Rock Run United Methodist Church

Rock Run United Methodist Church is a one-story building, with stone walls and a slate-covered gable roof, located on a 1.24 acre plot of land at the corner of Craig's Corner Road and Rock Run Road near Level, Maryland, USA, and approximately six miles south of Darlington, Maryland. It is a sister church to Darlington United Methodist Church, which forms the Darlington-Rock Run Methodist Charge and is a part of the Baltimore-Washington Conference of the United Methodist Church, headquartered in Columbia, Maryland. It was listed on the Maryland Inventory of Historic Properties in 1977 by the Harford District Commission with code title HA 565. The church also includes a cemetery behind the building along Rock Run Road.  An old school house used to reside on the property.

History
The founding of Methodism in Harford County, Maryland, can be traced to Francis Asbury during his travels in 1785, when Ms Rachel Barnes Stephenson offered her home as a place of Methodist meetings. This was located near the Rock Run along the Susquehanna River, now located within the boundaries of the Susquehanna State Park. During one of the meetings, her nineteen-year-old son, William Stephenson, was converted. Meetings continued through the following years until 1811.

In 1795, approximately ten years after William had been converted to the Methodist faith, he was ordained as a local Methodist preacher. His duties included marriage, burial, and attending to the needs of the sick. In 1830, he and his wife traveled throughout Harford County on horseback to those who were almost secluded from other religious societies.

In 1811, 125 people were members of the Society. It became apparent that more room was needed and the first church was built on land given by Rev. William Stephenson and Mr. Thomas Nathaniel Smith, on the east side of the old Stafford Road (now in the Susquehanna State Park) near a spring. Local field stone were used in the construction of the walls. The building was completed in 1813 and served as both a church and a school house for nearly 30 years. Stephenson is considered the first minister of the Rock Run Methodist Episcopal Church.

In 1843, with approximately 145 members, the current stone church was constructed and it was at this time that Craig's Corner Road was named Stafford Road. The land for the church was donated by Stephenson's nephew, Joshua W. Stephens, who also built the church building. Due to the ongoing segregation of the area, a balcony was included inside for the use of the local colored people. It was removed in 1869.

Messrs. Oliver Ege and Thomas Swetze were the ministers of the church in the year the Rock Run Church was built. In 1848, the mortgage for the building was paid off, which was written in an old letter by Miss Hannah S. Stephenson to one of the former pastors.

In 1893, a 50th anniversary celebration was held at the church with the then minister, Harry D. Mitchell. In preparation for the festivities, the church was painted and decorated. For the celebrations, former ministers who served Rock Run were in attendance.

Stained glass windows were added to the building in 1908 during Reverend Beall's term as pastor. In 1912, another renovation occurred that included new carpet. The pulpit furniture currently in the chancel was given in the same year and a painting of a scene regarding the three crosses of Calvary was also completed. It no longer exists.

In 1932, shortly after the merger with the Darlington and Thomas Run Methodist Charge, a sesqui-centennial celebration was held. At this time the Rev. Raymond E. Manley was the pastor. In 1945, Thomas Run Church closed which left Rock Run and Darlington United Methodist Church as the remaining churches in the Methodist Charge. Four years later, in 1949, the church was redecorated, with new carpet included, and the addition of side doors on the northeast wall. Chester Soyer was the pastor at that time.

With much needed improvements to the building along with the growing needs of the Sunday School, the church formed a committee in 1959 to oversee the construction of a new Christian education wing, which was completed in spring 1962, during the time of the Reverend Luther Starnes. In fall 1967, the church sanctuary was again repainted and the lighted cross was included and placed behind the pulpit.

During the week of March 3–10, 1968, the Church celebrated its 125th anniversary with Bishop John Wesley Lord, Dr. Edward H. Porter (the District Superintendent of the Baltimore Northeast District), and the Reverends Luther W. Starnes (pastor from 1960 to 1962) and Paul Lee Grant (1966 to 1970).

Rock Run Academy
At the time that the first Rock Run Church was constructed in 1813, the local people decided there was a definite need for a school. It was built and used both as a Church and a school until 1821. The locals named the school the Rock Run Academy, or more formally Stephenson's Stone School House. The Reverend William Stephenson was responsible for its beginning and establishment. The first school teacher was Mr. Samuel Guild, who was from New England. He had previously held the position of a tutor for the Jeremiah Harlan family near Darlington. Jeremiah's son, Dr. David Harlan, attended the Academy shortly after 1813. It was reported that Guild held classes through the week from dawn to dusk and the summer vacation was only two weeks. When Guild died in 1821, the school was discontinued in the church building.
Dr. David Harlan, who was born in the then village of Stafford in 1809, now in the Susquehanna State Park, after attending Rock Run Academy later became a distinguished doctor who served in the United States Navy. He served during the Mexican and Civil Wars. He retired in 1871 with the rank of Medical Director of the Navy.

Rock Run School
The Stephenson farm was the site of the Stephenson school, which was built in 1825. Reverend William Stephenson's daughter, Elizabeth Stephenson, taught at the school house. She received her education at the nearby Gover Seminary, which was opened for approximately five years at the nearby Gover Mansion. The Stephenson school was built of salvaged boards from the nearby Susquehann River and when finished was a one-room building with four windows and a loft. The school was open all year, with the exception of winter months. In 1850, the new Rock Run Public School was opened adjoining the church cemetery. It was a one-room, wooden building. It was later demolished.

References

Harford County Directory (1953)
Harford District Commission. (1977). Rock Run Church. Maryland Inventory of Historic Properties
http://mdihp.net/dsp_county.cfm?search=county&criteria1=R&criteria2=HA&criteria3=&id=14203&viewer=true
Liber #32, Folio #45. Harford County Courthouse, Bel Air, Maryland
Wright, C. M. (1967). Our Harford Heritage

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Episcopal Diocese of West Virginia

The Episcopal Diocese of West Virginia is a diocese of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America (TEC). It encompasses all 55 counties of West Virginia. The diocese has 66 congregations, including 38 parishes, 26 missions, and 2 other churches. The diocese is headquartered in Charleston and led by the Rt. Rev. W. Michie Klusmeyer who was consecrated as its bishop diocesan in 2001.

History

1700s
Ministry of the Church of England and its successor, the Protestant Episcopal Church, developed slowly in what is now West Virginia. The 1784 disestablishment of the Church of England in the then-unified Virginia created severe challenges for Episcopalians.

The first Episcopal Church in present-day West Virginia was established as a log structure in 1740 near Bunker Hill in Berkeley County. This chapel was founded by Colonel Morgan Morgan  and known by the names Christ Episcopal Church and Morgan Chapel. Services at Morgan Chapel were led by local lay readers and by occasional priests visiting from Christ Church in Winchester, Virginia. Morgan Chapel is maintained as a historical site, but worship services are now held in nearby Zion Episcopal Church, Charles Town. Zion Church was the spiritual home of Charles Washington, Col. Lewis Washington, and John Yates Beall.

Westward expansion of white settlers in the late eighteenth century encouraged the founding of Episcopal Churches near the Ohio River. Unlike most Virginia churches, mountainous geography led many churches in West Virginia to be planted by congregations from Pennsylvania, Maryland, or Ohio. Mirroring Virginia politics, diocesan bishops based in Williamsburg and Richmond often overlooked Episcopalians living west of the Blue Ridge. Efforts of the Rev. Dr. Joseph Doddridge, a Pennsylvania-born missionary, were especially significant in establishing frontier churches in the Upper Ohio Valley. In 1793, he founded Olde St. John’s Episcopal Church in Colliers. It remains the oldest continuously active Episcopalian congregation in West Virginia.

1800s
In the absence of episcopal visitations from the bishop of Virginia, Bishop William White of Pennsylvania consecrated St. Matthew's Episcopal Church in Wheeling, West Virginia as the nineteenth century began. By 1851, Episcopalians in the northwestern mountain counties petitioned Bishop William Meade of Virginia to provide the mountain region its own bishop. Meade demurred even though he had previously founded St. John's Episcopal Church, Charleston, in 1837, and serviced these parishes both while affiliated with Christ Church, Winchester, and later as assistant bishop of Virginia. When John Johns became his assistant bishop, he likewise conducted periodic visitations into the western counties of Virginia. However, with the outbreak of the American Civil War, episcopal visitations ceased. In 1863, shortly before West Virginia's incorporation as a state, St. Matthew's Church, Wheeling, asked permission for another bishop to visit the parish, but like his predecessor, Bishop Johns demurred, asking instead for a safe-conduct to visit the area, which he did not obtain.

After the Civil War, the six northwestern counties remained part of the Diocese of Virginia for more than a decade. By 1876, Virginia's diocesan council (a name analogous to diocesan conventions elsewhere) agreed to support the creation of a separate diocese for the state of West Virginia, which the national General Convention approved in 1877.

At the organizational meeting led by Virginia bishop Francis McNeece Whittle (who chose to remain with the larger diocese), 14 clergy and 16 lay delegates agreed to extend an invitation to Rev. J.H. Eccleston of Newark, New Jersey to become their new bishop, but his existing congregation pointed out to him the missionary nature of the new diocese and questioned its ability to financially support a bishop and other diocesan officers, and he refused the call. The following year, the clerical and lay delegates met again and finally decided to call Rev. George William Peterkin, who accepted the call and was consecrated by bishops of Virginia, Maryland and Kentucky at the new diocese's largest church, St. Matthew's Church in Wheeling on May 30, 1878.

Although the churches in Wheeling and Charleston had also offered to build rectories for the new bishop, Rt. Rev. Peterkin chose to accept the offer from the Parkersburg congregation. He thus made the town diocesan headquarters and ultimately succeeded in raising the funds and building the Church of the Good Shepherd in Parkersburg in 1891.

