Municipalities of North Macedonia

The municipalities are the first-order administrative divisions of North Macedonia.

In February 2013, North Macedonia was reorganised into 80 municipalities (, opštini; singular: општина, opština); 10 of the municipalities constitute the City of Skopje (or Greater Skopje), a distinct unit of local self-government and the country's capital.

Most of the current municipalities were unaltered or merely amalgamated from the previous 123 municipalities established in September 1996; others were consolidated and their borders changed. Prior to this, local government was organised into 34 administrative districts, communes, or counties (also opštini).

In 2004 they were reduced to 84, and in 2013, the following municipalities were merged into Kičevo Municipality:
Drugovo,
Zajas,
Oslomej and
Vraneštica

In turn, North Macedonia is subdivided into eight statistical regions (регион, regioni), based on the prior municipal/county framework;
one of these regions, Skopje, encompasses Greater Skopje and the surrounding area.

Map
Map of the municipalities of North Macedonia, with the city of Skopje indicated on the map as 1.
The map shows the rural and the urban municipalities. The numbers of the map correspond with the numbers of the municipalities indicated to the left of the municipality name in the table below the maps, the second one is a map of the City of Skopje municipalities, the numbers of this municipalities are shown as 1, x, where "x" is the number of the appropriate municipality.

Municipalities (2013–present)

In March 2013, the following municipalities merged with Kičevo:

Map of the municipalities of North Macedonia before 2013

See also

 List of municipalities in North Macedonia by population
 Statistical regions of North Macedonia
 Administrative divisions of North Macedonia
 List of FIPS region codes: North Macedonia (MK)
 ISO 3166-2:MK, ISO 3166-2 subdivision codes for the Republic of North Macedonia

Notes
 Municipal areas are summations of component areas. As of the 2002 census, area figures for Aerodrom and Butel municipalities are unavailable and included in those of other municipalities in Skopje region
 Municipalities, 10 in total, forming the City of Skopje (Град Скопје)
 Hierarchical Administrative Subdivision Codes (HASC)
 The boundaries for Debar municipality in the Southwestern region were revised in 2004 to include some territory of Rostuša municipality, the predecessor of Mavrovo and Rostuša municipality, in Polog region
 Total area includes  of inland water not distributed by municipality/region

References
 Republic of Macedonia, State Statistical Office:
 Mapping the Socio-economic Disparities between the Republic of Macedonia's Municipalities (I-IV)
 Census of Population, Households and Dwellings in the Republic of Macedonia 2002 (PDF)

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Mark Smylie

Mark Smylie is an American comics creator, writer and illustrator. He is best known for his Artesia epic fantasy comic series.

Biography
Born in Florida in 1967, he studied political science, philosophy, art history, and English lit at Columbia University for four years. Besides Artesia, Smylie has also done numerous illustrations for role-playing games and other media. He has done interior illustrations for Dungeons & Dragons manuals, including Faiths and Pantheons, Epic Level Handbook, and Complete Warrior. After first working with Sirius Entertainment, he founded Archaia Studios Press in 2002 to publish Artesia and eventually comics from other creators. The setting of Smylie's novel The Barrow is the same as his Artesia series.

Smylie was nominated for the 2006 Russ Manning award for most promising newcomer, and his Artesia series was nominated for several comics awards.

References

External links

Talking with Archaia Studios Press' Mark Smylie, April 24, 2006, Comic Book Resources

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All Day Breakfast Show

The All Day Breakfast Show was a daily podcast which was launched on 15 March 2007.

Created by and starring Danny Baker, the show also featured Amy Lamé, Baylen Leonard and David Kuo. It followed a similar format to Baker's radio show on BBC London 94.9, where the listeners and presenters share humorous anecdotes, interspersed with obscure recordings.

History
Originally launched in March 2007, the All Day Breakfast Show was rebranded in September that year as The All Day Breakfast Show In Color, and a weekly download fee of £2 was applied to the podcast.  The full length podcast was made available solely through Wippit and edited highlights were made available as a teaser through iTunes.

The podcast went into hiatus after one week, numerous downloaders from Wippit being unable to access the material due to restrictions on available bandwidth.  No official announcement was made for the cause of the hiatus, or whether the podcast would return. However, after several weeks of silence, the All Day Breakfast Show officially announced its return to the air on the 19 October 2007. No announcement on the main website was given, but in a five-minute mini-show downloadable initially only to paid subscribers, Danny Baker and Baylen Leonard announced the return of the show. They confirmed that from "next week" they would be broadcasting three times a week. They also suggested (possibly only partially in jest) that due to BBC cuts announced the previous day, that they may be planning to end their official BBC London show and move to being an "internet only" show. The mini-show also introduced a new recording of the Candyman theme tune.

On Saturday 15 December 2007 Danny posted an open letter on both the ADBS and Baker and Kelly sites, saying that "there will be no more All Day Breakfast Shows nor Baker & Kelly's. There has now been an irreversible and utter breakdown between the on-air team and the company who have, with varying degrees of success, provided it to you online."

Wippit responded on 17 December 2007 saying that the show's cancellation was due to "a breakdown in contract negotiations between our company and Danny Baker", alleging that Baker "did not wish to meet his agreed obligations regarding exclusivity", and Wippit rejected the terms proposed by his agent. Wippit offered Baker 100% of the programme's revenues and declared no further interest in the podcast, but this offer was rejected by Baker's agent.

References

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Category:2007 podcast debuts


Hilse

Hilse is a German surname. Notable people with this surname include:

 Peter Hilse (born 1962), German racing cyclist
 Wilhelm Hilse (1878–1940), German chess master

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Lane Plateau

Lane Plateau () is a flat, ice-covered plateau that rises to  between Mount Waterman, Mount Cartwright, and Mount Bronk in the central Hughes Range of the Queen Maud Mountains, Antarctica. It trends north–south for  and is  wide.

The plateau was discovered and photographed by R. Admiral Byrd on the Baselaying Flight of November 18, 1929, and surveyed by A.P. Crary, 1957–58. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys, 1962–63, and U.S. Navy photography taken 1958–63. The plateau is named in honor of Neal Lane, Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) from 1993 to 1998. Under his leadership the NSF won congressional approval for rebuilding South Pole Station as a premier international science facility set to open at the beginning of the 21st century.

References

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Rod Bernard

Rod Bernard (born August 12, 1940) is an American singer who helped to pioneer the musical genre known as "swamp pop", which combined New Orleans-style rhythm and blues, country and western, and Cajun and black Creole music. He is generally considered one of the foremost musicians of this south Louisiana-east Texas idiom, along with such notables as Bobby Charles, Johnnie Allan, Tommy McLain, and Warren Storm.

Life and career
Bernard was born on August 12, 1940, in Opelousas, Louisiana. His parents were French-speaking Cajuns from working-class backgrounds, and as a child he imbibed the traditional Cajun French music performed in his grandfather's dancehall, the Courtableu Inn, located in nearby Port Barre, Louisiana. There he heard the music of noted Cajun musicians Aldus Roger, Papa Cairo, and Jimmy C. Newman, as well as zydeco pioneer Clifton Chenier, all of whom would exert a strong influence on Bernard's music.

Around age eight Bernard obtained his first guitar (an acoustic Gene Autry model) and around 1950 he began to perform with the Blue Room Gang, a Cajun-country troupe sponsored by local Red Bird brand sweet potatoes. During this period Bernard also hosted his own live music radio program on KSLO in Opelousas, singing Cajun and country tunes while strumming his guitar in emulation of his musical hero, Hank Williams, Sr.

In the mid-1950s, however, Bernard came under the influence of rock and roll and rhythm and blues music, especially the sounds of Fats Domino and Elvis Presley. Around 1957 he helped to form a rock 'n' roll band made up of fellow Opelousas teenagers. Calling themselves The Twisters, they recorded two singles for the obscure Carl label of Opelousas. The next year Bernard and his group recorded the sultry ballad "This Should Go On Forever" for recordman Floyd Soileau’s Jin label of Ville Platte, Louisiana. Leased to Argo Records of Chicago, the song became a national hit in 1959, propelling Bernard onto Dick Clark's American Bandstand, The Dick Clark Saturday Night Beechnut Show, and The Alan Freed Show, as well as onto tours with Jerry Lee Lewis, Frankie Avalon, Chuck Berry, and B. B. King, among others.

A follow-up single for Argo, "You're On My Mind," backed with "My Life Is A Mystery," failed to achieve the success of his initial national release. In late 1959 Bernard signed with producer Bill Hall of Beaumont, Texas, who switched the artist to Mercury Records, which unwisely replaced Bernard's earthy swamp pop style with lush violin sections and female choruses. Only one minor hit, "One More Chance," emerged from these overproduced Nashville sessions.

Around 1962 Bernard left Mercury for Bill Hall's own Hall-Way label in Beaumont, Texas. Recording with local artists Johnny Winter and Edgar Winter, he released several notable tunes, including "Fais Do Do," "Who's Gonna Rock My Baby," and a rock 'n' roll version of the Cajun folksong "Allons Danser Colinda," the latter of which achieved national airplay and remains a regional favorite in south Louisiana and east Texas.

