Priidu Beier

Priidu Beier (pseudonyms: Matti Moguči, Pierre Bezuhhov; born 16 October 1957 in Tartu) is an Estonian poet and teacher. He has edited several publications and is also a member of the Estonian Writers' Union and Estonian Literary Society. Between 1984–1990 he was the Head of the Pedagogical arts sector of Tartu Art Museum. In 2007 he presented a poetry collection in Tartu with Kerti Tergem. According to Tartu Postimees, Beier lives like a monk. He teaches art history at the Hugo Treffner Gymnasium in Tartu.

Selected works
 Vastus (1986)
 Tulikiri (1989)
 Mustil päevil (1991)
 Femme fatale (1997)
 Maavalla keiser (2000)
 Saatmata kirjad (2007)

References

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Category:Living people
Category:20th-century Estonian poets
Category:21st-century Estonian poets


Rugby union in the Northern Territory

Rugby union is a mostly amateur sport within the Northern Territory in Australia. The game is run by the Northern Territory Rugby Union, composed of representatives from clubs, regional rugby unions, referees, and affiliated bodies for schools and junior rugby.

There is no professional rugby team based in NT but the annual Hottest 7s tournament held in Darwin draws teams from around Australia and overseas, and awards prize money to the winners.

History of rugby union in the Northern Territory

The rugby union competition in Darwin was started in the reconstruction phase following Cyclone Tracy. A New Zealander named David Cooper advertised for other interested players which led to the founding of the Northern Territory Rugby Union in 1975. The first Darwin club rugby competition match was played on 2 October 1976 at Alawa Oval between the South Darwin Rabbitohs and the RSL Dragons (now the Darwin Dragons).

From 1983 onward, the Bushratz RUFC from Jabiru played in the Darwin 2nd grade competition, and also briefly in the Katherine competition in 2009. However, due to a shortage of player numbers (as of 2013), the club no longer takes part in these competitions.

In 1984, the Alice Springs club competition was started by the Central Australian Rugby Union. The Katherine club competition was established by the Katherine Rugby Union in 1987.  Katherine also later briefly fielded a composite team in the Darwin competition, but found the logistics associated with the travel distance difficult to sustain.

In 1989, the inaugural Territory 7s tournament was held in Darwin and won by Fijian team Duavata. The annual tournament was renamed the Hottest 7s in 2005, and the organizers in 2013 claimed it was the richest rugby sevens tournament in the Southern Hemisphere with a prize pool of $65,000.

The East Arnhem Rugby Union was created in Nhulunbuy in 2004, with a junior rugby competition played during the Dry Season between April and August. Teams from East Arnhem (initially under the name of Gove Rugby) have regularly entered tournaments such as the Darwin Hottest 7s and Singapore CC 7s.

Club competitions

Darwin
The Darwin club rugby competition runs from March to September since switching from Wet Season to Dry Season in 2003, and is administered by the Northern Territory Rugby Union. There are six clubs based in the Darwin metropolitan area that have 1st and 2nd grade open teams, and juniors from under 7 to under 17. Some clubs also have a women’s team.
 Casuarina Cougars
 Darwin Dragons
 Palmerston Crocs
 South Darwin Rabbitohs
 Swampdogs
 University Pirates

Alice Springs
The Alice Springs club rugby competition runs over the summer from November to April and is administered by the Central Australian Rugby Union. There are four clubs (as of 2013) with one open grade team each:
 Alice Springs Eagles
 Dingo Cubs
 Federal Devils
 Kiwi Warriors

Katherine
The Katherine club rugby competition runs over the Wet Season from October to April and is administered by the Katherine Rugby Union. There are four clubs (as of 2013) with one open grade team each:
 Barbarians Rugby Union Football Club
 Brahmans Rugby Union Football Club
 Pirates Rugby Union Football Club
 Tindal Lions Rugby Union Football Club

Representative teams
Senior and junior representative teams are selected from players within the Northern Territory each year to compete against representative rugby teams from other Australian states and territories. The senior men's team is known as the Mosquitoes and the senior women's team is known as the Goannas. Team colours are ochre, black and white.

The Mosquitoes competed in the Australian Rugby Shield prior to the cancellation of the competition after the 2008 season.

From 2018 an additional competition was formed for teams from so-called "Minor States", called the Emerging States Championship, featuring the Mosquitos, Adelaide Black Falcons, Victoria Country Barbarians and the Tasmania Jack Jumpers. The first Competition was held in Adelaide in September 2018, and the Black Falcons were the inaugural winners.

References

External links
 Official website: Northern Territory Rugby Union
 Official website: Darwin Hottest 7s

Category:Rugby union in the Northern Territory
Category:Sport in the Northern Territory


Wakamba!

Wakamba! is a 1955 American docudrama film which takes place in Kenya.  It is a dramatized presentation of some of the social customs of the Bantu people, as represented through a young native hunter, Tandu. Narrated by Paul E. Prentiss, the film was a co-production of the American Museum of Natural History and Jarville Studios, and was released by RKO Radio Pictures on June 29, 1955.

See also
List of American films of 1955

References

External links

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Category:American films
Category:1950s documentary films


Sepidiini

The Sepidiini is a tribe of ground-dwelling darkling beetles (Tenebrionidae), that occurs across Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Arabian Peninsula and Mesopotamia. It is composed of many hundreds of species. The larvae of some species are known to damage crops.

Morphology
Their morphology is complex due to their richly divergent forms. They are distinguished from the diurnal taxa, by their well-developed and true hypomera of the elytra, the free mobility of the thorax and hind body, and the free and non-fused pleurital and pleural margins of the sterna and elytra respectively.

Biology
Their morphology is believed to facilitate moisture absorption and accumulation, via the open body sutures and the loosely joined body parts. Subtribe Trachynotina excepting, they show an almost uniform tendency to be nocturnal, crepuscular or shade-loving. Like the tribe Tentyriini, their daily rhythm is based on a strictly nocturnal ancestral disposition. Their open and non-connate body sutures suggest the enjoyment of nocturnal conditions and night moisture.

At night, a surface secretion of a sometimes pruinescent or waxy substance has been noted on the bodies of genera Brinckia, Namibomodes,  Synhimba and Ocnodes (or Phanerotomea). This is assumed to prevent evaporation.

Taxonomy
The tribe Sepidiini is made up of 6 subtribes, about 55 genera, and more than 900 species. These genera belong to the tribe Sepidiini:

 Amiantus Fåhraeus, 1870
 Argenticrinis Louw, 1979
 Arturium Koch, 1951
 Bombocnodulus Koch, 1955
 Brachyphrynus Fairmaire, 1882
 Brinckia Koch, 1962
 Cyrtoderes Dejean, 1834
 Decoriplus Louw, 1979
 Dichtha Haag-Rutenberg, 1871
 Dimoniacis Koch, 1958
 Distretus Haag-Rutenberg, 1871
 Echinotus Solier, 1843
 Epairopsis Koch, 1955
 Ethmus Haag-Rutenberg-Rutenberg, 1873
 Euphrynus Fairmaire, 1897
 Glyptophrynus Fairmaire, 1899
 Histrionotus Koch, 1955
 Huilamus Koch, 1953
 Hypomelus Solier, 1843
 Iugidorsum Louw, 1979
 Melanolophus Fairmaire, 1882
 Microphligra Koch, 1955
 Miripronotum Louw, 1979
 Moluris Latreille, 1802
 Namibomodes Koch, 1952
 Ocnodes Fåhraeus, 1870(= Phanerotomea Koch, 1958)
 Ossiporis Pascoe, 1866
 Oxura Kirby, 1819
 Oxycerus Koch, 1955
 Palpomodes Koch, 1952
 Peringueyia Koch, 1958
 Phrynocolus Lacordaire, 1859
 Phrynophanes Koch, 1951
 Physophrynus Fairmaire, 1882
 Psammodes Kirby, 1819(= Parmularia Koch, 1955)
 Psammophanes Lesne, 1922
 Psammoryssus Kolbe, 1886
 Psammotyria Koch, 1953
 Pterostichula Koch, 1952
 Sepidiopsis Gestro, 1892
 Sepidiostenus Fairmaire, 1884
 Sepidium Fabricius, 1775
 Somaticus Hope, 1840
 Stenethmus Gebien, 1937
 Stridulomus Koch, 1955
 Sulcipectus Louw, 1979
 Synhimba Koch, 1952
 Tarsocnodes Gebien, 1920
 Trachynotidus Péringuey, 1899
 Trachynotus Latreille, 1828
 Triangulipenna Louw, 1979
 Trichethmus Gebien, 1937
 Uniungulum Koch, 1962
 Vieta Laporte, 1840
 Vietomorpha Fairmaire, 1887

Gallery

References

External links
 Molurini , micro*scope

Category:Pimeliinae
Category:Polyphaga tribes


African Development Trophy

The African Development Trophy is a rugby union tournament consisting of 16 teams played in the continent of Africa, formerly named the CAR Castel Beer Trophy. It is organised by the Confederation of African Rugby and is also known as the CAR Super 16. The tournament contains the teams in the second level of African rugby, below those playing in the Africa Cup. The competition is divided into north and south sections with two pools of four in each section. The winners of these pools will go on to play each other in the final where the winner of both north and south will be found.

