Rick DiPietro

Richard W. DiPietro Jr. (born September 19, 1981) is an American former professional ice hockey goaltender and current co-host of ESPN 98.7 FM's "Humpty & Canty show" with Chris Canty and Dave Rothenberg. DiPietro became just the second goaltender selected first overall in an NHL Entry Draft when he was chosen by the New York Islanders in 2000. In 2006, the team signed him to a groundbreaking 15-year, $67.5 million contract, but a string of injuries beginning in 2008, which limited him to 50 NHL appearances over the next five seasons, led to a contract buyout on July 2, 2013. DiPietro would retire after being released by the Charlotte Checkers of the American Hockey League (AHL) on November 26, 2013, with whom he had signed a tryout contract on October 25.

Playing career
As a youth, DiPietro played in the 1994 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with a minor ice hockey team from Beverly, Massachusetts.

Collegiate
DiPietro attended Saint Sebastian's School. He played one season (1999–2000) with Boston University in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)'s Hockey East. In that one year, DiPietro was named to the All-Rookie Team, named Second Team All-Hockey East, awarded the team's co-MVP and was named Hockey East's Rookie of the Year. In addition, DiPietro nearly set the NCAA record for most saves in a game when he stopped 77 out of 80 shots in a 3–2 quadruple overtime loss to St. Lawrence University during the NCAA regional final. In his one and only Beanpot Tournament, DiPietro was named MVP and won the Eberly Trophy awarded to the tournament's top goaltender.

Professional

2000–2008
DiPietro was drafted first overall by the New York Islanders in the 2000 NHL Entry Draft, out of Boston University, prompting them to trade Roberto Luongo. Islanders general manager Mike Milbury traded Luongo so that he could draft the highly-touted goaltender known for his mobility and puckhandling skills. DiPietro was the fourth American to occupy the top draft position in the NHL Entry Draft.

A groin injury during training camp resulted in DiPietro starting the season with the Chicago Wolves, the Islanders minor league affiliate in the International Hockey League (IHL). He was subsequently called up twice to join the Islanders, but did not play a game until January 27, 2001, when he made his debut against the Buffalo Sabres. Though his NHL debut was widely anticipated, he played 20 games in the 2000–01 season and managed to post just three wins against 15 losses for a struggling Islanders team. He played ten games the next season (as well as one playoff game) before being called up permanently in the 2003–04 season. His goals against average (GAA) decreased from 3.49 in the 2000–01 season to 2.36 in the 2003–04 season.

On September 12, 2006, DiPietro signed a 15-year, $67.5 million contract with the Islanders, topping former teammate Alexei Yashin's contract signed before the start of the 2001–02 season of 10 years. Newsday reported that the team offered him a 15-year contract in September 2005, but the NHL front office discouraged the Islanders from making such an offer. Instead, DiPietro signed on a one-year deal with the Islanders.

DiPietro's record contract—the longest under the 2005 NHL collective bargaining agreement—was nearly surpassed in 2010. During the 2010 off-season, the New Jersey Devils attempted to sign Ilya Kovalchuk to a 17-year contract, but that offer was rejected by the NHL on the grounds of salary cap circumvention.

On March 5, 2007, DiPietro broke an Islanders franchise record by making 56 saves in a 2–1 shootout loss to the New York Rangers. The previous record was 55 saves, held by both Félix Potvin and Billy Smith. (The record was later broken by Dwayne Roloson in 2009)

On March 13, 2007, DiPietro suffered a concussion after a collision with Montreal Canadiens forward Steve Bégin when DiPietro raced out to poke-check a puck at the blueline at 15:41 of the first period. DiPietro returned for four games but then missed the rest of the regular season after he sustained another concussion in game against the Rangers. He returned to play games two through five of the Islanders' first round playoff series against the Buffalo Sabres.

The concussion was the start of a string of injuries. DiPietro underwent surgery in the 2007 off season to fix a torn labrum in his hip.

In 2007, DiPietro expressed a desire to become more of a team leader. He said, "I'm a competitive person, and I have a tendency to have a short fuse with guys sometimes. That's something, as a leader, that you just can't do."

On November 19, 2007, DiPietro got his 100th NHL career win when the Islanders beat the New York Rangers 2–1.

DiPietro was selected to appear in his first and only All-Star Game in 2008 as a reserve, but was later named the starter after New Jersey Devils goaltender Martin Brodeur dropped out. During the Skills Competition the night before, DiPietro injured his hip during the Shootout Competition. DiPietro continued to play until the Islanders no longer had a chance to make the playoffs and on March 19, it was announced that DiPietro would miss the remainder of the 2007–08 season because of the hip surgery.

2008–2013
On June 3, 2008, DiPietro went on a Sirius satellite radio show being hosted by "Bubba the Love Sponge," where he told Bubba he would be undergoing knee surgery later that day. The surgery was done on the meniscus in his left knee. DiPietro sat out the first four games of the 2008–09 season (or, controversially, was on the bench as the backup) before starting the team's fifth game in Florida. He played two games after that, but left after the first period his third game back. After that, he was placed on injured reserve for an "undisclosed lower body injury." On November 1, it was announced DiPietro had undergone another knee surgery after injuring his meniscus. It is unknown whether it is the same knee that was operated on earlier that year. DiPietro returned to the team on December 26, 2008. He won his first game back and earned an assist, which broke Billy Smith's team record for points by a goaltender. On January 20, 2009, Islanders General Manager Garth Snow announced that DiPietro would miss the rest of the 2008–09 season due to post-arthroscopic surgical swelling in his right knee.

On January 8, 2010, DiPietro returned from injury in a 4–3 loss to the Dallas Stars. His last start of 2010 came against the Carolina Hurricanes on February 6. He earned his fifth loss in seven starts, as the Islanders fell 3–1. On February 13, he was listed as day-to-day with the flu, and less than a month later, swelling in his left-knee caused him to be placed on the injured reserve list effective March 2, 2010; he did not return for the rest of the season.

DiPietro started the 2010–11 season apparently healthy and worked in a "platoon" tandem with Dwayne Roloson. On December 21, 2010, he was placed on injured reserve, however, due to knee swelling. He returned in December, though due to the strong play of Roloson, he was primarily used as a backup. He made his first start since returning on December 29 in a game against the Pittsburgh Penguins. DiPietro and the Islanders defeated Pittsburgh in a 2–1 shootout decision behind the sharp play of DiPietro. On December 31, the Islanders traded Roloson to the Tampa Bay Lightning, confirming the starting job for DiPietro. On February 2, 2011, In his first game against the Penguins since his shootout win, DiPietro engaged in a rare "goaltender fight" against Pittsburgh's Brent Johnson in the final seconds of the game. He was knocked out and had his jaw broken by a single punch to the face by Johnson. The injuries kept him off the ice for weeks. It is not known if the knee swelling was from the fight or another reason. DiPietro returned shortly to finish the season, wearing the old helmet and cage combo worn by former Islanders goaltender Chris Osgood.

The start of the 2011–12 season featured DiPietro in a three-way tandem with Al Montoya and Evgeni Nabokov. Due to a strong pre-season and his performances in DiPietro's absence the previous year, Montoya started the first two games and DiPietro was the backup. During practice for the Islanders' third game, DiPietro took a hard shot to his mask from Brian Rolston, which concussed him and sidelined him indefinitely. DiPietro returned to action in late October, returning to the more conventional one piece goaltender mask he sported for the majority of his career. On November 5, 2011, DiPietro made 25 saves to earn his first win of the 2011–12 season. Shortly after, he injured his groin and was again out indefinitely; he later required surgery to repair a hernia in the area, sidelining him for the remainder of the season.

After playing only three games in the lockout shortened 2012–13 season, DiPietro was waived by the Islanders and was sent to their AHL affiliate, the Bridgeport Sound Tigers. He had eight years remaining on his NHL contract. DiPietro started his first game as a member of the Sound Tigers on March 1, 2013. He allowed two goals on the first two shots of the game and five in the first period. He did not return from the locker room for the second period of play as the game eventually ended 7–3 in favor of the opposing Connecticut Whale.

DiPietro's series of injuries during the latter part of his NHL career earned him the nickname "Rickety".

On July 1, 2013, the Islanders announced that DiPietro would be placed on unconditional waivers and have the remainder of his contract bought out on a compliance. The buyout was completed 2 days later with DiPietro agreeing to be paid 2/3s of the $36 million he would have been owed over the next 8 years at a rate of $1.5 million per year over the next 16 years. DiPietro signed a professional tryout contract on October 25, 2013 with the Carolina Hurricanes' AHL affiliate, Charlotte Checkers, playing his first game 5 days later in which he stopped 25 of 29 shots in a 5–2 loss to the Grand Rapids Griffins. He was cut by the Checkers on November 26.

Post-playing career
After retiring DiPietro turned to radio hosting and is now a talk show host in New York City at ESPN 98.7.

International play
DiPietro made his international debut at the junior level for the United States at the 1999 IIHF World U18 Championships. He would then play in the two following World Junior Championships in 2000 and 2001, awarded in the former as the tournament's best goaltender and selected to the All-Star Team.

He made his full international debut soon after his WJC experience with the United States at the 2001 World Championships. He would go on to compete for Team USA in the 2004 World Cup of Hockey and the 2005 World Championships.

Along with former Islanders teammates Jason Blake and Mark Parrish, DiPietro was named to the United States national hockey team at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, in February 2006. DiPietro was the U.S.' number one goaltender for the tournament, starting four of the team's six games. DiPietro played well, sporting a 2.28 GAA, but went 1–3 in the men's tournament.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

International

Awards and honors

References

External links

 Rick DiPietro's U.S. Olympic Team bio

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Gagosh-e Sofla

Gagosh-e Sofla (, also Romanized as Gāgosh-e Soflá) is a village in Mangur-e Sharqi Rural District, Khalifan District, Mahabad County, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 289, in 46 families.