A stint in the U.S. Marine Corps boot camp interrupted Bernard's musical career, but after several months he returned to south Louisiana to form The Shondells (not to be confused with Tommy James' group) with fellow swamp pop musicians Warren Storm and Skip Stewart. (Bernard served in the Marine Corps Reserve from 1962 to 1968, reaching the rank of sergeant.) During the mid-1960s the group recorded several singles for the La Louisianne label of Lafayette, Louisiana, and they hosted a live dance program on KLFY-TV called "Saturday Hop."  This program inspired their circa 1965 album, The Shondells at the Saturday Hop, issued on La Louisianne.

During this period Bernard recorded singles for Huey Meaux's Teardrop and Copyright labels, and for Soileau's familiar Jin label. Isolated singles appeared on the Scepter and Shelby Singleton's SSS International labels. These sessions included notable releases such as the Chuck Berry-type rocker "Recorded in England," the Cajun two-step inspired "Papa Thibodeaux," and the doleful ballad "Congratulations To You Darling."

Bernard performed infrequently during the 1970s, but returned to his roots by releasing several country and western albums, including Country Lovin’ and Nightlights And Love Songs. He also issued the album Boogie in Black and White with Clifton Chenier, considered a milestone by many because of its raucous blend of Cajun and black Creole elements. One music writer, John Broven, described it as "a wild and woolly rock 'n' roll set with spontaneity one normally only dreams about," while another, Larry Benicewicz, claimed that "such a masterpiece, no doubt, spawned other 'experiments' like Wayne Toups' 'ZydeCajun' style or, perhaps, a Zachary Richard 'Zach Attack,' a similar fusion of Cajun, zydeco, and R&B."

Around 1980 he recorded an album of Fats Domino favorites for Jin, titled A Lot of Dominoes, but the masters disappeared until around 1991, when the tracks were finally released (albeit only on cassette). In 2003 he recorded his first new album in over two decades. Titled Louisiana Tradition, the compact disk appeared on the CSP label of Forney, Texas, and included several new songs, as well as reworkings of vintage south Louisiana tunes like fellow swamp pop musician Bobby Charles' "Later Alligator."

In June 2006 Bernard re-recorded his spoken-word single "A Tear In The Lady's Eye," which he had originally written and recorded in 1968 as a pro-military response to anti-Vietnam War protestors. (The "Lady" of the song is the Statue of Liberty.)  In the revised version, however, Bernard addressed Americans who opposed the ongoing war in Iraq. At his own expense Bernard pressed a handful of CD singles containing the revision, which he distributed for airplay to select radio stations and programs, mainly in south Louisiana.

Many of Bernard's songs have been reissued on compact disk both in the U.S. and abroad, and continue to receive much regional airplay. Significantly, younger generations of south Louisiana musicians, including C. C. Adcock, Marc Broussard, and Zachary Richard have acknowledged him as a strong musical influence.

Bernard last performed in public in 2015 at the Ponderosa Stomp music festival in New Orleans. He retired from his career as a radio advertising executive in January 2018.

Selected discography

Singles
"All Night In Jail"/"Set Me Free," Carl	track numbers J8OW-1229/J8OW-1230 [issued w/o record number], 1957.
"Linda Gail"/"Little Bitty Mama," Carl track numbers H8OW-2441/H8OW-2442 [issued w/o record number], 1957.
"This Should Go On Forever"/"Pardon Mr. Gordon," Jin 105, 1958/Argo 5327, 1959.
"You're On My Mind," Argo 5338, 1959.
"One More Chance," Mercury 71507, 1959.
"Forgive," Hall 1915, 1962.
"Diggy Liggy Lo," Hall 1917, 1962.
"Colinda," Hall-Way 1902, 1962. (and on the Tomorrow's Hits (Vee-Jay Records album)
"Fais Do-Do," Hall-Way 1906, 1962.
"Our Teenage Love/Doing The Oo-Wa-Woo," Tear Drop 3044, 1964.
"You're The Reason I'm in Love/My Jole Blon," Tear Drop 3052, 1964.
"No Money Down/Little Green Man," Tear Drop 3060, 1965.
"This Should Go On Forever/Recorded In England," Tear Drop 3117, 1966.
"Recorded In England," Arbee 101, 1965/Teardrop	3117, 1965/Scepter 12195, 1965.
"These Were Our Songs," Arbee 105, 1965.
"Congratulations To You Darling," Jin 232, 1968.
"New Orleans Jail," Jin	240, 1968.
"Papa Thibodeaux," Copyright 2316, 1968.
"Sometimes I Talk In My Sleep," Jin 325, 1975.

LPs
Rod Bernard, Jin 4007, ca. 1965.
Country Lovin''', Jin 9008, 1974.Night Lights and Love Songs, Jin 9010, 1975.Boogie in Black and White [with Clifton Chenier], Jin 9014, 1976.This Should Go On Forever And Other Bayou Classics, Crazy Cajun 1086, 1978.

CassettesA Lot of Dominos, Jin 4012, 1991.

CDs
(* = compilation)Swamp Rock 'n' Roller, Ace [UK] CDCHD 488, 1994.*The Essential Collection, Jin 9056, 1998.*Cajun Blue, Edsel 593 [UK], 1999.*Louisiana Tradition, CSP 1018, 1999.Boogie in Black and White'' [with Clifton Chenier], Jin 9014, 1976; issued on CD, 2014.

References

External links

  Video Documentary
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It (pronoun)

It is a third-person, singular neuter pronoun (nominative (subjective) case and oblique (objective) case) in Modern English.

Usage
The word and term it can be used for either a subject or an object in a sentence and can describe any physical or psychological subject or object. The genitive form its has been used to refer to human babies and animals, although with the passage of time this usage has come to be considered too impersonal in the case of babies, as it may be thought to demean a conscious being to the status of a mere object. This use of it is also criticized when used as a rhetorical device to dehumanize a speaker's enemies, implying that they were little more than animals or objects. The word remains in common use however, and its use increases with the degree to which the speaker views an object of speech as impersonal. For example, a cat or dog is often referred to as it, especially if the dog is not known by the speaker, or if the dog's gender is unknown. However, a person may also say it when referring to his or her own pet.

It is often used for idiomatic phrases such as "Is it a boy or a girl?" Once the gender of a child has been established, the speaker or writer generally switches to gender-specific pronouns.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge proposed using it in a wider sense in all the situations where a gender-neutral pronoun might be desired:

The children's author E. Nesbit consistently wrote in this manner, often of mixed groups of children: "Everyone got its legs kicked or its feet trodden on in the scramble to get out of the carriage."

In earlier Middle English, arising from Old English, the pronoun was hit (similar to Dutch het and West Frisian hit with the same meaning), with the unaspirated it being an unaccented form. The genitive was his, with the new form its only arising by analogy in later Middle English.

It is used for a thing previously mentioned or easily identified.

The pronoun it also serves as a placeholder subject in sentences with no identifiable actor, such as "It rained last night", "It boils down to what you're interested in", or the impersonal "It was a dark and stormy night".

See also
 Contraction (grammar)

 Generic antecedents
 Gender-specific pronoun
 English personal pronouns

References

External links

 William Malone Baskervill and James Witt Sewel, An English Grammar, 1896.
 On some Philological Peculiarities in the English Authorized Version of the Bible. By Thomas Watts, Esq.
 'It', The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth edition, (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000).

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Sento-kun

is a yuru-chara mascot created by Nara City Office to commemorate the 1300th anniversary of Nara Heijō-kyō, the ancient capital of Japan, in 2010.

The city of Nara has a long tradition of adopting guardian deities such as Nio (a pair of temple guardians), Asura, Jūni Shinshō (Twelve Heavenly Generals) and Shitenno (Four Guardian Kings). The new mascot was chosen by the city office to inherit their mission, and as a "personification of the energy" of the ancient capital dotted with temples, gardens and shrines.

Sento-kun is meant to resemble an amiable young boy who has the antlers of a deer, an animal which has long been regarded as a heavenly protector of the city.

Character design
The character was designed by Satoshi Yabuuchi, a sculptor and professor at University of Tokyo, who was one of twelve guest designers invited by the Association for Commemorative Events of the 1300th Anniversary of the Nara-Heijyokyo Capital. The name Sento-kun was selected out of over 14,000 public applicants by the association of the event on April 15, 2008. Ever since the announcement of the official mascot character in February 2008, many media and religious groups have expressed negative opinions about the new mascot.

Official character profile

 Name: Sento-kun
 Birthday: February 12, 2008
 Personality: Sento-kun is very active, always full of vigor, and good at acquiring wisdom for tomorrow from old knowledge. Also, he is curious about all things and quite playful.
 Special Skills: taking 12 trademark poses, he is fluent in every language on earth, good at imparting his energy to others around him.
 Favorite Food: foods of Nara
 Favorite Place: any places historical and benevolent in Nara

References

External links

 Nara prefecture

 Sento-kun's profile

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Di'Ja

Hadiza Blell, better known by her stage name Di'Ja, is a Nigerian singer and songwriter. She is currently signed to Mavin Records. In 2009, she released her first single "Rock Steady", which was nominated for Best Urban/R&B Single at the 2009 Canadian Radio Music Awards. Moreover, she won the Best New Artist award at the 2008 Beat Music Awards.

