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Crown Financial Ministries

Crown Financial Ministries or Crown is a nondenominational, evangelical Christian ministry with the mission of "equipping servant leaders to live by God's design for their finances, work and life ... to advance transformation".

Background
Crown Financial Ministries was formed in 2000 by a merger of Larry Burkett's Christian Financial Concepts, (founded 1976), and Howard Dayton's Crown Ministries, (founded 1985). Burkett focused his ministry on mass media (including his radio show, Money Matters and a number of books), Bible studies, seminars, and building a volunteer coaching ministry, while Dayton focused on small group Bible studies combining biblical financial principles with practical application for budgeting and personal finances.

The two had met in the 1990s and quickly became friends. They considered the merger expedient due to the missions of their two groups, and Burkett's health. Burkett was chairman of the board of the combined entity until his 2003 death from heart failure. Dayton was CEO from the time of the merger until 2007 when Chuck Bentley became CEO.

Activities
A radio show, Crown Radio: Money Matters aired on 1,100 radio stations. An estimated 2,000,000 listeners in the US listen to the program, which is also aired in Africa, Australia and China. A Spanish-language version is aired in 23 countries.  the show was renamed MoneyLife and hosted by Chuck Bentley.  Howard Dayton stepped aside as host and CEO to focus on writing books and speaking, but remains actively involved in Crown, according to their website.

The message is similar to the teachings of financial talk show host Dave Ramsey that getting out of debt and controlling one's expectation of living are important parts of Christian discipleship. Dave Ramsey credits the co-founder Larry Burkett as one of his mentors who helped him get out of debt and form his thoughts and ideas on finances. While they acknowledge there is no direct admonition in the Bible against assuming debt, they heavily discourage taking it on.

Christian financial planner Gary Moore criticized Crown in 2006 for what he considers an aversion to taking on debt.

References

External links
www.crown.org - the ministry's website
https://web.archive.org/web/20060519084658/http://www.ministrywatch.com/mw2.1/F_FullRpt.asp?EIN=581260812 - a history and financial profile of the ministry
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2006/005/23.40.html - May 2006 article from Christianity Today about Crown, Dave Ramsey and Gary Moore

Companies based in Gwinnett County, Georgia
Christian organizations based in the United States
Organizations established in 1976
Great Valley

Great Valley may refer to:

Places
Central Valley (California), or Great Valley, or Great Central Valley, that runs through the center of California.
The Great Appalachian Valley extending from Canada to Alabama
Great Valley, New York, a town in Cattaraugus County, New York, USA

Pennsylvania
Great Valley (Pennsylvania)
Great Valley School District
Great Valley Corporate Center

See also
Great Rift Valley, Kenya, a major rift valley
Great Rift Valley (geographical concept), a series of connected rifts in SW Asia and East Africa
Great Valley Sequence, a group of geologic formations in the Central Valley of California
A fictional fertile place of refuge for dinosaurs in the film The Land Before Time
Great Valley Products, a computer hardware supplier
13th Producers Guild of America Awards

The 13th Producers Guild of America Awards (also known as 2002 Producers Guild Awards), honoring the best film and television producers of 2001, were held at The Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, California on March 3, 2002. The nominees were announced on January 10, 2002.

Winners and nominees

Film
{| class=wikitable style="width="100%"
|-
! colspan="2" style="background:#abcdef;"| Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures
|-
| colspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;"|
 Moulin Rouge! – Baz Luhrmann, Fred Baron, and Martin Brown A Beautiful Mind
 Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
 Shrek 
|}

Television

David O. Selznick Lifetime Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion PicturesLawrence Gordon David Susskind Lifetime Achievement Award in Television
 Marcy Carsey, Tom Werner, and Caryn Mandabach (Carsey-Werner-Mandabach)Milestone AwardRobert WisePGA Hall of Fame
Theatrical Motion Pictures: The Manchurian Candidate and Network
Television: Happy Days and Maude

Stanley Kramer Award
 Marshall Herskovitz, Jessie Nelson, Richard Solomon, and Edward Zwick for I Am Sam

Vanguard Award
 Pixar Animation Studios (Edwin Catmull, John Lasseter, and Steve Jobs)

Visionary Award
Joel Gallen for America: A Tribute to Heroes

References

 2001
2001 film awards
2001 guild awards
Szpilman

Szpilman is a surname and may refer to:

 Władysław Szpilman (1911–2000), Jewish Polish pianist and composer, the protagonist in The Pianist, 2002 historical drama film
 Andrzej Szpilman (born 1956), Jewish Polish dentist, composer, son of Władysław

Other 
 9973 Szpilman, main belt asteroid, named after Władysław Szpilman
 Szpilman Award, German annual art prize

See also 
 Spielmann
 Spillman

Surnames of Jewish origin
Polish-language surnames
Rebel Planet

Rebel Planet is a single-player roleplaying gamebook written by Robin Waterfield, illustrated by Gary Mayes and originally published in 1985 by Puffin Books. It forms part of Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone's Fighting Fantasy series. It is the 18th in the series in the original Puffin series (). There are currently no announced plans to republish the book as part of the modern Wizard series.

Plot
Rebel Planet is a science fiction adventure set in the year 2453. In this fictional representation of the future, human colonisation of the galaxy began in 2070 with the settlement of Tropos a few light-years from Earth. Earth and her colonies were conquered by an alien race known as the Arcadians in a twelve-year war around 2300. Humans have become slaves, and are kept alive only to serve their alien masters.

However, a human organization known as  SAROS ("Search And Research Of Space") has discovered that the Arcadians rely on a powerful super-computer to keep themselves networked together.  Without this computer, they are merely zombies, incapable of acting on their own.  SAROS has limited resources, but a secret plot is hatched to infiltrate Arcadion and destroy the queen computer.  The reader plays the role of the last hope of humanity, an undercover agent posing as a space merchant.