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Artem Sitalo

Artem Sitalo (; born 1 August 1989) is a professional Ukrainian football midfielder who plays for FC Oleksandriya in the Ukrainian Premier League.

Sitalo is product of Kherson youth sports team. In 2009, he joined FC Krystal Kherson before the club's return to the professional football. In Krystal, Sitalo was a captain and a leading attacking player. In 2014 Sitalo changed club and moved to FC Hirnyk Kryvyi Rih.

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James McVinnie

James McVinnie (born 13 January 1983) is an English organist and pianist.

His work as a performer encompasses music from the 16th century to the present day. He has collaborated with many leading figures in new music including Philip Glass, Tom Jenkinson/Squarepusher, Angelique Kidjo, Nico Muhly, Martin Creed, David Lang, Richard Reed Parry, Bryce Dessner and Darkstar, many of whom have written large scale works for him.

James McVinnie is a member of Icelandic record label Bedroom Community. Cycles, his debut recording of music written for him by Nico Muhly, was released on this label in 2013. An album of music by Philip Glass, The Grid, was released on Orange Mountain Music in 2018. An album of music by Tom Jenkinson/Squarepusher was released on Warp Records in September 2019 recorded at the organ of Royal Festival Hall, London.

James McVinnie was Assistant Organist of Westminster Abbey between 2008 and 2011. Prior to this appointment, he held similar positions at St Paul’s Cathedral, St Albans Cathedral, and Clare College, Cambridge where he studied music. His teachers were Sarah Baldock, Thomas Trotter and Hans Fagius. He made his debut at London’s Royal Festival Hall in March 2014, giving one of the six reopening recitals on the refurbished iconic 1954 Harrison & Harrison organ. He made his solo debut in the Salzburg Festival at age 26 performing with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra under Ivor Bolton.

Discography
 All Night Chroma  (2019) - Warp Records
 Philip Glass: The Grid (2018) - Orange Mountain Music
 Cycles_1 (2017) - Bedroom Community
 Handel: Saul (live on DVD from Glyndebourne, 2017) - Opus Arte
 Cycles (2013) - Bedroom Community
 Baroque (2012) - Bedroom Community
 I was glad: Sacred choral music of Stanford and Parry (2012) - Vivat
 Allegri: Miserere & the music of Rome (2010) - Hyperion records
 Handel: Theodora (live on DVD from Salzburg Festival, 2009) - Naxos
 Ralph Vaughan Williams: Mass in G minor (2009) - Naxos
 John Taverner: Ex Maria Virgine (2008) - Naxos
 S S Wesley: Organ Works (2007) - Naxos
 S S Wesley: Choral Works (2006) - Naxos
 Voices: Music by Tarik O'Regan (2005) - Collegium
 John Rutter: Mass of the Children (2005) - Naxos
 Lo the full final sacrifice (2003) - Lammas

References

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CBQT-FM

CBQT-FM is a Canadian radio station. It is the CBC Radio One station in Thunder Bay, Ontario, broadcasting at 88.3 FM, and serves all of Northwestern Ontario through a network of relay transmitters.

History
The station was launched in 1973 as CBQ on 800 AM. The 800 frequency had been vacated earlier that year by the defunct CJLX. CBQ Radio's inaugural morning broadcast in December 1973 made it the second city in Ontario to get a regional broadcast centre. The call sign CBQ was a last minute choice by station managers since CBL (for Lakehead) or CBT (for Thunder Bay) were taken by the CBC stations in Toronto and Grand Falls-Windsor, Newfoundland and Labrabor, respectively. Instead the letter Q was chosen for Quetico Provincial Park near Atikokan, which is west of Thunder Bay.

Prior to CBQ's launch, CBC Radio programming aired on private affiliate CFPA.

CBQ moved to FM as CBQT-FM in 1990. The CBQ-FM callsign was already in use by the CBC Stereo sister station on 101.7 FM. Some of the relay transmitters for CBQT previously rebroadcast CBL in Toronto.

Local programming
The station's local program is Superior Morning, hosted by Lisa Laco. The station formerly also produced Voyage North, hosted by Gerald Graham in the afternoon, although that program was replaced in August 2014 by Up North, hosted by Waubgeshig Rice from the studios of CBCS-FM in Sudbury. The move faced some protest in the city, with Thunder Bay City Council passing a unanimous resolution requesting that the federal government rescind its 2012 funding cuts to the CBC.

CBQT's rebroadcast transmitters in the Central time zone also simulcast the 5 p.m. hour of local programming from CBW in Winnipeg so that the network's World at Six airs at 6 p.m. local time.

The CBC Radio studio in Thunder Bay also produces the hourly weekend weather reports for all of Ontario after the hourly news break.

Repeaters

CFTL-FM, a radio station in Big Trout Lake owned by the Ayamowin Communications Society, rebroadcasts CBQT-FM part-time, with additional programming originating from CKWT-FM Sioux Lookout. It is currently unknown if this station is still broadcasting.

AM to FM
Some of CBQT-FM's repeaters currently operate on the AM dial. Future plans are possible to convert the remaining repeaters to the FM dial.

On December 21, 2012, the CBC filed an application to the CRTC to convert the following AM transmitters to the FM dial.

CBOL 1450 to 91.3 with 50 watts
CBLH 1010 to 92.3 with 50 watts

The CRTC approved the applications for both transmitters on May 8, 2013.

On January 21, 2013, the CBC filed an application to the CRTC to convert CBLS 1240 to 95.3 FM with 500 watts (average & maximum ERP). Antenna height will be 182 metres (EHAAT) and the radiation pattern will be non-directional. As well this new FM transmitter will serve the nearby town of Hudson and Hudson's transmitter (CBQW 1340) was deleted as well. The conversion was approved by the CRTC on April 17, 2013.

On May 14, 2015, the CBC applied to convert CBLN 1240 to 98.1 MHz with 50 watts, antenna height 9.1 metres (EHAAT) with a non-directional antenna pattern. The CRTC approved the CBC's application on July 28, 2015.

On December 22, 2016, the CBC applied to convert CBLW 1010 to 97.7 MHz. The CRTC approved the CBC's application to move CBLW from the AM band to the FM band on March 16, 2017.

On March 2, 2017, the CBC applied to convert CBLM 1090 to 107.5 MHz. CBEH 1010 Terrace Bay was shut down.

On November 22, 2017, the CBC applied to convert CBOI to 95.5 MHz. The CRTC approved the CBC's application to move CBOI to the FM band on February 5, 2018.

On March 8, 2019, the CBC applied to convert CBLB from the AM band (1340 kHz) to the FM band at 90.9 MHz. This application was approved on May 13, 2019.

References

External links
 CBC Thunder Bay

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Île d'Orléans, Louisiana

Île d'Orléans (French for "Isle of Orleans") was the historic name for the New Orleans area, in present-day Louisiana, U.S.A..

In 1762, France, anticipating that Great Britain would take Louisiana at the end of the French and Indian War, in the Treaty of Fontainebleau transferred to Spain all of Louisiana west of the Mississippi River, as well as a newly-defined area east of the Mississippi which included New Orleans, called the Isle of Orleans.

As the French had expected, in the Treaty of Paris (1763) the British took all of Louisiana east of the Mississippi, except for the Isle of Orleans, and incorporated it into their colony of West Florida, with the capital at Pensacola. Spanish possession of Louisiana west of the Mississippi River, and of the Isle of Orleans, was also confirmed in the Treaty of Paris.

The Isle of Orleans was bounded by the Mississippi River, the Gulf of Mexico, Lakes Pontchartrain and Maurepas as well as Bayou Manchac, previously known as Iberville River, and the Amite River.

The Isle of Orleans was included in the 1803 Louisiana Purchase. It formed the southern border of the short-lived Republic of West Florida, a few years later.

References
 Leroy E. Willie, The West Florida Revolution Controversy: 1810, self-published, 2007 (available from the Louisiana chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution)

 Stanley Clisby Arthur, The Story of the West Florida Revolution, Claitor's Publishing
 Samuel C. Hyde, Consolidating the Revolution: Factionalism and Finesse in the West Florida Revolt, 1810 Louisiana History, Summer 2010

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Erik Truffaz

Erik Truffaz (born 3 April 1960 in Chêne-Bougeries, Switzerland) is a French jazz trumpeter, infusing elements of hip hop, rock and roll and dance music into his compositions. He signed with the French EMI label in 1996. Truffaz's second album on Blue Note, The Dawn, produced together with Patrick Muller, Marcello Giuliani and Mark Erbetta. Since then they have produced many Blue Note albums together such as Bending New Corners, which became a Silver Album in France. The 2007 release Arkhangelsk is a mixture of pop songs, French chanson, and jazz-groove. In 2007 he and Ed Harcourt appeared in a Take-Away Show video session shot by Vincent Moon.

Discography
 Nina Valéria (1994)
 Out of a Dream (1997)
 The Dawn (1998)
 Bending New Corners (1999)
 The Mask (2000)
 Mantis (2001)
 ReVisité (2001)
 Magrouni (2002)
 Tales Of The Lighthouse (2002)
 The Walk of the Giant Turtle (2003)
 Saloua (2005)
 Face-à-face (2CD Live + DVD) (2006)
 Arkhangelsk (2007)
 Benares (2008)
 Mexico (2008)
 Paris (2008)
 In between (2010)
 El tiempo de la Revolución (2012)
 Being Human Being (with Murcof) (2014)
 Doni Doni (2016)
 Lune Rouge (2019)

References

External links
 A documentary about the recording of Erik Truffaz's album Arkhangelsk featuring Nya, Christophe & Ed Harcourt.

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David Weiss

David Weiss may refer to:

Music
 David Weiss (musician) (born 1964), jazz trumpeter, composer, and arranger
 David Was (born 1952), stage name of David Weiss, American musician and producer

Writers
 David Weiss (novelist) (1909–2002), author of Naked Came I
 David S. Weiss, American comedy writer, radio sidekick for Dennis Miller
 David N. Weiss, American screenwriter, current vice-president of the Writers Guild of America

Other
 David Weiss (artist), Swiss multi-media artist
 David C. Weiss, acting US Attorney for Delaware, succeeded Colm Connolly
 David Weiss Halivni (born 1927), scholar and professor of Jewish studies and the Talmud
 David Weiss (fictional person), false name used by a person who in 2009 spread rumours about antisemitism in Norway
 David Solomon Weiss (born 1953), organizational psychologist and business strategist


Les Chapelles

Les Chapelles is a commune in the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France.

See also
Communes of the Savoie department

References
INSEE

Category:Communes of Savoie


Hiltpoltstein

Hiltpoltstein is a market village in the district of Forchheim in Bavaria in Germany. At its centre is Hiltpoltstein Castle.

References

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John Gascoigne (lawyer)

John Gascoigne () was an English lawyer and author.

Life
Gascoigne was a member of the University of Oxford and became a doctor of canon law. In that capacity he was called to give evidence before a commission of five bishops, appointed 20 June 1376 to examine controversies between the masters of arts and the faculty of law at Oxford. In 1381 he appears among the signatories of the judgment of William Berton, chancellor of the university, condemning the doctrine of John Wycliffe touching the Eucharist.

Works
John Pits (De Angliæ Scriptoribus, p. 540), credited him with the authorship of a book Contra Wiclevum. There has also been attributed to him a life of St. Jerome, which is really the work of Thomas Gascoigne, and a lost Lectura de Officio et Potestate Delegati.

References

Attribution

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Wrenthorpe

Wrenthorpe is a village north-west of Wakefield, in West Yorkshire, England.
It is located in the Rhubarb Triangle.

History
Although earlier remains, such as Roman coins and pottery, have been found in the area, the current settlement dates from after the Domesday Book's compilation in 1086.

Pottery has played an important role in Wrenthorpe's history, building from the presence of a few potters in the 15th century, to a thriving  cottage industry that peaked in the 17th century, before declining over the course of the 18th. Such was the scale of pottery production, the village became known as "Potovens," attributed to the kilns used to fire finished pottery. Reminders of this heritage can be found in local names, such as "Potovens Lane" and the remains of pottery and clay tobacco pipes that can be found in the soil.

As the potteries declined, coal mining, already present on a smaller scale providing fuel for the potters' kilns, expanded to meet the needs of the Industrial Revolution. Agriculture also grew more important to the area.

During the 19th and early 20th century rope and woollen textile production joined coal and agriculture as Wrenthorpe's major industries, both disappearing over the course of the 20th century. Rhubarb forcing houses were built in Wrenthorpe, contributing to West Yorkshire's extensive Rhubarb growing industry.

Education
Wrenthrope is served by two state primary schools, Wrenthorpe Primary School and Jerry Clay Academy. Both are pyramid schools of Outwood Grange Academy in nearby Outwood.

There are two co-educational independent schools in the village: Silcoates School which provides an education for pupils aged 2 to 18 and Hall Cliffe Primary School, which is a specialist day school for pupils aged 5 to 13 years, based at the old Sunny Hill House School site.

Recreation and sport
Wrenthorpe Park has facilities including hard tennis courts, a bowling green, children's playground,  football pitch and car parking. Park paths connect with the neighbouring village of Alverthorpe through Alverthorpe and Wrenthorpe Meadows, a Local Nature Reserve with managed hay meadows and wetland areas. A smaller recreation ground with a football pitch, is located in the centre of the village on Wrenthorpe Lane.

Wrenthorpe Cricket Club's senior teams compete in the Central Yorkshire Cricket League.  Wrenthorpe Cricket Club equalled the record of consecutive Heavy Woollen cup final victories, with four wins in a row. The feat was previously done 120 years ago by Dewsbury & Saville CC. The club has junior teams ranging from under-9s to under-17s.

Wrenthorpe Rangers are a local football club with junior teams from U6 through to U18s  and open age teams that compete in the Wakefield Sunday league. The New Pot Oil pub hosts an open age team which competes in the same league. The 2013–2014 season was the most successful season for Wrenthorpe Rangers as they completed the league and cup double with a penalty shootout victory in the final of the cup over local rivals, the New Pot Oil.

Wrenthorpe Badminton Club offers both social and competitive play, with teams in the Castleford & District League and the Barnsley & District League. It also provides junior coaching for 10- to 16-year-olds.

References

External links

Wrenthorpe History
Wrenthrope Community Website

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College of Advanced Education

The College of Advanced Education (CAE) was a class of Australian tertiary education institution that existed from 1967 until the early 1990s. They ranked below universities, but above Colleges of Technical and Further Education (TAFE) which offer trade qualification. CAEs were designed to provide formal post-secondary qualifications of a more vocational nature than those available from universities, chiefly in such areas as teaching, nursing, accountancy, fine art and information technology.

Description
Colleges of Advanced Education were similar in ideals and physical facilities to Australian universities of the period, but were state owned and controlled instead of federally funded and independent. CAEs offered shorter courses, such as certificates and diplomas, and were initially excluded from awarding degrees, which were the purview of the universities. Through the mid-1980s onwards, many CAEs offered bachelor degree courses. Additionally, their staff, who were not required to undertake research, were generally on lower pay scales than their university counterparts.

CAEs were designed to complement universities, forming a binary system modelled on that of the United Kingdom. This system was created by the Menzies government on the advice of the Committee on the Future of Tertiary Education in Australia, chaired by Sir Leslie H. Martin, who was Chairman of the Australian Universities Commission from 1959 to 1966.

While the initial intention was for CAEs not to issue degrees, in the first year of the sector's establishment, the Victorian College of Pharmacy was permitted to issue a degree by the Victorian government, and its Commonwealth funding was not cut off for breaking the rules. Many other degree courses followed, and the policy was reviewed.

Until 1974, the sector mainly comprised technical, agricultural and specialist paramedical colleges. In that year, the state government controlled teacher colleges became CAEs, leading to teaching students comprising half of all students in the sector.

The colleges were known by a number of different titles:
"Colleges of Advanced Education" were generally former Teachers Colleges that slowly diversified their course offerings after their name (and often concurrent structural) changes. These changes happened at a time when there were more teachers being trained than the local market could support.
"Institutes of Technology" were oriented toward vocational education, and offered a range of courses up to higher education level.
Other names, often with the title "College" or "Institute" of Higher or Advanced Education, were also used.

This sector ceased to exist when, between 1989 and 1992, the Hawke-Keating government implemented the sweeping reforms of Education Minister John Dawkins. The states, eager for increased education funding, merged CAEs either with existing universities or with each other to form new universities. Details of these mergers are available in an AVCC report, see External links below.

Former Colleges of Advanced Education
Armidale CAE (from 1994 part of The University of New England)
Bendigo CAE (from 1991 part of La Trobe University)
Brisbane CAE (in 1990 divided between Griffith University and Queensland University of Technology (QUT))
Canberra CAE (from 1990 the University of Canberra)
Cumberland College of Health Sciences (now a faculty within the University of Sydney
Gold Coast CAE (from 1990 part of Griffith University)
Hawkesbury Agricultural CAE (from 1989 part of University of Western Sydney)
Kuring-gai CAE (from 1990 part of the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS))
Lincoln Institute of Health Sciences  (from 1988 part of La Trobe University)
Melbourne CAE (from 1989 part of the University of Melbourne)
Mitchell CAE (from 1989 Charles Sturt University)
Nepean CAE (from 1989 the University of Western Sydney)
Newcastle CAE (renamed in 1988 to Hunter Institute of Higher Education and from 1989 part of University of Newcastle)
Northern Rivers CAE (from 1989-93 the University of New England - Northern Rivers and from 1994 Southern Cross University)
New South Wales College of Para-medical Studies (from 1975 Cumberland College of Health Sciences)
Prahran CAE (from 1981 Victoria College and in 1992 divided between Deakin University, Swinburne University of Technology and the Victorian College of the Arts)
Riverina CAE (from 1985 Riverina-Murray Institute of Higher Education and from 1989 part of Charles Sturt University
South Australian CAE (in 1991 divided between the University of Adelaide, Flinders University and the University of South Australia)
Sydney CAE (in 1990 divided between the University of Sydney, Macquarie University, University of New South Wales and the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS))
Tasmanian CAE (now part of University of Tasmania (UTAS))
Townsville CAE (from 1 Jan 1982 part of James Cook University of North Queensland renamed James Cook University (JCU) on 1 Jan 1988)
Western Australian CAE (from 1991 Edith Cowan University)

Former Institutes of Technology
Chisholm Institute of Technology (from 1990 part of Monash University)
Darwin Institute of Technology (from 1989 Northern Territory University, now Charles Darwin University)
Footscray Institute of Technology (from 1990 Victoria University of Technology, now Victoria University)
New South Wales Institute of Technology (from 1989 the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS))
Phillip Institute of Technology (from 1992 part of Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT))
Queensland Institute of Technology (from 1989 Queensland University of Technology (QUT))
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, now RMIT University
South Australian Institute of Technology (from 1991 the University of South Australia)
Swinburne Institute of Technology (from 1992 Swinburne University of Technology)
Tasmanian State Institute of Technology (from 1991 part of the University of Tasmania)
Western Australia Institute of Technology (from 1987 Curtin University of Technology)

In each state, the most prestigious university created from an Institute of Technology became a founding member of the Australian Technology Network.

