Lavagh

Lavagh may refer to one of several populated places in the Republic of Ireland:

  * Lavagh, County Cavan
  * Lavagh, County Galway
  * Lavagh (Drumahaire barony), County Leitrim
  * Lavagh (Leitrim barony), County Leitrim
  * Lavagh, County Offaly
  * Lavagh, County Roscommon
  * Lavagh, (Leyny barony), County Sligo
  * Lavagh, (Tireragh barony), County Sligo


Jaroslav Róna

Jaroslav Róna

Jaroslav Róna (born 27 April 1957 in Prague-Letná) is a Czech-Jewish

Works

  * Franz Kafka - bronze statue on Dušní Street (Holy Spirit Street), historic Jewish Quarter, Prague;Description of a Struggle
  * The Angel Award statuette (an angel playing horn)
  * The Komerční banka Award statuette
  * Book, Umanuté kresby, Praha: Torst, 2002, ISBN 80-7215-173-8

Gallery

  * [Franz Kafka - statue in Prague]
    Franz Kafka - statue in Prague
  * [Dítě z Marsu (Child from Mars - 2003)]
    Dítě z Marsu (Child from Mars - 2003)
  * [Sephia, Cheb, Czech Republic]
    Sephia, Cheb, Czech Republic
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Jaroslav Róna.
  * Videoreport with Jaroslav Róna on Artycok.TV
  * Artist Jaroslav Róna ARTLIST- database of contemporary Czech art


Bill Gannon (Irish republican)

For other people named Bill Gannon, see Bill Gannon (disambiguation).

Bill Gannon (23 June 1902 – 12 September 1965) was a well-known militant of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and later a leading member of the Communist Party of Ireland.

IRA career and the O'Higgins Assassination

Gannon had fought in the Irish War of Independence. In the Irish Civil War he took the anti-treaty side and was among the force which seized the Four Courts in Dublin.

After the defeat of his side he spent a considerable time under internment together with numerous others. He was completely unreconciled to the victory of the "Free Staters", and together with two fellow-detainees – Archie Doyle and Timothy Coughlin – took part in forming a secret "vengeance grouping". The three vowed that once free of imprisonment they would take revenge on their opponents, whom they considered traitors to the Irish cause.

Most such private revenge pacts were broken up by the IRA leadership when it reorganised following 1924, but Gannon and his two fellow conspirators persisted and carried through their deadly aim. The act which first made Gannon (and the two others) well-known was the assassination of Justice Minister Kevin O'Higgins. On Sunday 10 July 1927, the three surprised O'Higgins on the Booterstown Avenue side of Cross Avenue in Blackrock, County Dublin and shot him down.

O'Higgins was especially hated by IRA members for having ordered the executions of seventy-seven of their fellows during the Civil War, an act for which he outspokenly took responsibility and refused to express any remorse. On 8 December 1922 O'Higgins signed off on the retaliatory executions of four senior republicans (Liam Mellows, Richard Barrett, Joe McKelvey and Rory O'Connor) for the killing of a member of Dáil Éireann.

None of the three was ever apprehended or charged with the assassination, though Coughlin was killed by a police informer in 1928 under circumstances which remain controversial up to the present. Gannon and Doyle benefited from the amnesty for IRA members issued by Éamon de Valera on his accession to power in 1932, and after that date they could openly admit their part in assassinating O'Higgins without fear of being prosecuted.

Communist career and the Spanish Civil War


Bill Gannon (Irish republican)

Communist career and the Spanish Civil War

By that time, Gannon had already turned to the Left and became a leading member of the Communist Party of Ireland when it was refounded in 1933. In this decision may have been influenced by Donal O'Reilly, his lifelong companion who had been with him at the Four Courts and who already joined the Communist Party in its earlier incarnation under Roddy Connolly. The radical left-wing commentator Jack ClearyArchie Doyle, who continued to take part in IRA armed raids well into the 1940s).

Being an Irish Communist in these years carried, however, its own risks. Gannon is mentioned as having been among the defenders of Connolly House, the party's Dublin headquarters, when it was attacked – and ultimately put on fire – by a right-wing mob in 1933. And in subsequent years Communists continued to suffer constant harassment, often descending into outright violence.

Gannon is at present mainly remembered for his major part in organising Irish volunteers (the Connolly Column) to fight on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War, a work undertaken in close co-operation with Frank Ryan and Peadar O'Donnell,

Gannon died on 12 September 1965, age 63, and got a well-attended party funeral, his coffin being draped with a red flag and the Irish Tricolor flag.

  * Bill Gannon's photo (from the late 1930s), in "History of the Communist Movement in Ireland"


Brian Hlongwa

Thamsanqa Brian Hlongwa is a South African politician who was Gauteng's Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Health from March 2006 to May 2009. He is a member of the African National Congress and served multiple terms on the party's Provincial Executive Committee in Gauteng. He was also the party's Chief Whip in the Gauteng Provincial Legislature until October 2018, when he resigned amid a corruption scandal relating to his tenure as Health MEC. He was charged with fraud and corruption in late 2021.

Political career

In his youth, Hlongwa was active in anti-apartheid politics as a member of the Soweto Civic Association and Soweto Youth Congress, and he worked for the City of Johannesburg from 1996 to 2000.local councillor and Member of the Mayoral Committee in Johannesburg.Provincial Executive Committee of the Gauteng branch of the African National Congress (ANC).

Gauteng Executive Council

On 23 March that year, he was appointed to the Gauteng Executive Council by Mbhazima Shilowa, then the Premier of Gauteng. He became Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Health, succeeding Gwen Ramokgopa, who had been elected Mayor of Tshwane in the recent local government elections.Paul Mashatile, who was Premier from 2008 to 2009.2009 general election, newly elected Premier Nomvula Mokonyane appointed Qedani Mahlangu to succeed him as MEC.

Gauteng Provincial Legislature

After his dismissal from the Executive Council, Hlongwa remained a member of the Gauteng Provincial Legislature, and he was re-elected to his seat in the 2014 general election, ranked eighth on the ANC's provincial party list.Chief Whip of the Majority Party, the ANC, in the provincial legislature.David Makhura as Provincial Secretary of the ANC's Gauteng branch; although he was not elected to the position, he was elected to another four-year term on the party's Provincial Executive Committee.Mail & Guardian said that he was viewed as a close political ally of former Premier Paul Mashatile.


Brian Hlongwa

Yet by July 2018, Hlongwa was embroiled in controversy due to renewed public attention to allegations that he had been implicated in corruption while Health MEC from 2006 to 2009 Qedani Mahlangu – another controversial former Health MEC who had been elected to the Provincial Executive Committee – to the ANC's internal Integrity Commission at the national and provincial level.

has been informed by the need to resolve the eight-year long accusations, without having the matter aired in the courts of the country. Furthermore, the African National Congress is committed to natural justice and my continued stay as the chief whip in the GPL [Gauteng Provincial Legislature] would have distracted the movement from its task of mobilising our people behind a programme to unite, renew and create jobs.

Shortly afterwards, the provincial party announced that it had resolved that Hlongwa should not hold public office until he was cleared of the allegations; however, the Provincial Executive Committee rejected a further recommendation by the provincial Integrity Commission to suspend his membership, both of the party and of the Provincial Executive Committee.National Executive Committee overruled the provincial party, ordering Hlongwa to resign from the Provincial Executive Committee.2019 general election,O. R. Tambo School of Leadership, the ANC's political school, in order to address the corruption allegations against him.

Corruption charges

Allegations of corruption against Hlongwa received public attention as early as 2009, when he was still Health MEC,National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) said that it intended to press charges against him.R1.4 billion in assets – apparently the largest freezing order ever obtained by the NPA at that timeHawks and the Special Investigating Unit (SIU) that had been ongoing for four years.

In March 2017, the SIU completed its investigation and handed a report to the incumbent President Jacob Zuma, who did not publish the findings until obliged to by a Promotion of Access to Information Act request by Section27, a non-profit, in 2018.Treatment Action Campaign called for Hlongwa to be prosecuted.


Brian Hlongwa

In late 2021, Hlongwa was arrested in connection with the investigation. He and seven others, including his wife, were charged with offences under the Prevention of Organised Crime Act, including fraud, corruption, and money laundering, which the NPA alleged they had committed between 2006 and 2010. The NPA said that Hlongwa, Richard Payne, and 3P Consulting, acting with others, were at the centre of a pattern of racketeering at the Gauteng Health Department during that period.bail in December 2021,

Personal life

He is married to Joeline Davids-Hlongwa.

  * Brian Hlongwa at People's Assembly


Duarte Marques

For the Portuguese triathlete, see Duarte da Silva Marques.

Duarte Filipe Baptista de Matos Marques (born 9 May 1981, in Mação) is a Portuguese consultant and politician, who is a member of the Assembly of the Republic, having been elected since 2011 from the Santarém constituency.Social Democratic Youth, holding office from 2010 to 2012.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Duarte Marques.
  * Twitter profile


Carosino

Carosino is a town and comune in the province of Taranto, in the northern Salento, part of the Apulia region of southeast Italy. Carosino was historically an Arbëreshë settlement.

Economy is based on the production of wine, olive oil and grapes.

Etymology

According to Carosino's municipal website, Antonio Cinque believes that the name derives from the Latin "carus" (dear, precious, valued) and "situs" (site) or "sinus" (valley). G. Giovine believes that "sinus," which can also mean a fold of clothing or the bosom of a person, is related to the religious significance of Mary, mother of Jesus in the town.

Geography

Carosino is located in the north of the Salento, the peninsula that forms the heel of the Italian boot and is the southern part of the region of Apulia. The town is on a flat area, approximately 70–75 meters above sea level. The comune of San Giorgio Ionico is to the west, Monteparano to the south, and Monteiasi and Grottaglie to the north. Taranto is 13 km to the west.

History

In ancient times, the area of Carosino was probably inhabited by the Messapians. In 1904, a hoard of 76 silver coins dating to the 4th century BCE was found in a field near Carosino, perhaps indicating the relative wealth of the area.


