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Craig Joeright

Craig Budan Joeright (born September 19, 1978) is an American former competitive pair skater. With his wife, Larisa Spielberg, he is the 2002 Golden Spin of Zagreb champion and 2000 U.S. national bronze medalist.

Personal life 
Joeright was born on September 19, 1978, in Cleveland, Ohio. He graduated from Troy High School (Michigan) in 1997  and then studied sports psychology at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. He and Spielberg announced their engagement in August 2003. They were married in early 2006. Their twin daughters were born in 2012.

Career 
Joeright began learning to skate in 1983. Skating with Celina Taylor, he placed sixth in junior pairs at the 1996 U.S. Championships.

A pairs coach, Johnny Johns, introduced him to Larisa Spielberg. Spielberg/Joeright teamed up in September 1996 at the Detroit Skating Club. Early in their partnership, they were coached by Johns, Mitch Moyer, and Jason Dungjen in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
Competing in the 1998–99 ISU Junior Grand Prix series, the pair won bronze in Mexico City, Mexico, and placed fifth in Budapest, Hungary.

During the 1999–2000 ISU Junior Grand Prix series, Spielberg/Joeright won silver in Ostrava, Czech Republic, and then took bronze in Nagano, Japan. They finished as third alternates for a spot at the JGP Final. In February, they competed in the senior ranks at the 2000 U.S. Championships and received the bronze medal. In March, they placed 13th at the 2000 World Junior Championships in Oberstdorf, Germany.

In 2001, Spielberg injured her left wrist and foot, causing the pair to withdraw from the Grand Prix series. Sergey Petrovskiy, Richard Callaghan, and Veronica Voyk became their coaches after Spielberg/Joeright relocated to the Onyx Skating Academy in Rochester, Michigan, in 2001.

Making their senior international debut, the pair placed fifth at the 2002 Nebelhorn Trophy and then won gold at the 2002 Golden Spin of Zagreb. They took the pewter medal at the 2003 U.S. Championships.

In their final season, Spielberg/Joeright competed at two senior Grand Prix events; they placed seventh at the 2003 Skate America and tenth at the 2003 Skate Canada International. They retired from competitive skating after placing sixth at the 2004 U.S. Championships.

Joeright coaches skaters around the Greater Detroit area, mainly at the Detroit Skating Club and Royal Oak Ice Arena.

Programs 
(with Spielberg)

Competitive highlights
GP: Grand Prix; JGP: Junior Grand Prix

With Spielberg

With Taylor

References

External links
 

1978 births
American male pair skaters
Living people
Sportspeople from Cleveland
20th-century American people
21st-century American people
Travel in Taiwan

Travel In Taiwan, an English-language bimonthly magazine, is produced in Taipei, Taiwan by Vision International Publishing Co., Ltd. on behalf of Taiwan's Tourism Bureau, an agency of the country's Ministry of Transportation and Communications. The magazine, which is designed to encourage foreign tourists to visit Taiwan, includes information on many aspects of traveling on the Pacific island.

Recent issues have been about 60 pages long, each with around 10 feature articles, a culture & art segment, a calendar of upcoming events, travel news, and a small amount of advertising, including a listing of select hotels. Articles are often accompanied by small maps, helpful info on accommodation, restaurants, and public transport, as well as a list of terms and place names in English and Chinese.

External links
 Travel In Taiwan online at zinio 
 Travel In Taiwan magazine and website 
 Travel In Taiwan, parks and activities, cities, attractions, services, travel and activities.
 Tourism Bureau M.O.T.C, Republic of China Taiwan (Official Government Website)

Bi-monthly magazines
Mass media in Taipei
Magazines published in Taiwan
Tourism magazines
Magazines with year of establishment missing
English-language magazines
Guarani

Guarani, Guaraní or Guarany may refer to

Ethnography 
 Guaraní people, an indigenous people from South America's interior (Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Bolivia)
 Guaraní language, or Paraguayan Guarani, an official language of Paraguay
 Guarani dialects, spoken in Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, and Paraguay
 Guarani languages, a group of languages, including Guarani, in the Tupí-Guaraní language subfamily
 Eastern Bolivian Guarani, historically called Chiriguanos, living in the eastern Bolivian foothills of the Andes. Also called Ava Guarani.

Economics 
 Paraguayan guaraní, the currency of Paraguay

Education 
 The Guarini School of Graduate and Advanced Studies, a subunit of Dartmouth College

Geography 
 Guarani, Minas Gerais, Brazil
 Guarani de Goiás, Brazil
 Guarani das Missões, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
 Guarani Aquifer, a large underground water reservoir in South America

Literature and music 
 The Guarani, an 1857 novel by José de Alencar
 Il Guarany, an opera by Carlos Gomes, based on the above novel
 Guarany (film), a 1948 Italian film directed by Riccardo Freda

Machines 
 FMA IA 50 Guaraní II, an Argentine utility aircraft
 VBTP-MR, a Brazilian 6x6 armored personnel carrier

Association football (soccer) clubs 
Brazil
 Guarani Esporte Clube (CE), Juazeiro do Norte
 Guarani Esporte Clube (MG), Divinópolis
 Guarani Futebol Clube, Campinas
 Guarany Futebol Clube, Bagé
 Guarany Futebol Clube (Camaquã)
 Guarany Sporting Club, Sobral
 Associação Atlética Guarany, Porto da Folha
 Esporte Clube Guarani, Venâncio Aires
 Sociedade Esportiva, Recreativa e Cultural Guarani, Palhoça
 Sport Club Guarany, Cruz Alta

Paraguay
 Club Guaraní, Asunción
 Guaraní F.B.C., Trinidad

Astronomy 
 Guarani, official name of exoplanet HD 23079 b

People 
Horacio Guarany (1925-2017), Argentinian singer & writer

See also 
 Guarini (disambiguation), an Italian name

Language and nationality disambiguation pages
Peter Carruthers (figure skater)

Peter W. Carruthers (born July 22, 1959) is a former American pair ice skater and a television skating analyst.

