The 2018 season was the inaugural season of Major League Rugby, an annual rugby union competition sanctioned. The seven inaugural teams were based in the; the competition began the weekend of April 21–22 with three matches, with defeating 35–26 to open the season. And were the best two teams at the end of the regular season and won their respective semi-final matches to advance to the championship game at in.
Seattle became Major League Rugby's first champion team with a surprise come-from-behind 23–19 win in the final over Glendale, who had only lost once during the season. All seven participating teams played eight matches and received two rounds of byes during the regular season held over ten weeks from April through to June; the schedule was short of a full home and away draw by four match rounds, so each side played two of the other teams twice and four of them only once. The top four teams at the end of the regular season advanced to the MLR playoffs.The final standings for the 2018 Major League Rugby regular season were: The following matches were played for the 2018 Major League Rugby regular season: Updated to match played on June 23, 2018. Colors: Blue: home team win; the top four teams from the regular season qualified for the playoffs.
Get ready — World War Three Has Already Begun. Admin April 18, 2016. And commitment required to begin the long journey to a better, just and peaceful world? Where are the dissidents in art, film, the theatre, literature? Sure, they’re going to fight real hard to protect the United States when Uncle Sam starts World War Three. The Story of the Second World War, Edited with Historic Narrative Little Brown 1-574887-41-6 A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II Weinberg Gerhard Cambridge Eng.; New York World War, 1939-1945. 0-521443-17-2 D744.55 Making Sense of.
Smite tactics dead. The Gods Await Your Command. The Gods are at war. And YOU must lead them to victory. Hand of the Gods: SMITE Tactics is a turn-based strategy game from from Hi-Rez Studios.Build a card deck from a large roster of mythological gods and creatures from SMITE like Zeus, the Greek God of the Sky, and Odin, the Norse Allfather.Then wage war in competitive multiplayer matches or single-player campaigns.
The format was two semifinal matches – first versus fourth, second versus third – followed by a Championship game between the semifinal winners to determine the MLR champion team; the semifinals were played as a double header at in Glendale on June 30, followed a week by the final at Torero Stadium in San Diego on July 7. The leading scorers in 2018 over the regular season and playoffs combined were: Sources:Americas Rugby News and MLR. Sources: Americas Rugby News and MLR. MVP of the Championship Match All-MLR First Team All-MLR. Mary, is a Canadian musician and educator.
A and, she is known for performing, she travels to to perform with Cuban musicians. She changed her instruments, from pursuing her career 'as a classical pianist.at age 20 to jazz and to and soprano saxophone.' Bunnett leads an all-female Afro-Cuban/jazz group, Maqueque. Its other members are: Yissy Garcia, Magdelys Savigne; the group has won one and garnered two Grammy nominations, while Bunnett herself has won four additional Juno Awards. In 2004, Bunnett was appointed an, the highest civilian honour given in this country, granted to Canadian citizens'for outstanding achievement and service to the country or to humanity at large.' Bunnett is married to trumpeter Larry Cramer.
They have traveled to Cuba for musical collaborations for more than 30 years. Bunnett is a social activist. Official site Jane Bunnett at. The term woodboring encompasses many species and families of beetles whose larval or adult forms eat and destroy wood. In the industry, larval stages of some are sometimes referred to as woodworms; the three most speciose families of woodboring beetles are longhorn beetles,. Woodboring beetles most attack dying or dead trees. In forest settings, they are important in the turnover of trees by weak trees, thus allowing new growth to occur, they are important as primary of trees within forest systems, allowing for the of nutrients locked away in the decay-resilient woody material of trees.
To develop and reach maturity woodboring beetles need nutrients provided by from outside of the inhabited wood; these nutrients are not only assimilated into the beetles' bodies but are concentrated in their, contributing to soil nutrients cycles. Though the vast majority of woodboring beetles are ecologically important and economically benign, some species can become economic pests by attacking healthy trees or by infesting downed trees in lumber yards.Species such as the and the emerald ash borer are examples of invasive species that threaten natural forest ecosystems. Woodboring beetles are detected a few years after new construction; the lumber supply may have contained wood infected with beetle eggs or larvae, since beetle life cycles can be one or more years, several years may pass before the presence of beetles becomes noticeable. In many cases, the beetles will be of a type that only attacks living wood, thus incapable of 'infesting' any other pieces of wood, or doing any further damage.
