title: Séan Garnier

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Arnaud "Séan" Garnier (born 18 June 1984 in Sens, France) is a French freestyle footballer. He began as an association football player, notably for Auxerre and Troyes, but his professional career was cut short due to injuries.

In 2006, tamim Garnier studied to become a football instructor and started a program of urban freestyle art gaining fame for his own style and skills. He was taught by the current world champion Benjamin Aw. In 2008, he was declared World Champion at the inaugural Red Bull Street Style World Finals in São Paulo, Brazil. Garnier combined music, breakdance, somersaults, various football and basketball elements to his routines. He formed his own team dubbed Street Style Society also called S3 Crew, which combines freestyle football, freestyle basketball as well as some other street sport styles.

Garnier is sponsored by Red Bull. In addition to performing at freestyle football shows, he also practices this sport discipline in matches, such as street soccer, futsal, and panna. He is the captain of French professional futsal team Massaliotes, and champion freestyle in particular with Mexico street football players.

Appearances
In 2014, he appeared as part of the football signing campaign related with UNICEF's initiative for alphabetization through Magic System's song "Magic in the Air".

He was featured in an ad for Mexican retailer Coppel championing an active life for all age groups. In the ad, Garnier disguises himself as an old man, as a character dubbed Abuelo "Grandpa" Memo, and joins in a local five-a-side freestyle match and goes on to "amaze" the young players and an enchanted crowd of spectators through his skills.

In 2016, Garnier played Premier Futsal in India.

On 7 December 2014, Garnier made his first appearance for London United Futsal Club, an amateur club based in South West London, losing 9-2 against then English Champions, Baku Futsal Club.

In 2016, Garnier was a member of the French team for the World's First International Street Soccer Championships, World Street 3s, alongside many other street soccer stars (Edward Van Gils, Issy Hitman, Leamssi, etc.). The team finished fourth after a close semi final against Croatia.

Awards
(Selective)
2008: Champion - Red Bull Street Style (São Paulo)
2009: Champion - French Freestyle
2010: Champion - French Freestyle
2010: First place - Styllball Beach Style (Dubai)
2012: Champion - French Freestyle
2018: World Champion - WFL (India)

References

External links
Facebook
Website

1984 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Sens
Freestyle footballers
French men's footballers
Street football players
Men's association football players not categorized by position


title: Born in East L.A. (song)

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"Born in East L.A." is a single by Cheech & Chong, released in September 1985. It is a parody of Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the U.S.A.", with references to the song "I Love L.A." by Randy Newman. The song reached  48 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Written by Cheech Marin, the song's lyrics deal with a Mexican-American from East Los Angeles who is mistaken for an undocumented immigrant and deported. The song served as the basis for the film of the same name, directed by Marin.

Background

Cheech Marin wrote the song without his comedy partner Tommy Chong, although Chong was credited for the song's writing on the album and single. Chong was subsequently insulted when Marin asked him to perform backup vocals on the song, and it was recorded without Chong. It is one of only two Cheech & Chong songs written solely by one member of the duo and not in collaboration, the other being Tommy Chong's "Up in Smoke".

Music video

A music video for the song was produced and appeared in the home video release Get Out of My Room. The video featured appearances from Cassandra Peterson as Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, Jan-Michael Vincent, Ángel Ramírez and Sal Lopez.

Reception

The song was released as Springsteen's "Born in the U.S.A." tour was ending, missing the top 40 on the US pop chart. The subsequently released music video became popular.

Charts

Film

The song served as the basis for the film Born in East L.A., directed by Marin, which also starred the role alongside Paul Rodriguez, Daniel Stern, Kamala Lopez-Dawson, Jan-Michael Vincent and  Lupe Ontiveros. The film debuted well in its first week but dropped by 40% in its second week at the box office.

See also
Death Valley Days, a show which featured then actor Ronald Reagan, who the protagonist of the song confuses for John Wayne when asked who the President is.

References

1985 songs
Novelty songs
Cheech and Chong songs
Songs about Los Angeles
Songs written by Bruce Springsteen


title: Elvijs Misāns

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Elvijs Misāns (born 8 April 1989 in Sigulda) is a Latvian athlete usually competing in long jump and triple jump. His personal bests are 8.08 metres in long jump and 17.02 metres in triple jump.

International competitions

1No mark in the final

Personal bests

References

1989 births
Living people
Latvian male long jumpers
Latvian male triple jumpers
Latvian male sprinters
People from Sigulda
European Games competitors for Latvia
Athletes (track and field) at the 2019 European Games


title: Morgan O'Brien

text:
Morgan O'Brien may refer to:
 Morgan O'Brien (American football), American engineer and National Football League founder
 Morgan E. O'Brien (born 1944), American wireless telecommunications pioneer
 Morgan J. O'Brien (1852–1937), American lawyer and judge


title: Jondal Church

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Jondal Church () is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Ullensvang Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Jondal, near the shore of the Hardangerfjorden. It is the church for the Jondal parish which is part of the Hardanger og Voss prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Bjørgvin. The white, wooden church was built in a long church design in 1888 using plans drawn up by the architects T. Solheim and Torjus Tengesdal. The church seats about 500 people, which makes it the largest church in Hardanger, leading it to sometimes be called the Hardanger Cathedral ().

History
The first church in Jondal was a wooden stave church that was built during the Middle Ages. The exact date of construction is not known, but the earliest existing historical records show that it was in use in 1309, so it must have been built sometime before that time. The church was likely established during the 13th century. The church had open air corridors surrounding the whole building. The old stave church was in use for centuries until it was torn down in 1725 because it was in such poor condition.

A new church was built on the same site to replace the old church. This church was completed in 1726 and it was a timber-framed long church that was built on the same foundation as the previous stave church. That church was used until 1888 when it too was torn down to make room for the present church which is much larger. The present church was built in 1888 by the architects Solheim and Tengesdal. The white, wooden church was consecrated on 18 July 1888. In 1978, the church porch under the tower was enlarged to create room for bathrooms and a coat room.

Media gallery

See also
List of churches in Bjørgvin

References

Ullensvang
Churches in Vestland
Long churches in Norway
Wooden churches in Norway
Churches completed in 1726
Buildings and structures demolished in 1888
Churches completed in 1888
19th-century Church of Norway church buildings
13th-century establishments in Norway


title: Şoray Uzun

text:
Şoray Uzun (born 9 June 1967) is a Turkish comedian, writer and television host. He is best known for hit period comedy series Seksenler and travel programming Şoray Uzun Yolda.

He is the one of Turk minority in Bulgaria. When he was child, his family was forced to immigrate to Turkey.

He played in mini series "Belene" about Turk emigration in Bulgaria. Also, he was cast in many hit series such as "Bizimkiler", " Baskül Ailesi", "Mahallenin Muhtarları", "İz Peşinde",  "Gençler", "Kaygısızlar", "Bizim Ev".

He has been the host of the popular game show Cevap Soruda on TRT 1 in 2013 and of 7 de 7, the Turkish version of Quizz or Buzz on ATV in 2014.

He is married and has 2 children.

Cinema
Cumhuriyet (1998)
İstanbul 24 Saat (1996)
Denize Hançer Düştü (1992)
Salıncakta Üç Kişi (1988)
Yalnızlık Bir Şarkıdır (1987)

Television
Kendi Düşen Ağlamaz (2023)
Zengin Kız Fakir Oğlan (2014) – Himself, guest appearance
Çocuklar Duymasın – (2013) Korhan, guest appearance
Seksenler (2012–2017) – Ahmet
Sonradan Görme (2005) – Bülent
Öyle Bir Sevda ki (2002)
Zülküf ile Zarife (2000)
Köstebek (1999)
Ruhsar (1998) – Elvis Presley, guest appearance
Baskül Ailesi (1997) – Güven
Süt Kardeşler (1996)
Evdekiler (1995)
Bizim Ev (1995) – Doctor Kemal
Kaygısızlar (1994–1998) – Kültigin
Geçmişin İzleri (1994)
Barışta Savaşanlar (1993)
Mahallenin Muhtarları (1992) – Ferhat
Karşı Show (1992)
İz Peşinde (1989–1990) – Faruk
Gençler (1989)
Belene (1987)

Television host

7 de 7, Turkish version of Quizz or Buzz (2014)
Cevap Soruda (2013)
Saha Dışı
Şoray Uzun Yolda

References

External links

1967 births
Living people
Bulgarian Turks in Turkey
Bulgarian emigrants to Turkey
People from Razgrad
Turkish male film actors
Turkish male television actors
Turkish television presenters
Turkish game show hosts


title: David Callaghan (disambiguation)

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David or Dave  Callahan, Callaghan, or O'Callaghan may refer to:
 David Callahan, founding editor of Inside Philanthropy, a digital media site
 David Callahan (Home and Away), fictional character in the Australian soap opera
 Dave Callaghan (born 1965), South African cricketer
 Dave O'Callaghan (born 1990), Irish rugby union player
 David O'Callaghan (dual player) (born 1983), Irish hurler and former Gaelic footballer for Dublin
 David O'Callaghan (Kerry Gaelic footballer) (born 1987)


title: Max Wexler

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Max Wexler (also spelled Vexler or Wechsler, 4 November 1870 – 14 May 1917) was a Romanian socialist activist and journalist, regarded as one of the main Marxist theorist of the early Romanian workers' movement.

Active in the first Romanian socialist party, the Romanian Social Democratic Workers' Party, he became dissatisfied with the party's passivity and its failure to openly support political rights for the Romanian Jews, initiating a separate Jewish socialist group. Following the party's demise, he was one of the main activists for the revival of the socialist movement in Iaşi, introducing to Marxism many future leaders of the Romanian socialist parties. Sympathetic to the 1917 February Revolution, he was arrested after attempting to gain the support of Russian soldiers present in the country during World War I. Wexler was assassinated in custody shortly after, with the Romanian authorities suppressing any formal enquiry into his death.

Biography

Early life and the PSDMR
Max Wexler was born in Iaşi, north-eastern Romania, in a family of Jewish origin. After finishing his compulsory education, having noted Romanian writer Ion Creangă as a teacher during the primary school, he enrolled in the local School of Commerce, graduating as an accountant in 1889. He would later study towards becoming a candidate in philosophy and literature at the Université Nouvelle, a left-wing splinter of the Free University of Brussels. Learning about socialist ideas during his commercial school years, Wexler joined the informal Socialist Party of Iaşi at nineteen, which was to join forces with the other socialist clubs in the nationwide Romanian Social Democratic Workers' Party (PSDMR) in 1893. Around the same period he met Litman Ghelerter, who became a close friend and one of his principal political collaborators.

