National Union of Sahrawi Women

The National Union of Sahrawi Women (Spanish: Unión Nacional de Mujeres Saharauis, UNMS) is the women's wing of the Polisario Front. It was created in 1974, and claims to have 10,000 members, divided between the Sahrawi refugee camps, the Liberated territories, the Moroccan-occupied part of Western Sahara and the Sahrawi diaspora (including for instance Spain, Mauritania or France).

Organization
The organization is mostly active in the Sahrawi refugee camps in Tindouf, Algeria, where it is a powerful force within the POLISARIO and the Sahrawi republic. It is internationally active in organizing support for Sahrawi women and the Sahrawi cause, but also campaigns for women's rights within the exile community and in political decision-making. As a consequence of this, and of the special circumstances of the Western Sahara war years, the situation of Sahrawi women has improved noticeably. There are presently two women in the Sahrawi republic's government, the Minister of Culture Khadijah Hamdi, and the Minister of Education Mariem Salek Hamada.

The UNMS is directed by a "National Committee" of 66 members, elected in the UNMS congress every 5 years. It is subdivided into several departments:
 Department of External Relations and Cooperation
 Department of Information and Culture
 Department of Administration and Organization
 Department of Occupied Towns and Emigration
 Department of Social Affairs
 Department of Health and Family Affairs
 Department of Formation
 Department of Education
 Department of Production
There are also departments for each Wilaya.
The national committee is chaired by a Secretary General, elected also in the congresses, who is at the same time member of the Polisario Front national committee.

Keltoum Khayati, a former secretary general of the UNMS, fled to Morocco and is defending the Moroccan position in the conflict. Fatma Mehdi Hassan has been secretary general since 2002.

The UNMS has been a member of the Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF) and the General Federation of Arab Women since 1977 and of the Pan-African Women's Organization (PAWO) since 1980.

Objectives

On the national level, the UNMS objectives are:
 Sensitize Saharawi women about their role in the struggle for the liberation and independence of the Western Sahara.
 Orient women in the social and political fields to improve their level of education and training (literacy campaigns, scholastic and professional training, political seminars, etc.).
 Aware women about their social and political rights, to guarantee an effective participation in the present and in the future.
 Deepen in the role of the family, specially on educative level, guaranteeing an equal education between boys and girls, with the basis of respect and equality in society.
 Concern women about the importance of the prevention on the health field.
 Solidarity with our compatriots in the occupied zones, constantly facing the Moroccan aggression, being victims of discrimination and suffering.

On the international level, the UNMS objectives are:
 Implementation of decisions and strategies concerning women, particularly the "Strategy of Nairobi".
 Establishment of security and peace in the world, equality between the sexes as the basis for all progress and development and the reinforcement of human rights and democracy.
 Monitoring of the situation of the women worldwide, knowing that all work for the same objectives, despite the religious, political or social situation.
 Enhance the relations with as many women's organizations worldwide, with the aim of:
 Broaden the base of coalition and solidarity with our people's struggle generally and our women particularly.
 Achieve material and financial support for the UNMS projects for woman's formation in the refugee camps.
 Denounce War and Racism, in which women and children used to be the first victims.
 Denounce the violation of women rights.

Congresses

 1st Congress: "Martyr Jueta Hadda Laulad" (March 23–25, 1985).
 2nd Congress: "Martyr Jnaza Ayad" (February 24–26, 1990).
 3rd Congress: "Martyr Batul Sidi Sidali" (February 24–26, 1996).
 4th Congress: "Martyr Fatimatu Ahmed-Salem Baad" (March 29–31, 2002)
 5th Congress: "Martyr Maimuna Abdallahi Mohamed Lamin" (April 5–7, 2007)
 6th Congress: "Sahrawi women perpetuating the Gdeim Izik spirit" (April 20–24, 2011)

See also
Sahrawi Youth Union
Sahrawi Trade Union

References

External links
Mujeres Saharauis-UNMS UNMS Facebook page
NUSW page Association pour un Référendum libre et régulier au Sahara Occidental
UNMS page Asociación de Mujeres Saharauis en España
New generation of Saharawi woman ready to go Appeal of the "Western Sahara Campaign UK" on the 4th Congress of the NUSW
“La planificación familiar no es una prioridad, intentan aniquilarnos como pueblo” Interview at Spanish newspaper Diagonal with Fatma El-Mehdi, UNMS Secretary General
Fatma El Mehdi at CUNY Center for Peace, Culture and Politics Video of a Fatma El Mehdi's conference in New York City

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Théniet El Had National Park

The Théniet El Had National Park is one of the 10 national parks of Algeria. It is located in Tissemsilt Province, named after Théniet El Haâd, a town near this park.

Description
It has several forests, and it is located in the foothills of the highest peak (1.985 meter/ 6.512 feet high) of the Ouarsenis mountain chain in the Tell Atlas; home to a diversified flora and fauna. The park is a popular hiking destination for many Algerians.

External links
 Official Website
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Taza National Park on UNESCO.org(dead link)
Park data on UNEP-WPMC (dead link)

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List of Episcopal Divinity School people

This is a partial list of notable people affiliated with Episcopal Divinity School, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, and with its predecessors, the Episcopal Theological School and the Philadelphia Divinity School.

Faculty
 Alexander Viets Griswold Allen (1841–1908), church historian
 Nathan D. Baxter (born 1948), bishop of Central Pennsylvania
 Robert Avon Bennett (born 1933), Old Testament scholar, first African American faculty member
 Charles Bennison (born 1943), bishop of Pennsylvania
 John Everitt Booty (1925-2013), dean of the School of Theology, University of the South
 Katie Geneva Cannon (born 1949), feminist theologian
 Otis Charles (1926-2013), dean, bishop of Utah
Steven Charleston (born 1949), dean, bishop of Alaska
 John B. Coburn (1925–2006), dean, bishop of Massachusetts
 Frederick William Dillistone (1903–1993), theologian, dean of Liverpool
 Angus Dun (1892–1971), dean, bishop of Washington
 Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza (born 1938), feminist biblical scholar
 Joseph Fletcher (1905–1991), founder of situational ethics
 Ezra Palmer Gould (1841–1900), New Testament scholar (Philadelphia Divinity School)
 George Zabriskie Gray (1837–1889), dean
 Harvey H. Guthrie (born 1924), dean, Old Testament scholar
 Carter Heyward (born 1945), feminist theologian and one of the Philadelphia Eleven
 Suzanne R. Hiatt (1936–2002), professor of homiletics, pastoral theologian, and one of the Philadelphia Eleven
 Lloyd G. Patterson (1924–1999), patristics scholar
 John Punnett Peters (1852–1921), Hebrew scholar (Philadelphia Divinity School)
 Katherine Hancock Ragsdale (born 1959), dean and president
 Edward Rodman, professor of Pastoral Theology
 Charles W. F. Smith (1905–1993), New Testament scholar
 Owen C. Thomas (1922-2015), professor of philosophy of religion, and systematic theology.
 Fredrica Harris Thompsett, Academic Dean, professor of History

Alumni
George Councell (born 1949), bishop of New Jersey
Peter Elliott (born 1954), dean, Christ Church Cathedral, Vancouver
Philip Gambone (born 1948), author
Mary Douglas Glasspool (born 1954), suffragan bishop in the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles
James A. Kowalski (born 1951), dean of the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, New York
Bruce Lawrence (born 1941), scholar of religions
Robert Williams (1955–1992), gay priest

Episcopal Theological School
Daniel Dulany Addison (1863–1936), priest, author
John Melville Burgess (1909–2003), bishop of Massachusetts and the first African American to head an Episcopal diocese.
William Wilfred Campbell (1860–1918), Canadian poet
Jonathan Daniels (1939–1965), civil rights martyr (died before graduation)
Bob Franke (born 1947), singer-songwriter (left to pursue a musical career)
Percy Stickney Grant (1860–1927), Christian socialist
Alden Moinet Hathaway (born 1933), bishop of Pittsburgh
Henry Hobson (1891–1983), bishop of Southern Ohio
Arthur Lichtenberger (1900–1968), twenty-first presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church
Arthur Moulton (1873–1962), bishop of Utah
Endicott Peabody (1857–1944), priest, founder of Groton School
William D. Persell (born 1943), bishop of Chicago, assisting bishop of Ohio
James De Wolf Perry (1871–1947), eighteenth presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church
George F. Regas (born 1930), priest, activist
Ruby Sales (born 1948), social activist
Peter Selby (born 1941), bishop of Worcester
Henry Knox Sherrill (1890–1980), twentieth presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church
Anson Phelps Stokes (1905–1986), bishop of Massachusetts
William B. Spofford (1921-2013), bishop of Eastern Oregon, assistant bishop of Washington
Logan Herbert Roots (1870–1945), bishop of Hankow
William Greenough Thayer (1863–1934), priest, educator, headmaster of St. Mark's School
Paul Van Buren (1924–1998), "Death of God" theologian
Geralyn Wolf (born 1947), bishop of Rhode Island

Philadelphia Divinity School
Allen W. Brown (1909–1990), bishop of Albany
Wallace E. Conkling (1896–1979), bishop of Chicago
William Chauncey Emhardt (1874–1950), priest and ecumenist
Reginald H. Fuller (1915–2007), priest, biblical scholar
Alfred A. Gilman (1878–1966), missionary bishop of Hankow
Elwood Haines (1893–1949), bishop of Iowa
Wilbur Hogg (1916–1986), bishop of Albany
Francis W. Lickfield, fifth bishop of Quincy
Lyman Pierson Powell (1866–1946), president of Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Jules Louis Prevost (1863–1937), missionary to Alaska
Theophilus Gould Steward (1843–1924), A.M.E. missionary, professor at Wilberforce University
Paul Washington (1921–2002), priest and activist

References

External links
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Granger Archaeopteryx

The Granger Archaeopteryx is a British single-engined, tailless parasol monoplane designed and built in the late 1920s by two brothers, R.F.T. and R.J.T. Granger. The sole example built is currently under restoration for flight.

Design
The layout of the Archaeopteryx was inspired by the tailless swept-winged Westland-Hill Pterodactyl, itself derived from the aircraft of J. W. Dunne. These aircraft had been designed to resist stalling and to allow easy and safe recovery if they did.