Genuine infestations are far more in areas with high humidity, such as poorly ventilated crawl spaces. Housing with central heating/air-conditioning tends to cut the humidity of wood in the living areas to less than half of natural humidity, thus reducing the likelihood of an infestation; some species will furniture. Some beetles invade wood used in furniture making; the following lists some of those beetles. Common furniture beetle Flat-headed wood-borer Powderpost beetle Old-house borer Bark beetles and weevils Carpenter ants Longhorn beetles Metallic flat-headed borers Wood ants V. University of Agriculture and Natural Resources, UC Statewide IPM Program, UC ANR Publication 7418.
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CS1 maint: uses authors parameter. Is a British writer of fiction. His work includes novels, picture books, poetry anthologies, television series and many adaptations for BBC Radio, he was born in and educated at Adam's in Newport and has a first degree from and a master's degree from the. Jones' best known novels are series, published by and Kindle The books were adapted into three six-part series for; the first series was broadcast in 2000, second series in 2001 and the third series in 2002. They are still being shown in the U. K and in other parts of the world.
One of the main characters in the series was Mrs Croker, played. Played Roddy Oliver; the ghost boy, William Povey, was played by Lee Godwin and Roddy's sister was played by Verity-Jane Dearsley.
The Ghost Hunter and The Ghost Hunter at Chillwood Castle have been published as an and in large print; the is published in Japanese.The Ghost Hunter's was the third book published by Scholastic. His picture books, including, The Lazy Giant and in the USA are written in a classic fairy-tale style and contain a moral; the Golden Cage is illustrated by and is published in and in. His best-selling stories about Zot the Dog, published by, are zany; the first title, Adventures of Zot the Dog, was first noticed by Elizabeth Attenborough when the manuscript arrived at. The book published in, was chosen as one of the best books of the year. Other titles followed: Zot's Treasures, Zot Solves It and Zot Goes Camping; the books are illustrated by Judy Brown. The stories were adapted into a 13-part animated cartoon series for ITV and subsequently released on video; the books were dramatised for and the production ran for 88 performances in, as well as touring schools nationally. Jones has published other books, notably The Battle for Muck Farm, a magical about a girl called Kitty and her strange and mysterious horse friend, Humpy Lumpy.Early in his career, Jones wrote.
Lost Hollow is the name of the village round. Parts of the drama are, while other parts are humorous – exaggerating rivalries and characters of village life; the series was produced and directed by Diane Kemp. Ivan Jones' play Shelter was one of the winning entries for the Midlands New Writers Festival; this is a moving, sometimes tragic, play with powerful themes of fantasy. It contains strong characters and explores such themes as young love, anger and; the central character's obsession with is both a of Fleming's character but an exploration of the power of such a character on the workings and imaginings of a young person's mind. Jones' stage play Winterblock's Ghost was performed at, with the lead role played by; this is a play in the tradition. It uses black characters. All the action takes place in the offices of an educational where absurd struggles for power take place – and where a ghost seeks revenge.As well as his other writing, Ivan Jones has published many poems for adults and children, including the successful, published by Scholastic and Scholastic Inc.
The book contains a poem for every night of the year and each month is illustrated by a different, well-known artist. Many of Jones' poems were commissioned for BBC schools' radio, including several about in, viz: The Chinese Fishermen at Kochi; some of these poems were read for radio.
Other commissioned works included poems The, Birds Arrive and many about 'the sea'. Numerous other poems appear in collections such, Football.
More poems have appeared in collections edited by Gaby Morgan. One of Jones's controversial poems, ' is featured in several collections including 'Between the Severn and the Wye' edited by, he has adapted many children's books for Radio 4 and Radio 7 including: by by The Pig Scrolls by by The Fantastical Adventures of the by by The Girl with the Broken Wing by Heather Dyer by.Stunt Girl by Jonny Zucker. The War Diaries of Alistair Fury by Avril Crump by Angela Woolfe. Smile by Notes from a Liar and her Dog by Gennifer Choldenko Street by is married to the author, his eldest daughter was, the illustrator and writer of the multimillion selling books. Lara died in March 2010 from.
