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Books for the Blind

The Books for the Blind Program is an initiative of the United States National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) which provides audio recordings of books free of charge to people who are blind or visually impaired. The program has included audio recordings of books since 1934 and digital book efforts began in 1996.

History
See also National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped

In 1931, the United States passed the Pratt-Smoot Act to provide blind adults with access to books.  Before audio recordings, books were made available in braille. Beginning with 19 libraries in 1931, the network as of March 2018 was 55 regional libraries, 32 subregional libraries, and 14 advisory and outreach centers serving the United States and its territories. The program was expanded in 1952 to include blind children, in 1962 to include music materials, and in 1966 to include individuals with physical impairments that prevent the reading of standard print. The Books for the Blind Program was the model for the effort in the 1950s for captioned films for the deaf leading to the Captioned Films Act of 1958.

Audio recordings were first created on vinyl when the Pratt-Smoot Act was amended in 1933 to include "talking books", and later, in 1969, on proprietary cassette tape and player, becoming the preferred format. Currently, books for the blind and visually impaired can be downloaded from the NLS's Braille and Audio Reading Download (BARD) system, which allows for digital books on desktop computers and some mobile devices. In 2016, a Wi-Fi symbol was added to the NLS's logo to represent the inclusion of wireless connectivity to the programs.

See also
Audiobook
West German Audio Book Library for the Blind
National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped
DAISY Digital Talking Book

References

External links
History of the program (with a state of Michigan emphasis)
CNIB: Reading by Sound: Pre-1950. Describes a similar service in Canada.

1931 establishments in the United States
Organizations established in 1931
Blindness organizations in the United States
Books by type
Harold Akin

Harold Dwayne Akin (January 11, 1945 – March 18, 2022) was an American football player.  An offensive tackle, he played college football at Oklahoma State University, and played professionally in the American Football League for the San Diego Chargers in 1967 and 1968. Akin later went on to found The Budget Floor Store in Oklahoma City, which now has 4 locations across Oklahoma.

See also
List of American Football League players

References

External links
NFL.com
databasefootball.com

1945 births
2022 deaths
Businesspeople from Oklahoma City
People from McAlester, Oklahoma
Players of American football from Oklahoma
American football offensive tackles
Oklahoma State Cowboys football players
San Diego Chargers players
American Football League players
Ted Alflen

Theodore Thomas Alflen (born September 13, 1946) is a former American football player. A defensive back and halfback, he played college football at Springfield College, and played professionally in the American Football League (AFL) for the Denver Broncos in 1969 and in the Canadian Football League for the Montreal Alouettes in 1970. Alflen returned to the AFL to play with the New England Patriots in 1971, but suffered a knee injury returning a kickoff in the pre-season against the Minnesota Vikings.  Nine weeks later he was released and retired due to numerous injuries.

Alflen held Springfield College's record for most points scored in a game, 36 versus Tufts in 1968, a record which stood until 2006.

Alflen's moment in the limelight came during his short stint with Montreal. Alouettes coach Sam Etcheverry had suspended running back Dennis Duncan and receiver Bob McCarthy for curfew violations. Alflen, who had been playing for the Long Island Bulldogs, was brought in just in time for the playoffs, and played only three games in his brief but noteworthy career as a Lark. During the first quarter of the 1970 Grey Cup game, the Alouettes were third-and-one at the Calgary Stampeders' ten-yard line. Alflen was sent in as a play courier with instructions for a hand-off up the middle to running back Moses Denson for the third-down gamble. Denson was forced wide to the right by Calgary's Terry Wilson. Wilson was flat on the ground but had Denson's ankle in his grip. Denson caught site of Alflen open downfield and launched a perfect strike. "I was blocking and saw Moses was in trouble. I headed for the end zone, he saw me and lofted a perfect pass to me. It was a magical sort of play; something instantaneous. It was an amazing moment for me."

After his football career, Alflen worked in sales for a chemical company, was an assistant football coach at Miami Edison High School in Miami, Florida, for two years, and then worked as director of sales and development for a sun-care products company. In 1991, Alflen founded a natural products company, Naturally Fresh Deodorant Crystal. He manufactured natural deodorants which were distributed in 60 countries and by most major US retailers. In October 2013, he sold the company, although he presently still a consultant for the company.

Currently, Alflen is the Chief Executive Officer for Skuze Shoes.

References

See also
 List of American Football League players

1946 births
Living people
American football defensive backs
American football halfbacks
Canadian football running backs
Denver Broncos (AFL) players
Montreal Alouettes players
Springfield Pride football players
High school football coaches in Florida
Players of American football from Reno, Nevada
Players of Canadian football from Nevada
Bruce Alford Jr.

Herbert Bruce Alford Jr.  (born April 21, 1945) is a former American football player for the Washington Redskins and Buffalo Bills. He played collegiately for Texas Christian University.

College
As a placekicker, he played college football at Texas Christian University (TCU).

Professional career
Alford was drafted by the Chicago Bears in the sixth round (119th overall) of the 1967 NFL draft. After failing to make the Bears' roster after training camp, he signed with the Washington Redskins. He played in weeks 13 and 14 for the Redskins in 1967, and he was released during final roster cuts on August 28, 1968. He then played for the American Football League's Buffalo Bills in 1968 and 1969.

Personal life
He is the son of Bruce Alford Sr., who played for the New York Yankees of the All-America Football Conference (AAFC) and the New York Yanks of the NFL, and later became an on-field official.

