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Oley Valley High School

Oley Valley High School is a high school in Oley Valley, Pennsylvania, United States. The current  principal is Gina Finnerty, and the assistant principal is William Harrison.

History
Oley Valley High School was built in 1961. The current high school was adjacent to the Oley Valley School District Administration building, which was formerly the Oley Valley K-5 building until 1993. In 2018, the Administration Building was demolished and only a grass field remains.

The high school was renovated in 1981 to have a joint middle school. In 2002, a new separate middle school was built and the left-over wing was incorporated into the high school, primarily as the "history wing".

The school district superintendent was Jeffrey Zackon, until he unfortunately died due to a heart attack during the German class trip, on April 20, 2011, while in the Swiss Alps. The Oley Valley School District's current superintendent is Tracy Shank.

Athletics
The baseball team won the county championship for the first time in 28 years. The girls' field hockey team has won at least three Berks County titles, two PIAA district titles, and one state title.

The girls' basketball team and the baseball team have enjoyed PIAA District titles and state appearances.

Events
The Oley Valley FFA Chapter placed first in the United States in Environmental Science and FFA National Convention in Indianapolis, Indiana.

The school made the national news on January 24, 2002, when a 62-old bus driver, named Otto Nuss, took 13 children on an unauthorized five-hour detour of  to Landover Hills, Maryland outside Washington, D.C., on what was supposed to be a 6-mile, 15-minute trip to Berks Christian School in Birdsboro, Pennsylvania. On September 23, 2003, Nuss was sentenced to 4 years in prison for federal kidnapping.

A student wearing a gorilla mask and armed with a banana climbed onto the roof of the high school on February 15, 2005, as a prank. This prompted police, the FBI, a bomb squad and a state police helicopter to respond. The student was charged with disorderly conduct and trespassing 

The school won the 2006 Envirothon, the most popular high school environmental knowledge competition in North America.

Notable alumni 
 Carl Mathias, retired MLB player

References

External links
 Official site

Public high schools in Pennsylvania
Educational institutions established in 1961
Schools in Berks County, Pennsylvania
1961 establishments in Pennsylvania
Bad Sassendorf

Bad Sassendorf is a municipality in the district of Soest, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

History
From the 8th century, the area around the Soester plain was under the Merovingian dynasty. The name “Sassendorf” indicates that it was a Saxon settlement. Mention was made of salt springs in the area appear in the 10th century, and were noted by the ambassador of the Caliphate of Cordoba to the court of Emperor Otto the Great in 973. Along with the surrounding area, the village was under the control of the Archbishopric of Cologne from at least the 12th century; however exploitation of the salt springs was the right of free peasant families in the area. 
From the 19th century, the brine produced in the area was used for bathing and medicinal purposes, and the first therapy center or spa was opened in 1852. Commercial salt production faced declining yields, and was largely discontinued in 1934, and completely discontinued by 1952. The village was renamed from “Sassendorf” to Bad Sassendorf officially in 1906.

From February 15, 1944, to April 4–5, 1945, inmates of the Neuengamme concentration camp used as the Eisenbahnbaubrigade 11 repaired rail tracks at the railway station Soest and between Bad Sassendorf and Soest. They slept in freight train waggons on the track between Bad Sassendorf and Soest. After an air raid end-February 1945 the inmates slept in a nearby farm. At the cemetery Bad Sassendorf a memorial plaque is installed on the burying place of the dead.

Geography
It is situated approximately 4 km northeast of Soest.

Neighbouring municipalities
 Anröchte
 Erwitte
 Lippetal
 Lippstadt
 Möhnesee
 Soest
 Warstein

Division of the town 
Bad Sassendorf consists of 12 districts:
 Bad Sassendorf
 Bettinghausen
 Beusingsen
 Elfsen
 Gabrechten
 Heppen
 Herringsen
 Lohne
 Neuengeseke
 Opmünden
 Ostinghausen
 Weslarn

Twin towns
  Gaming (Austria)

Notes

External links 
 Official site 

Spa towns in Germany
Soest (district)
Soest Börde
The Matlock Paper

The Matlock Paper is the third suspense novel by Robert Ludlum, in which a solitary protagonist comes face to face with a massive criminal conspiracy.

Its protagonist, James Barbour Matlock, is an English professor in his 30s who is recruited by the Department of Justice to investigate a drug smuggling ring, led by a mysterious figure named "Nimrod". The novel is set at the fictitious Carlyle University in Connecticut, a thinly disguised Wesleyan University in Middletown, Ludlum's alma mater.

Publication history

1973, US, Dial Press , Pub date April 1973, Hardback
1974, US, Dell , Pub date April 15, 1974, Paperback
1973, UK, Grafton  Pub date July 9, 1973, Hardback
2002, UK, HarperCollins , Pub date April 15, 2002, Paperback

Novels by Robert Ludlum
1973 American novels
Novels set in Connecticut
Wesleyan University
Nimrod
Azita Sahebjam

Azita Sahebjam is the director of Vancouver Pars National Ballet. She also acted in the movie The Neighbor directed by Naghmeh Shirkhan.

References

External links
 An Iranian Canadian folklore dance company

Ballet teachers
Iranian female dancers
Iranian emigrants to Canada
Canadian ballerinas
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Ense

Ense () is a municipality in the district of Soest, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Geography
Ense is situated on the river Möhne, approx. 12 km north-west of Arnsberg and 12 km south-west of Soest. Ense lies at the north side of the Sauerland and at the south side of the Haarstrang.

