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# Battle of Shigino

The Battle of Shigino, fought in the final months of 1614, was one battle during the Siege of Osaka, a campaign by the Tokugawa shogunate to destroy or subjugate the last resistance to its power, the Toyotomi clan.

## History

Five thousand Tokugawa troops, led by Uesugi Kagekatsu, engaged 2000 troops loyal to the Toyotomi at a place called Shigino, across the Yamato River (now called the Neyagawa) from the site of the Battle of Imafuku, which took place several weeks earlier. The Tokugawa troops received reinforcements from Niwa Nagashige and Horio Tadaharu, whose forces included a number of arquebusiers. They brought orders from the Tokugawa commander, Tokugawa Ieyasu, that Uesugi Kagekatsu should withdraw from the battle and take a rest; Kagekatsu insisted that this was an affront to his honor, as the Uesugi traditionally would not retire from a battle in progress.
# Times Like This

Times Like This is the second album by the American musician Slim Dunlap, released in 1996. Dunlap supported the album with a North American tour. The title track was recorded by Steve Earle for the 2013 benefit album Songs for Slim. Bruce Springsteen admired the album; he played "Times Like This" on his radio show and recorded a cover of "Girlfiend".

## Production

The album was recorded over two years in four different studios. Paul Westerberg played piano on "Nowheres Near", about a band carrying on despite a lack of recognition. He also encouraged Dunlap to rerecord many of his vocal parts, telling him that they "didn't have any guts". The title track was written after Dunlap's tour van caught fire, destroying much of his equipment. "Hate This Town", about taking over the family business, was inspired by an unexpected reunion with a childhood friend. "Radio Hook Word Hit", a satire of the music industry, is purposely without a hook.

## Critical reception

Professional ratings :
| Review scores ||
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic | |
| Alternative Rock | 6/10 |
| Detroit Free Press | |
| Fort Worth Star-Telegram | |
| Lincoln Journal Star | |
| Orlando Sentinel | |
| San Francisco Examiner | |
The Orlando Sentinel noted that Dunlap "can tell a story with wit and conciseness." The Los Angeles Times said that Dunlap's albums "crank out a loose and juicy Stones-'Mats-rockabilly mix while taking a basement-level underdog's view of the rock 'n' roll life, skewering those with star-trip pretensions." The Santa Fe New Mexican opined that the album is "just this side of sloppy... [But] it sounds like he actually had a great time recording it."
The Lincoln Journal Star said that the album "has the same easy-going, let's-rock attitude of Dunlap's live performances and his Keith Richards-meets-John Prine voice endearingly scratches its way into the aural nerve center." Stereo Review concluded that "the instantly addictive 'Girlfiend' is hands down the most perfect two-minute single that's never going to get on the radio." No Depression labeled Times Like This a "ragged, rickety mesh of Keith Richards-style rock, strummy country and bar-band slop."
In 2010, the Star Tribune opined that the "classic Times Like This might be the best overall post-'Mats album".
# MUFC (disambiguation)

Manchester United F.C. (MUFC) is an association football club in Manchester, England
MUFC may also refer to:

## Association football clubs

* Madura United F.C., Indonesia
* Mahindra United F.C., India
* Maidenhead United F.C., England
* Maidstone United F.C., England
** Maidstone United F.C. (1897), predecessor of the current club
* Malahide United F.C., Ireland
* Mallow United F.C., Ireland
* Malut United F.C., Indonesia
* Manchester 62 F.C., Gibraltar, formerly "Manchester United F.C." in their honour
* Manly United FC, Australia
* Maritzburg United F.C., South Africa
* Mathare United F.C., Kenya
* Melaka United F.C., Malaysia
* Minnesota United FC, United States
* Mitsubishi Urawa F.C., a former name of Urawa Red Diamonds, Japan
* Monaghan United F.C., Ireland
* Muangthong United F.C., Thailand

## Australian rules football clubs

* Melbourne University Football Club, Victoria, Australia

## Other uses

* Mandela United Football Club, Winnie Mandela's protection detail in the late 1980s
* Maritime Underwater Future Capability, a Royal Navy project
# Wreck Detectives

Wreck Detectives is the title of two TV documentary series from UK Channel 4 aired in 2003 and 2004 presented by Jeremy Seal, Miranda Krestovnikoff and David Manley.

## Series 1 - 2003

* Alum Bay wreck, Alum Bay
* Earl of Abergavenny, Weymouth Bay
* Mingary Castle wreck, Sound of Mull
* HMS Lawford, Normandy
* HMS Stirling Castle, Kent
* St Peter Port wrecks, Guernsey
* Swan, Sound of Mull
* HMS Hazardous, The Solent

## Series 2 - 2004

* Resurgam, Colwyn Bay
* Bronze Bell, Cardigan Bay
* Sunderland flying boat, Milford Haven
* Hope, Chesil Beach, Dorset
* U-boat B-65, Padstow
* Lelia, Liverpool
* Great Lewis, Waterford
* HMS Pylades, Normandy

## DVD release

Wreck Detectives Series 1 was released on DVD in 2005 containing all 8 episodes
# Claire Snyder-Hall

Claire Snyder-Hall (born 1964 or 1965) is an American politician. A Democrat, she has represented the 14th district in Delaware House of Representatives since 2024. The district includes Rehoboth Beach, Dewey Beach, and part of Lewes.

## Biography

Claire Snyder-Hall was born to Reverend Lee Snyder and Anne Snyder. She received a BA in psychology from Smith College and a PhD in political science from Rutgers University. She taught political science at several schools, including Rutgers, Princeton University, Hunter College, Illinois State University, and New College of Florida, before becoming a tenured faculty member at George Mason University. While briefly living in Florida, she was elected to the Sarasota County Democratic Committee and the state Democratic Progressive Caucus, and served as chair of the Sarasota-Charlotte Democratic Progressive Caucus.
Snyder-Hall moved to Rehoboth, Delaware full-time in 2011. She became chair of the 14th representative district's Democratic Committee and served on the Sussex County Democratic Executive Committee. She ran for the Delaware Senate in 2014 to represent the 6th district but lost in the general election to Republican Ernesto Lopez. She served as the executive director of Common Cause Delaware between 2015–2016 and 2020–2021 before being chosen to fill the position permanently in November 2021.
In January 2024, Snyder-Hall announced she was running to replace retiring state representative Peter Schwartzkopf to represent the 14th district in the Delaware House of Representatives. She faced two Democrats in the primary election, Marty Rendon and Kathy McGuiness, the former state auditor who resigned in 2022 after being convicted for conflict of interest and was endorsed by Schwartzkopf. She won the primary election with 41% of the votes, becoming the first woman to nominated to represent the 14th district. She went on to win the general election against Republican Mike Simpler with over 55% of the vote.

## Personal life

Snyder-Hall married her wife, Mikki, in California in 2008.
# Jack Devey

John Henry George Devey (26 December 1866 – 11 October 1940) was an English football player and a first-class cricketer. He is considered one of Aston Villa's greatest captains.

## Football career

Devey was born in Birmingham and signed for Aston Villa in March 1891; A skilful inside right/centre-forward and an England international with two caps, he was exceptionally clever with head and feet in front of goal and a prolific goalscorer. He was Villa's top goal scorer in 6 of his 12 seasons with the club.
For eight years, Devey captained Aston Villa during which time they won the League championship five times between 1894 and 1900 and the FA Cup twice. Including the famous 'Double' in the 1896–97 season.
In October 1896 Devey was awarded a benefit match against Derby County, after which he was presented with an illuminated address from the club with the following words:
   "Your courteous demeanour, manliness of character, love of fair play, and power as a leader, have alike endeared you to comrades and opponents, whilst the willing admiration of countless thousands has testified to your skill on the football and cricket fields".
William McGregor said this about Devey:
   "It was under the guidance of that gentlemanly and talented leader, John Devey, that the golden age of the Villa club was reached. John Devey assumed the captaincy in 1892. Under his leadership the club won the League five times and the English Cup twice".
He retired as a player in April 1902 and was an Aston Villa director for the next 32 years, during which time he was actively involved with training and scouting new players.

## Cricket career

Jack Devey was also a Warwickshire cricketer, first appearing for the county side in 1887, though matches were only rated as first-class from 1894. He was a right-handed batsman who batted in the middle order until around 1900, but then opened the innings until his final retirement from the game in 1907. He also bowled occasional right-arm medium pace.

## Professional baseball

In 1890 Devey played professional baseball for Aston Villa in the National League of Baseball of Great Britain. He was a gifted two-way player player, who led the statistical categories at the end of the year, including being the league's batting champion. Devey was inducted into the British Baseball Hall of Fame in 2012.