Gradually becoming one of the leaders of the Iaşi socialists, Wexler became involved in PSDMR's national politics. In 1894, after the leadership decided to curb the radicalism of Munca, the party newspaper, by appointing moderate Ioan Nădejde as editor, Wexler-led socialists authored a proposal that sought to expand the journal outreach. Among the envisioned actions were an increase in publication frequency and an expansion of discussed themes to include scientific and literary topics, news about foreign socialist movements, and articles related to the agrarian question. While the proposal was rejected, Wexler continued to press for a more militant position of the Romanian socialists. He therefore co-wrote, with L. Ghelerter, the draft for a new party statute, which was presented before the Third PSDMR Congress in April 1895. In the draft several proposals were made towards a better organization of the party, providing the formalization of local party sections and the establishment of clear duties for the party leadership and responsibilities for the various party bodies. Notable were also the provision that forbade simultaneous membership in the PSDMR and in other political organizations, and the one requiring any dispute among members to be first discussed within the party. Due to the opposition of the bourgeois members of the party leadership, the draft was rejected by the Congress, which mandated the General Council to draft a new statute project for a future Congress.

Soon after, Wexler and the other socialists around the periodical Lumina emerged as a dissident group, which was eventually excluded from the party. The dissidents deplored the tactics adopted by party leadership, which in their opinion did not actively seek to increase the party's influence among the urban proletariat. Furthermore, they accused the party organ, Lumea Nouă, of losing its socialist character. The break with the official party was also partly motivated by disagreement of the Lumina supporters with the formers ambiguous position towards the question of Jewish naturalization in Romania. Thus, the dissident group quickly evolved as a primarily Jewish socialist grouping, acting until 1897 as separate from the Iaşi Workers' Club. Beginning with 1896, the leaders of the group, Wexler, Ghelerter and Leon Gheller, also edited a Yiddish language weekly, Der Veker. As none of the editors were familiar with literary Yiddish, at first they wrote mostly in Romanian and had their articles translated by a local teacher.

A labour organizer, Wexler was elected president of the Clerks' Society in 1896 and worked together with Bucharest-based Vintilă Rosetti in order to obtain improvements of working conditions, such as the eight-hour day and Sunday rest. During the same period, together with Barbu Brănişteanu, he was a delegate to the national conference of civil servants and commerce, finance and industry clerks.

Towards the restoration of a Social Democratic Party
As the PSDMR had disbanded in 1899 in the aftermath of the defection of several of its leaders to the National Liberal Party (PNL), Wexler was one of the supporters of a renewed socialist party. Thus, between 1899 and 1900, became a regular writer for Lumea Nouă, by then edited by a group of mostly proletarian socialists. Towards the same objective, in August 1903 he established the Iaşi Circle of Social Studies, of which he was one of the foremost lecturers, with the support of Dr. Ghelerter. Many of the students attending the Circle would later become leading figures of the Romanian socialist movement: Mihail Gheorghiu Bujor, Ion Sion, Ottoi Călin, Ilie Moscovici.  Wexler's lecture topics included party tactics, the Erfurt Program, the history of Christianity and the Jewish question. During the Circle sessions he exposed A. C. Cuza's PhD thesis as a plagiarism, with many of the arguments being later presented in a book published by another member of the Circle, Emanoil Socor. Active in the Socialist Union of Romania, established in 1907, he was elected during its January 1908 conference a member in the commission tasked with revising the political program of the organization. The commission also included  Constantin Dobrogeanu-Gherea, Christian Rakovsky, Mihail Gh. Bujor, N. D. Cocea and Ion Sion. Beginning with the refoundation of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) in 1910, Wexler was to become one of the main leaders of its Iaşi section. In 1914, together with Dr. Ghelerter, he rented a building in Iaşi that would serve during the following years both as their home and the headquarters of the local Social-Democratic Club and Trade Union Commission.

Throughout his life, Wexler kept in contact with several luminaries of the European socialist movement of the time, such as Karl Kautsky, Max Beer, Franz Mehring, Heinrich Cunow, Georg Ledebour, Arthur Stadthagen and Rosa Luxemburg. Friend and collaborator of Constantin Dobrogeanu-Gherea, he was an active contributor to the Romanian socialist press, writing for, among others, Munca, România Muncitoare (known as Lupta beginning with 1914), Lumina, Viitorul Social, Convorbiri sociale. In order to avert the anti-Jewish prejudice prevalent among the Romanian public, Wexler commonly used pseudonyms. Thus, he notably signed one of his major contribution to Romanian Marxism, The socialism in Romania published in Viitorul Social, under the name of a fellow party-member, ethnic Romanian Ion Sion. The article considers the applicability of socialist ideas in the specific context of Romanian economy, paralleling Gherea's theory about the "Marxism in backward countries".

A speaker of German, French, Polish and Russian, Wexler wrote articles for Die Neue Zeit and other European socialist newspapers and magazines, also translating several socialist works into Romanian. The articles he authored dealt primarily with theoretical problems of the workers' movement, and in his writings he opposed both antisemitism and zionism. Beside his socialist activity, Wexler also published his translation of Émile Zola's Germinal, took interest in  prehistory and philology, and published works related to his professional activity, such as a study of interest rates presented at the St. Louis World's Fair. During the first decades of the twentieth century he helped smuggle over the Pruth, towards the Russian Empire, left-wing literature written in Russian, Polish and Yiddish, most of it originating in Switzerland. His frequent contacts with the Russian revolutionaries also made him a target of surveillance by the police and the Siguranţa.

World War I and assassination
During the internal PSD debates that followed the start of World War I, Wexler disagreed with the party's support for the resolutions of the Zimmerwald Conference. Specifically, he concluded that the call to overthrow capitalism in case of war was not applicable to Romania, which had not yet fully experienced a "bourgeois-democratic revolution". After Romania entered the war on the side of Entente, Wexler was mobilized as chief accountant and cashier in an Iaşi enterprise. In 1917 he welcomed the Russian February Revolution, and, along with Bujor, took part in the May Day parade organized by revolutionary Russian soldiers in the city. As a result, two days later his mobilization order was overturned and he was drafted into the active army duty, despite his age and failing health. Suspected of taking part in Rakovsky's escape during the demonstrations, he was brought under armed escort before the court martial in Bacău. Briefly released and sent back to Iaşi, he was soon placed under the guard of the 2nd Huntsmen Regiment. There, on the night of 14 May, he was sent towards the local command post, under an escort headed by Lieutenant Romalo, close friend of the Romanian heir apparent, Carol. On the way, while passing through a forest, Wexler was shot in the back of his head by one of the guards, ostensibly because he was attempting to escape custody. According to the socialist press, his assassination had been planned by the military authorities with the acknowledgement of the PNL leadership, and his killer was rewarded with a bottle of rum, an insignificant amount of money, and promotion to the rank of sergeant.

Wexler's death was followed by public outcry, leading to agitation among the Russian soldiers present on Romanian territory and bringing the attention of the Petrograd government. Summoned by the Russian envoy to Romania, prime-minister Ion I. C. Brătianu expressed regret about the death, undertook to suspend the application of the death penalty, and promised a thorough investigation will take place. War minister Vintilă Brătianu sent two letters to the General Headquarters requesting further research into the matter, also enquiring whether the shooting was deliberate or was the result of a misinterpretation of orders. Nevertheless, no formal inquiry was ever started into the death of Wexler. According to the memories of Gheorghe Gh. Mârzescu, member of the government at the time, the story of an attempted escape had been proven false, but the investigation was suppressed following the intervention of Romalo's father, the physician of the Romanian royal family. As late as 1922, the whereabouts of Wexler's remains were unknown.

Notes

References

Assassinated Romanian politicians
Deaths by firearm in Romania
Extrajudicial killings
Politicians from Iași
People murdered in Romania
Prisoners who died in Romanian detention
Jewish Romanian politicians
Jewish socialists
Romanian Marxists
Romanian newspaper editors
Romanian people of World War I
Romanian people who died in prison custody
Social Democratic Party of Romania (1910–1918) politicians
Romanian translators
Yiddish-language journalists
1870 births
1917 deaths
20th-century translators
19th-century translators
Prisoners murdered in custody
1910s assassinated politicians


title: Wacław Frankowski

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Wacław Frankowski  (25 October 1903 – 19 March 1981) was a Polish labour activist in Łódź in the interwar period, diplomat of the Polish People's Republic from 1953 to 1956 (envoy extraordinary and the minister plenipotentiary in Brazil).

Born in Łódź in 1903, he was a weaver and a locksmith by profession. As a member of the Communist Party of Poland (KPP), at the beginning of the 1920s he became one of the leaders of the communist activists in Łódź. On 30 July 1923 he was arrested for his participation in strikes. On 2 October he was condemned by the District Court in Łódź to three years of imprisonment. After his release in 1928 he was directed by KPP to a semi-legal job at the theatre Labour Stage, whose director was Witold Wandurski. He was also active in the weavers union and in the association of freethinkers. In years 1930 – 1937 he was a labour union deputy in the factories of Kinderman and Szac, when he got arrested again and condemned for two years and seven months of imprisonment. He served his sentence in Łódź, Częstochowa and Wronki. During the German occupation he was deported as forced labour to Germany, where he worked in a mine. Having returned to Poland in 1945, he joined the Polish Workers' Party (PPR), later Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) and until 1959 he fulfilled there the duties of the Director of the Economic Department. Subsequently, he began his career in the Polish diplomacy. From 1953 to 1956 he held the post of the envoy extraordinary and the minister plenipotentiary of PRL in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. He prompted the advancement and signed the Polish – Brazilian trade agreement. He was awarded an Order of the Southern Cross (Grand Cross – 1st class) and a Medal of the 10th Anniversary of People's Poland.

He died in Łódź in 1981.

References

1903 births
1981 deaths
Diplomats from Łódź
People from Piotrków Governorate
Communist Party of Poland politicians
Diplomats of the Polish People's Republic
Polish Workers' Party politicians


title: William Botterill and Son

text:
William Botterill and Son was a prominent Kingston upon Hull architectural practice.

The practice was founded by William Botterill (1820–1903), who worked with his son William Henry Botterill (1851–79), and after 1881 with John Bilson (1858–1943) as Botterill and Bilson.

History
William Botterill came to Hull in 1848 as clerk of works for the new Royal Station Hotel and set up an architectural practice in 1851. His son William Henry (1851–79) was also a partner in his practice. John Bilson, trained at the practice and became a partner in 1881. Botterill's son William Henry died early in 1879 and Bilson subsequently became the main partner in the practice, taking over the business when Botterill retired in 1899.

The firm's commissions included chapels, houses, banks, offices, industrial buildings: commissions included the schools for the Hull School Board, with Botterill initially producing gothic revival designs, and later designs in the Queen Anne revival style by Bilson. Botterill designed the Newland Park Estate in Hull in 1877, though most of its houses were developed after his death. Oriel Chambers (now the home of the Wilberforce Institute for the study of Slavery and Emancipation) were built in 1879. Bilson's work included the Jacobean style Hymers College (1893), the Boulevard Higher Grade School (1895), and classically styled buildings for the Hull Savings Bank built in the 1920s and after.

Listed and other buildings, non-exhaustive list

William Botterill
Stepney Station House, Hull (1853).
Centenary Methodist Chapel (1863).
Methodist Chapel and Sunday School, Alford, Lincolnshire. (1864).
Exchange Buildings, Lowgate, Hull (1866).
32, Silver Street, Hull (1869–70).
Offices. 2, Manor Street, Hull (1870).
Kings Market, South Church Side, Market Place, Hull (1875).
Oriel Chambers, Hull (1879).
Charterhouse School, Hull (1881).
Newington Primary School (1885) and adjoining nursery (1898), Hull.
Stepney Infants School, Hull (1886).

