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# Carl Davis (record producer)

Carl H. Davis Sr. (September 19, 1934 – August 9, 2012) was an American record producer and music executive, who was particularly active in Chicago in the 1960s and 1970s. He was responsible for hit R&B records by Gene Chandler, Major Lance, Jackie Wilson, The Chi-Lites, Barbara Acklin, Tyrone Davis and others.

## Life and career

Davis was born in Chicago and attended Englewood High School. He began working as an assistant to disc jockey Al Benson on radio station WGES in 1955, and then joined a record marketing company. In the early 1960s, he helped run the small Nat record label which had a local hit with the song "Nite Owl" by the DuKays, produced by Davis. A follow-up release, "Duke of Earl", which Davis also produced, was credited to the group's lead singer Gene Chandler, and became a national no. 1 hit after being leased to the larger Vee-Jay label.
In 1962, Davis began working as a producer and A&R director for the Columbia subsidiary label OKeh, where he produced a number of hit records for Major Lance, Billy Butler and Walter Jackson. Many were characterised as "peppy, brassy arrangements... and danceable, upbeat songs with a Latin tinge," often using songs written by Curtis Mayfield that Mayfield felt were inappropriate for his own group, The Impressions. He also continued to produce records for Gene Chandler and The Artistics, and briefly produced Mary Wells after she left Motown.
In the mid-1960s, he began working for Brunswick Records, where he produced Jackie Wilson's comeback hit, "Whispers" and the million-seller, "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher", Barbara Acklin's "Love Makes a Woman", as well as several early hits by The Chi-Lites. He also formed the Dakar label, which had a long run of hits with Tyrone Davis (no relation), including "Can I Change My Mind" and "Turn Back the Hands of Time," and also found success with Hamilton Bohannon.
When the Dakar label folded in 1976, Davis formed Chi Sound Records, continuing to find success with Walter Jackson and having a major hit single in 1978 with Gene Chandler's "Get Down". After a distribution deal with 20th Century Records ended in 1981, Davis used independent distribution for two years before closing Chi Sound down. The company had a brief revival in 1989–90, before re-opening in 2007 and remained active until Davis' death. On February 11, 2013, Carl Davis was honored during the 55th Grammy Awards, along with several other music business personalities in the memorial pictorial tribute.
Carl Davis’ biography, The Man Behind the Music: The Legendary Carl Davis, was published in May 2011, by Life To Legacy, LLC, Matteson IL.

## Death

Davis died from pulmonary fibrosis at the age of 77, in his home in Summerville, South Carolina, on the morning of August 9, 2012.
# Parade of horribles

A parade of horribles can either refer to a type of parade where people wear grotesque costumes, or a rhetorical device where one argues against taking a certain course of action by listing a number of extremely undesirable events that would result from it.

## As a literal parade

The phrase parade of horribles originally referred to a literal parade of people wearing comic and grotesque costumes, rather like the Philadelphia Mummers Parade. It was a traditional feature of Fourth of July parades in parts of the United States in the 19th century, and "Horribles Parades" continue to be part of the Independence Day celebration in several New England in communities like Gloucester, Massachusetts. A 1926 newspaper article about July the Fourth celebrations in the White Mountains of New Hampshire notes:
   Old-time celebrations are to be held tomorrow at Littleton, Lancaster, Colebrook, and Conway, with all the usual features of street parades of horribles and grotesques, brass bands, decorated automobiles and vehicles, exhibitions by fire departments, basket picnics in convenient groves...
Founded in 1926, the Ancient and Horribles Parade in Chepachet, Rhode Island continues this tradition.
Other rural New England towns, such as Hopkinton, Massachusetts, and Mendon, Massachusetts, still hold annual Horribles Parades.

## As a rhetorical device

A parade of horribles is also a rhetorical device whereby the speaker argues against taking a certain course of action by listing a number of extremely undesirable events which will ostensibly result from the action. Its power lies in the emotional impact of the unpleasant predictions; however, a parade of horribles can potentially be a fallacy if one or more of the following is true:
* The action doesn't actually change the likelihood of the "horribles" occurring. The "horribles" could be unlikely to occur even if the action is taken, or they could be likely to happen anyway even if the action is avoided. This is an appeal to probability, and can be viewed as a non sequitur insofar as the action has no causal relation to the "horribles".
* The argument relies solely on the emotional impact of the "horribles" (an appeal to emotion).
* The "horribles" are not actually bad.
* The "horribles" have a low probability of occurring when compared to the high probability of good occurring.
A parade of horribles may be a type of hyperbole if it exaggerates the negative results of the action.
# Achnashellach railway station

Achnashellach railway station is a railway station serving Achnashellach on the Kyle of Lochalsh Line, in Wester Ross, Scotland. The station lies between Strathcarron and Achnasheen, 40 miles 34 chains (65.1 km) from Dingwall. ScotRail, who manage the station, operate all services.

