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# Mike Wengren

Michael Wengren (born September 3, 1971) is an American drummer, best known for his work with heavy metal band Disturbed. He is one of the founding members of the band, which was formed in 1994. Wengren is known for his bass drum techniques that have become a staple of Disturbed's music.

## Biography

Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, Wengren has been playing drums since around the age of 10. He attended Curie High School on the Southwest side of Chicago.
He has been quoted as saying that Metallica, Slayer, Judas Priest, Testament, Mötley Crüe, Pantera, Iron Maiden, and Racer X were his strongest influences.
On August 31, 2005, before the set closed, frontman David Draiman handed the microphone to Wengren, who invited his girlfriend onstage and proposed marriage to her.
In 2013, Wengren pursued a side project band, Fight or Flight, in collaboration with Disturbed member Dan Donegan. In 2020, Wengren became a partial owner of Steel Tank Brewing Company in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin.

## Endorsements

In recent years, Wengren has appeared in advertisements for Pearl Drums, since the Masters Series was his first professional kit purchased from Midwest Percussion the early 1990s. Wengren uses Evans Hydraulic Glass drumheads on all toms and EQ3 heads on both bass drums. He has been added to the Vater Signature line of drumsticks, which now has a Mike Wengren model. Additionally, he uses Sabian cymbals.
His previous tour kit was a 'cranberry fade' Pearl MRX Masters Series drumset with black hardware. Wengren's tour kit in support of the album Ten Thousand Fists was a 'vintage sunburst' variation of the same drumset, also with black hardware.

## Discography
### Brawl

* Demo Tape (1994)

### Disturbed

* The Sickness (2000)
* Believe (2002)
* Ten Thousand Fists (2005)
* Indestructible (2008)
* Asylum (2010)
* The Lost Children (2011)
* Immortalized (2015)
* Evolution (2018)
* Divisive (2022)

### Fight or Flight

* A Life by Design? (2013)

### Other appearances

* "Let the Truth Be Known" (2008)
* "A Song for Chi" (2009)

## Awards and nominations

Loudwire Music Awards
| Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result |
| 2015 | Mike Wengren | Best Drummer | Nominated |
# Rocket Languages (software)

Rocket Languages Ltd is an online language learning company founded in 2004 by Jason Oxenham and Mark Ling.

## Language courses

Rocket Languages offers 26 courses in 13 languages. All courses are web-based, do not require extra software installation and are compatible with Mac and PC.
Course access is provided via an online portal that requires a login, either on desktop or through an iOS or Android app. Members have lifetime access to their purchased materials which can be download for offline use.
Courses provide a variety of lessons in speaking, writing, listening, reading and culture. Other learning tools include voice recognition technology, interactive tests, personalized word lists, flashcards and motivational features.
Languages offered include Spanish, Sign Language, Russian, Portuguese, Korean, Japanese, Italian, Hindi, German, French, English, Chinese, Arabic, Inglés (English for speakers of Spanish), and 英語 (Eigo; English for speakers of Japanese).

## History

When founded in 2005, Rocket Languages was self funded but became profitable after 12 months, after which revenue was reinvested back into developing new language courses.
Rocket Languages first developed Rocket Spanish, a Latin American Spanish course, followed by Rocket French, a French language course.
As of April 2019, Rocket Languages has courses in 15 different languages.

## Reception

In 2009, Rocket Languages had over 70 thousand customers of which more than half were American learners over 35 years of age. Rocket Languages courses are sold internationally to over 90 countries, with the main demographic being the United States, Britain and Canada.
As of January 2017, Rocket Languages has 1.2 million users worldwide.

## Awards

* 2008 Ranked 34th in the Deloitte/Unlimited Fast50 index in 2008
* 2008 Ranked 303 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Asia Pacific 2008 Ranking and CEO Survey in 2008
# Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation

The Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation (PBC; Arabic: هيئة الإذاعة والتلفزيون الفلسطينية, romanized: Hayʾat al-ʾIḏāʿa wa-t-Tilifizyūn al-Filasṭīniyya) or Palestine Public Broadcasting Corporation (الهيئة العامة للإذاعة والتلفزيون الفلسطينية al-Hayʾa l-ʿĀmma li-l-ʾIḏāʿa wa-t-Tilifizyūn al-Filasṭīniyya), also known as Palestine TV, was established on 1 July 1994 and is within the jurisdiction of the Palestinian Authority.
PBC has a subsidiary radio station known as the Voice of Palestine and a satellite channel known as Palestinian Satellite Channel. Palestine TV first began broadcasting in 1996 in Gaza.