Early life
Di'Ja has lived in Nigeria, Sierra Leone, the United States and Canada. Her mother is from Northern Nigeria and her father is from Sierra Leone. Di'Ja's received a joint degree in biology and psychology.

Music career
Her music career started in 2008. In 2012, Di'Ja released several singles, including "Dan'Iska (Rudebwoy)", "Hold On (Ba Damuwa)" and "How Can We Be Friends". On February 14, 2014, Di'Ja signed a record deal with Don Jazzy's Mavin Records. "Yaro", her first official single under the label was also released that same day. It infuses Hausa and Krio dialects in honour of her Nigerian and Sierra Leonean roots.

In May 2014, Di'Ja was featured on "Dorobucci" alongside label mates Don Jazzy, Dr SID, Tiwa Savage, D'Prince, Korede Bello and Reekado Banks. She was also featured on "Arise", alongside Don Jazzy and Reekado Banks. On December 15, 2017, Di'Ja released her extended play Aphrodija, which also features guest vocals from Tiwa Savage and Reekado Banks.

Awards and nominations

Discography

Singles

Videography

References

External links
  Official website

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Kohler Design Center

The Kohler Design Center is the Kohler Company museum showcase of product design in Kohler, Wisconsin.

The main floor showcases the products of the companies that comprise the Kohler family of businesses. It features Kohler's own "great wall of china," a floor-to-ceiling display of plumbing fixtures in all shapes, sizes and colors. The lower level features the Kohler Company Museum. Visitors can watch a short film and view displays from the company's establishment in 1873 as a maker of cast iron farm implements. Also in the lower level is an arts gallery developed by the John Michael Kohler Arts Center.

The building was originally used as a recreation hall for Kohler village residents. In 1985, it was transformed into a 36,000-square-foot showcase for the extensive array of Kohler Company products.

See also
 Kohler Company

References

External links
 Kohler Design Center

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Category:Sheboygan County, Wisconsin


All Pacific Championship

The All Pacific Women's Championship was the secondary singles women's professional wrestling title in the promotion All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling, or AJW.  The belt was started as the Hawaiian Pacific Championship in 1977, and was renamed the All Pacific Championship in 1978.

Title history

See also

 List of professional wrestling promotions in Japan
 List of women's wrestling promotions
 Professional wrestling in Japan

References

Category:All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling Championships
Category:Women's professional wrestling championships
Category:Regional professional wrestling championships


Hermann Baumgarten

Hermann Baumgarten (; ; 28 April 1825 – 19 June 1893) was a German historian and a political publicist whose work had a major impact on liberalism during the unification of Germany.  Baumgarten's philosophy also created a significant political impression on Max Weber, an influential social theorist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Life and career

Hermann Baumgarten was born in Wolfenbüttel in the Duchy of Brunswick. He studied philology and history at the University of Jena before becoming a journalist in 1855. In 1859 he began working at Maximilian Duncker's "literary bureau", a Prussian institution used to disseminate propaganda.  In 1861, he also took up a teaching post at the Technical University of Karlsruhe.

As a champion of Prussian/German liberalism, Baumgarten faced the dilemma as to whether or not to accept the military and political successes of Prussia's conservative Prime Minister, Otto von Bismarck.  In 1866, Baumgarten published his support of Bismarck's policies in an essay entitled A Self-Criticism of German Liberalism. This work essentially ended radical German liberalism as a force, whereupon many Prussians joined the Bismarck-supporting National Liberal Party), and allowed the new German empire to nationalize and solidify.

In 1872, Baumgarten became Professor of History at the Reichsuniversität in Strasbourg.  During the late 1880s and early 1890s, Baumgarten made a significant political impression upon Max Weber, Baumgarten's nephew by marriage. Weber would go on to profoundly influence social theory and the remit of sociology itself.  At the age of 68, Baumgarten died in Strasbourg, Alsace-Lorraine.

Works

 A Self-Criticism of German Liberalism (Der deutsche Liberalismus: Eine Selbstkritik, Berlin, 1866)
 Notes on Treitschke's "German History", 2nd Vol. (Anmerkungen zu Treitschkes „Deutsche Geschichte“, 2. Band., Strasbourg, 1883)

References

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Earth vs. the Spider (2001 film)

Earth vs. the Spider is a 2001 science fiction horror television film directed by Scott Ziehl. It is the first of a series of films made for Cinemax paying tribute to the films of American International Pictures. The films in this tribute series reused the titles of old American International Pictures films, but are not remakes of the earlier films. The film centers on a shy, obsessive comic book fan who gets injected with an experimental serum derived from spiders, which gives him minor superpowers. As time progresses, more horrific changes occur, slowly transforming him into a grotesque human spider. A detective begins to investigate when bodies start to pile up covered in cobwebs. The film is rated R for violence, nudity, profanity, gore, and profanity. The film was nominated for the Saturn Award at the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Films, USA.

Plot
Quentin Kemmer (Devon Gummersall) is a shy security guard and obsessive comic book fan who dreams of becoming a superhero like his favorite comic book character The Arachnid Avenger, and going out with his next-door neighbor Stephanie Lewis (Amelia Heinle). When his partner is killed during a botched robbery at the research laboratory where he works, Quentin is fired  and he injects himself with an experimental serum derived from spiders. The next day he is wracked with a severely high fever and spends most of the day unconscious. After he recovers he discovers that he has developed increased strength.

Later that night, Stephanie is attacked and almost raped by a stalker until Quentin intervenes and kills the man, leaving before Stephanie can see him. Quentin later returns to his apartment and finds Stephanie being interviewed by Detective Frank Grillo (Dan Aykroyd) in hopes of identifying her savior. At first Quentin is thrilled that he is finally able to live his dream of becoming a superhero. However, as the days go by he begins to develop more spider-like abilities including being able to shoot webs from his abdomen, and his body becoming more spider-like. Later, Quentin is overwhelmed with an insatiable hunger but is unable to eat solid food. Arriving at a local store in an effort to find something to satisfy his hunger, he happens upon a man attempting to rape a young woman and attacks him, severely injuring the man. Expecting the woman to be grateful, he is surprised when she yells at him in anger as the man was her boyfriend. When she attempts to call the police Quentin encases her in webbing, Police Officer Williams (Christopher Cousins) arrives on the scene and attempts to free the woman but is attacked by Quentin.

The next day the police converge on the store and find the man's body which has been sucked dry of all fluids and the woman in a state of shock. Detective Grillo is confused by the state of the man's body and by the presence of what appears to be spider webs at the scene as well as Williams' badge even though his body is missing. Horrified at what he is becoming as his body mutates even further, and afraid of hurting anyone else, Quentin holes himself up in his room in an effort to prevent any more murders.

The next night, he is overwhelmed by his insatiable hunger and ventures out, murdering two young men who used to pick on him. Trying to get to the bottom of the murders, Frank interviews the head of the research department where Quentin used to work where he discovers that scientists were working on a way to transfer properties from spider into humans. Now realizing that the killer might have injected himself with the lab's serum and theorizing that Quentin might be the killer, Frank visits Quentin's apartment but finds no one apparently home. After discovering the same webbing found at the store, Frank enters the apartment's basement where he discovers dozens of bodies encased in webbing. Meanwhile, Frank's wife Trixie (Theresa Russell) has followed her husband who she believes is hiding Officer Williams with whom she was having an affair. Trixie is then attacked by an almost completely metamorphosed Quentin who flees when Frank attempts to rescue her, but arrives too late to save her and she dies in his arms.  Entering the apartment Quentin kidnaps Stephanie and takes her to an abandoned building nearby. Frank arrives at the building and finds Stephanie strung up in a large spider's web. Before he can free her Quentin (now a grotesque mixture of man and spider) appears and begs Frank to kill him. Frank at first refuses to do so, but the animal side of Quentin takes over and he lunges at Stephanie, forcing Frank to open fire on him. Mortally wounded, Quentin manages to live long enough to hear Stephanie thank him for saving her before he expires. The film ends with Quentin's friend Han, introduce a comic book collector to an action figure that resembles his friend, now a superhero named Quentin Arachnid.

Cast
 Dan Aykroyd as Det. Insp. Frank Grillo
 Devon Gummersall as Quentin Kemmer
 Amelia Heinle as Stephanie Lewis
 Theresa Russell as Trixie Grillo
 Christopher Cousins as Officer Williams
 John Cho as Han
 Randall Huber as Midtown murderer
 Greg Harris as Gutterpunk #1 (as Zia)
 Lloyd Lowe Jr. as Lloyd (gutterpunk #2) (as Lloyd Lowe)
 Michael Keenan as Willie
 Ted Rooney as Coroner
 Dan Martin as Huge cop
 Rob Hill as Liquor store cop

Production

Earth vs. the Spider was the first film in a series of made-for-TV film remakes produced by special effects artist Stan Winston, the first series to be produced by Winston's newly formed production company Stan Winston Productions and released by Cinemax.
The film's script, like the others in the series differed significantly from the original film which was about a town plagued by a giant spider. Co-creator Stan Winston described the film's plot as being about, "a young man whose attempt to become a Spider-Man type superhero goes disastrously wrong, leaving him with a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (character) type personality disorder". Winston also stated that he planned to release a series of action figures based on the first five characters in the series including one based on the Quentin Arachnid creature featured in the film.

