2017 Junior World Rally Championship

FIA Junior World Rally Championship for Co-Drivers

Pos.     Co-driver                            FRA       ITA      POL       FIN        GER        ESP      Drops  Points  Key
                                              [France]  [Italy]  [Poland]  [Finland]  [Germany]  [Spain]                 Colour                      Result
1        [Spain] Miquel Ibáñez                1+4       1+8      1+9       2+5        2+4        1+10     18     158     Gold                        Winner
2        [France] Thibault de la Haye         2+2       2+4      3         1+11       3+10       5+7      10     125     Silver                      2nd place
3        [France] Christopher Guieu           3+4       4+2      4+5       Ret+4      4+7        2+1      0      92      Bronze                      3rd place
4        [Austria] Jürgen Heigl               4         3        5         4+1        1          3        10     80      Green                       Points finish
5        [Sweden] Johan Johansson             5         5+1      2+6       3+4                   4+1      0      77      Blue                        Non-points finish
6        [United Kingdom] Dai Roberts         8         7        6         5          WD                  0      28      Non-classified finish (NC)
7        [United Kingdom] Tom Woodburn                  6+4      WD                                       0      12      Purple                      Did not finish (Ret)
8        [Spain] Rodrigo Sanjuan                        8        7         WD         WD                  0      10      Black                       Excluded (EX)
9        [Republic of Ireland] Gerard Conway  6                                                           0      8       Disqualified (DSQ)
10       [Argentina] Claudio Bustos           7                                                           0      6       White                       Did not start (DNS)
11       [Finland] Tomi Tuominen                                 8+1       Ret+1                          0      6       Cancelled (C)
12       [Estonia] Martin Valter              9         Ret      WD                                       0      2       Blank                       Withdrew entry from
Pos.     Co-driver                            FRA       ITA      POL       FIN        GER        ESP      Drops  Points                              the event (WD)
                                              [France]  [Italy]  [Poland]  [Finland]  [Germany]  [Spain]
Source:

FIA Junior World Rally Championship for Nations

Pos.     Country        FRA       ITA      POL       FIN        GER        ESP      Points
                        [France]  [Italy]  [Poland]  [Finland]  [Germany]  [Spain]
1        Spain                                                                      136
2        France                                                                     109
3        Germany                                                                    94
4        Sweden                                                                     69
5        United States                                                              34
6        Bolivia                                                                    22
7        Ireland                                                                    20
8        Finland                                                                    6
9        Estonia                                                                    4
Pos.     Co-driver      FRA       ITA      POL       FIN        GER        ESP      Points
                        [France]  [Italy]  [Poland]  [Finland]  [Germany]  [Spain]
Source:

  * Official website of the World Rally Championship


Soraya (album)

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Soraya is the eponymous fourth bilingual studio album by Colombian-American singer-songwriter Soraya, released on May 6, 2003, by EMI Music. The album won the "Best Album by Songwriter" in the 2004 Latin Grammy Award.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Soraya; except where indicated.

Original Release
No.  Title               Writer(s)           Length
1.   "Casi"                                  3:58
2.   "Sólo por Ti"                           4:00
3.   "Ser Amado"                             4:01
4.   "Miento"                                5:13
5.   "Sin Explicación"                       3:27
6.   "A Tu Lado"                             4:35
7.   "Espejo"                                4:01
8.   "Porque Te Quiero"  Soraya, J.C. Pérez  3:24
9.   "Prisionera"        Soraya, J.C. Pérez  3:39
10.  "Naufrago"                              3:36
11.  "Casi (Acústico)"                       4:11
12.  "Lie For You"                           5:18

Soraya (International Version/English Version)

No.  Title                 Length
1.   "Almost"              3:58
2.   "All For You"         4:00
3.   "Ser Amado"           3:49
4.   "Lie For You"         5:18
5.   "No Need To Explain"  3:27
6.   "A Tu Lado"           4:35
7.   "Reflection"          4:01
8.   "Porque Te Quiero"    3:24
9.   "Prisionera"          3:39
10.  "Shipwrecked"         3:36
11.  "Casi (Acoustic)"     4:11
12.  "Miento"              5:25


Steve Huebert

Steve Huebert (born April 5, 1959) is a Republican member of the Kansas House of Representatives, representing the 90th district. He has served since 2001. The American Conservative Union has given him a lifetime evaluation of 81%.

Huebert, who earned his BS from Wichita State University, has worked as an ergonomic analyst and systems engineer. His is married to Marsha and has three children, Sara, Allyson and Jake. From 1993 to 1995 he served on the Unified School District 262 School Board.

Committee membership

  * Education
  * Federal and State Affairs
  * Elections (Chair)
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Snigole River

The Snigole River is a tributary of the north shore of the Malbaie River flowing generally to the south, especially in the zec du Lac-au-Sable in the unorganized territory of Mont-Élie, then in the territory of Clermont at the end of the route, in the Charlevoix-Est Regional County Municipality, in Quebec, Canada.

This river flowing mainly in forest area has a difference in elevation of 460 m (1,510 ft). It flows south between the “ruisseau des Américains” (American Creek) (west side) and the Jacob River (east side). After several rounds of rapids, waterfalls and falls in the forest area, the Snigole River flows into the Malbaie River facing the “montagne de la Croix” (mountain of the cross).

The east bank of this small forest valley is mostly accessible by the “chemin des Marais” (path of the Marshes) which goes to the North. Forestry is the main economic activity of the sector; recreational tourism activities, second.

The surface of this stream is generally frozen from mid-December to late-March. Nevertheless, safe ice traffic is generally from late December to mid-March.

Geography

The Snigole River originates at “Deuxième lac des Marais” (Second Marsh Lake) (length: 1.3 km (0.81 mi), elevation: 519 m (1,703 ft)) located on the southeastern side of Mont-Élie in the zec du Lac-au-Sable. This wild lake is located in a small forest and recessed valley. It is enclosed between mountains with a peak reaching 799 m (2,621 ft) in the east, 930 m (3,050 ft) in the south and another one of 750 m (2,460 ft) at West. This lake is aptly named because of marshes on the northwestern shore of the lake. Four streams from the north-west drain the east flank of Mont-Élie via the valley connecting the “Troisième lac des Marais” (third Marsh Lake) (flowing in the “Petit Saguenay River” watershed) with the north, which is located at 3.4 km (2.1 mi) north of the Second Marsh Lake.


Snigole River

From the mouth of the Second Marsh Lake, the current flows over 18.7 km (11.6 mi) according to the following segments:

  * 2.5 km (1.6 mi) southeasterly, crossing the First Lake of the Marshes on the 1.3 km (0.81 mi) to the dam at its mouth;
  * 6.6 km (4.1 mi) south through several series of rapids and waterfalls, and branch westward at the end of the segment to get around a mountain, up to a bend in the river, where a stream (coming from the west) flows there;
  * 7.0 km (4.3 mi) southeasterly, then southerly, in a well-formed valley through three sets of rapids, to the confluence of the marsh stream (coming from the west);
  * 2.6 km (1.6 mi) southeasterly under the “chemin des Marais” (Marsh Road) bridge, then easterly to its confluence with the Malbaie River.

The confluence of the Snigole River is at 1.0 km (0.62 mi) upstream of the dam that results in an enlargement of the Malbaie River and at 2.2 km (1.4 mi) upstream of the railway bridge spanning the Malbaie River in downtown Clermont.

Toponymy

The origin of the term "Snigole" is uncertain. The first hypothesis would be the deformation of the English word "sea gull", meaning "gull"; these domineering birds are usually very present here, except in winter. A second hypothesis is that "Snigole" is similar to the term "Snieguole" meaning "snowman" in the Latvian language. A third hypothesis is that "Snigole" is similar to the term "Smigole" which is a rare name.

The name "Snigole River" was formalized on December 5, 1968, at the Bank of Place Names of the Commission de toponymie du Québec.

Notes et references

Annexes

Related Articles

  * Zec du Lac-au-Sable, a controlled harvested zone
  * Mount-Élie, an unorganized territory
  * Clermont, a municipality
  * Malbaie River, a watercourse
  * List of rivers of Quebec


USAT McClellan

For other ships named Hastier, see SS Hastier.

USAT McClellan was a United States Army transport ship that saw service during the Spanish–American War and World War I. She also participated in the occupation of Veracruz in 1914.

McClellan was originally SS Port Victor, a steel-hulled passenger-cargo screw steamer built for Anglo-Australian service in the 1880s. Eventually converted into an early example of a refrigeration ship, Port Victor continued in Australian service until shortly before her sale in 1898 to the United States government for use as a transport during the Spanish–American War.

After the war, she was renamed USAT McClellan and employed as a U.S. Army transport for more than twenty years, supplying the garrisons in Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines. Sold in 1919, she briefly returned to mercantile service under the name SS Hastier, until being damaged by a fire in 1920 and subsequently scrapped.

Construction and design

Port Victor was built by Andrew Leslie & Co.Newcastle-on-Tyne in 1885 for W. Milburn & Co., a company which operated a fleet of ships between Britain and Australia under a subsidiary known as the Anglo-Australian Steam Navigation Company.Port Victor was the Milburn Line's first steel-hulled ship, as well as being the first of the company's ships to have a clipper bow and be fitted with a triple expansion engine.Port Victor was named after an Australian port, in this case that of Port Victor, South Australia (now known as Victor Harbor).

Port Victor was a passenger-cargo ship of 2,793 tonsgross).bulkheads,barque-rigged,IHP, three-cylinder triple expansion steam engine with cylinders of 27, 42 and 70 inches by 48-inch stroke.Port Victor was considered to be "out of the ordinary run" of tramp steamers and "one of the handsomest" of the Milburn fleet.

Service history

Australian service

Port Victor entered service in 1885. For the next dozen years, she would operate from her homeport of London to a host of Australian ports, including those of Melbourne, Sydney, Hobart and Darwin, as well as other Pacific and Far Eastern destinations such as New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong and Batavia.


USAT McClellan

Port Victor's initial service period proved eventful. Her first recorded voyage to Australia took place in December 1885, carrying eight cabin- and six steerage-class passengers in addition to her cargoes. Upon arrival in Australia, the ship immediately became embroiled in controversy when The Argus newspaper in Melbourne accused a company responsible for providing some of the ship's cargoes of falsely describing a consignment of 13 tons of bisulphate of carbon, "a chemical of a most volatile and combustible nature", as sheep dip.The Argus however maintained that it had been correct to publish the story, citing public safety and noting that public pressure had since forced the shipping firm in question to reduce the amount of the chemical shipped in individual vessels.

Shortly before the resolution of this court case, in July 1887, Port Victor again became the source of "considerable excitement" when one of the ship's passengers arriving in Sydney from Hong Kong turned out to have smallpox.

In June of the following year, Port Victor was again in the news, this time as the result of a rough passage from London to Sydney. On 28 May, the ship had run into a gale which tore away the topsails, while heavy seas smashed the port side of the upper bridge, wrecked the forward house on the bridge, and damaged one of the lifeboats. Sheep pens, hen coops, dog kennels and livestock on the ship's deck were swept overboard, and the passenger quarters, including the saloons and cabins, were flooded.Restoration Island, northwest of Brisbane, on a coal-carrying voyage from Newcastle, NSW to Batavia. The ship was refloated without damage a few days later after the removal of about 200 tons of cargo.

In October 1889, Port Victor sailed from London bound for Sydney with relieving crews for the Royal Navy ships HMS Royalist and HMS Egoria, arriving at her destination after a rough passage in mid-December.Egoria's discharged crew, which had been engaged in a survey mission for a cable-laying project to Vancouver, New Zealand, exchanged places with the relieving crew aboard Port Victor for the return voyage to Britain.Port Victor was back in Melbourne by May 1890, with a cargo of ammunition and railway rolling stock for the government, in addition to four draught horses presumably brought out for breeding purposes.

Refrigeration ship


USAT McClellan

Refrigeration ship

The exact date on which Port Victor was converted into a refrigeration ship is not known, but it is known that ships of the Anglo-Australian Line, including Port Victor, began to transport apples and pears from Tasmania to Britain in about 1891, suggesting the conversion took place around this time. As marine refrigeration was still in its infancy, this particular venture seems to have been something of a hit-and-miss affair, with some fruit shipments arriving in Britain in good condition and others not.

In 1894, Port Victor sailed from London bound for Western Australia with a passenger complement of fifty female emigrants, handpicked by the United British Women's Immigration Association, for placement in the colony as female servants, for whom there was much demand. The girls were said to be "much pleased" with the accommodations arranged for them aboard ship.

Australian exports to London aboard Port Victor included a shipment of emus

A couple of voyages to London reported on in 1895 give an idea of the kind of exports produced in Australia at the time. In a June 1895 voyage, Port Victor sailed with 73 "specially selected bullocks", although 17 died before reaching their destination. Upon arrival in Britain, it was decided to slaughter the animals as the ship had made a port of call at Malta during its voyage. The carcasses yielded an average of 122 stone each (976 lb), which was sold wholesale at between 3s. 2d. and 3s. 4d. per stone. The cargo on this trip also included a number of emus, although the reason for their export is not disclosed.Port Victor sailed from Melbourne for London with a cargo of 2,100 bales of wool, and 440 cases of rabbits from the Hamilton Preserving Factory.

Port Victor's last known voyage between Britain and Australia took place in 1896.Pacific service, the refrigerated vessel was shifted to the Caribbean, where she appears to have carried the first-ever cargo of Jamaican fruit direct to London, in a move her owners hoped would "create a revolution in the foreign fruit trade".Port Victor and another ship of the Anglo-Australian Line, Port Chalmers, were purchased for £31,500 and £70,000 respectivelySpanish–American War.

U.S. Army transport


USAT McClellan

U.S. Army transport

A few days after the purchase by the U.S. government of Port Victor, an "infernal machine"—a bomb consisting of 30 lbs of dynamite—was reportedly discovered and disarmed on board the vessel.Port Victor was thereafter quickly put into operation, transporting Red Cross ambulances and mules to Cuba; unfortunately, the shipment came too late to assist the wounded after the battles for Santiago.

After the war, Port Victor was retained by the U.S. Army and converted into a transport by the removal of her refrigeration equipment.USAT McClellan, the ship would spend the next two decades in Army service.

Cuban and Puerto Rican service

From the end of the Spanish–American War in August 1898 through to May 1901, McClellan and several other Army transports were engaged in the supply and rotation of U.S. occupation troops in the newly conquered territories of Cuba and Puerto Rico. McClellan maintained a regular monthly service to the islands at a cost of about $13,000 per voyage, transferring troops, government officials, civilians and supplies to and from the outposts.yellow fever.

In August 1899, McClellan became the subject of a test case after a dispute at Gibara, Cuba, between two of the ship's officers, the quartermaster and the sailing master, the latter of whom resigned after having his advice to put to sea before the onset of a hurricane overruled by the former. The sailing master was later dismissed from government service over the episode, thus settling the "vexed question" of which officer exercised ultimate authority on an Army transport.

Not long after McClellan's departure from Gibara, a hurricane devastated Puerto Rico, and McClellan spent the next two months carrying relief supplies to the island, provided by both the government and private donors. On August 24, for example, the ship sailed with 1,600 tons of supplies including a wide variety of foodstuffs, clothing, medicines such as quinine and building materials. Another voyage in mid-September carried 352,800 pounds of rice and a substantial quantity of beans, in addition to more medicine.


USAT McClellan

By the end of the month, McClellan was back in New York to take part in the grand naval parade on 29 September, arranged in celebration of Admiral George Dewey's return to the United States following his victory over Spanish forces in the Philippines the previous year. The parade, then the biggest in the city's history, was more than seven miles long and consisted of hundreds of ships and boats of all types, including both naval and private vessels. McClellan was one of three vessels in the parade representing the Army Transport Service (A.T.S.).

Philippines and Far Eastern station

General Leonard Wood departed the Philippines aboard McClellan in 1908.

In June 1901, McClellan's service to Cuba and Puerto Rico was terminated after corporate lobbyists succeeded in having the work transferred to private contractors. McClellan and the other transports formerly engaged in this service were instead switched to supplying the U.S. garrison established in the new American protectorate of the Philippines, seized from the Spanish during the recent Spanish–American War. For McClellan's new role, the Army considered reinstalling the ship with refrigeration equipment, but it is not known if this modification was carried out.McClellan would spend the next several years in service to the Philippines, carrying troops, supplies, officials and civilians between New York and Manila.

Although a small transport, McClellan, with her two stateroom-fitted decks and extra bathrooms, had better accommodations than some of the other small transports, as a result of which she not infrequently carried officers and their families along with other dignitaries.McClellan carried 200 teachers to the same destination, including 80 females.McClellan into a dredge to assist with work in the Ambrose Channel in New York Harbor, which had fallen well behind schedule, but this proposal was successfully resisted by the Quartermasters' Dept., and McClellan continued in service as a transport.


USAT McClellan

On 7 December 1905 the steamer Rosalie, tied up along side, caught fire at dock at the foot of Fifty-sixth street, Brooklyn, New York. McClellan had 6 streams of water going unto the ship within 5 minutes. The water caused Rosalie to fill and sink.McClellan was transferred to the Philippines station, and would not return to the United States for more than two years. Her precise duties during this period are not recorded but she is known to have made voyages to Far Eastern destinations, in one instance being slated to return to his post the Governor of the Philippines, William Howard Taft, from a mission to China. McClellan would finally return to the United States after a two-year absence in April 1908, carrying a number of officers and their families including General Leonard Wood.

Return to Latin American service

After her return from the Philippines, McClellan returned to Latin American service. In 1909, she participated in the withdrawal of occupation troops and officials from Cuba following the termination of Charles E. Magoon's governorship and the restoration of the island's independence under José Miguel Gómez.McClellan participated in a military buildup of 3,000 troops at Cuba in response to a war scare with Mexico.

U.S. Army Transport McClellan at Galveston 1914.

In April 1914, McClellan took part in the United States occupation of Veracruz, Mexico, following the Tampico Affair earlier that month. McClellan sailed from Galveston, Texas with a destroyer escort and three other transports carrying a total of 4,000 troops,

Conversion to refrigerated cargo

McClellan was chosen by the Quartermaster Corps for conversion to refrigerated cargo capability when directed to choose one of its ships to supply frozen beef and other products to Army forces stationed in the Gulf of Mexico. The conversion was carried out by the Corps at New Orleans in early summer 1914. Little trace of the old refrigerated spaces and equipment remained but a refrigerated room on the lower deck and an old ice making machine remained. The ice machine was beyond repair and when insulation was removed from the old refrigerated room the deck plating underneath was found to be rusted out, requiring complete replacement. The conversion was done in a very short time as beef was already scheduled for delivery.


USAT McClellan

After conversion the number 1, 2, 3, and 4 'tween decks space and holds were equipped for refrigerated cargo with a separate meat and ice box and another for ship's stores with a gross refrigerated space of 105,934 cubic feet (2,999.7 m3). A thirty-ton Mayer Ice Machine Company refrigeration unit was installed along with two 10 kilowatt generators for lighting at New Orleans. The ship was ordered to New York on the day the work was completed and on arrival a twenty-ton York refrigeration unit was installed. As soon as a cargo of beef could be loaded the ship departed for the Gulf.

In August 1915, a hurricane at Galveston reportedly left McClellan stranded half a mile inland.

World War I and after

During World War I, McClellan saw service in European waters. In 1918, the Navy was authorized to take her over, but declined to do so.

USAT McClellan was sold by the Army to Belgian company Lloyd Royal Belge SA,SS Hastier. On 27 October 1920, Hastier arrived at Antwerp, Belgium, with a fire on board,Hastier was sold to Société Métallurgique de Merxem for scrapping on 11 December 1922.

  * American Bureau of Shipping (1922). 1922 Record of American and Foreign Shipping. New York: Wynkoop Hallenbeck Crawford Co. p. 886.
  * American National Red Cross Relief Committee (1889): Reports: May 1898; March 1899, The Knickerbocker Press, New York.
  * Stratemeyer, Edward (1904): American Boy's Life of Theodore Roosevelt, Chapter 20.
  * [Public Domain] This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the Naval History and Heritage Command.


Mark Engberink

Mark Engberink (born 12 August 1992) is a Dutch footballer who plays as a left back for HSC '21 in the Dutch Derde Divisie.

