Arcadia (magazine)

For the Japanese arcade game magazine Monthly Arcadia (月刊アルカディア), see Monthly Arcadia.

Arcadia is a Colombian-based monthly magazine.

  * Credencial
  * El Malpensante


Platynus tenuicollis

Platynus tenuicollis is a species of ground beetle in the family Carabidae. It is found in North America.

  * Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2017). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 1: Archostemata - Myxophaga - Adephaga. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-33029-0.


Poecilonota bridwelli

Poecilonota bridwelli is a species of metallic wood-boring beetle in the family Buprestidae. It is found in Central America and North America.

  * Bellamy, C.L. (2013). "The world of jewel beetles"
  * Nelson, Gayle H.; Walters Jr., George C. Jr.; Haines, R. Dennis; Bellamy, Charles L. (2008). A Catalog and Bibliography of the Buprestoidea of America North of Mexico. Special Publication No. 4. The Coleopterists' Society. ISBN 978-0972608787.
  * Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2006). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 3: Scarabaeoidea - Scirtoidea - Dascilloidea - Buprestoidea - Byrrhoidea. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-30914-2.


2017 Sport11 Ladies Open – Singles

Main article: 2017 Sport11 Ladies Open

Irina Khromacheva was the defending champion, but lost in the quarterfinals to Jana Čepelová.

Čepelová won the title, defeating Danka Kovinić in the final, 6–4, 6–3.

Seeds

 1. [United States] Christina McHale (first round)
 2. [Romania] Irina-Camelia Begu (first round)
 3. [China] Zheng Saisai (first round; retired)
 4. [Slovakia] Jana Čepelová (champion)
 5. [Russia] Irina Khromacheva (quarterfinals)
 6. [Belgium] Maryna Zanevska (first round)
 7. [Romania] Patricia Maria Țig (withdrew)
 8. [Colombia] Mariana Duque (quarterfinals)

Draw

Key

  * Q = Qualifier
  * WC = Wild card
  * LL = Lucky loser
  * Alt = Alternate
  * SE = Special exempt
  * PR = Protected ranking
  * ITF = ITF entry
  * JE = Junior exempt
  * w/o = Walkover
  * r = Retired
  * d = Defaulted
  * SR = Special ranking

Finals

  Semifinals                                                           Final

              [Montenegro] Danka Kovinić   6                           63                        6

              [Bulgaria] Viktoriya Tomova  4                           77                        3
                                           [Montenegro] Danka Kovinić  4                         3

                                           4                           [Slovakia] Jana Čepelová  6  6
  4           [Slovakia] Jana Čepelová     6                           6

              [Ukraine] Kateryna Kozlova   4                           0

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Top half

  First round                                     Second round       Quarterfinals                                     Semifinals

  1            [United States] C McHale       6   66            1
               [Montenegro] D Kovinić         4   78            6                       [Montenegro] D Kovinić         6                       6
  WC           [Hungary] Á Bukta              1   2                                     [Romania] A Cadanțu            0                       3
               [Romania] A Cadanțu            6   6                                                                                [Montenegro] D Kovinić  6  2   6
               [Serbia] J Jakšić              6   5             2                                                      8                       [Colombia] M Duque   3                       6  2
               [Czech Republic] T Martincová  4   7             6                       [Czech Republic] T Martincová  6                       1                    1
  Q            [Slovenia] N Potočnik          2   0                                 8   [Colombia] M Duque             0                       6                    6
  8            [Colombia] M Duque             6   6                                                                    [Montenegro] D Kovinić  6                    63                      6
  3            [China] S Zheng                0r                                                                                [Bulgaria] V Tomova     4  77  3
               [Argentina] N Podoroska        3                                         [Argentina] N Podoroska        6                       1                    3
               [Hungary] F Stollár            1   3                                 LL  [Slovakia] C Škamlová          2                       6                    6
  LL           [Slovakia] C Škamlová          6   6                                                                                LL                   [Slovakia] C Škamlová   2  4
  WC           [Croatia] T Lukas              65  3                                                                                [Bulgaria] V Tomova  6                       6
               [Bulgaria] V Tomova            77  6                                     [Bulgaria] V Tomova            3                       6                    6
               [Slovakia] AK Schmiedlová      78  6                                     [Slovakia] AK Schmiedlová      6                       4                    1
  Q            [Germany] A Zaja               66  4

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Bottom half

  First round                                  Second round       Quarterfinals                                 Semifinals

  5            [Russia] I Khromacheva      6   6
  PR           [United States] A Glatch    4   4                                 5  [Russia] I Khromacheva      6                      2                      78
               [Slovenia] D Jakupović      6   3             6                      [Slovenia] D Jakupović      3                      6                      66
  WC           [Spain] G García Pérez      1   6             2                                                                         5                      [Russia] I Khromacheva  0  2
               [Bulgaria] S Karatantcheva  77  4             6                                                  4                      [Slovakia] J Čepelová  6                       6
  Q            [Argentina] C Pella         65  6             4                      [Bulgaria] S Karatantcheva  2                      1
  WC           [Hungary] P Udvardy         3   2                                 4  [Slovakia] J Čepelová       6                      6
  4            [Slovakia] J Čepelová       6   6                                    4                           [Slovakia] J Čepelová  6                      6
  6            [Belgium] M Zanevska        6   3             1                                                                                [Ukraine] K Kozlova     4  0
  Q            [Norway] M Stokke           0   6             6                   Q  [Norway] M Stokke           5                      5
               [Ukraine] K Kozlova         63  6             6                      [Ukraine] K Kozlova         7                      7
               [Hungary] D Gálfi           77  2             3                                                                                [Ukraine] K Kozlova     7  3  6
               [Turkey] Ç Büyükakçay       6   6                                                                                [Turkey] Ç Büyükakçay  5                       6  2
               [Serbia] N Stojanović       3   4                                    [Turkey] Ç Büyükakçay       77                     7
               [Slovakia] V Kužmová        6   7                                    [Slovakia] V Kužmová        65                     5
  2            [Romania] I-C Begu          2   5

  * Main Draw Archived 2017-07-11 at the Wayback Machine


Quinet

Quinet (pronounced [kinɛ]) is a French surname. Notable people with this surname include:

  * Edgar Quinet (1803–1875), French historian
      + Edgar Quinet (Paris Métro)
      + Edgar Quinet-class cruiser
      + French cruiser Edgar Quinet
  * Hermiona Quinet, married name of Hermiona Asachi (1821–1900), Romanian writer
  * Marcel Quinet (1915–1986), Belgian pianist


São Sebastião River (Espírito Santo)

The São Sebastião River is a river of Espírito Santo state in eastern Brazil.

  * List of rivers of Espírito Santo
  * Brazilian Ministry of Transport


Blažo Lisičić

Blažo Lisičić (born 22 August 1972) is a Montenegrin former handball player.

Club career

Born in Titograd, Lisičić was signed by Proleter Zrenjanin as a teenager. He would become a member of the team that won two Yugoslav Championship titles and reached the European Cup final in the 1990–91 season. Between 1993 and 1996, Lisičić played for Belgrade arch-rivals Crvena zvezda and Partizan.

In 1996, Lisičić moved abroad to Spain and signed with Pozoblanco. He spent one season with the Liga ASOBAL club, but failed to help them avoid relegation. From 1997 to 2002, Lisičić played for three teams in Germany, namely TV Niederwürzbach, HSG Dutenhofen/Münchholzhausen, and GWD Minden.

Later on, Lisičić would also spend some time in Italy (Conversano and Casarano), Qatar (Al Sadd), and Croatia (Zagreb).Lovćen in his native Montenegro, adding two more trophies to his collection, before retiring.

International career

At international level, Lisičić competed for FR Yugoslavia in five major tournaments between 1996 and 2003, winning three bronze medals.

After the split of Serbia and Montenegro, Lisičić represented Montenegro, helping the nation qualify for the 2008 European Championship.

Honours

Proleter Zrenjanin
  * Yugoslav Handball Championship: 1989–90, 1991–92
Partizan
  * Handball Championship of FR Yugoslavia: 1994–95
Al Sadd
  * Qatar Handball League: 2003–04
Zagreb
  * Croatian Handball Premier League: 2005–06
  * Croatian Handball Cup: 2005–06
Lovćen
  * Montenegrin Men's Handball Cup: 2008–09, 2009–10
  * Blažo Lisičić at the European Handball Federation


Take Me in Your Arms

Take Me in Your Arms may refer to:

  * Take Me in Your Arms (Lil Suzy song)
  * Take Me in Your Arms (Eddy Arnold song)
  * Take Me in Your Arms (Rock Me a Little While), a song written by Holland–Dozier–Holland
  * Take Me in Your Arms (film), a 1954 Mexican drama film


Chathuranga Vallabhanathar Temple

10°44′45″N 79°25′02″E / 10.745710°N 79.417321°E

Rajagopura

Chathuranga Vallabhanathar Temple (சதுரங்க வல்லபநாதர் கோயில்) is a Hindu temple located between Needamangalam and Mannargudi in the Tiruvarur district of Tamil Nadu, India. The presiding deity is Shiva.

Legend

According to Hindu legend, a childless king named Vasudevan worshipped Shiva and as a result Parvathi was born to him as Rajarajeswari. It is also believed that Shiva appeared to the king in the guise of siddha at this place and worsted him in a game of chess. As a consequence, he married Rajarajeswari.

Significance

It is one of the shrines of the 275 Paadal Petra Sthalams. The temple is frequented by asthma patients. Sambandar had sung praises of the temple in his Thevaram.

  * "Chathuranga Vallabhanathar Temple". Dinamalar.

Gallery

  * [Temple tank]
    Temple tank
  * [Front mandapa]
    Front mandapa
  * [Vimana of presiding deity]
    Vimana of presiding deity
  * [Vimana of Karpakavalli]
    Vimana of Karpakavalli
  * [Vimana of Rajajeswari]
    Vimana of Rajajeswari
  * [Vimana of Samundeeswari]
    Vimana of Samundeeswari
  * [Mandapa near tank]
    Mandapa near tank


United Daily

United Daily may refer to:

  * United Daily News, a newspaper in Taiwan
  * United Daily News (Philippines), a Chinese-language newspaper in the Philippines
      + United News, formerly known as United Daily Press, the English-language edition of United Daily News (Philippines)
  * United Daily, a sister newspaper of the Sarawak Tribune, in Malaysia


Arcadia Beach

For other uses, see Arcadia (disambiguation).

46°25′38″N 30°46′00″E / 46.42722°N 30.76667°E

Arcadia Beach.

Arcadia Beach (Ukrainian: Пляж Аркадія, romanized: Pliazh Arkadiia) is Odesa, Ukraine's most famous beach. It is located in the Arcadia quarter.

The founders of Odesa chose this name for this area in the hopes it would help make it a success as a holiday resort. There is a main beach which has water slides and several smaller beaches.health resort, and summer nightspot in Odesa.nightclubs are open from May through September, and are Odesa's primary nightlife during that time.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Arcadia beach in Odesa.


Platynus ovipennis

Platynus ovipennis is a species of ground beetle in the family Carabidae.

  * Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2017). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 1: Archostemata - Myxophaga - Adephaga. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-33029-0.
  * Media related to Platynus ovipennis at Wikimedia Commons


Scolytus rugulosus

Scolytus rugulosus, known generally as shothole borer, is a species of typical bark beetle in the family Curculionidae. Other common names include the fruit tree bark beetle and apple tree beetle. It is found in North America and Europe.

