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Association for the Reform of Latin Teaching

The Association for the Reform of Latin Teaching (ARLT) was founded in the United Kingdom in 1913 by the distinguished Classical scholar W. H. D. Rouse.  It is now known as the Association for Latin Teaching.

It arose from Summer Schools which Rouse organised in order to train Latin teachers in the Direct Method of language teaching, which entailed using the language in everyday situations rather than merely learning grammar and syntax by rote. Summer Schools remain the chief activity of this organisation.  A journal entitled Latin Teaching reported on the Summer Schools and included articles on practical teaching of Latin. Contributors included Dorothy L. Sayers.

After the Second World War three developments deeply affected the ARLT:

The Universities of Oxford and Cambridge ceased to require proficiency in Latin as a qualification for entry. This meant a sharp reduction in the numbers of school pupils learning Latin.
The Cambridge Latin Course brought many of the principles espoused by Rouse and the ARLT into the mainstream of Latin teaching. This led ARLT to adopt a more supportive, rather than campaigning, approach, offering general encouragement for all Classics teachers.
Three Classical organisations, The Classical Association, the Orbilian Society (now defunct) and the Association for the Reform of Latin Teaching, joined in founding an umbrella organisation: the Joint Association of Classical Teachers (JACT).

ARLT and JACT endured a period of uneasy relations, with some questioning of ARLT's reason for continuing existence, but in time all concerned recognised the need to work together for the common cause against those who willed the demise of Classics teaching. Now the two organisations publish a joint magazine, The Journal of Classics Teaching.  ARLT has a website and a blog.

Political Rumblings
During the parliamentary recess in 2021, the Department of Education, fronted by Gavin Williamson announced a £4m scheme to introduce Latin into 40 state schools. Latin is already taught in 3% of stateschools and is permitted under the National Curriculum.

See also
American Classical League
Minimus

References

External links
Association for the Reform of Latin Teaching

Latin-language education
Educational organisations based in the United Kingdom
Canadian Duality Flag

The Canadian Duality Flag (; also called the Canadian Unity Flag) is an unofficial flag that was originally circulated to demonstrate the unity of Canada during the lead-up to the 1995 Quebec referendum, at rallies for the "no" side. The Duality Flag design was chosen to represent explicitly the Francophone and Anglophone populations on the national flag by adding blue stripes to the red sections, roughly in proportion to the number of Canadians who are primarily French-speaking. The blue was chosen as it is the main colour that is used on the flag of Quebec.

See also
 Flag of Canada
 Flag of Quebec

References

1995 in Canada
Activism flags
Flags of Canada
National symbols of Canada
Political history of Quebec
Unofficial flags
William Beresford

William Beresford may refer to:
William Beresford (politician) (1797–1883), British politician
William Beresford, 1st Baron Decies (1743–1819), Anglican Archbishop of Tuam, great-uncle of the above
William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford (1768–1854), British Army general, nephew of the above
William Horsley-Beresford, 3rd Baron Decies (1811–1893), Anglo-Irish peer
Lord William Beresford (1847–1900), Irish Victoria Cross recipient, great-nephew of Viscount Beresford
William Beresford, 4th Baron Decies (1865–1910), Anglo-Irish peer

See also 
William Bereford (died 1326), English judge
Anouk Leblanc-Boucher

Anouk Leblanc-Boucher (born October 21, 1984, in Prévost, Quebec) is a Canadian short track speed skating athlete at the 2006 Winter Olympics.

A student in ecology at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), she won a bronze medal in the 500m short track speed skating event on February 15, 2006, at the Winter Olympics. She finished ahead of fellow Canadian Kalyna Roberge with a time of 0:44.759.

On February 22, along with Alanna Kraus, Tania Vicent, Amanda Overland and Kalyna Roberge, Leblanc-Boucher helped win a silver medal for Canada in the women's 3000m relay.

Leblanc-Boucher announced her pregnancy in 2006 and gave birth to her first child, William, born in late June 2007. She went on to have two more children, Ben and Stella, and had planned to compete at the 2010 Winter Olympics in her home country but could not qualify.

Leblanc-Boucher made headlines in February 2014 when she posted an advertisement on Kijiji selling her Olympic silver medal and the skates she competed in from the 2006 Winter Olympics. After being inspired watching the 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia, she expressed interest in competing in the sport once again, seeking offers that would help with her finances. Her asking prices were listed at $1 million for the medal and $7,000 for the skates, excluding the individual bronze medal she won in the 500m race. In March 2014, it was reported she would not have to sell her medal or skates as her Kijiji advertisement resulted in sponsor offers to help fund her comeback at the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea.

Leblanc-Boucher now plans to resume training to return to competition in preparation for the upcoming Olympic season.

References

Sports Reference

1984 births
Living people
Canadian female short track speed skaters
Olympic silver medalists for Canada
Olympic bronze medalists for Canada
Olympic short track speed skaters for Canada
Olympic medalists in short track speed skating
Short track speed skaters at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Medalists at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Sportspeople from Quebec
Canadian female speed skaters
21st-century Canadian women
Circus Caper

Circus Caper, known as  in Japan, is the title of a side-scrolling Nintendo Entertainment System video game where the player controls a young boy on a quest to save his sister who has been kidnapped by the circus. The game was released in 1989 by Toho and received poor reviews.

