Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree

Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree is a 1966 animated featurette based on the first two chapters of Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne. The film was directed by Wolfgang Reitherman, produced by Walt Disney Productions, and distributed by Buena Vista Distribution on February 4, 1966 as a double feature with The Ugly Dachshund. It was the last short film produced by Walt Disney, who died of lung cancer on December 15, 1966, eight months after its release. Its songs were written by the Sherman Brothers (Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman) and the score was composed and conducted by Buddy Baker.

Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree was the first animated featurette in the Winnie the Pooh film series, in which it was later added as a segment to the 1977 film The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.

It featured the voices of Sebastian Cabot as the narrator, Sterling Holloway as Winnie the Pooh, Junius Matthews as Rabbit, Bruce Reitherman as Christopher Robin, Clint Howard as Roo, Barbara Luddy as Kanga, Ralph Wright as Eeyore, Howard Morris as Gopher, and Hal Smith as Owl.

Plot
Winnie-the-Pooh, a bear living in the Hundred Acre Wood, is disappointed to find that he is out of honey. He hears a bee fly by and decides to climb a nearby honey tree, but as he reaches the beehive, a branch he is sitting on breaks, causing him to fall. Pooh's best friend, Christopher Robin, gives Pooh a balloon and he tries to trick the bees by disguising himself as a Little Black Rain Cloud by rolling in a mud puddle and floating up to the beehive. He pulls out some honey and eats it without noticing that it is covered in bees. The bees fly around inside his mouth causing him to spit them out. One of which is the queen whom he kicks into the muddy patch below. Soon, Pooh's disguise starts to drip, to which the bees attack him. The queen sees this and angrily flies up and stings him on the bottom. The sudden hit causes Pooh to swing up and down and get stuck at the beehive, much to the queen bee's laughingstock at his expense, thinking that it's so funny (voiced by James MacDonald). He is then shoved out of the hole by the bees, who proceed to chase him away.

Pooh, still hungry, decides to visit Rabbit's house. Rabbit reluctantly invites Pooh in, and Pooh helps himself to jars and jars of honey until there is none left. He tries to leave, but gets stuck in Rabbit's front door. Rabbit tries to push Pooh through and eventually discovers that not even with Christopher Robin pulling can they get him out. Thus, he is forced to wait until he is thin enough to budge. In the meantime, Rabbit decides to decorate Pooh's bottom so he will not have to face looking at him being stuck for so long when he tickled. While he is doing this, Kanga and Roo visit Pooh and give him some honeysuckle flowers which make Pooh sneeze, completely destroying the decoration. Rabbit is also forced to put up a "Don't feed the bear!" sign after Pooh tries to get honey from Gopher late at night.

Rabbit leans against Pooh one morning and feels him move a bit. Ecstatic, Rabbit and Christopher Robin gather their friends to get Pooh out. Everyone except Rabbit pulls from outside while Rabbit pushes from inside. Rabbit shoves Pooh with a running start, and Pooh is launched free from Rabbit's door and into the air, and is shot into the hole of another honey tree. The gang runs after Pooh and finds him stuck in the tree headfirst. Pooh happily eats inside the tree and tells his friends to take their time to get him out.

Voice cast
Sterling Holloway as Winnie the Pooh, a teddy bear who loves honey
Junius Matthews as Rabbit, a rabbit who is obsessive-compulsive and loves planting his vegetables in his garden
Bruce Reitherman as Christopher Robin, a seven-year-old boy and Pooh's best friend
Hal Smith as Owl, an owl who loves to talk about his family
Howard Morris as Gopher, a hardworking gopher who lives underground and often falls into his hole
Clint Howard as Roo, Kanga's energetic young joey
Barbara Luddy as Kanga, a kangaroo and Roo's mother
Ralph Wright as Eeyore, an old grey donkey who is always losing his tail and talks in a slow, deep, depressed voice
Dallas McKennon, Jimmy MacDonald, and Ginny Tyler as the Bees (uncredited)
Sebastian Cabot as The Narrator

Production
Walt Disney first learned of the Winnie the Pooh books from his daughter, Diane. "Dad would hear me laughing alone in my room and come in to see what I was laughing at," Diane later recalled. "It was usually the gentle, whimsical humor of A. A. Milne's Pooh stories. I read them over and over, and then many years later to my children, and now to my grandchildren." As early as 1938, Disney expressed interest in obtaining the film rights to the Pooh books by first corresponding with the literary agency Curtis Brown. In June 1961, Disney acquired the film rights. By 1964, Disney told his animation staff that he was planning to make a full-length animated feature film based on the books. A meeting was held with senior staff members to discuss the proposed film. However, during the meeting, Disney decided not to make a feature film, but instead a featurette that could be attached to a live-action film.

For the first film, Walt and his collaborators turned to the first two chapters of the first book, "In which we are introduced to Winnie-the-Pooh and some honey Bees, and the stories Begin", and "In which Pooh Goes Visiting and Gets into a Tight Place". The scene where Rabbit deals with Pooh's being part of the "decor of his home", was not from the original book, and was reportedly contemplated by Disney when he first read the book. Following the mixed reception of Alice in Wonderland (1951), he turned the project over to staff members who were nonchalant with the original stories. He selected Wolfgang Reitherman to direct the project in hopes of Americanizing the characters and including more humor. Reitherman cast his son, Bruce, to voice Christopher Robin and the character of Gopher, who does not appear in the original stories, was added to the cast. Because other "Nine Old Men" animators were working on The Jungle Book (1967), only Eric Larson and John Lounsbery were assigned to animate the characters. Other character animators such as Hal King, John Sibley, and Eric Cleworth were brought onto the project.

Music

All songs were written by Robert and Richard Sherman, who wrote most of the music for the Winnie-the-Pooh franchise over the years, subsequently incorporated into the 1977 musical film, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh which is an amalgamation of the three previous Winnie-the-Pooh featurettes including "Honey Tree". The score, which was composed by Buddy Baker, drew inspiration from Sergei Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf and had different instruments represent the characters: baritone horn for Pooh, bass clarinet for Eeyore, flute for Kanga, piccolo for Roo, clarinet for Rabbit, oboe for Piglet, French horn and ocarina for Owl, and bass harmonica for Gopher.

The insight and inspiration for the Pooh songs came from an unlikely source, as is explained in the Sherman Brothers' joint autobiography, Walt's Time:

In advance of the featurette's theatrical release, Disneyland Records released several LP albums accompanied with a read-along book. The first one, titled Walt Disney's Story of Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree, also known as the "Storyteller" version, was released in May 1965. It contained a narration of the story from Sebastian Cabot along with dialogue and sound effects from the featurette itself along with the songs. A second double-sided album was released which featured a soundtrack of the featurette's songs. Among those listed was "Mind over Matter" in which the characters encourage Pooh to think about getting thinner again. The song was later reworked into the "Heave Ho" song in the final film. Another song titled "Kanga's Lullaby" is sung by B.J. Baker, but according to historian Dave Smith, the song was added as extra material for the album.

Release
The film was released on February 4, 1966 in the United States, as a supplement to Disney's live-action feature The Ugly Dachshund. It would later be included as a segment in The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, which included the two further Pooh featurettes, released on March 11, 1977.

The film was released on April 18, 1966 in the United Kingdom, as a double feature with Peter Pan (1953).

The film had its television premiere on March 10, 1970, as a special on the NBC television network. The special was sponsored by Sears, who was then the exclusive provider of Pooh merchandise.

Reception
The short initially received mixed reception. Howard Thompson of The New York Times said that "[t]he Disney technicians responsible for this beguiling miniature have had the wisdom to dip right into the Milne pages, just the way Pooh paws after honey...The flavoring, with some nice tunes stirred in, is exactly right—wistful, sprightly and often hilarious. English critic Felix Barker strongly disliked it. E. H. Shepard called the short a travesty. A. A. Milne's widow, Daphne, is said to have liked it.

See also
List of American films of 1966

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Beas Pind

Beas Pind (sometimes Bias Pind) is a village in Adampur Mandal in Jalandhar district in the north-western Indian state of Punjab. It is the largest village in the Doaba region.

History
Beas Pind was founded in the late 19th or early 20th century. The River Beas used to flow close to Beas Pind but changed course.

Culture
The village is home to a variety of cultures and religions. Although the majority of the village is Punjabi, workers also settled from the neighbouring states of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, creating a multicultural community.

Geography
Beas Pind is situated on the Pathankot road, one of the many communities in Adampur Mandal. Beas Pind is approximately 14 kilometres from Jalandhar-West, and 134 kilometres from the state capital, Chandigarh. Nearby villages include Jagrawan (1.8 km), Dolike Sunderpur (2.2 km), Sanghwal (2.6 km), Duhre (3.2 km), and Sikanderpur (4.1 km). Nearby towns include Adampur (6 km) and Bhogpur (12.3 km).

Religion
Bias Pind is predominantly Sikh and  Hindus with a small proportion of muslims and Christians

Temples
A Gurudwara Sahib was built in Beas Pind in honour of Baba Bhana Ji. Two Mandir Vadda baba beas and chota baba beas. A shiva temple is inside the vadda baba beas.

Beas Pind is the place of forefathers i.e. Jathere of Gotra Madhar. The Madhars come from across the world and assemble there on the next day of Makar Sankranti or 'Sangrand'.

The Chhinjh Mela (Wrestling Competition) is held at this religious place of Jathere of Madhar Gotra every January. Visitors also get Baba Ji's blessings. In this mela wrestlers.

A gurdwara dedicated to Shri Guru Ravidass Ji is also situated in Patti Udhopur.