## Family

He was one of five brothers who all played professional football, Ted and Will for Small Heath and John, Harry and Bob for Aston Villa. Another brother, Abel, was a cricketer with Staffordshire.

## Death

Devey stood down as a Villa director in 1934. He died 11 October 1940. The pall bearers at his funeral were six former Villa players: Billy Walker, Richard York, Arthur Dorrell, Jimmy Gibson, George Brown and Frank Barson ― all old international players.

## Honours

Aston Villa
* Football League First Division: 1893–94, 1895–96, 1896–97, 1898–99, 1899–1900
* FA Cup: 1895, 1897
* National League of Baseball: 1890
# AN/PVS-7

The AN/PVS-7 is a single tube biocular night vision device. Third-generation image intensifiers are able to be installed and are standard for military night vision. Most newer PVS-7 intensifier tubes are auto-gated to prevent image intensifier damage if exposed to intense light. The goggles have a built-in infrared Illuminator for low-light situations. They are waterproof and charged with nitrogen to prevent internal condensation while moving between extreme temperatures.
They were designed to replace the older AN/PVS-5 from the Vietnam War. Though slowly being phased out by the AN/PVS-14, the AN/PVS-7 is still being used by the United States Armed Forces with hundreds of thousands in service.
The designation AN/PVS translates to Army/Navy Portable Visual Search, according to Joint Electronics Type Designation System guidelines.

## Users

* Argentina: Used by Argentine Army.
* Australia
* Canada
* Philippines
* United States
* Croatia: Seen in several recent exhibitions.
# Harvard Environmental Law Review

The Harvard Environmental Law Review is a student-run law review published at Harvard Law School. The journal publishes articles, notes, and comments on subjects relating to environmental law, land-use law, and the regulation of natural resources.

## History and overview

The Harvard Environmental Law Review was founded in 1976 by Harvard Law School students Deborah Williams, James McDaniel, and Alan Gabbay; at the time, it was the school's fifth law journal. In a preface to the inaugural issue, former Harvard Law School dean Albert Sacks wrote that one of the journal's goals was to "raise questions" about whether environmental progress "conforms to an intelligent and coherent set of goals." The founding editors explained that the goal of the inaugural issue was to cover recent developments in environmental law and policy. However, in its early years, the journal shifted its focus toward a wider range of topics because "it was too ambitious to ask students to research and write a comprehensive overview of recent developments every year."

## Impact

In 2016, Washington and Lee University's Law Journal Rankings placed the journal as the top-ranked environmental, natural resources, and land use law journal according to combined score, impact factor, and journal citations. In his 1998 assessment of environmental law journals, Gregory Scott Crespi described the Harvard Environmental Law Review as a "leading journal" in its field. The journal has been cited legal treatises, including American Jurisprudence, American Law Reports, and the Restatement (Third) of Property.

## Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted or indexed in EBSCO databases, HeinOnline, LexisNexis, Westlaw, Scopus, and the University of Washington's Current Index to Legal Periodicals. Tables of contents are also available through Infotrieve and Ingenta, and the journal posts past issues on its website.
# Novisuccinea

Novisuccinea is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusks in the family Succineidae, the ambersnails.

## Species

The following species are recognised in the genus Novisuccinea:
* Novisuccinea altaica (E. von Martens, 1871)
* Novisuccinea chittenangoensis (Pilsbry, 1908) - Chittenango ovate amber snail (Madison County, New York)
* Novisuccinea diserta Schileyko & I. M. Likharev, 1986
* Novisuccinea evoluta (E. von Martens, 1879)
* Novisuccinea lyrata (A. Gould, 1859)
* Novisuccinea martensiana (G. Nevill, 1878)
* Novisuccinea ovalis (Say, 1817) - oval ambersnail (eastern and central North America)
* Novisuccinea pennsylvanica (Pilsbry, 1948)
* Novisuccinea strigata (L. Pfeiffer, 1855) - striate ambersnail (north-western North America)

## Gallery
### Novisuccinea chittenagoensis

* Live individual
* Illustration of shell
* Several shells
* With dime for scale

### Novisuccinea lyrata

* Live individual

### Novisuccinea ovalis

* Illustration of live individual
* Illustration of shell
# Leslie Earl Simon

Leslie Earl Simon (August 11, 1900 – October 28, 1983) was an American military officer and scientist, a major general in the U.S. Army's Ordnance Department, and director of the Ballistic Research Laboratory at the Aberdeen Proving Ground military facility in Maryland.

