Richard August Riekeles

Richard August Riekeles (13 March 1904 – 18 April 1996) was a Norwegian barrister.

He took the cand.jur. degree in 1926. After working as a deputy judge and junior solicitor he started his own law firm together with Finn Palmstrøm in 1930. He later partnered with Ludolf Næss, and from 1976 to 1991 with Øivind Fegth Knutsen and Arne Os. He was a barrister from 1936, with the right to work with Supreme Court cases. He is best known for being the prosecutor in the Oslo City Court case in 1957 where Agnar Mykle was tried for his novel Sangen om den røde rubin.Trygd, Norsk Forsikringsaktieselskap from 1944.


Penghu Reclamation Hall

The Penghu Reclamation Hall (traditional Chinese: 澎湖開拓館; simplified Chinese: 澎湖开拓馆; pinyin: Pēnghú Kāità Guǎn) is a museum in Magong Township, Penghu County, Taiwan, dedicated to the history of settlement in Penghu Islands.

History

The museum building was originally constructed in 1935 as the official residence of the Hōko Prefecture governor. After the handover of Taiwan from Japan to the Republic of China in 1945, the building became the official residence of the Penghu County magistrate. In 1992, the building ceased to be used as an official residence. In 2000, renovation to transform the residence into a museum started. Upon completion, the hall was officially opened in July, 2003.

Architecture

The building was constructed in a mixture of western and Japanese architectural style.Banyan trees. It contains several exhibition areas: “The Prelude of Penghu Exploration” , “Immigrants from Faraway”, “Settlements in Penghu”, “ War and Battles at Penghu”, “The Political and Economic Infrastructure of Penghu”.

  * List of tourist attractions in Taiwan
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Penghu Reclamation Hall.
  * Official website


John Brockman

John Brockman may refer to:

  * John Brockman (soldier) (1734–1801), colonel from North Carolina in the American Revolutionary War
  * John Brockman (literary agent) (born 1941), American author and literary agent
  * Jon Brockman (born 1987), American basketball player


Pyeatte House

The Pyeatte House is a historic house at 311 South Mt. Olive Street in Siloam Springs, Arkansas. It is a two-story structure, built of masonry and wood framing, with an asymmetrical organization. Its left side is dominated by a projecting gable section with a round-arch porte-cochere beneath a bank of windows, and with scalloped wooden shingles filling the gable end. Built 1932–34, it is the community's finest example of Tudor Revival architecture executed in fieldstone.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

  * National Register of Historic Places listings in Benton County, Arkansas


Tony Kokshoorn

Kokshoorn in 2020

Anthony Francis Kokshoorn ONZM (born 13 February 1955) is a New Zealand politician, publisher, and activist. He served as Grey District Mayor from 2004 to 2019 when he stepped aside.

He is a co-owner of the Greymouth Evening Star and Hokitika Guardian newspapers and a partner in the Greymouth Car Centre.Pike River Mine disaster.

As of August 2016, Kokshoorn's mayoral candidacy has been unopposed for five straight terms.

On 24 April 2018, Kokshoorn announced he would be retiring at the next election.

Early life

Kokshoorn was born at Ruru near Lake Brunner, inland from Greymouth on the West Coast. His father was Dutch. He came to New Zealand in 1952 and worked in a sawmill. The family moved to Greymouth where Kokshoorn's father was employed in coal mines. Kokshoorn was educated at St Patrick’s Primary school and at Marist Brothers High School, Greymouth.

Charitable work

Kokshoorn is a founding trustee of the Grey District Young Persons Development Trust, Toki Pounamu Education Trust, and Life Education on the Coast, and is trustee of Dixon House for the elderly.

Kokshoorn is the chair and fundraiser of the Lake Brunner Health Clinic rebuild.

Awards and recognition

Kokshoorn was a finalist in the 2010 The New Zealand Herald "New Zealander of the Year" awards. He and the winner were chosen as the Readers' Choice for New Zealander of the Year.Reader's Digest nationwide poll, as well as most trusted politician in New Zealand in 2011 and 2014.

He was awarded the 2012 New Zealand Toastmasters Communication and Leadership award for outstanding contribution to New Zealand.Rotary International Paul Harris Fellow.

Kokshoorn was a winner in the Local Heroes category in the 2020 Kiwibank New Zealander of the Year Awards. He was nominated by Graeme Axford.2020 New Year Honours, Kokshoorn was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to local government and the community.

Publications

Kokshoorn is the author of "The Golden Grey West Coasters 1860–2010".


MRS

Look up mrs in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

MRS, Mrs, or mrs may refer to:

Acronyms

  * MRS Magnetic resonance spectroscopy
  * Mandibular repositioning splint
  * Marginal rate of substitution, in economics
  * Maritime Reaction Squadron of the South African Navy
  * Market Research Society
  * Marseille Provence Airport (IATA airport code)
  * Materials Research Society
  * Melbourne Rectangular Stadium
  * Minimal recursion semantics
  * Modified Rankin Scale, to measure disability after stroke
  * Monks Risborough railway station, England (National Rail station code)
  * Movimiento Renovador Sandinista, a political party in Nicaragua, see Sandinista Renovation Movement
  * M.R.S. (Most Requested Show), Filipino TV show
  * MRS Logística, a freight rail company in Brazil
  * MRS suit, breathing apparatus, see Siebe Gorman#Rebreather equipment
  * Molecular Recognition Section as a Drug prefix, e.g. MRS5698.
  * MRS agar, a bacterial growth medium for Lactobacilli

Other abbreviations

  * Mrs., an honorific title for married women
  * SQL Server Reporting Services, a Microsoft Reporting Services computer technology to create data reports
  * mrs, abbreviation for maravedis (monetary unit or coin)
  * (As Mrş) abbreviation for Mareşal, the highest rank in the Army of Turkey
  * M. Rs., pen-name of Swedish writer Mathilda Roos (1852-1908)
  * The Mrs, U.S. pop-rock band
  *
  * Missus (disambiguation)
  * Miss (disambiguation)
  * MR (disambiguation)
  * MS (disambiguation)


Rodjaraeg Wattanapanit

Rodjaraeg Wattanapanit is a Thai free speech activist and bookstore owner. She was a co-founder of the organisation Creating Awareness for Enhanced Democracy (abbreviated CAFÉ Democracy), an organization based out of her bookstore that aims to facilitate the free exchange of ideas.International Women of Courage Award.

Life and activism

Wattanapanit is from Mae Hong Son.Payap University in Chiang Mai, Thailand.forestry conservation.non-governmental organization.

In October 2011, Wattanapanit started the bookstore Book Re:public with Pinkaew Luangaramsri, an anthropologist at Chiang Mai University.2014 Thai coup d'état, the new government forced Book Re:public to close.

After one year, Wattanapanit re-opened her bookstore, which also functioned as a forum for debate and a community center.

In 2016, Wattanapanit won the International Women of Courage Award from the United States Department of State, making her the first Thai woman to win that award.


Niederfeulen

Town hall in Niederfeulen

Niederfeulen (Luxembourgish: Nidderfeelen) is a small town in the commune of Feulen, in central Luxembourg. As of 2005, the town has a population of 1,092.currently population grow to 1321,male-female ratio is 1025 female per 1000 male.

49°51′N 6°03′E / 49.850°N 6.050°E


USS Sylph (1831)

For other ships with the same name, see Sarah Ann (ship) and USS Sylph.

USS Sylph was a schooner launched in 1831 at Baltimore as the mercantile Sarah Ann. The Navy purchased her in April 1831 and renamed her Sylph on 26 April 1831. She underwent fitting out at the Washington Navy Yard and was commissioned there on 19 May 1831 under the command of Lieutenant H. E. V. Robinson.

Sylph was reported ready for sea on 3 June.USS Shark and Fourth of July. The three schooners were under orders to patrol the coasts of the southern states to protect Southern live oak growing on public lands.

Sylph left Norfolk on 29 July sailed to Pensacola. Her station was District 7, i.e., the Gulf Coast from the Perdido River (just west of Pensacola), to the mouth of the Sabine River.

In August 1831 Sylph sailed on her first patrol and was never heard from again. A vessel reported that during a strong storm near the mouth of the Mississippi she had sighted a ship in distress that was believed to have been Sylph.

  * Delgado, James P. (August 2016). "Missing and Presumed Lost". Naval History Magazine. 30 (4).
  * This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.


Physica Particularis

Physica Particularis may refer to several Latin-language physics books:

  * Institutiones physicae pars altera, seu physica particularis (Trnava/Nagyszombat 1756/1761), by Andreas Jaszlinszky
  * Philosophia naturalis seu physica generalis et particularis (Vienna 1755), by Joseph Redlhamer
  * Physica Particularis (Graz 1766), by Leopold Biwald
  * Physica particularis (Guadalajara 18th century), essay by Francisco Javier Clavijero
  * Physica Particularis (Trnava/Venice 1770/1782), by Johann Baptiste Horvath — * Physica Particularis (Vol.I+II, Paris, 1750–1754), by Pierre Lemonnier
  * Secunda Secundae, sive Physica in Particulari (Lyon 1648), by Philip of the Blessed Trinity


Richard Atkins (diplomat)

Richard Brian Atkins MBE (12 August 1931 – 10 February 1998) was a New Zealand public servant and diplomat.

Early life and family

Born in Christchurch on 12 August 1931, Atkins was the son of John A. Atkins.St Andrew's College, Christchurch, and went on to study at Canterbury University College, graduating Master of Arts with first-class honours in 1954.

On 31 December 1954, Atkins married Avril Jill Cassels, and the couple went on to have two children.

Career

Atkins joined the Department of External Affairs in 1954.New Zealand Mission to the United Nations in New York.counsellor at the New Zealand High Commission in London, and then served as head of the South Pacific and Antarctic affairs division of the Department of External Affairs (known as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from 1969) from 1966 until 1970.

From 1970, he had a series of overseas postings: as counselor at the New Zealand embassy in Rome from 1970 to 1973; minister in Washington, D. C. from 1973 to 1975; and then New Zealand ambassador to China in Beijing from 1975 to 1979.

Atkins later served as director of the External Intelligence Bureau, in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet in Wellington.

Honours

In the 1986 New Year Honours, Atkins was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire.

Death

Atkins died in Wellington on 10 February 1998.


Penrod Jashber

Penrod Jashber is the third novel in a series by Booth Tarkington about the adventures of Penrod Schofield, an 11-year-old middle-class boy in a small city in the Midwest.

Initially serialized in Cosmopolitan and published in 1929, it was preceded by Penrod in 1914 and by Penrod and Sam in 1916. The three novels were published together as one volume, Penrod: His Complete Story, in 1931.

Plot summary

Penrod Jashber is more novelistic in form than the preceding books; rather than each chapter standing as a separate story, the bulk of this book has one story arc, of Penrod's pretending to be detective George B. Jashber. Otherwise it is similar: it is written in the same style and takes place at the same time.

Penrod Jashber begins when Penrod's best friend Sam Williams acquires a new pup. The boys squabble about his name, the pup and Penrod's dog Duke rampage through Penrod's house, and as punishment Penrod's parents force him to wear a smelly asafetida

The detective story arc begins when Penrod further immerses himself in fantasy by penning a hilarious bandit epic starring George B. Jashber, the "notted detective." In the first Penrod book, he was hard at work on this picaresque adventure novel, with heroic road agent Harold Ramorez menaced by corrupt police detectives. Over time, he comes to see detectives as more interesting, skews the novel toward the exploits of Jashber, and decides to become one. Imitating his movie heroes, he squints his eyes and talks out of the side of his mouth. He paints an office sign in the (empty) stable and acquires an official-looking badge from the cook's nephew who took a mail-order course. To practice, he shadows his school teacher in the evenings.


Penrod Jashber

Now adequately experienced, Penrod enlists Sam and the two Negro boys who live across the alley, Herman and Verman, as assistants. Needing a scoundrel to shadow, Penrod overhears his parents jocularly referring to the polished manners of Penrod's young-adult sister Margaret's boyfriend, Mr. Herbert Hamilton Dade, as being appropriate to a horse thief. The rest of the book concerns the increasingly desperate but futile efforts of Penrod and his gang to prove to themselves that Mr. Dade really does steal horses.

Their efforts are supported by Sam's older brother Robert, a rival for Margaret's affections. This support proves embarrassing when the boys' harassment of Mr. Dade finally sends the boys' fantasy world colliding with the dull reality of the adult world. Distressed by the exposure of his fantasy world, Penrod discards the now-alien persona of Jashber and dissolves the agency, and he and the other boys return to their childish occupations.

  * Penrod Jashber at Faded Page (Canada)


John Brockman (soldier)

John Brockman, Jr. (May 8, 1735 – January 31, 1801) provided sundries and cash for North Carolina militia during the American Revolutionary War.

Early years

Brockman was born on May 8, 1735, in King and Queen County, Province of Virginia, to John and Mary (Collins) Brockman, who later moved to Orange County, Virginia. His mother was the daughter of Captain Joseph Collins and Susannah Robertson. John Jr. was the grandson of Samuel Brockman and the great-grandson of Henry Brockman who was a primary founder of the English Brockman family in the United States. John Brockman, Jr., was orphaned when his father died; the court appointed a guardian, Kelly Jennings (second husband of Mary Collins), for Brockman's younger siblings, but excluded John as he was over the age of 14.

John Brockman, Jr., married Amelia Martin, the daughter of Robert and Ann (Eason) Martin. They lived at "Thornhill" in Orange County, Virginia.

American Revolution

During the American Revolutionary War, Brockman has been reputed to be the colonel and leader of "John Brockman's Regiment" in the North Carolina militia.Patriot militia with 2500 pounds currency. The Daughters of the American Revolution have recorded Brockman as a veteran and participated in unveiling a headstone in his honor.

Death

He died on January 31, 1801, in Laurens District, South Carolina. He is buried at the Clear Spring Baptist Church Cemetery, Simpsonville, Greenville County, South Carolina.


John Brockman (soldier)

* North Carolina Historical Commission: "For sundries furnished and cash paid the Militia of North Carolina, Virginia and South Carolina as allowed by the Auditor of Hillsborough District in December, 1781, as per report No. 81 Entry number 1400, John Brockman, 2500.00 currency."
  * Orange County Virginia families: Volume III (Unknown Binding) by William Everett Brockman, Publisher: W.E. Brockman (January 1, 1959), English, ASIN: B0007G5G0Q
  * The Brockman Family Cemetery, Pinckney District Chapter, Cherokee, Spartanburg, Union Counties, South Carolina Genealogical Society, Summer, 1993, Vol 17, No 2.
  * Greenville Co South Carolina Cemetery Survey, Vol II, Greenville Chapter of South Carolina Genealogical Society.
  * Clark, Parks, Brockman and Dean, Davis and Goss Families in Five Parts by Henry William Clark, Montgomery, Al, 1905, Printed by the author.
  * Early American History, Volume II, William Everett Brockman, Compiler and Publisher, 1926, Poucher-Printers, Minneapolis, 1926. Family History Library, Salt Lake, UT
  * The Brockman Scrapbook, 1952, William Everett Brockman, Midland National Bank, Minneapolis 1, Minnesota. - Research of Leonardo Andrea.
  * Will of Henry Brockman, Recorded in Will Book B. Pages 135-136. The original will is in the SC State Archives.
  * Will of John Brockman, Jr. 1801, Laurens Co, SC, Box 9, pkg 6.
  * Will of John Brockman, Sr., Orange Co., VA Order Book 6, page 233.
  * Will of Robert Martin, Orange Co., VA Will Book 3, page 49-50.
  * John Brockman at Find a Grave


Jerome Ogbuefi

Jerome Tochukwu Ogbuefi (born 26 August 1991) is a Nigerian footballer. He currently plays for the Finnish Kakkonen club Kajaanin Haka.

  * kups.fi
  * veikkausliiga.com
  * Jerome Ogbuefi at Soccerway


Metacompact space

In the mathematical field of general topology, a topological space is said to be metacompact if every open cover has a point-finite open refinement. That is, given any open cover of the topological space, there is a refinement that is again an open cover with the property that every point is contained only in finitely many sets of the refining cover.

A space is countably metacompact if every countable open cover has a point-finite open refinement.

Properties

The following can be said about metacompactness in relation to other properties of topological spaces:

  * Every paracompact space is metacompact. This implies that every compact space is metacompact, and every metric space is metacompact. The converse does not hold: a counter-example is the Dieudonné plank.
  * Every metacompact space is orthocompact.
  * Every metacompact normal space is a shrinking space
  * The product of a compact space and a metacompact space is metacompact. This follows from the tube lemma.
  * An easy example of a non-metacompact space (but a countably metacompact space) is the Moore plane.
  * In order for a Tychonoff space X to be compact it is necessary and sufficient that X be metacompact and pseudocompact (see Watson).

Covering dimension

A topological space X is said to be of covering dimension n if every open cover of X has a point-finite open refinement such that no point of X is included in more than n + 1 sets in the refinement and if n is the minimum value for which this is true. If no such minimal n exists, the space is said to be of infinite covering dimension.


Metacompact space

* Compact space
  * Paracompact space
  * Normal space
  * Realcompact space
  * Pseudocompact space
  * Mesocompact space
  * Tychonoff space
  * Glossary of topology
  * Watson, W. Stephen (1981). "Pseudocompact metacompact spaces are compact". Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 81: 151–152. doi:10.1090/s0002-9939-1981-0589159-1..
  * Steen, Lynn Arthur; Seebach, J. Arthur Jr. (1995) [1978]. Counterexamples in Topology (Dover reprint of 1978 ed.). Berlin, New York: Springer-Verlag. ISBN 978-0-486-68735-3. MR 0507446. P.23.


MRPS18B

28S ribosomal protein S18b, mitochondrial is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MRPS18B gene.

Mammalian mitochondrial ribosomal proteins are encoded by nuclear genes and help in protein synthesis within the mitochondrion. Mitochondrial ribosomes (mitoribosomes) consist of a small 28S subunit and a large 39S subunit. They have an estimated 75% protein to rRNA composition compared to prokaryotic ribosomes, where this ratio is reversed.

Another difference between mammalian mitoribosomes and prokaryotic ribosomes is that the latter contain a 5S rRNA. Among different species, the proteins comprising the mitoribosome differ greatly in sequence, and sometimes in biochemical properties, which prevents easy recognition by sequence homology. This gene encodes a 28S subunit protein that belongs to the ribosomal protein S18P family. The encoded protein is one of three that has significant sequence similarity to bacterial S18 proteins. The primary sequences of the three human mitochondrial S18 proteins are no more closely related to each other than they are to the prokaryotic S18 proteins. Pseudogenes corresponding to this gene are found on chromosomes 1q and 2q.


Larry Skey

Lawrence Wilton Skey (October 29, 1911 – May 8, 1977) was a Canadian businessman and politician.

Skey was born in London, Ontario and educated at Ridley College and the University of Toronto where he earned a commerce degree.

He became a chartered accountant before joining the Royal Air Force in 1936 and went on to serve during World War II. He was mentioned in despatches on two occasions and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross. He was active in the Norwegian Campaign making reconnaissance flights over Norway's coast looking for German battleships. He also served in Singapore, India, Suez, Gibraltar, Malta and Malaya.

Skey was transferred to the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1944 and served as a wing commander. He retired from the air force in 1946 after being elected to the House of Commons of Canada as the Progressive Conservative MP for Trinity in the 1945 federal election. He served for four years until he was defeated in the 1949 federal election by Liberal Lionel Conacher.

He returned to private life and entered the investment business ultimately becoming president and director of York Associates in Toronto and also vice-president of Canadian Scudder Investment Fund.

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  * Larry Skey – Parliament of Canada biography
  * Canada Veterans' Hall of Valour biography


New Finn

New Finns (Finnish: uussuomalainen) are those people in Finland’s population who have a non-ethnic Finnish background and who reside permanently in the country. A new Finn may have various backgrounds; including immigrant, immigrant-origin, refugee and/or having come to Finland for family reasons. The term is especially used to emphasize those that have a Finnish citizenship and carry Finnish passports, to those foreigners who live permanently in Finland and intend to be naturalized in Finland at some point in the future. Finland has experienced large-scale, continuous non-European immigration only within the past couple of decades. The term uussuomalainen is beginning to come into usage to commonly refer to these new, naturalized Finns, who are beginning to change and affect the national landscape of the country.

The term and its usage over the more conservative "immigrant" has received mixed reactions and stirred conversation on whether new terms like this are in fact necessary. The term is currently not in mainstream use and is mostly used in political context.

New Finns are affecting the national psyche of Finland because they are becoming a new, different cultural force of their own

New Finns in general:

 1. reside permanently in Finland
 2. adopt the Finnish language as their own, the exception are those New Finns who live in predominantly Swedish-speaking island or coastal areas such as the Åland or majority Swedish-speaking towns like Närpes.
 3. have attained Finnish citizenship, or wish to eventually receive Finnish citizenship
 4. move to Finland from another country or are born in Finland to parents or a parent who is not Finnish
 5. do not consider themselves to be ethnically Finnish but just Finnish
 6. assign their cultural identity to their geographic location. Finland is their home, and since geographically they are in Finland, they are Finns.
 7. have a background as an immigrant, immigrant background, refugee or someone who moved to Finland for family reasons

The term uussuomalainen also describes the descendants of immigrants better than the term "immigrant", because these people have in many cases been born and raised in Finland to parents from other countries.

Famous new Finns


New Finn

Famous new Finns

Many first and second generation immigrant background new Finns are well known in the cultural circles in Finland. Some well-known new-Finn writers are Toivo Flink, Neil Hardwick, Alexis Kouros, Zinaida Lindén, Harri István Mäki, Hella Wuolijoki, Jutta Zilliacus, Jason Tiilikainen, Arvi Perttu, Ranya Paasonen, Jim Thompson, Umayya Abu-Hanna and Wilson Kirwa. Sofi Oksanen has written about the plight of new-Finn women in today's Finland.