Release
Earth vs. the Spider premiered on Cinemax television on October 7, 2001 making it the first in the series.
Two years later Columbia TriStar released the film on DVD on July 6, 2004 and on May 7 that same year.

Reception
Earth vs. the Spider received mixed to negative reviews from critics, with many criticizing it for being a rip-off of David Cronenberg's The Fly.

TV Guide awarded the film 2 / 4 stars, criticizing Gummersall's performance, and its special effects calling them "goofy". Steve Van Pelt from Filmthreat.com gave the film 1 / 4 stars stating, "Not a single one of those powerful filmmakers out there could come up with an original idea if it bit into them with the inch-long fangs of an engineered Super Spider". G. Noel Gross from DVD Talk rated the film two and a half out of five stars, criticizing the film's slow start, and uneven execution, but also stated that the film was the better entry in the series, and special effects.

Rich Rosell from Digitally Obsessed.com, which grades film on a scale from A to F awarded  the film a grade C. Rosell praised the film's special effects that transformed actor Devon Gummersall into a human spider but complained about the film's dull story commenting, "Stan Winston's Creature Features series is tied at 1-1, with this weak entry balanced against the entertaining initial release of She Creature. The story here is shamefully weak, and seems to borrow handily from The Fly for most of its intended, but poorly executed, dramatic tension. The campy superhero parallels mostly fall flat".
Movie-gazette.com gave the film 3 / 10 stars calling it "A bizarre mix of comic book camp and "The Fly"-style horror".
Mick Martin and Marsha Porter in their DVD and Video Guide gave the film a more positive 3 out of 4 stars, complimenting the films special effects and performances.
Felix Vasquez from Cinema Crazed.com called it "a fun guilty pleasure", commending the film's make-up and special effects, Gummersall, and Cho's performances, and Ziehl's direction. However, Vasquez felt that Akroyd's inclusion in the film felt "tacked on".

References

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European political party

A European political party (formally, a political party at European level; informally a Europarty) is a type of political party organisation operating transnationally in Europe and in the institutions of the European Union. They are regulated and funded by the European Union and are usually made up of national parties, not individuals. Europarties have the exclusive right to campaign during the European elections and express themselves within the European Parliament by their affiliated political groups and their MEPs. Europarties, through coordination meetings with their affiliated heads of state and government, influence the decision-making process of the European Council. Europarties also work closely and co-ordinate with their affiliated members of the European Commission and, according to the Lisbon Treaty the Europarty that wins the European elections has the right to nominate to the European Council its candidate for President of the European Commission.

The term "political party in the EU" can mean three different types of entities: domestic political parties, political groups in the European Parliament, and European political parties.

Current Europarties
, there are 10 registered Europarties:

History

Timeline

1992
Section 41 of the Treaty of Maastricht added Article 138a to the Treaty of Rome. Article 138a (later renumbered to Article 191) stated that "Political parties at European level are important as a factor for integration within the Union. They contribute to forming a European awareness and to expressing the political will of the citizens of the Union." So the concept of a "political party at European level" was born.

1997
Article J.18 and Article K.13 of the Treaty of Amsterdam established who should pay for expenditure authorised by Article 138/191 within certain areas. This provided a mechanism whereby Europarties could be paid for out of the European budget, and the Europarties started to spend the money. Such expenditure included funding national parties, an outcome not originally intended.

2001
Article 2, section 19 of the Treaty of Nice added a second paragraph to Article 191 of the Treaty of Rome. That paragraph stated that "The Council, acting in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 251, shall lay down the regulations governing political parties at European level and in particular the rules regarding their funding." The reference to "Article 251" refers to co-decision, which meant the European Parliament had to be involved. So Europarty funding had to be regulated by the Council and the European Parliament, acting together.

2003
Regulation (EC) No 2004/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 November 2003 defined what a "political party at European level" actually was and specified that funding should not go to national parties, either directly or indirectly. This meant that European money should stay at the Europarty level and, as a result, the nascent Europarties started to organise themselves on a more European basis instead of acting as a mechanism for funding national parties.

2007
That regulation was later heavily amended by the Decision of the Bureau of the European Parliament of 29 March 2004 and by other amendments, the latest of which is Regulation (EC) No 1524/2007 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2007 These amendments tightened up the procedures and funding and provided for the earlier-floated concept of a "political foundation at European level". This meant that the Europarties can set up and fund legally separate affiliated think-tanks (the Eurofoundations) to aid them, although funding national parties remains forbidden. The revised regulation also gives Europarties the exclusive responsibility to campaign for the European elections and can use their funds for this purpose (their corresponding political groups of the European Parliament are strictly forbidden to campaign).

2014
Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 1141/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 October 2014 overhauled the existing framework for European political parties and foundations, including by giving them legal status, and establishes an Authority for the purpose of registering, controlling and imposing sanctions on European political parties and European political foundations. The authority will be a body of the European Union.

This regulation repealed Regulation (EC) No 2004/2003, however the provisions of that regulation shall continue to apply for the 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 budget years. Although it came into force on 24 November 2014, the regulations shall only apply from 1 January 2017. The authority shall however be set up by 1 September 2016. European political parties and European political foundations registered after 1 January 2017 may only apply for funding under this Regulation for activities starting in the 2018 budget year or thereafter.

Defunct Europarties
 The Alliance of Independent Democrats in Europe, a loose association of Eurosceptics and nationalists, met the recognition threshold from 2006 to 2008.
 The heterogeneous Alliance for Europe of the Nations, which included moderate nationalists, national conservatives and Eurosceptics, met the recognition threshold from 2004 to 2009.
 The Eurosceptic, national conservative, right populist Movement for a Europe of Liberties and Democracy was recognised from 2012 to 2016.
 On 1 November 2008 Declan Ganley had registered a company in Dublin called the Libertas Party Ltd. Libertas applied for Europarty recognition which was briefly granted but then suspended following the disavowal of two of its candidates.

Organisation

Regulations
As of 1 November 2008, the regulation governing Europarties is Regulation (EC) No 2004/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 November 2003, as later amended under codecision (see above). According to that regulation's European Commission factsheet, for a party to become a Europarty it must meet the following criteria:

 it must have legal personality in the member state in which its seat is located.
 it must observe the founding principles of the European Union, namely the principles of liberty, democracy, respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, and the rule of law.
 it must have participated, or intend to participate, in elections to the European Parliament.
 it must have in at least one quarter of the member states, one or both of the following:
 either it must have received at least 3% of the votes cast in each of those Member States at the most recent European Parliament elections.
 or it must already be represented by members, whether members of the European Parliament for those states, or members of the national parliaments of those states, or members of the regional parliaments of those states, or members of the regional assemblies of those states.
 it must publish its revenue and expenditure annually.
 it must publish a statement of its assets and liabilities annually.
 it must provide a list of its donors and their donations exceeding €500.
 it must not accept anonymous donations.
 it must not accept donations exceeding €12,000 per year and per donor.
 it must not accept donations from the budgets of political groups of the European Parliament.
 it must not accept more than 40% of a national political party's annual budget.
 it must not accept donations from any company over which the public authorities may exercise a dominant influence, either by virtue of their ownership of it, or by their financial participation therein.
 it must get at least 15% of its budget from sources other than its European Union funding.
 it must submit its application by 30 September before the financial year that it wants funding for.

Funding
The initial total funding for 2012 was €15 million pre-financing. A further 20% (18.9 million) was given later on in the next year after accounts are presented, with yet further €9.720 million pre-financing for the foundations.

Structure
All current Europarties are mostly made up of national parties, individual members (MP or MEPs): MPs who are members of member parties can become members of the Europarty. Additionally, people can become individual members of the Europarty without having to join a national party first (e.g. Marian Harkin, who is an individual member of the European Democratic Party).

European political parties not recognised by the EU
Formerly recognised

Other parties;
European Federalist Party: a pan-European organisation advocating european federalism
European Pirate Party: An association of Pirate Parties from across Europe.
Newropeans: Political movement of citizens with democratisation of the EU as the main focus.
European Party for Individual Liberty: Libertarian political party.
Euro Animal 7: Animal rights party.
Europe–Democracy–Esperanto
Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25): Left movement advocating a Europe-wide democracy based on social rights and parliamentarism and decentralisation.
Maintenant le Peuple (MLP): Left political party.
European Alliance of Peoples and Nations (EAPN): Right-wing populist coalition founded by Matteo Salvini and Marine Le Pen.
Volt Europa: The first pan-European political party running under the same name and on the same policy platform in local, national, and European elections.