  * Cognato, A. (2010). "Notes on Scolytus fagi Walsh, 1867 with the designation of a neotype, distribution notes and a key to Scolytus Geoffroy of America east of the Mississippi River (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Scolytinae, Scolytini)". ZooKeys (56): 35–43. doi:10.3897/zookeys.56.516. PMC 3088332. PMID 21594170.
  * Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2013). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 7: Curculionoidea I. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-26093-1.
  * Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2013). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 8: Curculionoidea II. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-25916-4.
  * Media related to Scolytus rugulosus at Wikimedia Commons


Akashi Strait

The Akashi Strait (明石海峡, Akashi Kaikyō) is a strait between the Japanese islands of Honshu and Awaji. The strait connects Seto Inland Sea and Osaka Bay. The width of the Akashi Strait is approximately 4 kilometers, and maximum depth is about 110 meters.4.5 metres per second (8.7 knots).

The 1.5-kilometer strait is one of the important points of the Seto Inland Sea and is at the mouth of the Pacific Ocean. The surrounding waters around Akashi Strait is a known fishery area. The Akashi Strait is designated as an international shipping channel by the Maritime Traffic Safety Act in Japan.

The Akashi Kaikyō Bridge, an almost four-kilometer-long suspension bridge, crosses the strait. It links the city of Kobe (the capital of Hyōgo Prefecture) on Honshu Island to Iwaya on Awaji Island (also within Hyōgo Prefecture). Its longest span measures nearly two kilometers.

The Great Hanshin Earthquake occurred beneath the Akashi Strait and struck on 17 January 1995 with magnitude 7.2.Nojima Fault, which cuts across Awaji Island, is responsible; a surface trace about 10 kilometers long appeared on the island due to the earthquake.Japan Median Tectonic Line which runs the length of the southern half of Honshu.

Panoramic view of the Akashi Strait.


Quineira State Park

The Quineira State Park (Portuguese: Parque Estadual da Quineira) is a state park in the state of Mato Grosso, Brazil. It protects a small area of forest in the town of Chapada dos Guimarães, and the forest in turn protects the town's main water supply.

Location

The Quineira State Park is in the municipality of Chapada dos Guimarães, Mato Grosso. It has an area of 31 hectares (77 acres).2,688 metres (8,819 ft), and drains part of the urban area. Its microbasin is in the Cachoeirinha River sub-basin of the Cuiabá River basin.

A study of water quality in 2013 found the presence of coliform bacteria throughout the stream, with higher levels downstream from the park. Escherichia coli was present in relatively low levels near the stream's sources within the park, probably coming from wild animals. Lower down the Escherichia coli levels rose significantly, indicating sewage discharge.

History

The area was a permanent preservation area that was converted to a municipal park in 2002 and to a state park in 2006.

In May 2014 it was reported that the municipality had approved construction of a luxury hostel within 10 metres (33 ft) of the park, contravening the Brazilian Forestry Code, which says there must be a protected zone of 50 metres (160 ft) around springs and water sources. The project did not have an environmental permit from SEMA, the state environment agency. The owner claimed that he was working within the law, replacing an old building and doing nothing to harm the environment since the hostel was to have a green seal.

On 11 November 2015 demonstrators in Chapada dos Guimarães demanded action to restore the park. The municipality was responsible for supervising the park, but had failed to do so. Irregular housing had been built within the park, garbage dumped in it, and sewage had flowed into the park from houses and shops around it.


Quineira State Park

* "Comunidade se une em defesa do Parque da Quineira", Folha da Chapada (in Portuguese), 12 November 2015
  * Gomes-Silva, P. A. J.; Lima, S. D.; Golin, R.; Figueiredo, D. M.; Lima, Z. M.; Morais, E. B.; Dores, E. F. G. C. (August 2014), "Qualidade da água de uma microbacia com fins de abastecimento público, Chapada dos Guimarães, MT", HOLOS (in Portuguese), 30 (4): 22, doi:10.15628/holos.2014.1977
  * Matos, Marcia (10 May 2014), "Pousada de Luxo é acusada prejudicar captação de água em Chapada; obra não teria licença ambiental", Reporter MT (in Portuguese)
  * PES Quineira (in Portuguese), ISA: Instituto Socioambiental


São Sebastião da Grama

São Sebastião da Grama is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. The population is 12,159 (2020 est.) in an area of 252 km².


Blažejov

Blažejov (German: Blauenschlag) is a municipality and village in Jindřichův Hradec District in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 500 inhabitants.

Administrative parts

Villages of Dvoreček, Malý Ratmírov, Mutyněves and Oldřiš are administrative parts of Blažejov.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Blažejov.
  * Official website


Take Me Over

Take Me Over may refer to:

  * "Take Me Over" (Cut Copy song), 2010
  * "Take Me Over" (Peking Duk song), 2014


Chathura Gunaratne

Chathura Gunaratne Wellala Hettige (Sinhala: වෙල්ලාල හෙට්ටිගේ චතුර ගුණරත්න; born 8 September 1982), better known as Chathura Gunaratne, is an association footballer from Sri Lanka. Chathura plays in midfield and has played for eleven clubs in Sri Lanka as well as the Sri Lanka national football team.

Club career

Gunaratne began his career with Negombo Youth in the 2005–06 season. That season, the club won the Kit Premier League, Sri Lanka's top division, topping "Segment A" before defeating Blue Star in the overall final.–07 season, but they failed to emulate the success of the previous season, finishing in third place in the split league and losing to Blue Star in the overall semi-finals.

Despite winning two trophies in two seasons at Negombo Youth, Gunaratne moved on to Ratnam Sports Club, the 2006–07 Kit Premier League champions. His decision proved to be successful, as Ratnam won the league again in 2007–08, defeating Saunders 2-1 in the final.–09 season.

Gunaratne left Negombo at the end of the 2008–09 season to join another Negomobo-based club in Don Bosco SC, who had just finished second in "Segment B". Don Bosco topped "Segment B" in the 2009-10 Kit Premier League, but lost out in the semi-finals where they were defeated by Air Force. Chathura opened the scoring with a goal in first-half injury time, but two late goals from Air Force saw Don Bosco eliminated.Don Bosco SC won the first united Kit Premier League in 2010–11, winning thirteen of their twenty-two games. The club also reached the final of the Sri Lanka FA Cup, but were beaten 2-0 by Sri Lanka Army SC.

International career

Gunaratne first played for Sri Lanka in 2006, coming on as a substitute four times.AFC Challenge Cup in April, where Sri Lanka defeated Brunei and Chinese Taipei before drawing with Pakistan.


Chathura Gunaratne

In 2010 Gunaratne played in the February AFC Challenge Cup matches against Myanmar, Tajikistan and Bangladesh, scoring Sri Lanka's second goal against Bangladesh in a 3-0 win.Philippines in a 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifier on 29 June, scoring his country's goal and the match's first goal on 43 minutes.

  * Chathura Gunaratne at National-Football-Teams.com


Timeline of the Syrian civil war (May–December 2013)

Main article: Timeline of the Syrian civil war

The following is a timeline of the Syrian civil war from May to December 2013. Information about aggregated casualty counts is found at Casualties of the Syrian Civil War.

May 2013

1 May

The Russian Federal Air Transport Agency ordered civilian flights to cease flying over Syrian airspace.

2 May

Alleged Bayda and Baniyas massacres commenced; according to a later U.N. report, between 300 and 450 civilians were killed in the two massacres by Syrian forces.

3 May

An attack in Rif Dimashq Governorate, when allegedly IAF bombed a suspected weapons site.

4 May

Rebels continued their siege on Meng airbase. It was claimed that rebels had killed the base commander in clashes, and also seized the second military detachment of the base.

5 May

Planes, reportedly of Israeli origin, hit targets just outside Damascus.

8 May

The Syrian government is reported to have blacked out all internet traffic into and out of Syria. Syria "has largely disappeared from the Internet". A similar event took place in November of last year.

Syrian Internet services were restored after a 19-hour blackout.

9 May

The Philippines is strongly considering withdrawing its 342 peacekeepers stationed in the Golan Heights after four of its peacekeepers were kidnapped by rebel forces.

10 May

3 Lebanese nationals were killed in fighting in Syria, a further 36 have been reported missing. How they were killed and whom they were fighting for remains unclear.

Rebel fighters managed to cut off the strategic road to Halab al-Jadida, that was the main supply line for the Syrian army between Hama and Aleppo. This happened through taking over the 2 checkpoints of al-Qebtein and Um Amud.

11 May

Rebels managed to cut a newly build desert road used as an Army supply route between central Syria and Aleppo's airport.

12 May

The Syrian army took control of Khirbet Ghazaleh, Daraa.

An explosion in the Syrian-Turkish border town of Reyhanli killed 46 and wounded 155 Turkish citizens.


13 May

The Syrian army captured the towns of Western Dumayna, Haidariyeh and Esh al-Warwar, near Qusayr.

A Turkish F-16 on an operational mission crashed near the border with Syria. Locals in the village of Yarpuz on the Turkish side of the border reported a loud explosion.

15 May

The United Nations updated their estimated death toll of the entire conflict to 80,000.

The United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution (GA/11372) adopting a "Text Condemning Violence in Syria, Demanding That All Sides End Hostilities". The resolution passed the General Assembly by a vote of 107 in favor to 12 against, with 59 abstentions.

The twelve countries voting against the resolution were Belarus, Bolivia, China, Cuba, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Ecuador, Iran, Nicaragua, Russian Federation, Syria, Venezuela and Zimbabwe. Most of these countries, known in some circles as the "Gang of Twelve", are noteworthy for their current or past Communist or Communist influenced governments (in the case of Belarus, China, Cuba, North Korea, Nicaragua, Russia and Venezuela) and/or record of human rights violations (as in the case of Iran, Syria and Zimbabwe).

There has been, apparently, a conscious effort to suppress information regarding this resolution as it is difficult to find information concerning it on the Internet.

16 May

The Syrian army repelled a large rebel assault on an Aleppo prison. The attack was aimed at dislodging government forces and freeing an estimated 4,000 political prisoners are being held there, however the rebels were forced to retreat after airstrikes caused casualties among their ranks. Rebels blew open the prison's main-gate, and took control of a building.

Rebels besieged the 52 Brigade in Daraa. Rebels also claimed they recaptured the town of Qaysa, Rif Damascus, after launching a unified counter-offensive. Rebels also launched an attack on the Brigade 52 base in Daraa province.

By the end of the day 110 people were reported killed by the Syrian army with 60 were reported killed in Damascus and its suburbs.

17 May


17 May

The Russian navy has expanded their use of their naval base at the Syrian port of Tartus. Previously Russian ships only periodically visited the port, however in the last three months an average 10-15 ships have been reported as having been positioned near the port "at all times".

Rebels captured four villages in Eastern Hama, including the Alawite town of Tulaysiah. The villages were abandoned by its residents days before the rebels arrived.

The Human Rights Watch released a report about the government's mass-torture centers in Raqqa, which were previously accessible until Rebels captured the city.

18 May

Rebels took control of the villages of al-Tleysiya, al-Zughba, al-She'ta and Balil in East Hama.

The father of Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad has been kidnapped, based on past tactics, by rebel forces his home in Ghossom.Hezbollah fighters in an ambush.