Summary

See also
Africa Cup

External links
Official website

Category:2004 establishments in Africa
Category:Rugby union competitions in Africa for national teams


Frodingham railway station

Frodingham railway station was a railway station in Frodingham, Lincolnshire, England. It was open by the Trent, Ancholme and Grimsby Railway on 1 October 1866 and, like all the others built by that company, had staggered platforms set around the level crossing on the Brigg Road. The first station here was closed in autumn 1886, when a new Frodingham station, built by the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway, was opened, to the west of the Brigg Road level crossing. This station was suffixed "and Scunthorpe" at some date and was closed in 1928, when the LNER opened a new station which it named Scunthorpe nearer to the town centre.

References

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Category:Railway stations closed in 1928
Category:Disused railway stations in the Borough of North Lincolnshire
Category:1866 establishments in England
Category:Former Great Central Railway stations


Langford, Nottinghamshire

Langford is a village and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, England. It is located four miles north-east of Newark-on-Trent and two miles East from The River Trent. Population details are included in the civil parish of Holme. It is based on A1133 which comes off of the A46. Although Langford is currently located two miles from The River Trent it has not always been this way. In "1575 there was a cataclysmic flood" which altered the course of the Trent which meant Langford and Holme were now on the same side of the river. Before this change in the rivers course the Trent used to flow next to St Bartholomew's church and Holme was on the opposite side of the bank.

John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870–72) records Langford as follows:

The village gives its name to the nearby Langford Lowfields RSPB reserve, a tarmac and sand quarry that is gradually being transformed into a nature reserve with extensive reedbeds. The site is home to species such as sand martin, bearded tit and Cetti's warbler.

Population
At the time of the 2001 census, the most recent census data available for Langford, it had a population of 100 with 37 households. This is less than in previous centuries – in 1801 it was 124, 1811 was 118, 1821 was 147, etc. Until 1901, 145 (at that time the village had its own school with two teachers) there was a 20% decrease in the population. There was one more increase in the population in 1911 of 9% but there was then a steady decrease until 1960.

However, the fewest people to ever live in Langford is none, as in "1593 the village was 'dispeopled' to make way for sheep". This also resulted in the present site of the village to be about half a mile from its previous site.

The population density of England and Wales between 1880 and 1960 has been increasing at a steady rate whereas Langford has barely changed at all in comparison. Langford has had small changes in its population density but overall in the 80-year period it has slightly decreased.

Industry
In 1800 Langford had a population of 124, with 116 employed in agricultural work which is likely to have been farming due to the landscape of the area.

In 1831 there were only three occupational categories in use in Langford, all related to agricultural work which is common in a civil parish at this date. These occupations were farmers employing labourers, farmers not employing labourers and agricultural labourers. Over half were agricultural labourers, just over a quarter farmers employing labourers and only four farmers not employing labourers.

By 1881 the range of occupational categories became more varied. "Agriculture" was still recorded as the most common occupation in Langford with 43 males and 1 female working in this category. The second most prevalent occupation was "Domestic service or offices", which was subject to mainly female workers (13) and only two men in this category.

Other occupations of Langford in 1881 included working as "General/Local Government", "Professionals", "Transport and Comm", "Animals", "Wrks in Dress" and "Wrks in Var. Mineral Substances". These were less popular occupations at the time and only had 13 people working between these categories. The more laboured occupations only had males working in them, e.g. "Wrks in Var.  Mineral Substances", whereas the females mainly worked in less physical environments such as "General/Local Government" work. It was also recorded that there were 13 "persons without specified occupations", and 16 with "unknown occupations". All 13 in these categories came under female.

Housing

In 1831 Langford had 25 houses in total and stayed around this number until 1851 until 1881 when it increased to 31 houses and 32 in 1891. By 1901 Langford had a total of 28 households. This then increased to 42 by 1961, with a variation of increases and decreases in that time as the graph, Langford Nottinghamshire Total Household Chart 1901–1961 (on the right), shows. Within this period there was only one vacant house. Also, from 1931 to 1961 the total rooms in Langford has also increased by 55 rooms which is not surprising because of the increase in houses at this point as well.

Architecture
The present village dates from a rebuilding in the 18th century, the original medieval village now only earthworks in fields to the West. Langford Old Hall is a stone building of the 17th century. Langford Hall is a brick building built between 1780 and 1790 for the Duncombe family, built by John Carr. The parish church of St Bartholomew is to the north of the village.

Lords
In 1066 it was recorded in the Domesday Book that Leofric the noble son of Leofwin was Lord of Langford and was lord of another 16 parishes/villages until the time of the Norman conquest of England. Then Ranulf, who was not associated with any places before the conquest, became Lord of Langford as well as another 100 locations by 1086. The value of this land to the Lord between 1066 and 1086, according to The Domesday Book, was between £4 – £4.50 and had a taxable value of 2.4 geld (Danegeld) units.

References

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Category:Newark and Sherwood


English ship Antelope (1546)

The Antelope was a ship of the English Tudor navy, launched in 1546. She was rebuilt three times, in 1558, 1581 and 1618. She thus served in various forms from the time of King Henry VIII to the English Civil War. She is mostly remembered for being a part of the fleet that defeated the Spanish Armada.

History of the ship
According to the royal inventory of 1547, the Antelope had a crew of 170 with 30 gunners. Her armaments included; a brass demi-cannon; 3 brass culverins; 4 iron demi-culverins; 3 sakers; 4 port pieces; 2 slings; 2 demi-slings; 2 quarter-slings; 11 iron single bases; 8 hagbuts and 4 hail-shot pieces. Handarms included 50 yew bows, 86 bills, and 72 Moorish pikes. The Antelope was described in a navy list of 5 January 1548 as a "galleass" of 300 tons built in 1546 with a crew of 200 and armed with 4 brass and 40 iron guns. As depicted in the Anthony Roll, she was a flush-decked vessel carrying a battery of guns on the lower deck; she carried a four-masted rig and her lower deck was pierced for nine pairs of gunports. In 1549 she was re-classed from a galleass to a 'ship'. In action against Scotland, the Antelope was one of 12 ships dispersed by a storm off Flamborough Head on Wednesday 27 December 1559. Captain Southwick brought her back to join William Winter's fleet in the Firth of Forth.

She was rebuilt in 1558 as a galleon of 341 tons, acquiring a forecastle and a half-deck aft. In 1581 she was again rebuilt as a race-built galleon of 400 tons. A more detailed description is given in a navy list of 1603 where she is said to have measured 350 tons and had a crew of 160 (consisting of 114 sailors, 16 gunners and 30 soldiers). At this time, Antelope carried 26 heavy and 12 light guns.

She participated in the campaign against the Spanish Armada in 1588, when she had a crew of 170 and mounted 30 guns. The Antelope was captained by Sir Henry Palmer and belonged to the squadron of Lord Henry Seymour in which she took part in the Battle of Gravelines and the chase of the Spanish fleet to the north. In 1597 Antelope, then commanded by Captain Sir Thomas Vavasour, participated in the unsuccessful expedition against the Azores led by the Earl of Essex and Sir Walter Raleigh.

She was again rebuilt in 1618 and classified as a middling ship of 450 tons and 34 guns. The only remarkable action in her later career is her participation in Sir Robert Mansells disappointing expedition against Algiers in 1620/1621. In the beginning of October 1624 Antelope - then under the command of Sir Thomas Button - was hit by a storm and driven onto the Goodwin Sands after her anchor cables where cut by a merchant ship. Though she lost all her masts and her rudder she got off into the Downs and was repaired by Phineas Pett whose son John had been on board. He left a description of this incident in his Autobiography.

During the Second English Civil War she was among the ships that were brought over to the royalist side by vice admiral William Batten in June 1648 and carried into  Hellevoetsluis in the Netherlands. When Prince Rupert was made commander of the badly equipped royalist fleet, he sold Antelope'''s brass guns to fit out some other ships. In the spring of 1649 Antelope was ready for sea, but her weak crew was surprised by a raid of seamen from the parliamentarian ship Happy Entrance who took the ship without a fight and immediately destroyed her.