1900s
In 1899, Peterkin found visitations increasingly difficult and asked for a bishop coadjutor, the diocesan convention elected Rev. William Loyall Gravatt of Zion Episcopal Church in Charles Town, West Virginia. Upon Rt.Rev. Peterkin's death in 1916, Rt. Rev. Gravatt moved the diocesan headquarters to Charleston, West Virginia, the state capital, where they are again today, although moved to Wheeling under the episcopate of his successor, Robert E.L. Strider.

Diocesan Office and Retreat Centers
The diocese is headquartered on Virginia Street in Charleston, a few blocks from the West Virginia State Capitol, in a house known as Diocesan Center. It was donated by Helen Ruffner Ritz in 1964 in memory of her late husband, the lawyer and jurist Harold A. Ritz.

The diocese also has two spiritual retreat centers. Since 1944, Peterkin Camp and Conference Center on the South Branch of the Potomac River near Romney has been used for Christian Education retreats and summer camps. In the early 1950s, the diocese acquired Sandcrest Farms near Oglebay Park in Wheeling as a bequest from philanthropists Harry and Helen Turner Sands. Originally envisioned as an Episcopalian retirement home, Sandcrest Conference and Retreat Center now operates as a nonprofit, spiritual retreat center with the mission "…to provide a place in which to nourish the soul, mind, and body through the spirit of Jesus Christ."

Roll of Bishops

George William Peterkin (1878-1916)
William Loyall Gravatt, bishop coadjutor (1899-1916)i
William Loyall Gravatt (1916-1939)
Robert E.L. Strider Sr., bishop coadjutor (1923-1939)o
Robert E.L. Strider Sr. (1939-1955)
Wilburn C. Campbell, bishop coadjutor (1950-1955)
Wilburn C. Campbell (1955-1976)
Robert P. Atkinson, bishop coadjutor (1973-1976)
Robert P. Atkinson (1976-1988)
John H. Smith (1989-1999)* Charles Vaché, assisting bishop (1999-2001)
W. Michie Klusmeyer (2001-)* Mark Van Koevering assistant bishop (2016-2018)

Further reading

 Brown, Jonathan C. Acts of Devotion: A Religious Community in American History. Harpers Ferry, West Virginia: Social Assessment Press, 2014.
 Hamilton, Eleanor Meyer. The Flair & the Fire: The Story of the Episcopal Church in West Virginia, 1877-1977. Charleston: Diocese of West Virginia, 1977.
 Peterkin, Rt. Rev. George W. A History and Record of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of West Virginia. Charleston, West Virginia: Tribune Company, 1902.
 Witt, Joseph D. Religion and Resistance in Appalachia: Faith and the Fight Against Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining. Place Matters: New Directions in Appalachian Studies. The University Press of Kentucky, 2016.

References

External links
Official Web site of the Diocese of West Virginia
Journal of the Annual Convention, Diocese of West Virginia

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Brenda, That's All

Brenda, That's All is the seventh studio album by American pop and country artist Brenda Lee. The album was released October 15, 1962 on Decca Records and was produced by Owen Bradley. It was the second of two studio albums released in 1962 and included two Top 10 hit singles on the Billboard Hot 100 between 1962 and 1963.

Background and content
Brenda, That's All was recorded in separate recording sessions at the Bradley Film and Recording Studio in Nashville, Tennessee, United States under the direction of Owen Bradley. The sessions began on March 8, 1962 and ended on August 9, 1962. Like her previous releases, the album contained twelve tracks of material and many of its tracks were cover versions of previously recorded material by other artists. It included cover versions of Marvin Rainwater's "Gonna Find Me a Bluebird", and Virgil F. Stewart's "Just Out of Reach". "Fool #1" was recorded by Loretta Lynn shortly before Lee's recording of the song. The album's tracks consisted of a variety of musical styles, including pop, R&B and country. The album received three and a half stars from Allmusic. Reviewer Richie Unterberger commented that while the album was not a "scintillating record" it was "pretty good" because it did not over-emphasize pop standards, and that the whole album "is impressively sung and immaculately produced, in fact, in common with much of what Lee recorded under Owen Bradley's direction." The album was originally released as an LP record with six songs included on each side of the record. The album was later reissued on compact disc in the United Kingdom and was reissued on an extended play in Argentina.

Release
The lead single released from the album was "You Can Depend on Me". Released in April 1961, the song became a Top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at #6 and also reached #25 on the Billboard R&B music chart. Its B-side also gained significant airplay and reached #1 on the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart. The second track of the album entitled "Fool #1" was released as the second and final single from the album. Released in September 1961, the song reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming her eighth Top 10 single, while peaking at #38 on the UK Singles Chart in the United Kingdom.

The album was released on October 15, 1962 on Decca Records, and peaked at #20 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, while also reaching #13 on the UK Albums Chart, becoming her second album to chart in the United Kingdom.

Track listing
Side one
 "I'm Sitting on Top of the World" (Ray Henderson, Sam M. Lewis, Joe Young) – 2:09
 "Fool #1" (Kathryn R. Fulton) – 2:27
 "White Silver Sands" (Red Matthews, Gladys Reinhart) – 3:06
 "Just Out of Reach" (Virgil F. Stewart) – 2:47
 "Sweethearts on Parade" (Carmen Lombardo, Charles Newman) – 2:34
 "It's a Lonesome Old Town (When You're Not Around)" (Charles Kisco, Harry Tobias) – 3:06

Side two
 "Organ Grinder's Swing" (Will Hudson, Mitchell Parish, Irving Mills) – 2:24
 "Gonna Find Me a Bluebird" (Marvin Rainwater) – 2:49
 "Why Me" (Bob Beckham, Buzz Cason) – 2:13
 "Valley of Tears" (Dave Bartholomew, Fats Domino) – 2:26
 "Someday (You'll Want Me to Want You)" (Jimmie Hodges) – 2:39
 "You Can Depend on Me" (Charles Carpenter, Louis Dunlap, Earl Hines) – 3:34

Personnel
 Harold Bradley – guitar
 Floyd Cramer – piano
 Dottie Dillard – background vocals
 Ray Edenton – guitar
 Buddy Emmons – steel guitar
 Buddy Harman – drums
 Anita Kerr – background vocals
 Brenda Lee – lead vocals
 Grady Martin – guitar
 Bob Moore – bass
 Louis Nunley – background vocals
 Boots Randolph – saxophone
 Bill Wright – background vocals

Charts
Album

Singles

References

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Massimo Scaligero

Massimo Scaligero, born Antonio Sgabelloni in Veroli, Italy (1906–1980) an Italian spiritual teacher, member of "Gruppo di Ur", esotericist and anthroposophist.

Works

English
The Light (La Luce): An introduction to creative imagination. Great Barrington, MA: Lindesfarne Books, 2001. .
The Secrets of Space and Time. Great Barrington, MA: Lindesfarne Books, 2013. .
A Practical Manual of Meditation. Great Barrington, MA: Lindesfarne Books, 2015. .
A Treatise on Living Thinking: A Path beyond Western Philosophy, beyond Yoga, beyond Zen. Great Barrington, MA: Lindesfarne Books, 2015. .
The Logic Against Humanity: The Myth of Science and the Path of Thinking. Great Barrington, MA: Lindesfarne Books, 2017. .

Italian (untranslated)
"La Razza di Roma", Mantero, Tivoli, 1939
The Way of the Solar Will
Immortal Love
Yoga, Meditation, Magic
From Yoga to the Rose Cross
The Logos and the New Mysteries
Psychotherapy;
Techniques of Inner Concentration
Healing with Thinking
Meditation and Miracles
Thinking as Antimaterialism
Western Kundalini
Isis Sophia
Zen and Logos

See also
Anthroposophy
Philosophy of Freedom

References

External links
Massimo Scaligero, A Treatise on Living Thought, excerpt translated by Mark Nazzari Willan. Accessed 2009-04-07.

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The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper

The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper is an animated television spin-off of the feature film Casper, which, in turn, was based on the Harvey Comics cartoon character of Casper the Friendly Ghost.

Production
At the time that principal filming wrapped on Casper, a sequel was proposed and a treatment was written, but a combination of less-than-stellar box office gross (although the film grossed $100 million in the US, the budget was more than half of that total and analysts predicted much higher earnings for the film) and the fact that both Christina Ricci and Bill Pullman were attached to other projects after Casper and would not be available until more than a year later caused the idea to be scrapped. The producers then decided to abandon the live-action sequel ideas and instead developed this cartoon series to continue the story.

The show aired on Fox Kids television from 1996-1998 for 3 seasons. 52 episodes were produced, but only the first 46 appeared on FOX, with the remaining debuting on FOX Family Channel. Many of the same people who worked on this show also worked on Animaniacs and Pinky and the Brain (the latter of which was a spin-off from the former; coincidentally, the former had also debuted on FOX).

The new Casper broke from earlier versions, following a sitcom-style pattern of one-liners and pop culture gags in a manner similar to the Casper feature. The show would also frequently break the fourth wall. The show used old Casper supporting characters such as Casper's cousin Spooky, Spooky's "ghoulfriend" Pearl (or "Poil" as rendered by Spooky's Brooklyn accent), and Nightmare the Ghost Horse who, unlike in the original cartoons and comics, does not actually talk (though voiced by Frank Welker). The show also introduced new characters, including Casper's super-loud teacher Ms. Banshee.

Characters

Casper

Casper McFadden has been haunting his family home of Whipstaff Manor for some time, having died from pneumonia (according to a newspaper seen during the scene in the attic from the feature film) after he played out in the cold for too long when he was twelve years old. Now in the care of his three troublemaking uncles, Stretch, Stinkie and Fatso, Casper's afterlife is not exactly pleasant. He has to put up with his uncles' outrageous antics, and his wish to gain a friend in a human is usually ruined. The only exception to this was when Kat and Dr. Harvey moved into Whipstaff. Kat became a close friend to him. Casper has been a ghost for just over a hundred years, as Stinkie and Fatso once stated that Casper's age is a 115 and a half years old. Casper himself is very friendly and outgoing, but he sometimes appears rather shy. Most ghosts view his behaviour as unusual, as they believe ghosts should not be friendly or polite in any way. Other ghosts are sometimes even afraid of his good manners, to which Casper sometimes uses to his advantage. One example was when the Ghostly Trio appealed to Casper for help after being convicted in a supernatural court, which denied them to be ghosts any longer as they had no unfinished business on Earth, therefore they would have to crossover. Casper intervened, and revealed quite honestly that his uncles had not taught him how to be scary yet, enabling them to remain as ghosts on Earth. As in the film, Casper is voiced by Malachi Pearson.

