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Linda Catlin Smith

Linda Catlin Smith (born 1957 in New York City) is a Canadian composer based out of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In 2005 she became the second woman to win the Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music.

Smith studied composition and theory with Allen Shawn in New York, and with composers Rudolf Komorous, Martin Bartlett, John Celona, Michael Longton, and Jo Kondo at the University of Victoria in British Columbia; and attended lectures of Morton Feldman, by invitation, in Buffalo, New York. She studied piano with Nurit Tilles and Gilbert Kalish at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and with Kathleen Solose in Victoria, British Columbia, where she also studied harpsichord with Erich Schwandt.

She moved to Toronto in 1981, where she produced a series of concerts at Mercer Union Gallery. She was Artistic Director of Arraymusic, one of Toronto's major contemporary music ensembles, from 1988 - 1993. She is a member of the performance collective, URGE. She has given lectures at many universities in Canada, and has taught composition privately and at Wilfrid Laurier University. Outside of teaching, her time is devoted to writing music.

Drawn to an ambiguity of harmony and narrative, her work is informed by her appreciation of the work of writers and painters, including: Marguerite Duras, Cormac McCarthy, Cy Twombly, Giorgio Morandi, Mark Rothko, Agnes Martin, and Joseph Cornell, among many others.

Zart
"Zart" is a classical music composition written by Linda Catlin Smith at the request of The Music Gallery for pianist Anthony de Mare. Its first performance was on April 8, 1989. "Zart" has been recorded by Louise Bessette.

Recognition
In 2019, The Guardian ranked Smith's Piano Quintet (2014) the 22nd greatest work of art music since 2000, with Kate Molleson writing, "Catlin Smith's music is slow and quiet but it's also lush. More than any minimalist, she takes her cues from Couperin, Debussy and the paintings of Agnes Martin. The results are sparse, rugged and sensual; quiet does not have to mean soft."

Further reading
Steenhuisen, Paul.  "Interview with Linda Catlin Smith".  In Sonic Mosaics: Conversations with Composers.  Edmonton:  University of Alberta Press, 2009.

See also

 Music of Canada
 List of Canadian composers

References

 Profile on Other Minds website
 Biography on Quatuor Bozzini website
 2005 Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music Canada Council for the Arts website
 Article by Christopher Fox in Tempo, New Series, No. 181, Scandinavian Issue (Jun., 1992), pp. 52, Cambridge University Press

External links
 
 Profile on Kalvos and Damian website

1957 births
20th-century classical composers
American women classical composers
American classical composers
Canadian classical composers
Jules Léger Prize for New Chamber Music winners
Living people
Composers from New York City
Musicians from Toronto
20th-century Canadian composers
20th-century American women musicians
20th-century American composers
20th-century women composers
Canadian women classical composers
21st-century American women
Warren Bennett

Warren Bennett (born 20 August 1971) is an English professional golfer.

Career
Bennett was born in Ashford, Surrey and is the son of former footballer Peter Bennett. In 1994, he won the Australian Amateur and was the leading amateur at  The Open Championship. He turned professional later that year.

Bennett failed to win a European Tour card at Qualifying School in either 1994 or 1995, and missed much of 1996 with a twisted vertebrae.

In 1998, he headed the second tier Challenge Tour rankings having won five tournaments during the season, increasing his career tally at that level to seven. From 1999 to 2004 he played on the European Tour, winning his only European Tour title at the 1999 Scottish PGA Championship, but he continued to be troubled by injuries. In 2005, he played only a few events, most of them on the Challenge Tour. Bennett's best year-end ranking on the European Order of Merit was 29th in 2001.

Having suffered a hand injury in a car accident, Bennett resigned from the European Tour at the start of 2009. He has since become a caddie initially for Bernd Wiesberger, and later for Trish Johnson on the Ladies European Tour.

In 2017 he was appointed club professional at Chestfield Golf Club in Kent.

Amateur wins
1992 British Youths Open Amateur Championship
1994 Australian Amateur, Lytham Trophy

Professional wins (11)

European Tour wins (1)

European Tour playoff record (1–1)

Challenge Tour wins (7)

Challenge Tour playoff record (2–1)

Jamega Pro Golf Tour wins (3)

Results in major championships

Note: Bennett only played in The Open Championship.

LA = Low amateur
CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied

Team appearances
European Amateur Team Championship (representing England): 1993
Eisenhower Trophy (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 1994
St Andrews Trophy (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 1994 (winners)

See also
2006 European Tour Qualifying School graduates
List of golfers with most Challenge Tour wins

References

External links

English male golfers
European Tour golfers
People from Ashford, Surrey
Sportspeople from Aylesbury
1971 births
Living people
Antiochus Theos

Antiochus Theos may refer to:

 Antiochus II Theos (286 BC–246 BC), third king of the Seleucid Empire
 Antiochus I Theos of Commagene (died 38 BC), king of Commagene
George Bond (footballer)

George Albert Bond (11 February 1910 – 1982) was an English professional footballer. He played for Millwall and Gillingham between 1931 and 1936, making 69 appearances in the Football League, before emigrating to Malta.

References

1910 births
1982 deaths
English men's footballers
Gillingham F.C. players
Millwall F.C. players
Footballers from Ilford
Men's association football forwards
Constantin Aur

Constantin "Titi" Aur (born 25 December 1963 in Bârlad) is a Romanian rally driver.

He has won eight Romanian rally championships (1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2006) and is the first Romanian rally driver to participate in a full season of World Rally Championship in 2003. He scored 2 points in the ADAC Rallye Deutschland, to finish 19th in the 2003 Production Car World Rally Championship (PCWRC). Aur is a long-time friend of WRC driver Manfred Stohl of Austria.

In 2006, Titi Aur won a record-breaking eighth national title driving a Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX for the OMV-Petrom Rally Team, in the Romanian National Rally Championship (CNR), organized by the FRAS. In 2007, the 43-year-old rally veteran switched to Viola BkP rally team to defend last year's title, but the team lost sponsorship during the season. Aur won the 2007 Raliul Avram Iancu, his last overall win to this date. In 2010, aged 47, Titi Aur returned for a full season in the CNR, joining champion squad Jack Daniel's Rally Team, again in a Mitsubishi Lancer Evo IX.

Results

WRC results

External links 
 Titi Aur - siteul oficial
 Constantin Aur fansite
 Interview with Constantin Aur (in Romanian)
 FRAS website
 Constantin Aur Biography up to date

1963 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Bârlad
Romanian rally drivers
MacArthur Bridge

MacArthur Bridge may refer to:

 MacArthur Bridge (St. Louis), a bridge in St. Louis, Missouri, United States
 MacArthur Bridge (Detroit), a bridge  in Detroit, Michigan, United States
 MacArthur Bridge (Burlington), a bridge in Burlington, Iowa, United States (replaced with the Great River Bridge)
 MacArthur Bridge (Manila), a bridge in Manila, Philippines
 Collection of two bridges across the Keelung River as part of the MacArthur Thruway in Taipei.
The Chainheart Machine

The Chainheart Machine is the second studio album by Swedish melodic death metal band Soilwork. It is the first Soilwork release to feature guitarist Ola Frenning and drummer Henry Ranta.

There is an instrumental hidden track on "Room No 99"  as the song ends at 5:00 followed by silence until the 7:00 minute mark where the hidden track begins. The hidden track transitions perfectly into the opening title track.

Track listing

Credits

Soilwork
 Bjorn "Speed" Strid − vocals
 Peter Wichers − guitar
 Ola Frenning − guitar
 Ola Flink − bass
 Carlos Del Olmo Holmberg − keyboards
 Henry Ranta − drums

Guests
 Mattias Eklundh − guitar solo on "Machinegun Majesty"
 Mattias Nilsson - 2009 remastering

Release history

References

Soilwork albums
2000 albums
Century Media Records albums
Concept albums
Albums recorded at Studio Fredman
Albums produced by Fredrik Nordström
Chiba Station

is a railway station in Chiba, Chiba, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East) and Chiba Urban Monorail.

Lines
Chiba Station is served by the following lines.

JR East
Sobu Main Line
 Chūō-Sōbu Line
 Sobu Line (Rapid)
Narita Line
Sotobo Line
Uchibo Line

Chiba Urban Monorail
 Line 1
 Line 2

Station layout

JR East

Chiba Urban Monorail

History

The station opened on 20 July 1894.
The present station building was built in 1963. Rebuilding work was scheduled to start in January 2010, with the new station building opening in fiscal 2015.

Passenger statistics
In fiscal 2013, the JR East station was used by 105,812 passengers daily (boarding passengers only), making it the 33rd-busiest station operated by JR East. In fiscal 2011, the Chiba Urban Monorail station was used by an average of 10,639 passengers per day (boarding passengers only), making it the busiest station operated by Chiba Urban Monorail. The daily passenger figures (boarding passengers only) for JR East in previous years are as shown below.

Bus terminal

Highway buses 
 Flower Liner; For Tōgane Station, Gumyō Station, and Narutō Station
 Polar Star; For Sendai Station
 Kapina; For Makuta Station, Obitsu Station, Kururi Station, Kururi Castle, Awa-Kamogawa Station
 Nanso Satomi; For Tateyama Station, Kokonoe Station, Chikura Station
 For Tokyo Skytree, Shinjuku Station
 For Ōtsu Station, Yamashina Station, Sanjō Station, and Kyōto Station

References

External links
 JR East station information 
 Chiba Monorail station information 

Railway stations in Chiba Prefecture
Railway stations in Japan opened in 1894
Sōbu Main Line
Chūō-Sōbu Line
Sotobō Line
Uchibō Line
Chiba Urban Monorail Line 1
Chiba Urban Monorail Line 2
Stations of East Japan Railway Company
Stations of Chiba Urban Monorail
Railway stations in Chiba (city)
20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of The Reverend Horton Heat

20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of The Reverend Horton Heat is a retrospective compilation album by The Reverend Horton Heat. It was released by Interscope Records in January 2006. The album consists of remastered versions of tracks that appeared on the band's three Interscope albums, Liquor in the Front (1994), It's Martini Time (1996), and Space Heater (1998).

Track listing

Personnel
 Jim Heath (aka Rev. Horton Heat) – vocals, guitar
 Jimbo Wallace – upright bass
 Taz Bentley – drums
 Scott Churilla – percussion, drums
 Adam Abrams – production coordination
 Al Jourgensen – producer
 Gavin Lurssen – mastering
 Ryan Null – photo coordination
 Thom Panunzio – producer
 Lisa Peardon – photography
 Ken Settle – photography
 Dana Smart – compilation supervisor
 Ed Stasium – producer
 Dave Thompson – liner notes

References

The Reverend Horton Heat compilation albums
Reverend Horton Heat
Albums produced by Thom Panunzio
Albums produced by Al Jourgensen
Albums produced by Ed Stasium
2006 greatest hits albums
Interscope Records compilation albums
Josephson vortex

In superconductivity, a Josephson vortex (after Brian Josephson from Cambridge University) is a quantum vortex of supercurrents in a Josephson junction (see Josephson effect). The supercurrents circulate around the vortex center which is situated inside the Josephson barrier, unlike Abrikosov vortices in type-II superconductors, which are located in the superconducting condensate.

