title: Blaškovići

abstract: Blaškovići is a village in Kršan municipality in Istria County, Croatia.

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# Blaškovići

**Blaškovići** (Italian: **Boscosello** or **Blascovi**) is a village in Kršan municipality in Istria County, Croatia.

## Demographics

According to the 2021 census, its population was 207.

## InfoBox

| Blaškovići Boscosello, Blascovi | |
| --- | --- |
| Village | |
| Blaškovići | |
| Coordinates: 45°11′04″N 14°07′02″E / 45.1843291°N 14.1173042°E / 45.1843291; 14.1173042 | |
| Country | Croatia |
| County | Istria County |
| Municipality | Kršan |
| Area | |
| Total | 1.4 sq mi (3.7 km2) |
| Population (2021) | |
| Total | 207 |
| Density | 140/sq mi (56/km2) |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Postal code | 52232 Kršan |
| Area code | 052 |


title: Bluestars (album)

abstract: Bluestars is the debut studio album by American R&B group Pretty Ricky. It was released on May 24, 2005 by Atlantic Records and Bluestar Entertainment. The record serves as their second release under their record label, called Bluestar Entertainment. The album was supported by three singles: "Grind with Me", "Your Body", and "Nothing but a Number". Bluestars debuted at number 16 on the US Billboard 200 and sold 56,000 units in its first week. To date, the album was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

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# Bluestars (album)

***Bluestars*** is the debut studio album by American R&B group Pretty Ricky. It was released on May 24, 2005 by Atlantic Records and Bluestar Entertainment. The record serves as their second release under their record label, called Bluestar Entertainment. The album was supported by three singles: "Grind with Me", "Your Body", and "Nothing but a Number". *Bluestars* debuted at number 16 on the US *Billboard* 200 and sold 56,000 units in its first week. To date, the album was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

## Critical reception

Professional ratings
| Review scores | |
| --- | --- |
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |  |

AllMusic's Andy Kellman felt that Pretty Ricky's sexual content paled in comparison to fellow artists like Usher and the Ying Yang Twins due to lackluster writing, concluding that, "\[T\]he group has more talent than it leads you to believe. Maybe they won't be so hungry for street credibility on album number two." Azeem Ahmed of musicOMH also found the sex jams monotonous after the fourth track and came across as "vain attempts" to copy Usher and 112, but gave credit to "Grill 'Em" and "Chevy" for taking the group out of their usual soundscape to elevate their musical range and material, concluding that, "Had *Bluestars* demonstrated a desire beyond mere commercial success and focused on credibility this could have been an impressive piece of work. Instead it is a product that will command sales but will suffer the test of time."

## Track listing

| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Producer(s) | Length |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1. | "Playhouse" |  |  | 4:13 |
| 2. | "Your Body" | * D. Smith * J. Smith * S. Smith * Cooper * Mathis * Scheffer * Baker * Static Major |  | 4:00 |
| 3. | "Grind with Me" | * D. Smith * J. Smith * S. Smith * Cooper * Mathis * Scheffer * Baker | * Jim Jonsin * Big D | 3:59 |
| 4. | "Get a Little Closer" | * D. Smith * J. Smith * S. Smith * Cooper * Mathis * Harley Davidson | Harley Davidson | 4:31 |
| 5. | "Never Let You Go" |  | * Jim Jonsin * Big D | 3:47 |
| 6. | "Juicy" (featuring Static Major) |  | * Jim Jonsin * Big D * Troy Taylor\[a\] | 4:48 |
| 7. | "Call Me" | * D. Smith * J. Smith * S. Smith * Cooper * Mathis * Major * Can Canatan * Roberto Martorell | Can "Stress" Canatan | 3:54 |
| 8. | "Nothing but a Number" | * D. Smith * J. Smith * S. Smith * Cooper * Mathis * Scheffer * Baker | * Jim Jonsin * Big D * Troy Taylor\[a\] | 4:59 |
| 9. | "Grill 'Em" | * D. Smith * J. Smith * S. Smith * Cooper * Mathis |  | 4:15 |
| 10. | "Get You Right" |  | * Troy Taylor * Static Major | 4:29 |
| 11. | "Chevy" | * D. Smith * S. Smith * Cooper * Mathis * Scheffer * Baker * Major | * Jim Jonsin * Big D | 4:05 |
| 12. | "I Want You (Girlfriend)" | * D. Smith * J. Smith * S. Smith * Cooper * Mathis | * Pretty Ricky * Total Kaos * Joseph "Blue" Smith\[b\] * Jim Jonsin\[b\] * Big D\[b\] | 3:15 |
| 13. | "Shorty Be Mine" | * D. Smith * J. Smith * S. Smith * Cooper * Mathis * Scheffer * Baker | * Jim Jonsin * Big D * Troy Taylor\[a\] | 4:09 |
| 14. | "Can't Live Without You" | * D. Smith * J. Smith * S. Smith * Cooper * Mathis * Scheffer * Baker | * Jim Jonsin * Big D * Troy Taylor\[a\] | 4:49 |
| 15. | "So Fresh So Clean" (featuring C. Miller) |  |  | 4:30 |

**Notes**

* **^\[a\]**  signifies a vocal producer
* **^\[b\]**  signifies a co-producer

## Charts

## Certifications

| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States (RIAA) | Gold | 500,000^ |
| ^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
 | | |

## InfoBox

| Bluestars | |
| --- | --- |
|  | |
| Studio album by Pretty Ricky | |
| Released | May 24, 2005 |
| Recorded | 2004–05 |
| Genre | R&B, hip hop |
| Label | Atlantic, Bluestar Ent. |
| Pretty Ricky chronology | |
| ***Bluestars***
(2005) *Late Night Special*
(2007) | |
|  | |
| Singles from  *Bluestars* | |
| 1. "Grind with Me"
Released: March 14, 2005 2. "Your Body"
Released: June 15, 2005 3. "Nothing but a Number"
Released: January 12, 2006 | |
|  | |


title: Bluestem Amphitheater

abstract: Bluestem Center for the Arts is a 3,000 seat outdoor theater in Moorhead, Minnesota that exhibits performing arts and concerts. Since its opening, it has earned a national reputation as a premier contemporary amphitheater.

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# Bluestem Amphitheater

**Bluestem Center for the Arts** is a 3,000 seat outdoor theater in Moorhead, Minnesota that exhibits performing arts and concerts. Since its opening, it has earned a national reputation as a premier contemporary amphitheater.

## History

In 2009, the $15 million Bluestem Center for the Arts opened after a collaboration from the City of Moorhead, Fargo School District, and the State of Minnesota. The Fargo School District owns the buildings on the site, while the City of Moorhead owns the land.

The need for Bluestem Center for the Arts arose due to continuous flooding at the previous home for Trollwood Performing Arts School at Trollwood Park in North Fargo. Initially, the local communities welcomed the center. A few short years later, the center experienced financial hardships. The original non-profit was no longer able to make payments and the Fargo School District took over the amphitheater and the approximately $5 million worth of debt. Though the center has not yet produced a profit, they seem to be on-track as of 2015, as seasonal attendance and billings have increased.

In 2014, the amphitheater set a new attendance record of 3,200 spectators for a concert featuring the Goo Goo Dolls

2023 events include visiting performances by Chicago as well as Willie Nelson and Family.

## Programs

The amphitheater is used and managed by the Trollwood Performing Arts School as their main home. Trollwood offers performing arts classes to kids of all ages.

Local concert promoters also draw national acts including: Wilco, Weezer, Goo Goo Dolls, and The Fray.

46°49′05″N 96°47′45″W / 46.818000°N 96.795927°W / 46.818000; -96.795927

## InfoBox

Bluestem Center for the Arts
|  | |
| --- | --- |
|  | |
| Location | 801 50th Ave SW<br>Moorhead, Minnesota 56560 |
| Owner | Fargo School District (Stage and Buildings) City of Moorhead (Land) |
| Capacity | 3,000 |
| Construction | |
| Broke ground | 2007 |
| Opened | 2009 |
| Construction cost | $15 Million |
| Tenants | |
| Trollwood Performing Arts Center | |
| Website | |
| bluestemamphitheater.org | |


title: Blairmont Sports Club Ground

abstract: Blairmont Sports Club Ground is a cricket and football ground in Blairmont, Guyana.

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# Blairmont Sports Club Ground

**Blairmont Sports Club Ground** is a cricket and football ground in Blairmont, Guyana.

## History

Located next to the Blairmont Estate sugar plantation, the ground was opened in 1959 and first played host to first-class cricket when Berbice played Demerara in the 1989–90 Kenneth Sookram Memorial Trophy. Guyana later played two first-class matches there in the 1992–93 Red Stripe Cup 1992-93 and 1992–93 Red Stripe Cup, playing against Trinidad and Tobago and the Leeward Islands respectively. List A one-day cricket was first played there in February 1994, when Guyana played the Leeward Islands in the Geddes Grant Shield. Guyana played a further three one-day matches there in 1995 and 1996, before the ground played host to three neutral one-day matches in 2004 and 2007; one of these saw Barbados dismiss West Indies under-19s for 18 runs, the lowest total in the history of List A one-day cricket, with Pedro Collins taking figures of 7 for 11. Guyana returned to the ground in 2008 and 2011, playing two further one-day matches there.

As a football venue, the ground has played host to three international matches. The first of these came in 2004 and saw Guyana lose 3–1 to Grenada in a preliminary qualifying match for the 2006 World Cup. The next two came in 2008, with Guyana playing Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in a friendly, and Suriname and Dominica playing one another in a qualifying match for the 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup.

## Records

### First-class

### List A

6°15′01″N 57°32′38″W / 6.2503°N 57.5439°W / 6.2503; -57.5439

## InfoBox

Blairmont Sports Club Ground
| Blairmont Community Centre | |
| --- | --- |
| Ground information | |
| Location | Blairmont, Guyana |
| Coordinates | 6°15′01″N 57°32′38″W / 6.2503°N 57.5439°W / 6.2503; -57.5439 |
| Establishment | 1959 |
| Capacity | 1,000 |
| Team information | |
| Berbice (1989/90)  Guyana (1992/93–2011/12) | |
| As of 21 April 2022<br>Source: Ground profile | |


title: Bloodhounds of the North

abstract: Bloodhounds of the North is a 1913 American silent short drama film directed by Allan Dwan and starring Murdock MacQuarrie, Pauline Bush, and Lon Chaney. The film is now considered lost. Some sources state the film was edited down to one reel and re-released theatrically in 1916 as Accusing Evidence, but this is disputed.

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# Bloodhounds of the North

***Bloodhounds of the North*** is a 1913 American silent short drama film directed by Allan Dwan and starring Murdock MacQuarrie, Pauline Bush, and Lon Chaney. The film is now considered lost. Some sources state the film was edited down to one reel and re-released theatrically in 1916 as *Accusing Evidence*, but this is disputed.

## Plot

A colony of refugees in the Canadian mountains are wanted by the police for various crimes. One day, a man sought for embezzlement arrives at the colony with his daughter, Pauline. The embezzler is crafty and a natural born leader, and thus takes over leadership of the colony from James, the former leader. Two Mounties, Lon and Mac, are on the trail of the embezzler who sets up an ambush for the Mounties. Mac is wounded and Pauline takes him to her cabin to care for him. Lon learns that Pauline's father is the embezzler they are looking for. Lon makes amorous advances to her, but Mac saves her because he has fallen in love with her. Mac learns that Pauline's father is the embezzler and he demands that James surrender him. As the man is arrested, Pauline pleads with Lon to let her father go. Lon lifts his revolver to shoot Mac, but the refugees shoot Lon instead, and Pauline's father is also killed by the gunfire. Just as they are about to kill Mac, a third Mountie arrives to save him. Pauline and Mac decide to make a new life together.