Carosino

After the Saracen sack of Taranto in 927 CE, Carosino may have been abandoned for a time and then re-colonized under the name Citrignano. The first historical records date to 1348 during the period of the Angevin Kingdom of Naples. In the 1460s, a band of armed Albanians, following in the wake of Skanderbeg, razed the village, which was a feudal possession of a local nobleman, Raimondo de Noha. In 1471, the Antoglietta family bought the feudal rights to the village. In 1517, Carosino became a barony and passed to the Simonetta family, and then the Muscettola family in 1524. It was probably at this time that the Byzantine Rite form of Christianity disappeared from the area, along with the Arbëresh language of the Albanian settlers left over from the previous century, due to the efforts of Archbishop Lelio Brancaccio.

The barony passed once more to the Albertini family and then finally to the Imperiali family. The Berio-Merulli family held the barony in 1806, when feudalism was abolished in the Kingdom of Naples. By 1875, Carosino was a comune in the Kingdom of Italy, and the Marulli family sold its property and the Palazzo Ducale to Roberto d'Ayala Valva.

The church of Santa Maria delle Grazie, now located along Via Dante north of the town's main square, Piazza Vittorio Emanuele III, was probably built in the 15th century. The church building underwent a major expansion in 1763.St. Blaise, and in 1807, the town began a feast in honor of the saint. In 1853, a chapel of St. Blaise was built and 1908 the town successfully petitioned Pope Pius X to make St. Blaise the protector of the town.

Monuments And Places Of Interest


Carosino

Monuments And Places Of Interest

  * The Palazzo Ducale was built in 1400 by the Simonetta family. In 1895, Roberto d'Ayala Valva donated it to the comune.
  * The church of Santa Maria delle Grazie was probably built in the 15th century, and whose last renovations are dated 1763. It has a painting of the Madonna del Rosario, a crucifix of the 18th century, and above the main altar, a fresco of the 17th century.
  * The church of St. Francis of Assisi.
  * The monument to the dead from the Second World War.
  * The monuments to Saint Pio of Pietrelcina and Saint John Bosco.

International relations

See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Italy

Carosino is twinned with:

  * [Italy] Maratea, Italy


Burry Inlet and Loughor Estuary

Burry Inlet and Loughor Estuary is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Carmarthen, Wales.

  * List of SSSIs in Carmarthenshire


Djokupunda

5°27′04″S 20°58′13″E / 5.451105°S 20.970154°E Djokupunda, also spelt Djoko Punda and known in colonial times as Charlesville, is a small town in Kasai province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. A Mennonite mission of the Congo Inland Mission was founded there in 1912 and became a centre for establishing further missions in the region. The town is close to the upper Kasai River, at the limit of navigation on that river, and is connected by dirt tracks to Luebo, 64 km east-north-east and Tshikapa, 150 km south. Djokupunda has schools and health clinics but no paved roads and no facilities for travellers. Until 1955, the Forminière company operated a 600 mm railway more or less along the river Kasai, South to Makumbi.

  * Bertsche, James E. (1989). "Congo, Democratic Republic of." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 25 May 2007 >


Flynt Leverett

Flynt L. Leverett (born March 6, 1958, in Memphis, Tennessee) is a former senior fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington, D.C., and a professor at the Pennsylvania State University School of International Affairs. From March 2002 to March 2003, he served as the senior director for Middle East affairs on the National Security Council (NSC).

Prior to serving on the NSC, he was a counterterrorism expert on the Policy Planning Staff of the U.S. State Department, and before that he served as a CIA senior analyst for eight years. Since leaving government service, Leverett served as a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution's Saban Center for Middle East Policy before becoming the director of the Geopolitics of Energy Initiative in the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation.

Professional life

Professor Leverett graduated with the degrees of B.A., B.M., from Texas Christian University and went on to earn M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University. His areas of professional expertise include U.S. Middle East and Persian Gulf policy, international energy affairs, and international security. He is a founding faculty member of the School of International Affairs of Pennsylvania State University. He has testified before Congress, and has appeared on numerous major television news-oriented broadcasts.

Views on Iran


Flynt Leverett

Views on Iran

Leverett was heavily criticized for his articles during the 2009 Iranian Green Movement protests. After the government announced official election results, millions of Iranians took on the streets in a peaceful protest against the rigged presidential election. The demonstrations were brutally crushed by the Iranian regime's security forces that left hundreds dead, and thousands of dissidents were injured, arrested and tortured. In a New York Times op-ed co-authored with his wife Hillary Mann Leverett, Flynt described the Iranian opposition movement as weak and not representing "anything close to a majority." The piece then went on to criticize President Obama's Iran policy as "half-hearted efforts."Abbas Milani. Calling the Leveretts' op-ed "the most infuriating op-ed of the new year," Milani pointed out how Obama's extensive efforts to reach out to the Ayatollah had been rejected and ridiculed by the regime.Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg described the Leveretts as "cynical foreign policy realists," and criticized their reasons for a policy of conciliation between the US and a "regime that rapes and murders its own citizens" as "semi-inexplicable."

Op-ed controversy

As a former national security official granted a security clearance, Leverett is required to seek prior approval of articles from the CIA's Publication Review Board. Such reviews are conducted as a precaution to prevent leaks of classified information.

On December 16, 2006, Leverett was denied permission to publish a 1,000 word opinion piece, co-written with his wife, Hillary Mann and based on his previously approved 35 page paper "Dealing with Tehran: Assessing U.S. Diplomatic Options Toward Iran." The longer paper and its shorter piece are critical of the George W. Bush administration's refusal to engage in "comprehensive" negotiations with the government of Iran.

Leverett had intended to publish the shorter article in The New York Times. In a statement to the online publication Talking Points Memo, he disputed the official justification for the decision.


Flynt Leverett

The White House is demanding, before it will consider clearing the op-ed for publication, that I excise entire paragraphs dealing with matters that I have written about (and received clearance from the CIA to do so) in several other pieces, that have been publicly acknowledged by Secretary Rice, former Secretary of State Colin Powell, and former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, and that have been extensively covered in the media.

— TPM cafe

In the same statement, Leverett places the blame for quashing the op-ed piece on

White House staffers... working for Elliott Abrams and Meghan O'Sullivan, both politically appointed deputies to President Bush's National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley.

Books and reports

  * Leverett, Flynt (2004). US-Iran Relations: Looking Back and Looking Ahead. Abu Dhabi: Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research.
  * — (2005). Inheriting Syria: Bashar's Trial by Fire. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press. ISBN 9780815752042.
  * —, ed. (2005). The Road Ahead: Middle East Policy in the Bush Administration's Second Term: Planning Papers. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press.
  * — (2006). Dealing with Tehran: Assessing U.S. Diplomatic Options toward Iran (PDF). New York: The Century Foundation
  * Leverett, Flynt; Leverett, Hillary Mann (2013). Going to Tehran: Why the United States Must Come to Terms with the Islamic Republic of Iran. New York: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt.

Essays

  * Leverett, Flynt; Leverett, Hillary Mann (November 2012). "The mad mullah myth: The dangers of misunderstanding Iran's strategy". Revision. Harper's Magazine. 325 (1950): 53–55.

Video


Flynt Leverett

Video

  * Leverett, Flynt (2006-12-18). New America Foundation Discussion on Iran Issues (TV-Public Affairs). Washington, D.C.: C-SPAN.
  * Profile at New America Foundation
  * Bush Administration Guilty of Strategic Malpractice - Expert
  * How Bush Bungled The War on Terror? Flynt Leverett in Democracy Now
  * Biography at New American Foundation
  * Publications on the Brookings Institution Website by Flynt L. Leverett
  * The Story of Leverett and Mann by Our World in Balance
  * Video (with mp3 available) of conversation with Leverett and David Frum on Bloggingheads.tv
  * Flynt Leverett interviewed on Conversations from Penn State
  * Appearances on C-SPAN


Edinburgh Youth Games

The Edinburgh Youth Games are the biggest youth multi-sport games held annually in Edinburgh.

Purpose

The main aim of the games is to encourage sporting participation amongst young people, some of which may have less of an opportunity to take part in physical activity than others.

History

The Edinburgh Youth Games have been held for 12 years and each year attracts over 1500 participants from primary, secondary and special schools across the city.

Sponsors

The event has been sponsored by Edinburgh Airport for 12 years, and is supported by Edinburgh Leisure.

Sports

Sports featured in the event include athletics, basketball, football, golf, gymnastics, swimming and tennis.

  * UK School Games
  * London Youth Games
  * Commonwealth Youth Games


Lavaiano

Lavaiano is a village in Tuscany, central Italy, administratively a frazione of the comune of Casciana Terme Lari, province of Pisa. At the time of the 2001 census its population was 359.

Lavaiano is about 26 km from Pisa and 10 km from Lari.


Jaroslav Rygl

Jaroslav Rygl (born 1970) is a Czech mountain bike orienteer and ski orienteering competitor.World MTB Orienteering Championships in Banska Bystrica,Nove Mesto na Morave.


French cruiser Marseillaise

French cruiser Marseillaise may refer to:

  * French cruiser Marseillaise (1900), a Gloire-class cruiser, launched in 1900, stricken in 1929, and scrapped in 1933
  * French cruiser Marseillaise (1935), a La Galissonnière-class cruiser launched in 1935 and sunk during World War II


Brian Hirsch

Brian Hirsch (born 1973) is a New York-based venture capitalistTribeca Venture Partners, a, New York City based venture capital firm. Hirsch was previously the founder of Greenhill SAVP, the venture arm of Greenhill & Co. (NYSE: GHL).

Hirsch was previously a Principal at Sterling Partners and a vice president with ABN AMRO Private Equity.

Hirsch has a bachelor's degree in Economics and American Studies from Brandeis University. He is married with two children and lives in New York City.


Lady Afrodita

Lady Afrodita (born July 18, 1990, in Puebla, Puebla, Mexico ) is a Mexican luchador enmascarado, or masked professional wrestler currently working for the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) portraying a tecnico ("Good guy") wrestling character. Lady Afrodita's real name is not a matter of public record, as is often the case with masked wrestlers in Mexico where their private lives are kept a secret from the wrestling fans.