Educational institutions

Schools
Government Senior Secondary School, Beas Pind
Government Primary School, Beas Pind
Desh Bhagat Model School, Beas Pind
Guru Teg Bahadur Public School
St. Sant Ram Memorial Public School

Colleges and universities
Mata Gujri Institute of Nursing
Dav University

Notable people

 Fauja Singh, British marathon runner
 Parteek Dhindsa, singer
 Hardeep Singh Bhogal,  Journalist
 Sondhi sabb, singer

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Sylvia Martins

Sylvia Martins (born 1956) is a Brazilian painter.

Born in Bagé, Martins studied at the  Museum of Modern Art, in Rio de Janeiro from 1973 to 1976. She then moved to New York, studying at the School of Visual Arts in 1978 and at the Art Students League of New York from 1979 to 1982. She has shown work in solo and group exhibits around the world. For a number of years she dated Richard Gere, before marrying billionaire Constantine Niarchos in 1997. Her paintings are mainly abstract.

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Dennis Wallace

Dennis Wallace (born 10 July 1962) is a Jamaican sprinter. He competed in the men's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 1984 Summer Olympics.

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Milecastle 63

Milecastle 63 (Walby West) was a milecastle on Hadrian's Wall ().

Description
Milecastle 63 is situated about 800 metres southwest of the hamlet of Walby in the civil parish of Stanwix Rural. There are no visible remains.

A geophysical survey in 1980 identified remains close to this spot () which were thought to be that of the milecastle. However evaluation work conducted in 2000 found a section of Hadrian's Wall at this location, and it is now believed that Milecastle 63 lies under the track in the field immediately to the south of the wall.

Associated turrets
Each milecastle on Hadrian's Wall had two associated turret structures. These turrets were positioned approximately one-third and two-thirds of a Roman mile to the west of the Milecastle, and would probably have been manned by part of the milecastle's garrison. The turrets associated with 'Milecastle 63 are known as Turret 63A () and Turret 63B (). None of the turrets between Milecastles 59 and 72 were sought or identified prior to 1961, and the exact locations of turrets 63A and 63B have not been found.

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Hyosung Comet Series

The Hyosung Comet Series comprises a range of 125, 250, and 650 cc V-Twin engined recreational motorcycles. They are made in South Korea by Hyosung Motors & Machinery Inc.  All models in the Comet series are designated by model codes in the form GTxxxs with xxx representing the approximate engine displacement in cubic centimetres, and R or S being optional suffixes designating the motorcycle style (full fairing and half fairing respectively, being the default a naked bike).

Current Models
The Comet series range currently includes the models listed below.

GT125
GT250R, GT250
GT650R, GT650S, GT650

External links
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John J. Farley III

John J. "Jack" Farley III is a retired judge of the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims.

In September 1989, Jack Farley was nominated by President George H. W. Bush and confirmed by the United States Senate as a Judge of the United States Court of Veterans Appeals for a term of fifteen years. After serving the Court in recall status for seven additional years, he retired in 2012. Prior to his appointment, Judge Farley was a member of the Senior Executive Service and a Director of the Torts Branch, Civil Division, United States Department of Justice, with responsibility for, inter alia, the defense of the United States in the massive asbestos litigation and the representation and defense of personally-sued federal employees in common law and constitutional tort litigation.

Judge Farley received his A.B. degree in economics in 1964 from the College of the Holy Cross, where he was captain of the freshman and varsity lacrosse teams, and his M.B.A. degree in 1966 from the Columbia University Graduate School of Business where he was a Samuel Bronfman Fellow and president of Alpha Kappa Psi, the professional business fraternity. He received his Juris Doctorate, cum laude, in 1973 from Hofstra University School of Law, graduating first in his class and serving as the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Hofstra Law Review.

Judge Farley served in the U. S. Army from 1966 until his retirement as a captain in 1970 due to 100% disability from wounds received during combat in Vietnam. His decorations include four Bronze Star Awards (three with "V" Device), two Purple Hearts, and the Army Commendation Medal. From 1973 to 1978, he was a trial attorney in the Torts Section, Civil Division, U. S. Department of Justice; from 1978 to 1980 he served as Assistant Director of the Torts Branch.

The author of numerous articles, Judge Farley has been a lecturer and faculty member at the ABA Appellate Judges Seminars; Attorney General's Advocacy Institute; F.B.I. Academy; OPM Executive Seminar Centers; Federal Executive Institute; and Federal Judicial Center. He was a commencement speaker and recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Medal, Hofstra University School of Law in 1986. From 1986 to 1989, Judge Farley served on the Board of Directors of the Senior Executives Association. In November 1990, he became the first chairman of the Veterans Law Section of the Federal Bar Association. In 1995, he received the Dean's Award for Distinguished Hofstra Law School Alumni. In 1999, he was inducted into the Massapequa High School Hall of Fame. In 2006, he received the In Hoc Signo Award from the College of the Holy Cross. The Paralyzed Veterans of America presented Judge Farley with the Harry A. Schweikert Jr. Disability Awareness Award at its Annual Convention in August 2007.

Judge Farley taught administrative law and federal litigation as an adjunct professor at the Columbus School of Law of The Catholic University of America. He was a member of the board of directors of the Amputee Coalition of America (ACA) and the U.S. Armed Forces Amputee Patient Care Program. An ACA-certified amputee peer visitor and trainer, Judge Farley continues to train and certify amputee peer visitors at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and Brooke Army Medical Center, and he was on the faculty of the Military Amputees Advanced Skills Training Programs at Walter Reed (2004 & 2007) and Brooke (2006).

He has co-founded and is vice-president of n2grate Government Technology Solutions, LLC ("n2grate").  n2grate focuses on hardware, software, training, data center and cloud services, and professional development for public sector and large business clients.

His wife of 42 years, Kathleen Wells Farley, died suddenly in July 2011; they have four children and thirteen grandchildren. An avid golfer, skier, and instructor of disabled skiers, Judge Farley completed the 2005 New York City Marathon, the 2013 Palm Beaches Marathon, and the 2006 - 2008 and 2011 - 2016 Marine Corps Marathons on a hand cycle with wounded warriors from Iraq and Afghanistan. He resides in Bowie, Maryland.

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 Material on this page was adapted from the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims biography of Judge John J. Farley III, a source in the public domain.

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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (season 6)

The sixth season of the animated television series My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, developed by Lauren Faust, originally aired on the Discovery Family channel in the United States. The series is based on Hasbro's My Little Pony line of toys and animated works and is often referred by collectors to be the fourth generation, or "G4", of the My Little Pony franchise. Season 6 of the series premiered on March 26, 2016 on Discovery Family, an American pay television channel partly owned by Hasbro, and concluded on October 22.

The show follows a pony named Twilight Sparkle as she learns about friendship in the town of Ponyville. Twilight continues to learn with her close friends Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie. Each represents a different face of friendship, and Twilight discovers herself to be a key part of the magical artifacts, the "Elements of Harmony". The ponies share adventures and help out other residents of Ponyville, while working out the troublesome moments in their own friendships.

Development
On March 31, 2015, Discovery Family announced via press release a sixth season for the series. On January 28, 2016, Yahoo Entertainment released an exclusive clip from the show's upcoming sixth season depicting the baby daughter of Princess Cadance and Shining Armor, Flurry Heart, who will be introduced into the season as a new character. On March 7, 2016, a Game of Thrones-style teaser trailer for the season was released, hinting several locations of that season. Ed Valentine, writer of the Season 4 episodes "Flight to the Finish" and "Three's a Crowd" with the latter being a collaboration alongside headwriter Meghan McCarthy, confirmed via Twitter that he wrote two episodes for Season 6.

Promotion
At the 2015 San Diego Comic-Con, while the show was in its fifth season, it was revealed that there will be an episode involving Fluttershy having a brother. However, in regards to whether Fluttershy's brother would be appearing in season five or not, director Jim Miller simply responded via Twitter "not [season five]".

One of the songs from the season's Christmas-themed episode was first previewed at the 2016 American Toy Fair in New York City.

Cast

Main
Tara Strong as Twilight Sparkle
Rebecca Shoichet as Twilight Sparkle (singing voice)
Tabitha St. Germain as Rarity
Kazumi Evans as Rarity (singing voice)
Ashleigh Ball as Applejack and Rainbow Dash
Andrea Libman as Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie
Shannon Chan-Kent as Pinkie Pie (singing voice); Libman occasionally
Cathy Weseluck as Spike

Recurring
Kelly Sheridan as Starlight Glimmer
Nicole Oliver as Princess Celestia
Tabitha St. Germain as Princess Luna
Aloma Steele as Princess Luna (singing voice)
The Cutie Mark Crusaders
Michelle Creber as Apple Bloom
Madeleine Peters as Scootaloo
Claire Corlett as Sweetie Belle

Minor

Single roles

Andrew Francis as Shining Armor
Britt McKillip as Princess Cadance
Ian Hanlin as Sunburst
Ingrid Nilson as Maud Pie
Peter New as Big McIntosh
Michael Dobson as Bulk Biceps
Richard Newman as Cranky Doodle
Kelly Metzger as Spitfire
Matt Hill as Soarin
Andrea Libman as Fleetfoot
Kelly Sheridan as Misty Fly
Cathy Weseluck as Miss Pommel
Chantal Strand as Spoiled Rich
Chiara Zanni as A.K. Yearling/Daring Do
Nicole Oliver as Cheerilee
Richard Ian Cox as Snails
Lee Tockar as Snips
Kyle Rideout as Thorax
John de Lancie as Discord
Scott McNeil as Flam