Club career

He formerly played for FC Twente and Heracles Almelo. In 2015, the player from Lonneker signed a one-year contract with RKC.

Engberink descended in amateur football, when he joined Derde Divisie side HSC '21 in summer 2017.

  * Profile - Voetbal International
  * Mark Engberink at Soccerway


Zac Lubin

Zac Lubin (born August 19, 1989) is an American former professional soccer player who is currently the goalkeeping coach for Northern Colorado Hailstorm FC in USL League One.

Career

College and Amateur

Lubin spent his entire college career at Saint Martin's University. He made a total of 67 appearances for the Saints and finished with a 2.17 Goals Against Average.

He also played in the Premier Development League for Kitsap Pumas and Seattle Sounders FC U-23.

Professional

In 2014, Lubin joined Swedish club IFK Luleå where he made 20 appearances. On March 20, he signed with USL club Tulsa Roughnecks FC.Oklahoma City Energy FC.

Lubin signed with Swope Park Rangers on December 16, 2015.

On February 6, 2018, Lubin signed with the Phoenix Rising FC of the United Soccer League.

On June 30, 2018, Lubin was loaned to the Seattle Sounders FC of the MLS for their match against the Portland Timbers. Two of Seattle's three goalkeepers were injured, therefore prompting the emergency loan of Lubin.

Coaching

On July 21, 2022, Lubin joined Éamon Zayed's staff at USL League One's Northern Colorado Hailstorm FC as the goalkeeping coach.

Honors

Individual

  * USL Championship All-League Second Team: 2019
  * Saint Martin's Saints bio
  * Zac Lubin at Soccerway


Torneo Gran Alternativa (1994)

The Torneo Gran Alternativa (1994) (Spanish for "Great Alternative Tournament") was the very first CMLL Torneo Gran Alternativa professional wrestling tournament held by the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL; Spanish for "World Wrestling Council"). The tournament was held on December 30, 1994, in Mexico City, Mexico at CMLL's main venue, Arena México. CMLL made the Torneo Gran Alternativa an annual event in 1995, only skipping it four times between 1994 and 2017. Since it is a professional wrestling tournament, it is not won or lost competitively but instead by the decisions of the bookers of a wrestling promotion that is not publicized prior to the shows to maintain the illusion that professional wrestling is a competitive sport.

The Gran Alternativa tournament features tag teams composed of a rookie, or novato, and a veteran wrestler for an elimination tournament. The idea is to feature the novato wrestlers higher on the card that they usually work and help elevate one or more up the ranks. The finals saw the team of veteran Negro Casas and rookie Héctor Garza defeat the team of Satánico and rookie Arkangel de la Muerte. In the subsequent years, Héctor Garza would rise up through the ranks in CMLL as well as working stints for World Championship Wrestling and Total Nonstop Action Wrestling in the U.S. and becoming a fixture on the CMLL main event scene.

History

Starting in 1994 the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) created a special tournament concept where they would team up a novato, or rookie, with a veteran for a single-elimination tag team tournament with the purpose of increasing the profile of the rookie wrestler.

CMLL had used a similar concept in August 1994 where Novato Shocker teamed up with veterans Ringo Mendoza and Brazo de Plata to defeat novato Apolo Dantés and veterans Gran Markus Jr. and El Brazo in the finals of a six-man tag team tournament.tag teams instead, creating a tournament that would be known as El Torneo Gran Alternativa, or "The Great Alternative Tournament", which became a recurring event on the CMLL calendar. CMLL did not hold a Gran Alternativa tournament in 1997 and 2000 held on each year from 2001 through 2014, opting not to hold a tournament in 2015, but continuing annually since then

Tournament brackets


Torneo Gran Alternativa (1994)

Tournament brackets

  Quarterfinals                                                                                Semifinals      Finals

  Astro Rey Jr. and Gran Markus Jr.

  Dr. Wagner Jr.                          W
                                          Halcon Negro Jr. and Dr. Wagner Jr.

                                                                                Negro Casas and Héctor Garza           W
  Héctor Garza and Negro Casas            W

  Guerrero de la Muerte and Pierroth Jr.
                                          Héctor Garza and Negro Casas           W

                                                                                Arkangel de la Muerte and El Satánico
  Olímpico and Dos Caras

  Arkangel de la Muerte and El Satánico   W
                                          Arkangel de la Muerte and El Satánico

                                                                                Shocker and El Dandy                   W
  Shocker and El Dandy                    W

  Máscara Mágica and La Fiera

Aftermath

The tournament win helped elevate Héctor Garza in CMLL as the young tecnico wrestler defeated both Bestia Salvaje and El Satánico in Luchas de Apuestas, or "bet matches", where the loser was shaved bald.World Championship Wrestling and won the CMLL World Trios Championship with Dos Caras and La Fiera.AAA. In 2004 he worked for the US based Total Nonstop Action Wrestling where he was part of the team that won the America's X Cup tournament.Los Perros del Mal group. Garza lost the main event of the CMLL 72nd Anniversary Show, CMLL's most important show of the year, and as a result had all his hair shaved off.CMLL World Heavyweight Championship. In 2011 Garza left CMLL, opting to work for Perros del Mal Producciones,Lung cancer on May 23, 2013.AAA Hall of Fame.


Thomas Key

Thomas Key may refer to:

  * Thomas Hewitt Key (1799–1875), English classical scholar
  * Thomas Marshall Key (1819–1869), American politician
  * Thomas Key (colonel), 19th-century American colonel
  * Thomas Key (instrument maker), 19th-century English serpent maker
  * Thomas Key (planter), 17th-century American planter
  * Thomas Caius (died 1572), English academic and administrator


Small Hog Operation Payment

The Small Hog Operation Payment (SHOP) is a 1999 program, funded through USDA’s Section 32 account and administered by the Department's Farm Service Agency, that provided approximately $178 million in direct payments to hog producers to compensate them for low hog prices in late 1998. Under the ad hoc program, producers were eligible for up to $10 per hog on the first 500 hogs marketed during the last 6 months of 1998. Operations marketing 2,500 or more hogs during that period, those with 1998 gross income greater than $2.5 million, and those with certain marketing contracts were not eligible. USDA had first announced the program, using its existing administrative authority, in January 1999, with payments set at $5 per head and total spending to be $50 million. Both the Administration and Congress (via an emergency farm relief package that was part of the FY2000 USDA appropriation, P.L. 106-78) later sanctioned the expanded payments.

  * Pig farming
  * [Public Domain] This article incorporates public domain material from Jasper Womach. Report for Congress: Agriculture: A Glossary of Terms, Programs, and Laws, 2005 Edition (PDF). Congressional Research Service.


2017 Jordanian local elections

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On 15 August 2017, Jordan held local elections for three levels of government: mayoralties, municipal and local councils, and governorate councils.

While the municipal and local councils have been elected consistently since 1925, the governorate council elections are the first of their kind in Jordan, with the councils established by a new 2014 decentralization law. The Law aims to reduce service-related pressure on the Parliament, so it can focus on its legislative and government oversight role.

6,623 Jordanians competed for 1,838 seats in the municipal and local councils, 303 in the governorate councils, and 100 posts for mayor. There are designated quotas for women in all posts.

Timetable

Date              Event
12 February 2017  Cabinet decides to hold local elections
13 February 2017  Independent Election Commission sets date for elections on 15 August
12 March 2017     Dissolution of municipal and local councils
14 March 2017     Preliminary voters list issued
2 July 2017       Final voter lists issued
2 July 2017       Start of candidacy phase
5 July 2017       End of candidacy phase
14 July 2017      Last day for accepting or rejecting candidacies
31 July 2017      Final candidates list issued
15 August 2017    Elections day
17 August 2017    Final results issued

Electoral system


2017 Jordanian local elections

Electoral system

Municipal and local council elections have been held consistently since 1925.governorate councils which were added by a 2014 Decentralization Law. The Law intends to reduce the pressure of service and development related issues on the Parliament, so it can perform its legislative and oversight over government effectively. The law also intends to cede some central-government power to elected councils, increasing citizen participation in municipal decision-making.King Abdullah II described the new decentralization law as "a very important link in the chain of reforms".

The Kingdom is divided into 100 municipalities: 82 municipalities with 355 local councils, and 18 municipalities with none (due to their small size). There are 1,838 members of the municipal and local councils. Mayors will be directly elected for each municipality.Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority and the Petra Development and Tourism Region Authority, will be run by a municipal council that includes at least 7 members.governorate councils with 381 members. 85% of governorate councils members will be elected, and 15% appointed by the government. The elected 303 members of governorate councils, have a 10% quota for women (32 seats). A third of the appointed 45 members are required to be women (15 seats).

The Greater Amman Municipality (GAM), has a special law. Amman's mayor will be appointed by the cabinet from the 38-member municipal council (does not have a local council) which is 75% elected (22 members, one from each locality) and 25% appointed (10 members). There is a six-seat quota for the highest voted-for women.

Municipal and local councils are responsible for administering municipal services, while the governorate councils are tasked with monitoring and suggesting development projects, and formulating the municipality's budget.

The municipal and local councils were dissolved on 12 March 2017, and temporary committees were appointed to run municipalities until the elections on 15 August.

Elections

The Independent Election Commission trained some 19,000 volunteers for an awareness campaign on the municipal and decentralization laws.

6,950 Jordanians have registered their candidacies for the elections by 6 July: 611 men and 6 women mayoral candidates, 3,772 men and 1,094 women for municipal and local councils membership, 1,195 men and 119 women for governorate council membership, and 140 men and 13 women for GAM's council.


2017 Jordanian local elections

After the end of the withdrawal period on 1 August, 327 candidates either withdrew or their candidacies were rejected by courts after appeals. The final candidates list includes 6,623 Jordanians: 538 mayoral candidates, 4,701 for municipal and local councils membership, 1,239 for governorate council membership, and 145 for GAM's council.

With the final candidates list issued, elections in 21 local councils were cancelled after its candidates won by acclamation. 68 women also won by acclamation.

Voters were given three ballot papers: blue papers for mayor posts where only one candidate can be selected; green papers for governorate council seats where one or two candidates (depending on what is located for each district) can be selected; and white papers for municipal and local councils where five candidates can be selected (including one female). Otherwise, the ballot paper will be considered null.

