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Hal Sirowitz

Hal Sirowitz (born 1949) is an American poet.

Sirowitz first began to attract attention at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe where he was a frequent competitor in their Friday Night Poetry Slam. He eventually made the 1993 Nuyorican Poetry Slam team, and competed in the 1993 National Poetry Slam (held that year in San Francisco) along with his Nuyorican teammates Maggie Estep, Tracie Morris and Regie Cabico.

Sirowitz would later perform his poetry on stages across the country, and on television programs such as MTV's Spoken Word: Unplugged and PBS's The United States of Poetry.

He has written eleven books of poetry and is arguably best known for the volumes Mother Said, My Therapist Said and Father Said.

Sirowitz is a 1994 recipient of an NEA Fellowship in Poetry and is the former Poet Laureate of Queens, New York. He worked as a special education teacher in the New York public school system for 23 years.
He is married to the writer Mary Minter Krotzer.

Hal Sirowitz Bibliography

Girlie Pictures, Long Island City, NY: Low-Tech Press, 1982.
Bedroom Wall, New Brunswick, NJ: Iniquity Press/Vendetta Books, 1992.
Fishnet Stockings, New York: Appearances, no. 20, 1993.
No More Birthdays, Bristolville, OH: The Bacchae Press, 1993.
Happy Baby, 1997. Bristolville, OH: The Bacchae Press, 1995.
Two Second Kiss, Harvey, LA: Mulberry Press, 1995.
Mother Said,  New York: Crown, 1996.
My Therapist Said, New York: Crown, 1998.
Before, During, & After, Brooklyn: Soft Skull Press, 2003.
Father Said, Brooklyn: Soft Skull Press, 2004.
Stray Cat Blues, Omaha: The Backwaters Press, 2012

Sirowitz abroad 
Sirowitz is the best-selling translated poet in Norway, where Mother Said has been adapted for the stage and turned into a series of animated cartoons.

References

External links 
Hal Sirowitz performing "Chopped Off Arm" (podcast)

1949 births
American male poets
Living people
Jewish American writers
Performance art in New York City
Place of birth missing (living people)
20th-century American poets
20th-century American male writers
21st-century American Jews
Henrik Poulsen

Henrik Poulsen may refer to:

Henrik Poulsen, author of the book 77: The Year of Punk and New Wave
Henrik Poulsen, CEO of Ørsted
Hard count

Hard count is one process for counting coins in a casino or bank. The hard count rooms are usually among the most secure places due to the large amounts of cash that can be on hand at any one time.

Typically, coins are not counted on a piece basis. Instead, they are separated by denomination into containers and weighed using large scales. Each scale is programmed so that it can automatically derive the value of the container's contents from its weight. An exception to this is in casinos, where high denomination casino tokens (for example, $25 and above) may be counted by hand.

The opposite of hard count is soft count in which banknotes are counted.

References

Coins
Banking terms
Rap City (disambiguation)

Rap City is an American music video television program shown on BET.

Rap City may also refer to:

 RapCity (1995–present), also Rap City, a Canadian music video television program shown on MuchMusic
 "Rap City", a 1964 song by The Ventures from the album Walk, Don't Run, Vol. 2
Battle of Atbara

The Battle of Atbara also known as the Battle of the Atbara River took place during the Mahdist War. Anglo-Egyptian forces defeated 15,000 Mahdists on the banks of the River Atbara. The battle proved to be the turning point in the reconquest of Sudan by the British and Egyptian coalition.

By 1898, the combined British and Egyptian army was advancing down the Nile into Sudan. The Sudanese Mahdist leader, the Khalifa Abdallahi ibn Muhammad ordered the Emir Mahmud Ahmad and his 10,000 strong army of western Sudan northward towards the junction of the Nile and the River Atbara to engage the British and Egyptian army led by Herbert Kitchener.

Encamping on the banks of the Atbara river by March 20, Mahmud, with Osman Digna's group of Mahdist warriors were within  of the British camp outpost at Fort Atbara at the confluence of the Atbara with the Nile. On April 4, after seeing that the Mahdists were unwilling to attack, Kitchener quietly advanced with the British and Egyptian army towards the Mahdist fortified camp just outside the town of Nakheila.

The Anglo-Egyptian attack began at 06:20 on 8 April 1898. Three brigades, the British Brigade led by William Gatacre, and two Brigades of the Egyptian Division led by Archibald Hunter, led the attack. After a brief artillery bombardment of the Mahdist camp, the combined British and Egyptian brigades attacked. Soon, the British and Egyptian troops were in the Mahdist camp, often fighting hand-to-hand with the Mahdist warriors. After 45 minutes, the battle was over as Osman Digna led a few thousand warriors on a retreat to the south, while most of the remainder were killed or captured, including Mahmud who was captured by loyal Sudanese troops of the Egyptian Brigade.

The battle was celebrated by the Scottish poet William McGonagall.

References

Other sources

External links

Battle of Atbara
1898 in Sudan
Battles of the Mahdist War
Battles involving Egypt
Battles involving the United Kingdom
Conflicts in 1898
April 1898 events
Pneumostome

The pneumostome or breathing pore is a respiratory opening of the external body anatomy of an air-breathing land slug or land snail. It is a part of the respiratory system of gastropods.

It is an opening in the right side of the mantle of a stylommatophoran snail or slug. Air enters through the pneumostome into the animal's single lung, the air-filled mantle cavity. Inside the mantle cavity the animal has a highly vascularized area of tissue that functions as a lung.

