Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

The Dragonfly Sea

In 2019, her second novel, The Dragonfly Sea was published.The Dragonfly Sea is set on Pate Island, off the coast of Kenya, and about a girl named Ayaana living with her mother, Munira. When a sailor named Muhidin enters their lives, Ayaana finds something she has never had before: a father. But as Ayaana grows into adulthood, forces of nature and history begin to reshape her life and the island itself–from a taciturn visitor with a murky past to a sanctuary-seeking religious extremist, from dragonflies to a tsunami, from black-clad kidnappers to cultural emissaries from China. Ayaana ends up embarking on a dramatic ship's journey to the Far East, where she discovers friends and enemies; seduced by the charming but unreliable scion of a powerful Turkish business family; reclaims her devotion to the sea; and comes to find her own tenuous place amid a landscape of beauty and violence and surprising joy.

Awards and recognition

Owuor won the 2003 Caine Prize for African Writing for her story "Weight of Whispers", which considers an aristocratic Rwandan refugee in Kenya.Kwani?, the Kenyan literary magazine set up by Binyavanga Wainaina after he won the Caine Prize the previous year.

In 2004, she won the Woman of the year (Arts, Heritage category) for her contributions to the arts in Kenya. In September 2015, her critically acclaimed book Dust was shortlisted for the Folio Prize, and won Kenya's pre-eminent literary prize, the Jomo Kenyatta Prize for Literature.

Selected works

Novels

  * Weight of Whispers (Kwani Trust, 2003)
  * Dust (Knopf, Granta, 2014)
  * Der Ort, an dem die Reise endet (tr. Simone Jakob) (Dumont, 2016)
  * La Maison au bout des voyages (tr. Françoise Pertat ) (Actes Sud, 2017)
  * The Dragonfly Sea (Knopf, 2019)
  * Das Meer der Libellen (Dumont, 2020)

Short stories (in anthologies)


Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

Short stories (in anthologies)

  * "Trial of Terremoto" (Caine Prize Anthology), 2004
  * "The State of Tides" (commissioned by Essex County Council, UK), 2004
  * "Dressing the Dirge" (Little Black Book anthology), 2005
  * "The Knife Grinders' Tale", 2005
  * "These Fragments" (All the good things around us; New Daughters of Africa anthology), 2016, 2019
  * "The Fire in Ten" (Hearth: A Global Conversation on Identity, Community, and Place), 2016

Essays, articles, keynotes, literary reportage


Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

Essays, articles, keynotes, literary reportage

  * "Kin la Belle: In the Clear Light of Song and Silence", in African Cities Reader II: Mobilities and Fixtures
  * "Imagined Waters", Chimurenga Chronic, 2015
  * "In Search of Poem-Maps of the Swahili Seas: Three Sea Poems by Haji Gora Haji", Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies, 4:3–4, 164–178, DOI: 10.1080/23277408.2018.1478632
  * "O-Swahili – language and liminality" (2015), Matatu 46(1):141–152 ·DOI: 10.1163/9789004298071_009
  * "Reading Our ruins; A Rough Sketch" (2018), Matatu 50(1): 13–4, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/18757421-05001012
  * "Distilling Existence" (2019), Granta 146: The Politics of Feeling
  * "The Spiritual Voice of The Forest" (2021), National Geographic, 240(6):98–105
  * Mildred K. Barya, "An interview with Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor", Pambazuka News, Issue 438, 18 June 2009.
  * Yvonne Owuor, "Memories of Landscape" ("Caine Prize winning author Yvonne Owuor speaks during TEDx Nairobi on September 18th, 2010"), TEDxNairobi.
  * Daniel Musiitwa, "An Interview with the Caine Prize Winning Author Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor", Africa Book Club, 1 March 2014.
  * Michael Halmshaw interviews Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, "Running to the River", Guernica, 3 March 2014.
  * "Yvonne Owuor from TEDxEuston on This Day Live", interview with Juliette Foster, Arise News, 5 December 2014.
  * Bhakti Shringarpure, "Decolonizing History and Its Telling: A Conversation with Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor", Los Angeles Review of Books, 12 September 2022.


Aage Grundstad

Aage Grundstad (May 26, 1923 – April 8, 2012)Norwegian award-winning accordion player, originally from Vefsn.

Grundstad studied at the Oslo Conservatory of Music and graduated from the Veitvedt Music School.NRK in 1946, where he later had several radio concerts. He founded the club Friends of Old-Fashioned Dance (Venner av gammeldans) in Oslo with Angell Gabrielsen in 1954 and founded the Norwegian Accordionists' Association in 1971. Grundstad had his own ensemble with Knut Trøen, who studied the Norwegian figure dance (turdans) tradition, and released several albums.

Releases

  * Aage Grundstad's Ensemble: Norske tur- og folkedanser / Norwegian Folk- and Figuredances (EMI, 1977)
  * Aage Grundstad's Ensemble: Norske tur- og folkedanser 2 / Norwegian Folk- and Figuredances (EMI, 1981)
  * Aage Grundstad's Ensemble: Norske tur- og folkedanser 3 / Norwegian Folk- and Figuredances (EMI, 1985)
  * Aage Grundstad's Ensemble: Norske tur- og folkedanser 4 / Norwegian Folk- and Figuredances (EMI, 1989)

Awards and recognitions

  * Defence Medal 1940–1945
  * Royal Norwegian Society for Development Medal
  * Rotary Paul Harris Fellow
  * Aage Grundstad at DigitaltMuseum


Take Me in Your Arms (film)

Take Me in Your Arms (in Spanish Llévame en tus brazos) is a 1954 Mexican drama film directed by Julio Bracho. Starred by Ninón Sevilla and Armando Silvestre.

Plot

In a little fisher's village in the Papaloapan River lives the fisher Pedro (Andrés Soler) and his two daughters Rita (Ninón Sevilla) and Martha (Rosenda Monteros). Rita loves a young man named José (Armando Silvestre) who has been fired from a sugar mill for organizing a strike. So, he and Rita can't marry soon. After a good fishing, all in the town celebrate a party. But Don Antonio (Julio Villarreal), the owner of the sugar mill, comes to collect Pedro the money that he lent him for a boat. As Pedro can't pay him, Don Antonio asks as pay to one of his daughters. Rita listens and she decides to go with Don Antonio to save her father and her sister. Before leaving, Rita makes love with José. When she leaves, José thinks that she has left him.

Cast

  * Ninón Sevilla as Rita Rosales
  * Armando Silvestre as José
  * Andrea Palma as Doña Eva
  * Carlos López Moctezuma as Don Gregorio
  * Andrés Soler as Don Pedro
  * Julio Villarreal as Don Antonio
  * Consuelo Guerrero de Luna as Doña Valentina
  * Rosenda Monteros as Marta, Rita's sister (as Rosa Mendez)
  * Antonio Bravo as Don Rubén
  * Estela Matute as Jewelry employee
  * Aurora Cortés as Maid
  * Humberto Rodríguez as Notary
  * Francisco Pando as Canteen owner
  * Rodolfo Acosta as Agustín
  * Magdaleno Barba as Man in Canteen (uncredited)
  * Chel López as Gregorio's friend (uncredited)
  * Pepe Martínez as Majordomo (uncredited)
  * Inés Murillo as Village woman (uncredited)
  * José Pardavé as Drunk in Canteen (uncredited)

Production notes


Take Me in Your Arms (film)

Production notes

As a superstar, the Cuban rumbera Ninón Sevilla asked to Producciones Calderón to call again Gabriel Figueroa as her photograph and Julio Bracho, one of the most prestigious filmmakers in Mexico, to direct her. The result was good: Take Me in Your Arms is a film that has grown over time as Adventuress, Victims of Sin and Sensuality. The film, which was shot with the binomial Ninón-Bracho, is a melodrama of bitter family feuds and vendettas, by a filmmaker on the crest of the wave, in the height of his success. There is everything: landowners, fishermen, sinister union leaders, impossible love; a young lady deceived and sexually abused. The whole conflict was dominated by great personalities: Carlos Lopez Moctezuma, Andrea Palma, Rodolfo Acosta, Andrés Soler and Ninon Sevilla as an ingenuous young girl dragged by a whirlwind of calamities.

  * Llévame en tus brazos at IMDb
  * Cine Mexicano de Galletas: Take Me in Your Arms


Ottnang am Hausruck

Ottnang am Hausruck is a municipality in the district of Vöcklabruck in the Austrian state of Upper Austria.

Population

Historical population
Year  Pop.   ±%
1991  3,743  —
2001  3,745  +0.1%
2016  3,855  +2.9%

Notable people

  * Barbara Prammer, President of the National Council of Austria since 2006, is a native of the municipality.
  * Ottnang am Hausruck village school

Parish church of Ottnang

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Magliano

Magliano may refer to several places in Italy:

Municipalities (comuni)

  * Magliano Alfieri, in the province of Cuneo, Piedmont
  * Magliano Alpi, in the province of Cuneo, Piedmont
  * Magliano de' Marsi, in the province of L'Aquila, Abruzzo
  * Magliano di Tenna, in the province of Ascoli Piceno, Marche
  * Magliano in Toscana, in the province of Grosseto, Tuscany
  * Magliano Romano, in the province of Rome, Lazio
  * Magliano Sabina, in the province of Rieti, Lazio
  * Magliano Vetere, in the province of Salerno, Campania

Hamlets (frazioni)

  * Magliano (Carmiano), in the municipality of Carmiano (LE), Apulia
  * Magliano (Torricella Sicura), in the municipality of Torricella Sicura (TE), Abruzzo
  * Magliano Nuovo, in the municipality of Magliano Vetere (SA), Campania
  * Santa Croce di Magliano, an Italian municipality of the province of Campobasso, Molise


Nyaunggon, Shwegu

Nyaunggon, Shwegu is a village in Shwegu Township in Bhamo District in the Kachin State of north-eastern Burma.


Mountaindale

Mountain Dale or Mountaindale is the name of several places in the USA:

  * Mountain Dale, Missouri
  * Mountain Dale, New York
  * Mountaindale, Oregon
  * Mountaindale, Pennsylvania


Tropidophorus baviensis

Tropidophorus baviensis, also known commonly as the Bavi water skink or Bavay's keeled skink, is a species of lizard in the subfamily Sphenomorphinae of the family Scincidae. The species is native to Southeast Asia.

Geographic range

T. baviensis is found in northern VietnamLaos (Xiangkhouang Province).

The type locality (to which the specific name baviensis refers) is Mt. Ba Vi, Ha Tay Province, northern Vietnam.

Habitat

The preferred natural habitats of T. baviensis are forest and freshwater wetlands, at altitudes of 400–1,500 m (1,300–4,900 ft).

Reproduction

T. baviensis is viviparous.

  * Bourret RL (1939). "Notes herpétologiques sur l'Indochine française. XVII. Reptiles et Batraciens reçus au Laboratoire des Sciences Naturelles de l'Université au cours de l'année 1938. Descriptions de trois espèces nouvelles ". Annexe Bulletin Général Instruction Publique, Hanoi 6: 13–34. (Tropidophorus baviensis, new species). (in French).
  * Ngo A, Murphy RW, Orlov NL, Darevsky IL, Nguyen VS (2000). "A Redescription of the Ba Vi Water Skink Tropidophorus baviensis Bourret, 1939". Russian Journal of Herpetology 7 (2): 155–158.


