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# Grandfather Child

Grandfather Child is a rock band based in Houston, Texas. Using lap steel guitar instead of the traditional two electric guitar line-up, Grandfather Child has created a sound that mixes country, Gospel, as well as rhythm and blues.

## History

Grandfather Child was founded in 2009 by Lucas Gorham as he left the punk rock group Satin Hooks. He formed the band originally as a trio, with Ryan Chavez, drums, and Mark Speer, bass with the goal to explore the music he had discovered in a film about Gospel music, called Sacred Steel. Speer left the group after several months and Gorham contacted Robert Ellis and Geoffrey Muller to split the bass role and add a guitar.
All the members of the group are busy members of the Houston music scene, including I am Mesmer (which is led by Muller), Robert Ellis and the Boys (which includes Chavez and Muller), Sideshow Tramps (Muller), Screwed Anthologies (Gorham), and many others. Perhaps because of the many different calls upon the musicians' time, the music made is somewhat a middle ground between all of the side projects.
Grandfather Child was awarded Best EP / 7” in 2010 for Waiting for You by Houston Press Music Awards and was later listed as one of 2010's Houston Music's People of the Year. They were signed to New West Records in 2011 and played at SXSW in March 2012 and will release a full-length in August 2012.

## Discography

* 2010 Waiting for You
* 2012 Grandfather Child
# Groote

Groote is a Dutch surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Geert Groote (1340–1384), Dutch Roman Catholic deacon and theologian
* Jan Friso Groote (born 1965), Dutch computer scientist
* Matthias Groote (born 1973), German politician
# Bruce Irving

Bruce Carlyle Irving (born 19 August 1932) is a former New Zealand cricketer. He played in nineteen first-class matches, mostly for Canterbury, between 1962 and 1973.
Born in Christchurch, Irving was educated at Christchurch West High School. He was an off-spin bowler who had the ability to turn the ball at a brisk pace. He made his first-class debut on Christmas Day 1962 at the age of 30, taking seven wickets (match figures of 32.3–12–78–7) as Canterbury defeated Otago by 113 runs at Carisbrook, Dunedin. He was selected to play for a New Zealand Cricket Council President's XI against the touring Pakistanis in 1964–65, as the selectors were hoping to find spin bowlers who might succeed on the approaching tour of India, Pakistan and England. He took two wickets and, batting at number 11, made his highest first-class score of 23, but was not selected in the touring side.
Irving had a career of more than 30 seasons for the Lancaster Park club in senior cricket in the Canterbury Cricket Association competition. During the 1977–78 season he became the second-highest wicket-taker in the competition's history when he took his 860th wicket. During the 1981–82 season he became the second player, after Reg Read, to take 1,000 wickets. A few weeks later he set a competition record when he took his 149th catch. He retired aged 54 during the 1986–87 season after 327 matches (the competition record), 175 catches (also a record), and 1,160 wickets (second after Read).
# Haliotis mariae

Haliotis mariae is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Haliotidae, the abalones.

## Description

The shell grows to a size of 100 mm. "The large, convex shell has an oval shape. The distance of the spire from the margin is about one-fifteenth the length of the shell. The sculpture consists of very strong squarish spiral ribs, separated by wide excavated interstices. The 5 or 6 subcircular perforations are open with their edges moderately prominent..The right margin is quite convex, especially in the part of the lip adjacent to the spire. The back of the shell is convex. It is not carinated at the row of holes, but there is a shallow sulcus just below it. The color of the shell is a reddish-brown, with irregular zigzagly radiating white flames. The surface shows a variable number of very prominent unequal spiral ridges, often double, or divided by a groove in the middle. The spire is few-whorled and is not elevated near the margin, The inner surface is silvery, with red, blue and green reflections. The nacre is sulcated spirally. The columellar ledge is flattened, becoming gradually narrower below, and is not at all truncated. The very small cavity of the spire is scarcely spiral and is almost concealed by the overhanging columellar plate."

## Distribution

This marine species occurs off Oman and Yemen.
# Birkenside, Scottish Borders

Birkenside is a village in the Scottish Borders, Scotland.
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# Beta1-adrenergic agonist

β$_1$-Adrenergic receptor agonists, also known as beta-1 agonists, are a class of drugs that bind selectively to the β$_1$-adrenergic receptor. As a result, they act more selectively upon the heart. β-Adrenoceptors typically bind to norepinephrine release by sympathetic adrenergic nerves and to circulating epinephrine. The effect of β-adrenoceptors is cardiac stimulation, such as increased heart rate, heart contractility, heart conduction velocity, and heart relaxation.