Multiple roles
Tabitha St. Germain as Flurry Heart, Mrs. Cake, Aloe and Granny Smith
Kathleen Barr as Trixie Lulamoon and Queen Chrysalis
Samuel Vincent as Flim and Party Favor
Brian Drummond as Filthy Rich and Double Diamond
Rebecca Shoichet as Sugar Belle and Night Glider

Guest stars

Single role

Andrew Francis as Mr. Sparkle
Tara Strong as Mrs. Sparkle
James Higuchi as Pouch Pony
Tabitha St. Germain as Hoofer Steps
Travis Turner as Tender Taps
Vincent Tong as Garble
Matt Cowlrick as Dragon Lord Torch
Ali Milner as Princess Ember
Terry Klassen as Hoops
William Samples as Professor Flintheart
Lili Beaudoin as Plaid Stripes
Caitlyn Bairstow as Blue Bobbin
Colleen Winton as Mrs. Shy
David Godfrey as Mr. Shy
Ryan Beil as Zephyr Breeze
Diana Kaarina as Saffron Masala
Lee Tockar as Coriander Cumin
Jim Miller as Chargrill Breadwinner
Fiona Hogan as Zesty Gourmand
Enid-Raye Adams as Orange Slice
Patton Oswalt as Quibble Pants
Michael Dobson as Dr. Caballeron
Peter New as Squizard
Michael Daingerfield as Braeburn
Erin Mathews as Gabby
David Stuart as Petunia's father
Jim Byrnes as Gladmane
Andrea Libman as Bernard Rabbit
Zara Durrani as Trapeze Star
Alexis Heule as Angel Wings
Emmett Hall as Sky Stinger
Rhona Rees as Vapor Trail
Kelly Sheridan as Vapor's mom
Peter Kelamis as Vapor's dad
Ian Hanlin as Twilight Changeling

Multiple roles
Alan Marriott as Buried Lede and Mr. Stripes
Jason Simpson as Spa Worker and Line Pony
Kelli Ogmundson as Petunia's mother and Petunia Paleo

Episodes

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Songs

DVD release

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Mauzac (grape)

Mauzac or Mauzac blanc a white variety of grape used for wine, of the species Vitis vinifera. It is mainly grown in the Gaillac and Limoux regions in the southwest of France. Total French plantations of Mauzac stood at  in the year 2000.

In Gaillac its aromatic wines are blended with Len de l'El to create mildly sweet and sparkling white blended wines. Since the late 1980s, some Gaillac producers have created an interest in Mauzac by producing better wines. In Limoux, Mauzac is a compulsory part of the Blanquette de Limoux, where it may be blended with Chenin blanc and Chardonnay. However, in Limoux, plantations of Mauzac are decreasing at it is losing ground to Chardonnay. The grape is also one of the seven permitted white varieties in Bordeaux wine.

Mauzac buds and ripens late, and was traditionally picked quite late, when temperatures had dropped in Limoux. This allowed for slow fermentation which preserved residual sugar for a "natural" second fermentation in the spring, creating a sparkling wine. Today, it is more common to pick Mauzac earlier, giving a more crisp wine with higher acidity, but also without much of its particular aromas.

Mauzac rose and Mauzac noir

While Mauzac almost always refers to Mauzac blanc there are also Mauzac varieties with other skin colors; Mauzac rose and Mauzac noir. Both of these are very rare in cultivation. While Mauzac rose is a color mutation of Mauzac blanc, Mauzac noir is a distinct variety whose relationship to Mauzac is unclear.

Synonyms
Mauzac blanc, or wine made with substantial proportions of it, is known under the following synonyms: Aiguillon, Becquin, Bekin, Bequin, Blanc Lafitte, Blanquette, Blanquette Aventice, Blanquette de Limoux, Blanquette Sucrée, Caspre, Clairac, Feuille Ronde, Gaillac, Gaillade, Gamet blanc, Manzac, Maousac, Mausac, Maussac, Mauza, Mauza blanca, Meauzac, Moisac, Moissac, Moysac, Mozac, Mozak Belyi, Peron, Perrond, Pied Rond, Plant de Gaillac, Primard, Queue Fort, Queue Roide, and Sudunais.

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Yeltsy, Yuryev-Polsky District, Vladimir Oblast

Yeltsy () is a rural locality (a selo) in Selivanovsky District, Vladimir Oblast, Russia. The population was 15 as of 2010.

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The Priest House, West Hoathly

The Priest House is a Grade II* listed fifteenth century timber framed hall house in the centre of West Hoathly, in West Sussex, England. It is close to The Cat Inn and St Margaret's Church. It is now a museum, open to the public six days a week from March to October.

History

The Priest House was built for the Priory of St Pancras in Lewes as an estate office to manage the land they owned around West Hoathly but was seized by Henry VIII following the dissolution of the monasteries.  Subsequently, it belonged to Anne of Cleves, Thomas Cromwell, Mary I and Elizabeth I although there is no evidence that any of them visited the property. It passed into private ownership in 1560 and was owned by the Browne family (who were yeoman farmers) until 1695. For the following two hundred years it was owned by absentee landlords who allowed it to fall into disrepair. It was bought by John Godwin King and restored for him by Maurice Pocock in 1908. John Godwin King presented it to the Sussex Archaeological Society in 1935. The house and garden have been open to the public since 1908. It is now a museum of local life with country furniture, ironwork and local history with temporary exhibitions. The cottage garden features large herbaceous borders containing over 170 herbs and perennials and is open to the public from March to October. The garden has been opened twice per annum for the National Gardens Scheme for the past twenty-two years.

Architecture

The Priest House was originally built as a hall house with a central hearth and was probably thatched. The frame is made of oak,  held together with oak pegs, then filled with panels of wattle and daub (there are exposed panels visible in the south bedroom).  It had five bays, the solar wing being in the northern two bays, the middle two bays were the hall and the southernmost the service end with buttery and pantry. At this time the house was lit by a large unglazed window. The floor was earthen, covered with rushes and sweet smelling herbs. About 1580 a central chimney was inserted, an upper floor put in the central two bays where the hall was and the house was reroofed with a Horsham Slab stone roof. The roof weighs approximately 16 tons The inglenook fireplaces are made of local stone and have curves on the side where knives have been sharpened. The original pointed doorway was blocked and a new doorway inserted in the wall beside it. The roof is an unbroken ridge line with three of the original trusses remaining: The middle truss of the hall had arched braces below the tie beam of which one brace still remains. The roof construction is a crown post and collar purlin.  The rafters are in pairs, halved at the top & held together by a horizontal collar. Supporting the collars is the “collar purlin”; supported by the crown posts, which take the weight of the roof down to the tie beams. This is all held in place by curved braces next truss to the north was the closed frame of the end of the hall bays and it has a visible king post strutted from the tie beam.  The south end of the house has a sloping catslide roof, also of Horsham slab.

Suffragette Handkerchief
On the first floor The Suffragette Handkerchief is on display. There are sixty-six embroidered signatures and two sets of initials, mostly of women imprisoned in HMP Holloway for their part in the Women's Social and Political Union Suffragette window smashing demonstrations of March 1912. The handkerchief was found at a local jumble sale by Dora Arnold, custodian in the 1960s. Its link to the village of West Hoathly is not clear (although John Godwin King's daughter Ursula was a member of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies ) and research is ongoing. The list of the signatories and some notes on their activism is available.

Witch marks

There are witch marks scratched into wood in several places in the house including the front door and on the beam above the main fireplace.  These are more properly known as apotropaic marks and were believed to prevent witches from entering the house. They are believed to date from the seventeenth century. Set into the ground outside the front door is a rough slab of iron which is waste from a local furnace. This was believed to prevent witches entering the house (witches were commonly believed to be scared of iron).

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Schizorhiza

Schizorhiza is a fossil genus of cartilaginous fish, containing a single accepted species Schizorhiza stromeri. Its fossils are found in rocks dating from the Campanian and Maastrichtian stages; it thus lived between about  and  million years ago. Its Mesozoic suborder, the Sclerorhynchoidea, cannot be unequivocally assigned to the Rajiformes (skate and ray) or to the Pristiformes (sawfish) order. Due to its unique rostral teeth, Schizorhiza is placed in the monotypic subfamily Schizorhizinae. Like all Sclerorhynchoidea, it probably did not survive the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event; there are a few remains from the Paleogene but these seem to have been reworked from Late Cretaceous deposits.

Schizorhiza is unique among all "saw-snouted" Elasmobranchii in that its rostral teeth did not fall off as they are replaced. Rather, they remain in place, with the new teeth under them, until they are worn off. Thus, the rostrum's edge had a continuous serrated cover of tooth enamel. Full-grown rostral teeth measured less than in other Sclerorhynchoidea, let alone sawfishes, at 1–2 cm tall and 4–8 mm wide. They had a small triangular or rhomboidal shape at the tip, with sharp cutting edges, and a long forked peduncle, each lobe of which divides into four lobelets proximally. The new teeth developed inside the peduncular fork; the scientific name Schizorhiza – meaning "split root" – refers to the shape of the rostral teeth. The oral teeth were very small (about 1.5-2.5 mm high and 1–2 mm wide), with a large and recurved central point and keels at the side that formed tiny secondary points.

