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Summerstock Conservatory

Summerstock Conservatory was a theatre company based out of Westmount Charter School in Calgary, Alberta from 2002 to 2012. Every year, between 1 and 14 August, high school and young post-secondary students from across Canada performed a play in Olympic Plaza.

History
Summerstock Conservatory, formally MainStage, was founded in 2002 by Jim Senft, who directed Summerstock's first show, Guys and Dolls. Other performances included Fiddler on the Roof in 2004, Annie Get Your Gun in 2005, and Footloose in 2007. Summerstock continued performing shows annually until the group disbanded in 2012.

Directors and producers
While Jim Senft was the original director of Summerstock, he took a yearlong break in 2005 from the Calgary show, to branch out to Toronto to create another Summerstock Conservatory. Another running of Guys and Dolls was held in Toronto, produced and co-directed by Joan Mansfield, a professional theatre producer based in Toronto, during Calgary's production of Annie Get Your Gun. During that time, the current tech director in Calgary, Josh Collins, also took the position of artistic director. The following year, Jim Senft returned to Calgary, and continued to act as the artistic director of the program.

From the beginning of the program, the Executive Producer was Brandi Sedore, who was also a secretary at Westmount Charter School, where Summerstock held its rehearsals. However, in 2007, Brandi officially stepped down from her position and Kathryn Waters took over for the production of Footloose. Nonetheless, Brandi returned for the 2007–2008 year, and continued until Jayson Krause took over as Executive Producer for the 2010–2011 year.

Educational aspects
Educational coursework for Summerstock was offered through Westmount Charter School, which awarded Alberta high school credits in courses relating to the activities of its cast and technical crew. Cast members were able to receive high school credit while performing in Summerstock. The company also provided a scholarship program for graduating cast members from its ticket sales. The company also offered financial compensation to certain university members each year, who worked for Summerstock during the summer, generally as lead cast members. Further, each year, contributing high schools received grants to help run their respective drama departments, offered through The Summerstock Foundation, the charitable arm of Summerstock.

Summerstock Theatre Festival
The Summerstock Theatre Festival was an annual outdoor performance of a musical held in the Arts District in downtown Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Based on the premise of the traditional Summerstock Theatre, this program presented Broadway-style theatre outdoors at Olympic Plaza. Performers were Calgary high school and university students, who came home from all across Canada to perform Broadway musicals.

See also 

 Evan Williams, notable Summerstock alumnus

References

External links

Theatre in Calgary
Theatre companies in Alberta
Companies based in Calgary
USS Casco (1864)

The first USS Casco was the first of a class of twenty 1,175-ton light-draft monitors built by Atlantic Works, Boston, Massachusetts for the Union Navy during the American Civil War.

Launch and refitting
Upon her launching in May 1864, it was found that the design of these ships was seriously flawed. She was pronounced unseaworthy when nearly completed and on 25 June 1864 she was ordered to be converted to a torpedo vessel, without a turret or heavy guns. Casco was commissioned 4 December 1864.

John Ericsson developed the original design for the Casco-class monitors, but Chief Engineer Alban C. Stimers, the General Inspector of Ironclads, elaborated it. When bids were requested for the ships, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Gustavus Fox wrote to Ericsson to confirm that Stimers had arranged the details with Ericsson's approval. Ericsson replied that he had been kept in the dark and that Stimers had "frittered away" Ericsson's principles, but in March 1863, Fox began to award contracts anyway. The vessels received another redesign in the aftermath of Rear Admiral Samuel F. Du Pont's failed attack on Charleston, South Carolina, on 7 April 1863. Twenty vessels were ordered without serious scrutiny of the design.  $14 million US was allocated for the construction of these vessels. It was discovered that Stimers and his assistant Theodore Allen had failed to compensate properly for the weight his revisions added to the original plan and this resulted in excessive stress on the hull and a freeboard of only . In June 1864, Stimers was removed from control of the project and Ericsson was called in to undo the damage. He was forced to raise the hulls of the monitors under construction by nearly two feet and the first few completed vessels had their turrets removed and a single pivot-mount  Dahlgren cannon mounted. These same few vessels had a retractable spar torpedo added as well.

Potomac Flotilla
After completion of the additional yard work, Casco was towed to Hampton Roads in March 1865. She assisted in the removal of mines in the James River which made possible the advance of naval forces to Richmond, VA. In mid-April she was transferred to the Potomac Flotilla, with whom she served until the end of May. Casco was decommissioned 10 June 1865 at Washington Navy Yard. In the widespread ship-renamings that took place in June 1869, Casco was given the new name Hero. She saw no further active service, and she was broken up in April 1875.

References 
 
 Roberts, William H. (2002): Civil War Ironclads: Industrial Mobilization for the US Navy 1861–1865, Johns Hopkins University Press.

External links
 Images of USS Casco

 

Casco-class monitors
Ships built in Boston
Ships of the Union Navy
Torpedo boats of the United States Navy
1864 ships
Troy Bruins

The Troy Bruins were an International Hockey League team based in Troy, Ohio that played from 1951 to 1959 at the Hobart Arena.  Notable players were Brian Kilrea and Larry King Kwong. Goaltender Bill Tibbs won the James Norris Memorial Trophy IHL for the fewest goals against during the 1955–1956 regular season.

The Bruins were relocated by owner Ken Wilson in 1959, and admitted to the Eastern Hockey League, to play as the Greensboro Generals in the recently built Greensboro Coliseum.

For the 2008-2009 season, the ECHL's Dayton Bombers wore special Troy Bruins throwback jerseys while playing six games at Hobart Arena, before auctioning them off for charity.

References

External links
A to Z Encyclopaedia of Ice Hockey
Hockey D B Troy Bruins Yearly Stats

International Hockey League (1945–2001) teams
Miami County, Ohio
Defunct ice hockey teams in Ohio
Ice hockey clubs established in 1951
Sports clubs and teams disestablished in 1959
1951 establishments in Ohio
1959 disestablishments in Ohio
Apartment Hunting

Apartment Hunting is a 2000 Canadian romantic comedy film directed by Bill Robertson. Its soundtrack contains much of the recorded oeuvre of cult musician Mary Margaret O'Hara, who also appears in the film.

Premise
Ben Riddick (Andrew Tarbet), an unhappily married journalist is forced to confront his feelings for his wife Sarah (Kari Matchett) when he is assigned by his employer to write a story about telephone personals services.

Cast
 Andrew Tarbet as Ben Reddick
 Kari Matchett as Sarah
 Matt Gordon as Mac McConnell
 Tracy Wright as Steve
 Arnold Pinnock as Dean
 Rachel Hayward as Lola
 John Evans as Victor Spoils
 Mary Margaret O'Hara as Hellen
 Valérie Jeanneret as Celine / Annie
 Linda Kash as Realtor
 Ralph Benmergui as Thurston Peacock III
 Rosemary Radcliffe as Poncho Woman
 Elena Kudaba as Cabbage Woman
 Bill Lake as Lecherous Man
 Oscar Hsu as Landlord

References

External links
 

2000 films
2000 romantic comedy films
English-language Canadian films
2000s English-language films
Canadian romantic comedy films
Films shot in Toronto
2000s Canadian films
Lentner, Missouri

Lentner is an unincorporated community in southern Shelby County, Missouri, United States.   It is located on U.S. Route 36 about six miles west of Shelbina.

A post office called Lentner has been in operation since 1873. However, it was discontinued on March 7, 2009. The community takes its name from Lentner Lathrop, an early settler.

References

Unincorporated communities in Shelby County, Missouri
Unincorporated communities in Missouri
Plevna, Missouri

Plevna is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in southeastern Knox County, Missouri, United States. It is located approximately  southeast of Edina on Missouri Route 15. As of the 2020 census, its population was 7.

Plevna was platted in 1877. According to author and name historian Robert Ramsay, the community is named after Plevna, Bulgaria, site of a Russian victory at the Siege of Plevna during the Russo-Turkish War. A post office was established at Plevna in 1877.

Demographics

References 

Unincorporated communities in Knox County, Missouri
Unincorporated communities in Missouri
Census-designated places in Missouri
Yuri Stern

Yuri Stern (, , 29 March 1949 – 16 January 2007) was a Russian-Israeli politician and journalist. He was a member of the Knesset from 1996 until his death, first as a member of Yisrael BaAliyah and later on behalf of Yisrael Beiteinu.

Background
Born in Moscow, Stern was active in promoting Jewish immigration from the Soviet Union. He emigrated to Israel in 1981. He had a PhD in economics from Moscow University.

Political career
Stern was first elected to the Knesset in the 1996 elections on the list of Yisrael BaAliyah, a Russian immigrant party. However, after internal disagreements within the party he broke away with Michael Nudelman to form a new party, Aliyah.

For the 1999 elections, Aliyah ran together with Yisrael Beiteinu, another Russian immigrant party, with Stern retaining his seat. Aliyah was soon merged into Yisrael Beiteinu and ceased to exist.

After Ariel Sharon beat Ehud Barak in a special election for Prime Minister in 2001, Yisrael Beiteinu was added to Sharon's coalition government and Stern was appointed Deputy Minister in the Ministry in the Prime Minister's Office.

He retained his seat again in the 2003 elections, in which Yisrael Beiteinu ran as part of the National Union alliance. He was re-elected in the 2006 elections in second place on Yisrael Beiteinu's list (the party ran alone in the election).

Whilst a Knesset Member, Stern served as chairman in two Knesset committees; the Internal Affairs and the Environment Committee, and the State Inspection Committee. He was also chairman of two Knesset lobbies; the Knesset Christian Allies Caucus, which he helped form, and the Knesset Forum on the Middle East.

He also wrote several articles for newspapers including The Wall Street Journal, The Jerusalem Post, and Ma'ariv, as well as several academic papers on economics of the USSR.

Stern was also a member of several other organisations, including the Zionist Forum (within of which he was a member of the management for the Israeli Zionist Forum), and others mostly related to immigration and immigrant absorption. He was a vehement opponent of land surrender to Palestinian Authority.

Stern died of cancer on January 16, 2007. The Yuri Shtern Holist Center was created in his memory which helps cancer patients. The Yuri Stern Prize for the Arts is awarded every year. A street was named after him in Jerusalem and a monument was created in Dimona.

References

External links

Yuri Stern's memorial web site
Legacy of integration Haaretz, 25 January 2007

1949 births
2007 deaths
Economists from Moscow
Israeli Jews
Israeli people of Russian-Jewish descent
Russian emigrants to Israel
Russian Jews
National Union (Israel) politicians
Yisrael BaAliyah politicians
Yisrael Beiteinu politicians
Yisrael HaMithadeshet politicians
Deaths from cancer in Israel
Members of the 14th Knesset (1996–1999)
Members of the 15th Knesset (1999–2003)
Members of the 16th Knesset (2003–2006)
Members of the 17th Knesset (2006–2009)
Deputy ministers of Israel
Burials at Har HaMenuchot
So Stylistic

So Stylistic is an album recorded by New York City rap group FannyPack. This, their debut album, featured the hit songs "Cameltoe," "Things," and "Hey, Mami."

Track listing

References

External links
 

FannyPack albums
2003 debut albums
Tommy Boy Records albums
Holmvatnet, Rana

Holmvatnet is a lake and a reservoir in the municipality of Rana in Nordland county, Norway.  It is located northeast of the villages of Mæla and Myklebustad.

The present lake was formed during the building of the Sjona hydroelectric power station during the early 1970s, when the original Holmvatnet was dammed and flowed together with the lake Nedre Fagervollvatnet further upstream. The reservoir has an area of  and the elevation is regulated between  above sea level.

See also
 List of lakes in Norway
 Geography of Norway

References

Lakes of Nordland
Rana, Norway
Nedre Fiplingvatnet

or  is a lake that lies in the municipality of Grane in Nordland county, Norway.  The  lake lies just west of Børgefjell National Park.  The village of Leiren is located about  north of the lake.

See also
 List of lakes in Norway
 Geography of Norway

References

Lakes of Nordland
Grane, Nordland
Dirca

Dirca is a genus of three or four species of flowering plants in the family Thymelaeaceae, native to North America. The genus is named after Dirce in Greek mythology. The general common name for this deciduous shrub is leatherwood; other names include moosewood, ropebark and the Powhatan-derived name wicopy.  The stems of Dirca are exceptionally pliable and the bark is difficult to tear by hand; for this reason, its stems were used by Native Americans in eastern North America as thongs or ropes. Members of the genus can grow to a maximum height of about three meters, and are often associated with rich, moist woods or slopes above creeks or streams.

D. palustris is a widespread species that grows in scattered populations throughout eastern North America, from Nova Scotia west to North Dakota and Oklahoma, and south to Florida. D. occidentalis grows in several counties in the San Francisco Bay area of California. D. mexicana was described in 1995 from one population in northeastern Mexico.  In 2008, a fourth species, D. decipiens, was described from several populations in Kansas and Arkansas, at the southwestern limits of the range of D. palustris.

Dirca palustris is occasionally cultivated, although its slow growth seems to prevent its widespread use in horticulture. The shrub can be difficult to recognize because the flowers are small (less than one cm), displayed for only a short period in the early spring, and may be a nondescript greenish-yellow.  In the central part of its range, D. palustris is often found growing with the much more frequent spicebush, which also has small yellow flowers that appear before the leaves at a similar time.

Although it is listed as poisonous in some publications because its stems and leaves contain calcium oxalate crystals, its toxicity is uncertain and may be low. Likewise, the berries may have narcotic properties, although this claim remains unsubstantiated.

References

External links
Thoreau writes about Dirca

Thymelaeoideae
Malvales genera
Córrego Danta

Córrego Danta is a town located in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Córrego Danta was once the district of another city, Luz, until it became autonomous on January 1, 1949.  It is situated in the center-west region of Minas Gerais, in the region called Alto do São Francisco, which means the heights of the São Francisco, in reference to its high altitude and propinquity to the source of this river.

As of 2020, the estimated population of Córrego Danta is 3,191 inhabitants, and 657.425 km2 of area, making it one of the smaller cities in Minas Gerais, along with the cities of Luz, Bambuí, Tapiraí, Campos Altos, Santa Rosa da Serra, and Estrela do Indaiá.

History 
In 1868 the small village was elevated to a district of Luz, receiving the name of "São José do Córrego Danta" ("Saint Joseph of Córrego Danta"). It was renamed in 1923 simply as Córrego Danta.  Córrego Danta means "Tapirs' Stream", in reference to the populations of these animals that roamed during the colonial era the edges of the streamlet that passes by the town.

Economy 
The main economical activities are based on agriculture, with the plantation of coffee, sugar cane, corn, and manioc, and dairy farming.  The main rivers and streams are Araras Stream, Perdição River, Indaiá River and the Córrego Danta. All are connected to the São Francisco basin.

Natural aspects 
Córrego Danta also has several natural attractions, such as waterfalls and the Bueno Mountain, near the town. Vegetation is composed of what is called locally the cerrado, which resembles a savannah. Several forest-dwelling animals live in the region, like the lobo-guará (a Brazilian wolf species), tamandua (another animal native to Brazil) and the onça-pintada, a jaguar species named after its spotted pattern in its skin.

Religiosity and main religious celebrations 
Religiosity is intrinsic to its people. Córrego Danta's patron saint is Saint Joseph, but the feast of Our Lady of the Rosary (or Festa do Rosário) which happens in the third weekend of August, during four days, is the main celebration.  During this festival, people from almost all over the region to see this celebration, marked by its vendors, who sell every kind of cheap product. It resembles a popular fair, when people have fun and celebrate Our Lady and see its beauties and traditions of congado (a dance that came from slaves in the colonial era, brought from Africa).

References

Municipalities in Minas Gerais
Apartment Hunting (album)

Apartment Hunting is a 2001 album by Mary Margaret O'Hara, composed and released as a soundtrack album for the 2000 film Apartment Hunting.

Guest musicians appearing on the album include Klave y Kongo and Rusty McCarthy.

Track listing

Personnel
 Mary Margaret O'Hara – vocals
 Michael White – trumpet
 Phil Dwyer – clarinet, saxophone
 Matt Horner – piano, keyboards
 Dennis Keldie – accordion
 Chip Yearwood – guitar
 Rusty McCarthy – guitar
 Louis Simao – bass
 Russ Boswell – bass
 Mike Sloski – drums
 Celina Carroll – percussion, vocals
 Bill Robertson – vocals, acoustic guitar

Mary Margaret O'Hara albums
2001 soundtrack albums
See You Next Tuesday (album)

See You Next Tuesday is the second and final studio album by FannyPack. It was released on May 10, 2005 under Tommy Boy Records. The album's hits were "Nu Nu (Yeah Yeah)," "Fire Fire," and "On My Lap."

Track listing

References

External links
 

2005 albums
FannyPack albums
Tommy Boy Records albums
Steffenville, Missouri

Steffenville is an unincorporated community in southwestern Lewis County, Missouri, United States. It is located on Missouri Supplemental Route D, approximately 22 miles southwest of Canton. The community is part of the Quincy, IL–MO Micropolitan Statistical Area.

A post office called Steffenville was established in 1872, and remained in operation until 1988. Steffenville was named for Henry Steffens, a pioneer settler. The Steffens family was the original owner of the town site.

References

Unincorporated communities in Lewis County, Missouri
Quincy, Illinois micropolitan area
Unincorporated communities in Missouri
Tom Lungley

Tom Lungley (born 25 July 1979) is an English first-class cricketer and umpire. He is a left-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-pace bowler.

During his five seasons at the top of the English game, he played for Derbyshire in List A and Twenty20 cricket. He, however, missed the entire 2004 season after suffering from tendinitis but following their disastrous 2005 season, he turned to the national league, where he played the vast majority of The Phantoms' games.

Lungley was awarded a new contract at Derbyshire for 2006, securing his future for the time being. In a 2007 game against Leicestershire, Lungley bowled career-best figures of 5-20.

In August 2009, Lungley was given a taste of cricket in the first division of the County Championship when he played for Lancashire on loan. At the time, the club's bowling attack had been severely depleted by injuries to Glen Chapple, Steven Cheetham, and Sajid Mahmood and Andrew Flintoff and James Anderson were on England duty.

He stood as an umpire in the first-class match between the Australians and Derbyshire on 23 July 2015.

References

External links

1979 births
Living people
English cricketers
English cricket umpires
Derbyshire cricketers
Lancashire cricketers
Cricketers from Derby
Nedre Veikvatnet

or  is a lake that lies in the municipality of Sørfold in Nordland county, Norway.  The  lake lies about  southeast of the village of Mørsvikbotn. Nedre Veikvatnet has an inlet from the nearby lake Øvre Veikvatnet, and an outlet that connects to another nearby lake Kobbvatnet.

See also
 List of lakes in Norway
 Geography of Norway

References

Sørfold
Lakes of Nordland
Williamstown, Missouri

Williamstown is an unincorporated community in northern Lewis County, Missouri, United States. It is located at the intersection of Missouri Supplemental Routes A and E, approximately twenty miles northwest of Canton. The community is part of the Quincy, IL–MO Micropolitan Statistical Area.

History
Williamstown was laid out in 1856. The community was named for its founder, Minus Williams.

Demographics

Notable people
Elbert K. Fretwell educator

References

Unincorporated communities in Lewis County, Missouri
Quincy, Illinois micropolitan area
Unincorporated communities in Missouri
Jeff Lahti

Jeffrey Allen Lahti (born October 8, 1956) is a former Major League Baseball pitcher. He is an alumnus of Portland State University.

Early life
Lahti was born in Oregon City on October 8, 1956, to parents Marlene and Bob. Following their divorce, Marlene married Fred Lahti in Astoria. He attended Hood River Valley High School where he earned first-team All State honors as a pitcher. In 1973, Lahti set the school record for most strikeouts in a season with 70. He graduated from Hood River Valley High School in 1975.

Lahti attended Treasure Valley Community College before being recruited for Portland State University by Jack Dunn.

Playing career
Drafted by the Cincinnati Reds in the 5th round of the 1978 MLB amateur draft, Lahti made his Major League Baseball debut with the St. Louis Cardinals on June 27, 1982, and appeared in his final game on April 24, 1986.

Lahti was a member of the St. Louis Cardinals team that defeated the Milwaukee Brewers in the 1982 World Series. He spent his entire career with the Cardinals. He led the 1985 Cardinal team that went to the World Series in saves a year after the departure of relief ace Bruce Sutter. He went 5–2 with a 1.84 ERA in 1985. He was forced into retirement due to injuries and turned to coaching. In 2016, Lahti was appointed the manager of the Portland Pickles.

References

External links

1956 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Oregon City, Oregon
Baseball players from Oregon
St. Louis Cardinals players
Major League Baseball pitchers
Portland State Vikings baseball players
Treasure Valley Chukars baseball players
Nashville Sounds players
American people of Finnish descent
Eugene Emeralds players
Greensboro Hornets players
Indianapolis Indians players
Louisville Redbirds players
Waterbury Reds players
St. Patrick, Missouri

St. Patrick or Saint Patrick is an unincorporated community in southern Clark County, Missouri, United States. It is located approximately ten miles northwest of Canton on Route 81. The community was founded in 1833 by Irish immigrants, who named it after the patron saint of Ireland, Saint Patrick. Today, it is best known as the home of the Shrine of St. Patrick, a medieval-inspired Catholic church.

St. Patrick is part of the Fort Madison–Keokuk, IA-MO Micropolitan Statistical Area.

St. Patrick was originally called St. Marysville, and under the latter name was platted in 1857.

Notes

Unincorporated communities in Clark County, Missouri
Fort Madison–Keokuk, IA-IL-MO Micropolitan Statistical Area
Unincorporated communities in Missouri
Holywell, County Fermanagh

Holywell is a small village near Belcoo in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. It is within the townlands of Cavancarragh and Rushin. It had a population (with Belcoo) of 486 in the 2001 Census. It is part of the Fermanagh and Omagh area.

See also 
 List of towns and villages in Northern Ireland

References 

 NI Neighbourhood Information Service
 Fermanagh Gold
 Culture Northern Ireland
 Holy Well page of Clogher Historical Society/Cumann Seanchais Chlochair website - includes current pilgrimage and contact details

Villages in County Fermanagh
Fermanagh and Omagh district
Colchian culture

Colchian culture (; 2700 BCE to 700 BCE) is Neolithic - an early Bronze Age and Iron Age culture of the western Caucasus, mostly in western Georgia. Colchian culture was divided into two periods: Proto-Colchian (2700-1600 BC) and Ancient Colchian (1600-700 BC). It was partially succeeded by the Koban culture in Northern Caucasus and Colchian influence also spread in Shida Kartli, Meskheti, North-Eastern Anatolia.

According to the professor of archaeologist Antonio Sagona:

It is named after the ancient geographic region of Colchis, which covered a large area along the Black Sea coast. It is mainly known for highly developed bronze production and artistic craftsmanship. There are many items of copper and bronze found in ancient graves. Graves found and studied have been located in the Abkhazia region, the Sukhumi mountain complexes, the Racha highlands where brick tiles and graffiti have been found, and the Colchian plains () where collective graves have been found.

Collective graves occurred during the last stages of the Colchian culture (c.8th millennium to 6th century BCE). In these graves bronze items were found that represented foreign trade occurred with the Colchian culture. At this time an increase in the production of weapons and agricultural tools is seen. Evidence of copper mining has been found in Racha, Abkhazia, Svaneti, and Adjara. Ruins of palaces are present in the Colchian Plains.

Colchian culture is characterized by Colchian axes, sickles, short spears, flat axes, bow-shaped and cylindrical axes, belts, bracelets, bearings, and statuettes. The items are often painted and sometimes even with the sculptural expression expressing the religious ideas of the Colchis. Colchians are the ancestors of the modern day western Georgians, most notably Zans/Chans (ჭანები) - Megrelians and the Laz people, as well as Svans of the northern region of Svaneti in Georgia.

See also
 Colchis
 Prehistoric Georgia

References

External links

 
Archaeological cultures of the Caucasus
Archaeological cultures of West Asia
Archaeological cultures of Europe
Bronze Age cultures of Asia
Bronze Age cultures of Europe
Iron Age cultures of Asia
Archaeological cultures in Georgia (country)
Archaeological cultures in Russia
Alia

Alia or ALIA may refer to:

People
Alia (name), a list of people with the surname or given name

Places
Alia, Sicily, Italy, a comune
 Alia (Phrygia), a town of ancient Phrygia which remains a Roman Catholic titular bishopric
Alía, Spain, a municipality in Extremadura
El Alia, Tunisia, a town and commune in the Bizerte Governorate

Other uses
Alia (gastropod), a genus of molluscs
Alia, the former name of Royal Jordanian Airlines
Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA)

See also
 Aaliyah (1979–2001), American R&B singer
 Aaliyah (disambiguation)
 Aliya (disambiguation)
 Aliyah (disambiguation)
 Allia (moth), a genus in the family Noctuidae
 Allia, a tributary of the River Tiber, Italy
 Battle of the Allia, fought  BC between the Romans and the Senones
 Alya (disambiguation)
One Block Radius



One Block Radius is an alternative hip hop group made up of Marty James (vocals, raps, production), MDA (vocals, turntables), and emcee Z-Man (a Hieroglyphics associated rapper). Both Marty James and MDA were part of the group Scapegoat Wax. One Block Radius was formed in late 2003. They have toured and done shows with Hiero, Maroon 5, Living Legends, Matisyahu, De La Soul, Trick Daddy, Pigeon John, Aceyalone and more.
And Marty James also featured in the song called Fantasy Girl with Baby Bash in 2010.

In 2005, One Block Radius released their debut album Long Story Short. It featured a diverse selection of songs ranging from pure pop to straight-up hip-hop. The following year they released a follow-up in the form of a mixtape CD called Cut Some Static. Cut Some Static was an album-length compilation of previously unreleased tracks, but was not released as a proper album. It was not sold at retail, came packaged with home-computer printed labels, and featured members of the band introducing tracks, to keep the underground mixtape feel. Musically, it also featured a grittier, more rap-oriented sound, and more explicit lyrics.

Marty James was featured on the hook of The Federation's 2006 west coast club anthem "I Wear My Stunna Glasses at Night". Since that time he has also become an accomplished writer and producer having worked with JR Rotem, E-40, Far East Movement Sean Kingston, Baby Bash, Paula DeAnda, Diane Warren, Rick Rock, Lil Jon, The Grouch, DJ Felli Fel, Jessi Malay, MoZella, Laze & Royal, The Stooie Brothers and more. In 2007, he co-wrote "What Is It" by Baby Bash ft. Sean Kingston.

In May 2008 One Block Radius released the single "You Got Me" on Property Music Group (Marty James own label). James also produced the song. Their major label debut, One Block Radius spent one week on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, at number 86.

Discography

Albums 
 Long Story Short 2005
 One Block Radius 2008

Mixtapes 
 Cut Some Static (2006, Low Post Records)

Singles 
 You Got Me: U.S. Pop 100 peak #53 (2008, Property)

References 

Alternative hip hop groups
Hip hop groups from California
Musical trios from California
Delisle v Canada (Deputy AG)

Delisle v Canada (Deputy AG), [1999] 2 SCR 989 is a Supreme Court of Canada decision on the freedom of association guarantee under section 2(d) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The Court defined the freedom as only applying to individuals and not associations themselves. Accordingly, they found the exclusion of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) from the public services legislation did not violate section 2(d).

Gaétan Delisle was a member of the RCMP and president of an RCMP labour association. He brought a challenge to the federal Public Service Staff Relations Act (PSSRA) and part of the Canada Labour Code on the grounds it violated his right to association.

Bastarache J, writing for the majority, held that the PSSRA did not violate the Charter because it did not affect members of the RCMP from forming their own independent associations. He further ruled that, "The fundamental freedoms protected by s. 2 of the Charter do not impose a positive obligation of protection or inclusion on Parliament or the government, except perhaps in exceptional circumstances which are not at issue here."

Much of the holding in this case was superseded by Health Services and Support – Facilities Subsector Bargaining Assn. v British Columbia, and the decision was ultimately overruled by Mounted Police Association of Ontario v Canada (Attorney General).

See also
 List of Supreme Court of Canada cases (Lamer Court)
 Dunmore v Ontario (AG) (2001)

Notes

External links
 

Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms case law
Supreme Court of Canada cases
1999 in Canadian case law
Chromotypograph

Chromotypograph refers to any number of obsolete graphic arts or printing processes which used cold and warm rinse etching baths to create surfaces by which color images could be relief printed from zinc plates in the letterpress manner. 

Such processes, as pioneered by Firmin Gillot represent a prototyping and experimental stage between the manual and process printing eras and are characterized by their utilization of various hand-originated textures and photographically transferred tones or outlines, which when combined with other color plates produced in a like manner could produce continuous tone color images unlike those found in similar technologies such as chromolithography.

Chromotypograph is the preferred description for a number of process which include but are not limited to photo color relief, gillotage, chromotype, color relief etching, zincography, chromoxylography, color line block, glyptotype, Dallastint, Dallastype.

External links 

LeRire.com - Features examples of Chromotypographic illustration.
L'assiette au beurre - Belle epoque Chrmotypograph Journal.

Relief printing
Decent Days and Nights

"Decent Days and Nights" is the 2nd single by the Futureheads from their album The Futureheads. The remix of the song by Shy Child was released as a vinyl split single by Oxfam with the Black Strobe remix of Bloc Party's song 'Like Eating Glass' included. The song was included on the soundtrack of Burnout 3: Takedown.

Track listing 

Split single (with Bloc Party)

In popular culture 
 Appears on the soundtrack to Burnout 3: Takedown and Rugby 2005.
 Appears as a downloadable song for the Rock Band series.

Personnel 
 Barry Hyde: lead vocals, guitar
 Ross Millard: guitar, backing vocals
 David "Jaff" Craig: bass, backing vocals
 Dave Hyde: drums, backing vocals

References

External links 
 

The Futureheads songs
2004 singles
Song recordings produced by Paul Epworth
2004 songs
679 Artists singles
Sire Records singles
Songs written by Ross Millard
Philadelphia, Missouri

Philadelphia is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in western Marion County, Missouri, United States. It is located approximately ten miles west of Palmyra on Route 168. The community is part of the Hannibal Micropolitan Statistical Area.

Philadelphia was platted in 1835. The community was named after Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A post office called Philadelphia has been in operation since 1847.

Demographics

References

Unincorporated communities in Marion County, Missouri
Hannibal, Missouri micropolitan area
Unincorporated communities in Missouri
Nedrevatnet

Nedrevatnet or Nervatnet is a lake that lies in Fauske Municipality in Nordland county, Norway.  The  lake lies just east of the town of Fauske.  The lake Øvrevatnet flows into this lake and the water flows out of the Nedrevatnet into the Skjerstad Fjord.  The E6 highway and the Nordland Line run along the western edge of this lake.

See also
 List of lakes in Norway
 Geography of Norway

References

Lakes of Nordland
Fauske
Rent bank

A rent bank is a predominantly Canadian service that provides interest-free loans to low-income households who have regular income but face eviction as a result of a short-term financial crisis. Rent banks are a homelessness prevention strategy. By providing tenants with an upfront loan that can be used to pay for rent, utilities, or other unexpected cost tenants, housing stability is guaranteed and evictions are reduced. Loan repayment rate is roughly 67%, with loans usually a little under $1000.

Examples of rent banks

City of Toronto 
The Toronto Rent Bank provides up to two-months of rent for tenants facing eviction due to unpaid rent or seeking to move into more suitable housing. The program is funded directly by the City of Toronto and administered by the non-profit Neighbourhood Information Post

British Columbia 
The BC Rent Bank is funded by the Province of British Columbia, and managed by Vancity Community Foundation province-wide. Various non-profits directly administer funds and provide loans direct to tenants.

Manitoba 
On March 29, 2021, the Government of Manitoba announced a $5.6 million-dollar rent bank. The goal of the program is to support stable housing for low-income to moderate-income families.

The rent bank will be administered by the Manitoba Non-Profit Housing Association with funds distributed by local rent banks.

The program will be piloted for two years then reevaluated.

References

Banking in Canada
Corypha umbraculifera

Corypha umbraculifera, the talipot palm, is a species of palm native to eastern and southern India and Sri Lanka. It is also grown in Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand and the Andaman Islands. It is a flowering plant with the largest inflorescence in the world. It lives up to 60 years before bearing flowers and fruits. It dies shortly after.

Description
It is one of the largest palms with individual specimens having reached heights of up to  with stems up to  in diameter. It is a fan palm (Arecaceae tribe Corypheae), with large, palmate leaves up to  in diameter, with a petiole up to , and up to 130 leaflets.

The talipot palm bears the largest inflorescence of any plant,  long, consisting of one to several million small flowers borne on a branched stalk that forms at the top of the trunk (the titan arum, Amorphophallus titanum, from the family Araceae, has the largest unbranched inflorescence, and the species Rafflesia arnoldii has the world's largest single flower). The talipot palm is monocarpic, flowering only once, when it is 30 to 80 years old. It takes about a year for the fruit to mature, producing thousands of round, yellow-green fruit  in diameter, each containing a single seed. The plant dies after fruiting.

Distribution
The talipot palm is cultivated in South India and Sri Lanka. It is also cultivated in Southeast Asian countries of Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand and the Andaman Islands. It is also grown sparsely in China.

Uses
Historically, the leaves were written upon in various South Asian and South-East Asian cultures using an iron stylus to create palm leaf manuscripts. In the Philippines, it is locally known as buri or buli. The leaves are also used for thatching, and the sap is tapped to make palm wine. In South India, the palm leaves are used to make umbrellas for agricultural workers. The tree is known as kudapana (കുടപ്പന) in Malayalam, talo (, ତାଳ) in Odia, sreetalam (శ్రీతాళం) in Telugu and kudaipanai (குடைப்பனை) in Tamil, which means umbrella palm. The plant is known as tala (තල) in Sri Lanka, by local Sinhalese people.

In Cambodia, the palm is known as tréang (it was also known by the French name latanier), and as noted above was extensively used in the past to write religious manuscripts. In recent times the leaf media has been used by traditional healers and soothsayers. The mature leaves are used to make thatches, mats and hats. The petioles can be used in the manufacture of canes, arrows and netting needles. At low tide, fishers use the fruit to stupefy fish.

Gallery

See also
Ola leaf

References

PACSOA: Corypha umbraculifera

External links

umbraculifera
Data deficient plants
Flora of the Indian subcontinent
Plants described in 1753
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus
Niingsvatnet

or  is a Norwegian lake that lies high in the mountains on the border of two municipalities: Evenes in Nordland county and Tjeldsund in Troms og Finnmark county.

The water from the lake flows through a pipe down to the hydroelectric powerstation near the village of Bogen in Evenes. The powerstation is owned by Evenes Kraftforsyning and is situated at almost  lower than the lake Niingsvatnet. The water from the powerstation then flows into the Strandvatnet lake. A short river goes from Strandvatnet past the village of Bogen to the Ofotfjord.

See also
 List of lakes in Norway
 Geography of Norway

References

Lakes of Nordland
Evenes
Tjeldsund
Reservoirs in Norway
Lakes of Troms og Finnmark
Eric, or, Little by Little

Eric, or, Little by Little is a book by Frederic W. Farrar, first edition 1858. It was published by Adam & Charles Black, Edinburgh and London. The book deals with the descent into moral turpitude of a boy at a boarding school or English public school of that era.

The author's preface to the fourth edition reads:

Summary 
Eric Williams is a son of a British colonial official and his wife stationed in India. As was common at the time of the British Raj, Eric is sent to Britain to be educated at a boarding school—in this case Roslyn School, where he encounters the good and bad aspects of the traditional  public school.

He slowly gets beaten down by being punished erroneously for wrongdoings, getting bullied and such things as drinking, smoking and cheating. The end is tragic for Eric, as he loses everything.

Background and reception
Along with Talbot Baines Reed's The Fifth Form at St. Dominic's and Thomas Hughes' Tom Brown's Schooldays, this book was one of the three most popular boys' books in mid-Victorian Britain. The school is a thinly disguised cross between Farrar's own school King William's College in the Isle of Man, and Marlborough College, at which he was the master.

The book is credited with helping to increase the popularity of the first name "Eric" in English-speaking countries—although not with Eric Arthur Blair (the writer and journalist George Orwell) who disliked his given name because of its association with Farrar's book.

In later years, it fell out of favour, in part because of its religious earnestness.  For example, in Rudyard Kipling's Stalky & Co., published late in 1899, the protagonist Beetle and his friends frequently made fun of "Eric", e.g.

E. Nesbit included it in a list of didactic children's books which were "impossible to read."

Notes

References
 Carpenter, Humphrey and Mari Prichard. Oxford Companion to Children's Literature. Oxford University Press, 1997. 
 Zipes, Jack (ed) et al. The Norton Anthology of Children's Literature: The Traditions in English.  W. W. Norton, 2005. 
 Zipes, Jack (ed.). The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature. Volumes 1-4. Oxford University Press, 2006. 
 Watson, Victor, The Cambridge Guide to Children's Books in English. Cambridge University Press, 2001. 
 Demmers, Patricia (ed). From Instruction to Delight: An Anthology of Children's Literature to 1850, Oxford University Press, 2003. Oxford University Press. .
 St. John, Judith. The Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books, 1566-1910, A Catalogue, Toronto Public Library.

External links

 Project Gutenberg edition
 PDF edition at Internet Archive
 British Library: Children's Literature
 British Library: Integrated Catalogue.
 Copac: Academic & National Library Catalogue at the University of Manchester.
 Library of Congress Online Catalog
 National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections

British children's novels
19th-century British children's literature
1858 British novels
A & C Black books
Novels set in boarding schools
Victorian novels
1850s children's books
English novels
Children's novels set in schools
Children's books set in England
Taylor, Missouri

Taylor is an unincorporated community in northeastern Marion County, Missouri, United States. Taylor is located at the northern junction of U.S. Routes 24 and 61, approximately five miles west of Quincy, Illinois and eight miles north of Palmyra. The community is part of the Hannibal Micropolitan Statistical Area.

A post office called Taylor has been in operation since 1873. The community was named after Captain John Taylor, the proprietor of a local mill.

References

Unincorporated communities in Marion County, Missouri
Hannibal, Missouri micropolitan area
Unincorporated communities in Missouri
Nordre Bjøllåvatnet

or  is a lake that lies in the municipality of Saltdal in Nordland county, Norway.  The  lake is located inside Saltfjellet–Svartisen National Park, about  east of the border with the municipality of Beiarn and north of the border with the municipality of Rana.  The lake flows out through the river Bjøllåga and ultimately into the river Ranelva.

See also
 List of lakes in Norway
 Geography of Norway

References

Saltdal
Lakes of Nordland
The War at Home

The War at Home may refer to:
 The War at Home (1996 film), a motion picture starring Emilio Estevez, Kathy Bates and Martin Sheen
 The War at Home (1979 film), a documentary film about Madison, Wisconsin area resistance to the Vietnam War
 The War at Home (TV series), a primetime TV series on Fox
 "The War at Home" (The West Wing), an episode of the TV series The West Wing
 "The War at Home" (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), a 2006 episode of the TV series Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Kahiltna Glacier

Kahiltna Glacier is the longest glacier of the Alaska Range in the U.S. state of Alaska. It starts on the southwest slope of Denali near Kahiltna Pass (elevation ). Its main channel runs almost due south between Mount Foraker to the west and Mount Hunter to the east. The name was first reported as "Car-ilt-nu Glacier" by Alaska Range explorer Lt. J.S. Herron in 1902. An alternate name is Kagheltnu Li'a. Kahiltna Glacier is the longest glacier in the Alaska Range at  in length.

Forks 
The glacier has a few notable forks. The Northeast Fork lies just under, and to the south of, the large plateau which houses the  camp on the standard West Buttress route of Denali. It also provides access to the less popular, but more technical, West Rib and Cassin Ridge routes. The East Fork is rarely visited, but provides access to the west side of the South Buttress of Denali. The mouth of the Southeast Fork is the site of the seasonal airstrip and base camp for Denali at approximately the 7,000 foot elevation. This location is officially just outside the southern boundary of the wilderness portion of Denali National Park and Preserve. However, in actuality, the airstrip is generally located on the boundary or just north of the line, but the park service tends to overlook this fact. It also serves as the base camp for climbers attempting routes on the west or north sides of the formidable Mount Hunter, which rises just south of the Southeast Fork, and on the east or southeast sides of Mount Foraker, which lies just across the main part of the glacier.

Many other unnamed forks split off to the east from the main stream of the glacier in the region south of Mount Hunter, providing access to a complex of small but steep rock peaks, popular with climbers, known as Little Switzerland. The snout of the glacier lies further to the south, at elevation approximately , where the glacier gives rise to the Kahiltna River.

See also
 List of glaciers

References
 Fred Beckey, Mount McKinley: Icy Crown of North America, Mountaineers Books, 1999, 
 Jonathan Waterman, High Alaska, American Alpine Club Press, 1989, 
 American Alpine Journal, 2001
 Kahiltna Glacier on Topozone

External links 

 1964 photograph of Kahiltna Glacier by Bradford Washburn
 1990 photograph of Kahiltna Glacier by Marilyn Bridges
 Photograph of Kahiltna Glacier from the United States Geological Survey

Glaciers of Denali Borough, Alaska
Glaciers of Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska
Denali
Glaciers of Denali National Park and Preserve
Glaciers of Alaska
Ramsgjelvatnet

Ramsgjelvatnet is a lake that lies in the municipality of Beiarn in Nordland county, Norway.  The lake is located about  northeast of the village of Høyforsmoen and about  southeast of the village of Moldjord.

See also
 List of lakes in Norway
 Geography of Norway

References

Beiarn
Lakes of Nordland
Ranseren

, also known as  or , is a lake on the border between Norway and Sweden. The Norwegian side lies in Hattfjelldal Municipality in Nordland county (and it is inside Børgefjell National Park). The Swedish side of the lake is called Bije-Ransaren, which means "the upper Ransaren" and this part lies in Vilhelmina Municipality in Västerbotten County.

The brook that flows from the lake on the east side is called Saxån.  It leads to the larger lake, Ransarn, which is located in Vilhelmina Municipality in Sweden. Bije-Ransaren is called the upper Ransarn in contrast to the bigger lake, which is referred to as "lower" Ransarn.

The lake lies about  from the village of Stekenjokk in Vilhelmina, Sweden. South of the Swedish side of the lake, about  from the border, is a small Sami house that was used during reindeer marking season.

See also
 List of lakes in Norway
 Geography of Norway

References

Lakes of Nordland
Hattfjelldal
Norway–Sweden border
International lakes of Europe
Lakes of Västerbotten County