19 May

Heavy fighting is reported in Qusayr, Syria, as the Syrian army launches a major offensive against rebel forces.

20 May

Deliberate gunfire from the Syrian-controlled side of the Golan Heights struck an Israeli patrol vehicle, Israeli soldiers returned fire, destroying the Syrian fire position.

Elite Hezbollah reinforcements were sent from Lebanon across the border to al-Qusayr. Activists reported that much of the town had been destroyed by this point.

22 May

US Senate panel backs arming Syrian rebels.

In fighting at Nayrab rebels have seized an army base and several army checkpoints, killing 40 Syrian soldiers and pro-government militiamen in the process with the loss of 14 rebels.

23 May


23 May

A former government scientist claims that the Syrian government is using diluted chemical weapons, such as with alcohol, on rebels to slow their advance while reducing the number of casualties, leaving open the question as to whether it was military grade tear gas or nerve gas that was used in these attacks thus avoiding the U.S. "red line" on chemical weapons. Amongst the areas were the weapon were alleged to be used are certain suburbs of Damascus, Aleppo’s Sheikh Maksoud district, Saraqeb and Homs. The scientist, who worked for Centre for Scientific Studies and Research, claims that the alleged gas attack on Khan al-Assa, Aleppo, on 19 March 2013, was likely tear gas and not nerve gas.

26 May

On 26 May 2013, two rockets hit a Hezbollah area of Beirut injuring five people whilst another two rockets caused property damage to buildings in the al-Hermel district of Beirut. Syrian rebels have been blamed for the attack as they had promised to attack Hezbollah targets in Lebanon in retaliation for their helping the Syrian army particularly in the border town of Al-Qusayr. Syrian rebels have also shelled al-Hermel previously.

27 May

Fighting between Kurdish (YPG/PYD) and Liwa al-Tawhid forces in the Ras al-Ayn village near the border with Turkey left 11 dead and 20 wounded.

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) reports a large explosion in Sbeineh Camp, Damascus Governorate, on 27 May 2013. Early reports suggested that the explosion was caused by a ground-to-ground missile or airstrike. The attack claimed the lives of at least five Palestine refugees. A further eight were wounded and dozens of refugee homes were reportedly destroyed.

28 May

LCC reports 112 people were killed by the end of the day. 35 were killed in the Damascus suburbs.

29 May

LCC reported 161 people killed that day, including 12 women, 8 children, and 5 under torture. 53 were killed in the Latakia province.

30 May


30 May

A Syrian army general in March asked Rosoboronexport for a quote on a large number of military items "in the shortest possible time." These items included 20,000 Ak-47s, night vision equipment, 40mm grenade launchers and some 15,000,000 rounds of AK-47 ammunition. In relation to arms sales to the Assad government Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov stated that Russian arms, such as the S-300 surface-to-air missile, may actually "help restrain some 'hotheads' considering a scenario to give an international dimension to this conflict,"

31 May

The Syrian army attacked a convoy trying to remove injured people from the town (according to activists), killing at least 7.

LCC reports of 163 people killed by the Syrian army, including 66 in Aleppo, mostly in a prison massacre.

June 2013

12 June

At least 14 killed in double suicide attack in Damascus.Arsal.

14 June

US Government confirms that government forces used chemical weapons in Syria killing up to 150 people

23 June

The Syrian Army captured the rebel stronghold town of Talkalakh. Following the assault, 39 local leaders of the Free Syrian Army surrendered and handed over their weapons. The Syrian opposition denied the town had fallen and claimed there was still fighting ongoing however reporters on the ground said there was no sign of it.

July 2013

5 July

On 5 July 2013, an explosion occurred in Latakia port city either as an alleged result of an Israeli Defense Forces strike against targets believed to contain Yakhont anti-ship cruise missiles supplied to the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad by Russia,Israeli Air Force, while the Sunday Times reported that the explosions were the result of a cruise missile fired from a Dolphin-class submarine.

11 July

Abu Bassir Al Ladkani, a top commander of the Free Syrian Army (FSA), was assassinated. The assassination was carried out by al Qaeda-linked militants.

August 2013

3–5 August

Islamist rebels kill at least 200 people during a three-day assault on Alawite villages in Latakia province.

6 August


6 August

Syrian rebels captured the Menagh Military Airport, situated on the road between Aleppo and the Turkish city of Gaziantep, after a one-year-long siege. This capture marks an important symbolic victory for the opposition, following a string of defeats to President Assad's forces in central Syria and it consolidates the rebels' hold on a key supply route north of Aleppo.

14 August

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that Paolo Dall'Oglio, a Jesuit priest and missionary who had earlier been abducted by the ISIL, was killed in the rebel-held city of Ar-Raqqah.

21 August

Syrian activists reported that Assad forces struck Jobar, Zamalka, 'Ain Tirma, and Hazzah in the Eastern Ghouta region with chemical weapons. Activists at the Syrian Revolutionary Command Council said that at least 635 were killed in a nerve gas attack. Unverified videos uploaded showed the victims, many of whom were convulsing, as well as several dozen bodies lined up.

24 August

Rebel forces took full control of Ariha In Idlib Province.

26 August

The United Kingdom and the United States deployed ships near Syria amidst a United Nations investigation concerning allegations that Syrian president al-Assad used chemical weapons against civilians. The following ships were deployed: HMS Bulwark, HMS Illustrious, USS Barry, USS Gravely, USS Mahan, and USS Ramage. The rebels in Syria also captured the village of Khanasir. It was the last key government supply route for the government forces in Aleppo.

29 August

The British Parliament voted against Prime Minister David Cameron's proposal to take action against the Assad government in Syria in the wake of the Ghota chemical attack. Russia welcomed the vote, while France said that it did not alter their position.USS Stout, to the Mediterranean.

30 August

The United States deployed their sixth warship, the USS San Antonio, to the Mediterranean, while President Obama decides to refrain the attack until the authorization of the Congress.

31 August


31 August

President of the United States Barack Obama gave a speech in the White House rose garden in which he announced that he would seek authorization from Congress before using American military forces to intervene in the Syrian civil war.speech, he announced that he was "prepared to give that order," referring to ordering a strike on Syria.

September 2013

3 September

Israel launches two missiles to test its advanced defence system. The launch has been detected by multiple Russian warships in the area. The naval battle group led by USS Nimitz (CV-68) is deployed in the area, while USS Mahan (DDG-72) is retired and reaches its homeport in Norfolk, Virginia.

4 September

In response to the speech given by President Obama on 31 August, the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations approved the Authorization for the Use of Military Force Against the Government of Syria to Respond to Use of Chemical Weapons (S.J.Res 21). If the bill passes, it would allow the president to take direct action for up to 90 days; it specifically forbids putting "boots on the ground."United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives before it would become law and thereby authorize US military intervention into the Syrian civil war.

At the same time, the number of Syrian refugees in Europe is constantly growing.

8 September

Rebels, including al-Nusra Front forces, briefly took control of the historic Christian town of Maalula.

15 September

Syrian army has completely regained Maaloula,Battle of Maaloula for more detail.

16 September

Abu Abdullah Libi, one of leaders of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, was killed by FSA operatives close to a village of Hazano.

October 2013

3 October

Syrian Army took back control of Khanasir.

16 October

The government took full control of the town of Buweida in the Damascus Suburbs.

17 October

Major General Jamaa Jamaa, Syrian General and head of the Military Intelligence in Deir Ezzour, was killed in the Reshdiya neighbourhood of Deir ez-Zour.

30 October


30 October

During the Aleppo offensive, the Syrian Army captures Al-Safira.

November 2013

1 November

Syrian Army captures the village of Aziziyeh on the northern outskirts of Safira.

7 November

On 7 November, the Syrian army backed by Hezbollah, Al-Abbas brigade and the National Defense Force retook the key town of Al-Sabinah, south of Damascus. According to an opposition activist, military "progress on the ground without a doubt, because the regions were besieged for too long. This is normal." Abdel Rahman also blamed "divisions within the rebels."

15 November

Syrian army capture Tell Hassel.

December 2013

10 December

The Syrian army take full control of al-Nabk.

27 December

Over 60 Islamic rebels are killed by a Syrian Army ambush at Qalamoun mountains.

31 December

YPG units were locked in large-scale and bloody fighting around the jihadist stronghold of Tall Hamis. Government forces simultaneously attacked a YPG checkpoint in Hasakah and an Asayish checkpoint in nearby Tall Hajar neighbourhood. Seven soldiers were killed by the YPG and Asayish, while one YPG fighter lost his life and two Asayish members were wounded; civilian deaths and injuries were also reported. Government forces soon retreated.


Arcadia Bluffs Golf Course

Arcadia Bluffs Golf Club, designed by Warren Henderson and Rick Smith, was founded in 1999 in Arcadia, Michigan. The course is built on the bluffs above the shore of Lake Michigan on approximately 245 acres (99 ha). The course drops 225 feet (69 m) from its highest point down to the bluff, 180 feet (55 m) above lake level and has 3,100 feet (940 m) of lake frontage. The golf course was designed to resemble seaside Irish links, with rolling terrain and windswept natural fescues throughout.

View from the clubhouse of the 10th and 11th holes overlooking Lake Michigan.

In 2018, Arcadia Bluff(South) was the second golf course added with golf architects Dana Fry/Jason Straka building the MacDonald Raynor inspired design.

Arcadia Bluffs
Tee           Rating/Slope  1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    Out   10   11   12   13   14   15   16   17   18   In    Total
Championship  75.4 / 147    519  189  530  415  583  195  472  449  203  3555  481  633  431  240  340  519  486  176  439  3745  7300
Black         72.8 / 137    498  154  502  367  583  160  429  389  176  3258  424  594  431  190  340  464  459  167  375  3444  6702
Middle        70.3 / 129    459  144  467  311  557  149  409  352  162  3010  399  563  378  160  304  464  441  150  375  3234  6244
Forward       70.1 / 121    355  124  372  279  439  80   350  295  134  2428  359  477  293  135  245  358  376  129  307  2679  5107
Par                         5    3    5    4    5    3    4    4    3    36    4    5    4    3    4    5    4    3    4    36    72
SI                          15   17   7    13   3    9    1    5    11         2    12   10   8    14   18   4    16   6

Media related to Arcadia Bluffs Golf Course at Wikimedia Commons

  * Official site


Robin Heights

Robin Heights ( 72°27′S 0°38′E / 72.450°S 0.633°E) is a cluster of high rock summits between Hei Glacier and Kvitsvodene Valley in the Sverdrup Mountains, Queen Maud Land. It was photographed from the air by the German Antarctic Expedition (1938–39). It was mapped by Norwegian cartographers from surveys and air photos by the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition (NBSAE) (1949–52) and air photos by the Norwegian expedition (1958–59), and was named for Gordon de Q. Robin, third in command and a physicist with the NBSAE.

[Public Domain] This article incorporates public domain material from "Robin Heights". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.


Scomber

Scomber is a genus of fish in the family Scombridae living in the open ocean found in Atlantic, Indian and Pacific Ocean.Scomber and the genus Rastrelliger comprise the tribe Scombrini, known as the "true mackerels". These fishes have an elongated body, highly streamlined, muscular and agile. The eyes are large, the head is elongated, with a big mouth provided with teeth. They have two dorsal triangular fins, with some stabilizing fins along the caudal peduncle. The basic color is blue-green with a silvery white belly and a darker back, usually black mottled.

Species

There are currently 5 recognized species in this genus:

  * Scomber australasicus G. Cuvier, 1832 (Blue mackerel)
  * Scomber colias J. F. Gmelin, 1789 (Atlantic chub mackerel)
  * Scomber indicus E. M. Abdussamad, Sukumaran & Ratheesh, 2016 (Indian chub mackerel)
  * Scomber japonicus Houttuyn, 1782 (Chub mackerel)
  * Scomber scombrus Linnaeus, 1758 (Atlantic mackerel)

Fossil record

Fossils of this genus are found from the Oligocene to the Pleistocene (33.9 to 1.806 million years ago). They are known from various localities of Germany, Italy, Romania, Japan and Mexico.

  * S. collettei (Bannikov and Erebakan, 2022) from the lowermost Middle Miocene of the Krasnodar Region.
  * S. cubanicus (Danil'chenko 1960) from the Upper Oligocene of Krasnodar Territory.
  * S. voitestii (Pauca 1929) from the Middle Oligocene of the Carpathian Menilite slates.
  * S. sp. from the Middle-Upper Miocene of the Kurasi Formation on Sakhalin.


Akashi (surname)

Akashi (written: 明石) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  * Kaijin Akashi (明石 海人, 1901–1939), Japanese poet
  * Akashi Kakuichi (明石 覚一, 1299–1371), Japanese Buddhist monk
  * Ken Akashi (明石 顕, born 1976), Japanese race walker
  * Kenji Akashi (明石 健志, born 1986) Japanese baseball player
  * Masao Akashi (明石 昌夫, born 1957), Japanese musical arranger
  * Momoka Akashi (明石 百夏, born 1981), Japanese musician
  * Akashi Morishige (明石 全登, 1566–1618?), Japanese samurai
  * Akashi Motojiro (明石 元二郎, 1864–1919), Japanese general and Governor General of Taiwan
  * Akashi Shiganosuke (明石 志賀之助, c. 1600–c. 1649), Japanese sumo wrestler
  * Yasushi Akashi (明石 康, born 1931), Japanese diplomat

Fictional characters:

  * Akashi Kaoru, character in Psychic Squad
  * Akashi, character in the film Ra.One
  * Akashi Seijūrō, character in Kuroko's Basketball
  * Akashi Yuuna, character in Negima! Magister Negi Magi
  * Akaashi Keiji, character in Haikyu!!
  * Akashi Takeomi, character in Tokyo Revengers


Rich Relatives

Rich Relatives is a 1921 comedy novel by the British writer Compton Mackenzie.

  * David Joseph Dooley. Compton Mackenzie. Twayne Publishers, 1974.
  * Andro Linklater. Compton Mackenzie: A Life Hogarth Press, 1992.


São Sebastião do Rio Verde

São Sebastião do Rio Verde is a municipality in the state of Minas Gerais in the Southeast region of Brazil.

  * List of municipalities in Minas Gerais


Baddamulla

Baddamulla is a village in Sri Lanka. It is located within Central Province.

  * List of towns in Central Province, Sri Lanka
  * Department of Census and Statistics – Sri Lanka

7°25′N 80°55′E / 7.417°N 80.917°E


Take Me as I Am (Ray Price album)

Take Me as I Am is a studio album by country music artist Ray Price. It was released in 1968 by Columbia Records (catalog no. CL-9606).

The album debuted on Billboard magazine's country album chart on April 13, 1968, peaked at No. 5, and remained on the chart for a total of 17 weeks. The album included two singles that became Top 10 hits: "I'm Still Not Over You" (No. 6) and "Take Me as I Am (Or Let Me Go)" (No. 8).

AllMusic gave the album three stars.

Track listing

Side A

 1. "Take Me As I Am (Or Let Me Go)"
 2. "Don't You Believe Her"
 3. "Sittin' And Thinkin'"
 4. "I'm Still Not Over You"
 5. "I Can't Help It (If I'm Still in Love with You)"
 6. "Walk Through This World With Me"

Side B

 1. "Night Life"
 2. "My Baby's Gone"
 3. "Just Out Of Reach"
 4. "Yesterday"
 5. "In The Summer Of My Life"


Chathura Peiris

Chathura Peiris (born 23 September 1990) is a Sri Lankan first-class cricketer who plays for Ragama Cricket Club.

  * Chathura Peiris at ESPNcricinfo


1934 São Paulo FC season

The 1934 football season was São Paulo's 5th season since the club's founding in 1930.

Overall

Games played     33 (14 Campeonato Paulista, 19 Friendly match)
Games won        23 (10 Campeonato Paulista, 13 Friendly match)
Games drawn      4 (3 Campeonato Paulista, 1 Friendly match)
Games lost       6 (1 Campeonato Paulista, 5 Friendly match)
Goals scored     81
Goals conceded   42
Goal difference  +39
Best result      9–1 (H) v Sírio - Campeonato Paulista - 1934.4.1
Worst result     0–3 (A) v Vasco da Gama - Friendly match - 1934.3.11
Top scorer

Source: São Paulo FC

Friendlies

January 21 National  São Paulo  5–2  Corinthians  São Paulo
                                                  Stadium: Chácara da Floresta

February 25 National  São Paulo  3–0  Portuguesa  São Paulo
                                                  Stadium: Chácara da Floresta

March 1 National  Siderúrgica  3–1  São Paulo  Sabará
                                               Stadium: Praia do Ó

March 4 National  Atlético Mineiro  1–3  São Paulo  Belo Horizonte
                                                    Stadium: Presidente Antônio Carlos

March 6 National  Tupy  1–3  São Paulo  Juiz de Fora
                                        Stadium: Estádio Municipal

March 11 National  Vasco da Gama  3–0  São Paulo  Rio de Janeiro
                                                  Stadium: São Januário

March 18 National  São Paulo  2–1  Vasco da Gama  São Paulo

March 25 National  Santos  3–4  São Paulo  Santos
                                           Stadium: Vila Belmiro

April 7 National  São Paulo  5–0  América-RJ  São Paulo

April 21 National  América-RJ  4–3  São Paulo  Rio de Janeiro

June 10 National  São Paulo  4–2  América-RJ  São Paulo

August 8 National  Vasco da Gama  2–1  São Paulo  Rio de Janeiro

August 19 National  Luzitana  1–8  São Paulo  Bauru
                                              Stadium: Vila América

October 13 National  Santos  1–2  São Paulo  Santos
                                             Stadium: Vila Belmiro

November 13 National  Flamengo  1–1  São Paulo  Rio de Janeiro
                                                Stadium: Laranjeiras

December 6 National  São Paulo  2–0  Flamengo  São Paulo


1934 São Paulo FC season

December 6 National  São Paulo  2–0  Flamengo  São Paulo

December 16 National  São Paulo  4–5  Flamengo / Fluminense  São Paulo
                                                             Stadium: Chácara da Floresta

Torneio dos Cinco Clubes

Main article: Torneio dos Cinco Clubes
September 23  São Paulo  1–2  Corinthians  São Paulo
                                           Stadium: Chácara da Floresta

October 7  Portuguesa  2–4  São Paulo  São Paulo
                                       Stadium: Cambuci

October 13  Santos  1–2  São Paulo  Santos
                                    Stadium: Vila Belmiro

October 28  Palestra Itália  0–1  São Paulo  São Paulo
                                             Stadium: Parque Antarctica

November 25  São Paulo  4–2  Santos  São Paulo
                                     Stadium: Chácara da Floresta

December 2  Corinthians  0–1  São Paulo  São Paulo
                                         Stadium: Parque São Jorge

Official competitions

Campeonato Paulista

April 1  São Paulo  9–1  Sírio  São Paulo
                                Stadium: Chácara da Floresta

April 15  São Paulo  1–1  Corinthians  São Paulo
                                       Stadium: Chácara da Floresta

April 29  Portuguesa  0–1  São Paulo  São Paulo
                                      Stadium: Rua Cesário Ramalho

May 6  São Paulo  5–4  Ypiranga  São Paulo
                                 Stadium: Chácara da Floresta

May 27  São Paulo  3–0  Santos  São Paulo
                                Stadium: Chácara da Floresta

June 3  Palestra Itália  2–0  São Paulo  São Paulo
                                         Stadium: Parque Antarctica

June 17  São Paulo  3–0  C.A. Paulista  São Paulo
                                        Stadium: Chácara da Floresta

June 24  Sírio  2–3  São Paulo  São Paulo
                                Stadium: Ponte Grande

July 8  São Paulo  0–0  Corinthians  São Paulo
                                     Stadium: Chácara da Floresta

July 22  C.A. Paulista  1–2  São Paulo  São Paulo
                                        Stadium: Antônio Alonso

July 29  São Paulo  1–0  Portuguesa  São Paulo
                                     Stadium: Chácara da Floresta

August 5  São Paulo  4–0  Ypiranga  São Paulo
                                    Stadium: Chácara da Floresta


1934 São Paulo FC season

August 26  Santos  1–1  São Paulo  Santos
                                   Stadium: Vila Belmiro

September 2  São Paulo  1–0  Palestra Itália  São Paulo
                                              Stadium: Chácara da Floresta

Final Position  Points  Matches  Wins  Draws  Losses  Goals For  Goals Away  Win%
2nd             23      14       10    3      1       34         12          82%

  * official website Archived 2011-09-29 at the Wayback Machine


Alan Garside

Alan Garside (29 September 1926 – 23 May 2021) was an Australian soccer player who played as a forward for Granville and the Australian national team.

International career

Garside played his first and only international match against South Africa on 1 October 1955.

Honours

Granville

  * NSW Division One South Premiership: 1952


Robin Hill

Robin Hill may refer to:

People

  * Robin Hill (biochemist) (1899–1991), British plant biochemist
  * Robin Hill, 8th Marquess of Downshire (1929–2003), Irish peer
  * Robin Hill (Australian artist) (born 1932), Australian artist
  * Robin Hill (American artist) (born 1955), American visual artist

Places

  * Robin Hill, New South Wales, Australia
  * Robin Hill Country Park, Downend, Isle of Wight, UK
  * Robin Hill Cemetery, Marlborough, Massachusetts, USA


Scolytus quadrispinosus

Scolytus quadrispinosus, the hickory bark beetle, is a species of typical bark beetle in the family Curculionidae. It is found in North America.

  * Cognato, A. (2010). "Notes on Scolytus fagi Walsh, 1867 with the designation of a neotype, distribution notes and a key to Scolytus Geoffroy of America east of the Mississippi River (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Scolytinae, Scolytini)". ZooKeys (56): 35–43. doi:10.3897/zookeys.56.516. PMC 3088332. PMID 21594170.
  * Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2013). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 7: Curculionoidea I. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-26093-1.
  * Lobl, I.; Smetana, A., eds. (2013). Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Volume 8: Curculionoidea II. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-90-04-25916-4.


2018 Rajya Sabha elections

Rajya Sabha elections were held in 2018 to elect the 65 retiring members of the Rajya Sabha, Indian Parliament's upper chamber. There were, as routine, three such elections held among relevant State and Union Territory legislators by single transferable vote (STV) and Open Ballot: on 16 January to elect 3 members from Delhi and 1 member from Sikkim; on 23 March to elect 58 members from 16 States; and lastly on 21 June to elect 3 members from Kerala. Being even-numbered, 2018 was a year in which about 30% of the State Legislature-elected 233-seat component of the body is elected. The other 12 seats of the body are appointed by the President.