Demographics

For statistics, in 2017:

  * 117,024 new Finns had a dual citizenship
  * 249,452 new Finns had a foreign citizenship
  * 372,802 new Finns were born outside of Finland
  * 373,325 new Finns had a native language other than Finland's official languages of Finnish, Swedish or Sámi
  * 384,123 new Finns had both parents born abroad


USS Sylph (PY-5)

For other ships with the same name, see USS Sylph.

USS Sylph (PY-5) was a steel hulled steam yacht that served as a presidential yacht operating from the Washington Navy Yard from the late 19th century through the presidency of Woodrow Wilson. Afterwards the yacht was used by the Secretary of the Navy and Assistant Secretary of the Navy. After decommissioning and sale in 1929 the yacht was used as a party fishing boat in New York and later a ferry. Sometime around 1950 the line went out of business and the vessel was abandoned at a pier at West 37th Street, Sea Gate, Brooklyn ( 40°34′20.1″N 74°0′08.5″W / 40.572250°N 74.002361°W). The pier and abandoned vessel were reduced by fire and storms to the waterline and wreckage in the sands which still may be exposed by storms.

Construction


USS Sylph (PY-5)

Construction

The yacht was designed by Gardner and Cox of New York and under construction as hull 295 by Delaware River Iron Shipbuilding and Engine Works (also known as John Roach & Company), of Chester, Pennsylvania The Navy inspected the vessel before completion and purchased it contingent on a guarantee of a speed of 15 kn (17 mph; 28 km/h). The builder agreed even though the original design speed was 14 kn (16 mph; 26 km/h). The builder specifications were extreme length of 152 ft (46.3 m), 20 ft (6.1 m) beam, 10 ft 6 in (3.2 m) depth and draft of 8 ft 9 in (2.7 m). A number of structural changes were required to make the change from a prospective pleasure yacht to a naval gunboat. Guest staterooms were converted to into crew space and magazines and other naval space requirements. Two Almay water tube boilers provided steam for the vertical triple expansion steam engine. The engine out performed the guarantee requirement and averaged 16 kn (18 mph; 30 km/h) over six hours during trials with an indicated 600 horsepower with a low rate of coal consumption. Coal capacity was 50 tons. A three bladed 6 ft 3 in (1.9 m) steel propeller drove the yacht. A General Electric dynamo, located in the engine room was rated at illumination of 100 16 candle power lights. Equipped for blockade duty the patrol yacht mounted a 6 pounder on both bow and stern with a 3 pounder broadside gun on each side. Ammunition storage was fore and aft below the water line.

Service history

Sylph was commissioned on 18 August 1898 at the Norfolk Navy Yard. She was the third U.S. Navy ship to bear the name.

Sylph sometime between 1919 and 1921.

Soon after commissioning, Sylph was assigned to the Washington Navy Yard, where she served as a yacht for the President and other high officials. President McKinley was the first President to use her. In 1902, she began alternating with first Dolphin then Mayflower as the President's yacht, and she also served the Secretary and Assistant Secretary of the Navy in the same manner. President Theodore Roosevelt frequently cruised in Sylph to his home at Oyster Bay, New York, and President William Howard Taft used her for excursions off the New England coast during the summers of his term.


USS Sylph (PY-5)

The yacht was assigned to take President Taft's sister-in-law, Eleanor More who had been caring for Mrs. Taft after a stroke, to visit her summer cottage at Biddeford Pool off Saco Bay in Maine. On the evening of 30 July 1909 Sylph anchored off the mouth of the Saco River. Capt. Earnest Vinton of Saco sold tickets for a moonlight sightseeing trip to the yacht. On arrival at the lit yacht passengers gathered on the port side of the overloaded motor launch Item causing it to capsize. The commander of Sylph ordered its tender to the rescue and turned searchlights on the area. Three of the passengers were lost, one dying after rescue, with one body recovered two weeks later. A coroner's inquiry revealed that Item was designed for an engine weighing more than two tons but that engine had been replaced by one only 10% of the weight making the vessel unstable and unsafe for carrying passengers. No charges were filed as Vinton had complied with the only regulations in effect for life jackets.

More often, Sylph cruised up and down the Potomac River, near Washington, D.C. She went on sightseeing excursions in Chesapeake Bay and to George Washington's home at Mount Vernon, Virginia, on the Potomac just below Washington. Among her famous passengers, the yacht numbered the King of Belgium and the Crown Prince of Sweden.

Woodrow Wilson was the last President to use Sylph as the presidential yacht. After his term of office, she operated from the Washington Navy Yard for the Secretary and Assistant Secretary of the Navy and often marked pleasure cruises to Mount Vernon with patients of the Naval Hospital embarked. On 24 January 1921, she was called upon to carry the body of the late minister of Sweden down the Potomac and through the over Chesapeake Bay to Hampton Roads.Franklin D. Roosevelt recounted in his message regarding the restoration of Stratford Hall a trip he made during his service in the Wilson Administration (Assistant Secretary of the Navy (1913–1919)) with a group traveling aboard "the small Presidential Yacht Sylph" to visit the ruin of the plantation "at an apparently uninhabited section of the lower Potomac."


USS Sylph (PY-5)

Sylph continued in special service at Washington throughout her career. On 17 July 1921, she received the alphanumeric designation, PY-5. She continued to cross the Potomac and Anacostia Rivers until 19 November 1928, when she moored at the Washington Navy Yard to remain for the rest of her career.

On 2 April 1929, Sylph was taken in tow to Norfolk, Virginia. On the 27th, she was decommissioned there, and her name was struck from the Navy list two days later. On 26 November 1929, her hulk was sold to Mr. Frank B. Clair of Brooklyn, New York.

Civilian vessel

Advertisement for fishing on the Sylph

Sylph first served as a deep sea party fishing vessel, open to the public and operating out of Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn.149 GRT, 101 NRT, 136 ft (41.5 m) registry length, 19.8 ft (6.0 m) beam with a depth of 10.4 ft (3.2 m) and 550 horsepower.Sylph became a ferry making scheduled commuter runs from Manhattan to Sea Gate, Brooklyn until about 1950 when the service and vessel were abandoned.

Owners Frank B. Clair and the 1939 registered owner, John W. Nugent, were owners of the vessel through both the fishing and ferry enterprise. At some point they apparently borrowed from the Worthington Diesel Company and converted from steam engine to a Worthington diesel. In 1941 they defaulted and Worthington took possession of the vessel which apparently it later abandoned.

  * This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.
  * The Floating White House
  * U.S.S. Sylph, Selected by the Navy Department as the President's Yacht (Marine Engineering; October 1898, pp. 1–4, photo, drawings (outboard profile & accommodations plan) & specifications.)
  * NavSource Online — Patrol Yacht Photo Archive: Sylph (PY-5)


John Ellsworth Murphy

John Ellsworth Murphy (October 27, 1925 Omaha, Nebraska – November 12, 1984, Omaha Nebraska) was a lawyer and judge in Omaha, Nebraska. From 1960 to 1978 he served as a judge on the district 8 court of Nebraska. The most notable cases over which he presided were the bribery cases against then Mayor James Dworak and four others and a murder case against Robert Julian Jacobs. Also, he was the judge who heard the first part of the legal battle that occurred when Omaha annexed the town of Millard in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Personal and civic life

Murphy was the son of Emmett and Georgia (Adams). Murphy served as a private first class in the US Army during World War II, receiving in July 1945 a bronze star for meritorious service from February 20, 1945, to April 26, 1945, in France and Germany.Creighton University School of Law and received his law degree in 1950.US Army Reserves, first as battalion executive officer of the 416 Ordnance Battalion,captain. That year he was elected judge advocate of the Nebraska Reserve Officers Association.President Kennedy mobilized the national guard in reaction to the Cuban Missile Crisis and its tensions with the USSR and Cuba. Newly assigned to the 82nd, Murphy reported to Fort Carson, Colorado.

John and Mary Beth had 8 children, Colleen, Mary, Michael, Daniel, Elizabeth, Sue, Therese, and Joe.

Early legal career

Murphy passed the bar in 1950.municipal courts. He participated in politics during that time, serving as treasurer for Democratic candidate Joseph V. Bensch in his unsuccessful senate campaign in 1954.Kiwanis club, and served as President in 1957.

Municipal court

In 1956 two municipal judges retired and Murphy was endorsed by the Citizens Committee for Law Enforcement as well as by the Omaha World Herald,

District bench

In 1960 he initially filed for his post at the municipal bench to be renewed,drunken driving and driving infractions.

Notable cases


John Ellsworth Murphy

Notable cases

As a district court judge, Murphy occasionally heard capital cases, cases where the death penalty was an allowed punishment. One prominent example was in the case of the slaying of 86-year-old Anna Dunning by William Henry Kauffman and Walter Edward Frans, who together plead guilty and received instead sentences of life in prison.death penalty, but felt that Jacobs "abnormal" mental and emotional state led him to spare Jacobs' life. He stated that he did not endorse abolition of the death penalty, as that would be a legislative matter, and that the death penalty was a fit punishment for those convicted of a hired killing, for inmates who killed guards, for mass killers such as those who bomb airlines, and for "many other kinds". Instead Murphy sentenced Jacobs to two life sentences plus 50 years with the special provision that Jacobs be placed in solitary confinement for 24 hours every year on the anniversary of the murder.

Mayor Dworak bribery case

One of the most important political cases Judge Murphy presided over was a case accusing Mayor James Dworak of soliciting bribes. Dworak was first elected mayor in a tight race in 1961. His tenure was rocky, and during his re-election campaign in 1965 he was taped asking for a $25,000 campaign contribution in exchange for not vetoing a rezoning application of Chicago developer John B. Coleman. Dworak lost his bid for re-election while under indictment. The following spring he was acquitted by the jury, his main defense being that he was stringing Coleman along and.

Later career

In 1974 Murphy was one of two district court judges who were nominated by other district court judges for a position on the Nebraska Supreme Court. However, the other judge, Donald Brodkey, was selected by state Governor J. James Exon.US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. However, between that announcement and the start of the new job, Murphy changed his mind, instead taking a position as general counsel for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Nebraska.lung cancer November 12, 1984.


Richard Atkinson

Richard Atkinson may refer to:

  * Richard Atkinson (bishop) (born 1958), British Anglican bishop
  * Richard C. Atkinson (born 1929), American psychologist and former president of the University of California
  * Richard J. C. Atkinson (1920–1994), British prehistorian and archaeologist
  * Richard Merrill Atkinson (1894–1947), U.S. Representative from Tennessee
  * Rick Atkinson (born 1952), American journalist and author
  * Ricky Atkinson (born 1965), American footballer
  * Dick Atkinson, Australian rules footballer


Penrose, New South Wales (Wingecarribee)

Penrose is a small town in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Australia, in Wingecarribee Shire. It has a station on the Main Southern railway line served by NSW TrainLink's Southern Highlands Line.

According to the 2016 census, Penrose had a population of 247.2021 census, there were 263 people recorded.

