title: George Cybenko

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George V. Cybenko is the Dorothy and Walter Gramm Professor of
Engineering at Dartmouth and a fellow of the IEEE and SIAM.

Education

Cybenko obtained his BA in mathematics from the University of Toronto in 1974 and received his PhD from Princeton in applied mathematics of electrical and computer engineering in 1978 under Bede Liu.

Work
Cybenko served as an advisor for the Defense Science Board and the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, among several other government panels. He was the founding editor-in-chief of Security & Privacy and also of Computing in Science & Engineering, both IEEE technical magazines.
His current research interests are distributed information, control systems, and signal processing, with a focus on applications to security and infrastructure protection.
He is known for proving the universal approximation theorem for artificial neural networks with sigmoid activation functions.

Awards
 SIAM Fellow (2020), "for contributions to theory and algorithms in signal processing, artificial neural networks, and distributed computing systems."
 SPIE Eric A. Lehrfeld Award (2016), for "work in cyber security including developing algorithms, analysis techniques, and tools to improve the state of the art in many areas, including computational behavior analysis, adversarial deception detection and dynamics, disclosure risk, and covert channels, and for his efforts in support of the SPIE Defense + Commercial Sensing symposium".
 US Air Force Commander’s Service Award (2016)
 IEEE Fellow (1998), "for contributions to algorithms and theory of artificial neural networks in signal processing, and to theory and systems software for distributed and parallel computing."

References

External links
 Homepage at Dartmouth

American computer scientists
20th-century American mathematicians
21st-century American mathematicians
American electrical engineers
Princeton University School of Engineering and Applied Science alumni
Fellow Members of the IEEE
Living people
Dartmouth College faculty
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
University of Toronto alumni


title: 27 (opera)

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27 (or Twenty-Seven) is an opera by composer Ricky Ian Gordon and librettist Royce Vavrek in a prologue and five acts that explores the relationship of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, and the salons that they hosted at their residence at 27 rue de Fleurus in Paris. The work was commissioned by Opera Theatre of Saint Louis for mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe. The full cast of five singers was featured on the cover of the June 2014 issue of Opera News. The opera premiered on June 14, 2014, in a production directed by James Robinson and conducted by Michael Christie at the Loretto-Hilton Center in St. Louis, Missouri. The world premiere was recorded by Albany Records.

Pittsburgh Opera staged the work in February 2016. The New York City premiere was staged in October 2016 at New York City Center with Stephanie Blythe, Heidi Stober, Theo Lebow, , and Daniel Brevik. Ted Sperling conducted the Orchestra of St. Luke's and Gordon composed new material specially for the MasterVoices chorus.

Roles

Critical reception
The St. Louis American called the world premiere production of 27 a "flawless commissioned portrait of Gertrude Stein," while Ray Mark Rinaldi of The Denver Post said that the opera "tells a great American story, as well as American opera in the 21st century" suggesting that "it is every century's job to define the century before it, and 27 isn't afraid to do that with certainty and depth." In her review for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Sarah Bryan Miller called the work "serious fun" praising Gordon's creation of "hummable tunes and recurring themes, drama and sweetness, in a well-wrought score. Vavrek is Steinian without stealing Stein and keeps the story moving, for a clever, witty libretto," while Anne Midgette of The Washington Post wrote that "[Gordon] clearly found much to inspire him in this libretto and subject, to judge from a score that has an engaging vitality from the opening bars, and is delightfully studded with allusions (a touch of Lakmé, a hint of Vanessa) and adroit vocal ensembles." Heidi Waleson of The Wall Street Journal commented that "[t]he first thing that you notice about Ricky Ian Gordon's 27, an opera about Gertrude Stein that recently had its world premiere at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, is that it moves. Royce Vavrek, the librettist, taking his cue from Stein's own short phrases and cells of text, created a playful, quick-witted libretto that pushed Mr. Gordon beyond his trademark melodies into a brighter, friskier style." Critic Scott Cantrell of The Dallas Morning News wrote that "27 is an unabashedly populist treatment of a yeasty artistic period, in musical idioms that wouldn't have raised an eyebrow in 1920s Paris," and further described Gordon's score as "tuneful, Frenchified neoclassicism" likening it to the work of Lennox Berkeley and Aaron Copland.

All five singers received unanimous praise, with Blythe garnering rapturous notices for her portrayal of Stein, and Futral celebrated for her performance as Toklas: "It is no small matter that the piece was written for Stephanie Blythe, an outsize personality herself, whose grand, multifaceted mezzo brings the character to vibrant life." (Waleson, Wall Street Journal) "Stephanie Blythe is Gertrude; Elizabeth Futral is Alice. Individually and together, they are brilliant, as is the rest of the cast." (Robert W. Duffy, St. Louis Public Radio) "[A] good vehicle for Blythe, who can handle the turns and whose natural magnetism goes a long way toward helping us understand the power Stein had over her world. Futral, one of the better singing actresses working today, makes the relationship believable." (Rinaldi, Denver Post) "[W]ith sublime, powerful, expressive voices, superstars Stephanie Blythe and Elizabeth Futral were a joy to behold, deserving of their robust ovations. [...] Remember the names Theo Lebow, Tobias Greenhalgh and Daniel Brevik. They excelled at portraying all the male characters distinctively and effortlessly, showcasing solid acting and strong singing in intricate, demanding supporting roles." (Lynn Venhaus, Belleville News-Democrat) Ann Midgette of The Washington Post noted "Daniel Brevik, bass-baritone, was particularly impressive with a sonorous voice that made him sound a bit like a young Blythe, and a build and manner so perfectly evocative of Hemingway that I, at least, was waiting for his turn in that role even while he was playing a stentorian Matisse."

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2014 operas
Operas set in Paris
Operas based on real people
Operas about writers
Operas set in the 20th century
Operas by Ricky Ian Gordon
Operas
Cultural depictions of Gertrude Stein
Cultural depictions of Henri Matisse
Cultural depictions of Ernest Hemingway
Cultural depictions of Pablo Picasso
Cultural depictions of F. Scott Fitzgerald
English-language operas


title: Midwest PGA Championship

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The Midwest PGA Championship is a golf tournament that is the championship of the Midwest section of the PGA of America. The section was formed in 1924, encompassing the states of Missouri and Kansas. Records kept by the section track winners back to 1960. It is unclear whether there were championship tournaments held before that time. Sam Reynolds, club pro from Kansas City, Missouri holds the record with most victories, winning five championships in the 1960s. Two-time PGA Tour winner Tom Pernice Jr. won the title three straight years, from 1994–96. Former New York Yankees pitcher Ralph Terry won the 1980 tournament after he retired from his baseball career.

Winners

 2021 Robert Russell
 2020 Robert Russell
 2019 Scott Wempe
 2018 Rob Wilkin
 2017 Bryan Daniels
 2016 Rob Wilkin
 2015 Sean Dougherty
 2014 Bryan Daniels
 2013 Blake Graham
 2012 Matt Seitz
 2011 Sean Dougherty
 2010 Sean Dougherty
 2009 Blake Graham
 2008 Steve Gotsche
 2007 John Richman
 2006 Rob Wilkin
 2005 Matt Seitz
 2004 Rob Wilkin
 2003 Jim Kane
 2002 James Farrell
 2001 Rob Wilkin
 2000 Matt Seitz
 1999 Dan Key
 1998 Rob Wilkin
 1997 Rob Wilkin
 1996 Tom Pernice Jr.
 1995 Tom Pernice Jr.
 1994 Tom Pernice Jr.
 1993 John Sherman
 1992 Bryan Norton
 1991 Billy Peterson
 1990 Rob Wilkin
 1989 Brad Sater
 1988 Rob Wilkin
 1987 Ross Randall
 1986 Billy Peterson
 1985 Tom Dawson
 1984 Ray Streeter
 1983 Randy Towner
 1982 Bob Stone
 1981 Perry Leslie
 1980 Ralph Terry
 1979 Bob Stone
 1978 Gary Clark
 1977 John Bonella
 1976 Bob Stone
 1975 Bob Stone
 1974 Jim Davis
 1973 Brien Boggess
 1972 Everett Vinzant
 1971 Stan Thirsk
 1970 Stan Thirsk
 1969 Bob Stone
 1968 Herman Scharlau
 1967 Everett Vinzant
 1966 Sam Reynolds
 1965 Sam Reynolds
 1964 Sam Reynolds
 1963 Herman Scharlau
 1962 Joe Jimenez
 1961 Sam Reynolds
 1960 Sam Reynolds

External links
PGA of America – Midwest section

Golf in Kansas
Golf in Missouri
PGA of America sectional tournaments
Recurring sporting events established in 1960
Sports in the Midwestern United States


title: 25 Serpentis

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25 Serpentis is a star system in the constellation of Serpens Caput. With an apparent magnitude of 5.37, it is just barely visible to the naked eye. The system is estimated to be some 450 light-years (138 parsecs) based on its parallax.

25 Serpentis is a spectroscopic binary, meaning that the individual components are too close to be resolved, but periodic Doppler shifts in their spectra indicate orbital motion. The system consists of a hot B-type giant and an A-type main-sequence star. The two stars orbit each other every 38.9 days, and have a very eccentric orbit, with an orbital eccentricity of 0.731. The primary is a slowly pulsating B-type star, which causes the system to vary by 0.03 magnitudes; for that reason it has been given the variable star designation PT Serpentis.

References

Serpens
Slowly pulsating B-type stars
Serpentis, 25
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Spectroscopic binaries


title: Providence Methodist Church

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Providence Methodist Church, also known as Providence United Methodist Church, is a historic Methodist church located at Holly Hill, Orangeburg County, South Carolina, USA. It was designed by the architect Charles Coker Wilson and built in 1919–1920.  It consists of a sanctuary and rear educational/administrative wings in a modified cruciform plan. The front facade features a Neoclassical central tetrastyle portico with simplified Roman Doric order limestone columns, pilasters and entablature.  It also features large stained glass Palladian windows. Also on the property is the contributing church cemetery.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

References

External links
Providence United Methodist Church website

United Methodist churches in South Carolina
Churches in Orangeburg County, South Carolina
Churches completed in 1920
20th-century Methodist church buildings in the United States
National Register of Historic Places in Orangeburg County, South Carolina
Churches on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
Neoclassical architecture in South Carolina
Neoclassical church buildings in the United States


title: Yona of the Dawn

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is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Mizuho Kusanagi. It has been serialized in Hakusensha's shōjo manga magazine Hana to Yume since August 2009, with its chapters collected in forty-two tankōbon volumes as of October 2023.

