Southsea Castle

At the start of the 20th century, Southsea Castle formed part of the "Fortress Portsmouth" plan for defending the Solent, the east battery equipped with two BL 6-inch (15.2 cm) Mark VII guns and two BL 9.2-inch (23.3 cm) Mark X guns, and the west battery armed with three 12-pounders (5.4 kg) and one 4.7-inch (11.9 cm) QF gun.Royal Garrison Artillery and Number 4 company of the Hampshire Royal Garrison Artillery Territorials.zeppelin raids, a QF 3-inch 20 cwt (10.9 cm 50.8 kg) anti-aircraft gun was added to the castle.Portsmouth City Council in 1922 and turned into a park, while the west battery was disarmed in 1927.

During the Second World War, the Hampshire Heavy Regiment, Royal Artillery (Territorial Army), occupied the castle, which was used as the Headquarters Portsmouth Fixed Defences.home guard, and the east battery was armed with two 9.2-inch BL Mark X guns.Auxiliary Territorial Service as "cold and wet and horrible".barrage balloons, but it was hit by at least two incendiary bombs which did little damage.

During the war, the castle was involved in an armed stand-off with French naval vessels.Fall of France in 1940, some of the French ships had made their way to British ports, including Portsmouth, but fears rose that the warships might leave and fall into German hands.French destroyer Léopard responded by aiming its guns at the castle, but no shooting ensued.

Southsea Castle was obsolete in the post-war years and in 1960 it was sold to Portsmouth City Council for £35,000.archaeological surveys, removing many of the later, post-1850 features and landscaping the surrounding area; in 1967 it was opened as a museum, although the lighthouse remained in operation.


Southsea Castle

In the 21st century the castle is still operated as a tourist attraction by the council and received over 90,000 visitors from 2011–12.68-pounder (30.8 kg) and an RML 9-inch 12 ton (22.8 cm 12,192 kg) gun, are located in the grounds, and within the castle itself is a 24-pounder (10.8 kg) from HMS Royal George, an RML 9-pounder 8 cwt (4 kg 406 kg) and two hexagonally rifled Witworth 3-pounder (1.3 kg) breech-loaders dating from 1876.Scheduled Ancient Monument.


Southsea Castle

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Myanzi–Kassanda–Bukuya–Kiboga Road

The Myanzi–Kassanda–Bukuya–Kiboga Road is a road in Uganda, connecting the towns of Myanzi, Kassanda and Bukuya in Mubende District, to Kiboga in Kiboga District.

Location

The road starts at Myanzi, on the Mityana–Mubende Road, about 16.5 kilometres (10 mi) west of Mityana.Kassanda, a distance of about 18 kilometres (11 mi).Bukuya, a distance of about 15 kilometres (9 mi).32.5 kilometres (20 mi).

Overview

This road is an important transport corridor between Kiboga District and Mubende District.

Upgrading to bitumen

The gravel-surfaced road is under the purview of Uganda National Roads Authority.President Yoweri Museveni made a pledge to upgrade this road to class II bitumen standard.

  * Uganda National Roads Authority
  * Webpage of Uganda National Road Authority

00°36′53″N 31°50′09″E / 0.61472°N 31.83583°E


Swimming at the 1977 Summer Universiade

The swimming competition at the 1977 Summer Universiade took place in Sofia, Bulgaria.

Medal table

Rank                 Nation         Gold  Silver  Bronze  Total
1                    United States  12    7       5       24
2                    Canada         4     5       4       13
3                    West Germany   2     2       4       8
4                    Hungary        2     1       1       4
5                    Soviet Union   1     6       5       12
6                    Brazil         1     0       0       1
7                    Great Britain  0     1       0       1
8                    Italy          0     0       1       1
Poland               0              0     1       1
Romania              0              0     1       1
Totals (10 entries)  22             22    22      66

Men's events


Swimming at the 1977 Summer Universiade

Men's events

Event                    Gold                 Silver    Bronze
100 m freestyle          John Ebuna           52.05     Andy Coan           52.12     Klaus Steinbach     52.27
                         United States                  United States                 West Germany
400 m freestyle          Dick Hannula Jr.     4:02.17   Vladimir Mikheyev   4:03.78   Igor Kushpelev      4:03.93
                         United States                  Soviet Union                  Soviet Union
1500 m freestyle         John Weston          15:46.94  Igor Kushpelev      15:59.80  Kyle Ditzler        16:10.87
                         United States                  Soviet Union                  United States

100 m backstroke         Rômulo Arantes       58.45     Jim Ballard         58.75     Zoltán Verrasztó    58.79
                         Brazil                         United States                 Hungary
200 m backstroke         Zoltán Verrasztó     2:05.60   Bruce Hardcastle    2:06.52   Jim Ballard         2:07.67
                         Hungary                        United States                 United States

100 m breaststroke       Graham Smith         1:05.17   Duncan Goodhew      1:06.04   Giorgio Lalle       1:06.34
                         Canada                         Great Britain                 Italy
200 m breaststroke       Graham Smith         2:23.43   Vladimir Dementyev  2:24.10   Aigars Kudis        2:24.73
                         Canada                         Soviet Union                  Soviet Union

100 m butterfly          Mike Curington       55.58     Dan Thompson        57.05     John van Buren      57.12
                         United States                  Canada                        Canada
200 m butterfly          Michael Kraus        2:02.81   Andrey Avtushenko   2:03.73   Bruce Rogers        2:05.24
                         West Germany                   Soviet Union                  Canada

400 m individual medley  András Hargitay      4:32.91   Zoltán Verrasztó    4:34.19   Andy Ritchie        4:35.30
                         Hungary                        Hungary                       Canada

                         United States (USA)
                         Andy Coan
4×100 m freestyle relay  Doug Lambert         3:31.49   West Germany (FRG)  3:31.75   Soviet Union (URS)  3:33.24
                         Mike Curington
                         John Ebuna
                         United States (USA)
                         John Weston
4×200 m freestyle relay  Mike Curington       7:41.20   Soviet Union (URS)  7:42.55   West Germany (FRG)  7:48.27
                         John Ebuna
                         Dick Hannula Jr.
                         United States (USA)
                         Jim Ballard
4×100 m medley relay     Lance Michaelis      3:51.67   Canada (CAN)        3:53.67   Soviet Union (URS)  3:54.34
                         Mike Curington
                         John Ebuna

Legend: CR – Championship record; CWR – Commonwealth record; NR – National record


Swimming at the 1977 Summer Universiade

Women's events

Event                    Gold                  Silver   Bronze
100 m freestyle          Jutta Weber           57.80    Sue Hinderaker      58.93    Beth Harrell        59.05
                         West Germany                   United States                United States
400 m freestyle          Bonnie Glasgow        4:16.50  Liz McKinnon        4:24.04  Wendy Weinberg      4:27.75
                         United States                  Canada                       United States

100 m backstroke         Klavdiya Studenikova  1:06.68  Meg McCully         1:07.25  Yelena Rusanova     1:08.54
                         Soviet Union                   United States                Soviet Union

100 m breaststroke       Marion Stuart         1:15.60  Amy Tasnady         1:16.66  Anna Skolarczyk     1:16.83
                         Canada                         United States                Poland
200 m breaststroke       Anne Gagnon           2:43.7   Anne Merklinger     2:44.60  Amy Tasnady         2:44.69
                         Canada                         Canada                       United States

100 m butterfly          Sue Hinderaker        1:03.63  Gudrun Beckmann     1:03.84  Anca Miclaus        1:04.61
                         United States                  West Germany                 Romania

200 m individual medley  Bonnie Glasgow        2:20.66  Jennie Franks       2:23.82  Danielle Balla      2:27.22
                         United States                  United States                Canada

                         United States (USA)
                         Shawn Houghton
4×100 m freestyle relay  Bonny Brown           3:53.70  Canada (CAN)        4:01.02  West Germany (FRG)  4:03.23
                         Beth Harrell
                         Sue Hinderaker
                         United States (USA)
                         Meg McCully
4×100 m medley relay     Amy Tasnady           4:29.78  Soviet Union (URS)  4:31.27  West Germany (FRG)  4:46.63
                         Beth Harrell
                         Sue Hinderaker

Legend: CR – Championship record; CWR – Commonwealth record; NR – National record

  * Medalist Summary (Men) on GBRATHLETICS.com
  * Medalist Summary (Women) on GBRATHLETICS.com
  * "World University Games". New York Times. 28 August 1977


William Plowden (Conservative politician)

William Henry Chicheley Plowden FRS (21 April 1787 – 29 March 1880) was an English politician and Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Newport, Isle of Wight.

Plowden was the son of Richard Plowden, and lived at Ewhurst Park, Basingstoke. He was a director of the Honourable East India Company.

He was appointed Second Superintendent of British Trade in China by King William IV on 10 December 1833 but in his absence the role passed to John Francis Davis instead.

In 1847 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, his candidature certificate saying that he was "an active promoter of the Trigonometrical Surveys of India, and other scientific operations carried on by the East India Company; and generally attached to science and anxious to promote its progress".

In 1847 he was elected as Member of Parliament for Newport, Isle of Wight but only held the seat for one term.

He was married twice - firstly in 1818 to Katherine Harding, daughter of William Harding of Baraset. After her death in 1827 he was married again in 1830 to Jane Annette Campbell, daughter of Edward Campbell. Their son William Chichele Plowden was an administrator in India and also a Member of Parliament. Their granddaughter Pauline Georgiana Plowden married Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen of the Trigonometrical Survey of India.

  * Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs
  * Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by William Plowden


Veronica Nnaji

Veronica Ogechi Nnaji (born 10 January 1940) is a Nigerian nurse and politician. In 1979 she was one of the first group of three women to take their seats in the House of Representatives.

Biography

Nnaji was born in Umuaka in January 1940, one of seven children of farmer Therea Ezendu and trader Mathias Ezendu.Ihiala from 1956 to 1960.Aba and the Health Centre in Nsukka, qualifying as a nurse in 1963.Nkwerre between 1963 and 1965, after which she worked at the Motherless Babies Home in Okwelle until 1970.

In the 1979 parliamentary elections, Nnaji was a Nigerian People's Party candidate in Isu and was elected to the House of Representatives. Alongside Abiola Babatope and Justina Eze, she was one of the first three women elected to Parliament to take their seats (Esther Soyannwo had been elected in 1964 but did not take her seat).1983.


Mike Ohlman

Michael Livingston Ohlman (born December 14, 1990) is an American former professional baseball catcher who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Toronto Blue Jays during the 2017 season.

Early years

Ohlman attended Lakewood Ranch High School in his hometown of Bradenton, Florida.

