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# Ray Guy (humorist)

Ray Guy (22 April 1939 – 14 May 2013) was a Canadian journalist and humourist, best known for his satirical newspaper and magazine columns.
He was born in Come By Chance, Newfoundland, to George Hynes Guy and Alice Louisa Adams, but was raised and schooled in Arnold's Cove, the community that was to provide fodder for many of his columns.
Guy studied journalism at Ryerson Institute of Technology (now Toronto Metropolitan University). After graduation, he wrote for the St. John's Evening Telegram 1963-1974, and his columns also appeared in magazines such as Atlantic Insight, where he won the Canadian National Magazine Awards Toronto-Dominion Bank Award For Humour in 1980 and 1987, and the Newfoundland Quarterly. His output included political satire and humorous essays on Newfoundland outport life. His columns in the Evening Telegram often criticised the policies and ridiculed the excesses of Premier Joseph Smallwood, during a time where political opposition to Smallwood was ineffectual. In 1977, he received the Stephen Leacock Award for his collection That Far Greater Bay (1976).
In 1979, Gordon Pinsent created Up at Ours, a half-hour CBC St. John's television series that starred Mary Walsh as the owner of a boarding house and Ray Guy as the principal boarder. In 1985, Walsh appeared in and directed a stage play written by Guy, Young Triffie's Been Made Away With, which Walsh directed as a film in 2006, promoted in some markets under the shorter title Young Triffie.
Guy also appeared as a commentator on the CBC St. John's news program Here & Now. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by Memorial University of Newfoundland in 2001.
Ray Guy died of cancer on 14 May 2013. He was 74 years old.

## Select bibliography

* You May Know Them As Sea Urchins, Ma'am (1975)
* That Far Greater Bay (1976)
* Outhouses of the East (photography by Sherman Hines) (1978)
* Beneficial Vapors [sic?] (1981)
* A Heroine for Our Time (1983)
* This Dear and Fine Country (1985)
* Ray Guy's Best (1987)
* Ray Guy: The Smallwood Years (2008)
# Chanal

Chanal may refer to:
* Chanal M.O (2012-present) singer/band.
* Chanal, Chiapas, a town in Mexico
* El Chanal, an archaeological site in Colima, Mexico
* Hatutu, an island in French Polynesia
* 5671 Chanal, a minor planet

## People with the surname

* Eugène Chanal (1868–1951), French politician
* Pierre Chanal (1946–2003), French soldier and suspected serial killer
# Nances Creek, Alabama

Nances Creek is a census-designated place and unincorporated community in Calhoun County, Alabama, United States. Its population was 407 as of the 2010 census.
# John Clegg

John Clegg may refer to:
* John Clegg (violinist) (1714–c. 1746), Irish violinist
* John Clegg (actor) (1934–2024), English actor
* John Clegg (archaeologist) (1935–2015), Australian archaeologist
* John Clegg (footballer) (1939–2011), Australian footballer
# Mavic

Mavic may refer to:
* Mavic (bicycle parts company), a French manufacturer of bicycle parts
* DJI Mavic, a series of compact UAV drones by DJI
* Mavic Chen, a fictional character in Doctor Who from the 1965 serial "The Daleks' Master Plan"
# Recherche et Industrie Thérapeutiques

Recherche et Industrie Thérapeutiques (R.I.T.) was founded in Genval, Belgium, as a penicillin factory in 1945 by Dr Pieter De Somer, who later became the founder of the Rega Institute for Medical Research and rector of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Leuven, Belgium). The industrialist Jean Lannoye provided the funding for the company. The company started its vaccine research and production in the 1950s. The present CEO of the company is Roger Connor.
In 1968, the company was acquired by Smith, Kline & French and the name was changed to SmithKline-RIT. In 1989, it became SmithKline Beecham Biologicals, and since 2000 GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals.