## Examples

Examples include:
* Denopamine (selective β$_1$ agonist)
* Dobutamine (β$_1$>β$_2$ agonist)
* Xamoterol (β$_1$ partial agonist)
* Epinephrine (non-selective)
* Norepinephrine (non-selective)
* Isoprenaline (non-selective)
Norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors, like atomoxetine, methylphenidate, and cocaine, as well as norepinephrine releasing agents, like amphetamine, ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, and phenylpropanolamine, indirectly activate β$_1$-adrenergic receptors (as well as other adrenergic receptors) by increasing norepinephrine and/or epinephrine levels. As a result, they can be referred to as indirectly acting sympathomimetics.
# Thunder Bay Catholic District School Board

The Thunder Bay Catholic District School Board (known as English-language Separate District School Board No. 34A prior to 1999) oversees all Catholic schools in the Thunder Bay CMA and the townships of Gorham and Ware in Ontario, Canada. It administers education at 15 elementary schools, 3 senior elementary, and 2 secondary schools.

## K-6 Schools

* Corpus Christi
* Holy Cross
* Holy Family
* Our Lady Of Charity
* St. Ann
* St. Bernard (French Immersion)
* St. Elizabeth
* St. Francis
* St. Jude
* St. Margaret
* St. Martin (French Immersion)
* St. Paul
* St. Pius X
* St. Thomas Aquinas
* St. Vincent

## 7/8 Schools

* Bishop E. Q. Jennings
* Bishop Gallagher (French Immersion)
* Pope John Paul II

## High Schools

* St. Ignatius (French Immersion)
* St. Patrick (Offers French Immersion courses)
# Keith Mercer

Keith Mercer (born 1956) is an English former footballer who played as a striker for Watford, Southend United and Blackpool.

## Career

Mercer began his career at Watford where he was a product of their youth team. He made his debut at 16 years 125 days old on 15 February 1973 as a substitute against Tranmere Rovers, when he became the youngest ever player to play for the Hornets, a record which still stands. He was still at school and Watford had to obtain permission from his headmaster to play.
His full debut didn't come until a year later in 1974, however he did score. In the 1976–77 season he averaged a goal every two games and was voted both the "Young Player of the Season" and "Player of the Season". In the 1977–78 season after he suffered a knee ligament injury in September before a recurrence in December put him out of action for four months. He then caught pneumonia, but still scored thirteen goals that season. At the start of the following season, Mercer was still first-choice striker, but was then injured in a game against Exeter City. Then three games into his comeback, he had to come off the pitch with ankle trouble. In February 1980, after 134 games and 46 goals for the Hornets he was sold to Southend United.
In 1983 Mercer signed for Blackpool, and was joint top scorer with Paul Stewart in the 1983–84 season as the Seasiders finished sixth in the Fourth Division. However, he retired in 1984 at the age of 28 with a knee injury.

## Post-retirement

After he retired from playing football, Mercer stayed on the Fylde coast, living in Poulton-le-Fylde. He worked as a taxi-driver in Blackpool and, until returning to Watford, he still attended and supports the Seasiders at Bloomfield Road.

## Honours

Watford
* Fourth Division: 1977-78
Southend United
* Fourth Division: 1980-81
# Til I Die (disambiguation)

"'Til I Die" is a 1971 song by The Beach Boys.
Til I Die or Till I Die may also refer to:
* Til I Die (album), by Potshots, 2000
* "Till I Die" (Chris Brown song), 2012
* "Till I Die" (Machine Gun Kelly song), 2015
* "Till I Die", a 2021 song by Ken Carson from Project X
* "Till I Die", a 2011 song by White Town from Monopole
# Picabo (disambiguation)

Picabo Street (born 1971) is an American World Cup alpine ski racer and Olympic gold medalist.
Picabo may also refer to:
* Picabo, Idaho, U.S.
* Picabo volcanic field, in Yellowstone volcanic hotspot, western U.S.
* Picabo, a character on the Canadian children's television show Les Oraliens
# Ayvalıca, Bayat

Ayvalıca is a village in the Bayat District of Çorum Province in Turkey. Its population is 108 (2022). The village is populated by Kurds.
# Grootdraai

Grootdraai is a town and a mine in Capricorn District Municipality in the Limpopo province of South Africa.
# Bruce Irving Rankin

Bruce Irving Rankin, OC (1918 – July 28, 1986) was a Canadian diplomat.

