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John M. Faucette

John M. Faucette (September 15, 1943–2003) was an African-American science-fiction author. He published five novels (four of them in the 1960s) and one short story. At the time of his death he had seven unpublished novels in various states of completion. Two of his novels; Crown of Infinity and Age of Ruin, were published in the popular Ace Doubles series.

Faucette was born and raised in Harlem and lived there for twenty-six years. He graduated from Bronx High School of Science and majored in chemistry at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn before studying filmmaking, screenplay, and short-story writing at New York University's School of Continuing Education.

Faucette died of a heart attack in 2003.

Bibliography

Published
Crown of Infinity (1968)
Siege of Earth (1971)
The Warriors of Terra (Belmont Books, 1970)
The Age of Ruin (1968)
Disco Hustle (Holloway House, 1978)
The Secret - AIM Magazine (1999)
Messenger of God - AIM Magazine (2001)
Pets - Artemis Magazine (2001)
Black Science Fiction (2002) Publisher: Macro Publishing Group (May 15, 2002) , 437 pages.

Unpublished
Earth Will be Avenged
The Gypsy Dick
The Tan Argus III Interstellar Chess Tournament
Sex Death
Tell My People
Homo Cosmos
The Ghettoes of Hell

Notes

References
 Internet Book List
 The Novels of John Faucette
 SF Site: In Memoriam January 2003

External links
Technovelgy.com: John Faucette's Total Environmental and Mental Simulator

1943 births
2003 deaths
20th-century American novelists
African-American novelists
American male novelists
American science fiction writers
Writers from Harlem
American male short story writers
20th-century American short story writers
20th-century American male writers
Novelists from New York (state)
20th-century African-American writers
21st-century African-American people
African-American male writers
Arbory

Arbory () is one of the seventeen historic parishes of the Isle of Man.

It is located in the south of the island (part of the traditional South Side division) in the sheading of Rushen.

Settlements in the parish include Ballabeg, Colby and Ronague.

Local government
For the purposes of local government, the whole of the historic parish forms an electoral ward of the parish district of Arbory and Malew.

The Captain of the Parish (since 1998) is Cecil Raymond Gawne.

Politics
The area of the historic parish is part of the Arbory, Castletown & Malew constituency, which elects two Members to the House of Keys. Until 2016 it was in the  Rushen constituency.

Demographics
The Isle of Man census of 2016 returned a parish population of 1,847, an increase of 5.4% from the figure of 1,747 in 2011.

References

External links
Arbory Parish Commissioners
 Manxnotebook Arbory Detail about Manx parishes and description of Arbory Parish. 
Manxnotebook - Arbory with full description of the parish and photographs 
 Arbory Parish Community and Local Government Arbory Commissioners, photographs, local clubs, societies and churches.
 Isle of Man Building Control Districts showing parish boundaries
 Manxnotebook Kirk Arbory Antiquities
 Qualtrough.org Family Genealogy with family details and photographs.
 Glenology - Manx Glens An ongoing study of Manx glens, their locations and meanings.

Parishes of the Isle of Man
Jill Jacobson

Jill Jacobson is an American actress, best known for her performances on television.

Her credits include the television series Crazy Like a Fox, Falcon Crest, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Quantum Leap, Who's The Boss?, Murphy Brown and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and the 2001 television movie After the Storm.

External links

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American television actresses
21st-century American women
Place of birth missing (living people)
Culpeper County High School

Culpeper County High School (CCHS) is a high school in Culpeper County, Virginia. Culpeper County High School was built in 1969, expanded in 2001 and significantly renovated between 2013 and 2015.

Facilities
The building is split into three levels.

The main floor has administrative offices, a library, studio, auditorium, cafeteria, and 65 classrooms. The second level houses administrative offices, the gymnasium and 16 classrooms. The third level houses a weight room, two shops, and three classrooms. The school hosts a Culinary Arts program, which is on campus in an adjacent building.   As of August 2017, the school's principal is Daniel Soderholm

Its gymnasium is named after William Pearson, one of its most popular principals, who served from the 1970s to the 1990s.

Academic opportunities 
In addition to courses on the CCHS campus, students can apply to participate in specialized programs that meet at off-campus locations.

A cohort of CCHS students attend Mountain Vista Governor's School to take advanced math, science, humanities, and research courses once they enter their sophomore, junior, and senior years. Additionally, through a partnership with Germanna Community College, students are offered the opportunity to enroll in Germanna Scholars. The successful completion of the Germanna Scholars program allows students to earn an associate degree before high school graduation.

See also
Eastern View High School
AA Evergreen District

References

External links
CCHS Official Webpage

Public high schools in Virginia
Schools in Culpeper County, Virginia
Lonan (parish)

Lonan ( ; ) is one of the 17 parishes of the Isle of Man.

It is located on the east of the island (part of the traditional South Side division) in the sheading of Garff.

Other settlements in the parish include Baldrine and Ballabeg.

Local government
For the purposes of local government, since May 2016 the historic parish of Lonan has been part of a single Garff local authority, formed by merging the former village district of Laxey with the parish districts of Lonan and Maughold.

Until this amalgamation, the village district of Laxey had been separated from its surrounding parish of Lonan since 1895. Laxey, Lonan and Maughold are still separate wards of the combined district of Garff.

The Captain of the Parish (as of 2019) is Stephen Patrick Carter.

Politics
Lonan parish is part of the Garff constituency, which elects two Members to the House of Keys.