Abrikosov vortices (after Alexei Abrikosov) in superconductors are characterized by normal cores where the superconducting condensate is destroyed on a scale of the superconducting coherence length ξ (typically 5-100 nm) . The cores of Josephson vortices are more complex and depend on the physical nature of the barrier. In Superconductor-Normal Metal-Superconductor (SNS)  Josephson junctions there exist measurable superconducting correlations induced in the N-barrier by proximity effect from the two neighbouring superconducting electrodes. Similarly to Abrikosov vortices in superconductors, Josephson vortices in SNS Josephson junctions are characterized by cores in which the correlations are suppressed by destructive quantum interference and the normal state is recovered. However, unlike Abrikosov cores, having a size ~ξ, the size of the Josephson ones is not defined by microscopic parameters only. Rather, it depends on supercurrents circulating in superconducting electrodes, applied magnetic field etc. In Superconductor-Insulator-Superconductor (SIS)  Josephson tunnel junctions the cores are not expected to have a specific spectral signature; they were not observed.

Usually the Josephson vortex's supercurrent loops create a magnetic flux which equals, in long enough Josephson junctions, to Φ0—a single flux quantum. Yet fractional vortices may also exist in Superconductor-Ferromagnet-Superconductor Josephson junctions or in junctions in which superconducting phase discontinuities are present. It was demonstrated by Hilgenkamp et al. that Josephson vortices in the so-called 0-π Long Josephson Junctions can also carry half of the flux quantum, and are called semifluxons. It has been shown that under certain conditions a propagating Josephson vortex can initiate another Josephson vortex. This effect is called flux cloning (or fluxon cloning). Although a second vortex appears, this does not violate the conservation of the single flux quantum.

See also
 Fluxon
 Josephson effect
 Josephson penetration depth
 Long Josephson junction
 Shape waves
 Sine-Gordon equation

References

Josephson effect
Vortices
A Predator's Portrait

A Predator's Portrait is the third studio album by Swedish melodic death metal band Soilwork. It was released on 19 February 2001, and was reissued on 15 October 2013 in the U.S. and 18 October 2013 in Europe. This is the last album to feature Carlos Del Olmo Holmberg on keyboards. According to Nielsen Soundscan, the album sold 6.326 copies in the US as of 2002.

This is the first album where Björn "Speed" Strid started utilizing clean vocals mixed with his traditional screaming style and the first Soilwork release to be on Nuclear Blast. The album was recorded at the same studio and at the same time that Opeth recorded their album Blackwater Park.

"Shadowchild" is a rerecording from their reissue of The Chainheart Machine.

Track listing

Personnel

Soilwork
 Björn "Speed" Strid − vocals
 Peter Wichers − lead guitar
 Ola Frenning − rhythm guitar
 Henry Ranta − drums
 Ola Flink − bass guitar
 Carlos Del Olmo Holmberg − keyboards, artwork

Guests
 Mattias Eklundh − guitar solo on "Needlefeast"
Jens Broman (ex-Darkane) – co-writer
 Eskil Simonsson − samples on "Grand Failure Anthem"
 Mikael Åkerfeldt − co-vocals on "A Predator's Portrait"

Additional Personnel on the Deluxe Edition Bonus Tracks
Sven Karlsson – keyboards 
Dirk Verbeuren – drums 
Sylvain Coudret – guitar 
David Andersson – guitar

Production
 Mixed at Studio Fredman
 Drums recorded in DHS-Studios
 Mastered at The Mastering Room

References

External links
 A Predator's Portrait on Soilwork's official website

Soilwork albums
2001 albums
Nuclear Blast albums
Albums recorded at Studio Fredman
Albums produced by Fredrik Nordström
Mountain Park, North Carolina

Mountain Park is an unincorporated community located in the Bryan Township of western  Surry County, North Carolina. The community's unique name is derived from its "mountain location in a park-like setting."  Notable old-time musician and luthier Johnny Gentry is from Mountain Park. The most notable event is the annual Mountain Park Independence Day Celebration that is hosted by the Mountain Park Ruritan Club, which attracts between 1,000-3,000 annually.

Geography
The center of the community is the intersection of Mountain Park Road and Zephyr-Mountain Park Road.  Located at the intersection is the former community post office, Mountain Park Baptist Church, Mountain Park Elementary School, and former community store.

Mountain Park is located at  (36.374, -80.855).

Notable Organizations 
Aside from Churches, there are four notable organizations who are regularly a part of functions in the community. Mountain Park Elementary School is the only educational facility in the community, and is considered the main communal point for the community. Mountain Park Ruritan Club is responsible for the aforementioned 4 July Celebration, along with others events such as the Christmas Parade. Ruritan Clubs, including the one in Mountain Park, are known for their dedication to community service and beautification of their communities. Mountain Park Rescue Squad is an all-volunteer agency that provides technical rescue services, emergency medical services (EMS), and emergency medical first response to the community. Mountain Park Volunteer Fire Department is responsible for fire suppression in the area, and is Surry County's largest fire district.

References

Unincorporated communities in Surry County, North Carolina
Unincorporated communities in North Carolina
Gerald Smith

Gerald Smith may refer to:

Gerald L. K. Smith (1898–1976), American activist and politician
Gerald W. Smith (1929–2017), American writer
Gerald Smith (Canadian politician) (born 1943), Canadian politician
Gerald Martin Smith (born 1955), British businessman and convicted fraudster
Gerald Oliver Smith (1892–1974), English-born actor in the United States
Gerald Birney Smith (1868-1929), American author
Gerald Steadman Smith (1929–2015), Canadian artist
Gerry Smith (born 1939), English footballer

See also
Gerald Smyth (1885–1920), British Army officer
Jerry Smith (disambiguation)
Gerard Smith (disambiguation)
Sarita Pérez de Tagle

Sarita Pérez de Tagle (born October 29, 1986, in Manila, Philippines) is a Filipina cinema and television actress. She was launched as a member of Star Circle Batch 11, a group of talents managed by the ABS-CBN Talent Center (now known as Star Magic) in 2003.

Personal life
She is the third of six children in a Filipino family of Spanish descent. Daughter of actor Bernie Pérez; she is the granddaughter of singer and actress Sylvia La Torre, and also the cousin of actress Anna Maria Perez de Tagle. She is also the distant niece of Isabel Preysler and distant cousin of Enrique Iglesias, Chabeli Iglesias and Julio Iglesias Jr.

She graduated AB Psychology at the De La Salle University in 2005.

Early career
Sarita appeared in the TV series It Might Be You on ABS-CBN, and in the movies My First Romance (2003) and D' Anothers (2005).

References

External links
 

1986 births
Filipino child actresses
Filipino film actresses
Living people
People from Muntinlupa
Star Magic

Actresses from Manila
Natural Born Chaos

Natural Born Chaos is the fourth studio album by Swedish melodic death metal band Soilwork. According to Nielsen Soundscan, the album sold 2.267 copies in the US as of 2002.

The album comes in a limited vinyl version and features two lps with this album and Figure Number Five in white and the other black.  The album was voted the number one album by BW and BK magazine in 2002.  A video was also made for "As We Speak".

This is the first album with current keyboardist Sven Karlsson.

This is also the first release from the band to include  elements, such as alternative metal, a style that would become more evident in the band's following release, Figure Number Five.

Track listing

Personnel

Soilwork
 Björn "Speed" Strid − vocals
 Peter Wichers − guitar
 Ola Frenning − guitar
 Ola Flink − bass
 Sven Karlsson − keyboards
 Henry Ranta − drums

Guests
 Mattias Eklundh − guitar solo on "No More Angels"
 Devin Townsend − co-vocals on "Black Star Deceiver" and "Soilworker's Song of the Damned"

References

Soilwork albums
Nuclear Blast albums
2002 albums
Albums produced by Devin Townsend
Albums with cover art by Travis Smith (artist)
Hedy Scott

Hedy Scott (born 24 January 1946) is a Belgian-American model and actress. Scott was born in Jodoigne, Walloon Brabant, Wallonia, Belgium. She came to the United States on a war-bride ship with her mother.  She was an American Citizen as her father was a U.S. Soldier in the American Army and was stationed in Belgium during World War II.
Scott became Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for its June 1965 issue. Her centerfold was photographed by Ron Vogel. She went on to have a brief acting career, appearing in Fireball 500 (1966) and an episode of The Munsters.

Film and television work 
 Fireball 500 (1966)  .... Leander Fan
 The Munsters (1966)  .... 2nd Girl

See also
 List of people in Playboy 1960–1969

References

External links 
 
 

1946 births
Living people
American film actresses
American television actresses
Belgian emigrants to the United States
Belgian film actresses
Belgian television actresses
People from Jodoigne
1960s Playboy Playmates
21st-century American women
Columniferae

Columniferae is a descriptive botanical name. The Wettstein system used this name for an order of flowering plants, with the following circumscription:

 order Columniferae
 familia Malvaceae
 familia Bombacaceae
 familia Tiliaceae
 familia Sterculiaceae
 familia Elaeocarpaceae

That is, its circumscription is identical to the order Malvales as used in the 1981 version of the Cronquist system. The APG II system, used here, includes all the plants in the first four families in the expanded family Malvaceae sensu lato.

References 

Historically recognized angiosperm taxa
Mark Green

Mark Green or Greene may refer to:

Sportspeople
Mark Green (American football) (born 1967), NFL running back
Mark Green (ice hockey) (1967–2004), American professional ice hockey player
Mark Green (racing driver) (born 1959), veteran driver in the NASCAR Busch Series
Mark Greene (footballer) (born 1959), Australian rules footballer

Politicians
Mark Green (New York politician) (born 1945), lawyer and New York City Public Advocate
Mark Green (Wisconsin politician) (born 1960), member of the United States House of Representatives from Wisconsin
Mark Green (Tennessee politician) (born 1964), member of the United States House of Representatives from Tennessee

Other people
Mark Green (bishop) (1917–2009), bishop of Aston
Mark A. Greene, American archivist, director of American Heritage Center
Mark F. Green (born 1953), American lawyer from Oklahoma
Mark I. Greene, professor of pathology
Mark Lee Green (born 1947), American mathematician
Mark M. Green (born 1937), professor of Chemistry at NYU
Mark N. Greene, CEO of OpenLink

Fictional characters
Mark Greene, fictional character on the television series ER

See also
 Mark Greenaway
 Mark Greenblatt
 Mark Greenstreet
 Mark Greenwald
 Mark Greenwold
Supercurrent

A supercurrent is a superconducting current, that is, electric current which flows without dissipation in a superconductor. Under certain conditions, an electric current can also flow without dissipation in microscopically small non-superconducting metals. However, currents in such perfect conductors are not called supercurrents, but persistent currents.

