Fasten Your Seatbelt (film)

Fasten Your Seatbelt (; lit. "Rollercoaster") is a 2013 South Korean comedy film written and directed by actor Ha Jung-woo, in his directorial debut. The film made its world premiere at the 18th Busan International Film Festival, and was released in theaters on October 17, 2013.

Plot
A plane headed from Tokyo's Haneda Airport to Seoul's Gimpo Airport with a Hallyu star on board runs into an unexpected storm and is in danger of crashing. A plane full of absurd characters―both crew members and passengers such as a businessman, a monk and a paparazzo—go through a series of comical shenanigans.

Cast
Jung Kyung-ho as Ma Joon-gyu
Ha Sung-chun as Han Gi-beom, captain
Kim Jae-hwa as Kim Hwal-ran, head stewardess
Choi Kyu-hwan as Kim Hyeon-gi, tabloid reporter
Kim Gi-cheon as Heo Seung-bok, Zha Cai Airlines chairman
Kim Byeong-ok as monk
Kang Shin-chul as Kang Shin-choo, chief purser
Kim Sung-kyun as Jo-rong, steward
Ko Sung-hee as Minamito, Japanese stewardess
Kim Ye-rang as Chan-mi, stewardess
Lee Ji-hoon as ophthalmologist
Son Hwa-ryung as Chun-nyeo, chairman's executive assistant
Hwang Jung-min as Cha Bok-soon, middle-aged female fan
Im Hyun-sung as co-pilot
Kang Han-na
Kim Joon-kyu
Lee Soo-in
Kim Jae-young

Production
Ha Jung-woo said he'd always had the desire to study about film more, so he seized the opportunity to approach this movie not as an actor but as a director. "Having pondered what kind of film I should make, I came to the conclusion that I would only be satisfied if the audience could enjoy it and get some laughs. This naturally led me to write a comedy," Ha said.

Ha reportedly wrote the script based on his friend and fellow actor Ryoo Seung-bum's real-life experience. The flight from Seoul to Tokyo normally only takes about two hours, but Ryoo once experienced plane turbulence that went on for almost seven hours, during which he genuinely thought he was going to die.

Ha cast Jung Kyung-ho in the leading role as an arrogant and paranoid Hallyu star. Ha and Jung belong to the same agency Fantagio, and were both theater majors at Chung-Ang University. This was Jung's first acting job after his discharge from mandatory military service, and his character's appearance and wardrobe was inspired by K-pop star G-Dragon. Most of the actors in the cast have also worked with Ha before—even the music director, a colleague he first met while working on My Dear Enemy in 2008.

The film was shot in 20 days, and producer Kwon Nam-jin described Ha as a director who makes "quick and rational decisions" while making the atmosphere on the set bright and funny. In order to build a strong ensemble, one of Ha's casting conditions was to read the screenplay every day with the entire cast for two months, conducting intensive rehearsals as if they were preparing for a stage play.

Box office
Though ultimately not a big hit, due to its low budget Fasten Your Seatbelt broke even in just four days, attracting 200,000 viewers in the first six days of its release.

Awards and nominations

References

External links

Category:South Korean films
Category:South Korean comedy films
Category:2013 films
Category:Aviation films
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Category:2010s comedy films


List of earls in the reign of Edward III of England

The following individuals were Earls (suo jure or jure uxoris) or Countesses (suo jure) during the reign of King Edward III of England who reigned from 1327 to 1377.

The period of tenure as Earl or Countess is given after the name and title of each individual, including any period of minority.

Earl of Arundel

Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel (1331-1376)

Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel (1376-1397)

Earl of Bedford (Second Creation)

Enguerrand VII, Lord of Coucy, Earl of Bedford (1366-1377)

Earl of Cambridge

William V, Duke of Jülich, Earl of Cambridge (1340-1361)

Earl of Cambridge (Second Creation)

Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, Earl of Cambridge (1362-1402)

Earl of Derby (Second Creation)

Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster, 1st Earl of Derby, 4th Earl of Lancaster, 4th Earl of Leicester (1337-1361)

Blanche of Lancaster, Countess of Derby suo jure(1361-1368)

John of Gaunt, 2nd Earl of Derby jure uxoris (1359-1368)

Henry IV of England, 3rd Earl of Derby (1368-1399)

Earl of Devon

Hugh de Courtenay, 1st Earl of Devon (1335-1340)

Hugh de Courtenay, 2nd Earl of Devon (1340-1377)

Edward de Courtenay, 3rd Earl of Devon (1377-1419)

Earl of Essex (Third Creation)

John de Bohun, 5th Earl of Hereford, 4th Earl of Essex (1322-1336)

Humphrey de Bohun, 6th Earl of Hereford, 5th Earl of Essex (1336-1361)

Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford, 6th Earl of Essex, 2nd Earl of Northampton (1361-1373)

Earl of Gloucester (Third Creation)

Hugh de Audley, 1st Earl of Gloucester (1337-1347)

Earl of Hereford (Sixth Creation)

John de Bohun, 5th Earl of Hereford, 4th Earl of Essex (1322-1336)

Humphrey de Bohun, 6th Earl of Hereford, 5th Earl of Essex (1336-1361)

Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford, 6th Earl of Essex, 2nd Earl of Northampton (1361-1373)

Earl of Huntingdon (Second Creation)

William de Clinton, 1st Earl of Huntingdon (1337-1354)

Earl of Kent (Fifth Creation)

Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent (1321-1330)

Edmund, 2nd Earl of Kent (1331)

John, 3rd Earl of Kent (1331-1352)

Joan of Kent, 4th Countess of Kent suo jure (1352-1360)

Earl of Kent (Sixth Creation)

Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent (1360)

Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent (1360-1397)

Earl of Lancaster (Second Creation)

Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster, 3rd Earl of Leicester  (1324-1345)

Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster, 4th Earl of Lancaster (1345-1361)

Blanche of Lancaster, 5th Countess of Lancastersuo jure(1361-1369)

Earl of Leicester (Second Creation)

Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster (1327-1345)

Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster, 4th Earl of Lancaster (1345-1361)

Blanche of Lancaster, 5th Countess of Leicestersuo jure(1361-1369)

Earl of Lincoln (Fourth Creation)

Alice de Lacy, 4th Countess of Lincoln suo jure (1311-1348)

Earl of Lincoln (Fifth Creation)

Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster, 1st Earl of Lincoln (1349-1361)

Earl of March

Roger de Mortimer, 1st Earl of March (1328-1330)

Roger de Mortimer, 2nd Earl of March (1354-1360)

Edmund de Mortimer, 3rd Earl of March (1360-1381)

Earl of Norfolk (Third Creation)

Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk (1312-1338)

Margaret, Duchess of Norfolk, 2nd Countess of Norfolk suo jure (1338-1399)

Earl of Northampton (Third Creation)

William de Bohun, 1st Earl of Northampton (1337-1360)

Humphrey de Bohun, 7th Earl of Hereford, 2nd Earl of Northampton (1360-1373)

Earl of Oxford

Robert de Vere, 6th Earl of Oxford (1296-1331)

John de Vere, 7th Earl of Oxford (1331-1360)

Thomas de Vere, 8th Earl of Oxford (1360-1371)

Robert de Vere, 9th Earl of Oxford (1371-1388)

Earl of Pembroke (Fourth Creation)

Laurence Hastings, 1st Earl of Pembroke (1339-1348)

John Hastings, 2nd Earl of Pembroke (1348-1375)

John Hastings, 3rd Earl of Pembroke (1375-1389)

Earl of Richmond (Second Creation Restored)

John of Brittany, Earl of Richmond (1306-1334)

John III, Duke of Brittany, 5th Earl of Richmond (1334-1341)

Earl of Richmond (Fourth Creation)

Robert III of Artois, Earl of Richmond (1341-1342)

Earl of Richmond (Fifth Creation)

John of Gaunt, Earl of Richmond (1342-1372)

Earl of Richmond (Second Creation Restored)

John IV, Duke of Brittany, Earl of Richmond (1372-1399)

Earl of Salisbury (Second Creation)

William Montagu, 1st Earl of Salisbury (1337-1344)

William Montagu, 2nd Earl of Salisbury (1344-1397)

Earl of Stafford

Ralph de Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford (1350-1372)

Hugh de Stafford, 2nd Earl of Stafford (1372-1386)

Earl of Suffolk (Second Creation)

Robert de Ufford, 1st Earl of Suffolk (1337-1369)

William de Ufford, 2nd Earl of Suffolk (1369-1382)

Earl of Surrey

John de Warenne, 7th Earl of Surrey (1304-1347)

Richard FitzAlan, 10th Earl of Arundel, 8th Earl of Surrey (1347-1376)

Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel, 9th Earl of Surrey (1376-1397)

Earl of Warwick

Thomas de Beauchamp, 11th Earl of Warwick (1315-1369)

Thomas de Beauchamp, 12th Earl of Warwick (1369-1401)

References

Sources

Ellis, Geoffrey. (1963) Earldoms in Fee: A Study in Peerage Law and History. London: The Saint Catherine Press, Limited.

Category:Edward III of England


Charles L. Aarons

Charles Lehman Aarons (August 18, 1872 – July 28, 1952) was a long-serving Milwaukee County Circuit Court judge.

Born in New York City, Aarons moved with his family to Milwaukee in 1873. His father succeeded in the wholesale clothing business, and Aarons received a law degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1895. Aarons entered private practice with the Milwaukee firm of Felker, Goldberg, and Felker until 1897. He began his own practice, which he maintained until 1925. During this time, Aarons also served on the Milwaukee School Board from 1903 to 1905 and again from 1908 to 1910. He served as president of the school board in 1910.

In 1925, Aarons was elected to a seat on the Milwaukee County Circuit Court. He was re-elected in 1931, 1937, and 1943. In March 1933, Aarons ordered the Milwaukee elections commission to reinstate 19 election clerks who had been discharged without notice by instruction of a Republican member of the commission, who had learned that none of the clerks could qualify as Republicans. This order was sustained in the Wisconsin Supreme Court. On May 26, 1937, Aarons ruled in the Wrigley Restaurant Case that sit-down strikes were illegal in Wisconsin. On June 12, 1948, Aarons ruled against a Milwaukee radio station, which sought to prevent its former employee, on-air personality Jack Bundy, from billing himself on another station as "Heinie and His Band of Million Airs". Aarons ruled that the name had lost its trade name status through disuse.

Aarons declined to seek reelection in 1949, retiring from the bench entirely on January 2, 1950.