Theatre Book Prize

The Theatre Book Prize is a prize given by the Society for Theatre Research annually.

History

It was established to celebrate the Jubilee of the Society for Theatre Research (founded in Britain in 1948), and to encourage writing and publication of books on theatre history and practice—both those that present the theatre of the past and those that record contemporary theatre for the future. It was first awarded in 1998 for the best new theatre title published in English during 1997. It is now presented annually for a book on British or British related theatre that an independent panel of judges considers the best published in the preceding year.

The judges

There are three judges, who are different each year. They are drawn from the ranks of people working in theatre: performers, directors, theatre critics, senior academics concerned with theatre, and theatre archivists.

Criteria

All new works of original research first published in English are eligible, except for play texts and studies of drama as literature. The Prize embraces all aspects and genres of theatre from opera and ballet to circus and music hall, mime and puppetry as well as 'legitimate' forms and, as the list of previous winners shows, entries are drawn from right across the publishing spectrum.

Prize winners

By year of publication


Theatre Book Prize

Prize winners

By year of publication

  * 2022 An Actor's Life in 12 Productions by Oliver Ford Davies (Book Guild)
  * 2021 Stirring up Sheffield by Colin and Tedd George (Wordville)
  * 2020 Black British Women’s Theatre by Nicola Abram (Palgrave Macmillan)
  * 2019 Dark Star: A Biography of Vivien Leigh by Alan Strachan (I B Tauris)
  * 2018 Year of the Mad King: The Lear Diaries by Antony Sher (Nick Hern Books)
  * 2017 Balancing Acts by Nicholas Hytner (Jonathan Cape)
  * 2016 Stage Managing Chaos by Jackie Harvey with Tim Kelleher (McFarland)
  * 2015 The Censorship of British Drama 1900-1968 by Steve Nicholson (University of Exeter Press)
  * 2014 Oliver! by Marc Napolitano (Oxford University Press)
  * 2013 The National Theatre Story by Daniel Rosenthal (Oberon)
  * 2012 Mr Foote’s Other Leg by Ian Kelly (Picador)
  * 2011 Covering McKellen: An Understudy's Tale by David Weston (Rickshaw Publishing)
  * 2010 The Reluctant Escapologist by Mike Bradwell (Nick Hern Books)
  * 2009 Different Drummer: The Life of Kenneth Macmillan by Jann Parry (Faber)
  * 2008 Theatre and Globalisation: Irish Drama in the Celtic Tiger Era by Patrick Lonergan (Palgrave Macmillan)
  * 2007 State of the Nation by Michael Billington (Faber)
  * 2006 John Osborne: a patriot for us by John Heilpern (Chatto and Windus)
  * 2005 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare by James Shapiro (Faber & Faber)
  * 2004 Margot Fonteyn by Meredith Daneman (Penguin/Viking)
  * 2003 National Service by Richard Eyre (Bloomsbury)
  * 2002 A History of Irish Theatre 1601-2000 by Christopher Morash (Cambridge University Press)
  * 2001 Reflecting the Audience: London Theatregoing, 1840-1880 by Jim Davis & Victor Emeljanow (University of Iowa Press/University of Hertfordshire Press)
  * 2000 Politics, Prudery and Perversion.... Censorship 1906-68 by Nicholas de Jongh (Methuen)
  * 1999 Garrick by Ian McIntyre (Allen Lane)
  * 1998 Threads of Time by Peter Brook (Methuen)
  * 1997 The Life of Margaret Ramsay, Play Agent by Colin Chambers (Nick Hern)
  * Society for Theatre Research


Smeringodynerus

Smeringodynerus is a Nearctic genus of potter wasps.


Yvonne B. Miller

Yvonne Bond Miller (July 4, 1934 – July 3, 2012) was a Virginia educator and American politician who became the first African-American woman to serve in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly. A Democrat, in 1983 Miller became the first African-American woman elected to the state house, where she served for four years before winning election to the state Senate, where she consistently won re-election until her death in office.Norfolk State University during her lifetime.

Early life and education

Born on Independence Day, 1934 in Edenton, North Carolina, Yvonne Bond was the eldest of what became thirteen children born to John T. and Pency C. Bond. Her family moved to Norfolk, where she attended local public schools, which were then segregated by state law.

After graduation, Bond attended the all-black Norfolk Division of Virginia State College, a historically black college (now Norfolk State University), for two years. In 1956, she earned a B.S. degree from Virginia State College in Petersburg (also a historically black college and which became Virginia State University). While in college, Bond became a lifetime member of Zeta Phi Beta.

In 1962 Miller earned a M.A. degree from the Teachers College of Columbia University and in 1973 she earned a Ph.D in education from the University of Pittsburgh.

Educator

After earning her undergraduate degree (and while pursuing her graduate degrees), Bond taught for twelve years in the Norfolk Public Schools, at first at Young's Park elementary school. They had been segregated by state law since the 19th century and through her childhood.

The U.S. Supreme Court had just issued its decision in Brown v. Board of Education, which required desegregation of public schools, but in Virginia the dominant Byrd Organization reacted with Massive Resistance.

Although the Norfolk public schools (and Arlington public schools in northern Virginia) preferred to respond to lawsuits by the NAACP by desegregating, successive governors and the white-dominated Virginia general assembly enacted laws which permitted the governor to close schools in any district that voluntarily desegregated. Only after both a three-judge federal panel and the Virginia Supreme Court, both on the Lee-Jackson Day state holiday issued decisions declaring those laws unconstitutional did Virginia governor J. Lindsay Almond allow the Norfolk and Arlington public schools to desegregate, in both cases peaceably and pursuant to federal court orders.


Yvonne B. Miller

Bond joined the education faculty at Norfolk State, where she taught for 31 years.

She was also a life member of National Education Association, served on the boards of the National Alliance of Black School Educators (and was a life member) and Virginia Association for Early Childhood Education, and was active in the Association of University Women, American Association of University Professors (board member).

She hosted a public affairs radio show in Norfolk for many years.

Political career

Miller began to get involved in politics, joining the Democratic Party, although it had long been dominated statewide by the Byrd Organization. Her concerns for education and minority rights made her an "outspoken advocate for Virginia's poor and minorities in the General Assembly".

In 2010, Miller and Louise Lucas succeeded in having Virginia recognize the Nottoway as among the state's remaining Native American tribes.

In 2012, Miller spoke out against efforts by the state legislature to require voters to bring new identification documents to polling places, claiming this was a Jim Crow-like requirement intended to suppress black voting.

In 1983, Miller became the first black woman to be elected to the Virginia House of DelegatesSenate of Virginia. The first African-American woman in Virginia to serve in each house, she was consistently re-elected to the Senate (last facing an opponent in 1995) and died in office.

Miller most recently represented the 5th state senate district, which since 1971 and a redistricting, has been made up of parts of the independent cities of Norfolk, Chesapeake and Virginia Beach.

At the time of her death, Miller was the longest-serving woman in the Virginia Senate, ranking 4th in overall seniority. She gained a seat on the budget-writing Finance Committee.

Personal life

Miller married and took her husband's surname. She was a lifetime member and an Evangelist Missionary in the Church Of God In Christ, Inc., and a lifetime member of the NAACP.

Death and legacy

On July 3, 2012, Miller died in her Norfolk home from stomach cancer, one day shy of her 78th birthday.


Yvonne B. Miller

* "Senator Yvonne B. Miller; Democrat – District 5". Senate of Virginia. Archived from the original on January 15, 2009
  * "Yvonne B. Miller; State Senator, Virginia". Archived from the original on August 5, 2009 (Constituent/campaign website)
  * "Senator Yvonne Miller (D-Norfolk)". Richmond Sunlight.
  * "Election Results". Virginia State Board of Elections. Archived from the original on June 17, 2010.
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  * Profile at Vote Smart
  * Washington Post – Senate District 5 Race
  * Appearances on C-SPAN


Aage Fønss

Aage Fønss (12 December 1887, in Arhus – 30 September 1976) was a Danish opera singer and actor. He was the younger brother of actor Johannes Fønss and director/producer Olaf Fønss.

Selected filmography

  * Kapergasten – 1910
  * Elverhøj – 1910
  * Valdemar Sejr – 1910
  * Ansigttyven I – 1910
  * Ansigttyven II – 1910
  * Holger Danske – 1913
  * Gæstespillet – 1913
  * Chatollets hemmelighed – 1916
  * Der Pfad der Sünde – 1916
  * Das Haus der Leidenschaften – 1916
  * Grevindens ære – 1919
  * Frie fugle – 1922
  * Den sidste dans – 1924
  * Paa slaget 12 – 1924
  * Panserbasse – 1936
  * Mille, Marie og mig – 1937
  * Balletten danser – 1938
  * Komtessen på Stenholt – 1939
  * En pige med pep – 1940
  * En mand af betydning – 1941
  * Peter Andersen – 1941
  * Forellen – 1942
  * To som elsker hinanden – 1944
  * Besættelse – 1944
  * Oktoberroser – 1946
  * Kampen mod uretten – 1949
  * For frihed og ret – 1949
  * Café Paradis – 1950
  * Harry og kammertjeneren – 1961
  * Paradis retur – 1964
  * Aage Fønss at IMDb


Take Me There (Rascal Flatts song)

"Take Me There" is a song recorded by American country music group Rascal Flatts. It was released in July 2007 as the first single from their album Still Feels Good. The song became their eighth number-one hit on the Hot Country Songs Chart the week of September 22, 2007.

Content

"Take Me There" is the first single from the band's 2007 album Still Feels Good. Kenny Chesney wrote the song with Neil Thrasher and Wendell Mobley.

The song is composed in the key of E major with a main tempo of about 92 beats per minute. It is mainly based around the chord progression E-A/E.

Critical reception

Kevin John Coyne of Country Universe gave the song both an "A" and "F" grade, writing that "Writing a review of this just seems like an exercise in futility. No fans will be won or lost by this performance. If you enjoy listening to 'I Melt' and 'Fast Cars and Freedom', then you’ll enjoy this. If a part of you died inside when reminded of those records, stay away. Far, far away."

Charts

The song was Rascal Flatts' eighth number-one single on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. It reached that position on the chart dated for the week ending September 22, 2007 after a ten-week ascent. This was their fastest climbing single at the time after "What Hurts the Most", which took fourteen weeks to reach the number-one position.

Chart (2007)                      Peak
                                  position
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)  1
US Billboard Hot 100              19
US Radio Songs (Billboard)        19
US Billboard Pop 100                 33
Canada (Canadian Hot 100)         49

Year-end charts

Chart (2007)                  Position
US Country Songs (Billboard)     5


Pelopidas agna

"Dark branded swift" redirects here. For the other butterfly with this common name, see Caltoris brunnea.

Pelopidas agna, the obscure branded swiftdark branded swift, is a butterfly belonging to the family Hesperiidae found in India.

Description

In 1891, Edward Yerbury Watson wrote:

Upperside glossy olive-brown; forewing with a series of six very small rather indistinct whitish semi-transparent spots curving from before the apex to the middle of the wing; beneath these is a short oblique pale impressed streak, which is suffused with black on its anterior margin. Cilia pale brown. Underside pale brown; spots on forewing as above but less defined; hindwing with a curved discal series of white dots and a single dot near the base. Palpi and body beneath pale brownish-yellow.The spots are much less prominent in the dry season form than wet season form.