## History

The station was privately opened by the Dingwall and Skye Railway in August 1870, primarily to serve Achnashellach Lodge near Loch Dughaill, but was operated from the outset by the Highland Railway (HR), and only opened to the public a year later, on 1 May 1871. The passing loop at the station was removed in 1966, and the wooden station buildings removed a few years after, although he remains of the second platform are partially visible.

### Accidents and incidents

On 14 October 1892, Achnashellach was the scene of a runaway train in which the brake in the brake van had malfunctioned. Subsequently, this train moved off down the slope at considerable speed without a locomotive to keep it under control. Reaching the bottom of the slope, it had enough energy to proceed back uphill, before running down the slope once again. Unfortunately, another train was approaching Achnashellach in the opposite direction at that very moment, and the two trains collided at the bottom of the slope with great force. Eight passengers were injured, though none seriously, and the track was not damaged with only minor damage occurring to the rolling stock.

## Facilities

Facilities, like at many other stations on the line, are incredibly basic, comprising just a shelter, help point and bike racks, although the station is fully accessible. As there are no facilities to purchase tickets, passengers must buy one in advance, or from the guard on the train.

## Passenger volume

The main origin or destination station for journeys to or from Achnashellach in the 2022–23 period was Inverness, making up 410 of the 752 journeys (54.5%).
Passenger Volume at Achnashellach :
| | 2002–03 | 2004–05 | 2005–06 | 2006–07 | 2007–08 | 2008–09 | 2009–10 | 2010–11 | 2011–12 | 2012–13 | 2013–14 | 2014–15 | 2015–16 | 2016–17 | 2017–18 | 2018–19 | 2019–20 | 2020–21 | 2021–22 | 2022–23 |
| Entries and exits | 664 | 691 | 593 | 540 | 655 | 646 | 778 | 738 | 1,084 | 1,054 | 976 | 800 | 1,078 | 878 | 870 | 820 | 836 | 130 | 650 | 752 |
The statistics cover twelve month periods that start in April.

## Services

Four trains each way call (on request) on weekdays and Saturdays and one each way all year on Sundays, plus a second from May to late September only.
| Preceding station | National Rail | National Rail | National Rail | Following station |
| Achnasheen | | ScotRail Kyle of Lochalsh Line | | Strathcarron |
| | Historical railways | Historical railways | Historical railways | |
| Glencarron Platform | | Highland Railway Dingwall and Skye Railway | | Strathcarron |
# Koona

Koona is a village and rural commune in Niger.
Koona is also a common misspelling and mispronunciation of the Idaho city "Kuna"
# Kwaya, Niger

Kwaya, Niger is a village and rural commune in the Magaria Department of the Zinder Region of Niger. As of 2012, it had a population of 32,510.
# Kwikset

Kwikset is an American lock and lockset manufacturer owned by Assa Abloy. Originally Gateway Manufacturing Company, Kwikset was founded in California in 1946 by Adolf Schoepe, and Karl Rhinehart.
The current name for the company was derived from the company's first locks, which pioneered the then-revolutionary tubular lock design, which was relatively fast to install. Kwikset key blanks (KW1, Ilco 1176, Axxess 66) are available at almost every location where keys can be made.
Kwikset currently has manufacturing facilities in Denison, Texas; Charlotte, North Carolina; and Mexicali, Mexico. Kwikset also has a facility in China. Kwikset previously had manufacturing facilities in Anaheim, California; Bristow, Oklahoma; and Waynesboro, Georgia; but starting in 1996, these facilities were closed in a consolidation of operations to the Mexicali facility. Kwikset's Corporate headquarters is in Lake Forest, California.