## History

The first head of the PBC was Fatah activist and Arafat loyalist Radwan Abu Ayyash, former head of the Arab Journalists' Association. PBC had a terrestrial television network, comprising channel 5 in Naplose, channel 21 in Khan Younis, channel 21 in Jericho (very low power), channel 23 in Kasser-Elhakim, channel 25 in the capital Ramallah, channel 30 in Halhul, channel 31 in Jenin and channels 4 and 34 in Betjala. The channel in its early years broadcast twelve hours a day, up to eighteen hours on holiday periods.
On 19 January 2002, the Israel Defense Forces used explosives to destroy the five-story main building and transmission tower of the PBC in Ramallah claiming retaliation for the killing of six people by a Palestinian gunman linked to Fatah. The Israeli Government later singled out PBC for broadcasting material deemed to be anti-Semitic or that incited violence.
The broadcasting corporation is a former European Broadcasting Union associate member, and was alleged to have held negotiations with the European Broadcasting Union to become a full active members. However, Palestine is not a member of the required organisations, and thus does not comply with the criteria. Currently, the broadcaster is a member of the Arab States Broadcasting Union (ABSU).

## Financing

The PBC was funded partially by the US government until 1998. In 2010, the President of the State of Palestine Mahmoud Abbas issued a decree converting the PBC into a public institution.
# Ideals (sculpture)

Ideals is an outdoor 1992 bronze sculpture by Muriel Castanis, located outside the Portland State Office Building in northeast Portland, Oregon.

## Description and history

Ideals was commissioned in 1991 as part of the One Percent for Art in State Buildings Collection. It was completed by Castanis in February 1992 and installed at the northwest exterior corner of the Portland State Office Building (800 Northeast Oregon Street) in the Lloyd District. The bronze with green patina sculpture measures approximately 6 feet (1.8 m) x 2.75 feet (0.84 m) x 3.5 feet (1.1 m). It rests on an aggregate base which has a diameter of approximately 6 feet (1.8 m) and weighs 850 lbs. The Smithsonian Institution categorizes the work as abstract and allegorical ("hope") and describes it as a "standing female-like figure in the form of a hooded drapery garment with no visible figure inside". The Public Art Archives describes the sculpture as an "illusion of a human female form, defined by the draping and gathering of cloth rather than the positive space of the form herself". The figure is illuminated by four footlights in the base and its proper left arm is raised. The piece was surveyed and considered "well maintained" by Smithsonian's "Save Outdoor Sculpture!" program in 1993. Ideals is administered by the State of Oregon's Arts Commission.
# Ferrante Aporti

Ferrante Aporti (20 November 1791 – 14 November 1858) was an Italian educator and theologian.

## Biography

Aporti was born at San Martino dall'Argine (in what is now the province of Mantua, northern Italy).
After his ordination to the priesthood and a three-years' course in Vienna, he was appointed professor of church history in the seminary of Cremona and superintendent of schools in the same city. He took a special interest in the education of poor children and opened an infant school at Cremona in 1827 for their benefit.
The success of this undertaking led to the establishment of similar schools in various cities of Italy. Aporti visited each, encouraged the teachers, and published for their guidance: Il manuale per le scuole infantili (Cremona, 1833) and Sillabario per l'infanzia (Cremona, 1837). He also gave, in the University of Turin, a course of instruction on educational methods which attracted a large number of teachers.
He received from the French Government the title of Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 1846, and from Victor Emmanuel the rank of Senator in 1848. He was called in 1855 to the rectorship of the University of Turin, a position which he held until shortly before his death.

## Sources

* This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Pace, Edward Aloysius (1907). "Ferrante Aporti". In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 1. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
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# Ian Wilson (composer)

Ian Wilson (born 26 December 1964) is an Irish composer.

## Career

Wilson was born in Belfast, studied violin and piano, and graduated with a DPhil in composition from the University of Ulster at Jordanstown in 1990, where he was a research fellow, 2000–3. He has been a composer-in-residence with Leitrim County Council and was music director of the Sligo New Music Festival from 2003 to 2011. He received the Macaulay Fellowship from the Arts Council of Ireland in 1992, and in 1998 he was elected to Aosdána, Ireland's academy of creative artists. Since 2009, he has been a post-doctoral research fellow at Dundalk Institute of Technology, investigating aspects of traditional (ethnic) Irish performance practice as a basis for new works of art music.
Wilson's music has been performed at the BBC Proms, Venice Biennale, ISCM World Music Days and the Ultima Festival in Oslo and by such diverse groups as the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra, the London Mozart Players, the Irish Chamber Orchestra, the pianist Hugh Tinney and many others.
He has recorded many albums, including two releases for Diatribe Records.

