title: Uttara Sporting Club

abstract: Uttara Sporting Club, sometimes Uttara Cricket Club, is a cricket team in Bangladesh, named after the suburb of Uttara in the north-west of Dhaka. It has been actively involved in local cricket activities and has produced talented cricketers over the years.

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# Uttara Sporting Club

**Uttara Sporting Club**, sometimes **Uttara Cricket Club**, is a cricket team in Bangladesh, named after the suburb of Uttara in the north-west of Dhaka. It has been actively involved in local cricket activities and has produced talented cricketers over the years.

## History

Uttara Cricket Club played in the Dhaka First Division Cricket League in 2017.

They were one of the twelve teams to take part in the 2018–19 Dhaka Premier Division Twenty20 Cricket League and the 2018–19 Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League.

In February 2019, they won their opening fixture of the 2018–19 Dhaka Premier Division Twenty20 Cricket League, beating Khelaghar Samaj Kallyan Samity by six wickets. The following month, they won their opening match of the 2018–19 Dhaka Premier Division Cricket League, beating Sheikh Jamal Dhanmondi Club by 9 runs. However, following the conclusion of the group stage fixtures, the team finished bottom of the table, and therefore moved to the Relegation League playoffs section of the tournament. In the relegation playoffs, they finished in second place of the three teams, and were relegated to the sub-List-A First Division for the next season.

In 2024, Uttara Cricket Club played in 2023–24 Dhaka First Division Cricket League.

## List A record

* 2018-19: 13 matches, won 4, finished eleventh

## InfoBox

Uttara Sporting Club
| Personnel | |
| --- | --- |
| Captain | Shakhir Hossain |
| Overseas player | Raza Ali Dar |
| Overseas player | Manan Sharma |
| Team information | |
| Founded | 2019 |


title: Radek

abstract: Radek is a masculine Christian name of Slavic origin. It is often nickname of Radovan, Ctirad and Radoslav. It is used as a surname and given name. Notable people with the name include:

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# Radek

**Radek** is a masculine Christian name of Slavic origin. It is often nickname of Radovan, Ctirad and Radoslav. It is used as a surname and given name. Notable people with the name include:

## Given name

### Fictional characters

## Surname

* Karl Radek (1885–1939), Bolshevik and international Communist leader
* General Ivan Radek, fictional communist terrorist leader of Kazakhstan in the movie *Air Force One*
* Viktor Radek, fictional character from the computer games *Sin Episodes*

## Articles


title: North Winnipeg Nomads Football Club

abstract: The North Winnipeg Nomads Football Club is a Canadian football club established in 1969 and originally started as a single bantam age (15-year-olds) football team. Eventually, the club grew to include teams from ages 7 to 21. The Nomads has the second largest enrolment in Canadian amateur football.

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# North Winnipeg Nomads Football Club

The **North Winnipeg Nomads Football Club** is a Canadian football club established in 1969 and originally started as a single bantam age (15-year-olds) football team. Eventually, the club grew to include teams from ages 7 to 21. The Nomads has the second largest enrolment in Canadian amateur football.

## History

The Nomads were the first Winnipeg team to win the Western Canadian Bantam Football Championship since its inception in 1967.

The club has won 23 Manitoba provincial championship titles plus two interprovincial titles.

A minor bantam (14-year-olds) team was added in 1978.

The club moved to the former Winnipeg Hawkeyes field and clubhouse in 1997.

In 2002, after the Manitoba Lotteries Corp. backed away from plans to purchase the field and relocate the club, the Nomads Board began planning and fundraising for much needed field improvements. Their successful efforts resulted in installation of the field lighting, automated sprinkler system, improved seating, and the perimeter fence in 2004.

This period also saw the Nomads grow from just under 200 players in 2000, to 330 by 2003, making it one of the largest clubs in Western Canada.

In 2011, the Nomads club welcomed the North Winnipeg Nomads Wolf Pack, a senior women's tackle football team (ages 16+) that competes in the Western Women's Canadian Football League, which spans the three prairie provinces.

The Nomads have competed against teams from and around Winnipeg, including the East Side Eagles, the Transcona Nationals, the St. Boniface Warriors, the Ft. Garry Lions, the St. Vital Mustangs, the St. James Rods, the Lockport Cowboys, the Greendell Falcons, Eastman Raiders and Valour Patriots.

## Championships by Year

### 1970s

* 1970 Bantam Provincial and Western Canadian Champions
* 1972 Bantam Provincial and Western Canadian Champions
* 1973 Bantam Provincial and Western Canadian Champions
* 1974 Bantam Provincial Champions
* 1979 Minor Bantam Provincial Champions

### 1980s

* 1980 Minor Bantam Provincial Champions
* 1981 Bantam Provincial Champions

### 1990s

* 1990 Bantam Provincial Champions
* 1993 Minor Bantam Provincial Champions
* 1994 Bantam Champions
* 1995 Peewee Champions

### 2000s

* 2002 Midget Provincial Champions
* 2005 Bantam Provincial Champions
* 2006 Midget Provincial Champions
* 2008
    + Atom Provincial Champions (Nomads Atom North Team)
    + Peewee Provincial Champions
    + Major Provincial Champions
* 2009
    + Minor Bantam Provincial Champions
    + Major Provincial Champions

### 2010s

* 2010 Midget Provincial Champions
* 2011 Bantam Provincial Champions
* 2012
    + Pee Wee Provincial Champions
    + Midget Provincial Champions
* 2013
    + Junior Girls Manitoba Champions
    + Bantam Provincial Champions
* 2017
    + Atom A Championship
    + Bantam A Championship

## Championships by League

* Bantam Western Canadian Championships
    + 1970, 1972, 1973
* Bantam Provincial Championships
    + 1970, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1981, 1990, 1994, 2005, 2011, 2013, 2017
* Junior Manitoba Girls Championships
    + 2013
* Major Provincial Championships
    + 2008, 2009
* Midget Provincial Championships
    + 2002, 2006, 2010, 2012
* Minor Bantam Provincial Championships
    + 1979, 1980, 1993
* Peewee Provincial Championships
    + 1995, 2012
* Atom Provincial Championships
    + 2017

## CFL Alumni

## NHL Alumni

Governing Body Leagues Teams

## InfoBox

North Winnipeg Nomads
|  | |
| --- | --- |
| Founded | 1969 |
| League | Football Manitoba |
| Based in | Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada |
| Colours | green and gold |
| Championships | 1970, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1990, 1993, 1994, 1996, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2017 |
| Division titles | Provincial Champions, Western Canadian Bantam Champions |
| Website | nomadsfootball.com |


title: Liu Qingyi

abstract: Liu Qingyi, also known as 671, is a Chinese breakdancer who represented China in the 2024 Summer Olympic Games, and won the bronze medal in the B-Girls competition. Liu won gold at the 2022 Asian Games for women's breakdancing, becoming the first Chinese breakdancer to be a medallist and qualifying for the 2024 Summer Olympics. She won silver in the 2022 WDSF World Breaking Championships in South Korea. Her nickname 671 is because the numbers are pronounced similarly to her name in Chinese. Liu began breakdancing at ten years old.

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# Liu Qingyi

**Liu Qingyi** (simplified Chinese: 刘清漪; traditional Chinese: 劉清漪; pinyin: *Liú Qīngyī*; born 19 October 2005), also known as **671**, is a Chinese breakdancer who represented China in the 2024 Summer Olympic Games, and won the bronze medal in the B-Girls competition.

Liu won gold at the 2022 Asian Games for women's breakdancing, becoming the first Chinese breakdancer to be a medallist and qualifying for the 2024 Summer Olympics. She won silver in the 2022 WDSF World Breaking Championships in South Korea.

Her nickname 671 is because the numbers are pronounced similarly to her name in Chinese (Chinese: 六七一; pinyin: *Liù qī yī*). Liu began breakdancing at ten years old.

## InfoBox

Liu Qingyi
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| Personal information | |
| Native name | 刘清漪 |
| Nickname | 671 |
| Born | (2005-10-19) October 19, 2005<br>Huixian, Henan, China |
| Sport | |
| Country | China |
| Sport | Breakdancing |
| Medal record      Representing  China  Breakdancing  Olympic Games  2024 Paris B-Girls  World Championships  2022 Seoul B-Girls  Asian Games  2022 Hangzhou B-Girls | |


title: Ferdinand von Schill

abstract: Ferdinand Baptista von Schill was a Prussian major who revolted unsuccessfully against French domination of Prussia in May 1809. Schill's rebellion ended at the Battle of Stralsund, a battle which also saw Schill's own death in action. Outnumbered 3 to 1, Schill's Prussian forces succumbed to a Napoleonic force supported by Dutch and Danish auxiliaries.

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# Ferdinand von Schill

**Ferdinand Baptista von Schill** (6 January 1776 – 31 May 1809) was a Prussian major who revolted unsuccessfully against French domination of Prussia in May 1809.

Schill's rebellion ended at the Battle of Stralsund, a battle which also saw Schill's own death in action. Outnumbered 3 to 1, Schill's Prussian forces succumbed to a Napoleonic force supported by Dutch and Danish auxiliaries.

## Life

Schill was born at Wilmsdorf (now a part of Bannewitz, Saxony) and entered the Prussian Army's cavalry at the age of twelve or fourteen (sources differ). His father, Johann-Georg Schill, had been an ambitious commoner from Bohemia, who attained the aristocratic "von" for his services to Austria and Saxony during the Seven Years' War. J.-G. von Schill had raised a "Freikorps", a small raiding party of cavalry and mounted infantry, operating behind enemy lines, and acquired some measure of fame and success. Many of Ferdinand von Schill's later biographers assumed that his father's example was an important influence on his subsequent career.

Ferdinand von Schill was a second-lieutenant of dragoons when he was wounded at the battle of Auerstadt. From that field he escaped to Kolberg, where he played a very prominent part in the celebrated siege of 1806–07, as the commander of a Freikorps, raiding behind the French lines. After the Treaty of Tilsit, he was promoted to major, awarded the Pour le Mérite, and given the command of a hussar regiment formed primarily from his Kolberg men.

## Schill's revolution

In 1809 the political situation in Europe appeared to Schill to favor an attempt to liberate Germany from the French domination of Napoleon Bonaparte. He was an active member of the Tugendbund, the quasi-Masonic "League of Virtue" founded in June 1808, and including many notable Prussian reformers such as Gerhard von Scharnhorst and August Neidhardt von Gneisenau. It was banned in 1809. Many Tugendbund leaders believed that the new Kingdom of Westphalia, created by Napoleon from many smaller German states, and ruled by Napoleon's youngest brother Jérôme Bonaparte, was ripe for revolution. Schill planned to create an uprising in Westphalia that would topple the Bonaparte regime there, and – coupled with the efforts of Austria, Spain, and Britain – would bring about the fall of Napoleonic dominance in Germany.

Leading out his regiment from Berlin under pretext of manoeuvres, he raised the standard of revolt, and, joined by many officers and a company of light infantry, marched first south through Saxony, and then north-west into Westphalia. At the village of Dodendorf on 5 May 1809, he had a brush with the Magdeburg garrison and won a small victory. Schill had no difficulty defeating, or even recruiting, the unreliable Westphalian troops sent against him, and his rebellion swelled to over 2,000 men.

He had less success, however, with the gathering Danish and Dutch forces, which gradually drove him in a north-east direction toward the Baltic Sea. His most serious difficulty was the condemnation of Prussia's king Frederick William III, who feared that the revolt would drag a weakened and unprepared Prussia into another disastrous war against Napoleon. By the end of May, although he had left garrisons and raiding parties in various places, Schill's main force was trapped at Stralsund. He had between 1,500 and 2,000 men, against a force of 8,000 Danish and Dutch troops under French command.

### Liberation fails

On 31 May the Napoleonic forces stormed Stralsund. Schill was killed in the street fighting as his defenses collapsed. Over a thousand of his rebels escaped to Prussia, overland or by ship, where the officers were tried by court-martial, cashiered and imprisoned (although all were subsequently pardoned). Some smaller parties of rebels including his two brothers escaped to Sweden, and ultimately Austria and Britain, but the rest were either killed or taken. The French commander counted 570 prisoners, the majority of whom were then sent to the galleys. About 100 rebels who had been Westphalian deserters were separated and taken to Brunswick, where 14 of them were ultimately executed.

Schill's body was decapitated. The corpse was dumped in an unmarked grave in Stralsund. The head was sent to Jerome Bonaparte as a trophy, but he gave it to a Dutch surgeon who collected oddities, and it remained at the University of Leiden until 1837, when German patriots obtained it for the dedication of a Schill monument in Brunswick.

### Schill's Eleven Officers

Eleven of Schill's officers were taken as a group to several different cities before their fate was sealed by Napoleon's orders. Eventually they were taken to the fortress of Wesel where they were given a show trial and executed on 16 September. The young group became tragic heroes and martyrs, and their appearance brought out crowds in every German-speaking town and city they went through. A dramatic letter-writing campaign led by Philippine von Griesheim, the fiancé of one of the eleven officers, Albrecht von Wedell, and appeals to the Prussian King Frederick William III by the eleven asking to die by a Prussian firing squad instead of at the 'hands of the enemy' helped create a legend that would become part of the propaganda encouraging the German liberation movement of 1813 leading to Prussia's restoration of independence.

One other close comrade of Schill's escaped execution and became known as 'The Twelfth'. Lieutenant Heinrich von Wedell had served with Schill as far back as the Siege of Kolberg. He was badly wounded at the battle of Dodendort and had to remain behind there. He was captured and interrogated by the French. Heinrich managed to convince the French that he had participated against his will and so he was sent to France, physically branded a criminal, and served eight months on a prison ship and then hard labor in a prison quarry before eventually being released in early 1812 in anticipation of the impending war with Russia. He was the cousin of Carl and Albrecht von Wedell who were among the eleven Schill officers executed at Wesel.

Another of Schill's officers, the Swede Friedrich-Gustave Peterson was executed by firing squad in Stralsund.

## Legacy

By the 1830s Schill was widely considered a hero throughout Germany. Monuments and historical markers to him or to his rebels have been erected in towns and cities: Wesel, Stralsund, Braunschweig, Wilmersdorf, Potsdam, Ohlau, Cottbus, Anklam, Geldern, and Wittenberg.

Military units were named after him (most notably the last division fielded by the Wehrmacht during World War II, the Infantry Division Ferdinand von Schill of late April 1945), streets and plazas bear his name to this day. Over 400 biographies, novels, plays, operas, and collections of poetry have been published about him in German, and he is featured in over a dozen German films including Rudolf Meinert's 1926 silent film *The Eleven Schill Officers* and his 1932 sound remake.

### Citations

### Sources

* Haken, *Ferdinand von Schill* (Leipzig, 1824)
* Barsch, *Ferdinand von Schills Zug und Tod* (Leipzig, 1860)
* Binder von Krieglstein, *Ferdinand von Schill: Ein Lebensbild* (Berlin, 1902)
* Sam Mustafa, *The Long Ride of Major von Schill* (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008)
* This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Schill, Ferdinand Baptista von". *Encyclopædia Britannica*. Vol. 24 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 323–324.

## InfoBox

| Ferdinand Baptista von Schill | |
| --- | --- |
| Ferdinand von Schill | |
| Born | (1776-01-06)6 January 1776
Wilmsdorf / Bannewitz, Saxony |
| Died | 31 May 1809(1809-05-31) (aged 33)
Stralsund, Swedish Pomerania |
| Allegiance | Prussia |
| Service/branch | Prussian Army |
| Years of service | 1788/90–1809 |
| Rank | Major |
| Commands | Freikorps Schill |
| Battles/wars |  |


title: Hico, West Virginia

abstract: Hico is a census-designated place (CDP) in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States. Hico is located at the junction of U.S. routes 19 and 60, 7 miles (11 km) northeast of Fayetteville. Hico has a post office with ZIP code 25854. As of the 2010 census, its population was 272. Some say the community was named after a variety of tobacco called hico, while others believe the name is a transfer from Hyco, Virginia. On April 2, 2024; an EF2 tornado caused significant damage just to the south of Hico.

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# Hico, West Virginia

**Hico** is a census-designated place (CDP) in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States. Hico is located at the junction of U.S. routes 19 and 60, 7 miles (11 km) northeast of Fayetteville. Hico has a post office with ZIP code 25854. As of the 2010 census, its population was 272.

Some say the community was named after a variety of tobacco called hico, while others believe the name is a transfer from Hyco, Virginia (an extinct town).

On April 2, 2024; an EF2 tornado caused significant damage just to the south of Hico.

## Climate

The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters. According to the Köppen Climate Classification system, Hico has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps.

## InfoBox

| Hico, West Virginia | |
| --- | --- |
| Census-designated place (CDP) | |
| HicoHico | |
| Coordinates: 38°07′02″N 81°00′20″W / 38.11722°N 81.00556°W / 38.11722; -81.00556 | |
| Country | United States |
| State | West Virginia |
| County | Fayette |
| Area | |
| Total | 5.020 sq mi (13.00 km2) |
| Land | 5.010 sq mi (12.98 km2) |
| Water | 0.010 sq mi (0.03 km2) |
| Elevation | 2,142 ft (653 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| Total | 272 |
| Density | 54/sq mi (21/km2) |
| Time zone | UTC-5 (Eastern (EST)) |
| Summer (DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
| ZIP code | 25854 |
| Area code(s) | 304 & 681 |
| GNIS feature ID | 1554698 |


title: Novice (album)

abstract: Novice is the seventh studio album by French rocker Alain Bashung, issued in 1989 on Barclay Records.

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# Novice (album)

***Novice*** is the seventh studio album by French rocker Alain Bashung, issued in 1989 on Barclay Records.

## Production

The songwriting is split between Boris Bergman, marking is last collaboration with Bashung, and Jean Fauque who would go on to write his four subsequent albums. Bashung said about the album that it was a sequel of sort to his experiments on *Play blessures*. The album has a dark sound, and did not sell very well. One of the song, "By Proxy", is one of the very few original written entirely in English by Bashung.

The song "Alcaline" is a pun on French pop singer Christophe's song "Aline". In 2011, Christophe covered the song for the tribute album *Tels Alain Bashung*.

## Reception

In a review that was featured in the compilation *OpticalSound 3*, one reviewer praised *Novice* as the only Bashung album other than *Play blessures* that they enjoyed all the way through. Academic Jean Frédéric Hennuy compared the lyrics of "Pyromanes" and "Légère éclaircie" with those of Nick Cave.

## Track listing

| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1. | "Pyromanes" | Boris Bergman \- Alain Bashung | 3:58 |
| 2. | "Résidences" | Boris Bergman - Alain Bashung | 3:34 |
| 3. | "Légère éclaircie" | Boris Bergman - Alain Bashung | 4:20 |
| 4. | "Alcaline" | Boris Bergman - Alain Bashung | 5:00 |
| 5. | "Tu m'as jeté" | Jean Fauque \- Alain Bashung | 4:31 |
| 6. | "Elle fait l'avion" | Boris Bergman - Alain Bashung | 4:47 |
| 7. | "Bombez !" | Jean Fauque - Alain Bashung | 3:02 |
| 8. | "Intrépide malgré la fièvre" | Boris Bergman - Alain Bashung | 4:01 |
| 9. | "Étrange été" | Jean Fauque - Alain Bashung | 3:33 |
| 10. | "Outrage" (instrumental) | Alain Bashung - Jean Fauque | 0:36 |
| 11. | "By Proxy" | Boris Bergman - P. Ives - Alain Bashung | 3:49 |

### Bonus Track (1993 CD reissue)

| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 12. | "Bombez!" (Version 1992) | Jean Fauque - Alain Bashung | 3:04 |
| 13. | "Climax 4" (instrumental) | Alain Bashung - André Georget | 4:24 |

## Personnel

### Musicians

### Production

* Realisation: Nick Patrick
* Mixing: Jean Trenchant and Nick Patrick
* Remix 1992 (12-13): Djoum
* Photographs: T.Rajic
* Graphism: Antonietti, Pascault & Associés
* Graphism: Huart/Cholley
* Editions: 1,2,3,4,6,8,11 & 12 Polygram Music/Pitchi-Poï; 5,7,9 & 10 Polygram Music

1. Collectif (2015-10-27). *OpticalSound 3* (in French). Art Book Magazine Distribution. p. 102. ISBN 9782821600782.
2. Abecassis, Michaël (2018-06-11). *An Anthology of French and Francophone Singers from A to Z: "Singin’ in French"*. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 48. ISBN 9781527512054.

## InfoBox

| Novice | |
| --- | --- |
|  | |
| Studio album by Alain Bashung | |
| Released | 1989 |
| Recorded | ICP Studio, Brussels |
| Genre | French rock, post-punk, alternative rock |
| Label | Barclay, Universal Music Group |
| Producer | Nick Patrick |
| Alain Bashung chronology | |
| *Passé le Rio Grande*
(1986) ***Novice***
(1989) *Osez Joséphine*
(1991) | |


title: RTN1

abstract: Reticulon-1 also known as neuroendocrine-specific protein (NSP) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the RTN1 gene. This gene belongs to the family of reticulon-encoding genes. Reticulons are associated with the endoplasmic reticulum, and are involved in neuroendocrine secretion or in membrane trafficking in neuroendocrine cells. Alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been identified. Multiple promoters rather than alternative splicing of internal exons seem to be involved in this diversity.

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# RTN1

**Reticulon-1** also known as **neuroendocrine-specific protein** (NSP) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the *RTN1* gene.

This gene belongs to the family of reticulon-encoding genes. Reticulons are associated with the endoplasmic reticulum, and are involved in neuroendocrine secretion or in membrane trafficking in neuroendocrine cells. Alternatively spliced transcript variants encoding different isoforms have been identified. Multiple promoters rather than alternative splicing of internal exons seem to be involved in this diversity.

## Interactions

RTN1 has been shown to interact with BCL2-like 1 and UGCG.

## Further reading

## InfoBox

| RTN1 | | | |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|  | | | |
| Identifiers | | | |
| Aliases | RTN1, NSP, reticulon 1 | | |
| External IDs | OMIM: 600865; MGI: 1933947; HomoloGene: 49654; GeneCards: RTN1; OMA:RTN1 - orthologs | | |
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| Orthologs  Species **Human** **Mouse**  Entrez   Ensembl   UniProt   RefSeq (mRNA)     NM\_001243115
NM\_021136
NM\_206852
NM\_206857
NM\_001363702   NM\_001007596
NM\_001286448
NM\_153457   RefSeq (protein)     NP\_066959
NP\_996734
NP\_001350631   NP\_001007597
NP\_001273377
NP\_703187   Location (UCSC) Chr 14: 59.6 – 59.87 Mb Chr 12: 72.26 – 72.46 Mb  PubMed search | | | |
| Wikidata | | | |
| View/Edit Human View/Edit Mouse | | | |


title: Paweł Sobczak

abstract: Paweł Sobczak is a retired field hockey goalkeeper from Poland, who was a member of the Men's National Team that ended up in twelfth and last place at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. The team had qualified by surprise for the Games by defeating bigger names like New Zealand at the 2000 Men's Field Hockey Olympic Qualifier in Osaka, Japan.

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# Paweł Sobczak

**Paweł Sobczak** (born 4 June 1969 in Lubraniec, Kuyavian-Pomeranian) is a retired field hockey goalkeeper from Poland, who was a member of the Men's National Team that ended up in twelfth and last place at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. The team had qualified by surprise for the Games by defeating bigger names like New Zealand at the 2000 Men's Field Hockey Olympic Qualifier in Osaka, Japan.


title: Fool Hollow Lake

abstract: Fool Hollow Lake is a public lake located in Navajo County, Arizona, near the city of Show Low. The lake is operated by the Arizona State Parks Department, and consists of 150 acres (61 ha), with an average depth of 23 feet (7.0 m) together with a variety of fish species.

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# Fool Hollow Lake

**Fool Hollow Lake** is a public lake located in Navajo County, Arizona, near the city of Show Low. The lake is operated by the Arizona State Parks Department, and consists of 150 acres (61 ha), with an average depth of 23 feet (7.0 m) together with a variety of fish species.

## Location

Fool Hollow Lake is located less than 2 miles (3.2 km) from downtown Show Low, Arizona.

## Description

Fool Hollow was named for a hapless settler (Thomas Jefferson Adair) who attempted to farm the rocky canyon in the 1880s. The Arizona Game and Fish Department constructed the lake through the construction of a dam at Fool Hollow Wash and Show Low Creek, thereby covering up the community of Adair, in 1957 specifically to provide water-oriented outdoor recreation. The lake consists of 150 acres (61 ha), with an average depth of 23 feet (7.0 m). It is located within the Fool Hollow Recreation Area, and is cooperatively managed by the Arizona State Parks, the U.S. Forest Service, the Arizona Game and Fish Department and the City of Show Low. The elevation is 6,260 feet (1,910 m). It contains self-sustaining populations of Largemouth and Smallmouth Bass, Sunfish, Walleye, Carp, Black Crappie, Channel Catfish and Crayfish. The Arizona Game and Fish Department stocks the lake with Rainbow Trout throughout the spring and summer.

## InfoBox

| Fool Hollow Lake | |
| --- | --- |
|  | |
| Fool Hollow Lake | |
| Location | Navajo County, Arizona |
| Coordinates | 34°16′15″N 110°04′07″W / 34.2707663°N 110.0685947°W / 34.2707663; -110.0685947 |
| Basin countries | United States |
|  | |
| Surface area | 150 acres (61 ha) |
| Average depth | 23 ft (7.0 m) |
| Surface elevation | 6,260 ft (1,910 m) |


title: Forbes Road School District

abstract: The Forbes Road School District is a rural public school district located in Fulton County, Pennsylvania, U.S. It serves the townships of Dublin, Taylor and Wells. The district encompasses approximately 105 square miles. According to 2000 federal census data, it serves a resident population of 3,043.

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# Forbes Road School District

The **Forbes Road School District** is a rural public school district located in Fulton County, Pennsylvania, U.S. It serves the townships of Dublin, Taylor and Wells. The district encompasses approximately 105 square miles. According to 2000 federal census data, it serves a resident population of 3,043.

## Schools

The district has two schools, Forbes Road Elementary School and Forbes Road Junior Senior High School, connected in the same building. The school campus is located at 159 Red Bird Drive, between the villages of Hustontown and Waterfall in Taylor Township.

## Extracurriculars

The district's students have access to a variety of clubs, activities and sports.

### Athletics

## InfoBox

| Forbes Road School District | |
| --- | --- |
|  | |
| Address | |
| 159 Red Bird Drive Waterfall, Pennsylvania, 16689<br>United States | |
| District information | |
| Type | Public |
| Grades | PreK–12 |
| NCES District ID | 4209870 |
| Students and staff | |
| Students | 354 (2020–2021) |
| Teachers | 31.3 (on an FTE basis) |
| Staff | 36.7 (on an FTE basis) |
| Student–teacher ratio | 11.31:1 |
| District mascot | Cardinals |
| Colors | Blue and Gold |
| Other information | |
| Website | www.frsd.info |


title: Paul McGillion

abstract: Paul McGillion is a Scottish-Canadian actor, who has worked in television, film and theatre. He is best known for his role on the television series Stargate Atlantis as Dr. Carson Beckett.

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# Paul McGillion

**Paul McGillion** (born January 5, 1969) is a Scottish-Canadian actor, who has worked in television, film and theatre. He is best known for his role on the television series *Stargate Atlantis* as Dr. Carson Beckett.

## Early life

McGillion was born on January 5, 1969 in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland. His family moved to Canada when he was two years old. McGillion returned to Scotland with his family during his early teens, for a few years, while his father worked on the Shetland oil rigs. He is the sixth of seven children. He has a degree in teaching and while studying at Brock University, was part of their national championship-winning wrestling team. After graduating, McGillion began his career teaching theatre in Toronto, squeezing in time to attend auditions. He finally made the move to Vancouver, where he has worked extensively in film, TV and theatre.

## Career

McGillion taught scene study at the Vancouver Film School in 1998 and 1999. McGillion played young Ernest Littlefield in *Stargate SG-1'*s first season, in the episode "The Torment of Tantalus", the first Tau'ri to have passed through the Stargate after its burial. In 2004, McGillion was cast in the science fiction series *Stargate Atlantis* as the Scottish medical doctor, Carson Beckett. He was initially cast as a recurring guest, but his character appeared so frequently in the show's first season, he was promoted to main character for seasons two and three. Dr. Beckett went back to a recurring character for seasons four and five, where he appears as the clone of the now-deceased Beckett.

McGillion has appeared in films, *The Traveler* with Val Kilmer, *Confined* with Emma Caulfield, and *The Deal* with Christian Slater. And has starred in the 2003 multi-award-winning film *See Grace Fly*. He stars in the short film *A Fine Young Man*, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival to rave reviews and won the Leo Awards for Best Short Film and Lead Actor for McGillion.

McGillion expressed great interest in auditioning for the role of Montgomery Scott in the 2009 eleventh *Star Trek* film. "I grew up watching *Star Trek* and Scotty was my favourite character. It would be a great honour to follow in James Doohan's footsteps," McGillion said. He had the endorsement of Chris Doohan, the son of original Scotty actor James Doohan, to play the role of Scotty in the film. Though the part ultimately went to Simon Pegg, McGillion still appeared in the film in a different role.

McGillion appeared in season 7 on the TV series *24* as Dr. Levinson, a doctor who tried to extract a dangerous pathogen from Jack Bauer's bloodstream.

McGillion appeared as the husband of a dying patient, in a season 3 episode of *The Good Doctor*.

## Filmography

### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1995 | *The Final Goal* | Jeff Conway |  |
| | *Crying Freeman* | Detective Andrews |  |
| 1998 | *Sploosh* | Angus | Short film |
| 1999 | *Something More* | Andrew |  |
| 2000 | *Skullduggery* | Marlon Carlson |  |
| | *Dangerous Attraction* | Phillip Broger |  |
| | *My 5 Wives* | Paul the Waiter / Danny |  |
| 2001 | *Replicant* | Hal the Captain |  |
| 2002 | *Lonesome Joe* | Coffee Shop Man | Short film |
| 2003 | *A Guy Thing* | Curt |  |
| | *See Grace Fly* | Dominic McKinley |  |
| 2005 | *The Deal* | Richard Kester |  |
| 2007 | *A Dog's Breakfast* | Ryan |  |
| 2009 | *Star Trek* | Barracks Leader |  |
| 2010 | *The Traveler* | Deputy Jerry Pine |  |
| | *Confined* | Detective Chris Cornell |  |
| | *A Fine Young Man* | Mr. Grant | Short film |
| 2012 | *Hit 'n Strum* | Christopher |  |
| 2013 | *Yellowhead* | Inspector | Short film |
| 2015 | *Tomorrowland* | English Teacher |  |
| | *Numb* | Pete |  |
| | *Mr. Richard Francis* | Mr. Richard Francis | Short film |
| 2016 | *The Assignment* | Paul Wincott |  |
| | *Hello Destroyer* | Ron Burr |  |
| 2017 | *Death Note* | Principal |  |
| | *Bigger Fatter Liar* | Tom Shepherd |  |
| | *Heartbeats* | Richard Andrews |  |
| | *Joe Finds Grace* | Guitar Gene |  |
| 2018 | *Midnight Sun* | Blake Davis |  |
| | *Before the Day* | Ray | Short film |
| | *Tom and Grant* | Cop 1 | Short film |
| | *Skyscraper* | On Scene Commander |  |
| | *O.I.* | Det. Dirk | Short film |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1994 | *The Commish* | Officer Lee Burnett | Episode: "Ghost" |
| 1994, 1997 | *The X-Files* | Agent Comox / Fred Neiman | Episodes: "Duane Barry" & "Small Potatoes" |
| 1995 | *Robin's Hoods* | George Cranshaw | Episode: "Rock and a Hard Place" |
| 1996 | *Sliders* | First Officer | Episode: "Obsession" |
| | *Have You Seen My Son* | Mr. McQuinn | TV movie |
| | *She Woke Up Pregnant* | Marshall | TV movie |
| 1997 | *Stargate SG-1* | Young Ernest Littlefield | Episode: "The Torment of Tantalus" |
| | *NightScream* | Deputy Nance | TV movie |
| 1998 | *The Sentinel* | Boz Tate | Episode: "Love Kills" |
| | *Mercy Point* | Private Bane | Episode: "New Arrivals" |
| | *First Wave* | Raphael | Episode: "Lungfish" |
| 1998, 2002,
2004 | *Cold Squad* | Conrad / Neil Cranston /
Constable Bacon | 4 episodes |
| 1999 | *Viper* | John Kane | Episode: "Seminar from Hell" |
| | *A Cooler Climate* | Young Police Officer | TV movie |
| 2000 | *Seven Days* | Brandon | Episode: "Playmates and Presidents" |
| | *Higher Ground* |  | Episode: "Our Strongest Link" |
| | *Strange World* | Frank | Episode: "Food" |
| 2001 | *Da Vinci's Inquest* | Constable Kozak | Episode: "The Sparkle Tour" |
| | *Love and Treason* | Richard Keith | TV movie |
| 2002 | *Just Cause* | Earl Wenk | Episode: "Code of Silence" |
| 2003 | *Smallville* | Lex's Lackey | Episode: "Insurgence" |
| | *The Twilight Zone* | George | Episode: "It's Still a Good Life" |
| | *Jake 2.0* | Earl Wenk | Episode: "The Prince and the Revolution" |
| | *Thanksgiving Family Reunion* | Sheriff Kirkland | TV movie |
| 2004 | *Romeo!* | The Director | Episode: "Hack Came, Hacksaw, Hack Conquered" |
| | *NTSB: The Crash of Flight 323* | Joe | TV movie |
| | *Jack* | Bob | TV movie |
| | *The Life* | Jerry | TV movie |
| 2004–2009 | *Stargate: Atlantis* | Carson Beckett | 62 episodes |
| 2006 | *Engaged to Kill* | Lester Denton | TV movie |
| 2007, 2010 | *Sanctuary* | Terrance Wexford | 5 episodes |
| 2008 | *Beyond Loch Ness* | Michael Marshall | TV movie |
| | *Mom, Dad and Her* | Ben | TV movie |
| 2009 | *24* | Dr. Levinson | Episode: "Day 7: 6:00 a.m.–7:00 a.m." |
| 2009, 2015 | *Supernatural* | Jim Grossman / Peter Harper | Episodes: "Fallen Idols" & "There's No Place Like Home" |
| 2010 |  | Lawrence Parker | Episode: "Fruition" |
| | *Shattered* | Victor Hugo | Episode: "She Had You Fooled" |
| | *A Trace of Danger* | Mike | TV movie |
| 2011 | *Endgame* | Sebastian Wilks | Episode: "Deadman Talking" |
| | *Against the Wall* | Sam Burns | Episode: "Boys Are Back" |
| | *Metal Shifters* | Sheriff | TV movie |
| | *Magic Beyond Words* | Pete Rowling | TV movie |
| | *Finding a Family* | Jim Bante | TV movie |
| | *Christmas Magic* | Scott | TV movie |
| 2012 | *Alcatraz* | Alan Sylvane Jr. | Episode: "Pilot" |
| | *True Justice* | Magellan / Magellion | 2 episodes |
| | *Fringe* | Edwin Massey | Episode: "The Recordist" |
| | *Once Upon a Time* | Knave of Hearts | 2 episodes |
| | *Witchslayer Gretl* | Hansel | TV movie |
| 2012, 2014 | *R.L. Stine's The Haunting Hour* | Dad | 2 episodes |
| 2013 | *Cult* | Glen Nash | Episode: "The Prophecy of St. Clare" |
| | *The Killing* | Andrew Clarke | Episode: "Eminent Domain" |
| | *Delete* | Raymond Vince | 2 episodes |
| | *Baby Sellers* | Special Agent Holmes | TV movie |
| 2014 | *Spooksville* | Commodore Whalepanz | Episode: "Shell Shock" |
| | *Signed, Sealed, Delivered* | Henry Barrett | Episode: "The Masterpiece" |
| | *Far from Home* | Graham Westlake | TV movie |
| 2015 | *The Whispers* | Paul Wheeler | Episode: "Meltdown" |
| | *When Calls the Heart* | Floyd Conklin | Episode: "Heart and Soul" |
| | *All of My Heart* | Chef Oliver | TV movie |
| | *Reluctant Witness* | Warren Cooper | TV movie |
| | *Ice Sculpture Christmas* | Frank Shaw | TV movie |
| 2015–2016 | *Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce* | Gil | 3 episodes |
| 2016 | *Rescue Me* | Larry | TV movie |
| | *Unclaimed* | Peter Ritchie | TV movie |
| 2018 | *The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco* | Howard Williams | 2 episodes |
| | *Darrow & Darrow* | Coach Reed | 2 episodes |
| | *Frontier* | Major Vinnicombe | 3 episodes |
| | *Time for Me to Come Home for Christmas* | Lionel | TV movie |
| 2018–2019 | *The Flash* | Earl Cox | 3 episodes |
| 2019 | *Unspeakable* | J.C.W. Weber | 2 episodes |
| | *The Good Doctor* | Leo Adan | Episode: "Moonshot" |
| 2019–2020 | *Picture Perfect Mysteries* | Nick Carlin | 3 episodes |
| 2021 | *A Million Little Things* | Dr. Anton | Episode: "Not Alone" |
| | *Ann Rule's Circle of Deception* | Russell Douglas | TV movie |
| | *An Unexpected Christmas* | Tom | TV movie |
| | *Christmas in Tahoe* | Archie Donaldson | TV movie |
| 2021–2023 | *Firefly Lane* | Bud | 12 episodes |
| 2022 | *So Help Me Todd* | Trevor Rapp | Episode: "Second Second Chance" |
| 2022–2024 | *Family Law* | Chip Crombie | 6 episodes |
| 2023 | *Fargo* | Captain Muscavage | 2 episodes |
| 2025 | *Happy Face* | William | Post-production |

