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Villa Alegre (TV series)

Villa Alegre (, Happy Village) is a children's television show and the first national bilingual (Spanish/English) program in the United States.  It was produced by Bilingual Children's Television as its inaugural project on the company's founding in 1970. Villa Alegre debuted on Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) public television in 1973 and ran there until funding disputes ended the project in 1981.  The show was also seen in syndication on commercial stations in some markets, on at least a weekly basis.

Villa Alegre was the creation of Dr. Rene Cardenas, who served as president of Bilingual Children's Television and Executive Producer. Other producers included Moctesuma Esparza, who worked on only the first season, and David Ochoa. 

The show won a Peabody Award among other honors.

Description 

Villa Alegre centered on life in a whimsical bilingual (Spanish and English) village. The program had an upbeat, catchy salsa-flavored theme song, which ended with adults and kids shouting "¡Villa Alegre!" The educational series was designed to teach English to Latino kids and Spanish to Anglo children.  It featured various educational subjects (such as mathematics and science) and life lessons, in addition to Hispanic culture.  The executive producer was Claudio Guzman and the head writer was Barbara Chain.  Her son Michael Chain was a staff writer who also composed much of the specialty music for the episodes.

Performers 

Kenia Hernandez Cueto played the child actress/singer Maria. Actress Carmen Zapata starred in the program for nine seasons in the role of Doña Luz, the mayor of Villa Alegre, Mexican-American singer-actress Marisela appeared on the show in her youth. Actress Linda Dangcil played Elena on the show. The show was directed by Argentine actor and director Alejandro Rey (who co-starred with Dangcil on The Flying Nun). Nono Arsu played Felipe  in the first and second seasons. Steve Franken and Hal Smith were regulars also.  Darryl Henriques played Mimo in the first and second seasons.

Notes

External links 

 
 Villa Alegre on Facebook
 Villa Alegre at Big Cartel

PBS original programming
American television shows featuring puppetry
Spanish-language television programming in the United States
Spanish-language education television programming
1970s American children's television series
1980s American children's television series
1973 American television series debuts
1980 American television series endings
American children's education television series
Kate Williams (actress)

Kate Williams (born 12 December 1941) is an English actress best known for playing Joan Booth in  Love Thy Neighbour (1972–1976) and Liz Turner in EastEnders (2006–2010).

She has also played Dorothy Burgess in May to December (1989–1994), Myra Costello in Family Affairs (2003–2005) and Auntie Vera in Birds of a Feather (2015–2016) as well as roles in the films Holiday on the Buses (1973) and Quadrophenia (1979).

Career
Williams is known for three television roles: Joan Booth in the 1970s sitcom Love Thy Neighbour; Teresa in the 1971 BBC play Edna, the Inebriate Woman; and Audrey Withey in the crime drama Widows. She reprised the role of Audrey in both Widows 2 (1985), and 1995 sequel She's Out. In addition to her appearance in Holiday on the Buses, in which she played the Holiday Camp nurse, she had previously appeared as Wendy, a brassy conductress, in the fourth episode of the fourth series of On the Buses, the episode entitled  "The Other Woman"', and in an earlier episode titled "Late Again"' as a different character called Doreen.

Williams starred in the film version of Love Thy Neighbour (1973), and played Mrs Perkins in the film Melody (1971). Her other film credits include: Poor Cow (1967), Till Death Us Do Part (1969), Holiday on the Buses (1973), What's Up Nurse! (1977), Quadrophenia (1979), Party Party (1983) and Little Dorrit (1987).

Her guest roles on TV include: Dixon of Dock Green, On the Buses, Please Sir!, Minder, The Gentle Touch, Just Good Friends, C.A.T.S. Eyes, Only Fools and Horses, May to December, Murder Most Horrid, Lovejoy, Doctor At Large, Born and Bred, The Bill and  Unforgotten.

Williams also appeared in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, playing Liz Turner. Williams returned as a regular character in 2009, but in 2010, it was announced that the character of Liz Turner was to be dropped. Williams was last seen in the role in August 2010. 

In January 2016, Williams played the role of Sharon and Tracey's 'Auntie' Vera on Birds of a Feather, a role which she went on to reprise in later episodes. In November 2019, she appeared in an episode of the BBC soap opera Doctors as Peggy Sampson. In 2023, she was cast in the BBC medical drama series Casualty, in the recurring role of Stella Lawson.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

1941 births
Living people
English soap opera actresses
Actresses from London
English film actresses
Cavan Institute

Cavan Institute (previously Cavan College of Further Studies) is a third level college located in the town of Cavan in the Republic of Ireland. The college's main locations are at several locations in the town and at the former Army Barracks on the Dublin Road, which was purchased by County Cavan VEC and opened in 2023. 

The Institute has been a registered provider of Further Education and Training Awards Council (FETAC) Courses since 2006. It offers FETAC awards to all students, with some courses also offering Business and Technology Education Council (BTEC) awards. Overall the Institute offers over 70 post-leaving certificate courses.

Schools
It has numerous courses on offer in its five schools, including:
 Accounting Technician
 Business & Humanities
 Healthcare, Sport & Education
 Beauty Therapy & Hairdressing
 Computing, Engineering & Science
 Design, Performing Arts & Services

The majority of students are from County Cavan, with a large proportion of other students coming from counties Leitrim, Roscommon, Monaghan, Meath and Westmeath.

