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The village of Woxall was originally known as Kroppestettel, which in Pennsylvania Dutch means Crowtown. The village was later named Mechanicsville. By the end of the eighteenth century, the town contained a hotel and restaurant, town hall, shoe shop, wheelwright, and 12 homes. The village kept the name Mechanicsville until 1888 when a post office was established. A new name needed to be selected for the post office because another Pennsylvania town had the same name. After much discussion, residents submitted the name Noxall, "Knocks All" to postal authorities. The name had been read on the side of a bar of a box of soap in the village store. Evidently, they misread the "N" for a "W" and approved the name Woxall for the post office. |
The Village of Woxall grew up near the Old Goshenhoppen Church, erected in 1744, where Lutheran and Reformed congregations met. With the arrival of the railroad in 1868, Salfordville, which prospered without railroad or trolley, grew around an old inn. By 1877, it contained a post office, general store, cigar factory, and 19 homes. |
Other villages include Bergey, known in 1893 as Branchville, and Salford, called Rudy in the early 1900s. These two villages, along with Woxall and Salfordville, were noted for their general stores that sold a variety of items including fine clocks, furniture, barrel molasses, and quilting thread. |
Woxall can be classified as a rural area, featuring agriculture fields, woods, and some housing developments which have been built since 2002. |
= = = Night by the Seashore = = = |
Night by the Seashore () is a 1981 Finnish drama film directed by Erkko Kivikoski. It was entered into the 12th Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Special Diploma. |
= = = Tello (dance) = = = |
Tello () - is an Azerbaijani national dance. It is a kind of yalli dance and is related to a female name. |
Both women and men can perform this dance. The dancers hold the little fingers of each other and lift them at shoulders level. The dancing process consists of two fast parts, during which the shoulders move up and down. This dance is popular almost in all regions of Azerbaijan. |
= = = Akyar, Khaybullinsky District, Republic of Bashkortostan = = = |
Akyar (, ) is a rural locality (a "selo") and the administrative center of Khaybullinsky District of the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia, located on the Tanalyk River. Population: |
= = = Peder Severin = = = |
Peder Severin is a Danish operatic tenor. He made his debuts with Danish National Opera in 1971 and Royal Opera Copenhagen in 1972. In addition to Schubert's song-cycles, Severin has made several premiere recordings of little-known Danish songs with pianist Dorte Kirkeskov. |
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= = = Listed buildings in Penketh = = = |
Penketh is a civil parish in the Borough of Warrington in Cheshire, England. It contains six buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England as designated listed buildings, all of which are at Grade II. This grade is the lowest of the three gradings given to listed buildings and is applied to "buildings of national importance and special interest". The parish is mainly residential, with some farming, The River Mersey runs through the parish, the Manchester Ship Canal runs along the southern boundary, and the A562 road ends within it. |
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= = = Gymnastics at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Women's rhythmic qualification = = = |
Ten individual competitors and six national teams qualified for the women's rhythmic gymnastics events at the 1996 Summer Olympics. |
In total, 37 gymnasts from 22 countries competed in the qualification round. The top 20 gymnasts advanced to the semifinal. |
20 gymnasts from 12 countries competed in the semifinal round. The ten highest scoring gymnasts advanced to the final. |
Nine teams participated in the preliminary round; the top six teams advanced to the final. |
= = = Arcadia University, Pennsylvania = = = |
Arcadia University is a census-designated place located in Cheltenham Township, Montgomery County in the state of Pennsylvania. Its location is just off campus at Arcadia University off Pennsylvania Route 309. As of the 2010 census the population was 595 residents. |
At 10,438 people per square mile, Arcadia University is the most densely populated census-designated place in Montgomery County, and 33rd in the entire United States. It is one of only two places in Montgomery County that has over 10,000 people per square mile (the other is Conshohocken). This is attributed to the land area consisting mostly of college dormitories. |
Arcadia University is home to National Historic Landmark Grey Towers Castle which serves as the main administration building for Arcadia University. |
= = = Verkhniye Kigi = = = |
Verkhniye Kigi (, ) is a rural locality (a "selo") and the administrative center of Kiginsky District in the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia. Population: |
= = = Motor City Open 2013 = = = |
The 2013 Motor City Open is an International 70 tournament of the PSA World Tour. The event took place at the Birmingham Athletic Club in Detroit in the United States from the 26th of January to the 29th January, 2013. Amr Shabana won his first Motor City Open title, beating Karim Darwish in the final. |