The Ghostly Trio

The Ghostly Trio are Casper's uncles, who love scaring humans, or as they call them, "fleshies", "skinbags", "bone-bags" and "skinsacks". They include Stretch, the tallest, and hot-headed leader, Stinkie, who almost always smells, and in turn loves anything smelly. He uses his bad smell as a weapon or annoyance on others, and Fatso, who is seen as the least intelligent of the brothers, and loves to eat almost anything. The three are chaotic in every sense, and can't resist scaring or causing trouble no matter what the cost. They order Casper around constantly, who they refer to as "Bulbhead" or "Short-sheet". However, despite being considered mean spirits, they do on a number of occasions display compassionate sides. One example was when Casper was accidently turned into a baby. The Ghostly Trio at first reluctantly, took care of him, but soon bonded with him, particularly Stretch. They also appeared to be worried about Casper when they thought he was going to face "the most evil spirit to haunt the Earth", Whitebeard, on his own. There was a rare occasion when Casper became furious and shouted at the Trio for not restraining their own anger during a "frightening storm", which fed off the fury of others. Casper even planned on leaving his uncles, which surprised them further. However, using the best thing to compliments only the Trio could give, such as "fun to knock around", "easily insultable", and even admitting that they liked him, they persuaded him to stay. In the film, the primary turning point for the Ghostly Trio was when they kept their promise to Dr. Harvey, and brought his wife Amelia, to speak to him one last time. As in the feature film, they are voiced by Joe Nipote, Joe Alaskey and Brad Garrett, although in the third and fourth seasons Fatso would be voiced by Jess Harnell, who also voiced Fatso in the unrelated direct-to-video films: Casper: A Spirited Beginning and Casper Meets Wendy. (Notably, Harnell also voiced Wakko Warner, who like Fatso also has a voracious appetite, and was one of three manic siblings who perpetually annoyed a psychiatrist.)

Dr. Harvey
Dr. James Harvey (or "Doc" as he is called by the Ghostly Trio) is a psychiatrist and is shown to be an alumnus of Johns Hopkins University. In the film, after his wife Amelia's death, he has gone on to become a "ghost therapist” to find and make contact with his wife, because he believes she is a ghost. However, after learning that she instead became an angel, he and his teenage daughter Kat stay at their new home of Whipstaff, where he continues to work as a ghost therapist, trying (unsuccessfully) to rehabilitate the mischief-making Ghostly Trio. Dr. Harvey is an easy-going guy with a big heart. He obviously loves Kat, although he sometimes appears rather neglectful of his motherless daughter's emotional needs. This was demonstrated in the scene from the film where he speaks with his departed wife when he says he is worried that he's not taking good care of her, but Amelia assured him that he was doing a good job, although she gave him some "motherly" advice ("Don't pick up the extension every time she gets a phone call, french fries are not a breakfast food..." etc.) Dr. Harvey tolerates the Ghostly Trio antics, and it is because of this that they grow to like him, and kept their promise to him so he could speak to Amelia. The animated version of Dr. Harvey deviates slightly from the film version, in that the animated Dr. Harvey was totally focused on being a therapist and used psychological epithets when talking to everyone, including his own daughter. Kat, Casper and the Ghostly trio simply regarded this as an eccentricity. The role was originated by Bill Pullman in the Casper film, but he is voiced by Dan Castellaneta on the show.

Kat Harvey
Kathleen "Kat" Harvey is the daughter of Dr. Harvey and is portrayed as the stereotypical teenager who has a sense of humour.

She is about thirteen years old (about the age Christina Ricci, who originated the role in the Casper film, was when the film was filmed) and is a good companion to Casper. Kat hates having to put up with the Ghostly Trio because none of them get along with her. Any time they spend together usually involves insulting each other. On one occasion, after the Trio made fun of her for not being able to get a job, Kat made a bet with them saying she could get a job, and bring home a paycheque before they could. The end result was all of them getting a job in the same theatre, which became partly destroyed, after which they declared a draw. But there are rare occasions when Kat and the Ghostly Trio would work together. One example was when to Kat and Casper's surprise, the Trio were trying to return the goldfish Kat won at a fair back to its mother. At first she thought they were going to turn it into a "ghost fish", but when they told her what they were planning, she became slightly emotional and decided to help. Another example was when Dr. Harvey was given his own television show in order to help all ghosts. Both he and Casper became famous and power hungry, resulting in Kat and the Ghostly Trio being neglected, and treated badly. This resulted in them working together to remind Dr. Harvey what was more important. Kat is voiced by Kath Soucie on the show.

Spooky

Spooky is Casper's mischief-minded cousin. He looks up to the Ghostly Trio as his heroes and, while having no true dislike for Casper, despises his cousin's lack of interest in scaring humans. As such, Spooky is always trying to out-scare Casper and become the best in class, but usually fails. However, underneath the gruff, ghostly exterior, Spooky may also have a slight soft spot for his cousin. Spooky is visually very similar to Casper, but he has a black nose and freckles, wears a brown "doiby" hat, and speaks in a Brooklyn accent. He is voiced by Rob Paulsen.

Poil
Poil is Spooky's "ghoulfriend". Often absent-minded, Poil is almost always oblivious to current situations and takes things way too literally. She adores Spooky and everything about him, right down to the freckles on his face and his black nose, is good friends with Casper and doesn't care as much for the Ghostly Trio as Spooky does. She is voiced by Miriam Flynn.

Ms. Banshee
Ms. Maddie Banshee is the teacher at Casper, Spooky and Poil's ghost school. Befitting her name, Ms. Banshee can yell loud enough to be heard several towns away, even to wake the dead. Ms. Banshee enjoys being a teacher, but dreams of being a professional opera singer. All three of the Ghostly Trio have a crush on Ms. Banshee, and constantly compete for her affections. Ms. Banshee is ok with the Trio, but remains unimpressed with their efforts. She is voiced by Tress MacNeille.

Amber Whitmire and the Jennifers
Amber Whitmire and the Jennifers are classmates and rivals of Kat's at Friendship Junior High School. Amber and the Jennifers are portrayed as rich, mean, spoiled queen bees. Jennifer #1 has brown hair and wears glasses and is the closest to Amber, Jennifer #2 has red hair, and Jennifer #3 has blonde hair and a snorting laugh and is the least intelligent of the three. Amber is voiced by Sherry Lynn and the Jennifers are voiced by Debi Derryberry.

Series overview

Episodes

Season 1 (1996)

Season 2 (1996–1997)

Season 3 (1997–1998)

Season 4 (1998)

Voice Cast
Malachi Pearson - Casper
Kath Soucie - Kat Harvey, various voices
Dan Castellaneta - Dr. Harvey
Joe Nipote - Stretch
Joe Alaskey - Stinky, Baby Huey (cameo in the end of "Legend of Duh Bigfoot"), various voices
Brad Garrett - Fatso (Seasons 1-2)
Jess Harnell - Fatso (Seasons 3-4), various voices
Rob Paulsen - Spooky, various voices
Miriam Flynn - Poil, various voices
Tress MacNeille - Ms. Banshee, various voices
Sherry Lynn - Amber
Debi Derryberry - The Jennifers, various voices
Frank Welker - Nightmare the Horse, various voices, animal effects
April Winchell - Ms. C, various voices

Additional voices

Gary Owens - Haunt-a-Thon Announcer
Tony Jay - Various voices
Greg Eagles - Michael Jordan
E.G Daily - Various voices
Cam Clarke - Various voices
Bobbi Page - Various voices
Susan Blakeslee - Various voices
Jim Cummings - Various voices
Jeff Bennett - Wedgie Johnson, News Anchor, Astronaut, various voices
Charlie Adler - T-Bone
Stan Freberg - Game Show Host
Cathy Cavadini - Kid #2
Neil Ross - The Ghostfather, TV Voice
Mark L. Taylor - TV Voice #2
Christine Cavanaugh - Kid #1
Danny Mann - Lounge Host
Pat Fraley - Cleaner Ghost
Beau Weaver -
Billy West -
Ben Stein - Kat's Teacher
Jack Angel -
Ed Asner -
Carlos Alazraqui -
Tom Kenny -
Phil LaMarr-
June Foray -
Mark Hamill - Ghost of Christmas Present
S. Scott Bullock -
Mona Marshall -
Nancy Cartwright -
Susan Silo -
Bill Farmer -
Kevin M. Richardson - The Frightening Storm
James Earl Jones - Kibosh

Home media
From 1996 through 1998, Universal Studios Home Video released episodes from seasons 1, 2, and 3 onto VHS.

In 2007/2008, Universal Studios Home Entertainment released two volume collections entitled The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper, Volume 1 and The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper, Volume 2 on DVD in Region 1.  Volume 1 consists of the first 5 episodes of the animated series, while volume 2 contains the last 5 episodes of season 1.

No further plans have been made by Universal to release any further DVDs of the show.

See also
 List of ghost films
 Tiny Toon Adventures
 Animaniacs

References

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Yann-Ber Kalloc'h

Yann-Ber Kalloc'h (born Jean-Pierre Calloc'h in French) (21 July 1888 – 10 April 1917) was a Breton war poet who wrote in both Breton and French.