## History

Adolph Schoepe and friend Karl Rhinehart founded Gateway Manufacturing Company in South Gate just before the end of World War II. They manufactured locks under the Kwikset brand. They moved the company to Anaheim in 1948. During the Korean War, demand plummeted, but the company took a risk, producing more goods than they could sell. When demand surged after the war, their ability to supply goods from the earlier manufactured stock cemented a position as the largest United States supplier of locks.
Rhinehart retired in 1952. Schoepe sold the company in 1957, to American Hardware Corporation. They merged with Emhart Manufacturing Corporation in 1964. Black & Decker purchased the company in 1989.
In 1992, Kwikset introduced its higher quality, high-security Titan product line. Around the year 2005, the line was rebranded as the "Signature Series".
In March 2010, Black & Decker was purchased by Stanley Tools. Kwikset subsequently became part of the Hardware and Home Improvement (HHI) Group of Stanley Black & Decker, which also owned lockset manufacturers Weiser and Baldwin. Kwikset evolved to include many Weiser features, and Weiser locks now use Kwikset's "SmartKey" self-rekeyable lock technology and Kwikset keyways.
On October 9, 2012, the Wall Street Journal reported that Spectrum Brands Holdings, Inc. had agreed to acquire the HHI division from Stanley Black & Decker's, including Kwikset, and that the transaction was slated to close by December 31, 2012.
On September 8, 2021, Assa Abloy announced that it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire Spectrum Brands' HHI division, including Kwikset, among other brands, for a purchase price of $4.3 billion. The transaction was initially expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2021. On June 20, 2023, the purchase of the "HHI" division of Spectrum Brands was completed, this included the Kwikset brand.
# Thomas P. Cullinan

Thomas P. Cullinan (November 4, 1919 – June 11, 1995) was an American novelist and playwright, as well as a writer for television. He is perhaps best known for his 1966 novel The Beguiled, which was made into two films of the same name, in 1971 and again in 2017.

## Early life

Cullinan was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, in an Irish Catholic family. He graduated from Cathedral Latin High School in 1938, and later attended Case Western Reserve University.

## Career

In addition to The Beguiled (1966), Cullinan's novel about a Union soldier recuperating at a girls school in Confederate Virginia during the Civil War, he wrote three novels—The Besieged (1970), The Eighth Sacrament (1977), and The Bedeviled (1978)—as well as several plays, which are still produced. He received a Ford Foundation grant to represent the United States at a literary colloquium in Berlin in 1964, and he wrote a weekly television program in his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, both for WKYC, a local television affiliate, and for Case Western Reserve University. The Beguiled was twice made into a film: in 1971, directed by Don Siegel and starring Clint Eastwood and Geraldine Page; and in 2017, directed by Sofia Coppola and starring Nicole Kidman and Colin Farrell.

## Death

Cullinan died of a heart attack on June 11, 1995, at a local theater in Cleveland Heights where he was judging a high school playwrighting festival. Cullinan's papers are kept at the Kent State University archive, which include an unpublished play based on the Marilyn Sheppard murder case.

## Awards

* Cleveland Arts Prize (1971)
* Ford Foundation grants (1964 and 1966)

## Notable works

Books
* 1966: The Beguiled
* 1970: The Besieged
* 1974: The Roots of Social Injustice
* 1975: If the Eye Be Sound
* 1975: Paths Are Made by Those Who Walk on Them
* 1977: The Eighth Sacrament
* 1978: The Bedeviled
* 1988: Inherited Illusions: Integrating the Sacred & the Secular
Produced Plays
* 1969: Mrs. Lincoln
* 1970: The Attic
* 1996: The Rose of Tralee
* 2000: The Wayward Angel
# Lake Hawassa

Lake Hawassa or Awasa, is an endorheic basin in Sidama Region of Ethiopia, located in the Main Ethiopian Rift south of Addis Ababa, the capital city of the country. According to the Statistical Abstract of Ethiopia for 1967/68, the lake is 16 km long and 9 km wide, with a surface area of 129 square kilometers. It has a maximum depth of 10 meters and is located at an elevation of 1,708 meters. It is located inside the Awasa Caldera.
Because it is relatively accessible to scientists, Lake Hawassa is the most studied of the Rift Valley lakes in Ethiopia. According to William Taylor, a member of the African Lakes and Rivers Research Group at the University of Waterloo, Lake Hawassa is, despite its lack of an outflow, "essentially a freshwater lake (conductivity is variable, but less than 1,000) indicating that it must have a subterranean outlet."
# La Loma, Coclé

La Loma is a town in the Coclé Province of Panama.