Professional career

Baltimore Orioles

Ohlman was selected by the Baltimore Orioles in the 11th round of the 2009 Major League Baseball draft, and signed for a $995,000 bonus.Gulf Coast League Orioles that year, and recorded a .182 batting average and one run batted in (RBI).Class-A Delmarva Shorebirds, but was sent down to the Rookie Advanced Bluefield Orioles in June after struggling to compete in A-level baseball. Combined, Ohlman played in 84 games in 2010 and hit .208 with two home runs and 37 RBI.Perth Heat of the Australian Baseball League (ABL), batting .317 with six home runs and 27 RBI.

Ohlman continued his progression through the Baltimore minor league system, playing 100 games for the Advanced-A Frederick Keys of the Carolina League. He recorded a .313 batting average, 13 home runs, and 53 RBI.Surprise Saguaros of the Arizona Fall League during the offseason, hitting .290 with four home runs and nine RBI.Rule 5 draft.Double-A debut, appearing in a career-high 113 games for the Bowie Baysox. He batted .236 with two home runs and 33 RBI.Glendale Desert Dogs.designated for assignment by the Orioles.

St. Louis Cardinals

Ohlman was traded to the St. Louis Cardinals organization on February 3, in exchange for cash considerations.Springfield Cardinals for the entire 2015 season, and batted .274 with 12 home runs and 69 RBI in 103 games.Triple-A Memphis Redbirds, hitting .287 with seven home runs and 44 RBI.

Toronto Blue Jays

Ohlman catching in the 10th inning of a game against the Baltimore Orioles on May 19, 2017. At bat is Welington Castillo, who hit the game-winning home run on this pitch, with umpire Jerry Meals behind Ohlman.


Mike Ohlman

Ohlman signed a minor league contract that included an invitation to spring training with the Toronto Blue Jays on November 17, 2016.Buffalo Bisons. On May 8 the Toronto Blue Jays selected Ohlman's contract after Russell Martin was placed on the disabled list.at bats before being designated for assignment on May 20.Raffy Lopez while catchers Russell Martin, Luke Maile, and Miguel Montero remained on the disabled list.free agency.

Texas Rangers

On January 9, 2018, Ohlman signed a minor league contract with the Texas Rangers.

Boston Red Sox

On March 24, 2018, the Rangers traded Ohlman to the Boston Red Sox for cash considerations.Pawtucket Red Sox.

Somerset Patriots

On March 6, 2019, Ohlman signed with the Somerset Patriots of the independent Atlantic League of Professional Baseball.

  * Career statistics and player information from MLB, or ESPN, or Baseball Reference, or Fangraphs, or Baseball Reference (Minors), or Retrosheet
  * Michael Ohlman on Twitter


Shrewsbury, Louisiana

RiverShack Tavern, Shrewsbury

Shrewsbury is an unincorporated community in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, United States,Mississippi River and Shrewsbury Road about 1 mile upriver from the border of the city of New Orleans. The name came into use in the mid-19th century, and became less commonly used towards the end of the 20th century, when surrounding communities of unincorporated Jefferson grew together as a suburb of New Orleans. The area is now generally known as Old Jefferson and is part of the Greater New Orleans Metropolitan area.

During the early 20th century, Shrewsbury Road was an official link in the Jefferson Highway (State Route 1, and later U.S. Route 61) and provided the main automobile route into New Orleans via Metairie Road. It faded in importance as new and more direct routes into the city were constructed, namely the extensions of Jefferson Highway (1928) and Airline Highway (1940) into South Claiborne Avenue and Tulane Avenue, respectively. The final blow came in June 1957 when the railroad crossing on Shrewsbury Road was closed following completion of the nearby Causeway Boulevard overpass, leaving the once prominent road discontinuous.

In 1915, Shrewsbury was connected to New Orleans by two streetcar lines. The first was the Orleans-Kenner interurban line (popularly known as the O-K Line), which provided service between Kenner and downtown New Orleans along the Jefferson Highway/Claiborne Avenue corridor. The second was an extension of the Napoleon Avenue streetcar line completed in 1915 with service along Metairie Road to Shrewsbury Road. The O-K Line was discontinued in 1930, and the Napoleon Avenue streetcar was cut back in 1934 and replaced by the Metairie bus line.

In 1917, the Jefferson Park Race Track was opened near the intersection of Jefferson Highway and Shrewsbury Road and was a favorite horse racing venue for many years. The site was converted into the Jefferson Park residential subdivision in 1948.

The area is also home to the Camp Parapet Powder Magazine, one of the last remnants of the American Civil War in the New Orleans area.

Shrewsbury, Louisiana is referred to in the Rhythm & Blues song Shrewsbury Blues, written by Dave Bartholomew and recorded by Tommy Ridgeley, a native of the area.

29°58′16″N 90°08′32″W / 29.97111°N 90.14222°W


Shrewsbury, Louisiana

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Metacordyceps

Metacordyceps is a genus of fungi in the family Clavicipitaceae.anamorphs of Metacordyceps appear to include Metarhizium species.

Metacordyceps species attack insects in the orders Coleoptera and Lepidoptera, hosts that are common throughout all Cordyceps-like fungi.

Species

  * M. chlamydosporia
  * M. dhauladharensis
  * M. liangshanensis
  * M. taii
  * Media related to Metacordyceps at Wikimedia Commons


2007 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I – play-offs

Main article: 2007 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone

The play-offs of the 2007 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I were the final stages of the Group I Zonal Competition involving teams from Europe and Africa. Using the positions determined in their pools, the sixteen teams faced off to determine their placing in the 2007 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I. The top two teams advanced to World Group II play-offs, and the bottom two teams were relegated down to the Europe/Africa Zone Group II for the next year.

Placing  Pool A       Pool B     Pool C    Pool D
1        Romania      Ukraine    Serbia    Poland
2        Switzerland  Belarus    Slovenia  Luxembourg
3        Denmark      Hungary    Sweden    Great Britain
4        Netherlands  Lithuania  Estonia   Bulgaria

Promotion play-offs

The first placed teams of each pool were placed against each other in two head-to-head rounds. The winner of the rounds advanced to the World Group II play-offs, where they would get a chance to advance to the World Group II for next year.

Romania vs. Serbia

                                                             TC Lokomotiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Romania                                                      21 April 2007                    Serbia
1                                                            Red clay (outdoors)              2
                                                  1  2  3
1  [Romania]  Mădălina Gojnea                     1  6  6
   [Serbia]   Ana Timotić                         6  4  3
2  [Romania]  Raluca Olaru                        3  4
   [Serbia]   Jelena Janković                     6  6
3  [Romania]  Mădălina Gojnea / Monica Niculescu  4  1
   [Serbia]   Jelena Janković / Ana Timotić       6  6

Ukraine vs. Poland

                                                                   TC Lokomotiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Ukraine                                                            21 April 2007                    Poland
2                                                                  Red clay (outdoors)              1
                                                      1   2   3
1  [Ukraine]  Yuliana Fedak                           77  77
   [Poland]   Marta Domachowska                       63  65
2  [Ukraine]  Alona Bondarenko                        4   3
   [Poland]   Agnieszka Radwańska                     6   6
3  [Ukraine]  Alona Bondarenko / Kateryna Bondarenko  3   6   6
   [Poland]   Marta Domachowska / Urszula Radwańska   6   3   3

Fifth to Seventh play-off

The second placed teams of each pool were placed against each other in two ties. The winner of each tie was allocated fifth place in the Group while the losers were allocated seventh.

Switzerland vs. Slovenia


Switzerland vs. Slovenia

                                                         TC Lokomotiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Switzerland                                              21 April 2007                    Slovenia
2                                                        Red clay (outdoors)              0
                                        1  2  3
1  [Switzerland]  Emmanuelle Gagliardi  6  6
   [Slovenia]     Tadeja Majerič        0  0
2  [Switzerland]  Patty Schnyder        6  3  6
   [Slovenia]     Polona Hercog         3  6  2
3  [Switzerland]                                 not
   [Slovenia]                                    played

Belarus vs. Luxembourg

                                                                     TC Lokomotiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Belarus                                                              21 April 2007                    Luxembourg
2                                                                    Red clay (outdoors)              1
                                                          1  2  3
1  [Belarus]     Ksenia Milevskaya                        6  6
   [Luxembourg]  Lynn Philippe                            2  2
2  [Belarus]     Tatiana Poutchek                         1  2
   [Luxembourg]  Anne Kremer                              6  6
3  [Belarus]     Ksenia Milevskaya / Anastasiya Yakimova  3  6  6
   [Luxembourg]  Anne Kremer / Lynn Philippe              6  3  3

Ninth to Eleventh play-off

The third placed teams of each pool were placed against each other in two ties. The winner of each tie was allocated ninth place in the Group while the losers were allocated eleventh.

Denmark vs. Hungary

                                                          TC Lokomotiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Denmark                                                   21 April 2007                    Hungary
1                                                         Red clay (outdoors)              2
                                               1  2  3
1  [Denmark]  Karen Barbat                     6  6
   [Hungary]  Lucia Batta                      3  2
2  [Denmark]  Hanne Skak Jensen                3  0
   [Hungary]  Kira Nagy                        6  6
3  [Denmark]  Eva Dyrberg / Hanne Skak Jensen  4  7  0
   [Hungary]  Kira Nagy / Ágnes Szávay         6  5  6

Sweden vs. Great Britain

                                                                  TC Lokomotiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Sweden                                                            21 April 2007                    Great Britain
3                                                                 Red clay (outdoors)              0
                                                       1  2  3
1  [Sweden]          Johanna Larsson                   6  1  6
   [United Kingdom]  Naomi Cavaday                     2  6  1
2  [Sweden]          Sofia Arvidsson                   6  7
   [United Kingdom]  Anne Keothavong                   3  5
3  [Sweden]          Mari Andersson / Johanna Larsson  6  6
   [United Kingdom]  Elena Baltacha / Claire Curran    0  1

Relegation play-offs

The last placed teams of each pool were placed against each other in two ties. The losing team of the rounds were relegated to Group II for next year.