Professional wrestling career

The wrestler later known as Lady Afrodita was born in Puebla, Puebla, Mexico on July 18, 1990. At the age of 18 she moved to Mexico City where she became a fan of lucha libre, or professional wrestling, especially Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre's (CMLL) top performer Místico. She cited Místico as her inspiration to become a wrestler and she began training for a professional wrestling career at age 19. She initially trained under Fuerza Aerea,Arkangel de la Muerte. Through her training, she got to work with some of the top female wrestlers in CMLL such as Lady Apache, Marcela, La Amapola and Dark Angel.independent circuit, and made a couple of appearances for the Perros del Mal group. On July 17, 2011, she worked a match on a CMLL promoted show to celebrate the 25th anniversary of her mentor Arkangel. She teamed with Dalys la Caribeña to defeat the team of La Comandante and Mima Shimoda and was noted as "an outstanding student".Kyoko Kimura.Ice Ribbon's 19 O'Clock Girls ProWrestling Tournament during the tour, but was eliminated in the first round by Dorami Nagano.

Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (2012–present)


Lady Afrodita

Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (2012–present)

She returned to Mexico and began working regularly for CMLL in May 2012 While she had worked as a tecnica (wrestlers who portray the "good guys" also called "Faces") up until this point CMLL had her debut on the opposite side as a ruda ("Bad guy") as she teamed up with La Seductora and Tiffany, only to lose to La Silueta, Lluvia and Luna Mágica in her debut.torneo cibernetico multi-man elimination match on the June 8 Super Viernes that also included Dalys la Caribeña, Estrellita, La Amapola, Lady Apache, La Seductora, Luna Mágica, Marcela and Tiffany and was won by Dark Angel.rudo side to the tecnica side with no storyline or other explanation for the move as such.


Carotenuto

Carotenuto is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  * Bruno Carotenuto (born 1941), Italian actor
  * Mario Carotenuto (1915–1995), Italian actor
  * Memmo Carotenuto (1908–1980), Italian actor, father of Bruno and brother of Mario
  * Linda Tripp, née Carotenuto


Burruss

Burruss is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  * Al Burruss (1927–1986), American politician
  * Julian Ashby Burruss (1876–1947), the first President of James Madison University
  * Kandi Burruss, (born 1976), American R&B singer-songwriter and record producer
  * Lloyd Burruss (born 1957), former American football safety
  * Al Burruss Correctional Training Center, medium security level prison in the U.S. state of Georgia


John Wilson (1920s pitcher)

John Samuel Wilson (April 25, 1903 – August 27, 1980) was a professional baseball pitcher. He played parts of two seasons in Major League Baseball, 1927 and 1928, for the Boston Red Sox. Listed at 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m), 164 lb., Wilson batted and threw right-handed. He was born in Coal City, Alabama.

In his major league career, Wilson posted a 0–2 record with nine strikeouts and a 4.45 ERA in seven appearances, including two starts, two complete games, and 30.1 innings pitched. He continued to play minor league baseball as late as 1945.

Wilson died at the age of 77 in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

  * Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference, or Baseball Reference (Minors)
  * Baseball Almanac
  * Retrosheet
  * Baseball in Wartime


Flyright Records

Flyright Records is a British record label incorporated in 1970 by Mike Leadbitter, Simon Napier, and Bruce Bastin. It specializes in blues by British musicians, though it issued some American jazz discs, including Ralph Sutton and Hoagy Carmichael.

  * List of record labels
  * Flyright Records at Interstate Music Ltd.
  * Illustrated Flyright Records discography


First Chicago Method

The First Chicago Method or Venture Capital Method is a business valuation approach used by venture capital and private equity investors that combines elements of both a multiples-based valuation and a discounted cash flow (DCF) valuation approach.

The First Chicago Method was first developed by, and consequently named for, the venture capital arm of the First Chicago bank, the predecessor of private equity firms Madison Dearborn Partners and GTCR.

Method

The First Chicago Method takes account of payouts to the holder of specific investments in a company through the holding period under various scenarios; see Corporate finance § Quantifying uncertainty. Most often this methodology will involve the construction of:

  * An "upside case" or "best-case scenario" (often, the business plan submitted)
  * A "base case"
  * A "downside" or "worst-case scenario."

Once these have been constructed, the valuation proceeds as follows.

 1. First, for each of the three cases, a scenario specific, internally consistent forecast of cashflows - see discussion under Financial modeling - is constructed for the years leading up to the assumed divestment by the private equity investor.
 2. Next, a divestment price - i.e. a Terminal value - is modelled by assuming an exit multiple consistent with the scenario in question. (Of course, the divestment may take various forms - see Private equity #Investments in private equity.)
 3. The cash flows and exit price are then discounted using the investor’s required return, and the sum of these is the value of the business under the scenario in question.
 4. Finally, each of the three scenario-values are multiplied through by a probability corresponding to each scenario (as estimated by the investor). The value of the investment is then the probability weighted sum of the three scenarios.

Use

The method is used particularly in the valuation of growth companies which often do not have historical financial results that can be used for meaningful comparable company analysis. Multiplying actual financial results against a comparable valuation multiple often yields a value for the company that is objectively too low given the prospects for the business.


First Chicago Method

Often the First Chicago Method may be preferable to a Discounted Cash Flow taken alone. This is because such income-based business value assessment may lack the support generally observable in the market place. Indeed, professionally performed business appraisals go further and use a set of methods under all three approaches to business valuation.

Variations of the First Chicago Method are employed in a number of markets, including the private equity secondary market where investors project outcomes for portfolios of private equity investments under various scenarios.

  * rNPV: cash flows, as opposed to scenarios, are probability-weighted.
  * Expected commercial value
  * Valuation using discounted cash flows #Determine equity value
  * Ann-Kristin Achleitner and Eva Lutz. (2008). First Chicago Method: Alternative Approach to Valuing Innovative Start-Ups in the Context of Venture Capital, Social Science Research Network Accepted Paper Series.
  * James L. Plummer. (1997). A Primer on Venture Capital Financial Calculations, 23rd Annual Venture Capital Institute.
  * C.P. Schumann (2006). Improving Certainty in Valuations using the Discounted Cash Flow Method, Valuation Strategies Magazine, September/October 2006.


Emigre

Emigre may refer to:

  * Émigré, a person who has emigrated
  * Émigré (album), the debut solo studio album by Australian singer-songwriter Wendy Matthews
  * Emigre (magazine), a graphic design magazine
  * Emigre (type foundry), a digital type foundry


Jaroslav Plíhal

Jaroslav Plíhal (30 June 1936 – 29 April 1997)athlete. He competed in the men's shot put at the 1960 Summer Olympics.

  * Jaroslav Plíhal at Olympedia
  * Jaroslav Plíhal at the Czech Olympic Committee (in Czech)


French cruiser Montcalm (1935)

For other ships with the same name, see French ship Montcalm.

Montcalm was a French La Galissonnière-class cruiser, named in honour of Louis-Joseph de Montcalm. During World War II, she served with both Vichy France and the Allies. It was commissioned in 1937, decommissioned in 1957, and finally scrapped in 1970.

Design and description

The La Galissonnière class was designed as an enlarged and improved version of the preceding Emile Bertin. The ships had an overall length of 179.5 meters (588 ft 11 in), a beam of 17.48 meters (57 ft 4 in), and a draft of 5.28 meters (17 ft 4 in). They displaced 7,722 metric tons (7,600 long tons) at standard load and 9,460 t (9,310 long tons) at deep load. Their crew consisted of 557 men in peacetime and 612 in wartime.

Service history

Pre-war

After commissioning and trials, Montcalm was assigned to the 4th Cruiser Division at Brest. Pre-war activities included being stationed in Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City), French Indochina for two months from January 1938. Once back in France and part of the French Atlantic Fleet, her peacetime routine included a review for King George VI at Calais in July 1938 and she represented France at the New York World's Fair, in 1939.

World War II

At the start of the war, now assigned to the 2nd Squadron of the Force de Raid,convoy escort dutiesScharnhorst and Gneisenau after they had sunk the British Armed Merchant Cruiser HMS Rawalpindi.Casablanca to forestall an enemy naval attack, which was soon abandoned.

After a major refit in April 1940, Montcalm served as flagship of the French Scandinavian Force supporting the Franco-British defence of Norway (replacing the damaged French cruiser Emile Bertin)Namsos, Norway, with HMS Devonshire, at the end of April 1940.


French cruiser Montcalm (1935)

Recalled to the Force de Raid in May,Montcalm was then moved to Algiers in North AfricaDestruction of the French Fleet at Mers-el-Kebir, when she was ordered to Toulon. On 9 September 1940, she left Toulon with her sister ships Gloire and George Leygues,Gibraltar without being challenged (for which the local British commander, Admiral Sir Dudley North, was relieved of his command).Casablanca and continued to Dakar, arriving on 14 September.

The three cruisers left Dakar on 18 September, intending to go south to Libreville, but they were intercepted by British forces, including HMAS Australia. Montcalm and George Leygues outran the British ships and returned to Dakar,Operation Menace) from 23 to 25 September.Gloire, slowed by mechanical troubles and unable to escape, was ordered back to Casablanca.

Apart from a deployment in April 1941 to recapture a French steamer, Fort de France,Operation Torch) and the German occupation of Vichy France, when she joined the Allies, as did other French warships. Montcalm was refitted at Philadelphia, from February until August 1943, the engines were overhauled, aircraft installations removed and the French light anti-aircraft weapons were replaced and augmented.

Montcalm's next duty was anti-blockade-runner patrols, based from Dakar. She was allocated to the Western Task Force and supported Allied landings in Normandy at Omaha Beach in June 1944southern France in August.Riviera coastline until March 1945.

Post-war

Montcalm and USS Des Moines during Exercise Longstep in 1952.

She had a refit at Chantiers de la Seyne from May to the end of January 1946,

Montcalm was decommissioned and placed in reserve, in Tunisia, on 1 May 1957. She was subsequently towed to Toulon in 1959 to serve as an accommodation hulk for the submarine school. Finally condemned on 31 December 1969, she was renamed Q457 and passed to the dockyard for disposal as scrap.

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Hatsuishi Station

Hatsuishi Station (初石駅, Hatsuishi-eki) is a passenger railway station in the city of Nagareyama, Chiba, Japan, operated by the private railway operator Tōbu Railway.

Lines

Hatsuishi Station is served by the 62.7 km (39.0 mi) Tobu Urban Park Line from Ōmiya in Saitama Prefecture to Funabashi in Chiba Prefecture, and lies 36.8 km (22.9 mi) from the western terminus of the line at Ōmiya.

Station layout

The station consists of two opposed side platforms serving two tracks, connected by a footbridge.

