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The NZR UA class were a class of 4-6-0 Ten Wheeler locomotive built by the Scottish firm of Sharp Stewart and Company to ease a motive power shortage. They lived relatively short lives amongst NZR ten wheelers, mostly at the southern end of the country where they were seldom photographed.

Origin and design
As New Zealand rapidly recovered from the 1880s depression, NZR developed a motive power shortage that its own workshops could not keep up with. After his 1898 annual report indicated it was "absolutely necessary" to obtain more locomotives the Locomotive Superintendent obtained permission to buy sixteen 4-6-0 locomotives, ten from Baldwin, and six from Sharp Stewart and Co. All were delivered in 1899.

Unlike the Addington U class the new locomotives were of uniform appearance, with low mounted running boards and splashers over the drivers. The design was based on and very similar to the U class, differing primarily in the provision of smaller driving wheels delivering higher tractive effort. Although they used the same type of boiler they carried a higher pressure and were fitted with piston valves. Overall their appearance was similar to their predecessors.

Service
Initially three each were stationed at Invercargill and Dunedin to run express passenger services between those cities. Later the Dunedin-based engines joined their siblings in the south. The only known report from footplate men indicated that while finely built they were difficult to fire. However annual returns indicate that they ran greater annual miles and at lower cost than other 4-6-0's at the time.

Modifications included lengthening the smokebox, a common procedure on many early NZR types, and sand domes were provided, while the running boards were raised. In the 1920s either two or three (sources vary) received superheated boilers of 200 lb sq in working pressure. However, the class was gone before the end of the 1930s, the superheated boilers going to members of the UC class of the same maker. One was reportedly dumped on the Oamaru foreshore.

See also
 NZR U class
 NZR UB class
 NZR UC class
 NZR UD class
 Locomotives of New Zealand

References

Bibliography 

U class
4-6-0 locomotives
3 ft 6 in gauge locomotives of New Zealand
Scrapped locomotives
Railway locomotives introduced in 1899
Milton Quon (August 22, 1913 – June 18, 2019) was an American animator, artist and actor.

Early life
Milton Quon was born in Los Angeles, California, to Ng Quan Ying and Wong Shee Quon, Chinese immigrants. He was the eldest and only son, with seven younger sisters. After graduating from Polytechnic High School in 1932, he attended Frank Wiggins Trade School (now Los Angeles Trade–Technical College) and Los Angeles Junior College (now Los Angeles City College), where he earned his Associate of Arts degree. In 1936, he won a scholarship to Chouinard Art Institute (now California Institute of the Arts), from which he graduated in 1939.

Career
Quon started working for the Walt Disney Animation Studios in 1939. Among his credits include Fantasia and Dumbo. He worked as an illustrator for Douglas Aircraft Company during World War II.

After World War II, he returned to Walt Disney Studios in 1946, heading publicity for three years. From 1951-63, he became the first Chinese American art director at a national advertising agency, BBDO. In 1964, he joined the Sealright Company, a packaging firm, as a Senior Design Artist, where he remained until his retirement in 1980. In the 1990s and early 2000s, Quon appeared as an actor in such films as Speed and Sweet Jane.

Filmography 
 1940: Fantasia - Visual effects artist (uncredited).
 1941: Dumbo - Visual effects artist (uncredited).
 1994: Speed - Additional bus passenger #2.
 1998: Sweet Jane - Korean clerk.
 2000: The Cat Killers - Chinese Mafia Boss.

Personal life
In 1944, Quon married Peggy Wong. They had four children: sons: Timothy (died 2021), Michael, and Jeffrey, and daughter Sherrill.

Quon turned 100 in August 2013. He died on June 18, 2019, at his home in Torrance, California, aged 105.

See also 
 List of centenarians (artists, painters and sculptors)
 Tyrus Wong

References

External links

Official Website

1913 births
2019 deaths
American animators
American centenarians
American male film actors
American people of Chinese descent
Animators from Los Angeles
Walt Disney Animation Studios people
Men centenarians
Speed skiing world records are the highest speeds reached in the different categories of this sport.

Organization 
These records have been registered in the official competitions organized by the different federations which have managed this sport at a mondial level, across the time (ISS, FISV, FIS, ...). Today, all the races are supervised by the International Ski Federation (FIS). Nevertheless, this federation doesn't publish any record.

