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David Weeks (politician)

David Weeks (died 2 November 2021) was a former Conservative Leader of Westminster City Council who served on the council from 1974 to 1998.

Career
He was leader of the council from 1991 to 1993, deputy leader from 1983 to 1991, and acting leader during 1987 to 1988. He chaired several of the council's major committees: Policy and Resources from 1991 to 1993; Planning and Development, 1987 to 1991; Finance and Personnel, 1983 to 1987; and Housing, 1979 to 1983. From 1977 to 1979 he was the chief whip of the council's ruling Conservative group.

He was Leader of the Council at the time it agreed to buy back the Westminster Cemeteries after they were sold without proper provision for maintenance - a decision made by Shirley Porter to which David was not a party.

Homes for Votes scandal
Weeks was deputy leader to Shirley Porter at the time of the "Homes for votes scandal" and was found jointly liable along with Porter and others to the tune of £36 million by the District Auditor, but this was reduced on appeal by the High Court. In a 2001 judgement, Lord Bingham of Cornhill, described Dame Shirley and David Weeks, as guilty of a "...deliberate, blatant and dishonest misuse of public power. It was a misuse of power by both of them not for the purpose of financial gain but for that of electoral advantage. In that sense it was corrupt." Lord Scott said:The corruption was not money corruption. No one took a bribe. No one sought or received money for political favours. But there are other forms of corruption, often less easily detectable and therefore more insidious. Gerrymandering, the manipulation of constituency boundaries for party political advantage, is a clear form of political corruption.

Personal life
David died on 2 November 2021, after fifty years of marriage leaving his widow Heather. He was not buried in a Westminster cemetery.

See also
Westminster cemeteries scandal

References

Further reading

20th-century births
2021 deaths
Councillors in the City of Westminster
Conservative Party (UK) councillors
Leaders of local authorities of England

Year of birth missing
Crumpsall Park

Crumpsall Park is a small municipal park in the Crumpsall ward of Manchester, North West England.

Originally planned as a cemetery, the plot was made into a recreational park in 1890 CE.

The area in which the park is located was the site of the residence of the Chetham family - known as Crumpsall Hall - the earlier Crumpsall Old Hall was situated at the junction of Sandy Lane (now Crescent Road) and Cheetham Street, (now Humphrey Street) and this was the birthplace of Humphrey Chetham.

The park has been awarded the Green Flag Award for recreational park excellence annually since 2005.

A voluntary organisation known as the Friends of Crumpsall Park (FoCP) serves as a pressure group, events organiser and development monitor for the park, and works in liaison with Manchester City Council and other funding bodies.

The main event of the year is the annual Crumpsall Carnival.

References

Parks and commons in Manchester
Urban public parks in the United Kingdom
Trooperslane railway station

Trooperslane railway station serves the hamlet of Trooperslane in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

There are plans to open a park and ride facility at the station.

The station was opened on 11 April 1848.

For many years it was served only by peak-time services on Mondays to Saturdays.  On a trial basis in the 1990s, one service each way made a request stop on a Sunday, however this was not a success.

When Northern Ireland Railways introduced a new clock-face timetable in the mid-2000s, the station once again saw a regular service seven days a week, with nearly all trains serving the station. Trooperslane also has a level crossing, supervised by closed-circuit television.

Service

On Mondays to Fridays, there is a half-hourly service to  with extra trains at peak times. In the other direction, there is a half-hourly service with the terminus alternating between  and  every half an hour, with extra services to  and Larne Town at peak times.

On Saturdays, the service remains half-hourly, with fewer trains at peak times.

On Sundays, the service reduces to hourly operation in both directions.

References

Railway stations in County Antrim
Railway stations served by NI Railways
Railway stations in Northern Ireland opened in 1848
Nights in the Gardens of Spain

Nights in the Gardens of Spain (), G. 49, is a piece of music by the Spanish composer Manuel de Falla.   Falla was Andalusian and the work refers to the Hispano-Arabic past of this region (Al-Andalus).

Falla began this work as a set of nocturnes for solo piano in 1909, but on the suggestion of the pianist Ricardo Viñes he turned the nocturnes into a piece for piano and orchestra. Falla completed it in 1915 and dedicated it to Viñes. However the pianist at the first performance was neither Viñes nor Falla (who was a skilled pianist), but José Cubiles. The first performance was given on April 9, 1916, at Madrid's Teatro Real, with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid conducted by Enrique Fernández Arbós.

Viñes first played the work in its San Sebastián premiere, shortly after the world premiere, with the same orchestra. Arthur Rubinstein was in the audience that night, and he introduced the work to Buenos Aires.  The Paris premiere took place in January 1920, with the pianist Joaquín Nin playing under Fernández Arbós. The composer himself was the soloist at the London premiere in 1921, at a Queen's Hall concert under the baton of Edward Clark.

The work depicts three gardens:
  (In the Generalife): The first gardens are in the Generalife, the jasmine-scented gardens surrounding the  Alhambra.
  (A Distant Dance): The second garden is an unidentified distant one in which there is an exotic dance.
  (In the Gardens of the Sierra de Córdoba): The third set of gardens are in the Sierra de Córdoba.