Courses offered are accredited by the Confederation of International Beauty Therapy and Cosmetology (CIBTAC), Comité International d’Esthetique et de Cosmetologie (CIDESCO), International Therapy Examination Council (ITEC), International Academy of Travel (IAOT), Institute of Public Administration (IPA), and Cisco Systems.

Links to Institutes of Technology
The Cavan Institute has a number of Memoranda of Understanding with Institutes of Technology. Students can do year 1 of a BSc Level 7 course with IT Sligo, at the Cavan Institute, also year 1 of the BSc and BSc in Computing at Letterkenny Institute of Technology, year 1 of the level 6 of both Business and Applied Social Studies and Social Care with Athlone Institute of Technology and Years 1 and 2 of QQI Level 8 BA in Early Childhood Studies with the School of Lifelong Learning at Dundalk Institute of Technology.

External links
 Cavan Institute Official Website
 Profile on QualifaX, Ireland’s National Learners’ Database.

See also
 Education in the Republic of Ireland
 List of further education colleges in the Republic of Ireland

References

Cavan (town)
Education in County Cavan
Further education colleges in the Republic of Ireland
Hsin Tung Yang

Hsin Tung Yang () is a food service company and retailer based in Taipei, Taiwan.

Overview
Hsin Tung Yang specializes primarily in meat and pork products such as pork sung (肉鬆; i.e. "meat floss"), and bakkwa (肉乾; i.e. pork jerky). In recent years the company has expanded production into dried mullet roe and various Chinese tea snacks. In addition to its retail stores, the company also manages service areas and stores in airports. As of 2011, the company has over 70 retail stores in Taiwan.

History
Hsin Tung Yang was founded by Mai Hsin-Fu and first started operations in 1967 under the name "Hsin Tung Yang Barbeque Meat Company" (新東陽燒臘行), and established itself as a company in 1972 as "Mai's Hsin Tung Yang Food Co. Ltd" (麥氏新東陽食品股份有限公司). In 1979, Hsin Tung Yang USA was established in San Francisco, California, USA.

In 1988, the company had expanded to 46 branches in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Canada, and the United States, producing over 3600 varieties of food items. In November 1988, the company began construction on a new factory in Ipoh, Malaysia with the intent of relocating some of its food operations there due to rising market costs and market expansion. In 1991, the company was publicly listed on the Taiwan Stock Exchange. In May 2008, the company's pork sung was pulled from supermarket shelves in Hong Kong after the asthma drug clenbuterol was found in its products.

In April 2010, it became one of the first retailers to begin accepting payment using the EasyCard, a contactless smart card already in use on the Taipei Metro system.

See also
 List of companies of Taiwan

References

1972 establishments in Taiwan
Food and drink companies established in 1972
Food and drink companies of Taiwan
Taiwanese brands
Companies based in Taipei
Minnesota Mr. Hockey

The following is a list of ice hockey players who have been selected over the years to receive the Minnesota Minute Men Mr. Hockey award as the most outstanding senior high school hockey player in the state of Minnesota. The recipients are reviewed and selected by a group of National Hockey League scouts, Division I & III coaches and USHL scouts.

Mr. Hockey award winners

External links
 http://www.minnesotaminutemen.com/page/show/413477-mr-hockey

References

American ice hockey trophies and awards
Minnesota State High School League
Grand Valley, Michigan

Grand Valley is an unincorporated community in Tallmadge Charter Township in the U.S. state of Michigan. The community is on M-45 just east of the Grand River at . The valley is about a mile (1.4 km) wide here and somewhat wider just to the south, with steep bluffs on the western and southern side of the river.

The main campus of Grand Valley State University is situated on the west side of the river in Allendale Charter Township.

The Grand Valley Metropolitan Council, (http://www.gvmc.org) is a partnership of local governments dedicated to intergovernmental cooperation and collaboration in the Grand Valley region.

References

Unincorporated communities in Ottawa County, Michigan
Unincorporated communities in Michigan
San Carlo

San Carlo is the Italian for Saint Charles and may refer to:

 San Carlo (company), an Italian manufacturer of snack foods
 San Carlo, Graubünden, a village in the municipality of Poschiavo, canton of Graubünden, Switzerland
 San Carlo, San Vincenzo, a small village in the province of Livorno, Italy
 Teatro di San Carlo, an opera house in Naples, Italy

See also
 Charles Borromeo or San Carlo Borromeo
 Saint Charles (disambiguation)
 San Carlo ai Catinari, an early-Baroque-style church building in Rome
 San Carlo al Corso, a basilica church in Rome
 San Carlo al Corso (Milan), a church in Milan
 San Carlo all'Arena, a neighbourhood in Naples where the Bourbon Hospice for the Poor is located
 San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, a church in Rome
 San Carlo Canavese, a municipality in the province of Turin in Piedmont, Italy
Virtual COM port

A virtual serial port is a software representation of a serial port that either does not connect to a real serial port, or adds functionality to a real serial port through software extension.

Software virtual ports 
A software-based virtual serial port presents one or more virtual serial port identifiers on a PC which other applications can see and interact with as if they were real hardware ports, but the data sent and received to these virtual devices is handled by software that manipulates the transmitted and received data to grant greater functionality.

Operating systems usually do not provide virtual serial port capability. Third-party applications can add this ability, such as the open-source com0com, freeware HW VSP3, or the commercial Virtual Serial Port Driver.