Speed skiing is performed in two principal categories :
 Speed One (S1), the best class, performed with specific speed skiing equipment
S2, the second class, performed with standard alpine skiing equipment (also called Production then Speed Downhil (SDH))

Records are existing for theses 2 categories, and also for age sub-categories (Juniors U21 : under 21 years old, ...)

These records have been established on the quickest tracks of each time. In 2022, the quickest active track is Chabrières in Vars (France). Furthermore, one specific race (Speedmasters) is organized every year for permitting skiers to approach these records, at the period where the track is the quicker (end of March).

Otherwise, other speed sports use skis : monoski, snowboard, telemark, ski bob, snowscoot. Their Speed records are also established on the same tracks.

Current records

Men

Women

S1 record history

Men

Women

S1 best performers of all times

Men

Women

References

Skiing world competitions
Sports world records
Resurrection Manor was a historic home located near Hollywood, St. Mary's County, Maryland, United States.  It was built amidst a  farm granted to Thomas Cornwaleys in 1650.  It was an example of early brick architecture in the United States dating from about 1660 to 1720.  It was originally built as a one-room house with a steep stair leading to the garret.  A 1½-story addition was added to the house, transforming its footprint into a hall-and-parlor configuration.

Resurrection Manor was listed as a National Historic Landmark in 1970. In 2002, the house was demolished to make room for a single-family home; National Historic Landmark designation for Resurrection Manor was withdrawn on February 17, 2006.

See also
Maston House

References

External links

Historic American Buildings Survey in Maryland
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Maryland
Houses in St. Mary's County, Maryland
Hall and parlor houses
Former National Historic Landmarks of the United States
National Register of Historic Places in St. Mary's County, Maryland
Former National Register of Historic Places in Maryland
Doğucan Haspolat (born 11 February 2000) is a professional footballer who plays for as a midfielder for Turkish club Trabzonspor. Born in the Netherlands, he represents Turkey internationally.

Club career
Haspolat is a youth exponent from Excelsior. He made his professional debut on 27 August 2016 in an Eredivisie game against Feyenoord Rotterdam replacing Kevin Vermeulen after 70 minutes and becoming the first player from 2000 who played in the Eredevisie. He transferred to the Süper Lig club Kasımpaşa on 20 January 2020, signing a 3.5 year contract. On 17 July 2022, he transferred to Trabzonspor on a 3-year contract.

International career
Haspolat was born in the Netherlands, and is of Turkish descent. He is a former youth international for the Netherlands, before switching to represent Turkey.

Honours
Trabzonspor
 Turkish Super Cup: 2022

References

External links
 

2000 births
Living people
Footballers from Rotterdam
Men's association football midfielders
Turkish men's footballers
Turkey men's under-21 international footballers
Dutch men's footballers
Netherlands men's youth international footballers
Dutch people of Turkish descent
Excelsior Rotterdam players
Kasımpaşa S.K. footballers
Trabzonspor footballers
Eredivisie players
Eerste Divisie players
Süper Lig players
La'Myia Janae Good–Bellinger  (born September 27, 1979) is an American singer and actress. Good is best known for her voice work in the blockbuster PlayStation 3 game Killzone 3 as the voice of Jammer and her work with R&B group Isyss. Good has appeared in numerous television shows such as Tall Hopes, Sister, Sister, The Parent 'Hood, Smart Guy, ER, The Parkers and Judging Amy. She has also appeared in films such as The Wood.

Early life
Good was born in Panorama City, California to Tyra Wardlow-Doyle (who worked as her sister's manager into her teens), and Leon Good, an LAPD police officer.  Good is the older sister of actress Meagan Good and older cousin of actor/singer Dijon Talton. Good's sister Meagan has said of their heritage that their maternal grandmother is "Jewish and African. My mother's father was Cherokee and something else. My dad's mother's Puerto Rican and black, and his father was from Barbados."