Plot
In Circus Caper, a boy named Tim takes his sister Judy to a circus show. However, the two siblings can't afford to enter. A clown offers the children tickets if they beat him in a dice game. After beating him, the clown says there is only one ticket left, so Tim lets his sister go in. After the show, Tim goes to pick up his sister, and is greeted by Mr. Magic, who has kidnapped her. Tim then enters the circus to try and rescue his sister. At the end of the game, Judy reveals to Tim that she was going to be used as a knife-throwing target, and the two go home.

In the Japanese version, based on the anime Moeru! Oniisan, Yukie has been kidnapped by Dra Gon, a dragon. It is up to Kenichi and his friends Hidou, Rocky, and Shiranui to save her. Many characters from the anime appear in the show, including Duck Nicholson, as well as the Narrator talking in the cutscenes. At the end of the game, it is revealed Dra Gon was actually Duck Nicholson in disguise.

Gameplay
The single-player, side-scrolling action game takes the player through various levels, each with a circus theme, fighting various enemies and bosses until he finally defeats the ringmaster and saves his sister.

The player starts out in the game with little life, and few weapons, but he can collect various icons to increase how many direct hits that he can withstand, keys to open doors, along with various circus items to shoot as projectiles.

Many of the levels can be avoided altogether by just walking backwards and back through the curtain from where the player begins. This will take him right to that level's boss battle.

Bonus levels include guiding a bear to jump over flames, avoiding boulders in a car, using Rodan as target practice and meeting Godzilla at the circus grounds.

Release
The Japanese version's title screen features the theme song from the anime, Dreamy Dreamer by Yuko Ishikawa, played in the key of B, rather than the key of D.

The USA version has a number of changes from the Japanese versions. Mainly minigame and RPG elements were removed, the stages were modified and the setting was changed to a circus. The Japanese version also features several credits screens at the end which were removed from the USA version. The soundtracks also differentiate (for the most part). In the Japanese version, instead of weapons, your character shouted quote bubbles and the stages are in a different order.

References

Nintendo Entertainment System games
Platformers
1989 video games
Video games developed in Japan
Toho
Nintendo Entertainment System-only games
Single-player video games
Godzilla games
Pivot (American band)

Pivot is a United States  rock band from Raleigh, North Carolina featuring Brian Kelly on vocals, Eric Hambright on guitar, Mike Hambright on bass, and Phil Cicco on drums.

Discography
1999 - Self Titled EP
2003 - Simple Machines
2006 - The Dream
2009 - 5 Days
2012 - Enter the Exosphere

American progressive rock groups
Which Witch

Which Witch is a musical written by Norwegian singers/composers Benedicte Adrian and Ingrid Bjørnov.

The storyline for Which Witch was derived from the witch finder's manual Malleus Maleficarum, and the original script was written by Adrian and Bjørnov's manager Ole A. Sørli. The lyrics of the early concert versions were written by Helen Hampton in collaboration with Adrian, Bjørnov and Sørli. 

The first performance was in Grieghallen, Bergen on May 27, 1987, with Adrian playing the female lead, and Bjørnov as musical director. The material was constantly developed throughout a period of eight years, resulting in several national and international tours presenting continuously updated concert versions of the musical.

The "Operamusical" Which Witch opened at the Piccadilly Theatre in London on October 22, 1992 and ran for 76 performances, after a critical savaging. It has been described as "the second worst West End musical of all time", a "bizarre musical", and "a dire rock opera".

The London version was followed by a rather more successful Norwegian tour, and further performances of a Norwegian version in Holmenkollen, Oslo during the summer of 1994.

Which Witch has, since its premiere in May 1987, been performed a total of 142 times in concert version in the following countries: Norway, Canada, USA, the Netherlands, England, Spain, Finland, Sweden and Denmark. The total attendance figure is approx. 276,000.

Recordings

Which Witch- the original studio album (released 1987).
Which Witch på Slottsfjellet live concert double album (released 1990).
Which Witch - London Cast Album (released 1993).
Total record sales are in excess of 110,000 units.  Licensed productions have been staged in several European countries.

References

External links
Witch Witch - The Operamusical - Official website.

1986 musicals
Musicals based on European myths and legends
Norwegian musicals
Rock operas
West End musicals
Musicals based on books
Alejandro Oms

Alejandro Oms Cosme (March 13, 1896 – November 5, 1946) was a Cuban center fielder in Negro league baseball and Latin American baseball, most notably with the Cuban Stars (East). Born in Santa Clara, Las Villas, he died at age 50 in Havana.

Oms played winter ball in the Cuban League from 1922 to 1946. He led the league in batting average three times, in 1924/25 (.393), 1928/29 (.432), and 1929/30 (.380), and won the Cuban League's Most Valuable Player Award in 1928/29. He ranks second all-time for career batting average in the Cuban League (behind Cristóbal Torriente) with an average of .345. He was elected to the Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame in 1944.

Notes

References

External links
 and Baseball-Reference Black Baseball stats and Seamheads
NLB Players Association

1896 births
1946 deaths
Cuban baseball players
Cuban House of David players
Leopardos de Santa Clara players
New York Cubans players
Sportspeople from Santa Clara, Cuba
Baseball outfielders
Ulverston Victoria High School

Ulverston Victoria High School (UVHS) is a secondary school and sixth form located in the town of Ulverston, Cumbria, England. It is the successor school to Ulverston Grammar School and Victoria Secondary Modern, which were combined in 1967 to form Ulverston Comprehensive School. This school ultimately became UVHS.