The pneumostome is often much easier to see in slugs than in snails, because of the absence of a shell which can often block the view of this area. In a land slug, when the pneumostome is wide open, it is usually very clearly visible on the right side of the animal. However, the position of the pneumostome is often not at all easy to discern when this orifice is completely closed.

The pneumostome opens and closes in a cyclical manner. The frequency of pneumostome closing and opening is typically less than 0.5 closures per minute in fully hydrated slugs and snails. The rate of closures per minute increases the more dehydrated the slug is.

Position of pneumostome as a diagnostic feature
The images  in the gallery below show the position of the pneumostome in three different families of slugs:

References

External links
Short clip of  Ariolimax columbianus displaying its pneumostome  YouTube, Feb 17, 2008

Gastropod anatomy
Invertebrate respiratory system
Articles containing video clips
Portola Valley Elementary School District

The Portola Valley Elementary School District is a top-ranked public elementary school district in the San Francisco Bay Area, USA, serving the communities of Portola Valley and Woodside. The district, code 4168981, serves over 700 students. About half of the students from this district matriculate to the Sequoia Union High School District and half to a number of independent high schools in the area.

Schools
 Corte Madera School (Grades 4-8).
 Ormondale School (Grades K-3)

Awards
 Corte Madera was named a national Blue Ribbon School in 2008.
 Corte Madera won the California Distinguished School award in 2011.

References

External links
 

School districts in San Mateo County, California
RapCity

RapCity is a Canadian television program that airs on the MuchMusic cable channel. It is not to be confused with the American TV show of the same name, Rap City.

The show features a selection of the newest and vintage music videos from Canadian hip hop and American hip hop artists. RapCity began several years after MuchMusic first went on the air in 1984, and is still in existence.  The program was created by director/producer Michele Geister after petitioning to Programme Director John Martin that a hip hop show was overdue for the Canadian market as well as the music channel's credibility.  Music enthusiast, club DJ, Geister began her MuchMusic career as a master control operator then editor.    Her efforts and abilities paid off with the launch of Soul in the City (Much's first specialty show) when asked by Michael Williams to help develop his concept- a weekly hour-long program focusing on Urban music---the first of its kind in Canada.    The explosion of rap and hip hop videos being sent for SITC was calling for the addition of a show dedicated to the new genre.   Soul in the City broadcast several rap specials in 1987 before the new show was given permission to begin production in 1989
.

The show's original host was Michael Williams; later, the show was hosted by Oliver then Master T., and later Namugenyi Kiwanuka, who left MuchMusic in 2003. After that, occasionally, a hip hop artist would guest-host RapCity. The show was relaunched as a live, one-hour program on January 13, 2011 with a new host, Tyrone "T-RexXx" Edwards. Five-time freestyle champion Charron was the first ever retired Champion on RapCity in March 2011. As of August 2011, Jae Ari is the most recent retired Champion on RapCity who will be placed in a Winner's circle for future battles with other winners.

Originally RapCity aired once a week then expanded to five half hours a week and eventually became a weekly show in the fall of 2007, airing on Saturday nights at 11:00PM Eastern Time. The relaunched RapCity currently airs live on Thursdays at 10:00PM Eastern Time.

References

External links 
 Rap City website

1984 Canadian television series debuts
Much (TV channel) original programming
Hip hop television
1980s Canadian music television series
Nazan Öncel

Nazan Öncel (; born 6 February 1956) is a Turkish singer-songwriter. She also does the arrangements for most of them and has written songs for such singers as Tarkan and İbrahim Tatlıses.

Biography and career
In 1978, her song "Sana Kul Köle Olmuştum" ("I Had Become Your Slave"), written by Erdener Koyutürk and Özdener Koyutürk, was aired on radio and television, and Nazan's interesting voice attracted attention. Her first album (LP), Yağmur Duası (Prayer for Rain) was published in 1982. The first album, where all of the songs were written by Öncel herself, was published in 1992, by the title "Bir Hadise Var" ("There is an Issue"). In 1994, she published her second album Ben Böyle Aşk Görmedim (I Didn't See Love like This) and album included a 1994 hit with its video, "Geceler Kara Tren" ("The Nights are Dark Train").

Her 1996 album "Sokak Kızı" ("Stray Girl") included a more rock-oriented sound than its predecessor. The album included four singles and three of this singles; "Erkekler de Yanar" ("The Men Are on the Hook, too"), "A Bu Hayat" ("This Life") and "Bırak Seveyim Rahat Edeyim" (Let Me Love You and Have Peace) became hits with their videos.

Nazan Öncel has finished working on her 7th studio album. It features 12 new songs and is titled 7'n Bitirdin. The mastering process of the album has been seen through by Miles Showell in London, who is known for his works with artists such as Queen, Elton John and George Michael.

Discography

Studio albums

Remix albums

Singles

Compilation albums

Charts

See also
 Nazan Saatci

Notes

External links
Nazan Öncel official website

1956 births
Living people
Turkish women singers
Turkish pop singers
Turkish singer-songwriters
Musicians from İzmir
Schizo Deluxe

Schizo Deluxe is the eleventh studio album by Canadian heavy metal band Annihilator, released on November 8, 2005, by AFM Records.