## History

* 1945: Creation under the name of R.I.T. in Genval
* 1956: Beginning of the activity of production of vaccines (polio vaccine)
* 1958: Acquisition of the site in Rixensart
* 1968: R.I.T. becomes a subsidiary company of SmithKline Corp.
* 1989: Merger between SmithKline and Beecham
* 1992: Acquisition of SSW-Dresden (Germany)
* 1995: Extension of the site of Rixensart towards two new sites in Belgium:
** Wavre for the production
** Gembloux for the scaling-up
* 1995: Agreement on a joint-venture in China
* 1997: Agreement on a joint-venture in Russia
* 1998: Collaboration agreement with Egypt
* 1999: Agreement on a partnership with Brazil
* 2000: Merger between GlaxoWellcome and SmithKlineBeecham to form GlaxoSmithKline
# Heuristic argument

A heuristic argument is an argument that reasons from the value of a method or principle that has been shown experimentally (especially through trial-and-error) to be useful or convincing in learning, discovery and problem-solving, but whose line of reasoning involves key oversimplifications that make it not entirely rigorous. A widely used and important example of a heuristic argument is Occam's Razor.
It is a speculative, non-rigorous argument that relies on analogy or intuition, and that allows one to achieve a result or an approximation that is to be checked later with more rigor. Otherwise, the results are generally to be doubted. It is used as a hypothesis or a conjecture in an investigation, though it can also be used as a mnemonic as well.
# Paul McLaren

Paul Andrew McLaren (born 17 November 1976) is an English former professional footballer who last played for Oxford United in 2012. He was born in High Wycombe.

## Career

He began his career as a trainee for Luton Town, playing over 160 games over eight seasons. He left Luton to step up a Division for Sheffield Wednesday where he played 96 games and scored six goals. He turned down a contract offer, however, by Chris Turner after the club's relegation and subsequent failure to gain promotion to The Championship. He played for Rotherham United under Ronnie Moore and in the 2006–07 close season signed a two-year contract for Moore's new club Tranmere Rovers having left Rotherham. In his debut season at the centre of the Rovers midfield McLaren started 42 of Tranmere's 46 games in League One, and a further 43 the following season and being named Player of the year.
McLaren is a central midfielder, with an excellent assist record—13 during the 2007–08 season—mainly due to his passing and set piece ability.
He turned down a new contract offer from Tranmere and instead, on 1 July 2008, signed a two-year deal with League Two club Bradford City. He was one of four Bradford players to make his debut on the opening day of the 2008–09 season against Notts County, which Bradford won 2–1. His first goal for his new club came on 30 August 2008, with the opening goal in a 3–2 defeat to Aldershot Town. He was a regular in the Bradford side but missed a month of the season during February and March because of a calf injury, before leaving at the end of the season.
On 10 July 2009 McLaren rejoined Tranmere on a two-year contract. He scored his first Tranmere goal upon his return when he scored at home to Grimsby in a first-round League Cup tie on 11 August 2009. On 26 November 2010, McLaren decided to leave Tranmere Rovers as he wasn't enjoying the type of football they were playing. A little over a month later, on 31 December 2010, he joined Oxford United until the end of the 2010–11 season. In May 2012, McLaren left the club and rejoined his family in Cheshire.
# Chanal Balam

Chanal Balam was the only known king of Maya city-state Tamarindito in Guatemala. The sculptures at Tamarindito indicate a long dynastic history with more than 25 rulers, although only a few can be named, and one of them is Chanal Balam.
He ruled c.760–761.
He was enthroned in 760 and on 26 January 761 Tamarindito defeated the city of Dos Pilas, and Chanal Balam either captured K'awiil Chan K'inich, the last king of Dos Pilas, or sent him into exile. This rebellion of Tamarindito and its allies against Dos Pilas left the defeated city all but abandoned and destabilised the entire Petexbatún region.
The salvage excavation of a looters' tunnel in Structure 44, a poorly constructed 8th-century temple, revealed that the loose rubble infill of the temple had collapsed the tunnel before it reached a royal tomb, which was left intact. The tomb was excavated by Juan Antonio Valdés and was discovered to be that of Chanal Balam. The funerary temple containing the tomb possesses inscriptions celebrating Chanal Balam's great victory over his former overlord.
# List of banks in Turkmenistan

This is a list of banks in Turkmenistan.