## InfoBox

| Paul McGillion | |
| --- | --- |
| McGillion at the 2011 Phoenix Comicon | |
| Born | (1969-01-05) January 5, 1969
Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1994–present |
| Children | 1 |
| Website | paulmcgillion.com |


abstract: The football competition at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics took place at the Wutaishan Stadium and the Jiangning Sports Center, both located in Nanjing, China, between 14–27 August 2014. There were two tournaments, one for boys and one for girls. Players must be 15 years old to be eligible to participate. Each match lasted 80 minutes, consisting of two periods of 40 minutes, with an interval of 15 minutes.

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# Football at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics

The **football** competition at the **2014 Summer Youth Olympics** took place at the Wutaishan Stadium and the Jiangning Sports Center, both located in Nanjing, China, between 14–27 August 2014. There were two tournaments, one for boys and one for girls. Players must be 15 years old (born between 1 January and 31 December 1999) to be eligible to participate.

Each match lasted 80 minutes, consisting of two periods of 40 minutes, with an interval of 15 minutes.

## Participating teams

One team from each continental confederation participated in each tournament. The same country may not participate in both the boys' and girls' tournament. As hosts, China was given Asia's spot to compete in the girls' tournament (and thus could not participate in the boys' tournament). Teams may qualify through preliminary competitions, or be nominated for participation by their confederation, with the invited teams ratified by FIFA during their meeting in Zürich on 3–4 October 2013.

| Confederation | Boys' | Girls' |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Africa (CAF) | Cape Verde | Namibia |
| Asia (AFC) | South Korea | China |
| Europe (UEFA) | Iceland | Slovakia |
| North America (CONCACAF) | Honduras | Mexico |
| Oceania (OFC) | Vanuatu | Papua New Guinea |
| South America (CONMEBOL) | Peru | Venezuela |

## Schedule

On each day two matches were played.

*All times are CST (UTC+8)*

| Event Date | Event Day | Starting Time | Event Details |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| August 14 | Thursday | 18:00 | Girls' Group Stage |
| August 15 | Friday | 18:00 | Boys' Group Stage |
| August 17 | Sunday | 18:00 | Girls' Group Stage |
| August 18 | Monday | 18:00 | Boys' Group Stage |
| August 20 | Wednesday | 18:00 | Girls' Group Stage |
| August 21 | Thursday | 18:00 | Boys' Group Stage |
| August 23 | Saturday | 18:00 | Girls' Semifinals |
| August 24 | Sunday | 18:00 | Boys' Semifinals |
| August 25 | Monday | 18:00 | 5th Place Matches |
| August 26 | Tuesday | 18:00 | **Girls' Medal Matches** |
| August 27 | Wednesday | 18:00 | **Boys' Medal Matches** |
|

## Medal summary

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | China (CHN) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| | Peru (PER) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 3 | South Korea (KOR) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| | Venezuela (VEN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 5 | Iceland (ISL) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| | Mexico (MEX) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (6 entries) | | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Boys'
 | Peru (PER) | South Korea (KOR) | Iceland (ISL) |
| Girls'
 | China (CHN) | Venezuela (VEN) | Mexico (MEX) |

## InfoBox

Football at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics
|  | |
| --- | --- |
| Tournament details | |
| Host country | China |
| Dates | 14–27 August |
| Teams | 6 (boys) + 6 (girls) (from 6 confederations) |
| Venue(s) | 2 (in 1 host city) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions | Peru (boys)
China (girls) |
| Runners-up | South Korea (boys)
Venezuela (girls) |
| Third place | Iceland (boys)
Mexico (girls) |
| Fourth place | Cape Verde (boys)
Slovakia (girls) |
|


title: Peaceful Easy Feeling

abstract: "Peaceful Easy Feeling" is a song written by Jack Tempchin and recorded by the Eagles. It was the third single from the band's 1972 debut album Eagles. The single reached No. 22 on the charts and is one of the band's most popular songs. Glenn Frey sings the lead vocal, with Bernie Leadon providing the main harmony vocal and Randy Meisner completing this three-part harmony.

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# Peaceful Easy Feeling

"**Peaceful Easy Feeling**" is a song written by Jack Tempchin and recorded by the Eagles. It was the third single from the band's 1972 debut album *Eagles*. The single reached No. 22 on the charts and is one of the band's most popular songs. Glenn Frey sings the lead vocal, with Bernie Leadon providing the main harmony vocal (starting in the beginning of the second verse) and Randy Meisner completing this three-part harmony.

## Background

Jack Tempchin wrote the song during a period in which he was performing at folk coffee shops around his hometown of San Diego. A friend had created a poster to advertise his performances, which included fake quotes from famous individuals attesting to Tempchin's talent, which landed in the hands of a shop owner in nearby El Centro. Tempchin slept on the floor of the club the night of his show, and wrote an early version of "Peaceful Easy Feeling" on the back of the poster. Back in San Diego, Tempchin was rooming in a communal-type home with other musicians when inspiration for completing the song hit.

> We'd sit in front of the picture window and watch the beautiful girls on the bus stop bench and fall in love with them until their bus came. We talked in those days about how love never seems to show up until you stop looking for it. But, as young guys, we were unable to stop looking for love even for one day.

During a following trip to Old Town San Diego State Historic Park, Tempchin saw a girl with "turquoise earrings against her dark skin," which he incorporated into the song. "I guess I was trying to distill the beauty of every girl I saw into words on paper and then into a song," he later stated. He later completed the song's third verse in the parking lot of the Der Wienerschnitzel fast food establishment in San Diego.

Some time later, Tempchin had moved to Los Angeles and was attempting to break into the music industry alongside Jackson Browne, Glenn Frey, and JD Souther. Frey heard Tempchin's "Peaceful Easy Feeling" and asked if he could develop it further, adding that his new band, the Eagles, had only just formed eight days prior. He presented Tempchin with a cassette demo on the track the next day, who later remarked, "It was so good I couldn’t believe it."

*Billboard* described the song as "a pop-flavored progressive country effort with lyrics that penetrate and stick in the mind." *Record World* called it "mellow country folk music at its best."

## Personnel

## Cover versions

On the 1993 album *Common Thread: The Songs of the Eagles*, country music band Little Texas recorded a cover of "Peaceful Easy Feeling". This cover version charted at No. 74 on the U.S. *Billboard* Hot Country Songs charts and was later included on the band's 1995 *Greatest Hits* album.

## Charts

| Chart (1972–1973) | Peak
position |
| --- | --- |
| Canada (Canadian Hot 100) | 35 |
| Canadian Adult Contemporary (*RPM*) | 22 |
| US *Billboard* Hot 100 | 22 |
| US Easy Listening (*Billboard*) | 20 |

## Certifications

| Region | Certification | Certified units/sales |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom (BPI) | Silver | 200,000 |
| Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.
 | | |

## InfoBox

| "Peaceful Easy Feeling" | |
| --- | --- |
|  | |
| Single by Eagles | |
| from the album  *Eagles* | |
| B-side | "Tryin'" |
| Released | December 1, 1972 |
| Recorded | Olympic Sound (London, England) |
| Genre | Soft rock, country rock |
| Length | 4:13 |
| Label | Asylum |
| Songwriter(s) | Jack Tempchin |
| Producer(s) | Glyn Johns |
| Eagles singles chronology | |
| "Witchy Woman"
(1972) "**Peaceful Easy Feeling**"
(1972) "Tequila Sunrise"
(1973) | |


abstract: The 2015 African Games women's football tournament qualification decided the participating teams of the 2015 African Games women's football tournament. A total of eight teams qualified to play in the women's football tournament, including Congo who qualified automatically as hosts. Both the qualifying rounds and the final tournament were open to full women's national teams.

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# Football at the 2015 African Games – Women's qualification

The **2015 African Games women's football tournament qualification** decided the participating teams of the 2015 African Games women's football tournament. A total of eight teams qualified to play in the women's football tournament, including Congo who qualified automatically as hosts. Both the qualifying rounds and the final tournament were open to full women's national teams (unlike the men's tournament, which was age-restricted).

## Teams

A total of 17 teams entered the qualifying rounds, organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF).

| Round | Teams entering round | No. of teams |
| --- | --- | --- |
| First round |  | 6 |
| Second round |  | 11 |
| Qualifying rounds | Total | 17 |
| Final tournament |  | 1 |

## Format

Qualification ties were played on a home-and-away two-legged basis. If the aggregate score was tied after the second leg, the away goals rule would be applied, and if still level, the penalty shoot-out would be used to determine the winner (no extra time would be played).

The seven winners of the second round qualified for the final tournament.