The score calls for piano, three flutes and piccolo, two oboes and English horn, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones and tuba, timpani, cymbals, triangle, celesta, harp, and strings. Performances usually run in the range of 22 to 26 minutes.

References

External links
Program notes on Nights in the Gardens of Spain for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra by Phillip Huscher
The Manuel de Falla Foundation in Spanish and English
EuroArts YouTube (MusikTriennale Köln 1997) - Daniel Barenboim (piano), Plácido Domingo (conductor), Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Frankfurt Radio Symphony YouTube - Javier Perianes (piano), Andrés Orozco-Estrada (conductor) June 10, 2016
Frankfurt Radio Symphony YouTube - Javier Perianes (piano), Pablo Heras-Casado (conductor) August 24, 2017

Compositions by Manuel de Falla
1915 compositions
1910s in Spanish music
Compositions for piano and orchestra
Music with dedications
The Enigma (performer)

The Enigma (born Paul Lawrence) is an American sideshow performer, actor, and musician who has undergone extensive body modification, including horn implants, ear reshaping, multiple body piercings, and a full-body jigsaw-puzzle tattoo. His tattooing process began on December 20, 1992, under the needle of "Katzen the Tiger Lady", whom he later married, and has since divorced. To date, the Enigma has had more than two hundred tattoo artists work on him, with as many as twenty-three tattoos underway at one time.

Biography

Lawrence was born in Long Beach, California, and was raised in Seattle and began studying music when he was six years old. In 1991, he got his start as a  member of the Jim Rose Circus, with which he performed around the world until 1998, touring with acts such as Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, Korn, Godsmack, and once opening for David Bowie. The Enigma then toured with Katzen, playing music and doing sideshow performances under the moniker "Human Marvels". He performed at Universal Studios Orlando's Halloween Horror Nights event in fall 2007 with Serana Rose, performing various tricks with fire, electricity, power tools and blades. He has also performed at Detroit's Theatre Bizarre.

Media appearances
The Enigma has appeared in a number of television programs including Penn & Teller: Bullshit! and The X-Files (Season 2 - episode 20 "Humbug"), where he played a character named "the Conundrum", loosely based upon himself. Palisade Toys later made a toy based on this character as part of their X-Files PALz action figure line. This character was also prominently featured on the X-Files pinball machine.

The Enigma appeared with Jim Rose on The Gong Show in 2008 performing their own chainsaw stunt known as the "kiss of death." He was also featured in the 2005 documentary film Freaky Circus Guy alongside sideshow performers Katzen, Danielle D'Meux, and William Darke.

In 2004, the Enigma appeared with Mike Patton, Jane Wiedlin, Karen Black, and Katzen in Steve Balderson's film Firecracker. He performed with Rose in a freak show act called Show Devils. In 2007, he appeared in Billy Talent's music video for their single "Fallen Leaves".

The Enigma released a DVD in 2008 with Rose directed by Robert Monson titled Electric Acid Theatre.

Additionally, the Enigma has been featured in numerous newspapers, magazines, and books. He has twice appeared in National Geographic. In 2013, he was featured on the cover of Ripley's Believe It or Not! Special Edition.

He holds a Guinness World Record for his tattoos.

References

External links

The Enigma on BMEzine

Official Website of Show Devils The Enigma's Current Touring Show

American male television actors
Sideshow performers
Pigface members
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Male actors from Seattle
People known for being heavily tattooed
People known for their body modification
Ripley's Believe It or Not!
Ballingarry, County Limerick

Ballingarry () is a village in County Limerick, Ireland. It lies between Rathkeale and Kilmallock on the R518 road. The population was 521 at the 2016 census. Ballingarry had a vital weaving and linen industry until the Great Famine in 1845.

Canon Edward Joseph Hannan, one of the founders of Scottish football club Hibernian, was born in Ballingarry in 1836. Ballingarry has a long tradition with hurling. The local association football (soccer) team is Ballingarry A.F.C. The local junior soccer team won the Desmond League Premier Division in 2003/2004 and the following year the Granagh-Ballingarry GAA club won the county Intermediate Hurling Championship to achieve Senior status for the first time since 1910.

Notable people

 Anthony Forde, footballer with Wrexham A.F.C., is from the area.
 Edward Joseph Hannan, priest and founder of Hibernian Football Club, was born and raised in Ballingarry.
 Patrick Walsh, a US Senator for Georgia, was born in Ballingarry in 1840.  Appointed as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Alfred H. Colquitt; subsequently elected and served from April 1894 to March 1895.

See also
 List of towns and villages in Ireland

References

Towns and villages in County Limerick
Debbie Loeb

Debbie Loeb is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. She is best known for appearing as herself in her sister's reality-based series #1 Single.

Profile

Loeb is best known for her work on MTV as the host of The Debbie Loeb Show, the children's program Debbie Debutante and the Televisa series Lo Mejor del Mundial.  She also worked on various Broadway and music projects.

