27th title.

Schedule and format
The fixtures' schedule was released by the RFEF and the LFP on 30 May 2014 and the format is identical to the previous season.

Notes
Double-match rounds enforced away goals rule, single-match rounds did not.
Games ending in a tie were decided in extra time; and if it persisted, by a penalty shoot-out.
Real Madrid, as participant in the 2014 FIFA Club World Cup, played its Round of 32 games on 29 October 2014 and 3 December 2014.
UEFA Europa League qualification: if the Cup winners had qualified for the 2014–15 UEFA Champions League, the Cup runner-up would have qualified for the third qualifying round, then the 5th and 6th ranked teams in 2014–15 La Liga (always excluding no "UEFA license" and banned clubs) would qualify for group stage and play-off round respectively. However, if the Cup runners-up ended in Europa League places (5th or 6th), the 5th, 6th and 7th ranked teams in 2014–15 La Liga would have qualified for the group stage, play-off round and third qualifying round respectively.Similarly, if both finalists qualified for the 2015–16 UEFA Champions League, the 5th, 6th and 7th ranked teams in 2014–15 La Liga would also qualify for group stage, play-off round and third qualifying round respectively.
At the date of the draw of the first and second round, Murcia was considered a team of Segunda División yet, and Mirandés of Segunda División B.

Qualified teams
The following teams competed in the 2014–15 Copa del Rey.

Twenty teams of 2014–15 La Liga:

Almería
Athletic Bilbao
Atlético Madrid
Barcelona
Celta Vigo
Córdoba
Deportivo La Coruña
Eibar
Elche
Espanyol
Getafe
Granada
Levante
Málaga
Rayo Vallecano
Real Madrid
Real Sociedad
Sevilla
Valencia
Villarreal

Twenty teams of 2014–15 Segunda División (Barcelona B was excluded for being a reserve team and Racing Santander was sanctioned):

Alavés
Albacete
Alcorcón
Girona
Jaén
Las Palmas
Leganés
Llagostera
Lugo
Mallorca
Murcia
Numancia
Osasuna
Ponferradina
Real Betis
Sabadell
Sporting Gijón
Valladolid
Tenerife
Zaragoza

36 teams of 2014–15 Segunda División B: the top five teams of each of the 4 groups (excluding reserve teams), the five with the highest number of points out of the remaining non-reserve teams (*), the three teams relegated from 2013–14 Segunda División, and the twelve teams winners of a group of 2013–14 Tercera División (or at least the ones with the highest number of points within their group since reserve teams are excluded) that were promoted to Segunda División B.

Alcoyano
Amorebieta
Atlético Astorga
Atlético Baleares
Avilés
Barakaldo
Cádiz
Cartagena
Cornellà
Eldense
Fuenlabrada
Gimnàstic Tarragona
Guadalajara
Guijuelo
Hércules
Huesca
Jaén
La Hoya Lorca
Lealtad
Leioa
L'Hospitalet
Linense
Lleida Esportiu
Marbella
Marino Luanco
Mirandés
Oviedo
Racing de Ferrol
San Roque de Lepe
Sestao River
Somozas
Toledo
Trival Valderas
UCAM Murcia
Villanovense
Zamora

Seven teams of 2014–15 Tercera División. Teams that qualified were six of eighteen champions that were not promoted to Segunda División B (or at least the ones with the highest number of points within their group since reserve teams were excluded):

Atlético Granadilla
Gimnástica Torrelavega
Izarra
Peña Deportiva
Puertollano
Teruel
Varea

First round
The draw for First and Second round was held on 31 July 2014 at 13:00 CEST in La Ciudad del Fútbol, RFEF headquarters, in Las Rozas, Madrid. In this round 43 Segunda División B and Tercera División teams gained entry. In the draw, firstly seven teams from the 2014–15 Segunda División B (L'Hospitalet, Guadalajara, Fuenlabrada, Zamora, Lleida Esportiu, Mirandés and Guijuelo) received a bye and then remaining teams from 2014–15 Segunda División B and teams from 2014–15 Tercera División faced according to proximity criteria by next groups:

Matches

Second round
The draw was held together with the First round draw on 31 July 2014 in La Ciudad del Fútbol. In the draw, the team from 2014–15 Segunda División B or 2014–15 Tercera División, winner from First round match Oviedo v Amorebieta, received a bye. Teams from 2014–15 Segunda División gained entry in this round and faced each other. Winners of First round, together with the seven teams which received a bye, faced each other too.

Third round
The draw was held on 22 September 2013 at 13:00 CEST in La Ciudad del Fútbol. In the draw, as Mirandés was relocated to the pot with the teams of 2014–15 Segunda División, one team from this league received a bye. Teams from Segunda División faced each other and teams from 2014–15 Segunda División B and 2014–15 Tercera División faced each other.

Matches

Note: Sabadell received a bye.

Final phase
The draw for the Round of 32 was held on October 17, 2014, in La Ciudad del Fútbol. In this round, all La Liga teams gained entry in the competition.

Round of 32 pairings were as follows: the six remaining teams participating in Segunda División B and Tercera División faced the La Liga teams which qualified for European competitions, this was: four teams from Pot 1 (Segunda B and Tercera) were drawn against four teams from pot 2a (champions) and the two remaining teams in pot 1 were drawn in the same way with the pot 2b teams (Europa League). The remaining team in pot 2b was drawn with a Segunda División team (Pot 3). The five remaining teams in this pot were drawn against five teams of the thirteen remaining teams of La Liga (Pot 4). The remaining eight teams of La Liga faced each other. Matches involving teams with different league tiers were played at home on the first leg the team in lower tier. This rule also  applied in the Round of 16, but not for Quarter-finals and Semi-finals, in which order of the two legs was decided by the draw.

Bracket

Round of 32

First leg

Second leg

Round of 16

First leg

Second leg

Quarter-finals

First leg

Second leg

Semi-finals

First leg

Second leg

Final

Top goalscorers

References

External links

MundoDeportivo.com
Marca.com
AS.com

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title: Philip Skene

text:
Philip Wharton Skene (5 February 1725 in London, England – 10 June 1810 near Stoke Goldington, Buckinghamshire) was a Scottish officer in the British army, New York state "patroon", and a figure in the Saratoga campaign of the American Revolution.

Military career
Skene was from the branch of the family associated with Hallyards Castle. He enlisted in the British army in 1739 and saw much action: the Battle of Porto Bello (1739), the Battle of Cartagena de Indias (1741), the Battle of Fontenoy (1745), and the Battle of Culloden (1746). In 1756 he arrived in the British colonies in North America. In February 1757 he was promoted to the command of a company in the 27th (Inniskilling) Regiment of Foot. He was wounded in Lord Howe's 1758 attack on Fort Ticonderoga. In 1759 he was appointed major of a brigade and in October of that year was left in command of Crown Point with instructions to strengthen the fortifications. While he was stationed there he became convinced that the local area was a good one for trade and settlement. With the encouragement of Lord Amherst he started a small settlement at the head of Lake Champlain, purchasing land in the area.

In 1762 Skene was sent to the Caribbean and took part in the capture of Havana, being the first through the breach into Morro Castle. In 1763 he returned to North America and found his settlement reduced to 15 inhabitants. He travelled to England and in 1765 obtained a royal patent for a large tract of land known as Skenesborough (now the village of Whitehall). Returning to New York, he again began to develop a tenant settlement on his property. When his regiment returned to Ireland in 1768, Skene transferred to the Xth Foot, and then sold his commission in 1769. In 1770 he became a resident of his new community. Over the next 5 years he made many improvements to his property, such as a road to Salem, New York and on to Bennington known as "Skene's Road". He built mills, storehouses, and boats, including the schooner Katherine that later became the USS Liberty when seized by the patriots.

Plan for a new colony
Shortly before the Revolution Ethan Allen and other leaders of the New Hampshire Grants came up with a plan to solve their disputes with the colony of New York by obtaining a charter for a new royal colony comprising the Grants and also land on the New York side of Lake Champlain. The colony was to be obtained by Skene, who would be the governor and reside at Skenesborough. In pursuit of this goal Skene went to England and was appointed lieutenant governor of Ticonderoga and Crown Point, and royal surveyor of the woods around Lake Champlain. He was advised to gather petitions from the inhabitants before seeking a royal patent for the new colony; Allen and others arranged a meeting at Westminster in the Grants on 11 April 1775, which approved a resolution asking "be taken out of so oppressive a jurisdiction and either annexed to some other government, or erected and incorporated into a new one". This plan was interrupted by the Revolution. It came up again during Vermont's negotiations with the British governor of Quebec in the early 1780s, where if Skene had actually obtained a secret charter (as Ira Allen and others claimed), Vermont could have been part of a larger autonomous province.