Admissions
UVHS is a comprehensive school and takes its pupils from the local area as well as from Barrow-in-Furness, Grange-over-Sands and Coniston. The school also has a Sixth Form.

Sport
The school's most notable sporting achievements include winning the BSOA Large Secondary School Orienteering crown for 19 of the last 21 years. The orienteering team came back from the 2017 World Schools Orienteering Championship with a silver medal for the junior girls team and individual gold and silver medals for Year 9 pupil, Merryn Stangroom.

Music 
UVHS Swing Band won the national SSAT competition for function bands in 2013, headlining at the Liverpool Echo Arena. The band has recorded 2 CDs with the Royal Marines and has also appeared live on Blue Peter as well as on Classic FM, Radio 2 and Radio Cumbria. In 2018 they played at Disneyland Paris on Bastille day.

The Wind Band consists of between 90 and 100 players aged from 11 to 18. The band regularly tours abroad, including Italy, Spain, Czech Republic, Germany, Austria, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Salzburg and the Netherlands. In 2014 they performed a live concert on Dutch TV and have also appeared live on Belgian and Spanish TV in the past as well as Czech and British radio.

Richard Butler, head of music, was awarded an MBE in the New Years Honours list 2018.

Notable former pupils
(Includes Ulverston Grammar School and Victoria Secondary Modern)

 Sir Wilfred Burns CB CBE, town planner
 Richard Parsons, educational study guide author and founder and owner of CGP
 William Pearsall, Quain Professor of Botany at University College London from 1944 to 1957, President of the Institute of Biology from 1957 to 1958
 Colin Pickthall, Labour MP for West Lancashire from 1992 to 2005
 Dame Kathleen Raven, nurse, Chief Nursing Officer in the DHSS from 1958 to 1972
 Rt Rev Martin Wharton, Bishop of Newcastle since 1997
 John Eccleston, puppeteer, writer, presenter and actor
 George Elokobi, former professional footballer and current manager of  Maidstone United
 Jess Gillam, saxophonist

See also
Town Bank Grammar School, a defunct school in the town, the endowment of which contributed to the school's early development

References

External links
 Ulverston Victoria High School - UVHS
 Ulverston Victoria High School Sixth Form

Secondary schools in Westmorland and Furness
Ulverston
Community schools in Westmorland and Furness
Jay Hickman (actor)

Jay Hickman (born May 23, 1973) is an American film and voice actor, best known for his prolific voice work on English language dubs of Japanese anime shows for ADV Films, Sentai Filmworks and Funimation.

Career

Hickman lent his voice to the character of Mark in the 2002 Canadian film Touching Wild Horses, starring Jane Seymour. He has also a number of on-screen appearances, including an uncredited bit part in the 1998 film Rushmore opposite television and movie actress Alexis Bledel and Apollo 11. In anime, he is known as the voice of Kurama from Elfen Lied, Kagetane Hiruko from Black Bullet, Crusty from the Log Horizon series and Ryuya from Air.

Filmography

Anime

Live-action roles

References

External links
 
 
 
 Jay Hickman at Crystal Acids
 

1973 births
Living people
American male voice actors
21st-century American singers
21st-century American male singers
Illinois Route 123

Illinois Route 123 (IL-123) is an east–west state highway in central Illinois, USA.   long, it stretches from Historic Route 66 at Williamsville to Illinois Route 125 near Pleasant Plains.

Route description 
All of IL-123's route is contained within Sangamon and Menard counties.  Major towns located on or adjacent to IL-123 include Athens, Petersburg, and Williamsville.

New Salem, the home of Abraham Lincoln in the 1830s, has been reconstructed as Lincoln's New Salem State Historic Site near Petersburg on IL-123.

History 
SBI Route 123 was what Illinois 123 is now, plus a road from Ashland south to Alexander at Interstate 72/U.S. Route 36. In 1999, Illinois 123 was truncated on its southern end to Illinois 125. In October 2003, Illinois 123 was extended east to Williamsville, replacing some of Illinois Route 124 in the process as well as all of Sangamon County Route 11.

Major intersections

References 

123
Transportation in Sangamon County, Illinois
Transportation in Menard County, Illinois
Seoi nage

is a throw in judo. It is one of the traditional forty throws of judo as developed by Jigoro Kano. It belongs to the first group, Dai Ikkyo, of the traditional throwing list, Gokyo (no waza), of Kodokan Judo. It is also part of the current official throws of Kodokan Judo. It is classified as a hand technique, te-waza, and is the second throw performed in the Nage-no-kata. Seoi nage literally means "over the back throw", but has also been translated as a "shoulder throw", as the opponent or uke is thrown over the thrower or tori's shoulder.

Variations 
Eri Seoi Nage/kata-eri-seoi-nage: tori grips the sleeve and lapel on the same side.

Illustration Kata-eri-seoi-nage/eri seoi nage  

The specific techniques of morote-seoi-nage (two hands seoi-nage), or eri-seoi, are usually generalised as simply seoi-nage.  

morote-seoi-nage:

The distinctive technical aspect of this classification is that tori (the one executing the technique) grips with their two hands, as opposed to Ippon Seoi Nage, in which only one hand remains gripping while the other slides under uke's (the one receiving the technique)

reverse seoi-nage:

reverse seoi-nage involves spinning up to 360 degrees so that uke ends up being thrown backwards rather than forward, as in other variations. Renowned seoi-nage martial artists are Isao Okano and Toshihiko Koga, and renowned reverse seoi-nage judoka is Choi Min-ho, who popularised the variation.

It is banned in competitions under IJF rules as uke is unable to breakfall properly.

Origin
Seoi nage is likely to have developed from the jujutsu throw empi nage  in which an arm bar is used as leverage to throw uke over tori’s shoulder.

See also 
 Kodokan
 The Canon Of Judo
 Ippon Seoinage
 Isao Okano
 Toshihiko Koga

Notes

References 
 Ohlenkamp, Neil (2006) Judo Unleashed basic reference on judo. .

Further reading

External links 
 Information on the Techniques of Judo
 Example video demonstration

Judo technique
Throw (grappling)
R.e.m.IX

r.e.m.IX is a 2002 remix album of songs by R.E.M. from its 2001 album Reveal. Copies of that album were given to well-known remixers to see what they could do with its tracks and the band's favorite results were compiled to form this album. Out of the twelve original tracks on Reveal, six are found among the ten tracks on this album—there are two different versions of "The Lifting" and four of "I've Been High." "I'll Take the Rain" was the only one of Reveals three singles to be included on r.e.m.IX.

The album has never been commercially released, but it was made available as a free download from the band's Web site and as a promotional Compact Disc and vinyl LP from Warner Bros. Records. This was the second promotional music download from R.E.M. (after Not Bad for No Tour) and was intended to introduce their music to a wider audience.

Critical reception
The album received mixed-to-poor reviews. Flak Magazines James Norton praised it for the precedent it sets for other artists to release free music, but considers the music "stuffy" and lacking fun. Mark Reed of Drowned in Sound agreed that the music was boring and both reviewers criticized the apparently random track listing and choice of remixes.

Track listing
All songs written by Peter Buck, Mike Mills, and Michael Stipe
"The Lifting" (Now It's Overhead mix by Andy Lemaster) – 4:41
"The Lifting" (Knobody/Dahoud Darien for 12 Nations) – 5:07
"I'll Take the Rain" (Jamie Candiloro) – 6:11
"She Just Wants to Be" (Jamie Candiloro) – 5:03
"I've Been High" (Matthew "Intended" Herbert) – 5:19
"I've Been High" (Knobody/Dahoud Darien for 12 Nations) – 4:01
"I've Been High" (Chef) – 4:56
"I've Been High" (Her Space Holiday/Marc Bianchi) – 5:01
"Beachball" (Chef) – 6:16
"Summer Turns to High" (Her Space Holiday/Marc Bianchi) – 4:25

References

External links
Download page at REMhq.com

2002 remix albums
R.E.M. remix albums
Warner Records remix albums
Albums produced by Pat McCarthy (record producer)
Albums free for download by copyright owner
House music remix albums
Trip hop remix albums
Hamilton West railway station

Hamilton West railway station serves the Hamilton West area of Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, in Scotland, lying on the Argyle Line.

It is situated near the headquarters of South Lanarkshire Council; the Hamilton campus of the University of the West of Scotland; Hamilton Sheriff Court; and the Hamilton Racecourse. It is situated next to New Douglas Park, home to Hamilton Academical Football Club.

The station is operated by ScotRail Trains who also provide all passenger services.

History
The station was once part of the Caledonian Railway and later, the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.  It was originally opened by the Caledonian in September 1849, as the terminus of their branch line from Newton and was originally known simply as Hamilton. The branch was then extended to  and also to Ferniegair (to join existing routes southwards to Strathaven & Coalburn) in December 1876 - a new Hamilton Central station serving the town was opened on this route at the same time, with the former terminus renamed Hamilton West and rebuilt for through traffic.

Services south of Haughhead Junction to  & Coalburn ended in October 1965 due to the Beeching Axe, but the line as far as  was reopened in 2005. The Hamilton Circle line was electrified by British Rail in 1974, as part of the wider scheme to electrify the northern end of the West Coast Main Line.

Facilities

Both platforms can be accessed via the footbridge at the Clydesdale Street entrance with disabled access available on platform 2 using a ramp which can also be accessed from Clydesdale Street by continuing past the main station entrance and following the footpath on the left, beside the adjacent bus stop.

A ticket office is staffed between 06:20 and 20:04 Monday-Saturday  alongside a self-service ticket machine within the shelter beside the ticket office on platform 1. There are no ticketing facilities on platform 2 although both platforms have two ScotRail Smartcard validators  each.

Accessible toilets are available on platform 1, next to the ticket office, and can be unlocked on request by asking staff in the ticket office. Sheltered seating is provided on platform 1 in both the ticket office and the same shelter that houses the self-service ticket machine whilst open-air seating is available on platform 2.

The station has a dedicated 191-space car park with 2 disabled parking spaces. The station also has 16 bicycle storage locations in the form of lockers and stands.

Services

Off-peak Monday to Saturday:

2tph to  via Glasgow Central Low Level.
2tph to  via .
2tph to .
1tph to .
1tph to .

On Sundays the service pattern is:

2tph to  via Glasgow Central Low Level.
1tph to  via .
2tph to .
1tph to .

Trains travelling westbound to ,  and  depart from platform 1, whilst trains travelling eastbound to , , and  depart from platform 2.

References

External links 

RAILSCOT - Hamilton Branch

Railway stations in South Lanarkshire
Former Caledonian Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1849
SPT railway stations
Railway stations served by ScotRail
Buildings and structures in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire
1849 establishments in Scotland
Tropical Park Derby

The Tropical Park Derby is an American Thoroughbred horse race currently run at Gulfstream ParkHallandale Beach, Florida in mid-December. It is an ungraded stakes race for 3-year-olds with a purse of $75,000 run over the turf at  miles.

Prior to 2014, the race was held at Calder Race Course in Miami Gardens, Florida. The race was once held in early January, often on New Year's Day, which made it the first "derby" of the year. In 2011, Calder ran the race twice: once in January and again in October. In 2012 and 2013, it was run in October only. In 2014, the race was moved to Gulfstream Park and run in December.

Inaugurated in 1976, the Tropical Park Derby was named for the old Tropical Park Race Track in Miami. It was once thought of as the first step on the American Triple Crown trail. In 2006, Barbaro became the first winner of the race to subsequently win the Kentucky Derby.

Due to financial pressure, Calder did not run the race in 2009. The race was downgraded from a Grade III race in 2011 by the American Graded Stakes Committee.

The race has been run under the following combinations of distance and surface:
  miles on turf - 2014–present
  miles on turf - 1994-2013 (except in 2002 and 2012 when weather conditions caused the race to be moved to the main track)
  miles on dirt - 1976-1985
  miles on dirt - 1986-1993

Past winners
 2015 - Solemn Tribute
 2014 - Sky Flight
 2013 - Amen Kitten
 2012 - Csaba
 2011 (October) - Oligarch
 2011 (January) - King Congie
 2010 - Fly by Phil (Eduardo Núñez)
 2008 - Cowboy Cal (John Velazquez)
 2007 - Soldier's Dancer (Cornelio Velásquez)
 2006 - Barbaro
 2005 - Lord Robyn
 2004 - Kitten's Joy
 2003 - Nothing to Lose
 2002‡- Political Attack (Mark Guidry)
 2001 - Proud Man
 2000 - Go Lib Go
 1999 - Valid Reprized
 1998 - Draw Again
 1997 - Arthur L.
 1996 - Ok By Me
 1995 - Mecke
 1994 - Fabulous Frolic
 1993 - Summer Set
 1992 - Technology
 1991 - Jackie Wackie

 ‡ In 2002, the race was run off the turf, but retained its GIII status.

Notes

External links
Calder Race Course official website

Tropical Park Race Track
Recurring sporting events established in 1976
Horse races in Florida
Calder Race Course
Flat horse races for three-year-olds
Turf races in the United States
Triple Crown Prep Races
Graded stakes races in the United States
1976 establishments in Florida
Blue Mountain Pottery

Blue Mountain Pottery was a Canadian pottery company located in Collingwood, Ontario. It was founded in 1953 by Dennis Tupy and Jozo Weider (b. 1908 in Zhilina Czechoslovakia) and closed in 2004. Originally producing hand-painted ski motifs on purchased blanks, production of the red clay items started in 1953-1954. It went on to produce various types of pottery, from animal figurines to jugs, pots and vases. The company's products have a large fan base and are collected worldwide.

Blue Mountain Pottery items feature a unique, trademarked glazing process known as "reflowing decorating." Two different liquid glazes, one light and one dark in colour, were applied. During the firing process the glazes would run, creating streaking patterns unique to each piece.

Blue Mountain Pottery items were available in the traditional green hues, but also in harvest gold, cobalt blue, mocha, pewter, red, brown and white.

This pottery is widely collected and has spawned the Blue Mountain Pottery Collectors Club.

External links
 Blue Mountain Pottery Collectors Club
 Blue Mountain Pottery

References

Art pottery
Ceramics manufacturers of Canada
Collingwood, Ontario
Companies based in Ontario
Canadian companies established in 1953
Defunct manufacturing companies of Canada
History of manufacturing in Ontario
Gary Graham (musician)

Gary Graham (11 August 1945 – 24 June 2019) ONL, was a Canadian musician born in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. His early musical education began at the Banff Centre while still a teenager and continued at the Music School of Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, and later at McGill University in Montreal.

A long-time resident of Corner Brook, Newfoundland, Graham was the founding musical director of Theatre Newfoundland and Labrador. He directed several dozen musical theatre productions over the years. Graham worked as the musical director of the Stephenville festival during its heyday under the direction of Maxim Mazumdar, directing professional casts at home in Newfoundland and on national and international tours.

Graham devoted most of his adult life to the success of the careers of hundreds of amateur performers. As a choral director, Graham was well decorated. His choirs received prizes at the regional, provincial, national and international levels. He toured his choirs across both sides of the Atlantic, receiving some of the highest honours available to amateur choral groups. As a teacher of performance, Graham's students have established thriving careers at the highest levels in Canada, the U.S. and Europe. Graham was invested as a member of the Order of Newfoundland and Labrador in 2004 for his role in the development of the musical, cultural and artistic life on the West Coast of the province.

Graham died on June 24, 2019, aged 73.

