Kveikur

Kveikur (pronounced , fuse or candlewick) is the seventh studio album from Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós. It was released 12 June 2013 in Japan, on 17 June internationally, and on 18 June in the United States through XL Recordings. It is the first album to be fully released through XL after the band departed EMI and Parlophone during the label's acquisition by Universal Music Group in 2012. It is the first album since their debut, Von, not to feature Kjartan Sveinsson, following his departure in 2012, and the last to feature drummer Orri Páll Dýrason before his departure in 2018. The cover is a photo by the Brazilian artist Lygia Clark.

Composition
Kveikur sees a new direction taken by Sigur Rós, both musically and thematically. The band has described the album's sound as "more aggressive" than any of their previous works. All tracks are sung in Icelandic, although Yfirborð contains some reversed words at the start, which can be considered Hopelandic

Promotion
Kveikur was officially unveiled by the band and label XL Recordings on 22 March 2013. The album's details, such as artwork, tracklist, and release date, were publicly announced, along with dates for the band's corresponding tour. An EP, entitled Brennisteinn and featuring lead single "Brennisteinn" and two Kveikur cuts "Hryggjarsula" and "Ofbirta", was also released on the same day to ticket holders of North American dates on the Sigur Rós World Tour. On the 11th of June the album was made available to stream live in its entirety online.

Singles
"Brennisteinn" was released as the lead single from Kveikur on 25 March 2013. The eight-minute music video for the song, directed by Andrew Huang, was released three days earlier during Kveikur'''s unveiling on March 22.

"Ísjaki" was released as a radio-only single from the album a month later on 24 April 2013. The song was also released early for download on iTunes through Kveikur's listing, before the album was released in June. The band also released an accompanying lyric video for the song on their YouTube channel on 2 April. The video is also notably the band's first lyric video for a song since the band's formation in 1994.

Tour
The band embarked on the Sigur Rós World Tour in late 2012 and throughout 2013 in promotion of Kveikur. The 82-date tour visited Australia, South-East and East Asia, Europe and North America. The North American leg of the tour, which occurred in March and April, was supported by Oneohtrix Point Never and Tim Hecker. During the former legs of the tour, Kveikur tracks "Kveikur", "Yfirborð", "Hrafntinna", and "Brennisteinn" had been played live. The band performed "Kveikur" on NBC late night talk show Late Night with Jimmy Fallon during the tour on 22 March 2013.

Reception

Critical receptionKveikur, much like most of Sigur Rós' releases, was met with generally positive reviews upon release. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 80, which indicates "generally favorable reviews", based on 36 reviews.

Gregory Haney of AllMusic complimented the band's efforts, writing that "Post-rock can be an awfully passive listening experience, sweeping the listeners up in drifting buildup and inevitable crescendos without ever really confronting them. Challenging this paradigm, Sigur Rós get sonically adventurous with their seventh album, Kveikur, which finds the Icelandic three-piece delivering a darker and more aggressive sound on one of their most daring albums to date." Gareth James of Clash praised the diversity of the music on Kveikur: "No two songs sound similar and, while Jónsi's vocals confirm that this is, really, the artist on the album sleeve, it is far from more of the same."

Christian Cottingham of Drowned in Sound in his positive review of the album praised both the originality and lack of commercialism in Kveikur. He stated, "With Kveikur, Sigur Rós seem to be shrinking from the light, away from the TV adverts and the Top Gear soundtracks, the Shia LaBeouf videos and the Daily Mail articles and the Hollywood movies. And that's a good thing: for an alternative group from Iceland that veer between their native tongue and a made-up language they were becoming all too ubiquitous, and far less interesting with it - heck, when your own webstore starts selling candles 'specially developed to the band's olfactory specifications' it's definitely time for something new. For too long - arguably since 2005's Takk... - Sigur Rós have been making music to cry to, to make love to, to meditate or pray or wind down to, music for lonely walks or misty hikes, for sunrise and sunset and solstice, for children to sleep to and people to wake up to (disclosure: "Hoppípolla" is my alarm tone…) - music to sift into the background, unobtrusive, a wallpaper for the postcard Iceland, beautiful but safe. Well, here's the flipside, that long Scandinavian winter of frostbite and storms, of frozen rock and suicides, the Northern Lights cast overhead not dancing but shivering, particles undulating sinisterly against blackened skies and all the better for it."

Complementary to Cottingham's review, NME also praised the lack of commercialism and noted the album's shock factor: "This is an album no-one anticipated Sigur Rós would make. This is a band whose frontman now scores Hollywood films (Cameron Crowe's We Bought A Zoo), whose household name status was confirmed when they recently cameoed on The Simpsons, who in recent years have dealt more in bright, bouncy orchestral indie (2008's Arcade Fire-ish Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust) than the dark experimental fare they made their name with. So Kveikur comes as a violent but welcome surprise."