Defunct
 European National Front: Network of ultra-nationalist and far-right parties in Europe.
Alliance for Direct Democracy in Europe
European Alliance for Freedom

Alliances of national parties
Confederations, networks and alliances are not europarties.
European Anti-Capitalist Left: Network of anti-capitalist, mostly broad more radical left-wing parties in Europe.
Liberal South East European Network: Balkan liberal parties.
Initiative of Communist and Workers' Parties: Network of orthodox Communist parties in Europe; anti-revisionist and against Eurocommunist reforms.
The European Alliance of EU-critical Movements
SAMAK: Scandinavian social democrats
Nordic Council:
Nordic Green Left Alliance: Scandinavian socialists and greens.
Centre Group: Scandinavian greens, liberals, agrarians and Christian democrats
Conservative Group: Scandinavian conservatives
The Social Democratic Group: Scandinavian social democrats
Nordic Freedom: Scandinavian right-wing populists

Defunct
 Euronat: Far-right ultranationalist parties, including the British National Party of the United Kingdom and the National Front of France.
 Movement for European Reform: Conservative and Atlanticist Eurosceptics; springboard for the formation of European Conservatives and Reformists
 Platform for Transparency: Loose confederation of three independent MEPs; somewhat Eurosceptic.
 European Democratic Union: Christian democratic and conservative parties.

Membership of Europarties by national party

Controversy
Europarty funding goes to Europarties and stays with Europarties: the funding cannot be used for the funding of other political parties and in particular national political parties. National political parties disinclined from joining Europarties are thereby disadvantaged. 25 Members of the European Parliament petitioned the European Court of Justice, arguing that this contravened the EU's stated values of pluralism and democracy. The case was rejected after eighteen months. A closely related case fought by the French Front National, the Italian Lega Nord, and the Belgian Vlaams Blok (now Vlaams Belang) was appealed and rejected.

See also
 Parties in the European Council
 Political foundation at European level
 :Category:European Parliament party groups

References

External links
 Video : Relations between parliamentary groups and political parties European NAvigator
 Parties' contact details
 The European Parliament and Supranational Party System Cambridge University Press 2002
 Results of the 2004 European Parliament elections by political party at European level


The Jazz Discography

The Jazz Discography is a print, CD-ROM, and online discography and sessionography of all categories of recorded jazz — and directly relevant precursors of recorded jazz from 1896.  The publisher, Lord Music Reference Inc., a British Columbia company, is headed by Tom Lord and is based in Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada.  The initial 26 of 35 print volumes, which comprise the discography, were released from 1992 to 2001 in alphabetic order.  In 2002, The Jazz Discography became the first comprehensive jazz discography on CD-ROM.

Scope
The Jazz Discography covers all categories of jazz and other creative improvised music, including traditional, swing, bebop, modern, avant-garde, fusion, third stream, and others.  As of January 2008, the database contained 34,861 leaders, 181,392 recording sessions, 1,030,109 musician entries, and 1,077,503 tune entries.

Early listings
There is an ongoing debate over when and where the word "jazz" became a common, commercial reference for the jazz genre, a genre that predates the word.  Bert Kelly (1882–1968), a banjoist and jazz club owner from Chicago, is known for having used the word "jass," on his Chicago venue marquee in 1914.  To resolve such vagaries, TJD Online allows users to search by year, beginning 1896.  The two listings of 1896 are the compositions of Scott Joplin, preserved on piano rolls — not performed by Joplin — but subsequently recorded many times.

There is a prevailing consensus that the first commercially released jazz recording was the "Livery Stable Blues" (third take), recorded on February 26, 1917, by the Original Dixieland Jass Band of New Orleans.

Sources
Numerous data sources comprise the database.  They include existing general and individual jazz discographies and international jazz periodicals.  With initial mixed sentiment over some sources, reviewers had noted that Lord borrowed heavily from, but expanded upon, the major comprehensive jazz discography work of Walter Bruyninckx, whose research was, and still is (as of 2013), ongoing. Sentiment grew mostly positive after the 26th printed volume was published.  Additional input has, and still is being received from recording companies and their catalogs and the issues of Cadence magazine covering many recordings not listed in other discographies. Individuals — particularly record collectors, musicologists, and jazz historians — have, and continue to provide data.

Discography format and categories
The project is organized alphabetically by bandleader, and within each individual entry, chronologically by recording session. For each session, it identifies track and album titles, personnel and instrumentation, location and date, and recording label and numbers. Indexes are organized alphabetically by musician and by tune title. The discography includes recording dates but excludes release dates.

Limited data for cassette releases
Some commercially available cassette releases have been included in The Jazz Discography, but the publisher makes no claim to completeness.

Publication sets
The Jazz Discography (print)

About Tom Lord
Before embarking on The Jazz Discography, Tom Lord had been a mechanical engineer and, later, an executive at a shipping container company.  Lord, together with Bob Rusch, founded Cadence Jazz Records in 1980, an offshoot of Cadence magazine.  Lord financed the record label launch and was a silent partner.  In the 1990s, Lord also indexed back issues of Cadence.

References

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Boris Sagredo

Boris Alexis Sagredo Romero (, born 21 March 1989) is a Chilean footballer that currently plays for A.C. Barnechea as an attacking midfielder.

Club career

Colo-Colo
He made his debut on October 3, 2007, against Everton.  His name became somewhat of a household name among Colo-Colo supporters after the November 4, 2007, match against rival Universidad Católica.  He came on in the 76th minute for Gonzalo Jara and just a minute later gave an assist to Giovanni Hernandez for the lone goal of the match.  Then in the second match after that, Sagredo scored his first goal for Colo-Colo against Palestino.

Currently Sagredo is playing for the Chilean soccer team Palestino. Sagredo was moved to the club because frankly he did not fit in Astengo's large squad despite his incredible talent and speed, and the move was made on order to secure more playing time for the Chilean midfielder. Although Sagredo was disappointed with the transfer out of Colo Colo, he is still motivated to play football and hopes that one day he will move to a large club.

O'Higgins
In 2011, he was signed by O'Higgins.

International career
On February 19, 2008 Chile's U-18 squad took on Mexico's U-23 squad in an exhibition match.  Sagredo was ejected from the game in the '35 after receiving his second yellow card.  Chile lost 2-0.

Currently, 19-year-old Sagredo is a vital part of Chile's participation in the U-23 2008 Toulon Tournament where he scored a beautiful goal in Chile's 5-3 win against France, started in the 2-0 win against the Netherlands as well as Chile's 2-0 win against Japan.

Career statistics

Honours

Club
Colo-Colo
 Primera División de Chile (3): 2006 Clausura, 2007 Apertura, 2007 Clausura

International
 Toulon Tournament (1): Runner–up 2008

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1885–86 Scottish Cup

The 1885–86 Scottish Cup was the 13th season of Scotland's most prestigious football knockout competition. Queen's Park won the competition for the eighth time after they beat defending champions Renton 3–1 in the final.

Arbroath set a world record in the first round when they defeated Bon Accord 36–0 on 12 September 1885. The score remains a record in British senior football and globally for a match that was not fixed or thrown. Coincidentally, on the same day, Dundee Harp recorded an equally one-sided victory as they beat Aberdeen Rovers 35–0.

Calendar

Two teams qualified for the second round after drawing their first round replay.

Teams
All 134 teams entered the competition in the first round.

First round
Alloa Athletic, Dykehead, Pilgrims and Queen of the South Wanderers received a bye to the second round.

Matches

Replays

Notes

Second round
Cartvale, Partick Thistle, Thornhill and West Calder received a bye to the third round.

Matches

Replays

Second Replays

Third Replay

Fourth Replay

Notes

Third round
Cambuslang received a bye to the fourth round.

Matches

Replay

Fourth round
Port Glasgow Athletic received a bye to the fifth round.

Matches

Replay

Second replay

Fifth round

Matches

Replays

Second replay

Quarter-final
Queen's Park, Renton and 3rd Lanark RV received a bye to the semi-finals.

Match

Semi-finals

Matches

Final

See also
1885–86 in Scottish football

References

External links
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Bijayshree Routray

Bijayshree Routray is a politician from Odisha, India. He represents the Basudevpur (Odisha Vidhan Sabha constituency) since the year 1990.

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Chalcocolona

Chalcocolona is a genus of moths in the family Cosmopterigidae. It contains only one species, Chalcocolona cyananthes, which is found in South Africa and Zimbabwe.

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SS Southern Cross (1954)

SS Southern Cross was an ocean liner built in 1955 by Harland & Wolff, Belfast, Northern Ireland for the United Kingdom-based Shaw, Savill & Albion Line for Europe—Australia service. In 1975 she was rebuilt as a cruise ship and subsequently sailed under the names Calypso, Azure Seas and OceanBreeze until 2003 when she was sold for scrap to Ahmed Muztaba Steel Industries, Chittagong, Bangladesh.

The Southern Cross was the first passenger ship of over 20,000 gross register tons to be built that had the engine room (and as a result of that, the funnel) located near the stern, rather than amidships. She started a trend of aft-engined ships, and today most passenger ships are built this way.  Southern Cross was also the first major liner to have no cargo space, other than for ship's stores and passenger luggage.

Design and construction

The Southern Cross was planned in the early 1950s as the new flagship of the Shaw, Savill & Albion Line to be used on the Europe–Australia immigrant run. However, the ship was by no means a basic migrant ship. When the ship was under planning, Shaw Savill chairman Basil Sanderson came up with the revolutionary idea of placing the ship's engines and funnel aft, freeing the areas amidships (which is generally considered the most comfortable area for passengers) for cabins and public rooms. Sanderson eventually managed to persuade the board of the viability of his idea, and on 16 July 1952 an order for the new all-passenger liner was placed at the Harland & Wolff shipyard.