Career

Isyss and BAD GYRL
In 2001, Good along with LeTecia Harrison, Ardena Clark, and lead singer Quierra Davis-Martin formed the R&B group known as Isyss. As a group, they achieved moderate success in 2002 with their debut album, "The Way We Do", which included the Hot 100 charting singles "Day & Night" featuring rapper Jadakiss and their signature song "Single For The Rest Of My Life". During their career, they performed the theme song to the short lived BET talk show "Oh Drama" and were the spokespersons for "Got 2 B So Smooth" hair care products. They were nominated for two Soul Train Lady of Soul Awards and took home one award. Due to poor album sales, they were later dropped from Arista Records, before they could release a second album. Ardena Clark was later replaced by a new member "Love" shortly before they broke up, due to creative differences. Their only album "The Way We Do" reached # 55 on the Billboard Charts and has sold about 300,000 copies. After leaving the group in 2006, Good and "Love" both became members of the R&B trio known as BAD GYRL, which also eventually disbanded. Following her time with both groups, Good decided to focus on acting.

Personal life
Good married singer Eric Bellinger in January 2015. The couple has two sons: Elysha Bellinger (born March 2015) and Eazy Bellinger (born August 2019).

Discography

 The Way We Do (2002)

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

References

External links
La'Myia Good on Myspace

1979 births
Living people
Actresses from Los Angeles
African-American women singers
American people who self-identify as being of Cherokee descent
People from Panorama City, Los Angeles
American actresses of Puerto Rican descent
Singers from Los Angeles
Hispanic and Latino American women singers
American video game actresses
American soul singers
American people of Jewish descent
American people of Barbadian descent
Arista Records artists
20th-century American actresses
21st-century American actresses
African-American actresses
American television actresses
American film actresses
American voice actresses
21st-century American singers
21st-century American women singers
Meet Wally Sparks is a 1997 American comedy film directed by Peter Baldwin, written by Harry Basil and Rodney Dangerfield. It stars Dangerfield in the title role, with Debi Mazar, Michael Weatherly, Cindy Williams, Alan Rachins, Burt Reynolds and David Ogden Stiers costarring.

Plot
Wally Sparks is the host of a sleazy tabloid-style TV talk show who makes Jerry Springer seem gentle by comparison. His show has become so foul that he's alienated his not-especially-discriminating viewers, and his ratings are taking a nosedive.

Lenny Spencer, head of the network carrying his show, gives Wally an ultimatum—he has a week to clean up the content and boost his ratings, or his show gets cancelled.

Wally's producer, Sandy Gallo, comes up with an idea—Floyd Preston is the governor of Georgia and a staunch conservative known for his attacks on the lowbrow content of Wally's show, so what better way to demonstrate that Wally is trying to change his ways than to have Preston on the show as a guest?

In order to persuade Preston to appear, Wally accepts an invitation to a reception at the Governor's Mansion, later learning that the Governor's young son is the fan who sent him the invitation. Wally makes the mistake of participating in a drunken game of strip poker with Preston's wife, Emily, while somehow involving himself in a plot to blackmail the Governor. Further complications ensue when Wally's son, Dean, begins a romantic relationship with the Governor's daughter.

Cast

Main cast

Acting cameos

Cameos as themselves

Release

Box office
Meet Wally Sparks opened in 1,552 venues on January 31, 1997 and ranked number 13 in the domestic box office in its opening weekend, earning $2,131,001. At the end of its run, the film grossed $4,073,582.

Critical reception
The film received largely negative reviews from critics. Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports that only 13% from 16 reviews gave the film a positive review.

References

External links
 
 
 

1997 films
1997 comedy films
American comedy films
Films set in Atlanta
Films set in Los Angeles
Films shot in California
Films shot in Los Angeles
Films with screenplays by Rodney Dangerfield
Trimark Pictures films
Largo Entertainment films
Films scored by Michel Colombier
1997 directorial debut films
1990s English-language films
Films directed by Peter Baldwin (director)
1990s American films
Eastmountainsouth was an American pop rock duo formed in 1999 composed of vocalists Kat Maslich-Bode and Peter Bradley Adams.

The duo released their self-titled debut album in 2003 after signing a deal with Dreamworks Records. This is the duo's one and only album as they parted ways after its release. Both have since released work on solo projects since their split in 2004.

Several of the duo's songs have been used in films and television episodes. Their cover of Stephen Foster's song "Hard Times (Come Again No More)" was featured on the Elizabethtown motion picture soundtrack. The track "So Are You To Me" was featured on the soundtrack of the movie Lucky 7 and appeared in the episode "Truth Takes Time" of the television series Alias. Their song "You Dance" was featured in a first-season episode of the television series One Tree Hill, and the song "Ghost" was used in a fifth-season episode of Dawson's Creek. Another song, "All the Stars", was featured in the TV series Smallville.

In 2003, the duo opened for Lucinda Williams, Tracy Chapman and Nelly Furtado.

References

American pop music groups
Rock music groups from California
Musical groups established in 1999
Musical groups from Los Angeles
Musical groups disestablished in 2004
American musical duos
DreamWorks Records artists
American folk musical groups
1999 establishments in California
Gordon John Smith (born November 17, 1949) is a Canadian former ice hockey player. He is the older brother of former New York Islanders goaltender Billy Smith.

Career 
Originally selected by the New York Rangers in the 1969 NHL Entry Draft, he played his first NHL game with the Washington Capitals after the 1974 NHL Expansion Draft. Smith spent five seasons with the Capitals before he was claimed by the Winnipeg Jets in the 1979 NHL Expansion Draft.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

External links
 
 Profile at hockeydraftcentral.com

1949 births
Living people
Canadian ice hockey defencemen
Hershey Bears players
Ice hockey people from Ontario
Maine Mariners (AHL) players
New Haven Blades players
New Haven Nighthawks players
New York Rangers draft picks
Omaha Knights (CHL) players
People from Perth, Ontario
Sportspeople from Lanark County
Richmond Robins players
Springfield Indians players
Springfield Kings players
Tulsa Oilers (1964–1984) players
Washington Capitals players
Winnipeg Jets (1979–1996) players
The Central Library for Blind and Reading Impaired People (Israel) (Hebrew: הספרייה המרכזית לעיוורים ולבעלי לקויות קריאה), formerly known as The Central Library for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Handicapped, supplies people who cannot read books, for various disabilities, with books which are suitable for them, either in Braille, large print, or in recorded formats.

History
The library was established in 1951 as a response to the need to rehabilitate soldiers who sustained injuries which blinded them during the 1947–1949 Palestine war.

The Israeli Ministry of Defense with Dr. Ludwig Cohen and Chaja Böhm pioneered the idea, and with the help of volunteers, Mrs. Elfriede Schönfeld and Mrs. Grünthal, translated books to Braille. Haya Berm, the first director of the library who would remain with it until 1977, joined during this period.

In 1959 the library started also producing audio cassettes through a studio in Tel-Aviv, beginning the project of transferring recorded books to cassettes in 1972. The most notable recording made in this period was a recording of The Tanach by Shlomo Bertonov.

In 2004 the effort to convert the audio cassettes, which were produced until that point, to CD format began, alongside producing new books in CD audio format.

The library nowadays (2012) produces CDs, Braille books, and large print books.

References

External links
 Official English website. Archived version. 
 A Video Guide of the library. (YouTube) 

Libraries established in 1951
Libraries for the blind
Libraries in Israel
Netanya
Disability organizations based in Israel
Barra de Valizas, also known as simply Valizas is a resort (balneario) in the Rocha Department of southeastern Uruguay.

Geography
It is located on the coast of the Atlantic Ocean,  east of the Km. 271 of Route 10 and about  north of Cabo Polonio with a long stretch of huge dunes separating them.

In December 2014, Valizas was the site of the murder of Lola Chomnalez, which gained nationwide notoriety.

Population
In 2011 Barra de Valizas had a population of 330 permanent inhabitants and 995 dwellings.
 
Source: Instituto Nacional de Estadística de Uruguay

References

External links
 Information for Valizas Uruguay
INE map of Barra de Valizas
Tourist information for Valizas

Populated places in the Rocha Department
Seaside resorts in Uruguay
Gustav Siegfried Eins (GS1) was a British black propaganda radio station during World War II operated by the Political Warfare Executive (PWE).  It was the brainchild of Sefton Delmer, a former BBC German service announcer recruited by PWE in 1940, and claimed to be an illegal radio station operating within Nazi Germany.  The callsign was based on the German Army phonetic alphabet for the letters GS, but had no meaning.

The programmes were recorded on glass disc at the Wavendon Tower studio then taken to the short wave radio stations at Signal Hill, Gawcott and Potsgrove.

Broadcasts
The broadcaster was , a refugee from Berlin, who used the name "Der Chef" and claimed to be a proud, highly patriotic Prussian officer of the old school, totally loyal to Germany.  In the first Gustav Siegfried Eins broadcast, immediately after the flight of Rudolf Hess to Scotland,"Der Chef" ranted that "As soon as there is a crisis, Hess packs himself a white flag and flies off to throw himself and us on the mercy of that flat-footed bastard of a drunken old cigar-smoking Jew, Churchill!"

Most of "Der Chef's" diatribes were directed against low- and middle-ranking Nazi Party officials, the so-called Partei Kommune, which he portrayed as selfish, corrupt and sexually depraved gangsters whose behaviour shamefully contrasted with 'the devotion to duty shown by our brave troops freezing to death in Russia'.

The first broadcast was on the evening of 23 May 1941 and the final broadcast in late October 1943. The scripting ostensibly had the Gestapo storm the station and shoot Der Chef.  Unfortunately, the recording engineer who played the transcription did not understand German, and played the "death" of Der Chef twice.

The station was replaced by Soldatensender Calais.

Bibliography
Black Boomerang - An Autobiography, Volume Two, (Secker & Warburg, 1962), D Sefton Delmer.
The Black Game - British Subversive Operations Against the Germans During the Second World War, (Michael Joseph, 1982), Ellic Howe. The Secret History of PWE - Political Warfare Executive 1939-1945'', (St Ermin's Press, 2002), David Garnett.

See also
Black propaganda
Political Warfare Executive
Psychological warfare

References

External links
'Daily monitoring reports of Gustav Siegfried Eins by US Federal Broadcast Intelligence Service' 
'GS1: Object, method and effect'  An official Political Warfare Executive report on Gustav Siegfried Eins, reproduced by the Sefton Delmer Archive.
 Sir Stafford Cripps and the German Admiral's Orgy  An article about the scandalous nature of Gustav Siegfried Eins broadcasts and the complaint by British Labour politician Sir Stafford Cripps.
 Gray and Black Radio Propaganda against Nazi Germany Extensively illustrated paper describing the Allied effort in World War II to undermine Germany through unidentified or misidentified radio broadcasts.

Black propaganda organisations
British propaganda organisations
Foreign Office during World War II
History of telecommunications in the United Kingdom
Military history of Buckinghamshire
Radio during World War II
Radio stations in Buckinghamshire
Thermoanaerobacter thermocopriae, previously known as Clostridium thermocopriae is a bacterium belonging to the Bacillota.

References

Thermoanaerobacterales
Thermophiles
Anaerobes
Bacteria described in 1994
Marvel Super Heroes may refer to:

 Marvel Super-Heroes (comics), several Marvel Comics publications
 Marvel Super Heroes (video game), a 1995 arcade game
 Marvel Super Heroes: War of the Gems, a 1996 platform game
 Marvel Super Heroes (role-playing game), a 1984 role-playing game
 Marvel Super Heroes Adventure Game, a 1998 role-playing game
 The Marvel Super Heroes, a 1960s animated television series
 The Mighty World of Marvel, a 1972 UK comics series which was renamed Marvel Superheroes from 1979 to 1983
 Lego Marvel Super Heroes, a 2013 video game based on the Lego franchise

See also
 List of Marvel Comics characters
James Arthur Higgs-Walker (31 July 1892 – 3 September 1979) was an English first-class cricketer who played in two matches for Worcestershire, one each side of the First World War.

His first match, and only County Championship appearance, came against Gloucestershire at Cheltenham in August 1913, though he had something of a nightmare debut: he made 0 and 0* with the bat, conceded 20 runs from two wicketless overs, and did not hold a catch.

After the war he appeared once more, against Warwickshire in one of the friendly games Worcestershire played in 1919 (the county did not return to Championship cricket until the following season). This time he made a rather better fist of things, scoring 44 in his only innings and taking the only wicket of his career when he bowled Warwickshire's number ten Ernest Suckling.

He taught history at Oundle School after the War, where he later became a housemaster.  In 1925 Higgs-Walker was appointed headmaster of Sevenoaks School, a post in which he remained until 1954.

Higgs-Walker was born at Wychbury House, Clent, Worcestershire; he died aged 87 in Midhurst, Sussex.

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1892 births
1979 deaths
English cricketers
Worcestershire cricketers
Teachers of Oundle School
People from Bromsgrove District
Cricketers from Worcestershire