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Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America

Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America is an ABC two-hour TV movie which first aired May 9, 2006 in which an American businessman visiting China is infected and carries the deadly mutated bird flu virus back via jetliner to the USA, soon it spreads throughout the country then the rest of the world. Before the movie ends, riots erupt, armed mobs try to hijack vaccines and authorities predict that up to 350 million people will die worldwide."

Plot summary
A mutated bird flu virus spreads across the world. As panic spreads, the governor of Virginia quarantines neighborhoods where cases have cropped up, and federal officials confess they have no vaccine and scant supplies of antiviral drugs. Major socioeconomic disruption sets in, with shortages of food and medical supplies, power outages, and riots in the streets of New York.

A second civil war even erupts in the United States. Eventually, the pandemic begins to subside. But in the final scene, the discovery that an entire Angolan village was wiped out by a new mutation of the virus and a second wave of cases will begin causes further panic.

Cast
 Joely Richardson as Dr. Iris Varnack
 Stacy Keach as Collin Reed
 Ann Cusack as Denise Connelly
 Justina Machado as Alma Ansen
 Scott Cohen as Governor Mike Newsome
 David Ramsey as Curtis Ansen
 John Atkinson as Ed Connelly
 Carolyn Dando as Lauren Connelly
 Kodi Smit-McPhee as Toby Connelly

Reception
The editorial staff at CIDRAP (Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy) at the University of Minnesota write: "The creators of the fictional ABC-TV movie Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America blended medical facts from the 1918 influenza pandemic with current predictions from flu experts to portray a contemporary flu pandemic, but they added a liberal dash of sensationalism. The disease shown in the film, aired May 9, bore a strong resemblance to the illness that killed an estimated 675,000 Americans in 1918 and 1919. And a good many of the issues raised came straight out of the US government's pandemic preparedness plans and recent news stories about possible pandemic scenarios. But some scenes and details went well beyond what happened in 1918 or what is plausible today. And along the way, important medical details were left out."

Sources and notes

External links

American Broadcasting Company original programming
American television films
2006 television films
2006 films
Films directed by Richard Pearce
Films about influenza outbreaks
2000s English-language films
Sony Pictures direct-to-video films
Victor Varnado

Victor Varnado (born May 15, 1969) is an American stand-up comedian and actor. He is an African American man with albinism. He was born legally blind due to his albinism. He grew up in Huntsville, Alabama and later moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Career

In Minneapolis, Varnado worked with the local improvisation troupes ComedySportz, The Bad Mamma Jammas and several regional theater companies, before landing his first role in the Big River Productions film Full Moon Rising, playing a copy clerk.

Soon after, his role in Giraffe Films' Kids Adventures in Oz spurred him on move to New York to pursue an acting career. His first "big break" came when he landed a role in Elton John's music video "Recover Your Soul".

Shortly after, he had a role in Harmony Korine's Julien Donkey-Boy (1999) with Ewen Bremner, Werner Herzog and Chloë Sevigny. He was subsequently cast in Universal's feature film End of Days (1999), starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. He was cast in a supporting role in Eddie Murphy's space-age comic thriller, The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002).

Varnado was the winner of the Most Valuable Performer award in the 2001 Montreal Just For Laughs Improv Championship and bronze medalist in the 2002 Comedy Central Laugh Riots National Stand-Up Competition.  He co-starred as Otis, an outrageous urban comic, in the independent film Hacks. Shown in the New York International Film Festival playing in Los Angeles, Hacks was an official selection for The Milan Film Festival.

Varnado worked on a superhero film with comic book legend Stan Lee. He has performed character voices for a video game for Sony PlayStation 3 called Rat Race.

Varnado is a member of Chicago City Limits, New York's longest running comedy improv theater company for which he was a writer and director as well as a regularly performing stand-up comedian. He has also been a guest on the popular podcast Keith and The Girl.

Varnado is the CEO of Supreme Robot Pictures, a production company that produced a mini-series for Penguin Random House called "The Great Fantasy Debate" and a stand-up comedy special event called "Bring Back Laughs"

Filmography

References

External links
Official website (2013 snapshot)
Victor Varnado on MySpace

1969 births
Living people
American stand-up comedians
American male film actors
People with albinism
Male actors from Indiana
Actors from Huntsville, Alabama
African-American male actors
People from Gary, Indiana
21st-century American comedians
21st-century African-American people
20th-century African-American people
MIT-SHM

The MIT Shared Memory Extension or MIT-SHM or XShm is an X Window System extension for exchange of image data between client and server using shared memory (usually ). The mechanism only works when both pieces are on the same computer.

The basic capability provided is that of shared memory XImages. This is essentially a version of the ximage interface where the actual image data is stored in a SysV shared memory segment, and thus need not be transferred across the socket to the X server. For large images, use of this facility can result in some real performance increases.

Additionally, some implementations provide shared memory pixmaps. These are two-dimensional arrays of pixels in a format specified by the X server, where the image data is stored in the shared memory segment. Through use of shared memory pixmaps, it is possible to change the contents of these pixmaps without using any Xlib routines at all. Shared memory pixmaps can only be supported when the X server can use regular virtual memory for pixmap data; if the pixmaps are stored in the on-board memory of graphics hardware, an application will not be able to share them with the server.

In the 1.15 release of the X.org server the MIT-SHM extension gains two additional requests: 'X_ShmAttachFd' and 'X_ShmCreateSegment', to be able to pass shared memory through file descriptors from client to server and from server to client, reducing the number of copy operations further.

References

External links 
 MIT-SHM(The MIT Shared Memory Extension)
 shm.xml - the XCB protocol specification for the MIT-SHM extension

X Window extensions
Meaford, Staffordshire

Meaford is a hamlet in the civil parish of Stone Rural, in the Stafford district, in the county of Staffordshire, England. It lies at the junction of the A34 and A51 roads, north of Stone on the River Trent. Meaford Lock is on the Trent and Mersey Canal. Meaford's most famous son is John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent, the naval hero.

Meaford was for the later part of the 20th century easily identifiable from the main A34 road by the coal-fired Meaford Power Stations, operated by the CEGB and later National Power. Meaford 'A' of 120 MW capacity opened in the late 1940s, ceased generation in 1974 and was demolished in 1982. Meaford 'B' of 260 MW capacity was formally opened in 1957, generated power for the last time at 13:00 on 28 September 1990, was formally closed on 1 October 1991 and demolition was nearly complete on 9 June 1996 when the  tall brick chimney was demolished.      

Bury Bank, an Iron Age hillfort, is a short distance to the north.

See also
 Meaford Hall, Staffordshire

Hamlets in Staffordshire
Borough of Stafford
Polo Cockta

Polo-Cockta (sometimes written as Polo Cockta or Polo-Cocta) is a Polish cola drink introduced in the 1970s. Polo-Cockta was introduced as a substitute for the original Coca-Cola, which was unavailable in Polish shops due to limited imports from the US to soviet bloc countries. At first it was based on Cockta, a very popular drink from Slovenia (then SFR Yugoslavia).

Polo-Cockta was discontinued during the 1980s, but has been revived for a few years by a private company Zbyszko which acquired all the rights to the brand, reacting to the ever-popular demand for PRL-stylised products, an element of "PRL nostalgia". The taste of Polo-Cockta is sometimes described as a mixture of Coca-Cola and Pepsi.

For a while Polo-Cockta was renamed Polo Cola, without change to the product. However, in 2016, Polo Cola was renamed back to Polo-Cockta.

Polo-Cockta has made a significant appearance in the Polish film Kingsajz by Juliusz Machulski, where it was a major plot device.

External links
 Polo-Cockta on its manufacturer's website

References

Cola brands
PRL nostalgia
Polish brands
Products introduced in 1970
Soft drinks manufacturers
King dory

The king dory or lookdown dory (Cyttus traversi) is a Dory, in the genus Cyttus, found around South Africa, southern Australia, and New Zealand, over the continental shelf at depths of between 200 and 800 m.  Its length is between 20 and 40 cm.

References 

 
 Tony Ayling & Geoffrey Cox, Collins Guide to the Sea Fishes of New Zealand,  (William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1982) 

Cyttidae
Fish described in 1872
Taxa named by Frederick Hutton (scientist)
Book packaging

Book packaging (or book producing) is a publishing activity in which a publishing company outsources the myriad tasks involved in putting together a book—writing, researching, editing, illustrating, and even printing—to an outside company called a book-packaging company. Once the book-packaging company has produced the book, they then  sell it to the final publishing company.

In this arrangement, the book-packaging company acts as a liaison between a publishing company and the writers, researchers, editors, and printers that design and produce the book. Book packagers thus blend the roles of agent, editor, and publisher. Book-packaging is common in the genre fiction market, particularly for books aimed at preteens and teenagers, and in the illustrated non-fiction co-edition market.

Business model
Publishing companies use the services of book-packaging companies in cases where the publishing company does not have the in-house resources to handle a project. There are two main reasons that publishing houses hire a book-packaging company: labor-intensive books (books with many illustrations or photographs, books which require coordinating the input of several authors, or 'novelty' books, such as gardening books that contain seed packages) and series books (e.g., Nancy Drew, Sweet Valley High, Goosebumps, and the For Dummies series).

In many cases, the book is first conceived as a marketing concept, and a writer is then hired to write the book on a work for hire basis. In some cases, book packaging companies use a celebrity with a very marketable name as the credited author, while using a professional ghostwriter to do most of the writing, researching, and editing.

Book-packaging is a common strategy between smaller publishers in different territorial markets where the company that first buys the intellectual property rights, sells a package to other publishers and gains an immediate return on capital invested. The first publisher will often print sufficient copies for all territories and thereby obtain the maximum quantity discounts on the print run for all.

Remuneration and credit
While the book-packaging sector is little-known outside the publishing world, it provides employment to many freelance authors and illustrators, particularly for those willing to work as ghostwriters, without credit in the book. Most book packaging companies pay a flat rate for manuscripts ranging from several thousand dollars to $1 per word. However, most book packaging companies do not pay royalties, which means that even if a ghostwriter's novel becomes a bestseller, the writer will not receive additional payment.

Often, writers or creators working for book-packagers work anonymously as ghostwriters, under the book-packaging company name ("by our staff writers"), or under a pen name.  In some cases, a writer's work will be credited to someone else's name, such as a celebrity, who is paid to be listed as the credited author as a way of increasing sales.

See also
Stratemeyer Syndicate
 Comics packaging
 Movie packaging

References

External links
 
 

Book publishing
Writing
Coat of arms of Ghana

The coat of arms of Ghana was designed by Ghanaian artist Nii Amon Kotei and was introduced on 4 March 1957.