See also
 List of American Football League players
 List of family relations in American football

References

1945 births
Living people
American football placekickers
Buffalo Bills players
TCU Horned Frogs football players
Washington Redskins players
Players of American football from Fort Worth, Texas
American Football League players
Ralph Simpson

Ralph Derek Simpson (born August 10, 1949) is an American former basketball player.  He played professionally in the American Basketball Association (ABA) and National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1970 to 1980.

Career
Simpson, a 6'6" guard/forward, was a star at Detroit's Pershing High School, where he teamed with Spencer Haywood to win the Michigan state championship in 1967.  He was offered a tryout for the 1968 United States Olympic team, but turned it down. After two strong years at Michigan State University, he signed a professional contract with the ABA's Denver Rockets (later the Denver Nuggets), and he would represent the franchise in five ABA All-Star games.

Simpson had his finest season in 1971–1972, in which he averaged 27.4 points, 4.7 rebounds, and 3.1 assists.  After the ABA–NBA merger in 1976, Simpson joined the Detroit Pistons, but his level of production dropped significantly, from 18 points per game in 1975–1976 to 11 points per game in 1976–1977, and after one-and-a-half seasons, he returned to the Denver Nuggets, now one of the ABA teams who had joined the NBA.  However, he averaged only 5.5 points during his second tenure with the Nuggets, and after two more seasons as a member of the Philadelphia 76ers and New Jersey Nets, he retired in 1980.

Simpson scored 11,785 combined ABA/NBA points in his ten-year career. His 9,953 points were the most for the Nuggets during the team's time in the ABA.

Personal life
Simpson currently lives in Denver, Colorado. His daughter is Grammy Award-winning soul singer India Arie.

References

External links
Career stats at basketball-reference.com
Ralph Simpson at Remember the ABA

1949 births
Living people
African-American basketball players
All-American college men's basketball players
American men's basketball players
Basketball coaches from Michigan
Basketball players from Detroit
Chicago Bulls draft picks
Denver Nuggets players
Denver Rockets players
Detroit Pistons players
Metro State Roadrunners men's basketball coaches
Michigan State Spartans men's basketball players
New Jersey Nets players
Parade High School All-Americans (boys' basketball)
Philadelphia 76ers players
Shooting guards
Small forwards
Pershing High School alumni
Southeastern High School (Michigan) alumni
21st-century African-American people
20th-century African-American sportspeople
Honk (magazine)

Honk! was an American comics magazine published in the 1980s by Fantagraphics Books, featuring creator interviews, reviews, satirical articles, and original comic strips. Similar in format to Mad magazine, but with an alternative/underground twist, Honk! was edited by Tom Mason (issues #1–3) and then Joe Sacco (issues #4–5).

The 52-page magazine-sized publication was published bimonthly from November 1986–July 1987.

Issues
 (November 1986) —10-page interview with Don Martin (MAD), with comics by Chester Brown, Dan Clowes, Glenn Dakin, Gary Whitney, Bob Boze Bell, J. R. Williams, Eddie Campbell, and Marc Hempel
 (January 1987) — Bill Watterson (Calvin and Hobbes)
 (March 1987) — Matt Groening (The Simpsons, Life in Hell)
 (May 1987) — David Boswell (Reid Fleming)
 (July 1987) — Bill Griffith (Zippy the Pinhead)

See also
 The Comics Journal

References

 

Magazines about comics
Satirical magazines published in the United States
Comics magazines published in the United States
Bimonthly magazines published in the United States
1986 comics debuts
1987 comics endings
Black comedy comics
Satirical comics
Magazines established in 1986
Magazines disestablished in 1987
Defunct magazines published in the United States
Don Allard

Donald J. Allard (April 21, 1936 – May 4, 2002) was an American college and professional football quarterback selected by the Washington Redskins in the first round of the 1959 NFL Draft.

He played college football at Boston College, and played professionally in the American Football League for the New York Titans in 1961 and the Boston Patriots in 1962, in the Canadian Football League for the Saskatchewan Roughriders from 1959 to 1960 and the Montreal Alouettes from 1961 to 1962, and in the Atlantic Coast Football League with the Boston/New Bedford Sweepers from 1964 to 1965. He was the highest-drafted Boston College Eagles football player in school history until Matt Ryan in 2008.

See also
 List of American Football League players

References

External links
 Don Allard at pro-football-reference.com

1936 births
2002 deaths
American football quarterbacks
Boston College Eagles football players
Boston Patriots players
Canadian football quarterbacks
Montreal Alouettes players
New York Titans (AFL) players
Players of American football from Cincinnati
Players of Canadian football from Cincinnati
Saskatchewan Roughriders players
American Football League players
George William Rendel

Sir George William Rendel  (23 February 1889 – 6 May 1979) was a British diplomat.

Early life and education

Rendel, the son of the engineer George Wightwick Rendel was educated at Downside School and The Queen's College, Oxford, graduating with a degree in Modern History in 1911.

Diplomatic career
Rendel entered the Diplomatic Service and was the head of the Eastern Department of the Foreign Office from 1930 to 1938.

In 1922 he produced a seven-page British Foreign Office document which detailed the persecution of Greeks and other minorities in the Ottoman Empire. The document drew on official reports and eyewitness testimonies by personnel who were present. Rendel stated that throughout the First World War, "it is generally agreed that about 1,500,000 Armenians perished in circumstances of extreme barbarity, and that over 500,000 Greeks were deported, of whom comparatively few survived". He then went on to describe further massacres and deportations of Greeks in the period after the Armistice.

In 1937 he and his wife, Geraldine (1884–1965), crossed Arabia. Geraldine was the first European woman to be received for dinner at the royal palace in Riyadh.

Rendel said of Riyadh:

"...it was a revelation to me of how fine in line and proportion modern Arabian architecture can be"."