Track listing

Credits
Jeff Waters - guitars, bass, lead vocals on "Too Far Gone"
Dave Padden - vocals
Tony Chappelle - drums, backing vocals (tracks 1, 3, 6, 9)

Guest/Session
Sean Brophy - backing vocals (tracks 1, 3, 6, 9)
Dan Beehler - backing vocals (tracks 1, 3, 6, 9), End Scream (track 7)
Verena Baumgardt - backing vocals (track 5)
Kathy Waters - backing vocals (track 5)
Altan (de Paris) Zia - additional vocals (track 10)

Miscellaneous staff
Jeff Waters - producer, engineering
Chris Coldrick - mixing, mastering
Gyula Havancsák - cover art, design

References

Annihilator (band) albums
2005 albums
AFM Records albums
Datura discolor

Datura discolor, also called the desert thorn-apple, is an herbaceous annual plant native to the Sonoran Desert of western North America, where it grows in sandy soils and washes. All parts of the plant contain a mix of alkaloids that are potentially lethal when enough is ingested. Deaths from careless recreational use of Datura and related plants are frequently reported.

Description 
The species was first described in 1833. The specific epithet , meaning "various colors," refers to its upward-growing trumpet-shaped flowers, which are white in the bell, and pale to dark violet from the narrow part of the bell to the base. The plant itself is an upright or low-lying shrub that can grow to  tall. Its foliage is light green, and its stalks have conspicuous purple stripes. The ovate-shaped leaves can be whole or toothed.

Datura discolor has large flowers, which makes it attractive for garden cultivation. The flowers open for only one night and wither the following day. Its seed capsule is thorny like most other Daturas, and can be up to  long and  in diameter. The species' natural distribution area stretches from Mexico to the Southwestern U.S., and the Caribbean Islands. It is a sun-loving plant which does well underneath overhanging eaves that can protect its flowers from damage by rainfall.

Toxicity 

All parts of Datura plants contain dangerous levels of poison and may be fatal if ingested by humans or other animals, including livestock and pets. In some places it is illegal to buy, sell or cultivate Datura plants.

References

External links 

 Jepson Manual Treatment
 Photographs of Datura discolor
 CalPhotos photo gallery
 Image of Datura Discolor spiral on PermaculturePhotography.com

discolor
Night-blooming plants
Flora of the Sonoran Deserts
Flora of the California desert regions
Flora of Northwestern Mexico
Flora of the Southwestern United States
Plants described in 1833
Flora of the United States
Flora without expected TNC conservation status
Bodyflight

Bodyflight, or body flight, is the term in the skydiving, which means staying or moving of a body or system of bodies in the air flow. It is one of the most dynamically developing sports in the world. In the windtunnel sport parachuting and skydiving, bodyflight is performed by applying air flow on certain parts of a body, to control the body any muscular forces can be used.

As a tool for learning to control the body flight, there is a vertical wind tunnel, which makes it possible to fly in the air, simulating free fall due to the created air flow (on average, about 190 km/h).
 
Bodyflight includes various flight poses, movements and flight transits, when combined, flight elements (tricks) are formed. Also this include turns, rolls, lateral movement, fall rate control, and other acrobatics in the air. The skill of bodyflight makes it possible for skydivers to fly closer to each other while they are falling, to allow them to link together in formation skydiving, then fly apart to a safe distance before opening parachutes.  
 
The flight pose is the body position controlled by the muscular effort in the air flow. There are many different poses, including "mantis", "bumblebee", and  "dragon". Flight movement is the movement or rotation of a body in the air flow in a certain direction. Flight transit is a transition from one flight pose to another (changing the areas of the body, affected by the air flow).

Bodyflight is accomplished via increasing/decreasing the drag of your body, using arms and legs as rudders for bodyflight motion control, as well as other techniques similar to that of an airplane. Professional athletes who fly through the air for long distances, such as ski jumping, have also used certain bodyflight techniques to increase jumping distance by manipulating their bodies to be more airfoil-like.  Frequent visitors to a vertical wind tunnel are often called 'tunnel rats', much like frequent visitors to ski slopes are called 'ski bums'. Some body flying enthusiasts develop their tunnel-flying skills not for sky diving training, but in order to be able to give professional performances.

Flight poses

References

External links 

 Indoor Skydiving Is Real, Painful, And Definitely Sports — Vice
 La France dominante au Championnat du monde de chute libre — Le Courrier Laval
Parachuting
Wind machine

The wind machine (also called an aeoliphone or aelophon) is a friction idiophone used to produce the sound of wind for orchestral compositions and musical theater productions.

Construction 

The wind machine is constructed of a large cylinder made up of several wooden slats which measures approximately  in diameter. The cylinder body of the instrument rests upon a stand and is typically covered with silk, canvas, or other material which is in a fixed position. A crank handle, used by the player to rotate the cylinder and create the sound, is attached to the cylinder.

Another method of construction implements an electric fan, which is fitted with lengths of cane, rather than blades. However, this method is less popular because it does not provide the player with the ability to control the speed of rotation.

Technique 

The wind machine is played by rotating the crank handle, which is attached to the cylinder, to create friction between the wooden slats and the material covering that touches the cylinder but does not rotate as the crank handle is turned. This friction between the wood and the material covering creates the sound of rushing wind. The volume and pitch of the sound is controlled by the rate at which the crank is turned. The faster the handle is turned, the higher the resulting pitch and the louder the sound. The slower the handle is turned, the lower the pitch and the softer the volume. The sound of the wind machine can also be controlled by the tightness of the fabric covering the cylinder.