Other media
The book was loosely adapted into an Adventure Soft text adventure game Rebel Planet for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC, BBC Micro and Acorn Electron home computers (published by US Gold).

References
 
 
 

1985 fiction books
Fighting Fantasy gamebooks
Space opera gamebooks

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Speelman

Speelman or Speelmans is a Dutch occupational surname. A speelman now exclusively means a (historical) musician, but in the past was used for a performing artist with other skills. Notable people with the surname include: 

Cornelis Speelman (1628–1684), Dutch Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies
Edward Speelman (1910–1994), English art dealer
Harry Speelman (1916–1994), American football player
Hermann Speelmans (1906–1960), German stage and film actor
Jon Speelman (born 1956), English chess player, mathematician and chess writer
Speelman baronets, members of the Speelman baronetcy; descendants of Cornelis Speelman

References

Dutch-language surnames
Occupational surnames

de:Speelman
Chigmit Mountains

The Chigmit Mountains are a subrange of the Aleutian Range in the Kenai Peninsula and Lake and Peninsula Boroughs of the U.S. state of Alaska.

Location
They are located at the northeastern end of the Aleutian range, on the west side of Cook Inlet, roughly 120 miles (200 km) southwest of Anchorage. The closest major towns to the range are Kenai and Homer, across Cook Inlet on the west side of the Kenai Peninsula. 

To the north, the Chigmits are bordered by the Tordrillo Mountains, and on the northwest, by the Neacola Mountains. Cook Inlet marks the eastern boundary of the range, while on the west, the mountains fade out into the hills and lowlands of Lake Clark National Park and Preserve. On the south and southwest, the Chigmits abut the continuation of the Aleutian Range into the Alaska Peninsula.

Geological composition
The Chigmits, along with most of the Aleutian Range, are volcanic, and include two prominent stratovolcanoes, Redoubt Volcano (10,197 feet/3,108 m), the high point of the Aleutian Range; and Iliamna Volcano (10,016 feet/3,052 m).

References

Gallery

Aleutian Range
Lake Clark National Park and Preserve
Mountains of Kenai Peninsula Borough, Alaska
Mountains of Lake and Peninsula Borough, Alaska
14th Producers Guild of America Awards

The 14th Producers Guild of America Awards (also known as 2003 Producers Guild Awards), honoring the best film and television producers of 2002, were held at The Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, California on March 2, 2003. The ceremony was hosted by Patricia Heaton. The nominees were announced on January 16, 2003.

Winners and nominees

Film
{| class=wikitable style="width="100%"
|-
! colspan="2" style="background:#abcdef;"| Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures
|-
| colspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;"|
 Chicago – Martin Richards Adaptation – Edward Saxon, Jonathan Demme, and Vincent Landay
 Gangs of New York – Alberto Grimaldi and Harvey Weinstein
 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers – Barrie M. Osborne, Peter Jackson, and Fran Walsh
 My Big Fat Greek Wedding – Rita Wilson, Tom Hanks, and Gary Goetzman
 Road to Perdition – Richard D. Zanuck and Dean Zanuck
|}

Television

David O. Selznick Lifetime Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion PicturesRobert EvansDavid Susskind Lifetime Achievement Award in TelevisionBud YorkinMilestone AwardJack ValentiStanley Kramer AwardTodd Black and Denzel Washington for Antwone Fisher

Vanguard Award
George Lucas

Visionary Award
Rita Wilson for My Big Fat Greek Wedding

References

2002 film awards
2002 television awards
 2002
Producers Guild Awards
2002 guild awards
Massachusetts Bay Community College

Massachusetts Bay Community College (MassBay) is a public community college in Norfolk and Middlesex Counties. Founded in 1961, MassBay currently serves more than 4,400 full-time and part-time students on its three locations: Wellesley, Ashland, and Framingham. MassBay offers more than 70 degree and certificate programs aimed at helping students transfer to a four-year college or university or towards direct placement into a career. Massachusetts Bay Community College is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education.

History

Massachusetts Bay Community College was chartered in February 1961 by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as one of the first community colleges in Massachusetts. MassBay opened with temporary campuses in Watertown, in a property leased from Raytheon Company, and Boston, and at the time served just several hundred students. In 1975, the college moved to its permanent location in Wellesley Hills, on the campus of the former Elizabeth Seton High School. In 1990, MassBay opened a second campus in Framingham, which currently houses its health sciences and human services programs. In 2001, MassBay opened its Automotive Technology Center in Ashland.

External links
Official website

References

1961 establishments in Massachusetts
Community colleges in Massachusetts
Universities and colleges established in 1961
NJCAA athletics
Universities and colleges in Norfolk County, Massachusetts
Wellesley, Massachusetts
Stendeck

Stendeck is an electronic music act fronted by Alessandro Zampieri (born June 14, 1977), and is heavily associated with the industrial music scene. Zampieri is a classically trained pianist, forming Stendeck in 1999 as part of a growing interest in electronic music. In 2002 he made his first demo album, A crash into another world, which was very well received in his native Switzerland. Stendeck's current sound, marked by ambience, distorted beats and noisy keys with acoustic instruments was developed while working on his 2005 album Can you hear my call?. It was released by Geska Records and was mastered by Mike Wells of Gridlock. After the release of Faces in 2007, also on Geska Records, Stendeck switched to Tympanik Audio for his next album, Sonnambula (2009).

The name Stendeck is a variation of "stendec", the final strange Morse code radio message sent by the plane Star Dust on August 2, 1947, before its disappearance. An electronic music act called Stendec, unrelated to Stendeck, released an album in 2004.

Discography

Full length albums and EPs 

 A crash into another world (2002)
 Can you hear my call? (2005)
 Faces (2007)
 Sonnambula (2009)
 Scintilla (2011)
 Folgor (2015)
 Carnage (2021)
 Somewhere nobody knows (2021)

Compilation appearances 

 A.L.P.H.A. (2005)
 New Input Noise (2006)
 The Other Side (2006)
 IBM Vol. 3 (2006)
 Hyperreality (2007)
 Emerging Organisms (2007)
 Elektroanschlag 4 (2008)
 Emerging Organisms 2 (2008)
 Approach Lights (2009)
 Electronic Manifesto 4 (2010)
 Emerging Organisms 4 (2011)
 Accretion (2012)
 Hypotaxia (2016)
 Document (2019)
 KATHARSIS (2020)

Remixes 

 Autoclav1.1 – Visitor Attractions (2006)
 HIV+ – Overdose Kill me EP (2006)
 Technoir – Deliberately Fragile (2007)
 Zentriert ins Antlitz – NO (2008)
 Ad·ver·sary – A Bright Cut Across Velvet Sky (2009)
 ESA – The Immaculate Manipulation  (2009)
 Memmaker – How To Enlist in a Robot Uprising (2010)
 Architect – Upload Select Remix (2011)
 Sleepwalk – Nibiru (2012)
 Black Lung – Hype & Drive (2014)

Soundtracks 

 FinisLanda Original Score (2006)

External links 
Stendeck Website
Stendeck on myspace
Tympanik Audio

Swiss electronic music groups
Airth Castle

Airth Castle is a castle overlooking the village of Airth and the River Forth, in the Falkirk area of Scotland. Until 2023, the castle operated as a hotel and spa.

History
According to an account attributed to Blind Harry, in 1298 William Wallace attacked a previous wooden fortification on this site to rescue his imprisoned uncle, a priest from Dunipace. A later castle was destroyed after the defeat of King James III at Sauchieburn in 1488. The southwest tower is the earliest part, dating to the period immediately thereafter. An extension was added on the east side in the mid 16th century.

Airth Castle was owned by Falcones. Mary Bruce, a daughter of the laird of Airth, was a companion of Mary, Queen of Scots in England. The family were Jacobite sympathizers who were forced to sell after the failure of the 1715 rising.

The castle is a major historic building that retains much medieval fabric. As such, Historic Environment Scotland has designated it a Category A listed building. The ruins of the former parish church of Airth are within the grounds.

Airth Castle is owned by Airth Castle Limited and was operated by Airth Castle Hotel & Spa, a company formed in 2004. It was a popular wedding venue. The operator entered administration and ceased trading in March 2023.

Ghostlore
The castle, like many in the area, has a variety of ghostlore stories associated with it. These stories include:

 Sightings of a nanny with two young children who are said to have died in a fire at the castle. 
 The sound of children playing being heard in rooms 3, 4, 9 and 23. 
 Heavy footsteps can be heard outside room 14 before suddenly stopping and disappearing.
 People have also reported hearing cries and screams believed to be from a maid who was attacked by her master and left to die.
 A ghost dog, with a predilection for biting ankles, is believed to roam the hallways.
 A groundsman reportedly haunts the lower floor of the castle.

References

External links
Airth Castle Hotel 

Category A listed buildings in Falkirk (council area)
Castles in Falkirk (council area)
Hotel spas
Listed castles in Scotland
Reportedly haunted locations in Scotland
Alexander Chaplin

Alexander Chaplin (né Gaberman; born March 20, 1971) is an American actor. Chaplin's most prominent role was that of speechwriter James Hobert on the sitcom Spin City.

As with the rest of the Spin City main cast, Chaplin has featured in creator Bill Lawrence's subsequent sitcom, Scrubs, playing a drug addict who tries to trick Elliot into giving him prescription medication in "My Moment of Un-Truth" and later tricks Jordan into giving him money in "My Rite of Passage". His character later appeared in "My Scrubs" as a drugs counsellor for the hospital, claiming to be reformed.

Personal life
Chaplin is the son of a jazz musician and a novelist. As a teen, Chaplin attended Stagedoor Manor Performing Arts Training Center in upstate New York. He and his wife, Daisy, producer Harold Prince's daughter, changed their surnames to Chaplin, his mother-in-law's maiden name.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links
 

1971 births
Living people
Male actors from New York City
American male film actors
American male television actors
20th-century American male actors
21st-century American male actors
Kneen

Kneen, (pronounced "neen" with the 'K' silent), is a Manx surname. There have been several interpretations of the origin of the surname. Kneen may be an Anglicisation of the Gaelic patronymic Mac Niadháin, which is derived from a pet form of the Gaelic personal name Nia meaning "champion". Another origin attributed to the surname is that Kneen may be derived from the Gaelic Mac Cianain, meaning "son of Cianan". The name Cianan being a diminutive of cian, meaning "long". Another opinion published in the 19th century is that Kneen is possibly a corruption of the surname Nevyn, and derived from the Gaelic Naomh meaning "a saint". This origin has been attributed to the name because Kneen had been thought to be confused in early documents with the surnames Nevyn and Nevyne. An Andrew John Nevyn is recorded in 1417. A Jenkin M'Nyne is recorded in 1429, and later in 1430 his name is recorded as Jenkine Mac Nevyne.

As a surname
Dan Kneen, (1987-2018), professional motorcycle racer
Edgar Kneen, former Australian rules footballer 
John Kneen, (1873-1938), Manx linguist specialising in Manx
Krissy Kneen, Australian bookseller and writer
Steve Kneen, Australian, rugby league player
Thomas Kneen, (1852-1916), Manx, His Majesty's Clerk of the Rolls for the Isle of Man

See also
McNee (disambiguation), derived from the Gaelic Mac Niadh, which is the patronymic form of the Gaelic personal name Nia.
McNiven, derived from the Gaelic Mac Naoimhín.
Nevin, sometimes derived from the Gaelic Mac Naoimhín.