Geography
The parish extends from near Port Groudle in the south to the Snaefell mines and Brandywell Corner (on the TT course to the east of Beinn-y-Phott), a distance of some , and has an area of . It is an upland district, being hilly and barren in parts, and dropping sharply into the sea, with the exception of a few small deep, sheltered glens. The highest point in the parish is Mullagh Ouyr (near Snaefell) at . Its coastline is high and rocky, and broken by several headlands and small bays; although there is a stretch of mostly sandy beach from Laxey to Garwick Bay. The main headlands are Laxey Head and Clay Head; and the bays are Bulgham Bay, Laxey Bay, and Garwick Bay. The only significant valleys are Laxey Glen, a popular tourist site extending from the Snaefell mines to the sea, and Glen Roy, which leads into Laxey Glen at Laxey village.

History
Henry Skillicorne, a Bristol sea captain who was later instrumental in developing the spa waters at Cheltenham, was born at Ballaragh in this parish in 1678 or 1679.

According to the Garff Commissioners' road sign, Lonan is the home of the Lonan Gentlemen's Fellowship, "world motor cycle land speed record holders" (at Bonneville Salt Flats).

In 2018 Laxey Bay was designated as a Marine Nature Reserve for its important wildlife and habitats.

Religion
The parish church, All Saints Church, is at Boilley Veen (not marked on small-scale maps, but grid reference 430830). It was built in the 19th century as a more conveniently located substitute for the ancient structure of St Adamnan's Church. This 19th century church closed in October 2014 owing to lack of funds for maintenance, leaving Lonan with no parish church.

Demographics
The Isle of Man census of 2016 returned a parish population of 1,579, an increase of 2.9 per cent from the figure of 1,533 in 2011.

References

External links
Parish District of Garff
Culture Vannin - List of Parish Captains

Parishes of the Isle of Man
NBA Tonight

NBA Tonight is a National Basketball Association studio program that airs on ESPN. The program used to air as part of ESPN's The Trifecta. Formerly known as NBA 2Night and NBA Fastbreak, the program, hosted by various ESPN personalities, provides highlights, analysis and updates from the night's NBA games. Segments include "3Ds", which looks at the night's top dunks, defense and dimes (assists).

Personalities

Current
Jon Barry (analyst, 2006–present)
Bruce Bowen (analyst)
Brad Daugherty (analyst)
Tim Legler (analyst)
Jalen Rose (analyst)
Marc Stein (analyst)
Kevin Connors (host)
Jonathan Coachman (host)
Cassidy Hubbarth (host)

Former
Greg Anthony (analyst)
B. J. Armstrong (analyst)
Chris Broussard (reporter)
Dee Brown (analyst)
Ric Bucher (reporter)
Swin Cash (analyst)
Sean Elliott (analyst)
Robert Flores (host)
Kevin Frazier (host)
Allan Houston (analyst)
Mark Jackson (analyst)
Nancy Lieberman (analyst)
Jamal Mashburn (analyst)
Paul Silas (analyst)
Jason Jackson (host)
Mark Morgan (host)
Matt Winer (host)
Fred Carter (analyst)

See also
NBA Shootaround
NBA Friday Coast to Coast
NBA Wednesday

References
ESPNtv.com - NBA Fastbreak
ESPN GETS A RE-PHIL

ESPN original programming
2002 American television series debuts
2010s American television series
2020s American television series
American sports television series
Fastbreak
Voyager-class cruise ship

The Voyager class refers to a design of post-Panamax cruise ships owned and operated by Royal Caribbean International. The Voyager-class ships were built at Kværner Masa-Yards Turku New Shipyard, Finland.

There are two generations of Voyager-class ship which feature slight differences in design. The first generation ships, Voyager of the Seas, Explorer of the Seas and Adventure of the Seas, were launched between 1999 and 2001. The second generation ships Navigator of the Seas and Mariner of the Seas were launched in 2002 and 2003 respectively.

History

The Voyager class was named Project Eagle prior to launch. The project begain in 1995 after a series of marketing studies. Eagle aimed to attract cruisers who did not consider themselves "cruise ship people".

Voyager of the Seas was the first of Royal Caribbean's ships to feature a large open space in the centre of the ship known as the Royal Promenade, which has become a staple of future Royal Caribbean International ships, as well as being adopted by other cruise lines in various forms. The Royal Promenade was inspired by Harri Kulovaara, who was VP of Quality Assurance at RCI in the 1990s, who designed a similar feature on a Silja Lines ferry.

Design
Voyager-class ships have a diesel-electric powertrain. They are powered by six Wärtsilä 46 diesel engines, giving a total output of . The generated electric power drives three 14 megawatt ABB Azipod azimuth thrusters (two steerable and one fixed).

The Voyager class featured some world firsts for cruise ships when it debuted, including the first rock climbing wall (mounted on the funnel) and ice-skating rink at sea.

The class' architecture was assigned to different architects and firms, some of which had no previous cruise ship experience. For example, the 1,350-seat La Scala Theatre on Voyager of the seas was designed by architect Wilson Butler Lodge, inspired by the Milan Opera House and bringing cruise-first features of Broadway theatres. This is the first time Royal Caribbean used theatre planning and design consultants for its onboard theatres.

First and second generations 
The first and second generations of the Voyager class differ slightly in design. Navigator of the Seas introduced wider glass balconies to the class. A number of public venues were changed, such as the retirement of the Aquarium Bar, Sports Bar and Island Grill and the introduction of Bolero's Bar, Vintages wine bar, Portofino, Chops Grille, Jade and the Plaza. The youth and teen areas were also reconfigured, the newer ships removing the children's pool area at the aft of the ship.