Neighbouring municipalities
 Arnsberg
 Möhnesee
 Soest
 Werl
 Wickede

Division of the town 
Ense consists of the following 15 districts:
 Bilme (47 inhabitants)
 Bittingen (99 inhabitants)
 Bremen (Ense) (3.135 inhabitants)
 Gerlingen (66 inhabitants)
 Höingen (1.964 inhabitants)
 Hünningen (523 inhabitants)
 Lüttringen (990 inhabitants)
 Niederense (3.366 inhabitants)
 Oberense (276 inhabitants)
 Parsit (933 inhabitants)
 Ruhne (325 inhabitants)
 Sieveringen (352 inhabitants)
 Vierhausen
 Volbringen (137 inhabitants)
 Waltringen (671 inhabitants)

Twin towns
  Éleu-dit-Leauwette (France) -- since 1989
  Burkardroth (Germany)

References

External links
  

Soest (district)
Lippetal

Lippetal is a municipality in the district of Soest, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Geography 
Lippetal is located north and south of the river Lippe between the cities of Lippstadt () and Hamm (). Lippetal is situated at the northern boundary of the Soester Börde, south of the river Lippe and the southern Münsterland in north of the river. The river Lippe flows from east to the west through the municipality.

Division of the municipality 
There are eleven villages in Lippetal:

Neighbouring Places 
 Ahlen
 Bad Sassendorf
 Beckum
 Hamm
 Lippstadt
 Soest
 Wadersloh

History 
The municipality Lippetal was created by administrative reorganization in 1969. Lippetal was made with eleven villages from three different districts.

The villages are mostly old Saxon settlements. The villages Oestinghausen and Lippborg were first mentioned in 1189, Hovestadt in 1213, and the place of pilgrimage Herzfeld in a document in 786.

Personalities 
William Finnemann (1882-1942), priest of the Society of the Divine Word, auxiliary bishop of Manila and apostolic vicar of Calapan,
 Leon (* 1969 as  Jürgen Göbel ) German percussionist
 Dirk Langerbein (* 1971)  former football goalkeeper, now goalkeeper coach

References

External links 
 Official site 

Soest (district)
Ed Crombie

Ed Crombie (born October 13, 1945, in Williams Lake, British Columbia) is a former Canadian-born United States Auto Club Championship Car race car driver.

He made four starts with a best finish of 7th at Mosport in 1977. He failed to qualify for the 1976 Indianapolis 500.

See also
List of Canadians in Champ Car

External links
Career Stats

Racing drivers from British Columbia
1945 births
Living people
People from the Cariboo Regional District
20th-century Canadian people
Oklahoma State Highway 19

State Highway 19, abbreviated as SH-19, is a  highway running through the southern part of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. It is signed east–west.

Route description

SH-19 begins at an intersection with US-283 in Blair, Oklahoma. SH-19 heads east from Blair for 23 miles (37 km) without intersecting another highway before meeting U.S. Highway 183 north of Roosevelt. It continues eastward, sharing a 3-mile (4.8 km) section of road with State Highway 54 before splitting off to the east and briefly overlapping with SH-115 and State Highway 58.

The next town Highway 19 encounters is Apache, north of Lake Ellsworth, where it crosses U.S. Highway 62/281. Nine miles (14½ km) later, it overlaps with U.S. Highway 277 at Cyril. These two overlap with US-81 near Ninnekah, but SH-19 splits off to the east once again within 3 miles (4.8 km).

After splitting off, SH-19 travels in a southeast direction to have a brief concurrency with State Highway 76 through Lindsay. 10 miles (16 km) later it intersects with State Highway 74 at a four-way stop in Maysville. Still continuing southeast, 10 miles (16 km) later it has an interchange with Interstate 35 and an intersection with U.S. Highway 77 in Pauls Valley.

After passing through the Pauls Valley area, SH-19 crosses U.S. Highway 177 west of Stratford, Oklahoma. It then ends, concurrent with SH-3W at the Richardson Loop outside of Ada.

Spurs
SH-19 has two lettered spurs.

 SH-19C runs for one mile (1.6 km) from SH-19 to Alex. It was commissioned on August 7, 1950.
 SH-19D runs for one mile (1.6 km) from SH-19 to Bradley.

Junction list

References

External links
SH-19 at OKHighways

019
Ada, Oklahoma
Transportation in Jackson County, Oklahoma
Transportation in Kiowa County, Oklahoma
Transportation in Caddo County, Oklahoma
Transportation in Grady County, Oklahoma
Transportation in Garvin County, Oklahoma
Transportation in Pontotoc County, Oklahoma
Rocky Mountain Rage

The Rocky Mountain Rage were a professional ice hockey team that played in the Central Hockey League between the 2006–07 and 2008-09 seasons.  They played their home games at the Broomfield Event Center in Broomfield, Colorado.

On June 18, 2009, the team announced it was suspending operations for the 2009–10 CHL season with hopes of returning in 2010–11, but went defunct.

Year-by-year record

Regular season

Playoffs

All-Stars

Players
 2007 David Noah, Goalie
 2007 Mark Wires, Left Wing
 2008 Tyler Butler, Defenseman
 2008 Brent Cullaton, Right Wing, Starter, North Captain, North MVP
 2008 Scott Reid, Goalie
 2008 Scott Wray, Left Wing, Starter
 2009 Daymen Rycroft, Center

References

External links 
Rocky Mountain Rage - broken link
"All The Rage" - Rocky Mountain Rage Booster Club - broken link

Ice hockey teams in Colorado
Broomfield, Colorado
Conflict Catcher

Conflict Catcher is a discontinued utility software application that was written by Jeff Robbin and published by Casady & Greene for classic Mac OS. It aided Macintosh users in solving conflicts between Mac OS that could occur on startup when a large amount of extensions and control panels were installed (see Extension conflict). Later versions of Conflict Catcher included a playable Asteroids game as an easter egg in the About menu. Conflict Catcher included a printed manual written by David Pogue.