## Central bank

* Central Bank of Turkmenistan

## Commercial banks

* Dayhanbank (Agricultural Bank), Asgabat (state bank)
* HalkBank SCB, Ashgabat (state bank) http://www.halkbank.gov.tm/
* Garagum IJSB, Asgabat
* Prezidentbank, Asgabat
* Rysgal JSCB, Asgabat
* Senagat JSCB, Asgabat
* The State Bank for Foreign Economic Affairs of Turkmenistan, Asgabat (state bank)
* The State Development Bank of Turkmenistan
* Turkmenbashybank, Asgabat (state bank)
* Turkmenistanbank, Asgabat (state bank)
* Turkmen-Turkish Bank JSCB, Asgabat
# John Stanford

John Stanford may refer to:

## People

* John Stanford I (1537–1603), MP for Leicester in 1572 and 1593
* John Stanford II (died 1603), MP for Leicester in 1597, son of the above
* J. K. Stanford (John Keith Stanford, 1892–1971), British writer
* John Frederick Stanford (1815–1880), English barrister, literary scholar, and politician
* John Stanford (US politician), see Members of the California State Legislature
* John Stanford (general) (1938–1998), U.S. Army officer and Seattle school district superintendent
* John Stanford (minister) of First Baptist Church in America
* John Stanford (baseball), see Charles M. Murphy
* John Stanford (teacher), pioneer of deaf education in the U.S., founder of New York School for the Deaf

## Other uses

* John Stanford International School, Seattle, Washington, United States
# Pirs

PIRs, PIRS, Pirs, or pirs may mean:
* the plural of pir (disambiguation) or PIR
* Pirs (ISS module), a former module of the International Space Station
* a Russian word, Пирс, meaning "pier"
* Propulsion Information Retrieval System, part of the Chemical Propulsion Information Analysis Center
* Police Information Retrieval System, an information system used by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
* Programme d'indicateurs du rendement scolaire du Conseil des ministres de l'Éducation, a program of the Ministry of Education, Recreation and Sports (Quebec)
# Qiantan International Business Zone (Shanghai)

Qiantan International Business Zone (Shanghai) (simplified Chinese: 上海前滩国际商务区; traditional Chinese: 上海前灘國際商務區; pinyin: Shànghǎi Qiántān Guójì Shāngwùqū) also called the New Bund, is a newly built International Business Zone in Qiantan, Pudong, Shanghai, China, lying to the south of the former Expo 2010 site next to the Shanghai Oriental Sports Center. It is known as Shanghai's "second Lujiazui" as the Secondary Central business district developing close to Lujiazui. It will be developed specifically as another new financial district of Shanghai, but will focus more on overall urban functionality.
# Most Things Haven't Worked Out

Most Things Haven't Worked Out is an album by the American musician Junior Kimbrough, released in 1997. It was his third album for Fat Possum Records and the last before his 1998 death.

## Production

All of the album's songs were written by Kimbrough, who generally did not cover the material of other musicians. He elected to keep his mistakes and missed notes on the tracks. Three of the tracks were recorded at his Mississippi juke joint. John Hermann helped produce a few of the songs. Kenny Brown served as the second guitarist. The title track is an instrumental.

## Critical reception

Professional ratings :
| Review scores ||
| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic | |
| Boston Herald | |
| Robert Christgau | |
| The Commercial Appeal | |
| DownBeat | |
| MusicHound Blues: The Essential Album Guide | |
| The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings | |
| Winnipeg Sun | |
The Village Voice wrote: "Lurking beneath an ostensibly primitive surface are suggestions of jazz-inflected bluesmen like Robert Jr. Lockwood." Guitar Player determined that "there's a deeply hypnotic quality to Junior Kimbrough's old-as-all-of-time slow blues, perfected over a lifetime of playing jukes around Holly Springs, Mississippi." The St. Louis Post-Dispatch said that "Kimbrough plays the blues to mesmerize, with elements that give trance, ambient/techno and dub its entrainment and rock and roll its visceral claw and kick."
The Washington Post noted that "Kimbrough has a soft spot for love songs and slowly grinding dance grooves." The Boston Herald concluded that "what sounds primitive at first gains unexpected power through repetition and deceptively sophisticated shifts of texture, tone and rhythm." Robert Christgau praised "Lonesome Road".
The Penguin Guide to Blues Recordings considered Most Things Haven't Worked Out to be Kimbrough's best album.
# Charles Francis Meserve

Charles Francis Meserve (1850–1936) was an American educator, university president, academic administrator, and author. He served as president of Shaw University from 1894 to 1919, a historically Black university in Raleigh, North Carolina.

## Early life and education

Charles Francis Meserve was born on July 15, 1850, in Abington, Massachusetts. His parents were Susan Smith Blanchard and Charles Meserve, a shoemaker and farmer. His family was descendants of Clement Meserve, a native from the Isle of Jersey (now Jersey) who emigrated to the United States in 1673. Meserve attended Waterville Classical Institute (later known as Coburn Classical Institute) for three years.
In 1873, he enrolled in Colby College; where he graduated with an A.B. degree in 1877; an A.M. degree in 1880; and a LL.D. degree in 1899.