The elections were held on 15 August, starting at 7:00 am and lasting until 7:00 pm, while the Amman, Zarqa and Irbid areas' elections were extended to 9:00 pm.Badia, where a candidate's supporters attacked two ballot boxes.Amman and Zarqa witnessed the lowest voting turnout in the country, while Jerash and Ajloun the greatest.

  * Municipal council
  * Local council
  * Governorate council
  * Independent Election Commission website


Sorano

Sorano is a town and comune in the province of Grosseto, southern Tuscany (Italy).

It as an ancient medieval hill town hanging from a tuff stone over the Lente River.

History

A view of Sorano

Sorano was probably inhabited by Villanovan culture, but the first historical mentions are relative to the 3rd century BC, when it was an Etruscan city under the influence of the more populous nearby Sovana.

Disappearing from history under the Roman domination, it is again known in 862 when a county was founded by Emperor Louis II, under the Aldobrandeschi suzerainty. The Aldobrandeschi were the most powerful feudataries of southern Tuscany for more than four centuries, disappearing in 1312 when Margherita, son of Ildibrandino, died without male heirs. His daughter Adelaide married to Romano di Gentile Orsini, who added the city to the family fiefs.

The county of Pitigliano-Sorano fought against the Republic of Siena, but was forced to accept its suzerainty from 1417. It regained a full independence in 1556, when the latter was annexed to the Duchy of Tuscany. The fortress, due to its strategic position, was frequently attacked; it was also the seat of fratricidal fights between the Orsini. In 1604, with the death of Alessandro di Bertoldo, it became part of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany.

It became part of the Kingdom of Italy in 1860.

Frazioni

The municipality is formed by the municipal seat of Sorano and the villages (frazioni) of Castell'Ottieri, Cerreto, Elmo, Montebuono, Montevitozzo, Montorio, San Giovanni delle Contee, San Quirico, San Valentino and Sovana.

Culture

Comedian Jack Benny mentions Sorano in a running gag on both the radio and television versions of The Jack Benny Program, in which Jack has written a song entitled “When You Say 'I Beg Your Pardon,' Then I’ll Come Back to You.”Capistrano,” the song is interrupted by a cast member or guest star questioning how a swallow could possibly fly all the way from Italy to California.

Main sights


Sorano

Main sights

  * Rocca degli Orsini (Orsini castle), built in the 14th century but totally renovated by Niccolò IV Orsini in 1552. It is considered one of the most important examples of Renaissance military architecture. It has two massive angular bastions, connected by a line of walls with the main gate, which is surmounted by a noteworthy coat of arms and by a square tower. In the interior of the walls are remains of the ancient nucleus, with a round tower and the draw-bridge, now disappeared. A cycle of 16th-century frescoes of Sienese school have been recently found out.
  * Masso Leopoldino, a natural tuff stone carved to form a fortified, panoramic terrace by order of Gran Duke Leopold.
  * Vitozza cave settlement and fortress

Another castle is in the frazione of Sovana.

  * Pitigliano
  * Sovana
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sorano.
  * Official website


Steve Hovley

Stephen Eugene Hovley (born December 18, 1944) is a retired American professional baseball player whose career extended for eight seasons, including all or parts of five years in Major League Baseball for the Seattle Pilots / Milwaukee Brewers (1969–70), Oakland Athletics (1970–71) and Kansas City Royals (1972–73). An outfielder, he threw and batted left-handed, stood 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m) tall and weighed 188 pounds (85 kg).

Born in Ventura, California, Hovley attended Stanford University and was selected by the California Angels in the 35th round (665th overall) of the 1966 Major League Baseball Draft.farm system, he was chosen by the Pilots in the 1968 Major League Baseball expansion draft—also with the 35th pick.Triple-A Rochester Red Wings for the first two months of their inaugural 1969 season before recalling him in June. In his third big-league game, Hovley collected three hits against his former team, the Angels, on June 27.batting average on July 24, with ten multi-hit games.games played.pitcher Jim Bouton's, whose diary of the 1969 season, Ball Four, became a national sensation a year later. Hovley, like Bouton, was a non-conformist in the baseball world; according to Bouton, other players nicknamed Hovley "Orbie," shorthand for "Orbit."

The following season, in 1970, the Pilots moved to Wisconsin as the Brewers, and in their first-ever home game at Milwaukee County Stadium on April 7, Hovley had three hits in three at bats off the Angels' Andy Messersmith; but the rest of the Brewers combined for just one hit in 28 at bats and the team fell, 12–0.Al Downing and Tito Francona.Rule 5 draft.doubles, five triples and eight home runs), 88 RBI and a .258 batting average in 436 games played.

  * Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference, or Baseball Reference (Minors)


Snighole

Snighole is a local beauty spot situated in the valley of the River Ogden in the Lancashire village of Helmshore, near Haslingden in the Rossendale Valley. In the local dialect it is pronounced 'snig 'ole'.

The Ravenshore viaduct by Snighole is locally known as 'Little Blackpool', and was particularly popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century as a bathing place when people had neither the time or resources to travel far for their leisure. In the later part of the twentieth century the river suffered from serious pollution from local industry, although this is now very much improved. In the river close to the viaduct there are scratched drawings in the rocks dating back to the time when the area was much used by local bathers. The word snig is a local dialect term for eel. (Snig can also be a word for grass snake in parts of Lancashire.)

  * Snig Hole Park, Rossendale Online


USAT Sicilien

USAT Sicilien was the Danish motor vessel MS Sicilien built in 1938. After Germany occupied Denmark 9 April 1940 Danish ships were considered enemy ships by Britain and France and subject to seizure. Sicilien was one of forty that sought refuge in the neutral United States. On 30 March 1941 those ships were seized by the United States and requisitioned on 23 July 1941. The ship was then turned over to the United States Army for operation as a United States Army Transport.

As an Army transport the ship made a notable contribution to establishment of a system of weather stations, designated Crystal stations, in the Arctic starting in late September 1941. Sicilien and a fleet of small vessels established stations first proposed as bases on the Crimson air ferry route but first established as weather stations. In June 1942 the ship was transporting Army cargo and troops from Kingston, Jamaica to San Juan, Puerto Rico when torpedoed and sunk by U-172 with loss of 46 of the 77 persons aboard.

Construction

Sicilien, yard number 252, was constructed in 1938 by Helsingørs Jernskibs og Maskinbyggeri A/S, Elsinore, Denmark for Det Forenede Dampskibs Selskab (DFDS), Copenhagen, Denmark. The company had delivered two nearly identical ships for DFDS, Tunis (hull #231) and Marocco (hull #232), in 1936 that were nominally 100 DWT less in capacity than the later ships but with identical dimensions.Algier (hull #251) and Sicilien were delivered in 1938.

Sicilien, signal OYWY, was a one deck vessel with a cruiser stern, 1,654 GRT, 910 NRT, 2,520 DWT 271.7 ft (82.8 m) registered length, 40.4 ft (12.3 m) beam and 16.6 ft (5.1 m) depth. Sicilien was powered by a single 5 cylinder, 338 n.h.p. diesel engine driving one screw for a speed of 13 kn (15 mph; 24 km/h).

History


USAT Sicilien

History

Sicilien was one of four similar cargo ships in commercial service for Det Forenede Dampskibs Selskab (DFDS), Copenhagen, operating between northwest Europe and the Mediterranean.Sicilien and the three other new ships Tunis, Marocco, Algier were put into Atlantic service. The change was due to a surge in freight to North and South America.Germany occupied Denmark on 9 April 1940.Sicilien and a similar company ship, Tunis, were in New York when the United States government seized Danish ships on 30 March 1941.

There was no Danish government in exile, the government completely subject to German influence, and Danish ships were thus considered by Britain and France to be enemy ships subject to seizure. Danish ships not seized by the belligerents sought refuge in neutral ports, particularly the United States. In New York a Danish Shipping Committee, without government powers, attempted to negotiate an "understanding" with representatives of the British and French governments without success. Under German pressure the Danish government ordered the ships in neutral ports to remain there and their crews to refuse any service including a law in Denmark prohibiting crews in neutral ports to sign on with other ships. The shortage of ships and crews among the Allied belligerents and neutral United States led to the United States seizing Danish ships on 30 March 1941. Denmark officially protested the seizure as against international law and demanding immediate return to no avail.

Sicilien was one of forty Danish merchant vessels, totaling 142,641 GRT, seized by the United States Coast Guard and then requisitioned for use or transfer of title under the Ship Requisition Act.War Shipping Administration (WSA), registered in Panama for diplomatic reasons, and operated under new names by commercial companies as WSA agents.Sicilien was delivered to WSA in New York on 12 July 1941 and delivered under Executive Order by WSA to the Army under bareboat charter on 23 July for operation as an Army Transport.


USAT Sicilien

Sicilien was the main transport for establishment of an air ferry route that would allow shorter range aircraft to fly from Newfoundland to Scotland by way of Greenland and Iceland. Surveys made during June and July 1941 selected sites for the route, designated the Crimson Route, but winter would preclude any construction. Instead the Army established weather stations designated at Crystal I at Fort Chimo, Labrador, Crystal II at the upper end of Frobisher Bay and Crystal III off the northeast coast of Baffin Island on Paallavvik Island.

Sicilien loaded a small detachment with arctic equipment, housing, fuel and weather and communications equipment for each of the CRYSTAL weather stations at the Boston Port of Embarkation and departed 21 September 1941. The sites were accessible only with smaller vessels and extreme caution was required due to poor charts, ice, snow and tides up to 42 ft (12.8 m). Sicilien made a stop at Halifax, Nova Scotia picking up five trawlers and three Norwegian vessels for the mission. Some of the ship's cargo was transferred to the smaller vessels at Halifax with a later transfer at Port Burwell, Nunavut near Crystal 1.

Sicilien transiting unescorted from Kingston, Jamaica to San Juan, Puerto Rico with Army personnel was torpedoed and sunk on 7 June 1942U-172 about 10 nautical miles (19 km) south of Cape Beata, Dominican Republic ( 17°30′N 71°20′W / 17.500°N 71.333°W). The Lives lost included 27 of the ships complement, including the master, and 19 Army passengers. The 31 survivors made it to rafts, were questioned by Germans and made Barahona, Dominican Republic a few hours later.