Platforms

1  ■ Tobu Urban Park Line  for Nodashi, Kasukabe, Iwatsuki, and Ōmiya
2  ■ Tobu Urban Park Line  for Kashiwa and Funabashi

Adjacent stations

«                                       Service  »
Tobu Urban Park Line TD21
Express: Does not stop at this station
Edogawadai TD20                                  Section Express    Nagareyama-ōtakanomori TD22
Edogawadai TD20                                  Local              Nagareyama-ōtakanomori TD22

History

Hatsuishi Station opened on 9 May 1911. From 17 March 2012, station numbering was introduced on all Tobu lines, with Hatsuishi Station becoming "TD-21".

Passenger statistics

In fiscal 2018, the station was used by an average of 18,653 passengers daily.

Surrounding area

  * Hatsuishi Elementary School
  * Hatsuishi Junior High School
  * Nagareyama High School
  * Nagareyama Otakanomori High School
  * List of railway stations in Japan

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Electromethes

Electromethes is an extinct genus of beetle closely resembling members of the family Omethidae. It existed in what is now Lithuania during the Eocene epoch. It was described by Sergey V. Kazantsev in 2012, and contains the species Electromethes alleni, which was found within Baltic amber.


Hacımahmudlu

40°29′N 47°02′E / 40.483°N 47.033°E

Hacımahmudlu (also, Hajymahmudlu and Hajy-Mahmudlu) is a village in the Yevlakh District of Azerbaijan. The village forms part of the municipality of Garamanly.

  * Hacımahmudlu at GEOnet Names Server


Billy McGee (footballer)

William John McGee (27 February 1878 – 28 August 1939)Australian rules footballer who played for South Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

A centreman and wingman, McGee was a member of Port Melbourne's inaugural Victorian Football Association (VFA) premiership team in 1897 and captained the club from 1900 until 1902.

McGee, who led Port to another premiership in 1901, joined South Melbourne in 1903 and gave them good service in four seasons. He was the South Melbourne captain in 1904 and 1905. In his final VFL season, McGee kicked 17 goals, with four of them coming in a win over Geelong.

He continued at Port Melbourne for five more years from 1907 and finished with 97 VFA games. During his time at the club, McGee had a stint as coach. He was named as a wingman in Port's official 'Team of the Century' when it was announced in 2003.

  * Holmesby, Russell and Main, Jim (2007). The Encyclopedia of AFL Footballers. 7th ed. Melbourne: Bas Publishing.
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Dick Richards (disambiguation)

Dick Richards (born 1936) is an American film director, producer and writer.

Dick Richards may also refer to:

  * Dick Richards (footballer) (1890–1934), Welsh footballer
  * Richard W. Richards (1893–1985), Australian explorer
  * James P. Richards (1894–1979), United States Representative from South Carolina, 1933–1957
  * Dick Richards (American football) (1907–1996), American football player
  * Dick Richards (cricketer) (1908–1995), English cricketer
  * Dick Richards (journalist), British showbusiness columnist
  * Dick Richards (stage name of Dick Boccelli, 1924–2019), American musician with Bill Haley & His Comets and The Jodimars
  * Richard N. Richards (born 1946), American astronaut
  * Richard Richards (disambiguation)


Flyriella parryi

Flyriella parryi, the Chisos Mountain brickellbush,Asteraceae. It is native to the states of Nuevo León, Coahuila, and Chihuahua in northern Mexico.Texas side of the Río Grande.

Flyriella parryi grows on rocky slopes, along streambanks, and in canyons. Its stem has many long, glandular hairs. Its leaves are egg-shaped, and up to 65 mm (2.6 in) long. One plant will produce numerous flower heads in a branching array. Each head has disc flowers, but no ray flowers.


First Channel

First Channel may refer to:

  * First Channel (Georgian TV channel)
  * Channel One (Russian TV Channel)
  * First National (Ukrainian TV Channel)


Ernst Traxel

Ernst Traxel (born 23 November 1933) is a Swiss former professional racing cyclist. He rode in three editions of the Tour de France.

  * Ernst Traxel at Cycling Archives
  * Ernst Traxel at ProCyclingStats


Jaroslav Radoň

Jaroslav Radoň (Czech pronunciation: [ˈjaroslaf ˈradoɲ]; born 3 September 1986 in Kutná Hora) is a Czech sprint canoeist.2012 Summer Olympics, he competed in the Men's C-2 1000 metres, together with Filip Dvořák, finishing 5th.


French cruiser Isly

Isly was a Jean Bart-class protected cruiser built in the late 1880s and early 1890s for the French Navy. The second and final member of the class, Isly and her sister ship were ordered during the tenure of Admiral Théophile Aube as Minister of Marine according to the theories of the Jeune École doctrine. The ships were intended as long-range commerce raiders, and they were armed with a main battery of four 164 mm (6.5 in) guns, were protected by an armor deck that was 50 to 100 mm (2 to 4 in) thick, and were capable of steaming at a top speed of around 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph).

Isly initially served with the Reserve Division of the Northern Squadron, spending only part of the year in active service for training exercises. She was deployed to French Indochina from 1895 to 1896 and then again from 1897 to 1899. After returning to France, she joined the North Atlantic station, operating out of Brest. Isly spent the next decade serving in the Atlantic, changing units as the fleet was repeatedly reorganized; she also received new water-tube boilers in 1902. In 1908, she was briefly sent to French Morocco, and the following year she was converted into a depot ship for destroyers. She was struck from the naval register in 1914 and thereafter broken up.

Design

Main article: Jean Bart-class cruiser

Plan and profile drawing of the Jean Bart class

Design work on the Jean Bart classnaval minister, Charles-Eugène Galiber, who wanted a new commerce raiding protected cruiser similar to the earlier Amiral Cécille, albeit smaller and with a smaller secondary battery. By the time French shipyards had responded to requests for design proposals, Admiral Théophile Aube had replaced Galiber as naval minister, but Aube was an ardent supporter of the Jeune École doctrine that emphasized long-range, commerce raiding cruisers. He called for the construction of six large and ten small protected cruisers, though by the end of his tenure in 1887, the program had been reduced to five large, two medium, and six small cruisers. Aube ordered the first two Jean Bart-class cruisers to fulfill the requirements for the first set of large cruisers, and his successor, Édouard Barbey, authorized the third.Jean Barts proved to be the last of the initial series of commerce raiders built under the influence of the Jeune École.


French cruiser Isly

Isly was 105 m (344 ft 6 in) long between perpendiculars, with a beam of 12.98 m (42 ft 7 in) and a draft of 6.10 to 6.45 m (20 ft 0 in to 21 ft 2 in). She displaced 4,406 long tons (4,477 t). Her crew varied over the course of her career, amounting to 387–405 officers and enlisted men. The ship's propulsion system consisted of a pair of triple-expansion steam engines driving two screw propellers. Steam was provided by eight coal-burning fire-tube boilers that were ducted into two funnels. Her machinery was rated to produce 8,000 indicated horsepower (6,000 kW) for a top speed of 19 to 19.5 knots (35.2 to 36.1 km/h; 21.9 to 22.4 mph).3,200 nautical miles (5,900 km; 3,700 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph).

The ship was armed with a main battery of four 164.7 mm (6.48 in) 28-caliber guns and a secondary battery of six 138.6 mm (5.46 in) 30-cal. guns. All of these guns were placed in individual pivot mounts; the 164 mm guns were in sponsons located fore and aft, with two guns per broadside. Four of the 138 mm guns were in sponsons between the 164 mm guns, one was in an embrasure in the forecastle and the last was in a swivel mount on the stern. For close-range defense against torpedo boats, she carried six 47 mm (1.9 in) 3-pounder Hotchkiss guns and eight 37 mm (1.5 in) Hotchkiss revolver cannon. She was also armed with five 356 mm (14 in) torpedo tubes in her hull above the waterline. Armor protection consisted of a curved armor deck that was 40 to 90 mm (2 to 4 in) thick, along with 120 mm (5 in) plating on the conning tower. The main and secondary guns received 54 mm (2.1 in) thick gun shields.

Modifications


French cruiser Isly

Modifications

In 1897, Isly had her heavy military masts replaced with light pole masts in an attempt to reduce topweight. At that time, she also had her bow and stern torpedo tubes removed. Another refit took place in 1909, during which her light armament was standardized to twelve 47 mm guns. The navy considered replacing her boilers in 1910, but decided against it due to the cost.

Service history

Isly was ordered on 1 March 1887 and she was laid down at the Arsenal de Brest in Brest, France on 3 July 1887, before the lead ship of her class, Jean Bart, began construction. She was launched on 22 June 1891 and was commissioned on 25 October 1892 to begin sea trials.18.5 knots (34.3 km/h; 21.3 mph) using forced draft, though the test was conducted in poor weather that reduced the ship's speed by about half a knot.Cherbourg to join the Escadre du Nord (Northern Squadron).ironclad Suffren, the coastal defense ships Tonnerre and Fulminant, and the torpedo cruiser Epervier.

The following year, she continued to operate with the squadron. She took part in annual training exercises that year to evaluate the effectiveness of the French coastal defense system. The squadron went to sea on 15 July and began the operations the next day, which lasted until 29 July. The maneuvers demonstrated the usefulness of torpedo boat flotillas in coastal defense, but highlighted that France's coastal defense system in the English Channel was not yet complete.Isly was sent with the cruiser Alger on a cruise to French Indochina in 1895; at that time, the unit also included the cruisers Duguay-Trouin, Forfait, and Beautemps-Beaupré.Isly returned to the Far East in company with the recently completed protected cruiser Descartes; they joined the old ironclad Bayard and the unprotected cruiser Éclaireur.


French cruiser Isly

Isly had returned to France by 1899, when she was assigned to the North Atlantic station in Brest on 15 March.laid up in 1900 for an overhaul that included the replacement of her original wood decks with linoleum-covered steel. She remained out of service through early 1901 and was recommissioned on 8 April for service in the fisheries in the Atlantic. She was assigned to the Naval Division of the Atlantic Ocean, along with the protected cruisers Suchet and Amiral Cécille. Isly operated with the transport vessel Manche, patrolling the fishing grounds off Newfoundland for six months of the year.Isly was decommissioned for a major overhaul, which included the installation of new water-tube boilers.

