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Shiver (D. C. Simpson album)

Shiver, released May 18, 2005, is the first album released by Dana Simpson, author of the webcomics Ozy and Millie and I Drew This. The album was recorded by the artist and released on CafePress.com, but the tracks have also been made available for free download.

There is also an expanded edition with an alternative cover, demos, and extra songs.

The songs on the album were written from 1999 ("Impression of You") to 2005 ("Still Nina").

Track listing
All songs were written by Simpson.

"If I Can't Get To London"
"Impression Of You"
"From The Rain"
"I See"
"Mockingbird Song"
"California"
"We All Fall Down"
"Turn Away"
"Warm"
"Tin Heart"
"Hey Abandon"
"Still Nina"

Personnel
 D. C. Simpson – guitar, saxophone, vocals
 Jim Clawson – bass
 Ben Yackley – keyboards

External links
 D. C. Simpson's music site

2005 debut albums
Andorra at the 2006 Winter Paralympics

Andorra participated in the ninth Winter Paralympics in Turin, Italy. 

Andorra entered two athletes, Xavier Barios and Francesca Ramirez, both in alpine skiing. Neither won a medal.

Medalists

See also

2006 Winter Paralympics
Andorra at the 2006 Winter Olympics

References

External links
Torino 2006 Paralympic Games
International Paralympic Committee

2006
Nations at the 2006 Winter Paralympics
Winter Paralympics
Geert Hoste

Geert Hoste (born 1 July 1960) is a Flemish cabaret performer. Between 1988 and 2016 he was known for his cabaret shows which poked fun at politics, the Belgian royal family and media stories. Annually these shows were broadcast on Flemish public television, traditionally on New Year's Day, and brought in high ratings.

References

External links

1960 births
Living people
Belgian stand-up comedians
Entertainers from Bruges
Flemish cabaret
Belgian satirists
Belgian political satire
Characato District

Characato is a district of Arequipa Province, Peru. It is located to the southeast of Arequipa, at an average elevation of 3,505 meters above the sea level. As of the year 2022, it had a population of 17,706.

See also
 Arequipa
 Peru

References 

Districts of the Arequipa Province
Districts of the Arequipa Region
Frank A. Briggs

Frank A. Briggs (September 15, 1858August 9, 1898) was an American Republican elected official who served as the fifth governor of North Dakota from January 6, 1897 until his death nineteen months later.

Biography
Frank A. Briggs was born in the town of Minneapolis, Minnesota, and was variously employed as a printer and journalist.  He married Nannie Rachel Meek on July 12, 1877 and they had two daughters, Stella and Bessie. Twenty-three years old in 1881, he moved to the city of Mandan, the county seat of North Dakota's Morton County, where he dealt in real estate. At that time the area was still Dakota Territory.

Career
Campaigning for public office, he was elected county treasurer, serving from 1885 to 1887, gained the statewide post of auditor in 1894  and, finally, in November 1896, prevailed in the gubernatorial election.  An activist executive, he participated in discussions of laws being drafted by the state legislature, including passage of the revenue bill as well as a general railway law which regulated movement of freight and passengers.

Death
Having struggled with tuberculosis, Governor Briggs lost the battle in Bismarck five weeks before his 40th birthday.  Lieutenant Governor Joseph M. Devine served the remaining four-and-a-half months of the governor's two-year term. He was buried in Howard Lake Cemetery, Howard Lake, MN. Briggs was the first North Dakota Governor to die while in office.

See also

Governor of North Dakota
List of governors of North Dakota

Sources
Frank A. Briggs Papers at the State Historical Society of North Dakota (File no. 20914): scrapbook contains death notices and obituaries for the governor from various newspapers in North Dakota and the United States. Among the contents are eulogies, a description of Briggs' nomination for governor in 1896, copies of campaign speeches and details of his inaugural ceremony, as well as notices of the death of his daughter which occurred in Minnesota, buried at Howard Lake, MN, while he was in Bismarck, taking the oath of office. Included are newspaper clippings describing the Republican convention in 1894 when Briggs was nominated for State Auditor, followed by clippings about that campaign. There are also letters of recommendation about Briggs' ability as a printer, a picture of the Briggs cemetery monument in Howard Lake, MN, Wright County, in the governor's native Minnesota, where he was buried. Appended are social notes concerning Mrs. Briggs' life in Bismarck after the governor's death and a marriage announcement of her 1905 remarriage.

References

1858 births
1898 deaths
Republican Party governors of North Dakota
North Dakota State Auditors
People of Dakota Territory
Tuberculosis deaths in North Dakota
19th-century deaths from tuberculosis
People from Mandan, North Dakota
19th-century American politicians
Politicians from Minneapolis
Mahsuri

Mahsuri binti Pandak Mayah was a young woman who lived in Pulau Langkawi, an island in northwestern Kedah, Malaysia, during the late 18th century. According to folklore, she was accused of adultery and executed by stabbing. Her tomb, Makam Mahsuri, has become a tourist attraction on the island.

Legend
Mahsuri was the daughter of a Siamese who moved from their native Phuket Province to the island of Langkawi in search of a better life. She was the most beautiful woman in all of Langkawi and married the warrior Wan Darus. As was required of him, her husband had to go to war on behalf of Kedah against Thailand, leaving Mahsuri behind to fend for herself. It was during this time that Mahsuri befriended a young traveler named Deramang. The village chief's wife Wan Mahora was jealous of Mahsuri's beauty. She spread a rumour that Mahsuri was unfaithful and was having an affair with Deramang in the absence of Wan Darus. Eventually, the rumours grew strong enough that the villagers openly accused her of adultery. Mahsuri pleaded her innocence, but no one believed her. 
 