A Mac OS X version was never released, since the extension mechanisms in Mac OS X do not have extension conflicts. The last version of Conflict Catcher was version 9, for Mac OS 9, sales were already declining and in 2003 Casady & Greene filed for bankruptcy. Conflict Catcher 9 was priced at $63, significantly higher than average prices for utility software.

References

Computer-related introductions in 1994
Classic Mac OS software
List of Planetes episodes

This is a list of episodes of the Japanese animated TV series .

Overview
It began airing its 26-episode run on NHK BS-2 on October 4, 2003, and ended on February 23, 2004. Produced and animated by Sunrise, it was directed by Gorō Taniguchi and scripted by Ichirō Ōkouchi (both of whom would later reunite in 2006 to work on the Sunrise original production Code Geass). The anime began development and production before the end of the manga serialization. In the beginning and middle of the series, the writing and production staff only had the first three volumes of the manga as source. In order to fill the entire 26-episode run of the anime, new characters, new settings and new relationships between characters were made in order to increase dramatic tension, reinforce themes introduced in the manga, and introduce new themes that were compatible with the manga. While the manga deals more with existential themes, and humanity's relationship with space, the anime further expands the political elements of the story.

The music of Planetes is a mixture of traditional orchestral music, supplemented by chorals, several uses of a theremin, and traditional Japanese woodwinds (e.g. Shakuhachi). The music score was composed by Kōtarō Nakagawa and produced by Victor Entertainment. The opening theme is "Dive in the Sky" by Mikio Sakai, and the ending themes are "Wonderful Life" by Mikio Sakai for episodes 1-25 and "Planetes" by Hitomi Kuroishi for episode 26. There are two insert songs, "A Secret of the Moon" by Hitomi Kuroishi, used in various episodes, and "Thanks My Friend" by Mikio Sakai used in episode 13.

Episodes

See also
Planetes
List of Planetes chapters

References
Specific

General
 

Planetes
Episodes
Ed Kostenuk

Ed Kostenuk (October 12, 1925 in Victoria, British Columbia – September 2, 1997) is a former USAC IndyCar racecar driver.

He made six starts from 1962 to 1964 with a best finish of eleventh place. He failed to qualify for the 1962 Indianapolis 500.

See also
List of Canadians in Champ Car

References

Career Stats

1925 births
1997 deaths
Racing drivers from British Columbia
Sportspeople from Victoria, British Columbia

Canadian racing drivers
Belasica

Belasica (Macedonian and Bulgarian: , also translit. Belasitsa or Belasitza, Ottoman Turkish: بلش Turkish: Beleş), Belles (, Bélles) or Kerkini (, Kerkíni;), is a mountain range in the region of Macedonia in Southeastern Europe, shared by northeastern Greece (about 45%), southeastern North Macedonia (35%) and southwestern Bulgaria (20%).

Geography
The mountain range is fault-block mountain about  long and  wide and is situated just northeast of Dojran Lake. The highest point is Radomir (Kalabaka) at 2,031 m, with elevation otherwise ranging between 300 and 1900 m above sea level. The borders of all three countries meet at Tumba Peak. The climate in the area shows strong Mediterranean influence.

The area of Belasica became a euroregion in 2003. Two football teams are named after the mountain range, PFC Belasitsa from the nearby Bulgarian town of Petrich and FC Belasica from Strumica in North Macedonia.

History
Since ancient times Greeks refer to the range as Ὄρβηλος (Modern Greek: , Ancient Greek: ). According to the ancient authors it was a mountain range in the border area between Thrace and Macedonia. It is generally equated today with the modern Belasica. The name Órbēlos is probably derived from the ancient Thracian/Paionian toponym of the mountain, which means "shining mountain", from belos – "blazing" or "shining", and or – "mountain". It was known for its Dionysos cult. 

The area is also particularly famous for the Battle of Kleidion of 1014, which proved crucial for the fall of the First Bulgarian Empire.

Honour
Kongur Glacier on Smith Island, South Shetland Islands is named after the peak and nature reserve of Kongur on Belasitsa Mountain.

Photo gallery

See also
Belasitsa Nature Park
Smolare Falls

References
Belasitsa. Tourist map, Sofia, 2006.
Благоевъ, Т. А. Бѣласица. София, 1925.
Динчев, Евг., Атанасов, П. Високите планини на Република Македония. Пътеводител, София, 1998, стр. 214–224.
"Енциклопедия Пирински край". Том 1, Благоевград, 1995, стр. 78.

References

External links

Belasitsa.com (regional portal)
Image Gallery From Belasica 

Rhodope mountain range
Mountain ranges of Greece
Mountain ranges of North Macedonia
Mountain ranges of Bulgaria
Landforms of Blagoevgrad Province
Geography of Macedonia (region)
Bulgaria–Greece border
Bulgaria–North Macedonia border
Greece–North Macedonia border
International mountains of Europe
Landforms of Kilkis (regional unit)
Landforms of Serres (regional unit)
Landforms of Central Macedonia
SkyBar

The SkyBar (or Skybar) is a bar and lounge inside the Mondrian Hotel, in Los Angeles, California. It was opened in December 1996 by Rande Gerber. It features an outdoor area with a pool overlooking West Hollywood, as well an indoor area with bar. It is known for being visited by celebrities.

SkyBar is used by William Gibson in his 2007 novel Spook Country as a meeting place between the protagonist Hollis Henry and her employer Hubertus Bigend. In Shakira's 2010 song, "Men in This Town", she mentions SkyBar: I went to look / From the Sky Bar to the Standard, nothing took.

, the Mondrian Hotel is owned by SBE Entertainment Group, which also has SkyBar branded lounges in Nassau, Bahamas, and Miami Beach, Florida.

