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# Nick Stone (author)

Nick Stone (born 31 October 1966) is a British thriller writer.

## Background

Stone was born in Cambridge, England, on 31 October 1966. He is of half-Scottish and half-Haitian descent. His father, Norman Stone, was a well-known historian and his mother, Nicole, was a niece of the finance minister in the Haitian government of François Duvalier ("Papa Doc").

## Early life and education

When he was six months old, Stone was sent to Haiti to live with his grandparents, where he stayed until returning to England in 1970. He returned to Haiti during 1973–1974, in 1982 and in 1995. His grandparents owned an estate in Haiti and some of his relatives worked for the country's dictator, Duvalier. During his visit in 1982 he met Jean Bertrand Aristide, the priest who would become Haiti's first democratically elected president; he has said that he had high hopes for Aristide's term as president but that "he turned out to be Papa Doc without the jokes". He has cited his Haitian experience as being an influence on his writings and has said that until his visit in the 1990s he thought it to be an "idyllic" place. From that visit he has said:
   It was an utter shock. I was expecting the place to be a shambles, but I was totally unprepared for what I found. The place looked like it had been turned upside down, kicked around and trampled into the dirt. It was barely working. 90% unemployment, rabid crime rates, packs of feral kids wherever you turned, mountains of rubbish in the roads, some of it smouldering. Everyone who could afford to lived behind high, barbed-wire topped walls. Everyone had guns, attack dogs and a drinking problem. Heavyweight paranoia trampled lightweight common sense.
He was bullied as a child due to his skin colour. This caused him to take up amateur boxing, at which he fought at welterweight and light-middleweight. His maternal grandfather had been a bareknuckle boxer based in France before World War II. He read history at Jesus College, Cambridge, graduating in 1989.

## Work

Stone has named some of his favourite crime writers as being James Ellroy, John Grisham, Elmore Leonard and Carl Hiaasen.
His first novel, Mr Clarinet, took shape during his visit to Haiti of 1995. In an interview with Stone it was said that the book "articulated the change in Haiti over the last 30 years".
Stone's second novel, King of Swords – a prequel to Mr Clarinet, set in Cocaine Cowboy era Miami – was published in 2007.
Stone's third novel, Voodoo Eyes, set in Miami and Cuba either side of the 2008 US Presidential Election, marks the third and final outing for the character of Max Mingus.
Nick Stone's fourth novel, The Verdict, is a legal thriller set in contemporary London. The book was a significant departure from Stone's previous novels, in both content and narrative style.

## Awards

Mr Clarinet won the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger award in 2006 for best thriller of the year, the International Thriller Writers Award for best first novel, and the Macavity Award for best first novel, both in 2007. The French translation, Tonton Clarinette, won the ninth SNCF Prix du Polar in 2009.
# Nick Beard

Nicholas Brendan Beard (born 16 September 1989) is a New Zealand former professional cricketer. He played as a left-handed batsman and left-arm slow bowler for Otago. He was born at Dunedin and educated at Kavanagh College.
Beard played for the New Zealand under-19 side at the 2008 Under-19 Cricket World Cup, playing in two warm-up matches and five Youth One Day International matches during the competition. He went on to make two Youth Test appearances and two further Youth One Day International appearances against the England under-19 side on the side's 2008 tour of England.
Having first played for Otago's Second XI in January 2009, Beard made his first-class cricket debut two months later for the side, against Auckland. He took his career best innings bowling figure of six wickets for 107 runs against Auckland in March 2010 and played for a New Zealand emerging players side later in the year before touring Zimbabwe with the New Zealand A side in October.
Beard took his best Twenty20 cricket bowling figures of 4/16 against Wellington in December 2012 and later in the same season scored his only first-class century. Batting as a nightwatchman he made 188 runs against Auckland in February 2013, and innings that included 31 fours and one six and was described as "remarkable" by CricInfo. His previous highest score of 62, and only other score in excess of 50 runs, had been made in 2010.
By the 2014–15 season however, Beard's bowling action was under scrutiny. He remodelled his action and was cleared to bowl again ahead of the 2015–16 season but experience more problems with his action during the season. Beard had already qualified to trade as a real estate agent and initially planned to take some time away from cricket whilst working in that industry. He played his last matches for Otago during the 2015–16 Plunket Shield and later chose to retire from cricket and become a full-time real estate agent.
# Nicholas Cavaliere

Nicholas Cavaliere (July 23, 1899, in North Branford, New Haven, Connecticut – January 10, 1995, in North Branford, New Haven, Connecticut) was a cinematographer who filmed Frank Buck’s films Bring 'Em Back Alive (1932), Wild Cargo (1934), and Fang and Claw (1935).