In 2006 Loeb signed a record deal with Ultra Records (the signing of Loeb to the label was featured on #1 Single), which released her first single, "Faraway". The track  debuted at number 21 on Billboard's Hot Dance Airplay chart for the week ending March 27, 2006, although a Billboard critic wrote the following month that it "comes across as a trailer-park redux of Lisa." In July 2010 she released "How Does It Feel" with Hi-Maintenance Productions and in April 2013, "So Into You".

She is the sister of Lisa Loeb.

References

External links
Official website

1970 births
American dance musicians
American women singer-songwriters
American actresses
Jewish American musicians
Jewish American actresses
American television talk show hosts
Participants in American reality television series
Living people
Musicians from Bethesda, Maryland
21st-century American singer-songwriters
21st-century American women singers
21st-century American Jews
Clipperstown railway station

Clipperstown railway station serves the west of Carrickfergus in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

Clipperstown station is within walking distance of (and clearly visible from) the larger Carrickfergus station, however road connections between the two are much more complicated. The timetable allows two minutes for the train to travel from Clipperstown to Carrickfergus.

The station was opened on 1 April 1925.

Service

On Mondays to Fridays, there is a half-hourly service to  with extra trains at peak times. In the other direction, there is a half-hourly service to . Every hour trains operate to , with extra services to  and Larne Town at peak times.

On Saturdays, the service remains half-hourly, with fewer trains at peak times.

On Sundays, the service reduces to an hourly operation in both directions.

References

Railway stations in County Antrim
Railway stations opened in 1925
Railway stations served by NI Railways
Railway stations in Northern Ireland opened in the 1920s
Hillcrest, New Zealand

Hillcrest is the name of three places in New Zealand:

Hillcrest, Auckland, a suburb of Auckland
Hillcrest, Waikato, a suburb of Hamilton
Hillcrest, Rotorua a suburb of Rotorua, new Zealand
Carrickfergus railway station

Carrickfergus railway station serves the centre of Carrickfergus in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. In addition to this, Clipperstown serves the west of the town, and Downshire the east.

The station opened on 1 October 1862.

Service

On Mondays to Fridays, there is a half-hourly service to  with extra trains at peak times. In the other direction, there is a half-hourly service with the terminus alternating between  and . Some peak time trains terminate here, at platform 3, and other peak trains continue to Larne Town.

On Saturdays, the service remains half-hourly, with fewer trains at peak times.

On Sundays, the service reduces to hourly operation in both directions.

References

Railway stations in County Antrim
Carrickfergus
Railway stations in Northern Ireland opened in 1862
Railway stations served by NI Railways
Grade B1 listed buildings
1862 establishments in Ireland
Downshire railway station

Downshire railway station serves eastern Carrickfergus in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

This station opened on 1 April 1925 and was known for most of its early life as Downshire Park. Northern Ireland Railways renamed the halt in the late 1970s. The station's signposts prior to the 2008 refurbishment named the station as "Downshire Halt", a name by which the station is still locally known.

The Belfast-bound platform was extended during summer 2011 to allow longer trains to operate. The Larne-bound platform was similarly refurbished in early 2012.

Service

On weekdays, there is a half-hourly service to . In the other direction, there is a half-hourly service with the terminus alternating between  and  every half an hour. At peak times some trains terminate at Larne Town.

On Saturdays, the service remains half-hourly with the same alternating pattern, and there are less peak services.

On Sundays, the service reduces to an hourly operation in both directions.

References

Railway stations in County Antrim
Railway stations opened in 1925
Railway stations served by NI Railways
Railway stations in Northern Ireland opened in the 1920s
Ballingarry

Ballingarry may refer to:

Places 
Ballingarry, County Limerick, a village in County Limerick, Ireland
Ballingarry, North Tipperary, a townland and civil parish in the north of County Tipperary, Ireland
Ballingarry, South Tipperary, a village in the south of County Tipperary, Ireland
Ballingarry Coal Mines in Ballingarry, South Tipperary
Ballymagarry, a townland in Belfast, formerly named Ballingarry

Other uses
Ballingarry (horse), Irish-bred Thoroughbred racehorse
Ballingarry GAA, a gaelic sports club in south Tipperary, Ireland 
Ballingarry A.F.C., a soccer club in County Limerick, Ireland
Whitehead railway station

Whitehead railway station serves Whitehead in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

The station has two platforms with a waiting room on each and the station is signalled in both directions and remains staffed during commuter hours by a Senior Porter, a fully trained signalman, capable of fixing points and signalling issues when they arise.

Previously the line was double towards Belfast and Whitehead was where the track narrowed to the single track section to Larne. However, in the 1990s the up line was removed from here to Kilroot due to safety reasons, leaving the line at Whitehead Station as a passing loop.

Whitehead actually comprises two stations, due to its history as a railway excursion town. The through station is still part of the Northern Ireland Railways network, whilst the terminus Whitehead Excursion Station is the headquarters of the Railway Preservation Society of Ireland.

Whitehead station was originally opened on 1 May 1863 and the Whitehead Excursion Platform was opened on 10 July 1907. The present station was opened in 1877 and is the third station to serve the town. It has been modernised, but unlike many stations on the NIR network still retains much of its Victorian character.

