Fables (England Dan & John Ford Coley album)

Fables is the second album by England Dan & John Ford Coley.

Track listing
All songs written by John Ford Coley and Dan Seals, except where noted.

Side one
 "Simone"
 "Casey"
 "Free The People"
 "What I'm Doing"

Side two
 "Carolina" (Kerry Chater, Roger Karshner)
 "Tomorrow"
 "Candles of Our Lives"
 "Matthew"
 "Stay by the River"

Personnel
 Dan Seals – lead vocals (1, 3-9), backing vocals, acoustic guitar
 John Ford Coley – lead vocals (2-9), backing vocals, acoustic guitar, acoustic piano (4)
 Louie Shelton – electric guitar (1, 3), bass (3, 4), guitar (4, 5, 8), electric sitar (9)
 Larry Muhoberac – acoustic piano (1, 8), keyboards (2)
 Clarence McDonald – organ (3, 7), keyboards (5)
 Larry Knechtel – acoustic piano (6, 9)
 Don Randi – organ (8, 9)
 Reinie Press – bass (1, 5, 7)
 Jack Conrad – bass (2)
 Max Bennett – bass (6, 8, 9)
 Russ Kunkel – drums (1, 2)
 Jim Gordon – drums (3, 4)
 Hal Blaine – drums (5, 7)
 Paul Humphrey – drums (6)
 John Guerin – drums (8, 9)
 Bobbye Hall Porter – percussion (8, 9)
 Marty Paich – string arrangements

References

Category:1972 albums
Category:England Dan & John Ford Coley albums
Category:A&M Records albums
Category:Albums recorded at A&M Studios


Błażków

Błażków  is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Wola Mysłowska, within Łuków County, Lublin Voivodeship, in eastern Poland. It lies approximately  north-east of Wola Mysłowska,  west of Łuków, and  north-west of the regional capital Lublin.

References

Category:Villages in Łuków County


2017 Auto Club 400

The 2017 Auto Club 400 is a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race  that was held on March 26, 2017, at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California. Contested over 202 laps, extended from 200 laps due to overtime, on the  D-shaped oval, it is the fifth race of the 2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season.

Report

Background

Auto Club Speedway (formerly California Speedway) is a , low-banked, D-shaped oval superspeedway in Fontana, California which has hosted NASCAR racing annually since 1997. It is also used for open wheel racing events. The racetrack is located near the former locations of Ontario Motor Speedway and Riverside International Raceway. The track is owned and operated by International Speedway Corporation and is the only track owned by ISC to have naming rights sold. The speedway is served by the nearby Interstate 10 and Interstate 15 freeways as well as a Metrolink station located behind the backstretch.

Entry list

First practice
Kyle Larson was the fastest in the first practice session with a time of 38.081 seconds and a speed of .

Qualifying
Kyle Larson scored the pole for the race with a time of 38.493 and a speed of . “It was an interesting qualifying for us,” Larson said. “I ran the bottom in Turns 3 and 4. I knew everybody was running the top in 3 and 4 and my plan was to go up there in the second round, but thought I maybe got through 1 and 2 okay enough to run the bottom. I knew the third round I was going to have to move up. Our Target Chevy was really good, really balanced up there. I was surprised."

Qualifying results

Practice (post-qualifying)

Second practice
Erik Jones was the fastest in the second practice session with a time of 38.451 seconds and a speed of .

Final practice
Chase Elliott was the fastest in the final practice session with a time of 38.404 seconds and a speed of .

Race

First stage
Kyle Larson led the field to the green flag at 3:50 p.m. On the initial start, Denny Hamlin spun his tires and forced Brad Keselowski to check up. He backed into Ryan Newman – and Kevin Harvick, who was lined up behind Newman – and was turned up the track, damaging the left-rear quarter panel in the process. Keselowski kept going, but got loose exiting Turn 4, with help from Jimmie Johnson, and spun through the frontstretch grass, bringing out the first caution of the race on the third lap.

The race restarted on the eighth lap. Harvick made an unscheduled stop for damage on lap 23. A cycle of green flag stops started on lap 30 and resulted in Martin Truex Jr. cycling to the lead. Larson took it back exiting Turn 4 on lap 49, won the first stage and the second caution flew for the completion of the stage on lap 60. Truex exited pit road first. Ryan Blaney (removing equipment from the pit box) and Austin Dillon (speeding) restarted the race from the tail end of the field for pit road infractions.

Second stage
The race restarted on lap 68. The second stage was only broken up by green flag stops on lap 91, which resulted in Truex retaining the lead. It ended with him winning the stage and the third caution flew on lap 120 for its completion.

Final stage
The race restarted with 73 laps to go. Larson powered by Truex on the bottom in Turn 1 to retake the lead on the restart. For most of the stage, it was a repeat of the second stage. It was broken up with 49 to go when cars started pitting under green, Larson and Truex pitted together with 45 to go and Larson regained it with 37 to go. During the cycle, Kyle Busch led for a few laps, followed by Ty Dillon and Johnson was turned by Truex on pit road. Gray Gaulding suffered a right-front tire blowout and slammed the wall in Turn 1, bringing out the fourth caution with 20 to go. Truex, who entered pit road under the caution second, left seventh after he "stopped too deep in the box."

The race restarted with 16 to go. Exiting Turn 2 on the restart, Truex hooked the left-rear corner of Matt Kenseth, then sent him spinning down the track and into the inside retaining wall, bringing out the fifth caution.

The race restarted with 11 to go. Two laps later, Corey LaJoie spun out in Turn 2, bringing out the sixth caution. Hamlin, taking the lead as a result, Truex and Jamie McMurray elected to stay out under the caution, while everyone else hit pit road.

The race restarted with five to go. Larson quickly took second from Truex on the backstretch and had a run on Hamlin, but found himself boxed in by Truex to his left and the outside wall to his right. He made the pass for the lead exiting Turn 2 with three to go seconds before the seventh caution flew for Ricky Stenhouse Jr. spinning out in Turn 2.

Overtime
The race restarted in overtime with two to go and Larson drove on to score the victory.

Post-race

Driver comments
In victory lane, Larson said of the final two restarts that he was "staying as calm as [he] could," but he was "frustrated" as well. "It seems like every time I get to the lead at the end of one of these things, the caution comes out and I've got to fight people off on restarts," he added. "Our Target Chevy was amazing all day. We were able to lead a lot of laps today. Truex was better than us that second stage by quite a bit. We were able to get the jump on him the following restart and led pretty much the rest of the distance. I had to fight them off there after the green flag stops (before the final caution), and that was a lot of fun. This is just amazing. We've been so good all year long, three seconds in a row. I've been watching all the TV like 'He doesn't know how to win,' but we knew how to win today, so that was good."

"Great perseverance from this team," Keselowski said on pit road after rallying from a Lap 3 spin to finish runner-up. "I got out of the car and looked at the damage. It's torn to pieces. I feel lucky to finish second and curious what we could have done if we weren't torn up. Great day for us to persevere, despite adversity. You'll have that in a 36-race season, so proud of team for that."

Clint Bowyer, who earned his first top-five finish since the 2015 Irwin Tools Night Race with a third-place finish, said his team is "getting closer. This is a good track for me. I wanted to win that damn thing, but to come home with a wild finish and everything that it was, we’ll take it.”

Truex, who finished fourth after electing not to pit under the penultimate caution, said it was "not the situation we wanted to be in, but we thought more guys would stay out there. I think we only ran a few laps. It was definitely a disadvantage at the end and just really tight. Holding on for fourth was good for points.”

Race results

Stage results

Stage 1
Laps: 60

Stage 2
Laps: 60

Final stage results

Stage 3
Laps: 82

Race statistics
 Lead changes: 8 among different drivers
 Cautions/Laps: 7 for 29
 Red flags: 0
 Time of race: 2 hours, 57 minutes and 46 seconds
 Average speed:

Media

Television
The race was the 17th race Fox Sports covered at the Auto Club Speedway. Mike Joy, three-time Auto Club winner Jeff Gordon and Darrell Waltrip had call in the booth for the race. Jamie Little, Vince Welch and Matt Yocum will handle the pit road duties for the television side.

Radio
MRN had the radio call for the race which was also simulcasted on Sirius XM NASCAR Radio. Joe Moore, Jeff Striegle and 2001 race winner Rusty Wallace called the race from the booth when the field was racing down the front stretch. Dan Hubbard called race from a billboard outside turn 2 when the field was racing through turns 1 and 2. Kurt Becker called the race from a billboard outside turn 3 when the field was racing through turns 3 and 4. Alex Hayden, Winston Kelley and Steve Post worked pit road for MRN.

Standings after the race

Drivers' Championship standings

Manufacturers' Championship standings

Note: Only the first 16 positions are included for the driver standings.

References

Auto Club 400
Auto Club 400
Auto Club 400
Category:NASCAR races at Auto Club Speedway


Lithium tetrafluoroborate

Lithium tetrafluoroborate is an inorganic compound with the formula LiBF4.  It is a white crystalline powder.  It has been extensively tested for use in commercial secondary batteries, an application that exploits its high solubility in nonpolar solvents.

Applications
Although BF4− has high ionic mobility, solutions of its Li+ salt are less conductive than other less associated salts.  As an electrolyte in Lithium-ion batteries, LiBF4 offers some advantages relative to the more common LiPF6.  It exhibits greater thermal stability and moisture tolerance.  For example, LiBF4 can tolerate a moisture content up to 620 ppm at room temperature whereas LiPF6 readily hydrolyzes into toxic POF3 and HF gases, often destroying the battery's electrode materials. Disadvantages of the electrolyte include a relatively low conductivity and difficulties forming a stable solid electrolyte interface with graphite electrodes.

Thermal stability
Because LiBF4 and other alkali-metal salts thermally decompose to evolve boron trifluoride, the salt is commonly used as a convenient source of the chemical at the laboratory scale:

 LiBF4 → LiF + BF3

Production
LiBF4 is a byproduct in the industrial synthesis of diborane:
8 BF3  +  6 LiH  →  B2H6  +  6 LiBF4

LiBF4 can also be synthesized from LiF and BF3 in an appropriate solvent that is resistant to fluorination by BF3 (e.g. HF, BrF3, or liquified SO2):

 LiF + BF3 → LiBF4

References

Category:Tetrafluoroborates
Category:Lithium compounds
Category:Electrolytes


Maritta Politz

Maritta Politz (later Cierpinski, born 18 May 1950) is a German middle-distance runner. She competed in the women's 800 metres at the 1972 Summer Olympics. She is married to the athlete Waldemar Cierpinski.