Netherlands vs. Estonia


Netherlands vs. Estonia

                                                       TC Lokomotiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Netherlands                                            21 April 2007                    Estonia
2                                                      Red clay (outdoors)              1
                                      1  2  3
1  [Netherlands]  Nicole Thijssen     6  6
   [Estonia]      Anett Schutting     1  1
2  [Netherlands]  Michaëlla Krajicek  6  7
   [Estonia]      Margit Rüütel       2  5
3  [Netherlands]                               not
   [Estonia]                                   played

Lithuania vs. Bulgaria

                                                       TC Lokomotiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Lithuania                                              21 April 2007                    Bulgaria
0                                                      Red clay (outdoors)              2
                                    1  2   3
1  [Lithuania]  Julija Gotovskytė   1  0      retired
   [Bulgaria]   Dia Evtimova        6  3
2  [Lithuania]  Lina Stančiūtė      1  77  2
   [Bulgaria]   Tsvetana Pironkova  6  65  6
3  [Lithuania]                                not
   [Bulgaria]                                 played

Final placements

Placing     Teams
Promoted    Serbia       Ukraine
Third       Romania      Poland
Fifth       Switzerland  Belarus
Seventh     Slovenia     Luxembourg
Ninth       Hungary      Sweden
Eleventh    Denmark      Great Britain
Thirteenth  Netherlands  Bulgaria
Relegated   Estonia      Lithuania

  * Serbia and Ukraine advanced to the World Group II play-offs. The Serbians were drawn against Slovakia, and they lost 1–4, which thus caused them to be relegated back to Group I for the next year. The Ukrainians, however, were drawn against Australia, and they won 4–1. They thus advanced to World Group II.
  * Estonia and Lithuania were relegated down to Europe/Africa Zone Group II for the next year. They respectively placed first and second in the same pool, and thus both advanced to the advancement play-offs. Estonia won theirs, and thus proceeded back to Group I for 2009, while Lithuania lost and therefore remained in Group II.
  * Fed Cup structure
  * Fed Cup website


Umm Al Daah Khawzan

Umm Al Daah Khawzan (Arabic: ام الداه خوزان; also known simply as Khawzan) is a village in Qatar located in the municipality of Al-Shahaniya. It is accessible through Dukhan Road.Dukhan.

Etymology

There are three constituents of the village's name. The first, "umm", is Arabic for mother, and is a common prefix in Qatar when preceding a geographical description. "Daah" is the local name for a shrub, Latin name Lasiurus hirsutus, that grows abundantly in the area. Growing regularly throughout the whole of southern Qatar, it presents a slightly yellow color, and is consumed by grazing livestock.

Finally, the village derived the name "Khawzan" from a local depression called Rawdat Khawzan. In Arabic, "khazan" roughly means "reservoir". The depression was an important water reservoir for nearby settlements, being capable of storing water for months after rainy season.

Geography

Umm Al Daah Khawzan is close to Ras Abrouq on the Zekreet Peninsula, which hosts the majority of Qatar's ostriches and is part of the Al Reem Biosphere Reserve. Ostriches have occasionally wandered into the village and harassed its residents.


Southside, Binghamton

The Southside, as the name implies, is a neighborhood in the southern section of the New York State city of Binghamton. It is primarily a residential neighborhood with some commercial and industrial activity along Vestal and Conklin avenues.

Binghamton and Vestal, east of the remainder of Vestal, west of the town of Conklin and south of the Susquehanna River and the rest of the City of Binghamton.

The area's "main drags" are Vestal and Conklin avenues, which, in accordance with their name, connect Binghamton with those neighbors.

Due to the large differences between the east and west sections of the Southside, it is home to two neighborhood assemblies; Southside East and Southside West.

Southside East

Southside East can be defined as the area of the Southside of Binghamton east of Pennsylvania Avenue, stretching south and east to the Binghamton and Conklin town lines. The western section of South Side East is an urban neighborhood with blocks upon blocks of single to multiple-family dwellings. The eastern section is almost exclusively suburban in character in addition to containing some of the city's public housing developments which are composed of townhouses. The schoolchildren of the Southside East district attend Benjamin Franklin Elementary, then East Middle School. On the 2013 NY State English and Math Test scores for Benjamin Franklin Elementary School, depending upon grade, 4.2-10.8% of students met the new state standards in math and 7.2-9.5% met the new state standards in ELA. The majority of students placed in Level 1 for math and ELA. Results for East Middle School show 13.9-14.2% of students met the new state ELA standards and 6-7.6% met the math new state standards. Approximately half of the students placed in Level 1.

Southside West


Southside, Binghamton

Southside West

Southside West is the area of the Southside west of Pennsylvania Avenue, stretching south and west to the Binghamton and Vestal town lines. The entire area is suburban in character with mansion-like homes on large plots strung along the rolling hills. Most of the Southside West stretches up South Mountain, also Ross Mountain. The schoolchildren attend MacArthur Elementary and, in most cases, West Middle School. Due to displacement from the flood, results for MacArthur Elementary are not available for 2013. Test scores the previous year, based on the lower state standards, showed performance to be similar to state averages. Results for West Middle School indicate 23.3-28.1% of students met the new ELA standards while 16.9-20.6% met the new math standards. Between 28.8-40.8% placed at Level 1 in ELA while 31.3-44.8 placed in Level 1 for Math.

Southbridge Central Commercial District

The Southbridge Central Commercial District is located around S. Washington St., Vestal Ave., and the easternmost section of Rt. 434. It has several shops and restaurants, a Lourdes Hospital "Primary Care Associates" building, a Lourdes Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Building, and 1 or 2 Cyber Cafes.


Orangchon Power Stations

Orangchon Power Project is an ongoing hydroelectric construction project, described as North Korea's "most ambitious hydroelectric projects during the past thirty years". km of the Orang River and stretches through 40 km of water tunnels, past 4 dams and 5 power stations. The country estimates that the project will produce 134,500 kW in energy.

History

The project began under the leadership of Kim Il Sung in 1981 but stagnated for a variety of reasons, but resumed in 2000 when Kim Jong Il visited the site and assigned "national priority" to the completion of the project.Kim Jong Un visited the site and was reportedly "extremely furious" over lax management when he inspected the site.

Present

In August 2022, the final power station was built, Orangchon Power Plant No.3,Kim Il Sung first announced it.


Swimming at the 1978 World Aquatics Championships – Women's 100 metre freestyle

1978 FINA
World Championships
Diving
Individual
3 m                    men  women
10 m                   men  women
Swimming
Freestyle
100 m                  men  women
200 m                  men  women
400 m                  men  women
800 m                       women
1500 m                 men
Backstroke
100 m                  men  women
200 m                  men  women
Breaststroke
100 m                  men  women
200 m                  men  women
Butterfly
100 m                  men  women
200 m                  men  women
Individual medley
200 m                  men  women
400 m                  men  women
Freestyle relay
4×100 m                men  women
4×200 m                men
Medley relay
4×100 m                men  women
Synchronised swimming
Solo                        women
Duet                        women
Team                        women
Water polo
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Main article: Swimming at the 1978 World Aquatics Championships

The women's 100 metre freestyle event at the 1978 World Aquatics Championships took place 28 August.

Results

Heats


Results

Heats

Rank  Swimmer                 Nation                        Time     Notes
1     Barbara Krause          East Germany                  55.99    CR
2     Larisa Tsaryova         Soviet Union                  57.00
3     Lene Jenssen            Norway                        57.04
4     Stephanie Elkins        United States                 57.22
5     Heike Witt              East Germany                  57.41
6     Enith Brigitha          Netherlands                   57.51
7     Birgitta Jönsson        Sweden                        57.98
8     Rebecca Perrott         New Zealand                   58.01
9     Jane Abraham            United States                 58.17
10    Wendy Quirk             Canada                        58.20
11    Olga Klevakina          Soviet Union                  58.21
12    Petra Jensurski         West Germany                  58.26
13    Marion Aizpors          West Germany                  58.42
14    Ineke Ran               Netherlands                   58.52
15    Guylaine Berger         France                        58.53
16    Guri Kogstad            Norway                        58.68
17    Rosemary Brown          Australia                     58.71
18    Carol Klimpel           Canada                        58.97
19    Sachiko Yamazaki        Japan                         59.51
20    Sharron Davies          United Kingdom                59.60
21    Heidi Turk              United Kingdom                59.68
22    Heidi Koch              Austria                       59.75
23    Andrea Hawcridge        New Zealand                   59.94
24    Charlotte Petersen      Denmark                       1:00.63
25    Shelley Cramer          United States Virgin Islands  1:00.63
26    Anette Fredriksson      Sweden                        1:00.69
27    Lone Jansen             Denmark                       1:00.79
28    Natalia Más             Spain                         1:01.02
29    Hsu Yue-yun             Chinese Taipei                1:01.14
30    Julia Lopez-Zubero      Spain                         1:01.32
31    María París             Costa Rica                    1:01.41
32    Marie Rose Verplaetse   Belgium                       1:01.49
33    Ratchaneewan Bulakul    Thailand                      1:01.55
34    Maria Guimarães         Brazil                        1:01.67
35    Lorgia Orejuela         Ecuador                       1:01.74
36    Rosanna Juncos          Argentina                     1:01.95
37    Yasmine Kummer          Luxembourg                    1:02.35
38    Wen-Hsuen Kiang         Chinese Taipei                1:02.77
39    Nanik Jullati Soewadji  Indonesia                     1:03.40
40    Marta Slonina           Poland                        1:03.65
41    Myriam Mizouni          Tunisia                       1:03.92
42    Sumatana Pingkatswan    Thailand                      1:04.26
43    Anita Sapardjiman       Indonesia                     1:05.24
44    Ahlem Gheribi           Tunisia                       1:05:59
45    Karen Van de Graaf      Australia                     DNS

Final


Final

Rank                             Name              Nationality    Time   Notes
[1st place, gold medalist(s)]    Barbara Krause    East Germany   55.68  CR
[2nd place, silver medalist(s)]  Lene Jenssen      Norway         56.82
[3rd place, bronze medalist(s)]  Larisa Tsaryova   Soviet Union   56.85
4                                Stephanie Elkins  United States  56.98
5                                Enith Brigitha    Netherlands    57.17
6                                Heike Witt        East Germany   57.49
7                                Birgitta Jönsson  Sweden         57.54
8                                Rebecca Perrott   New Zealand    58.03

  * USASwimming


William Plankinton

Postal Telegraph stamp 1909

Line drawings of the mansions of John Plankinton (left) and William's (right), by James Smith Buck about 1886

William Plankinton (November 7, 1843 – April 29, 1905) was an American businessman, manufacturer, and industrialist. He followed in his father's footsteps in the meat packing and meat processing industry.

Plankinton was associated with the Milwaukee museum, public library, industrial exposition and Chamber of Commerce. As a businessman he was a banker. He was implicated in a scandal of fraud and embezzlement, for which he was sued.

Early life

Plankinton was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, on November 7, 1843.John Plankinton and Elizabeth Bracken Plankinton. While he was still a baby his parents moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin Territory. He received his early education in the Milwaukee public schools. After graduating from high school, he attended a college in Milwaukee.

Career

Plankinton was employed by his father after he graduated from the Milwaukee college. He soon became a partner in his father's pork and beef packing company. He helped to establish branches in Chicago, Kansas City and New York.

Plankinton helped found and organize several companies, including the Milwaukee-based Johnson Electric Company.Yankton, South Dakota.Postal Telegraph Company that involved telegraph lines in Wisconsin and Michigan.

Plankinton became vice-president of the Plankinton Bank in 1891 upon his father's death.

Loans made by the bank to Frank A. Lappen and his companies totaling almost $300,000 precipitated the crisis.Philip Danforth Armour, the Chicago meat packer businessman of Armour and Company, was reported to have given $600,000 in gold to help the Plankinton bank pay back those it owed money to.

Personal

On 26 April 1876, he married Mary Ella Woods, of Cincinnati, Ohio, and they had two children.mansion on Grand Avenue in Milwaukee given to him by his father as a wedding gift.

Later life and death

Plankinton died in Milwaukee on April 29, 1905.pneumonia, which he had suffered from for three months prior.


William Plankinton

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Wings HC Arlanda

Wings Hockey Club Arlanda (or simply "Wings HC", formerly "RA 73" and "Arlanda Wings") is a Swedish hockey club based in the northern exurb of Märsta in Stockholm County. The club currently plays in group 1D of Division 1, the third tier of the Swedish hockey system.

  * Official site
  * Profile on Eliteprospects.com


Theatre Delicatessen

Theatre Deli is an arts organisation founded by Jessica Brewster, Frances Loy, Mauricio Preciado Awad and Roland Smith in 2007. Theatre Deli operates to expand opportunities for people to make and experience art. The main way in which Theatre Deli does this is by taking over empty buildings and using them to provide the space, support and resources to develop and share in art & performance.

Over the first decade of its existence Theatre Deli transformed 10 empty buildings, opened up over 200,000 square feet for rehearsal studios, workspaces and performances, and put £1.7million directly into the hands of artists. Theatre Deli has become instrumental in the development of early career artists.

In June 2017, Theatre Deli partnered with British Land, GIC and The Nursery Theatre to create a workspace for artists at Broadgate, London.

The company currently has two active sites: a converted warehouse space on Arley Street in Sheffield, opened in 2023, and the Ground floor and Mezzanine of 107 Leadenhall St in London, opened in 2022. The organisation's former locations include 2 Finsbury Avenue, Broadgate, London and 202 Eyre Street in Sheffield, 119 Farringdon Road previously occupied by The Guardian, 35 Marylebone High Street in a building previously occupied by the BBC, 3-4 Picton Place, and Cavendish Gate, 295 Regent Street, courtesy of their sponsors the Property Merchant Group,

In April 2020, Theatre Deli appointed a new executive director, David Ralf, who was previously the executive director of The Bunker theatre.

Previous productions


Theatre Delicatessen

Previous productions

  * July 2021: Pandemic in the City ... Produced by Katherine Webb
  * June 2021-July 2022: The Perfect Crime ... Created and produced by Rogue Productions
  * Sept–Oct 2010: Theatre Souk ... curated by Jessica Brewster
  * Feb–Mar 2010: Mercury Fur ... by Philip Ridley
  * Nov–Dec 2009: Tis the Season to be Jolly...As F**k ...a Christmas theatre festival
  * Jul–Aug 2009: Pedal Pusher ... by Roland Smith
  * Apr–Mar 2009: The Winter's Tale ... by William Shakespeare
  * Dec 2008: Elle and the Cabaret of the Cavendish Club ... by Roland Smith
  * Jul–Aug 2008: Fanshen ... by David Hare
  * Jan–Mar 2008: A Midsummer Night's Dream ... by William Shakespeare
  * theatredeli website


Shrewley Tunnel

Shrewley Tunnel is a canal tunnel near Shrewley, Warwickshire, England, which opened in 1799. It became part of the Grand Union Canal in 1929.

History

The Warwick and Birmingham Canal Company obtained an Act of Parliament in March 1793, which authorised the construction of a 22.6-mile (36.4 km) canal from the Digbeth Branch Canal of the Birmingham Canal Navigations to Warwick, where it would end at Saltisford Wharf. The plans showed three tunnels, at Shrewley, Rowington and Yardley, but as construction progressed, the last two became deep cuttings. This was not an option at Shrewley, as the route passed under the village. The plans also specified that the tunnel would be suitable for boats but not barges, implying that it would have been suitable for 7-foot (2.1 m) narrow boats, common on the Birmingham system, but not for wider craft. However, construction of the Grand Junction Canal, which would provide a link to London, was started at a similar time, and the committee wisely took the decision in April 1794 to increase the width of the tunnel to 16 feet (4.9 m), allowing wide barges to pass through it. The width of the bridge holes was similarly increased to 21 feet (6.4 m) in May.

Northern entrance to the canal and accompanying horse tunnel

The tunnel is 433 yards (396 m) long,towpath inside. It officially opened on 19 December 1799 when the rest of the Warwick and Birmingham Canal was completed, although no trading took place until the following March.Grand Union Canal in 1929 following the amalgamation of the canal company with several others, including the Grand Junction.

There are actually two tunnels: at the northern portal, the towpath splits off and rises on a ramp and then enters a tunnel of its own, until it reaches the road which crosses the tunnel; having crossed this the path then descends on another ramp to reach the southern portal. The interior of the tunnel is unusually wet and this has led to the creation of flowstone formations.

Location


Shrewley Tunnel

Location

The tunnel runs from the south-east to the north-west. From the northern portal, the canal is level for 6.5 miles (10.5 km) to the bottom of a flight of five locks at Knowle, which raise the level of the canal by 41.8 feet (12.7 m). Kingswood Junction, which connects to the Stratford-upon-Avon Canal occurs about halfway along this stretch. To the south, the canal is level for around 1.7 miles (2.7 km) to Hatton Top Lock, the first of a flight of 21 locks which drop the level by 146.5 feet (44.7 m) to reach Warwick.

Coordinates

Point         Coordinates                                      OS Grid Ref  Notes
              (Links to map resources)
North portal  52°18′14″N 1°41′22″W / 52.303871°N 1.689460°W  SP211673
Mid-point     52°18′09″N 1°41′15″W / 52.302598°N 1.687555°W  SP213672
South portal  52°18′05″N 1°41′08″W / 52.301325°N 1.685650°W  SP214671

  * Legging (canals)
  * List of canal tunnels in Great Britain
  * Cumberlidge, Jane (2009). Inland Waterways of Great Britain (8th Ed.). Imray Laurie Norie and Wilson. ISBN 978-1-84623-010-3.
  * Hadfield, Charles (1970). The Canals of the East Midlands. David and Charles. ISBN 0-7153-4871-X.
  * Nicholson (2006). Nicholson Guides Vol 1: Grand Union, Oxford and the South East. Harper Collins. ISBN 978-0-00-721109-8.
  * Pearson (1993). Pearson's Canal Companion: South Midlands and Warwickshire Ring. ISBN 0-907864-62-7.
  * Media related to Shrewley Tunnel at Wikimedia Commons


Metacomic

Metacomic is a metafictional comics style in which the characters realize that they are living in a comic. In a metacomic, the characters are able to take advantage of the comic's structure to progress in the storyline. In brief, a metacomic is a comic about a comic.

Elements

  * Using the comic structure as an advantage (making the characters travel across comic panels, interact with speech balloons and other panels, or using the characters' speech as a "real", solid object).
  * Drawing the author themselves into the comic to act as a character and interact with other characters.
  * Using direct help from the author (the author's "hand" might appear to the comic and draw a helpful object, delete enemies with an eraser, or touch/move the characters).

Examples

  * Krazy Kat by George Herriman
  * L'Origine by Marc-Antoine Mathieu
  * Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud
  * Opus by Satoshi Kon
  * Deadpool in Marvel Comics
  * The author of and characters from the webcomic Sinfest
  * The creators of the graphic novel Logicomix
  * Imbattable by Pascal Jousselin
  * Gwenpool in Marvel Comics


2007 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I – Pool B

Main article: 2007 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone

Group B of the 2007 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I was one of four pools in the Europe/Africa Zone Group I of the 2007 Fed Cup. Four teams competed in a round robin competition, with the top team and the bottom team proceeding to their respective sections of the play-offs: the top team played for advancement to the World Group II Play-offs, while the bottom team faced potential relegation to Group II.

               [Belarus] BLR  [Ukraine] UKR  [Hungary] HUN  [Lithuania] LTU  RR   Set    Game     Standings
                                                                             W–L  W–L    W–L
23  Belarus                   0–3            2–1            2–1              2–1  10–12  104–103  2
26  Ukraine    3–0                           2–1            3–0              3–0  17–5   127–84   1
39  Hungary    1–2            1–2                           2–1              1–2  12–12  121–119  3
49  Lithuania  1–2            0–3            1–2                             0–3  5–15   64–100   4

Belarus vs. Hungary

                                                                TC Lokomotiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Belarus                                                         18 April 2007                    Hungary
2                                                               Red clay (outdoors)              1
                                                    1  2   3
1  [Belarus]  Anastasiya Yakimova                   4  4
   [Hungary]  Ágnes Szávay                          6  6
2  [Belarus]  Victoria Azarenka                     6  63  6
   [Hungary]  Kira Nagy                             0  77  3
3  [Belarus]  Ksenia Milevskaya / Tatiana Poutchek  6  4   9
   [Hungary]  Zsófia Gubacsi / Ágnes Szávay         3  6   7

Ukraine vs. Lithuania

                                                               TC Lokomotiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Ukraine                                                        18 April 2007                    Lithuania
3                                                              Red clay (outdoors)              0
                                                    1  2  3
1  [Ukraine]    Yuliana Fedak                       6  6
   [Lithuania]  Julija Gotovskytė                   1  1
2  [Ukraine]    Alona Bondarenko                    7  7
   [Lithuania]  Lina Stančiūtė                      5  5
3  [Ukraine]    Kateryna Bondarenko / Olga Savchuk  6  6
   [Lithuania]  Julija Gotovskytė / Lina Stančiūtė  1  1

Belarus vs. Lithuania


Belarus vs. Lithuania

                                                                   TC Lokomotiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Belarus                                                            19 April 2007                    Lithuania
2                                                                  Red clay (outdoors)              1
                                                        1  2  3
1  [Belarus]    Ksenia Milevskaya                       6  6
   [Lithuania]  Julija Gotovskytė                       4  2
2  [Belarus]    Tatiana Poutchek                        1  1
   [Lithuania]  Lina Stančiūtė                          6  6
3  [Belarus]    Tatiana Poutchek / Anastasiya Yakimova  6  6
   [Lithuania]  Julija Gotovskytė / Lina Stančiūtė      0  1

