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Illinois Route 92

Illinois Route 92 (IL 92 or Route 92) is an east–west state highway in northwest Illinois. It runs from the Norbert F. Beckey Bridge across the Mississippi River where it meets the eastern end of Iowa Highway 92, east to U.S. Route 34 in La Moille. This is a distance of .

Route description 

Illinois Route 92 begins on the Norbert F. Beckey Bridge over the Mississippi River, and first heads eastward across farmland, before intersecting Illinois Route 192, which was a former alignment of Route 92. At the IL 192 junction, IL 92 turns northward and then follows the east bank of the Mississippi through Andalusia; this section is frequently flooded, during which IL 192 is used as a detour. At Andalusia, it serves the Ski Snowstar winter sports park. After Andalusia, it turns northward, becoming the Centennial Expressway, intersecting Interstate 280 and entering Downtown Rock Island.

In Rock Island, the Centennial Expressway ends at a junction with U.S. Route 67, at the east bank end of the Rock Island Centennial Bridge. Route 92 continues eastward on surface streets, paralleling the river, through Downtown Rock Island, Moline, and East Moline, with several parts routed on a pair of one-way streets. In Downtown Moline, it intersects concurrent Interstate 74 and U.S. Route 6 at the east bank end of the I-74 Bridge over the Mississippi. At the border between East Moline and Silvis it intersects Illinois Route 84, with which it is concurrent through Silvis. At a partial cloverleaf interchange with Illinois Route 5 and Illinois Route 84 in Carbon Cliff, Route 92 turns northeast, concurrent with Route 5, as an expressway. At a cloverleaf interchange with Interstate 80, Route 5 ends, and Route 92 continues as a freeway, beginning a concurrency with Interstate 88 and Illinois Route 110 (Chicago-Kansas City Expressway).

After running concurrently with I-88 and IL 110 for , IL 92 separates at I-88 Exit 6 and heads east on its own. It traverses the rich Illinois farmland, crossing the Rock River and the historic Hennepin Canal. It jogs north briefly, concurrent with Illinois Route 78, and passes through the small towns of Walnut and Ohio before ending at a junction with U.S. Route 34 in La Moille.

Major intersections

References

External links

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Ronald Reagan Trail
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Transportation in Rock Island County, Illinois
Transportation in Henry County, Illinois
Transportation in Bureau County, Illinois
Lansdowne Road railway station

Lansdowne Road railway station () is a railway station in Dublin, Ireland. The station serves the Ballsbridge and Upper Baggot Street areas of Dublin 4.

Facilities and services 
The station has two through platforms, 1 and 2, connected via a subway. Both have separate entrances as there is a level crossing adjacent to the station on Lansdowne Road. There are 2 automated ticket vending machines at both entrances. When there is an event at the stadium, additional access points are opened to allow for crowd control.

All DART services serve the station, as do several South Eastern Commuter (Dublin Connolly to Gorey) and a number of services to Drogheda and Maynooth.

History
The station was adjacent to its namesake Lansdowne Road Stadium before the stadium was demolished in 2007 and replaced on-site by the new Aviva Stadium, which the station now serves. It has disability access to both platforms. The information office is open at various times between 06:00-00:00 Monday to Friday and during events at the Aviva Stadium.

The station opened on 1 July 1870. It was electrified in 1983 with the arrival of DART services.

Gallery

See also
 List of railway stations in Ireland

References

External links

 Irish Rail Lansdowne Road Station Website

Sandymount
Ballsbridge
Iarnród Éireann stations in Dublin (city)
Railway stations opened in 1870
1870 establishments in Ireland
Railway stations in the Republic of Ireland opened in the 1870s
1998 Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council election

Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council Elections were held on 7 May 1998.  One-third of the council was up for election and the Labour party kept overall control of the council.

After the election, the composition of the council was
Labour 65
Liberal Democrat 1

Election result

References

1998
1998 English local elections
1990s in Merseyside
Polar effect

The polar effect or electronic effect in chemistry is the effect exerted by a substituent on modifying electrostatic forces operating on a nearby reaction center. The main contributors to the polar effect are the inductive effect, mesomeric effect and the through-space electronic field effect.

An electron-withdrawing group (EWG) draws electrons away from a reaction center. When this center is an electron rich carbanion or an alkoxide anion, the presence of the electron-withdrawing substituent has a stabilizing effect.

Examples of electron withdrawing groups are
 halogens (F, Cl);
 nitriles CN;
 carbonyls RCOR';
 nitro groups NO2.
 
An electron-releasing group (ERG) or electron-donating group (EDG) releases electrons into a reaction center and as such stabilizes electron deficient carbocations. 

Examples of electron releasing groups are
 alkyl groups;
 alcohol groups;
 amino groups.

The total substituent effect is the combination of the polar effect and the combined steric effects.

In electrophilic aromatic substitution and nucleophilic aromatic substitution substituents are divided into activating groups and deactivating groups where the direction of activation or deactivation is also taken into account.

References

External links
 Polar effect definition by the IUPAC Gold Book

Physical organic chemistry
Mathias Lundholm

Carl Mathias Lundholm (1785–1860) was a Swedish violinist and conductor. He studied violin in Paris with Pierre Baillot (1771–1842) from 1814 until 1816, and was teacher to both  Ole Bull (1810–1880) and Otto Lindblad (1809–1864). From 1820 until 1827, he was principal conductor of Harmonien, which later became known as the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra.