A 24-episode anime television series adaptation produced by Pierrot aired between October 2014 and March 2015.

Plot
2000 years ago, the fictional nation of Kouka was founded by the Crimson Dragon God, who came down to Earth from the Heavens as a human, deemed the Crimson Dragon King. It was believed that humans were living in an era full of evil and thirst for power, where they forgot about the Gods. The Crimson Dragon King was eventually forced to fight against these humans, and just as he was about to be killed and the world was on the brink of extinction, four other Dragon Gods, imbued with the dragon blood, joined his side as human warriors, and helped him lead Kouka to prosperity. After they had cleared Kouka of evil, the Crimson Dragon King died. The four Dragon warriors mourned his death and walked separate ways from his castle, leaving the country to develop over the centuries into 5 Tribes: Sky, Earth, Water, Wind, and Fire. As countless generations flew by, this history became a famous founding myth.

2000 years later, the story commences with Yona, the sole princess of Kouka, ruled by her pacifistic father King Il under the Sky Tribe. Yona lives a lavish, sheltered life from the harrowing reality outside of the walls of the Crimson Dragon Castle, her only friends being her bodyguard Hak, general of the Wind Tribe, and Su-won, her crush of 10 years and the son of King Il's brother, Yoo-hon. But contrary to this peaceful illusion, Kouka is once again on the verge of destruction and about to undergo a political upheaval.

A week before a party celebrating her sixteenth birthday, Su-won visits to pay tribute to her. Upon revealing her intention to someday marry him to her father, Yona is shocked and dismayed when King Il pointedly forbids her from choosing Su-won as a husband. On the night of her 16th birthday party, Yona visits her father's chambers again, determined to change his mind. Instead, she walks in on Soo-won driving a sword through King Il's chest, revealing that he'd planned a Coup d'état and would become Kouka's next King. Yona and Hak become fugitives and are forced to flee to Fuuga, the capital of the Wind Tribe. Under the suggestion of Hak's adopted grandfather and prior Wind Tribe General Son Mundok, Yona and Hak search for an exiled priest who then tells her about the Crimson Dragon King and four Dragon warriors who unified the nation. Guided by this seemingly fictitious myth, Yona begins a journey to find these warriors in order to survive and save her country.

Characters

Main characters

Yona is the only princess of Kouka and only child of pacifistic King Il. She is of Sky Tribe descent. Having rare red hair and violet eyes, Yona is the reincarnation of the Crimson Dragon King. As the reincarnation, the four legendary dragon Gods' blood will react to her soul the moment they lay eyes on her, and they will keep to the original Dragon Warrior's oath to protect and fight alongside her. According to King Il, Yona's mother, Queen Kashi, was killed by insurgents when she was 6 years old, but this was later revealed to be a lie; his brother Yu-Hon, had killed her mother. Sheltered in the Crimson Dragon Castle, Yona was very dependent, spoiled, and naive. She was not allowed to touch weapons, nor brought up politically aware, as King Il had never allowed her to see the world outside the castle walls. She spent her days with her childhood friends Soo-won and Hak. From an early age, she secretly harbored romantic affections for Soo-won, but her father opposed her from marrying him. After Soo-won staged a coup to seemingly murder the king, Yona, who accidentally witnessed the aftermath of the scene, was forced to flee. With Min-Soo distracting those in pursuit and his timely self-sacrifice, Yona was able to flee with Hak to the Wind Tribe. Instead of hiding in the Wind Tribe, she decided to journey around Kouka to find the Dragon warriors mentioned in the exiled priest Ik-soo's prophecy. After opening her eyes to the ruined state of Kouka, she acknowledged and took responsibility for her past ignorance. Losing her father, her castle, her throne, and the man she loved in just one night pushed Yona into vowing to become stronger to protect herself, her allies, and eventually her country during travel in secret.
Yona asked Hak to teach her archery and sword fighting. While initially reluctant to kill humans and animals as according to her father's pacifistic ideals, Yona eventually overcame this hesitation against Kum-Ji, the human trafficking crime lord of Port Awa. Although Yona cannot forgive Su-won, she still came across a few moments when she found herself not wanting to kill him, or still caring about him somewhere in her heart. After realizing that he genuinely cared for her and Hak and is a genuinely good - possibly even better - King than Il, a part of her now wishes to understand him and his motives better. Initially, she wished for revenge, but later realized that toppling Soo-won off the throne would only plunge Kouka into chaos, and that living a life fueled by hatred was not the answer. Over time, she moves past her previous affections for Soo-won and develops new romantic feelings for Hak. She resolves to someday release Hak of his role as her bodyguard, and return his freedom to him so that he can live out his life in whichever way he wants.

He is Yona's childhood best friend and bodyguard, as well as the former general of the Wind Tribe. He is known as the "Thunder Beast" for his astounding lightning-fast fighting skills, earning him the title of the strongest soldier in the Kingdom of Kouka, though he is not very famous outside the Sky and Wind Tribes. His talent had already been recognized since he was thirteen years old and he was the first person to defeat a general in combat at such a young age. He was orphaned as a toddler and was adopted by the previous Wind Tribe general, Son Mundok, as his grandson and heir. He was falsely rumored to be the murderer of King Il and to have kidnapped Yona, due to them disappearing from the palace the night of the king's death without public explanation.
Hak is usually sarcastic and nonchalant, often found teasing Yona, but secretly loved Yona from a young age and vowed to protect her on King Il's orders at all costs. He considered Su-won his best friend before his betrayal, looking up to him as a brother. However, knowing that Yona had feelings for Soo-won, Hak suppressed his own feelings in favor of Yona and Su-won living happily together. He vowed to be Su-won's right-hand man if Su-won were to marry Yona and become king, and had resolved himself to serving them both for the rest of his life. Being a deeply loyal and straight-forward person, he was severely hurt by Su-won's betrayal and has arguably had a harder time coming to terms with it than Yona. Originally extremely overprotective of Yona, he later grows out of it when he sees her determination to become stronger and begins taking pride in her fiery side. In combat, Hak uses a guandao (a glaive-like bladed pole weapon) as his main weapon, though he also appears to be highly proficient with bows, swords, and hand-to-hand combat.

He is an orphan boy who was taken in by the priest, Ik-soo, as an apprentice when he was a child. Because of his cute face and expertise at cooking and making medicine, he is often mistaken for a girl, or teased for this skill set. He found Yona and Hak when they fell from the cliff after being attacked by Tae-Jun's ambush. He initially disliked Yona for being an ignorant princess, but later apologized after witnessing Yona's bravery and willingness to educate herself. His initial hatred for nobles stemmed from the fact that Ik-soo was banished from the kingdom by Su-won's father, and from his own impoverished childhood. He always dreamed of going on a journey so that he could learn more about medicine and the world, but never did so before due to the fact that he did not want to leave Ik-soo. After some convincing, Yun decided to leave and start traveling with Yona and Hak. Once the Four Dragons are assembled, he becomes something of a medic and caretaker for the group and harbours a close, sibling-like relationship with Yona. He is the only true non-combatant in the group, though he is capable of making explosives.

Yona's cousin and first love, he is the son of King Il's brother, Yu-Hon, and currently Kouka's 11th King of the Sky Tribe. Growing up, he was close childhood friends with Yona and Hak, loving Yona like a younger sister and Hak as an elder brother. In the wake of Yona's mother Kashi's death, Su-won comforted Yona and promised to be by her side in her mother's place, which largely contributed to her falling in love with him. He was also Hak's best friend and confidant for many years, and the two of them learned spearmanship and archery under Mundok, as well as greatly admired each other as children. When around others, Soo-won maintains a facade of being a clumsy and carefree young man, hiding his true intelligence and shrewdness. After his father was killed by Il, who ruled for 10 years and caused Kouka Kingdom to suffer under his pacifism, Su-won conspired with the Fire Tribe to kill him and take over the throne. With King Il dead, Yona missing and presumed dead, and Hak presumed to have killed them both and on the run as a criminal, Su-won is crowned the King of Kouka and vows to recreate it into a country that never relies on gods. Even though he hated King Il and declared he will dispose of anyone who gets in his way, Su-won still cares for both Yona and Hak. He hides the fact that Yona is still alive from his followers after he discovers this, and pointedly avoids arresting or attacking Hak when given the opportunity. Despite the underhanded method he chose to gain the throne, he has actually been a good influence on Kouka; hence, Yona decides she does not want to seek revenge against him. Although he does not wish to sacrifice individuals, he is prepared to make sacrifices in order to uphold the stability of the country. Later on, he is revealed by Zeno to have inherited an incurable disease from his mother, Yon-Hi, due to being a descendant of Hiryuu. This illness had an overwhelming influence in forming his arguably atheist outlook and hatred of religion.

Dragon Warriors

The descendant and inheritor of the White Dragon's claw. Kija spent most of his life isolated in his hidden village whose people venerated him. He is naive and gullible, with a crippling fear of bugs. Out of all four dragons, Kija was the most immediately loyal to Yona, having been raised on the tale of Hiryuu and possessing a strong sense of duty as the White Dragon. As all the previous White Dragons were raised much the same as he was and bore the same eagerness to serve Hiryuu, Kija is the unknowing vessel of the departed spirits of several generations of White Dragons. His father—the previous White Dragon—was so upset that a new dragon had been born, he slashed Kija across the back shortly after his birth. As such, he was kept away from Kija until the moment he died and Kija still bears the scars across his back well into adulthood. Originally, he often bickered with Hak, believing that an outsider has no place protecting Hiryuu's reincarnation and taking offence to Hak's "White Snake" nickname for him. However, as time went on, they develop respect, trust, and friendship over their mutual desire to protect Yona. He also struggles with a crush on Yona, but instead actively chooses not to interfere with her growing affections toward Hak. Kija wields his dragon claw in combat, which grows massive in size and is said to be able to cut through anything. When not in combat, he wraps his claw in a bandage to avoid attracting attention. Along with Zeno, Jae-ha, and Shin-ah, he has the secondary ability to manifest a shield to protect Yona in dire situations.