Personal life
Aarons was married to Rose Sheuerman of Des Moines, Iowa from 1905 until her death in 1945. Throughout his life, Aarons was active in the Milwaukee Jewish community. He was president of his local B'nai B'rith chapter from 1914 to 1915, and supported the Anti-Defamation League, and the American Jewish Committee. After his retirement, he continued to preside over selected cases by appointment of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, until his death.

References

External links
Papers of Judge Charles L. Aarons Papers, 1907-1952, Wisconsin Historical Society.

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Category:1952 deaths
Category:Wisconsin state court judges
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The Peel Sessions (Carcass EP)

The Peel Sessions are a series of EPs by different bands that appeared on the John Peel Show at BBC Radio One. Carcass's session was recorded on 13 December 1988, and first broadcast on 2 January 1989. It was released on 2 December 1989. All songs appearing on this album were originally released on Symphonies of Sickness.

Track listing
 "Crepitating Bowel Erosion" – 5:10
 "Slash Dementia" – 3:26
 "Cadaveric Incubator of Endoparasites" – 3:18
 "Reek of Putrefaction" – 3:34

Personnel
Jeffrey Walker – vocals, bass guitar
Bill Steer – guitar, vocals
Ken Owen – drums, vocals

References

Category:Carcass (band) EPs
Category:1989 EPs
Category:Peel Sessions recordings
Category:Live EPs
Category:1989 live albums


Phonetical singing

Phonetical singing is singing by learning and performing the lyrics of a song by the words' phonetic sounds, without necessarily understanding the content of the lyrics, for example an artist who performs in Spanish even though they may not be proficient in the language.

For the DreamWorks animated film The Prince of Egypt, Israeli singer Ofra Haza sang most of the 17 versions of the song "Deliver Us" phonetically.

See also
 Soramimi, where lyrics in one language are substituted by actual / nonsensical words in a different language.
 Mondegreen, when lyrics are misheard and substituted with musically equivalent phrases.

Category:Phonetics
Category:Singing


Pocket God

Pocket God is a game developed by Bolt Creative, in which the player manipulates an island and its inhabitants. It was released for the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch on January 9, 2009, and released for Verizon Wireless on September 1, 2010, Android on December 1, 2010, and Windows Phone on December 4, 2010. The Facebook version was released December 23, 2010.

Gameplay

The player takes the role of an omnipotent being who rules over an island and controls everything. The primitive islanders, known as Pygmies, are subject to the player's god powers. These range from benevolent powers, such as giving the islanders a fishing rod, to destructive, for example summoning a hurricane, or simply entertaining, such as levitating the Pygmies. Built-in features of iOS, the iPad, and iPod Touch are used, such as the accelerometer to simulate gravity and earthquakes. Most of these features can be toggled on the game's menu bar. The "March of the Fire Ants" update also added a new feature known as OpenFeint, where players can access chat rooms, leaderboards, achievements, and announcements during gameplay. Pocket God was ranked number one on iTunes for at least six months.

One of the game's most notable features is the regular release of updates introducing additional content. The episodes A New Home, Dead Pygmy Walking, and The Pyg Chill added additional islands to the game, which can be toggled from the menu bar. The Fun n' Games until A Pygmy Gets Hurt update added mini-games for consecutive coconut bounces, consecutive shark snaps, underwater skewer, pygmy bowling, and hurricane zaps. The Ooga Jump update added the first crossover minigame, Ooga Jump, which was followed by a Harbor Master crossover. In the Idle Hands 2: Caught With Your Pants Down update more idle features were added to the Pygmies when they are not in use. Also, Buddy Challenges were implemented with OpenFeint. In the Good Will Haunting update, a downloadable content (DLC) store was added with changeable skins for the T-Rex. Other packs, such as the Halloween, holiday, and alien themes, have since been added.

Pocket God is updated often (with the exception of the Android version which hasn't been updated since 2012) with new 'episodes', a themed update that adds new features to the Pocket God world, such as new islands, items, or minigames.

Facebook version

A Facebook version of Pocket God was released on December 23, 2010, citing more features from the mobile versions of the game. It was co-developed by Frima studio and discontinued in 2015.

Comics

Releases

Pocket God was released for iOS devices on January 9, 2009. According to the official Pocket God blog, Bolt Creative have "about ten ideas for standalone Pocket God games". They also noted that even if sequels are developed, Pocket God will still receive updates, but at a slower rate.
A digital comic-book tie-in is currently being published; the first issue was released on August 3, 2010 through  and Ape Entertainment.

Pocket God is slowly being released on non-Apple platforms. A version was released for Verizon Wireless cellphones on September 1, 2010. An Android port (published by ngmoco) was released on December 1, 2010. A Facebook port (co-developed by Frima studio) moved to closed Beta on the same day.

Pocket God is also on Windows Phone. The creators stated that they would be releasing Pocket God: Journey to Uranus exclusively for the iPad, and that it would include minigames allowing the pygmies to travel to other planets, it was scheduled for release in Fall 2010, but was since delayed. According to the developers regularly updated blog, the app was released on December 16, 2010. JTU has since been updated in the episodic style of Pocket God, and now features four areas (Earth, space, Uranus, Mercury). In Episode 4: Quantum Entanglement, JTU was made compatible with all iOS devices.

Reception

Pocket God has received positive reviews. iTunes App Reviews gave the game 5 out of 5 stars. AppStruck gave the game 5 out of 5 stars referring to the game as "endlessly amusing and is an easy way to completely lose track of time". iPhone App Reviews gave the updated version of the game 4.8 out of 5 having given the original version 3.92 out of 5. Appvee gave the game 4 out of 5 after episode 11 was released, having originally given the game 1.8 out of 5.

Controversy

The game was subject to controversy when some Pacific Islanders and anthropologists protested to Apple Inc. claiming the game was racist. The game's creators defended the game, saying "it depicts no specific race or nationality". Pocket God programmer Dave Castelnuovo got in touch with one of the original Pacific Islanders and came up with some compromises: The islanders would be called Oogs instead of Pygmies, and the Moai statue would be replaced with a statue of an Octopus God. On May 27, 2009, Castelnuovo announced that the characters would no longer be called Oogs, as 'Pygmies' was a more suitable name, and did not actually cause any friction between Pacific Islanders.

In other apps

As part of the effort to promote Pocket God, the developers engaged in cross-promotion with a number of other developers. This promotion saw a number of updates where new themed features were added to "Pocket God" and in return the related apps added Pocket God themed updates.

Three apps have featured the game as a direct result of cross-promotion. The addition of Doodler to Pocket God resulted in a new version of Doodle Jump being released on May 22, 2009 which allowed users to play as a Pygmy from Pocket God. To unlock the Pygmy, players must change the high score name to one of the characters from Pocket God: Ooga, Booga, Nooby, Dooby, Klik or Klak.

The second crossover was with Harbor Master on August 8, 2009 where Pygmies replaced the normal boats in the path drawing game.

The final cross promotion saw a new test added to "Moron Test" with a Pocket God theme to it, which characters from the Moron Test were featured on a new island and minigame within the Pocket God universe.

There are reports of seeing a pygmy in the app uggles as a playable character.

Two other apps have featured the famous Pocket God characters within their games. The Creeps released an update allowing pygmies as characters. Also Trenches added to their "Zombie Horde" mode by allowing Zombie Pygmies to replace the Zombie Germans as the antagonists within the game.

Announced in 2015 was the spin-off game Pocket God vs Desert Ashes.

References

External links

Category:IOS games
Category:God games
Category:2009 video games
Category:Video games developed in the United States
Category:Android (operating system) games
Category:Windows Mobile games
Category:Windows Phone games
Category:Facebook games


Office of Educational Technology

The Office of Educational Technology is located in the Office of the Secretary of the United States Department of Education.  OET provides leadership for transforming education through the power of technology. OET develops national educational technology policy and advocates for the transition from print-based to digital learning and supports the President's and Secretary’s educational priorities.

The Office of Educational Technology was established in 1994 as part of the Goals 2000 Educate America Act.

The first director of the Office of Educational Technology was Linda Roberts.

Key Initiatives of OET
 Future Ready
 Supporting personalized learning models
 Closing the broadband gap in k-12 schools in the US
 Creating Education Innovation Clusters

Notable OET Publications
 National Educational Technology Plan
 Enhancing Teaching and Learning through Educational Data Mining and Learning Analytics
 Expanding Evidence Approaches for Learning in a Digital World
 Learning With Connected and Inspired Educators
 Promoting Grit, Tenacity, and Perseverance—Critical Factors for Success in the 21st Century
 Ed Tech Developer's Guide

External links
 Office of Educational Technology homepage
 Office of Educational Technology YouTube channel

References

Category:United States Department of Education
Category:Governmental educational technology organizations


West Coast Senior Lacrosse Association

The West Coast Senior Lacrosse Association is a Senior B Canadian box lacrosse league. The teams are located in southwest British Columbia. Champions of the league move on to compete for the Presidents Cup, the Canadian National Senior B championship.

History
Founded in 1968 as the Inter-City Lacrosse League. In 1972 Harry George Woolley took over as commissioner, helping the Senior B league take giant strides toward respectability after years of having a reputation for being a men's recreational league. Woolley took drastic measures in changing the structure of the organization by implementing a league agreement, producing league perpetual trophies and crafting a new overall image. Attendance grew from only a half dozen people to several hundred fans during the playoffs. Out of the changes came the newly formed West Coast Senior Lacrosse Association (WCSLA) in 1973.

Teams

Past teams
Burnaby Cablevision (became Burnaby Lakers, Burnaby Bandits, Abbotsford Bandits, Tri-City Bandits, Coquitlam Adanacs)
Burnaby Kirby's Klippers (became PoCo Kirby's Klippers, Port Coquitlam Eagles)
Burnaby Kokanee
Chilliwack Mustangs
Langley Knights (became New Westminster Knights, New Westminster Capitals, Royal City Capitals)
Nanaimo Luckies (became Nanaimo Timbermen)
New Westminster Blues
North Shore Indians (on hiatus since 2017)
Port Coquitlam Chiefs
Port Moody Thunder (on hiatus since 2016)
Surrey Rebels (became Valley Rebels)
Surrey Turf Hotel Riders
Vancouver Disco Sports Angels (became Vancouver Vipers, Vancouver Burrards, Burnaby Burrards)
White Rock Titans

Champions

References

External links

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Albert Thys

Albert Thys (28 November 1849 – 10 February 1915) was a Belgian businessman who was active in the Congo Free State. He gave his name of Thysville to the station of Sona Qongo, currently Mbanza-Ngungu in Bas-Congo.