Although the new ship was designed as an all-tourist class vessel for an immigrant route, she was designed with fairly luxurious facilities for her time. All passenger cabins were air conditioned, fitted with hot and cold running water, and inside cabins had circular lights that were switched on gradually in the morning, mimicking the rising of the sun. However, only the most expensive cabins had private bathroom facilities. The aft-funnel arrangement made it possible to build a large open lido deck midship, including a  sports deck area. In addition to the two outdoor pools there was one indoor pool. All inside public spaces were air conditioned, and included a two-deck high cinema (also used as a dancing venue), two large public lounges, two restaurants, a writing room/library and a smoking room. Wood panelling was widely used in the interior decorations, that were made to be light, airy, and modern to be comfortable in oppressive tropical climates.

Externally the ship was of a completely new design. In addition to the funnel being placed quite far aft, the bridge was placed nearer amidships, rather than the usual forward position. This meant the superstructure extended considerably further forward than the bridge. These features didn't win high accolades at the time, a contemporary review describing her as being "not very beautiful, but very efficient", but P&O's SS Canberra of 1961, ordered one year after Southern Cross entered service, was built to an almost identical design though on a larger scale.

In 1953 Basil Sanderson approached Buckingham Palace, asking if Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II would be willing to launch the new ship and choose a name from a list of suggestions. The Queen agreed, and chose the name Southern Cross. When launched on 17 August 1954, Southern Cross became the first passenger liner to be launched by a reigning British monarch.

Southern Cross emerged in the new Shaw Savill liner livery of a pale-grey-painted hull and familiar dark-buff funnel with a black top.  This was complemented by the innovative use of pale-green eau de nil paintwork for the superstructure.

Service history

1955-1971

On 23 February 1955, Southern Cross was delivered to her owners. After her trials late January 1955, she departed March 29 on her maiden voyage for Australia and New Zealand.  Her westerly directioned 76-day voyage out of Southampton included ports Trinidad, Curaçao, the Panama Canal, Tahiti, Fiji, Wellington (May 2), Auckland, Sydney (May 9), Melbourne (May 11), Fremantle (May 16), Durban, Cape Town, Las Palmas and back to Southampton. Normally she might make four such circumnavigations every year.

The Southern Cross enjoyed great success during the early years of her Shaw Savill service, so in the late 1950s a second ship of similar design but larger dimensions was ordered, entering service in 1962 as SS Northern Star. When she entered service, Northern Star replaced Southern Cross on the eastwards Australian run, and Southern Cross took over the westwards itinerary, visiting the same ports as before but in reverse order.

During the 1960s competition from other passenger liners - and from the jet aeroplane - increased on the Australian run, putting financial pressure on Shaw Savill's around the year service to Australia and New Zealand. In a surprising move, parent company Furness Withy transferred three  former Royal Mail Lines cargo/passenger ships to Shaw Savill in 1968/69, each with capacity for 464 passengers. In early 1970, Shaw Savill also acquired the Canadian Pacific Steamship Company's transatlantic liner RMS Empress of England. As SS Ocean Monarch, this unaltered ship promptly sailed for Australasia, to undertake two long cruises ex-Australia to Japan, timed to coincide with Expo'70.  Upon her return to Britain, Ocean Monarch commenced a major refit to make her more suitable for full-time cruising.  The now redundant cargo holds and associated handling gear were removed and the after part of the ship remodelled. This work enabling new public spaces and cabins to be built, which would increase passenger capacity to 1,372. Due to extended dockyard delays, Ocean Monarch was unable to resume service until October 1971. In the space of three years, Shaw Savill's passenger fleet had increased from two to six vessels, Southern Cross being the fleet's oldest.

Southern Cross was used for cruising from Southampton and Liverpool to Mediterranean ports from June 1971 onwards. Although her design was otherwise well suited for such duties, the ship was not fitted with private facilities in all cabins, which made her a challenging ship to market. Mainly due to Southern Cross'''s diminishing returns, after just five months of cruising, Shaw Savill decided to lay up the ship in November of the same year. The ship's early withdrawal proved to be her salvation as she escaped the poor maintenance which afflicted her fleet mates over the next few years resulting in them being sold for scrap by 1974 in spite of being younger than Southern Cross1973-1980

After spending over a year laid up, first in Southampton and then at River Fal, Southern Cross was sold to Greece-based Ulysses Lines in January 1973. Renamed SS Calypso, the ship sailed to Piraeus where she was converted into a dedicated cruise ship. The original interior layout was retained with the exception of the indoor pool, which was replaced by a disco, whilst all interior furnishings were replaced with fashionable minimalist chrome-and-plastic creations, to conform with the then newest SOLAS regulations. Additionally, the cabins were refitted so that all now featured private bathrooms. This meant a slight reduction of passenger capacity, from the original 1,160 to 1,000.

Painted in cruise-like whites with an attractive blue/white funnel, Calypso entered service for Ulysses Lines in March 1975, initially cruising around the Mediterranean with Piraeus as the origin. After a few months she was chartered to the UK-based Thomson Cruises, to commence cruising from Tilbury and Southampton. Thomson withdrew from the cruise business in 1976 and Calypso returned to Ulysses Lines, who used her again in the Mediterranean, as well as for a season around South America in 1978-1979. Seven-night cruises from Miami to the Caribbean featured from 1979 onwards. At some point, Calypso also cruised from New York to Bermuda. In 1980 the ship was renamed SS Calypso I and used for cruises from Los Angeles to Alaska.

1980-1991

In late 1980 Calypso was sold again, this time to the United States–based Eastern Cruise Lines, who used her to start west-coast of US service under the name Western Cruise Lines. Renamed SS Azure Seas, the ship's interiors were redecorated once more to keep in the spirit of the times. In addition a new casino was built in place of the forward pool area. The ship's official passenger capacity was reduced to 821. With her funnel painted dark blue, Azure Seas was placed on three- and four-night cruises from Los Angeles to Ensenada and Catalina, and soon became highly popular.

In 1986 Western Cruise Lines and Eastern Cruise Lines merged with their west-coast competitor Sundance Cruises to form Admiral Cruises. No change was made to Azure Seas' itinerary, however. In the late 1980s the ship was again refurbished. This time the casino was moved to where the cinema balcony had been, with conference rooms and deluxe cabins built in place of the former casino. She continued her popular west-coast cruises until 1991, when transferred to cruising from Fort Laurendale to the Bahamas. However, in the same year Admiral Cruises was bought by Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines. The new owners had little interest in keeping the old Azure Seas in service, and she was sold to Dolphin Cruise Line.

1991-2003

Renamed SS OceanBreeze and sporting a new white-funnelled livery with curving blue stripes along the hull, the now 36-year-old ship started cruising on a seven-night itinerary from Aruba in 1992. In 1996 OceanBreeze was moved to cruising from New York and Florida. Another change of ownership was in order for the ship in 1997 when Dolphin Cruise Line, Premier Cruises and Seawind Cruises merged to form Premier Cruise Line. OceanBreeze was re-painted in the new company's colours, with a dark-blue funnel and a blue-and-yellow hull, but otherwise her service continued as it had before.

In 1999 Premier Cruise Lines chartered OceanBreeze to the newly founded Imperial Majesty Cruises. Her old name, crew and hull colours were maintained, only the company name (on the hull) and the logo on the funnel was changed. Imperial Majesty placed OceanBreeze on two-night cruises from Fort Lauderdale to Nassau. The ship proved to be very popular on this route, and later in 1999 (some sources state early 2000) Imperial Majesty Cruises decided to buy her. In October 2000 she was remodeled at Newport News at the cost of $3,500,000 with more up to date interiors.  OceanBreeze was expected by many to continue sailing until the new SOLAS-regulations came into effect in 2010,  but this proved not to be, as OceanBreeze - while popular - was actually not at all well suited for the itinerary she was used for. Running a steam turbine–powered ship on two-night itineraries was highly expensive, and an additional $5 million would have been needed to convert the ship to conform to the Americans with Disabilities Act. In addition to this the ship, not having bow thrusters, needed costly assistance from tugs every time she visited a port. When another more profitable lease agreement presented in June 2003 for the MS Regal Empress, being a less restrictive ship than the OceanBreeze, Imperial Majesty Cruises decided to sell OceanBreeze'' for scrap.  A campaign entitled "save the Southern Cross" commenced immediately thereafter, but in  spite of many offers of assistance and months of hard work by an Australian-based , she was beached on 5 November 2003 at the Ahmed Muztaba Steel Industries yard located approximately 18 kilometres from Chittagong, Bangladesh and broken up for scrap metal. By late 2004, she was gone.