## Cast

## Production notes

The film was shot on location in Mount Lowe, California. Director Allan Dwan also shot *The Honor of the Mounted* (also starring Murdock MacQuarrie, Pauline Bush, and Lon Chaney) at the same time. During filming, Lon Chaney and Arthur Rosson got lost in a canyon and were not located by a rescue team until the end of the day. The cast and crew were also stranded in their cabins for five days due to heavy rains. Dwan had the cast rehearse for an upcoming film, *Richelieu*, in an effort to save time.

## Reception

"The Moving Picture World" opined: "This 2-reel drama gives a good account of the Canadian Mounted Police, the romantic and adventurous constabulary of the Northwest woods... Some splendid woods and mountain settings occur."

## InfoBox

| Bloodhounds of the North | |
| --- | --- |
| A contemporary advertisement for the film and several other films. | |
| Directed by | Allan Dwan |
| Written by | Arthur Rosson |
| Starring | Murdock MacQuarrie
Pauline Bush
Lon Chaney |
| Distributed by | Universal Film Manufacturing Company |
| Release date | * December 23, 1913 (1913-12-23) |
| Running time | 20 minutes (2 reels) |
| Country | United States |
| Languages | Silent
English intertitles |


title: Bloodhymns

abstract: Bloodhymns is Necrophobic's fourth full-length studio album.

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# Bloodhymns

Professional ratings
| Review scores | |
| --- | --- |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic |  |

***Bloodhymns*** is Necrophobic's fourth full-length studio album.

## Track listing

| No. | Title | Length |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1. | "Taste of Black" | 3:32 |
| 2. | "Dreams Shall Flesh" | 5:18 |
| 3. | "Act of Rebellion" | 5:02 |
| 4. | "Shadowseeds" | 4:56 |
| 5. | "Mourningsoul" | 4:48 |
| 6. | "Helfire" | 3:53 |
| 7. | "Cult of Blood" | 5:08 |
| 8. | "Roots of Heldrasill" | 4:37 |
| 9. | "Blood Anthem" | 5:29 |
| 10. | "Among the Storms" | 3:13 |
| Total length: | | 45:56 |

## InfoBox

| Bloodhymns | |
| --- | --- |
|  | |
| Studio album by Necrophobic | |
| Released | March 25, 2002 |
| Genre | Blackened death metal |
| Length | 45:56 |
| Label | Karmageddon Media |
| Necrophobic chronology | |
| *The Third Antichrist*
(1999) ***Bloodhymns***
(2002) *Hrimthursum*
(2006) | |


title: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nazianzus

abstract: The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nazianzus is a titular see of the Catholic Church. Both Western Catholic and the Eastern Catholic bishops have been assigned to this diocese. The most famous of which being Saint Gregory of Nazianzus.

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# Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nazianzus

The **Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Nazianzus** is a titular see of the Catholic Church. Both Western Catholic and the Eastern Catholic bishops have been assigned to this diocese. The most famous of which being Saint Gregory of Nazianzus.

## Past and present ordinaries

## InfoBox

| Archdiocese of Nazianzus | |
| --- | --- |
|  | |
| Location | |
| Territory | Nazianzus |


title: Blendon, London

abstract: Blendon is an area of South East London within the London Borough of Bexley, located between Bexleyheath and Sidcup.

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# Blendon, London

**Blendon** is an area of South East London within the London Borough of Bexley, located between Bexleyheath and Sidcup.

## History

It is probably named after the Bladindon family who owned land in the area. Blendon Hall was built in 1763, was sold to a local housing developer in 1929 and eventually demolished to make way for suburban housing. Today the area is a middle-class residential district with a small row of shops along the western stretch of Blendon Road.

## Transport

### Rail

The closest National Rail station to Blendon is Albany Park.

### Buses

Albany Park is served by four Transport for London bus services.

## Nearby areas

Blendon borders Bexleyheath to the north and north east, Bexley to the east, Albany Park to the south east, south and south west, Blackfen to the west and Welling to the north west.

## InfoBox

| Blendon | |
| --- | --- |
| BlendonLocation within Greater London | |
| Population | 10,910 (2011 Census. Blendon and Penhill Ward) |
| OS grid reference | TQ478742 |
| London borough |  |
| Ceremonial county | Greater London |
| Region |  |
| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | BEXLEY |
| Postcode district | DA5 |
| Post town | SIDCUP |
| Postcode district | DA15 |
| Dialling code | 020 |
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| Police | Metropolitan |
| Fire | London |
| Ambulance | London |
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| London Assembly |  |
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title: Blast from the Past (album)

abstract: Blast from the Past is a two-CD compilation album that contains re-recordings of older Gamma Ray material from the Ralf Scheepers era, with Kai Hansen singing the vocals, and remasters of more recent tracks. All instruments for old songs were also re-recorded, with new arrangements, by the then current members of the band. The songs from each era to be included in the compilation were chosen by the band's fans.

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# Blast from the Past (album)

Professional ratings
| Review scores | |
| --- | --- |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | link |
| Lords of Metal | 90/100 |
| Sputnikmusic |  |

***Blast from the Past*** is a two-CD compilation album that contains re-recordings of older Gamma Ray material from the Ralf Scheepers era, with Kai Hansen singing the vocals, and remasters of more recent tracks. All instruments for old songs were also re-recorded, with new arrangements, by the then current members of the band.

The songs from each era to be included in the compilation were chosen by the band's fans.

## Track listing

CD 1
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Length |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1. | "Welcome" | - | Hansen | 0:57 |
| 2. | "Lust for Life" | Hansen | Hansen | 5:26 |
| 3. | "Heaven Can Wait" | Hansen | Hansen | 4:30 |
| 4. | "Heading for Tomorrow" | Hansen | Hansen | 14:59 |
| 5. | "Changes" | Hansen, Wessel | Hansen, Scheepers, Schlächter, Wessel | 5:29 |
| 6. | "Rich & Famous" (Japanese Bonus Track) | Hansen | Hansen | 4:52 |
| 7. | "One With the World" | Hansen | Hansen, Wessel | 4:50 |
| 8. | "Dream Healer" | Hansen, Scheepers | Hansen | 7:35 |
| 9. | "Tribute to the Past" | Hansen | Hansen, Rubach | 4:46 |
| 10. | "Last Before the Storm" | Hansen | Hansen | 4:57 |
| 11. | "Heal Me" | Hansen, Schlächter | Schlächter | 7:34 |

CD 2
| No. | Title | Lyrics | Music | Length |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1. | "Rebellion in Dreamland" | Hansen | Hansen | 8:46 |
| 2. | "Man On a Mission" | Hansen | Hansen | 5:44 |
| 3. | "Land of the Free" | Hansen | Hansen | 4:38 |
| 4. | "The Silence" | Hansen | Hansen | 6:29 |
| 5. | "Beyond the Black Hole" | Hansen | Hansen, Zimmermann, Schlächter | 6:00 |
| 6. | "Somewhere Out in Space" | Hansen | Hansen | 5:27 |
| 7. | "Valley of the Kings" | Hansen | Hansen | 3:50 |
| 8. | "Anywhere in the Galaxy" | Hansen | Hansen | 6:36 |
| 9. | "Send Me a Sign" | Richter | Richter | 4:06 |
| 10. | "Armageddon" | Hansen | Hansen | 8:50 |

Note: *All tracks on CD 1 and tracks 1-3 on CD 2 are completely new recordings from the year 2000. Tracks 4-10 on CD2 are remastered versions of the original recordings.*

## Personnel

### Production

* Mixed at: Hansen Studio, Hamburg, Germany
* Engineered by: Dirk Schlächter, Kai Hansen

## Credits

* Cover Art by: Derek Riggs
* Digital Artwork and Booklet Design by: Henjo Richter

## InfoBox

| Blast from the Past | |
| --- | --- |
|  | |
| Remix album by Gamma Ray | |
| Released | 20 June 2000 |
| Recorded | at Hansen Studio, Hamburg, Germany |
| Genre | Power metal
Speed metal
Heavy metal |
| Length | 61:03 *(CD 1)*
60:26 *(CD 2)* |
| Label | Sanctuary Records |
| Producer | Kai Hansen and Dirk Schlächter |
| Gamma Ray chronology | |
| *Power Plant*
(1999) ***Blast from the Past***
(2000) *No World Order*
(2001) | |


title: Roland Étienne (archaeologist)

abstract: Roland Étienne is a French archaeologist and historian specialising in the history of Greek archaeology, ancient architecture and Hellenistic history.

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# Roland Étienne (archaeologist)

**Roland Étienne** (born 18 April 1944) is a French archaeologist and historian specialising in the history of Greek archaeology, ancient architecture and Hellenistic history.

## Career

A graduate of the École normale supérieure (1964–1969), Étienne taught ancient history in the Universities of Nanterre and Montpellier and conducted archaeological research in Greece (Cyclades) and Turkey.

He has lived five years in Greece with Françoise Étienne, from 1972 to 1976. Both have participated in excavations during this period. Together they authored *La Grèce antique : Archéologie d'une découverte* (collection "Découvertes Gallimard", 1990; English edition: *The Search for Ancient Greece*).

Professor of archaeology at Lumière University Lyon 2, he is the author of a dissertation on Tinos published in the collection *Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises d'Athènes et de Rome* (1990).

In 1992, Étienne was appointed director of the French School at Athens. Since leaving the capital of Greece, he has been a professor of classical archaeology at Pantheon-Sorbonne University, and director of the team *Mondes grecs archaïques et classiques*, which belongs to the *Archéologies et Sciences de l'Antiquité* at Nanterre University.

## Publications

* with Marcel Piérart, *Un décret du koinon des Hellènes à Platées en l'honneur de Glaucon, fils d'Étéoclès, d'Athènes*, in *Bulletin de correspondance hellénique* (BCH), 1975, tome 99, No. 1, pp. 5175
* under the direction of Roland Étienne, « Hyettos de Béotie et chronologie des archontes fédéraux entre 250 et 171 avant J.-C. », in *Bulletin de correspondance hellénique* (BCH), 1976, Supplément 3
* with Denis Knoepfler, *Hyettos de Béotie et la chronologie des archontes fédéraux entre 250 et 171 avant J.-C.* with an appendix by John Fossey, Éditions de Boccard (collection *Bulletin de laCorrespondance Hellénique* supplément III), Paris, 1976 compte-rendu de Marcel Piérart, in *L'Antiquité Classique*, 1978, tome 47, No. 2, pp. 684686
* *Inscriptions de Délos*, in *Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique* (BCH), 1981, tome 105, No. 1, pp. 171182
* with Jean-Pierre Braun, *Ténos I. Le Sanctuaire de Poseidon et d'Amphitrite*, 3 volumes, Éditions De Boccard (collection *Bibliothèques des Écoles Françaises d'Athènes et de Rome*, fascicule 263), Paris, 1986 (compte-rendu de Jean Marcadé, dans *Revue des Études Anciennes*, 1988, tome 90, No. 3-4, pp. 453456
* with Philippe Fraisse, *L'autel archaïque de l'Artémision de Délos*, in *Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique* (BCH), 1989, tome 113, No. 2, pp. 451466
* *Ténos II. Ténos et les Cyclades du milieu du IVe siècle avant J.-C. au milieu du IIIe siècle après J.-C.*, Éditions De Boccard (collection *Bibliothèques des Écoles Françaises d'Athènes et de Rome*, fascicule 263bis), Paris, 1990, ISBN 2-86958-026-6 ; 293p. (compte-rendu Michel Amandry, dans *Revue Numismatique*, 1992, tome 34, pp. 256258
* *L'oracle d'Apollon à Claros Une consultation à Claros en 18 av. J.C.*, in *Publications de l'Institut Français d'Études Anatoliennes*, 1990, No. 4, pp. 3639