Carruthers and his adopted sister, Kitty, are the 1984 Olympic Silver medalists, the 1982 World Bronze medalists, and four-time United States National champions from 1981 to 1984.

Career 
The Carruthers team finished off the podium at the U.S. Championships in January 1979; however, their results improved during the following season. After winning the International St. Gervais in August 1979, they went on to win the Gold at the Nebelhorn Trophy and Silver at the 1979 Norton Skate (the inaugural Skate America). They placed 2nd at the 1980 U.S. Championships, and were assigned to their first Winter Olympics, where they finished in 5th place. They won their first U.S. National title in 1981, and stepped onto the World podium at the 1982 World Championships. In 1984, after winning their 4th National title, they were sent to their 2nd Winter Olympics and won the Silver medal.

Following the 1984 Winter Olympics, the Carruthers turned professional and starred with Ice Capades and Stars on Ice. For 12 years, they appeared throughout the world in many productions and made for television specials.

The Carruthers were inducted into the United States Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 1999.

The Carruthers siblings were coached by Ronald Ludington.

After retiring from professional skating, Carruthers worked as a skating analyst for the Fox, ABC, and ESPN television networks. In 2010, he worked as a daily NBC Olympics skating broadcast analyst on NBC's Universal Sports network.

Competitive highlights with Kitty Carruthers

References

External links
 Pairs on Ice profile

1959 births
American male pair skaters
American adoptees
Figure skating commentators
Figure skaters at the 1980 Winter Olympics
Figure skaters at the 1984 Winter Olympics
Living people
Olympic silver medalists for the United States in figure skating
Sportspeople from Middlesex County, Massachusetts
People from Burlington, Massachusetts
Olympic medalists in figure skating
World Figure Skating Championships medalists
Medalists at the 1984 Winter Olympics
Caroline Winberg

Caroline Maria Winberg (born 27 March 1985) is a Swedish model.

Personal life 
Caroline Winberg was born in Sollentuna. Winberg, a tomboy and aspiring professional football player in her youth for AIK from Solna a suburb north Stockholm, was en route to football training when scout Cesar Wintland spotted the 15-year-old and suggested that she consider a career in modelling. Together with Wynton Fauré, she has a son born June 2015.

Career 
Winberg began her modelling career at age sixteen, and a year later was booking local gigs and appearing in promotional spots for regional companies. She soon caught the eye of several well-known agencies – including Women Model Management, Why Not Milan and Dominique Brussels – and found herself in campaigns for designers such as Valentino, Versace, Oscar de la Renta, Escada, and Armani. She has also been in campaigns for D&G, Tommy Hilfiger, Adidas by Stella McCartney, Rolex, Chloé, Armani, Ralph Lauren and Neiman Marcus, and has graced the covers of several international editions of Vogue. She has walked in seven consecutive Victoria's Secret Fashion Show each year from 2005 till 2011. She also appeared in Naomi Campbell's Fashion For Relief runway show for The White Ribbon Alliance to raise funds for mothers in Haiti in 2010. She made her acting début in the 2011 film Limitless, appearing alongside Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro. Winberg is the host of Sweden's Next Top Model, Cycle 6, despite previously having been openly critical of the Top Model programme. Winberg is also one of the three supermodel coaches on The Face UK.

References

External links 
 
 
 
 

1985 births
Living people
People from Sollentuna Municipality
Swedish female models
IMG Models models
Richard Greenblatt (playwright)

Richard Greenblatt (born 1953) is a Canadian playwright who currently lives in Toronto.  He is best known for 2 Pianos, 4 Hands, which he wrote and performed with Ted Dykstra.

Early life 
Greenblatt was born in 1953 in Montreal, Quebec, to a secular Jewish family. His parents were active Communists until 1956, when they left the party after Khrushchev's Secret Speech. He is the brother of Lewis Furey, musician, actor & director.

Greenblatt attended Dawson College. He later trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. In 1975 he returned to Canada and began his theatrical career.

Works
Soft Pedalling (1981)
The Theory of Relatives (1994, co-written with Daniel Brooks, Diane Flacks, Leah Cherniak, Leslie Lester, and Allan Merovitz)
2 Pianos, 4 Hands (1994)
Sibs (2000)
Letters From Lehrer (2006)

Personal life 
Greenblatt was married to director/writer Kate Lushington. The two have three children: Natasha, William, and Luke.

See also 
List of Canadian writers
List of Canadian playwrights

References 

20th-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights
21st-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights
1953 births
Living people
Jewish Canadian writers
Dawson College alumni
Jewish Canadian male actors
Alumni of RADA
Canadian male dramatists and playwrights
Male actors from Montreal
Writers from Montreal
20th-century Canadian male writers
21st-century Canadian male writers
Dora Mavor Moore Award winners
Eleanor Parke Custis

Eleanor Parke Custis may refer to:

Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis (1779–1854), known as Nelly, step-granddaughter of George Washington
Eleanor Parke Custis (artist) (1897–1983), American painter and photographer
President of Palau

The president of the Republic of Palau is the head of state and head of government of Palau. The president is directly elected to a four-year term, and can be reelected once in a consecutive manner.