Sash Geffen of Consequence of Sound gave a positive review of the album, but noted its lack of emotionally driven creativity in comparison to earlier Sigur Rós albums like Ágætis byrjun and ( ). She wrote, "While energized, Kveikur doesn't break away from Sigur Rós' safe spots. Those who have followed the band down the same trails for years will happily be able to do so again. But those who are still hungry for the thickets of Ágætis byrjun or the haunted tundra of Von won't find many new landmarks here. This is a dark, warm, safe space for Sigur Rós and their devotees. Don't expect to lose your way." Pitchfork also noted but excused this, praising the album for standing on its own: "Even if it doesn't have the same cultivated mystery or incapacitating demands of Ágætis byrjun or ( ), Kveikur is every bit a return to form, tapping into its predecessors' bottomless emotional wellspring for a Sigur Rós album that can be listened to casually or intensely, a collection that works as effectively as a spiritual experience and pop music, the essence of their overwhelming, widescreen grandeur conveyed with the immediacy of a 50-minute rock record."

Commercial performanceKveikur debuted at number 14 on the US Billboard 200 with sales of 22,831 copies.

Track listing

Personnel
Adapted from Kveikur'' liner notes.

Sigur Rós
Jón Þór Birgisson – vocals, guitar
Georg Hólm – bass
Orri Páll Dýrason – drums

Additional musicians
Eiríkur Orri Ólafsson - brass arrangement
Daníel Bjarnason - string arrangement
Sigrún Jónsdóttir - brass
Eiríkur Orri Ólafsson - brass
Bergrún Snæbjörnsdóttir - brass
Borgar Magnason - strings
Margrét Árnadóttir - strings
Pálína Árnadóttir - strings
Una Sveinbjarnardóttir - strings
Þórunn Ósk Marinósdóttir - strings

Additional personnel
Ted Jensen - mastering
Rich Costey - mixing
Alex Somers - mixing, recording
Elisabeth Carlsson - assistant mixing
Eric Isip - assistant mixing
Chris Kasych - assistant mixing
Laura Sisk - assistant mixing
Birgir Jón Birgisson - recording
Kjartan Sveinsson - assistant producing, mixing
Alex Somers - assistant producing
Valgeir Sigurdsson - recording (strings)

Charts

Release history

References

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Category:Sigur Rós albums
Category:XL Recordings albums


1936 Purdue Boilermakers football team

The 1936 Purdue Boilermakers football team was an American football team that represented Purdue University during the 1936 college football season.  In their seventh season under head coach Noble Kizer, the Boilermakers compiled a 5–2–1 record, finished in a tie for fourth place in the Big Ten Conference with a 3–1–1 record against conference opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 157 to 95.

Schedule

References

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Geranium thunbergii

Geranium thunbergii (Thunberg's geranium) is a cranesbill species. It is one of the most popular folk medicines and also an official antidiarrheic drug in Japan.

Geraniin is an ellagitannin found in G. thunbergii.

References

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Albatros Dr.I

The Albatros Dr. I was a German fighter triplane derivative of the D.V fitted with three pairs of wings instead of two. Identical in most other respects to the D.V, in the summer of 1917 it was flown side by side with the existing biplane in comparison trials. There was no discernible performance advantage and development was halted at the prototype stage.

Specifications

Notes

References

 Gray, P. and Thetford, O. German Aircraft of the First World War. London: Putnam, 1962
 Green, W. & Swanborough, G. The Complete Book of Fighters. London: Salamander Books, 1994

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Category:1910s German fighter aircraft
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Dr.I
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Myrina anettae

Myrina anettae is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae. It is found in Guinea, Ghana and eastern Uganda. The habitat consists of savanna.

References

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Gordoniaceae

The Gordoniaceae are a family of bacteria in the order of Actinomycetales.

References

Further reading

Category:Bacteria families
Category:Actinobacteria


Diplochlamys

Diplochlamys may refer to:
 a synonym for the plant genus Mallotus
 Diplochlamys (protist), an ameboid protist genus in the family Microcoryciidae in the order Arcellinida


Just Wanna Please U

"Just Wanna Please U" is a song by American R&B artist Mona Lisa which was recorded for her debut album 11-20-79 (1996). The song was released as the album's third and final single in November 1996.

Track listings
12", Vinyl
"Just Wanna Please U" (Album Version) - 4:20
"Just Wanna Please U" (Stevie J. Version) - 4:07(feat. The LOX)
"Just Wanna Please U" (Stevie J. Version w/o Rap) - 4:07

12", Vinyl
"Just Wanna Please U" (Stevie J. version) - 4:07(feat. The LOX)
"Just Wanna Please U" (Stevie J. version w/o rap) - 4:07
"Just Wanna Please U" (Album version) - 4:20
"Just Wanna Please U" (Stevie J. A cappella version) - 4:07(feat. The LOX)

Personnel
Information taken from Discogs.
executive production – Hiriam Hicks, Tim "Dawg" Patterson
lyrics – The LOX, Mona Lisa, Kelly Price
production – Clark Kent
rapping – The LOX
remixing – Stevie J.

Chart performance

Notes

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Category:Mona Lisa (singer) songs
Category:Songs written by Bobby Caldwell
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Category:Island Records singles


Being Alive (Desperate Housewives)

"Being Alive" is the 113th episode of the ABC television series, Desperate Housewives. It is the second episode of the show's sixth season and aired on October 4, 2009.

Plot
Angie and Nick start questioning Danny on where he went after the wedding and he tells them he went out drinking. Lynette is keeping her pregnancy secret from the kids. Katherine tells Orson that Mike and Susan's marriage will not last because Mike only feels sorry for Susan, and that he will come back to her. Bree and Karl have sex.