Penrose also has a small general store, a cafe, rural fire brigade, a primary school and a timber mill.

Notes and references


John Wotton

John Wotton (by 1523 – 1555 or later), of Totnes and Great Englebourne, Devon, was an English politician.

He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Totnes in March 1553 and October 1553.


Kitayama Station (Miyagi)

Kitayama Station (北山駅, Kitayama-eki) is a railway station in Aoba-ku, Sendai in Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East).

Lines

Kitayama Station is served by the Senzan Line, and is located 6.5 rail kilometers from the terminus of the line at Sendai.

Station layout

The station has one single side platform serving a sign bi-directional track. The station is staffed.

History

Kitayama Station opened on 1 February 1984.

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2018, the station was used by an average of 2,499 passengers daily (boarding passengers only).

Surrounding area

  * Tohoku Fukushi University
  * Kitayama Cemetery
  * Sendai Aramaki Post Office

Media related to Kitayama Station (Miyagi) at Wikimedia Commons

Official website (in Japanese)


Metaconglomerate

Jurassic metaconglomerate at Los Peñasquitos Canyon Preserve, San Diego County, California

Polymict metaconglomerate, sold as "Marinace Green Granite," from Bahia, Brazil. This rock is dominated by pebbles & granules of granite, gneiss, and mafic igneous rocks. Some clasts have been partially epidotized. The matrix is dominated by epidote (green), quartz, and tremolite.

Metaconglomerate is a rock type which originated from conglomerate after undergoing metamorphism. Conglomerate is easily identifiable by the pebbles or larger clasts in a matrix of sand, silt, or clay. Metaconglomerate looks similar to conglomerate, although sometimes the clasts are deformed. The cement matrix of conglomerate is not as durable as the grains, and hence when broken, conglomerate breaks around the grains. Metaconglomerate, however, breaks through the grains, as the cement has recrystallized and may be as durable as the clasts.

Foliated metaconglomerate is created under the same metamorphic conditions that produce slate or phyllite, but with the parent rock (protolith) being conglomerate, rather than clay.

The metaconglomerates of the Jack Hills of Western Australia are the source rocks for much of the detrital zircons that have been dated to be as old as 4.4 billion years.

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Social mirror theory

Social Mirror Theory (SMT) states that people are not capable of self-reflection without taking into consideration a peer's interpretation of the experience. In other words, people define and resolve their internal musings through other's viewpoint. SMT's background is derived from the 1800s from concepts related to the study of public opinion and social interaction by Wilhelm Dilthey, the German philosopher and sociologist.

SMT suggests that people, in general, are not capable of self-reflection without taking into consideration a peer's interpretation of the experience. Burgoon and Hale (1984) conceptualized relational communication as the verbal and nonverbal themes present in people's communication that define an interpersonal relationship.

History

Social Mirror Theory (SMT) also is referred to as mimicry. Mimicry serves as an important impersonal function. The notion that individuals mimic the behaviors of others has long been of interest to psychologists (James, 1890). Over the past 30 years, there has been a noticeable surge in research exploring the subtle and unintentional ways in which people imitate their social interaction partners, including mimicry of facial expressions, emotions, speech patterns and physical movements. The non-conscious mimicry is notably different than conscious imitation or modeling, and important part of the Social Learning Theory (SLT), (Bandura, 1977). To understand why we mimic and articulate the functions that mimicry serves, systemic investigations into mimicry's wide-ranging consequences have been conducted through investigations into the factors that may facilitate and inhibit non conscious mimicry.

Support and effectiveness of mimicry

When two or more people engage in conversation, the person that converses is accustomed to being looked at. Therefore, making eye contact and mimicking the eye contact creates a mirrored effect to the other person to expect conversation and dialogue.

Many prominent scholars have studied Non Conscious Behavioral Mimicry (NcBM). NcBM occurs when a person unwittingly imitates the behaviors of another person. (Lakin, JL, 2003). The spontaneous imitation of gestures, postures, mannerisms, and other motor movements is pervasive in human interactions. Existing reviews focuses on two recent themes in the mimicry literature.

Lakin and Chartrand’s non-conscious behavioral mimicry studies


Social mirror theory

Lakin and Chartrand’s non-conscious behavioral mimicry studies

In early 2000, initially an analysis of the moderators of mimicry uncovered the various motivational, social, emotional, and personality factors that led to more or less mimicry of an interaction partner in a given situation. Secondly, a significant amount of recent research was conducted and identified important downstream consequences of mimicking or being mimicked by another person. The consequences included not only increased pro-sociality between those interacting, but also the unexpected effects on the individual.

The current experiments explored whether having a goal to affiliate augments the tendency to mimic the behaviors of interaction partners. Experiment 1 demonstrated that having an affiliation goal increases non conscious mimicry, and Experiment 2 further supported this proposition by demonstrating that people who have unsuccessfully attempted to affiliate in an interaction subsequently exhibit more mimicry than those who have not experienced such a failure. Results suggest that behavioral mimicry may be part of a person's repertoire of behaviors, used non consciously, when there is a desire to create rapport.

Basic concepts of mimicry

There are multiple concepts that may fall under the aegis of mimicry. Behavioral mimicry is also placed in its broader context as a form of interpersonal coordination. It is often compared to interactional synchrony and other social contagion effects, including verbal, facial, emotional and behavioral mimicry with similar emotional and attitudinal convergence.

Facial Mimicry defined is the resemblance shown by one animal species to another which protects it from predators, perceived or otherwise. Dimberg's research revealed that mothers tend to open their mouths in response to their infants opening and closing the mouth to feed. There is substantial and compelling evidence that supports mimicry of facial expressions occurs automatically. (Dimberg, Thumber, and Elmeched, 2000).

Emotional Mimicry research finds that facial actions can automatically elicit feelings (Neumann and Strack, 2000). When a mood is being displayed is a happy mood, both high and low emotions are expressive and participants in study pass their moods from one to another.


Social mirror theory

Verbal Mimicry research includes that a number of verbal tendencies are mimicked (Simner, 1971). Studies with infants demonstrated that newborns as young as 2–4 days old, will cry in response to another infants crying. Also verbal mimicry is revealed in speech patterns, conducted with adult's show that speakers tend to adopt each other's accents, latency to speak, rate of speech, utter durations and sentence syntax (Beck, 1986). Behavioral Mimicry characteristic traits are noticed in body positioning and postures. These traits would fit into the dynamics noted between interacting individuals. Noted psychotherapist, Albert Scheflen (1964) believed that mimicry or postural congruence was an indicator of similarity in views or rules among interacting individuals in similar settings. (Chartrand and Bargh, 1999) focused on mimicry of specific mannerisms and confirmed that mimicry occurs spontaneously in dyadic interactions (Interpersonal Communications, Spitzburgh and Cupach, 2007).

Gender roles of mimicry

Research shows that gender does play an important role in Behavioral Mimicry. Some of the earliest work on mimicry was conducted in domains of clinical psychology and counseling (charney 1966, Scheflen 1964). There are strong links that three facets of rapport; mutual attention, coordination, and positivity- associated with non-verbal behavioral mimicry. Women, but not men were slower to recognize the affective valence of briefly displayed facial expressions when constrained from mimicking them, attributed to the fact that facial constraints hinder women's capacity to empathize. Deceptive mimicry in gender identity seen in humans’ masquerades and camouflages in the nonverbal behaviors. The Optimal Distinctiveness Theory (ODT) hypothesizes that people are in a continual quest to balance the need for distinctiveness (seeing them differently) or assimilation (seeing themselves similar to others) and this is a direct lead to mimicry. Chartrand's and Bargh (1999) have coined the phrase “The Chameleon Effect” to describe the non-conscious behavioral mimicry of individuals modulating their own behavior to blend in with a current environment.


Social mirror theory

* Interpersonal Communication
  * Expectancy Violation Theory
  * Buller, D. B., LePoire, B. A., Aune, R. K., & Eloy, S. V. (1992). "Social perceptions as mediators of the effect of speech rate similarity on compliance". Human Communication Research. 19: 286–311. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2958.1992.tb00303.x.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  * Burgoon, K., & Coker, D. A., & Coker, R. A. (1986). "Communicative effects of gaze behavior: A test of two contrasting explanations". Human Communication. doi:10.1111/j.1468-2958.1986.tb00089.x.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)


Larry Skinner

Larry Foster Skinner (born April 21, 1956 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a retired National Hockey League player. He played 47 games for the Colorado Rockies and spent most of his professional career in the American Hockey League with stints in the Central Hockey League and in Europe in the Austrian and French leagues. On August 11, 2010, he was named an assistant coach of the Ottawa 67s of the Ontario Hockey League after performing a similar role with the Nepean Raiders of the Central Junior Hockey League.

Skinner scored the first goal in Colorado Rockies history on October 5, 1976.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs


Larry Skinner

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

                                    Regular season       Playoffs
Season      Team                    League          GP   G         A    Pts  PIM  GP  G   A   Pts  PIM
1972–73     Nepean Raiders          CJHL            55   23        35   58   15   —   —   —   —    —
1973–74     Nepean Raiders          CJHL            55   22        34   56   15   —   —   —   —    —
1974–75     Winnipeg Clubs          WCHL            70   33        62   95   17   —   —   —   —    —
1975–76     Ottawa 67s              OMJHL           59   37        78   115  8    12  8   8   16   8
1976–77     Rhode Island Reds       AHL             46   22        34   56   11   —   —   —   —    —
1976–77     Colorado Rockies        NHL             19   4         5    9    6    —   —   —   —    —
1977–78     Phoenix Roadrunners     CHL             20   4         6    10   9    —   —   —   —    —
1977–78     Springfield Indians     AHL             14   1         5    6    2    —   —   —   —    —
1977–78     Hampton Gulls           AHL             15   7         9    16   6    —   —   —   —    —
1977–78     Colorado Rockies        NHL             14   3         5    8    0    2   0   0   0    0
1978–79     Philadelphia Firebirds  AHL             67   34        33   67   34   —   —   —   —    —
1978–79     Colorado Rockies        NHL             12   3         2    5    2    —   —   —   —    —
1979–80     New Haven Nighthawks    AHL             63   18        53   71   38   10  5   10  15   0
1979–80     Fort Worth Texans       CHL             10   5         7    12   8    —   —   —   —    —
1979–80     Colorado Rockies        NHL             2    0         0    0    0    —   —   —   —    —
1980–81     Springfield Indians     AHL             48   21        40   61   36   7   3   8   11   4
1981–82     ECS Innsbruck           AUT             28   21        28   49   38   —   —   —   —    —
1981–82     Hershey Bears           AHL             18   5         14   19   2    5   2   7   9    0
1982–83     ECS Innsbruck           AUT             28   26        30   56   44   —   —   —   —    —
1982–83     Hershey Bears           AHL             14   8         9    17   2    4   1   0   1    0
1983–84     Français Volants Paris  FRA-2           —    —         —    —    —    —   —   —   —    —
1984–85     Français Volants Paris  FRA             25   44        16   60   —    —   —   —   —    —
1985–86     Français Volants Paris  FRA             32   32        41   73   —    —   —   —   —    —
1986–87     Français Volants Paris  FRA             36   50        35   85   52   —   —   —   —    —
1987–88     Français Volants Paris  FRA             25   30        23   53   38   —   —   —   —    —
AHL totals  285                     116             197  313       131  26   11   25  36  4
NHL totals  47                      10              12   22        8    2    0    0   0   0


Larry Skinner

* Biographical information and career statistics from NHL.com, or Eliteprospects.com, or Hockey-Reference.com, or The Internet Hockey Database


New Florence, Missouri

New Florence is a city in Montgomery County, Missouri, United States. The population was 641 at the 2020 census.