In 1908, the Naval Division of the Atlantic was amalgamated with the Northern Squadron, and Isly was transferred to that command, commissioning for service on 1 January in Lorient. By that time, the squadron consisted of eight armored cruisers and four other protected cruisers. Isly was temporarily sent to French Morocco early in the year in company with the armored cruiser Kléber.Isly was converted into a depot ship for destroyers,naval register on 23 November 1911 and used as a depot ship for torpedo boats based in Lorient from late 1911 to 1913. She was then placed for sale, eventually being purchased on 11 April 1914 by Willer Peterson of Copenhagen, Denmark, to be broken up.


French cruiser Isly

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Hatschek's pit

In the lancelet, Hatschek's pit, not to be confused with Hatschek's nephridium, is a deep ciliated fossa on the dorsal midline of the buccal cavity (the region of the gut behind the mouth).mucus which entraps food particles from the water. It is named after Berthold Hatschek, an Austrian zoologist who worked on the lancelet.


Electromechanical organ

Electromechanical organ can mean:

  * A pipe organ with electro-pneumatic action
  * An electric organ such as the Hammond organ which uses electromechanical tone generators


Hacılı, Pülümür

Hacılı (Kurdish: Hacilîye) is a village in the Pülümür District, Tunceli Province, Turkey.Kurds and had a population of 26 in 2021.


Gnilusha

Gnilusha (Russian: Гнилуша) is a rural locality (a selo) in Nizhnevedugskoye Rural Settlement, Semiluksky District, Voronezh Oblast, Russia. The population was 444 as of 2010.

Geography

Gnilusha is located 37 km northwest of Semiluki (the district's administrative centre) by road. Izbishche is the nearest rural locality.


Kermia melanoxytum

Kermia melanoxytum is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.

Description

The length of the shell varies between 4 mm and 5 mm; its diameter reaches a max of 2 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Loyalty Islands; New Caledonia; Vanuatu; the Philippines; Hawaii and South Africa.

  * Severns, M. (2011). Shells of the Hawaiian Islands - The Sea Shells. Conchbooks, Hackenheim. 564 pp.
  * Liu J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp
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  * Hervier J. (1896 ["1895"]). Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de l'Archipel Néo-Calédonien. Journal de Conchyliologie. 43(3): 141-152
  * MNHN, Paris: Kermia melanoxytum (syntype)
  * Moretzsohn, Fabio, and E. Alison Kay. "HAWAIIAN MARINE MOLLUSCS." (1995)
  * Tröndlé, J. E. A. N., and Michel Boutet. "Inventory of marine molluscs of French Polynesia." Atoll Research Bulletin (2009)
  * Kilburn, R. N. (2009). Genus Kermia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Conoidea: Conidae: Raphitominae) in South African Waters, with Observations on the Identities of Related Extralimital Species. African Invertebrates. 50(2): 217-236
  * Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.


Flyte (chocolate bar)

Flyte was a chocolate bar manufactured by Mars, Incorporated grams. The product was introduced in 1996.

Each bar came wrapped in two individual halves. It consisted of a chocolatey, whipped nougat-style centre coated in milk chocolate.Milky Way bar before the filling in Milky Way bars was changed from chocolate to vanilla flavour in 1993.

The bar was discontinued in 2015.

Nutritional information

Nutrition     per 100 g           per 22.5 g (half a bar)
Energy        1818 kJ (432 kcal)  409 kJ (97 kcal)
Protein       3.6 g               0.8 g
Carbohydrate  74.3 g              16.7 g
Fat           13.3 g              3.0 g


First Chicago Bank

First Chicago Bank was a Chicago-based retail and commercial bank tracing its roots to 1863, when it received one of the first charters under the then new National Bank Act. Over the years, the bank operated under several names including The First National Bank of Chicago and First Chicago NBD (following its 1995 merger with the former National Bank of Detroit). In 1998, First Chicago NBD merged with Banc One Corporation to form Bank One Corporation, today a part of Chase.

History

First National Bank of Chicago, Michigan-Wacker Historic District

Founding and early history

On July 1, 1863, banker Edmund Aiken and his partners invested $100,000 to found a new federally chartered bank that could take advantage of the National Banking Act of 1863, which allowed national banks to exist along with state-chartered institutions for the first time. First Chicago received National Bank charter No. 8.American Civil War.

The First merged with Union National Bank in 1900J. Pierpont Morgan, James Stillman, Jacob H. Schiff, E. H. Harriman, and Marshall Field.National Bank Holiday of 1933.

The First National clock is located at Exelon Plaza next to the Chase Tower in the Chicago Loop. The tower was called First National Plaza when it was built in 1969.

In 1903, the First opened the First Trust and Savings Bank which provided savings accounts to individual customers. First Trust and Savings Bank merged with Union Trust Company in 1928 to become the First Union Trust and Savings Bank. During the Great Depression, the First would absorb First Union Trust and Savings Bank's customers and operations. The bank was active in the sale of War Bonds during World War II. During the 1950s and 1960s the First expanded both in the Midwestern US as well as abroad, opening offices in London (1959), Tokyo (1962) and later Beijing (1980).

First Chicago

A plaque located below the clock next to the Chase Tower (originally First National Plaza). It was dedicated in 1979.


First Chicago Bank

In 1969 the bank was reorganized as the primary subsidiary of the new First Chicago Corporation, a newly formed bank holding company.Loop in Chicago (originally called First National Plaza, it is now known as Chase Tower). The bank grew consistently through the early 1970s, however, the bank's growth undermined its underwriting standards. By the end of 1975 and the beginning of 1976, non-performing loans at First Chicago had reached twice the national average for commercial banks at roughly 11% of all loans. Efforts to fix the bank failed and the bank struggled through the end of the 1970s, suffering from highly speculative bets on interest rates.

Expansion beyond a single retail banking location was hindered for years. Not only was Illinois one of the last states to allow branch banking, but for years it did not allow holding companies to own more than one bank. First Chicago was not able to open its first branch bank until 1977,

Unlike its rivals, First Chicago waited two years before making its first bank purchase after the Illinois legislature began to allow holding companies to own more than one bank in 1981.American National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago, another bank located in the Loop, from Walter E. Heller International Corporation for $275 million.

Management

During the 1980s, CEO Barry F. Sullivan, formerly with Chase Manhattan Bank, was able to turn around the bank in the early 1980s. Additionally First Chicago's private equity operations proved highly successful and served the incubator for a number of successful independent private equity groups. Stanley Golder, who built the group in the 1970s left the bank in 1980 to found GTCR. In the 1990s, the team, led by John Canning Jr. would spin out of First Chicago to form private equity firm Madison Dearborn.

Expanding out of downtown and into the suburbs

First Chicago began to expand for the first time into the northwest suburbs of Chicago with the acquisition of the Arlington Heights-based First United Financial Services, a bank holding company with five banks, in 1987.DuPage County by acquiring Gary-Wheaton Corp., another bank holding company.

In 1989, First Chicago acquired the north Chicago-based Ravenswood Financial Corp. for $55.1 million. Ravenswood Financial's only bank was renamed First Chicago Bank of Ravenswood.Winnetka-based Winnetka Bank for $21.6 million in stock.


First Chicago Bank

In 1993, First Chicago acquired Lake Shore Bancorp, another Chicago-based bank holding company, $323 million.

Most of the acquired banks were named First Chicago Bank of followed by the name of the geographical location. Illinois law did not permit the merger of most of the acquired banks into the First National Bank of Chicago until as late as 1993.

Credit cards

To strengthen its credit card business, First Chicago acquired Delaware-based Beneficial National Bank USA in 1987 and renamed it FCC National Bank.

Bank One

First Chicago once again began to suffer from the quality of its loan portfolio in the early 1990s and sought out a merger with the National Bank of Detroit, which at the time was the 18th largest bank in the US (First Chicago was the 10th largest bank). The $5 billion merger, completed in 1995, created First Chicago NBD Corporation, the 7th largest bank in the US with $72 billion of assets, and was also a leader in the issuance of credit cards. While NBD was the nominal survivor, the merged bank was headquartered in Chicago.

In April 1998 First Chicago NBD announced a $30 billion merger with Banc One Corporation of Columbus, Ohio. Bank One was also a leading issuer of credit cards through its First USA division.Bank One Corporation, headquartered in Chicago. The First Chicago and NBD names were retired in 1999. In 2004, Bank One Corporation merged into JPMorgan Chase & Co. and its subsidiary bank, then named Bank One, National Association, merged into JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association.

Other notes

  * Lyman J. Gage – Secretary of the Treasury under William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt was a former bank president, who ascended the organization after beginning as a cashier
  * In 1882, The First became the first bank to open a women's banking department, to attract female customers.
  * In 1899, The First established a corporate pension plan, the first bank to do so in the U.S.
  * Bank One Corporation
  * JPMorgan Chase
  * Chase (bank)
  * Madison Dearborn
  * National Bank of Detroit (NBD)
  * Waid Vanderpoel
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Ernst Träger

Ernst Träger (29 January 1926 in Künzelsau – 25 January 2015 in Waldbronn) was a German judge. He was a justice of the Federal Constitutional Court between 1977 and 1989.

Biography

Ernst Träger, the youngest of eight children of an innkeeper and master butcher from Künzelsau, was an air force and flak helper as well as a soldier in World War II from 1943 to 1946. After being severely wounded, staying in a hospital and being a prisoner of war, he studied law at the Ruprecht-Karls University in Heidelberg from 1947. In Mannheim, he completed his legal clerkship at the Mannheim District Court. After passing his assessor's examination in 1954, he entered the judicial service of the state of Baden-Württemberg, where he worked as a civil and criminal judge at the Bad Säckingen Local Court and the Waldshut Regional Court. In 1958, he moved to the Federal Prosecutor's Office. In 1963, he became a judge at the Karlsruhe Regional Court and later at the Karlsruhe Higher Regional Court. From 1965 to 1968, Träger was a research assistant at the Federal Constitutional Court. In 1968, he again moved to the Federal Prosecutor's Office and was appointed Federal Prosecutor in 1972, dealing with various terrorist trials. In 1976, he was appointed a judge at the Federal Supreme Court.

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Dare Wilson Barracks

Dare Wilson Barracks, is a military installation in Hexham, Northumberland. The building is named after Major General Dare Wilson who was commissioned into the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers and commanded 22 Special Air Service Regiment in the early 1960s.