Mrs. McCluskey has acquired a boyfriend, Roy. One day they are strolling on the sidewalk and she tells him she loves him. Just as he is about to respond, he sees Julie Mayer lying in a bunch of bushes.

Everyone tries to figure out who would attack Julie. Karen and Carlos both turn to look at Danny, who is watching from his door step. Carlos thinks it is odd that the Bolens are not outside like the rest of them, Orson then says that they were outside but only for a minute. Carlos reveals that he saw Danny and Julie coming out of a movie theater so they think it is best to get to know them better. Angie and Nick confront Danny about where he was when Julie was strangled, Danny says he has nothing to do with that and he likes Julie. He said he maybe was in the park, he doesn't really remember because he drank a lot and it was very fuzzy, Nick tells Danny that he couldn't have been there because he drove by the park and he didn't see him there. Angie decides that they need to start making friends with the neighbors. Karen is debating on whether she should tell the police that she saw Julie and Danny fighting. Tom, Orson, and Carlos tell Nick they are going to start up a neighborhood watch then question him on Danny's relationship with Julie.

Meanwhile, at the hospital it is made clear that Julie will not die, but she will be unconscious for some weeks. The doctor is about to give her an X-ray, and Lynette says he can't because she's pregnant. The other day Lynette and Julie had a talk and Julie thinks she's pregnant, but isn't sure. Susan is mad at Lynette for not telling her. Later, they have a talk in which Lynette tells Susan that Julie confided in her as she saw Lynette crying about her impending pregnancy. Susan is happy that Lynette is pregnant, but wonders why she was crying. Lynette tells Susan that she doesn't want this pregnancy, with her working and Tom in school, and reveals she's been considering abortion, but Susan talks her out of it, telling Lynette that children are a gift, and that she has been so lucky after nearly losing her children (MJ in the car crash and Julie at the hands of a strangler). It is enough to change Lynette's mind about aborting her pregnancy.

When Bree and Karl start to kiss, they are surprised to see Julie staring at them. Bree asks the doctor if Julie will remember what she saw when she was briefly awake and he tells her she most likely will. Susan tells Bree that if a friend knew about what Karl did to her and still slept with him then she would never speak to her again. Karl decides that he does not want to spend the night alone and wants her to join him in the motel room so she takes the room key as she does not want to be alone either.

Detectives question Ana about her whereabouts at the time Julie was attacked and she reveals that she sneaked out to go drinking with Danny. Gaby wants Reggie to take down the trellis, but he tells her it is impossible that Ana climbed down it as it is really beaten up so Gaby decides to see if Ana is lying by climbing it snaps and she falls off backwards. Gabby calls the police and tells Ana she is going to tell the truth. Later that night, Gaby tells Angie that Ana is taking back her story of being with Danny at the time of the attack and it is revealed that Angie had Danny ask Ana for a cover story. All the neighbors watch as the police take Danny into custody.

Notes
"Being Alive" received 14.64 million viewers, with a 12 18-49 share, and a 4.9 18-49 rating.
Although credited, Madison De La Garza (Juanita Solis) does not appear in this episode. Daniella Baltodano (Celia Solis) makes a small non-speaking appearance at the beginning of the episode.
 The title is taken from the song written by Stephen Sondheim for the musical Company.

International titles
French: Le cri (The cry)
German: Ein schrecklicher Tag (A Horrible Day)
Italian: Misteri e bugie (Mysteries and Lies)
Arabic: على قيد الحياة (Alive)
Hungarian: Túlélés (Survival)

Category:2009 American television episodes
Category:Desperate Housewives (season 6) episodes


List of elections and referendums in Iran

This is an overview of all elections and referendums held in Iran since the first time in 1906.

List

See also
 Elections in Iran

Notes

References

Iran
Elections


Christian Dumont

Christian Dumont (born 19 March 1963) is a French biathlete. He competed at the 1988 Winter Olympics and the 1992 Winter Olympics.

References

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Category:Sportspeople from Doubs


Arab al-Na'im

Arab al-Na'im (; ) is a Bedouin village in northern Israel. Located in the Galilee near Karmiel, it falls under the jurisdiction of Misgav Regional Council. In  its population was .

History
As an unrecognized Bedouin village, Arab al-Naim only received access to piped water for the first time in 1993, when the neighbouring Jewish village of Eshhar decided to help out by providing it. Eshhar also helped with some other projects including the construction of a kindergarten. By 1998 Eshhar started to work intensively with the village to help it achieve recognition. Arab al-Na’im’s Bedouin leader, Nimer Na’im, and Eshhar’s Jewish chairman, Yisrael Ne’eman, agreed a joint border between their lands that year, and a petition for the recognition of Arab al-Na’im as a permanent village was presented to the director general of the Ministry of Interior. Arab al-Na’im was finally recognised by the state in 2000, following this lobbying, making it eligible for municipal services and bringing it under Misgav Regional Council. The two villages instituted and maintain cooperation, planning and development. Since Arab al-Na’im has less land, their building permits allow houses of up to three stories as against Eshhar’s two. The two villages are quoted as considering they have established “good neighbour relations,” each retaining its identity and agreeing to disagree where necessary.