New Florence includes a branch of Stone Hill Winery, based in Hermann. From here to the St. Louis suburbs is the geographic area known as the Missouri Rhineland, first established as a center of vineyards by German immigrants in the mid-19th century.

New Florence lies at the junction of Interstate 70 and State Highway 19. Highway 19 is accessible from Interstate 70 via Exit 175.

History

New Florence was first named "Florence", and under the latter name was platted in 1858, and named after Florence Lewis, the daughter of a first settler.

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.94 square miles (7.61 km2), of which 2.92 square miles (7.56 km2) is land and 0.02 square miles (0.05 km2) is water.

Demographics

Historical population
Census                 Pop.  Note  %±
1860                   103         —
1870                   53          −48.5%
1880                   373         603.8%
1890                   465         24.7%
1900                   424         −8.8%
1910                   424         0.0%
1920                   600         41.5%
1930                   571         −4.8%
1940                   565         −1.1%
1950                   522         −7.6%
1960                   616         18.0%
1970                   635         3.1%
1980                   731         15.1%
1990                   801         9.6%
2000                   764         −4.6%
2010                   769         0.7%
2020                   641         −16.6%
U.S. Decennial Census

2010 census

As of the censuspopulation density was 263.4 inhabitants per square mile (101.7/km2). There were 302 housing units at an average density of 103.4 per square mile (39.9/km2). The racial makeup of the city was 96.6% White, 0.9% African American, 0.1% Native American, 0.1% Asian, 0.4% from other races, and 1.8% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.8% of the population.


New Florence, Missouri

There were 257 households, of which 35.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 51.4% were married couples living together, 12.1% had a female householder with no husband present, 7.0% had a male householder with no wife present, and 29.6% were non-families. 23.7% of all households were made up of individuals, and 5.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.67 and the average family size was 3.18.

The median age in the city was 41 years. 24.3% of residents were under the age of 18; 8.7% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 20.9% were from 25 to 44; 28% were from 45 to 64; and 18.2% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the city was 49.5% male and 50.5% female.

2000 census

As of the census471.3 inhabitants per square mile (182.0/km2). There were 288 housing units at an average density of 177.7 per square mile (68.6/km2). The racial makeup of the city was 97.12% White, 1.05% African American, 0.65% Native American, 0.13% Asian, 0.92% from other races, and 0.13% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.57% of the population.

There were 248 households, out of which 37.9% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 53.2% were married couples living together, 10.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 29.0% were non-families. 23.4% of all households were made up of individuals, and 11.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.70 and the average family size was 3.14.


New Florence, Missouri

In the city, the population was spread out, with 27.6% under the age of 18, 8.0% from 18 to 24, 24.6% from 25 to 44, 18.5% from 45 to 64, and 21.3% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 38 years. For every 100 females, there were 87.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 78.4 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $30,156, and the median income for a family was $34,722. Males had a median income of $30,000 versus $18,864 for females. The per capita income for the city was $12,367. About 16.7% of families and 22.2% of the population were below the poverty line, including 27.8% of those under age 18 and 13.0% of those age 65 or over.

  * Historic maps of New Florence in the Sanborn Maps of Missouri Collection at the University of Missouri


USS Sylvia (1882)

For other ships with the same name, see USS Sylvia.

The first USS Sylvia was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission in 1898 and from 1917 to 1919. She saw service in both the Spanish–American War and World War I.

Construction and acquisition

Sylvia was built as a private steam yacht of the same name in 1882 in the United Kingdom by A. Stephen and Sons at Glasgow, Scotland. On 13 June 1898, the U.S. Navy purchased her for use as a patrol yacht during the Spanish–American War.

Spanish–American War operations

Sylvia was commissioned as USS Sylvia on 29 June 1898. She departed New York City on 21 July 1898 bound for Norfolk, Virginia, then proceeded from Norfolk to Key West, Florida, where she arrived on 13 August 1898, the day after the war ended. On 17 August 1898 she departed Key West to return to Norfolk, arriving there on 25 August 1898. She was decommissioned at the Norfolk Navy Yard at Portsmouth, Virginia, on 10 December 1898.

Naval Militia service

For over 19 years, Sylvia was in non-commissioned service with state naval militias. She was transferred to the Maryland Naval Militia on 19 December 1898, beginning a nine-year tour of dutry there. On 6 December 1907, she was reassigned to the Pennsylvania Naval Militia and remained with that organization for over five-and-a-half years. On 13 September 1913, she was reassigned to the District of Columbia Naval Militia, with which she operated for over three-and-a-half years.

World War I service

On 10 April 1917, the U.S. Navy recommissioned Sylvia for use as a section patrol vessel during World War I. Assigned to the 5th Naval District, she operated on patrol duty in the Hampton Roads, Virginia, area for the remainder of the war. During this period, she should not be confused with the second USS Sylvia (SP-471), a patrol vessel in commission at the same time.

Disposal

Sylvia was decommissioned again after World War I. She was stricken from the Navy List on 24 April 1919 and sold on 20 October 1921.

  * This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.
  * NavSource Online: Section Patrol Craft Photo Archive: Sylvia


Persicula pulcherrima

Persicula pulcherrima is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Cystiscidae.

Distribution

This species occurs in Aruba, Belize, Bonaire, Caribbean Sea, Colombia, Cuba, Curaçao, Lesser Antilles, Puerto Rico and San Andrés


Richard Atkins (educational administrator)

Sir Richard James Atkins, CBE (born 10 May 1953) is a former Further Education College teacher and Principal, before becoming the Further Education Commissioner for England between 2016 and 2021.

Early life and work in retail

Born in Bristol on 10 May 1953,temporary worker by the department store Harrods; he stayed there for three years, eventually joining their management training programme and becoming a distribution manager at their warehouse in Barnes.

Further education teaching and administration

Between 1976 and 1979, Atkins trained as a teacher at Bulmershe College,Bachelor of Education degreeBishop Reindorp School in Guildford while completing a Master of Science degree in education management at the University of Surrey.Chichester College, Guildford College and in York (the latter in a senior management role).Yeovil College and was promoted to principal ten months later,Exeter College, where he was the principal until 2016.Association for College Management (2002–04) and president of the Association of Colleges (2014–15), having been on the latter's board and its deputy chair between 2007 and 2013.

Atkins was appointed Further Education Commissioner at the Department for Education in October 2016.Pro-Chancellor of the University of Exeter since 2017.

Honours and awards

Atkins was awarded an honorary Doctor of Law degree by the University of Exeter in 2016.Freedom of the City of Exeter in 2016.New Year Honours), he was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). He was knighted in the 2021 New Year Honours.


John Mikloth Magoola Luwuliza-Kirunda

John Mikloth Magoola Luwuliza-Kirunda (5 August 1940 – 8 August 2005) was a prominent Ugandan physician who served numerous roles in the Idi Amin government, serving both as Ministers of Internal Affairs of Uganda and Organizing Secretary of the Uganda People's Congress, serving in the latter role twice.

Early life

John Mikloth Magoola Luwuliza-Kirunda was born on 5 August 1940 in Busembatia, Iganga District, Busoga sub-region, Eastern Region of Uganda.Shaban Nukutu.

Education

Luwuliza-Kirunda attended Busoga College at Mwiri Hill, in the Jinja District of Uganda from 1948 to 1959.Uganda People's Congress politicians.Makerere University in Kampala from 1960 to 1967, and then he interned at the University Teaching Hospital of Birmingham and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital in the United Kingdom from 1968 to 1971.

Career

Medical career

Luwuliza-Kirunda was a prominent Ugandan physician and professor surrounding his medical career. He was certified as a gynecologist and an obstetrician by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in London in 1978, passing the Membership Examination of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (MRCOG).Mulago Hospital in Kampala, Uganda, as a specialist obstetrician and a gynecologist, where he worked in 1971.

After a year practicing at Mulago Hospital, he entered medical teaching. He was a lecturer at Makerere Medical School from 1972 to 1974, then a senior lecturer there from 1974 to 1976, then an associate professor there from 1976 to 1977.

He continued his career as a medical professional abroad, teaching at both the University of Nairobi Medical School and the University of Zambia School of Medicine as a senior lecturer in 1978.

Political career


John Mikloth Magoola Luwuliza-Kirunda

Political career

Despite his long career as a physician and professor of obstetrics and gynaecology, John Mikloth Magoola Luwuliza-Kirunda was one of the most powerful political figures in Apollo Milton Obote's second government, and was noted as a "boisterous" and "cocky" political figure in both Busoga and Uganda.Uganda People's Congress since 1960, and was organizing secretary of the Uganda People's Congress in 1966 for two years.

While working abroad as a senior lecturer in the fields of obstetrics and gynaecology, Luwuliza-Kirunda became involved with the Uganda National Liberation Front. Under Uganda National Liberation Front rule and the government of Paulo Muwanga and the Presidential Commission of Uganda, Luwuliza-Kirunda served as Minister of Labour from May 1980 until the 1980 Ugandan general election in December 1980. Also during the interim period, Luwuliza Kirunda served as Organizing Secretary of the Uganda People's Congress, leading to the 1980 elections when the Uganda People's Congress won 75 of the 126 seats.

Apollo Milton Obote became Head of State of Uganda again in 1980, where he appointed Luwuliza-Kirunda to be the powerful Minister of Internal Affairs of Uganda, where his portfolio included being Chief of the National Police of Uganda and the head of Special Force and Prisons.Obote's inner circle's wealth.Apollo Milton Obote.

He also worked for education in Uganda, especially in the JIK region that made up the former Busoga kingdom (JIK stands for Jinja, Iganga, and Kamuli).Busoga College, Wanyange Girls' School, and Kiira College Butiki, and built new secondary schools like Kisiki College, Nkuutu Memorial Secondary School, Bubinga Girls' School, and Nakabugu Girls' School.

In 1985, John Mikloth Magoola Luwuliza-Kirunda left the role of Minister of Internal Affairs and became Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Uganda briefly,1985 Ugandan coup d'état and moving to Kenya.

Personal life


John Mikloth Magoola Luwuliza-Kirunda

Personal life

John Mikloth Magoola Luwuliza-Kirunda married Margaret Marjorie Kaluma in 1974. Together they had one son and two daughters.1985 Ugandan coup d'état, living in Nairobi, Kenya in the 1990s and in Zimbabwe in the 2000s.

