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List of British Army Regiments (2008)

This is a list of British Regular Army regiments as constituted as a result of the British defence white paper Delivering Security in a Changing World in 2004 and "Delivering Security in a Changing World Future Capabilities" in 2005.

Household Cavalry Regiment and Household Cavalry Mounted Regiment

 * The Life Guards
 * The Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons)

Heavy Cavalry

 * 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards
 * The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers and Greys)
 * The Royal Dragoon Guards

Light Cavalry

 * The Queen's Royal Hussars (The Queen's Own and Royal Irish)
 * 9th/12th Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's)
 * The King's Royal Hussars
 * The Light Dragoons
 * The Queen's Royal Lancers

The Royal Tank Regiment

 * 1st Royal Tank Regiment
 * 2nd Royal Tank Regiment

Infantry
Note: When a regiment is described as having n + n battalions, the first number is regular army battalions, and the second is Territorial Army battalions.

Foot Guards

 * Grenadier Guards - 1 + 0 battalion
 * Coldstream Guards - 1 + 0 battalion
 * Scots Guards - 1 + 0 battalion
 * Irish Guards - 1 + 0 battalion
 * Welsh Guards - 1 + 0 battalion
 * London Regiment - 0 + 1 battalion

Line Infantry

 * Royal Regiment of Scotland - 5 + 2 battalions formed by an amalgamation of:
 * The Royal Scots (The Royal Regiment)
 * The King's Own Scottish Borderers
 * The Royal Highland Fusiliers (Princess Margaret's Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment)
 * The Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment)
 * The Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons and Camerons)
 * The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders (Princess Louise's)
 * Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment (Queen's and Royal Hampshires) - 2 + 1 battalions
 * Duke of Lancaster's Regiment (King's Lancashire and Border) - 3 + 1 battalions formed by an amalgamation of:
 * King's Own Royal Border Regiment
 * King's Regiment
 * Queen's Lancashire Regiment
 * Royal Regiment of Fusiliers - 2 + 1 battalions
 * Royal Anglian Regiment - 2 + 1 battalions
 * Yorkshire Regiment (14th/15th, 19th and 33rd/76th Foot) - 3 + 1 battalions formed by an amalgamation of:
 * Prince of Wales's Own Regiment of Yorkshire
 * The Green Howards (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment)
 * The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding)
 * Mercian Regiment - 3 + 1 battalions formed by an amalgamation of:
 * 22nd (Cheshire) Regiment
 * Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment (29th/45th Foot)
 * The Staffordshire Regiment (The Prince of Wales's)
 * Royal Welsh - 2 + 1 battalions formed by an amalgamation of:
 * Royal Welch Fusiliers
 * Royal Regiment of Wales (24th/41st Foot)
 * Royal Irish Regiment (27th (Inniskilling) 83rd and 87th and The Ulster Defence Regiment) - 1 + 1 battalion
 * Parachute Regiment - 3 + 1 battalions
 * Royal Gurkha Rifles - 2 + 0 battalions
 * The Rifles - 5 + 2 battalions formed by an amalgamation of:
 * Devonshire and Dorset Light Infantry
 * The Light Infantry
 * Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Light Infantry
 * Royal Green Jackets

Special Forces

 * Special Air Service
 * Special Reconnaissance Regiment
 * Special Forces Support Group

The Army Air Corps

 * Army Air Corps

Support Arms

 * Royal Regiment of Artillery
 * Corps of Royal Engineers
 * Royal Corps of Signals
 * Intelligence Corps

Services

 * Royal Army Chaplains Department
 * Royal Logistic Corps
 * Royal Army Medical Corps
 * Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
 * Adjutant General's Corps
 * Royal Army Veterinary Corps
 * Small Arms School Corps
 * Royal Army Dental Corps
 * Army Physical Training Corps (Granted 'Royal' prefix in 2010)
 * General Service Corps
 * Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps
 * Corps of Army Music

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Albertis Harrison

Albertis Sydney Harrison Jr. (January 11, 1907 – January 23, 1995) was an American politician and jurist. A member of the Democratic Party associated with Virginia's Byrd Organization, he was the 59th Governor of Virginia in 1962–66, and the first governor of Virginia to have been born in the 20th century.

Early life and education
Harrison was born in Alberta, Virginia, the son of Albertis Sydney Harrison and Lizzie, (née Goodrich). He has been widely reported as related to Benjamin Harrison V who signed the Declaration of Independence and two United States presidents, William Henry Harrison and Benjamin Harrison, the 9th and 23rd Presidents, however before his death, he found this to be false.

He received an LL.B degree from the University of Virginia Law School in 1928. Harrison married Lacey Virginia Barkley c.1940. They had two children, Antoinette H Jamison and Albertis S. Harrison III and 6 grandchildren, Joseph D. Goodrich Harrison, Monica Harrison Kopf, Virginia Lacey Jamison, and James Carper Jamison II.

Legal and political career
Harrison went into legal practice in Lawrenceville, Virginia, where he became town attorney, before being elected commonwealth's attorney of Brunswick County.

He was elected to the Senate of Virginia in 1947. He served there for ten years, before being elected Attorney General of Virginia in 1957.

Harrison resigned as attorney general in April 1961 to run for governor, winning election that November with 63.84% of the vote, defeating Republican H. Clyde Pearson. His administration increased educational financing for new schools and laboratories and raised teachers' pay. He promoted the development of state-supported colleges and technical schools as well as improved vocational training. He helped to modernize state banking laws to attract investment and accelerated highway construction.

He sat on the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, later renamed the Supreme Court of Virginia, from 1968 to 1981. In 1968 he chaired the Commission on Constitutional Revision that drafted the 1971 Constitution of Virginia.

Massive Resistance
As Attorney General, Harrison was responsible for defending the state's resistance to school integration, as part of the Massive Resistance strategy endorsed and led by the state's political leader, United States Senator Harry F. Byrd.

Part of Massive Resistance involved the closing of public schools in various Virginia cities and counties to prevent racially integrated classrooms. Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County (1952) was one of the companion cases to Brown v. Board of Education (1954), but the Supreme Court had left enforcement to the local federal district judge. Moreover, the Gray Commission of Byrd loyalists had recommended passage of various laws to avoid or delay integration. After opinions by the Virginia Supreme Court on January 19, 1959, as well as a three-judge federal panel overturned much of the new Virginia legislation, Governor J. Lindsay Almond (previously attorney general) and Harrison decided not to defy those courts and allowed schools in Arlington and Norfolk to reopen. However the schools in Prince Edward County closed in 1958 and did not reopen until 1963, as white students used tuition grants to attend a private segregation academy at state expense, while black students were left to volunteer efforts. Other problematic school closures, ultimately opened pursuant to federal court orders included those in Albemarle, Warren County and later New Kent County (the subject of the 1968 Supreme Court decision in Green v. County School Board of New Kent County (1968). Harrison told the board to comply unless they were willing to risk prosecution. By this time, he, like a number of other Byrd Democrats, had concluded that obstinate resistance to integration could not continue.

Another aspect of Massive Resistance involved new laws regulating attorney ethics, designed to attack practices of the NAACP, which was pursuing the desegregation actions. Initially, the U.S. Supreme Court deferred to an upcoming decision of the Virginia Supreme Court about those new ethics rules in Harrison v. NAACP (1959), but the case came before it twice more in NAACP v. Button (1963) (which was reargued after Harrison resigned as attorney general to run for governor, and which Virginia lost under attorney general Robert Young Button.

Death
Harrison died of a heart attack at his home in Lawrenceville on January 23, 1995. He is buried in Oakwood Cemetery in Lawrenceville, Virginia.

The courthouse in Lawrenceville is named in his honor.

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West Virginia Route 83

West Virginia Route 83 is an east–west state highway located within McDowell County, West Virginia. The western terminus is at the Virginia state line six miles (10 km) west of Jolo, where WV 83 continues west as Virginia State Route 83. The eastern terminus is at West Virginia Route 16 in War.

WV 83 is slated to be replaced by the Coalfields Expressway.

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2004 Salford City Council election

The 2004 Salford City Council election took place on 10 June 2004 to elect members of Salford City Council in England. The whole council was up for election with boundary changes having taken place since the last election in 2003. The Labour Party kept overall control of the council. Overall turnout was 35.53%.

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Don michael maniego
I have placed a tag on the article Don michael maniego, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. I did this because the article seems to be a biographical account about a person but it does not indicate how or why that person is notable. If the person really is notable, I advise you to edit the article promptly to indicate why, and also put a note on Talk:Don michael maniego. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. You might also want to read our criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 7 under Articles. -- SCEhardt 17:26, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
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Hi — it's fine to upload pictures for userpages, but Image:Myki 54.JPG isn't appropriate for shawarma. I've taken it down. It would be very helpful, however, if you could take a picture of just the shawarma, or a shawarma salesman handing you a shawarma. Cheers! --Mgreenbe 11:31, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

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Batteau

Batteau or Bateau may refer to:

People

 * Laurent Bateau, French actor
 * Sean Bateau (1986-), Trinidadian footballer
 * Sheldon Bateau (1991-), Trinidadian footballer
 * David Batteau (1949-), American singer-songwriter
 * Dwight Wayne Batteau (1916-1967), American researcher on external ears and human-dolphin communication
 * Robin Batteau (1948-), American musician

Places

 * Batteau, Newfoundland and Labrador
 * Bateau Bay, suburb of Central Coast region of New South Wales, Australia

Other

 * Bateau, a type of boat
 * Bateau (horse)
 * Bateau (restaurant), steakhouse in Seattle
 * Le Bateau paper-cut by Matisse
 * Le Bateau ivre, poem by Rimbaud
 * Bateau-Lavoir, building in Montmartre
 * Bateaux Mouches, excursion boats in Paris
 * Petit Bateau, French clothing brand for children

Alternate spellings

 * Batteux, surname
 * Batou, Ghosties in the Shell character
 * Batuo, first abbot of the Shaolin Monastery

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 * Sorry, but you're not the copyright holder of the Rebecca West pic, and you don't have the authority to release it into public domain. Ownership is held by Wyndham Lewis' estate, or possibly some library that owns his stuff. Your only two options here are a) to contact the owner (probably cited in the book you referenced) and ask permission, and b) remove the picture.

Sorry. Marvellous pic though. :) Spamguy 16:55, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

As far as I know, copyright has lapsed; the copy I own is a 1st edition, and the work certainly hasn't been in print for a long time. As it is simply illustrating text, its inclusion could be justified as giving a 'taster' of the book without diminishing any incentive to purchase. But the image has been deleted now, so who cares... William Kelley (talk)

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Alexandra Hamilton, Duchess of Abercorn

Alexandra Anastasia Hamilton, Duchess of Abercorn, (née Phillips; 27 February 1946 – 10 December 2018), usually known by family and friends as Sacha Abercorn, was a British peeress and philanthropist. She was the wife of the 5th Duke of Abercorn, and a descendant of the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, in whose honour she founded the Pushkin Trust and the Pushkin prizes.

Early life
Born Alexandra Anastasia Phillips, she was the eldest daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Harold "Bunny" Phillips and Georgina Wernher. Her paternal grandparents were Colonel Joseph Harold John Phillips and Mary Mercedes Bryce, daughter of John Pablo Bryce. Her maternal grandparents were Sir Harold Wernher, 3rd Bt, and Countess Anastasia de Torby, morganatic daughter of Grand Duke Michael Mikhailovich of Russia. Through the countess, she and her siblings claimed descent from the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin and his great-grandfather, the Afro-Russian courtier Abram Petrovich Hannibal. Sacha, as she was known to friends and family, had a younger brother and three younger sisters, including Marita Crawley and Natalia, Duchess of Westminster.

'Sacha', as she was usually known, was born in Tucson, Arizona, where her family was living while her father recovered from tuberculosis. She was christened at St Margaret's Church, Westminster, with Lord Mountbatten, the Duchess of Kent, and Sir William Stephenson among her godparents. Upon returning to the United Kingdom, the family lived at Thorpe Lubenham Hall in Northamptonshire, and later Checkendon Court, in South Oxfordshire.

She was educated at St Mary's School, Wantage, and in Paris, but her mother forbade university. She had a debutante ball attended by 800 guests including the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh at Luton Hoo, the Bedfordshire seat of her maternal grandparents, the Wernhers, in the summer of 1964.

Marriage and issue
On 20 October 1966, at the age of 20, Phillips married James Hamilton, Marquess of Hamilton, Member of Parliament for Fermanagh and South Tyrone and son and heir apparent of the 4th Duke of Abercorn, at Westminster Abbey. Queen Elizabeth II and other members of the royal family attended, including Prince Andrew, who was a pageboy.

In June 1979, James succeeded his father as 5th Duke of Abercorn and moved to the family seat, Baronscourt, near Newtownstewart in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.

The Duke and Duchess had three children and three grandchildren:

 * James Harold Charles Hamilton, Marquess of Hamilton (born 19 August 1969); married Tanya Marie Nation on 7 May 2004, had issue:
 * James Alfred Nicholas Hamilton, Viscount Strabane (born 30 October 2005)
 * Lord Claud Douglas Harold Hamilton (born 12 December 2007)
 * Lady Sophia Alexandra Hamilton (born 8 June 1973); married Anthony Loyd on 7 September 2002, divorced 2005, no issue
 * Lord Nicholas Edward Hamilton (born 5 July 1979); married Tatiana Kronberg on 30 August 2009, had issue

Sacha was a close friend of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who often came carriage driving at Baronscourt. Her younger sister, the Duchess of Westminster, is a godmother of Prince William, Prince of Wales. Her husband was a first cousin of John, 8th Earl Spencer, father of Diana, Princess of Wales.

The Duchess died on 10 December 2018 at the age of 72 following an illness. Following a private funeral, she was buried at Baronscourt Parish Church, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. A memorial service was held at St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast, on 30 May 2019, which was attended by the Duke of York.

Philanthropy and public roles
A trained psychologist, she ran workshops throughout Ireland and Great Britain. The Duchess was the founder of the Pushkin Prizes and the Pushkin Trust, organizations promoting art therapy for young people. The Duchess held many patronages, such as Abercorn House at Cambridge House Grammar School, the Omagh Community Youth Choir and the BEARR Trust. She was honorary secretary of the Northern Ireland Centre for Trauma & Transformation in Omagh, County Tyrone. Her work in Omagh was in response to the 1998 Omagh bombing.

National honours

 * 14 June 2008: Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE)
 * 11 November 1991: Officer (Sister) of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem (OStJ)

Academic honours

 * 2003: Honorary Doctorate from the University of Ulster

Miscellaneous honours

 * 2006: Princess Grace Humanitarian Award

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Victor Halward

Nelson Victor Halward (, called Victor; 12 December 1897 – 17 December 1953) was an English Anglican bishop in Hong Kong and British Columbia. He was the Colony Commissioner of the Boy Scout Association, Hong Kong Branch from 1934 to 1950.