Service

On Mondays to Fridays, there is a half-hourly service from . These trains alternate every half an hour between terminating here at Whitehead, and continuing on to . In the other direction, there is a half-hourly service to , with the trains alternating between being through services from Larne, or starting at Whitehead.

On Saturdays, the service still runs half-hourly in the same alternating manner, but with less peak trains.

On Sundays, the service reduces to hourly operation in each direction. Services alternate each hour between terminating here, and continuing on to .

Incidents

On 26 September 2008, part of the platform collapsed, blocking the Larne bound line. It is not clear whether this was a result of the recent construction work which had been carried out at this station,. according to NI Railways nobody was hurt in the incident.

References

Railway stations in County Antrim
Railway stations served by NI Railways
Railway stations in Northern Ireland opened in 1863
James C. Cacheris

James Chris Cacheris (born March 30, 1933) is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

Education and career

Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Cacheris was educated at University of Pennsylvania where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in 1955. He earned a Juris Doctor in 1960 from the George Washington University Law School. Cacheris served as assistant corporation counsel from 1960 to 1962, in Washington, D.C., before entering private practice in 1962. He remained in private practice in Washington, D.C., and northern Virginia until 1971, when he became a Judge of the 19th Judicial Circuit of Virginia, Fairfax Circuit Court.

Federal judicial service

Cacheris was nominated by President Ronald Reagan on October 20, 1981, to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, to a new seat authorized by 92 Stat. 1629. He was confirmed by the United States Senate on November 24, 1981, and received commission on December 1, 1981. He served as Chief Judge from 1991 to 1997. He assumed senior status on March 30, 1998, and was succeeded by Judge Gerald Bruce Lee. Cacheris served as a Judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court from 1993 to 2000 and served as a Judge of the Alien Terrorist Removal Court from 2005 to 2016, serving as Chief Judge from 2006 to 2016. He retired from active service on January 26, 2018.

References

Sources
 

1933 births
Living people
Lawyers from Washington, D.C.
Virginia lawyers
George Washington University Law School alumni
University of Pennsylvania alumni
Judges of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
United States district court judges appointed by Ronald Reagan
20th-century American judges
20th-century American lawyers
21st-century American judges
Lawyers from Pittsburgh
Judges of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court
Virginia circuit court judges
Daniel James (game developer)

Daniel James (born 1971, London), is a British-Canadian video game developer based in San Francisco.  He is a co-founder and CEO of Three Rings Design, the company behind the MMOGs Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates, Bang! Howdy, Whirled and Spiral Knights.

Biography
James was born in 1971 in London, the only child of Allan James, a filmmaker  who worked on titles such as Out of Africa and Superman, and Hope James, an interior designer and art teacher.  James attended Holland Park School and Ealing, Hammersmith and West London College, and got involved with MUDs early, playing Essex MUD at the age of 12, in 1982.  While still at university, he worked as a god on Avalon: The Legend Lives and co-founded the Avalon dial-up service in 1990, moving services to the internet in 1994, the same year that he graduated from the University of Leeds, with a degree in Computer Science and Philosophy.  In 1995, he founded another company, Sense Internet.  In 1998, he moved to the United States to work for Sierra Online, as a designer on Middle-earth Online.

While in the United States, he met Michael Bayne and they founded Three Rings Design to create Puzzle Pirates. It was launched in 2003. It has been followed by Bang Howdy, Whirled, Corpse Craft and Spiral Knights, in partnership with SEGA. In March 2011 Three Rings announced a partnership with the BBC to create an online game based on Doctor Who.

He is a member of the IGDA Online Games SIG, and a frequent speaker or moderator at industry conferences such as E³, GDC, and the Austin Games Conference.

The First Church of the Grey Goo
According to ICANN's WhoIs James & Three Rings Design are the registrant for the website of The First Church of the Grey Goo. The site proclaims and praises the inevitability of nanomachines replacing mankind as "prophesied" by Bill Joy.

It is unclear whether this site is an attempt at humor, earnest, or related to an upcoming or unreleased video game. Registration was on February 16, 2000 and expires in 2016. There have been no changes to the site since its first archiving by the Wayback Machine on June 25, 2001. On February 11, 2020 the site's domain information has been updated, and expires in 2022.

References

 Daniel James' personal website
 Daniel James' blog
 DreamStation interview, September 29, 2003
 UCLA speaker bio
 IGDA Online Games webpage

External links

 Official Three Rings Website
 Puzzle Pirates Website
 Whirled Website
 Spiral Knights Website

1971 births
Living people
British video game designers
Canadian video game designers
Three Rings Design
Alumni of the University of Leeds
People educated at Holland Park School
Ballycarry railway station

Ballycarry railway station serves Ballycarry and Islandmagee in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, the station was opened on 1 October 1862.

Today there is just a  single platform, there is a stationmaster's old cottage on a disused platform, this is now privately owned.

Service
Mondays to Saturdays there is an hourly service towards  or  with extra services at peak times. On Sundays there is a service every two hours in either direction to Larne Harbour or Great Victoria Street.