The descendant and inheritor of the Blue Dragon's eyes. In contrast to Kija's people, Shin-ah's village feared the inheritors of the Blue Dragon's powers, believing them to be cursed. This fear was so extreme that when Shin-ah was born, his mother killed herself. Because the villagers believe that those who look the dragon in the eyes will turn into stone, Shin-ah had a lonely childhood and thus, grew very quiet and socially awkward. He was raised to age 4 by the previous Blue Dragon, Ao, who taught him swordsmanship and his duty to protect the village. Soon after Ao's death, Shin-ah used the power of his eyes to protect his village from approaching bandits, killing all of them. This forced the entire clan to flee their old village and move into their hidden mountain dwelling, within which Yona, Yoon, Hak and Kija later meet him several years in the future. Despite initial hesitance to join her, he saves Yona from a malicious villager and eventually chooses to leave the village with her. While growing up, Shin-ah was referred to only as the Blue Dragon and did not have a name, and thus Yona named him "Shin-ah", meaning "moonlight" in the language of Kouka. Shin-ah is able to see great distances, manifest horrifying hallucinations and induce heart attacks to those he uses his eyes on. After using his dragon ability, however, Shin-ah's body becomes paralyzed for a short time.
To avoid making eye contact, Shin-ah covers his face with a mask, though he later takes to wearing a blindfold to avoid the attention his mask attracts. Eventually, he grows comfortable enough with the rest of the group that he only covers his eyes in public. Shin-ah is usually accompanied by his pet squirrel, Ao, named after the previous Blue Dragon. He is extremely loyal to Yona, due to her being one of the first people to be kind towards him since the death of his predecessor. He is also particularly close to Zeno, and the two are often seen playing or spending time together. He mainly wields a sword in battle, choosing not to use his powers for anything other than as a last resort. Along with Zeno, Jae-ha and Kija, he has a secondary ability to manifest a shield to protect Yona in dire situations.

The descendant and inheritor of the Green Dragon's right leg. Jae-Ha was kept prisoner in his village until he eventually escaped and joined a pirate crew in Awa. Sensing their presence when they arrive in Awa, Jae-Ha tries to avoid Yona and the White and Blue Dragons because he did not want to be constrained by his duty, and he initially declines Yona's invitation to join her. However, he is intrigued by Yona's spirit and determination, and despite his concerns that his dragon blood is influencing his feelings, he leaves the pirate crew and joins Yona on her journey. Jae-Ha is laid back, flamboyant, and a womanizer, but is also observant and wiser due to his older age and experiences. He is aware of Hak's feelings for Yona and likes to tease him about it, much to Hak's frequent annoyance. Despite his earlier reservations about joining them, Jae-Ha eventually becomes a surrogate older brother to the group, and develops a close friendship with Hak—who only ever refers to him as "Tareme", often translated to "Droopy Eyes". He harbours some romantic affection toward Yona himself, but chooses not to pursue her due to their age gap and out of respect for Hak and the obvious feelings Yona holds for him. Jae-Ha has infinite strength in his dragon leg, which allows him to kick hard enough to shatter armour and jump far enough that he appears to fly. He can enlarge his leg as Kija does his hand, however, prefers not to do so since he dislikes the look of it. Jae-Ha mainly utilizes his powerful leg for close combat and throws daggers as long-range weapons. Along with Zeno, Shin-ah, and Kija, he has a secondary ability to manifest a shield to protect Yona in dire situations.

The Yellow Dragon warrior. In contrast to the other dragon warriors, Yona did not have to go searching for him as he wandered into their camp. Zeno is cheerful and upbeat, and is usually smiling—behaviours adopted from his late wife, Kaya. Seemingly carefree, Zeno is actually the most observant of the group, quickly catching notice of anything unusual. It is revealed that Zeno is the original Yellow Dragon Warrior who served King Hiryuu (making him about two thousand years old) and that he has been following Yona ever since she fled the castle. He also visited the young Dragon Warriors when Yona was born, which is only very vaguely recalled by Kija, who was four at the time. Zeno admits that, unlike the other three dragons, he did not sense any 'awakening' when he first saw Yona and does not initially show any special abilities. Zeno's dragon power is immortality; his body regenerates, even if he is beheaded or burned alive. When he uses this power, dragon scales cover his body and he becomes as strong as the White Dragon and can jump as high as the Green Dragon. Zeno used to live in Hiryuu palace and functioned as Kouka's first Priest, but he was forced to leave when the public started to notice that he did not age. Zeno usually wields a shield in combat to protect Yoon and Yona from projectile attacks. He reserves his power for a last resort, as it does entail him having to be gravely wounded to take effect. Along with Shin-ah, Jae-ha and Kija, he has a secondary ability to manifest a shield to protect Yona in dire situations.

Others

He is a clumsy High Priest and Oracle of the Kouka Kingdom and was Yoon's guardian. He spends his days in isolation praying to the gods for guidance and for the happiness of the people. He reveals a prophecy to Yona that marks the start of her search for the Four Dragon Warriors.

He is the general of the Earth Tribe and the husband of Yoon-Ho. He serves under Soo-won's rule after acknowledging Soo-won's strength during the Battle Game Festival held in Chi'shin. As a general who fought during Emperor Joo-nam’s era (Yona and Soo-won's grandfather), he is a warrior dedicated to the battlefield and has been eager to fight on the front lines again. His tribe admires him, though he insists on them treating him like an ordinary citizen.

He is the former General and leader of the Wind Tribe. He is the adoptive grandfather of Hak. Before his retirement, he was known as a general whose strength was compared to General Yu-Hon’s. Despite his strict behavior and appearance, Mundok cares deeply for the Wind Tribe and the royal family, to whom he is quite loyal. He has a kind heart and adopted two orphans as his grandchildren: Hak and Tae-Yeon.

Tae-jun is the second son of the Fire Tribe General Kan Soo-jin. He was determined to make Yona his wife initially only to inherit the throne of Kouka Kingdom, though it is revealed after he mistakenly believes that she is dead that he genuinely liked her. Because of Hak intervening in his brash attempts to court Yona for years, he harbors a vendetta against Hak and actively tries to have him killed after Hak and Yona escaped the castle. During his pursuit, he inadvertently caused both of them to fall from a cliff, leading Tae-jun to believe that he had killed Yona. This left Tae-jun heavily depressed and guilty over the ordeal for months. He is finally reunited with Yona when his brother assigned him to capture bandits said to be driving off Fire Tribe soldiers from collecting taxes — which was really Yona and her group defending the poor from being abused by the military. Due to his extreme happiness that Yona is alive, Tae-jun fully repented his actions and resolved to change the lives of the Fire Tribe's people, earning him respect from his subordinates and Yona herself. He later remains a valuable ally to Yona and her group from that point onward, even agreeing to risk treason at her request.

Lili is the only daughter of Water Tribe General An Joon-gi. She is a confident, spunky girl around Yona's age with big ambitions to help solve the overwhelming drug problems that plague the Water Tribe. However, her efforts are impaired by her overly-protective father with whom she shares a distant, strained relationship. She initially thought that Yona and her group were suspicious, and thus involved in the drug trade. However, upon shadowing Yona's group for a few hours and being saved by them when attacked by a drug addict, she comes to realize that they share a common goal. With the combined efforts of herself, Yona's group, and an incognito Soo-won, they are successfully able to arrest the reigning drug lord in the Water Tribe. Lili and Yona's group team up once again after this to quell the Water Tribe's drug and slave trade in Kai (a neighbouring nation), resulting in Lili and Yona being kidnapped by the enemy and sold as slaves in retribution for their drug-ban efforts. They eventually break out from the slave camp, but Lili is caught once again and sent to be hanged. She is rescued in the knick of time by Lili's personal guards and Yona's group, aided by from Soo-won's and Joon-Gi's forces—most notably, a joint effort between Hak and Soo-won. Her near-death experience and her anti-drug trade efforts resulted in Lili gaining strong respect from the people of the Water Tribe.
From that point onward, Lili becomes a common ally between Yona and Soo-won. She boasts a close friendship and loyalty to Yona, but also a blooming camaraderie with Soo-won, along with a deep gratitude for his role in her rescue. She is one of the few characters outside of Yona's companions who, not knowing her before her father's death, is privy to Yona's true identity as the true heir to the Kouka throne. She is also considered a valid marriage option for Soo-won by her father and some of the other generals of Kouka, though much to her distaste, as she has a crush on the much admired General Geun-tae. She is a neutral party in the conflict between Soo-won and Yona, but has publicly announced her friendship and loyalty to Yona to thousands of Sky Tribe and Water Tribe troops.

Media

Manga

Written and illustrated by Mizuho Kusanagi, Yona of the Dawn started in Hakusensha's shōjo manga magazine Hana to Yume on August 5, 2009. Hakusensha has collected its chapters into individual tankōbon volumes. The first volume was released on January 19, 2010. As of October 20, 2023, forty-two volumes have been released.

The series has been licensed for English release in North America by Viz Media, who announced the acquisition at their New York Comic Con panel in October 2015. The first volume was released on August 2, 2016. As of August 1, 2023, thirty-nine volumes have been released.

Anime

A 24-episode anime television series adaptation produced by Pierrot aired between October 7, 2014, and March 24, 2015, on AT-X. Funimation has licensed the anime series for streaming and home video rights in North America. Beginning on March 17, 2015, Funimation streamed their dubbed version of the anime, starting with episode 13 while the first half of the season will be released at a later date. The first opening theme is an instrumental song by Kunihiko Ryo, called . The first ending theme is  by Vistlip. The second opening theme is "Akatsuki no Hana", by Cyntia. The second ending theme is "Akatsuki", by Akiko Shikata. Three original video animations were bundled with the manga's 19th, 21st and 22nd limited edition volumes, respectively. The first OVA was released on September 18, 2015, the second OVA was released on August 19, 2016, and the third OVA was released on December 20, 2016.

See also
 The Heroic Legend of Arslan, a long-running novel series with a similar premise

Notes

References

External links

Adventure anime and manga
Anime series based on manga
Coming-of-age anime and manga
Dragons in popular culture
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Romance anime and manga
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Viz Media manga


title: Young Democratic-Progressive Party

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The Young Democratic-Progressive Party (, Mlada Demokratsko-Progresivna Stranska, MDPS) was a political party in Macedonia led by Risto Ivanov.