In 1958 the United States offered Denmark $5,396,202 in settlement of claims for use and loss of all forty vessels including Sicilien.


USAT Sicilien

* "Foreign Passenger and Cargo Ships Taken Over by U.S Maritime Commission during World War II". American Merchant Marine at War (USMM.org). 21 March 2011
  * Bykofsky, Joseph; Larson, Harold (1990). The Technical Services—The Transportation Corps: Operations Overseas (PDF). United States Army In World War II. Washington, DC: Center Of Military History, United States Army. LCCN 56060000
  * Grover, David (1987). U.S. Army Ships and Watercraft of World War II. Naval Institute Press. pp. 27, 28, 64. ISBN 0-87021-766-6. LCCN 87015514.
  * Kauffmann, Henrik (May 22, 1941). "The Danish Minister (Kauffmann) to the Secretary of State". United States Department of State, Office of the Historian, Foreign Service Institute
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  * Priolo, Gary P. (2021). "USAT Sicilien". NavSource Online: Army Ship Photo Archive
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  * Poulsen, Hanne (2016). "HELSINGØR VÆRFT 1882-1982" (PDF). M/S Museet for Søfart. Helsingør, Denmark: Museet for Søfart
  * Plannthin, Mikkel (Apr 18, 2021). "Jørgen Ryhl Bineau". Danish WW2 Pilots


USAT Sicilien

* Roberts, Stephen S. (10 Jan 2010). "Class: AQUILA (AK-47)". ShipScribe
  * "Sicilien". Uboat net
  * Denmark, Claims: Compensation for Requisitioning and Use or Loss of Danish Vessels During World War II. United States Treaties and Other International Agreements. Vol. 9. Washington, D.C.: United States Department of State. 1958. pp. 1088–1089
  * "USAT Sicilien (+1942)". The Wrecksite. 2007
  * M/S Sicilien with tugs, apparently immediately after launch.
  * Ship, 21 June 1938, before fitting out
  * Sicilien off Kronborg.
  * Painting, M/S Marocco showing company colors. Note states the ship could carry 12 passengers.
  * Danish Merchant Ships And Sailor Detained In US (Newsreel video including view of Sicilien in Coast Guard custody.)
  * Seized Danish ships in New York, 1940
  * National Archives image: Western Sea Frontier, Enemy Action and Distress Diary, June 13, 1942 — Report loss of Sicilien


Mark Ellyatt

Mark Ellyatt is a British technical diver and instructor. He teaches technical diving all over the world, including the UK, Egypt, Lebanon and Greece.

World records

Mark Ellyatt held the record for the world's deepest dive reaching 313 m (1,027 ft) in 2003 35 miles off the coast of Phuket, Thailand with a dive lasting seven hours, beating John Bennett's previous 308 m (1,010 ft) record.

In 2003, during a previous extreme deep diving attempt Ellyatt suffered extreme isobaric counterdiffusion (ICD) during decompression, and only survived the dive by virtue of being helped by his support divers.John Bennett in his world record setting deep dive. Don Shirley also suffered extremely serious ICD during the dive which killed Dave Shaw.

HMS Victoria

Ellyatt assisted the local diver Christian Francis in discovering the wreck of the battleship HMS Victoria in 2004, 150m underwater off Tripoli, Lebanon. The wreck sits vertically on its bow, partly buried in the seabed - described as being its 'own underwater tombstone'.

Ocean Gladiator

Mark Ellyat has written about his early diving experiences and later record attempts in his book Ocean Gladiator, published in 2005.


Orchis anatolica

Orchis anatolica is a species of flowering plant in the Orchidaceae family.Crete, Cyprus, the East Aegean Islands, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Israel, Syria, and Turkey.

  * Media related to Orchis anatolica at Wikimedia Commons
  * Data related to Orchis anatolica at Wikispecies


Torneo Gran Alternativa (2004)

The Torneo Gran Alternativa (2004) (Spanish for "Great Alternative Tournament") was a professional wrestling tournament held by the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL; Spanish for "World Wrestling Council"). The tournament was held on August 20, 2004, in Mexico City, Mexico at CMLL's main venue, Arena México. The Gran Alternativa tournament features tag teams composed of a rookie, or novato, and a veteran wrestler for an elimination tournament. The idea is to feature the novato wrestlers higher on the card that they usually work and help elevate one or more up the ranks. CMLL made the Torneo Gran Alternativa an annual event in 1995, only skipping it four times between 1994 and 2017. since it is a professional wrestling tournament, it is not won or lost competitively but instead by the decisions of the bookers of a wrestling promotion that is not publicized prior to the shows to maintain the illusion that professional wrestling is a competitive sport.

The 2004 Gran Alternativa was held on August 20, 2004, and once again featured a Battle Royal between the eight rookies to determine the seeding for the tournament. Místico won the battle royal to earn the top seed for El Hijo del Santo and himself. The order of elimination for the rest of the rookies is unknown, except for Misterioso Jr. who was eliminated first, as for the elimination order of Sangre Azteca, Volador Jr., Neutron, Doctor X, El Sagrado and Alan Stone it has not been found recorded anywhere. Místico and El Hijo del Santo qualified for the finals by defeating the teams of Misterioso and Misterioso Jr. and Atlantis and Volador Jr. Último Guerrero and Doctor X qualified for the finals by defeating Último Dragón and Neutron in the first round and Shocker and Alan Stone. Místico and Hijo del Santo won the Gran Alternativa, a victory that set off Místico's rise to the top of CMLL, where he was the number one tecnico from 2006 until his departure in 2011.

History

Starting in 1994 the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) created a special tournament concept where they would team up a novato, or rookie, with a veteran for a single-elimination tag team tournament with the purpose of increasing the profile of the rookie wrestler.


Torneo Gran Alternativa (2004)

CMLL had used a similar concept in August 1994 where Novato Shocker teamed up with veterans Ringo Mendoza and Brazo de Plata to defeat novato Apolo Dantés and veterans Gran Markus Jr. and El Brazo in the finals of a six-man tag team tournament.tag teams instead, creating a tournament that would be known as El Torneo Gran Alternativa, or "The Great Alternative Tournament", which became a recurring event on the CMLL calendar. CMLL did not hold a Gran Alternativa tournament in 1997 and 2000 held on each year from 2001 through 2014, opting not to hold a tournament in 2015.

Tournament background

Gran Alternativa participants Rookie          Veteran            Ref(s)
Doctor X        Último Guerrero
Misterioso Jr.  Misterioso
Místico         El Hijo del Santo
Neutron         Último Dragón
El Sagrado      Máscara Sagrada
Sangre Azteca   Perro Aguayo Jr.
Alan Stone      Shocker
Volador Jr.     Atlantis

Tournament brackets

  Quarterfinals                                                                                Semifinals      Finals

  Místico and El Hijo del Santo       W

  Misterioso Jr. and Misterioso
                                      Místico and El Hijo del Santo  W

                                                                     Volador Jr. and Atlantis
  Sangre Azteca and Perro Aguayo Jr.

  Volador Jr. and Atlantis            W
                                      Místico and El Hijo del Santo  W

                                                                     Doctor X and Último Guerrero
  Neutron and Último Dragón

  Doctor X and Último Guerrero        W
                                      Doctor X and Último Guerrero   W

                                                                     Alan Stone and Shocker
  El Sagrado and Máscara Sagrada

  Alan Stone and Shocker              W

Aftermath

Winning the 2004 Gran Alternativa was one of the early signs of success for Místico, developing into one of the most popular wrestlers in Mexico at the time, as well as drawing a large number of sell-out crowds. He was named the Wrestling Observer Newsletter "Biggest Box Office draw of the decade for the first decade of the 21st century.Gran Alternativa again as a veteran,Black Warrior,El Hijo del Diablo,Skayde,El Oriental.WWE under the name "Sin Cara" from 2011 to 2014,Lucha Libre AAA Worldwide,Místico.


Torneo Gran Alternativa (2004)

In early 2005 the wrestling group Los Guerreros del Infierno created an affiliated group of low to mid-carders called Pandilla Guerrera (Spanish for "Gang of Warriors") which included Doctor X along with several other mid-card rudos. On 25 March 2005 Doctor X teamed up with fellow Pandilla Guerrera members Sangre Azteca and Nitro to defeat El Felino, Safari and Volador Jr. to win the Mexican National Trios Championship.Guerrero Pandilla's Trios title reign lasted 196 days before they lost to Máximo, El Sagrado and El Texano Jr.Gran Alternativa he teamed with Universo 2000 for the 2005 Gran Alternativa. In the first round the team defeated Bronco and El Texano Jr. before losing to eventual winners Dr. Wagner. Jr. and Misterioso Jr. in the semi-final.Pandilla Guerrera broke away from Los Guerreros del Infierno, wanting to break out of their shadow and move up the rankings themselves, forming a group originally known as Rebeldes del Desierto (Rebels of the desert) but later on would become generally known as Los Guerreros Tuareg (Tuareg Warriors), or Rebeldes Tuareg. In mid-2011, Doctor X quit CMLL, looking for better opportunities.Iztapalapa, Mexico City.


Thomas Kent (MP)

Thomas Kent (1590–1656), of Winsley and Devizes, Wiltshire, was an English politician.

He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Devizes in 1628.


Small Hours

Small Hours was the late night radio show hosted by Donal Dineen on Today FM. It commenced broadcasting in 2004, following the seven-year tenure of Here Comes the Night.

On 30 December 2007, The Small Hours had a two-hour radio special broadcast from the living room of David Gray's London home, where Gray and Liam Ó Maonlaí traded songs and stories on the piano and acoustic guitar, "intermittently picking their Desert Island discs for Dineen to spin".

In recent years, the Small Hours has ended and been replaced by the Midnight Chill, an hour devoted to playing a mixture of chill-out songs that have been released in recent years.

  * Official site


2017 KNSB Dutch Single Distance Championships – Men's 10,000 m

2017 Dutch Single
Distance Championships

Men and women
500 m                   men  women
1000 m                  men  women
1500 m                  men  women
3000 m                       women
5000 m                  men  women
10,000 m                men
Mass start              men  women
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  * t
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The men's 10,000 meter at the 2017 KNSB Dutch Single Distance Championships took place in Heerenveen at the Thialf ice skating rink on Friday 30 December 2016. There were 12 participants.