Description
The first quarter, on the upper left shows a sword used by chiefs, and a staff, used by the linguist (known as an okyeame in Akan), at ceremonies.  It is a symbol for the traditional authority of Ghana.
The second quarter shows a representation of Osu Castle on the sea, the presidential palace on the Gulf of Guinea, symbolizes the national government.
The third quarter of the shield shows a cocoa tree, which embodies the  agricultural wealth of Ghana.
The fourth quarter shows a gold mine, which stands for the richness of industrial minerals and natural resources in Ghana.
A gold lion centred on a green St George's Cross with gold fimbriation on the field of blue, represents the continuing link between Ghana and the Commonwealth of Nations.
The crest is a Black star of Africa with gold outline, upon a torse in the national colours.
Supporting the shield are two golden Tawny eagles, with the Order of the Star of Ghana suspended from their necks.
The compartment upon which the supporters stand is composed of a grassy field, under which a scroll bears the national motto of Ghana: Freedom and Justice. The shield stands for a  weapon which  helps to fight poverty, ignorance and  hunger

External links

References 

National symbols of Ghana
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Rafi Manoukian

Rafi Manoukian (born 1961) is a businessman and elected council member for several terms to Glendale City Council and has served at times as mayor of the city.

Biography 
Manoukian immigrated to the United States in 1975 from Beirut, Lebanon with his parents and three brothers. He resided in Los Angeles. After high school, he joined the United States Air Force in 1978 at the age 17 where he was promoted to the rank of Sergeant and where he received the Air Force Commendation Medal for work above and beyond the call of duty. He was honorably discharged in 1982.

During his four years in the military, Manoukian received an Associate in Arts Degree from Miami Dade Community College. Afterwards, Manoukian continued his education at California State University, Northridge receiving a bachelor's degree in economics in 1984. He received his Certified Public Accountant certificate in 1991 and founded Manoukian Accountancy Corporation in 1993. He went on to receive an MBA from California State University, Dominguez Hills in 2004. Manoukian married Zovig Sepetjian in 1987, and they have three children.

From 1997 to 1998, Manoukian served on the Measure K School Bond Committee, a role for which he earned the Glendale Unified School District Burtis E. Taylor Education Award. From 1998 to 1999, Manoukian served on the Board of the Glendale Chamber of Commerce as well as on the Board of the Glendale Youth Alliance.

In April 1999, Manoukian was elected to the Glendale City Council after promoting the registration of over 4000 new voters. He was re-elected in 2003, attaining the most votes of any council candidate up to that point in time. In addition to his duties as a councilmember, Manoukian served as Chair of the Housing Authority and the Redevelopment Agency. He assumed the duties of Glendale mayor in 2002-03 and 2005–06. As mayor, he chaired the 2005 Relay for Life event, which raised over $100,000 for cancer research. Manoukian was voted by the community as Best Politician in 2005. Manoukian was honored in 2006 by the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations Foundation, by being awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, which is given to immigrants that have made outstanding contributions to the United States. Although Glendale's City Council is non-partisan, Manoukian is a member of the Democratic Party. Manoukian also sits on the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Commission.

In January 2011, Manoukian announced his candidacy for Glendale City Council. He won the election and was sworn in as a Glendale City Councilmember in April 2011.

See also
 History of the Armenian Americans in Los Angeles

References

External links
 Rafi Manoukian article on Armeniapedia.org
 Rafi Manoukian Information on City of Glendalewebsite
 Our Our City Treasurer Candidate - Rafi Manoukian

1961 births
Living people
Politicians from Beirut
Lebanese people of Armenian descent
Lebanese emigrants to the United States
American people of Armenian descent
American politicians of Lebanese descent
California city council members
California State University, Northridge alumni
Mayors of Glendale, California
Ethnic Armenian politicians
Falcon Dam

Falcon Dam () is an earthen embankment dam on the Rio Grande between Starr County in the U.S. state of Texas and the city of Nueva Ciudad Guerrero in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas. The dam was built for water conservation, irrigation, hydroelectric power generation, flood control, and recreational purposes and as an international border crossing between Zapata and Starr Counties and Tamaulipas. Construction on the dam began in December 1950 and ended in April 1954 but it was dedicated by Mexican President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines and U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower in October 1953.

Construction
The Falcon Dam was authorized by the Treaty for the Utilization of Waters of the Colorado and Tijuana Rivers and of the Rio Grande or Water Treaty of 1944 between Mexico and the United States. Construction on the dam began on 15 December 1950 and the reservoir began to fill on 25 August 1953. The dam was dedicated on 19 October 1953 and work was officially complete on 8 April 1954. By October 1954, the dam's hydroelectric power station began to produce electricity.

Characteristics

The Falcon Dam is a  high and  long earthen embankment dam. The dam is made of  of earth-fill,  of concrete and  of reinforced steel. The center of the dam is over-topped with a  long spillway with widths ranging from  at the top and  at the bottom. The spillway is controlled by six  fixed wheel gates and can release up to  downstream.

The Falcon Dam supplies water to two different hydroelectric power plants, one on the Mexican side and another on the U.S. side. Each power plant contains 3 x 10.5 MW Francis turbine generators for a combined total of 63 MW. Each power plant also receives water from the reservoir via 4 x  diameter penstocks. The two extra penstocks are for an additional generator if needed.

The Falcon Dam created the Falcon International Reservoir that has a volume of  and a surface area of .

Border crossing

The Falcon Dam Port of Entry is a port of entry at the Falcon Dam to the United States on the Mexican border. It is essentially a replacement for the former Zapata Port of Entry, which was situated at a bridge in the town of Zapata, Texas.  When the dam was completed, the town was moved to higher ground, and the Zapata Bridge now lies at the bottom of Falcon Lake.