It lived in the Tethys Ocean between about 30° northern and southern latitude, and apparently was a successful species that ranged widely. Its fossils have been found in northern and central Africa, Iraq, Italy, Texas (United States), Coahuila (Mexico) and Bolivia. As its rostrum seems to be well-adapted for slashing and of little use for digging, it is presumed that this species did not share the whip-like tail of the bottom-dwelling relative Sclerorhynchus, but apart from the peculiar rostrum must have looked not too different from one of the sawfishes of today, regardless of whether they were very close relatives or not. Its total length was about 1.5 meters.

Its habitat was apparently shallow or epicontinental seas, as evidenced by its associated fauna, the cartilaginous fish Pseudocorax, Scapanorhynchus texanus and Serratolamna serrata, and the molluscs Cymprimera, Ethmocardium, Eutrephoceras, Platyceramus vanuxemi, Sphenodiscus and Turritella vertibroides.

See also

 Flora and fauna of the Maastrichtian stage
 List of prehistoric cartilaginous fish (Chondrichthyes)

Footnotes

References
  (2002): Schizorhiza: a unique sawfish paradigm from the Difunta Group, Coahuila, Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Ciencias Geológicas 19(1): 16-24 [English with Spanish abstract]. PDF fulltext

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John Henry Moore (Texas)

Colonel John Henry Moore (August 13, 1800–December 2, 1880) was an early Texas settler, one of the Old Three Hundred first land grantees to settle in Mexican Texas.

Early life
Moore was born August 13, 1800, in Rome, Smith County, Tennessee.  It is said that John Henry Moore ran away from college to avoid studying Latin. He went to Spanish Texas in 1818. (His father took him back to Tennessee, and he returned to Texas in 1821.)

Military career
He built Moore's Fort at present-day La Grange, Texas, in 1828; but he is best known for commanding the Battle of Gonzales on October 2, 1835. In 1839 he led a force of 60 Texans, from Austin, along with their Lipan Apache allies, under chief Castro, to the San Saba river and attacked an emcampment of Commanche, killing and wounding many and recovering a considerable number of horses and equipment from them. He was elected a colonel of the Texan army and served as a member of the council of war. Commander Stephen F. Austin ordered Moore to organize a cavalry company, who brought their own pistols and double-barreled shotguns.

During the Civil War, Moore enlisted in Terry's Texas Rangers. Being 61 years old, he was appointed to a committee to help secure bonds for financing the Confederate cause.

Community life
John H. Moore established the first church in Fayette County, Texas, in the fort building.

Death
Moore died December 2, 1880.

References

External links
 John Henry Moore in Handbook of Texas Online

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Sikorsky S-41

The Sikorsky S-41 was an amphibious flying boat airliner produced in the United States in the early 1930s. Essentially a scaled-up monoplane version of the Sikorsky S-38 biplane flying boat, Pan Am operated the type on routes in the Caribbean, South America, and between Boston and Halifax.

Development
The S-41 had a parasol wing configuration, with two radial engines mounted on struts between the fuselage and the wing. The cabin was completely enclosed within the all-metal hull and could seat 15 passengers.

The United States Navy purchased three examples and designated them RS-1; these were joined by two Pan Am aircraft pressed into Navy service and designated RS-5.

Variants
S-41A
S-41B
S-41C
RS-1
United States Navy designation for three S-41s for evaluation.
RS-5
Two S-41s impressed into service with the United States Navy.

Operators

 Pan Am
 United States Navy

Accidents and incidents
 On 27 August 1931, A Sikorsky S-41, NC41V of Boston-Maine Airways  crash landed in  while making the run between Halifax (N.S.) and Boston (MA). After clinging to the sides of a partially inflated life raft in rough seas for two hours, the 12 survivors were rescued by the F/V Nova Julia, a mackerel seiner out of Gloucester MA, captained by Capt. Leo Favaloro. There was one fatality. Seventy-year-old Edward Bamwell was assumed trapped in the wreckage as it disappeared beneath the waves just a moment after he gallantly allowed one of the three women passengers to precede him to the waiting raft. The Sikorsky had only been in service one month. Heavy fog was cited as the cause of the crash. The S-41 was repaired and reregistered as NC60V.
 On 28 October 1931, Col Thomas C. Turner, Chief of the Aviation Section of the United States Marine Corps, flew as a passenger in a Sikorsky RS-1 to Port-au-Prince, Haiti. After arrival, the aircraft became stuck in the sand; when he got out to inspect it, he was struck in the head by one of its propellers. He died from his injuries two days later.

Specifications (S-41A)

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Boehmantis

Boehmantis is a genus of frogs in the mantellid subfamily Mantellinae. It is monotypic, being represented by a single species, Boehmantis microtympanum.

Taxonomy
Boehmantis microtympanum was originally described in the genus Mantidactylus by Fernand Angel. The species was transferred to its own genus, Boehmantis, by Frank Glaw and Miguel Vences.

Distribution and Habitat
This species is endemic to Midongy du sud National Park and Andohahela National Park, in southeastern Madagascar.
Its natural habitats are rivers and streams within subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montane forests, and degraded forest.

Conservation Status
Boehmantis microtympanum is currently considered Vulnerable by the IUCN due to its limited range, and ongoing habitat destruction.

References

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Saint Joseph (Painting by Michaelina Wautier)

Saint Joseph is a painting by the Flemish artist Michaelina Wautier. It was painted some time between 1650 and 1656. The painting is one of many Wautier paintings in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

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Bruno Moraes

Bruno dos Santos Moraes (born 7 July 1984) is a Brazilian footballer who plays for Portuguese club C.D. Trofense as a forward.

He spent most of his professional career in Portugal, starting in 2003 with Porto.

Football career
Born in Santos, São Paulo, Moraes arrived at only 19 to FC Porto in Portugal, from Santos FC. His career with the northern club would be marred by constant injuries– he played two Primeira Liga games in his debut season, and none whatsoever in 2005–06 and 2007–08.

Moraes' most productive season at Porto came in the 2006–07 campaign, as the Dragons won the national championship for the second year running. He appeared in 18 matches and scored three goals the domestic league and the UEFA Champions League combined, notably taking part in both group stage matches against Hamburger SV and netting in the second, a 3–1 away win 1 on November 2006.

Moraes spent the 2004–05 season on loan to Vitória de Setúbal, where he appeared regularly, and started 2008–09 on loan with the same team, but the second spell was soon cut short due to injury. In January 2010, with a contract running until June, he returned to Porto, trying to persuade manager Jesualdo Ferreira to add him to the squad of the four-time national champions; he did not and was loaned one more time, now to another fellow league club Rio Ave FC.

In mid-February 2011, Moraes signed with Associação Naval 1º de Maio also in Portugal. He scored regularly during his four-month spell with the Figueira da Foz team, but it could not finally avoid top flight relegation. In late July 2011, after an aborted transfer to Al-Ahly S.C. in Egypt, he joined another Portuguese top level side, U.D. Leiria, meeting the same fate at the end of the season.

On 8 October 2012, Moraes moved clubs and countries again, signing a one-year contract with Újpest FC in Hungary. In July 2015, after only 11 games combined for Gil Vicente F.C. and Associação Portuguesa de Desportos, he joined Varzim S.C. in the Portuguese Segunda Liga.

Personal life
Moraes' younger brother, Júnior Moraes, is also a footballer and a striker. He too represented Santos as a senior, as well as Gloria Bistriţa. Their father also played for that club as well as Clube de Regatas do Flamengo, whilst a sister ended her career early on due to injury. Moraes' mother won the São Paulo State tennis championship.

Honours
Porto
Primeira Liga: 2003–04, 2006–07
UEFA Champions League: 2003–04

Vitória Setúbal
Taça de Portugal: 2004–05

References

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43 Minutes

43 Minutes is the third studio album from English female singer-songwriter Sam Brown. It was released in 1993 by Brown's own label, Pod Music.

43 Minutes peaked at No. 132 on Australia's ARIA Charts. "Fear of Life" was released as the album's only single, and reached No. 135 on the ARIA Charts. In 2019, a remastered edition of 43 Minutes was reissued on CD through Pod Music.

Background
Brown began writing 43 Minutes in 1991, during which time her mother was dying of cancer. Once writing was completed, Brown's label, A&M Records, provided the singer with £11,000 to demo her new material, with recording taking place in the summer of 1992. When presented to A&M, the label raised concerns over the material not being commercial enough. They requested Brown record a cover version of a song with hit potential and include it on the album, but Brown refused and split from the label. She told the Windsor Star in 1994: "I made a creative decision that I'd rather have artistic fulfillment than financial success."

Brown then looked at releasing her new material independently. She bought back the rights from A&M, and worked some more on the existing recordings. 43 Minutes was released in 1993 through Brown's own label, Pod Music, and through All At Once Records in Europe. The initial release sold 4,000 copies, and Brown embarked on a 22-date UK tour in early 1993 to promote it.

Speaking of the album, Brown told Staines and Ashford News in 1992: "Musically it's very different to what I have done before. It's all piano with other instruments and quite mellow." She added in 2000: "43 Minutes is the first album that really represents me. It's not directly about my mother's death, but it is a whole piece and very fierce. It really homed in on what I thought, what death chucks up at you."

Reception
Upon release, Penny Kiley of the Liverpool Echo commented: "The album is her most mature and most personal so far. Her voice is better than ever and the songs are particularly open - some obviously inspired by the death of her mother." H. M. Dickenson of The Sydney Morning Herald wrote: "Her new songs show more lyrical maturity than her earlier work and sensitive arrangements for real instruments bring out new depth in Sam's voice."