American Revolution
When the American Revolution began, Skene's son Andrew was arrested as Crown Point and Ticonderoga were being seized.  Skene himself was returning from England; on hearing of the outbreak of the Revolution, his ship was diverted to Philadelphia.  His arrival there alarmed the Continental Congress to the extent of appointing a committee headed by John Adams to look over his papers; after their report, he was sent to Connecticut under arrest. John Adams wrote of Skene, We have an infernal scoundrel here, a certain Col. S——, who comes over full of plans and machinations of mischief. He has had the most unreserved and unlimited confidence of Lord Dartmouth, during the whole of the past winter, and it seems for some time before; and together with a contemptible puppy of a parson, V——, has been contriving to debauch, seduce, and corrupt New-York.

After giving parole, Skene and his son lived with Sarah Hooker at her house in West Hartford, Connecticut. While he was there, there was some alarm when Skene's "negro" slave John Anderson was appointed "governor of the negros" by the previous incumbent. Governor Trumbull and his council appointed a committee headed by Jesse Root to call on Skene and examine whether this was part of some plot, which Skene denied. Skene was eventually exchanged for James Lovell in October 1776.

On his return to England in 1777 he enlisted with General John Burgoyne's expedition and was given the rank of colonel. Burgoyne used Skene's home in Skenesborough as a headquarters in early July 1777, and Skene served Burgoyne as an advisor on local conditions and a commissary. Skene was sent along with Baum's expedition that ended at the Battle of Bennington to recruit Loyalists; he was sent back by Baum to hurry along the reinforcements. As the reinforcements came up, reputedly Skene hailed some American scouts with a cry of "Are you for King George?" and got his horse shot out from under him. He also may have been influential in Burgoyne's decision to cut a road from Skenesborough to Fort Edward, perhaps with a view to improving access to his settlement. Skene was later part of the surrender of Burgoyne's army.

Later life
In 1779 Skene and his son Andrew were attainted as Loyalists by New York State, and their property seized. Skene attempted vainly to regain his property, and then appealed to the British government for compensation and received in 1784 a pension of £180 per year, and later a lump sum of £20,000, which he used to purchase property in Buckinghamshire and Northamptonshire. He died in 1810 at his home Addersey Lodge, near Stoke Goldington and Hartwell, and is buried in the chapel at Hartwell.

Family
Skene's father James Skene was a Jacobite who was captured at the Battle of Preston in 1715 and several times narrowly avoided execution; he died in 1736. His mother was Mary Ann Smith, the daughter of a Battersea minister. Skene's brother James was a surgeon for the East India Company. He died in 1780 in London. Skene himself married Katherine Heyden, an heiress from Ireland, and they had three children: Andrew Philip (b. 1753), Mary Ann Margaret (b. 1755), and Katherine (b. 1756).

References

Further reading
Philip Skene of Skenesborough, Doris Begor Morton, Granville, NY: Grastorf Press, 1959

1725 births
1810 deaths
Military personnel from London
Loyalists in the American Revolution from New York (state)
Scottish soldiers


title: Somalinautilus

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Somalinautilus is a genus of nautiloids that is found in the Middle to Upper Jurassic of England, France, and Somaliland. The genus contains three species, S. antiquus, first assigned to Nautilus by Dacque in 1910, S. fuscus, first assigned to Nautilus in 1898, and S. clausus, first used under Nautilus in 1890. Another species of Nautilus was named in 1905, N. bisculatus, which is now a synonym of S. antiquus.

Two features that differentiate Somalinautilus are that the venter is arched and low, and its ventral shoulders are subangular. This distinguishes Somalinautilus from its close relatives Paracenoceras, Tithonoceras, and Aulaconautilus. Tithonoceras is closest related to Paracenoceras within the group, and the three other genera are all descended from the groups sister taxa. In 1927 the family Paracenoceratidae was named to house these four genera, and in 1956, the family was then downgraded to a subfamily within Nautilidae. However, the group is now considered to be a family again.

References

Prehistoric nautiloid genera
Jurassic cephalopods
Jurassic animals of Europe


title: Tina Robin

text:
Tina Robin (born Harriet Ostrowsky; November 27, 1937 – March 16, 1996) was an American pop singer and entertainer.

Life and career
She was born in Newark, New Jersey.  She recorded several singles under the name Harriet Kay in 1955.  In 1957 she appeared on a popular television quiz show, Hold That Note, and won, gaining recognition for her powerful singing voice and her personality; she was  tall, and nicknamed "The Little Dynamo".

She was managed by Buddy Kaye,  and recorded for Coral Records, releasing several singles in the late 1950s but with little success.

However, she released an LP, The 4 Seasons, on Coral in 1958,<ref>[http://www.discogs.com/Tina-Robin-The-4-Seasons/release/4603793  Tina Robin, The 4 Seasons, Discogs,com]. Retrieved 22 June 2014</ref> and was also a regular performer on the Sing Along television show, presented by Jim Lowe.  By 1960, she was managed by Don Kirshner and Al Nevins of Aldon Music, and she began releasing singles on the Mercury label. Her only chart success came in 1961, when her recording "Play It Again", written by Gerry Goffin, Carole King and Howard Greenfield, reached #95 on the Billboard Hot 100.

She also worked as a session singer on many of Goffin and King's demo recordings in the early 1960s.

Robin continued to sing and perform comedy and impressions in clubs in New York, as well as in Las Vegas, and appeared on the Ed Sullivan and Johnny Carson'' shows.

Robin died at her home in Cooper City, Florida, in 1996.

References

External links

1937 births
1996 deaths
American women pop singers
Singers from New Jersey
20th-century American singers
20th-century American women singers


title: Miss Kurdistan

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Miss Kurdistan is a national beauty pageant for young women in Iraqi Kurdistan. It was founded in Erbil in 2012, the first Miss Kurdistan winner was Shene Aziz Ako. The winner is assigned a one-year contract, traveling across Kurdistan, and in some cases overseas. Aside from the job, the winner also receives a cash allowance for her entire reign.

Titleholders

Special Awards

Miss Kurdistan representatives at International beauty pageants
Color key

Miss World

Miss Grand International

Miss United Continents

References

External links

Iraqi awards
2012 establishments in Iraqi Kurdistan
Recurring events established in 2012
Beauty pageants in Iraq
Awards established in 2012
Kurdish culture
Women in Kurdistan


title: Dubno (disambiguation)

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Dubno is a city in the Rivne Oblast of western Ukraine.

Dubno may also refer to:
 Dubno, Podlaskie Voivodeship, Poland
 Dubno (Příbram District), a village and municipality in the Central Bohemian Region, Czech Republic
 Dubno, Rimavská Sobota District, a village in the Banská Bystrica Region, Slovakia
 Dubno Raion, Rivne Oblast, Ukraine


title: MonkeySports

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MonkeySports is a retailer in the sporting goods industry, focused on selling ice hockey, lacrosse, and baseball/softball equipment. It is a private company originating in 1999, with John Naaman as the founder and CEO and Tom Arnold as the CFO. Its first store was initially operated as a small hockey store and consisted of only three employees. As of 2023, MonkeySports owns and operates ten retail stores in Texas, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Colorado, New Hampshire, California, Sweden, and Canada.
The company also runs six online store websites. In 2013, MonkeySports was ranked in Internet Retailer's "Top 500 U.S. E-Retailers" at number 241.

From 1999 to 2014, MonkeySports was headquartered in Corona, California. Seeking a favorable business climate, they relocated their headquarters and distribution center to Allen, Texas and opened a large superstore in April 2017.

References

Sporting goods retailers of the United States
Online retailers of the United States
Retail companies established in 1999
Sporting goods brands
Companies based in Allen, Texas
1999 establishments in Texas


title: HIFK Fotboll

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HIFK Fotboll or IFK Helsingfors, is an association football section of HIFK, a sports club based in Helsinki, Finland. The men's football team competes in the second tier of Finnish football, Ykkönen. Their home ground is the Bolt Arena.

History

Idrottsföreningen Kamraterna i Helsingfors was formed on 15 October 1897 by Georges Doubitsky, a 15-year-old student at the Svenska Reallyceum school in Helsinki. In those early years the club specialised in athletics, football and bandy. The football section was established in 1907, the same year that the Football Association of Finland was founded. The first football match played HIFK was at the Kaisaniemi ground on 17 May 1908 where the new team lost 1–2 to Unitas.

In those early years HIFK were runners-up in the Mestaruussarja (then played as a cup competition) on 5 occasions in 1909, 1912, 1928 and 1929. In addition in 1912 the Finnish Football team at the Stockholm Olympics comprised a team of HIFK players.