## Career

After graduation Meserve worked as principal of the high school in Rockland, Massachusetts (1877 to 1885), and at the Oak Street School in Springfield, Massachusetts (1885 to 1889). This was followed by a role as superintendent of the Haskell Institute (now Haskell Indian Nations University) in Lawrence, Kansas (1889 to 1894).
From 1894 until 1919, Meserve served as president of Shaw University. Under his leadership Shaw University improved the curriculum, and increased the size of the industrial department.
He was a Baptist and was licensed to preach at a specific church, the First Baptist Church in Raleigh, but he was not ordained. Merserve helped found the Capon Springs Conference (later known as the Conference on Education for the South) in Capon Springs, West Virginia. He also gave lectures on "Indian and negro problems".

## Death and archives

He died on April 20, 1935, in Raleigh, North Carolina. He is buried at Pine Grove Cemetery in Waterville, Maine.
The National Archives and Records Administration contains a 1897 letter from Meserve to Daniel M. Browning concerning the recent punishment of Richard Henry Pratt. The W. E. B. Du Bois Papers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst library contains a 1908 letter from Meserve to Du Bois. The American Baptist Historical Society Repository contains his papers.

## Personal life

He was married to Abbie Mary Whittier from 1878 until her death in 1898, together they had one daughter. In 1900, Merserve married Fannie J. Philbrick.
Merserve was a member of the Republican party.

## Writings

* Meserve, Charles Francis (1894). A Tour of Observation Among Indians and Indian Schools; In Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Kansas. Office of the Indian Rights Association.
* Meserve, Charles Francis (1896). The Dawes Commission and the Five Civilized Tribes of Indian Territory. Five Civilized Tribes Commission. Office of the Indian Rights Association.
* Meserve, Charles Francis (1928). Shell Heaps at Damariscotta. Bath Daily Times.
* Meserve, Charles Francis (1930). Abington's Part in the Building of a Great Commonwealth and a Powerful Nation. Squirrel Island, Maine.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
# Mahmoud Abdel Salam Omar

Mahmoud Abdel Salam Omar is an Egyptian businessman. He is the Chairman of El-Mex Salines, an Egyptian salt production company, and was formerly Chairman of Egypt's Bank of Alexandria and head of the Egyptian Banks Federation. In May 2011, he was arrested on charges of sexually assaulting a maid in his room at New York City's Pierre Hotel.

## Personal life and banking career

Omar is married, and has four children.
Omar was Chairman of the Bank of Alexandria, one of Egypt's largest banks. He is also a former head of the Egyptian Banks Federation, and of the Egyptian American Bank. He is currently the Chairman of El-Mex Salines, an Egyptian salt production company, at which he has worked since 2009.

## Sexual assault charges

A 44-year-old maid at the Pierre Hotel on New York City's Upper East Side told authorities that on May 29, 2011, Omar called for room service, asking for a box of tissues to be delivered to his $900-a-night room. She said that when she delivered the tissues to his room, Omar locked his door, grabbed her in a bear hug, and began groping her breasts and kissing her on her neck and lips, squeezed her buttocks, and ground his crotch against her leg. She said that Omar only let her leave after she agreed to give him her phone number, and that she gave him a false one. Police said the maid reported the incident to her supervisor immediately, but that the supervisor told her to report the incident to a hotel security official the following day, and consequently the police weren't notified until the following day. A police spokesman said that detectives found the maid to be credible.
Omar was arrested on May 30, 2011. He was charged with two counts of sexual assault, consisting of sex abuse and forcible touching. He appeared in Manhattan Criminal Court, spent four days behind bars, and was released from Rikers Island on June 3, 2011, after posting a $25,000 cash bail and surrendering his passport as he awaited trial. His lawyer initially said he denied the charges. The maid sued him for $5 million. Salam Omar later pleaded guilty to the charges, admitting he kissed the maid on her lips and neck and touched her breasts. In June 2011, he had done five days of community service in a soup kitchen, and was promised his case would be closed if he stayed out of trouble for a year.
# Ray Huppatz