References

Category:1950 births
Category:Living people
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Category:German female middle-distance runners
Category:Olympic athletes of East Germany
Category:Place of birth missing (living people)


Foodistan

Foodistan is a television cooking game show. It is produced by BIG Synergy for NDTV Good Times and GEO TV. The show puts India and Pakistan's best chefs against each other in a competition. While their individual cuisines are similar, there are differences between the two cuisines. The show aired 26 episodes. The finale was between Manish Mehrotra from India and Poppy Agha from Pakistan; Manish Mehrotra walked away with the title of Foodistan.

Hosts
 Alyy Khan
 Ira Dubey

Contestants
The contestants represented both India and Pakistan and hailed from some renowned hotels groups.

India
Madhumita Mohanta, Nimish Bhatia, Mehraj Ul Haque, Karan Suri, Rajeev Arora, Sunil Chauhan, Manish Mehrotra, Girish Krishnan monika rajput

Pakistan
Amir Iqbal, Noor Khan, Poppy Agha, Akhtar Rehman, Muhammad Ikram, Mohammad Naeem, Mehmood Akhtar, Muhammad Saqib

Judges included the trio of Merrilees Parker from England, Sonia Jehan from Pakistan and Veer Sanghvi from India, along with some guest judges through the series.

See also
 Sur Kshetra
 MasterChef Pakistan
 MasterChef India

References

Category:India–Pakistan relations
Category:Indian game shows
Category:Indian reality television series
Category:Pakistani game shows
Category:Pakistani reality television series


Saltbush Bill's Gamecock

Saltbush Bill's Gamecock is a humorous poem by Australian writer and poet Andrew Barton "Banjo" Paterson. It was first published in Brooks's Australian Xmas Annual Volume 1 1898.

Saltbush Bill was one of Paterson's best known characters who appeared in 5 poems: "Saltbush Bill" (1894),  "Saltbush Bill's Second Fight" (1897), "Saltbush Bill's Gamecock" (1898), "Saltbush Bill on the Patriarchs" (1903), and "Saltbush Bill, J.P." (1905).

Plot summary

Saltbush Bill is again droving his sheep when he happens "on Take 'Em Down, the station of Rooster Hall." Rooster Hall is a follower of cockfighting and Bill challenges him to a contest: his Australian bird against Hall's, a "clipt and a shaven cock, the pride of his English Game". But Bill has a trick up his sleeve and wins the contest by forfeit.

Further publications

 Rio Grande's Last Race and Other Verses by Banjo Paterson (1902)
 Singer of the Bush, A. B. (Banjo) Paterson : Complete Works 1885-1900 edited by Rosamund Campbell and Philippa Harvie (1983)
 A Vision Splendid : The Complete Poetry of A. B. 'Banjo' Paterson (1990)

See also

 1898 in poetry
 1898 in literature
 1898 in Australian literature
 Australian literature

References

Category:1898 poems
Category:Poetry by Banjo Paterson


1960–61 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team

The 1960–61 UCLA Bruins men's basketball team represented the University of California, Los Angeles during the 1960–61 NCAA men's basketball season and were members of the Pacific Coast Conference. The Bruins were led by 13th year head coach John Wooden. They finished the regular season with a record of 18–8 and finished second in the AAWU with a record of 7–5.

Previous season

The Bruins finished the regular season with a record of 14–12 and finished second in the PCC with a record of 7–5. After spending the previous five years at the Pan-Pacific Auditorium, UCLA moved to the new Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena prior the season.

Roster

Schedule

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Source

References

Category:UCLA Bruins men's basketball seasons
UCLA
UCLA Bruins Basketball
UCLA Bruins Basketball


Mexico at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Mexico competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. The country sent 102 athletes (76 men and 26 women) and competed in 71 events in 18 sports.

Medalists

Silver
Carlos Mercenario — Athletics, Men's 50 km Walk

Archery

In its fourth Olympic archery competition, Mexico entered three men and one woman.  Only one of the individuals advanced to the elimination rounds, where he was defeated in the first match.  The men's team missed the team round by one ranking.  They were 4 points behind the 16th place team.

Women's Individual Competition:
 Aurora Breton — Ranking round, 45th place (0-0)

Men's Individual Competition:
 José Anchondo — Round of 32, 31st place (0-1)
 Ricardo Rojas — Ranking round, 37th place (0-0)
 Omar Bustani — Ranking round, 67th place (0-0)

Men's Team Competition:
 Anchondo, Rojas, and Bustani — Ranking round, 17th place (0-0)

Athletics

Men's 5,000 metres
 Ignacio Fragoso — 14.16,14 (→ 42nd place)

Men's 10,000 metres
Arturo Barrios
 Heat — 28:28.26
 Final — 28:17.79 (→ 5th place)

Germán Silva
 Heat — 28:13.72
 Final — 28:20.19 (→ 6th place)

Armando Quintanilla
 Heat — 28:23.76
 Final — 28:48.05(→ 16th place)

Men's Marathon
 Isidro Rico — 2:18.52 (→ 29th place)
 Dionicio Cerón — did not finish (→ no ranking)

Men's 4 × 100 m Relay
 Genaro Rojas, Eduardo Nava, Raymundo Escalante, Herman Adam and Alejandro Cárdenas

Men's 4 × 400 m Relay
Raymundo Escalante, Eduardo Nava, Luis Karin Toledo, and  Juan Vallin Gutierrez
 Heat — 3:05.75 (→ did not advance)

Men's 20 km Walk
Daniel Garcia — 1:25:35 (→ 7th place)
Joel Sánchez — 1:30:12 (→ 21st place)
Ernesto Canto — 1:33:51 (→ 29th place)

Men's 50 km Walk
Carlos Mercenario — 3:52:09 (→  Silver Medal)
Miguel Rodríguez — 3:58:26 (→ 8th place)
Germán Sánchez — DSQ (→ no ranking)

Women's 10,000 metres
María Luisa Servín
 Heat — 33:42.74 (→ did not advance)

Women's Marathon
 Olga Appell — did not finish (→ no ranking)

Women's 10 km Walk
Maricela Chávez
 Final — 48:39 (→ 28th place)

Eva Machuca
 Final — 50:02 (→ 30th place)

Graciela Mendoza
 Final — DSQ (→ no ranking)

Women's High Jump
 Cristina Fink
 Qualification — 1.83 m (→ did not advance)

Boxing

Men's Flyweight (— 51 kg)
Narciso González
First Round — Lost to Benjamin Mwangata (TAN), RSCH-3 (01:43)

Men's Bantamweight (— 54 kg)
Javier Calderón
First Round — Defeated Benjamin Ngaruiya (KEN), 16:4
Second Round — Lost to Remigio Molina (ARG), 4:5

Men's Light-Welterweight (– 63.5 kg)
Edgar Ruiz
First Round — Lost to Leonard Doroftei (ROM), 4:24

Men's Light-Heavyweight (– 81 kg)
Manuel Verde
First Round — Lost to Patrice Aouissi (FRA), RSCH-3 (01:46)

Canoeing

Cycling

Five male cyclists represented Mexico in 1992.

Men's 1 km time trial
 César Muciño

Men's team pursuit
 Arturo García
 César Muciño
 Jesús Vázquez
 Marco Zaragoza

Men's points race
 Manuel Youshimatz

Diving

Men's 3m Springboard
Jorge Mondragón
 Preliminary Round — 384.45 points
 Final — 604.14 points (→ 6th place)

Fernando Platas
 Preliminary Round — 355.47 points (→ did not advance, 17th place)

Men's 10m Platform
Alberto Acosta
 Preliminary Round — 398.55 points
Final — 482.28 points (→ 11th place)

Jesús Mena
 Preliminary Round — 370.47 (→ did not advance, 15th place)

Women's 3m Springboard
 María Elena Romero
 Preliminary Round — 269.34 (→ did not advance, 16th place)

 Ana Ayala
 Preliminary Round — 249.03 (→ did not advance, 25th place)

Women's 10m Platform
María Alcalá
Final — 394.35 points (→ 6th place)

Macarena Alexanderson
Preliminary Round — 286.59 points (→ 13th place)

Equestrianism

Football

Men's Team Competition
Preliminary Round (Group D)
 Drew with Denmark (1-1)
 Drew with Australia (1-1)
 Drew with Ghana (1-1) → did not advance

Team Roster
( 1.) José Alberto Guadarrama
( 2.) Ricardo Cadena
( 3.) Manuel Vidrio
( 4.) Alberto Macías
( 5.) Silviano Delgado
( 6.) Joaquín Hernández
( 7.) José Agustín Morales
( 8.) David Rangel
( 9.) Francisco Rotllán
(10.) Jorge Castañeda
(11.) Damián Álvarez
(12.) Miguel Fuentes
(13.) Camilo Romero
(14.) Carlos López
(15.) José Eduardo Pavez
(16.) Mario Arteaga
(17.) Pedro Pineda
(18.) Ángel Lemus
(19.) Ignacio Vázquez
(20.) Ángel Maldonado
Head Coach: Óscar Iparraguirre

Gymnastics

Judo

Modern pentathlon

Three male pentathletes represented Mexico in 1992.

Individual
 Iván Ortega
 Alejandro Yrizar
 Alberto Félix

Team
 Iván Ortega
 Alejandro Yrizar
 Alberto Félix

Rowing

Sailing

Women's 470 Class
Margarita Pazos and Karla Gutiérrez
 Final Ranking — 126 points (→ 17th place)

Shooting

Swimming

Men's 50m Freestyle
 Rodrigo González
 Heat — 23.52 (→ did not advance, 27th place)

Men's 100m Freestyle
 Rodrigo González
 Heat — 51.04 (→ did not advance, 22nd place)

Men's 100m Breaststroke
 Javier Careaga
 Heat — 1:03.45 (→ did not advance, 20th place)

Men's 200m Breaststroke
 Javier Careaga
 Heat — 2:15.59
 B-Final — 2:16.55 (→ did not advance, 15th place)

Women's 400m Freestyle
 Laura Sánchez
 Heat — 4:23.87 (→ did not advance, 23rd place)

 Erika González
 Heat — 4:32.06 (→ did not advance, 29th place)

Women's 800m Freestyle
 Laura Sánchez
 Heat — 9:10.31 (→ did not advance, 21st place)

 Erika González
 Heat — 9:17.18 (→ did not advance, 25th place)

Women's 100m Butterfly
 Gabriela Gaja
 Heat — 1:04.84 (→ did not advance, 40th place)

Women's 4 × 100 m Medley Relay
 Heike Koerner, Ana Mendoza, Gabriela Gaja, and Laura Sánchez
 Heat — 4:26.73 (→ did not advance, 17th place)

Synchronized Swimming

Three synchronized swimmers represented Mexico in 1992.