HIFK won their first Finnish championship (Mestaruussarja) in 1930 a feat that they were to repeat on three other occasions in 1931, 1933 and 1937 in a tremendous decade for the club.  HIFK also won the Mestaruussarja in 1947, 1959 and 1961. In total HIFK won the Finnish championship on 7 occasions.

HIFK was one of the most successful football sides in Finland until the early 1970s when the team were relegated from the Mestaruussarja (Finnish Premier League). After 1972 the team wandered around the lower divisions of Finnish football, having even played in the Nelonen (Fourth Division), the fifth tier of the Finnish football league system, in 1980–83 and 2003–05, and only would return to the first level 43 years later.

In total, since 1930, HIFK have played 33 seasons in the Mestaruussarja (the top tier), 22 seasons in the second tier and 19 seasons in the third tier.  Their best spell in recent decades was from 1999 to 2002 when the club participated in the Ykkönen (First Division). However, the club overstretched themselves which resulted in the withdrawal from the Ykkönen at the end of the 2002 season and taking the place of the second team in the Nelonen (Fourth Division) in 2003. More recently, in 2010, they won the third tier, after defeating FC Santa Claus in the promotion playoff match, returning them to the second-tier Ykkönen of Finnish football for seasons 2011 and 2012, only to be relegated back to Kakkonen after their 2012 season. Back in Kakkonen, HIFK rehired coach Jani Honkavaara who was the coach when HIFK first were promoted to Ykkönen. Since his second term they were able to play in Ykkönen for a third time this millennia, when beating their promotion play-off opponent PS Kemi Kings.

HIFK won Ykkönen in 2014 and thereby were automatically promoted into the highest tier of Finnish football, Veikkausliiga. After securing their promotion, HIFK announced that they would play their 2015 season home games on Telia 5G -areena, the home ground of their local rivals HJK Helsinki. In December 2014 HIFK launched a crowdfunding campaign through Invesdor. HIFK aimed to gather 250.000 – 500.000 euros by selling shares of the club valued at 189,70 euros a piece. According to club chairman René Österman, HIFK was in need of funding for the upcoming Veikkausliiga season and crowdfunding gave a chance for the club's supporters to own a part of the club. The campaign ended successfully in January 2015 and HIFK gathered 335.495 euros from 786 investors.

After three seasons in Veikkausliiga, HIFK were relegated to Ykkönen after finishing 11th in 2017 season and losing relegation play-offs against FC Honka on away goals. However, after a successful 2018 campaign in Ykkönen, HIFK was promoted back to Veikkausliiga for the 2019 season.

European campaigns

HIFK participated in the European Cup in the 1960–61 and 1962–63 seasons and played in the UEFA cup in 1971–72.

Honours
Mestaruussarja
  Champions (7): 1930, 1931, 1933, 1937, 1947, 1959, 1961
 Runners-up (7): 1909, 1912, 1928, 1929, 1934, 1935, 1971

Attendance Record: 10,500 (HIFK – HJK, Telia 5G -areena, 10 August 2016)

Divisional movements since 1930

Top Level (32 seasons): 1930–45, 1947–49, 1958–66, 1970–72, 2015–2017, 2019-2022
Second Level (23 seasons): 1945–46, 1950–57, 1967–69, 1973–74, 1999–02, 2011–12, 2014, 2018, 2023
Third Level (19 seasons): 1975–78, 1988–98, 2008–10, 2013

Season to season

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Supporters and rivalries

Historically, HIFK was primarily the club for the Swedish-speaking population in Helsinki. However, the club nowadays is bilingual and language doesn't play an important role in the club anymore. Nowadays, the most renowned supporter group of the club is Stadin Kingit (in English: "the kings of Stadi"). Its name derives from the common slang nickname for Helsinki (Stadi). Many members attend the handball, bandy and ice hockey matches of HIFK as well.

The single most important fixture for HIFK supporters is the one against the major local rivals, HJK. The fixture is commonly known as Stadin derby.

Club structure

HIFK Fotboll run a large number of teams including 3 men's teams, 3 women's teams, 1 men's veterans team, 16 boys' teams and 5 girls' teams.

HIFK (Men's First Team) are competing in Veikkausliiga.  This is the highest tier in the Finnish football system.
 HIFK / 2 are competing in Group B of Kolmonen (Fourth tier) administered by the SPL Uusimaa.
  HIFK / 3 are competing in Group 4 of Kutonen (Seventh tier) administered by the SPL Uusimaa.

Updated as of season 2022.

Players

Current squad

Management and boardroom

As of 20 April 2022

Boardroom

References

External links
 Official football website
 Official club website
Team info at GSA

Football clubs in Finland
Association football clubs established in 1897
1897 establishments in Finland
Sports clubs and teams in Helsinki
football


title: Alias French Gertie

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Alias French Gertie is an American pre-Code crime film directed by George Archainbaud from a screenplay by Wallace Smith, based upon the unproduced play The Chatterbox by Bayard Veiller. The film stars Bebe Daniels and Ben Lyon, who were making their first on-screen appearance together. A copy of this film survives in the Library of Congress.

Plot
French Gertie is a jewel thief posing as French maid named Marie, and she plans to rob the safe of her employer. However, on the night of the robbery, a thief named Jimmy appears, also intending to empty the safe. Jimmy opens the safe and the two agree to divide the contents evenly. However, when the police arrive, Jimmy hides Gertie and is arrested, later admitting to perpetrating the crime alone.

After serving a year-long prison sentence, Jimmy is reunited with Gertie, and they form a crime partnership. After several bank robberies, Marie and Jimmy agree that after one last haul, they will turn straight. Marie, along with her friends and neighbors Mr. and Mrs. Matson, persuade Jimmy to invest his $30,000 savings in Matson's business. However, the Matsons are also crooks who have stolen Jimmy's life's savings.

After Jimmy determines to return to safecracking, planning to begin with Marie's former employers, Marie hatches a plot to encourage him to turn straight. When Detective Kelcey agrees to allow them to remain free if they will turn straight, they agree.

Cast

Production
Alias French Gertie is the first film to feature both Daniels and Lyon. They were married a short time later in June 1930, and they remained married until Daniels' death in 1971.

The film was a remake of the 1925 FBO silent film Smooth as Satin, starring Evelyn Brent and Bruce Gordon and directed by Ralph Ince.

Reception
In a contemporary review for The New York Times, critic Mordaunt Hall wrote: "[T]his film has not been handled with the subtlety and smoothness it deserves. Nevertheless, up to a certain point, it is a production that holds the interest, but what should have been the main idea is sacrificed for a more obvious turn of events. ... This might have been a more engrossing piece of work had the climax been kept to the uncovering of the evil doings of the Matsons, instead of carrying on the story to another attempt at stealing."

References

External links
 Alias French Gertie at, imdb.com

RKO Pictures films
American black-and-white films
Melodrama films
1930 crime drama films
1930 films
American films based on plays
Films directed by George Archainbaud
American crime drama films
1930s English-language films
1930s American films


title: Devereux Foundation

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The Devereux Foundation is a nonprofit behavioral health organization that operates programs and services in 13 U.S. states, working with children and adults with developmental disabilities, emotional and behavioral disorders, and mental illnesses. It is one of the oldest and largest nonprofit providers of behavioral healthcare in the United States. Its operations include psychiatric hospitals, residential treatment centers, group homes, respite care, supported living, foster care, special education, and vocational education.

History
Helena T. Devereux founded the first Devereux School in Philadelphia in 1912, after having taught special education in the School District of Philadelphia. By 1918, Devereux moved her operation to Devon, Pennsylvania and began acquiring properties throughout Chester County, Pennsylvania and along the Philadelphia Main Line to accommodate her rapidly expanding programs. The Devereux Foundation was established as a nonprofit organization in 1938.

The organization's first major expansion, to California, was aided by support from the Max Factor Family Foundation. In 1945, the Devereux Foundation opened a school and residential treatment center on the Campbell Ranch in Santa Barbara County. Devereux Hall was designated Historical Landmark No. 27 by the County of Santa Barbara on September 8, 1987.

Today the Devereux Foundation has centers in the following locations:

Pennsylvania – established 1938
California – established 1945
Texas – established 1959
Massachusetts – established 1965
Connecticut – established 1967
Arizona – established 1967
Georgia – established 1973
New Jersey – established 1982
Florida – established 1987
New York – established 1987
Colorado – established 1999

References

External links

 Official website

Educational organizations established in the 20th century
Non-profit organizations based in Pennsylvania
Psychotherapy in the United States
Special education


title: Jewish cemetery, Buttenhausen

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The Jewish cemetery of Buttenhausen is a protected heritage site above the village of Buttenhausen, which forms part of the municipality of Münsingen, Germany in the district of Reutlingen, Baden-Württemberg, some 37 km west of Ulm. The cemetery is situated on a hillside on the south-western edge of the village.