Biography
Victor Halward was educated at The King's School, Canterbury. In 1916 he went straight from school into the army, at first in the Royal Artillery, then in 1917 he was commissioned as second lieutenant in the Gloucestershire Regiment. In 1919 he was awarded the Military Cross:
 * For gallantry and devotion to duty during an attack on [an] enemy position S.W. of Fleurbaix, on 30 September 1918. His platoon was selected to secure and hold an enemy position on a flank, and he pushed them forward and occupied an advanced position, inflicting heavy casualties on the enemy. In face of heavy machine-gun fire and snipers he held on to his position, and it was mainly owing to his coolness and initiative that the remainder of the attacking troops gained their objectives.

In June 1919 Halward was promoted to lieutenant. He then left the army and went up to Jesus College, Cambridge. After graduating he studied theology at Westcott House, Cambridge, and was ordained in the Church of England. He was curate at St Saviour's Church, Croydon, 1922–25, then in 1926 he moved to Hong Kong as Diocesan Chaplain to the Anglican Church there (Chung Hua Sheng Kung Hui). He was also the Scoutmaster of St Paul's College in Hong Kong and was enthusiastic in Scouting activities. He was priest-in-charge in Kowloon Tong 1933–36. From 1936 to 1946 – throughout the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II – he was based in Canton (now Guangzhou) in southern China as a missionary for the Church Missionary Society, but continued as Hong Kong Colony Commissioner for Boy Scouts despite the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong. During his commissionership, the Scout Movement rooted among the Chinese population in Hong Kong. Halward appointed Chinese district commissioners and they significantly helped to develop Scouting in Hong Kong. Through his connections in Canton he established cooperation with the Scouts of China. He was awarded the Silver Wolf, the highest honour in The Scout Association. During the Japanese occupation Halward was interned in the concentration camp in Canton.

After the war Halward was Assistant Bishop of Victoria (Hong Kong and South China) 1946–51 (for Guangzhou) and Assistant Bishop of British Columbia 1951–53. He was consecrated a bishop on St James's Day 1946 (25 July), by Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury, at St Paul's Cathedral.

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Wicklow GAA

The Wicklow County Board of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) (Cumann Lúthchleas Gael, Coiste Chontae Cill Mhantáin) or Wicklow GAA is one of the 32 county boards of the GAA in Ireland, and is responsible for Gaelic games in County Wicklow. The county board is also responsible for the Wicklow county teams.

The county football team plays in the Leinster Senior Football Championship. Wicklow has had very little success at senior level, being the only football team in the province and one of two in Ireland to have never won a senior title in either code, the other being Fermanagh.

The county hurling team competes in the Christy Ring Cup, the third tier of the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship. The county reached the final in both the 2011 and 2012 cups, losing to Kerry and London respectively.

Governance
Christopher Byrne served as chairman of the Wicklow County Board between 1931 and 1954.

Clubs
Wicklow's biggest achievement remains the All-Ireland Senior Club Football Championship won by the Baltinglass club in 1990.

Valleymount's pitch is located astride the Poulaphouca and amid water in the west of the county.

County team
The county football team has never won a Leinster Senior Football Championship (SFC).

However, Bray Emmets, the leading side of the early 1900s, won Leinster and All-Ireland honours when they were playing in the Dublin Championship. Wicklow were twice proclaimed Leinster champions for short periods. Bray were representing Wicklow in 1889, and when they beat Newtown Blues of Drogheda by 1-7 to 1-4 they claimed that they had won the "final of Leinster" because Queens County or Kilkenny had not shown up for a final. But four days later the result was quashed. In 1897 they became Leinster champions for a week. A downpour caused Dublin to presume the Leinster final would not be played, Dublin went home, the referee awarded a walkover to Wicklow. But the following meeting of the Central Council ordered the match to be replayed and Wicklow lost by 1-9 to 0-3.

After former Kerry manager and player Mick O'Dwyer had taken over as Wicklow manager, the county team won the 2007 Tommy Murphy Cup, defeating Antrim in dramatic fashion with a late Tommy Gill goal in extra-time, securing the Wicklow senior footballers a second ever national trophy, and first ever win in Croke Park. As Wicklow were a Division 4 team they were not permitted to enter the 2007 backdoor. Going into the 2008 championship, Wicklow had not won a championship game since beating London on 8 June 2002 and had not won a Leinster Championship 1st round proper game since beating Longford by 1 point in 1996 (they won a Leinster group game in 2000, but this was the only year under that format). They faced a heavily fancied Kildare in the 1st round and completed arguably their greatest ever championship win beating Kildare 0-13 to 0-9, this was also their first ever championship win at Croke Park, they went on to lose narrowly to Laois in the Quarter-Final. Again as they were a Division 4 team they were not permitted to enter the qualifiers, so they went on to try and defend the Tommy Murphy Cup but ultimately lost to Antrim in the final. The 2009 Championship was one of the most memorable in Wicklow's history, they won their Leinster 1st-round game against Longford by 2-12 to 1-13 before narrowly losing to Westmeath in the next round by 0-16 to 1-10. Division 4 teams were allowed to enter the Qualifiers again by 2009 and so Wicklow began their campaign by beating Fermanagh 0-17 to 1-11 in the 1st round, they then comfortably beat Cavan by 1-12 to 0-8 in the 2nd round, they dramatically beat Down by 1-15 to 0-17 thanks to a late 45' that was scored by Tony Hannon before their famous run finally came to an end when Kildare beat them by 1-16 to 2-9 in the last round of the Qualifiers. In 2010, Wicklow beat Carlow in the 1st round of the Leinster championship but again narrowly lost out in the Quarter-final, this time to Westmeath by a single point, 0-15 to 1-11 but unfortunately they were unable to repeat their historic 2009 Qualifier run losing out to Cavan in the 1st round, agonisingly by a single point again, 0-15 to 2-8. Wicklow's 2011 Leinster campaign started poorly with a 0-12 to 0-5 1st round defeat by Kildare; however, they bounced back well, defeating Sligo by 1-18 to 0-16 in the 1st round of the Qualifiers, in the 2nd round they drew with Armagh 0-19 to 2-13 before losing the replay at home by 2-9 to 0-10. This brought an end to Mick O'Dwyer's five years as manager of the Wicklow footballers.

Clubs
The 2022 Wicklow Senior Hurling Championship consists of seven clubs: Carnew Emmets, Glenealy, Kiltegan, St Patrick's Wicklow Town, Éire Og Greystones, Avondale and Bray Emmets (1952, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2020, 2021 Champions).

County team
Wicklow won the All-Ireland Junior Hurling Championship in 1967 and 1971 and the Kehoe Cup on seven occasions: in 1989, 1991, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003.

Schools
There is a very strong emphasis on Gaelic games in schools in Wicklow, both in primary and secondary schools. In almost all cases coaching is done on a voluntary basis by teachers who may have links to local GAA clubs.

The county's vocational schools team has won 12 Leinster and 3 All-Ireland Championships, the last coming in 2006.

Garden County Academy
The Garden County Academy is Wicklow GAA's juvenile development squad system for football and hurling, with squads from under-13 to minor level.