Women's solo
Sonia Cárdeñas
Elizabeth Cervantes
Lourdes Olivera

Women's duet
Sonia Cárdeñas
Lourdes Olivera

Tennis

Men's Singles Competition
 Francisco Maciel
 First round — Lost to Jakob Hlasek (Switzerland) 3-6, 4-6, 6-4, 2-6

 Leonardo Lavalle
 First round — Defeated Jan Siemerink (Netherlands) 6-4, 6-4, 6-2
 Second round — Defeated Henri Leconte (France) 6-4, 3-6, 4-6, 6-3, 10-8
 Third round — Defeated Carl-Uwe Steeb (Germany) 6-4, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2
 Quarterfinals — Lost to Jordi Arrese (Spain) 1-6, 6-7, 1-6

Men's Doubles Competition
 Leonardo Lavalle and Francisco Maciel
 First round — Lost to Owen Casey and Eoin Collins (Ireland) 6-7, 4-6, retired

Women's Singles Competition
Lupita Novelo
 First Round — Lost to Steffi Graf (Germany) 1-6 1-6

Wrestling

See also
Mexico at the 1991 Pan American Games

References

Category:Nations at the 1992 Summer Olympics
1992
Olympics


Alfred Henry Maurer

Alfred Henry Maurer (April 21, 1868 – August 4, 1932) was an American modernist painter. He exhibited his work in avant-garde circles internationally and in New York City during the early twentieth century.  Highly respected today, his work met with little critical or commercial success in his lifetime, and he died, a suicide, at the age of sixty-four.

Biography

Maurer was born in New York City. He was the son of German-born Louis Maurer, a lithographer with a pronounced disdain for modern art. At age sixteen, Maurer had to quit school to work at his father's lithographic firm. In 1897, after studying with the sculptor John Quincy Adams Ward and painter William Merritt Chase, Maurer left for Paris, where he stayed the next four years, joining a circle of American and French artists.  Finding the instruction at the Academie Julian too limited, he spent most of his time copying in the Louvre. His self-portrait from that time expresses the 'youthful optimism" of that period of his life. At the time, Maurer worked in a conventional but self-assured realist style.

Maurer's An Arrangement, which was compared to the work of Whistler in its color sense and fluid handling of paint, made his reputation in the American art world. Comparisons were made to Chase and Sargent. The painting received first prize at the 1901 Carnegie International Exhibition, whose jurors included Thomas Eakins and Winslow Homer.  It was an honor that promised a bright future, and Maurer hoped it would convince his demanding and skeptical father that he could, in fact, paint. Other awards received by Maurer included the Inness Jr. Prize of the Salmagundi Club in 1900 and a bronze medal at the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo, New York in 1901. In 1905, he won the third medal at the Liege (Belgium) Exposition and a gold medal at the International Exposition in Munich. A successful future beckoned.

Yet, at age thirty-six, in Paris, deviating from what everyone (including himself, at times) called "acceptable" painting styles, Maurer changed his methods sharply and from that point on painted only in a cubist and fauvist manner.  His break from realism and new commitment to modernism, fostered by exposure to the art collected by his friends Gertrude and Leo Stein, subsequently cost him his international reputation and any hope of paternal regard. He had a two-man exhibition with John Marin in New York City at Alfred Stieglitz's 291 gallery, and four of his paintings were included in the legendary Armory Show of 1913. He acquired esteem in avant-garde circles.  He did not, however, find the popular following he needed to make a living.

Leaving Paris on the eve of World War I, he returned to his father's house only to be denied support. It was the beginning, as art critic Robert Hughes wrote, of "a banishment to a hell of Oedipal conflict." For the next seventeen, increasingly depressed years, Maurer painted in a garret in his father's house on the West Side of Manhattan and gained only limited critical acclaim. He was friends with respected avant-garde American artists like Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, and John Marin, almost all of whom were better known than he was.  He participated in prestigious exhibitions, such as "The Forum Exhibition of Modern American Painters" in 1916, a New York show which featured seventeen of the most significant native modernists of the time. He also exhibited regularly at the New York-based Society of Independent Artists and was elected their director in 1919. In 1924, the New York dealer Erhard Weyhe bought the contents of Maurer's studio and represented the artist for the remainder of his career.  The death of his mother in 1917, however, intensified his gradual withdrawal from the world.

The artist Jerome Myers wrote poignantly of him in his autobiography, Artist In Manhattan:

About his approach to painting after abandoning realism, Maurer commented, "My main concern in painting is the beautiful arrangement of color values -- that is, harmonized masses of pigment, more or less pure.  For this reason, it is impossible to present an exact transcription of nature....It is necessary for art to differ from nature....Perhaps art should be an intensification of nature; at least it should express an inherent feeling which cannot be obtained from nature except through a process of association....The artist must be free to paint his effects.  Nature must not bind him."

As the art historian Sheldon Reich observed, had Maurer been a European or remained in Europe in 1914, he would probably be discussed today in the same terms applied to Vlaminck or Derain. Instead, he became a citizen of a country with very limited interest in bold artistic experimentation and took his place as part of that "tragic fraternity of artists who during their lifetimes have suffered the tortures of neglect." He enjoys a marginal status in most American art history textbooks.  It is also extremely difficult to encounter Maurer's paintings in public collections as most of his work is still privately owned.

Maurer took his own life by hanging several weeks after his father's death at the age of 100. Alfred Stiegltiz wanted to arrange a posthumous exhibition of his work at his gallery, An American Place, but was unable to do so.  Five years after Maurer's death, the art critic Henry McBride, reviewing a show of his work at the Hudson Walker Gallery in New York, wrote: "He lived exclusively for his art and in sharp contrast to most painters of today who never lift a paint brush to canvas without thought of the box office results....he had the courage of his principles."

Maurer's works are included in the collections of the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; the Brooklyn Museum, New York; the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois; the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania; the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.; the Reynolda House Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.; the Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others.

See also
American modernism
Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession

References

Sources
Brown, Milton.  American Painting from the Armory Show to the Depression. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1955.
Davidson, Abraham A.  Early American Modernist Painting, 1910-1935.  New York: DaCapo, 1994.
Deeds, Daphne Anderson.  Alfred Maurer: The First American Modern.  Minneapolis; University of Minnesota Press, 2003.
Epstein, Stacey.  "Alfred H. Maurer: Aestheticism to Modernism." Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York (November 30, 1999 - January 15, 2000). ASIN B0006RBPVA.
Hughes, Robert.  American Visions: The Epic History of Art in America.  New York: Knopf, 1997.
Hunter, Sam.  Modern American Painting and Sculpture.  New York: Dell, 1959.
Loughery, John.  "The Watercolors of Alfred Maurer."  Arts Magazine (Summer 1985), pp. 124–125.
Alfred Maurer (1868-1932), exhibition catalogue,  Washington D.C.: National Collection of Fine Arts, 1973.
McCausland, Elizabeth.  A.H. Maurer.  New York: Wyn, 1951.

External links
 Alfred Henry Maurer Biography: Hollis Taggart Galleries
 Lecture on Maurer's evolution by Stacey B. Epstein

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Category:1932 deaths
Category:19th-century American painters
Category:American male painters
Category:20th-century American painters
Category:Painters who committed suicide
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A Lifetime of Temporary Relief: 10 Years of B-Sides and Rarities

A Lifetime of Temporary Relief is a box set by Duluth, Minnesota group Low, released in 2004. The set includes a two-sided DVD containing documentaries, videos and live tracks.

Track listing
Compact Disc one
"Lullaby" (Demo) – 10:06
"Cut" (Demo) – 5:41
"Heartbeat" – 4:08
"Peanut Butter Toast and American Bandstand" – 2:23
"Tired" – 5:11
"I Started a Joke" – 4:28
"The Plan" (Demo) – 2:50
"Prisoner" (Demo) – 6:10
"Prisoner" – 3:48
"Tomorrow One" – 4:28
"Turning Over" – 7:49
"Bright" – 1:45
"Walk You Out" – 4:46
"Tear Down" – 4:48
"Standby" – 5:11
"David & Jude" – 1:22
"Cheek" – 3:24

Compact Disc two
"Venus" – 3:44
"Boyfriends & Girlfriends" – 6:06
"Surf" – 2:31
"No Need" (Version 1) – 5:03
"Be There" – 8:28
"Lift" – 5:45
"Joan of Arc" – 3:21
"Long Long Long" – 3:50
"Lion/Lamb" (Demo) – 3:50
"Will the Night" (Demo) – 2:47
"Last Breath" – 4:47
"Joan of Arc" (20 Below Mix) – 3:25
"Old Man Song" – 3:48
"Try Try Try" – 0:37
"Lord, Can You Hear Me?" – 6:24
"Venus" (Time Stereo Dub Mix) – 3:51
"Those Girls (Song for Nico)" – 3:06
[silence] – 2:50
"Words" (In Misfits Style) – 2:50
"Turn" (In Misfits Style) – 1:03
"Over the Ocean (In Misfits Style)" – 1:36

Compact Disc three
"I Remember" – 3:22
"Kindly Blessed" – 2:17
"Blue-Eyed Devil" – 5:02
"Sleep At the Bottom" – 4:54
"When You Walked" – 3:55
"Back Home Again" – 5:20
"Don't Drop the Baby" – 4:02
"Surfer Girl" – 3:35
"Blowin' in the Wind" – 3:49
"Open Arms" – 4:02
"...I Love" – 2:45
"Carnival Queen" – 5:13
"Overhead" – 4:33
"Don't Carry It All" – 4:13
"Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me" – 3:58
"Because You Stood Still" – 5:33
"Fearless" – 6:20
"Shots & Ladders 2" – 6:47

DVD
"Words" – 5:46
"Shame" – 4:08
"Over the Ocean" – 3:50
"Hope" – 11:28
"Will the Night" – 3:07
"Weight of Water" – 4:21
"Don't Understand" – 6:56
"Immune" – 3:31
"Home" – 2:25
"Dinosaur Act" – 4:07
"Canada" – 3:49
"Over the Ocean" – 5:03
"Canada" – 15:42
"Two Step" (Live at Bard College) – 6:11
"Soon" (Live at Coolidge Corner) – 7:38
"I Remember" (Live in Paris) – 5:40

CD2-18 to CD2-21 are uncredited unlisted tracks.

A one-disc promo version of the album features the following tracks:
"I Remember"
"Venus"
"No Need"
"Lullaby"
"Because You Stood Still"
"Lion/Lamb"
"Carnival Queen"
"Peanut Butter Toast and American Bandstand"
"Bright"
"Lord, Can You Hear Me?"

References

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Lubná (Svitavy District)

Lubná is a village and municipality (obec) in Svitavy District in the Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic.

The municipality covers an area of , and has a population of 1,019 (as at 3 July 2006).

Lubná lies approximately  west of Svitavy,  south-east of Pardubice, and  east of Prague.

References
Regional Statistical Office: Municipalities of Pardubice Region

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Ardfheis

Ard Fheis or Ardfheis ( "high assembly"; plural Ardfheiseanna)  is the name used by many Irish political parties for their annual party conference. The term was first used by Conradh na Gaeilge, the Irish language cultural organisation, for its annual convention.