Modification history 
In 2012,  was modified to include an outdoor movie screen and new passenger lounges. These same changes were made to  in 2014. , , and  replaced their inline skating tracks with Flowrider surf simulators in 2014 and 2015.

Ships

References

External links
 Royal Caribbean factsheet on the Voyager class

Ships built in Finland
Cruise ship classes
Royal Caribbean International
Grieg Hall

Grieg Hall () is a 1,500 seat concert hall located on Edvard Griegs' square in Bergen, Norway.

Grieghallen was named in honor of Bergen-born composer Edvard Grieg, who served as music director of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra from 1880 until 1882. It serves as the home of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. The building was designed in modernist architecture style by the Danish architect Knud Munk. Construction began in 1967 and was finished by May 1978.

Events
Grieghallen is used each year for a series of concerts, ballet and opera performances. The facility has featured symphonic, choir, jazz and pop music. Grieghallen is also a conference and exhibition center. Grieghallen has hosted seminars and lectures as well as national and international congresses.

It hosted the Eurovision Song Contest in 1986, and is the host of the annual Norwegian Brass Band Championship competition, which occurs in mid-winter. The recording studio is also known within the black metal community, as several of the more popular Norwegian black metal albums were recorded there, with Eirik Hundvin as sound technician.

References

External links
 
  

Buildings and structures in Bergen
Modernist architecture in Norway
1978 establishments in Norway
Tourist attractions in Bergen
Concert halls in Norway
Music venues in Bergen
Culture in Bergen
Edvard Grieg
Music venues completed in 1978
Seri Perdana Bridge

The Seri Perdana Bridge () spans a length of 370 metres (1,210 ft) across the Putrajaya Lake in Putrajaya, Malaysia's federal administrative centre.

It is based on royal Islamic architectural design. This bridge contains eight unique balconies/rest areas for visitors to enjoy the panoramic sights of the surrounding lake area. 

The bridge is made up of seven central spans of 75m and two end spans of 55m. There are two separate carriageways over two twin-cell box girders. In the cross-section, the overall width between the extreme ends of two box girders is 23m. The footpath is flanked by railings and the road's median is lined by decorative street-lighting.

See also
 Transport in Malaysia

Bridges in Putrajaya
1999 establishments in Malaysia
20th-century architecture in Malaysia
Synetic GmbH

Synetic GmbH was a German video game company specialising in racing games. The company was founded in 1996, in Gütersloh by five former members of Ascaron. All five original members were still working for the company until the company was liquidated on 6 May 2014. Although the company with its team of eight employees was rather small and its games are virtually unknown outside of Germany, their titles are among the most popular racing games in Germany and are consistently among Germany's best-selling games.

While originally only developing games for Windows PCs, Synetic's later releases (starting with 2003's Mercedes Benz World Racing) were also available for a selection of consoles.

On 31 March 2014, Synetic ceased the production of video games.

Games

References

External links
Official Synetic website
Official Synetic forum
Playlogic's World Racing 2 website
Modding tools website
Addons download website

German companies established in 1996
Video game companies established in 1996
Video game companies disestablished in 2014
Defunct video game companies of Germany
Racing video games
German companies disestablished in 2014
Mark Lindsay Chapman

Mark Lindsay Chapman (born 8 September 1954) is an English actor. He is known for his roles as Chief Officer Henry Wilde in the film Titanic (1997), as John Lennon in the film Chapter 27 (2007) and as Dr. Anton Arcane on the USA Network TV series Swamp Thing from 1990 to 1993.

Career 

He attended the Guildford School of Acting where he studied ballet, speech, drama, and fencing.

His television credits include: Max Headroom, Dallas (as Brett Lomax), Falcon Crest, Baywatch, Murder, She Wrote, Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, JAG, Charmed, The Young and the Restless, Swamp Thing, and The Langoliers. He played Chief Officer Henry Tingle Wilde in the 1997 film Titanic. A Paramount internal memo dated from 1987 has revealed that Chapman was once considered for the part of Data in Star Trek: The Next Generation.

The similarity between his name and that of John Lennon's murderer, Mark David Chapman, prevented him in 1985 from playing Lennon in John and Yoko: A Love Story, a biographical film produced by NBC; Yoko Ono had been deeply involved in the production and had herself been initially impressed with his audition and approved his casting prior to discovering his full name was Mark Lindsay Chapman. She then nixed his casting on the grounds it was "bad karma", and a great deal of press attention was given to his having almost got the role (Chapman changed his name to Lindsay when he joined Equity, as there was already a Mark Chapman in the union). The role went instead to Mark McGann.  Chapman's full name surfaced again when the story was published in Britain, and reporters began making inquiries about the actor, who was then working as a bricklayer with his father.

Eventually Lindsay did portray Lennon, in the 2007 film Chapter 27, which had Mark David Chapman as the lead character.

Personal life 
Lindsay was arrested in March 2018 for assaulting his then-girlfriend, Tara Pirnia, after she ended their five-year relationship. According to an affidavit obtained from the Travis County Sheriff's office, he flew into a "violent rage" after she asked him to delete intimate material of her on his cell phone. She filed a restraining order afterward.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

1954 births
Male actors from London
English male film actors
English male television actors
Living people
English expatriates in the United States
20th-century English male actors
21st-century English male actors
Alumni of the Guildford School of Acting
Bessières

Bessières can refer to:

 Bessières, Haute-Garonne
 Jean-Baptiste Bessières, French marshal, duke of Istria (1768-1813)
 his younger brother, Bertrand, Baron Bessieres (1773-1855)
M40 Gun Motor Carriage

The 155 mm Gun Motor Carriage M40 was an American self-propelled artillery vehicle built on a widened and lengthened Medium Tank M4A3 chassis, but with a Continental engine and with HVSS (Horizontal Volute Spring Suspension), which was introduced at the end of the Second World War.