## Sources

* World Gazeteer: Panama – World-Gazetteer.com
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# Richard Sherzan

Richard E. Sherzan (born December 22, 1946) is an American politician living in the State of Iowa. He is a lifelong Democrat. Sherzan was born in Mobile, Alabama, to Gloria and Edward Sherzan. He grew up in Des Moines, Iowa. He moved to Arizona in 1983, and then returned to live in Iowa, in 2021. He has an M.A., Master's degree, in American History, University of Iowa, and a J.D. degree from Drake University Law School, in Des Moines. In 1976, he was Polk County, Iowa, Coordinator for the Morris K. Udall Presidential Campaign. He served in the Iowa State Legislature, House of Representatives, from 1979 to 1981, after a year long, door-to-door campaign.
While living in Arizona, he worked as a law clerk with the Maricopa County Attorney's Office (Civil Division); Arizona Attorney General's Office (Criminal Division); and private law firms (self-employed). He has a Community College Teacher Certification (Law, History) from Arizona; and has been a part-time Community College Teacher, and Substitute Teacher, K-12. In 2014, after working 17 years, he retired, as an Administrative Law Judge, from the Arizona Dept. of Economic Security, Unemployment Insurance Office of Appeals. He is a U.S. Army, Vietnam War Veteran, with Honorable Discharge; Purple Heart Award; and Bronze Star Award with "V" Device (heroism in ground combat, Vietnam). He also protested the Vietnam War.
In Arizona, Sherzan was a candidate for the U.S. Senate in the Arizona Democratic Party primary elections of 2016 and 2018.
# Laval-Links station

Laval-Links is a disused commuter rail station formerly operated by Canadian National Railways and the STCUM in Laval, Quebec, Canada. It was located at milepost 17 on CN's Deux-Montagnes subdivision.
It was served by the Deux-Montagnes line.

## Origin of name

The name comes from the nearby Club Laval-sur-le-Lac golf course, aka Laval Links.

## Location

In the Laval-sur-le-Lac sector of Laval at the corner of rue les Cèdres, the entrance of the links, and rue les Peupliers.

## Connecting bus routes

Until 1995 STL route 26 on nearby rue les Érables.
# Lchap

40°27′40″N 45°03′54″E﻿ / ﻿40.46111°N 45.06500°E﻿ / 40.46111; 45.06500
Lchap (Armenian: Լճափ) is a village in the Gavar Municipality of the Gegharkunik Province of Armenia.

## Etymology

The village was known as Agzibir, Aghzibir, and Kiziljik until 1945.
# Alexandre Eugène Cellier

Alexandre Eugène Cellier (17 June 1883 in Molières-sur-Cèze – 4 March 1968 in Paris) was a French organist and composer.
Cellier studied organ with Alexandre Guilmant until 1908. In 1908, he won the first prize for organ at the Conservatoire de Paris. Before that, he also studied with Henri Dallier and Charles-Marie Widor. He was the organist Titulaire of the Temple de l'Étoile in Paris from 1910 until his death in 1968. The organ he used was a 3-manual Cavaillé-Coll organ with 32 stops, which was extended by Mutin (Cavaillé-Coll) in 1914.
In Louis Vierne's biography Mes Souvenirs, he describes Alexandre Cellier as a "cultivated musician" with improvisation skills. He gave concerts abroad.
He wrote a book about organ registration and is known as the French translator of the texts of the Bach Chorales.

## Selected compositions
### Orchestral

* Paysages cévenols (1912)
* Sur la colline d’Uzès (1928)
* Le chant d’une flûte (1930)
* Chacun son tour, Suite humoristique for wind soloists and string orchestra (1934)
* Le Carnaval (1938)

### Chamber music

* Piano Quintet No. 1 (1906)
* String Quartet No. 1 in A minor (1911)
* Piano Quintet No. 2 (1913)
* Sonata in G major for cello and piano (1920)
* String Quartet No. 2 (1923)
* Sonate en sol bémol majeur (Sonata in G♭ Major) for viola and piano (1923)
* Chevauchée fantastique for trumpet and piano (1944)
* Ballade for horn and piano (1949)
* Images médiévales for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon
* Invocation for organ, violin, cello and harp

### Organ

* Suite Symphonique pour Orgue en Sol majeur (1906)
* Méditation – published in book one of Les Maîtres Contemporains de l'Orgue in 1911
* Pièce Symphonique – published in book one of Les Maîtres Contemporains de l'Orgue in 1911
* Cortège – published in book four of Les Maîtres Contemporains de l'Orgue
* Dans la vieille Abbaye – published in book four of Les Maîtres Contemporains de l'Orgue
* Offertoire pour le jour de l'Ascension – published in book eight of Les Maîtres Contemporains de l'Orgue
* Étude en mi mineur (1916)
* Pèlerinages, Suite de 10 pièces (1923)
* Trois Chorals (1936)
   * La douleur, Choral-paraphrase sur la mélodie du Psaume 77
   * L'espérance, Choral-paraphrase sur la mélodie du Psaume 90
   * La joie, Choral-paraphrase sur la mélodie du Psaume 138
* Églises et Paysages (1943)
* Prélude et Fugue – published in Orgue et Liturgie, volume 33
* Choral-Prélude sur Psaume 65 – published in Orgue et Liturgie, volume 38
* Thème et variations sur le Psaume 149 du Psautier de la Réforme "Chantez à Dieu chanson nouvelle" – published in Orgue et Liturgie, volume 66
* Rhapsodie
* Concerto