The Archaeopteryx follows the Dunne D.7 in being a parasol wing monoplane, however it differs in being the first aircraft of tailless swept configuration to have a nose-mounted tractor propeller. Lateral and pitch control is via all-moving wing tips which act as elevons, as developed by Hill for the Pterodactyl. It also has a conventional vertical tail fin and rudder.

It is powered by a  Bristol Cherub engine.

History
After seeing the success of the Westland-Hill Pterodactyl, the Granger brothers decided to build their own aircraft in which to learn to fly. They were also influenced by the designs of J. W. Dunne, and designed their machine with the assistance of C.H. Latimer-Needham.

Named after the Archaeopteryx prehistoric bird, the aircraft first flew at Hucknall near Nottingham in October 1930. It was not initially registered with the CAA and flew without markings until two years later when it was given the registration of G-ABXL on 3 June 1932.

The brothers both piloted the aircraft many times in the Nottingham area, and flew it as far as Hatfield in June 1935 to attend a flying display. Performance on the Bristol Cherub engine was marginal; as originally built the Archaeopteryx was an Ultralight and as such the performance was adequate, so long as the pilot was no more than 11 stone. It was flown quite successfully for five years prior to its retirement. The aircraft proved difficult to control in pitch, especially on landing where a series of large bounces often developed. It was flown regularly between 1930 and 1936 before being stored for 30 years at the home of one of the Granger Brothers in Chilwell, Nottingham.

In the 1960s the designers realised the type's significance as a forerunner of modern swept wing aircraft, and on 28 April 1967, G-ABXL was presented to the Shuttleworth Collection by R.J.T. Granger where it was restored to an airworthy condition and flew again in June 1971 in the hands of Sqn.Ldr. J. Lewis. During the restoration a new throttle control was moved to a position outside of the fuselage and, with a pilot whose weight is at the limit, a positive climb rate can only be obtained by the pilot moving his arms and elbows into the cramped cockpit to minimise drag.

Ownership subsequently passed back to the Granger family in May 2002. The aircraft is once again being restored to flying condition.

Specifications (Archaeopteryx)

See also

References

Notes

Bibliography

 Guttery, T.E. The Shuttleworth Collection. London: Wm. Carling & Co, 1969.
 Jackson, A.J. British Civil Aircraft since 1919 (Volume 2). London, Putnam, 1974.
 Ogilvy, David. Shuttleworth - The Historic Aeroplanes. Shrewsbury, England: Airlife Publishing Ltd., 1989

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Šentjakob ob Savi

Šentjakob ob Savi ( or ; in older sources also Sveti Jakob ob Savi, ) is a formerly independent settlement in the northeastern part of the capital Ljubljana in central Slovenia. It was part of the traditional region of Upper Carniola and is now included with the rest of the municipality in the Central Slovenia Statistical Region. It includes the hamlets of Pečnik and Soteska.

Geography

Šentjakob ob Savi is a clustered settlement on a terrace above the Sava River east of Črnuče. The old channel of the Sava can be seen in the southern part of the village, where the river flowed before it was regulated during construction of the Austrian Southern Railway. The soil is sandy and fertile. The A1 Freeway runs directly east of the old village center.

Name
The name Šentjakob ob Savi literally means 'Saint James on the Sava River'. The name Šentjakob is a compound of Slovene šent 'saint' and Jakob 'James', after whom the church in the village is named.

History
Folk tradition says that a castle stood on the hill above the hamlet of Soteska and was destroyed by the Ottomans, but no trace of the structure remains today. Šentjakob ob Savi was a ferry point across the Sava River until 1584, when a bridge was built to serve the postal connection between Graz and Venice. The postal route was relocated via Kamnik in 1717 because of frequent flooding of the Sava. A part-time school was established in Šentjakob ob Savi in 1788, and regular schooling started in 1869. School was held in the sexton's house until 1903, when a schoolhouse was built. Before the Second World War, weaving straw was a traditional economic activity in the village, where they also produced tote bags made of straw. This activity was given up due to competition from Tyrol. The hamlet of Soteska was formerly an independent settlement, but was annexed to Šentjakob ob Savi in 1953, before Šentjakob ob Savi itself was annexed by the City of Ljubljana in 1984.

Church

Saint James' Church was built in 1899 at the site of a former church that was destroyed in the 1895 Ljubljana earthquake. The Baroque bell tower of the old church was incorporated into the new structure. The church is decorated with a 1913 fresco by Simon Ogrin (1851–1930). The church initially belonged to the proto-parish of Mengeš, but was made the seat of a parish in 1787.

Notable people
Notable people that were born or lived in Šentjakob ob Savi include the following.
Anton Vilar (1884–1953), composer, organist, and photographer
Valentin Vodnik's grandfather was born in Šentjakob ob Savi and moved to Trata when he married into the Žibert family

References

External links
Šentjakob ob Savi on Geopedia

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Liliane Gaschet

Liliane Gaschet (born 16 March 1962 in Fort-de-France, Martinique) is a French athlete who specialises in the 100 and 200 meters. Gaschet competed in the women's 100 and 200 meters and also the 4 x 100 meter relay at the 1984 Summer Olympics.

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Prosoproctus

Prosoproctus pataecus is a species of velvetfish native to the South China Sea where it occurs at depths of from .  This species is the only known member of its genus.

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Julio Cesar Rodríguez (cyclist)

Julio Cesar Rodríguez (born 28 June 1966) is a Colombian former cyclist. He competed in the team time trial at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

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Kaimana Hila

Kaimana Hila is a Hawaiian song composed in 1916 by Charles E. King, assisted by Andrew Cummings, about Diamond Head, which can be viewed from Waikiki beach on Honolulu, Oahu Island.

Kaimana Hila means Diamond head, from the Hawaiian word "Kaimana", which means diamond, and the English word hill. It is one of the popular Hawaiian songs, like Aloha Oe, On a Little Bamboo Bridge, Blue Hawaii, and King's other song, the Hawaiian Wedding Song.

It is extremely popular in Japan, because of the imagery Diamond head from Waikiki, Honolulu, the Japanese people's most popular tourist destination in Hawaii.

The music is melodious and easy to remember. The words start with the following lines:

See also
Music of Hawaii
List of Hawaiian songs

References

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African hoe money

African hoe money was a form of currency which became standard in many African countries.

Implements such as hoes, spades, trowels, knives and spears served a utilitarian function in many African countries. The scarcity of metals such as iron, copper, brass and bronze meant that they became useful trading materials leading to their use as currency. Objects made from these metals came in the shape of a heart, spade, paddle, teardrop, trowel, anchor or blade, often reworked into implements as needed.

References

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Huntley Fitzpatrick

Huntley Fitzpatrick is an American author of young adult (YA) fiction.

She grew up in a small coastal town in Connecticut, wanting to be a writer. She graduated from Concord Academy in Concord, Massachusetts in 1981, and attended Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

Fitzpatrick worked as an editor in academic publishing and as an editor on teen titles at Harlequin before becoming a full-time YA writer.

She lives in Massachusetts with her husband and their six children.

Novels
 My Life Next Door New York : Dial Books, 2012.
What I Thought Was True New York, New York: Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, 2014.
The Boy Most Likely To New York: Dial Books, 2015

Reception
Fitzpatrick's books have been generally well received.

My Life Next Door has been described as an "excellent first novel" that "movingly captures the intensity of first love, the corrupting forces of power, and the losses suffered by innocent victims caught in a web of political deceit." and "A summer romance with depth." Young adult author Lauren Morrill counted it as one of five books that most inspired her to write, stating "My Life Next Door is one of those books that I wish I’d written ... Huntley’s writing is nipping at my heels, pushing me to up the swoon factor." while Kirkus Reviews asserted "Fitzpatrick delivers an almost perfect summer romance." and "Though the resolution is rushed, it is also satisfying."  The School Library Journal wrote "Summer romance fun with substance describes not only this novel but also its scrumptious male lead." and "The characters are dynamic and realistic. Strong narrative pacing adds to the whole sun-kissed package, which is on par with authors such as Sarah Dessen and Deb Caletti."

Kirkus Reviews in its review of What I thought was True wrote "What starts out as snappy chick-lit writing quickly becomes deeper and more complex." and found "natural dialogue and authentic characters abound." while Booklist called it "A must for collections that can't keep Sarah Dessen, Stephanie Perkins, or YA summer romance titles on the shelves." Publishers Weekly in a star review described it as a "thoughtful and genuine love story" and concluded that "Fitzpatrick (My Life Next Door) once again evokes the dizzying heights of adolescent passion while remaining down-to-earth. " and the School Library Journal wrote "This novel tells a beautiful story of first love" and "Those with regrets of their own will find hope in this coming-of-age romance that will appeal to fans of Deb Caletti and Sara Zarr."

The boy most likely to was called a "heartfelt companion to My Life Next Door" by Publishers Weekly and the School Library Journal wrote "This novel will speak to any teen who has ever had to make a hard decision. ... Fans of the previous volume will have a greater appreciation for this companion novel."  The YoungFolks.com wrote "Although I probably won’t reread this book, I’m definitely going to be checking out Fitzpatrick’s other works." while Paste magazine described it as "your next great cry."

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Andorra–France border

The Andorra–France border extends for  in southern France (Ariège and Pyrenees-Orientales départements) and northern and north-eastern Andorra.

The border is France's third-shortest, after its borders with Monaco and the Netherlands (the latter on the Caribbean island of Saint Martin).

Specifications

The border's western extremity starts at the western Andorra–Spain–France tripoint, located at the summit of the Pic de Médécourbe (42°36'13"N 1°26'33" E). It then follows a general north-east direction before switching south-eastwards to the eastern Andorra–Spain–France  tripoint 42°30'09"N 1°43'33" E).

Most of the Franco-Andorran border is determined by custom – there is no international treaty formally fixing the course of the border, except for the cases below.

In 2001, a bilateral treaty between France and Andorra rectified and amended the border slightly. It provided for the exchange of two equal plots of land of 15,925 m² each, to enable Andorra to construct on its assigned plot a viaduct linking the Envalira tunnel to the French RN22.