Mahsuri was to be tied to a tree and stabbed to death but it didn't work. After every execution attempt failed, Mahsuri told them to kill her with her family's 'keris'. When she was stabbed, white blood flowed from the wound, signifying her innocence. Some birds flew above her to cover her body. With her dying breath, Mahsuri cursed Langkawi to have seven generations of bad luck. The kingdom was soon raided by the Siamese armada. The villagers at Padang Mat Sirat burned their paddy fields rather than let them fall into the hands of the Siamese.

Mahsuri's family later returned to Siam (later known as Thailand).

Impact
Many Langkawi locals believe the legend to be true, citing the decades of failed crops that followed Mahsuri's death. Langkawi was also attacked by Thailand numerous times, the last invasion taking place in 1821. The field which was torched by the farmers is still known as Beras Terbakar or "burnt rice". It is only at the end of the 20th century after the seven generations have supposedly come to pass, that Langkawi began to prosper as a tourist destination.  Mahsuri's descendants continue to live in Bukit, Thailand, and have on occasion returned to Langkawi to visit her tomb. Among them was Sirintra Yayee (ศิรินทรา ยายี), real Malay name: Wan Aishah Wan Nawawi, who came into the spotlight during her visit to Kedah in 2000.

References

External links
 
 Descendants of the White Blooded-Lady

1819 deaths
Asian mythology
Malaysian people of Thai descent
Executed Malaysian women
People executed for adultery
Year of birth unknown
Malaysian mythology
Malaysian legends
Thai people of Malay descent
Lignerolles

Lignerolles is the name or part of the name of several communes in France:

 Lignerolles, Allier
 Lignerolles, Côte-d'Or
 Lignerolles, Eure
 Lignerolles, Indre
 Lignerolles, Orne
NeuroDimension

NeuroDimension, Inc. was a software company specializing in neural networks, adaptive systems, and genetic optimization and made software tools for developing and implementing these artificial intelligence technologies.  NeuroSolutions is a general-purpose neural network development environment and TradingSolutions is a tool for developing trading systems based on neural networks and genetic algorithms.

NeuroDimension was acquired by nDimensional, Inc. in 2016.

History

Formation and NeuroSolutions 
Prior to the acquisition of NeuroDimension (in 2016), it was a software development company headquartered in Gainesville, Florida and founded in 1991 by Steven Reid, MD, Jose Principe, PhD (Director of the Computational Neural Engineering Lab at the University of Florida) and Curt Lefebvre, PhD (CEO of nDimensional). Dr. Reid provided the initial capital to get the company off the ground. Dr. Principe provided the engineering staff with technical direction and had helped secure research grant funding for the company. Dr. Lefebvre was the principal author of the company’s core neural network technology.

The company was formed around a software tool, NeuroSolutions, which enables engineers and researchers to model their data using neural networks.

Financial Analysis and TradingSolutions 
In 1997, it became apparent that one of the most common uses of NeuroSolutions was to create neural network models to time the financial markets.

Released in 2008, Trader68 handles the trading and distribution of trading signals from TradingSolutions, proprietary research, and other sources.

In late 2015, Trader68 was discontinued and is no longer supported or actively developed.  TradingSolutions was discontinued in 2016.

nDimensional, Inc. Acquires NeuroDimension, Inc. 
In August 2016, nDimensional, Inc. announced the acquisition of NeuroDimension, Inc. to help accelerate its new web-based Platform-as-a-Service product called nD to market.

See also
Artificial Neural Network
Artificial Intelligence
Adaptive system
Embedded system
Genetic algorithm
Neural network software
Technical Analysis

Software companies based in Florida
Software companies established in 1991
1991 establishments in Florida
Defunct software companies of the United States
Software companies disestablished in 2016
2016 disestablishments in Florida
Duracraft

Duracraft  was founded in the late 1980s by Tim Chen, Bernard Chiu and Ronald Izen in Southborough, Massachusetts.  Duracraft manufactured home appliances such as fans, humidifiers, dehumidifiers and air conditioners in the United States, China, and South America. they were famous for selling desk pedestal and window fans

History

Early sales of Duracraft were through Sears, Eckerds, and Kmart.  Today Duracraft products are sold online as well as through Walmart and CVS Pharmacy, and many parts are sold online.

In 1993, Duracraft had an initial public offering. The company received recognition from numerous organizations, including Fortune.

In 1996, Honeywell approached Duracraft with an unsolicited offer. Duracraft was sold to Honeywell for US$283 million.

In 2002, Kaz Incorporated (privately held) acquired Honeywell's Home Environment business for an undisclosed sum.  This acquisition added Asia-based manufacturing capabilities that fueled the company's ability to enter new markets competitively.

In 2011, Kaz became a wholly owned subsidiary of the Helen of Troy Company, for $260 million in cash.

References 

CPSC Recall (Archive)
Boston Globe Article
Bernard Chiu Bio from First Act
Reuters: Honeywell Purchase of Duracraft

External links
Honeywell Products
Kaz Products

Companies based in Worcester County, Massachusetts
Southborough, Massachusetts
Boat builders
King Ling College

King Ling College () is an aided secondary school founded by the King Ling Foundation for Education and Culture in September 1994 in Tseung Kwan O, Hong Kong.

School Mission 
To foster Chinese culture and civic awareness while emphasizing the five areas of moral, intellectual, physical, social and aesthetic development of students so as to nurture them to be knowledgeable, cultured, committed and highly ethical learners.