Ukraine vs. Hungary

                                                                 TC Lokomotiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Ukraine                                                          19 April 2007                    Hungary
2                                                                Red clay (outdoors)              1
                                                      1  2  3
1  [Ukraine]  Kateryna Bondarenko                     6  3  5
   [Hungary]  Ágnes Szávay                            4  6  7
2  [Ukraine]  Yuliana Fedak                           6  6
   [Hungary]  Kira Nagy                               4  2
3  [Ukraine]  Alona Bondarenko / Kateryna Bondarenko  6  3  8
   [Hungary]  Zsófia Gubacsi / Ágnes Szávay           2  6  6

Belarus vs. Ukraine

                                                                  TC Lokomotiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Belarus                                                           20 April 2007                    Ukraine
0                                                                 Red clay (outdoors)              3
                                                       1  2  3
1  [Belarus]  Anastasiya Yakimova                      2  2
   [Ukraine]  Yuliana Fedak                            6  6
2  [Belarus]  Victoria Azarenka                        6  5  1
   [Ukraine]  Alona Bondarenko                         2  7  6
3  [Belarus]  Ksenia Milevskaya / Anastasiya Yakimova  5  7  5
   [Ukraine]  Kateryna Bondarenko / Olga Savchuk       7  5  7

Hungary vs. Lithuania

                                                               TC Lokomotiv, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Hungary                                                        20 April 2007                    Lithuania
2                                                              Red clay (outdoors)              1
                                                    1  2  3
1  [Hungary]    Zsófia Gubacsi                      6  6
   [Lithuania]  Julija Gotovskytė                   0  1
2  [Hungary]    Kira Nagy                           4  6  7
   [Lithuania]  Lina Stančiūtė                      6  4  9
3  [Hungary]    Zsófia Gubacsi / Ágnes Szávay       5  6  6
   [Lithuania]  Julija Gotovskytė / Lina Stančiūtė  7  3  1

  * Fed Cup structure
  * Fed Cup website


Umling Gewog

Umling Gewog (Dzongkha: ཨུམ་གླིང་) is a gewog (village block) of Sarpang District, Bhutan.

Umling Gewog is situated in the central Southern foothills of Sarpang Dzongkhag, bordering Assam, India, in the South, and Chuzagang Gewog in the West, Tareythang Gewog in the East and Zhemgang Dzongkhag in the North.

Its total geographical area is approximately 122 km2 (47 sq mi), of which 1,480 acres (600 ha)arable land. It has undulated terrain with an elevation ranging from 190 to 400 m (620 to 1,310 ft) above sea level. It has warm and humid climatic condition in winter and hot and rainy climatic conditions in summer.

It is approximately 33 km (21 mi)

Arecanut and ginger are grown as principal cash crop while paddy and maize are cultivated as main crop by the farmers. Beside farmers also rear domestic animals like cows, oxen, goats, sheep, etc. which ultimately add to their livelihood.

Until 2011 local government election, the Gewog had eight Chiwogs, namely: Chhuborthang, Daangling, Doongmin, Gaden, Lingar, Rijoog, Tashithang and Thongjazor and was merged into five Chiwogs, namely: Daangling, Doongmin, Gaden, Rijoog and Tashithang after the first LG election.


Syzygium praineanum

Syzygium praineanum is a species of plant in the family Myrtaceae. It is a tree native to Peninsular Malaysia.


Wreck on the Highway (1938 song)

"Wreck on the Highway" is a classic bluegrass songRoy Acuff.

"Wreck on the Highway" tells the story of an automobile accident, with implication of alcohol abuse ("whiskey and blood run together") and moral religious language ("Their soul has been called by the Master... But I didn't hear nobody pray... It'll be too late if tomorrow you'll fall by a crash by the way...And you can't hear nobody pray").

"Wreck on the Highway" was written in 1937 by Dorsey Dixon after a serious accident near Rockingham, North Carolina and was first recorded (under the title "Didn't Hear Nobody Pray") in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1938.

It was recorded in 1940 by the Chicago-based country duo Karl and Harty (Karl Davis and Harty Taylor). The best-known version was recorded by Roy Acuff And His Smoky Mountain Boys in Hollywood in 1942.

Bill Haley and the 4 Aces of Western Swing recorded a cover in 1949 that went unreleased until the 1977 LP Golden Country Origins. Wilma Lee Cooper and her husband Stoney Cooper released a version as the B side of their 1961 single "Night After Night".George Jones and Gene Pitney recorded a version (under the name "George and Gene"), released as a single in 1965,Hank Locklin recorded the song for his 1962 album A Tribute to Roy Acuff, King of Country Music,Louvin Brothers also recorded the song.

The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band included the song on their 1972 album Will the Circle be Unbroken; Roy Acuff took the lead vocal. Ricky Skaggs and The Whites recorded the song on their 2007 album Salt of the Earth,Merle Haggard and Chester Smith released a duet of the song on their country-gospel album California Blend.

According to both Dave Marsh and Patrick Humphries, Bruce Springsteen's song "Wreck on the Highway" on his 1980 album The River was directly inspired by Dorsey Dixon's song.


Methioeme

Methioeme brevipennis is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae, the only species in the genus Methioeme.


William Plotnikov

William Plotnikov (May 3, 1989 in Megion, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug – July 14, 2012Russian Canadian boxer and Canadian citizen who converted to Islam, joined the Islamist insurgent organization Caucasus Emirate in the Russian republic of Dagestan and was killed there in combat by Russian government forces. According to unconfirmed media reports, Plotnikov might have been a contact of the Boston Marathon bombings suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev via social media and perhaps when Tsarnaev unsuccessfully attempted to join the insurgency in Dagestan as well, before returning to the United States after Plotnikov was killed.

Biography

Plotnikov immigrated to Canada in 2005 from Russia at the age of 15,Western Siberian town of Megion in Tyumen Oblast.Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. His father Vitaly, an athlete himself, introduced his son to boxing when William was a 9-year-old. William then twice won the Russian youth championships. His parents decided to move to the West to make sure he got a good education and because of their concerns about local crime groups attracting Russian athletes.

The Plotnikovs became Canadian citizens in 2008. The move, however, was difficult for their son, who struggled to adapt to his new life in Toronto. He had left his friends behind only to find himself alienated by Western teenage culture as well as by the alcoholism of many members of Canada's Russian diaspora. At the Thornhill boxing club, William managed to impress Boris Gitman, a coach at the European Boxing School, who thought William, while not physically strong, was very talented and he "would be a good Olympian." He won silver medals at the 2006 Brampton Cup and at the 2007 provincial championships in Windsor, and won a club bout at Exhibition Place. He also became interested in other martial arts, such as jujitsu and Thai boxing.


William Plotnikov

After graduating from high school, Plotnikov joined Seneca College and traveled to other countries with the school's international tourism program. He also began reflecting about human existence, searching for an answer in holy books of the three Abrahamic religions. He took interest in Islam around 2008 and in 2009 he visited an unknown Toronto mosque, where his father said his son came into contact with "a mullah who had very radical views." Soon, Plotnikov adopted and observed strict Muslim customs, isolated himself from his friends and cut off most communication with his family. In September 2010, Plotnikov disappeared, leaving a note that he was going to France for Ramadan.Royal Canadian Mounted Police had been looking for William as a missing person for almost two years by then.

After several months, his parents found out he was living in Moscow with a friend from Toronto. Later, he traveled to the Russian republic of Dagestan and took a residence in the mostly ethnic Kumyk village of Utamysh, Kayakentsky District, km south of the capital Makhachkala.Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the police subsequently raided the house where William stayed and briefly detained and interrogated him. Upon his release, William then returned to Moscow, but soon made his way back to Dagestan and joined an armed Islamist rebel group based in the forested mountain range near Utamysh,Kanadets).

Before midnight of July 13, 2012, a force of Dagestani militants was ambushed and surrounded at a farm outside Utamysh by Russian special forces that had been tipped off by an informant.Izberbash group's Arsen Magomedov) and William Plotnikov.Kavkaz Center labeled Plotnikov a "shahid" (martyr).National Post, he "is believed to be the first Canadian convert to die fighting in the name of jihad."North Caucasus conflict; in 2004, Russian forces said they killed a Canadian citizen named Rudwan Khalil in Chechnya.

Alleged links to Tamerlan Tsarnaev


William Plotnikov

Alleged links to Tamerlan Tsarnaev

Plotnikov came under international scrutiny after an investigative article in Russia's liberal opposition investigative newspaper Novaya Gazeta, citing their sources in the security forces, wrote that Plotnikov was one of two local contacts (the other one, an ethnic Kumyk-Palestinian teenager named Mahmud Nidal was killed by the police in May 2012) of the Boston Marathon bombings suspect and fellow Russian émigré boxer Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who had allegedly sought to join the insurgency in Dagestan after returning there from the United States in 2012, taking a residence in Makhachkala. According to Novaya, the two had previously communicated via a website associated with the World Assembly of Muslim Youth. After Plotnikov was detained, the security services, using "a wide range of special equipment", allegedly extracted from him a list of people he communicated with; one of the names belonged to Tsarnaev.

Vitaly Plotnikov said he was unaware of any contacts between his son and Tsarnaev and denied any connection to the Boston bombings.The Jamestown Foundation regarded Novaya report's mention of Tsarnaev's visit to Toronto as "also a stretch and likely to mislead a casual reader."

American investigators in Russia, however, took interest in a possible correlation between the dates of Plotnikov's death and of Tsarnaev's sudden return to the United States.Sherdog, as was Ibragim Todashev, a Chechen American MMA fighter from Florida who had been acquainted with Tsarnaev and who was fatally shot by an FBI agent during his questioning on 22 May 2013.

  * Canadian William Plotnikov with rebel fighters in Dagestan translated. (National Post on YouTube)


Wings Neck

Wings Neck is a peninsula that juts out into Buzzards Bay on the south side of the Cape Cod Canal, in Bourne, Massachusetts, USA.

The southwestern tip of the neck is the site of the Wing's Neck Lighthouse, which operated from 1889 to 1945, and is now a private residence.

  * Map: 41°41′13″N 70°38′38″W / 41.68694°N 70.64389°W
  * "Wings Neck". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey


Tirano railway station

Tirano railway station could refer to two railway stations in Tirano, Italy:

  * Tirano railway station (RFI): railway station on the Tirano–Lecco railway
  * Tirano railway station (RhB): railway station on the Bernina railway


Sunny Side!

