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Lindsey Alley

Lindsey Erin Alley (born December 6, 1977) is an American actress and singer, who for several years lived in New York City and now resides in Los Angeles. She is known for performing as a mouseketeer on all seven seasons of the The All-New Mickey Mouse Club (1989-1994).

Early life
Alley was born in Lakeland, Florida.

Career
She began acting at the age of six. In her first starring role, she played the role of Patsy in the movie Ernest Saves Christmas in 1988. From 1989 to 1994, she performed as a mouseketeer in The Disney Channel's revival of the Mickey Mouse Club (later known as MMC), on which she remained until the show was canceled in 1994. Two years after the show ended, Alley graduated from Lakeland Senior High School in 1996. Alley continued her education at the University of Missouri, receiving her Bachelor of Arts in theater with honors in 2000.

Alley also had a brief stint in an on-screen character role of Lisa Seltzer on WSL RollerJam in 2002 from midway through the season to the end of the series.

Alley appeared in her own play, a one-woman show titled Look, Ma...No Ears!, a play on which she collaborated with Robert Stein and Stephen Winer. The play, directed by Ben Rimalower, premiered in April 2006.

Alley appeared in the production of the musical Having It All at the NoHo Arts Center in Los Angeles in 2011, for which she received an Ovation Award nomination for Best Actress in a Leading Role. She reprised the role in the Laguna Playhouse production in March of its 2013 season. In the same year, she appeared on an episode of How I Met Your Mother titled "No Questions Asked".

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links
 Official Website
 
 

1977 births
Living people
American child actresses
American stage actresses
American television actresses
Actresses from Florida
Mouseketeers
Musicians from Lakeland, Florida
University of Missouri alumni
Lakeland High School (Lakeland, Florida) alumni
21st-century American actresses
Ford EUCD platform

The Ford EUCD platform (for "European Class D") is Ford's global midsize car automobile platform launched in 2006. 

EUCD was chosen by Ford's European operations instead of the Ford CD3 platform due to the large number of components shared with the smaller C1. Another factor was reportedly the inability of the CD3 to accept Volvo's straight-5 engines.

The first EUCD cars were introduced at the 2006 Geneva Motor Show: Volvo's S80 (Volvo P3 platform) and Ford's S-MAX and Galaxy share about half of their total parts; for example, the steering columns on the Galaxy, S-Max and S80 share 80 percent of their parts.

The Jaguar Land Rover D8 platform is a heavily modified derivative of the EUCD.

Vehicles

After separation from Ford, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) continued to develop the EUCD platform; deriving the heavily modified LR-MS/JLR D8 platforms from it. Variations of the D8 are used for the 2011 Range Rover Evoque, the 2015 Land Rover Discovery Sport and the 2017 Jaguar E-Pace.

Ford's new global CD-segment platform
For the 2013MY, the Fusion mid-size (C/D) car migrated to the Ford CD4 platform, a new common global platform. Its European counterpart, the Mondeo, made the transition to CD4 when the fifth generation hit the market for the 2015MY.

References

Notes

2006 introductions
EUCD
EUCD
Wadim Zudilin

Wadim Zudilin (Вадим Валентинович Зудилин) is a Russian mathematician and number theorist who is active in studying hypergeometric functions and zeta constants. He studied under Yuri V. Nesterenko and worked at Moscow State University, the Steklov Institute of Mathematics, the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics and the University of Newcastle, Australia. He now works at the Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

He has reproved Apéry's theorem that ζ(3) is irrational, and expanded it. Zudilin proved that at least one of the four numbers ζ(5), ζ(7), ζ(9), or ζ(11) is irrational. For that accomplishment he won the Distinguished Award of the Hardy-Ramanujan Society in 2001.

With Doron Zeilberger, Zudilin improved upper bound of irrationality measure for π, which as of November 2022 is the current best estimate.

References

External links
Wadim Zudilin's homepage
Wadim Zudilin's research profile
Wadim Zudilin's list of published works

Russian mathematicians
Number theorists
Living people
Academic staff of Moscow State University
Academic staff of the University of Newcastle (Australia)
Academic staff of Radboud University Nijmegen
Year of birth missing (living people)
PTV4

PTV4 (Paikallistelevisio) was a Finnish television channel which operated from 1990 to 1997. It was originally launched on the HTV cable network (now part of DNA Welho) under the name of PTV, which was later changed to PTV4 in 1996 when it was bought by the Sanoma Group. It was the predecessor of the modern Finnish TV channel Nelonen which was launched June 1, 1997.

Programs
 Illan päätteeksi Timo T.A. (talk show hosted by Timo T. A. Mikkonen)
 Murder, She Wrote
 Paikallisuutiset (local news)
 Star Trek: The Next Generation
 Onnenportaat (a game show)
 Softa
 DuckTales
 Santa Barbara
 Mighty Morphin Power Rangers
 The Incredible Hulk
 Paalupaikka (Motorsport magazine)

Defunct television channels in Finland
1990 establishments in Finland
1997 disestablishments in Finland
Television channels and stations established in 1990
Television channels and stations disestablished in 1997
Robert Moody

Robert Vaughan Moody,  (; born November 28, 1941) is a Canadian mathematician. He is the co-discover of Kac–Moody algebra, a Lie algebra, usually infinite-dimensional, that can be defined through a generalized root system.