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Vivaldi (disambiguation)

Vivaldi can refer to:

People
Antonio Vivaldi, the Baroque music composer
Vandino and Ugolino Vivaldi, brothers who were Genovese explorers in the thirteenth century
Juan Manuel Vivaldi, an Argentinian field hockey goalkeeper

Science and technology
Vivaldi (web browser), a web browser for Windows, Linux, and OS X
 Vivaldi Mail, email service provided by Vivaldi Technologies
Vivaldi (crater), a crater on the planet Mercury.
Vivaldi coordinates, the virtual positioning system in the field of networking
Vivaldi-antenna, a broadband antenna suitable for ultra-wideband signals

Other
Vivaldi Potatoes, a variety of potato that is scientifically engineered to be lower in calories and carbohydrates
Vivaldi Atlantic 4, a team of British rowers who broke the record for fastest time across the Atlantic Ocean in 2005
Vivaldi, a Québécois television program broadcast in 1988, written and directed by Richard Bocking

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Another Sleepless Night (Anne Murray song)

"Another Sleepless Night" is a song written by Charlie Black and Rory Bourke, and recorded by Canadian country music artist Anne Murray.  It was released in January 1982 as the fourth single from her album Where Do You Go When You Dream.  The song reached No. 1 on the RPM Country Tracks chart in Canada and #4 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart in the United States.

Content
The song, light and uptempo, was a bit of a departure for Murray, whose previous few singles had all been slower-tempo ballads. The narrator notes how it had been hard to sleep during recent nights, as her lover had been away, but then speculates that, with his return, it will yet be "another sleepless night", but this time because they'll be up all night "making romance".

Charts

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Mario Arcelli

Mario Ugo Arcelli (born Milan, 21 May 1935; died Rome, 18 March 2004) was an Italian economist who at one time was Minister for the Budget in the Italian government.

Early life and education

His family originated from Piacenza.

His bond with economic studies started with the degree he got in 1957 from Bocconi University,  Milan, being awarded top marks and distinction.

Academic career
In the following years Arcelli was assistant researcher in the same university. In 1963 he became professor at the University of Trieste, and in 1967 he became full professor in Economics. From 1969 to 1973 he took the chair of Economics at the University of Padua, leaving for a one-year visiting period at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) of Boston (United States). In 1974 he became full professor of economics at the La Sapienza University in Rome, where he served for about fifteen years, until 1989, and directed the Department of Economics between the late 1970s and early 1980s.

In 1989 he started teaching at LUISS (then LUISS Guido Carli) university of Rome, becoming chancellor in 1992 and remaining in that position until his retirement in 2002. In October 2003 he was appointed to the honorary post of professor emeritus by the university.

Mario Arcelli was appointed in 1995 member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, one of the world most important academic institutions. He was also deputy chairman of the Italian Economic Society (S.I.E.) and member of the board of the Istituto per la Enciclopedia Italiana. From 1979 until his death, he was editor of the Review of Economic Conditions in Italy.

Government adviser and minister
Arcelli was for a decade one of the main economic advisors of Italian governments, serving as Head of the Economic Affairs Department at the office of the Prime Minister between 1981 and 1983 (during Fanfani V and Spadolini I and II cabinets). He was also economic advisor of the Prime Minister in 1987 (Fanfani VI cabinet) and 1988-89 (De Mita cabinet). In those roles he was part of the Italian delegation to five G7 summits, held in Versailles, Williamsburg, Venice, Toronto and Paris.

In February 1996 he became Minister for the Budget, Economic Planning and European Affairs, during the Italian six-month turn as president of the European Union. In this role he chaired the Ecofin summit in Venice (May 1996) and continued the process that led, two years afterwards, to the birth of the euro.

Between the late 1970s and early 1980s, he was a member of several government committees, and acted as advisor of the Bank of Italy. He also was member of the scientific advisory committee of Confindustria (the association of Italian industrialists) and of several committees of the Italian Ministry of the Budget and Economic Planning.

Arcelli held a number of corporate and business appointments. He was member of the board of directors of ENI, the Italian oil group (1980–82), deputy chairman of Banco di Roma (1986-1992), member of the board of directors RAS SpA (1998-2004), of the Società per la Bonifica dei Terreni Ferraresi (1995-2004), of Pininfarina SpA (1995-2002) and of Italcementi SpA (1998-2004).

At the Christmas 2001 mass in St Peter's, Rome, Arcelli read the address to Pope John Paul II, as representative of the Italian universities.

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Andrew Gonsalves

Andrew Gonsalves (born 31 May 1978) is a former Guyanese cricketer who represented Guyana and West Indies B in West Indian domestic cricket. He played as a right-handed opening batsman.

Gonsalves was born in Suddie, in Guyana's Pomeroon-Supenaam region. He made his senior debut for Guyana in the 1997–98 Red Stripe Bowl, scoring 54 runs against Canada opening the batting with West Indies international Clayton Lambert. Gonsalves made his first-class debut for Guyana in February 2000, against the Windward Islands. Later in the year, he scored two half-centuries in the 2000–01 Red Stripe Bowl, making 65 against the Leeward Islands and 71 against Bermuda. For the 2000–01 Busta Cup, Gonsalves was selected for West Indies B, a development team. He played in seven matches, but had little success with the bat, making only a single half-century. Gonsalves returned to Guyana for the 2001–02 season, but after four games in the 2001–02 Red Stripe Bowl played only one Busta Cup match. His last first-class appearance was in April 2002, for a GCB President's XI against the touring Indians.

References

External links
Player profile and statistics at CricketArchive
Player profile and statistics at ESPNcricinfo

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Category:Living people
Category:Guyana cricketers
Category:Guyanese cricketers
Category:People from Pomeroon-Supenaam
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SNBRN

Kevin Andrew Chapman, commonly known by his stage name SNBRN, is an American DJ and musician from Los Angeles.

He has accumulated over 47 million plays on SoundCloud per May 2016.

Biography
Kevin Chapman became interested in dance music when he was 12 years old, after discovering music from artists such as Fatboy Slim and Moby. He started producing his own dance music in 2008, after acquiring the digital music software Reason.

In 2013 SNBRN finished several professional degrees in the fields of audio engineering and production. Around this time he decided on his artist name, SNBRN. In May 2014 he released several remixes and covers of songs on the internet under the name SNBRN. After this he gained attention, with several of his songs topping charts on HypeMachine as well as accumulating millions of plays on digital music platforms such as SoundCloud and YouTube. He also got Pete Tong out of BBC Radio 1's support.

Releasing his songs officially through Atlantic Records, Astralwerks and Sony U.K., SNRBN has quickly become an up-and-coming dance and house music artist. His first single, Raindrops, featuring Estonian singer Kerli was released January 20, 2014 via Ultra Records.

In 2015 he released the song "Gangsta Walk" which incorporates previously unreleased vocals by Nate Dogg, licensed through his estate; it has per May 2016 debuted on several charts.

Style and influences
SNBRN labels his own music as "Sunset House" on SoundCloud. According to Lollapalooza, he mixes elements of deep house, indie dance, and nu disco while maintaining its accessibility.

References

Category:American DJs


Stolpersteine in Moravian-Silesian Region

The Stolpersteine in the Moravskoslezský kraj lists the Stolpersteine in the Moravian-Silesian Region (, before 2001 "Ostrava Region") in the easternmost part of Moravia. Stolpersteine is the German name for stumbling blocks collocated all over Europe by German artist Gunter Demnig. They remember the fate of the Nazi victims being murdered, deported, exiled or driven to suicide.

Generally, the stumbling blocks are posed in front of the building where the victims had their last self chosen residence. The name of the Stolpersteine in Czech is: Kameny zmizelých, stones of the disappeareds.

The lists are sortable; the basic order follows the alphabet according to the last name of the victim.

Český Těšín

Krnov

Ostrava

Příbor

Dates of collocations
The Stolpersteine in the Kraj Vysočina were collocated by the artist himself on the following dates:
 Český Těšín: 30 October 2012
 Krnov: 19 July 2013 and 16 September 2014
 Ostrava
 10 June 2010 (Poděbradova 826/27 - Robert Engel, Herta Engelová, Tomas Engel, Ferdinand Goldberger, Helene Goldbergerová, Třída 28. října 6 - Otto Pick, Třída 28. října 41 - Adolf Rix, Freda Rixová, Nádražní třída 26 - Emilie Slatnerová, Žofie Slatnerová, Tyršova 12 - Pavel Slatner, Zikmund Slatner, Berta Slatnerová, Edita Slatnerová, Antonína Macka 4 - Růžena Sommerová, Gertruda Stillerová, Ilse Stillerová, Nádražní třída 3 - Irena Wasserbergerová, Chelčického 3 - Rudolf Rosenstein, Marie Rosensteinová, Franta Rosenstein, Poštovní 345 - Růžena Schönfeldová, Puchmajerova 8 - Karolina Rothová. " http://www.moap.cz/hp-materialy/id=770/)
 14. Aug. 2010, 26. Sep. 2010, 9. Nov. 2010
5 August 2015
 Příbor: 19 July 2013 not clarified: 25. Jan. 2012

A collocation was also announced for 16 September 2014 in Doubrava u Orlové but could not be verified till now.

See also
 List of cities by country that have stolpersteine
 Stolpersteine in the Czech Republic

External links

 stolpersteine.eu, Demnig's website
 holocaust.cz

References

Moravskoslezský kraj


Cape Kormakitis

Cape Kormakitis (, Akrotírio Kormakíti, ), anciently known as Crommyon or Krommyon ( or Κρομμύου ἄκρα) and also Crommyacum or Krommyakon (Κρομμυακόν) is a promontory on the north-western coast of the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, located in the self-proclaimed republic of Northern Cyprus. Named after the nearby Maronite village of the same name, the cape marks the northernmost extent of Morphou Bay. The nearest coastal town to Cape Kormakitis is Kyrenia. Anciently, it was opposite to Anemurium in Cilicia on what is now the Turkish mainland.