### Vocal

* Prière: J'ai cru, c'est pourquoi j'ai parlé (Prayer) for voice and organ; words from Psalm 116
# Lee Feldman (businessman)

Lee Michael Feldman (born 1967/1968) is an American lawyer and businessman. Feldman is the managing partner of the private equity firm, Twin Lakes Capital Management, LLC. and the former chairman of GVC Holdings, the FTSE 100 Index gambling conglomerate.

## Education

Feldman earned a bachelor's degree and a juris doctor in law from Columbia University.

## Career

Feldman started his career as a corporate lawyer for O'Sullivan, Graev and Karabell. He was a partner at Softbank Capital Partners. In December 2004, Feldman joined GVC Holdings and became the non-executive chairman in September 2008.

### Private equity firm

In 2007, Feldman co-founded the private equity firm, Twin Lakes Capital Management, LLC. The private equity firm focuses on branded consumer products, media and business services. Twin Lakes Capital Management, LLC., purchased Mackenzie-Childs, Ltd., from Pleasant Rowland in 2008. Lee was appointed the Chief Executive Officer of Aurora Brands when his firm led the acquisition. Feldman served as CEO of Aurora Brands, a holding company with interest in manufacturing and distributing home furnishing products, from 2007 to 2014. Aurora Brands is the owner of home decor and furnishing companies MacKenzie-Childs, Ltd., and Jay Strongwater.

### Earnings & departure at GVC Holdings

In 2017, Feldman and the CEO of GVC, Kenny Alexander earned a total of £26.9 million, and 44% of shareholders voted against the company's remuneration report. In March 2019, Sky News reported that Feldman would leave the GVC Holdings on or before the company's "annual general meeting next year". Feldman was overdue to leave under UK corporate governance code, which recommends chairs of listed companies not stay in position longer than nine years. The news of his departure came two weeks after Feldman sold £6m worth of his GVC shares; the CEO, Kenny Alexander, also sold shares worth £13.7m, which led to GVC Holding's share price falling nearly 18% in a single day. Alexander and Feldman both sold 3 million GVC shares at a low price of 666 pence, seen by investors as a lack of confidence in the bookmaker.
# Lee Seung-hee (artist)

Lee Seung Hee (born 1963 in Cheongju, South Korea; Hangul:이승희; Chinese: 李承熙) is a South Korean ceramic artist. He is known for his interpretation of Korean and Chinese ceramic objects into two-dimensional works of art. Lee Seung Hee's work is mainly exhibited in South Korea and China.

## Education

Lee Seung Hee graduated from the Handicraft Department of Cheongju University, South Korea.
# Leonard Watkins

Leonard Watkins (7 December 1859 - 7 February 1901) was a Welsh international rugby union half-back who played club rugby for Cardiff Rugby Football Club and international rugby for Wales. He won just a single game for Wales when he was selected for the first Welsh rugby international.

## Rugby career

Watkins was born in Abergavenny and was educated at Exeter College, Oxford. While at Exeter College, he represented the Oxford University team, and in 1879 he was awarded a sporting Blue. After leaving Oxford, Watkins returned to Wales, moving to Cardiff. He represented two clubs while in the Welsh capital, premier club Cardiff RFC and local rivals Llandaff.
In 1881, Newport Athletic secretary and sporting entrepreneur Richard Mullock, organised a fixture between the England rugby union team and a Welsh XV. At the time Wales did not have an international team, and after the challenge was accepted by the Rugby Football Union, Mullock needed to select a team quickly. Watkins was one of four players who represented Cardiff to be selected for the team, alongside B. B. Mann, Barry Girling and William David Phillips. The Welsh team that arrived to play England at Blackheath were completely unprepared for the game; there had been no trial and most of the team were unfamiliar with each other's style of play. The game was a one-sided affair, with England humiliating Wales in an 8-goal victory. Watkins never represented his country again, emigrating to Argentina later that year.

### International matches played

Wales
* England 1881