The French town of Porta, in the Pyrénées-Orientales département, challenged the land swap at the Judicial Division of the French Council of State, contesting that it was contrary to French Constitution: it claimed not to have been consulted before the border treaty was drafted and approved. The Council of State dismissed the application, ruling that the treaty had been ratified by law and that therefore it was not for the Council to rule on the legality of the law. Moreover, there is no legal requirement for the state to consult with municipalities adjoining a border when adjusting the border.

In May 2015 the European Commission adopted a cooperation programme to improve environmental protection along Andorra's borders with Spain and France.

Border controls
There are full, stringent passport checks at the border, as Andorra is neither in the Schengen Area nor in the European Union. Prior to 2017, most European passport holders were subject only to minimum visual passport checks when entering and leaving the Schengen Area, taking less than 5 seconds. Following several terrorist attacks in Europe, the Schengen Borders Code was amended in 2017 to require that the passports of all travellers (including those entitled to free movement between the two countries concerned) be machine-scanned upon entering and leaving the Schengen Area to check against various criminal databases. This process can take up to 30 seconds per traveller and has led to long delays at all borders between Schengen and non-Schengen countries, both at airports and at road and rail borders.

The only road border between the two countries is east of Pas de la Casa, at nearly 2,000 metres above sea level. There is no rail crossing point, though a bus service connects the Pas de la Casa to the train station in the French border town of L'Hospitalet-près-l'Andorre).

Helicopters may fly between Andorra and non-Andorran airports with international border control facilities. The most frequent flights connect Andorra with the airports in Barcelona and Toulouse.

There is an agreement signed in 2003 between France, Spain and Andorra on the movement and residence in Andorra of citizens of third countries. It stipulates that the three countries must coordinate their visa requirements (in practice, that Andorra adopt the Schengen visa requirements already adhered to by both France and Spain) and that Andorra accept entry only of those who have right of entry of Spain or France. Andorra is allowed to permit long stays for any person. Travellers requiring a Schengen visa to enter the Schengen Area may enter Andorra using this visa, but it must be a multiple-entry visa, as entering Andorra entails leaving the Schengen Area.

French communes and Andorran parishes along the border

From west to east:

French side – 9 towns:

7 in Ariège: Auzat, Lercoul, Siguer, Gestiès, Aston, Mérens-les-Vals and L'Hospitalet-près-l'Andorre; 2 in Pyrénées-Orientales: Porté-Puymorens and Porta.

Andorran side – 4 parishes:

La Massana, Ordino, Canillo and Encamp.

See also

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France–Spain border

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List of airlines of the Falkland Islands

This is a list of airlines currently operating in the Falkland Islands.

See also
 List of airlines

Notes

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1960s in anthropology

Timeline of anthropology, 1960–1969

Events

Publications
1960
Worker In The Cane; A Puerto Rican Life History by Sidney Mintz

1961
Ishi in Two Worlds, by Theodora Kroeber
Rethinking Anthropology, by Edmund Leach
The Forest People, by Colin Turnbull

Births

Deaths
1960
John Sydenham Furnivall
Zora Neale Hurston
Clyde Kluckhohn
Alfred L. Kroeber

1961
Frantz Fanon
John Peabody Harrington

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Stene Point

Stene Point () is a point lying 1.5 nautical miles (2.8 km) of Cape Vik on the south coast of Coronation Island, in the South Orkney islands. Surveyed by DI personnel in 1933, and resurveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1948-49. Named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for K.O. Stene, captain of the floating factory Normanna which operated in the South Orkney Islands in 1912-13.

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Merikanto

Merikanto is a Finnish surname. It may refer to:
 Oskar Merikanto (1868–1924), Finnish composer
 Aarre Merikanto (1893–1958), his son, also a composer
 Ukri Merikanto (1950–2010), Aarre's son, sculptor


1910–11 Galatasaray S.K. season

The 1910–11 season was Galatasaray SK's 7th in existence and the club's 5th consecutive season in the IFL. Galatasaray won the league for the third time.

Squad statistics

Competitions

Istanbul Football League

Classification

Matches

Istanbul Football League
Kick-off listed in local time (EEST)

Friendly Matches

References
 Tuncay, Bülent (2002). Galatasaray Tarihi. Yapı Kredi Yayınları
 1910-1911 İstanbul Futbol Ligi. Türk Futbol Tarihi vol.1. page(31). (June 1992) Türkiye Futbol Federasyonu Yayınları.
 Atabeyoğlu, Cem. 1453-1991 Türk Spor Tarihi Ansiklopedisi. page(60).(1991) An Grafik Basın Sanayi ve Ticaret AŞ
 Şenol, Mehmet. First trip to Europe. Galatasaray Magazine, August 2011, page 70-73.

External links
 Galatasaray Sports Club Official Website
 Turkish Football Federation - Galatasaray A.Ş.
 uefa.com - Galatasaray AŞ

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Bale Mountains National Park

Bale Mountains National Park (BMNP) is a national park  of Ethiopia.  The park encompasses an area of approximately  in the Bale Mountains and Sanetti Plateau of the Ethiopian Highlands.

The park's Afromontane habitats have one of the highest incidences of animal endemicity of any terrestrial habitat in the world. The park was nominated to the World Heritage Tentative List  in 2009.

Geography
Bale Mountains National Park is located in southeastern Ethiopia, 400 km southeast of Addis Ababa and 150 km east of Shashamene in the Oromia Region National State.

The boundary of the BMNP lies within five woredas (districts): Adaba (west), Dinsho (north), Goba (northeast), Delo-Mena-Angetu and Harena-Buluk (southeast). The park area is encompassed within geographical coordinates of 6º29' – 7º10'N and 39º28' – 39º57'E.

The Bale Mountains are part of the Bale-Arsi massif, which forms the western section of the southeastern Ethiopian Highlands.

Geology and glaciation
The Bale Mountains were formed prior to the formation of the Great Rift Valley, from lava outpourings which covered all underlying rock formations between 38 and 7 million years ago. The rocks of the volcanic outpourings are predominantly trachytes, but also include rhyolites, basalts, and associated agglomerates and tuffs. The main Bale highlands consist of the vast lava Sanetti Plateau, with at least six volcanic cones, each more than 4,200 meters high and considerably flattened by repeated glaciations.

There have been at least two glacial periods in the history of the mountains and they were glaciated as little as 2,000 years ago. During the Last ice age, the Bale Mountains were one of the most extensively glaciated areas in present-day Ethiopia, with a total area of ice in Bale of approximately 180 km2. There was a 30 km2 ice cap around the peak of Tulu Dimtu (the second highest mountain in Ethiopia) on the Sanetti Plateau and individual glaciers of considerable thickness reached down to 3,200 meters. As a consequence, the landscape as we see it today is the lava outpourings much modified by over 20 million years of erosion by water, wind and ice.

There are certain geological features that remain an enigma to geologists and glaciologists such as the striations that appear on shallow hillsides on the Sanetti Plateau. Boulder grooves (large stone sorted stripes two to four meters wide and eighty meters long), till ridges and numerous glacial valleys, such as the Togona Valley on the northeast facing slopes of the Sanetti Plateau, provide evidence of the ice-age effects on the landscape of BMNP.  Until the beginning of deglaciation (13,000 to 14,000 years ago) the snowline was at 3,700 meters and the upper tree limit in the Bale Mountains was well below 3,000 meters. Fluctuations in climate over the last historical period, including the last 3,000 years, have dramatically affected the vegetation and other biodiversity in the highlands.

Hydrology
The Bale Mountains play a vital role in climate control of the region by attracting large amounts of orographic rainfall, which has obvious implications for livestock and agricultural production. Some 600 - 1,000 mm fall annually in the lower altitude areas, while 1,000 - 1,400 mm fall in areas of higher altitude, and over 12 million people from Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia are dependent on water from the Bale massif.

A total of 40 rivers rise in the BMNP area, contributing to five major rivers: the Web, Wabe Shebele, Welmel, Dumal and Ganale. Additionally, the Bale massif is the source for many springs in the lowlands, which are of paramount importance as they are the only source of water year-round. People living south of the national park are completely dependent on good management of the water resources from the highland areas. If the flow of these rivers is altered in any way – through deforestation, overgrazing of pastures and/or over abstraction for irrigation (all of which are occurring at present) – a highland/lowland imbalance results with loss of perennial water in the lowlands. If such a situation arises, the dry season range of the people and their livestock reduces dramatically and they concentrate about whatever water source remains. It is widely recognized that such uneven distribution of people and livestock leads to rapid and lasting degradation. The people are, therefore, likely to become increasingly food-aid dependent if the water catchment areas of the Bale Mountains are insufficiently protected. There is already evidence that over abstraction of water in the Bale Mountains is occurring.

Furthermore, two rivers emanating from Bale, the Wabe Shebele and Yadot, (tributary of the Ganale) have hydroelectric schemes. The dam on the Yadot River supplies electricity to Delo-Mena, while the dam on the Wabe Shebele provides electricity to the Bale area.

Lastly, there are numerous natural mineral water springs, locally called horas, which provide an essential source of minerals for livestock.  The mineral springs within the park are valued for their high mineral content (sodium, potassium, magnesium, zinc and calcium), and local pastoralists believe that in order to maintain good health and milk production their livestock must be given hora water. They will drive their livestock for up to two days to reach the hora springs. It is increasingly apparent, however, that the hora springs have become an excuse for local people to enter the park to gain access to better grazing areas.

Climate
Temperatures vary widely throughout BMNP: on the plateau, daytime temperatures are usually around 10 °C (50 °F) with strong winds; in the Gaysay Valley average daytime temperatures are around 20 °C (68 °F), and the Harenna Forest is around 25 °C (77 °F). However, weather changes frequently and sometimes drastically. In elevations over 3,000 meters, night frosts are common. The rainy season is from May until November.

Ecology

Habitats
The park is divided into five distinct and unique habitats: the Northern Grasslands (Gaysay Valley), Northern Woodlands (Park Headquarters), Afro-alpine Meadows (Sanetti Pleateau), Erica Moorlands, and the Harenna Forest.

Habitats of the Bale Mountains National Park range from grassland areas around  in elevation, to Mount Tullu Demtu, the second highest point in Ethiopia at  above sea level.

Surrounded by East African pencil juniper (Juniperus procera) trees and St. John’s wort, waist-high wildflowers and grasses grow in the Northern Grasslands and Woodlands. Tree heath (Erica arborea) is native to the Ethiopian montane moorlands ecoregion in the park.