Rendel was His Britannic Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Bulgaria, but the United Kingdom broke off diplomatic relations as the country became under the control of the Nazis. It fell to Rendel to take his staff of 50 by train to Istanbul, Turkey. His party was caught in a huge bomb explosion at the Pera Palace Hotel. Rendel was upstairs when the bomb in the baggage room exploded with devastating consequences. His daughter Ann, then 21 and acting as Legation Hostess, was knocked down and slightly injured. In all, there were four deaths and 30 injured. It was later claimed by the Germans that various bombs had been placed in the Legation's luggage before it had left Sofia.

In 1941, he was appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, a post held until 1943. He was knighted in the latter year and served as Ambassador to Belgium between 1947 and 1950.
Rendel headed a commission in 1953 to recommend further changes in the constitutional system that helped created the Constitution of Singapore under the Singapore Colony Order in Council 1955.

Rendel also served on various United Nations committees. Though officially retired, he continued to be employed by the Foreign Office until 1964.

Personal life
Rendel had two sons and two daughters with his wife Geraldine. His wife died in 1965.

Works

References

1889 births
1979 deaths
British explorers
English explorers
English travel writers
Explorers of Asia
Explorers of Arabia
People educated at Downside School
Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Yugoslavia
Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Belgium
Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Bulgaria
Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
Skapocalypse Now!

Skapocalypse Now! is the début album by ska band Mustard Plug. It was released in October 1992 on singer Dave Kirchgessner’s own label, Dashiki Clout. After requests for the tape grew, Hopeless Records re-released Skapocalypse Now! in 1998 on CD for mail order, direct to store and concert sales. Along with the original songs, other live and studio bonus tracks were added.

Track listing

Side One
 “Brain on Ska”
 “Alone”
 “Summertime”
 “Sweet Potato”
 “We Want the Mustard”
 “To Be”

Side Two
“Kill the Governor”
 “Simon Says”
 “Butcher’s Mop”
 “7–11 Man”

CD Bonus Tracks
"Thigh High Nylons (Alternate Take)”
 “Escape (Skapocalypse Now! Reject)"
 “(Blank)”
 “Skank By Numbers (Live)”
 “Battle of the Rude (Live)”
 “Betty (Live)”

This album was originally released on cassette only in 1992, and converted for a CD reissue in 1998, with the licensing rights of Hopeless Records and Dashiki Clout records.

References

1992 debut albums
Mustard Plug albums
Claude Plessier

Claude Plessier (born 1946, Paris) is a French painter, who has worked in France and Argentina.

A graduate of the Arts Décos, the Beaux-Arts and the Allgemeine Gewerbe Schule in Basel he was awarded a scholarship by the Italian government to study mosaic in Ravenna in 1971. He has lived and worked in Paris since 1978.

Initially, his paintings were in an abstract manner very much under the influence of the COBRA (avant-garde movement) movement; he has even been called a Neo-cobra painter. 
His stay in Argentina (1973–1977) saw a radical change in his work. He has since been noted for his liberal and skillful use of vivid and contrasted colours and his enigmatic figures drawn without perspective at various scales and on various planes, sometimes emerging from a layer of paint beneath another one. In his "recouvrements" series, he sometimes even covered older works with thick layers of black paint.

In his recent paintings he has used lighter colours, and the figures are less numerous.

Plessier has also made a series of drawings in homage to Gabriel García Márquez, and a portrait on wood of the author.

Main collective exhibitions

 1969, Centre international d’études pédagogiques, Sèvres
 1978, Dessins et sculptures, Saint Rémi de Chevreuse
 1981, Galerie de l’œil de bœuf, Paris
 1982, Espace Latino-américain, Paris
 1984, 92 du 92, Centre culturel de Boulogne Billancourt
 1985, Salon Mac 2000, Paris

His work has also been shown in Paris at the
Salons de Mai, Jeune peinture in
Montrouge and Figuration critique.

Main personal exhibitions

 1974,1976, Galerie Nice, Buenos Aires
 1978 Galerie du centre, Paris
 1982, Hommage à Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Centre culturel du Mexique, Paris
 1982, Galerie Georges Lavrov, Paris
 1984, La Galerie, Limoges
 1985, A voir et à manger, Les trois limousins, Paris
 1985, Galerie Alberto Elia, Buenos Aires

Bibliography
Macondotierra ou l’anniversaire de la solitude, variations graphiques en forme d’hommage à Gabriel Garcia Marquez, dessins de Claude Plessier, texte d’Alicia Dujovne Ortiz. [Paris], Éditions Polygraphie, « Empreinte » n° 19, 1982, n.p., épuisé.

External links
Claude Plessier's website

1946 births
Living people
Painters from Paris
French contemporary artists
20th-century French painters
20th-century French male artists
French male painters
21st-century French painters
Receiver (information theory)

The receiver in information theory is the receiving end of a communication channel. It receives decoded messages/information from the sender, who first encoded them. Sometimes the receiver is modeled so as to include the decoder. Real-world receivers like radio receivers or telephones can not be expected to receive as much information as predicted by the noisy channel coding theorem.

References 

Information theory
Buddy Allen

Elihu "Buddy" Allen, Jr. (July 11, 1937 – January 15, 2020) was an American football halfback. 

Allen was born in 1937 in St. Louis. He attended McClymonds High School in Oakland, California. He played college football at Oakland Junior College in 1955 and 1956. He next played for Utah State University from 1957 to 1959.

Allen played professional football in 1961 for the Denver Broncos of the American Football League, appearing in one game. He also played for the Indianapolis Warriors of the United Football League from 1961 to 1963 and for the Philadelphia Bulldogs of the Continental Football League in 1965 and 1966. He helped the Bulldogs win the CFL title in 1966. He concluded his career in the Atlantic Coast Football League, playing for the Wilmington Clippers (1967) and Pottstown Firebirds (1968-1970).