* with Françoise Étienne, *La Grèce antique : Archéologie d'une découverte*, collection « Découvertes Gallimard » (nº 84), série Archéologie. Gallimard, Paris, 1990, ISBN 978-2-07-053043-4 ; 176pp.
    + UK edition – *The Search for Ancient Greece*, ‘New Horizons’ series. Thames & Hudson, 1992
    + US edition – *The Search for Ancient Greece*, "Abrams Discoveries" series. Harry N. Abrams, 1992
* with Jean-Pierre Braun, *L'autel monumental du théâtre à Délos*, dans *Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique* (BCH), 1995, tome 119, No. 1, pp. 6387
* *L'École française d'Athènes, 1846-1996*, dans *Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique* (BCH), 1996, No. 120-1, pp. 322
* *L'espace grec. 150 ans de fouilles de l'école française d'Athènes*, Fayard, Paris, 1996, ISBN 978-2213597096 ; 190pp.
* *Le Prytanée de Délos*, dans *Revue des Études Anciennes*, 1997, tome 99, No. 3-4, pp. 305324
* *Athènes, espaces urbains et histoire. Des origines à la fin du IIIe siècle après J.-C.*, Hachette (collection *Carré Histoire*), Paris, 2004, ISBN 978-2-01-145571-0 ; 255pp.
* with Pierre Varène, *Sanctuaire de Claros. Les propylées et les monuments de la voie sacrée. Douilles de Louis et Jeanne Robert et Roland Martin, 1950-1961*, 2006 ISBN 978-2865382965 ; 279pp.
* with Cristel Müller et Francis Prost, *Archéologie historique de la Grèce Antique*, Ellipses, Paris, 2006, ISBN 978-2729828288 ; 399pp.
* *Le Sanctuaire d’Apollon*, in *Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique* (BCH), 2009, tome 133, No. 2, pp. 609623
* with Jean-François Salles, « Iraq al-Amīr. Guide historique et archéologique du domaine des Tobiades », Presses de l'Institut français du Proche Orient, 2010, ISBN 978-2-35159-165-9
* Η ΑΡΧΑΙΑ ΤΗΝΟΣ (*I archaia Tinos*), Centre Culturel de Tinos, 2014, ISBN 978-9609915946 ; 184pp.

## InfoBox

| Roland Étienne | |
| --- | --- |
| Born | (1944-04-18) 18 April 1944 |
| Nationality | French |
| Alma mater | École normale supérieure |
| Occupation(s) | Archaeologist, historian |


title: Blondin Park

abstract: Blondin Park is an 8.5-hectare (21-acre) public park in Northfields in the London Borough of Ealing. It has allotments area and sports pitches. It is owned by Ealing Council and managed by the Council together with the Friends of Blondin Park. An area of 2.3 ha in the south-west corner is a Local Nature Reserve, and the nature area and allotments are a Site of Local Importance for Nature Conservation.

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# Blondin Park

**Blondin Park** is an 8.5-hectare (21-acre) public park in Northfields in the London Borough of Ealing. It has allotments area and sports pitches. It is owned by Ealing Council and managed by the Council together with the Friends of Blondin Park. An area of 2.3 ha (5.7 acres) in the south-west corner is a Local Nature Reserve, and the nature area and allotments are a Site of Local Importance for Nature Conservation.

## History

The site was acquired by the Municipal Borough of Ealing in 1928 and opened as a public park called Northfields Recreation Ground. In 1957 it was renamed Blondin Park after Charles Blondin, who lived locally in Niagara House. The Blondin Nature Area was created in 1997.

## Ecology

The nature reserve has a variety of habitats, including a wildflower meadow and a pond, where wetland plants have been introduced such as lesser pond-sedge, sharp-flowered rush and greater spearwort.

## Access

There is access from Boston Manor Road.

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title: Roger Lass

abstract: Roger Lass is a historical linguist, currently Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, University of Cape Town. He was previously an honorary professorial fellow at the University of Edinburgh.

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# Roger Lass

**Roger Lass** (born January 1, 1937) is a historical linguist, currently Emeritus Professor of Linguistics, University of Cape Town. He was previously an honorary professorial fellow at the University of Edinburgh.

## Career

He earned his PhD from Yale University in 1965 in Medieval English Language and Literature, and subsequently worked at Indiana University (1964–1971), the University of Edinburgh (1972–1982), and the University of Cape Town (1983–2002).

He has done extensive work in the history of English, the motivation of sound change, and the history of linguistics. He was made an honorary professor at Edinburgh in 2014.

He was the editor of the third volume of *The Cambridge History of the English Language*.

A festschrift in honor of Lass was published in 1997 edited by Jacek Fisiak. A volume of the journal *Language Sciences*, entitled *Collecting views on language change* (Volume 24, Issues 3–4, May–July 2002, edited by Raymond Hickey) was dedicated to Lass on his sixty fifth birthday. Other essays in his honor were published in the book *Motives for Language Change* (CUP 2003).

## Books

## InfoBox

| Roger Lass | |
| --- | --- |
| Born | (1937-01-01) January 1, 1937 |
| Education | Yale University (PhD, 1965) |
| Spouse | Jaime Ann Krell Lass  (m. 1957; died 2005) |
| **Scientific career** | |
| Fields | linguistics |
| Institutions |  |
| Doctoral students |  |
| Other notable students | Philip Carr |
|  | |


title: Blanca Errázuriz

abstract: Blanca Elena Errázuriz Vergara, also known as Bianca de Saulles, was a Chilean socialite and the former wife of football player and businessman John de Saulles. In August 1917, Errázuriz fatally shot de Saulles multiple times during a disagreement over the custody of their son. After a highly publicized and sensational trial, Errázuriz was acquitted of her ex-husband's murder.

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# Blanca Errázuriz

**Blanca Elena Errázuriz Vergara** (9 April 1894 – 20 March 1940), also known as **Bianca de Saulles**, was a Chilean socialite and the former wife of football player and businessman John de Saulles. In August 1917, Errázuriz fatally shot de Saulles multiple times during a disagreement over the custody of their son. After a highly publicized and sensational trial, Errázuriz was acquitted of her ex-husband's murder.

## Early life and marriage

Errázuriz was born in Viña del Mar, Chile, the eldest daughter of Guillermo Errázuriz Urmeneta and of Blanca Vergara Alvarez, a beauty known as the Star of Santiago, and thus a member of the politically influential Errázuriz family, of Basque descent. Her father, a mining magnate, died when she was two, and she was educated at Sacred Heart Convent in London, England. In 1911, when she was 16 years old, she met John de Saulles, an American businessman and society figure 15 years her senior; he had travelled to Chile as representative of the South American Concessions Syndicate to negotiate a new railway line. After some initial difficulties with her family (mostly due to the difference in age and religion as Errázuriz was Roman Catholic) they were soon engaged. On 14 December 1911, they were married at an English Catholic chapel in Paris, France. (The civil ceremony had taken place the previous day.).

De Saulles had previously been engaged to the heiresses Mary Elsie Moore (later Princess Torlonia) and Eleanor Granville Brown. He was later briefly appointed as U. S. Minister to Uruguay in 1914, a post he resigned shortly after accepting and without ever leaving the U.S. The newly married couple settled in New York City. They had one child, John Longer "Jack" de Saulles, born on 25 December 1912, and for whom the steel magnate Charles H. Schwab stood as godfather. Shortly after John, Jr's birth, the couple's marriage began to falter mainly due to de Saulles' well known infidelities. Errázuri filed for divorce in the summer of 1916.

## The divorce

Shortly before filing for divorce, Errázuri befriended future actor Rudolph Valentino in New York City. Valentino was then working as an exhibition dancer (taxi dancer) and had gained attention for his rendition of the Argentine tango, which was the craze at the time. Whether the two actually had a romantic relationship is unknown, but Valentino did agree to provide proof in court during the de Saulles' divorce case that Joan Sawyer, his dancing partner, was having an adulterous relationship with John de Saulles; he himself took the stand to support Errázuriz's claim of de Saulle's infidelities. De Saulles was also accused of various financial improprieties involving his misuse of his wife's fortune, claims that received greater validity when it became clear upon his death that de Saulles was deeply in debt.

John de Saulles was not pleased with this, and once the divorce was granted in December 1916, he used his political connections to have Valentino arrested along with a madam named Mrs. Thyme (the exact charges are unknown). The evidence was flimsy at best (Valentino having been near the wrong place at the wrong time) and after a few days in jail, Valentino's bail was lowered from $10,000 to $1,500. The scandal and subsequent trial were highly publicized, and Valentino felt degraded and misused. No one would hire him, his old friends would no longer talk to him. Errázuriz did not thank him for his testimony and cut off all contact with him.

## The murder and trial

Shortly after the divorce was final, on 3 August 1917, Errázuriz drove from her home in Roslyn, New York to the home of her ex-husband, The Box, in Meadowbrook Colony, near Westbury. She had legal claims over the custody of their son, since she and her husband had been given shared custody over him, but de Saulles refused to acknowledge the court's decision. She arrived at The Box shortly after 8pm, and found her former husband sitting on the porch of the house. They argued, and she pointed a gun at his head demanding him to immediately hand over the child to her. When he tried to disarm her, she shot him five times. He was rushed to the Nassau County Hospital, but died there at 10.20pm from his injuries. In the meantime, she awaited at the house for the arrival of the police, to whom she surrendered. She was charged with murder in the first degree and imprisoned in the Nassau County Jail at Mineola, New York, leading to a sensational trial.

The widely reported case went on for months. Errázuriz was defended by Henry Uterhart, a noted criminalist of the time, and the principal witness for the defense was Suzanne Monteau, Errázuriz's French maid, who had accompanied her that night and completely supported her version of the events. Blanca Errázuriz became the darling of the press, and the champion of the suffragettes who portrayed her as the victim of the chauvinism prevalent in the society of the time.

Blanca Errázuriz was unanimously acquitted of the murder charges on 1 December 1917 in what was called a "popular" verdict.

## Later years and death

Following the trial, Errázuriz moved to San Francisco where she sought and obtained full custody of her son. She and her son went later to Japan. Eventually she and her son returned to Chile and settled there. On 22 December 1921, she remarried, this time to engineer Fernando Santa Cruz Wilson in Santiago; the couple later divorced.

By the late 1930s, Errázuriz was suffering from poor health and had become estranged from her son, Jack Jr. He severed contact with his mother and moved back to the United States. On 20 March 1940, she committed suicide by taking an overdose of barbiturates at her home in Viña del Mar.

## Legacy

The case was the basis for the 1918 silent film *The Woman and the Law*, directed by Raoul Walsh. It featured Jack Connors, Miriam Cooper and Peggy Hopkins Joyce. (Guillermo Errázuriz, Blanca's diplomat brother, killed himself in Paris hotel in May 1922, after being spurned by Joyce.) The name "de Saulles" was changed to "La Salle" but the film's opening credits admit to being based on the story.

## InfoBox

| Blanca Errázuriz | |
| --- | --- |
| c. 1910-1915 | |
| Born | Blanca Elena Errázuriz Vergara
(1894-04-09)9 April 1894
Viña del Mar, Chile |
| Died | 20 March 1940(1940-03-20) (aged 45)
Viña del Mar, Chile |
| Education | Sacred Heart Convent |
| Spouses | *   John de Saulles  (m. 1911; div. 1916) *   Fernando Santa Cruz Wilson  (m. 1921, divorced) |
| Children | 1 |


title: Ohai Railway Board Heritage Trust

abstract: The Ohai Railway Board Heritage Trust is a defunct railway preservation society that was formed to preserve Southland's rail history. The trust was formerly based at Wairio on the Wairio Branch in the former Ohai Railway Board workshops, and owned a number of locomotives and items of rolling stock, including the remains of two P class 2-8-0 tender locomotives.

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# Ohai Railway Board Heritage Trust

The **Ohai Railway Board Heritage Trust** is a defunct railway preservation society that was formed to preserve Southland's rail history. The trust was formerly based at Wairio on the Wairio Branch in the former Ohai Railway Board workshops, and owned a number of locomotives and items of rolling stock, including the remains of two P class 2-8-0 tender locomotives.

## Trust Lapses

In 2006 the ORBHT's lease on the former ORB workshops and yard at Wairio was allowed to lapse after the trust decided no to pursue the idea of running heritage services from Bluff to Ohai. The trust's locomotives and rolling stock remained on the site; as of January 2015, most of the trust's stock remained at Wairio with the exception of diesel shunting locomotive DS 201 and the remains of steam locomotive P 60, which had moved to Dunedin and Lumsden respectively.

## Banned

In December 2011, members of the ORBHT were banned from entering the Wairio yard and workshop buildings after being served a trespass notice by KiwiRail. The notice was served on the grounds that the trust's members had not sought permission from KiwiRail to access the site; one of the trust members responded by saying the trust had become concerned with the neglected state of the site and the potential fire risk, and had stepped in to clean the site up.

## Locomotives and Rolling Stock

In 2002, the ORBHT purchased two diesel shunting locomotives, DS 201 from Alliance Meats at Lorneville and the former Ohai Railway Board Mitsubishi shunter NO 1 which was then stored at Wairio. In 2003 they also recovered the chassis of P 60 and the engine unit of P 133 on 4 April 2003. In 2014 P 133 was unknownly purchased and was transported to Mosgiel. It will be later transported to Middlemarch for static display for funding so it can be restored to working condition. Also in 2014 DS 201 was purchased by a private owner and transported to Dunedin. The 'DS' is in operational order but requires a repaint. The chassis of P 60 was purchased by the Lumsden Heritage Trust along with three wagons.

In 2016 several pieces of rolling stock were leased to other South Island heritage groups by Southland District Council. (The tables below have not been updated to reflect these leases.)

### Other Rolling Stock

| Key: | In service, Mainline Certified | In service | Static display | Under overhaul/restoration | Stored | Scrapped |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |

| Type | Number | Builder | Year built | Arrived at Wairio | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Carriage | A 294 | NZR Petone Workshops | 1892 | 14 February 2003 | Named *Nightcaps*. Entered service for the New Zealand Railways Department in 1892. Withdrawn in 1952 and purchased by the Ohai Railway Board. It was later leased to the Oamaru Steam and Rail Restoration Society in 1990. It was stored in Oamaru until being transferred back to Wairio on 14 February 2003. Carriage A294 will be leased to the Waimea Plains Railway Trust to be restored to operational status. |
| Carriage | A 525 | NZR Addington Workshops | 1896 | 2003 | Named *Ohai*. Entered service for the New Zealand Railways Department in 1896. Withdrawn and sold to the Ohai Railway Board on 16 August 1952. It was later leased to the Oamaru Steam and Rail Restoration Society in 1990. It was stored in Oamaru until being transferred back to Wairio on 14 February 2003. Carriage A525 will be leased to Lumsden Heritage Trust to be situated as part of their static railway display of heritage rail assets at the Lumsden Heritage Precinct. |
| Van | F 11 | n/a | 1886 | 9 August 2002 | Named *Morley*. Entered service for the New Zealand Railways Department in 1886. Withdrawn in 1937 and converted to Way & Works ballast plough van E 932. Purchased by the Ohai Railway Board in 1941, later leased to the Oamaru Steam and Rail Restoration Society in 1994. It was stored in Oamaru until being transferred back to Wairio on 9 August 2002. The guards and plough van, which has a high heritage value, will be leased to the National Railway Museum in Christchurch. |
| Wagon | ER 295 | NZR Otahuhu Workshops | 1954 | 2000 | Formerly JC 5307 (1954 - 1978), E 4189 (1978) and E 5326 (1978 - 1981). Withdrawn on 17 August 1974. Owned by the Rail Heritage Trust of New Zealand and leased to the **ORBHT**. |
| Wagon | Unidentified L | n/a | n/a | n/a | Formerly owned by the Ohai Railway Board. |
| Wagon | LA 2962 | NZR Otahuhu Workshops | 1931 | n/a | Pre-TMS: LA 17119. Withdrawn in Invercargill in August 1978. Formerly owned by the Ohai Railway Board. |
| Wagon | LA 16320 | NZR Otahuhu Workshops | 1931 | n/a | Pre-TMS: LA 17134. Withdrawn on 10 October 1966 after traffic damage. Formerly owned by the Ohai Railway Board. |
| Wagon | LB 2631 | NZR Addington Workshops | 22 May 1976 | n/a | Owned by the Rail Heritage Trust of New Zealand and leased to the **ORBHT**. |
| Wagon | LPF 388 | n/a | 1995 | 2000 | Pre-TMS: the number is unidentified. Owned by the Rail Heritage Trust of New Zealand and leased to the **ORBHT**. Used for transportation of fertiliser. |
| Wagon | LPS 351 | n/a | 1989 | n/a | Pre-TMS: the number is unidentified. Former LPA wagon converted for scrap haulage, Owned by the Rail Heritage Trust of New Zealand. Formerly leased to the ORBHT, now on static display at Lumsden railway station. |
| Wagon | WOA 620 | NZR Otahuhu Workshops | 1939 | n/a | Formerly LA 19320. |
| Wagon | XA 2583 | n/a | n/a | n/a | Rebuilt in 1950 at the Otahuhu Workshop\] after an accident. Donated to the **ORBHT** by PPCS. Frame and body only. |
| Wagon | XA 2587 | n/a | n/a | n/a | Rebuilt in 1950 at the Otahuhu Workshops after an accident. It was then donated to the **ORBHT** by PPCS. |

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title: Brad Huff

abstract: Charles Bradley Huff is an American former cyclist, who competed professionally between 2006 and 2018 for the Slipstream–Chipotle, Jelly Belly–Kenda and Rally Cycling teams.

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# Brad Huff

**Charles Bradley Huff** (born February 5, 1979, in Fair Grove, Missouri) is an American former cyclist, who competed professionally between 2006 and 2018 for the Slipstream–Chipotle, Jelly Belly–Kenda and Rally Cycling teams.

## Major results

2006 1st Stage 1 Tour de Normandie 1st US rider  National Criterium Championships (2nd overall) 2008 Tour of Hainan 1st Stages 3 & 5 1st Stage 2 Tour of Elk Grove 2009 1st Overall Tulsa Tough 1st Stages 1 & 2 1st Stage 14 International Cycling Classic 2010 1st Stage 3 Tour of Hainan Tulsa Tough 1st Stages 1 & 2 2012 1st Stage 4 Nature Valley Grand Prix 2nd Tulsa Tough 2013 1st Stage 2 Tour of Lawrence 2014 1st Stage 4 Joe Martin Stage Race 2016 1st  National Criterium Championships 1st Prologue Tour de Guadeloupe 2nd Overall Nature Valley Grand Prix 1st Stage 5

## InfoBox

Brad Huff
| Huff in 2018 | |
| --- | --- |
| Personal information | |
| Full name | Charles Bradley Huff |
| Nickname | Brad |
| Born | (1979-02-05) February 5, 1979<br>Fair Grove, Missouri |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Retired |
| Disciplines | * Road * Track |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | Sprinter |
| Professional teams | |
| 2006–2007 | TIAA–CREF |
| 2008–2013 | Jelly Belly Cycling Team |
| 2014–2018 | Optum–Kelly Benefit Strategies |
|  | |


title: Phytosanitary certification

abstract: Phytosanitary certification verifies phytosanitary worthiness. These certificates are used to attest that consignments meet phytosanitary import requirements and are undertaken by a National Plant Protection Organization (NPPO). Under the Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures and ISPM, a certificate for export or for re-export can be issued only by a public officer who is technically qualified and duly authorized by an NPPO. A phytosanitary certificate for export is usually issued by the NPPO of the country where the plants, plant products, or regulated articles were grown or processed. Phytosanitary certificates are issued to indicate that consignments of plants, plant products or other regulated articles meet specified phytosanitary import requirements and are in conformity with the certifying statement of the appropriate model certificate. Phytosanitary certificates should only be issued for this purpose.

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# Phytosanitary certification

**Phytosanitary certification** verifies phytosanitary worthiness (plant health). These certificates are used to attest that consignments meet phytosanitary import requirements and are undertaken by a National Plant Protection Organization (NPPO). Under the Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures and ISPM, a certificate for export or for re-export can be issued only by a public officer who is technically qualified and duly authorized by an NPPO.

A phytosanitary certificate for export is usually issued by the NPPO of the country where the plants, plant products, or regulated articles were grown or processed. Phytosanitary certificates are issued to indicate that consignments of plants, plant products or other regulated articles meet specified phytosanitary import requirements and are in conformity with the certifying statement of the appropriate model certificate. Phytosanitary certificates should only be issued for this purpose.

## USDA, APHIS, and PPQ

The US designated NPPO  Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ)  maintains the export program for the United States exporters of United States-origin and foreign-origin agricultural commodities. The export program does not require certification of any exports, but does provide certification of commodities as a service to United States exporters. Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and its Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) are responsible for safeguarding agriculture and natural resources from the risks associated with the entry, establishment, or spread of animal and plant pests and noxious weeds. Phytosanitary certification is provided as a service to U.S. applicants based on the phytosanitary requirements of foreign countries. The APHIS will not issue a phytosanitary certificate for Wood Packaging Material (WPM) such as pallets or crates used in the transport of commodities. If the WPM is the cargo, only then can a phytosanitary certificate be issued. After assessing the phytosanitary condition of the commodities intended for export, an Authorized Certification Official (ACO) issues these internationally recognized phytosanitary certificates:

* PPQ Form 577, Phytosanitary Certificate
* PPQ Form 579, Phytosanitary Certificate for Reexport

## Authorized Certification Official (ACO)

A public officer who is authorized by the National Plant Protection organization (NPPO) and accredited for the signing of phytosanitary certificates, who 1) possesses the required education, experience, and training; and 2) has written confirmation of having passed an approved examination. (RSPM No. 8, Accreditation) \[NAPPO, 2004\].

## Export Certification Specialists

The USDA APHIS PPQ Export Certification Specialists are responsible for maintaining the quality and credibility of the U.S. Export Program.

## Phytosanitary Certificate Issuance & Tracking (PCIT)

The USDA APHIS PPQ issues Phytosanitary Certificates for export via the PCIT system. PCIT tracks the inspection of products and certifies compliance with plant health standards of importing countries. This capability provides the USDA/APHIS/PPQ with greater fraud prevention, reporting functions, and monitoring capabilities.

* "Protecting the world's plant resources from pests". International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC). Retrieved 2014-02-16.
* "Imports & Exports". USDA APHIS. Retrieved 2014-02-16.
* "Imports & Exports". USDA APHIS. Retrieved 2014-02-16.
* "Export Program Manual" (PDF). USDA APHIS. Retrieved 16 February 2014.
* "Welcome to PCIT!". USDA APHIS Phytosanitary Certificate Issuance & Tracking. Retrieved 2014-02-16.
* "USDA APHIS Export Certification Program". USDA APHIS. Retrieved 2014-02-16.

This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States Department of Agriculture.


title: Egypt Allen

abstract: Egypt Tyrone Allen is a former American football safety who played one season for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL).

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# Egypt Allen

**Egypt Tyrone Allen** (born July 28, 1964) is a former American football safety who played one season for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL).

## Early life

Allen grew up in Dallas, Texas and graduated from South Oak Cliff High School, where he starred as a defensive back on their football team.

Heavily recruited by colleges to play football, Allen matriculated at Texas Christian University in 1982, where he played three seasons as a defensive back.

## Controversy

In September of his senior year, Allen was one of 7 TCU players who publicly revealed that they had received cash in exchange for signing to play football with TCU. As soon as the payments were made public in September 1985, Allen and the other players were made ineligible to play (as per NCAA rules) and were removed from the team, though their scholarships were guaranteed through 1987. Allen and two other players sued the University in 1985, indicating that they had thought the payments were sanctioned by the University since one of the involved alumni, Richard Lowe, was a member of the TCU Board of Trustees, as well as a former TCU football player. Payments were also commonplace for blue chip athletes like Allen; Lowe later asserted that 29 TCU players were paid during the tenure of the TCU coach F.A. Dry who had recruited Allen.

Allen never again played a complete football season. In the context of the NCAA suspension, Allen declared for the NFL draft but was not drafted.

## Professional career

Allen was signed in the middle of the 1987 season by the Chicago Bears as a replacement player. While most replacement players were released after the 1987 NFL strike ended, Allen stayed. He played in a total of 6 games but was cut the following preseason.

## Further reading

## InfoBox

Egypt Allen
| No. 47 | |
| --- | --- |
| Position: | Safety |
| Personal information | |
| Born: | (1964-07-28) July 28, 1964
Dallas, Texas, U.S. |
| Height: | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) |
| Weight: | 203 lb (92 kg) |
| Career information | |
| High school: | South Oak Cliff
(Dallas, Texas) |
| College: | TCU |
| Undrafted: | 1986 |
| Career history | |
|  | |
|  | |
| Career NFL statistics | |
| Fumble recoveries: 2 | |
|  | |
| Player stats at **PFR** | |
|  | |


title: El Tiempo Es Oro (game show)

abstract: El Tiempo es Oro was a Puerto Rican television game show, hosted by Josue Carrion, nicknamed "Mr. Cash" because of the type of business he runs apart from the show, several pawn shops. The show was shown on WAPA-TV in Puerto Rico and on WAPA America in the United States.

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# El Tiempo Es Oro (game show)

***El Tiempo es Oro*** was a Puerto Rican television game show, hosted by Josue Carrion, nicknamed "Mr. Cash" because of the type of business he runs apart from the show, several pawn shops. The show was shown on WAPA-TV in Puerto Rico and on WAPA America in the United States.

## History

Josue Carrion began participating in different television shows, such as "Que Suerte!" and "Pegate al Mediodia" when WAPA-TV's directors offered him to host his own show, beginning in 2012. Carrion participated in television shows as a way of promoting his business, a chain of stores named "Oro Centro", which has 9 locations through Puerto Rico.

El Tiempo Es Oro began being transmitted in 2012, and in 2014, it went on tour, "El Tiempo es Oro Tour" taking the show to various towns in Puerto Rico, from where it would be transmitted live.

On December 19, 2014, it was announced that the show would no longer be shown on WAPA-TV or WAPA-America. The last showing on those channels featured a large party in which children received toys, food was served and every game contestant took home prices. Carrion implied he hopes to bring the show back to television with another channel, saying that neither he nor his show "would be stopped". Eventually, he returned to television with another show, named "Sales de Oro", on November 16, 2015.


title: Phytoscutus

abstract: Phytoscutus is a genus of mites in the family Phytoseiidae.

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# Phytoscutus

***Phytoscutus*** is a genus of mites in the family Phytoseiidae.

## Species

The genus *Phytoscutus* contains the following species:

## InfoBox

| *Phytoscutus* | |
| --- | --- |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Subclass: | Acari |
| Superorder: | Parasitiformes |
| Order: | Mesostigmata |
| Family: | Phytoseiidae |
| Subfamily: | Amblyseiinae |
| Genus: | ***Phytoscutus***<br>Muma, 1961 |
|


title: Pual River

abstract: The Pual River is a river in northern Papua New Guinea.

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# Pual River

The **Pual** River (also rendered Poal, Pua, Po, and formerly **Neumayer**, Neumeyer, Nemayer) is a river in northern Papua New Guinea.

## InfoBox

| Pual River | |
| --- | --- |
| Location within Papua New Guinea | |
| Location | |
| Country | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | Sandaun Province |
| Physical characteristics | |
|  | |
| Source |  |
| location | Papua New Guinea |
|  | |
| Mouth |  |
| coordinates | 2°44′56″S 141°27′14″E / 2.74885°S 141.45401°E / -2.74885; 141.45401 |


title: Push! Push! (song)

abstract: "Push! Push!" is a song by Falco. It was first released as the lead single from his posthumous 1999 greatest-hits album The Final Curtain – The Ultimate Best Of.

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# Push! Push! (song)

"**Push! Push!**" is a song by Falco. It was first released as the lead single from his posthumous 1999 greatest-hits album *The Final Curtain – The Ultimate Best Of*.

## Background and writing

The song is credited to Falco and Voyce. The recording was produced by Jeo.

## Commercial performance

The song reached number 9 in Austria and number 50 in Germany.

## Track listing

**Promo 10" vinyl maxi single – EMI Electrola P 520 534** (Germany, 1998)

A. "Push! Push!" (Jeo extended mix) – 5:30 B. "Push! Push!" (Dee Jay Sören extended mix) – 5:00

**Promo CD single – EMI Electrola CDP 520.527** (Germany, 1998)

1. "Push! Push!" (Jeo radio mix) – 3:45

**CD maxi single – Electrola 865 812 6 (EMI)** (18 January 1999)

1. "Push! Push!" (Jeo radio mix) – 3:45
2. "Push! Push!" (Dee Jay Sören radio mix) – 3:30
3. "Geld" (3:46)

## Charts

| Chart (1999) | Peak
position |
| --- | --- |
| Austria (Ö3 Austria Top 40) | 9 |
| Germany (Official German Charts) | 50 |

## InfoBox

| "Push! Push!" | |
| --- | --- |
| Single by Falco | |
| from the album  *The Final Curtain – The Ultimate Best Of* | |
| Released | 1999 (1999) |
| Label | EMI Electrola GmbH |
| Songwriter(s) | * Falco * Voyce |
| Producer(s) | Jeo |
| Falco singles chronology | |
| "Egoist"
(1998) "**Push! Push!**"
(1999) "Verdammt wir leben noch"
(1999) | |


title: Douglas Meerwald

abstract: Earle Douglas (Dougie) Meerwald was a pioneering Ceylonese musician. Dougie Meerwald was the vocalist of one of the leading Ceylonese swing and dance bands of the early 1950s - The Manhattans. Western popular music and dance band music was all the rage in South Asia after World War II and Ceylon was no exception. In his youth Douglas Meerwald was a promising young cricketer who played with the 1st XI team of Carey College Colombo. However Meerwald's first love was music, leading him to join Don Daniel and the Ballroom Hornets and later The Manhattans dance band.

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# Douglas Meerwald

**Earle Douglas (Dougie) Meerwald** was a pioneering Ceylonese musician. Dougie Meerwald was the vocalist of one of the leading Ceylonese swing and dance bands of the early 1950s - The Manhattans. Western popular music and dance band music was all the rage in South Asia after World War II and Ceylon was no exception.

In his youth Douglas Meerwald was a promising young cricketer who played with the 1st XI team of Carey College Colombo. However Meerwald's first love was music, leading him to join Don Daniel and the Ballroom Hornets and later The Manhattans dance band.

## The Manhattans

The band leader of The Manhattans was the Sri Lankan musician, Leonard Francke. Meerwald became the public face of The Manhattans, with his powerful voice and renditions of the songs of the Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Gene Kelly, era. The Manhattans attracted some of the leading musicians of the day, including singer/saxophonist, Sam the Man, who he joined the band in August 1957.

The Manhattans played to packed ballrooms at the Grand Oriental Hotel and the Galle Face Hotel. Meerwald and The Manhattans had a strong fan base in Ceylon. He was also featured on Radio Ceylon in the late 1950s and 1960s including appearances on popular music programs like Talent Corner and StarMaker.

## St. Luke's Church Borella Choir

Douglas Meerwald and his father and uncle, Earl and Clair were also members of one of the leading church choirs at St. Luke's Church Borella of the Church of Ceylon. In 2006 St. Luke's Church Borella celebrated its 125th anniversary. The choir at St. Luke's appeared on Christmas radio programs of Radio Ceylon and the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation in the 1960s and 1970s.

Douglas Meerwald died in Colombo in October 2003.

## Quotations about Douglas Meerwald

'Dougie Meerwald was the vocalist with the band,' says Sam as he spooled back to his career beginnings ... ' (Sam The Man)

'Not content with Church singing, Douglas sang the standards with great acceptance. His interpretation of 'The Lady is the Tramp' has the stamp of class. Quite naturally band singing had to come and Douglas started with Don Daniel and his Ballroom Hornets. Later he joined The Manhattans ... he was on the air with The Manhattans on the popular series Bristol Nite.'

'Douglas Meerwald was born into a very musical and talented Burgher family in Colombo, Ceylon. The Meerwald Family were well known for being first class, first rate musicians on the island. Meerwald was a dashing cricketer and all rounder at Carey College Colombo in the 1950s. He even won the Spooner Prize at Carey College. His first love was music - this was his natural God given talent. Douglas Meerwald decided to explore his musical talent. He joined Don Daniels and the Ballroom Hornets and learnt his craft. He soon built up a reputation as one of Colombo's finest 'crooners'. Subsequently Douglas Meerwald joined one of the most versatile and swingiest dance bands in Ceylon - The Manhattans.'


title: Electronic Vaccination Data System

abstract: The Electronic Vaccination Data System (EVDS) is a digital platform developed by the National Department of Health of the South African government to manage the country's COVID-19 vaccination program. Enrolment is currently available for everyone over the age of 12 and the platform can also generate a digital vaccine certificate.

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# Electronic Vaccination Data System

The **Electronic Vaccination Data System** (**EVDS**) is a digital platform developed by the National Department of Health of the South African government to manage the country's COVID-19 vaccination program. Enrolment is currently available for everyone over the age of 12 and the platform can also generate a digital vaccine certificate.

## Proof of vaccination

### Physical

COVID-19 vaccination cards refer to the physical record cards that are issued to individuals who have received COVID-19 vaccinations in South Africa. These cards serve as official documentation of an individual's vaccination history and contain important identifying information, such as the individual's name and ID number, as well as the details of the vaccinations they have received.

In addition, these record cards are designed to provide space for documentation of up to three doses of any COVID-19 vaccine that an individual may receive. This is because some COVID-19 vaccines require more than one dose to provide full immunity.