The academy in its current format was born in 2014 after a group of concerned GAA members from around the county came together to formulate a plan to improve underage football structures in the county. The key motivation for the group was that the existing games development structure operated by Wicklow County Board was not producing players able to compete with other Leinster counties, noting that Wicklow remains the only county not to have won a senior Leinster championship in either football or hurling, despite having one of the largest populations in the province. One of the stated aims of the group was to win a Leinster Minor Football Championship within ten years.

An independent group initially consisting of Niall O'Brien (Kiltegan), Joe O'Brien (Kiltegan) and Gerry Grehan (Laragh) presented the case for a major overhaul of the academy to Wicklow County Board in 2013, following months of research and focus groups. Out of this exercise developed the first Garden County Academy committee, reporting to the county board, with the remit to develop a new county football development squad system:

 * Gerry Grehan – Chairman
 * Niall O'Brien – Secretary
 * Joe O'Brien
 * Robert Walsh
 * Gavin Wynne
 * Patrick McWalter
 * Hugh Kenny
 * Martin Fitzgerald
 * Brendan Smyth
 * Daragh Gregan
 * Philip McGillicuddy
 * Owen Doyle

The new structure saw a complete rebrand and reorganisation of the squads from 2014, with a threefold increase in the number of players on county football development squads. In addition, forty new volunteer coaches were recruited to coach the expanded squads. A separate part of the original plan which aimed to address the standard of football in the county's secondary schools was not implemented. At the end of the first season, Niall O'Brien, Joe O'Brien and Gerry Grehan resigned from the committee.

The work of the academy showed the first signs of success in a historic 2018 season, when the Wicklow minor football team defeated both Dublin and Meath in the Leinster Championship, before drawing with Kildare in the semi-final and narrowly losing the replay.

Camogie
Wicklow was among the foundation members of the Camogie Association, several Bray members won All Ireland medals with Dublin, and the county supplied all the members of the Irish team that controversially competed in the 1924 Tailteann Games. Lucy Cullen-Byrne served as president of the Camogie Association). The county won the Leinster Junior Championship in 1964, and contested the Máire Ní Chinnéide Cup finals of 2008, 2009 and 2011. They won Division 5 of the National Camogie League in 2009. Knockananna won Division 1 Féile na nGael 1975 while Avoca won the Caithlín Ní Thoimín Shield in 1979 and Kiltegan won the Coiste Chontae an Chláir Shield at Féile na nGael in 1999.

Under Camogie's National Development Plan 2010-2015, "Our Game, Our Passion", five new camogie clubs were to be established in the county by 2015.

Wicklow were beaten by Monaghan in the 2011 All Ireland Junior B Camogie Championship Final and have not fielded an adult team in inter-county competitions since.

Ladies' football
Ann McGillycuddy of Wicklow won the inaugural ladies' All-Ireland Kick Fada Championship in 2001.

 * All-Ireland Junior Ladies' Football Championships: 2
 * 1990, 2011

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Sy Gomberg

Sy Gomberg (August 19, 1918 – February 11, 2001) was an American Oscar-nominated film screenwriter, producer, and activist, who taught screenwriting to University of Southern California students for over a decade.

Gomberg was born in New York City, and grew up in Newark, New Jersey. He spent World War II in the First Motion Picture Unit in Hollywood. After the war, he was a contributor to Collier's Weekly and the Saturday Evening Post. In 1951, he received an Academy Award nomination for When Willie Comes Marching Home – which was based on a story Gomberg originally wrote for Collier's. He was also nominated the same year for Best Screenplay for Summer Stock. He also created, produced and wrote the 1960s ABC legal drama The Law and Mr. Jones starring James Whitmore.

A supporter of the American Civil Liberties Union, Gomberg organized members of the film industry to march with Martin Luther King Jr., in Alabama.

In 1957 Gomberg married actress Maxine Cooper. They remained together until his death at age 82 in Brentwood, California. His wife had one son from her previous marriage; they had two daughters together.

Films

 * When Willie Comes Marching Home (1950)
 * The Toast of New Orleans (1950)
 * Summer Stock (1950)
 * Because You%27re Mine (1952)
 * Bloodhounds of Broadway (1952)
 * Joe Butterfly (1957)
 * Kathy O%27 (1958)
 * Step Down to Terror (1958)
 * The Wild and the Innocent (1959)
 * Breakout (1970)
 * Three Warriors (1977)
 * Bender (1979)
 * High Ice (1980)
 * The Ghosts of Buxley Hall (1980)

Television

 * The Law and Mr. Jones (1960-1962)
 * Vacation Playhouse (1964)
 * Good Heavens (1976)
 * The Magical World of Disney  (1978, 1980)
 * Small Wonder (1985)
 * BraveStarr (1988)

Films

 * Kathy O' (1958)
 * The Wild and the Innocent (1959)
 * Three Warriors (1977)
 * Bender (1979)
 * High Ice (1980)

Television

 * The Law and Mr. Jones (1960-1962)
 * Accidental Family (1967-1968)

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Don Sannella

Donald T. Sannella FRSE is professor of computer science in the Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

Sannella graduated from Yale University, University of California, Berkeley and University of Edinburgh with degrees in computer science. His research interests include: algebraic specification and formal software development, correctness of modular systems, types and functional programming, resource certification for mobile code.

Sannella is founder of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, a confederation of computer science conferences, held annually in Europe since 1998. He is editor-in-chief of the journal Theoretical Computer Science, and is co-founder and CEO of Contemplate Ltd. His father is Ted Sannella.

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Aspidoscelis

Aspidoscelis is a genus of whiptail lizards in the family Teiidae.

Taxonomy
The nomenclature for the genus Aspidoscelis was published by T.W. Reeder et al. in 2002. Many species that were formerly included in the genus Cnemidophorus are now considered Aspidoscelis based upon divergent characters between the two groups.

Etymology
The name Aspidoscelis literally means "shield-leg", from the Ancient Greek ' ("shield") and ' ("leg").

Species
The following species are recognized as being valid.