## Background

Born in Brandon, Manitoba, Rankin was raised in Saskatchewan and received a B.Com. degree from the University of Alberta in 1941 and studied at the National Defence College in Kingston. Rankin received an honorary degree from the University of Alberta in 1983. After his retirement he lived in Aurora, Ontario. He had a wife, Mona and three daughters. Rankin is related to Glen Shortliffe, a former federal clerk of the Privy Council and a diplomat.
Rankin served in the Royal Canadian Navy in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans in the Second World War and obtained the rank of lieutenant commander.

## Foreign service

Rankin joined the foreign service in 1945. As a young commercial secretary for Canada in Shanghai, he was obliged to leave China in 1949 and successfully ran the Nationalist China blockade in a British vessel. Rankin later represented Canada in Australia, China, India, Spain and Switzerland. He was appointment ambassador to Venezuela and the Dominican Republic from 1964 to 1970, consul general to New York City from 1970 to 1976. Rankin was the Canadian representative on the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, and for the next six years Ambassador to the Economic and Financial Committee of the U.N. General Assembly, serving as chair in 1972.
His diplomatic career was capped by his appointment as Ambassador to Japan from 1976 to 1981. During this period British Columbia's trade and economic relations with Japan increased dramatically through the establishment of such programmes as the North East Coal Project, one of the largest such developments in Canadian history. For his efforts, Rankin received the Order of Canada in 1985.
Unlike many diplomats Rankin often spoke out publicly on political questions during his 36-year career in the foreign service. For instance almost 20 years before Canada recognised China, he was speaking out about the advantages such a recognition would bring Canada.
# Sonchus daltonii

Sonchus daltonii is a species of flowering plants of the family Asteraceae. The species is endemic to Cape Verde. It is listed as endangered by the IUCN. The genus was named by Philip Barker Webb in 1849. Its local name is coroa-de-rei ("king's crown").

## Distribution and ecology

Sonchus daltonii occurs on the Capeverdean islands of Santo Antão, São Vicente, São Nicolau, Santiago and Fogo. It grows in humid and sub-humid zones, mainly between 800 and 1,800 metres elevation. It is used for grazing animals, and it is highly threatened by nomadic grazing.
# Tokarahi

Tokarahi is a small village located in the Otago region of the South Island of New Zealand. Its location is a rural setting in the Waiareka Valley, inland from Oamaru. Economic activity is focused on agriculture.

## History

Tokarahi was first a large sheep station owned by John Borton (1826–1916) and Alexander McMaster (1823–1885). Together with their Maerewhenua run their holdings were: freehold 13,000 acres and leasehold 70,000 acres. They ran 70,000 sheep when they ended their partnership in 1887, McMaster taking Tokarahi. A large portion, 11,000 acres or 4,500 hectares, was acquired by the government for close settlement in 1894. Holdings were given to 79 farmers. Borton's property at Maerewhenua was bought the following year.
For a number of decades, Tokarahi served as the terminus of one arm of the Ngapara and Tokarahi Branches, two connected branch line railways built to open up Oamaru's hinterland and encourage farming development. After the first line was opened to Ngapara in 1877, a side-branch was built to Tokarahi and opened in 1887. Its construction was partly used to provide work for those unemployed due to the Long Depression. For much of the Tokarahi Branch's history, a "mixed" train of both goods and passengers would run return to Oamaru daily. This service met a similar train from Ngapara at Windsor Junction, where it formed a dedicated passenger train and a freight train that followed at a slower pace. The reverse of this procedure took place in the afternoon. Trains to and from Tokarahi were often hauled by T class steam locomotives.
Tokarahi became one of the first places on the national rail network to lose its passenger service, with a bus replacement introduced in 1926. Due to its small population, low economic activity, and proximity to the Ngapara arm of the railway, Tokarahi lost its railway entirely only a few years later. The line was closed on 14 July 1930. Very little today survives of the town's railway depot.
The Elephant Rocks area around the village was used as the location for Aslan's encampment in the 2005 film adaptation of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, one of the Narnia books written by the British author C.S. Lewis.
# Thomas Paterson (disambiguation)