Classical works that use the instrument 

Jean-Philippe Rameau: Les Boréades
Giacomo Puccini: La Fanciulla del West
Gioachino Rossini: The Barber of Seville
Richard Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer
Richard Strauss: Don Quixote, Eine Alpensinfonie (An Alpine Symphony), Josephslegende (1914), Die ägyptische Helena, and Die Frau ohne Schatten
Edward Elgar: The Starlight Express
Maurice Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé, L'enfant et les sortilèges, The orchestration version of Gaspard de la nuit - Scarbo
Gottfried Huppertz: "Chronicles of the Gray House"
Olivier Messiaen: Des canyons aux étoiles…, Saint François d'Assise and Éclairs sur l'au-delà…
Arnold Schoenberg: Die Jakobsleiter
Benjamin Britten: Noye's Fludde
Gyorgy Ligeti: Le Grand Macabre
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Sinfonia antartica
Ferde Grofé: Grand Canyon Suite
Jerry Goldsmith: The Blue Max
Fazıl Say: Symphony No 3 Universe
Michael Tippett: Symphony No. 4

References

External links 
 Demonstration of a Wind Machine by Dame Evelyn Glennie

Friction idiophones
Sound effects
Special effects
Lyman Memorial High School

Lyman Memorial High School is an American high school in Lebanon, Connecticut.  It has a very large agricultural program that, with its computer science classes, attracts students from neighboring communities, especially Columbia and Hampton. The school has approximately 330 students with about 70-90 students in each grade.

History
Lyman Memorial was originally built on the Lebanon Green (at the site where the Lebanon Town Hall now sits) and was funded by a generous donation from the Lyman family. The original Lyman building burned down, and the school was re-built on Route 207. This second building became Lebanon Middle School after the present-day Lyman Memorial building was built in the mid-1990s.

The Principal is James Apicelli and the Vice Principal is Samantha Singleton. The current building was completed in 1992.

Extracurricular activities
Lyman's sports teams are nicknamed the Bulldogs, and Lyman historically has very strong soccer and cross country teams. Other athletic programs include basketball, indoor track, wrestling, baseball, softball, volleyball, track and field, tennis, a co-op ice hockey team with Bolton High School, Rockville High School, and Coventry High School, and a co-op football team with Coventry, Windham Tech, and Bolton which went 10–0 in 2017 and won the Pequot League Championship.

Accreditation
Lyman Memorial High School is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and
Colleges, Inc., a nongovernmental, nationally recognized organization whose affiliated institutions include
elementary schools through collegiate institutions offering post-graduate instruction.

External links
 
 Lebanon Public School District website

References

Schools in New London County, Connecticut
Public high schools in Connecticut
Lebanon, Connecticut
Educational institutions established in 1992
1992 establishments in Connecticut
Carnival Diablos

Carnival Diablos is the eighth studio album by Canadian heavy metal band Annihilator, released on January 29, 2001 by SPV/Steamhammer. It is the first album to feature Joe Comeau, formerly of Overkill, on vocals.

Track listing

Personnel
Performed by:
Joe Comeau – vocals
Jeff Waters – lead and rhythm guitar, bass guitar, backing vocals
Ray Hartmann – drums
Russell Bergquist – bass (not on the album)
David Scott Davis – guitars

References

Annihilator (band) albums
2001 albums
SPV/Steamhammer albums
North Dakota Winter Show

The North Dakota Winter Show is an agriculture and livestock show held in Valley City, North Dakota the first full week of every March. The Winter Show started in 1937 and now has an annual attendance of around 30,000 people.

North Dakota's oldest agriculture show, the show was founded under the guidance of Valley City businessman Herman Stern, who had previously been instrumental in the founding of the Greater North Dakota Association in 1924-25, and was serving as president of that group in 1937 when the state was facing adverse economic and agricultural circumstances. Another GNDA official, Bert Groom, proposed establishing the Winter Show to attract visitors and commerce, and the event was established.  Stern later received North Dakota's highest citizen honor, the Rough Rider Award, in honor of this and other accomplishments. There was no show in 1942.

In 2004 the Winter Show's traditional ten-day schedule was compressed to six days while retaining the full schedule of activities.

Since 2021, strict measures are undertaken, such as wearing masks & social distancing.

Events
 North Dakota Winter Show
 North Star Classic
 Concerts
 Livestock shows
 PRCA rodeo
 State crop show
 4-H and FFA livestock judging
 4-H and FFA crop judging
 Special events
 Livestock sales

References

External links

 North Dakota Winter Show website
 North Dakota Tourism website

Festivals in North Dakota
Agricultural shows in the United States
Tourist attractions in Barnes County, North Dakota
Festivals established in 1937
1937 establishments in North Dakota
Valley City, North Dakota
Smithson

Smithson or Smythson is an English surname and (less often) a given name.