References

External links
 

Nightclubs in Los Angeles County, California
1996 establishments in California
Seminaries of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod

The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS) operates two seminaries for the formation of its pastors: Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri, and Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Both seminaries grant the Master of Divinity degree which is ordinarily required to be ordained in the LCMS. They also offer a "colloquy" program for pastors who were ordained in other church bodies and want to join the LCMS. Advanced degrees such as Doctor of Philosophy and Master of Sacred Theology are also offered.

The seminaries operate independently of the Concordia University System, which comprises ten undergraduate institutions of the LCMS.

External links
Concordia Seminary, St. Louis
Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne

Lutheran seminaries
Lutheran buildings and structures in North America
Journey Behind the Falls

Journey Behind the Falls (known until the early 1990s as the Scenic Tunnels) is an attraction in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada located in the Table Rock Centre beside the Canadian Horseshoe Falls. It is open year round and run by the Niagara Parks Commission.

Summary
Journey consists of an observation platform and series of tunnels near the bottom of the Horseshoe Falls on the Canadian shore of the Niagara River. The tunnels and platform can be reached by elevators from the street level entrance. The tour is unguided.

The two tunnels extend approximately  behind the waterfall and allow visitors to view water cascading in front of the open cave entrances. The tunnels are approximately 2.4 metres wide (8 ft) and 2 metres tall (7 ft).

Earlier in the attraction's history, visitors were permitted far closer to the portals' edge. However, the ongoing erosion of the gorge left these areas with insufficient rock remaining on the sides, and new tunnels were built further back. Barricades now exist further back from the ledge at the end of the tunnels to ensure visitor safety.

The observation deck provides a vantage point looking up with the falls to the right, allowing photographers a full view of the famous landmark. The deck is sprayed with water from the cascade so visitors are provided with plastic raincoats prior to their descent.

History 
The first tunnels opened in May 1889. Guides would carry lanterns to illuminate the passage. Eventually erosion required that the original tunnel needed to be abandoned, so in 1944 new tunnels were built further back from the edge and lined with concrete. These tunnels are lit with electric lights. An additional lower viewing platform was buit in 1951. In 1994, the Niagara Parks Commission changed the name of the Scenic Tunnels to Journey Behind the Falls to provide a more accurate description of the view that awaited tourists.

The Niagara Parks Commission launched a refreshed visitor experience at Journey Behind the Falls in 2023 that features significant renovations and new exhibits in the visitor queuing areas.

Gallery

References

External links

 Journey Behind The Falls

Culture of Niagara Falls, Ontario
Niagara Falls
Tourist attractions in Niagara Falls, Ontario
Niagara Parks Commission
Möhnesee

Möhnesee hengelsporyis a municipality in the district of Soest, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Geography
The Möhnesee municipality is situated around the Möhne Reservoir (hence the name), approx. 10 km south of Soest.

History
On the night of the 16/17 May 1943, the Dam which contains the Mohnesee was breached in an attack by Avro Lancaster Bombers of 617 Squadron of the British Royal Air Force, the "Dambusters".

In the 1980s the Möhnesee hosted the Campingkirche.

Neighboring municipalities
 Arnsberg
 Bad Sassendorf
 Ense
 Soest 
 Warstein

Notable places

The Drueggelter Kapelle can be found at Möhnesee-Drüggelte. It is consecrated to the Holy Cross.

Subdivisions 
The municipality Möhnesee contains the following 18 subdivisions, with Körbecke as the largest:

References

External links
 Official site 

Lakes of North Rhine-Westphalia
Soest (district)
Welver

Welver is a municipality in the district of Soest, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

History
The town was once known as Villinghausen or Vellinghausen. The Seven Years' War Battle of Villinghausen was fought nearby.

Geography
Welver is situated approximately 12 km south-east of Hamm and 12 km north-west of Soest.

Neighbouring cities, towns, and municipalities
 Hamm, to the west and northwest
 Lippetal, to the north
 Soest, to the east and southeast
 Werl, to the southwest

Division of the municipality
After the local government reforms of 1969, Welver consists of the following villages:

References

External links
 Official site 

Soest (district)
Soest Börde
Amel Bent

Amel Bent Bachir (; born 21 June 1985), better known by her stage name Amel Bent (), is a French pop singer who gained fame after reaching the semi-finals of season 2 of French TV singing competition Nouvelle Star. She is best-selling artist to come from that competition.

She is currently a "coach" on the similar French talent show The Voice: la plus belle voix.

Biography 

Amel Bent grew up in the Paris suburb of La Courneuve with her Algerian father and Moroccan mother. She has a brother and a sister. Her career jump started after making it to the semi-finals of the reality TV show Nouvelle Star 2, France's version of Pop Idol. Although her performance did not make it to the finals, she was still noticed by some of the show's producers, and would end up making her début album later that year, titled: Un Jour d'été, released in late 2004. The album would sell more than 550,000 copies in France alone, but the success of the album would ultimately be derived from the single "Ma philosophie", which would sell more than 500,000 copies, staying at the No. 1 slot in France for more than six weeks during and after sales.

In 2012, Bent was one of the contestants during the Third Season of Danse avec les stars. She and her partner Christophe Licata finished in second place, but won the celebrity dancing show's Christmas special.

For her single "Je reste" 2011, Bent co-starred with the actor from Metal Hurlant Chronicles Karl E. Landler.

Discography

Albums

Singles 

*Did not appear in the official Belgian Ultratop 50 charts, but rather in the bubbling under Ultratip charts.

Featured in

*Did not appear in the official Belgian Ultratop 50 charts, but rather in the bubbling under Ultratip charts.

Awards

2005 : Nominated at the MTV Europe Music Awards like Best French Act
2006 : Nominated at the NRJ Music Award like Francophone Revelation of the Year
2006 : Win the European Border Breakers Award of The Best French Act
2006 : Win the Victoires de la Musique of The Revelation of the Year
2008 : Nominated at the NRJ Music Award like Francophone Female Artist of the Year
2010 : Nominated at the NRJ Music Award like Francophone Female Artist of the Year
2013 : Nominated at the NRJ Music Award like Francophone Female Artist of the Year

Filmography

Notes

Sources
http://www.last.fm/music/Amel+Bent
http://influence.over-blog.com/article-10167534.html

External links

 Amel Bent Ma Philosophie + Lyrics
 Official MySpace
  Interview with Amel Bent on SoulRnB.com (13/12/10)

1985 births
Living people
People from Joué-lès-Tours
French people of Algerian descent
French people of Moroccan descent
Nouvelle Star participants
Danse avec les stars winners
French rhythm and blues singers
21st-century French dancers
French Muslims
21st-century French singers
21st-century French women singers
Wickede

Wickede (), officially Wickede (Ruhr), is a municipality in the district of Soest, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Wickede lists the town of Jemielnica in Poland as its twin city and enjoys the cultural exchange and relationship.

Geography
Wickede (Ruhr) is situated on the river Ruhr which runs directly through the town and shapes the townscape. Wickede (Ruhr) is situated approximately 20 km south of Hamm and 20 km south-west of Soest. The town encompasses 25.2 square kilometers and is located on the southern flank of a hill called "Haarstrang".

Neighbouring municipalities

 Arnsberg
 Ense
 Fröndenberg
 Menden
 Unna
 Werl

Division of the town 
After the local government reforms of 1969 Wickede consists of 5 districts:
 Echthausen (1.622 inhabitants)
 Schlückingen (218 inhabitants)
 Wiehagen (1.452 inhabitants)
 Wimbern (1.003 inhabitants)
 Wickede (8.564 inhabitants)

Notable people 
 Fritz Steinhoff (1897-1969), German politician (SPD)

References

External links
 Official site 

Soest (district)
RBU

RBU may refer to:
 RBU (radio station), a longwave time signal
 RBU-6000 Smerch-2, a 213 mm caliber Soviet anti-submarine rocket launcher
 Rabindra Bharati University, West Bengal, India
 Rayat-Bahra University, Punjab, India
 Rock Band Unplugged, a video game
Roger Iddison

Roger Iddison (15 September 1834 – 19 March 1890) was an English cricketer, and the original captain of Yorkshire County Cricket Club. He made seventy two first-class appearances for Yorkshire between 1855 and 1876, scoring 1,916 runs at an average of 20.60, and taking 102 wickets at 15.09.

Born in Bedale, Yorkshire, to Roger and Jane Iddison, Iddison was a right-handed batsman who also bowled right-arm underarm slow lobs.  He was noted for his fielding at point.
 
His father was a guano merchant with a shop in Market Place, Bedale.  Roger had a younger brother, William Holdsworth Iddison, who also played first-class cricket.  Roger Iddison was first a butcher by trade, then kept a shop for cricket articles in Manchester (1864).

He was part of the first team of English cricketers to tour Australia. The team travelled on the SS Great Britain. Each player was paid £150.00 and guaranteed first class travelling expenses by the sponsors, Melbourne based businessmen Spiers and Pond. They played 15 matches in Australia between 1 January and 22 March 1862.  He played his first match at Lord's between 9 and 11 June 1862.

In 1869, Iddison played in 27 first-class matches and made 1,059 runs. Together with George Freeman he founded the United North of England Eleven in 1869.  He was the professional at Harrow School from 1871-2; and joint secretary with C D Barstow of the Yorkshire United Eleven in 1874.

He was a commission agent at York from 1870, until his death in York in 1890.

References

External sources
 CricketArchive
 Roger Iddison Genealogy
 Iddison Family Tree

Further reading
 Neville Cardus, Second Innings, Collins, 1950
 J M Kilburn, "A Century of Yorkshire County Cricket", Yorkshire Post, 1963

1834 births
1890 deaths
English cricketers
Yorkshire cricketers
Yorkshire cricket captains
United North of England Eleven cricketers
People from Bedale
Lancashire cricketers
Players cricketers
Cricketers from Yorkshire
North v South cricketers
Yorkshire with Stockton-on-Tees cricketers
Married v Single cricketers
Yorkshire and Durham cricketers
United All-England Eleven cricketers
Cambridgeshire and Yorkshire cricketers
All-England Eleven cricketers
Maryland Route 545

Maryland Route 545 (MD 545) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. Known for most of its length as Blue Ball Road, the state highway runs  from MD 213 in Elkton north to Kirk Road and Warburton Road at Pleasant Hill in central Cecil County. MD 545 was constructed to Little Elk Creek near Childs in the early 1930s and extended to Pleasant Hill in the late 1940s.

Route description

MD 545 begins at MD 213 (Bridge Street) on the west side of Elkton. The state highway heads west as two-lane undivided Elkton Boulevard, which becomes Blue Ball Road when the highway curves north at Bratton Road. MD 545 intersects MD 279 (Elkton Road) and crosses Dogwood Run before leaving the town of Elkton. The highway intersects Dogwood Road, crosses Gravelly Run, then passes under Interstate 95 with no access and immediately crosses Little Elk Creek. MD 545 parallels the creek to the road's narrow, curved passage under CSX's Philadelphia Subdivision rail line as it enters the village of Childs. The highway intersects Leeds Road in the hamlet of Leeds before reaching its northern terminus at an intersection with Kirk Road and Warburton Road in the hamlet of Pleasant Hill. Blue Ball Road continues northwest as a county highway toward Blue Ball Village.

History

MD 545 was paved as a concrete road from MD 280 (now MD 213) to Little Elk Creek near Childs in 1933. This work included the construction of a  steel pony truss bridge over Little Elk Creek that was completed in 1932. MD 545 was extended to Pleasant Hill after the state reconstructed Blue Ball Road from there to Childs as a gravel road between 1947 and 1949 and resurfaced soon after with bituminous concrete. The highway was resurfaced with bituminous concrete from MD 280 to Dogwood Road in 1969 and from Dogwood Road to Pleasant Hill in 1972. In January 2010, the Maryland State Highway Administration put the 1932 pony truss bridge MD 545 used to cross Little Elk Creek up for sale to any buyer willing to preserve the bridge at a new location. No interested party was found, so the old bridge was demolished in June and July 2011. The new  concrete bridge opened in November 2011.

Junction list

See also

References

External links

MDRoads: MD 545
MD 545 at AARoads.com
Maryland Roads - MD 545

545
Maryland Route 545
Emsdetten

Emsdetten (; Westphalian: Detten) is a town in the district of Steinfurt, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Geography
Emsdetten is situated on the river Ems, approx.  south-east of Rheine and  north-west of Münster.

Neighbouring places

 Rheine
 Hörstel
 Saerbeck
 Greven
 Nordwalde
 Steinfurt
 Neuenkirchen

Division of the town
Emsdetten consists of 8 districts:

 Emsdetten
 Ahlintel
 Austum
 Hembergen
 Hollingen
 Isendorf
 Sinningen
 Westum

2006 school shooting

On 20 November 2006, 18-year-old former student Bastian Bosse entered the Geschwister Scholl School, fired several shots and set off smoke grenades. He injured 22 people before killing himself by a shot into the mouth. Even though there were no other fatalities, the shooting was considered the deadliest school shooting in the history of Germany since the Erfurt massacre; this position is now held by the Winnenden school shooting.

Twin towns – sister cities

Emsdetten is twinned with:
 Chojnice, Poland
 Hengelo, Netherlands

Notable people
 Walt Tkaczuk (born 1947), ice hockey player, first German born player in the National Hockey League
 Kathrin Vogler (born 1963), politician, MdB
 Atze Schröder (born 1965), comedian
 Norbert Krüler (born 1957), musician
 Valerie Niehaus (born 1974), actress
Christina Schulze-Föcking (born 1976), politician, MdL NRW
 Tim Wieskötter (born 1979), sprint canoeist, Olympic winner
 Lutz Altepost (born 1981), sprint canoeist, Olympic medalist and world champion
 Benjamin Behrla (born 1985), judoka
 Sebastian Sebastian Bosse (29 April 1988 – 20 November 2006) Perpetrator of the Emsdetten Emsdetten school shooting

Gallery

References

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Towns in North Rhine-Westphalia
Steinfurt (district)
String Quartet No. 1 (Shostakovich)

Dmitri Shostakovich's String Quartet No. 1 in C major, Op. 49, was composed in six weeks during the summer of 1938. It carries no dedication. Shostakovich said that in this quartet he had "visualized childhood scenes, somewhat naïve and bright moods associated with spring."

Premiere
The work was premiered in Leningrad on 10 October 1938 by the Glazunov Quartet.  It was also premiered in Moscow on 16 November 1938 by the Beethoven Quartet.  This premiere began a lifelong friendship between Shostakovich and the quartet.

Structure
In the traditional style of a string quartet, the work has four movements:

Playing time is approximately 15 minutes.

First movement
The first movement, in C major, is in sonata-allegro form. The exposition starts with flowing chords under an opening theme, which then moves to a contrasting second theme. After a brief development section and recapitulation, the movement comes to a close.

Second movement
The slow second movement, in A minor, consists of eight variations on a folk-like melody first played on the solo viola. The movement ends with a pizzicato A minor chord.

Third movement
The third movement, a scherzo, is set in the remote key of C minor. It begins with a rapid theme in  time, before moving on to the trio in F major which is slightly more relaxed in tempo. The scherzo is repeated again, with the coda briefly recalling the trio theme.

Fourth movement
The last movement returns to the home key of C major.

References
Notes

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1938 compositions
Compositions in C major
Prestfoss

Prestfoss is the administrative center of Sigdal municipality in Buskerud, Norway. Highway  Fv287 passes through Prestfoss. Both Fv132 and Fv133 start from here.

Summary
The population of Pressfoss as of 2005 was 465. Prestfoss is located 1.5 hours northwest of Oslo (100 km). Prestfoss is the location of Holmen Church (Holmen Kirke) a parish church which dates from  1853. Prestfoss is also the site of the Folk Music Center of Buskerud 
(Folkemusikksenteret i Buskerud), of Sigdal Museum  and of Lauvlia, the former home of artist Theodor Kittelsen.
These museums operate as part of the Buskerud Museum (Buskerudmuseet), a foundation for the preservation of cultural heritage within Buskerud.

Local attractions

Folk Music Center of Buskerud
The Folk Music Center of Buskerud  is an open-air cultural heritage museum offering a good image of the building style and traditions of the district. The Folk Music Center is principally responsible for collecting, storing and promoting local folk music and dance. The Archives of the Folk Music Center contains historical materials regarding local folk music.

Sigdal Museum
Sigdal Museum is a folkmuseum for the districts of Sigdal, Modum and Krødsherad.
The museum  comprises 13 buildings, mainly farmhouses, grouped together as examples of the rural life of the past. During summer, visitors experience activities relating to traditional crafts and shows. A building, opened in 1978, houses a fine collection of regional costumes, from the 1800s to the present day. Sigdal Museum is situated on the grounds of the former Sigdal Nickel Works, which was in operation from 1874 until 1879.

Lauvlia
Norwegian artist Theodor Kittelsen settled near Prestfoss during 1899.  Kittelsen was one of the most popular artists in Norway, mostly because of his fairy tale drawings and evocative paintings of people and trolls, animals and landscapes. Lauvlia, his former home, is located north of Prestfoss along Route Fv287.  The surrounding area, with scenic view of Lake Soneren and Andersnatten which overlooks the lake, inspired some of Kittelsen's most famous landscapes.

Today Lauvlia is a private museum featuring an exhibition of Kittelsen's original work. Lauvlia is decorated with Kittelsen's own woodcarvings and murals. A new exhibition of original Kittelsen works is opened each year with painting and drawing activities arranged for children. The paintings exhibited are rotated each year.

References

External links
Folk Music Center in Buskerud
Sigdal Museum in Prestfoss
Lauvlia - Theodor Kittelsen Home
Buskerud Museum website

Villages in Buskerud
Cities and towns in Norway
Sigdal
Tofte, Norway

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Tofte is a village in the  Asker municipality in Viken, Norway. It is situated on the Hurum  Peninsula (Hurumhalvøya) on the  Oslo Fjord. It is the second largest settlement in Hurum.

Before 1897, there were no densely populated areas on Tofte. At Sagene, a marble grinding mill was built by the Sagene River in the mid-1890s.
In 1896, Anthon Bernhard Elias Nilsen (1855-1936) bought property with associated forest properties, with the intention of building a cellulose factory. The factory was built in 1897, and put into operation in 1899. In 1907, Anthon Nilsen also founded a cellulose factory at Sagene, a couple of kilometers southwest of the factory at Tofte.
These two factories, Tofte Cellulosefabrik AS and Hurum Fabriker AS, became the center of employment during the following century.

Tofte is now best known for Södra Cell Tofte, a cellulose factory which is the major industry in Tofte.  Statkraft Hurum salt plant (Statkraft Hurum saltkraftverk), the world's first saline power plant based on osmosis, was opened by the energy company Statkraft during 2009.

 Crown Princess Mette-Marit opened the plant. 

In May 2014, Statkraft and Södra signed a letter of intent under which Statkraft acquired Södra Cell Tofte. Statkraft subsequently formed 
Tofte Biomass Hub with the goal of establishing biofuel production based on raw forest  material.

In 2020, Roald Amundsen's historic ship Maud was being repaired outside Tofte, prior to being put on public display having been salvaged in Canada.

References

External links
Discover Tofte (Statkraft)

Villages in Viken (county)
Villages in Buskerud
Villages in Asker
Villages in Hurum
Hurum
Holmsbu

Holmsbu is a small village located in Viken, Norway.

Holmsbu is situated in the municipality of Asker on the west side of the peninsula of Hurumlandet on  Drammensfjord. The village had 309 residents as of 1 January 2014. The seaport village was granted city status (ladested) in 1847 and lost its status in 1964.

Old wooden buildings along the waterfront are largely preserved. The village has attracted both artists and tourists. Holmsbu Bad is a hotel dating back to 1880. The hotel is situated overlooking Holmsbu harbor and Drammensfjorden.

Holmsbu Art Gallery (Holmsbu Billedgalleri) was designed and constructed during the period 1963 to 1973. The art gallery focuses on the art work of Holmsbu Painters Oluf Wold-Torne (1867–1919), Thorvald Erichsen (1868–1939) and Henrik Sørensen. Holmsbu Art Gallery, which received the Houen Foundation Award, was designed by Norwegian architect Bjart Mohr and was opened in 1973.

Holmsbu Church (Holmsbu Kirke) is constructed of wood and was built in 1887. The church has long plan and 300 seats.  Holmsbu chapel (Holmsbu kapell) was inaugurated on March 23, 1887. The chapel is located in the hilly landscape on the outskirts of the village of Holmsbu ca. 500 m east of Drammensfjorden and ca. 7 km south of the main church.

Gallery

References

External links
Holmsbu Painters 
Holmsbu: an overlooked art treasure

Former cities in Norway
Villages in Viken (county)
Villages in Buskerud
Villages in Asker
Villages in Hurum
Hurum
Klokkarstua

Klokkarstua is a village in Asker municipality in Viken county, Norway. It is located on the southern part of Hurumlandet, the peninsula between the Oslofjord and Drammensfjord.

Highway 289 (Rv289) runs through the village and meanders west down to the Drammensfjord, where the ferry goes on to Svelvik. This is the location for a production plant of Rottefella ski bindings. It also has a sports complex. Klokkarstua was the administrative centre of the former municipality of Hurum until 2012. Hurum Church is located at Klokkarstua. Its population (2005) is about 700.

Hurum Church (Hurum kirke) is a medieval era stone church dating from 1150.  The pulpit was a gift from the wife of naval hero, Ivar Huitfeldt. This is the location of the  Huitfeldt family tomb which dates from 1750.

References

Villages in Viken (county)
Villages in Buskerud
Villages in Asker
Villages in Hurum
Hurum
CUS

CUS may refer to:
 Cambridge Union Society
 Canadian Union of Students
 Critical university studies
 Catholic University School
 Chicago Union Station
 Commonwealth of Unrecognized States
 Concordia University System
 Confederation of Labour Unification (Spanish: ) in Nicaragua
 Constitution of the United States
 Copper monosulfide (CuS)
 Urban Community of Strasbourg (French: )
 "C.U.S.", a song by Norther
 Cus D'Amato, American boxing manager and trainer who handled the careers of Mike Tyson, Floyd Patterson, and José Torres
 Centro Universitario Sportivo, Italian sport governing body (at university level). Locally version, in the various cities, of Centro Universitario Sportivo Italiano (for example CUS Rome, Cus Milan...)
 Custom House station, London, England (National Rail station code)
 Computer user satisfaction

See also 

 
 Cuss (disambiguation)
 Kus (disambiguation)
Kevin G. Lynch

Kevin G. Lynch  (born January 1951) is a Canadian economist and former Clerk of the Privy Council and Secretary to the Cabinet, Canada's most senior civil servant.

Life and career
Born in Sydney, Nova Scotia, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Mount Allison University, a Master of Economics degree from the University of Manchester, and a PhD in economics from McMaster University in 1980. He is married with two children.

Lynch began his career with the Bank of Canada as an economist in 1976. In 1981, he joined the Department of Finance and rose quickly through the ranks, becoming a Director in 1983 and an Assistant Deputy Minister in 1988. In 1992 he became Associate Deputy Minister at Industry and Deputy Minister of that department in 1995. In 2000, he returned to Finance, this time as Deputy Minister.

In 2004, he moved from Ottawa to Washington, DC, to serve as Executive Director for the Canadian, Irish and Caribbean constituency at the International Monetary Fund.

On March 6, 2006, he became the 20th Clerk of the Privy Council. On May 7, 2009, he announced that he would step down on July 1. He was replaced by Secretary of the Treasury Board Wayne Wouters.

On May 11, 2009, he was sworn in as a member of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada giving him the Pre-nominal title "The Honourable" and the Post-nominal letters "PC" for Life.

He is Chairman of SNC-Lavalin, the Montreal-based engineering company; Vice-Chair of the BMO Financial Group and the Chair of the Board of Governors of the University of Waterloo.

In 2011, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada "for his contributions as a senior public servant, notably as head of Canada’s public service, and as a business leader and volunteer".

In September 2011, the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (APF Canada) and the Canada West Foundation established the Canada-Asia Energy Futures Task Force with Kevin G. Lynch and Kathleen (Kathy) E. Sendall, C.M., FCAE, a former Governor and Board Chair of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP), as co-chairs, and to investigate a long-term Canada-Asia energy relationship. One of their recommendations was the creation of a public energy transportation corridor.

On July 1, 2013, Lynch became Chancellor of the University of King's College in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

On December 19, 2017, Lynch was named chairman of the board of directors of SNC-Lavalin.

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1951 births
Alumni of the University of Manchester
Canadian economists
Canadian people of Irish descent
Clerks of the Privy Council (Canada)
Living people
McMaster University alumni
Mount Allison University alumni
Officers of the Order of Canada
People from Sydney, Nova Scotia
Members of the King's Privy Council for Canada
Maria Sokil

Maria Sokil (Rudnytsky) (October 18, 1902 – January 20, 1999) was a Ukrainian opera singer.

Biography 
Sokil was born in the village of Zherebets' (now Tavriiske) in the Zaporizhzhia Oblast on October 18, 1902. She studied at the conservatory in Katerynoslav from 1920 to 1925. She later studied in Italy, France, and Germany.

She made her opera debut in Kharkiv in 1927 in the role of Marguerite in Gounod's opera Faust and  became the prima donna lyric soprano of that opera theater. In 1929, she and bass Ivan Patorzhynsky, representative singer from Ukraine, went on a concert tour to Germany and Italy. Maria remained in Kharkiv until 1930; later, she joined the Kyiv Opera (1930–1932). While in Kharkiv she met  (1902–1975), whom she married in 1931. Rudnytsky was a composer, conductor, and pianist from Lviv, and he had recently been named an orchestra conductor in Kharkiv. Later, in 1932, Maria Sokil performed at the Lviv Opera and Ballet Theater and, with her husband, toured a number of countries in Eastern and Central Europe for the next several years coming with concerts to the United States and Canada in 1937 and then again in 1938–1939 and then remaining in the United States when World War II started.

She had success with the roles of Desdemona (Verdi's Otello), Mimi (Puccini's La Bohème), Liu (Puccini's Turandot), Elsa (Richard Wagner's Lohengrin), Tatiana (Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin),  Lisa (Tchaikovsky's The Queen of Spades), Odarka (Hulak-Artemovsky's Zaporozhets za Dunayem), and Natalka (Lysenko's Natalka Poltavka). In 1939, Sokil had the leading role (Odarka) in the motion picture Cossacks in Exile (Zaporozhets za Dunayem), made in the United States. Maria Sokil and her husband subsequently continued their musical activities in several different ways for many years in the United States.

She died on January 20, 1999, in Youngstown, Ohio, at the age of 96.

Children:
 Dorian Rudnytsky (born 1944), cellist and composer
 Roman Rudnytsky (Роман Рудницький) (born 1942), pianist

Grandchildren:
 Tara Palmer (Rudnytsky)
 Evan Rudnytsky
 Oksana McStowe (Rudnytsky)
 Damian Rudnytsky

References

External links
 Obituary in The Ukrainian Weekly, February 7, 1999, No. 6

1902 births
1999 deaths
People from Zaporizhzhia Oblast
American operatic sopranos
Ukrainian operatic sopranos
20th-century Ukrainian women opera singers
20th-century American women opera singers
Ukrainian emigrants to the United States
Rødberg

Rødberg is the administrative centre of Nore og Uvdal municipality in Buskerud, Norway.

Rødberg is located in the Norwegian traditional district and valley of Numedal.  Its population (2005) is 498, and it is located on the Rødberg dam () on the Numedalslågen River.

The local power stations, Rødberg Nore 1 in operation 1928 and 
Nore 2 in operation since 1946,  utilize waterflow from the Rødberg Dam. The plants are affiliated with Statkraft, the Norwegian state owned electricity company.

Rødberg was once a railway station, being the terminal station of the now-defunct Numedal railway line (Numedalsbanen) which ran up the Numedal valley between Kongsberg and Rødberg.  The final passenger service ended in 1988. The rail line north of Rollag was closed in 1989. With that being said, it is still possible to travel to Rødberg by rail via Draisine rentals from the nearby town of Veggli.

References

Villages in Buskerud
Populated places on the Numedalslågen
Nore og Uvdal