History
The party contested the 1990 parliamentary elections, at a time when Macedonia was still part of Yugoslavia. In some areas it ran in coalition with the Union of Reform Forces (SRS), with the alliance winning six seats. In others it ran with the Socialist Party, winning one seat.

In 1991 it merged with the SRS,  which was renamed Reform Forces in Macedonia–Liberal Party, eventually becoming the Liberal Party of Macedonia.

References

Defunct political parties in North Macedonia
Political parties in Yugoslavia
Political parties disestablished in 1991


title: These Are the Voyages (book series)

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These Are the Voyages is a six-volume non-fiction reference book series by Marc Cushman with Susan Osborn about Star Trek: The Original Series and the subsequent movies/television in the 1970s, published by Jacobs Brown Press. The information revealed inside primarily comes from production documents that were donated by Star Trek creator/producer Gene Roddenberry and show co-producer Robert H. Justman to the UCLA Film and Television Archive.

There is one book for each of the three seasons of Star Trek: TOS. The first book documenting the first season of the show, These Are the Voyages: TOS, Season One was published in 2013. These Are the Voyages: TOS, Season Two was published in 2013 and These Are the Voyages: TOS, Season Three in 2015.

In 2019, the first volume, These Are the Voyages: Gene Roddenberry and Star Trek in the 1970s, Volume 1 (1970-1975), was published. The subsequent volumes, These Are the Voyages: Gene Roddenberry and Star Trek in the 1970s, Volume 2 (1975-1977) and These Are the Voyages: Gene Roddenberry and Star Trek in the 1970s, Volume 3 (1978-1980) were released together in 2020.

Contents
Originally, These Are the Voyages: The Original Series was to be published as one book, but with over 2,000 pages of material, it was decided to break it into three books, one book for each season.

TOS, Season One

The first book documents hundreds of previously unpublished insights, including recollections from actors, directors, producers, and production crew. The book collects original staff memos (including memos dictated by Roddenberry while reading drafts to the series scripts), contracts, schedules, budgets, network correspondence, and the censor reports from NBC. Also included in this first book is the history of what was involved in getting the series accepted by NBC, the failed first pilot, and the ultimatums surrounding the second pilot.

TOS, Season Two

As in the first book, this second book documents hundreds of previously unpublished insights, including recollections from actors, directors, producers, and production crew. The book collects original staff memos (including memos dictated by Roddenberry while reading drafts to the series scripts), contracts, schedules, budgets, network correspondence, and the censor reports from NBC. Also included in this second book are excerpts of fan mail and many other indications that Star Trek had become a huge success despite the series uncertain future. There are also details of Bjo Trimble's letter writing campaign to save Star Trek from cancellation, and the tens of thousands letters that arrived at NBC as a result.

TOS, Season Three

The third book basically uses the same format as the previous two, documenting hundreds of previously unpublished insights about the show's third season, as well as collecting original staff memos, contracts, schedules, budgets, network correspondence, and the censor reports from NBC. Also included are NBC's decision to move the show to the 10:00 pm Friday night "death slot",  Roddenberry reducing his direct involvement and being replaced by Fred Freiberger as the producer, the budget cuts that significant reduced the quality of the show, and what ultimately became a futile fan campaign to save Star Trek again from cancellation.

Gene Roddenberry and Star Trek in the 1970s, Volume 1 (1970-1975)
Following the similar formats of TOS books, Volume One of Gene Roddenberry  in the 1970s covers Gene Roddenberry and Star Trek rebounding from the series’ cancellation.  Roddenberry busied himself in a flurry of projects, including Star Trek: The Animated Series with D.C. Fontana as his associate producer.

Gene Roddenberry and Star Trek in the 1970s, Volume 2 (1975-1977)
This second volume covers Roddenberry’s career after the end of Star Trek: The Animated Series and his struggles to become known for other achievements.  During the mid-1970s, Paramount Studios continued to reap millions from Star Trek licensing, while telling Roddenberry there were no profits to share.  As the fandom grew, Paramount finally acknowledged the enduring impact of the series, leading to the development of Star Trek - The Motion Picture.

Gene Roddenberry and Star Trek in the 1970s, Volume 3 (1978-1980)
The third volume dives deep into the making, the release, and the reception of Star Trek - The Motion Picture, covering topics from merchandising to script development to Jerry Goldsmith's epochal music score.

History
In 1982, Marc Cushman interviewed Gene Roddenberry for a TV special about Star Trek. Later in 1989, he pitched the story for the episode "Sarek," for Star Trek: The Next Generation. Roddenberry gave Cushman all the scripts from the original series and showed him the immense amount of documents he had saved. He invited Cushman to take his previous research for the TV special, expand on it by utilizing the UCLA Archives, and turn it into a book. Cushman was too busy with his own career as a screenwriter and director to begin work on the book until after Roddenberry had died, but during those years, he continued to collect interviews from the creative staff (Justman, D.C. Fontana, John D. F. Black), members of the production crew, the cast, and guest players. In 2007, he began writing the book.

Reception
At the 40th Saturn Awards, Cushman received a Special Recognition Award for his work on the book series.  Chris Gardner of Stuff.co.nz rated it 4/5 stars and called it "a compelling read for the Star Trek aficionado as well as anyone interested in television history."  Wesley Britton of Blogcritics quoted Rod Roddenberry's statement that "these are the new essential Star Trek reference books."

References

External links

Star Trek reference books
Kickstarter-funded publications


title: Pea Ridge Pod

text:
The Pea Ridge Pod was a newspaper established in Pea Ridge, Arkansas in 1913 by William F. Beck (1860-1930). Though the newspaper's publishing schedule, whether it was weekly, biweekly, or monthly, is undetermined, it was typically only a few pages in size, as the local population at the time was only a few hundred people. But despite its humble circumstances, the Pea Ridge Pod gained national prominence due to its witty and folksy take on rural life. Along with praise for the publication's whimsical name, copy from its pages would go on to be highlighted in publications across the nation, including The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, Atlanta Constitution, and Oakland Tribune.

History
The Pea Ridge Pod was the second newspaper to be founded in the town, which is known as the location of the Civil War engagement of the Battle of Pea Ridge. The first periodical in the town was the Pea Ridge Advertiser, which was founded in 1905 by I.H. Baxter and lasted a year before folding. From the beginning, the Pea Ridge Pod took a nontraditional approach to its writing and its publicity, as the Neosho Times newspaper in Neosho, Missouri referenced a visit by William Beck to that city in August 1913, where Beck told them that on his trip up by buggy, which took him through Powell, Missouri and Stella, Missouri, he nailed placards to trees advertising his newspaper. And Beck's opinion of the importance of his paper was even shared by The New York Times, if tongue-in-cheek, which declared that “But the one and only Pod grows at Pea Ridge, and it is full of local news, those little glimpses of country, people and places so interesting to the urbanite, even amid the congestion of his own local news.” The Times went on to say “A humor is shown by the presences on The Pod’s editorial page of news and editorial comment, slyly and with seeming innocence placed in a collection that must be ironical.”

Despite the popularity of the quips and prose from the paper in other publications across the country, the meager local population made it difficult for the business to stay afloat. By 1916, Beck had moved it to Siloam Springs, Arkansas to take advantage of a larger readership. And for a time he considered renaming it, though in the end he did not, as one reader urged against the change by declaring that "no could see that funny name without wishing to see the paper." The newspaper finally folded in the early half of 1917, with Howard Ogg (1894-1944)  purchasing the printing operation from Beck and starting the Siloam Springs Advertiser, which itself was closed by 1920.

About a year after the Pea Ridge Pod had folded, at least one more reference was made of its particular style. With the Ohio State Journal declaring, "Not infrequently we have told things so often and so emphatically that we finally got to believing them ourself [sic] and quite likely the Chicago Tribune by this time really thinks it is the world’s greatest newspaper, especially since The Pea Ridge Pod seems to have discontinued publication."

National Attention
Witty and homespun snippets from the Pea Ridge Pod showed up as far away as Alaska and in doing so offered praise and occasionally chastisement for the newspaper's unfiltered content.

 Every Reason to Refuse Him − If a man rides up to you in a hurry and yells for a bottle of whiskey for his mother-in-law, who has just been snake bitten, don’t give it to him, for if you do you will have to go to the penitentiary for a year. Anyway, no man would want his mother-in-law to get well of snake bite, and in second place coal oil is the proper remedy for snake bites now. − Republished in the Sheboygan (Wisconsin) Press
 We Think So, Too − After you get down in the valley beneath the bluffs of Ballard Creek at the depot it is so crooked that you have to cross it twice to get on the other side of it, and then you find yourself on the same side you started from. − Republished in the Austin American
 An Advertisement − If there be earthly thing which you wish to barter, trade or swap, whether a one-eyed mule, a bag of beans or a bakery shop, advertise here in the columns of the Pod and you have made your trade quicker than a goat his tail can nod. − Republished in the Daily Ardmoreite
 Good Advice, but Hard to Follow − Always remember that the other fellow is not interested in your likes or dislikes. − Republished in the Clinton Daily Clintonian
 Juvenile Preparedness − The editor of the Pea Ridge Pod tells of an eight-year-old boy who “is a great believer in preparedness.” He came home late the other night, and anticipating a licking, he made a bee line for the barn, secured an old gunny sack, folded it all up nicely, making several thicknesses and placing it where the lick would fall. That boy has a great future. − Republished in the Atlanta Constitution
 Beating the Undertaker − Some men think they are living when they are but chunks of meat walking around beating some honest hard-working undertaker out of a job. − Republished in the Clinton Saturday Argus
 We Have Not Seen the Editor − A lady friend in a nearby town remarked to the editor the other day, that a new dress would help the appearance of The Pod. Yes, it would and a new suite of clothes would improve the appearance of the editor. − Republished in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner

References

Weekly newspapers published in the United States
Defunct newspapers published in Arkansas
Pea Ridge, Arkansas
Newspapers established in 1913
Newspapers disestablished in 1917


title: Marc Olden

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Marc Olden (1933 – 2003) was an American author of mystery and suspense. He is perhaps best remembered for his mystery Poe Must Die, in which 19th-century American author Edgar Allan Poe appears as a protagonist. He was a prolific author, publishing forty books: two non-fiction and thirty-eight fiction.

He was nominated for an Edgar Award for They've Killed Anna, from his popular "Harker File" series about an investigative reporter. In 2000, the Black Caucus of the American Library Association presented Olden with the Literary Fiction Honor Award for his New York crime novel The Ghost.

Early life
Olden was born to African-American parents in Baltimore, Maryland. His father was graphic designer Georg Olden, his mother was actress and model Courtenaye Olden. After Georg was hired as art director for CBS, the Oldens moved to New York City. Olden graduated from Queens College.

Career
Marc Olden started his writing career with two works of non-fiction — a biography of Angela Davis and a study of cocaine in 1970s New York — before turning to the fiction genres of thriller and suspense. Under the pen name Robert Hawkes, Olden began writing the Narc series, which follows a policeman on a counterdrug task force.
During those early years, Olden also produced the novel Black Samurai, which became a film starring Jim Kelly. Olden's novel follows the exploits of Robert Sand, a martial arts expert and the only non-Japanese trained by a Japanese samurai master; it became the first in a successful series. Many of Olden’s eastern-influenced books, such as Giri, Dai-Sho, Gaijin, Oni, Te, Kisaeng, and Krait reflect his lifelong study of the martial arts.  At his death, he held advanced degree black belts in aikido and karate.

Several of his books were optioned for film rights.

Bibliography

Narc novels
(As Robert Hawkes)
 Narc (1973)
 Death of a Courier (1974)
 Death List (1974)
 The Delgado Killings (1974)
 Kill the Dragon (1974)
 The Beauty Kill (1975)
 Corsican Death (1975)
 Death Song (1975)
 Kill for It (1975)

Black Samurai novels
 Black Samurai (1974)
 The Golden Kill (1974)
 Killer Warrior (1974)
 The Deadly Pearl (1974)
 The Inquisition (1974)
 The Warlock (1975)
 Sword of Allah (1975)
 The Katana (1975)

The Harker File novels
 The Harker File (1976)
 Dead and Paid For (1976)
 They’ve Killed Anna (1977)
 Kill the Reporter (1978)

Other novels
 Wellington's (1977)
 The Informant (1978)
 Poe Must Die (1978)
 Gossip (1979)
 Book of Shadows (1980)
 Choices (1980) (As Leslie Crafford)
 A Dangerous Glamour (1982)
 Giri (1982)
 The Unvanquished (1983) (As Terry Nelsen Bonner)
 Dai-sho (1983)
 Gaijin (1986)
 Oni (1987)
 Sword of Vengeance (1990)
 Kisaeng (1991)
 Krait (1992)
 Fear's Justice (1996)
 The Ghost (1999)

Non-fiction
 Angela Davis (1973)
 Cocaine (1973)

References

External links

1933 births
2003 deaths
Writers from Baltimore
Novelists from New York City
20th-century American novelists
21st-century American novelists
African-American novelists
American male novelists
American mystery novelists
American thriller writers
Queens College, City University of New York alumni
20th-century American male writers
21st-century American male writers
Novelists from Maryland
20th-century African-American writers
21st-century African-American writers
African-American male writers


title: Bumblebeee

text:
"Bumblebeee" (stylised as "bumblebeee") is a song by English rock band Kasabian - the second single from their fifth studio album, 48:13. The single was released on 3 August 2014 as the follow-up to 48:13's lead single, "eez-eh". It peaked at #165 on the UK Singles Chart. The b-side, "gelfling", is named after the characters from the film The Dark Crystal, and is an electronic track without any main vocals.

Composition
Sergio Pizzorno described the song as having a "Beastie Boys dub with a sort of Zeppelin, Rage Against the Machine chorus". "bumblebee" was the first track to be written for 48:13.

It is one of the few tracks where Tom Meighan and Sergio Pizzorno share lead vocals, with the former singing the verses and the latter singing the chorus.

Promotion
"bumblebeee" was Kasabian's opening track during their set as headliners at Glastonbury 2014. The track has also been the opener for the majority of gigs for the 48:13 tour. The band have performed acoustic versions of "bumblebeee" on various occasions. On 12 September 2014, they performed the song on the first episode of series thirteen of Alan Carr: Chatty Man.

Video
The video for "bumblebeee" was released on 27 July 2014, having been accidentally released and subsequently deleted on 23 July. The video features the band all in white on a white background and various scenes show Meighan crowdsurfing and stampedes of men and dogs.

Personnel
Kasabian
 Tom Meighan – lead vocals (verses)
 Sergio Pizzorno – lead vocals (choruses), guitar, synthesizers, programming, production
 Chris Edwards – bass
 Ian Matthews – drums
Additional personnel
 Tim Carter – acoustic and electric guitars

Charts

References

Kasabian songs
2014 singles
2014 songs
Songs written by Sergio Pizzorno
Columbia Records singles


title: Willow Consolidated High School

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Willow Consolidated High School, also known as Norway Junior High School and Norway Middle School, is a historic high school building located at Norway, Orangeburg County, South Carolina. It was built in 1926, and is a one-story, "T" shaped brick veneer building with an auditorium located at the rear.  It has a gable-on-hip roof with projecting cross gables at the center and ends of the building's façade. Also on the property is a separate frame agriculture building (1940). The school closed in the late 1980s.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.

References

High schools in South Carolina
School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
School buildings completed in 1926
Buildings and structures in Orangeburg County, South Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Orangeburg County, South Carolina
1926 establishments in South Carolina


title: Dockendorff Group

text:
The Dockendorff Group is a geologic group in Maine. It preserves fossils dating back to the Devonian period.

See also

 List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Maine
 Paleontology in Maine

References

Geologic groups of Maine


title: Gaspé Group

text:
The Gaspé Group is a geologic group in Maine. It preserves fossils dating back to the Devonian period.

See also

 List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Maine
 Paleontology in Maine

References

Geologic groups of Maine


title: Aulotandra

text:
Aulotandra is a genus of plants native to Cameroon and Madagascar.

 Aulotandra angustifolia H.Perrier - Madagascar
 Aulotandra humbertii H.Perrier - Madagascar
 Aulotandra kamerunensis Loes - Cameroon
 Aulotandra madagascariensis Gagnep. - Madagascar
 Aulotandra trialata H.Perrier - Madagascar
 Aulotandra trigonocarpa H.Perrier - Madagascar

References

Alpinioideae
Zingiberaceae genera


title: Luke Thompson (rugby league)

text:
Luke Thompson (born 27 April 1995) is an English professional rugby league footballer, who plays as  and  for Wigan Warriors in the Super League, and for England and Great Britain at international level.

He has played his most of his professional career to date for St Helens, with whom he won the 2014 Super League Grand Final. He has also spent time on loan from Saints at the Rochdale Hornets in the Championship 1.

Background
Thompson was born in Wigan, Greater Manchester, England.

Career
Thompson had been at [St Helens R.F.C.|St Helens]] since he was 11 (signing from Bold Miners).

2013
Thompson made his Super League debut during the 2013 season in the Saints' 21-14 round 9 loss against the London Broncos. On 27th September, Thompson's contract was extended by 2 years. Thompson played 7 games for St Helens and scored 3 tries.

2014
In Round 21 of the 2014 Super League season, Thompson scored a try in the Saints' 58-16 win over the London Broncos. St Helens reached the 2014 Super League Grand Final and Thompson was selected to play from the interchange bench in their 14-6 victory over the Wigan Warriors at Old Trafford. Thompson played 17 games for St Helens and scored a try.

2015
Thompson played 20 games for St Helens during the 2015 Super League season, including their Super 8s campaign.

2016
Thompson continued playing with St Helens during the 2016 Super League season, including their 10-18 semi-final loss to Warrington Wolves. He finished the year playing 23 games and scoring 2 tries.

2017
Thompson played in St Helens' 22-23 semi-final loss to Castleford Tigers. He finished the year with 27 games and 2 tries.

2018
In 2018, Thompson had one of his best years yet, playing 32 games and scoring 6 tries. He played in St Helens' 13-18 loss to Warrington.

2019
He played in the 2019 Challenge Cup Final defeat to the Warrington Wolves at Wembley Stadium.
He played in the 2019 Super League Grand Final victory over the Salford Red Devils at Old Trafford.

2020
On 4 February, it was announced Thompson had signed a three-year deal with Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs in the National Rugby League (NRL). Thompson made the move to Australia in June. He completed two weeks of isolation on his arrival in Australia before his first game for the Canterbury-Bankstown club.

Thompson made his debut for the Bulldogs against the Brisbane Broncos in round 9 of the 2020 NRL season.
In round 20 of the 2020 NRL season, Thompson was placed on report for reportedly eye gouging one of the Penrith players during Canterbury's 42-0 loss.  Thompson was later suspended for four matches after being found guilty.
Thompson made 10 appearances for Canterbury in the 2020 NRL season as the club narrowly avoided the wooden spoon finishing 15th on the table.

2021
In round 5 of the 2021 NRL season, Thompson scored his first try for Canterbury in a 52-18 loss against Melbourne. This try ended Canterbury's scoreless streak of over 240 minutes of play, as they had failed to score in their previous three games.

In round 19 of the 2021 NRL season, Thompson scored another try but was subsequently sent to the sin bin during Canterbury's 44-24 loss to Cronulla-Sutherland.   As a result of the sin binning incident, Thompson received a three-match ban on 27 July 2021.

Throughout the 2021 NRL season Thompson made a total of 15 appearances for Canterbury. However, the club finished last in the season and were awarded the Wooden Spoon.

2022
Thompson played a total of 13 matches for Canterbury in the 2022 NRL season as the club finished 12th on the table.

2023
On the 28 February, Thompson injured his ankle at training, and was assisted off the field. Canterbury general manager Phil Gould later revealed that the injury was quite serious, and initial prognosis was minimum 6 months recovery. Thompson made his return on 28 July off the bench in Round 22 of the NSW Cup season, making 10 runs for 103 metres.
On 4 October, Thompson signed a four-year deal to join English side Wigan ahead of the 2024 season.