## Biography

Leslie Earl Simon was born in Memphis, Tennessee on August 11, 1900. He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1924, eventually attaining the rank of major general. From 1938 to 1941 he served as assistant director of the Ballistic Research Laboratory and from 1941 until 1949 as director, supervising development of the country's first supersonic wind tunnel, the world’s first electronic digital computer, and the Army's missile test range at White Sands, New Mexico. He received the Distinguished Service Medal in 1956. After retiring from the army Simon served for 6 years as a vice-president of the Carborundum Company.
He died in Orlando, Florida on October 28, 1983, and was buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

## Writing

An Engineer's Manual of Statistical Methods was an introduction to the quality control methods pioneered by Walter A. Shewhart: it was written for ordnance officers and drew upon Simon's knowledge of munitions production. The book appeared as the United States entered World War II and statisticians were mobilising for the war effort. Simon became a respected figure in the statistics community. In 1945 he was made a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, in 1948 he was the first recipient of the Shewhart Medal and in 1966 he received the Wilks Memorial Award. The citation for the latter read as follows: "To Major General Leslie E. Simon for his pioneering contributions to Quality Control, Sampling Inspection, Reliability and Army Design of Experiments, and for his timely promotion of statistical activities which have benefited not only the Army but our government and country as well."
Simon was one of the Allied scientists sent to Europe at the end of World War II to investigate German weaponry and German Research drew on the experience to discuss various secret weapons, with an emphasis on airplanes, rocketry and the Germans' research methodology. It was first published in 1947. The book has become a collector's item in Europe since Hergé featured it in the storyline of The Adventures of Tintin comic The Calculus Affair, published in 1956, where it appears on page 23. The book is available, nevertheless, in various versions. Hergé censored the swastika, when he inserted the book.

## Selected works

* An Engineer's Manual of Statistical Methods, 1941, John Wiley and Sons, ISBN 1-135-12002-1
* German Research in World War II: An Analysis of the Conduct of Research, 1947, John Wiley.
* German Research was also published under the same title in the UK in 1948 by Chapman & Hall, then republished in 1970 as Secret Weapons of the Third Reich: German Research in World War II by Paladin Press ISBN 0-87364-227-9.
# John Taylor (14th Congress)

John Taylor (d. July 12, 1821) was a United States Representative from South Carolina. His birth date is unknown. Taylor was a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives, 1802–1805. He was elected as a Republican to the Fourteenth Congress (March 4, 1815 – March 3, 1817) but was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Fifteenth Congress in 1816 and for election to the Seventeenth Congress in 1820.
After his time in Congress he served as receiver of public monies at Cahawba, Alabama.
He died on July 12, 1821 in Cahawba.
He married Mary Margaret Smith, the daughter of South Carolina Senator William Smith. Their daughter, Mary Margaret Smith Taylor, married journalist and planter Meredith Calhoun.
# NRE 2GS36C-DE

The NRE 2GS36C-DE is a low-emissions six-axle diesel-electric road switcher locomotive built by National Railway Equipment Company. It is part of NRE's N-ViroMotive line. It is powered by two Cummins QSK50L V16 engines rated at 1,800 horsepower (1,340 kW) each, for a total power output of 3,600 horsepower (2,680 kW). It has a starting tractive force of 126,000 pounds-force (560,000 N), an adhesion rate of 30%, and a minimum continuous speed of 13.9 miles per hour (22.4 km/h). It offers Tier III emissions compliance.
The first demonstration unit was released in August 2011 from NRE's Mount Vernon shops in Southern Illinois. It was built on a refurbished EMD SD40-2 frame.

## Original Buyers

| Railroad | Quantity | Road numbers | Notes |
| National Railway Equipment Company | 1 | 3600 | Demonstration Unit |
# John Schank

Admiral John Schank (c. 1740 – 6 February 1823) was an officer of the British Royal Navy known for his skill in ship construction and mechanical design.