Life
Yann-Ber Kalloc'h was born on the island of Groix, near Quimper, on July 24, 1888. He was the son of a fisherman (who was lost at sea in October 1902) and his wife. He describes his childhood in the autobiographical poem . Kalloc'h at first wanted to become a Roman Catholic priest and entered the minor seminary of St Anne d'Auray in 1900, then the major seminary at Vannes in October 1905. He was forced to renounce his vocation after his two sisters and his younger brother revealed signs of mental illness, since canon law forbade the priesthood to those who had relatives suffering from such diseases. Yann-Ber had dreamed of being a missionary and his exclusion from the priesthood brought him great distress.

He became tutor in various cities including Paris. During military service, Yann-Ber made a point of teaching fellow Bretons to read and write in their own language. His earliest writings were in French, but from 1905 on, he wrote in the Breton language. Taking the bardic name of Bard Bleimor (lit. "Sea Wolf", or Sea Bass), Kalloc'h wrote for various regionalist and autonomist newspapers. He used to say, "I am not in the least bit French."

According to Ian Higgins, "When the war came, Calloc'h, like so many others, saw it as a defense of civilization and Christianity, and immediately volunteered for the front. Only Ireland and Brittany, he writes in one poem, still help Christ carry the cross: in the fight to reinvigorate Christianity, the Celtic people's are in the van. In addition, now readily fighting for France, he saw the war as the great chance to affirm the national identity of Brittany and resurrect it's language and culture."

On October 12, 1915, he wrote a letter to Achille Collin which became the basis for a 1919 petition in favor of Breton.

Yann-Ber Kalloc'h was reportedly a terrible foe in hand to hand combat and wielded a sailor's axe formerly used in the French Navy for boarding enemy ships. His motto was "For God and Brittany". He was killed in action when a German shell landed near his dugout near Urvillers/Cerizy (Aisne) on April 10, 1917.

Legacy

In Brittany, at least six streets bear his name.

His name appears in the Panthéon with those of 546 other writers who were killed in the First World War.

Also, the Breton Scouting organization Bleimor is named in his honor.

In her 2009 album Uam, Scottish vocalist and folk singer Julie Fowlis performed Kalloc'h's song Me 'zo Ganet kreiz ar e mor ("I was Born in the Middle of the Sea"). The lyrics were translated from the Breton language to Scottish Gaelic.

Writings
The literary work which reveals him to be one of the greatest Breton authors is a posthumous collection, of poems often mystical, as in Ar deulin (Kneeling, War daoulin year in KLT) published by his friend Pierre Mocaer in 1925. This collection includes the famous poem Me 'zo Ganet kreiz ar e mor (I was born in the middle of the sea).

In these poems composed in large part to the front, he expresses his deep Roman Catholic faith, love of his native language and feelings in favor of Breton political autonomy.

According to Ian Higgins, "His pre-war poetry is either devotional, militantly Catholic or militantly Breton. These three strands are often spun into one. Calloc'h himself selected what he thought was the best of his work, and gave the manuscript, along with his own French translations of most of the poems. If he were killed, it was to be published, under the title Ar en deulin ("Kneeling"). (The book by L. Paulus contains further texts, including two short stories revealing a touch of humour one would not have expected from the author of Ar en deulin."

Works

References

 Tim Cross (1989) The Lost Voices of World War I: an international anthology of writers, poets and playwrights. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press

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Jonathan Brookins

Jonathan Quinn Brookins (born August 13, 1985) is an American mixed martial artist who competed as a featherweight for the Ultimate Fighting Championship. A professional MMA competitor since 2006, Brookins has mostly fought in Florida, as well as competing in The Ultimate Fighter: Team GSP vs. Team Koscheck. On December 4, 2010, Brookins defeated Michael Johnson to become the Ultimate Fighter and earn a contract with the UFC. During his time at Lindenwood University he was also the college roommate of former fellow UFC fighter Mike Rio.

Early life
Brookins was born on born August 13, 1985, in Portland, Oregon. He attended high school at Century High School in Hillsboro, Oregon, a suburb of Portland. There he started wrestling, winning a state title his senior year and earning a scholarship to Lindenwood University.

Mixed martial arts career

Background
Brookins was introduced to mixed martial arts by Charles Bennett. After meeting him and training with him, Brookins made his professional MMA debut against Allen Berube, a TUF 5 veteran. Having only trained in wrestling, Brookins surprised himself by winning via KO in under twenty seconds.

Brookins has mostly fought at featherweight, most notably in World Extreme Cagefighting where he lost to José Aldo via TKO in the third round. Brookins would later rebound at Bellator 1 where he defeated Stephen Ledbetter via submission (rear naked choke).

Brookins then won two fights in G-Force fights, the most notable being a submission victory over Luis Palomino.

The Ultimate Fighter
Brookins then signed with the Ultimate Fighting Championship to compete in The Ultimate Fighter: Team GSP vs. Team Koscheck.

In the debut episode, Brookins faced fellow wrestler Ran Weathers. Brookins would go on to take a unanimous decision victory in two rounds. Following this, Brookins was selected by Team GSP. Brookins was GSPs second pick and the fourth overall.

Brookins was picked by GSP to face Sevak Magakian in the preliminary house fights. Brookins faked a takedown, which fooled Magakian. Brookins was then able to take down Magakian before attempting a standing rear naked choke. Brookins eventually secured the submission at 2:04 of the opening round.

In the quarter-finals, Brookins faced Judo specialist Sako Chivitchian. Brookins was able to throw Chivitchian to the mat, which forced Chivitchian to try to stand up. Brookins then got hooks in and worked for a rear naked choke, eventually sealing it soon after, to advance to the semi-finals.

In the semi-final round, Brookins faced teammate Kyle Watson. In a somewhat lopsided bout, Brookins controlled Watson on the ground to take a 30–27 judges decision. The win moved Brookins into the finals against Michael Johnson.

Ultimate Fighting Championship
Brookins defeated Michael Johnson at The Ultimate Fighter: Team GSP vs. Team Koscheck Finale. In the first round, Brookins was dominated on the feet by Johnson. However, he pulled through and used his wrestling to edge rounds 2 and 3, taking the unanimous decision to become The Ultimate Fighter.

Brookins was expected to face John Makdessi on April 30, 2011 at UFC 129. However, Brookins was pulled from the bout and replaced by Kyle Watson.

Brookins was expected to face Jeremy Stephens on June 4, 2011 at The Ultimate Fighter 13 Finale. However, Brookins was forced from the bout with an injury and replaced by Danny Downes.

Brookins returned to featherweight for his next fight and faced Erik Koch on September 17, 2011 at UFC Fight Night 25. He lost the fight via unanimous decision.

Brookins was expected to face Rani Yahya on February 15, 2012 at UFC on Fuel TV 1. However, Yahya was forced out of the bout with an injury and replaced by Vagner Rocha. Brookins won via KO in the first round.

Brookins faced Charles Oliveira on June 1, 2012 at The Ultimate Fighter 15 Finale. He lost the fight via submission due to an anaconda choke in the second round.

Brookins next faced Dustin Poirier on December 15, 2012 at The Ultimate Fighter: Team Carwin vs. Team Nelson Finale. He lost the back-and-forth fight via submission in the first round.

On December 21, 2012, Brookins decided to retire from MMA in order to move to India and devote his time to practicing Yoga full-time.

Legacy Fighting Championship
On January 24, 2014 it was announced that Brookins would return from his retirement to fight for Legacy Fighting Championship. He dropped down to the Flyweight division to make his debut on March 21 at Legacy FC 29 against Cody Fuller. Brookins was victorious in his flyweight debut with a second round submission finish. He then faced Austin Lyons in a bantamweight bout at Legacy FC 34 on August 29, 2014. Brookins lost the fight via unanimous decision.

Pancrase
Brookins made his Pancrase debut at Pancrase 262 in a non-title fight taking on the Pancrase Bantamweight Champion Shintaro Ishiwatari  . He won the fight by unanimous decision.

Mixed martial arts record

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| Austin Lyons
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| Erik Koch
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| Yosdenis Cedeno
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| Luis Palomino
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| Stephen Ledbetter
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| José Aldo
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| Jose Santibanez
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| Greg Loughran
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| Yves Jabouin
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| Harris Sarmiento
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| Sean Bartlett
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| Ryan Nakamura
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| Combat Fighting Championship 2
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| York Ash
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| Allen Berube
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| Combat Fighting Championship
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References

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Sal Sparace

Sal Sparace is a technical Director for BSKYB. British Sky Broadcasting is the operator of the United Kingdom's largest digital television platform and a leading broadcaster of sports, movies, entertainment and news.

Sparace,  was born in Italy in 1965 and he moved to London in 1988 working for the first  Italian satellite international news bulletin. The programme produced by RAI chief correspondent Sandro Paternostro was broadcast daily from Visnews. Reuters, the world's largest news agency bought control of Visnews in 1992. In 1993 Visnews changed its name to Reuters Television. (Reuters is a global information company providing information tailored for professionals in the financial services, media and corporate markets.)

Sal Sparace was the technical manager for several TV shows in the United Kingdom including a soap called Family Affairs which was the first programme aired by Channel Five in 1997. In 2002 he was the technical director for Channel 4 breakfast show RI:SE which replaced The Big Breakfast. The programme produced by BSKYB and Princess Productions, featured celebrity interviews, newspaper reviews, entertainment news and outside broadcasts.
As part of Sky's '[The Bigger Picture]' project, Andrew Haynes from Technology Platforms and Sal Sparace (Broadcast Operations) set up a group that worked with a local charity, Creative Grammar together with students from Ravensbourne College, to create a programme called The Magic Word show.
The initiative is intended to help small children understand words and grammar through the use of characters, games and stories.

External links
RAI
Princess Productions

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Washington Luiz Mascarenhas Silva

Washington Luiz Mascarenhas Silva (born August 23, 1978 in São José dos Campos), or simply Washington, is a Brazilian striker who was the top striker in Copa Libertadores 2006 playing for Palmeiras, scoring five goals.