Notes

References
 Clowes, William Laird: The Royal Navy. A History from the Earliest Times to 1900, vols. 1-2,1896-1898
 Lavery, Brian (2003) The Ship of the Line - Volume 1: The development of the battlefleet 1650-1850. Conway Maritime Press. .
 Winfield, Rif (2009) British Warships in the Age of Sail 1603-1714: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates. Seaforth Publishing. .
 Knighton, C. S. & Loades, David M., The Anthony Roll of Henry VIII's Navy: Pepys Library 2991 and British Library Additional MS 22047 with related documents.'' Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot. 2000.

Category:Ships of the English navy
Category:English Civil War
Category:16th-century ships


Frenchtown, New Jersey

Frenchtown is a borough in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, United States. Frenchtown is located along the banks of the Delaware River on the Hunterdon Plateau thirty two miles northwest of the state capital Trenton. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough's population was 1,373, reflecting a decline of 115 (-7.7%) from the 1,488 counted in the 2000 Census, which had in turn declined by 40 (-2.6%) from the 1,528 counted in the 1990 Census.

History

Naming Frenchtown
Various names have been applied to this settlement after the many ferry operators residing on both sides of the river. The community had variously been known as Alexandriaville, Sunbeam and Frenchtown over the years. The Borough was formed by an Incorporation act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 4, 1867, from portions of Alexandria Township. Additional territory was acquired from Kingwood Township in 1876.

Bridges
The first bridge across the Delaware at Frenchtown was a six-span covered wooden bridge built in 1841 on the five piers that still stand today, and the community became a gateway to Pennsylvania. The present day steel truss Uhlerstown-Frenchtown Bridge is a free Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission bridge over the Delaware River connecting Frenchtown to Uhlerstown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

Indians and early European settlers
The Lenape Native Americans had populated the area until they were fully supplanted by European settlement around 1750. About 1725, a group of French Huguenot refugees settled in Hunterdon County. Originally from the Picardy region of France, they had fled after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 when the King began persecution of non Catholics in France. One notable settler was Luther Calvin, a landowner and ferry operator who also bought a Hotel on Everittstown Road. Calvin also served as a 1st Lieutenant of the Associated Companies in 1756 during the French and Indian War. In 1757, three joint owners of a tract purchased from the West Jersey Land Society began laying out streets and building lots at what was then known as Calvin's Ferry. The developing town was to be called "Alexandria" in honor of William Alexander, Lord Stirling, one of the three owners. In 1776, the three sold the settlement to Thomas Lowrey, a Flemington speculator. In 1794, Lowrey sold the tract to Paul Henri Mallet-Prevost, a Swiss fugitive from the French Revolution. He and other early settlers were French speaking, leading some to begin calling the settlement "Frenchtown."

The canal, railroad, and industry
Lambertville grew substantially in the next four decades. A trade in grain and other farm products brought into town developed. Boatmen and river men helped fuel Frenchtown's growth through their buying of cargo and food, and hiring of pilots. In the years after Henri Mallet-Prevost's death, his sons sold off portions of their property and no longer was the town privately owned.

The arrival of the Belvidere Delaware Railroad in 1853 sparked continued growth in Frenchtown. Steam-powered industry became widely developed, and by the 1860s, water powered mills were being converted into larger factories. Around the same time, the town had three major hotels: The Lower Hotel (Present day Frenchtown Inn), The Middle Hotel (no longer existing), and the Upper Hotel (The National Hotel). In 1889, Britton Brothers Big Brick Store, which sold a variety of goods, opened on Bridge Street. The railroad eventually became a branch of the Pennsylvania Railroad. It no longer operates but its tracks are still evident. The Delaware and Raritan Canal had been constructed adjacent to the Delaware River in the 1800s. It was quickly abandoned upon the arrival of the paralleling railroad. Its extant towpaths are now a popular biking and hiking trail from Trenton through Lambertville to Frenchtown and beyond. It is maintained by the State of New Jersey as the Delaware and Raritan State Park Trail.

In the early 20th century, growth was spurred by the arrival of Frenchtown Porcelain Works, the establishment of the Milford plant of the Warren Paper Company, and the rise of the poultry industry.

Floods
Hurricane Diane in 1955 raised the level of the Delaware River dramatically and flooded the streets of Frenchtown as well as other riverbank towns and caused serious damage to buildings and residences. Frenchtown streets have flooded on occasion due to other hurricanes since 1955.

Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the borough had a total area of 1.361 square miles (3.524 km2), including 1.263 square miles (3.271 km2) of land and 0.098 square miles (0.253 km2) of water (7.17%).

Frenchtown borders the municipalities of Alexandria Township and Kingwood Township in Hunterdon County; and Tinicum Township in Bucks County, across the Delaware River in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Frenchtown Solar is a group of three photovoltaic arrays forming one of the largest solar farms in the state covering  with 68,500 solar panels and 20.1 megawatt capacity.

Demographics

Census 2010

The Census Bureau's 2006-2010 American Community Survey showed that (in 2010 inflation-adjusted dollars) median household income was $62,574 (with a margin of error of +/- $9,339) and the median family income was $76,250 (+/- $12,807). Males had a median income of $62,500 (+/- $7,602) versus $34,886 (+/- $5,656) for females. The per capita income for the borough was $33,966 (+/- $5,364). About 4.9% of families and 8.0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 11.1% of those under age 18 and 4.3% of those age 65 or over.

Census 2000
As of the 2000 United States Census there were 1,488 people, 613 households, and 375 families residing in the borough. The population density was 1,160.7 people per square mile (448.8/km2). There were 630 housing units at an average density of 491.4 per square mile (190.0/km2). The racial makeup of the borough was 95.97% White, 0.40% African American, 0.20% Native American, 1.21% Asian, 1.34% from other races, and 0.87% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.62% of the population.

There were 613 households out of which 30.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 49.9% were married couples living together, 8.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 38.7% were non-families. 28.9% of all households were made up of individuals and 7.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.38 and the average family size was 2.99.

In the borough the population was spread out with 22.5% under the age of 18, 6.5% from 18 to 24, 35.2% from 25 to 44, 25.9% from 45 to 64, and 9.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females, there were 94.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 95.4 males.

The median income for a household in the borough was $52,109, and the median income for a family was $62,132. Males had a median income of $42,321 versus $30,952 for females. The per capita income for the borough was $27,765. About 2.4% of families and 3.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 4.0% of those under age 18 and 1.4% of those age 65 or over.

Government

Local government
Frenchtown is governed under the Borough form of New Jersey municipal government. The governing body consists of a Mayor and a Borough Council comprising six council members, with all positions elected at-large on a partisan basis as part of the November general election. A Mayor is elected directly by the voters to a four-year term of office. The Borough Council consists of six members elected to serve three-year terms on a staggered basis, with two seats coming up for election each year in a three-year cycle. The Borough form of government used by Frenchtown, the most common system used in the state, is a "weak mayor / strong council" government in which council members act as the legislative body with the mayor presiding at meetings and voting only in the event of a tie. The mayor can veto ordinances subject to an override by a two-thirds majority vote of the council. The mayor makes committee and liaison assignments for council members, and most appointments are made by the mayor with the advice and consent of the council.

, the Mayor of Frenchtown is Independent Brad Myhre, whose term of office ends on December 31, 2019. Members of the Borough Council are Council President Michele Liebtag (D, 2020), Liz Johnson (D, 2019), Tami Peterson (D, 2021), Holly Low (D, 2019), Caroline Scutt (D, 2020) and William E. Sullivan III (R, 2021).

In the November 2015 general election, Republican Brad Myhre ran a successful write-in campaign, defeating incumbent Democrat Warren Cooper by 236-185 to win the seat.

Jack Opdyke was appointed in August 2013 to replace Councilman Robb Arent following his resignation

Federal, state and county representation
Frenchtown is located in the 7th Congressional District and is part of New Jersey's 23rd state legislative district. Prior to the 2010 Census, Frenchtown had been part of the , a change made by the New Jersey Redistricting Commission that took effect in January 2013, based on the results of the November 2012 general elections.

Politics
As of March 23, 2011, there were a total of 931 registered voters in Frenchtown, of which 289 (31.0%) were registered as Democrats, 270 (29.0%) were registered as Republicans and 370 (39.7%) were registered as Unaffiliated. There were 2 voters registered to other parties.

In the 2012 presidential election, Democrat Barack Obama received 61.6% of the vote (431 cast), ahead of Republican Mitt Romney with 35.7% (250 votes), and other candidates with 2.7% (19 votes), among the 705 ballots cast by the borough's 982 registered voters (5 ballots were spoiled), for a turnout of 71.8%. In the 2008 presidential election, Democrat Barack Obama received 59.6% of the vote (439 cast), ahead of Republican John McCain with 38.3% (282 votes) and other candidates with 1.2% (9 votes), among the 737 ballots cast by the borough's 953 registered voters, for a turnout of 77.3%. In the 2004 presidential election, Democrat John Kerry received 57.1% of the vote (392 ballots cast), outpolling Republican George W. Bush with 42.4% (291 votes) and other candidates with 1.4% (13 votes), among the 686 ballots cast by the borough's 914 registered voters, for a turnout percentage of 75.1.

In the 2013 gubernatorial election, Republican Chris Christie received 54.9% of the vote (284 cast), ahead of Democrat Barbara Buono with 42.7% (221 votes), and other candidates with 2.3% (12 votes), among the 533 ballots cast by the borough's 976 registered voters (16 ballots were spoiled), for a turnout of 54.6%. In the 2009 gubernatorial election, Republican Chris Christie received 48.3% of the vote (247 ballots cast), ahead of  Democrat Jon Corzine with 40.9% (209 votes), Independent Chris Daggett with 8.2% (42 votes) and other candidates with 1.4% (7 votes), among the 511 ballots cast by the borough's 943 registered voters, yielding a 54.2% turnout.

Education
The Frenchtown School District serves public school students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade at Edith Ort Thomas Elementary School. As of the 2017–18 school year, the district and its one school had an enrollment of 121 students and 18.1 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 6.7:1.

Public school students in ninth through twelfth grades attend the Delaware Valley Regional High School in Frenchtown, which serves students in western Hunterdon County from Alexandria, Holland and Kingwood Townships along with the boroughs of Frenchtown and Milford. As of the 2017–18 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 728 students and 68.8 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 10.6:1.

Eighth grade students from all of Hunterdon County are eligible to apply to attend the high school programs offered by the Hunterdon County Vocational School District, a county-wide vocational school district that offers career and technical education at its campuses in Raritan Township and at programs sited at local high schools, with no tuition charged to students for attendance.

Transportation

, the borough had a total of  of roadways, of which  were maintained by the municipality,  by Hunterdon County and  by the New Jersey Department of Transportation and  by the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission.

Frenchtown is the northern terminus of Route 29, the western terminus of Route 12 and the southern terminus of Route 513.

The Uhlerstown–Frenchtown Bridge is a toll-free bridge over the Delaware River, owned and operated by the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission, connecting New Jersey Route 12 in Frenchtown with Pennsylvania Route 32 in Uhlerstown, located in Tinicum Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Reconstructed in 1931, the bridge is a six-span Warren truss that extends .

Civic events
Frenchtown celebrates a Bastille Day in July with a different theme each year.

Notable people

People who were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Frenchtown include:
 James Agee (1909–1955), author, editor and poet who lived in Frenchtown (on Second Street in what is now the police station) with second wife Alma from 1938–1939 and wrote Let Us Now Praise Famous Men during that time.
 Elizabeth Gilbert (born 1969), author of Eat, Pray, Love.
 Shea Hembrey (born 1974), conceptual artist.
 Lois Hunt (1925–2009), soprano opera singer who toured for decades with baritone Earl Wrightson.
 Anne Kursinski (born 1959), top show jumping competitor.
 Harvey Spencer Lewis (1883–1939), Rosicrucian author, occultist and mystic.
 J. Linus McAtee (1897–1963), thoroughbred horse racing jockey.
 Barb Morrison (born 1967) songwriter and record producer.
 Billy Pauch (born 1957), race car driver.
 Anna Pump (1934–2015), chef, cookbook author, baker, and innkeeper famous for her bakery in The Hamptons, Loaves & Fishes.
 Nathanael West (1903–1940), novelist, screenwriter and satirist, author of Miss Lonelyhearts and The Day of the Locust, boarded at the Frenchtown Inn during the 1930s.

See also
Hunterdon Plateau

References

External links

 Municipal website
 Hunterdon County web page for Frenchtown Borough
 Frenchtown Elementary School

 School Data for the Frenchtown School District, National Center for Education Statistics
 Delaware Valley Regional High School District
 Frenchtown NJ
 Hunterdon Land Trust Alliance
 Frenchtown Business & Professional Association

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William Mason Brown

William Mason Brown (1828–1898) was an American artist.

Early life
Born in Troy, New York.

Education
Brown began his career as a portraitist, studying under Abel Buell Moore, Troy’s preferred portraitist.

Career
Brown painted portraits, landscapes, and trompe l’oeil still life's.

One of the better known of the Hudson River School’s second generation, he was renowned for romantic landscapes and still lifes.

He was influenced by Thomas Cole and others of the first generation of the Hudson River’s School, Brown was also heavily influenced by the Pre-Raphaelite's.

In 1850, he moved to Newark, New Jersey, and began specializing in landscape painting.

In 1858, he moved to Brooklyn, New York, and switched to painting still lifes.

He exhibited at the National Academy of Design for thirty-one years.

His paintings are to be found at The Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

He usually signed his work as Wm M Brown.

Death
In 1898 Brown came down with heatstroke on August 26, and died at his home in Brooklyn, New York on September 2.

Collections
His works are in the following collections:
 Brooklyn Museum of Art

Notes

References

External links

Artwork by William Mason Brown

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Retiro Copihue Airport

Retiro Copihue Airport (, ) is an airport  south of Retiro, near the village of Copihue in the Maule Region of Chile.

See also

Transport in Chile
List of airports in Chile

References

External links
OpenStreetMap - Copihue
OurAirports - Copihue
FallingRain - Copihue Airport

Category:Airports in Chile
Category:Airports in Maule Region


Jeff Roland

Jeff Roland (born 16 June 1969 in Longeville-lès-Metz, Moselle, France) is a French artist and curator, known for his characteristic bold, colourful pieces fusing aspects of the raw style with contemporary literary and visual references. He is part of a group of artists known as neo-outsiders, a term coined by Dr. Melissa Westbrook, as a result of her research into the developments of outsider art in the 21st century, and the impact of the internet and social networks on contemporary art.

His work is part of the London Museum of Everything permanent collection, and the Barcelona Davis Museum collection.
He has exhibited in several countries in Europe and was recently invited to show his work at the University of Nancy in France.
Roland is also curating for the city of Liverdun, and organizes shows at Chateau Corbin, specializing in outsider art.

Examples of work

Group exhibitions
2020, Make Street Art Not War, Gallery WAWI, Paris.

References

External links
Official website

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Category:1969 births
Category:Living people
Category:Outsider art


1999 Junior League World Series

The 1999 Junior League World Series took place from August 16–21 in Taylor, Michigan, United States. Arroyo, Puerto Rico defeated Hermosillo, Mexico in the championship game.

This year featured the debut of the Far East region.

Teams

Results

Winner's Bracket

Loser's Bracket

Elimination Round

References

Category:Junior League World Series
Junior League World Series


Imperfect (disambiguation)

Imperfect means not perfect.

The imperfect, or past imperfective, is a verb form in linguistics.

Imperfect or imperfection may also refer to:

Film and TV
 Imperfections (film), 2016 film by David Singer with Zach McGowan, Marilu Henner, Ed Begley Jr.
 Imperfect (film) (Chinese: 我們都不完美), a 2012 Singapore film
 "Imperfection" (Star Trek: Voyager), a TV episode
Imperfect: Karier, Cinta & Timbangan, a 2019 Indonesian film starring Ernest Prakasa

Music
Imperfectly, a 1992 album by singer-songwriter Ani DiFranco1992
Imperfection, album by Real Life 2004
"Imperfect", song by Joi Cardwell
"Imperfection", song by Glenn Hughes from First Underground Nuclear Kitchen 2008
"Imperfection", song by Evanescence from Synthesis
"Imperfection", song by Tinchy Stryder featuring vocals by Fuse ODG 2015
"Imperfection", song by Skillet from Collide
"Imperfection", song by Gentleman from Aloe Blacc discography
"Imperfections" (song), song by Celine Dion from Courage
"Imperfections", song by Josh Osho from L.i.f.e

See also

 Imperfective aspect, another term in linguistics
 Imperfect group, a group with no nontrivial perfect quotients


Politburo of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan

The Politburo of the Central Committee of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) or Afghan Politburo was the policy-making organ and institution within the Afghanistan's political structure when the PDPA Central Committee and the PDPA Congress were not in session. Only one politburos was formally elected; at the 1st Congress, despite this, the membership line-up was altered numerous times during the PDPA's existence.