Born in Dalhem, Thys graduated at the École de guerre, before entering into the service of king Leopold II of Belgium in 1876, as secretary of the colonial businesses. After the return of Henry Morton Stanley, the king sent Thys to England to propose a new expedition to Central Africa on behalf of the Association Internationale Africaine. Thys was actively involved in the organisation of the first expeditions which would lead to the constitution of the Congo Free State.

After arriving in Congo in 1887 he promoted the Matadi-Léopoldville Railway, which was built from 1890 to 1898. He imposed a route by the south, deviating from the Congo river. He was one of the principal craftsmen of the development and the economic development of the Congo Free State and Belgian Congo. Notably he created the  (27 December 1886) and many of its subsidiary companies: the Compagnie du Chemin de Fer du Congo (CCFC), the Compagnie des Magasins généraux, the Société anonyme Belge pour le Commerce du Haut-Congo, the Compagnie des¨Produits, the Compagnie du Katanga.

He died in Brussels, aged 66, in 1915.

Literature

  Georges Defauwes, Albert Thys, de Dalhem au Congo, Collection Comté de Dalhem  online

External links

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Tom King's Coffee House

Tom King's Coffee House (later known as Moll King's Coffee House) was a notorious establishment in Covent Garden, London in the mid-18th century. Open from the time the taverns shut until dawn, it was ostensibly a coffee house, but in reality served as a meeting place for prostitutes and their customers. By refusing to provide beds, the Kings ensured that they never risked charges of brothel-keeping, but the venue was nevertheless a rowdy drinking den and a favourite target for the moral reformers of the day.

Tom and Moll King
Tom King was born in 1694 to Thomas King, a squire from Thurlow, Essex, and Elizabeth Cordell, the daughter of Baronet Sir John Cordell. He was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge but was expelled (for reasons unknown) and eventually drifted to Covent Garden where he worked as a handyman, and met Moll (real name Elizabeth Adkins) in 1717.

Moll had been born in Vine Street in the slum district of St Giles in 1696; her father was a cobbler and her mother a fruit and vegetable seller in Covent Garden. She had gone into service at the age of fourteen, but found the work boring and so began hawking fruit and nuts around the Covent Garden area. Tom and Moll were married in 1717, but did not live together long. Tom began an affair, neglecting Moll, and when he eventually started to beat her, she left him and took up with a man named Murray (sometimes identified as William Murray, later Earl of Mansfield and Lord Chief Justice: this identification is erroneous, as William Murray was aged only 13 in 1718). However, Tom amassed some money from working as a waiter, and, around 1720, he and Moll reunited and opened a coffee house in one of the shacks in Covent Garden which they rented from the Duke of Bedford at the cost of £12 a year.

Coffee house

The coffee house was an immediate success. Moll, who had been befriended by many of the leading courtesans of day while running her stall, made connections with fashionable society during her dalliance with Murray, and Tom had aristocratic connections of his own. The patronage of these groups, coupled with hard work and a policy of remaining open all night, meant that Tom and Moll were soon able to afford to rent out a second and third shack. A pretty black barmaid named Black Betty (also known as Tawny Betty) provided another attraction. The shacks can be seen in many of the contemporary depictions of the piazza and features prominently in William Hogarth's Four Times of the Day (although it is rotated from its true position for the artistic effect of contrasting it with Inigo Jones' Church of St Paul).

By 1722, Tom King's Coffee House was already famed as a place where anybody from the highest to the lowest could find a willing partner, and was frequented by many notables of the day: "all gentlemen to whom beds were unknown". Hogarth, Alexander Pope, John Gay, and Henry Fielding were all visitors. Fielding mentions it in both The Covent Garden Tragedy and Pasquin and Tobias Smollett in The Adventures of Roderick Random. Of the three shacks, the largest and most famous was known as the Long Room, while the two smaller ones were reserved for gambling and drinking, respectively.

Despite the role of the coffee house as a meeting place for whores and their clients, Moll insisted that there be no beds in any of the shacks other than the bed she and Tom shared (which was in the roof and accessible only by a ladder which they pulled up behind themselves). This avoided the danger of prosecution for brothel-keeping, which could result in a whipping and a term in prison. The proximity of many well-known brothels made the provision of beds unnecessary anyway; customers were encouraged to stay until they were too drunk to go home, at which point they would be escorted to one of the nearby bagnios. Nevertheless, many of the moral campaigners of the time were keen to shut down the establishment. Sir John Gonson, a fervent supporter of the Society for the Reformation of Manners and renowned raider of brothels, regularly sent informers to the coffee house to try and uncover some offence. To counter this, Tom, Moll and their cronies developed their own secret language, Talking Flash, to render their discussions impenetrable to outsiders, and if they were discovered and charged, they bribed witnesses liberally.

Although Tom would drink with the customers, Moll always remained sober, looking out for trouble from the drunken patrons. While Moll, with the assistance of the hired bouncers, managed to curb the worst of the behaviour, there were still frequent fights on the premises and occasionally the violence spilled out into the surrounding area. In 1736, four men who had just left the coffee house disrupted a mass in the chapel of the Sardinian Ambassador, and in 1737, two of the bouncers, Edward and Noah Bethune, were charged with assault.

By 1739, the Kings had acquired an estate at Haverstock Hill, close to Hampstead Heath, and had built a villa and two houses. Tom King died the same year from alcoholism.

Moll King's Coffee House

On Tom's death, the coffee house became known as Moll King's Coffee House, but business continued much as before. Moll, however, took to drinking and became more quarrelsome, and the reputation of the shacks for bad behaviour and violence worsened. Moll would also occasionally fleece inebriated patrons by littering their tables with broken crockery and then presenting them a bill for the damages, confident that they were too drunk to realise that they were being taken advantage of. The patronage of fashionable society continued though: on one occasion, even George II paid a visit, accompanied by his equerry Viscount Gage, but having been challenged to a fight for admiring the companion of one of his neighbours (who had not recognised him), he left immediately.

Eventually, in June 1739, a riot erupted in the Long Room and spilled out in the piazza. Moll was charged, found guilty, and fined £200, sentenced to three months in prison and required to find sureties for her good behaviour for three years after her release. Moll refused to pay the fine on the grounds that it was both excessive and unwarranted and managed to get it reduced to £50. She suffered little from her stay in prison: her nephew William King took over the running of the coffee house and, by bribing the guards, Moll managed to enjoy many of the comforts of home. She continued to run the coffee house until around 1745, when she retired to live in her villa at Haverstock Hill.

She died on 17 September 1747, leaving a large fortune.

See also
Carpenter's Coffee House

References

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Category:Coffee houses of the United Kingdom
Category:1720 establishments in England


Kadva River

Kadva river () is a minor but important tributary of Godavari in Nashik district, Maharashtra. It originates and flows through the Dindori Taluka of Nashik District.

Origin and course
The Kadva rises in the Sahyadris to the north-west of Dindori Taluka in the angle between the former and the Satmala Range, and crosses Dindori from north-west to south-east.
It is rocky both in bed and bank, but the bed is wide, and the average volume of water is small compared with the area through which it flows. Irrigation works of considerable importance have been established on it.
At its confluence with Godavari, a pick-up weir has been constructed, raising the upstream water levels resulting in formation of the Nandur Madhyameshwar reservoir. The back waters of this reservoir harbors rich flora & flora and has been deemed as the Nandur Madhyameshwar Bird Sanctuary. It witnesses migratory birds belonging to different species arriving here in huge numbers during the winter season.
Total length of this river is 74 km up to Nandur Madhyameshwar Dam with a total drainage area of near about 1664 km2.

Tributaries
The Kadva is joined by several tributary streams mostly from the north or the left bank. The Kadva is joined on the left bank by several streams draining the southern slopes of the Satmala ranges. The chief of those joining on the right bank is the Kolwan and Dhaman
Unanda : It is the first of these having a long course nearly parallel to the Satmalas and receives several small streams draining its slopes. Among these are the small Dev nadi flowing past Vani, on parashari river there is one minor dam that is tisgaon dam. Thats water use for irrigation.the Parasheri river flowing by Pimpalgaon Basavant, its meat to kadava river near the shirasgaon village (niphad taluka), the Netravati nala flowing by Vadner, the Vainatha nadi joining it near Niphad and formed by the union of two rivers, the Vadali flowing by Vadali Bhoi and the Shelu. The Ozarkhed Dam has been built on the river Unanda.
Kolwan : It rises in the Sahyadris to the south of that river. At Waghad it is crossed by the Waghad Dam giving rise to the Waghad tank used for irrigation.
Dhaman : Further below it is joined by the Dhaman nadi from the south flowing past Dindori, at about two km. above its confluence with the Kadva near Rajapur.

Dams
Karanjwan Dam
Palkhed Dam

See also

List of rivers of India
Rivers of India

References

Category:Rivers of Maharashtra
Category:Tributaries of the Godavari River
Category:Rivers of India


Konrad Lorenz Forschungsstelle

The Konrad Lorenz Forschungsstelle (KLF) is a research facility in Grünau im Almtal (Upper Austria), maintained jointly by private and public entities. The KFL is dedicated mainly to behavioral biology of birds and named after the Nobel laureate Konrad Lorenz, who established the facility in 1973.

History and Organisation

The facility was created in 1973, when Konrad Lorenz retired from his position as chair of the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology in Seewiesen (Germany) and returned to his native country Austria. Lorenz had been looking for a place to continue research on greylag geese and the biologist Otto König facilitated the establishment of an appropriate field station in association with a recently established game park in Grünau.

For seven years, the Max Planck Society financed the facility, before the Austrian Academy of Sciences took over the financing in 1980. Konrad Lorenz died in 1989, which required a re-structuring of the field station. Since 1990, the reformed Konrad Lorenz Forschungsstelle is maintained by a private association, the federal province of Upper Austria and the University of Vienna. The KLF is chaired by the behavioural biologist Kurt Kotrschal. In 2008, the Wolf Science Center was established as a spin-off of the KLF.

Research
In line with the legacy of Konrad Lorenz, the research focus of the KLF lies on behavioural biology of birds and cognitive studies. Research models are in particular greylag goose, bald ibis and corvid birds. In addition to behavioural studies, the KLF is active in conservation efforts of bold ibis and was the first institution world-wide that succeeded in establishing a self-sustained colony of bold ibis from birds bred in captivity.

Funding and facilities
The core—funding of 80,000 Euro per year is provided from private sources (one third) and as a subsidy by the province of Upper Austria (two thirds). Project funds add between 200,000 and 300,000 Euro per year. Two staff scientists are provided as in-kind support by the University of Vienna. This allows the KLF to operate animal facilities, research and administrative space for 10 to 15 employees and project staff.