References

Superconductivity
Figure Number Five

Figure Number Five is the fifth studio album by Swedish melodic death metal band Soilwork. The record was released on 22 April 2003 through Nuclear Blast label. On this release, the band introduces more elements of alternative metal into their melodic death metal style. This would be the last album with Henry Ranta on drums before he left the band after its release.

A few different editions of this album existed upon release. The normal release with eleven tracks, as well as a limited edition release with a second CD including their 1997 demo In Dreams We Fall into the Eternal Lake plus two songs from the Steelbath Suicide demo session. The limited vinyl version of the album features two discs - this album and Natural Born Chaos, black and the other a white-colored vinyl. The Japanese version of the album includes one bonus track, entitled "Bursting Out".

Background
This album marked keyboardist Sven Karlsson's first attempts at songwriting for the band. While it is not necessarily interconnected with the keyboardist songwriting, this album features more use of the keyboard and lighter melodies. The album is considered a more commercial sound by most fans of Swedish death metal, but it arguably gives the music a broader appeal. However, vocalist Björn Strid has said the album has good melodies but lacks in intensity and could have been better composed; many fans and critics considered the album "rushed".

Music videos were made for the songs "Rejection Role" and "Light the Torch". The music video for "Rejection Role" showed the band playing in a club and being constantly pestered and booed by the members of In Flames, with interspersed footage of other incidents between the two bands. In Flames's video for "Trigger" showed the situation vice versa, In Flames playing and Soilwork as the bullies. The colour is also reversed in each video: blue for In Flames, red for Soilwork. Both videos also had the other band riding in a pickup truck to and from the club. While some believed the tension between the two bands to be real, in reality the groups are close friends and devised the idea of a dual-video concept as a joke.

This was the last album to feature Henry Ranta on drums.

Reception
In 2005, Figure Number Five was ranked number 398 in Rock Hard magazine's book The 500 Greatest Rock & Metal Albums of All Time.

Track listing

Charts

Personnel

Band members
 Björn "Speed" Strid − Vocals
 Peter Wichers − Guitars
 Ola Frenning − Guitars
 Ola Flink − Bass guitar
 Sven Karlsson − Keyboards
 Henry Ranta − Drums

Guest musicians
 Jens Broman − Guest vocals on "Figure Number Five"
 Richard Larsson − Tambourine on "Brickwalker"
 Bryan Kaschak - Guitar on "Cranking the Sirens"

Release history

References

Soilwork albums
2003 albums
Nuclear Blast albums
Cdigix

Cdigix, formerly known as Cflix, was a digital media provider for institutions of higher education.  The company ceased operations at the end of 2008, citing the difficult economic times.  It was, at one time, an online music store, serving as a content provider for college students. Their software allowed students to access media such as recorded lectures, podcasts, and educational films from any computer with an internet connection.

History 
Cdigix was founded initially as Cflix, a college campus test pilot for major studio movie rentals.  The company soon shifted gears to a music subscription service and later "introduced" the online movie service featuring video content from major studios and distributors.  In 2002, Cdigix launched the music subscription service Ctrax as a response to the widespread illicit file sharing on college campuses.  This coincided with the record and film industries' campaigns against such actions. Starting with Duke University, Cdigix eventually provided 75 universities and colleges music service for their students. At one point, Ctrax carried more than two million songs from every major label.  Due to Cdigix servers being deployed within campus networks and the introduction of fiber enhanced school networks, on-campus downloads were blazingly fast.  Complaints about the lack of iPod support from college students led to a waning interest in the service as the iPod gained mass distribution.  On the contrary, student owners of Microsoft compatible MP3 players often responded positively.

Cdigix "quietly ceased operations" at the end of December 2008, with a "lack of clients and an inability to raise money to continue" as its main reasons for dissolving.  The president and COO of Cdigix, Mark Brodsky (now at Deltak edu), also mentioned the poor economic situation playing a large factor in the company's decision to end all operations.

Media Player
In October 2006, Cdigix launched the Cdigix Media Player, which represented a shift away from a web-based music store to a software based model. The Cdigix Media Player was based on JRiver Media Center and allowed subscribers to download and play music. The player and subsequently the service faced criticisms on several points including the size of the library when compared to competitors like Apple's iTunes Store, media having to be periodically renewed, poor support for external devices, stringent digital rights management, and incompatibility with certain operating systems.

Notes and references

Defunct online music stores
Privately held companies based in Washington (state)
Defunct online companies of the United States
Kyle Richardson

Kyle Davis Richardson (born March 2, 1973) is a former National Football League (NFL) punter. He played college football at Arkansas State University and went on to have a ten-year professional career. He played for the Rhein Fire in NFL Europe in 1996, the Miami Dolphins and Seattle Seahawks in 1997, the Baltimore Ravens from 1998 to 2001, the Minnesota Vikings in 2002, the Cincinnati Bengals from 2003 to 2004, and the Cleveland Browns in 2005. With the Ravens, he won Super Bowl XXXV over the New York Giants.

High school and college
Richardson attended high school at Farmington Senior High School. During his time at Farmington, he played football, basketball, and track. In his high school football career, Richardson played the positions of defensive back, punter, placekicker, and wide receiver, and was a three-year starter and All-conference/All-region member of the football team those three years.

NFL career 
Richardson was a member of the Baltimore Ravens team that won Super Bowl XXXV. He, along with New York Giants punter Brad Maynard, hold the record for most punts (both teams) in a Super Bowl with 21 punts.  
Maynard holds the individual record with 11 punts (38.4 yd/avg) and Richardson is second with 10 punts (43.0 yd/avg.).

References

1973 births
Living people
American football punters
Arkansas State Red Wolves football players
Rhein Fire players
Miami Dolphins players
Seattle Seahawks players
Baltimore Ravens players
Minnesota Vikings players
Philadelphia Eagles players
Cincinnati Bengals players
Cleveland Browns players
People from Farmington, Missouri
List of Roswell episodes

The American science fiction television series Roswell ran between October 6, 1999, and May 14, 2002. The first two seasons aired on The WB, and the third and final season aired on UPN. The series follows the lives of teenage aliens, survivors of the 1947 UFO crash, hiding in plain sight as humans in Roswell, New Mexico.

Series overview

Episodes

Season 1 (1999–2000)

Season 2 (2000–01)

Season 3 (2001–02)

References

External links 
 

Lists of American science fiction television series episodes
Lists of American teen drama television series episodes
Roswell (TV series)
Stabbing the Drama

Stabbing the Drama is the sixth studio album by Swedish melodic death metal band Soilwork. The record was released on 28 February 2005, via Nuclear Blast label.

For a time this was the last to feature long-time guitarist Peter Wichers, who left the band after the subsequent tour until rejoining in 2008.

Style-wise, this could be considered a more diverse album than the previous record, Figure Number Five, taking elements of the past and present, and potential future. Most of the songwriting is done by guitarist Peter Wichers, and the central musical theme contains a simpler sound than heard on prior albums, with a reduction of harmonic guitar leads and a more metalcore-centric approach, such as usage of stop-start rhythm guitar work and breakdowns. This is also the first album to feature new drummer Dirk Verbeuren, who brings a more technical approach to the band's drumming compared to the previous two albums.

Some pressings of the CD have the times for tracks three and four reversed, with parts of track three still at the start of track four. Various pressings of the CD also mislabeled the final track, "If Possible", to the 12th Bonus Track "Wherever Thorns May Grow" which is only featured on the US and European limited digipak edition, respective the Japanese and Korean pressings. 1,000 copies were made in a limited collectors metal case in the shape of the Soilworker's logo.

Threat Signal did a cover version of the song "Stabbing the Drama" along with Speed, Live.

Some copies of Stabbing the Drama were mastered using HDCD. Although it is unmarked, playing the album in a CD player able to decode HDCD will give superior sound quality.

Track listing

Charts

Personnel
'''Soilwork
 Björn "Speed" Strid − vocals
 Peter Wichers − lead guitar
 Ola Frenning − rhythm guitar
 Ola Flink − bass
 Sven Karlsson − keyboards
 Dirk Verbeuren − drums

References

Soilwork albums
2005 albums
Nuclear Blast albums
Ferd Hayward

Harry Ferdinand (Ferd) Hayward (August 21, 1911 – September 12, 1988) was a Canadian short- and long-distance walker, who in 1952 competed with the Canadian national team at the Olympics held at Helsinki, Finland. He was born in St. John's, Newfoundland.

Hayward held the Newfoundland record for one-mile, ten-mile and twenty-mile distance walker. He participated at many North American sporting events where he received the Gold Medal at the United States National Kilometre Walking Champ race held at Baltimore.

Hayward was one of the first inductees into the Sport Newfoundland and Labrador Hall of Fame on April 27, 1974. He was also the first recipient of Newfoundland Athlete of the Year award when it was instituted in 1951. The provincial senior male athlete of the year is given the Ferd Memorial plaque in memory of Hayward.

In 1988, he carried the torch during the preparations for the Calgary Winter Olympics.

See also
 List of people of Newfoundland and Labrador

References

External links
Newfoundland and Labrador Sport Hall of Fame Bio
article which mentions his death
Ferd Hayward at Sports Reference.com

1911 births
1988 deaths
Dominion of Newfoundland people
Athletes (track and field) at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Canadian male racewalkers
Sportspeople from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
Olympic track and field athletes for Canada
Søren Hansen

Søren Hansen (born 21 March 1974) is a Danish professional golfer.

Hansen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. He won the 1997 Danish Amateur Stroke Play Championship  and turned professional later that year.

Hansen collected his first professional win at the Challenge Tour's 1998 Navision Open Golf Championship in his home country. Since 1999 he has been a member of the European Tour where he has picked up two tournament victories. He won the 2002 Murphy's Irish Open, where he won at the fourth extra hole in a play-off against Richard Bland, Niclas Fasth and Darren Fichardt. He also won the 2007 Mercedes-Benz Championship by a margin of four strokes. His best Order of Merit finish is 8th in 2007. He represented Europe in the 2008 Ryder Cup matches, but he did not win a match, the U.S. was victorious.

In September 2007, he reached the top 50 of the Official World Golf Rankings and became the top-ranked Danish golfer.

Hansen represented Denmark in the World Cup in 1998, 2001, 2002, 2005 and 2007.

On 11 August 2009, Hansen was charged with tax evasion by Danish authorities for allegedly claiming residency of Monaco, while actually living in Denmark. On 19 May 2010, Hansen was fined nearly $1.1 million for tax evasion.

Amateur wins
1997 Danish Amateur Stroke Play Championship

Professional wins (3)

European Tour wins (2)

European Tour playoff record (1–0)

Challenge Tour wins (1)

Playoff record
Other playoff record (0–1)

Results in major championships

CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied

Summary

Most consecutive cuts made – 3 (2009 U.S. Open – 2009 PGA)
Longest streak of top-10s – 2 (2009 U.S. Open – 2009 Open Championship)

Results in The Players Championship

"T" indicates a tie for a place

Results in World Golf Championships

QF, R16, R32, R64 = Round in which player lost in match play
"T" = Tied
Note that the HSBC Champions did not become a WGC event until 2009.