Thomas Paterson (1882–1952) was an Australian farmer and politician.
Thomas Paterson may also refer to:
* Thomas Macdonald-Paterson (1844–1906), Australian politician
* Thomas J. Paterson (1805–1885), United States politician
* Thomas Paterson (British Army officer) (1780–1856), Scottish military officer
* Thomas Wilson Paterson (1851–1921), Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia
* Tom Paterson, Scottish comic artist
* Thomas Paterson (footballer) (1874–?), Scottish association footballer
* Tom Paterson (footballer) (1874–1945), Australian rules footballer for Collingwood
* Tommy Paterson (born 1954), English former footballer
* T. T. Paterson (Thomas Thomson Paterson, 1909–1994), curator of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge
# Cannon Park (Charleston, South Carolina)

Cannon Park is a 2.7 acre public park located in peninsular Charleston, South Carolina. It is bound to the north by Calhoun St. and to the south by Bennett St. To the east and west are Rutledge Ave. and Ashley Ave. respectively.

## History

Some of the property on which the park is located was given to the City of Charleston in the early 1800s for a public park. The land previously had been a sawmill pond. The last parcels to complete the existing space were acquired in 1893. Work on a public park began in 1894. By 1897, however, the park had fallen into disuse by residents; goats and cows were pastured on the land, and the grass was left uncut.
In anticipation of a Confederate reunion, Charleston's city council decided to spend $30,000 to build a convention hall. Fifteen plans were submitted for the new facility, and those of Charlotte, North Carolina architect Frank Pierce Milburn were selected. The hall, with seating for 7000, was completed and handed over to the City Council on April 27, 1899. After the Confederate reunion, the hall was used infrequently and never to capacity. In October 1901, the City Parks Commission leased the auditorium to William P. Dowling, Jr. for a term of three years for use as a theater. In December 1904, the city council chose to use the building as a temporary location for the city hospital. In January 1907, the city council agreed to lease the hall to the College of Charleston to house its museum, thereafter known as the Charleston Museum, for a nominal rent. In October 1981, a fire destroyed the hall about one year after the museum moved to Meeting Street, leaving only its four grand columns.
In 1981, the city proposed a redevelopment of Cannon Park along the lines of the proposal drafted by Olmsted in the late 19th century. The Olmsted Brothers, a landscaping firm in Brookline, Massachusetts, had designed plans for a park during the 1890s, but these never were implemented before the site became Thomson Auditorium. The proposal retained the columns as a focal point and established the landscape around them using palm trees and oaks. A water basin was planned but never implemented.
The park today has a playground and walking paths. While the park is unfenced, it does allow unleashed dogs.
# Kolosovsky

Kolosovsky (masculine), Kolosovskaya (feminine), or Kolosovskoye (neuter) may refer to:
* Kolosovsky District, a district of Omsk Oblast, Russia
* Nikolay Kolosovsky (1891–1954), Russian/Soviet geographer and economist
# Picacho

Picacho may refer to:

## Mexico

* Villa de Hidalgo, San Luis Potosí
* Picacho del Diablo, Baja California

## United States

* Picacho, California
** Picacho State Recreation Area
* Little Picacho Wilderness, California
* Picacho, Arizona
* Picacho Peak State Park, Arizona
** Battle of Picacho Pass
* Picacho, New Mexico
# The Vultures and the Pigeons

The vultures and the pigeons is a fable of Jean de la Fontaine adapted from a Latin original by Laurentius Abstemius, where it was titled De acciptribus inter se inimicis quos columbae pacaverant (The warring hawks pacified by doves). Abstemius tells how doves manage to end a conflict between warring hawks, only to have the raptors turn on them instead. His moral is to let well alone so that the vulnerable can live at peace.
In La Fontaine's version, the protagonists are changed to vultures and pigeons (Les vautours et les pigeons) and there are many Classical references not found in the original. It is Mars who has thrown "all the air in ferment" (line 1); the birds concerned are not the doves harnessed by Venus to her chariot (lines 7–8) but vultures, of which so many are killed that "Prometheus on his rock began to hope at last to see the ending of his torture" (lines 15–16). After the pigeons intervene to their own eventual destruction, La Fontaine concludes that it is better to keep the belligerent at war in order to stay safe.
There were two later literary versions in England, each closer to adaptations than faithful translations. In the Select Fables of Charles Denis (London 1754) it is titled "The Vulturs and the Pidgeons". In Brooke Boothby's imitation in Fables & Satires (Edinburgh 1809) the outcome of the peacemaking is compared to the Partition of Poland as the result of concord between former war rivals.
A Latin text titled Accipitres et columbae, but different from that of Abstemius, appeared in successive editions of Christian Friedrich Wilhelm Jacobs' Latin Reader, claiming to be the work of Aesop. Originally published in Munich in 1808, the book saw many reprints and was also adapted in the United States.
# Bruce Irons