## Early years

In 1927, when Leroy G. Phelps opened his industrial motion picture laboratory in New Haven, he engaged Cavaliere to do the developing and printing. This lasted about a year. Then Cavaliere launched himself upon a career as a free-lance, out-of-doors cameraman. He was so good that he soon became a staff photographer for Pathé Revue.

## Work with Frank Buck

Van Beuren Studios hired Cavaliere in 1932 to photograph Bring 'Em Back Alive with Frank Buck. Early in 1933, Buck was making plans for another trip into southern Asia, where he hoped to fill a stack of orders from circuses and zoos and make a new movie, Wild Cargo (1934). He asked Cavaliere to suggest a second cameraman for the expedition. Cavaliere named Leroy G. Phelps and Phelps readily accepted.
A third film, Fang and Claw (1935), took nine months to make. Cavaliere came off without a scratch, but a 27-foot-long (8.2 m) python, which cameraman Harry E. Squire was helping Buck to force into a box, left a 4-inch (100 mm) wound on Squire’s right arm. Some of the scenes Cavaliere had filmed in the first three movies were used in Jungle Cavalcade (1941).
# Nicholas Carthy

Nicholas Carthy (born 1957) was a Principal Conductor of the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana (1993–96), is Professor of Music and Opera Music Director at the University of Colorado, and is visiting tutor at the Royal Northern College of Music.

## Early life

Nicholas Carthy was born in England in 1957. He was educated at Bedford Modern School, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, and in 1981 won a scholarship to study at the Mozarteum University of Salzburg.

## Career

Carthy was appointed Kapellmeister at the Landestheater in Salzburg where he made his operatic debut conducting Mozart's Marriage of Figaro. He was involved as an assistant at the Salzburg Festival and worked closely with Bernard Haitink and Sir Georg Solti.
Carthy worked as an assistant to Daniel Barenboim (1990–93), with whom he was involved in a recording of Mozart's Don Giovanni in Berlin, at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra for a series of Mozart productions, and in Le Châtelet, Paris, for a performance of Wozzeck.
Carthy was appointed Music Director at the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana in 1992. Under his stewardship, the orchestra performed at the Lucerne Festival, at the Concertgebouw, and at the Musikverein in Vienna. Carthy has conducted opera productions in Vienna, Salzburg, Oslo, Stockholm, Winterthur, Milan, Rome, Naples, Eugene, and Tel Aviv.
Carthy conducted the first performances of Thomas Adès' Powder Her Face in Sweden, Israel, Switzerland and Italy. A critical review in Opera magazine described the first performance in Italy as being "conducted with brilliant musicality."
As a guest conductor Carthy has worked with orchestras such as the Camerata Salzburg, Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Colorado Symphony, Teatro di San Carlo, Accademia Filarmonica Roma, Orchestra Teatro Reggio Torino, Orchestra Sinfonica del Piemonte, L'Orchestra Filarmonica di Torino, Orchestra di Padua e del Veneto, Pomeriggi Musicale di Milano, Wiener Volksopernorchester, Israel Contemporary Players, Stadtorchester Winterthur, Royal Symphony Orchestra Prague, Slovak Philharmonic, Slovenian Philharmonic, Orquesta de San Sebastian and the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia di Roma, where he collaborated closely with Luciano Berio on several projects. He has worked with distinguished soloists including Radu Lupu, Alicia de Larrocha, Natalia Gutman, Viktoria Mullova, Waltraud Meier, Robert Dean Smith and Wolfgang Holzmair.
Carthy was a guest professor at the opera school in Stockholm (1996-2002) and is musical director of the Portland State University Summer Program. He is Professor of Music and Opera Music Director at the University of Colorado and visiting tutor at the Royal Northern College of Music.
# Nicholas Cavendish, 6th Baron Chesham