## Recordings

| Album Title | Record Label | Release Date |
| Stations | Diatribe Records | 2014 |
| Double Trio | Diatribe Records | 2009 |
# Skylark launch tower

A Skylark tower was a tower used for the launch of earlier versions of Skylark rockets. As Skylark rockets had no guidance system and accelerated slowly, they required a safe launch tower with a height of at least 24 metres, with its own guidance system. Later versions of the Skylark rocket were equipped with a more powerful engine and therefore did not need such a large guidance tower for launch.

## Woomera

In 1956, a 30 metre tall swivelling launch tower was set up on launch site 2, at Woomera, South Australia at 30.942947° S 136.520678° E. The tower was built of old Bailey bridge segments, weighing 35 tons together. It was since demolished.

## Salto di Quirra

At Salto di Quirra, Sardinia in 1965, a 30 metre tall Skylark tower was erected at 39°36'3"N 9°26'47"E. The tower ceased to be in use from 1972, at which point launches moved to Esrange. The tower remains today.

## Esrange

At Esrange, Sweden in 1972, a 30 metre high Skylark tower was built at 67°53'35"N 21°6'25"E. The tower consists of a pyramid-like building with a launch tower on its top, in order to protect the rocket from cold before launch, necessary as Esrange is within the Arctic Circle. At launch, exhaust doors were opened to enable the smoke to leave the construct.
As Skylark rockets are no longer produced, the Esrange Skylark launch tower was modified in 2005 for launching Brazilian VSB-30 rockets. The tower is now used for launches of rockets manufactured in Brazil.
# The Light of Western Stars (1918 film)

The Light of the Western Stars is a lost 1918 American silent Western film starring Dustin Farnum and Winifred Kingston. Charles Swickard directed. It is based on the 1914 novel by Zane Grey.

## Plot

As described in a film magazine, discontented cow puncher Gene Stewart (Farnum) makes a bet that he will marry the next woman who comes to town. Majesty Hammond (Kingston), the sister of a successful ranch owner, arrives that night and Gene in a drunken revel threatens old Padre Marcos (Swickard) with death unless he marries them. He completely cows the young woman into submission and, when he finds out who she is, he sheepishly takes her to the house of her brother's fiancé, and then leaves after apologizing for frightening her. She buys the ranch of a Mexican desperado and needs Gene to run it for her, but he has gone with a gang of Mexicans and is too drunk to be appealed to by anyone but Majesty. She finally persuades him to return. He has advised Bonita (Boardman) to take refuge in the crags when she is about to be accused of the murder of a man who fought for her. Majesty does not understand the relationship between Gene and Bonita. When the desperado Don Carlos attacks the ranch, Gene saves Majesty from the Mexicans. Majesty sees Gene talking to Bonita and becomes jealous. Gene is taken captive by Don Carlos and is condemned to death. When Majesty decides to return to the east, the old priest reproaches her for her behavior. Filled with regret over her feelings, Majesty gets a reprieve for Gene and a warrant for Carlos, and saves Gene from death just in time.

## Cast

* Dustin Farnum as Gene Stewart
* Winifred Kingston as Majesty Hammond
* Bert Appling as Sheriff Hawes
* Josef Swickard as Padre Marcos
* Virginia True Boardman as Bonita
* Charley Rogers as Danny Marns (billed as Charles Rogers)
* Jeanne Maddock as Florence Kingsley
* George Field as Don Carlos (billed as George Fields)
* Frank Clark as Bill Stillwell
* Edward Hearn as Al Hammond (billed as Eddie Hearn)
* Ogden Crane as Nels
* Lon Poff as Monta Price
* George Cummings as Nick Steele
* Sam Appel as Gomez
* Frank Campeau (Undetermined Role)
# Elida Morris