— E. Y. Watson


Mina Yadav

Mina Yadav is a Nepalese politician, belonging to the CPN (Maoist Centre) Party. She is currently serving as a member of the 2nd Federal Parliament of Nepal. In the 2022 Nepalese general election she was elected as a proportional representative from the Madhesi people category.


Zadabad

Zadabad (Persian: زاداباد, also Romanized as Zādābād) is a village in Chah Dadkhoda Rural District, Chah Dadkhoda District, Qaleh Ganj County, Kerman Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 46, in 8 families.


Mountain with Red House

Mountain with Red House is a watercolor landscape painting created ca. 1913 by the American artist Charles Demuth. It is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in the New York.

Early history and creation

Charles Demuth painted this work around 1913, perhaps while he developed his craft in Paris traveled across France.Georgia O'Keeffe in 1931.

Description and interpretation

The work depicts two small houses in the foreground with a mountain range in the background. On the reverse side, there is a watercolor draft of a bridge over the Seine in Paris.


Tropidophis feicki

Tropidophis feicki, also known commonly as the broad-banded dwarf boa, the broad-banded trope, and Feick's dwarf boa, is a species of non-venomous snake in the family Tropidophiidae.endemic to Cuba.

Etymology

The specific name, feicki, is in honor of American biologist John R. Feick.

Description

T. feicki males can grow to 41 cm (16 in) snout-to-vent length (SVL), and females to 45 cm (18 in) SVL.ventral scales and 34–41 subcaudal scales. The dorsal ground color is grey or pink. There is a saddle pattern dorsally, but no ventral pattern.

Geographic range

T. feicki is found in western Cuba, from Pedrera de Mendoza and Guane, Pinar del Río Province, east to Pan de Matanzas, Matanzas Province.

Habitat

The preferred habitat of T. feicki is rocky areas such as upland caves, cliffs, and talus deposits,forest, at altitudes from sea level to 400 m (1,300 ft).

Behavior

T. feicki is arboreal.

Diet

T. feicki preys upon small species of lizards.

Reproduction

T. feicki is viviparous.


Tropidophis feicki

T. feicki is viviparous.

  * García-Padrón, L. Yusnaviel (2022). "Maximum Size and a New Dietary Record for the Broad-banded Trope , Tropidophis feicki (Squamata: Tropidophiidae), in Cuba". Reptiles & Amphibians 29 (1): 270–272.
  * Rodríguez-Cabrera TM, Torres J, Morell-Savall E (2020). "Easternmost record of the Cuban Broad-banded Trope, Tropidophis feicki (Squamata: Tropidophiidae)". Caribbean Herpetology 71: 1–3.
  * Schwartz A (1957). "A New Species of Boa (Genus Tropidophis) from Western Cuba". American Museum Novitates (1839): 1-8. (Tropidophis feicki, new species).
  * Schwartz A, Henderson RW (1991). Amphibians and Reptiles of the West Indies: Descriptions, Distributions, and Natural History. Gainesville: University of Florida Press. 720 pp. ISBN 978-0813010496. (Tropidophis feicki, p. 633).


Tirapata District

Tirapata District is one of fifteen districts of the province Azángaro in Peru.

Ethnic groups

The people in the district are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (83.23%) learnt to speak in childhood, 14.13% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census).

14°57′22″S 70°24′15″W / 14.95611°S 70.40417°W


St. Patrick High School (Portland, Michigan)

St. Patrick High School is a private Roman Catholic high school in Portland, Michigan. It is under the direction of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Grand Rapids.

St. Patrick School was established as a grade school in 1906 by the Sisters of St. Joseph, followed by the high school in 1951.

History

1906: The First School Building

The first school in 1906 was a two-story tall cement block, 59½ ft x 42½ ft, with a cement block basement and a Southern Pine interior. At the time, commentators observed the physical state of St. Patrick's:

“The rooms are 12½ and 13 feet in height, airy, pleasant and commodious, both upstairs and down and the school altogether has pleasant surroundings. There are plenty of radiators in each room and the heater and boiler is of such capacity that there is no doubt that the building will be properly warmed," Portland Review and Observer.

This building was sufficient for the first forty years of the school.

1950s: New School Erected

In 1945, new pastor Father Louis Flohe found St. Patrick's an overcrowded school. He purchased the rest of the property on the block and replaced the original school with a building that could accommodate more grades. Now students could remain through secondary graduation. The new building, which had the largest and best gymnasium in the entire area, opened in 1951. By the end of the 1950s, the classrooms once again were filled to capacity, and there was a waiting list of students who wanted to attend St. Pat’s. Father Flohe initiated another building campaign, to which the people of the parish again responded. The new addition opened in 1961, adding eight classrooms and a lower level cafeteria.

2002: Final Building Phase

As the 20th century drew to a close, the parish recognized that the school once again needed to be enlarged. Father Charlie Hall oversaw another pledge drive, and within twelve weeks the money was raised. On St. Patrick’s Day, 2002, the groundbreaking ceremony took place. In November 2002, an 18,000-square-foot (1,700 m2) addition, including two state-of-the-art computer labs, an art room, a music room, two new classrooms and a library/media center was completed.

The Early Days


The Early Days

The Students

The first St. Patrick School enrolled 60 students. The three teachers (and one housekeeper) were nuns who came to St. Patrick’s from Nazareth convent near Kalamazoo. It would be more than forty years before lay teachers arrived in the classrooms. There were no extracurricular activities at St. Patrick’s. The students were there to learn, and their days were filled with academics, catechism and the Palmer Method of Penmanship. The only exception was music class and a few occasions when Sr. Lucille took the students outdoors, lined them up in rows and had them perform some exercises.

Discipline

The priest and nuns were strict disciplinarians about behavior. Every morning, children did their early chores at home and walked to school for 8 a.m. Mass. Students were expected to be on their best behavior. They walked two by two in perfectly straight lines, and were not allowed to speak to each other at all. The students were “frightened like the dickens” of Father O’Rourke, pastor from 1922-34. He handed out report cards, then he would call a name, and that child would stand next to him while he reviewed their grades. He was known to spank kids whose grades were not up to par.

Dress Code

The dress code was very rigid in the early 20th century. Boys wore long sleeved shirts and ties; sleeves could be rolled up while on playground, but had to be rolled back down when they re-entered the school. The girls wore long sleeved dresses and long cotton stockings under them. No skin showed other than hands and faces.

Graduation

Upon graduation from 8th grade in 1906, there was no ceremony, no diploma, no celebration. The students were expected to go out into the world to begin working. Very few students continued their education beyond that level.

Athletics

The Shamrocks of St. Patrick School field teams in football, volleyball, girls basketball, boys basketball, cheerleading, softball, baseball, boys golf, boys bowling, girls bowling, cross country and track & field. These teams are part of the Michigan High School Athletic Association (MHSAA).


The girls' basketball team program has won six Class D State Championships (1994, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000 and 2002). The program also features six runner-up finishes (1978, 1982, 1988, 2003, 2004 and 2006). The football program at St. Patrick experienced great success in the 1990s. Led by Coach Chris Schrauben, the Shamrocks won a Division 8 State Championship in 1992, as well as the Division 8 State Runner-Up honors in 1991 and 1997.

Baseball is another sport in which the Shamrocks have experienced consistent success. Since taking Division 4 State Runner-Up trophies in 1971, 1973, 1993 and 2016, the Shamrocks have established a highly competitive program under St. Patrick alum Bryan Scheurer, making appearances in the state quarterfinals in both 2009 and 2010 and earning a semifinal berth in 2010. The Shamrocks won their first baseball state title in 2017, with a 6-2 victory over Hudson under St. Patrick alum Bryan Scheurer.

  * School Website
  * Parish Website

Notes and references


Yvonne Arnaud

Germaine Yvonne Arnaud (20 December 1890 – 20 September 1958) was a French-born pianist, singer and actress, who was well known for her career in Britain, as well as her native land. After beginning a career as a concert pianist as a child, Arnaud acted in musical comedies. She switched to non-musical comedy and drama around 1920 and was one of the players in the second of the Aldwych farces, A Cuckoo in the Nest, a hit in 1925. She also had dramatic roles and made films in the 1930s and 1940s, and continued to act into the 1950s. She occasionally performed as a pianist later in her career. The Yvonne Arnaud Theatre was named in her memory in Guildford, Surrey.

Life and career

Arnaud was the daughter of Charles Leon Arnaud and his wife Antoinette (née Montegut). She was brought up in Paris and entered the Paris Conservatoire aged 9, studying piano under Alphonse Duvernoy and other teachers.Édouard Colonne, Arthur Nikisch, Willem Mengelberg, Vasily Safonov, Gustav Mahler and Alexander Siloti.

In 1911 she decided to try the stage instead of the concert hall and obtained an engagement at London's Adelphi Theatre as understudy to Elsie Spain in the role of Princess Mathilde in The Quaker Girl, first going on stage in that role on 7 August 1911. She next played the leading role of Suzanne in the musical The Girl in the Taxi (1912), earning popularity with her vivacity and charming French accent.Mam'selle Tralala in 1914 (revived the following year as Oh! Be Careful), two revivals of "The Girl in the Taxi" (in 1913 and 1915), in Harry Grattan's Odds and Ends (1914), Excuse Me! (1915)L'Enfant Prodigue, in which she also played the piano. She also had a lead in Kissing Time (1919).

The Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildford is named in her honour


Yvonne Arnaud

The Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildford is named in her honour

After this, an operation damaged her vocal cords, and so she switched from musicals to plays, beginning with the role of Louise Allington in the farce Tons of Money, which ran for nearly two years at the Shaftesbury Theatre from 1922.Aldwych farces as Marguerite in A Cuckoo in the Nest, by Ben Travers, which was a hit in 1925. Other comic roles included Mrs. Pepys in J.B. Fagan's And So to Bed (1926) and the title Role in Fagan's The Improper Duchess (1931). In 1927 she travelled to New York where she repeated the Mrs. Pepys on Broadway at the Shubert Theatre.

She also appeared in British films, beginning with the role of Pauline in Desire, in 1920, opposite Dennis Neilson-Terry. In 1929–30, she played the role of Elma Melton in the stage version (both London and New York) and then the film version of Frederick Lonsdale's Canaries Sometimes Sing. She also appeared in some dramatic roles in the 1930s and 1940s, including some Shakespearean roles.Love for Love during the Second World War.Alex Gard for Sardi's, the New York City theatre district restaurant. The picture is now part of the collection of the New York Public Library.Jack Hulbert in Ronald Millar's The Big Tickle.

She still occasionally performed as a pianist later in her career, for example, with the Hallé Orchestra under Sir John Barbirolli in Manchester in 1948.Franz Reizenstein's pastiche Concerto Popolare at the 1956 Hoffnung Festival (having been chosen after Eileen Joyce declined).

Personal life

Yvonne Arnaud's memorial in the churchyard of St. Martha's on the Hill

In 1920, Arnaud married the actor Hugh McLellan, son of C. M. S. McLellan.League Against Cruel Sports from 1948 to 1951. She was also godmother to the writer Oriel Malet, and was the subject of Malet's book Marraine: a portrait of my godmother (1961).