References

Surnames of Manx origin
Manx-language surnames
Demons of the Deep

Demons of the Deep is a single-player roleplaying gamebook written by Steve Jackson (the American game-designer, rather than the series co-creator), illustrated by Duncan Smith and originally published in 1986 by Puffin Books. It forms part of Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone's Fighting Fantasy series. It is the 19th in the series in the original Puffin series (). There are currently no announced plans to republish the book as part of the modern Wizard series.

Demons of the Deep contains many successful endings, though some are 'more successful' than others.

Story
Demons of the Deep is the only gamebook of those that the American Steve Jackson wrote that follows a traditional linear design. In the gamebook, the reader takes on the role of the first mate of the merchant ship Sunfish.  Unfortunately, before the adventure even begins, the pirate ship Troll strikes.  The entire crew, save for the main character, are slain.  Although the protagonist is merely knocked unconscious, waking grants little respite, as a quick walk off the stern of the ship follows. The player sinks into the sea but, thanks to magic, does not drown, beginning an adventure in an ancient domain sunken beneath the waves. The player-character must collect black pearls and learn a spell to form skeletons from them, then use these to attack and defeat the pirate crew of the Troll.

The book takes place almost entirely underwater, in Atlantis, a sunken continent located west of Allansia.

References
 
 
 

1986 fiction books
Fighting Fantasy gamebooks
Books by Steve Jackson (American game designer)

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Jack Warner

Jack Warner may refer to:

Film and TV
Jack L. Warner (1892–1978), head of Warner Bros. studio
Jack M. Warner (1916–1995), American film producer
Jack Warner (actor) (1895–1981), British film and television actor

Sportspeople
Jack Warner (catcher) (1872–1943), American baseball catcher
Jack Warner (pitcher) (born 1940), American baseball relief pitcher
Jack Warner (third baseman) (1903–1986), American baseball third baseman
Jack Warner (football executive) (born 1943), Trinidadian former football administrator and current politician
Jack Warner (footballer, born 1911) (1911–1980), Welsh football player with Swansea Town, Manchester United and Oldham
Jack Warner (footballer, born 1898) (1898–1950), English football inside forward, played for Man. City, Watford and Thames
Jack Warner (footballer, born 1883) (1883–1948), English football full-back, played for Preston NE, Southampton and Portsmouth
Jack Warner (sport shooter), British Olympic shooter

Other(s)
Jack Warner, founder of the Westervelt Warner Museum of American Art

See also
Jackie Warner (disambiguation)
John Warner (disambiguation)
Warner (disambiguation)
16th Producers Guild of America Awards

The 16th Producers Guild of America Awards (also known as 2005 Producers Guild Awards), honoring the best film and television producers of 2004, were held on January 22, 2005. The ceremony at Culver Studios in Los Angeles, California was hosted by Wayne Brady. The nominees were announced on January 5, 2005.

Winners and nominees

Film
{| class=wikitable style="width="100%"
|-
! colspan="2" style="background:#abcdef;"| Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures
|-
| colspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;"|
 The Aviator – Michael Mann and Graham King Finding Neverland – Richard N. Gladstein and Nellie Bellflower
 The Incredibles – John Walker
 Million Dollar Baby – Clint Eastwood, Albert S. Ruddy, and Tom Rosenberg
 Sideways – Michael London
|}

Television

David O. Selznick Achievement Award in Theatrical Motion PicturesLaura ZiskinDavid Susskind Achievement Award in TelevisionJohn WellsMilestone AwardJeffrey KatzenbergStanley Kramer AwardHotel Rwanda
Voces inocentes (Innocent Voices)

Vanguard Award
Terry Semel

Visionary Award
Rescue Me

References

 2004
2004 film awards
2004 guild awards
2004 television awards
D with hook and tail

, ᶑ (d with hook and tail) is a letter of the Latin alphabet, used in phonetic transcription to represent a voiced retroflex implosive, though it is not explicitly part of the International Phonetic Alphabet. It is formed from d with the addition of a hook to mark it as implosive, and a tail to mark it as retroflex. It is thus a fusion of  and .

Computer encoding

 was added to Unicode with version 4.1 in 2005, but very few fonts display it.

There is no standard Unicode encoding for the capital form. However, SIL fonts such as Gentium Plus, Doulos SIL and Charis SIL have  U+F20D in their private-use areas as the capital form of . Alternatively, combining characters can also represent the uppercase ᶑ (like Ɗ̢).

Latin-script letters
Phonetic transcription symbols
Akhmeteli–Varketili Line

The Akhmeteli–Varketili Line () (formerly known as Didube–Samgori and Gldani–Varketili and also going by the name: First Line) is a line of the Tbilisi Metro. The line was part of the first stage of the Metro and currently cuts the city on a north–south axis. The line currently has 16 stations and 19.6 kilometres of track.

History

Name changes

Transfers

Rolling stock
The line is served by the Gldani depot (№2), currently 24 four carriage trains are assigned to it. A mix of Еzh3, Еma-502, Еm-508T as well as the newer 81-714.5, 81-717.5. Additional Ezh3 and Em-508T subway cars were received in 1985 from Tashkent metro. All of the trains are undergoing major repairs and there is also a large carriage reserve park. All the other trains are being retired and scrapped. Type Ezh, Ezh1, was retired from passenger service in 2013. Until 2010, type E was in service since the very opening of the metro. The modernization of the existing fleet includes serious change in the train's interior and exterior, thus replacing the original seats with antivandal seats, the trains receive a new front mask which is with a dot matrix display on the top part. The light system in the interior is refurbished. The trains are repainted into silver grey and red livery. They receive a modification of 81-717M/81-714M, identical to the 81-71M in Prague metro. Similar refurbishments were made for Baku and Yerevan metro.

