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Chaitanya Engineering College

Chaitanya Engineering College is a private engineering college in Visakhapatnam, India.  It is affiliated with Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Kakinada.

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Engineering colleges in Andhra Pradesh
Universities and colleges in Visakhapatnam
Educational institutions in India with year of establishment missing
Maarten Lafeber

Maarten Lafeber (born 11 December 1974) is a Dutch professional golfer who won the Dutch, Swiss and Spanish amateur championships before turning professional in 1997.

Lafeber was born in Eindhoven, North Brabant. He earned a European Tour card at the first attempt, but lost it at the end of 1998. After spending time on the second tier Challenge Tour, where he won the 1999 Tusker Kenya Open, he regained his place on the main tour for the 2000 season. In 2003 he became the first home player to win the Dutch Open since Joop Rühl 1947, and that remains his only win on the European Tour. In July 2005 he reached a career high ranking of 88 in the World Golf Ranking.

Lafeber sold shares in himself to finance his career, and bought the shareholders out at a profit of 85% at the end of the 2004 season.

Amateur wins
1995 Dutch Amateur Stroke Play Championship
1997 Dutch Amateur Championship, Spanish Amateur Open Championship, Swiss Amateur Open Championship

Professional wins (2)

European Tour wins (1)

Challenge Tour wins (1)

Results in major championships

Note: Lafeber never played in the Masters Tournament.

CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied

Team appearances
Amateur
European Amateur Team Championship (representing the Netherlands): 1993, 1995, 1997
European Youths' Team Championship (representing the Netherlands): 1994
Eisenhower Trophy (representing the Netherlands): 1994, 1996
St Andrews Trophy (representing the Continent of Europe): 1996

Professional
World Cup (representing the Netherlands): 1999, 2001, 2004, 2005, 2007
Seve Trophy (representing Continental Europe): 2005

See also
2011 European Tour Qualifying School graduates

References

External links

Dutch male golfers
European Tour golfers
Sportspeople from Eindhoven
1974 births
Living people
21st-century Dutch people
Donna Atwood

Donna Arlene Atwood (February 14, 1925 – December 20, 2010) was an American figure skater. She was born in Newton, Kansas, to pharmacist Chester Atwood and Allie Atwood, his wife. The family moved to Albuquerque before relocating to Los Angeles when she was 9. She died on December 30, 2010, aged 85, at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California.

Career
Donna began taking dancing lessons at age 3. Her skating began at age 13, when she was inspired by seeing a Sonja Henie ice show, and was given her first pair of skates by her older brother. At age 15, she won two medals at the 1941 U.S. Figure Skating Championships: the senior pairs title  with partner Eugene Turner., and the junior ladies title.

That same year, John H. Harris, operating owner of the Ice Capades, offered her a contract with his show. She signed with the Ice Capades at age 16, and within a year she was its star, billed as "The Queen of the Ice". She toured with the show for fifteen years, giving over 6,000 performances in two dozen venues. She was so famous that newspaper headlines of the day referred to her only as "Donna". On her farewell tour, she starred in a production of Peter Pan, making her entrance flying above the audience. She often spoke of it as her favorite role.

Donna Atwood retired from the role of lead skater in 1956 at age 31, moving into a custom-built Beverly Hills home complete with a piano that folded into the wall. She made a single television appearance in 1961 as Phyllis Merrill in the Perry Mason episode, "The Case of the Renegade Refugee."

In the 1970s, when her children were grown and she was "tired of doing nothing," she began coaching young figure skaters in California.

Family life
In 1949, Donna married her mentor John H. Harris, 27 years her senior, with whom she had twin sons in 1950 and a daughter in 1952.

To facilitate her travel with young children, the Ice Capades props department used a 10-foot traveling trunk to build a portable nursery that could be rolled into her hotel room. When her sons reached school age, she retired from skating. She was 31 years old, and at the peak of her career.

Atwood and Harris divorced in 1959. Donna never remarried, eventually moving to Marina del Rey and Palm Desert, California.

Results
(pairs with Eugene Turner)

References

External links
 

1925 births
2010 deaths
American female pair skaters
21st-century American women
20th-century American women
Mr. Floppy's Flophouse

Mr. Floppy's Flophouse was a mansion in East Oakland that at one time housed a bordello and saloon patronized by writer Jack London; in later years a picture of the writer was placed behind the elegant bar. In the early 1990s it was also the home to a well-known, wild underground party and rave.  Mr. Floppy himself was said to be an elusive archeologist from Finland who, when not busy excavating an inverted pyramid thought to house the knowledge of all mankind, was hosting late night events in the bowels of one of Oakland's most notorious districts. The party that never happened, "Go Native" was shut down from Native American communities in Texas from online social networks! Picketers and some representing the party stood ground the night the party was held. That night sparked them all which  began a slew of parties ranging from psytrance to dubstep around 2009. 

The flophouse had around 15-20 different rooms, with something different going on in each.  In the main ballroom, DJ's and acts such as Psychic TV or Olli Wisdom would perform, while upstairs boasted any variety of acts ranging from a naked man playing sitar, to freestyle house, to a black light mushroom garden paradise.

The organizers were granted by the City of Oakland all needed permits to host the events. It was the goal of the organizers to provide a fun and safe atmosphere for its patrons.

At dawn it was not uncommon for George, the owner of the property, to appear in a wizard cape serving shrimp cups or noodle soups from behind his piano.

References

External links
 The Bordello/ Mr. Floppy's Funhouse. Findery.

Houses in Oakland, California
Bestiarius

Among Ancient Romans, bestiarii (singular bestiarius) were those who went into combat with beasts, or were exposed to them. It is conventional to distinguish two categories of bestiarii: the first were those condemned to death via the beasts (see damnatio ad bestias) and the second were those who faced them voluntarily, for pay or glory (see venatio). The latter are sometimes erroneously called gladiators; to their contemporaries, however, the term gladiator referred specifically to one who fought other men. The contemporary term for those who made a career out of participating in arena "hunts" was venatores.

As a form of execution
As a means of torturous capital punishment, death by wild beasts was a punishment for enemies of the state, a category which included those taken prisoner and slaves found guilty of a serious crime. These were sent to their deaths naked and unable to defend themselves against the beasts. Even if they succeeded in killing one, fresh animals were continually let loose on them, until the bestiarii were all dead. It is reported that it was seldom necessary for two beasts to be required to take down one man. On the contrary, one beast frequently dispatched several men. Cicero mentions a single lion which alone dispatched 200 bestiarii.

Seneca relates that a German prisoner, rather than participate, killed himself by forcing a sponge used in the lavatory down his throat. "What a brave fellow!", said Seneca, "He surely deserved to be allowed to choose his fate! How bravely he would have wielded a sword!". Another nodded as if asleep and, lowering his head, thrust it between the spokes of the cart wheel, breaking his neck. Symmachus writes of twenty-nine Saxon prisoners strangling one another in their cells the night before they were to appear in the arena.

Voluntary combat
Bestiarii, as reported by Seneca, consisted of young men who, to become expert in managing their arms, fought sometimes against beasts, and sometimes against one another; and of bravos who, to show their courage and dexterity, exposed themselves to this dangerous combat. Augustus encouraged this practice in young men of the first rank; Nero exposed himself to it; and it was for killing beasts in the amphitheatre that Commodus acquired the title of the Roman Hercules.

Vigenère adds two more types of bestiarii: the first were those who made a trade of it, and fought for money. It appears that there were schools in Rome, in which people were trained to fight wild beasts (scholae bestiarum, or bestiariorum). The second type was where several armed bestiarii were let loose at once against a number of beasts.

See also
 List of Roman gladiator types

References

Execution methods
Ancient Roman occupations
Violence in sports
Gladiator types
Latin words and phrases
State symbols

State symbols may refer to:
National symbols
Australian state symbols
Emblems of Indian states
Indian state symbols
United States state symbols
 in chemistry, the symbols for different states of matter
Phase Linear

Phase Linear was an audio equipment manufacturer founded by Bob Carver and Steve Johnston in 1970.  While primarily known as a power amplifier company it also produced several innovative preamplifiers, tuners and the Andromeda loudspeaker.

History
Its first location was 19555 23rd Ave. N.W. Seattle, Washington. Its second location was a small building at 405 Howell Way in Edmonds, Washington.

The first amplifier produced was the Phase Linear 700.  With 350 watts per channel it soon became the standard amplifier used by recording studios, sound reinforcement companies, professional musicians and audiophiles.  It had a retail price of $749.00, or a little more than a dollar a watt.  The design was notable for its brushed aluminum front panel and large dual VU meters, and was made possible by the new high-power transistors designed for the high voltages of auto electronic ignitions.  That original amp was replaced by the 700B and the 700 II.  All of those designs were made to have extra power to run loudly the relatively inefficient sealed-box speakers like the Acoustic Research AR3/AR3a.

The second amplifier released was the Phase Linear 400 with 200 watts per channel.  It shared the same distinctive brushed aluminum, dual VU meters front panel style as the 700.  It retailed for just under $500. The next product was the  Phase Linear 4000 Series Auto-correlation Pre-Amplifier introduced in 1973 and manufactured through 1978.  It retailed for $700.00 at the end of its life.  It was a design collaboration by Bob Carver and Bill Skinner.  

The company was known for the most powerful audio amplifiers of the era led by the Phase Linear D-500 introduced in 1978. It was a stereo power amplifier delivering 505 watts of clean (typically < 0.1% total harmonic distortion over 20 Hz–20 kHz) RMS power per channel.  It had a retail price of $1395.

Buyout
The company was bought by Pioneer Electronics, and Bob Carver founded Carver Corporation in 1979.  Pioneer added a high end cassette-tape deck designed in house and CD players designed by Kyocera to the Phase Linear line.  By that time the company was in decline due to the increasing cost of research and development, and the departure of Carver.  In 1982 Phase Linear was sold to Jensen Inc. which also owned the AR and Advent brands. Recoton later acquired the Jensen brands. Bob Carver went on to form Carver Corporation.  He later had a falling out with Carver Corporation management and left to start Sunfire.

There continues to be a loyal following of some of the older products. Many electronic parts are still available for repairs.  Mechanical parts such as switches, meters and hardware are scarce.

References

External links
Anthony Young's Phase Linear history reference site
https://web.archive.org/web/20081011172518/http://hometown.aol.com/PhaseTek

Electronics companies established in 1970
Audio amplifier manufacturers
Audio equipment manufacturers of the United States
1970 establishments in Washington (state)
Electronics companies disestablished in 1982
1982 disestablishments in Washington (state)
Guasayán

Guasayán might refer to:

Guasayán Department in Santiago del Estero Province, Argentina
San Pedro de Guasayán, capital of the forementioned department.
Sherwin Badger

Sherwin Campbell Badger (August 29, 1901 – April 8, 1972) was an American figure skater who competed in singles and pairs.  He earned the men's titles at the U.S. Figure Skating Championships from 1920 through 1924.  He also captured the pairs gold medal with partner Beatrix Loughran three times, and the pair won the silver medal at the 1932 Winter Olympics.  Prior to pairing with Loughran, he competed first with Clara Frothingham and later with Edith Rotch.

After his competitive career ended, he was a skating judge and the head of the U.S. Figure Skating Association.

He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on August 29, 1901, and died on April 8, 1972, in Sherborn, Massachusetts. In his private life, Badger was briefly married to Mary Bancroft also from the City of Boston, Massachusetts.

He graduated from Harvard University in 1923.

Results

Men's singles

Pairs
with Frothingham

with Rotch

with Loughran

References

1901 births
1972 deaths
American male single skaters
American male pair skaters
Figure skaters at the 1928 Winter Olympics
Figure skaters at the 1932 Winter Olympics
Figure skating officials
Olympic silver medalists for the United States in figure skating
Olympic medalists in figure skating
World Figure Skating Championships medalists
Medalists at the 1932 Winter Olympics
Harvard University alumni
Andrew Oldcorn

Andrew Oldcorn (born 31 March 1960) is a Scottish professional golfer.

Oldcorn was born in Bolton, Lancashire, England. He was raised in Edinburgh, and represents Scotland. He represented England as an amateur and won the English Amateur in 1982, turning professional after playing for Great Britain & Ireland in the 1983 Walker Cup.

Oldcorn was medalist at the European Tour final Qualifying School in 1983. He had a steady start to his career on tour before being struck down with ME (also known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome) in the early 1990s. He returned to form in 1993, to claim his first tour victory in the Turespana Masters Open de Andalucia. Away from the tour he also won the Sunderland of Scotland Masters. Several solid years followed along with another title, the 1995 DHL Jersey Open. The undoubted highlight of his career came in 2001 when he became the oldest winner in the history of the Volvo PGA Championship (although Miguel Ángel Jiménez would later beat that record). He finished that season a career best 26th place on the European Tour Order of Merit.

Since turning 50, Oldcorn has primarily been playing on the senior golf tours, having won twice on the European Senior Tour.

Amateur wins
1979 Scottish Youths Amateur Championship
1982 English Amateur

Professional wins (6)

European Tour wins (3)

Other wins (1)
1993 Sunderland of Scotland Masters

European Senior Tour wins (2)

European Senior Tour playoff record (1–0)

Results in major championships

Note: Oldcorn never played in the Masters Tournament nor the U.S. Open.

CUT = missed the half-way cut
WD = Withdrew
"T" = tied

Team appearances
Amateur
Eisenhower Trophy (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 1982
St Andrews Trophy (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 1982
Walker Cup (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 1983
European Amateur Team Championship (representing England): 1983

Professional
Seve Trophy: 2002 (winners)

References

External links

Scottish male golfers
European Tour golfers
European Senior Tour golfers
PGA Tour Champions golfers
People with chronic fatigue syndrome
Sportspeople from Bolton
Golfers from Edinburgh
1960 births
Living people
Canadian Power Boat Company

Canadian Power Boat Company was a manufacturer of motor torpedo boats and similar craft in Canada during World War II.

A prototype 70-foot boat was built by Hubert Scott-Paine's British Power Boat Company and shipped to Canada in 1940. Canadian Power Boat Company was set up by Scott-Paine to produce motor torpedo boats for the Royal Canadian Navy and high-speed launches for the Royal Canadian Air Force to this design. The company was located on the Lachine Canal in Montreal, next to the Crane Company (makers of the popular plumbing fixtures). 

The company received orders from the Royal Canadian Navy for 12 motor torpedo boats, including the prototype, from the RCAF for 6 70-foot high-speed launches and 6 40-foot armoured target-towing boats, and from the Royal Netherlands Navy for two batches of 8 70-foot motor torpedo boats. The second Dutch order was the last received by the company and was completed in the summer of 1942. Four of these boats, were reverse Lend-Lease and became US PT 368-371

Of the 12 Royal Canadian Navy boats, only the prototype saw service in Canada, designated CMTB-1 before all twelve were transferred to the Royal Navy in 1941 for service in the Mediterranean.

Unable to persuade the Royal Canadian Navy to purchase more motor torpedo boats, the company retooled and spent the rest of the war using its factory (specialized for building plywood boats) to produce parts for de Havilland Mosquito bombers. Scott-Paine sold the company in 1946, the basin at the plant was filled in but the factory still stands today.

References

Sources
 MacPherson, Ken and Ron Barrie, The Ships of Canada's Naval Forces 1910-2002, Third Edition. Vanwell Publishing, St. Cathrines, 2002. 
 Pritchard, James, A Bridge of Ships: Canadian Shipbuilding during the Second World War, McGill-Queens University Press, 2011.  
 Rance, Adrian, Fast Boats and Flying Boats, (Ensign Publications, Southampton, England 1989) 
 Motor Boating, 1942

Manufacturing companies based in Montreal
Shipbuilding companies of Canada
Defunct manufacturing companies of Canada
Former defence companies of Canada
Dead Meat (film)

Dead Meat is a 2004 Irish zombie film written and directed by Conor McMahon, starring Spanish theatre actress Marian Araujo and veteran Irish actor Eoin Whelan.

Plot summary 
An outbreak of a mutant strain of mad cow disease infects the Irish countryside, turning people into ravenous, flesh-eating zombies. Caught amid this chaos are a young Spanish tourist and the local gravedigger. Together, this unlikely duo must fight for survival.

Cast 
 Marian Araujo as Helena
 David Muyllaert as Desmond
 Eoin Whelan as Cathal Cheutan
 David Ryan as Martin
 Amy Redmond as Francie
 Kathryn Toolan as Lisa

Dan Ewing, of Australian soap opera Home and Away had an extra role as a castle zombie.

Production 
Dead Meat was filmed in and around the village of Leitrim, County Leitrim, Ireland.

Release 
According to the "making of..." featurette included in the US DVD release, the film was greenlighted under a new funding scheme from the Irish Film Board called "Microbudget Films", targeted at frugal independent filmmakers.  Dead Meat was the first microbudget film to receive a release.  To cut costs, the crew used many donated sets, filmmakers' personal vehicles and recruited volunteer extras at the local pub. Dead Meat received video distribution by Revolver Entertainment in the UK and Fangoria Entertainment in the US.

Soundtrack 
David Muyllaert, who played heroic gravedigger Desmond in Dead Meat, also sang lead on the film's title song, the punk-metal-ish "Dead Meat".

The score was composed by John Gillooley.

Reception 
Dennis Harvey of Variety wrote, "A rural Irish setting and mad cow disease plot hook do surprisingly little to distinguish fast-moving but routine zombie flick".  Beyond Hollywood called it "one of the best zombie movies, regardless of budget, to come out in recent years".  Writing in The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia: Volume 2, academic Peter Dendle said, "A few unexpected twists and a lot gorgeous scenery distinguish this otherwise straightforward B-zed flick from Ireland."

References

External links 
 
 

2004 films
2004 horror films
2000s English-language films
English-language Irish films
Irish horror films
Irish zombie films
Irish splatter films
Erica Batchelor

Erica Anne Batchelor (born 10 August 1933, in Poole, England) is a British figure skater. She is the 1954 World bronze medalist, the 1953 European silver medalist and three-time (1953, 1955 & 1956) European bronze medalist. She represented Great Britain at the 1956 Winter Olympics, where she placed 11th. She resided in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1957 and left there for Bournemouth, England to turn professional. She had her portrait painted in Edinburgh, Scotland by Paul Seton Bramley in 1957. The same painter offered to the skater's friend Russ Christensen, who had accompanied the skater to portrait sessions, to do his portrait. The offer was accepted.

Results

References

 Sports-reference profile
 
 
 Reminiscence of Russell Bartlett Christensen of Farmington, Maine 26 July 2018.

1933 births
Living people
British female single skaters
Olympic figure skaters for Great Britain
Figure skaters at the 1956 Winter Olympics
Sportspeople from Poole
World Figure Skating Championships medalists
European Figure Skating Championships medalists
Elisabeth of Hesse (disambiguation)

Elisabeth of Hesse may refer to:

 Elisabeth of Hesse-Marburg (1466–1523), daughter of Henry III, Landgrave of Upper Hesse and wife of John V of Nassau-Dillenburg
 Elisabeth of Hesse (1502–1557), daughter of William II, Landgrave of Hesse
 Elisabeth of Hesse (1503–1563), daughter of William I, Landgrave of Lower Hesse and wife of Louis II, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken
 Elisabeth of Hesse (1539–1582), daughter of Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse and married George, Duke of Saxony
 Landgravine Elisabeth Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt (1635–1709), daughter of George II, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt and wife of Philip William, Elector Palantine
 Elisabeth Henriette of Hesse-Kassel (1661–1683), daughter of William VI, wife of Frederick I of Prussia

See also
 Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine (disambiguation)
 Princess Elizabeth (disambiguation)
Skippy Baxter

Lloyd Valdemar "Skippy" Baxter (December 6, 1919 – December 18, 2012) was an American figure skater.  Born in Saskatchewan, Canada, his family moved to Oakland, California when he was 1 year of age. Skippy started his skating career as a speed skater. Often winning awards as a youth Speed skater in Oakland, California. Then later, he won two medals at the 1940 United States Figure Skating Championships: a bronze in men's singles and a silver in pair skating with Hedy Stenuf.  Baxter went on to skate professionally with the Ice Capades, working with Sonja Henie in her shows.

Skippy and his brother Meryl Baxter owned an ice rink in Santa Rosa, California on Summerfield Road, where the famous cartoonist Charles Schulz would take his family for skating lessons. It was there that Charles and Skippy Baxter formed a close friendship that lasted until the death of Charles Schulz.  Baxter choreographed a segment for the 1969 animated film A Boy Named Charlie Brown, in which Snoopy skates.

He later coached figure skating in Northern California at the Redwood Empire Ice Arena in Santa Rosa, California.  Charles Schulz built the rink while Skippy and his brother Meryl Baxter helped run and operate the rink. Skippy was inducted into the United States Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 2003.

Results
(men's singles)

(pairs with Stenuf)

Early life
Lloyd Baxter, having endured an accident as a youth with a tractor, which almost resulted in a leg amputation, began skating at the urging of his mother to strengthen his leg to avoid amputation. In turn, began his career as a champion youth speed skater.

Baxter enlisted in the United States army in 1943 and served in Northern Italy during World War II with the 10th Mountain Division, along with his brother Meryl Baxter. They were granted leave on weekends to continue performing in Ice Shows. Baxter was on the United States Olympic Figure Skating team, but because of the war and his enlistment, the Winter Olympics were cancelled that year.

References 

2012 deaths
1919 births
American male single skaters
American male pair skaters
Sportspeople from Saskatchewan
Sportspeople from Oakland, California
United States Army personnel of World War II
United States Army soldiers
Virginia Baxter

Virginia "Ginny" Baxter (December 3, 1932 – December 18, 2014) was an American figure skater from Detroit. She was born in Detroit, Michigan. She won the bronze medal at the United States Figure Skating Championships three times and captured the bronze at the 1952 World Figure Skating Championships (competition held March 1).  Perhaps the high point of her career was the 1952 Winter Olympics, where she won the free skating portion of the event, placing 5th overall after an 8th place in the compulsory figures.

After her competitive career, she was part of Ice Capades' 1953 show called Land of Lollipops. She died on December 18, 2014.

Results

References

1932 births
2014 deaths
American female single skaters
Olympic figure skaters for the United States
Figure skaters at the 1952 Winter Olympics
World Figure Skating Championships medalists
Figure skaters from Detroit
21st-century American women
20th-century American sportswomen
White-rumped spinetail

The white-rumped spinetail or white-rumped needletail (Zoonavena sylvatica) is a species of swift found in the forests of Bangladesh, India (the Western Ghats) and Nepal. It is often seen over waterbodies in the middle of forest. It can resemble a house swift but has a white vent.

Diet 
The white-rumped spinetail is insectivorous.

References

white-rumped spinetail
Birds of India
Birds of Nepal
white-rumped spinetail
McCool Hill

McCool Hill is the tallest of the Columbia Hills in Gusev crater, Mars. It was named in honor of William C. McCool, an astronaut of the Space Shuttle Columbia during its final mission where it disintegrated during atmospheric reentry (see Space Shuttle Columbia disaster).

The hill was to be Spirit rover's next target. She was expected to reach significant north-facing slopes on the hill in mid-April 2006, and spend her second winter on Mars there. However, on the way to the slopes on "McCool Hill" between outcrops nicknamed "Oberth" and "Korolev," Spirit ran into an impassable sandy area. To increase solar power output, Spirits handlers redirected the rover to a closer north-facing slope in an area known as "Low Ridge" or "Low Ridge Haven," about 20 meters away from the rover's position on sol 802 (April 5, 2006). Spirit spent the rest of the Martian winter here, operating from a fixed position for long periods of time, attempting to observe very small changes that would not be noticeable otherwise because the rover was moving much more often. Mission directors were undecided on where to go in the spring, either to re-attempt the climb of McCool Hill, go back to Home Plate, or elsewhere. In the end they decided to go to Low Ridge Haven.

Husband Hill was originally thought to be the highest of the Columbia Hills as seen from Columbia Memorial Station until surveying by Spirit updated elevation levels, placing McCool as the highest.

See also
Husband Hill
Geography of Mars

External links 
 Spirit Discovers "New" Highest Peak in "Columbia Hills" (2006-Mar-02)
 Official Mars Rovers site

Hills on Mars
Aeolis quadrangle
Ace Records (United States)

Ace Records was a record label that was started in August 1955 in Jackson, Mississippi by Johnny Vincent, with Teem Records as its budget subsidiary.

History 
Ace also had the Vin label. Its records were distributed independently until 1962 when a distribution arrangement was set up with Vee-Jay Records. Ace Records stopped when Vee-Jay ran out of funds and went out of business. The label was relaunched in 1971 and sold in 1997 to the Demon Music Group in the UK.

Ace recorded such artists as Earl King, Frankie Ford, Jimmy Clanton, Huey "Piano" Smith, Joe Tex, Scotty McKay, and Bobby Marchan.

Ace Records received a marker on the Mississippi Blues Trail.

Notable songs

 "Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu" by Huey "Piano" Smith and The Clowns (1957)
 "Don't You Just Know It" by Huey "Piano" Smith and The Clowns (1958)
 "Just a Dream" by Jimmy Clanton (1958)
 "Sea Cruise" by Frankie Ford (1958)
 "Go, Jimmy, Go" by Jimmy Clanton (1959)
 "Gee Baby" by Joe and Ann (1959 - 1960)
 "Pop-Eye" by Huey "Piano" Smith and The Clowns (1962)
 "Venus in Blue Jeans" by Jimmy Clanton (1962)

See also
 Ace Records (UK)
 List of record labels
 Ace Records artists with Wikipedia pages
 :Category:Ace Records (United States) albums

References

External links
 Album discography
 Singles discography
 Rock 'n Roll: An Interview with Johnny Vincent of Ace Records

American record labels
Record labels established in 1955
Mississippi Blues Trail
1955 establishments in Mississippi
Vampire Cowboys Theatre Company

Vampire Cowboys Theatre Company is an Obie Award and Caffe Cino Award winning NYC downtown theatre company first established in 2000, with a mission towards the creation and production of theatrical events based in stage combat and dark comedy with a comic book edge. They began on the campus of Ohio University, moving to NYC in 2002. The company has been a resident company at Center Stage, NY (2005–2008), HERE Arts Center (2009–2010), Incubator Arts Project (2011–2013), and The New Ohio Theater & IRT (2013–2015).  The company is led by artistic director Qui Nguyen and Robert Ross Parker. Past productions include the cult Off-Off Broadway shows: Geek!, The Inexplicable Redemption of Agent G, Alice in Slasherland, Soul Samurai, Fight Girl Battle World, Men of Steel, Vampire Cowboy Trilogy, and Living Dead in Denmark, which featured special effects by Chuck Varga, co-founder of the shock rock band GWAR.  The first theatre company to ever be sponsored by New York Comic Con, Vampire Cowboys is often credited for being the pioneers of "Geek Theatre", a subgenre of theatre that often incorporates action-adventure, sci-fi, gaming, and/or comic book themes into live theatre. The company was praised by The Village Voice as "New York's Best Army of Geeks". The Vampire Cowboys had their work documented in a doctoral dissertation on martial arts on the American stage from Tufts University in 2011.

References

External links
 Vampire Cowboys Theatre Company website
 Feature article from The Brooklyn Rail
 Feature article from OffOffOnline
 Feature from TIMEOUT NEW YORK
 Article in Puppetry International

Asian-American theatre
Theatre in New York City
Jungle nightjar

The jungle nightjar (Caprimulgus indicus) is a species of nightjar found in the Indian Subcontinent. It is found mainly on the edge of forests where it is seen or heard at dusk. The taxonomy of this and related nightjars is complex and a range of treatments have been followed that cover this and several other nightjars in the Asian region. It was formerly called the grey nightjar or Indian jungle nightjar and sometimes included the East Asian grey nightjar (C. jotaka) as a subspecies.

Description

The jungle nightjar is about 21–24 cm long with the Sri Lankan population (ssp. kelaarti) being smaller. Mostly grey with black streaks on the crown, it lacks a conspicuous wing patch which is rufous. The tail is greyish with well separated narrow black bars. The male has a white throat patch that is broken at the middle. The female has a rufous throat patch and submoustachial streaks. The usual call is a series of thacoo or chuck notes (at the rate of 5 every 2 seconds) like a distant engine. The song is a slow and regular, series of FWik-m notes, repeated for as long as 10 seconds. This sometimes ends in quick whistling foo-foo with the quality of sounds obtained when air is blown over an open bottle. A call described as uk-krukroo attributed to this species by Ali and Ripley in their Handbook is in error and is the call of the Oriental scops owl (Otus sunia).

Taxonomy

The Indian (nominate) and the Sri Lankan populations (ssp. kelaarti) are included in this species while jotaka (whose egg coloration and calls differs) has been separated and elevated to a full species, Grey nightjar, by Rasmussen and Anderton (2005). The populations found along the Himalayas, west from Hazara to Bhutan and south to Bangladesh, hazarae, are then treated as a subspecies of Caprimulgus jotaka in this work. Records of jotaka have come from the Andamans and Phuentsholing.

Older treatments include the widely distributed (China, Japan) migratory subspecies jotaka and phalaena (Palau Island) in this species. Its scientific name means "nightjar from India", and it is thus sometimes confused with C. asiaticus which is commonly known as the Indian nightjar. To distinguish them, in former times C. indicus was known as the large Indian nightjar.

Behaviour 
The jungle nightjar becomes active at dusk, often over hilly grassland or scrub, perching regularly at favourite prominent bare posts or rocks. It roosts in trees, perching lengthwise along a branch. The breeding season in India is January to June and March to July in Sri Lanka. The nest is a bare patch on the ground in which two eggs are laid. Both parents incubate the eggs for about 16 to 17 days.

References

External links
 Internet Bird Collection

jungle nightjar
Birds of India
Birds of Bangladesh
Birds of Sri Lanka
jungle nightjar
jungle nightjar
Marett

Marett is a surname, and may refer to:

 Carol Marett (born 1944), former New Zealand international cricketer
 Graeme Marett, New Zealand Paralympic athlete
 Sir Robert Pipon Marett (1820–1884), Jersey lawyer, journalist, poet, politician
 Robert Ranulph Marett (1866–1943), British ethnologist, son of Robert Pipon Marett
 Robert Marett (diplomat) (1907–1981), British author and diplomat

See also
 Maret (name)

French-language surnames
Sykes's nightjar

The Sykes's nightjar, Sykes' nightjar, Sind nightjar or Sindh nightjar (Caprimulgus mahrattensis) is a nightjar species found in northwestern South Asia.

The name commemorates Colonel William Henry Sykes, who served with the British military in India.

References

Sykes's nightjar
Birds of Afghanistan
Birds of Pakistan
Taxa named by William Henry Sykes
Sykes's nightjar
Tricarboxylic acid

A tricarboxylic acid is an organic carboxylic acid whose chemical structure contains three carboxyl functional groups (-COOH). The best-known example of a tricarboxylic acid is citric acid.

Uses

Citric acid cycle

Citric acid, a type of tricarboxylic acid, is used in the citric acid cycle – also known as tricarboxylic acid (TCA) cycle or Krebs cycle – which is fundamental to all aerobic organisms.

Examples

See also
 Citric acid cycle (tricarboxylic acid cycle)
 Dicarboxylic acid
 Mellitic acid

Literature
Savanna nightjar

The savanna nightjar,  sometimes also allied nightjar or Franklin's nightjar,  (Caprimulgus affinis) is a species of nightjar found in South and Southeast Asia. Six subspecies are recognised: C. a. monticolus, C. a. amoyensis, C. a. stictomus, C. a. affinis, C. a. timorensis and C. a. propinquus. It was once considered conspecific with the chirruping nightjar.  The IUCN Red List has assessed the species to be of least concern because it has a large range and its population trend is stable.

Habitat 
Its habitat is open forest and areas with scrub. However, it has recently moved gradually into the metropolitan areas of Taiwan, probably due to the absence of natural predators in that setting. Habitat loss is likely also a significant factor. Impacts of this relocation have included disturbed sleep for residents—due to male savanna nightjars' loud vocalizations at night from January to July—and collisions with aircraft. It is predicted to continue this habitat shift and expand its range into all major western Taiwanese cities.

Description 
Its length is about , with a wingspan of 64cm and a body weight of 54-110g. The upperparts are brownish-grey and vermiculated, with pale brown speckles. The underparts are brown, with bars. The savanna nightjar is nocturnal and is recognizable by its characteristic loud chirping calls, mainly given in flight during the evening. Their acoustic features change and can preadapt based upon their habitat.

References

savanna nightjar
Birds of South China
Birds of South Asia
Birds of Southeast Asia
Birds of Taiwan
savanna nightjar
Taxa named by Thomas Horsfield
Brown crake

The brown crake (Zapornia akool), or brown bush-hen, is a waterbird in the rail and crake family (Rallidae) found in South Asia. The species name, akool, is of uncertain origin.  It may come from Hindu mythology, or it may be a derivation of the Sinhalese word kukkula, which is used for both moorhen and watercock.

References

brown crake
Birds of China
Birds of Hong Kong
Birds of South Asia
Birds of Vietnam
brown crake
Slaty-breasted rail

The slaty-breasted rail (Lewinia striata) is a rail species native to the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia. Breeding has been recorded in July near Dehradun in the foothills of the Indian Himalayas. Despite traditionally being considered part of Gallirallus, recent genetic studies have consistently placed it in the genus Lewinia, which is now formally recognised by the IUCN and IOC.

Gallery

References

slaty-breasted rail
Birds of South Asia
Birds of South China
Birds of Southeast Asia
slaty-breasted rail
slaty-breasted rail
Painted sandgrouse

The painted sandgrouse (Pterocles indicus) is a medium large bird in the sandgrouse family Pteroclidae found in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan.

Taxonomy
The painted sandgrouse was formally described in 1789 by the German naturalist Johann Friedrich Gmelin in his revised and expanded edition of Carl Linnaeus's Systema Naturae. He placed it with all the other grouse-like birds in the genus Tetrao and coined the binomial name Tetrao indicus. Gmelin based his description on "La gélinote des Indes" from the Coromandel Coast that had been described and illustrated in 1782 by the French naturalist Pierre Sonnerat. The painted sandgrouse is now placed with 13 other species in genus Pterocles that was introduced in 1815 by the Dutch zoologist Coenraad Jacob Temminck. The genus name combines the Ancient Greek pteron meaning "wing" with -klēs meaning "notable" or "splendid". The specific epithet indicus is Latin for "Indian". The species is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised.

Description
 
The painted sandgrouse is a plump ground-dwelling bird with a small head and short legs. The sexes are differently coloured. In the male, the bill is orange and there is a black bar across the white forehead, fine black longitudinal lines on the nape and a white patch of bare skin surrounding the eye. There is a broad black and white band around the chest. The breast and belly are a uniform pinkish-brown colour and the back, wings and tail are brown, boldly marked in black and white transverse bars. The female is duller in appearance being a greyish brown colour, barred and speckled with darker brown and white.

Behaviour
The painted sandgrouse is found in dry regions in rough grassland, rocky areas and scrub and feeds mainly on seeds. It is gregarious and groups congregate at waterholes to drink.

See also
 List of birds of Bangladesh

References 

Pterocles
Birds of South Asia
Birds described in 1789
Taxa named by Johann Friedrich Gmelin
Hottinger

Hottinger or Hottinguer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

Swiss family

Klaus Hottinger (1467–1524), first martyr of the Swiss Protestantism movement
Johann Heinrich Hottinger (1620–1667), Swiss philologist and theologian
Johann Jakob Hottinger (1652–1735), Swiss theologian and Church historian
Johann Jakob Hottinger (1783–1860), Swiss historian
Jean–Conrad Hottinger (1764–1841), Swiss-born banker who later became Baron Hottinguer of the French empire
Jean–Henri Hottinger (1803–1866), first-born son of Baron Jean-Conrad Hottinger and the second Baron Hottinguer
Rodolphe Hottinger (1835-1920), first-born son of Baron Jean-Henri Hottinguer and the third Baron Hottinguer 
Henri Hottinger (1868–1943), first-born son of Rodolphe Hottingue and the fourth Baron Hottinguer
Rodolphe Hottinger (1902–1985), Swiss banker, fifth Baron Hottinguer 
Rodolphe Hottinger (1956-), Swiss banker, seventh Baron Hottinguer 
Mary Hottinger (1893 – 1978), née Mackie, Scottish translator and author

Other

Jay Hottinger (born 1969), Republican member of the Ohio House of Representatives
John Hottinger (born 1945), Minnesota politician and a former member and majority leader of the Minnesota Senate 	
Lukas Hottinger (born 1933), paleontologist, biologist and geologist.
Markus Höttinger (1956–1980), Austrian Formula Two driver

See also
Hottinger Group
hottinguer family
1924 in association football

The following are the association football events of the year 1924 throughout the world.

Events
 24 October – English footballer Dixie Dean scores a hat-trick for Tranmere Rovers F.C. to become the youngest ever player to score three goals for The Superwhites.

Clubs formed in 1924
7 August: Foundation of club Peruvian Universitario de Deportes and Colombian Junior de Barranquilla
July: Foundation of Bulgarian FC Sportist Svoge

Winners club national championship
Belgium: Germinal Beerschot
Denmark: B 1903
England: Huddersfield Town
Germany: 1. FC Nürnberg
Greece: Regional Championships: 
EPSA (Athens) Apollonas Athinon
EPSM (Thessaloniki) Aris 
EPSP (Patras) Panachaiki
Hungary: MTK Hungária
Iceland: Víkingur
Italy: Genoa 1893
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes: SK Jugoslavija
Netherlands: Feyenoord Rotterdam
Poland: Championships did not take place due to preparations of national team to 1924 Paris, France Olympic Games
Scotland: For fuller coverage, see 1923–24 in Scottish football.
Scottish Division One – Rangers
Scottish Cup – Airdrieonians
Turkey: Harbiye Talimgah

International tournaments
1924 British Home Championship (October 20, 1923 – April 12, 1924)

Olympic Games in Paris, France (May 25 – June 9, 1924)
 
  
 
1924-28 Nordic Football Championship (June 15, 1924 – October 7, 1928) 1924: (June 15 – September 21, 1924)
 (1924)
 (1924–1928)

South American Championship 1924 in Uruguay (October 12, 1924 – November 2, 1924)

Births
 17 February: Raimon Carrasco, Spanish businessman and 34th President of FC Barcelona (died 2022)
 6 March: Ottmar Walter, German international footballer (died 2013)
 13 March: Raúl Córdoba, Mexican international footballer (died 2017)
 22 March: Bill Roost, English footballer (died 2013)
 25 June: Dimitar Isakov, Bulgarian footballer

Deaths 

 November 20 – Ebenezer Cobb Morley, English sportsman, former FA president, regarded as the father of the FA and modern football. (93)

References 

 
Association football by year
Rationing in the Soviet Union

Rationing in the Soviet Union was introduced twice since its creation, both instances during periods of economical hardships.

1931–1935
In 1931, the Politburo introduced a unified rationing system for foodstuffs and basic commodities and norms of rationing applied throughout the entire USSR. Besides bread, rationing applied to other foodstuffs, including products like sugar, tea, oil, butter, meat, and eggs.

The rationing existed up to 1935, ending in six main stages. Beginning in May 1931, most industrial consumer goods were removed from the rationing system. Then, between March and April 1932, some food items began being removed from the rationing system. From 1932 to 1934, ration prices of foodstuffs and consumer goods were increased. The state also began selling increasing amounts of these goods off the rations at higher prices. At the beginning of 1935, the rationing of bread was abolished, followed by the end of rationing of all foodstuffs in October 1935. Rationing officially came to an end on January 1, 1936 when rationing of all industrial goods was abolished.

Foreign specialists employed in Russia were supplied through a separately established organization Insnab.

Perestroika
The last, 12th Five-Year Plan that fell within the  perestroika period ended with uncontrolled economical degradation, resulted in part in various ways of rationing in all Union republics.

Rationing of money
Perestroika produced  a unique type of rationing: rationing of money. In 1990, Byelorussia introduced a "Consumer's Card", which was a paper sheet sectioned into tear-off coupons with various designated monetary values: 20, 75, 100, 200, and 300 roubles. These coupons were required in addition to real money when purchasing certain categories of consumer goods. The coupons had next to none protection and could be easily counterfeited on modern colour copiers. (Copiers were scarce in the Soviet Union and under strict control of KGB, which to an extent limited, but did not eliminate, forging). The coupons were distributed at workplaces together with salary and had to bear the accountant's department stamp and signatures. This was an attempt to protect from profiteering, especially from profiteering by resales abroad.

During that time, coupons or tickets used for buying food and drinks were known as талон (talon, "ticket"). Each talon coupon was available for a certain month, and had a different colour.

See also
Blat
Consumer goods in the Soviet Union

References

Economic history of the Soviet Union
Soviet Union
Wood snipe

The wood snipe (Gallinago nemoricola) is a species of snipe which breeds in the Himalayas of northern India, Nepal, Bhutan and southern China. In winter, it occurs at lower altitudes in the Himalayas, as a regular visitor in small numbers to north Vietnam. it also occurs as a vagrant in central and southern India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar, north Thailand and Laos. It is reportedly very well-known to Chauri herders in the Himalayas.

This is a dark snipe,  in length, with a short, broad-based bill. It breeds in alpine meadows above , moving to lower altitudes in the winter. Wood snipes breed and nest on boulders near rhododendron shrubs.

This species is classified as vulnerable, with a population of less than 10,000 birds. Major threats to its existence include habitat loss and hunting. It has been recorded in some protected areas, including Langtang and Sagarmatha National Parks in Nepal.

It eats invertebrates, primarily worms. Its diet also includes seeds and larvae found in Chauri dung.

References 

 BirdLife Species Factsheet

wood snipe
Birds of North India
Birds of Nepal
Birds of Bhutan
Birds of Central China
Birds of South Asia
Birds of Southeast Asia
wood snipe
Taxa named by Brian Houghton Hodgson