Historical line-up

1st Politburo
Full members
 Nur Mohammed Taraki (General Secretary)
 Babrak Karmal (Deputy General Secretary)
 Sultan Ali Keshtmand
 Saleh Mohamed Zeary
 Gholam Destaguir Panjsheri
 Tahir Badakhshi
 Charoullah Chapour
Candidate members
 Nur Ahmed Nur
 Dr. Akbar Chah-Wali
 Abdoul Karil Missaq
 Suleiman Laeq
 Mohammad Hasan Bareq
 Hafizullah Amin
 Ismaïl Danesh
 Abdul Hakim Charayi Jowzjani
 Abdul Majid
 Zaher Ofoq Qandahari
 Dr. Zaher

Poltiburo members (1984)
By 1984, eight of the thirteen members and alternate members of the Politburo were Parchamis:
Members of the Parcham faction
Babrak Karmal
Sultan Ali Keshtmand
Mohammad Najibullah
Nur Ahmed Nur
Mohammad Rafie
Anahita Ratebzad
Members of the Khalq faction
Abdul Qadir
Mahmud Baryalai
Mohammad Aslam Watanjar
Salih Muhammad Zeary
Muhammad Ismail Danesh
Unclear
Ghulam Dastagir Panjsheri (believed to be in Kar)
Abdul Zahoor Razmjo

References

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Afghanistan
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Heidi Schwegler

Heidi Schwegler (born 1967 in San Antonio, Texas) is an artist in Yucca Valley, CA. She is the founder of the Yucca Valley Material Lab, a space for thinking and making. From 2015-2018 she was the Chair of the Masters in Fine Arts Program in Applied Craft and Design, a program jointly offered by Pacific Northwest College of Art and Oregon College of Art and Craft. Schwegler has been included in the 2018 Bellevue Art Museum Biennial, Portland2016 Biennial, the Portland2010 Biennial, and the Oregon Biennial in 1999.

In interviews, Schwegler has expressed "an affinity for the ruin, non-sites and discarded objects". Schwegler calls herself "an urban archaeologist" who prefers "to mine the peripheral ruin, the discarded stuff that is ignored and considered worthless. By reassigning the value and purpose of something recognizable, I emphasize the perforation between what it was and what it has now become." Pulling from the traditions of craft and conceptual art, Schwegler uses a variety of mediums, including glass, metal, sculpture, photography, and installation.

Schwegler is represented by UPFOR Gallery in Portland, Oregon and Asphodel in New York, NY.

Education
Schwegler received her BFAs in Art History and Metals from the University of Kansas and her MFA from the University of Oregon.

Selected solo exhibitions
 On Gurgling, William Benington Gallery, London, 2018
 My Enemy, Asphodel, New York, NY, 2017
 Extinction Anxiety, Upfor Gallery, Portland, Oregon, 2017
 Botched Execution, The Art Gym, Marylhurst University, 2015
 Uncommon Likeness: Identity in Flux, Sheldon Museum of Art, NE, 2016
 Wrest_01, Gray Box, University of Oregon, Portland, Oregon, 2015
 Lunch, Soil Gallery, Seattle, Washington, 2015

Selected group exhibitions
 The future has no presence, Asphodel, New York, NY 2018
 Teeth and Consequence, Private Places, Portland, Oregon 2018
 Portland2016 Biennial, Disjecta, Portland, Oregon, 2016
 November's Bone, Halsey McKay Gallery, New York, NY, 2016
 Portland2010 Biennial, Disjecta, Portland, Oregon, 2010
 Oregon Biennial, Portland Art Museum, 1999
 April Meetings New Media Festival, Belgrade, Serbia, 2014
 Group Show, Mas Attack Series, Torrance Art Museum, California, 2014
 Hallie Ford Fellows Group Show, Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, Oregon, 2013
 Imposter’, RAID Projects, Los Angeles, California, 2011

Awards
 Yaddo Residency, 2016
 MacDowell Colony Fellowship, 2010, 2018
 Artist Fellowship, Oregon Arts Commission (2010, 2018)
 Project Grant, Regional Arts and Culture Council (2007, 2010, 2013, 2015, 2018)
 Career Opportunity Grant, Oregon Arts Commission (2010, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2018)
 Klaus Moje Award 2017
 Emergency Grant, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, NY 2016
 Hallie Ford Fellowship, 2010
 Finalist, Contemporary NW Art Awards, Portland Museum, 2010

References

External links
Peripheral Ruin, An Interview with Heidi Schwegler, Drain, Vol 11:2, 2014

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Category:Artists from Texas
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Category:20th-century American women artists
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Category:21st-century American women artists


Viorica Ioja

Viorica Ioja (later Vereş, Hungarian: Ibolya Jozsa-Veres, born 26 February 1962) is a retired Romanian rowing coxswain. Competing in coxed fours she won an Olympic gold medal in 1984 and the world title in 1986, placing second in 1983 and 1985.

References

External links

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Category:Living people
Category:Romanian female rowers
Category:Rowers at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic silver medalists for Romania
Category:Olympic gold medalists for Romania
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Category:Olympic rowers of Romania
Category:Olympic medalists in rowing
Category:World Rowing Championships medalists for Romania
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2016 Kremlin Cup – Men's Doubles

Dmitry Tursunov and Andrey Rublev were the defending champions, but Tursunov chose not to participate this year. Rublev played alongside Daniil Medvedev, but lost in the semifinals to Julian Knowle and Jürgen Melzer.

Juan Sebastián Cabal and Robert Farah won the title, defeating Knowle and Melzer in the final, 7–5, 4–6, [10–5].

Seeds

Draw

Draw

References
 Main Draw

2016 Doubles
Kremlin Cup - Doubles
Kremlin Cup - Doubles


The Practical Theatre Company

The Practical Theatre Company  was a Chicago-based theatre company founded by Northwestern University students and active throughout the 1980s. Its productions included new plays, satiric agitprop, rock and roll events, and a series of successful improvisational comedy revues. The PTC, whose motto was "Art is Good", is notable for the fact that the entire cast of its 1982 improvisational comedy revue, The Golden 50th Anniversary Jubilee (Brad Hall, Seinfeld star Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Gary Kroeger and Paul Barrosse) was hired by Saturday Night Live.

At its peak in the mid-1980s, The Practical Theatre Company operated two theatre spaces: the 42-seat storefront John Lennon Auditorium in Evanston, Illinois and a 150-seat cabaret in Piper's Alley at North & Wells in Chicago. During that period, with its run of hit improvisational revues, the PTC briefly rivaled The Second City as Chicago's leading comedy troupe.

History

Early years 1979-1980
The Practical Theatre Company was founded in 1979 under the name Attack Theater at Northwestern University by Brad Hall, Paul Barrosse, Robert Mendel, and Angela Murphy as a not for profit theater company dedicated to the production of improvisational comedy and new plays.  The company's first show, Clowns, a play about two improvisational comedians written and performed by artistic directors Hall and Barrosse, opened on April 11, 1979 at Shanley Hall on the NU campus.  In September of '79, Attack Theatre's inaugural season closed with a pair of one-act plays staged at National College of Education: Playgrounds by Hall and On the Fritzz by Grace McKeaney and Lewis Black with a cast featuring Laura Innes.

In 1980, after officially changing its name to The Practical Theatre Company, the group moved to Evanston's Noyes Cultural Arts Center for its second season.  Among the shows that season was the first of the group's improvisational comedy revues, Bag O' Fun. The show's mix of slapstick, satire, absurdist comedy, agitprop, and literary sophistication tied together with music and offbeat song and dance numbers established a unique style and format that the PTC would refine in more than a dozen revues over the next seven years.

The John Lennon Auditorium
In the fall of 1980, the company relocated to a leased storefront at 703 Howard Street on the border of Evanston and Chicago. The company named their new storefront theatre space The John Lennon Auditorium.  Ironically, just two months after they christened their new theatre in his honor, John Lennon was killed on December 8, 1980.

The 42-seat John Lennon Auditorium (The JLA) was designed by actor and theatrical designer Louis DiCrescenzo, whom Brad Hall had met when they were both in the cast of the original production of Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up? Material support from other Chicago theatres helped the PTC to build The JLA. Artistic Director Robert Falls of Wisdom Bridge Theatre (located further east on Howard Street) was renovating his space and donated his old theater seats. Stuart Oken and Jason Brett of The Apollo Theatre in Lincoln Park donated lighting equipment.