List of officeholders

Latest election

See also
First Lady of Palau 
Vice President of Palau
High Commissioner of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands

References

Palau
 
Presidents
Palau, Presidents of
1980 establishments in Palau
Vahid Tarokh

Vahid Tarokh (; born ) is an Iranian–American electrical engineer, mathematician, computer scientist, and professor. Since 2018, he has served as a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, a Professor of Mathematics, and the Rhodes Family Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Duke University. From 2019 to 2021, he was a Microsoft Data Science Investigator at Microsoft Innovation Hub at Duke University. Tarokh works with complex datasets and uses machine learning algorithms to predict catastrophic events.

Biography
Vahid Tarokh was born in the Imperial State of Iran. He received the M.Sc. degree in Mathematics from University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada in 1992, and the PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada in 1995. At the University of Waterloo, he studied under Ian Fraser Blake, who also served as his Ph.D. advisor; his dissertation was titled Trellis Complexity of Lattices (1995).

He worked at AT&T Labs-Research until 2000, and at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as an associate professor from 2000 until 2002. He worked at Harvard University as a Hammond Vinton Hayes Senior Fellow of Electrical Engineering, and as a Perkins Professor of Applied Mathematics from 2002 until 2017. He joined Duke University in January 2018.

His current research interests are in representation, computer modeling, inference, and prediction from data.

Honors 
 Elected as a member into the National Academy of Engineering (2019).
 Gordon Moore's Distinguished Scholar (2017).
 2016 Honorary Dr. Tech. H.C. University of Southern Denmark 
 Sciencewatch World's Most Influential Scientific Minds (2014).
 2014 Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher (based only on published papers between 2002–2012).
 2014 IEEE Communications Society Award for Advances in Communications 
 Honorary D. Sc., Concordia University, 2013 
 2013 IEEE Eric E. Sumner Award
 2012 IEEE TCCN (Technical Committee on Cognitive Networks) Publication Award (for the modeling and information theoretic development of the cognitive radio channel)
 2011 Guggenheim Fellowship in Applied Mathematics (for contributions to the spectral theory of pseudo-random matrices)
 IEEE Fellow, 2009 
 Honorary D.Sc., The University of Windsor, 2003
 IEEE Communications Society 50th Anniversary Recognition (named by the IEEE Communications Society as the author of one of the most important 57 papers published in society's transactions in the past 50 years), 2002
 TR100 Award (selected as one of the top 100 inventors of the year by the Technology Review Magazine), 2002
 Alan T. Waterman Award  2001
 IEEE Information Theory Society Paper Award, 1999
 Governor General of Canada's Academic Gold Medal 1996

See also
 List of University of Waterloo people

References

External links
 Vahid Tarokh's Home page

1967 births
Living people
21st-century American engineers
Canadian electrical engineers
University of Windsor alumni
University of Waterloo alumni
Harvard University faculty
Duke University faculty
Iranian emigrants to the United States
Custis

Custis is a surname which may refer to:

People related to George Washington
Daniel Parke Custis (1711–1757), son of John Custis and first husband of Martha Washington
Eleanor Parke Custis Lewis (1779–1854), step-granddaughter of George Washington
George Washington Parke Custis (1781–1857), son of John Parke Custis and adopted son of George Washington
Hancock Custis, a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses (1710–1712), brother of John Custis
John Custis (1678–1749), member of the Virginia governor's Council and father of Daniel Parke Custis
John Parke Custis (1754–1781), son of Daniel Parke Custis and stepson of George Washington
Martha Washington (1731–1802), Martha Custis (as the widow of Daniel Custis) before she married George Washington
Mary Anna Custis, daughter of George Washington Parke Custis and wife of General Robert E. Lee
Mary Custis Vezey (1904-1994), poet and translator, related through her father, Henry Custis Vezey (1873–1939)
Mary Lee Fitzhugh Custis (1788–1853), wife of George Washington Parke Custis

Others
Ace Custis (born 1974), American retired professional basketball player
Bernie Custis (1928–2017), first black quarterback in North American football
Donald L. Custis (1917–2021), United States Navy vice admiral
Karel Klostermann

Karel Klostermann (; 13 February 1848 – 17 July 1923) was a Czech-German writer. He wrote under the alias Faustin.

Biography
Klostermann was born on 13 February 1848 in Haag am Hausruck, Upper Austria. From 1857 to 1865, he went to school in Písek in what is now the Czech Republic. He studied medicine until 1869 in Vienna, and was later active as a teacher of German and French at the German high school in Plzeň. He first wrote his works in German; later he turned to the Czech language and wrote novellas about the inhabitants of the middle Bohemian Forest. This can be found in the collection V srdci šumavských hvozdů ("In the heart of the Bohemian Forest"). Some of his novellas are set in and around the town of Kašperské Hory.

Klostermann died on 17 July 1923 in Štěkeň, at the age of 75.

Selected works
 Ze světa lesních samot (From the world of forest solitude) – 1891
 Syn svobodného soudce (The son of the free judge) 
 Pěst v příbězích (Fist in stories)

Honours
Klostermann Hut in Modrava was named after Karel Klostermann.

References

1848 births
1923 deaths
People from Grieskirchen District
Czech male writers
Austrian male writers
Czech-language writers
Czech writers in German
Czech people of Austrian descent
Austrian people of Czech descent
German people of Czech descent
German people of Austrian descent
German Bohemian people
German male writers
Nawoon Marcellus

Nawoon Marcellus was an elected official of the Chamber of Deputies of Haïti from 2001 until 2004. The first Muslim to hold the position in Haïti, he was formerly affiliated with the Lavalas Family political party of ex-President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

Marcellus has since been elected to the Senate from the Reseau National Bouclier party in the Nord Department.

Career
In its 2004 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor of the U.S. Department of State alleged that on "February 27, pro-government gangs and partisans of former Lavalas Deputy Nawoon Marcellus burned the Northern branch of Radio Vision 2000 in Cap Haitian and sabotaged its Port-au-Prince branch."