Allen was also a detective for the Philadelphia police department. He died on January 15, 2020, at the age of 82.

See also
List of American Football League players

References

External links
Stats

1937 births
2020 deaths
Players of American football from St. Louis
American football halfbacks
McClymonds High School alumni
Utah State Aggies football players
Denver Broncos (AFL) players
United Football League (1961–1964) players
Philadelphia Bulldogs players
Atlantic Coast Football League players
American police detectives
Minoritenplatz

The Minoritenplatz is one of the oldest public squares in Vienna. It is located in the first district Innere Stadt, and is dominated by the Minoritenkirche church, after which the square is named. The church itself was constructed by the Greyfriars (Minoriten), after the Austrian Duke Leopold VI of Austria invited them to Austria in 1224. Since the square is in direct proximity to the Hofburg Imperial Palace, a number of aristocratic families took up residence in the square from the 16th to the 18th century.

City-palaces (Palais) located at the Minoritenplatz are:
 Palais Dietrichstein (constructed in the 17th century, located at Minoritenplatz 3)
 Palais Liechtenstein (1706, Minoritenplatz 4, entrance also at Bankgasse 9)
 Palais Starhemberg (1650-1661, Minoritenplatz 5)
 Palais Niederösterreich (1839-1848, Minoritenplatz 7, entrance also at Herrengasse 13)
 Landeshauptmannschaft (formerly Statthaltereigebäude, Minoritenplatz 9, entrance also at Herrengasse 11)

Located on Minoritenplatz 1 are the Austrian State Archives (Österreichisches Staatsarchiv), founded in the 15th century by Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor as the Family, Court and State Archive (Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv). The building itself now only dates back to 1901.
Close to the Archives is the Austrian Federal Ministry for Foreign Affairs, located at Minoritenplatz 8.

Small monuments to the artist Rudolf von Alt, the cleric Clemens Maria Hofbauer, and the politician Leopold Figl also decorate the square.

See also
 Ballhausplatz

References

 Czeike, Felix (1973). Wien: Kunst & Kultur. Sueddeutscher Verlag, Munich. 

Squares in Vienna
Innere Stadt
Odonyms referring to religion
Big Daddy Multitude

Big Daddy Multitude is the second album by Mustard Plug. It was rereleased in 1993.

Track listing 
 "Skank By Numbers" – 2:35
 "Too Stoopid" – 4:12
 "Schoolboy" – 3:48
 "Mr. Smiley" – 2:45
 "Ball Park Skank" – 3:10
 "Thigh High Nylons" – 3:24
 "Dysfunktional" – 3:36 
 "Alone" – 3:01
 "Summertime" – 2:46 
 "Murder in Tulip City" – 3:21 
 "Gum" – 2:28 
 "I Made Love to a Martian" – 5:19
 "Brain on Ska" – 1:42 
 "Insomnia" – 4:36 
 "Average Guy" – 2:47 
 "Grow Up" – 3:39

References

External links

Big Daddy Multitude at YouTube (streamed copy where licensed)

Mustard Plug albums
1993 albums
MSAA

MSAA may refer to:

Science and technology
 Multisample anti-aliasing, a type of anti-aliasing
 Microsoft Active Accessibility, an application programming interface for user interface accessibility
 Multifunctional serotonin agonist and antagonist; See Flibanserin

Other uses
 Maharashtra State Angling Association, the controlling organisation of Powai Lake

See also
 Managed software as a service (MSaaS), in software as a service
MASSCOMP

The Massachusetts Computer Corporation (MASSCOMP) was a computer manufacturer based in Westford, Massachusetts.  Originally conceived by C. Forbes Dewey of MIT and inventor Chester Schuler, it was founded formally in 1981. Its target market was real-time computing, with a focus on high-speed data acquisition. Its major innovation was that it created the first widely available computer product which was able to sample analog signals at one million samples per second and store the resulting data to disk continuously. Given the technology available at the time—Motorola 68000 series CPUs of only a few megahertz in speed and slow disk drives—this product represented quite a technological achievement.

The MASSCOMP MC-500 is a 68000-based microcomputer running a real-time variant of the Unix operating system. For a small company, MASSCOMP incorporated a number of ambitious and innovative projects in addition to Real-Time Unix, including their own C and Fortran compiler, a block diagram language known as "Laboratory Workbench" that allowed visual programming of real time systems to connect real-time analog inputs and outputs to signal processing operations and interactive virtual instruments for data display, and their own high level graphics subsystem.

MASSCOMP grew to about $65 million in sales per year and ultimately purchased Concurrent Computer Corporation (a spinoff company that was part public but majority-owned by Perkin-Elmer) in 1988 in a "junk bond deal" and assumed the Concurrent name, with aim of becoming the number one vendor in the real-time computing market. The deal cost Masscomp $240 million. Perkin-Elmer sold this company as part of restructuring of their business due to low profits in the computer market.

References

External links
There is a MASSCOMP system at the Rhode Island Computer Museum 

1981 establishments in Massachusetts
1988 mergers and acquisitions
1995 disestablishments in Massachusetts
1995 mergers and acquisitions
American companies established in 1981
American companies disestablished in 1995
Companies based in Massachusetts
Computer companies established in 1981
Computer companies disestablished in 1995
Defunct computer companies of the United States
Modern Language Review

Modern Language Review is the journal of the Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA). It is one of the oldest journals in the field of modern languages. Founded in 1905, it has published more than 3,000 articles and 20,000 book reviews.