Raymond Keith Huppatz (born 6 October 1948) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Footscray and North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL), and Woodville and Port Adelaide in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL).
Huppatz, a rover, had already made a name for himself in South Australian football prior to joining the VFL. He was a four-time best and fairest winner at Woodville, with awards in 1969-1971 and 1973. From 1966 to 1973 he played 125 SANFL games for Woodville, which saw him form a strong ruck combination with Malcolm Blight. In this period he regularly represented South Australia at interstate football, including at the 1972 Perth Carnival.
Footscray recruited Huppatz for the 1974 VFL season and he made an immediate impression with 30 goals that year. In 1976 he was chosen to represent Victoria in a game against Western Australia. He finished his Victorian career with a stint at North Melbourne and he kicked two goals from the forward pocket in the 1978 Grand Final loss to Hawthorn. A knee injury kept him out of the entire 1979 season, and he managed just seven games in 1980.
After returning to South Australia, he played a further season with Woodville to bring his final club games tally to 142. He spent his final three years at Port Adelaide, but his appearances were far from regular and he finished with 38 games at the Magpies, for a total of 180 in the SANFL and 265 in elite Australian rules football.
In 2003, he was inducted into the South Australian Football Hall of Fame.
# Robert Wells (poet)

Robert Wells (born 1947) is a UK poet and fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Wells was born in Oxford, where his father was a don and his mother a teacher. He attended King's College, Cambridge from 1965 to 1968, and worked as a woodsman on Exmoor in 1977, the year The Winter's Task: Poems was published. From 1979 to 1982 he taught English in Italy, Iran, and Leicester.
He has written freelance and translated Virgil and Theocritus. Early on, he collaborated with his friends Dick Davis and Clive Wilmer on a book of poems, Shade Mariners. Michael Schmidt included some of his poems in two anthologies. Carcanet published his poetry books The Winter's Task (1977), Selected Poems (1986), Lusus (1999) and "The Day and other Poems" (2006), and his verse translations, Virgil's Georgics (1982) and Theocritus' Idylls (1988). His Collected Poems and Translations was published in 2009.
Wells' poetry was inspired first by Virgil's Georgics and then by his own experiences working as a woodsman. In it, he explored man's experience of "landscape, how it might be lived in and worked in, recorded and celebrated." Staudt says that "The Winter's Tale," the title poem of The Winter's Task, "celebrates the laborer's pursuit of work for its own sake, as he moves out of himself and lays hold of a fundamental and objective reality ".
He is married, with two children, and lives in France.

## Books

* The Winter's Task (1977)
* Selected Poems (1986)
* Lusus (1999)
* The Day and other poems (2006)
* Virgil's Georgics (1982) (verse translation)
* Theocritus' Idylls (1988) (verse translation)
* Collected Poems and Translations (2009)
# John Stanford II

John Stanford (died 1603) was an English politician.
He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Leicester in 1597.
# Pirsaat

Pirsaat may refer to:
* Pirsaat, Baku, Azerbaijan
* Pirsaat, Hajigabul, Azerbaijan
* Pirsaat, Nəvahı, Azerbaijan
* Pirsaat (river), in Azerbaijan
# Maurus Gervase Komba

Maurus Gervase Komba (1923−23 February 1996) was a Tanzanian Roman Catholic bishop.
Ordained to the priesthood in 1954, Komba was named bishop of Roman Catholic Diocese of Tanga, Tanzania in 1970 and resigned in 1988.
# Qianshi Hutong

Qianshi hutong (Chinese: 钱市胡同; pinyin: qiánshì hútong) translated as money market hutong, is a Beijing hutong recognized as the narrowest in the city. The street is located near to Qianmen, in the Dongcheng district. For most of its 55-metre (180 ft) length it is 70-centimetre (2.3 ft) wide and measures 40 centimetres (16 in) at its narrowest point, requiring passersby to turn sideways.

## History

During the Qing Dynasty, Qianshi was a financial center of monetary exchange, home to 26 mints producing copper coins for nearly every bank in the city. The lane narrowed as these banks expanded. After the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949, the lane lost its function following the reformation of the monetary system and the production of paper currency.
# Obin (surname)

Obin is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Jean-Marie Obin, Haitian painter, daughter of Philomé Obin
* Jérémy Obin (born 1993), French footballer
* Louis-Henri Obin (1820–1895), French opera singer
* Philomé Obin (1892–1986), Haitian painter
* Sénèque Obin (1893–1977), Haitian painter