Track listing

Personnel
 Sam Brown - vocals, piano, organ, harpsichord on tracks 6 and 8, melotron on track 4
 Pete Brown - guitars, vocals, bass on track 5
 Herbie Flowers - bass, double bass
 Tony Newman - drums
 Jody Linscott - percussion
 Danny Schogger - piano (track 3), keyboards (tracks 2, 6, 10)
 Anne Whitnell - cello (tracks 4-6, 10)
 Julian Stringle - clarinet (tracks 5-6, 11)
 Doris Brendel - backing vocals (tracks 4, 7-10), flageolet (track 11)
 Margo Buchanan, Julie Harrington - backing vocals (tracks 4, 7-10)
 Neil Gauntlett, Mike Sheridan, Phil Middleton, Alan Garfield - backing vocals (tracks 8-9, 11)
 Joe Brown - fiddle (track 1)
 Nick Ingman - string quartet arrangement (track 8)
 Gavyn Wright, Wilfred Gibson - violin (track 8)
 Bob Smissen - voila (track 8)
 Anthony Pleeth - cello (track 8)
 Paul Bangash - acoustic guitar (track 9)

Production
 Pete Brown - producer, recording, mixing
 Robin Wynn Evans - additional engineering, mixing
 Sean De Feo, Henry Binns, Danton Supple, Adrian Moore, Simon Wall - assistant engineers
 John Dent - mastering

References

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Söngvakeppnin winners

This page lists the songs and artists that have won Söngvakeppnin, the Icelandic preselection for the Eurovision Song Contest. There was no competition held between 1995 and 1999, in 2002, and between 2004 and 2005.

List of winners

See also
Söngvakeppnin
Iceland in the Eurovision Song Contest

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List of zoos in Japan

This is a partial list of zoos in Japan. For aquaria, see List of aquaria in Japan.

Zoos are primarily dry facilities where animals are confined within enclosures and displayed to the public, and in which they may also be bred. Such facilities include zoos, safari parks, animal theme parks, aviaries, butterfly zoos, and reptile centers, as well as wildlife sanctuaries and nature reserves where visitors are allowed.

Aichi Prefecture
Higashiyama Zoo and Botanical Gardens, Nagoya
Japan Monkey Centre, Inuyama, Aichi
Okazaki Higashi Park Zoo, Okazaki, Aichi
Toyohashi Zoo & Botanical Park, Toyohashi, Aichi
Toyota City Kuragaike-Park, Toyota, Aichi

Akita Prefecture
Akita Omoriyama Zoo, Akita, Akita

Chiba Prefecture
Chiba Zoological Park, Chiba, Chiba
Ichihara Elephant Kingdom, Ichihara, Chiba
Ichikawa Zoological & Botanical Garden, Ichikawa, Chiba
Mother Farm, Futtsu, Chiba

Ehime Prefecture
Tobe Zool. Park of Ehime Prefecture, Iyo, Ehime

Fukui Prefecture
Sabae Nishiyama Park Zoo, Sabae, Fukui

Fukuoka Prefecture
Fukuoka Municipal Zoo and Botanical Garden, Fukuoka
Itozu no Mori Zoological Park, Kitakyūshū
Kurume City Bird Center, Kurume, Fukuoka
Ōmuta Zoo, Ōmuta, Fukuoka
Uminonakamichi Seaside Park Zoological Garden, Fukuoka

Gunma Prefecture
Gunma Safari Park, Tomioka, Gunma
Kiryugaoka Zoo, Kiryu, Gunma

Hiroshima Prefecture
Fukuyama City Zoo, Fukuyama, Hiroshima
Hiroshima City Asa Zoological Park, Hiroshima

Hokkaidō
Asahiyama Zoo, Asahikawa, Hokkaidō
Kushiro Zoo, Kushiro, Hokkaidō
Noboribetsu Bear Park, Noboribetsu, Hokkaidō
Obihiro Zoo, Obihiro, Hokkaido
Sapporo Maruyama Zoo, Sapporo

Hyogo Prefecture
Awaji Farm Park England Hill, Minamiawaji, Hyōgo
Himeji Central Park, Himeji, Hyōgo
Himeji City Zoo, Himeji, Hyōgo
 Kobe Kachoen, Kobe
Oji Zoo, Kobe

Ibaraki Prefecture
Hitachi Kamine Zoological Garden, Hitachi, Ibaraki

Ishikawa Prefecture
Ishikawa Zoo, Nomi, Ishikawa

Iwate Prefecture
Morioka Zoological Park, Morioka, Iwate

Kagoshima Prefecture
Amami Islands Botanical Garden, Kagoshima
Hirakawa Zoological Park, Kagoshima

Kanagawa Prefecture
Kanazawa Zoological Gardens, Yokohama
Nogeyama Zoo, Yokohama
Odawara Zoo, Odawara, Kanagawa
Yokohama Zoo (Zoorasia), Yokohama
Yumemigasaki Zoological Park, Kawasaki, Kanagawa

Kōchi Prefecture
Noichi Zoological Park of Kōchi Prefecture, Komi District, Kōchi
Wanpark Kōchi Animal Land, Kōchi, Kōchi

Kumamoto Prefecture
Cuddly Dominion, Aso, Kumamoto
Kumamoto City Zoological and Botanical Gardens, Kumamoto, Kumamoto

Kyoto Prefecture
Kyoto Municipal Zoo, Kyoto

Miyagi Prefecture
Yagiyama Zoological Park, Sendai

Miyazaki Prefecture
Miyazaki City Phenix Zoo, Miyazaki, Miyazaki

Nagano Prefecture
Iida City Zoo, Iida, Nagano
Nagano Chausuyama Zoo, Nagano, Nagano
Omachi Alpine Museum, Omachi, Nagano
Suzaka Zoo, Suzaka, Nagano

Nagasaki Prefecture
Nagasaki Biopark, Saikai, Nagasaki
Sasebo Zoological Park and Botanical Garden, Sasebo, Nagasaki

Ōita Prefecture
Kyushu African Lion Safari, Usa, Ōita
Takasakiyama Natural Zoo, Ōita, Ōita

Okayama Prefecture
Ikeda Zoo, Okayama, Okayama
Great Ape Research institute, Hayashibara, Tamano, Okayama

Okinawa Prefecture
Neo Park Okinawa, Nago, Okinawa
Okinawa Kodomo Future Zone, Okinawa

Osaka Prefecture
Kashihara City Insectary Museum, Kashiwara, Osaka
Misaki Koen, Sennan, Osaka
Satsukiyama Zoo, Ikeda, Osaka
Tennoji Zoo, Osaka

Saitama Prefecture
Miyazawako Nakayoshi Zoo, Hannō, Saitama
Saitama Children's Zoo, Higashimatsuyama, Saitama
Saitama Omiya Park Zoo, Saitama, Saitama
Sayama Chikosan Park Children Zoo, Sayama, Saitama
Tobu Zoo, Minamisaitama District, Saitama

Shimane Prefecture
Matsue Vogel Park, Matsue, Shimane

Shizuoka Prefecture
Atagawa Tropical & Alligator Garden, Kamo District, Shizuoka
Fuji Safari Park, Susono, Shizuoka
Hamamatsu Municipal Zoo, Hamamatsu
iZoo, Kawazu, Shizuoka
Izu Biopark, Kamo District, Shizuoka
Izu Cactus Park (Izu Shaboten), Ito, Shizuoka
Mishima City Park Rakujuen, Mishima, Shizuoka
Shizuoka Municipal Nihondaira Zoo, Shizuoka, Shizuoka

Tochigi Prefecture
Nasu Animal Kingdom, Nasu, Tochigi
Utsunomiya Zoo, Utsunomiya, Tochigi

Tokushima Prefecture
Tokushima Municipal Zoo, Tokushima, Tokushima

Tokyo
Edogawa Ward Natural Zoo, Edogawa, Tokyo
Hamura Zoological Park, Hamura, Tokyo
Inogashira Park Zoo, Tokyo
Ōshima Park Zoo, Izu Ōshima
Tama Zoo, Tokyo
Ueno Zoo, Ueno, Tokyo

Toyama Prefecture
Takaoka Kojo Park Zoo, Takaoka, Toyama
Toyama Municipal Family Park Zoo, Toyama, Toyama

Wakayama Prefecture
Adventure World, Shirahama, Shirahama, Wakayama
Wakayama Park Zoo, Wakayama, Wakayama

Yamaguchi Prefecture
Akiyoshidai Safari Land, Mine, Yamaguchi
Shunan Municipal Tokuyama Zoo, Shūnan, Yamaguchi
Ube Tokiwa Park, Ube, Yamaguchi

Yamanashi Prefecture
Kofu Yuki Park Zoo, Kofu, Yamanashi

See also

List of aquarium in Japan
List of botanical gardens in Japan
List of dolphinariums
List of fossil parks
List of national parks
List of tourist attractions worldwide
List of WAZA member zoos and aquariums
List of wildlife sanctuaries
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Łyse, Podlaskie Voivodeship

Łyse  (, Lyse) is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Wyszki, within Bielsk County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland. It lies approximately  north-east of Wyszki,  north of Bielsk Podlaski, and  south of the regional capital Białystok.

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USCGC Sebago (1930)

USCGC Sebago (1930) was a  belonging to the United States Coast Guard launched on 12 April 1930 and commissioned on 2 October 1930. After 11 years of service with the Coast Guard, she was transferred to the Royal Navy as part of the Lend-Lease Act.

Career

Commissioning and Transfer
She was originally the United States Coast Guard Cutter Sebago, a 250-foot . She was commissioned into Coast Guard service on 2 September 1930, originally serving in New York and participating in several Coast Guard Academy cadet cruises before being reassigned to Norfolk, Virginia.  She was renamed HMS Walney when commissioned into the Royal Navy on 12 May 1941 under the Lend-Lease Agreement.