Recent developments and future plans
Because some of the stations have been operative for over four decades, as well as neglect caused by the lack of funding during the 1990s, most of them require a major facelift and some severe repairs on hydroisolation and structure. Recently there has been progress in both directions. There are unconfirmed proposals of additional proposals, but so far Tbilisi has other projects to be realised.

References

Tbilisi Metro
Railway lines opened in 1966
Charles Chun

Charles Chun (born February 28, 1967) is an American actor who has appeared in television shows such as Criminal Minds, Scrubs, Everybody Loves Raymond, Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide and How I Met Your Mother.

He has also appeared in motion pictures such as Beverly Hills Cop III, Dumb & Dumber, Double Tap, The Interview, and My Favorite Martian. In 1996, he guest starred in the popular Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Trials and Tribble-ations", in which he played a Starfleet engineer serving aboard the original USS Enterprise from Star Trek: The Original Series.

He appeared in a single episode of The O.C, as the man who evicts Julie Cooper from Caleb Nichol's home, as a doctor in an episode of Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction and as a call-girl obsessed former brother in law of a District Attorney in Castle'''s second season. He also made a guest star appearance in Big Time Rush'', as Lucy's dad.

Select TV and filmography

References

External links

Living people
American male film actors
American male television actors
American male voice actors
Place of birth missing (living people)
American male actors of Korean descent
20th-century American male actors
21st-century American male actors
1967 births
Connecticut College alumni
Michael Hobert

Michael Hobert is an American actor. He had a recurring role on the TV show Scrubs as Lonnie. His brother, Tim Hobert, was one of the show's producers. Hobert has also appeared in Spin City and Gilmore Girls. He wrote a movie with Sam Jaeger called Advantage Hart. Hobert was originally in the first episode of Scrubs, "My First Day", as "Pizza Delivery Guy", who was the guy in the MRI machine.

Filmography

Acting

Film

Television

Writing

Television

External links

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American male television actors
Falkirk Steeple

The Falkirk Steeple is a landmark which dominates the skyline of Falkirk in central Scotland. The present structure on the High Street was built in 1814, and replaced an earlier steeple dating from the late 17th century, which itself replaced a still earlier structure. The Falkirk Steeple is protected as a category A listed building. A stylised image of the steeple appears on the crest of Falkirk Football Club.

History
The present steeple dates from 1814, and was designed by the architect David Hamilton in a classical style. It is  high, with cells on the upper floors and a clock in the third of the four stages of the building.

The steeple was damaged in 1927 when it was struck by lightning, causing the spire to be destroyed. It was subsequently replaced.

The steeple contains 2 prison cells, male lower and female upper, which were in use until the new prison was opened in the 1860s.

Old steeple
The previous steeple, which stood on the same site, was constructed in 1697 and served as the town's tolbooth and temporary gaol until the late 18th century. This was demolished after construction of an adjacent building in 1803 caused the steeple to subside.

References

External links
Falkirk Steeple Box Office, Falkirk Community Trust
Walk 2, Falkirk Town Centre 2, Falkirk Local History Society

Category A listed buildings in Falkirk (council area)
Listed government buildings in Scotland
Buildings and structures in Falkirk
Clock towers in the United Kingdom
1814 establishments in Scotland
Towers completed in 1814
Aloma Wright

Aloma Wright is an American actress, widely known for her roles as Laverne Roberts on the NBC/ABC comedy series Scrubs (2001–2009), Maxine Landis on the NBC daytime drama series Days of Our Lives (2008–2015), Mildred Clemons on the ABC drama series Private Practice (2011–2013),  Gretchen Bodinski on the USA Network drama series Suits (2015–2019), and Viola in Tyler Perry's Young Dylan.

Early life
Wright was born in New York and raised in California. She attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City.

Career 
Wright began her acting career on stage, before appearing in films like Stuart Saves His Family, Devil in the Flesh, and Shadow Hours, and television shows such as Suddenly Susan, Dangerous Minds, Frasier, Friends, Malcolm in the Middle, Ally McBeal, Girlfriends, and Judging Amy. She also had a recurring role in the Fox series Power Rangers in Space in 1998. She was in the Steve Harvey show as Lovita’s aunt. She also had a recurring role as Ms. Shirley on the series The Soul Man.

In 2001, Wright was cast as Laverne Roberts in the NBC comedy series, Scrubs. After six seasons, her character was killed off in "My Long Goodbye". She returned in season seven playing a new character, Nurse Shirley. Initial reports stated that her character would be the alcoholic, irreligious sister of Laverne, but these turned out to be inaccurate. She later returned to play Nurse Roberts in the season 8 finale, "My Finale", as JD is looking back on all the people in his life. In 2000s, Wright also guest starred on NYPD Blue, Cold Case, NCIS, and Mad Men. She also had supporting parts in films such as Bring It On, The Brothers, Mr. Deeds and Johnson Family Vacation.

In 2008, Wright began appearing as nurse Maxine Landis in the NBC daytime soap opera, Days of Our Lives. From 2012 to 2013, Wright also had the recurring role as Mildred Clemons in the Shonda Rhimes' series, Private Practice, and in 2015 appeared in an episode of Scandal. In 2015, she joined the cast of USA Network legal series Suits for season five as Harvey Specter’s new secretary, Gretchen Bodinski. She appeared on the show in a recurring basis until the series finale aired in 2019. In 2020, she was cast as Viola, the title character's grandmother in the Nickelodeon sitcom Young Dylan created by Tyler Perry.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links 
 

African-American actresses
American film actresses
American television actresses
American soap opera actresses
Actresses from New York City
Living people
American Academy of Dramatic Arts alumni
20th-century American actresses
21st-century American actresses
20th-century African-American women
21st-century African-American women
21st-century African-American people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Trent Falls

Trent Falls is the confluence of the River Ouse and the River Trent which forms the Humber between Lincolnshire and the East Riding of Yorkshire in England.

Location
The River Ouse flows to the east where it turns into the Humber, and the River Trent flows northwards. It curves to the east near the confluence, although this is largely engineered, rather than natural. A training wall was built on the western bank of the Trent after the First World War, in an attempt to keep the channel in a known position. The rivers deposit large volumes of silt in this area, and charts for coastal shipping have to be updated monthly, but for smaller vessels, the channel can be considered to be reasonably static.

Despite the training wall and a mini-lighthouse called 'Apex Light' which is situated at the end of the wall, navigation at Trent Falls is not simple. There are no real waterfalls, but there is a very rapid race of water at difficult stages of the tide (especially spring tides), and there is a tidal bore on the Trent (the Trent Aegir). Boats coming down one river with an ebbing tide often have to wait several hours (sometimes beached on the sand, and sometimes overnight) until the tide turns and the flood can carry them up the other river.

The RSPB's Blacktoft Sands nature reserve lies immediately upstream of the Falls, on the south bank of the Ouse. It is formed from the largest tidal reedbed in England, and is visited by 270 species of birds, including breeding pairs of bearded tits, Eurasian bitterns and marsh harriers, for which it is of national importance. Overlooking Trent Falls from a hill a mile away to the east is Julian's Bower, an ancient turf maze on the edge of the Lincolnshire village of Alkborough. It dates from at least 1697, when Abraham de la Pryme recorded it, although the reasons for its creation are now uncertain.

Bibliography

References

Landforms of the East Riding of Yorkshire
Landforms of Lincolnshire
River Trent
River Ouse, Yorkshire
Sword of the Samurai (gamebook)

Sword of the Samurai is a single-player roleplaying gamebook written by Mark Smith and Jamie Thomson, illustrated by Alan Langford and originally published in 1986 by Puffin Books. It was later republished by Wizard Books in 2006. It forms part of Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone's Fighting Fantasy series. It is the 20th in the series in the original Puffin series and 25th in the modern Wizard series.

Rules

As with titles such as House of Hell and Appointment with F.E.A.R.,  Sword of the Samurai utilizes an additional game mechanic – in this instance "Honour Points", which are awarded to the player for aiding those in need and defeating foes. If the player's Honour score is reduced to zero, then they as the player automatically commit suicide (known as seppuku in medieval Japan). Gameplay includes another feature: as with Appointment with F.E.A.R., the player may choose which attributes (in this instance Skills) they wish to utilize, which in turn affects the outcome.

Story
Set in the fictional continent Khul on the Fighting Fantasy world Titan, the game is a campaign: the player must travel to the Pit of Demons, helping others, defeating foes and acquiring allies, and then battle through the Pit for a final confrontation for the Dai-Katana.

References

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1986 fiction books
Fighting Fantasy gamebooks
Books by Mark Smith (author)
Books by Jamie Thomson
Fictional samurai
Fardunjee Marzban

Fardunjee Marzaban or Fardoonjee Marazban (22 August 1787– 17 March 1847) was, among other things, a printer and a newspaper editor. He established the first vernacular printing press in Bombay, India. He also started India’s oldest running periodical called the Bombay Samachar, which was printed primarily in Gujarati. He pioneered vernacular journalism in India, as also the production of Gujarati types.

Life and work
Fardunjee Marzban was born at Surat in 1787 into a family of  Parsi-Zoroastrian priests in Gujarat, and initially trained for the priesthood. His father and grandfather had been scholars of Zoroastrian religious literature (i.e. Middle Persian and Avestan texts), and Marzban followed their example.
 
In 1805, Fardunji went to Bombay and learnt Persian and Arabic languages under Mulla Feroze. In 1808, Fardunji opened a book-bindery.

It was while working as a book binder that he met the printer Jijibhai Chhapghar. Perhaps it was his interaction with Jijibhai Chhapghar that inspired Fardunji to open an Indian printing press. 

The press was set up in 1812, but the first book would not be printed until 1814. This book would be an Almanac for the Hindu Samvat Year 1871. No copy of the work survives.

Between 1814 and 1822 he printed several other works. In 1815 he printed a Gujarati translation of the Persian book Dabistān-i Mazāhibm, which he had himself prepared. The work was priced at Rs 15 per copy. In 1817 he published a Gujarati translation of the Khordeh Avesta.

Later, he would also publish translations of the Shahnameh in 1833, the Gulistan in 1838, the Bostan (posthumously in 1849). He even published a Persian dictionary in 1833.

Fardunji’s Bombay Samachar, which started off as a weekly paper, priced at Rs 2 per month, was turned into a daily in 1832. It would serve as a template for the foundation of several other Parsi-run newspapers, including the Indian Spectator (later the Voice of India) and the Bombay Times (now a supplement of the Times of India).

1832 was not a fortuitous year for Fardunji Marzban. He had to withdraw from the Bombay Samachar that year. It appears that his printing Gujarati translations of Parsi scriptures caused great controversy. In addition to this, he also lost his trading ship (which traded with China) that he owned. The ship was called Hindustan. Perhaps because of these double losses in his journalistic enterprise and trade, he had to leave Bombay.

He went to Daman, then a Portuguese settlement, where he practiced medicine.  He died on 23 March 1847.

Notes

References

See also
Bhimjee Parikh

19th-century Indian journalists
1787 births
1847 deaths
Parsi people from Mumbai
People from Surat
Journalists from Gujarat
Writers from Mumbai
Businesspeople from Mumbai
19th-century Indian businesspeople
Parsi people
Indian newspaper founders
Spilman

Spilman may refer to:

People
Byrd Spilman Dewey (1856–1942), American author, land investor, and town founder
Harry Spilman (born 1954), American baseball player
Hendrik Spilman (1721–1784), Dutch painter and engraver
John Spilman (died 1626), German-born papermaker and jeweller in England
Jonathan E. Spilman (1812–1896), American lawyer, minister, and composer
Tom Spilman (born ?), American computer programmer, game developer, and businessman

Places
Spilman, West Virginia, an unincorporated community in the United States

See also
Spillman (disambiguation)
Spillmann
Spielmann
Szpilman
Spellman
Spelman (disambiguation)
Indie Press Revolution

Indie Press Revolution (also referred to as "IPR") is a sales network that acts as a fulfillment house and distributor for publishers of indie role-playing games. It offers games directly to the public and to game retailers. Justin Joyce for Polygon recommended it for its selection of games and efficient website. Kristina Manente for Syfy called it a great resource to find indie tabletop role-playing games.

It was founded in 2004 by Ed Cha of Open World Press and Brennan Taylor of Galileo Games. IPR represents over 100 author/publishers involved in role-playing games. 

On June 17, 2010 DOJ, Inc. (which also owns Hero Games) announced that they have purchased a majority share of IPR. Brennan Taylor stepped down as President. Jason Walters is now general manager, and much of IPR's energy is currently focused on expanding its convention presence, growing its retailer network, and attracting new publishers.

Member publishers

The following publishers and designers distribute games through IPR as of April 2023.
 Bully Pulpit Games
 Buried Without Ceremony
 Cats of Catthulu
 Evil Hat Productions
 Galileo Games
 Ghostly Rituals
 Lumpley Games
 Magpie Games
 Memento Mori Theatricks
 Onyx Path Publishing
 Pelgrane Press
 Possum Creek Games
 Rowan, Rook and Decard
 TAO Games
 The Gauntlet
 Wet Ink Games

External links
 Indie Press Revolution 
 Interview with IPR Founders Ed Cha and Brennan Taylor

References 

Indie role-playing game publishing companies
Circuit breaker (disambiguation)

A circuit breaker is an automatic electrical switch.

Circuit breaker or circuit breakers may also refer to:

 Trading curb or circuit breaker, a stock market term
 Richie Hawtin (born 1970) alias Circuit Breaker, an electronic musician and DJ
 "Circuit Breaker", a song from Röyksopp's album The Understanding
 Circuit breaker design pattern, a design pattern in programming
 Circuit Breakers (video game), a 1998 racing video game
 Circuit Breaker, a superhero from the Transformers comics
 Circuit Breaker, a gadget blog on The Verge, an American technology news and media network
 Circuit Breaker, the name Singapore gave its partial lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic, and subsequently adopted by other countries.
The Expelled

The Expelled were a punk rock band first formed in July 1981 in Leeds, England. The original line-up consisted of lead vocalist Jo Ball, guitarist Tim Ramsden, bassist Craig 'Macca' McEvoy and drummer Rick Fox.

History
After gigging around Leeds, the band signed a record deal with Riot City Records after Rick Fox gave a demo tape to the drummer of Vice Squad, (one of the groups chief influences). They went on to release a three track extended player and a single both in 1982, and then do a John Peel session on BBC Radio 1 in December 1982. 

Ball left in 1983 and the band tried out several female vocalists, touring with one (Jewlie) and recording two songs with another (Penny, a girlfriend of Vice Squad guitarist Dave Bateman), before deciding to carry on as a three piece with McEvoy taking over on vocals.

The new line-up recorded four tracks for an unreleased 12", 'Waiting for Tomorrow', before Riot City Records ran into financial problems and the band split in May 1984.

McEvoy went on to play bass for The Underdogs, Fox played drums for Cross Connection, and Tim Ramsden hung up his guitar.

Following the release of a 1999 compilation album on the Captain Oi! label, Fox put the band back together and the original line-up rehearsed, but never gigged, before going their separate ways.

Still determined to reform the group Fox asked Becky Laurance, the singer with another band he had joined around this time, The Tricycle Thieves, to front The Expelled and again contacted McEvoy who brought with him Dougie, the lead guitarist from his other band, The Poison Hearts. The new line-up toured for several years.

Fox now plays drums in The Measles. Under his alias 'The Colonel', he also manages punk covers band Kerpunk!

Discography

Singles
"No Life, No Future" (1982) Riot City Records
"Government Policy" (1982) Riot City Records
'Waiting for Tomorrow' (Unreleased)

Compilation album
Punk Rock Collection (1999) [Captain Oi]

References

External links
2003 Interview with Rick Fox

English punk rock groups
Hardcore punk groups from Leeds
British musical quartets
We All Know Who We Are

We All Know Who We Are is the second album by the funk band Cameo, released early in 1978.

Track listing
All tracks composed by Larry Blackmon; except where indicated
 "Inflation" – 4:40 
 "C On the Funk" – 4:25  
 "Why Have I Lost You" – 5:17  
 "Stand Up" – 3:34 (Blackmon, Eric Durham)
 "We All Know Who We Are" – 4:52 (Blackmon, Tomi Jenkins)
 "It's Serious" – 8:06 (Blackmon, Greg "Doc" Johnson)
 "It's Over" – 4:17 (Blackmon, Tomi Jenkins, Nathan Leftenant)

Personnel
Larry Blackmon - lead vocals, drums, percussion
 Gregory Johnson - keyboards, piano, vocals
Gary Dow - bass guitar
Eric Durham - guitar
Arnett Leftenant - saxophone, percussion
Nathan Leftenant - trumpet, percussion
Wayne Cooper - vocals, percussion
Tomi Jenkins - vocals
Charles Sampson - guitar

Charts

Singles

References

External links
 We All Know Who We Are at Discogs

Cameo (band) albums
1978 albums
LRA Radio Nacional

LRA Radio Nacional, also known as Radio Nacional Argentina, is the Argentine national radio station, and part of the national public media system. It started transmitting in 1937 as LRA Radio del Estado and changed its name to the current one in 1957. Since 1949, National Radio is also in charge of the Radiodifusión Argentina al Exterior, an international service that broadcasts in numerous languages.

The radio's programs focus on Argentine news, and culture, and history, among other things. Music broadcast  includes all kind of Argentine songs - from Folklore to Tango and Argentine Rock.
Aside from the main news broadcasts and cultural shows, RNA also broadcasts national football matches and the performance of other Argentine athletes during venues such as the Olympic Games or the FIFA World Cup.

Availability 
The head of the radio system is located in Buenos Aires, and has several transmission points that re-transmit the original signal, but also produce their own programs:

LRA1 Radio Nacional de Buenos Aires
LRA2 Viedma, Río Negro Province
LRA3 Santa Rosa, La Pampa Province
LRA4 Salta, Salta Province
LRA5 Rosario, Santa Fe Province
LRA6 Mendoza, Mendoza Province
LRA7 Córdoba, Córdoba Province
LRA8 Formosa Formosa Province
LRA9 Esquel, Chubut Province
LRA10 Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego Province
LRA11 Comodoro Rivadavia, Chubut Province
LRA12 Santo Tomé, Corrientes Province
LRA13 Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires Province
LRA14 Santa Fe, Santa Fe Province
LRA15 Tucumán, Tucumán Province
LRA16 La Quiaca, Jujuy Province
LRA17 Zapala, Neuquén Province
LRA18 Río Turbio, Córdoba Province
LRA19 Puerto Iguazú, Misiones Province
LRA20 Las Lomitas, Jujuy Province
LRA21 Santiago del Estero, Santiago del Estero Province
LRA22 Jujuy, Jujuy Province
LRA23 San Juan, San Juan Province
LRA24 Río Grande Tierra del Fuego Province
LRA25 Tartagal, Salta Province
LRA26 Resistencia, Chaco Province
LRA27 Catamarca Catamarca Province
LRA28 La Rioja La Rioja Province
LRA29 San Luis San Luis Province
LRA30 Bariloche, Río Negro Province
LRA31 Radio RAE de Buenos Aires
LRA36 Arcángel San Gabriel - Esperanza Base, Argentine Antarctica
LRA42 Gualeguaychú, Entre Ríos Province
LRA51 Jachal, San Juan Province
LRA52 Chos Malal, Neuquén Province
LRA53 San Martín de los Andes, Neuquén Province
LRA54 Ingeniero Jacobacci, Río Negro Province
LRA55 Alto Río Senguer, Chubut Province
LRA56 Perito Moreno, Santa Cruz Province
LRA57 El Bolsón, Río Negro Province
LRA58 Río Mayo, Chubut Province
LRA59 Gobernador Gregores, Santa Cruz Province
LRA343 Neuquén, Neuquén Province
LRA339 FM Folklórica de Buenos Aires
LT11 Concepción del Uruguay, Entre Ríos Province
LT12 Paso de los Libres, Corrientes Province
LT14 Paraná, Entre Ríos Province
LU4 Comodoro Rivadavia, Chubut Province
LU23 El Calafate, Santa Cruz Province
LV4 San Rafael, Mendoza Province
LV8 Mendoza, Mendoza Province
LV19 Malargüe, Mendoza Province

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Radio stations in Argentina
Mass media companies of Argentina
Saburtalo Line

The Saburtalo Line () is a line of the Tbilisi Metro in Georgia. The line was first opened in 1979 and has since extended to the western residential districts of the city, near Tbilisi State University’s X and XI buildings. It runs from the east and west direction of Tbilisi, in contrast to the First Line which runs north-south axis of the city. The line is named after Saburtalo, the district, and neighbourhood of Tbilisi, where 5 of 7 stations of this line are located. Alternatively, the line is being referred to simply as 2nd Line.

History

Name changes

Transfers

Station Square is the eastern terminus and the transfer station to the First Line. The Station Square platforms of the Saburtalo line and the First line are placed parallel to each other and are connected by a 50-meter relatively narrow corridor. Since Station Square is the terminus station of the Saburtalo line, the platform and transfer corridor at rush hours may be extremely congested.

Rolling stock
The line is served by the Nadzaladevi (No.1) depot. Currently, 9 four-carriage trains are assigned to it. All are the 81-714/717 versions with .5 and .5M modifications. Additional Ema-502M cars were supplied, causing an inconsistency in the cars' design.

Recent developments and future plans
The western extension of the line has been frozen for some time before Vazha-Pshavela station opened in the year 2000. It was the first metro station to be opened in independent Georgia. Construction of the State University station (Sakhelmtsipo Universiteti), which dates back to the Soviet era and was suspended for 22 years, was restarted in July 2015 and was completed in October 2017. In perspective, the line might continue to the east.

References

External links
 Metro Web-site (Archived)
 Tbilisi Metro on Urbanrail.net
 Metrosoyuza
 Metroworld
 Tbilisi Metro Line 2 (Anisimov, 2008)

Notes

Tbilisi Metro
Railway lines opened in 1979