Honours

Individual
Copa Libertadores Top Scorer : 2006

Team
Pernambuco State League: 2007

External links

Sousport
Konyaspor

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Tambon

Tambon (, ) is a local governmental unit in Thailand. Below district (amphoe) and province (changwat), they form the third administrative subdivision level.  there were 7,255 tambons, not including the 180 khwaeng of Bangkok, which are set at the same administrative level, thus every district contains eight to ten tambon. Tambon is usually translated as "township" or "subdistrict" in English — the latter is the recommended translation, though also often used for king amphoe, the designation for a subdistrict acting as a branch (Thai: king) of the parent district. Tambon are further subdivided into 69,307 villages (muban), about ten per tambon. Tambon within cities or towns are not subdivided into villages, but may have less formal communities called chumchon (ชุมชน) that may be formed into community associations.

History
The tambon as a subdivision has a long history. It was the second-level subdivision of the area administered by a provincial town in the 19th century. The governor of the province was supposed to appoint a communal elder, kamnan or phan.

In the administrative reforms started in 1892 under Prince Damrong Rajanubhab, the first Thai Minister of the Interior, the three levels of subdivision of provinces were continued, i.e., starting from district to tambon to the lowest level called muban.

Muban

The subdistricts are subdivided into administrative villages (muban, ) as the lowest administrative subdivision. Usually these are referred to much more often by the village number than the actual name, especially as an administrative village may contain more than one settlement, or a large settlement may be split into more than one administrative village. One of the elected village headmen is elected as the subdistrict headman (Kamnan).

Subdistrict administrative organization (TAO)
With the Tambon Council and Tambon Administrative Authority Act BE 2537 (1994) and later by the constitution of 1997, tambon were decentralized into local government units with an elected tambon council. Depending on its size and tax income a tambon may either be administered by a Subdistrict (Tambon) Administrative Organization (SAO or TAO, ) or a Tambon Council (TC, ). However, since 2001 all of the Tambon Councils have been upgraded to Tambon Administrative Organizations. The TAO council consist of two representatives from each administrative village in the subdistrict, and one directly elected president. The subdistrict area which belongs to a municipality (thesaban) is administered by the municipal council. In the event only part of the subdistrict is within a municipality, the remaining part is administrated by a TAO. Adjoining subdistricts of a single district can also have a joint TAO.

One Tambon One Product

In 2001, Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra started a project in which every tambon would select a typical, distinctive local product. The project then aids in promoting the product, as well as assisting in modernizing production. Shops selling OTOP products are located in each provincial capital.

See also
Administrative divisions of Thailand
List of tambon in Thailand

References

External links
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Bosanka (river)

Bosanka is a right tributary of the Vrbanja river in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It rises on the southern slopes of the mountain Uzlomac (about 800 m above sea level) in four streams. Sources are between Rapno brdo (north) and Matrakova kosa (south). The length is about 6 km. Flowing through Petrovići, and its mouth between the villages of  Dabovci and  Dudići. The mouth is downstream from Vrbanjci, along highway M-4 (Banja Luka - Doboj). The long history of the name it was Plitka rika, and village nearby to it, in this regard - Plitska (today Vrbanjci).

The only significant (left) tributary to Bosanka is Vodalka.
The basin Bosanke and Vodalke, fifties, there were eight water-mills.
On the slopes of one of Uzlomac’s  southern peaks (about 800 m) separating the confluences of Vrbanja and Velika Usora. On the eastern side of Vodalke are waterflows of Zmajevac, Pirizevac and Breska, and to the west: Jelovac, Pušića potok, Svinjara and Jošavka.

During the War in Bosnia  inhabitants in the confluence of  Bosanka were expelled and murdered. This is especially true in the village of Vrbanjci, Večići, Hrvaćani,  Garići and Rujevica.

References

See also
 Vrbanjci
 Večići
 Kotor Varoš

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Minimalism (technical communication)

Minimalism in structured writing, topic-based authoring, and technical writing in general is based on the ideas of John Millar Carroll and others. Minimalism strives to reduce interference of information delivery with the user's sense-making process. It does not try to eliminate any chance of the user making a mistake, but regards an error as a teachable moment that content can exploit.

Like Robert E. Horn's work on information mapping, John Carroll's principles of Minimalism were based in part on cognitive studies and learning research at Harvard and Columbia University, by Jerome Bruner, Jerome Kagan, B.F. Skinner, George A. Miller, and others. Carroll argues that training materials should present short task-oriented chunks, not lengthy, monolithic documentation that tries to explain everything in a long narrative.

A historian of technical communication, R. John Brockmann, points out that Fred Bethke and others at IBM enunciated task orientation as a principle a decade earlier in a report on IBM Publishing Guidelines.

Carroll observes that modern users are often already familiar with much of what a typical long manual describes. What they need is information to solve a task at hand. He feels that documentation should encourage them to do this with a minimum of systematic instruction.

Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) is built on Carroll's theories of Minimalism and Horn's theories of Information Mapping.

Minimalism is a large part of JoAnn Hackos' recent workshops and books on information development using structured writing and the DITA XML standard.

Good writing means that the message is directly clear to the projected audience. Adopting a minimalist method may appear, in the short-term, to cost more, as writers must cut up and rephrase content into single free-standing chunks. However, the longer-term brings cost-saving benefits, particularly in translation and localization, where often sum is on a ‘per word’ basis. But the greatest advantage for companies is user fulfillment. The less time a customer spends working out how to do something, the more likely they are to purchase again.

References
 IBM Publishing Guidelines (1981)

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Ilaz Zylfiu

Ilaz Zylfiu (; born 27 March 1998) is a Serbian footballer of Albanian descent who plays as a second striker for Kosovan club Flamurtari.

Club career

Radnik Surdulica
Born in Miratovac, a small town in the municipality of Preševo as a member of Albanian ethnic group, Zylfiu started playing football at the age of 10. He was playing with football club Lugina, based in Aliđerce, until he joined Radnik Surdulica as a youngster. After almost two years with youth team, Zylfiu signed an one-year scholarship contract with Radnik in February 2017. He was also loaned on dual registration to the Serbian League East side Pukovac, making six appearances until the end of the 2016–17 campaign.

In summer 2017, Zylfiu joined the first team of Radnik Surdulica under coach Simo Krunić, but moved on new loan deal to Ozren Sokobanja shortly after. He scored his premier goal for the first season victory of Ozren over Timok on 16 September 2017. After the whole first-half season in the third-ranked league, a loan deal was terminated and Zylfiu returned to Radnik ending of November same year.

On 29 November 2017. Zylfiu made his official debut for Radnik Surdulica, replacing Miloš Stanković in 69 minute of the Serbian SuperLiga match against Red Star Belgrade. He has been reported as the first Albanian footballer in the club history since finding in 1926. In February 2018, Zylfiu signed his first four-your professional contract with Radnik, after which he extended his loan deal to Ozren until the end of 2017–18 campaign.

Returning from loan deal in summer 2018, Zylfiu started new season preparing under coach Mladen Dodić, but after being excluded from the 2018–19 Serbian SuperLiga player list, Zylfiu mutually terminated the contract and left Radnik as a free agent on the last day of July same year, along with teammate Krsta Đorđević.

Playing style
Zulfiu is a 1.67 m high attacker, who usually plays as a second striker or attacking midfielder. He is characterized by speed and lucidity, affirmed as a goalscorer in the Serbian League East. He has also promoted himself as a free kick taker, scoring in a match against Jedinstvo Paraćin. He is often compared with Fadil Vokrri, a former Kosovo Albanian football forward.

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Eugene P. Gross

Eugene P. Gross (27 June 1926 – 19 January 1991) was a theoretical physicist and Edward and Gertrude Swartz professor at Brandeis University, known for his contribution to the Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook (BGK) collision model used in the Boltzmann equation and in lattice Boltzmann methods and to the Gross–Pitaevskii equation which describes the ground state of a quantum system of identical bosons.

Education and work
Gross obtained his Ph.D. at Princeton in 1948, where he was one of the first graduate students of David Bohm.

Gross was Carnegie Fellow at Harvard from 1948 to 1949 and research associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1950 to 1951. Subsequently, until 1954, he was a staff member at the Laboratory for Insulation Research and from 1954 to 1956 assistant professor at Syracuse University.

In 1956 Gross was appointed associate professor at Brandeis University, where he became full professor in 1961.

From 1963 to 1964 he was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Rome in Italy, and from 1969 to 1970 visiting professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He held the Edward and Gertrude Swartz chair of Theoretical Physics since 1976 and chaired Brandeis University's Department of Physics from 1977 to 1979.

With Prabhu L. Bhatnagar and Max Krook, Gross introduced the Bhatnagar–Gross–Krook operator in a paper in Physical Review in 1954.
In 1961 Gross and separately Lev Pitaevskii presented what is now known as the Gross–Pitaevskii equation.

His fields of research pertained to quantum liquids, plasmas, solids, liquid helium and the kinetic theory of gases.

Gross published over 80 scientific articles, including work with Bohm published 1949/1950 and work with P. L. Bhatnagar and M. Krook of 1954.

References

Further reading

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Patrick Wilken

Patrick Wilken (born 17 March 1966, Melbourne, Australia) was a scientist, active in the promotion of consciousness studies.

He completed his doctoral studies at the University of Melbourne in 2001 under the supervision of Jason Mattingley and William Webster, where he developed models of visual short-term memory. He subsequently worked for three years as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Christof Koch at the California Institute of Technology, and then for two years as a postdoctoral researcher in the laboratory of Jochen Braun, at Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg.

His primary research interest was limits in information processing within high-level vision. He argued along with his collaborator Wei Ji Ma that the capacity limits commonly seen in visual short term memory and change blindness are caused, not by a high-level bottleneck in the number items that can be attended and/or stored in memory, but by an increase in neuronal noise in stimulus representations as complexity of visual information increases.

He has been active in the promotion of consciousness as an area of academic study since the early 1990s. In 1992, he founded the electronic journal Psyche, which in addition to publishing peer-reviewed papers and book reviews, acted as an online forum for discussion of consciousness studies via its lively mailing list Psyche-D. He acted as editor-in-chief of the journal until 2002, when he handed over executive editorship to the philosopher Tim Bayne.