Not as part of a six-yearly cycle, a by-election was held to elect 1 member from Kerala in March, which proved to be a re-election but as an independent member, of M. P. Veerendra Kumar, the only by-election of the year.

Elections

The elections were held to elect 3 members from National Capital Territory of Delhi and 1 member from Sikkim. 3 members from the National Capital Territory of Delhi retired on 27 January 2018 and 1 member from Sikkim retired on 23 February 2018. Elections for 58 seats and a by-election for 1 seat were held on 23 March 2018. The election was held for 3 seats of Kerala on 21 June 2018.

     State        Members retiring  Date of retirement
Delhi             3                 27 January 2018
Sikkim            1                 23 February 2018
Andhra Pradesh    3                 2 April 2018
Bihar             6                 2 April 2018
Chhattisgarh      1                 2 April 2018
Gujarat           4                 2 April 2018
Haryana           1                 2 April 2018
Himachal Pradesh  1                 2 April 2018
Karnataka         4                 2 April 2018
Madhya Pradesh    5                 2 April 2018
Maharashtra       6                 2 April 2018
Telangana         3                 2 April 2018
Uttar Pradesh     10                2 April 2018
Uttarakhand       1                 2 April 2018
West Bengal       5                 2 April 2018
Odisha            3                 3 April 2018
Rajasthan         3                 3 April 2018
Jharkhand         2                 3 May 2018
Kerala            3                 1 July 2018
Nominated         4                 14 July 2018

Members Elected

National Capital Territory of Delhi

Delhi had an election for 3 Rajya Sabha seats on 16 January 2018 to replace members retiring on 27 January 2018.

Seat No  Former MP         Former Party  Elected MP  Elected Party  Reference
1        Karan Singh                     INC         Sanjay Singh              AAP
2        Parvez Hashmi     Sushil Gupta
3        Janardan Dwivedi  N. D. Gupta


2018 Rajya Sabha elections

Sikkim

Sikkim had an election for 1 Rajya Sabha seat on 16 January 2018 to replace member retiring on 23 February 2018.

Seat No  Former MP         Former Party  Elected MP  Elected Party     Reference
1        Hishey Lachungpa                SDF         Hishey Lachungpa             SDF

Andhra Pradesh

From Andhra Pradesh State, 3 members are elected unopposed for the Rajya Sabha seats on 15 March 2018, to replace members retiring on 2 April 2018.

Seat No  Former MP            Former Party               Elected MP  Elected Party                Reference
1        Tulla Devender Goud                             TDP         C. M. Ramesh                            TDP
2        Renuka Chowdhury                                INC         Kanakamedala Ravindra Kumar
3        Chiranjeevi          Vemireddy Prabhakar Reddy              YSRCP

Bihar

From Bihar State, 6 members are elected unopposed for the Rajya Sabha seats on 15 March 2018, to replace members retiring on 2 April 2018.

Seat No  Former MP               Former Party            Elected MP  Elected Party        Reference
1        Ravi Shankar Prasad                             BJP         Ravi Shankar Prasad             BJP
2        Dharmendra Pradhan      Akhilesh Prasad Singh               INC
3        Mahendra Prasad                                 JD(U)       Mahendra Prasad                 JD(U)
4        Bashistha Narain Singh  Bashistha Narain Singh
5        Anil Kumar Sahani       Ashfaque Karim                      RJD
6        Vacant (Ali Anwar)      Manoj Jha

Chhattisgarh

From Chhattisgarh State, 1 member is elected for the Rajya Sabha seat on 23 March 2018, to replace member retiring on 2 April 2018.

Seat No  Former MP           Former Party  Elected MP  Elected Party  Reference
1        Bhushan Lal Jangde                BJP         Saroj Pandey              BJP

Gujarat

From Gujarat State, 4 members are elected unopposed for the Rajya Sabha seats on 15 March 2018, to replace members retiring on 2 April 2018.

Seat No  Former MP             Former Party          Elected MP  Elected Party      Reference
1        Parshottam Rupala                           BJP         Parshottam Rupala             BJP
2        Mansukh L. Mandaviya  Mansukh L. Mandaviya
3        Arun Jaitley          Naranbhai Rathwa                  INC
4        Shankarbhai Vegad     Amee Yajnik

Haryana


2018 Rajya Sabha elections

Haryana

From Haryana State, 1 member is elected unopposed for the Rajya Sabha seats on 15 March 2018, to replace member retiring on 2 April 2018.

Seat No  Former MP        Former Party  Elected MP  Elected Party  Reference
1        Shadi Lal Batra                INC         D.P. Vats                 BJP

Himachal Pradesh

From Himachal Pradesh State, 1 member is elected unopposed for the Rajya Sabha seats on 15 March 2018, to replace member retiring on 2 April 2018.

Seat No  Former MP            Former Party  Elected MP  Elected Party        Reference
1        Jagat Prakash Nadda                BJP         Jagat Prakash Nadda             BJP

Jharkhand

From Jharkhand State, 2 members are elected for the Rajya Sabha seats on 23 March 2018, to replace members retiring on 3 May 2018.

Seat No  Former MP               Former Party  Elected MP  Elected Party       Reference
1        Sanjiv Kumar                          JMM         Sameer Oraon                   BJP
2        Pradeep Kumar Balmuchu                INC         Dhiraj Prasad Sahu             INC

Karnataka

From Karnataka State, 4 members are elected for the Rajya Sabha seats on 23 March 2018, to replace members retiring on 2 April 2018.

Seat No  Former MP                      Former Party      Elected MP   Elected Party         Reference
1        R Ramakrishna                                    BJP          Syed Naseer Hussain              INC
2        Basavaraj Patil Sedam          L. Hanumanthaiah
3        K. Rahman Khan                                   INC          G C Chandrasekhar
4        Vacant (Rajeev Chandrasekhar)                    Independent  Rajeev Chandrasekhar             BJP

Madhya Pradesh

From Madhya Pradesh State, 5 members are elected unopposed for the Rajya Sabha seats on 15 March 2018, to replace members retiring on 2 April 2018.

Seat No  Former MP             Former Party         Elected MP  Elected Party       Reference
1        Satyavrat Chaturvedi                       INC         Rajmani Patel                  INC
2        Meghraj Jain                               BJP         Dharmendra Pradhan             BJP
3        Prakash Javadekar     Kailash Soni
4        La Ganesan            Ajay Pratap Singh
5        Thawar Chand Gehlot   Thawar Chand Gehlot

Maharashtra

From Maharashtra State, 6 members are elected unopposed for the Rajya Sabha seats on 15 March 2018, to replace members retiring on 2 April 2018.


2018 Rajya Sabha elections

Seat No  Former MP       Former Party  Elected MP  Elected Party      Reference
1        Ajay Sancheti                 BJP         Prakash Javadekar             BJP
2        D. P. Tripathi                NCP         Narayan Rane
3        Rajeev Shukla                 INC         V. Muraleedharan
4        Rajni Patil     Kumar Ketkar              INC
5        Vandana Chavan                NCP         Vandana Chavan                NCP
6        Anil Desai                    SS          Anil Desai                    SS

Odisha

From Odisha State, 3 members are elected unopposed for the Rajya Sabha seats on 15 March 2018, to replace members retiring on 3 April 2018.

Seat No  Former MP               Former Party     Elected MP   Elected Party          Reference
1        Ananga Udaya Singh Deo                   BJD          Prashanta Nanda                   BJD
2        Dilip Tirkey            Achyuta Samanta
3        A V Swamy                                Independent  Soumya Ranjan Patnaik

Rajasthan

From Rajasthan State, 3 members are elected unopposed for the Rajya Sabha seats on 15 March 2018, to replace members retiring on 3 April 2018.

Seat No  Former MP         Former Party     Elected MP  Elected Party     Reference
1        Abhishek Singhvi                   INC         Kirodi Lal Meena             BJP
2        Narendra Budania  Madan Lal Saini
3        Bhupender Yadav                    BJP         Bhupender Yadav

Telangana

From Telangana State, 3 members are elected for the Rajya Sabha seats on 23 March 2018, to replace members retiring on 2 April 2018.

Seat No  Former MP                    Former Party   Elected MP  Elected Party              Reference
1        C. M. Ramesh                                TDP         Joginapally Santosh Kumar             TRS
2        Rapolu Ananda Bhaskar                       INC         Badulgula Lingaiah Yadav
3        Vacant (P. Govardhan Reddy)  Banda Prakash

Uttarakhand

From Uttarakhand State, 1 member is elected unopposed for the Rajya Sabha seats on 15 March 2018, to replace member retiring on 2 April 2018.

Seat No  Former MP             Former Party  Elected MP  Elected Party  Reference
1        Mahendra Singh Mahra                INC         Anil Baluni               BJP

Uttar Pradesh

From Uttar Pradesh State, 10 members are elected for the Rajya Sabha seats on 23 March 2018, to replace members retiring on 2 April 2018.

Seat No  Previous MP             Previous Party       Elected MP  Elected Party           Reference


2018 Rajya Sabha elections

Seat No  Previous MP             Previous Party       Elected MP  Elected Party           Reference

1        Jaya Bachchan                                SP          Jaya Bachchan                      SP
2        Naresh Chandra Agrawal  Arun Jaitley                     BJP
3        Alok Tiwari             Anil Jain
4        Munvvar Saleem          Ashok Bajpai
5        Darshan Singh Yadav     Harnath Singh Yadav
6        Kiranmay Nanda          Anil Agrawal
7        Munquad Ali                                  BSP         Sakal Deep Rajbhar
8        Vacant (Mayawati)       Kanta Kardam
9        Pramod Tiwari                                INC         G. V. L. Narasimha Rao
10       Vinay Katiyar                                BJP         Vijaypal Singh Tomar

West Bengal

From West Bengal State, 5 members are elected for the Rajya Sabha seats on 23 March 2018, to replace members retiring on 2 April 2018.

Seat No  Previous MP         Previous Party         Elected MP  Elected Party     Reference
1        Tapan Kumar Sen                            CPI(M)      Abhishek Singhvi             INC
2        Nadimul Haque                              AITC        Nadimul Haque                AITC
3        Vivek Gupta         Abir Biswas
4        Kunal Kumar Ghosh   Santunu Sen
5        Vacant (Mukul Roy)  Subhasish Chakraborty

Kerala

From Kerala State, 3 members are elected unopposed for the Rajya Sabha seats on 14 June 2018, to replace members retiring on 1 July 2018.

Seat No  Former MP       Former Party  Elected MP  Elected Party    Reference
1        C.P. Narayanan                CPI(M)      Elamaram Kareem             CPI(M)
2        P. J. Kurien                  INC         Binoy Viswam                CPI
3        Joy Abraham                   KC(M)       Jose K. Mani                KC(M)

Nominated

Seat No  Former MP         Former Party  Elected MP  Elected Party        Reference
1        Anu Aga                         Nominated   Raghunath Mohapatra             BJP
2        K. Parasaran                    Nominated   Sonal Mansingh                  BJP
3        Rekha                           Nominated   Ram Shakal                      BJP
4        Sachin Tendulkar                Nominated   Rakesh Sinha                    BJP

By-elections

In addition to scheduled elections, unforeseen vacancies, caused by members' resignation, death or disqualification, may also be filled via By-elections.