School information
The school enjoys a full house of teachers professionally trained, with 80% received a master's degree or higher academic qualifications (2015). Awards include National Geographic Think Great Awards (2008), and Odyssey of the Mind(regional: 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2015, 2016; world finals: 2007, 2010, 2016).

It is one of the first schools to teach Chinese classes in putonghua in Hong Kong.  It provides education for students in Chinese, English, Mathematics, Science, Arts, Physical, technology, and personal, social and humanities education.  Under the leadership of Dr.Anson Yang, whose expertise is in English and curriculum and instruction, the school will continue to emphasize the learning of Chinese culture with additional attention to English medium of instruction.

There are over 40 extra curricula activity groups within the school, which can be divided into five categories that includes academic, sports, interests, music and social services.

School facilities 
For basic school facilities, the school has a roof garden, a 1200-seat auditorium, and a 600-seat canteen. Every classroom has air conditioning and liquid-crystal projector installed.

For sports, the school has an in-door swimming pool, two basketball courts, one handball court, five badminton courts and a football court.

Senior Secondary Curriculum
The senior secondary subjects include Biology, Business, Accounting and Financial Studies, Chemistry, Chinese, Chinese history, Chinese literature, Economics, English, Geography, History, Information and Communication Technology, Liberal studies, Mathematics, Physical Education and Physics.  Students in senior secondary one will be allowed to choose two to three electives.

See also
Education in Hong Kong
List of secondary schools in Hong Kong

References

External links

Official site

Secondary schools in Hong Kong
Tseung Kwan O
Educational institutions established in 1994
1994 establishments in Hong Kong
Nantglyn

Nantglyn is a small village and community in Denbighshire, Wales. The population of the community taken at the 2011 census was 323. It is situated in a rural location about  away from the nearest town, Denbigh. Nantglyn is located on a small river, the Lliwen. This river and its parent, the Afon Ystrad, provided the water to power several corn and fulling mills in the parish.

According to tradition, a monastery was founded here by Mordeyrn, grandson of Cunedda Wledig. The community includes Cader.

Amenities 
The parish church is dedicated to St James. It was extensively renovated in 1777 and again in Victorian times. A notable feature of its churchyard is the "pulpit in a tree" built into an ancient yew, which traditionally was once used by John Wesley.  
A memorial to the fallen of the two World Wars sits at the centre of the village.

Recent history
There are now no shops remaining in Nantglyn. But previously there was a blacksmith's forge, a post office, a pub and a leather-craft shop that also sold candles (located in the old smithy). There was also a local infant / junior school, but a decline in the number of pupils led to its closure in the 1990s. There were also several Nonconformist chapels in the village, including Capel-y-Waen (Waen Nantglyn is a secondary settlement about a mile northwest of the main village), Capel Soar and Capel Salem. One of the corn mills, Segrwyd Mill, served the neighbourhood farmers until 1960.

Notable residents
Nantglyn has had several notable residents over the centuries, including David Samwell (1751–98), the ship's surgeon aboard the Discovery during Captain Cook's final voyage of exploration. Samwell kept a journal that provides a detailed record of the voyage, and he witnessed Cook's death at the hands of hostile natives in Hawaii in 1779. Dr. William Owen Pughe (1759–1835), a well-known literary figure who compiled a Welsh-English dictionary and a Welsh grammar, among other works, lived in the village for the last 10 years of his life, although he was not born there. His son Aneurin Owen also lived here.

 Twm o'r Nant, composer, was born in Llannefydd but grew up in Nantglyn
 Robert Davies, poet and author
 Tom Pryce, Formula 1 racing driver, spent his youth in the village

References

External links 

www.geograph.co.uk : photos of Nantglyn and surrounding area

Communities in Denbighshire
Villages in Denbighshire
Zastava M85

The Zastava M85 is a carbine designed and produced by then Yugoslavian Zastava Arms. It is a shortened version of the original rifle, the Zastava M80, which is itself successor to the Zastava M70 assault rifle. The M85 is practically same as the carbine version of the M70, the Zastava M92, the only difference being in caliber, and in this case, the magazine design, as same as with original rifles, the M70 and M80.

Like its original variant, the M80, the M85 was intended to be a new weapon in the arsenal of the Yugoslav People's Army, but the breakup of Yugoslavia disrupted production. It is currently produced largely for commercial sales and export.

Design and features
The Zastava M85 is an AK-pattern rifle incorporating design elements of the Soviet AKS-74U carbine, but chambered for the Western 5.56×45mm round. It is gas-operated, air-cooled, magazine-fed, and offers selective fire capability. It can be distinguished from traditional members of the AK family by its unique polymer pistol grip, 5.56x45mm magazine, and most significantly by its distinctive "Yugo" handguard, which is longer, and has three cooling vents instead of the usual two. The M85 also features a flash-hider muzzle device copied directly from the AKS-74U. Additionally, the M85 is built using a receiver stamped from 1.5mm sheet steel, which is thicker than the 1.0mm steel used in most AK derived rifles. This results in increased durability at the cost of increased weight.

Derivatives
 Zastava M80 – Original rifle
 Zastava M90 – Improved version of the original rifle
 Zastava M92 – Near identical variant chambered for the Soviet 7.62×39mm round (carbine version of the Zastava M70 assault rifle)

References

External links
Zastava Arms

M85
5.56 mm assault rifles
Carbines
Zastava Arms
Kalashnikov derivatives
Chlorophenol

A chlorophenol is any organochloride of phenol that contains one or more covalently bonded chlorine atoms. There are five basic types of chlorophenols (mono- to pentachlorophenol) and 19 different chlorophenols in total when positional isomerism is taken into account. Chlorophenols are produced by electrophilic halogenation of phenol with chlorine.  

Most chlorophenols are solid at room temperature. They have a strong, medicinal taste and smell. Chlorophenols are commonly used as pesticides, herbicides, and disinfectants.

List of chlorophenols 
There is a total of 19 chlorophenols, corresponding to the different ways in which chlorine atoms can be attached to the five carbons in the benzene ring of the phenol molecule, excluding the carbon atom to which the hydroxy group is attached.  

Monochlorophenols have three isomers because there is only one chlorine atom that can occupy one of three ring positions on the phenol molecule; 2-chlorophenol, for example, is the isomer that has a chlorine atom in the ortho position. Pentachlorophenol, by contrast, has only one isomer because all five available ring positions on the phenol are fully chlorinated.

 Monochlorophenol (3 positional isomers)
 2-Chlorophenol
 3-Chlorophenol
 4-Chlorophenol
 Dichlorophenol (6 positional isomers)
 2,3-Dichlorophenol
 2,4-Dichlorophenol
 2,5-Dichlorophenol
 2,6-Dichlorophenol 
 3,4-Dichlorophenol
 3,5-Dichlorophenol
 Trichlorophenol (6 positional isomers)
 2,3,4-Trichlorophenol
 2,3,5-Trichlorophenol
 2,3,6-Trichlorophenol
 2,4,5-Trichlorophenol
 2,4,6-Trichlorophenol
 3,4,5-Trichlorophenol
 Tetrachlorophenol (3 positional isomers)
 2,3,4,5-Tetrachlorophenol
 2,3,4,6-Tetrachlorophenol
 2,3,5,6-Tetrachlorophenol
 Pentachlorophenol (1 positional isomer)

See also
 Bromophenol
Iodophenol

References

Chloroarenes
Phenols
Toronto Maple Leafs (disambiguation)

The Toronto Maple Leafs are a National Hockey League team, based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Toronto Maple Leafs may also refer to:
Toronto Maple Leafs (semi-pro baseball), an Intercounty Baseball League team
Toronto Maple Leafs (International League), a former AAA minor league baseball team
Toronto Maple Leafs (NLA), a professional box lacrosse team in the National Lacrosse Association 1966–1970
Toronto Maple Leafs (soccer club), a Canadian National Soccer League club from the 1930s
Toronto Tecumsehs (ILL), a box lacrosse team established in 1931 as the Toronto Maple Leafs; see Sports in Toronto#Lacrosse
Roger Allin

Roger Allin (December 18, 1848 – January 1, 1936) was an American politician who was the fourth Governor of North Dakota from 1895 to 1897, and the second Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota from 1891 to 1893 serving under Governor Andrew H. Burke.

Biography
Allin was a native of Bradworthy, Devonshire, England. After his father died, he and his family moved to Ontario, Canada, where he was educated in the public schools. He married twice, first to Isabella McKensie on March 22, 1881, then to Anna McKensie (niece of Isabella) on May 1, 1918. He had one child.

Career
Allin served in the Dakota Territorial Council in 1887–1889 and as a delegate to the North Dakota 1889 Constitutional Convention. Allin was a member of the North Dakota Senate from 1889 through 1891; and then Lieutenant Governor as a Republican from 1891 through 1893. Elected by popular vote on November 6, 1894, he served as Governor through 1897. The effects of the Panic of 1893 were dealt with during his tenure. After losing a bid for reelection, he retired from politics and pursued his farming interests.

Death
Allin died on January 1, 1936, and is interred at Park River Memorial Park, Park River, North Dakota.

See also
List of U.S. state governors born outside the United States

References

External links
Biography for Roger Allin from the State Historical Society of North Dakota website
National Governors Association

Lieutenant Governors of North Dakota
Republican Party governors of North Dakota
Republican Party North Dakota state senators
Members of the Dakota Territorial Legislature
19th-century American politicians
1848 births
1936 deaths
People from Torridge District
English emigrants to the United States
Murphy's World

Murphy's World is a humorous techno-fantasy role playing game set in a world where 'Murphy's Law's rule: if something can go wrong, it will.

Setting
Murphy's World is actually the Realm of Faerie, the Land of Myths and Legends, the place of popular folklore and dreams (with a dash of pop culture) — comically twisted, yet maintaining an internal sense of 'logic'. It operates according to Murphy's Laws, which means that belief creates reality, and as a result reality is utterly fragmented. The real culprit is the planet's sun, Ludo. The strange distorting energies with which this amber orb assaults the little planet effectively toss any sense of predictability of natural laws or supernatural forces right out the metaphysical window. Murphy's World also happens to be in possession of an extensive but rather faulty network of interdimensional teleportation gates (through which many of the inhabitants have unwillingly arrived), connecting Murphy's World to just about everywhere. Thus, many residents of the planet are like Murphy — reluctant alien immigrants. New arrivals can pop up (in, down, or sideways) anywhere; confused, embarrassed, and wondering how to get home. Unfortunately, spaceships usually crash upon entering the atmosphere, and return gateways are often invisible, faulty, or out of order.

System

The game includes its own custom system, although it can also function as a setting which can be incorporated into any other game.

Reviews
Pyramid #16 (Nov./Dec., 1995)
Backstab (Issue 1 - Jan/Feb 1997)

References

External links 
Murphy's World on the Peregrine website
Murphy's World on Kevin Davies' website

Comedy role-playing games
Role-playing games introduced in 1995
Armenia at the 2006 Winter Paralympics

Armenia participated in the ninth Winter Paralympics in Turin, Italy. The country sent three representatives to the Games.

Medalists

Events

Alpine skiing
 men: Mher Avanesyan, Garush Danielyan
 women: Greta Khndzrtsyan

See also
2006 Winter Paralympics
Armenia at the 2006 Winter Olympics

References

External links
Torino 2006 Paralympic Games
International Paralympic Committee

2006
Nations at the 2006 Winter Paralympics
Winter Paralympics
Eli C. D. Shortridge

Eli C. D. Shortridge (March 29, 1830 – February 4, 1908) was an American politician who was the third Governor of North Dakota from 1893 to 1895. Shortridge was the first governor to live in the executive mansion.

Biography
Born Eli Charles Daniel Shortridge, he was the eighth of nine children born to Levi and Elizabeth Love Shortridge. Shortridge was born in Cabell County (in modern-day West Virginia; the county was still a part of Virginia at the time of his birth), and grew up in Monroe County, Missouri. He completed his education at an academy located near Paris, Missouri. He moved to Larimore, North Dakota with his family, second wife Anna Burton and twin daughters, in 1882.

Career
Shortridge ran for governor ten years later in 1893 on a fusion ticket composed of Populists, Democrats, and the Farmers' Alliance, who merged into a single Democratic-Independent Party. The new party was very successful, but very short-lived; the party dissolved soon after Shortridge's retirement.

During his administration, Shortridge approved the issuance of $50,000 in bonds to construct the south wing of the state capitol and approved the purchase of an executive mansion for the governor's residence. He also supported an appropriation for a state elevator at Duluth, Minnesota. An out-of-state terminal elevator was not constructed largely due to a provision requiring North Dakota sovereignty over any elevator site. The bill passed, but the provision that Minnesota or Wisconsin would have to cede sovereignty over the site created an unacceptable situation for both states. Governor Shortridge retired from office after one term. He was appointed clerk of the General Land Office at Devils Lake, North Dakota.

After the death of Anna, Shortridge married a third time to Dorcas Virginia Brady and they had five children.

Death
Shortridge died on February 4, 1908, and is interred at Devil's Lake Cemetery, Devil's Lake, North Dakota.

References

External links
Biography for Eli C. D. Shortridge from the State Historical Society of North Dakota website.
 State Historical Society of North Dakota

Democratic Party governors of North Dakota
1830 births
1908 deaths
People from Cabell County, West Virginia
People from Monroe County, Missouri
People from Grand Forks County, North Dakota
19th-century American politicians
Sandy Plunkett

Charles "Sandy" Plunkett (born October 18, 1955) is an American artist and comics writer. He worked on several different series for Marvel Comics and DC Comics in the 1970s and 1980s.

Early life
Plunkett grew up in New York City and began to draw comics at the end of high school.

Career
He assisted the Crusty Bunkers at Neal Adams' Continuity Studios in the 1970s. Plunkett's first credited work was a one-page illustration in Savage Tales #11 (July 1975) published by Marvel Comics. He drew various short stories for Marvel, DC Comics, and Gold Key Comics over the next several years. Plunkett collaborated with writer Mike W. Barr on a Spider-Man/Scarlet Witch team-up story for Marvel Fanfare #6 (Jan. 1983). He worked on the New Universe titles as well as a Daredevil serial in Marvel Comics Presents. Plunkett has made his home in Athens, Ohio since 1990.

Bibliography

Dark Horse Comics
 Rocketeer Adventure Magazine #3 (1995)

DC Comics
 Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #50 (one page) (1993)
 House of Mystery #253 (1977)
 Tom Strong's Terrific Tales #7 (2003)
 Unknown Soldier #210, 215 (1977–1978)
 Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #8, 24 (1985–1987)

Gold Key Comics
 Boris Karloff Tales of Mystery #87, 91 (1978–1979)
 The Twilight Zone #67 (1975)

Heavy Metal
 Heavy Metal Special Editions #v13#1 (1999)

IDW Publishing
 Rocketeer Adventures #1 (2012)

Marvel Comics

 Codename: Spitfire #13 (1987)
 Conan the Barbarian #251 (1991)
 Defenders #53 (Clea backup story) (1977)
 Epic Illustrated #34 (1986)
 Justice #14 (1987)
 Marvel Comics Presents #69–72 (Daredevil); #131 (Ant-Man) (1991–1993)
 Marvel Fanfare #6 (Spider-Man and the Scarlet Witch); #42 (Captain Marvel); #45 (one page); #58 (Vision and the Scarlet Witch) (1983–1991)
 Nightmask #9 (1987)
 Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe #2, 4, 6, 9, 11 (1983)
 Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Deluxe Edition #6–7, 9, 12, 14, 16, 18 (1986–1987)
 Savage Sword of Conan #188 (1991)
 Savage Tales #11 (one page) (1975)
 Solo Avengers #19 (Black Panther) (1989)
 Solomon Kane #6 (1986)

NBM Publishing
 Confessions of a Cereal Eater #1 (1995)

Swallow Press / Ohio University Press
 The World of a Wayward Comic Book Artist: The Private Sketchbooks of S. Plunkett (2010)

References

External links
 
Sandy Plunkett at the Unofficial Handbook of Marvel Comics Creators
Sandy Plunkett checklist

1955 births
American comics artists
American comics writers
Artists from Ohio
Comics colorists
Comics inkers
DC Comics people
Living people
Marvel Comics people
People from Athens, Ohio
Writers from Ohio
List of science fiction conventions

This is a list of notable science fiction conventions, as distinct from anime conventions, comic book conventions, furry conventions, gaming conventions, horror conventions, and multigenre conventions.

In the "type" column, "general" means the entire science fiction and fantasy culture; "literature", "media", etc. modify that. Horror is indicated separately.
RHV

RHV or Rhv can refer to:

Reservehandverfahren
Reid-Hillview Airport (IATA code: RHV)
Rhv, the abbreviation for the orchid genus × Rhynchovanda
Red Hat Virtualization
Registered Health Visitor
Lara Hedberg Deam

Lara Hedberg Deam (born 1967) is the founder of architecture and design magazine Dwell and  chair of the Dwell, LLC board.

Background
Hedberg was raised in Janesville, Wisconsin, United States, and is the daughter of Don and Gerry Hedberg, founders of the company, Lab Safety Supply. After her family sold the company, Hedberg involved herself in philanthropy. When she moved to Mill Valley, California, in 1994, Hedberg's experience in renovating her house inspired her to found the magazine.

Hedberg is married to Christopher Deam, and has twins born in 2003.

References

External links
Biographical sketch from Apple Store and AIGA of San Francisco
Profile of Dwell from Apple Computer
Dwell: Who We Are

1967 births
Living people
American philanthropists
American magazine publishers (people)
People from Janesville, Wisconsin
Businesspeople from San Francisco
20th-century American businesspeople
20th-century American businesswomen
21st-century American women
Robert Bernhardt

Robert "Bob" Bernhardt is an American conductor.  He is currently in his 24th season as Principal Pops Conductor of the Louisville Orchestra (and in his 40th consecutive season there), and in his 10th season as Music Director Emeritus and Principal Pops Conductor of the Chattanooga Symphony and Opera (where he was Music Director for 19 seasons).  In 2015, Bob Bernhardt was named Principal Pops Conductor of the Grand Rapids Symphony.  He is also Artist-in-Residence at Lee University since 2012.  For most of the 1980s, he was also associate conductor of the Louisville Orchestra.

Born in Rochester, New York, Robert Bernhardt holds a master's degree from the University of Southern California Thornton School of Music, where he studied with Daniel Lewis. He is also a Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude graduate of Union College in Schenectady, New York, where he was an Academic All-American Baseball Player.

Career highlights 
Formerly, he was Principal Conductor/Artistic Director of the Rochester Philharmonic, Music Director and Conductor of the Tucson Symphony, Principal Guest Conductor of Kentucky Opera, Music Director and Conductor of the Amarillo Symphony, and Artistic Director of the Lake Placid Sinfonietta.

The 2015 season marks his 22nd as a frequent guest of the Boston Pops, which he first conducted at John Williams’ invitation in 1992. Along with Boston, he has been a frequent guest conductor of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra (approaching his 14th season as conductor of their Symphony Under the Sky Festival), the Baltimore Symphony, the Detroit Symphony, the Cincinnati Pops, the Pittsburgh Symphony, the Dallas Symphony, the Houston Symphony, the Seattle Symphony, the Pacific Symphony, the Florida Orchestra, the Las Vegas Philharmonic, and the Santa Barbara Symphony. He has been a guest with the St. Louis Symphony, Virginia Symphony, Phoenix Symphony, and many others.

In the world of pops, he was worked with scores of stars from Broadway, Rock & Roll, and the American Songbook, from Brian Stokes Mitchell and Kelli O’Hara, to the Beach Boys and Wynonna, to Jason Alexander and Ann Hampton Callaway.

He conducted productions with Kentucky Opera for 18 consecutive seasons, and for 19 seasons with his own company in Chattanooga, as well as many guest conducting engagements with the Nashville Opera.

References

External links
 Louisville Orchestra official website
 Chattanooga Symphony & Opera official website
Grand Rapids Symphony official website

American male conductors (music)
Living people
Musicians from Rochester, New York
Year of birth missing (living people)
Union College (New York) alumni
USC Thornton School of Music alumni
Classical musicians from New York (state)
21st-century American conductors (music)
21st-century American male musicians
Andrew H. Burke

Andrew Horace Burke (May 15, 1850 – November 17, 1918) was an American politician who was the second Governor of North Dakota from 1891 to 1893.

Biography
Burke was born in New York City in 1850 and orphaned at the age of four. He then became a ward of the Children's Aid Society. As a boy, Burke sold newspapers in the city before he was adopted by a family of farmers near Noblesville, Indiana. He enlisted as a drummer boy at the age of 12 with an Indiana regiment on July 17, 1862, in the American Civil War. After returning to Indiana, he finished his education, attending what would become DePauw University for two years. In 1880, after marrying Caroline Cleveland, he moved to Casselton, North Dakota and became a general store bookkeeper.

Career
He next became a cashier of the First National Bank of Casselton and then, for six years, the Treasurer of Cass County.

Burke was elected to the governorship in 1890 as a Republican. During Burke's administration, it was discovered that North Dakota did not have any laws for the selection of presidential electors. Burke called for a special session of the legislature to convene on June 1, 1891, and attended to the law. The state participated in the 1892 U.S. presidential election, when Grover Cleveland was elected to a second term as President of the United States. (Based on the popular vote in North Dakota – narrowly won by Populist candidate James Weaver – one Republican elector and two electors from a fusion Democratic-Populist slate were selected. The Republican elector voted for the Republican candidate, incumbent President Benjamin Harrison, while other two electors split, one voting for Cleveland and one voting for Weaver.)

Burke's political career ended when he lost the support of the state's farmers by vetoing a bill that would have forced railroads to lease sites near the tracks for building grain elevators and warehouses under terms that were unacceptable to the railroads. He returned to private life and after an unsuccessful stint in the grain business in Minnesota, he became an inspector with the U.S. Land Office, subsequently living in Washington, DC; Colorado; and New Mexico.

Death
Burke died in Roswell, New Mexico on November 17, 1918.  His remains are interred in  in Roswell.

References

External links

1850 births
1918 deaths
19th-century American politicians
DePauw University alumni
Politicians from New York City
Republican Party governors of North Dakota
Austria at the 2006 Winter Paralympics

Austria participated in the ninth Winter Paralympics in Turin, Italy.

Team 

Austria entered 25 athletes in the following sports:

Alpine skiing: 20 male, 3 female
Nordic skiing: 2 male

Medalists

See also
2006 Winter Paralympics
Austria at the 2006 Winter Olympics

External links
Torino 2006 Paralympic Games
International Paralympic Committee
Österreichisches Paralympisches Committee

2006
Nations at the 2006 Winter Paralympics
Winter Paralympics
Amalapuram

Amalapuram is a town in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It is the district headquarters and the  third largest town of Konaseema district. It is the mandal and divisional headquarters of Amalapuram mandal and Amalapuram revenue division respectively. The town is situated in the delta of konaseema.

History 

Amalapuram was originally named Amlipuri. Some of its temples are dedicated to Amaleswarudu.

Amalapuram is also called Panchalingapuram as it is the seat of five temples to Shiva as Amaleswarudu, Sidheswarudu, Ramalingeswarudu, Chandramouleeswarudu and Chennamalleeswarudu. Amalapuram is the most developed town in Konaseema district. It is hub of the district for education and financial institutes. There are approximately 65 schools and colleges, six engineering colleges and one medical college in the area. It is one among few parliament constituencies in India which do not have a railway connectivity.

Geography 
Amalapuram is spread over an area of . It is located at . It has an average elevation of . It is the largest town of Konaseema district.

Demographics 
 India census, Amalapuram has a population of 50,889 with 25,538 males and 25,351 females. Amalapuram has an average literacy rate of 77%, higher than the national average of 59.5%; 80.68% of males and 73.54% of females are literate. 77,036 people reside in rural parts of Amalapuram while 64,158 people reside in the Amalapuram urban area.

Governance

Politics 

Amalapuram is one of the 25 Lok Sabha constituencies in Andhra Pradesh.

Transport 

The Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation operates bus services from Amalapuram bus station. Regular buses between Rajahmundry, Kakinada non-stop, hourly based Vizag and Vijayawada from evening buses to Hyderabad available.

A railway station currently under construction (in 2023).

Education 
The primary and secondary school education is imparted by government, aided and private schools, under the School Education Department of the state. The medium of instruction followed by different schools are English and Telugu.

Notable people 
 Bayya Suryanarayana Murthy, former MP of Rajya Sabha, journalist, essayist, short-story writer
 G. M. C. Balayogi, former Lok Sabha Speaker
 Kala Venkata Rao, former Minister
 Devi Sri Prasad, Tollywood music composer and singer
 Ram Madhav, General Secretary, Bharatiya Janata Party
 Satwiksairaj Rankireddy, badminton player
 Pradeep Machiraju, anchor and actor

References

External links 

 

Cities and towns in Konaseema district
Mandal headquarters in Konaseema district
John Allison

John Allison may refer to:

 John Allison (Canadian politician) (1753–1821), Irish-born farmer, merchant and politician in Nova Scotia
 John Allison (Representative) (1812–1878), U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 20th and 23rd Districts
 John Fall Allison (1825–1897), pioneer settler, justice of the peace and Gold Commissioner in the Similkameen Country of the Southern Interior of British Columbia, Canada
 John Allison (footballer) (1884–?), British footballer
 John W. Allison (1893–?), (John Williams Allison) artist, collector and singer of folk songs
 John Moore Allison (1905–1978), U.S. ambassador to Japan, Indonesia, and Czechoslovakia
 Sir John Allison (RAF officer) (born 1943), Air Chief Marshal, RAF
 John A. Allison IV (born 1948), chairman and former CEO of BB&T
 John Allison (anthroposophist) (born 1950), New Zealand/Australian poet, musician, and anthroposophist
 John Allison (special effects designer), American special effects designer
 John Allison (comics) (born 1976), author of the webcomics Scary Go Round and Giant Days

See also
 John R. Alison (1912–2011), World War II ace
Charles E. Rushmore

Charles Edward Rushmore (December 2, 1857 – October 31, 1931) was an American businessman and attorney for whom Mount Rushmore is named.

Born in New York City, he was the son of Edward Carman Rushmore and Mary Eliza (née Dunn) Rushmore, of Tuxedo Park, New York.  

In 1885 Rushmore came to the Black Hills of South Dakota to check the titles to properties for an eastern mining company owned by James Wilson  following the 1883 opening of the Etta tin mine. How Mount Rushmore came to be named after Charles is subject to contradictory recounting, but the United States Board of Geographic Names officially recognized the name in June 1930, five years after Rushmore donated $5,000 () towards Gutzon Borglum's sculpture. The memorial was dedicated by President Calvin Coolidge on August 10, 1927.

Rushmore was a member of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity and a Freemason. He was married to Jeanette E. Carpenter.

Notes and references 

1857 births
1931 deaths
American lawyers
People from Tuxedo, New York
19th-century American businesspeople
London Buses route 9 (Heritage)

London Buses route 9H was a Transport for London contracted bus route in London, England. It ran between Kensington High Street and Trafalgar Square, and was last operated by Tower Transit.

History
To counter unfavourable media coverage of the withdrawal of London's classic AEC Routemaster fleet, Mayor of London Ken Livingstone promised to introduce a heritage Routemaster operation. After hopes that this would be operated commercially, it eventually materialised as tendered short workings on two existing routes, 9H and 15H. The route was initially operated by First London from Aldwych to the Royal Albert Hall, duplicating the eastern half of route 9. The route was criticised by the Liberal Democrats for missing out important tourist attractions such as Buckingham Palace, Big Ben and the British Museum.

This approach ensured passengers with other mobility problems would have alternatives to the Routemasters. The two heritage routes began operation on 14 November 2005. The Routemasters selected had been rebuilt in the early 2000s by Marshall Bus with new engines, windows and lighting.

On 13 November 2010, route 9H was extended westward from the Royal Albert Hall to Kensington High Street and curtailed at its eastern end to Trafalgar Square. The extension was at the urging of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, which wanted to boost the number of visitors to Kensington High Street.

On 22 June 2013, route 9H was included in the sale of First London's Westbourne Park garage to Tower Transit. Route 9H ceased operating on 25 July 2014 because the arrival of New Routemasters on route 9 reduced the patronage of route 9H. Peter Bradley, head of the route 9H consultation, said: "We are considering the removal of this service because it costs more than £1m a year to operate, owing in large part to the upkeep of the 60-year-old buses, and a low level of use by passengers. This money will be re-invested in London’s bus network".

Former route
Route 9H operated via these primary locations:
Kensington High Street Holland Road
High Street Kensington station 
Royal Albert Hall
Knightsbridge station 
Hyde Park Corner station 
Green Park station 
Pall Mall
Trafalgar Square

See also

 List of bus routes in London
London Buses route 15H - the second heritage service that operated from 2005 until 2019

References

External links

Route 9H gallery

Bus routes in London
Transport in the City of Westminster
Transport in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
2005 introductions
2005 establishments in England
2014 disestablishments in England
Paralympic Nordic skiing

Paralympic Nordic skiing is a Winter Paralympics sport consisting of biathlon and cross-country skiing.  The sport is governed by the International Paralympic Committee, with its subcommittee for Nordic skiing known as World Para Nordic Skiing.

Paralympic Nordic skiing includes standing events, sitting events (for wheelchair users), and events for visually impaired athletes.

Classifications
 Main : Para-Nordic skiing classification

The classifications used by the Canadian Paralympic Committee are:

Visually impaired

B1 - totally blind (no sight)
B2 - partially sighted (visual acuity of 20/60 – limited sight)
B3 - partially sighted (visual acuity above 20/60 to 6/60 –more sight than B2)

Standing Skiers

LW1 - double above-knee amputees
LW2 - outrigger skiersLW3 - double below-knee amputees
LW4 - skiers with prosthesisLW5/7- skiers without polesLW6/8 - skiers with one pole
LW9/1 - disability of arm and leg (after amputation)
LW9/2 - disability of arm and leg (cerebral palsy)

Sitting Skiers

LW10 - high degree of paraplegia, no muscles in lower body
LW11 - lower degree of paraplegia, with muscles in lower body 
LW12/1 - lower degree of paraplegia, lower incomplete paralysis
LW12/2 - double above-knee amputees

Para Equipment

Sitting skiers use Nordic sit-skis consisting of a seat on a frame mounted with bindings onto two cross-country skis. Paralympic-quality sit-skis are made of ultra-lightweight materials, and are custom made and fitted to each athlete.

Blind skiers use headsets and sound location boxes to communicate with their guide. Blind athletes in the biathlon use a rifle equipped with electro-acoustic glasses (an optronic system) which allows aiming by hearing. The closer the rifle points to the centre of the target, the higher the tone is. The different tones that occur when the rifle is moved allow the shooter to find the exact centre of the target.

References

External links
 World Para Nordic Skiing

Nordic skiing
Nordic skiing
Mürz

The Mürz () is a river in Styria, Austria, with a length of . Its drainage basin is .

The Mürz begins at the confluence of the  and  near Kaltenbach, Neuberg and the border to Lower Austria. It passes through Mürzzuschlag. Along its course are the tracks of the Southern Railway as well as the highway . The Mürz discharges into the Mur in Bruck an der Mur.

References

Rivers of Styria
Rax-Schneeberg Group
Mürzsteg Alps
Fischbach Alps
Rivers of Austria
Solketal

Solketal is a protected form of glycerol with an isopropylidene acetal group joining two neighboring hydroxyl groups. Solketal contains a chiral center on the center carbon of the glycerol backbone, and so can be purchased as either the racemate or as one of the two enantiomers. Solketal has been used extensively in the synthesis of mono-, di- and triglycerides by ester bond formation. The free hydroxyl group of solketal can be esterified with a carboxylic acid to form the protected monoglyceride. The isopropylene group can then be removed using an acid catalyst in aqueous or alcoholic medium. The unprotected diol can then be esterified further to form either the di- or triglyceride.

Another route to specific di- or triglycerides involves converting the solketal to glycidol (2,3-epoxy-1-propanol) and esterifying this with one fatty acid before opening the epoxy by heating in the presence of a second fatty acid and a catalyst. This second fatty acid is put on the third carbon atom, and then a third fatty acid can be added to the second carbon atom.

References

  
 
 
 

Ketals
Primary alcohols
Breitscheid

Breitscheid may refer to:

Breitscheid, Hesse, a municipality in Hesse, Germany
Breitscheid, Mainz-Bingen, a municipality in the district Mainz-Bingen in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Breitscheid (Westerwald), a municipality in the district Neuwied in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Ratingen-Breitscheid, a borough of the city of Ratingen, Germany
the Breitscheid meteorite of 1956, which fell in Hesse, Germany (see Meteorite falls)

People with the surname
Rudolf Breitscheid (1874–1944), German politician

See also
 Breitscheidt, a municipality in the district Altenkirchen in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany