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Charlotte Marguerite de Montmorency

Charlotte Marguerite de Montmorency (11 May 1594 – 2 December 1650) was an heiress of one of France's leading ducal families, and Princess de Condé by her marriage to Henri de Bourbon. She almost became a mistress of Henry IV of France, but her husband escaped with her after the wedding and did not return to France until after King Henry's death.

Life
The daughter of Henri de Montmorency and his second wife, Louise de Budos,  Charlotte lost her mother before she was five years of age.  She was brought up under the care of her aunt Charlotte, widow of Charles, Duke d'Angoulême. 

In 1609, fifteen-year-old Charlotte-Marguerite wed the Prince of Condé in a glittering ceremony.

The king had arranged Charlotte's marriage to Condé for his own convenience, in order to sleep with her himself when he pleased. To escape from this predicament, the couple fled to Brussels. The king was enraged and threatened to march into Flanders with an army unless the Habsburg governors returned Condé and his wife at once. At the time, he was also threatening war with the Habsburgs over the succession to the United Duchies of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, so historians are unsure how crucial in itself Charlotte's return was as a reason for war. Condé continued to provoke Henry from Flanders. When asked to drink to the queen of France, he replied that there seemed to be more than one queen of France, maybe as many as four or five.

Along with many other French nobles, her husband bitterly opposed the rule of Marshal d'Ancre, who abandoned the policy of the late King Henry IV. In September 1616, Condé and Charlotte-Marguerite were arrested and imprisoned at Vincennes, where their daughter Anne Geneviève was conceived and born three years later, in 1619.

In 1632, Charlotte-Marguerite's only brother, Henri, Duke de Montmorency was executed for intriguing against Cardinal Richelieu. The title passed to her. She was buried at the Carmel du faubourg Saint-Jacques, a Carmelite convent in Paris.

Children

Her children with the Prince de Condé were:
 Anne Genevieve (1619-1679); married Henri d'Orléans, Duke de Longueville. 
 Louis, Prince of Condé, "le Grand Condé" (1621-1686); married Claire-Clémence de Maillé-Brézé.
 Armand de Bourbon, Prince of Conti (1629-1666); married Anne Marie Martinozzi.

Ancestry

See also

 List of Princesses of Condé

References

External links
 

Montmorency, Charlotte
Princesses of the Blood
Montmorency, Charlotte
Montmorency, Charlotte
Dukes of Montmorency
Princesses of Condé
House of Bourbon
Duchesses of Enghien
House of Montmorency
Burials at the Carmel du faubourg Saint-Jacques
Montmorency, Duchess of, Charlotte Marguerite
Peers created by Louis XIII
Household of Marie de' Medici
Tuesday's Child (album)

Tuesday's Child is Canadian singer-songwriter Amanda Marshall's second album, released in 1999. The album was certified triple platinum by the CRIA selling over 300,000 copies across Canada. The singles off her second album include, "Believe In You", "Love Lift Me", "If I Didn't Have You", "Shades of Grey", and "Why Don't You Love Me". This album produced two top 10 hits in Canada.

Track listing
"Believe In You" (Amanda Marshall, Eric Bazilian) 4.31
"Love Lift Me" (Marshall, Bazilian, Randy Cantor, John Bettis) 3.47
"Why Don't You Love Me?" (Marshall, Bazilian, Desmond Child) 4.12
"Too Little, Too Late" (Marshall, Bazilian) 4.36
"If I Didn't Have You" (Marshall, Bazilian) 5.33
"Ride" (Marshall, Bazilian, Child) 4.27
"Right Here All Along" (Marshall, Carole King) 5.14
"Wishful Thinking" (Maia Sharp, Cantor) 4.40
"Shades of Grey" (Marshall, Bazilian) 5.03
"Give Up Giving In" (Marshall, Bazilian) 4.47
"Best of Me" (Marshall, Bazilian) 4.26
"Never Said Goodbye" (Marshall, Bazilian) 6.24
"Out of Bounds" (Marshall, Marti Frederiksen) 3.53
"Just Love Me" (Japan bonus track)

Personnel
Amanda Marshall – vocals, piano, electric piano, Wurlitzer piano, Fender Rhodes, keyboards, percussion
Eric Bazilian – guitar, bass guitar, mandolin, piano, keyboards, omnichord, background vocals
Andy Kravitz – drums, percussion, omnichord
Gota Yashiki – drum loops
Jamie Muhoberac – acoustic piano, keyboards
Richie Sambora – electric guitar
Mark Goldenberg – electric guitar
Dean Parks – acoustic guitar, mandolin
Rob Misener – bass guitar
Steve Jordan – drums
Benmont Tench – Hammond B3 organ
Paulinho Da Costa – percussion
Carole King – keyboards, background vocals
Paul Jackson Jr. – electric guitar
Matt Rollings – piano
John O'Brien – programming
Kenny Aronoff – drums
Waddy Wachtel – electric & acoustic guitar
Joe Sublett – horns
Darrell Leonard – horns
Roger Manning – background vocals
Mark Isham – trumpet
David Campbell – arranger

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

References

 

1999 albums
Amanda Marshall albums
Albums arranged by David Campbell (composer)
Albums produced by Don Was
Sony Music Canada albums
Die Blitzkinder

Die Blitzkinder was a comedy rock project that performed in Boston clubs in 1989 and 1990.  It featured vocalist Springa from SSD, backed by The Slaves. All concerned wore Gestapo uniforms (minus the Swastikas) as Springa played on German stereotypes.  Musically they were closer to The Slaves than to SSD.

American comedy musical groups
Penrhyn Bay

Penrhyn Bay ( "headland bay") is a small town on the northern coast of Wales, in Conwy county borough, within the parish or community of Llandudno, and part of the ecclesiastical parish of Llanrhos. It is a prosperous village, with a cluster of local shops, a pub, a parish church and a modern medical centre with doctors' surgery at the foot of the pass over the shoulder of the Little Orme from Llandudno Bay. Here there is a highschool called Ysgol y Creuddyn and a primary school called Ysgol Glanwydden. It is considered to be a residential suburb of Llandudno lying east of the Little Orme. It adjoins the resort of Rhos-on-Sea and covers a large part of the Creuddyn peninsula. The population of Penrhyn Ward at the 2011 census was 4,883.

History 

The oldest building in Penrhyn Bay is Penrhyn Old Hall dating from the early 15th century. It was the home of the Pugh family whose fortunes faded through their adherence to the Catholic religion when their neighbours accepted Protestantism. On 14 April 1587, printing material for Catholic literature was found in a cave on the Little Orme, where it had been used by the recusant Robert Pugh (squire of Penrhyn Hall) and his chaplain William Davies to print Y Drych Gristianogawl ('The Christian Mirror'). They had taken refuge there during the persecution of Catholics instigated by Queen Elizabeth I in May 1586. In the grounds of the hall are the ruins of the medieval chapel of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Penrhyn, last used by the Church in Wales for public worship c1930. The Pugh family also held a charter and built a windmill to serve their land in the nearby village of Glanwydden the first charter dating 1580. The hall now serves as a pub and restaurant.

Originally a small farming community, Penrhyn Bay came to rely heavily on the employment opportunities of the limestone quarry operating since the mid-19th century, and served by its own narrow gauge railway, but quarrying ceased in 1936. However, Penrhyn Bay expanded rapidly in the 20th century to become a desirable suburb of Llandudno, with developments taking place in the 1930s, 1950s and 1960s. Most recently, in the 1990s, further large development of family homes took place to the south of the town. The village also has a school called Ysgol Glanwydden which was built in 1910.

Celebrity connections 
The highly popular singing duo Anne Ziegler and Webster Booth retired to a small bungalow in Penrhyn Bay after their return to the United Kingdom from South Africa in 1976, until their deaths.

It provided a location for an episode of TV's Hetty Wainthropp Investigates television series (Childsplay), which starred Patricia Routledge. Also Rocket's Island.

References

Ivor Wynne Jones. Llandudno Queen of Welsh Resorts Landmark, Ashbourne Derbyshire 2002  .

External links

 Cytûn - Church Services in Llandudno and Penrhyn Bay
 www.geograph.co.uk : photos of Penrhyn Bay and surrounding area
 Penrhyn Bay Presbyterian Church

Towns in Conwy County Borough
Llandudno
Populated coastal places in Wales
Svetlana Ishmouratova

Svetlana Irekovna Ishmouratova (, ) (born 20 April 1972) is a Russian biathlete. She lives in Chelyabinsk and is a soldier by profession.

Ishmouratova won the gold in the women's 15 km individual contest at the 2006 Winter Olympics.

Biography 
Svetlana Irekovna Ishmouratova was born in Zlatoust (Chelyabinsk region) . Svetlana graduated Trade Secondary School of Zlatoust first and then State Academy of Physical Education. In 1991, Ishmouratova became the USSR junior champion in individual race and the champion in senior team race. But in 1996, she was accused of doping and so was disqualified for two years. That was the end of her skiing career.

But in autumn of 1996, a coach from Moscow offered Svetlana to train with his women biathlon team. And in a year Svetlana became the champion of Russia. In 2002, at the Salt Lake City Olympics she became a bronze medalist in the relay. Four years later, she won two gold medals at the 2006 Winter Olympics, in the individual race and relay. Besides that, she has six World Champion titles (in summer and winter biathlon).

Record
Source:

Olympic Games

*Mass start was first added in 2006.

World Championships*Team was removed as an event in 1998, and pursuit was added in 1997 with mass start being added in 1999 and the mixed relay in 2005.''

References

See also 
 Russia at the 2006 Winter Olympics

1972 births
Living people
Russian female biathletes
Olympic biathletes for Russia
Biathletes at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Biathletes at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for Russia
Olympic bronze medalists for Russia
Fifth convocation members of the State Duma (Russian Federation)
People from Zlatoust
Tatar people of Russia
Olympic medalists in biathlon
Biathlon World Championships medalists
Medalists at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Medalists at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Tatar sportspeople
Russian sportsperson-politicians
Beatrice Rancea

Beatrice Rancea (born Jurian on August 19, 1961, in Bucharest) is a Romanian stage director.

She studied choreography before attending the Bucharest National Academy of Theatrical and Film Art, where she studied theatre and choreography.

She has staged several plays in Romania, most notably Eugène Ionesco's Requiem and Anton Chekhov's The Wedding, as well as others, at the Bucharest National Theatre Bucharest. She has also staged six bilingual plays in Hungary, casting Romanian and Hungarian-speaking actors, with texts in both languages. Bleonţ also staged a well-received performance of The Flying Dutchman with the Romanian National Opera.

Bleonţ has received several awards for her work, being honoured for at the 1992 Bucharest Festival of Comedy for Chekhov's Wedding, as well as winning the UNITER Prize for the debut of Ionesco's Requiem (and receiving another for a staging of The Merry Wives of Windsor) She also won the Public's Prize at the International Theatre Festival, and was nominated as the 1998 Woman of the Year by the magazine Avantaje.

She has been married since 1995 to actor Claudiu Bleonț; they have divorced and since remarried. Beatrice with Doru Rancea.

In 2011 she became General Manager of The National Opera in Iași, Romania.

References

Romanian theatre directors
Theatre people from Bucharest
1961 births
Living people
Richard Blahut

Richard Blahut (born June 9, 1937), former chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, is best known for his work in information theory (e.g. the Blahut–Arimoto algorithm used in rate–distortion theory). He received his PhD Electrical Engineering from Cornell University in 1972.

Blahut was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1990 for pioneering work in coherent emitter signal processing and for contributions to information theory and error control codes.

Academic life
Blahut taught at Cornell from 1973 to 1994. He has taught at Princeton University, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, the NATO Advanced Study Institute, and has also been a Consulting Professor at the South China University of Technology. He is also the Henryk Magnuski Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and is affiliated with the Coordinated Science Laboratory.

Awards and recognition

 IEEE Claude E. Shannon Award, 2005
 IEEE Third Millennium Medal
 TBP Daniel C. Drucker Eminent Faculty Award 2000
 IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal 1998, for "contributions to error-control coding, particularly by combining algebraic coding theory and digital transform techniques."
 National Academy of Engineering 1990
 Japanese Society for the Propagation of Science Fellowship 1982
 Fellow of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 1981, for the development of passive surveillance systems and for contributions to information theory and error control codes.
 Fellow of IBM Corporation, 1980
 IBM Corporate Recognition Award 1979
 IBM Outstanding Innovation Award 1978
 IBM Outstanding Contribution Award 1976
 IBM Resident Study Program 1969–1971
 IBM Outstanding Contribution Award 1968

Books
 Lightwave Communications, with George C. Papen (Cambridge University Press, 2019) 
 Cryptography and Secure Communication, (Cambridge University Press, 2014) 
 Modem Theory: An Introduction to Telecommunications, (Cambridge University Press, 2010) 
 Fast Algorithms for Signal Processing, (Cambridge University Press, 2010) 
 Algebraic Codes on Lines, Planes, and Curves: An Engineering Approach, (Cambridge University Press, 2008) 
 Theory of Remote Image Formation, (Cambridge University Press, 2004) 
 Algebraic Codes for Data Transmission, (Cambridge University Press, 2003) 
 Algebraic Methods for Signal Processing and Communications Coding, (Springer-Verlag, 1992) 
 Digital Transmission of Information, (Addison–Wesley Press, 1990) 
 Fast Algorithms for Digital Signal Processing, (Addison–Wesley Press, 1985) 
 Theory and Practice of Error Control Codes, (Addison–Wesley Press, 1983)

See also
 IEEE Biography
 ECE @ UIUC

References

External links
 

Living people
1937 births
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty
Cornell University faculty
Cornell University College of Engineering alumni
American electrical engineers
Fellow Members of the IEEE
American telecommunications engineers
Aruanã

Aruanã is a municipality in north-western Goiás state, Brazil. The population is 10,110 (2020 est.) in an area of 3050.31 km2. Aruanã is located on the Araguaia River, 324 km from the state capital, Goiânia, 59 km northwest of Araguapaz. It is part of the Rio Vermelho Microregion.

Municipal Boundaries
Municipal boundaries:
North: the state of Mato Grosso and Nova Crixás
South: Matrinchã and Itapirapuã
East: Mozarlândia, Araguapaz and Matrinchã
West: Britânia and Mato Grosso

Demographics
Population density: 2.12 inhabitants/km2 (2007)
Population growth rate 2000/2007: 3,49%
Population in 1980: 7,193
Population in 1991: 4,909
Urban population: 5,349 (2007)
Rural population: 1,127 (2007)
Eligible voters:  4,543 (12/2007)

Climate and Tourism
The climate is moist tropical with an average temperature of 27 °C, with two well defined seasons: dry and rainy, with regular rainfall in the period of October to March. This type of climate favors the formation of vegetation made up of savanna, broken by farmland and pastureland.  There are still stands of tropical forest, especially near the rivers.

The town is located on the Araguaia River and attracts thousands of tourists, especially in the dry season, from May to August, when extensive sandbanks are formed providing beaches for sunbathers and swimmers.  There is also extensive sport fishing in the region.

Economy
In addition to tourism, the economy is based on cattle raising and agriculture.  The cattle herd had 205,000 head (1,800 milk cows) in 2003.  There is also large hardwood extraction and small lumbermills.
Main crops (2003) in planted area are corn and rice.

The main economic activities were agriculture (including lumber extraction and processing), commerce, hotels and restaurants, and public administration. There is a large informal economy.  There is financial Institution: Banco Itaú S.A.

Health and education
Health establishments: 2 (2007)
Hospitals: 1 with 15 beds
Infant mortality (in 1,000 live births) in 2000: 26.34
Infant mortality in 1990: 31.02
Schools:  6 with 1,989 students (2006)
Higher education enrollment, teachers, and schools:  Campus of the UEG (Universidade Estadual de Goiás), established in September 2004.  No data on enrollment or teachers.
Literacy rate in 2000: 83.5
Literacy rate in 1990: 71.1
MHDI:  0.721
State ranking:  172 (out of 242 municipalities)
National ranking:  2,611 (out of 5,507 municipalities)

For the complete list see Frigoletto.com.

History
The history of Aruanã began with the building of a military fort in 1849 at the point where the Rio Vermelho enters the Rio Araguaia.  The region was occupied by the Carajá Indians.  The fort was called Leopoldina and later Santa Leopoldina.  In 1868 the first steam boats appeared on the Araguaia and the settlement was a major port.  In 1939 the name was changed to Aruanã, a native fish and the dance of the local Indians, and the village became a district in the municipality of Goiás.  In 1958 it became an independent municipality.

See also
List of municipalities in Goiás

References

IBGE
Seplan

Municipalities in Goiás
Ruski Krstur

Ruski Krstur (Serbian Cyrillic: Руски Крстур; Rusyn: Руски Керестур) is a village in Vojvodina, Serbia. It is located in the municipality of Kula, West Bačka District. The village has a Rusyn ethnic majority. Its population numbered 5,213 in the 2002 census. Ruski Krstur is the cultural centre of the Rusyns in Serbia. The number of Rusyns in Ruski Krstur is in constant decline as many of them have moved out to Canada concentrating in the town of North Battleford, Saskatchewan .
The village is the seat of the Greek Catholic Eparchy of Ruski Krstur, part of the wider Greek Catholic Church of Croatia and Serbia.

Name
Its name means "the Rusyn Krstur" (There is also a village called Srpski Krstur, meaning "the Serb Krstur", in Vojvodina).

The Hungarian name for the village derived from the Hungarian word "kereszt", which means "cross" in English. "Ur" (úr) means "lord." "Keresztúr," as seen in the Hungarian place name "Bodrogkeresztúr," likely refers to a crucifix (Our Lord on the Cross on the Bodrog river - suggesting that more places called Keresztúr were known). The first written record of Ruski Krstur was made during the administration of the Kingdom of Hungary in 1410 and then in 1452, mentioning it under name Kerezthwr.

In Hungarian the village is known as Bácskeresztúr; in Slovak as Ruský Kеrеstur; and in Croatian as Ruski Krstur, in Rusyn Руськый Керестур.

Ethnic groups

1971
According to the 1971 census, ethnic Rusyns comprised 99.45% of population of the village.

2002
According to the 2002 census, the population of the village include:
Rusyns = 4,483 (86.00%)
Serbs = 263 (5.05%)
others.

Historical population

1948: 5,874
1953: 6,115
1961: 5,873
1971: 5,960
1981: 5,826
1991: 5,636
2002: 5,213

Politics
There is an initiative among inhabitants of Ruski Krstur that this settlement become its own municipality completely separate from Kula.

See also
List of places in Serbia
List of cities, towns and villages in Vojvodina
Pannonian Rusyns
Greek Catholic Eparchy of Ruski Krstur

References
Slobodan Ćurčić, Broj stanovnika Vojvodine, Novi Sad, 1996.

External links

 Ruski Krstur - Web page about the village
 Welcome to First Internet Web Presentation of Ruski Kerestur 
 Rusyns in Serbia
 Vodica in Ruski Krstur
 “A Home for Town Planning Kula-Odzaci” Kula
 Castle, Ruski Krstur
 Rusyn On The Internet

 
Places in Bačka
West Bačka District
Kula, Serbia
Dibber

A dibber or dibble or dibbler is a pointed wooden stick for making holes in the ground so that seeds, seedlings or small bulbs can be planted.  Dibbers come in a variety of designs including the straight dibber, T-handled dibber, trowel dibber, and L-shaped dibber.

History
The dibber was first recorded in Roman times and has remained mostly unchanged since. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, farmers would use long-handled dibbers of metal or wood to plant crops. One person would walk with a dibber making holes, and a second person would plant seeds in each hole and fill it in. It was not until the Renaissance that dibbers became a manufactured item, some made of iron for penetrating harder soils and clay.

Straight dibber
This is the classic dibber. It is anything from a sharpened stick to a more complicated model incorporating a curved handle and pointed steel end. It may be made of wood, steel or plastic.

T-handled dibber

This dibber is much like the classic dibber, but with a T-grip that fits in the palm to make it easier to apply torque. This allows the user to exert even pressure, creating consistent hole depth.

Trowel dibber
This dibber combines the features of a dibber and a trowel. It is usually forged from aluminum or other lightweight material. One end is for dibbing, and the other end is shaped like a trowel.

In popular culture
British comedian Lee Mack donated a T-handled dibber to the British Lawnmower Museum, Southport, and spoke about it on the panel game show Would I Lie to You? (series six, episode three, first broadcast 27 April 2012).

In military parlance an aircraft-dropped 'dibber bomb' is an anti-runway penetration bomb which destroys runways by first penetrating below the tarmac before exploding, cratering, and displacing the surface, making repairs difficult and time consuming, during which conventional airplanes can neither land nor take off.

See also
Pottiputki (tool)

References

Sources and external links
William Bryant Logan, Smith & Hawken The Tool Book, 1997
 Antique Farm Tools
 

Gardening tools
Farming tools
CKSW

CKSW (570 AM) is a radio station in Canada broadcasting a country format. Licensed to Swift Current, Saskatchewan, it serves southwestern Saskatchewan. It first began broadcasting in 1956 at 1400 before moving to its current frequency of 570 in 1977. The station is currently owned by Golden West Broadcasting.

The station celebrated its 50th anniversary in July 2006 with a one-day music festival in the city's Riverside Park. Among the performers at the outdoor event was Saskatchewan-born country singer Brad Johner. The event had an attendance of over 2000.

CKSW has been home to several notable Canadian radio presenters, such as Wilf Gilbey, Lenn Enns, Darwin Gooding, Regan Bartel, Garth Materie, Trent Redekop, Ken Audette, Eric Rosenbaum, Lowell Thomas and most notably, Art Wallman who is in the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame.

CKSW resides with 2 sister stations; CKFI-FM and CIMG-FM, in the same building at 198-1st Ave NE in Swift Current.

External links
CKSW 570

Ksw
Ksw
Ksw
Ksw
Radio stations established in 1956
1956 establishments in Saskatchewan
Everybody's Got a Story

Everybody's Got a Story is Amanda Marshall's third studio album. The album was certified platinum by the CRIA selling over 100,000 copies across Canada. It was her last new studio album of original material until the release of Heavy Lifting in 2023.

Track listing
"Everybody's Got a Story" (Amanda Marshall, Billy Mann, Marvin Leonard (Molecules)) - 4:11
"The Voice Inside" (Marshall, Mann, Peter Asher, Molecules) - 3:01
"The Gypsy" (Marshall, Mann, Molecules) - 4:30
"Colleen (I Saw Him First)" (Marshall, Mann, Molecules) - 5:10
"Double Agent" (Marshall, Mann, Asher, Molecules) - 4:41
"Red Magic Marker" (Marshall, Mann, Asher, Molecules) - 3:26
"Sunday Morning After" (Marshall, Mann, Asher, Molecules) - 4:44
"Love Is My Witness" (Marshall, Mann) - 3:21
"Dizzy" (Marshall, Mann, Molecules) - 4:02
"Brand New Beau" (Marshall, Mann, Asher, Molecules) - 4:24
"Marry Me" (Marshall, Rob Misener) - 3:51
"Inside the Tornado" (Marshall, Mann) - 1:43

Personnel
Amanda Marshall - Vocals, Background Vocals
Billy Mann - Acoustic & Electric Guitars, Keyboards, Background Vocal Arrangements, Background Vocals
Molecules - Drum and Percussion Programming
Peter Asher - Baritone Electric Guitar, Background Vocals
Steven Wolf - Live Drums and Additional Programming
Jack Daley - Bass
Paul Pimsler - Electric Guitars
Sandy Park - Concertmaster, Contractor, Solo Violin
David Campbell - Orchestral Arrangements and Conducting
Jon Clarke - Woodwinds
Tim Hagans - Additional Keyboards

Year-end charts

References 

2001 albums
Amanda Marshall albums
Sony Music Canada albums
Albums arranged by David Campbell (composer)
Albums produced by Billy Mann
Albums produced by Peter Asher
Eto'o (surname)

Eto'o is a Cameroonian surname that may refer to:

Samuel Eto'o, a former professional footballer
David Eto'o, younger brother of Samuel, a footballer who played for CF Reus Deportiu
Etienne Eto'o, youngest brother of Samuel and David, a footballer who plays for FC Lustenau
Mathieu Turcotte

Mathieu Turcotte (born February 8, 1977) is a Canadian former short track speed skater. He was born in Sherbrooke, Quebec.

Turcotte rose to fame within Canada upon winning the bronze in the men's 1000 m in the short track speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics, with a time of 1:30.563 (a race more remembered for the victory of Australian Steven Bradbury), and winning a gold as part of the men's 5000 m relay at the same games, with a team time of 6:51.579.

He placed 6th at the men's 1500 m short track speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics with a time of 2:24.558.

Mathieu is now the President of Apex Racing Skates, a company that makes custom short track speed skates.

Career

References

1977 births
Canadian male short track speed skaters
French Quebecers
Living people
Medalists at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Medalists at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for Canada
Olympic gold medalists for Canada
Olympic medalists in short track speed skating
Olympic short track speed skaters for Canada
Olympic silver medalists for Canada
Short track speed skaters at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Short track speed skaters at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Sportspeople from Sherbrooke
Canadian male speed skaters
World Short Track Speed Skating Championships medalists
Dave Line

Dave Line (1942 – 1980) was a British beer author. An electrical engineer by profession, he is regarded as a pioneer in homebrewing during the 1970s because at the time homebrewing as a hobby was in its infancy. At the time of his early death from cancer he was 37, living in Southampton, was married and had a son.

Homebrewing
In 1963, it had become free to homebrew in the UK, previously requiring an annual 5 Shilling licence, but would not yet become legal in the U.S. until President Jimmy Carter signed a bill into law in 1978 legalizing it.

People wanted to brew beer that matched the quality of commercial beer. In his first book "The Big Book of Brewing", Dave Line helped people to begin to reach the quality they were looking for, by using ingredients and processes that were used in breweries, with simple homebrewing equipment.

At the time people were not getting satisfactory results, because they were using substandard ingredients, low quality syrups or beer kits, baker's yeast, and were not technically informed in the processes of brewing. He advocated the use of proper brewer's yeast, whole-grain barley malts, whole hops, and even went into simple analysis and comparison of the chemistry of water used for brewing different beers, and rudimentary water treatment. He also encouraged sterilisation and proper cleaning of equipment.

He was a regular contributor to Amateur Winemaker, and in a decade, probably had more recipes published than anyone else.

Bibliography
 The Big Book of Brewing (1974) 
 Brewing Beers Like Those You Buy (1978)
 Beer Kits and Brewing (1980)

References

Homebrewing
Year of birth uncertain
Beer writers
1979 deaths
1942 births
British male non-fiction writers
20th-century British male writers
20th-century British non-fiction writers
British food writers
Deaths from cancer in England
State of the Planet

State of the Planet is a three-part environmental documentary series, made by the BBC Natural History Unit, transmitted in November 2000. It is written and presented by David Attenborough, and produced by Rupert Barrington. It includes interviews with many leading scientists, such as Edward O. Wilson and Jared Diamond. Each of the programmes attempts to find answers to the potential ecological crisis that threatens the Earth.

The series was specially commissioned by BBC One for the millennium, and had a budget of around GBP2 million. The BBC drew criticism for scheduling the first episode in competition with the final part of ITV's Inspector Morse; as a consequence, it drew just 4 million viewers, well below the channel's typical share. However, ratings recovered to around 7 million for the second and third programmes.

Attenborough fronted this series in between presenting his 1998 ornithological study, The Life of Birds, and providing narration to the award-winning 2001 series The Blue Planet.

Programmes

1. "Is There a Crisis?" 
Broadcast 15 November 2000, together with leading experts, David Attenborough examines the latest scientific evidence in order to discover if the planet's ecosystems are really in crisis. If so, he asks how it could have come about, and what is so different now that prevents certain species from adapting to survive, as they did in the past?

2. "Why Is There a Crisis?" 
Broadcast 22 November 2000, Attenborough presents some stark facts. He states that humans are now triggering a mass extinction on a similar scale to that which wiped out the dinosaurs – but at an unprecedented rate. He investigates the five main activities of mankind that are the most likely contributory factors:

 Habitat loss
 Introduced species
 Pollution
 Over-harvesting
 Islandisation

3. "The Future of Life" 
Broadcast 29 November 2000, as Homo sapiens relentlessly encroaches on the natural world and its inhabitants, the viewer is presented with a choice: leave behind a flourishing planet or a dying one.

DVD 
The complete series was released on DVD (BBCDVD1498) on 27 September 2004.

References

External links 
 
 
 

2000 British television series debuts
2000 British television series endings
BBC television documentaries
Sibbarp, Varberg Municipality

Sibbarp is a village and a former parish in Varberg Municipality, Halland, Sweden. Sibbarp was first mentioned in 1354 as Sigbiornathorp. The name is formed of Sigbjörn (a male name) and thorp.

The former Sibbard parish covered an area of . 1 January 2006 it was merged with Dagsås to form Sibbarp-Dagsås parish.

Geology
The western parts of the parish are dominated by red gneiss, while the eastern parts are dominated by grey gneiss. The parish is rather hilly.

History
The parish has several remains from the Bronze and Iron Age. Iron extraction took place in Järnvirke (as well as in neighboring Järnmölle, Tvååker) during medieval times.

See also
Asmund's well

Sources
Sibbarp och Dagsås - Kulturbygd med härliga höjder, betagande bokskog och trolska sjöar, Larsson, Ulf (ed.). 1993. Kristinstad: Utsikten. 

Varberg Municipality
Sibbarp

Sibbarp can refer to:

 Sibbarp, Malmö, a neighbourhood of Malmö, Sweden
 Sibbarp, Varberg Municipality, a village in Varberg Municipality, Sweden
Robert Rantoul

Robert Rantoul may refer to:

 Robert Rantoul Jr. (1805–1852), American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts
 Robert S. Rantoul (1832–1922), American politician from Salem, Massachusetts
Government of Chad

The Government of Chad (French: Gouvernement du Tchad) has been ruled by Mahamat Déby since 20th April 2021 as part of the National Transitional Council.

Cabinet

See also
 Minister of Foreign Affairs (Chad)
 Minister of Finance and Budget (Chad)

References

Bibliography
US State Department
The Government of Chad
Leonard Hamilton

James Leonard Hamilton (born August 4, 1948) is an American basketball coach and the current men's basketball head coach at Florida State University. He is a former head coach at Oklahoma State University, the University of Miami, and for the National Basketball Association's Washington Wizards.  In his 33 years as a collegiate head coach, his teams have qualified for 12 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournaments and 11 National Invitation Tournaments, highlighted by appearances in the NCAA Tournament's Elite Eight (2018) and Sweet 16 (2011, 2019, 2021) with Florida State, as well as a Sweet 16 appearance with Miami (2000). Other career benchmarks include the Big East Conference regular season championship in 2000, the ACC tournament title in 2012 and the ACC regular season championship in 2020. While with the Wizards in 2000–01, they posted a 19–63 record.

Biography
Hamilton played college basketball at the University of Tennessee at Martin.  Hamilton is a member of the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity. His brother, Ray Jones, coaches a minor-league team.

Hamilton was an assistant coach and associate head coach at the University of Kentucky from 1974 to 1986 under then-head coach Joe B. Hall. Hamilton was on the staff at Kentucky when it finished as the NCAA runner-up in 1975, won the 1978 NCAA Championship and went to the 1984 Final Four. He was a successful recruiter for Kentucky basketball, with players including Jack Givens, James Lee, Sam Bowie, and Melvin Turpin

Hamilton was named ACC Coach of the Year on March 10, 2009, a second time in 2012, and again in 2020. Hamilton is the first coach to be named coach of the year in both the Big East and the ACC. In 2018, he was named the Clarence "Big House" Gaines National Coach of the Year by the National Sports Media Association.

Head-coaching record

College

NBA

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Personal life
Hamilton is married to Claudette Hamilton. They have two children.

References

External links
 Florida State profile
 Basketball-Reference.com: Leonard Hamilton

1948 births
Living people
American men's basketball coaches
American men's basketball players
Austin Peay Governors men's basketball coaches
Basketball coaches from North Carolina
Basketball players from North Carolina
College men's basketball head coaches in the United States
Florida State Seminoles men's basketball coaches
Junior college men's basketball players in the United States
Kentucky Wildcats men's basketball coaches
Miami Hurricanes men's basketball coaches
Oklahoma State Cowboys basketball coaches
Sportspeople from Gastonia, North Carolina
UT Martin Skyhawks men's basketball players
Washington Wizards head coaches
SMCRA

SMCRA may refer to:

Service Members Civil Relief Act, a United States federal law
Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977, a United States federal law
Snapper Music

Snapper Music is an independent record label founded in 1996 by former head of Castle Communications Jon Beecher, Dougie Dudgeon and funded by Mark Levinson from Palan Music Publishing. In 1999, Snapper broke away from its Palan parent company in an MBO in association with ACT and CAI venture capitalists. In 2004, Snapper Music was bought out by music publisher and former agent and manager Bryan Morrison (deceased) and in 2005 Jon Beecher (MD) and Dougie Dudgeon (A&R) left the company and were replaced by Frederick Jude, a former employee of Palan Music Publishing and a Snapper director.

Included amongst the many artists the label has issued albums by are Anathema, Peter Andre, Cradle of Filth, No-Man, Ozric Tentacles, Pink Floyd, Porcupine Tree, Kenny Rogers, the Stooges, and W.A.S.P.

As well as having its own imprint, Snapper Music owns or distributes several labels which deal in a variety of genres of music: Peaceville (metal), Kscope (post-progressive), Madfish (Classic and progressive rock), and Charly (R&B, jazz, progressive rock and blues).

See also
 List of record labels

References

External links
 

British independent record labels
Record labels established in 1996
IFPI members
Leukocyte-promoting factor

Leukocyte-promoting factor, more commonly known as leukopoietin, is a category of substances produced by neutrophils when they encounter a foreign antigen. Leukopoietin stimulates the bone marrow to increase the rate of leukopoiesis in order to replace the neutrophils that will inevitably be lost when they begin to phagocytose the foreign antigens.

Leukocyte-promoting factors include colony stimulating factors (CSFs) (produced by monocytes and T lymphocytes), interleukins  (produced by monocytes, macrophages, and endothelial cells), prostaglandins, and lactoferrin.

See also
 White blood cell
 Leukocytosis
 Complete blood count
 Indium-111 WBC scan
 Leukocyte extravasation

References 

Cytokines
Hormones of the blood
Hematology
Arctic Norway

Arctic Norway () comprises the northernmost parts of Norway that lie above the Arctic circle. Norway reaches from approximately 58°N to 81°N, so large parts lie north of the Arctic circle at 66°33′. In Norway, the name Northern Norway is used for the northernmost part of mainland Norway, while Arctic Norway is often understood as Svalbard.

Geography

Arctic Norway consists of four geographically separated parts:
 Mainland Norway, from 66°33′ to 71°11'N;
 Svalbard, located from 76°28 to 80°49' N;
 Bjørnøya (Bear Island), situated at 74°31′N 19°01′E;
 Jan Mayen, situated at 70°59′N 8°32′W.

The Arctic circle crosses mainland Norway at Saltfjellet, which separates Helgeland from the northern part of Nordland county. Thus about half of the county lies north of the Arctic circle, along with the whole of Troms and Finnmark counties. The total area of mainland Norway above the Arctic circle is ca. . The population is about 393,000, which makes this the most populated arctic region in the world.

Svalbard archipelago is situated some  north of mainland Norway and has an area of . The population is about 2,400, and includes Longyearbyen, the northernmost town in the world.

Bear Island () is situated some  north of mainland Norway, about two-thirds the distance to Svalbard. It has an area of . The population is 9, which is the staff of the weather station.

Jan Mayen is situated some 880 km northwest of mainland Norway and about 450 km off the coast of Greenland. It has an area of 373 km2. The population is 18, which is the staff of the weather station.

Geography of Norway
Arctic
Elfriede Blauensteiner

Elfriede Martha Blauensteiner (22 January 1931 – 18 November 2003), dubbed The Black Widow, was an Austrian serial killer who murdered at least three victims by poison. In each case, she inherited the victim's possessions.

Crimes 

On 7 March 1997, Blauensteiner was found guilty of murdering 77-year-old Alois Pichler and sentenced to life imprisonment. Her former lawyer Harald Schmidt was jailed for seven years for being an accomplice to grievous bodily harm and for forging the will of Alois Pichler. She was a gambling addict, and it is believed that she would deliberately date rich elderly men and poison them before gambling away the money which had been left to her in their fabricated wills. Four years later, she was found guilty of murdering her 64-year-old husband Friedrick Doecker and 84-year-old female neighbour Franziska Koeberl. Although she was only convicted of a total of three murders, Austrian police believe that she may have murdered at least 10 people. Keoberl is believed to have been her only female victim.

After serving less than seven years of her life sentence, Blauensteiner died from a brain tumour on 18 November 2003, in a Vienna hospital. She was cremated at Feuerhalle Simmering, where also her ashes were buried.

See also
List of serial killers by country
List of medical and pseudo-medical serial killers

References
Peter Vronsky: "Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters”, Berkley Books, New York (2007), p. 439

External links
Mayhem Net

1931 births
2003 deaths
Austrian female serial killers
Austrian people convicted of murder
Austrian people who died in prison custody
Austrian prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment
Burials at Feuerhalle Simmering
Deaths from brain cancer in Austria
Mariticides
People convicted of murder by Austria
Poisoners
Prisoners sentenced to life imprisonment by Austria
Prisoners who died in Austrian detention
Serial killers who died in prison custody
Alexei Blinov

Alexei Blinov (10 July 1965 - 26 November 2019 ) was a London-based electronic engineer and new media artist working out of Raylab in Hackney. As founder of experimental new media organisation "Raylab" he has collaborated with a number of creative artists including Jamie Reid.

He was trained as a doctor before moving to the Netherlands and then the UK. In the early 1990s he specialised in large scale high quality laser projections. Since the late 1990s he has produced a wide variety of interactive audio-visual installations. Over the past few years, he has been the creative force behind many interactive audio-visual art projects in the UK.

Between 1993 and 1996 he worked extensively in the Netherlands, creating laser projections for scientific events, music and arts festivals and for dance companies. Since 1997 he has worked mainly in the UK creating interactive audio-visual installations at a number of important art galleries including the ICA, London and the Barbican Art Centre, London. Collaborations include Ciron Edwards.

From 2006-2016 he led the technical development for feature film Dau – life and times of physicist Lev Landau, on set in the Ukrainian border city Kharkov where he revisited many period experiments and engineered his own to feature in the film. The movie is one of Russia's largest and most controversial cinematic projects to date.

He engaged with new media projects based on wireless networking such as WiFi, and was a well known and respected I/O specialist with a passion for high voltage and radio frequency experimentation. Blinov was also interested in blockchain resourcing. He also researched electro stimulation of neural feedback and, in collaboration with Dau and xname, he attempted the construction of an interactive system to transmit emotions (es pain, pleasure) from the brain of a subject to the body of another (project Empathy).

He has exhibited a selection of these HT experiments including the ‘Hairpin Circuit’ at Moscow University. A set of spectacular arctic ICE core holographic images were recently exhibited in St Petersburg.

Alongside Ilze Black and Martin Howse, he was a member of TAKE2030,  a brave new media society that operated in parallel net media scheme. The London based collective produced public art projects, shifting social network missions into hypermedia playing fields. Past projects include RichAir2030, UK, EU (2003-2004) and Lets do Lunch, London (2005). Blinov had deep ties with the Open Wireless Network community between Moscow, London and Berlin, collaborating with Jamie Reid, Empress Stah, Shu Lea Cheang, Nancy Mauro-Flude and many others.

He died on 26 November 2019 following complications from pancreatic cancer.

References

External links
 Hive Networks website.
 Ray Lab 
 Dau . IMDb.

British artists
Russian male artists
1964 births
2019 deaths
Laser art
Fred M. Wilcox (director)

Fred McLeod Wilcox (December 22, 1907 – September 23, 1964) was an American motion picture director. He worked for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for many years  and is best remembered for directing Lassie Come Home (1943) and Forbidden Planet (1956). These films were entered in the National Film Preservation Board's National Film Registry in 1993 and 2013 respectively.

Filmography

 Joaquin Murrieta (1938)
 Lassie Come Home (1943)
 Courage of Lassie (1946)
 Three Daring Daughters (1948)
 Hills of Home (1948)
 The Secret Garden (1949)
 Shadow in the Sky (1952)
 Code Two (1953)
 Tennessee Champ (1954)
 Forbidden Planet (1956)
 I Passed for White (1960)

External links

1907 births
1964 deaths
People from Tazewell, Virginia
Film directors from Virginia
Science fiction film directors
Leukopoiesis

Leukopoiesis is a form of hematopoiesis in which white blood cells (WBC, or leukocytes) are formed in bone marrow located in bones in adults and hematopoietic organs in the fetus. White blood cells, indeed all blood cells, are formed from the differentiation of pluripotent hematopoietic stem cells which give rise to several cell lines with unlimited differentiation potential. These immediate cell lines, or colonies, are progenitors of red blood cells (erythrocytes), platelets (megakaryocytes), and the two main groups of WBCs, myelocytes and lymphocytes.

See also
 Lymphopoiesis
 Myelopoiesis

References
 

Hematopoiesis
Widdecombe

Widdecombe, Widecombe, Widdicombe or Widdicomb could refer to:
Ann Widdecombe (born 1947), British politician
Angus Widdicombe (born 1994), Australian rower
Danny Widdicombe, Australian musician
David Widdicombe (born 1962), Canadian filmmaker and playwright
Josh Widdicombe (born 1983), English stand-up comedian
Timothy Widdicombe (born 1990), Australian rower
Widecombe Fair, an annual event in England
Widecombe Fair (song), a folk song
Widecombe in the Moor, a Devon village
Widdicomb Furniture Company

See also
 Widikum people
Nula Conwell

Nula Conwell (born 24 May 1959) is an English character actress.

Career 
Conwell is best known for playing W.P.C/W.D.C. Viv Martella in the long-running crime UK series The Bill from 1984 to 1993, until her character was killed off. She is also known for her role as Maureen the barmaid in five episodes of Only Fools and Horses. She was asked to appear in the 1985 Christmas special To Hull and Back, but was unable to continue appearing in the sitcom when The Bill producers would not release her to their rival channel. She also appeared as Kathleen the nurse in David Lynch's 1980 Oscar nominated film The Elephant Man and also had roles in Telford's Change and Bloody Kids.

References

External links
 

1959 births
Living people
20th-century English actresses
Actresses from London