Sunny Side! is an album by the American folk music group the Kingston Trio, released in 1963 (see 1963 in music). It reached number 7 on the Billboard Pop Albums chart. The lead-off single was "Desert Pete" b/w "Ballad of the Thresher". The single was the last Top 40 single for the group. Members of the Western Writers of America chose it as one of the Top 100 Western songs of all time.

Preview copies of the album that were sent to radio stations and music critics contained the track "Woody's Song." Negative feedback led to Capitol removing it from the album. "Woody's Song" appeared on "Rediscover," a rarities album released by Folk Era Records in 1985, under the title of "Folksinger's Song."

Reception

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Allmusic critic Bruce Eder thought the album was a "rushed recording" due to the success of "Reverend Mr. Black". He wrote: "The major problem with the album is that too many of the songs here sound like they're stuck at (or shouldn't have gotten past) the demo stage"

Reissues

  * Sunny Side! was reissued along with The Kingston Trio #16 on CD by Collectors Choice Records in 2000.
  * In 2000, all of the tracks from Sunny Side!, including the deleted "Woody's Song," were included in The Stewart Years 10-CD box set issued by Bear Family Records.

Track listing

Side one

 1. "Desert Pete" (Billy Edd Wheeler)
 2. "Marcelle Vahine" (Augie Goupil)
 3. "Sing Out" (Michael Stewart)
 4. "Ballad of the Thresher" (Nat Allen, Keith Donald, Alice Nielsen)
 5. "Blowin' in the Wind" (Bob Dylan)
 6. "Goo Ga Gee" (Mike Settle)

Side two


Sunny Side!

Side two

 1. "Jackson" (Wheeler)
 2. "Two-Ten, Six-Eighteen (Doesn't Anybody Know My Name)" (Rod McKuen)
 3. "Those Brown Eyes" (Woody Guthrie, Alan Arkin, Bill Carey, Erik Darling)
 4. "Those Who Are Wise" (John Stewart)
 5. "Rider" (Nick Reynolds, Bob Shane, Judy Henske)

Personnel

  * Bob Shane – vocals, guitar
  * Nick Reynolds – vocals, tenor guitar, bongos, conga
  * John Stewart – vocals, banjo,
  * Glen Campbell - 6 string banjo on "Desert Pete", 12 string guitar
  * Dean Reilly – bass

Production notes

  * Voyle Gilmore – producer

Chart positions

Year  Chart                 Position
1963  Billboard Pop Albums  7


Tony Koltz

Tony Koltz is an American writer. He wrote two Choose Your Own Adventure books: number 31, The Vampire Express, and number 59, Terror Island.

He wrote The Battle for Peace with General Anthony Zinni,Battle Ready with Tom Clancy and General Zinni.Before the First Shots Are Fired: How America Can Win Or Lose Off The Battlefield (2014).


Xanthocrambus lucellus

Xanthocrambus lucellus is a species of moth in the family Crambidae.France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina,Russia, Korea, China and Japan.

The wingspan is about 25–27 mm.


Tota Rani

Tota Rani is a small village near Dal Lake in Kangra district, Himachal Pradesh, India. It has a very long history of settlement by Nepali people. Thapa and Gurung culture are mixed here and now the Nepali culture almost vanished and people mingle with local Himachali people, Gaddis.

32°15′N 76°19′E / 32.250°N 76.317°E


Syzygium ridleyi

Syzygium ridleyi is a species of plant in the family Myrtaceae. It is found in Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand.


Wreck Detectives

Wreck Detectives is the title of two TV documentary series from UK Channel 4 aired in 2003 and 2004 presented by Jeremy Seal, Miranda Krestovnikoff and David Manley.

Series 1 - 2003

 1. Alum Bay wreck, Alum Bay
 2. Earl of Abergavenny, Weymouth Bay
 3. Mingary Castle wreck, Sound of Mull
 4. HMS Lawford, Normandy
 5. HMS Stirling Castle, Kent
 6. St Peter Port wrecks, Guernsey
 7. HMS Swan, Sound of Mull
 8. HMS Hazardous, The Solent

Series 2 - 2004

 1. Resurgam, Colwyn Bay
 2. Bronze Bell, Cardigan Bay
 3. Sunderland flying boat, Milford Haven
 4. Hope, Chesil Beach, Dorset
 5. U-boat B-65, Padstow
 6. Lelia, Liverpool
 7. Great Lewis, Waterford
 8. HMS Pylades, Normandy

DVD release

Wreck Detectives Series 1 was released on DVD in 2005 containing all 8 episodes

  * Channel 4 home page


Mickey McMahan

Mickey McMahan (August 23, 1930 – June 11, 2008) was an American born big band musician who played with the Lawrence Welk orchestra from 1966 to 1982. His instrument was the trumpet.

Biography

Born Clinton O. McMahan in Dallas, Texas, he moved with his family to Phoenix, Arizona. He learned to play the trumpet from his mother, who grew up in an orphanage. After high school, following a stint in the US Army, he played with Les Brown's band on The Steve Allen Show and later toured with Brown's band on overseas USO tours, usually accompanying Bob Hope. He married longtime Brown vocalist Jo Ann Greer. He also played with the Freddy Martin, Tex Beneke, Billy Vaughn, and Stan Kenton bands.

He joined Lawrence Welk and his Champagne Music Makers in 1966 as first trumpet, performing both on television show and live concert dates.

In 2008 Mickey died at home in Van Nuys, California, from complications of neuropathy.


Paul Jones (1843 ship)

The Paul Jones was a Medford-built ship, launched in 1843, that brought the first cargo of ice to China.

Voyages

Paul Jones sailed from Boston on Jan. 15, 1843, on her maiden voyage, arriving in Hong Kong in 111 days, under captain N.B. Palmer.

The ship made a fast passage in 1848, from Java Head to New York City, in 76 days.

First cargo of ice to China

Paul Jones sailed in the ice carrying trade, which had been built up over the course of more than two decades by the "Ice King", Frederic Tudor. Tudor experimented with various materials for packing and insulating bulk ice, such as "rice and wheat chaff, hay, tan bark, and even coal dust." He eventually settled on sawdust. When Tudor extended the business from Charleston, Savannah, New Orleans, and Havana to the Far East, Paul Jones brought the first cargo of ice to China.

R.B. Forbes sent a small quantity of ice to India aboard Paul Jones in 1843, and a full cargo aboard the ship Bombay in 1847.

Captain Forbes, in his reminiscences, has slightly different dates: "The Paul Jones, in 1844, took the first American ice to China, and, on her way to Bombay, landed apiece at Singapore; whereupon the Singapore Free Press congratulated the people on the prospect of getting ice from China! In January, 1847, I was concerned in shipping the first cargo of ice in the ship Bombay, to Whampoa."

Role in design of the first clipper ship

In 1843, the A. A. Low & Bros. representative in Canton, William Low, and his pregnant wife Ann had been passengers on a very slow and frustrating trip home from Canton with Captain Nathaniel Palmer on the Paul Jones. "To vent his frustration [Captain Nat] began carving a block of wood into the shape of what he thought the ideal hull of a Canton trader should look like, one that .. 'would outsail anything afloat' ... "He incorporated John W. Griffiths' ideas concerning a sharp concave bow with his own ideas of a fuller flat-bottomed hull."


Paul Jones (1843 ship)

Upon arrival in New York, they approached A. A. Low & Bros. with the new design, which was further developed and built by David Brown of Brown & Bell shipyard. The ship, Houqua, launched in 1844, was considered by many to be the first clipper ship.


The Newspaper Proprietors' Association of Nigeria or NPAN is a professional body concerned with the regulation of journalism in Nigeria.Nduka Obaigbena, a Nigerian journalist, columnist and founder of Thisday, one of Nigeria's national Newspaper.Chief Sam Amuka-Pemu, a Nigerian journalist, columnist and founder of the Vanguard , Nigeria's leading newspaper, and co-founder of The Punch, most widely read newspaper in Nigeria.Mohammed Idris Malagi, the chairman, CEO and founder of Blueprint Newspaper.

Roles

One of its major functions, is to investigate complaints against the press from the public and also to investigate complaints from the press about the conduct of people or organizations towards the press. NPAN acts as a buffer between the press and the public.

History

Attempts to establish this self regulatory body for the Nigerian Press started as far back as two decades agoYakubu Gowon government, was intended to study the future of the Nigerian media.

However, this Commission never made its findings public, which defeated the purpose. Another attempt was made through the establishment of the Nigerian Media Council Decree No 59 of 1988. However, this attempt failed, largely because journalists were apprehensive concerning the seemingly undemocratic powers conferred upon the council.


Tirante

The tirante is a silvery, elongated cutlass fish found in waters off Cuba.


SmartFresh

SmartFresh (SmartFresh Quality System) is a brand of a synthetic produce quality enhancer containing 1-methylcyclopropene (1-MCP). It is marketed by AgroFresh Solutions, Inc., a publicly held (NASDAQ:AGFS) U.S. company with global operations. SmartFresh technology halts the fruits and vegetables' natural ripening process to prolong freshness.

Function

1-MCP blocks the effects of both endogenous and exogenous ethylene through preferential attachment to the ethylene receptor. It is applied in storage facilities and transit containers to slow down the ripening process and the production of ethylene in fruit. Ethylenepostharvest for fruit that is already ripe. The method of prolonging produce lifetime in this way was approved by the EU in 2005,controlled atmosphere technology.

Consumer concerns

The use of 1-MCP to prevent fruit ripening came under scrutiny by the press during late 2005, when it was shown that the method is occasionally used to inhibit ripening of fruit by as much as a year, causing consumers to purchase year-old fruit without being aware of it. Fruits which have been treated with 1-MCP do not trigger any labelling regulations, and are allowed for use with certified organic foods, and are therefore non-distinguishable from non-treated products.National Organic Program does not allow the use of 1-MCP on organic produce, however the only test devised by the United States Environmental Protection Agency; radioisolated analytical method is too expensive, though it can measure residues on fruit up to 90 days post treatment.

By 2006, retailers were split on whether this quality enhancer should be used. In a True Food Network publication of Greenpeace,Vitamin C and antioxidant levels may still decline, a concern also shared by others

SmartFresh is perceived by Susan Kegley, a senior scientist at the San Francisco-based Pesticide Action Network North America, as being “likely to be very low-risk to consumers”. Other scientists see 1-MCP as "most likely harmless to humans".