References

External links

Railway stations in County Antrim
Railway stations served by NI Railways
Railway stations in Northern Ireland opened in 1862
1862 establishments in Ireland
MO3

MO3 is a tracker module file format developed by Ian Luck for the BASSMOD engine. MO3 files contain samples encoded in the MP3 or Ogg Vorbis formats, rather than straight PCM samples. This results in reduced file size for the module, while maintaining almost identical audio quality. Lossless audio encoding is also supported, for samples that do not compress well with lossy encoding.

The format's name is a portmanteau of MOD and MP3. Despite the name, five other tracker formats are supported besides MOD: Scream Tracker 3 (S3M), FastTracker 2 (XM), Impulse Tracker (IT), OpenMPT (MPTM) and MultiTracker (MTM).

See also 
 XMF (Extensible Music Format)
 XMPlay - an audio player that supports MO3 files
 OpenMPT is a Tracker that can open and edit (but not save) MO3 files

References

External links 
MO3 unofficial specifications, with source code
XMP - XMP supports MO3 files
FAP - Fox Audio Player supports MO3 files

Module file formats
Trace scheduling

Trace scheduling is an optimization technique developed by Josh Fisher used in compilers for computer programs.

A compiler often can, by rearranging its generated machine instructions for faster execution, improve program performance. It increases ILP (Instruction Level Parallelism) along the important execution path by statically predicting frequent execution path. Trace scheduling is one of many known techniques for doing so.

A trace is a sequence of instructions, including branches but not including loops, that is executed for some input data. Trace scheduling uses a basic block scheduling method to schedule the instructions in each entire trace, beginning with the trace with the highest frequency. It then adds compensation code at the entry and exit of each trace to compensate for any effects that out-of-order execution may have had.

This can result in large increases in code sizes and poor or erratic performance if program's behavior varies significantly with the input.

Trace scheduling was originally developed for Very Long Instruction Word, or VLIW machines, and is a form of global code motion. It works by converting a loop to long straight-line code sequence using loop unrolling and static branch prediction. This process separates out "unlikely" code and adds handlers for exits from trace.  The goal is to have the most common case executed as a sequential set of instructions without branches.

See also
Instruction scheduling

References

 

Compiler optimizations
Compiler construction
TFCD

TFCD may refer to:

 Task Force on Climate Related Financial Disclosures
 time for CD or trade for CD – see Time for print
 tFCD, a division in the Taiwanese Canadian Association of Toronto
Snit's Revenge

Snit's Revenge is a two-player board game developed and illustrated by Tom Wham. It originally appeared as an insert in Dragon Magazine in 1977, and subsequently as a boxed game first published by TSR, Inc. and currently by Steve Jackson Games. The Steve Jackson version comes boxed together with Snit Smashing, which was also first published in Dragon Magazine and to which Snit's Revenge is technically a sequel. The rules of this version differ slightly from those of the TSR version.

Theme
Bolotomi are large essentially immobile creatures who live on an alien beach, and come to enjoy smashing tiny Snits when the latter creatures charge up out of the sea to reproduce. The Snits decide to seek revenge, and begin attacking the Bolotomi from within. Snit's Revenge depicts the ensuing internal battle, with one player controlling the invading tribe of Snits, the other manning the target Bolotomus's bodily defences.

Rules

The Snits and the various types of body defenders are represented by cardboard chits, each of which features unique artwork. The pieces move across a gameboard which is a cross-section of a Bolotomus's body, consisting of various whimsically-named internal organs connected by narrow tubes which restrict that movement to varying degrees. Three of these organs have holes to the "outside", and it is through these that the Snits enter the board and begin the game. Each of the organs is considered "alive" when manned by a matching chit called a Snorg; the Snit player wins by successfully Kicking (via dice-roll) a certain percentage of Snorgs to death, or by finding "The Spark Of Life" chit, which is hidden by the Bolotomus player under a chosen Snorg at the start of the game, along with three explosive decoys. The Bolotomus wins if his Runnungitms, which are the rough equivalent of a human's white blood cells, can Chomp all the invading Snits to death (Again, the result of a dice roll.)

The exact number of Snit attackers varies from game to game, but the Snit player cannot replace his losses, while the Bolotomus has three "Compositor" organs where destroyed Snorgs can be resurrected and sent back to work, and a "Lapotum" inaccessible to Snits where new Runnungitms can be produced. If a Runnungitm successfully Chomps a Snit, it dies as well, and turns into a PoPo, which mindlessly floats towards the nearest exit and can possibly be used by either side to block movement between organs.

The game includes some optional rules, such as giving each Snit and/or Runnungitm unique attributes like battle speed or strength. (The Steve Jackson version of the game has made this concept standard, while turning the use of the Spark into an option.) There is also the possibility of including more than two players by breaking the Snits into competing tribes.

Reviews
Jeux & Stratégie #9

References

External links
Creator Tom Wham's comments about the game
Steve Jackson Games' Snits page

Board games introduced in 1977
Science fiction board games
Tom Wham games
TSR, Inc. games
Magheramorne railway station

Magheramorne railway station serves Magheramorne in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

The station was opened on 1 October 1862. Originally it was the site for the loading of aggregate trains, with the last one running in the 1970s.