Former Institutes of Advanced/Higher/Tertiary Education
Gippsland Institute of Advance Education (from 1990 part of Monash University)
Hunter Institute of Higher Education (from 1989 part of University of Newcastle)
Macarthur Institute of Higher Education (from 1989 University of Western Sydney)
Riverina-Murray Institute of Higher Education (from 1989 Charles Sturt University)
Warrnambool Institute of Advanced Education (from 1990 part of Deakin University)
Wodonga Institute of Tertiary Education (from 1994 part of La Trobe University)

See also
:Category:Universities in Australia
Institute of technology
Technical and Further Education

Notes

External links
AVCC report detailing what happened to each CAE(PDF, 74KB).
Razor gang to Dawkins : a History of Victoria College: an Australian College of Advanced Education
The ‘Colleges’: Growth and Diversity in the Non-university Tertiary Studies Sector (1965–1974)

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Marka (singer)

Serge Van Laeken (born 27 May 1961 in Molenbeek-Saint-Jean), known as Marka, is a Belgian singer, songwriter, composer and film-maker.

Early life
Serge van Laeken was born into a Flemish family in a bilingual Brussels suburb and, since his parents were very busy, was brought up mainly by his grandparents. His childhood was untroubled and he spent a good part of his time playing football with his friends. He was given the nickname Markassou by an African friend and it was later shortened to Marka.

Career
Marka bought his first guitar in 1978 and then began performing with small groups in Brussels. He joined the group Allez Allez in 1981. In February 1983 he formed Les Cactus and released his first solo album in 1992. In March 1995 he signed a contract with Columbia France for three albums and released as singles two of the tracks which were to sell the best, "Accouplés" et "La Poupée Barbue". "L'Idiomatic" was released in 1997.

Two months after its release, "Accouplés" was removed from French radio playlists in the wake of the terrorist attacks of summer 1995. Marka was new to the French market and he was thought to be an Arab singer. The song includes elements of Arab music, which would have been familiar to Marka, as his home town had a large North African community.

The album L'homme qui aimait la scène was released in 1998. It included a version of MC Solaar's "Caroline", and this was later issued as a single.

In 1999 Marka teamed up with his wife, Laurence Bibot, a comedy actress and humorist, and they performed a show called À nous deux at Le Botanique. He released a live recording of the show under his own label, Daring Music.

Marka wrote the official anthem for Les Francofolies de Spa in 2000. Then in 2001 the album Avant-Après was released, with "Letches Bong", "Comment te le dire" et "Je parle". The single "L'Etat c'est moi" was released in 2003 and in the same year Marka signed a contract with Inca Music in France. A French version of Avant-après was issued. In 2004 he recorded a
"best of" album, issued under the name C'est tout moi. This included some  unpublished titles : "Reine et Roi", "L'Etat c'est moi" and "13ème mois" a collaboration with MC Solaar.

Also in 2004 Marka recorded the music for a short film by Kamel Cherif called Signe d'appartenance. The film was awarded the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival.

In 2005 Marka set off on his Aktion Man tour, performing in Tokyo, Beijing, Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. The following year an album was released.

Then in 2007 Marka and Laurence Bibot formed an electro pop rock duo called Monsieur et Madame. They appeared in shows in New York and in Belgium. In the same year shooting took place for  the documentary film Travestis. The album Monsieur et Madame appeared the following year.

In 2008 he teamed up with a Cuban group, La Sonora Cubana. Their tour gave rise to an album, Marka y La Sonora Cubana, which included the track "Yo Hablo", and a documentary film called Señor Marka. The following year he began writing a new album and also made the documentary Si j'étais japonais. Then in 2010 Marka collaborated with lyricists Jacques Duvall and Thierry Robberecht to produce an album titled Made in Liège.

Style and other ventures

Marka is above all a live performer and his songs are punchy and rhythmic, with offbeat lyrics which make great use of plays on words.

Passionate about football and the club FC Brussels, which was based in Molenbeek until its demise, he has appeared on a radio programme called Il va y avoir du sport, broadcast on the station Bel RTL.

While on foreign tours Marka has made a number of documentary films, including Señor Marka, Si j’étais japonais and Laisse-moi chanter ta chanson.

In 2002 he sang Boby Lapointe's "Mon père et ses verres" on the album Boby Tutti-Frutti - L'hommage délicieux à Boby Lapointe by Lilicub.

In 2013 he published a book called Marka se reprend, which was accompanied by a "best of" CD and gave rise to a stage show.

Honours
In 2005 Marka was made a Knight of the Order of Leopold II (Chevalier de l'Ordre de Léopold II) by the Minister of Culture for Wallonia and Brussels, .

Discography

This is not an exhaustive list.

 Je vous dis tout (1992)
 Merci d'avance (1995)
 L'Idiomatic (1997)
 L'Homme qui aimait la scène (1999)
 À nous deux, live with Laurence Bibot (2000)
 Avant après (2001)
 L'État c'est moi (2003)
 C'est tout moi (2004)
 Aktion Man (2006)
 Monsieur et Madame, with Laurence Bibot (2008)
 Marka y La Sonora Cubana (2008)
 Made in Liège (2010)
 Days of wine and roses (2015)

See also

French Wikipedia articles:
 Laurence Bibot – performer and wife of Marka
 Monsieur et Madame – electro rock pop duo
 Jacques Duvall – singer and lyricist
 Thierry Robberecht – writer and lyricist
 Roméo Elvis – rapper and son of Marka
 Angèle – pianist, singer-songwriter and daughter of Marka

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Sikh gurus

The Sikh Gurus  (Punjabi: ਸਿੱਖ ਗੁਰੂ) are the spiritual masters of Sikhism, who established this religion over the course of about two and a half centuries, beginning in 1469. The year 1469 marks the birth of Guru Nanak, the founder of Sikhism. He was succeeded by nine other gurus until, in 1708, the Guruship was finally passed on by the tenth guru to the holy Sikh scripture, Guru Granth Sahib, which is now considered the living Guru by the followers of the Sikh faith.

Guru: Etymology and Definition

Guru (,  ; , Punjabi: ਗੁਰੂ, IAST: guru) is a Sanskrit term for a "teacher, guide, expert, or master" of certain knowledge or field. Bhai Vir Singh, in his dictionary of Guru Granth Sahib describes the term Guru as a combination of two separate units: "Gu;(ਗੁ)" meaning darkness and "Rū;(ਰੂ)" which means light. Hence, Guru is who brings light into darkness or in other words, the one who enlightens.

Bhai Vir Singh's definition provides further insight about Sikhism itself and explains why Guru Granth Sahib is considered the living Guru. The word Sikh is derived from the Sanskrit term shishya(Punjabi: ਸਿੱਖ) which means a disciple or a student. Thus, Sikhs have a student-teacher relationship with their Gurus since their teachings, written in Guru Granth Sahib, serve as a guide for them.

The Gurus

Timeline of Sikh Gurus

Pedigree of Sikh Gurus

See also
 History of Sikhism
 Khalsa Panth

References

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Chhapra–Varanasi City Intercity Express

The Chhapra Jn- Varanasi City Intercity Express is a Intercity train belonging to North Eastern Railway zone that runs between Chhapra Junction and Varanasi City in India. It is currently being operated with 15111/15112 train numbers on daily basis.

Service

The 15111/Chhapra - Varanasi City Intercity Express has averages speed of 46 km/hr and covers 224 km in 4h 55m. 15111/Chhapra - Varanasi City Intercity Express has averages speed of 43 km/hr and covers 224 km in 5h 15m.

Route and halts

The important halts of the train are:

Coach composite

The train has standard ICF rakes with max speed of 110 kmph. The train consist of 15 coaches :

 1 Chair car
 12 General
 2 SLR

Traction

Both trains are hauled by a Gonda Loco Shed based WDM 3A diesel locomotive from Chhapra to Varanasi and vice versa.

See also

 Varanasi City railway station
 Chhapra Junction railway station
 Utsarg Express

Notes

External links

 15111/Chhapra - Varanasi City Intercity Express
 15112/Varanasi City - Chhapra InterCity Express

References

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Tabernaemontana eglandulosa

Tabernaemontana eglandulosa is a species of plant in the family Apocynaceae. It is found in Benin to Angola.

References

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Not in the Flesh

Not in the Flesh is 2007 novel by British crime-writer Ruth Rendell.  The novel is the 21st entry in the Inspector Wexford series.

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Reggaestep

Reggaestep (portmanteau of reggae and dubstep) is a fusion genre of reggae music and dubstep that gained popularity online in the early 2010s, particularly on SoundCloud. Reggaestep typically has similar drum samples as those used in reggae; however, the timing of these drums corresponds with the typical syncopation of drums in dubstep. Other influence taken from reggae include harmonic accentuation of the offbeats, however off-beat rhythms can sometimes be layered on top of more traditional dubstep or ragga melodies. The tempo tends to be at 140 BPM which is typical to dubstep. The "drops" in reggaestep are very similar to those of dubstep, but often follow similar melody patterns to reggae.

Popularity
One of the most popular reggaestep tracks as of 2013 is "Make It Bun Dem" by well-known American electronic music artist Skrillex, the music video of which gaining over 400M YouTube views, as well as over five million hits on SoundCloud.

Despite this, the genre is relatively unknown, but was quite prevalent on SoundCloud in the early 2010s. The Huffington Post recognized reggaestep as a musical genre in its article about "Make It Bun Dem."

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Woldemar Hottenroth

Woldemar Hottenroth (20 August 1802, in Dresden – 6 September 1894, in Dresden) was a German portrait, landscape and genre painter in the Late-Romantic style.

Life
His father worked as a servant for Queen Marie Amalie von Pfalz-Zweibrücken (1752-1828). His ancestors were Italian merchants who came to Germany during the construction of the Dresden Cathedral. At the local Catholic school, one of his fellow students was Ludwig Richter, and he first displayed his artistic talents by coloring the engravings made by Ludwig's father, . In 1816, he began to take drawing classes at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. Later, he attended the regular art classes, where he studied under  and . He graduated in 1826.

Together with his brother,  (who would later become a well-known landscape painter), he took a trip through the Riesengebirge and other areas of Bohemia. From 1828 to 1830, a scholarship enabled them to continue their studies in France (where he was influenced by Ary Scheffer and Horace Vernet), then Italy. In Rome, they became part of the circle of German painters there, taking lessons from Joseph Anton Koch and Johann Christian Reinhart.

He returned to Germany in 1843, living in Hamburg with his new wife, followed by a second stay in Italy from 1851 to 1853, then back to Dresden. Working as a freelance artist, he continued to travel extensively. Many of his later works were done in Biedermaier fashion. He died at his summer house, "Am Steinberg" in the Wachwitz District.

References

Further reading
 Johann Edmund Hottenroth: Woldemar Hottenroth (1802–1894) – Das Leben eines Malers, 1927
 Claudia Maria Müller: Zum 200. Geburtstag des Malers Woldemar Hottenroth (1802–1894), (exhibition catalog) Dresden, 2002
 Gabriele Gorgas: Zwei wenig bekannte Spätromantiker, in: Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten, 28 January 2013, pg.16

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Kyawswa I of Pinya

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Kyawswa I of Pinya (, ; lit. "Lord of Five White Elephants"; 1299–1350) was king of Pinya from 1344 to 1350. His six-year reign briefly restored unity in southern Upper Burma although his authority over his southernmost vassals remained largely nominal. He suddenly died in 1350, and came to be regarded as one of the major Burmese folk spirits, known as Nga-zi Shin Nat.

Early life
Born in 1299, Kyawswa was the elder son of Queen Mi Saw U of Pagan and Thihathu, Co-Regent of Myinsaing. He grew up at the Pinle Palace with his younger brother Nawrahta; three half-siblings Uzana, Saw Yun, and Saw Pale; and one stepbrother Tarabya. Kyawswa grew up as second in the line of succession after Uzana. (Eager to be seen as a legitimate successor to the Pagan line, Thihathu ranked his stepson Uzana, of Pagan royalty from both sides, first; and Kyawswa, of Pagan royalty the maternal side, second.)

Governor of Pinle (1313–25)
On 7 February 1313, Kyawswa was appointed governor of Pinle by Thihathu who had become the sole ruler of Myinsaing, later known as the Pinya Kingdom. The governorship of his father's old fief was second only in importance behind Thihathu's appointment of Uzana as heir-apparent. (Thihathu's other children did not get any appointments.) While the governorship was likely a titular title in the beginning, by 1315, Kyawswa like Uzana was given command of his own military units (1000 shielded infantry, 80 cavalry, 10 elephants).

In 1316–17, Kyawswa became ensnared in palace succession intrigues. The king asked Kyawswa to retake Sagaing which Saw Yun had fortified after unsatisfied with what the prince perceived to be a second-class status. When Kyawswa got the order, Uzana had already tried, and failed. But Kyawswa's expedition too failed. The king seemed halfhearted about punishing Saw Yun, and did not mobilize all his forces. Uzana and Kyawswa had march with their own small army, separately. But when Toungoo (Taungoo) revolted in 1317, Thihathu asked both Uzana and Kyawswa with a combined army to march to Toungoo. The two brothers got Toungoo's ruler Thawun Nge to submit.

The Sagaing affair remained unresolved. It is unclear if Sagaing could have been taken if Thihathu ordered a larger expedition as he did with Toungoo. But the king accepted Saw Yun's nominal submission, and did not again order another attack. Though Uzana remained the official crown prince, Saw Yun was already the de facto ruler of the northern country. Thihathu was resigned to the fact that his kingdom would be split into two after his death.

Viceroy of Pinle (1325–44)
As Thihathu feared, the Pinya kingdom formally separated into two at his death in 1325. Uzana's rump Pinya Kingdom ruled the eastern and southern Central Burma while Saw Yun's Sagaing Kingdom ruled the northern and western parts. Kyawswa did not openly challenge Uzana. But he continued to have his own army and conducted his own policy. Indeed, it was Kyawswa, who famously ordered his commander Khin Nyo to assassinate Saw Yun. The assassination attempt did not succeed but Kyawswa turned his attention to the control of Pinya in the following years. Both he and Uzana maintained separate specialized military units (shielded infantry, cavalry, war elephants) around their core region of Kyaukse.

The brothers' rivalry greatly limited Pinya's effective power. Its southernmost vassals were practically independent, and had to fend for themselves. Pinya took no action with the 1325 assassination of Saw Hnit, the Pinya-recognized ruler of Toungoo. Nor did it take any action when Ramanya attacked Prome (Pyay) in 1330, or when Arakan attacked Thayet in 1334.

The rivalry came to a head in 1340. Kyawswa had collected five white elephants, considered auspicious symbols of Burmese monarchs. Instead of handing them over to his overlord Uzana, he kept them. Uzana asked for them twice. Both times, Kyawswa refused, and sent two regular elephants instead.

The refusals signaled war. Uzana ultimately backed down, and looked for a face-saving way out. The king handed over the power to Gov. Sithu of Myinsaing, uncle and father-in-law of Kyawswa, on 1 September 1340, and became a monk at Mekkhaya. Father-in-law or not, Kyawswa apparently did not recognize Sithu either. According to an inscription donated on 17 June 1342 by Kyawswa's chief queen consort Atula Sanda Dewi, Kyawswa had already claimed himself king. A contemporary inscription shows that Kyawswa became the undisputed ruler of Pinya on 29 March 1344.

King of Pinya (1344–50)
Kyawswa's the reign name was Pawara Pandita Thihathura Dhamma Yaza but was popularly known as Nga-zi Shin (, "Lord of Five White Elephants"). The new king quickly consolidated his hold over the core region of Kyaukse and its periphery. He was able to buy off his potential rivals by using bribery, flattery and indeed the threat of force. He appeased his younger brother Nawrahta by appointing the latter governor of Pinle, his old job. He also successfully persuaded Uzana's younger son Gov. Thihapate of Yamethin not to revolt. However, his hold over the southernmost vassals was still limited. Prome under Pinya-appointed Gov. Saw Yan Naung remained calm but more remote Toungoo was another matter. Within the first three years of Kyawswa's accession, two Toungoo rulers were assassinated. Kyawswa had to be satisfied with the nominal submission by the usurpers.

Outside of Toungoo, the kingdom was largely peaceful. He successfully reunified Pinya's military corps in the core region. An avid horse rider, the king formed elite cavalry and shielded infantry units. He not only liked to review military parades but also take part in the military dances of elite shielded units while singing military songs. He appointed his second son Kyawswa II his heir-apparent (over the eldest son Uzana who had weak or paralyzed legs). The appointment apparently did not go well with his brother Nawrahta, who defected to Sagaing in 1349. The king built the Lay-Myet-Hna Pagada in Pinya. He also commissioned a study of the state of the Buddhist clergy but the court fearing his wrath left out the corruption of the so-called monks from the report.

The king died on 12 December 1350. According to tradition, he suddenly fell ill, and died in his 9th year of reign. He is said to have become a nat (spirit) with the name Nga-zi Shin Nat. He is still venerated as one the Outer Thirty Seven Spirits.

Family
Kyawswa had four sons and four daughters by his two principal queens consort. He also had at least one junior queen, Saw Gyi, daughter of Gov. Sithu of Myinsaing.

Chronicle reporting differences
The royal chronicles do not necessarily agree on his birth, death, and reign dates.

Ancestry

Notes

References

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Tennis at the 2011 Pan American Games – Mixed Doubles

The mixed doubles tennis event of the 2011 Pan American Games was held from October 17–21 at the Telcel Tennis Complex in Guadalajara. The defending Pan American Games champion from 1995 is Shaun Stafford and Jack Waite of the United States.

The mixed doubles event is being held for the first time since the 1995 Pan American Games in Mar del Plata, because the event was added to the tennis program of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

Seeds

Draw

Finals

Top half

Bottom half

References

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Luppitt Inn

The Luppitt Inn is the only public house at Luppitt, Devon. Located in the front rooms of a farmhouse, the building is constructed from stone, rendered on one side and includes a tiled roof. The main house, still part of a working farm, was built in the early 19th century. The pub entrance is on the north side of the house, leading to a two-roomed pub. The serving room includes a simple counter made of matchboard, and some simple shelves, as well as a few seats, whilst the second room includes a brick fireplace. The toilets are outside, across the yard. The only table in the pub is covered in puzzles. The unique layout has meant that the pub is on the Campaign for Real Ale's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors.

Previously known as the Red Lion Inn, Luppitt, it is a farmhouse pub which would have been common around England in the 19th century. One of the last small, informal alehouses in Britain, it does have the licence to sell alcohol. However, it sells only one beer, brewed locally at Otter Brewery, drawn directly from the cask; ciders in a tin and there is a small selection spirits and the only food on offer is peanuts. The room has no till, music or electrical distractions, and the only staff member is the landlady, Vera Mary Wright (commonly known as Mary), who rarely serves anyone but the local regulars. Wright has a reputation for testing new customers by handing them puzzles. The pub has been run by Wright's family for more than 100 years; she inherited it from her husband, William Wright, who in turn inherited it from his father, Charles Wright.

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Aaron Liebermann

Aaron Samuel Liebermann (, Aharon Shmu'el Liberman; 20 May 1845 – 18 November 1880), also known by his pen names Bar Drora and Daniel Ish Ḥamudot and later as Arthur Freeman, was a socialist author, Hebrew translator, and political essayist. A pioneer of Jewish socialism and the Jewish labour movement, he was described by Rudolf Rocker and Ber Borochov as the "father of Jewish socialism".

Biography

Early life
Aaron Samuel Liebermann was born in Luna, a shtetl in the province of Grodno, Russia. His father, Eliezer Dov Liebermann, was a maskilic author and scholar. His family moved to Bialystok and from there to Suvalk, where Liebermann received his early education.