John Bilson
All Saints' Church, Bolton Percy, North Yorkshire. (originally 14th century, restored 1905 by Bilson)
Pickering Hall, Hull (1914)
Lloyds Bank, Silver Street, Hull (1912).
St Helen's Church, Escrick (orig. 1857, restored 1923 by Bilson).

Demolished works
 ; red brick early English gothic revival (built 1881–2)
 ; Wesleyan chapel, white brick and stone, neoclassical (built 1873, dem.2004)

See also
Cuthbert Brodrick, Alfred Gelder, contemporary Hull architects

Notes

References

Sources

External links

Architecture firms based in Kingston upon Hull


title: Neston High School

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Neston High School is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form with academy status located in Neston on the Wirral Peninsula, in the English county of Cheshire.

Previously a community school administered by Cheshire West and Chester Council, Neston High School converted to academy status in July 2012. The school continues to coordinate with Cheshire West and Chester Council for admissions.

Description

The school was opened as Neston Secondary School in 1958, in purpose-built buildings. Planning for the new school had started in 1950.  The cost of the new school was £117,000. It was opened by Selwyn Lloyd. In his speech, he said that the new school "was one more step in carrying out the revolutionary promises of the Education Act of 1944". The first headteacher was Robert Hird, and the school opened with 320 pupils, with space for 360. In 1968 improvements were made to the school buildings to prepare for the raising of the school leaving age to 16. Hird remained head until 1979, when Geoffrey Sirett was appointed.  From 1972, following the abolition of the eleven-plus, children in the local catchment area were automatically allocated a place at Neston, now called Neston Comprehensive School.
Neston High School converted to academy status in July 2012. it was tested by Ofsted in 2013 and designated a Good school.

In 2016 the school gained two national awards as part of the National Good Schools Guide scheme. The school was rated 'Good' overall by an Ofsted inspection in January 2017.

The school moved into new modern buildings in September 2017, built on the other side of Neston Recreation Centre to the original building. The original building has now been demolished and all-weather pitches have been installed along with a car-park and school drop off point.  The school project cost £25m: the leisure centre refurbishment £2.2m.

Buildings
The new buildings, completed in 2017, were a result of the Priority School Building Programme which took over where Building Schools for the Future had left off. The contractors were  Morgan Sindall. It is a large three storey rectangle, with two three storey light wells a its heart. The classrooms, laboratories and workshops all face outwards and benefit from natural light. The new building provides an ICT rich library area, a learning resource centre and a Sixth Form Study area. As in every new build there are lettable areas. There are gyms and appropriate changing facilities.

Academics
Neston operates an entitlement curriculum believing that students 'have a right to immerse themselves in studies that takes full account of their potential and capability.' The curriculum extends beyond the timetabled lessons,  there are extensive 'Learning Outside The Classroom (LOTC) programmes. In 2012 Ofsted published a research paper using Neston as the example of good practice. It remained current for four years.

Virtually all maintained schools and academies follow the National Curriculum, and are inspected by Ofsted on how well they succeed in delivering a 'broad and balanced curriculum'. Schools endeavour to get all students to achieve the English Baccalaureate(EBACC) qualification- this must include core subjects a modern or ancient foreign language, and either History or Geography.

Neston operates a three-year, Key Stage 3  where all the core National Curriculum subjects are taught. Each fortnight, years 8 9, study English (7 sessions), Maths (8), Science (6), PE (4), PRSE/RE (2). In addition they study Spanish (3), French (4) or German (4), RS, Art, Music, Drama, Technology and Computing. In year 7, there is food tech but only one language.

In Key Stage 4 all students study English (8), Maths (8), Science (10), PE (2), PSRE/RE (2) and four options (5 sessions each). One of the options must be History or Geography.
Neston High School offers GCSEs and Cambridge Nationals.  Students in the sixth form have the option to study from a range of A-levels and BTECs.

Houses
The school has five Houses named for various contributors to the school. Members of each house are identified by different coloured stripes on the school tie from years 7 to 11.

 Grenfell – named after Sir Wilfred Grenfell, a missionary doctor from Parkgate who worked in Canada.

 Stewart – named after Mike Stewart, a young Science teacher at the school who died suddenly.

 Talbot – named after the Talbot family and Earl of Shrewsbury, who were landowners in Neston in medieval times.

 Summers – named after local landowners who at one time owned Shotton Steel Works.

 Overton – named after the first Chair of Governors, Colonel Overton.

Pastoral
The pastoral system in Key Stage 3 and Key Stage 4 is based on the house model.  In addition to the inevitable sports competitions, the Head of House oversees a team of form teachers whose job is to monitor the pupils progress and wellbeing. The house has its own dedicated learning support assistants and runs its own mentoring programme. Students are involved as e-buddies, mentors and sports captains. Each house sponsors a charity that is selected by the students.

The houses are Grenfell, named after Sir Wilfred Grenfell who was a doctor and Medical Missionary,  Overton who was the first Chair of Governors, Stewart named after Mike Stewart, a science teacher who died young and suddenly, Summers who built the Shotton steel works and Talbot the family name of the Earls of Shrewsbury.

Bushell House (retired) Bushell house was named after Christopher Bushell (1811 - 1887) Christopher Bushell was a Liverpool wine merchant, Bushell took  great interest in Neston and gave generously including for the building of local schools and churches. This is the same person Bushell fountain in the town center was named after.

Notable former pupils
 Simon Byrne, Chief Constable, Police Service of Northern Ireland, 2019 .

References

External links
Neston High School official website
Neston County Secondary School at the National Archives
A interactive walk around the current building

Secondary schools in Cheshire West and Chester
Academies in Cheshire West and Chester
Neston


title: Shane Dollar

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Shane Johnson known as Shane Dollar, is a rapper who was born on June 30, 1980, in Suffolk, Virginia. He has performed with celebrity acts including Obie Trice, Cappadonna, Ghostface Killah, Raekwon, Nottz Raw, Cassidy, Bubba Sparxxx, Yelawolf, Nappy Roots, Ying Yang Twins, Mac Lethal, Ras Kass, Keith Murray, Nine, Canibus, Nature, Ces Cru, Lil Wyte, Kurupt, Xzibit, Jadakiss, Benny the Butcher, Yukmouth,  Mickey Factz and Rampage.

Dollar joined the Virginia-based hip hop collective Seven Cities Syndicate in June 2019.
Dollar released a seven-track LP in October 2019 with unreleased songs featuring Bubba Sparxxx, Nottz Raw, Bigg K (Battle Rapper), P.U.R.E. (Ice H2O Records with Raekwon and Rampage.  Shane Dollar was nominated for hip hop artist of the year in 2016, 2017 and 2018 by Veer Magazine, winning the award in 2018.

Albums
 P.R.O.J.E.C.T.S. (2003)
 Life, Love & Hip Hop (2012)
 The Underdog (2013)
 Work of Heart (2014)
 Legends (2015)
 Country Cousins (2015)
 Heart of Glass (2018)
 Legends Never Die Mixtape (2019)
 The Missing Records (2019)
 40 (2020)

References

https://altdaily.com/veteran-hampton-roads-dj-shane-dollar-returns-to-the-norva/
https://www.suffolknewsherald.com/2018/01/19/rapper-turned-dj-nominated-for-award/
https://www.suffolknewsherald.com/2018/02/19/suffolk-rapper-wins-big/

1980 births
Rappers from Virginia
Living people
21st-century American rappers


title: Gyroporus subalbellus

text:
Gyroporus subalbellus is a species of bolete fungus in the family Gyroporaceae. Found in North America, it was described by American mycologist William Alphonso Murrill in 1910. Edible.

See also
List of North American boletes

References

External links

Boletales
Fungi described in 1910
Fungi of North America
Taxa named by William Alphonso Murrill


title: Listed buildings in Shavington cum Gresty

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Shavington cum Gresty is a civil parish in Cheshire East, England.  It contains two buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England as designated listed buildings, both of which are listed at Grade II.  This grade is the lowest of the three gradings given to listed buildings and is applied to "buildings of national importance and special interest".  Both the listed buildings are houses in the country outside the village of Shavington.

References

Citations

Sources

Listed buildings in the Borough of Cheshire East
Lists of listed buildings in Cheshire


title: 15 auténticos éxitos

text:
15 auténticos éxitos (15 Authentic Hits) is a greatest hits album by Mexican singer Irma Serrano, released in 1984 by CBS Records International. It features Serrano's fifteen hit songs released from 1963 to 1967.

Track listing

References

External links
 15 auténticos éxitos at AllMusic

1984 greatest hits albums
Spanish-language compilation albums
Columbia Records compilation albums


title: Guillaume de Montrevel

text:
Guillaume de Montrevel was a medieval French knight, courtier and diplomat.

He led a crusade against the Teutonic Knights in Prussia, at the service of the Duke of Bourbon, and was present at the battles of Rosebecque, Verneuil, and Bourbourg. He was later Counsellor and Chamberlain to the Duke of Bourbon and later to the King of France, and tutor to the Dauphin. He also acted as diplomat to Cyprus, Aragon and England.

He also expanded his castle, Château de la Faye including constructing the northeast tower.

His two sons died at the Battle of Agincourt and one of his two daughters married Guillaume de Charriol. He died in December 1413.

References

French Army soldiers
15th-century French people
Year of birth uncertain
People of the Hundred Years' War
1413 deaths


title: Ferrandina-Pomarico-Miglionico railway station

text:
Ferrandina-Pomarico is a railway station serving Ferrandina and Pomarico, Italy.

Data

The station (usually called Ferrandina station) is located on the Battipaglia–Metaponto railway. The train services are operated by Trenitalia.

The station was modernised in 2005.

The Italian government in August 2017 has decided that the station will be connected to the new station of Matera by a modern railway.

Train services
The station is served by the following service(s):

Intercity services Rome - Naples - Salerno - Taranto
Regional services (Treno regionale) Naples - Salerno - Potenza - Metaponto - Taranto

See also
 Battipaglia–Metaponto railway

References

This article is based upon a translation of the Italian language version as at June 2014.

Railway stations in Basilicata
Buildings and structures in the Province of Matera


title: Virgin Money Australia

text:
Virgin Money Australia is an Australian financial services company owned by Bank of Queensland, and has 150,000 customers.

History

Foundation
In 2003, Virgin Money was launched in Australia with the launch of Virgin Money credit cards. Virgin Money Australia initially launched in partnership with Macquarie Bank, followed by Westpac under a five-year agreement.

At the time of Virgin Money's launch in Australia the group company that combined the UK and Australian operations was co-owned by Virgin Group and HHG Group. In 2004 100% ownership of that UK/Australia group company was acquired by Virgin Group for AU$219 million.