Description
Equipped with a 155 mm M2 gun, it was designed to replace the earlier M12 Gun Motor Carriage. Its prototype designation was the T38, but this was changed to the M40 in March 1945.

A single pilot vehicle was used in the European Theatre in 1945 by the 991st Field Artillery Battalion, along with a related 8 inch Howitzer Motor Carriage T89, (later re-designated the M43 Howitzer Motor Carriage) which was sometimes also equipped with a 155 mm barrel. A total of 311 out of a planned 600 were completed by the Pressed Steel Car Company before the end of the war, 24 of which were later converted into M43s. From there it was deployed during the Korean War.

After World War II, the M40 was used by the British Army, who designated it 155 mm SP, M40 and called it Cardinal in the tradition of using ecclesiastical names for SP artillery, such as Deacon, Priest, Bishop and Sexton.

Gun section
A complete gun section consisted of one M40 GMC and one M4A1 high speed tractor towing a 4-wheel, 8-ton M23 ammunition trailer. Each battery had four gun sections. The M4A1/M23 combination replaced the earlier M30 cargo carrier.

Variants

The Army planned to use the same T38 chassis for a family of SP artillery:
Cargo Carrier T30 - a few built before cancellation in December 1944 to make more chassis available for GMCs
8 inch Howitzer Motor Carriage M43 - 8 in (203 mm) HMC, standardized August 1945, 48 built
250 mm Mortar Motor Carriage T94 - 10 in (250 mm) MMC, began design Feb. 1945, one prototype completed in 1946

Related vehicles
105 mm Howitzer Motor Carriage M7B1 - self-propelled 105 mm Howitzer Motor Carriage (HMC) based on the M4A3 Sherman chassis.
155 mm Gun Motor Carriage M12 - self-propelled 155 mm Gun Motor Carriage (GMC).
Cargo Carrier M30 - an M12 with crew and ammunition space in lieu of the gun.

Surviving vehicles
 one at the American Military Museum, El Monte (USA)
 one at United States Army Ordnance Museum
 one at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford (UK)
 one at Royal Artillery Museum, Woolwich (UK)
 one at the Technik Museum, Sinsheim (Germany)
 Two M40 GMCs – Arkansas National Guard Mus, Camp Robinson, Little Rock, AR (USA)
 one at City vehicle storage area, Charleston, AR (USA)
 one at Fort Chaffee Maneuvering Training Center, AR (USA) 
 one at the United States Army Field Artillery Museum, Fort Sill, Ok (USA)

See also
 List of "M" series military vehicles
 M4 Sherman tank
 M41 Howitzer Motor Carriage
 G-numbers
Surviving M40 and M43

Notes

References

External links

World War II vehicles
AFV database
Training film
Tech Manual TM9-747

Self-propelled artillery of the United States
World War II self-propelled artillery
World War II armored fighting vehicles of the United States
Cold War armored fighting vehicles of the United States
M040
155 mm artillery
M4 Sherman tanks
Military vehicles introduced from 1940 to 1944
Brandon Douglas

Brandon Douglas (born June 21, 1968) is an American actor. He first came to prominence in the television series Falcon Crest, in which he played Ben Agretti during the 1988–1989 season. He played Wayne Jones in an episode of the TV series Northern Exposure and Dr. Andrew Cook in the series Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. Other credits include 21 Jump Street, Matlock, Murder, She Wrote, and JAG. He also costarred as Cameron Frye in the sitcom Ferris Bueller.

Douglas played the lead in The Children of Times Square, a 1986 TV movie directed by Curtis Hanson. He also starred in Papa Was a Preacher (1985).

Douglas was born Brandon Sokolosky in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and raised in Dallas, Texas. He previously was married to actress Julie Condra.

References

External links
 

1968 births
American male film actors
American male television actors
Living people
Peder Ludvig Møller

Peder Ludvig Møller (18 April 1814 in Aalborg, Denmark – 8 December in Sotteville-Lès-Rouen, France,<> 1865) was a Danish literary critic.  On 22 December 1845, Møller published an article critiquing Stages on Life's Way, a philosophical work by Søren Kierkegaard.

External links
 Peder Ludvig Møller biography
 Review of Seducer by Henrik Stangerup 1985

1814 births
1865 deaths
Danish literary critics
Battle of Víðines

The Battle of Víðines () of 1208 was a conflict that took place between secular and clerical forces in early 13th century Iceland. 

The Catholic bishop Guðmundur Arason had defended the exclusive judicial powers of the Roman Catholic Church over its clergy against the secular powers of the goði chieftains. In 1208, Kolbeinn Tumason and Arnór Tumason of the Ásbirningar clan and Sigurður Ormsson of the Svínfellingar clan advanced on the see of Guðmundur Arason. They wanted the bishop to give up several men in his assembly with whom they claimed they had rightful business. The bishop stood by his claim that the clergy should retain judicial power in its own affairs, and a conflict ensued at Víðines, near Hólar, the seat of the bishop. Kolbeinn Tumason died in the battle, his head bashed in with a large rock, and the clan troops dissipated. Before he died, he composed the poem "Heyr, himna smiður" (Hear, heavenly creator"), which is a classic Icelandic hymn to this very day.