History

The Jewish community at Buttenhausen was established by Baron Phillip Friedrich von Liebenstein by a charter of 7 July 1797. Motivated by the desire to stimulate economic activity in the village, he invited twenty-five Jewish families to settle there under his protection. One of the privileges granted to the new community was the right to establish a cemetery above the new Jewish quarter. By 1870, Buttenhausen's Jewish residents numbered 442 in a total population of 800 and lived in 46 of the village's 100 houses.  The oldest legible inscription in the cemetery dates from 1802; the last burials took place in 1943, shortly before the final deportations of Jews from the village. Today, 399 gravestones survive from the period of the cemetery's use.

A memorial stone near the entrance to the cemetery commemorates the now vanished Jewish community of Buttenhausen. Between 1940 and 1943 elderly Jews from the whole of the German Reich were forcibly sent to the so-called Jüdisches Altersheim ("Jewish Retirement Home"), namely the vacated quarters of Buttenhausen's Jews. From there, they were despatched to death camps. They are commemorated by a sculpture in the cemetery made from sections of railway track by the Swabian poet and singer-songwriter Thomas Felder.

The cemetery shows clearly the development of various gravestone forms and inscription styles from the end of the 18th century to the middle of the 20th century. Whereas the oldest stones are simply decorated with Hebrew inscriptions, later ones are more impressively ornate and often indicate the geographical origin of the deceased. Since Jews were prevented from obtaining gravestones in the Nazi period, wooden stelae were erected on their graves (examples of which are now displayed in the town hall). They were replaced by simple gravestones n the 1960s.

Preservation

The cemetery's remarkable state of preservation is largely the result of the efforts of Walter Ott. Born in Ulm in 1928, Ott became a resident of Buttenhausen after the Second World War where he worked on an agricultural estate. After coming across the abandoned cemetery in the course of chopping wood in 1946 he resolved to maintain the cemetery in good condition. In this, he was supported by former Jewish residents of Buttenhausen domiciled in the United States with whom he made contact after meeting Harry Lindauer (see external link) when the latter revisited his birthplace around 1960. In the 1970s Ott also discovered by chance a local archive of materials on the village's former Jewish inhabitants which enabled their history to be traced and encouraged further studies. In 1985 he was awarded the Federal Republic of Germany's highest civilian honour, the Bundesverdienstkreuz, in recognition of his efforts.  In 2010, Ott received an Obermayer German Jewish History Award.

See also
 History of the Jews in Germany
Kristallnacht

References

External links
 Photographs of Jewish gravestones at Buttenhausen
 An interview with Walter Ott published in 2000
 An interview with Walter Ott in 2008 as part of a Heidelberg student research project (in German)
 Preview of The Soldier's Tale by David & Harry Lindauer, with information on Jewish life in Buttenhausen in the first half of the 20th century

Buttenhausen


title: SD Bountiful

text:
SD Bountiful is an ATD 2909-class tug operated by Serco Marine Services in support of the United Kingdom's Naval Service.

See also
Naval Service (United Kingdom)
List of ships of Serco Marine Services

References

2010 ships
Ships built in the Netherlands
Serco Marine Services (ships)
Tugboats of the United Kingdom


title: Pentherichthys

text:
Pentherichthys atratus is a species of dreamer known from the eastern Atlantic Ocean.  The females of this species grow to a length of .  The males, though much smaller, are non-parasitic.  This species is the only known member of the genus Penterichthys.

Location
Penterichthys atratus can be found in the Eastern Atlantic, but larvae have been found in southwest of Madeira.

Size
The average length of an unsexed female of this species is about 11.9 centimeters.

Habitat
Penterichthys atratus is a bathypelagic predator.

References

Notes

Oneirodidae
Taxa named by Charles Tate Regan
Fish of the Atlantic Ocean
Taxa named by Ethelwynn Trewavas
Monotypic ray-finned fish genera


title: Lester Armour House

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The Lester Armour House is a historic mansion in Lake Bluff, Illinois, United States. It was designed by David Adler in 1931 and is considered one of his most pure works as well as one of his largest.

History
Lester Armour was the son of Philip Danforth Armour, Jr., thus the grandson of meatpacking magnate Philip Danforth Armour, Sr. Lester Armour was born in 1895 and attended Yale University before joining Armour and Company, the family business. He married Leola Stanton in 1918; they had five children. In the early 1920s, he left the company to go into banking. He became president of the Chicago National Bank and was chairman of the board of Harris Bank. Armour later married Alexandra Galitzine, a Russian princess who was previously married to Prince Rostislav Alexandrovich of Russia.

Architect David Adler was a friend of Leola Armour. She probably recommended that Lester commission Adler to design the house. Adler designed the house in 1931 and the Armours approved the plans with no requested changes. As a result, the house is almost exactly as Adler intended it, making it one of his purest houses. The style of the house was probably inspired from Adler's recent trip with Evelyn Marshall Field along the James and Potomac Rivers. The resulting Armour house exhibits influence from the Colonial and Federal styles, consistent with early Virginia architecture. The Armour house was one of the few that Adler designed in cooperation with his sister, interior designer Frances Adler Elkins.

Lester Armour continued to live in the house following his divorce from Leola; in 1949 Alexandra Galitzine moved in. Lester Armour died in 1970. Alexandra continued to live in the house until 1977. That year, she rented the house out to Lionsgate Films to film the Robert Altman movie A Wedding, starring Desi Arnaz, Jr., Carol Burnett, and Mia Farrow. After filming, the estate, originally , was subdivided into fifteen lots of approximately . On May 3, 1984, the house was recognized by the National Park Service with a listing on the National Register of Historic Places.

Singer Richard Marx bought the house in 1997 for $4.7 million, and listed it for sale in 2014 for $18 million. The property was sold March of 2020 for $4.2 million to buyers unidentified.

References

David Adler buildings
National Register of Historic Places in Lake County, Illinois
Houses completed in 1931
Lake Bluff, Illinois


title: Hugh Kennedy & Company

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Hugh Kennedy & Company was a Scottish automobile manufacturer, known for the Ailsa model, from 1907 to 1910.

History
Hugh Kennedy founded the company in 1907 in Glasgow and began the production of automobiles. Production ended in 1910. Hugh Kennedy was later involved with the Rob Roy automobile

Cars
The Ailsa had a 15/20 HP, front-mounted, four-cylinder engine driving the rear axle. The original price was £395.

See also
 List of car manufacturers of the United Kingdom

References

Other sources
 Harald Linz, Halwart Schrader: Die Internationale Automobil-Enzyklopädie. United Soft Media Verlag, München 2008, .
 George Nick Georgano (Chefredakteur): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Volume 2: G–O. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, . (englisch)

Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of Scotland
History of Glasgow
Companies based in Glasgow


title: List of World Heritage Sites in Myanmar

text:
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) designates World Heritage Sites of outstanding universal value to cultural or natural heritage which have been nominated by countries which are signatories to the UNESCO World Heritage Convention, established in 1972. Cultural heritage consists of monuments (such as architectural works, monumental sculptures, or inscriptions), groups of buildings, and sites (including archaeological sites). Natural features (consisting of physical and biological formations), geological and physiographical formations (including habitats of threatened species of animals and plants), and natural sites which are important from the point of view of science, conservation or natural beauty, are defined as natural heritage. Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also called Burma, ratified the convention on 29 April 1994.

, Myanmar has two sites on the list: Pyu Ancient Cities were listed in 2014 and Bagan in 2019. Both sites are cultural. In addition, Myanmar has 15 sites on its tentative list.

World Heritage Sites
UNESCO lists sites under ten criteria; each entry must meet at least one of the criteria. Criteria i through vi are cultural, and vii through x are natural.

Tentative list
In addition to sites inscribed on the World Heritage List, member states can maintain a list of tentative sites that they may consider for nomination. Nominations for the World Heritage List are only accepted if the site was previously listed on the tentative list. , Myanmar lists 15 properties on its tentative list.

See also
 Tourism in Myanmar

References

Myanmar

Myanmar geography-related lists
World Heritage Sites


title: Lendico

text:
Lendico was a multinational company, operating a peer-to-peer lending platform. It was taken over by Dutch bank ING Groep in early 2018 and now operates as a subsidiary. The international online marketplace for business and consumer lending was founded in December 2013 by the incubator and venture capitalist, Rocket Internet. After launching in Germany, the company expanded into Spain, Poland, Austria, South Africa, the Netherlands and Brazil. Using the crowdfunding model, the company based in Berlin, Germany, directly connects investors and private and business borrowers. Lendico is led by Friedrich Hubel and co-founder Clemens Paschke. Currently, Lendico Brazil still exists but is an independent company from Lendico Global Services.

History

Founded in December 2013 in Berlin, Lendico's idea was to take to Germany, and to all of Europe, a lending model that was successful in the United States, peer to peer lending, or lending between people.

Inspired by the business model of the US peer-to-peer lending platform Lending Club  and UK based company Zopa, Lendico is a marketplace that enables the link between borrowers and investors. During the first 20 months, the company established itself in Austria, Brazil, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain and South Africa, replicating the expansion plan usually used by its creator, Rocket Internet.

Business Model
The loans are personal loans or SME loans and range between €1,000 - €150,000 in Germany. The interest fee is calculated on the basis of the borrower’s credit score, credit history, desired loan amount and the borrower’s debt-to-income ratio. Lendico determines whether the borrower is creditworthy and assigns to its approved loans a credit grade that determines the payable interest rate and the fees. The loan period can range between 1 and 5 years and be repaid at any time. Only 10% of applications are received on the platform.

Lendico operates completely online with no branch network and relies on proprietary technology to reduce costs and optimize the handling of loan applications. Lendico has repeatedly been nominated as best credit marketplace. In August 2015 Deutsche Börse Venture Network selected Lendico to become member of its programme of growth companies and national and international investors.

See also
 Comparison of crowd funding services
 Disintermediation

References

German companies established in 2013
Peer-to-peer lending companies


title: Comley (surname)

text:
Comley is a surname. Notable people with the name include:

Bonnie Comley, American screen producer, writer and performer
James Comley (born 1991), English soccer player
John M. Comley (1895–1974), Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court
Kathleen Comley, British Paralympic archer
Larry Comley (1939–2006), American professional basketball player
Rick Comley (born 1947), American collegiate ice hockey player and head coach

See also
Conley


title: Haukur Clausen

text:
Haukur Clausen (8 November 1928 – 1 May 2003) was an Olympian and a dentist.

Family life
Clausen's father was Arreboe Clausen, a merchant and later chauffeur (5 November 1892 – 8 December 1956) and his mother was Sesselja Þorsteinsdóttir Clausen (born 28 December 1905). Haukur had a twin brother, Örn, and a half-brother, Alfreð Clausen (born 1918).

On 6 January 1951 Clausen married Margrét Þóra Hallgrímsson, with whom he had Örn Friðrik (born 13 July 1951), but they separated just a year later. He married someone else thereafter, with whom he had Anna Marie (born 25 November 1954) and Haukur Arreboe (born 9 October 1959). His last wife was Elín Hrefna Thorarensen (born 17 February 1944), whom he married on 11 March 1967, and by whom he had Ragnheiður Elín (born 16 May 1968) and Þórunn Erna Clausen, an actress (born 12 September 1975).

Athletic career

Haukur was an athlete from 1946-51. At the age of 19, he made it to the sixth heat of the men's 100 metres at the 1948 London Summer Olympics. He also competed in the European Championships in Brussels in 1950, with Europe's best time (21.3 seconds) for the 200 metre sprint for 1950, and became Nordic Champion in the 200m sprint in 1947. He held a range of Icelandic records in athletics.

Later career

Haukur graduated from Menntaskólinn í Reykjavík in 1948 and from the University of Iceland as a Candidate in Dentistry in 1952. He gained his dentistry license in 1952 and undertook his postgraduate studies at the University of Minnesota 1952-53. Returning to Iceland, be began his own practice, which he ran until July 1994, when he retired.

Haukur was the president of the Félag tannlæknanema (Student Dentists' Association) in 1951, and involved in the Tannlæknafélag Íslands (Dentists' Association of Iceland) from 1972, acting in 1973-74 as deputy chair and 1974-76 as chair. He was on the board of the Tannsmíðaskóli 1979-83.

Art

Haukur was keen on painting and held two exhibitions at Kjarvalsstaðir in 1981 and 1987.

Competition record

Sources
 'Haukur Clausen', Morgunblaðið, 13 May 2003, p. 32, http://www.mbl.is/greinasafn/grein/730658/, http://timarit.is/view_page_init.jsp?issId=251408&pageId=3470781&lang=is.
 Gunnar Þormar et al., 'Haukur Clausen', in Tannlæknatal 1854-1984: Æviágrip íslenskra tannlækna ([n.p.]: Tannlæknafélag Íslands, 1984), 58-59.

References

Haukur Clausen
1928 births
Haukur Clausen
Athletes (track and field) at the 1948 Summer Olympics
2003 deaths
Haukur Clausen
Haukur Clausen
Haukur Clausen
Icelandic twins
Thors family
20th-century dentists


title: 2011 WA State Challenge Cup

text:
Western Australian soccer clubs from the top three State-Based Divisions competed in 2011 for the WA State Challenge Cup, known that year as the State League Cup.  This knockout competition was won by Sorrento, their first title.

First round
A total of 32 teams took part in this stage of the competition. All 12 Clubs from the State League Premier Division and Football West State League Division 1, and 8 clubs from the Sunday League (Premier Division) entered into the competition at this stage.
All matches were completed by 30 March 2011.

The draw was as follows:

Second round
A total of 16 teams took part in this stage of the competition. All matches were completed by 27 April 2011.

The draw was as follows:

Quarter finals
A total of 8 teams took part in this stage of the competition.  All matches in this round were completed on 6 June 2011.

The draw was as follows:

Semi finals
A total of 4 teams took part in this stage of the competition. All matches in this round were completed by 10 July 2011.

The draw was as follows:

Final
The 2011 State League Cup Final was held at the neutral venue of Macedonia Park on 25 August.

References

External links

Football West State Cup
2011 in Australian soccer


title: Angelus, Kansas

text:
Angelus is an unincorporated community in Sheridan County, Kansas, United States.  It is located in Solomon Township, approximately 20 miles southwest of Hoxie.  Also, it is located northwest of Grinnell and Interstate 70.

History
A post office was opened in Angelus in 1894, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1911.

As of 1910, the community had a population of 30 and was a local trading center, with the nearest train stations in either Grinnell or Campus to the south in Gove County.

According to a history prepared by Fr. Menig of the Angelus parish church in 1937, the community was founded by residents of Saint Bernard, Nebraska who were looking for less expensive, though still good, land for farming.  The first settlers arrived in late 1887.  St. Paul's church was founded at that time, and had 49 members by 1888.  The community was named Angelus in 1892 by Rev. J. Disselkamp, the pastor of the church in Colby, Kansas which serviced the area.  The church grew to 92 families and 588 members by 1937, and the community's Catholic school run by the Sisters of the Precious Blood had 80 students.   A 1987 story on the community's 100th anniversary noted that "Angelus never really became a town, but was merely a community that grew up around its church."  By that time, the community's earlier two grocery stores, three garages/gas stations, and all other businesses, had closed, leaving only the church, school, and a few homes.

Though there are not current formal population measures of Angelus, Solomon Township had a population of 179 in the 2010 census.

References

Further reading

External links
 Official community website
 Sheridan County maps: Current, Historic, KDOT

Unincorporated communities in Sheridan County, Kansas
Unincorporated communities in Kansas


title: H.R. 4002 (113th Congress)

text:
The bill  is a bill that would accept the request of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma to revoke the charter of incorporation issued to that tribe and ratified by its members on June 1, 1940.

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

Background

The Miami Tribe of Oklahoma is the only federally recognized Native American tribe of Miami Indians in the United States. The people are descended from Miami who were removed in the 19th century from their traditional territory in present-day Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio. Of the 3,908 enrolled tribal members, 775 live in the state of Oklahoma. Enrollment in the tribe is based on documented lineal descent. They adopted a corporate charter on June 1, 1940 as a result of the Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act.

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

The bill would accept the request of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma to revoke the charter of incorporation issued to that tribe and ratified by its members on June 1, 1940.

Congressional Budget Office report
This summary is based largely on the summary provided by the Congressional Budget Office, as ordered reported by the House Committee on Natural Resources on April 9, 2014. This is a public domain source.

H.R. 4002 would revoke the charter of incorporation of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma. Based on information provided by the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that implementing the legislation would have no effect on the federal budget. The tribe has not been operating under the charter for the last several decades. Enacting H.R. 4002 would not affect direct spending or revenues; therefore, pay-as-you-go procedures do not apply.

H.R. 4002 contains no intergovernmental or private-sector mandates as defined in the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act.