Yvonne Arnaud

For many years Guildford, Surrey, where she died. Her ashes were scattered in St. Martha's churchyard on St. Martha's Hill just south-east of Guildford, and there is a memorial to her on the church grounds. In 1965 the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre was opened in the town.

Complete filmography

  * Desire (1920)
  * The Temptress (1920)
  * On Approval (1930)
  * Canaries Sometimes Sing (1930)
  * Tons of Money (1930)
  * A Cuckoo in the Nest (1933)
  * Princess Charming (1934)
  * Lady in Danger (1934)
  * Widow's Might (1935)
  * Stormy Weather (1935)
  * The Improper Duchess (1936)
  * The Gay Adventure (1936)
  * Neutral Port (1940)
  * Tomorrow We Live (1943)
  * Woman to Woman (1947)
  * Everyman (1947 TV movie)
  * The Ghosts of Berkeley Square (1947)
  * Madame Pepita (1952 TV movie)
  * Mon oncle (1958)
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Yvonne Arnaud.
  * Yvonne Arnaud at IMDb
  * Yvonne Arnaud at the Internet Broadway Database
  * Arnaud performing as a pianist on YouTube


Yardbird Suite (Frank Morgan album)

Yardbird Suite is an album by saxophonist Frank Morgan which was recorded in 1988 and released on the Contemporary label.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source                                Rating
Allmusic
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings

The review by Allmusic's Scott Yanow said: "Altoist Frank Morgan explores his bebop roots on this infectious set ... Morgan pays tribute to Bird, yet does not copy him (although he has the ability to sometimes sound very similar to Parker). This spontaneous session has its subtle surprises and is often hard-swinging. Recommended".

Track listing

All compositions by Charlie Parker except where noted

 1. "Yardbird Suite – 7:55
 2. "A Night in Tunisia" (Dizzy Gillespie, Frank Paparelli) – 6:23
 3. "Billie's Bounce" – 7:21
 4. "Star Eyes" (Gene de Paul, Don Raye) – 7:14
 5. "Scrapple from the Apple" – 6:03
 6. "Skylark" (Hoagy Carmichael, Johnny Mercer) – 6:43
 7. "Cheryl" – 7:49 Additional track on CD release

Personnel

Performance

  * Frank Morgan – alto saxophone
  * Mulgrew Miller – piano
  * Ron Carter – bass
  * Al Foster – drums

Production

  * Orrin Keepnews – producer
  * Danny Kopelson – engineer


Take Me as I Am

Take Me as I Am may refer to:

Albums

  * Take Me as I Am (Faith Hill album), or the title song (see below), 1993
  * Take Me as I Am (Ian McCallum album), or the title song, 1997

Songs

  * "Take Me as I Am" (FM Static song), 2009
  * "Take Me as I Am" (Faith Hill song), 1993
  * "Take Me as I Am" (Mary J. Blige song), 2006
  * "Take Me as I Am" (Tornike Kipiani song), 2020
  * "Take Me as I Am", by Bob Dylan from Self Portrait
  * "Take Me as I Am", by Seven Wiser from Seven Wiser
  * "Take Me as I Am", by Vanessa Amorosi from Turn to Me
  * "Take Me As I Am", by Wyclef Jean from The Preacher's Son
  * "Take Me as I Am", from the Broadway musical Jekyll & Hyde
  * "Take Me As I Am", by Example from Live Life Living
  * “Take Me As I Am”, by Carly Simon from Come Upstairs
  * "Take Me as I Am" by Sharissa
  * "Take Me as I Am", by Rina Sawayama from RINA
  * "Take Me as I Am", by The Streets from "None of Us Are Getting Out of This Life Alive"


Pelophryne signata

Pelophryne signata is a species of toad in the family Bufonidae. It is found in Brunei, Malaysia, and possibly Indonesia. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and freshwater marshes. It is threatened by habitat loss.


Tricca

For other uses, see Tricca (disambiguation).

39°33′32″N 21°45′45″E / 39.558752°N 21.762589°E

Map showing ancient Thessaly. Tricca is shown to the centre left.

Tricca or Trikka (Ancient Greek: Τρίκκη or Τρίκκα) was a city and polis (city-state)ancient Thessaly in the district Histiaeotis, standing upon the left bank of the Peneius, and near a small stream called Lethaeus.Tricca, a daughter of Peneius.Trikala extends over the ancient site.

History

It is mentioned in Homer as the kingdom of Machaon and Podaleirius, sons of Asclepius and physicians of the Greek army, who led the Triccaeans to the Trojan War.Epidaurus and Cos.William Martin Leake reports an inscription in four elegiac verses, to the memory of a "god-like physician named Cimber, by his wife Andromache," which he found upon a marble in a bridge over the ancient Lethaeus.

In the edict published by Polysperchon and the other generals of Alexander the Great, after the death of the latter, allowing the exiles from the different Greek cities to return to their homes, those of Tricca and of the neighbouring town of Pharcadon were excepted for some reason, which is not recorded.Philip V of Macedon arrived after his defeat at the Battle of the Aous (198 BC). 333.

Procopius, who calls the town Tricattûs (Τρικάττους), says that it was restored by Justinian;Hierocles

The castle occupies a hill projecting from the last falls of the mountain of Khassia; but the only traces of the ancient city which Leake could discover were some small remains of Hellenic masonry, forming part of the wall of the castle, and some squared blocks of stone of the same ages dispersed in different parts of the town.

Tricca was Christianised early and is attested as an episcopal see since antiquity; the bishopric is now Greek Orthodox. The Roman Catholic Church claims it as a titular see.


Tricca

Attribution
  * This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Tricca". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
  * This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Tricca". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.


Zadonbeh-ye Pain

Zadonbeh-ye Pain (Persian: زادنبه پائين, also Romanized as Zādonbeh-ye Pā’īn; also known as Zādan Beg Pāīn and Zādonbeh)Barakuh Rural District, Jolgeh-e Mazhan District, Khusf County, South Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 9, in 4 families.


Mountainburg School District

Mountainburg School District 16 (MSD) is a public school district based in Mountainburg, Arkansas. MPSD encompasses 195.40 square miles (506.1 km2) of land in Crawford County and serves all or portions of the communities of Mountain Pine, Winslow, Mulberry, Chester, Alma and Rudy.

The school district and its schools located along U.S. Route 71 serves more than 700 students with more than 120 faculty and staff at its three schools. The district and schools' mascot is the Dragon with royal blue and white serving as the colors.

Schools

  * Mountainburg High School, serving more than 275 students in grades 9 through 12.
  * Mountainburg Middle School, serving more than 325 students in grades 5 through grade 8.
  * Mountainburg Elementary School, serving more than 325 students in prekindergarten through grade 6.
  * Official website


1955–56 Sussex County Football League

The 1955–56 Sussex County Football League season was the 31st in the history of the competition.

Division 1 still remained at seventeen teams with Three Bridges United being promoted from Division 2. Division 2 now featured fourteen teams from which the winners would be promoted into Division 1.

Division One

The division featured 17 clubs, 16 which competed in the last season, along with one new club:

  * Three Bridges United, promoted from last season's Division Two

League table

Pos  Team                             Pld  W   D  L   GF   GA   GR     Pts  Qualification or relegation
1    Eastbourne United                32   23  6  3   114  50   2.280  52   Joined Metropolitan League
2    Whitehawk & Manor Farm Old Boys  32   21  5  6   97   46   2.109  47
3    Bognor Regis Town                32   20  3  9   113  57   1.982  43
4    Lewes                            30   19  3  8   89   55   1.618  41
5    Chichester City                  32   17  6  9   102  57   1.789  40
6    Arundel                          32   15  8  9   84   67   1.254  38
7    Hove White Rovers                32   16  5  11  79   66   1.197  37
8    Southwick                        32   14  5  13  66   70   0.943  33
9    Newhaven                         32   14  4  14  72   64   1.125  32
10   Littlehampton Town               32   12  8  12  75   68   1.103  32
11   East Grinstead                   32   10  7  15  68   96   0.708  27
12   Bexhill Town Athletic            32   11  4  17  67   83   0.807  26
13   Lancing Athletic                 32   11  4  17  70   87   0.805  26
14   Brighton Old Grammarians         32   9   7  16  43   77   0.558  25
15   Shoreham                         32   7   4  21  59   106  0.557  18
16   Wigmore Athletic                 32   6   4  22  42   100  0.420  16
17   Three Bridges United             32   4   1  27  35   126  0.278  9    Relegated to Division Two

Source: Non-League Matters
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
The points system until the 1982–83 season: 2 points for a win, 1 point for a draw and 0 points for losing.

Division Two

The division featured 14 clubs, 10 which competed in the last season, along with four new clubs:

  * Crawley, relegated from last season's Division One
  * Battle Rangers
  * Hailsham
  * Uckfield Town

League table


1955–56 Sussex County Football League

League table

Pos  Team                    Pld  W   D  L   GF   GA  GR     Pts  Qualification or relegation
1    Rye United              26   22  1  3   111  45  2.467  45   Promoted to Division One
2    Crawley                 26   20  2  4   96   28  3.429  42   Joined Metropolitan League
3    APV Athletic            26   17  2  7   62   43  1.442  36
4    Hastings Rangers        26   16  1  9   73   43  1.698  33
5    Sidley United           26   13  4  9   64   69  0.928  30
6    Hastings & St Leonards  26   13  2  11  85   78  1.090  28
7    Hailsham                26   11  4  11  72   77  0.935  26
8    Goldstone               26   11  3  12  55   60  0.917  25
9    Uckfield Town           26   10  3  13  60   73  0.822  23
10   Battle Rangers          26   8   3  15  65   74  0.878  19
11   Moulsecoomb Rovers      26   7   3  16  57   79  0.722  17
12   Chichester United       26   7   2  17  57   99  0.576  16
13   Seaford Town            26   5   4  17  46   91  0.505  14
14   Cuckfield               26   5   0  21  52   96  0.542  10

Source: Non-League Matters
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
The points system until the 1982–83 season: 2 points for a win, 1 point for a draw and 0 points for losing.


Mill Green Museum

Mill Green Museum is a working watermill in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England.local museum is in the old miller's house. Three galleries show changing displays of art and local history.

History

The mill uses the power of the River Lea. The Domesday Book records several mills at Hatfield, and they are assumed to have included one at this site and another upstream at Lemsford.

In 1911 the last miller to mill commercially, Mr Lawrence, emigrated to Australia. However, the mill has been restored to full working order with 18th and 19th century wooden machinery. It is in regular use to grind organic wheat for a local bakery and for retail sale on the premises.

Access

The mill is managed by Welwyn Hatfield Borough Council. Visitors can explore the mill, see it working and chat to the miller on duty. Mill Green runs craft and baking workshops, children's activities and a school visit service.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mill Green Mill.
  * Grade II* listed buildings in Welwyn Hatfield
  * List of museums in Hertfordshire
  * Mill Green Museum website
  * https://www.welhat.gov.uk/mill-green
  * Mill Green official facebook page


St. Patrick Church, Siddakatte

The St. Patrick Church is a Roman Catholic Church situated in the locality of Siddakatte, Bantwal. The church was built in 1926.Roman Catholic Diocese of Mangalore.

History

The church was built in 1926.

Demographics

The parish has 282 families with a population of 1,504 members as of September 2014.

Administration

The church administration is famous for their service in education around Siddakatte. The institutions which are started by church administration are below.

  * Bal Christ Nivas
  * Shanthi Rani Convent
  * St. Patrick Higher Primary School
  * St. Patrick English Medium School
  * Roman Catholicism in Mangalore
  * Goan Catholics
  * Church Of Sacred Heart Of Jesus, Madanthyar
  * Christianity in Karnataka
  * Most Holy Redeemer Church, Belthangady
  * Church of Most Holy Saviour, Agrar
  * Mangalore


Ogren

Ogren may refer to:

People:

  * Robert E. Ogren (1922–2005), American zoologist
  * Ryan Ogren, American singer-songwriter
  * Paul Anders Ogren (born 1951), American carpenter, farmer, and politician
  * Sandra Gardebring Ogren (1947– 2010) American jurist, Associate Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court

Other:

  * Ogren (automobile company)


Zabolotovka

Zabolotovka (Russian: Заболотовка) is a rural locality (a settlement) in Olkhovatskoye Urban Settlement, Olkhovatsky District, Voronezh Oblast, Russia. The population was 3,156 as of 2010.

Geography

Zabolotovka is located 3 km southeast of Olkhovatka (the district's administrative centre) by road. Bugayevka is the nearest rural locality.


Take Me to Your Heaven

This article is about the album by Stevie Woods. For the song by Charlotte Perrelli, see Take Me to Your Heaven (song). For the album by Wizex, see Tusen och en natt (album).

Take Me to Your Heaven is the debut album by Stevie Woods, released in 1981 on Cotillion Records. The album was reissued in 2010 by Wounded Bird Records.

The album is Woods' only album to chart on the Billboard 200 and Top Soul Albums charts. "Steal the Night" and "Just Can't Win 'Em All" are the album's (and Woods' only) Top 40 and Top 20 entries on the Billboard Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary charts respectively.

Track listing

Side A
No.  Title                     Writer(s)                                                   Length
1.   "Fly Away"                Carol Bayer Sager, David Foster, Peter Allen                4:04
2.   "Just Can't Win 'Em All"  Bill Bowersock, Greg Mathieson, Matt Vernon, Trevor Veitch  4:10
3.   "Take Me to Your Heaven"  Kelly Wilson, Steve Wilson                                  4:03
4.   "Steal the Night"         Bill Bowersock, Matt Vernon, Trevor Veitch                  3:47
5.   "Through the Years"       Steve Dorff, Marty Panzer                                   4:26

Side B
No.  Title                                Writer(s)                                                   Length
6.   "Wanna Be Close to You"              René Moore, Angela Winbush                                  4:38
7.   "Read Between the Lines"             Bill Bowersock, Greg Mathieson, Matt Vernon, Trevor Veitch  3:52
8.   "Throw a Little Bit of Love My Way"  David Foster, Harry Garfield, Jay Graydon                   4:25
9.   "Gotcha"                             David Shields, Fritz Baskett, Michael Thompson              5:00

Personnel

Production
  * Producer: Jack White
  * Engineer: David Clark, Jürgen Koppers, Steven D. Smith

Charts

Album Year                       Chart          Position
1981                       Billboard 200    153
Billboard Top Soul Albums       44


Take Me to Your Heaven

Album Year                       Chart          Position
1981                       Billboard 200    153
Billboard Top Soul Albums       44

Singles Year                                          Single                    Chart                   Position
1981                                          "Steal the Night"         U.S. Billboard Hot 100     25
U.S. Billboard Hot Soul Singles                          36
U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks             14
1982                                          "Just Can't Win 'Em All"  U.S. Billboard Hot 100     38
U.S. Billboard Hot Soul Singles                          57
U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks             15
"Fly Away"                                    U.S. Billboard Hot 100              84
U.S. Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Tracks             23

  * Take Me to Your Heaven at Discogs
  * Take Me to Your Heaven at AllMusic


Paide

This article is about the town. For the administrative unit, see Paide (urban municipality). For the Austrian town, see Weißenstein.

Drone video of Paide and its castle

Paide is a town in Estonia and the capital of Järva County, one of the 15 counties of Estonia.

Etymology

Paide's German name Weißenstein (originally Wittenstein or Wittensten in Low German) means "white stone". This name was derived from the limestone used for the construction of Paide Castle. A Latin translation, Albus Lapis, has also been used.Paide was first recorded in 1564 as Paida, and is thought to derive from the word paas, pae, meaning "limestone".

Sights

Paide Church

Paide Vallitorn

A castle was built in Paide by order of Konrad von Mandern, master of the Livonian Order, sometime in 1265 or 1266. It was from the beginning constructed around the central tower or keep, locally known as Tall Hermann tower or Vallitorn. With its six storeys, the tower has always been the core of the castle complex. The fortress was strengthened during the 14th and 15th centuries, when the surrounding walls were enlarged and towers added. It was also modernised to be able to meet the new threat of firearms. During the 16th century, the castle was again modified through the addition of outer bastions.

During the Livonian War, the castle was repeatedly besieged by Russian troops, and in 1573 it was occupied by troops loyal to Ivan the Terrible. After that, the castle changed hands several times. It was also involved in the fighting during the 1600-1611 Polish-Swedish War, in the so-called Siege of Weissenstein.

In 1895-1897 restoration work was carried out on the central tower and some other parts of the castle. However, in 1941, during World War II, retreating Soviet troops blew up the central tower and it was not repaired until after Estonia regained its independence, in 1990–1993.

Today the restored central tower houses a part of Järva County museum.

Paide Church


Paide

Paide Church

Paide Church originally dates from the 16th century; however, it has been very badly damaged in both war and fire on several occasions, and the present-day building dates mainly from a reconstruction which took place in 1909-1910 under the supervision of architect J. C. Mühlhausen.

Demographics


Paide

Ethnic Composition 1922-2021
Ethnicity    1922  1934    1941  1959    1970  1979    1989  2000    2011  2021
amount       %     amount  %     amount  %     amount  %     amount  %     amount  %     amount  %      amount  %     amount  %     amount  %
Estonians    2693  90.5    3070  93.5    2927  98.3    5351  91.7    6774  85.6    8363  86.7    9411   86.7    8683  90.1    7602  92.4    7312  92.3
Russians     61    2.05    38    1.16    14    0.47    -     -       560   7.08    806   8.36    926    8.54    512   5.31    359   4.36    256   3.23
Ukrainians   -     -       0     0.00    -     -       -     -       47    0.59    85    0.88    156    1.44    120   1.24    87    1.06    160   2.02
Belarusians  -     -       -     -       -     -       -     -       27    0.34    35    0.36    50     0.46    20    0.21    15    0.18    26    0.33
Finns        -     -       2     0.06    1     0.03    -     -       153   1.93    158   1.64    152    1.40    115   1.19    60    0.73    46    0.58
Jews         12    0.40    18    0.55    0     0.00    -     -       4     0.05    1     0.01    2      0.02    3     0.03    1     0.01    0     0.00
Latvians     -     -       7     0.21    3     0.10    -     -       9     0.11    20    0.21    8      0.07    3     0.03    2     0.02    9     0.11
Germans      175   5.88    132   4.02    -     -       -     -       -     -       67    0.69    41     0.38    24    0.25    18    0.22    11    0.14
Tatars       -     -       0     0.00    -     -       -     -       -     -       5     0.05    3      0.03    4     0.04    2     0.02    3     0.04
Poles        -     -       1     0.03    4     0.13    -     -       -     -       25    0.26    15     0.14    20    0.21    16    0.19    9     0.11


Paide

Lithuanians  -     -       1     0.03    0     0.00    -     -       8     0.10    9     0.09    9      0.08    7     0.07    5     0.06    4     0.05
unknown      0     0.00    0     0.00    3     0.10    0     0.00    0     0.00    0     0.00    0      0.00    61    0.63    12    0.15    41    0.52
other        35    1.18    16    0.49    26    0.87    486   8.33    329   4.16    67    0.69    76     0.70    70    0.73    49    0.60    50    0.63
Total        2976  100     3285  100     2978  100     5837  100     7911  100     9641  100     10849  100     9642  100     8228  100     7926  100.01


Paide

Sports

Paide is home to Paide linnastaadion, the home ground of Meistriliiga football team Paide Linnameeskond.

Notable residents

  * Ita Ever, stage and film actress
  * Helle-Reet Helenurm, actress
  * Tullio Ilomets, chemist
  * Ekaterina Kalinina, Bolshevik revolutionary and civil servant, wife of the Soviet head of state Mikhail Kalinin
  * Carmen Kass, model
  * Kalle Kiik, chess International Master
  * Andres Noormets, actor and stage director
  * Arvo Pärt, classical music composer
  * Toomas Raudam, writer
  * Mati Sirkel, translator and writer
  * Karin Tammaru, actress

Gallery

  * [View of Paide, made sometime before 1632]
    View of Paide, made sometime before 1632
  * [Town square]
    Town square
  * [Courthouse]
    Courthouse
  * [Hospital clinic (former German Girls' Private Gymnasium)]
    Hospital clinic (former German Girls' Private Gymnasium)
  * [Paide Town Hall]
    Paide Town Hall
  * [Järvamaa Museum]
    Järvamaa Museum
  * [Music and Theatre House]
    Music and Theatre House
  * [Paide Gymnasium]
    Paide Gymnasium
  * Siege of Weissenstein
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  * Ühendus Weissenstein (in Estonian)
  * Webcam from Paide keskväljak


Minister of Economy and Finance (Madagascar)

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Minister of Economy and Finance is the person in charge of the Ministry of Economy and Finance of Madagascar.

Ministers responsible for Finance

  * Paul Longuet, October 1960 - January 1963
  * Victor Miadana, January 1963 - May 1972
  * Albert Marie Ramaroson, May 1972 - February 1975
  * Désiré Rakotoarijaona, February 1975 - June 1975
  * Rakotovao Razakaboana, June 1975 - January 1982
  * Pascal Rakotomavo, January 1982 - 1989
  * Léon Rajaobelina, 1989 - March 1992
  * Gérard Rabehevitra, March 1992 - May 1992
  * Evariste Marson, May 1992 - October 1993
  * José Yvon Raserijaona, October 1993 - February 1997
  * Tantely Andrianarivo, February 1997 - July 1998
  * Tantely Andrianarivo, August 1998 - February 2002
  * Benjamin Andriamparany Radavidson, February 2002 - October 2007
  * Haja Nirina Razafinjatovo, October 2007 - March 2009
  * Benja Razafimahaleo, March 2009 - September 2009
  * Hery Rajaonarimampianina, 2009 - 2013
  * Lantoniaina Rasoloelison, 2013-2014
  * Jean Razafindravonona, 2014-2015
  * Gervais Rakotoarimanana, 2015-2017
  * Vonintsalama Andriambololona, 2017-2019
  * Richard Randriamandranto, 2019-2021
  * Rindra Rabarinirinarison, 2021-
  * Government of Madagascar
  * Economy of Madagascar
  * Website of the Ministry of Economy and Finance


Zadok Malka

Zadok Malka is a former Israeli footballer.

Honours

  * Israeli Championships
      + 1984–85, 1988–89, 1990–91


Mountain treeshrew

The mountain treeshrew (Tupaia montana) is a treeshrew species within the Tupaiidae.endemic to Borneo and inhabits montane forests in Sarawak and Sabah, Malaysia, and Kalimantan, Indonesia.