Thrills & Glory

The Practical Theatre Company's third season, its first at the John Lennon Auditorium, proved to be a turning point for the group. The season opened on March 21, 1981 with Thrills & Glory, the group's second improvisational comedy revue. Rush Pearson, Gary Kroeger and Reid Branson joined Paul Barrosse in the cast. In one sketch, a squad of American soldiers found themselves on the eve of battle in Basra, Iraq. In its choice of satiric targets, The PTC was often ahead of its time. Later that season, a premiere of the dark comedy Stunning Achievements in Iowa by Mark D. Kaufman was a critical success, earning the group its first of many Joseph Jefferson awards.

Scubba Hey
The turning point that third season came when the prominent director Sheldon Patinkin came to the JLA to judge the group’s third improvisational comedy revue Scubba Hey for the Joseph Jefferson Committee. Patinkin's involvement with The Practical Theatre helped to accelerate the young company's development, artistically and from a business standpoint.

Scubba Hey featured Barrosse, Hall, Pearson and Louis-Dreyfus, whom Barrosse and Pearson met when they performed together in the 1980 Mee-Ow Show at Northwestern. Scubba Hey was a critical and box office hit, and the group closed its first season at the JLA with Beggar’s Holiday, an original comedy which opened on November 28, 1981 to a glowing review by Richard Christiansen of the Chicago Tribune, who called the PTC "as zany a bunch of intellectual clowns as the Earth can hold."

The Brothers Bubba

The PTC's second season in the John Lennon Auditorium opened on April Fools' Day, 1982 with The Brothers Bubba, the group's fourth improvisational comedy revue. Under Patinkin's guidance, Hall, Barrosse, Pearson, Kroeger, and Jane Muller crafted the company's most successful show to date, as 1,314 ticket buyers crammed into the 42-seat JLA over the six-week run. It was clear that, given the company's increasing popularity, a larger space (in addition to the JLA) was needed to mount the group's next improvisational comedy revue.

Attack Theatre and The Practical Women
Meanwhile, the "Attack Theatre" name was revived for a series of agitprop after-shows under the direction of Terry McCabe, another NU alum. Attack Theatre took on social and political issues like gun control and the abuse of women in short, provocative pieces, staged after the main stage shows at the JLA. Other after-shows featured The Practical Women, a project led by PTC co-founder Angela Murphy, designed to encourage female talent in the male-dominated improvisational comedy environment.

The Piper's Alley Theatre and Saturday Night Live
Sheldon Patinkin was responsible for introducing the PTC to Second City founder Bernard Sahlins, with whom they reached an agreement to open a cabaret in a Piper Alley's space behind Second City. The 150-seat Piper's Alley Theatre was designed by Louis DiCrescenzo specifically to be the home of the PTC's comedy revues.

The Golden Jubilee
The first show at the Piper's Alley Theater, The Golden 50th Anniversary Jubilee, opened on July 28, 1982 and put the Practical Theatre in the national spotlight when it caught the attention of Saturday Night Live producers Dick Ebersol and Bob Tischler. Just weeks into the show's run, Ebersol and Tischler hired the four stars of the show, Hall, Barrosse, Louis-Dreyfus and Kroeger, as writers and performers on the well-known NBC late-night comedy program.

The association with Saturday Night Live would cause considerable change within the PTC. Artistic Directors Hall and Barrosse split their time between working at SNL in New York and returning to Chicago on their breaks to oversee the Practical Theatre Company, especially pre-production and rehearsals for Megafun, the group's next comedy revue in Piper's Alley, and the opening of The Practical Women's first main stage show at The John Lennon Auditorium, A Cast of Squirrels Before Swine, featuring Angela Murphy, Isabella Hofmann, Lynn Baber, Sandy Snyder and Ileen Getz. Squirrels Before Swine’s 13-week run at the JLA was the PTC's longest to date.

Megafun

The PTC's second improvisational comedy revue at Piper's Alley, Megafun, opened on March 24, 1983 and became the company's longest-running, most successful show to date. Featured in the cast were Tom Virtue, Richard Kind, Victoria Zielinski, Jeff Lupetin, Lynn Anderson, Jamie Baron and Jane Muller.  To have followed its breakthrough national success with another critical and popular hit established The Practical as arguably the preeminent comedy company in Chicago.

Babalooney and Off-Broadway

In the summer of 1983, after one season of SNL, Barrosse returned to full-time work with the Practical Theatre Company and the group's third comedy revue at Piper's Alley, Babalooney, featuring Barrosse, Pearson, Baron, Muller, Lynn Baber and Rod McLachlan, with Larry Shanker on piano and Ronny Crawford on drums. In his review of the show, Christiansen of the Tribune wrote, "It's encouraging, as well as entertaining, to see the Practicals still turning out the same sweet, zany humor that first endeared them to audiences. They may have lost some of their membership to Saturday Night Live in New York and to Second City next door, but as this revue proves, they have not lost their capacity for fun."  An enthusiastic Variety review caught the attention of Arthur Cantor, a New York-based theatrical producer, who brought the show to the Provincetown Playhouse in Greenwich Village in February 1984--but it had substantial cast and content changes. Babalooney was not nearly as successful Off Broadway as it was in Chicago. The show received mixed reviews from New York critics and closed after three weeks.

Association with The Goodman Theatre
By the spring of 1984, The PTC was no longer operating in the Piper's Alley Theater, though it continued to stage shows at the John Lennon Auditorium in Evanston, most notably Soapbox Sweepstakes, a satire of the 1984 Presidential election campaigns which ran for 31 weeks, right up to Election Day.

The PTC's next comedy revue, The Merry Guys Who Windsurf, was staged at the Goodman Theatre studio and directed by Barrosse with a cast including Herb Metzler, John Goodrich, Ross Salinger, Kit Falsgraf, McLachlan and Baber. Backed by Michael Mennies on piano, Victor Peterson on Guitar, and Roger Anderson on drums, Merry Guys was well reviewed by critics, and Bury St. Edmund at The Chicago Reader opined, "The Merry Guys Who Windsurf is going to be your basic summer comedy hit." But Merry Guys failed to draw large audiences to The Goodman Studio. The group continued its association with The Goodman's artistic director Greg Mosher, who cast many PTC ensemble members (and musical director Shanker) in his adaptation of A Christmas Carol''' at the Auditorium Theater, a landmark 3,900-seat theater in downtown Chicago. The production, whose cast included Barrosse, Hall, Frank Galati, Innes and Del Close, received mixed reviews from critics.

The last years 1985-1988
In 1985, the Company refocused its efforts on staging plays at the John Lennon Auditorium, but after producing a pair of one-act plays, it became apparent that the 42-seat theater would not provide enough revenue to meet the costs of an Actor’s Equity Contract the PTC had signed earlier in the year, and the group left the theater it had built.

Art, Ruth & Trudy

In May 1986, the Practical Theatre Company opened its next improvisational comedy revue, Art Ruth & Trudy at Club Victoria, nearly two years since its last revue closed at The Goodman Studio. Featuring Barrosse, Victoria Zielinski, Baron, musical director Steve Rashid on piano, and guided by Patinkin, Art, Ruth & Trudy received very positive reviews and became the longest running show in the company’s history.  The show then moved to the larger Briar Street Theater and on to the even larger Vic Theatre where it finished its 9-month run.

Bozo the Town
In 1987, the company premiered its last comedy review of the 1980s: Bozo the Town at The Vic Theater. With Barrosse, Zielinski and Kyle Hefner in the cast, backed by Steve Rashid on piano and Don Stiernberg on guitar, Bozo received mixed reviews and ran for two months.

Rock Me!
That same year, Patinkin worked with Barrosse and Hall to develop Rock Me!, a show about an aging garage band for Columbia College's New Musicals Project. On August 1, 1988, The Practical Theatre performed Rock Me! to a sold-out house at The Apollo Theatre. Joining Hall and Barrosse in the cast were Zielinski, Pearson, Peter Van Wagner and keyboardist Schanker. The production also starred fellow Northwestern alum Megan Mullally. Rock Me! would be the last PTC performance in Chicago for 23 years.

The PTC returns 2010

After a 22-year hiatus, the Practical Theatre Company reemerged in June 2010 when Barrosse, Zielinski and Rashid opened The Vic & Paul Show in Los Angeles. They brought the improvisational comedy revue to Chicago for a one-week run in June 2011: the first PTC show in Chicago in 23 years.  The Vic & Paul Show returned to Chicago in December 2011 for a two-week run at Mayne Stage in the north side Rogers Park neighborhood. In the summer of 2012, The Vic & Paul Show played The Beverly Arts Center in Chicago, The 14th Street Theatre in Cleveland's Playhouse Square, and the iO West Theatre in Los Angeles. The PTC production Mr. Olsen's New Year's Rockin' Neighborhood was staged at 27 Live in Evanston, Illinois on New Year's Eve 2013.