References

External links
 
 Photo of Nawoon Marcellus

Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Haiti)
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Haitian Muslims
Fanmi Lavalas politicians
Reseau National Bouclier politicians
Members of the Senate (Haiti)
Kazumi Totaka

is a Japanese video game composer and sound director who is best known for his various compositions in many Nintendo games. He occasionally does voice acting as well, most notably voicing Yoshi from the Mario series. He also directed the development of Wii Music.

Works

Characters portrayed
Totaka has portrayed several characters for Nintendo games. He mostly voices Yoshi (first appearing in Super Mario World), but he also voices, Professor E. Gadd, Captain Olimar, Birdo, and K.K. Slider, as well as portraying Shy Guy from 1997 to 2002.

K.K. Slider
The character K.K. Slider in Animal Crossing is named Totakeke (とたけけ) in the Japanese version. This name could be derived from how Totaka's name is said in Japanese (Totaka K.) as last names usually come before personal names in the language. Totakeke is said to be an animal version caricature of Totaka.

At the Mario & Zelda Big Band Live concert, some fans shouted "Totakeke" while the host grabbed a guitar and gave it to Totaka. Totaka then sat down on a chair like K.K. Slider while Shigeru Miyamoto held a picture of K.K. Slider next to Totaka.

Totaka's Song

"Totaka's Song" is a short, 19-note tune hidden in almost every game Totaka has written music for as an easter egg. It was first discovered on the title screen of Mario Paint and was later discovered as having originated in the Game Boy game X, which predated Mario Paint by two months.

Notes

References

External links
Kazumi Totaka's Song at NinDB

1967 births
Composers from Tokyo
Japanese composers
Japanese male composers
Japanese male video game actors
Japanese male voice actors
Living people
Musicians from Tokyo
Nintendo people
Video game composers
Sue Ulu

Sue Ulu is an American voice actress and actress who, primarily, voiced in English dubs for anime properties licensed by ADV Films during the 1990s. Her most prominent roles include Ritsuko Akagi in Neon Genesis Evangelion and Kei in Dirty Pair Flash.

Filmography

Anime

Films

References

External links
 
 
 
 Sue Ulu at CrystalAcids Anime Voice Actor Database

Living people
American stage actresses
American voice actresses
Actresses from Houston
1963 births
20th-century American actresses
21st-century American actresses
Back into Your System

Back into Your System is the third studio album by American rock band Saliva. It reached number 19 on the Billboard 200 and was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) since its release.

Back into Your System spawned its first single, "Always" in late 2002 and reached number 51 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 1 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart. Its second single was "Rest In Pieces" making several Billboard charts in 2003 and later launching their third single "Raise Up", reaching number 29 on the Mainstream Rock chart.

Promotion
On January 3, 2003, the band announced a 32-city nationwide tour to promote the album, beginning in Jackson, Mississippi's Hal & Mal's and finishing at the London Astoria. Breaking Benjamin and Greenwheel were supporting acts during the U.S. dates and Stone Sour performed on the U.K. portion of the European tour.

Critical reception

Back into Your System received positive reviews from music critics. Brian O'Neill of AllMusic praised the band for making the album more focused in its overall sound and musicianship than Every Six Seconds, concluding that "[The] best thing about Back Into Your System is that the disc doesn't seem to pander to rock radio as much as others of its ilk, but it should still (and did) manage success there regardless." Kaj Roth of Melodic also praised the band's commitment to delving deep into crafting solid musicianship while still retaining a semblance of their given genre. Jon Caramanica, writing for Entertainment Weekly, was mixed on Josey Scott's vocal style but gave note that his band's "unsubtle wall of monster metal ensures they never stray too far from bombast." Bob Waliszewski of Plugged In felt the band delivered mixed messages of positivity and hedonism throughout the album's track list, concluding that "With frothing guitars and drooling drums, the guys in Saliva spit out obscenities, spiritual confusion and a smug addiction to celebrity excess. A few good spots, but the parental advisory label is well-deserved."

Track listing

Enhanced CD also features a playable demo of the PC game Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos.

Credits
Credits adapted from album's liner notes.

Saliva
Josey Scott – lead vocals, acoustic guitar, percussion
Wayne Swinny – lead guitar, backing vocals
Chris D'Abaldo – rhythm guitar, backing vocals
Dave Novotny – bass, backing vocals
Paul Crosby – drums

Production
Bob Marlette – producer
Michael "Elvis" Baskette — engineer
Dave Holdredge — programming
Randy Staub — mixing (tracks 1–8, 10, 11)
Cliff Norrell — mixing (tracks 9, 12)
Stephen Marcussen — mastering

Charts and certifications

Weekly charts

Singles

Year-end charts

Certifications

References

2002 albums
Saliva (band) albums
Island Records albums
Albums produced by Bob Marlette
Boleslav Jablonský

Boleslav Jablonský (real name Karel Eugen Tupý) (14 January 1813 in Kardašova Řečice – 27 February 1881 in Kraków-Zwierzyniec) was a Czech poet and Catholic priest.

Although Jablonský studied theology, he was one of the most popular Czech poets in the 19th century, whose songs (Písně milosti) found international renown.

One of his popular poems was Salomo or the wisdom of the father (Salomon neboli Moudrost otcova). A compilation of his poems (Básně) was published in 1872.

He is buried at the Vyšehrad Cemetery in Prague.