Usage
Among the parties who use the term Ardfheis are:

Fine Gael
Fianna Fáil
Sinn Féin
Éirígí
Green Party
National Party

In Northern Ireland, the term is not used by the Social Democratic and Labour Party, or by those parties which are not Irish-nationalist in outlook, such as the Alliance Party and Democratic Unionist Party.

In the Republic of Ireland, the Labour Party, Communist Party, Renua Ireland and the Social Democrats do not use the term ardfheis.

Ard Chomhairle
Many political parties who use the term Ardfheis, also use the term Ard Chomhairle which means National Executive Committee. It literally translates as High Council.

In Scotland
Scottish Republican Socialist Movement
Siol nan Gaidheal

References

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Vidsel

Vidsel () is a locality situated in Älvsbyn Municipality, Norrbotten County, Sweden with 533 inhabitants in 2010. It is situated about 900 km north of Stockholm, Sweden, in the Arctic Circle; Perhaps its earliest history is as a seasonal settlement, but permanent inhabitants have lived here since the 19th century.

The town was mainly founded in the 1950s, because of "Robotförsöksplats Norr" (RFN) (Missile Test Area North)/Vidsel Test Range. The range forms part of the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) Testing Directorate, which is responsible for the verification of systems procured for the Swedish Armed Forces.

RFN is the largest overland test range in Western Europe, consisting of 1,650 km² of uninhabited forest and marshland, which can be extended by 1,500 km² if required. The installation includes a military base with a 2,300 m runway. Because of its usage as a Swedish and European missile test site, this remote area is often listed in international weather forecasts and maps.

The site has been a test area for most Swedish flight developments, including Draken, Viggen and Gripen.

References

External links

 North European Aerospace Test range
 FMV

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Modaser Zekria

Modaser Zekria (born 25 June 1990) is an Afghan international footballer who plays for Swedish club Newroz FC, as a midfielder.

Career
Born in Jalalabad, Zakaria has played club football in Sweden for Värmdö IF, Hammarby Talang FF, Enskede IK, Forssa BK, IK Brage, Boo FK, IFK Aspudden-Tellus and Newroz FC.

He earned two caps for the  Afghanistan national team in 2015.

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Fetlar

Fetlar is one of the North Isles of Shetland, Scotland, with a usually resident population of 61 at the time of the 2011 census. Its main settlement is Houbie on the south coast, home to the Fetlar Interpretive Centre. Fetlar is the fourth-largest island of Shetland and has an area of just over .

History
One of the strange features of Fetlar is a huge wall that goes across the island known as the Funzie Girt or Finnigirt Dyke. It is thought to date from the Mesolithic period. So sharp was the division between the two halves of the island that the Norse talked of East and West Isle separately.

Another attraction on the island is the Gothic Brough Lodge, built by Arthur Nicolson in about 1820, and which is undergoing restoration by the Brough Lodge Trust. The Fetlar sheepdog trials take place annually, normally in July. The Fetlar Foy, once very popular with Shetlanders and tourists alike, took place at midsummer on the Links at Tresta where folk were entertained with music, food and drink.

Its most famous son was Sir William Watson Cheyne Bt FRS FRCS, a close associate of Lord Lister and one of the pioneers of antiseptics. He was professor of surgery at King's College London, President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and wrote many books on medical treatments. He was made a baronet for services to medicine in 1908, and later was an MP—first for the Universities of Edinburgh and St Andrews, and then for the Combined Scottish Universities—between 1917 and 1922. He was Lord Lieutenant of the Shetland Islands from 1919 to 1930. Cheyne died on Fetlar on 19 April 1932.

Fetlar was home to the Society of Our Lady of the Isles, an Anglican religious order for women, until it moved to Unst in 2015.

Fishing and shipwrecks
The island has a long tradition of fishing. According to Guinness World Records, in August 2012 what was then the oldest message in a bottle, released in June 1914, was found by Andrew Leaper, skipper of the Copious, coincidentally the same fishing vessel involved in a previous record recovery in 2006. The bottle, and Mr Leaper's World Record certificate, have been donated to the Fetlar Interpretative Centre. Fetlar also has an international selection of shipwrecks including Danish, Dutch, German, English and Soviet vessels.

Geography and geology
Fetlar has a very complex geology, including gneiss in the west, metamorphosed gabbro and phyllite, and kaolin. There is also antigorite and steatite here. Talc was mined here. The east of the island is part of the Shetland ophiolite complex (a section of the Earth's oceanic crust and the underlying upper mantle that has been uplifted and exposed above sea level).

Fetlar is surrounded by a number of small islands, particularly in the sound between it and Unst. These include to the north: Daaey, Haaf Gruney, Sound Gruney, Urie Lingey and Uyea; and to the west: Hascosay and Linga.

It is separated from Hascosay and Yell by Colgrave Sound. Much further to the south are the Out Skerries and Whalsay.

Etymology
There are three island names in Shetland of unknown and possibly pre-Celtic origin: Fetlar, Unst and Yell. The earliest recorded forms of these three names do carry Norse meanings: Fetlar is the plural of fetill and means "shoulder-straps", Omstr is "corn-stack", and í Ála is from ál meaning "deep furrow". However, these descriptions are hardly obvious ones as island names, and are probably adaptations of a pre-Norse language. This may have been Pictish but there is no clear evidence for this. Haswell-Smith suggests a meaning of "prosperous land" and that the island's name may mean "two islands strapped together" by the Funzie Girt. It was recorded as "Fötilør" in 1490, and as "Pheodor Oy" in 1654.

Nature and conservation
Fetlar's wildlife is as varied as its geology. For example, over two hundred species of wild flower have been identified here. The island is known as "The Garden of Shetland", due to its highly fertile soil.

The northern part of Fetlar is a RSPB reserve, home to several important breeding species including Arctic skuas and Eurasian whimbrels. The Lamb Hoga peninsula and nearby Haaf Gruney have some of the largest colonies of storm petrel. In total the island supports 20,000 individual seabirds, including nationally important populations of Arctic skua, Northern fulmar, great skua, Arctic tern and red-necked phalarope. Of greatest importance are red-necked phalaropes, for which the Loch of Funzie is the most important breeding site in the United Kingdom, and for a while during the 1990s was the only breeding site in the country. A pair of snowy owls famously bred here in the 1960s and early 1970s, they lasted until the 1980s but are no longer present. However, a snowy owl was spotted on Fetlar in October 2018 .

Fetlar, and the seas around it, hold several overlapping conservation designations:
The North Fetlar Special Area of Conservation (SAC) covers  of the island, and protects the islands dry heaths and base-rich fens .
The Fetlar Special Protection Area (SPA), covers  of the island and surrounding seas due to the importance of this habitat for many species of seabirds.
The Fetlar to Haroldswick Nature Conservation Marine Protected Area protects  of sea. It completely surrounds Fetlar, and extends to cover  all sea between the islands and the neighbouring islands of Yell and Unst from the Colgrave Sound to Haroldswick.

Infrastructure
Ferries sail daily from Hamars Ness on Fetlar to Gutcher on Yell, and to Belmont on Unst. A new breakwater and berthing facility was added at Hamars Ness, and was officially opened on 1 December 2012.

There is a communications tower on Fetlar at: 60°36'5.39"N, 0°55'35.44"W. Fetlar is "Under Evaluation" for superfast broadband according to Digital Scotland.

Community development
Fetlar Developments Ltd (FDL), a company limited by guarantee and a registered charity, was set up by the community to counter the depopulation of the island, which had fallen to just 48 in early 2009, when the 2001 total had been 86. The development company continue to work towards securing a sustainable future for the island both socially and economically.

Work to install three wind turbines in a Community wind energy project began in December 2015.

School
Currently there are 3 primary pupils and 1 nursery pupil at Fetlar primary school, situated at Baela near Houbie.

See also

 List of islands of Scotland

Notes

References

 Gammeltoft, Peder (2010) "Shetland and Orkney Island-Names – A Dynamic Group". Northern Lights, Northern Words. Selected Papers from the FRLSU Conference, Kirkwall 2009, edited by Robert McColl Millar.

External links

 Fetlar community website

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George Turner (footballer, born 1910)

George W. Turner (born 1910) was an English professional footballer who played as an outside left.

Career
Born in Mansfield, Turner spent his early career with Mansfield Athletic, Sneinton, Notts County, Luton Town and Everton. He made two league appearances for Everton in 1932 after joining them from Luton Town. He joined Bradford City from Everton in June 1934, making 16 league appearances for the club, before returning to Luton Town in June 1935. He later played for Northampton Town and Newark Town.

Sources

References

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Surtan-Uzyak

Surtan-Uzyak () is a rural locality (a village) in Zilairsky District, Bashkortostan, Russia. The population was 59 as of 2010. There are 3 streets.

References

Category:Rural localities in Bashkortostan


Dating Hamlet

Dating Hamlet is a novel written by Lisa Fiedler, first published in 2002. It is an example of novels that rewrite Shakespeare's plays to reflect the concerns of teenagers.

Plot
The plot of the story is largely the same as Shakespeare's Hamlet, but with a few twists in the tale. The story centres on Ophelia and her views on the activities taking place in Denmark and how they affect Hamlet. The author turns the story on its head by making Ophelia the heroine of the story. She is the one who comes up with the plans to save Hamlet. She is the one who proves to be brave while Hamlet appears weak and is left to follow.

The novel is a retelling of Hamlet from Ophelia's point of view.

References

Sources

Category:2002 American novels
Category:American historical novels
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Dale Swapinski

Dale Edward Swapinski (born October 3, 1953) is an American politician in the state of Minnesota. He served in the Minnesota House of Representatives.

References

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Reißeck (mountain)

The Reißeck, also Großes Reißeck ("Great Reisseck") is, at 2,965 metres above the Adriatic (9,728 ft), the highest peak of the Reißeck Group in the High Tauern of Carinthia, Austria. The range forms the southern part of the larger Ankogel Group with its highest summit, the Hochalmspitze, separated by the col of Mallnitzer Scharte at . The mountain also gives its name to the Reißeck municipality, located to the south in the Möll valley.

The name Reißeck is derived from an old waterbody name, something like Reisach = "mountain stream" or "torrent", which became the Middle High German rîs = "the falling one".

West and south of the summit block lie the reservoirs of the Verbund Reißeck-Kreuzeck hydropower group, connected with the neighbouring Kölnbrein Dam in the Malta Valley. The Reisseck Railway (Reißeckbahn) funicular and the narrow-gauge Reisseck Mountain Railway, built in the 1950s for the construction of the power station, later ran passenger services and was used for the access of tourists from the Möll valley up to the Alpine huts. Operations on both lines ceased in 2014/2016 and were not resumed so far. The Reißeck Hut, built in 1908 and managed by the ÖGV section of the Austrian Alpine Club, is located at  in the immediate vicinity of the former Schoberboden top station, right below the dam of the Großer Mühldorfer See reservoir. A nearby hotel and the adjacent small ski area, opened in the 1960s, today are closed.