Other
Konrad Lorenz Institute of Ethology
Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research

External links
 Konrad Lorenz Forschungsstelle

References

Category:Research institutes in Austria
Category:Konrad Lorenz


Parsauni Birta

Parsauni Birta  is a village development committee in Parsa District in the Narayani Zone of southern Nepal. At the time of the 2011 Nepal census it had a population of 5,001 people living in 735 individual households.

References

Category:Populated places in Parsa District


Sdei Hemed

Sdei Hemed (, lit. Pleasant Fields) is a moshav in central Israel. Located near Kfar Saba and covering 2,000 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Drom HaSharon Regional Council. In  it had a population of .

History
The moshav was founded in 1952 by city dwellers who wanted to change to an agricultural lifestyle. Its name is taken from Isaiah 32:12;
Smiting upon the breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine

References

Category:Moshavim
Category:Populated places established in 1952
Category:Populated places in Central District (Israel)
Category:1952 establishments in Israel


Hash (Unix)

hash is a Unix command that prints the location information for the commands found.

Syntax
 $ hash [name]

Description
When the user gives a command, the shell searches for the command in the path specified in the PATH environmental variable and stores the location in the hash. This command can be used to search for the command given. The command is built into the shell. C shell implements this command in a different way.

Options
The following options are supported.

name Searches the PATH environmental variable for the name given

Exit Status
This command returns the following exit values:

0 Successful  completion

1 An Error occurred

Examples
 $ hash

Print the hash table.

 $ hash cat

Searches for command cat in the path specified by PATH environmental variable; if found, adds it to the hash.

See also
 find
 Unix shell

Category:Unix SUS2008 utilities


Sinotyrannus

Sinotyrannus (meaning "Chinese tyrant") is a genus of large basal proceratosaurid dinosaur, a relative of tyrannosaurids which flourished in North America and Asia during the Jurassic and early Cretaceous periods. Sinotyrannus is known from a single incomplete fossil specimen including a partial skull, from the Early Cretaceous Jiufotang Formation of Liaoning, China. Though it is not much younger than primitive tyrannosauroids such as Dilong, it is similar in size to later forms such as Tyrannosaurus. It was much larger than contemporary tyrannosauroids; reaching a total estimated length of , it is the largest known theropod from the Jiufotang Formation. The type species is S. kazuoensis, described by Ji et al., in 2009.

Description

The holotype of Sinotyrannus is KZV-001, a disarticulated partial skeleton including the front portion of the skull, three dorsal vertebrae, the incomplete ilia, three articulated manual phalanges (including an ungual), and other fragmentary bones.

The preserved cranial elements include the premaxillae, dentary, and anterior portions of the maxillae and nasals. The dorsal margin of the maxilla is unusually concave unlike the convex condition in tyrannosaurids. The nares are large and elliptical, supporting its relation to proceratosauridae. The dentary gradually curves upwards as it approaches its front edge. Many teeth are preserved attached to the maxillae, with a roughly equal number of denticles on each side, similarly to those of tyrannosaurids. Sinotyrannus could perceivably have had a tall nasal crest like other proceratosaurids, although not enough of its nasals are preserved to be certain.

The three preserved vertebrae have very tall neural spines. The proportions of the preserved manual phalanges support the idea that they belong to the second finger, and the ungual has a deep groove on each side. The ilia are mainly present as molds, with the mold of the external side of the left ilium being the most complete. The preacetabular blade is short and wide, with a massive pubic peduncle, while the postacetabular blade is longer and thinner, with a triangular ischial peduncle. These traits of the ilia differentiate it from more advanced tyrannosauroids such as the tyrannosaurids.

Sinotyrannus was among the largest basal tyrannosauroids known, repudiating the previously presumed trend that tyrannosauroids gradually increased in size throughout the Cretaceous period from small basal forms like Dilong to advanced apex predators such as Tyrannosaurus.

Classification
The original description of Sinotyrannus proposed that it could have been the earliest tyrannosaurid due to its large size, but subsequent analyses place it as a proceratosaurid tyrannosauroid. It is considered to be part of a clade containing Juratyrant and Stokesosaurus, as they all reputedly share a narrow preacetabular notch. A 2016 analysis instead placed Juratyrant and Stokesosaurus outside of proceratosauridae and proposed that Sinotyrannus is a sister taxon of Yutyrannus within proceratosauridae.

Below is a cladogram by Loewen et al. in 2013.

See also

 Timeline of tyrannosaur research

References

External links
Pieces of Sinotyrannus skull.
Diagram of pieces from Sinotyrannus.

Category:Jiufotang fauna
Category:Early Cretaceous dinosaurs of Asia
Category:Proceratosaurids
Category:Fossil taxa described in 2009


Trickett

People whose surname is or was Trickett include:

Anthony Trickett (1940–2013), Scottish doctor
Clint Trickett (born 1991), American football player
Edward Trickett (1851–1916), Australian rower
Jon Trickett (born 1950), English politician
Libby Trickett (née Lenton) (born 1985), Australian swimmer
Luke Trickett, swimmer
Rachel Trickett (1923–1999), English novelist & academic
Sam Trickett (born 1986), English professional poker player
Vicki Trickett (born 1938), American actress
William Trickett (1843–1916), politician in New South Wales

See also
 Daniel Trickett-Smith (born 1995), English footballer
 Mount Trickett, a mountain on the Great Dividing Range
 Trickett & Webb, London-based graphic design agency
 Trickett's Cross, an estate situated on the outskirts of Ferndown, Dorset, England
 William Trickett Smith (born 1938), former chairman of the Dauphin County Republican Committee
 William Trickett Smith II (born 1981), U.S. citizen guilty of murder


Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Trading Card Game

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Trading Card Game is an out-of-print collectible card game by Upper Deck and was released in February 2004. It was based on the cartoon series of the same name. The base set called Turtles Unleased had 55 Common cards and 100 Foil cards, with 10 Super Rare foils and 10 Ultra Rare foils. Two planned expansions were to be released but never materialized: Swift as the Wind in May 2004 and Still as the Forest in September 2004. Future cards were to include Mystic Ninjas and Shredder's Elite Guard.

Gameplay
There are three playing modes: Fight mode and two training modes. The main game has players making decks using Attack, Event, Character and Item cards. The first person to have their opponent run out of cards, wins the game. Players set up blockers to defend their deck, and any damage that gets through makes them discard from their deck. To make it more interesting, players are allowed to place their cards face down on the board.

Reception
The game was said to be "lacking in fun." The rules were simpler than Magic: the Gathering or Yu-Gi-Oh!

References

Category:Collectible card games
Category:Card games introduced in 1995


Goldregen

Goldregen (Gold Rain) is the third album released in 1998 by German band La! Neu?. Like the previous year's Zeeland, Goldregen takes the form of a series of spontaneous jams, quickly recorded and mastered. Unlike Zeeland, Goldregen is entirely acoustic, containing only piano, violin, harmonium, drums and vocals. Unlike most other albums released by Klaus Dinger it is quiet and meditative rather than aggressive or abrasive; its low key and low-fi values arguable align it with ambient music.

Background and recording
The album title is a play on words. The cover painting depicts a laburnum plant, which in German is called goldregen. Klaus Dinger's grand piano was made by a company called "Goldregen".

Recording began on 2 May 1998 at Klaus Dinger's studio in Düsseldorf, starting with the album's opener "Zeeland Wunderbar"; the only track to have been written before sessions began. It features Klaus Dinger's mother Renate on vocals and is a light-hearted, humorous track about life in Zeeland. On 27 May, Klaus and Victoria Wehrmeister convened in Dinger's Dutch studio to create three harmonium based tracks (which close the album), whilst Rembrandt Lensink and Thomas Dinger finalised "Zeeland Wunderbar" in Düsseldorf. Four days later the whole band met up in Düsseldorf to record tracks 2-9.

Goldregen was the first musical collaboration between the Dinger brothers since 1983; a product of their 1997 reunion following a long and bitter legal battle over the rights to La Düsseldorf. Klaus described Goldregen as a "family album". Despite this he also expressed regret that Andreas Reihse had not been able to join the sessions (due to commitments with Kreidler).

Klaus cited his musical influences for the record as including John Cale's Music for a New Society, the "almost sacred atmosphere" of that album being something he consciously tried to recreate on Goldregen.

Track listing
 "Zeeland Wunderbar" - 1:59 (Klaus Dinger, Renate Dinger)
 "Rembrandt + Viktoria" - 3:32 (Rembrandt Lensink, Victoria Wehrmeister)
 "Langsam Bewegt, Aber Nicht Traurig (Part 1 + 2)" - 6:44 (Lensink, Wehrmeister)
 "Strathomaso" - 2:59 (K. Dinger, Thomas Dinger, Lensink)
 "Where is the Geiger" - 0:57 (K. Dinger, Lensink)
 "Shakesbeer/Shakesbier" - 4:33 (K. Dinger, T. Dinger, Lensink)
 "Dinger Brothers mit Remmi + Wicki" - 5:13 (K. Dinger, T. Dinger, Lensink, Wehrmeister)
 "How Could I Not Be" - 2:42 (K. Dinger, T. Dinger, Lensink, Wehrmeister)
 "Light Blue Intermezzo" - 3:41 (Wehrmeister)
 "Langweg 27 Mai" - 8:09 (K. Dinger, Wehrmeister)
 "Klaus + Wicki" - 8:48 (K. Dinger, Wehrmeister)
 "Comme Nuages Dans Le Ciel" - 8:17 (K. Dinger, Wehrmeister)

Personnel
 Klaus Dinger - drums & percussion (tr. 1 & 4-8), harmonium (tr. 10-12), piano (tr. 1)
 Renate Dinger - vocals (tr. 1)
 Thomas Dinger - violin (tr. 4 & 6-8)
 Rembrandt Lensink - piano (tr. 2-8)
 Victoria Wehrmeister - drums & percussion (tr. 1 & 11), violin (tr. 2), piano (tr. 9), vocals (tr. 1-3, 7, 8 & 10-12)

References

Category:1998 albums
Category:La! Neu? albums


John Harvey (cyclist)

John Harvey sometimes Jack Harvey (1884-????) from Stoke on Trent in Staffordshire was a British professional road racing cyclist in the 1900s and 1910s. He held the National Cyclists' Union, 25 mile title in 1909 and was the English Champion for the one mile distance, in 1910.