### Digital

In SA, the COVID-19 Vaccine Digital Certificates, which feature a QR code for verification purposes, are also known as eVaccine Cards or digital vaccine certificates, which are issued to individuals who have received COVID-19 vaccinations. These certificates serve as official proof of vaccination and are stored in a digital format that can be accessed and verified online.

The COVID-19 digital vaccine certificate is accessible through the EVDS, and individuals can download and print a copy of their certificate for personal use.

## InfoBox

Electronic Vaccination Data System
| Screenshot of the EVDS website in 2023 | |
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| Available in | English, Afrikaans, Sesotho, isiXhosa, isiZulu |
| Founded | 2021 (2021) |
| Predecessor(s) | Sisonke Programme |
| Area served | South Africa |
| Owner | National Department of Health, Government of South Africa |
| Services | * + Enrolment and allocation of citizens     + Capture and store COVID-19 vaccination events     + Provide proof of vaccination certificates |
| URL |  |
| Registration | Required |
| Current status | Active |
| Written in | HTML5 |


title: Physocleora

abstract: Physocleora is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae described by Warren in 1897.

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# Physocleora

***Physocleora*** is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae described by Warren in 1897.

## Species

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| *Physocleora* | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Geometridae |
| Tribe: | Boarmiini |
| Genus: | ***Physocleora***<br>Warren, 1897 |
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title: Electronic Visualization Laboratory

abstract: The Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) is an interdisciplinary research lab and graduate studies program at the University of Illinois at Chicago, bringing together faculty, students and staff primarily from the Art and Computer Science departments of UIC. The primary areas of research are in computer graphics, visualization, virtual and augmented reality, advanced networking, and media art. Graduates of EVL either earn a Masters or Doctoral degree in Computer Science.

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# Electronic Visualization Laboratory

The **Electronic Visualization Laboratory** (**EVL**) is an interdisciplinary research lab and graduate studies program at the University of Illinois at Chicago, bringing together faculty, students and staff primarily from the Art and Computer Science departments of UIC. The primary areas of research are in computer graphics, visualization, virtual and augmented reality, advanced networking, and media art. Graduates of EVL either earn a Masters or Doctoral degree in Computer Science.

## History

EVL represents one of the oldest art and engineering collaborations in the United States. It was founded in 1973 by Tom DeFanti (then of the UIC Chemistry Department, later Computer Science) and Dan Sandin (of the Art Department). The lab was originally known as the *Circle Graphics Habitat*, in reference to the then-name of UIC, the *University of Illinois at Chicago Circle*. DeFanti and Sandin served as Co-Directors of the lab, joined by Maxine D. Brown as Associate Director 1987. In 2001, Sandin retired from teaching, but continued to co-direct the lab with DeFanti until his retirement in 2004. EVL PhD graduate, Jason Leigh took the helm from 2004 through 2014, after which Brown became EVL Director joined by longtime collaborator and computer science professor Andrew Johnson as Director of Research.

## Research

Work at EVL over the years has included:

* 1977: The Sayre Glove, the first dataglove.
* 1981: The Z Box hardware and ZGRASS software (based on DeFanti's prior GRASS programming language), an early graphics system for the Bally home computer. This system featured NTSC video output and was used by a number of computer graphics artists of the time.
* 1988: Computer generated PHSColograms, an autostereoscopic 3D technique, with (art)n.
* 1992: The CAVE Automatic Virtual Environment, a projection-based virtual reality system.
* 1995: The I-WAY event at Supercomputing '95, a prototype of grid computing.
* 1997: The STAR TAP project, a linking up of several international high-performance networks. Followed by the StarLight optical networking facility.
* 2013: SpiderSense, a pioneer project in the field of human augmentics. SpiderSense is a wearable device that integrates ultrasound technology with vibrating hardware, allowing users to have directional awareness and "sense" obstacles in the environment without physically seeing the obstacles.

## Art

Highlights of the electronic art work done at EVL include:

* Electronic Visualization Events (EVE) in the mid 1970s - live, real-time performances featuring computer graphics, video processing, and music.
* Early computer graphics art videos, created by combining DeFanti's GRASS system on a PDP-11 and the Sandin Image Processor. The video *Spiral PTL* (1980) was included in the inaugural collection of video art at the Museum of Modern Art.
* Computer artist Larry Cuba spent time at EVL, using the tools there for his films *3/78* and *Calculated Movements*, as well as a short special effects sequence for Star Wars.
* In 1996, EVL installed the first publicly accessible CAVE at the Ars Electronica Center in Austria, and presented a number of virtual reality artworks.

EVL was featured in the Chicago New Media 1973-1992 exhibition centering the artwork that was created with the EVL and a demonstration of CAVE 2 was held during the time of the exhibition. The exhibition was held at UIC's gallery 400, and curated by Jon Cates.

## SIGGRAPH

The members of EVL have been involved with the SIGGRAPH organization and conference ever since its inception. DeFanti has served as Secretary (1977-1981) and Chair (1981-1985) of the organization, and 1979 conference chair. Brown has served as Vice Chair for Operations (1985-1987) and Secretary (1981-1985), and chaired the 1992 conference. According to Jim Blinn, the popular Electronic Theatre "started out as a bunch of people crowding into Dan Sandin’s dorm room to watch videotapes." In 1979, DeFanti established the SIGGRAPH Video Review, which has been edited and administered by EVLer Dana Plepys since the mid '80s to present. At SIGGRAPH '92, EVL organized the "Showcase" event, where researchers demonstrated 35 projects in state-of-the-art computational science and scientific visualization. At SIGGRAPH '94, EVL organized the VROOM event, demonstrations of the state of virtual reality technology.

In 1998, Brown received the first ever SIGGRAPH Outstanding Service Award for her contributions to the organization. In 2000, DeFanti and EVL alumna Copper Giloth also received the Outstanding Service Award.


title: Proactive learning

abstract:
Proactive learning is a generalization of active learning designed to relax unrealistic assumptions and thereby reach practical applications. "Active learning seeks to select the most informative unlabeled instances and ask an omniscient oracle for their labels, so as to retrain a learning algorithm maximizing accuracy. However, the oracle is assumed to be infallible, indefatigable, individual, and insensitive to costs." "In real life, it is possible and more general to have multiple sources of information with differing reliabilities or areas of expertise. Active learning also assumes that the single oracle is perfect, always providing a correct answer when requested. In reality, though, an "oracle" may be incorrect (fallible) with a probability that should be a function of the difficulty of the question. Moreover, an oracle may be reluctant – it may refuse to answer if it is too uncertain or too busy. Finally, active learning presumes the oracle is either free or charges uniform cost in label elicitation.
Such an assumption is naive since cost is likely to be regulated by difficulty or other factors." Proactive learning relaxes all four of these assumptions, relying on a decision-theoretic approach to jointly select the optimal oracle and instance, by casting the problem as a utility optimization problem subject to a budget constraint.

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# Proactive learning

**Proactive learning** is a generalization of active learning designed to relax unrealistic assumptions and thereby reach practical applications.

"Active learning seeks to select the most informative unlabeled instances and ask an omniscient oracle for their labels, so as to retrain a learning algorithm maximizing accuracy. However, the oracle is assumed to be infallible (never wrong), indefatigable (always answers), individual (only one oracle), and insensitive to costs (always free or always charges the same)."

"In real life, it is possible and more general to have multiple sources of information with differing reliabilities or areas of expertise. Active learning also assumes that the single oracle is perfect, always providing a correct answer when requested. In reality, though, an "oracle" (if we generalize the term to mean any source of expert information) may be incorrect (fallible) with a probability that should be a function of the difficulty of the question. Moreover, an oracle may be reluctant – it may refuse to answer if it is too uncertain or too busy. Finally, active learning presumes the oracle is either free or charges uniform cost in label elicitation. Such an assumption is naive since cost is likely to be regulated by difficulty (amount of work required to formulate an answer) or other factors."

Proactive learning relaxes all four of these assumptions, relying on a decision-theoretic approach to jointly select the optimal oracle and instance, by casting the problem as a utility optimization problem subject to a budget constraint.


title: Pickersgill's reed frog

abstract: Pickersgill's reed frog, also known as Avoca reed frog, is a species of frog in the family Hyperoliidae. It is endemic to South Africa. It occurs in the coastal lowlands of KwaZulu-Natal between Sezela and St Lucia.

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# Pickersgill's reed frog

**Pickersgill's reed frog** (***Hyperolius pickersgilli***), also known as **Avoca reed frog**, is a species of frog in the family Hyperoliidae. It is endemic to South Africa. It occurs in the coastal lowlands of KwaZulu-Natal between Sezela and St Lucia.

## Description

Adult males grow to usually no more than 22 mm (0.9 in) whereas adult female can approach 30 mm (1.2 in) in snout–vent length. The snout is acutely pointed. The tympanum is hidden. The toes are webbed. There are two colour phases. Juveniles and males are dorsally light to dark brown. There is a dark-edged, white to silver canthal stripe that passes round the snout, over the eyes, and then continues dorso-laterally to the groin. The feet and concealed parts of the limbs are yellow, while the throat and the ventrum are yellowish to white. Females change to the female colour phase at length of 20–22 mm (0.8–0.9 in). The dorsum becomes green, eventually light to yellowish green, whereas the dorso-lateral stripes become indistinct and eventually disappear. The light yellow to white ventral colouration is separated from the dorsal colouration with a distinct irregular margin.

Males have a gular vocal sac that has a well-developed protective flap over it. The male advertisement call is a quiet slow creak that could be mistaken for an insect call.

## Habitat and conservation

Pickersgill's reed frog is a habitat specialist that mainly occurs in Indian Ocean Coastal Belt "Vegetation Group 2", at elevations up to 380 m (1,250 ft) above sea level. It requires perennial wetlands that have very dense reed beds. This habitat type is highly endangered and poorly protected. The species occurs in the iSimangaliso Wetland Park, Umlalazi Nature Reserve, Ongoye Forest Reserve, and Twinstreams-Mtunzini Natural Heritage Site.

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| Pickersgill's reed frog | |
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| *Hyperolius pickersgilli* (male striped form) | |
| Conservation status | |
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Endangered  (IUCN 3.1) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Amphibia |
| Order: | Anura |
| Family: | Hyperoliidae |
| Genus: | *Hyperolius* |
| Species: | ***H. pickersgilli*** |
| Binomial name | |
| ***Hyperolius pickersgilli***
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title: Sofi Fahrman

abstract: Sofi Margareta Fahrman is a Swedish journalist and fashion reporter for the Aftonbladet newspaper. She runs and owns the blog Sofis Mode on the Aftonbladets official website, and publishes her own fashion magazine, Sofis mode, as a supplement to the Aftonbladet newspaper each week. Fahrman also runs a blog called Sofis snapshots. Before starting Sofis mode she was a celebrity editor for Aftonbladets celebrity and entertainment magazine Klick!. She currently resides in Stockholm.

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# Sofi Fahrman

**Sofi Margareta Fahrman** (born July 20, 1979, in Stockholm) is a Swedish journalist and fashion reporter for the Aftonbladet newspaper. She runs and owns the blog Sofis Mode on the Aftonbladets official website, and publishes her own fashion magazine, *Sofis mode*, as a supplement to the Aftonbladet newspaper each week. Fahrman also runs a blog called Sofis snapshots. Before starting *Sofis mode* she was a celebrity editor for Aftonbladets celebrity and entertainment magazine *Klick!*. She currently resides in Stockholm.

## Career

Fahrman worked for Elle magazine in Sweden for a few years and then went to work for Aftonbladet; she has also worked for the editorial firm Loweforever. In 2006, she led the fashion television show Sofies mode on Kanal 5 in Sweden, which was later also broadcast on TV7. In 2011, Sofi along with her sister Frida Fahrman hosted the television show Stylisterna (the stylists) on Kanal 5 Play.

During 2007, she also hosted her own travelling television show on TV7 called Sofi and the city, where she travelled to seven cities in the world. In the show she guided the viewers to places where she usually shops and frequents, such as night clubs and restaurants. The seven cities covered in the show were: New York City, Tokyo, London, Los Angeles, Copenhagen and Paris.

Fahrman has also published two books: *Elsas mode* was released in stores in 2009; *Elsas värld* came out in 2010. The books tell the story about a young fashion blogger who moves to Stockholm and becomes entangled in the high-life of Stureplan.

## Royal friendship

Fahrman's close friendship with the Swedish Princess Madeleine has been highly covered by Swedish media. It was even rumoured that the Princess and Fahrman were living together in Fahrman's apartment in New York City, something later denied by Fahrman's own fashion magazine *Sofis mode*.

## Personal life

Sofi Fahrman is the older sister of Frida Fahrman, who is also fashion editor and reporter. She is divorced from Dutch businessman Nick Zijlstra and they have a daughter named Lily, born on 18 May 2013.

## Bibliography

* *Elsas mode* (2009)
* *Elsas värld* (2010)


title: Dalopius

abstract: Dalopius is a genus of beetles belonging to the family Elateridae. The species of this genus are found in Europe, Japan and Northern America.

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# Dalopius

***Dalopius*** is a genus of beetles belonging to the family Elateridae.

The species of this genus are found in Europe, Japan and Northern America.

## Species

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| *Dalopius* | |
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| *Dalopius marginatus* | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Elateridae |
| Genus: | *Dalopius*<br>Eschscholtz, 1829 |
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title: Blanca Fernández Morena

abstract: Blanca Pilar Fernández Morena is a Spanish politician member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), regional minister of Equality and a Spokesperson of the Government of Castilla–La Mancha since July 2019. She was a member of the 8th and 9th Cortes of Castilla–La Mancha as well as the 13th Congress of Deputies.

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# Blanca Fernández Morena

**Blanca Pilar Fernández Morena** (born 1972) is a Spanish politician member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), regional minister of Equality and a Spokesperson of the Government of Castilla–La Mancha since July 2019. She was a member of the 8th and 9th Cortes of Castilla–La Mancha as well as the 13th Congress of Deputies.

## Biography

### Early life

Born on 6 March 1972, she studied Social Work in Cuenca. She served as Mayor of Porzuna between 2001 and 2008.

### Regional legislator

Fernández ran second in the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) list for Ciudad Real vis-à-vis the 2011 regional election in Castilla–La Mancha headed by Nemesio de Lara; she was elected member of the 8th term of the regional legislature, during which she served as Second Secretary in the parliament's Bureau. Secretary of Organization of the Ciudad Real's branch of the PSOE, she renovated her seat at the 2015 regional election, and, following the restructuring of the Socialist Parliamentary Group in the midst of the 9th regional legislative term, she became the spokesperson of her parliamentary group, replacing José Luis Martínez Guijarro.

### Member of the Congress of Deputies

She contested the April 2019 general election, running as candidate to the Lower House for Ciudad Real. She was elected and became a member of the 13th Congress of Deputies.

### Minister of the Government of Castilla–La Mancha

In July 2019, following the results of the May 2019 regional election in Castilla–La Mancha that delivered a qualified majority to the PSOE, Fernández was appointed by Emiliano García-Page (the regional premier who had renovated his mandate for a second term) as Minister for Equality and Spokesperson of the Government of Castilla–La Mancha, thus leaving her seat at the national legislature. She assumed office on 8 July along the rest of ministers of the cabinet.

## InfoBox

| Blanca Fernández | |
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| Minister of Equality of the Government of Castilla–La Mancha | |
| **Incumbent** | |
| **Assumed office**
8 July 2019 | |
| Spokesperson of the Government of Castilla–La Mancha | |
| **Incumbent** | |
| **Assumed office**
8 July 2019 | |
| Member of the Congress of Deputies | |
| **In office**
21 May 2019  8 July 2019 | |
| Constituency | Ciudad Real |
| Member of the Cortes of Castilla–La Mancha | |
| **In office**
2011–2019 | |
| Constituency | Ciudad Real |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | (1972-03-06) 6 March 1972 |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Political party | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party |
| Occupation | Politician |
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title: SAX-200 Xiuhcoatl

abstract: The SAX-200 Xiuhcóatl is a 5.56×45mm NATO carbine for exclusive use by the Mexican Army and Air Force developed by the Centro de Investigación Aplicada y Desarrollo Tecnológico de la Industria Militar and produced by Dirección General de Industria Militar.

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# SAX-200 Xiuhcoatl

The **SAX-200 Xiuhcóatl** (SAX is an acronym for "Subametralladora Automática Xiuhcóatl" or Xiuhcoatl Automatic Submachine-gun) is a 5.56×45mm NATO carbine for exclusive use by the Mexican Army and Air Force developed by the Centro de Investigación Aplicada y Desarrollo Tecnológico de la Industria Militar and produced by Dirección General de Industria Militar.

## Design and development

It begins to be developed at the end of 2018 to have a nationally manufactured substitute for the MP-5 submachine gun and that it can be used by generals, chiefs and officers of the Army and the Air Force. The modeling of the weapon was done through digital design software, which allowed the creation of the 99 pieces that make up the weapon, of which 68% are shared with the FX-05 Xiuhcoatl.

The weapon has a retractable stock, which when extended gives it a total length of 68 cm, has an ambidextrous fire selector, removable 30-round magazine, handguard for greater mobility in close combat and several Picatiny rails to add different accessories. The metallic components are made of various steel alloys while the plastic components are produced with high-impact polymer reinforced with carbon fiber. It is planned that the official presentation of the weapon to the public will take place on the bicentennial of the creation of Heroico Colegio Militar.

## InfoBox

| SAX-200 Xiuhcoatl | |
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| Type | Carbine |
| Place of origin | Mexico |
| Production history | |
| Designer | Centro de Investigación Aplicada y Desarrollo Tecnológico de la Industria Militar |
| Designed | 2018 |
| Manufacturer | Dirección General de Industria Militar de México |
| Produced | 2023 |
| Specifications (with extended stock) | |
| Mass | 2.9 kg (6.4 lb) |
| Length | 680 mm (27 in) |
| length | 200 mm (7.9 in) barrel |


title: Coraliomargarita

abstract: Coraliomargarita is a Gram-negative, obligately aerobic and non-motile bacterial genus from the family of Puniceicoccaceae.

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# Coraliomargarita

***Coraliomargarita*** is a Gram-negative, obligately aerobic and non-motile bacterial genus from the family of Puniceicoccaceae.

## InfoBox

| *Coraliomargarita* | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Bacteria |
| Phylum: | Verrucomicrobiota |
| Class: | Opitutae |
| Order: | Puniceicoccales |
| Family: | Puniceicoccaceae |
| Genus: | *Coraliomargarita*
Yoon et al. 2007 |
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| Type species | |
| *Coraliomargarita akajimensis*
Yoon et al. 2007 | |
| Species | |
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abstract: A special election was held in North Carolina's 4th congressional district on August 4, 1795, to fill a vacancy left by the death of Alexander Mebane (DR) on July 5, 1795, before the start of the 1st session of the 4th Congress.

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# 1795 North Carolina's 4th congressional district special election

A **special election** was held in **North Carolina's 4th congressional district** on August 4, 1795, to fill a vacancy left by the death of Alexander Mebane (DR) on July 5, 1795, before the start of the 1st session of the 4th Congress.

## Election results

Complete results are not available, the below results are based on incomplete returns

| Candidate | Party | Votes | Percent |
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| Absalom Tatom | Democratic-Republican | 66 | 27.7% |
| Ambrose Ramsey | Federalist | 65 | 27.3% |
| Richard Stanford | Democratic-Republican | 60 | 25.2% |
| George Roberts | Unknown | 29 | 12.2% |
| William Shepard | Federalist | 18 | 7.6% |

Tatom took his seat at the start of the 4th Congress, on December 7, 1795. Tatom subsequently resigned at the end of the 1st session, on June 1, 1796 necessitating a second special election in the same district.


title: Eduardo Iturrizaga

abstract: Eduardo Patricio Iturrizaga Bonelli is a Venezuelan-born Spanish chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2008, making him the first Venezuelan to achieve this. He competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2007, 2009, 2013, and 2015. He is a four-time Venezuelan champion and has represented his country at eight Chess Olympiads.

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# Eduardo Iturrizaga

**Eduardo Patricio Iturrizaga Bonelli** (born 1 November 1989) is a Venezuelan-born Spanish chess player. He was awarded the title Grandmaster by FIDE in 2008, making him the first Venezuelan to achieve this. He competed in the FIDE World Cup in 2007, 2009, 2013, and 2015. He is a four-time Venezuelan champion and has represented his country at eight Chess Olympiads.

## Chess career

Iturrizaga learned to move the chess pieces at age five. "I opened with pawn to e4, then moved my knights, and put pawns on h3 and a3 for castling and to connect the rooks. For me that was all", he recalls. He moved to Peru when he was seven, and it was upon his return to Venezuela at age nine he started to take the game seriously. At age thirteen he attained the title of International Master. Iturizzaga won the Pan American under-16 championship in 2004 and the Pan American under-20 championship in 2006, both times in Bogotà.

Iturrizaga won four consecutive national championships from 2005 to 2008, and has been playing for Venezuela at the Chess Olympiad since 2004. His best performance came at the 37th Chess Olympiad (2006), when he scored 8.5/11 points playing second board. The result earned him an individual bronze medal. He qualified for the Chess World Cup 2007 after a shared first place at the American Continental Championship. He was set to face Peter Svidler in the first round, but forfeited the first game due to getting lost between Russian airports. He lost the second game. In 2008, Iturrizaga won an online qualifier for the C-group in the 2009 Corus Chess Tournament, defeating GM Alexandr Fier 3-1 in the final. He ended up on a shared eight place out of fourteen in the main tournament, scoring 5.5/13. Iturrizaga finished second in the 2008 Ibero-American Championship in Linares, Spain, losing to Julio Granda in the final. Iturrizaga was the last person to arrive at the tournament, had to play one game at night, and nearly arrived late for one of the matches.

After sharing first place at the Zonal 2.3 Chess Championships in San Jose, Costa Rica with Lázaro Bruzón, Iturrizaga qualified for the Chess World Cup 2009. He was knocked out by Baadur Jobava in the second round, having defeated Sergei Tiviakov 3.5 - 2.5 in the first round.

In April 2010, Iturrizaga tied for 1st-8th place in the 12th Dubai Open Chess Championship with Viorel Iordachescu, Hrant Melkumyan, Sergey Volkov, Gadir Guseinov, David Arutinian, Aleksej Aleksandrov and Tornike Sanikidze, besting a field consisting of 36 GMs and 154 players total. He placed fourth in the 2010 Ibero-American Championship held in Mexico City. He defaulted the third-fourth playoff, despite winning the first game, after arriving an hour late for the second.

Iturrizaga competed in the Chess World Cup 2013, where he was knocked out in the first round by Alexander Onischuk. In the 2015 edition of the same event, he was eliminated in round one again, this time by Maxim Rodshtein. In January 2015 Iturrizaga tied for 1st–5th with Arkadij Naiditsch, Alexander Donchenko, Matthias Dann and Miloš Pavlović in the Masters tournament of the Basel Chess Festival. In 2017, Iturrizaga won the 21st Hogeschool Zeeland Open in Vlissingen, Netherlands on tiebreak from Jorden Van Foreest.