19th-century Czech poets
Czech male poets
19th-century Czech Roman Catholic priests
1813 births
1881 deaths
19th-century male writers
Burials at Vyšehrad Cemetery
People from Jindřichův Hradec District
Premonstratensians
Writers of the Romantic era
Mille Collines

Mille Collines, French meaning "thousand hills", may refer to:
 Rwanda generally, often referred to as the "Land of a thousand hills" (French: Pays des Mille Collines)
 Hôtel des Mille Collines, a hotel built in Kigali 1973, Rwanda
 Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines, the former Rwandan radio station broadcasting 8 July 1993 to 31 July 1994 and playing a significant role during the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
Amikiri

Amikiri ( or 網剪) is a Japanese yōkai depicted in the Gazu Hyakki Yagyō by Toriyama Sekien.

Concept
It is depicted as a cross between a serpent, bird or a lobster. It has claws similar to that of a crab or a scorpion, but since there is no explanatory text within the book, it is not certain what kind of yōkai it is. Many yōkai depicted in the Gazu Hyakki Yagyō were done in reference to predecessor works like the Hyakkai Zukan, so it can be seen that perhaps it is based on the one that is closest to it in those predecessor works, the kamikiri. It uses its claws to cut fisherman's and mosquito netting, which it has a bad habit of, and this behaviour leads to people regarding it as a pest.

In various writings from the Shōwa period, Heisei period, and beyond, the amikiri is explained to be a yōkai that cuts meshes and mosquito nets.

According to the yōkai researcher Katsumi Tada, "ami" (meaning nets) can lead one to think about "ami" (meaning mysidacea) due to being homophones, interpreting it as an invention that Sekien created as a result of playing around with words. However, mysidacea do not possess claws on their front limbs, so there are some voices questioning the idea that mysidacea was ever thought about in the drawing.

Legend
In a book titled Tōhoku Kaidan no Tabi by author Norio Yamada, there is a story taking place in the Shōnai region, Yamagata Prefecture about how there was a fishing village where an amikiri repeatedly cut the fishing nets into pieces, and when one person prevented this by taking the net back home quickly and then hiding it, that person found the mosquito nets hung in the rooms all cut by the amikiri, leading to mosquito bites all over this person's body. The yōkai researcher Kenji Murakami was unable to confirm the existence of a legend about a yōkai called "amikiri" from any other source in Yamagata Prefecture, making it likely that this "legend of the amikiri" was simply Yamada's invention.

Notes

See also
Kamikiri
List of legendary creatures from Japan

Yōkai
Ben Mumphrey

Benjamin Mumphrey (born in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States) is an American record producer, audio engineer, and musician.

Producer credits
Benjamin Mumphrey's credits for engineering include:

 Frank Black albums True Blue, Show Me Your Tears, 93-03 and Devil's Workshop, all released on Cooking Vinyl; 
 Black Liquor by Dash Rip Rock, released in 2012 on Alternative Tentacles;  
 In The Night, the 1998 album by Famous Monsters, released by Bong Load Custom Records; 
 The Chaos In Order by the Los Angeles group Let's Go Sailing; 
 the Pixies song "Bam Thwok" (the first official number 1 track on the UK Download Chart on June 23, 2004).

Engineering credits
Mr Mumphrey's credits for engineering include:

 Jello Biafra and the New Orleans Raunch & Soul All-Stars(released in 2015 on Alternative Tentacles), 
 "Ain't That Pretty At All" by the Pixies (a Warren Zevon cover from the Artemis Records album Enjoy Every Sandwich: The Songs of Warren Zevon); 
 Frank Black's albums Black Letter Days (Cooking Vinyl), Honeycomb (EMI / Back Porch Records), One More Road For The Hit and Snake Oil; 
 The Breeders 2009 EP, Fate to Fatal, the 2008 4AD Records album Mountain Battles, and the song "German Demonstration" (the B-side to the vinyl 7" single, "We're Gonna Rise");
 ¿Which Side Are You On?, the 2012 album by Ani Difranco; 
 "Goin' Home" by B.B. King with Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk (the title track from the Vanguard Records album Goin' Home: A Tribute To Fats Domino);
 Alligator Records' American Patchwork by Anders Osborne;
 Sub Pop Records' Dynamite Steps by The Twilight Singers and Saturnalia by The Gutter Twins;
 Bloodshot Records' Can You Deal With It? by Andre Williams & the New Orleans Hellhounds; 
 Ben Harper's Live from Mars (2nd engineer); Here Comes That Weird Chill by Mark Lanegan (assistant engineer); 
 various recordings by Paul Avion; 
 "Hard Luck Guy" by Greg Dulli (featuring Quintron), released in 2007 by Shake-It Records, as part of a series covering the songs of the late Muscle Shoals guitarist and songwriter Eddie Hinton.

Musician credits
The Breeders, "Pinnacle Hollow" (bass); Frank Black & the Catholics, "Velvety" (percussion); Greg Dulli, "Hard Luck Guy" (drums).

Mumphrey was the stage sound mixer for the Pixies' 2004 reunion tour, documented in the film loudQuietloud: A Film About the Pixies. He also worked as a staff engineer at Sound City Studios in Los Angeles, and Studio in the Country, in Washington Parish, Louisiana.

In 2013, Mumphrey played a bit part as a recording engineer on the series finale of the HBO television show Treme, "To Miss New Orleans".

References

External links

Allmusic: Ben Mumphrey Discography

American multi-instrumentalists
American audio engineers
Record producers from Louisiana
Musicians from New Orleans
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Demokrāti.lv

The Demokrāti.lv, known as Jaunie Demokrāti prior to 2009, was a centrist and "Euro-realist" political party in Latvia. It was formed in 2004 when two members of the Latvian parliament, Māris Gulbis and Ināra Ostrovska broke away from the New Era Party.  The New Democrats were aligned with the pan-European EUDemocrats organisation.

The New Democrats won 1.27% of vote and no seats in the parliament in 2006 election. After the election, they started talks with For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK about a possible merger, which were unsuccessful.