Death

On 8 August 2005, John Mikloth Magoola Luwuliza-Kirunda passed away in a rural hospital in Zimbabwe.


John Worsley (artist)

For other people named John Worsley, see John Worsley (disambiguation).

John Godfrey Bernard Worsley (16 February 1919 – 3 October 2000) was a British artist and illustrator best known for his naval battle scenes and portraits of high-ranking officers and political figures. One of the very few active service artists of the Second World War, Worsley was the only person to render contemporary sea-warfare in situ, and the only official war artist captured by the Germans.Marlag O, Worsley documented prison life with supplies provided by the Red Cross, his expertise employed in the forging of identity papers, and an ingenious escape attempt requiring the construction of a mannequin named Albert R.N.

During his lifetime, Worsley was president of the Royal Society of Marine Artists: sixty-one of his paintings – including portraits of Field Marshal Montgomery, and the First Sea Lord, Sir John Cunningham – hang in the Imperial War Museum, with another twenty-nine pictures archived in the collections of the National Maritime Museum.

Life

"Rum Issue": sketch by John Worsley

Worsley spent his childhood on a coffee farm in Kenya, his family having emigrated from Liverpool just six months after his birth. In 1928 he was sent back to England and was enrolled in St. Winifred's boarding school, from where Worsley won a scholarship to Brighton College, after which he spent three years studying fine art at Goldsmiths' School of Art. After graduating, in 1938, Worsley secured work as a commercial illustrator, mainly working on romance magazines.

At the start of World War Two, Worsley joined the Royal Navy and spent three years on convoy escort duty in the Atlantic and the North Sea.HMS Laurentic, HMS Lancaster and HMS Devonshire. Worsley was aboard the Laurentic when it was torpedoed and sunk in November 1940.Kenneth Clark – the director of War Artists' Advisory Committee –who appointed him as one of the two full-time artists attached to the Commander-in-Chief's staff, Malta.

In 1943, the Navy dispatched Worsley to an island in the north Adriatic, where he hoped to record an attempt by Allied saboteurs to establish a base camp, but the Germans intercepted his party, forcing them to surrender.


John Worsley (artist)

As a prisoner, Worsley documented camp life with warmth, accuracy, and humour. He also directed his talent to covert pursuits, including the creation of counterfeit documentation, and Albert, an ingenious life-size figurine, crafted from newspaper, a wire frame, and human hair. The figurine had blinking ping-pong ball eyes that were powered by a pendulum made from a sardine tin.

After the war, Worsley remained under Naval engagement, painting portraits of high-ranking officers for the Admiralty, before securing a commission for the popular children's weekly, Eagle, and its companion paper, Girl, achieving his greatest success with The Adventures of P.C. 49,Scotland Yard; his ability to draft from description secured the capture of the nurse implicated in the notorious London baby-snatch of 1990.

By 1970, Worsley entered the arena of family entertainment, rendering hundreds of large plates for televised adaptations of The Wind in the Willows, Treasure Island, A Christmas Carol, and The Little Grey Men, later released as large-format prints for children.

Worsley died on 3 October 2000 at the age of 81.

A collection of his wartime sketches, found in his studio after his death, were displayed by his step-daughter on a special edition of the BBC television programme Antiques Roadshow on 8 September 2019, marking 80 years since the start of World War II.

Selected works

Biography

  * Worsley, John; Giggal, Kenneth (1993). John Worsley's War: An Official War Artist in World War II. Shrewsbury: Airlife. ISBN 978-1-85310-257-8.

Illustrations


John Worsley (artist)

* Guy Morgan (1945), P.O.W., Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill Book Company Inc. ( ISBN 978-0545047746)
  * Guy Morgan (1945), Only Ghosts can Live, Crosby Lockwood & Son
  * Stephen MacFarlane (pseud. John Keir Cross) (1946), Detectives in Greasepaint, Peter Lunn
  * John Keir Cross (1946), Studio 'J' Investigates, Peter Lunn
  * Robert Harling (1946), The Steep Atlantick Stream, Chivers, Chatto & Windus ( ISBN 978-0855949341)
  * The Illustrated London News (ed. Sir Bruce Ingram) (1949)
  * Eric Romilly (1949), Bleeding from the Roman, Chapman & Hall
  * Thomas Cubbin, with an introduction by Henry Major Tomlinson (1950), The Wreck of the Serica, Dropmore Press
  * Eagle Annual Number 2 (1953) (ed. Marcus Morris), Hulton Press
  * Eric Phillips and Alan Stranks (1953), P.C. 49 "Eagle" Strip Cartoon Book, Preview Publications (UK) Ltd
  * Alan Stranks (1954), P.C. 49 "Eagle" Strip Cartoon Book Number 2, Andrew Dakers Ltd
  * Alan Stranks (1954), On the Beat with P.C. 49, Preview Publications (UK) Ltd
  * Alan Stranks (1955), PC 49 Annual, Andrew Dakers Ltd
  * Roderick Langmere Haig-Brown (1949), Saltwater Summer, Collins ( ISBN 978-0001831292)
  * George Beardmore (1956), Belle of the Ballet's Gala Performance, Hulton Press
  * George Beardmore (1957), Belle of the Ballet's Country Holiday, Hulton Press
  * George Beardmore (1958), Scandale a la Cour, Dargaud
  * George Beardmore (1958), Le Secret De La Ballerine, Dargaud
  * Ships (1962), Watson-Guptill Publications


John Worsley (artist)

* Ships (1962), Watson-Guptill Publications
  * John Gordon Williams (1963), God in the Space Age, Church Information Office
  * Macdonald Hastings (1971), Sydney the Sparrow, Ward Lock ( ISBN 978-0706312911)
  * Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, retold by Jane Carruth (1975), Golden Press ( ISBN 978-0307147509)
  * Johanna Spyri's Heidi, retold by Jane Carruth (1975), Award ( ISBN 978-0861630677)
  * Anna Sewell's Black Beauty, retold by Jane Carruth (1975), Award ( ISBN 978-0861630660)
  * Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers, retold by Jane Carruth (1976), Award ( ISBN 978-0861630684)
  * Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer, retold by Jane Carruth (1977), Award ( ISBN 978-0861631322)
  * R.D. Blackmore's 'Lorna Doone, retold by Jane Carruth (1979), Purnell ( ISBN 978-0361044028)
  * Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, retold by Jane Carruth (1982), Award ( ISBN 978-0861630653)


John Worsley (artist)

* Kenneth Grahame (1982), The Wind in the Willows, Purnell ( ISBN 978-0361055017) – (1983), Mr. Toad (Tales from The Wind in the Willows), Purnell ( ISBN 978-0361056113) - (1983), Home Sweet Home (Tales from The Wind in the Willows), Purnell ( ISBN 978-0361056106) – (1983), Toad's Adventures (Tales from The Wind in the Willows), Purnell ( ISBN 978-0361056120) – (1983), The River Bank (Tales from The Wind in the Willows), Purnell ( ISBN 978-0361056083) – (1983), The Open Road (Tales from The Wind in the Willows), Purnell ( ISBN 978-0361056090) – (1983), The Further Adventures of Toad (Tales from The Wind in the Willows), Purnell ( ISBN 978-0361056137)
  * John Worsley (1984), foreword to A Roving Reporter: A Tribute to the Memory of Donald Charles Orbach 1914–1982
  * Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island, retold by Jane Carruth (1984), Award ( ISBN 978-0861631315)
  * Charles Dickens, ed. Jane Wilton-Smith (1985), A Christmas Carol, Gallery Books ( ISBN 978-0831712983)
  * Alan Stranks (1990), The Adventures of P.C. 49 (Eagles Classics), Hawk Books ( ISBN 978-0948248177)
  * Kenneth Grahame (1990), Mr. Toad (the Wind in the Willows Library), Award Publications Ltd ( ISBN 978-0861634637)
  * Barry O'Brien, Kaj Melendez, and Mirza Javed (1962), Ace London, Fleetway Publications; repub. (2011) Cuauhtemoc Publishing Ltd ( ISBN 978-0957032101)


John Worsley (artist)

Selected filmography

  * The Captive Heart (1946)
  * Albert R.N. (1953)
  * Anglia Story Series:The Wind in the Willows (1969) – The Winter of Enchantment (1970) – A Christmas Carol (1970) – Treasure Island (1972) – Baldmoney, Sneezwort, Dodder and Cloudberry (The Little Grey Men) (1975) – The Whisper of Glocken (1976/ 1980)
  * Treasure (magazine)
  * Marlag und Milag Nord
  * Eagle and Dan Dare website: John Worsley and Eagle Magazine
  * Brighton College: notable Old Brightonians
  * Illustration Art Gallery, 17 April 2013
Wikimedia Commons has media related to John Worsley.

23 artworks by or after John Worsley at the Art UK site

  * Royal Museums Greenwich
  * IMDB


Paula Morris

Paula Jane Kiri Morris MNZM (born 18 August 1965) is a New Zealand novelist, short-story writer editor and literary academic. She is an associate professor at the University of Auckland and founder of the Academy of New Zealand Literature.

Life

Morris was born and raised in Auckland, New Zealand. Her father is a New Zealander and her mother is English; the family's tribal affiliations are Ngāti Wai, Ngāti Manuhiri and Ngāti Whātua. She graduated from the University of Auckland in 1985 with a BA in English and history, and moved to the United Kingdom the same year. After completing a DPhil at the University of York, under the supervision of Hermione Lee, and after a brief stint living in Manchester, she moved to London, working for BBC Radio 3 as a production assistant, Virgin Records as Press Officer for Virgin Classics, and PolyGram (now Universal) as Press and Promotions Manager for Philips.

In 1994, Morris moved to New York to become Product Manager for the German record label ECM,

Morris began taking fiction-writing classes at the West Side Y in 1997,The New York Times, writing encyclopaedia entries for Contemporary Black Biography,International Institute of Modern Letters, Victoria University of Wellington, where she was taught by Bill Manhire.

From 2002 to 2004, Morris attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was the recipient of the Glenn Schaeffer Fellowship (2002–03)University of Iowa International Program's Writer-in-Residence.

From 2005 until 2010, Morris was an assistant professor at Tulane University in New Orleans,University of Stirling in Scotland. At Stirling she was programme director of the new MLitt in Creative Writing (Prose).

Between 2012 and 2014, Morris was fiction writer-in-residence at the University of Sheffield.

Her short story False River was shortlisted for the 2015 Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award, the richest prize in the world for a single short story.False River (Penguin, 2017), a book that combines stories and essays around the theme of lies and secret histories.

Career

Morris's MA dissertation project at Victoria University won that year's Adam Foundation PrizeQueen of Beauty (Penguin New Zealand, 2002).Montana New Zealand Book Awards.


Paula Morris

Many of the stories that formed Morris' dissertation project at Iowa, supervised by Marilynne Robinson, are collected in Forbidden Cities (Penguin New Zealand, 2008),Hibiscus Coast (Penguin New Zealand, 2005)Trendy But Casual (Penguin New Zealand, 2007)

Her 2011 novel RangatiraNew Zealand Post Book Awards,Radio New Zealand in 2012International Dublin Literary Award.