The normal route runs via the Kalte Herberg col and south arête, an easy climb, to the summit, but it does require sure-footedness. Starting points are the Reißeck Hut or the unmanaged Neue Moos Hut. East-northeast of the Großes Reißeck lies the Kleines Reißeck peak ("Little Reisseck", ); the ridge crossing runns along steep grassy slopes, but is otherwise technically easy. The Reißeck summit offers panoramic views to the surrounding High Tauern ranges, as well as to the Dolomites, Karawanks and Julian Alps in the south.

Literature and map
Herbert Gantschacher: Neues Musiktheater 'Kar' - Eine beispielhafte Kooperation zwischen Industrie und Kunst am Reißeck, in Der Kulturmanager, Kognos-Verlag, Stadtbergen, 1998
Alpine Club map 1:25,000, Sheet 44, Hochalmspitze - Ankogel (the Reißeck is on the lower edge of this map)

References

External links

 Reißeck auf www.summitpost.org (englisch)

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Mifflin, Pennsylvania (disambiguation)

Mifflin, Pennsylvania could refer to:
 Mifflin, Juniata County, Pennsylvania
 Mifflin County, Pennsylvania
 West Mifflin, Pennsylvania
 Mifflintown, Pennsylvania

See also
 Mifflin Township, Pennsylvania (disambiguation)


Oyewole

Oyewole is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

 Abiodun Oyewole (born 1948), American musician
 Adessoye Oyewole (born 1982), Russian football
 Olusola Bandele Oyewole (born 1955), Nigerian professor
 Saundra Herndon Oyewole (born 1943), American microbiologist


RAB13

Ras-related protein Rab-13 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the RAB13 gene.

References

Further reading


1996 CA-TennisTrophy

The 1996 CA-TennisTrophy was a men's tennis tournament played on indoor carpet courts at the Wiener Stadthalle in Vienna in Austria and was part of the Championship Series of the 1996 ATP Tour. It was the 22nd edition of the tournament and took place from 7 October through 13 October 1996. Fifth-seeded Boris Becker won the singles title.

Finals

Singles

 Boris Becker defeated  Jan Siemerink 6–4, 6–7(7–9), 6–2, 6–3
 It was Becker's 3rd title of the year and the 62nd of his career.

Doubles

 Yevgeny Kafelnikov /  Daniel Vacek defeated  Menno Oosting /  Pavel Vízner 7–6, 6–4
 It was Kafelnikov's 9th title of the year and the 24th of his career. It was Vacek's 4th title of the year and the 14th of his career.

References

External links
 Official Website
 ATP tournament profile
 ITF tournament edition details

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Maicon da Silva

Maicon da Silva Moreira, simply known as Maicon (born 10 March 1993), is a Brazilian footballer who plays as a right midfielder or right defender for FC Tulsa in the USL Championship.

Club career
Born in Cachoeira do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul. Maicon first played for clubs in the state.

In 2011, he moved to Italy and joined Reggina Calcio's youth setup. He made his professional debut on 6 May 2012, in a 1–3 loss at Sampdoria, and after a brief loan period with Pontedera, he established himself in the club's starting XI.

Maicon joined American USL Championship club FC Tulsa in January 2020.

References

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Bravo My Life (TV series)

Bravo My Life () is a 2017 South Korean television series starring Do Ji-won, Park Sang-min, Yeon Jung-hoon, Jeong Yu-mi, Hyun Woo, and Kang Ji-sub. The series airs four consecutive episodes on Saturday on SBS TV from 8:55 p.m. to 11:15 p.m. (KST) starting from October 21, 2017.

Synopsis
The story is set in the world of television drama production, and revolves around three main characters: a haughty drama PD, an assistant director who's still waiting to catch her big break, and a frustrated actor who still hasn't debuted after seven years in the industry.

Cast

Main
 Jeong Yu-mi as Ha Do-na
 Hyun Woo as Kim Bum-woo
 Kang Ji-sub as Seol Do-hyun
 Do Ji-won as Soong Mi-ja/Rara
 Park Sang-min as Jung Yong-woong
 Yeon Jung-hoon as Shin Dong-woo

Supporting

JU Group
 Park Seon-im as Jung Hye-mi
 Hyun Jyu-ni as Jung Sung-ah

JT Group
 Dokgo Young-jae as Kim Ho-tae
 Kim Hye-sun as Choi Min-kyung
 Kang Sung-min as Kim Joon-ho
 Jiyul as Kim Seo-hyun

People in SBC Drama company
 Shin Joo-ah as Kang Ha-young
 Jeon Se-hyun as Kang Ha-kyung
 Kim Joon-hyun as Yoo Gil-joon
 Kim Kiri as Chul-seon
 Joo Sung-hwan as Drama Department Head

People around Do-na
 Ban Hyo-jung as Park Sun-jin
 Ha Jae-sook as Lee Young-hee

People around Dong-woo
 Park Hyun-sook as Shin Hwa-im

People around Do-hyun
 Kwon Oh-joong as Kim Oh-book
 Kim Noo-ri as Man-soo

Ratings
 In this table,  represent the lowest ratings and  represent the highest ratings.
  denotes that the drama did not rank in the Top 20 daily rankings.
 N/A denotes that the rating is not known.

Awards and nominations

Notes

References

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Louis Faurer

Louis Faurer (August 28, 1916 – March 2, 2001) was an American candid or street photographer. He was a quiet artist who never achieved the broad public recognition that his best-known contemporaries did; however, the significance and  caliber of his work were lauded by insiders, among them Robert Frank, William Eggleston, and Edward Steichen, who included his work in the Museum of Modern Art exhibitions In and Out of Focus (1948) and The Family of Man (1955).

Life and career
Growing up in Philadelphia, Faurer showed an early aptitude for illustration. He bought his first camera in 1937 from the photographer Ben Somoroff. After a couple of jobs as a photographic technician, Faurer made his way to Manhattan and into the world of fashion photography. He quickly made contacts that stood him in good stead: Robert Frank, with whom he shared a darkroom/studio and fast friendship, and Walker Evans, whom he'd long admired, who introduced him to Alexander Liberman at Vogue.

Faurer did fashion photography for Vogue, Junior Bazaar, Harper's Bazaar, Mademoiselle, Elle, and Glamour, as well as assignments for Life and Look for more than twenty years. He complained that his work at Life involved too much travel, so he quit in the early 1950s. Most of the prints and negatives of his fashion work have probably been discarded, as Faurer stored them with a friend when he left the country in the late 1960s, then failed to reclaim them.

It is Faurer’s personal work from the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s for which he is best remembered. He photographed the streets of New York City and Philadelphia, capturing the restless energy of urban life. His photographs show the great variety of the city's human face. As Robert Frank said in 1994:

Faurer ... proves to be an extraordinary artist. His eye is on the pulse [of New York City] - the lonely "Times-Square people" for whom Faurer felt a deep sympathy. Every photograph is witness to the compassion and obsession accompanying his life like a shadow. I am happy that these images survive while the world keeps changing.

Faurer experimented with blur, grain, double exposures, sandwiched negatives, reflections, slow film speeds, and low lighting. His 1950 photographs of Robert Frank and his new wife Mary at the San Gennaro Festival in New York are a case in point, exploiting maximum-aperture shallow depth of field, reflections and halation of out-of-focus light sources for intimate, romantic results. One of the series attracted the attention of curator Edward Steichen who included it in the world-touring Museum of Modern Art exhibition, The Family of Man, seen by 9 million visitors, and in its catalogue, which has never been out of print. As exacting in the darkroom as he was in the field, he was notorious for being a tireless perfectionist when it came to cropping and printing his work.

In the mid- and late 1960s Faurer experimented with hand-held 16 mm film, using Arriflex and Beaulieu movie cameras, filming in the streets of Manhattan, extending his still camera style into a cinematic medium.

Between 1969 and 1974 he lived and worked abroad, mostly in Paris. From the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, Faurer taught at numerous art schools and universities, including the Parsons School of Design in New York City, Yale University, the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, The New School for Social Research and Stockton State College in New Jersey.

In 1984, while running to catch a New York city bus, Faurer was struck by a car and seriously injured. He never photographed again.

Faurer spoke of his “intense desire to record life as I see it” as his only motivation: “As long as I’m amazed and astonished, as long as I feel that events, messages, expressions and movements are all shot through with the miraculous, I’ll feel filled with the certainty I need to keep going.”

The late Walter Hopps, who was curator of American art at the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian's National Collection of Fine Arts, commented on Faurer's work:

I am in awe of the high point he can reach in a photograph such as Family, Times Square, at the center of New York in the center of our century. Perhaps no other American image stands comparison with Picasso’s Family of Saltimbanques, on their imagined European plane in 1905….Faurer stands and lives as a master of his medium.

Publications
Louis Faurer: Photographs from Philadelphia and New York, 1937-1973. College Park, Maryland: University of Maryland Art Gallery, 1981. Edited by Edith A. Tonelli and John Gossage. Curated and with texts by Faurer and Walter Hopps.
Louis Faurer. Photo Poche. Paris: Centre national de la photographie, 1992. With an introduction by Martin Harrison and notes by Stuart Alexander.
Tucker, Anne Wilkes, Louis Faurer. London/New York: Merrell Publishers, 2002.
Louis Faurer. Göttingen: Steidl; Paris: Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, 2016.

Individual exhibitions
Limelight, New York City, 1959. Faurer's first solo exhibition.
Marlborough Gallery, New York City, 1977. Faurer's second solo exhibition.
The Art Gallery at the University of Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 1981.
ZFF (Zentrum für Fotographie), Berlin, February 7 – March 27, 1998. Faurer's work from Philadelphia and New York under the direction of Henner Merle and photographer Hendrik Rauch.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, January 2002; and traveled to the Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA, May 4 - July 28, 2002; Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA, August 11 - October 20, 2002; Art Institute of Chicago, November 9, 2002 - January 26, 2003; Philadelphia Museum of Art, June 14 - September 7, 2003.
Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris, September 9 – December 18, 2016; Centro José Guerrero, Granada, April 6 – June 25, 2017. In 2016, Steidl and the Fondation published a book documenting the exhibition in French and English.
Louis Faurer: New York Photographs, Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis, February 10 - March 25, 2017.
Louis Faurer, In Camera, Paris, October 5 - December 2, 2017.

Awards
National Endowment for the Arts grant
Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1979

References

Further reading
Hostetler, Lisa. Street Seen: The Psychological Gesture in American Photography, 1940-1959. New York and London: Prestel Publishing, 2010.
Livingston, Jane. The New York School: Photographs, 1936-1963. New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1992.