2018 Rajya Sabha elections

* On 2 September 2017, Manohar Parrikar resigned from membership of the Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh, due to his election as the member of Goa Legislative Assembly on 23 August by-poll.

Uttar Pradesh

S.No  Former MP         Party  Date of Vacancy  Elected MP        Party               Date of appointment  Date of retirement
1     Manohar Parrikar         BJP              2 September 2017  Hardeep Singh Puri                       BJP                 9 January 2018  25 November 2020

Kerala

  * On 20 December 2017, M. P. Veerendra Kumar resigned from Rajya Sabha due to disqualification of Sharad Yadav.
S.No  Former MP              Party  Date of Vacancy      Elected MP        Party                  Date of appointment  Date of retirement
1     M. P. Veerendra Kumar         Janata Dal (United)  20 December 2017  M. P. Veerendra Kumar                       IND                 24 March 2018  2 April 2022


Rich Poythress

Rich Poythress (born August 11, 1987) is an American professional baseball first basemen who is a free agent. He was drafted by the Seattle Mariners in the second round of the 2009 Major League Baseball Draft.

College career

Poythress attended Greenbrier High School where he was a four-year varsity starter. As a junior, he hit .544 with 13 home runs. He also played for the Savannah Chain summer team.

Poythress attended the University of Georgia where as a freshman he appeared in 45 games, 38 starts. He batted .282 with three home runs and 24 RBIs. He recovered from a torn ACL before the season.

Poythress played started 69 games with the Bulldogs in his sophomore season. He helped the team become the Southeastern Conference champions and helped them in the College World Series. He batted .374 with 15 home runs and 75 RBIs. He started all six College World Series games and hit .409 with three doubles and eight RBIs. Poythress set a school-record with 55 assists at first base and was named to the SEC All-Defensive Team. After the 2008 season, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Orleans Cardinals of the Cape Cod Baseball League and was named a league all-star.

In his junior season Poythress started all of the Bulldog's 62 games. His .376 average with 25 home runs and 86 RBIs were a team lead.Dick Howser Trophy.University of Tennessee.

Professional career

Poythress was drafted by the Seattle Mariners in the second round of the 2009 Major League Baseball Draft.Peoria Mariners of the Arizona League. He hit .300 with one home runs and six RBIs in six games with Peoria. He was promoted to the Double-A West Tenn Diamond Jaxx of the Southern League on August 9.doubles, one home run and nine RBIs in 26 games. In 2010, Poythress was assigned to the Class-A Advanced High Desert Mavericks of the California League. He played in the Mariners organization until 2013 without reaching the majors.

Poythress signed a minor league deal with the Miami Marlins in April 2014.


Rich Poythress

He is said to have very good power and that is his stand out tool. It is also said that he has below average speed, an average throwing arm and has been compared to players like Ryan Shealy and Matt LeCroy.ESPN.com.

  * Career statistics and player information from Baseball Reference (Minors)
  * Georgia Bulldogs bio


Tiste Bauernmoor

The Tiste Bauernmoor

The Tiste Bauernmoor (German: Tister Bauernmoor) is an area of raised bog on the Lüneburg Heath in north Germany that was designated as a nature reserve on 2 May 2002. It has an area of 570 hectares (1,400 acres) and belongs, together with the Ekelmoor, Avensermoor and Everstofer Moor, to the large Ekelmoor moorland region that has a total area of 1,220 hectares (3,000 acres).

Location

The Tiste Bauernmoor lies near the village of Tiste from where it gets its name. Tiste is part of the collective municipality known as Samtgemeinde Sittensen in the district of Rotenburg in Lower Saxony. The moor is part of the Wümme Valley natural region.

Renaturisation

Much of the moor was used for industrial peat-cutting. The northern part of the moor was converted to pasture, but is no longer farmed. In order to renaturalise it about a third of the nature reserve was re-flooded. The areas that were overgrown with Weymouth pines were cleared. These areas now form breeding grounds and staging areas for many species of bird, some of them rare. The nature reserve's terrain falls almost entirely within the European Union bird reserve of Sittensen Moor (Moore bei Sittensen). The district of Rotenburg (Wümme) acts as the local nature reserve authority.

Flora and fauna


Tiste Bauernmoor

Flora and fauna

The crane has resettled in the area and now breeds here. In late autumn several thousand cranes rest on the moor before flying on to their winter quarters. This makes the Tiste Bauernmoor one of the most important sites for cranes on the Northwest German Plain. Other rare birds such as the sea eagle and the osprey have been seen here. The following birds of prey have also been observed on the moor: hobby, peregrine, merlin, marsh harrier, hen harrier, Montagu's harrier, red kite, black kite, European honey buzzard and rough-legged buzzard.Short-eared owl, great grey shrike, teal, garganey, shoveler, black stork, snipe, peewit, nightjar, grasshopper warbler, stonechat, whinchat and red-backed shrike. The list of residents runs to more than 40 species.

Due to the low level of nutrients, the acidic pH value of the water and the perpetually waterlogged terrain, a highly specialised plant environment has developed in the Tiste Bauernmoor. Dwarf-shrub heathland is found here together with cottongrass and peat moss or Sphagnum. Sundews, a form of carnivorous plant, also thrive here.

Tourism

The moor can be visited using a former peat railway. The journey, with detailed explanations about the cutting of peat, lasts an hour.20 ft) observation tower on the moor offers the opportunity to observe the bird life.

53°16′06.10″N 9°34′14.78″E / 53.2683611°N 9.5707722°E


Blapsilon montrouzieri

Blapsilon montrouzieri is a species of beetle in the family Cerambycidae. It was described by James Thomson in 1865. It is known from New Caledonia.


Take Me to Your Leader

Take Me to Your Leader may refer to:

  * Take me to your leader (phrase), a cartoon catchphrase, said by extraterrestrial aliens

Music

  * Take Me to Your Leader (¡Mayday! album), 2012, or the title song
  * "Take Me to Your Leader", a 2008 song by British indie folk band The Conspirators
  * Take Me to Your Leader (Hawkwind album), 2005
  * Take Me to Your Leader (King Geedorah album), 2003, or the title song
  * "Take Me to Your Leader", a song by Add N to (X) from Loud Like Nature (2002)
  * "Take Me to Your Leader", a song by Hanzel und Gretyl from Transmissions from Uranus (1997)
  * Take Me to Your Leader (Newsboys album), 1996, or the title song
  * "Take Me to Your Leader" (Incubus song), 1996
  * "Take Me to Your Leader: 78-79 Demos", a Wall of Voodoo bootleg release
  * "Take Me to Your Leader", a song by The Sinceros from The Sound of Sunbathing (1979)
  * "Take Me to Your Leader", a song by Foreigner from Foreigner (1977), serving as a bonus track in the album's re-release
  * "Take Me to Your Leader", a 1958 song by Jonathan Winters with Martians

Television episodes

  * "Take Me To Your Leader", a 1996 episode of Mighty Ducks: The Animated Series
  * "Take Me to Your Leader", an episode of the 1987-1996 TV series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
  * "Take Me to Your Leader" (American Horror Story), an episode of the tenth season of American Horror Story
  * "The Take Me to Your Leader Affair", the 16th episode in season 3 of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1966-67)
  * "Take Me to Your Leader Raid", a 1967 episode of The Rat Patrol


Claudio Paris

Claudio Paris (born 31 March 1971 in Argentina) is an Argentinean retired footballer.


Tourist Season (novel)

"Al Garcia" redirects here. For the real-life American actor and director, see Al Ernest Garcia.

Tourist Season is a 1986 novel by Carl Hiaasen. It was his first solo novel, after co-writing several mystery/thriller novels with William Montalbano.

Plot

Las Noches de Diciembre (Spanish, "The Nights of December") is a small terrorist cell led by rogue newspaper columnist Skip Wiley, calling himself El Fuego. Skip believes that the only way to save Florida's natural beauty from destruction is to violently dissuade tourists from visiting and/or settling in the state. Recruiting three comrades with similar vendettas against the Florida establishment, they begin a spree of flashy kidnappings, murders and bombings to frighten off new arrivals. Their first victim is B.D. "Sparky" Harper, the head of Miami's Chamber of Commerce. Sparky's body is found stuffed into an oversized suitcase, dressed in a garish tourist outfit, smeared with sunscreen and with his legs amputated. Next, the group starts kidnapping and killing random tourists and Florida residents, many of whom are fed to a giant crocodile nicknamed "Pavlov".

Brian Keyes, a private investigator and former reporter for the Miami Sun, is hired to help defend petty burglar Ernesto Cabal, who was caught driving Sparky's stolen car. Brian does not believe that Ernesto killed Sparky, but the Miami police dismiss him. Ernesto commits suicide when told by his own lawyer that the case is a lost cause. Brian is then hired by Nell Bellamy to find her missing husband (the first tourist victim) and by Sun editor Cab Mulcahy to locate the missing Wiley. After an encounter with his ex-girlfriend Jenna (who is now dating Skip), Brian tracks Skip to the Everglades and is captured by Las Noches. Revealing himself, Skip tells Brian to return to Miami and spread the word of the group's demands. He then has Brian watch as their latest victim is fed to Pavlov. Brian tries to stop the murder and is stabbed in the back by one of Skip's followers, a Cuban named Jesús Bernal. He is returned to Miami and treated in the hospital.


Tourist Season (novel)

Since it is the start of tourist season, the police's initial reaction to Brian's warnings is to engage in a cover-up, dismissing the Las Noches communiques as a hoax. Sun reporter Ricky Bloodworth uncovers the letters and writes an article but misspells the name of the group as "Las Nachos". The terrorists retaliate with several bombings, forcing the authorities to take them seriously. Brian's old friend, Detective Al Garcia, is appointed head of a task force to catch the terrorists. Based on Skip's hints, Brian, Cab and Al deduce that the terrorists plan to kidnap Miami's much-touted Orange Bowl Queen. Since civic leaders refuse to cancel the Orange Bowl Parade or to provide the beauty queen with visible police protection, Al suggests hiring Brian as her undercover bodyguard. Brian finds the beauty queen, Kara Lynn Shivers, to be an intelligent and sensible girl who is only in the beauty queen "racket" to indulge her father. Brian and Kara Lynn grow closer, eventually developing a relationship.

While escorting Kara Lynn home from a tennis game, Brian catches Jesús loitering in the parking lot and beats him into submission with a racket. Furious that Jesús has foiled the group's element of surprise, Skip devises a new plan. Jesús, aching for reinstatement with the anti-Castro terrorist group he was expelled from, abandons Las Noches and sends a mail bomb to Al. Farcically, the bomb is instead opened by an over-eager Ricky, illegally sifting Garcia's mail for clues about the terrorists. Because of Bernal's poor construction, the bomb only injures Ricky. Al never learns that the bomb was addressed to him, and the bombing is attributed to Las Noches. The next evening, Skip uses a helicopter to bombard the deck of a cruise ship with shopping bags containing live snakes. As the panicked passengers dive off the ship and the Coast Guard is summoned, the helicopter unexpectedly crashes at sea before it reaches land. No bodies are recovered. Miami's civic leaders assume the terrorists are dead, but Brian and Al insist that their security precautions remain in place until after the parade.