Morris has appeared at literary festivals and conferences in the US, China, New Zealand, the UK, Germany and Switzerland, and held a number of writer's residencies, including the Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship in 2008 (with Brigid Lowry).The Penguin Book of Contemporary New Zealand Short Stories (2008) Landfall.

She also wrote her first Young Adult novel, Ruined,Scholastic US. Morris followed this with another YA supernatural mystery, Dark Souls (2011)Unbroken (2013),Ruined. Her most recent Young Adult novel is The Eternal City,Hene and the Burning Harbour.

Morris has been awarded a number of residencies, including the Brecht House in Denmark, and the Bellagio Foundation in Italy.Ventspils, Latvia – in 2015 and 2017.

In 2018, she was awarded the Katherine Mansfield Menton Prize,2019 New Year Honours she appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to literature.

Morris was co-editor of two landmark anthologies of fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction: Ko Aotearoa Tātou (Otago University Press 2020) A Clear Dawn: New Asian Voices from Aotearoa New Zealand (Auckland University Press 2021).Shining Land: Looking for Robin Hyde (Massey University Press), which was longlisted for the 2021 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards (Otago University Press 2020).

In November 2021 Morris launched the website KoreaSeen, a platform for reviews and articles about Korean television and film, both classic and contemporary.

An associate professor at the University of Auckland, Morris directs the Master of Creative Writing degree programme.


Paula Morris

* Queen of Beauty (2002)
  * Hibiscus Coast (2005)
  * Trendy but Casual (2007)
  * Forbidden Cities (2008)
  * The Penguin Book of Contemporary New Zealand Short Stories (editor) (2008)
  * Ruined (2009)
  * Dark Souls (2011)
  * Rangatira (2011)
  * Unbroken (2013)
  * Hene and the Burning Harbour (2013)
  * On Coming Home (2015)
  * The Eternal City (2015)
  * False River (2017)
  * Shining Land: Looking for Robin Hyde (2020)
  * Ko Aotearoa Tātou (2020)
  * A Clear Dawn: New Asian Voices from Aotearoa New Zealand (2021)
  * Official Site
  * New Zealand Book Council
  * Blog
  * Amazon Author's Page
  * Frankfurt Book Fair


Mike Janis

Mike Janis is a race car driver from Lancaster, New York. Janis began drag racing in 1978. He won the 2001 and 2004 IHRA Pro Mod World Championships. In 2018, he won the NHRA Pro Mod World Championship.


Mansehra Rock Edicts

Edicts of Ashoka, the Mansehra Rock Edicts lie in the extreme north-west of the Mauryan Empire

Mansehra Rock Edicts are fourteen edicts of the Mauryan emperor Ashoka, inscribed on rocks in Mansehra in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The edicts are cut into three boulders and date back to 3rd century BC and they are written in the ancient Indic script of Gandhara culture, Kharosthi. The edicts mention aspects of Ashoka’s dharma.World Heritage Sites and is currently in the tentative list.

Location

The edicts are inscribed on an outcrop of a small rocky mountain outside the city of Mansehra in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. The site is located near to the Karakoram Highway on the ancient Silk Route. The archeological city of Taxila is located in south and Abbottabad lies very near to the east of the site.

History

Ashoka was dismayed by the destruction caused by his military during the conquest of Kalingas and in remorse later converted to Buddhism. Following his conversion, Ashoka visited sacred Buddhist locations throughout the Mauryan Empire and erected multiple pillars bearing his inscriptions of a new morality law. Mansehra Rock Edicts are one of the 33 inscriptions of Edicts of Ashoka describing expansion of Buddhism and his Law of Piety or dharma.

The fourteen edicts contain text in the Kharosthi script which is an ancient script used in the Gandhara. The Kharoṣṭhi script was first deciphered by James Prinsep after which the Edicts of Ashoka in Kharosthi script were translated.

Conservation

Due to environmental degradation, the rocks are eroding and the script is fading rendering it unreadable.

World Heritage Site

In 2004, the site was submitted for inclusion in the UNESCO World Heritage Sites by Department of Archaeology and Museums, Pakistan. It was submitted in the Cultural criteria ii, iii, and vi.


Mansehra Rock Edicts

* Greco-Buddhism
  * Gandharan Buddhism
  * Gandhāran Buddhist texts
  * List of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Pakistan
  * List of Edicts of Ashoka
  * Pillars of Ashoka
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mansehra Rock Edicts.
  * Gandhari.org Complete text of the edicts


Larry Soderquist

Larry D. Soderquist (July 20, 1944 – August 20, 2005) was a noted author and Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University Law School from 1981 to 2005 and director at Corporate and Securities Law Institute from 1993 to 2005.

Biography

Soderquist was born in Ypsilanti, Michigan and received his B.S. from Eastern Michigan University in 1966; his J.D. from Harvard in 1969; and his D.Min. from Trinity College of the Bible and Theological Seminary in 1998. Soderquist was an ordained minister. Before coming to Vanderbilt, Soderquist taught at the University of Notre Dame.

Prior to teaching, he was an Army Captain during the Vietnam War; after that, he practiced law on Wall Street with Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy. Soderquist was a Fulbright Scholar at Moscow State University during the Cold War. Other military positions include serving as chief intelligence officer on a General's staff.

Soderquist also penned two mystery novels outside of his academic work: The Labcoat (1998) and The Iraqi Provocation (2003).

On July 3, 2005, Soderquist was in a serious car accident and died from his injuries the next month, aged 61. He was interred at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.

  * Larry Soderquist at ArlingtonCemetery.net, an unofficial website
  * The Iraqi Provocation
  * Ypsilanti Courier
  * Thoughts on Martha Stewart's Securities problems
  * Vanderbilt Lawyer tribute article


USA Baseball

USA Baseball is the national governing body for organized baseball in the United States, and is a member of the United States Olympic Committee and the World Baseball Softball Confederation. The organization selects and trains the World Baseball Classic, Olympic, Premier12, and Pan American Games teams (and all other USA Baseball professional teams); the USA Baseball collegiate national team; the USA Baseball 18U, 15U, and 12U national teams; and the USA Baseball women's national team, all of which participate in various international competitions each year. In addition, USA Baseball selects players for the 14U, 16U, and 17U national team-development programs. The organization is responsible for the continued proliferation and health of the sport, and leads a number of amateur initiatives through its Sport Development department, including Play Ball and Pitch Smart. USA Baseball also presents the Golden Spikes Award annually to the top amateur baseball player in the country and is responsible for creating the USABat standard.

No player uses uniform number 42 out of respect to the late Brooklyn Dodgers' great Jackie Robinson since 1997.

History

Predecessors

While the national federation traces its origins to 1978, the national team program has come a long way.

The first US national baseball team took the field in the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden. Only one player in the roster, Jim Thorpe, had any actual experience in the two demonstration games that were held, as the majority of players where track and field athletics.

The national governing body is a defacto successor to the USA Baseball Congress, founded in 1934 by ex-MLB outfielder Leslie Mann, who is also regarded in high esteem as founder of the International Baseball Federation (IBAF). That organization helped formalize the establishment of a full time national team program and establish amateur baseball nationally. Under Leslie's guidance, the nascent Team USA, following a 20-game friendship tour of Japan in 1935 took part in the demonstration match at the Summer Olympics in Berlin the next year and participated in the very first Baseball World Cup two years later, only to lose out to England. They took part in a further two more BWCs before the Second World War.


USA Baseball

Representation to the BWC would return in 1969, but this time, an all-NCAA team of college athletes took part, having taken part previously in the Pan American Games since the first edition held in 1951. This would be the basis of the current USA Baseball Collegiate National Team, and an early iteration of the team had a test game in the 1964 Summer Olympics in Japan.

Move to North Carolina

1978 would see the formation of a new national baseball organization. As the USA received hosting rights for the 1984 Summer Olympics with Los Angeles as the host, the time would come for the birth of a new group to spearhead baseball efforts in the country.

Originally based in Trenton, New Jersey upon its establishment, USA Baseball - then the US Baseball Federation - moved to Tucson, Arizona in November 1997, where it spent five years before moving one more time to its current home in Cary, North Carolina, in March 2003. With its family-friendly environment, already-rapid growth, and proximity to sports cities Chapel Hill, Durham, Raleigh, and Charlotte, Cary was the perfect destination for the national governing body of baseball.

An agreement was reached with the town to create a complex and headquarters there, and the USA Baseball National Training Complex opened in June 2007. The first event held at the facility was the 2007 USA Baseball Tournament of Stars, which served as the primary identification event for the organization's 18U national team from 2007 to 2018.

USA Baseball National Training Complex

National Training Complex

The USA Baseball National Training Complex at Thomas Brooks Park in Cary, North Carolina, opened in 2007. Located within the 221-acre Thomas Brooks Park, the complex includes four baseball fields – a stadium field and three training fields – all with dimensions of 330 feet down the lines and 400 feet in centerfield. All fields are maintained at Major League Baseball standards.

In recognition of more than 30 years of public service and countless accomplishments for the citizens of Cary, the Cary Town Council named the stadium field in honor of former Town Manager William B. Coleman, Jr., upon his retirement on October 17, 2008.


USA Baseball

Coleman Field has a press box that includes two suites, an official scorer's room, a sound room, and a press row. Spectator seating is for 1,754 people, including handicapped-accessible seating, and additional grass seating for about 250 people. All fields have access to restroom facilities and a concession building.

The National Training Complex is also home to the flagship USA Baseball Team Store, which is open during all USA Baseball events at the complex.

14U and 16U national teams

From 1997 to 2011, USA Baseball fielded a 16U national team that participated in the International Baseball Federation World Youth Championships, as well as other tournaments, including the COPABE Pan American Youth Championships and the 1999 PAL World Series.

In its 15-year history, the USA Baseball 16U national team experienced unparalleled success on the international stage. Team USA made it to the championship game of every international tournament it appeared in, taking home 11 gold medals – including nine in World Championships – and three silvers. In addition, eight of those teams went undefeated in international play. The program holds an overall historical record of 99–10 against international opponents, including going 54–2 in world championships.

The 14U national team was created in 2007 and fielded teams for the COPABE Pan American Championships and Pan American Championships Qualifiers until 2011. In that time, the program went undefeated five times in six international tournaments, earning five gold medals and one bronze in its history and finishing with a 39–2 overall record.

In 2011, the two teams were discontinued after the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) changed its youth championships age discipline to 15U. The programs were replaced with the 15U national team and the 14U national team development program.

USA Baseball in the Olympic Games

Baseball was first introduced to the Olympic Games as an exhibition sport at the Los Angeles 1984 Games and returned as a demonstration sport in the Seoul 1988 Games. In 1984, the United States came in second, losing to Japan in the final, 6–3. Four years later, though, Team USA got Olympic redemption as it won the gold medal over Japan with a 5–3 victory.