Some virtual serial ports emulate all hardware serial port functionality, including all signal pin states, and permit a large number of virtual ports in any desired configuration. Others provide a limited set of capabilities and do not fully emulate the hardware.

This technique can be used either to extend the capabilities of software that cannot be updated to use newer communication technologies, such as by transmitting serial data over modern networks, or to achieve data flows that are not normally possible due to software limitations, such as splitting serial port output.

Port sharing 
A serial port typically can only be monitored or transmitted to by one device at a time under the constraints of most operating systems, but a virtual serial port program can create two virtual ports, allowing two separate applications to monitor the same data. For instance, a GPS device which outputs location data to a PCs serial port may be of interest to multiple applications at once.

Network transmission 
Another option is to communicate with another serial device via internet or LAN as if they were locally connected, using serial over LAN. This allows software intended to interface with a device over a local physical serial port to instead communicate at long distance.

Bluetooth 
Bluetooth implements virtual serial ports over the Serial Port Profile. This is the standard way of receiving data from Bluetooth-equipped GPS modules, for instance.

Softmodems 
The drivers for a software-implemented modem create a virtual serial port for communication with the host operating system, since the modem is implemented entirely in the device driver and therefore there is no point where the serial data would be sent to the physical card.

References 

Internet Protocol based network software
Serial buses
Windows communication and services
Out-of-band management
Crashing the Gate

Crashing the Gate: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People Powered Politics is a book () authored by American political bloggers Markos Moulitsas of Daily Kos and Jerome Armstrong of MyDD, published in 2006 by Chelsea Green.

Summary
In this book, the authors document what they see as the ineffectiveness of "old-school politics" in the Democratic Party, and advocate for a "new kind of popular political movement" that combines the netroots, grassroots, labor unions and big donors to effect a "broad change in the political landscape" of the United States.

Publication data
Crashing the Gate: Netroots, Grassroots, and the Rise of People Powered Politics. (2006) Chelsea Green, .

External links
 CrashingTheGate.com - official site
 Chelsea Green's page for Crashing the Gate

Related books
 Taking On the System: Rules for Radical Change in a Digital Era

2006 non-fiction books
Books about politics of the United States
Helen Fraser (actress)

Helen Fraser (born Helen Margaret Stronach; born 15 June 1942) is a retired English actress, who has appeared in many television series since the early 1960s. For international audiences, she may be best known for her roles in  Billy Liar (1963) and Repulsion (1965). She is also well known in Britain for portraying the role of miserable warder Sylvia Hollamby in the prison drama series Bad Girls. She appeared in the series from the first episode in 1999 until the last in 2006.

Career
She trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art alongside Tom Courtenay and John Thaw, among others. She gained her breakthrough role alongside Courtenay in Billy Liar (1963). They later played the parents of character Dave Best in the Christmas special of The Royle Family (2008).

She is best known to television viewers for her long-running role in the ITV women's prison drama Bad Girls as unpleasant prison officer Sylvia Hollamby from the first episode in 1999 to the last in 2006. She reprised the role in the West End production of Bad Girls: The Musical in 2007.

She made her TV debut in the early 1960s and her credits include Z-Cars, Dixon of Dock Green, The Likely Lads, Doctor in the House, The Dustbinmen, On the Buses, Rising Damp, Tales of the Unexpected, Duty Free, One Foot in the Grave and Casualty. She also worked on TV with comedians like Dick Emery and the Two Ronnies in the 1970s.

She has also appeared on stage, including with the Royal National Theatre, in the West End and in regional theatres across the country. In 2009 and 2010, she toured the UK as Mrs Fisher in a stage version of Billy Liar. In 2011, she joined the tour of Calendar Girls.

Fraser has appeared in the ITV soap Coronation Street twice – in 1998 as Magenta Savannah and again in 2013 as Doris Babbage.

In 2015, she appeared in an episode of the BBC daytime soap Doctors.

Personal life
In 1964, she married the recording engineer Peter Handford, the couple had met on the set of Billy Liar. Handford died in 2007. Fraser lives in Eye, Suffolk.

Filmography

References

External links

Image & voice sample

1942 births
Living people
Alumni of RADA
English stage actresses
English film actresses
English television actresses
Actresses from Oldham
People from Eye, Suffolk
Actresses from Suffolk
20th-century English actresses
21st-century English actresses
English soap opera actresses
AnimeIowa

AnimeIowa is an annual three-day anime convention held during July at the Hyatt Regency Coralville Hotel & Conference Center in Coralville, Iowa. The staff are all volunteers and the convention is run by the non-profit Mindbridge Foundation.

Programming
The convention typically offers artist alley, cosplay contests, dealers room, Maid Café, masquerade, tabletop gaming, video gaming, and video rooms. In 2011, the Maid Café benefited We Heart Japan, a charity supporting 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami victims. AnimeIowa held a fundraiser to benefit Swisher's Miracles in Motion in 2014.

History
AnimeIowa's first convention in 1997 was organized by the SFLIS Wing of Anime and Manga People (SWAMP). Technical issues occurred during the 2008 masquerade and some attendees rooms were relocated to a different hotel due to the Iowa flood of 2008. The 2011 convention occurred during the RAGBRAI bicycle ride. Cassandra Hodges was scheduled to attend the 2011 convention, but died on June 27, 2011. Iowa River Landing was used by both the RAGBRAI bicycle ride and AnimeIowa in 2015. AnimeIowa 2020 was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The convention later held a virtual event in August.