History

The building was designed as the headquarters of the 1st Volunteer Battalion, The Northumberland Fusiliers and was completed in about 1891. This unit evolved to become the 4th Battalion the Northumberland Fusiliers in 1908.Western Front.

The battalion was redesignated the 4th/5th Battalion the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers at Hencotes in 1950.Fenkle Street drill hall in Alnwick as the 6th (Volunteer) Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers in 1975 with a rifle platoon forming part of X Company still located at Hencotes.Tyne-Tees Regiment in 1999 and to 5th Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers in 2006.

Current units

British Army

  * X Company, 5th Battalion, Royal Regiment of Fusiliers
  * Hexham Troop, 204 (Tyneside Scottish) Battery, 101 (Northumbrian) Regiment, Royal Artillery

Community Cadet Forces

  * Hexham Detachment, Northumbria Army Cadet Force
  * 224 (Hexham) Squadron, Durham and Northumberland Wing, Air Training Corps


French cruiser Surcouf

For other ships with the same name, see French ship Surcouf.

Surcouf was the second Forbin-class protected cruiser built for the French Navy in the late 1880s and early 1890s. The Forbin-class cruisers were built as part of a construction program intended to provide scouts for the main battle fleet. They were based on the earlier unprotected cruiser Milan, with the addition of an armor deck to improve their usefulness in battle. They had a high top speed for the time, at around 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph), and they carried a main battery of four 138 mm (5.4 in) guns.

The ship saw little activity in the 1890s, being assigned to the Northern Squadron from 1893 to 1895, temporarily reactivated to participate in training exercises with the unit in 1897, and then assigned to the squadron again from 1898 to 1899. During her periods of active service, she was primarily occupied with training maneuvers. Surcouf returned to the Northern Squadron in 1901 and served there through 1908, apart from a brief stint in East Asia in 1902. She saw little activity thereafter, until she was sent to the Gulf of Guinea late in World War I. The ship was ultimately removed from the naval register in 1921 and broken up.

Design

Main article: Forbin-class cruiser

Profile drawing of an early version of the Forbin design, depicting the original four-masted rig used aboard Forbin

Beginning in 1879, the French Navy's Conseil des Travaux (Council of Works) had requested designs for small but fast cruisers of about 2,000 long tons (2,032 t) displacement that could be used as scouts for the main battle fleet. The unprotected cruiser Milan was the first of the type, which was developed into the Forbin-type of protected cruisers after the Conseil requested light armor protection for the ships.Forbins, along with the three very similar Troude-class cruisers, were ordered by Admiral Théophile Aube, then the French Minister of Marine and an ardent supporter of the Jeune École doctrine.commerce raiders, rather than fleet scouts.


French cruiser Surcouf

Surcouf was 95 m (311 ft 8 in) long at the waterline and 96.1 m (315 ft 3 in) long overall, with a beam of 9.33 m (30 ft 7 in) and an average draft of 4.5 m (14 ft 9 in). She displaced 1,857 t (1,828 long tons; 2,047 short tons). Her crew amounted to 209 officers and enlisted men. The ship's propulsion system consisted of a pair of compound steam engines driving two screw propellers. Steam was provided by six coal-burning fire-tube boilers that were ducted into two funnels. Her machinery was rated to produce 6,200 indicated horsepower (4,600 kW) for a top speed of 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph). She had a cruising radius of 2,395 nautical miles (4,436 km; 2,756 mi) at a speed of 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph).

The ship was armed with a main battery of four 138.6 mm (5.46 in) 30-caliber guns in individual pivot mounts, all in sponsons with two guns per broadside. For close-range defense against torpedo boats, she carried three 47 mm (1.9 in) 3-pounder Hotchkiss guns and four 37 mm (1.5 in) 1-pounder Hotchkiss revolver cannon. She was also armed with four 356 mm (14 in) torpedo tubes in her hull above the waterline, two forward and two further aft. She had provisions to carry up to 150 naval mines. Armor protection consisted of an armor deck that was 40 mm (1.6 in) thick and sloped downward at the sides to provide a measure of vertical protection. Above the deck, a highly subdivided layer of watertight compartments was intended to control flooding. A thin anti-splinter deck below the armor deck covered the machinery spaces.

Modifications


French cruiser Surcouf

Modifications

Surcouf underwent a series of refits and modernizations throughout her career. The first of these took place in 1893, and centered on updates to the armament. The main battery was converted to M1881/84 quick-firing guns, and the light armament now consisted of five 47 mm guns, three 37 mm guns, and four 37 mm revolver cannon. In 1896, the two forward torpedo tubes were removed, along with the shields for the light guns. A more extensive reconstruction took place in 1905–1906. The refit included removing all of the 37 mm guns in favor of a uniform light armament of seven 47 mm guns. Two 37 mm guns were kept aboard to be mounted to the ship's boats. By that time, the remaining torpedo tubes had also been removed. By this time, the ship's sailing rig was removed; Surcouf had retained her rig long after the other members of the class had theirs cut down in 1892, though exact time is unknown. The historian Stephen Roberts states that it was "probably...around 1906."oil firing.World War I in 1916, Surcouf had a pair of 47 mm anti-aircraft guns installed on her foredeck. Around the same time, one of her 47 mm guns and the two 37 mm guns were put ashore in the formerly German colony of Kamerun. In 1917, the ship was disarmed altogether and converted into a depot ship for submarines.

Service history

Construction – 1896

Surcouf was ordered on 7 April 1886 and was laid down at the Arsenal de Cherbourg on 4 October 1886 in Cherbourg. She was launched on 9 October 1888. She was commissioned for sea trials on 27 November 1899.English Channel.ironclads Requin and Victorieuse, the coastal defense ship Furieux, and the cruiser Alger.Surcouf continued to operate with the squadron. She took part in annual training exercises that year to evaluate the effectiveness of the French coastal defense system. The squadron went to sea on 15 July and began the operations the next day, which lasted until 29 July. The maneuvers demonstrated the usefulness of torpedo boat flotillas in coastal defense, but highlighted that France's coastal defense system in the Channel was not yet complete.


French cruiser Surcouf

She remained in the unit through 1895. The squadron was kept in commission for only four months per year. The unit at that time consisted of Furieux, the ironclads Requin, Victorieuse, and Suffren, the armored cruiser Latouche-Tréville, and the protected cruisers Jean Bart and Coëtlogon.Surcouf took part in the annual fleet maneuvers that began on 1 July; as she was in partial commission, she had to take on naval reservists in Cherbourg to bring her crew to the full number. The exercises took place in two phases, the first being a simulated amphibious assault in Quiberon Bay, and the second revolving around a blockade of Rochefort and Cherbourg. The maneuvers concluded on the afternoon of 23 July.

By 1896, she was reduced to the 2nd category of reserve, along with several old coastal defense ships, ironclads, and other cruisers. They were retained in a state that allowed them to be mobilized in the event of a major war.Surcouf was mobilized in 1897 to participate in the large-scale maneuvers of that year with the Northern Squadron, which were held in July. Surcouf and the bulk of the squadron were tasked with intercepting the coastal defense ship Bouvines, which was to steam from Cherbourg to Brest between 15 and 16 July. As with the previous year's maneuvers, the defending squadron was unable to intercept Bouvines before she reached Brest. The squadron then moved to Quiberon Bay for another round of maneuvers from 18 to 21 July. This scenario saw the protected cruisers Sfax and Tage simulate a hostile fleet steaming from the Mediterranean Sea to attack France's Atlantic coast. Unlike the previous exercises, Surcouf and the rest of the Northern Squadron successfully intercepted the cruisers and "defeated" them.

1898–1921

Surcouf was reactivated in 1898 and was assigned to the Northern Squadron, by which time the unit consisted of the ironclad Hoche, four modern coastal defense ships, a pair of armored cruisers, and the protected cruiser Friant.Baie de Douarnenez conducted by the rest of the squadron. The ships successfully eluded the blockaders and escaped the bay. The second consisted of an attack on the fortifications of Brest by the entire squadron, and the third saw the fleet conduct an amphibious assault near Douarnenez.Catinat, and three smaller cruisers.


French cruiser Surcouf

By January 1901, Surcouf and both of her sister ships had been reduced to the reserve fleet,Mediterranean Squadron. The Northern Squadron ships formed part of the hostile force, and as it was entering the Mediterranean from the Atlantic, represented a German squadron attempting to meet its Italian allies.

After the outbreak of World War I in July 1914, Surcouf was allocated to the patrol squadron stationed in Brest, owing to the severe shortage of small cruisers. She remained there until 1916, when she was transferred to the Gulf of Guinea to replace Friant. The following year, she was moved to Gibraltar, where in August she was disarmed and converted into a depot ship. She was thereafter used to support a squadron of submarines that was based in French Morocco, serving in that capacity into 1919, after the end of the war. In 1920, she was moved to Rochefort to serve as a hulk, though she was struck from the naval register on 4 April 1921 and sold on 10 May to M. Jaquart to be broken up.


French cruiser Surcouf

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French cruiser Surcouf

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Hatsavan, Syunik

Hatsavan (Armenian: Հացավան) is a village in the Sisian Municipality of the Syunik Province in Armenia.

Toponymy

The village was previously known as Sisian.

Demographics

The Statistical Committee of Armenia reported its population was 280 in 2010,

Notable people

  * Ashot Avagyan (1958-), Armenian painter


Leaana Ronnie Posini

Leaana Ronnie Posini is a Samoan politician and Member of the Legislative Assembly of Samoa. He is a member of the Human Rights Protection Party.

He was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Samoa in the 2016 Samoan general election.Palusalue Faʻapo II was withdrawn before going to trial.Fepuleai Atila Ropati, who had been convicted for assault, retaining his position.

He was re-elected at the 2021 Samoan general election.

In November 2022 he was banished from his village of Saanapu by the village council.


Hacıosmanlar, Serik

Hacıosmanlar is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of Serik, Antalya Province, Turkey.


Gniezno County

Gniezno County (Polish: powiat gnieźnieński) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Greater Poland Voivodeship, west-central Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat and largest town is Gniezno, which lies 49 kilometres (30 mi) east of the regional capital Poznań. The county contains four other towns: Witkowo, 16 km (10 mi) south-east of Gniezno, Trzemeszno, 16 km (10 mi) east of Gniezno, Kłecko, 16 km (10 mi) north-west of Gniezno, and Czerniejewo, 14 km (9 mi) south-west of Gniezno.

The county covers an area of 1,254.34 square kilometres (484.3 sq mi). As of 2006 its total population is 140,333, out of which the population of Gniezno is 70,080, that of Witkowo is 7,855, that of Trzemeszno is 7,789, that of Kłecko is 2,677, that of Czerniejewo is 2,556, and the rural population is 49,376.

Neighbouring counties

Gniezno County is bordered by Żnin County to the north, Mogilno County to the east, Słupca County to the south-east, Września County to the south, Poznań County to the west, and Wągrowiec County to the north-west.

Administrative division

The county is subdivided into 10 gminas (one urban, four urban-rural and five rural). These are listed in the following table, in descending order of population.


Gniezno County

Gmina                         Type         Area   Population  Seat
                                           (km2)  (2006)
Gniezno                       urban        49.0   70,080
Gmina Trzemeszno              urban-rural  174.8  14,019      Trzemeszno
Gmina Witkowo                 urban-rural  184.4  13,446      Witkowo
Gmina Gniezno                 rural        178.0  8,343       Gniezno *
Gmina Kłecko                  urban-rural  131.7  7,569       Kłecko
Gmina Czerniejewo             urban-rural  112.0  6,913       Czerniejewo
Gmina Niechanowo              rural        105.3  5,395       Niechanowo
Gmina Łubowo                  rural        113.4  5,344       Łubowo
Gmina Kiszkowo                rural        114.6  5,235       Kiszkowo
Gmina Mieleszyn               rural        99.2   3,989       Mieleszyn
* seat not part of the gmina

  * Polish official population figures 2006
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Kermia episema

Kermia episema is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Raphitomidae.

Description

The length of the shell attains 4.5 mm, its diameter 1.25 mm.

(Original description) This neat little species has the usual fusiform shape,. It contains five whorls, exclusive of the apical, not present in our specimens. The whorls are clathrate, with longitudinal ribs and spiral lirae, these being pale ochreous-white, the interstices darker ochreous. The body whorl is slightly prolonged and sculptured in the same way as the upper whorls. One or two of the longitudinal ribs seem thicker than the others, giving a very slightly varicose appearance. The columellar margin is straight, simple, six denticled. The outer lip is incrassate, six denticled within. The sinus is deep and large.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Taiwan to Australia; also off the Fiji Islands, Cook Islands, New Caledonia

  * Higo, S., Callomon, P. & Goto, Y. (1999) Catalogue and Bibliography of the Marine Shell-Bearing Mollusca of Japan. Elle Scientific Publications, Yao, Japan, 749 pp.
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  * Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295.
  * Gastropods.com: Kermia episema
  * Hedley, C. 1922. A revision of the Australian Turridae. Records of the Australian Museum 13(6): 213-359, pls 42-56 [Public Domain] This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.


Flyorov

Flyorov (Russian: Флёров) may refer to:

  * Georgy Flyorov (1913–1990), a Soviet nuclear physicist
  * Ivan Flyorov (1905–1941), the commander of the first battery of Katyusha rocket artillery during the World War II
  * Konstantin Konstantinovich Flyorov (1904–1980), a Soviet paleontologist and paleoartist.


Badminton at the 2014 Asian Games – Women's team

Badminton at the
2014 Asian Games

Singles           men  women
Doubles           men  women  mixed
Team              men  women
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Main article: Badminton at the 2014 Asian Games

The women's team badminton event at the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon took place from 20 to 22 September 2014 at Gyeyang Gymnasium.

A total of 12 teams entered the event. The teams were drawn into a knock out bracket on 21 August 2014 at the Asian Games draw ceremony.

The final of the 2014 Incheon Asian Games on 22 September was a repeat of the 2002 Busan Asian Games, with the South Korea women's team meeting China. In the end, China won the gold medal after beating South Korea in the final, Japan and India finished 3rd and won the bronze medal. China had to beat Japan three wins to one while South Korea beat India with the same score in another semifinal.

Schedule

All times are Korea Standard Time (UTC+09:00)

Date                         Time           Event
Saturday, 20 September 2014  09:00          Round of 16
18:00                        Quarterfinals
Sunday, 21 September 2014    18:00          Semifinals
Monday, 22 September 2014    18:30          Gold medal match

Results

  Round of 16                     Quarterfinals                  Semifinals                          Gold medal match

                                  1              China        3
               Malaysia        3                                 Malaysia        0
               Nepal           0                                                        1            China             3
                                                              3  Japan           1
                                  3              Japan        3
               Maldives        0                                 Indonesia       0
               Indonesia       3                                 1               China  3
               India           3                                                        2            South Korea       0
               Macau           0                                 India           3
                                  4              Thailand     2
                                                                                India  1
               Chinese Taipei  3                                                 2      South Korea  3
               Hong Kong       2                                 Chinese Taipei  0
                                  2              South Korea  3

Round of 16

20 September  Malaysia  3–0  Nepal

Yang Li Lian    2–0  Sara Devi Tamang  21–4, 21–11
Lim Yin Fun     2–0  Nangsal Tamang    21–2, 21–7
Lim Chiew Sien  2–0  Sichhya Shrestha  21–13, 21–9

20 September  Maldives  0–3  Indonesia

Aishath Afnaan Rasheed        0–2  Lindaweni Fanetri     6–21, 9–21
Aminath Shahurunaaz Moosa     0–2  Bellaetrix Manuputty  3–21, 3–21
Aminath Nabeeha Abdul Razzaq  0–2  Hanna Ramadini        4–21, 3–21

20 September  India  3–0  Macau


20 September  India  3–0  Macau

Saina Nehwal                    2–0  Wong Kit Ieng            21–6, 21–4
P. V. Sindhu                    2–0  U Teng Iok               21–8, 21–9
N. Sikki Reddy / Pradnya Gadre  2–0  Zhang Zhibo / Wang Rong  21–16, 21–17

20 September  Chinese Taipei  3–2  Hong Kong

Tai Tzu-ying                      2–0  Yip Pui Yin                  21–7, 27–25
Hsieh Pei-chen / Cheng Wen-hsing  2–0  Poon Lok Yan / Chau Hoi Wah  21–17, 21–14
Pai Hsiao-ma                      1–2  Cheung Ngan Yi               14–21, 21–17, 20–22
Chen Hsiao-huan / Lai Chia-wen    0–2  Chan Tsz Ka / Tse Ying Suet  12–21, 13–21
Pai Yu-po                         2–0  Cheung Ying Mei              21–10, 21–5

Quarterfinals

20 September  China  3–0  Malaysia

Li Xuerui                2–0  Tee Jing Yi              21–9, 21–8
Zhao Yunlei / Tian Qing  2–0  Vivian Hoo / Ng Hui Lin  21–18, 21–8
Wang Shixian             2–0  Yang Li Lian             21–15, 22–20

20 September  Japan  3–0  Indonesia

Minatsu Mitani                      2–1  Lindaweni Fanetri                          19–21, 23–21, 21–12
Ayaka Takahashi / Misaki Matsutomo  2–1  Greysia Polii / Nitya Krishinda Maheswari  21–14, 18–21, 21–19
Sayaka Takahashi                    2–0  Bellaetrix Manuputty                       21–18, 21–14

20 September  India  3–2  Thailand


20 September  India  3–2  Thailand

Saina Nehwal                     2–1  Ratchanok Intanon                                      21–15, 17–21, 21–18
P. V. Sindhu                     2–0  Porntip Buranaprasertsuk                               21–15, 21–13
P. C. Thulasi                    0–2  Busanan Ongbamrungphan                                 12–21, 14–21
N. Sikki Reddy / Pradnya Gadre   1–2  Porntip Buranaprasertsuk / Kunchala Voravichitchaikul  17–21, 21–18, 16–21
Ashwini Ponnappa / P. V. Sindhu  2–0  Sapsiree Taerattanachai / Saralee Thungthongkam        21–16, 21–17

20 September  Chinese Taipei  0–3  South Korea

Tai Tzu-ying                    0–2  Sung Ji-hyun                16–21, 13–21
Cheng Wen-hsing / Lai Chia-wen  0–2  Kim So-yeong / Chang Ye-na  13–21, 19–21
Pai Hsiao-ma                    0–2  Bae Yeon-ju                 8–21, 18–21

Semifinals

21 September  China  3–1  Japan

Li Xuerui                2–0  Minatsu Mitani                      21–15, 21–17
Zhao Yunlei / Tian Qing  1–2  Ayaka Takahashi / Misaki Matsutomo  11–21, 21–15, 19–21
Wang Shixian             2–0  Sayaka Takahashi                    21–15, 21–14
Yu Yang / Wang Xiaoli    2–0  Reika Kakiiwa / Miyuki Maeda        21–8, 21–13

21 September  India  1–3  South Korea

Saina Nehwal                    2–1  Sung Ji-hyun                21–12, 10–21, 21–9
P. V. Sindhu                    1–2  Bae Yeon-ju                 21–14, 18–21, 13–21
N. Sikki Reddy / Pradnya Gadre  0–2  Kim So-yeong / Chang Ye-na  16–21, 17–21
P. C. Thulasi                   0–2  Kim Hyo-min                 12–21, 8–21

Gold medal match

22 September  China  3–0  South Korea


22 September  China  3–0  South Korea

Li Xuerui                2–1  Sung Ji-hyun                17–21, 21–13, 21–16
Zhao Yunlei / Tian Qing  2–1  Kim So-yeong / Chang Ye-na  19–21, 21–7, 21–12
Wang Shixian             2–1  Bae Yeon-ju                 12–21, 21–16, 21–19

Non-participating athletes

  * Bao Yixin (CHN)
  * Liu Xin (CHN)
  * Ma Jin (CHN)
  * Wang Yihan (CHN)
  * Chan Hung Yung (HKG)
  * Suci Rizky Andini (INA)
  * Liliyana Natsir (INA)
  * Tiara Rosalia Nuraidah (INA)
  * Debby Susanto (INA)
  * Tanvi Lad (IND)
  * Yui Hashimoto (JPN)
  * Shizuka Matsuo (JPN)
  * Mami Naito (JPN)
  * Akane Yamaguchi (JPN)
  * Go Ah-ra (KOR)
  * Jung Kyung-eun (KOR)
  * Kim Ha-na (KOR)
  * Ko Eun-byul (KOR)
  * Yoo Hae-won (KOR)
  * Ieong Pek San (MAC)
  * Amelia Alicia Anscelly (MAS)
  * Lim Yin Loo (MAS)
  * Soong Fie Cho (MAS)
  * Woon Khe Wei (MAS)
  * Maisa Fathuhulla Ismail (MDV)
  * Punam Gurung (NEP)
  * Savitree Amitrapai (THA)
  * Duanganong Aroonkesorn (THA)
  * Nitchaon Jindapol (THA)
  * Puttita Supajirakul (THA)
  * Hung Shih-han (TPE)
  * Kuo Yu-wen (TPE)
  * Wang Pei-rong (TPE)
  * Results
  * Official website


Flag of Essex

The Essex flag is the flag of the English county of Essex. The flag of Essex is ancient in origin and features three notched Saxon seaxes (cutlasses) on a red field.