Procedural history
H.R. 4002 was introduced into the United States House of Representatives on February 5, 2014 by Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R, OK-2). It was referred to the United States House Committee on Natural Resources and the United States House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Indian and Alaska Native Affairs. It was reported on April 28, 2014 alongside House Report 113-420. The bill was scheduled to be voted on by the House on June 23, 2014.

Debate and discussion
The Department of the Interior testified that they had no objection to the charter being revoked saying that the "decision whether to maintain or revoke such a charter ultimately should be the Tribe's."

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

References

External links

Library of Congress - Thomas H.R. 4002
beta.congress.gov H.R. 4002
GovTrack.us H.R. 4002
OpenCongress.org H.R. 4002
WashingtonWatch.com H.R. 4002
Congressional Budget Office's report on H.R. 4002
Congressional testimony from the Department of the Interior
House Report 113-420 on H.R. 4002

Proposed legislation of the 113th United States Congress
Miami tribe


title: Louis John Gill

text:
Louis John Gill  (May 9, 1885 – August 19, 1969) was a San Diego-based architect and the nephew and one-time business partner of another famous San Diego architect, Irving Gill. The San Diego Historical Society calls Louis Gill "one of San Diego's greatest architects".

Biography
Louis J. Gill grew up in Syracuse, New York and graduated from Syracuse University in 1911. He immediately moved to San Diego and went to work at his uncle's architectural firm as a draftsman, becoming chief draftsman by 1913. In 1914 his uncle took him on as a partner. Their partnership, known as Gill and Gill, Architects, lasted five years. As his uncle's associate, Louis contributed to the design of several notable buildings including La Jolla Woman's Club (now listed on the National Register of Historic Places) and the Ellen Browning Scripps residence at 700 Prospect Street (now the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego).

 In 1919, he and his uncle dissolved their partnership and Louis struck out on his own. Louis had been taking on individual projects even before leaving the partnership. In 1916, the year of its founding, he was named to be the architect for the San Diego Zoo. He designed the original buildings and enclosures for the Zoo and remained on the Zoo's executive staff for more than 20 years, designing and remodeling multiple buildings and exhibits.

In 1933, within hours of the 1933 Long Beach earthquake, Gill traveled to the scene in his role as president of the California State Board of Architectural Examiners. The results of his careful analysis of structural failures during the earthquake formed the basis for much of the subsequent California earthquake code legislation (Field Act for schools and Riley Act for all buildings). Those standards are now used in many other places throughout the world.

Gill was a co-founder of the San Diego Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. He served on the California State Board of Architectural Examiners for more than 20 years, including two terms as president (1932–34 and 1947–49).

In 1955 he retired. He and his wife lived in San Diego's Mission Hills neighborhood until July 1969, when he moved to Studio City. He died there on August 19, 1969.

Works

Louis Gill's works include (all in San Diego except as noted):
 Dr. Harry Wegeforth residence, 210 Maple Street, Bankers Hill (1916), now the Junior League of San Diego
 Sacred Heart Church in Coronado in Mission Revival style, considered his finest church
 Mission Hills Congregational Church, Fort Stockton Drive and Jackdaw Street, modified Spanish Revival style
 St. James-by-the-Sea church, La Jolla, with a tower replicating that of a church at Campo Florida in Mexico City
 Rees-Stealy Clinic, Fourth and Grape Streets (1926)
 San Diego Hospital Clinic at the northeast corner of Seventh and G Streets (1928), now the Arlington Apartment Hotel
 John W. Mitchell Art Gallery in Coronado (demolished)
 Hardware and Grocery Store, 147 W. San Ysidro Blvd., San Ysidro, San Diego, formerly known as San Ysidro Commercial Company, (1929) now TheFront art gallery
 San Diego County Administration Center (1938) – Gill was the chairman of the group of four architects that designed this building, which is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places in San Diego County
 San Diego Zoo projects:
 1916: design of the original buildings, cages and animal grottos
 1922: Redesign of the International Harvester Building from the Panama Exposition to serve as Reptile House and Zoo entry
 1926: Spanish Revival-style research hospital, for which Gill received an Honor Award from the San Diego Chapter of the American Institute of Architects.
 1937: bird cage, then the largest bird cage in the world.

Recognition
 In 1938 his alma mater, Syracuse University, presented him with an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree, describing him as a "skilled designer and leader in the profession of architecture on the west coast of the United States."
 The American Institute of Architects elected him to their College of Fellows in 1942, "in recognition of the high quality of his architectural work, for his unselfish service in the interests of the organization's San Diego Chapter and his constructive activities in civic affairs."
 His collected papers are housed in the University of California, Santa Barbara's Art, Design & Architecture Museum.

References

External links
 Photos of Louis John Gill at the Journal of San Diego History

American ecclesiastical architects
Architects from Syracuse, New York
Architects from California
Spanish Revival architects
History of San Diego
People from San Diego
Syracuse University alumni
1885 births
1969 deaths
People from Studio City, Los Angeles
Fellows of the American Institute of Architects


title: Seguin, Kansas

text:
Seguin is an unincorporated community in Sheridan County, Kansas, United States.  It is located in Logan Township, approximately 10 miles west of Hoxie.  It lies south of U.S. Route 24, to which it is linked by Kansas Highway 188.

History
A post office was opened in Seguin in 1889, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1943.  In 1910, the population was 11.  The community was primarily settled by German Catholics.

The 99-mile Plainville-Colby branch of the Union Pacific Railroad which passed through Seguin and dated from the late 1880s, was abandoned in 1998.

Education
The community is served by Hoxie USD 412 public school district.

References

Further reading

External links
 Official community website
 Aftermath of 1925 Tornado in Seguin, Kansasmemory.org
 Sheridan County maps: Current, Historic, KDOT

Unincorporated communities in Sheridan County, Kansas
Unincorporated communities in Kansas


title: Studley, Kansas

text:
Studley is an unincorporated community in Sheridan County, Kansas, United States, approximately 16 miles east of Hoxie along U.S. Route 24.  It is on the eastern edge of the county in Valley Township, bordering Graham County.  It was named after the Studley Royal Park, in England.

History
The Lincoln-Colorado Railway (which became part of the Union Pacific Railroad) came through the area in 1888 and opened a station.  A post office was opened in Studley in 1889, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1994. Prior to 1894, the post office there was called Skelton.

Abraham Pratt, an immigrant from England, is usually credited as the founder of Studley, and he built his Cottonwood Ranch to the west of the hamlet.  With Pratt's English roots, the community was named after Studley Royal Park in England.

In 1910 it had a population of 75, but like many small western Kansas communities, its population has since declined, down to a population of 33 in the early 21st century.  The community's grade school closed in the 1960s (part of the state unification plan), and its last grocery store closed in the 1970s.   The 99-mile Plainville-Colby branch of the Union Pacific Railroad which passed through Studley was abandoned in 1998.

Education
The community is served by Hoxie USD 412 public school district.

References

Further reading

External links
 Official community website
 Union Pacific Depot in Studley (c. 1910-15), Kansas Historical Society
 Union Pacific Depot in Studley (c. 1950-65), Kansas Historical Society
 Sheridan County maps: Current, Historic, KDOT

Unincorporated communities in Sheridan County, Kansas
Unincorporated communities in Kansas


title: Lal qila, dir lower

text:
Lal qila (Pashto/Urdu: لعل قلعه) is a town and a union council of Lower Dir District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. it lies in Dir, K.P.K., Pakistan and its geographical coordinates are 34°57′10″N 71°48′41E".

Lower Dir District has 37 union councils with a population of 797,852, according to the 1998 census report. The  population growth rate of the Lower Dir District was 3.42% per annum between the 1981 and 1998 censuses.

Union councils

1. Bishgram

2. Lal Qilla

3. Gall Maidan

4. Kotkai

5. Zaimdara

See also

 Lower Dir District

Lower Dir District
Union Councils of Lower Dir District
Union councils of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa


title: Tayloria nepalensis

text:
Tayloria nepalensis is an extant dung moss species found in Nepal. It was first described by Zennoske Iwatsuki and William Campbell Steere in 1975.

References

Splachnaceae
Flora of Nepal
Plants described in 1975


title: Church Hill, Alabama

text:
Church Hill is an unincorporated community in Tallapoosa County, Alabama, United States. Church Hill is the birthplace of Herschel W. Arant, a legal academic and jurist who served on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit from 1939 to 1941. A post office was operated in Church Hill from 1888 to 1904.

References

Unincorporated communities in Tallapoosa County, Alabama
Unincorporated communities in Alabama


title: Kokkireni

text:
Kokkireni is a village in Munagala Mandal, Suryapet district, Telangana, India.

Demographics
Per the 2011 Census of India, Kokkireni has a total population of 2261 ; of whom 1147 are male and 1114 female.

