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Papaver nudicaule

Papaver nudicaule, the Iceland poppy, is a boreal flowering plant. Native to subpolar regions of Asia and North America, and the mountains of Central Asia as well as temperate China (but not in Iceland), Iceland poppies are hardy but short-lived perennials, often grown as biennials. They yield large, papery, bowl-shaped, lightly fragrant flowers supported by hairy,  curved stems among feathery blue-green foliage 1-6 inches long. They were first described by botanists in 1759. The wild species blooms in white or yellow, and is hardy from USDA Zones 3a-10b.

The Latin specific epithet nudicaule means “with bare stems”.

Cultivars  
Cultivars come in shades of yellow, orange, salmon, rose, pink, cream and white as well as bi-colored varieties. Seed strains include: ‘Champagne Bubbles’ (15-inch plants in orange, pink, scarlet, apricot, yellow, and creamy-white); ‘Wonderland’ (10-inch dwarf strain with flowers up to 4 inches wide); ‘Flamenco’ (pink shades, bordered white, 1½ to 2 feet tall); ‘Party Fun’ (to 1 foot, said to bloom reliably the first year in autumn and the second spring); ‘Illumination’ and ‘Meadow Pastels’ (to 2 feet, perhaps the tallest strains); ‘Matador’ (scarlet  flowers to 5 inches across on 16 inch plants); the perennial 'Victory Giants' with red petals and ‘Oregon Rainbows’, which has large selfed, bicolor, and picoteed flowers and is perhaps the best strain for the cool Pacific Northwest (elsewhere this strain’s buds frequently fail to open).

The dwarf Gartenzwerg group, and the cultivars ‘Solar Fire Orange’ and ‘Summer Breeze Orange’ have all won the Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit.

Cultivation

The plants prefer light, well-drained soil and full sun. The plants are not hardy in hot weather, perishing within a season in hot summer climates.

Iceland poppies, like all poppies, possess exceedingly minute seeds and long taproots that resent disturbance. In cool summer climates on well-drained soils, Iceland poppies can live 2-3 seasons, flowering from early spring to fall.

Iceland poppies are amongst the best poppies for cutting, as they last for several days in the vase.

Genetics
The genetics of the garden forms of P. nudicaule have been studied, particularly with respect to flower colour. The white flower colour is dominant with respect to yellow. Other colours, such as buff and orange, are recessive.

Toxicity
All parts of this plant are likely to be poisonous, containing (like all poppies) toxic alkaloids. In particular, P. nudicaule has been shown to contain the benzophenanthidine alkaloid, chelidonine. It also contains (+)-amurine, (-)-amurensinine, (-)-O-methylthalisopavine, (-)-flavinantine and (-)-amurensine.

References

nudicaule
Garden plants
Flora of Northern Europe
Flora of Northeast Asia
Flora of Subarctic America
Plants described in 1753
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus
Mullins effect

The Mullins effect is a particular aspect of the mechanical response in filled rubbers, in which the stress–strain curve depends on the maximum loading previously encountered. The phenomenon, named for rubber scientist Leonard Mullins, working at the Tun Abdul Razak Research Centre in Hertford, can be idealized for many purposes as an instantaneous and irreversible softening of the stress–strain curve that occurs whenever the load increases beyond its prior all-time maximum value. At times, when the load is less than a prior maximum, nonlinear elastic behavior prevails.  The effect should not be confused with the Payne effect.

Although the term "Mullins effect" is commonly applied to stress softening in filled rubbers, the phenomenon is common to all rubbers, including "gums" (rubber lacking filler). As first shown by Mullins and coworkers, the retraction stresses of an elastomer are independent of carbon black when the stress at the maximum strain is constant. Mullins softening is a viscoelastic effect, although in filled rubber there can be additional contributions to the mechanical hysteresis from filler particles debonding from each other or from the polymer chains.

A number of constitutive models have been proposed to describe the effect.  For example, the Ogden-Roxburgh model is used in several commercial finite element codes.

See also
 Payne effect

References

Rubber properties
DaShon Polk

DaShon Lamor Polk (born March 13, 1977) is a former American football linebacker in the National Football League (NFL).  He played professionally for the Buffalo Bills and Houston Texans.

Early life
Polk was born in Pacoima, California and attended Taft High School where he was selected for All-City. Polk played college football at the University of Arizona and was a three-year starter.

Professional career
Polk was drafted by the Buffalo Bills in the seventh round (251st pick overall) in the 2000 NFL Draft. He played for the Bills from 2000 to 2003, before playing for the Houston Texans from 2004 to 2006. Polk played seven seasons, accumulating 224 tackles, 4.5 sacks, and two forced fumbles, in the NFL before retiring.
Now Dashon L. Polk has retired (2007). He has a wife of 17 years and 3 children, Dashon Polk II, Trinity Polk, and Cherish Polk.

References

External links
 
Los Angeles Times: DaShon Polk

1977 births
Living people
American football linebackers
Buffalo Bills players
Houston Texans players
Arizona Wildcats football players
William Howard Taft Charter High School alumni
Chapelizod House

Chapelizod House, known as the Viceregal Lodge, was a late medieval residence in Chapelizod, at the time a village outside Dublin (but now a suburb) which in the 1680s was used as a temporary residence for the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland following a fire which had destroyed the Viceregal Apartments in Dublin Castle.

Contemporary accounts stated that the Viceroy and Vicereine abandoned the use of the house after a short time and moved to live in a property elsewhere in the city because the found that Chapelizod House was haunted.