First products
It added superannuation (2005) and home loans (2008) to their product suite. The card was Australia's first no annual fee credit card.  The card was marketed as a cheaper option to most other credit cards with up to 55 interest-free days and an interest rate of 12.99% (April 2007). Customers were entitled to offers through the credit card's 'Mates rates' scheme, which included offers from other Virgin companies in Australia such as Virgin Blue, Virgin Mobile and Virgin Atlantic. A comprehensive restaurant discount scheme, operated by the Entertainment Book company, was also available.

The Virgin Credit Card was withdrawn from sale in Australia as of 3 April 2008 after the five-year agreement with Westpac came to an end. Customers could continue to use their cards as normal, but no new Virgin credit cards would be issued. When a customer's card expired, they were transitioned to the 'Ignite' card by Westpac.

Changes to product ranges
In 2008, Virgin Money Australia withdrew its home loan product from the Australian market due to the financial crisis of 2007-08 and the credit cards portfolio was transferred to its supplier, Westpac, after the end of a five-year agreement. In 2009, Virgin Money launched car insurance, partnering with A&G Insurance Services and also announced their strategic alliance with CitiBank, with plans to launch a suite of retail banking services in 2010.

Virgin Money credit cards were relaunched in Australia on 27 July 2010 with two card types: the Velocity Rewards Credit Card, co-branded with Velocity Frequent Flyer, and the No Annual Fee Credit Card. All credit cards are also co-branded with Visa credit card.

Purchase by Bank of Queensland
In 2013 Virgin Money Australia was bought by Bank of Queensland for $40 million. Under the deal, Bank of Queensland have rights to the Virgin Money name in Australia for four decades while paying royalties to the Virgin Group, and Virgin has a seat on the board of Bank of Queensland.

See also

 Virgin Money
 Banking in Australia
 List of banks
 List of banks in Australia
 List of banks in Oceania

References

External links

Virgin Money
2003 establishments in Australia
Banks established in 2003
Peer-to-peer lending companies


title: Motion JPEG 2000

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Motion JPEG 2000 (MJ2 or MJP2) is a file format for motion sequences of JPEG 2000 images and associated audio, based on the MP4 and QuickTime format. Filename extensions for Motion JPEG 2000 video files are .mj2 and .mjp2, as defined in RFC 3745.

ISO Standards

MJ2, first defined by Part 3 of the ISO Standard for JPEG 2000 ISO/IEC 15444 in November 2001 (ISO/IEC 15444-3:2002) as a standalone document, has later been defined by ISO/IEC 15444-3:2007, ISO/IEC 15444-3:2007/Amd 1:2010, additional profiles for archiving applications, and by ISO/IEC 15444-12 which defines the JPEG 2000 base media format, which contains the timing, structure, and media information for timed sequences of media data.

The standard is available for download from ITU-T as their Recommendation T.802.

MPEG vs MJ2
Motion JPEG2000 was always intended to coexist with MPEG. Unlike MPEG, MJ2 does not implement inter-frame coding; each frame is coded independently using JPEG 2000. This makes MJ2 more resilient to propagation of errors over time, more scalable, and better suited to networked and point-to-point environments, with additional advantages over MPEG with respect to random frame access, but at the expense of increased storage and bandwidth requirements.

History
From 1997 to 2000, the JPEG 2000 image compression standard was developed by a Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) committee chaired by Swiss-Iranian engineer Touradj Ebrahimi (later the JPEG president). In contrast to the original 1992 JPEG standard, which is a discrete cosine transform (DCT) based lossy compression format for static digital images, JPEG 2000 is a discrete wavelet transform (DWT) based compression standard that could be adapted for motion imaging video compression with the Motion JPEG 2000 extension. JPEG 2000 technology was later selected as the video coding standard for digital cinema in 2004.

See also
 Motion JPEG

References
 digitalpreservation.gov Motion JPEG 2000 File Format Sustainability of Digital Formats - Planning for Library of Congress Collections

External links
 JPEG 2000 Official website, part 3 Motion JPEG 2000.
 Digital cinema reels from motion JPEG2000 advances
 OpenJPEG homepage open-source JPEG 2000 codec written in C, developed to promote the use of JPEG 2000.
 GitHub page for OpenJPEG
 Documentation for the Openjpeg Motion JPEG 2000 utilities.

Motion-JPEG 2000
Graphics file formats
ISO/IEC standards
ITU-T recommendations
Iranian inventions
Swiss inventions


title: List of NCIS: New Orleans episodes

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NCIS: New Orleans is an American television series that premiered on CBS on September 23, 2014. The series is set in New Orleans, Louisiana, and follows the stories of the members of the local office of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS). The program and its characters were introduced in a two-part episode during the eleventh season of the television series NCIS on March 25 and April 1, 2014. NCIS: New Orleans was renewed for a sixth season on April 22, 2019, which premiered on September 24, 2019. On May 6, 2020, NCIS: New Orleans was renewed for the seventh season, which premiered on November 8, 2020. On February 17, 2021, it was announced that the seventh season will be the series' final season.

Series overview

Episodes

Introductory episodes
The program and its characters are introduced during the eleventh season of NCIS. The NCIS episodes, "Crescent City (Part I)" and "Crescent City (Part II)", served as backdoor pilot episodes for the show. These episodes are included in the NCIS Season 11 DVD set. In the UK the two episodes were screened on Channel 5 as a feature-length premiere episode of NCIS: New Orleans.

Season 1 (2014–15)

Season 2 (2015–16)

Season 3 (2016–17)

Season 4 (2017–18)

Season 5 (2018–19)

Season 6 (2019–20)

Season 7 (2020–21)

Home media

References

External links

NCIS: Orleans
NCIS: New Orleans
NCIS: New Orleans
NCIS: New Orleans


title: Crosscurrent (Chase Baird album)

text:
Crosscurrent is a contemporary jazz record by saxophonist Chase Baird. It is his first album as a leader.

Track listing
All tracks composed by Chase Baird; except where indicated

"Fifth Direction" – 5:18
"Crosscurrent" – 6:31
"Infinite Motion" – 6:22
"What's New?" (Bob Haggart and Johnny Burke) – 7:16
"Lunessence" – 6:47
"The Traveler" – 9:05
"Cascade" – 6:36
"Dusk" – 6:14
"All of You" (Cole Porter) – 9:07

Personnel
 Chase Baird – tenor saxophone
 Julian Waterfall Pollack – piano, keyboards
 John Storie – guitar
 Chris Tordini – acoustic bass
 Steve Lyman – drums
 James Yoshizawa – percussion

References

External links

2010 albums
Chase Baird albums


title: Portuense

text:
Portuense is the 11th  of Rome (Italy), identified by the initials Q.XI.

The toponym is also used to indicate the urbanistic area 15b, in the Municipio XV. The population of the urbanistic area amounts to 30.362 inhabitants.

There is also a  (suburb) with the same name, identified by the initials S.VII.

History
Portuense is one of the first 15 Quartieri born in 1911 and officially established in 1921. It took its name from the ancient Via Portuense.

Geography
The quartiere is in the southern area of the town, close to the Aurelian Walls and to the river Tiber.

The territory of Portuense includes the urban zones 15B Ostiense and 15C Pian Due Torri, a great portion of the urban zone 16A Marconi as well as a little part of the urban zone 16D Gianicolense.

Boundaries
To the north, Portuense borders with Rione Trastevere (R. XIII), whose border is shortly marked by Piazza di Porta Portese. It also borders with Rione Testaccio (R.XX), from which is separated by the stretch of the Tiber between Ponte Testaccio and Ponte dell'Industria.

Eastward, the quartiere borders with Ostiense (Q.X) and with Europa (Q.XXXII), from which is separated by the stretch of the Tiber between Ponte dell'Industria and the Magliana Viaduct.

To the south-west, it borders with Suburbio Portuense (S. VII), whose border is marked by the Magliana Viaduct, by a short stretch of the Autostrada Roma-Fiumicino, by Via Salvatore Satta, Largo Giuseppe Petrelli, Via dell'Imbrecciato, Via Bolgheri, Via Riccardo Lombardi, and by another stretch of Via dell'Imbrecciato up to Via Portuense.

Westward, Portuense borders with Quartiere Gianicolense (Q.XII), whose boundary is defined by Via Portuense, Via Ettore Rolli and by another stretch of Via Portuense.

Local geography
Main roads and squares of the quartiere are:
 Via della Magliana, connecting Portuense to the neighborhood of Magliana, which is comprised in Suburbio Portuense;
 Viale Guglielmo Marconi, a huge thoroughfare which connects the district to Quartiere Ostiense and to Via Cristoforo Colombo;
 Piazza della Radio, at the end of Viale Guglielmo Marconi;
 Piazza Antonio Meucci, a rectangular square with a garden and a playground in the middle;
 Piazza Fabrizio De André.

Streets and squares are mostly named after inventors, scientists and politicians, particularly Mayors of Rome. Local toponyms can be categorized as follows:
 Mayors of Rome, e.g. Augusto Armellini, Prospero Colonna, Francesco Crispigni, Andrea Doria Pamphilj, Ernesto Nathan, Leopoldo Ruspoli, Giannetto Valli, Pietro Venturi;
 Patriots, e.g. Pasquale Baffi, Antonio Fratti, Pietro Frattini, Giuseppe Guerzoni, Nicola Laurantoni, Augusto Lorenzini, Pietro Maroncelli, Ernesto Teodoro Moneta, Giuseppe Sirtori, Vincenzo Statella;
 Politicians, e.g. Lenin, Riccardo Lombardi, Errico Malatesta, Agostino Novella;
 Scientists, engineers and inventors, e.g. Amedeo Avogadro, Eugenio Barsanti, Angelo Bellani, Gerolamo Cardano, Nicola Cavalieri, Bartolomeo Cristofori, Alessandro Cruto, Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi, Stefano Longanesi, Guglielmo Mengarini, Antonio Pacinotti, Pietro Paleocapa, Giuseppe Peano, Piero Puricelli, Augusto Righi, Ascanio Sobrero;
 Towns in Tuscany, e.g. Bagni di Lucca, Certaldo, Collodi, Lari, Pescaglia, Prato, Scarperia, Sesto Fiorentino, Vaiano, Vicopisano.

Places of interest

Churches
 Santa Passera
 Santi Aquila e Priscilla
Santa Silvia

Parks
 Villa Bonelli

Notes

Bibliography

Carlo Pietrangeli, Insegne e stemmi dei rioni di Roma in «Capitolium», n. 6, 1953 (XXVIII)

Neighbourhoods in Italy


title: James Halyburton (1707 MP)

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James Halyburton (or Haliburton) of Pitcur was a Scottish landowner and politician.

Biography
Halyburton was the only son of David Halyburton of Pitcur and his wife Agnes Wedderburn. The Halyburtons of Pitcur were descended from a younger son of Walter Haliburton of Dirleton, Treasurer of Scotland, and members of the family had sat in the Parliament of Scotland in 1560 and in 1617. Halyburton's father David was killed fighting for the Jacobites at the Battle of Killiecrankie, and the son was only permitted to succeed to the estates in 1700.

Halyburton was elected to represent the barons of Forfarshire in the Parliament of Scotland in 1702, and was made a commissioner of justiciary for the Highlands the same year. In Parliament he supported the Squadrone and after the Act of Union 1707 he was one of the Scottish representatives to the first Parliament of Great Britain. He did not stand at the general election in 1708. He was made a burgess of Ayr in 1708.

Halyburton's first wife was Catherine, daughter of Sir John Hall, 1st Baronet of Dunglass. They were the parents of Colonel James Halyburton of Pitcur and of Agatha, who married James Douglas, 13th Earl of Morton. He was married secondly, by contract dated 8 December 1710, Mary, daughter of George Drummond of Blair Drummond; they had no children. Halyburton is said to have died in about 1743, but his son James was not served as his heir until 1755.

References

Year of birth missing
1740s deaths
18th-century Scottish landowners
Shire Commissioners to the Parliament of Scotland
Members of the Parliament of Scotland 1702–1707
Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Scottish constituencies
British MPs 1707–1708
James


title: Somebody (Bonnie McKee song)

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Somebody is a song by American singer-songwriter Bonnie McKee from her debut album Trouble (2004). The song was written by McKee, Robert Orrall, and Al Anderson, while production was mainly handled by Rob Cavallo with help from Antonina Armato. The song was released as the second single from the album sometime during 2004. A music video was released sometime during 2004. "Somebody" was featured on the soundtrack of the 2004 film Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!, which McKee also appeared in.

Background and release

Composition
The song was written by McKee, Robert Orrall, and Al Anderson, while production was mainly handled by Rob Cavallo with help from Antonina Armato. "Somebody" is a slow pop song, featuring bass guitars with a piano and drum background. McKee wrote it inspired by Magnolia, where one of her idols Aimee Mann had the song "Save Me" featured, and described it as "kind of a ballad, just looking for that ’somebody,’ if you will. I believe in it and I hope everyone else does too.”

Release history
"Somebody" was released with Bonnie McKee's debut four-song EP Bonnie McKee on December 9, 2003. The song was released as a single when it was sent to adult album alternative radio on June 28, 2004. It was released physically on July 20, 2004, and contained the original version along with an acoustic version. The song was promoted heavily in internet radio service LAUNCHcast, where by November 2004 it was the tenth most played track on the website.

It was later released with McKee's first full length Trouble on September 7, 2004. A radio mix of the song was included in the compilation album The Artist Lounge Sampler (released April 12, 2005)  while the original version was included in  Warner Bros' compilation extended play Ahead of the June '04.

A music video for the song was released in 2004.

Track listing
Digital download / CD
"Somebody" – 4:12
"Somebody (Acoustic Version)"  – 3:45

Reception
The song earned good reviews, with Billboard describing "Somebody" as "a powerful anthem". "Somebody" entered the Adult Top 40 chart on September 18, 2004 at No. 39 and fell off the chart the following week.

Weekly charts

References

Bonnie McKee songs
2004 songs
Songs written by Bonnie McKee
Songs written by Al Anderson (NRBQ)
Songs written by Robert Ellis Orrall
Music videos directed by Meiert Avis
Song recordings produced by Rob Cavallo


title: Olumide Durojaiye

text:
Scott Olumide Durojaiye (born 20 October 1992) is a Nigerian semi-professional footballer who last played as a midfielder for Dover Athletic.

He played youth football for Tottenham Hotspur and Norwich City, before joining Scottish sides Falkirk and Brechin City. He has also played for non-league clubs Braintree Town, Enfield Town, Dartford, Hayes & Yeading United, Hungerford Town, Haringey Borough, Maidstone United, Welling United and Woking.

Club career
Durojaiye joined Tottenham Hotspur at the age of seven and worked his way through the ranks up to the Under-18s as a striker. After failing to be offered a professional contract, trialled with Cheltenham Town, Brentford and Oxford United before moving to Norwich City in August 2012. He signed a one-year professional deal but was released at the end of the season.

In July 2013, Durojaiye signed for Scottish Championship club Falkirk. He spent two seasons at the club before his release in May 2015.

On 20 February 2015, Durojaiye joined Scottish League One side Brechin City on loan for the remainder of the season.

Durojaiye joined Isthmian League Premier Division club Enfield Town ahead of the 2015–16 season. He failed to score for the club in 12 appearances and was released in early November. The following month, he completed a move to Haringey Borough.

In February 2016, Durojaiye joined Hayes & Yeading United and began playing in a defensive role. After a short spell at Hungerford Town ahead of the 2016–17 season, he returned to Hayes & Yeading for a second time in October 2016. He went on to score twice in 20 appearances for the club.

In December 2016, he returned to Haringey Borough. Durojaiye made 20 appearances for the club, including in the Isthmian League Division One North play-off semi-final, and scored braces against Bury Town and Great Wakering Rovers.

In August 2017, Durojaiye joined National League South club Welling United after impressing in a pre-season trial. On 5 August, he made his debut replacing Toby Ajala in a 3–2 defeat to Truro City.

Durojaiye joined Braintree Town for the 2017–18 season. On 10 September 2018, it was announced that Durojaiye had left the club despite starting all seven league fixtures.

On 21 September 2018, following his departure from Braintree, Durojaiye agreed to join fellow National League side, Maidstone United.

On 26 February 2019, Olumide agreed to join National League South side Woking, following a spell back at Haringey Borough.

Despite gaining promotion during his spell with Woking, prior to the 2019–20 campaign, Durojaiye opted to return to Haringey Borough once more.

On 22 January 2021, Durojaiye rejoined National League South side Welling United. On 18 March 2022, Welling United announced that Durojaiye was one of five players that had left the club.

On 26 March 2022, Durojaiye joined Dartford. He made his debut for the club on the same day, coming on as a second-half substitute in a 1-0 victory at Princes Park against Hampton & Richmond Borough.

On 6 July 2022, Durojaiye joined Hereford. However, on 3 August 2022 - under a month after signing for Hereford and before the National League North 2022-23 season kicked off - Durojaiye left the club having only appeared in a handful of pre-season friendlies.

On 30 July 2023, Durojaiye signed for National League South club Dover Athletic, however departed just one month later having failed to make an appearance.

International career
Durojaiye is eligible to play for Nigeria and England and has previously expressed his desire to represent Nigeria. He was called up to the Under-20 Development squad.

Career statistics

References

1992 births
Living people
Welling United F.C. players
Falkirk F.C. players
Brechin City F.C. players
Enfield Town F.C. players
Haringey Borough F.C. players
Hayes & Yeading United F.C. players
Hungerford Town F.C. players
Braintree Town F.C. players
Maidstone United F.C. players
Woking F.C. players
Dartford F.C. players
Hereford F.C. players
Dover Athletic F.C. players
National League (English football) players
Isthmian League players
Southern Football League players
Scottish Professional Football League players
Men's association football midfielders
Nigerian men's footballers
Nigerian expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in England
Expatriate men's footballers in Scotland
Black British sportsmen


title: Acropora tenuis

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Acropora tenuis is a species of acroporid coral found in the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden, the southwest, northwest and northern Indian Ocean, the Persian Gulf, the central Indo-Pacific, Australia, Southeast Asia, Japan, the East China Sea and the oceanic west and central Pacific Ocean. It occurs in tropical shallow reefs on upper slopes and in subtidal habitats, at depths of .

Description
It occurs in corymbose colonies containing orderly-spaced branchlets. It has tube-shaped axial corallites and radial corallites have flaring lips. It is blue, cream, yellow or green in colour, and is similar to Acropora vermiculata.

Distribution
It is classed as a near threatened species on the IUCN Red List and it is believed that its population is decreasing; the species is listed under Appendix II of CITES. Figures of its population are unknown, but is likely to be threatened by the global reduction of coral reefs, the increase of temperature causing coral bleaching, climate change, human activity, the crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster planci) and disease. It occurs in the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden, the southwest, northwest and northern Indian Ocean, the Persian Gulf, the central Indo-Pacific, Australia, Southeast Asia, Japan, the East China Sea, and the oceanic western and central Pacific Ocean. It is found at depths of between  in tropical shallow reefs on upper slopes and in subtidal areas.

Biology
Acropora tenuis is a simultaneous hermaphrodite. Spawning takes place once a year and is synchronised among the colonies in any one locality. Packets of eggs and sperm are released into the water column and, being buoyant, rise to the surface. Here the packets break up and cross-fertilisation takes place with gametes from different colonies intermixing.

References

Acropora
Corals described in 1846
Near threatened animals


title: Youri Kalenga

text:
Youri Kayembre Kalenga (born March 27, 1988) is a Congolese-French professional boxer. He is the former WBA interim Cruiserweight champion.

Professional career
On June 21, 2014, Kalenga defeated Mateusz Masternak by twelfth round split decision to win the interim WBA Cruiserweight title.

In May 2016 Kalenga was stopped by Yuniel Dorticos in the 10th round in a fight for the vacant interim WBA title.

Professional boxing record

References

External links

1988 births
Living people
Cruiserweight boxers
French male boxers
Democratic Republic of the Congo male boxers


title: Acropora teres

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Acropora teres is a species of acroporid coral found in the central Indo-Pacific, Southeast Asia, Japan, the East China Sea and the oceanic western Pacific Ocean. It is found in tropical shallow reefs on slopes and in lagoons, at depths of between . The taxonomic status of this species is uncertain. It was described as Madrepora teres by Verrill in 1866.

Description
It occurs in arborescent colonies containing a number of twisted branches. Its branches sometimes divide and contain axial and radial corallites. The radial corallites are immersed in the branches and are small, and have circular openings. It has small axial corallites. The species is white in colour and has a similar appearance to Acropora abrolhosensis and Acropora formosa.

Distribution
It is classed as a data deficient species on the IUCN Red List, but it is believed that its population is decreasing in line with the global decline of coral reefs, and it is listed under Appendix II of CITES. Figures of its population are unknown, but is likely to be threatened by the global reduction of coral reefs, the increase of temperature causing coral bleaching, climate change, human activity, the crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster planci) and disease. It occurs in the central Indo-Pacific, southeast Asia, Japan, the East China Sea and the oceanic western Pacific Ocean. It is found at depths of between  in tropical shallow reefs on slopes and in lagoons.

Taxonomy
It was described as Madrepora teres by Verrill in 1866. The taxonomic status of it is currently uncertain.

References

Acropora
Corals described in 1866


title: Jondal Tunnel

text:
The Jondal Tunnel () is a road tunnel in the Hardanger region of Vestland county, Norway.  The tunnel is part of Norwegian County Road 49 and it lies in Kvinnherad and Ullensvang municipalities.  The  long tunnel was built to offer a better route between the cities of Bergen and Oslo.  Cars can drive from Bergen to Tørvikbygda, then take a ferry to Jondal, then go through this tunnel, then a short drive to the Folgefonna Tunnel before getting to the town of Odda.  From there it is a short drive on the narrow route 13 to the European route E134 highway which leads to Oslo.

Work on the tunnel began in October 2009.  The tunnel was opened on 7 September 2012 by Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg.  The project cost almost . For the first 6 years of its use (until 2018), there was a toll for using the tunnel:   for small vehicles and  for large vehicles. This was reduced in 2018 and on 8 June 2020 the toll was removed.

References

Ullensvang
Kvinnherad
Road tunnels in Vestland


title: Jigsaw (tool)

text:
A jigsaw is a saw which uses a reciprocating blade to cut irregular curves, such as stenciled designs, in wood, metal, or other materials.

Jigsaws first emerged in the 19th century and employed a treadle to operate the blade, which was thin and under tension, being secured at both ends to an oscillating frame. This kind of saw is now usually called a scroll saw.

The modern portable jigsaw, with a rigid blade secured at one end and cutting on the up-stroke, was introduced in 1947 by Scintilla AG (later acquired by Bosch).

A jigsaw power tool is made up of an electric motor and a reciprocating saw blade. Jigsaws with sole plates that have a beveling function can cut angles typically up to 45 degrees relative to the normal vertical stroke to make miter joints. Portable jigsaws have historically been mains-powered, but are increasingly being displaced by battery-powered models.

The tool's ability to carve out irregular shapes lends its name to the jigsaw puzzle, whereby each tile is shaped to connect to its neighbors.

History
In 1946 Albert Kaufmann, an engineer of Scintilla AG company in Solothurn, Switzerland, replaced the needle on his wife's sewing machine with a saw blade. In 1947, after development of Kaufmann's invention, Scintilla started producing jigsaws under name "Lesto jigsaw". In 1954 Scintilla was acquired by Bosch.
An important innovation by Scintilla-Bosch in 1966 was the "pendulum action", where the blade tilts forward in the upward (cutting) stroke, and back for the down-stroke, ejecting the chips, so the blade runs cooler and cuts faster. A significant model was the Bosch "LESTO 8 554" in which the degree of "pendulum action" could be selected to suit the material being cut.
Such a mechanism introduces additional purchase and maintenance costs, and manufacture of such models may have ceased in recent years.
Many modern jigsaws have an adjustment for tilting the blade tip forward, but at a static, fixed angle, claiming similar benefits.

Blades
A Jigsaw works by attaching a blade accessory to the tool. There are various types of blades in the market. Older jigsaws require a blade to be screwed into the tool. But since Bosch introduced the first tool-free blade change system, most manufacturers now offer a similar setup allowing a quick & tool-free blade change.

There are T-shank blades and U-shank blades available in the accessory market. T-Shank blades are the industry-standard professional interface that provides a longer life and a tighter fit from the blade to the tool.

Tooth design is important for the performance of a blade. The tooth spacing, tooth shape, and cutting angle are important in providing speed, cleanliness of cuts, and optimal performance. A side set and ground tooth is designed for clean and fast cuts in wood and plastics. Wavy set and milled teeth will cut most metals as well as plastics. A side set and milled tooth works with fast and rougher cuts in wood and plastics. A ground and taper-ground tooth is for precise, fine and clean cuts in wood. There are also blades with reduced-kerf carbide and diamond grit edges for fast cutting in hard materials.

Blade material
Different blade materials are used for different applications to improve blade life and cutting performance.

High-carbon steel (HCS) is used for softer materials such as wood, laminated particle board, and plastics due to its flexibility.

High-speed steel (HSS) withstands higher temperatures and can cut many types of metals.

Bi-Metal (BIM) blades contain a combination of high-carbon steel and high-speed steel. The combination creates a strong and flexible material that can be used for demanding applications where there is a risk of breakage or when extreme flexibility and versatility is required. Bi-Metal blades have longer lifespans and prolonged job performance compared to other types of blades.

Tungsten carbide (TC) blades have the strength to cut through abrasive materials such as reinforced plastics, fiberglass, cement board, stainless steel, tile, glass, cast iron, and brick.

Diamond-grit blades are extremely versatile, as they can cut rough materials such as hard porcelain tile, granite, slate, marble, and other stones due to their finely milled particles. This makes their uses similar to carbide blades, although diamond-grit blades typically last longer.

Controllability
Control is an issue with jigsaws; the blades are small and weak, with the lower end entirely unsupported. Good cut control requires the presence of blade rollers, which keep the blade aligned just above the sole plate. In addition, heavy-cast sole plate saws are somewhat better than pressed steel for sawing line control. To guide a jigsaw on curved cut, it must be steered (turned) and not forced to move sideways. The use of sharp blades is important as well to get high quality cuts.

See also
 Sabre saw, an older name for the jig saw but sometimes a synonym for reciprocating saw.
 Reciprocating saw, used in demolition and construction, heavier and easier to use on vertical surfaces.

References

External links

Metalworking cutting tools
Saws
Woodworking tools
Woodworking hand-held power tools
Swiss inventions


title: Yoshimitsu (disambiguation)

text:
Yoshimitsu is a name used by several video game player characters, first appearing in the original Tekken and Soulcalibur series of fighting games by Namco.

Yoshimitsu may also refer to:

People
 Yoshimitsu Abe (1868–1969)
, Japanese boxer
 Yoshimitsu Banno (1931–2017)
, Japanese golfer
, Japanese bobsledder
 Yoshimitsu Morita (1950–2011)
, Japanese weightlifter
 Yoshimitsu Shimoyama (born 1976)
 Yoshimitsu Takashima (born 1941)
 Yoshimitsu Yamada (born 1938)
 Ashikaga Yoshimitsu (1358–1408), the Muromachi shōgun
 Minamoto no Yoshimitsu (1045–1127), the Heian period samurai

Characters
Yoshimitsu, a character in Senran Kagura: New Wave

Japanese masculine given names
Masculine given names


title: Acropora valida

text:
Acropora valida is a species of acroporid coral found in the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden, the southwestern, northwestern and northern Indian Ocean, the Persian Gulf, the central Indo-Pacific, Australia, southeast Asia, Japan, the East China Sea, the oceanic western, central and far eastern Pacific Ocean, the northwestern Hawaiian Islands and Johnston Atoll. It occurs in tropical shallow reefs in a variety of reef habitats, at depths of .

Taxonomy
It was originally described as Madrepora valida by Dana in 1846.

Description
It is found in colonies of varying shapes, with diameters sometimes above . It has small axial corallites and its radial corallites are appressed and in a variety of sizes. It is brown, cream, or yellow in colour, and branch tips are sometimes purple. It looks similar to Acropora variabilis.

Distribution
It is classed as a least concern species on the IUCN Red List, but it is believed that its population is decreasing in line with the global decline of coral reefs, and it is listed under Appendix II of CITES. Figures of its population are unknown, but is likely to be threatened by the global reduction of coral reefs, the increase of temperature causing coral bleaching, climate change, human activity, the crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster planci) and disease. It occurs in the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden, the southwestern, northwestern and northern Indian Ocean, the Persian Gulf, the central Indo-Pacific, Australia, southeast Asia, Japan, the East China Sea, the oceanic western, central and far eastern Pacific Ocean, the northwestern Hawaiian Islands and Johnston Atoll. It is found at depths of between  in tropical shallow reefs in a large range of reef habitats.

References

Acropora
Cnidarians of the Pacific Ocean
Fauna of the Indian Ocean
Fauna of the Red Sea
Marine fauna of Asia
Marine fauna of Oceania
Fauna of Southeast Asia
Vulnerable fauna of Asia
Vulnerable fauna of Oceania
Corals described in 1846


title: Quanto è bello lu murire acciso

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Quanto è bello lu murire acciso, also known as The Expedition and How Wonderful to Die Assassinated, is a 1976 Italian historical drama film directed by Ennio Lorenzini. It depicts the failed  expedition  organized by Carlo Pisacane in 1857 to provoke a rising in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.

For this film Lorenzini won the Nastro d'Argento for Best New Director and a special David di Donatello.

Cast

Giulio Brogi as Major De Liguoro
Stefano Satta Flores as  Carlo Pisacane
Angela Goodwin as Enrichetta
Bruno Corazzari as  'Ntoni
Alessandro Haber as  Nicotera

See also

 List of Italian films of 1976

References

External links

1976 films
Italian drama films
Films set in 1857
Films about revolutions
Italian films based on actual events
1976 directorial debut films
1970s Italian films


title: Center of Alcohol Studies

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The Center of Alcohol Studies (CAS) is a multidisciplinary research institute located in the Busch Campus of Rutgers University, which performs clinical and biomedical research on alcohol use and misuse. The center was originally at Yale University and known as the Yale Center of Alcohol Studies, before it moved to Rutgers in 1962. The CAS is also home to the peer-reviewed Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs (JSAD), the oldest journal on alcohol studies; and a library of alcohol literature. Early research in the 1940s at the CAS helped support the disease model of addiction that helped change public perception on alcohol consumption.

History
The CAS was the first research institute dedicated to alcohol studies after the 21st amendment to the U.S. Constitution repealed prohibition in 1933. The center was founded at Yale as a research area in the Applied Physiology department in 1935. E. Morton Jellinek was Director of the Center until the 1950s, and stepped down when he was offered a position at the World Health Organization. He was replaced by Selden D. Bacon. The Yale Center of Alcohol Studies opened the first Summer School of Alcohol Studies in 1943, and in 1944 opened a free clinic devoted to treating alcoholism. The Summer School still continues every year. The CAS at Yale funded the early years of the National Council on Alcoholism (NCA; now known as the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence, NCAAD).

In the 1960s, there was a new President at Yale. Around this time, the Yale Corporation voted to move the Center to a new location, negotiating mainly with Brown, Columbia and Rutgers University. The center moved to Rutgers University in 1962, with financial assistance from the National Institutes of Health and philanthropist Christopher D. Smithers. Biochemist David Lester was appointed scientific director of the CAS after it moved to Rutgers. In 1964, the Center moved again to Smithers Hall, where the CAS is located today.

Interest in Alcohol studies increased in the United States in the 1970s. In December 1970, the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAA) was created as part of the National Institutes of Health. The NIAA began to fund research at the CAS in the 1970s.

Journal

While the CAS was still considered part of the Laboratory of Applied Physiology (LAP) located at Yale, Howard W. Haggard in 1940 founded the Quarterly Journal of Studies on Alcohol, the oldest journal on alcohol/addiction studies. The journal published both original research and abstracts from other sources. In 1941, Jellinek was managing editor of the journal. For several years Mark Keller was editor of the Quarterly from 1959 to 1977 and was named editor emeritus after his retirement. The Mark Keller Award was created in his honor for the best article in the journal. Timothy Coffey succeeded Keller.

The journal was later renamed the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and became a monthly publication in 1975. Again the journal was renamed to the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs. It is currently a bimonthly publication.

Library

Classified Abstract Archive of the Alcohol Literature
The Classified Abstract Archive of the Alcohol Literature (CAAAL) is a special collection of abstracts by CAS staff from 1938 through 1977 of the scientific and scholarly alcohol literature. Jellinek was the original executive director. Publication ceased in 1978.

Donations
The Center has received several donations, including the Connor Alcohol Research Reference Files (CARRF).  National Association of Lesbian and Gay Alcoholism Professionals (NALGAP), donated a library of research related to alcoholism and homosexuality.

Research

The CAS operates these laboratories:

Biomedical
 Neuropharmacogenetics
 Neuropharmacology

Prevention and cause
 Cardiac Neuroscience Laboratory
 Health and Human Development Project
 Integrative Analysis Research Lab for College Alcohol Intervention Research
 Pittsburgh Youth Study
 R-SHARE
 RASRR
 Sensation and Emotion Lab

See also
 Alcohol and health
 Helene Raskin White
 Center for Drug and Alcohol Programs

References

External links
 Official website
 Official website for the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs

Rutgers University
Alcohol abuse in the United States
1935 establishments in Connecticut


title: Timeline of LGBT history in New York City

text:
New York has a long history of LGBT community building, activism, and culture which extends to the early history of the city.

Timeline of events
1890s

Manhattan's Bowery was known to host "fairy resorts", saloons or dance halls for male gays, (known as fairies at the time). These 'resorts' included the venues: Paresis Hall, Little Bucks, Manilla Hall, the Palm Club of Chrystie Street, the Black Rabbit at 183 Bleecker Street, and The Slide at 157 Bleecker Street were the site of many gay and drag queen performers gaining recognition as entertainers in New York. The 1890s gay scene in the Bowery was described by Earl Lind in her autobiography, Autobiography of an Androgyne, published in two volumes in 1919 and 1922.

1924

God of Vengeance (1907), written by Sholem Asch opens as the first commercially produced play on Broadway with a lesbian theme. Soon after, the theatre owner and the entire cast of 12 was arrested and found guilty of obscenity.

1926

Police raid on Eve's Hangout on June 11 results in its closure. Its owner, Eva Kotchever, was arrested, found guilty of obscenity and deported to Europe. She was assassinated at Auschwitz during World War II.

1927

The New York State Assembly amends a public-obscenity code to include a ban of depictions of gayness onstage in what is called 'the padlock bill.'

1939

New York City closes most of the city's best-known gay bars in preparation for the 1939 New York World's Fair.

1940

Courts rule New York State Liquor Authority can legally close down bars that serve "sex variants."

1945

After many LGBT personnel were discharged from military service during World War II, the Quaker Emergency Committee of New York City opens the first social welfare agency for gay people, serving young people arrested on same-sex charges. The group was disbanded in 1954 because of disagreement whether its goals were to 'cure' LGBT persons or to assist them with more basic social and welfare needs.

1956

New York Author James Baldwin publishes the novel Giovanni's Room, which features a gay male narrator. The book was well received by critics.

1962

The first known pro-LGBT radio program, a 90-minute special with Randy Wicker airs on the station, WBAI in New York City.

1967
April 21: New York decides that it can no longer forbid bars from serving gay men and lesbians after activists stage a "Sip-In" at Julius, a bar.

1967

Craig Rodwell opens the Oscar Wilde Memorial Bookshop, the first gay bookstore in the U.S., in Greenwich Village.

1969
Saturday 28 June – Stonewall riots
In November Craig Rodwell, Fred Sargaent, Ellen Broidy, and Linda Rhodes proposed the first gay Pride parade to be held in New York City by way of a resolution at the Eastern Regional Conference of Homophile Organizations. The parade was originally named "Christopher Street Liberation Day." It was held Sunday, June 28, 1970.

1970

Gay “zaps” were first used against New York City Mayor John Lindsay.

1971

The Gay & Lesbian Switchboard of New York is founded.

1972
The Ithaca Statement on Bisexuality, sparked by Stephen Donaldson aka Donny the Punk, came out of the annual national gathering of Quakers, Friends General Conference, and was published in The Advocate. It "was certainly the first statement on bisexuality issued by an American religious assembly" and led to an ongoing organization, the Committee of Friends on Bisexuality.
 The National Bisexual Liberation Group first forms in New York. The group issued the first bisexual newsletter, The Bisexual Expression.
 Parents & Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) is founded in New York after cofounder Jeanne Manford held a sign in the Christopher Street Liberation Day Parade. The sign read; “Parents of gays: unite in support of our children", in support of her openly gay son, Morty.
 The Metropolitan Community Church, an LGBT Christian Church, opened on West 36th Street.

1973
The Lesbian Herstory Archives is founded by members of the Gay Academic Union, and hosted in Joan Nestle's Upper West Side apartment.

1980
November 19: An armed man targeting gay bars kills two and wounds six in Greenwich Village.

1981
January 15: Nick Rock becomes first known AIDS death in New York City.
July 3: The New York Times publishes the first news article about AIDS.

1982
 Gay Men's Health Crisis is founded.
 By 1982, there had been 272 cumulative deaths by AIDS in New York.

1983
 By 1983, there had been 860 cumulative deaths by AIDS in New York.

1984
 By 1984, there had been 1,969 cumulative deaths by AIDS in New York.

1985
 The first school for openly lesbian and gay teenagers opens in New York City, Harvey Milk High School.
 By 1985, there had been 3,798 cumulative deaths by AIDS in New York.

1986
 By 1986, there had been 6,505 cumulative deaths by AIDS in New York.

1987
ACT UP (the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) is founded in New York City at the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center.
BiNet USA, an organization which develops Bisexual community resources and educational information was founded. BiNet is the oldest national bisexuality organization in the United States.
 By 1987, there had been 9,851 cumulative deaths by AIDS in New York.

1988
 The New York Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, & Transgender Film Festival first premieres.
 By 1988, there had been 14,144 cumulative deaths by AIDS in New York.

1989
 By 1989, there had been 19,492 cumulative deaths by AIDS in New York.

2011
 July 24: Same-sex marriage in New York becomes legal under the Marriage Equality Act (New York) passed by the New York State Legislature.

2015
 J. Christopher Neal became the first openly bisexual New York City LGBT Pride March Grand Marshal.

2016
 Hillary Clinton became the first presumptive presidential nominee from any major party to march in the New York City LGBT Pride March.

2018
 Peppermint made her Broadway debut in The Go-Go's-inspired musical Head Over Heels. The show began previews on June 23, 2018, and officially opened July 26; playing the role of Pythio, Peppermint became the first trans woman to originate a principal role on Broadway.

See also
LGBT culture in New York City

References

External links
 Stonewall Forever a Monument to 50 Years of Pride Stonewall National Monument

Culture of New York City

LGBT timelines
LGBT


title: 2014 NCAA Division I FCS football rankings

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Two human polls comprise the 2014 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) football rankings, in addition to various publications' preseason polls. Unlike the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS), college football's governing body, the NCAA, bestows the national championship title through a 24-team tournament. The following weekly polls determine the top 25 teams at the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision level of college football for the 2014 season. The Sports Network poll is voted by media members while the Coaches' Poll is determined by coaches at the FCS level.

Legend

The Sports Network Poll

Coaches' Poll

References

Rankings
NCAA Division I FCS football rankings


title: LGBT culture in Portland, Oregon

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LGBT culture in Portland, Oregon is an important part of Pacific Northwest culture.

History
 Portland vice scandal
 Burnside Triangle
 Jeannace June Freeman's murder of lesbian partner at Peter Skene Ogden State Scenic Viewpoint (1961)
 "Lesbian Roommate" obscenity trial
 Resolution Number 31510
 WomanShare and other lesbian land movements
 Ballot Measure 8 (1988), ruled unconstitutional in 1993
 1989 Hate Crimes Law
 Tanner vs OHSU domestic partner lawsuit, 1991
 1992 Springfield anti-equal-rights ballot measure passes
 1992 statewide anti-gay Measure 9 rejected
 1994 statewide anti-gay Measure 13 rejected
 2000 statewide anti-gay Measure 9 rejected
 2004 gay marriages briefly take place in Multnomah County, ruled illegal 2005
 2004 statewide constitutional Measure 36 gay marriage ban
 2007 statewide anti-discrimination bill
 2018 The City of Portland renames a 13-block stretch of Southwest Stark Street to commemorate Harvey Milk

Events

Portland's annual pride parade is primarily organized by Pride Northwest. Peacock in the Park is another annual event, running from 1987 to 2005, and, again, from 2014 to the present. The La Femme Magnifique International Pageant is an annual drag pageant. Oaks Park Roller Skating Rink has hosted Gay Skate monthly for 30 years, as of 2021.

Queer Horror is an ongoing bi-monthly film festival that is shown at the Hollywood Theatre. The Portland Queer Film Festival, formerly known as the Portland Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, has been running for more than twenty years and takes place at Cinema 21. The Portland Queer Documentary Film Festival screens LGBTQ documentaries.

In 2011, Hands Across Hawthorne was organized in response to an attack on two men who were holding hands on the Hawthorne Bridge, with over 4,000 attendees. Drag-a-thon was held in 2023.

LGBT establishments and nightlife

Current

Currently operating LGBT drinking establishments and nightclubs include: CC Slaughters, Crush Bar, Eagle Portland, Santé Bar, Scandals (1979), Silverado, and Stag PDX (2015). Silverado and Stag are also strip clubs, along with Fuzzy Navels. Back 2 Earth was established in 2023.

Coffin Club (formerly Lovecraft Bar) has also been described as an LGBT-friendly bar. The Sports Bra, established in 2022, is an LGBTQ-owned bar focused on women's sports. Rebel Rebel is in Old Town Chinatown. 2022 also saw the openings of the LGBTQ video bar Sissy Bar, and Doc Marie's, a lesbian bar. Misfits Bar and Lounge has been described as a "laidback queer hangout".

The drag venue Darcelle XV Showplace was established by Darcelle XV in 1967 and continues to host shows regularly. Other notable drag performers from Portland include Bolivia Carmichaels, Flawless Shade, and Poison Waters.

Gay bathhouses operating in Portland include Hawks PDX (2012–present) and Steam Portland (since 2003).

Monthly Blow Pony dances were established in Portland by Airick Redwolf in 2007. Inferno monthly dance parties hosted by Hot Flash Productions owner/operators DJ Wildfire (Jenn Davis) and Armida Hanlon that first began in Portland in 2004 and are now held regularly in Portland and Seattle. Portland also hosts Bearracuda dance events regularly.

The queer-owned vegan restaurant Mis Tacones was established as a pop-up restaurant in 2016 and relocated to a brick and mortar space in 2022. The queer-owned and operated Taqueria Los Puñales opened in 2020.

Former

Defunct establishments include Egyptian Club (1995–2010), Gail's Dirty Duck Tavern, Red Cap Garage (1987–2012), Starky's, and Three Sisters Tavern (1964–2004), which also operated as a strip club. The gay bathhouse Club Portland closed in 2007. Embers Avenue, established during the 1970s, and Escape Nightclub both closed in 2017.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Hobo's and Local Lounge closed in 2020 and 2021, respectively. In late 2021, Daniel Bund opened The Queen's Head, an English-style pub and lounge hosting drag shows and burlesque performances frequently. The bar closed in 2022.

The Roxy was an LGBT-friendly diner along Southwest Harvey Milk Street. The restaurant opened in 1994 and closed in March 2022. Sullivan's Gulch Bar & Grill (formerly known as Joq's Tavern, or simply Joq's) has also been described as an LGBT establishment. Shine Distillery and Grill, which closed in 2023, was described as a gay bar.

Barbarella

Located at Northwest 5th Avenue and Davis Street in Old Town Chinatown, Barbarella (sometimes Barbarella PDX) was a nightclub in a building which previously housed a "grimy" music venue called Someday Lounge, followed by the Las Vegas-inspired Fifth Avenue Lounge. The bar was part of an Austin, Texas-based chain of nightclubs. Andrew Jankowski of Willamette Week described Barbarella as "a dance club with dirt-cheap drinks, themed parties running from the '50s through the '80s and an overall vibe best described as 'a straight person's idea of a gay bar'".  He compared the bar to neighboring amusement arcade Ground Kontrol, but without the video games, and said, "Barbarella's aesthetic is as delightfully kitschy and low-budget as a bar named after a campy sci-fi cult classic should be." Jankowski wrote:On paper, Barbarella should be a sensation, particularly with central eastsiders who rarely deign to cross the river into the Old Town entertainment district. Sure, the lack of specialty drinks feels like a missed opportunity, and even the bartender recommended against ordering food. But with no cover charge and wells at or below $2 each, you'd imagine the place would be packed with people headed to or from the arcade bar, the gay strip club or the scores of other party spots in the neighborhood.Daily Xtra described Barbarella as a "video/dance dive bar" with dance parties, disc jockeys, and queer events in its 2019 overview of "gay Portland". The venue had two dance floors and a loft. The interior featured lava lamps, pinball machines, and mid-century modern furniture. There was a painting of a topless woman on one wall, as well as two "tributes" to Jane Fonda, who starred in the 1968 science fiction film Barbarella. According to Jankowski, "The only 21st-century features are the video projections and gently rippling rainbow LED lights behind the pre-existing sheet-metal grates."

Barbarella opened on February 14 (Valentine's Day), 2019, and closed during the COVID-19 pandemic. The venue had hosted Mac DeMarco.

Organizations

LGBT rights organization Basic Rights Oregon is based in Portland. Local LGBT-oriented organizations include Cascade AIDS Project, Q Center, and Bradley Angle which offers LGBTQ domestic violence services. Others include:

 Amazon Dragons, a lesbian competitive dragon boat team, founded in 1992.
 Pride Northwest
 A Woman's Place bookstore
 Black Lesbians and Gays United
 Dykes on Bikes PDX
 Equity Foundation (merged with Pride Foundation)
 Gay and Lesbian Archives of the Pacific Northwest
 In Other Words Feminist Community Center
 Lesbian Community Project (1986–2008)
 Love Makes a Family (1992–?), closed
 Metropolitan Community Church
 Northwest Gender Alliance
 Oregon Bears
 Portland Association of Gay Equality
 Portland Gay Men's Chorus
 Portland Lesbian Choir
 Q Center
 Right to Privacy / Right to Pride
 Second Foundation (1970–1972)
 Portland Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence
 Pride Northwest, annual pride parade organizers

Publications
LGBT publications have included Cascade Voice, Just Out, PQ Monthly, and The Eagle.

See also
 List of LGBT people from Portland, Oregon

References

External links
 Keeping It Queer in Portland on AfterEllen
 Oregon Gay History on Gay and Lesbian Archives of the Pacific Northwest


title: Dreissena rostriformis distincta

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Dreissena rostriformis distincta  is a (possible) subspecies of freshwater mussel, an aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Dreissenidae. It was originally described in 1897 as a variety of D. rostriformis by Andrusov (Andrusov, 1897: 273-276, pl. 14, figs. 18-24.)

The type locality was numerous localities in the Volga River, Caspian, Black and Marmara seas (both Recent and fossil).

However, the exact taxonomy of the species within the genus Dreissensa is uncertain. As Kantor et al. commented, "...the Russian specialists on fresh-water molluscs appeared to be “splitters” comparing with their western colleagues. This sometimes leads to extreme differences in opinion on species number and taxonomy of some groups."

References

Dreissenidae


title: Goodgame Studios

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Goodgame Studios is an online games company founded in 2009 by Kai Wawrzinek, Christian Wawrzinek and Fabian Ritter. The company is based in Hamburg, Germany, and part of the Stillfront Group since 2018. The company has created or acquired the rights to eight games, including Goodgame Empire, Jump Jupiter, Goodgame Big Farm, Goodgame Galaxy, Goodgame Hercules, Goodgame Gangster, Goodgame Disco, Goodgame Cafè, Goodgame Farmer, Goodgame Farmfever,  Goodgame Fashion, Goodgame Poker, Shadow Kings: Dark Ages, Legends of Honor, and Infernals. Goodgame Farmer was discontinued on February 28, 2013, while Goodgame Cafè, Goodgame Disco and Goodgame Fashion were deleted on November 3, 2016. Jump Jupiter, Goodgame Hercules and Goodgame Farmfever were also removed. The company's lifetime revenue crossed $1 billion in November 2017.

Available games

Browser

Mobile

Goodgame Empire
Goodgame Empire is a free-to-play medieval castle-building strategy game launched in 2011. Players will build a castle and use troops to attack both computer-controlled and player enemies; they can join alliances, complete quests and take part in events. Goodgame Empire is available for web browser; Empire: Four Kingdoms is available for Android and iOS. In the game, there are three main resource types. These three are food, wood, and stone. Besides those there are coins and rubies. When players reach level 50, they unlock access to sub-resources, such as mead, clay, paint, purified water, and rope.

The four kingdoms in the game's name are the Great Empire, the Everwinter Glacier, the Burning Sands and the Fire Peaks. The Great Empire is the main one, where the players build their first castle; as they reach higher levels, they can build a castle for each of the three other kingdoms, in which they can also produce special resources: coal in the Everwinter Glacier, oil in the Burning Sands and glass in the Fire Peaks.
Besides the four main castles, players can have up to three outposts in the Great Empire, which are other castles that specialize in the production of particular resources.

Players also choose and collect commanders and are able to equip them with armor and weapons. The game's lifetime revenue crossed $800 million in August 2017.

Goodgame Big Farm
Goodgame Big Farm is a free-to-play farming simulator. Players build up farms, producing and selling products. There are different farms to be unlocked as the player achieves higher levels, and the player can then participate in various activities that last from 3 days to 30 days. Players can also join a cooperative and play with their teammates in their cooperative.

Goodgame Gangster
Goodgame Gangster is a free-to-play RPG game, where players advance through levels and rankings in the leader board. Players collect items and weapons, complete quests and fight enemies and other players. It was called Goodgame Mafia from 2010 to 2012.

References

External links
 Official website

Video game companies of Germany
Video game publishers
Companies based in Hamburg
Online companies of Germany
Video game companies established in 2009


title: Huysman Gallery

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The Huysman Gallery was an art gallery in Los Angeles, California that operated from December 1960 to summer 1961. It was located at 740 North La Cienega Boulevard, across the street from the noted Ferus Gallery.  Curator Henry Hopkins, who founded the gallery, named it after the French decadent novelist Joris-Karl Huysmans. The gallery showcased the works of several young artists who later had great success, including Joe Goode, Ed Ruscha, and Larry Bell.

War Babies exhibition
The gallery's most famous exhibition, War Babies, ran from May 29, 1961 to June 17, 1961.  It showed the work of Goode, Bell, Ed Bereal, and Ron Miyashiro, all of whom were born in the late 1930s and experienced World War II in their early childhood.  According to Hopkins, "the exhibition title was selected by Goode to establish a birth point in time and to indicate a sense of post-war internationalism."  War Babies was one of the earliest racially integrated exhibitions and "was a daring challenge to the prevailing norms and mores of postwar America and its underlying racial stereotypes and identity politics."  The participating artists played off the work of the nearby Ferus artists.  Goode contributed thickly painted images of stars along with a cardboard box nailed to the gallery wall, Miyashiro contributed paintings suggestive of sinister eroticism, Bereal contributed leather pouches that stank of oil, and Bell contributed a "saddle painting". The mix of styles present in the exhibition was indicative of the fluidity of the Los Angeles art scene in the early 1960s.

The exhibition's poster, created by Jerry McMillan and Joe Goode,  ultimately attracted more attention than the exhibition itself.  It depicted the four participating artists seated at a table covered with an American flag as a tablecloth.  Each of the artists was posed with a prop playing off an ethnic or religious stereotype: Bell (Jewish) held a bagel, Bereal (African American) held a watermelon, Miyashiro (Japanese American) held chopsticks, and Goode (Catholic) held a mackerel.  Liberals and conservatives alike criticized the poster; the John Birch Society denounced the gallery for flag desecration.   Following the controversy surrounding War Babies, the gallery's backers—a group of three lawyers—withdrew their support for the gallery. The gallery closed in summer 1961, soon after the close of the War Babies exhibition.

Notes

References

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1960 establishments in California
1961 disestablishments in California
Defunct art museums and galleries in California
Art galleries established in 1960
Art galleries disestablished in 1961


title: Betty Asher

text:
Betty Asher (May 6, 1914 – 1994) was an American art collector and dealer.  An ardent supporter of Pop art and Contemporary art, her large collection of cups and saucers by artists was world-famous.

Biography
Asher was born in Chicago on May 4, 1914. The family lived behind the drugstore. Asher attended a normal school (teacher training college) in Chicago for one year before beginning training to become a nurse at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago.  She graduated as an RN and spent about four years in private nursing.

In 1939, she married Dr. Leonard Asher. They moved to Los Angeles in 1941. The couple had two children, Reina Asher (Allen) and Michael Asher (who would become a well known conceptual artist), and three granddaughters, Pamela, Debra, and Tara.

Aside from being a collector, she was curatorial assistant at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art for 13 years (1966–79), and co-founded and co-owned Asher-Faure Gallery with Patricia Faure from 1979-90.

Asher died at her home in Beverly Hills on May 11, 1994. Her papers were donated to the Getty Research Institute in 2010.

Notes

External links
Oral History Interview: Betty Asher (Archives of American Art)
Betty Asher Papers, Getty Research Institute

1914 births
American art collectors
Women art collectors
1994 deaths
Artists from Chicago
American nurses
American women nurses
Women art dealers
American art dealers
20th-century American women


title: Fox House (Lexington, South Carolina)

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Fox House is a historic home located at Lexington, Lexington County, South Carolina, USA. It was built circa 1832, and is a two-story frame dwelling with an 11-foot deep porch across the front façade. The house is attached by breezeways to two dependencies, which are currently interpreted as a kitchen and the quarters for enslaved workers. These dependencies were originally both slave quarters that were not attached to the main house. The house was probably constructed for Jesse Bates but was purchased in 1843 by John Fox who was the county sheriff, clerk of court and a state senator. It became a part of the Lexington County Museum in 1970.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in South Carolina
Houses completed in 1830
Houses in Lexington County, South Carolina
National Register of Historic Places in Lexington County, South Carolina
1830 establishments in South Carolina
Slave cabins and quarters in the United States