Tourist Season (novel)

In a last-ditch effort, Jesús kidnaps Al at gunpoint and drives him to Key Largo to be executed. Al is wounded in the shoulder by Jesús' shotgun, but Brian manages to track them down and kills Jesús. To Brian's surprise, the parade proceeds without any sign of Las Noches. The following evening, during the Orange Bowl, he belatedly realizes that Kara Lynn is supposed to make a brief appearance during the game's halftime show and figures out that Las Noches has chosen that moment to strike. Kara Lynn is kidnapped and carried out of the stadium on an airboat, though one of the terrorists, ex-football player "Viceroy" Wilson, is shot to death by her unofficial escort. Brian deduces from Skip's old press clippings that he has taken Kara Lynn to Osprey Island, a small nature preserve in the middle of Biscayne Bay. There, Skip reveals to Kara Lynn that the island has been mined with dynamite, to be exploded at dawn, to allow for the construction of a new condominium. He plans to leave her there, with the island's other remaining wildlife, so that her death will send a message to Florida's greedy developers.

Before Skip can depart, Brian arrives and disables him with a bullet to the leg. Skip initially refuses to tell Brian where he has anchored his boat, prepared to let the dynamite claim the three of them all at once. However, upon realizing that Brian has brought Jenna along, he surrenders the boat's location. To Brian's surprise, he refuses to go along with them. As they speed away from the island, Keyes, Kara Lynn and Jenna look back and see Skip is climbing a tree, trying to scare a bald eagle nesting there into taking flight before the dynamite explodes. The novel ends just as the "all clear" signal for the detonation is sounded, with the three of them whispering the same prayer: "Please fly away."

Themes

The book is not only an example of the crime fiction genre, but a satire as well, of many subjects from tourism to sports to race relations to the newsroom. It also contains examples of the literary device of the red herring; for example, deep background is given to characters who appear briefly only to die off, which keeps the reader guessing as to who will make it to the end of the book.


Tourist Season (novel)

Hiaasen is a newspaper columnist from the Miami Herald. In an interview, he said that he took much of his inspiration from his work on the Herald.

Hiaasen's novels typically deal with distinctly Floridian themes such as environmental destruction of unique ecosystems, the inability to sustain rapid growth, and crooked politicians, among others.

Characters

Main characters

  * Brian Keyes (32): a former reporter for the Sun, now a private detective.
  * Cab Mulcahy: managing editor of the Sun, Keyes's friend and mentor.
  * Ricky Bloodworth: wet-behind-the-ears reporter for the Sun. Energetic and ambitious, Bloodworth yearns for success in journalism, but lacks all the other qualities necessary for a good reporter, including sensitivity, tact, and basic writing skills.
  * Al García: Detective Sergeant for the Metro-Dade Police Homicide unit.

Victims

  * Theodore Bellamy, shriner
  * B.D. "Sparky" Harper, president of the Miami Chamber of Commerce
  * Renee LeVoux, tourist from Montreal
  * Ida Kimmelman, retiree
  * Dr. Remond Courtney, shill psychiatrist

Las Noches de Diciembre


Tourist Season (novel)

Las Noches de Diciembre

  * Skip Wiley (White, 37): A popular columnist for the Sun, leader and founder of Las Noches. Wiley wants to save the Florida environment by scaring tourists out of Florida. Wiley reasons that the entire Florida economy is dependent on tourism and emigration from other parts of America, and that without it the whole state structure will collapse.
  * Daniel "Viceroy" Wilson (African-American, 36): formerly a star fullback for the Miami Dolphins football team, Wilson was cut from the team after critically injuring both knees. After several years as a drug addict and a petty criminal, he has cleaned up, educated himself, and dreams of revenge on the white-dominated establishment of Florida.
  * Jesús Bernal (Cuban, late 20s): formerly a member of an anti-Castro group (the "First Weekend in July Movement") in Florida seeking to drive Castro from power and let Cuban exiles return home. Jesús was expelled from the movement after one mistake too many. Overflowing with machismo, he thinks of himself as the most experienced and well-trained of Las Noches at committing terrorist acts, but in fact is completely inept at anything except writing snappy press releases (a number of farcical situations in the novel arise from his attempts to plant homemade bombs). His militant politics are also something of a pose, since he was born and raised in New Jersey, graduated from Dartmouth College, and has never been to Cuba in his life.
  * Tommy Tigertail (Seminole, mid-20s): A member of the Seminole Nation, and the source of Las Noches funding. Tommy is an innovator, largely responsible for turning white people's fetish for bingo into a multi-million dollar business for his tribe, and is also deeply aggrieved by the white men's actions against his ancestors, and their destruction of Florida's natural beauty.
  * Pavlov: a giant American crocodile.
  * Jenna: Skip's girlfriend, Brian's ex-girlfriend.

Cultural references


Tourist Season (novel)

Cultural references

  * Jimmy Buffett, a friend of Hiaasen's, based a song on the novel, The Ballad of Skip Wiley. The song also incorporates Hiaasen's character of former Governor Clinton "Skink" Tyree, a later creation of Hiaasen.
  * Garcia comments that Las Noches crimes are making Richard Speck, a serial killer, look tame by comparison; likewise, when Jenna claims that Skip is a better man than Brian because he "makes things happen," Brian retorts, "so did Juan Corona[.]" Corona was a Mexican-American serial killer with at least 25 known victims.
  * The terrorist group that Jesus Bernal belongs to, "The First Weekend in July Movement," is fictional, but Bernal refers to several real-life anti-Castro terrorist groups operating in South Florida, including Omega 7 and Alpha 66.
  * When Reed Shivers, Kara Lynn's father, dismisses the risk to his daughter's safety from "a bunch of losers," Keyes reminds him that "one nut can shoot the damn President in Dealey Plaza," referring to the assassination of John F. Kennedy by Lee Harvey Oswald.
  * There are multiple references to the early history of Florida that most of the novel's characters remain willfully ignorant of, including the Second Seminole War, Miami's initial founding as Fort Dallas, and the actions of early land barons such as Henry Flagler and Carl Fisher.
  * Sparky Harper inaugurated the Orange Bowl Friendship Cruise in 1980, but attendance was low during the first year as a result of the Liberty City riots and the Mariel boatlift.

Continuity with Hiaasen's other works


Tourist Season (novel)

Continuity with Hiaasen's other works

  * Though Clinton Tyree, one of Hiaasen's few recurring characters, makes his debut in the subsequent novel Double Whammy, Tyree shares much of Skip Wiley's passionate environmentalism and anger at corruption, though not his indiscriminate murderousness.
  * Al Garcia makes his first appearance as one of Hiaasen's recurring characters.
  * During the civic meeting to discuss Las Noches, a city leader laments half-jokingly that he wishes they had targeted Disney World instead of Miami. In Hiaasen's subsequent novel Native Tongue, the fictional "Amazing Kingdom" theme park carries heavy influence with South Florida politicians, largely because they blame Disney World for siphoning tourists' custom from South Florida to Orlando.
  * Several of Hiaasen's novels feature a recurring joke that radiology is a "soft" medical discipline and those that practice it are not "real" doctors. This novel features the first such joke: aboard the Orange Bowl cruise, a tourist couple introduce themselves as a doctor and his wife; a few minutes later when his wife is bitten by a snake the "doctor" does nothing, explaining that "I'm just a radiologist!"
  * Tommy Tigertail, the only surviving member of Las Noches, reappears peripherally in Hiaasen's novel Nature Girl. He is a prominent and influential elder of the Seminole tribe and has recanted his more radical sentiments. He also tells his nephew Sammy about Wiley, whom Tommy believes was reincarnated as a bald eagle. In an ironic scene, just such an eagle perches briefly over the nature-hating antagonist of that novel Boyd Shreave, and defecates on his head.
  * Tommy dwells several times on the topic of the Second Seminole War in Tourist Season. His Nature Girl is the first novel to return to the topic.

Other media

An audiobook version of Tourist Season was released in 1998 by Recorded Books. The audiobook, read by George Wilson, is unabridged and runs 13 hours 48 minutes over 12 CDs.


Alan Gerber

Alan Gerber is an American-born singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He is a member of the recently reunited rock band Rhinoceros and also has been pursuing a solo career throughout the last 30 years. His style shows multiple influences (blues, folk, jazz), and he is especially known for his high-energy performances and light-hearted, humor-filled lyrics.

Life and career

Alan Gerber was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, May 27, 1947.

He left Rhinoceros in 1969 and started his solo career shortly after that. His first album, "The Alan Gerber Album", was released in 1971. He subsequently moved to Canada and currently lives in Val-David, Quebec. He is a Canadian/American dual citizen. He was involved in a variety of projects throughout the late '70s and '80s, such as the Bob Dylan movie Renaldo and Clara, but did not record albums during this period. His productivity as a recording and performing artist has enjoyed a renewal since 1994 and the release of "Chicken walk".

He has composed, recorded, produced and released 5 more albums to date, including a live recording on which he played all the instruments. He is almost constantly touring in North America and Europe, sometimes joined by his son Eli and daughter Hannah, who also appear on his 2009 album "Queen of Hearts".Montreal Jazz Festival, the Ottawa Bluesfest, and the Carcassonne (France) Music Festival, among many others. As of 2009, he was signed with the CashBox Records label.

Solo albums

Year  Title                       Notes
1971  The Alan Gerber Album
1994  Chicken Walk
1997  Fools That Try
1999  The Boogie Man
2002  Alan Gerber Live
2005  Blue Tube
2009  Queen of Hearts
2013  The Grand ...and the Small

  * Official website
  * Myspace page


Robin Hawkins

Robin Hawkins (born 11 February 1986) is a vocalist and bassist. He was a member of Welsh band The Automatic.

Personal life

Rob studied at Cowbridge Comprehensive School, completing his A-levels and going on to take a chance with The Automatic in his gap year. Originally Rob was more interested in playing flute, joining the Cardiff and Vale Youth Orchestra, however later, at the age of 12 after buying a bass from Automatic guitarist James Frost, he taught himself to play and eventually saved enough money to afford his Fender USA Jazz Bass.Esperanto as a hobby.first-class honours degree in Computer Science. His final year project was an investigation of musicality perception in an evolutionary context, the results of which were published in ICMC'14.

Musical career

Lead vocalist and bassist, Hawkins also has been seen playing a variety of other instruments for The Automatic, most notably the flute during the band's performances of Gold Digger and the synthesizer during performances of "This Is A Fix".

Notable appearances

On 9 January 2007, he and former band-mate Alex Pennie stood in for Zane Lowe on BBC Radio 1, in a series of stand-ins whilst Zane Lowe was on holiday. The line-up also included fellow band on B-Unique Records, Kaiser Chiefs, as well as The View, Snow Patrol, and The Zutons.

Equipment

Rob predominantly uses a Fender USA Jazz Bass. He has used and purchased various bases, however prefers his Jazz bass to other models he has used.

  * Ashdown bass amps
  * Fender USA Jazz Bass
  * Boss Bass Overdrive
  * Boss Chromatic Tuner
  * SansAmp Bass DI (x2)
  * Dunlop .73mm Plectrums
  * Musicman Stingray Electric Bass


Reflections (Steve Lacy album)

Reflections (subtitled Steve Lacy Plays Thelonious Monk) is the second album by Steve Lacy which was released on the Prestige label in 1959. It features performances of Thelonious Monk's compositions by Lacy, Mal Waldron, Buell Neidlinger and Elvin Jones. (According to biographer Robin Kelley, this was the first album devoted entirely to Monk's music recorded by another artist.)