SmartFresh

* Post-harvest losses (fruit and vegetables)
  * New York Times (2006). Lasting crunch but less scent.
  * Blankenship, S.M., and Dole, J.M. (2003). 1-Methylcyclopropene: A review. Postharvest Biol. Tech. 28, 1–25.
  * Smartfresh.com
  * 1-Methylcyclopropene (MCP) Fact Sheet at the EPA
  * "A brief history of 1-MCP," Hortscience Vol. 43(1) February 2008
  * Fruit Growers News
  * Produce Processing
  * AndNowUKnow
  * Refrigerated & Frozen Foods
  * The Packer
  * Plant Growth Regulation Society of America


Maglia (river)

The Maglia is a river that flows through the Alpes-Maritimes department of southeastern France. It is 9.0 km (5.6 mi) long.Roya near Breil-sur-Roya. Its canyon is known to be one of the most beautiful in France, and it is a popular place for canyoning.

  * http://www.descente-canyon.com/canyoning/canyon/2235/Maglia.html


Xanthochroa testacea

Xanthochroa testacea is a species of false blister beetle in the family Oedemeridae. It is found in North America.

  * Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2013). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 5: Tenebrionoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-26090-0.


Total 2

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Kompakt: Total 2 or Total 2 was released on 25 July 2000. The album is the second installment of the Cologne-based microhouse label's annual compilation of vinyl releases and exclusives from its biggest artists and most promising newcomers. Except one (see below) all tracks on the vinyl edition were previously unreleased at the time of release. CD edition includes most of the tracks from the vinyl edition, and additionally some songs which were at the time of release already available on 12 inch from Kompakt.

Track listings

Vinyl

  * A1 Reinhard Voigt – "Zu Dicht Dran" (4:49)
  * A2 Closer Musik – "Piraten" (7:49)
  * B1 M. Mayer – "Amanda" (6:49)
  * B2 The Modernist – "Channel 28" (6:52)
  * C1 Dettinger – "Lemon" (6:36)
  * C2 Jonas Bering – "Storch" (5:24)
  * C3 Sascha Funke – "Appearance Are Deceptive" (4:53)
  * D1 Superpitcher – "Shadows" (7:11)
  * D2 Jimmi Moon – "Lovelane" (5:26)

Tracks A2 and C3 are exclusive to vinyl version. "Channel 28" (which is not on the CD) is taken from the album 'The Modernist – Explosion' released December 1999. Tracks B1, C1 and D1 are shortened on the CD.

CD


Total 2

CD

 1. Reinhard Voigt – "Zu Dicht Dran" (4:49)
 2. Schaeben Voss – "Fein Raus" (5:32)
 3. Gebr. Teichmann – "Aus Der Ferne" (4:10)
 4. Lawrence – "Gilbert" (6:16)
 5. Dettinger – "Lemon" (5:55)
 6. Jonas Bering – "Storch" (5:24)
 7. M. Mayer – "Amanda" (5:31)
 8. Closer Musik – "One Two Three (No Gravity)" (6:49)
 9. Philippe Cam – "Karine" (6:16)
10. Sascha Funke – "Safety First" (5:28)
11. Dubstar – "Shining Through" (6:30)
12. Superpitcher – "Shadows" (5:54)
13. Jimmi Moon – "Lovelane" (5:26)

Seven of the tracks on the CD are taken from previously released 12" vinyls from Kompakt or sub-labels (catalogue number in parentheses): #2 (KOM17); #3 (KOM14); #4 (dialrec01); #8 (KOM16); #9 (TRAUM V04); #10 (KOM19); #11 (KOM11).

  * Total 2 at Discogs


Syzygium suborbiculare

Syzygium suborbiculare, the red bush apple or lady apple, is a shrub or small understorey tree native to northern Australia and New Guinea.

Description

This tree or shrub typically grows to a height of 4 to 20 metres (13 to 66 ft). It blooms between June and November producing white flowers. cm long. Flowers are white with numerous stamens. The edible fruit is flattened-globular, fleshy, prominently ribbed, 3–7 cm long, with a large seed.

Habitat

It is found in open forests and woodland and on the flood plains and rocky sandstone hills of the Kimberley region of Western Australia where it grows in sandy soils.

Uses

The fruit is eaten raw by Aboriginal people. The tree is also used as firewood and as a nectar source for bees.

The fruit has been regarded among the Aboriginal people as being particularly medicinally effective against respiratory problems. The juice extracted from the boiled or roasted fruit has been used to clear chest congestion or as a cough remedy; the fire-heated leaves were used to heal wounds; the pulp of a cooked fruit has been used to treat a sore ear; chewed fruit or seeds have been used as a remedy against toothache or mouth sores.


Wilfred Beckford

Wilfred Beckford (1909 – July 1959) was a Jamaican cricketer. He played in nine first-class matches for the Jamaican cricket team from 1926 and 1936.

  * List of Jamaican representative cricketers
  * Wilfred Beckford at ESPNcricinfo


Metacosmesis xerostola

Metacosmesis xerostola is a moth in the Carposinidae family. It is found in Saudi Arabia.

  * Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog


Paul Jordan

Paul Jordan may refer to:

  * Paul Jordan (artist) (1916–2006), Polish-American artist
  * Paul T. Jordan (born 1941), American physician and mayor of Jersey City, New Jersey
  * Paul Jordan (motorcyclist) (born 1991), Grand Prix motorcycle racer from Ireland
  * Paul Jordan-Smith (1885–1971), American journalist, editor, and author
  * Paul Jordaan (born 1992), South African rugby union footballer


Newspaper endorsements in the 2004 United States presidential election

During the 2004 United States presidential election, the online edition of Editor & Publisher, a journal covering the North American newspaper industry, tabulated newspaper endorsements for the two major candidates, Republican incumbent George W. Bush and Democratic challenger John Kerry. As of November 1, 2004, their tally shows the following:

Endorsements
              2004  2000
              Bush  Gore  Neutral,
                          Unknown
        Bush   190    94         8  88
Kerry          208    43        94  71

They note that 43 papers which had endorsed Bush for the 2000 election switched to endorse Kerry for 2004, whereas 8 papers which had endorsed Al Gore in 2000 switched to endorse Bush for 2004.

They also listed 18 papers, all of which endorsed Bush in 2000, that declared their neutrality for the 2004 election.

They note that the total daily circulation of the papers that have endorsed each candidate is 20,791,336 for Kerry vs. 14,455,046 for Bush.

The following is a partial list of the endorsements:


* Choose not to endorse anyone (all backed Bush in 2000):
      + Cleveland Plain Dealer
      + Detroit News
      + Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Patriot-News
      + New Orleans Times-Picayune
      + Scranton, Pennsylvania Times
      + Tampa, Florida Tribune
      + Winston-Salem, North Carolina Journal
  * For George W. Bush:
      + Amarillo Globe-News
      + Austin American-Statesman
      + Birmingham, Alabama News
      + Bluefield, West Virginia Daily Telegraph
      + Bloomington, Illinois Pantagraph
      + Canton The Repository
      + Chicago Tribune
      + Carlsbad, New Mexico Current-Argus
      + Carbondale, Illinois Southern Illiosian
      + Cedar Rapids, Iowa Gazette
      + Champaign, Illinois News-Gazette
      + Clarksville, Tennessee Leaf-Chronicle
      + Columbus Dispatch
      + Cincinnati Enquirer
      + Cincinnati Post
      + Dallas Morning News
      + Denver Rocky Mountain News
      + Denver Post
      + Evansville, Indiana Courier & Press
      + Easton, Maryland Star Democrat
      + Easton, Pennsylvania Express-Times
      + El Paso, Texas Times
      + Fargo, North Dakota Forum
      + Farmington, New Mexico Daily Times
      + Findlay, Ohio Courier
      + Fredericksburg, Virginia The Free Lance–Star
      + Freeport, Illinois Standard Journal
      + Fort Worth Star-Telegram
      + Fort Smith, Arkansas Southwest Times Record
      + Grand Junction, Colorado Daily Sentinel
      + Houston Chronicle
      + Indianapolis Star
      + Lakeland, Florida Ledger
      + Las Vegas Review-Journal
      + Las Cruces, New Mexico Sun-News
      + Little Rock, Arkansas Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
      + Lowell, Massachusetts The Sun
      + Manchester, New Hampshire Union-Leader
      + Mason City, Iowa Globe-Gazette


+ Mason City, Iowa Globe-Gazette
      + Midland, Michigan Midland Daily News
      + Mobile Register
      + New Philadelphia, Ohio Times Reporter
      + New York Daily News
      + New York Sun
      + New York Post
      + Ocala, Florida Star-Banner
      + Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Oklahoman
      + Omaha, Nebraska World-Herald
      + Parkersburg, West Virginia The Parkersburg News
      + Parkersburg, West Virginia The Parkersburg Sentinel
      + Phoenix Arizona Republic
      + Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
      + Pontiac, Michigan The Oakland Press
      + Poughkeepsie, New York Journal
      + Pueblo, Colorado The Pueblo Chieftain
      + Richmond, Virginia Times-Dispatch
      + Riverside, California Press-Enterprise
      + Saint Joseph, Michigan Herald-Palladium
      + Salt Lake Tribune
      + San Antonio Express-News
      + San Diego Union-Tribune
      + Savannah, Georgia Morning News
      + Sioux City, Iowa Journal
      + Sioux Falls, South Dakota Argus Leader
      + Spartanburg, South Carolina Herald-Journal
      + St. Paul, Minnesota Pioneer Press
      + Stockton, California Record
      + Tulsa, Oklahoma World
      + Vacaville, California Reporter
      + Vancouver, Washington The Columbian
      + York, Pennsylvania Daily Record
      + Washington Times
      + Everett, Washington "The Everett Herald"
  * For John Kerry:
      + Akron, Ohio Beacon-Journal
      + Albuquerque Tribune
      + Allentown Morning Call
      + Anchorage, Alaska Daily News
      + Atlanta Journal-Constitution
      + Baltimore, Maryland The Sun
      + Bangor, Maine Daily News
      + Bismarck, North Dakota Tribune
      + Boise, Idaho Idaho Statesman
      + Boston Globe
      + Bradenton, Florida Herald
      + Bremerton, Washington Sun
      + Bridgewater, New Jersey Courier-News