2010 Plot
In June 2010, U.S. authorities revealed that the Los Zetas drug cartel had planned to destroy the Falcon Dam to terrorize the rival Gulf Cartel, which smuggles drugs in the area. Small amounts of dynamite discovered near the dam and a copy of a warning helped alert authorities. A larger U.S. and Mexican security presence in the area may have thwarted the attack that Los Zetas had reportedly warned civilians about on the Mexican side of the border.

References

External links

 Falcon Dam & Power Plant - U.S. State Dept Website
 

Dams in Texas
Buildings and structures in Starr County, Texas
Hydroelectric power plants in Texas
Hydroelectric power stations in Mexico
Dams in Mexico
Dams completed in 1954
Energy infrastructure completed in 1954
Dams on the Rio Grande
1954 establishments in Texas
1954 establishments in Mexico
Mayor of High Wycombe

The High Wycombe Mayoralty is unique in that the Mayor and officers are traditionally weighed every year.

The Mayor of High Wycombe, a town in Buckinghamshire, England, is chosen each year at the Annual Meeting of the Charter Trustees. The Charter Trustees of the town of High Wycombe are councillors appointed to the Town Wards who have a ceremonial role as Charter Trustees in addition to their District Council responsibilities.

Annually, one of the Charter Trustees is nominated by his/her peers to be Mayor of the town.

The office of Mayor is apolitical and the person represents the town at many civic and ceremonial events, both in the town and at other functions outside the town/district.

Robbie Coltrane TV documentary
The 'weighting in ceremony' was shown on the first episode of Robbie Coltrane's TV documentary series 'B-Road Britain' which was aired in August 2007 on ITV1.

It showed the outgoing and former mayor Darren Hayday along with the incoming mayor Valerie Razzaq.

Tolling out and weighing-in
Connected with the election of a new Mayor in High Wycombe are the customs of 'tolling out' and 'weighing-in'.

The former, which ceased with the Municipal Corporation Act, arose from the behaviour of Mr. Henry Shepard in 1678 who was reported as being drunk and misbehaving himself.

It was decreed that the great Bell should be rung out in testimony of his misdemeanours.
So according to this ancient custom the old Mayor was tolled out by tolling the great bell on the morning of the new Mayor's election.
The party then proceeded in state to Church, and afterwards a drummer who continued to drum the old Mayor out preceded the procession, although this tradition was lost at some point and only reintroduced in 1999. This was followed by the weighing-in ceremony, which took place in the bar Iron Warehouse in White Hart Street.

The weighing process is recorded and the result compared to the weight at the end of the mayoral year. For each of the mayor and corporation, if there has been a weight gain in that year, the person is considered to have been gaining that weight at the taxpayers' expense; they would be jeered and booed, historically accompanied with thrown tomatoes and rotten fruit.

References

BBC note on the 1958 ceremony

External links
For a list of past mayors see the Mayor of Wycombe website.

High Wycombe
Local government in Buckinghamshire
High Wycombe
The Moustache Brothers

The Moustache Brothers are a comedic trio from Mandalay, Burma known for live performances that combine screwball comedy, classic Burmese dance, and sharply satirical criticism of the totalitarian Burmese military regime.

The Moustache Brothers originally comprised U Par Par Lay, U Lu Zaw, and U Lu Maw. Par Par Lay and Lu Maw were real life brothers, while the trio's third member, Lu Zaw, is their cousin.

Lay and Zaw served almost six years of a sentence to seven years in labour camp for criticizing the government in a performance at the home of Aung San Suu Kyi in Rangoon in 1996. Two National League for Democracy members who had arranged the performance were also arrested and served the same time. Amnesty International led a campaign for their release, and negotiations by Suu Kyi are suspected of having contributed to their release. As part of the conditions for their release and the fact that they were under house arrest regulations, they were allowed to perform only for foreigners, within the garage of their Mandalay house.

Par Par Lay was arrested on 25 September 2007 as part of the crackdown on the anti-government protests and held until 1 November.

In August 2013, Par Par Lay died from kidney disease, allegedly caused by the lead paint on the walls of a water tank that he drank from in prison. Lu Maw and Lu Zaw continue to perform as the Moustache Brothers as a duo. Their first public performance without Par Par Lay was held four days after his funeral.

References

External links

Moustache Brothers official website, sparse content but a few great photos
Amnesty International press release on the freeing of the Moustache Brothers
Slide show, impressions of a performance with Lu Maw talking, January 2010
Treading Lightly on the Road to Mandalay, Joshua Kurlantzick, The New York Times, May 7, 2006
Moustache Mayhem, Tony Broadmoor, The Irrawady, May 1, 2002
Travel Adventures blurb on the Moustache Brothers, with photos of performances
Burma: Moustache Brothers keep on telling jokes By James Menendez and Katharine Hodgson BBC World Service, Mandalay. 5 January 2013.

Burmese comedians
People from Mandalay
VJ

VJ may refer to

Arts and media
 Video jockey, a television announcer who introduces and plays videos
 VJing, a live visual performance art practice
 Vee-Jay Records, an American blues and jazz record label
 Video journalism
 Video joker, a translator and commentator at movie theaters in Uganda
 Viewtiful Joe, a video game series by Capcom

People
 Van Jacobson (born 1950), American computer scientist
 Vickie Johnson (born 1972), American basketball player
 Reginald VelJohnson (born 1952), American actor
 Victoria Justice (born 1993), an American actress, singer, songwriter and dancer.