References

Árni Daníel Júlíusson, Jón Ólafur Ísberg, Helgi Skúli Kjartansson Íslenskur söguatlas: 1. bindi: Frá öndverðu til 18. aldar Almenna bókafélagið, Reykjavík 1989

13th century in Iceland

13th-century Christianity
Conflicts in 1208
1208 in Europe
Nitro (wireless networking)

Nitro from Conexant (originally developed by Intersil) is a proprietary 802.11g performance enhancement technology introduced in 2003 as part of the PRISM chipset.  The first implementation was designed to help compensate for the performance loss of higher-speed 802.11g devices when they share a wireless network with slower 802.11b devices.

Later implementations are marketed as Nitro MX Xtreme which adds proprietary frame-bursting, compression and point-to-point side session technology for a claimed 140 Mbit/s throughput transmission speed. The point-to-point side session technology, called DirectLink, creates a connection between clients or from a client to a media source, such as a media server, and avoids the access point. It does this while staying in 802.11 Infrastructure mode so the client can continue to utilize access point-based security and power-savings.

Alternatives
Nitro is one of several competing incompatible proprietary extension approaches that were developed to increase performance of 802.11g wireless devices, such as 125 High Speed Mode from Broadcom, Super G (or "108 Mbit/s" technology) from Atheros, and MIMO-based extensions from Airgo Networks.

See also
 Proprietary protocol
 Vendor lock-in

References

External links

Press release announcing Nitro

IEEE 802.11
Proprietary hardware
Proprietary software
Ramaya

"Ramaya" is a song by Mozambican recording artist Afric Simone in 1975, sung in Swahili.

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

See also
List of number-one hits of 1976 (Italy)

References

1975 singles
1975 songs
Number-one singles in Italy
Patrick (parish)

Patrick () is one of the seventeen historic parishes of the Isle of Man.

It is located on the west of the island (part of the traditional North Side division) in the sheading of Glenfaba.

Administratively, a small part of the area of the historic parish of Patrick is now covered by part of the town of Peel.

Other settlements in the parish include Dalby, Foxdale, Glen Maye and Niarbyl.

Local government
For the purposes of local government, the majority of the area of the historic parish forms a single parish district with Commissioners.

Since 1884, a small area in the north of the historic parish of Patrick has been part of the administratively separate town of Peel, with its own town Commissioners.

The Captain of the Parish (since 2010) is Patricia Costain.

Politics
Patrick parish is part of the Glenfaba & Peel constituency, which elects two Members to the House of Keys. Before 2016 the majority of the historic parish was in the Glenfaba constituency, and from 1867 until 2016 Peel formed its own constituency.

Geography
The parish is bounded by Peel in the north, German in the north and east, Marown to the east, Malew to the south-east, Arbory and Rushen to the south, and the Irish Sea to the west.
The parish is a mainly hilly area including the northern slopes of the South Barrule; Slieau Whallian; and to the west, Dalby Mountain. Glen Rushen is located between Dalby Mountain and the South Barrule, and leads downwards to Glen Mooar and finally Glen Maye. Through these glens flows the Glenmaye river, with the Glenmaye waterfall, about one mile from the coast. There are disused slate quarries in Glen Rushen. In common with other hilly areas of the island, there are several forest plantations.

The coastal strip, roughly that to the west of the A27 road, is flatter agricultural land.

The population was historically partly agricultural, fishing, and mining. Now it is sparsely distributed over the parish: there are four small villages, Dalby near the coast on the west side of Dalby Mountain, Foxdale, a former mining village, Patrick in the north, and Glen Maye, near the coast and home to the glen of the same name.
The parish also includes the southern part of the village of St John's.

The parish forms part of the ecclesiastical (Anglican) Parish of the West Coast.

Demographics
The Isle of Man census of 2016 returned a parish population of 1,576, an increase of 3.1% from the figure of 1,527 in 2011.

References

Parishes of the Isle of Man
Bermuda College

Bermuda College is a community college in Paget Parish, Bermuda.

Overview
The only post-secondary educational institution in Bermuda, Bermuda College offers a variety of academic, technical and professional courses in the Divisions of Applied Science & Technology, Business Administration & Hospitality, Liberal Arts, and the Centre for Professional and Career Education. Programmes lead to associate's degrees, certificate or diplomas and professional designation and non-credit offerings for lifelong learners.

The institution also has partnerships with Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Georgia State University and Miami University and a number of other colleges, allowing students to earn bachelor's and master's degrees in certain subjects while studying in Bermuda. For  many years, Bermuda College had a similar partnership with Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.

Bermuda College has approximately 1370 students with an average class size of 15 as of fall 2008. In 2004/2005 the College had 517 applicants of which 467 actually enrolled. This included 287 traditional and 230 non-traditional applicants. There are 52 full-time faculty and 53 adjunct lecturers.

History
The College was created by the Parliament of Bermuda through the passage of the Bermuda College Act in 1974 with the amalgamation of three flourishing institutions: the Bermuda Technical Institute established in 1956, the Bermuda Hotel and Catering College (1965), and the Academic Sixth Form Centre (1967). Dr. Duranda Greene is the College's first female and the youngest president, taking over from Dr. Charles Green in the summer of 2007.