The Afro-alpine moorlands of the Sanetti Plateau is the largest continuous area of its altitude on the entire continent of Africa. Carpeted in lichen covered rocks, and punctuated by Giant lobelia (Lobelia rynchopatelum) that grow to heights of up to 12 meters. The Plateau is also dotted with alpine lakes and streams, providing important resident wildlife resources, as well as wintering and passage stations for rare and regionally endemic birds.

The Harenna Forest plant community makes up about half of the park, a woodland of  trees draped in moss and lichens that seem to drip off the branches. The area is frequently cloaked in fog, and wildlife is elusive.

Fauna

The Bale Mountains National Park is an important area for several threatened Ethiopian endemic species. Additionally, the park holds 26% of Ethiopia’s endemic species including one primate, one bovid, one hare, eight rodent species, and the entire global population of the big-headed African mole-rat. There are also several rare and endemic amphibians.

Mammals
Mammal species in the Bale Mountains National Park include Ethiopian wolf (Canis simensis), Mountain nyala (Tragelaphus buxtoni), big-headed African mole-rat, bushbuck, common duiker, klipspringer, Bohor reedbuck, warthog, spotted hyaena, serval. and the Bale Mountains vervet (Chlorocebus djamdjamensis).

Other mammals of Bale Mountains National Park include the Cape bushbuck, African golden wolf, spotted hyena, colobus monkey, lion, African leopard, and African wild dog. Almost one third of the 47 mammals that live in BMNP are rodents. The rodent community, particularly of the Afro-alpine plateau are keystone species in the Bale Mountains National Park. They are the main prey for Ethiopian wolf, and natural grazers of the Afro-alpine areas where important cryoturbation processes happen.

The Afro-alpine area is home to over half of the global population of the Ethiopian wolf, the rarest canid in the world with only 400 animals surviving. The northern juniper-hagenia woodlands harbor the largest population of the endemic and similarly endangered Mountain nyala, estimated to be approximately two-thirds of the global population. The Ethiopian wolf is restricted to just six isolated mountainous areas of the Ethiopian Highlands and is protected in the country from any activities that may threaten its survival. Habitat loss, caused by unsustainable and rapidly expanding cattle and crop farming is the most severe threat, but diseases like rabies and canine distemper transmitted from domestic dogs are a serious immediate threat and have recently caused population crashes in the Bale Mountains.

Flora

Bale Mountains National Park is home to 1,321 species of flowering plants, 163 of which are endemic to Ethiopia (12%), and 23 to Bale alone (14% of Ethiopia’s endemic plants).

The forests of the Bale Mountains are important for genetic stocks of wild forest coffee (Coffea arabica) and for medicinal plants in Ethiopia. Three medicinal plant hotspots have been identified: two in the Gaysay area and one in the Angesu area, spanning the park boundary. The female flowers of hagenia contain anthelmintic, which is used to treat tapeworms among the local populations. St. John’s wort is used to combat depression. A 2006 study estimated the value of the medicinal plants industry to be approximately two billion Ethiopian birr annually, some 8% of Ethiopia’s Federal budget at the time.

Avifauna
Rated by the African Bird Club as the number four birding site in Africa, the Bale Mountains are home to over 282 species of birds, including nine of the 16 species endemic to Ethiopia. Furthermore, over 170 migratory birds have been recorded within the park. Bale Mountains National Park is home to almost every highland Abyssinian and Ethiopian endemic.

With over 863 species of birds recorded, representing approximately 9.5% of the world’s bird diversity and 39% of the bird species in Africa, Ethiopia is often considered one of the most avifaunal-rich countries in Africa. Sixteen of Bale’s bird species are endemic to Ethiopia.

Due to the diversity and density of rodents, the Bale Mountains are also an extremely important area for resident as well as wintering and passing raptors.

Ethiopian endemic birds found in the Bale Mountains include: blue-winged goose (Cyanochen cyanoptera), spot-breasted lapwing (Vanellus melanocephalus), yellow-fronted parrot (Poicephalus flavifrons), Abyssinian longclaw (Macronyx flavicollis), Abyssinian catbird (Parophasma galinieri), Bale parisoma (Parisoma griseiventris), Ethiopian siskin (Serinus nigriceps), fawn-breasted waxbill (Estrilda paludicola) and the Abyssinian owl (Asio abyssinicus).

People of Bale
The people of the region are dominantly Oromo-speaking farmers and cattle herders. The population of the entire Bale Zone is approximately 1.5 million. Afan Oromo is the official language of Oromia. It belongs to the Cushitic languages, and serves as a sort of lingua franca for over 25 million Oromos. However, most people in Bale Mountains speak some Amharic.

The predominant religion in the Bale Mountains is Muslim (77%), followed by Orthodox Christian (20%) and Protestant (1%).

The Bale Mountains are the true ancestral home of the Oromo, the largest single ethnic group in the Horn of Africa. Living as pastoralists and farmers, the population grew quite quickly and expanded to different corners of the country beginning in the 16th century.

Little is known about the Oromo people of the area and how they came to be there. They are part of the eastern Cushitic people stemming from a branch of the Caucasoid race (which includes Western Asians, Arabs and Europeans), and are distributed from Wello in Ethiopia’s north, to Mombasa in Kenya to the south. Some 3,000 years ago, they passed on practices such as the initiation ceremony of circumcision and habit of not eating fish to Nilotic peoples in the West. Furthermore, they incorporated the ideas of the Gadaa system and cattle husbandry into their own society. The Gadaa system is based on the principles of classifying a society into 11 functional grades, each of which has its special roles and statuses.

Currently people subsist mainly on agriculture. They follow a traditional transhumance system known as the Godantu system, a key feature of traditional human use of the Bale Mountains. In this system, livestock, particularly cattle, are sent to higher grazing grounds during the months when crops are growing in lower altitudes or into the forest for shade during the dry season. However this should not be confused with the cattle movements that are a consequence of the loss of grazing land outside of the park, thus forcing cattle into the park to graze.

Bale houses are circular in shape and locally referred to as “mana citaa”. Juniper and sometimes eucalyptus are used to make the walls and roof. The roof is covered with thatched grass cut from “citaa” (tussock grass) or stubble, especially barley, and supported by a wooden pillar, which stands in the middle of the floor. The house is divided into portions by walls made of bamboo or mud mixed with stubble of barley or grass.

History
In contrast to other parts of Ethiopia, very little was written about the Bale Mountains prior to the 1950s, despite the facts that Goba (a main town within the mountains) was connected to Addis Ababa by a telegraph line in 1931, was served with Ethiopian Airlines DC-3 aircraft prior to the 1950s, and that the brief period of Italian government (1935-1941) reached the region with stations in Goba, Dinsho and Delo-Mena.

As records begin to appear at the beginning of the 20th century, the Bale Mountains were largely uninhabited. The first recorded visit was by the German naturalist and explorer Carlo Von Erlanger who reached the Bale Mountains between 1899 and 1901. During his time in the region, he documented the existence of the giant molerat. Thereafter, a Frenchman, the Vicomte du Bourg, spent two months in Goba in 1901 hunting elephant to the south and traveling around the mountains. He recorded the existence of elephant and buffalo in the Harenna Forest, and commented on the ivory hunting of the area - primarily by mounted horsemen using guns.

Following these early records, there is no information until the late 1950s, when Finnish geographer, Helmer Smels, arrived in Bale. He made three journeys to Bale and crossed the area from Goba, through Rira to Delo-Mena. By the time of his visits, just 50 years after Vicomte du Bourg had noted the presence of elephants, they had disappeared from the Harenna Forest. Smels noted that although the Sanetti Plateau was uninhabited, people drove their cattle to the plateau for grazing during the dry season, sometimes for up to three months. Additionally, the mountains were used for their mineral springs or horas, to which the pastoral people also drove their cattle. People stayed overnight in simple, temporary shelters made of split bamboo. The Harenna Forest was uninhabited but for small groups of temporary huts in some of the clearings where people grazed their cattle for part of the year. Although not dwelling there permanently, honey gatherers have always been active in the Harenna Forest.

During the same period, a British botanist, Herbert Mooney, visited the Harenna Forest and Sanetti Plateau. He noted the growing settlement of Rira within the Harenna Forest and other hamlets of honey gatherers and pastoral people. Although the Harenna Forest was probably quite populated towards the end of the 19th century, the area was depopulated again as a result of a rinderpest epidemic that killed most of the cattle in the early 1890s.

The impetus for the present national park began with two visits to the area in 1963 and 1965 by the British naturalist, Dr. Leslie Brown who was in the area explicitly to assess the status of mountain Nyala. The major recommendation of his visits was that a national park should be established in the Bale Mountains to protect their habitat. John Blower, advisor to the Ethiopian Wildlife Conservation Organization (now Ethiopian Wildlife Conservation Authority (EWCA)) and a Peace Corps volunteer, followed through with Dr. Brown’s recommendation by surveying the area and proposed boundaries of the park. In 1969 the Bale Mountains National Park was established.

Threats
Bale Mountains National Park is faced with many threats associated with an ever-developing and an increasingly populated Ethiopia. One of the biggest threats to the park is grazing. For example, within the Web Valley, a prime Ethiopian wolf habitat, cattle density is estimated at 250 per square kilometer. Other threats include increasing settlements within the park. Currently over 40,000 people live within the park’s boundaries, increasing pressure on the natural resources of the area and diminishing natural habitats of wild animals. With these settlements come domestic dogs, which pose a great threat to the Ethiopian wolf. Dogs transmit rabies and canine distemper, and in 2010 killed 106 individuals (approximately 40% of the Bale population). Other serious threats include the use of the wolf habitat by livestock for grazing which significantly reduces the availability of rodent prey. Over 12 million people, their livestock and the environment in the south of Ethiopia as well as neighboring Somalia and northern Kenya rely on the water that originates from the Bale massif. Unsustainable use and pollution are major threats. Conservationists suggest that if conservation efforts in the Bale Mountains are not successful and people continue to exploit the resources in an unsustainable way, more species of mammal would go extinct than any other area of equivalent size on the planet.

Activities
The Bale Mountains National Park is open year-round although the most popular time to visit is November through April when the rains have stopped. The park can be reached by private car or public transportation from Addis Ababa. Visitors may choose to trek throughout the park either by horseback or on foot, or alternatively to visit the park entirely by car. Treks range from one to 12 nights and travel through all the different ecosystems of the park.

See also

References

External links

Balemountains.org: Bale Mountains National Park
Call from the Wild.org: Bale Mountains National Park
Addis Tribune.com: The National parks of Ethiopia − Bale Mountains Park (Part I)
Addis Tribune.com: The National parks of Ethiopia − Bale Mountains Park (Part II: Harena Forest)
Black-maned lion in Ethiopia

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Beth Haller

Beth Haller (born 1961) is a professor of mass communication and communication studies at Towson University, specializing in the handling of disability in news and new media. She serves on the advisory board of the National Center on Disability and Journalism, and traveled in Australia as a Fulbright Scholar in 2015.

Early life and education
Beth A. Haller was born in Fort Worth, Texas. She attended Baylor University as an undergraduate, as a journalism major, and graduated in 1983. She earned a master's degree in journalism at the University of Maryland College Park, and completed doctoral studies in mass media at Temple University in 1995, with a dissertation titled "Disability rights on the public agenda: Elite news media coverage of the Americans with Disabilities Act."

Career
Haller joined the faculty at Towson University in 1996. She became a full professor in 2008.

Books by Haller include Representing Disability in an Ableist World (2010) and Byline of Hope: The Newspaper and Magazine Writing of Helen Keller (2015).<ref>Beth A. Haller, '[https://books.google.com/books/about/Representing_Disability_in_an_Ableist_Wo.html?id=J6ZVbwAACAAJ 'Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media] (Advocado Press 2010). </ref>"Professor Edits Book on Writings of Helen Keller" News and Events, Towson University College of Fine Arts and Communication (August 23, 2015).  Haller was co-editor of Disability Studies Quarterly'' from 2003 to 2006.  In 2012, Haller was admitted into the Fulbright Specialists Program, and traveled in Australia as a Fulbright scholar in early 2015. While in Australia she spoke on such topics as disability in reality television, film portrayals of disabled people, and disability in science fiction.

Beyond academic publications, Haller is frequently interviewed on disability topics by fellow journalists.

References

External links
Beth Haller's website
"Diversity Toolbox: Covering Disability Issues" (essay by Haller at the Society of Professional Journalists site)

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Paddington (film series)

Paddington is a British-French media franchise based on the character Paddington Bear, created by Michael Bond. The  franchise began with the 2014 film of the same name. A sequel was released in 2017 and a third film is in development. The films have also spawned a TV series. All films and TV series see Ben Whishaw play Paddington Bear.

Films

Paddington (2014)

This is the first and only film to be distributed by The Weinstein Company in the US, as the rights to the film series were sold to Warner Bros. Pictures following the Weinstein scandal in October 2017. A young Peruvian bear travels to London in search of a home. Finding himself lost and alone at Paddington Station, he meets the kindly Brown family, who offer him a temporary haven.

Paddington 2 (2017)

In April 2015, David Heyman confirmed that he would produce the second film in the franchise. It was also announced that Paul King would direct and co-write with Simon Farnaby. By October 2016, the cast of Paddington – Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent, Peter Capaldi, Madeleine Harris, Samuel Joslin, Ben Whishaw and Imelda Staunton – were confirmed to be returning for the sequel, joined by new cast members Hugh Grant and Brendan Gleeson. Principal photography began in the same month. Framestore provided the visual effects for the film. Filming in Little Venice took place for three days. Filming also took place at Shepton Mallet Prison.

Paddington 3 (2020)

In June 2016, StudioCanal CEO Didier Lupfer stated that the studio was committed to making a third Paddington film. In November 2017, David Heyman told Digital Spy that though the script for a third Paddington film had not developed, discussions about locations, ideas and scenes had already begun.  In November 2018, Heyman noted that a third film was likely to happen, but that Paul King would not be back to direct, though he would still be involved in a prominent creative capacity.

Television series

In October 2017, it was announced that StudioCanal was producing an animated series based on the films, set to launch in either late 2018 or early 2019. It was announced in February 2019, that the series will launch worldwide in 2020 on Nickelodeon, with Whishaw reprising his voice of Paddington.

The title of the series will be called The Adventures of Paddington.

On November 20, 2019, it was announced that the series will premiere on January 20, 2020 after a sneak preview which aired on December 20, 2019.

Cast and characters

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Production
The first film of the series was announced in September 2007, with David Heyman producing and Hamish McColl writing the screenplay. When filming began, Heyman announced the casting of Colin Firth as the voice of Paddington. Paddington is the most expensive film produced by the French production company StudioCanal.

In June 2014, after principal photography had wrapped, Firth voluntarily dropped out of the film, after the studio decided his voice was not suitable for Paddington. The role was recast the following month, with Ben Whishaw signing on to voice the title role. Paddington was created using a combination of computer-generated imagery (by the British company Framestore) and animatronics.

The creator of the Paddington character, Michael Bond, also appeared in a cameo in the first film, playing the role of the Kindly Gentleman.

Crew

Reception

Box office performance

Critical reception

BAFTA Awards

References

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Le Pèlerin de Camp Nou

Le Pèlerin de Camp Nou (English: "Captain Majid") is a 2009 feature film produced in the north-central African country of Chad. A work of "no-budget" digital cinema, it experienced international release at the Festival du Film PanAfricain in Cannes, France, in April 2009, and was featured at festivals in Montreal, Toronto, and London in 2009 before screening at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2010.

Synopsis
Majid (Abakar Chene Massar) duels his own coach (Ousman Adoum) for the heart of team president's daughter Faiza (Nadech Ngaryo). Faiza, an avid football fan herself, makes her intentions clear: she will be devoted to one and one only.

Majid is almost sidelined in the town championship game but manages to lead his team to victory. His dream of playing international football is matched in intensity only by a budding relationship with Faiza and the upcoming academic exams that will determine his future. All is at stake, however, when local drugs threaten to throw Majid into a downward spiral.

References

External links

 Le Pèlerin de Camp Nou at the International Film Festival Rotterdam
 Le Pèlerin de Camp Nou at the London African Film Festival

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Hence, this enzyme has one substrate, 3-sulfopyruvate, and two products, 2-sulfoacetaldehyde and CO2.

This enzyme belongs to the family of lyases, specifically the carboxy-lyases, which cleave carbon-carbon bonds.  The systematic name of this enzyme class is 3-sulfopyruvate carboxy-lyase (2-sulfoacetaldehyde-forming). This enzyme is also called sulfopyruvate carboxy-lyase.

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Dusty Ellis

Sherri Lou "Dusty" Ellis (October 13, 1953 – November 2, 2012) was an American woman known for her involvement in the Kerr-McGee plutonium plant criminal case of the 1970s when she and her roommate Karen Silkwood became activists and nuclear whistleblowers after both of their bodies tested positive for plutonium contamination. Their fight for safer working conditions was chronicled in the 1983 film Silkwood, in which Ellis was portrayed by Cher, who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Ellis. After Karen Silkwood's death in 1974, Ellis continued to protest and was involved in a series of legal battles against Kerr-McGee and the state of Oklahoma.

Personal life
She was born Sherri Lou Ellis in Guthrie, Oklahoma, the daughter of LouAnn (née Harman 19342007) and Benjamin Ellis (19291987). Her mother was a champion dog breeder and her father was a professional bull rider. She had a sister, Linda, and a brother, Brett. She got the nickname Dusty from competing in rodeo competitions as a barrel racer, where she won many prizes. Her whole family was involved in the rodeo, and her family owned farm land in Oklahoma near the Kerr-McGee plant. Ellis identified as a lesbian. She graduated from Guthrie High School in 1971.

Ellis began working at the Kerr-McGee plant in Crescent, Oklahoma as a laboratory analyst when she was 21. She lived with Karen Silkwood in an apartment in Edmond, Oklahoma for around six months prior to Silkwood's death, along with Silkwood's boyfriend Drew Stephens. On November 10, 1974, Silkwood, Ellis, and Stephens were flown to Los Alamos, New Mexico for two days of intense testing. Silkwood's testing revealed that her body was contaminated much worse than Ellis' and Stephens'. The last time she saw Karen Silkwood was at work on the day of November 13, 1974, hours before Silkwood died in a car accident.

In 1975, Ellis climbed the exterior wall of the Kerr-McGee plant with a shotgun. She was arrested and given one year of probation after pleading guilty to forcible entry.

Initially, Ellis was not worried about being contaminated with plutonium, even after Silkwood began her investigations. Only once Ellis tested positive for plutonium within her own body did she begin worrying about her own health and joined Silkwood as an activist against Kerr-McGee. The plant offered her money in exchange for any complaints she might have against them, but she refused payment. She also claimed that someone had tried to break into her apartment twice and failed. In the years following the death of Karen Silkwood, Ellis was known for not cooperating with authorities, declining interviews, and refusing to testify in court proceedings.

In 1980, Ellis made national news after being reported as a missing person and was feared to have been murdered, because she was writing a tell-all book about her experiences of working in the Kerr-McGee plant. She was found days later in New York City, and told reporters she was meeting with publishers. The book was never published.

In 1982, Ellis walked into a nursing home in Santa Fe, New Mexico with a shotgun and took 170 people hostage. She was ambushed by a worker at the home and arrested. She told police she was protesting against the nursing home after learning a resident there was being treated poorly and being denied food. In 1985, Ellis protested against New York City mayor Ed Koch after the water in New York City was contaminated with higher than usual levels of plutonium.

In 1995 Ellis was charged for domestic abuse by her girlfriend Viola le Marr. The case was dismissed. In 2002, she was charged with vandalizing and trespassing at a local church and was shot by police after aiming her gun at an officer. In 2009, she was involved in a car accident and charged with auto negligence. In 2010, Ellis was caught stealing from a local grocery store and assaulted a police officer, and she was charged with larceny and obstruction.

Often Ellis claimed she knew who really killed Karen Silkwood, and that the reason for her actions was because of the mental and physical duress the Silkwood case caused her.