Service

Mondays to Saturdays there is an hourly service towards  or . Some peak-time services will skip over Magheramorne station.

On Sundays there is a service every two hours in either direction to Larne Harbour or Great Victoria Street.

References

Railway stations in County Antrim
Railway stations served by NI Railways
1862 establishments in Ireland
Railway stations in Northern Ireland opened in 1862
Benjamin Eisenstadt

Benjamin Eisenstadt (December 7, 1906 – April 8, 1996) was the designer of the modern sugar packet and developer of Sweet'N Low. He was the founder of the Cumberland Packing Corporation and a notable philanthropist.

Personal life
Benjamin Eisenstadt was born in New York City on December 7, 1906 in a family of Jewish immigrants from Russia. He attended Brooklyn College.

He married Betty Gellman (1910–2001) on October 27, 1931 while living at 1250 44th Street in Brooklyn. Their children were Marvin Eisenstadt, who married Barbara; Gladys Eisenstadt; Ira Eisenstadt, who married Deirdre Howley; and Ellen Eisenstadt, who married Herbert Cohen.

Business and philanthropy
After college, Eisenstadt operated a cafeteria across from the Brooklyn Navy Yard. He switched to making tea bags after his cafeteria business declined.

In the mid 1940s he invented the sugar packet, packaged single servings of table sugar, to utilize his tea bag machinery. He proposed the idea to the major sugar producers, but was unsuccessful in attracting their interest. Since he had not secured a patent before shopping the idea around, sugar producers were then free to use his idea without paying royalties, and they did so.

In 1957 he came up with a formula for a powdered saccharin sweetener. Previously saccharin was sold as liquid drops, or tiny tablets. He mixed the saccharin with dextrose to bulk it up to a teaspoon sized portion, added cream of tartar, and calcium silicate as anti-caking agents. His Cumberland Packing Corporation marketed the product, called Sweet'N Low, in bright pink packets so that the saccharin packets would not be confused with sugar packets at restaurants.

His company was also the first to package soy sauce and other single serving condiments.

After the Cumberland Packing Corporation was on a financially successful footing, Eisenstadt devoted a part of his wealth to medical philanthropy. He became chairman of the board of the foundation for Maimonides Medical Center. During his 20-year tenure as a trustee and benefactor of this institution, he also served as secretary, and vice chairman of the board.

Death
Benjamin died at age 89 after complications from open heart surgery.

Legacy
Maimonides Medical Center has the Eisenstadt Administration Building and the Gellman Pavilion. The Gellman Pavilion was named in memory of Dr. Abraham Gellman, the brother of Eisenstadt's wife Betty.

Patent

Timeline
1906 Birth in Brooklyn
1945 Cumberland Cafeteria closes
1947 Cumberland Cafeteria converted to Cumberland Packaging Corporation
1956 Marvin Eisenstadt joins the company
1970 "Sweet'N Low" registered trademark of Cumberland Packaging Corporation
1996 Death in Brooklyn
2001 Death of Betty Gellman, his widow

References

Further reading
New York Times; December 29, 1996. "Household Names"
 "Sweet and Low," by Rich Cohen.

1906 births
1996 deaths
History of sugar
Philanthropists from New York (state)
20th-century American inventors
20th-century American philanthropists
Brooklyn College alumni
20th-century American Jews
EllisLab

EllisLab was a software development company based in Santa Barbara, California.

In November 2018, the company was acquired by Digital Locations. In October 2019 the company was sold back to its founder and CEO Rick Ellis, who then closed the company after 17 years in business. Their flagship software product ExpressionEngine CMS was sold to Packet Tide, LLC a software development company headquartered in New York.

Products 

Since the company's founding in January 2002, it has released four different applications to the public.

The first, pMachine Pro, is no longer developed, but was weblog software that had both a free and a licensed version. pMachine's feature list was similar to other weblog software of the time, such as Movable Type, Geeklog, and LiveJournal.

ExpressionEngine 

ExpressionEngine is the company's flagship software product. It is a general purpose content management system written in object-oriented PHP and using MySQL for data storage.

ExpressionEngine is free and open-source software, licensed under Apache License, Version 2.0.

Sites built with ExpressionEngine use a number of custom channels, usually each containing a number of different fields. Channels typically represent different types of information, allowing a user to have a channel for single pages, blog posts, products, job vacancies, and other elements. Its flexibility and accessible templating language has made the system popular among web designers not skilled in server-side programming.

CodeIgniter 

CodeIgniter is an open-source software web framework for building dynamic web sites with PHP, with particular emphasis on a small footprint. CodeIgniter is loosely based on the popular model–view–controller (MVC) development pattern.

EllisLab released the first public version of CodeIgniter on February 28, 2006. In October 2014, at the ExpressionEngine Conference in Virginia, EllisLab CEO Derek Jones announced that the company had transferred CodeIgniter to the British Columbia Institute of Technology. The new entity now maintains the PHP framework, which is no longer an EllisLab product.

MojoMotor (discontinued)  
MojoMotor was a lightweight alternative to ExpressionEngine released in July 2010, developed by EllisLab. MojoMotor was made to create easy-to-edit, brochure-like sites that use almost entirely static pages. MojoMotor was retired in November 2015 and no longer receives updates or technical support.

See also
 List of companies based in Oregon
 List of content management systems

Notes

References 

 David Upton, CodeIgniter for Rapid PHP Application Development, Packt, 2007, 
 Michael Boyink, Building an ExpressionEngine 2 Site : Small Business, CreateSpace, 2012, 
 Leonard Murphy, Building Websites with ExpressionEngine 1.6, Packt, 2008, 
 Thomas Myer, Professional CodeIgniter, Wrox, 2008,

External links 
 EllisLab, Inc.

Content management systems
Companies based in Bend, Oregon
Privately held companies based in Oregon

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Mount Hesperus (Alaska)

Mount Hesperus is the highest peak of the Revelation Mountains, the westernmost subrange of the Alaska Range. The Revelations are a small, rarely visited range, but they contain dramatic rock peaks, rising from low bases. Mount Hesperus is particularly impressive in terms of local relief: for example, it drops over 7,500 feet (2,286m) in less than 2 miles (3,219m) on two sides. Such steepness for this amount of relief makes Hesperus comparable to the best peaks in North America.

Mount Hesperus lies to the north of most of the other peaks of the Revelation Mountains, between two forks of the Big River. To the southwest of the peak lies the Revelation Glacier.
The peak is over 100 miles from the closest significant airport.

The first ascent of Mount Hesperus was on May 2, 1985, by Justin Lesueur (New Zealand) and Karl Swanson, Stephen Spalding (Alaska). They first attempted routes on the northeast side of the peak, and then successfully ascended a route on the southwest face, which involved snow climbing, some rock bands, a frozen waterfall, and an icy, corniced ridge.


See also

List of mountain peaks of North America
List of mountain peaks of the United States
List of mountain peaks of Alaska
List of Ultras of the United States

References

Sources
 Stephen Spaulding, "Hesperus", American Alpine Journal 60 (Vol. 28), 1986.

External links

 Mount Hesperus on Topozone

Alaska Range
Landforms of Bethel Census Area, Alaska
Mountains of Alaska
Mountains of Unorganized Borough, Alaska
Geoffrey Howard (cricketer)

Cecil Geoffrey Howard (14 February 1909 – 8 November 2002) was an English cricketer and cricket administrator.

Geoffrey Howard was born in Hampstead Garden Suburb, a grandson of Sir Ebenezer Howard, a founder of the Garden City Movement, who taught him a respect for people and a love for cricket. He was educated at the University College School. He is also related to his niece, the dancer and television actress Una Stubbs and her son the television and film score composer Christian Henson.

As a right-handed batsman and a wicket-keeper, he represented Middlesex in three first-class matches in 1930, whilst on annual leave from the bank for which he worked. He played for the Private Banks XI from 1926 to 1936 and for the RAF during the Second World War, when he once made a century before lunch.

He earned himself a place in cricket history as an enlightened administrator and a popular tour manager. He was Secretary of Lancashire (1949–1965) and Surrey (1965–1975) and managed three Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) touring teams in Australia and the Indian sub-continent. The English cricket team in Australia in 1954–55 of Australia was the focal point of his rich and varied life, with England winning a series in Australia for the first time since Bodyline in 1932–33. The English cricket team in Pakistan in 1955–56 was marred by an incident, when several of the England cricketers doused the umpire Idris Baig with a bucket of water and as a result a major controversy broke out. The background included Baig telling the tour manager Howard: “You must understand … that a lot of the crowd come to watch me umpire” and that same day reportedly giving three dubious LBWs against England, and turning down a certain one of their own. It took a sincere apology by MCC president, Field Marshal Alexander of Tunis to his former military colleague and counterpart at the Pakistani board, Iskander Mirza, to prevent the tour being called off.

He stayed active in retirement and was President of Surrey in 1989. He collaborated with the author Stephen Chalke on the award winning At the Heart of English Cricket in 2001, which won the Cricket Society Jubilee Prize in 2002. He died in Minchinhampton, aged 93.

References

External links
 
 

1909 births
2002 deaths
English cricket administrators
English cricketers
Middlesex cricketers
Presidents of Surrey County Cricket Club
People educated at University College School
People from Minchinhampton
Cricketers from Gloucestershire
Glynn railway station

Glynn railway station serves Glynn in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. The station opened on 1 January 1864.

Service
Mondays to Saturdays there is an hourly service towards  or . Some peak-time trains do not call at Glynn station.

On Sundays there is a service every two hours in either direction to Larne Harbour or Great Victoria Street.

References

Railway stations in County Antrim
Railway stations opened in 1864
Railway stations served by NI Railways
Railway stations in Northern Ireland opened in the 1860s
Ladislaus Weinek

Ladislaus Weinek (, 13 February 1848, Buda – 12 November 1913, Prague) was an Austro-Hungarian astronomer.

He was educated in Vienna, and worked for a period at the photography laboratories in Schwerin.

In 1874 he joined a German expedition to the Kerguelen Islands to observe a transit of Venus across the face of the Sun. His results from the expedition were published in Nova Acta Leopoldina.

In 1883 he became a professor in Prague and was the ninth director of the Klementinum observatory. There, on 27 November 1885, he took the first known photograph of a meteor. He set up observing stations in Prague and Jena (to observe the Andromedids shower of that year, which turned out to be very intense), and caught a 7mm-long trail on a plate in Prague. 

In collaboration with Friedrich Küstner, he made measurements of the height of the pole. During their investigations they also discovered polar motion, the movement of the Earth's polar axis relative to the crust.

Using images taken at the Lick Observatory and the Meudon Observatory, he produced the first atlas of the Moon that was based on photographs.

The crater Weinek on the Moon and the asteroid 7114 Weinek are named after him.

References

External links 
 Lunární kráter Weinek – historická pocta klementinskému astronomovi
 Scheller, A., 1914, "Anzeige des Todes von Ladislaus Weinek", Astronomische Nachrichten, vol. 196.
 Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon 1000-1990 at www.mek.iif.hu

19th-century Hungarian astronomers
19th-century Austrian astronomers
People from Austria-Hungary
Hungarian expatriates in Germany
Hungarian expatriates in the Czech lands
People from Buda
1848 births
1913 deaths
GLF

GLF may refer to:

Transportation 
 Glenfinnan railway station, in Scotland
 Golfito Airport, in Costa Rica

Other uses 

 Gay Liberation Front
 Global Landscapes Forum
 Global Leadership Foundation
 Glock Large Frame, a frame pattern for pistols chambered in 10mm Auto and .45 ACP, for example
 Grange League Federation, now Agway, an American agricultural business
 Great Leap Forward
 Swedish Recording Industry Association (Swedish )
Jerry S.T. Pitzul

Major-General Jerry S.T. Pitzul, , was the Judge-Advocate-General for the Canadian Forces at National Defence Headquarters in Ottawa, Ontario from 1998 to 2006.

Major-General Pitzul has enjoyed a distinguished legal career in the Canadian Forces and the public sector. He has held various appointments within the Office of the Judge-Advocate General, including that of Director of Law/Prosecutions and Appeals where he acted as chief prosecutor for the Canadian Forces. He was later appointed by the Minister of National Defence to the position of Deputy Chief Military Trial Judge where he presided over courts martial across Canada and in various parts of Europe including the former Republic of Yugoslavia.

In 1995, Major-General Pitzul retired from the Canadian Forces and accepted an appointment in Nova Scotia as Director of the Public Prosecution Service and lawful Deputy of the Attorney General where he was responsible for all Crown prosecutions within the province. He subsequently returned to the Canadian Forces in 1998 upon appointment by Order in Council to the position of Judge Advocate General in the rank of Brigadier-General.

Major-General Pitzul has written various publications on military law, including A Handbook for Military Prosecutors. He has also authored several manuals for military judges on trial procedure, substantive criminal law, and evidence.

Major-General Pitzul earned his Bachelor of Administration (BAD) in 1975 from the Collège militaire royal de Saint-Jean, Québec. He later earned his Master of Business Administration (MBA) in 1976 and his Bachelor of Laws (LLB) in 1979 at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

In December 2000 Major-General Pitzul was appointed to the Order of Military Merit (Canada) in its highest grade, that of Commander.

Major-General Pitzul was promoted to his present rank effective 8 April 2002 and was reappointed as Judge-Advocate-General of the Canadian Forces for a further four-year term effective 14 April 2002.  He has since retired and been replaced by Brigadier-General Ken Watkin.

On 18 October 2002, Major-General Pitzul was appointed Queen's Counsel by the Province of Nova Scotia.

External links
 Office of the JAG for Canadian Forces website

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Canadian generals
Canadian people of Romanian descent
Royal Military College of Canada alumni
Canadian King's Counsel
ATN Bangla (Canada)

ATN Bangla is a Canadian exempt Category B Bengali language pay television channel owned by Asian Television Network (ATN).

ATN Bangla broadcasts a variety of programming in the Bengali language including news, films, television dramas and talk shows. It airs programming from foreign sources in India and Bangladesh as well as locally produced Canadian content.

History
In April 2005, ATN was granted approval from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to launch a television channel called ATN - Bangla Channel One, described as "a national ethnic Category 2 pay television programming undertaking devoted to programming of interest to persons who speak Bengali."

The channel launched on October 19, 2005 as ATN Bangla.

On September 13, 2012, the CRTC approved Asian Television Network's request to convert ATN Bangla from a licensed Category B specialty service to an exempted Cat. B third language service.

In September 2014, ATN lost the rights to programming from ATN Bangla in Bangladesh.  The channel was subsequently re-branded with a generic logo but retains the same name and now airs foreign programming from India as well as Bangladesh.

References

External links

Asian-Canadian culture in Ontario
Digital cable television networks in Canada
Television channels and stations established in 2005
Bangladeshi-Canadian culture
Bengali-Canadian culture
Bengali-language television channels
South Asian Canadian culture
South Asian television in Canada