In 1866, he married Raḥel Trotsky, with whom he had three daughters and a son. He graduated from the Vilna Rabbinical Seminary with a teacher's diploma in 1867, and returned to Suvalk, where he was appointed secretary of the community and teacher. He began studies at the Technological Institute of St. Petersburg in 1870. There, Lieberman joined a revolutionary student circle and became acquainted with the subversive literature that had arrived in Russia from abroad.

Financial woes led him to return to Vilna in 1874, where he worked at the Dvigatel insurance company and in draftsmanship, and soon became a leading figure in an underground circle of Jewish socialists in that city. That same year he published a fictional satire entitled 'The Crux of the Matter' in Peretz Smolenskin's Hebrew journal Ha-Shaḥar ('The Dawn'). The Vilna secret police issued a warrant for his arrest in July 1875; Lieberman managed to escape, and settled in London in August after brief stays in Königsberg and Berlin.

Exile
In England, Liebermann became involved with Peter Lavrov's Russian-language revolutionary journal Vpered! based in North London. As well as serving as its editor and typesetter, Liebermann published in Vpered! a number of unsigned articles and correspondences about the life of the Jews in Lithuania and Belorussia, emphasizing their discrimination, persecution, and lack of civic right. In January 1876 he published a socialist manifesto entitled El shlomei baḥurei yisrael ('To the Young Men of Israel'), which was smuggled into Russia in thousands of copies, addressed primarily to Russian yeshiva students. That May he inaugurated with nine others the short-lived Agudat haSozialistim haIvrit (Hebrew Socialist Union), the first Jewish workers' organization. Liebermann was appointed Secretary and drew up the statutes of the Union, which he composed in classical Hebrew and Yiddish.

After clashes between the members of the Union and the police, Liebermann left London in December 1876, settling eventually in Vienna under the false name of Arthur Freeman. He formed and led a group of authors who shared his views, such as Ludvig Levin Jacobson, Moshe Kamyonski, Isaac Kaminer, and Tzvi ha-Kohen Scherschewski. Ha-Emet ('The Truth'), the first Jewish socialist publication, made its debut in May 1877 with Liebermann as its publisher and editor, thanks to the financial contribution of Johann Most. The Viennese authorities shut the periodical down after the third issue and arrested Liebermann in February 1878 on charges of carrying a false U.S. passport and setting up an illegal and subversive organization. After spending nine months in prison, he was extradited by the Prussian police under anti-socialist laws and sentenced to nine additional months in prison in Berlin.

Later life

Liebermann returned to London after his release in January 1880, his mental balance deeply affected by prison life. He contributed several articles to Johann Most's journal Freiheit and, together with Morris Winchevsky, established the Jewish Workingmen's Benefit and Educational Society. Still, Liebermann's attempts to resume his socialist activities in London were largely unsuccessful. He offered his services to the terrorist organization Narodnaya Volya, but was rejected for being temperamentally unsuitable.

By the summer of 1880, Liebermann had fallen in love with Winchevsky's (married) sister-in-law, Rachel Sarasohn, and sent a writ of divorce to his wife. The love was not reciprocated, and Sarasohn departed with her daughter for Syracuse, New York to join her husband. Lieberman followed her to the United States, and committed suicide on 18 November 1880 after she refused to leave her husband, leaving behind the following note (written in Yiddish):

Buried in obscurity in a cemetery in Syracuse, Liebermann's remains were later re-interred next to those of Winchevsky in the Workmen's Circle Mount Carmel Cemetery in Queens on 24 June 1934.

See also
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 Vpered!

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Interlopers

Interlopers is a 2001 science fiction novel by American writer Alan Dean Foster. The story centers on Cody Westcott, a young archaeologist, who returns from a dig at Apachetarimac having studied the Chachapoyansthat race. In an attempt to reconstruct an ancient potion whose ingredients he discovers in the dig, his friend is murdered and he ends up drinking the only sample.  He discovers that he can "see" strange creatures inhabiting the world, and that these creatures harm humans and cause feelings of hate and anger upon which they feed and multiply.  These "Interlopers" or "Those Who Abide" also realize he can see them at the same time, and begin to conspire against him in order to stop his interruption of their feeding.  They go so far as infesting his wife with numerous powerful Interlopers, and Cody must ally with an ancient society and visit several sites of mythical power in order to free her and bring a halt to the Interlopers' plans.

Interlopers has also been produced as an audio book, released on CD in November 2004 by Buzzy Multimedia, in an unabridged edition narrated by Ben Browder.

Reception
Don D'Amassa, in his review for Science Fiction Chronicle said "I've enjoyed almost every book I've ever read by Foster, so I sat down with this new one expecting an enjoyable read. For a while, it was exactly that, but then the internal logic of the story just fell apart for me."

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Johann Michael Zeyher

Johann Michael Zeyher (26 November 1770, in Obernzenn – 23 April 1843, in Schwetzingen) was a German gardener and horticulturist.

He studied at the Karlsschule in Stuttgart, and later worked as a volunteer under Hofgärtner (court gardener) Friedrich Schweickart in Karlsruhe. In 1792 he moved to Basel, where he subsequently became a court gardener. He later worked at the Grand Ducal gardens in Schwetzingen, where from 1806 to 1843 he held the position of director.

He was an uncle of naturalist Karl Ludwig Philipp Zeyher (1799–1858).

Published works
 Beschreibung der Gartenanlagen zu Schwetzingen (with Georg Christian Roemer, 1809) – Description of the gardens at Schwetzingen.
 Verzeichniss der Gewaechse in dem Grossherzoglichen Garten zu Schwetzingen (1819) – Directory of the plants in the Grand Ducal garden at Schwetzingen.
 Schwezingen und seine Garten-Anlagen (with JG Rieger, 1826) – Schwezingen and its garden plants.

References

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Steve von Bergen

Steve von Bergen (born 10 June 1983) is a retired Swiss professional footballer who played as defender. He played for FC Zürich for two full seasons, winning the Swiss Super League in both campaigns and then moved to Hertha BSC, playing there for three years. He managed to establish himself as a regular on the Switzerland national football team, earning over 40 caps since his debut in 2006 and playing at two World Cups.

Club career

Switzerland
Von Bergen began in the youth division of FC Hauterive, before joining Neuchâtel Xamax in 2000. In summer 2005, Lucien Favre, then coach at FC Zürich, scouted the defender and brought him to the club. In his first season in Zürich, Von Bergen earned 36 caps and contributed to the clubs first championship since 1981. The following season, FC Zürich defended their title.

Hertha BSC
When Lucien Favre transferred to Hertha BSC in summer 2007, he brought von Bergen with him to the Bundesliga. Von Bergen made his debut in the German top division on the second match day against Arminia Bielefeld. During his first season in the German capital, Hertha finished tenth, but qualified for the UEFA Cup via fair-play rating. In the 2009–10, after the departure of Josip Šimunić, Von Bergen managed to establish himself as a regular in Hertha's starting formation.

Italy
After his contract in Berlin expired on June 2010, Von Bergen agreed to join newly promoted Italian Serie A club Cesena on a free transfer. At the end of 2011–12 Serie A, Cesena relegated.

In June 2012 he moved to Serie A club Genoa on a free transfer. His stay lasted only two months, as in August he was sold to fellow Serie A club Palermo for €1.7 million in an exchange deal for Greek goalkeeper Alexandros Tzorvas (permanent for €600,000) and Paraguayan striker Daniel Jara Martínez (on loan). At the end of season Palermo relegated.

Return to Switzerland
On 19 June 2013, he moved to Young Boys for €850,000.

He was part of the Young Boys squad that won the 2017–18 Swiss Super League, their first league title in 32 years.

Von Bergen retired at the end of the 2018–19 season.

International career
Von Bergen made his debut for the Swiss national team on 6 September 2006 against Costa Rica. He has been a constant member of the Swiss team, and was called to a preliminary squad for Euro 2008. Due to a broken hand, Von Bergen was not able to take part in the tournament.

Von Bergen was part of the Swiss national team at the 2010 World Cup. In the first match, where Switzerland shocked Spain 1–0, Philippe Senderos was substituted in the 36th minute after injuring his ankle seriously in an accidental collision with a teammate, and Von Bergen replaced him. It was his first appearance in a major tournament.

At the 2014 FIFA World Cup, Von Bergen was himself substituted for Senderos after being injured in the 8th minute of the second group game against France. A high foot from Olivier Giroud fractured his cheekbone and he left the tournament to receive treatment back in Switzerland.

International statistics

Honours
FC Zürich
Swiss Super League: 2005–06, 2006–07

Young Boys
Swiss Super League: 2017–18

References

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2001–02 Everton F.C. season

During the 2001–02 English football season, Everton competed in the FA Premier League.

Season summary
The Everton directors finally lost patience with Walter Smith when they sacked him on 13 March after being knocked out by Middlesbrough in the FA Cup quarter final as well as their poor league form with only one win in 13 league games which saw them slip down the Premiership table and one point above the relegation zone. Former Preston and future Manchester United boss David Moyes was named as his successor, and did a good job of steering Everton clear of the drop zone – though they finished 15th in the table.

Kit
Everton retained the previous season's home kit, manufactured by Puma and sponsored by one2one. The away kit was Silver and the third kit was pink with black sleeves. Both away and third kits had black shorts.