Honours
Appointments
  2004: Order of Newfoundland and Labrador (ONL)

Medals
  2012: Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal

Honorary degrees
  2013: Memorial University of Newfoundland, Doctor of Laws (LLD)

References

External links
 Biography from Order of Newfoundland and Labrador

Members of the Order of Newfoundland and Labrador
Musicians from Newfoundland and Labrador
Living people
1945 births
Ejura

Ejura is a town and the capital of Ejura/Sekyedumase, a district in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. Ejura has settlement population of 70,807 people. Ejura is the largest maize producing district in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. It is in the far north of the region, near the Afram River. Ejura is connected by highways with the towns of Mampong, Yeji and Techiman. Ejura is home to the Digya National Park / Kujani Game Reserve.

History

2021 shooting 

On June 28, 2021, two people were shot and killed by the security personnel in Ejura and four others were injured during a demonstration which turned violent. Ejura people are also ashanti people. They are living from agriculture. The traditional celebration of these people is Sikiyerene based on yam production.

References

People from Ejura
Emmanuel Boakye born 1985 Ahodwo family Ejura footballer Ajax Amsterdam

Populated places in the Ashanti Region
Chatelherault railway station

Chatelherault railway station serves the villages of Ferniegair and Allanton on the outskirts of Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is named Chatelherault after the nearby Chatelherault Country Park.

History 
The station was opened as Ferniegair on 1 December 1866 as a terminus for trains approaching from the south on the Caledonian Railway's Coalburn Branch. Passengers for Glasgow had to transfer to Hamilton by coach. It was rebuilt and relocated as a through station on 2 October 1876, with trains continuing to Motherwell railway station on the Clydesdale Junction Railway. The Caledonian Railway closed the station on 1 January 1917, though the line itself continued to carry passengers until October 1965 and freight until 1968.

Re-opening 
The station is on the Argyle Line, and was officially re-opened on 9 December 2005 by First Minister Jack McConnell as part of the extension of the Argyle Line to include Larkhall.

Services 
From the re-opening in December 2005, trains ran on Mondays and Saturdays every 30 minutes north-west to  via Singer and south to . A trial (for one year) Sunday service commenced from December 2007 with an hourly service in each direction, and due to high uptake was made permanent in December 2008.

, the frequency remains unaltered, but northbound trains now run to  (southbound trains still start from Dalmuir).  The hourly Sunday service runs to/from  via .

References

External links 

 New Link for Larkhall opens – BBC News Scotland website
 RAILSCOT on Larkhall re-opening
 RAILSCOT on Coalburn Branch
 RAILSCOT on Mid Lanark Lines
 Video footage of Chatelherault railway station

Railway stations in South Lanarkshire
Former Caledonian Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1866
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1876
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1876
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1917
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 2005
Reopened railway stations in Great Britain
SPT railway stations
Railway stations served by ScotRail
Buildings and structures in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire
1866 establishments in Scotland
Frontier California

Frontier California, Inc. is a Frontier Communications-owned operating company providing telephone service in former Verizon regions.  This included Southern California cities such as Long Beach, Seal Beach, Lakewood, Norwalk and Santa Monica.

History
GTE was originally the largest non-Bell System telephone company, and the number-two telephone service provider in the United States. It entered California by acquiring the Associated Telephone Company in 1926. It would later merge with Western Utilities Corporation and its affiliates in 1964; the number-three (non-Bell System) provider, Continental Telephone (ConTel), in 1991; and former Bell System member Bell Atlantic in 2000.

GTE was made up of many small "mom and pop" telephone companies that had been purchased to form the General Telephone System, this led the California Public Utilities Commission, in the mid-1960s to proclaim GTE "the worst telephone company in California, bar none." However, in the years following the report, GTE replaced most of its switching equipment, and much of its plant in Southern California. This led to a higher level of service compared to Pacific Bell.

When the 213 area code was being split into 213 and 310, Pacific Bell, then the manager of the 213 area code, chose to split the 213 area code in such a fashion that every single prefix that served a GTE customer was moved into the new 310 area code, while many of Pacific Bell's customers remained in the 213 area code.

GTE California completed the transition from mechanical to electronic switching by 1992.

In the 1990s, GTE California underwent several changes. In 1993, GTE purchased ConTel. Its subsidiary ConTel of California, Inc., which also served parts of Nevada and Arizona, was absorbed into GTE California.

In 2000, GTE was purchased by Bell Atlantic, becoming Verizon. GTE California was then renamed "Verizon California, Inc."

In 2010, operations in Arizona, Nevada, and some of California (mostly in areas near state borders), including some former Contel of California regions, were sold to Frontier Communications, becoming Frontier Communications of the Southwest.

In April 2020, Frontier Communications filed for bankruptcy protection from creditors. Frontier lists a total debt of $21.9 billion.

Sale to Frontier
On February 5, 2015, Verizon Communications announced a sale of its remaining wired telecom operations in California, Florida, and Texas to Frontier Communications. Verizon California is included in the sale. The transaction closed in the first half of 2016.

Verizon California transitioned to Frontier Communications on April 1, 2016.

Sources
FCC History: Verizon California, Inc.

References

External links
Official Frontier Communications website

Frontier Communications
Communications in California
Telecommunications companies of the United States
Technology companies based in Greater Los Angeles
Companies based in Los Angeles County, California
Mass media in Los Angeles
Telecommunications companies established in 1929
1929 establishments in California
EN World

EN World, also known as Morrus' Unofficial Tabletop RPG News, is a British-owned tabletop role-playing game news and reviews website. The website is run and owned by Russ Morrissey ("Morrus"). It reports current news and provides insight into major product releases before they are officially unveiled. EN World was the original host of the ENNIE Awards.

The site's forums are a gathering place for over a quarter-million gamers. In addition to discussing games, members also participate in play-by-post games on the EN World message boards.

ENnies 
Beginning in 2002, EN World hosted the ENnies in association with the Gen Con gaming convention. The ENnies is an award show recognizing the best role-playing game products and publishers for the preceding year. The ENnies were officially known as the "Gen Con EN World RPG Awards" from 2002-2019. As of 2017, the awards are run by business manager Stacey Muth. In 2019, EN World owner Russ Morrissey retired from the awards, which were officially renamed "The ENnies".

EN Publishing 
EN Publishing was established in 2001 and is the publishing arm of EN World. It has published over 300 books, including the What's O.L.D. is N.E.W. (WOIN) role-playing game system, EN5ider magazine, and the official Judge Dredd (role-playing game). In 2016 Angus Abranson joined EN Publishing as business director. Abranson left in 2019 and was replaced by Jessica Hancock, while Marc Langworthy joined as 2000 AD line manager.

In August 2020, EN Publishing announced a project code-named Level Up, an advanced adaptation of Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition. In October of the same year, the company announced the Awfully Cheerful Engine, a comic-book-inspired tabletop game.

History 
EN World was founded in 2000. It grew from the earlier "Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News" site, which was active from 1999-2001 and was the primary source of information about the third edition of the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game before its release by Wizards of the Coast.

In 2005, the EN World GameStore was launched as a platform for selling downloadable RPG products. The GameStore allowed sellers to use their profits to purchase other products or transfer the money to PayPal. Buyers could transfer funds from PayPal or a similar service to purchase any non-free product. However, the GameStore was sold to DriveThruRPG in 2006.

EN World began experimenting with media content in 2012, starting with a six-episode animated show 'The Perturbed Dragon', video coverage of DragonMeet and the Battle of the Bards music competition.

In 2018, the site launched its official podcast, "Morrus' Unofficial Tabletop RPG Talk," a weekly program that provides insight into tabletop role-playing game news.

References

External links 
 EN World
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News (archive)

Role-playing game websites
Swing with Scooter

Swing with Scooter is a DC Comics teen-humor American comic book published from 1966 to 1972. It starred a British teenage musician nicknamed Scooter who lived in the US.

Publication history
Swing with Scooter was published by DC Comics for 36 issues (cover-dated July 1966 - Nov. 1972). The series was an attempt at drawing upon the popularity of young British musicians such as the Beatles, and the teen humor market served by Archie Comics. Scooter was created by writers Barbara Friedlander, a writer of DC romance comics, and Jack Miller and artist Joe Orlando. 

Henry Scarpelli took over as artist with issue #14, giving the comic a more cartoony, Archie-style look.

The entire DC humor line was cancelled between 1971 and 1972, including Leave It to Binky, Date with Debbi and Swing with Scooter.

Fictional character biography
The protagonist, Scooter, was a British teenage musician who left his band, the Banshees, and moved to Plainsville, USA. His nickname came from the scooter that he used as a vehicle. No last name was given. His supporting characters included Cookie, Kenny, Malibu, and Penny, and in the course of his series, Scooter met extraterrestrials as well as Batman, Superman and other members of the Justice League of America.

References

1966 comics debuts
1972 comics endings
DC Comics titles
Teen comedy comics
NGC 5921

NGC 5921 is a barred spiral galaxy located approximately 65 million light-years from the Solar System in the constellation Serpens Caput. It was discovered by William Herschel on 1 May 1786. In February 2001 a type II supernova (SN 2001X) was discovered in NGC 5921. It is a member of the Virgo III Groups, a series of galaxies and galaxy clusters strung out to the east of the Virgo Supercluster of galaxies.

See also
 Spiral Galaxy NGC 1300
 List of NGC objects (5001–6000)

References

External links
 
 
 SEDS
 NOAO: NGC 5921 

Barred spiral galaxies
Serpens
5921
09824
54849
Discoveries by William Herschel
Antigua and Barbuda Public Service Association

The Antigua and Barbuda Public Service Association (ABPSA) is a national Trade union of Antigua and Barbuda. First recognized in the 1980s, the ABPSA is a small organization with competition from other unions in the public service sector.

See also

 List of trade unions

References

External links
 www.icftu.org entry in ITUC address book.

Trade Union Confederation of the Americas
Trade unions in Antigua and Barbuda
8 Soothing Songs for Rut

8 Soothing Songs for Rut is the second studio album by the Norwegian rock band Motorpsycho, then still tinged in hard rock and grunge metal. It was first released as vinyl-only-mini-album called "Soothe" but later re-released on CD with two additional tracks from the single "3 Songs For Rut". Both titles were merged into "8 Soothing Songs For Rut". The music is very raw and hard, but also shows glimpses of Prog, as in the nearly 10-minute-long "Lighthouse Girl".

Track listing

CD

LP "Soothe"

Personnel 
Bent Sæther: vocals, bass, guitars, piano, percussion
Hans Magnus Ryan: guitars, taurus, piano, back. vocals
Håkon Gebhardt: drums, percussion

with:
Lars Lien: back. vocals on "California Dreamin'"

References 

1992 albums
Motorpsycho albums
Frontier Florida

Frontier Florida LLC is a Frontier Communications operating company providing telephone service in Florida to former GTE and later Verizon regions.

History
Frontier Florida was founded as the Peninsular Telephone Company by William G. Brorein in March 1901. Brorein, a politician from Ohio, arrived in Tampa in 1901. Noticing the boom in the South, he was convinced by friends to get in the telephone business. Peninsular Telephone began with only 100 telephone lines.

In 1957, the company was sold to General Telephone and Electronics (later GTE) and the name was changed to General Telephone Company of Florida.

The company was later renamed GTE Florida, Incorporated.

In 2000, GTE Florida was renamed "Verizon Florida", upon GTE's buyout by Bell Atlantic.

On April 1, 2016, Verizon Florida became "Frontier Florida" after Frontier Communications purchased all of Verizon wireline assets in Florida.

It serves the Central Florida and Tampa Bay regions.

Sale to Frontier
On February 5, 2015, Verizon Communications announced a sale of its wired telecom operations in California, Florida, and Texas to Frontier Communications. Verizon Florida is included in the sale. The transaction closed on March 31, 2016.

Verizon Florida transitioned to Frontier Communications on April 1, 2016.

Sources
Verizon Florida, Inc.

References 
 Brorein Street & Bridge, Tampa

Frontier Communications
Companies based in Florida
Telecommunications companies established in 1901
Communications in Florida
1901 establishments in Florida
Ozone (disambiguation)

Ozone is a molecule consisting of three oxygen atoms.

Ozone may also refer to:

Fictional characters
 Ozone (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe
 Ozone, a character played by Shabba Doo in the movies Breakin' and Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo

Media
 Ozone (magazine), a magazine
 Ozone (film), a horror movie produced by Full Moon Features

People
 Makoto Ozone (born 1961), a Japanese jazz pianist
 Ozone, one of many stage names of Jezper Söderlund, Swedish DJ

Places

United States
 Ozone, Arkansas, an unincorporated community in the U.S.
 Ozone, Tennessee, an unincorporated community in the U.S.
 Ozone Park, Queens, a New York City neighborhood

Elsewhere
 Ōzone (大曽根), Japan, a district in Nagoya, central Japan

Other uses
 Ozone, a 3D plugin component of E-on Vue scenery generator software
 Ozone, a series of audio mastering plugins made by iZotope (Ozone 7, 8, 9, 10)
 Ozone (group), an early 1980s funk/soul group signed to Motown records
 Ozone (paddle steamer), an early Australian paddle steamer
 Ozone F.C., an Indian association football team
 Ozone Gliders, a French aircraft manufacturer

See also
 O-Zone (disambiguation)
 Ozone cracking, a form of degradation in elastomers
 Ozone layer, a region of Earth's stratosphere that absorbs most of the Sun's ultraviolet radiation
 Ozone House, a non-profit youth shelter in Ann Arbor, Michigan, US
 Ozone Theatres, a former cinema chain in South Australia
O-Zone (novel)

O-zone is a science fiction novel by the American author Paul Theroux published in 1986.

Synopsis
Missouri is a nuclear wasteland after leakage of stored radioactive waste, off limits to all but the very rich. Eight of them, referred to as 'Owners', visit this O-Zone as their personal playground. Some of them come to the disturbing realizations that the life-forms outside of their walled in cities, assumed to be just 'things', seem as human as the Owners themselves.

References

External links

1986 American novels
American science fiction novels
Novels by Paul Theroux
Novels set in Missouri
Dystopian novels
Post-apocalyptic novels
Novels set in the 2020s
Minnesota Texas Adoption Research Project

The Minnesota / Texas Adoption Research Project (MTARP) is a longitudinal research study that focuses on the consequences of variations in openness in adoption arrangements for all members of the adoptive kinship network: birthmothers, adoptive parents, and adopted children, and for the relationships within these family systems.

MTARP is a joint project between the University of Minnesota and University of Texas at Austin and involves interviews with adoptive parents and birth mothers. The Principal Investigators of the study are Harold D. Grotevant, University of Minnesota, and Ruth G. McRoy, University of Texas at Austin. Co-investigators include Gretchen Wrobel, Bethel University, St. Paul, MN, Martha Rueter, University of Minnesota, Susan Ayers-Lopez, University of Texas at Austin, and Sarah Friese, University of Minnesota.  It is funded primarily by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Science Foundation, William T. Grant Foundation, Office of Population Affairs, and Rudd Family Foundation Chair in Psychology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Each of the families in the project adopted a child in the late 1970s or early 1980s. Families and birthmothers were first interviewed between 1987 and 1992 and again between 1996 and 2000. Grotevant and colleagues at the Minnesota site have followed the adopted children and their adoptive parents (e.g., Grotevant, Ross, Marchel, & McRoy, 1999; Dunbar & Grotevant, 2004); McRoy and colleagues at the University of Texas at Austin have followed the children’s birthmothers (e.g., Christian, et al., 1997; Fravel, et al., 2000).  Adoptive families and birthmothers were recruited for the study through 35 adoption agencies located across the United States.

Families where there was at least one adopted child (the "target child") between the ages of 4 and 12 at the time of the interview, who was adopted through an agency before his or her first birthday, and in which both adoptive parents were married to the partner they had at the time of the adoption were selected for the study. Transracial, international, or "special needs" adoptees were not included.  Participants in the study were located in 23 different states from all regions of the U.S., making this study the only nationwide one of its kind.

References

External links 
MTARP website
APA article on MTARP

Research projects
Adoption research