The Clique (series)

The Clique is a young adult novel series written by Canadian author Lisi Harrison and originally published by Little, Brown and Company, a subsidiary of the Hachette Group. The series was reprinted by Poppy books. The series revolves around five girls: Massie Block, Alicia Rivera, Dylan Marvil, Kristen Gregory, and Claire Lyons, who are known as The Pretty Committee. The Pretty Committee is a popular clique at the fictional, all-girls middle school, Octavian Country Day (OCD). Claire and her family move from Orlando, Florida to Westchester, New York, where they live in the Blocks' guesthouse. Claire is initially considered an outcast due to her financial and fashion status. As the series progresses, Claire slowly develops a friendship with Massie, realizing that she must earn her friendship, and eventually becomes a member of the group.

The first novel, The Clique, was released on May 19, 2004. As of June 2012, 14 novels have been released in the main series. On October 4, 2006, a box set called "The Clique Collection" was released containing the first three novels of the series. A second set was released in November 2006 containing books four through six.  From April to August 2008, five novellas named after the five main characters were published in a subseries called "The Clique Summer Collection." The novellas focus on each title characters' activities during the summer between their seventh and eighth grades in school. Harrison composed a guide to the series' "teen speak" terminology and trivia, Cliquetionary, which was released on November 16, 2009. It was announced on Lisi Harrison's website that the fourteenth book (which was released February 15, 2011) would mark the end of the series.

In 2007, Warner Brothers announced that it had partnered with publisher Alloy Entertainment to create a series of direct-to-DVD films based on the books. A film, based on the first novel The Clique, was released on November 18, 2008. The novels are being adapted into a series of graphic novels by Yen Press, with the first volume released July 2010, with art by Yishan Li. The video game The Clique: Diss and Make-Up is based on the book series. The books have a spin-off series, Alphas.

History
The book-packaging subdivision of Alloy Online, which focuses on the teen market, conceived the stories for its novel series, and was arrested by being the one to edit the novels they produced. They approached Lisi Harrison, who was working as a writer for MTV, about producing a series of youth novels. She said of this proposal, "Always being a closeted wannabe author - I jumped at the opportunity. I loved the idea." Harrison actually wrote this book as a "joke," she said, as she even named OCD after a disorder that some people had. She created this series to show everyone that popular people aren't perfect and that everyone has flaws. Alloy's involvement in the process of writing varies from series to series; Harrison said that in her case they functioned as a sounding board, but otherwise, "they left me to my own devices. It's very much my book." The end result was the first novel in the series, The Clique, which was published in May 2004 by Little, Brown and Company.

Characters

Massie Block is the alpha (leader) and founder of  her clique, The Pretty Committee. She has glossy brown hair and amber eyes. She is bossy and stuck-up, and her greatest desire is to be better than most people, but there is a sweeter side to her. Her family is rich because her dad is a successful businessman, so Massie gets everything she wants, though the Block family becomes temporarily bankrupt when her dad loses his job. She loves shopping, and has a large number of designer clothes and credit cards. She has dated Derrick "Derrington" Harrington and Landon Crane. Although she acts like she has no flaws, she has an insecure side that she usually only reveals to her black Pug, Bean, and sometimes her friends, mostly Claire.
Alicia Rivera is described as the most beautiful girl at OCD, with dark, glossy hair, big brown eyes, and a huge chest, which she is infamously known for. She loves gossiping, and she eventually becomes the morning announcer at OCD. She also loves to dance, and takes lessons at Body Alive Dance Studio. She loves all things Ralph Lauren. She lives in a fancy mansion with her ex-model mother Nadia, and her famous lawyer dad, Len. Alicia has always wanted to be a leader like Massie, but she can never quite pull it off, which irritates her. She had a major crush on Josh Hotz, a guy who has a Ralph Lauren obsession like she does. They date briefly, but Alicia dumps him when she realizes they wear the same size clothes. Alicia is hinted to be the new alpha in the last book, when Massie moves to England, in "A Tale of Two Pretties."
Dylan Marvil is Massie's "second-in-command". She is the Pretty Committee's source to the celebrity world, for her mother is Merri-Lee Marvil, the famous talk show host and television personality for the Daily Grind. Dylan has two sisters, Ryan and Jaime, who aren't really mentioned or seen except for in "Charmed and Dangerous: The Rise of the Pretty Committee" and in "A Tale Of Two Pretties," where they star in their own reality show called "Marvil-ous Marvils" along with Dylan and their mom. Dylan has long, red hair and green eyes, and worries constantly about her weight, even though she is described to have a good body. She wears a size 6.
Kristen Gregory is an all-star soccer player at school. She is a bit of a tomboy but loves designer clothes. Her mother disapproves of the racy clothing that Kristen likes, which is why they don't get along too well. However, despite her mother's objections, Kristen still wears the clothing behind her mother's back. Kristen's dad lost all of his money before the series began, which causes her to become poor, and she doesn't want anyone to know. She tells Claire about the secret on an instant messaging service, thinking she was confessing to Massie. She eventually tells the others in the third book, "Revenge of the Wannabes".  Kristen is highly intelligent, attending OCD on a full scholarship, until the book "The Pretty Committee Strikes Back", when she is expelled. She is considered to be pretty with her long blond hair and blue eyes, although in "Invasion of the Boy-Snatchers" a disastrous hair appointment leaves her with a short pixie cut. She enjoys playing word games and is very athletic. In the Summer Books, it is revealed Kristen is the leader of The Witty Committee, an Anti-Pretty Committee group that strives upon intelligence and character. she is the founder of their lip gloss company that turned out to be a fail.  In the group they dress up as intelligent people in history, and Kristen chooses to be Cleopatra. Several other students, including Claire's best friend Layne Abeley, are in the group. When Massie finds out about The Witty Committee, she and Kristen's friendship is temporarily ended, but Kristen regains Massie's approval later on.
Claire Lyons moved from Orlando, Florida to Westchester, New York. Her dad was good friends with Massie's dad in college, and the Lyons are living in Massie's guesthouse. Claire's family is not rich or successful like the other girls' families are, so she has a hard time fitting in at first, but eventually does. She becomes friends with Layne, known to the Pretty Committee as an LBR (Loser Beyond Repair). In the end, Massie leaves telling Claire, "I heart you." Her trademark is her love of Keds, Gummies and Sours and her crush on Cam Fisher, and thanks to the encouragement and acceptance from her former bully, Massie Block, she is not only allowed to be in The Clique, but to also be in a relationship with Cam and be friends with Layne at the same time, so she is reasonably liked and respected by her peers. Claire is described as having blonde hair with short bangs and wide blue eyes. She briefly leaves the Pretty Committee in favor of two freshman Drama-Club Girls, Cara and Syd, and when earning the lead role in a blockbuster movie, Dial L for Loser. She has trouble fitting in because of her sense of style or her personality. Claire is known to be down-to-earth and loyal. She is best friends with Sarah, Sari and Mandy, who are in Florida, but soon learns in her summer book that Sarah, Sari and Mandy secretly hate her, so she votes Massie to win the beauty pageant instead of them, preferring to be friends with Massie, Alicia, Dylan and Kristen, where she feels accepted and more herself.
Cameron "Cam" Fisher: Described as having messy black hair and mismatched eyes- one blue, one green- Cam originally appeared in the first novel as the boy who danced with Massie, though his name was not credited. He also made appearances in "Best Friends for Never" as the boy who saved Claire from her humiliation at the party, and then in Revenge of the Wannabes as Massie and Claire's crush. However, by the fourth novel he and Claire are officially dating. They then break up again because Claire is manipulated into thinking he likes Alicia's slutty cousin, Nina.  They get back together after they share a first kiss in The Pretty Committee Strikes Back. He is described as sweet and sensitive. In "Sealed with a Diss," he dumps Claire when she accuses him of being a cheater. He then dates Olivia Ryan, but is annoyed with her as she proves to be incredibly dumb and a bad mother to their Health assignment, a simulated baby named Kate, whom Claire is the stepmother of, and gets back with Claire. They stay together for the rest of the series, even throughout the upgrade, something that Massie came up with where the Pretty Committee should dump their 8th grade boyfriends and "upgrade" by getting 9th grade boyfriends. Throughout the series, Cam is also known for giving bags of gummies to Claire, as sweet surprises.
Derrick ‘Derrington’ Harrington: With dirty blonde hair and a goofy smile, Derrick is Briarwood's treasured goalie on the Tomahawks soccer team and is fought over at the beginning of the series by Kristen and Dylan. He's known to be funny and jokey, and constantly likes to pull his shorts down and shake his bare butt around. Only Massie and Dylan see the sweeter side to him. He then dates Massie up until Sealed with a Diss, where he says he thinks she is too immature for him (though Massie thinks the same of him). In P.S. I Loathe You, he dates Dylan secretly. In These Boots Were Made for Stalking, she dumps him for Luke, a ninth-grade high school freshman.
Joshua ‘Josh’ Hotz: Appeared in Invasion of the Boy Snatchers as a new transfer student. He and Alicia dated briefly, even throughout the boy fast up until the upgrade.  Josh shares a kiss with Claire Lyons in the end of Invasion of the Boy Snatchers. He and Alicia are finished after she begins to "semi-flirt" with Aidan, because she and Josh wear the same size clothes. He is described as having thick wavy black hair and brown eyes, and wearing a New York Yankees cap most of the time. He also has a Ralph Lauren obsession.
Kemp Hurley: Dylan's crush in Sealed with a Diss who double-dumped her, and Kristen's date to the winter dance. He is described as being a major pervert.
Chris Plovert: Dylan's crush for most of the early books, the one who breaks up with her when he finds her too "manly."
Harris Fisher: Cam's older brother, who has green eyes. Alicia crushes on him in the third book but he gives her mixed signals. It is not until it is revealed later in the book that he is not interested.
Landon Crane: Massie's crush up until the last book. He is described as having sea green eyes and messy brown wavy hair. He is in ninth grade at ADD, the local public school.
Bean: Massie's fashion-forward black Pug.
Bark Obama: Landon's black Pug.
Celia Crane: Landon's  mother, who owns Bark Jacobs. She knows Marc Jacobs and is very close with her only son.
Kori Gedman: On Kristen's soccer team. She was the Kristen look-alike who Alicia recruited for her clique in the third book. She is described as having bad posture, blond hair that is always styled in either pigtails or braids, and light blue eyes. She lives in the Brickview Apartments like Kristen and due to many surgeries her mother has had, Kori is often teased about it.
Strawberry McAdams: She has a bad temper and gets her nickname from where she shops, and also for her magenta-dyed hair. She looks a bit like Dylan for being big-boned, and she was her look-alike replacement for Alicia's clique in the third book. Her real name is Coral.
Olivia Ryan: Olivia is a dancer who is described as having sky blue eyes and buttery-blond waves. She is credited as a B-lister "trapped" in an A-lister's body. She has an older brother Andy with a skating ramp, and an older sister. She briefly dates Cam Fisher. She and Chris Plovert also had a distant fling. Her dad is a surgeon and operates on her nose many times throughout the series. She is also known as Alicia's ditzy tagalong. During the OCD Uniform Contest, Alicia and her cheat by switching the ballots.
Skye Hamilton: An eighth-grade alpha who offers the secret room to whoever first finds the special key. In the Kristen novella, she had a crush on Dune Baxter until she fell in a pool of Jell-O and got angry when he laughed at her. She then goes off to Alpha Academy. She loves animals, mini things, glitter pens, dancing and boys. She is described as having white-blonde waves, Tiffany box-blue eyes and B-cups. She is the leader of a group called the DSL Daters (they make super-fast connections with boys) and in the early books, had a crush on Chris Abeley. Her parents own the Body Alive Dance Studio, so she gets free clothes. Her mother is a retired ballet dancer named Natasha Flailenkoff from Russia, while her dad is an American named Geoffrey. She is famous for the little charms she attaches to arm-sleeves. She is one of the main characters in the spin-off series "Alphas", where she competes to become the number one Alpha.
William Block: Massie's father, who is old friends with Claire's father, Jay Lyons. He is described as being serious with a balding head. He is a successful businessman and also a major pushover when it comes to giving Massie what she wants.
Kendra Block: Massie's Pilates-toned mother, who is very dramatic, anxious, and strict. She makes many efforts to keep peace in the household.
Todd Lyons: Claire's younger brother, who has curly red hair in the beginning of the series, becomes bald in the last two books. He turns bald when Massie persuades him to shave off all of his hair in order to convince Claire's ninth-grade friends that a lice epidemic was going on in My Little Phony. He is a major eavesdropper, and his excuse is that he has an "eavesdropping problem". Throughout the series he harbors a major crush on Massie, and has his first kiss with her, much to Massie's horror; it was her first kiss as well.
Tiny Nathan: He is Todd's best friend, and is described as being small with a squeaky voice. He is also an eavesdropper like Todd.
Nikki Dalton: The girl Claire thought Cam was cheating on her with in "Sealed with A Diss". However, she liked him when he didn't like her back. She is described as having black hair and long bangs that cover her eyes.
Heather: Best friends with Layne Abeley and Meena. She is described as being a major LBR who dresses oddly and likes to protest.
Layne Abeley: Witty and clever, Layne is Claire's first true friend at OCD. She has narrow green eyes and frizzy brown hair. She has many food obsessions and briefly dates Eli. Her brother is Chris Abeley.
Chris Abeley: Layne's older brother, who is described as cute with blue eyes and blonde hair. Massie liked him in the first book, "The Clique",  but she then finds out he had a girlfriend, Fawn, who dumps him later on in the series, because of rumours that Chris was in love with his horse, Tricky, and he has a hard time getting over her.
Fawn: Chris Abeley's girlfriend up until "Sealed with a Diss". She is described as being gorgeous with blonde hair and a tiny waist. She dumps him after hearing a vicious rumor that he is in love with his horse, Tricky.
Tristan: Eli's best friend, described as being punk. He dances with Claire at the Halloweenie party, but she leaves him when he starts acting embarrassing.
Jakkob: Massie's trusted and fashionable stylist.
Brownie": Massie's beloved white horse.Hadley Durk: The celebrity originally cast for Dial L for Loser. She is replaced by Claire after having a fight with Abby Boyd after she steals two of her boyfriends; Gabor and Palmer. She has Pocahontas braids and brown eyes. She and Claire share a love of Keds.Abby Boyd: The actress who stole both of Hadley's boyfriends. She has a bad girl reputation. Her hair was wavy and dark, but then she cuts it short and dyes it blond for the movie. She pretends to be Claire's best friend for publicity.Meena: She loves to dress oddly and protest like Layne and Heather.Nina Callas: Alicia's slutty cousin, who steals all their boyfriends and the Clique's stuff in the fourth book Invasion of the Boy Snatchers. In the Alicia novella, she and Alicia have a terrible fight and become closer eventually. She has major D-cups and long, thick dark hair and hazel eyes. She is a reformed dork and only wanted Alicia to like her.Celia and Isobel Callas: Nina's twin sisters. They are, at first, very nice to Alicia in her novella. Then it is revealed they only used her for her clothes. They get a taste of their medicine at the end of the book when they are forced to lick ice cream off a fat man's belly.Nigeal: A British hottie Alicia and Nina meet in Alicia's novella. It is revealed he is the sexy Spanish pop star, and that he never goes out in public for fear of blowing his cover.Eli: Layne's makeup-wearing boyfriend, who she breaks up with because she doesn't like "a guy who wears more eyeliner than I do." He prefers wearing women's underwear instead of boxers.
"Dempsey Solomon: The eco-friendly hottie who comes back to Westchester after losing his baby fat building homes in Africa. Massie and Layne like him until it is revealed he has a crush on Kristen Gregory. He plays soccer for a short time until he injures himself when Massie accidentally trips him.Dune Baxter: Kristen’s surfer-boy summer crush, who has sandy blonde hair. He briefly likes Skye Hamilton, until he finds her to be a snob, and he starts liking Kristen instead, but they break up in P.S. I Loathe You when Kristen starts liking Dempsey.Ripple Baxter: Dune’s younger sister, who is nine years old. Kristen tutors her over the summer, but then quits when she finds out Ripple only hired her as a tutor so she could learn how to look and act like Massie. Kristen nominates Ripple for the cheerleading squad in "P.S I Loathe You".Nurse Adele: The school nurse that helped Claire when she first came to OCD. She owns a lost and found in the office and often chats with Claire.Issac: Massie's chauffeur, who drives Massie and her friends to school as well as other places. Massie thinks of him as a "second dad" since he always tries to give her life advice and is very stern when he needs to be.Inez: The Block family's live-in housekeeper.Conner Foley''':  A Hollywood hottie who stars in Dial L for Loser alongside Claire.  He had spiky black hair and olive-green eyes.  He is spotted a lot with unlit cigarettes hanging out of his mouth.  In Dial L for Loser, it seems as if he is crushing on every girl in the set, and he is later discovered to be dating Abby Boyd.  Conner causes Claire and Cam to fight because they have a major make out session with Claire and the rest of the Clique.