In 2015, Paul Barrosse and Victoria Zielinski teamed with fellow Northwestern University and Mee-Ow Show alum, Dana Olsen, to write and perform a comedy revue entitled "The Vic & Paul & Dana Show" at iO West in Hollywood, featuring Steve Rashid on keys and Ronny Crawford on drums. The following year, they staged "Mr. Olsen's Holiday Party" at Studio5 in Evanston.

Graphic artists
The Practical Theatre Company worked with a number of distinguished graphic artists during its history, notably Ron Crawford, Gary Whitney, Paul Guinan and John Goodrich.

Rock & roll
The group's house rock and roll band, Riffmaster & The Rockme Foundation became a fixture on the Chicago club scene in the mid-1980s and continues to play together on occasion, most recently in 2010 at SPACE in Evanston and in 2013 at 27 Live, also in Evanston, the college town where The Practical Theatre began.  Another notable band formed by PTC members were The Daves.

Production history
 Clowns (1979)
 Subnormal (1979)
 Playgrounds (1979)
 On the Fritzz (1979)
 Bag O' Fun (1980)
 Nightfall (1980)
 Citizen Stumpick (1980)
 Sant O'Claus on the Christmas Beat (1980)
 Thrills & Glory (1981)
 Subnormal (1981)
 Stunning Achievements in Iowa (1981)
 Scubba Hey (1981)
 Beggar's Holiday (1981)
 The Brothers Bubba (1982)
 Song of the Snells (1982)
 No Restroom for the Wicked (1982)
 The Golden 50th Anniversary Jubilee (1982)
 A Cast of Squirrels Before Swine (1982)
 The Practical Theatre Company Meets Godzilla (1982)
 Megafun (1983)
 Diary of a Madman (1983)
 Babalooney (1983)
 My Dog Ate It (1983)
 Flight (1983)
 Tomato (1983)
 A Passion for Being Nice (1983)
 Wild Connections (1983)
 Hula-Rama (1983)
 The Diamond Anniversary Comedy Ball & Cakewalk (1984)
 Beats Workin’: The Best of the Practical Theatre Company (1984)
 Soapbox Sweepstakes: The 1984 Election Revue (1984)
 The Merry Guys Who Windsurf (1984)
 Noonday Demons (1985)
 Wendell and Betty in the Throes of Anarchy (1985)
 Art, Ruth & Trudy (1986)
 Deer Season (1986)
 Bozo the Town (1987)
 Rockme!'' (1988)

References

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1919 Chicago White Sox season

The 1919 Chicago White Sox season was their 19th season in the American League. They won 88 games to advance to the World Series but lost to the Cincinnati Reds. More significantly, some of the players were found to have taken money from gamblers in return for throwing the series. The "Black Sox Scandal" had permanent ramifications for baseball, including the establishment of the office of Commissioner of Baseball.

Regular season

In 1919, Eddie Cicotte led the majors with 29 wins and 30 complete games, going 29–7 for the season with a 1.82 ERA (2nd in AL) and 110 strikeouts (7th in AL). He also led the AL in innings pitched with 240 (shared with Washington Senators pitcher Jim Shaw).

Right fielder Joe Jackson hit .351 (4th in AL) with 7 home runs, 96 RBIs (3rd in AL) and had 181 hits (3rd in AL, only 10 less than league leader Ty Cobb of the Detroit Tigers). Shoeless Joe headed an offense that scored the most runs of any team.

Season standings

Record vs. opponents

Roster

Player stats

Batting

Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Pitching

Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts

Awards and honors

League top ten finishers
Eddie Cicotte
 MLB leader in wins (29)
 MLB leader in complete games (30)
 Equal AL leader in innings pitched (240)
 #2 in AL in ERA (1.82)
 #2 in AL in shutouts (5)
 #7 in AL in strikeouts (110)

Happy Felsch
 #6 in AL in RBI (86)

Joe Jackson
 #3 in AL in RBI (96)
 #3 in AL in hits (181)
 #4 in AL in batting average (.351)
 #4 in AL in on-base percentage (.422)
 #4 in AL in triples (14)
 #5 in AL in slugging percentage (.506)

Buck Weaver
 #4 in AL in runs scored (89)
 #7 in AL in stolen bases (22)
 #7 in AL in hits (169)

Lefty Williams
 #2 in AL in shutouts (5)
 #2 in AL in complete games (27)
 #3 in AL in wins (23)
 #3 in AL in strikeouts (125)
 #9 in AL in ERA (2.64)

1919 World Series

NL Cincinnati Reds (5) vs. AL Chicago White Sox (3)

Black Sox Scandal

The Black Sox Scandal refers to a number of events that took place around and during the play of the 1919 World Series.  The name "Black Sox" also refers to the Chicago White Sox team from that era.  Eight members of the Chicago franchise were banned from baseball for throwing (intentionally losing) games.

The Fix
The conspiracy was the brainchild of White Sox first baseman Arnold "Chick" Gandil and Joseph "Sport" Sullivan, who was a professional gambler of Gandil's acquaintance. New York gangster Arnold Rothstein supplied the major connections needed. The money was supplied by Abe Attell, former featherweight boxing  champion, who accepted the offer even though he didn't have the $80,000 that the White Sox wanted.

Gandil enlisted seven of his teammates, motivated by a mixture of greed and a dislike of penurious club owner Charles Comiskey, to implement the fix. Starting pitchers Eddie Cicotte and Claude "Lefty" Williams, outfielders "Shoeless" Joe Jackson and Oscar "Happy" Felsch, and infielder Charles "Swede" Risberg were all involved. Buck Weaver was also asked to participate, but refused; he was later banned with the others for knowing of the fix but not reporting it. Utility infielder Fred McMullin was not initially approached but got word of the fix and threatened to report the others unless he was in on the payoff. Sullivan and his two associates, Sleepy Bill Burns and Billy Maharg, somewhat out of their depth, approached Rothstein to provide the money for the players, who were promised a total of $100,000.

Stories of the "Black Sox" scandal have usually included Comiskey in its gallery of subsidiary villains, focusing in particular on his intentions regarding a clause in Cicotte's contract that would have paid Cicotte an additional $10,000 bonus for winning 30 games. According to Eliot Asinof's account of the events, Eight Men Out, Cicotte was "rested" for the season's final two weeks after reaching his 29th win, presumably to deny him the bonus. In reality, however, Cicotte started the White Sox's last game of the season, September 28th against the Tigers. But, with a 1-0 Chicago lead, Chicago manager Kid Gleason took Cicotte out of the game following the second inning, which assured Cicotte could not get his 30th win.

External links
1919 Chicago White Sox at Baseball Reference

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Sanbon

Sanbon New Town refers to a planned city surrounding Sanbon-dong and Geumjeong-dong of Gunpo.

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1905 West Virginia Mountaineers football team

The 1905 West Virginia Mountaineers football team was an American football that represented West Virginia University as an independent during the 1905 college football season. In its first season under head coach Carl Forkum, the team compiled a 6–3 record and outscored opponents by a total of 172 to 44. Paul H. Martin was the team captain.

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Eoophyla leucostola

Eoophyla leucostola is a moth in the family Crambidae first described by George Hampson in 1917. It is found in Malawi and Tanzania.

The wingspan is 18–22 mm. The forewings are white, the costa suffused with dark fuscous. There is a fuscous median fascia and a brownish mark in the disc. The hindwings are white with a yellow subbasal fascia, as well as a fuscous antemedian spot near the dorsum. Adults have been recorded on wing in May, August and October.

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Ajmiriganj Upazila

Ajmiriganj (, Sylheti: ) is an Upazila of Habiganj District in the Division of Sylhet, Bangladesh.

History
In 1254, Governor of Bengal Malik Ikhtiyaruddin Iuzbak invaded the Azmardan Raj (present-day Ajmiriganj). He defeated the local Raja. This was long before the Conquest of Sylhet in 1303.

In 1907, Abidabad became Ajmiriganj thana under the Assamese province. In 1983, Ajmiriganj thana was turned into an upazila. The names were changed from Aijadam > Ajmardan > Aijmadam > Abidabaad > Ajmiriganj.

It needs to be mentioned that Jalsukh Krishna Govinda Public High School was established in 1876 and Ajmiriganj amalgamated Bir Charan Govt Pilot High School was established in 1930.

Ajmiriganj Bazar (main town), on the other hand, consists of 2 mouzas, with an area of 5.73 km2. The town has one Dak-Bungalow. Town also have a number of buildings, which are from as early as 1800 and structurally beautiful, some of these were financed by Maharaja of Tripura.

During the war of liberation in 1971 a prolonged eighteen hours encounter between the freedom fighters and the Pakistan army was held on 16 November in which freedom fighter Jagatyoti was killed. Besides, the Pakistan army brutally killed 11 innocent villagers

Geography
Ajmiriganj is located at   . It has 14713 households and total area 223.98 km².

Demographics
As of the 1991 Bangladesh census, Ajmiriganj has a population of 86810. Males constitute 51.11% of the population, and females 48.89%. This Upazila's eighteen up population is 43762. Ajmiriganj has an average literacy rate of 22.4% (7+ years), and the national average of 32.4% literate.

Administration
Ajmiriganj has one Municipal Corporation

 Ajmiriganj Municipal Corporation
5 Unions/Wards
 Birat (Ajmiriganj Sadar)
 Jolshuka
 Kakailcheo
 Shibpasha
 Paharpur (Badalpur)
and 68 Mauzas/Mahallas, and 79 villages.
Shorafnagar, Pukurpar, Jagatpur, Samipur, Nagar, Ajeemnagar, Shorifnagar, Shukribari, Krishnanagar, Fotehpur,  etc.

See also
Upazilas of Bangladesh
Districts of Bangladesh
Divisions of Bangladesh

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Burt Johnson

Burt William Johnson (25 April 1890—27 March 1927) was an American sculptor.

Biography
Johnson was born in Flint, Ohio. At the age of 13, he went to live for a year in Cornish, New Hampshire, where his older sister Annetta, wife of sculptor Louis St. Gaudens, was studying with Louis' brother, master sculptor Augustus St. Gaudens. Johnson moved to Claremont, California in 1907 to study at Pomona College, and then to New York City in 1909 to study at the Art Students League of New York.
He worked with fellow sculptors James Earle Fraser, Robert I. Aitken and George Bridgman, as well as his brother-in-law, Louis St. Gaudens. Back in California after Louis St. Gaudens' death in 1913, he moved into the studio that his brother-in-law had created during a visit to Claremont.

Johnson remained active in both California and New York, and is well known for his statues honoring American soldiers of World War I, known as doughboys. Examples of these doughboy statues can be found in DeWitt Clinton Park and
Doughboy Park in New York City, the latter being named the best war memorial of its kind by the American Federation of Artists in 1928.
Garfield Park in Pomona, California has another World War I tribute created by Johnson, dedicated in 1923, with an allegorical representation of Pomona, the Goddess of Fruit, beside a young man. The Children's Tribute to the World War Heroes (1919) in Robert Keller Park in Huntington Park, California, depicts a barefoot girl holding the uniform caps of a sailor and a doughboy to her heart.

Among his earlier works is The Spirit of Spanish Music, a fountain with the
bronze figure of a boy playing a flute, located in Lebus Court of the Mabel Shaw Bridges Hall of Music at Pomona College.  His allegorical figures of Architecture and Sculpture  decorate the exterior of the 1927 Fine Arts Building (Los Angeles), with additional reliefs near the top of the building's façade. The inside lobby has a fountain with sculptures of children, modeled by his daughter, Cynthia (age 3) and his son Harvey (age 5). That son, Harvey W. Johnson (1921-2005), was a prominent Western artist and became President of the Cowboy Artists of America.
In addition, Johnson's grandson's Casey Schwarz and Scott Lee Johnson continue the family involvement in sculpture.
There is also a granddaughter, Darcy Lynn a painter, and a great granddaughter, Tamsin Parker, a painter and animator.

In 1918, Johnson was a leading candidate to execute a memorial to
community leader and publisher of the Los Angeles Times, Gen. Harrison Gray Otis,.
who had died the year before.
The Los Angeles Evening Herald called him a "100 per cent American sculptor", and
pictured him "putting the finishing touches" on his model
for the memorial in a story announcing that the project would be delayed until after
the conclusion of the World War, since the amount of bronze needed to complete the work
"would be sufficient to construct two cannon".
The project ultimately was awarded to Russian sculptor Prince Paul Troubetzkoy

For his final project, the façade and lobby sculptures of the
Los Angeles Fine Arts Building, Johnson's
sister, Annetta Johnson Saint-Gaudens, and her son Paul St Gaudens, both sculptors
themselves, provided assistance, as did Santa Monica, California sculptor Merrell Gage.
In his final years, feeling he wanted to work on something creative and not concentrate
just on sculpture, Johnson wrote a novel about an artist's life in Greenwich Village, New York City.
Burt Johnson died in Claremont, California on 27 March 1927 at the age of 36. He is buried next to his wife Ottilie M. Johnson (1891-1980) in Oak Park Cemetery, Claremont, California, USA.

Selected works (locations known)
 The Spirit of Spanish Music (1916)
 Albert John Cook memorial tablet (1917)
 Greek Theater commemorative tablet (dedicated 1917)
 Children's Tribute to the World War Heroes (1919)
 Elisha Newton Dimick Memorial (1921)
 World War Memorial Panel
 Portrait bust (c.1921) of Dr Henry Kingman (1864-1921), early pastor
 Theodore Edwin Norton Memorial Fountain and Tablet (1922)
 Anna I. Young Memorial Panel (1923)
 Pomona World War I Memorial (Goddess of Fruit) (1923)
 Doughboy Monument (1923)
 The Returned Soldier (1923)
 Lobby and façade sculptures (1926)
 Flanders Field Doughboy (1927, dedicated 1930)

Selected works (current locations unknown)
 The Little Director (1916)
 Hope Braithwaite Smith memorial tablet (1917)
 Christ Panel (April 1917)
 Piping Faun, sculpture in front of the organ screen, right side of the proscenium, in Grauman's "Million Dollar" Theatre (1918) Los Angeles, California, USA
 The Answering Note
 Little Sculptor Boy, at one time in Lobby of the Fine Arts Building, Los Angeles, California (c.1927)

Gallery

External links

 Claremont Colleges Digital Archive, 31 historic images
 Burt W. Johnson, 1890-1927 (Folder), Smithsonian Institution, CollectionsSearchCenter

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Banksia purdieana

Banksia purdieana is a shrub endemic to Western Australia.

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Giacomo Carboni

Giacomo Carboni (29 April 1889 – 2 December 1973) was an Italian general who was the commander of Corpo d'armata motocorazzato deployed around Rome in the early days of September 1943.

Life and career

Born in Reggio Emilia he joined the Modena Military Academy where he was commissioned Sottotenente. Then he fought in the Libyan war. During World War I he was an officer of the Alpini. In 1936–37 he was commander of the 81st infantry regiment during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War, in 1939 he was Vice Commander of Cacciatori delle Alpi division. From September 1939 to June 1940 he was the chief of SIM. As chief of the Italian military secret service he wrote a series of reports to Mussolini wherein the Italian preparation to the war was described as inadequate. Carboni was dismissed from his post at SIM and was made commander of the Modena Military Academy. For a brief time he was also chief of the 20 Infantry Division Friuli and led an army corps in the Italian occupation of Corsica.

Role in 1943

In the eve of the 25 July coup General Ambrosio named Carboni as head of the Corpo d'armata motocorazzato in charge of the defense of Rome against the Germans and he cooperated in the overthrow of Mussolini. In the days between 2 July and 8 September he was also named head of the SIM again and he ordered the arrest of many fascists loyal to Mussolini.

In the night of 7 September he hosted US general Maxwell D. Taylor and declared to the US counterpart his impossibility to defend Rome against the Germans due to the weakness of Italian Forces. Despite the fact that the divisions in his command were the most modern and largely superior in numbers in the night of 8 September he did not attack the German forces and in the morning of the 9 September Carboni left his post as commander of the army corps and tried to reach the group around king Victor Emmanuel III and Pietro Badoglio. In the late hours of the 9 September he returned to Rome but his command was ineffective.
After the liberation of Rome he was under investigation for his role in the failed defence of Rome but he was acquitted. In 1943-1944 was the commander of a motorized division in Messina motorized First Battle Group and the Italian Liberation Corps, and in 1944-1945 was the commander of the 1st Motorised Regiment 2nd Italian army in Yugoslavia, where arriving by plane on the orders of Prime Minister Ivanoe Bonomi .Participates in  Battle of the Transdanubian Hills keeping the advance of the Soviet, Yugoslav and Bulgarian troops against German troops from southern fronts in Croatia and Dalmatia leading to full entourage of German forces 8 May 1945.

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