+ Bridgewater, New Jersey Courier-News
      + Buffalo News
      + Charleston, West Virginia Gazette
      + Charlotte, North Carolina Observer
      + Chattanooga, Tennessee Times
      + Chicago Sun-Times
      + Columbia, Missouri Daily Tribune
      + Concord, New Hampshire Monitor
      + Crawford, Texas Lone Star Iconoclast
      + Davenport, Iowa Quad-City Times
      + Dayton, Ohio Daily News
      + Daytona Beach, Florida News Journal
      + Delaware News Journal
      + Des Moines Register
      + Detroit Free Press
      + Duluth, Minnesota News Tribune
      + Durango, Colorado Herald
      + Economist
      + Everett, Washington Herald
      + Financial Times
      + Falls Church, Virginia News-Press
      + Flint, Michigan Journal
      + Fort Collins, Colorado Coloradoan
      + Fresno Bee
      + Grand Forks, North Dakota Herald
      + Hackensack, New Jersey Record of Bergen County
      + Honolulu Advertiser
      + The Idaho Statesman
      + The Ithaca Journal
      + Jackson, Tennessee Sun
      + Kansas City, Missouri Star
      + Lansing, Michigan State Journal
      + Las Vegas Sun
      + Lexington, Kentucky Herald-Leader
      + Long Island, New York Newsday
      + Louisville, Kentucky Courier-Journal
      + Medford, Oregon Mail-Tribune
      + Memphis, Tennessee Commercial Appeal
      + Merced, California Sun-Star
      + Miami Herald
      + Minneapolis Star Tribune
      + Modesto, California Bee
      + Montgomery, Alabama Advertiser
      + Muskegon, Michigan Chronicle
      + Myrtle Beach, South Carolina The Sun News
      + Nashua, New Hampshire Telegraph
      + Nashville, Tennessee The Tennessean
      + The Nation
      + Newark, New Jersey Star-Ledger
      + Newport News, Virginia Daily Press
      + The New Republic


+ The New Republic
      + New York Times Union
      + The New Yorker
      + New York Times
      + Olympia, Washington Olympian
      + Orlando Sentinel
      + Palm Beach Post
      + Philadelphia Inquirer
      + Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Daily News
      + Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Post-Gazette
      + Port Huron, Michigan Times Herald
      + Portland, Maine Herald-Press
      + Portland Oregonian
      + Raleigh, North Carolina News and Observer
      + Reno, Nevada Gazette-Journal
      + Roanoke, Virginia Times
      + Rockford, Illinois Register Star
      + Sacramento Bee
      + San Francisco Chronicle
      + San Jose Mercury-News
      + Santa Rosa, California The Press Democrat
      + St. Louis Post-Dispatch
      + St. Louis American
      + St. Petersburg Times
      + Seattle Times
      + Seattle Post-Intelligencer
      + The Sheboygan Press
      + Springfield, Massachusetts Republican
      + Springfield, Missouri News-Leader
      + State College, Pennsylvania Centre Daily Times
      + Tacoma, Washington News Tribune
      + Toledo, Ohio Blade
      + Traverse City, Michigan Record-Eagle
      + Trenton, New Jersey Times
      + Tucson Daily Star
      + Vallejo, California Times-Herald
      + Washington Post
      + Waco, Texas Tribune-Herald
      + Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania Times Leader and Citizen's Voice
      + Woodbury, New Jersey Gloucester County Times
      + Worcester, Massachusetts Telegram and Gazette
  * Newspaper endorsements in the United States presidential primaries


Tirapu

View of Tirapu and the mills

Tirapu is a town and municipality located in the province and autonomous community of Navarre, northern Spain.

  * TIRAPU in the Bernardo Estornés Lasa - Auñamendi Encyclopedia, Euskomedia Fundazioa (in Spanish)

42°39′N 1°42′W / 42.650°N 1.700°W


SmartAsk

SmartAsk is a Canadian quiz show which ran for three seasons (2001-02 through 2003-04) on CBC Television. The show was taped in front of a live audience, with the players sitting on a tiered set (one team on top and the other on the bottom). The SmartAsk tournament was described by Ralph Benmergui, the show's executive producer, on TSN's Off The Record as being "Reach for the Top on acid," although in practice this largely involved crude humour, especially as the show went on and ratings sagged.

On-air personalities

The show was hosted in its first season by Justin Landry and rapper Michie Mee. Brothers Nobu and Mio Adilman replaced Landry for the second season, and Sabrina Jalees replaced Michie for the final season.

During the show's first two seasons, "Judge Lucci" (Luciano Casimiri) had a semi-recurring role as the show's on-air judge. The show also brought in numerous celebrity judges" for Season 2 including such celebrities as Colin Mochrie from Whose Line Is It Anyway, Olympic gold medallist Sami Jo Small, MLB star Chris Woodward, environmentalist David Suzuki, and German folk singer Heino. The judging panel was moved off-camera in Season 3, with the title of "Celebrity Judge" given to a random audience member for each episode.

"Superfan" Andy Saunders also made guest appearances during the show's second and final seasons, to give analysis, predictions, and statistics. Saunders also handed out "Andy Awards" to the show's top players and funnier moments.

How to get on SmartAsk!


SmartAsk

How to get on SmartAsk!

Schools wishing to compete for the championship first submitted a written, audio or video entry to the CBC on a topic announced on the CBC's SmartAsk page. A major grievance against the selection process, however, was the subjectivity of evaluation of entries, with no clear criteria for judging. Nevertheless, 124 schools were chosen from these entries from across the nation (the defending champion received an automatic berth into the next season). 122 of these 125 schools then competed with another school in their province or region on CBC Radio for a berth in the television round. The 3 teams chosen from the territories received a bye into the television round. Teams then competed in a 64-team single-elimination tournament, culminating in the championships. The championship games were not taped until all of the first 60 games, to determine the four teams in the championships, had been aired. Schools fielded teams of up to 4 players for the competition, 3 players playing on-air, and up to 1 alternate.

Game formats

SmartAsk had 4 different formats: one for the radio games, and one for TV in each season. The Adilman brothers were infamous for getting the rules to their own show wrong, often to inadvertent comic effect.

Radio show

The first stage of SmartAsk after team's entries were accepted was qualifying for television through a game played on CBC Radio. These games aired every Friday from late September to mid-November of the school year in which the season took place. The games were generally 15 minutes in length. There were three rounds to the game in each season: the 10 point round, the 20 point round and the Lightning Round.


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In the 10 and 20 point rounds, players had to wait until the host had finished the reading the question to buzz in. This rule was known as the "no preemptive buzzing" (NPB) rule. In the radio show, teams buzzing in early forfeited their right to answer the question. The questions were given in categories of 3 or 4 questions, such as science or spelling, with the last 20 point category being a viewer-submitted questions category, which was general knowledge. There was no penalty for an incorrect response in these rounds, and if the first team to buzz answered incorrectly, their opponents could then buzz in and provide an answer. These rounds were shortened each season to increase the importance of the Lightning Round. Before the 20 point round started, the host conducted brief interviews with the team captains.

In the Lightning Round, all questions were worth 30 points and could be on any topic. Players could buzz in at any time, making it much like Reach for the Top. However, only one answer was accepted from all players, and incorrect answers were penalized 30 points. Many radio hosts forgot that "steals" (answering a question, hopefully correctly, after the opposing team has answered incorrectly) were not allowed in the Lightning Round. Each year, the Lightning Round on radio was 90 seconds long. Generally, hosts got through anywhere from 7 to 13 questions in that time. Even though the Lightning Round itself was not made longer, the fact that the earlier rounds were shortened increased the Lightning Round's importance in determining the final result.

In Alberta, the Lightning Round was played differently. Each team received 30 seconds in which to answer questions. Teams could choose to pass on a question by indicating that they wished to pass. Otherwise, the questions were still worth 30 points for a correct answer and -30 points for an incorrect answer.

Teams that won their radio game proceeded to compete in the television rounds. The tapings for the TV rounds were done in November and December in the last two seasons. Various strikes in 2002 caused some of the tapings for the first season to be delayed until February 2002.

Season 1

In the first season, there were four rounds: the 20 point round, the 50 point round, the 100 point round and the Lightning Round. The first three rounds were NPB rounds.


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In the first three rounds, play was as in the radio NPB rounds. However, on TV, there was a lockout system: if a team buzzed in before the question was finished that team could not buzz in for approximately 1.5 seconds. The questions increased in difficulty with each round. Each round had 3 categories, and each category had about 4 or 5 questions, but some had 3 or 6. The categories were often given humorous names which had some connection to the content of that category.

In the Lightning Round, each question was worth 50 points, with 50 points deducted for an incorrect response. Lightning Round length varied wildly in Season 1, with an average range being 8 to 18 questions. Unlike in later seasons, teams were not given the amount of time for the Lightning Round.

Player interviews were conducted at two different points in the game throughout the season. Players (one from each team) were either interviewed prior to the 100-point round or prior to the Lightning Round. Contestants stayed in their seats for the interviews.

Generally, winning teams scored at least 1000 points. In 4 games, both teams scored at least 1000 points. In their first round game, Victoria School scored 2,120 points.

The winners of Season 1, Kennebecasis Valley High School, would continue their solid play into Seasons 2 and 3. By the end of the series' run, KVHS had the best overall record with 14 wins and 2 losses.

Season 2

The second season's format was probably the most unconventional SmartAsk had during its 3-year run. In the second season, the rounds were the 20 point round, the 50 point round, Dawg Eat Dawg, the Dirty Half Dozen and the Lightning Round.


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The 20 and 50 point rounds were NPB rounds. In the 20 point round, there were 2 categories of 3-4 questions each, a video question, and then another category of 3-4 questions. The last category was given by host Mio Adilman, who came out from backstage in a rather embarrassing costume. He came out in a Speedo numerous times; this is generally agreed to be his most embarrassing costume. Other embarrassing costumes from the second season were Mio as a cheerleader, Mio as Mia and "Mio of Green Gables". The 50 point round, however had 2 categories of 3-4 questions each. Several category names were based on a pun.

The Dawg Eat Dawg round was particularly unusual. It was similar to Final Jeopardy from the popular game show Jeopardy!, only that teams bet on members of the opposing team. The teams were given a general category, such as science or sports. Teams then chose a member of the opposing team and placed a bet. The bet had to be a positive integer and a multiple of ten. The chosen players then were given a question. They had five seconds to write down their answer on their chalkboard, and then show it. If the player was incorrect, the opposing team received points equal to their bet. If the player was correct, the opposing team lost points equal to their bet. Some teams, notably semi-finalist Three Hills School bet many points in this round, after scoring them in the NPB rounds. Other teams did not, notably champion Merivale High School, who only ever bet 10 points in the Dawg Eat Dawg round. The Dawg Eat Dawg question was often the hardest question in the game.

The Dirty Half Dozen was the replacement for Season 1's 100 point round. Each of the six players received a question to themselves. If they answered it correctly, their team received 100 points. If they were incorrect, their counterpart on the opposing team (either above or below them) got a chance to steal the question for 50 points; as such, it was possible for a player to earn 150 points during the round. After the Dawg question, Dirty Half Dozen questions were the next hardest in the game.