The practical ramifications of the Arab al-Na’im’s recognition meant that, by 2013, the village had a paved road system, along with other infrastructure worth some $20 million, with a new metaled access road constructed from a new roundabout at the entrance to the adjacent community of Eshhar finished by 2016. Following the institution of a master plan for the village, the first permanent masonry-built houses were constructed in the village in 2014, replacing wood and metal temporary shacks. By 2018 around forty new homes had been completed, transforming the village together with new sewers and roads.

See also
Arab localities in Israel
Bedouin in Israel

References

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Category:Bedouin localities in Israel
Category:Populated places in Northern District (Israel)


Hawaii College of Pharmacy

The Hawaii College of Pharmacy (HICP) was an unaccredited Pharm.D. school in Hawaii owned and operated by Pacific Educational Services. After an investigation by the State of Hawaii's department for consumer protection for not following its regulations on non-accredited schools, it was shut down and its owners prohibited from running any business in Hawaii again. It is alleged that the college did not follow requirements for disclosure on not being accredited.

Controversy
A Hawaiian news report noted the school "falsely assured students it would obtain accreditation and wrongly took over six (m) million dollars in tuition from some 240 students."

The Hawaii College of Pharmacy was created by David C. Monroe (aka. David Yacas) and Denise Criswell (aka Denise Nakajima).

Monroe and Criswell have been banned by the state of Hawaii from doing any business there until they pay $14 million in restitution and fines to the former 240 students. Around $1.2 million has been recovered so far.

Notes

External links
Report from 2005
KPUA News Report on Hawaii College of Pharmacy
Pacific Business News
Department of Commerce & Consumer Affairs Current status of case against Hawaii College of Pharmacy

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Category:Unaccredited institutions of higher learning in the United States
Category:Pharmacy schools in Hawaii


Agathotoma kirshi

Agathotoma kirshi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Mangeliidae.

Distribution
This species occurs in the Caribbean Sea and off the Bahamas

References

 Rolán E., Fernández-Garcés E. & Redfern C. (2012) New records and description of four new species of the genus Agathotoma (Gastropoda, Mangeliidae) in the Caribbean. Novapex 13(2): 45-62

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June Kroenke

June Eudora Kroenke Rogers of Hartland, Wisconsin, U.S., is the inventor of several patented sewing tools and founded June Tailor, Inc. in 1962.

Kroenke began sewing as a child and her frustration with pressing garments of various shapes led her to design a pressing board out of cardboard. She had the final design constructed out of wood and obtained a patent on her invention. Kroenke founded June Tailor in 1962 and began selling the pressing board and other pressing aids, first out of her basement, and then from a manufacturing facility in Richfield, Wisconsin. In 1976, her business had expanded to 24 products and the original pressing board, which had 12 different-shaped surfaces, remained the most popular item.

Kroenke's patented inventions include:
 Contour pressing forms (sold as "June Tailor Board", a type of pressing buck), patent number , issued 1965
 Contour pressing boards, patent number , issued 1966
 Contour pressing board, patent number , issued 1966
 Universal pressing ham support, patent number , issued 1979
 Cushioned needlework blocking board, patent number , issued 1982
 Integrated cutting and pressing board including marking scale on the handle, patent number , issued 1995

References

External links

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Category:People from Hartland, Wisconsin
Category:Women inventors


Tseajaia

Tseajaia is an extinct genus of tetrapod.  It was an anthracosaurian that lived in the Permian of North America. The skeleton is that of a medium-sized, rather advanced reptile-like amphibian. In life it was about  long and may have looked vaguely like an iguana, though slower and with a more amphibian foot without claws. The dentition was somewhat blunt, indicating herbivory or possibly omnivory.

Phylogeny
Tseajaia was described from a single, fairly complete specimen and was given its own family by Robert L. Carroll. It was originally thought to be a Seymouriamorph. Additional finds allowing for a better taxonomic analysis indicate they belong in the Diadectomorpha, as the sister group to the large and more derived Diadectidae. Tseajaia itself being a fairly generalized form, gives a reasonable indication of the build and looks of the closest relatives of the amniotes.

References

External links
Tseajaia in the Paleobiology Database

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Category:Permian tetrapods of North America
Category:Transitional fossils


Aimee van Rooyen

Aimee Van Rooyen (born 20 December 1995) is a South African individual rhythmic gymnast. She represents her nation at international competitions. She competed at world championships, including at the 2011 World Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships. She was selected for the 2014 Commonwealth Games and 2010 Summer Youth Olympics.

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Category:Living people
Category:South African rhythmic gymnasts
Category:Place of birth missing (living people)
Category:Gymnasts at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics
Category:Gymnasts at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
Category:Commonwealth Games competitors for South Africa


Southport Hospital

Southport Hospital may refer to:

In Southport, Merseyside, England
Southport and Formby District General Hospital
Southport General Infirmary
Southport Promenade Hospital

In Southport, Queensland, Australia
Gold Coast Hospital
Gold Coast Private Hospital
Gold Coast University Hospital

In Southport, North Carolina, United States
Dosher Memorial Hospital


Rachel Hauck

Rachel Hauck is a scenic designer based in New York City who is known for her work in Anaïs Mitchell's musical Hadestown on and off-Broadway and in London, John Leguizamo's Latin History for Morons on and off-Broadway, and her extensive off-Broadway work.