The earliest references to the flag being used to represent the county date back to the 17th century. A Restitution of Decayed Intelligence, written in 1605 by Richard Verstegan, referred to the Anglo-Saxons bearing a standard of "Three seaxes argent, in a field gules".John Speed included the flag in his 1611 atlas The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine.

Sir Winston Churchill also included the three seaxes as being representative of Essex in his 1675 work Divi Britannici.Westminster Abbey in 1735.

By 1815 the flag had become synonymous with the county, appearing as the masthead on the Chelmsford Chronicle and as the logo of the Essex and Suffolk Equitable Insurance Society.

By the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the flag saw widespread usage throughout the county, appearing on buildings and infrastructure in numerous settlements.

In 1889, Essex County Council adopted the flag as its own symbol.

The Flag Institute formally recognised the flag's relationship with the county in the early 21st century.

On 26 October 2014, the flag of Essex flew outside the Department for Communities and Local Government in order to mark Essex Day.Saint Cedd.

Flag design

The Pantone colours for the flag are:

  * Red 485
  * White
  * Yellow 116
  * Flag Institute registration particulars


Decimiana hebardi

Decimiana hebardi is a species of praying mantis in the family Acanthopidae.

  * List of mantis genera and species


For sure

Look up for sure in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

For sure or its variations may refer to:

  * For Sure! (Woody Shaw album), 1979
  * For Sure! (Kenny Drew album), 1978
      + "For Sure", the title track from the Kenny Drew album
  * "For Sure" (Scooch song), 2000
  * "For Sure", a song by American Football from their self-titled 1999 album
  * "For Sure", a song by Carly Rae Jepsen from Dedicated
  * "For Sure", a song by Future Islands from As Long as You Are


Hatsudai Station

Hatsudai Station (初台駅, Hatsudai-eki) is a railway station on the Keio New Line in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan, operated by the private railway operator Keio Corporation.

Station layout

1  ■ Keio New Line  for Sasazuka
                    Keio Line for Meidaimae, Chōfu, and Hashimoto
2  ■ Keio New Line  for Shinjuku
                    Toei Shinjuku Line for Ichigaya, Ōjima, and Motoyawata

History

Hatsudai Station opened on 11 June 1914.

Surrounding area

Hatsudai is the closest station to Opera City Tower and the New National Theatre, Tokyo. The area is served by several bus lines as well, in particular along Opera Dori and Shin Kokuritsu Gekijo-mae at the Central and South Exits.

The area around Hatsudai Station is home to corporations such as Lotte, Casio and NTT East, as well as to the Kanto International Senior High School.

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Lea Webb

Lea Webb is an American politician serving as a member of the New York State Senate for the 52nd district. Elected in November 2022, she assumed office on January 1, 2023.

Early life and education

Webb is a native of the Southern Tier region of New York. She earned an associate degree in liberal arts and sciences from SUNY Broome Community College and a Bachelor of Science in neuroscience from Binghamton University.

Career

From 2004 to 2006, Webb worked for the Mothers and Babies Perinatal Network in Binghamton, New York. She served as an organizer for Citizen Action of New York and was elected to the Binghamton City Council in 2008, becoming the youngest person, until Conrad Taylor was elected in 2015, and first African-American to ever serve on the council.

New York State Senate

Webb was elected to represent New York's 52nd Senate District in the 2022 general election, defeating former Binghamton Mayor Rich David.52nd Senate District.Cortland and Tompkins counties and a portion of Broome County, including the city of Binghamton and the towns of Binghamton, Chenango, Dickinson, Lisle, Maine, Nanticoke, Union and Vestal.

On December 23, 2022, Webb expressed her opposition to Governor Kathy Hochul's nomination of Hector LaSalle for Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals. Webb based her decision on LaSalle's past decisions on workers rights and reproductive care.Rowan Wilson as the state's first black Chief Judge.

On January 24, 2023, Webb was commended "for her critical work" as "Chair of the Senate Women’s Issues Committee" in a press release by the New York State Senate Majority regarding passage of the Equal Rights Amendment referendum in the Senate.

Webb and her colleagues successfully advocated for $5 million in state funding to be allocated to local theatres from the Fiscal Year 2023-2024 State Budget, as part of New York's Alive Downtowns! initiative.

On May 24, 2023, Webb introduced a bill that would specifically ban TV and film companies from qualifying for lucrative state tax breaks if they use “synthetic media in any component of production that would displace any natural person.”

Electoral history

New York State Senate


Lea Webb

Electoral history

New York State Senate

New York's 52nd Senatorial District 2022 General Election
Party        Candidate                        Votes       %       ±%
             Democratic                       Lea Webb    51,986  50.7%  +50.7%
             Republican                       Rich David  50,567  49.3%  -38.1%
Total votes  102,553                          100.00%     N/A
             Democratic gain from Republican


Hacımusa, Gökçebey

Hacımusa is a village in Gökçebey District, Zonguldak Province, Turkey.2013 reorganisation, it was a town (belde).Gökçebey is about 12 km (7.5 mi).


Gnilec (river)

Gnilec is a river of Poland, a tributary of the Czernica in Czarne.


Kermess

Kermess was a melodic rock band from Quebec, Canada.

History

Kermess was founded in 1995.Les douze nocturnes was released the next year, and 10,000 copies were sold.

In 1998 the band released the album Bref exposé.

In 2002 the band released its third album, played at several festivals and performed at a number of colleges in Quebec.

The group disbanded in 2004.

Twelve years later, the band regrouped to perform at the Fête du lac des Nations in Sherbrooke.

Discography

  * 1997: Les douze nocturnes
  * 1998: Bref exposé
  * 2002: Génération Atari

Members

  * Martin Fillion (vocals, drums)(taught a grade 7 class at Franklin Street Public school in Markham ON, Canada in 2002-2003)
  * François Landry (vocals, guitar)
  * Mario Landry (bass)
  * Dominic Morin (vocals, guitar)
  * Sylvain Tremblay (vocals, guitar)
  * RamDam: Kermess
  * Le Parolier: Kermess


Athletics at the 2022 Commonwealth Games – Women's shot put (F57)

Athletics at the
2022 Commonwealth Games

Qualification
Track / road events
100 m                    men  women
100 m T12                men
100 m T34                     women
100 m T38                men  women
100 m T47                men
200 m                    men  women
400 m                    men  women
800 m                    men  women
1500 m                   men  women
1500 m T54               men  women
5000 m                   men  women
10,000 m                 men  women
100 m hurdles                 women
110 m hurdles            men
400 m hurdles            men  women
3000 m steeplechase      men  women
4×100 m relay            men  women
4×400 m relay            men  women
Marathon                 men  women
Marathon T54             men  women
10,000 m walk            men  women
Field events
High jump                men  women
Pole vault               men  women
Long jump                men  women
Triple jump              men  women
Shot put                 men  women
Shot put F57                  women
Discus throw             men  women
Discus throw F44/64      men  women
Hammer throw             men  women
Javelin throw            men  women
Combined events
Heptathlon                    women
Decathlon                men
  * v
  * t
  * e

The women's shot put (F57) at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, as part of the athletics programme, took place in the Alexander Stadium on 6 August 2022.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Games records were as follows:

Records F55
World record  Marianne Buggenhagen (GER)  9.06 m   Athens, Greece                 19 September 2004
Records F56
World record  Nadia Medjmedj (ALG)        9.95 m   Sharjah, United Arab Emirates  14 February 2019
Records F57
World record  Safia Djelal (ALG)          11.56 m  Dubai, United Arab Emirates    21 March 2022

Schedule

The schedule was as follows:

Date                    Time   Round
Saturday 6 August 2022  10:20  Final

All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1)

Results

Final

The medals were determined in the final.


Final

The medals were determined in the final.

Rank                             Name                      Sport class  #1    #2    #3    #4    #5     #6    Result  Notes
[1st place, gold medalist(s)]    Eucharia Iyiazi (NGR)     F57          x     x     9.54  9.65  10.03  x     10.03   GR , SB
[2nd place, silver medalist(s)]  Arlette Mawe Fokoa (CMR)  F57          9.11  8.72  9.38  9.31  9.13   9.03  9.38    PB
[3rd place, bronze medalist(s)]  Ugochi Alam (NGR)         F57          9.25  9.20  8.17  9.30  x      8.51  9.30
4                                Sharmila (IND)            F57          8.20  7.54  8.43  8.26  8.25   8.29  8.43    PB
5                                Sarah Mickey (CAN)        F55          6.85  7.21  7.71  6.99  7.31   7.54  7.71    GR, PB
6                                Elie Enock (VAN)          F57          7.43  7.42  7.30  7.70  7.37   7.56  7.70    AR
7                                Poonam Sharma (IND)       F56          7.07  7.04  6.82  6.94  6.84   6.99  7.07    GR, PB
8                                Santosh (IND)             F57          6.44  6.26  6.34  6.53  6.20   5.77  6.53
9                                Julie Charlton (AUS)      F57          6.05  6.10  6.20  5.89  6.14   6.26  6.26


Amos Stearns House

The Amos Stearns House is a historic house in Waltham, Massachusetts. Built c. 1845, this 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame former farmhouse is a reminder of Trapelo Road's agricultural past. It has well-kept Greek Revival styling, including corner pilasters and an entablature with dentil moulding. A single-story porch wraps across the front and along one side; it has a similar entablature with dentil work. The house stands on property that was in the Stearns family from 1782 to 1941.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. Its listing describes it as being at 1079 Trapelo Road.

  * National Register of Historic Places listings in Waltham, Massachusetts