Final league table

Results summary

Results by round

Results
Everton's score comes first

Legend

FA Premier League

FA Cup

League Cup

Squad

Left club during season

Reserve squad

Transfers

In

Out

Transfers in:  £8,900,000
Transfers out:  £7,925,000
Total spending:  £975,000

Statistics

Starting 11
Considering starts in all competitions
 GK: #13,  Steve Simonsen, 25
 RB: #2,  Steve Watson, 24
 CB: #5,  David Weir, 36
 CB: #4,  Alan Stubbs, 29
 LB: #3,  Alessandro Pistone, 25
 RM: #7,  Niclas Alexandersson, 28
 CM: #17,  Scot Gemmill, 31
 CM: #16,  Thomas Gravesen, 22
 LM: #6,  David Unsworth, 28
 CF: #8,  Tomasz Radzinski, 23
 CF: #9,  Kevin Campbell, 21

References

Everton
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South Australia Police Service Medal

The South Australia Police Service Medal was established in 1998 to recognize long and diligent service to the South Australia Police.

Criteria
The medal may be awarded to sworn and unsworn employees who have completed a period of ten years continuous, diligent and ethical service to the South Australia Police after 14 February 1975.
The award consists of a medal,  miniature, and ribbon bar.  Employees who have completed additional ten-year increments are awarded twenty, thirty, and forty year clasps.

Description and Use
The South Australia Police Service Medal is a circular silver medal, 38 mm in diameter, surmounted with St Edward's Crown. The obverse displays the piping shrike (gymnorhina tibicen leuconota) emblem of the Government of South Australia, surrounded by the words 'DILIGENT AND ETHICAL SERVICE' and 'SOUTH AUSTRALIA POLICE'.

The medal is suspended by a ribbon coloured in vertical blue and white stripes in an inverse colour pattern to the Police Long Service and Good Conduct Medal that had previously been issued to Australian Police.
This ribbon is shared with the Tasmania Police Medal, Victoria Police Medal, and Western Australia Police Medal.

The blank reverse is engraved at its center with the recipient's surname and initials.

According to SAPOL instructions, serving members should wear their medal on the right breast on all occasions when full size orders, decorations, and medals are worn.

Presentations
The Government of South Australia and the South Australia Police conduct regular presentation ceremonies for this award. They are usually held at Fort Largs Police Academy.

See also
Australian Honours Order of Precedence

References
South Australia Police Service Medal, undated pamphlet, Rewards and Recognition Clerk, SAPOL.

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2019 PDC Challenge Tour 1

The 2019 PDC Challenge Tour 1 was a non-televised darts tournament and the first of twenty Challenge Tour events on the 2019 PDC Pro Tour. The tournament took place in Wigan, England on 26 January 2019. It featured a field of 272 players and £10,000 in prize money, with £2,000 going to the winner. All matches were best of 9 legs. It was won by Shaun Carroll.

Prize Money

Results

Finals

Preliminary Round

Top Half

Section 1

Section 2

Section 3

Section 4

Bottom Half

Section 5

Section 6

Section 7

Section 8

References

Challenge Tour 1
PDC Challenge Tour 1
PDC Challenge Tour 1


David Adika

David Adika is an Israeli photographer and educator.

Biography
David Adika (דוד עדיקא) was born in Jerusalem in 1970. He lives and works in Tel Aviv. Adika graduated from Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in 1997, receiving BFA. He received MFA in 2004, graduating from joint educational program of Bezalel Academy of Art and Design and Hebrew University Advanced Studies Program. He was appointed head of photography department of Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in January 2018.

Academic roles
 1999–present: Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem. Professor.
 2004–present: Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, Ramat Gan. Professor
 2010–present: School of the Arts Campus Arison, Tel Aviv. Head of the Visual Arts Department.
 2018–present: Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem. Head of Department of Photography.

Exhibitions

Solo
 2016 Table studies - Museo Morandi, Bologna.
 2014 As In Water Face Reflects Face - Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga.
 2013 As In Water Face Reflects Face - The Open Lens Gallery, Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv
 2012 Equator - The Open Lens Gallery, The Gershman Y, University of the Arts, Philadelphia [Curator: Jordan Rockford]
 2011 Oululu - East Central Gallery, London
 2010 Living Room - Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel Aviv Museum of Art [Curator: Hadas Maor]
 2009 Every Monkey is a Gazelle in Its Mother’s Eyes - Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv (Artist Book)
 2007 Come Thou Beauty - 3 solo shows, The Art Gallery, University of Haifa [Curator: Ruti Direktor]
 2006 Fix (‘Tikkun’) - Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv
 2006 After Winter Must Come Spring - Q! Gallery, Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Visual Art [Curator: Rancis McKee]
 2005 In–Out - Ashdod Museum of Art, Monart Center [Curator: Yona Fischer]
 2004 Multi-Function - Graduation Show, Bezalel Gallery, Tel Aviv
 2004 Will It Shine - Kav 16 Gallery, Tel Aviv [Curator: Galia Yahav]
 2004 Works - Neta Eshel – House for Art, Caesarea (with Gal Weinstein)
 2003 Mahogany - Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya [Curator: Dalia Levin]
 2002 Mother Tongue/Portraits - Hagar Gallery, Jaffa [Curator: Tal Ben-Zvi]
 2002 Sacker Garden - Oranim Gallery, Tivon (with Eli Petel) [Curator: David Wakstein]
 2001 Lifestyle - Borochov Gallery, Tel Aviv; in collaboration with the Photography Department Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem [Curator: Sharon Yaari]

Group

1998
 To the East -Orientalism in the Arts in Israel - Israel Museum, Jerusalem [Curators: Yigal Zalmona, Tamar Manor-Friedman]

2003
 Tel Aviv-Glasgow-Tel Aviv - Bezalel Gallery, Tel Aviv, in cooperation with GSA (Glasgow School of Arts) [Curator: Nachum Tevet]
 Mother Tongue - Museum of Art, Ein Harod [Curator: Tal Ben-Zvi]
 Matter of Taste - The Israel Museum, Jerusalem [Curator: Hagit Allon]

2004
 Alphabet - Israelisk Samtidskonst, Kristinehamns Konstmuseum, Sweden [Curator: Tali Cederbaum]
 Lets Food - Bat Yam Museum of Art, Bat Yam
 Omanut Haaretz - (Art of the Land) Festival, Tel Aviv [Curator: Ruti Director]
 Animal, Vegetable, Mineral - Bezalel Gallery, Tel Aviv [Curator: Nachum Tevet]
 Pets - Time for Art – Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv [Curator: Tali Cederbaum]
 In Days Gone By, At this Time - Rubin Museum, Tel Aviv [Curator: Carmela Rubin, Shira Naftali]
 The Scream 2 - Homage Exhibition to Edvard Munch’s “The Scream”, Kav 16 Gallery, Tel Aviv [Curator: Galia Yahav]

2005
 Prizes in Art and Design from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport - 2004, Tel Aviv Museum of Art [Curator: Ellen Ginton]
 Artic 7 - Recipients of the Sharett scholarship for Young Israeli Artists, The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan
 Yona at Bezalel - Issues in Contemporary Curating, Bezalel Gallery, Tel Aviv [Curators: Sarit Shapira, Sandra Weill]
 Reunion - Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv [Curator: Yani Shapira]

2006
 3rd Generation - Photography in Estate of Identity Crises, Minshar Gallery, Tel Aviv [Curator: Yair Barak]
 Present Now, Omanut Haaretz Festival - Reading Power Station, Tel Aviv [Curator: Tal Ben-Zvi]
 Incorrigible Young & Restless Romantics, Noga Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv [Curator: Jossef Krispel]
 El Hama’ayan - The Yarkon Stream as a Cross-Section in the Israeli Metropolis, Tel Aviv Museum of Art [Curators: Meira Yagid Haimovici, Nathalie Kertesz, Ze’ev Maor]

2007
 Through the Object - The Open Museum of Photography, Tel Hai Industrial Park [Curator: Naama Haikin]
 Somewhere Better Than this Place - Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv [Curator: Sally Haftel Naveh]
 The Rear - The 1st Herzliya Biennial of Contemporary Art, Herzliya [Curator: Joshua Simon]
 New Acquisitions - Haifa Museum of Contemporary Art, Haifa [Curator: Tami Katz-Freiman]

2008
 Territoires - The 6th Biennale of International Photography, Liege - Belgium [Curator: Dorothee Luczak]

2009
 Watermelons - Rubin Museum, Tel Aviv [Curator: Carmela Rubin, Shira Naftali]
 David and the Girls - POV Festival of Contemporary Photography, Tel Aviv [Curator: David Adika]
 4 Openings in Israeli Art - Salame Gallery, Tel Aviv [Curator: Ruti Direktor]
 Faces: Inside and Out - Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv [Curators: Danna Taggar Heller]
 Maximalism - Avni Institute - Tel Aviv [Curator: Aline Alagem]
 Solace - Inga Gallery, Tel Aviv [Curator: David Adika]
 Tel Aviv Time, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv [Curator: Nili Goren]

2010
 Looking In, Looking Out - The Window in Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem [Curator: Hagit Allon]
 Memoria Technica - eastcentral gallery, London [Curator: Adi Gura]
 Stop Making Sense - Oslo Fine Art Society [Curator: Marianne Hultman]
 Shelf Life - Haifa Museum of Art [Curators: Tami Katz-Freiman, Rotem Ruff]
 With This Ring - Beth Hatefutsoth, Tel Aviv [Curator: Raz Samira]
 True Colors  - Soho Gallery, London. The Cube Gallery, Manchester [Curator: Daniel Cahana Levinson]

2011
 Jerusalem Beach - The Artists’ Studios - Art Cube Gallery, Jerusalem [Curator: Iris Mendel]
 Nimrod’s Descendants - Jerusalem Artists’ House Gallery, Jerusalem [Curator: Gideon Ofrat]

2012
 The Winners - The Minister of Culture Award for Fine-Art Artist, Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport, Jerusalem.  Petach-Tikava museum of Contemporary Art  [Curator: Naomi Aviv]
 Making Room, Contemporary Israeli Photography, From the Museum Collection - Tel Aviv Museum Of Art, [Curator: Nili Goren]
 Archive  - Fresh Paint Art Fair, Special Project [Curator: Iris Rivkind]