Event history

References

External links
 
Mindbridge website

Anime conventions in the United States
Recurring events established in 1997
1997 establishments in Iowa
Annual events in Iowa
Festivals in Iowa
Tourist attractions in Johnson County, Iowa
Conventions in Iowa
Jakokoyak

Jakokoyak was a project created by Welsh musician and producer Rhys Edwards, with leanings towards psychedelic folk, sometimes classified as folktronica and lo-fi experimental electronic music. Edwards also ran the now defunct Peski Records label. He is married to musician Gwenno Saunders and lives in Cardiff, Wales.

Career
A native of Mold, Flintshire and raised on Anglesey, Edwards began recording in his second year of university. Working and recording alone, he began exploring old keyboards and effects pedals. It was these recordings that subsequently gave him the passport to a postgraduate music course at Bangor.

In 2003 he released his debut album, Am Cyfan Dy Pethau Prydferth (the title was taken from a badly translated poster on the walls of the Cardiff Union). In the same year he won a Pop Factory award for Best New Talent, and Am Cyfan... was awarded Best Album at BBC Radio Cymru's 2003 music awards.

The album was re-released in Japan in 2004 and was warmly received in Japanese magazines such as Vogue Nippon. 

After a string of releases, Jakokoyak supported the Super Furry Animals on their tour of Japan, which was followed with the release of theFlatyre EP (2006), of which its lead track "Eira" was voted Record of the Week on London's Xfm radio station.

Jakokoyak released a second album Aerophlot in 2010, a collection of songs recorded between 2006-2008.

Discography

Albums
Am Cyfan Dy Pethau Prydferth (August 2003; Japanese re-release August 2004)
Aerophlot (August 2010)

EPs
Flatyre (March 2006)
Look Away Now (If You Don't Want to Know the Score) (November 2008)

Compilations
A Step in the Left Direction (Boobytrap Records) (August 2001)
New Welsh Talent 2003 - Music Week Magazine (August 2003)
Gigs, Chips a 'Trip' Mewn Tacsi! (August 2004)
Dan y Cownter (August 2005)
Folk Off! (Sunday Best label) (July 2006)
"Rallye Cloak 03: Goodbye Blue Monday (Rallye Records, JAPAN)" (October 2008)
Respond (Amgueddfa Cymru) (March 2009)

References

External links

Welsh rock musicians
Folktronica musicians
People from Mold, Flintshire
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Brit Olam

Brit Olam (, lit., World Alliance or Eternal Covenant) is a political party in Israel.

Background and ideology
Brit Olam is a joint Jewish–Arab party founded by Ofer Lifschitz in 2005. It stands for the foundation of a Palestinian state, separation of religion and state, raising the minimum wage, and improving the education system. It also aims to improve relations between Jews and Arabs in Israel, and emphasizes the need for social justice and cohesion.

The party ran for the 2006 elections, with Lifschitz heading its list. However, they won only 2,011 votes (0.06%), failing to cross the 2% electoral threshold. For the 2009 elections, the party was headed by Kinneret Golan Hoz, won 678 votes (0.02%), and again failed to pass the threshold. On its third attempt in the 2013 elections, the list was again headed by Lifschitz and got 761 votes (0.02%).

In the 2015 election, Brit Olam was used as a "Shelf Party" by a pro-direct democracy list named the "National Team (Temporary)".

In the April 2019 election, the Brit Olam list had Lifschitz as a lone candidate. The list won 216 votes, the fewest votes any party list has received to date in Israeli Knesset elections.

References

2005 establishments in Israel
Arab political parties in Israel
Political parties established in 2005
Political parties in Israel
Albert Oppel

Carl Albert Oppel (19 December 1831 – 23 December 1865) was a German paleontologist.

History

He was born at Hohenheim in Württemberg, on 19 December 1831. He first went to the University of Tübingen, where he graduated with a Ph.D. in 1853. The results of his work was published in Die Juraformation Englands, Frankreichs und des südwestlichen Deutschlands (1856–1858). He went to the Palaeontological Museum at Munich in 1858 and became an assistant there. It was in 1860 that he became the Professor of Palaeontology at the University of Munich. Then, a year later, he became the director of the Palaeontological Collection. Of his later works, it can be said that the most important was Paläontologische Mittheilungen aus dem Museum des Königlichen Bayerischen Staates (1862–1865). He died on 23 December 1865 at the age of 34. The wrinkle ridge Dorsum Oppel on the Moon is named after him, as is the fossil prawn genus Albertoppelia.

Studies

Oppel devoted his life to the study of fossils and the examination of the strata of the Jurassic period deposits. He is considered to have founded the study of zone stratigraphy and the use of index fossils, a term which he created, to compare the different strata.  He also established the Tithonian stage, for strata (mainly equivalent to the English Portland and Purbeck Beds) that occur on the borders of Jurassic and Cretaceous. He was awarded the Chair of Paleontology at the University of Munich.

See also
List of geologists
Paleontology

References

External links

 
 
 

1831 births
1865 deaths
People from the Kingdom of Württemberg
German paleontologists
Science teachers
Academic staff of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Koulouba

Koulouba is a place name that may refer to:
 Koulouba, Bamako, Mali
 Koulouba, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Approaching Silence

Approaching Silence is a compilation album of ambient music by David Sylvian (along with Frank Perry and Robert Fripp) collecting the tracks from the 1991 limited release Ember Glance: The Permanence of Memory installation soundtrack CD as well as the soundtrack cassette from the installation "Redemption" (with Robert Fripp). The exhibition ran from 30 August 1994 to 18 September, at the P3 Gallery in Tokyo.