## Playing style

As of 2010, Iturrizaga mostly plays queen's pawn openings, and the English Opening with the white pieces, and the Accelerated Dragon Sicilian Defence with black. Iturrizaga admires Bobby Fischer and is a follower of Levon Aronian's playstyle.

## InfoBox

| Eduardo Iturrizaga | |
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| Iturrizaga in 2023 | |
| Full name | Eduardo Patricio Iturrizaga Bonelli |
| Country | Venezuela (until 2021)
Spain (since 2021) |
| Born | (1989-11-01) 1 November 1989
Caracas, Venezuela |
| Title | Grandmaster (2008) |
| FIDE rating | 2577 (October 2024) |
| Peak rating | 2673 (March 2017) |
| Peak ranking | No. 72 (March 2017) |


title: Elena Dache

abstract: Elena Dache is a Romanian handball player for Dunărea Brăila and the Romanian national team. She represented Romania at the 2019 World Women's Handball Championship.

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# Elena Dache

**Elena Dache** (born 24 March 1997) is a Romanian handball player for Dunărea Brăila and the Romanian national team.

She represented Romania at the 2019 World Women's Handball Championship.

## InfoBox

| Elena Dache | | | |
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| Personal information | | | |
| Born | (1997-03-24) 24 March 1997<br>Galați, Romania | | |
| Nationality | Romanian | | |
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | | |
| Playing position | Centre back | | |
| Club information | | | |
| Current club | Dunărea Brăila | | |
| Number | 24 | | |
| National team | | | |
| Years | **Team** | **Apps** | **(Gls)** |
| 2019– | Romania | 8 | (6) |


abstract: P4P, or proactive network provider participation for P2P, is a method for internet service providers (ISPs) and peer-to-peer (P2P) software to optimize peer-to-peer connections. P4P proponents say that it can save an ISP significant costs, and that using local connections also speeds up download times for P2P downloaders by 45%, critics say that this will favor downloaders on some ISPs but come at the expense of others.

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# Proactive network provider participation for P2P

**P4P**, or **proactive network provider participation for P2P**, is a method for internet service providers (ISPs) and peer-to-peer (P2P) software to optimize peer-to-peer connections. P4P proponents say that it can save an ISP significant costs, and that using local connections also speeds up download times for P2P downloaders by 45%, critics say that this will favor downloaders on some ISPs but come at the expense of others.

## Description

Established in 2007, the P4P Working Group (P4PWG) has participants from the ISP, movie/content, and P2P industries. It is focused on helping ISPs handle the demands of large media files and enabling legal distribution – they are building what they believe will be a more effective model of transmitting movies and other large files to customers. The current P2P model shares data equally with all peers, regardless of whether they are nearby, and this results in several nearby peers sending and receiving data across the world but not to each other when this is possible – working group members say that currently "the pattern of traffic poses a problem".

P4P works by having an ISP use a new "iTracker" which provides information on how the ISP's network is configured. P2P client software (and P2P torrent servers, called trackers) can query the iTracker to identify the data routes the ISP prefers and connections to avoid, changing depending on the time of day. The P2P software can then co-operatively connect to peers which are closer (or cheaper for the ISP), selectively favoring peers instead of choosing peers randomly.

This provides three methods of finding local peers:

1. the P2P client receives network information from the ISP's iTracker without revealing what file is being downloaded. It separately receives a list of peers from the torrent's tracker as usual. Note that for torrents with thousands of peers, when queried only a short list of potential peers is sent and it can take many queries to find all local peers
2. the torrent's tracker can receive network information from the ISP's P4P iTracker, and use this to provide to the P2P client a customized list of local peers
3. the P2P client can query the P4P iTracker, providing it with details of the file being downloaded. The ISP's iTracker (instead of the torrent tracker) can then provide the client with a list of local peers

Note that P4P does not replace or control P2P networks. P4P allows ISPs to provides additional information regarding network topology that P2P networks may choose to utilize to optimize network data delivery. This information should be used in combination with the other information that P2P networks collect, such as observed peer data transfer rates. If, for example, a P2P network is selecting between a "nearby" peer that is slow, and a "far" peer that is fast, that decision is entirely under the control of the P2P network. Because implementation of P4P is entirely voluntary on the part of both the ISPs and the P2P networks, it will only be adopted if it is mutually beneficial.

## Criticisms

There is concern by existing P2P trackers that P4P may be used to prevent piracy in the future. The P4P working group includes some prominent members of the entertainment industry and well known anti-piracy lobbyists, and anti-piracy measures could be added in the future.

The P2P industry also says that P4P may slow down transfers for some users. BitTorrent, for example, is designed to favor the fastest peers available – if that is changed to favor the closest peers instead then it must affect the speed. The equality and balance of peers would be lost – clients on networks with a good "backbone" but slow upload speeds would download slower, and clients using ISPs who do not support P4P would not benefit from using local peers.

P4P will only work on software that supports it, yet other protocols which currently dominate the network will keep being blind to locality. LiteLoad by Shay Horovitz and Danny Dolev (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) presents a solution that leads to P2P locality in ISPs on both existing protocols and future ones.

* The Ono Project – an open source program to identify local peers for P2P file transfer
* \[ALTO Protocol\] – Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (IETF)


title: Physopyxis cristata

abstract: Physopyxis cristata is a species of thorny catfish endemic to Brazil where it is found in the Rio Negro basin. This species grows to a length of 2.27 centimetres (0.89 in) SL. This species prefers to live amongst submerged leaf litter.

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# Physopyxis cristata

***Physopyxis cristata*** is a species of thorny catfish endemic to Brazil where it is found in the Rio Negro basin. This species grows to a length of 2.27 centimetres (0.89 in) SL. This species prefers to live amongst submerged leaf litter.

* Froese, Rainer; Pauly, Daniel (eds.). "*Physopyxis cristata*". *FishBase*. December 2011 version.

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| *Physopyxis cristata* | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Actinopterygii |
| Order: | Siluriformes |
| Family: | Doradidae |
| Genus: | *Physopyxis* |
| Species: | ***P. cristata*** |
| Binomial name | |
| ***Physopyxis cristata***<br>Sousa & Rapp Py-Daniel, 2005 | |
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title: Chester, Ohio

abstract: Chester is an unincorporated community in central Chester Township, Meigs County, Ohio, United States. It lies along the Shade River at the intersection of State Routes 7 and 248. It has a post office with the ZIP code 45720.

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# Chester, Ohio

**Chester** is an unincorporated community in central Chester Township, Meigs County, Ohio, United States. It lies along the Shade River at the intersection of State Routes  and 248. It has a post office with the ZIP code 45720.

## History

Chester was platted in about 1822 as the original seat of Meigs County. The county seat was removed to Pomeroy in 1841. The Old Meigs County Courthouse still stands in Chester and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. A post office has been in operation at Chester since 1823.

## Education

Public education in the community of Chester is provided by the Eastern Local School District. Campuses serving the community include Eastern Elementary School (Grades K–8) and Eastern High School (Grades 9–12).

## Notable people

Noted American author Ambrose Bierce was born just downstream of Chester in the Shade River valley.

1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Chester, Ohio
2. *Ohio Atlas & Gazetteer*. Yarmouth, Maine: DeLorme. 1991. p. 80. ISBN 0-89933-233-1.
3. USPS – Cities by ZIP Code Archived October 10, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
4. Pickens, Jordan D.; Tribe, Ivan M. (March 10, 2014). *Meigs County*. Arcadia Publishing. p. 7. ISBN 978-1-4671-1134-8.
5. "Courthouse Building Restoration". Chester Shade Historical Association. Archived from the original on November 7, 2015. Retrieved December 12, 2015.
6. "OHIO - Meigs County". nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com. Retrieved December 12, 2015.
7. "Meigs County". Jim Forte Postal History. Archived from the original on December 22, 2015. Retrieved December 12, 2015.
8. Eastern Elementary School Archived February 1, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
9. Eastern Local School District Archived February 1, 2009, at the Wayback Machine

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title: Sümer, Fındıklı

abstract: Sümer is a village in the Fındıklı District, Rize Province, in Black Sea Region of Turkey. Its population is 799 (2021).

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# Sümer, Fındıklı

**Sümer** is a village in the Fındıklı District, Rize Province, in Black Sea Region of Turkey. Its population is 799 (2021).

## History

According to *list of villages in Laz language* book (2009), name of the village is **Sumle**. Most villagers are ethnically Laz.

## Geography

The village is located 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) away from Fındıklı.

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| Sümer Sumle (Laz language) | |
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| Village | |
| Country | Turkey |
| Province | Rize |
| District | Fındıklı |
| Elevation | 252 m (827 ft) |
| Population (2021) | 799 |
| Time zone | UTC+3 (TRT) |


title: Rolling Oaks, Florida

abstract: Rolling Oaks was a census-designated place (CDP) in Broward County, Florida, United States. The population was 1,291 at the 2000 census. It was incorporated into the town of Southwest Ranches, Florida in 2000, and is now a neighborhood.

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# Rolling Oaks, Florida

**Rolling Oaks** was a census-designated place (CDP) in Broward County, Florida, United States. The population was 1,291 at the 2000 census. It was incorporated into the town of Southwest Ranches, Florida in 2000, and is now a neighborhood.

## Geography

Rolling Oaks is located at 26°2′26″N 80°23′19″W / 26.04056°N 80.38861°W / 26.04056; -80.38861 (26.040517, -80.388673).

According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 6.6 km2 (2.5 sq mi), all land.

## Demographics

As of the census of 2000, there were 1,291 people, 392 households, and 332 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 197.0 people/km2 (510 people/sq mi). There were 400 housing units at an average density of 61.0 units/km2 (158 units/sq mi). The racial makeup of the CDP was 90.24% White (69.3% were Non-Hispanic White,) 3.56% African American, 0.15% Native American, 1.08% Asian, 2.63% from other races, and 2.32% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 24.24% of the population.

There were 392 households, out of which 41.1% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 75.5% were married couples living together, 7.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 15.1% were non-families. 8.4% of all households were made up of individuals, and 1.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.29 and the average family size was 3.55.

In the CDP, the population was spread out, with 29.4% under the age of 18, 5.5% from 18 to 24, 27.0% from 25 to 44, 30.0% from 45 to 64, and 8.1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 39 years. For every 100 females, there were 97.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 103.8 males.

The median income for a household in the CDP was $83,943, and the median income for a family was $95,194. Males had a median income of $80,468 versus $50,568 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $37,008. About 3.5% of families and 7.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 9.6% of those under age 18 and 9.0% of those age 65 or over.

As of 2000, before being annexed to Southwest Ranches, English as a first language accounted for 70.42% of all residents, while Spanish as a mother tongue made up 29.57%% of the population.

## InfoBox

| Rolling Oaks, Florida | |
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| neighborhood | |
| Coordinates: 26°2′26″N 80°23′19″W / 26.04056°N 80.38861°W / 26.04056; -80.38861 | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Florida |
| County | Broward |
| Area | |
| Total | 2.5 sq mi (6.6 km2) |
| Land | 2.5 sq mi (6.6 km2) |
| Water | 0.0 sq mi (0.0 km2) |
| Population (2000) | |
| Total | 1,291 |
| Density | 510.4/sq mi (197.1/km2) |
| Time zone | UTC-5 (Eastern (EST)) |
| Summer (DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
| FIPS code | 12-61725 |