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Billy Dee

William Randall Daniels (born September 25, 1951), better known by the stage name Billy Dee, is a retired American adult film actor.

Life and career
Born and raised in San Diego, California, Daniels is of mixed ancestry, of Irish, Mexican and African heritage, one of six children; he has four brothers and a sister. He worked from the age of 11, often on his grandfather's farm milking the cows, and lost his virginity at 14 in a barn, although he did not have sex again until he was 17. By the early 1970s, he began appearing in short 8mm film loops, appearing in the first of them at age 24. By 1978, at age 27, he appeared in his first big-budget porn flick, The Legend Of Lady Blue with fellow porn stars Gloria Leonard and John Leslie.

Daniels had the most prominent part of his career during the second-wave of the so-called Golden Age of Porn from the mid-late 1980s to the early-mid 1990s. In a period when the segregation of pornographic actors on racial lines was a sensitive issue and top female stars were often reluctant in performing with black males, being a very light-skinned African American man ("everyone thought he just had a great tan") and speaking "smoothly", Daniels could pass for white, securing him roles in top-rated pornographic productions with prominent porn stars such as Marilyn Chambers (Marilyn Chambers' Private Fantasies series) and one-time girlfriend Nikki Knights, following his debut with a small role in The Legend Of Lady Blue (1978) and also making him the only African American actor the 1980s top star Traci Lords had performed with. Nevertheless, he could also play roles in productions with explicit black theme such as the porn parody Chocolate C.H.I.P.S. (1988) and Caught from Behind V: Blondes and Blacks (1986), the interracial special release in an anal sex video series. Accordingly, Daniels is today foremost credited as a porn actor who had blurred the colour lines in the American porn industry.

He was inducted into the XRCO Hall of Fame in 2002.

Personal life
Billy Dee had a daughter with a girlfriend in the U.K. and later went on to marry adult actress Suzannah French. Now the grandfather to eight, and great grandfather to two, Daniels shuffles time between the U.K in Bristol and the U.S.

References

External links
 
 
 
 Rialto Report interview with Billy Dee

1951 births
American male pornographic film actors
African-American pornographic film actors
Living people
People from San Diego
American expatriates in England
21st-century African-American people
20th-century African-American people
Ballantine (surname)

Ballantine is a surname of Scottish Gaelic origin. It is first found in Lanarkshire, where the family had been settled since ancient times. The name has also been variously spelled Ballantyne, Bannatyne, Ballanden, and Ballentine.

Origin of the name
In his book The Clans, Septs, and Regiments of the Scottish Highlands (1908), Sir Thomas Innes
Learney states that the original family name was Bannatyne, and was a sept associated with both Clan Campbell and Clan Stuart of Bute.  In the Fourth Edition (1952) of that book, the Bannatyne association with Clan Campbell is stated to have begun in 1538, formalized in a bond signed May 10, 1547, in which the Chief of the MacAmelynes (aka Bannatynes) and Sir John Stuart, ancestor of the Marquis of Bute, engaged to stand by and support each other against all persons except the King and the Earl of Argyll, the latter reservation made so that the Chief of the Bannatynes couldfulfill the conditions of a bond of manrent give to the Early of Argyll, dated April 14, 1538.

The etymology, given in William Arthur's An Etymological Dictionary of Family and Christian Names with an Essay on their Derivation and Import (1857), derives the name from Bal, the name of a deity, and teine, meaning fire, and relating to a place where Belenus, or Bal, was worshiped by the Celts.

Notable people

 Arthur A. Ballantine, American IRS solicitor and Treasury undersecretary in Hoover Administration
Betty Ballantine, American publisher
Carl Ballantine (1917–2009), American magician and actor
Ian Ballantine, American publisher
James Ballantine, Scottish novelist
Patrick J. Ballantine, American politician
Nathan Ballentine, American politician
Pamela Ballantine, Northern Irish television presenter
Peter Ballantine, American brewer
William Ballantine, British lawyer
Julian Ballantine, a fictional character in the TV series Kyle XY
Morley Cowles Ballantine, American newspaper editor, The Durango Herald
Richard Ballantine (1940–2013), American writer
Richard G. Ballantine, American newspaper publisher, the Durango Herald
Sophie Ballantine Hawkins (born 1967), American musician

References

See also 
Ballantine
Bannatyne (name)
Balanchine
Ballentine
Ballantyne
Bellenden
Ballenden
Ballandean, Queensland
Balindean, the spelling used by the Ogilvy-Wedderburn baronets

Scottish Gaelic-language surnames
Rhynchonellida

The taxonomic order Rhynchonellida is one of the two main groups of living articulate brachiopods, the other being the order Terebratulida. They are recognized by their strongly ribbed wedge-shaped or nut-like shells, and the very short hinge line.

The hinges come to a point, a superficial resemblance to many (phylogenetically unrelated) bivalve mollusk shells.  The loss of the hinge line was an important evolutionary innovation, rhynchonellids being the first truly non-strophic shells with a purely internal articulation (teeth-sockets).

Strong radiating ribs are common in this group; and there are generally very strong plications or accordion-like folds on the sulcus (the long middle section) of the shell. This probably helps regulate the flow of water in and out of the shell. All rhynchonellids are biconvex (have a bulbous shell), and have a fold located in the brachial valve.  This means that the commissure, the line between the two valves or shells, is zigzagged, a distinguishing characteristic of this group. The prominent beak of the pedicle valve usually overlaps that of the brachial valve, in order to allow the shell to open and close.  There is usually a functional pedicle although the delthyrium may be partially closed.

Morphologically, the rhynchonellid has changed little since its appearance during the Ordovician period. It seems to have evolved from pentamerids, and in turn gave rise to the first atrypids and athyrids, both of which are characterized by the development of a complex spiral brachidium. Although much diminished by the terminal Paleozoic extinction, it experienced a revival during the Early Jurassic period, and became the most abundant of all brachiopods during the Mesozoic Era.

Classification
This classification down to the level of genera is based on Kazlev and Emig.

Extant subgroups
 Superfamily Pugnacoidea
 Family Basiliolidae
 Subfamily Acanthobasiliolinae
 Acanthobasiliola
 Subfamily Basiliolinae
 Basiliola
 Basiliolella
 Eohemithiris
 Rhytirhynchia
 Subfamily Uncertain
 Striarina
 Superfamily Dimerelloidea
 Family Cryptoporidae
 Aulites
 Cryptopora
 Superfamily Norelloidea
 Family Frieleiidae
 Subfamily Freileiinae
 Frieleia
 Compsothyris
 Grammetaria
 Sphenarina
 Subfamily Hispanirhynchiinae
 Abyssorhynchia
 Hispanirhynchia
 Manithyris
 Parasphenarina
 Subfamily Neorhynchiinae
 Neorhynchia
 Family Tethyrhynchiidae
 Tethyrhynchia
 Superfamily Hemithiridoidea
 Family Hemithyrididae
 Hemithiris
 Pemphixina
 Family Notosariidae
 Notosaria

Extinct Subgroups
 Superfamily Ancistrorhynchoidea
 Superfamily Rhynchotrematoidea
 Superfamily Uncinuloidea
 Superfamily Camarotoechioidea
 Superfamily Rhynchotetradoidea
 Superfamily Lambdarinoidea
 Superfamily Wellerelloidea
 Superfamily Rhynchoporoidea
 Superfamily Stenoscismatoidea

References

External links
 Phylum Brachiopoda

 
Brachiopod orders
Extant Ordovician first appearances
Ricoh 5A22

The Ricoh 5A22 is an 8/16-bit microprocessor produced by Ricoh  for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) video game console. It is based on the 8/16-bit WDC 65C816, which was developed between 1982 and 1984 for the Apple IIGS personal computer. It has 92 instructions, an 8-bit data bus, a 16-bit accumulator, and a 24-bit address bus. The CPU runs between 1.79 MHz and 3.58 MHz, and uses an extended MOS Technology 6502 instruction set.

Major features
In addition to the 65C816 CPU core, the 5A22 contains support hardware, including:
 Controller port interface circuits, including serial access to controller data
 An 8-bit parallel I/O port, which is mostly unused in the SNES
 Circuitry for generating non-maskable interrupts on V-blank
 Circuitry for generating interrupts on calculated screen positions
 A DMA unit, supporting two primary modes:
 General DMA, for block transfers at a rate of 2.68 MB/s
 H-blank DMA, for transferring small data sets at the end of each scanline outside of the active display period
 Multiplication and division registers
 Two separate address busses driving the 8-bit data bus: a 24-bit "Bus A" for general access, and an 8-bit "Bus B" mainly for APU and PPU registers

Performance
The CPU as a whole employs a variable-speed system bus, with bus access times determined by the memory location accessed. The bus runs at 3.58 MHz for non-access cycles and when accessing Bus B and most internal registers, and either 2.68 or 3.58 MHz when accessing Bus A. It runs at 1.79 MHz only when accessing the controller port serial-access registers. It works at approximately 1.5 MIPS, and has a theoretical peak performance of 1.79 million 16-bit operations per second.

See also
 Super Nintendo Entertainment System technical specifications
Nintendo SA-1, a co-processor for the SNES based on the same 65C816 CPU core

References

Super Nintendo Entertainment System
Nintendo chips
65xx microprocessors
Ricoh products
Tcelna

Tcelna (formerly known as Tovaxin) is an anti-T cell vaccine being studied in multiple sclerosis (MS). As of 2016 it is in phase II trials.

History
The company announced in late 2005 that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration had approved the protocol for the Phase IIb clinical trial of Tcelna.

The multicenter, randomized, double blind, placebo-controlled Phase IIb clinical study on 150 patients was designed to evaluate the efficacy, safety and tolerability of the therapy with clinically isolated syndrome (CIS) and early relapsing-remitting MS (RR-MS) patients.

The  first phase of the trial finished in March 2008. All patients who completed the trial were to be eligible for an optional one-year extension study, OLTERMS, to receive Tcelna open-label without a placebo group; however, that program was terminated suddenly for lack of funding. 

After several financial troubles, the trials were restarted in 2011 and Opexa rebranded the therapy, previous called  Tovaxin, with the new name Tcelna.

References

External links
BBC Article 3/8/06
UPI Health Brief
Opexa Therapeutics Tcelna Page
The US clinical trial registry NCT01684761 Tcelna phase II trial for SPMS.

Vaccines
Vanish

Vanish may refer to:

 Vanish (toilet cleaner), a toilet bowl cleaner by S.C. Johnson
 Vanish (stain remover), a brand of cloth cleaning product by Reckitt
 "Vanish" an episode of the TV series Criss Angel Mindfreak
 Vanishing, a type of magical effect
 Vanish (mathematics), said of a mathematical function that gives the value a zero at some argument (a root of the function)
 Vanish (computer science), a project at the University of Washington to protect online personal data
 Vanish (film), a 2015 American thriller film stylized as VANish
 Vanish (comic), a 2022 series published by Image Comics

See also
 Forced disappearance
 Vanished (disambiguation)
 Vanishing (disambiguation)
 Varnish (disambiguation)
Marun petrochemical complex

Marun Petrochemical Complex (M.P.C.) (), is a petrochemical complex in Mahshahr, Khuzestan, Iran which was established in 21 Jan 1995.

The complex consists of low-density polyethylene (LDPE), high-density polyethylene, polyphenol, olefin, ethylene oxide/ethylene glycol and ultrasonic testing plants.
The main plant is Olefin which feeds the others.
Each plant has its own license. For example, the license for LDPE plant is from Stamicarbon (Sabic).

See also

National Iranian Petrochemical Company

External links
Marun Petrochemical Co.

Oil refineries in Iran
Alexander McMartin

Alexander McMartin (1788–July 12, 1853) was a businessman and political figure in Upper Canada. He was the first person born in Upper Canada to serve in its Legislative Assembly.

He was born in Charlottenburgh Township in 1788, the son of a United Empire Loyalist who settled on the Raisin River. The settlement that formed around his father's mills was first known as MacMartin's Mills and later Martintown.

McMartin served with the Glengarry militia during the War of 1812 and the Lower Canada Rebellion in 1838. He was elected to the 6th Parliament of Upper Canada in 1812 representing Glengarry and represented the county until 1824. During the 1820s, McMartin took over the mill operations. In 1827, with a partner, he took on a contract to clear land for a section of the Rideau Canal. As the project proceeded, he found that their costs were going to be much greater than the value of the bid. Despite verbal assurances from Colonel John By, he was not compensated for his losses on the project. In 1828, he was elected again as Glengarry's representative and served until 1834.

He also served as justice of the peace, postmaster for Martintown and sheriff for the Eastern District.

He died at Martintown in 1853.

External links 
Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online

Members of the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada
1788 births
1853 deaths
Canadian justices of the peace
Martin Earwicker

Martin John Earwicker  (born 11 May 1948) was Director of the National Museum of Science and Industry group of British museums (including the Science Museum, the National Railway Museum, and the National Media Museum) from 2006 until 2009.  Prior to taking on this role, he was Chief Executive of the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl).

Earwicker graduated with a degree in physics from the University of Surrey. He previously worked as Managing Director of the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency and head of Science and Engineering at the Office of Science and Technology‚ part of the Department of Trade and Industry. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2000.

From April 2009 until 2013, Earwicker was Vice-Chancellor of London South Bank University, replacing Deian Hopkin on his retirement.

References

External links
 

1948 births
Alumni of the University of Surrey
British chief executives
Directors of the Science Museum, London
Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering
Living people
Vice-Chancellors of London South Bank University
Burnby Hall Gardens

Burnby Hall Gardens, also known as Stewart's Burnby Hall Gardens and Museum, are located close to the centre of Pocklington, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. They are home to the United Kingdom's national collection of hardy water lilies, and contain the largest such collection to be found in a natural setting in Europe. The  of gardens with two lakes planted with naturalized water lilies were bequeathed to Pocklington by Major Percy Marlborough Stewart.

The lakes, originally created for fishing, are stocked with ornamental roach and carp that visitors can hand feed.

Stewart Museum
The estate's house contains the Stewart Museum, which features the personal collections of Major Percy Marlborough Stewart (1871–1962).  The collections include sporting trophies of animal heads and artefacts from Stewart's travels around the world.

References

External links

 Official web site
 

Gardens in the East Riding of Yorkshire
Museums in the East Riding of Yorkshire
Pocklington
Tantalum telluride

Tantalum telluride (TaTe2) is a chemical compound of tantalum and tellurium. Tantalum also forms a tantalum rich telluride with the approximate formula Ta1.6Te that is unusual in that it forms dodecagonal chalcogenide quasicrystals, a formation that cannot occur in a normal crystal because it does not result in a periodic crystal lattice.

External links
 Chemical properties on WebElements
 Tantalum Telluride Quasicrystals at ETH Microscopy

Tellurides
Tantalum compounds
Roger Dubuis

Roger Dubuis is a Swiss watch manufacturer of luxury watches based in Geneva, Switzerland. The company was founded by Roger Dubuis and Carlos Dias in 1995.

In 2008, the company was acquired by Richemont group.

The Roger Dubuis watches include the Excalibur and Velvet collections, along with motorsports watches in collaboration with Lamborghini, Squadra Corse, and Pirelli.

History

Roger Dubuis started his career at Longines in the late 1950s, and founded his own atelier in 1980 after 14 years of developing complications in Geneva for Patek Philippe. He took commissions to design new complications for major brands for several years. Carlos Dias, a designer for Franck Muller, joined Dubuis to launch the brand.

The Roger Dubuis Manufacture in Geneva was founded in 1995. After four years of development, In 1999, the company unveiled first watches that were fully designed and developed in-house.

In 2001, Roger Dubuis built his manufacturing facility in Meyrin, on the outskirts of Geneva.

In 2005, the Excalibur collection was launched, equipped with Double Tourbillon Skeleton movement.

In August 2008, Richemont Group acquired 60% of Roger Dubuis. In 2016, the group has acquired the remaining 40% of the company.

Co-founder Roger Dubuis died in October 2017.

Movements 

Roger Dubuis is one of the few Swiss watch companies that produces most of its caliber components in-house. Roger Dubuis calibers are made up of several hundred hand-finished components.

Most Roger Dubuis timepieces bear the Poinçon de Genève, or Geneva Hallmark, certifying a watchmaking quality specific to Geneva.

The main movements produced by Roger Dubuis are:

 RD820SQ Automatic skeleton watch with micro-rotor
 RD505SQ Single Flying Tourbillon
 RD01SQ Skeleton double flying tourbillon

 RD101 Quatuor, with four sprung balances

RD103SQ Double sprung balances with differential - this was the first Roger Dubuis movement co-created in partnership with Lamborghini Squadra Corse.

Roger Dubuis calibers are made of gold, diamonds and titanium, as well as new materials such as carbon, ceramic and cobalt. Most of the timepieces are skeleton watches.

Motorsport partnerships 

Roger Dubuis started collaboration with the motorsport companies in 2017.

 Lamborghini Squadra Corse
 Pirelli  - these timepieces feature rubber inlays from Pirelli tyres.

References

Richemont brands
Swiss watch brands
Watch manufacturing companies of Switzerland
Manufacturing companies based in Geneva
Manufacturing companies established in 1995
Arthur de Capell Brooke

Sir Arthur de Capell Brooke, 2nd Baronet (22 June 1791 in Northamptonshire – 6 December 1858) was a British baronet and travel writer, Fellow of the Royal Society (1823) and co-establisher of the Raleigh Club (1827).

Remarks on Norway
He travelled in Northern Norway in 1820 and remarked the following regarding sea monsters
«Off Otersoen.... It was of considerable length, and longer than it appeared, as it lay in large coils above the water to the height of many feet. Its head was shaped like that of a serpent; but he could not tell whether it had teeth or not. He said it emitted a very strong odour and that the boatmen were afraid to approach near it.»
«At Alstahoeg I found the Bishop of the Nordlands (another clergyman!) who was an eye-witness to the appearance of two in the Bay of Sorsund, on the Drontheim Fjord.... They were swimming in large folds, part of which were seen above the water, and the length of the largest he judged to be about one hundred feet. They were of a darkish grey colour, the heads hardly discernible, from their being almost under water.»
His informants were the county administrator of Finnmark, the clergymen Marcus Fredrik Steen of Karlsøy and Peter Vogelius Deinboll of Vadsø (1816–1824); as well as the bishop of Nordland Mathias Bonsak Krogh.  Later, in 1823 he was a traveller between the villages of Alta and Torneå, describing how the locals had discovered coffee.

Books
He wrote and sketched in several publications from his expeditions:
Travels through Sweden, Norway, and Finmark to the North Cape, in the Summer of 1820, London (1823)
Winter Sketches in Lapland (1826) -- «Illustrations of a Journey from Alten on the Shores of the Polar Sea in 60o 55" North Lat. through Norwegian, Russian, and Swedish Lapland to Torneå at the Extremity of the Gulf of Bothnia. Intended to Exhibit a Complete View of the Mode of Travelling with Rein-Deer, the most Striking Incidents that Occurred during the Journey, and the General Character of the Winter Scenery of Lapland.»
A Winter in the North Cape, John Murray (publisher), London (1827) -- «with various Observations relating to Finmark and its Inhabitants ; made during a Residence at Hammerfest, near the North Cape»
Sketches in Spain and Morocco, London (1831)

See also
De Capell Brooke baronets

References

External links

The Northern Lights gallery at the University of Tromsø has several sketches made by him
Richard Ellis, The Search for the Giant Squid, The Lyons Press (1998)

1791 births
1858 deaths
Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom
English travel writers
Fellows of the Royal Society
Fellows of the Royal Geographical Society
The Adventures of Don Coyote and Sancho Panda

The Adventures of Don Coyote and Sancho Panda is a 1990 animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera with the Italian public service broadcaster RAI and its first channel, Rai 1. The series is loosely based on the characters Don Quixote and Sancho Panza from the 17th century novel by Cervantes.

Plot
Don Coyote (voiced by Frank Welker) is a swordsman who travels the land in search of adventure, with the help of his noble horse Rosinante (voiced by Brad Garrett), Sancho Panda (voiced by Don Messick) and his cynical donkey, Dapple (voiced by Don Messick). These crusaders of chivalry ride the countryside fighting for truth, justice, and beauty. Their attempts to do so are complicated by Don Coyote's state of mental unbalance and constantly mistaking everyday objects for horrific monsters. Coyote is always successful, for accidental reasons.

Broadcast
It was first aired in 1989 in Europe, and then in the United States in 1990 as part of the weekend/weekday morning programming block The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera.

Episodes

Season 1: 1990

Season 2: 1991

References

External links
 
 

1990 American television series debuts
1991 American television series endings
1990s American animated television series
1990 Italian television series endings
1991 Italian television series endings
1990s Italian animated television series
American children's animated adventure television series
American children's animated comedy television series
American children's animated fantasy television series
Italian children's animated adventure television series
Italian children's animated comedy television series
Italian children's animated fantasy television series
English-language television shows
First-run syndicated television programs in the United States
The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera
Television series by Hanna-Barbera
Television shows based on Don Quixote
Television series about pandas
Caveman (group)

Caveman was a British hip hop group originally from High Wycombe, England, consisting of MCM, the Principal, and Diamond J. They were the first British hip hop group to be signed to a major U.S. record label, Profile Records.

History
The group's first releases were the twelve inch single "Victory" (Profile, 1990) and "Fry You Like Fish" (Profile, 1990), and the I'm Ready EP (Profile, 1990). This established their jazz-based style of hip hop, influenced by U.S. artists such as Gang Starr. The song "I'm Ready", however, was based on Jimi Hendrix's, "Crosstown Traffic" and showed early on a liking for the harder style that they adopted for later releases. "I'm Ready" was a popular song, and still regularly turns up on hip hop compilation albums today.

Their debut album, Positive Reaction was released by Profile in 1990. The following year, the group released The Victory EP (Profile, 1991) and then took a break from recording. They returned with The Whole Nine Yards...And Then Some in 1992.

Shortly after the release of the album, the group decided to go their separate ways. MCM had a short-lived solo career, releasing some twelve inches and guesting on other artists' tracks - such as Dodge City Productions' "Understand This"  from their Steppin' Up and Out (4th & Broadway, 1993) album. The Principal went on to produce other artist's tracks, such as a remix of Run-D.M.C.'s "Ooh, What'cha Gonna Do?" from their Down with the King (Profile, 1993) album. Diamond J went on to provide scratches for Maxim's Hell's Kitchen (XL Recordings, 2000) album.

Almost 20 years after the last Caveman album, front man MCM incorporated the name Caveman on his first solo studio album The Gospel: The Missing Gems of MCM Caveman (I-innovate UK, 2011).  The double album included several unreleased tracks from the 1990s.

Discography

Chart singles
"I'm Ready" (1991) - UK #65

Chart albums
Positive Reaction (1991) - UK #43
The Whole Nine Yards And Then Some (1992)

References

External links
 Discog's MCM page
 Discog's Caveman page
 Heroes of UK Hip Hop's Caveman page

English hip hop groups
Profile Records artists
Wrath of the Norsemen

Wrath of the Norsemen is a live DVD by Swedish melodic death metal band Amon Amarth. It features live footage of the band playing their music. It also contains interviews and behind-the-scenes footage. The DVD was certified gold by the RIAA.

Track listing

Disc one
Also included backstage and other footage.

Disc two

Disc three

Credits

Band members 
 Fredrik Andersson – drums
 Olavi Mikkonen – guitars
 Johan Hegg – vocals
 Johan Söderberg  – guitars
 Ted Lundström – bass

Production 
 Amon Amarth – arranger, producer
 Anders Eriksson – post producer
 Thomas Ewerhard – design, cover art
 Harris Johns – mastering, mixing
 Achim Kohler – mastering, mixing

Release dates

References

Amon Amarth video albums
2006 video albums
Live video albums
2006 live albums
Metal Blade Records video albums
Tatong

Tatong () is a town in north eastern Victoria, Australia. The town is on the northern foothills of the Blue Ranges, part of the Great Dividing Range, beside Holland Creek,  north east of the state capital, Melbourne.  At the , Tatong had a population of 350 declining to 287 in 2016.

The area is a mixture of farmland, pine plantations and dense bush

History
The Post Office opened on 10 October 1890 and closed in 1993.

In 1914, a railway from Benalla to Tatong was opened. Timber from the surrounding hills was harvested to supply the early Melbourne power station, but coal from the Latrobe Valley became the favoured fuel source. In February 1928, staff were withdrawn from Tatong railway station. Persistent operating losses on the operation of the line led its closure in July 1947.

Tatong is the birthplace of Michael Joseph Savage, the first Labour Prime Minister of New Zealand, and Graeme Peck, male lead for the Australian Ballet Company.

Facilities
It has a pub, the Tatong Tavern, a memorial hall and sports ground.

It has an active community with archery, cricket, tennis and table tennis clubs. Tatong used to have netball and Australian rules football teams competing in the Ovens and King Football League prior to being removed in 2014. Other groups include the Tatong Angling Group, Tatong Heritage Group  and the Tatong Young Bloods.

People from Tatong
 Michael Joseph Savage, former Prime Minister of New Zealand

References

External links

Geoscience Australia place names search: Tatong

Towns in Victoria (state)
Rural City of Benalla
Phonographic Performance Ireland

Phonographic Performance Ireland CLG (PPI) is a music licensing company which controls the public performance, broadcasting, reproduction of recording, and other rights of the recordings under its jurisdiction, which comprise the recordings of several different labels in Ireland. PPI collects the copyright royalties for performances or reproductions on behalf of the Irish labels. 

These include not only Irish recordings but also most recordings available worldwide. A "public performance" occurs whenever recordings are played to anyone outside the family or domestic circle for profit. The list of recordings in PPI's repertoire is constantly increasing as new titles are released.

References

External links 
 
 RAAP website

Music organisations based in the Republic of Ireland
Music licensing organizations
Faraday (disambiguation)

Michael Faraday was an early 19th-century British scientist (physicist and chemist).

Faraday may also refer to:

Places
 Faraday, Victoria, Australia
 Faraday, Ontario, Canada
 Faraday, an electoral ward in  Greater London
 Faraday, West Virginia, US

Ships
 CS Faraday (1874), a Siemens AG cable ship
 CS Faraday (1923), a Siemens AG cable ship

Other uses
 Faraday (unit), a unit of charge
 Faraday (crater), a lunar crater
 Faraday (company), a New Jersey company specializing in fire protection
 37582 Faraday, a main-belt asteroid
 Faraday building, a telephone exchange in London
 Faraday Hall, a hall of residence at Loughborough University
 Faraday Research Station, a former British research station in Antarctica
 Faraday Dam, a dam on the Clackamas River in Oregon
 Faraday, a character in the Wayfarer Redemption series by Sara Douglass
 Faraday, a fictional planet in Rocannon's World by Ursula K. Le Guin

People with the surname 
 David Faraday, victim of the Zodiac Killer
 Philip Michael Faraday, English lawyer, composer and theatrical producer

Fictional characters
 Faraday, lead character in the Showtime series The Man Who Fell To Earth
 Daniel Faraday, a character on Lost
 King Faraday, a secret agent featured in DC Comics
 Max Faraday, the title character of Divine Right: The Adventures of Max Faraday
 Helen Faraday, the title character in Blonde Venus, as well as her husband Edward Faraday and son Johnny Faraday.
 Joshua Faraday, a character in The Magnificent Seven
 Kay Faraday, a character from Ace Attorney Investigations
 Dr. Louis Faraday, a NASA scientist from Flight of the Navigator
 Michael Faraday, tutor of Rowan Damish and Citra Terranova in the book Scythe

See also 
 Farad, an SI unit of capacitance
 Faraday cage, an enclosure of conductive mesh used to block electric fields
 Faraday constant, an amount of electric charge
 Faraday cup
 Faraday Flashlight, a mechanically powered flashlight
 Faraday Future, American electric vehicle manufacturer
 Faraday Prize (disambiguation)
 Faraday's law of induction
Sanmao

Sanmao may refer to:

 Sanmao (town) (三茅镇), town in Yangzhong City, Jiangsu, PR China

Written as :
 Sanmao (comics), a young comic book character created by Zhang Leping
 Sanmao (author), penname of Chen Ping, Taiwanese author
 Sanmao (actor), the pinyinized nickname of Hong Kong martial arts actor Sammo Hung
 Wanderings of Sanmao, a 2006 cartoon series based on the comic character
E-Government Unit

The e-Government Unit (eGU) was a unit of the Cabinet Office of the government of the United Kingdom responsible for helping various government departments use information technology to increase efficiency and improve electronic access to government services. It was therefore deeply involved in issues of e-Government.

The unit was created by Prime Minister Tony Blair in September 2004, replacing the Office of the e-Envoy. Its first head was Ian Watmore, who was succeeded in January 2006 by Andrew Stott.

The eGU website was closed down in 2007.

Mission

The eGU’s stated mission was to "ensur[e] that IT supports the business transformation of Government itself so that we can provide better, more efficient, public services."

The eGU was responsible for
 formulating information technology (IT) strategy and policy
 developing common IT components for use across government
 promoting best practices across government
 delivering citizen-centered online services

The eGU website listed six guiding principles for the unit:
 To work on public service projects, not just IT projects
 To add value and support, rather than control or dictate
 To undertake partnerships with departments and suppliers
 To set realistic expectations and aim to exceed them
 To promote global best practices
 To share solutions when possible, and offer flexibility to meet unique needs

Responsibilities

Responsibilities of the eGU included:
 Strategy – to develop policy and planning for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) within the Government and to provide an element of programme management; to support the Government's objectives for public service delivery and administrative efficiency.
 Architecture – to provide policy, design, standards, governance, advice and guidance for ICT in central government; to commission government-wide infrastructure and services; to address issues of systems integration with other levels of government.
 Innovation – to provide high-level advice to government bodies on innovative opportunities that come from ICT.
 IT Finance – to monitor major IT projects in the Government and give advice on major investment decisions, in partnership with the Office of Government Commerce (OGC).
 IT HR – to lead the Government’s professional IT development.
 Projects – to take on ad hoc policy and strategy studies to support ministers, the Prime Minister's Office, the Cabinet Office and the Treasury.
 Research – to identify and communicate key technology trends, opportunities, threats and risks.
 Security – to oversee government IT security policy, standards, monitoring and assurance, and contingency-planning for the critical national infrastructure.
 Supplier management – to manage the top-level relationship with strategic suppliers to the Government and to carry out supplier analysis, in partnership with OGC.

References

External links
 Archive of the e-Government Unit

Defunct public bodies of the United Kingdom
British Prime Minister's Office
E-government in the United Kingdom
Open government in the United Kingdom
Cabinet Office (United Kingdom)
Agricultural Region

The Agricultural Region is a multi-member electoral region of the Western Australian Legislative Council, located in the South West, Peel and part of the Great Southern regions of the state. It was created by the Acts Amendment (Electoral Reform) Act 1987, and became effective on 22 May 1989 with five members who had been elected at the 1989 state election three months earlier. At the 2008 election, it was increased to six members.

Legislation to abolish the region, along with all other Western Australian Electoral Regions was passed in November 2021, with the 2025 state election to use a single state-wide electorate of 37 members.

Geography
The Region is made up of several complete Legislative Assembly districts, which change at each distribution.

Representation

Distribution of seats

Members
Since its creation, the electorate has had 25 members, only seven of whom were or are not from either the Liberal or National parties. All five of the members elected in 1989 had previously been members of the Legislative Council—two from the South Province, one from the Central Province, one from the South-East Province, and one from the Upper West Province.

Election results

2021

2017

References

Agricultural
Saccharomycetes

Saccharomycetes belongs to the Ascomycota division of the kingdom Fungi. It is the only class in the subdivision Saccharomycotina, the budding yeasts. Saccharomycetes contains a single order, Saccharomycetales.

Saccharomycetes are known for being able to comprise a monophyletic lineage with a single order of about 1,000 known species. These yeasts live as decomposers, feeding on dead and decaying wood, leaves, litter, and other organic matter. According to Suh et al. (2006), "yeasts are responsible for important industrial and biotechnological processes, including baking, brewing and synthesis of recombinant proteins," with Saccharomycetes being model organisms in research. Asia is likely to be the origin of the source.

References

External links
 Tree of Life: Saccharomycetales

 
Yeasts
Fungus classes
Taxa described in 1997
Netherby, Victoria

Netherby is a town in western Victoria, in Australia. The town is approximately  north west from Melbourne.

History
The town was originally known as Warraquil. It was renamed to Netherby in 1886 because the town's first teacher got confused and went to a town with a similar name (Warragul -  away). The town takes its name from the British full-rigged ship Netherby, 944 tons, which was wrecked on King Island in Bass Strait on 17 July 1866.  The ship was carrying 52 crew and 452 emigrants to Brisbane, Queensland and all hands landed safely.  After the castaways were rescued and taken to Melbourne, few elected to continue on to Queensland, but many settled in the district of Victoria then being opened up that was named after their ship.

Netherby Post Office opened on 1 September 1886 and closed in 1975.

The railway came to Netherby in 1916, when the line to Yapeet opened. The last passenger service ran in the 1950s, and the line was closed in December 1986.

Notes

References

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Towns in Victoria (state)
Wimmera
Great Northern Warehouse

The Great Northern Warehouse is the former railway goods warehouse of the Great Northern Railway in Manchester city centre, England, which was refurbished into a leisure complex in 1999. The building is  at the junction of Deansgate and Peter Street. It was granted Grade II* listed building status in 1974.

The warehouse was built to be fireproof with a steel frame on a rectangular plan,  long by  wide and five storeys high, with 27 windows on the east and west sides and 17 windows on the north and south ends. All four sides have friezes lettered in white brick reading "Great Northern Railway Company's Goods Warehouse". It was built above the Manchester and Salford Junction Canal, and a dock was constructed beneath to allow goods to be transferred to and from canal barges via shafts and a complex system of haulage using hydraulic power. 

The building could hold a total of 150 goods wagons across two of its levels, with capacity for a further 500 in its sidings. Its construction effectively wiped out the district of Alport Town, which had included 300 houses, and "Over 800 men were employed on the site. 25 million bricks, 50,000 tons of concrete, 12,000 tons of mild steel and 65 miles of rivets were used in its construction".

According to Historic England, the warehouse is a "unique survival of a three-way railway goods exchange station, serving the railway, canal and road networks of the Manchester region."

As of February 2023, the development includes an Odeon Cinema, casino, restaurants, bars, bowling alley, gym, and a multi-storey car park.

Future redevelopment
In December 2022, Trilogy Real Estate and Hong Kong-based Peterson Group brought forward updated plans for a mixed-use redevelopment of the site, featuring 746 homes across three buildings – including a 34-storey tower and a 27-storey tower. 

Trilogy's plans, designed by SimpsonHaugh Architects, seeks the partial demolition of a 1990s extension to the warehouse, which currently houses an Odeon cinema, an NCP car park, and a gym. 

The upper floors of the Great Northern Warehouse will be refurbished into offices. Trilogy has also been working with landscape architect Planit-IE on plans to revamp the square that fronts the warehouse.

See also

Grade II* listed buildings in Greater Manchester
Listed buildings in Manchester-M3

References

Grade II* listed buildings in Manchester
Warehouses in England
Tourist attractions in Manchester
Commercial buildings in Manchester
Grade II* listed commercial buildings
Commercial buildings completed in 1899
1899 establishments in England
Allan Bromley

Allan Bromley may refer to:

 D. Allan Bromley (1926–2005), Canadian-American physicist
 Allan G. Bromley (1947–2002), Australian historian of computing

See also
 Allyn Bromley (born 1928), American artist and art educator
Stuart Goetz

Stuart Goetz is a Daytime Emmy Award winning film music editor best known for his music editing roles on The West Wing, The Vampire Diaries and Pretty Little Liars, among others.  

Prior to his music editing career, Goetz was a stage actor, appearing on Broadway in the musicals Mame, Oliver!, and Ben Franklin in Paris throughout the mid to late-1960s. Making the transition to television in the early-1970s, Goetz is perhaps most known for his role as "Charlie" in the 1973 The Brady Bunch episode, "The Subject Was Noses" (the infamous "oh, my nose!" episode, in which Marcia is struck on the nose with a football).  In 1976, Goetz recorded a single for Curb Records, "(I'm a Song) Sing Me," which was co-written by Neil Sedaka.

His best-known film role was in the drive-in movie, The Van, starring alongside Danny DeVito.  Goetz played the lead role of Bobby, a teenager who buys a customized 1976 Dodge van with his college savings so he can use it to pick up women.

Filmography (As Music Editor)

Selected Filmography (As Actor)
The Van (1977)
Record City (1978)

Appearances on TV shows
"Who's Afraid of Mother Goose?" on Off to See the Wizard
The Brady Bunch
The Paul Lynde Show
The Partridge Family
Flipper
It's a Bird…It's a Plane…It's Superman (musical)
Ring Raiders

References

External links

American male actors
Living people
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
David Gibson (Canadian politician)

David Gibson, (March 9, 1804 – January 25, 1864), was a surveyor, farmer and political figure in Upper Canada.

He was born in Forfarshire, Scotland in 1804. He apprenticed with a land surveyor in Scotland and came to Upper Canada seeking employment. In 1825, he was named a deputy surveyor of roads and, in 1828, surveyor of highways in the Home District. In 1831, he became associated with William Lyon Mackenzie as a Reformer. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada representing 1st York in 1834 and 1836.

He reluctantly joined the rebellion of 1837 and protected the loyalist prisoners at Montgomery's Tavern from abuse. However, despite this, the governor Sir Francis Bond Head  ordered his farm burned. Gibson fled to Lockport, New York, where he was employed as an engineer for the Erie Canal. In 1848, having been pardoned in 1843, he returned to his farm and was hired as a provincial land surveyor. In 1853, he was given the post of inspector of crown lands agencies and superintendent of colonization roads in Canada West. He also supervised the surveying of roads in the Algoma District from 1861 to 1862. For a time, he also operated a large sawmill in the Parry Sound region, which was later taken over by William Beatty.

He died at Quebec in 1864.

Legacy

An Ontario Historical Plaque was erected in front of the Gibson House Museum in North York Centre, Toronto, Ontario by the province to commemorate David Gibson's role in Ontario's heritage.

References

External links 
 Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online

Upper Canada Rebellion people
1804 births
1864 deaths
Politicians from Lockport, New York
People from Angus, Scotland
People from Willowdale, Toronto
Mining and Pastoral Region

The Mining and Pastoral Region is a multi-member electoral region of the Western Australian Legislative Council, located in the northern and eastern regions of the state. It was created by the Acts Amendment (Electoral Reform) Act 1987, and became effective on 22 May 1989 with five members who had been elected at the 1989 state election three months earlier. At the 2008 election, it was increased to six members.

Legislation to abolish the region, along with all other Western Australian Electoral Regions was passed in November 2021, with the 2025 state election to use a single state-wide electorate of 37 members.

Geography
The Region is made up of several complete Legislative Assembly districts, which change at each distribution.

Representation

Distribution of seats

Members
Since its creation, the electorate has had 24 members. All five of the members elected in 1989 had previously been members of the Legislative Council—two from the Lower North Province, two from the North Province and one from the South-East Province.

Election results

2021

2017

References

Mining and Pastoral
Constituencies established in 1989
1989 establishments in Australia
List of albatross breeding locations

The following is a list of locations where albatrosses breed, together with a list of the species found at each location.

North Pacific Ocean
Bonin Islands - black-footed, Laysan
French Frigate Shoals - Laysan, black-footed
Guadalupe Island (Mexico) - Laysan
Hawaii - Laysan
Izu Islands, Japan - short-tailed (Tori Shima only), black-footed
Laysan Island - Laysan, black-footed
Midway Island - Laysan, black-footed
Southern Ryukyu Islands - black-footed

South America

Islands off Ecuador
Española Island (Hood Island), Galápagos - waved
Isla de la Plata - waved

Subantarctic islands of South America
Diego de Almagro Island, Chile - black-browed
Diego Ramírez Islands - grey-headed
Evangelistas Islets - black-browed
Ildefonso Islands - grey-headed, black-browed
Isla de los Estados, Argentina - black-browed

South Atlantic Ocean
Falkland Islands - black-browed
South Georgia - wandering, black-browed, grey-headed, light-mantled

Tristan group
Gough Island - Tristan, Atlantic yellow-nosed, sooty
Inaccessible Island - Tristan, Atlantic yellow-nosed
Nightingale Islands - Atlantic yellow-nosed
Tristan da Cunha - Tristan (formerly), Atlantic yellow-nosed, sooty

Indian Ocean
Amsterdam Island - Amsterdam, Indian yellow-nosed, sooty
Crozet Islands - wandering, Salvin's, black-browed, grey-headed, Indian yellow-nosed, sooty, light-mantled
Heard and McDonald Islands - wandering, black-browed, light-mantled
Kerguelen Islands - wandering, black-browed, grey-headed, Indian yellow-nosed, sooty, light-mantled; a single Salvin's has nested
Marion Island - wandering, grey-headed, sooty, light-mantled
Prince Edward Island - wandering, grey-headed, Indian yellow-nosed, sooty, light-mantled
Saint Paul - Indian yellow-nosed, sooty

New Zealand

South Island, North Island, and nearby islands
Solander Island (offshore from the South Island) - Buller's (Pacific form)
Taiaroa Head, on Otago Peninsula in the South Island - northern royal
Three Kings Island (offshore from the North Island) - Buller's (nominate form)

Subantarctic islands of New Zealand
Antipodes Islands - Antipodean (race antipodensis), shy (race steadi), black-browed, light-mantled
Auckland Islands - Gibson's, southern royal (Enderby only), northern royal (Enderby only), shy (race steadi), light-mantled
Bounty Islands - Salvin's
Campbell Island - Antipodean (race antipodensis), southern royal, black-browed, Campbell, grey-headed, light-mantled, sooty
Chatham Islands - northern royal, Chatham (Pyramid Rock only), Buller's (Pacific form), Indian yellow-nosed (shy, race steadi, has also bred here twice)
Snares - Salvin's, black-browed, Buller's (nominate form); Chatham has also made a single unsuccessful breeding attempt here

Tasmania
Albatross Island - shy (race cauta)
Mewstone - shy (race cauta)
Pedra Branca - shy (race cauta)

Subantarctic islands of Tasmania
Macquarie Island - wandering, black-browed, grey-headed, light-mantled
Bishop and Clerk Islets - black-browed

References

del Hoyo, Josep, Andrew Elliott and Jordi Sargatal Handbook of the Birds of the World Volume 1 (1992) 
Shirihai, Hadoram A Complete Guide to Antarctic Wildlife 

Albatrosses
Albatrosses
Saint-Germain-du-Seudre

Saint-Germain-du-Seudre (, literally Saint Germain of the Seudre) is a small historic town on the Gironde estuary. It is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department in southwestern France.

The nearest market town is Gémozac. It is noted for its numerous vineyards, sunflower fields and the former wheat mill located in 'Moulin De La Barre'. Eutrope Dupon (1823-1897), born in Saint-Germain-du-Seudre, was a deputy (congressman) in the French National Assembly from 1893 to 1897. There is a bust of him in St-Germain.

Population

See also
 Communes of the Charente-Maritime department

References

External links
 

Communes of Charente-Maritime
Charente-Maritime communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia