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Pierrot (poem)

"Pierrot" is a short poem written by the African-American author Langston Hughes.  It was first published in the anthology The Weary Blues in 1926.  In 30 lines, it describes contrasts the characters of Simple John, who adheres to an ethic of hard work and traditional virtues, and Pierrot, who leads a Dionysian and carefree life.  In the end, Pierrot runs away with John's wife.

Text

I work all day,
Said Simple John,
Myself a house to buy.
I work all day,
Said Simple John,
But Pierrot wondered why.
For Pierrrot loved the long white road,
And Pierrot loved the moon,
And Pierrot loved a star-filled sky,
And the breath of a rose in June.
I have one wife,
Said Simple John,
And,faith,I love her yet.
I have one wife,
Said Simple John,
But Pierrot left Pierrette.

For Pierrot saw a world of girls,
And Pierrot loved each one,
And Pierrot thought all maidens fair
As flowers in the sun.
Oh, I am good,
Said Simple John,
The Lord will take me in.
Yes, I am good,
Said Simple John,
But Pierrot's steeped in sin.
For Pierrot played on a slim guitar,
And Pierrot loved the moon,
And Pierrot ran down the long white road
With the burgher's wife one June.

References
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes. ed. Arnold Rampersad. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 1997.

 

1926 poems
American poems
Poetry by Langston Hughes
African-American poetry
Quebec Route 143

Route 143 is a north/south highway on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River. Until the mid-1970s when the province decided to renumber all highways other than autoroutes, it was known as Route/Highway 5. Its northern terminus is in Saint-François-du-Lac, at the junction of Route 132, and the southern terminus is in Stanstead, at the border with Vermont where the road continues past the Derby Line–Stanstead Border Crossing as U.S. Route 5 through Derby Line to New Haven, Connecticut.

Since Autoroute 55 closely parallels Route 143 for most of its length, much commercial traffic chooses the former. However, it is a very busy route and takes much traffic from the border to the Sherbrooke local area. Route 143 closely follows the Saint-François River between Sherbrooke and Ulverton.

The road is often in notoriously poor condition, since its original cement was laid directly on a gravel road in the mid-1920s. It has been extensively resurfaced to the point the pavement is now more than three feet thick in places, but it heaves extensively at every spring thaw.

Municipalities along Route 143

 Stanstead
 Stanstead-Est
 Hatley
 Waterville
 Sherbrooke - (Lennoxville / Sherbrooke / Bromptonville)
 Val-Joli
 Windsor
 Cleveland
 Richmond
 Ulverton
 L'Avenir
 Drummondville - (Saint-Nicéphore / Drummondville / Saint-Majorique-de-Grantham)
 Saint-Bonaventure
 Saint-Pie-de-Guire
 Saint-François-du-Lac

Major intersections

See also

 List of Quebec provincial highways

References

External links 
 Interactive Provincial Route Map (Transports Québec) 
 Route 143 on Google Maps

143
Transport in Drummondville
Transport in Sherbrooke
Touch Sensitive... Bootleg Box Set

Touch Sensitive... Bootleg Box Set is a five disc live box set by the Fall, released in 2003. Each disc features a full live set from either April or November 2001, making it the most comprehensive live document of any era of The Fall's long career thus far. The discs are not arranged chronologically. Due to the brief timespan, there is considerable repetition - the bulk of the material is drawn from 2000's The Unutterable and 2001's Are You Are Missing Winner. As the use of the word bootleg implies, the sound quality varies but it is generally superior. A handful of tracks from the first 2 discs also feature on the 2G+2 album.

Track listing
Disc one
"Cyber Insekt"
"Two Librans"
"And Therein..."
"Touch Sensitive"
"Crop-Dust"
"Bourgeois Town"
"Sons Of Temperance"
"Mr Pharmacist"
"Kick The Can" / "F-Oldin' Money"
"My Ex-Classmates' Kids"
"Enigrammatic Dream"
"I Wake Up In The City"
"Way Round"
"I Am Damo Suzuki"

Recorded at The Knitting Factory, New York City, 23 November 2001
Disc two
"The Joke"
"Cyber Insek"
"Two Librans"
"And Therein..."
"Touch Sensitive"
"Crop-Dust"
"Bourgeois Town"
"Sons Of Temperance"
"Mr Pharmacist"
"Kick The Can" / "F-Oldin' Money"
"My Ex-Classmates' Kids"
"Enigrammatic Dream"
"I Wake Up In The City"
"Ey Bastardo"
"Way Round"
"I Am Damo Suzuki"

Recorded at The Crocodile cafe, Seattle, 20 November 2001
Disc three
"MES (intro)" - this is an excerpt from MES's solo album The Post Nearly Man
"Sons Of Temperance"
"Two Librans"
"Touch Sensitive"
"Antidotes"
"F-Oldin' Money"
"Hot Runes"
"Way Round"
"Ketamine Sun"
"Instrumental"
"Midwatch 1953"
"Mr Pharmacist"
"Dr Buck's Letter"
"He Pep! (instrumental)"
"Das Katerer"
"Cyber Insekt"
"Ibis-Afro Man"
"Birthday Song (instrumental)"
"Paintwork"

Recorded at Patronaat, Haarlem, 6 April 2001
Disc four
"MES (spoken word tape)" - as per disc 3
"Sons Of Temperance"
"Two Librans"
"Touch Sensitive"
"Antidotes"
"F-Oldin' Money"
"Ketamine Sun"
"Way Round"
"Midwatch 1953"
"Mr Pharmacist"
"Cyber Insekt"
"Ibis-Afro Man"
"Serum (instrumental)"
"Dr Buck's Letter"
"Hot Runes"
"Birthday Song (instrumental)"

Recorded at Melkweg, Amsterdam, 7 April 2001
Disc five
"The Joke"
"Two Librans"
"F-Oldin' Money"
"Cyber Insekt"
"Dr Buck's Letter"
"Mr Pharmacist"
"I Am Damo Suzuki"
"Touch Sensitive"
"Ketamine Sun"
"Way Round"
"Antidotes"
"Hot Runes"
"Ibis-Afro Man"
"Paintwork"
"And Therein..."

Recorded at Concorde 2, Brighton, 17 April 2001

Personnel 
Mark E. Smith - vocals
Ben Pritchard - guitar
Jim Watts - bass guitar
Spencer Birtwistle - drums
Julia Nagle - keyboards, guitar (discs 3-5 only)
Ed Blaney - vocals (occasional, only features on a few tracks)

References

External links 

 Uncut review
 NME review
 Drowned in Sound review 

The Fall (band) live albums
2003 live albums
2003 compilation albums
The Fall (band) compilation albums
Sanctuary Records compilation albums
Sanctuary Records live albums
New York State Route 123

New York State Route 123 (NY 123) is a  north–south state highway in the northern part of Westchester County, New York, in the United States. The route, named Smith Ridge Road, is a northward continuation of Route 123 from New Canaan, Connecticut.

Route description

NY 123 begins at the New York–Connecticut state line in the town of Lewisboro, as a continuation of CT 123 (Smith Ridge Road). After crossing the state line, NY 123 is immediately within the hamlet of Vista, passing a couple businesses and residences as Smith Ridge Road. By the intersection with Kingswood Lane, NY 123 is now entirely residential, bending northwest as a two-lane highway through Lewisboro. A short distance later, NY 123 intersects with West Road, where it turns northward into a large commercial district before returning to the wooded residential backdrop. Near Conant Valley Road, the route bends northeast before the junction with Elmwood Road, where it turns north once again.

After Elmwood Road, NY 123 continues north through Lewisboro, running as a two-lane wooded road into the hamlet of Lewisboro. The hamlet is residential, with NY 123 passing several residential streets on its way north. This continues as the route proceeds northward, intersecting with West Lane, which connects NY 123 to Spring Hill Lane. After making a dart to the northwest, the route intersects with the western terminus of Spring Hill Lane, which connects to the former alignment of CT 35A after crossing the state line. At that junction, NY 123 darts north, northwest then north once more before intersecting with NY 35 (Cross River Road) just east of South Salem and west of the Connecticut state line.

History
NY 123 was first designated in the 1930 renumbering of state highways in New York as a continuation of the road leading north from Norwalk, Connecticut. The original route began in Vista, as it does today, but extended past its current northern end, heading west along modern NY 35 to NY 121 in the hamlet of Cross River. It was extended further westward over current NY 35 to NY 22 in Katonah . Modern NY 35 in Westchester County was created in the early 1940s, at which time NY 123 was cut back to its current northern terminus.

Major intersections

See also

References

External links

123
Transportation in Westchester County, New York
HMS Wild Swan

Two ships of the Royal Navy have borne the name HMS Wild Swan:

  was an  sloop launched in 1876. She was renamed HMS Clyde in 1904 while serving as a depot ship. She was renamed HMS Columbine in 1913, and was sold in 1920.
  was an Admiralty Modified W-class destroyer launched in 1919. She was damaged in an air attack and then sunk in a collision with a fishing trawler in 1942.

Royal Navy ship names
Quebec Route 139

Route 139 is a north/south highway on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River. Its northern terminus is in Saint-Nicéphore, now part of Drummondville, at the junction of Route 143, and the southern terminus is in Abercorn at the border with Richford, Vermont at the Richford–Abercorn Border Crossing.

Municipalities along Route 139

 Abercorn
 Sutton
 Brome Lake
 Cowansville
 East Farnham
 Brigham
 Bromont
 Saint-Alphonse-de-Granby
 Granby
 Roxton Pond
 Roxton
 Roxton Falls
 Acton Vale
 Saint-Théodore-d'Acton
 Wickham
 Saint-Nicéphore (Drummondville)

Major intersections

See also
 List of Quebec provincial highways

References

External links 
 Provincial Route Map (Courtesy of the Quebec Ministry of Transportation) 
 Route 139 on Google Maps

139
Transport in Granby, Quebec
Transport in Drummondville
Carlos Jara Saguier

Carlos de los Santos Jara Saguier (born 25 August 1950 in Asunción) is a former Paraguayan football player who works as a coach.

Carlos is one of the seven Jara Saguier brothers that played professional football in Paraguay.

Career
Born in Asunción, Jara Saguier played as a midfielder and spent the best years of his career at Cerro Porteño of Paraguay and Cruz Azul of Mexico. He played for the Paraguay national football team from 1970 to 1981.

As a coach, Jara Saguier led the Paraguay national football team to a historic silver medal in the 2004 Olympic Games, and in 2005 he led Querétaro F.C. of Mexico to his first Primera A championship.

Jara Saguier also coached clubs like Libertad, Nacional, Olimpia and Sportivo Luqueño of Paraguay and Monterrey FC and Cruz Azul Hidalgo of México.

References

External links
 
 
 
 

1950 births
Living people
Paraguayan men's footballers
Paraguay men's international footballers
Liga MX players
Cruz Azul footballers
Cerro Porteño players
Club Libertad footballers
General Caballero Sport Club footballers
Paraguayan football managers
Paraguay national football team managers
2004 Copa América managers
Club Olimpia managers
C.F. Monterrey managers
Querétaro F.C. managers
Paraguayan expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Mexico
Men's association football midfielders
Club Nacional managers
Sportivo Trinidense managers
Club Sol de América managers
Sportivo Luqueño managers
Deportivo Santaní managers
Independiente F.B.C. managers
Footballers from Asunción
The Master Has Come Back

"The Master Has Come Back" was the second international single from Damian Marley's Welcome to Jamrock album, while "Road to Zion" was released in the U.S. Released on December 12, 2005.

In 1976, Bunny Wailer released his solo album Blackheart Man featuring a song called "Bide Up". It is no coincidence that the chorus ("The master has come back"), lyrics ("for the dark clouds to bring rain, then comes the sun to shine again"), and the general sense of the song reappear on Damian's version. Wailer being one of the two last living members of the original Bob Marley and the Wailers, his closeness with the Marley family is evident.

The single was played on radio and has charted in the UK at #74, but there is no video for it.

Track listing
UK - CD

 "The Master Has Come Back" (UK Radio Edit) 
 "And You Be Loved (Halfway Tree Album Version)"
 "Road to Zion" (featuring Nas) (Video)

Charts

References 

2005 singles
Damian Marley songs
2005 songs
Universal Records singles
Songs written by Damian Marley
Zealandia Bank

Zealandia Bank, also known as Farallon de Torres or Piedras de Torres in Spanish, or Papaungan in Chamorro, consists of two rocky pinnacles about 1.5 kilometers apart, in the Northern Mariana Islands in the Pacific Ocean. One reaches a height of approximately  at low tide; the other does not normally broach the surface. They are located  north-northeast from Sarigan, in between Sarigan and Guguan, but because of their small size, they are not listed in most maps. Zealandia Bank is one of a number of Volcanic Units within the Mariana Arc of Fire National Wildlife Refuge of the Marianas Trench Marine National Monument.

Geology
Zealandia Bank is the exposed portion of the peak of an eroded underwater volcano. In 2004, a survey by NOAA discovered active fumaroles, including possible volcanic activity.

The volcano has erupted most recently rhyodacite but previously built up as an andesitic volcano that was dormant long enough for a carbonate platform to grow on its summit. Given that a large mid- to lower-crustal felsic magma body exists beneath the south-central Izu–Bonin–Mariana Arc extending about  to the south of Zealandia Bank, it and the nearby volcanoes of West Zealandia and Northwest Zealandia, if not currently active, are most likely only dormant and so have been called the Zealandia Volcanic Complex. The Zealandia Bank is the current magmatic front and the other two volcanoes being about  west are in a rear arc.

Name
Zealandia Bank was named in 1858 after the British barque Zealandia. The area is part of the United States Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.

References

External links 
 Zealandia Bank. Pascal Horst Lehne and Christoph Gäbler: Über die Marianen. Lehne-Verlag, Wohldorf in Germany 1972.
 Sharks at Zealandia Bank
 
.

Former German colonies
Islands of the Northern Mariana Islands
Stacks (geology)
Volcanoes of the Northern Mariana Islands
Stratovolcanoes of the United States
Uninhabited islands of the Northern Mariana Islands
Mike Ratledge

Michael Roland Ratledge (born 6 May 1943) is a British musician. A part of the Canterbury scene, he was a founding member of Soft Machine. He was the last founding member to leave the group, doing so in 1976.

Biography and career
Ratledge was born in Maidstone, Kent, the son of a Canterbury secondary modern school headmaster. As a child, he was educated in classical music, the only kind of music played in his parents' home. He learned to play the piano, and with his friend Brian Hopper, whom he had met at Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys in Canterbury, played classical piano and clarinet pieces.

Ratledge also met Brian's younger brother Hugh, and Robert Wyatt. In 1961, he met Daevid Allen, who interested them in playing jazz. Through Cecil Taylor's piano pieces Ratledge became familiar with the music of Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis and John Coltrane. In 1963, he played in the Daevid Allen Trio. Unlike his friends, Ratledge wanted to further his education, and studied at University College, Oxford, where he earned a degree in psychology and philosophy.

At the same time, he attended music lessons, and was educated by avant-garde musicians Mal Dean and Rab Spall. After his graduation, Ratledge intended to go to a university in the United States, but his application for a scholarship was filed too late.

In 1966, his friends were forming a new band and asked Ratledge to join. Soft Machine included Robert Wyatt, Daevid Allen, and Kevin Ayers. There were many personnel changes over the years. Wyatt's departure in 1971 left Ratledge as the only remaining founding member, while the 1973 departure of Hugh Hopper (who joined in 1968) left Ratledge as the only member from the 1960s to still be in the band.

In November 1973, Ratledge participated in a live performance of Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells for the BBC. In 1976, Ratledge decided to leave Soft Machine to build a solo career, leaving the band under Karl Jenkins' leadership. Ratledge built himself a studio and composed a score for the film Riddles of the Sphinx, which utilised a prototype synthesizer which he constructed with his friend Denys Irving.

As Soft Machine's longest-lasting member, he was a part of the band's changes in musical direction from psychedelic music to jazz-rock. In the 1980s, Ratledge was active as a composer and musical producer for commercials and the theatre. In 1995, Adiemus (Ratledge, Karl Jenkins and Miriam Stockley) released Songs of Sanctuary, which Ratledge co-produced with Karl Jenkins and for which he programmed the electronic percussion.

Personal life
Ratledge married Marsha Hunt on 15 April 1967.

Discography

References

1943 births
Living people
Musicians from Maidstone
English keyboardists
Soft Machine members
Canterbury scene
Progressive rock keyboardists
Republic of Ireland national football team – record in major tournaments

This page covers the record of the Republic of Ireland national football team in the FIFA World Cup, European Football Championship and UEFA Nations League. In the "Results" section, home results are written before away results. Where the Republic of Ireland only played a team once, (h), (a) and (n) indicate home, away or neutral respectively.

Results

Qualification (including UEFA Nations League)

Finals tournaments

Summer Olympics 1924, Paris

Summer Olympics 1948, London

Euro 1988

World Cup Italia 90

World Cup USA 94

World Cup Korea-Japan 2002

Euro 2012

Euro 2016

See also
Republic of Ireland at the FIFA World Cup
Republic of Ireland at the UEFA European Championship

References
Miss Hickory

Miss Hickory is a 1946 novel by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey that won the Newbery Medal for excellence in American children's literature in 1947.

Plot introduction
The protagonist is Miss Hickory, a doll made from a forked twig from an apple tree and a hickory nut for her head (hence her name).  She lives in a tiny doll house made of corncobs outside the home of her human owners. Her world is shaken when the family decides to spend the winter in Boston, Massachusetts, but leave her behind. Miss Hickory is aided during the long cold winter by several farm and forest animals. Prickly and a little stubborn, she slowly learns to accept help from others, and to offer some assistance herself.

External links

The Newbery Companion by John Thomas Gillespie and Corinne J. Naden, Libraries Unlimited, 2001, Miss Hickory, pages 141–4, synopsis, themes and background.
A reference site for Carolyn Sherwin Bailey's book Miss Hickory

Newbery Medal–winning works
1946 American novels
American children's novels
Children's fantasy novels
Sentient toys in fiction
Viking Press books
1946 children's books
Mary Freeman-Grenville, 12th Lady Kinloss

Beatrice Mary Grenville Freeman-Grenville, 12th Lady Kinloss (18 August 1922 – 30 September 2012) was a British peer.

The eldest of the three daughters of Luis Chandos Francis Temple Morgan-Grenville and Katherine Beatrice MacKenzie Jackman, she was educated at Ravenscroft School, Eastbourne. She was the senior heir-general to Edward Seymour, Viscount Beauchamp, the only son of Lady Catherine Grey.

She succeeded to the title Lady Kinloss on the death in 1944 of her grandmother, Mary Morgan-Grenville, 11th Lady Kinloss. She married Dr Greville Stewart Parker Freeman (later Freeman-Grenville) in 1950; they had one son and two daughters:
 The Hon. Bevil David Stewart Chandos Freeman-Grenville, Master of Kinloss (1953–2012); presumably named for his ancestor Bevil Grenville
 Teresa Mary Nugent Freeman-Grenville, 13th Lady Kinloss (born 1957)
 The Hon. Hester Josephine Anne Freeman-Grenville (born 1960), married Peter Haworth in 1984 and has three sons.

She sat as an independent crossbencher peer in the House of Lords from the implementation of the Peerage Act 1963, which allowed women peers in their own right to sit in the House, until the implementation of the House of Lords Act 1999, which removed all but 92 hereditary peers. She served on the House of Lords Committee on European Communities from 1990 to 1992. She was unsuccessful in her bid to be elected as one of the retained 92 hereditary peers, coming 38th in a field of 79 candidates for 28 seats reserved for Crossbenchers.

The 12th Lady Kinloss died on 30 September 2012. She was succeeded by her daughter, Teresa Freeman-Grenville, 13th Lady Kinloss.

References

External links
 Ms Beatrice Freeman-Grenville, Hansard 1803–2005; retrieved 6 December 2011.

1922 births
2012 deaths
Mary
Hereditary women peers
Mary
Place of birth missing
Female heirs apparent
Kinloss
Nathan Spencer

Nathan Spencer may refer to:

Nathan Spencer (Casualty) a fictional character from Casualty
Nathan "Rad" Spencer, the protagonist of the Bionic Commando series
Nathan Spencer (Rugby) Selby 3rd Team Centre/Ballet Dancer
Manea, Cambridgeshire

Manea  is a village and civil parish in the District of Fenland, Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England.

The population (including Welches Dam) of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 2,088.

Landmarks are Manea railway station and RSPB Welches Dam nature reserve on the Ouse Washes.

The village's brass band, the Manea Silver Band, was formed in 1882; it meets at Manea Royal British Legion. Manea men's football team compete in local leagues and cup competitions.

History
Stonea Camp, an Iron Age hill fort is located approximately 1 mile west of the village.

Manea was once a hamlet in the parish of Coveney. In the seventeenth century, as part of a programme to drain the Fens, Charles I planned to build a new town and summer palace, to be called Charlemont. The scheme was opposed by local residents, including Oliver Cromwell, the MP of nearby Cambridge, who called the scheme "contrary to the law of God and nature".

The village's Church of England parish church is dedicated to St Nicholas and was built in 1875 to replace a building dating from 1791. It is a Grade II listed building.

Manea Colony
The Manea Colony was set up in 1838 at Manea Fen as an experimental Utopian community but failed after a couple of years. It was based on the ideas of Robert Owen, a utopian socialist and founded by local farmer William Hodson. One of the earliest members of the colony was Samuel Rowbotham, a proponent of flat Earth theory.

The buildings were built with bricks from the colony's brickworks and slate for roofing. Welsh slate from Porthmadog was already arriving at the Port of Wisbech and King's Lynn by 1830.
The colony produced a newspaper the Working Bee on their own press.

On 16 February 1841 Hodson published a notice stating that "The Late Friendly Society, called 'Manea Fen Colony' has been legally dissolved" in the Cambridge Chronicle of 20 February 1841. A model of the colony and copies of the Working Bee are on display at Octavia Hill's Birthplace House, Wisbech.

The Leicester Mercury on 24 April 1841 published details of a trial at Isle of Ely Quarter Sessions of 7 April. Hodson was fined £10 and Thomas Golding £1 for having on 13 February assaulted Maria Ward, a candidate for admission to the colony.

Hodson emigrated and died on 18 April 1880 at Janesville, Wisconsin, US.

In June 1904 a smallholding in the colony, comprising 32a. 0r. 15p. with 5a. 3r. 24p. of fishing pits, occupied by Thomas Rolfe, was knocked down to S. H. Farrington of March for £1240.
The Colony Farm 114a. 3r. 35p. with house, cottages, barn, and other farm-buildings, occupied by Samuel Dunhour, was withdrawn at £4020. F. J. Wise was solicitor to the vendors (the trustees of the late Mrs M. A. Wise).

During September and October 2016 the Cambridge Archaeological Unit (CAU) followed up geophysics surveys by Fenland Archaeological Society (FenArch) and conducted fieldwork as part of a HLF-funded project.

References

External links

Manea Parish Council

Villages in Cambridgeshire
Civil parishes in Cambridgeshire
Fenland District
Quarrydale Academy

Quarrydale Academy (formerly Quarrydale School) is a secondary school with academy status located in the ex-mining and textile community of Sutton in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, England. In March 2017, Ofsted judged this to be a ‘good’ school on their 4-point scale

History
Stoneyford Road Secondary Modern School opened in 1958, as a four stream coeducational school., costing £105,000. Stanton Hill School opened in September 1955, a coeducational school with 200 in 6 classrooms.

Buildings
The school has recently undergone redecoration in several areas. The science block has had its classrooms refurnished, and modernised. And other classrooms have been converted into new computer rooms. Several of the subject blocks have been moved around, with only English, P.E, Science, Technology and the sixth form building being exempted from this re-arrangement. The school is now undergoing further improvements on blocks which didn't receive redecoration.

The school has 6.9% authorised absences which is marginally above the national average. It also experiences 3% unauthorised absences which is over three times the national level. The proportion achieving five A* to C passes, including in English and mathematics, is well above average and continues to rise. Sutton Community Academy, a nearby ‘competitor’, is often shown worse than Quarrydale in the league tables and general image.

Notable former pupils

Kris Commons, retired-footballer who formerly played for Celtic F.C. and Scotland international.
Daniel Tompkins, vocalist of progressive metal band Tesseract
Steve Ogrizovic, retired goalkeeper for Coventry City F.C.
Peter Sansom, poet
 Justin Walker (footballer)

References

Academies in Nottinghamshire
Sutton-in-Ashfield
Secondary schools in Nottinghamshire
Krasnystaw County


Krasnystaw County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Lublin Voivodeship, eastern Poland. It was established on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat and only town is Krasnystaw, which lies  south-east of the regional capital Lublin.

The county covers an area of . As of 2019, its total population is 63,554, out of which the population of Krasnystaw is 18,675 and the rural population is 44,879.

Neighbouring counties
Krasnystaw County is bordered by Chełm County to the north-east, Zamość County and Biłgoraj County to the south, Lublin County to the west, and Świdnik County to the north-west.

Administrative division
The county is subdivided into 10 gminas (one urban and nine rural). These are listed in the following table, in descending order of population. (Until 2006 the county also included Gmina Rejowiec, which is now in Chełm County.)

References

 
Krasnystaw
When I Get You Alone

"When I Get You Alone" is the debut single of American singer Robin Thicke—under the name Thicke—released on September 23, 2002. It was originally to be featured on his debut studio album Cherry Blue Skies, before being placed on a revamped version of that album called  A Beautiful World. The song became a top-20 hit in Australia, Flanders, Italy, the Netherlands, and New Zealand, entering the top 10 in the latter two regions.

Writing and inspiration
The track samples Walter Murphy's "A Fifth of Beethoven", which is based on Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. Songwriting credits thus went to "Murphy/Thicke".

Chart performance
"When I Get You Alone" did not chart on any US Billboard charts, though it did reach number 49 on the Radio & Records Pop chart; however, the song charted well in other countries. It peaked at number 3 on the Belgium's Ultratip, number 5 on the Dutch Mega Single Top 100, number 8 on the New Zealand Top 40 Singles, number 15 on the Belgium Ultratop 50 and the Italy Top Digital Download, number 17 on the Australian ARIA Top 50 Singles (did not release until mid-2003), number 60 on the Austrian Ö3 Austria Top 40, and number 62 on the Switzerland Singles Chart.

Music video
The music video for the song featured an unshaven Thicke, with long, grungy hair, as a courier racing through the streets of Manhattan on a bicycle. It received some rotation on MTV2 and BET's Rated Next and was played moderately on pop and urban radio.

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

In popular culture
The song, along with Robin himself, was featured in a 2002 commercial for Sprite with appearances by Paula Patton and Andre Harrell.

The song received its most attention in the US in 2007, when American Idol runner-up Blake Lewis performed it during the top three.  It has been a staple of other Idol productions as well, notably appearing on New Zealand Idol and Australian Idol.

This song was featured in the films The Rules of Attraction and Agent Cody Banks, in the episode "The Indicator" of Alias and also on October 19, 2008, the song was featured in an episode of Entourage. An a cappella version of this song is performed by Darren Criss and the Beelzebubs (playing the Dalton Academy Warblers) in the Glee episode "Silly Love Songs".

It also was featured in the opening episode of 2020's Strictly Come Dancing, where the professionals danced to it in their routine.

References

2002 debut singles
2002 songs
Interscope Records singles
Robin Thicke songs
Songs written by Robin Thicke
Songs written by Walter Murphy
Wasserboxer

The Volkswagen wasserboxer is a four cylinder horizontally opposed pushrod overhead-valve (OHV) petrol engine developed by Volkswagen.  The engine is water-cooled, and takes its name from the  ("Water-boxer"); with "boxer" being another term for horizontally opposed engines.  It was available in two displacements – either a 1.9-litre or a 2.1-litre; the 2.1-litre being a longer stroke version of the 1.9-litre, both variants sharing the same cylinder bore. This engine was unique to the Volkswagen Type 2 (T3) (Transporter T3 / Caravelle / Vanagon / T25), having never been used in any other vehicle. Volkswagen contracted Oettinger to develop a six-cylinder version of this engine.  Volkswagen decided not to use it, but Oettinger sold a Volkswagen Type 2 (T3) equipped with this engine.

Design detail
The wasserboxer featured a cast aluminium alloy cylinder block, cylinder heads, and pistons; and a die-forged steel flat plane crankshaft with four main bearings.

The wasserboxer, as with all Volkswagen boxer engines, directly drives the three-bearing camshaft via a small steel gear on the crankshaft, and a large aluminium one on the camshaft, so there is no timing belt or timing chain.  The entire mechanism is internal to the engine, so there should be no concerns regarding wear or replacements, as long as the engine oil is changed regularly.  The overhead poppet valves each feature two concentric valve springs, and are operated by pushrods, with adjustable rocker arms to facilitate valve clearance adjustment.

It also featured a "Heron cylinder head", or "bowl-in-piston" type combustion chambers – where the combustion takes place within the piston area, and not in a recess machined in the cylinder head.

The cylinder banks contain cast iron cylinder liners inserted into the crankcase surrounded by a water jacket, with a "rubber lip" style water jacket seal, which is a very different design as compared to most engines.  The top of the cylinder liners is pressed into a recessed cut-out in the cylinder heads, that are sealed with compressible metal rings, to prevent leakage.

Some wasserboxers were plagued by water jacket gasket failures (often erroneously referred to as head gaskets) due to several design issues.  Engine failure was also a result of poorly placed sensors, corrosion in the cooling system, often caused by using phosphated coolant, and many areas were subjected to leaks.

The switch to water-cooling for the boxer engines was made mid-year in 1982, because Volkswagen could no longer make the air-cooled engines meet emissions standards.  (The previous generation Volkswagen Type 2 (T2), produced in Brazil until 2013, was changed to water-cooled engines on 23 December 2005 in response to Brazil's emission laws; the power plant used in the previous-generation T2 was an Audi-sourced inline four.) Water-cooled T2 models can be distinguished by a second radiator grille.

Variants
All data from ETKA and Owner's Manuals.

See also
List of discontinued Volkswagen Group petrol engines

References

External links

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Volkswagen Group engines
West Chester Transportation Center

The West Chester Transportation Center is a bus terminal and parking garage in West Chester, Pennsylvania. The $1,250,000 transportation center, upon which construction began in October 2004, was opened in December 2005. It is located on Market Street across from the Chester County Justice Center.

SEPTA bus routes 92 and 104 started to run from the Transportation Center beginning February 13, 2006.  Bus route 92 connects West Chester with the King of Prussia Transit Center at the King of Prussia shopping mall via Malvern Borough and the Paoli Train Station.  Bus route 104 connects West Chester University with Upper Darby's 69th Street Transportation Center. On August 1, 2021, SEPTA began bus route 135 from West Chester to Exton, Downingtown, and Coatesville, replacing Krapf's Transit's "A" bus.

In addition to the SEPTA operated services, SCCOOT (operated by Krapf's Transit for the Transportation Management Association of Chester County), which provides service between West Chester and Southern Chester County, also uses the Center.

The garage has 157 parking spaces available for use, the majority of which are reserved during normal business hours for county employees.

References

External links
SEPTA Route 92
SEPTA Route 104
SEPTA Route 135
SCCOOT

SEPTA stations and terminals
Transportation buildings and structures in Chester County, Pennsylvania
West Chester, Pennsylvania
National Performing Arts School

The National Performing Arts School (NPAS) is located in Dublin, Ireland.  The school is for students aged from 2 to 22 years old. Courses available include drama, singing and dancing. Every two years a show is performed in the Olympia Theatre. The NPAS is run by Jill Doyle and Eamon Farrell (brother of Colin Farrell). They also run various workshops throughout the year.

Location 
NPAS is located in 'The Factory', a rehearsal, recording and performance space. It opened 25 years ago with U2 rehearsing their Rattle and Hum world tour. Other performers, such as Britney Spears to Pink, and The Abbey Theatre to Riverdance, have also rehearsed there.

Notable alumni

 Colin Farrell
 Devon Murray
 Eve Hewson
 Rúaidhrí Conroy
 Danny O'Donoghue
 Mark Sheehan
 Keavy Lynch
 Edele Lynch
 Hudson Taylor
 Carly Smithson

References

External links

Arts in Dublin (city)
Education in Dublin (city)
Performing arts education in Ireland
Buildings and structures in Dublin (city)
Schools of the performing arts
Chief of Protocol of the United States

In the United States, the chief of protocol is an officer of the United States Department of State responsible for advising the president of the United States, the vice president of the United States, and the United States secretary of state on matters of national and international diplomatic protocol. The chief of protocol holds the rank of Ambassador and Assistant Secretary of State.

Duties

The chief arranges itineraries for foreign dignitaries visiting the U.S. and accompanies the president on all official international travel. Additionally, the office is responsible for accrediting foreign diplomats and publishing the list of foreign consular offices in the U.S., organizing ceremonies for treaty signings, conducting ambassadorial swearing-in and state arrival ceremonies, and maintaining Blair House, the official guest house for state visitors.

The chief of protocol duties include being present at the annual State of the Union speech (SOTU) given by the president each January before Congress. These SOTU duties include escorting the dean of the Diplomatic Corps into the House Chamber for the SOTU speech.

The chief of protocol position should not be confused with the distinctly different White House social secretary position.

Divisions
The office identifies six divisions on its website, led by assistant chiefs, who oversee the following principal duties:

 Management
 Visits
 Ceremonials
 Diplomatic Affairs
 Blair House
 Major Events

List of chiefs of protocol of the United States

See also
 Chief of protocol
 Diplomatic rank
 Protocol (diplomacy)
 United States order of precedence

References

External links
 Office of the Chief of Protocol
 List of Chiefs of Protocol

 
United States Department of State agencies
 
Presidency of the United States
United States
Diplomatic protocol
Kisdon Force

Kisdon Force is a series of waterfalls on the River Swale in Swaledale, England. The falls are situated within the Yorkshire Dales National Park in the county of North Yorkshire, 500 metres downstream from the small hamlet of Keld at grid reference . 

Kisdon Force is one of several waterfalls on the Swale in the Keld area: the others are East Gill Force, Catrake Force and Wain Wath Force. All occur where the river cuts a gorge through the Carboniferous Limestone between the hills of Kisdon and Rogan's Seat. The falls in this area are termed "forces" after the Norse word fors or foss, which means "waterfall". Both upper and lower Kisdon Force can be negotiated by canoeists, although a high degree of skill and experience is needed. The upper falls are rated Grade IV whilst the lower falls are rated more difficult at Grade V.

The falls drop  over two cascades and are surrounded by Kisdon Force Woods, a Site of Special Scientific Interest covering an area of 38 hectares, which consists of mixed broad-leaved woodland with ash, wych elm and rowan dominating. In the spring, primroses grow profusely in the area. The falls can be easily visited by a riverside path from Keld. However, care should be taken since the stones around the falls are often wet and slippery. Visitor numbers to the falls are swollen by walkers along the Pennine Way, a long-distance footpath that passes the falls.

See also
 List of waterfalls of England

References

Waterfalls of North Yorkshire
Swaledale
Swimming at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Men's 400 metre freestyle

The  men's 400 metre freestyle was one of six swimming events on the swimming at the 1908 Summer Olympics programme. Its distance was the median of the 3 individual freestyle event distances. It was the first time an event over 400 metres was held at the Olympics (after a 440-yard contest was held in 1904). The competition was held from Monday July 13, 1908 to Thursday July 16, 1908.

Each nation could enter up to 12 swimmers. Twenty-five swimmers from ten nations competed.

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes) prior to the 1908 Summer Olympics.

(*) 440 yards (= 402.34 m)

In the final Henry Taylor set the first official world record for this distance in 5:36.8 minutes.

Competition format

With a much larger field than in 1904, the 1908 competition expanded to three rounds: heats, semifinals, and a final. The 1908 Games also restored the wild-card system from 1900, allowing the fastest swimmers who did not win their heat to advance. The nine heats consisted of between 1 and 5 swimmers, with the winner of the heat advancing along with the fastest loser from across the heats (all tied swimmers advanced in the case of equal times). There were two semifinals, intended to be of 5 swimmers each but one of which actually had 4 due to a withdrawal; the top 2 finishers in each semifinal (regardless of overall time) advanced to the 4-person final.

Each race involved four lengths of the 100 metre pool. Any stroke could be used.

Results

First round

The fastest swimmer in each heat and the fastest loser advanced, qualifying 10 swimmers for the semifinals.

Heat 1

Heat 2

Heat 3

Tartakover had no competition in the third heat.

Heat 4

Heat 5

Heat 6

Heat 7

Heat 8

Zachár had no competition in the eighth heat.

Heat 9

Semifinals

The fastest two swimmers from each semifinal advanced to the final.

Semifinal 1

Semifinal 2

Final

References

Sources
 
 

Men's freestyle 0400 metres
Ambala Sadar

Ambala Sadar is a city and a municipal council in Ambala district  in the state of Haryana, India.

Demographics
 India census, Ambala Sadar had a population of 106,378. Males constitute 52% of the population and females 48%. Ambala Sadar has an average literacy rate of 77%, higher than the national average of 59.5%; with 54% of the males and 46% of females literate. 11% of the population is under 6 years of age.

References

Cities and towns in Ambala district
Microcomputer Associates

Microcomputer Associates, Inc., was an American computer company founded by Manny Lemas and Ray Holt.  It produced the low-cost Jolt Microcomputer, released in 1975. It was later acquired by semiconductor manufacturer Synertek, a second source manufacturer of the 6502, and renamed Synertek Systems. It then created the SYM-1, a 6502-based single board microcomputer and successor to the KIM-1. Holt designed the JOLT microcomputer. In 1978 the company offered a number of processor and peripheral modules.

References

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Víctor Pecci

Víctor Pecci Sr. (born October 15, 1955) is a former professional tennis player from Paraguay.

He was ranked as high as world No. 9 in singles in 1980 and world No. 31 in doubles in 1984. Pecci is famous for reaching the 1979 French Open final. He beat Guillermo Vilas 6–0, 6–2, 7–5 in the quarterfinals and Jimmy Connors 7–5, 6–4, 5–7, 6–3 in the semifinals, but lost to three-time champion Björn Borg in the final. He also reached the semifinals in 1981 and was runner-up in Rome. Pecci won the French Open boys' singles in 1973.

Grand Slam finals

Singles: 1 (1 runner-up)

Grand Slam singles performance timeline

Note: The Australian Open was held twice in 1977, in January and December.

Career finals

Singles: 22 (10 titles, 12 runner-ups)

Doubles: 18 (12 titles, 6 runner-ups)

External links
 
 
 

1955 births
Living people
French Open junior champions
Paraguayan male tennis players
Paraguayan people of Italian descent
Sportspeople from Asunción
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in boys' singles
Parczew County


Parczew County () is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Lublin Voivodeship, eastern Poland. It was established on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local government reforms passed in 1998. Its administrative seat and only town is Parczew, which lies  north-east of the regional capital Lublin.

The county covers an area of . As of 2006, its total population is 34,809, including 10,602 in Parczew and a rural population of 24,207.

Neighbouring counties
Parczew County is bordered by Biała Podlaska County to the north, Włodawa County to the east, Łęczna County to the south, Lubartów County to the south-west and Radzyń Podlaski County to the north-west.

Administrative division
The county is subdivided into seven gminas (one urban-rural and six rural). These are listed in the following table, in descending order of population.

References

 
Parczew
Platero

Platero is the eponymous donkey of the 1914 story Platero and I (English for Platero y yo). The book is one of the most popular works by Spanish poet Juan Ramón Jiménez, the recipient of the 1956 Nobel Prize in Literature. In 1960, the Italian composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco composed a suite of music for guitar with narrator based on the book.

Platero ("silvery") is described in the lyric prose of the book as a "small donkey, a soft, hairy donkey: so soft to the touch that he might be said to be made of cotton, with no bones. Only the jet mirrors of his eyes are hard like two black crystal scarabs."

The little donkey remains a symbol of tenderness, purity and naiveté, and is used by the author as a means of reflection about the simple joys of life, memories, and various characters and their ways of life.

See also
Platero y Tú

References

External links
Platero y yo at Project Gutenberg (in Spanish)
 

Fictional donkeys
Characters in Spanish novels
Ray Holt

Raymond M. Holt is a computer designer and businessman in Silicon Valley.

From 1968 to 1970, Ray and his brother Bill Holt were on the Garrett AiResearch's small design team that developed what he claims is the world's first microprocessor chip set, the 20-bit Central Air Data Computer (CADC), for the F-14 Tomcat (although the Viatron 2101 multi-chip processor had already been available at the time of the CADC's release). The CADC was never deployed for any other purpose, thereby leaving room for the 4-bit Intel 4004 to become the first commercially produced microprocessor. Holt's story of the design and development of the CADC is presented in a podcast and a Wired article.

Holt was co-founder with Manny Lemas of Microcomputer Associates, Incorporated, later known as Synertek Systems where he designed the Jolt, Super Jolt and SYM-1 microcomputer cards as well as the first microcomputer pinball game, Lucky Dice, using the Intel 4004. One of Holt's computer boards, the SYM-1, was used in the first two military robots, Robart I and Robart II.

Holt is the founder and  president of Mississippi Robotics, a non-profit organization serving rural schools and ministries in Mississippi, teaching a STEM/Robotics curriculum and holding robot competitions twice a year.

References

External links
 First Microprocessor website
 Jolt Microcomputer

American computer scientists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
USS PC-1142

USS PC-1142 was a  built for the United States Navy during World War II. She was later renamed Hanford (PC-1142) but never saw active service under that name. Hanford was transferred to the Republic of China Navy in July 1957 and renamed ROCS Pei Chang (PC-122).

Career
PC-1142 was laid down at the Defoe Shipbuilding Company in Bay City, Michigan, on 31 March 1943 and launched on 20 August 1943. PC-1142 was commissioned on 3 June 1944.

After shakedown off Florida, PC-1142 was assigned to the Naval Training Center, Miami, Florida, operating there for 2 months.  She sailed on 22 September to escort a convoy to Cuba, then for the next 10 months continued escort and patrol duty between Florida and Cuba.  PC-1142 departed Key West, Florida, on 22 June 1945 en route to the Pacific, arriving at San Diego, California, on 10 July.

Two weeks later, she steamed for Hawaii; then after a brief stay at Pearl Harbor arrived at Eniwetok on 24 August.  For the rest of the year PC-1142 performed patrol and escort operations in the Western Pacific.  On 7 January 1946 she arrived at Ponape, Caroline Islands, for assignment as a station ship. She continued these services out of Ponape and Eniwetok until 24 May when she was taken in tow by .  PC-1142 arrived at San Diego on 30 July, remaining there for the next three months. In late October she sailed to Astoria, Oregon, and was decommissioned at Vancouver, Washington.

While berthed with the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Columbia River Group, PC-1142 was named Hanford on 15 February 1956.  She was loaned to the Republic of China under the Military Assistance Program in July 1957, and served the Republic of China Navy as ROCS Pei Chang (PC-122).

References

External links
Photo gallery at Navsource.org

 

PC-461-class submarine chasers
Ships built in Bay City, Michigan
1943 ships
World War II patrol vessels of the United States
PC-461-class submarine chasers of the Republic of China Navy