Elida Mary Morris (November 12, 1886 – December 25, 1977), later Elida Morris Cooper, was an American vaudeville singer, comedian and actress.
She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She started her career in minstrel shows, and first recorded for Victor Records in 1910. A soprano, she also recorded for Columbia. Her successful solo recordings included "Kiss Me, My Honey, Kiss Me" (1910) and "If I Had Someone at Home Like You" (1914). One of her successes in 1910 was "Stop, Stop, Stop (Come Over and Love Me Some More)", written by Irving Berlin, which she sang with "considerable rhythmic and melodic freedom... speaking the key words "Stop, stop, stop" in an obviously provocative way".
She sang in the new "syncopated" style, and was sometimes described as a "coon shouter". In a 1912 Victor catalog, she was described as "The Girl Who Chases Away All Gloom". She recorded "Play Me a Good Old-Fashioned Melody" in 1912; the sheet music cover showed her as a male impersonator, but it is unclear whether this was a regular part of her vaudeville performances. She also recorded in duos with Billy Murray ("Angel Eyes", 1910), Walter Van Brunt ("I've Got Your Number", 1911), and Sam Ash ("Hello, Frisco!", from Ziegfeld Follies of 1915).
She appeared in The Passing Show of 1916, a novelty vaudeville show starring Ed Wynn. The programme notes report her as saying: "I would love a husband... if I could find one that suited. I would just love to be the boss, you understand, if I launched into matrimony, because it is the age of equal rights and I just love the suffrage idea." She also sang in opera. She made at least four trips to perform in England between 1912 and 1920, and also performed in France and South Africa.
In 1923 she married Norwood R. Cooper, and retired from the stage. She became one of the founder members of the Women's Aeronautical Association, an organisation to which Amelia Earhart also belonged. In 1932 she launched a vocal training studio in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, and in World War II she became Director of Volunteer Camp Shows, booking stars to entertain US troops. She was reportedly still active in her church choir in 1973.
She died in Santa Barbara, California in 1977 at the age of 91.
# Guy McGregor

Guy Dalrymple McGregor (born 11 July 1930) is a former New Zealand field hockey player. He represented New Zealand in field hockey between 1952 and 1962, including the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne and 1960 Olympic Games in Rome.
McGregor was educated at Gisborne Boys' High School and the University of Otago, where he studied physical education. He became a schoolteacher, and later was head lecturer in physical education and health at Auckland Teachers' College. In 2011, he was inducted into the Tairawhiti Legend of Sport Hall of Fame in Gisborne.
# Southern Railway (Turkey)

The Cenup Demiryolları (French: Chemins de fer du Sud de la Turquie, English: Southern Railways) was the name of the railway operating former Baghdad Railway trackage in Turkey from 1933 to 1948. Cenup is another word for south in Turkish.

## History

The Chemins de fer de Cilicie Nord-Syrie (CNS), one of the two successors to the Baghdad Railway, operated lines in the newly formed Turkish Republic. The CNS was a French owned company that operated mainly in Syria. In 1927 the CNS was renamed Bozanti-Alep-Nissibine et Prolongements (BANP). The Turkish government and the BANP signed an agreement in Ankara on October 27, 1932. The agreement was that routes of the BANP in the Turkish borders would be sold to a Turkish company. Cenup Demiryolları or the Southern Railways was formed on April 27, 1933. The BANP was taken over by the Damas, Hamah et Prolongements (DHP) the same year. In 1937 TCDD took over the Toprakkale-Payas and Fevzipaşa-Meydiankebez lines. The CD then operated only from Al-Rai to Nusaybin. TCDD absorbed the CD completely in 1948.
# Duncan Merrilees

Duncan Merrilees (1922–2009) was an Australian geologist, palaeontologist, lecturer and curator at the Western Australian Museum. His research on the fossil records of mammals also founded examination into the period after the arrival of humans and their role within the ecology of the Australian continent. His excavations and research into mammalian palaeontology also included description of unknown species of extinct marsupials.

## Biography

Merrilees was born in Sydney and graduated from the city's university with a degree in chemistry in 1942. His qualifications saw him deployed during the Second World War to a Tasmanian wood pulping industry. His interest was drawn at this time to the study of igneous rock and then to the examination of fossilised mammals. He moved to Western Australia in 1951, after discontinuing a teaching career, and began lecturing in scientific literacy at the University of Western Australia. An overlapping role with the works of the Western Australian Museum was eventually altered to a full time position of curator of the palaeontology, mineral and meteorite collections. His major focus in palaeontology was what he referred to as the "large extinct marsupials".
He retired to a location near Manjimup in the southwest of Australia.