External links
"The Lives They Lived: Gallery: Louis Faurer, B. 1916, Friends Through the Lens" <https://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/30/magazine/the-lives-they-lived-gallery-louis-faurer-b-1916-friends-through-the-lens.html>
Archive of Life magazine photographs by Faurer, Google Arts and Culture (Google Cultural Institute). These include his 1952 photo shoot of a benefit dance performance by Ballet Theater (since 1957 known as American Ballet Theater, ABT) for the sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Oriskany, featuring the prima ballerina Mary Ellen Moylan, while the ship was in dry dock in Bayonne, New Jersey. Paul V. Beckley (New York Herald Tribune, April 18, 1952) reported that the ballets were danced on the hangar deck with the ship's elevator as a stage.

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Central Jail Lahore

Central Jail Lahore is a prominent jail situated in Lahore, Pakistan at Rakh Chandra (Kot Lakhpat). The jail is also known as Kot Lakhpat Jail with reference to its location. The jail houses more than four times the 4000 prisoner capacity it was built for. Some prisoners died in the prison in the past, including Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh

See also

 Government of Punjab, Pakistan
 Punjab Prisons (Pakistan)
 Central Jail Faisalabad
 Central Jail Mianwali
 Headquarter Jail
 Central Jail Rawalpindi
 District Jail Rawalpindi
 National Academy for Prisons Administration

References

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ENERGA anti-tank rifle grenade

The Energa anti-tank rifle grenade is a rifle-launched anti-tank grenade that is propelled by a ballistite-filled blank cartridge. The name Energa comes from the firm in Liechtenstein that designed it, the Anstalt für die ENtwicklung von ERfindungen und Gewerblichen Anwendungen, based in Vaduz.

First produced in the 1950s, by Mecar in Belgium, it was in front-line use by European armies until replaced by disposable tube-launched anti-tank rockets such as the M72 LAW. Although no longer in production, stocks of the grenade still exist and the Energa grenade remains in service with Third World countries. Armscor of South Africa manufactured the R1M1, an improved version of the Energa grenade.

The original Energa grenade could penetrate 200 mm (7.8 inches) of armor or 500 mm (19.6 inches) of concrete at an angle of impact of 90 degrees.  At an angle of impact of 45 degrees, the figures dropped to 100 mm (3.9 inches) and 250 mm (9.8 inches), respectively.

The Super Energa used a rocket booster to extend the grenade's range to 550 meters. The Super Energa could penetrate up to 275 mm (10.8 inches) of armor and 600 mm (23.6 inches) of concrete.

U.S. service
Early in the Korean War, U.S. forces found their World War II-era anti-tank rifle grenades were ineffective against the frontal armor of T-34 tanks.  This led the U.S. to produce their own version of the Energa, the M28 rifle grenade, from 1950 until 1960. Originally the M28 was fired from Mecar's proprietary  T119 (M1 Garand) and T120 (M1 Carbine) launchers. The T119 was soon replaced by the improved M7A3 launcher (M1 Garand) from September 1952 onwards. The M28 was eventually replaced in US military service by the M31 HEAT rifle grenade and later by the M72 LAW rocket. The M29 TP (Training Practice) round remained in service until it was replaced in 1961 by the improved M31 TP.

UK service

In British service, the Energa was known as the Anti-Tank Grenade, No. 94 (ENERGA). It was designed to be fired from the Projector (No. 4 Rifle) Mark 5 (c.1952), an attachment for the Lee–Enfield No.4 Rifle. The later L1A1 Self-Loading Rifle could also fire the Energa, but it was not commonly done. It was made obsolete by the adoption of the 84mm L14A1 Medium Anti-tank Weapon (MAW) and the 66mm M72 Light Anti-tank Weapon (LAW).

The Energa was introduced to infantry units of the British Army of the Rhine from 1952 when it replaced the PIAT. It was issued one per person within the infantry platoon and attached to the waist belt and fired from Projector Mark 5 attached to the Lee–Enfield No. 4 Rifle and later fired from a similar projector attached to the muzzle of the L1A1 Self-loading Rifle.

South African service
The South African 75mm R1M1 version was used during the South African involvement in Angola during the 1970s and 1980s. It was launched from standard R1 (FN-FAL) rifles.

Bangladeshi service
Indian-trained Bangladeshi mukti bahini members used ENERGA grenades in a large number.

Netherlands service
Netherlands produced three versions of Energa,  the NR4 was a live grenade, the NR5 was an inert practice grenade, and the NR18 was a practice grenade with white chalk in a plastic nosecone that shattered on impact and left a strike mark on the target.

Belgian service
Energa saw service with the ABL. It could be fired from both the FN-FAL and also from the FN Model 1949 (SAFN). The Belgians also produced an inert training grenade. AT GR PRAC 75 mm.

Performance of variants

References

Further reading
Ian Hogg. Jane's Infantry Weapons 1984-85, London: Jane's Publishing Company Ltd., 1984.

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Munawwar Hussain

Munawwar Hussain (born 17 October 1943) is a former cricketer who played first-class cricket in Pakistan from 1961 to 1975.

A slow left-arm orthodox spinner, he was the most successful bowler in the 1964-65 Pakistan season with 59 wickets at an average of 14.61. His best performance that season was for Public Works Department against Railways, when he took 7 for 65 and 3 for 104.

In 1966-67 he took 6 for 35 and 2 for 56 for South Zone against the MCC Under-25 team. He later played in one of the three matches the Pakistan Under-25 team played against MCC Under-25, but took only one wicket. In 1970-71 he took his best innings and match figures: 8 for 163 and 4 for 82 (match figures of 70–10–245–12) for Pakistan International Airlines B against his former team Karachi Blues.

In 1973-74 he was the only Pakistani selected to play for a Rest of the World XI against Pakistan. He was the Rest of the World XI’s most successful bowler, with five wickets. Two weeks later, captaining Pakistan International Airlines B, he took 4 for 42 and 6 for 63 in an innings victory over Quetta.

He later served as a match referee.

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Xanthodaphne pompholyx

Xanthodaphne pompholyx is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.

Description

Distribution

References

External links
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Isa Knox

Isa Knox may refer to:

Isa Knox (1831–1903) - a Scottish poet of the 19th century.
Ĭsa Knox - a Korean cosmetics company


The Fly (1958 film)

The Fly is a 1958 American science fiction-horror film produced and directed by Kurt Neumann and starring David Hedison, Patricia Owens, Vincent Price and Herbert Marshall. The screenplay by James Clavell was based on the 1957 short story of the same name by George Langelaan.

The film tells the story of a scientist who is transformed into a grotesque creature after a common house fly enters unseen into a molecular transporter he is experimenting with, resulting in his atoms being combined with those of the insect, which produces a human-fly hybrid. The film was released in CinemaScope with Color by Deluxe by 20th Century Fox. It was followed by two black-and-white sequels, Return of the Fly (1959) and Curse of the Fly (1965). The original film was remade in 1986 by director David Cronenberg.

Plot
In Montreal, Quebec, Canada, scientist André Delambre (Al Hedison) is found dead with his head and arm crushed in a hydraulic press. Although his wife Hélène (Patricia Owens) confesses to the crime, she refuses to provide a motive, and begins acting strangely. In particular, she is obsessed with flies, including a supposedly white-headed fly. André's brother, François (Vincent Price), lies and says he caught the white-headed fly; thinking he knows the truth, Hélène explains the circumstances surrounding André's death.

In flashback, André, Hélène, and their son Philippe (Charles Herbert) are a happy family. André has been working on a matter transporter device called the disintegrator-integrator. He initially tests it only on small inanimate objects, such as a newspaper, but he then proceeds to living creatures, including the family's pet cat (which fails to reintegrate, but can be heard meowing somewhere) and a guinea pig. After he is satisfied that these tests are succeeding, he builds a man-sized pair of chambers. One day, Hélène, worried because André has not come up from the basement lab for a couple of days, goes down to find André with a black cloth over his head and a strange deformity on his left hand. Communicating with typed notes only, André tells Hélène that he tried to transport himself but that a fly was caught in the chamber with him, which resulted in the mixing of their atoms. Now, he has the head and left arm of a fly; and the fly has his miniature head and left arm, though he keeps his mind.

André needs Hélène to capture the fly so he can reverse the process. Although she expends great effort in her search, she cannot find it and André's will begins to fade as the fly's instincts take over his brain. Time is running out, and while André can still think like a human, he smashes the equipment, burns his notes, and leads Hélène to the factory. When they arrive, he sets the hydraulic press, puts his head and arm under, and motions for Hélène to push the button. André's arm falls free as the press descends and, trying not to look, she raises the press, replaces the arm, and activates the machine a second time.

Upon hearing this confession, the chief detective on the case, Inspector Charas (Herbert Marshall), deems Hélène insane and guilty of murder. As they are about to haul her away, Philippe tells François he's seen the fly trapped in a web in the back garden. François convinces the inspector to come and see for himself. The two men see the fly, with both André's head and arm, trapped in the web as Phillippe told them. It screams "Help me! Help me!" as a large brown spider advances on it. Just as the spider is about to devour the creature, Charas crushes them both with a rock. Knowing that nobody would believe the truth, he and François decide to declare André's death a suicide so that Hélène is not convicted of murder. In the end, Hélène, François, and Philippe resume their daily lives. Sometime later, Philippe and Hélène are playing croquet in the yard. François arrives to take his nephew to the zoo. In reply to his nephew's query about his father's death, François tells Philippe, "He was searching for the truth. He almost found a great truth but for one instant, he was careless. The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world and the most dangerous". The film closes with Hélène escorting her son and François out of the yard.

Cast

 David Hedison (credited as Al Hedison) as André Delambre
 Patricia Owens as Hélène Delambre
 Vincent Price as François Delambre
 Herbert Marshall as Inspector Charas
 Kathleen Freeman as Emma
 Betty Lou Gerson as Nurse Anderson
 Charles Herbert as Philippe Delambre
 Eugene Borden as Dr. Éjoute
 Torben Meyer as Gaston

Production

Development
Producer-director Kurt Neumann discovered the short story by George Langelaan in Playboy magazine. He showed it to Robert L. Lippert, head of 20th Century Fox's subsidiary B-movie studio Regal Pictures. The film would be made by Lippert's outfit but was released as an "official" Fox film, not under the less prestigious Regal banner.

Lippert hired James Clavell to adapt Langelaan's story on the strength of a previous sci-fi spec script at RKO which had never been produced. It would become Clavell's first filmed screenplay. Harry Spalding recalled the script was "the best first draft I ever saw, it needed very little work."

The adaptation remained largely faithful to Langelaan's short story, apart from moving its setting from France to Canada, and crafting a happier ending by eliminating a suicide.