## Schedule

The schedule of the qualifying rounds was as follows.

| Round | Leg | Date |
| --- | --- | --- |
| First round | First leg | 20–22 February 2015 |
| | Second leg | 6–8 March 2015 |
| Second round | First leg | 20–22 March 2015 |
| | Second leg | 10–12 April 2015 |

## Qualification rounds

### First round

| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| **Mali** | w/o | Gabon |  |  |
| Madagascar | 2–3 | **Botswana** | 1–3 | 1–0 |
| Libya | w/o | **Guinea-Bissau** |  |  |

Note: Madagascar played their first FIFA sanctioned international match. Gabon and Libya withdrew. Gabon were not approved to travel by the Ministry of Youth and Sports.

| Mali | Cancelled | Gabon |
| --- | --- | --- |
|  | Report |  |

Stade Modibo Kéïta, Bamako

| Gabon | Cancelled | Mali |
| --- | --- | --- |
|  | Report |  |

*Mali won on walkover.*

---

| Madagascar | 1–3 | Botswana |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mamiseheno  26' | Report | Ramafifi  12'
Moahi  33'
Bosa  55' |

Mahamasina Municipal Stadium, AntananarivoReferee: Maria Rivet (Mauritius)

| Botswana | 0–1 | Madagascar |
| --- | --- | --- |
|  | Report | Raharimalala  22' |

Botswana National Stadium, GaboroneReferee: Thérèse Sylvie Abou'ou (Cameroon)

*Botswana won 3–2 on aggregate.*

---

| Libya | Cancelled | Guinea-Bissau |
| --- | --- | --- |
|  | Report |  |

| Guinea-Bissau | Cancelled | Libya |
| --- | --- | --- |
|  | Report |  |

*Guinea-Bissau won on walkover.*

### Second round

Winners qualified for 2015 African Games.

| Team 1 | Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score | Team 2 | 1st leg | 2nd leg |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Mali | 1–9 | **Nigeria** | 1–1 | 0–8 |
| Botswana | 0–6 | **South Africa** | 0–1 | 0–5 |
| **Ghana** | 4–3 | Zimbabwe | 2–1 | 2–2 |
| Zambia | 5–6 | **Tanzania** | 2–4 | 3–2 |
| Ethiopia | 2–4 | **Cameroon** | 1–2 | 1–2 |
| Guinea-Bissau | w/o | **Ivory Coast** |  |  |
| **Egypt** | 2–1 | Senegal | 0–0 | 2–1 |

Note: Guinea-Bissau withdrew.

| Mali | 1–1 | Nigeria |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Tangara  83' | Report | Okobi  52' |

Stade Modibo Kéïta, BamakoReferee: Fatou Thioune (Senegal)

| Nigeria | 8–0 | Mali |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Oparanozie  3', 45+2'
Ordega  19', 62'
Oshoala  36', 47'
Nwabuoku  69'
Sunday  71' | Report |  |

Abuja National Stadium, AbujaReferee: Joyce Obenewa Appiah (Ghana)

*Nigeria won 9–1 on aggregate.*

---

| Botswana | 0–1 | South Africa |
| --- | --- | --- |
|  | Report | Mollo  28' |

Molepolole Stadium, MolepololeReferee: Rusina Kuda Majo (Zimbabwe)

| South Africa | 5–0 | Botswana |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Makhabane  8' (pen.)
Modise  14'
Dlamini  52'
Matlou  59'
Ngubane  67' | Report |  |

Dobsonville Stadium, JohannesburgReferee: Gladys Lengwe (Zambia)

*South Africa won 6–0 on aggregate.*

---

| Ghana | 2–1 | Zimbabwe |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Aduako  28' (pen.)
Suleman  50' | Report | Mbipa  68' |

Accra Sports Stadium, AccraReferee: Therese Aimee Nteme Zoa (Cameroon)

| Zimbabwe | 2–2 | Ghana |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Zulu  40'
Neshamba  75' | Report | Boakye  20'
Addo  74' |

Rufaro Stadium, HarareReferee: Grace Natasha Msiska (Malawi)

*Ghana won 4–3 on aggregate.*

---

| Zambia | 2–4 | Tanzania |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Zulu  44'
Chanda  69' | Report | Rashid  50', 77'
Boniface  59'
Mwasikili  89' |

Nkoloma Stadium, LusakaReferee: Damaris Wangari Kimani (Kenya)

| Tanzania | 2–3 | Zambia |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Rashid  3'
Shurua  29' | Report | Chanda  53'
Lungu  61' (pen.)
Zulu  89' |

National Stadium, Dar es SalaamReferee: Anna Akoyi (Uganda)

*Tanzania won 6–5 on aggregate.*

---

| Ethiopia | 1–2 | Cameroon |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Abera  15' | Report | Meffometou  83'
Ngono Mani  88' |

Addis Ababa Stadium, Addis AbabaReferee: Sara Mohamed Ramadan (Egypt)

| Cameroon | 2–1 | Ethiopia |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Onguéné  41'
Ngono Mani  77' | Report | Ngo Ndom  2' (o.g.) |

Stade Ahmadou Ahidjo, YaoundéReferee: Kankou Coulibaly (Mali)

*Cameroon won 4–2 on aggregate.*

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| Guinea-Bissau | Cancelled | Ivory Coast |
| --- | --- | --- |
|  | Report |  |

| Ivory Coast | Cancelled | Guinea-Bissau |
| --- | --- | --- |
|  | Report |  |

*Ivory Coast won on walkover.*

---

| Egypt | 0–0 | Senegal |
| --- | --- | --- |
|  | Report |  |

Petro Sport Stadium, CairoReferee: Zomadre Sonia Kore (Ivory Coast)

| Senegal | 1–2 | Egypt |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Diakhate  60' | Report | Nasser  37'
Tarik  76' |

Stade Caroline Faye, M'BourReferee: Aissata Ameyo Amegee (Togo)

*Egypt won 2–1 on aggregate.*

## Qualified teams

The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament.

| Team | Qualified on | Previous appearances in tournament |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Congo (hosts) | 14 September 2011 | 0 (debut) |
| Nigeria | 10 April 2015 | 2 (***2003***, **2007**) |
| South Africa | 11 April 2015 | 3 (2003, 2007, 2011) |
| Ghana | 12 April 2015 | 2 (2007, 2011) |
| Tanzania | 10 April 2015 | 1 (2011) |
| Cameroon | 11 April 2015 | 2 (2003, **2011**) |
| Ivory Coast | 20 March 2015 | 0 (debut) |
| Egypt | 11 April 2015 | 0 (debut) |

1 **Bold** indicates champion for that year. *Italic* indicates host for that year.

On 26 August 2015, the CAF announced that Egypt had withdrawn from the competition. Senegal, the team eliminated by Egypt in the final round, declined to replace them due to short notice. Therefore, only seven teams competed in the final tournament.

## Goalscorers

3 goals 2 goals   1 goal   Own goal

## InfoBox

2015 African Games women's football tournament qualification
| Tournament details | |
| --- | --- |
| Dates | 22 February – 12 April |
| Teams | 17 (from 1 confederation) |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 14 |
| Goals scored | 48 (3.43 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) | Asha Rashid (3 goals) |
|


abstract: The 2015 African Games women's football tournament was the 4th edition of the African Games women's football tournament. The women's football tournament was held in Brazzaville, the Republic of the Congo between 6–18 September 2015 as part of the 2015 African Games. The tournament was open to full women's national teams.

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# Football at the 2015 African Games – Women's tournament

The **2015 African Games women's football tournament** was the 4th edition of the African Games women's football tournament. The women's football tournament was held in Brazzaville, the Republic of the Congo between 6–18 September 2015 as part of the 2015 African Games. The tournament was open to full women's national teams (unlike the men's tournament, which was age-restricted).

## Qualification

Congo qualified automatically as hosts, while the remaining seven spots were determined by the qualifying rounds, which were organized by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) and took place from February to April 2015.

### Qualified teams

The following eight teams qualified for the final tournament.

| Team | Appearance | Previous best performance |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Cameroon | 3rd | **Gold medal** (2011) |
| Congo (hosts) | 1st | Debut |
| Egypt | 1st | Debut |
| Ghana | 3rd | Silver medal (2011) |
| Ivory Coast | 1st | Debut |
| Nigeria | 3rd | **Gold medal** (2003, 2007) |
| South Africa | 4th | Silver medal (2003, 2007) |
| Tanzania | 2nd | Group stage (2011) |

On 26 August 2015, the CAF announced that Egypt had withdrawn from the competition. Senegal, the team eliminated by Egypt in the final round, declined to replace them due to short notice. Therefore, only seven teams competed in the tournament, and Group B, where Egypt were drawn in, was composed of three teams only.

## Venues

A new 60,000 capacity stadium, Stade Municipal de Kintélé, was built for the 2015 African Games. The Stade Alphonse Massemba-Débat and Stade Kintélé 3 were also used.

## Squads

## Group stage

The draw was held on 9 July 2015, 11:00 UTC+2, at the CAF Headquarters in Cairo, Egypt. The eight teams were drawn into two groups of four. For the draw, the hosts Congo were seeded in position A1 and the holders Cameroon were seeded in position B1. The remaining six teams were drawn from one pot to fill the other positions in the two groups.

The top two teams of each group advanced to the semi-finals.

All times were local, WAT (UTC+1).

### Group A

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | Ivory Coast | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | +3 | 9 | Knockout stage |
| 2 | Nigeria | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 3 | +6 | | 6 |
| 3 | Tanzania | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 1 |  |
| 4 | Congo (H) | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 5 | | 1 |

Source: CAF
(H) Hosts

| Congo | 1–5 | Nigeria |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mabahou-Ngoma  61' | Report | Oparanozie  5', 15', 89'
Sunday  7'
Uchendu  90' |

Stade Alphonse Massemba-Débat, BrazzavilleReferee: Marximina Bernardo (Angola)

| Tanzania | 0–1 | Ivory Coast |
| --- | --- | --- |
|  | Report | Niamien  48' |

Stade Municipal de Kintélé, BrazzavilleReferee: Fatou Thioune (Senegal)

---

| Nigeria | 3–0 | Tanzania |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Oparanozie  13', 46'
Sunday  51' | Report |  |

Stade Alphonse Massemba-Débat, BrazzavilleReferee: Salma Mukansanga (Rwanda)

| Ivory Coast | 1–0 | Congo |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Akaffou  38' | Report |  |

Stade Municipal de Kintélé, BrazzavilleReferee: Maria Rivet (Mauritius)

---

| Congo | 1–1 | Tanzania |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Mbondzo  45' | Report | Mafuru  53' |

Stade Municipal de Kintélé, BrazzavilleReferee: Jeanne Ekoumou (Cameroon)

| Nigeria | 1–2 | Ivory Coast |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Amanze  10' | Report | Elloh  45'
Nahi  77' (pen.) |

Stade Alphonse Massemba-Débat, BrazzavilleReferee: Christine Ziga (Ghana)

### Group B

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | Cameroon | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | Knockout stage |
| 2 | Ghana | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | | 2 |
| 3 | South Africa | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |  |
| 4 | Egypt | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Withdrew |

Source: CAF
Notes:

| Cameroon | 1–1 | South Africa |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Manie  88' (pen.) | Report | Smeda  71' |

Stade Alphonse Massemba-Débat, BrazzavilleReferee: Neama Mohamed (Egypt)

| Ghana | Cancelled | Egypt |
| --- | --- | --- |
|  | Report |  |

Stade Municipal de Kintélé, Brazzaville

---

| South Africa | 0–0 | Ghana |
| --- | --- | --- |
|  | Report |  |

Stade Municipal de Kintélé, BrazzavilleReferee: Chancelle Ngakosso (Congo)

| Egypt | Cancelled | Cameroon |
| --- | --- | --- |
|  | Report |  |

Stade Alphonse Massemba-Débat, Brazzaville

---

| Cameroon | 1–1 | Ghana |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Akaba  54' | Report | Kobblah  32' |

Stade Kintélé 3, BrazzavilleReferee: Aissatou Keita (Guinea)

| South Africa | Cancelled | Egypt |
| --- | --- | --- |
|  | Report |  |

Stade Kintélé 3, Brazzaville

## Knockout stage

### Bracket

### Semi-finals

| Ivory Coast | 0–1 | Ghana |
| --- | --- | --- |
|  | Report | Suleman  15' |

Stade Kintélé 3, BrazzavilleReferee: Salma Mukansanga (Rwanda)

---

| Cameroon | 2–1 | Nigeria |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Abena  10'
Ngono Mani  14' | Report | Ebi  48' |

Stade Kintélé 3, BrazzavilleReferee: Maria Rivet (Mauritius)

### Bronze medal match

| Ivory Coast | 2–1 | Nigeria |
| --- | --- | --- |
| N'Guessan  70'
F. Coulibaly  77' | Report | Ihezuo  53' |

Stade Alphonse Massemba-Débat, BrazzavilleReferee: Fatou Thioune (Senegal)

### Gold medal match

| Ghana | 1–0 | Cameroon |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Boakye  88' | Report |  |

Stade Alphonse Massemba-Débat, BrazzavilleReferee: Marximina Bernardo (Angola)

## Final ranking

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Final result |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|  | Ghana | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | +2 | 8 | Gold Medal |
|  | Cameroon | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 5 | Silver Medal |
|  | Ivory Coast | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | +3 | 12 | Bronze Medal |
| 4 | Nigeria | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 7 | +4 | 6 | Fourth place |
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| 5 | South Africa | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | Eliminated in
group stage |
| 6 | Tanzania | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 4 | | 1 |
| 7 | Congo (H) | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 5 | | 1 |
| 8 | Egypt | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Withdrew |

Source: rsssf
(H) Hosts

## Goalscorers

5 goals 2 goals 1 goal      1. "CAF Full Calendar". CAFonline.com. Retrieved 1 March 2015.
2. "African Games (Women): Finalists for Brazzaville decided". CAF. 13 April 2015.
3. "Egypt withdraws from African Games Brazzaville 2015". CAF. 26 August 2015.
4. "Accreditation for African Games Congo 2015 draw". CAF. 29 June 2015.
5. "RESULTS OF AFRICAN GAMES BRAZZAVILLE 2015 DRAW". CAFonline.com. 9 July 2015. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
6. "Debutants Lady Pharaohs in 'group of death'". CAF. 9 July 2015.
7. "Procedure for the African Games Brazzaville 2015 draw". CAF. 8 July 2015.
8. "Fixtures of the Final Tournament of the 11th African Games- Congo 2015". CAF.
9. "Drawing of lots to decide between Ghana and South Africa". CAF. 13 September 2015.
10. "Ghana – Cote d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso – Nigeria for semis". CAF. 14 September 2015.

## InfoBox

2015 African Games
women's football tournament
| Tournament details | |
| --- | --- |
| Host country | Republic of the Congo |
| City | Brazzaville |
| Dates | 6–18 September 2015 |
| Teams | 7 (from 1 confederation) |
| Venue(s) | 3 (in 1 host city) |
| Final positions | |
| Champions | Ghana (1st title) |
| Runners-up | Cameroon |
| Third place | Ivory Coast |
| Fourth place | Nigeria |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 13 |
| Goals scored | 28 (2.15 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) | Desire Oparanozie (5 goals) |
|


title: Pauline Menes

abstract: Pauline Menes (1924–2009) served in the Maryland House of Delegates for 40 years. In the 1970s she co-founded the Maryland Women's Legislative Caucus, the first caucus of its kind in the United States; founded the Women's Network of the National Conference of State Legislatures; and was the first woman to serve on the state Judiciary Committee. Over the years she helped pass more than 2,000 bills and policy changes. She was inducted into the Maryland Women's Hall of Fame in 2008.

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# Pauline Menes

**Pauline Menes** (1924–2009) served in the Maryland House of Delegates for 40 years. In the 1970s she co-founded the Maryland Women's Legislative Caucus, the first caucus of its kind in the United States; founded the Women's Network of the National Conference of State Legislatures; and was the first woman to serve on the state Judiciary Committee. Over the years she helped pass more than 2,000 bills and policy changes. She was inducted into the Maryland Women's Hall of Fame in 2008.

## Early life and education

She was born in New York City in 1904 and attended New York public schools. She studied business economics and geography at Hunter College, graduating with a B. A. degree in 1945.

After college she moved to Washington, D.C., to take a wartime job as an economist for the Office of the Quartermaster General of the United States Army. From 1949 to 1950, she worked as a geographer for the Army Map Service.

## Political career

### Prince George's county

Menes first became involved in politics in 1953, when she helped organize a voter registration drive in the University Hills area of Prince George's County. She remained active in county politics, and in 1962 ran for county Register of Wills, losing the election by a hundred votes. She served as County Board of Elections Chief Clerk in 1963 and Secretary for the Democratic Steering Committee in 1966. In the mid-1960s she also worked as a substitute teacher in county public high schools.

### House of Delegates

She first won a seat in the Maryland House of Delegates in 1966, and was continually reelected until she retired in 2007. She represented the 21st District, a section of northern Prince George's County which included College Park, Beltsville, and Laurel. During her tenure she focused on education, healthcare, criminal justice, aging, the arts, and women's issues, helping to pass over 2,000 bills and policy changes.

During her first term she was appointed to her first leadership position by Governor Spiro Agnew. As chair of the Commission on the Public Library Laws, she organized legislation to improve the state's library system.

In 1971, Menes was the subject of a notorious joke by Thomas Hunter Lowe, then the Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates. At the time, she was one of only eleven female lawmakers in Maryland. The House building in Annapolis, Maryland, did not have a women's restroom; the women had to walk across a crowded concourse to use a public restroom. The delay was serious enough to cause women lawmakers to miss an occasional vote. After Menes complained, Lowe appointed her "chairman" of the women's restroom committee and, in front of all the delegates, presented her with a fur-covered toilet seat. Menes later claimed the incident as a victory of sorts, noting that it was the first time a woman had appeared on the rostrum. The following year she co-founded the Maryland women's legislative caucus, notably the first of its kind in the United States, and served as its president until 1979. The women got their own restroom in 1973.

In the mid-1970s, she worked to change a state law that prohibited a woman from filing a civil lawsuit against her husband. She said at the time that the changes would "go a long way to helping Maryland women protect themselves...Just the threat of financial responsibility will stay many a husband's hand." She successfully sponsored bills to require AIDS testing of prisoners, create needle-exchange programs, and require medical personnel, teachers, and social workers to report suspected child abuse.

Menes was active in many committees and advisory boards. She founded the Women's Network of the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) in 1977 and served as its president until 1979. She led the Maryland delegation to the National Women's Conference in 1977 and served as president of the National Order of Women Legislators from 1979 to 1980. In 1979 she became the first female member of the state Judiciary Committee, on which she served until the end of her career. She chaired the Special Committee on Drug and Alcohol Abuse from 1987 to 2006. At various times she was a member of the Rules and Executive Nominations Committee, the Legislative Policy Committee, the Joint Committee on Legislative Ethics, the Joint Oversight Committee on Corrections, the Maryland State Arts Council, the Maryland Commission on Aging, and the Prince George's County Domestic Violence Task Force, among others. During her last few years in office she served as Maryland's House parliamentarian.

## Awards

* Ann London Scott Award for Legislative Excellence, Maryland National Organization for Women, 1976
* International Women's Year Award, Prince George's County International Women's Year Commission, 1977
* Woman of the Year award, College Park Business and Professional Women's Association, 1978
* Hunter College Hall of Fame, 1986
* Prince George's County's Women's Hall of Fame, 1989
* Annual MNADV Award, Maryland Network Against Domestic Violence, 1995
* Dewitt Award, Maryland Correctional Administrators Association, 2001
* Maryland Women's Hall of Fame, 2008

## Personal life

She married Melvin Menes on September 1, 1946. The couple met at the Office of the Quartermaster General, where she trained him as her replacement. They had three daughters.

She died of pneumonia at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, Maryland, on May 16, 2009. She was buried at the King David Memorial Gardens in Falls Church, Virginia.

## Further reading

## InfoBox

| Pauline Menes | |
| --- | --- |
|  | |
|  | |
| Member of the Maryland House of Delegates
from the 21st district | |
| **In office**
1967–2007 | |
|  | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Pauline Herskowitz
(1924-07-16)July 16, 1924
New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Died | May 16, 2009(2009-05-16) (aged 84)
Silver Spring, Maryland, U.S. |
| Resting place | King David Memorial Gardens, Falls Church, Virginia |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse | Melvin Menes |
| Children | 3 |
| Alma mater | Hunter College |
|  | |


title: Pauline Menczer

abstract: Pauline Menczer is an Australian surfer. She was Women's World Champion for Professional Surfing in 1993.

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# Pauline Menczer

**Pauline Menczer** (born 21 May 1970) is an Australian surfer. She was Women's World Champion for Professional Surfing in 1993.

## Surfing career

Menczer started surfing aged 12 in about 1982. She won the 1988 women's amateur world title at the competition held in Puerto Rico, the 1993 women's world championship and was a long-standing competitor on the world championship tour.

In 1991 and 1992 Menczer was narrowly beaten in the world championship by Wendy Botha, but blitzed the field in 1993 becoming the women's world champion of professional surfers. In that year she qualified for half of the competition finals, and ended up the winner in a quarter of all the competitions. The trophy that she was awarded was damaged and she did not receive any financial award. She also was World Qualifying Series champion in 2002 from the event held in Hawaii. In a career over 20 years she won a total of 20 WCT events and 8 WQS events; only Layne Beachley has won more.

Menczer failed to requalify for the 2005 world championship tour. Her sponsors were Stick Girl Surfboards (California) and Ocean Shores Surf Shop.

In March 2018 Menczer was inducted into the Australian Surfing Hall of Fame.

## Personal life

Menczer grew up in Bondi, Australia, with her mother and three siblings. Her taxi-driver father was murdered when she was five. She attended Bondi Public and Dover Heights Girls’ High schools. She acquired the nickname 'Naughty Pauls' that continued into her surfing career. From age 14, and throughout her surfing career, Menczer suffered from sometimes crippling rheumatoid arthritis. Since 2019 she has had a rare autoimmune disease that affects her skin.

During her career Menczer travelled the surfing circuit with her "coach", but Nadege was really her French girlfriend.

In 2021 Menczer lived in Byron Bay and was working as a bus driver but has subsequently become a carer.

Her struggles, and that of other women to compete in a male dominated sport, is part of the movie *Girls Can't Surf*. The film's director Chris Nelius, is lobbying Waverley Council to have a statue of Menczer erected at Bondi beach. In 2022 an image of Menczer was added to the mural of surfers on Bondi beach boardwalk by artist Megan Hales.

## Films

Menczer has appeared in a number of surf videos featuring female surfers, including:

* *Blue Crush* by Bill Ballard (1998)
* *Peaches: the Core of Women's Surfing* by Bill Ballard (2000)
* *Surfabout: Down Under* by Jenny Hedley
* *Girls Can't Surf* by Chris Nelius (2021)


title: Payns

abstract: Payns is a commune in the Aube department in north-central France.

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# Payns

**Payns** (French pronunciation: \[pɛ̃\]) is a commune in the Aube department in north-central France.

## Population

Historical population
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1962 | 854 |  |
| 1968 | 912 | +6.8% |
| 1975 | 848 | −7.0% |
| 1982 | 768 | −9.4% |
| 1990 | 867 | +12.9% |
| 1999 | 894 | +3.1% |
| 2008 | 1,170 | +30.9% |

## History

## Prehistory

Some traces were discovered through an aerial archaeological survey. At a place called La Ruelle, a protohistoric necropolis with square enclosures was photographed, thus testifying to the existence of protohistoric communities.

## Roman and Gallo-Roman eras

The Antonine Itinerary, “Itinerarium Antonini Augusti”, dating from the end of the 3rd century, evokes Payns because of the possibility of fording the Seine at this place. The Tabula Peutingeriana (map) also testifies to this, itself a copy of a Roman map dating from the 13th century, on which appear the 53 roads which served the Roman Empire.

## Middle Ages

The oldest evocation of the village of Payns is listed in the 9th century.

The archives of the department of Aube contain some Carolingian documents, in particular a cartulary from the abbey of Saint-Pierre de Montiéramey, founded around 887 by a priest named Arremar, in the middle of the vast Der forest. It mentions the sale by Hildemar to Arrémar of the "villa Pendennagio" which is none other than the village of Payns.

At the beginning of the 12th century, the stronghold of Payns was a vassal of the county of Champagne. This explains why Hugues de Payns accompanied his suzerain, Hugues de Troyes, count of Champagne to Jerusalem in 1104.

Having decided to settle there, Hugues de Payns returned to Jerusalem in 1114.

A mill has been in operation since 1236, it belonged to the priory of Foissy. Ruined by the English during the Hundred Years War, it was rented to the lessee to rebuild it. Jean Le Bray rented it for life for 26 livre a paper mill, two wheat and one hemp in 1476; they were in very poor condition and he had to sell the lease fairly quickly to Philippe Le Mercier and his wife Claude Le Bé. In 1531 it passed into the Largentier family, Nicolas marrying Madeleine Lemercier, daughter of the previous owners. In 1583, after a trial, the priory of Foissy gave up ownership of the mills against an annual rent of 63 livre.

## The Templar Knights

Hugues de Payns founded in the Holy Land, the order "Paupere Militie Christi", in modern English the Militia of the Poor Knights of Christ. After the First Crusade, the Council of Troyes fixed the rule of what had become the order "Pauperes commilitones Christi templique Salomonici Hierosalemitanis", or in modern English, the militia of the poor knights of the temple of Solomon, better known today under the order name of the Temple or the Knights Templar.

In 1998, archaeological research carried out on the site of the commandery of Payns revealed coins dated between 1035 and 1240. The Payns monetary deposit was discovered in September 1998; it is made up of 708 coins from the 12th century and 13th century. Royal coins are strongly represented: 499 deniers of monarchs from Louis VI (1108-1137) to Philip II (1180-1123). Very few local coins: only 7 deniers of the archdiocese of Reims.

## InfoBox

| Payns | |
| --- | --- |
| Commune | |
| Foundation of a chapel | |
|  | |
| Location of Payns | |
| PaynsPayns | |
| Coordinates: 48°22′57″N 3°58′41″E / 48.3825°N 3.9781°E / 48.3825; 3.9781 | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Grand Est |
| Department | Aube |
| Arrondissement | Troyes |
| Canton | Saint-Lyé |
| Intercommunality | CA Troyes Champagne Métropole |
| Government | |
| Mayor (20202026) | Michel Sainton |
| Area**1** | 16.97 km2 (6.55 sq mi) |
| Population (2021) | 1,384 |
| Density | 82/km2 (210/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 10282 /10600 |
| Elevation | 97 m (318 ft) |
| **1** French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers \> 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |


title: Paulo Serafín

abstract: Paulo Fernando Serafín Callejas is a Mexican former professional footballer.

text:
# Paulo Serafín

**Paulo Fernando Serafín Callejas** (born 20 April 1975) is a Mexican former professional footballer.

## InfoBox

Paulo Serafín
| Personal information | | | |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Full name | Paulo Fernando Serafín Callejas | | |
| Date of birth | (1975-04-20) 20 April 1975 | | |
| Place of birth | Mexico City, Mexico | | |
| Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) | | |
| Position(s) | Right back | | |
| Team information | | | |
| Current team | América U-17 (Head coach) | | |
| Youth career | | | |
|  | Atlante | | |
| Senior career\* | | | |
| Years | **Team** | **Apps** | **(Gls)** |
| 2000–2004 | Atlante | 74 | (8) |
| 2004–2008 | Monterrey | 48 | (2) |
| 2008–2009 | Puebla | 6 | (0) |
| 2010 | Durango | 1 | (0) |
| Managerial career | | | |
| 2013 | Puebla Reserves and Academy | | |
| 2014–2015 | América Reserves and Academy | | |
| 2015–2016 | América Premier (Assistant) | | |
| 2016–2017 | Morelia Reserves and Academy | | |
| 2017 | Sinaloa (Assistant) | | |
| 2019– | América Reserves and Academy | | |
| \*Club domestic league appearances and goals | | | |


title: Fordjour Festival

abstract: Fordjour (Yam) Festival is an annual harvest festival celebrated by the chiefs and peoples of Badu in the Wenchi district in the Bono Region, formally Brong Ahafo region of Ghana. It is usually celebrated in the month of August and September. Others also claim it is celebrated in October.

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# Fordjour Festival

**Fordjour (Yam) Festival** is an annual harvest festival celebrated by the chiefs and peoples of Badu in the Wenchi district in the Bono Region, formally Brong Ahafo region of Ghana. It is usually celebrated in the month of August and September. Others also claim it is celebrated in October.

## Celebrations

During the festival, visitors are welcomed to share food and drinks. The people put on traditional clothes and there is durbar of chiefs. There is also dancing and drumming.

## Significance

This festival is celebrated to mark an event that took place in the past.

1. "Festivals Ghana - Easy Track Ghana". *www.easytrackghana.com*. Retrieved 2020-08-24.
2. Boateng, Kwabena (2015-09-12). "List of festivals in Ghana". *GhanaCulturePolitics*. Retrieved 2020-08-24.
3. *www.gattagh.com* http://www.gattagh.com/events.html. Retrieved 2020-08-24. `{{cite web}}`: Missing or empty `|title=` (help)
4. "Festivals". *www.nhoc.gov.gh*. Retrieved 2020-08-24.
5. "Major Festivals". *www.ghanaembassyiran.com*. Retrieved 2020-08-21.
6. "The Consulate General Of The Republic of GHANA in The United Arab Emirates (Dubai)". *www.ghanaconsulatedubai.com*. Retrieved 2020-08-21.


title: Pedana

abstract: Pedana is a municipality and the headquarters of Pedana mandal under Machilipatnam revenue division of Krishna district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is located at a distance of 8 km (5.0 mi) from the district headquarters, Machilipatnam.

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# Pedana

**Pedana** is a municipality and the headquarters of Pedana mandal under Machilipatnam revenue division of Krishna district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is located at a distance of 8 km (5.0 mi) from the district headquarters, Machilipatnam.

## Geography

Pedana is located at 16°16′00″N 81°10′00″E / 16.2667°N 81.1667°E / 16.2667; 81.1667. It has an average elevation of 0.5 metres (3 feet).

## Demographics

As of 2001 India census, Pedana Municipality had a population of 30,835. Males constitute 50% of the population and females 50%. Pedana has an average literacy rate of 60%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 66%, and female literacy is 54%. In Pedana, 12% of the population under 6 years of age. This municipality was constituted in 1985 with 17 revenue wards and 20 election wards. Now this municipality has 23 election wards.

## Governance

**Civic administration**

Pedana municipality was formed in the year 1985. It is a *III–Grade Municipality* with 23 wards and spread over an area of 20.72 km2 (8.00 sq mi).

## Transport

The town is well connected to many towns and cities by means of rail and road transport. The town has a total road length of 76.12 km (47.30 mi). NH 216 passes through the town which connects Digamarru and Ongole. Pedana railway station is classified as a *D–category* stations in the Vijayawada railway division of South Coast Railway zone.

## Economy

The handloom weaving is one of the main occupations of the town. They also use Kalamkari technique, a type of block printing using natural dyes onto cotton and Silk Fabric/Saree.

## Education

The primary and secondary school education is imparted by government, aided and private schools, under the *School Education Department* of the state. The medium of instruction followed by different schools are English, Telugu

## InfoBox

| Pedana | |
| --- | --- |
| Town | |
| PedanaLocation in Andhra Pradesh, India | |
| Coordinates: 16°16′00″N 81°10′00″E / 16.2667°N 81.1667°E / 16.2667; 81.1667 | |
| Country | India |
| State | Andhra Pradesh |
| District | Krishna |
| Mandal | Pedana |
| Government | |
| Type | Municipal Council |
| Chairman | BALLA GNANA LINGA JYOTHSNA RANI (YSR Congress Party) |
| Area | |
| Total | 20.72 km2 (8.00 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 0 m (0 ft) |
| Population (2011) | |
| Total | 30,721 |
| Density | 1,500/km2 (3,800/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
| PIN | 521 366 |
| Vehicle registration | AP 16 |


title: Pedana railway station

abstract: Pedana railway station, is an Indian Railways station in Pedana of Andhra Pradesh. It lies on the Gudivada–Machilipatnam branch line and is administered under Vijayawada railway division of South Coast Railway Zone..

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# Pedana railway station

**Pedana railway station** (station code:PAV), is an Indian Railways station in Pedana of Andhra Pradesh. It lies on the Gudivada–Machilipatnam branch line and is administered under Vijayawada railway division of South Coast Railway Zone..

## Classification

In terms of earnings and outward passengers handled, Pedana is categorized as a *Non-Suburban Grade-5 (NSG-5)* railway station. Based on the re–categorization of Indian Railway stations for the period of 2017–18 and 2022–23, an NSG–5 category station earns between ₹1₹10 crore and handles 1–2 million passengers.

## InfoBox

| Pedana railway station | |
| --- | --- |
|  | |
| General information | |
| Location | NH 214A, Pedana, Krishna district, Andhra Pradesh<br>India |
| Coordinates | 16°15′08″N 81°08′38″E / 16.2522°N 81.1438°E / 16.2522; 81.1438 |
| Operated by | Indian Railways |
| Line(s) | Gudivada–Machilipatnam branch line |
| Platforms | 2 |
| Construction | |
| Structure type | On Ground |
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| Status | Active |
| Station code | PAV |
| Zone(s) | South Coast RailwayTooltip South Coast Railway zone |
| Division(s) | VijayawadaTooltip Vijayawada railway division |
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| Electrified | Yes |
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| Preceding station  Indian Railways Following station  Vadlamannadutowards ?   Gudivada–Machilipatnam branch line  Chilakalapuditowards ? | |
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| Location  Pedana railway stationLocation in Andhra PradeshPedana railway stationLocation in India   Interactive map | |


title: Pedanandipadu

abstract: Pedanandipadu is a village in the Guntur district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is located in Pedanandipadu mandal of Guntur revenue division.

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# Pedanandipadu

**Pedanandipadu** is a village in the Guntur district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is located in Pedanandipadu mandal of Guntur revenue division.

## Demographics

As of 2011 census, the village has population of 6090 of which 3044 are males and 3046 are females. Average Sex Ratio of the village is 1001 which is higher than Andhra Pradesh state average of 993. Population of children with age 0-6 is 485 which makes up 7.96% of total population of village. Child Sex Ratio for the Pedanandipadu as per census is 1091, higher than Andhra Pradesh average of 939. In 2011, literacy rate of Pedanandipadu village was 75.18% compared to 67.02% of Andhra Pradesh.

## Government and politics

Pedanandipadu gram panchayat is the local self-government of the village. It is divided into wards and each ward is represented by a ward member. The ward members are headed by a Sarpanch.

## Education

As per the school information report for the academic year 2018–19, the village has a total of 10 schools. These include one government school, 3 Zilla Parishad/Mandal Parishad and 6 private schools. The Pedanandipadu College Of Arts And Science is a big college in Pedanandipadu

## Transport

*Guntur-Parchur Road* connects the village with the district headquarters, Guntur. Bapatla Road and Road to Chilakaluripet Extended to Double Way, And Have a single road to Ponnur.

## InfoBox

| Pedanandipadu | |
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| Village | |
| Dynamic map | |
| PedanandipaduLocation in Andhra Pradesh, India | |
| Coordinates: 16°04′22″N 80°19′46″E / 16.07278°N 80.32944°E / 16.07278; 80.32944 | |
| Country | India |
| State | Andhra Pradesh |
| District | Guntur |
| Mandal | Pedanandipadu |
| Government | |
| Type | Panchayati raj |
| Body | Pedanandipadu gram panchayat |
| Area | |
| Total | 1,390 ha (3,430 acres) |
| Population (2011) | |
| Total | 6,090 |
| Density | 440/km2 (1,100/sq mi) |
| Languages | |
| Official | Telugu |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
| PIN | 522235 |
| Area code | +91– |
| Vehicle registration | AP |


title: Forex Club

abstract: Forex Club is a group of companies based in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines participating in the retail market of Contract for difference, Foreign Exchange Trading. The company uses the Libertex web and mobile trading platform in addition to MT4 and its structure includes financial and educational companies.

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# Forex Club

**Forex Club** is a group of companies based in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines participating in the retail market of Contract for difference, Foreign Exchange Trading. The company uses the Libertex web and mobile trading platform in addition to MT4 and its structure includes financial and educational companies.

## History

The company was founded in 1997. In 2010, it acquired 100% of the shares of the Russian forex broker *Аkmos Trade*. The brand remained and is included in the Forex Club group of companies.

In 2012, Quadro Capital Partners acquired a minority shareholding in the Forex Club group of companies, the amount of the transaction has not been indicated.

In December 2013, Forex Club and Quadro Capital Partners founded the Venture Capital Fund FXC-QCP VC, with a volume of up to $200 million.

According to Finmarket information agency data, in 2014 Forex Club ranked among the three Russian Forex brokers with the highest number of clients and monthly turnover volumes. At that time, the number of active clients of the company was 71,830 people, representing 16.97% of the market ( surpassed by Alpari ). (120,000 people, and 28.35% of the market)). The company's average monthly turnover was $63.32 million, representing 18.09% of the market (surpassed by Alpari ($107 million and 30.56% of the market)).

In January 2015, Forex Club organized the project *Living Collection of Private Investments* at its customer service office, an interactive exhibition on the history of investment and disposition of private capital.

In December 2015, in accordance with the Foreign Exchange Market Law of Russian Federation, Forex Club submitted an application to Central Bank to obtain the Russian Forex broker license; in June 2016, the Bank of Russia rejected the company's application. According to company representatives, after resolving certain formal observations, a new application was submitted to the Central Bank. In October 2016, Forex Club received the license.

According to the National Foreign Exchange Centre of the Belarus Stock Exchange, the company ranks first "in terms of the volume of transactions of customers with non-deliverable over-the-counter instruments of customers on all underlying assets among the foreign exchange companies included in the register of the National Bank of Belarus".

In January 2019, the Russian government revoked the license.

On November 25, 2022, the co-founder and controlling shareholder of Retail FX and CFDs brokerage brands Libertex and Forex Club died in a helicopter crash in Monaco.

### Libertex

In June 2015 Forex Club launched the trading platform Libertex.

The midfielder of Real Madrid, James Rodríguez, was the brand's ambassador in 2017 and 2018. Libertex was recognized as a member of FinaCom in 2018.

In 2020 the company began to actively promote the Libertex trading platform in Ukraine and Kazakhstan.

## Administration

In the years 2012–2013, Pavel Teplukhin headed the board of directors of Forex Club. In March 2013, this position was filled by the founder and CEO of the company, Vyacheslav Tarán. In July 2015, the position of chief executive officer was filled by former executive vice president and chief financial officer Michael Geiger.

## Controversies

Forex Club (Libertex) has a history of compliance problems that forced the company to cease retail operations in the US. In 2010, the capital of Forex Club Financial Company, Inc. did not correspond to the licensing requirements. Company management explained that the license capital was frozen, and the company was trying to keep it at the minimum acceptable level. According to the Vice President of Forex Club FС Piotr Tatarnikov, the main cause of capital decrease was the growth of client positions. Finally, it was increased by 1.5 million dollars.

In 2012, the National Futures Association ( NFA ) charged the company with numerous violations such as failure to maintain internal controls, keeping financial records, running an adequate anti-money laundering program (in the area of finance FinCEN and OFAC), and CEO Peter Tatarnikov was charged with failing to supervise the company's operations and staff diligently. Among other sanctions, the company was fined $300,000 by the NFA.

According to Reuters and FinanceMagnates.com, by November 2012 due to regulatory tightening in the United States the company decided to voluntary exit the US market and sell their operations and client base to FXCM in a deal that was under development for several months.

## InfoBox

Forex Club
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| Formation | 1997 |
| Founded at | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines |
| Type | Company |
| Legal status | Active |
| Products | Аkmos Trade
Libertex |
| Services | Finance |
| Website | fxclub.org libertex.org (Latin America)
libertex.fxclub.org (Miner Bitcoin App) |


title: Forex Bank

abstract: FOREX Bank is currently the market-leading foreign exchange bureau in the Nordic region. The company was started in 1927 providing currency exchange for travellers, at the main Stockholm Central train station. Legend says that it started by the owner of Gyllenspet's Barber Shop at the station, when he discovered that most of his customers were tourists in need of currency for their trips. Therefore, the barber began keeping the major currencies on hand. The company was subsequently acquired by Statens Järnvägar, the Swedish State Railways, which expanded the operations until it was sold to Rolf Friberg in 1965. The company was for many years the only one apart from the banks that was licensed to conduct currency exchange in Sweden. The company, which is still wholly owned by the Friberg family, has expanded into neighbouring Finland in 1993, Denmark in 1994 and Norway in 2004 and has 130 branches, principally located at railway stations or airports, but also shopping malls and high streets. In 2003, the company extended its business into retail banking and can also offer current and savings accounts including internet and mobile banking, loans, debit and credit cards, cash handling, money transfer and payments.

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# Forex Bank

**FOREX Bank** is currently the market-leading foreign exchange bureau in the Nordic region. The company was started in 1927 providing currency exchange for travellers, at the main Stockholm Central train station. Legend says that it started by the owner of Gyllenspet's Barber Shop at the station, when he discovered that most of his customers were tourists in need of currency for their trips. Therefore, the barber began keeping the major currencies on hand.

The company was subsequently acquired by Statens Järnvägar, the Swedish State Railways, which expanded the operations until it was sold to Rolf Friberg in 1965. The company was for many years the only one apart from the banks that was licensed to conduct currency exchange in Sweden.

The company, which is still wholly owned by the Friberg family, has expanded into neighbouring Finland in 1993, Denmark in 1994 and Norway in 2004 and has 130 branches, principally located at railway stations or airports, but also shopping malls and high streets. In 2003, the company extended its business into retail banking and can also offer current and savings accounts including internet and mobile banking, loans, debit and credit cards, cash handling, money transfer and payments.

== References and notes ==

## InfoBox

FOREX Bank AB
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| Company type | Private |
| Founded | 1927 (1927) |
| Headquarters | Stockholm |
| Number of locations | 130 branches |
| Key people | Annelie Nässén<br>(CEO) |
| Products | Foreign money exchange |
| Number of employees | 1238 (2013) |
| Website | www.forex.se/en/ |


title: Forcible touching

abstract: Forcible touching, under New York State law, is a sex offense. A person found guilty of it may be sentenced to up to one year in prison, up to three years probation, may be required to register as a sex offender, and may be ordered to comply with orders of protection. A person is guilty of forcible touching in New York State, under NY Penal Law § 130.52 (2022), when such person "intentionally, and for no legitimate purpose: 1. forcibly touches the sexual or other intimate parts of another person for the purpose of degrading or abusing such person, or for the purpose of gratifying the actor's sexual desire; or 2. subjects another person to sexual contact for the purpose of gratifying the actor's sexual desire and with intent to degrade or abuse such other person while such other person is a passenger on a bus, train, or subway car operated by any transit agency, authority or company, public or private, whose operation is authorized by New York state or any of its political subdivisions."

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# Forcible touching

**Forcible touching**, under New York State law, is a sex offense. A person found guilty of it may be sentenced to up to one year in prison, up to three years probation, may be required to register as a sex offender, and may be ordered to comply with orders of protection.

A person is guilty of forcible touching in New York State, under NY Penal Law § 130.52 (2022), when such person "intentionally, and for no legitimate purpose: 1. forcibly touches the sexual or other intimate parts of another person for the purpose of degrading or abusing such person, or for the purpose of gratifying the actor's sexual desire; or 2. subjects another person to sexual contact for the purpose of gratifying the actor's sexual desire and with intent to degrade or abuse such other person while such other person is a passenger on a bus, train, or subway car operated by any transit agency, authority or company, public or private, whose operation is authorized by New York state or any of its political subdivisions."

## History

The New York State Legislature created the misdemeanor offense of forcible touching in the Sexual Assault Reform Act of 2000, in response to a series of sexual attacks that took place in Central Park in New York City, including the Puerto Rican Day Parade attacks in June 2000, in which dozens of women were attacked and groped in Central Park by groups of men. Previously, defendants accused of groping were prosecuted under a sex abuse statute with a maximum jail sentence of 90 days. Under the new statute, persons convicted of forcible touching may be sentenced to up to a year in jail.

## Notable cases

In October 2020, a jury in the District Court of Suffolk County found Rev. Thomas Humphrey, who served as a minister at Grace Community Church and aired a radio show from Hollywood Baptist Church, both in North Amityville, guilty of forcible touching.

In April 2022, actor Cuba Gooding pleaded guilty in New York Criminal Court to forcibly touching a woman at the New York City nightclub LAVO in 2018. He admitted in court that he "kissed the waitress on her lips" without consent at the nightclub. He entered into a plea deal pursuant to which if he continued alcohol and behavior counseling for six months, he could withdraw his misdemeanor plea and plead guilty to harassment, a lesser offense. If he did not comply with the deal, he faced up to one year in jail.

In 2023, in the case of *Carroll v. Trump*, former U.S. President Donald Trump was charged with, among other things, forcible touching and was sued for civil battery by E. Jean Carroll. The jury held Trump liable for the sexual abuse and defamation of Carroll, and awarded her $5 million. Because the jury found Trump had committed the greater offense of sexual abuse, it was not required to issue a separate finding on forcible touching.

In February 2024, former Olympian, police officer, college coach, and chairman of USA Fencing Ivan Lee was arrested in Brooklyn on charges of forcible touching, sexual abuse, and harassment of a young woman.

## Elements

A person is guilty of forcible touching in New York State, under NY Penal Law § 130.52 (2022), when such person

> intentionally, and for no legitimate purpose:
>
> 1. forcibly touches the sexual or other intimate parts of another person for the purpose of degrading or abusing such person, or for the purpose of gratifying the actor's sexual desire; or
> 2. subjects another person to sexual contact for the purpose of gratifying the actor's sexual desire and with intent to degrade or abuse such other person while such other person is a passenger on a bus, train, or subway car operated by any transit agency, authority or company, public or private, whose operation is authorized by New York state or any of its political subdivisions.

The statute adds that: "For the purposes of this section, forcible touching includes squeezing, grabbing or pinching." In some other states, such nonconsensual acts fall within the statutory definition of laws against sexual abuse or sexual contact.

In addition, an unwanted kiss constitutes forcible touching. It can be inferred from a defendant's conduct that he or she was seeking sexual gratification.

In *People v. Sene*, 66 AD3d 427, 427-28 (1st Dept 2009), the court concluded that "under general societal norms, the neck qualifies as an intimate part because it is sufficiently personal or private that it would not be touched in the absence of a close relationship between the parties. Moreover, since 'intimacy is a function of behavior and not merely anatomy,' the manner and circumstances of the touching should also be considered...."

*The New York Times* noted in 2021 that the offense was often charged "in cases involving unwanted sexual advances in public places, and often difficult to prosecute." It was at the time the main charge in approximately 1,400 cases brought annually in New York state, although the cases were dropped almost 40% of the time.

## Penalty

Forcible touching is a class A misdemeanor. The maximum punishment for it is one year in prison, and up to three years probation.