Facilities
The Bermuda College Library maintains more than 35,000 volumes and 1,315 reels of microfilm. In addition, a special collection of Bermudiana consisting of 1,104 volumes and 348 rare books which contain material that is now out of print. The library also provides access to online resources and other informational databases.

Bermuda College has six student computer labs. The college has a Windows NT network that provides access to a wide range of programming languages, software packages, and applications, including the Internet.

See also
Citizens Uprooting Racism in Bermuda (1998)

References

External links
Bermuda College Website

Educational organisations based in Bermuda
Paget Parish
Educational institutions established in 1974
1974 establishments in North America
Universities and colleges in British Overseas Territories
Breakneck

Breakneck is an English adjective meaning dangerous or reckless. It may refer to:

 Breakneck Creek, a tributary of Connoquenessing Creek in western Pennsylvania
 Breakneck Hill, in Allegany County, Maryland
 Breakneck Ridge, a mountain along the Hudson River, New York
 Breakneck Ridge (Metro-North station), a station on the Metro-North Railroad in New York State
 Breakneck (video game) or N.I.C.E. 2, a 1998 video game

See also
 "Break Ya Neck", a single by American rapper Busta Rhymes from his 2001 album Genesis
Dan Ferro

Gilbert Daniel Ferro (October 10, 1960 – August 19, 2022) was an American actor, best known for his role as Tommy Ortega in the 1980s television series Falcon Crest and for his role as drug lord Tony Romero in Death Wish 4: The Crackdown. Among his other works, he played an inept narcissistic soldier in 1996's Sgt. Bilko, and later appeared in the 2001 film Blow.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

1960 births
2022 deaths
American male film actors
American male television actors
People from New Britain, Connecticut
Lorin District, Berkeley, California

The Lorin District (also known as the Lorin Streetcar District) is a neighborhood located in the southern part of Berkeley, California, bounded by Ashby Avenue to the north, Adeline Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Way to the east, Sacramento Street to the west, and 62nd Street to the south. Today, the area is today mostly referred to as "South Berkeley".

History
The land was first populated by the Ohlone Native Americans, who were displaced by Spanish settlers in the 1700s. It was unincorporated as the town or settlement of Lorin, and was the last stop before Berkeley along the Berkeley Branch line of the Central Pacific (later, Southern Pacific).  In 1892, the people of Lorin elected to be annexed to the City of Berkeley. 

While Lorin supported a large Japanese immigrant population in the early 20th century, many such residents were forcibly removed to internment camps during WWII. After their displacement, many Black migrants from the American South settled in the district. 

In the 1930s, the Lorin District was redlined by the federal Home Owners’ Loan Corporation, leading to decades of underdevelopment and government disinvestment.

In popular culture
Lorin is the setting for a scene in former University of California student Frank Norris' book The Octopus (1903).

See also
 South Berkeley
 Internment of Japanese Americans
 Second Great Migration
 Redlining

References

External links
 The Lorin

Neighborhoods in Berkeley, California
Streetcar suburbs
Alberta Highway 44

Alberta Provincial Highway No. 44, commonly referred to as Highway 44, is a highway in northern Alberta, Canada that extends from Hondo to Highway 16 (Yellowhead Highway) east of Spruce Grove.  It is the primary route between the Edmonton area and the Lesser Slave Lake region.  The stretch between Highway 16 and Westlock was formerly Secondary Highway 794, but due to a large increase in traffic it was upgraded to Highway 44 in 1999. Highway 44 is approximately  long.

Major intersections 
From south to north:

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Babamania

Babamania is a Japanese rock group best known for their 2003 hit "Wanna Rock," which is known internationally due to its inclusion on the multi-platform video game FIFA Football 2004. They are also known for their track "Doobee Doowop Communication" which was played at the end of the anime Rockman EXE Stream.

Although they formed in 1992, Babamania didn't release any material until 1999 when female vocalist Mari joined. They have since released eight albums and a 'best of' compilation called Bababest.

Line-up
 Vocal: DJ Mari
 Vocals (rap, MC): Genki
 Guitar: Yujin

Former members:
 Bass: Takeo (left in 2002)
 Drums: Daigo (left in 2006)

Discography

Albums
 Babamania (EP) (2000)
 Pau Hana (EP) (200)
 Diskord (2000)
 Just Come Up (2001)
 Pornmuzik (2001)
 I.D. (2002)
 Ilnana (2003)
 Jungle Livin''' (2003)
 Great Grand Bag Of Magic Tricks (2005)
 Bababest (2005)
 Zero Gravity Disco'' (2006)

Singles
 "A Man of Tearz" (2000)
 "Take It" (2001)
 "Wanna Rock" (2003)
 "Doobee Doowop Communication" (2003)
 "Nobody's Girl" (2004)
 "Sunrise" (2005)

External links
Official Website
Official label Website

Japanese rock music groups
Female-fronted musical groups
David Sheinkopf

David Sheinkopf (born August 15, 1970) is an American actor and author, best known for playing Danny Sharpe during the final (1989–1990) season of the television program Falcon Crest.

Career 
Sheinkopf appeared in episodes of Quantum Leap, Party of Five, JAG and Diagnosis: Murder. As of 2006, he appears on HGTV's Design on a Dime. He also portrayed Morris Delancy in the Disney movie, Newsies.

In 2022, he wrote a book titled Village Idiot: A Manhattan Memoir that chronicles his time growing up in New York's Greenwich Village in the 1980s.