Casting
Lippert tried to cast Michael Rennie and Rick Jason in the role of André Delambre, before settling on then mostly-unknown David Hedison (billed as "Al Hedison" on-screen.) Hedison's "Fly" costume featured a twenty-pound fly's head, about which he said: "Trying to act in it was like trying to play the piano with boxing gloves on". Hedison was never happy with the makeup, but makeup artist Ben Nye remained very positive about his work, writing years later that despite doing many subsequent science fiction films, "I never did anything as sophisticated or original as The Fly".

Years later, Vincent Price recalled the cast finding some levity during the filming: "We were playing this kind of philosophical scene, and every time that little voice [of the fly] would say ‘Help me! Help me!’ we would just scream with laughter. It was terrible. It took us about 20 takes to finally get it".

Shooting
Sources vary as to the budget, with one source giving it as $350,000, another as $325,000  and others as high as $495,000. The shoot lasted 18 days in total. Lippert said the budget was $480,000. Photographic effects were handled by L. B. Abbott, with makeup by Ben Nye.

It was photographed in 20th Century Fox's trademarked CinemaScope with Color by Deluxe. A $28,000 laboratory set was constructed from army surplus equipment.

Release

The Fly was released in July 1958 by 20th Century Fox. Producer-director Kurt Neumann died only a few weeks after its premiere, never realizing he had made the biggest hit of his career. One source claims it was on a double bill with Space Master X-7.

Reception
The Fly received mixed-to-positive reviews upon its initial release, with critic Ivan Butler calling it "the most ludicrous, and certainly one of the most revolting science-horror films ever perpetrated," and Carlos Clarens offering some praise for the effects but concluding that the film "collapses under the weight of many... questions". The New York Times critic Howard Thompson was more positive, writing "It does indeed contain, briefly, two of the most sickening sights one casual swatter-wielder ever beheld on the screen... Otherwise, believe it or not, "The Fly" happens to be one of the better, more restrained entries of the "shock" school... Even with the laboratory absurdities, it holds an interesting philosophy about man's tampering with the unknown." Variety was also fairly positive, writing, "One strong factor of the picture is its unusual believability. It is told, by Clavell and Neumann, as a mystery suspense story, so that it has a compelling interest aside from its macabre effects." "A first rate science-fiction-horror melodrama," declared Harrison's Reports, adding, "the action grips one's attention from the opening to the closing scenes, and is filled with suspenseful, spine-chilling situations that will keep movie-goers on the edge of their seats." Philip K. Scheuer of the Los Angeles Times called the film "frightening, which is naturally its primary purpose. It is also more skillful in concept and execution than the average science-fiction effort." A mixed review in The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote, "The early sequences of this film have great mystery and tension, and the situation is ingeniously built up. But the film soon becomes as nauseating as its bare outline suggests; even the moments which in healthier pictures might provoke a laugh through sheer absurdity offer little relief."

Modern criticism has been more uniformly positive. Cinefantastique's Steve Biodrowski declared, "the film, though hardly a masterpiece, stands in many ways above the level of B-movie science fiction common in the 1950s." Critic Steven H. Scheuer praised it as a "superior science-fiction thriller with a literate script for a change, plus good production effects and capable performances." The Fly was nominated for the 1959 Hugo Award for Best SF or Fantasy Movie at the 17th World Science Fiction Convention. It holds a 95% "Fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes, The film has also received four out of five stars on Allmovie.

Box office
The film was a commercial success, grossing $3 million at the domestic box office against a budget of less than $500,000, and becoming one of the biggest hits of the year for Fox studios. It earned $1.7 million in theatrical rentals. Lippert claimed it earned $4 million.

The film's financial success had the side-effect of boosting co-star Vincent Price (whose previous filmography featured only scattered forays into genre film) into a major horror star. Price himself was positive about the film, saying, decades later, "I thought THE FLY was a wonderful film – entertaining and great fun."

American Film Institute Lists
 AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills - Nominated
 AFI's 100 Years...100 Movie Quotes:
 "Help me! Help me!" - Nominated

Sequels and remake
The film spawned two sequels, Return of the Fly in 1959 and Curse of the Fly in 1965. There was also a remake of the same name in 1986 directed by David Cronenberg, which itself had a sequel, 1989's The Fly II.

The success of the film encouraged Lippert to hire Clavell to make his directorial debut with Five Gates to Hell (1959).

See also

 List of American films of 1958

References

Bibliography
 Warren, Bill. Keep Watching the Skies, American Science Fiction Movies of the 50s, Vol. II: 1958 - 1962. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 1986. .

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Xois

Xois (, ,  Strabo xvii. p, 802; Ptolemy iv. 5. § 50; , Stephanus of Byzantium s. v.) was a town of great antiquity and considerable size. It was located nearly in the center of the Nile Delta in Egypt, and is identified as the ancient Egyptian city of Khasut (Khaset or Sakha).

History
Xois sat upon an island formed by the Sebennytic and Phatnitic branches of the Nile. It belonged to the Sebennytic Nome, and later was the capital of its own nome, the Xoite nome.

The Fourteenth Dynasty of Egypt consisted, according to Manetho, of 76 Xoite kings. This dynasty immediately preceded that of the Hyksos during the Second Intermediate Period. It seems possible, therefore, that Xois, from its strong position among the marshes of the Nile Delta formed by the intersecting branches of the river, could have held out during the occupation of the Delta by the Hyksos, or at least compromised with the invaders by paying them tribute.

This hypothesis, however, is not shared by most Egyptologists today, who believe that the Fourteenth Dynasty was based in Avaris in the eastern Delta.

By some geographers, Xois is supposed to be the Papremis of Herodotus (ii. 59, iii. 12). Jean-François Champollion (l'Egypte sous les Pharaons, vol. ii. p. 214) identified Xois's remains at modern-day Sakha (Sakkra), which is the Arabic version of the Coptic Sḫeow and Egyptian sḫw (Niebuhr, Travels, vol. i. p. 75). The road from Tamiathis to Memphis passed through Xois.

Through the Roman and Byzantine era, Xois was the center of a Christian diocese. It remains a vacant titular bishopric from the Roman Empire.

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Intercity Viaduct

The Intercity Viaduct (officially the Lewis and Clark Viaduct since 1969) is an automobile and pedestrian crossing of the Kansas River in the United States. Designed by Waddell and Hedrick, this four lane, two level deck truss bridge was built in 1907. It rises above the West Bottoms, and several sets of railroad tracks. It was the first roadway bridge to connect Kansas City, Missouri, with Kansas City, Kansas, non-stop all the way across. It is about  long and carries eastbound traffic for Interstate 70 (I-70)/U.S. Route 24 (US 24)/US 40/US 169, while its sister bridge, the Lewis and Clark Viaduct, built in 1962, carries westbound traffic.

The eastbound lanes were built as the Intercity Viaduct, carrying both east and west lanes, but renamed the Lewis and Clark Viaduct on January 25, 1969, taking the name of its sister bridge that would now carry the westbound lanes, built in 1962 to the north.

History

Designed by the engineering firm Waddell and Hedrick in 1903, the viaduct followed a flood that same year that wiped out all but one of the 17 bridges that spanned the Kaw River. Ground broke to mark the building of the bridge in 1905.

 1907: Bridge opens to two lanes of toll traffic, with streetcar tracks.
 1908: Bridge survives 1908 flood.
 1911: Bank forecloses the bridge because the toll did not cover the bridge's cost.
 1917: Bridge purchased by Kansas City, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri
 1918: Ribbon cutting ceremony held to open bridge to free traffic under city control and ownership.
 1930: Steel deck truss beams converted to a lower level, two lane automobile deck.
 1936: Streetcar rails removed, and bridge opened to four lanes of traffic on upper level.
 1951: Bridge survives 1951 Kansas City flood, the only bridge to remain open to traffic during the flood.
 1962: The Lewis and Clark Viaduct is built to the north, old steel piers tubed off, and coated with concrete.
 1969: Bridge renamed the Lewis and Clark Viaduct after its sister bridge.
 1993: Bridge survives 1993 Kansas City flood.
 1999-2000: Lower level of original (eastbound) bridge rehabilitated for pedestrian and bicycle access.
 2007: Bridge turns 100 years of age, and several people gather from West Bottoms on the same day it opened in 1907, holding lights to the bridge in honor of its 100 years of service.
 2018: Westbound side of Bridge is currently undergoing demolition and reconstruction over the Kansas River.

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Sione Vailanu

Sione Vailanu (born 27 January 1995) is a Tongan No.8 rugby union player who plays for English Premiership side Wasps. He previously played for Saracens after being a sevens player in Japan.

Sione's early career consisted of 4 years of playing rugby sevens in Japan with the Asahi University.  While he was playing in Japan he was scouted by Afa Hanipale who recommended him to invitational team Samurai RFC.  Sione was invited to play for Samurai RFC at the Hong Kong 10s tournament in 2017

It was at the Hong Kong 10s, playing for Samurai RFC, that he impressed the then Saracens Academy Director Donald Barrell.  Barrell was with Samurai RFC as their forwards coach and following a successful tournament approached Sione with a view to moving to Saracens.

It was his performance here that led to joining the Tongan national team "Ikale Tahi" for two games, against Japan and Romania, with a defeat and victory respectively. Along with several other members of the Tongan team, he chose to depart from national duty early in order to ease the mid-season joining in England.

Sione joined Saracens at the beginning of January 2018 to act both as injury and international call-up cover, with an initial contract to the end of the 2018/19 season. Several injuries, including to his hand, would limit him to four games across all Saracens' competitions in the remainder of the 2017/18 season.

In February 2019, Sione announced his signing by Wasps, in order to receive more game time and to partially fill the position vacated by Nathan Hughes who departed at the conclusion of the 2018/19 season.

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Synod of Twyford

The Synod of Twyford was a synod of the early English church held in 684 and described by Bede in his Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum, Book IV, ch. 28. The synod was held at a place called "Adtwifyrdi", the location of which is unknown. Adtwifyrdi is the name used by the Venerable Bede to describe the meeting of river and tributary at the mouth of the River Aln.  Archbishop Theodore presided over the synod in the presence of King Ecgfrith; bishop Tunberht of Hexham was deposed there and Cuthbert elected bishop of Lindisfarne.

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2016 Tianjin Health Industry Park – Singles

Duan Yingying was the defending champion, but chose not to participate.

Aryna Sabalenka won the title, defeating Nina Stojanović in the final, 5–7, 6–3, 6–1.

Seeds

Main draw

Finals

Top half

Bottom half

References
 Main draw

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Hospital of Saint Raphael

The Hospital of Saint Raphael or Saint Raphael Hospital, located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States, was a 511-bed community teaching hospital founded by the Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth in 1907. On September 12, 2012, Yale-New Haven Hospital acquired the assets of the Hospital of Saint Raphael, making it a single 1,541-bed hospital with two main campuses, and establishing Saint Raphael's as Yale-New Haven Hospital Saint Raphael Campus.

History

In 1907, the Sisters of Charity of Saint Elizabeth came to New Haven to start the hospital at the request of a group of local physicians, led by Dr. William F. Verdi. The doctors asked the Sisters of Charity to administer a hospital that would "receive and care for all patients who might apply for admission without regard to creed or race: To extend charity to the sick poor and to offer the institution to those of the medical profession who desire to care for their own patients".

The name "Saint Raphael" was chosen for special reasons. Saint Raphael is not just a saint of the Catholic Church, but is one of the archangels recognized by many faiths. Translated from the Hebrew, Raphael means "God heals". The archangel Raphael is revered as a patron of the sick and healing.

A 12-bed hospital was opened at 1442 Chapel Street in the Barnes Residence in 1907. The Barnes Residence was located next to Grace Hospital, a private homeopathic institute. Almost immediately plans were developed to add more capacity and the Saint Mary Pavilion was built and opened in 1910. It was built next to the original building and had 135 beds. Saint Raphael opened a School of Nursing and forms its auxiliary. In 1910, about one-third of New Haven's 40,000 foreign-born residents were Italian immigrants, many of whom lived in the Oak Street neighborhood near St. Raphael's. Typhoid fever, tuberculosis, and pneumonia were recorded as the leading causes of death.

In the 1910s, patient care became more sophisticated. Saint Raphael got its first X-ray machine, opened its first pharmacy, and acquired its first motorized ambulance. The flu epidemic of 1918 created a need for more beds, and the hospital expanded to include the new St. Rita's wing. It also opened a modern laboratory, and welcomed its first full-time anesthesiologist. In 1927, Saint Vincent's Pavilion, an isolation pavilion for children with infectious diseases, became the center of the hospital's pediatric services. A former nurses' dormitory, it was located on George Street.

Sister Louise Anthony Geronemo arrived in 1935 as a novice Sister of Charity to train at the School of Nursing. She went on to serve Saint Raphael in a variety of roles over the next 62 years, including 22 years as hospital administrator.

In 1940, the hospital broke ground on a $1,250,000 addition. With a six-story unit facing Chapel Street and five stories on Sherman Avenue, the bed capacity rose to 430. Saint Raphael opened a School of Medical Technology, one of the first in the nation. It established formal orthopedics, anesthesia, and outpatient departments. This was a training site for World War II U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps.

In the 1950s Saint Raphael established its leadership role in both cancer and cardiac care by opening southern New England's first radiation therapy center and being one of the first community hospitals in New England to perform open-heart surgery.

In the 1960s Saint Raphael continued its pioneering role in cardiac care, opening one of the first cardiac catheterization labs and cardiac care units in the state. It was the first Catholic hospital in the US to establish a recognized pastoral care department.

In the 1970s a longstanding relationship with Yale School of Medicine is formalized, enhancing Saint Raphael's role as a community teaching hospital. 1976 saw the opening of the Verdi Memorial Building which expanded and improved its surgical, emergency, and intensive care services.

In the 1980s Saint Raphael Healthcare System forms and acquires Saint Regis Health Center, a 125-bed skilled nursing facility, which is the only Catholic nursing home in New Haven. Saint Raphael opened the first outpatient chemotherapy/transfusion unit in Connecticut.

In the 1990s the Father Michael J. McGivney Center for Cancer Care opened. The system grew and affiliated with home-care providers Regional Visiting Nurse Agency and Shoreline VNA. It was the two-time winner of the national award of "Top 100 Hospitals" for overall services in independent, bench-marked studies by HCIA, Inc.

In 2012, with the acquisition of its assets by Yale-New Haven Hospital, the Hospital of Saint Raphael became Yale-New Haven Hospital Saint Raphael Campus. It is now part of a single 1,519-bed hospital with two main campuses.

References

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2017–18 Saint Francis Red Flash women's basketball team

The 2017–18 Saint Francis Red Flash women's basketball team represents Saint Francis University during the 2017–18 NCAA Division I women's basketball season.  The Red Flash's home games are played at the DeGol Arena. The team was a member of the Northeast Conference and was led by Joe Haigh, who was in his sixth year at the helm. They finished the season 24–10, 16–2 in NEC play to win the Northeast Regular Season Championship with Robert Morris. They were also champions of the NEC Tournament and earns an automatic trip to the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament where they got dismantled by Connecticut in the first round.

Roster

Schedule and results

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See also
2017–18 Saint Francis Red Flash men's basketball team

References

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Kaba languages

The Kaba languages, also called Sara Kaba but not to be confused with the Sara languages, comprise three to five languages of Chad and the Central African Republic. They are Bongo–Bagirmi languages of the Central Sudanic language family.

The most populous Kaba languages are Kaba Deme and Kaba Naa (Kaba Na, Kaba Nar), spoken by about forty thousand people apiece. Others are Kaba proper (Ta Sara), Kaba/Sara Dunjo, and Kulfa (Kaba So, Kurmi). It is not clear that Naa, Dunjo, and Kaba proper (Ta Sara) are actually distinct languages. Kulfa speakers are ethnically distinct.

The terms "Kaba" and "Sara" are generic and often interchangeable, and do not correspond to the somewhat arbitrarily named Kaba and Sara branches of Central Sudanic. Kabba and Kabba Laka, for example, are Sara languages, and many of the Kaba languages go under the names "Kaba", "Sara", and "Kaba Sara".

References

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St. Bernard, Nova Scotia

St. Bernard is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, located in the District of Clare in Digby County .

References
St. Bernard on Destination Nova Scotia
St. Bernard

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Abbey Mill, West Ham

The Abbey Mill was an ancient tidal watermill in West Ham, London, dating back to at least the 12th century. It was sited on Channelsea Island in the Channelsea River in the London Borough of Newham. It was one of the eight watermills on the River Lea recorded in the Domesday Book.

The area nearby the site of the original Abbey Mill is now known as Abbey Mills. There are several pumping stations located there, including the original Abbey Mills Pumping Station.

References

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Danny Kristo

Daniel Kristo (born June 18, 1990) is an American professional ice hockey forward. He currently plays for the SC Rapperswil-Jona Lakers of the National League (NL).

Playing career
Kristo was drafted by the Montreal Canadiens, 56th overall in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft. He played college hockey with the University of North Dakota in the NCAA Men's Division I WCHA conference. In his senior year, Kristo's outstanding play was rewarded with a selection to the 2012–13 All-WCHA First Team.

On July 2, 2013, Kristo was traded, by the Canadiens, to the New York Rangers for right winger Christian Thomas. On August 19, 2014, the Rangers announced that they had re-signed Kristo, who was a restricted free agent, to a one-year $826,875 contract.

On July 2, 2015, Kristo left the Rangers as a free agent, signing a one-year, two-way contract with the St. Louis Blues. In the 2015–16 season, Kristo was assigned to play with the Blues AHL affiliate, the Chicago Wolves. In playing the entirety of the year with the Wolves, Kristo appeared in 71 games in compiling 25 goals and 48 points. On August 2, 2016, Kristo re-signed with the St. Louis Blues on a one-year, two-way contract.

In the 2016–17 season, his second year with the Wolves, Kristo had 2 assists in 8 games before he was dealt by the Blues to the Pittsburgh Penguins in exchange for defenseman Reid McNeill on November 19, 2016. Remaining in the AHL with the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins, Kristo added 6 goals and 11 points in 32 games before on February 23, 2017, he  was dealt again by the Penguins to the Carolina Hurricanes along with a second round draft pick in exchange for Ron Hainsey. He played out the season with the Hurricanes AHL affiliate, the Charlotte Checkers, contributing with 10 points in 14 games.

With dwindling NHL prospects going forward, Kristo opted to sign his first contract abroad in agreeing to a one-year deal with Latvian based Dinamo Riga of the KHL on June 30, 2017.

Personal life
Kristo's second cousin Ben Blood was drafted by the Ottawa Senators in the 2007 NHL Entry Draft. He currently plays for Tappara in the Liiga.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

International

Awards and achievements

References

External links

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Three-tier panchayats in Kanpur Dehat

Panchayati raj system, a three-tier system in the state with elected bodies at the Village,Block (Kshetra) and district levels in Uttar Pradesh, India. It ensures greater participation of people and more effective implementation of rural development program. There are Gram Panchayat for a village or group of villages, Kshetra Panchayat at Block level(group of Gram Panchayats)  and the District Panchayat at the district level (group of Kshetra Panchayats) in Kanpur Dehat district of Uttar Pradesh, India.Terms of each Panchayat is five years.

District Panchayat
District panchayat is formed under Indian Constitution and this local   body is  elected by general  public of district. The election is conducted under control of election commission of India. Tenure of this local body is five years. The district panchayat of Kanpur Dehat district consists of 10 blocks. Each block contains members according to population. The headquarters of District Panchayat is at district headquarters. There are 33 members in district panchayat in Kanpur Dehat district. phe Panchayat chairman is elected by the members of the district panchayat.
Name of Block------Name of seat of district panchayat member
Sarvankheda------------=Katethi, Tilaunchi and Umaran.
Maitha ------------=Ranjeetpur, Aungi, Mawaiya and Bhujpura.
Rasulabad----------=Asalatganj, Birhun, Rasulabad first, Rasulbad second and Sunasi.
Jhinjhak-----------=Jajmuiya, Parjani and Lakshmanpur Pilakh.
Sandalpur----------=Sandalpur first and Sandalpur second
Rajpur-------------=Rajpur first, Rajpur second and Rajpur third.
Amraudha-----------=Shahjahanpur, Amraudha first, Amraudha second and Musanagar.
Malasa-------------=Kurhwa, Murlipur and Baraur
Derapur------------=Mugisapur, Sithmara and Kapasi.
Akbarpur-----------=Tigai,Jaganpur and Bara.

Kshetra Panchayat
Kshetra panchayat is formed under the Indian Constitution and this local body is elected by general public of blocks. The election is conducted under control of election commission of India. Tenure of this local body is five years.
There are 808 seats of members of Kshetra Panchayat of district Kanpur Dehat district. The headquarters of Kshetra Panchayat is at block headquarters.
The head of Kshetra Panchayat is called Block Pramukh and elected by members of Kshetra Panchayat.
Name of Block----------Numbers of members of Kshetra Panchayat
Sarvankheda------------87
Maitha ------------91
Rasulabad----------117
Jhinjhak-----------73
Sandalpur----------61
Rajpur-------------72
Amraudha-----------99
Malasa-------------73
Derapur------------61
Akbarpur-----------74

Gram Panchayat
Gram panchayat is formed under Indian Constitution and this local body is elected by general public of village or group of villages of related Gram panchayat. The election is conducted under control of election commission of India. Tennure of this local body is five years .Citizen charter is scheduled for public convenience. There are 640 Gram Panchayat in the district and ward members of Gram Panchayats are 8050. The head of the Gram Panchayat is called Pradhanand is elected by Gram Panchayat voters by secret ballot.

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