Silkwood
Director Mike Nichols began filming for Silkwood in 1982, with a script written by Nora Ephron and Alice Arlen. Cher was cast to portray Ellis in the film. The producers of the film paid Ellis $67,500 for her likeness, even though they changed her name in the film from Dusty Ellis to Dolly Pelliker. Karen Silkwood was portrayed by Meryl Streep, and both Streep and Cher were nominated for Academy Awards for their performances as Silkwood and Ellis.

Death
Ellis died on November 2, 2012 after having been diagnosed with cancer a few months prior. Her family donated her body for medical research. The director of the Guthrie Food Bank praised Ellis, stating that she had donated goods for the needy for many years.

Further reading
 The Killing of Karen Silkwood: The Story Behind the Kerr-McGee Plutonium Case,

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Peter Hodgson

Peter Hodgson may refer to:

Peter E. Hodgson (1928–2008), British physicist
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Peter Hodgson, bass player for Jon and Lee & the Checkmates and Rhinoceros
Sneezy Waters (Peter Hodgson, born 1945), Canadian singer


Qin Kai (diver)

Qin Kai (; born January 31, 1986) is a Chinese athlete who competes in diving. He competed for Team China at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, and the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio.

Career

At the 2001 World Junior Championships, he won the gold on the 3m Springboard and the silver medal on the Platform. At the 2006 National Championships, he won the silver medal on the springboard. At the 2006 World Cup, he won the gold on the 3m springboard. At the 2007 World Championships, he won the gold on the springboard and in the synchro springboard. At the 2008 World Cup, he won the gold in the 3m Synchro Springboard.

He is the 2008 Olympic Champion on the 3m Synchronized Springboard with Wang Feng and won bronze in the Men's 3m Springboard.

In 2009, he again won the 3m Synchronized Springboard with Wang Feng at the World Championships in Rome.  He also won the individual gold at the 1m Springboard at the same championships.

At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he again competed in the men's 3 m synchronised springboard and the men's individual 3 m springboard. He retained his synchronised springboard title, this time with Luo Yutong, and won the silver medal in the individual event.

In 2013, he won gold with He Chong at the men's 3m synchro springboard World Championships in Barcelona.

In 2015, he partnered with Cao Yuan on the men's 3m synchro springboard at the World Championships in Kazan and won gold.

At the 2016 Summer Olympics, Qin won bronze in 3m synchronized dive with Cao Yuan. He retired from international competition after the Olympics.

Personal life
Qin Kai proposed to fellow diver and girlfriend of 6 years He Zi, right after she won silver in the women's 3m individual springboard at the Rio Olympics. They married in June 2017, and their daughter was born in October 2017.

Accolades
In 2011, Qin was named Top Ten Athlete of Shanxi province. In 2012, he was awarded the May 1st Labour Medal in the People's Republic of China.

References

External links
 Beijing 2008 Profile
 FINA profile

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James Breck Perkins

James Breck Perkins (November 4, 1847 – March 11, 1910) was an American historian, a United States Congressman, and a writer.

He was born in St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin, and graduated from the University of Rochester, where he was a member of St. Anthony Hall, in 1867. He served as city attorney of Rochester, New York from 1874 to 1878; was a member of the New York State Assembly (Monroe Co., 1st D.) in 1898; and served as a representative in Congress from 1901 until his death.

Recognized as the leading authority in the particular historical field to which he devoted himself, he was honored by membership in the National Institute of Arts and Letters. His writings include:
France under Mazarin (1887)
France under Louis XV (1897)
Richelieu (1900), in the "Heroes of the Nations Series"
France in the American Revolution (1911)

He died in Washington, D.C.

See also
List of United States Congress members who died in office (1900–49)

References

External links

 James Breck Perkins, late a representative from New York, Memorial addresses delivered in the House of Representatives frontispiece 1911

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List of 2017 box office number-one films in the United States

This is a list of films which placed number one at the weekend box office for the year 2017.

Number-one films

Highest-grossing films

Calendar Gross
Highest-grossing films of 2017 by Calendar Gross

In-Year Release

References

See also
 List of American films — American films by year
 Lists of box office number-one films

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Dicromantispa sayi

Dicromantispa sayi is a species of mantidfly in the family Mantispidae. It is found in the Caribbean Sea, Central America, and North America.

Identification:

Head: Brown to black with pale yellow marks. Face has a longitudinal yellow stripe each side of center; middle dark area appearing as a dark stripe, sometimes incomplete. Pattern of yellow oblong spots on top of head; can be obscure. Eyes multi-colored.

Antenna: Brown except segment 1 yellowish, more so on underside.

Thorax: Neck (prothorax) long and slender, more cone-shaped at head. Cream-colored patch at base and end of neck; rest yellowish-brown to dark brown. Usually with a light or dark colored longitudinal stripe down center. Thorax side on female  dark with cream, curved lines. Male sides mostly pale.

Wings: Wings clear with brown veins; no brown spots at wing tips. Base and outside edge of wings dark brown (costa area), with a faint yellowish streak. Stigma at end of costa also dark brown.

Legs: Front legs modified, similar to praying mantis; dark brown with light streaks. Usually folded up and not used, except for eating. Mid and hind legs pale yellow with brown streaks; females have joint to body (coxae) brown; male coxae pale.

Abdomen: Yellowish-brown to dark brown with yellow marks. Female abdomen always darker, and may be entirely black; the yellow marks vary considerably. Abdomen side edges cream, almost entirely on male, more spotted on female.

Similar Species: Dicromantispa interrupta is a larger species with a dark patch near tip of wing.

Leptomantispa pulchella has side-by-side (paired) yellow stripes of even width running down sides of abdomen, whereas D. sayi has uneven width pattern down sides.

L. pulchella also has a bright, burnt orange stigma on wings, not brown as in D. sayi. Otherwise, these two are identical.

Size: 14 to 15 mm long.

Habitat: Forest edges and prairies where spiders are present.

Food: Adults feed on small flying insects. Larvae hunt for just about any species spider eggs, but major hosts are Wolf and Hunting spiders Lycosidae, and Running Crab Spider Philodromus vulgaris.

Flight Time: Jul 15 to Sep 4th. Peaks end of July

Life Cycle: Females lay eggs on any substrate. Larvae hatch, wander, find and either penetrate wolf spider egg sacs, or hitch a ride on adult female spiders ready to lay eggs. 1st instar over-winters. One generation per year.

Synonyms: Banks, 1897

Mantispa sayi, Mantispa fuscicornis, Mantispa uhleri, Dicromantispa fuscicornis

References:

Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 1897, Vol. 24, pg. 23 by Banks.

Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 1911, Vol. 37, pp. 347 to 348 by Banks.

Psyche, 1943, Vol. 50: Neuroptera & Trichoptera of the United States by Banks, pp. 79 to 80.

Illinois Biological Monographs, 1985, Vol. 53: Developmental Ecology of Mantispa uhleri by Redborg and MacLeod.

Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 1989, Vol. 91 by Hoffman.

Canadian Entomologist, 2006, Vol. 138 #4: Mantispidae of Canada by Cannings and Cannings.

Types:

Lectotype Mantispa sayi male by Banks, 1897. Type Locality: Brazos Co. Texas. In the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard, Cambridge, Mass.

Lectotype Mantispa fuscicornis male by Banks, 1911. Type Locality: Kissimmee, Florida. In the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard, Cambridge, Mass.

Holotype Mantispa uhleri female by Banks, 1943. Type Locality: Pennsylvanica. In the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard, Cambridge, Mass.

References

Further reading

External links

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Last (crater)

Last is a feature on Earth's Moon, a crater in the Hadley–Apennine region.  Astronauts David Scott and James Irwin landed the Lunar Module Falcon on the northern edge of it in 1971, on the Apollo 15 mission.

Last crater is located approximately 2 km east of Hadley Rille and approximately 1 km northwest of Index, the intended landing point.

The name of the crater was formally adopted by the IAU in 1973.

External links
 Apollo 15 Traverses, Lunar Photomap 41B4S4(25)

References

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Alan Hall

Alan Hall FRS (19 May 1952  – 3 May 2015) was a British cell biologist and a biology professor at the Sloan-Kettering Institute, where he was chair of the Cell Biology program. Hall was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1999.

Early life and education
Hall was born in Barnsley. He earned his BA in chemistry from Oxford University. He began his studies for a PhD at Oxford, but after two months he followed his major professor Jeremy R. Knowles to Harvard University, where he earned a PhD in biochemistry in 1977. He then took postdoctoral fellowships in molecular biology at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Zurich.

Career and research

Hall's PhD was on the enzymology of B-lactamase, which led to his first paper being published in Nature in 1976. He used strains of E. Coli with mutated B-lactamase, an antibiotic resistance enzyme, and assayed their activity in the presence of Benzylpenicillin and Cephalosporin C. Direct selection on these mutants allowed catalytic properties of B-lactamase to be identified and allowed structure-function relationships of the enzyme to be further researched.

In 1981 he went to work at Institute for Cancer Research in London, where he stayed for 12 years. His work, in collaboration with his colleague and close friend Christopher Marshall, made seminal contributions to our understanding of cell signalling in animal cells, in particular the role of Rho and Ras small GTPases in regulating a variety of cellular functions such as proliferation, morphology and migration. In 1982, Hall helped identify transforming sequences in human sarcoma cells lines at the Institute for Cancer Research in London. DNA from a rhabdomyosarcoma cell line and a fibrosarcoma cell line transformed a NIH/3T3 mouse fibroblast cell line. After injection into mice, tumors started to form in as little as 10 days. Next, the transforming activities of the rhabdomyosarcoma and fibrosarcoma cell lines were measured after being digested with an array of endonucleases. Further DNA testing showed that the transforming sequences in the two cancer cell lines were the same, and the gene was later characterised as N-ras, a member of the Ras gene family.

In 1986, Hall helped uncover properties of the human p21 protein, which is encoded by N-ras. GTPase activity of different mutant forms of p21, one cloned from a patient with myeloblastic leukaemia and one derived from in vitro mutagenesis, was measured. Results showed no correlation between the wild-type or mutant N-ras p21's GTPase activity and transforming potential. These findings were published in Molecular and Cellular Biology (MCB).