Bruce Irons may refer to:
* Bruce Irons (engineer) (1924–1983), Canadian engineer and mathematician
* Bruce Irons (surfer) (born 1979), American surfer
# Korongou

Korongou is a town in the Piéla Department of Gnagna Province in eastern Burkina Faso. The town has a population of 11388.
# Thomas Dynt

Thomas Dynt or Dent (fl. 1414) of Wells, Somerset, was an English politician.
He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Wells in April 1414 and November 1414. He was pledged by another Wells MP, John Wycombe.
# Knema rubens

Knema rubens is a species of plant in the family Myristicaceae. It is found in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore.
# Service national de la police ferroviaire

The Service national de la police ferroviaire (National Railway Police Service), created on 27 June 2006, is a service of the General Directorate of the French National Police of the Central Directorate of Border Police (DCPAF), with national jurisdiction. It is responsible for the safety of passengers and railway operators on the metropolitan rail network. It carries out its missions on board trains and at railway stations, some of which are included in the perimeter of priority safety zones (ZSP).
# Tillandsia bandensis

Tillandsia bandensis is a species of flowering plant in the family Bromeliaceae. This species is native to Bolivia.
# Phymaphora

Phymaphora is a genus of handsome fungus beetles in the family Endomychidae. There are at least two described species in Phymaphora.

## Species

These two species belong to the genus Phymaphora:
* Phymaphora californica Horn, 1880
* Phymaphora pulchella Newman, 1838
# Babes With Blades

Babes With Blades is a Chicago-based all-female stage combat theatre company.

## History

In 1997 Dawn "Sam" Alden staged four performances billed as Babes With Blades: An Evening of Women Wielding Weapons as a showcase for female stage combatants in the Chicago area. Thereafter, Babes With Blades was formally incorporated as a theater company whose mission statement read:
   "...to expand opportunities for women in the world of stage combat. By exploring theatrical violence as a storytelling tool and as a means to entertain, educate, and enlighten, we challenge traditional expectations, push personal limitations, and celebrate the historical role of the woman warrior and her modern evolution."$^{[1]}$
Since the late 1990s, the company has worked with other Chicago-based arts organizations to develop resources and promote awareness in the field of women's stage combat. Two collaborations with Chicago Dramatists resulted in new scripts written for female actor-combatants, and Babes With Blades' own playwriting initiatives (Joining Sword and Pen and New Plays Development Program) continue to generate new works focused on female characters in strong, complex dramatic and comedic roles. In addition to theatrical productions, the company's promotional and educational projects include stage combat and acting workshops, appearances at festivals and in the media, newsletters and demonstrations.

## Joining Sword and Pen International Playwriting Competition

The Joining Sword and Pen competition was established in 2005, in an effort to promote the writing of scripts and the production of plays with physical stage combat roles for women.
The inaugural theme was proposed by Society of American Fight Directors Fight Master David Woolley, inspired by Emile Bayard’s painting entitled An Affair of Honor, depicting a duel between two women on a secluded country road.
Since inception, the competition has been held bi-annually, with the winning play receiving the Margaret Martin Award and being produced as part of the company's theatrical season. All entries are inspired by particular works of art chosen for the competition, and must have women in most or all of the primary roles, and featured in most or all of the combat.

## Joining Sword and Pen Playwriting Competition winners

* 2020/2021: Jillian Leff for The Gatekeepers
* 2019/2020: Catherine McKay for Plaid as Hell
* 2017/2018: Arthur M. Jolly for The Lady Demands Satisfaction
* 2015/2016: Dustin Spence for The Promise of a Rose Garden
* 2013/2014: Jeff Goode for Witch Slap
* 2011/2012: Arthur M. Jolly for Trash
* 2009/2010: Arthur M. Jolly for A Gulag Mouse
* 2007/2008: Barbara Lhota for Los Desaparecidos
* 2005/2006: Byron Hatfield for Mrs. Dire's House of Crumpets and Solutions and Tony Wolf for Satisfaction

## Notable alumni

* Brooke Elliott