Filmography

Film

Television

Video games

Publication

External links

American male television actors
Living people
1970 births
Dunkeld & Birnam railway station

Dunkeld & Birnam railway station(Simply referred to as Dunkeld) serves the town of Dunkeld and village of Birnam in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. It is located on the Highland Main Line,  north of  and is the first stop on the line north of there, before Pitlochry. Most services are operated by ScotRail, who also manage the station. LNER and Caledonian Sleeper also call some services here.

History
The station opened on 7 April 1856, as the terminus of the Perth and Dunkeld Railway from Stanley Junction (on the Scottish Midland Junction Railway). Seven years later, it became a through station when the Inverness and Perth Junction Railway opened its line to Inverness via  and  (the I&PJR had taken over the Perth & Dunkeld company that year - prior to this, the SMJR had worked the line).

From 1863 to 1896 the station master was John Kinnaird.

The station was host to a LMS caravan in 1935 and 1936 followed by two caravans from 1937 to 1939.

The station was the last in Scotland to be lit by gas lights, these not being replaced by electric versions until the early 1980s. Although the trackbed has been raised following reballasting over the years, the platforms have not had similar treatment and are all considerably sub-standard in height.  A couple of 'boxes' have been placed on both platforms to assist passengers to climb into the trains but, because the station is unstaffed, no assistance is available to move these aids into an appropriate position whenever a train arrives.

Facilities 
The station has a small car park (and some bike racks), which gives step-free access to platform 1, which has a bench and a waiting shelter. There is no step-free access (access is via a footbridge) - nor any facilities - on platform 2. As there are no facilities to purchase tickets, passengers must buy one in advance, or from the guard on the train.

Platform layout 
The station has a passing loop  long, flanked by two platforms. Platform 1 on the southbound line can accommodate trains having twelve coaches, but platform 2 on the northbound line can only hold ten. When no crossing is to be made, northbound trains are usually routed through platform 1 which is signalled for bi-directional running.

Services
As of May 2022, there are ten departures northbound to Inverness and eleven to Perth each weekday, with six trains going to  and five to Edinburgh Waverley, including the Caledonian Sleeper service. On Sundays, there are 4 trains per day to Inverness (one of which extends to Elgin) and, southbound, four trains to Edinburgh Waverley (including the LNER Highland Chieftain service) and two to Glasgow Queen Street.

References

Bibliography

External links 

 Video footage of the station on YouTube

Railway stations in Perth and Kinross
Former Highland Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1856
Railway stations served by ScotRail
Railway stations served by Caledonian Sleeper
Railway stations served by London North Eastern Railway
Category A listed buildings in Perth and Kinross
Helocast

Helocasting is an airborne technique used by small unit, special operations forces, also practiced extensively by the US Army's light infantry units, to insert into a military area of operations. The small unit is flown, by helicopter, to a maritime insertion point. Once there, the aircraft assumes an altitude just above the water's surface and an airspeed of  or less. Team members then exit the aircraft and enter the water.

In some cases, depending upon the mission parameters and the aircraft used, personnel may be inserted along with an inflatable boat for over-the-horizon operations. When a fully inflated boat is transported and inserted with personnel, this type of operation is known as a "hard duck". In cases where a fully inflated boat cannot be accommodated by the aircraft, it can be partially deflated for transit and inflated at the insertion point by means of a foot pump. This type of operation is known as a "soft duck". If inflation to any degree is not feasible, a "rolled duck" may be performed.

Once team members are in the water, they may swim to the objective or, in the case of a "hard duck", "soft duck", or "rolled duck", conduct an over-the-horizon transit to the objective, via inflatable boat.

References

Aerial maneuvers

ja:ヘリキャスティング
Brothers and Sisters of Penance of Saint Francis

The Brothers and Sisters of Penance of St. Francis is an Association of the faithful of the Roman Catholic Church whose members strive to model their lives according to the Rule and Statutes of the Primitive Rule of the Third Order of St. Francis, which was written for lay people in 1221 by Cardinal Hugolino dei Conti dei Segni at the request of St. Francis of Assisi.

The order was originally started in 1996 by members of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis in Minnesota, with the approval of Archbishop Harry J. Flynn.

On August 22, 2003, ( the feast of the Queenship of Mary), the Brothers and Sisters of Penance was refounded as the Confraternity of Penitents.

Right now there are more than several hundred members within the United States, and a few hundred more throughout the world.

References

External links
Brothers and Sisters of Penance of St. Francis
 Saint Francis Third Order Confraternity of Penitents

Third Order of Saint Francis
Christian organizations established in 1996
Iver Holter

Iver Paul Fredrik Holter (13 December 1850 – 27 January 1941) was a Norwegian composer. He was conductor and music director of the Oslo Philharmonic for a quarter century.

Biography
Iver Paul Fredrik Holter was born in Gausdal, Oppland, Norway. His parents were  Caspar Georg Holter (1812–1880), a minister, and Caroline Theodora Børresen (1818–1857). He spent his adolescence at Gjerpen in Skien, where he received violin lessons from the German-born organist Friederich Wilhelm Rojahn (1820-1886). Holter had originally studied medicine but by 1876, he changed career paths to become a musician. He first studied music with Johan Svendsen and afterward in Leipzig (1876–79). He continued his music studies in Berlin (1879–1881).

In the autumn of 1882, he followed Edvard Grieg as conductor for the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. In autumn 1886, he became music director and conductor of the Oslo Philharmonic, a position he held for 25 years. Holter suggested the founding of a city orchestra which could play at municipal festivities, concerts and in the theatre, and as a result of this, the orchestra gained municipal support from 1889.