International career
In 2018 he was selected for England against France at the Leigh Sports Village.

He was selected in squad for the 2019 Great Britain Lions tour of the Southern Hemisphere. He made his Great Britain test debut in the defeat to Tonga.

References

External links
St Helens profile
SL profile
Saints Heritage Society profile
England profile

1995 births
Living people
Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs players
England national rugby league team players
English rugby league players
Great Britain national rugby league team players
Rugby league locks
Rugby league players from Wigan
Rugby league props
St Helens R.F.C. players
Wigan Warriors players


title: Dear A&T

text:
"Dear A&T" is the school song of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. The words were written by Susan B. Dudley, wife of the second president, James Benson Dudley. Music for the poem was composed by Charles E. Stewart, director of instrumental and vocal music at the university from 1909 to 1917.

History
The words to the song were written by Susan B. Dudley, wife of A&T’s second president, James Benson Dudley. Music for the poem was composed by Charles E. Stewart the university's director of music.

"Dear A&T" acts as an official anthem of the university. The song traditionally concludes formal university events, including athletic contests such as football and basketball games attended by the North Carolina A&T State University Blue and Gold Marching Machine or the A&T Pep Band. It is more formal than the traditional fight songs such as "Old Aggie Spirit" and the "A&T Fight Song", and is typically played and sung in a more reverent fashion than other university songs.

Lyrics

The first verse of the song is the best known, and is usually the only verse of the song that is sung. The song, however, has three verses in addition to the refrain, however, in common practice, only the first verse and the refrain are sung.

The song's refrain “…from Dare to Cherokee” expresses Mrs. Dudley's true sentiments about the university and the students that attend. The objective was to draw students from as many counties as possible by setting a system of “state students”. This refrain became the watchword for recruitment, as out of all 100 counties that comprise the state of North Carolina; Dare County, which projects into the Atlantic Ocean and Cherokee, which rests in the Appalachian Mountains are the two furthermost counties in their respective ordinate directions.

External links
 "Dear A&T" Performed by The North Carolina A&T State University Blue and Gold Marching Machine

References

North Carolina A&T State University
American college songs
Alma mater songs


title: Chapman Sandstone

text:
The Chapman Sandstone is a geologic formation in Maine. It preserves fossils dating back to the Devonian period.

See also
 List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Maine
 Paleontology in Maine

References

Devonian Maine
Devonian southern paleotemperate deposits


title: Tomhegan Formation

text:
The Tomhegan Formation is a geologic formation in Somerset County, Maine. It preserves fossils dating back to the Devonian period.

See also

 List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Maine
 Paleontology in Maine

References

Devonian Maine
Devonian southern paleotemperate deposits


title: Mapleton Sandstone

text:
The Mapleton Sandstone is a geologic formation in Maine. It preserves fossils dating back to the Devonian period.

See also

 List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Maine
 Paleontology in Maine

References

Devonian Maine


title: Tarratine Formation

text:
The Tarratine Formation is a geologic formation in Maine. It preserves fossils dating back to the Devonian period.

Description

The Tarratine Formation is part of the larger Gaspé Group which extend from the Gaspé Peninsula to Long Island Sound. The Seboomoook Formation is interpreted as grading into the sandstones of the Tarratine Formation. In the late 20th century, geologists debated the origin of the sandstone in the formation. Some attributed the sand to islands, while geologists in Quebec suggested that the sand resulted from erosion associated with the Acadian orogeny. The formation is present in the Moose River synclinorium in north-central Maine.

See also

 List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Maine
 Paleontology in Maine

References

Devonian Maine
Devonian southern paleotemperate deposits


title: Trout Valley Formation

text:
The Trout Valley Formation is a geologic formation in Maine. It preserves fossils dating back to the Devonian period.

Description

Situated in north-central Maine, the Trout Valley Formation is located in a fault-bounded basin. An erosional unconformity separates it from underlying felsites. The formation exists entirely within the confines of Baxter State Park, and collecting of materials without authorization is prohibited.

The formation represents an alluvial fan draining an active volcanic source  and has a basal cobble conglomerate, consisting only of rounded fragments of the underlying volcanic felsite, known formally as the Traveler Rhyolite. The conglomerate is overlain by sandstone, which contains lenses of gray shale, black shale and fine conglomerate, in a generally fining-upward sequence. The unit's distal portions terminate in tidal mudflats, which have produced a bivalve-dominated fauna that also yielded the first relatively complete Eurypterid found in northern New England.

The Trout Valley Formation also contains fossilized Psilophyton plants, as well as a number of other taxa, including Pertica quadrifaria, the official state fossil, the tallest plant of its age known from anywhere in the world. The Trout Valley Formation earlier was dated to the Early Devonian by the presence of fossilized eurypterid scales, possible estherids and ostracods, but is now assigned to the early Middle Devonian (Emsian); it is believed to be 3-5 million years older than the Gilboa Fossil Forest of New York.

In contrast to the Traveler Rhyolite and sandstones beneath the Trout Valley Formation, which have open folds, the formation itself is unfolded. However, normal bed-parallel faulting within the sandstones suggest that uplift may have been taking place during deposition.  This suggests that the Trout Valley Formation was deposited after the tectonic activity that altered the underlying rocks, but before that which uplifted the mountains in this area had come to completion.  Although the Katahdin Pluton cuts through the Traveler Rhyolite, granitic fragments from the Katahdin Pluton have never been found in the Trout Valley Formation.  At least one minor dike of Traveler Rhyolite has, however, been found cutting through the rocks of the Trout Valley Formation.

See also

 List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Maine
 Paleontology in Maine

References

Devonian Maine
Devonian southern paleotemperate deposits


title: Shin Brook Formation

text:
The Shin Brook Formation is a geologic formation in Maine. It preserves fossils dating back to the Ordovician period.

See also

 List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Maine
 Paleontology in Maine

References

Ordovician Maine
Ordovician southern paleotemperate deposits


title: Helvetestinden

text:
Helvetestinden (lit. Hell Peak) is a granite mountain peak located near Bunes beach, municipality of Moskenes, in Lofoten, Norway. It is known for the 602 m high climbing route on the west facing vertical cliff.

Most hikers summit it through the south side ridge which requires scrambling along a narrow ridge at the top. Once at the peak, hikers can view the Norwegian sea to the west, the isolated white sandy beach of Bunestranda below, and Kierkefjorden to the south.

References

External links
 http://peakbook.org/en/peakbook-element/859/en/Helvetestinden.html
 http://www.geographic-coordinates.com/coordinates/latitudelongitude/NO/helvetestind/29397

Mountains of Nordland
Moskenes


title: Little East Lake Formation

text:
The Little East Lake Formation is a geologic formation in Maine. It preserves fossils dating back to the Ordovician period.

See also

 List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Maine
 Paleontology in Maine

References

Ordovician Maine
Ordovician southern paleotemperate deposits


title: Frenchville Formation

text:
The Frenchville Formation is a geologic formation in Maine. It preserves fossils dating back to the Silurian period.

See also

 List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Maine
 Paleontology in Maine

References

Silurian Maine
Silurian southern paleotemperate deposits


title: Perham Formation

text:
The Perham Formation is a geologic formation in Maine. It preserves fossils dating back to the Silurian period.

See also

 List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Maine
 Paleontology in Maine

References

Silurian Maine
Silurian southern paleotemperate deposits


title: Champlain Clay

text:
The Champlain Clay is a geologic formation in Maine. It preserves fossils.

See also

 List of fossiliferous stratigraphic units in Maine
 Paleontology in Maine

References

Geologic formations of Maine


title: Renewable Energy Programme

text:
The Renewable Energy Programme (REP) is Nigeria's contribution to the African strategy on voluntary emission reduction in response to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) The Federal Ministry of Environment's Renewable Energy Programme is targeted at stimulating the energy sector by attracting capital as well as promoting the development of initiatives and technologies in Nigeria.

Mission
 Create awareness about Nigeria's challenges of clean energy supply
 Develop and commercialize the Renewable energy sector
 Provide avenues for private sector participation
 Influence government policy on alternative sources of energy that are clean, reliable, stable and sustainable

Goals
 Stable electricity supply
 Protection of the environment
 Reduction of Green house gas emissions
 Enhance Biofuels production through agricultural and household waste
 Convert rural cooking methods from firewood and fossil fuel to smokeless alternatives
 Address pollution, deforestation and vegetation loss
 Position Nigeria as a role model in Africa's contribution to the climate change commitments
 Job and wealth creation

Projects
In order for the programme to achieve its goals, such as mitigating the impacts of climate change, the following projects have been proposed:

See also

References

External links
REP Facebook Page

Renewable energy in Nigeria


title: Springfield High School (South Carolina)

text:
Springfield High School is a historic high school complex located at Springfield, Orangeburg County, South Carolina. It was built in 1928–1929, and is a two-story, brick high school building with a projecting central and end pavilions. Also on the property are the contributing gymnasium building (1938) and Springfield Graded School Annex (c. 1927).

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.

References

High schools in South Carolina
School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
School buildings completed in 1929
Buildings and structures in Orangeburg County, South Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Orangeburg County, South Carolina
1929 establishments in South Carolina


title: 2014 Libertarian National Convention

text:
The 2014 Libertarian National Convention was a biennial convention of the Libertarian Party that was held in Columbus, Ohio from Thursday June 26 to Sunday June 29, 2014.

Nicholas Sarwark of Denver was elected Chair of the Libertarian National Committee.

References

External links
 / Convention Website

Libertarian Party (United States) National Conventions
Libertarian National Convention
21st century in Columbus, Ohio
Political conventions in Ohio
June 2014 events in the United States
2010s political conferences


title: Central New York PGA Championship

text:
The Central New York PGA Championship is a golf tournament that is the championship of the Central New York section of the PGA of America. The tournament has been played annually since 1963. With his victory in 2020, Eric Manning is the only five-time champion. No PGA Tour winner has also won the Central New York PGA Championship.

Winners

References

External links
PGA of America – Central New York section

Golf in Maryland
Golf in Virginia
Golf in Washington, D.C.
PGA of America sectional tournaments
Recurring sporting events established in 1932


title: Jónsson–Tarski algebra

text:
In mathematics, a Jónsson–Tarski algebra or Cantor algebra is an algebraic structure encoding a bijection from an infinite set  onto the product . They were introduced by .  , named them after Georg Cantor because of Cantor's pairing function and Cantor's theorem that an infinite set  has the same number of elements as . The term Cantor algebra is also occasionally used to mean the Boolean algebra of all clopen subsets of the Cantor set, or the Boolean algebra of Borel subsets of the reals modulo meager sets (sometimes called the Cohen algebra).

The group of order-preserving automorphisms of the free Jónsson–Tarski algebra on one generator is the Thompson group .

Definition

A Jónsson–Tarski algebra of type 2 is a set  with a product  from  to  and two 'projection' maps  and  from  to , satisfying , , and . The definition for type > 2 is similar but with  projection operators.

Example

If  is any bijection from  to  then it can be extended to a unique Jónsson–Tarski algebra by letting  be the projection of  onto the th factor.

References

Algebraic structures


title: Clinical geropsychology

text:
Clinical geropsychology is the application by psychologists in a range of sub-disciplines (clinical psychology, counseling psychology) of "the knowledge and methods of psychology to understanding and helping older persons and their families to maintain well-being, overcome problems and achieve maximum potential during later life".

Background and definition

The population of the world is aging at a rapid rate. Globally, those aged 60 years or over numbered 962 million in 2017, more than twice as large as the number of older persons in 1980. The number of older persons is expected to double again by 2050, when it is projected to reach nearly 2.1 billion persons. Globally, the number of persons aged 80 years or over is projected to increase more than threefold between 2017 and 2050, rising from 137 million to 425 million. For the first time in human history, the world has more individuals age 65 and older than those age 5 years old and under.

The Administration on Aging reports that people age 65 and older constituted about 15.6% of the US population in 2017, and these numbers are expected to grow exponentially. From 2007-2017, the population age 65 and over saw a 34% increase, compared with a 4% increase for the under-65 population. By 2040, there will be an estimated 80.8 million older adults in the US, constituting approximately 21.6% of the population.

According to the World Health Organization, over 20% of adults aged 60 and over have a mental or neurological disorder (excluding headache disorders), and 6.6% of all disability (disability adjusted life years-DALYs) among people over 60 years is attributed to mental and neurological disorders.  In addition, older adults often experience a multitude of changes in later life, including declines in health, loss of loved ones, work transitions, changes in residence, and loss of independence, and the approach of their mortality.

Given the expected growth of the older adult population, many psychologists will end up working with older adults in some way, and all psychologists therefore need to be aware of issues related to aging and their context. However, some older adults may benefit from seeing a provider with specialty training in aging, such as clinical geropsychologists, who are trained to address a variety of mental and behavioral health challenges common in later life.

Clinical geropsychologists have specialized training to address problems such as depression, anxiety, neurocognitive disorders (e.g., dementia, mild cognitive impairment [MCI]) caused by problems such as Alzheimer's disease, caregiver stress, grief and bereavement, end-of-life care issues, and physical health problems (e.g., sleep disorders, diabetes, cardiovascular disease). Geropsychologists are also sensitive to multicultural issues of aging in clinical practice, research, and policy (gerodiversity).

Geropsychologists provide psychological assessment and intervention to older adults and their families, as well as consultation services to other health care professionals. These psychological services are provided in a variety of settings and contexts, including private practice, community mental health, integrated medical settings (e.g., primary care), rehabilitation care, inpatient psychiatric settings, residential care, long-term care, adult day health programs, and many other settings. Geropsychologists are also trained to work in universities, academic hospitals and medical settings, research institutes, and public policy settings.

Early history

In 1946, Sydney Pressey, PhD., and a coalition of supporters helped establish the Adult Development and Aging Division of the American Psychological Association (APA) devoted to the study of older adults and adult development. The APA approved the Adult Development and Aging Division with a vote of 20 to 3, thus establishing it as the first aging-related expansion of the APA.

In 1946, the first meeting of the Adult Development and Aging Division was held with 13 people in attendance. Despite its modest beginnings, by 1952, the annual meeting of the Adult Development and Aging Division was held jointly with the Gerontological Society in Washington, D.C. At this meeting, Harold Jones, a lifespan psychologist and director of the California-based Institute of Child Welfare, addressed the conference and argued for the establishment of "A national institute on the problems of aging." Though it would be another 22 years before the National Institute of Aging (NIA) was established, in only six years, the Adult Development and Aging Division was able to establish its agenda as a national concern warranting increased government attention.

In a 1953 meeting of the Adult Development and Aging Division, Nathan Shock, PhD., the founder of one of the first longitudinal studies on aging, the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging, asked the psychologists present to consider "practical" issues of maturity and old age. This was the first known reference to a more applied and clinical approach to a psychology of aging outside of the medical field.

In 1959, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) established a section devoted to aging, and appointed James Emmett Birren, PhD, as chief of this division. Birren's research focused on neurological, sensory, perceptual and cognitive functions in aging, and he is often considered the first modern experimental aging researcher. As the chief of the section on aging at NIMH, he was instrumental as an organizer and promoter of the field. He developed and edited the Handbook of the Psychology of Aging, became editor-in-chief of the Journal Gerontology, and eventually went on to become the president of the Gerontological Society of America.

In 1971, a White House Conference on Aging found that the education and training of health professionals working with older adults was urgently warranted. The conference recommended the creation of an aging institute, and in 1971 The Research on Aging Act  was introduced. In 1974, The Research on Aging Act passed in Congress, and President Nixon signed the bill thus creating the National Institute on Aging (NIA). This was a pivotal moment in the emergence of clinical geropsychology as a distinct field of practice.

Clinical training and national conferences
As the first president of the National Institute of Aging, Robert Butler, MD, made his first mission to enhance the education and training of health professionals in the field of aging. Recognizing the dearth of training opportunities for geriatric clinicians and researchers, the Adult Development and Aging Division, with support from the APA and funding from the NIA, assembled a task force in November 1977 to "assess the psychological needs of older adults and provide recommendations concerning the involvement of psychologists in mental health services to the older populations." This set the stage for the first of three monumental conferences on geropsychology: the 1981 conference on Training Psychologists for Work in Aging, known as the "Older Boulder" conference, held in Boulder, Colorado (in contrast to the "Boulder" conference of 1949 at which standards were made for the training of PhD clinical psychologists in general [i.e., the "Boulder model"]). At this conference, psychologists began discussing the knowledge base of geropsychology and how this information could be taught to new geropsychologists. The goal of Older Boulder was "to identify the resources we can use to develop and expand training in aging for psychologists… [and to] develop a set of policy recommendations." Older Boulder's organizers stressed the importance of a multidisciplinary approach to aging training, and thus, they encouraged general psychologists, geropsychologists, non-psychology gerontologists, consumers and students to attend the conference. In total, nearly 100 people participated in the conference.

The results of the Older Boulder conference were detailed in the publication Psychology and the Older Adult: Challenges for Training in the 1980s as well as a full report from the conference and many position papers on various topics. Most importantly, Older Boulder was a key first step to creating a training model for competencies for geropsychologists.

The second national conference, "Older Boulder II," was held in Washington DC in 1992. At this conference, a greater focus was placed on skills training as well as the multiple levels of clinical training. This conference focused on defining the knowledge base for professional geropsychology practice, outlining three levels of geropsychology competence: Exposure, Experience, and Expertise.

The third national conference was held in 2006 in Colorado Springs, Colorado, organized in large part by Professor Bob Knight and Michele Karel. At this conference, a “Pikes Peak” model of training was established for geropsychologists. The Pikes Peak model coalesced the information already known about older adults and applied it to the establishment of competency areas for the training of geropsychologists. For example, the model highlighted the need for training programs to educate students to differentiate between healthy and pathological aging, normative changes associated with later life, cohort effects, general knowledge about adult development, and various care settings for older adults, especially interdisciplinary care.

Society of Clinical Geropsychology (American Psychological Association Division 12, Section II)
In 1993, Division 12 (Clinical Psychology) of the American Psychological Association organized a subsection (Division 12, Section II) that would eventually be renamed the Society of Clinical Geropsychology. This was done at the initiative of a steering committee composed of several psychologists, including: George Niederehe, Barry Edelstein, Dolores Gallagher-Thompson, Margaret Gatz, Alfred Kaszniak, Norm Abels, Michael A. Smyer, George Stricker, and Linda Teri. The Society's mission is fostering the mental health and wellness of older adults through science, practice, education and advocacy and by advancing the field of professional geropsychology. The Society is active in promoting and supporting training in geropsychology at the doctoral, internship, and postdoctoral level, advocating for geropsychology in public policy, and promoting aging research that informs clinical practice. The Society recently celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2018.

Recognition of specialty area
Professional geropsychology was acknowledged as a proficiency area by the American Psychological Association in 1997, and was recognized as a specialty area by APA in 2010. Additionally, in 2013, geropsychology was established as an emerging specialty area by the American Board of Professional Psychology, allowing psychologists to attain board certification in Geropsychology as of December 2014.  The examination manual is available online. After initial screening and favorable review of a practice sample, applicants sit for an oral examination consisting of three parts: review of the Practice Sample, review of the Professional Self-Study Statement, and an Ethical Reasoning Review. In 2014, Forrest Scogin, professor of clinical psychology at the University of Alabama, received the M. Powell Lawton Award for Distinguished Contributions to Clinical Geropsychology.

References

Caregiving
Gerontology


title: Nicholas Sarwark

text:
Nicholas Joel Sarwark (born August 27, 1979) is an American attorney and businessman who served as the 19th chair of the Libertarian National Committee (LNC), the governing body of the Libertarian Party. Prior to his election in 2014, he served on several LP national committees and as chair of the Libertarian Party of Maryland State Committee and vice chair of the Libertarian Party of Colorado State Committee. , he is the only LP chair to have served three consecutive terms.

Sarwark declined to run for another term as LNC chair in 2020, and was succeeded by Joe Bishop-Henchman.

Early life and education
Sarwark was born on August 27, 1979, in Phoenix, Arizona. He graduated from Washington Adventist University in 1998 with a BS in computer science and a minor in philosophy, later receiving his juris doctor from American University Washington College of Law in 2008. While attending law school, Sarwark clerked for the libertarian law firm Institute for Justice.

In the early 1990s, Sarwark's father brought him to Maricopa County Libertarian gatherings, and Sarwark subsequently joined the party in 1999.

Political career and campaigns
Sarwark was chairman of the Libertarian Party of Maryland from 2001 to 2003, holding numerous LP officer and local-level roles there. Prior to being elected chairman of the Libertarian National Committee in 2014, Sarwark served as a deputy public defender in Colorado and as vice-chairman of the Libertarian Party of Colorado. He was re-elected in 2016, and again in 2018.

While serving as LNC chair, Sarwark made appearances on multiple national media outlets, including MSNBC and NPR, to discuss libertarian perspectives on various topics.

Sarwark ran in the 2018 Phoenix mayoral special election. His campaign platform included opposition to light rail, addressing the city's pension debt, and working with Republicans and Democrats on the city council. He garnered 10.5 percent of the vote, placing fourth among four candidates, and did not advance to the 2019 run-off.

After moving to New Hampshire, Sarwark ran for Hillsborough County Attorney in 2020 under the Libertarian Party. His major issues included clearing the criminal case backlog. He received 5.6 percent of the vote, placing third among three candidates. Sarwark ran for the same office in 2022 under both the Libertarian and Democratic parties. He placed second in a two-candidate race with 45.25 percent of the vote.

Personal life
Sarwark married his wife, Valerie in 2009. After building a family in Denver, he returned to Phoenix in 2014 to join his family's independent car dealership, where he served as vice-president. Sarwark and his wife have four children. In 2019, Sarwark and his family moved to Manchester, New Hampshire, to become a part of the grassroots libertarian movement the Free State Project.

Electoral history

References

External links

  at the Libertarian Policy Institute, of which Sarwark is Executive Director
  at Wedge Squared Strategies, of which Sarwark is Principal

  (archived)

1979 births
Living people
American automobile salespeople
Arizona Libertarians
Candidates in the 2018 United States elections
Candidates in the 2020 United States elections
Colorado Libertarians
Lawyers from Phoenix, Arizona
Libertarian National Committee chairs
Maryland Libertarians
New Hampshire Libertarians
People from Denver
Politicians from Phoenix, Arizona
Public defenders
Washington College of Law alumni


title: Lisa Olstein

text:
Lisa Olstein (born 1972) is an American poet and non-fiction writer.

Biography
Lisa Olstein was born in 1972.
She grew up near Boston, Massachusetts. She received a BA from Barnard College (1996) and an MFA in creative writing from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She undertook additional studies at Harvard Divinity School.

She is an author of four books. Her first book of poems, Radio Crackling, Radio Gone (Copper Canyon Press, 2006). She won the Hayden Carruth Award. Her second collection, Lost Alphabet (Copper Canyon Press, 2009) was named one of the best poetry books of the year by Library Journal. Shane McCrae selected her chapbook The Resemblance of the Enzymes of Grasses to Those of Whales Is a Family Resemblance for an Essay Press Chapbook Prize. Her most recent book of poetry, Late Empire (Copper Canyon Press, 2017) she explores the complexities - beautiful and brutal - of our present moment. Pain Studies, a book of creative non-fiction is forthcoming from Bellevue Literary Press in 2020.

Her poems have appeared in The Nation, Iowa Review, Denver Quarterly, LIT, and other journals.

Olstein has also worked with singer-songwriter Jeffrey Foucault in the band Cold Satellite.

Lisa Olstein currently teaches in the New Writers Project and the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin, and also directed the Juniper Initiative for literary arts in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Awards and honors
She has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Pushcart Prize, a Lannan Writing Residency, and poetry fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the Sustainable Arts Foundation.

Poetry
 Late Empire (Copper Canyon Press, 2017)
 The Resemblance of the Enzymes of Grasses to Those of Whales Is a Family Resemblance (Essay Press, 2016) http://www.essaypress.org/ep-72/
 Little Stranger (Copper Canyon Press, 2013)
 Lost Alphabet (Copper Canyon Press, 2009)
 Radio Crackling, Radio Gone (Copper Canyon Press, 2006)

Non-fiction

 Pain Studies, Bellevue Literary Press, 2020

References

External links

Living people
21st-century American poets
American women poets
Barnard College alumni
Poets from Massachusetts
University of Massachusetts Amherst MFA Program for Poets & Writers alumni
University of Texas at Austin faculty
21st-century American women writers
American women academics
1972 births


title: F.H.W. Briggman House

text:
F. H. W. Briggman House is a historic house located at 156 Amelia Street in Orangeburg, Orangeburg County, South Carolina. The house originally served as the home of Frederick Briggman, the first mayor of Orangeburg.

Description and history
It was built about 1855, and is a -story, rectangular, frame vernacular Greek Revival dwelling. It has a gable roof, three exterior stuccoed brick end chimneys, and a rear addition. The front facade features a two-tiered recessed porch.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 20, 1985.

References

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
Greek Revival houses in South Carolina
Houses completed in 1855
Houses in Orangeburg County, South Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Orangeburg County, South Carolina


title: SSIM (disambiguation)

text:
SSIM may refer to:

General
 Structural similarity in image processing
 South Sudan Independence Movement
 Saturated structured illumination microscopy
 Standard Schedules Information Manual in aviation

Educational institutions
 Swedish School in Moscow (Svenska Skolan i Moskva)
 S. S. Institute of Medical Sciences, a medical school in Davanagere, Karnataka, India
 Sri Siddhartha Institute of Management Studies in Tumkur, Karnataka, India


title: Richard Wydeville (died 1441)

text:
Richard Wydeville (also written contemporaneously as Wydville and Woodville) (died 1441) was an English landowner, soldier, diplomat, administrator and politician. His son married an aunt of King Henry VI and they were the parents of the wife of the next king, Edward IV.

Origins
He was the younger son of John Wydeville (died before 1401), a Northamptonshire landowner with a long career as administrator and politician, and his second wife Isabel, widow of Robert Passelow, of Drayton Parslow. The heir to the family lands was his elder brother from his father's first marriage, Thomas Wydeville (died about 1435), who followed his father as an administrator and politician.

From at least 1268, the Wydeville family had been tenants in the village of Grafton Regis, where they occupied the manor house next to the church, and had acquired lands in neighbouring parishes. According to Hasted, it was John Wydeville who acquired the manor of Mote at Maidstone in Kent, which eventually came to Richard.

Career
By 1411 he was serving in France in the garrison of Guînes, then part of the English territory of the Pale of Calais, under the Duke of Clarence, King Henry V's brother. In 1415 and 1417, he was a captain in Henry Vs forces fighting in France, later coming under the command of another brother of the King, the Duke of Bedford.

In 1419 and 1420 he was granted various domains, lordships and bailiwicks in Normandy, culminating in 1421 with appointment as Seneschal of the province of Normandy. In 1423 he was Chamberlain to the Duke of Bedford, Treasurer of Normandy, and Captain of the city of Caen. After disturbances in London in 1425, he was ordered there to safeguard the Tower, followed in 1426 by being one of a mission sent to negotiate with Philip III, Duke of Burgundy. In that year, his son Richard was knighted by the Duke of Bedford. In 1427 he was made Lieutenant of Calais, and in 1431 was appointed to safeguard the young king Henry VI while in France.

In 1433 he was elected Member of Parliament for Kent, and was named a justice of the peace for the county. In the spring of 1434 he attended the meeting of the Great Council at Westminster, during which the Duke of Bedford and his brother Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester fell out over the handling of the English war effort in France, following which he was called back to active service there. While he was a member of the council, his son Richard would have met the Duke of Bedford's French wife Jacquetta, whom he married after the Duke's death.

In 1435 he was made Lieutenant of Calais again, and was named as chief commissioner to negotiate for England with the Duchy of Burgundy, the Teutonic Order and the Hanse. In that year his brother Thomas died without children and left nearly everything to his sisters Elizabeth and Agnes, apart from the ancestral manor of Grafton which went to Richard. He disputed the will, and legal argument went on for the rest of his life.

In 1437 he was appointed Constable of Rochester Castle, but later that year was chosen as sheriff of Northamptonshire, where he also served on a commission in 1439.

He made his will on 29 November 1441 and died shortly after, being buried at Maidstone. Despite his career of public service and his close connections to the royal family, he was never knighted.

Family
His wife was Joan, daughter of Thomas (or John) Bedlisgate, of Knightstone in the parish of Ottery St Mary in Devon, and his wife Joan Beauchamp. He had two known children:

Richard (died 1469), who married Jacquetta, widow of the Duke of Bedford, and was created Earl Rivers. Their daughter Elizabeth was the queen consort of King Edward IV, becoming the ancestor of all ruling monarchs of England from 1509 on and of Scotland from 1513 on.

Joan (died 1462), who married the Kent MP William Haute, of Bishopsbourne.

His widow died some time after 17 July 1448, when she had property in Ireland, and was probably buried at Maidstone.

References

1441 deaths
People from Northamptonshire
15th-century English people
High Sheriffs of Northamptonshire
English MPs 1433
People of the Hundred Years' War
15th-century English military personnel
Richard


title: Siphonochilus

text:
Siphonochilus is a genus of plants native to sub-Saharan Africa.

 Siphonochilus aethiopicus (Schweinf.) B.L.Burtt - widespread from Ethiopia west to Sierra Leone and south to South Africa
 Siphonochilus bambutiorum A.D.Poulsen & Lock - Zaïre
 Siphonochilus brachystemon (K.Schum.) B.L.Burtt - eastern Africa from Sudan to Mozambique
 Siphonochilus kilimanensis (Gagnep.) B.L.Burtt - Mozambique
 Siphonochilus kirkii (Hook.f.) B.L.Burtt - eastern and central Africa from Sudan and Central African Republic south to South Africa
 Siphonochilus longitubus Lock - Zambia
 Siphonochilus nigericus (Hutch. ex Hepper) B.L.Burtt - Nigeria, Ghana
 Siphonochilus parvus Lock - Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi
 Siphonochilus pleianthus (K.Schum.) Lock - Zaïre, Angola, Zambia
 Siphonochilus puncticulatus (Gagnep.) Lock - Zaïre, Angola, Zambia
 Siphonochilus rhodesicus (T.C.E.Fr.) Lock - Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Zaïre

References

Siphonochilus
Zingiberaceae genera