After the 2009 rebrand, the party participated in the 2009 Latvian municipal elections, gaining few seats. Before the 2010 Latvian parliamentary election the party was one of the founders of the Made in Latvia political alliance, but shortly afterwards was expelled from it.

On March 10, 2011, the party announced that it had dissolved. Its last chairman was Edgars Jansons.

External links
Official web site

2004 establishments in Latvia
Political parties established in 2004
Political parties in Latvia
Defunct political parties in Latvia
Centrist parties in Latvia
Political parties disestablished in 2011
Ernst Kraus

Ernst Kraus (June 8, 1863 – September 5, 1941) was a German dramatic tenor best known for his performances in the operas of Richard Wagner. He decided to embark on an operatic career when he heard leading singers performing  in Nuremberg. He studied voice first in Milan with Cesare Galliera and then in Munich with Anna Schimon-Regan.

Kraus debuted in Mannheim as Tamino in Die Zauberflöte on March 26, 1893. He first came to the United States in 1894, where he was engaged as principal tenor of the Damrosch Opera Company; he returned in 1895. He was appointed the leading tenor of the Berlin Staatsoper in 1896, holding that position for 27 continuous years. During this period, he distinguished himself in the German repertory. In 1901, he appeared at the Bayreuth Festival as Siegmund in Die Walküre, the role in which he made his New York Metropolitan Opera debut on November 25, 1903.

He retired from opera in 1924 in order to teach, and died in Wörthsee, Germany, in 1941. His voice was noted in his prime for its exceptional power and solidity rather than for its beauty or suavity of phrasing. It is preserved in several cylinders recorded for Thomas Edison's German branch between 1905 and 1910, among them "Am Stillen Herd" from Die Meistersinger (no. 15194) and "Liebeslied" from Die Walkure (no. 15256), as well as a number of acoustically recorded discs made prior to World War I.

References
David Ewen, Encyclopedia of the Opera: New Enlarged Edition. New York; Hill and Wang, 1963.
The New York Times, November 19, 1903: "More Opera Singers Here".
Girard, Victor and Harold M. Barnes, Vertical-cut Cylinders and Discs.  London: British Institute of Recorded Sound, 1964.

1863 births
1941 deaths
German operatic tenors
Mlječanica

Mlječanica () is a spa village located in the municipality of Kozarska Dubica, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The Special Hospital "Mlječanica" is a center for physiatrics and rehabilitation. According to the 2013 census, the village had 160 residents.

History
Mineral water of Mlječanica was first described by Austrian chemist  in 1888, but remained in use only by local residents. In the 1970s, more thorough hydro-geological studies were conducted, as well as a detailed physical and chemical analysis of the water. Construction of the spa began in the early 1980s, including a stationary with 105 beds, restaurant and accompanying facilities. The spa officially opened on 4 July 1987.

Patients come to Mlječanica for treatment of brain strokes and hemiplegia; rheumatic diseases (inflammation and degenerative, knuckle or out-knuckle rheumatism); gastrointestinal diseases; gynecological diseases, and post-traumatic and post-surgery conditions.

The natural mineral water is classified as a magnesium-calcium-sodium-sulfide water. The temperature at the source is 15 °C. The same water is used for treatment.  

In 2021, the spa was declared "an institution of strategic importance" by the Government of Republika Srpska. Manager of the Special Hospital Darko Banjac announced investments of 32 million BAM (16 million Euro) in the upcoming period, and transformation of the hospital into a "respectable health and diagnostic centre". The planned expansions include a new semi-intensive care hospital department, with 50 beds; a resort complex including a 150-bed hotel, wellness centre and swimming pools; new bungalows; sports hall; football field and other sports pitches.

References

External links
 Official page of the Special Hospital

Populated places in Dubica, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Spa towns in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Jack Eskew

Jackson Whiteside Eskew Kenmore (July 29, 1940 – February 6, 2016), known professionally as Jack Eskew, was an American arranger and orchestrator based in Los Angeles, California. He studied music at the University of Southern California before beginning his career in the early 1960s by touring the United States as a trumpeter with various bands, most prominently with Harry James.

Later in the 1960s, he led the band at Disneyland that appeared nightly in the famous subterranean rising stage, playing trumpet and piano. He subsequently became music director at Disneyland. During the 1960s and '70s, he musically supervised such television shows as the classic The Banana Splits Adventure Hour, The Sonny and Cher Show, and The Mac Davis Show.

From the early 1980s, Eskew worked with Oscar-winning film composer Bill Conti (best known for his scores of the Rocky series and The Right Stuff) and subsequently orchestrated The Karate Kid series, Baby Boom, Betrayed, A Prayer for the Dying, Broadcast News, The Addams Family, Rookie of the Year, Huckleberry Finn, The Big Blue, the Pierce Brosnan remake of The Thomas Crown Affair, Spy Hard, 8 Seconds, and Rocky Balboa, among others. Continuing his long collaboration with Conti, Eskew also orchestrated numerous telecasts of the annual Academy Awards with Conti serving at the helm as musical director and on-air conductor.

Eskew was nominated three times for an Emmy Award, sharing with Conti the 1994 winning award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music Direction, The 64th Annual Academy Awards.

References

External links
  (Incomplete)
 Emmy Site (Scroll down on linked page)

1940 births
2016 deaths
American music arrangers
American trumpeters
American male trumpeters
American pianists
Musicians from Los Angeles
USC Thornton School of Music alumni
American male pianists
WCTR

WCTR may refer to:

 WCTR (AM), a radio station (1530 AM) licensed to Chestertown, Maryland, United States
 West Coast Talk Radio, a radio station on the Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas & Grand Theft Auto V soundtrack
 CharterTV3, a regional cable television station in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States, also known as WCTR-TV3
 WCTU Railway
 World Touring Car Cup, abbreviated to WTCR, referring to the use of TCR regulations, an international touring car championship in motorsport
Elena Ledda

Elena Ledda (born 17 May 1959 in Selargius) is an Italian singer from Sardinia.

Early life
Born near Cagliari, Ledda pursued conservatory studies in oboe and voice.

Career 
Her soprano voice was suitable for opera, which she performed early in her career, but she was attracted by the folk singing of her native Sardinia and eventually recorded primarily in that genre. She worked with Cooperativa Teatro di Sardegna in the late 1970s and has toured and recorded internationally.

She was chosen by Sardinian movie director, Gianfranco Cabiddu, to be the leading voice for his live music/cinematic mix project, Sonos de Memoria, featuring film footage of Sardinia from the 1930s and leading contemporary Sardinian musicians playing over the film. Sonos toured the world with other Sardinian musicians such as Paolo Fresu.

In 2006, Ledda participated in Visioni di Sardegna, written and produced by her longtime collaborator Mauro Palmas, who restored film footage of Sardinia from the Luce Institute, and assembled 18 musicians under the direction of RAI TV director, Rodolfo Roberti. Greek singer Savina Yannatou was invited to feature in the project.

Her collaboration with Savina Yannatou resulted in a series of ten concerts at the Half Note club in Athens at the end of March 2006. This met with critical acclaim and TV interest in Greece, and resulted in a CD (Tutti Baci, Lyra 1095) also featuring Mauro Palmas and Primavera en Salonico.

Ledda's collaborators have included Lester Bowie, Israeli singer Noa, Maria del Mar Bonet (Mallorca), Paolo Fresu, Andreas Vollenweider, Don Cherry, and Nana Vasconcelos. In 2005 Elena collaborated with Neapolitan violinist, Lino Cannavacciuolo (Peppe Barra's violinist and original founder of the Solis String Quartet, now Noa's band of choice) to produce her CD Amargura.

The BBC's Andy Kershaw said of Ledda, "I planned a trip south to make a program about Sardinian music, almost solely on the evidence of a CD I was given of Elena's voice. We went to Sardinia and I was blown away. Elena and her band make traditional music from Sardinia using all the mainstream instruments, with hardly any 'traditional Sardinian' instruments in sight, yet it sounds so traditional and so not-mainstream. They have achieved a truly unique and refreshing sound. Clearly rooted to Sardinian tradition, yet so modern."

A 2007 recording was done with Andrea Parodi, who died before completing the work. Ledda sang at Parodi's funeral.

Discography
 Ammentos (1979)
 Is Arrosas (1984)
 Sonos (1989)
 Incanti (1993)
 Maremannu (2000)
 Amargura (2005)
 Lantias (2018)

References

People from the Province of Cagliari
Italian women singers
Music in Sardinia
Living people
1959 births
Sardinian women
York Larese

York Bruno Larese (July 18, 1938 – February 6, 2016) was an American basketball player and coach.

Amateur career
Larese was born in New York City and attended St. Ann's Academy (now Archbishop Molloy High School) in Queens. A 6'4" (1.93 m) guard, he attended the University of North Carolina, leading the Atlantic Coast Conference in foul shooting in 1959–60 with 86.8 percent, which stood as the single-season UNC mark for 25 years. (That season included a 21-for-21 effort against Duke, which is still an ACC record.) Larese was twice selected third-team All-American (in 1958-59 and 1960–61).

Pro career
Larese was one of the few players drafted twice by the NBA (whose rules at the time permitted this). First, he was selected by the St. Louis Hawks (now Atlanta Hawks) in the 1960 NBA draft, but chose to return to Chapel Hill; he was drafted again in 1961, this time by the Chicago Packers (now the Washington Wizards). Larese played eight games for Chicago before being waived on November 29, 1961; the Philadelphia Warriors signed him as a free agent the next day. Larese played 60 games for the Warriors (51 in the regular season and nine in the playoffs), including Wilt Chamberlain's famous 100-point game. (Larese scored nine points in that contest, and would often joke that he and Wilt scored 109 points between them.) After being cut by the Warriors, Larese began a seven-year career in the Eastern League, winning a championship with the Allentown Jets in 1965. He played from 1966 to 1969 with the EBA's Hartford Capitols, taking over as player/coach in 1968.

Coaching career
In 1969, Larese moved up to the big-league basketball coaching ranks, taking the reins of the New York Nets of the ABA. The job was temporary, however; Larese agreed to coach the Nets for only one season, while Lou Carnesecca got out of his contract helming St. John's. After a 39–45 record and a fourth-place finish, Larese took a job with a shoe firm, Converse Rubber Co., on Long Island. In January 1971, Larese returned to Allentown to take over his old team, the Jets. After leading Allentown to the EBA playoffs that spring, however, Larese found that coaching the Jets was taking too much time away from his executive position at the shoe company, and so resigned at the end of the year.

Personal life
York Larese was married to Barbara (Connally) Trockman and father of two sons (Keith and York, Jr.) and two daughters (Kimberly and Karen). He died on February 6, 2016, at the age of 77.

References

External links
 BasketballReference.com: York Larese (as player)
 BasketballReference.com: York Larese (as coach)

1938 births
2016 deaths
All-American college men's basketball players
Allentown Jets players
American men's basketball coaches
American men's basketball players
Basketball coaches from New York (state)
Basketball players from New York City
Chicago Packers draft picks
Chicago Packers players
Hartford Capitols players
New York Nets head coaches
North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball players
Philadelphia Warriors players
Point guards
Shooting guards
St. Ann's Academy (Manhattan) alumni
St. Louis Hawks draft picks
Eastern Basketball Association coaches
Airport Villa, Delaware

Airport Villa was a housing project that was once part of New Castle Air Force Base (now New Castle County Airport), in New Castle County, Delaware.  It was built to house military personnel during the Korean War (1950–1953).  In 1956, New Castle County purchased it from the U.S. Air Force and reopened it for civilian housing.  Rentals of the houses were managed by the Harris-Hanby Real Estate Agency, New Castle, Delaware.