2013
 Lot's Wife - The Photographic Gaze, The Open Museum of Photography [Curator: Naama Haikin]
 Curator - Yona Fischer, Beginnings of Collection, Ashdod Museum of Art, Monart Center [Curators: Yuval Beaton, Roni Cohen-Binyamini]
 Human Nature - Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv [Curator: Adi Gura]
 Night Stamp - "Beit Ha'ir museum", Tel Aviv [Curator: Claudette Zoree, Ayelet Bitan Shlonski]

2017
 Regarding Africa: Contemporary Art and Afro-Futurism. Tel Aviv Art Museum.

Scholarships and awards

 The Minister of Culture Award for Fine Art Artist, Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport, Jerusalem, 2011
 The Jack Nailor Award for Photography, Haifa Film Festival, 2011
 Sharet Scholarship, America-Israel Cultural Foundation, 2005
 Young Artist Award, Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport, Jerusalem, 2004
 P.S.S. Pilot Summer School, Glasgow School of Arts, Scotland Foreign Ministry and British Council, 2003
 Dean’s Award, yearly scholarship, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, 1996
 Dean’s Award, yearly scholarship, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, JerusalemMulti-Function, Graduation, 1995

References

External links
David Adika

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California Assembly Bill 962 (2009)

California Assembly Bill 962 (2009) (AB 962) was a gun control law in California, authored by Assemblyman Kevin de León, and signed into law  by Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger on October 11, 2009. AB 962 was set to take effect on February 1, 2011, but was ruled unconstitutional by Fresno Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Hamilton on January 18, 2011, in Parker v. California.

AB 962 would have required that all transfers of ownership of "handgun ammunition" be done in a face-to-face transaction, with the deliverer or transferor being provided bona fide evidence of identity of the purchaser or other transferee. As part of every "handgun ammunition" transfer, AB 962 would have required vendors to record and maintain, for a time period no less than five years: the transaction date, the ammunition brand and caliber, the processor's name, as well as the purchaser's driver license number, signature, name, right thumbprint, residential address, phone number, and date of birth. The bill also aimed to stop felony gang crimes by making it a misdemeanor to possess ammunition while associating with a criminal street gang.

On August 19, 2010, the NRA-CRPA Foundation Legal Action Project filed a lawsuit challenging AB 962. The lead plaintiff in the lawsuit was Tehama County Sheriff Clay Parker. The lawsuit alleged that the mandates in AB 962 were incomprehensible, and that the definition of "handgun ammunition" was unconstitutionally vague.

On January 18, 2011, Fresno Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Hamilton ruled, in Parker v. California, that the definition of "handgun ammunition" was indeed unconstitutionally vague. The Court enjoined enforcement of the bill. Mail order ammunition sales to California therefore continue.

See also
Gun politics

References

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RMS Laconia (1911)

RMS Laconia was a Cunard ocean liner built by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson, launched on 27 July 1911, with the wife of the U.S. Ambassador Mrs. Whitelaw Reid christening the vessel. Laconia was delivered to the Cunard Line on 12 December 1911, and began service on 20 January 1912. She was the first Cunard ship of that name. She was torpedoed and sunk on 25 February 1917 during World War I; 12 passengers were killed.

Laconia was intended for the Liverpool-Boston service with cruising from New York to the Mediterranean off season. The ship was the first British ship and first North Atlantic liner to be equipped with anti-roll tanks.

Drafted into war service

On the outbreak of World War I, Laconia was converted into an armed merchant cruiser in 1914. She was fitted with eight  guns and for a time she carried two seaplanes, which were housed on the quarterdeck. She was based at Simon's Town, South Africa in the South Atlantic, from which she patrolled the South Atlantic and Indian Ocean until April 1915. She was then used as a headquarters ship stationed at Zanzibar and engaged in operations for the capture of Tanga and the colony of German East Africa. She was mainly employed on patrol duties but on one occasion, was engaged at the bombardment of Tanga. She continued to serve on the East Africa station, and made several trips from Durban and Cape Town with troops for the army in British East Africa. Laconia returned home to the UK with a convoy in June 1916, with a large shipment of gold ingots from Cape Town, and was paid off at Devonport.

Returned to Cunard

She was handed back to Cunard in July 1916 and on 9 September resumed service.

On 25 February 1917, she was torpedoed by   northwest by west of Fastnet while returning from the United States to England with 75 passengers (34 first class and 41 second class) and a crew of 217 commanded by Captain Irvine. The first torpedo struck the liner on the starboard side just abaft the engine room, but did not sink her. 20 minutes later a second torpedo exploded in the engine room, again on the starboard side, and the vessel sank at 10:20 pm. A total of 12 people were killed; six crew and six passengers.  Two of the killed passengers were American citizens, Mrs. Mary Hoy and her daughter, Miss Elizabeth Hoy, who were originally from Chicago.  The death of the Hoys stirred up public opinion in America against the Germans, and raised public support for the United States entering the war.

Chicago Tribune reporter Floyd Gibbons was aboard Laconia when she was torpedoed and gained fame from his dispatches about the attack, his graphic account of the sinking read to both Houses of Congress and was credited with helping to push the United States into joining the war.

Rediscovery

In March 2009, it was announced that the wreck of Laconia was located in November 2008 and claimed by Odyssey Marine Exploration, Inc., a commercial archaeology company in Tampa, Florida. She was found about  off of the coast of Ireland. "Britain claims it is the legitimate owner of the wrecks because, under a wartime insurance scheme, it paid the owners of the vessels when they sank, in effect making the remains the property of the taxpayer." The search for the wreck was featured on an episode of Discovery Channel's Treasure Quest titled "The Silver Queen". Items salvaged were 852 bars of silver and 132 boxes of silver coins worth an estimated £3m. One of the artifacts recovered during their investigation of the wreck happened to be the remains of a left shoe that likely belonged to one of the ship's female passengers.

References

Bibliography

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William II of Bimbia

Young King William, born Ngombe or Ngomb' a Bila (died 1882), was, as William II of Bimbia, the chief and king of Bimbia on the coast of Cameroon and of the Isubu ethnic group who lived there. Young King William inherited a kingdom where power was shifting from the monarchy to wealthy traders, a situation that only grew worse under William II's impotent rule. As competition for European trade among the coastal peoples of Cameroon grew more intense, young King William's rivals multiplied and his centralised authority crumbled. He was murdered in 1882.

Reign
Ngombe was born to King William I of Bimbia. As a Bimbian prince, Ngombe enjoyed a status equal to that of Isubu chiefs. On 31 March 1848, for example, he was among the signatories for an engagement ending human sacrifice in Bimbia. William I died sometime before 1877. Bimbia had been in a state of almost perpetual war since its height in the early 19th century, as rival factions fought for favour with European traders. The power of the Isubu monarchy thus waned as well. Although Ngombe was next in the line of succession, his ascension was opposed by another claimant, known as Yellow Money. Acting Consul Hopkins of Great Britain was called in to settle the dispute, although  his degree of input is not known. Ngombe won the contest and was crowned William II of Bimbia.

European traders and missionaries saw the new monarch as, in the words of Baptist missionary Thomas Comber, "a quiet, well-meaning, young man" and dubbed him young King William. Despite his agreeable nature, young William inherited a state in tatters. His difficult accession was a symptom of the many inter-Isubu conflicts that characterised the coast. Wealth had become just as important as heredity in determining social status, which had allowed several rivals to William's primacy to emerge. Sometime between 1878 and 1879, Thomas Comber asked William to prevent a Bimbian man from being hanged for witchcraft. William expressed his agreement that something should be done but stated that he was too afraid to call the chiefs to a palaver in Williamstown, his capital. The king explained that Comber would have to get several other powerful Bimbian chiefs to agree to take action, since they had just as much power as William did.

Another of young William's major concerns was the Europeans' steady push inland. Although most of these explorers were missionaries, William feared that their efforts would result in direct trade with the inland tribes and the elimination of the Isubus' role as middlemen. Baptist missionary Quintin Thomas described a confrontation with the king on a ship awaiting landfall at Bonjongo, a settlement of a rival ethnic group, the inland Bakweris:

Murder and legacy
Sometime before 1 December 1882, young King William was murdered in Limbola, a village on the Bimbian coast. King Woloa wo Fike of the Bakweri village Soppo was blamed for ordering the deed. The Bimbian monarchy crumbled completely. No heir could unite all Bimbia under his banner, and Bimbia as a nation essentially ceased to exist. However, the fact that young King William was able to reign at all, however briefly, indicates the prestige and power that William I had been able to establish and that young King William had managed to at least partially retain.

Notes

References
Ardener, Edwin (1996). Kingdom on Mount Cameroon: Studies in the History of the Cameroon Coast, 1500–1970. New York: Bergahn Books.
Elango, Lovett Z. (1990). "Trade and diplomacy on the Cameroon coast in the nineteenth century, 1833–1879: the case of Bimbia." Introduction to the History of Cameroon in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Palgrave MacMillan.

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Urasterella

Urasterella is an extinct genus of sea stars that lived from the Ordovician to the Devonian.  Its fossils are known from Europe, North America and southern Africa.

Species
There have been a number of species assigned or transferred to the genus since its description in 1851.

U. asperrimus
U. asperula (syn. Protasteracanthion primus)
U. biradialis (syn. Salteraster biradialis)
U. constellata
U. coronella (syn. Salteraster coronella)
U. creswelli
U. grandis
U. gutterfordensis
U. huxleyi
U. imbricatus (syn. Salteraster imbricatus)
U. montana
U. pulchella
U. ruthveni
U. selwyni (syn. Salteraster selwyni)
U. thraivensis
U. ulrichi

Sources

Urasterella (syn. Roemeraster) in the Field Museum's Evolving Planet

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Agmé

Agmé  is a commune of the Lot-et-Garonne department in southwestern France.

Population

See also
Communes of the Lot-et-Garonne department

References
INSEE statistics

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