It was released on 5 October 1999 on Virgin Records (CDVE 943).

Track listing
"The Beekeeper's Apprentice" (Perry, Sylvian) – 32:56 
"Epiphany" (Sylvian) – 2:32 
"Approaching Silence" (Sylvian) – 38:17

Personnel
Robert Fripp – effects (3)
David Sylvian – art director, engineer (1, 2), instruments, sound, lights (exhibition), installation concept and creation
Frank Perry – Noan bells, bowed Gong, Finger bells
Technical
Yuka Fujii – art director 
Shinya Fujiwara – photography (front cover)
Anton Corbijn – photography (back cover)
Ari Marcopoulos – photography
Vaughan Oliver – art design
Chriss Bigg – design
Martin Andersen – design
Dave Kent – engineer (3)
Noel Harris – engineer (1, 2)

References 

1999 compilation albums
David Sylvian compilation albums
Virgin Records compilation albums
Florida State Road 151

State Road 151 (SR 151), now County Road 151 (CR 151), is a former state route in northeastern Leon County, Florida.

Beginning at the junction of SR 265 and Seventh Avenue, the route travels northeast along Centerville Road and Moccasin Gap Road across Capital Circle to CR 142 (Old Magnolia Road) east of Miccosukee.

West of CR 59, CR 151 is a designated canopy road over which trees have been allowed to extend their branches.

Major intersections

See also

List of former state roads in Florida

References

External links
FDOT Map of Leon County

County roads in Leon County, Florida
Former state highways in Florida
Transportation in Tallahassee, Florida
Fugue for Tinhorns

"Fugue for Tinhorns" is a song written and composed by Frank Loesser and first performed by Stubby Kaye, Johnny Silver, and Douglas Deane in 1950. The song was featured in the Broadway musical Guys and Dolls.

Development
Twelve years before writing "Fugue for Tinhorns," Loesser was taken to a racetrack by Jule Styne, who said Loesser "was crazy about the racing form and the phrase 'can do' after a horse's name", which Styne said was Loesser's inspiration for the song.

Loesser originally called the song "Three Cornered Tune," and it was to be sung in Guys and Dolls by the characters Sarah Brown, Nathan Detroit, and Sky Masterson.  As the play took shape, the characters singing the song were changed to Nicely-Nicely Johnson, Benny Southstreet, and Rusty Charlie, and the song was placed at the beginning of the show to establish context and tone. 

The song also mentions Equipoise (1928–1938), a real-life Thoroughbred racehorse and stakes race champion of his time. While the racehorse "Epitaph" mentioned in the song's lyrics is fictional, the American Quarter Horse stallion and racehorse Go Man Go (1953–1983) was a great-grandson of Equipoise. Go Man Go was the World Champion Quarter Running Horse from 1955 to 1957, around the same time as the 1955 First Las Vegas and 1955 New York City Center revival productions of Guys and Dolls.

Notable recordings
The Andrews Sisters recorded the song as a single in 1953.
Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, and Dean Martin recorded the song as a single in 1963.
Herschel Bernardi recorded the song as a track on his 1970 album "Show Stopper."
Barry Manilow recorded the song as part of a Guys and Dolls medley on his 1991 album "Showstoppers."
Big Scoob sampled the song for his recording, "Can Du", in 2000.

In popular culture
Film

The song was included in the 1955 Guys and Dolls film adaptation.

The song is sung several times in the 1984 film Oh, God! You Devil.

The song plays over the opening and closing credits of the 1989 film Let It Ride.

References

External links
[ Allmusic Entry]

Songs from Guys and Dolls
Songs from musicals
Songs written by Frank Loesser
Pop standards
Linda Henry

Linda Valiris (née Henry; born 24 August 1959) is an English actress. She is known for her roles as Yvonne Atkins in the ITV prison drama series Bad Girls and Shirley Carter in the BBC soap opera EastEnders. She had previously appeared in EastEnders as the original Lorraine Salter, the mother of Mandy Salter (Nicola Stapleton), from 1991 to 1992. Her other acting credits include Cracker (1995), Prime Suspect (1997) and Trial & Retribution (1998). She has also appeared in the films Beautiful Thing (1996) and The Business (2005).

Early life 
Henry was born on 24 August 1959 and was brought up in Peckham, London. She spent some time with the Old Vic Youth Theatre, and at 17, she went to the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art.

Career 
In 1996, Henry played Sandra in the film Beautiful Thing. In 1999, Henry began portraying Yvonne Atkins in the ITV prison series Bad Girls. After the series ended in 2003, she appeared in various British television programmes including The Bill, Birds of a Feather, Touching Evil, Cracker, A Touch of Frost, Trial & Retribution as Marilyn Spark and EastEnders, where she played Lorraine Salter, the mother of Mandy Salter (Nicola Stapleton). She also appeared in British film The Business, alongside Danny Dyer.