Nicholas Charles Cavendish, 6th Baron Chesham (7 November 1941 – 27 August 2009), was a British Conservative politician.
A member of the Cavendish family headed by the Duke of Devonshire, Chesham was the son of John Cavendish, 5th Baron Chesham and Mary Edmunds Marshall. He took his seat in the House of Lords on his father's death in 1989, and served as Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard (Deputy Chief Government Whip in the House of Lords) from 1995 to 1997 in the Conservative administration of John Major. However, he lost his seat in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999, which removed the automatic right of hereditary peers to sit in the upper chamber of Parliament. He married first on 4 November 1965 to Susan Donne Beauchamp. They divorced in 1969. Nicholas then married Suzanne Adrienne Byrne, in 1973. He died on 27 August 2009.
They had two sons:
* Charles Cavendish, 7th Baron Chesham, b. 11 November 1974 who succeeded his father to become the seventh Baron Chesham.
* The Hon. William George Gray Compton, b. 13 April 1980
# Nievera (surname)

Nievera is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Bert Nievera (1936–2018), Filipino-American singer and businessman
* Martin Nievera (born 1962), Filipino-American singer and TV host
* Robin Nievera (born 1986), Filipino singer-songwriter and son of Martin Nievera and Pops Fernandez
# TDI-11861

TDI-11861 is a chemical compound which acts as a potent and selective inhibitor of soluble adenylyl cyclase (sAC). In animal studies it reversibly inhibits sperm motility, producing temporary infertility without hormonal side effects. While TDI-11861 is at an early developmental stage and is unlikely to be developed for medical uses in humans itself, it represents an important proof of concept which may potentially lead to the development of future male contraceptive drugs.
# Onze et demie

Onze et demie ("Eleven and a half"), also Onze et demi, is an historical German banking game for any number of players and a close relative of Vingt et un.
Despite its name, the game only appears in Austrian and German card game compendia. It is first recorded on 1821 and it appears to have become obsolescent in the second half of the 20th century, its last rules being published in 1967. It is sometimes called Elfeinhalb or Halbzwölf, both of which also mean "eleven and a half". Hoffmann misspells it "Once et demie".
Any number may play. Before the deal, players stake whatever they like. The banker then deals each player one card each and players may then buy as many cards as they like from the banker until they decide to stop. The aim of the game is to score as close to 11½ as possible. For scoring purposes, the Ace is worth 11, court cards ½ and pip cards their face value. Anyone who has a court and buys an Ace has a natural onze et demie and is paid double. The banker collects the stakes of those who lose and pays from the bank those who win. The banker wins in the event of a tie and wins double stakes from all the punters if he himself has onze et demie, except that where a punter also has onze et demie, that punter pays nothing.
# Nelson Dock railway station

Nelson Dock was a railway station on the Liverpool Overhead Railway, adjacent to the dock of the same name.
It was opened in May 1896 and replaced nearby Sandon Dock, which was closed at the same time.
The station closed, along with the rest of the line on 30 December 1956. No evidence of this station remains.
| Preceding station | Disused railways | Following station |
| Clarence Dock | Liverpool Overhead Railway | Sandon Dock |
# St. Thomas and Eastern Railway

The St. Thomas and Eastern Railway (reporting mark TRRY) was a shortline railway division of the Trillium Railway, operating near St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada. The main commodities transported on the railway were grain, salt, and chemicals. St. Thomas and Eastern connected to Canadian National at Sarum, east of St Thomas, and Ontario Southland Railway (OSRX) in Tillsonburg. Total trackage was 33.6 miles. Trillium Railway ceased operations of the STER on December 20, 2013.
# Vanguard School (Quebec)

Vanguard School is a high school and elementary school situated in Saint-Laurent, Quebec on the Island of Montreal.
Vanguard School is the only school to offer an elementary and high school program in two languages of instruction for 7 to 16 years-olds with severe learning disabilities by offering them the resources that will enable them to learn and to experience academic success.
Vanguard School is a private school declared in the public interest, it offers adapted educational services, in English or in French, to students with severe learning disabilities. The School offers a regular program of instruction, as set by the Ministry of Education, Leisure and Sports, to students at the elementary and secondary levels.

## History

The school's first location was built in September 1992 with 2 classes filled of 28 students. It was divided of French and English students, therefore a French and English sector of the school. It is a private school and has its own school board. There is another Vanguard High School, it is an all-French school located in Laval, Quebec. The school has a strong rule for uniforms, the colors are navy blue, beige and white.
Mr. Paul E Zimmerman started a Vanguard system in Montreal, Quebec through Doctor Samuel Rabinovitch who worked at McGill's Education Facility at the Montreal Children's Hospital. Mr. Paul E Zimmerman was unable to find such service in the Montreal region, so he sent his son in the Vanguard school in the United States. With the help of Doctor Samuel Rabinovitch, they were able to create a Vanguard system in Montreal. They opened an elementary school called Vanguard School of Quebec in 1973 which is located in Saint-Laurent, Quebec.
In 2012, the administration decided to move all of its facilities into one location and to adjust its name to Vanguard School. In September 2012, Vanguard School Corporation acquired a building at 5935 chemin de la Côte-de-Liesse in the borough of Saint-Laurent. The elementary classes moved into the new location in March 2013, and the secondary students moved in September 2013.
Vanguard School has two sports teams, a soccer and football team called The Diablos. Their first winning in history of their sports team was the Girls' Soccer team (AA) in 2006.
# Sidney E. Cox

Sidney E. Cox, 1887–1975, was a Psalm Author and Composer.
In 1907, Cox moved from England to Canada. In 1908 he joined the Methodist church but soon converted to the Salvation Army, where he worked from the years 1909 until 1944, eventually becoming a Major. After he left the Salvation Army he devoted his focus to evangelical revival work. Over the course of his life, Cox has authored or composed approximately 400 songs.
# Saint Mark (Mantegna)

Saint Mark is a painting of 1448 in tempera on canvas by Andrea Mantegna in the Städel Museum, Frankfurt. A depiction of Mark the Evangelist, it is the earliest known work by the artist.
Mantegna was aged 17 in 1448, the year in which he regained his independence after six years in the studio of Francesco Squarcione. He filed a lawsuit against his former master for not paying him for works he had produced under his own name. He also began several commissions, such as the altarpiece for the church of Santa Sofia in Padua, now destroyed.
The work is signed and dated 1448 on a small cartouche in the foreground, inscribed INCLITA MAGNANIMI VEN... / EVANGELISTA PAX TIBI M[ARC]E / ANDREAE MANTEGNAE PICTORIS LABOR. The use of a cartouche in this way originated in Flemish art and was also used by other Italian artists such as Filippo Lippi.
# St Bartholomew's Church, Bathealton

St Bartholomew's Church is a Church of England parish church in Bathealton, Somerset, England. It was built in 1854 to the designs of C. E. Giles and is a Grade II listed building. Today the church is part of the Wellington and District Team Ministry.

## History

The first church to be built on the site of St Bartholomew's is believed to date to the early 14th century. The church was rebuilt in the 16th century using money bequeathed by the 1542 will of Elizabeth Siddenham. The chancel was rebuilt in 1774 and other major repairs were later made to the building, but its condition had deteriorated by the 1850s, prompting a faculty to be obtained in 1853 for its demolition and replacement.
Plans for the new church were drawn up by Charles Edmund Giles of Taunton, and it was built at the sole expense of Henry Gorges Moysey of Bathealton Court, for a cost of £1,881. It was consecrated by the Bishop of Bath and Wells, the Right Rev. Robert Eden, on 18 September 1854.
In 1901, Mrs. Burton Borough of Milverton gifted a clock for the church's tower. The church underwent repair in circa 1964, including treatment of the roof timbers and other woodwork in the church for beetle infestation and wet rot, re-pointing of joints in the external masonry, replacement of broken slates on the roof and other general repairs.