After attending the first Toward a Science of Consciousness meeting in Tucson in 1994, he promoted the idea of setting up a professional organization to organize future consciousness conferences. This idea grew into the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness. He has been active in the organization in various ways, including being a key organizer (along with William Banks) of both the first meeting of the association in 1997, and the most recent meetings organized with Christof Koch at Caltech 2005, Geraint Rees in Oxford in 2006 and Michael Pauen in Berlin in 2009. He sat on the Board of the ASSC from its foundation, and in 2002 took over from David Chalmers as its chair; later being appointed its first executive director.

In 2007, to avoid possible conflict of interest issues associated after he was appointed an editor at Cell Press (where he worked on the journals Neuron, Trends in Cognitive Sciencess and Trends in Neurosciences), he stepped down both as Director and from the Board of the ASSC. However, while at Cell Press he remained active with the ASSC (e.g., visiting Taipei twice to help the local organizers of the 2008 meeting). In late 2008, he quit his job at Cell Press, and relocated to Berlin, in order to co-organize the 2009 Berlin meeting of the ASSC. However, internal politics on the Board led to his being frozen out of further involvement with the organization he had created at the completion of the meeting.

Selected publications

 Reddy, L., Quiroga, R.Q., Wilken, P., Koch, C., Fried, I. (2006) A Single-Neuron Correlate of Change Detection and Change Blindness in the Human Medial Temporal Lobe. Current Biology, 16(20), 2066-2072
 Wilken P, Ma WJ (2004) A detection theory account of change detection. Journal of Vision, 4, 1120-1135.

External links
 Homepage of the ASSC
 Homepage of the journal Psyche
  ASSC ePrints server, a free public archive of ASSC member's contributions to the study of consciousness

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Straight-billed hermit

The straight-billed hermit (Phaethornis bourcieri) is a species of bird in the family Trochilidae, the hummingbirds.

It is found in the  Guyanas of Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana; also the northern Amazon basin of Brazil, and Amazonian Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru; it is in eastern Venezuela and the Orinoco River Basin. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest and subtropical or tropical moist montane forest.

Two subspecies are currently recognised: P. b. bourcieri and P. b. major. However, recent molecular analysis has shown that P. b. major is more closely related to Phaethornis philippii and Phaethornis koepckeae than populations grouped under the bourcieri nominate, suggesting it should be treated as a separate species.

References

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Photo-High Res-(Close-up); Article--(with Close-up of Photo no. 2); Photo no. 2 www1.nhl.nl—"Birds in Suriname"

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Greg Adams (ice hockey, born 1960)

Gregory Charles Adams (born May 31, 1960) is a former Canadian professional ice hockey forward who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) from 1980 to 1990.

Playing career
Adams was passed over in the 1979 NHL Entry Draft and signed as a free agent with the Philadelphia Flyers in 1979. In his final year in the Western Hockey League (WHL) with the Victoria Cougars he scored 62 goals playing on a line with Barry Pederson. He spent the 1980–81 season with the Flyers' farm team, the Maine Mariners, and impressed in a six-game stint in Philadelphia, scoring three goals. The following season he appeared in 33 games, scoring 19 points.

Adams was traded to the Hartford Whalers in the Mark Howe trade in the summer of 1982. In the 1982–83 season, he spent his first full season in the NHL, scoring 10 goals and 23 points in 79 games. He established himself as a gritty, physical presence and registered 216 penalty minutes (PIM), the highest total of his career.

Adams was dealt again in the summer of 1983, this time to the Washington Capitals. While the Whalers had just 19 wins in 1982–83, the Capitals were one of the deepest squads in the league, and he found it more difficult to get ice time. In his first two years in Washington, he scored just eight goals in 108 games, and was demoted briefly to the American Hockey League (AHL). However, he established himself as a key member of the team in the 1985–86 season, and put up surprising numbers with 18 goals and 56 points, along with 152 PIM. He continued to perform well over the next two seasons, posting totals of 14 and 15 goals while providing his usual physical presence.

For the 1988–89 season, Adams was moved to the defending Stanley Cup champions Edmonton Oilers. However, he struggled to find a niche with the Oilers, scoring just four goals in 49 games, and was dealt again at the trade deadline, this time to the Vancouver Canucks. This created one of the more unusual situations in NHL history, as the Canucks' lineup already featured star winger Greg "Gus" Adams.

Adams's stint in Vancouver was brief, scoring four goals in 12 games for the team. He was traded to the Quebec Nordiques for the 1989–90 season, but spent most of the season in the AHL. He finished the season with the Detroit Red Wings before retiring.

Adams finished his career with 84 goals and 227 career points in 545 NHL games, and recorded 1,173 PIM.

Post-playing career
After Adams retired from the NHL, he moved back to Duncan, British Columbia, close to where he grew up. He has built a reputation as extremely good businessman opening up five separate Tim Hortons restaurants and many construction companies. He is also the founder and owner of LakeTown Ranch and hosts many music events, including the annual Sunfest country music festival.

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Manor Water

Manor Water is a river in the parish of Manor, Peeblesshire in the Scottish Borders. It rises in the Ettrick Forest and flows down through the Maynor valley, passing the various farms and hamlets of Maynor as well as Kirkton Manynor, where the Maynor kirk and village hall are flowing into the River Tweed one mile south of Peebles at Olde Maynor Brig, which is closed to traffic for the foreseeable future.

See also
List of places in the Scottish Borders
List of places in Scotland
List of rivers of Scotland

External links
CRCAHMS/Canmore record: Old Manor Bridge, Manor Water
Gazetteer for Scotland: Manor Water
Streetmap of Manor Water
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Warrimoo railway station

Warrimoo railway station is located on the Main Western line in New South Wales, Australia. It serves the Blue Mountains suburb of Warrimoo opening on 9 March 1918.

History

While the Great Western Railway was built through Warrimoo in 1867, it did not see a platform built until 1918. This platform was later destroyed as a result of bush fire in 1951 and was later rebuilt.

A pedestrian bridge was built in 1917 to provide access to the station and in 1990 alterations were made.

The station celebrated its 100th Anniversary on 9 March 2018.

Platforms and services
Warrimoo has one island platform with two sides. It is serviced by NSW TrainLink Blue Mountains Line services travelling from Sydney Central to Lithgow.

Transport links
Blue Mountains Transit operates one route via Warrimoo station:
690P: Springwood station to Penrith station

References

External links

Warrimoo station details Transport for New South Wales

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1958 Edmonton municipal election

The 1958 municipal election was held October 15, 1958 to elect six aldermen to sit on Edmonton City Council, four trustees to sit on the separate school board, and three trustees to sit on the public school board.  There was no election for mayor, as William Hawrelak was one year into a two-year term.

There were ten aldermen on city council, but four of the positions were already filled: Cliffard Roy, William Connelly, Hu Harries, and Reginald Easton were all elected to two-year terms in 1957 and were still in office.  James Falconer was also elected to a two-year term in 1957, but had resigned; accordingly, William Henning was elected to a one-year term to complete Falconer's term.

There were seven trustees on the public school board, but four of the positions were already filled: Ernest Hanna, Angus MacDonald, Robert Johnson,  and Douglas Thomson were elected to two-year terms in 1957 and were still in office.  On the separate board, there were four vacancies: Orest Demco, Catherine McGrath, and Joseph Moreau were acclaimed to two-year terms in 1957 and were still in office.  Michael O'Byrne had also been acclaimed to a two-year term in 1957, but had resigned; accordingly, William Burke was elected to a one-year term to complete O'Byrne's term.

Voter turnout

There were 18650 ballots cast out of 145701 eligible voters, for a voter turnout of 12.8%.

Results

(bold indicates elected, italics indicate incumbent)

Aldermen

Public school trustees

Separate (Catholic) school trustees

Leo Lemieux - 2626
Vincent Dantzer - 2254
E D Stack - 2141
William Burke - 1789
Paul Norris - 1531
Terance Hughes - 1445
William Vetsch - 1239
William Belous - 933
Walter Sievers - 839

References

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Traben-Trarbach

Traben-Trarbach on the Middle Moselle is a town in the Bernkastel-Wittlich district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the seat of the like-named Verbandsgemeinde and a state-recognized climatic spa (Luftkurort). The city lies in the so-called "Valley of Dawn".

Geography

Location
Traben-Trarbach lies some 40 km northeast of Trier and some 60 km southwest of Koblenz in the valley of the Middle Moselle. North of the town is found the mountain inside a bend in the Moselle, Mont Royal. Frankfurt-Hahn Airport in the Hunsrück lies some 10 km away towards the east (in each case, as the crow flies). The municipal area spreads over a total of 31,350,000 m² with a great share of this being wooded. This makes Traben-Trarbach the biggest town by land area on the Middle Moselle.

Traben lies on the Moselle’s left bank at the foot of the former fort of Mont Royal, and Trarbach lies on the right bank on the Hunsrück side. While Traben stretches in a broad strip along the river, Trarbach instead stretches inland between rather steep mountains, particularly up the Kautenbach valley.

Constituent communities
Traben-Trarbach’s Stadtteile, besides Traben and Trarbach, are Litzig, Wolf, Bad Wildstein, Rißbach, Kautenbach and Hödeshof.

History

As early as 830, the Aacher Hof (estate) had a documentary mention. Emperor Louis the Pious, Charlemagne’s son, donated Traben with all its rights and privileges, and its appurtenances, namely Litzig, Rißbach, Irmenach and Beuren, to the minster at Aachen (Aachen Foundation of Mary), where German kings were crowned.