On 8 September 2006, it was announced Henry would be returning to EastEnders in a different role, this time playing Shirley Carter, mother to Carly (Kellie Shirley) and Deano (Matt Di Angelo) and ex-wife of Kevin (Phil Daniels). Dyer, who she had worked with previously, was cast in 2013 as Henry's son, Mick. In late 2022, Henry embarked on an "extended break" from EastEnders. She is expected to return in 2023.

Personal life
Henry married Stavros Valiris in 1992. Their daughter was born in 1993.

In 2014, she was arrested for racially aggravated harassment. Henry pleaded not guilty and stood trial on 11 February 2015 at Bexley Magistrates Court in south London. She was later cleared of all charges.

Filmography

Awards and nominations

References

External links
 
 

1959 births
Living people
English film actresses
English television actresses
English soap opera actresses
Alumni of the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art
People from Peckham
Actresses from London
Balkania (brand)

Balkania was the trade name of 'K. Zacharopoulos A.B.E.E.' a Greek industrial and trading company based in Athens that produced 4x4 jeep-type vehicles and 4x4 trucks. Since 1945, K. Zacharopoulos had been involved in vehicle repair and rebuilding. The Balkania company was founded in 1954 and since 1972 it imported Romanian and Indian vehicles. In 1975 it designed and introduced its own Autotractor model, a 4x4 multi-purpose truck with a Mercedes-Benz 3200 cc Diesel engine, metal cabin and a payload of . In 1979 the model was redesigned, with a modern synthetic (glass-fiber reinforced composite) cabin. It was produced, as some similar Greek vehicles, until a change of a favorable categorization for agricultural vehicles in 1984 limited its prospects (see also AutoDiana, Petropoulos). The vehicle was modestly successful, as it exhibited certain quality problems. 

In 1975 Balkania also introduced a lighter Autotractor series of Jeep-type 4x4 vehicles. These were not of own design, but were actually modified Indian Mahindra models (in turn based on older U.S. Jeep models), using a Peugeot 2100 cc  Diesel engine. The more modern-looking Autotractor KZ (from the founder's name initials) was available with the aforementioned engine, as well as a Peugeot 2500 cc  gasoline engine. In 1984 the company was partially acquired by Mahindra & Mahindra, the factory was modernized and its name was changed to Mahindra Hellas A.E.. The model name Autotractor was dropped and all vehicles produced were Mahindra models sold with that name, although in somewhat modified versions. Most of this production was exported. The company went out of business in 1995.

References 
L.S. Skartsis and G.A. Avramidis, 'Made in Greece', Typorama, Patras, Greece (2003)  (republished by the University of Patras Science Park, 2007).
L.S. Skartsis, "Greek Vehicle & Machine Manufacturers 1800 to present: A Pictorial History", Marathon (2012)  (eBook)

External links 
Trucks of the world
Dutch auto catalog

Greek companies established in 1954
Vehicle manufacturing companies established in 1954
1995 disestablishments in Greece
Vehicle manufacturing companies disestablished in 1995
Defunct truck manufacturers
Off-road vehicles
All-wheel-drive vehicles
Truck manufacturers of Greece
Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of Greece
Manufacturing companies based in Athens
1984 mergers and acquisitions
Divanee Magazine

Divanee Magazine was an online magazine founded in 2003 by Miral Sattar with the aim of bringing about a magazine in which issues and concerns unique to women of the South Asian diaspora could be addressed. The word, divanee, means crazy or passionate in Hindi. The first issue appeared in November 2003. The magazine folded in August 2010.

Concentrating on a young 16-33 audience, Divanee offered the usual combination of fashion, health, music and film reviews, but it also hoped to provide a liberal perspective to young Desi women, with an editorial stance that promotes free-thinking, pride in one's heritage and oneself, individuality and overcoming cultural expectations. It promoted South Indian involvement in higher Education and it dedicated a lot of its content to successful Desi men and women.

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Magazines established in 2003
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Havercroft

Havercroft is a small village situated on the B6428 in West Yorkshire, England, approximately  south-east of the city of Wakefield. It forms part of the civil parish of Havercroft with Cold Hiendley, which has a population of 2,103, increasing to 2,256 at the 2011 Census.

In the last 100 years it has grown from a small collection of homes to a thriving village in its own right. For hundreds of years, Havercroft was an agricultural community and the few people who lived here worked in the fields; it does not appear in the Doomsday Book but it can be traced back on old maps and charters of 1155, when Henry the Second, father of Richard the Lionheart, was King of England. Havercroft now maintains its own school, Havercroft J & I School. The Ryhill & Havercroft Sports Centre is shared with Ryhill as is the local health centre, Rycroft Primary Care Centre. Havercroft also has a 'community hub' known as the Havercroft & Ryhill Community Learning Centre (located in Ryhill) which is also the Havercroft Parish Hall. As well as the Living Hope Community Church established in 1960 at bottom of Cow Lane, which runs a number of community projects. The Havercroft with Cold Hiendley Parish Council meets there and the Centre provides a regular calendar of educational courses & community activities for both Havercroft and its neighbour Ryhill.

Havercroft suffered from high unemployment in the 1980s due to local pit closures.  Since then the village has become popular with commuters travelling to nearby towns such as Pontefract, Barnsley and Wakefield.

Havercroft is split into two undistinct sections, Newstead - occupying the higher ground of Newstead hill - and the main village of Havercroft. In terms of the built environment Havercroft is co-terminous with its Ryhill neighbour with the boundary of the two civil parishes following along streetside and garden fence rather than across open fields for much of its length.

The parish has a parish council, the lowest tier of local government.

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External links

Ryhill website at AboutBritain.com
Ryhill and Havercroft Villages fan website

Villages in West Yorkshire
Geography of the City of Wakefield
Spike bayonet

A spike bayonet, also known as a pigsticker in informal contexts, is a blade attachment for a firearm taking the form of a pointed spike rather than a knife.

Description
Most early musket bayonets were of this type. Beginning in the early 19th century, knife and/or sword bayonets began to appear, which could also be wielded by hand. In the early to mid-20th century, spike bayonets reappeared, often folding or stowed under the barrel for compactness, such as on the French Lebel M1886 and MAS-36, Russian SKS and Mosin-Nagant, German FG 42, and British Lee–Enfield. The Lee-Enfield Rifle No.4 bayonet, took the form of a short spike (but fixed conventionally), and was unpopular due to its length and lack of utility.

Spike bayonets have not been popular with armies since the end of World War II, with the exception of China, which attached them to its AK-47 rifle and SKS carbine variants (Type 56 and Type 63).

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18th-century weapons
Victorian-era weapons
World War I infantry weapons
World War II infantry weapons
Huang Hong (actor)

Huang Hong (; born May 25, 1960) is a Chinese skit and sitcom actor and writer. He is also less successful as a TV series and movie producer and director.

Career
Born in Harbin, he joined the People's Liberation Army (PLA) when he was only 13. He studied philosophy at Liaoning University and performance at the People's Liberation Army Academy of Art. Huang was a regular sketch comedy performer on the CCTV New Year's Gala, appearing on the show almost uninterruptedly for over two decades between 1989 and 2012, during which he became a household name in China. Some of his skits including Anti-family plan Guerrilla, Poker. The director and the leading actor of films A Father With His 25 Children (2001) and Sunny Courtyard (2007).

He became the head of the August First Film Studio in 2012. In March 2015 he was removed from the position of unknown reasons, though the media speculated about his involvement in corruption. He has been linked by Chinese-language media to disgraced general Xu Caihou. However, later his return to the stage indicate that all accusations were false.

Personal life
Huang's father Huang Feng () is a kuaishu performing artist. Huang has two elder brothers.

In 1986, at the age of 26, Huang got acquainted with Duan Xiaojie (), an actress in Shenyang Mass Art Center. They married on October 8, 1989. Their daughter, Huang Zhaohan (; nickname: Huang Doudou ), was born in 1994.

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1960 births
Living people
Liaoning University alumni
People's Liberation Army Academy of Art alumni
Male actors from Heilongjiang
Chinese male voice actors
Chinese male film actors
Chinese male television actors
Members of the 11th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference
Browning machine gun

Browning machine guns are a family of machine gun designs by John Browning, a prolific weapon designer.

These include:

M1895 Colt–Browning machine gun, based on a design dating to 1889, was the first successful gas-operated machine gun to enter service.
M1917 Browning machine gun, a family of water-cooled machine guns in .30-'06
M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle, or its variants
M1919 Browning machine gun, a family of air-cooled machine guns in .30-'06
M1921 Browning machine gun, a family of water-cooled machine guns in .50 BMG
M2 Browning machine gun, a family of air-cooled machine guns in .50 BMG

A related term:

.50 BMG or .50 Browning Machine Gun, a large caliber machine gun round

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Machine guns
Fearless Management

Fearless Management is a New York City–based music management (talent management) company founded in 2003 by Joseph Janus, the acting President and chief executive officer.

Overview
After working in fashion and model management, Joseph Janus created Fearless Management to manage and develop artists and Fearless Productions/Intrepid Noise to produce music. 

Janus discovered Ben Jelen, a piano-based singer-songwriter, and brokered a deal with Maverick Records to release his debut, "Give It All Away" in 2004, which immediately entered no. 1 on the Billboard Heatseekers Chart. In 2005, Janus started Fearless Management Records, a record label specializing in releasing unsigned talent, as well as rarities and EPs from established artists. The first release on the label was Ben Jelen's 2005 Rejected EP. Other Fearless Management clients include Ben Jelen, John Sutherland, Tim Cruz, Marcus Monroe, and Sophie B. Hawkins.

References

External links
Fearless Management Official Website

American talent agents
Miss Colorado USA

Miss Colorado USA is the beauty pageant that selects the representative for the state of Colorado in the Miss USA pageant, and the name of the title held by its winner. The pageant is directed by Future Productions.

Colorado's most successful placements were in 1963 and 2010, when Rhea Looney and Jessica Hartman, respectively, placed as the third runner-up. Colorado's most recent placement was in 2012, when Marybel Gonzalez placed in the Top 10.

Arianna Lemus of Gunnison was crowned Miss Colorado USA on July 17, 2023 at Union Colony Civic Center in Greeley. She will represent Colorado at Miss USA 2023.

Gallery of titleholders

Results summary

Placements
3rd Runner-Up: Rhea Looney (1963), Jessica Hartman (2010)
Top 10: Debbie James (1989), Tiani Jones (2000), Marybel Gonzalez (2012)
Top 15/16/20: Jeanie Carroll (1953), Dorothy Jane Bewley (1955), Karen Keeler (1956), Diane Lee Gardner (1959), Penny Jo James (1962), Susan Hawkins (1969)

Colorado holds a record of 11 placements at Miss USA.

Awards
Miss Congeniality: Diane Knaub (1971), Crystal Grove (1998)
Miss Photogenic: Katee Doland (2001), Susan Hawkins (1969)

Winners 

Color key

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Colorado culture
Women in Colorado
1952 establishments in Colorado
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Ebbot Lundberg

Torbjörn "Ebbot" Lundberg (born 26 February 1966) is a Swedish artist, songwriter and music producer who lives in Gothenburg, Sweden. From 1995 to 2012, he was the lead singer of The Soundtrack of Our Lives‚ which he co-founded with Björn Olsson and Ian Person. Lundberg was one of the founding members of the rock band Union Carbide Productions during 1986–1993. He has also produced a large number of bands like The Loons, Nymphet Noodlers, Nicolai Dunger, Onkel Kånkel, and Zoobox. He has made appearances or collaborated with Jane Birkin, Turbonegro, Nina Persson, The Cardigans, Teddybears, Trummor & Orgel and Olle Ljungström. He has appeared on the Late Show with David Letterman, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Later... with Jools Holland and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.

In 2012 he released his first solo album entitled There's Only One of Us Here. It is a 43-minute long, uninterrupted opus that was originally created in 2011 for the art project (In)Visible Dialogues organized by Per Hüttner and Elias Arnér.

Discography

Solo albums
 2012: There's Only One of Us Here (Kning Disk)
 2013: On The Other Side Of Light (Subliminal Sounds), with The New Alchemy including artist Per Svensson. (Per Svensson)
 2016: For the Ages to Come (Akashic Records), with The Indigo Children.

With The Soundtrack of Our Lives
 1996: Welcome to the Infant Freebase (Telegram Records)
 1998: Extended Revelation for the Psychic Weaklings of Western Civilization (Telegram Records)
 2001: Behind the Music (Telegram Records)
 2004: Origin Vol. 1 (Telegram Records)
 2008: Communion (Telegram Records)
 2012: Throw It to the Universe (Telegram Records)

With Union Carbide Productions
 1987: In the Air Tonight (Radium Records)
 1989: Financially Dissatisfied, Philosophically Trying (Radium Records)
 1991: From Influence to Ignorance (Radium Records)
 1992: Swing (Radium Records)

With 5 Billion in Diamonds
 2017: 5 Billion in Diamonds (100% Records)
 2020: Divine Accidents (Make Records)

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1966 births
Living people
Swedish male singers
English-language singers from Sweden
John Beck (It Bites)

John Beck is an English musician and songwriter, best known for his role as a member of progressive rock/pop fusion band It Bites (who scored a number 6 hit in the UK singles chart in 1986 with 'Calling All the Heroes').

Beck is a multi-instrumentalist, playing keyboards, accordion, guitar, bass guitar and drums: he is also a singer (mainly of harmony vocals). Onstage and on record he almost entirely restricts himself to keyboards and vocals (although he has been known to play live rhythm guitar on performances of It Bites' 'Still Too Young to Remember').

Born and brought up in Whitehaven, Cumbria, Beck spent his early teen years as a country-and-western accordionist on the Cumbrian club circuit before becoming a founder member of It Bites alongside guitarist and lead vocalist Francis Dunnery, bass guitarist Dick Nolan and drummer Bob Dalton. Beck was also a member of Navajo Kiss and Sister Sarah, the two short-lived groups formed by the remaining It Bites members following the 1990 departure of Dunnery (and for which Beck switched entirely from keyboards to guitar). Beck rejoined It Bites for the band's reformation in 2006. Along with Dalton, Beck is one of the two remaining original members of the group as well as being one of its main composers.

Beck has also been a member of Unicorn Jones (a post-It Bites trio of himself, Dick Nolan and singer David Banks which released the album A Hundred Thousand Million Stars in 1996) and of British prog-rock supergroup Kino (featuring Marillion bassist Pete Trewavas, former Porcupine Tree drummer Chris Maitland (later replaced by Bob Dalton) and guitarist/singer John Mitchell (from Arena, and subsequently Francis Dunnery's replacement in It Bites), who released the Picture album in 2005.

As a session or touring musician, Beck has played with John Wetton and Fish and is a longstanding contributor to the live line-up of the Alan Parsons Project.

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Living people
English rock keyboardists
It Bites members
Kino (British band) members
1961 births
Robert Chitham

Robert Chitham (1935 or 36 – 13 September 2017) was a British architect and writer. He was the author of The Classical Orders of Architecture published in 1985. A revised edition was published in 2005. He drew from the diagramming and harmony of proportions of classical forms starting from Vitruvius, to Palladio, and foremost to James Gibbs. Chitham was the most recent architect to spell out extensively a more updated, modern, and refined version of classical architecture. Chitham was also the author of Measured drawing for architects, published in 1980.

Chitham was a consultant architect to Chapman Taylor, a London-based architectural practice.  In this capacity he was responsible in the early 1980s for a scheme to save a large number of historic buildings in Bloomsbury, near the British Museum. He served as chairman of the Register of Architects Accredited in Building Conservation, and was head of the historic buildings division of English Heritage.

He was the author of "The Classical Orders of Architecture" (Architectural Press, updated 2005) which provided "an accessible introduction" to the basics of Classical architecture.

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References
Chitham, Robert, The classical orders of architecture (2nd edition), Oxford: Architectural Press, 2005, 

Architects from London
2017 deaths
Year of birth uncertain
1930s births