The first specimen was described by Oldfield Thomas and was part of a zoological collection from northern Borneo obtained by the British Museum of Natural History.

Characteristics

The mountain treeshrew is dark grizzled rufous above with an indistinct black line along the back. Its tail is rather short and grizzled rufous above, but below more olivaceous yellow with a black tip. The lateral tail hairs are ringed. The head and body length measures 15–33 cm and the tail length measures 13–19 cm.

Distribution and habitat

Charles Hose collected the first specimen at about 4,000 ft (1,200 m) on Mount Dulit.600 m (2,000 ft).

Ecology and behaviour

In their natural habitat, mountain treeshrews were observed being active during the day. They forage on the ground among fallen logs and branches where they feed mostly on arthropods. They also consume large quantities of wild fruits and berries, eating them in short bursts. It is assumed that they extract sugar laden juices and in this way supplement any dietary deficiencies of an arthropod diet.

Results of a behavioral study of a group of 12 wild-caught captive mountain treeshrews indicate that they are more social than groups of other treeshrew species. Two males tended to dominate the group. Females had an estrous cycle lasting nine to 12 days. Gestation lasted 49 to 51 days. They did not display a distinct reproductive season. Litters comprised one to two young.

Mountain treeshrews have a mutualistic relationship with several pitcher plants species such as Nepenthes lowii, Nepenthes macrophylla, and Nepenthes rajah. They defecate into the plants' pitchers while visiting them to feed on sweet, fruity secretions from glands on the pitcher lids.


1955–56 in Belgian football

The 1955–56 season was the 53rd season of competitive football in Belgium. RSC Anderlechtois won their 7th Division I title.European Champion Clubs' Cup as Belgian champion. The Belgium national football team played 7 friendly games (2 wins, 1 draw, 4 losses).RRC Tournaisien won the Belgian Cup but after this season the competition was stopped due to the pressure of the top clubs in the vote to maintain or not the competition. The Belgian Cup would eventually resume in the 1963–64 season after the creation of the European Cup Winners' Cup.

Overview

At the end of the season, K Waterschei SV Thor and KFC Malinois were relegated to Division II and were replaced by Division II winner RCS Verviétois and runner-up OC Charleroi.
The bottom 2 clubs in Division II (SRU Verviers and KFC Herentals) were relegated to Division III, to be replaced by (RCS Brugeois and VV Patro Eisden) from Division III.
The bottom 2 clubs of each Division III league KAV Dendermonde, KVK Waeslandia Burcht, RCS Hallois and RFC Bressoux were relegated to Promotion, to be replaced by FC Eeklo, K Olse Merksem SC, R Jeunesse Arlonaise and KFC Diest from Promotion.

National team

Date                Venue                               Opponents        Score*  Comp  Belgium scorers
September 25, 1955  Strahov Stadium, Prague (A)         Czechoslovakia   2-5     F     Henri Coppens, Richard Orlans
September 28, 1955  Stadionul 23 August, Bucharest (A)  Romania          0-1     F
October 16, 1955    Feijenoord Stadion, Rotterdam (A)   The Netherlands  2-2     F     Sébastien Jacquemijns (2)
December 25, 1955   Heysel Stadium, Brussels (H)        France           2-1     F     Jean Jadot, Hippolyte Van Den Bosch
March 11, 1956      Heysel Stadium, Brussels (H)        Switzerland      1-3     F     Joseph Mermans
April 8, 1956       Bosuilstadion, Antwerp (H)          The Netherlands  0-1     F
June 3, 1956        Heysel Stadium, Brussels (H)        Hungary          5-4     F     Robert Van Kerkhoven, Remy Vandeweyer, Richard Orlans (2), Denis Houf

* Belgium score given first


1955–56 in Belgian football

* Belgium score given first

Key

  * H = Home match
  * A = Away match
  * N = On neutral ground
  * F = Friendly
  * o.g. = own goal

European competitions

RSC Anderlechtois lost in the first round of the first European Champion Clubs' Cup to Vörös Lobogo of Hungary (defeat 6-3 away and defeat 1-4 at home).

Honours

Competition   Winner
Division I    RSC Anderlechtois
Cup           RRC Tournaisien
Division II   RCS Verviétois
Division III  RCS Brugeois and VV Patro Eisden
Promotion     FC Eeklo, K Olse Merksem SC, R Jeunesse Arlonaise and KFC Diest

Final league tables

Premier Division

Main article: 1955–56 Belgian First Division
  * 1955-56 Top scorer: Jean Mathonet (Standard Liège) with 26 goals.
  * 1955 Golden Shoe: Alfons Van Brandt (K Lierse SK)


Mill Hill, Shoreham

Mill Hill is a 13.5-hectare (33-acre) Local Nature Reserve on the northern outskirts of Shoreham-by-Sea in West Sussex. It is owned by Adur District Council and managed by the council and the South Downs Joint Committee.

This site has chalk grassland, scrub and secondary woodland. It is one of the best areas in Sussex for butterflies, with 29 species recorded, including the Adonis blue. More than 160 species of flowering plant have been recorded, such as horseshoe vetch.

There is access from the road called Mill Hill.

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50°51′11″N 0°16′52″W / 50.853°N 0.281°W


St. Patrick's Primary School

St. Patrick's Primary School may refer to:

  * St. Patrick's Primary School, Aghagallon, Aghagallon, County Armagh, Northern Ireland
  * St. Patrick's Primar School, Annaghmore, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
  * St. Patrick's Primary School, Ardboe, Ardboe, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
  * St. Patrick's Primary School, Armagh, Armagh, Northern Ireland
  * St. Patrick's Primary School, Augher, Augher, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
  * St. Patrick's Primary School, Craigavon, Craigavon, County Armagh, Northern Ireland
  * St. Patrick's Primary School, Crossmaglen, Crossmaglen, County Armagh, Northern Ireland
  * St. Patrick's Primary School, Cullyhanna, Cullyhanna, County Armagh, Northern Ireland
  * St. Patrick's Primary School, Donaghmore, Donaghmore, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
  * St. Patrick's Primary School, Dungannon, Dungannon, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland
  * St. Patrick's Primary School, Hilltown, Hilltown, County Down, Northern Ireland
  * St. Patrick's Primary School, Holywood, Holywood, County Down, Northern Ireland
  * St. Patrick's Primary School, Liverpool, England
  * St. Patrick's Primary School, Loup, Loup, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland
  * St. Patrick's Primary School, Magheralin, Magheralin, County Down, Northern Ireland
  * St. Patrick's Primary School, Mayobridge, Mayobridge, County Down, Northern Ireland
  * St. Patrick's Primary School, Mentone, Mentone, Victoria, Australia
  * St. Patrick's Primary School, Moneymore, Moneymore, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland
  * St. Patrick's Primary School, Newry, Newry, County Down, Northern Ireland
  * St. Patrick's Primary School, Rathfriland, Rathfriland, County Down, Northern Ireland
  * St. Patrick's Primary School, Strathaven, Strathaven, Lanarkshire, Scotland


Vosmoye Marta, Sredneakhtubinsky District, Volgograd Oblast

Vosmoye Marta (Russian: Восьмое Марта) is a rural locality (a settlement) in Krasnooktyabrskoye Rural Settlement, Sredneakhtubinsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia. The population was 19 as of 2010.

Geography

Vosmoye Marta is located 81 km northeast of Srednyaya Akhtuba (the district's administrative centre) by road. Krasny Oktyabr is the nearest rural locality.


Zaboli Mahalleh-ye Sofla

Zaboli Mahalleh-ye Sofla (Persian: زابلي محله سفلي, also Romanized as Zābolī Maḩalleh-ye Soflá; also known as Zābol Maḩalleh-ye Pā’īn and Zābolī Maḩalleh-ye Pā’īn)Jafarbay-ye Jonubi Rural District, in the Central District of Torkaman County, Golestan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 354, in 84 families.


Steve Holmes (footballer)

Steven Peter Holmes (born 13 January 1971) is an English former professional footballer.

He played as a defender in the Football League most notably for Lincoln City over two spells spanning a combined total of 8 seasons. In 2007, he was voted number 37 in their 100 League Legends.Preston North End and Hartlepool United and had spells in Non-League football for Boston Town, Gainsborough Trinity, Guisborough Town, Bromsgrove Rovers and Dunston Federation Brewery.

Career

Early career

Steve Holmes started his career as a YTS trainee with Lincoln City in the summer of 1987. In his second year as a trainee he made the first team squad, being an unused substitute in the 2–2 home Football League draw with Scarborough on 15 October 1988 before playing a full ninety minutes in the 3–1 home victory over Enfield four days later which secured the Imps the James Thompson Championship Shield, an annual contest between the winners of the Football Conference and FA Trophy. He was an unused substitute in the next two league games before spending the latter half of the season on loan to Boston, helping the club secure the Central Midlands League Supreme Division championship.Sincil Bank based club in the summer of 1989 and commenced the season on loan with Boston. Failing to make an impression with the first team he moved on to join Gainsborough Trinity and then Guisborough Town.

Preston North End

His performances for Guisborough Town attracted attention and, on 14 March 1994, John Beck paid £10,000 to secure his services for Preston North End. On 31 March 1994 he joined Bromsgrove Rovers on loanFootball Conference home defeat to Slough Town on 2 April 1994.Football League debut came on 29 October 1994 in a 1–0 home defeat to Exeter City.Hartlepool United on loan, debuting in the following day's 3–1 home victory over Colchester United. He marked his final appearance for the club by scoring twice, his first Football League goals, in a 4–0 home victory over Hereford United on 22 April 1995. One week later he faced Hartlepool United in Preston's colours and marked the occasion with his first Preston goal in a 3–0 home victory.

Lincoln City


Steve Holmes (footballer)

Lincoln City

In October 1995, Beck was appointed manager of Lincoln City and he immediately returned to his former club, Preston North End, to sign Barry Richardson for £20,000 and secure Holmes on a three-month loan deal on 20 October 1995.Cardiff City the following day. In this, his second spell at Sincil Bank, he held down a starting position throughout his loan period before returning to Deepdale. Although he managed to break back into the Preston first team, the signing of Paul Sparrow meant that he was able to sign for Lincoln City on a permanent basis for a fee of £30,000 on 15 March 1996; his second debut coming in the 2–0 defeat at Leyton Orient the following day.

Ever-present in the 1997/98 season when the Imps won promotion and player of the season the next, Holmes' career was almost ended when he picked up a serious neck injury during the 1–0 home victory over Wrexham on 4 May 1999. The injury kept him out of action for ten months but he returned in spectacular style, scoring less than a minute into his comeback at the Imps defeated Carlisle United 5–0 at Sincil Bank on 4 March 2000. Holmes appeared in City's remaining games of the 1999–2000 season and on 20 November 2001 he became only the 30th player since the Second World War to record 200 Football League appearances for the ImpsKidderminster Harriers.FA Cup first round replay against Bury at Gigg Lane on 27 November 2001, Holmes hobbled off just before the half-hour mark following an accidental collision with Bury's Jason Jarrett and was immediately replaced by Paul Mayo. A strained medial ligament was diagnosed and the injury was expected to keep him on the sidelines for up to two months.