1785 births
Swedish violinists
Male violinists
Swedish conductors (music)
Male conductors (music)
1860 deaths
19th-century male musicians
S-function

In mathematics, S-function may refer to:
 sigmoid function
 Schur polynomials
 A function in the Laplace transformed 's-domain'
In computer science,
 It may be member of a series of graph parameters, see 
In physics, it may refer to:
 action functional
In MATLAB, it may refer to: 
 A type of dynamically linked subroutine for Simulink.
Natta Company

Natta Company is a folk theatre troupe from Bengal established in 1869.

In 1869, Baikuntha Natta inspired by his younger brother, Srinath Natta, came up with his venture in the entertainment industry. He named his group "Machrang Baikuntha Sangeet Samaj". The local people used to call the group – "Natta-der Dal" (translated Natta's group). As time passed by the name "Natta Company" became a well known name in Bengal’s folk theatre and then in stage theatre. In the early years the group used to perform in different Zamindar’s (landlord’s) palaces. As time passed on they started to perform in different villages, small towns and also in cities like Kolkata (Calcutta). The responsibilities came in the hands of Baikuntha Natta’s descendants – Mathuranath Natta and then Jagendranath and Radhendranath Natta. Natta Company is being managed by Sri Makhan Lal Natta, a man in his late 70s.

References

External links 
 https://web.archive.org/web/20061115011102/http://www.yakshagana.com/re-apr02-1.htm JATRA (Folk Theatre Of India)
 
 http://www.indiaprofile.com/religion-culture/jatras.htm

Organisations based in West Bengal
Theatre companies in India
Organizations established in 1869
1869 establishments in India
Bengali theatre groups
Kevin Gross

Kevin Frank Gross (born June 8, 1961) is an American former Major League Baseball pitcher who played from 1983 through 1997.

Gross played for five different teams during his career: the Philadelphia Phillies (1983–1988), Montreal Expos (1989–1990), Los Angeles Dodgers (1991–1994), Texas Rangers (1995–1996), and Anaheim Angels (1997). He made his Major League Baseball debut on June 25, 1983, pitching  innings, surrendering 2 earned runs to the New York Mets en route to a 4–2 victory. He played his final game on July 25, 1997.

On August 10, 1987, Gross was caught ball scuffing; he had sandpaper in his glove, and he was suspended for 10 games. He was selected to the National League All-Star team in 1988. On August 17, 1992, as a member of the Los Angeles Dodgers, Gross threw a no-hitter versus their rivals, the San Francisco Giants, in a 2-0 victory.

On September 9, 1986, Gross surrendered the first of Rafael Palmeiro's 569 career home runs.

On May 14, 1990, pitching for the Expos in Los Angeles, Gross and Dodgers starter Fernando Valenzuela accomplished the rare feat of hitting homers off each other in the same inning.

As a hitter, Gross posted a .161 batting average (106-for-660) with 41 runs, 6 home runs, 36 RBI and 31 bases on balls.

In 2002, he was named to the Ventura County Sports Hall of Fame.

See also

 List of Major League Baseball no-hitters

References

External links

1961 births
Living people
American expatriate baseball players in Canada
Anaheim Angels players
Cal Lutheran Kingsmen baseball players
Los Angeles Dodgers players
Major League Baseball pitchers
Montreal Expos players
National League All-Stars
Oklahoma City 89ers players
Oxnard Condors baseball players
Philadelphia Phillies players
Portland Beavers players
Reading Phillies players
Spartanburg Phillies players
Baseball players from Downey, California
Baseball players from Ventura County, California
Texas Rangers players
Vancouver Canadians players
Federation of BC Writers

The Federation of BC Writers is the largest writers organization in British Columbia, Canada. Its stated goals are to foster the art and profession of writing in British Columbia; to generate a sense of community among British Columbia writers; to provide support for writers at all stages of their careers; and to raise public awareness of the writers of British Columbia, their work, and their contribution to regional and Canadian cultures.

Among the organization's past presidents are David Watmough, D.C. Reid, Linda Rogers, George Fetherling, Brian Busby, Sylvia Taylor, Hendrik Slegtenhorst, Craig Spence, Candice James, George Opacic, Ben Nuttall-Smith and Coco Aders-Weremczuk.

References

External links 
Official website
Professional associations based in British Columbia
Canadian writers' organizations
2002–03 Danish 1st Division

The 2002–03 Danish 1st Division season was the 58th season of the Danish 1st Division league championship and the 17th consecutive as a second-tier competition governed by the Danish Football Association.

The division-champion and runner-up promoted to the 2003–04 Danish Superliga. The teams in the 14th, 15th and 16th relegated to the 2003–04 Danish 2nd Division.

Table

See also
 2002–03 in Danish football
 2002–03 Danish Superliga

External links
 Peders Fodboldstatistik

Danish 1st Division seasons
Denmark
2002–03 in Danish football
Portaferry Castle

Portaferry Castle is a small tower house in Portaferry, County Down, Northern Ireland, overlooking the harbour. It was built in the 16th century by William Le Savage. Portaferry Castle tower house is a State Care Historic Monument in the townland of Ballyphilip, in Borough of Ards, at grid ref: J5930 5085.

History
The castle was probably built in the 16th century by a member of the Savage family. In 1635, Patrick Savage's brother-in-law, Sir James Montgomery of Rosemount (Greyabbey), repaired the castle by roofing and flooring it so that his sister could live in greater comfort there.