Science and technology
 V(D)J recombination, a mechanism of genetic recombination
 Visual J Sharp, or Visual J#, a programming language

Other uses
 Victory over Japan Day, V-J Day
 Vojska Jugoslavije, the military of Serbia and Montenegro from 1992 to 2003
 Willys-Overland Jeepster, an automobile produced 1948-1950
 VietJet Air (code VJ)
 VJ Patterson, a fictional character in the Australian television soap opera Home and Away

See also

All pages containing "vj"
VJS (disambiguation)
 Veejay (disambiguation)
 Vijay (disambiguation)
 V (disambiguation)
 J (disambiguation)
 JV (disambiguation)
Onze-Lieve-Vrouw ten Troost

The Onze-Lieve-Vrouw ten Troost Kerk (Church of Our Lady of Consolation), simply known as the Troostkerk, is a basilica in Vilvoorde, Belgium. The history of the church and its Carmelite monastery (the oldest in Western Europe) go back 800 years. It was consecrated as a basilica on May 7, 2006 by Cardinal Godfried Danneels.

Elevation to Basilica

Owing to its important role as a  pilgrimage destination, the Carmel has a particular significance to the city of Vilvoorde. The Troostkermis or annual fair and holiday of the city of Vilvoorde is still celebrated today, starting on the third Sunday after Easter. The church was elevated to the status of basilica, on 7 May 2006, and since that date pilgrims have begun visiting from other Belgian provinces.

Gallery

See also
 List of Catholic churches in Belgium

References
Luk Biesemans, Rijkdom van stilte en rust.

External links

Basilica churches in Belgium
Churches in Flemish Brabant
Vilvoorde
Lupine Howl

Lupine Howl were a rock band formed in Bristol, England in 1999, by Sean Cook (vocalist, bassist), Mike Mooney (guitarist) and Damon Reece (drummer).  The three had been dismissed from their respective roles in Spiritualized by that band's frontman, Jason Pierce.

The first single, "Vaporizer" was released in 2000 on their own Vinyl Hiss record label.  It peaked at No. 68 in the UK Singles Chart. This was followed by a deal with Beggars Banquet Records and an LP, The Carnivorous Lunar Activities of Lupine Howl in 2001.  The Bar at the End of the World followed in 2002, with Jonny Mattock replacing Damon Reece on drums.

Cook now also records as The Flies releasing All Too Human in 2007, and Mooney works with the Wild Swans and Applecraft.

Miscellanea
Lupine Howl spent some time working with fellow Bristolians Massive Attack in 2000, assisting them with recording sounds for their upcoming fourth album, which was eventually released as 100th Window in 2003. However, Massive Attack opted to not use any of the material from those sessions.

The band received some attention following their acrimonious split with Pierce, after Courtney Love had claimed Mike Mooney had taken her virginity while she followed The Teardrop Explodes in Liverpool in the 1980s, a claim which he denied.

References

External links
Popmatters review of The Carnivorous Lunar Activities of Lupine Howl and a description of the band's formation

Musical groups from Bristol
English rock music groups
Edward Burke

Edward Burke may refer to:

Government and politics 
Edward A. Burke (1839–1928), Louisiana State Treasurer
Edward T. Burke (1870–1935), North Dakota Supreme Court justice
Edward J. Burke (1876–?), Wisconsin legislator
Edward R. Burke (1880–1968), American politician
Edward H. Burke (1886–1955), American politician and lawyer
Edward M. Burke (born 1943), Chicago, Illinois Alderman

Sports 
Eddie Burke (baseball) (1866–1907), American baseball player
Edward Burke (American football) (1907–1967), selected to the 1928 College Football All-America Team
Edward Burke (cricketer) (born 1870), Jamaican cricketer
Ed Burke (hammer thrower) (born 1940), hammer thrower, American flagbearer at 1984 Olympic games
Edward Burke (basketball) (1945–2009), American basketball coach
Ted Burke (1877–1967),  Australian rules footballer

Others
 Edward Burke (priest) (1847–1915), priest, president of Carlow College, and founder of St. Joseph's Academy
 Ed Burke (musician) (1909–1988), American musician

See also
 Edmund Burke (disambiguation)
 Edward C. Burks (1821–1897), American jurist
Renal column

The renal column (or Bertin column, or column of Bertin) is a medullary extension of the renal cortex in between the renal pyramids. It allows the cortex to be better anchored.

Each column consists of lines of blood vessels and urinary tubes and a fibrous material.

A hypertrophied renal column (or renal pseudotumor) may be differentiated from an actual renal tumor with the help of a DMSA scan. The scan will show the area as one with normal activity if it is a pseudotumor or will show decreased uptake if it is a cystic or solid renal mass.

See also
 Renal pyramids
 Renal papilla
 Renal medulla

Additional images

Kidney anatomy
National Gallery of Iceland

The National Gallery of Iceland ( ) is an art museum in Reykjavík which contains a collection of Icelandic art. The gallery features artwork of famous Icelandic artists and artwork that helps explain the traditional Icelandic culture.

History

The National Gallery of Iceland was founded in 1884 in Copenhagen, Denmark, by Björn Bjarnarson. The collection consisted of donated artwork, mainly by Danish artists.

The museum remained an independent institution from its inception in 1884 until 1916 when the Althing (the Icelandic Parliament) decided to make it a department of the National Museum of Iceland. In 1928 a law was passed in the Althing on the Council of Culture, and under that law the National Gallery came under the supervision of the council.

The collection was on display at the Alþingishús (the House of Parliament) from 1885 until 1950 when it was transferred to the building of the National Museum of Iceland on Suðurgata in Reykjavík. There the collection was formally opened to the public in 1951, and in 1961 a law was passed making the museum fully independent.

In 1987 the collection was moved again to Fríkirkjuvegur 7. The main building was erected as a freezing plant in 1916, designed by Icelandic architect Guðjón Samúelsson. A later addition to the building is the work of architect Garðar Halldórsson.

Exhibitions

National Gallery of Iceland holds rotating exhibitions that reflect its collection or display work by individual artists, Icelandic as well as foreign ones. A variety of pieces from the National Gallery's collection are displayed in the first phase of the exhibition Millenium at the Culture House.

The National Gallery's building at Fríkirkjuvegur 7 houses several exhibition halls on three floors, an art store, and a café.
 
The National Gallery's offices are situated on Laufásvegur 12, adjacent to the exhibition halls. The same building houses a restoration laboratory and a specialist library containing archives, documentation, and photographs.
 
The National Gallery's library is a research library that emphasizes the preservation and the dissemination of material that relates to Icelandic art.

See also
 List of national galleries

External links 
 Gallery website

Art museums and galleries in Iceland
National museums of Iceland
Museums in Reykjavík
Sterling Roswell

Sterling Roswell (also known as Rosco) is a British multi-instrumentalist and artist, a former member of Spacemen 3.

Career
Roswell joined Spacemen 3 in 1987 as drummer, and performed on the studio album The Perfect Prescription (1987) and subsequent live album Performance (1988).

After leaving Spacemen 3, he joined The Darkside in 1989—alongside Spacemen 3 bandmate Pete Bain—and recorded three albums with the band.

He then moved to Rome, Italy, where he worked with film-maker Massimo Di Felice. He subsequently relocated to London and released an AAA-associated 'space pop' single on the 'Mint' label subsidiary of Jungle Records.

In 2004 he issued the solo album the Psychedelic Ubik under his own name on Mint/Jungle Records. More recent recording credits include producing the Transparency LP with Sky Saxon of The Seeds on Jungle Records, guest percussion on Geraint Watkins' Dial 'W' for Watkins on Proper Records, keyboards on Tres Chicas Bloom, Red & the Ordinary Girl on Yep Roc Records and guitar with The Odeon Beat Club on Beatclub Recordings and a guest performance on Martin Belmont's album The Guest List.

References

Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
People from Rugby, Warwickshire
English rock drummers
Spacemen 3 members
Dead at 21

Dead at 21 is an American drama series broadcast by MTV in 1994. The series ran for eleven thirty-minute episodes with a two-part final episode. The series was created by Jon Sherman and written by Sherman, P.K. Simonds, and Manny Coto.

Premise
Ed Bellamy (Jack Noseworthy) discovers on his 20th birthday that he was an unknowing subject of a childhood medical experiment. Microchips had been implanted in his brain, which make him a genius but will also kill him by his 21st birthday.

Accompanied by Maria Cavalos (Lisa Dean Ryan), Ed tries to find a way to prevent his death. The research center orders the termination of the project and the elimination of anyone involved. The center frames Ed for a murder and sends Agent Winston (Whip Hubley) to capture him.

Episodes

Reception
Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly rated the series as "B+." He described the dialog as "lame" but praised Noseworthy as a "lissome hunk," adding that the subtext "plays brilliantly" to the adolescent self-absorption of the MTV audience.

References

External links 
 

1994 American television series debuts
1994 American television series endings
1990s American science fiction television series
English-language television shows
MTV original programming
Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards 1995

The 2nd Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards, given in 1996, honored the best filmmaking of 1995.

Winners
Best Actor: 
Nicolas Cage and Elisabeth Shue - Leaving Las Vegas
Best Director: 
Mike Figgis - Leaving Las Vegas
Best Foreign Language Film:
Les Misérables
Best Picture: 
Leaving Las Vegas
Best Supporting Actor: 
Kevin Spacey - The Usual Suspects
Best Supporting Actress: 
Mira Sorvino - Mighty Aphrodite
Worst Film:
Showgirls

References

External links
Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association official website

1995
1995 film awards
Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards 1998

The 4th Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Awards, given in January 1999, honored the best filmmaking of 1998. The organization, founded in 1990, includes 49 film critics for print, radio, television, and internet publications based in north Texas.

Winners
Best Picture: 
Saving Private Ryan
Best Director:
Steven Spielberg -  Saving Private Ryan

References

External links
Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association official website

1998
1998 film awards
2-Nitrodiphenylamine

2-Nitrodiphenylamine, also called NDPA, 2-NDPA, 2NO2DPA, Sudan Yellow 1339, C.I. 10335, CI 10335, phenyl 2-nitrophenylamine, 2-nitro-N-phenylaniline, or N-phenyl-o-nitroaniline, is an organic chemical, a nitrated aromatic amine, a derivate of diphenylamine. Its chemical formula is C12H10N2O2, or C6H5NHC6H4NO2. It is a red crystalline solid, usually in form of flakes or powder, with melting point of 74-76 °C and boiling point of 346 °C. It is polar but hydrophobic. 

2-Nitrodiphenylamine is used as a stabilizer for synthetic rubbers, explosives, propellants (e.g. in Otto fuel II, smokeless powders, in some US Army double-base propellants in solid rockets, and in other applications involving nitric acid esters), plastics, and lubricants. It is also an intermediate for organic synthesis, and a civilian solvent dye.

In some explosives, it is used to control the explosion. One of its major uses is to control the explosion rate of propylene glycol dinitrate.

As a stabilizer, its major role is to eliminate the acidic nitrates and nitrogen oxides produced by gradual decomposition of nitric acid esters, which would otherwise autocatalyze further decomposition. Its amount is usually 1-2% of the mixture; higher amounts than 2% degrade the propellant's ballistic properties. The amount of the stabilizer depletes with time; remaining content of less than 0.5% (with initial 2% content) requires increased surveillance of the munition, with less than 0.2% warranting immediate disposal, as the depletion of the stabilizer may lead to autoignition of the propellant. 

Other stabilizers of a similar nature are 4-nitrodiphenylamine, N-nitrosodiphenylamine. While N-methyl-p-nitroaniline (MNA also used in IMX-101), and diphenylamine (DPA) are more commonly employed.

References

External links
 General information

Anilines
Nitrobenzenes
Dyes
Pyrotechnic chemicals
Heritage House

Heritage House may refer to;

Sheffield Royal Infirmary, a former hospital in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England.
Heritage House (brewery), once part of the Iron City Brewing Company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
The Heritage House, a non-profit kiruv organization in Jerusalem.
Heritage House, a Canadian publisher
Heritage House, a former hotel in Marquette, Michigan, United States, now known as the Landmark Inn

Museums
Heritage House (Compton, California), California Historical Landmark #664.
Heritage House (Irving, Texas), an historic home operated by the Irving Heritage Society
Heritage House (Riverside, California), an historic home operated by the Museum of Riverside in Riverside, California, United States.
Heritage House (Smiths Falls, Ontario), a museum in Ontario, Canada.
Key West Heritage House Museum and Robert Frost Cottage, a museum in Key West, Florida, United States.
1991–92 OHL season

The 1991–92 OHL season was the 12th season of the Ontario Hockey League. The Dukes of Hamilton relocated, and became the Guelph Storm. Sixteen teams each played 66 games. The Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds won the J. Ross Robertson Cup, defeating the North Bay Centennials.

Relocation

Hamilton Dukes to Guelph Storm

The Hamilton Dukes relocated to the city of Guelph after two seasons in Hamilton. The club would be renamed to the Guelph Storm and play at the Guelph Memorial Gardens. Guelph had previously hosted an OHL franchise from 1982-1989, the Guelph Platers. The Platers won the 1986 Memorial Cup. The franchise relocated to Owen Sound following the 1988-89 season.

The Storm would remain in the Emms Division.

New Arena

Detroit Compuware Ambassadors
The Detroit Compuware Ambassadors moved into Joe Louis Arena following one season of play at Cobo Arena. This arena was also the home of the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League.

Teams

Regular season

Final standings
Note: DIV = Division; GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; T = Ties; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against; PTS = Points; x = clinched playoff berth; y = clinched division title

Leyden Division

Emms Division

Scoring leaders

Playoffs

Division quarter-finals

Leyden Division

(2) North Bay Centennials vs. (7) Belleville Bulls

(3) Cornwall Royals vs. (6) Ottawa 67's

(4) Sudbury Wolves vs. (5) Oshawa Generals

Emms Division

(2) Niagara Falls Thunder vs. (7) Detroit Compuware Ambassadors

(3) London Knights vs. (6) Owen Sound Platers

(4) Kitchener Rangers vs. (5) Windsor Spitfires

Division semi-finals

Leyden Division

(1) Peterborough Petes vs. (6) Ottawa 67's

(2) North Bay Centennials vs. (4) Sudbury Wolves

Emms Division

(1) Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds vs. (4) Kitchener Rangers

(2) Niagara Falls Thunder vs. (3) London Knights

Division finals

Leyden Division

(1) Peterborough Petes vs. (2) North Bay Centennials

Emms Division

(1) Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds vs. (2) Niagara Falls Thunder

J. Ross Robertson Cup

(E1) Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds vs. (L2) North Bay Centennials

Awards

1992 OHL Priority Selection
The Guelph Storm held the first overall pick in the 1992 Ontario Priority Selection and selected Jeff O'Neill from the Thornhill Thunderbirds. O'Neill was awarded the Jack Ferguson Award, awarded to the top pick in the draft.

Below are the players who were selected in the first round of the 1992 Ontario Hockey League Priority Selection.

See also
List of OHA Junior A standings
List of OHL seasons
1992 Memorial Cup
1992 NHL Entry Draft
1991 in sports
1992 in sports

References

HockeyDB

Ontario Hockey League seasons
OHL
Baron Harington of Exton

Baron Harington of Exton was a title in the Peerage of England, created on 21 July 1603 for John Harington (d. 1613) of Exton Hall, Rutland. It became extinct on the death of his son John Harington in 1614.

The 1st Baron was the eldest son of Sir James Harrington (c.1511–1592) of Exton. The third son of Sir James Harington was Sir James Harington, 1st Baronet.

Barons Harington of Exton (1603)
John Harington, 1st Baron Harington of Exton (d. 1613)
John Harington, 2nd Baron Harington of Exton (1572–1614)

See also
Harington baronets

References
 John Taplin Shakespeare's Granddaughter and the Bagleys of Dudley published by the Black Country Society June 2005 (Originally published in 38/4, 39/1 and 39/2 of The Blackcountryman).

Footnotes

1603 establishments in England
Extinct baronies in the Peerage of England
Noble titles created in 1603
Harington family
Coenred

Coenred or Cenred may refer to:
 King Coenred of Mercia
 King Coenred of Northumbria
 Coenred of Wessex, father of King Ine of Wessex
 MV Cenred, a vehicle and passenger ferry
Coat of arms of Lesotho

The coat of arms of Lesotho was adopted on 4 October 2006, after Lesotho's 40th anniversary of independence. Pictured is a crocodile on a Basotho shield.  This is the symbol of the dynasty of Lesotho's largest ethnicity, the Bakoena.  Behind the shield there are two crossed weapons, an assegai (lance) and a knobkierie (club).  To the left and right of the shield are supporters of the shield, two Basotho horses.  In the foreground there is a ribbon with the national motto of Lesotho: Khotso, Pula, Nala (Sesotho, to English: Peace, Rain, Prosperity). The crocodile on the shield has been retained from the arms of Basutoland, the predecessor to Lesotho.