Modern Language Review is published four times a year (in January, April, July and October). All articles are in English and their range covers the following fields:

 English (including United States and the Commonwealth)
 French (including Francophone Africa and Canada)
 Germanic (including Dutch and Scandinavian)
 Hispanic (including Latin-American, Portuguese, Catalan, and Galician)
 Italian
 Slavonic and East European Studies
 General Studies (including linguistics, comparative literature, and critical theory)

History
The first issue was published in October 1905 with John G. Robertson as the founding editor-in-chief. When Robertson died in 1933, he was replaced by Charles Jasper Sisson.

Sources
Modern Language Review page on the MHRA website

References

Linguistics journals
English-language journals
Quarterly journals
Publications established in 1905
1905 establishments in the United Kingdom
Lympne Castle

Lympne Castle is a  medieval castle located in the village of Lympne, Kent, above Romney Marsh.
After the Reformation, the castle was sometimes referred to as Court Lodge. Lympne Castle is a Grade I listed property, described as a fortified manor house.

History
The castle was built close to the former Roman fort of Portus Lemanis, sometimes known as Stutfall Castle, on the site of Lympne Abbey. The first castle on the site was erected in the 1080s for the Archdeacons of Canterbury. It was rebuilt in the 1360s and expanded. After that work, the structure included a tower at each end.  

Additions were made in the 15th and 19th centuries. The last addition was by Robert Lorimer who worked on the property during 1907 and 1911-12. 

Until 1860, the property was the residence of the Archdeacon of Canterbury. It was then used as a farmhouse and was in disrepair by the early 1900s. The property was purchased by F.J. Tennant in 1906. The restoration of medieval aspects by Lorimer was complemented by the addition of the West Wing. The East Wing was added in 1918 for then-owner Henry Beecham. 

By the end of WW II, the castle was in poor condition because it was used by the army; a series of restorations and modifications were made starting in 1945.

Modern usage
In September 1978, Paul McCartney's Wings recorded sessions at the Lympne Castle for their 1979 album Back to the Egg.

By the time the property was listed for sale in summer 2021, it was described as containing self-catering accommodations and a restaurant, in addition to the castle. It was also being used for corporate events and weddings. The castle was not generally open to the public. The castle was sold in February 2023; the new owners are opening a wedding and event venue.

References
 History of Lympne Castle

External links

 Lympne-Castle Website
 Lympne Castle Gazette

Castles in Kent
Grade I listed buildings in Kent
Grade I listed castles
Evildoers Beware!

Evildoers Beware! is the third album by Mustard Plug. It was released in March 1997 by Hopeless Records on CD, LP, and cassette. A yellow LP version was reissued in the mid-2010s.

Track listing
 “Box” – 3:24  
 “Suburban Homesick Blues” – 3:05  
 “Never Be” – 2:46  
 “You” – 3:59  
 “Mendoza” – 2:48  
 “Go” – 2:08  
 “Jerry” – 3:51  
 “Not Again” – 3:18 
 “Miss Michigan” – 2:55  
 “Sadie May” – 3:01  
 “Dressed Up” – 3:00  
 “Beer (Song)” – 3:40

Personnel
Colin Clive – Guitar and Vocals
Craig DeYoung – Bass
Brandon Jenison – Trumpet
David Kirchgessner – Vocals
Nick Varano – Drums

Additional Musicians
Kevin “Ray” Dixon – Tenor saxophone
Bleu VanDyke – Trombone
Jim Hofer – Trombone
Mark Petz – Tenor saxophone

References

External links

Evildoers Beware! at YouTube (streamed copy where licensed)

1997 albums
Hopeless Records albums
Mustard Plug albums
Guy Boyd (actor)

Guy Boyd (born April 15, 1943) is an American character actor. Boyd has starred in more than fifty films from the late 1970s to the present. He is probably best known for his role as Detective Jim McLean in Body Double (1984) and for the pivotal role of Frank Hackman on two episodes of Miami Vice.

In 1984, he was honored at the Venice Film Festival with the Golden Lion Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Robert Altman's adaptation of David Rabe's play Streamers (1983). In recent years Boyd was seen playing Captain Strickland on the science fiction television show Black Scorpion. He played Archbishop Kurtwell (a Catholic prelate accused of child sexual abuse) in the HBO drama The Young Pope. He also starred as Guy Canape in Past Midnight  and the janitor in I’m Thinking of Ending Things.

Awards
Nominated, 3rd Genie Awards, "Best Performance by a Foreign Actor" for role in film Ticket to Heaven

Filmography
 1977 Between the Lines as Austin
 1981 Ticket to Heaven as Eric
 1981 Only When I Laugh as Man In Bar
 1981 Ghost Story as Omar Norris
 1983 The Eyes of the Amaryllis as George Reade
 1983 Streamers as Rooney
 1983 Eyes of Fire as Marion Dalton
 1984 Newhart (Episode: "Book Beat") as Colonel Lloyd Meninger
 1984 Tank as Sergeant Wimofsky
 1984 Flashpoint as Bobby Joe Lambasino
 1984 Body Double as Jim McLean
 1984 Caravan of Courage: An Ewok Adventure (TV Movie) as Jeremitt Towani
 1985 Jagged Edge as Matthew Barnes
 1985 Target as Clay
 1986 Lucas as Coach
 1987 No Man's Land as "Jaws"
 1986-1988 Miami Vice (TV Series) as Frank Hackman
 1988 War Party as Major Crawford, National Guard
 1988 The Dark Side of the Sun as Father
 1989 Little Sweetheart as Sheriff
 1990 The Last of the Finest as R.J. Norringer
 1990 Pacific Heights as Warning Cop
 1991 Kiss Me a Killer as Jake Bozman
 1991 Checkered Flag as J.D. Nelson
 1991 Past Midnight as Todd Canipe
 1991 The Dark Wind as Agent Johnson
 1992 Sister Act as Detective Tate (uncredited)
 1993 Mi Vida Loca as Priest
 1994 In the Heat of Passion II: Unfaithful as Brannigan
 1995 Carnosaur 2 as Joe Walker
 1996 Sister Island as Sheriff Frank Bosarge
 1997 Retroactive as Bud
 1998 Crossfire as Mr. Ross
 1999 Balloon Farm (TV Movie) as The Mayor
 2000-2005 Law & Order (TV Series) as Elston Norrell / Mr. Beltran
 2001 Black Scorpion (TV Series) as Captain Henry Strickland
 2005 Domino One as Jack Mekas
 2005 Winter Passing as Hunter
 2005 The Final Patient as Sheriff McKnee
 2006 Walker Payne as "Doc"
 2007 Blackbird as The Landlord
 2007 The Savages as Bill Lachman
 2010 Henry's Crime as Bernie
 2014 Foxcatcher as Henry Beck
 2014 While We're Young as Bar Patron
 2016 Certain Women as Personal Injury Lawyer
 2019 The Report as Senator Saxby Chambliss
 2019 The Loudest Voice (TV Mini-Series) as Chet Collier
 2020 I'm Thinking of Ending Things as The Janitor

References

External links

1943 births
Living people
American male film actors
Male actors from Chicago
Volpi Cup for Best Actor winners
Angelit

Angelit, formerly known as Angelin tytöt (Aŋŋel nieiddat), is a Finnish Sámi folk music group formed by sisters Ursula and Tuuni Länsman in 1989. However, the history of the group can be traced back to 1982 when Eino Ukkonen, Ursula and Tuuni Länsman's Finnish teacher, took them along with some classmates to sing at a Sámi festival held at Utsjoki. In 1987 the group released their first non-commercial tape, recorded together with Mari Boine.

In 1989 one of the members of the group was killed in a car accident, and subsequently the group broke up. Together with Ulla Pirttijärvi, Ursula and Tuuni went on and established a group that was called "Angelin tytöt" or "girls of Angeli", named after Angeli, the village they grew up in, located in Inari in Northern Finland. Ulla sings in their first album "Dolla" and has made a successful solo career after leaving the group.

The group changed its name to Angelit in 1997 due to the problem of many different translations of "Angelin tytöt".

Members

 Tuuni Länsman (vocals)
 Ursula Länsman (vocals)
 Alfred Häkkinen (joined in 1994; guitar and drums)
 Samuli Kosminen (joined in 1999; percussion)
 Mamba Assefa (joined in 1999; percussion)
 Kimmo Kajasto (joined in 1996; keyboards, programming, atmospherics)

Former members

 Ulla Pirttijärvi (vocals)
 Jonne Järvelä (from Korpiklaani)

Discography

Albums

As Angelin tytöt:

 Dolla (Fire, 1992)
 Giitu (Thank you, 1993)
 Skeaikit (Laughter, 1995)
 The Voice of the North (1997) - a compilation of the three previous albums

As Angelit:

 Mánnu (The moon, 1999)
 Reasons (2003)

Collaborations

All but the Final Fantasy collaboration have been made with the band Waltari.

 Final Fantasy V Dear Friends (1993)
 So Fine! (1994)
 So Fine 2000 (2000)
 Channel Nordica (2000)

References

External links
 Official website
 Angelin Tytöt - "Giddat" (1990)

Sámi musical groups
Finnish world music groups
Musical groups established in 1989
National Number Group

The UK Public Switched Telephone Network is divided up by area into National Number Groups (NNG's), and then further divided up into dialling codes.

The structure of UK telephone numbers is a leading zero (replaced with +44 for international calls from outside the UK) followed by the NNG — a 2, 3, 4 or 5 digit dialling code (digits SA in the example below) to different geographic areas of the UK.

e.g.

Telephone number (020) 7811  8055 is part of the "London Area" and so has NNG 2078:

Telephone numbers in the United Kingdom
National Historical Museum, Bulgaria

The National Historical Museum (Национален исторически музей, Natsionalen istoricheski muzey) in Sofia is Bulgaria's largest museum. It was founded on 5 May 1973. A new representative exhibition was opened in the building of the Court of Justice on 2 March 1984, to commemorate the 13th centenary of the Bulgarian state. The museum was moved in 2000 to one of the major buildings in the complex serving as official residence of the President, Vice President and Government of the Republic of Bulgaria., and currently contains over 650,000 objects connected to archaeology, fine arts, history and ethnography, although only 10% of them are permanently exhibited.
 
The museum includes a cloakroom, cafe, library and souvenir shop. It undertakes professional conservation and restoration of historical monuments, authenticity investigations and expert valuation. Its collections comprise materials dating from prehistoric ages till the present.

Major excavated exhibits include: 
 Valchitran Treasure
 Dabene Treasure
 Rogozen Treasure (part)
 Panagyurishte Treasure (either replicas or the real objects)

See also 
 Decree of Dionysopolis
 List of museums in Bulgaria

References

External links 

 Official website

Museums in Sofia
Historical Museum
History museums in Bulgaria
NNG

NNG may refer to:

 National Number Group, U.K. telephone numbering scheme
 Nielsen Norman Group, usability consultancy firm based in Fremont, California, U.S.
 NNG (company), Hungary-based company, developer of the iGO navigation software
 Newark North Gate railway station, in England
 Nanning Wuxu International Airport, IATA code
 N'n'G, a pseudonym of English house/garage duo Grant Nelson and Norris 'Da Boss' Windross
 Netherlands New Guinea, now known as Papua and West Papua provinces of Indonesia
 NNG (software), "Nanomsg Next Generation", a Nanomsg message-passing project
Dennis Lipscomb

Dennis Lipscomb (March 1, 1942 – July 30, 2014) was an American actor. 

Lipscomb's first feature film was Union City (1980). From the early 1980s to the 1990s, Lipscomb appeared in key roles in various motion pictures including Love Child (1982), WarGames (1983), Eyes of Fire (1983), The Day After (1983), A Soldier's Story (1984), Crossroads (1986), Amazing Grace and Chuck (1987), Retribution (1987), Sister, Sister (1987), The First Power (1990) and Under Siege (1992). Lipscomb also had a recurring role as mayor of the fictitious town of Sparta, Mississippi in the first season of In the Heat of the Night (1988). In more recent years, Lipscomb has guest starred on television commercials and shows, including WKRP In Cincinnati, T.J. Hooker, and Wiseguy (1987; CBS) as Sid Royce/Elvis Prim. To a younger audience he is perhaps best known as DCI Peter Sterling in Spycraft: The Great Game.

Filmography

References

External links

Dennis Lipscomb at Internet Off-Broadway Database

1942 births
Male actors from New York (state)
20th-century American male actors
American male film actors
American male television actors
2014 deaths
People from Westbury, New York
Tournament of Hearts (album)

Tournament of Hearts is the third full-length album by the Constantines.  It was released September 27, 2005, on the Canadian label Three Gut Records.  Sub Pop released the album outside of Canada two weeks later, on October 11, 2005. In an interview with CBC Radio 3 to promote the release of Reunion Tour, John K. Samson, the singer/guitarist of The Weakerthans, claimed that the Constantines chose the album title at his urging.

Track listing
 "Draw Us Lines" – 4:16
 "Hotline Operator" – 3:39
 "Love in Fear" – 3:55
 "Lizaveta" – 3:34
 "Soon Enough" – 4:00
 "Working Full-Time" – 3:56
 "Good Nurse" – 3:29
 "Thieves" – 3:30
 "You Are a Conductor" – 3:59
 "Windy Road" – 2:29

References

2005 albums
Constantines albums
Sub Pop albums
Three Gut Records albums
Matron's badge

The matron's badge or brèid is a gentlewoman's headdress worn in the Scottish Highlands in former times. It consists of a square of fine linen, pinned round the head, fastened with cords of silk or gold. The matron's badge was donned by a woman the morning after her marriage, and was regarded as the badge of wifehood.

References

 ("Brèid")

Marriage in the United Kingdom
Scottish headgear
Highland dress
Oxford German Studies

Oxford German Studies is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering German studies. It was established in 1965 and was published by Maney Publishing (formerly the Modern Humanities Research Association), until its takeover by Taylor & Francis, where it is now published under their imprint Routledge. It was established, among others, by Peter Ganz (St Edmund Hall, Oxford). The editors-in-chief are Henrike Lähnemann and Karen Leeder.

Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

References

External links

Publications associated with the University of Oxford
Quarterly journals
Academic journals established in 1965
Multilingual journals
English-language journals
German-language journals
Area studies journals
German studies
Routledge academic journals
Operation Swarmer

Operation Swarmer was a joint U.S-Iraqi air assault offensive targeting insurgents in Salahuddin province, near the central city of Samarra, Iraq.

According to the US military, it was the largest air assault in Iraq since the U.S. invasion in 2003. The area was a hotbed for insurgent activity including the kidnapping and killing of civilians and soldiers. Samarra was the site of the bombing of the revered Al-Askari Shiite Shrine on 22 February 2006, that set off a wave of sectarian killing that claimed almost 500 lives. Coalition forces said they had captured a number of weapons caches containing shells, explosives and military uniforms. The US military expected this operation to last several days. Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari stated that insurgents were "trying to create another Fallujah". The Operation netted at least 48 suspects, of which about 17 were released. The U.S Military reports no significant resistance, and also says it achieved the tactical surprise factor it was seeking.

Other reports, however, have suggested that the lack of resistance may have been due to a lack of significant targets in the region. Time magazine's Brian Bennett reported that the area is a farming community with only 1,500 residents. Time also contested early television news reports that the operation was the largest use of air power since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, indicating that no air strikes had occurred. Bennett points out that the military term air assault refers specifically to moving troops into an area. Reporter Christopher Allbritton further reports that no fixed-wing aircraft were involved in the operation. However, the lack of fixed-wing aircraft and the use of airstrikes does not mean that the mission was not, by definition, an air assault.

See also

2003 invasion of Iraq.
Sectarian violence in Iraq.
Al Askari Mosque bombing.

References

External links

American Forces Press Service: Iraqi Security Forces, Coalition Launch "Operation Swarmer"
BBC News article US launches major Iraq air attack
U.S., Iraqis Launch 'Operation Swarmer'
U.S., Iraqis launch raid on insurgent hotbed
'Operation Swarmer' Air Assault Launched in Iraq
 How US assault grabbed global attention
Brian Bennett webpage
 Christopher Allbritton webpage

Military operations of the Iraq War involving the United States
Military operations of the Iraq War involving Iraq
Military operations of the Iraq War in 2006
Iraqi insurgency (2003–2011)
Glyde

Glyde may refer to:

 George Glyde (1821–1898), settler of Western Australia
 Henry George Glyde (1906–1998), Canadian painter
 Lavington Glyde (1825–1890), South Australian politician, perhaps not related to Samuel and William
 Rosemary Glyde (1948–1994), violist and composer
 Samuel Dening Glyde (1842–1898), South Australian wheat merchant and politician, brother of William
 Tania Glyde, British novelist
 William Dening Glyde (c. 1826–1901), South Australian wheat merchant and politician, brother of Samuel

as a given name
 Glyde Butler (1932–2000), politician of Victoria, Australia

See also
 Glyde, Pennsylvania
 Glyde Farm Produce

 Glyde River in the Top End of Australia
 River Glyde, Ireland
 Samsung SCH-U940
Long Èireannach

Long Èireannach (Irish Ship) is a well known song in the Scottish Gaelic tradition known as Orain Luaidh, or waulking song, a type of work song that is sung by the women when fulling cloth. In Long Èireannach the sweetheart of each girl present is named in turn by the singers as the song proceeds, the whole of the workers taking up the chorus.

Sources

Scottish songs
Work music
ATOK

ATOK (;  ) is a Japanese input method editor (IME) produced by JustSystems, a Japanese software company.

ATOK is an IME with roots from KTIS (Kana-Kanji Transfer Input System) come with JS-WORD, the Japanese word processor software for PC-100 in 1983, but it now supports a variety of platforms including macOS, Windows, Android, and iOS.

Once ATOK meant Automatic Transfer Of Kana-kanji. Now, it means Advanced Technology Of Kana-kanji Transfer. It is occasionally taken to stand for Awa-TOKushima, site of the headquarters of JustSystems, or Alphabet TO Kanji.

Functions
Functions vary between versions for different platforms, and the following list is not exhaustive.

 Search kanji from phonetic input – both using romaji keyboard and kana keyboard.
 Search kanji by radical.
 Drawing pad for handwriting recognition.
 Reverse retrieval of phonetic input – both to kunyomi and onyomi.
 Text templates for standard phrases, address labels and Japanese emoticons.
 Real time auto-completion of text – both Japanese and English. (Example: type "fun" and you immediately get a list of words starting with "fun": function, fun, fund, funk...).
 Character information, JIS and Unicode codes, pronunciations, related characters.
 Japanese date formats.
 Character palette for input of special symbols, accented Latin, Russian, etc.
 Customizable input keys and keyboard shortcuts for the different functions.

Versions 

 the latest version for Windows is 31.1.6; for macOS, 31.0.3; for iOS, 1.6.2; and for Android, 1.8.15. They are available via the ATOK Passport subscription and an annual subscription which comes with Ichitaro. Linux, OS/2, Palm OS, Pocket PC, and Windows CE are no longer supported.

KTIS and ATOK was originally a component of JustSystems' word processor software. Ichitaro released in 1985 allowed the use of ATOK 4 in other MS-DOS applications of the PC-98 platform. ATOK 7 was bundled with Ichitaro 4, and was available as a standalone product in 1992. In DOS era, ATOK was spreading with Ichitaro despite competition from VJE, Matsutake, and some other software. Windows 3.1, the first retail version of Japanese Windows, bundled the Microsoft IME (MS-IME) input method. MS-IME 97 contained notable improvements, and was bundled with a new retail box of Windows 95 and Office 97. The difference between ATOK and MS-IME went smaller.

In 2008, JustSystems began a subscription service, ATOK Passport. ATOK 2017 was the last version to be physically shipped as boxed software.

Sun Microsystems chose ATOK as their input method when running under the JP locale in Solaris 10 and above, enhancing Sun's already strong Japanese language support.

For embedded systems, JustSystems has developed +ATOK. Some Japanese mobile phones, PDAs, video game consoles (PSP, PS3 and Wii), digital video recorders, automotive navigation systems come with +ATOK.

See also
Ichitaro – a Japanese word processor produced by JustSystems. ATOK comes bundled with this.

References

External links

Japanese writing system
Japanese-language computing
Han character input
Linux text editors
Solaris software
Unix text editors
Patrick Smathers

Patrick Underwood "Pat" Smathers served as the Mayor of Canton, North Carolina from 1999 to 2011.  He ran for Lieutenant Governor of his state in 2008.

Career
He has made his living as an attorney for 27 years. He is the attorney for the Haywood County School System and Haywood Community College. He also serves in the North Carolina Army National Guard as a Lieutenant Colonel, and is a graduate from the United States Army War College Class of 2006.

Smathers is a graduate of Duke University, where he played football under an athletic scholarship. He is also a graduate of the Wake Forest University School of Law.

Political and community involvement
He is a member of the North Carolina Local Government Commission, a member of the Haywood Rotary Club, and is involved in the North Carolina Democratic Party Task Force on Western North Carolina. He was Haywood County's Rotary Citizen of the Year in 2003 and was elected to the Pisgah High School Athletic Hall of Fame in 1999. He also serves as the Vice president of the Haywood County Democratic Men's Club, was chairman of the 2003 Vance-Aycock Dinner, and is a former County party chair.

His 2008 campaign slogan was "Local Leadership, Statewide." Smathers came in third in the May 6, 2008 primary, behind winner Walter H. Dalton and runner-up Hampton Dellinger.

In 2014, Smathers undertook an investigation into allegations of violations of the Equal Access Act related to the attempt by a student to form a Secular Student Alliance club at Pisgah High School in Canton, North Carolina. His report concluded that the allegations were "without merit and baseless." The Freedom From Religion Foundation released a statement saying they were "troubled by the report, which contains many factual errors and focuses on matters that are irrelevant to forming a student club."

References

External links
Campaign site
Canton Mayor and Board of Aldermen
2008 Lt. Gov Platform
Canton Honored as "Cool City"

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
North Carolina Democrats
People from Canton, North Carolina
Mayors of places in North Carolina
Duke University alumni
Wake Forest University alumni