The Beşparmak Trail, a 255 km long hiking trail, starts at Cape Kormakitis, and follows the Kyrenia Mountains all the way to Cape Apostolos Andreas, the north-easternmost point on Cyprus, at the tip of the Karpaz Peninsula.

References

Kormakitis
Category:Landforms of Northern Cyprus


Sakuragi Station (Chiba)

is a monorail station on the Chiba Urban Monorail in Wakaba-ku in the city of Chiba, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. It is located 9.0 kilometers from the northern terminus of the line at Chiba Station.

Lines
 Chiba Urban Monorail Line 2

Layout
Sakuragi Station is an elevated station with two opposed side platforms serving two tracks.

Platforms

Adjacent stations

History
Sakuragi Station was opened on March 28, 1988.

See also
 List of railway stations in Japan

External links

Chiba Urban Monorail home page

Category:Railway stations opened in 1988
Category:Railway stations in Chiba Prefecture


Camarasauridae

Camarasauridae (meaning "chambered lizards") is a family of neosauropod dinosaurs within the clade Macronaria, the sister group to Titanosauriformes. Among sauropods, camarasaurids are small to medium-sized, with relatively short necks. They are visually identifiable by a short skull with large nares, and broad, spatulate teeth filling a thick jaw. Based on cervical vertebrae and cervical rib biomechanics, camarasaurids most likely moved their necks in a vertical, rather than horizontal, sweeping motion, in contrast to most diplodocids. Cladistically, they are defined to be all sauropods more closely related to Camarasaurus supremus than to Saltasaurus loricatus.

Diagnostic characters
Several skeletal features have been used to characterize the camarasaurids. In the skull, these include an external narial diameter approximately 40% of the long-axis length of the skull, an arched internarial bar, a short muzzle anterior to the nares, and maxillary shelf. In the rest of the axial skeleton, these include flat ventral faces on the cervical vertebrae, a triangular flare to the neural spines of the middle and posterior dorsal vertebrae, and a concave posterior surface to the anterior thoracic ribs, as well as an external haemal canal across the anterior vertebrae of the tail. A reduction to two carpals, long metacarpals relative to the radius, and a twisted ischial shaft serve to identify the appendicular skeleton.

Palaeobiogeography
Broadly speaking, camarasaurids occupied a distribution limited to the Laurasian continent during the Upper Jurassic. Most currently accepted camarasaurid specimens have been discovered in the Morrison Formation of North America, however some specimens from the African Tendaguru Formation have been speculated to belong to the genus Camarasaurus, and the closely related Lourinhasaurus was found in Portugal.

References

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Miss Virginia

The Miss Virginia competition is a scholarship pageant for women, with the titleholder representing Virginia in the Miss America pageant. The competition was founded in 1953 as a scholarship contest for young women, although women had represented Virginia in the Miss America pageant since the 1930s. Four Miss Virginia winners have gone on to be crowned Miss America, including former national titleholder Caressa Cameron.

To compete in the Miss Virginia pageant, a contestant must first win one of many local competitions. Contestants may compete at the local and state level more than once, but having won a state title may only compete in the national Miss America competition one time. The state pageant was formerly held in Roanoke, Virginia at the Roanoke Civic Center in June or July, and moved to Liberty University in Lynchburg in June 2018.

During her reign, Miss Virginia travels over 40,000 miles across the state making appearances to further her social impact initiative, visit schools, and for the Miss America Organization's national Children's Miracle Network campaign.

Dorcas Campbell from Farfield was Miss Virginia of 1963 and won many singing contests was in the newspaper all the time and was a very talented opera singer. Kristi Lauren Glakas, Miss Virginia 2005, is one of only seven women who have competed in the Miss America, Miss Teen USA, and Miss USA competitions. She was Miss Virginia Teen USA 1999 and Miss Virginia USA 2004, placing in the top ten at Miss Teen USA 1999 and was a non-finalist at Miss USA 2004. Two other Miss Virginia titleholders later competed in the Miss USA pageant: Jennifer Pitts was Miss Virginia USA 2005 and Shannon DePuy was Miss Florida USA 1995.

Camille Schrier, a native of Newtown, PA, was crowned Miss Virginia 2019 on June 22, 2019 at Liberty University's Center for Music & Worship in Lynchburg, Virginia. She became Miss America 2020 on December 19, 2019.

Gallery of past titleholders

Results summary
The following is a visual summary of the past results of Miss Virginia titleholders at the national Miss America pageants/competitions. The year in parentheses indicates the year of the national competition during which a placement and/or award was garnered, not the year attached to the contestant's state title.

Placements
 Miss Americas: Kylene Barker (1979), Nicole Johnson (1999), Caressa Cameron (2010), Camille Schrier (2020)
 1st runners-up: Julianne Smith (1987), Cullen Johnson (1995), Courtney Garrett (2015)
 2nd runners-up: Anne Lee Ceglis (1954)
 3rd runners-up: Evangeline Glidewell (1933), Kristi Lauren Glakas (2006), Hannah Kiefer (2008)
 4th runners-up: Rose Marie Elliott (1939), Nancy Glisson (1994)
 Top 10: Dorcas Campbell (1964), Cherie Davis (1969), Pamela Polk (1977), Heidi Lammi (1988), Shannon DePuy (1991), Nancy Redd (2004), Caitlin Uze (2011), Cecili Weber (2018)
 Top 15: Eleanor V. Reid (1926), Dolores Taylor (1936), Jacquelyn McWin (1941), Elizabeth Crot (2012), Savannah Lane (2016)
 Top 16: Frances L. Sultan (1937)

Awards

Preliminary awards
 Preliminary Lifestyle and Fitness: Linda Moyer (1972), Julianne Smith (1987), Cullen Johnson (1995), Nancy Redd (2004), Kristi Lauren Glakas (2006)
 Preliminary On Stage Interview: Emili McPhail (2019)
 Preliminary Talent: Anne Lee Ceglis (1954), Dorcas Campbell (1964), Cherie Davis (1969), Pamela Polk (1977), Crystal Lewis (2000), Caressa Cameron (2010), Camille Schrier (2020)

Non-finalist awards
 Non-finalist Talent: Rebecca Richardson (1957), Alice Sue Williams (1960), Patricia Gaulding (1963), Carolyn Eddy (1965), Sydney Lewis (1970), Terri Bartlett (1978), Susan Parker (1984), Tami Elliott (1990), Sheri Huffman (1992), Lora Flattum (1993), Michelle Kang (1997), Kelli Quick (1998), Crystal Lewis (2000)

Other awards
 Miss Congeniality: Linda Maclin (1967)
 Charles and Theresa Brown Scholarship: Hannah Kiefer (2008)
 Children's Champion Award: Nancy Redd (2004), Mariah Rice (2005)
 Quality of Life Award Finalists: Adrianna Sgarlata (2007), Tara Wheeler (2008), Caitlin Uze (2011), Courtney Garrett (2015)
 Waterford Crystal Business Scholarship: Cullen Johnson (1995)

Winners

References

External links
 Miss Virginia official website

Virginia
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Kensuke Nagai

is a Japanese football player who plays as a striker for J1 League club FC Tokyo.

Career
From the age of 3, Nagai spent 5 years in Ipatinga, Brazil, where he started playing street football with his childhood friends.

After he moved back from Brazil to Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, he played soccer at local elementary school and junior high school clubs, before he joined the Kyushu International University High School club, and played two matches at the 85th All Japan High School Soccer Tournament.

He joined Fukuoka University club in April 2007. Three months later, he played at the AJHSST, and won the 33rd Prime Minister's Cup All Japan College Soccer Tournament in 2009.

While playing for the Fukuoka University Club, Nagai also played for Avispa Fukuoka in the J. League Division 2 in 2009 and Vissel Kobe in 2010 as a designated player for development by the league and JFA.

On 23 December 2009, he was named in the squad for Japan's 2011 AFC Asian Cup qualification against Yemen, and made his full international debut for the team in the fixture on 6 January 2010.

He was selected as a member of Japanese squad for 2012 Olympics.

He was transferred from Nagoya to Standard Liège of Belgian Pro League in January 2013, but transferred back to Nagoya on loan from August 2013 to June 2014, due to less playing opportunities given with Standard Liège. In January 2015, the loan deal was terminated as Nagai moved back to Nagoya on a permanent basis.

Career statistics

Club
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1Includes Emperor's Cup and Belgian Cup.
2Includes J. League Cup.
3Includes AFC Champions League.
4Includes Belgian Pro League Play-offs.

International

International goals
Scores and results list Japan's goal tally first.

Honours

Japan
Asian Games : 2010

Club
Nagoya Grampus
Japanese Super Cup : 2011

Individual
AFC U-19 Championship Top scorers : 2008
Summer Universiade Top scorers : 2009
Asian Games Top scorers : 2010
J.League Best XI: 2019

References

External links
Profile at FC Tokyo
Profile at Nagoya Grampus

Kensuke Nagai at Yahoo! Japan sports

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