Holter became a central figure in the city's musical life. In 1890 he founded the Oslo Bys Orchestra, and he was conductor for the Music Association (Musikkforeningen) in Oslo for a quarter century. During the period 1900 to 1906 he edited the music magazine, Nordisk Musik-Revue. In 1912, he was one of the founders Norwegian Musical Artists' Society (Norsk Tonekunstnersamfund).

Holter composed piano music, songs and choral music, including a series of cantatas for various major and minor events. As a composer, he followed the classic-romantic ideals. His numerous compositions include a symphony, string quartets, a violin concerto, cantatas, songs and choral pieces.  Most notably,  he wrote music for Goethe's Götz von Berlichingen and the orchestral work St. Hans Kveld.

He was buried in Vår Frelsers gravlund in Oslo, Norway.

Selected works
 Bagatellen für das Pianoforte. 1879
 2 String Quartets. 1880, ?
 Vier Gesänge für eine mittlere Stimme mit Begleitung des Pianoforte. 1881
  Til Fædrelandet (cantata, text by T. Caspari). 1895
  Kantate ved den 7de store Sangerfest (text by M. Rolfsen). 1896
  Nürnberg (cantata, text by T. Caspari). 1898
  Kantate ved indvielsen af Kristiania handelsstands forenings nye hus (text by C. Dysthe). 1912
  Kristiania-Kantate (text by T. Caspari). 1924
  Olavskantate (text by T. Caspari). 1930
  Violin Concerto in A minor 
  Symphony in F major

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1850 births
1941 deaths
19th-century classical composers
19th-century conductors (music)
19th-century Norwegian composers
20th-century classical composers
20th-century conductors (music)
20th-century Norwegian male musicians
20th-century Norwegian composers
Burials at the Cemetery of Our Saviour
Male conductors (music)
Norwegian conductors (music)
Norwegian male classical composers
Norwegian Romantic composers
People from Gausdal
Musicians from Skien
Place of death missing
Norwegian Association for Women's Rights people
Kurt Winter

Kurt Frank Winter (April 2, 1946 – December 14, 1997) was a Canadian guitarist and songwriter, best known as a member of The Guess Who.

Biography 
Winter was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He attended Daniel McIntyre Collegiate Institute. From the mid-1960s he was a member of several local Winnipeg rock bands, collaborating at various times with bassist Bill Wallace and drummer Vance Schmidt (later known as Vance Masters). In 1969 Winter, Wallace, and Schmidt formed the band Brother, who were associates of The Guess Who. Brother was together for less than six months, but became known for the fact that all three members later joined The Guess Who.

Guitarist Randy Bachman left The Guess Who in 1970, and that band's leader Burton Cummings recruited Winter and Greg Leskiw as Bachman's replacements. Winter was with The Guess Who for four years and became one of the band's primary songwriters in tandem with Cummings. After six studio albums, Winter left The Guess Who for undisclosed reasons in 1974, and was replaced by Domenic Troiano.

After The Guess Who broke up, various former members of that band attempted reunion tours with floating lineups. Winter briefly joined a lineup led by bassist Jim Kale in 1977–78, and contributed to the album Guess Who's Back.

Winter then retired from the music industry and resided in Winnipeg for the rest of his life. Burton Cummings invited Winter to write songs for his 1990s solo albums, though Winter chose a life away from music. Winter suffered from health problems attributed to excessive alcohol use, and died at age 51 from kidney failure on December 14, 1997. His alma mater, Daniel McIntyre Collegiate Institute, initiated an annual scholarship in Winter's name in 1998. Cummings memorialized Winter in "Kurt's Song" on his 2008 album, Above the Ground. Cummings described Winter as "one of my fondest writing partners".

Discography

With The Guess Who:
 1970 Share the Land
 1971 The Best of The Guess Who
 1971 So Long, Bannatyne
 1972 Rockin'
 1972 Live at the Paramount 
 1973 Artificial Paradise
 1973 #10
 1973 The Best of The Guess Who Volume II
 1974 Road Food
 1978 Guess Who's Back
 1988 Track Record: The Guess Who Collection
 1997 The Guess Who: The Ultimate Collection
 1999 The Guess Who: Greatest Hits
 2003 Platinum & Gold Collection: The Guess Who
 2006 Bachman Cummings Song Book

References

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1946 births
1997 deaths
Canadian male songwriters
The Guess Who members
Musicians from Winnipeg
Writers from Winnipeg
Canadian rock guitarists
Canadian male guitarists
Deaths from kidney failure
20th-century Canadian guitarists
20th-century Canadian male musicians
Burials at Brookside Cemetery (Winnipeg)
177 (number)

177 (one hundred [and] seventy-seven) is the natural number following 176 and preceding 178.

In mathematics
It is a Leyland number since . 

It is a 60-gonal number, and an arithmetic number, since the mean of its divisors (1, 3, 59 and 177) is equal to 60, an integer.

177 is a Leonardo number, part of a sequence of numbers closely related to the Fibonacci numbers. In graph enumeration, there are 177 undirected graphs (not necessarily connected) that have seven edges and no isolated vertices, and 177 rooted trees with ten nodes and height at most three. There are 177 ways of re-connecting the (labeled) vertices of a regular octagon into a star polygon that does not use any of the octagon edges.

In other fields
177 is the second highest score for a flight of three darts, below the highest score of 180.

See also
 The year AD 177 or 177 BC
 List of highways numbered 177

References 

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