Alan Hall showed the specificity of Rho in the stimulation of focal adhesions and stress fibres formation in fibroblasts in the presence of extracellular factors in 1992. He first realised that the addition of bovine fetal calf serum (FCS) to Swiss 3T3 cells increased the polymerisation of actin and assembly of stress fibres. The immunofluorescence following the increase of vinculin and talin, two cytoskeletal proteins, at the intracellular face of the plasma membrane with Val14rhoA microinjection showed the association of focal adhesions with the end of the new stress fibres. After size fractionation of FCS and analysis of the lipids that bound to serum albumin, the lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) was found to be responsible for the serum activity that induced stress fibre formation. The inhibition of Rho by C3 transferase ribosylation resulted in an inhibition of focal adhesion and stress fibre assembly, but had no effect on membrane ruffling. These findings were published in Cell and cited over 4000 times. In parallel with this experiment, Hall showed that the presence of Rac, another Ras-related GTP-binding protein, is implicated in the regulation of the actin organisation in presence of extracellular growth factors. Immunofluorescence and antibody techniques were used to localise the mutant V12rac1 protein after being microinjected into the cytoplasm of confluent serum-starved Swiss 3T3 cells. The comparison with the normal cells showed that Rac1 stimulates actin filament production at the membrane, pinocytosis, and membrane ruffling. The inhibition of endogenous Rac function by mutants N17rac and V12rac1 prevented growth factor-induced membrane ruffling. In addition, the inactivation of Rho protein by ADP-ribosylation in Rac1 microinjection reduced the formation of actin stress fibres. Hall concluded that Rac and Rho are complementary for polymerised actin organisation. Indeed, Rho-dependent response is stimulated by the action of growth factors on Rac protein.

In 1993 he moved to University College London, where he helped to create a new MRC centre for molecular cell biology. In 2000, he became director of that program.

In 2002, Alan Hall discerned the role of Gaq in Rho signalling pathways. Prior to this publication, there were conflicting reports as to the role of Gaq in cell signalling via Rho; some said that it was not able to induce Rho activation, and some said that it could. Using immunoblotting techniques, Hall showed that activation of endogenous Gaq via G protein-coupled receptors (GCPRs) could in fact induce activation of Rho, and had similar results when directly expressing activated Gaq. It was already known that other Ga proteins could induce Rho activation (i.e. Ga13 activates p115 Rho GEF, which in turn activates Rho), but it was also known that Gaq does not activate p115 Rho GEF, and therefore must act via an alternate, unknown mechanism. Two years later, he moved to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center as chair of the cell biology program.

In 2005, there was an abundance of activators and targets of the Rho pathway that had been identified, yet very little investigation into the way in which specificity of the pathway is maintained. It was known at this point that several identified Rho targets were structurally similar to scaffold proteins, which have been shown in the past to mediate interaction specificity in other pathways. Hall used immunoprecipitation assays to show that CNK1, a scaffold protein-like target of Rho, interacts with two Rho-specific GEFs (Net1 and p115RhoGEF) and two kinases of the JNK MAP kinase pathway (MLK2 and MKK7). He then determined that CNK1 acts together with these four targets to activate the JNK MAP kinase pathway, but not other Rho-activated pathways. This led to the conclusion that CNK1 couples specific Rho exchange factors to the JNK MAP kinase pathway, providing specificity. In the same year, Hall investigated the role of the small GTPase Ral in neurite branching. After microinjection of cortical and sympathetic neurons with active and dominant-negative Ral, the staining of the cells with antibodies showed that the increases in neurite branching was directly linked to the presence of active Ral. Further evidence of the importance of Ral was provided when cortical neurons were depleted of endogenous RalA and RalB isoforms by RNA interference (RNAi) and showed a decrease in the branching. By plating SCG on plastic dishes in presence of different substrates, Hall realised that Ral was activated by laminin to induce this branching. In fact, Ral-dependent branching implicated the phosphorylation of growth-associated protein GAP-43. Finally, Ral mutants unable to bind to their specific effector proteins showed that RalA and RalB isoforms promote branching through exocyst complex and phospholipase D respectively.

In 2010, Hall analysed a number of Rho signalling pathways, which regulate the formation of apical junctions in human bronchial epithelial (HBE) cells. Downregulation of RhoA in the HBE cell lines using siRNAs showed a lack of apical junction formation in contrast with the controls. The siRNAs that targeted RhoA had no effect on other members of the Rho family. Further analysis showed that PRK2, a direct target of Rho, is required for the formation of apical junctions. Mutational variants of PRK2 were used to discover that although initial formation of pre-apical junctions isn't blocked, the maturation process into true apical junctions is prevented.

Hall's research has had wide implications across human health and disease, particularly cancer. In addition, a generation of cell biologists was educated and trained under his supervision across two continents.

Honours and awards
In 1993, Alan Hall was awarded the Feldberg Foundation Prize for his work on the role GTP-binding proteins played on signal transduction pathways. His work in 2005 on the regulation of adhesion, migration and polarity of the cell cytoskeleton was awarded the Louis Jeantet Prize for Medicine. Later that year he won the Novartis Medal for his work with Rho GTPases role in cell behaviour. The Canada Gairdner International Award (2006) was awarded to him for the discovery of Rho GTPases that play a role in cytoskeleton arrangement and cell migration and its application to cancerous cells.

References

Bibliography
Sloan-Kettering page
another article on Hall
a tribute to Hall

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Siphona

Siphona is a genus of flies in the family Tachinidae.

Aphantorhaphopsis and Ceranthia are sometimes considered subgenera of Siphona, though most European workers seem content that these are genera in their own right.

Species

Siphona abbreviata (Villeneuve, 1915)
Siphona akidnomyia O'Hara, 1983
Siphona albocincta (Villeneuve, 1942)
Siphona amoena (Mesnil, 1952)
Siphona amplicornis Mesnil, 1959
Siphona angusta Mesnil, 1959
Siphona antennalis (Mesnil, 1952)
Siphona antennata (O'Hara, 1984)
Siphona arizonica (Townsend, 1919)
Siphona atoma (Reinhard, 1947)
Siphona atricapilla Mesnil, 1959
Siphona bevisi Curran, 1941
Siphona bilineata (Mesnil, 1952)
Siphona boreata Mesnil, 1960
Siphona brevirostris Coquillett, 1897
Siphona brunnea O'Hara, 1983
Siphona capensis Curran, 1941
Siphona collini Mesnil, 1960
Siphona conata (Reinhard, 1959)
Siphona confusa Mesnil, 1961
Siphona cothurnata (Mesnil, 1952)
Siphona creberrima (Speiser, 1910)
Siphona cristata (Fabricius, 1805)
Siphona cuthbertsoni Curran, 1941
Siphona efflatouni Mesnil, 1960
Siphona flavifrons Stæger, 1849
Siphona floridensis O'Hara, 1983
Siphona foliacea (Mesnil, 1953)
Siphona fuliginea Mesnil, 1977
Siphona futilis Wulp, 1890
Siphona gedeana Wulp, 1896
Siphona geniculata (De Geer, 1776)
Siphona gracilis (Mesnil, 1952)
Siphona grandistylum Pandellé, 1894
Siphona griseola Mesnil, 1970
Siphona hokkaidensis Mesnil, 1957
Siphona hungarica Andersen, 1984
Siphona hurdi (Reinhard, 1959)
Siphona illinoiensis Townsend, 1891
Siphona immaculata Andersen, 1996
Siphona infuscata (Mesnil, 1952)
Siphona ingerae Andersen, 1982
Siphona intrudens (Curran, 1932)
Siphona juniperi (O'Hara, 1984)
Siphona kairiensis O'Hara, 1983
Siphona kuscheli (Cortés, 1952)
Siphona lindneri Mesnil, 1959
Siphona longissima O'Hara, 1983
Siphona lurida Reinhard, 1943
Siphona lutea (Townsend, 1919)
Siphona macronyx O'Hara, 1983
Siphona maculata Stæger, 1849
Siphona maderensis Smit & Zeegers, 2002
Siphona medialis O'Hara, 1983
Siphona melania (Bezzi, 1908)
Siphona melanura Mesnil, 1959
Siphona mesnili Andersen, 1982
Siphona multifaria O'Hara, 1983
Siphona munroi Curran, 1941
Siphona murina (Mesnil, 1952)
Siphona nigricans (Villeneuve, 1930)
Siphona nigrohalterata Mesnil, 1959
Siphona nigroseta Curran, 1941
Siphona nobilis (Mesnil, 1953)
Siphona obesa (Mesnil, 1952)
Siphona obscuripennis Curran, 1941
Siphona oligomyia O'Hara, 1983
Siphona pacifica O'Hara, 1983
Siphona paludosa Mesnil, 1960
Siphona patellipalpis (Mesnil, 1952)
Siphona pauciseta Róndani, 1865
Siphona perispoliata (Mesnil, 1953)
Siphona phantasma (Mesnil, 1952)
Siphona pigra Mesnil, 1977
Siphona pilistyla Andersen, 1996
Siphona pisinnia O'Hara, 1983
Siphona plusiae Coquillett, 1895
Siphona pretoriana O’Hara & Cerretti, 2016
Siphona pseudomaculata Blanchard, 1963
Siphona reducta (Mesnil, 1952)
Siphona rizaba O'Hara, 1983
Siphona rossica Mesnil, 1961
Siphona rubrapex Mesnil, 1977
Siphona rubrica (Mesnil, 1952)
Siphona selecta (Pandellé, 1894)
Siphona setinerva (Mesnil, 1952)
Siphona setosa Mesnil, 1960
Siphona seyrigi Mesnil, 1960
Siphona simulans (Mesnil, 1952)
Siphona singularis (Wiedemann, 1830)
Siphona sola Mesnil, 1959
Siphona sonorensis (O'Hara, 1984)
Siphona spinulosa (Mesnil, 1952)
Siphona subarctica Andersen, 1996
Siphona trichaeta (Mesnil, 1952)
Siphona tropica (Townsend, 1915
Siphona unispina (Mesnil, 1952)
Siphona uruhuasi (Townsend, 1927)
Siphona variata Andersen, 1982
Siphona vittata Curran, 1941
Siphona vixen Curran, 1941
Siphona wittei (Mesnil, 1952)
Siphona xanthogaster (O'Hara, 1984)

References

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Cougar (comics)

Cougar is a fictional comic book superhero from Image Comics. Created by Rob Liefeld, he first appeared in Youngblood #1 (April 1992).