Notable people bearing the name include:

Architects
Alison and Peter Smithson, 20th-century British architects
Robert Smythson, 16th-century English architect, father of architect John Smythson, and grandfather of architect Huntingdon Smithson

Artists and entertainers
Annie M. P. Smithson, novelist
Robert Smithson, American artist
Carly Smithson, singer
Florence Smithson, singer and actor
Harriet Smithson, also known as Henrietta Constance Smithson, actor and wife of Hector Berlioz
Henry Smithson, the musician Riton

Politicians
Hugh Smithson, (1714–86) later Hugh Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland
the Smithson baronets
Smithson E. Wright, 16th mayor of Columbus, Ohio

Scientists
James Smithson, British scientist, eponym of the Smithsonian Institution
Smithson Tennant, chemist

Sportspeople
Bryan Smithson, American basketball player
Fish Smithson, former NFL player
Forrest Smithson, American athlete
Gerald Smithson, English cricketer
Jerred Smithson, former NHL player
Moondog Spike, wrestler born Bill Smithson
Rodney Smithson, footballer who played for Oxford United

Others
Alan Smithson, Bishop of Jarrow
John Smithson (university president), American college administrator
John Smithson, producer at the Discovery Channel
Mike Smithson (disambiguation), several people

Fiction
Andrea Smithson Darling, a character on Dirty Sexy Money
Charles Smithson, a major character in The French Lieutenant's Woman
"Smithson", a webcomic by Shaenon K. Garrity

In other languages
 Ben-Hadad (Syriac)
 Kovachevich, Kovačević, Kovalevich (Slavic)

See also
Smithson (crater)
Smithson Glacier
Smithson, Indiana
Smythson, a British company
Smithson Valley High School
Smithson–McCall Farm
Smithson and McKay Brothers Blocks
Mount Smithson, one of the Prince Olav Mountains

References

English-language surnames
Ignacio Corleto

Ignacio Saul ("Nani") Corleto (born June 21, 1978 in Buenos Aires) is a retired Argentine rugby union player.

Club career
He began his rugby career in the local Club Universitario de Buenos Aires, known as CUBA, where he played from 1997 to 2000. He moved afterwards into professional rugby signing with French club Narbonne, where he played from 2000/01 to 2001/02. He moved to Stade Français, where he played from 2002/03 to 2007/08. He won three French championships, in 2002/03, 2003/04 and 2006/07. He had a serious injury in 2008 which meant the end of his career, even if it was only officially announced in 2010.

International career
Corleto participated for the Junior teams in a South American Championship and in two Southern Hemisphere Tournaments with the U21 representative team.

He had 37 caps for Argentina, from 1998 to 2007, scoring 14 tries and 1 drop goal, 73 points on aggregate. He has his debut at the 44-29 win over Japan at 15 September 1998, in Tokyo, in a friendly game, aged only 20 years old and playing as a wing. He played at the 1999 Rugby World Cup, in three games, without scoring. He was called once again for the 2003 Rugby World Cup, playing in two games and scoring a try and a drop goal, 8 points on aggregate. He was a member of the Argentina squad that reached the 3rd place in the 2007 Rugby World Cup, their best result ever so far, playing in all the seven games and scoring 3 tries, 15 points on aggregate. Corleto scored the memorable try at the 17-12 historical win over France in the opening game of the competition. The historical win over France by 34-10 in the game for the 3rd and 4th place at 19 October 2007, in Paris, was his farewell for the national team. Overall in three Rugby World Cup finals, he played in 12 games, scoring 4 tries and 1 drop goal, 23 points on aggregate.

He also participated in the Rugby World Cup Sevens in 2001 which was played in the city of Mar Del Plata in Argentina.

Honours
 Stade Français
French Rugby Union Championship/Top 14: 2002–03, 2003–04

References

External links
 
 Ignacio Corleto on ercrugby.com

1978 births
Argentine rugby union players
Rugby union fullbacks
Living people
Rugby union players from Buenos Aires
Stade Français Paris players
Argentina international rugby union players
Argentina international rugby sevens players
Male rugby sevens players
Club Universitario de Buenos Aires rugby union players
1999 Rugby World Cup players
2003 Rugby World Cup players
2007 Rugby World Cup players
Lily McBeth

Lily B. McBeth (August 20, 1934 – September 24, 2014) was an American transgender teacher from Tuckerton, New Jersey. A substitute teacher, McBeth underwent gender affirming surgery in 2005. Her actions were hailed as a model of tolerance and acceptance of transgender Americans. She had three grown children from a previous marriage of 33 years. She was a retired medical sales and marketing executive. She was an active surfer, sailor, skier and duck hunter. As a soldier, she served in the U.S. Army as a Senior Medical Corpsman with a tour duty in Alaska. She said that she had always perceived herself as female and identified with other women. She said that for many years, she was afraid to address her gender identity and felt that her first priority was keeping her family together for the sake of her children..

McBeth worked as a substitute teacher at Little Egg Harbor Township School District, Pinelands Regional School District and Eagleswood Elementary School District for five years prior to her transition and returned after completing surgery to resume her teaching career. Some in the community did not think she should have been allowed to return to teaching. One parent took out a full-page advertisement in a local newspaper alerting parents to what had happened. Parents expressed fear that some of her students would not understand transgender identity. After listening to parents and citizens providing public input, the school district board decided to uphold their previous 4 to 1 vote for her reinstatement. This decision was hailed and criticized by politicians, journalists, and activists around the world. While she continued working as a substitute in Eagleswood School District she reapplied and was put on the substitute teachers list in the Pinelands Regional School in Little Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey, in fall 2006. The School Board appointed her to this position after a meeting at which they heard no negative comments; the vote to accept her was unanimous, with one member abstaining.

In 2009, McBeth retired from substituting, claiming that she had received fewer substituting assignments, which she attributed to being a trans woman. She was involved in local theater productions, church choir, and volunteering to re-establish clam colonies in Barnegat Bay.

McBeth died on September 24, 2014, at the age of 80.