Team appearances
Amateur
European Youths' Team Championship (representing Denmark): 1990, 1994
European Amateur Team Championship (representing Denmark): 1995, 1997

Professional
World Cup (representing Denmark): 1998, 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009
Seve Trophy (representing Continental Europe): 2007, 2009
Ryder Cup (representing Europe): 2008
Royal Trophy (representing Europe): 2009, 2010 (winners)

Sources:

References

External links

Danish male golfers
European Tour golfers
Ryder Cup competitors for Europe
Sportspeople from Copenhagen
1974 births
Living people
Quest Conference

held every year since 1968, the Quest Conference is an annual gathering of pagan practitioners, authors and interested newcomers in the Bristol area of the UK. It is organised by Marian Green, editor of Quest
 and the author of over twenty books on witchcraft, magic and the Western Mysteries.

The meetings were initially held in London, and in 1983 attracted about 100 people to a venue in Russell Square. The 2012 meeting was held at the Southville Centre in Bristol, and included talks by medieval historian Karen Ralls on Roslyn Chapel, and herbalist Val Thomas on creating a magical garden. The 2013 meeting was also held at the Southville Centre and included talks by Rae Beth on witchcraft and the otherworld and Philip West on the pagan roots of the Old Testament.

References

External links

Modern paganism in the United Kingdom
Annual events in the United Kingdom
Conferences in the United Kingdom
1968 establishments in the United Kingdom
Recurring events established in 1968
1960s in modern paganism
Alpha Pictoris

Alpha Pictoris (α Pic, α Pictoris) is the brightest star in the southern constellation of Pictor. It has an apparent visual magnitude of 3.27, which is bright enough to be viewed from urban areas in the southern hemisphere. This star is close enough for its distance to be measured using parallax shifts, which yields a value of roughly  from the Sun, with a 5% margin of error. Alpha Pictoris has the distinction of being the south pole star of the planet Mercury.

Properties
With an estimated age of 660 million years, this is a relatively young Lambda Boötis star. The stellar classification of  shows this peculiarity, with the kA6 notation  indicating weaker than normal calcium K-lines in the spectrum. The 'n' following the main sequence luminosity class of V indicates the absorption lines in the spectrum are broad and nebulous. This is caused by the rapid spin of the star, which has a high projected rotational velocity of 206 km/s. Spectroscopy shows narrow, time-varying absorption features being caused by circumstellar gas moving toward the star. This is not the result of interstellar matter, but a shell of gas along the orbital plane. Alpha Pictoris is categorized as a rapidly rotating shell star that may have recently ejected mass from its outer atmosphere.

Alpha Pictoris is larger than the Sun, with twice the mass and a 60% greater radius. It is radiating 13 times as much luminosity as the Sun from its outer atmosphere at an effective temperature of . At this heat, the star glows with the white hue of an A-type star. The space velocity components of this star in the galactic coordinate system are U = -22, V = -20 and W = -9 km/s.

Data from the Hipparcos mission indicate this may be an unresolved binary system with a companion orbiting at a semimajor axis of around 1 AU, or the same distance that the Earth orbits from the Sun. Alpha Pictoris is an X-ray source, which is unusual for an A-type star since stellar models don't predict them to have magnetic dynamos. This emission may instead be originating from the companion.

References

Pictor
A-type main-sequence stars
0248
2550
032607
050241
Durchmusterung objects
Southern pole stars
Hurricane Smith (1992 film)

Hurricane Smith (also known as Dead on Delivery) is a 1992 Australian action film directed by Colin Budds and starring Carl Weathers as an American oil field worker named Billy 'Hurricane' Smith who travels to Australia on a quest to rescue his sister, where he gets mixed up with drug smugglers.

Cast
Carl Weathers as Billy "Hurricane" Smith
Jürgen Prochnow as Charlie Dowd
Cassandra Delaney as Julie
Tony Bonner as Howard Fenton
David Argue as Shanks
John Ewart as David Griffiths
Louise McDonald as Annabel
Suzie MacKenzie as Rochelle
Karen Hall as Francie
Johnny Raaen as Arkie Davis

Production

The film was shot in May 1990.

Box office

Hurricane Smith grossed $89,467 at the box office in Australia.

See also
Cinema of Australia

References

External links
 
 
Hurricane Smith at Oz Movies

1992 films
Village Roadshow Pictures films
Australian action drama films
1992 action drama films
Films scored by Brian May (composer)
Films shot in Queensland
Warner Bros. films
1992 drama films
Films directed by Colin Budds
1990s English-language films
English-language action drama films
Sula II

The "Sula II", commonly referred to as "Sula", is an open wooden passenger boat that carried visitors from North Berwick harbour in East Lothian, Scotland around the island bird colonies of Bass Rock, Fidra and Craigleith.  The vessel was retired in the spring of 2019, and is now in Southampton.

After opening the nearby Scottish Seabird Centre in 2000, The Prince of Wales (Prince Charles) enjoyed a tour around the islands on board Sula II, while famous naturalists including Sir David Attenborough and Terry Nutkins have boarded the boat. An estimated 8,000 tourists take a trip on Sula each year.

The name "Sula" comes from the Latin Sula bassanus, an old name for the northern gannet - tens of thousands of which inhabit the Bass Rock. The Marr family have owned and operated the boat since 1961.

References

External links
Sula Boat Trips
John Richardson's Bass Rock & Sula photo collection
Scotsman article on Bass Rock tourism
North Berwick general tourist information

Passenger ships of the United Kingdom
John Baptist Albertrandi

John Baptist Albertrandi (in Poland known as Jan Chrzciciel, 7 December 1731 – 10 August 1808) was a Polish Jesuit, bishop and historian of Italian extraction, born in Warsaw.

Biography

He entered the novitiate of the Society of Jesus, 14 August 1748, and left the Society shortly before the suppression, probably in 1769, for his name is not found in the catalog of 1770. After teaching literature for twelve years in the various Jesuit colleges in Poland, he was entrusted with the care of the great library founded by the Zaluski brothers Andrzej and Józef, prelates and litterateurs, who had revived literature in Poland.

This library which they bequeathed to the Poland-Lithuania Commonwealth was seized by Russia and later formed the nucleus of the Russian Imperial Library. Subsequently Albertrandi accepted the charge of preceptor to the nephew of the Primate, Archbishop Lubieński. With his pupil, Feliks Łubieński, who afterwards became Minister of Justice in Poland, he travelled through the various countries of Europe, chiefly Italy, to gather material for a great history of Poland.

With his own hand he copied manuscripts referring to Poland and Lithuania wherever he found them and in three years amassed a collection of one hundred and ten folio volumes. Where he was not allowed to copy he read and, on returning home in the evening, wrote out what his prodigious memory retained. Carlos Sommervogel says that the net result was two hundred folio volumes. Due to his contributions he is sometimes referred to as the "Polish Polyhistor".

His style is rapid, orderly, and methodical. He knew Greek, Latin, Hebrew, and most of the European languages. His published works are: Two volumes of a translation of Philippe Macquer's Annales Romaines; and abridged "Annals of Poland"; a great number of articles in the "Moniteur", a journal of Warsaw. He also collaborated with Father Naruszewicz, S.J., in a periodical called "Agreeable and Useful Recreations", and produced a work on numismatics, besides many discourses for the Academy of Warsaw, which he founded.

Last years
After the dissolution of the Society of Jesus, he became Royal Librarian and appointed Bishop to the Titular see of Zenopolis, and was decorated with the order of St. Stanislaus. In his work in the Royal library, he not only published a catalogue in ten volumes octavo, but left critical remarks in each of the books. He also had ready for publication manuscripts on the history of the three last centuries of Poland, explained by medals, Polish annals up to the reign of Władysław IV, and a "History of Stephen Bathory".

See also
 Theodosius Wislocki

References

1731 births
1808 deaths
Clergy from Warsaw
18th-century Polish Jesuits
Polish librarians
Polish people of Italian descent
John McCuish

John Berridge McCuish (June 22, 1906 – March 12, 1962) was the 34th governor of Kansas, briefly serving in 1957 after two years as the 32nd lieutenant governor of Kansas. He was a member of the Republican Party.

Biography
McCuish was born in Leadville, Colorado, and attended Kemper Military School in Boonville, Missouri, before graduating from Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas, in 1925. He married Cora E. Hedrick on September 9, 1925.

Career
McCuish began his journalism career as a newspaper-advertising salesman. He became owner and editor of the Hillsboro Star and returned to Newton, Kansas and owned and edited the Harvey County News from 1930 to 1958. He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1936.

McCuish entered the U. S. Army to serve in World War II as a private and participated in the Anzio landings. He also aided the American Red Cross in Germany. After returning from Germany, McCuish held several positions with the Kansas Republican Party including being a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1948.

Elected Lieutenant Governor of Kansas, McCuish began his term in 1954 under Governor Fred Hall. Governor Hall, who had been defeated for renomination in 1956, resigned on January 3, 1957, eleven days before the inauguration of his successor, Democrat George Docking. McCuish became governor of Kansas for those eleven days, making his administration the shortest in the history of the state. His one official act as governor was to appoint Hall to the State Supreme Court, in what is known as "the triple play of 1956," as a way of denying Docking the opportunity to appoint the new chief justice. While this "triple play" was perfectly legal, many considered it to be unethical.

After leaving office, McCuish returned to the newspaper business, but continued to be politically active. After becoming an independent oil operator, he sold his newspaper and devoted his time to the oil business.

Death
McCuish died after suffering a stroke and is interred at Greenwood Cemetery in Newton, Kansas.

References

External links
National Governor's Association Bio
 
Kansapedia
The Political Graveyard

 

Republican Party governors of Kansas
Lieutenant Governors of Kansas
Washburn University alumni
United States Army personnel of World War II
1906 births
1962 deaths
People from Leadville, Colorado
American Presbyterians
20th-century American politicians
United States Army soldiers
American Red Cross personnel
Pagan Dawn

Pagan Dawn is a quarterly magazine featuring articles, reviews and research on polytheism, pantheism, cultural history and nature-based spirituality, published by the Pagan Federation in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1968 (thus pre-dating the Pagan Federation by three years) the journal was originally called The Wiccan until the name was changed in 1994 "to reflect the growing number of non-Wiccan members of the Pagan Federation".

Pagan Dawn is based in London. Articles cover all aspects of modern and historic paganism, from Germanic neopaganism to wicca, shamanism, druidry, and esoterica. The magazine also includes news and announcements of workshops, conferences, moots, festivals, training, groups, other magazines, and many other pieces of information.

References

External links
Pagan Dawn website 

1968 establishments in the United Kingdom
Magazines established in 1968
Modern paganism in the United Kingdom
Modern pagan magazines
Quarterly magazines published in the United Kingdom
Wicca in the United Kingdom
Magazines published in London