The Battle of Gross-Jägersdorf was a victory for the Russian force under Field MarshalStepan Fyodorovich Apraksin over a smaller Prussian force commanded by Field Marshal Hans von Lehwaldt, during the Seven Years' War. This was the first battle. Despite the tactical success, supply problems made a successful advance further into East Prussia impractical. Apraksin ordered a withdrawal soon after the battle. Suspecting collusion between Apraksin and Chancellor Alexey Bestuzhev-Ryumin, who had opposed the invasion, Elizabeth of Russia removed Apraksin from command, ordered Bestuzhev-Ryumin to face trial for treason, appointed William Fermor as the head of the army. Femor led the army back into East Prussia in the following year. Although the Seven Years' War was a global conflict, it took a specific intensity in the European theater based on the concluded War of the Austrian Succession; the 1748 Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle gave Frederick II of Prussia, known as Frederick the Great, the prosperous province of Silesia.
Empress Maria Theresa of Austria had signed the treaty to gain time to rebuild her military forces and forge new alliances. In 1754, escalating tensions between Britain and France in North America offered France an opportunity to break the British dominance of Atlantic trade. Seeing the opportunity to regain her lost territories and to limit Prussia's growing power, Austria put aside the old rivalry with France to form a new coalition. Faced with this turn of events, Britain aligned herself with the Kingdom of Prussia; this series of political maneuvers became known as the Diplomatic Revolution. At the outset of the war, Frederick had one of the finest armies in Europe: his troops—any company—could fire at least four volleys a minute, some of them could fire five. By the end of 1757, the course of the war had gone well for Prussia, poorly for Austria. Prussia had achieve spectacular victories at Rossbach and Leuthen and reconquered parts of Silesia that had fallen back to Austria; the Prussians pressed south into Austrian Moravia.
In April 1758, Prussia and Britain concluded the Anglo-Prussian Convention in which the British committed to pay Frederick an annual subsidy of £670,000. Britain dispatched 7,000–9,000 troops to reinforce Frederick's brother-in-law, the Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel's army. Ferdinand evicted the French from Hanover and Westphalia and re-captured the port of Emden in March 1758. Despite Ferdinand's victory over the French at the Battle of Krefeld and the brief occupation of Düsseldorf, successful maneuvering of larger French forces required him to withdraw across the Rhine. While Ferdinand and the English allies kept the French busy in the Rhineland, Prussia had to contend with Sweden and Austria. There remained a possibility that Prussia could lose Silesia to Austria, Pomerania to Sweden, Magdeburg to Saxony, East Prussia to Poland or Russia: an nightmarish scenario. In particular, East Prussia was cut off from the rest of Prussia by 500 kilometers of Polish territory, seemed an easy target, but some Russian court officials—notably Chancellor Alexey Bestuzhev-Ryumin—opposed Russia's entry into what seemed like a western European dispute.
Bestuzhev-Ryumin did not trust the Prussians, but had little liking for the French or the British. In this conflict, which grew out of the major realignment of European power diplomacy, it was difficult to determine if the enemy of an enemy was a friend; the Russian field marshal Stepan Fyodorovich Apraksin commanded an army of 55,000 men and crossed the Niemen. They captured Memel. Apraxin was cautious and inexperienced in wartime measures. Instead of marching on Wehlau, as was expected, he ordered his forces to cross the Pregel River in safety, near the village of Gross-Jägersdorf; the position in East Prussia had stretched the Russian supply lines, the troops were forced to forage. Foraging degenerated into unruliness and turned into a scorched earth policy, a process that Frederick derided, thinking the Russians undisciplined troops, they moved on Königsberg, to try to at least invest the city. Frederick sent his 70-year-old Field MarshalHans von Lehwaldt, who commanded of forces in East Prussia, with 28,000 men.