Later career

Holmes took in three seasons with Non-League side Dunston Federation Brewery before officially retiring at the end of the 2004–05 season.

Personal life

Holmes now works away from football and is a keen Middlesbrough fan.

  * Steve Holmes at Soccerbase
  * Lincoln City F.C. Official Archive Profile


Peter O'Brian (actor)

Peter O'Brian, born Peter John Wilson, is a New Zealand-Indonesian actor best known for playing Alex Tarambuan in the movie The Intruder.Australian actor Peter O'Brien.

O'Brian has only featured in strictly Indonesian productions. Nearly all of his movies have involved Arizal or the Indonesian producers The Punjabi Brothers; he has also worked closely with Jopi Burnama. The Stabilizer was O'Brian's first movie.

Filmography

  * The Stabilizer (1986) [Segi Tiga Emas]
  * The Intruder (1986) [Pembalasan Rambu]
  * Forceful Impact (1987) [Jaringan Terlarang 1]
  * Jungle Heat (1988) [Rimba Panas]
  * Double Crosser (1989) [Membakar Lingkaran Api]
  * Lethal Hunter aka American Hunter (1990) [Pemburu Berdarah Dingin]
  * Triple Cross aka Angel of Fury (1990) [Pertempuran Segi Tiga]
  * Time Game (1998) [Sanu Samtani (Rapi Film)]
  * Operation: RAMBU! (Documentary) (2019)
  * Peter O'Brian at IMDb


Minister of Defense (Laos)

The Minister of defense (Lao: ລັດຖະມົນຕີກະຊວງປ້ອງກັນປະເທດ, romanized: ladthamonti kasuangpongkanpathed) is the head of the Ministry of Defense and is responsible for the Lao People's Armed Forces.

List of officeholders

Kingdom of Laos (1953–1975)

Lao People's Democratic Republic (1975–present)

No.          Portrait     Name                   Term of office   Government      Ref.
                          (Born-Died)
Took office  Left office  Time in office
1                         Khamtai Siphandone     2 December 1975  15 August 1991  15 years, 256 days  Government I–II
                          (born 1924)
2                         Choummaly Sayasone     15 August 1991   27 March 2001   9 years, 224 days   Government II–III–IV
                          (born 1936)
3                         Douangchay Phichit     27 March 2001    17 May 2014 †   13 years, 51 days   Government IV–V–VI–VII
                          (1944–2014)
4                         Sengnuan Xayalath      17 May 2014      20 April 2016   1 year, 339 days    Government VII
5                         Chansamone Chanyalath  20 April 2016    Incumbent       7 years, 98 days    Government VIII–IX
                          (born 1948)


Zadra (roller coaster)

Zadra is a steel roller coaster located at Energylandia in Zator, Poland. It was built and designed by American manufacturer Rocky Mountain Construction (RMC). The ride opened in 2019.62.8 metres (206 ft) making it tie for the tallest RMC steel rollercoaster in the world alongside Iron Gwazi, which has a similar layout. It has a maximum speed of 121 kilometres per hour (75 mph), and features three inversions.

History

Zadra under construction in May 2019

In December 2018, Zadra's first wooden support structures were erected.


Tongyaung

Tongyaung is a village in Banmauk Township, Katha District, in the Sagaing Region of northern-central Burma.

  * Maplandia World Gazetteer


1955–56 Western Football League

The 1955–56 season was the 54th in the history of the Western Football League.

The champions for the fourth time in their history were Trowbridge Town, and the winners of Division Two were the returning Torquay United Reserves.

Division One

Division One was reduced from eighteen to seventeen clubs after Ilfracombe Town and Street were relegated to Division Two, and Bath City Reserves left the league. Two clubs joined:

  * Frome Town, runners-up in Division Two
  * Yeovil Town Reserves, champions of Division Two
Pos  Team                  Pld  W   D   L   GF   GA  GR     Pts
1    Trowbridge Town       32   24  2   6   100  36  2.778  50
2    Poole Town            32   20  7   5   79   33  2.394  47
3    Dorchester Town       32   21  4   7   106  57  1.860  46
4    Chippenham Town       32   20  4   8   70   50  1.400  44
5    Salisbury             32   17  7   8   64   31  2.065  41
6    Bideford Town         32   14  10  8   58   50  1.160  38
7    Portland United       32   16  3   13  87   76  1.145  35
8    Barnstaple Town       32   15  4   13  61   66  0.924  34
9    Weymouth Reserves     32   10  12  10  63   70  0.900  32
10   Frome Town            32   10  7   15  69   64  1.078  27
11   Yeovil Town Reserves  32   11  5   16  57   86  0.663  27
12   Bristol Rovers Colts  32   10  4   18  49   65  0.754  24
13   Bristol City Colts    32   8   7   17  43   63  0.683  23
14   Wells City            32   8   7   17  53   92  0.576  23
15   Bridgwater Town       32   7   5   20  59   98  0.602  19
16   Chippenham United     32   7   5   20  54   90  0.600  19
17   Glastonbury           32   3   9   20  47   92  0.511  15

Source:
  * No clubs were relegated from Division One this season.

Division Two

Division Two was increased from eighteen to twenty clubs after Frome Town and Yeovil Town Reserves were promoted to Division One, and four new clubs joined:


1955–56 Western Football League

* Frome Town Reserves
  * Ilfracombe Town, relegated from Division One.
  * Street, relegated from Division One.
  * Torquay United Reserves, rejoining after leaving the league in 1939.
Pos  Team                         Pld  W   D  L   GF   GA   GR     Pts  Promotion
1    Torquay United Reserves (P)  38   27  6  5   135  38   3.553  60   Promoted to Division One
2    Taunton Town (P)             38   26  3  9   115  46   2.500  55
3    Gloucester City Reserves     38   24  5  9   104  56   1.857  53
4    Weston-super-Mare            38   21  9  8   126  59   2.136  51
5    Stonehouse                   38   21  7  10  92   55   1.673  49
6    Trowbridge Town Reserves     38   20  7  11  98   74   1.324  47
7    Minehead                     38   20  6  12  104  69   1.507  46
8    Clevedon                     38   19  8  11  99   71   1.394  46
9    Frome Town Reserves          38   20  6  12  101  76   1.329  46   Left at the end of the season
10   Ilfracombe Town              38   18  5  15  82   70   1.171  41
11   Poole Town Reserves          38   14  8  16  86   71   1.211  36
12   Chippenham Town Reserves     38   13  7  18  80   97   0.825  33   Left at the end of the season
13   Clandown                     38   13  6  19  87   105  0.829  32
14   Cinderford Town              38   13  5  20  85   82   1.037  31
15   Welton Rovers                38   12  6  20  73   95   0.768  30
16   Street                       38   11  4  23  70   112  0.625  26
17   Peasedown Miners Welfare     38   8   9  21  57   141  0.404  25
18   Hoffman Athletic             38   7   6  25  46   109  0.422  20
19   Radstock Town                38   7   3  28  52   165  0.315  17
20   Paulton Rovers               38   6   4  28  56   157  0.357  16

Source:
Rules for classification: The system of using goal average to separate two teams tied on points was used up to and including the 1976–77 season. The points system: 2 points for a win, 1 point for a draw and 0 points for losing.
(P) Promoted


USS T-3

USS T-3 (SS-61/SF-3) was an AA-1-class submarine in the service of the United States Navy originally named AA-3.

She was laid down as AA-3 on 21 May 1917 at the Fore River Shipbuilding Company yard in Quincy, Massachusetts, by the Electric Boat Co. of New York, launched on 24 May 1919, sponsored by Mrs. Lilian Terhune Jordan, redesignated SF-3 on 17 July 1920, renamed T-3 on 22 September 1920, and commissioned on 7 December 1920 at the Boston Navy Yard.

The second of three ships in a program to construct long-range reconnaissance submarines to operate with the surface fleet, T-3 joined T-1 in Submarine Division 15, Atlantic Fleet, soon after commissioning. She operated with that division – later to include T-2 – conducting maneuvers with the Atlantic Fleet until the fall of 1922. By that time, flaws in the design and construction of the T-boats – particularly in their propulsion plants – caused them to perform poorly. The decision was made to retire all three to the reserve fleet, and T-3 was the first to go. On 11 November 1922, she was decommissioned at Hampton Roads, Virginia, and berthed at the submarine base there. Later, she was moved to Philadelphia.

However, T-3's active service did not end there. At the time of the T-boats' decommissioning, the idea of testing German-produced diesel engines in one of them had been bantered about in Navy circles. T-1 had originally been designated for this purpose, but funds were not then available. In 1925, when money was forthcoming, it was T-3 that came out of mothballs for the tests. On 1 October 1925, T-3 was recommissioned at Philadelphia. For the following 21 months, she tested her newly installed 3,000 horsepower (2,200 kW) M.A.N. diesel engines for the Bureau of Engineering. Early in the summer of 1927, she completed the tests and, on 14 July 1927, was placed out of commission at Philadelphia. After a little over three years of inactivity, her name was stricken from the Navy List on 19 September 1930. Her hulk was broken up, and the materials were sold for scrap on 20 November 1930.

  * List of United States Navy submarines


USS T-3

* List of United States Navy submarines

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.


St. Patrick's School

Saint Patrick School or Saint Patrick's School or St Patrick's School may refer to:

Australia

  * St Patrick's College, Ballarat, an independent Catholic boys school in the city of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia.

Singapore

  * Saint Patrick's School, Singapore

United Kingdom

  * St. Patrick's Grammar School, Armagh in Northern Ireland
  * St Patrick's Catholic Primary School in Stafford, England

United States

  * St. Patrick's Episcopal Day School in Washington, D.C.
  * Saint Patrick School (San Jose, California)
  * St. Patrick Catholic School (Miami Beach, Florida)
  * Saint Patrick School (Pelham, New Hampshire)
  * Saint Patrick School (New Jersey) in Chatham, New Jersey
  * St. Patrick's High School (disambiguation)
  * St. Patrick's College (disambiguation)


Voss Line

The Voss Line (Norwegian: Vossebanen) is a railway line from Bergen to Voss in Vestland, Norway. It opened on 11 July 1883 and was extended to Oslo as the Bergen Line on 27 November 1909. It was built as 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) narrow gauge, but converted to 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge with the connection with the Bergen Line. It was electrified in 1954, and shortened by the Ulriken Tunnel in 1963.

In addition to carrying long-haul passenger and freight trains on the Bergen Line, it is the main part of Bergen Commuter Rail. The Old Voss Line, the section from Arna to Bergen, has become a heritage railway.

History

The first documented idea of building a railway between Norway's two largest cities was launched by Voss forest supervisor Hans Gløersen on 24 August 1871 in the Bergensposten newspaper. He suggested building the railway via Voss and Hallingdal to connect with the Krøderen Line. Back in 1866 he had launched the idea of the Jæren Line. Within days of the launch of the Bergen Line the city council had garnered support. In 1872 the railway director Carl Abraham Pihl and two engineers went on a survey tour to look at the suggested line.foreign debt.

Political processes

On 20 October 1871 two engineers traversed the two possible routes from Bergen to Voss; via Fana, Os and Hardangerfjord; and via Dale and Sørfjord. Though covering a less populated area, the latter would be cheaper to build, and have less elevation. A railway committee was created on 25 January 1872 with a limited mandate, which was increased on 20 December. At the same time there was a dispute between the Ministry of Labour and Pihl about whether to prioritize the Bergen Line, but in July 1872 surveys were performed in person by Pihl and two engineers, and their report was positive. At the same time he launched the idea of a branch line up Valdres to Lærdal.


Voss Line

By 1873 agreement had been reached as to the right-of-way to Voss, but not onwards towards Oslo. On 13 January 1874 Bergen city council started issuing stock for the Voss Line, and to begin with 400,000 Norwegian speciedaler (NOK 1.6 million) was issued. In the 1873 parliamentary election railway supporter Peter Jebsen was elected, spending the next few years furiously defending the railway. Parliament did not endorse new railway projects in the 1874 session, instead making a complete plan for all railway construction, to be proposed by a committee. When the report was launched on 20 March 1875, the Voss Line was not included since it could not show a higher profitability than 1%. During the 1875 session there was not a majority for the Voss Line, partially due to the lack of capital available for local investors. This was based on a claim from Johan Jørgen Schwartz, the chairman of the committee, that the investment costs were underestimated. This was countered by Nils Henrik Bruun, a constructor from Bergen, who was willing to construct all the tunnels for less than the budgeted sum. When Jebsen in addition was willing to act as personal guarantor for Bruun in case of his death, the majority in the parliament shifted. On 9 June 1875 parliament voted 61 to 42 to build the line.

Construction

The line was built to narrow gauge, 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in). Construction started in December 1875, while the largest part started in March 1876. During the winter the engineers had made final adjustments to the plans. At any given time at least 800 men worked on construction,navvies in the country.Norway/Vänern Line and had an excess of skilled labor for construction. This import of labor had the effect of pumping money into the local economy, and several taverns were built along the line. There were some accidents, and several deaths among the workers.

Construction finished in 1882 and some test services began, though not scheduled until the spring of 1883. Official opening was on 11 July 1883. Many of the navvies settled near the line, and started working for the Norwegian State Railways as part of the operation.

Merger

Main article: Bergen Line


Voss Line

Merger

Main article: Bergen Line

On 27 November 1909 the Bergen Line opened from Voss to Hønefoss, and the Voss Line lost its independent status.standard gauge, so the line from Bergen to Voss had to be converted for the opening of the Bergen Line. This was especially challenging because of the continuous traffic on the line, with 36 departures per day to Nesttun, six to Garnes and four to Voss. In preparation a few curves had to be straightened, the tunnels widened and the bridges strengthened. On the night of 10/11 August 1904 all the track was changed and in the morning the trains could operate on standard gauge to Voss.

White coal across white plains

Norway is a country with abundance of hydroelectricity and NSB saw huge amounts of money burned with imported coal. Plans for electrification of the line are as old as the railway itself, and in 1912 the line from Nesttun to Bergen was proposed electrified and doubled,Thamshavn Line open with electric traction in 1908.Hardanger Line and the Flåm Line during the 1930s the suggestion again arose, and both the branch lines were built with electric traction, but not the main line. Counter suggestions were raised proposing a conversion to the locomotives running on oil or coal dust. In 1939 a plan for national electrification was launched, and the Voss Line was top priority. But the outbreak of World War II set the plans back, and not until the 1950s was it again possible to afford such investments.

Through the first mountain

Main article: Ulriken Tunnel

The first 32 kilometres (20 mi) from Bergen to Takvam went a very roundabout way, and it was clear that it would be possible to reduce the line by 21 kilometres (13 mi) with the construction of Ulriken Tunnel (7,660 metres or 25,130 feet), Arnanipa Tunnel (2,177 metres or 7,142 feet) and Tunestveit Tunnel (40 metres or 130 feet).Fritz Rieber. Construction started in 1959 with the tunnels being finished in 1963 while the tracks were finished laid on 29 May 1964 when the first train entered the tunnel.

Commuter rail

An NSB Type 69 passing Trengereid Station

Main article: Bergen Commuter Rail


Voss Line

Main article: Bergen Commuter Rail

NSB operates a commuter rail service from Bergen with two-hourly departures to Arna plus 14 daily departures to Voss, of which up to six continue to Myrdal. Rolling stock is Class 69 multiple units.Ulriken mountains is considerably faster than driving around.

Heritage

Main article: Old Voss Line

Parts of the closed sections of the line, from Midttun to Garnes, has been converted to a heritage railway—the Old Voss Line—that is operated with steam trains by the Norwegian Railway Club during the summer.

The Flåm Line branch has been converted to a tourist route. The railway has spectacular scenery and a vertical descent of 864 metres (2,835 ft) or 5.5% along the 20 kilometres (12 mi) route from Myrdal to Flåm. It is operated by NSB, but marketed by Flåm Utvikling.El 17 locomotives haul B3 carriages, all painted green.

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Voss Line

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Yamaçyolu, Hanak

Yamaçyolu is a village in the Hanak District, Ardahan Province, Turkey.


Steve Howey

Steve Howey may refer to:

  * Steve Howey (actor) (born 1977), American actor
  * Steve Howey (footballer) (born 1971), English footballer


Peter Noyes

For other people named Peter Noyes, see Peter Noyes (disambiguation).

Peter Noyes

Peter Noyes is a Welsh academic who was the Vice-Chancellor of University of Wales, Newport in Newport, South Wales, UK, 2006-2012.

Noyes has a degree in social psychology from Loughborough University and a Ph.D. in educational psychology from the University of London.Cheltenham & Gloucester College of Higher Education; he was appointed as vice-chancellor in 2006.


Triathlon at the 2014 Commonwealth Games – Mixed relay

Triathlon at the
2014 Commonwealth Games

Events
                         men  women  mixed relay
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The mixed relay triathlon was part of the Triathlon at the 2014 Commonwealth Games program. The competition was held on 26 July 2014 at Strathclyde Country Park in Glasgow. This was the first time the event has been held at the Commonwealth Games.

Competition format

Each team consisted of four athletes (two male and two female) and each had to cover a course of 250 metres (0.16 mi) swimming, 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) road bicycling, and 1.6 kilometres (0.99 mi) road running.

Results

Rank                             Team                    Triathletes         Individual Time  Total time
                                                         Vicky Holland       18:59
[1st place, gold medalist(s)]    England (ENG)           Jonathan Brownlee   17:29            1:13:24
                                                         Jodie Stimpson      19:20
                                                         Alistair Brownlee   17:36
                                                         Kate Roberts        19:24
[2nd place, silver medalist(s)]  South Africa (RSA)      Henri Schoeman      17:29            1:14:13
                                                         Gillian Sanders     19:18
                                                         Richard Murray      18:02
                                                         Emma Moffatt        19:29
[3rd place, bronze medalist(s)]  Australia (AUS)         Aaron Royle         17:22            1:14:14
                                                         Emma Jackson        19:17
                                                         Ryan Bailie         18:04
                                                         Kirsten Sweetland   18:54
4                                Canada (CAN)            Matthew Sharpe      17:58            1:14:17
                                                         Sarah-Anne Brault   19:19
                                                         Andrew Yorke        18:06
                                                         Andrea Hewitt       18:59
5                                New Zealand (NZL)       Tony Dodds          17:45            1:14:42
                                                         Nicky Samuels       19:13
                                                         Ryan Sissons        18:45
                                                         Aileen Reid         18:59
6                                Northern Ireland (NIR)  Conor Murphy        17:48            1:15:52
                                                         Eimear Mullan       20:14
                                                         Russell White       18:51
                                                         Natalie Milne       19:24
7                                Scotland (SCO)          Grant Sheldon       18:27            1:17:50
                                                         Seonaid Thompson    21:11
                                                         David McNamee       18:48
                                                         Carol Bridge        20:21
8                                Wales (WAL)             Liam Lloyd          18:37            1:17:53
                                                         Holly Lawrence      19:54
                                                         Morgan Davies       19:01
                                                         Fabienne St Louis   21:11
9                                Mauritius (MRI)         Boris Toulet        20:00            1:25:01
                                                         Emilie Ng Foong Po  22:12
                                                         Boris De Chazal     21:38


Zadran

Zadran may refer to:

People

  * Zadran (Pashtun tribe)
  * Shapoor Zadran, Afghan cricket player
  * Noor Zadran, Afghan footballer
  * Noor Ali Zadran, Afghan cricket player
  * Dawlat Zadran, Afghan cricket player

Other

  * Wuza Zadran District, Afghanistan


Tongyun Subdistrict

Tongyun Subdistrict (Chinese: 通运街道; pinyin: Tōngyùn Jiēdào) is a subdistrict in Tongzhou District, Beijing. It borders Yongshun and Lucheng Towns in the north, Luyuan Subdistrict in the east, Yuqiao and Zhongcang Subdistrict in the south, and Xinhua Subdistrict in the west. In 2020, the population for this subdistrict was 49,613.

The subdistrict was created in 2018. Its name Tongyun (Chinese: 通运) was from Tongyunmen, the east city gate of the old Tongzhou city.

Administrative divisions

In the year 2021, Tongyun Subdistrict had 10 communities under its administration:

Administrative Division Code  Subdisvision Names  Name Transliteration
110112008001                  星河                  Xinghe
110112008002                  运河园                 Yunheyuan
110112008003                  运河湾                 Yunhewan
110112008004                  京贸家园                Jingmao Jiayuan
110112008005                  紫荆雅园                Zijing Yayuan
110112008006                  水仙园                 Shuixianyuan
110112008007                  荔景园                 Lijingyuan
110112008008                  芙蓉                  Furong
110112008009                  牡丹园                 Mudanyuan
110112008010                  融御                  Rongyu

Gallery

  * [Interior of Beiyunhe East Station of Beijing Subway, on the south of the subdistrict, 2019]
    Interior of Beiyunhe East Station of Beijing Subway, on the south of the subdistrict, 2019
  * List of township-level divisions of Beijing


USS Saginaw (LST-1188)

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

USS Saginaw (LST-1188) was the tenth of the Newport-class tank landing ships of the United States Navy which replaced the traditional bow door-design tank landing ships (LSTs). The second ship of that name, Saginaw was named after the river in Michigan. The LST was constructed by National Steel and Shipbuilding Company of San Diego, California, launched in 1970 and commissioned in 1971. During service with the United States Navy, the ship took part in US efforts in the Lebanese civil war and the Gulf War. Saginaw was decommissioned on 28 June 1994 and was transferred to the Royal Australian Navy on 28 August that year.

Recommissioned as HMAS Kanimbla (L 51), the LST underwent a major refit removing its bow ramps and using a crane to load and unload the vessel. The ship was retired from Australian service in 2011 after being replaced by HMAS Choules. The ship was towed back to the United States and broken up for scrap at New Orleans, Louisiana in 2013.

Design and description

Saginaw was a Newport-class tank landing ship which were designed to meet the goal put forward by the United States amphibious forces to have a tank landing ship (LST) capable of over 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph). However, the traditional bow door form for LSTs would not be capable. Therefore, the designers of the Newport class came up with a design of a traditional ship hull with a 112-foot (34 m) aluminum ramp slung over the bow supported by two derrick arms. The 34-long-ton (35 t) ramp was capable of sustaining loads up to 75 long tons (76 t). This made the Newport class the first to depart from the standard LST design that had been developed in early World War II.