Titles Held
 English NCU Champion (25 Miles) 1909, Open to the World
 English AAA Champion (25 Miles) 1911
 English AAA Champion (1 mile and 5 miles) 1910
 Northern Champion (1/2 mile and 1 mile) 1911
 Northern Champion (1/2 mile and 5 miles) 1910
 Midland AAA Champion (1/2 mile) 1911
 Midland NCU Champion  (1/4 mile) 1908
 Midland NCU Champion (25 miles) 1909

Personal life
Between 1910 -1913, he ran a pub called Old Blue Post Hotel in Stafford. He served in the Army in 1915 aged 31.

References

Category:Year of death missing
Category:British male cyclists
Category:Sportspeople from Stoke-on-Trent


Drake of the 99 Dragons

Drake of the 99 Dragons is a third-person shooter video game developed by Swedish studio Idol FX and published by Majesco Entertainment. The game stars Drake, an undead assassin who is on a quest to avenge his murdered clan, the 99 Dragons, by recovering their ancient "Soul Portal Artifact" from antagonist Tang. Tang intends on using the artifact to harvest the souls of dead beings and power his undead cyborg army.

Idol FX intended for Drake of the 99 Dragons to be the launchpad for a multimedia franchise, which would include comics and a potential animated television series. However, these plans were scrapped due to the game's negative reception.

Gameplay
Drake has a number of special moves, such as the abilities to double jump and to run up walls. He also has the ability to slow down time for better accuracy, though this feature could be triggered by accident fairly easily during normal gameplay, which can quickly throw off a player's focus. Drake's health depends primarily on absorbing the souls of his fallen opponents, although there are also red "lost souls" which deplete Drake's health.

As a means of defense, Drake uses a wide arrangement of guns and firearms. The player is able to control two guns by using the left and right triggers. In the Xbox version, an aiming reticle (a common staple of third-person shooters) is excluded; instead, an auto targeting feature is implemented to help Drake aim and fire at the player's enemies. In the PC version, however, an aiming reticle is used.

Plot
Drake is the premier assassin of a Neo Macau-based clan known as the 99 Dragons. While training in the Kwoon, he hears a break in. He enters the chamber containing the Soul Portal Artifact, given to the clan over 3000 years ago, battling enemies before a mysterious Ghost Assassin swoops out of the room with the artifact. The assassin is in cahoots with Tang, a businessman and the clan's mortal enemy. Drake then pursues the assassin, but is unable to stop the villain when he phases out of a window of the penthouse. He returns to the Master's chamber, only to find the corpses of himself, the Master, and the other members of his clan.

Shocked, Drake collapses, and the tattoo on his chest glows. In a flashback, Drake is given the tattoo of the Undying Dragon by The Master, which provides him with supernatural powers as well as immortality. The tattoo glows, and Drake unleashes the abilities to run up walls, slow down time, and freeze time. He explores the penthouse and collects thirty souls of his fallen comrades and enemies. When the powers go to Drake's head, he leaps out a window and falls to his death. He then awakens in the Spirit Realm, and is scolded by the four Spirit Gods. They inform him that he must collect more souls for the Undying Dragon and recover the Soul Portal Artifact in order to avenge his Master's death. They give him a new body and return him to the mortal realm. He pursues a courier and follows his blood trail to a fireworks factory. Drake shoots at him, but is killed in a sudden explosion.

The gods, annoyed once more at Drake's lack of competence, bring him back to life and send him to the House of the Dreaming Cloud casino. There, Drake attempts to find the courier, but is attacked by the casino's owner Pok and his demon dogs. After defeating Pok, Drake tails the courier to the Hung Fook Casino Palace, where it turns out he lost the Soul Portal Artifact in a gambling match. A thug beats Chun to near-death for his mishap, but Drake saves his life in time and learns the location of the Soul Portal Artifact. Drake quickly sets off through the city, fending off biker gangs along the way, and returns to the House of the Dreaming Cloud.

While fighting Pok, now in his "true" demonic form, Drake once again gets caught up in an explosion. Serpent-Eye Sung, a business partner and accomplice of Tang, steals the Soul Portal Artifact from a dying Drake and heads off to his canned seafood factory, which they are harvesting the soul from an albino orca. Drake goes to stop Serpent-Eye and take the Artifact back, but is attacked by Tang's henchwoman Banshee and killed once more. The Spirit Gods decide to cut their losses and send Drake back to the penthouse, where the Tang Undertakers are stealing the corpses of the 99 Dragons. Drake chases after a truck holding his master's body, and finds himself taken to a cyborg creation facility. There, he finds that Master has been turned into a cyborg, but manages to defeat the robot and retrieve his Master's body from the remains.

Outraged, Drake decides to go after Tang. Upon infiltrating Tang Towers, he discovers Tang's true scheme: to use the artifact to reap the souls from the Spirit Realm and use those souls to power his cyborg army. Drake then breaks into Tang's secret morgue facility and recaptures his clan members' souls. He then travels to the basements of the facility, where Tang is using the artifact to open the portal to the spirit realm. Drake fights and defeats a demon-like creature, but the Ghost Assassin steals the Soul Portal Artifact and escapes into the spirit realm. Drake enters the realm and pursues the assassin, ultimately defeating him. He then retrieves the Soul Portal Artifact and collects the Master's soul.

Drake then falls down to a nest of a three-headed beast called the Spirit Lord Supreme, and confronts and defeats it. Drake then goes back to the Serene Garden, and revives the Master with the artifact. Master thanks Drake for his efforts, stating that he achieved a level of proficiency even he was unable to reach, and he has proven himself to the Gods.

Reception

Drake of the 99 Dragons received "generally unfavorable reviews" on both platforms according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. It was ranked as the second-worst game for the original Xbox. In July 2006, X-Play called Drake the single worst game ever released for the Xbox, even going so far as to state that it had eclipsed the game Aquaman: Battle for Atlantis as "the standard by which they rate all bad games". Alex Navarro of GameSpot named it the second worst "frightfully bad" game of 2003 in Halloween 2004, right behind Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing.

The game was criticized for its controls, along with frustrating gameplay. The game's dual-wielding system, in which players could control two guns independently by using the trigger buttons to shoot and an analog stick to aim, was notably criticized for having a poorly-implemented targeting system that made it difficult to aim. Frequent criticism centered around its unwieldy camera that often got stuck or prevented the player from seeing the on-screen action, and was mapped to the same analog stick as the aiming reticle.

The game was also panned for its poor voice acting, low quality graphics, character animations, and sound design; in particular, GameSpots Navarro felt that the game was a "cacophony of terrible effects and voice acting"—noticing the re-use of stock sounds notably used in AOL Instant Messenger, and comparing the title character's voice to a cross between a game show host and "the Moviefone guy". He also felt that, due to the game's "disjointed" cutscenes and narration, the storyline of the game was nearly incomprehensible.

While Aaron Boulding of IGN praised the game's unique visual appearance and presentation, along with the "bullet time" audio effects whilst slowing down time, he concluded that Drake of the 99 Dragons was "a good idea that went horribly astray and ended up disastrous" and that "there's no need to rent, purchase or entertain the thought of playing this one". GameSpots Navarro considered the Xbox version "an out-and-out failure in every single discernable category".

References

External links

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Category:Majesco Entertainment games
Category:North America-exclusive video games
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Agriculture in Nepal

In Nepal, the economy is dominated by agriculture. In the late 1980s, it was the livelihood for more than 90% of the population, although only approximately 20% of the total land area was cultivable, it accounted for, on average, about 60% of the GDP and approximately 75% of exports. Since the formulation of the Fifth Five-Year Plan (1975–80), agriculture has been the highest priority because economic growth was dependent on both increasing the productivity of existing crops and diversifying the agricultural base for use as industrial inputs.

According to the World Bank, agriculture is the main source of food, income, and employment for the majority. It provides about 33% of the gross domestic product (GDP).

In trying to increase agricultural production and diversify the agricultural base, the government focused on irrigation, the use of fertilizers and insecticides, the introduction of new implements and new seeds of high-yield varieties, and the provision of credit. The lack of distribution of these inputs, as well as problems in obtaining supplies, however, inhibited progress. Although land reclamation and settlement were occurring in the Terai Region, environmental degradation and ecological imbalance resulting from deforestation also prevented progress.

Although new agricultural technologies helped increase food production, there still was room for further growth. Past experience indicated bottlenecks, however, in using modern technology to achieve a healthy growth. The conflicting goals of producing cash crops both for food and for industrial inputs also were problematic.

History
The production of crops fluctuated widely as a result of these factors as well as weather conditions. Although agricultural production grew at an average annual rate of 2.4 percent from 1974 to 1989, it did not keep pace with population growth, which increased at an average annual rate of 2.6 percent over the same period. Further, the annual average growth rate of food grain production was only 1.2 percent during the same period.

There were some successes. Fertile lands in the Terai Region and hardworking peasants in the Hill Region provided greater supplies of food staples (mostly rice and corn), increasing the daily caloric intake of the population locally to over 2,000 calories per capita in 1988 from about 1,900 per capita in 1965. Moreover, areas with access to irrigation facilities increased from approximately 6,200 hectares in 1956 to nearly 583,000 hectares by 1990.

Rice is the most important cereal crop. In 1966 total rice production amounted to a little more than 1 million tons; by 1989 more than 3 million tons were produced. Fluctuation in rice production was very common because of changes in rainfall; overall, however, rice production had increased following the introduction of new cultivation techniques as well as increases in cultivated land. By 1988 approximately 3.9 million hectares of land were under paddy cultivation. Many people in Nepal devote their lives to cultivating rice to survive. In 1966 approximately 500,000 tons of corn, the second major food crop, were produced. By 1989 corn production had increased to over 1 million tons.

Other food crops included wheat, millet, barley, and coffee, but their contribution to the agricultural sector was small. Increased production of cash crops, used as input to new industries, dominated in the early 1970s. Sugarcane and tobacco also showed considerable increases in production from the 1970s to the 1980s. Potatoes and oilseed production had shown moderate growth since 1980. Medicinal herbs were grown in the north on the slopes of the Himalayas, but increases in production were limited by continued environmental degradation. According to government statistics, production of milk, meat, and fruit had improved but as of the late 1980s still had not reached a point where nutritionally balanced food was available to most people. Additionally, the increases in meat and milk production had not met the desired level of output as of 1989.
Nepal has more than 50% of people engaged in agriculture.
Food grains contributed 76 percent of total crop production in 1988-89. In 1989-90 despite poor weather conditions and a lack of agricultural inputs, particularly fertilizer, there was a production increase of 5 percent. In fact, severe weather fluctuations often affected production levels. Some of the gains in production through the 1980s were due to increased productivity of the work force (about 7 percent over fifteen years); other gains were due to increased land use and favorable weather conditions.
According to Statistical Information on Nepalese Agriculture (2008/2009) only 65.6% of people depends on agriculture and 21% of land is cultivated whereas 6.99% of land is uncultivated.