USA Baseball

Baseball was open only to male amateurs in 1992 and 1996. As a result, the Americans and other nations where professional baseball is developed relied on collegiate players, while Cubans used their most experienced veterans, who technically were considered amateurs as they nominally held other jobs, but in fact trained full-time. In 2000, pros were admitted, but Major League Baseball refused to release its players in 2000, 2004, and 2008, and the situation changed only a little: the Cubans still used their best players, while the Americans started using minor leaguers. The IOC cited the absence of the best players as the main reason for baseball being dropped from the Olympic program.

In contrast, Nippon Professional Baseball has allowed its players to compete in the Olympics, and paused its 2021 season for the duration of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics (held in 2021).

At the IOC meeting on July 7, 2005, baseball and softball were voted out of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom, becoming the first sports voted out of the Olympics since polo was eliminated from the 1936 Olympics.IOC's elimination were subsequently filled by golf and rugby sevens in 2016. This decision was reaffirmed on February 9, 2006.2016 Summer Olympics.

On April 1, 2011, the IBAF and the International Softball Federation announced they were preparing a joint proposal to revive play of both sports at the 2020 Summer Olympics.

In August 2011, Olympic news source Around the Rings reported that the ISF and IBAF would not rush into an Olympic proposal, and that the IBAF was working on forming a temporary commission to analyze the prospect of a joint proposal. "In the past, baseball and softball were running alone, and the result was that baseball and softball stayed out," IBAF president Riccardo Fraccari said in reference to their decades-long push for Olympic inclusion.

On September 8, 2013, the International Olympic Committee voted to reinstate wrestling, defeating the combined baseball-softball bid for the 2020 Summer Olympics.


USA Baseball

Under new IOC policies that shift the Games to an "event-based" program rather than sport-based, the host organizing committee can now also propose the addition of sports to the program alongside the permanent "core" events.Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the IOC approved the Tokyo Organizing Committee's final shortlist of five sports, which included baseball, to be included in the program during the 2020 Summer Olympics.2024 Paris Olympics, but it is expected that it will be included along with softball, in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics due to baseball's popularity in the United States.

USA Baseball started using minor league athletes for the first time in 1999 with the 2000 Olympic Team being one of the first professional national teams to represent the U.S. in international competition. Led by Manager Tommy Lasorda and featuring players Ben Sheets, Ernie Young, and Brad Wilkerson, Team USA went 8–1 in the tournament en route to the Olympic gold medal. The 2000 Olympic Team was later named the USOC Team of the Year.

After failing to qualify for the Athens 2004 Games, the U.S. returned to the Olympics in 2008, finishing with a 6–3 record and claiming the bronze medal with an 8–4 defeat of Japan.

World Baseball Classic 2023

The World Baseball Classic is a national team tournament that is staged every four years. The most recent one in 2023 included many amazing points from USA's Trea Turner. They lost the championship against Japan: JPN 3–2 USA.

National teams

Professional National Team

Main article: United States national baseball team

Established 1999 the Professional National Team section (USAB-PNT) is the flagship and seniormost of all the national teams of USA Baseball. Since 1999, USA Baseball has been selecting teams of professional-level Minor and Major League (MLB) players to represent the United States in various international competitions, including the World Baseball Classic. It constitutes the elitest and most prestigeous of all the team programs and its rosters have occasionally come from the teams mentioned below.

Olympics and related competitions' PNT


USA Baseball

Olympics and related competitions' PNT

The first professional national team that the organization selected participated in the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg. The team went 5–2 in the tournament, eventually making it to the gold medal game, where it lost to Cuba 5–1 to claim the silver medal.

Also among the first teams of minor league players that USA Baseball fielded was the 2000 U.S. Olympic Baseball Team, managed by Tommy Lasorda at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. Behind a stellar performance on the mound by Ben Sheets, the team of minor league players defeated Cuba for the gold medal. In 2008, a Davey Johnson-led U.S. team featuring Dexter Fowler, Matt LaPorta, and Stephen Strasburg, took home the bronze medal from the Beijing Games. The USA returned to Olympics baseball in 2021 but lost to Japan for silver.

In 2011, USA Baseball fielded one team of professional minor league players to compete in both the World Cup and Pan American Games. The Pan American team posted a 10–6 record and took home the silver medal from Lagos de Moreno, Mexico. Joe Thurston and Brett Jackson led the team offensively, and Andy Van Hekken and Drew Smyly contributed strong pitching performances.

The World Cup team was named co-bronze medalist of the IBAF Baseball World Cup, which was played in Panama. The U.S. shared the honor with Canada after their bronze-medal game was rained out.

In 2015, USA Baseball fielded two professional national teams, once again made up of minor league players, for the Toronto 2015 Pan American Games and the WBSC Premier12. The U.S. claimed the silver medal in both events. The Pan American Games roster featured Albert Almora, Jr., Tyler Pastornicky, Paul Sewald, and Zach Eflin, while the Premier12 team was led by Matt McBride, Adam Frazier, and Anthony Vasquez.

USA Baseball once again fielded a collegiate-minor league national team in 2019 for the WBSC Premier12. The event is a qualifier for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and was to be held in November.

Professional National Team Gold Medals
Year  Tournament
2017  World Baseball Classic
2009  XXXVIII Baseball World Cup
2007  XXXVII Baseball World Cup
2005  CONCEBE Regional Olympic Qualifier
2000  Sydney 2000 Olympic Games

World Baseball Classic National Team


USA Baseball

World Baseball Classic National Team

Following the removal of baseball from the Olympic program in 2005, the World Baseball Classic (WBC) was proposed by MLB, the Major League Baseball Players Association, and other professional baseball leagues and their players associations around the world. Subsequently, the tournament was created and the first installment was played in 2006. Unique to the event is the use of MLB players on the rosters, marking the first team in USA Baseball history to feature MLB-level athletes.

For the inaugural 2006 World Baseball Classic, Team USA featured stars such as Chase Utley, Derek Jeter, and Chipper Jones. In the second installment of the WBC in 2009, with Dustin Pedroia, Jimmy Rollins, and Jeter donning the red, white, and blue, the U.S. team finished fourth, losing to Japan in the semifinals.

The 2013 WBC team was managed by Joe Torre and led by David Wright, Joe Mauer, and Rollins. Team USA advanced to the second round of the tournament before falling to Puerto Rico.

Most recently, Team USA had its best showing in the tournament so far, taking home the 2017 WBC gold medal. Managed by Jim Leyland and featuring Marcus Stroman, Christian Yelich, Adam Jones, Eric Hosmer, Buster Posey, and Brandon Crawford, the U.S. went 6–2 en route to the title. The team opened the tournament with a dramatic 3–2 walk-off victory in extra innings over Colombia and took down the defending champions Dominican Republic – with the help of an iconic catch from Jones that robbed Manny Machado of a home run in the second round to advance to the semifinals.

Following a rain-soaked 2–1 victory over Japan, Team USA went head-to-head against Puerto Rico, which had beaten the U.S. 6–5 earlier in the tournament, in the final, and put together an 8–0 win. Stroman got the start and took a no-hitter into the seventh inning of the contest, giving up just one hit and one walk in his six innings of work. The offense backed up Stroman's outing with a 13-hit showing that led to eight runs, five of which came with two outs, to secure the shutout victory and USA Baseball's first WBC championship.


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Stroman was named the MVP of the tournament, while Hosmer (1B) and Yelich (OF) were both named to the WBC All-Tournament team.

ALL-TIME TEAM USA WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC RESULTS:

2006 World Baseball Classic
Date     Opponent      Score (Result)
3/7/06   Mexico        2–0 (W)
3/8/06   Canada        8–6 (W)
3/10/06  South Africa  17–0 (W)
3/12/06  Japan         4–3 (W)
3/13/06  Korea         7–3 (L)
3/16/06  Mexico        2–1 (L)

2009 World Baseball Classic
Date     Opponent     Score (Result)
3/7/09   Canada       6–5 (W)
5/8/09   Venezuela    15–6 (W)
3/11/09  Venezuela    5–3 (L)
3/14/09  Puerto Rico  11–1 (L)
3/15/09  Netherlands  9–3 (W)
3/17/09  Puerto Rico  6–5 (W)
3/18/09  Venezuela    10–6 (L)
3/22/09  Japan        9–4 (L)

2013 World Baseball Classic
Date     Opponent            Score (Result)
3/8/13   Mexico              5–2 (L)
3/9/13   Italy               6–2 (W)
3/10/13  Canada              9–4 (W)
3/12/13  Puerto Rico         7–1 (W)
3/14/13  Dominican Republic  3–1 (L)
3/15/13  Puerto Rico         4–3 (L)

2017 World Baseball Classic
Date     Opponent                         Score (Result)
3/10/17  Colombia                         3–2, 10 innings (W)
3/11/17  Dominican Republic               7–5 (L)
3/12/17  Canada                           8–0 (W)
3/15/17  Venezuela                        4–2 (W)
3/17/17  Puerto Rico                      6–5 (L)
3/18/17  Dominican Republic               6–3 (W)
3/21/17  Japan                            2–1 (W)
3/22/17  Puerto Rico (Championship Game)  8–0 (W)

Collegiate national team


USA Baseball

Collegiate national team

The USA Baseball collegiate national team (CNT) is composed of the top draft-ineligible collegiate baseball players in the country. The team competes each summer in a schedule of exhibition games across the U.S. and overseas against the world's top baseball talent. As part of this schedule, the U.S. takes on the Japan Collegiate All-Stars nearly every summer and squares off in international friendship series against Canada, Chinese Taipei, Cuba, and the Netherlands.

The collegiate program has had great success in recent years. In 2009, the U.S. won the inaugural World Baseball Challenge in Canada, and the 2011 team posted an 11–2–1 record, defeating Japan in four of five games during their international friendship series.

In 2013, the USA-Cuba International Friendship series returned to the U.S. for the first time since 1996, with Team USA putting together an historic five-game sweep of the Cuban national team. The collegiate national team also traveled abroad to compete in the 39th annual USA vs. Japan Collegiate All-Star series, where the host nation claimed a 3–2 series victory.

The 2014 collegiate national team also enjoyed success in its summer tour, finishing with an 18–8–2 record, including going 7–1 in the XXVIII Haarlem Baseball Week tournament. In 2016, Team USA traveled to Cuba for the fifth installment of the USA vs. Cuba International Friendship series. For the first time in USA Baseball history, the team claimed a series against Cuba on Cuban soil, courtesy of Keston Hiura's pinch-hit home run in the final game of the series that secured a 2–1 defeat of the home country and a 3–2 series victory.

In 2017, the collegiate national team contributed to USA Baseball's historic sweep of international competition with series wins over all three of its international opponents that year, including Chinese Taipei, Cuba, and Japan. The 2018 collegiate national team then followed that with another sweep, once again collecting series wins over Chinese Taipei, Cuba, and Japan. The program followed its 2017 success with another strong showing in 2018, once again sweeping its three international series against Chinese Taipei, Japan, and Cuba and finishing with a 11–3 record in international play. The series win against Cuba was just the second time in USA Baseball history that the team has won a series against Cuba on Cuban soil.