In the 17th century, the town was part of what was then known as Rhenish Franconia, a strategic area fought over by France and the Holy Roman Empire. Seized by France in the 1683-1684 War of the Reunions, Traben was the location for the new fortress of Mont-Royal, constructed by Vauban, the leading military engineer of the period. The main ramparts were 30 metres high and three kilometres long, with space for 12,000 troops; despite the enormous cost, it was demolished when the French withdrew following the 1697 Treaty of Ryswick and only the lower foundations are visible today.

All today’s Stadtteile – with the exception of a part of Kautenbach – belonged to the “Hinder” County of Sponheim, whose main centre was Trarbach, which remained such even after the comital family of Sponheim had died out, and even though both the then landholders – the County had become a Palatine-Badish condominium – had their residences elsewhere in the County, namely in Birkenfeld and Kastellaun.

At the same time, Trarbach was, however, the seat of the like-named Oberamt. In 1816, the area around Trarbach was annexed to Prussia, with Trarbach itself becoming the seat of a Bürgermeisterei (“Mayoralty”). Against expectations, however, Zell, rather than Trarbach, was made the district seat, even though the latter was the biggest place in the new District of Zell. The Bürgermeisterei of Trarbach was dissolved in 1884, and Trarbach no longer belonged to any Bürgermeisterei. It was, rather, administered thereafter in personal union with the new Bürgermeisterei of Traben. In 1898, the first bridge was built between the two centres, one built to plans drawn up by Bruno Möhring. This bridge, which was blown up in the dying days of the Second World War in 1945, was at the same time also the first roadbridge between Bernkastel and Koblenz. The next bridges were built only in 1924, in Cochem, and between 1951 and 1953 in Zell. In the late 19th century, Traben and Trarbach were also, together with Reichenhall, the first municipalities in Germany that, instead of having gaslamps, had electric street lighting from the Edison Company, today AEG, installed, although the odd stretch of street in Berlin had already been outfitted with electric lighting. In 1904 came the merger of the municipality of Traben and the town of Trarbach into the new town of Traben-Trarbach. The next changes came on 7 June 1969, when the municipalities of Kautenbach and Wolf were amalgamated with Traben-Trarbach. One year later, the Verbandsgemeinde of Traben-Trarbach was newly formed. It has its administrative seat in the town; Traben-Trarbach is a member municipality of the Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality.

Because they belonged to the “Hinder” County of Sponheim, the Reformation was introduced into Traben and Trarbach, with the town remaining even today mainly Evangelical, even though newcomers, particularly in the 19th and 20th centuries, have raised the Catholic share of the population markedly. The Evangelical Church's leadership in the Hinder County of Sponheim was at first exercised from the Birkenfeld chancellery. Then, in 1672, a Hinder-Sponheim Lutheran consistory was instituted, whose duties were transferred to the consistory in Zweibrücken in 1776.

In 1818, the Synod of Trarbach was established, whose seat remained in Trarbach until 1972. Because of its size – the synod encompassed the districts of Bernkastel, Zell and Trier – this was divided in 1825. Curiously, the outlying centre of Wolf belonged until 1892 to the Synod of Trier, which itself, until 1843, bore the name “Synod of Wolf” because that was the superintendent's home.

Since 2017, the Boys of 568 act as the unofficial prophets of the city.

Politics

Town council
The council is made up of 22 council members, who were elected by proportional representation at the municipal election held on 25 May 2014, and the honorary mayor as chairwoman.

Mayor
The Mayor is Heide Pönnighaus.

Coat of arms
The town's arms might be described thus: Per fess enhanced, chequy of eighteen gules and argent a horse trotting sable and chequy of twenty-four argent and gules on a mount of three vert in base a round tower Or with six windows, three and three, and an arched doorway, of the second, and a conical roof of the third.

The checkerboard pattern (“chequy”) was the arms borne by the Counts of Sponheim. Above the line of partition is a black horse, whose attitude is “trotting” for a reason: this makes it a canting charge, for the German word for “trot” is traben – part of the town's hyphenated name. Traben's name, however, which comes from a Celtic name, Traven, a description of a small settlement, has nothing whatsoever to do with a horse. The tower below the line of partition stands for the local castle in Trarbach and therefore for Trarbach itself.

The arms have been borne since 1951.

Town partnerships
Traben-Trarbach fosters partnerships with the following places:
 Wangen bei Olten, Solothurn, Switzerland, with the town of Traben-Trarbach
 Selles-sur-Cher, Loir-et-Cher, France with the Verbandsgemeinde of Traben-Trarbach

Culture and sightseeing

Buildings
 Ruins of the Grevenburg, built about 1350, destroyed, after many sieges, in 1734
 Starkenburg, 250 m above the Moselle with castle crags at the end of town going towards Enkirch
 Mont Royal Fort (1687–1698) (gigantic French fort under Louis XIV built by Vauban)
 Brückentor (“Bridge Gate”) at the Moselle Bridge, 1899 by Bruno Möhring
 Mittelmoselmuseum (“Middle Moselle Museum”) about the history of the Moselle valley, the County of Sponheim, Mont Royal Fort and the Grevenburg
 Parkschlösschen Bad Wildstein (“Little Park Palace”), the town's former spa and bathing house built by Bruno Möhring
 Trarbach Town Hall (Rathaus), 1833 by Ferdinand Nebel
 Huesgen house, Am Bahnhof (a street), 1904 by Bruno Möhring
 Dr. Breucker house, An der Mosel (a street),  1905 by Bruno Möhring
 Former winery, Julius Kayser & Co., Wolfer Weg, 1906–1907 by Bruno Möhring
 Former hotel “Clauss-Feist” (now Bellevue), 1903 by Bruno Möhring
 Former Gondenau slate and ore mine
 Town tower in Trarbach with view over the roofs of Trarbach

Motorboat racing
For decades there were motorboat races on the Moselle, but the 32nd and thus far last racing event was held in 1996. At these races, many world and European champions were crowned, among them, in 1964, the well known Berlin motorboat racer and builder Dieter König.

Economy and infrastructure

Traben-Trarbach is home to a large number of wineries including Robert Heuser, F. W. Langguth Erben, Richard Böcking, Ulrich Langguth, Martin Müllen, Weiser-Künstler and Daniel Vollenweider .

Transport

Rail
Through Traben-Trarbach, until 31 December 1962, ran the Moseltalbahn (railway), locally known as the Saufbähnchen. The railway station building on the Trarbach side was torn down during expansion work on Bundesstraße 53.

In Traben, across the river on the left bank is found the terminal station on the Moselwein-Bahn (“Moselle Wine Railway”), which runs to Bullay. The old station building, built in 1904 on the model of old Traben timber-frame houses, is still standing and serves today as the mayor's seat and as an event venue. The new stop was moved 150 m downstream to the area where the former goods station once was.

Air
In 1956, a sport airfield (Flugplatz Traben-Trarbach/Mont Royal) on Traben's mountain, Mont Royal, was built (ICAO-Code: EDRM).

Frankfurt-Hahn Airport is ca. 17 km (on foot) to the east of Traben-Trarbach.

Bridges
Traben-Trarbach is located on both sides of river Moselle. It is served via three bridges.
 Moselbrücke in the heart of the town, connecting Traben and Trarbach (completed in 1899)
 Wolfer Brücke, connecting Wolf with Bundesstraße 53
 A third bridge between Rißbach and Koppelberg, as Bundesstraße 53 crosses the river

Gallery

Famous people
 Johann von Trarbach, Renaissance sculptor
 Nikolaus Elffen (1626–1706), Jesuit from Protestant Traben (panis coeli)
 Philipp Adam Storck (1778–1822), teacher, 1810 principal of the trade school in Hagen, from 1817 professor in Bremen (Perspectives on the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen)
 Heinrich Böcking (1785–1865), mining adviser and mayor in Saarbrücken
 Eduard Boecking (1802–1870), Law professor in Bonn and Berlin (Roman civil law; translation of Ausonius's Mosella)
 Paul Emanuel Spieker (1826–1896), German architect (Berlin University Library)
 Marc Mitscher (1887–1947), US admiral, grandson of Andreas Mitscher (1821–1905) from Traben
 Werner Beumelburg (1899–1963), one of the best known authors of National Socialist times, honorary citizen of Traben-Trarbach
 Hans-Willi Ellermeier, sportsman, waterskier, German champion in slalom 1967, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1980, 1981
 Oliver Lucas (b. 1966), sportsman, motorboat racer, twice world and four times European champion
 Martin Molz (b. 1971), former professional footballer (1. FC Nürnberg and 1. FC Saarbrücken)
 Yvonne Burbach (b. 1975), actress (Verbotene Liebe)
 Stefan Bockelmann (b. 1976), actor (Unter uns)
 Pete Namlook (1960-2012), ambient and electronic-music producer and composer, and founder of Fax Records (FAX +49-69/450464) music label
 Maik Zirbes (b. 1990), professional basketball player (KK Crvena Zvezda)
 Julian Schon (b. 1998), Pokémon-Trainer
 Aziz Haxhijaj (b. 1997), plant man
 Christian Steinke (b. 1998), the boy
 Paul Huesgen (b. 1996), student infamously known as "Yung Honda"

Further reading
 Dietmar Flach, Günter Böse (publisher): Traben-Trarbach. Geschichte einer Doppelstadt. Traben-Trarbach 1984.
 Johann Hofmann: Trorbachische Ehren-Säul. Faks.-Nachdr. der Ausg. Stuttgart 1669. Cäsar, Traben-Trarbach 1968.
 Arne Houben (publisher): Mit Carl Bodmer von Trier nach Koblenz. Eine Moselreise um das Jahr 1830; Alf/Mosel: Rhein-Mosel-Verlag, 2006;  (The book contains 31 colour reproductions of coloured aquatints by Karl Bodmer, whose originals can be seen at the Mittelmoselmuseum Traben-Trarbach).
 Ernst Schütz:  Trarbach in alter Zeit. Bilder aus der Geschichte der Stadt von der Reformation bis zur Niederlegung der Grevenburg; Traben-Trarbach, 1909
 Albert Rosenkranz (publisher): Das Evangelische Rheinland. Ein rheinisches Gemeinde- und Pfarrerbuch, Band 1: Die Gemeinden; Schriftenreihe des Vereins für Rheinische Kirchengeschichte, 3; Düsseldorf: Kirche in der Zeit, 1956.