With the convoys

Walney joined the Londonderry Sloop Division in June, and was assigned to escort the passage of the Atlantic convoys.  In July she was deployed in the Western Approaches and on 24 July was deployed as part of the escort for a convoy from St. John's, Newfoundland to the United Kingdom.  On 14 August Walney put into a Liverpool shipyard to undergo modifications to fit her for service as an escort.  She returned to the Western Approaches on 9 September and was transferred to the 41st Escort Group to help defend convoys between the United Kingdom and West Africa.  Her first deployment came a few days later on 12 September, when she was deployed as an escort for Convoy OS-6, consisting  of 29 merchants on passage to Bathurst, Gambia.  Walney was detached during the convoy's passage through the Atlantic, and joined HMS Hartland in escorting the merged convoys SL-88 from Freetown and HG-74 from Gibraltar to Liverpool.  This joint convoy comprised 37 ships.  She was detached from this convoy on 18 October and sailed to Belfast.  She arrived on 20 October and underwent a refit.  On its completion on 31 October, Walney rejoined the 41st Group.

Walney deployed again with Hartland on 7 November, when they escorted the 41 merchants of convoy OS-11 on their passage to Bathurst.  They were detached on arrival and sailed to Freetown.  By 30 November they were escorting the 29 merchants of convoy SL-94 from Freetown to Liverpool.  Again, after arriving in the UK on 20 December, Walney sailed for Belfast.  She arrived two days later on 22 December and underwent another refit, this time involving the fitting of Huff-Duff equipment.  She deployed again on 4 January, rejoining the Western Approaches Command.  The following day she departed as an escort to Bathurst for the 56 merchants of convoy OS-16, and on arrival sailed to Freetown and together with Hartland departed on 27 January escorting the 26 merchants of convoy SL-99 to the UK.  Arriving on 16 February, she was under repair at Belfast from 17 February and resumed convoy escort duties on 26 February.

On 3 March Walney was involved in a minor collision with the SS Empire Dolphin.  The Walney was damaged above the waterline, but remained operational.  She deployed the next day with the Hartland as an escort for the 54 merchants of convoy OS-21 on passage from West Africa to Liverpool.  She was detached after the arrival of the local escort at Freetown, and the two sloops escorted the 30 merchants of convoy SL-104 to Liverpool.  They arrived on 12 April, with Walney being detached to sail to Chatham Dockyard.  She was under refit there from 20 April, which lasted until 10 July.  On the completion of refit trials she rejoined the 41st Group at Londonderry.  She was then assigned to escort the 40 merchants of convoy OS-32 to West Africa from Liverpool.  She was detached at Freetown on 8 July, and again with Hartland, escorted the 33 merchants of convoy SL-116 back to the UK.  Again with Hartland she escorted convoy OS-38 to Africa, followed by the returning SL-122 back to Liverpool, arriving on 6 October.  During Walney’s deployment, no merchants had been lost in transit through the Atlantic.  In recognition of her efforts, Walney was awarded the battle honour ATLANTIC 1941-42.

Special duty
After her arrival in Londonderry, she was nominated for special duties during the planned North African landings (Operation Torch).  From 13 October she was prepared for the task of breaking into Oran harbour.  She sailed from the Clyde on 26 October, in company with the Hartland, as part of the escort for the military convoy MKF-1 to Gibraltar.  On arrival in November, the two sloops embarked troops to carry out a landing inside the harbour (Operation Reservist).  The operation commenced on 8 November, but rapidly ran into trouble.  The Walney, leading the Hartland into the harbour, came under heavy fire from French shore defences and warships.  She rammed the outer, and then the inner booms but was sunk. On board Walney at the time were 200 men of the American 2nd Battalion 6th Armored Infantry Regiment and a 35-strong US Naval contingent, with six US Marines.  The Walney was struck repeatedly by shells from the French sloop , setting the Walney on fire and finally capsizing her.  Only 14 of her crew survived, one officer and 13 ratings.  81 of her crew and most of the troops being carried went down with the ship.

See also
 List of United States Coast Guard cutters

References

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Cliff Rock--Appledore

Cliff Rock - Appledore is an oil painting by American artist Childe Hassam, painted in 1903. It is currently part of the permanent collection at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.

Description
Inspired by the French impressionists, Hassam used varying brushstrokes, bold color, and confident free handling of the medium. Blue ocean reflects onto the large, sun-bleached rock, while distant shores beyond are barely hinted at with lines of cream and green. Broken brushstrokes suggest shadows and reflections of the water.

Historical information
Hassam, like many American painters at the turn of the century, studied in Paris for three years. He adopted the impressionist style as his own, and worked closely with other American Impressionists such as Mary Cassatt. H is often hailed as a pure example of the American Impressionist movement.

A native New Endlander, Hassam heavily favored the New England area for his work, and spent his time painting much of the Atlantic Coast. This shore is the shore of Appledore, one of the nine islands that make up the Isles of Shoals, located off the coasts of New Hampshire and Maine. Appledore was the location of a small artist colony.

Acquisition
Cliff Rock - Appledore was purchased at its inaugural exhibition in 1906 by the John Herron Art Fund.

Artist

References

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Sudbury, Derbyshire

Sudbury is a village and civil parish in Derbyshire, England, located about  south of Ashbourne. It is part of the Derbyshire Dales district. The population as recorded at the 2001 Census was 976, increasing to 1,010 at the 2011 Census. The £0.5m A50 bypass opened in 1972.  The parish includes the hamlets of Aston, Aston Heath and Oaks Green.

Sudbury Hall and HM Prison Sudbury are located here.

History
Sudbury was mentioned in the Domesday book as belonging to Henry de Ferrers and was worth twenty shillings.

Sudbury previously had its own railway station that is now closed.

Famous residents
 Edward Harcourt, Archbishop of York, was born here
 William Harcourt founder of the British Association for the Advancement of Science was born here in 1789.
 George John Warren Vernon, M.P. and Dante enthusiast was born here in 1803

References

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Sri Lanka at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Sri Lanka competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, USSR.  From 1948 to 1972, the nation was known as Ceylon at the Olympic Games.

Athletics

Men's 4×400 metres Relay
 Dharmasena Samararatne, Kosala Sahabandu, Newton Perera, and Appunidage Premachandra
 Heat — 3:14.4 (→ did not advance)

References
Official Olympic Reports
Sri Lanka at the 1980 Moscow Summer Games

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John Martin Fischer

John Martin Fischer  (born December 26, 1952) is an American philosopher. He is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Riverside and a leading contributor to the philosophy of free will and moral responsibility.

Education and career
Fischer received his undergraduate degree from Stanford University and his Ph.D. from Cornell in 1982. He began his teaching career at Yale University, where he taught for almost a decade before joining the faculty at the University of California, Riverside.

In June 2011, Fischer was elected Vice-President of the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association and became President of the Pacific Division in 2013.

Philosophical work

While Fischer's work centers primarily on free will and moral responsibility, where he is particularly noted as a proponent of semi-compatibilism (the idea that regardless of whether free will and determinism are compatible, moral responsibility and determinism are), he also has worked on the metaphysics of death and philosophy of religion and led a multi-year, multi-pronged research project on "immortality," funded in 2012 by the John Templeton Foundation.

Books
Moral Responsibility (editor) (Cornell University Press, 1986)
God, Foreknowledge and Freedom (editor) (Stanford University Press, 1989)
Perspectives on Moral Responsibility (co-editor with Ravizza) (Cornell University Press, 1993)
The Metaphysics of Death (editor) (Stanford University Press, 1993)
The Metaphysics of Free Will:  An Essay on Control (Blackwell, 1994)
Responsibility and Control:  A Theory of Moral Responsibility (co-authored with Ravizza) (Cambridge University Press, 1998)
My Way:  Essays on Moral Responsibility (Oxford University Press, 2006)
Our Stories:  Essays on Life, Death, and Free Will (Oxford University Press, 2009)
Near-Death Experiences: Understanding Visions of the Afterlife (co-authored with Benjamin Mitchell-Yellin) (Oxford University Press, 2016)

Media appearances and interviews

See also
American philosophy
List of American philosophers

References

External links
Information Philosopher on John Martin Fischer
List of papers by John Martin Fischer
The Moscow Center for Consciousness Studies video interview with John Fischer

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The Sound, The Steel EP

The Sound, The Steel EP is an EP by the American punk rock band The Wedding.

The album features the sound of a train coming by in between tracks. It is the first release to feature Matt Shelton as lead singer, Adam Thron on guitar, and Matt Jameson on drums.

Track listing
 "Receive" - 3:38
 "Return" - 3:48
 "Renew" - 3:48
 "Reveal" - 3:50
 "Redeem" - 4:39

References

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Mohammad Ghous Bashiri

Mohammad Ghous Bashiri (born 1956, Kabul, Afghanistan) entered the primary school of Shah-e Doshamshera in 1963, and graduated from Habiba High school in 1975. In 1976, he entered the Department of Natural Science of Kabul University. After that, he joined the General Directorate of Labor and Social Security under the office of the Prime Minister.

Career
 1981-1982 General Officer of Work Retirement Department.
 1982-1982 General Officer of Salary System.
 1983-1987 General Officer of Cluster Management Department.
 1988-1991 General Director of Labor, Wages and Production.
 1992 Acting Director of Human Resource and Employment.
 1993-2001 out of the country as a refugee.
 2001 Acting Minister,Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs.
 2001-2010 Labor Deputy Minister,Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs.
 2012–present Senior Advisor for the Minister of Public Works.

