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The Mad Peck

John Peck a.k.a. The Mad Peck (born c. 1942 in New York City) is an American underground cartoonist, rock poster artist, and disc jockey.  His most famous poster is a 1978 comic book-style poster that starts with the line, "Providence, Rhode Island, where it rains two days out of three except during the rainy season when it snows like a bitch."  The poster has been reprinted many times and is widely available for purchase throughout Rhode Island.

Biography 
Raised in New York City, Peck attended Brown University beginning in 1960. Graduating from Brown in 1967, in the intervening years he also attended New York University and the Rhode Island School of Design.

The Mad Peck created silkscreen concert posters for Rhode Island concerts from 1966 to 1971, for acts including Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, The Band, and Cream. His "Final Appearance" Cream poster has been widely bootlegged.

His comix work first appeared in 1969 in underground newspapers like the East Village Other and the Chicago Seed. Consisting mostly of manipulated clip art from old advertisements, his strips advertised items like "GIANT INHALER" and "FREE CIGARETTE PAPERS". Hippies and yippies would send five cents for one of his minicomic catalogs. This led to the weekly comic Burn of the Week, which was distributed by the Underground Press Syndicate and offered phoney endorsements of Wayne Newton albums next to bong-building tips.

In the late 1960s/early 1970s Peck fell in with other Providence countercultural types, including writer Les Daniels and comedian Martin Mull. 1971, Peck illustrated Daniel's Comix: A History of Comic Books in America (Dutton), one of the first academic histories of the medium.

By the mid 1970s, The Mad Peck was creating a regular comic which ran monthly in Creem, and also plugged products in a bizarre pop culture mish-mash similar to some of Bill Griffith's Zippy the Pinhead work.

Averse to publicity or being photographed, the Mad Peck has also been known to DJ under the name "Dr. Oldie." He is based in Providence, Rhode Island.

Books 
 Mad Peck Studios: A 20 Year Retrospective (Doubleday, 1987)

References

External links 
 

Underground cartoonists
Living people
1942 births
Artists from Providence, Rhode Island
Unashamed (band)

Unashamed was a Christian hardcore punk band that became one of the founding bands in the Spirit-Filled HardCore movement. Their bold faith-based lyrics center around ideas directly lifted from the Bible and conservative morality. They released two albums on Tooth & Nail Records. After signing with Tooth & Nail, the band toured until their "final" show at Cornerstone Festival in 1998. In 2009, the band announced that they were reforming with many of their original line-up, and would begin touring hard into 2010.

Members
Last known lineup
 Jeff Jacquay – vocals (1993–1996, 2009–2011)
 Bobby Canaday – guitar (1993–1998, 2009–2011)
 Dom Macaluso – bass guitar (2009–2011)
 Matt Mentley – guitar (2009–2011)
 Randy Baranosky – drums (2009–2011)

Former members
 Dave Bhanson – vocals (1993)
 Dave Lauridsen – vocals (1993)
 Dan "Danno" McManigal – guitar (1993–1998)
 Chris  Bertoni – drums (1993–1995) 
 Shane Sowers – bass guitar (1993–1995)
 Jason Carson – drums (1995–1998)
 Matt Hernandez – bass guitar (1995–1998)

Timeline

Discography
'Studio albums
 Silence (1994)
 Reflection (1996)

Compilation appearances
 Helpless Amongst Friends Vol. 1 (1995)

References

External links
 Jension, David (1995) . HM Magazine. Retrieved on May 25, 2016.

Metalcore musical groups from California
Christian rock groups from California
Christian hardcore musical groups
Hardcore punk groups from California
Musical groups from Orange County, California
Tooth & Nail Records artists
Siam Nakhon province

Siam Nakhon (Thai: สยามนคร) is the name of a former Thai province. It was a changwat (province) of Siam, but was ceded to French Indochina in 1907. The name of Siam Nakhon was later changed to Siem Reap in the Khmer language.

The capital city of the Khmer Empire in ancient times was declining in the 17th century. In the mid-fourteenth century, the Siamese or Thai speaking people, from Chao Phraya River plain, rose to power. The new Siamese kingdom of Ayutthaya was founded and started expanding eastwards, towards Angkor.

After years of internal strife in Angkor, Angkor was slowly in decline and there was in-fighting between the Khmers for the Angkorian throne. Eventually Angkor Thom was sacked and abandoned until the nineteenth century.

Prior to the Franco-Thai Treaty of 1867, Siem Reap and Battambang provinces were ceded to Siam in 1795 by the Cambodian king, Ang Eng which in return was able to rule Cambodia without interference with Thai-backed Khmer officer, Aphaiphubet. The treaty only further verify the two provinces were part of Siam's proper in return for Siam renouncing suzerainty over the rest of Cambodia. Siem Reap city was under total Siamese control through a local Khmer family. The Siamese then called this province Siam Nakhon, (later known as Siemmarat), meaning "Siamese town."

At the beginning of the 20th century the province (along with Battambang) was in turn ceded back to Cambodia (now part of French Indochina) in the Franco-Siamese Treaty of 1907, due to the failure of 1904 version of treaty which the French accidentally annexed Thai speaking city of Trat. The French position being the former relationships of the court of Angkor to the Vietnamese (also a part of French Indochina), the history of Angkor as the capital of the Khmer empire and the French desire for the complete territorial integrity of French Indochina. For this reason, the French was able to exchange lands with Siam which the French squired the provinces of Siem Reap and Battambang while Siam gained both Trat and the district of Dan Sai. 

The province was renamed Siem Reap, which in Khmer means "Defeat of Siam", referring to the fact that the Siamese were defeated during the Siam Invasion of Angkor in 1540AD. After victory over the Siam, King Chan Reachea (reign 1516-1566) renamed the province from Mahanokor to Siem Reap.

See also
 Phibunsongkhram Province

External links
The Land Boundaries of Indochina: Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam

Former provinces of Thailand
Kinyeti

Mount Kinyeti is the highest peak in South Sudan. It is located in the Imatong Mountains in Ikwoto County of Eastern Equatoria, near the Ugandan border. Kinyeti has an elevation of  above sea level.
The group of high mountains that contain Kinyeti, extending to the border with Uganda, are sometimes called the Lomariti or Lolobai mountains.

The lower parts of the mountain were covered with lush forest.
These are the most northern forests of the East African montane forest ecoregion.
The summit is rocky, with montane grassland and scattered, low ericaceous scrubs, low subshrub and herbs in rock crevices.
One of the first Europeans to visit the mountain was the botanist Thomas Ford Chipp, who discovered Coreopsis chippii near the summit.

Named after Mount Kinyeti is the Mount Kineti chameleon (Trioceros kinetensis), a threatened species.

References

East African montane forests
Mountains of South Sudan
Geography of Eastern Equatoria
Highest points of countries
Plectroglyphidodon

Plectroglyphidodon is a genus of fish in the family Pomacentridae.

Species
Plectroglyphidodon dickii (Liénard, 1839) 
 
Plectroglyphidodon flaviventris Allen and Randall, 1974    
Plectroglyphidodon imparipennis (Vaillant and Sauvage, 1875)
 
Plectroglyphidodon johnstonianus Fowler and Ball, 1924    
 
Plectroglyphidodon lacrymatus (Quoy and Gaimard, 1825) 
 
Plectroglyphidodon leucozonus (Bleeker, 1859) 
 
Plectroglyphidodon phoenixensis (Schultz, 1943) 
Plectroglyphidodon randalli Allen, 1991    
Plectroglyphidodon sagmarius Randall and Earle, 1999    
Plectroglyphidodon sindonis (D.S. Jordan and Evermann, 1903)

References

 
Pomacentrinae
Marine fish genera
Taxa named by Henry Weed Fowler
Francesco Canali

Francesco Canali (1764, Perugia–1835, Ferrara) was an Italian  cardinal. He was the Titular Archbishop of Larissa.

Early life
Francesco Canali studied in his native city of Perugia and was ordained in December 1786 as a deacon.  Two years later he received the priesthood.  In 1793 he was professor of theology at the seminary of Perugia, which he was rector from 1797 to 1806.  Moreover, Canali was from 1797 to 1800 prior of the theologian College his hometown, and thereafter the chamberlain.  1809, he was jailed by the French and taken to Parma, Piacenza, Corsica and Bastia.  In August 1814 he returned to Perugia.

Episcople biography
Francesco Canali was appointed Bishop of Spoleto in 1814 and transferred the  23 July 1820   by Pope Pius VII in Tivoli church as administrator, then elected bishop of Tivoli on 28 August 1820.  He resigned in 1827 and became titular Archbishop of Larissa in Thessaly.  In February 1827 he was appointed secretary of the Congregation of regular and canonical bishops of the Vatican Basilica.

Pope Gregory XVI created him cardinal in pectore on 30 September 1831. Published 23 June 1834.

References

1764 births
1835 deaths
19th-century Italian cardinals
Cardinals created by Pope Gregory XVI
19th-century Italian Roman Catholic archbishops
Laurel Heights Secondary School

Laurel Heights Secondary School (formerly Sir John A. Macdonald Secondary School) is a high school in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, operated by the Waterloo Region District School Board (WRDSB). It opened in September 2004 and provides both academic and vocational programs. The school had 1,500 students as of the 2020–21 school year. Each year, around 450 new grade 9 students are enrolled from the following elementary schools: Centennial Public School, Edna Staebler Public School, Laurelwood Public School, and Vista Hills Public School  The school is located on 650 Laurelwood Drive in northwest Waterloo. It was originally named after Sir John A. Macdonald, the first prime minister of Canada; in 2022, it was renamed to Laurel Heights Secondary School (LHSS).

History
Construction of the $27 million,  school was plagued by construction delays. It opened two months before construction was complete, with students initially limited to partial days of classes. The name was selected in 2003 by school board trustees. When they asked for suggestions, the most frequently submitted name was Oscar Peterson, but because he was still alive, Peterson wasn't eligible to have a school named after him.

The school name garnered attention in 2018 because of civic awareness regarding the historical treatment of Indigenous peoples in the Canadian residential school system. In 2021, the school board determined that the name must be changed; in March 2022, the new name of Laurel Heights Secondary School was confirmed.

Programs
The drama department participates in the annual SEARS festivals. In the 2012–13 school year, they advanced to regionals. In 2014, they hosted the festival for Waterloo schools, and in 2018 they hosted NTSDF.

LHSS offers numerous clubs, teams, and activities with over 10 choices per season. As of 2019, the Fraser Institute ranked LHSS as one of the best schools in Ontario with an average performance score of 8.1 out of 10. LHSS ranks better than 90 per cent of schools in the Waterloo Region and 85 per cent of schools in all of Ontario.

See also
List of high schools in Ontario

References

External links 

 

Schools in Waterloo, Ontario
Waterloo Region District School Board
High schools in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo
2004 establishments in Ontario
Educational institutions established in 2004
John A. Macdonald
Naming controversies
Sibongiseni Shabalala

Sibongiseni Lucas Shabalala (born 20 May 1972), is a member of Ladysmith Black Mambazo, a South African choral group founded in 1960 (formerly led) by his father Joseph.

Sibongiseni was born in Ladysmith (eMnambithi district) to Joseph and his late wife Nellie, just shortly after the release of the group's first album Amabutho. In 1976, Joseph brought together his six sons to form Mshengu White Mambazo, Ladysmith's 'junior choir'.

After the murder of his uncle Headman Shabalala in December 1991 and the retirement of several other members (Inos Phungula, Geophrey Mdletshe and Ben Shabalala), Joseph later recruited Sibongiseni and his brothers Thamsanqa, Thulani and Msizi. Sibongiseni began singing with Mambazo as a bass voice and has remained in the line-up since 1993.

Together with his brother Thamsanqa and a well-known South African guitarist Maqhinga Radebe, Sibongiseni formed the maskandi-mbaqanga-isicathamiya crossover band Shabalala Rhythm in 1998, which has released successful releases to date including Ubuhle Bakho (2003) and Vuma (2005).

References

Ladysmith Black Mambazo members
20th-century South African male singers
1972 births
Living people
People from Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal
21st-century South African male singers
List of ESPN College Football broadcast teams

The ESPN College Football Broadcast Teams are listed in the table below, including games broadcast on ABC, ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, ESPNews, ACC Network, SEC Network, Longhorn Network, and ESPN Radio.

Note: All ESPN games are also simulcast on the ESPN App.

Broadcast pairings for college football are weekly and are subject to change.

2020s

2023

2022

2021

2020

Note: Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, sideline reporters rotated between crews to reduce travel.

2010s

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

2000s

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

2003

2002

2001

2000

1990s

1999

1998

1997

1996

1995

1994

1993

1992

1991

1990

References

Lists of college football broadcasters
ABC Sports
College Football broadcast teams
Popular center of remembrance

The Popular center of remembrance (Centro Popular de la Memoria) is a former illegal detention center in Rosario, . It was used by the provincial police between 1976 and 1979, during the Dirty War, to hold people with no formal charges and torture them, under the pretense of fighting radical left-wing political subversion and terrorism. Most of the detainees were in fact social activists, political dissidents, or merely relatives or acquaintances of people that were ideologically suspect in the eyes of the military junta of the self-styled National Reorganization Process.

The CPM occupies a corner of a large building that takes up a whole block in the city center, between Dorrego and Moreno and between Santa Fe and Córdoba St. It used to be the police headquarters, and during the Dirty War it was formally the home of an intelligence division of the provincial police (Servicio de Informaciones de la Unidad Regional II). There is evidence of its use as a detention center since 1976 and until 1979. It was informally termed El Pozo ("The Pit") and La Favela ("The Favela").

The head of the Intelligence Service at the time was Gendarmería Commander Agustín Feced, who sometimes took part personally in kidnappings, torture sessions and executions. Two of his foremost collaborators were José Rubén Lo Fiego, who are being investigated since 2004.

After the fall of the last military junta and the return to democracy in 1983, the building continued to serve its official functions, until 2001, when human rights organizations demanded that it be preserved. On 22 March 2001 the Ministry of Government of the province of Santa Fe dictated Resolution No. 0060 to fulfill this request. The official facilities were dismantled and the police headquarters were moved elsewhere. A part of the building was given to municipal control, another one was turned into a delegation of the provincial government, and the central courtyard became an open public square. The relevant sections were granted to a group of human rights organizations by Decree No. 0717 of 2002-05-09 with the name of Centro Popular de la Memoria. It now hosts a memorial exhibition managed by relatives of victims of forced disappearance.

A documentary film about the CPM was released, with the support of a local producer (Calanda Producciones). It includes the story of the investigation and recovery of the detention center as a memorial, and testimonies of the research team and some survivors.

Pictures

References

All references in Spanish, unless indicated otherwise.
 Decree No. 0717 of the Ministry of Government, Justice and Worship of the Province of Santa Fe.
 SantaFeCiudad.com - Resolution of the provincial Congress declaring the CPM a "national interest".
 La Capital, 18 June 2003. Ahora quieren que en la ex Jefatura funcione otro museo de la memoria.
 La Capital, 12 September 2004. El "corazón" de la causa Feced.
 
  

Dirty War
Buildings and structures in Rosario, Santa Fe
Political repression
Imprisonment and detention
Monuments and memorials in Argentina
Maurepas, Yvelines

Maurepas () is a commune in the Yvelines department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France. It is located in the western suburbs of Paris  from the center.

History
Most ancient buildings are the ruins of the donjon, built in the 11th century and destroyed in 1425.

There is also near St Sauveur's church, dating from the 15th century.

In 768, the French king Pepin the Short offered the village of Maurepas (formerly spelled Malrepast) and its wooden keep to the Abbey of Saint-Denis. Facing the Normans' invasions, they left the domain to the Lords of Chevreuse. The castle and village were given to the family of Malrepast, a vassal of the Lords of Chevreuse, which gave its name to the village.

In 1432, during the Hundred Years' War, the English conquered the village and destroyed the keep.

After the war, the domain of Maurepas returned to the family of Chevreuse, but the castle remained a ruin.

Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux from the Phélypeaux family, was Count of Maurepas. He was living in the next city of Jouars-Pontchartrain in the Château de Pontchartrain.

People
who lived in Maurepas
 Erich von Stroheim - (1885 - 1957), Austrian-American actor, film director, producer born in Vienna, Austria, died at his home in Maurepas from cancer.

Transportation
Maurepas is served by no station of the Paris Métro, RER, or suburban rail network. The closest station to Maurepas is La Verrière station on the Transilien La Défense and Transilien Paris – Montparnasse suburban rail lines. This station is located in the neighboring commune of La Verrière,  from the town center of Maurepas.

Demography

Education
Junior high schools:
 Collège Alexandre Dumas
 Collège Louis Pergaud
 Collège de la Mare aux Saules in nearby Coignières

Senior high schools/sixth-form colleges:
 Lycée des 7 Mares
 Lycée Dumont d'Urville

Twin towns
It is twinned with Waterlooville in Hampshire, and Tirat Carmel in Haifa district, Israel.

See also
 Communes of the Yvelines department

References

External links

 Official website 

Communes of Yvelines
Michael Panes

Michael Panes is an American actor, writer, musician and composer.

Education 
Panes attended Brown University and graduated with a Bachelor of Music degree.

Career 
Panes appeared in Lisa Loeb's reality television series Number 1 Single. The two were old friends and during the course of the show began to date. Panes and Loeb ended their relationship when Panes had to move to Los Angeles for an acting role. Loeb has since married.

Panes's film roles include classical musician Levi Panes in The Anniversary Party and Gore Vidal in Infamous.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

20th-century American male actors
21st-century American male actors
American male film actors
American male stage actors
American male television actors
American male television writers
American television writers
Brown University alumni
Living people
Male actors from New York (state)
Year of birth missing (living people)
Cross-collateralization

Cross-collateralization is a term used when the collateral for one loan is also used as collateral for another loan. If a person has borrowed from the same bank a home loan secured by the house, a car loan secured by the car, and so on, these assets can be used as cross-collaterals for all the loans. If the person pays off the car loan and wants to sell the car, the bank may veto the deal because the car is still used to secure the home loan and other loans. Technically, cross-collateralization expires when the borrower has no outstanding loans with the bank. In the context of bankruptcy, cross-collateralization also means the collateralization of general unsecured prepetition debt by collateral securing postpetition loans.

Another example of cross-collateralization occurs when an individual may have a checking account and a loan at the same bank. If the individual becomes past due on the loan, the financial institution may take money out of the bank account or freeze the account until the loan becomes current. Cross-collateralization reduces the lender's risk; hence, credit unions often offer cross-collateralized loans as a way to give borrowers lower interest rates.

Royalty advances paid by a publisher to authors of multiple books or to creators of multiple video games are often cross-collateralized; in book publishing this is sometimes called "basketing". In this scheme, the publisher pays no royalty checks to the creator until all of the books (or video games, or other works of authorship) have "earned out" their advances.

In the movie industry, cross-collateralization clauses in production deals allow the funding studio to recoup a part of its losses for money losing films from hit films produced.

References

Credit
Personal finance
Hand of Blood

Hand of Blood is the second EP by Welsh heavy metal band Bullet for My Valentine, released on 22 August 2005 through Trustkill Records. The EP is almost the same as the previous, but with completely different artwork and slightly altered track listing ("4 Words (To Choke Upon)" was track 6 on the Japan version of the self-titled EP). Hand of Blood included the single "4 Words (To Choke Upon)", accompanied by a music video, along with "Hand of Blood". The songs "4 Words (To Choke Upon)" and "Cries in Vain" were later included on the band's full-length debut, The Poison. The title track also appears on the limited edition of the same album.

AllMusic asserted that the EP is "essentially a deluxe version" of the band's self-titled 2004 EP.

Appearances in other media 
The song "Hand of Blood" is featured in the video game Burnout Revenge in the in-game soundtrack, as well as in Need for Speed: Most Wanted. "4 Words (To Choke Upon)" is featured in the soundtrack for NHL 06 and Madden NFL 06.

Critical reception 
Daniel Lukes of Decibel Magazine believed that, although the music itself wasn't bad for what it was, it was, in his opinion, not original enough. He compared the EP to Avenged Sevenfold and Atreyu, stating that he thought they wanted to steal their fanbases. He went on to sum up his entire review by stating, "The worst part is that the music itself isn’t all that bad, for the genre." He went on to comment that the band should be "embarrassed" about the release. Zeromag's Josh Joyce complimented the band on "how technical they can get without confusing the kids".

"Damrod" of Sputnikmusic gave the EP a solid 4/5 stars, stating that "the songs are played well and show a lot of potential for the future". He continues to say that the guitar work shows obvious influences such as Iron Maiden and Metallica, without sounding "like a rip-off of these bands". Damrod wrote that the singing style was a successful blend of screams and clean vocals, citing "Hand of Blood" and the chorus of "Just Another Star" as great examples.

Singles

Track listing

Personnel 
Bullet for My Valentine
Matthew Tuck – lead vocals, rhythm guitar, bass guitar (uncredited), guitar solo on track 1 and 5
Michael "Padge" Paget – lead guitar, backing vocals
Jason "Jay" James – bass guitar (credited but doesn't perform), backing vocals
Michael "Moose" Thomas – drums

Production
Colin Richardson – production
Dan Turner –  engineering

References 

Bullet for My Valentine albums
2005 EPs
Trustkill Records EPs
Thamsanqa Shabalala

Thamsanqa Shabalala (born September 29, 1974) is a member of Ladysmith Black Mambazo, a South African choral group founded in 1960 by his father Joseph. He replaced Joseph as the group's lead singer after his father's retirement in 2015 (see main article for more information).

Thamsanqa was born in Ladysmith (eMnambithi district) to Joseph and his late wife Nellie. In 1976, Joseph brought together his six sons to form Mshengu White Mambazo, Ladysmith's 'junior choir'.

After the murder of his uncle Headman Shabalala in December 1991 and the retirement of several other members a friend called Geophrey Mdletshe and Thamsanqa Shabalala uncle Ben Shabalala), Joseph later recruited Thamsanqa and his brothers Sibongiseni, Thulani and Msizi. Thamsanqa began singing with the group as an alto voice (alongside Albert Mazibuko, who is a tenor voice) and has remained in the line-up since 1993.

Together with his brother Sibongiseni and a well-known South African guitarist, Maqhinga Radebe, Thamsanqa formed the maskandi-mbaqanga-isicathamiya crossover band Shabalala Rhythm in 1998, which has released successful releases to date including Ubuhle Bakho (2003), Vuma (2005), and Izingqaku (2007).

It was announced by Joseph Shabalala in January 2008 that when he retires, Thamsanqa will take over as leader of Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Joseph Shabalala retired in 2015.

References

Ladysmith Black Mambazo members
21st-century South African male singers
1977 births
Living people
People from Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal
2006 Nuevo León state election

A local election  was scheduled to be held in the Mexican state of Nuevo León on Sunday, July 2, 2006. Voters will go to the polls to elect, on the local level:

51 municipal presidents (mayors) to serve for a three-year term.
42 local deputies (26 by the first-past-the-post system and 16 by proportional representation) to serve for a three-year term in the Congress of Nuevo León.

Municipal elections

The following table shows candidates by party to the municipalities within the Monterrey metropolitan area.

External links
Electoral Institute of Nuevo León website

2006 elections in Mexico
Election
Chironomia

Chironomia is the art of using gesticulations or hand gestures to good effect in traditional rhetoric or oratory.   Effective use of the hands, with or without the use of the voice, is a practice of great antiquity, which was developed and systematized by the Greeks and the Romans.  Various gestures had conventionalized meanings which were commonly understood, either within certain class or professional groups, or broadly among dramatic and oratorical audiences.

Gilbert Austin was a well-known author on chironomia. The article about him contains a summary of theories in chironomia.

See also 

 Gesticulation in Italian 
 Mudra

References
 John Bulwer, Chirologia ; Or the Natural Language of the Hand. Chironomia or the Art of Manual Rhetoric (1644). (Landmarks in rhetoric and public address).
 Gilbert Austin, Chironomia, or a Treatise on Rhetorical Delivery (1806). Ed. Mary Margaret Robb and Lester Thonssen. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois UP, 1966.

Rhetoric
Gestures
Jet Propulsion Laboratory Display Information System

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory Display Information System (or JPLDIS) is a file management program written in FORTRAN.

JPLDIS is important because it was the inspiration and precursor to dBASE, arguably one of the most influential DBMS programs for early microcomputers.

History 
In the late 1960s, Fred Thompson at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) was using a Tymshare product named RETRIEVE to manage a database of electronic calculators. In 1971 Fred collaborated with Jack Hatfield, a programmer at JPL, to write an enhanced version of RETRIEVE which became the JPLDIS project.

JPLDIS evolved into a file management program written in FORTRAN, running on a UNIVAC 1108 mainframe. Hatfield published two papers entitled "Jet Propulsion Laboratory Data Information System (JPLDIS)". The first paper was presented to the Univac Users Group in Dallas, TX (Feb. 1973) and the second paper was presented to the National Science Foundation conference on Data Storage and Retrieval Methods at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri (July 1973). Hatfield left JPL in 1974 and the JPLDIS project was assigned to Jeb Long, another programmer at JPL, who added many advanced features plus a programming language. 

In 1978, while at JPL, Wayne Ratliff wrote a database program in assembly language for CP/M based microcomputers to help him win the football pool at the office. He based it on Jeb Long's JPLDIS and called it Vulcan, after Mr. Spock of Star Trek. In late 1980, George Tate, of Ashton-Tate, entered into a marketing agreement with Wayne Ratliff. Vulcan was renamed to dBase, the price was raised from $50 to $695, and the software quickly became a huge success.

When a number of "clones" of dBase appeared in the 1990s, Ashton-Tate sued one of them, FoxPro, over copyrights. On December 11, 1990, Judge Hatter issued an order invalidating Ashton-Tate's copyrights in its own dBASE products. That ruling was based on a legal doctrine known as "unclean hands". Judge Hatter explained that Ashton-Tate knew that the dBase program development was based on JPLDIS, and that fact was kept hidden from the Copyright Office.

See also 
dBase
Vulcan (programming language)

References 

Computer-related introductions in 1973
NASA online
Proprietary database management systems
Fire Time

Fire Time is a science fiction novel by Poul Anderson, first published in 1974. It was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1975.

Plot introduction
Fire Time takes place on the planet Ishtar in the "Anubelea" system, located 300 parsecs away from the Sun. Ishtar's peculiar orbit around the three stars of the Anubelea system (Bel, Ea, and Anu) results in the "Fire Time", a dramatic increase in heat every thousand years as the "demon star" Anu approaches the planet. As the northern hemisphere heats up, large numbers of Ishtarians flee south, leading to a collapse of civilization. The northern natives (Valennen) take advantage of the Gathering's (southern natives) culture to win two victories in Valennen territory.  The presence of visitors from Earth (also engaged in their own war off-planet at Nasqua) raises the prospect of changing the dynamics of history, though, with Earth involved in an interstellar war of its own, human aid is not guaranteed.

Themes and continuity
The presence of Gunnar Heim sets this story in the same universe as Anderson's earlier The Star Fox and while both of these books revolve around the theme of conflict, the core themes of Fire Time are more closely related to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict than to the Vietnam War allegory of The Star Fox. Several scenes in particular evoke this connection, particularly the sequence of the historical character Sigurdsson declaring the independence of the republic of Eleutheria in a manner not dissimilar to David Ben-Gurion's declaration of the independence of Israel. Anderson took a more nuanced view to Middle-eastern conflict than he did with America's struggle against communism, a theme also developed in There Will Be Time and some of the stories of his "Time Patrol" sequence. To this end, the focus is more political than military. In particular, Gunnar Heim's reappearance is in a much less mercenary capacity, endorsing peaceful co-existence between the warring humans and aliens.

See also
 HD 181068
 HD 188753

References

External links 
 
 Ishtar
Fire Time at Worlds Without End

1974 American novels
American science fiction novels
Novels by Poul Anderson
Doubleday (publisher) books
Pomacentrus

Pomacentrus is a genus of marine damselfish in the family Pomacentridae. These fish inhabit tropical locations and are often captured or bred as aquarium fish.

Species

There are currently 76 recognized species in this genus:

See also
Damselfish

References

 
Pomacentrinae
Marine fish genera
Taxa named by Bernard Germain de Lacépède
George Marshall (disambiguation)

George C. Marshall (1880–1959) was an American general, Chief of Staff of the United States Army, Secretary of State, President of the American Red Cross, and Secretary of Defense.

George Marshall may also refer to:

George Marshall (academic), principal of Trevelyan College, University of Durham
George Marshall (athlete) (1877–?), British runner
George Marshall (conservationist) (1904–2000), American conservationist and political activist
George Marshall (Victoria cricketer) (1829–1868), Australian cricketer who played for Victoria
George Marshall (Tasmania cricketer) (1832–1905), Australian cricketer who played for Tasmania
George Marshall (New Zealand cricketer) (1863–1907), New Zealand cricketer
George Marshall (environmentalist) (born 1964), British environmentalist
George Marshall (footballer, born 1869) (1869–1938), English footballer
George Marshall (footballer, born 1896) (1896–?), English footballer
George Marshall (gunner) (1781–1855), chemist, artillery specialist, and gunner in the United States Navy
George Marshall (MP), Member of Parliament (MP) for Boroughbridge 1614-1621
George Alexander Marshall (1851–1899), U.S. Representative from Ohio
George Marshall (director) (1891–1975), actor and director
George Marshall (philanthropist) (1753–1819), curate in Horsham, England
George Frederick Leycester Marshall (1843–1934), military officer and naturalist
George H. Marshall (1916–1984), British educator, campaigner and author
George Preston Marshall (1896–1969), American football team owner
George Sidney Marshall (1869–1956), 38th mayor of Columbus, Ohio
George William Marshall (1839–1905), English officer of arms
George Marshall (warden) (died 1658), English educational administrator
George Marshall (Jamaica), elected to the House of Assembly of Jamaica in 1820
G. M. Marshall (1834–1915), Wisconsin State Assemblyman
George C. Marshall High School (built: 1963), public high school in northern Virginia
George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies (founded 1993), an institute for the study of military security
USS George C. Marshall, a Benjamin Franklin-class ballistic missile submarine

See also
Marshall Space Flight Center, a major center for NASA named after George C. Marshall
George C. Marshall Institute, a think-tank based in Washington, D.C.
George C. Marshall's Dodona Manor, the home of George C. Marshall open as a museum
Tiananmen (disambiguation)

The Tiananmen, or Gate of Heavenly Peace, is the main entrance to the Imperial Palace Grounds in Beijing.

Tiananmen or Gate of Heavenly Peace may also refer to:

 Tiananmen Square
 Tiananmen Square protests, including:
 1976 Tiananmen Incident – the Tiananmen Square protests of 4–5 April 1976
 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre (also known as Tiananmen Massacre)
 The Gate of Heavenly Peace (film), a documentary about the protests
 Tiananmen (film), a 2009 Chinese film
 The Gate of Heavenly Peace (book), by Jonathan D. Spence, about the revolutionary history of China
 Tianmen Mountain, a mountain range in Hunan Province, China
Phacelia cicutaria

Phacelia cicutaria, with the common names caterpillar phacelia or caterpillar scorpionweed, is an annual species of Phacelia.

It is native to California, southern Nevada, and Baja California. It grows mainly in chaparral habitats, frequently in burnt areas or on rocky slopes.

Description
Phacelia cicutaria is an upright annual shrub growing up to 0.6 m (2') high. Its foliage is deeply lobed, 2–15 cm (1-6") long, with spiked segments.

The flower buds are held in tight, hairy coils which uncoil as the flowers open one by one. The flowering stems' resemblance of caterpillars lends this plant its common name. Flowers appear between March and May and are dirty-white to pale lavender in color.

Cultivation
Phacelia cicutaria is cultivated as an ornamental plant, in native plant and wildlife gardens, and for natural landscaping designs and habitat restoration projects. Its drought tolerance makes it well suited for water conserving gardens.

It can be propagated by seed, germination of which may be stimulated with aqueous extracts of charred wood, or the charred wood itself.

References

Further reading
Dale, Nancy; Flowering Plants of the Santa Monica Mountains, Capra Press, 1986
Baskin, Carol C.; Baskin, Jerry M. 2002. Propagation protocol for production of container Phacelia cicutaria Greene plants

External links

Jepson Manual Treatment — Phacelia cicutaria
Calflora database: Phacelia cicutaria
 Phacelia cicutaria — U.C. Photo gallery

cicutaria
Flora of California
Flora of Baja California
Flora of Nevada
Flora of the California desert regions
Flora of the Sierra Nevada (United States)
Natural history of the California chaparral and woodlands
Natural history of the California Coast Ranges
Natural history of the Channel Islands of California
Natural history of the Colorado Desert
Natural history of the Mojave Desert
Natural history of the Peninsular Ranges
Natural history of the Santa Monica Mountains
Natural history of the Transverse Ranges
Flora without expected TNC conservation status
Fusaichi Pegasus

Fusaichi Pegasus (, ; April 12, 1997 – May 23, 2023) was a champion American Thoroughbred racehorse who won the 2000 Kentucky Derby, and subsequently set a record at auction—selling for US$70M to Coolmore Stud.

Background
The colt was purchased as a yearling for $4 million by Fusao Sekiguchi, which is the highest price paid for a Kentucky Derby winner. His name is a combination of his owner's name, "Fusao", and the Japanese word for one, "ichi", to mean No. 1 or the best; the second half of his name came from that of a winged horse in Greek mythology.

Nicknamed "Fu Peg", he was a son of Mr. Prospector and Angel Fever, a mare by leading sire Danzig.

Racing career
In early 2000, Fusaichi Pegasus won the Grade 2 San Felipe Stakes and Wood Memorial Stakes.

Fusaichi Pegasus won the 2000 Kentucky Derby in a time of 2:01.12 for the 1 mile distance. At the time, it was the seventh fastest time in Kentucky Derby history; by the time of his death, it was the tenth fastest time. He was the first favorite to win the Kentucky Derby since Spectacular Bid in 1979 and the first horse to win the Kentucky Derby without winning a race as a two-year-old since Proud Clarion in 1967. He then lost to Red Bullet in the Preakness Stakes. After his loss in the Preakness Stakes, he did not race in the third leg of the Triple Crown, the Belmont Stakes.

Retirement and stud record
In 2000, he was sold to Irish breeder Coolmore Stud for a reported price of more than US$70 million (£35m). The previous record for a stallion prospect was US$40m (£24m), paid in 1983 for Shareef Dancer. During his first decade as a stallion, he split his time between Coolmore's Ashford Stud and Coolmore's Australian breeding operation. He shuttled in 2008 to Haras Don Alberto in Chile, and also shuttled in Uruguay. Among his progeny are Grade 1 winners Bandini, Roman Ruler, Champ Pegasus, and Haradasun.

His son Roman Ruler produced Ruler on Ice, winner of the 2011 Belmont Stakes. He was pensioned from stud duty after the 2020 breeding season.

Fusaichi Pegasus died on May 23, 2023, at age 26. He was euthanized due to the effects of old age.

Pedigree

References

1997 racehorse births
2023 racehorse deaths
Racehorses bred in Kentucky
Racehorses trained in the United States
Kentucky Derby winners
Horse monuments
Thoroughbred family 8-c
Jutland Shinboners

Jutland Shinboners is an Australian rules football team in Denmark.

Jutland Shinboners began in 2005 as the Jutland Power.  They are the representative side of the two Jutland clubs (Aalborg and Århus) for matches in the Danish Australian Football League Premier League.

See also

References

Australian rules football clubs in Denmark
2005 establishments in Denmark
Australian rules football clubs established in 2005
Sparassis crispa

Sparassis crispa is a species of fungus in the family Sparassidaceae. It is sometimes called cauliflower fungus.

Description
S. crispa grows in an entangled globe that is up to  in diameter. The lobes, which carry the spore-bearing surface, are flat and wavy, resembling lasagna noodles, coloured white to creamy yellow. When young they are tough and rubbery but later they become soft (they are monomitic).  The odour is pleasant and the taste of the flesh mild.

The spore print is cream, the smooth oval spores measuring about 5–7 µm by 3.5–5 µm.  The flesh contains clamp connections.

Ecology, distribution and related species
This species is a brown rot fungus, found growing at the base of conifer trunks, often pines, but also spruce, cedar, larch and others. It is fairly common in Great Britain and temperate Europe (but not in the boreal zone).

In Europe there is also a less well-known species of the same genus, Sparassis brevipes, which can be distinguished by its less crinkled, zoned folds and lack of clamp connections.

Culinary use
It is considered a good edible fungus when young and fresh, though it is difficult to clean (a toothbrush and running water are recommended for that process). One French cookbook, which gives four recipes for this species, says that grubs and pine needles can get caught up in holes in the jumbled mass of flesh. The Sparassis should be blanched in boiling water for 2–3 minutes before being added to the rest of the dish. It should be cooked slowly.

See also
 Sparassis spathulata

References

Edible fungi
Fungi described in 1781
Fungi of Europe
Fungi of North America
Polyporales
Budvanska Rivijera

Budvanska Rivijera is a Montenegrin hotel group. It operates with hotels within the Municipality of Budva in Montenegro. It is named after the region, the name means Budva Riviera in Montenegrin language.

History
Budvanska Rivijera was established in 1990 as a shareholding company.

Hotels
 Hotel Aleksandar - Budva
 Slovenska Plaža Tourist Complex - Budva
 Hotel Miločer - Sveti Stefan
 Hotel Sveti Stefan - Sveti Stefan
 Hotel Palas - Petrovac
 Hotel Castellastva - Petrovac

External links
 
 Budva Tourist Guide

Hospitality companies of Montenegro
British Legion (disambiguation)

British Legion could refer to:

The British Legion (or Royal British Legion), a British charity that provides support to armed forces' veterans 
Royal British Legion Industries (or RBLI) a British charity not affiliated with the RBL, that helps Armed Forces veterans, disabled people and people who are unemployed
British Legion (1860), a voluntary corps composed of Englishmen and Scots who fought for the unification of Italy, 1860–1861
British Legion (American Revolution), a British provincial regiment that served in the American Revolutionary War, 1777–1782
British Legions (), foreign volunteer units, established in 1819, who fought against Spain in South America's independence wars

Other uses
British Auxiliary Legion, officially the Auxiliary Legion, a British expeditionary force sent to Spain in 1835 to serve in the First Carlist War
British German Legion, a group of German soldiers recruited to fight for Britain in the Crimean War, 1855–1856
British Legion Volunteer Police Force, a short-lived police force established in response to the outcome of the Munich Agreement in September 1938
Legio II Britannica (Roman Empire); see List of Roman legions

See also
 List of military legions
 American Legion (disambiguation)
 French Legion (disambiguation)
 German Legion (disambiguation)
 Legion (disambiguation)
Pomachromis

Pomachromis is a genus of fish in the family Pomacentridae.

Species
Pomachromis exilis (Allen and Emery, 1973)  
Pomachromis fuscidorsalis  Allen & Randall, 1974 
Pomachromis guamensis Allen and Larson, 1975    
Pomachromis richardsoni (Snyder, 1909)

References

Pomacentrinae
Marine fish genera
Taxa named by Gerald R. Allen
Taxa named by John Ernest Randall
Harry Darby

Harry Darby (January 23, 1895January 17, 1987) was an American politician from Kansas.

Life and career

Born in Kansas City, Kansas, Darby graduated from the University of Illinois, and served in the United States Army during the World War I, rising to the rank of captain. After the war he became successful in business ventures in several different fields including insurance, steel, railroads, utilities and banking. He served on the Kansas State Highway Commission from 1933 to 1937.

In 1938 Darby, the owner of Darby Steel Company, purchased Kaw Steel Construction Company, in the West Bottoms at Kansas City, Kansas and formed The Darby Corporation from the two companies. The plant built most of the landing craft tanks (LCTs) that were used in various amphibious invasions. The plant built one craft a day and floated them more than 1,000 miles down the Missouri and Mississippi Rivers to New Orleans, Louisiana, prompting their "Prairie Ships" nickname.  Darby's plant at the mouth of Kansas River could hold 8 135í LCTs and 16 Landing Craft Mechanizeds (LCMs) in various stages of construction.

Darby served as the Republican National Committeeman for Kansas from the 1940 National Convention to early 1964, when he resigned the position. Gertrude Laughlin McSorley was his personal secretary during his career.

On December 2, 1949, he was appointed to fill a United States Senate seat to replace Clyde M. Reed (who had died on November 8) by Governor Frank Carlson, despite the fact that his only prior government experience was four years on the state highway commission. As a senator, Darby was a friend of General Dwight D. Eisenhower, a fellow Kansan. He kept his seat until November 28, 1950, when he was succeeded by Frank Carlson, the very man who had appointed him to the seat.

Darby returned to Kansas City and lived there until his death. He was buried in Highland Park Cemetery in Kansas City.

Legacy
Interstate 635 (Kansas–Missouri) is named the Harry Darby Memorial Highway for him in both Kansas and Missouri.

The bronze statue of Dwight D. Eisenhower, by Robert L. Dean, Jr., on the grounds of the Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum in Abilene, Kansas is a gift of the Harry and Edith Darby Foundation.

References

 Retrieved on 2008-07-02

External links
Finding aid for Harry Darby Oral History, Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library 

1895 births
1987 deaths
Politicians from Kansas City, Kansas
American people of English descent
Republican Party United States senators from Kansas
Kansas Republicans
20th-century American politicians
University of Illinois alumni
United States Army personnel of World War I
United States Army officers
Kandal

Kandal or Kondel may refer to:

Places
Kandal Province, a province of Cambodia
Kandal (National Assembly constituency), parliamentary constituency based in Kandal 
Kandal, Hormozgan, a village in Iran
Kandal, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, a village in Iran
Kandal, Kurdistan, a village in Iran
Kandal, Sistan and Baluchestan, a village in Iran
Kondel, Sistan and Baluchestan, a village in Iran
Kandal, West Azerbaijan, a village in Iran
Kandal, Iraq, a village in Iraq
Kandal, Norway, a village in Gloppen, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway

Other
Bhatia (caste), a caste of kings originating in Sindh Province and Rajasthan
Mishael Cheshin

Mishael Cheshin (‎; 16 February 1936 – 19 September 2015) was an Israeli Justice who served in the Supreme Court of Israel from 1992 to 2006.

Biography
Mishael Cheshin was born in Beirut, Greater Lebanon. He was the son of Leah (née Margalit) and Shneor Zalman Cheshin. His father, born in Jerusalem, was a Justice of the Israeli Supreme Court, and his mother, born in Beirut to parents from Safed, the founding president of the Jerusalem Foundation. They had three children, one of them, Shneor, was killed in hit-and-run accident in 2010.

Cheshin studied law at the Hebrew University.

Legal career
Prior to his appointment as a Supreme Court justice, Cheshin served 16 years in the Justice Ministry, culminating with a stint as deputy-attorney general from 1974–1978. He then entered private practice for 14 years, before being appointed to the Court. While serving as chairman of Israel's Central Election Commission, Cheshin suspended broadcasts of a press conference held by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon as a violation of election law. On 19 September 2015, Cheshin died at the age of 79 from cancer.

References

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1936 births
2015 deaths
Judges of the Supreme Court of Israel
Academic staff of Reichman University
Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Law alumni
Lebanese Jews