"Almost simultaneously in 1967, Victor Kac in the USSR and Robert Moody in Canada developed what was to become Kac–Moody algebra. Kac and Moody noticed that if Wilhelm Killing's conditions were relaxed, it was still possible to associate to the Cartan matrix a Lie algebra which, necessarily, would be infinite dimensional." - A. J. Coleman

Born in Great Britain, he received a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics in 1962 from the University of Saskatchewan, a Master of Arts in Mathematics in 1964 from the University of Toronto, and a Ph.D. in Mathematics in 1966 from the University of Toronto.

In 1966, he joined the Department of Mathematics as an assistant professor in the University of Saskatchewan. In 1970, he was appointed an associate professor and a professor in 1976. In 1989, he joined the University of Alberta as a professor in the Department of Mathematics.

In 1999, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 1980, he was made a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In 1996 Moody and Kac were co-winners of the Wigner Medal.

Selected works

with S. Berman: 
with J. Patera: 
with Bremner & Patera: Tables of weight space multiplicities, Marcel Dekker 1983
with A. Pianzola: 
with S. Kass, J. Patera, & R. Slansky: Affine Lie Algebras, weight multiplicities and branching rules, 2 vols., University of California Press 1991 vol. 1 books.google
with Pianzola: Lie algebras with triangular decompositions, Canadian Mathematical Society Series, John Wiley 1995
with Baake & Grimm: Die verborgene Ordnung der Quasikristalle, Spektrum, Feb. 2002; What is Aperiodic Order?, Eng. trans. on arxiv.org

Notes

References
 
 
 

1941 births
Living people
British emigrants to Canada
Canadian mathematicians
Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
Officers of the Order of Canada
University of Toronto alumni
Academic staff of the University of Alberta
Academic staff of the University of Saskatchewan
University of Saskatchewan alumni
170P/Christensen

170P/Christensen is a periodic comet in the Solar System. It came to perihelion in September 2014 at about apparent magnitude 18.

References

External links 
 Orbital simulation from JPL (Java) / Horizons Ephemeris
 170P on Seiichi Yoshida's comet list
 Elements and Ephemeris for 170P/Christensen – Minor Planet Center

Periodic comets
0170
170P
20050617
Vahe M. Hakobyan

Vahe Maximi Hakobyan (Armenian: Վահե Մաքսիմի Հակոբյան, born May 18, 1977) is an Armenian politician and businessman who formerly served as governor of Syunik Province (2013-2014) and as a member of the National Assembly of Armenia. He is a member of the Republican Party of Armenia and serves on the party council. While in parliament, he was a member of the Standing Committee on Financial-Credit, Budgetary and Economic Affairs. He was not a member of any parliamentary faction or deputy group.

He was born in Kajaran, Armenia. From 1994 to 1999, he studied at the Institute of National Economy, specializing in economics. In 1999, he was admitted to the post-graduate course at the Institute of Economic Research of the Ministry of Finance and Economy at RA. In 1999, he was the chairman of the board of the company AVSAP, Ltd. From 2000 to 2002, he worked as the Head of the Monitoring unit of the Monitoring and Audit Department of the Ministry of State Property Management of Armenia. In 2003 he defended a scientific thesis and received the degree of Candidate of Sciences in Economics. From 2003 to 2004 he worked as the executive director of Zangezur Mining Company.

He was elected to the National Assembly of Armenia in 2004, 2007, and 2012.

References

External links
Image

Living people
1977 births
Republican Party of Armenia politicians
Stratton Sclavos

Stratton Sclavos (born 1961) is an entrepreneur, chief executive, and venture investor in the technology, professional sports and lifestyle industries. He is currently a partner at Vision Venture Partners.
 
He served as chairman and CEO of VeriSign Inc., a security services and network infrastructure company, from 1995 to 2007, leading the company for over a decade as VeriSign grew into a NASDAQ-traded corporation with over 5,000 employees, $1.7 billion in annual revenues and a market value of over $25 billion. As a recognized expert in internet security and telecommunications infrastructure, he sat on the President of the United States' National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee and was a senior advisor to the Director of National Intelligence.
 
Sclavos was a general partner at Radar Partners, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm.  Radar invests in early-stage technology companies such as BitGo, DUO Security and Sencha, and has seen recent successful exits of Appurify, Lattice Strategies, Pure Logic, and Sensity Systems.  Sclavos also had a substantial stake in Shark Sports & Entertainment, the parent company of the San Jose Sharks professional hockey team from 2001 to 2015, acting as Managing General Partner and CEO from 2011 thru 2015. Additionally, he has created or invested in restaurants, boutique hotels, and sports and wellness beverages.

Sclavos has a Bachelor of Science in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California, Davis. Sclavos joined VeriSign in 1995 as one of its first employees. Sclavos also sits on the board of directors of several public companies including Intuit, Juniper Networks, and Salesforce.com as well as sits on the University of Southern California (USC) President's Leadership Council.

References

External links

Interview with Stratton Sclavos
Vision Venture Partners Launch Forbes
Vision Venture Partners Launch ESPN

1961 births
Living people
American chief executives
American people of Greek descent
People from the San Francisco Bay Area
San Jose Sharks owners
University of California, Davis alumni
Love and Rockets (album)

Love and Rockets is the fourth studio album by English alternative rock band Love and Rockets; released in 1989 by Beggars Banquet Records on cassette, vinyl, and compact disc.