Statistics

Result                                                          Draw

Position                         Skater            Time         Heat  Inside lane      Outside lane
 [1st place, gold medalist(s)]   Jorrit Bergsma    12:52.34      1    Bart de Vries    Patrick Roest
[2nd place, silver medalist(s)]  Sven Kramer       12:53.59      2    Marcel Bosker    Jan Blokhuijsen
[3rd place, bronze medalist(s)]  Bob de Vries      13:01.93      3    Bart Mol         Mats Stoltenborg
               4                 Mats Stoltenborg  13:06.38 PR   4    Sven Kramer      Jos de Vos
               5                 Erik Jan Kooiman  13.08.92      5    Jorrit Bergsma   Erik Jan Kooiman
               6                 Jan Blokhuijsen   13:15.73      6    Jouke Hoogeveen  Bob de Vries
               7                 Bart Mol          13:16.56 PR
               8                 Jos de Vos        13:23.35 PR
               9                 Patrick Roest     13:26.63 PR
              10                 Bart de Vries     13:27.36 PR
              11                 Jouke Hoogeveen   13:28.61
              12                 Marcel Bosker     13:37.44 PR

Source: Referee: Dina Melis. Assistant: Loretta Staring
Starter: Raymond Micka
Start: 16:12 hr. Finish: 17:56 hr.


Soras District

Soras is one of 11 districts of the Sucre Province in the Ayacucho region in Peru.

History

Soras district was the location of one of the largest massacres by the Shining Path terrorist group, which took place on 16 July 1982. In total, 117 people were murdered.

Population

The population of Soras (2005 census) is 1,326 people, 639 men and 687 women.

Ethnic groups

The people in the district are mainly indigenous citizens of Quechua descent. Quechua is the language which the majority of the population (64.39%) learnt to speak in childhood, 35.18% of the residents started speaking using the Spanish language (2007 Peru Census).

Administrative division

The populated places in the district are:

  * Soras
  * Occoroyocc
  * Cascajal
  * Ccerincha
  * Tranca
  * Timpocc
  * Chichucancha
  * Ccoñani
  * Pallqacha
  * Putacca
  * José Paccari
  * Parecca
  * Yacutay
  * Pukawasi
  * Chawpiwasi
  * Doce Corral
  * Rumisunto
  * Quesera
  * Hacienda
  * Hillacha
  * Cceccño
  * Taccra Pata
  * Allpachaka
  * Soytocco
  * Humasa
  * Uchuy Ccoñanicha
  * Yuracc Urccucha
  * Ancaypahua
  * Qarwarasu

14°41′38″S 74°07′27″W / 14.69389°S 74.12417°W


Thao

Look up Thao in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Thao may refer to:

  * Thao people, a group of Taiwanese aborigines
  * Thao language, also known as Sao
  * Thao Nguyen, American singer-songwriter
      + Thao & the Get Down Stay Down, American musical group led by Nguyen
  * Thai honorific Thao
  * Thao Suranari, Thao Thep Kasattri and Thao Sri Sunthon, Thai heroines
  * Thao Vang Lor, character in Gran Torino
  * Brigadier General Thao Ma, commander of the Royal Lao Air Force
  * Thao River, the upper reaches of the Hong River in northern Vietnam


Snikzwaag

Snikzwaag (West Frisian: Sniksweach) is a village in De Fryske Marren in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands. It had a population of around 65 in 2017.

History

The village was first mentioned in the 13th century Sneckswach, and means pointed (cattle) pasture.

Before 2014, Snikzwaag was part of the Skarsterlân municipality and before 1984 it was part of Haskerland.

Gallery

  * [Wooden bell tower]
    Wooden bell tower
  * [Snikzwaag in winter]
    Snikzwaag in winter

Media related to Snikzwaag at Wikimedia Commons


Niedergailbach

Niedergailbach

Niedergailbach is a small village in the German state of Saarland and belongs to the community of Gersheim in the Saarpfalz-Kreis. In 2000 it had 581 inhabitants. Located on the border with France, it is adjacent to the French village of Obergailbach.

  * https://web.archive.org/web/20060619223646/http://www.niedergailbach.com/index2.htm

49°08′02″N 7°12′26″E / 49.13389°N 7.20722°E


Mark Eriksson

Mark Alan Eriksson is an American experimental physicist who specializes in experimental studies of nanostructures. He is the John Bardeen Professor of Physics the University of Wisconsin–Madison

Education

Eriksson earned a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics and physics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1992, followed by a Master of Science and PhD in physics from Harvard University.

Career

Eriksson's research focuses on nanoscale electronic systems, quantum computing; semiconductor membranes, many-body physics and interacting electrons in low-dimensional systems; and the application of nanoelectronics in biology. Eriksson was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2015.American Physical Society.

  * Mark Eriksson publications indexed by Google Scholar


University of the East Caloocan

The University of the East, Caloocan Extension Campus (Pamantasan ng Silangan and commonly abbreviated as UE Caloocan or UE Cal) is a private higher education institution in Caloocan, Philippines. It is one of the three campuses of the University of the East system. It is an autonomous unit headed by a chancellor, with the College of Business Administration, Arts and Sciences, Engineering, and Fine Arts. UE Caloocan is called Caloocan Campus to distinguish it from the Manila Campus on C.M. Recto Avenue.

History

UE Caloocan Campus

UE Caloocan Main Gate

In June 1954, a new campus was opened on a 4.86-hectare (12.0-acre) lot along Samson Road, Caloocan, then it was known as UE Tech. With the Technical School as a junior college offering liberal arts courses and training technical subjects, and a complete secondary course with both academic and vocational curricula, this brought the university into compliance with the 2-2 Plan of the Department of Education.

School year 1957–1958 marked the offering of general courses leading to the Associate of Arts, Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Business Administration degrees and a one-year course leading to a Certificate in Secretarial Science. The next six years saw the construction of the High School Building, the Gymnasium, the Applied Industrial Training Building, the Home Economics Building, the block-long Shop Buildings, the Cement Products Shop and the Woodworking and Construction Building.

By school year 1960–1961, first and second year Liberal Arts, first and second year Commerce and pre-Law courses were offered. By August 1964, the UETS started phasing out its technical offerings. The elementary and the high schools as well as Secretarial courses were also phased out but, in their place, Engineering courses and a complete Business Administration program were offered starting in 1977. Thus, began the campus shift from being a vocational-technical school to becoming an academic extension of UE Manila.

In 1976, when extension programs began to be offered, the Caloocan Campus adopted the name University of the East Caloocan.


University of the East Caloocan

The School of Fine Arts was relocated to the Caloocan Campus before the opening of the 1981–1982 school year. The SFA, established on July 15, 1964, and incorporated in October of that year, started as a unit of the UE Manila School of Music and Arts under the UE Research Center for Sciences, Humanities and Culture. The other units were the School of Music and the Ballet School. The school used to be in what was then the College of Dentistry building on Aurora Boulevard across from the UE Ramon Magsaysay Memorial Medical Center.

In 1977, Dean Oscar Limlingan of the College of Engineering was appointed officer-in-charge of UE Caloocan. Later, he became assistant vice president, then vice president and the first chancellor of UE Caloocan.

The UE Caloocan grounds have been used for ROTC and CAT instruction since 1986.

UE Caloocan enhanced its own infrastructure and that of Caloocan with the Tan Yan Kee Academic Building, which was opened in the second semester of the 2003–2004 school year and was inaugurated in December 2003.

In February 2004, UE Caloocan was honored by the City Government of Caloocan as "One of the Outstanding Institutions of Caloocan" in the field of education. The award was given to UE Caloocan "for its invaluable contribution in the field of education towards the realization of our vision of a truly reformed City of Caloocan, revitalizing the historic legacy of our City."

The Caloocan Campus marked its 67 year in 2021. Timed to coincide with Caloocan Day, UE Caloocan Week projected its role as an educational institution serving the youth in the CAMANAVA and neighboring areas.

At present, UE Caloocan houses the Colleges of Arts and Sciences (CAS), Business Administration (CBA), Fine Arts (CFA) and Engineering (CoE). They have counterpart colleges at UE's Manila campus, except for the college of Fine Arts.

More than 15 programs of UE Caloocan in the colleges of Engineering, Arts and Sciences, and Business Administration were given Level I, II and III accredited status under the Philippine Association of Accredited Schools, Colleges and Universities (PAASCU).

Campus


University of the East Caloocan

Campus

The campus is a 4.86-hectare (12.0-acre) lot along Samson Road, Caloocan. UE Caloocan has the largest university campus in the CAMANAVA (Caloocan, Malabon, Navotas, Valenzuela) area. It has a parade ground and the university football field. Caloocan Campus will be the site for the university oval for athletic events.

UE Caloocan once became a venue for the UAAP beach volleyball games.

Dr. Lucio C. Tan Building

Gymnasium

Buildings

  * Dr. Lucio C. Tan Building
  * Tan Yan Kee Academic Building
  * HRM Mock Hotel
  * Administration Building
  * College of Engineering Building
  * Old Academic Building
  * University Chapel
  * University of the East-Caloocan Gymnasium

Tan Yan Kee Academic Building

Tan Yan Kee Academic Building was inaugurated in December 2003. It is named after the late Tan Yan Kee, the father of UE's honorary chairman, Dr. Lucio C. Tan. The Caloocan Campus Colleges of Business Administration, Arts and Sciences, and Fine Arts are housed in the TYK Academic Building. This six-storey edifice, which cost nearly 300 million pesos to build, has 54 air-conditioned classrooms, multimedia rooms, computer laboratories, a Gigabit Ethernet system, a parking area, the Benjamin G. Chua Jr. Library (in honor of the UE trustee with the same name), an information kiosk with info-retrieval machines, deans offices, faculty rooms, college offices, student council offices, two elevators, a cafeteria and a helipad.

Dr. Lucio C. Tan Building

Dr. Lucio C. Tan Building is a ten-story building and the new home of UE Caloocan's Elementary and High School Department or EHSD (Currently known as Basic Education Department or BED) kindergarten and elementary pupils and high school students. It was inaugurated on September 25, 2012. The edifice, named after UE's chairman of the board and chief executive officer, features modern classrooms and laboratories, a 500-seat multipurpose hall, a spacious library complete with multi-media facilities, and many more.