Participation in capacity building programs
 Administrative Management capacity building program in 1987 in Warsa, Poland.
 Administration and Management capacity building program in 1988 in India.
 Labor and Work Management capacity building program in the Labor Institute of India in 2001.
 Participation in Labor international and regional conferences in 2010-2011.

Legislative experiences
 Member of the Labor Law Draft Committee in 1987 and head of the Draft Committee of Labor Law in 2006.
 Member of the DAIAG and DDR Committee
 Member of the Consulting Loyajirgah in 2011
 The Draft of several manual, ToR, and rules related to labor issues at the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs.

References

http://www.pajhwok.com/en/photo/105834

External links
Apminebanconvention.org
Pajhwok.com
Apacclcpstech.org

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Tears to Tiara

is a Japanese adult tactical role-playing game developed by Leaf. It was first released for Windows on April 28, 2005 in Japan. Then it was followed by a 12-years-old and up version called  released for the PlayStation 3 platform on July 17, 2008 in Japan, Hong Kong, and Taiwan in which the adult content was removed. This port also contained several enhancements and additional scenarios including new character designs and changed the original 2D gameplay to 3D.

A side story for the PlayStation 3 port titled  was released on September 17, 2009 and a sequel titled  was released on October 31, 2013.

Plot

The game draws heavily from Welsh, Celt, Christian and Roman mythology, with characters named Arawn, Arthur, Epona, Llŷr, Morgan, Pwyll, Rhiannon, and Taliesin. Set in a Late Antiquity-inspired fantasy setting, story starts on an island Erin (or Hibernia, as shown on an in-game map) on the west border of the Holy Empire.

Prologue is centered around the precognition-gifted priestess of the Gael tribe, Rhiannon. She is kidnapped by a rogue priest of the Holy Empire, Drwc, to be used as a sacrifice in a ritual meant to resurrect the Demon King Arawn and put Drwc in his favor. As a response the Gael people burn their village and swear to bring Rhiannon back or exact revenge on the Empire. In the middle of the ritual, as the Gael people attack Drwc's soldiers, Arawn is resurrected and offered Rhiannon. At this point, he kills Drwc, frees Rhiannon, and proclaims no intention in wreaking havoc which the legends attributed to him. Instead, he shows interest in Rhinannon's brother Arthur, the First Warrior of his tribe. Rhiannon, on the other hand, falls in love with Arawn, and by declaring her decision to marry him, makes him the chieftain of the Gael tribe (hers and Arthur's father was the previous chieftain, but Arthur could not assume the title due to being the First Warrior).

As the prologue ends, point of view is switched from Rhiannon to Arawn, revealing him to be the protagonist of the game, and the story continues with the exodus of Gael tribe to the neighboring island of Albion (or Insula Britannica, as shown on an in-game map) in hope of eluding the Empire.

Media

Games
Tears to Tiara was first released as an adult game on April 28, 2005 by Aquaplus’ adult game division  Leaf for the Windows platform. Its opening theme is Tears to Tiara by Arisa Nakayama, insert song  by D-Terada while the ending theme is "Until", also by Arisa Nakayama.

The title was later remade and released as a B rated game, titled  for the PlayStation 3 on July 17, 2008 with two different editions, a limited edition and a regular edition. It has additional scenarios, 3D gameplay and the change of character designs if compared to the Windows version. The limited edition of the release contains a booklet titled as Tears to Tiara - Visual Works that features the character designs and storyboards as well as the game's original soundtrack. There was also a pre-order campaign that also includes special extras for the game such as a sticker poster set and a character voice CD that contains system voice and  that features Tōru Ōkawa, Yūko Gotō and Makoto Ishii. The game also has a new character, Lidia, voiced by Miyuki Sawashiro. The titles of the opening and ending theme are "haunting melody" and "memory", both sung by Suara. An insert titled "Until" sung by Rena Uehara was also used.

Furthermore, it was first announced in the staff blog that there will also be a side story game for the PlayStation 3 port, titled . The Secret of Avalon also has a new character called Decimus, voiced by Wataru Hatano. Tears to Tiara Anecdotes was released on September 17, 2009 and like the enhanced port, it is for the PlayStation 3 platform. The release is in two editions, a limited edition and a regular edition. Both the enhanced port and Anecdotes were also ported for PlayStation Portable.

Characters from Tears to Tiara are also playable in Aquapazza: Aquaplus Dream Match, a fighting game developed by Aquaplus with characters from various Leaf games.

Gameplay
The gameplay between the two versions are very different. The Windows game has the combat segments occurring in real-time while the PlayStation 3 version has been altered it to be turn based combat. In any of its version, the player and enemy AI control multiple characters of different classes such as magic user, archer, and soldier. Outside of battle the story is told through 2-D cutscenes, with gameplay proceeding much like a typical visual novel.

Manga
A manga adaptation of the PlayStation 3 port was serialized in Media Factory's monthly seinen manga magazine, Monthly Comic Alive in 2009 and 2010. This adaptation was done by Shirometsukusa, who had previously done a part in Fate/stay night's manga anthology. It has started its serialization in the magazine's 2nd issue in 2009. The first volume has been released on June 23, 2009 under Media Factory's MF Comics Alive Series label as well as bearing the number .

Anime

An anime adaptation aired based also on the PlayStation 3 port. The anime is directed by Tomoki Kobayashi and its series composition done by Tōko Machida. The animation is done by White Fox and T3Works is the series' production committee.

The series began airing on April 6, 2009, incorporating the additional scenario and characters in the PlayStation 3 release. In addition to its Japanese premiere, the anime has been simulcast and received its English language premiere on Animax Asia on the same day at 12:35 am across its networks on Southeast Asia, the same time the series will receive its Japanese premiere at 01:35 am Japanese Standard Time. This would be the fastest premiere of an anime outside Japan. On March 20, 2009, it was further confirmed that the series would indeed be simulcast with Japanese audio and English subtitles with Malay subtitles for Malaysia; being the first of its kind.

The anime uses the same voice actors from the PlayStation 3 game, with Tōru Ōkawa, Yūko Gotō and Makoto Ishii voicing Arawn, Riannon and Arthur respectively. The series' opening and ending theme are "Free and Dream" and "True Sky, Blue Sky" which are sung by Suara and Aira Yūki respectively. Both singles were released on April 22, 2009 by King Records and Bandai Visual respectively. While there was also an insert song titled "Until", used in episode 17. It was sung by Rena Uehara. An original soundtrack for the series done by Takayuki Hattori was released on June 24, 2009. It mainly contains background music along with the TV size ending theme. The CD bears the catalog number LACA-5925.

The first volume of both DVD and Blu-ray went on sale on June 17, 2009 and subsequent volumes will be released every month by Pony Canyon. The first volume's cover features Arawn and Riannon while the second features Arthur and Morgan. Both first and second volumes of the limited edition includes a 20-page full-color booklet as well as having a sticker poster and a one piece type casing. The first volume also feature separate interviews with Tomoki Kobayashi, Tōru Ōkawa and Tōko Machida.

The anime has been picked up for release in North America by Sentai Filmworks, distributed by the new company, Section23 Films. Part 1 of the series was released on November 24, 2009. Part 2 was then, released on January 26, 2010. Sentai Filmworks re-released Tears to Tiara with an English dub in 2010. Sentai Filmworks and Section23 Films release Tears to Tiara on DVD and Blu-ray with the English dub on October 19.

Internet radio
There was an Internet radio broadcast before the start of the current radio and the title for the radio changes for every episode. There were a total of 8 episodes before it was renewed to the current title, . There were no guests for all the 8 episodes except for a public recording on February 14, 2009 at One Hobby 9. Before Shin Tears to Tiaradio began, the untitled internet radio started broadcasting on November 29, 2008 at the official site and later started broadcasting with a fixed title on April 13, 2009. New episodes will be broadcast on every Friday at Nico Nico Anime Channel. It has also started broadcasting in Onsen every Monday.

The personalities for the show are Riannon and Arthur's voice actors, Yūko Gotō and Makoto Ishii. Guests for Shin Tears to Tiaradio are Tōru Ōkawa for episode 3 and 4, Ami Koshimizu and Ai Shimizu for episode 5 and 6, Kaori Nazuka for episode 7 and 8, Suara for episode 9, Ryōko Ono and Ema Kogure from the To Heart series for episode 10 while Kiyomi Asai for episode 11 and 12.

Here are the following episode titles for the previous radio broadcast before Shin Tears to Tiaradio:

Merchandise
There were PVC figures of Riannon, Octavia and Ermin made by Kotobukiya for Tears to Tiara: Garland of the Earth. Furthermore, it was first announced at the official site that there was a Nendoroid figure for Riannon and Arawn being made by Good Smile Company. The Riannon figure is to be released in August 2009, while Arawn is released one month after. It was announced in the staff blog that they are now available for pre-orders. Both are priced at 3,500 yen each. Kazuyoshi Udono sculpted Riannon's figure. While Arawn's figure is sculpted by Reiichi Itō, both with sculpting assistance provided by Nendoron.

There is also a trading card game of the anime in the works. The title of the card game has yet to be announced.

Sequel
A sequel, titled , was announced by Aquaplus in January 2011 for the PlayStation 3. It is set in the same world as its predecessor, but features new main characters designed by dōjinshi artist Tatami Honjō. It was released on October 31, 2013. Atlus USA announced that Tears to Tiara II would be making its first appearance in western countries on October 14, 2014.

Source code release
Tears to Tiara was one of four games (Aruruu to Asobo!!, Tears to Tiara, Kusari and ToHeart2 XRATED) Leaf was forced to release its source code to the public due to having used the Xvid video codec in the game. XVid is licensed under the GNU Public License, which requires that programs using the codec to make their source code available to program users.
A source code repository is hosted on GitHub.

References

External links
Official websites
 Tears to Tiara at Leaf
 Tears to Tiara: Garland of the Earth Official PS3 Site
  Tears to Tiara: Garland of the Earth Official PSP Site
 Tears to Tiara Anecdotes: The Secret of Avalon Official PS3 Site
 Tears to Tiara Anecdotes: The Secret of Avalon Official PSP Site
 Tears to Tiara II Official Site
 Official Anime Site

Others
 Interview with Tears to Tiara PS3 producer

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Gates McFadden

Cheryl Gates McFadden (born March 2, 1949), is an American actress and choreographer. She is  usually credited as Cheryl McFadden when working as a choreographer and Gates McFadden when working as an actress. She is best known for playing Dr. Beverly Crusher in the Star Trek: The Next Generation television series and in the four subsequent films.

Early life

McFadden was born in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. She attended Brandeis University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts (cum laude) in the theatre arts, before moving to Paris, where she studied theatre with actor Jacques Lecoq at his school of physical theatre. McFadden is of Lithuanian descent on her mother's side.

Career

Early work
McFadden often worked at The Jim Henson Company,   working behind the scenes of Labyrinth (as director of choreography and puppet movement), The Muppets Take Manhattan (choreographer and a brief on-screen appearance), and uncredited work on Dreamchild (again supervising choreography and puppet movement). As a way of distinguishing her acting work from her choreography, she is usually credited as "Gates McFadden" as an actress and "Cheryl McFadden" as a choreographer. However, she was credited as "Cheryl McFadden" in the Troma movie When Nature Calls (1985) and in the season-three episode of The Cosby Show, "Cliff's 50th Birthday". She appeared in The Hunt for Red October as Jack Ryan's wife Caroline, though most of her scenes were cut in post-production.

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Season 1
In 1987, McFadden was cast as Dr. Beverly Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation. The Crusher character was slated to be Captain Jean-Luc Picard's love interest; another important aspect of the character was being a widow balancing motherhood and a career. Maurice Hurley, head writer and showrunner, did not like working with McFadden and, at Hurley's demand, she was let go at the end of season one. Diana Muldaur joined the production as the Enterprises new chief medical officer, Dr. Katherine Pulaski, for the second season.

Seasons 3–7

Series creator Gene Roddenberry admitted that the Dr. Pulaski character did not develop a chemistry with the other characters, so McFadden was approached to return as Dr. Crusher for the third season. At first, she was hesitant, but after a phone call from co-star Patrick Stewart, and numerous fan letters, McFadden was persuaded to return to the role, which she then played through the remainder of the series.

Highlights for her character included "The High Ground", where she is kidnapped by terrorists; "Remember Me", in which she becomes trapped in an alternate reality where her loved ones start to disappear; "The Host", which features a romance between the doctor and an alien composed of two symbiotic organisms; "Suspicions", in which she risks her career to solve the murder of a scientist; "Descent" where Crusher takes command of the Enterprise; "Sub Rosa", where she becomes the victim of a seductive "ghost"; and "Attached", where Picard and Crusher become telepathically linked as prisoners and learn their true feelings for one another.

McFadden reprised her role for all four TNG movies and also provided her voice for PC games Star Trek: A Final Unity and Star Trek Generations. Also, McFadden directed the  episode "Genesis" (her only directing credit to date) in which an infection causes the crew to de-evolve into primitive forms of life, and choreographed the dance routine in "Data's Day".

After The Next Generation

McFadden co-starred in the 1990 comedy Taking Care of Business starring James Belushi, and fellow Next Generation alumnus, John de Lancie (Q). In 1992, she appeared alongside fellow cast members Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, and Colm Meaney in a production of Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, which was performed in four cities. She also starred in the 1995 television series Marker with Richard Grieco and appeared in the made-for-television movie Crowned and Dangerous with Yasmine Bleeth in 1997. Additional television work was the role of Allison Rourke, Paul Buchman's boss, in four episodes of the sitcom Mad About You. In the spring of 2006, McFadden appeared in a series of television commercials for Microsoft.

She has taught at several universities (American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Brandeis, Harvard, Purdue, Temple, the Stella Academy in Hamburg, and the University of Pittsburgh). As of August 2010, she was listed as an adjunct faculty member in the School of Theater at the University of Southern California. She was the Artistic Director of the Ensemble Studio Theatre/Los Angeles from January 2009 to October 2014. During her tenure, she spearheaded the building of the Atwater Village Theatre Collective, a new two-theater space in Los Angeles.

McFadden has lent her voice as narrator in several audio books. In 2010, she was the narrator of "Confessor" (METAtropolis: CASCADIA).

Prior to 2014, McFadden did not attend fan conventions, due to a stalking incident years earlier.  However, after participating in New York Comic Con 2014, she became enthusiastic about such events.  In 2017, McFadden was pleased that a recent documentary about the making of Labyrinth led her to connect with fans of her work with Jim Henson.

Personal Life
McFadden was married to John Cleveland Talbot and has one son, James, born in 1991. Her pregnancy was not written into the fourth season of TNG; instead, her character wore a laboratory coat over her uniform. Next Generation co-star Brent Spiner is her son's godfather.

Filmography

Film

 The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)
 Rustlers' Rhapsody (1985)
 Dreamchild (1985)
 When Nature Calls (1985)
 Labyrinth (1986) – (choreographer)
 The Hunt for Red October (1990)
 Taking Care of Business (1990)
 Beyond the Groove (1990) film TV.
 Star Trek Generations (1994)
 Star Trek First Contact (1996)
 Crowned and Dangerous (1997)
 Star Trek Insurrection (1998)
 Star Trek Nemesis (2002)
 Dirty (2005)
 Make the Yuletide Gay (2009)

Television

 The Wizard (1986) episode "El Dorado"
 The Cosby Show (1987) episode "Cliff's 50th Birthday"
 Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1988; 1989–1994)
 L.A. Law (1992) episode "Steal It Again, Sam"
 Dream On (1993) episode "The Book, the Thief, Her Boss and His Lover"
 Party of Five (1994) episode "Something Out of Nothing"
 Marker (1995)
 Mad About You (1995–1996) four episodes
 The Practice (2000) episode "Checkmates"
 The Division (2001) episode "Hero"
 The Handler (2004) episode "Wedding Party"
 Family Guy (2009) episode "Not All Dogs Go to Heaven" (voice)
 Franklin & Bash (2011–2013) four episodes
 Scary Endings (2016) 1 episode "U Get What U Deserve" (voice)
 A Neighbor's Deception (2017) (TV Movie, As Dr Constance Abrams)
 NCIS (2017) episode "Skeleton Crew"

Theatre

Stage Appearances
 (As Cheryl McFadden) Ellen/Mrs. Saunders and Betty, Cloud 9, Theatre De Lys, New York City, 1981.
 (As Cheryl McFadden) Title role, To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday, Ensemble Studio Theatre, New York City, 1983, then Circle in the Square Downtown, New York City, 1984.
 (As Cheryl McFadden) Ruth, The Homecoming, Jewish Repertory Theatre, New York City, 1984.
 (As Cheryl McFadden) Annie Sutter, The Bloodletters, Ensemble Studio Theatre, 1984.
 (As Cheryl McFadden) Casey Staiger, How to Say Goodbye, Vineyard Theatre, New York City, 1986.
 (As Cheryl McFadden) Dr. Handleman, Couch Tandem, Women's InterArt Center, New York City, 1987.
 Kate, Emerald City, Perry Street Theatre, New York City, 1988.
 Lil, Voices in the Dark, George Street Playhouse, New Brunswick, NJ, 1998.
 (As Cheryl McFadden) Mary, Rosario and the Gypsies, Ensemble Studio Theatre; and as Mrs. Malloy, The Matchmaker, La Jolla Playhouse, La Jolla, CA.
 Viva Detroit, Los Angeles;
 Every Good Boy Deserves Favor;
 L'histoire du Soldat.

Stage Work
 (As Cheryl McFadden) Choreographer, The Winter's Tale, Brooklyn Academy of Music Theatre Company, Helen Owen Carey Playhouse, Brooklyn, NY, 1980.
 (As Cheryl McFadden) Fight choreographer, Johnny on the Spot, Brooklyn Academy of Music Theatre Company, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, 1980.
 (As Cheryl McFadden) Choreographer, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Brooklyn Academy of Music Theatre Company, Brooklyn Academy of Music, 1981.
 Choreographer, Yesterday Is Over, Women's InterArt Center, New York City;
 Director, Bottleneck at the Bar, Golden Lion Theatre, New York City;
 Director and Choreographer, Bumps and Knots, Lyric Hammersmith Theatre, London;
 Director and choreographer, Women of Trachis, He Who Gets Slapped, and Old Times, all Springold Theatre, Waltham, MA;
 Director and choreographer, Medea, Studio Theatre, Pittsburgh, PA.

References

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Sean Mackin

Sean/Seán Mackin may refer to:

Seán Mackin (Irish republican), Northern Irish activist, fundraiser for the Friends of Sinn Féin
Sean Mackin (musician) (born 1979), American musician for the pop punk band Yellowcard
Sean Mackin (Skulduggery Pleasant), a fictional character from the Derek Landy novel Skulduggery Pleasant: Kingdom of the Wicked