## Works

Amongst the works reporting the findings of excavations at fossil sites and study of the museum's specimens, Merrilees published a thesis on the impact of human practices introduced to the environment. In his proposed model of ecological changes after the first arrival of humans, the disappearance of megafauna as a direct consequence of their activities in Australia is comparable to Quaternary extinction events on other continents. Merrilees presented his research and conclusions, conducted under the supervision of W. D. L. Ride, in his presidential address to the Royal Society of Western Australia in 1967.
The archaeological sites he examined includes Devils Lair during 1970, an important source of fossilised material, in collaboration with Charles Dortch. His conservation activities were associated with a personal interest in farming, and in overseeing an official program of semi-cleared land purchase that sought to both enhance the agricultural potential and rehabilitation of bushland to its previous state.
Twenty-four papers were published with his professional contributions; a further six articles were authored as non-scientific works. He described two extinct species of Sthenurus, a kangaroo-like marsupial. According to the anonymous author of the obituary issued by his museum, Merrilees insisted on being listed in alphabetical order in the credits of papers he wrote with other, less senior, authors to elevate their name in the citations. Forty volumes of his field notes from archaeological sites around Australia are held at his museum's library.
# Sri Lanka Rifle Corps

The Sri Lanka Rifle Corps (SLRC) is a (reserve) regiment of the Sri Lanka Army. It is made up of two volunteer (reserve) battalions. It has been formed with personnel from the central highlands and the many plantations in the Central Province of Sri Lanka. It is the only regiment of the Sri Lanka Army that recruits its personnel from a particular geographical area.

## History

The origins of the Rifle Corps can be traced back to the colonial era when the British planters in the central highlands of Ceylon formed a volunteer regiment called the Ceylon Planters Rifle Corps in 1887 which was attached to the Ceylon Defence Force. This regiment was disbanded when the Ceylon Army was formed in 1949.
In the 1980s the management of the many plantations called for the recreation of a volunteer Rifle Corps in the highlands. Due to these requests two battalions were raised in Pallekele and Neuchatel Estate Neboda on 15 February 1985 by Brigadier G. R. Jayasinghe, assisted by Lt-Colonel Wettasinghe and Captain P. Abeyratne. The first commanding Officers were Lieutenant Colonel (later General) Ranjan Wijeratne (2nd Battalion) who was the Chairman of the State Plantations Corporation and Lieutenant Colonel P.R Seneviratne (1st Battalion) who was the Chairman of the Janatha Estate Development Board.
These two battalions have deployed in the Northern and Eastern Provinces due to the Civil War. Currently, the regiment is deployed in the Central Province provides security to the vital sectors of dams and hydroelectric projects of the Mahaweli Development programme. A detachment is maintained by the regiment in Kandy for the protection of the Temple of the Tooth.

## Units

* 1st Battalion, Sri Lanka Rifle Corps (Formed on 10 December 1984)
* 2nd Battalion, Sri Lanka Rifle Corps (Formed on 15 February 2006)

## Notable members

* General Ranjan Wijeratne - Former Minister of Foreign Affairs & Minister of State for Defence.
* Major Surendra Lal Wijewardene - Former Adjutant of the SLRC
* Lt col Lakshman Ratnaweere, (SLRC) - Board 4 and 5 chairman JEDB

## Order of precedence

| Preceded bySri Lanka Army Women's Corps | Order of Precedence | Succeeded bySri Lanka Army Pioneer Corps |
# Lists of Japanese films of the 2000s

The following are lists of films produced in Japan in the 2000s:
* List of Japanese films of 2000
* List of Japanese films of 2001
* List of Japanese films of 2002
* List of Japanese films of 2003
* List of Japanese films of 2004
* List of Japanese films of 2005
* List of Japanese films of 2006
* List of Japanese films of 2007
* List of Japanese films of 2008
* List of Japanese films of 2009
# Bastien Midol

Bastien Midol (born 3 August 1990) is a French freestyle skier. He has won 4 FIS World Cups and won a silver medal at the 2013 FIS Freestyle World Ski Championships. His brother is also a medallist skier, Jonathan Midol.
Midol won the 2019 Ski Cross Crystal Globe, and came 2nd in the Overall Freestyle Rankings.
# Hause

Hause is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Dave Hause (born 1978), American singer-songwriter
* Evan Hause (born 1967), American composer, percussionist and conductor
* Kortney Hause (born 1995), English footballer
* Lothar Hause (born 1955), East German footballer