Career

Rachel Hauck started her career as the first ever Art Direction Intern for the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in 1990 but moved into theater soon after her time in film and TV. She then became the resident scenic designer for the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center for ten years, then moved to teaching at Brown University, New York University/Playwrights Horizons, Vassar College, and Cal Arts.

Hauck was also instrumental in creating the first ever off-Broadway collective bargaining agreement for the United Scenic Artists union as one of the trustees of the Eastern Region Executive Board.

In 2016, Hauck was honored by the American Theatre Wing with an Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in Scenic Design.

Hauck is currently represented on Broadway in Anaïs Mitchell's Hadestown at the Walter Kerr Theatre and in Heidi Schreck's What the Constitution Means to Me at the Hayes Theater. She has been involved in Hadestown and What the Constitution Means to Me since their respective world premieres in 2017. For Hadestown, Hauck has also designed the Edmonton production at the Citadel Theatre and the London production at the Royal National Theatre.

Personal Life
Hauck is lesbian, and is in a long-term relationship with writer/director Lisa Peterson.

Awards and Nominations

References

External links

 Lortel Archives Records for Rachel Hauck

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Category:American scenic designers
Category:Women scenic designers
Category:Year of birth missing (living people)


Ulrich Falk

Ulrich Falk (born 14 August 1950) is a Swiss judoka. He competed in the men's open category event at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

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Vlastimil Třešňák

Vlastimil Třešňák (born 26 April 1950 in Prague) is a Czech singer-songwriter and writer. In 1970s, he was member of association Šafrán. He signed Charta 77 and after he was banned for public activities throughout Czechoslovakia. In 1982, he was forced to emigrate from Czechoslovakia by StB. He settled in Sweden and returned to Czechoslovakia after the Velvet Revolution. Since then, he released many solo albums; his most recent album Alter ego was released in 2013.

Discography
 Zeměměřič (1979)
 Koh-i-noor (1983)
 Koláž (1995)
 Inventura (2005)
 Skopolamin (2007)
 Němý suflér (2010)
 Alter ego (2013)

References

External links
Official website

Category:1950 births
Category:Living people
Category:Czech male singers
Category:Czech folk singers
Category:Czech guitarists
Category:Folk guitarists
Category:Czech male writers


Sam Loates

Samuel Loates (1865–1932) was a British Thoroughbred horse racing jockey who was the Champion Jockey of 1899 in his home country.

Background
Loates was from a racing family.  He and three brothers were active as jockeys before and around the turn of the 20th century.  The best known of his siblings was Tommy, who was one of Sam's predecessors as Champion Jockey.

Riding career
A "small, short-legged and lightweight" jockey, Loates served his apprenticeship under Tom Cannon of Danebury, Wiltshire, who was as noted for his training of riders as for his training of horses.  Loates rode his first winner at 17 years old and at 19, rode the first of two Derby winners, Harvester.  In 1898, completed a hat-trick of Classics, doing the Derby-St. Leger double on Sir Visto and taking the Oaks on La Sagesse.  There were no more Classic winners until 1898, when he did the Guineas double with Nun Nicer (1,000 Guineas) and Disraeli (2,000 Guineas).

In 1899, there was an invasion of American jockeys into British racing.  Despite the extra competition, he won his one and only championship with 160 winners.

As the nation's leading jockey, on 28 October 1899 he entered into a lucrative agreement with Sir John Blundell Maple to be his retained jockey for three years.  The fee for this deal was to be £2,000 p.a., plus travel expenses, plus £25 for each winner he rode.  For the first two years, the relationship proceeded very amicably.  In 1902, Loates rode the winners of over £20,000 in prize money.

But on 14 November 1902, at Northampton, Loates broke his thigh, with the effect that he couldn't take up his licence for the following season.  Even though Loates finally obtained a licence in April, Blundell Maple took the initial denial of a licence by stewards on physical grounds as reason for terminating their agreement.  Loates objected and took the case to court.  Ultimately, the judge ruled that Loates was entitled to his retainer for 1902, but the relationship had been soured.

Later life
Like many jockeys, he became a trainer on retirement.  He trained for Solomon Joel and for a time was in charge of Derby winner Pommern.

Major Wins
 Great Britain

Classic Races
 1,000 Guineas - (2) - Nun Nicer (1898), Winifreda (1900)
 2,000 Guineas - Disraeli (1898)
 Derby - (2) - Harvester (1884), Sir Visto (1895)
 Oaks - La Sagesse (1895)
 St. Leger - Sir Visto (1895)

Selected other races
Ascot Gold Cup - (1899)
Jockey Club Stakes - (1898)

References

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Category:1932 deaths
Category:English jockeys
Category:British Champion flat jockeys


Grangemouth Dockyard Company

The Grangemouth Dockyard Company was a British shipbuilding and ship repair firm located at Grangemouth, on the Firth of Forth, Scotland.