He sent ambiguous orders to take on the Russians whenever his field marshal saw fit. Frederick had not given him specific instructions, just general ones to act when the moment seemed propitious; the Russians started the day with a leisurely march, but the army was undisciplined and difficult to move in any concentrated, organized way. Seeing the opportunity, the Prussians attacked 'unprepared mob' of Russian soldiers. Lehwaldt's cavalry attacked the northern and southern flanks of the Russian army, inflicting initial heavy losses; the Russians unprepared for an assault by an army half its size, degenerated into further confusion. Apraxin's inexperienced commanders tried to organize the infantry.
The 2018 Major League Rugby season was the inaugural season of Major League Rugby, an annual rugby union competition sanctioned by USA Rugby. The seven inaugural teams were based in the United States; the competition began the weekend of April 21–22 with three matches, with New Orleans defeating Houston 35–26 to open the season. Glendale and Seattle were the best two teams at the end of the regular season and won their respective semi-final matches to advance to the championship game at Torero Stadium in San Diego. Seattle became Major League Rugby's first champion team with a surprise come-from-behind 23–19 win in the final over Glendale, who had only lost once during the season. All seven participating teams played eight matches and received two rounds of byes during the regular season held over ten weeks from April through to June; the schedule was short of a full home and away draw by four match rounds, so each side played two of the other teams twice and four of them only once. The top four teams at the end of the regular season advanced to the MLR playoffs.
The final standings for the 2018 Major League Rugby regular season were: The following matches were played for the 2018 Major League Rugby regular season: Updated to match played on June 23, 2018. Colors: Blue: home team win; the top four teams from the regular season qualified for the playoffs. The format was two semifinal matches – first versus fourth, second versus third – followed by a Championship game between the semifinal winners to determine the MLR champion team; the semifinals were played as a double header at Infinity Park in Glendale on June 30, followed a week by the final at Torero Stadium in San Diego on July 7. The leading scorers in 2018 over the regular season and playoffs combined were: Sources:Americas Rugby News and MLR. Sources: Americas Rugby News and MLR. MVP of the Championship Match All-MLR First Team All-MLR Second Team
Mary Jane Bunnett, is a Canadian musician and educator. A sopranosaxophonist and bandleader, she is known for performing Afro-Cubanjazz, she travels to Cuba to perform with Cuban musicians. She changed her instruments, from pursuing her career 'as a classical pianist..at age 20 to jazz and to flute and soprano saxophone.' Bunnett leads an all-female Afro-Cuban/jazz group, Maqueque. Its other members are: Yissy Garcia, Magdelys Savigne; the group has won one Juno Award and garnered two Grammy nominations, while Bunnett herself has won four additional Juno Awards. In 2004, Bunnett was appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada, the highest civilian honour given in this country, granted to Canadian citizens'for outstanding achievement and service to the country or to humanity at large.' Bunnett is married to trumpeter Larry Cramer. They have traveled to Cuba for musical collaborations for more than 30 years. Bunnett is a social activist. Official site Jane Bunnett at The Canadian Encyclopedia
The term woodboring beetle encompasses many species and families of beetles whose larval or adult forms eat and destroy wood. In the woodworking industry, larval stages of some are sometimes referred to as woodworms; the three most speciose families of woodboring beetles are longhorn beetles, bark beetles and weevils, metallic flat-headed borers. Woodboring beetles most attack dying or dead trees. In forest settings, they are important in the turnover of trees by culling weak trees, thus allowing new growth to occur, they are important as primary decomposers of trees within forest systems, allowing for the recycling of nutrients locked away in the decay-resilient woody material of trees. To develop and reach maturity woodboring beetles need nutrients provided by fungi from outside of the inhabited wood; these nutrients are not only assimilated into the beetles' bodies but are concentrated in their frass, contributing to soil nutrients cycles. Though the vast majority of woodboring beetles are ecologically important and economically benign, some species can become economic pests by attacking healthy trees or by infesting downed trees in lumber yards.
Species such as the Asian longhorn beetle and the emerald ash borer are examples of invasive species that threaten natural forest ecosystems. Woodboring beetles are detected a few years after new construction; the lumber supply may have contained wood infected with beetle eggs or larvae, since beetle life cycles can be one or more years, several years may pass before the presence of beetles becomes noticeable. In many cases, the beetles will be of a type that only attacks living wood, thus incapable of 'infesting' any other pieces of wood, or doing any further damage. Genuine infestations are far more in areas with high humidity, such as poorly ventilated crawl spaces. Housing with central heating/air-conditioning tends to cut the humidity of wood in the living areas to less than half of natural humidity, thus reducing the likelihood of an infestation; some species will infest furniture. Some beetles invade wood used in furniture making; the following lists some of those beetles. Ambrosia beetle Common furniture beetle Deathwatch beetle Flat-headed wood-borer Powderpost beetle Old-house borer Bark beetles and weevils Carpenter ants Longhorn beetles Metallic flat-headed borers Termites Wood ants V. R. Lewis, Environmental Science and Management, UC Berkeley.
'Wood-Boring Beetles in Homes'. University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources, UC Statewide IPM Program, UC ANR Publication 7418. University of California, Davis. Retrieved 2013-06-05. CS1 maint: uses authors parameter Barb Ogg, PhD, Extension Educator. 'Wood-destroying Beetles'. University of Nebraska–Lincoln Extension in Lancaster County. Retrieved 2013-06-05. CS1 maint: uses authors parameter John A. Jackman and Extension Entomologist. 'Structure-Infesting Wood-Boring Beetles'. Texas A&M AgriLife Extension. Texas A&M University Department of Entomology. Retrieved 2013-06-05. CS1 maint: uses authors parameter
Ivan Jones is a British writer of fiction. His work includes novels, picture books, poetry anthologies, television series and many adaptations for BBC Radio, he was born in Shropshire and educated at Adam's Grammar School in Newport and has a first degree from Birmingham University and a master's degree from the University of Nottingham. Jones' best known novels are The Ghost Hunter series, published by Scholastic and Kindle The books were adapted into three six-part series for BBC Television; the first series was broadcast in 2000, second series in 2001 and the third series in 2002. They are still being shown in the U. K and in other parts of the world. One of the main characters in the series was Mrs Croker, played by Jean Marsh. Will Theakston played Roddy Oliver; the ghost boy, William Povey, was played by Lee Godwin and Roddy's sister was played by Verity-Jane Dearsley. The Ghost Hunter and The Ghost Hunter at Chillwood Castle have been published as an audiobook and in large print; the Ghost Hunter is published in Japanese.
The Ghost Hunter's House of Horror was the third book published by Scholastic. His picture books, including The Golden Cage, The Lazy Giant and in the USA are written in a classic fairy-tale style and contain a moral; the Golden Cage is illustrated by Ken Brown and is published in France and in Sweden. His best-selling stories about Zot the Dog, published by Puffin Books, are zany; the first title, Adventures of Zot the Dog, was first noticed by Elizabeth Attenborough when the manuscript arrived at Penguin Books. The book published in hardback, was chosen as one of the best books of the year by Julia Eccleshare. Other titles followed: Zot's Treasures, Zot Solves It and Zot Goes Camping; the books are illustrated by Judy Brown. The stories were adapted into a 13-part animated cartoon series for ITV and subsequently released on video; the books were dramatised for Cannon HillPuppet Theatre and the production ran for 88 performances in Birmingham, as well as touring schools nationally. Jones has published other books, notably The Battle for Muck Farm, a magical fantasy about a girl called Kitty and her strange and mysterious horse friend, Humpy Lumpy.
Early in his career, Jones wrote. Lost Hollow is the name of the village round. Parts of the drama are satirical, while other parts are humorous – exaggerating rivalries and characters of village life; the series was produced and directed by Diane Kemp. Ivan Jones' play Shelter was one of the winning entries for the Midlands New Writers Festival; this is a moving, sometimes tragic, play with powerful themes of fantasy. It contains strong characters and explores such themes as young love, anger and escapism; the central character's obsession with James Bond is both a parody of Fleming's character but an exploration of the power of such a character on the workings and imaginings of a young person's mind. Jones' stage play Winterblock's Ghost was performed at Leicester Haymarket, with the lead role played by Colin Hurley; this is a play in the absurdist tradition. It uses black grotesque characters. All the action takes place in the offices of an educational bureaucracy where absurd struggles for power take place – and where a ghost seeks revenge.
As well as his other writing, Ivan Jones has published many poems for adults and children, including the successful Good Night, Sleep Tight, published by Scholastic and Scholastic Inc. The book contains a poem for every night of the year and each month is illustrated by a different, well-known artist. Many of Jones' poems were commissioned for BBC schools' radio, including several about Kochi in India, viz: The Chinese Fishermen at Kochi; some of these poems were read for radio by Michael Rosen. Other commissioned works included poems The Magpie, Birds Arrive and many about 'the sea'. Numerous other poems appear in collections such as I Love You, Football. More poems have appeared in collections edited by Gaby Morgan. One of Jones's controversial poems, 'Ironbridge' is featured in several collections including 'Between the Severn and the Wye' edited by Johnny Coppin, he has adapted many children's books for Radio 4 and Radio 7 including: The Machine Gunners by Robert WestallAl Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko The Pig Scrolls by Paul ShiptonWolf Brother by Michelle Paver The Fantastical Adventures of the Invisible Boy by Lloyd AlexanderChinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah The Girl with the Broken Wing by Heather Dyer The Daydreamer by Ian McEwan.
Stunt Girl by Jonny Zucker. The War Diaries of Alistair Fury by Jamie Rix Avril Crump by Angela Woolfe. Smile by Geraldine McCaughrean Notes from a Liar and her Dog by Gennifer Choldenko Vinegar Street by Philip RidleyIvan Jones is married to the author, Mal Lewis Jones, his eldest daughter was Lara Jones, the illustrator and writer of the multimillion selling Poppy Cat books. Lara died in March 2010 from malignantmelanoma
The Pebas Formation is a lithostratigraphic unit of Miocene age, found in western Amazonia. The formation extends over 1,000,000 square kilometres, including parts of Brazil, Peru and Colombia, it is interpreted as representing the deposits of a lake or series of lakes, formed within the foreland basin of the Andes mountain belt. It is known for its abundant fossilostracods and molluscs and an unusually diverse group of crocodylians. Montoya A. Diana M. Geología de las Planchas 567, 568, 568bis, 569 and 569bis - 1:200,000, 1–187. Servicio Geológico Colombiano. Accessed 2018-06-01. Salas Gismondi, R. J. Flynn. Baby. V. Tejada Lara. P. Wesselingh, P-O. Antoine. 2015. A Miocene hyperdiverse crocodylian community reveals peculiar trophic dynamics in proto-Amazonian mega-wetlands. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 282. 20142490. Accessed 2018-05-20. Wesselingh, F. P. C. Hoorn. E. Räsänen. 2006. The stratigraphy and regional structure of Miocene deposits in western Amazonia, with implications for late Neogene landscape evolution.
Scripta Geologica 133. 291–322. Accessed 2017-08-15. P. Antoine, M. A. Abello, S. Adnet, A. J. Altamirano Sierra, P. Baby, G. Billet, M. Boivin, Y. Calderón, A. Candela, J. Chabain, F. Corfu, D. A. Croft, M. Ganerød, C. Jaramillo, S. Klaus, L. Marivaux, R. E. Navarrete, M. J. Orliac, F. Parra, M. E. Pérez, F. Pujos, J. Rage, A. R. 2016. A 60-million-year Cenozoic history of western Amazonian ecosystems in Contamana, eastern Peru. Gondwana Research 31:30-59 Marcos C. Bissaro-Júnior, Leonardo Kerber, James L. Crowley, Ana M. Ribeiro, Renato P. Ghilardi, Edson Guilherme, Francisco R. Negri, Jonas P. Souza Filho, Annie S. Hsiou: 'Detritalzircon U–Pb geochronology constrains the age of Brazilian Neogene deposits from Western Amazonia.' Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology Volume 516, 15 February 2019, Pages 64–70 doi: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.11.032