Fictional character biography
In 1967, the paleobotanist Megan Tsuchida was captured by the Jakarrans while on an expedition in Zaire. While in captivity, she and one of her captors, King Khylund, fell in love and Daniel Tsuchida (aka Cougar) was borne. The birth of a half-breed prince was an abomination to the Jakarrans, so Khylund and Megan had to escape. During the escape, Khylund died ensuring the escape of Megan and Cougar. Megan returned to the U.S. where she raised Cougar. Later, Cougar was offered a position in Youngblood, which he accepted.

Cougar became the leader of the Jakarrans when he bested Lynx, the then-reigning chieftainess of the tribe, who had kidnapped his mother in order to exact the tribe's vengeance upon her. After the fight, he went back with Youngblood, but remained the tribal chief of the Jakarrans.

Cougar worked with a team composed of Masada, Sentinel, Dutch, Riptide, and Photon. They fought several powerful entities, such as the giant energy being called the 'Never Man'. Along with much of the super-powered community, Cougar had a small part to play in the murder trial of the hero Knightsabre.<ref>Judgement Day #3 (September 1997)</ref> Later, he would undergo temporary age reversal along with many of his Youngblood allies.

U.S.-sponsored Youngblood
Cougar returns to a United States-sponsored super-team. He teams with Shaft, Diehard, Doc Rocket, Johnny Panic, and the young Badrock. As with all his other teammates, Cougar gains representative action figures and stars in the 'Youngblood' cartoon that the team sponsors create. The team also gains a false rivalry with an entirely marketed and controlled 'super-villain' team called 'Mayhem Inc.' Cougar's marketed rival is 'Warwolf', another bestial man. Cougar suffers through the seeming death of Shaft. When the man returns, Cougar abandons all pretense of working with the government and joins most of his teammates in searching out an approaching cosmic threat.

Later adventures would thrust Cougar into the spotlight, literally. For example, Youngblood faces down several villains live on prime time.

Cougar makes several appearances in Image United'', a crossover in which all the Image Universe villains form one cohesive army.

See also
 Image Comics
 List of current Image Comics publications
 Youngblood

References

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Yitzhak Peretz

Yitzhak Peretz may refer to:

 Yitzhak Peretz (politician born 1936), Israeli politician who served as Deputy Minister of Industry, Trade and Tourism
 Yitzhak Peretz (politician born 1938), Chief Rabbi of Raanana and a former Israeli politician who served as Minister of Internal Affairs, Minister of Immigrant Absorption and Minister without Portfolio


Sainte-Austreberthe, Seine-Maritime

Sainte-Austreberthe  is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France.

Geography
A village of farming and forestry situated by the banks of the Austreberthe River, some  northwest of Rouen at the junction of the D22, D53 and the D103 roads.

Heraldry

Population

Places of interest
 The church of St. Austreberthe, dating from the eleventh century.
 The chateau of Langrume.
 The sixteenth-century stone cross in the cemetery.

See also
Communes of the Seine-Maritime department
Seine-Maritime
Normandy

References
INSEE

External links

Sainte-Austreberthe on the Quid website

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William J. Spaulding Sr.

William J. Spaulding Sr. (1923–1997) was an American World War II veteran, singer and songwriter.

Spaulding was born in Havre, Montana, United States. He wrote and sang "Lets all Skidaddle to Seattle", written for the Seattle World's Fair in 1963, and published on single 45-RPM records.

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Terre Haute Rex

The Terre Haute REX are a collegiate summer baseball team based in Terre Haute, Indiana. They are a member of the summer collegiate Prospect League.

They are managed by Tyler Wampler.

The Rex play home games at Bob Warn Field at Sycamore Stadium, also the home of Indiana State University's baseball team.

The Terre Haute Rex are named after a prominent product with a historic connection to the community.  Rex Coffee, produced by Clabber Girl, the “Imperial blend, fit for a Monarch” was roasted and packed in downtown Terre Haute, with a history dating back over a century. Patented in 1905, Rex Coffee was a household name from Chicago to Louisville; and from Cincinnati to St. Louis. The selection of the 'Rex' name continues a Terre Haute tradition of unique baseball team names that includes the Huts, Tots, Stags, Terre-iers and Highlanders.

2011
In 2011, a new team fight song, titled "Come On Rex!" debuted at the home contests. "Come On Rex" was written by Alan Barcus, an Indiana State University alum and the composer of the popular song "You're My Cubs!" which has played inside Wrigley Field at Chicago Cubs home games for several seasons.

2012
The Indiana State University Athletics Department Facilities and Game Management crew were hired by the REX prior to the start of the 2012 season and were named the 2012 Prospect League Rookie Grounds Crew of the Year following the season.

Manager Brian Dorsett was tabbed the Manager of the Year (sharing the honor with Dubois County's Ryan Anderson); the Rex also had three All-Stars.
Relief Pitcher Nick Blount, Shortstop Nick Johnson and Centerfielder Kyle Kempf.

Seasons

References

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Maud de Prendergast

Maud de Prendergast, Lady of Offaly (17 March 1242 – before 1273), was a Norman-Irish noblewoman, the first wife of Maurice FitzGerald, 3rd Lord of Offaly, Justiciar of Ireland, and the mother of his two daughters, Juliana FitzGerald and Amabel.  She married three times; Maurice FitzGerald, 3rd Lord of Offaly was her third husband.

Family
Maud was born in Ireland on 17 March 1242, the daughter of Sir Gerald de Prendergast of Beauvoir (died 1251), and his second wife, Matilda, daughter of Richard Mor de Burgh and Egidia de Lacy.

Maud had an elder half-sister, Marie de Prendergast from her father's first marriage to Maud Walter. Marie was the wife of Sir John de Cogan by whom she had issue. Maud's paternal grandparents were Philip de Prendergast, Lord of Enniscorthy, Constable of Leinster, and Maud de Quincy, a granddaughter of Strongbow, through the latter's illegitimate daughter Basilie de Clare who married Robert de Quincy, Constable of Leinster.

Her great-grandfather, Maurice de Prendergast, Lord Prendergast had played a prominent part in the Cambro-Norman invasion of Ireland led by Strongbow, and was rewarded with much land in counties Wexford, Waterford, Tipperary, Mayo, Wicklow, and Cork.

Marriages and issue
When she was a young child, Maud was married to, firstly David FitzMaurice, who died by 17 March 1249, which was her seventh birthday; her second husband was Maurice de Rochford with whom she had issue. Between 1258 and 28 October 1259, following Maurice de Rochford's death which occurred sometime before May 1258, she married her third and last husband, Maurice FitzGerald, 3rd Lord of Offaly, Justiciar of Ireland (1238–1286). He was the son of Maurice FitzGerald, 2nd Lord of Offaly and Juliana.

Together Maurice and Maud had two daughters:
 Juliana FitzGerald (c.1263 Dublin, Ireland - 24 September 1300), married firstly Thomas de Clare, Lord of Thomond, by whom she had four children; she married secondly Nicholas Avenel; she married thirdly Adam de Cretynges.
 Amabel FitzGerald, married, but was childless.

Maud died on an unknown date. In 1273, her husband Maurice married his second wife, Emmeline Longespee (1252–1291) but fathered no children by her.

Ancestry

References

Sources
 The Complete Peerage, Vol. VII, p. 200

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Sweet Cheeks

Sweet Cheeks may refer to:

Music
Sweet Cheeks (band), with Lou Bennett
The Sweet Cheeks, a band that was previously named Crazy 8s
Sweet Cheeks, 1978 album by Duke Jupiter
"Sweet Cheeks", a song by J Hus from the 2017 album Common Sense

Other
Samantha "Sweet-Cheeks" Smith, a character in the video game Island Peril
Sweet Cheeks, a charity started by snowboarder Hannah Teter
Shaun Cooper (musician), aka Shaun "Sweet Cheeks" William Cooper
"Sweet Cheeks" Marie, a character in the video game Police Quest
Sweet Cheeks Q, a Texas-style barbecue restaurant in Boston's Fenway District owned by Tiffani Faison


District No. 9 Schoolhouse

The District No. 9 Schoolhouse is a historic school building at 358 Hoyt Road in Gilford, New Hampshire. Built in 1815 and repeatedly altered to accommodated changing trends in school design, it is the best-preserved of Gilford's surviving district schoolhouses. Now a private summer residence, the building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.

Description and history
Gilford's former District 9 Schoolhouse is located in a rural setting southeast of the town center, on the north side of Hoyt Road west of its junction with Belknap Mountain Road. It is a 1-1/2 story wood frame structure, whose main block measures  in length and  in width. It has a shed-roof projection at one end which houses the main entrance and a vestibule area (dated to the 1830s), and a second shed-roof addition behind that, dating to the early 20th century. The interior space was historically divided into a classroom space and a wood storage area, later converted into a kitchen. The property includes a c. 1924 outhouse.

The school was built in 1815, and was originally covered by a hip roof. This was replaced by the present gable roof around 1835, at the same time the vestibule was added. Additional windows were added in the 1850s, probably in response to state-issued recommendations. Benches were replaced by individual desks and chairs in 1892, around which time blackboards were also installed. The building was used as a school until the mid-1920s, and was converted into a summer residence in 1938.

See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Belknap County, New Hampshire

References

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Atuagkat Bookstore

Atuagkat Bookstore () is a bookstore in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, located  north of the Katuaq Culture Centre in the Nuuk Centrum. Founded in 1976, it is the largest and the oldest privately owned bookstore in the country.

The selection at the bookstore is limited to high-importance publications related to the Arctic, with a focus on Greenland, its history, culture, nature, economy, and politics, including publications from the Government of Greenland and the Documentation Centre on Children and Youth (MIPI, from the Greenlandic Meeqqat Inuusuttullu Pillugit Ilisimasaqarfik), in cooperation with the Ministry for Social Affairs.

Atuagkat does not carry genre fiction, focusing instead on literary fiction from both Greenland and Denmark. The bookstore also carries a comprehensive collection of maps of Greenland, including maps of the Northeast Greenland National Park.

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Category:Bookstores in Greenland
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Category:1976 establishments in Greenland
Category:Bookstores established in the 20th century