Engineering Building


University of the East Caloocan

Engineering Building

The four-storey Engineering Building was inaugurated in 1980. What used to be the technical shops were gradually converted into classrooms for the students of the College of Arts and Sciences and the College of Business Administration until November 2003. It is a four-story building that houses over 50 lecture rooms, 24 laboratories and lab rooms, tool rooms and stock rooms, two machine shops and the campus's two multipurpose halls.

HRM Mock Hotel

Among the university's most recent infrastructure milestones is the HRM Building. It has two main parts: the mock hotel and the kitchen. The hotel is composed of reception area, travel area, dining area, suite, regular room (guest room), housekeeping room, and the skills laboratory. P6.3 million is the allotted budget for the building itself while the equipment for the kitchen costs about P8 million.

Colleges

  * College of Engineering (COE): The gradual transfer of the college from UE Manila started in 1984. It is now offered in both campuses.
  * College of Arts and Sciences (CAS): The College of Arts and Sciences was initially a branch of CAS Manila in 1977.
  * College of Business Administration (CBA): BA programs were offered in UE Caloocan starting 1976. CBA Caloocan was created in 1986.
  * College of Fine Arts, Architecture and Design (CFAD): Founded on July 15, 1964, UE-CFAD was originally established at the UE Ramon Magsaysay Research Center for Sciences, Humanities and Culture located on Aurora Boulevard, Quezon City. The Cultural School embraced three disciplines in its Conservatory – Music, School of Fine Arts and the Ballet School. It was formally opened on August 3, 1964, and was later renamed the School of Music and Arts. In May 1981 the School of Music and the Ballet School were phased out and the School of Fine Arts became the sole cultural school of the university, it became a college in 1992.

Library and research


University of the East Caloocan

Library and research

Further information: University of the East
  * Benjamin C. Chua Jr. Library - On the Caloocan campus on the sixth floor of the Tan Yan Kee Academic Building. There are six sections in this main library: Circulation and Reserve, Periodicals, Filipiniana, Fine Arts, Reference, and Multimedia.
  * Engineering Library Caloocan - The Engineering Library is on the third floor of the Engineering Building. It provides reference service and collections, which provide support to research and instruction of the civil, computer, mechanical, electronics and communications, and electrical engineering programs. The collection consists of over 18,000 volumes of books.
  * LCT Library - The Elementary and High School Library is on the fifth floor of the Dr. Lucio C. Tan Building. It is equipped with a multimedia facility. it was inaugurated during the 66th anniversary of the university.

Accreditations and affiliations

University of the East is an accredited member of national and international organizations:

  * Philippine Accrediting Association of Schools, Colleges and Universities (PAASCU)
  * Philippine Association of Colleges and Universities Commission on Accreditation (PACUCOA)
  * Association of Southeast Asian Institutions of Higher Learning (ASAIHL)
  * International Association of Universities (IAU)
  * Federation of Accrediting Agencies of the Philippines (FAAP)
  * Philippine Association of Colleges and Universities (PACU)
  * University Athletic Association of the Philippines (UAAP)

Offices and departments

Basic Education Department

The UE Caloocan Basic Education Department offers the standard K-12 basic education curriculum as prescribed by the Department of Education: Kindergarten and 12 years of basic education (six years of primary education, four years of Junior High School, and two years of Senior High School [SHS]).

  * Pre-school Education
  * Elementary Education
  * Secondary Education (Regular and Science-based)
  * Secondary Education (Senior High School)

Department of Registration and Records Management (DRRM)

The DRRM implements policies on enrollment, transfer and graduation of students, including the generation, storage and use of student records, and preparation of transcripts of records, certifications and diplomas/certificates. It takes charge of commencement and university-related exercises.

Management Information Systems Department (MISD)


University of the East Caloocan

Management Information Systems Department (MISD)

The Management Information System Department is responsible for all matters related to computer-based information systems of the university, including the design and development of software and hardware needed in any academic, financial and personnel system and the training of users. The MISD, headed by its director, is also in charge of the supervision and maintenance of computer facilities of the university.

Admissions Office

The Admissions Office implements policies on admission and preliminaries to matriculation. Through an online admission system, it examines and processes the entrance credentials of freshmen applicants, transferees, degree holders and cross-enrollees seeking admission. It is also in charge of selecting qualified students for scholarships and other grants.

Office of Extension and Community Outreach (OECO)

The OECO is the lead office in integrating the community outreach programs and services of the colleges. This office takes charge of monitoring, evaluating and implementing the community involvement of students and faculty members on both campuses. It is also in charge of monitoring the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) and the Literacy and Civic Welfare Programs of their National Service Training Program (NSTP).

Security Office

The Security Office is tasked with the maintenance and protection of people and property in the academic community. It maintains close linkage with law enforcement agencies off-campus, to attain the rationale objectives the office was created for. There is a Security Office on each campus.

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Torneo Gran Alternativa (2017)

The Gran Alternativa 2017 is an ongoing professional wrestling tournament event produced by the Mexican wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL; Spanish "World Wrestling Council") that began on June 2, 2017 and will take place over three editions of CMLL's Friday night Super Viernes shows. The Torneo Gran Alternativa (Great alternative tournament) was first held in 1994 and is CMLL's oldest recurring tournament. The 2017 Gran Alternativa tournament will be the 22nd tournament held. In the Gran Alternativa a Novato, or rookie wrestler, team up with an experienced or "veteran" wrestler for a tag team tournament. The rookie winner is often elevated up the ranks of CMLL as a result of winning the tournament, but there is no specific "prize" for winning the tournament beyond a symbolic trophy.

The team of novato El Soberano and veteran wrestler Carístico won the 2017 Torneo Gran Alternativa by defeating the team of Sansón and Último Guerrero in the finals on June 16, 2017. This marked the third time Carístico had won the tournament and the first time that Soberano had won the Gran Alternativa.

History

Starting in 1994 the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) created a special tournament concept where they would team up a novato, or rookie, with a veteran for a single-elimination tag team tournament.El Torneo Gran Alternativa, or "The Great Alternative Tournament" and became a recurring event on the CMLL calendar. CMLL did not hold a Gran Alternativa tournament in 1997 and 2000 held on each year from 2001 through 2014, opting not to hold a tournament in 2015. The 2016 Gran Alternativa tournament will be the 21st overall Gran Alternativa tournament. All tournaments have been held in Arena México, CMLL's main venue and up until 2016 all tournaments had taken place on Friday nights, with the 2016 tournament being the first time the Gran Alternativa was held as part of CMLL's Tuesday night shows.Super Viernes shows,

Tournament background


Torneo Gran Alternativa (2017)

Tournament background

The tournament features 15 professional wrestling matches with different wrestlers teaming up, some of which may be involved in pre-existing scripted feuds or storylines while others are simply paired up for the tournament. Wrestlers portray either villains (referred to as Rudos in Mexico) or fan favorites (Técnicos in Mexico) as they compete in wrestling matches with pre-determined outcomes. The tournament format follows CMLL's traditional tournament formats, with two qualifying blocks of eight teams that compete on the first and second week of the tournament and a final match between the two block winners. The qualifying blocks were one-fall matches while the tournament finals will be a Best two-out-of-three falls tag team match. Each qualifying block started with all 8 Novatos competing in a "seeding" battle royal to determine the brackets for the block.

Gran Alternativa participants Block    Rookie        Veteran           Ref(s)
Block A  El Cuatrero   Máscara Año 2000
Block A  Esfinge       Atlantis
Block A  Espanto Jr.   Kraneo
Block A  Forastero     Shocker
Block A  Pegasso       Blue Panther
Block A  Sansón        Último Guerrero
Block A  Star Jr.      Místico
Block A  Stigma        Titán
Block B  Akuma         Pierroth
Block B  Astral        Valiente
Block B  Canelo Casas  Negro Casas
Block B  Drone         Niebla Roja
Block B  Flyer         Volador Jr.
Block B  Oro Jr.       Ángel de Oro
Block B  Raziel        Mephisto
Block B  Soberano      Carístico

Tournament results

Tournament brackets


Torneo Gran Alternativa (2017)

Tournament results

Tournament brackets

  Round of 16                                Quarterfinals                                                            Semifinals                                                       Finals

  Pegasso and Blue Panther          W
  Star Jr. and Místico                                      Pegasso and Blue Panther
  Espanto Jr. and Kráneo                                    Sansón and Último Guerrero    W
  Sansón and Último Guerrero        W                                                                                Sansón and Último Guerrero    W
  Forastero and Shocker             W                                                                                Esfinge and Atlantis
  Stigma and Titán                                          El Forastero and Shocker
  El Cuatrero and Máscara Año 2000                          Esfinge and Atlantis          W
  Esfinge and Atlantis              W                                                     Sansón and Último Guerrero  19:39
  Canelo Casas and Negro Casas      W                                                                                Soberano                      W
  Astral and Valiente               04:45                   Canelo Casas and Negro Casas  W
  Akuma and Pierroth                W                       Akuma and Pierroth            00:00
  Drone and Niebla Roja             08:07                                                                                Canelo Casas and Negro Casas  06:37
  Flyer and Volador Jr.             W                                                                                Soberano Jr. and Carístico  W
  Mephisto and Raziel               06:53                   Soberano Jr. and Carístico    W
  Soberano Jr. and Carístico        W                       Flyer and Volador Jr.         08:28
  Ángel de Oro and Oro Jr.          07:58


Metropolitan Hotel, Sydney

Metropolitan Hotel is a heritage-listed hotel at 244 George Street, Sydney, Australia. It was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.

History

The coastal Aboriginal people around Sydney are known as the Eora. Central Sydney is therefore often referred to as "Eora Country". Within the City of Sydney local government area, the traditional owners are the Cadigal and Wangal bands of the Eora. European colonisation of the Sydney area began in 1788.

Prior to 1834 the site was Crown land, known as a lumber yard, of which the corner was leased by Graham Blaxcell. The site was released for development in 1834 and by 1848, Joseph Fowles in his book 'Sydney in 1848' indicates a substantial three-storey brick terrace of 4 bays which comprised a corner hotel joined by a dispensary, a tailors and a drapers shop. The hotel was named Castle Tavern in the Post Office Directory of 1851. By 1861 the name had changed to La Villa de Bordeaux and the publican was P. Wilson. In 1867 the building was vacant and the first recording of the name Metropolitan Hotel occurred in 1879 and has continued through till the present day. At the turn of the century the building was owned by the United Colonial Land Investment Co. and the hotel run by J. Donaldson. In 1909 the hotel was purchased by Tooth and Co. and the hotel and adjoining dispensary were redeveloped with a five-storey building. Half of the dispensary was left intact and formed an extension to the hotel with a bottle shop on the ground floor.

It was twice threatened with demolition in the 1980s: first by a consortium that wanted to redevelop a number of adjacent properties, and then by a proposal from developer Warren Anderson to demolish all but the facade for a high-rise office tower. The demolition plans did not proceed following a state government decision in February 1985 to protect a number of buildings on Bridge Street as a historic boulevard.

Description


Metropolitan Hotel, Sydney

Description

The Metropolitan Hotel is a four-storey face brick and sandstone building located on a prominent corner of George Street near Wynyard railway station. The building is designed in the Federation Free Style and features a façade divided into bays by projecting panels topped with sandstone detailed brick parapet decorated with round pediments with plaques, and an octagonal corner cupola with a zinc clad roof and oval cutouts. The public bar appears to have been decorated with Art Deco motifs, some of which have been retained in the latest fitout as a restaurant. The original timber doors have also been retained. The remaining bay of the original dispensary has some significant fabric in the front and side walls. The adjacent terrace has been opened up internally and incorporated into the building on the upper levels.

Significance

The Metropolitan Hotel is significant for replacing a hotel on the same site dated 1851 and as replacing a hotel of the same name dated 1876. The Metropolitan is one of five hotels of this style in the city the others being the Harbour View Hotel, the Bristol Arms, the Lismore and the Ship Inn. The site is significant as part of the Crown grant dated pre 1834, and the hotel continues a long tradition with the hotel trade on the site. The building is significant as a fine and largely intact external example of the style used in a corner hotel, although the interiors have been extensively modified on the lower floors. The building is significant for its strong contribution to the character of the immediate area, and is significance as part of the network of small purpose built hotels providing a social / recreational venue and budget accommodation located within a short distance from Wynyard and Martin Place and in the centre of the CBD. It reflects the social character of the area during the early years of the twentieth century and is representative as an example of the evolutionary process of a small corner hotel at the fringes of the city.

Heritage listing

Metropolitan Hotel was listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.

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Attribution


Metropolitan Hotel, Sydney

Attribution

  * This Wikipedia article was originally based on Metropolitan Hotel, entry number 663 in the New South Wales State Heritage Register published by the State of New South Wales (Department of Planning and Environment) 2018 under CC-BY 4.0 licence, accessed on 13 October 2018.
  * This Wikipedia article was originally based on Metropolitan Hotel Including Former Terrace (246) and Including Interiors, entry number 2423757 in the New South Wales Heritage Database published by the State of New South Wales and Office of Environment and Heritage 2018 under CC-BY 4.0 licence, accessed on 10 December 2018.


Small Group Research

Small Group Research is a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers research in the field of social psychology, dealing with the psychology and organizational behavior of small groups and communication processes within them. The editors-in-chief are Aaron M. Brower (University of Wisconsin) and Joann Keyton (North Carolina State University). It was established in 1970 and is currently published by SAGE Publications.

Abstracting and indexing

Small Group Research is abstracted and indexed in Scopus and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2017 impact factor is 1.163, ranking it 51st out of 64 journals in the category "Psychology, Social",

  * Official website


Weinland Park

Weinland Park is a neighborhood north of downtown Columbus, Ohio and encompassed by the boundaries of the University District. A development boom in the 1930s and 1940s resulting from new streetcar lines and the blossoming of factories brought working and middle-class families to the neighborhood. Current housing stock consists primarily of single family residential buildings that have been converted to rentals or multifamily housing. Row-homes and apartment buildings are also ubiquitous in the neighborhood. Renters currently outnumber owners.

History

Weinland Park bears the name of Edgar L. Weinland, member of the first law class of The Ohio State University. Weinland was born in Middletown, Ohio, Ohio but was raised in Westerville, Ohio. He started his career as assistant city solicitor before moving on to become the city solicitor of George Marshall. Acting under the Columbus Housing Authority as city councilman, Weinland was crucial in the annexation of a parcel of land for park space which in turn was called Weinland Park. The current geographical boundary of the neighborhood was given the name of this park as well, though it is unknown when the name became generally used.

In the late 1800s, the City of Columbus annexed the area along North High Street, including what would later become Weinland Park.Great Migration brought many African Americans from the rural South to Midwestern cities like Columbus and increased the diversity of the neighborhood. Post World War II, Weinland Park experienced the effects of suburbanization, white flight, and disinvestment which occurred across the nation at the time. Cocaine was introduced to the neighborhood in the 1980s, only exacerbating those issues. Gangs were formed within the community, the most notorious of them being the Short North Posse.HOPE VI housing failed in many aspects and only further contributed to the downturn of the neighborhood.

Recently, the community has moved forward from these historical events. Many different organizations and community members have been implementing revitalization efforts since as early as 1986.The Ohio State University, the City of Columbus, Habitat for Humanity, the Weinland Park Community Civic Association, and many other stakeholders to pool funding and resources with which to improve the neighborhood.

Geography


Weinland Park

Geography

Weinland Park is located North of Downtown Columbus and East of The Ohio State University. It is bounded on the north by Chittenden Avenue, the south by Fifth Avenue, the east by the existing railroad tracks, and the west by North High Street and it covers approximately 217 acres of land.University District.

Areas around Weinland Park include Indianola Terrace to the north, Italian Village to the south, Milo-Grogan to the east, The Ohio State University campus to the northwest, and Peach District, Dennison Place, and The Circles to the west.

Perceptions of Weinland Park's geography align fairly closely with its official geography. The eastern and western borders of the neighborhood are clearly delineated by High Street and the railroad tracks, however the neighborhood's northern and southern boundaries are more fluid. As a result, perceptions of the Weinland Park geography may overlap with the Indianola Terrace and Italian Village.

Transportation

Weinland Park is a gridded, transit-oriented neighborhood with easily accessible one way roads, and COTA bus stops at several locations. The number 4 bus line goes down the length of Summit Street and North 4th Street located within the Weinland Park neighborhood. Additionally, the number 8 and 52 lines go through the northern portion of the neighborhood by the South Campus Gateway and meet up with several lines that go down the span of North High Street.

Land use

The City of Columbus has designated Weinland Park, in addition to portions of the larger University District as a Community Reinvestment Area that is "ready for revitalization", with available 15-year, 100 percent tax abatements for all projects that include 10 percent affordable housing, with options to buy out of the requirement.

Residential

Weinland Park has roughly 5000 residents who live in about 2000 households. The homeowner occupancy rate is less than ten percent, and the housing vacancy rate is 4 percent, down from 20 percent in 2010.American foursquare architectural style.Habitat for Humanity housing, and Low Income Housing.

Commercial and entertainment


Weinland Park

Commercial and entertainment

The northern border of Weinland Park looking towards N. High Street. The most prevalent area of the Weinland Park neighborhood that contains commercial businesses is on the East side of North High Street spanning from East 11th Ave. to East 9th Ave. Located here is the South Campus Gateway which includes several restaurants and the Gateway Film Center. The Gateway Film Center offers a selection of different movies each week, showing a variety old and new films. The Gateway is a popular place for students and other residents to gather and socialize. It also includes major book chain Barnes & Noble that serves as campus book store to The Ohio State University as well. Another significant commercial facility is the supermarket chain Kroger, located at North high Street and East Seventh Avenue.

South Campus Gateway

Parks and landmarks

Weinland Park has several notable landmarks and memorable architectural structures.

The Mound

Huckleberry House

A notable geographical feature of Weinland Park is a 20-acre brownfield site called "The Mound" .Clean Ohio Grant and now sits empty with sparsely growing native vegetation - an irresistible scene for one citizen's Weinland Park take on the iconic Hollywood sign.

Huckleberry House

Main article: Felix A. Jacobs House

Located at 1421 Hamlet Street, its primary function is a shelter for youths. Within the house are multiple programs for supporting youths with mental, emotional, and physical problems. It is a safe space for troubled youths to come and stay (overnight if they want) and receive assistance.

Orton Memorial Laboratory

Orton Memorial Laboratory

Built in 1929 and positioned at 1445 Summit Street, Orton Memorial Laboratory was originally used as the headquarters for the Standard Pyrometric Cone Company. The company was established by the son of the founding President of The Ohio State University. The laboratory was designed by Howard Dwight Smith, the same architect who designed the Thompson Library and Ohio Stadium. A recent rehabilitation project turned the laboratory into a modern, industrial office space.

Weinland Park

Located at 1280 Summit St., the park is 3.92 acres and features picnic space, a playground and a basketball court.

Godman Guild

Godman Guild

York Temple


Weinland Park

Godman Guild

York Temple

This building was originally the Sixth Avenue Elementary school building.

York Temple

Once a Masonic Lodge, York Lodge No. 563 was recently converted to condominiums on North High Street. The designer kept as much of the bones of the building as possible when constructing the new plans. The marble floors, brass doorknobs, woodwork and stained glass are still present in the condos.

Weinland Park Elementary School

Weinland Park Elementary School

St. Sophia Orthodox Cathedral

There is only one public school located within the Weinland Park neighborhood: Weinland Park Elementary School. Located at 211 East Seventh Avenue, it opened in 1952. It offers full-day pre-kindergarten all the way up through 5th grade and uses the Schmoker Instructional Model.The Ohio State University which focuses on the engagement of students in STEM. Weinland Park Elementary School is ranked 1483rd of elementary schools in Ohio.

St. Sophia Orthodox Cathedral

This small stone cathedral was founded by Archbishop John-Cassian Lewis in 1990.

Kroger

Ten million dollars was invested in redeveloping the old Kroger located at this site as part of the Weinland Park Collaborative in order to double its size and increase its capacity for services.

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