Background 

Love and Rockets dismissed Earth, Sun, Moon's folk sound in favour of a stronger rock sound. Hints of the band's former psychedelic and gothic rock sound remain. Chief songwriters Daniel Ash and David J had begun concentrating strictly on their own material (rather than writing together) on Earth, Sun, Moon.

The album featured Love and Rockets' biggest hit, the Ash-penned "So Alive". The song was a surprising number 3 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, and stayed at number 1 for five weeks on the US Modern Rock chart. Because of the popularity of the single in the US, Love and Rockets became the band's best-selling album in America. It did very well in Canada as well, being certified platinum there in 1989, largely on the strength of "So Alive" which was a #1 single.

After the release of the album, the band embarked on a long worldwide tour. Afterward, instead of recording a new album and a follow-up single to "So Alive", J and Ash both focused on their solo careers, continuing in the directions represented on this album. They each released two solo albums after the break (with drummer Kevin Haskins working primarily with Ash) before returning as a band to record Hot Trip to Heaven in 1994.

In 2002, the album was remastered and expanded into a double album. The bonus tracks featured a single remix, three b-sides, all five songs from the aborted Swing! EP, and a radio session. The Swing! project was to be an outlet for some of the band's eccentric output, but the material was never released, except for "Bad Monkey", which ended up on the Glittering Darkness EP in 1996.

"The Purest Blue" is a radical reworking of "Waiting for the Flood" from Earth, Sun, Moon, and "**** (Jungle Law)" was later reworked as "Bad Monkey", recorded as part of the Swing! project.

Track listing

Personnel

Love and Rockets
David J – vocals, bass guitar, harmonica, guitars, bass feedback, keyboards
Daniel Ash – vocals, guitars, saxophone, bass guitar, fuzz bass, keyboards
Kevin Haskins – drums, keyboards, samples, vibraphone, guitar feedback, percussion

Additional personnel
"Mr. Drum Machine" – drum programming on "The Purest Blue"
John Fryer – string synthesizer on "The Teardrop Collector"
Lorna Wright, Sylvia Mason-James, Ruby James – backing vocals on "So Alive"
Bill Thorp – string arrangement on "Rock & Roll Babylon" (Bill Thorp & Brian Brooks: violin; Josie Abbott: cello; Penny Thompson: viola)

Production
Produced by John Fryer & Love and Rockets
Recorded & Mixed by John Fryer at Blackwing Studios (London) except "The Purest Blue"; recorded & mixed by "Whispering Angus" at Far Heath Studios (Northamptonshire)

References 

1989 albums
Love and Rockets (band) albums
Albums produced by John Fryer (producer)
Beggars Banquet Records albums
RCA Records albums
Classic Albums: Nirvana – Nevermind

Classic Albums: Nirvana – Nevermind is a documentary DVD released by Eagle Vision in March 2005, as part of the Classic Albums series. It features interviews specifically for this release with Nirvana band members Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic, as well as Nevermind album producer Butch Vig about the recording of the album. Other interview highlights include Garry Gersh (A&R DGC Records), Jonathan Ponneman and Nils Bernstein (Sub Pop Records), Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth) and Jack Endino.

DVD features

Track listing (featuring excerpts from and the making of)
 "Smells Like Teen Spirit"
 "In Bloom"
 "Come as You Are"
 "Breed"
 "Lithium"
 "Polly"
 "Territorial Pissings"
 "Drain You"
 "Lounge Act"
 "Stay Away"
 "On a Plain"
 "Something in the Way"

Special feature information

Drain You [the story behind the making of the track]
Dave Grohl Joins Nirvana
Going to Record in LA
Making of the 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' Video
'Polly' [live in concert]
Nevermind: The Album Sleeve

Chart positions

Certifications

See also
 Nevermind
 Nevermind It's an Interview
 Nirvana discography

References

Classic Albums films
Nirvana (band) video albums
2005 video albums
The Southland (band)

The Southland was an American rock band from Los Angeles.  They featured Jed Whedon on keyboards and vocals, Ethan Phillips on bass guitar,  Andy Crosby on drums, Nick Gusikoff on guitar, and Danny Chaimson on keyboards.

The Southland's debut album, Influence of Geography, was released in June 2005. They toured regularly, and supported artists such as Toots & the Maytals, O.A.R., Gavin DeGraw, Tristan Prettyman, Jem, Virginia Coalition, Steel Pulse, and As Fast As. The song "Shadow" from the album Influence of Geography appeared on NBC-TV's Scrubs in late February 2006. They released an EP of demos called MacArthur Park in December 2022 that had been intended for an abandoned second album.

References

Musical groups from Los Angeles
Rock music groups from California
Thomas Minton

Thomas Minton (1765–1836) was an English potter. He founded Thomas Minton & Sons in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, which grew into a major ceramic manufacturing company with an international reputation.

During the early 1780s Thomas Minton was an apprentice engraver at the Caughley Pottery Works in Shropshire, under the proprietorship of Thomas Turner, working on copperplate engravings for the production of transferware. The engraver Thomas Lucas went from there to work for Josiah Spode at Stoke-on-Trent in 1783, taking some elements of the fashionable chinoiserie patterns with him. While at Caughley Thomas Minton is thought to have worked on chinoiserie landscape patterns including willows, and to have prepared copperplates of them: but the Salopian works never produced the standard willow pattern which includes the bridge and the fence in the foreground.

Minton left the Caughley works in 1785, and married Sarah in London in 1789. In 1793 he established his own pottery factory in Stoke-upon-Trent principally for the manufacture of white-glazed earthen tablewares or pearlware including blue transfer printed and painted wares. Variations of his willow and other designs were acquired by Spode and other factories, and it was in this context that the English willow pattern was created. He was favoured and employed by Josiah Spode, for whom he engraved a new version of the pattern. To Minton is also attributed the popular 'Buffalo' pattern engraved for Spode. He was assisted by Henry Doncaster of Penkhull: his pupil William Greatbatch (father of William Greatbatch (1802-1885), another notable engraver) became chief engraver for Spode and for the successor company, Copeland's.

In c. 1796 Minton went into partnership with Joseph Poulson, who produced ornamental bone china at a factory nearby, and from c.1798 Minton employed Poulson's factory for his own china wares. After Poulson's death in 1808 he continued china production there until 1816. In 1824 he built a new factory for china, on the basis of which the company of 'Thomas Minton and Sons', known more simply as 'Mintons', was developed. At his death in 1836 his son Herbert Minton (1793-1858) continued and redeveloped the business.

His portrait was made by James Northcote, R.A.

Sources

External links 
 English Potters - Thomas Minton

1765 births
1836 deaths
English potters
Staffordshire pottery
Artists from Stoke-on-Trent
John F. Ross

John F. Ross may refer to:

 John F. Ross Collegiate Vocational Institute, a public secondary school in Guelph, Ontario, Canada
 John F. Ross (author), American historian and author
New York State Route 344

New York State Route 344 (NY 344) is a state highway located in Columbia County, New York, in the United States. The route is  in length and serves primarily as an access road to the Bash Bish Falls state parks on both sides of the New York–Massachusetts border. The western terminus of NY 344 is at NY 22 in Copake Falls. Its eastern terminus is at the Massachusetts state line, where it continues into Bash Bish Falls State Park as Falls Road, a locally maintained highway. NY 344 was assigned  and extended to its current length by 1953 after NY 22 was rerouted to bypass Copake Falls.

Route description

NY 344 begins at an intersection with NY 22 in the hamlet of Copake Falls. The road heads to the southeast, turning eastward into Taconic State Park. NY 344 intersects with a few local roads at the border of the park, where it runs along the south base of Sunset Rock, an  high, dual-state mountain. The route continues eastward, along the base of Cedar Mountain before beginning to ascend the mountain. While climbing Cedar Mountain, NY 344 crosses into Massachusetts and becomes the unnumbered Falls Road, a local roadway providing access to Bash Bish Falls State Park.

History
NY 344 was assigned  to a  highway extending from Copake Falls in the west to the Massachusetts state line in the east. At the time, NY 22 served Copake Falls directly instead of bypassing it. NY 22 was rerouted to bypass Copake Falls on a new roadway to the west of the hamlet between 1947 and 1953. NY 344 was then extended northward on NY 22's former alignment to meet the new bypass north of Copake Falls. The southern half of NY 22's old routing into the hamlet remained state-maintained as well and is now New York State Route 980F, an unsigned reference route, and is signed on NY 22 as a southern branch of NY 344.

In August and October 1955, NY 344 and the Taconic State Park south of the road was inundated with floods damaging the blacktop surface highway. The reconstruction of NY 344 was the center point of debate came in late February 1956, where Paul Winslow, the executive secretary of the Taconic State Park Commission, who felt it was unimportant if the road was rebuilt. Local officials in the town of Copake opposed Winslow's view, noting that it only cost $35,000 (1956 USD) to reconstruct the road. In April 1956, the county contacted State Senator Ernest Hatfield that the road was barricaded in Copake Falls for the fact that there was no residences and the fact that the Massachusetts side was wiped out by the flooding. In November 1956, a bid was let for $49,329 to reconstruct NY 344 including the construction of drainage facilities and shoulders along the road. The slated completion date was for July 31, 1957. However, progress on reconstruction of NY 344 was nearly complete by March 1957.

Major intersections

See also

References

External links

344
Transportation in Columbia County, New York
Dalriada (disambiguation)

Dalriada can refer to:
 Dál Riata, a Gaelic kingdom in western Scotland and north-east Ireland in the Early Middle Ages
 Dalriada School, a co-educational, voluntary grammar school in Ballymoney, Northern Ireland
 Dalriada (band), Hungarian folk metal band
Shea Farm Halfway House

Shea Farm Halfway House is a state prison for women in New Hampshire, United States.

Located in Concord, New Hampshire, Shea Farm is a minimum security facility which opened in 1973. It is a transitional facility used to house adult prisoners preparing for release. It can accommodate up to 40 inmates, who are usually 6 months from parole eligibility.

External links
New Hampshire Community Corrections

Prisons in New Hampshire
Women's prisons in the United States
Buildings and structures in Concord, New Hampshire
1973 establishments in New Hampshire
Women in New Hampshire
Iser Kuperman

Iser Kuperman, sometimes spelled Koeperman, (; April 21, 1922 - March 6, 2006) was a player of international draughts from the USSR. He had been the seven-time world champion, the four-time Panamerican champion, and multiple USSR champion in international and Russian draughts. He was also an International Grandmaster.

Career 
Iser Kuperman was born in Habne, Ukrainian SSR (now Poliske, Kiev Oblast) on April 21, 1922 to a Jewish family. In 1945, he made his debut in the USSR Russian draughts championship and won first place. After that, Kuperman took first place three times. Then he began to play in international draughts and was USSR champion five times. Iser Kuperman was world champion in 1958, 1959, 1961, 1963, 1965, 1967, and 1974. He emigrated to Israel and then to the United States in 1978. After his emigration, any mention of him was purged from Soviet records.

After that, he became a Panamerican champion (1983, 1985, 1987 and 1995), a US champion in pool checkers, and won in their "Top Master" division from 1984 to 1990. This led him to be referred to as "The Greatest Pool Checkers Player of All Time" by the Homan Square Pool Checkers & Chess Club of Chicago.

Web source

References

Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad 7 March 2006

Ukrainian draughts players
Soviet draughts players
Pool checkers players
1922 births
2006 deaths
Players of international draughts
People from Poliske
Players of Russian draughts
Sportspeople from Kyiv Oblast
Bezoardicum

Bezoardicum (bezoar of) is a term applied to multiple substances used in alchemy and other practices:

Bezoardicum joviale, or bezoar of Jupiter, is a regulus made by melting three ounces of regulus of antimony and two of block tin. This is then powdered and mixed with six ounces of corrosive sublimate and distilled off in a kind of butter. It is then dissolved in spirit of nitre (nitric acid) and distilled three times. The bezoar remaining at the bottom is powdered, washed, and mixed with spirit of wine, until it grows insipid.
Bezoardicum lunale, or bezoar of the Moon, is made by mixing eight ounces of rectified butter of antimony with one of fine silver. This is dissolved in spirit of nitre, by gently pouring it on till the ebullition ceases. The spirit is then drawn off by a gentle heat, and the bezoar managed as in the preparation of bezaordicum joviale.
Bezoardicum martiale is a dissolution of Crocus Martis by reverberation in butter of antimony, with spirit of nitre poured on it. The rest is done according to the preparation of bezaordicum joviale.

References
 

Alchemical substances
Factory Interface Network Service

FINS, Factory Interface Network Service, is a network protocol used by Omron PLCs, over different physical networks like Ethernet, Controller Link, DeviceNet and RS-232C. 

The FINS communications service was developed by Omron to provide a consistent way for PLCs and computers on various networks to communicate. Compatible network types include Ethernet, Host Link, Controller Link, SYSMAC LINK, SYSMAC WAY, and Toolbus. FINS allows communications between nodes up to three network levels. A direct connection between a computer and a PLC via Host Link is not considered a network level.

References
Omron FINS Ethernet

Network protocols
Turmberg

The Turmberg (German: "Tower Hill") is a hill  (elevation: 256 m) located in Durlach, a suburb of Karlsruhe in Germany. It is home to a castle ruin.

The Turmberg can be reached by the Turmbergbahn, a funicular railway.  The original railway used water to counterbalance the rail cars, but now it is run on electricity.

Mountains and hills of Baden-Württemberg
Karlsruhe
Tourist attractions in Karlsruhe
Zook

Zook can refer to the following:

People
 Chris Zook, business writer
 John Zook (1947–2020), National Football League player
 Frederic Zook, President of Ottawa University and former mayor of Ottawa, Kansas
 George F. Zook (1885-1951), American educator
 Matthew Zook, geographer
 R. Harold Zook (1889-1949), American architect
 Ron Zook (born 1954), American football coach
 Samuel K. Zook (1821-63), Union army general killed at Gettysburg

Places
 Zook, Kansas, Pawnee County, Kansas
 14267 Zook, an asteroid

Entertainment
 Zook (band), a Finnish rock band
 Zook (character), a DC Comics alien associated with the Martian Manhunter
 a creature designed by a contestant on the BBC game show Bamzooki
 Zook, someone who eats their bread butter side down in Dr. Seuss's The Butter Battle Book
 Zooks, enemies in the platform video game The Kore Gang

See also
 Zook House (disambiguation)
List of Christmas films

Many Christmas stories have been adapted to feature films and TV specials, and have been broadcast and repeated many times on television. Since the popularization of home video in the 1980s, these films are sold and re-sold every year during the holiday shopping season. Many networks, studios, and production companies, such as Lifetime or Hallmark, produce and release new Christmas-themed films every year during or around December, all with different variations of similar plots and themes.

One film that has become the flashpoint for "Is this a Christmas movie or not?" debates is the original Die Hard (1988), alongside argument lines that either view the Bruce Willis-starring action film as a genuine "Christmas movie" intertwined with its action genre setting, or as a film that is simply set around that time of year.

Theatrical
Christmas-themed films which received a theatrical release.

A Christmas Carol adaptations

The Nutcracker adaptations

Christmas action films

Christmas horror films

Christmas Thriller films

Short films

Made-for-television and direct-to-video
These are films that were made for television (including streaming services), or for the direct-to-video or direct-to-DVD market.

Family

A Christmas Carol adaptations

Christmas animals

Children's

Adult/horror

TV series

Comedy

Fantasy/Superhero

Family

Children's

Drama

Romance

Adult/horror/thriller/crime

See also

 List of highest grossing Christmas films
 List of Christmas television specials
 Christmas by medium
 Santa Claus in film
 List of Easter films

References

 
Films
Lists of films set around holidays
NGC 7318

NGC 7318 (also known as UGC 12099/UGC 12100 or HCG 92d/b) is a pair of colliding galaxies about 280 million light-years from Earth. They appear in the Constellation Pegasus and are members of Stephan's Quintet.

The Spitzer Space Telescope revealed the presence of a large intergalactic shock wave, shown by an arc produced by NGC 7318b colliding with the group at ≥ 900 km/sec.  As NGC 7318b collides with NGC 7318a, atoms of hydrogen in the cluster's gas are heated by the shock wave, producing the green glow.  The molecular hydrogen visible in the collision is one of the  most turbulent forms known.  This phenomenon was discovered by an international team of scientists of the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics (MPIK) in Heidelberg.  This collision can help provide a view into what happened in the early universe, around 10 billion years ago.

References

External links
 
 Hickson 92 in Pegasus
 SIMBAD: VV 288 -- Interacting Galaxies
 SIMBAD: UGC 12100—Interacting Galaxies

Barred spiral galaxies
Interacting galaxies
Elliptical galaxies
Peculiar galaxies
Stephan's Quintet
Pegasus (constellation)
7318
12099
69260
319
Newstead, Nottinghamshire

Newstead is a village and civil parish in Nottinghamshire, England in the borough of Gedling. It is situated between the city of Nottingham and the towns of Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Sutton-in-Ashfield and Hucknall.

A former coal mining village, and previously called Newstead Colliery Village. Lord Byron, the poet, lived at nearby Newstead Abbey. The parish is part of Nottinghamshire's Hidden Valleys. It has a population of 1,194, increasing to 1,312 at the 2011 census.

Newstead Primary School is a state run primary school for children aged 5 to 11.

Newstead railway station is on the Robin Hood Line, which runs from Nottingham to Worksop.

Newstead Colliery Village

The colliery village was built at Newstead in the late-19th century for miners at Newstead and Annesley Collieries. Newstead Colliery operated between 1874 and 1987.

The former mining location has now been redeveloped into a nature reserve and business park. Hazelford Way Industrial Estate is home to several large companies including Bunches Florapost; Badgemaster; and Leivers and Millership.

Gallery

Notable people
Richard Allsebrook, footballer
Michael Shelton, Paralympic gold medal-winning snooker player

See also
Listed buildings in Newstead, Nottinghamshire

References

External links

Headstock Music Festival
Newstead Abbey Historic House and Gardens

Villages in Nottinghamshire
Civil parishes in Nottinghamshire
Gedling
Roger Walker (actor)

Roger Walker (born 22 December 1944 in Bristol, England) is an English actor.

He moved to Derby at an early age and was a drama teacher at Tupton Hall School in Derbyshire in the early 1970s. His first television appearance was as a replacement for Matthew Corbett as a singer on the popular children's television show, “Rainbow”, in 1976. He appeared on the show for four years, before being replaced by Freddy Marks in 1980.

He had many television roles during the 1980s and early 1990s, including Terry and June, Big Deal, Emmerdale Farm, Bodger and Badger and The Darling Buds of May.

He played the role of Bunny Charlson in the soap opera Eldorado in 1992. Since then, he has guest-starred in long-running series such as Casualty, Peak Practice, The Queen's Nose, The Bill and Heartbeat. He also played Bill Parrish in EastEnders in 2002.

His theatre credits include work with the RSC and the Peter Hall Company. He has toured extensively and made numerous appearances in the West End.

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1944 births
Living people
Male actors from Bristol
Male actors from Derbyshire
Actors from Derby
Kenneth Peach

Kenneth D. Peach, Sr. (March 6, 1903 – February 27, 1988) was an American cinematographer.

Biography
Kenneth D. Peach Sr. was born in El Reno, Indian Territory (in what is now Oklahoma). Peach entered the film industry in 1923 and became a director of photography in 1926. He worked with composite processes, miniatures, montages and matte shots for Tiffany Pictures for two years, then joined Fred Jackman's technical effects department at Warner Bros.- First National for three years. In 1931 he joined RKO Pictures' special effects department. In 1933 he began a long association with producer Hal Roach of Hal Roach Studios, where he shot several  Laurel and Hardy films (Dirty Work, Sons of the Desert). In his later career, he worked in both film and television, in TV series such as Lassie (73 episodes, 1958–1960), The Outer Limits (25 episodes, 1964–1965), H.R. Pufnstuf (17 episodes, 1969–1970), Taxi (59 episodes, 1980–1983), before retiring in 1984.

He was married to actress Pauline Curley from 1922 until his death. They had two sons, cinematographer Kenneth Peach, Jr., and Martin Peach, who worked  as a key grip on the Disney television series, Wizards of Waverly Place and a daughter Pauline A. Reynolds.

Peach died on February 27, 1988, eight days before his 85th birthday. He and his wife Pauline (who died on December 16, 2000) are buried together in the Lincoln Terrace section of Forest Lawn-Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles, California.

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Solor Archipelago

The Solor Archipelago () is a group of islands in the Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia, lying to the east of Flores and to the west of the Alor Strait and the Alor Archipelago. To the north is the west part of the Banda Sea, while to the south across the Savu Sea lies the island of Timor. The largest islands are, from west to east, Solor, Adonara, and Lembata (formerly known as Lomblen), although there are many small islands as well.

Administratively, the islands of Solor and Adonara are included within the East Flores Regency, while Lembata (with smaller offshore islands) forms its own regency (kabupaten), the Lembata Regency. Both regencies lie within the province of East Nusa Tenggara. The islands are listed below with their areas and their populations at the 2010 Census and the 2020 Census, and according to the official estimates for mid 2021, together with the number of administrative districts (kecamatan) on each island.

In addition to the national language of Indonesian, the population also speak Lamaholot as a lingua franca. There are also many local languages, for example Adonara which is spoken on Adonara and Solor.

On the South coast of Lembata, the village of Lamalera (pop. 2,500) is known for its hunting of the sperm whale and other deep-sea species.  This is allowed under International Whaling Commission regulations around aboriginal whaling but conservationists worry that commercial whaling is also done.  Lamalera and Lamakera (on the neighbouring island of Solor) are the last two remaining Indonesian whaling communities.

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Lesser Sunda Islands
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Grunty

Grunty may refer to:
 A cow-like creature from the .hack series. See Grunties .
 Gruntilda, the main villain of the Banjo-Kazooie series.

See also

 Grunt (disambiguation)
Alor Strait

Alor Strait  (also Alloo Strait) divides the Solor Archipelago from the Alor Archipelago, in the Lesser Sunda Islands of Indonesia. It lies mainly between the larger islands of Pantar and Lembata. 
The strait connects the western part of the Banda Sea in the north to the Savu Sea in the south.

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Straits of Indonesia
Lesser Sunda Islands
List of Home Improvement episodes

Home Improvement is an American television sitcom starring Tim Allen, that aired on ABC from September 17, 1991, to May 25, 1999, with 204 approx. 22-minute episodes produced spanning 8 seasons.

Series overview

Episodes

Season 1 (1991–92)

Season 2 (1992–93)

Season 3 (1993–94)

Season 4 (1994–95)

Season 5 (1995–96)

Season 6 (1996–97)

Season 7 (1997–98)

Season 8 (1998–99)

References 

Lists of American sitcom episodes
Lists of Disney television series episodes
Episodes
Asteroid hyalosis

Asteroid hyalosis is a degenerative condition of the eye involving small white opacities in the vitreous humor.  It is known to occur in humans, dogs, cats, horses, and chinchillas.  Clinically, these opacities are quite refractile, giving the appearance of stars shining in the night sky—except that ocular asteroids are often quite mobile.  Ocular asteroids must be distinguished from the more common typical vitreous floaters, which are usually fibrillar or cellular condensates.  The cause of asteroid hyalosis is unknown, but it has been associated with diabetes mellitus, hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, and, in certain animals, tumors of the ciliary body.  In dogs, asteroid hyalosis is considered to be an age-related change.  The asteroid bodies are made up of hydroxylapatite, which in turn consists of calcium and phosphates or phospholipids.  While asteroid hyalosis does not usually severely affect vision, the floating opacities can be quite annoying, and may interfere significantly with visualization and testing of the retina.  While treatment of asteroid hyalosis is usually unnecessary, vitrectomy may occasionally be indicated, for both diagnostic and therapeutic purposes.

See also
Synchysis scintillans

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Dog diseases
Eye diseases
Gilbert Monture

Gilbert Clarence Monture,  (August 27, 1896 – June 19, 1973) was a Canadian civil servant.

A Mohawk born on August 27, 1896, on the Six Nations of the Grand River in Brant County, Ontario, and the great grandson of Joseph Brant. Monture served with the Royal Canadian Field Artillery as a gunner during World War I. After the war, he received Bachelor of Science degree in Mining and Metallurgy from Queen's University in 1921.

Joining the Canadian civil service in 1923, he was an editor of publications for the Department of Mines and Resources and in 1929 became chief of the Mineral Resources Division, Department of Mines and Technical Surveys in Ottawa. During World War II, he worked in the Department of Munitions and Supply. In 1946, he was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for his work with the Board.

He resigned from the civil service in 1956 and became Vice-President of Stratmat, Canadian mineral exploration and development company. In 1957, he received the Indian Achievement Award of the Indian Council Fire for notable contributions in his field. In 1958, he was appointed an honorary chief of the Mohawk tribe of the Six Nations Reserve.

In 1967, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.  He is a member of Canada's Indian Hall of Fame. In 1966, he was awarded the Vanier Medal, awarded to "a person who has shown distinctive leadership and accomplishment in Canadian public service".   He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the University of Western Ontario.

He was a member of the Board of Governors of Trent University from 1966 to 1973. Monture House, near Rubidge Hall, at Trent University was named after him. He died on June 19, 1973, in Ottawa.

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Canadian military personnel of World War I
Officers of the Order of Canada
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Canadian Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Six Nations of the Grand River
Asteroid body

An asteroid body is a microscopic finding seen within the giant cells of granulomas in diseases such as sarcoidosis and foreign-body giant cell reactions.

There is controversy about their composition. Traditionally, they were thought to be cytoskeletal elements and to consist primarily of vimentin.  However, more recent research suggested that that was incorrect and that they may be composed of lipids arranged into bilayer membranes.

They were also once thought to be related to centrioles, an organelle involved in cell division in eukaryotes.

See also
Asteroid
Centriole
Schaumann body
Granulomatous diseases
Sarcoidosis

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References

Histopathology
Vizela

Vizela () is a municipality in the Braga District in Portugal. The population in 2011 was 23,736, in an area of 24.70 km².

The present mayor is Vitor Hugo Salgado, elected as an independent. The municipal holiday is March 19.

History
In August 2000, an outbreak of Legionaires' disease occurred in Vizela. A total of 11 persons infected with Legionnaires' disease, all of them inhabitants of Vizela, were admitted to the Guimarães Hospital. There were no fatalities. All infectees had been in the main square of Vizela in the night of August 11–12, 2000, where the annual festivities of the municipality were being held. Investigators traced the source of the outbreak to a decorative fountain located in the square.

Parishes

Administratively, the municipality is divided into 5 civil parishes (freguesias):
 Caldas de Vizela (São Miguel e São João)
 Infias
 Santa Eulália
 Santo Adrião de Vizela
 Tagilde e Vizela (São Paio)

Sport

Minigolf: Vizela has a miniature golf club association called Vizelgolfe equipped with two courses. In 2016 Vizela hosted the Minigolf European Championship and the Nations cup (Vizela Open 16). Vizelgolfe is a member of the Portuguese Minigolf Association.
Football: Futebol Clube de Vizela is a professional football club based in the city.

Notable people 
 Gundisalvus of Amarante (1187–1259) a Catholic priest and a professed member from the Dominican Order of Preachers.
 João Pedro (born 1989) a former footballer with 195 club caps for F.C. Vizela.
 Carla Salomé Rocha (born 1990) a long-distance runner.

References

External links
 Municipality official website 

Towns in Portugal
Municipalities of Braga District
RAF Oulton

Royal Air Force Oulton or more simply RAF Oulton is a former Royal Air Force satellite station located  west of Aylsham, Norfolk and  northwest of Norwich, Norfolk, England.

The airfield was built over 1939 and 1940 as a bomber airfield with T2 type hangars and grass runways, the facility operating as a satellite airfield of nearby RAF Horsham St. Faith between July 1940 and September 1942 after which it operated as a satellite airfield of RAF Swanton Morley.

History

In September 1943, Oulton was transferred from 2 Group to 3 Group and closed to flying for re-construction as a heavy bomber base with concrete runways, taxiways and parking areas.  The work was completed in April 1944 and the airfield transferred to No. 100 Group RAF. Flying operations ceased at the end of July 1945, after which it was taken over by RAF Maintenance Command which used it to store de Havilland Mosquitos until November 1947.

Additional Units
 No. 18 Heavy Glider Maintenance Section
 No. 274 Maintenance Unit RAF
 No. 1428 (Ferry Training) Flight RAF
 No. 2873 Squadron RAF Regiment
 No. 2874 Squadron RAF Regiment

Current use

The site is now farmland.

Museum
The RAF Oulton Museum is housed on the Blickling Hall estate, belonging to the National Trust.

See also
 List of former Royal Air Force stations

References

Citations

Bibliography
Bowyer, J.F. Action Stations 1: Wartime military airfields of East Anglia 1939. Wellingborough, UK: Patrick Stephens Limited, Second edition, 1990. .
"Your Questions Answered...Oulton, Norfolk". Air Pictorial, October 1967. p. 373.

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Royal Air Force stations of World War II in the United Kingdom
Johannes Zumpe

Johannes (Johann Christoph) Zumpe (pronounced zumpy; 14 June 1726 in Fürth, Free Imperial City of Nuremberg, modern Germany – buried 5 December 1790 in London, UK) was a leading maker of early English square pianos, a form of rectangular piano with a compass of about five octaves. The pianos sounded like mellow harpsichords, and had a damper stop in the left cheek of the case. Zumpe is known as the creator of English square pianos.

Biography 
Of German/Saxon origin, 
Johnannes Zumpe was born in June 1726. He trained with the Gottfried Silbermann. He was one of the “twelve Apostles”, German makers of keyboard instruments who fled to London at the time of the Seven Years' War. He worked briefly for Burkat Shudi, before setting up his own shop “at the sign of the Golden Guittar” in Princes Street, Hanover Square, in 1761.

From 1769 until 24 September 1778, Zumpe was in partnership with Gabriel Buntebart. Meincke Meyer joined Zumpe in 1778. The business was taken over in 1783 by Frederick Schoene, who advertised his piano-making firm as "Successors to Johannes Zumpe".

Zumpe married Elizabeth Beeston on 3 December 1760. His will, dated 1784, gives his address as Queen Charlotte Row in the parish of St Mary-le-Bow.

Pianos 
The pianos in Zumpe's style were built from about 1760 to 1800.  In Zumpe's day they played a role not unlike the upright piano of today:  they were more compact and affordable than the full-size wing-shaped instrument.  As such, they played an important role in the spread of the piano among musicians, particularly amateurs.  By the time the last Zumpe pianos were made, the piano had essentially displaced the harpsichord from its formerly predominant position.

Johann Christian Bach performed on a Zumpe instrument, and possibly acted as a sales agent for Zumpe pianos. Although most famous for his square pianos, other Zumpe instruments survive, including full-sized pianos, harpsichords, an English guitar of 1762, and a mandora of 1764.

Action 
The action of these small instruments is known as the "English single" and is unusually simple (for instance, it is far simpler than the original piano action as invented by Bartolomeo Cristofori.)  It consists of a small "sticker" simply pushing up on a hammer, while a rod passing through the hitch pin plank lifted up a damper lever hinged from a rail attached to the spine.  The action is illustrated below.

Action parts:

 key; the portion pressed by the player is on the far right
 jack; a wire with leather stud on top, known by the workmen as the "old man's head"
 whalebone rear guide, projects from the end of the key, works in a groove to keep the key steady
 hammer; strikes the string to produce sound
 whalebone jack, called the mopstick
 damper; when in lowered position stops the sound of the string
 whalebone damper spring

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18th-century German people
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1726 births
1783 deaths
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