Reception

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow stated: "All of soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy's early recordings are quite fascinating, for during 1957-1964, aspects of his style at times hinted at Dixieland, swing, Monk, and Cecil Taylor, sometimes at the same time. For this CD reissue (a straight reproduction of the original New Jazz LP), Lacy teams up with pianist Mal Waldron, bassist Buell Neidlinger, and drummer Elvin Jones for seven Thelonious Monk compositions. The typical standbys (such as ''Round Midnight,' 'Straight No Chaser,' and 'Blue Monk') are avoided in favor of more complex works such as 'Four in One,' 'Bye-Ya,' and 'Skippy'; the sweet ballad 'Ask Me Now' is a highpoint. Lacy always had an affinity for Monk's music and, even nearly 40 years later, this set is a delight.".

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

Track listing

 1. "Four In One" - 6:01
 2. "Reflections" - 4:09
 3. "Hornin' In" - 5:11
 4. "Bye-Ya" - 4:40
 5. "Let's Call This" - 7:15
 6. "Ask Me Now" - 4:58
 7. "Skippy" - 4:16
All compositions by Thelonious Monk
  * Recorded in Hackensack, NJ, October 17, 1958

Personnel

  * Steve Lacy - soprano saxophone
  * Mal Waldron - piano
  * Buell Neidlinger - bass
  * Elvin Jones - drums


Rich Robinson (Canadian football)

Richard Robinson (born c. 1946) is a Canadian football player who played professionally for the BC Lions.


2018 Rally Italia Sardegna

The 2018 Rally Italia Sardegna (formally known as the Rally Italia Sardegna 2018) was a motor racing event for rally cars that was held over four days between 7 and 10 June 2018.Rally Italia Sardegna, and was the seventh round of the 2018 FIA World Rally Championship and its support categories, the WRC-2 and WRC-3 championships.Alghero in Sardinia and consisted of twenty special stages totalling 313.46 km (194.78 mi) in competitive kilometres.

Ott Tänak and Martin Järveoja were the defending rally winners.Thierry Neuville and Nicolas Gilsoul were the rally winners. Their team, Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT, were the manufacturers' winners.Škoda Motorsport II crew of Jan Kopecký and Pavel Dresler won the World Rally Championship-2 category in a Škoda Fabia R5, while the crew of Jean-Baptiste Franceschi and Romain Courbon won the World Rally Championship-3.

Background

Championship standings prior to the event

Thierry Neuville and Nicolas Gilsoul entered the round with a nineteen-point lead in the World Championship for Drivers and Co-drivers. In the World Championship for Manufacturers, Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT held a thirteen-point lead over M-Sport Ford WRT.

Entry list

The following crews were entered into the rally. The event was open to crews competing in the World Rally Championship, World Rally Championship-2, and the World Rally Championship-3. The final entry list consisted of fifteen World Rally Cars, twelve World Rally Championship-2 entries, and four World Rally Championship-3 entries.


2018 Rally Italia Sardegna

No.                                 Entrant                                Driver                             Co-Driver                            Car                    Tyre
World Rally Car entries
                1                   [United Kingdom] M-Sport Ford WRT      [France] Sébastien Ogier           [France] Julien Ingrassia            Ford Fiesta WRC         M
                2                   [United Kingdom] M-Sport Ford WRT      [United Kingdom] Elfyn Evans       [United Kingdom] Daniel Barritt      Ford Fiesta WRC         M
                3                   [United Kingdom] M-Sport Ford WRT      [Finland] Teemu Suninen            [Finland] Mikko Markkula             Ford Fiesta WRC         M
                4                   [South Korea] Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT  [Norway] Andreas Mikkelsen         [Norway] Anders Jæger-Synnevaag      Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC   M
                5                   [South Korea] Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT  [Belgium] Thierry Neuville         [Belgium] Nicolas Gilsoul            Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC   M
                6                   [South Korea] Hyundai Shell Mobis WRT  [New Zealand] Hayden Paddon        [United Kingdom] Sebastian Marshall  Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC   M
                7                   [Japan] Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT        [Finland] Jari-Matti Latvala       [Finland] Miikka Anttila             Toyota Yaris WRC        M
                8                   [Japan] Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT        [Estonia] Ott Tänak                [Estonia] Martin Järveoja            Toyota Yaris WRC        M
                9                   [Japan] Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT        [Finland] Esapekka Lappi           [Finland] Janne Ferm                 Toyota Yaris WRC        M
                11                  [France] Citroën Total Abu Dhabi WRT   [Republic of Ireland] Craig Breen  [United Kingdom] Scott Martin        Citroën C3 WRC          M
                12                  [France] Citroën Total Abu Dhabi WRT   [Norway] Mads Østberg              [Norway] Torstein Eriksen            Citroën C3 WRC          M
                21                  [Czech Republic] MP-Sports             [Czech Republic] Martin Prokop     [Czech Republic] Jan Tománek         Ford Fiesta RS WRC      D
                22                  [Saudi Arabia] Yazeed Racing           [Saudi Arabia] Yazeed Al-Rajhi     [United Kingdom] Michael Orr         Ford Fiesta RS WRC      M


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23                  [France] "Piano"                       [France] "Piano"                   [France] Jean-François Pergola       Ford Fiesta RS WRC      D
                24                  [France] Cyrille Feraud                [France] Cyrille Feraud            [France] Aymeric Duschemin           Citroën DS3 WRC         D
World Rally Championship-2 entries
                31                  [Czech Republic] Škoda Motorsport II   [Czech Republic] Jan Kopecký       [Czech Republic] Pavel Dresler       Škoda Fabia R5          M
                32                  [Finland] Tommi Mäkinen Racing         [Japan] Takamoto Katsuta           [Finland] Marko Salminen             Ford Fiesta R5          M
                33                  [Czech Republic] Škoda Motorsport II   [Norway] Ole Christian Veiby       [Norway] Stig Rune Skjærmoen         Škoda Fabia R5          M
                34                  [Italy] ACI Team Italia WRC            [Italy] Fabio Andolfi              [Italy] Simone Scattolin             Škoda Fabia R5          P
                35                  [Finland] Printsport                   [Poland] Łukasz Pieniążek          [Poland] Przemysław Mazur            Škoda Fabia R5          M
                36                  [Italy] BRC Racing Team                [France] Pierre-Louis Loubet       [France] Vincent Landais             Hyundai i20 R5          M
                37                  [Finland] Tommi Mäkinen Racing         [Japan] Hiroki Arai                [Finland] Jarmo Lehtinen             Ford Fiesta R5          M
                38                  [France] Citroën Total Rallye Team     [France] Stéphane Lefebvre         [France] Gabin Moreau                Citroën C3 R5           M
                39                  [France] Nicolas Ciamin                [France] Nicolas Ciamin            [France] Thibault de la Haye         Hyundai i20 R5          M
                40                  [Italy] Motorsport Italia              [Mexico] Benito Guerra             [Spain] Borja Rozada                 Škoda Fabia R5          P
                41                  [France] Citroën Total Rallye Team     [Romania] Simone Tempestini        [Romania] Sergiu Itu                 Citroën C3 R5           M
                42                  [Poland] Lotos Rally Team              [Poland] Kajetan Kajetanowicz      [Poland] Maciej Szczepaniak          Ford Fiesta R5          M


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World Rally Championship-3 entries
                61                  [France] Équipe de France FFSA Rally   [France] Jean-Baptiste Franceschi  [France] Romain Courbon              Ford Fiesta R2T         M
                62                  [Italy] Enrico Brazzoli                [Italy] Enrico Brazzoli            [Italy] Luca Beltrame                Peugeot 208 R2          D
                63                  [Finland] Taisko Lario                 [Finland] Taisko Lario             [Finland] Tatu Hämäläinen            Peugeot 208 R2          P
                64                  [United Kingdom] Louise Cook           [United Kingdom] Louise Cook       [United Kingdom] Stefan Davis        Ford Fiesta R2          M
Other major entries
                86                  [India] Team MRF Tyres                 [India] Gaurav Gill                [Australia] Glenn MacNeall           Ford Fiesta R5          MR
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Report

Pre-event

Citroën terminated their contract with Kris Meeke (pictured) and Paul Nagle before the rally.

The Citroën pairing of Kris Meeke and Paul Nagle were entered into the rally, but were subsequently withdrawn when the team released Meeke from his contract.

Thursday

Defending world champion Sébastien Ogier, driving a Fiesta, took a slender 0.1 second lead over Andreas Mikkelsen. Championship leader Thierry Neuville was another 0.6 second behind. Elfyn Evans was fourth, followed by Hayden Paddon and Esapekka Lappi. Teammate Teemu Suninen was seventh, while the shakedown winner Jari-Matti Latvala in eighth. Mads Østberg and Ott Tänak were in ninth and tenth respectively to complete the top ten.

Stéphane Lefebvre led the rally in WRC-2 after Friday.

Friday

Muddy roads, caused by unpredictable rainy weather, made the first day of Sardegna very tricky. In uncharacteristic conditions, defending world champion Sébastien Ogier took a dramatic lead over the championship leader Thierry Neuville by 18.9 seconds after Andreas Mikkelsen retired from the day due to gearbox issue. Because of teammate Teemu Suninen's off road and Ott Tänak's radiator damage caused by a heavy bump, Jari-Matti Latvala climbed up to the podium place, followed by his teammate Esapekka Lappi, another 4.4 seconds behind. Two Citroën drivers Mads Østberg and Craig Breen were in sixth and eighth respectively, sandwiched Hayden Paddon in a Hyundai i20. Elfyn Evans dropped out of top twenty after breaking a steering arm due to hitting a rock in his Ford Fiesta.WRC-2 category leader Stéphane Lefebvre, Jan Kopecký and Nicolas Ciamin completed the leaderboard.

Saturday


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Saturday

After a fifteen-stage fight, title rivals Sébastien Ogier and Thierry Neuville only separated by 3.9 seconds on the top. Jari-Matti Latvala, eighth overall, originally ended the day in third, but an alternator problem forced him to retired from the day, which made his teammate Esapekka Lappi snatch the podium place.Hayden Paddon and Mads Østberg presented us another great fight. Eventually, the Hyundai edged the Citroën by only 2.1 seconds. Craig Breen was in sixth, over a minute further behind, with WRC-2 category leader Jan Kopecký in seventh. Ott Tänak, who was running under Rally2 regulations, recovered to ninth after yesterday's engine damage, followed by Martin Prokop completed the top ten.

Sunday

The fastest times of the morning stages were all taken by the championship leader Thierry Neuville, which reduced the gap between the rally leader Sébastien Ogier to just 0.8 second. In the Power Stage, the Hyundai star took another stage win and overtook the defending world champion to snatch the victory from Ogier. The difference between two title rivals was only 0.7 second, the third tightest winning margin in WRC history, which shared with 2017 Rally Argentina.Esapekka Lappi ran out of the podium place in a Yaris, followed by Hayden Paddon in fourth overall. Two Citroën drivers Mads Østberg and Craig Breen were in fifth and sixth respectively, ahead of Jari-Matti Latvala, who was running under Rally2 regulations. WRC-2 category leader Jan Kopecký was in eighth after Ott Tänak received a forty-second penalty due to a four-minute late, while Teemu Suninen completed the top ten.

Classification

Top ten finishers

The following crews finished the rally in each class's top ten.