 * Aspidoscelis angusticeps (Cope, 1878) - Yucatán whiptail
 * Aspidoscelis arizonae (Van Denburgh, 1896) - Arizona striped whiptail
 * Aspidoscelis burti (E.H. Taylor, 1938) - canyon spotted whiptail
 * Aspidoscelis calidipes (Duellman, 1955) - Tepalcatepec Valley whiptail
 * Aspidoscelis carmenensis (Maslin & Secoy, 1986) - Carmen Island whiptail
 * Aspidoscelis ceralbensis (Van Denburgh & Slevin, 1921) - Cerralvo Island whiptail
 * Aspidoscelis communis (Cope, 1878) - Colima giant whiptail
 * Aspidoscelis costatus (Cope, 1878) - Mexico whiptail lizard
 * Aspidoscelis cozumela (Gadow, 1906) - Cozumel racerunner
 * Aspidoscelis danheimae (Burt, 1929) - Isla San José whiptail
 * Aspidoscelis deppii (Wiegmann, 1834) - blackbelly racerunner
 * Aspidoscelis dixoni (Scudday, 1973) - gray checkered whiptail
 * Aspidoscelis espiritensis (Van Denburgh & Slevin, 1921) - Espiritu Santo whiptail
 * Aspidoscelis exsanguis (Lowe, 1956) - Chihuahuan spotted whiptail
 * Aspidoscelis franciscensis (Van Denburgh & Slevin, 1921) - San Francisco Island whiptail
 * Aspidoscelis gularis (Baird & Girard, 1852) - Texas spotted whiptail
 * Aspidoscelis guttatus (Wiegmann, 1834) - Mexican racerunner
 * Aspidoscelis hyperythrus (Cope, 1864) - orange-throated whiptail
 * Aspidoscelis inornatus (Baird, 1859) - little striped whiptail
 * Aspidoscelis labialis (Stejneger, 1890) - Baja California whiptail
 * Aspidoscelis laredoensis (McKinney, Kay & R. Anderson, 1973) - Laredo striped whiptail
 * Aspidoscelis lineattissimus (Cope, 1878) - many-lined whiptail
 * Aspidoscelis marmoratus (Baird & Girard, 1852) - marbled whiptail
 * Aspidoscelis martyris (Stejneger, 1891) - San Pedro Martir whiptail
 * Aspidoscelis maslini (Fritts, 1969) - Maslin's whiptail
 * Aspidoscelis maximus (Cope, 1864) - Cape Region whiptail
 * Aspidoscelis mexicanus (W. Peters, 1869) - Mexican whiptail
 * Aspidoscelis motaguae (Sackett, 1941) - giant whiptail
 * Aspidoscelis neomexicanus (Lowe & Zweifel, 1952) - New Mexico whiptail
 * Aspidoscelis neotesselatus (Walker, Cordes & H.L. Taylor, 1997) - Colorado checkered whiptail, triploid checkered whiptail
 * Aspidoscelis opatae (Wright, 1967) - Opata whiptail
 * Aspidoscelis pai (Wright & Lowe, 1993) - Pai striped whiptail
 * Aspidoscelis parvisocius (Zweifel, 1960) - Mexican pigmy whiptail
 * Aspidoscelis pictus (Van Denburgh & Slevin, 1921) - Isla Monserrate whiptail
 * Aspidoscelis preopatae Barley, Reeder, Nieto-Montes de Oca, Cole & Thomson, 2021
 * Aspidoscelis rodecki (C.J. McCoy & Maslin, 1962) - Rodeck's whiptail
 * Aspidoscelis sackii (Wiegmann, 1834) - Sack's spotted whiptail
 * Aspidoscelis scalaris (Cope, 1892) - rusty-rumped whiptail
 * Aspidoscelis septemvittatus (Cope, 1892) - plateau spotted whiptail
 * Aspidoscelis sexlineatus (Linnaeus, 1766) - six-lined racerunner
 * Aspidoscelis sonorae (Lowe & Wright, 1964) - Sonoran spotted whiptail
 * Aspidoscelis stictogrammus (Burger, 1950) - giant spotted whiptail
 * Aspidoscelis tesselatus (Say, 1823) - common checkered whiptail
 * Aspidoscelis tigris (Baird & Girard, 1852) - western whiptail
 * Aspidoscelis uniparens (Wright & Lowe, 1965) - desert grassland whiptail lizard
 * Aspidoscelis velox (Springer, 1928) - plateau striped whiptail
 * Aspidoscelis xanthonotus (Duellman & Lowe, 1953) - red-backed whiptail

Nota bene: A binomial authority in parentheses indicates that the species was originally described in a genus other than Aspidoscelis.

Speciation
In 2011, it was announced that a parthenogenetic hybrid Aspidocelis was bred in the laboratory. This serves as a demonstration of how other hybrid parthenogens in this genus may have arisen.

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West Virginia Route 84

West Virginia Route 84 is an east–west state highway located within Pocahontas County, West Virginia. The western terminus of the route is at West Virginia Route 92 in Frost. The eastern terminus is at the Virginia state line five miles (8 km) east of Frost, where WV 84 continues east as State Route 84.

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Tin coinage

In Devon and Cornwall, tin coinage was a tax on refined tin, payable to the Duchy of Cornwall and administered in the Stannary Towns. The oldest surviving records of coinage show that it was collected in 1156. It was abolished by the Tin Duties Act 1838.

Method
After smelting, the tin was cast into blocks which were taken to the Stannary towns to be proved. Initially irregular in shape, by the 19th century these blocks became standardised as bevel-edged rectangular cuboids weighing 3.34 Lcwt. The blocks were marked with a stamp identifying where they had been smelted. At the stannary town the prover, a duchy officer, struck off the corners of the blocks to check the quality of the metal. If proved and the duty paid, a duchy seal was affixed and the blocks permitted to be sold.

In the 16th century proving took place only twice a year, at Midsummer and Michaelmas, but afterwards took place quarterly. Under Edmund, 2nd Earl of Cornwall the duty paid in Cornwall was a halfpenny per pound weight. Edward I fixed it at four shillings per hundredweight, at which it remained throughout. The duty in Devon was less at one shilling, six and a half pence per hundredweight. The earliest surviving record of the coinage dates to 1156 when Richard de Tracy had permission to collect the revenue for the following four years.

In 1213 the revenue was farmed out to a third party for 200 marks in Cornwall and 200 pounds in Devon, indicating that at this point the Devonian revenue was much more valuable than the Cornish (a mark of this era was worth two-thirds of a pound). By 1337 the income to Edward, Duke of Cornwall was 4000 marks in Cornwall, though this was a bumper year and more usual incomes were 3000 marks. The same year brought a revenue of £273 19s 5$3/4$d from Devon. By 1471 the revenue was £1,705 0s 5d in Cornwall and £190 17s 11$1/2$d in Devon and in 1602 was £2,623 9s 8d and £102 17s 9$3/4$d respectively. The combined income may have been as high as £6,000 by the time of Charles I and was recorded at around £9,620 at the start of the 19th century. At the time of abolition in 1838 the income was between £11,000 and £12,000.

Locations
Tin was coined in buildings known as coinage halls within stannary towns. A 1305 charter of Edward I identifies the towns of Lostwithiel, Bodmin, Liskeard, Truro and Helston as locations for proving Cornish tin. Truro had been replaced with Penzance by the time of Charles II. In Devon Edward I's charter identified Tavistock, Ashburton and Chagford, to which Plympton was added in 1328. By 1837 the proving took place only at Morwellham in Devon but at Calstock, St Austell, Truro, Helston, Hayle and Penzance in Cornwall.

Abolition
The duty was abolished by the Tin Duties Act 1838 on 16 August 1838. The Duchy of Cornwall was compensated by payment of an annual income of £16,216 from the government based on the previous 10 years coinage income. The same act also reduced the import duties on foreign-mined tin. The income payable to the duchy was repealed by the Miscellaneous Financial Provisions Act 1983. On 15 May 2000 the Revived Cornish Stannary Parliament, a pressure group claiming to be a revival of the historic Cornish Stannary Parliament, issued the duchy with a claim for £20,067,900,000. The group stated that this was the amount by which Cornwall had been overcharged on tin production compared to the rate of taxation in Devon between 1337 (when the duchy was founded) and 1837 (the final year the tax was collected).

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Alliance Boots

Alliance Boots was a multinational pharmacy-led health and beauty group with corporate headquarters in Bern, Switzerland and operational headquarters in Nottingham and Weybridge, United Kingdom.

The company had a presence in over 27 countries including associates and joint ventures and in 2013/14, reported revenue in excess of £23.4 billion. It had two core business activities – pharmacy-led health and beauty retailing, and pharmaceutical wholesaling and distribution – and also increasingly developed and internationalised its product brands.