 List of novels

The Summer Books

Other Clique Books

ReceptionThe Clique was selected as a "Quick Pick For Reluctant Young Adult Readers" by YALSA. Best Friends for Never was nominated for the 2005 Quill Awards in the "Young Adult/Teen" category.  Best Friends for Never reached The New York Times bestseller list in early February 2005, four months after it was published, but remained there only one week. It returned in late February for another week, reaching #7. Following the release of the next volume in the series, It entered the bestseller list again in late March, where it stayed another week, then in late April, where it remained for three weeks. In late March it also made an appearance on the Publishers Weekly bestseller list, coming in at #9. Copies of the novel have continued to sell in large numbers: nearly 150,000 in 2005, over 200,000 in 2006, and over 150,000 in 2007.

Three of the novels from the "Summer Collection", Alicia, Dylan, and Massie, made the New York Times' Children's Books best seller list. On June 22, 2008, Alicia debuted on the list in first place, with Dylan and Massie placing second and sixth, respectively.

Critical reviews
In reviewing the first novel, The Clique, reviewers remarked on the behavior of the characters, with Publishers Weekly noting that it "takes cliquish, snobbish behavior to Hollywood extremes" and School Library Journal saying that "the cruelty of the clique [is not] redeemed with any sort of a satisfying ending." There were also comments about the novel's use of brand names: School Library Journal said that it "has trendy references kids will love"; Booklist expounded more on the subject, saying that the novel goes into "too much detail about how the super wealthy live" but added that it "has fun with the tyranny of brand names" - although they also cautioned that "the very specifics that teens will recognize will be 'so out' before the year is over." Additionally, Booklist described the instant messaging segments as "hilarious", while School Library Journal criticized "the shallowness of the characters" and "the one-dimensional plot". Spero News says "At first, it's easy to hate this book and the shallow materialism that these characters embody. On the other hand, they're so impossible to take seriously that you have to laugh at them. These girls are so 13-going-on-30."

Reviewers' general descriptions of Best Friends for Never focused on its lightweight nature and entertainment value: Book Loons called it "good soap operatic fun", The Virginian Pilot said it was "a fairly quick and easy read", Teen Reads found it to be "another quick, fun, enjoyable read", while Romantic Times thought that it was "sinful, nasty fun" and gave it three stars. More negative comments that were made included The Virginian Pilots assertion that it "lacks the sophistication and style of deeper novels". On the behavior of the characters—something the first volume was criticized for—Romantic Times said, "Good news for fans—the girls are just as catty now as they were before." Book Loons added that it "does capture both the occasionally unpleasant verbal interactions and emotional vulnerability of pre-teen girls." The book's cliffhanger ending was described as "perfect" by Teen Reads and according to The Virginian Pilot is, along with the "mild twists", what made the novel an "interesting read."

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Campionato Sammarinese di Futsal

The San Marino Futsal Championship is the premier  futsal championship in San Marino.  It was founded in 2006.  The San Marino championship currently consists of 12 teams. Organized by Federazione Sammarinese Giuoco Calcio.

Champions

External links
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Vazha Lortkipanidze

Vazha Lortkipanidze (; born November 29, 1949) is a Georgian politician, former State Minister of Georgia and Ambassador of Georgia to Russia, member of the Parliament of Georgia.

Early years
Lortkipanidze was born on November 29, 1949 in Tbilisi, Georgia. In 1973, he graduated from Mathematics Department of Tbilisi State University and Moscow Academy of Sciences with bachelor's and then doctoral degrees.

In 1983-1986, he was second and then first secretary of Central Committee of Georgian Komsomol during Eduard Shevardnadze's tenure as the First Secretary of Georgian SSR. In 1986-1988, he was the First Secretary of Mtatsminda Regional Committee of Communist Party of Georgia and then worked as the head of department in the CC of Communist Party of Georgia and in 1989-1990 as Deputy Chairman of Cabinet of Ministers of Georgia.

Political career
When Zviad Gamsakhurdia took over with independence of Georgia, Lortkipanidze left government work finding a job at Tbilisi Research Institute, but with Shevardnadze's return to power in January 1992, he was immediately appointed Chief of Staff of Presidential Administration of Georgia, a post he held until January 17, 1995. From 1995 through 1998, he was the Ambassador of Georgia to Russia. His additional duties were representing the Georgian side in the Russian-mediated negotiations with Abkhazia. He had good relations with high-ranking officials in the Russian government but at home he was considered pro-Russian by the opposition parties. Lortkipanidze was appointed State Minister of Georgia on July 31, 1998 shortly after Nikoloz Lekishvili resigned from the post on July 26 due to criticism on economic policies. Lortkipanidze left the post on May 11, 2000 and was replaced by Giorgi Arsenishvili. He was elected the leader of Christian-Democratic Union of Georgia in November 2002.

Considered a close ally to Shevardnadze, he was appointed the head of the campaign for pro-presidential block Alliance for New Georgia in the Georgian presidential election campaign.

He has a PhD in Economics and is currently a professor at Tbilisi State University. He married Irine Khomeriki in 1983 and they have two children: Nino (1984) and
Ana (1993).

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Pem Sluijter

Pem Sluijter (15 May 1939 – 18 December 2007) was a Dutch poet.

Biography
Pem Sluijter was born in 1939 in Middelburg.

Sluijter worked between 1959 and 1963 as journalist at Het Parool.

Sluijter made her debut at 58 years of age with poetry collection Roos is een bloem (1997). She won the C. Buddingh'-prijs for this debut. Her second poetry collection Het licht van Attica was published in 2004. Both of her publications were published by De Arbeiderspers.

Sluijter died in The Hague in December 2007.

In 2018, her poem Nachtbraak was added to a wall in the Batjanstraat in The Hague, both in Dutch and translated into English.

Awards
 1997: C. Buddingh'-prijs, Roos is een bloem

Publications
 Roos is een bloem (1997)
 Het licht van Attica (2004)

Notes

References

External links

  (in Dutch)
 Pem Sluijter, Digital Library for Dutch Literature

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Gippsland Football League

The Gippsland League (formerly known as the "West Gippsland Latrobe Football League"), is an Australian rules football and netball league in the Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia. It is considered the only AFL Victoria major league in Gippsland.

History

The Gippsland League has roots dating back to the Central Gippsland Football League which was founded in 1902. The CGFL morphed into the Latrobe Valley Football League in 1954. The promoters of the LVFL wanted to have a league that consisted of towns along the Orbost railway line, from Warragul to Sale. Three clubs from south Gippsland towns, Leongatha, Korumburra and Mirboo North, were therefore barred from joining the new league and went on to form the South Gippsland FL.

The LVFL changed its name, in 1995, to the Gippsland Latrobe FL.

At the end of 2001, The West Gippsland FL and the Gippsland Latrobe FL had an administrative merger. This created a two-division competition and a name change to "West Gippsland Latrobe FL".

From 2002 until 2004, the league comprised a premier division, consisting mainly of the former Gippsland-Latrobe clubs, and a western division, comprising most of the former WGFL clubs.

After the 2004 season, the western division was dissolved, with Warragul, Drouin and Garfield joining the premier league. The remaining clubs from the western division moved to other competitions, such as the Alberton Football League, Ellinbank & District Football League and the Mornington Peninsula Nepean Football League.

In 2009 Garfield left the GFL for the Ellinbank & District Football League, whilst Wonthaggi and Bairnsdale joined the GFL in 2010 and 2011 respectively.

The Latrobe Valley area does not have a team participating in the Victorian Football League. Traralgon competed in the VFL during 1996-97, winning just four matches across those two years, before returning to the regional competition. The region does have a representative team in the TAC Cup Under-18 competition, Gippsland Power.

Clubs
As of 2019, the Gippsland League consists of the following teams:

Former clubs

Premiers and Best & Fairest Winners

Records and Statistics

Club Finishing Positions

Recent Finishing Positions

Significant Records

References

External links

 SportsTG site
 West Gippsland Latrobe Football League (Archived, 30 Aug 2003)
 Gippsland League on Country Footy Scores

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Flavonol-3-O-triglucoside O-coumaroyltransferase

In enzymology, a flavonol-3-O-triglucoside O-coumaroyltransferase () is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction

4-coumaroyl-CoA + a flavonol 3-O-[beta-D-glucosyl-(1->2)-beta-D-glucosyl-(1->2)-beta-D-glucoside]  CoA + a flavonol 3-O-[6-(4-coumaroyl)-beta-D-glucosyl-(1->2)-beta-D-glucosyl-(1->2)- beta-D-glucoside]

The 3 substrates of this enzyme are 4-coumaroyl-CoA, flavonol, and [[3-O-beta-D-glucosyl-(1->2)-beta-D-glucosyl-(1->2)-beta-D-glucoside]], whereas its 4 products are CoA, flavonol, [[3-O-[6-(4-coumaroyl)-beta-D-glucosyl-(1->2)-beta-D-glucosyl-(1->2)-]], and beta-D-glucoside].

This enzyme belongs to the family of transferases, to be specific those acyltransferases transferring groups other than aminoacyl groups.  The systematic name of this enzyme class is 4-coumaroyl-CoA:flavonol-3-O-[beta-D-glucosyl-(1->2)-beta-D-glucosid e] 6-O-4-coumaroyltransferase'''.

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Offshore drilling in Atlantic Canada

In addition to terrestrial oil wells, Canada also extracts oil via offshore drilling.

Production by province

Newfoundland and Labrador
Newfoundland and Labrador is the third largest petroleum producer in Canada, making up 4.4% of Canada's petroleum. As of 2015, the province produced over 27,370 m3 per day of light crude oil from the Grand Banks offshore oil fields. The Jeanne d'Arc Basin is the province's most active oil field project.

Nova Scotia

The offshore oil industry of Nova Scotia accounts for about 0.07% of Canadian petroleum production. The majority of its offshore industry is located on the Nova Scotian continental Shelf, within the Sable Island offshore natural gas fields. In 2015, Nova Scotia produced 438 m3 of liquid natural gas per day. As of 2019, that figure is up to 3,200 m3 per day.

Production

Jeanne d'Arc Basin
The Jeanne d'Arc Basin is located about 340 km to the southeast form the Island of Newfoundland, Canada. The geological region is defined by an offshore sedimentary basin covering an area greater than 6000 km3 and 20 km in depth. Hydrocarbon exploration first began during the 1960's by Amoco and Imperial Oil. Exploration wells indicated the potential of the basin for active petroleum drilling. In 1979, the first major well began pumping operations.

Sable Offshore Energy Project
Since 1999, the Sable Offshore Energy Project (SOEP) is an ongoing initiative to conduct natural gas exploration along the Nova Scotian continental Shelf. This project produces over 14,000,000 m3 of natural gas and 3,200 m3 of liquid natural gas daily. The major partners include ExxonMobil, Shell Canada, Imperial Oil, and Pengrowth Energy.

Shelburne Basin Venture Exploration Drilling Project
Beginning in 2013, this exploratory hydrocarbon drilling project was conducted by Shell Canada about 250 km southeast of Halifax, Nova Scotia. Between 2013-2015, seven exploration wells have been proposed. The project took place in the Shelburne Basin, which has been a consistent source for Nova Scotian hydrocarbon production.

Oil fields

Hebron-Ben Nevis oil field
The Hebron-Ben Nevis oil field is located 350 km east from the coast of Newfoundland, situated in the Jeanne d'Arc Basin. The oil field was discovered in 1981, however only began production in 2017. An estimated 700 million barrels of light crude oil exist within the oil field.

Hibernia oil field
The Hibernia oil field is located 315 km from the east from Newfoundland in 80 m of water. The Hibernia platform is the world's largest oil platform by weight and size. The oil field was discovered in 1979 but production only began in 2007. The total oil field production is an estimated 704 million barrels as of 2010. The regional reserves is an estimated 1,395 million barrels of oil.

Terra Nova oil field
The Terra Nova oil field is located 350 km east off the coast of Newfoundland. This site was developed by Petro-Canada in 1984, and is the second largest oil field on Canada's East coast. Production began in 2002 and is expected to last about 17 years. Other partners include Suncor Energy, Exxon Mobil Canada, and Husky Energy.

White Rose oil field
The White Rose oil field is located about 350 km east from the coast of Newfoundland. Husky Energy is the largest operator, owning 72.5% interest. This field was discovered in 1984 and began operations in 2005. The oil field consists of both oil and gas pools covering an area of approximately 40 km2 and containing an estimated 440 million barrels of oil.

References

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 http://www.oilandgasinfrastructure.com/home/oilandgasnorthamerica/canada
 https://web.archive.org/web/20101228192238/http://www.capp.ca/Pages/default.aspx#ivNzv1fqPz7K
 https://www.noia.ca/

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Scajoliani

Scajoliani refers to the faction around Claudio Scajola, a leading member of The People of Freedom (PdL), a political party in Italy.

The group wielded particular influence within Forza Italia (FI), the main precursor of PdL. Scajola and his allies proposed a stronger party organization, differently from another major group, the Dellutriani, named after senator Marcello Dell'Utri. After the defeat in the 1996 general election, Silvio Berlusconi appointed Scajola national coordinator of the party. During the subsequent five years in charge of party organization (1996–2001), Scajola built FI as a modern mass party and prepared it for the huge electoral victories of 1999–2001 (European Parliament election, regional elections and general election).

After having left active politics for a while in 2010, Scajola soon started to re-organize his faction, whose leading members included Massimo Berruti, Paolo Russo, Maria Teresa Armosino, Ignazio Abrignani, Michele Scandroglio, Salvatore Cicu, Sandro Biasotti, Roberto Cassinelli, Raffaele Lauro, Paolo Tancredi and Giustina Destro. Most of them were former Christian Democrats, while others shared with Scajola the regional upbringing, hailing from Liguria, Scajola's power base, or neighbouring Piedmont.

In November 2010 the Christopher Columbus Foundation (FCL) was formed by Scajola in order to help the PdL discover again the original spirit of FI. The association was joined by Scajoliani and also by Antonio Martino, a former Liberal who was number two of FI in 1994 and minister of Foreign Affairs in Berlusconi's first government, as well as other liberals, such as Gregorio Fontana, and leading Christian democrats of the party, including Mario Baccini and Osvaldo Napoli.

References

External links
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Henrico Drost

Henrico Drost (born 21 January 1987) is a Dutch footballer who plays as centre back for RKC Waalwijk in the Dutch Eerste Divisie.

Club career
Born in Kampen, Drost started his career in 2005 with SC Heerenveen, but he never got a serious chance to be a leading part in the team. Therefore, he was loaned out to Excelsior, De Graafschap and VVV-Venlo.
In the summer of 2010 Drost signed a two-year contract with RKC Waalwijk after he had left Heerenveen on a free transfer. In the summer of 2013, Drost signed with NAC Breda for two seasons, only to leave them for Excelsior on a free in 2015.

Drost returned to RKC in summer 2017.

Personal life
He is the twin brother of former professional football player Jeroen Drost.

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Forks Baddeck, Nova Scotia

Forks Baddeck is a small community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in  Victoria County on Cape Breton Island.

References
Forks Baddeck on Destination Nova Scotia

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Supersemar

The Supersemar, the Indonesian abbreviation for 'Surat Perintah Sebelas Maret' (Order of Eleventh March), was a document signed by the Indonesian President Sukarno on 11 March 1966, giving the army commander Lt. Gen. Suharto authority to take whatever measures he "deemed necessary" to restore order to the chaotic situation during the Indonesian killings of 1965–66. The abbreviation "Supersemar" is a play on the name of Semar, the mystic and powerful figure who commonly appears in Javanese mythology including wayang puppet shows. The invocation of Semar was presumably intended to help draw on Javanese mythology to lend support to Suharto's legitimacy during the period of the transition of authority from Sukarno to Suharto.

In effect, the Supersemar came to be seen as the key instrument of the transfer of executive power from Sukarno to Suharto.

Background

On 30 September 1965, a group calling itself the 30 September Movement killed six senior army generals, seized temporary control of parts of the center of Jakarta and issued a number of decrees over Republic of Indonesia Radio. Suharto and his allies defeated the movement and in the rather drawn-out process which extended out for six months or more, Sukarno's formal position as president of the nation was slowly but steadily ebbed away. The armed forces accused its long-standing rival, the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI), of being behind the "coup attempt" and an anti-Communist purge ensued. Over the next few months Suharto and the armed forces seized the initiative. During a cabinet meeting (which Suharto did not attend), while student demonstrations protected by the army took place in Jakarta, troops without insignia surrounded the presidential palace where the meeting was being held. It later transpired that these were from Army special forces. Sukarno was advised to leave the meeting and did so, flying to the presidential palace in Bogor, 60 km south of Jakarta, by helicopter. Later that afternoon three army generals, Maj. Gen. Basuki Rahmat, Minister for Veteran Affairs, Brig. Gen. M Jusuf,  Minister for Basic Industry and Brig. Gen. Amirmachmud, Commander of the 5th Military Region/Jaya, visited Sukarno and came away with the signed Supersemar which they then presented to Suharto. The next day Suharto used the powers thus conferred on him to ban the PKI, and on 18 March, fifteen Sukarno loyalist ministers were arrested.

Suharto changed the composition of the Provisional People's Consultative Assembly (MPRS) and a year later, in March 1967, the MPRS voted to strip Sukarno of his powers and appointed Suharto acting president. In 1968 the MPRS removed the word 'acting' and over two years after the events of September 1965 Suharto became the president of Indonesia. The process of transferring the presidency from Sukarno to Suharto had taken over two years. Suharto remained in power as president until he resigned during the political crisis in Indonesia in May 1998.

The document
The Supersemar itself is a simple document of less than 200 words. It reads as follows:

Controversy

The circumstances surrounding the signing of the Supersemar
Indonesians usually end documents with the place and date of signing of the document. Given that the Supersemar was supposedly signed in Bogor, it is odd that the Supersemar is signed "Djakarta".  In his account of the events of March 1966, Hanafi, a close friend of Sukarno and ambassador to Cuba says that he went to Bogor on 12 March and met with Sukarno. He says that Sukarno told him Suharto had sent three generals with a document they had already prepared for him to sign. He says that Sukarno felt he had to sign it because he was in a tight spot, but that the generals had promised to defend Sukarno and that the order would not be misused.  However, Martoidjojo, the commander of the presidential bodyguard, who went with Sukarno in the helicopter to Bogor, says that the Supersemar was typed in Bogor by Sukarno's adjutant and military secretary, Brig. Gen. Mochammed Sabur. Djamaluddin corroborates this.

The wording of the Supersemar itself could be read as a threat, namely the section reading "to guarantee the personal safety and authority of the leadership" of Sukarno. However, in 1998, accusations appeared of an even more direct threat, namely that two members of the presidential guard had seen Gen. M. Jusuf and Gen M. Panggabean, second assistant to the Army minister, pointing their pistols at Sukarno. M. Jusuf and others have denied this, and that Panggabean was even present. They called into doubt the credibility of key parts of the accusations, and said it was impossible for the two men to be so close to the president at the time.

The disappearance of the original
One of difficulties in historical research regarding the Supersemar is that the original document can no longer be found. When then-Vice President Megawati Sukarnoputri ordered the Indonesian National Archives to find it, they reported they only had two copies, one issued by the Army's Information Centre and another by the State Secretary, and that there were significant differences between them.

The existence of multiple versions

One of the publications to appear since the fall of Suharto alleges that there were several versions of the Supersemar. Even before the fall of Suharto, an official publication commemorating 30 years of Indonesian independence reproduced one version of Supersemar, while an officially sanctioned high school history textbook featured a different version.

There are a number of differences between the various versions of the Supersemar:

 In two versions, there is a missing plural marker after the word "force" (Angkatan) in section III, paragraph 2
 In the same two versions, there is an extra definite article marker after the word "responsibilities" (tanggung-djawab") in section III paragraph 3
 One version runs to two pages, whereas the other versions are all on the one page.
 Sukarno's signature in one version lacks the dot-and-horizontal-line after the word "Soekarno".
 There are also minor differences in the proximity and shapes of the letters.

The Order of 13 March
According to Hanafi, in his discussions with Sukarno at the Bogor Palace on 12 March, Sukarno was angry that the Supersemar had been used to ban the PKI, as it was the prerogative of the president to ban political parties. He said he had asked Third Deputy Prime Minister Johannes Leimena to take a written order to Suharto, and that he would wait to see what Suharto's reaction was – whether he would obey it or not. He asked Hanafi to help Third Deputy Prime Minister Chaerul Saleh and First Deputy Prime Minister Subandrio The two men showed Hanafi the "Order of 13 March", which stated that the Order of 11 March was technical and administrative in nature, not political, warned General Suharto that he was not to take any actions outside the scope of the order and asked Suharto to report to the president at the palace. Saleh planned to make copies of the order and distribute them to loyal members of the palace guard and to Sukarno's young followers. Hanafi says 5,000 copies were made, and that he took a few back to Jakarta with him, but he does not know what happened to the others.

In the official biography of Suharto, it is also said that Sukarno questioned Suharto's use of the Supersemar and sent Leimena to ask Suharto to take responsibility for his actions. Saelan, deputy commander of the presidential guard says Suharto ignored the order, and Hanafi says that Suharto sent a message back via Leimena, who returned to Bogor later that evening, saying he would take responsibility for his actions, and that he was unable to come to Bogor as he was due to attend a meeting of all the military commanders at 11 am the following day, to which he invited Sukarno. Incidentally, Hanafi is ambiguous as to the dates in his account, as he says he was in Bogor on 12 March, but the "correction" to the Supersemar was known as the Order of 13 March.

Notes

References
 Bachtiar, Harsja W. (1988), Siapa Dia?: Perwira Tinggi Tentara Nasional Indonesia Angkatan Darat (Who is He?: Senior Officers of the Indonesian Army), Penerbit Djambatan, Jakarta,
 Center of Information Analysis (CIA ) (1999), Kontoversi Supersemar (The Supersemar Controversy), Yogyakarta,
 Chaniago, Asmid Kamal & Yusmar Basri,  IPS Sejarah untuk kelas 1–3 SLTP: dikembangkan dan disesuaikan dengan kurikulum SLTP/GBPP 1994 (History for Junior High School Third Grade, in accordance with the 1994 Junior High School Curriculum), Yudhistira,
 Crouch, Harold (2007), The Army and Politics in Indonesia, Equinox Publishing, Singapore,
 Djamaluddin, Dasman, (1998), General TNI Anumaerta Basoeki Rachmat dan Supersemar (The late General Basoeki Rahmat and the Supersemar), Grasindo, Jakarta,
 Dwipayana, G and Sjamsuddin,  Nazaruin (eds) (1991), Jejak Langkah Pak Harto: 1 Oktober 1965 – 27 Maret 1968 (Actions of Pak Harto: 1 October 1965 – 27 March 1968), PT Citra Lamtoro Gung Persada, Jakarta,
 Hanafi A.M. (1999), Menggugat Kudeta: Jend. Soeharto dari Gestapu ke Supersemar (Accusation of a Coup d'Etat: Gen. Soeharto from the [30 September Movement] to the Supersemar), Yayasan API, Jakarta
 Martowidjojo, H.Mangil (1999), Kasaksian Tentang Bung Karno 1945–1967 (Testimony Regarding Bung karno 1945–1967), Grasindo, Jakarta,
 Pambudi, A. (2006), Supersemar Palsu: Kesaksian Tiga Jenderal (The Fake Supersemar: Testimony of Three Generals), Media Pressindo, Jakarta
 Ricklefs (1982), A History of Modern Indonesia, Macmillan Southeast Asian reprint,
 Saelan, H.Maulwi (2001), Dari Revolusi '45 Sampai Kudeta '66 (From the Revolution of '45 to the Coup d'Etat of '66), Yayasan Hak Bangsa, Jakarta,
 Shwarz, Adam (1999), A Nation in Waiting: Indonesia's Search for Stability, Allen & Unwin,
 Sekretariat Negara Republik Indonesia (1985) 30 Tahun Indonesia Merdeka (30 Years of Indonesian Independence) 1965–1973, 6th reprint

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Never Be Rude to an Arab

"Never Be Rude to an Arab" is a satirical song by the members of Monty Python's Flying Circus, originally appearing on the 1980 album Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album. It appears as sung by Terry Jones in the theatrically released concert film Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl and was included on the compilation album Monty Python Sings.

The song dispenses advice about not resorting to xenophobic insults, beginning with Arabs and moving on to other races not to be insulted—"an Israeli, a Saudi or Jew" and an "Irishman".

The song then becomes offensive in its own right as it declares that one should never poke fun at a "nigger", a "spic" or a "wop" or a "kraut".  Jones starts to sing "And never put...", but gets no further as he is suddenly blown up. In the Hollywood Bowl version, he is immediately dragged offstage by a costumed frog.

At the Hollywood Bowl, Jones returned on the other side of an intervening sketch to sing "Never be rude to a Polack..." before being blown up again. He is again dragged offstage, this time by a Christmas tree.

References
Monty Python Sings - Monty Python : Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards : AllMusic

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Monad to Man

Monad to Man: the concept of progress in evolutionary biology is a 1996 book about the longstanding idea that evolution is progressive by the philosopher of biology Michael Ruse. It analyses the connection between ideas of progress in culture generally and its application in evolutionary biology.

Summary

In this "really big book" (539 pages, plus notes), Michael Ruse surveys the attitude to progress throughout the history of biology, exploring the connections between the idea of progress and the belief that evolution is progressive (orthogenesis). He argues that from early nineteenth century speculation, Charles Darwin came to suggest that natural selection drove species to "a higher stage of perfection", jumping from relative to absolute progress. In this, Ruse argues, he was followed by many later biologists. Ruse interviews well-known evolutionary biologists such as Ernst Mayr, John Maynard Smith, Stephen Jay Gould, and E. O. Wilson, and both reports their views and gives his own opinion of how progressionist they were.

Illustrations

The book is illustrated with photographs of the major figures, such as Henry Fairfield Osborn and Sewall Wright, and a few drawings such as of the titanothere, an animal used by Osborn to illustrate "orthogenetic evolution beyond the adaptive optimum" There are a few diagrams such as William Bateson's schematic "phylogeny", a proposed tree of life for some invertebrate animals.

Publication history

Monad to Man was first published by Harvard University Press with cloth covers in 1996. They produced the first paperback edition in 2009.

Reception

Makarand Paranjape, in an "introductory essay" for The International Society for Science and Religion, notes that Ruse was a "key witness" in the 1982 court case which decided that the attempt by Arkansas to ban the teaching of evolution in schools was unconstitutional. Paranjape writes that Ruse argues that evolutionary biology has been an immature science "for much of its 150 year history", because it has been tied to the Enlightenment's idea of progress. He suggests that Ruse is "unapologetically, even unreflexively Euro-centric", leaving out non-Western thinkers like Sri Aurobindo, and notes that Ruse ends by predicting that "Progress will continue to dog evolutionary theory" because as Ruse explains, the belief of evolutionists in scientific Progress [with a capital P] is so readily transferred into "a belief in organic progress".

The philosopher of science Ron Amundson, reviewing the book for The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, notes that Ruse thanks E. O. Wilson for urging him "to write a really big book", and quotes Peter J. Bowler as calling it "an important book on the status of evolutionism that will almost certainly become embroiled in controversy". Amundson observes that Ruse claims that evolutionary biology has nearly always been seen as only doubtfully a professional scientific discipline, and that Ruse's thesis is that this is because it has always been tied to "culturally biased concepts of progress". Whether this is actually "bad" is, suggests Amundson, almost irrelevant as long as biologists have thought it so, but since normative (value) judgements such as of progress cannot be derived from observation they are from a methodological point of view not part of science. All the same, he argues, Ruse is an analytic and empiricist philosopher, not at all social-constructivist. Amundson finds Ruse's handling of the morphological traditions "less satisfactory" than of the adaptationist, Darwinian traditions, and doubts whether Richard Owen was a social progressionist just because he was influenced by Naturphilosophie. He compares Ruse unfavourably with Betty Smokovitis's "obsessive concern with historiography", and calls Ruse's writing style "bluff, unselfconscious, and opinionated" and finds Ruse sarcastic, "scarcely a neutral observer". On the other hand, he notes, Ruse is completely open about when he is "sensing" (guessing) something. Amundson concludes that Ruse has certainly shown that evolution and progress "have been closely linked", and his narrative of the people and ideas "rich and compelling", but finds Ruse's claim that biology has been shaped by biologists's embarrassment at this connection debatable.

The biologist and philosopher Michael Ghiselin notes that biologists agree that there is progress in biology and in technology, and that anatomists "do not seem too unhappy with the idea" of something much like that sort of progress in evolution, but that biologists have had trouble finding a theory of progress that did not lead into problems with ideology and "bad metaphysics". He criticises Ruse for "politically correct" "academic bigotry", disagrees with Ruse's narrative about phylogenetics, and accuses him of "completely ignor[ing] recent work such as by Carl Woese, "neglect[ing] data" that contradict his thesis. Ironically, in Ghiselin's view, Ruse's own epistemological ideal for science relies on the idea of Progress.

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2000 United States presidential election in Colorado

The 2000 United States presidential election in Colorado took place on November 7, 2000, and was part of the 2000 United States presidential election. Voters chose 8 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

Colorado was won by Governor George W. Bush by an 8.36% margin of victory, although almost 7% of the electorate voted for third-party candidates. Bush won a majority of the counties and congressional districts. Nader's best performance in the state and indeed the nation was in San Miguel County where he received over 17.20% of the vote, a performance that remains the Green Party's best-ever performance in any county nationwide . , this is the last election in which San Juan County, Gunnison County, Clear Creek County, Routt County, Eagle County, and La Plata County voted for a Republican presidential candidate.

Results

Results by county

By congressional district
Bush won four of six congressional districts.

Electors

Technically the voters of Colorado cast their ballots for electors: representatives to the Electoral College. Colorado is allocated 8 electors because it has 6 congressional districts and 2 senators. All candidates who appear on the ballot or qualify to receive write-in votes must submit a list of 8 electors, who pledge to vote for their candidate and his or her running mate. Whoever wins the majority of votes in the state is awarded all 8 electoral votes. Their chosen electors then vote for president and vice president. Although electors are pledged to their candidate and running mate, they are not obligated to vote for them. An elector who votes for someone other than his or her candidate is known as a faithless elector.

The electors of each state and the District of Columbia met on December 18, 2000 to cast their votes for president and vice president. The Electoral College itself never meets as one body. Instead the electors from each state and the District of Columbia met in their respective capitols.

The following were the members of the Electoral College from the state. All were pledged to and voted for George W. Bush and Dick Cheney:
Bob Beauprez
Marcy Benson
Robert Dieter
Mary Hergert
Robert Martinez
Ralph Nagel
Lilly Nunez
Joe Rogers

References

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Wake Me When the War Is Over

Wake Me When the War Is Over is a 1969 American made-for-television comedy film directed by Gene Nelson and starring Ken Berry and Eva Gabor. It first aired as the ABC Movie of the Week on October 14, 1969.

Plot
The film tells the story of Lieutenant Roger Carrington (Berry), a soldier fighting for the United States Army Air Forces during the closing days of World War II. After accidentally falling out of a plane and landing in German territory, he is hidden by a local baroness named Marlene (Gabor). Luckily, Marlene is against the Nazis, and sympathizes with Carrington, taking him under her wing to recover, and eventually falling in love with him.

Unfortunately, when World War II ends, Marlene realizes that Carrington will leave when he finds this out. Not wanting him to go yet, she decides not to tell him about the war ending so he will stay, and she manages to keep him with her for nearly five years. Around then is when Carrington convinces himself that it's his duty to continue fighting and he leaves Marlene's estate, not realizing he's now in a peacetime country. The only problem is, no one can tell him the war is over because no one around him speaks English including the Baroness' maid Eva who accompanies him.

Cast
 Ken Berry as Roger Carrington
 Eva Gabor as Baroness Marlene
 Werner Klemperer as Erich Mueller
 Danielle De Metz as Eva
 Hans Conried as Erhardt
 Jim Backus as Colonel
 Parley Baer as Erhardt's Butler

References

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Trygve Berge

Trygve Berge (born 13 April 1932) is a Norwegian alpine skier. He was born in Voss. He participated at the 1956 Winter Olympics in  Cortina d'Ampezzo, where he competed in downhill.

He became Norwegian champion in downhill in 1956.

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Megachile semibarbata

Megachile semibarbata is a species of bee in the family Megachilidae. It was described by Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell in 1937.

References

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Ådal

Ådal is a valley in the municipality of Ringerike and was a former municipality in Buskerud County, Norway.

The municipality was created in 1857 by a split from Norderhov. At that time Ådal had a population of 2,382. On 1 January 1964 Ådal was merged with Hønefoss, Tyristrand, Hole and Norderhov to form the new municipality Ringerike. Prior to the merger Ådal had a population of 3,442.

Traditionally the Ådal parish has been divided three ways. Ytre Ådal includes  the village of Hallingby and is the site of  Hallingby school and    Hval  Church  (Hval kirke).   Øvre Ådal includes the village of  Nes, Ådal and is the site of Nes school, Ringmoen  school and  Nes Church  (Nes kirke).  Vestre Ådal is the site of  Viker Church and the  Ådal Mountains (Ådalsfjellene),  a small mountain range which stretches from Ådal to  Vassfarfoten  on the border with Vassfaret and Sør-Aurdal in Oppland.

Sperillen
Sperillen, the 33rd largest lake in  Norway,  is located in Ådal. The rivers Begna (from Begnadalen) and Urula (from Hedalen) flow into the lake from the north. At the south end of the lake, there is a dam located near Ringmoen. The lake is well known for its fisheries and is one of the few within Norway with a commercial fishery.

Viker Church
The first church located at Ådal was a Stave church built during the 15th century. It is mentioned in Diplomatarium Norvegicum in 1462. Before the 17th century it was related to Hole and then connected after the Protestant Reformation to Norderhov parish. By 1700 Ådal needed a new church to serve the growing needs of its parish.

Viker Church (Norwegian: Viker Kirke)  is located on the west shore of Sperillen Lake. The church dates to 1702. The pulpit, altar and crucifers from the old Stave church were saved and placed in the new church. The church has an open interior ceilings and wood walls that are oiled.  The wooden exterior is dark brown. The altarpiece is from 1720s. The baptismal font is from 1728 and has an octagon top and bottom. The church tower has two bells, dating to 1721 and 1842. Because it is situated in the middle of a forested area, it is difficult to see Viker Church from a distance.

The name
The Old Norse name of the district was Árdalr. The first element is the genitive case of á for 'river', the last element is dalr meaning 'dale or valley'.

References

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Shamrock (comics)

Shamrock is a fictional comic book superheroine appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.

Publication history
Shamrock first appeared in Marvel Super-Heroes: Contest of Champions #1 (June 1982). She also appeared in issues #2-3 of the series (July–August 1982).

The character subsequently appeared in The Incredible Hulk Vol. 2 #279 (January 1983), Rom #65 (April 1985), Marvel Comics Presents #24 (July 1989), Alpha Flight #108 (May 1992), Guardians of the Galaxy Annual #3 (1993), Guardians of the Galaxy Annual #4 (1994), Excalibur #108 (April 1997), and Marvel Monsters: From the Files of Ulysses Bloodstone and the Monster Hunters (November 2005).

Shamrock received an entry in the original Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe #9, and in the All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A-Z #9 (2006).

Following a thirteen-year absence from comics, Shamrock returned to the Marvel Universe in a short story published in Girl Comics #2 (2010), where she is depicted as having become overweight during her retirement. The story is written by Kathryn Immonen and illustrated by Colleen Coover. In 2013 she appeared in Fearless Defenders #9.

Fictional character biography
Molly Fitzgerald was born in Dunshaughlin, Ireland, and was the daughter of a militant member of the IRA.  As Shamrock, she serves as a vessel for displaced poltergeists and souls that have died as innocent victims of war; these spirits manifest themselves for fractions of seconds to cause good luck for her and bad luck for those who oppose her.

She was teleported away by the Grandmaster, along with hundreds of other heroes of Earth, so that the Grandmaster and Death could choose champions from among them. Shamrock was chosen for Death's team, fighting alongside fellow heroes Le Peregrine, Iron Man, Vanguard, Iron Fist, Storm, Arabian Knight, Sabra, Invisible Woman, Angel, Black Panther, Sunfire, and the Collective Man.  When the Grandmaster's team won the contest, the heroes were returned to Earth.

Later, her father drugged her to allow Arnim Zola to attempt to duplicate her powers.

She later retired from superhero activity and became a hairdresser. She eventually moved to New York City, where she opened a bar. She was later revealed to have become a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent at some point.

In Girl Comics #2 (2010) she is seen running a superhero salon.

Powers and abilities
Shamrock is possessed by the souls of thousands of victims of wars who manifest themselves as poltergeists which affect probability within a 20-foot radius of her, altering situations so that she is given an advantage, in essence having "The Luck of the Irish".

Other versions
In the Marvel Zombies universe, she became infected with the zombie virus and traveled the world in search of uninfected humans, which had become all but extinct. She encountered Earth-616 (Marvel's core universe)'s Deadpool, who was traveling with two A.I.M. scientists and a zombie-head Deadpool. Tigra assisted Shamrock in trying to eat the humans but was destroyed by the scientists. Shamrock boasted that her luck powers would allow her to prevail in a fight against him until Deadpool began conversing with her about how hard it must be living with her insatiable hunger, but having nothing to eat. He then pulled her around to the idea that sometimes death might be preferable to such an existence to which she agonizingly agreed. In having admitted that, her own power worked against her, increasing her luck that she could be killed which Deadpool was happy to help her accomplish, cutting her in half, lengthwise with a katana.

In an alternate future seen in Guardians of the Galaxy Annual #3 in 1993, Shamrock becomes one of the many powers involved in the Ireland-based resistance against the invading Martians. She works closely with Doctor Druid; part of her duties is to guard the Book of Kells, which had the Martian battle added to it. Her adventures allow her to live long into what is to her, the future.

Reception

Screen Rant ranked Shamrock as one of the superheroes that Marvel wants you to forget.

Comic Book Resources placed her as one of the superheroes Marvel wants you to forget.

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OB

OB or Ob may refer to:

Arts and entertainment
 Sam "O.B." O'Brien, a fictional character in the British soap opera Hollyoaks
 Orphan Black, a popular Canadian science fiction television show.
 Ob, a fictional currency in The Great Explosion

Businesses and organizations
 Odense Boldklub, a Danish football club
 Oriental Brewery, a South Korean brewery, which produces the OB lagers
 Outward Bound, an international outdoor education organization
 Astrakhan Airlines (IATA code) (defunct)
 Boliviana de Aviación (IATA code)

People
 Ed O'Bradovich, a former Chicago Bears defensive lineman and current Bears postgame host on 670 the Score
 Old Badmintonians, former pupils of Badminton School, Bristol, England
 Old Bedfordians, former pupils of Bedford School, England
 Old Bristolians, former pupils of Bristol Grammar School, England

Places
 Ob River, a river in West Siberia, Russia
 Ob Sea, an artificial lake on the Ob River
 Ob, Russia, a town in Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia
 Ob, Germany, in Bidingen, Bavaria, Germany
 Gulf of Ob, a bay of the Arctic Ocean in Northern Russia
 Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts
 Ocean Beach, San Diego, a neighborhood of San Diego, California, United States

Science and technology
 OB star, in astronomy, a hot, massive star of spectral types O or B
 Object Manager (Windows), a Windows NT subsystem
 Obstetrics, a medical specialty dealing with childbirth, often used in "obstetrics and gynaecology" (abbreviated OB/GYN)
 Oligonucleotide/Oligosaccharide DNA-Binding-fold domain
 Organizational behavior, an academic field
 Outside broadcasting, a television broadcasting from a mobile television studio, such as a van
Obliterative bronchiolitis, a disease that results in obstruction of the smallest airways of the lungs due to inflammation

Other uses
 o.b. (brand), a brand of feminine hygiene products
 Halfpenny (British pre-decimal coin), from "ob", archaic abbreviation (see, e.g., Shakespeare's Henry IV, Part One, II.iv.539)
 Order of Burma
 "Over-the-counter bulletin board", in stock listings
 Organizational behavior
 Order of battle

See also
 Obi (disambiguation)
 Obie (disambiguation)
 OOB (disambiguation)


We Thank Thee, O God, for a Prophet

"We Thank Thee, O God, for a Prophet" is a hymn of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). It has been sung at many general conferences of the LDS Church since it was published in 1863.

The text of the hymn was written sometime between 1860 and 1863 by William Fowler, an English convert to Mormonism. Joseph F. Smith reported that he was present at the first church worship service in England where Fowler brought the song to be sung. The song was first published in the LDS Church's 1863 hymnal, and has been included in every LDS hymnal since. The music is an adapted version of Caroline Sheridan Norton's "The Officer's Funeral March".

George D. Pyper described "We Thank Thee, O God, for a Prophet" as "exclusively a Latter-day Saint hymn; a Mormon heartthrob; a song of the Restoration". The name of the hymn is often used as the title of lessons in church curriculum or as the title of church sermons and inspirational messages.

The first verse of the song acknowledges the Latter-day Saints' gratitude to God for the President of the Church, who is revered as a modern prophet. Subsequent verses thank God for the care and protection he provides to the members of the church.

The song is one of the 45 hymns that the church publishes in its basic curriculum sources that are used in areas of the world where the church is new or underdeveloped. As a result, it is often one of the first hymns new Latter-day Saints receive and learn.

"We Thank Thee, O God, for a Prophet" is hymn number 19 in the current LDS Church hymnal. The copyright for this version is owned by Intellectual Reserve, Inc., a corporation established by the LDS Church to hold its intellectual property. Intellectual Reserve allows copying or downloading of the music and lyrics of the song for incidental, noncommercial church, or noncommercial home uses. A similar version of the hymn is published as hymn number 307 in the Revelation section of  Hymns of the Saints by the Community of Christ's Herald House publishing arm.

Unusual usage
While preparing to speak at a CES fireside being held at Brigham Young University's Marriott Center on February 7, 1993, Howard W. Hunter, the president of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, was confronted by Cody Judy, who rushed onto the rostrum and threatened Hunter and the audience of 15,000 to 17,000. Judy carried a briefcase that he claimed contained a bomb and held what appeared to be a detonator-like device. Judy demanded that Hunter read a three-page document that supposedly detailed God's plan for Judy to lead the church, which Hunter refused to do. The audience spontaneously sang "We Thank Thee, O God, for a Prophet", during which students from the audience and then security personnel overtook Judy. After Judy was taken away, Hunter delivered his prepared remarks, a talk entitled "An Anchor to the Souls of Men".

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Pana Wina Island

Pana Wina Island is an island of Papua New Guinea.  It is part of the Calvados Chain, a grouping of islands within the Louisiade Archipelago.  Pana Wina is the largest island in the Calvados Chain, and lies near the eastern end of the chain, just west of Hemenahei Island.  The very small Yakimoan Island lies just west of Pana Wina.
The capital village of the Calvados Chain, where the ward's school is located, Bomalou, with a population of just over 300, lies on the western shore of the island.

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Vandenbroek, Wisconsin

Vandenbroek is a town in Outagamie County, Wisconsin, United States. The population was 1,474 at the 2010 census.

Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 9.5 square miles (24.6 km²), all of it land.

Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there were 1,351 people, 460 households, and 385 families residing in the town. The population density was 142.4 people per square mile (55.0/km²). There were 465 housing units at an average density of 49.0 per square mile (18.9/km²).  The racial makeup of the town was 99.04% White, 0.07% African American, 0.07% Native American, 0.07% Asian, and 0.74% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.59% of the population.

There were 460 households out of which 40.0% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 78.9% were married couples living together, 2.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 16.1% were non-families. 13.5% of all households were made up of individuals and 5.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.94 and the average family size was 3.24.

In the town, the population was spread out with 28.9% under the age of 18, 7.1% from 18 to 24, 29.2% from 25 to 44, 26.1% from 45 to 64, and 8.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females, there were 112.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 102.1 males.

The median income for a household in the town was $61,845, and the median income for a family was $64,583. Males had a median income of $44,643 versus $28,000 for females. The per capita income for the town was $23,419. About 1.3% of families and 2.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 0.8% of those under age 18 and 5.7% of those age 65 or over.

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Vladimir Sandulović

Vladimir Sandulović (Serbian Cyrillic: Владимир Сандуловић; born 18 May 1977) is a Serbian football manager and former player.

Playing career
A towering defender, Sandulović started his playing career with Timok, before transferring to OFK Beograd in the summer of 1998. He would go on to play professionally in Iceland (Stjarnan in 2000), Ukraine (Vorskla Poltava in 2005), Poland (Górnik Łęczna in 2006), Romania (Național București in 2007), and Sweden (Vasalunds IF in 2008), before moving back to his homeland. After spending one year at both Smederevo (2008–09) and Sevojno (2009–10), Sandulović returned to Timok to finish his journeyman career.

Managerial career
Following his retirement as a player in the summer of 2014, Sandulović was appointed manager of his former club Timok. He led the team to a fifth-place finish in the Serbian League East in his first season as a manager.

External links
 KSI profile

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Just Behind You

Just Behind You is a collection of nineteen horror stories by Ramsey Campbell, originally published by PS Publishing in 2009. A paperback edition was published by Drugstore Indian Press in 2013.

In his review of the collection for the British Fantasy Society, Paul Campbell described the book as “superb”, and explained of Campbell “……the reason he’s the best living horror writer today is because he has the ability – unequalled by any other practitioner – to imbue his prose with a sense of foreboding and menace. On every single line. Of every single paragraph. On every single page. The story lines themselves are enough to haunt, but combined with his (in the strictest dictionary definition of the word) unique style causes the reader’s arms to run cold with gooseflesh.”   Publishers Weekly noted,   "British horror master Campbell (Told by the Dead) displays his gift for the unsettling in this collection of 18 recent short stories."

Contents

The stories included are:

 "Fear the Dead" (2003)
 "Digging Deep" (2007)
 "Double Room" (2008)
 "The Place of Revelation" (2003)
 "The Winner" (2005)
 "One Copy Only" (2002)
 "Laid Down" (2004)
 "Unblinking" (2005)
 "Breaking Up" (2004)
 "Respects" (2008)
 "Feeling Remains" (2003)
 "Direct Line" (2004)
 "Skeleton Woods" (2005)
 "The Unbeheld" (2002)
 "The Announcement" (2005)
 "Dragged Down" (2008)
 "Raised by the Moon" (2001)
 "Just Behind You" (2005)
 "Safe Words" (2009)

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Robert St Leger Fowler

Captain Robert St Leger Fowler MC (7 April 1891 – 13 June 1925) was an Irish first-class cricketer, often regarded as the best Irish cricketer not to have represented Ireland itself. Fowler was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm off break. He is perhaps best known for his outstanding all round performance as captain of Eton College in the match against Harrow in 1910, the match commonly referred to as Fowler's match.

Family
Fowler was born at his family home at Rahinstown, in Enfield, County Meath, Ireland. His father Robert Henry Fowler had attended RMC Sandhurst and joined the British Army in 1878, becoming a captain in the King's Shropshire Light Infantry in 1886, and had played one first-class cricket match for Cambridge University against the Marylebone Cricket Club in 1876.   His great-great grandfather, also Robert, was Bishop of Ossory and then Bishop of Ossory, Ferns and Leighlin from 1817 until his death in 1841, and his great-great-great grandfather, Robert Fowler was a Protestant clergyman who settled in Ireland in the 1760s and was Archbishop of Dublin from 1779 until his death in 1801.

Fowler attended Mr Hawtrey's prep school in Westgate-on-Sea, and then Eton College, where he was influenced by his housemaster, Cyril Wells, an amateur cricketer who played for Middlesex. Fowler played for Eton against Harrow School in the 1908 and 1909 Eton v Harrow fixtures. Harrow won easily in 1908, and the 1909 fixture was drawn, although Fowler's 11 wickets for 79 runs gave Eton a fighting chance.

Fowler's match

In 1910, Fowler was 19 years old, and captain of cricket in his last year at Eton.  His performance in the 1910 Eton v Harrow match has become a cricket legend, of such note that the 1910 match has been nicknamed Fowler's match.

The two-day two-innings cricket match was held at Lord's on Friday 8 and Saturday 9 July 1910.  He was one of only three survivors from Eton's 1909 team, but Harrow had seven veterans from the 1909 match and came to the match unbeaten.  Before the match, The Times noted that Harrow's captain Guy Earle "bowls extraordinarily fast for a boy" but that "is not deadly on a good wicket, but can make every use of a difficult one".  Also playing in the match was a schoolboy who would become a field-marshal (Alexander), another an air vice-marshal (Blount), and a third an attorney-general (Monckton), together with various sons of nobility.

Harrow won the toss, and batted first, scoring 232.  Despite some bad luck, Fowler took 4 wickets.  Eton were dismissed early on the second day for 67, with Fowler top scorer on 21, the only Eton batsman to reach double figures.  Eton followed on, and subsided to 65-5 shortly after lunch.  But Fowler was still batting, and added 42 runs for the sixth wicket with Wigan and 57 runs for the seventh wicket with Boswell.  Fowler was eventually out for 64 runs, the highest individual innings in the match, with 8 fours, a three, 10 twos and 9 singles, with Eton one run ahead.  Heroic batting by the tenth wicket partnership of Manners and Lister-Kaye gave Eton a slender lead of 55 runs.  Fowler's extraordinary bowling took 8 wickets, 5 bowled, to dismiss Harrow for 45, 10 runs short of the target.

Fowler's outstanding all round batting and bowling performance allowed Eton to win a match that appeared all but lost after Harrow School asked Eton to follow on 165 runs in arrears.  Wisden stated that: "In the whole history of cricket, there has been nothing more sensational" and The Times said that "A more exciting match can hardly ever have been played", continuing effusively, with a reference to the inaugural Ashes Test at The Oval in 1882, "to boys the bowling of Fowler was probably more formidable than Spofforth's to England".  Fowler ended the match having scored 21 and 64 runs, and taken 4-90 and 8-23.  The Times described Fowler's contribution in the following terms: "in the whole history of public school cricket nothing better can have been seen than Fowler's play on the second day".

Army career
Fowler enrolled at Sandhurst in 1910, where he won the Sword of Honour in 1911.  He was commissioned in the 17th Lancers.

Fowler served in the First World War as a captain in the 17th Lancers.  He was awarded the Military Cross in the defence of Amiens in 1918.

He was also British Army rackets champion.

Cricket
Fowler made his first-class debut for the Marylebone Cricket Club against Fowler's future club, Hampshire. Fowler played two matches for the MCC in 1913, with his final appearance coming against Cambridge University.

After the war, Fowler represented the British Army in first-class matches, making his debut against the Royal Navy in 1919. Fowler represented the Army in fifteen first-class matches, making his final appearance for the Army in 1924 against the Royal Navy. In his fifteen matches for the Army, Fowler scored 636 runs at an average of 35.30, with a high score of 92*, one of four half centuries. With his tidy and accurate off breaks, Fowler took 49 wickets at a bowling average of 17.85, with best figures of 7-22 which was one of Fowler's two five wicket hauls, both in 1924.

As well as representing the Army, Fowler also represented the Combined Services in three first-class matches against the touring Australians in 1921, Essex in 1922 and the touring South Africans in 1924.

In 1924 Fowler made his first-class debut for Hampshire against Middlesex at Lord's, in the 1924 County Championship. Fowler played two more matches for the club, all in the same season against the touring South Africans and Middlesex. Fowler scored 106 runs at an average of 17.66, with two half centuries and a high score of 51. Fowler was less successful with the ball for the club, taking only four wickets at an average of 51.50.

Fowler's final first-class match came for the Gentlemen in the Gentlemen v Players fixture in Blackpool in 1924.

Outside of first-class cricket, he toured North America with Incogniti in 1920, where he scored 142 against All Philadelphia, playing with Douglas Jardine. The same year Fowler toured Germany with the Free Foresters and in 1923 Fowler toured Canada with them. He played for the Army against Public Schools in 1922, 1923 and 1924, having played for Public Schools against the MCC in 1909 and 1910, and for Eton Ramblers.  He is regarded as the best Irish cricketer not to have represented Ireland itself.

He was selected to tour New Zealand in 1922-23 in a team led by Archie MacLaren, but the Army refused him leave.  He was appointed captain of a proposed MCC tour to West Indies in 1924-25, but the tour was postponed until the following year.

Early death
Fowler died at Rahinstown, Enfield, County Meath from leukemia in June 1925. He was 34 years old.

References

External links
Robert Fowler at Cricinfo
Robert Fowler at CricketArchive
Matches and detailed statistics for Robert Fowler
Profile of Robert Fowler
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Velleguindry-et-Levrecey

Velleguindry-et-Levrecey is a commune in the Haute-Saône department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France.

See also
Communes of the Haute-Saône department

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Reuben Sweet House

The Reuben Sweet House, located at 6 Chicago Ave. in Yakima, Washington, United States, was built in 1910 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

External links
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Andrei Šilin

Andrei Šilin (born 28 August 1978) is an Estonian rower. He competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics and the 2004 Summer Olympics.

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Manoir Industries

For 100 years, Manoir Industries, as an international group in metal processing, has developed alloys and operated processes dedicated to the manufacturing of high-performance cast, forging and boilermaking components for the petrochemical, nuclear, oil & gas, construction & mining equipment, windmill & hydraulic, defence, steel and aerospace industries.

Manoir Industries has production sites located in Europe and Asia, and has representative offices all over the world.

History

Over the course of a century, Manoir Industries has been built by successive acquisitions, and is at the heart of the metal-processing industry.

Though its history began in Pompey in eastern France, it was in 1917 that the first factory of the group was erected at a place called the Manoir, in Pîtres near Rouen, to produce cast components for the railways. Since the 1950s, thanks to new investments and new orientations, Manoir Industries has positioned itself in the petrochemical market and oil and gas market, and is acquiring an international dimension. Its metallurgical expertise, and the skills it has acquired and developed during this century of history constitute the foundations of Manoir Industries’ current and future success. Its ability to innovate, and the commitment of the men and women who work for the company are the key performance factors that have been showcased throughout Manoir Industries’ history, and are a source of trust for its customers.

On 28 February 2013, the industrial group Yantai Taihai, which is the leading private nuclear player in China for cast and forged parts, acquired the Manoir Industries group. Yantai Taihai has partnered with Manoir Industries for over 20 years, and they have built a relationship based on mutual trust, allowing this rich potential transaction. The expertise of both in forging and foundry, and their complementary ranges offer synergies in the nuclear, petrochemical, oil and gas, construction and mining equipment fields. An investment programme at all sites, which has been essential for Manoir Industries, has increased the added value of finished, machined, ready-to-assemble components. By deploying its industrial resources, and accelerating its programmes for investment and for research and development, Manoir Industries has strengthened its international position and increased its ability to better support its clients’ projects.

Markets

Manoir Industries markets are amongst the most demanding in terms of strength and reliability for parts operating under severe conditions (stress, pressure, temperature, corrosion, wear, fatigues…): petrochemical, nuclear, oil and gas, wind energy, railways, defense, construction & mining equipment, heavy weight trucks, tractors, steel industry, aerospace.

 Petrochemical: manufacturing cast and centrifuged tubes  to equip cracking (ethylene) and reforming (ammonia, methanol, hydrogen) furnaces
 Nuclear: cast components as elbows, pump and valve bodies, tubes, pipes composed of loops for the primary circuit and forging parts such as tubes, valve bodies, manway pads, heat exchanger, feed water nozzle and other various components. The French nuclear power plants are equipped with Manoir’s components as well abroad in China, South Korea, South Africa, Belgium, and United Kingdom.
 Oil and Gas: forged and cast subsea and offshore components for conventional and unconventional (shale) oil and gas extraction
 Construction equipment: forged components for excavators, loaders and off-highway trucks
 Mining components: forged components for dump trucks, roof support, fly bars…
 Transport: forged components for professional heavy trucks and the railway market
 Steel industry: radiants and tubes
 Aerospace: forged components certified by helicopter companies and components for landing gear.

Manufacturing process
Manoir Industries occupies a key international metal-processing position for various components, bringing together many in-house manufacturing processes.

In the foundry (for horizontal and vertical centrifugal casting, and sand casting), in forging (for stamping, hot-extruded and machined parts) and in steel metal (for the manufacturing and installation of boilermaking equipment and piping), Manoir Industries brings solutions, starting from the design, to provide varied and complex products of different morphologies, which are machined, welded, assembled and ready for installation.

Innovation and customers service
Developing and providing solutions for its customers with respect to improving performance, quality and reliability.

In Manoir Industries’ laboratories, metallurgical doctors, engineers and technicians perform various mission types, including:

 Developing new technologies
 Developing and improving production processes
 Establishing standardsThrough regular and always highly valued exchanges with its customers, Manoir Industries develops innovative technologies in partnership with major manufacturers, and fosters close connections with well-known university laboratories.

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Uno Sanli

Uno Sanli (born 5 January 1989 in Eskilstuna) is a Swedish taekwondo athlete. He competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the men's -58 kg division. Currently he lives in Skärholmen.

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Nematoplexus

Nematoplexus rhyniensis is a fossil known from the Rhynie chert assigned to the nematophytes. It comprises a loose mass of coily aseptate tubes. Tubes which may have originated from a Nematoplexus-like plant are known from earlier Silurian sediments.

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MitoMap

MitoMap is a real time haplotyping protocol that analyzes pathogenic variants that cause several mitochondrial diseases.  It was carried out real-time for the first time during the 2013 NexGen Genomics & Bioinformatics Technologies conference at Delhi, India from November 14–16. The results have been published online.

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John Leslie (bishop of Clogher)

John Leslie (14 October 1571 – 8 September 1671) was a combative Scottish royalist  bishop of Clogher, who became known as the "fighting bishop" for his resistance to the Irish rebellion of 1641 and the parliamentarian forces.

Life

The oldest son of George Leslie and Marjory, his wife, he was born at Crichie in Aberdeenshire, 14 October 1571. He was educated at Aberdeen and afterwards in France. He lived abroad for two decades, mainly in Spain, where his Latinity was admired. He was admitted to read in the Bodleian Library in 1618, and in 1624 he graduated Doctor of Divinity (DD) at Trinity College, Cambridge, per literas regias. He was in favour with James I, who made him a privy councillor in Scotland, and with Charles I, who gave him the same rank in Ireland, and this he retained after the Restoration. He was with George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham at Rhé in 1627.

His first preferment seems to have been in London to the church of St. Martins-in-the-Vintry, and he was promoted to be Bishop of the Isles in 1628. In June 1633 he was translated to the bishopric of Raphoe in Ireland. Here he found many of the mensal lands in the hands of lay usurpers, but recovered some by a lawsuit to i. In 1635 he had a dispute with one John Hamilton, in which John Bramhall, at Thomas Wentworth's request, undertook to arbitrate. He built a fortified palace at Raphoe, where there had been no episcopal mansion.

The outbreak of the Irish rebellion in 1641 tested the defences of the palace. The bishop raised a company of foot for the king, distinguished himself as a partisan leader, and conveyed ammunition through from Dublin to Derry. He relieved Sir Ralph Gore, who was hard beset at Magherabeg, near Donegal. Leslie is said to have gone to Scotland about midsummer 1642, all the other bishops having previously left Ireland; but he returned after the king's execution, defended Raphoe against the Cromwellians as he had done against the Irish, and was one of the last royalists to submit.

Leslie was the only Anglican bishop who remained at his post in Ireland during the Interregnum, confirming children in Dublin, and ordaining clergymen. Leslie's courtly manners endeared him to Henry Cromwell, and he was for a time in receipt of a pension. To do homage to the Restoration in 1660, Leslie, then nearly ninety, is said to have ridden from Chester to London in twenty-four hours. He was allowed to hold the deanery of Raphoe along with his bishopric, but resigned it on being translated to Clogher in June 1661. The bishop was recommended by Charles II to the special consideration of the Irish House of Commons, and £2,000 were voted to him. In returning thanks, he hoped 'that whatever the house hath given to a prophet may receive a prophet's reward'.

He bought Glasslough in Monaghan; it was one of the many forfeited estates which had been granted to Sir Thomas Ridgeway. The Leslie family historian says that the bishop's wife was heiress of Glasslough. The town was long known as Castle-Leslie. At his death on 8 September 1671, he transmitted his estate to his children. He was buried there in the church of St. Saviour, which he had founded. The slab which covered his remains recorded that the bishop died a centenarian, that he was a doctor of divinity and laws, and that he was a privy councillor to three kings. Bishop Maxwell of Kilmore composed an epitaph.

Family

In 1638 the bishop was married to Catherine, daughter of Alexander Cunningham, dean of Raphoe, and aged eighteen. They had ten children, of whom John, the eldest surviving son, was dean of Dromore. The sixth son was Charles Leslie the nonjuror, whose great-grandson was John Leslie, Bishop of Kilmore, Elphin and Ardagh (son of Charles Leslie MP).

References

Attribution

External links
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