Irrigation

Out of 2.7 million hectares of agricultural land in Nepal, only 1.3 Mha have irrigation facilities. The majority of irrigation systems are small and medium-scale.

A recent study funded by the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) revealed that about 0.8% of agricultural GDP is being lost annually due to climate change and extreme events. There is a need to both improve agricultural productivity and make it more resilient to climate uncertainty and change in general. Recent increases in floods and droughts have raised concerns that the climate is changing rapidly and that existing arrangements for irrigation design and management may need to be reconsidered.

See also
Economy of Nepal
Beekeeping in NepalIt is the main traditional job

References

External links
Emergence of latest technologies in Nepali Agriculture YouTube


Stefi Geyer

Stefi Geyer (June 28, 1888 in Budapest – December 11, 1956 in Zürich) was a Hungarian violinist who was considered one of the leading violinists of her generation.

Biography
Born in 1888 in Budapest, she was the daughter of Josef Geyer, a police doctor who played the violin himself. When she was 5 years old she started playing the violin, with remarkable results for someone who had not practiced at all. She subsequently studied under Jenő Hubay.

Béla Bartók and Othmar Schoeck, who were both in love with her, wrote violin concertos for her. Bartók's first violin concerto was published only after both he and Geyer had died. Willy Burkhard dedicated his 1943 violin concerto jointly to Geyer and Paul Sacher.

Her first marriage was to Vienna lawyer Edwin Jung. He died during the flu epidemic of the First World War. In 1920 she married Swiss composer Walter Schulthess. She moved to Zürich, where she gave concerts, founded the Collegium Musicum Zürich in 1941 with Schulthess and Sacher, and taught at the Zürich Conservatory from 1934 to 1953. (The Zürich Conservatory merged in 1999 into the School of Music, Drama, and Dance (HMT), itself merged in 2007 into the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK)). She schooled numerous musicians, among them composer Klaus Huber.

References

External links

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Category:1888 births
Category:1956 deaths
Category:Zurich University of the Arts faculty
Category:Women classical violinists
Category:20th-century women musicians
Category:20th-century classical violinists


Honshu

is the largest and most populous main island of Japan. It is located south of Hokkaido across the Tsugaru Strait, north of Shikoku across the Inland Sea, and northeast of Kyushu across the Kanmon Straits. The island separates the Sea of Japan, which lies to its north and west, from the North Pacific Ocean to the south and east. It is the 7th largest island in the world, and the 2nd most populous after the Indonesian island of Java.

Honshu had a population of 104 million , mostly concentrated in the coastal areas and plains. Approximately 30% of the total population resides in the Greater Tokyo Area on the Kantō Plain. As the historical center of Japanese cultural and political power, the island includes several past Japanese capitals, including Kyoto, Nara and Kamakura. Much of the island's southern shore forms part of the Taiheiyō Belt, a megalopolis that spans several of the Japanese islands.

Most of Japan's industry is located in a belt running along Honshu's southern coast, from Tokyo to Nagoya, Kyoto, Osaka, Kobe, and Hiroshima; by contrast, the economy along the northwestern Sea of Japan coast is largely based on fishing and agriculture. The island is linked to the other three major Japanese islands by a number of bridges and tunnels. Its climate is humid and mild.

Geography

The island is roughly  long and ranges from  wide, and its total area is , making it slightly larger than the island of Great Britain . Its land area has been increasing with land reclamation and coastal uplift in the north due to plate tectonics with a convergent boundary. Honshu has  of coastline.

Mountainous and volcanic, Honshu experiences frequent earthquakes (the Great Kantō earthquake heavily damaged Tokyo in September 1923, and the earthquake of March 2011 moved the northeastern part of the island by varying amounts of as much as  while causing devastating tsunamis). The highest peak is the active volcano Mount Fuji at , which makes Honshu the world's 7th highest island. There are many rivers, including the Shinano River, Japan's longest. The Japanese Alps span the width of Honshu, from the 'Sea of Japan' coast to  the Pacific shore. The climate is generally humid subtropical in western Japan and humid continental in the north.

Extreme points

Bridges and tunnels
Honshu is connected to the islands of Hokkaido, Kyushu and Shikoku by tunnels and bridges. Three bridge systems have been built across the islands of the Inland Sea between Honshu and Shikoku (Akashi Kaikyō Bridge and the Ōnaruto Bridge; Shin-Onomichi Bridge, Innoshima Bridge, Ikuchi Bridge, Tatara Bridge, Ōmishima Bridge, Hakata–Ōshima Bridge, and the Kurushima-Kaikyō Bridge; Shimotsui-Seto Bridge, Hitsuishijima Bridge, Iwakurojima Bridge, Yoshima Bridge, Kita Bisan-Seto Bridge, and the Minami Bisan-Seto Bridge), the Seikan Tunnel connects Honshu with Hokkaido, and the Kanmonkyo Bridge and Kanmon Tunnel connects Honshu with Kyushu.

Population
Its population was 104 million people, according to a 2017 estimate. This represents 81.3 percent of the entire population of Japan.

Administrative regions and prefectures
The island is divided into five nominal regions and contains 34 prefectures, including metropolitan Tokyo. Administratively, some smaller islands are included within these prefectures, notably including the Ogasawara Islands, Sado Island, Izu Ōshima, and Awaji Island.

The regions and its prefectures are:

Tōhoku region consists of six prefectures.

Kantō region consists of seven prefectures, including the capital of Japan which is the Tokyo Metropolis.

Chūbu region consists of nine prefectures.

Kansai region consists of seven prefectures.

Chūgoku region consists of five prefectures.

Natural features

Agriculture
Most of Japan's tea and silk is from Honshu. Fruits, vegetables, grains, rice and cotton are grown in Honshu. Niigata is noted as an important producer of rice. The Kantō and Nōbi plains produce rice and vegetables. Yamanashi is a major fruit-growing area, and Aomori is famous for its apples. Rare species of the lichen genus Menegazzia are found only in Honshu.

Minerals
Yields of zinc, copper, and oil have been found on Honshu.

Gallery

See also

 Japanese archipelago
 Geography of Japan
 Hokkaido
 Kyushu
 Shikoku
 Okinawa

References

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Puerto Rico Olympic Committee

The Puerto Rico Olympic Committee (COPUR, ) is the National Olympic Committee for Puerto Rico. It oversees Olympic-sports in Puerto Rico, and selects the Olympic team which represents the island.  It was founded in 1948 by Julio Enrique Monagas.

COPUR operates the Casa Olímpica, its headquarters in Old San Juan.

Teams representing Puerto Rico have participated in every Summer Olympics since 1948, including the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Russia—despite the US-led boycott of those Games. They have also participated at the 1984–2002 and 2018 Winter Olympics.

In 2012, Sara Rosario became the first woman to serve as President of the COPUR.  Past presidents include the island's first Puerto Rican Governor, Jesús T. Piñero.

Presidents of the Puerto Rico Olympic Committee
Jesús T. Piñero (1948–1952)
Julio Enrique Monagas (1952–1956)
Jaime Annexy (1956)
Julio E. Monagas (1956–1965)
Francisco Bueso (1965–1966)
Felicio Torregrosa (1966–1973)
José Enrique Arrarás (1973–1977)
Germán Rieckehoff (1977–1990)
Osvaldo L. Gil (1990–1991)
Héctor Cardona (1991–2008)
David Bernier (2008–2012)
Sara Rosario (since 2012)

See also
 Puerto Rico at the Olympics
 Puerto Rico at the Pan American Games

References

External links
Official website

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Amberley, Ohio

Amberley, locally known as Amberley Village, is a village in Hamilton County, Ohio, United States. The population was 3,585 at the 2010 census.

History
Amberley was incorporated as a village on April 5, 1940. The town was named after Amberley, a village in England.

Amberley was designated a Tree City USA by the National Arbor Day Foundation. Amberley is home to French Park, owned by the city of Cincinnati.

Geography
Amberley is located at  (39.199259, -84.420601).

According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land.

Demographics

The village has a large Jewish population.

2010 census
As of the census of 2010, there were 3,585 people, 1,385 households, and 1,084 families living in the village. The population density was . There were 1,466 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the village was 85.7% White, 9.5% African American, 0.1% Native American, 3.0% Asian, 0.3% from other races, and 1.4% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.3% of the population.

There were 1,385 households of which 29.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 71.7% were married couples living together, 4.7% had a female householder with no husband present, 1.9% had a male householder with no wife present, and 21.7% were non-families. 18.1% of all households were made up of individuals and 9.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.59 and the average family size was 2.96.

The median age in the village was 49.1 years. 24% of residents were under the age of 18; 4.2% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 15.8% were from 25 to 44; 34.7% were from 45 to 64; and 21.4% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the village was 47.9% male and 52.1% female.

2000 census
As of the census of 2000, there were 3,425 people, 1,338 households, and 1,098 families living in the village. The population density was 985.4 people per square mile (380.0/km²). There were 1,382 housing units at an average density of 397.6 per square mile (153.3/km²). The racial makeup of the village was 87.42% White, 8.85% African American, 0.09% Native American, 2.39% Asian, 0.32% from other races, and 0.93% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.53% of the population.

There were 1,338 households out of which 28.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 75.6% were married couples living together, 4.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 17.9% were non-families. 15.8% of all households were made up of individuals and 9.4% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.56 and the average family size was 2.86.

In the village, the population was spread out with 23.0% under the age of 18, 3.3% from 18 to 24, 18.3% from 25 to 44, 31.0% from 45 to 64, and 24.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 48 years. For every 100 females there were 96.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 92.4 males.

The median income for a household in the village was $81,492, and the median income for a family was $92,684. Males had a median income of $61,220 versus $37,750 for females. The per capita income for the village was $51,225. About 3.5% of families and 3.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 3.5% of those under age 18 and 5.1% of those age 65 or over.

References

External links
 Village website

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Emerson (footballer, born 1976)

Emerson Ferreira da Rosa (born 4 April 1976), simply known as Emerson, is a Brazilian footballer who currently plays for Miami Dade FC as a defensive midfielder. At international level, he played 73 games for the Brazil national team between 1997 and 2006, scoring 6 goals. With Brazil, he has taken part in two FIFA World Cups (1998, 2006, missing out on the 2002 FIFA World Cup due to injury), two editions of the Copa América (1999, 2001), and three Confederations Cups (1999, 2003, 2005), winning the 1999 Copa América and the 2005 FIFA Confederations Cup, while also reaching the 1998 World Cup Final.

An experienced footballer who was nicknamed the Puma due to his powerful but elegant, ball-winning style of play, Emerson has played for two Brazilian clubs, Grêmio and Santos, as well as several European clubs in Germany, Italy, and Spain, including Bayer Leverkusen, Roma, Juventus, Real Madrid and Milan, winning several titles. In addition to his Brazilian passport, Emerson also holds Italian, German and Qatari passports.

Club career

Grêmio
Emerson made a name for himself in his native Brazil playing for Grêmio, where he won two state championships, two Brazilian Cups, one Brazilian Championship and one Copa Libertadores. He then went to Europe to play for German club Bayer Leverkusen.

Bayer Leverkusen
In 1997, Emerson was transferred to Bayer Leverkusen. He made his debut on 1 August 1997 against Schalke 04. Leverkusen finished in third place in the 1997–98 Bundesliga season. This was followed by two consecutive second-place finishes in the Bundesliga, behind champions Bayern Munich on both occasions. Emerson spent three years at Leverkusen, scoring 11 goals in 82 league appearances. On 13 August 1997, he made his debut in UEFA competitions in the qualifying round for the 1997–98 UEFA Champions League, in Bayer Leverkusen's 6–1 aggregate win over Dinamo Tbilisi. Leverkusen would eventually reach the Champions League quarter-finals, losing out to eventual champions Real Madrid. Emerson also reached the UEFA Cup round of 16 on two occasions with Leverkusen.

Roma
Emerson signed for Italian Serie A club Roma in the summer of 2000 for 35 billion Italian lire (€18.1 million by fixed exchange rate). He signed a five-year contract with an average salary of 7.2 million Italian lire per year before tax. However, due to the quota imposed on non-EU players, Emerson was unable to play until Emerson acquired Italian nationality in October 2000, as his wife is Italian–Brazilian. Emerson made his Serie A debut in a 3–0 victory on 28 January 2001 against Napoli, replacing Marco Delvecchio in the 56th minute. Roma eventually won the Scudetto and the Supercoppa Italiana in 2001. Roma would also reach the Coppa Italia final during the 2002–03 season, losing out to Milan.

Juventus
After a prolonged transfer saga in which Roma wanted to sell Emerson to Real Madrid instead of Serie A rivals Juventus, Emerson was eventually sold to Juventus (which he preferred) in 2004 for €12 million plus Matteo Brighi (who was valued at €16 million), following in the footsteps of his former club coach, Fabio Capello. Moreover, an additional €4 million was paid to the agents, which made Emerson cost €32 million in total. Emerson won two consecutive Serie A titles with Juventus during the 2004–05 and the 2005–06 seasons, but both titles were revoked following the club's involvement in the 2006 Italian football scandal.

Real Madrid
After two seasons with Juventus, and following their relegation to Serie B due to their role in the 2006 Italian football scandal, Emerson moved to Real Madrid on 19 July 2006, again following Fabio Capello, costing Real Madrid €16 million. However, due to the declining relationship between Emerson and Capello and Emerson's poor performances for Real Madrid, in January 2007 Emerson stated his desire to return to Juventus, while it was rumoured he would be willing to take a pay cut.

However, by May, Emerson's performances had improved considerably, along with a great improvement in the team's results, and on 12 May 2007 he declared his intention to remain with Real Madrid. But in his conversation with the radio program El Larguero, Real Madrid club president Ramón Calderón said Emerson would leave Real Madrid in the summer (along with the Italian striker Antonio Cassano) for technical reasons. Emerson won La Liga in his only season with Real Madrid.

Milan
On 21 August 2007, Milan officially confirmed the transfer of Emerson for €6 million. He made his Milan debut in the club's 3–1 UEFA Super Cup victory over Sevilla on 31 August. However, Emerson was unable to contribute significantly to his new club due to injury, only managing 20 appearances for Milan in the 2007–08 season. Nonetheless, he was also able to win the 2007 FIFA Club World Cup with Milan. On 21 April 2009, he and the club mutually agreed to terminate his contract.

Immediately following his release, Emerson began negotiations with Grêmio with the aim of ending his career with his first club. However, due to international transfer restrictions, Emerson was unable to join Grêmio until August 2009 at the earliest.

Santos
After his release from Milan, on 26 July 2009 Emerson signed a contract with Santos. On 16 October 2009, Emerson decided to terminate his contract and leave Santos due to injury problems. Emerson then underwent surgery and retired from active competition.

Miami Dade FC
On 3 November 2015, Emerson announced he was joining Miami Dade FC of the American Premier Soccer League (APSL). On 7 May 2017, Emerson made his debut for Miami Dade alongside former Brazil national team player Gabriel in a 3–1 victory against Jupiter United. On 2 July, he won the 2017 Regular Season Championship, undefeated.

International career
Emerson made his Brazil debut on 10 September 1997, in a home friendly match against Ecuador, in Salvador, Bahia, also scoring a goal in the match, as Brazil went on to win 4–2. He was a late replacement for Romário at the 1998 FIFA World Cup following Romário's injury. The defending World Cup champions Brazil reached the final, losing 3–0 to hosts and eventual champions France. (Four years later, it would be Emerson who would miss out on a spot at the 2002 World Cup due to injury.)

The following year, Emerson won the 1999 Copa América with Brazil, as Brazil overcame Uruguay in the final. Emerson scored one goal during the tournament, in Brazil's 7–0 win in its opening group match against Venezuela. Brazil also reached the final of the 1999 FIFA Confederations Cup that year, where they lost the trophy to hosts Mexico in the final. Emerson scored his second international goal on 31 March 1999, in a friendly match against Japan in Tokyo, which Brazil won 2–0. Emerson scored his first double for Brazil on 23 February 2000 in a friendly match in Bangkok against Thailand, which Brazil won 7–0.

Emerson was intended to be the original captain for Brazil's 2002 World Cup team, but he suffered an unfortunate injury in training before the first match of the tournament, dislocating his shoulder when attempting to parry a shot by a teammate. He was replaced by Ricardinho of Corinthians, while Cafu replaced him as captain. Brazil would ultimately win the tournament.

In 2005, Emerson won the 2005 Confederations Cup with Brazil, who defeated South American rivals Argentina 4–1 in the final, as well as overcoming hosts Germany 3–2 in the semi-finals. On 30 March 2005, Emerson scored a goal in an away 1–1 draw against Uruguay in a 2006 World Cup qualifying match. In the 2006 World Cup, he played in three of Brazil's five matches at the tournament, appearing in Brazil's two opening wins over Croatia and Australia during the group stage, while he was rested in the final group match against Japan, which Brazil won 4–1. He also appeared in Brazil's 3–0 round of 16 victory over Ghana, although he was taken off in the 46th minute after sustaining an injury. This would be Emerson's final match for Brazil. Brazil were eventually knocked out in the quarter-finals by eventual finalists France. Emerson was excluded from the starting line-up in Brazil's quarter-final match due to injury.

After the 2006 World Cup, Emerson retired from the national team, having scored 6 goals in 73 appearances. In addition to the aforementioned tournaments, Emerson also represented Brazil in the 2001 Copa América, in Colombia, where Brazil lost in the quarter-finals to Honduras; and in the 2003 Confederations Cup in France, where Brazil was surprisingly eliminated in the first round, finishing third in their group.

Playing style
Emerson was an experienced, quick, combative, hardworking and dynamic player, who was capable of being deployed in several midfield positions. He played as a central midfielder, and as a box-to-box midfielder on occasion, although his main position was that of a defensive midfielder, who was renowned for breaking down the opposition's play through his efficient tackling, stamina, anticipation, and ability to read the game. He was also capable of subsequently starting up attacking plays once he won back possession, due to his quick and effective passing style, as well as his technique. These attributes led to his nickname Il Puma for his elegant, yet powerful, feline movements when chasing down opponents in midfield. He was also gifted with a powerful and accurate shot from distance, although he was also known to be injury prone.

Career statistics

Club

International

International goals
Scores list Braziltally first.

Honours

Club
Grêmio
Copa do Brasil: 1994, 1997
Copa Libertadores: 1995
Recopa Sudamericana: 1996
Série A: 1996

Roma
Serie A: 2000–01
Supercoppa Italiana: 2001

Real Madrid
La Liga: 2006–07

Milan
UEFA Super Cup: 2007
FIFA Club World Cup: 2007

Miami Dade FC
APSL Regular Season: 2016
APSL Regular Season: 2017
APSL Champions: 2017

International
Brazil
FIFA World Cup: 1998 (runners-up)
Copa América: 1999
FIFA Confederations Cup: 2005

Individual
kicker Bundesliga Team of the Season: 1999–2000

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Galway Connemara (UK Parliament constituency)

Connemara, a division of Galway, was a UK Parliament constituency in Ireland, returning one Member of Parliament (MP) from 1885 to 1922.

Prior to the 1885 United Kingdom general election the area was part of the Galway County constituency. From 1922 it was not represented in the UK Parliament.

Boundaries
This constituency comprised the north-western part of County Galway. In 1918, with the abolition of the Galway borough constituency, the constituency was redrawn to include the town of Galway and exclude an area which had been transferred to County Mayo under the 1898 Local Government Act.

1885–1918: The baronies of Ballynahinch, Moycullen, and Ross.

1918–1922: The rural districts of Clifden and Oughterard, the District Electoral Divisions of Barna, Furbogh, Kilcummin, Killannin, Moycullen, Selerna, Slievenaneena, Spiddle and Tullokyne in the rural district of Galway, and the urban district of Galway.

For details of the area's traditional boundaries see Connemara.

Members of Parliament

Elections

Elections in the 1880s

Elections in the 1890s

Elections in the 1900s

Elections in the 1910s

References

Sources
Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801–1922, edited by B.M. Walker (Royal Irish Academy 1978)

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Berkshire Scenic Railway Museum

The Berkshire Scenic Railway Museum  is a railroad museum located in Lenox, Massachusetts, United States, that offers historical exhibits. The museum was founded in 1984 as a not-for-profit organization. During the 1980s and 2003-2011 it offered tourist train rides between Lenox and Stockbridge on the Housatonic Railroad right-of-way. In 2016 the museum began tourist train service in North Adams, Massachusetts.

Initial train service
In 1984 the Berkshire Scenic Railway Museum began operating passenger excursions between Lee and Great Barrington, over tracks owned by the Housatonic Railroad. Due to deteriorating track conditions, passenger operations were suspended in 1989. The excursion trains returned in 2003, based at the restored station in Lenox, with regular schedules to Lee and Stockbridge. Special events are sometimes held in conjunction with railroad operations.

In 2011, the Housatonic Railroad announced it would not be renewing its agreement with the Berkshire Scenic Railway Museum which allowed the operation of excursion trains on its tracks. Colin Pease, spokesperson for HRRC, said, "The Housatonic Railroad has determined that the continued operation of the Berkshire Scenic Railway on Housatonic-owned tracks is no longer possible." Pease could not give a reason as to why the relationship suddenly changed, though several unfounded accusations were made towards the volunteer group in the press.

Hoosac Valley Train
In 2014, the museum received a $200,000 state grant to move its excursion train operations and begin Hoosac Valley Service tourist train rides between Adams and North Adams. The Town of Adams spent $500,000 renovating a former car wash into a railroad station. MassDOT is purchasing this portion of the Adams Branch from private railroads.

In November 2015 the City of North Adams completed an agreement to lease land for a temporary passenger platform for the Hoosac Valley line. The museum announced that rail service would begin in May 2016, and that one-hour round trip rides would be offered every weekend through the summer, departing from North Adams.

References

External links
Berkshire Scenic Railway Museum

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Naushad Irshad

Naushad Irshad (born 15 December 1993) is a Pakistani first-class cricketer who played for Quetta cricket team.

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2007 Golden CUP

The 2007 Golden CUP was the inaugural international Golden CUP futsal tournament. It was held in Guarda, Portugal between March 6 and July 8, 2007.

Qualified teams

The following six teams played in the final tournament.

  Shensa Saveh
  Sporting CP
  M97 Las Palmas

  GDR Lameirinhas
  Sporting Club de Paris
  AF Firenze

Group stage

Group A

Group B

Classification 1st–6th

5th place match

3rd place match

Final

Final standing

Awards

 Most Valuable Player
  Mohsen Zareei
 Top Scorer
  Davi (11 goals)
 Best Goalkeeper
  Javad Montazer

References

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League of Denial

League of Denial is a 2013 book, initially broadcast as a documentary film, about traumatic brain injury in the National Football League (NFL), particularly concussions and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). The documentary, entitled League of Denial: The NFL's Concussion Crisis, was produced by Frontline and broadcast on PBS. The book was written by ESPN reporters Mark Fainaru-Wada and Steve Fainaru. The book and film devote significant attention to the story of Mike Webster and his football-related brain injuries, and the pathologist who examined Webster's brain, Bennet Omalu. The film also looks closely at the efforts of researchers led by Ann McKee at Boston University's Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, where the brains of a number of former NFL athletes have been examined.

Production

ESPN had originally been a partner in the project, but backed out later claiming a lack of editorial control. There was speculation that this was due to pressure from the NFL. Although ESPN pulled out of the documentary project, they remain involved in the book deal, including promoting the book on their website, and airing excerpts from the documentary on the program Outside the Lines.

During the documentary, Omalu recalled a discussion with an NFL doctor while reviewing Webster's case. Omalu said the NFL doctor told him "Bennett, do you know the implications of what you're doing? If 10 percent of mothers in this country would begin to perceive football as a dangerous sport, that is the end of football." Frontline in 2010 produced a documentary on health issues in youth sports with a focus on repeated concussions and subconcussive blows in high school football.

The documentary received a Peabody Award in 2013.

Critical response

Response to the documentary was positive, with many reviewers commenting on how powerful it was, and how it may change their views of football going forward, although noting that much of the information had been written about or shown before.

Michael Humphrey from Forbes wrote that "to deny the implications of the show and not, at the very least, take that potential hypocrisy very seriously, would be delusional. If I keep watching [football], it is at my own ethical risk. And I honestly don’t know what I’m going to do." The New Republic wrote that "There is not a ton of brand-new such evidence in the documentary" but that "What is groundbreaking about League of Denial, rather, is the cleanness, coherence, and conciseness of the storytelling". The New York Daily News said "The only problem with the much-touted Frontline investigative report League of Denial is that it probably should have been subtitled "Nation of Denial." Kevin McFarland of The A.V. Club wrote "League Of Denial provides an excellent, mandatory two-hour overview of the rise in research on this subject." and "Football is a dead sport walking in the United States. It may look healthy, vibrant, and more profitable than ever. But in a few generations it will be a flimsy husk of itself at its height. The damning evidence is all here in League Of Denial." USA Today wrote "if this documentary made even a sliver of the league's fans, personnel and fellow media stop and reflect for a few hours Tuesday night, it was well worth the exercise."

The New York Times said "The program doesn't give the league much credit for recent rule changes and other safety initiatives, instead underscoring its continuing reluctance to acknowledge a link between the sport and brain injuries and its reliance on language that pushes any day of reckoning into the future." and "Much of this has already been reported, with Alan Schwarz of The New York Times often leading the way, but the program will certainly be eye-opening for anyone—especially parents with children of Pop Warner league age—who hasn't followed the subject closely or seen The United States of Football, a documentary released in August."

NFL senior vice president of health and safety policy Jeff Miller said "[for two decades the league has been a] leader in addressing the issue of head injuries in a serious way" and "By any standard, the NFL has made a profound commitment to the health and safety of its players that can be seen in every aspect of the game, and the results have been both meaningful and measurable."

See also
 Head Games, documentary and book by Christopher Nowinski on repeated trauma in contact sport
 Concussions in sport
 Dementia pugilistica
 Helmet-to-helmet collision
 Concussion

References

External links
 Frontline: "League of Denial: The NFL's Concussion Crisis" PBS site for the documentary, where it can be viewed for free.

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Brent Pry

Brent Pry (born April 1, 1970), is an American football coach and former player.  He is currently the defensive coordinator and linebackers coach for the Penn State Nittany Lions.  He played college football for the Buffalo Bulls.

Early life
Brent was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania, the son of Altoona High graduates Jim and Kathy Pry.  His father played college football at Marshall and is a long-time college coach.  Brent a 1988 graduate of Lexington High in Lexington, Va., was an all-region quarterback and defensive back.

College playing career
Brent started his college career as a free safety at Division III, Maryville College in 1988, he later transferred to the Division III, University of Buffalo where he lettered in 1990. Suffering a career-ending injury in 1991, he returned as a student coach for the 1992 season.

Coaching career

Early coaching career
Brent began his coaching career in 1993 as the outside linebacker and defensive backs coach for the NCAA Division II, East Stroudsburg Warriors. Pry spent two seasons with the Warriors where his father Jim, served as the offensive coordinator and mentored future Penn State head coach and All-PSAC quarterback James Franklin.  From 1995 to 1997 Pry served as a graduate assistant with Virginia Tech under defensive coordinator Bud Foster, where he helped the Hokies to three bowl games, including a win in the 1995 Sugar Bowl.  Pry spent his next four seasons at FCS Western Carolina University. He coached the defensive line in 1998 and 1999, and defensive backs and special teams in 2000 and 2001. He also served as the Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) liaison. Serving as the defensive coordinator at Louisiana-Lafayette from 2002 to 2006, helping the Ragin' Cajuns to their first Sun Belt Conference championship in 2005.  As the defensive line coach for the Memphis Tigers from 2007 to 2009, Pry helped the Tigers to back-to-back bowl appearances and molded a defensive line in 2008 into one of the Conference USA's best.

Georgia Southern
While serving as defensive coordinator at Georgia Southern in 2010, the Eagles finished ninth in total defense (286.93), 11th in scoring defense (18.47) and 11th in passing defense (159.93). His defensive unit helped the Eagles to a 10-5 overall record, that included a win over No. 1 Appalachian State and an appearance in the NCAA FCS semifinals.  It also included a 31–15 victory over William & Mary in the second round of playoffs, that pitted Pry against future coaching mates Bob Shoop (DC) and David Corley Jr.(QBs).

Vanderbilt
Pry tutored the Vanderbilt linebackers and was co-defensive coordinator from 2011–13. The linebackers led the team in tackles-for-loss during each of Pry's three seasons for the Commodores and he helped Chris Marve earn All-SEC accolades in 2011.

Penn State
As co-defensive coordinator for Penn State, Pry helped direct a unit that had back-to-back Top 15 finishes in total defense. For his efforts, Pry was a finalist for 2014 Football Scoop's Linebackers Coach of the Year. He helped Mike Hull earn the Big Ten Butkus-Fitzgerald Award, given to the conference's best linebacker and eight All-America honors in 2014. Hull led the Big Ten with 140 tackles, which also ranked 7th in the country and tied for fourth-most for a Nittany Lion in a single season.

After the departure of defensive coordinator Bob Shoop, Pry was promoted to associate head coach and defensive coordinator on January 10, 2016.  In his first season as defensive coordinator, Pry guiding a defense that finished 37th in FBS total defense (367.9), and helped the Nittany Lions to a Big Ten Championship despite a significant number of injuries to the linebacking corps.

In 2017, the defense finished the regular season seventh in the nation and second in the Big Ten in scoring defense, averaging 15.5 points per game.  Pry's defense also finished with a pair of shutout victories and only allowed more than 20 points in a game just three times.  Seven times he saw his defense hold opponents scoreless in at least one half the game (Akron, Georgia State, Indiana, Northwestern, Michigan, Rutgers, Maryland).  Penn State finished with an 11–2 record capped off by a Fiesta Bowl victory over the Washington Huskies.  Three players were selected from the defense in the 2018 NFL Draft, safety Troy Apke in the fourth round (109th overall), safety Marcus Allen in the fifth round (148th overall) and cornerback Christian Campbell was selected by the Arizona Cardinals in the sixth round (182nd overall).

In 2018, Pry's defense lead the country in sacks per game with 3.62 and finished fourth in tackles for loss with 8.2.  The Penn State secondary had one of its best seasons since 2014, finishing the season with 13 interceptions and allowing a 53.6 completion rate.  The Nittany Lions also held three opponents to 60 or less yards through the air, this was the first time PSU had accomplished this feat since the 1976 season.  Cornerback Amani Oruwariye and defensive end Yetur Gross-Matos made the All-Big Ten first team.  Six additional players, from the defense, received all-conference recognition.  Defensive end Shareef Miller, cornerback Amani Oruwariye and safety Nick Scott were selected in the 2019 NFL Draft.

Personal
Date of Birth: April 1, 1970
Hometown: Altoona, Pa.
Alma Mater: University of Buffalo 1993
Education: Bachelor's, History 1993
Family: wife, Amy; son, Colby, daughters, Madeline and Catherine

References

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