References

Villages in Suryapet district


title: Tadeusz Balcerowski

text:
Tadeusz Balcerowski (5 January 1933, Pawliczka – 26 October 2020, Radom) is a Polish politician from the Polish People's Party. He served as member of the Sejm from 2004 to 2005.

References

1933 births
2020 deaths
People from Masovian Voivodeship
Polish People's Party politicians
Members of the Polish Sejm 2001–2005


title: Ladies' Choice (Hairspray song)

text:
"Ladies' Choice" is a song written for the 2007 film version of the Broadway musical Hairspray. It is performed by Link Larkin (played by Zac Efron), with music and lyrics by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman. In Hairspray Live!, the song is performed by Corny Collins (played by Derek Hough).

Production
"Ladies' Choice" was added to replace "The Madison", a dance number carried over into the stage musical from the original non-musical 1988 Hairspray film.

Susan Wloszczyna of USA Today wrote Efron "lets loose with a lusty yelp during a solo number, 'Ladies' Choice', which finally showcases his inviting baritone in all its unadulterated glory."

Synopsis
Link (Corny Collins in Hairspray Live!) performs the song at a record hop featuring the dancers from the local TV program The Corny Collins Show, where Tracy Turnblad's dance moves impress Link and Corny, who decides to put her on the show as a replacement for another dancer.

Critical reception
Daniel J. Stasiewski of Blogcritics wrote "Fans of the Broadway musical (which I never saw) may be disappointed by the new songs "Ladies' Choice" with Zac Efron and "The New Girl in Town" with Brittany Snow. They aren't nearly as fun as the original Broadway songs". Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat of Spirituality & Practice described the song as "Elvis-like", Marc Shaim of Cinema Review also described it "Elvis-inspired", John Li of MovieXclusive.com called it "cheeky", and Felix Gonzalez, Jr. of DVD Review described it as a "suggestive number".

Charts

Weekly charts

References

Songs from Hairspray (musical)
2007 songs
Songs written by Marc Shaiman
Songs written by Scott Wittman
Songs written for films
Zac Efron songs


title: Predictive control of switching power converters

text:
Predictive controllers rely on optimum control systems theory and aim to solve a cost function minimization problem.  Predictive controllers are relatively easy to numerically implement but electronic power converters are non-linear time-varying dynamic systems, so a different approach to predictive must be taken.

Principles of non-linear predictive optimum control
The first step to designing a predictive controller is to derive a detailed direct dynamic model (including non-linearities) of the switching power converter. This model must contain enough detail of the converter dynamics to allow, from initial conditions, a forecast in real time and with negligible error, of the future behavior of the converter.

Sliding mode control of switching power converters chooses a vector to reach sliding mode as fast as possible (high switching frequency).

It would be better to choose a vector to ensure zero error at the end of the sampling period Δt.To find such a vector, a previous calculation can be made (prediction);

The converter has a finite number of vectors (states) and is usually non-linear: one way is to try all vectors to find the one that minimizes the control errors, prior to the application of that vector to the converter.

 Direct dynamics model-based predictive control (DDMBPC)

 Inverse dynamics optimum predictive control (IDOPC)

References

Power supplies
Power electronics
Electric power conversion


title: Something Bad

text:
Something Bad or variants may refer to:

"Somethin' Bad", song by Miranda Lambert and Carrie Underwood from the album Platinum
"Something Bad", song by Stephen Schwartz from the musical Wicked
"Something Bad", song by The Fatima Mansions from album Lost in the Former West
"Something Bad", song by Robin Thicke from the album Paula
"Something Bad", song by Hi-Fi and the Roadburners from the album Fear City


title: Labor Hall of Honor

text:
The United States Department of Labor Hall of Honor is in the Frances Perkins Building, 200 Constitution Ave., NW, Washington, D.C. It is a monument to honor Americans who have made a major contribution toward their country's workers; for example, by improving working conditions, wages, and quality of life.

Background
First proposed during the John F. Kennedy administration in 1962 as the Hall of Fame, the Hall of Honor was opened in 1988. Honorees are selected each year by a panel inside the Department of Labor. All have been recognized posthumously with the lone exception of 2012 inductee Dolores Huerta.

Inductees

Its inductees include:

 1989 – Cyrus S. Ching
 1989 – John R. Commons
 1989 – Samuel Gompers
 1989 – John L. Lewis
 1989 – George Meany
 1989 – James P. Mitchell
 1989 – Frances Perkins
 1989 – A. Philip Randolph
 1990 – Eugene V. Debs
 1990 – Henry J. Kaiser
 1990 – Walter P. Reuther
 1990 – Robert F. Wagner
 1991 – Mary Anderson
 1991 – Philip Murray
 1992 – Sidney Hillman
 1992 – Mother Jones
 1993 – David Dubinsky
 1994 – George W. Taylor
 1995 – Arthur J. Goldberg
 1996 – William Green
 1997 – David A. Morse
 1998 – Cesar Chavez
 1999 – Terence V. Powderly
 2000 – Joseph A. Beirne
 2002 – 9/11 Rescue workers
 2002 – Jim Casey
 2003 – Paul Hall
 2003 – Milton Hershey
 2003 – Steve Young
 2004 – Peter J. McGuire
 2004 – Harley-Davidson: William S. Harley; Arthur Davidson; Walter Davidson; and William A. Davidson
 2005 – Robert Wood Johnson
 2005 – Peter J. Brennan
 2006 – Charles R. Walgreen
 2006 – Alfred E. Smith
 2007 – Adolphus Busch
 2007 – William B. Wilson
 2008 – John Willard Marriott
 2008 – Leonard F. Woodcock
 2010 – Justin Dart, Jr.
 2010 – Helen Keller
 2011 – The Workers of the Memphis sanitation strike
 2012 – The Pioneers of the Farm Worker Movement
 2012 – Rev. Addie Wyatt
 2012 – Tony Mazzocchi
 2012 – Mark Ayers
 2012 – Dolores Huerta
 2013 – Bayard Rustin
 2013 – Esther Peterson
 2014 – The Chinese Railroad Workers
 2015 – Ted Kennedy
 2016 – Frank Kameny
 2018 – Ronald Reagan
 2019 – Howard Jenkins Jr.
 2020 – Robert P. Griffin
 2022 – The Essential Workers of the Coronavirus Pandemic

External links

 U.S. Department of Labor Hall of Honor
 AFSCME Sanitation Workers Honored at White House, Join ‘Labor Hall of Fame’
 Labor Department honors Harley

References

United States Department of Labor
Halls of fame in Washington, D.C.
1988 establishments in Washington, D.C.
Working-class culture in Washington, D.C.


title: Erskine (charity)

text:
Erskine is a veterans care and support charity headquartered in Erskine, Renfrewshire, but operating across the Central Belt of Scotland. It provides a range of services to British Armed Forces, veterans of all ages and their families, who have settled in Scotland. It is most renowned for long-term nursing, respite, dementia and end-of-life medical care. It supports veterans through care homes and a Veterans Village, comprising 44 cottages, a community activity centre, five assisted living apartments and 24 "Transition Support" apartments for service-leavers and working-age veterans. The charity first established itself as Princess Louise Scottish Hospital for Limbless Sailors and Soldiers.  It was created through Scotland's compassionate response to her sons returning physically and mentally shattered by the horrors of trench and naval warfare in the First World War.  Its name was then shortened to Erskine Hospital and then simply "Erskine" in later years. The charity has gone on to offer help to British veterans of every subsequent war and become the biggest veterans facility in the country.

History

A need for a dedicated war hospital was apparent during the First World War, as hospitals were struggling to keep up with the demands of the many limbless soldiers and sailors returning from war. It was then thought that Scotland should have a large, modern war hospital to cope with these type of injuries. A charitable committee was formed after a meeting in Glasgow. Sir William Macewen, a chief surgeon, was at the forefront of pushing through the need for such a facility. He met with Sir Thomas Dunlop the Lord Provost of Glasgow, who was enthusiastic.

The next stage was to find a location for the hospital in the west of Scotland. After reviewing several sites it was decided that Erskine would be the location. Thomas Aikman, the owner of Erskine House, which is a mansion on the banks of the River Clyde, offered free use of his mansion and gardens for the period of the war and for 12 months after it was declared over. Then Sir John Reid, a charity committee member, bought the mansion house and gardens and gifted them to the charity. Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll agreed to become the patron of the hospital and within a few weeks the Scottish public had donated £100,000 towards the facility.