The viceregal couple later returned to live in Dublin Castle, after the Viceregal Apartments had been rebuilt.

The precise whereabouts of Chapelizod House, which has long since been demolished, are not recorded in detail.

The importance of the building is noted by the fact that Thomas Burgh, Surveyor General of Ireland, is recorded as having carried out works on the house in 1709.

Áras an Uachtaráin 

A later building, now known as Áras an Uachtaráin, the official residence of the President of Ireland, later became more associated with the name Viceregal Lodge, a name that it used from 1781 to 1938.

References 

Houses in the Republic of Ireland
Former official residences in the Republic of Ireland
Demolished buildings and structures in Dublin
Benchlands

Benchlands is a hamlet in Alberta within the Municipal District of Bighorn No. 8. The  Ghost River is located on the hamlet's south side, while Highway 40 borders the north side.

Demographics 
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Benchlands had a population of 59 living in 26 of its 34 total private dwellings, a change of  from its 2016 population of 43. With a land area of , it had a population density of  in 2021.

As a designated place in the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Benchlands had a population of 43 living in 19 of its 30 total private dwellings, a change of  from its 2011 population of 42. With a land area of , it had a population density of  in 2016.

See also 
List of communities in Alberta
List of designated places in Alberta
List of hamlets in Alberta

References 

Municipal District of Bighorn No. 8
Hamlets in Alberta
Designated places in Alberta
Academy of Geneva

Academy of Geneva may refer to:

University of Geneva, founded by John Calvin in 1559
Rousseau Institute, founded by Édouard Claparède in 1912
Guaimar II of Salerno

Guaimar II (also Waimar, Gaimar, or Guaimario, sometimes called Gybbosus, meaning "Hunchback") (died 4 June 946) was the Lombard prince of Salerno from 901, when his father retired (or was retired) to a monastery, to his death. His father was Guaimar I and his mother was Itta. He was associated with his father in the principality from 893.  He was responsible for the rise of the principality: he restored the princely palace, built the palace church of San Pietro a campanile, and restored gold coinage.

In 895, when his father was captured, he ruled the principality and when Duke Athanasius of Naples incited a revolt against Guaimar I, it was only through his assistance that the revolt was put down.  After his despotic and unpopular father retired, or was forced by him, to enter the monastery of San Massimo, he took over the reins of government completely.

At first, he continued the Byzantine alliance of his father and received the titles of patricius and protospatharius. He also allied himself to Capua, then united to the Principality of Benevento, by marrying Atenulf I's daughter Gaitelgrima. That was his second marriage: he married the daughter of his first marriage, Rotilda, to Atenulf III, the nephew of Atenulf II and son of Landulf I. His first marriage is also interesting in that he may have had a son named Guaimar by this marriage.  This Guaimar has caused some to renumber succeeding Guaimars, making Guaimar III Guaimar IV and Guaimar IV Guaimar V.

Guaimar II joined, like his father-in-law, the fight against the Moslems which had been only secondary to his father and grandfather.  He was present at the Battle of the Garigliano in 915, where the forces of Gaeta, Naples, Capua, Benevento, Salerno, Lazio, Spoleto, Rome, and even Byzantine Italy defeated the Moslems of the Garigliano fortress. The Chronicum Salernitanum attributes many other victories over the Saracens to him.

After the Garigliano, Guaimar joined Landulf I of Capua against Byzantium, renouncing his allegiance in 923 or 926.  By agreement with Landulf, they jointly attacked Apulia and the Campania.  Apulian conquests were to be Landulf's, while Campanian ones Guaimar's.  Landulf was largely unsuccessful, but Guaimar was very much so.  Landulf called in the assistance of Theobald of Spoleto, but the unscrupulousness of the latter broke down the alliance and, in the early 930s, Guaimar returned to the Byzantine fold, with much persuasion from the protospatharius Epiphanius. In 940, at the urging of his wife, he accepted the exiled Landulf of Benevento and his sons, bestowing on them territories in Salerno.

Guaimar was a religious prince. He endowed San Massimio, which was founded by his grandfather, Guaifer. He also supported the Cluniac reformers in his final years. He associated his son by his second wife, Gisulf, with him in 943 and Gisulf succeeded when Guaimar died on 4 June 946.

References
Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani: LX Grosso – Guglielmo da Forlì. Caravale, Mario (ed). Rome: 2003.
Lexikon des Mittelalters VIII.1932

946 deaths
Lombard warriors
Guaimar 2
Year of birth unknown
Protospatharioi
Patricii
10th-century Lombard people
Sean Barker

Sean Reed Barker (born May 26, 1980) is a former Major League Baseball outfielder. He made his major league debut on June 6, , with a plate appearance against Chad Qualls of the Houston Astros. He was hit by the very first pitch of his major league career and then stranded on second base after advancing on a fielders choice.

Barker was a sixth-round pick in the 2002 Major League Baseball Draft. He was called up from the Colorado Springs Sky Sox to replace Steve Finley when he was designated for assignment. He received the phone call from Tom Runnells, his minor league manager, informing him that he needed to be at Coors Field in time to play in the upcoming series against the Astros, while at the movies watching "Knocked Up". He became a free agent at the end of the  season.

Barker retired after the 2008 season and started Socks-ON, a non-profit organization committed to raising awareness for Myotonic Muscular Dystrophy, a hereditary disease that his mother and brother suffer from. www.socks-on.org

External links

Colorado Rockies players
1980 births
Living people
Major League Baseball outfielders
Baseball players from Bakersfield, California
Tri-City Dust Devils players
Tulsa Drillers players
Colorado Springs Sky Sox players
Visalia Oaks players
Shantee Orr

Shantee De'Shjuan Orr (born May 28, 1981) is a former American football linebacker. He was  signed by the Green Bay Packers as an undrafted free agent in 2003. He played college football at Michigan.

Orr has also played for the Houston Texans, Jacksonville Jaguars and the Cleveland Browns.

Early life and education
Orr graduated from Denby Technical & Prep. H.S. in June 1999.
He was a member of the National Honors Society.
In football, he earned All-State and USA Today Honorable Mention All-America Honors as a senior. He also ranked number one in state as a Linebacker. In his senior year he played linebacker, guard, quarterback, tight end and punter… He also lettered in baseball and track, winning city discuss title as a sophomore.

Career

Collegiate
Orr played college football at the University of Michigan, and was a starter for three seasons starting 23 of 35 career games at defensive end. He finished his career with 79 tackles, 13 sacks, nine passes defended and three forced fumbles.
As a junior, he registered 24 tackles and 6 sacks…
He collected a career-high 35 tackles and 6 sacks as a sophomore…
He also recorded 20 tackles and 1 sack in 2000 after redshirting in 1999.
He majored in Movement Science.

Professional

Green Bay Packers
After going undrafted in the 2003 NFL Draft, Orr signed with the Green Bay Packers on May 2, 2003. On July 29, 2003, he was waived by the Packers.

Houston Texans
Orr was claimed by the Houston Texans on July 30, 2003. He appeared in six games that season and made his NFL debut at the Buffalo Bills on November 16.
In 2004, Orr played in four games mainly on special teams.
In 2005, Orr jumped into the starting lineup playing in all 16 games and starting 12 of them. He amassed 47 tackles and led the Texans with seven and a half sacks. In one game vs. Baltimore he set a team record of 3 sacks in one game.
In 2006, Orr played in all 16 games starting 14 of the contests. He ended the year with 27 tackles and 1.5 sacks.
In 2007, Orr began the 2007 season with the Houston Texans appearing in six games and starting one. He was waived on November 28.

Jacksonville Jaguars
Orr was signed Jacksonville Jaguars on December 12 and played in three games making three tackles.

Cleveland Browns
On March 21, Orr signed with the Cleveland Browns. He was released by the team on August 30 during final cuts. However, he was re-signed by the team on September 4 after linebacker Antwan Peek was injured in practice and placed on injured reserve.  Orr was not re-signed following the 2008 season.

References

External links
Cleveland Browns bio
Jacksonville Jaguars bio

1981 births
Living people
Denby High School alumni
American football linebackers
Michigan Wolverines football players
Green Bay Packers players
Houston Texans players
Jacksonville Jaguars players
Cleveland Browns players
Players of American football from Detroit
Combat Rock (novel)

Combat Rock is a BBC Books original novel written by Mick Lewis and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Second Doctor, Victoria and Jamie.

The story encompasses an extended allegory on Indonesia's colonial treatment of Irian Jaya and draws on Lewis's own experiences in the region. The characters of Jamie and Victoria are also used to explore post-colonial themes.

Placement
Its precise placement in the series continuity is not stated. The Doctor describes landing on a tropical beach as a "welcome change", implying that their last landing was in a more inhospitable place like in the serial The Ice Warriors or the novel Dreams of Empire. However, it could equally fit in between many of the stories with the Second Doctor, Jamie and Victoria, in particular the ending of The Abominable Snowmen.

Reception
In Interzone, Matt Hills writes, "By infusing Doctor Who with the grimmest of sensibilities — Combat Rock includes one character whose favoured leisure pastime is to use, abuse and murder prostitutes — Lewis rewrites a family TV programme that often gestured towards the tropes and stylistic tics of horror as out-and-out horror fiction gesturing in the direction of a family TV show. It is an inversion that doesn't always work, especially as Lewis tries to combine a near "traditional" horror-lite Who plot — mind-altering fungus unleashes primitive behaviour and possesses people — with the exaggerated psychopathologies and gross-out, splatter antics of his mercenary characters."

References

External links

2002 British novels
2002 science fiction novels
Past Doctor Adventures
Second Doctor novels
Novels set on fictional planets
David Branch (ice hockey)

David Branch (born November 27, 1948) is a Canadian ice hockey administrator. His lengthy involvement in junior ice hockey includes serving as commissioner of the Ontario Hockey League since September 15, 1979, and serving as president of the Canadian Hockey League from 1996 to 2019. He received the Order of Hockey in Canada in 2016.

Early life
David Branch was born on November 27, 1948, in Bathurst, New Brunswick. He played NCAA hockey while attending the University of Massachusetts Amherst on a scholarship. After graduating, he moved to Whitby, Ontario, and became involved in coaching minor ice hockey with the Whitby Wildcats organization, and hockey camps run by Wren Blair and Jim Gregory.

Executive career
Branch served as secretary-manager of the Ontario Hockey Association from 1973 to 1977. He was hired by Gord Renwick in 1978 to become the new executive director of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association for the retiring Gordon Juckes. He served in that role until 1979. Branch played a role in the founding of the Ontario Hockey League, by negotiating the split of its predecessor, the OMJHL from the OHA. He became commissioner of the OMJHL in 1979, and the independent OHL in 1980. He became president of the Canadian Hockey League (CHL) in 1996.