## Biography

He was the son of Alexander Schank of Castlerig, Fife, Scotland. He entered the Royal Navy when young. His remarkable skills at mechanical design earned him the nickname "Old Purchase" following his design and construction of a cot fitted with pulleys that allowed it to be adjusted by the person lying in it. As a lieutenant in 1776, he was placed in charge of assembling ships to battle the American Revolutionaries on Lake Champlain. In less than six weeks, he constructed HMS Inflexible, which he then commanded as part of a fleet that defeated General Benedict Arnold's fleet in October 1776. His talents as an engineer were applied in General John Burgoyne's expedition to the building of floating bridges.
After being made a captain in 1783, he brought before the Admiralty his design for ships with a sliding keel which allowed navigation of shallow waters. His design was tested successfully and incorporated by the Admiralty into several larger vessels, most notably HMS Lady Nelson, which explored parts of Australia. HMS Cynthia, a 16-gun ship sloop launched in 1796, had three sliding keels.
He also designed a system for moving cannons from one side of a vessel to the other, permitting her to carry fewer cannon. The system was tried on Wolverine, but was not adopted more widely. One problem was that when all the guns were on one side, there was little freeboard.
He attained the rank of admiral of the blue in 1821. He married Margaret Grant (1761–1843), sister of The Rt. Hon. Sir William Grant, Master of the Rolls. The Schanks lived at Barton House, Dawlish, which was afterwards left to his brother-in-law, Major John Grant (1766–1835). He died at Barton House, 1823.

## Legacy

Mount Schank and Cape Schanck, Australia were named for the Admiral in December 1800 by Lieutenant (later Captain) James Grant during his exploratory mission of the region while commanding the Lady Nelson.
Schank appears in Patrick O'Brian's book The Letter of Marque.
Schank appears in Richard Woodman's book A King's Cutter.
Schank's Bay on Carleton Island was once named for him, but now referred to as North Bay.
# Vernayaz railway station

Vernayaz railway station (French: Gare de Vernayaz, German: Bahnhof Vernayaz) is a railway station in the municipality of Vernayaz, in the Swiss canton of Valais. It is an intermediate stop on the Simplon line and is served by local trains only.

## Services

As of the December 2024 timetable change, the following services stop at Vernayaz:
* Regio: half-hourly service between Monthey and Brig, with every other train continuing from Monthey to St-Gingolph.
# List of Russian desserts

This is a list of Russian desserts. Russian cuisine is a collection of the different cooking traditions of the Russian people. The cuisine is diverse, as Russia is by area the largest country in the world. Russian cuisine derives its varied character from the vast and multi-cultural expanse of Russia.

## Russian desserts

* Blini (blintz)
* Chak-Chak
* Charlotte
* Chocolate-covered prune
* Curd snack
* Gogol mogol (kogel mogel)
* Khvorost (angel wings)
* Guryev porridge
* Hematogen
* Kissel
* Kulich
* Kutia
* Medovik (a layered honey cake)
* Napoleon (mille-feuille)
* Oladyi
* Paskha
* Pastila (a traditional Russian fruit confectionery)
* Pirog
* Pirozhki
* Ponchiki or Pyshka
* Pryanik
** Tula pryanik
** Vyazma pryanik
* Ptichye moloko ("bird's milk")
* Sunflower Halva
* Sushki
* Syrniki
* Trubochka (torpedo dessert)
* Varenye
* Vatrushka
* Zefir

## Gallery

* Russian desserts
* Tula pryanik
* Red currant kissel
* Napoleon
* Ptichye moloko cake
* Poppy-seed sushki
* Syrniki served with varenye
* Vatrushka
* Zefir
# Network-i

Network-i Ltd was a datacentre company headquartered in Slough, Berkshire, England. The company provided hosting, colocation, network and cloud based services from its datacentres located in the United Kingdom.
The company was formed in 1996 as the Internet Service Provider Consortium with a remit to provide reliable core transit facilities. The company changed its name to Network-i in 1998 when the consortium members sold a controlling majority of the shares to the management team, headed by Barry Reynolds, a former finance director at British Gas. Under his stewardship, the company established a carrier class datacentre on Slough Trading Estate and began to offer broadband services and hosting facilities. In early 2000, Reynolds ceded responsibility for running the company to Sandeep Sharma, a conferencing industry veteran.
In 2006, the company was the first datacentre operator worldwide to gain ISO 27001:2005 accreditation. Network-i opened a second datacentre in January 2009.
On 5 August 2010 Network-i was acquired by Virtustream.
Network-i ceased trading on 28 December 2017.

## Datacentres

Network-i operated two ISO 27001 certified carrier-neutral datacentres in the UK.