History
The company was established in Grangemouth by William Miller and Samuel Popham Jackson in 1885.  was the first ship constructed by the company. In 1887 the yard was visited by Andrew Carnegie and his new wife Louise.  While there they witnessed the christening and launch of the Mexican steamer Tabasqueño, after which Carnegie gave a speech at the luncheon that followed. The company acquired another two yards in 1888, located in Alloa and Ardrossan. This was followed by the acquisition of a yard in Greenock in 1900, and the merging of the company with the pre-existing Greenock Dockyard Company. After eight years the company was incorporated as the Greenock & Grangemouth Dockyard Co.  The Greenock yard was then sold to Cayzer, Irvine & Company, the operators of the Clan Line, in 1918. In 1920 the Greenock yard was itself incorporated as the Greenock Dockyard Co Ltd, while upon the split in 1918 the Grangemouth-based yard became the Grangemouth Dockyard Co Ltd. The company continued to build merchant ships and some naval vessels during the Second World War, eventually producing 31 new ships during the war. 14 of the ships present at the Normandy Landings had been built at Grangemouth, while another 44 were repaired there. The facilities were also used to repair and maintain submarines of the Royal Netherlands Navy.

The company continued to operate after the war, becoming part of Swan Hunter in 1967. The company ceased building ships in 1972, thereafter concentrating solely on ship repair. With the large scale nationalisation of British shipbuilding in the late 1970s Swan Hunter became part of British Shipbuilders, with the Grangemouth Dockyard Company as a subsidiary. The winding up of operations in the 1980s saw the re-emergence of the Grangemouth Dockyard Company as a private concern in 1984, but it was subsequently liquidated in 1987.

Records and documents relating to the company and its activities are held by the National Archives of Scotland, and Falkirk Museums.

Notes

References

External links
Narrative of Alcides, a Ship built by Grangemouth Dockyard Co., Dyal 2008
Alcides History

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Category:Shipbuilding companies of Scotland
Category:Grangemouth


Clark Leiblee

Clark Moses Leiblee (December 1876 – August 20, 1917) was an American track and field athlete who competed at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.  He also competed in intercollegiate track for the University of Michigan.  He was also on the roster of the 1899 Michigan Wolverines football team as a halfback.

Biography
He was born in December 1876 in Troy, Pennsylvania.

Leiblee competed in the 100 metres event, placing eighth overall.  He won his first-round heat with a time of 11.4 seconds before finishing his semifinal heat in second place to Walter Tewksbury (who matched the world record of 10.8 seconds in the race).  This put Leiblee in the repechage; a third-place finish in the six-man field put him in eighth place overall.

He died in Tipton, Indiana on August 20, 1917.

References

Further reading
 De Wael, Herman. Herman's Full Olympians: "Athletics 1900".  Accessed 18 March 2006. Available electronically at .

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Milwaukee City Conference

The Milwaukee City Conference (also known as "City Conference") is a high school athletic conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  All full-time member institutions are located in the city of Milwaukee and are members of the Milwaukee Public Schools system.  Its members participate in WIAA Division 1.

Membership

Affiliate members
The following schools are members of the City Conference on a part-time basis :
Milwaukee High School of the Arts
Malcolm X Academy
Metropolitan High School
Ronald W. Reagan College Preparatory High School
Milwaukee School of Languages
Thomas Edison High School
Wisconsin Conservatory of Lifelong Learning

Co-op teams
Several co-op teams exist in the conference. These co-op teams usually include a full-time member and an affiliate member. The "host" school is listed in bold.

Bay View & Wisconsin Conservatory of Lifelong Learning (football, boys' & girls' tennis)
Pulaski & Milwaukee High School of the Arts (football, girls' volleyball, baseball, boys' tennis, girls' soccer)
Marshall & School Of Languages (football)
Ronald W. Reagan & Wisconsin Conservatory of Lifelong Learning (girls' basketball)
Madison, Marshall, & School Of Languages (boys' tennis)
South Division & Bradley Tech (boys' tennis)
Pulaski, Milwaukee High School of the Arts, and Ronald W. Reagan (girls' and boys' swimming)
Riverside and Shorewood (wrestling)

Sanctioned sports
Boys and girls
Basketball
Cross country
Swimming
Tennis
Track and field
Boys only
Baseball
Football
Wrestling
Girls only
Softball
Volleyball

WIAA championships

Softball
Bay View won the lone state championship for City Conference members in 1985. The Redcats also advanced to the state tournament in 1981, 1982, 1986, 1990 and 1991. Bay View won 111 straight conference games from 1985-91.

Spring Baseball
Bradley Tech (formerly Boys Tech) won the lone state championship for City Conference members in 1948, the inaugural year.

Boys' basketball
The City Conference did not allow its teams to compete in the WIAA tournament until the 1951-52 season. The now disbanded Lincoln High School became the first City team to win the state title in 1959. It won four more state titles (1961, 1962, 1966, and 1967).

Hamilton won the Class A title in 1972, the first year in which separate tournaments were held based on enrollment size. Three city schools won consecutive titles when Milwaukee Tech (1979), North Division (1980) and Madison (1981) each took home a Class A crown.  Milwaukee Tech (now Bradley Tech) repeated its success in 1983.

Since then, 14 titles have gone to one of three City schools: Rufus King (1984, 1991, 1995, 2003, 2004), Washington (1985, 1987, 1990, 1993) and Vincent (1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001).

Boys' track and field
South Division put together a string of five consecutive Class A (now Division 1) titles from 1985 to 1989. Vincent has won three Division 1 titles in boys' track and field (2001, 2003 and 2005). North Division (1992) and Bradley Tech (1995) have each claimed a Division 1 title. King won in 2006.

Girls' basketball
Washington is one of three City Conference team to have won the WIAA Division 1 title five times, a public school record. Its first Class A title came in 1979, and its second in 1990. The team accomplished the first three-peat in girls' tournament history (in any division), winning the title in 1994, 1995 and 1996. Vincent has also won the title three times: 2007, 2008 and 2009. Riverside won its first WIAA Division 1 title in 2013.

Girls' track and field
Since the WIAA Class A/Division 1 tournament was established in 1972, the following City schools have won: Custer (1976), Riverside (1986, 2012), Bradley Tech (1996, 2009, 2010, 2011) and Rufus King (1989, 2002, 2016). Athletes from the member schools hold five individual and three relay-team state tournament records.

Controversy
Recently the WIAA decided to restrict travel outside Wisconsin and its border states. The decision was made as a response to the practice of City Conference boys' basketball teams, which often traveled long distances to find competition. Athletic directors from City schools argued against the decision, saying the travel was paid for by the host school or event organizer.

The situation has caused some supporters to call for the City Conference to follow the lead of leagues in other major cities, such as Chicago and Philadelphia, to hold its own tournaments separate from the WIAA.

See also
List of high school athletic conferences in Wisconsin

References

External links and resources
Milwaukee City Conference pages at Wissports.net
Football (Blackbourn Division)
Football (Richardson Division)
Boys Basketball
Girls Basketball
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel Preps Plus Online

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Atheneum Books

Atheneum Books was a New York City publishing house established in 1959 by Alfred A. Knopf, Jr., Simon Michael Bessie and Hiram Haydn. Simon & Schuster has owned Atheneum properties since its acquisition of Macmillan in 1994 and it created Atheneum Books for Young Readers as an imprint for children's books in the 2000s.

History

Alfred A. Knopf, Jr. left his family publishing house Alfred A. Knopf and created Atheneum Books in 1959 with Simon Michael Bessie (Harpers) and Hiram Haydn (Random House).
It became the publisher of Pulitzer Prize winners Edward Albee, Charles Johnson, James Merrill, Nikki Giovanni, Mona Van Duyn and Theodore H. White. It also published Ernest Gaines' first book Catherine Carmier (1964) and "Destiny Express" by Howard A. Rodman in 1990..
Knopf personally recruited editor Jean E. Karl to establish a Children's Book Department in 1961. Atheneum acquired the reprint house Russell & Russell in 1965.

Atheneum merged with Charles Scribner's Sons to become The Scribner Book Company in 1978. The acquisition included Rawson Associates. Scribner was acquired by Macmillan in 1984. Macmillan was purchased by Simon & Schuster in 1994. After the merger, the Atheneum adult list was merged into Scribner and the Scribner children's line was merged into Atheneum.

In the 2000s, the Simon & Schuster imprint Atheneum Books for Young Readers has published the popular May Bird fantasy series for young adults, inaugurated by May Bird and the Ever After (2005), and the Olivia series of picture books featuring Olivia the pig (from 2000). The Higher Power of Lucky won the 2007 Newbery Medal. In a 2007 online poll, the National Education Association named Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery one of its Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children.

Notes

References

External links
 Atheneum Books for Young Readers imprint at publisher Simon & Schuster

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.458×2-inch American

The .458×2-inch American is a straight, belted, .458 caliber (11.6 mm) big bore cartridge designed by Frank Barnes. It is based on the .458 Winchester Magnum shortened to .

General Information
The .458×2-inch American was designed as a medium power big bore cartridge by Frank Barnes for North American big game.  Frank Barnes found that the .458 Winchester Magnum and the .460 Weatherby Magnum too powerful for North American big game and believed that a cartridge of lesser power would be ample for the task.

The cartridge has the power required to take all North American big game species.  It is also adequate for African dangerous game in close cover.

The .450 Marlin and the .458×2-inch American are very similar cartridges. The cartridges are essentially the same length. However, the .450 Marlin will not chamber in the .458×2-inch American as the belt on the .450 Marlin is considerably wider. The .458×2-inch American should not be fired in a .450 Marlin as failures may occur. While not interchangeable, the .458×2-inch American will do anything the .450 Marlin is capable of accomplishing, and converting such a rifle to .450 Marlin is fairly straightforward.

The .458×2-inch American was intended for bolt action rifles. The first rifle chambered for the cartridge was a Remington Model 722. The cartridge also can be chambered for the Winchester Model 94 lever action rifle.

Ammunition can be made from .375 H&H Magnum cases and cases derived from it, including the .458 Winchester Magnum. Dies are available from RCBS and chamber reamers from H&M Tool Company.

References

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Hightowers Township, Caswell County, North Carolina

Hightowers Township is a township in Caswell County, North Carolina, United States.

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IRF6

Interferon regulatory factor 6 also known as IRF6 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the IRF6 gene.

Function
This gene encodes a member of the interferon regulatory transcription factor (IRF) family. Family members share a highly conserved N-terminal helix-turn-helix DNA-binding domain and a less conserved C-terminal protein-binding domain. The function of IRF6 is related to the formation of connective tissue, for example that of the palate.  This gene encodes a member of the interferon regulatory transcription factor (IRF) family. In addition, it has been observed that IRF6 gene is under epigenetic regulation by promoter methylation.

Pathology
A mutation of the IRF6 gene can lead to the autosomal dominant van der Woude syndrome (VWS)  or the related popliteal pterygium syndrome (PPS).  Van der Woude syndrome can include cleft lip and palate features along with dental anomalies and lip fistulas. In addition, common alleles in IRF6 have also been associated with non-syndromic cases of cleft lip and/or palate through genome-wide association studies and in many candidate gene studies. These disorders are caused by mutations in the IRF6 gene and some of the phenotypic heterogeneity is due to different types of IRF6 mutations.
One explanation  for this phenotypic variation between syndromes is based on a differential impact on the structure of the dimerized mutant proteins. VWS mutations appear to result in haploinsufficiency while PPS mutations may be dominant negative in nature. The spectrum of mutations in VWS and PPS has been recently summarized. IRF6 has been shown to play a critical role in keratinocyte development. A role for IRF6 in the common forms of cleft lip and palate has also been demonstrated and may explain ~20% of cases of cleft lip only. Variants in IRF6 have yielded consistent evidence of association with syndromic cleft and/or palate across multiple studies. A study by Birnbaum and colleagues in 2009 confirmed the impact of this gene on the etiology of cleft lip and/or palate, and the GENEVA Cleft Consortium study, which studied families from multiple populations, reconfirmed the findings that IRF6 mutations are strongly associated with cleft and/or palate.  A role of IRF6 in causing cleft lip and/or palate is further supported by analysis of IRF6 mutant mice which exhibit a hyper-proliferative epidermis that fails to undergo terminal differentiation, leading to multiple epithelial adhesions that can occlude the oral cavity and result in cleft palate. Research on animal models indicate IRF6 determines keratinocyte proliferation and also has a key role in the formation of oral periderm. Recently, through utilization of mouse genetics, gene expression analyses, chromatin immunoprecipitation studies and luciferase reporter assays, it has been shown that IRF6 is a direct target of p63, which underlies several malformation syndromes that include cleft features, and p63 activates IRF6 transcription through the IRF6 enhancer element.  Variation in the enhancer element increases susceptibility to cleft lip only. Both cleft lip with or without a cleft palate and cleft palate only features have been seen in families with an IRF6 mutation. In addition, different types of clefts can segregate within the same family.

Epigenetics

The IRF6 aberrant promoter DNA hypermethylation has been observed associated with cancer onset/progression. Indeed, this improper epigenetic phenomenon has been observed in women affected by Vulvar Squamous cell carcinoma arose from vulver lichen sclerosus. Methylation of the IRF6 promoter may be a marker of cancer risk in patients affected by this disease.

Cancer
IRF6 gene has been observed progressively downregulated in Human papillomavirus-positive neoplastic keratinocytes derived from uterine cervical preneoplastic lesions at different levels of malignancy. For this reason, this gene is likely to be associated with tumorigenesis and may be a potential prognostic marker for uterine cervical preneoplastic lesions progression. Similarly, IRF6 has been found to be genetically and epigenetically disregulated in Vulvar cancer.

See also
 Interferon regulatory factors

References

External links
  GeneReview/NIH/UW entry on IRF6-Related Disorders

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Athos Pisoni

Athos Pisoni (born 3 November 1947) is a Brazilian sports shooter. He competed in the mixed skeet event at the 1976 Summer Olympics.

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Calathus advena

Calathus advena is a species of ground beetle in the family Carabidae. It is found in North America.

References

Further reading

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Grand Mesa Scenic and Historic Byway

Grand Mesa Scenic and Historic Byway, also known at the Grand Mesa National Scenic and Historic Byway, is a scenic byway in Colorado.

Route description

The byway runs north from Cedaredge along Highway 65, to the top of the Grand Mesa at more than 10,000 feet (3,000 m). It also includes Land's End Road to the Land's End Observatory from Highway 65. The byway continues past Island Lake, one of more than 300 trout-filled lakes in Grand Mesa National Forest. On the north side of the Mesa are the towns of Mesa, Collbran, and Powderhorn Ski Resort. The byway continues along De Beque Canyon, with its colorful sandstone bluffs, and eventually meets Interstate 70 in the town of De Beque.

Historic and scenic byway designations:
 National Scenic Byway received in 1996.
 Colorado Scenic and Historic Byway by the Colorado Department of Transportation received in 1991.
 Forest Service Byway received in 1992.

Scenic Overlooks include:
 Cedaredge overlook - an easy access overlook
 Land O Lakes overlook - a 1/4 mile moderate walk by foot
 Island Lake - an easy access overlook with restrooms and accessible boat ramp
 Grand Mesa Visitor Center - easy to moderate access with restrooms
 Mesa Lakes Lodge area - an easy to moderate access with restrooms
 Jumbo Lakes area - an easy access overlook with restrooms
 Skyway Point - an easy access
 Powderhorn - an easy access overlook with restrooms
 I-70 pullout and interpretation information

Major intersections

See also
 Grand Mesa National Forest

References

External links

 Grand Mesa Scenic and Historic Byway

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