References

External links
 ABC news transcript and video

1934 births
American LGBT rights activists
American transgender people
LGBT people from New Jersey
People from Little Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey
Transgender women
2014 deaths
Schoolteachers from New Jersey
American women educators
Ciacco

Ciacco () is one of the characters in the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri that was not yet well defined by historians. This is how he presents himself to Dante when he is in Hell:

This way introducing himself allows us to interpret it in various ways, but one of the oldest commentators of the Comedy suggests a derogatory nature of this name: "Ciacco is said to be a pig's name, hence he was called this way for his gluttony."

Giovanni Boccaccio makes of Ciacco eighth story of the ninth day of the Decameron, describing him as "the most gluttonous fellow that ever lived." However, the reference to Ciacco's name is somewhat ambiguous: he is referred to as the man "whom everyone called Ciacco." It is hard to say if Boccaccio had sources for his writings aside from Dante, because this name has not been found in literature before Dante. According to Vittorio Sermonti, a scholar dedicated to the study of the Comedy, the hypothesis that this Ciacco is the poet Ciacco dell'Anguillara is not true.

References

External links
Novel VIII of the Ninth day of the Decameron

Boccaccio, Giovanni. Decameron. Trans. J. G. Nichols. New York: Everyman's Library/Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. Print.

Fictional ghosts
Characters in the Divine Comedy
Characters in The Decameron
Tal-y-llyn Lake

Tal-y-llyn Lake, (), also known as Talyllyn Lake and Llyn Myngul, is a large glacial ribbon lake in Gwynedd, North Wales. It is formed by a post-glacial massive landslip damming up the lake within the glaciated valley. The hamlet of Talyllyn lies at the west end of the lake.

Name
Tal-y-llyn Lake is named after the hamlet and historic parish of Tal-y-llyn. Tal-y-llyn itself is named after the lake and means 'the end of the lake' in Welsh. Literally, therefore, Tal-y-llyn Lake has the circular meaning of 'the lake at the end of the lake'. The Welsh name Llyn Myngul or Llyn Mwyngil probably derives from mŵn ('neck') and cul ('narrow').

Geography

Tal-y-llyn Lake is situated to the north of Machynlleth, at the foot of Cadair Idris, in the Snowdonia mountain range of Gwynedd, Wales. The River Dysynni flows from the lake, through the village of Abergynolwyn, and discharges into the sea north of Tywyn.

There is a route leading to the summit of Cadair Idris from near the lake and the narrow gauge Talyllyn Railway has its eastern terminus at nearby Nant Gwernol near the village of Abergynolwyn, within the parish of Tal-y-llyn, the hamlet at the southern end of the lake.

Geology
The Tal-y-llyn Lake is located on a major fault line in Wales known as the Bala Fault, which extends from the Cheshire border to Tywyn on the Cardigan Bay coast. The depression caused by this was likely carved out and deepened during subsequent glaciation periods. Until 1962, Tal-y-llyn Lake was regarded as the most southerly example of a lake formed in a rock basin, with a terminal moraine on top of the bedrock through which the river had carved a channel. It is now understood that what appeared to be bedrock is in fact massive blocks of debris left by a large landslide. An enormous scar on the valley side to the left of the foot of the lake shows the source of the landslide, and another landslide a few miles downstream caused the River Dysynni to divert into the adjoining valley to the north. The upper end of the lake is becoming shallower as a result of the deposition of alluvium.

In fiction
The lake features, unnamed, in The Railway Series by Rev. W. Awdry and Christopher Awdry, and the village of Talyllyn features as Skarloey.

1976 Newbery Medal winner Susan Cooper used the lake as a setting for the book The Grey King.  Within the lake six sleepers lie, wakened by Will Stanton playing the Harp of Gold. Afterward, they ride to the aid of the Light in the book Silver on the Tree.

References

Llanfihangel-y-Pennant
Lakes of Gwynedd
Lakes of Snowdonia
Tourism in Gwynedd
Tourism in Snowdonia
Landslide-dammed lakes
Waking the Fury

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}} Waking the Fury''' is the ninth studio album by the Canadian heavy metal band Annihilator, released on March 18, 2002, by SPV. It was the last album with Joe Comeau on vocals and Russ Bergquist as the touring bassist.

Track listing

Personnel
Jeff Waters - guitar, bass guitar
Joe Comeau - vocals
Russ Bergquist - bass guitar on "Nothing to Me"
Randy Black - drums
Curran Murphy - guitar

References 

Annihilator (band) albums
2002 albums
SPV/Steamhammer albums
Pierre Robin (designer)

Pierre Robin (14 August 1927 – 5 August 2020) was a French aeroplane designer. He was best known for founding the aircraft company Avions Robin with designer Jean Délémontez.

Avions Pierre Robin
Avions Pierre Robin was founded in 1957 as Centre Est Aéronautique at Dijon. In 1969 the company name was changed to Avions Pierre Robin. The company manufactured a series of light airplanes, based on the designs created by Délémontez, of Jodel renown (Société Avions Jodel). The first airplane completed by Avions Pierre Robin was flown in 1967, designated DR.253 Regent.

In October 2004 Alpha Aviation Ltd (Hamilton New Zealand) purchased the jigs, tooling and intellectual rights to the Robin R2000 series. These two-place all-metal training aircraft were produced from 2005 until January 2008, when the parent company of Alpha liquidated the company assets.

Avions Pierre Robin became known as Apex after the R2000 sale. It continued to produce all its other types consisting primarily of the DR400 series.

References

French businesspeople
French aerospace engineers
1927 births
2020 deaths
De Cocksdorp

De Cocksdorp () is a village town in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Texel, and lies about 25 km north of Den Helder. It is the youngest village on the island.

History 
De Cocksdorp is a road village which developed on the north of island shortly after the poldering of Eierland in 1835. In 1836, it was named after Nicolas Joseph de Cock after the main merchant who initiated the poldering. The village was built around a harbour.

The Dutch Reformed church is a neoclassic aisleless church with large pilasters built between 1839 and 1841. The Catholic St Francisca Romana Church is single aisled Renaissance Revival church built between 1875 and 1877. It was damaged in 1945, and restored between 1949 and 1950.

De Cocksdorp is located near the most dangerous parts of the sea where numerous ships have been lost. In 1864, a lighthouse was built. It was damaged during the Georgian uprising in 1945 and restored between 1948 and 1949. The lighthouse is  tall.

Gallery

References

Populated places in North Holland
Texel
Pennsylvania Farm Show

The Pennsylvania Farm Show is an annual agricultural exposition celebrating Pennsylvania's agriculture industry, held every January at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex & Expo Center, located in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. It is the largest indoor agricultural event held in the United States. The Farm Show Complex houses  under its roof, spread throughout eleven halls, including three arenas. The annual event is free to the public and attracts over half a million visitors. This event was first held in 1917 as Pennsylvania's State Fair. The 2021 rendition of the Farm Show, however, was entirely virtual for the first time in its history due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Farm Show has over 10,000 competitive events spread over 35 departments. 
All exhibits are owned, grown, or fashioned by residents of Pennsylvania.

In addition to these events, the Farm Show offers hands-on learning activities such as lace making, wheat weaving, and blacksmithing. The Farm Show also features a portable merry-go-round carnival ride that was manufactured by the Allan Herschell Company in 1946. Antique agricultural equipment is often displayed at the show, alongside new farming technology.

Notes

See also

Agriculture in Pennsylvania
Agricultural show
Horse show
Livestock show

External links
Pennsylvania Farm Show official site
Latest PA Farm Show news, photos and videos from The Patriot-News

References

History of Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania culture
State fairs
Agricultural shows in the United States
Culture of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Tourist attractions in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania
Tourist attractions in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
January events
Festivals established in 1917
1917 establishments in Pennsylvania
Agriculture in Pennsylvania
Toowoomba Raiders FC

The Toowoomba Raiders Football Club is an Australian football (soccer) club from Toowoomba, Queensland. The club was formed in 1996, and currently have teams in the Brisbane Premier League Division 1 league. They finished 12th in 2010, however despite only being 1 place above the drop zone, they did have a 22-point buffer ahead of The Gap FC

External links
Toowoomba Raiders Football Club Official Website

Association football clubs established in 1996
Soccer clubs in Queensland
Brisbane Premier League teams
1996 establishments in Australia
Sport in Toowoomba
Viking Age in popular culture
Lena Blackburne

Russell Aubrey "Lena" Blackburne (October 23, 1886 – February 29, 1968) was an American baseball infielder, manager, coach, and scout in Major League Baseball (MLB). He is best known for the creation of his baseball rubbing mud, used to remove the finish on new baseballs and give better grip and control to the pitcher.

Career
Between 1910 and 1929, Blackburne played for the Chicago White Sox (1910, 1912, 1914–1915, 1927, 1929), Cincinnati Reds (1918), Boston Braves (1919) and Philadelphia Phillies (1919). He batted and threw right-handed. Following his playing career, Blackburne managed the White Sox (1928–29) and coached for the White Sox (1927–28), St. Louis Browns (1930) and Philadelphia Athletics (1933–38; 1940–45; 1947–48).

Blackburne was a native of Clifton Heights, Pennsylvania, and moved to Palmyra, New Jersey with his family at a very young age. While living in Palmyra, as a youth, Blackburne played football for the Palmyra Field Club in 1906. 

Blackburne broke into the majors with the White Sox in 1910, appearing in part of five seasons, and split the 1919 season with the Braves and Phillies. In an eight-season playing career, Blackburne was a .214 hitter with four home runs and 139 runs batted in in 550 games played. As a fielder, he appeared in 539 games at shortstop (213), third base (180) and second (144) and first (2), and also relieved in one game.

In 1933, he went on to become a coach with the Philadelphia Athletics of Connie Mack. Blackburne stayed with the Athletics as a scout when the club moved to Kansas City. As a manager in the major leagues, he posted a 99–133 record for a .427 winning percentage. He managed the Toronto Maple Leafs of the International League for parts of three seasons: 1916, 1921, and 1932. In each case he was hired as a mid-season replacement.

Blackburne died in Riverside Township, New Jersey at age 81, and is buried in Morgan Cemetery on the outskirts of Palmyra, not far from where he lived on Henry and Cinnaminson Avenues.

Managerial record

See also

Chicago White Sox all-time roster
List of Major League Baseball player–managers

References

External links

Associated Press

Lena Blackburne - Baseballbiography.com
The Deadball E
Rubbing Mud story from National Public Radio
http://www.baseballrubbingmud.com

1886 births
1968 deaths
Baseball coaches from Pennsylvania
Boston Braves players
Chicago White Sox coaches
Chicago White Sox managers
Chicago White Sox players
Cincinnati Reds players
Kansas City Athletics scouts
Little Rock Travelers players
Major League Baseball infielders
Major League Baseball player-managers
Milwaukee Brewers (minor league) players
People from Clifton Heights, Pennsylvania
Baseball players from Delaware County, Pennsylvania
People from Palmyra, New Jersey
Philadelphia Athletics coaches
Philadelphia Phillies players
Philadelphia Athletics scouts
Providence Grays (minor league) players
St. Louis Browns coaches
Toledo Mud Hens players
Toronto Maple Leafs (International League) managers
Toronto Maple Leafs (International League) players
Worcester Busters players
Discover a Lovelier You

Discover a Lovelier You is the fourth studio album by American indie rock band Pernice Brothers, released on June 14, 2005, by Ashmont Records.

Track listing

References

Pernice Brothers albums
2005 albums
The Devil Thumbs a Ride

The Devil Thumbs a Ride is a 1947 American film noir directed by Felix E. Feist and featuring Lawrence Tierney, Ted North, Nan Leslie and Betty Lawford. It was produced and distributed by RKO Pictures.

Plot
Steve Morgan (Tierney) is a charming sociopath who has just robbed and killed a cinema cashier. Seeking to escape, he hitches a ride to Los Angeles with unsuspecting Jimmy 'Fergie' Ferguson (North). Part way the pair stops at a gas station and pick up two women. Encountering a roadblock, Morgan persuades the party to spend the night at an unoccupied beach house. The police close in after Morgan killed one of the women.

Cast
 Lawrence Tierney as Steve Morgan
 Ted North as Jimmy "Fergie" Ferguson
 Nan Leslie as Beulah Zorn, alias Carol Demming
 Betty Lawford as Agnes Smith
 Andrew Tombes as Joe Brayden, Night Watchman
 Harry Shannon as Detective Owens, San Diego Police
 Glen Vernon as Jack Kenny, Gas Station Attendant
 Marian Carr as Diane Ferguson
 William Gould as Police Capt. Martin, San Diego Police
 Josephine Whittell as Diane's mother
 Dick Elliott as Mack Wilkins, San Clemente Police (uncredited)
 Phil Warren as Pete, Roadblock Motorcycle Cop
 Robert Malcolm as Newport Deputy Sheriff Grover

Reception

Critical response
When the film was released The New York Times film critic identified as BC (Bosley Crowther) dismissed the film: "The Devil Thumbs a Ride, which came to the Rialto yesterday, is a distinctly pick-up affair ... In the role of the thug Lawrence Tierney, who played Dillinger a couple of years back, behaves with the customary arrogance of all gunmen in cheap Hollywood films. It is pictures like this which give the movies a black eye and give us a pain in the neck."

In 2007, film critic Dennis Schwartz was also critical of the film: "Felix E. Feist (The Man Who Cheated Himself/Donovan's Brain/The Threat) directs and writes this ugly hitchhiker crime drama that has little entertainment value, the characters other than the main protagonist are too incredibly dull to ring true and it has no redeeming social value. The low-budget programmer is helped only by its noir look, fast-pace, the manic performance by Lawrence Tierney and the offbeat nature of its story ... Feist fills both the police car and the hitcher's car with noir characters, but it ends up as a ride to nowhere."

See also
 Detour (1945)
 The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
 The Desperate Hours (1955)

References

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1947 films
1940s thriller films
American thriller films
American black-and-white films
Film noir
Films based on American novels
Films directed by Felix E. Feist
RKO Pictures films
Films scored by Paul Sawtell
1940s American films
Rye Hills Academy

Rye Hills Academy (formerly Rye Hills School) is a coeducational secondary school located in Redcar in North Yorkshire, England.

The school is on Redcar Lane (B1269) just east of Redcar Racecourse at the junction with Warwick Road. Redcar East railway station is nearby to the north-east. Redcar & Cleveland College had their Connections Campus a little further south along Redcar Lane.

History

Grammar school
Saltburn High School for Girls opened on Marske Road in Saltburn-by-the-Sea. Cleveland Grammar School, its successor, was on Warwick Road, which opened in September 1953 for 500 girls, run by the Teesside Education Committee, based in Middlesbrough. By the early 1960s there were 600 girls, and 900 by 1969. It was sometimes known as Cleveland Grammar School for Girls. The male equivalent was Sir William Turner's Grammar School.

Comprehensive
Cleveland Grammar School, a girls' school, and Redcar Lane Secondary Modern (always referred to as "Warwick Road"), two nearby schools, merged to form the institution when it first opened in 1975. The new first year pupils of 1975/6 were the first intake under the comprehensive system. The school lost its sixth form.

The first headmistress was Patricia Rutherford, the first deputy head was Geoff Curtis. The current headmistress is Caroline Waugh.

In March 1995, a 14-year-old boy died after having a heart defect and collapsing during a PE session.

The school was demolished and rebuilt on the same site in 2001. The £7.7 million new building was opened by Tony Blair in November 2001.

In April 2001, it was announced that along with 114 other schools, Rye Hills was accepted onto the government's trust school programme and they will work towards that status.

Academy
Previously a foundation school administered by Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council, in March 2017 Rye Hills School converted to academy status and was renamed Rye Hills Academy. The school being sponsored by the Nunthorpe Multi Academy Trust.

In June 2021, Rye Hills Academy moved from Nunthorpe Multi Academy Trust to North East Learning Trust.

Notable former staff and pupils
Danny Nightingale, an Olympic gold medal winner, was a PE teacher
Danny Hart, a UCI DH MTB world cup winner and world champion attended the school
Singer-songwriter James Arthur attended the school

References

External links
 Rye Hills Academy
 EduBase

Educational institutions established in 1975
Secondary schools in Redcar and Cleveland
1975 establishments in England
Academies in Redcar and Cleveland
Redcar