Branch helped develop a scholarship program that affords all players one year of post-secondary education per season played in the league. Branch has advocated for player safety, anti-violence, and mental health. He was instrumental in adopting rules to reduce the number of fights in the OHL. Branch was part of introducing a blindside hit rule in the OHL, and aims to have all members of the CHL introduce similar rules.

Dan MacKenzie succeeded Branch as the CHL president in September 2019, while Branch continued as the OHL commissioner.

Honours and awards
Branch is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame selection committee. He was honoured with the Order of Hockey in Canada in 2016, and he was inducted into the Whitby Sports Hall of Fame as a builder in 2017.

Personal life
Branch is the father of Barclay Branch, who served as a general manager in the OHL.

References

1948 births
Living people
Canadian Amateur Hockey Association personnel
Canadian Hockey League executives
Canadian sports executives and administrators
Ontario Hockey Association executives
Ontario Hockey League commissioners
Order of Hockey in Canada recipients
People from Bathurst, New Brunswick
University of Massachusetts Amherst alumni
Robert Dunlap

Robert Dunlap may refer to:

Robert H. Dunlap (1879–1931), United States Marine Corps brigadier general
Robert Hugo Dunlap (1920–2000), United States Marine Corps, World War II Medal of Honor recipient
Robert Dunlap (playwright) (1766–1839), American playwright
Robert P. Dunlap (1794–1859), former Governor of Maine
Robert Rankin Dunlap (1515–1992), American lawyer and politician
Michael Doherty

Michael Doherty may refer to:

Sports
 Michael Doherty (footballer) (born 1990), Scottish footballer
 Mike Doherty (born 1961), English footballer

Others
 Michael Doherty (Irish politician) (1933–2011), Irish Fianna Fáil politician
 Michael F. Doherty (born 1951), British chemical engineer
 Michael J. Doherty (born 1963), American politician, member of the New Jersey Senate
 Michael Doherty (legal scholar), professor of law

See also
 Michael O'Doherty (disambiguation)
 Michael Doherty White, U.S. Representative
 Mick Docherty (born 1950), English former footballer and trainer
 Mike Docherty (1955–2016), Scottish comic book and animation artist
Mohonasen High School

Mohonasen High School is a high school located in Rotterdam, New York, United States.  Enrollment is around 1200 students in Grades 9 – 12. Like all other public schools in New York, the school's curriculum is based on the Board of Regents standards. Mohonasen High School is known throughout the Capital District for its award-winning and varied televised events schedule, under the direction of Mr. Marvin Q. Veeder.

Name
The name of the school is derived from the names of three members of the Iroquois League, the Mohawk, the Onondaga, and the Seneca (Moh-Ona-Sen).

References

External links
Official website
Public School Review

Educational institutions established in 1960
Public high schools in New York (state)
Buildings and structures in Schenectady, New York
Schools in Schenectady County, New York
1960 establishments in New York (state)
SEMCI

Single Entry Multiple Company Interface (SEMCI) is a computer system based on service-oriented architecture (SOA) that is used to submit the same information to multiple companies.  SEMCI is use by insurance agents to insurance quotes from several insurance companies at once. 

SEMCI is an interface which connects the software of the agent to the software of multiple companies so that an inquiry can go to all the companies at once.  Previously, the agent would need to send the inquiry to each company individually.

References

External links
SEMCI home page 

Enterprise application integration
Service-oriented (business computing)
Morgan Ringland Wise

Morgan Ringland Wise (June 7, 1825 – April 13, 1903) was a member of the 46th and 47th Congress of the United States.

Biography
Wise was born in West Bethlehem, Pennsylvania on June 7, 1825. He engaged in gold mining in California in 1850 and, while there, volunteered under Major Stammins, to defend the miners in their disagreements with Indigenous peoples. He returned to Pennsylvania where he graduated from Waynesburg College in 1856. He spent several years engaged in agricultural pursuits.

He was elected as a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, serving from 1874 to 1878. Later he was elected as a Democrat to the 46th and 47th Congress. He did not seek re-election in 1882.

Wise moved to Arizona where he became a rancher and raised cattle. He was appointed as consular agent at Nogales, Mexico from February 10, 1888 to May 31, 1900. On August 6, 1896, he was witness to a failed bank robbery in Nogales, Arizona, while attending a meeting in the bank.

Death and interment
Following the end of his appointment, Wise returned to the East, where he died in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania on April 13, 1903. His body was taken to Waynesburg, Pennsylvania for burial.

See also
Skeleton Canyon Shootout

References

Sources

The Political Graveyard

1825 births
1903 deaths
Democratic Party members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
People from Coraopolis, Pennsylvania
Waynesburg University alumni
Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
19th-century American legislators
1991–92 WHL season

The 1991–92 WHL season was the 26th season for the Western Hockey League.  Fifteen teams completed a 72-game season.  The Kamloops Blazers won the President's Cup before going on to win the Memorial Cup.

League notes
The Tacoma Rockets joined the WHL as its 15th franchise, playing in the West Division.

Regular season

Final standings

Scoring leaders
Note: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalties in minutes

Players
 Trades
 June 27, 1991 — the Tacoma Rockets acquire Trevor Pennock from the Seattle Thunderbirds, in exchange for Lloyd Shaw.

1992 WHL Playoffs

All-Star game

On February 5, the WHL All-Stars defeated a combined QMJHL/OHL All-Star team 5–4 in double overtime at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan before a crowd of 4,519.

WHL awards

All-Star Teams

See also
 1992 Memorial Cup
 1992 NHL Entry Draft
 1991 in sports
 1992 in sports

References

Bibliography

 2005–06 WHL Guide

External links
 Official website of the Western Hockey League
 Official website of the Canadian Hockey League

Western Hockey League seasons
WHL
WHL
Tyendinaga, Ontario

Tyendinaga is a township in the Canadian province of Ontario, located in Hastings County. The community takes its name from a variant spelling of Mohawk leader Joseph Brant's traditional Mohawk name, Thayendanegea.

Communities
The township comprises the communities of Albert, Blessington, Chisholms Mills, Ebenezer, Halston, Kingsford, Lonsdale, Lonsdale Station, Melrose, Marysville, Milltown, Myrehall, Naphan, Read and Shannonville.

A radio transmitter for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is located in Read. Saint Charles Borromeo Cemetery is also located in Read.

Demographics 
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Tyendinaga had a population of  living in  of its  total private dwellings, a change of  from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of  in 2021.

Mother tongue (2016 census):
 English as first language: 97.4%
 French as first language: 0.7%
 Other as first language: 1.9%

Industry 
Shipman’s Flour and Sawmill was constructed in 1851 and bought by William Fraser Chisholm in 1857, and known as Chisholm's Mills since.

See also
List of townships in Ontario

References

External links

Township municipalities in Ontario
Lower-tier municipalities in Ontario
Municipalities in Hastings County
Juan Vicente Torrealba

Juan Vicente Torrealba (20 February 1917 – 2 May 2019) was a Venezuelan harpist and composer of popular music. In 1947 he founded the group Los Torrealberos with his brother Arturo and his son Santana, playing with passion and rich nuances the traditional music of the plains, which is distinguished by feeding on the experiences of the peasants, the cattle-raising tasks, the singing of the birds, the melody of the rivers and the trot of the horses.

The following year he launched his solo career and performed before crowds in Latin America, Europe and the United States.

In 1971, the recording of the album "Rhapsody Llanera" was key in his career, in which his group was accompanied by a symphony orchestra. Since then the incorporation of the most varied instruments and technical elements was a constant and turned his group into a kind of chamber orchestra.

Among his other compositions are "Sinfonía en el palmar", "Mujer Guayanesa" and "Barquisimeto".

"La fillo zaina" – created in honor of his wife Mirta Pantoja – inspired and gave musical framework to one of the most successful telenovelas in Colombia, in 1993, written by Bernardo Romero Pereiro and starring Aura Cristina Geithner and Miguel Varoni. Torrealba recorded 130 albums and composed more than 300 songs such as "La fillo zaina" and "Solito con the stars". A centenarian, he died in May 2019 at the age of 102.

References

External links
 Juan Vicente Torrealba Discography (partial)

1917 births
2019 deaths
Male composers
Musicians from Caracas
Venezuelan centenarians
Venezuelan composers
Venezuelan folk harpists
Venezuelan folk musicians
Men centenarians
Haysville, Ontario

Haysville is a village in Wilmot Township in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. The Nith River flows through the village. Local students go to Waterloo-Oxford District Secondary School in Baden and Forest Glen Public School in New Hamburg.

It was named after Robert Hays who built a number of mills there and became its first postmaster in 1837. It was known as Jonesborough, Jonestown, and Wilmot before becoming Haysville in 1848.

The first settler in the area was William Hobson, an agent of the Canada Company who was part of a team that went to Goderich in 1829. Hobson preferred the area around what is now Haysville and built a log cabin there. In the 1830s, he built a hotel near the Nith River which became a popular stop on the trail between Guelph and the Huron Tract. Haysville continued to be a busy stage coach stopover until the Grand Trunk Railway arrived in 1856 and bypassed the village and went through New Hamburg instead.

See also

 List of unincorporated communities in Ontario

Sources
 "Once busy village had three names before Haysville," The Record, August 5, 2003, p.B5.
 Historic Place Names of Waterloo County, viewed July 19, 2006. Says the village was named after John Hays.

External links
Township site

Communities in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo
Wilmot, Ontario
Tétreault-Gadoury v Canada (Employment and Immigration Commission)

Tétreault-Gadoury v Canada (Employment and Immigration Commission), [1991] 2 S.C.R. 22 is a leading Supreme Court of Canada decision on the jurisdiction of tribunals to hear Charter challenges. The Court held that the board of referees under unemployment insurance legislation was not able to hear an equality rights challenge for benefits that were denied to the claimant who was over the age of sixty-five.

See also
 List of Supreme Court of Canada cases (Dickson Court)
 Cuddy Chicks Ltd. v. Ontario (Labour Relations Board), [1991] 2 S.C.R. 5

External links
CanLII text

Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms case law
Supreme Court of Canada cases
1991 in Canadian case law
Supreme Court of Canada case articles without infoboxes
Hostage Working Group

Hostage Working Group was organized by the U.S. Department of State at the US Embassy in Baghdad in the summer of 2004 to monitor hostages in Iraq. Reported as meeting "weekly to bring together officials from the FBI, the Defense Department, the State Department and the Iraqi government. Officials do not publicly discuss the actions they can take against kidnappers."1 

In an interview in the magazine, Talk Through, of the UK's Ministry of Defence Police, April/May 2005, PC Peter Anderson, who was working with the Hostage Working Group (HWG) describes himself as: "the only non-American in this 30-strong group." 

Erik Rye was identified as the director of the Hostage Working Group at the US Embassy in Baghdad in an editorial 3 in the International Herald Tribune on May 17, 2006.

A statement issued September 7, 2006 by the White House 4 identified another group working out of the US Embassy in Baghdad, the Office of Hostage Affairs. It is unknown if this is a new group or an alternative name for the Hostage Working Group.

External links
 Hostages of War International Herald Tribune, May 17, 2006
Fast Chat: 'She Came Home Alive' Newsweek, April 10, 2006
Job Description for the Coordinator of the Hostage Working Group USAJobs.org, June 22, 2005
Talk Through (PDF) The Magazine of the UK's Ministry of Defence Police, Living the Baghdad experience, May/April, 2005
U.S. Hostages Kept Low Profile In Ritzy Baghdad Neighborhood Larry Kaplow, Cox News Service, September 9, 2004
Victim's Tale... International Herald Tribune, May 7, 2006
State Department Briefing March 7, 2006
Some Grounds for Optimism over Wood Australian Broadcasting Corporation March 5, 2005
The Missing Newsweek, March 13, 2006

Iraq War
Iraqi insurgency (2003–2011)

Hostage taking
Koudum

Koudum is a village in the northern Netherlands. It is located in Súdwest-Fryslân, Friesland. Nearby villages include Molkwerum to the west, Workum to the north and Hemelum to the south. The population of Koudum was 2,700 in 2019. The nearest train station is the Koudum-Molkwerum railway station.

There is a restored windmill in the village, De Vlijt.

History 
The village was first mentioned in 855 as Coluuidum, and means "charcoal woods". Koudum developed on the higher clay ground in the Gaasterland region. It used to be a linear settlement with a little centre around the church. Koudum was the capital of the former municipality of  until 1984.

Between 1614 and 1617, a church was built with a  high tower, however both the church and tower were replaced by a new church in 1857 with a more modest tower.

Koudum was home to 925 people in 1840. Before 2011, Koudum was the seat of the former municipality of Nijefurd. Before 1984, it was part of Hemelumer Oldeferd municipality.

Population 

 1954 - 1,966
 1959 - 1,861
 1964 - 1,915
 1969 - 2,213
 1973 - 2,268
 2004 - 2,600
 2017 - 2,695
 2019 - 2,700

De Vlijt 
De Vlijt is a restored windmill in the village. The mill was originally built in the 18th century as a polder mill in Oppenhuizen or Sneek. In 1986, the mill was moved to its current location and rebuilt into a corn rack mill.

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Súdwest-Fryslân
Populated places in Friesland
Girl Power! Live in Istanbul

Girl Power! Live in Istanbul was a two-night concert by English girl group the Spice Girls. The concerts, which were organized by Pepsi as part of the group's sponsorship deal, were performed at the Abdi İpekçi Arena in Istanbul, Turkey on 12 and 13 October 1997.

Broadcast

In the UK, highlights from the concert were broadcast on ITV on 25 December 1997 under the title "Spice Up Your Christmas!". The Christmas Day broadcast included a Christmas message by the group.

In the US, an airing of the full concert was first made available as a pay-per-view event on 17 January 1998 at 9 p.m. (E.T.) via Showtime Event Television. The broadcast was titled Spice Girls In Concert: Wild!. The pay-per-view event was "hugely successful" and the concert subsequently premiered on Showtime's main channel on April 5, 1998.

The concert was aired again in the US on Fox Family Channel on Sunday, 16 August 1998 at 6:00 pm. The broadcast was titled Spice Girls—Wild! in Concert and featured trivia before and after commercials and backstage footage in addition to the set list. The show was two hours in length with advertisements and managed to receive a 1.8 Household rating when it aired despite being up against a four-hour Spice Girls MTV special and a different pay-per-view Spice Girls special airing the same weekend. All songs from the set list except for "Naked" were aired during the broadcast. Interestingly, the concert would go on to be aired again on Fox Family Channel nearly a year later, in July 1999.

Set list
Act 1:
 "If U Can't Dance"
 "Who Do You Think You Are" 
 "Something Kinda Funny"
 "Saturday Night Divas"
 "Say You'll Be There"
 "Step to Me"

Act 2:
 "Naked" 

Act 3:
 "2 Become 1"
 "Stop"
 "Too Much"

Act 4:
 "Spice Up Your Life"
 "Love Thing"
 "Mama"

Act 5:
 "Move Over"
 "Wannabe"

Tour dates

Video release
Following the concert, a VHS of the concert was released but did not include all of the songs on the set list, omitting "Something Kinda Funny", "Saturday Night Divas", "Stop", "Too Much", "Love Thing" and "Mama".  The VHS, however, includes interviews with the girls and backstage footage. Although the original concert was completely live, studio vocals were dubbed into several songs for the video version of the performance.

A DVD of the concert was made available in the UK on December 10, 2007, to coincide with the release of the Greatest Hits album and their reunion Return of the Spice Girls tour. It features the "Girl Talk" documentary, a countdown to the concert, and the 9-song concert, as previously available on VHS.

Audio release
In 1998 the Mégaphone company released a CD with the complete concert of 15 songs in audio format with the voices dubbed from the video edition entitled Spice Songs.

Personnel

Vocals 

Melanie Brown
Emma Bunton
Geri Halliwell
Victoria Beckham
Melanie C

Band 

Simon Ellis – Musical Director / Keyboards
Andy Gangadeen – Drums
Paul Gendler – Guitars
Fergus Gerrand – Percussion
Steve Lewinson – Bass
Michael Martin – Keyboards

Certifications

References

Spice Girls concert tours
1997 concert tours
Spice Girls video albums
Wireless Toronto

Wireless Toronto is a volunteer not-for-profit community wireless network in Toronto. Wireless Toronto began in 2005 with the goal of setting up no-cost public wireless Internet access around the Greater Toronto Area and exploring ways to use Wi-Fi technology to strengthen local community and culture.  At its peak, Wireless Toronto hotspots served over 1000 connections per day at 38 individual locations.

Wireless Toronto hotspots are created using Linksys WRT54G or Motorola WR850G wireless routers running OpenWrt and WifiDog.

Other free wireless services in the GTA
 The Toronto Public Library (TPL) offers free public wireless access in all of its 99 branches.
 The Markham Public Libraries (MPL) offers free public wireless access in the Angus Glen Library, the Markham Village Library, the Thornhill Community Library, and the Unionville Library
 Viva offers free wireless access on its Rapid Transit Vehicles
 TOwifi offers a free Wi-Fi hotspot map
 The TTC offers free, ad supported wireless service at many of its stations

See also
 Municipal wireless network
List of wireless community networks by region

References

External links
Wireless Toronto Site
Wireless Toronto Blog
Wireless Toronto Locations Map
Toronto Public Library Free Wireless Internet Access Service

Toronto
Organizations based in Toronto
Ruggero Settimo

Ruggero Settimo (19 May 1778 – 2 May 1863) was an Italian politician, diplomat, and patriotic activist from Sicily. He was a counter-admiral of the Sicilian Fleet. He fought alongside the British fleet in the Mediterranean Sea against the French under Napoleon Bonaparte. He reconquered the island of Malta, and defended the city of Gaeta near Naples. 

In 1811 he had to retire from the military due to health problems. He was a member of the Sicilian government of Prince Castelnovo in 1812 as Minister of the merchant navy. He was a member of the revolutionary junta of 1820–1821. In 1848 as president of the Sicilian Senate, he was appointed as chief of the government of the Kingdom of Sicily; he led the Sicilian government until 1849. After unification in 1861, Settimo was elected as President of the Senate of the newly created Parliament of the Kingdom of Italy.

Life

Ruggiero Settimo was born in Palermo, Sicily. He was one of the most important leaders of the Sicilian revolution of independence of 1848, after which he was effective head of state of an independent Sicily for 16 months that replaced the Bourbon Two Sicilies.  Once the rebellion was put down by King Ferdinand II's army, Settimo escaped to Malta, where he lived the next twelve years in exile.

Following the success of the Risorgimento movement during 1860 and 1861, Settimo was elected as President of the Senate of the newly created Parliament of the Kingdom of Italy, serving until his death.

A statue in his honor was erected in front of the Teatro Politeama Garibaldi of Palermo.

See also
 Revolutions of 1848
 Revolutions of 1848 in the Italian states

References

Bibliography

 Correnti, Santi (2002) A Short History of Sicily, Les Editions Musae, Montreal.
 Scianò, Giuseppe (2004) Sicilia, Sicilia, Sicilia!, Edizione Anteprima, Palermo (in Italian).

1778 births
1863 deaths
Politicians from Palermo
People of the Revolutions of 1848
Members of the Senate of the Kingdom of Italy
Italian commanders of the Napoleonic Wars
Burials at San Domenico, Palermo
Members of the Sicilian Parliament
Prime ministers
18th-century Italian politicians
19th-century Italian politicians
John Bolling

Major John Bolling (January 27, 1676April 20, 1729) was an American planter, politician and military officer in the colony of Virginia. He was the great-grandchild of Pocahontas and her husband, John Rolfe.

Early life and marriage 

John Bolling was the son of Colonel Robert Bolling and Jane (née Rolfe) Bolling. He was a great-grand-child of Pocahontas and her husband, John Rolfe.

John Bolling was born at Kippax Plantation, in Charles City County, in the east central part of Virginia, a site which is now within the corporate limits of the City of Hopewell. He made his home at the Bolling family plantation "Cobbs" just west of Point of Rocks on the north shore of the Appomattox River downstream from present-day Petersburg, Virginia. (Cobbs was located in Henrico County until the area south of the James River was subdivided to form Chesterfield County in 1749.)

John Bolling married Mary Kennon (–1727), daughter of Richard Kennon and Elizabeth Worsham, on December 29, 1697. They had six children, whose names appear in John Bolling's will: 
 John Bolling Jr. (1700–1757) married Elizabeth Lewis in 1720. Later he married Elizabeth Blair (daughter of Archibald Blair and the niece of James Blair, the first president of the College of William & Mary, whose second husband was Richard Bland) on August 1, 1728 and had at least nine children, including John Bolling III, who married Mary Jefferson (the sister of United States President Thomas Jefferson. ). His Great-great-granddaughter is Edith Bolling, the future First Lady for her husband, Woodrow Wilson.
 Jane Bolling (1703–1766) married Colonel Richard Randolph in 1724 and had seven children.
 Elizabeth Bolling (b. 1709), married William Gay of Scotland and had three children.
 Mary Bolling (1711–1744), married John Fleming and had eight children.
 Martha Bolling (1713–1737), married Thomas Eldridge in 1729 and had four children.
 Anne Bolling (1718–1800), married James Murray and had six children.

Later life and death 
In 1722, he opened a tobacco warehouse in what is now the 'Pocahontas' neighborhood of Petersburg. William Byrd II of Westover Plantation is said to have remarked that Major Bolling enjoyed "all the profits of an immense trade with his countrymen, and of one still greater with the Indian."

Major Bolling served in the Virginia House of Burgesses from 1710 until his death in 1729.

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1676 births
1729 deaths
Rolfe family of Virginia
Bolling family of Virginia
American planters
American slave owners
American people of English descent
People from Charles City County, Virginia
House of Burgesses members
American people of Powhatan descent
Terry Cameron

Terry Gordon Cameron (born 19 October 1946) is a former South Australian politician.

Cameron entered the South Australian Legislative Council in 1994 to fill a Labor Party vacancy, and then was re-elected as a Labor candidate in 1997. However he resigned from the party in order to support the Olsen Liberal government's legislation to lease ETSA in 1998. After resigning, he formed the short-lived SA First party.

He sought re-election to the Legislative Council at the 2006 election as an independent, but was defeated, finishing second-last among the 25 tickets contesting the election.

Prior to entering parliament, Cameron worked for the Australian Workers' Union before becoming State Organiser of the Labor Party.

He is the nephew of Clyde Cameron.

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External links 
 has a section on Terry Cameron's defection from the Labor Party.

1946 births
Living people
Members of the South Australian Legislative Council
Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of South Australia
21st-century Australian politicians
Heaven in Your Eyes

"Heaven in Your Eyes" is a song recorded by Canadian rock band Loverboy for the soundtrack to the film Top Gun. It later appeared on Loverboy's 1989 hits compilation Big Ones. The power ballad reached No. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the U.S.

The song was originally written by Mae Moore and John Dexter, both Vancouver-area musicians. As recorded, it is credited to Moore, Dexter and Paul Dean & Mike Reno from Loverboy.

Cash Box called it a "powerful, emotional rock ballad."  Billboard called it a "routine power ballad."

Noteworthy is the fact that Loverboy keyboardist Doug Johnson does not appear in the song's music video.  His absence was intentional, as he felt that the Top Gun film over-glamorized war and military service.

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Loverboy songs
1986 singles
1986 songs
Songs written by Paul Dean (guitarist)
Songs written by Mike Reno
Columbia Records singles
Rock ballads
U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships

The U.S. Men's Clay Court Championships is an annual ATP Tour tennis tournament. Founded in 1910, it has been held in nearly two dozen cities, and since 2001 has been held in Houston, Texas. It currently pays out US$474,000 with the winner receiving US$85,900. It is the only remaining ATP World Tour-level tournament in the United States to be played on clay courts. 

The tournament began in 1910 when the Western Lawn Tennis Association (a section of the United States Lawn Tennis Association now known as the USTA/Midwest) persuaded the USLTA that a National Clay Court Championship would promote the construction of more clay courts in the West. Clay courts were cheaper to install and maintain than grass courts, and the hope was that these lower costs would accelerate the growth of the game's popularity. The first National Clay Court Championships were held at the Omaha Field Club; a crowd of 5,000 watched the finals. 

Participation and play on clay grew as a result of the event and others, and in 1914, the event was moved to the Cincinnati Tennis Club. It has since been played in numerous cities. Between 1970 and 1989 it was part of the Grand Prix Tennis Tour as part of the Grand Prix Super Series of events (1974–1977). During the stint in Indianapolis, from 1969 through 1986, the tournament was a combined men's and women's event.

From 2001 to 2007, the event was held at the Houston Westside Tennis Club. In 2007, after a few years being held on the same red clay used at the French Open, the event was held on Har-Tru green clay.

In 2007, the U.S. Tennis Association sought a new venue and entertained bids from Atlanta, Georgia; Winston-Salem, North Carolina; and Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. But in May 2007, the USTA announced that the tournament would simply move downtown to River Oaks Country Club in the River Oaks neighborhood. The new venue has a stadium with seating for 3,000 with temporary seating for 500 for the second court. Its Har-Tru clay, of a maroon color, was renewed in 2005 and 2008.

Past finals

Singles
Bill Tilden holds the record for most titles (7).
Bill Tilden and Frank Parker share the record of most finals (8).

Doubles (open era)

Records

Men's singles

See also

 Charleston Open – WTA clay court event held in the United States
 U.S. Women's Clay Court Championships
 River Oaks International Tennis Tournament

References

Sources 
 References used for the Pre-Open Era locations and champions: United States Lawn Tennis Association Yearbook (1942–'44, '48–49, '51, '53. '55–56, '60, '64, '66 & '69), Spalding Lawn Tennis Annual (1916, '24–'28, '30–'31 & '39), Wright & Ditson's Lawn Tennis Annual (1911–'14, 1921, 1932–'33, '35 & '37), New York Times articles (1910–'14, '16, '18–'19 & '21–'22), From Club Court to Center Court by Phillip S. Smith (2007 Edition, page 67).

External links 

 
 Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) tournament profile
 Video of 1958 tournament in River Forest, IL

 
Tennis tournaments in the United States
Clay court tennis tournaments
Sports in Houston
Recurring sporting events established in 1910