## Architecture

St Bartholomew's is built of coursed and squared red sandstone, with dressings in white limestone and a tiled roof. The church is made up of a three-bay nave, chancel, north aisle, north-east vestry, south porch and a three-stage west tower. The tower contains four bells and has crenellations and a staircase turret.
The interior contains many fittings dating from the mid-19th century and a four-centred arch arcade with octagonal moulded piers. The church incorporates a lintel from its Elizabethan predecessor, which is now located in the bell ringing chamber.
# Luz V

"Luz V", also known as "V", is the fifth studio album by the Spanish rock singer-songwriter Luz Casal. It was her very first album released in 1989 under Hispavox her new label after departing from Zafiro, her former record company.
On this album, she started collaborating with other artists and the executive production of the Colombian musician Chucho Merchán, who participated on Casal's previous album as a musician in 1987. She also met other composers such as Paco Trinidad and Pancho Varona (one of the regular producers of Joaquín Sabina).
This album is her longest studio release with 14 tracks, much longer than her four first albums which only had nine songs.

## Style

Five maxi singles were extracted from this release. With this album, unlike the previous one, Luz returned to the rock or hard rock sound of her first three releases but improved with a more modern and more sophisticated production. It is considered that this album is the most "Rock''n Roll" one of the career of this singer with only three ballads. One of those ballads, that was released as the first Maxi single, was "Te dejé marchar" (I let you go), which was composed by David Summers, the lead member of the band Hombres G. This song is considered by many as a hymn dedicated to those ones who have lost their lovers. The second and very popular single was "Loca" (Crazy woman) a song with very sensual and provocating lyrics that had a much more powerful sound and stronger arrangements.
The third single and arguably the most popular one of this album was "No me importa nada" (I don't care at all), a song arranged with caribbean rhythms whose lyrics, written by Gloria Varona and based on a personal story of the lyricist, showed feelings of distrust and lack of confidence to a possible lover. So high was the popularity of this song that it even reached the first place in Los 40 principales top 40 chart and was translated into French. The remaining two maxi singles "El tren" (The train) and "He visto un angel" (I've seen an angel) were powerful rock tracks as the most songs in this album.

## Reception

Luz Casal sold with this album in Spain over 400.000 copies. Due to these high selling figures it is considered that the performer entered in her golden era due to the everytime bigger exposure both inside and outside Spain. Some year later in 1998, a compilation album which featured the French version of "No me importa nada" was released in France receiving also a successful welcome.
# St Alban's (ward)

St Alban's is an electoral ward in the London Borough of Havering. The ward was first used in the 2022 elections. It returns two councillors to Havering London Borough Council.

## List of councillors

| Term | Councillor | Party | Party |
| 2022–present | Judith Holt | | Conservative |
| 2022–present | Jane Keane | | Labour |

## Havering council elections
### 2022 election

The election took place on 5 May 2022.
2022 Havering London Borough Council election: St Alban's (2) :
| Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% |
| | Conservative | Judith Holt | 939 | 47.3 | N/A |
| | Labour | Jane Keane | 852 | 42.9 | N/A |
| | Conservative | Aaron Young | 844 | 42.5 | N/A |
| | Labour | Hope Mendy | 798 | 40.2 | N/A |
| | Residents | Kimberley Gould | 295 | 14.9 | N/A |
| | Residents | Ian Swann | 240 | 12.1 | N/A |
| Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | | 36.84% | N/A |
| Majority | Majority | Majority | 8 | 0.4 | N/A |
| | Conservative win (new seat) | Conservative win (new seat) | Conservative win (new seat) | Conservative win (new seat) | Conservative win (new seat) |
| | Labour win (new seat) | Labour win (new seat) | Labour win (new seat) | Labour win (new seat) | Labour win (new seat) |
# St. Mary's, Wisconsin

St. Mary's (also known as St. Mary's Ridge) is an unincorporated community in the town of Jefferson in Monroe County, Wisconsin, United States.

## History

St. Mary's was first settled in 1856 by families who had immigrated to America from Stommeln, northwest of Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Those families thrived and branched-out through emigration to other States – notably to: Nebraska, South Dakota, Iowa, Missouri, California, and other Wisconsin counties. In 2007, a 500-page book was published (privately) by the "St. Mary's Ridge Heritage Project," Cashton, Wisconsin, entitled: "St. Mary's Ridge Heritage – Histories of Our Pioneers." A second, revised edition is planned (circa 2009). Photos of St. Mary's were once selected for use within an official White House pamphlet, as "one of America's most beautiful places," by former First Lady, Lady Bird Johnson wife of former United States President Lyndon B. Johnson.