Agnes Carnochan Douglas was the first matron at Erskine. She began her nursing career at the Western Infirmary, Glasgow where she worked with Sir William Macewen. Macewen offered her the position of Matron at Erskine House. She started on 28th April 1916, first at Culzean Castle where patients were admitted while Erskine House was being transformed into a hospital. She spent six months travelling between Culzean and Erskine. Her role included patient care, recruiting staff, advising the hospitals Committees on issues such as furniture and equipment, and liaising with the War Office.

The hospital was opened on 10 October 1916 and had an official opening on 6 June 1917 with Princess Louise making an appearance.

Expansion
Erskine's role has since expanded to meet the changing needs of war veterans. It now cares for any ex-service people and their spouses, who might be facing the challenges of long-term or degenerative health conditions. It also provides convalescent care for those recovering from illness - and provides hotel and support services for the Army's Personnel recovery Centre, at its Gilmerton Home in Edinburgh .

By 1980, there were new departments available for ex-service people. These included a social work and speech therapy department. Erskine House, which was the original hospital building, needed extensive work to continue as a working hospital. The building was sold as part of the vision to modernize Erskine. It was then turned into a 5-star hotel called the Earl of Mar, later known as Mar Hall. It opened in 2004.

In 2021, Erskine completed the build of 24 apartments on the Bishopton Estate, designed to support single ex-service men and women as they transitioned back into civilian life. The apartments offer social, recreational and training facilities to help residents transition into full time employment and long-term accommodation.

The charity also runs its own radio station, Erskine Veterans Radio.

The current CEO is Wing Commander Ian Cumming MBE. The CEO is responsible for leading Erskine as it enters a phase of expanding its services and outputs - as a centre of excellence in Veterans Care & Holistic Support across Scotland.

Erskine Home
In 2000-01, the charity moved to two new purpose built sites in the town of Erskine. The Erskine Home was opened in 2000. The new flagship building replaced the original hospital building and is situated on grounds by the Erskine Bridge. This centre cost £16m and provides nursing and dementia care on a long term and respite basis. It has 180 beds available and is the biggest unit the charity has. Prince Charles, the charity's patron, opened the unit and unveiled a stone plaque to commemorate the opening.

Erskine Park Home
The Erskine Park Home opened in 2006. It offers care for 40 residents and specializes in dementia care. It is situated again within rural parkland by the Erskine Bridge. The Princess Royal has maintained her strong links with the charity and once again opened this Erskine based unit.

Erskine Edinburgh Home
The Erskine Edinburgh Home was opened in 2001. It is situated in Gilmerton and has capacity for 88 residents and additionally provides hotel accommodation and support to younger Service people passing through the Personnel Recovery Centre . This was the charity's first unit outside the Erskine area. This was also opened by the Princess Royal.

Erskine Glasgow Home
The Erskine Glasgow Home was opened by the Princess Royal in 2007. It was situated in Anniesland and had space for 46 residents. It closed in late 2022.

Veterans' Family Accommodation
Erskine has also built 44 veterans' cottages within the old hospital grounds at Erskine to house ex-service members and their families. It recently completed building 5 assisted living apartments for elderly veterans who seek to remain independent but close to expert staff. In 2021, Erskine completed a 24 apartment "Transitional Support Service" for younger Veterans and Service-leavers who lack a home or employment upon leaving the Services, or shortly afterward.

Erskine Reid Macewen Centre (ERMAC)
This unit was first opened as a training and conference facility. It now offers "psychosocial support", recreational and community activities for Veteran on the West Coast who are struggling with social isolation and loneliness. It is housed within the historic stable building at the charity's HQ within the Bishopton Estate. It is jointly named after Sir John Reid, who gifted the mansion and gardens to the charity, and Sir William Macewen, the surgeon who pushed through the need for the hospital. As the building is Category B listed, the charity collaborated with Historic Scotland and the Heritage Lottery Fund on the renovation. It was officially opened in June 2001 by Wendy Alexander MSP.

Erskine Transitional Support Accommodation (ETSA)
The David Boyle Court facility supports Veterans who have encountered difficulties in transition from Military service to civilian life. It offers them a safe place to live for up to two years, where they can learn job skills, access support services, enjoy Erskine's leading activity centre - ERMAC, and meet others in the same position.

The Transitional Support Accommodation David Boyle Court, based within Erskine’s Veterans Village in Bishopton, features 24 single occupancy apartments that come fully furnished, complete with living and dining spaces, kitchen, bedroom, and an en-suite wet room. There are also four fully accessible apartments. The new facility features two communal spaces which are used for training, one-to-one counselling and skills development. One of these spaces can also be used as a cinema room.

Funding
Erskine is first and foremost a charity. Local Authorities make a contribution to its operating costs of caring for their elderly citizens. However, Erskine must fundraise around £12M a year, to achieve the outstanding levels of care, support and meaningful community activities, which the charity believes Veterans deserve.  It does this independently and receives no funding from the Earl Haig Fund ( Poppyscotland ) or the Poppy Appeal.  Fundraising schemes are active throughout the year and in 2017, Erskine was rated as Scotland's most effective fundraising charity by Civil Society Magazine. 92% of its expenditure is care-related. The charity hosts many events including an annual motorbike meet and classic car show. Veterans also partake in various woodwork and craft activities with daily activities taking place in the Bunker. The charity will accept the help of volunteers from the public.

Artificial limbs
There was a huge influx of injured military personnel returning from the First World War with missing limbs due to the fighting. Britain at this time was wholly dependent on foreign imports of artificial limbs. Sir William Macewen, the chief surgeon at the hospital, thought that this was intolerable. A dispensary and operating theatre were fitted out as workshops making artificial limbs. Macewen also enlisted the help of a local shipbuilding company called Yarrow Shipbuilders. The company not only lent their yard but chose to have some of their best craftsmen working on the design and construction of the limbs. McEwan and Yarrows subsequently designed a new concept artificial limb known as the Erskine Artificial Limb. By December 1917 the hospital had treated 1,613 patients and of that number 1,126 required a new limb. And by 1920, there had been 9,500 artificial limbs fitted. Most of these were manufactured at the hospital’s workshops.

Listed buildings
The original hospital building is called Erskine House and is a Category A listed building. It is now the Mar Hall Hotel. There is a piggery, a stables yard and some other small buildings which also have listed status.

Gallery

References

External links

Video footage of the Category B Listed pigsty and stables

British veterans' organisations
Charities based in Scotland
Health charities in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom in World War I
Erskine, Renfrewshire


title: Staryi Yarychiv

text:
Staryi Yarychiv () is a community in Lviv Raion, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine. It belongs to Novyi Yarychiv settlement hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population 1746 people.

Until 18 July 2020, Staryi Yarychiv belonged to Kamianka-Buzka Raion. The raion was abolished in July 2020 as part of the administrative reform of Ukraine, which reduced the number of raions of Lviv Oblast to seven. The area of Kamianka-Buzka Raion was split between Chervonohrad and Lviv Raions, with Staryi Yarychiv being transferred to Lviv Raion.

The Yarych Confectionery factory is located here.

References

External links
 Weather in Staryi Yarychiv
Новий і Старий Яричеви

Villages in Lviv Raion


title: Eyehategod (album)

text:
Eyehategod is the fifth studio album by American sludge metal band Eyehategod. It was released on May 26, 2014 in North America through Housecore Records and on May 27, 2014 in Europe through Century Media Records.

Eyehategod is considered a posthumous album for original drummer Joe LaCaze who died in August 2013 due to respiratory failure, and was replaced by Aaron Hill. It was also the last album to feature lead guitarist Brian Patton before his departure in 2018.

Songs from Eyehategod were performed live as early as 2011, when the album was rumored to be titled Whiskey Drink. A music video was made for the song "Medicine Noose".

Reception

Eyehategod received positive reviews from critics. On Metacritic, the album holds a score of 77/100 based on seven reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

Track listing

Personnel
Eyehategod
Mike IX Williams – vocals
Brian Patton – lead guitar
Jimmy Bower – rhythm guitar
Gary Mader – bass
Joe LaCaze – drums

Production
Kevin Bernier – layout
Nathaniel Shannon – photography
Collin Jordan – mastering
Sanford Parker – mixing
Chris George – engineering
Billy Anderson – recording (drums)
Phil Anselmo – recording (vocals)
Stephen Berrigan – recording (vocals, bass, guitars)
Daniel Majorie – engineering

Chart positions

Release history

References

2014 albums
Eyehategod albums
Century Media Records albums


title: Tayloria acuminata

text:
Tayloria acuminata, commonly known as acuminate dung moss and acuminate trumpet moss, is a bright-green dung moss species with violet radicles that age to a dark red. It is native to North America and Iceland, where it is found in bird cliffs in Hornstrandir. In Iceland it has the conservation status of a vulnerable species (VU).

References

Bryophyta of North America
Splachnaceae