Ani DiFranco (IPA: [ˈɑ.ni]) (born Angela Maria Difranco on September 23, 1970) is a singer, guitarist, and songwriter. She is known as a prolific artist (having released seventeen albums in as many years) and is seen by many as a women's rights and feminist icon.

Biography
On July 21, 2006, DiFranco received the "Woman of Courage Award" at the National Organization for Women (NOW) Conference and Young Feminist Summit in Albany, NY. Past winners have included singer and actress Barbra Streisand and Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif. DiFranco is the first musician to receive the award, given each year to a woman who has set herself apart by her contributions to the feminist movement.
DiFranco has been toasted by the Buffalo News as the "Buffalo's leading lady of rock music." The News further said: "Through the Righteous Babe Foundation, DiFranco has backed various grassroots cultural and political organizations, supporting causes ranging from abortion rights to gay visibility."
Since 2003, DiFranco has been nominated four consecutive times for Best Recording Package at the Grammy Awards, one of which she won, in 2004, for Educated Guess.

Recognition
DiFranco's guitar playing is often characterized by a signature staccato style,

Musical style and the "folk" label
Although much of DiFranco's material is autobiographical, it is often also strongly political. Many of her songs are concerned with contemporary social issues such as racism, sexism, sexual abuse, homophobia, reproductive rights, poverty, and war. The combination of personal and political is partially responsible for DiFranco's early popularity among politically active college students, some of whom set up fan pages on the web to document DiFranco's career as early as 1994. Because DiFranco's rapid rise in popularity in the mid-1990s was fueled mostly by personal contact and word of mouth rather than mainstream press, fans often expressed a feeling of community with each other.
DiFranco has expressed political views outside of her music. During the 2000 U.S. presidential election, she encouraged voting for Ralph Nader in non-battleground states. She supported Dennis Kucinich in the 2004 Democratic primaries.

Lyrics and politics
Ownership of Righteous Babe Records allows DiFranco a great deal of artistic freedom. For example, on her 2004 album Educated Guess, DiFranco played all of the instruments, provided all of the vocals, and recorded the album by herself at her home on an analog 8-track reel to reel. She was also involved in much of the artwork and design for the packaging. The only other person involved in the record's musical production was Greg Calbi, who mastered it. she expressed displeasure that what she considers a way to ensure her own artistic freedom was seen by others solely in terms of its financial success.

Label independence
On September 11, 2007, she released the first retrospective of her career, titled Canon and for the first time, a collection of poetry in a book titled Verses.
DiFranco's album, Reprieve, was released on August 8, 2006. It was previously leaked on iTunes for several hours around July 1, 2006, due to an error saying it was released in 2002.
DiFranco performed with Cyndi Lauper on "Sisters of Avalon", a track from Lauper's 2005 collection The Body Acoustic.
She also collaborated with fellow folk singer Dar Williams on "Comfortably Numb", a Pink Floyd cover song from Williams' 2005 album, My Better Self.

Recent work

Studio albums

1994 - An Acoustic Evening With
1997 - Living in Clip
1998 - Women in (E)motion (limited distribution)
2002 - So Much Shouting, So Much Laughter
2004 - Atlanta - 10.9.03 (Official Bootleg series)
2004 - Sacramento - 10.25.03 (Official Bootleg series)
2004 - Portland - 4.7.04 (Official Bootleg series)
2005 - Boston - 11.16.03 (Official Bootleg series)
2005 - Chicago - 1.17.04 (Official Bootleg series)
2005 - Madison - 1.25.04(Official Bootleg series)
2005 - Rome - 11.15.04 (Official Bootleg series)
2006 - Carnegie Hall - 4.6.02 (Official Bootleg series - available in stores)
2007 - Boston - 11.10.06 (Official Bootleg series) Live albums

1996 - More Joy, Less Shame
1999 - Little Plastic Remixes (limited distribution)
2000 - Swing Set EPs

1989 - Demo tape (unreleased) Demos

2002 - Render: Spanning Time with Ani DiFranco
2004 - Trust Videos

2004 - "Self-evident: poesie e disegni"
2007 - Verses Samples

Righteous Babe Records
Category:Righteous Babe artists

For other uses, see Lucania (disambiguation). History
The towns on the east coast were Metapontum, a few miles south of the Bradanus; Heraclea, at the mouth of the Aciris; and Sins, on the river of the same name. Close to its southern frontier stood Sybaris, which was destroyed in 510 ac., but subsequently replaced by Thurii. On the west coast stood Posidonia, known under the Roman government as Paestum; below that came Elea or Velia, Pyxus, called by the Romans Buxentum, and Laus, near the frontier of the province towards Bruttium. Of the towns of the interior the most considerable was Potentia, still called Potenza. To the north, near the frontier of Apulia, was Bantia (Aceruntia belonged more properly to Apulia); while due south from Potentia was Grumentum, and still farther in that direction were Nerulum and Muranum. In the upland valley of the Tanagrus were Atina, Forum Popilii and Consilinum; Eburi (Eboli) and Volceii (Buccino), though to the north of the Silarus, were also included in Lucania. The Via Popillia traversed the district from N. to S., entering it at the NW. extremity; the Via Herculia, coming southwards from the Via Appia and passing through Potentia and Grumentum, joined the Via Popillia near the S.W edge of the district: while another nameless road followed the east coast and other roads of less importance ran W. from Potentia to the Via Popillia, N.E. to the Via Appia and E. from Grumentum to the coast at Heraclea. (T. As.)

The History Channel is a cable television channel, which primarily presents programming related to historical events and persons—often with observations and explanations by noted historians as well as reenactors and interviews with witnesses. Some of the original programming is also shown on History Television in Canada. The UK version of the History Channel is operated as a joint venture between A&E and British Sky Broadcasting.

Programming and ownership
The History Channel received the nickname, the "Hitler Channel",

Criticism and evaluation

List of shows

American Eats (2006–date)
Ancient Discoveries
Ancient Mysteries (1997)
Back to the Blueprint (2005)
Battlefield Detectives
Boneyard
Boys' Toys
Breaking Vegas (2005–date)
Color of War
Command Decisions (2004)
Conflict
The Conquerors (2005)
Conquest (2002–2003)
Conspiracy?
Civil War Combat
Civil War Journal
Declassified
Decisive Battles (2004)
Decoding the Past (2003-present)
Deep Sea Detectives (2003-present)
Digging for the Truth (2005–present)
Disasters of the Century
Dogfights (2006-date)
Double 'F' (2006)
Engineering an Empire (2006-2007)
Extreme History with Roger Daltry (2003)
Failure Is Not an Option (2003)
Fact To Film (2006)
Full Throttle (2004–2005)
The Great Ships
Great Crimes and Trials
Guts + Bolts (2003-2004)
Haunted History (1999)
Heavy Metal (TV series) (2000-2004, initially called Battle Stations.)
History IQ (2000)
History's Lost & Found (1999)
History's Mysteries (1999–date)
History's Turning Points
History vs. Hollywood
Human Weapon (2007)
Ice Road Truckers (2007)
Incredible but True? (2001)
In Search of...
Investigating History (2003–date)
Jumbo Movies (2006)
Mail Call (2002–date)
Man, Moment, Machine (2005–date)
Mega Disasters
Mega Movers
Modern Marvels (1995–date)
The Most
Rats, Bats & Bugs
Reel to Real
Save Our History
Shootout! (2005–date)
Spy Web
Sworn to Secrecy
Tactical to Practical (2003–2004)
Tales of the Gun
Targeted
Tech Effect (2004)
The Lost Evidence
The States [1]
This Week In History (2000-1)
Time Machine (1995-2004)
Trains Unlimited (1997-1998)
True Action Adventures (1995-7)
UFO Files (2005?–date)
Wild West Tech (2003–2005)
Weird US (television series) (2004–2005)
The XY Factor
Unforgettables (2006)
Zero Hour Regular series

12 Days That Shocked The World (2007)
10 Days that Unexpectedly Changed America (2006)
American Eats: History on a Bun
The American Revolution (2006)
Ape to Man (2005)
Banned from the Bible (2003)*
Band of Brothers (2004)
Barbarians
Ben Franklin (2005)
The Century: America's Time (originally aired in 1999)
Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked (2003)
Conquest of America (2005)
Da Vinci and the Code He Lived By
The Cole Conspiracy (2005)
The Crusades: Crescent and the Cross (November 2005)
Fabulous Treasures (2006)
FDR: A Presidency Revealed (2005)
First Invasion: The War of 1812 (September 11, 2004)
The French Revolution (2005)
Gerald Ford: A Man and his Moment (December 2006)
Heroes under Fire
The History of Sex (1999)
The Holy Grail (2005)
History's Greatest Mysteries (2005)
To The Best of My Ability
Hitler's Women (2001)
Hitler's Henchmen (1996)
Hooked: Illegal Drugs & How They Got That Way (2000)
JFK: A Presidency Revealed (2003)
The Ku Klux Klan: A Secret History (1998)
Lincoln (2006)
The Lincoln Assassination (1995)
Mavericks, Miracles & Medicine (2004)
Napoleon
Nixon: A Presidency Revealed (February 2007)
The Plague (2005)
The Presidents (2005)
Quest for King Arthur (2004)
The Real Scorpion King
Rome: Engineering an Empire (2005)
Ronald Reagan: A Legacy Remembered (2002)
Russia, Land of the Tsars (2003)
Secret Societies (show)
Sex in World War II
Legacy of Star Wars (2007)
Star Wars Tech (2007)
Sherman's March (2007)
The States (2007)
Style Icon (2006)
The True Story of Alexander the Great
The True Story of Hannibal (2003)
True Caribbean Pirates (2006)
The Universe (TV series) (2007)
Warrior Queen Boudica
We Can Make You Talk (2004)
Who Wrote the Bible Specials and mini-series

Blood Diamonds (2006)
How William Shatner Changed the World (2005)
Star Trek: Beyond the Final Frontier (2007)
The Last Stand of the 300 (2007)
Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed (2007) Syndication

The History Channel: Great Battles of Rome
The History Channel: Civil War The Game
The History Channel: ShootOut! The Game Video games

The Unknown Hitler DVD collection, including Hitler and the Occult See also

Inauguration Day is the day on which the President of the United States is sworn in and takes office. It was originally held every four years on March 4 except the first inauguration for George Washington, which was held on April 30, 1789. The ratification of the Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution changed the beginning of the President and Vice President's terms to noon on January 20th, beginning with Franklin Roosevelt's second term in 1937. The next Inauguration Day will occur on January 20, 2009.

Presidential Inaugural Committee

List of United States presidential inaugurations

Large Group Awareness Training (or LGAT) refers to the training methods used by some companies, in what has been referred to as the human potential movement. By using the LGAT techniques, these companies claim to increase self-awareness and manifest positive personal changes in individuals' lives.

Definition
Lou Kilzer, in The Rocky Mountain News, claimed that Leadership Dynamics was the first of the genre of what psychologists termed "Large Group Awareness Training"

Evolution
"Large Group Awareness Training", a 1982 peer-reviewed article published in Annual Review of Psychology, sought to summarize literature on the subject and examine its efficacy and relationship to more standard psychology. This article was one of the first academic works to analyze and describe large group awareness training from a psychological perspective. Influenced by the work of humanistic psychologists such as Carl Rogers, Abraham Maslow and Rollo May and often considered part of the human potential movement, LGAT's are commercial trainings that took many techniques from encounter groups. Existing alongside but "outside the domains of academic psychology or psychiatry. Their measure of performance was consumer satisfaction and formal research was seldom pursued." Finkelstein's article explicitly mentioned Lifespring and Actualizations, using the example of Erhard Seminars Training ("est") as a typical LGAT.
The article describes an est training, and discusses the literature on the testimony of est graduates. It notes minor changes on psychological tests after the training and mentions anecdotal reports of psychiatric casualties among est trainees. The article considers how est compares to more standard psychotherapy techniques such as behavior therapy, group and existential psychotherapy before concluding that "objective and rigorous research" was needed and that unknown variables might have accounted for some of the positive accounts. Borderline or psychotic patients were advised by psychologists not to participate.

Academic analysis, studies
Finkelstein's 1982 article provides a detailed description of the structure and techniques of an Erhard Seminars Training, noting the unusual authoritarian demeanor of the trainer, the physical strains of a long schedule on the participants and the similary of many techniques to those used in some group therapy and encounter groups.

Techniques
Finkelstein noted the many difficulties in evaluating LGAT's, from proponents' explicit rejection of certain study models to difficulty in establishing a rigorous control group.

Evaluations of LGATs
The American Psychological Association commissioned, subsequently rejected,

Publius Pomponius Secundus was a Roman general and tragic poet who lived during the reigns of Tiberius, Caligula and Claudius.

George Brady (born February 9, 1928) brother of Hana Brady (Bradova), was born in Nové Město na Moravě, Czechoslovakia. He is the son of Marketa and Karel Brady, and is a Holocaust survivor of both Theresienstadt (Terezin) and Auschwitz (Oswiecim, Poland).

Early life and the Holocaust
Brady has made a living from the plumbing trade, which he learned in Theresienstadt. He established a plumbing company with another Holocaust survivor in early 1951 in Toronto, where he now resides. Brady later married and became a father to three sons, and much later to a daughter named Lara Hana.

The square root of 2, also known as Pythagoras' constant, often denoted by

is the positive real number that, when multiplied by itself, gives the number 2. Its numerical value approximated to 65 decimal places (sequence A002193 in OEIS) is:
1.41421 35623 73095 04880 16887 24209 69807 85696 71875 37694 80731 76679 73799.
The square root of 2 was probably the first known irrational number. Geometrically, it is the length of a diagonal across a square with sides of one unit of length; this follows from the Pythagorean theorem. On basic calculators with no square root function, the quick approximation for the square root of two is better than the quick approximation for pi, probably the most widely known irrational number.
The silver ratio is


History
There are a number of algorithms for approximating the square root of 2, which in expressions as a ratio of integers or as a decimal can only be approximated. The most common algorithm for this, one used as a basis in many computers and calculators, is the Babylonian method
Among mathematical constants with nonrepeating decimal expansions, only π has been calculated more accurately. [4]

Computation algorithm

Proofs of irrationality
One proof of the number's irrationality is the following proof by infinite descent. It is also a proof by contradiction, which means the proposition is proved by assuming that the opposite of the proposition is true and showing that this assumption is false, which means that the proposition must be true.
QED Since there is a contradiction, the assumption (1) that √2 is a rational number must be false. The opposite is proven: √2 is irrational.
This proof can be generalized to show that any root of any natural number is either a natural number or irrational.

Assume that √2 is a rational number, meaning that there exists an integer a and an integer b such that a / b = √2.
Then √2 can be written as an irreducible fraction (the fraction is reduced as much as possible) a / b such that a and b are coprime integers and (a / b) is also even which means that b is even because odd integers have odd squares.
By (5) and (8) a and b are both even, which contradicts that a / b is irreducible as stated in (2). Proof by infinite descent
An alternative proof uses the same approach with the unique factorization theorem:

Assume that √2 is a rational number, meaning that there exists an integer a and an integer b such that a / b = √2.
Then √2 can be written as an irreducible fraction (the fraction is reduced as much as possible) a / b such that a and b are coprime integers and (a / b).
This states that a prime factorization with an even power of 2 (2x) is equal to one with an odd power of 2 (2y+1). But this contradicts the unique factorization theorem. Therefore the original statement must be false. Proof by unique factorization
Another reductio ad absurdum showing that √2 is irrational is less well-known. It is also an example of proof by infinite descent. It makes use of classic compass and straightedge construction, proving the theorem by a method similar to that employed by ancient Greek geometers.
Let ABC be a right isosceles triangle with hypotenuse length m and legs n. By the Pythagorean theorem, m/n = √2. Suppose m and n are integers. Let m:n be a ratio given in its lowest terms.
Draw the arcs BD and CE with centre A. Join DE. It follows that AB = AD, AC = AE and the ∠BAC and ∠DAE coincide. Therefore the triangles ABC and ADE are congruent by SAS.
Since ∠EBF is a right angle and ∠BEF is half a right angle, BEF is also a right isosceles triangle. Hence BE = m − n implies BF = m − n. By symmetry, DF = m − n, and FDC is also a right isosceles triangle. It also follows that FC = n − (m − n) = 2n − m.
Hence we have an even smaller right isosceles triangle, with hypotenuse length 2n − m and legs m − n. These values are integers even smaller than m and n and in the same ratio, contradicting the hypothesis that m:n is in lowest terms. Therefore m and n cannot be both integers, hence √2 is irrational.

Properties of the square root of two
The identity cos(π/4) = sin(π/4) = √2/2, along with the infinite product representations for the sine and cosine, leads to products such as

and

or equivalently,

The number can also be expressed by taking the Taylor series of a trigonometric function. For example, the series for cos(π/4) gives

The Taylor series of √(1+x) with x = 1 gives

The convergence of this series can be accelerated with an Euler transform, producing

It is not known whether √2 can be represented with a BBP-type formula. BBP-type formulas are known for π√2 and √2 ln(1+√2), however. [5]

Series and product representations
The square root of two has the following continued fraction representation:


See also

Kawasaki Heavy Industries & Nippon Sharyo C751B cars are part of the newest rolling stock used in Singapore's original Mass Rapid Transit network, operating on the North-South Line and the East West Line since early 2000. 21 trainsets of 6 cars each were purchased, and it is the first rolling stock to feature VVVF Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor traction control system. Kawasaki Heavy Industries manufactured 66 cars and Nippon Sharyo manufactured 60 cars respectively with no comparable differences, having built to agreed specifications.

Interior
In 2001, when the Changi Airport Line was opened, some of these trains plying the East West Line had luggage racks installed. These luggage racks were installed in every carriage of the train, taking up the space of two seats next to the door at the end of each carriage. The purpose of those racks were to let travellers to the airport, who usually carry a large amount of luggage, to have a space to place their bags easily.
However, these luggage racks were always underutilised. Travellers preferred holding on to their bags where they were standing or sitting, as opposed to placing them on the luggage racks, probably due to convenience and fear of theft. Some commuters were also complaining that these racks took up critically needed space which could be occupied by other passengers which often filled the train. Furthermore, the through service to Changi Airport was cancelled and replaced by a shuttle service to and from Tanah Merah station, dismishing the need to provide these racks for non-airport bound train services. Therefore, in 2003, trains with the luggage racks had their luggage racks removed, and replaced with an empty standing area, with a dual purpose of serving as a wheelchair area.

Serial number

Length of train : 138 m (23 m per car)
Width of car   : 3.2 m
Height of car  : 3.7 m
Weight of car : 35,000 kg
Number of passengers seated per train: 300 per train
Number of passengers standing : 1,428 per train
Maximum passenger load : 1,920 or 320 per car
Average speed  : 45 km per hour
Maximum service speed : 80 km per hour
Maximum speed : 90 km per hour
Track gauge   : 1,435 mm
Track Voltage : 750 volts DC third rail
Train formation : Two sets of three-car Electric Multiple Units (EMUs) which are permanently-coupled, providing for driving cabs at either end of trains and four motorised-cars in the middle.
Train consist : 6 car unit (Semi-permanently coupled)
Control system : VVVF IGBT inverter
Primary power : 750V DC supplied from third rail
Dimensions : 23,830 mm (L) 3,200 mm (W) 3,693 mm (H)

Career
In 1962, Giacometti was awarded the grand prize for sculpture at the Venice Biennale, and the award brought with it worldwide celebrity. Even when he had achieved popularity and his works were in demand, he still reworked models, often destroying them or setting them aside to be returned to years later.
The prints produced by Giacometti are often overlooked but the catalogue raisonné, Giacometti - The Complete Graphics and 15 Drawings by Herbert Lust (Tudor 1970), comments on their impact and gives details of the number of copies of each print. Some of his most important images were in editions of only 30 and many were described as rare in 1970.
In his later years, Giacometti's works were shown in a number of large exhibitions throughout Europe. Riding a wave of international popularity, and despite his declining health, he traveled to the United States in 1965 for an exhibition of his works at the New York Museum of Modern Art.
As his last work he prepared the text for the book Paris sans fin, a sequence of 150 lithographs containing memories of all the places where he had lived.
Giacometti died in 1966 of heart disease and chronic bronchitis at the Kantonsspital in Chur, Switzerland. His body was returned to his birthplace in Borgonovo, where he was interred close to his parents.

Later years
Giacometti was a key player in the Surrealist Movement, but his work resists easy categorization. Some describe it as formalist, others argue it is expressionist or otherwise having to do with what Deleuze calls 'blocs of sensation' (as in Deleuze's analysis of Francis Bacon). Even after his excommunication from the Surrealist group, while the intention of his sculpting was usually imitation, the end products were an expression of his emotional response to the subject. He attempted to create renditions of his models the way he saw them, and the way he thought they ought to be seen. He once said that he was sculpting not the human figure but "the shadow that is cast."
Scholar William Barrett in Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy (1962), argues that the attenuated forms of Giacometti's figures reflect the view of 20th century modernism and existentialism that modern life is increasingly devoid of meaning and empty. "All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces... So it is important to fashion ones work carefully in its smallest recess and charge every particle of matter with life."

Artistic analysis
His work is in numerous public collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Zurich, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, and the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh. He created the monument on the grave of Gerda Taro at Père Lachaise Cemetery.
In 2001 he was included in the Painting the Century 101 Portrait Masterpieces 1900-2000 exhibition held at the National Portrait Gallery, London.
In November 2000 Grande Femme Debout I by Giacometti sold for $14.3 million.[1]
Giacometti and his sculpture Three Men Walking appear on the current 100 Swiss Franc banknote.

Gallery

Richard Roman Grech, (November 1, 1946 – March 17, 1990) was an English musician.
Born in Bordeaux, France in 1946, Grech was a versatile, accomplished, and sought after British rock musician. He originally gained fame in the United Kingdom as the bass player for the progressive rock group Family.
Grech joined the band when it was a largely blues-based live act in Leicester known as the Farinas; he became their bassist in 1965, replacing Tim Kirchin. Family released their first single, "Scene Through The Eye of a Lens," in September 1967 on the Liberty label in the UK, which got the band signed to Reprise Records. The group's 1968 debut album Music in a Doll's House was an underground hit that highlighted the songwriting talents of Roger Chapman and John "Charlie" Whitney as well as Chapman's piercing voice, but Grech also stood out with his rhythmic, thundering bass work on songs such as "Old Songs New Songs" and "See Through Windows," along with his adeptness on cello and violin.
Released in February 1969, Family Entertainment, the group's second album, was a major turning point for Grech personally. In addition to playing excellent bass and violin lines on Family's signature song "The Weaver's Answer", he wrote three of the album's other songs: "How-Hi-The-Li," "Face In the Cloud," and the exciting rocker "Second Generation Woman," which was first released as a single in Britain in November 1968. This song featured Grech on lead vocals, leading Family through a cheeky lyric about a woman who "looks good to handle from a personal angle," with an arrangement that recalled the Beatles's "Paperback Writer" and owed an obvious debt to Chuck Berry. Tellingly, however, all of Grech's songs contained obvious drug references - "How Hi-The-Li" wondered aloud if Chinese premier Chou En-Lai "gets high with all the tea in China" - and drugs would eventually plague Grech throughout his career.
In the spring of 1969, former Cream guitarist Eric Clapton and former Traffic frontman Steve Winwood formed the supergroup Blind Faith; in need of a bassist, they immediately recruited Grech, whom they'd both jammed with when Clapton was in John Mayall's Bluesbreakers and Winwood was in the Spencer Davis Group. Unfortunately, Grech failed to give Chapman and Whitney adequate notice, and Family was due to start a U.S. tour with Ten Years After. Grech agreed to go on the tour until Family could replace him, but he proved to be unreliable when Family played their first American show on April 8, 1969 at the Fillmore East in New York. Though that show is remembered for Roger Chapman throwing a microphone stand at Bill Graham, Grech contributed an indignity of his own; he was so disoriented he could barely play.
Returning to England, Grech recorded the first Blind Faith album with Clapton, Winwood, and drummer Ginger Baker, a former bandmate of Clapton's in Cream. Their self-titled debut album was regarded as a disappointment by critics, but Cream and Traffic fans in America enjoyed it, and the quartet toured the U.S. to support it. Clapton was disappointed with the quality of the music and the performances, and Blind Faith called it quits. Grech and Winwood stayed with Baker to form Ginger Baker's Air Force, a marvellously unwieldy supergroup which also included Denny Laine (ex-Moody Blues) on guitar, Chris Wood (ex-Traffic) on sax and flute, and several other musicians; when that group collapsed under its own weight, Winwood reformed Traffic with original members Wood and Jim Capaldi, and Grech soon joined as their bassist.
In October 1969, between Blind Faith and Traffic, Grech recorded two tracks for a failed solo project, "Spending All My Days" (which he sang) and "Exchange And Mart" (instrumental). Among the participants in the session was George Harrison. These tracks were released as bonus tracks on a 1986 CD reissue of the Blind Faith album, and incorrectly credited to the band.
Grech remained a vibrant musician as a member of Traffic. As in Family, he lasted two albums with the band, Welcome To the Canteen and The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys. Grech's bass playing on the title song of the latter album was stirringly moody. Along with drummer Jim Gordon, Grech co-wrote the minor hit "Rock N Roll Stew." Drugs, however, remained a problem, and Winwood and his bandmates eventually decided they had no alternative but to dismiss him.
Grech remained active in session work, playing with Rod Stewart, Ronnie Lane, and Muddy Waters. He also worked with Rosetta Hightower, the Crickets and Gram Parsons. In January 1973, he performed in Eric Clapton's Rainbow Concert, and he even reunited with Roger Chapman and Charlie Whitney when the duo recorded an album in 1974 after Family's breakup. Grech was one of many special guests on that record, which led Chapman and Whitney to form the group Streetwalkers. Grech, however, was not in that band.
Grech made at least two reported attempts to start a new rock group in the seventies; he hoped to start a new band with fellow Family alumnus John "Poli" Palmer in 1973, but that plan fell apart. He also planned to start a new group with former Jimi Hendrix drummer Mitch Mitchell around Joe Jammer, a guitarist they'd both discovered. That group was in fact never formed, and Jammer went on to form his own band, the Olympic Runners.
In 1974 Grech finally hooked up with another supergroup, KGB. Consisting of Grech on bass, Michael Bloomfield (ex-Paul Butterfield Blues Band and Electric Flag) on guitar, Carmine Appice (ex-Vanilla Fudge, Cactus and Beck, Bogert & Appice) on drums, Barry Goldberg on keyboards, and Ray Kennedy (co-writer of "Sail On, Sailor") on vocals, the group released its homonymous debut that year. Grech and Bloomfield immediately quit after its release, stating they never had faith in the project. The album was not critically well received.
Eventually Grech grew tired of the rock scene and retired in 1977, returning to Leicester to sell carpet. He eventually developed a drinking problem, and in 1990 he died of liver and kidney failure at the age of 43.

"Tisa" redirects here. For other uses, see Tisa (disambiguation) and Tisza (disambiguation).
The Tisza is one of the major rivers of Central Europe. It originates in Ukraine, with the White Tisza in the Chornohora and Black Tisza in the Gorgany range, flows partially along the Romanian border, passes through Hungary touching the border with Slovakia, and falls into the Danube in central Vojvodina in Serbia. It forms the boundary between the regions of Bačka and Banat . The Tisza drains an area of about 157,186 km².
Names for the river in the countries it flows through are:
The river was known as the Tisia in antiquity, and Latin names for it included Tissus, Tisia, Pathissus (Pliny, Naturalis historia, 4.25). It may be referred to as the Theiss (German: Theiß) in older English references.

Romanian: Tisa
Ukrainian: Тиса (Tysa)
Slovak: Tisa
Hungarian: Tisza, IPA pronunciation: [ˈtisa],(approximate pronunciation, Tee-suh)
Serbian: Тиса (Tisa) Regulation of the Tisza
In the 1980s the building of the Kisköre Reservoir started with the purpose of helping to control floods as well as storing water for drought seasons. It turned out, however, that the resulting Lake Tisza became one of the most popular tourist destinations in Hungary, since it had similar features to Lake Balaton at drastically cheaper prices and it was not crowded.

Prelude
Three years later, in 43, possibly by re-collecting Caligula's troops, Claudius mounted an invasion-force to re-instate Verica, an exiled king of the Atrebates.

Legio II Augusta
Legio IX Hispana
Legio XIV Gemina
Legio XX Valeria Victrix Claudian preparations

Main article: Site of the Claudian invasion of Britain Crossing and landing
British resistance was led by Togodumnus and Caratacus, sons of the late king of the Catuvellauni, Cunobelinus. A substantial British force met the Romans at a river crossing thought to be near Rochester on the River Medway. The battle raged for two days. Hosidius Geta was almost captured, but recovered and turned the battle so decisively that he was awarded the ornamenta triumphalia.
The British were pushed back to the Thames. The Romans pursued them across the river causing them to lose men in the marshes of Essex. Whether the Romans made use of an existing bridge for this purpose or built a temporary one is uncertain. At least one division of auxiliary Batavian troops swam across the river as a separate force.
Togodumnus died shortly after the battle on the Thames. Plautius halted and sent word for Claudius to join him for the final push. Cassius Dio presents this as Plautius needing the emperor's assistance to defeat the resurgent British, who were determined to avenge Togodumnus. However, Claudius was no military man, and it is likely that the Catuvellauni were already as good as beaten, allowing the emperor to appear as conqueror on the final march on Camulodunum. Claudius's arch says he received the surrender of eleven kings without any loss Cassius Dio relates that he brought war elephants, although no remains of them have been discovered in Britain, and heavy armaments which would have overawed any remaining native resistance. Eleven tribes of South East Britain surrendered to Claudius and the Romans prepared to move further west and north. The Romans established their new capital at Camulodunum and Claudius returned to Rome to revel in his victory. Caratacus escaped and would continue the resistance further west.

River battles
Vespasian took a force westwards subduing tribes and capturing oppida as he went, going at least as far as Exeter and probably reaching Bodmin. The Ninth Legion was sent north towards Lincoln and within four years of the invasion it is likely that an area south of a line from the Humber to the Severn Estuary was under Roman control. That this line is followed by the Roman road of the Fosse Way has led many historians to debate the route's role as a convenient frontier during the early occupation. It is more likely that the border between Roman and Iron Age Britain was less direct and more mutable during this period however.
Late in 47 the new governor of Britain, Ostorius Scapula began a campaign against the tribes of modern day Wales, and the Cheshire Gap. The Silures of south east Wales caused considerable problems to Ostorius and fiercely defended the Welsh border country. Caratacus himself was defeated in one encounter and fled to the Roman client tribe of the Brigantes who occupied the Pennines. Their queen, Cartimandua was unable or unwilling to protect him however given her own truce with the Romans and handed him over to the invaders. Ostorius died and was replaced by Aulus Gallus who brought the Welsh borders under control but did not move further north or west, probably because Claudius was keen to avoid what he considered a difficult and drawn-out war for little material gain in the mountainous terrain of upland Britain. When Nero became emperor in AD 54, he seems to have decided to continue the invasion and appointed Quintus Veranius as governor, a man experienced in dealing with the troublesome hill tribes of Asia Minor. Veranius and his successor Gaius Suetonius Paulinus mounted a successful campaign across Wales, famously destroying the druidical centre at Mona or Anglesey in AD 60. Final occupation of Wales was postponed however when the rebellion of Boudica forced the Romans to return to the south east. The Silures were not finally conquered until circa AD 76 when Sextus Julius Frontinus' long campaign against them began to have success.

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Following the successful suppression of Boudica, a number of new Roman governors continued the conquest by edging north. Cartimandua was forced to ask for Roman aid following a rebellion by her husband Venutius. Quintus Petillius Cerialis took his legions from Lincoln as far as York and defeated Venutius near Stanwick around 70. This resulted in the already Romanised Brigantes and Parisii tribes being further assimilated into the empire proper. The new governor in 77 was the famous Gnaeus Julius Agricola. He finished off the Ordovices in Wales and then took his troops north along the Pennines, building roads as he went. He built a fortress at Chester and employed tactics of terrorising each local tribe before offering terms. By 80 he had reached as far as the River Tay, beginning the construction of a fortress at Inchtuthil which would have been the largest in the Roman world at the time if completed. He won a significant victory against the Caledonian Confederacy led by Calgacus at Mons Graupius. It is conventional to give Bennachie in Aberdeenshire as the location of this battle but some recent scholarship also suggests that Moncrieffe in Perthshire was the site. He then ordered his fleet to sail around the north of Scotland to establish that Britain is an island and to receive the surrender of the Orcadians.
Agricola was recalled to Rome by Domitian and seemingly replaced with a series of ineffectual successors who were unable or unwilling to further subdue the far north. The fortress at Inchtuthil was dismantled before its completion and the other fortifications of the Gask Ridge in Perthshire erected to consolidate the Roman presence in Scotland in the aftermath of Mons Graupius were abandoned within the space of a few years. It is equally likely that the costs of a drawn-out war outweighed any economic or political benefit and it was more profitable to leave the Caledonians alone and only under de jure submission.

Failure to conquer Scotland

Life
His medical work in the east end of London during the epidemic of cholera in 1866 first drew his attention to the great numbers of homeless and destitute children in the cities of England. Encouraged by the support of the seventh Earl of Shaftesbury and the first Earl Cairns, he gave up his early ambition of foreign missionary labour, and began what was to prove his life's work. The first of the "Dr Barnardo's Homes" was opened in 1870 at 18 Stepney Causeway, London. From that time the work steadily increased until, at the time of his death, in 1905, there were established 112 district "Homes," besides mission branches, throughout the United Kingdom.
The object for which these institutions were started was to search for and to receive waifs and strays, to feed, clothe, educate, and, where possible, to give an industrial training suitable to each child. The principle adopted was that of free and immediate admission; there were no restrictions of age or sex, religion or nationality; the physically robust and the incurably diseased were alike received, the one necessary qualification being destitution. The system under which the institution was carried on is broadly as follows:the infants and younger girls and boys are chiefly "boarded out" in rural districts; girls above fourteen years of age are sent to the industrial training homes, to be taught useful domestic occupations; boys above seventeen years of age are first tested in labour homes and then placed in employment at home, sent to sea or emigrated; boys of between thirteen and seventeen years of age are trained for the various trades for which they may be mentally or physically fitted. Besides the various branches necessary for the foregoing work, there were also, among others, the following institutions:a rescue home for girls in serious danger, a convalescent seaside home, and a hospital for the terribly sick.
In 1876 on the 9th July The Girls Village Home was officially opened with twelve cottages by the then Lord Cairns, In the same year a modern steam laundry was opened. Over the years the number of cottages grew to a total of 66 in 1906 housing some 1,300 girls which was spread over the three Village greens covering some 60 acres which was next to Mossford Lodge at Barkingside,Ilford, Essex that had been opened in 1873, by 1894 a Multi - denominational Children's Church was opened with a dedication service. The Girls Village Home had become a real "garden city"; where Dr. Thomas John Barnardo is buried in front of Cairns House and watchers stood imensly crying in deep pain to see this wonderful man go.
In 1901, through the generosity of Mr E. H. Watts, a naval school was opened in 1903 at North Elmham, near Norwich, to which boys were drafted from the branch homes to be trained for the navy and the mercantile marine. Watts Naval Training School closed 1949
In 1899 the various institutions and organizations were legally incorporated under the title of "The National Association for the reclamation of Destitute Waif Children", but the institution has always been familiarly known as "Dr Barnardo's Homes." Barnardo laid great stress on the religious teaching of the children under his care. Each child was brought up under the influence and teaching of the Protestant Faith. Children of Jewish and Roman Catholic parentage were handed over to the care of the Jewish Board of Guardians in London and to Roman Catholic institutions respectively.

Emigration system
Barnardo died of angina pectoris in London on 19 September 1905. His coffin was one of only two ever to be transported by Underground.[1]
A national memorial was instituted to form a fund of £250,000 to relieve the various institutions of all financial liability and to place the entire work on a permanent basis. William Baker, formerly the chairman of the council, was selected to succeed the founder of the homes as Honorary director. Barnardo was the author of many books dealing with the charitable work to which he devoted his life.

Robert H. Grubbs (b. 27 February 1942 in Possum Trot, Kentucky) is an American chemist and Nobel laureate.
As he noted in his official Nobel Prize autobiography, "In some places, my birthplace is listed as Calvert City and in others Possum Trot [NB: both in Marshall County]. I was actually born between the two, so either one really is correct." He spent his early childhood in Marshall County and attended public school at McKinley Elementary, Franklin Junior High and Paducah Tilghman High School in Paducah, Kentucky. Grubbs studied chemistry at the University of Florida (B.S. and M.S.), where he worked with Merle Battiste, and Columbia University, where he obtained his Ph.D. under Ronald Breslow in 1968.
He next spent a year with James Collman at Stanford University. He was then appointed to the faculty of Michigan State University. In 1978 he moved to California Institute of Technology where he is presently Victor and Elizabeth Atkins Professor of Chemistry.
His main interests in organometallic chemistry and synthetic chemistry are catalysts, notably Grubbs' catalyst for olefin metathesis and ring-opening metathesis polymerization with cyclic olefins such as norbornene. He also contributed to the development of so-called "living polymerization".
Grubbs's many awards have included: Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (1974-76), Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award (1975-78), Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (1975), ACS Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry (2000), ACS Herman F. Mark Polymer Chemistry Award (2000), ACS Herbert C. Brown Award for Creative Research in Synthetic Methods (2001) and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2005). He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1989 and a fellowship in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1994.
Grubbs received the 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, along with Richard R. Schrock and Yves Chauvin, for his work in the field of olefin metathesis.