Features
It is a square building with a small projecting turret on the south corner. It is three storeys high plus attic and there is no vault. Most of the eastern corner is in ruins. The entrance at the base of the tower is protected by a small machicolation and the entrance to the ground floor chamber is protected by a murder-hole. A curved stairway within the tower rises to the first floor and a spiral stairway in the west corner continues to roof level.

See also 
Castles in Northern Ireland

References 

Castles in County Down
Ruined castles in Northern Ireland
Portaferry
Northern Ireland Environment Agency properties
Savage family
Tower houses in Northern Ireland
Oklahoma State Highway 76

State Highway 76, abbreviated as SH-76, is a highway maintained by the U.S. state of Oklahoma. It is  long. It runs north–south through central Oklahoma, beginning at Jimtown Road just north of the Red River and ending north of Newcastle at SH-37. It has no lettered spur routes.

Route description
SH-76 begins north of the Texas border in Love County, south of Leon. After passing through that town, it has its first highway intersection, with State Highway 32. It continues northward from there for 15 miles (24.1 km) to Wilson. SH-76 runs along that town's main street, while SH-70A provides an eastern bypass. West of Wilson, SH-76 has a two-mile (3 km) concurrency with US-70, after which it splits off and runs through Healdton. It then has a three-mile (5 km) concurrency with SH-53 and then meets SH-7 at Ratliff City.

Four miles north of Ratliff City, SH-76 overlaps for five miles (8 km) with SH-29, before splitting off to the north to SH-19, which it overlaps with through Lindsay. Fifteen miles north of here, it has a four-way-stop controlled intersection with SH-39 west of Dibble. It continues north from there to have a brief concurrency with US-62/277 through Blanchard. SH-76 then has an interchange with the H.E. Bailey Turnpike Spur, and then meets the western terminus of State Highway 130 west of Newcastle. It then passes under Interstate 44 (but does not have an interchange with it) and ends at SH-37.

History
SH-76 first appeared on the 1932 state highway map, originally running from US-70 south of Healdton to SH-22 (now SH-7) at Ratliff City. Between May 1936 and April 1937, the highway was extended northward, all the way to the intersection with US-62/277 southwest of Blanchard. In 1947 or 1948, the route was extended southward through Wilson to end at the Carter/Love county line. SH-76 was extended further south in 1955 or 1956, bringing to SH-32; by 1957 it had its current southern terminus. By 1957 had also been extended northward to its present northern terminus at SH-37.

Junction list

References

External links
SH-76 at OKHighways

076
Transportation in Love County, Oklahoma
Transportation in Carter County, Oklahoma
Transportation in Garvin County, Oklahoma
Transportation in Stephens County, Oklahoma
Transportation in McClain County, Oklahoma
Clovis Community College (New Mexico)

Clovis Community College (CCC) is a public community college in Clovis, New Mexico. Due to the close proximity and past connections, CCC works closely with Eastern New Mexico University to provide area residents with educational opportunities.

History 
Clovis Community College was established in 1961 as a branch campus of Eastern New Mexico University in conjunction with the Clovis Municipal Schools. The current campus was constructed in 1978 and rests on  of land donated by Ervin Schepps. Over time, CCC grew to cover .  In 1990, local voters established CCC as a locally governed independent community college.

In recent years, CCC has made efforts to modernize the curriculum including the addition of online courses and computer-based learning. In the fall of 2006, students were issued school email addresses to improve communication and online education.

In the summer of 2006, CCC was assured by the New Mexico Board of Education that its funding would not be cut for at least one year, despite recent enrollment declines. Similar declines were seen throughout the state, but CCC suffered a loss of over 10% from 2004 to 2006.

In the summer of 2006, the board of trustees approved the contract of CCC's newest president, John Neibling.

Accreditations 
Clovis Community College is accredited by the following organizations:
Higher Learning Commission
National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission
Joint Review Committee on Education in Radiologic Technology (JRCERT)

Additionally, the New Mexico State Board of Education has approved CCC as a State of New Mexico Area Vocational School.

References

External links
 Official website

Community colleges in New Mexico
Buildings and structures in Curry County, New Mexico
Universities and colleges established in 1961
Education in Curry County, New Mexico
1961 establishments in New Mexico
Clovis, New Mexico
Benn

Benn is a surname and given name, derived from the given name Benedict. The surname originated separately in England and Germany. It may refer to:

Surname
 A. W. Benn (1843–1915), British rationalist/humanist writer
 Aluf Benn (born 1965), Israeli journalist, author and editor-in-chief of the Israeli national daily newspaper Haaretz
 Anthony Benn (disambiguation), several people
 Arrelious Benn (born 1988), American football player
 Arthur Shirley Benn, 1st Baron Glenravel (1858–1937), British politician
 Brindley Benn (1923–2009), Guyanese politician
 Brittany Benn (born 1989), Canadian rugby union player
 Caroline Benn (1926–2000), British writer, wife of Tony Benn
 Concetta Benn (1926–2011), Australian social worker
 Conor Benn (born 1996), British boxer, son of Nigel Benn
 Emily Benn (born 1989), British politician, granddaughter of Tony Benn
 Sir Ernest Benn, 2nd Baronet (1875–1954), British publisher
 Gottfried Benn (1886–1956), German poet
 Hilary Benn (born 1953), British politician, son of Tony Benn
 James R. Benn (born 1949), American mystery writer
 Jamie Benn (born 1989), Canadian NHL hockey player, brother of Jordie
 Sir John Benn, 1st Baronet (1850–1922), British politician, father of Ernest Benn and William Wedgwood Benn
 Jonathon Benn (born 1967), English retired cricketer
 Jon T. Benn (1935–2018), American businessman, entrepreneur, and actor
 Jordie Benn (born 1987), Canadian NHL hockey player for the Dallas Stars, brother of Jamie Benn
 Margaret Wedgwood Benn (née Holmes) (1897–1991), British theologian and women's rights advocate, wife of William Wedgwood Benn and mother of Tony Benn
 Martin Benn (born ?), Australian chef and restaurateur
 Melissa Benn (born 1957), British writer, daughter of Tony and Caroline Benn
 Mitch Benn (born 1970), British musician and stand-up comedian 
 Nigel Benn (born 1964), British boxer
 Piers Benn (born 1962), British philosopher
 Sissela Benn (born 1980), Swedish actress and comedian
 Sulieman Benn (born 1981), Barbadian spin bowler
 Tony Benn (1925–2014), British politician, son of William and Margaret Wedgwood Benn
 Wallace Benn (born 1947), English retired Anglican bishop
 Wayne Benn (born 1976), English football manager/coach and former footballer
 William Wedgwood Benn, 1st Viscount Stansgate (1877–1960), British politician
 William Benn (divine) (1600–1680), English ejected puritan minister

Given name
 Benn Ferriero (born 1987), American ice hockey player
 Benn Jordan (born 1978), American modern jazz and electronic musician
 Benn Levy (1900–1973), British politician and playwright
 Benn Robinson (born 1984), Australian former rugby union footballer
 Benn Steil, American economist and writer

Nickname or pseudonym
 Benn (Bencjon Rabinowicz; painter) (1905–1989), Polish painter
 Benn Fraker (born 1989), American slalom canoeist

Fictional characters
 Mr Benn, created by David McKee

See also
 Behn (disambiguation)
 Ernest Benn Limited, publishing house

Masculine given names
English-language surnames
German-language surnames
Patronymic surnames
Surnames from given names
Quoile Castle

Quoile Castle is a castle situated 1.5 miles (2.4km) from Downpatrick, County Down, Northern Ireland, just off the main road from Downpatrick to Strangford, on the east bank of the River Quoile. The castle was built during the late 16th / early 17th Century and was continuously used up to the 1700s. It has been suggested that it was built by Captain Richard West. Quoile Castle is a State Care Historic Monument in the townland of Quoile, in Down District Council area, at grid ref: J4963 4701.

The castle is a tower house - a type of building found throughout Ireland, largely constructed from the 15th to 17th Centuries - the Stangford Lough coastline has a density of these monuments (e.g., Audley's Castle, Sketrick Castle, Mahee Castle, Portaferry Castle etc). Whilst they had defensive features, it has been suggested that they were built to withstand an attack by a [small] rival militia, rather than being able to withstand a large siege-type attacks.

Finds
In 1986, seven silver sixpence pieces dating from the time of Elizabeth I were found at the castle.

Gallery

See also 
List of castles in Northern Ireland

References

External links

Castles in County Down
Ruined castles in Northern Ireland
Tower houses in Northern Ireland
Time (bicycle company)

Time (previously known as: Time Sport) (stylized as TIME) is a manufacturer of pedals and bicycles.

History

Time was founded in 1987 by Roland Cattin.

Time products became popular in the early 1990s, through sponsorship of Pedro Delgado in 1988, then multiple Tour de France winner Greg LeMond in his 1989 Tour de France victory, followed by multiple Tour de France winner Miguel Indurain.

Sponsorship

Time has sponsored several professional cycling teams, most recently ProTour teams Quick Step-Innergetic, Cofidis and Bouygues Telecom. Several other professionals and teams use Time shoes and/or pedals, including Saunier-Duval, Ag2r, and 2008 Beijing Olympic mountain biking gold medalist Julien Absalon.

Pedro Delgado used Time clipless pedals and Time cycling shoes in the 1988 Tour de France and Greg Lemond won the Tour the following year wearing Time Equipe cycling shoes.

During the 2004 Tour de France, Thomas Voeckler used a Time VXRS bicycle with Time Impact pedals.

Tom Boonen, the 2005 Road Race World Champion, used Time bikes while he was with Quick Step-Innergetic. His successful 2005 season included the Tour of Flanders, Paris–Roubaix, the Tour of Belgium and the 2005 World Road Race Championships in Madrid, Spain. The following season, Time developed a special bike, the Time VXS, for Boonen to ride in the 2006 spring classics. The VXS is similar to the VXRS Ulteam, but is a little more compliant as a result of a longer wheelbase and the vectran fibres that are used in the Time manufactured carbon fibre.

In addition to Boonen's triumphs, Time has been ridden to more victories at the Olympics and World Championships. Italian rider Paolo Bettini rode Time bicycles during his gold medal-winning ride in the 2004 Athens Olympic Road Race and in the 2006 World Championship Road Race. Australian rider Michael Rogers rode a Time time-trial bike to victory in the 2003, 2004, and 2005 world championship time-trials.

The Giro d'Italia, la Vuelta a España, Paris–Roubaix, the Olympic games, World Championship and the Tour de France (10 Times winner) have been won using Time products.

In 2021, after Cardinal Cycling Group bought Time bicycles and SRAM bought Time pedals, the first teams to be sponsored were :
 Le Stade Rochelais Charente Maritime women cycling for frames
 Team Absolut Absalon for MTB pedals
 Rally UHC and SD Worx for road pedals
Besides cycling, Time has also sponsored teams and Olympic athletes such as:

 Martin Fourcade
 Teddy Rinner
 Poissy Triathlon (triathlon team of numerous international triathlon stars such as Andrea Hewitt, Dorian Coninx and Cassandre Beaugrand)

References

External links
 Time Sport International corporate site

Cycle manufacturers of France
Companies based in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Panstrongylus geniculatus

Panstrogylus geniculatus is a blood-sucking sylvatic insect noted as a putative vector of minor importance in the transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi to humans; this is a parasite, which causes Chagas disease. The insect is described as sylvatic; subsisting primarily in humid forests, and is also known to inhabit vertebrate nesting places such as those of the armadillo (dasypus novemcinctus or dasypus), and is also involved in enzootic transmission of T. cruzi to those species. It has wide distribution throughout 16 Latin American countries.

There have been few scientific studies of this particular species because of the low number of collected specimens and difficulties in rearing and maintaining populations in the laboratory. However, currently P. geniculatus is receiving attention as a potential vector of Chagas disease (American trypanosomiasis) due to reports of this species invading the domestic and peridomestic habitats over a vast area: Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, and Argentina.

P. geniculatus is apparently in the process of domiciliation, using the same strategies as highly domesticated species like Triatoma infestans and Rhodnius prolixus.  This is also the case for other sylvatic triatomine species (Triatominae) that are experiencing similar ecological pressures originating from human disruption of the natural habitat.

Prevalence in Venezuela 

A 2005 study conducted by the Universidad Central de Venezuela, used Panstrongylus specimens collected from Caracas City and the neighboring areas of Miranda and Vargas States. Through the use of a dot-ELISA test and other techniques to determine the presence of trypanosome cruzi, it was found through the examination of feces that 67 of the 88 (76.1%) specimens collected were carrying the parasite and that 53 (60.2%) of those reacted positively to human antiserum. A  2014 publication of Citizen science-based domiciliary triatomine collection carried out between 2007 and 2013 in the MDC has advanced understanding of urban T. cruzi prevalence, this piblicaction show the Geographical distribution of triatomine bugs in Caracas, Natural infection of triatomine bugs with T. cruzi, The presence of blood in the stomachs of the triatomine bugs and a Study of the nymphal stages of P. geniculatus in Caracas, showing A total of 3551 triatomines were captured from 31 of the 32 parishes surveyed. The vast majority of these were identified as P. geniculatus (98.96%), followed by Triatoma nigromaculata (0.59%), Triatoma maculata (0.39%) and Rhodnius prolixus (0.06%). for  2023 a recent Publication  demonstrate risk of urban Chagas disease transmission in Caracas, Venezuela by Vector mapping and bloodmeal metabarcoding.

References

Reduviidae
Hemiptera of South America
Insects described in 1811
Vanessa Harwood

Vanessa Clare Harwood,  (born 14 June 1947) is a Canadian ballet dancer, choreographer, artistic director, 
teacher, and actor.

Born in Cheltenham, England, Harwood was one of the first pupils at The National Ballet School of Canada in Toronto when it opened in 1959. She joined the National Ballet of Canada in 1965, became a soloist in 1967, and was a principal dancer from 1970 to 1987.  Harwood was celebrated for her portrayal of Odette-Odile in Swan Lake, and came to be known as Superswan because of her mastery of the demanding dual role.

As an actor, Harwood had minor roles in Road to Avonlea and Due South. As a choreographer, she makes an uncredited appearance in the introductory sequence of "Poison à la Carte" a 2002 episode of A Nero Wolfe Mystery.

In 1984, Harwood was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. She is also an Advisory Council member of the Dancer Transition Resource Centre.

As of 1969, she was a resident of the Town of Mississauga.

References

External links
 Vanessa Harwood at The Canadian Encyclopedia
 

1947 births
Living people
Canadian ballerinas
Canadian female dancers
Canadian television actresses
English emigrants to Canada
National Ballet of Canada principal dancers
Officers of the Order of Canada
People from Cheltenham
Prima ballerinas
Canadian expatriates in England
Morsang-sur-Orge

Morsang-sur-Orge (, literally Morsang on Orge) is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located  from the center of Paris.

Population

Inhabitants of Morsang-sur-Orge are known as Morsaintois.

Transport
Morsang-sur-Orge is served by no station of the Paris Métro, RER, or suburban rail network. The closest station to Morsang-sur-Orge is Savigny-sur-Orge station, which is approximately a 22-minute train journey from the center of Paris on the Paris RER line . This station is located in the neighboring commune of Savigny-sur-Orge,  from the town center of Morsang-sur-Orge.

See also
Communes of the Essonne department

References

External links

Official website 

Mayors of Essonne Association 

Communes of Essonne
Le Sexe qui parle

Le Sexe qui parle is a 1975 French adult film by Claude Mulot. It was the first exclusive hardcore feature film produced and released in France to meet international success, and has been called a cult film. In 1977, Mulot directed the sequel Le Sexe qui parle II, which starts with the "infection" passed by Eric to a prostitute.

Cultural background
The film is an example of a significant tradition in literature and art of talking vaginas, dating back to the ancient folklore motif of the vagina loquens, or "talking cunt". These tales usually involve vaginas talking due to the effect of magic or charms, and often admitting to their unchastity. Talking female genitals feature in the Ozark folktale The magic walking stick, are an early theme in French literature, most notably in Les bijoux indiscrets and the 13th century fabliau Le Chevalier qui faisoit parler les cons et les culs, and the theme continues with The Vagina Monologues.

Plot
Joëlle (Pénélope Lamour) is a beautiful executive at an advertising company who is married to Eric (Jean-Loup Philippe). Her vagina is infected with a mysterious affliction, ostensibly after she is seduced by an attractive blonde girl, and begins to talk and lead her to indecent sexual acts. However, it is soon revealed that her problems root from her sexual hardships and obsessions as an adolescent. In the finale, she has sex with Eric and passes the "infection" to his penis.

Cast
Pénélope Lamour: Joëlle
Jean-Loup Philippe (as Nils Hortzs): Eric
Sylvia Bourdon: Barbara, Joëlle's aunt
Béatrice Harnois: Young Joëlle
Ellen Earl: Martine, the psychiatrist
Vicky Messica: Richard, the reporter

US release
The film was exported to the United States with the title Pussy Talk and started a period of French porn chic in America, followed soon by films such as Candy’s Candy (Candice Candy) and Kinky Ladies of Bourbon Street (Mes Nuits avec Alice, Pénélope, Arnold, Maude et Richard) in 1976.

References

External links

Pussy Talk: Le Sexe Qui Parle A review of the film
UK release poster featuring Suzy Mandel

French pornographic films
1975 films
1970s pornographic films
Vern Kennedy

Lloyd Vernon Kennedy (March 20, 1907 – January 28, 1993) was an American Major League Baseball pitcher with the Chicago White Sox, Detroit Tigers, St. Louis Browns, Washington Senators, Cleveland Indians, Philadelphia Phillies and Cincinnati Reds. Kennedy batted left-handed and threw right-handed. He was born in Kansas City, Missouri. Kennedy attended college at what is now known as the University of Central Missouri, where the football field bears his name.

While pitching for the Chicago White Sox, Kennedy threw the first no-hitter in Comiskey Park, a 5–0 shutout over Cleveland on August 31, 1935. His most productive season came in 1936, when he posted career-highs in
wins (21), innings pitched () and  complete games (20). A competent hitting-pitcher, he compiled a .244 average (181-for-743) with 36 extra base hits, including four home runs and 61 RBI. He also made the American League All-Star team in 1936 and 1938. In a 12-season career, Kennedy posted a 104–132 record with 691 strikeouts and a 4.67 ERA in  innings.

Kennedy died in Mendon, Missouri, at the age of 85 after a shed (smokehouse) roof collapsed on him.

See also
 List of Major League Baseball no-hitters

References

External links

1907 births
1993 deaths
American League All-Stars
Chicago White Sox players
Cincinnati Reds players
Cleveland Indians players
Detroit Tigers players
Philadelphia Phillies players
St. Louis Browns players
Washington Senators (1901–1960) players
Major League Baseball pitchers
Baseball players from Kansas City, Missouri
Accidental deaths in Missouri
Académie Charles Cros

The Académie Charles Cros (Charles Cros Academy) is an organization located in Chézy-sur-Marne, France, that acts as an intermediary between government cultural policy makers and professionals in music and the recording industry.

The academy is composed of fifty members specializing in music criticism, sound recording, and culture. It was founded in 1947 by Roger Vincent with Armand Panigel, José Bruyr, Antoine Goléa, Franck Ténot, and Pierre Brive – critics and recording specialists - and led by musicologist Marc Pincherle. It was named in honor of Charles Cros (1842–1888), inventor and poet (friend of Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine) who was one of the pioneers of sound recording.

The academy continues to stay abreast of advances in technology, from the development of 78 RPM gramophone records to CDs,  DVDs, playable torrents and all other readable, transportable music formats available today.

Awards
Each year since 1948, the Academy has given out its grand prize, the Grand Prix du Disque, to recognize outstanding achievements in recorded music and musical scholarship.  Prizes are awarded in the field of popular song, classical music, jazz, and other categories of recorded music, as well as for outstanding books of musicology.  Categories vary from year to year, and multiple awards are often made in one category in the same year.

Categories
Ancient Music
Baroque Music
Blues
Chamber Music
Choral Music
First Recital
French Song
Instrumental and Symphonic Music
Instrumental Soloist (new talent)
Jazz
Lyric Music
Modern Music
Opera
Recordings for Children
Vocal Soloist (new talent)
World Music

In popular culture
In 1969, Jimi Hendrix was the recipient of the Popular Music Prize in the 1969 Academie Charles Cros Awards.

References

External links

Music organizations based in France
French music awards
Grand Prix du Disque
French music
The Crust

The Crust is a British television series about a pizza parlour which was originally shown by CBBC. It was produced by Darrall Macqueen. In 2014, the show was broadcast again on the Australian children entertainment network ABC3.

Cast

Episodes

External links
 

The Crust @ Darrall Macqueen's website.

2000s British children's television series
2004 British television series debuts
2005 British television series endings
BBC children's television shows
BBC Television shows
Television shows set in London
Black British sitcoms
Sketrick Castle

Sketrick Castle is a castle situated on Sketrick Island near Whiterock, County Down, Northern Ireland. The castle is estimated to date back to the 12th century. Sketrick Castle tower-house and the passage to spring are State Care Historic Monuments in the townland of Sketrick Island, in the Ards and North Down Borough, at grid ref: J5245 6252.

History
The castle dates from the late 12th century. In the 14th century it was acquired by Sir Robert Savage. The Annals of the Four Masters record the capture of the castle in 1470 by an army led by the O'Neill to assist the MacQuillans. They took the castle and it was given to MacQuillan for safe keeping. It was intact until 1896 when a storm demolished much of it.

Features
Sketrick Castle was originally 57 ft high, 51 ft long and 27 ft wide, four storeys high, with a boat bay and a stone subterranean passage discovered in 1957. It has lintels running under the bawn wall to a chamber with a corbel over a fresh water spring. Parts of the bawn wall still survive to the north and east of the castle.

See also 
Castles in Northern Ireland

References

Castles in County Down
Ruined castles in Northern Ireland
Rude Mood

"Rude Mood" is the sixth track on Stevie Ray Vaughan's debut album, Texas Flood. It is a blues shuffle instrumental in 4/4 (common time) and played at 264 beats per minute.

The song was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance in 1984 but lost to Sting's "Brimstone and Treacle".

Origin and structure 
"Rude Mood" is a take-off of a Lightnin' Hopkins song called "Hopkins' Sky Hop". Vaughan played this song in several live performances including Live at Carnegie Hall and can be seen on the DVD Live at Montreux 1982. There are also versions where he uses an acoustic guitar instead of his characteristic Stratocaster, while sometimes also taking it faster or slower than the recorded studio version.

The song starts out with the main riff introduced by the guitar; the bass notes are played quickly with muted notes in between, resulting in a swung feel. The bass guitar and drums are introduced after the introduction, establishing the beat that continues to the end. The song can be broken up into many sections, separated by each 12-bar blues progression, with most sections ending in the same fashion as the beginning riff.

References

Stevie Ray Vaughan songs
1983 songs
Songs written by Stevie Ray Vaughan
Swimming at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre breaststroke

The women's 100 metre breaststroke event for the 1976 Summer Olympics was held in Montreal. The event took place between 22–24 July 1976.

Results

Heats
Heat 1

Heat 2

Heat 3

Heat 4

Heat 5

Heat 6

Semifinals
Heat 1

Heat 2

Final

References

External links
Official Olympic Report

Swimming at the 1976 Summer Olympics
1976 in women's swimming
Women's events at the 1976 Summer Olympics
Chilly-Mazarin

Chilly-Mazarin () is a commune in the southern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located  from the center of Paris.

A small part of Orly International Airport lies on the territory of the commune of Chilly-Mazarin.

Inhabitants of Chilly-Mazarin are known as Chiroquois.

History
Chilly-Mazarin developed around a Roman villa named Cailliacum which evolved into Chailly then Chilly. The suffix -Mazarin was added in 1822 to distinguish it from other French villages named Chilly and refers to the Mazarinettes, the famed nieces of Cardinal Mazarin who resided several years at a mansion in Chilly. The fourth niece, Hortense Mancini, transmitted to her son the titles of Marquess of Chilly and Duke of Mazarin which were ultimately passed to the House of Grimaldi, reigning house of Monaco.

Population

Transport
Chilly-Mazarin is served by Chilly-Mazarin station on Paris RER line C.

Education
There are:
 Seven preschools (écoles maternelles): du Centre, du Château, Les Roseaux, Les Saules, Pasteur, and Pauline Kergomard
 Four elementary schools: du Château, Jean-de-la-Fontaine, Pasteur, and Pierre et Marie Curie

There is a junior high school, Collège les Dînes Chiens, which opened in 1968.

Area high schools include:
 Lycée Marguerite-Yourcenar - Morangis
 Lycée Jacques-Prévert - Longjumeau
 Lycée des Métiers Jean-Perrin – Longjumeau

See also

Communes of the Essonne department

References

External links

Official website 

Mayors of Essonne Association 

Communes of Essonne
Bradley Method

Bradley Method may refer to:

Bradley method of bush regeneration
Bradley method of natural childbirth
Waldo, Oregon

Waldo is a ghost town located in Josephine County, Oregon, United States, about three miles from the California border.   It was settled in 1852 as a gold mining camp called Sailor's Diggings. 
The place was later renamed "Waldo" in honor of William Waldo, who in 1853 was the Whig candidate for governor of California. This was apparently because, believing the settlement was in California, William Waldo campaigned there and convinced the populace that they should vote for him.  The town was the first county seat of Josephine County.  The post office for Waldo was established in 1856; service was discontinued in 1928.

See also
List of ghost towns in Oregon

References

External links
Waldo, Oregon History

Former populated places in Josephine County, Oregon
Ghost towns in Oregon
1852 establishments in Oregon Territory
Former county seats in Oregon
Ferdinand Giovanni Schediwy

Ferdinand Giovanni Schediwy (2 June 1801 – 12 October 1877) was a Norwegian conductor, composer, organist and teacher. He immigrated from Prague to Bergen, Norway, where he became very active in the musical environment. He was Edvard Grieg's first music teacher and became leader of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra (then called Harmonien) in 1827.

Ferdinand Giovanni Schediwy is not related to Franz Schediwy, founder and owner of a company under the same name in Ludwigsburg, Germany, which manufactured and sold fine brass instruments for orchestral use. The firm, F. Schediwy, manufactured a line of well built brass that is an uncommon find today. A few examples can be seen on the internet at http://www.horn-u-copia.net/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1130591348/3

Norbert Bobble of Ditzingen, Germany, at his Musik Bopple Brass Manufacturing and Repair Shop,
is the last of the trained lineage repair experts of the F. Schediwy brass instruments. His website can found in English and German at http://www.jbs-brass.com/

References

1801 births
1877 deaths
Musicians from Bergen
19th-century Norwegian composers
19th-century conductors (music)
R. S. Gwynn

Robert Samuel "Sam" Gwynn (born 1948, Eden, North Carolina) is an American poet and anthologist associated with New Formalism.

Life
Gwynn is married and lives in Beaumont, Texas. He graduated from Davidson College in 1969, where he won the Vereen Bell Award for creative writing twice, played varsity football, and was a member of the school's championship team on the General Electric College Bowl. He did graduate work at Middlebury College's Bread Loaf School of English and later earned an M.A. and an M.F.A. from the University of Arkansas.

Poetry and Career
Gwynn's first full-length book, The Drive-in, won the Breakthrough Award of the University of Missouri Press in 1986. He has received the Michael Braude Award for Light Verse of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, served as an original faculty member of the West Chester University Conference on Form and Narrative in Poetry, and was included in the first significant anthology of New Formalism, Rebel Angels: Twenty-five Poets of the New Formalism (Story Line Press 1995). In 1997, Gwynn was selected as a University Professor at Lamar University, and he has been honored by Phi Kappa Phi. In September, 2015, he was appointed Program Director of the West Chester University Poetry Conference.

Critical reception
In his introduction to Gwynn's volume No Word of Farewell: Poems 1970-2000, Dana Gioia, poet and former chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, wrote, "[Gwynn] is ingeniously funny...[and] an effortless master of verse forms. No American poet of his generation has written better sonnets, and very few can equal him in the ballade, couplet, rondeau, or pantoum–not to mention the half dozen new forms he has invented"; further, according to Gioia, "Gwynn juxtaposes styles and subjects not customarily seen together–mythic and modish images phrased in language alternatively sublime and debased–but told with such force of imagination and assured musicality that the resulting poems seem not idiosyncratic but inevitable."

A collection of Gwynn's papers is housed at Texas State University at San Marcos in the Southwestern Writers Collection. A link to this collection can be found on T.A.R.O. (Texas Archival Resources Online.)

Works
 Bearing & Distance, Cedar Rock Press 1977 
 The Narcissiad, Cedar Rock Press, 1981, 
 The Drive-in, University of Missouri Press, 1986, 
 No Word of Farewell: Poems 1970-2000, Story Line Press, 2001, 
 Dogwatch, Measure Press, 2014,

Editor

Contemporary American Poetry: A Pocket Anthology, Pearson/Longman, 2005.

References

External links
 A Guide to the R. S. Gwynn Papers, 1976-1994

American male poets
Formalist poets
1948 births
Living people
Lamar University people
West Chester University faculty
People from Eden, North Carolina
Coluber constrictor anthicus

Coluber constrictor anthicus, commonly known as the buttermilk racer, is a subspecies of the eastern racer, a nonvenomous colubrid snake, endemic to the southern United States.

Description 
The buttermilk racer is a thin-bodied snake, capable of attaining a total length of 1.52 m (60 inches). Its color is a unique pattern of black, greens, yellows, greys and even sometimes blues, flecked with white or yellow. Their underside is white or cream-colored.

Geographic range 
The buttermilk racer is found only in the United States, in southern Arkansas, Louisiana and southern and eastern Texas.

Common names
Other common names for Coluber constrictor anthicus include the following: ash snake, blue racer, brown racer, Louisiana black snake, spotted black snake, spotted racer, variegated racer, and white oak racer.

Behavior 
Racers are diurnal, active predators. They are fast moving, and are often quick to bite if handled. They generally eat rodents, lizards and frogs, but as juveniles they will also consume various kinds of soft-bodied insects. They are fairly nervous snakes, and as such, do not typically fare well in captivity. For protection, they release a foul-smelling scent when caught to deter predators. They also thrash around to escape and can unknowingly injure themselves.

References 

Herps of Texas: Coluber constrictor
Snakes of Louisiana: Buttermilk Racer

Herper dot com

Colubrids
Reptiles of the United States
Fauna of the Southeastern United States
Taxa named by Edward Drinker Cope
High Windows

High Windows is a collection of poems by English poet Philip Larkin, and was published in 1974 by Faber and Faber Limited. The paperback version was first published in Britain in 1979. The collection is the last publication of new poetry by Larkin before his death in 1985, and it contains some of his most famous poems, including the title piece, "High Windows", "Dublinesque", and "This Be The Verse". The collection contains themes presented in his earlier collections, though the tone of the poems caused critics to suggest the book is darker and more "socially engaged" than his earlier volumes.
It is currently on the AQA AS/A2 level English Literature syllabus.

Poems 
The volume contains 24 poems:

Critical reception
Clive James, in As of this writing, describes High Windows as Larkin's bleakest volume of poetry, though he does admit that there are aspects of the poetry that contain the humour found in Larkin's earlier books of poetry. James suggests that Larkin has never liked the idea of a poet "Developing" and that Larkin himself remains the same throughout his career as a poet. High Windows, in James's opinion, shows that Larkin simply strives, with the addition of each poem, to state more clearly the same principles shown by his early works and concludes that "The total impression of High Windows is of despair made beautiful."

References

English poetry collections
1974 poetry books
Poetry by Philip Larkin
Faber and Faber books