References

External links

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 History and stories from Traben-Trarbach

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Te Mata Peak

Te Mata Peak is a peak south of Hastings rising up to 399m in the Te Mata Hills in the Hawke's Bay region of New Zealand. A sealed road leads to the popular lookout at the summit, as well as several trails for hikers and mountain bikers. The Hastings suburb of Havelock North is built on the slopes of the peak.

As the highest peak in the area, it offers views over the Heretaunga Plains, and Hawke's Bay, including Napier. On a clear day, the view stretches as far as Mount Ruapehu and Mahia Peninsula.

Beneath Te Mata Peak rests the Craggy Range vineyard and the Tukituki River.

In October 2019 the Hastings District Council began work on filling in 1.3km of the walking track.   The council granted consent to Craggy Range Vineyard in 2017 to create the track without local iwi being informed.

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Strohm

Strohm is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Adam Strohm (1870–1951), American librarian
Harry Strohm (1901–1975), American baseball player
Heinrich Karl Strohm (1895–1959), German opera manager
John Strohm (disambiguation), multiple people
Thomas Strohm (1846–1929), American fire chief

See also
Peter Strohm, a German television series


Porquéricourt

Porquéricourt is a commune in the Oise department in northern France.

See also
Communes of the Oise department

References
INSEE

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Bruce Smith (Ontario politician)

Bruce Smith is a former politician in Ontario, Canada. He served as a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1995 to 1999.

Background
Smith has a diploma in Urban Design from Fanshawe College, a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Waterloo, and a degree in Public Administration from the University of Western Ontario. He worked as a senior planner in the city of London, Ontario after graduating, and was also a planner in the neighbouring township of Westminster. He also served as president of the Middlesex Progressive Conservative Association.

Politics
Smith was elected to the Ontario legislature in the 1995 provincial election in the riding of Middlesex, defeating Liberal Doug Reycraft and incumbent New Democrat Irene Mathyssen. Smith served as a backbench supporter of Mike Harris's government for the next four years.

He ran for re-election in the redistributed riding of Elgin—Middlesex—London in the 1999 election. He lost to Liberal Steve Peters by just over 1,000 votes. He ran against Peters again in the 2003 election but lost by over 11,000 votes.

Later life
He is currently chair of the Fanshawe College Board of Governors. Smith endorsed Frank Klees for the leadership of the Ontario PC Party in 2004.

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OpenUsability

OpenUsability is a project to help usability experts coordinate with open source software projects to improve the software's interaction and usability. They have worked with projects such as GIMP and KDE.

History
OpenUsability was originally a thought that developed at the KDE developers conference in 2003 after a comparison of usability in Windows XP and KDE 3.1 was performed.  Open source projects were able to register with OpenUsability from 2004 onwards.

Examples
OpenPrinting
OpenPrinting is a project to increase the quality of printing on Linux Desktops.  The user interaction and interface has been designed by members of the OpenUsability project.

GIMP
An interaction design team has been formed for GIMP, the lead developer of GIMP Sven Neumann originally applied to OpenUsability.

Season of Usability
Season of Usability is a series of sponsored design projects for students, in order to get them involved in FLOSS projects.

See also
Usability
Interaction design

References

External links
 Official website
 (OpenUsability) 2007 Success Stories; Ellen Reitmayr (1 January 2008)

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Erika Kirpu

Erika Kirpu (born 22 June 1992) is an Estonian épée fencer, bronze medal at the 2014 World Fencing Championships and team gold at the 2013 and the 2016 European Fencing Championships.

Before seniors, Kirpu had won the 2008 Cadets European Championships in Rovigo, a team gold at the 2009 Cadets European Championships in Bourges and a team gold at the 2010 Junior World Championships Cadets in Baku.

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Henryk Cederbaum

Henryk Cederbaum (1863–1928) was a Polish lawyer and one of the noted members of Warsaw's bar in the early 20th century.

Already before World War I, when Congress Poland was under Imperial Russian control, he gained much fame as one of the "unhumble" lawyers: prosecuting and defending in trials where Polish people were victims and Russians were offenders. One of the best known was the trial of Aleksandr Barteniev, a Russian military officer who murdered his Polish lover, a noted dramatic actress Maria Wisnowska in 1890.  The Varshavskiy Dnevnik, the official Russian-language newspaper published by the tsarist authorities, noted that - despite the official ban on usage of the Polish language in public - Cederbaum spoke very bad Russian and was apparently very proud of it.  The case was later fictionalised by, among others, Ivan Bunin in his 1925 novella Case of Lieutenant Yelagin.

Another well-known and widely discussed case was the trial of Maria Gurko, the wife of Russian governor-general of Poland Iosif Gurko.  She was well-known to Warsaw's shopkeepers for never paying for the clothes and jewellery she ordered.  However, in 1892 one of the shopkeepers in a silk store called the police.  The governor's wife was set free while the shopkeeper was sentenced to three months in prison for "offending the higher authorities."  For his skilful yet unsuccessful defense of the shopkeeper, Cederbaum was expelled from the bar and sentenced to five years without the right of appearing in court.

During his banishment from the bar, Cederbaum authored a number of legal handbooks for ordinary people, among them a guide on writing last wills and testaments.  After the Russian withdrawal from Warsaw in 1915, during World War I, Cederbaum wrote a number of articles as well as a lengthy study on the Russian reprisals against the civilian population during the January Uprising against Russian rule in Poland.  He also became one of the key members of the so-called "Delegation of Warsaw's Solicitors" (Delegatura Adwokatury Warszawskiej), a body formed by some of the most renowned members of the Warsaw bar for creation of a new penal code for the future Republic of Poland. The documents prepared by the Delegation became the core of what on January 1, 1919 was passed as the Decree on Temporary Statute of Lawyers for the Polish State, the main legal document regarding the status and duties of lawyers in Poland until mid-1930s.

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Economy of Regina, Saskatchewan

Regina is a city in Saskatchewan, Canada. Its industry was originally largely confined to activities associated with its agricultural hinterland. Oil and natural gas, potash, kaolin, sodium sulphite and bentonite contribute a great part of the economy of Regina, and the surrounding area. The farm and agricultural component is still a significant part of the economy, but it is no longer the prime driver of the economy; provincially it has slipped to eighth overall, well behind the natural resources sectors.  The Innovation Place Research Park near the University of Regina hosts several science and technology companies.

Regina's major industries include:
 Steel and Manufacturing
 Information Technology
 Energy and Environment
 Finances & Insurance
 agribusiness
 Agriculture

Regina also has some film and video production due to the Canada Saskatchewan Production Studios, the largest production facilities on the Canadian prairies. Feature films, weekly TV programs, and documentaries have been shot at the studio, such as CTV's Corner Gas and the 2005 movie Tideland by Terry Gilliam.

Major employers
The largest employers in Regina are the provincial government and its Crown Corporations (e.g. Sasktel and Saskatchewan Government Insurance). There are some 4,700 private-sector businesses in Regina, engaged in financial services, manufacturing and processing, telecommunications, retail and wholesale services, and agricultural support; major employers in the private sector include Evraz Inc. (western Canada's largest steel manufacturer); Co-op Heavy Oil Upgraders; Kalium Chemicals (potash mining); Bayer CropScience (agricultural chemicals); Degelman Industries (agricultural implement manufacturing); Brandt Industries (industrial and farm equipment manufacturing); Viterra (Grain Handling) and ADP (Payroll Centre).

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Questions of scientific atheism

Questions of scientific atheism () was an atheistic magazine published by the Institute of Scientific Atheism of the Central Committee from 1966 to 1989. Altogether 39 volumes were published.

History
The magazine was established in 1966. Its objectives were stated to be "the development of actual problems of the theory and practice of scientific atheism, analysis and generalization of scientific and atheistic education, criticism of the bourgeois-clerical reformist distortion position of religion in the socialist countries."

Some issues were topical.

Issue 17 (1975) was given a brief review in 1978 by Elya Pyatigorskaya in the journal Religion in Communist Lands.

Literature

References

Category:Atheism publications
Category:Soviet magazines
Category:Anti-religious campaign in the Soviet Union


Fisheries and Agriculture Committee (Iceland)

The Fisheries and Agriculture Committee is a standing committee of the Icelandic parliament.

See also

 List of standing committees of the Icelandic parliament

Category:Defunct standing committees of the Icelandic parliament


Circustheater

The AFAS Circustheater is a Dutch theatre in Scheveningen, The Hague.

The original theatre was opened on July 16, 1904 by Circus Schumann. Designed by architect Wilhelmus Bernardus van Liefland, the building was as a proper circus in the summer seasons until the 1960s. Animals were transported here by train from Den Haag Hollands Spoor railway station. The circus has also carried the name Circus Strassburger, and after the 1960s functioned as a concert hall. Currently the theatre is property of the company Stage Entertainment, founded by Joop van den Ende, who bought the building for the symbolic amount of 1 guilder off the Municipality of The Hague on the condition that it would be converted into a functioning theatre. It is now mainly in use for big musical productions.

Name
Caused by change of ownership and sponsorship the theatre underwent multiple name changes.
 VSB Circustheater - Until 2004.
 Fortis Circustheater - The Fortis name was used until 2010. Because of the acquisition of Fortis by ABN AMRO, the company name changed from Fortis Circustheater to Circustheater B.V.
  AFAS Circustheater - From 2010 onward. 'Royal Loge' changed to 'AFAS Loge'.

Productions
Productions that have been shown for longer periods of time in the Circustheater are:

Trivia
 In honour of its 100-year anniversary, Madurodam unveiled a replica of the building on October 5, 2004.

External links

References

Category:Theatres in the Netherlands
Category:Musical theatre organizations
Category:Musical Theatre articles needing attention