See also
Flag of Lesotho

External links
Flags of the World - Lesotho: Coats of Arms

National symbols of Lesotho
Lesotho
Lesotho
Lesotho
Lesotho
Gzenaya

Gzenaya or Igzenayen (Berber: ⵉⴳⵣⵏⴰⵢⵏ) is the name of a Riffian tribe of the Rif region in the north-eastern part of Morocco. Towns such as Aknoul, Ajdir Gzenaya and Ain Hamra belong to this tribe. Many Igzenayen can also be found in cities such as Tangier, Taza and Meknes.

Etymology
The word Gzenaya comes from the Berber word "Igzenayen". Originally the tribe was known by the land of "Gzenaya" which means the land of beauty in the Amazigh language.

the area is well known by its high mountains (Rif Mountains), huge valleys and rivers, green woods, and its healing water of Ain Hamra.

Gzenaya has an important place in the history of Morocco. it is the birthplace of many heroes ; as well as being the birth  tribe of Jaich ittahrir, the army of independence.

War with France

During the protectorate, the Gzenaya tribe defeated France in the “Triangle of Death”  (Aknoul, Boured, Tizi Ousli), in October 1921, for the country's independence and the end of the protectorate.

Geography
Geographically, the Igzenayen historical region extends over the modern Moroccan provinces of Taza, Al-Hoceima, Taounate, and possibly a portion of the Driouch province.

The geography is characterized by its high mountains, some small fertile plains, and by a fresh Mediterranean climate.

Some notable towns and village of Gzennaya include:

 Tisliouine
 Tala Tazegwaght (Ain Hamra)
 Ait aissam
 Ait Mhend
 Ajdir
 Aknoul
 Braret
 Buisri
 Burd
 Buankud
 Branda
 Dcar Azrou
 Taghirast
 Duaya
 Aarkub
 Ibakriyen
 Inehecen
 Ixewanen
 Ighbaben
 Iharkliyen
 Iharcliene
 Iharesen
 Ihdayen (Hadria)
 Ihrucen
 Ikabunen
 Ikarwan
 Inehnahen
 Ibuakbathen (sidi ali bourkba)
 Izarwalen
 Jbarna
 Tastit
 Tarmest
 Tbadiwien
 Tegzratin
 Tizi w-Asri
 Tizi n Dra
 Tizi Ouasli
 Asht Aissa
 Yarwahdud
 Douar Ifzarene (Ifzan)
 Douar tighza

References

Berber peoples and tribes
Rif
OITC

OITC can stand for one of the following: 
Office of International Treasury Control
Outdoor-Indoor Transmission Class
One in the Chamber (Action Movie)
Killadelphia (album)

Killadelphia is a live album by American heavy metal band Lamb of God in Philadelphia, October 2004, which was released by Epic Records as a DVD. It boasts the entire unabridged audio from the concert documented in the DVD of the same name. The CD was released on December 13, 2005, available with a special re-release version of the DVD or by itself in conventional CD packaging.

It was mixed by Machine, who also produced Lamb of God's Ashes of the Wake and Sacrament studio albums. The concert itself features songs from the band's first three studio albums, and even a song from the band's previous incarnation, Burn the Priest. Because it is a complete audio version of the concert, the CD is almost 70 minutes long and the transitions between tracks are seamless.

Track listing

References

Lamb of God (band) albums
2005 live albums
Cresconius

Cresconius may refer to:

 Flavius Cresconius Corippus, 6th-century poet
 Cresconius Africanus, 7th-century bishop
 Cresconius of Santiago de Compostela, 11th-century bishop
Zhulebino (Moscow Metro)

Zhulebino () is a station on Moscow Metro's Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya Line. It is named after Zhulebino district and situated at the intersection of General Kuznetsov and Aircraft designer Mil streets. Zhulebino was opened on 9 November 2013. The construction lasted for two years. The station was to be opened on 6 November 2013, however due to a technical failure of a train at neighbouring Lermontovsky Prospekt station it was delayed until the 9th. Its location is outside the Moscow Ring Road beltway.

The station is located underground although the track from Vykhino is at the surface for a part of the path.

The territory at which the station currently located was until 1984 a part of the town of Lyubertsy of Moscow Oblast. In 1984 it was transferred to Moscow, and subsequently rapid urban development started. The whole area, along with Lyubertsy and other areas along the Kazansky and Ryazansky suburban directions of Moscow Railway were strongly dependent on the station of Vykhino, then the terminus of the Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya Line and a transfer station to both railway directions. In the 2000s, Vykhino was heavily overloaded. Eventually, the decision was taken to extend the Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya Line beyond Vykhino. The construction of the first stretch, with the stations of Lermontovsky Prospekt and Zhulebino, started in August 2011. The tunnels were completed by September 2013.

Zhulebino was the terminus until 21 September 2015, when the new terminus at Kotelniki was opened.

References

External links
   Future of Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya Line on metro.molot.ru
   Открылось движение поездов до станции метро "Жулебино" в Москве

Moscow Metro stations
Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya Line
Railway stations in Russia opened in 2013
Railway stations located underground in Russia