The company was formed in 2006 by the merger of the British high street pharmacist Boots Group and the pan-European wholesale and retail pharmacy group Alliance UniChem and was listed on the London Stock Exchange as Alliance Boots plc. In 2007 it was bought out in a private equity transaction by AB Acquisitions Limited, led by Stefano Pessina and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR). Alliance Boots GmbH was established in Switzerland during 2008 and is a direct subsidiary of AB Acquisitions Holdings Limited, which held all shares in the company. In August 2012, the US company Walgreens purchased 45% of shares as part of a plan to merge the two businesses, with an option to acquire the remaining shares within three years. It exercised that option in August 2014, and following shareholder and regulatory approvals, the two businesses merged on 31 December 2014 to form Walgreens Boots Alliance.

The group's operations were mainly carried out under the Boots and Alliance Healthcare brands. Boots UK is the UK's leading pharmacy-led health and beauty retailer. Alliance Boots is also the largest pharmaceutical wholesaler in the UK through its Alliance Healthcare (Distribution) Ltd business. The company employs over 120,000 staff and operates more than 4,600 retail stores, of which just over 4,450 have pharmacies. Alliance Boots pharmaceutical wholesale division serves over 180,000 pharmacies, doctors, hospitals and health centres from over 370 distribution centres in 20 countries. Both companies became subsidiaries of Walgreens Boots Alliance on completion of the merger.

Establishment
Following a short period of speculation amongst financial analysts, it was announced in October 2005 that Boots Group would merge with Alliance UniChem in a deal valuing both companies equally and said to be worth around £7 billion. Rival firm Celesio, owner of the Lloyds Pharmacy chain, challenged the deal, although were rejected by the Competition Appeal Tribunal. The merger received final approval from the Office of Fair Trading in February 2006 and completed on 1 August 2006, although 96 shops were sold to comply with a condition laid down by the OFT. Former Boots Group shareholders held 50.2% of the new company, with former Alliance UniChem shareholders owning 49.8%.

Acquisition by Stefano Pessina and KKR
On 25 April 2007, Alliance Boots was approached with a buy-out offer by New York City-based private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts in conjunction with Alliance Boots' then Executive Deputy Chairman, Stefano Pessina, for an estimated £12.4 billion. Alliance Boots was the first company on the FTSE 100 share index to be bought-out by a private equity firm. Almost £9 billion was advanced by investment banks, including Deutsche Bank, Citigroup, J.P. Morgan, UniCredit, Barclays, Merrill Lynch, the Bank of America and the Royal Bank of Scotland. Simultaneously the banks, as so-called "equity underwriters“, together invested around £1.4 billion in the buyout company. The reverse takeover and subsequent privatisation was dubbed as "the best deal ever struck" by a managing partner at a private equity firm in June 2008.

Alliance Boots GmbH was established in Switzerland during 2008 and is a direct subsidiary of AB Acquisitions Holdings Limited, a company which owns 55% of Alliance Boots GmbH's shares.

Walgreens merger
It was announced on 19 June 2012 that Walgreens would purchase a partial stake in Alliance Boots, as the first step in a three-year merger plan. Walgreens paid $6.7 billion for this share, and subsequently on 6 August 2014 Walgreens exercised its option to complete the second step of its strategic transaction with Alliance Boots to create the first global pharmacy-led health and beauty retailer, with over 12,000 stores worldwide. The two companies had established Walgreens Boots Alliance Development Company in late 2012 to further their integration. The first publicly visible sign of the merger came in November 2012 when Boots skincare brand No7 debuted in a Walgreens store in Los Angeles, with a view to further rolling out the Boots brand across the US.

Walgreens' shareholders approved the purchase on 29 December 2014, and it was completed on 31 December. Under the terms of the merger, the two companies became subsidiaries of a new holding company, Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. which remains headquartered in Deerfield, Illinois. The new company is organised into four divisions, of which Walgreens and Boots each became one. The two remaining divisions are Pharmaceutical Wholesale and International Retail, which includes Alliance Healthcare, and Global Brands.

Operations
Alliance Boots operations are split into two areas, pharmacy-led health and beauty retailing and pharmaceutical wholesaling and distribution. The Group also has a stand-alone contract manufacturing business called BCM and increasingly develops and internationalises its product brands.

Boots UK
Boots UK formed the main retail business of Alliance Boots in the United Kingdom, and all former Alliance Pharmacy branches were rebranded as Boots. The Boots brand has a history stretching back over 160 years and is a familiar sight on Britain's high streets. Boots stores are located in prominent high street and city centre locations as well as in local communities. Most branches include a pharmacy, and focus on healthcare, personal care and cosmetic products, with most stores selling over the counter medicines.

Larger stores typically offer a variety of healthcare services in addition to dispensing prescriptions, such as flu vaccination, cholesterol screening, weight loss advice, hair retention treatment, smoking cessation advice and products, and chlamydia testing & treatment (private service). Optician services are also offered in many larger stores, with Boots Opticians providing eye tests along with the sale of spectacles and contact lenses.

Many stores also feature traditional photo processing and/or a Kodak picture kiosk where users of digital cameras and camera phones can create prints. Larger stores usually offer a range of electrical equipment such as hairdryers, curlers and foot massagers, whilst selected stores offer a range of sandwiches, baguettes, wraps, salads and beverages.

Boots operates a loyalty card programme branded as the Boots Advantage Card, and claims to have 17.8 million regular users.

Internationally
Since 1936, there have been Boots stores outside the UK. Stores in countries as widely spread as New Zealand, Canada (see Pharma Plus) and France were all closed in the 1980s. Today, there are Boots branded stores in several countries including the UK, Norway, Ireland, The Netherlands, Thailand, as well as the Middle East.

Much of the Irish chain was acquired by purchasing Hayes Conyngham Robinson in 1998, although Boots had been present in Ireland prior to this. In 2013/2014, there were 76 stores in the Republic. In July 2011, an investigation by Ireland's National Consumer Agency found Boots to be the most expensive pharmacy for prescription drugs.

In other countries (including Kuwait, Hong Kong, and the USA), Boots products are sold from instore 'implants' in department stores and other pharmacies.

Alliance Healthcare
Alliance Healthcare formed the backbone of Alliance Boots wholesale and distribution service, with twice daily deliveries to more than 16,000 delivery points in the UK alone. Internationally, Alliance Healthcare supplies medicines, other healthcare products and related services to over 180,000 pharmacies, doctors, health centres and hospitals from over 370 distribution centres in 20 countries.

In addition to the wholesale of medicines and other healthcare products, Alliance Healthcare provides services to pharmaceutical manufacturers who are increasingly changing and adapting their approaches to distribution, while at the same time outsourcing non-core activities. These services include pre-wholesale and contract logistics, direct deliveries to pharmacies, and specialized medicine delivery including related home healthcare.

In recent years it has entered the fast-growing Russian and Chinese markets.

Alphega Pharmacy: Alphega Pharmacy offers a comprehensive range of added-value services to independent pharmacy customers, including branding, professional training and patient care, retail support services and supply benefits together with pharmacy and IT support. Alphega Pharmacy is focused on building a network of independent pharmacists across Europe under a shared brand.

Almus Pharmaceuticals
Almus is a brand of over 400 generic medications used both in human and veterinary applications. Initially launched in 2003 in the United Kingdom by the US based Almus family, the brand was bought by Alliance Healthcare in 2014. It now operates under the Walgreens Boots Alliance brand. When the Almus brand was created it was a catalyst for change in the generic medicines industry with its unique colored packaging. Almus has placed considerable emphasis on the design of the packaging in an attempt to reduce errors by the dispensing pharmacist and by the patient relating to incorrect dosage which can result in either a dangerous accidental overdose or an equally dangerous under-dose. The brand has won numerous awards for the design of their packaging and documentation. Over the years, the packaging has helped pharmacists ensure medicines are dispensed correctly and increased safe patient usage.

The award-winning range has expanded rapidly with volumes growing from thousands of medication orders per month when first launched, to now seeing millions of monthly orders distributed to pharmacies across the globe. Operating with an average net profit of over $2 billion USD annually, Almus became increasingly valuable in the years leading to the Alliance Healthcare/Walgreens merger. In the three-year period prior to the sale of Almus, financial disclosures reveal the US based founder, Dr. Patrick Almus, received nearly $5.25 billion in corporate dividend payments. At the time of the sale Almus had a valuation of over $9.75 billion USD.

Almus Pharmaceuticals works with some of the world's largest biotechnology and pharmaceutical development companies. In 2013 Almus paired with Pfizer on the launch of Almus Atorvastatin, one of the most prescribed statins in the world, used to regulate blood cholesterol levels. Jason Perfitt, Head of Customer and Channel Marketing at Pfizer said: "As Pfizer entered a new phase in its corporate development, we needed to work with a partner that shared many common values: integrity of supply chain, high quality product lines and with patient care at the center of all that is done. We found these values were common to both Pfizer and Almus and so we have been delighted to partner with the brand."

Contract manufacturing
BCM Limited is the contract manufacturing business of Alliance Boots and manufactures a range of own-brand and third-party medicines, and cosmetic product ranges such as No 7, Kangol, Toni & Guy, FCUK, Soltan and Botanics. Some are sold through Boots stores whilst others are sold through third party stores such as French Connection and Toni & Guy. BCM has facilities in the UK, Germany, France and Poland.

BCM Specials manufactures bespoke non-licensed medicines for UK hospital and retail pharmacies.

Subsidiary companies
Alliance Boots subsidiaries included:
 * Alliance Healthcare Czech Republic
 * Alliance Healthcare Deutschland
 * Alliance Healthcare Distribution (UK)
 * Alliance Healthcare España
 * Alliance Healthcare France
 * Alliance Healthcare Nederland
 * Alliance Healthcare Norge
 * Alliance Healthcare Russia
 * Almus Pharmaceuticals
 * Boots Ireland
 * Boots Norge
 * Boots Opticians (UK)
 * Boots Thailand
 * Boots UK
 * Farmacias Ahumada (Chile)
 * Farmacias Benavides (Mexico)
 * Farmexpert (Romania)
 * Hedef Alliance (Turkey/Egypt)
 * Megapharm (Germany)

Alliance Boots also had associates and joint ventures in:

 * Alliance Healthcare Italia (Italy)
 * Alliance Healthcare Portugal
 * Boots Hearingcare
 * Guangzhou Pharmaceuticals (China)
 * HydraPharm (Algeria)
 * Oktal Pharma (Croatia)
 * Walgreens Boots Alliance Development Company

Headquarters
Alliance Boots established its group headquarters in Switzerland in 2008, following the privatization of the company by Stefano Pessina and KKR's acquisition. It retained Boots' existing Nottingham head office as its UK operational headquarters. The company was accused of making the move for tax purposes, as Switzerland had more favourable tax regime than the United Kingdom, and in January 2011, protests were held by the UK Uncut group at a number of Boots stores, including its flagship London store, which was closed down by protestors.

The group's headquarters, listed as being on Baarerstrasse in Zug, were revealed to be a post office box within the town's post office. Alliance Boots itself stated that its Swiss headquarters reflected the international nature of its wider group and that it had an administrative office in Zurich. The Guardian reported in 2016 the findings of Richard Brooks, a former tax inspector, who it said found that the "headquarters" in Zug was "one of around 50 unrelated companies dealt with by a local business service company, the proprietors of which were none too pleased with the visit" and that no Boots employees were present.

Boots' former head of corporate finance, John Ralfe, stated that he believed "the UK has lost about £100 million a year in tax" due to the move to Switzerland. Boots defended itself by reaffirming that it was a British business registered for VAT. In 2013, campaign group War on Want said on its website "New research shows that Alliance Boots, the high street chemist and pharmaceutical giant, has avoided more than £1 billion in tax since it went private six years ago through taking on excessive debts, profit shifting and corporate restructuring."

While the takeover by Walgreens was being finalized, there was growing political pressure against the company moving its headquarters from Chicago to Switzerland as part of a tax inversion to reduce its tax bill. In August 2014, Walgreens confirmed it would retain its Chicago headquarters for the newly formed group.

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Walid Phares

Walid Phares (وليد فارس; born December 24, 1957) is a Lebanese-American politician, scholar, and conservative pundit.

He worked for the Republican presidential campaigns of Mitt Romney in 2012 and Donald Trump in 2016. He has also served as a commentator on terrorism and the Middle East for Fox News since 2007, and for NBC from 2003 to 2006.

A Maronite Christian, Phares has gained notoriety for being a Chairman of the Social Democratic Party in Lebanon in the 1980s during the Lebanese Civil War, and for his expertise in counter-terrorism focusing on jihadism.

Early life and education
Phares was born to a family of Maronite Christians in 1957 in Lebanon, and was raised in the capital city of Beirut and in his native village of Ghouma in the Batroun District. A dual Lebanese and American citizen, he immigrated to the United States in 1990, when the Lebanese Civil War was coming to a close.

He holds joint undergraduate degrees from Saint Joseph University and the Lebanese University in law, political science, and sociology. Following his undergraduate studies, Phares practiced law in Beirut for a short period before earning a master's degree in international law from the Jean Moulin University Lyon 3 in France and a PhD in international relations and strategic studies from the University of Miami.

Academia
Phares taught at the Department of International Relations at Florida International University (FIU) in 1992 and was a visiting professor of comparative politics at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) in Palm Beach County from 1993 to 1994. He was hired as a full-time professor of Middle East studies and international relations in the Department of Political Science at FAU in 1995. While at FAU, Phares sponsored the student organization Haiti Watch. In 2008 he became Coordinator of the Trans-Atlantic Parliamentary Group on Counter Jihadi-Terrorism. Since 2008, he has lectured at the National Intelligence University in Washington DC, at the Center for Counterintelligence and Security Studies (CI Center) in Virginia, and at the Daniel Morgan Academy, a Graduate School of National Security in Washington DC. He teaches at BAU International University in Washington, D.C. also serving as a university provost and as Director of Graduate Studies at the university.

Phares's resume says that he "taught Global Strategies at the National Defense University in Washington DC since 2006". A spokesperson for the National Defense University noted that Phares was employed as an "expert/consultant" from April 2011 to April 2012.

Politics
In 1984, Phares adhered to a small Lebanese political party of the center-left, the "Social Democratic Christian Union" – Union Sociale Démocratique Chrétienne (USDC). Phares has served as secretary general of the World Maronite Union, and secretary general of the World Lebanese Cultural Union.

Phares has testified before committees of the U.S. State, Justice, Defense and Homeland Security and the United States Congress. He briefed and testified to international bodies like the European Parliament and the United Nations Security Council on matters related to international security and Middle East conflict. He serves as an adviser to the Anti-Terrorism Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2007 and is a co-secretary general of the Transatlantic Legislative Group on Counter Terrorism, a Euro-American Caucus, since 2009. He has served on the Advisory Board of the Task Force on Future Terrorism of the Department of Homeland Security in 2006-2007 as well as on the Advisory Task force on Nuclear Terrorism in 2007. He lectures at defense and national security institutions and serves as a consultant on international affairs in the private sector.

Advisor to Mitt Romney (2012)
Phares was appointed as foreign policy adviser to Mitt Romney for his 2012 presidential campaign. His appointment was met with criticism from the Council on American–Islamic Relations (CAIR), which described him as "an associate to war crimes" (due to his ties to the Lebanese Forces) and a "conspiracy theorist". The appointment also provoked negative reactions from Islamic studies academics Ebrahim Moosa and Omid Safi, however both scholars were described as militant Islamists by several pieces, including "Walid Phares vs the Middle East Studies" as well as the Center for a New American Security's Andrew Exum, who said that Phares was "widely viewed as an extremist".

Advisor to Donald Trump (2016)
Phares worked as an advisor to presidential candidate Donald Trump in 2016; he was paid $13,000 per month by the campaign. Trump's choice of Phares renewed scrutiny and speculations about Phares' past alleged role as an ideologue to Lebanese Christian fighters during the Lebanese Civil War and his perceived far-right views as an academic and analyst of the Middle East region. His supporters argued that Phares had presciently discerned the threat of jihadist ideology and that he was eminently qualified for a senior post, and pointed to his strong pro-Israel track record.

Phares did not have a government post in the Trump administration.

Involvement in the Lebanese Civil War
Phares has drawn controversy over his association with the Social Democratic Party in the 1980s during the Lebanese Civil War. According to The Washington Post, Phares "was a political adviser to Lebanese militants during their war against Muslim factions during the 1980s." Phares has said that he was only involved with the militants in a political capacity and that he has not been directly implicated in any acts of violence.

Abed Ayoub, the national legal and policy director for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, criticizes Phares saying: "If you look at his history, he was a warmonger and he shouldn't be near the White House. He was part of a militia that committed war crimes and, if anything, he should be tried for war crimes." Sarah Stern, president of the Endowment for Middle East Truth, defended his actions: "He represented his left-of-center party within a coalition of parties that oversaw the local government of the Christian community when it was surrounded by the Syrian army and the terrorist groups between 1986 and 1988. Phares is being attacked because he is on the right side of the issues and is fearless in speaking out the truth... [Walid] is in a caliber of his own. He understood the rise of radical Islam in the Middle East. He understood very early on what ISIS is, that it's a real threat. He understands that Islam is more than a religion, that it's also an ideology and an ideology of conquest."

Views on the Arab–Israeli conflict
Phares has said that "[ Israel's] only rational and historical choice is to link up once more with the Christian community of Lebanon. This may represent a choice which may not be appreciated among many Israelis, for various reasons, but it remains one which cannot be avoided... The Christians of Lebanon are the only potential ally against the advance of the northern Arabo-Islamic threat against Israel."

Views on Islam and Muslims
According to The New York Times, Phares "regularly warns that Muslims aim to take over American institutions and impose Sharia, a legal code based mainly on the Quran that can involve punishments like cutting off the hands of a thief." He has been described as an early advocate of Bat Ye'or's dhimmitude concept. Phares has also asserted that jihadists are posing as civil rights advocates.

Phares has been described as being part of "the Islamophobia industry, a network of researchers who have warned for many years of the dangers of Islam and were thrilled by Mr. Trump’s election." He has served on the board of advisors of anti-Muslim groups ACT for America and the Clarion Project. According to Lawrence Pintak of the Atlantic Council and a member of the advisory board for The Media Majlis at Northwestern University in Qatar, Phares is a "card-carrying Islamophobe". Although Phares is often described as a scholar on terrorism, Stanford University terrorism expert Martha Crenshaw stated that Phares was "not in the mainstream as an academic". Duke sociologist Christopher A. Bail describes Phares as an influential figure in the anti-Islam movement.

According to The New York Times, Phares "is regularly accused by Muslim civil rights groups of being Islamophobic and of fear-mongering about the spread of Sharia law."

Conspiracy theory on Barack Obama–Muslim Brotherhood ties
Phares has asserted that the Barack Obama administration supported the Muslim Brotherhood. In October 2016, he asserted that "the triangle Clintonmachine-Iranregime-MuslimBrotherhood has unleashed a coordinated propaganda offensive" against Donald Trump.

Reaction to the 2017 Westminster terrorist attack
In March 2017 Phares attracted attention in the UK when he implied in a tweet that London had "shut down" in the wake of the terrorist attack in Westminster, despite most roads and tube stations (with the exception of the adjacent Westminster station) remaining open as normal, and the fact that only the immediate crime scene was cordoned off: many Londoners replied to Phares to refute his claim.

Published works
référence : Jean-Marc Aractingi, La politique à mes trousses, Paris, Éditions l'Harmattan, 2006 (ISBN 978-2-296-00469-6)

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Comic Expo

The Bristol International Comic & Small Press Expo, commonly known as Comic Expo or BCE, was an annual comic book convention held in the United Kingdom from 2004 to 2013. The show was held once a year in Bristol in the spring. The organiser was Mike Allwood, formerly of Area 51, a comic shop based in Bristol.

The convention featured floorspace for exhibitors, including comic book dealers and collectibles merchants. Along with panels, seminars, and workshops with comic book professionals, one of the highlights of Comic Expo was the Orang Utan Comics film night, which was a staple of the show since 2007. The charity event "Draw the World Together" was an annual part of the show. BCE included a separate "Small Press Expo," an autograph area, as well as a so-called "Artists' Alley" where comics artists signed autographs and sold or offered free sketches. Publishers such as Rebellion Publishing, Panini Comics, Markosia, Reed Full Circle, and SelfMadeHero often had presences as well.

From 2004 to 2008, Comic Expo was the host of the Eagle Awards.

History
BCE replaced a previous Bristol-based UK convention, the Comic Festival; retailer Mike Allwood had been involved with managing Comic Festival as well. (Comic Festival itself had been preceded as an annual UK comic book convention by the United Kingdom Comic Art Convention).

The first Comic Expo was held in Bristol on 6–7 November 2004, at the Ramada City Inn. (A so-called "Pro-Con" was held in the same space on 5 November.) Guests included Simon Furman, Mike Carey, and Mike Collins. This was very much a trial run by all concerned. Although not very well attended, it established how future events in Bristol would work.

The next BCE, held in May 2005, was a success, with guests such as J. Michael Straczynski, Michael Avon Oeming, Gary Frank, Dave Gibbons, Alan Davis, Brian Bolland, Mike Ploog and Simon Bisley; as well as over 2,000 attendees. The Just 1 Page charity comic was produced at Comic Expo 2005 and again in 2006 (continuing on from its origins at Comic Festival).

The November 2005 Brighton Comic Expo was held at the prestigious Metropole Hilton, the largest conference hotel in South England. Guests included Mark Millar, Gilbert Shelton, Dave Gibbons, Sydney Jordan, and Harry Harrison. This was again successful and, with the exception of a few minor criticisms, proved immensely popular with those attending.

Comic Expo Bristol 2006 was a success, with early figures suggesting around 2,000 attendees, as well as the presentation of the Eagle Awards.

The 2008 show was the best attended one so far, with more than 4,000 ticket buyers. The Eagle Awards ceremony was held on Saturday, May 10, presented by comedian Fraser Ayres.

The Great Recession hit the 2009 show hard, as only 650 fans attended. The 2012 show attracted only 300 attendees, with many exhibitors reporting losses. Because of this, there was speculation the show might not survive, but attendance increased for the 2013 show. Nonetheless, the final BCE was held in 2014.

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