History 
There were two parts to Airport Villa, one on either side of Airport Road.  The two villas contained 100 houses.  Total population during the mid-1960s was about 500 people on the entire  project; there were several yellow barracks close to the houses.

Airport Villa was demolished about 1982. The area that was formerly Airport Villa, however, can be located; 290 Airport Rd. is on the western boundary, and Reads Way is on the eastern.  Paved asphalt roads are still visible, though the houses are gone.  The New Castle County Government office park is now in the area, on Reads Way.

Housing at Airport Villa 
The houses at Airport Villa were constructed of cinder blocks and had roofs of tar and gravel.  Each home had a carport, patio, substantial sized yard and high windows on the front.  The houses were in the style of a duplex, connected at the back, with the fronts of each facing onto different streets.

Inside, the homes were very spacious, each containing two or three bedrooms.  The kitchens had a bar-counter that was connected to the dining area.  The floors were tiled-over concrete slabs.

Airport Villa's street names were alphabetical, e.g. A, B, C.  The East Villa had 24 houses and four streets, A, B, C & D, running east and west, with long connection roads running north and south.  The West Villa was much larger, with 76 houses and had street names E, F, G & H.

Students at Airport Villa attended Manor Park Elementary School, George Read Jr. High, and William Penn High School. Later, Carrie Downey was the elementary school. Some of the neighboring projects were Chelsea Estates, Wilmington Manor, Delaware and Penn Acres.

Location 
Airport Villa can be reached by leaving Route 13 onto Route 141 North towards Newport, then following 141 North to the 3rd traffic light, then turning left onto Commons Blvd into the New Castle Corporate Commons, before continuing past the next traffic light, and turning right near 290 Airport Road, on the right-hand side.

References
 Wilmington Morning News, 4 April 1970
 Wilmington News Journal, Wilmington, Delaware, "Airport Villa not an elevating sight"

Houses in New Castle County, Delaware
Ghost towns in Delaware
Demolished buildings and structures in Delaware
Southern Cross-Island Highway

The Southern Cross-Island Highway (), also known as Provincial Highway No. 20, links Tainan City on the west coast to Taitung City on the east coast, on the southern section of the island of Taiwan. The road is  long.

From west to east, the road passes through the townships of Sinhua, Yujing, Jiasian, and then the aboriginal communities of Taoyuan, Meishan, and Lidao.

The highest point of the road, Yakou, is  above sea level. The section from Meishan to Yakou Tunnel lies within Yushan National Park. Before crossing the Central Mountain Range, the road follows the Laonong River Valley for a considerable distance.

The road, considered one of South Taiwan's major tourist attractions, is sometimes damaged by landslides, especially during the wet summer months. The route was cut through the mountains in the early 1970s, but the highest sections were not properly surfaced until 1992.

This highway and its  surrounding used to have mountain entry control so visitors had to pay a low fee to get Class B mountain entry permits (入山許可證). The mountain entry control is no longer in effect so mountain entry permits are no longer required.

Typhoon damage and reconstruction
The highway was badly damaged by Typhoon Morakot in 2009, with landslides washing away entire sections, and has been closed ever since. Since then there have been continuous reconstruction works. In 2012 heavy rainfall caused further damage. The reopening of the entire length was not expected until end of April 2022, and that deadline was met with long queues after reopening.

Gallery

See also
 Highway system in Taiwan

References

Sources 
Derek Lee, 2004. A highway less traveled. Taipei Times

Highways in Taiwan
Bombs Away Dream Babies

Bombs Away Dream Babies is an album by John Stewart that was released by RSO Records  in 1979. The album peaked at No. 10 on the Billboard album chart and yielded three Top 40 singles: "Gold" (No. 5), "Midnight Wind", and "Lost Her in the Sun". This was the bestselling album of Stewart's career.

Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks, both of Fleetwood Mac, appeared on the album. Nicks sang background vocals. Buckingham sang, played guitar, and co-produced.

Track listing
All compositions by John Stewart.
 "Gold" – 4:26
 "Lost Her in the Sun" – 3:51
 "Runaway Fool of Love" – 2:32
 "Somewhere Down the Line" – 2:52
 "Midnight Wind" – 4:30
 "Over the Hill" – 3:13
 "The Spinnin' of the World" – 1:42
 "Comin' Out of Nowhere" – 2:03
 "Heart of the Dream" – 3:21
 "Hand Your Heart to the Wind" – 3:55

Personnel
 John Stewart – vocals, guitar, kalimba
 Lindsey Buckingham – guitar, vocals
 Stevie Nicks – vocals
 Joey Harris – guitar, vocals
 Joey Carbone – keyboards
 Wayne Hunt – keyboards, vocals
 Bryan Garofalo – bass guitar, vocals
 David Jackson – bass guitar
 Chris Whelan – bass guitar, vocals
 Buffy Ford Stewart – vocals
 Mary Kay Place – vocals
 Croxey Adams – vocals
 Dave Guard – vocals
 Catherine Guard – vocals
 Christine DeLisle – vocals
 Deborah Tompkins – vocals
 Mary Torrey – vocals
 Russ Kunkel – drums
 Mike Botts – drums
 Rick Shlosser – drums
 Gary Weisberg – drums

Charts

References

External links
 John Stewart's Official Website

1979 albums
John Stewart (musician) albums
RSO Records albums