For 2013, the prize purse was $70,000. The prize money and points breakdown is as follows: |
= = = Nabor Vargas García = = = |
Nabor Vargas García (born 12 July 1976) is a Mexican suspected drug lord and one of the founders of Los Zetas, a criminal group formed by former soldiers of the Mexican Armed Forces. |
He joined the Mexican Army in the summer of 1995, and served at the Presidential Guard assault battalion unit at some point in his military career until he resigned in 1999. After not finding a job, Vargas García was recruited to work as a lieutenant for Los Zetas and the Gulf Cartel, a drug trafficking organization, in 2005. He eventually became one of the leading members in Los Zetas until he was arrested along with a kidnapping ring in 2007. |
Nabor Vargas García was born in Pachuca, Hidalgo on 12 July 1976. He joined the Mexican Army on 28 June 1995 but stepped down from active duty four years later on 1 July 1999, registering for the Army reserves. During his tenure in the Army, he had served at the Presidential Guard assault battalion. After being unemployed for at least six years, Vargas García was recruited by Osiel Cárdenas Guillén, the former leader of the drug trafficking organization known as the Gulf Cartel. Vargas García later became one of the leading lieutenants and founders of the cartel's former muscle, Los Zetas. During the late 1990s, several other members of the Mexican military deserted to form part of the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas, and were given better payments than in the Armed Forces. |
While working in Los Zetas, Vargas García commanded a group of Zeta members in the Mexican states of Campeche, Tabasco, and Chiapas. He was a pioneer in smuggling narcotics for Los Zetas through this region of southern Mexico, and was able to create a pathway for illegal goods flowing from Cancún to Matamoros, Tamaulipas in the northeastern part of the country. Vargas García worked for the drug lords Heriberto Lazcano Lazcano and Jorge Eduardo Costilla Sánchez after Cárdenas Guillén was extradited to the United States. He also controlled human trafficking rings of illegal aliens from Central America. |
He was also involved in several kidnappings in Campeche, including the abduction of four syndicate leaders of a petroleum company. |
In March 2010, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) listed several drug traffickers, including Vargas García, on the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (the "Kingpin Act"), which freezes all their assets in the U.S. and prohibits American companies from doing business with them. |
The extinct Federal Preventive Police (PFP), the SIEDO agency and Office of the General Prosecutor (PGR), along with Mexican soldiers and the Campeche state police, arrested Vargas García and 20 kidnappers of the Gulf Cartel in Ciudad del Carmen on 18 April 2007. |
Vargas García, alias "Z-20" and "El Débora", is currently imprisoned at the Federal Social Readaptation Center No. 1 ("Altiplano") in central Mexico. He had pending charges on drug trafficking, kidnapping, and for violating the Mexican federal law prohibiting the use of illegal weaponry. |
In fears of retaliation from organized crime, the sub attorney general of Campeche, Jorge Obrador Capellini, along with subdirector of security in the municipality, Néstor Hernández Domínguez, including four policemen, resigned from their duties several days after the arrest of Vargas García. Exactly three months after the arrest on 18 July 2007, the municipal police chief of Ciudad del Carmen, Germán Soto López, was assassinated by unknown gunmen. His body was found dead by law enforcement with three gunshot wounds on his face inside a Chevrolet Tornado. The motives behind his death are unclear, but several local media outlets indicated that Soto López's assassination may be linked to the arrest of Vargas García. |
After Vargas García was arrested, he became an informant for the Mexican authorities, and confessed several aspects of the logistics structure in Los Zetas. He explained to the authorities that Los Zetas employed a project called "La Expansión", which meant in the insides of the criminal underworld when several members of Los Zetas would go into a city and establish smuggling routes, and control or kill off opposition groups. The second phase of this process was known as "La Contracción", when they would set up networks of radiocommunication in an area, organize safe houses, and call on gunmen to protect specific places. |
He also confessed in 2007 that the Gulf Cartel and Los Zetas had several training camps in the states of Nuevo León and Tamaulipas, where their members would learn how to use assault rifles and received military training. This training intended to keep gunmen at a top level to ensure that the top leaders of the criminal organization were protected, secure drug shipments, and eliminate potential threats from rival gang members. |
On 24 March 2010, the United States Department of the Treasury sanctioned Vargas García under the Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation Act (the "Kingpin Act"), for his involvement in drug trafficking along with fifty-three other international criminals and ten foreign entities. The act prohibited U.S. citizens and companies from engaging in any kind of business activity with him, and virtually froze all his assets in the U.S. |
= = = Union Professional League = = = |
The Union Professional League was a professional baseball league that played for less than two months in 1908. The league was founded by businessman Alfred Lawson (1869-1954), who had briefly pitched for the Boston Beaneaters and the Pittsburgh Alleghenies in the National League (founded 1876) in 1890; he would later become known for his philosophy known as Lawsonomy and for his success in the aviation business. |
The league was established in December 1907. Lawson had founded an outlaw baseball league before the 1907 season; he called it the Atlantic League, a name also used by multiple other eastern leagues in baseball history. Lawson took three Atlantic League teams with him when he founded the Union Professional League. The final list of teams included clubs from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Newark, New Jersey; Elizabeth, New Jersey; Paterson, New Jersey; Brooklyn, New York; Washington, DC; Wilmington, Delaware; Reading, Pennsylvania and Baltimore, Maryland. |
Lawson decided to run the new league without utilizing a salary cap, multi-year contracts or a reserve clause. To keep players from contract jumping, Lawson intended to withhold a large amount of each player's weekly salary until the end of the season. Biographer Jerry Kuntz wrote that sportswriters "dubbed the effort the 'Onion League,' because it was cheap and smelled bad." |
Play opened in late April 1908 and the league ran into problems almost immediately. The entire east coast was dealing with frequent rain. The Washington club, for example, experienced nine rainouts in May, with six of them occurring in a nine-day stretch. This, combined with the fact that the league had not attracted star players from the established leagues, contributed to poor attendance and low revenue. As players sometimes went unpaid, they began to leave the league. The league folded in June of its inaugural season. |
= = = Excess All Areas (Shy album) = = = |
Excess All Areas is the third album by the Birmingham, England band Shy. Recorded in the Netherlands with producer Neil Kernon, the album was published in 1987 on RCA/BMG. The album featured Shy's biggest hit, "Break Down The Walls", co-written with Don Dokken and reached Britain's top 75, with "Metal Hammer" magazine being appreciative. |
= = = Tage Nielsen = = = |
Tage Nielsen (16 January 1929 in Frederiksberg – 23 March 2003) was a Danish composer. He studied with Rued Langgaard and worked for Danish Radio as well as being a professor at the Danish Academy of Music. |
= = = Nikolo-Beryozovka = = = |
Nikolo-Beryozovka (; ) is a rural locality (a "selo") and the administrative center of Krasnokamsky District in the Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia, located on the Kama River, from Neftekamsk. Population: |
= = = Thomas Philippon = = = |
Thomas Philippon (born May 1974) is a French economist. Philippon is professor of finance at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University. In addition to his professorship at NYU, Philippon has held visiting positions at Columbia University, Chicago University, Yale University, and Princeton University. He joined the Monetary Policy Advisory Panel at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in 2015. He also serves as the Scientific Committee Director at the French Prudential Supervisory Authority, as an associate editor of the American Economic Journal, and as a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. |
According to Google Scholar, Philippon's academic papers have been cited nearly 5000 times in the past 5 years. Most notably his paper "CEO Incentives and Earnings Management" has been referenced over 2000 times. |
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= = = Forte (notation program) = = = |
Forte is a music notation program or Scorewriter developed by the German company "Lugert Verlag" located in Handorf. Its name is derived from the dynamic marking "forte". The program is available in German and English. |
The Lugert Verlag publishing house who developed the Forte software is said to have had its beginnings in 1981 when Wulf Dieter Lugert and Volker Schütz prepared popular music for further education courses. The use of popular music in the classroom was unusual in Germany at that time. The operation grew and the publishing house which subsequently became known as "Lugert Verlag"was formed in 1998, expanding to produce magazines and audio media and to sell musical instruments and other materials. The first version of the scorewriter program "Forte" was released in 2005. |
The program can import MIDI, MusicXML and karaoke files, it can also export songs as MIDI and MusicXML files so that it can be shared with other tools, it allows users to save songs as a JPEG, TIFF or EPS files. |
It can import the "CapXML" file format of the Capella notation program. There are three main tools that include the "Music Ruler" which allows users to enter notes, "the audio sequencer" which allows users to record or import audio and play it in conjunction with their composition and the "complex scores" which allows users to write elaborate pieces. |
Forte is available in several versions, with some versions having full functionality implemented while others may limit other capabilities such at the number of Staff (musics) staves, voices, lyric verses smf compound meter support restricted. supported. An education edition and a specialist version designed for hymn and worship music are also available. A freeware version with basic capability is also available. |