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God (Rebecca St. James album)

God is the third studio album by then 18-year-old Christian pop and rock artist Rebecca St. James. It was released on 25 June 1996 by ForeFront Records, and peaked at No. 200 on the Billboard 200. The title song was featured on WOW #1s: 31 of the Greatest Christian Music Hits Ever. It was RIAA Certified Gold in 2005. This was the first of many Rebecca St. James albums produced by Tedd Tjornhom.

Commercial performance

The song "God" was a hit in 1996, topping three Christian Rock Charts. The radio singles "You're the Voice", "Abba (Father)" and "Go & Sin No More" also did well, while the single "Me Without You" failed to gain major airplay. Though never released as singles "Psalm 139", "Speak to Me" and "You Then Me" have all become fan favorites.

Track listing

Personnel 
 Rebecca St. James – lead and backing vocals, arrangements
 Tedd T – arrangements, acoustic piano, Fender Rhodes, harmonica, programming, bass, percussion 
 Carl Marsh – accordion, Mellotron, string arrangements
 David Cleveland – acoustic guitars  
 Vince Emmett – electric guitar, steel guitar
 Brent Milligan – electric guitar, bass, percussion 
 Otto Price – electric guitar, bass
 Chuck Zwicky – additional guitars (2)
 Dan Needham – drums, percussion
 Hunter Lee – Uilleann pipes, Irish flute, didjeridu
 Josh Smallbone – guest MC (8)
 Tina Keil – additional backing vocals (10)
 Paul Q-Pek – additional backing vocals (10)
 Lori Wilshire – additional backing vocals (10)
 Micah Wilshire – additional backing vocals (10)

Production 
 Tedd T – producer, recording 
 Dan R. Brock – executive producer 
 Eddie DeGarmo – executive producer 
 Julian Kindred – recording, mix assistant (2-10)
 Tom Laune – recording 
 Paul Salvo – recording 
 Peter Briggs – recording assistant 
 Greg Parker – recording assistant
 Shane D. Wilson – recording assistant
 John Hampton – mixing (1)
 Skidd Mills – mixing (1)
 Chuck Zwicky – mixing (2-10)
 Chuck Linder – mix assistant (2-10)
 Daryl Smith – mix assistant (2-10)
 Ken Love – mastering 
 Tom Davis – art direction, design 
 Jeff Frazier – photography 
 Geenie Freeman – make-up
 David Smallbone – management 

Studios
 Recorded at 9070 Studios (Brentwood, Tennessee).
 Track 1 mixed at Ardent Studios (Memphis, Tennessee).
 Tracks 2-10 mixed at 9070 Studios; Recording Arts Studio (Nashville, Tennessee); Gambit Studio (Gallatin, Tennessee); Secret Sound (Franklin, Tennessee).
 Mastered at MasterMix (Nashville, Tennessee).

Charts
Album - Billboard (North America)

Singles - CCM Magazine (North America)

References

1996 albums
ForeFront Records albums
Rebecca St. James albums
Neptune Memorial Reef

The Neptune Memorial Reef is an underwater columbarium in what was conceived by the creator as  the world's largest man-made reef (covering over  of ocean floor) at a depth of  ).  It was originally conceived by Gary Levine and designed by artist Kim Brandell and known as the Atlantis  Reef Project or the Atlantis Reef  As of 2012, the Reef occupies a  space, but a planned expansion  is underway. The city design involves underwater roads leading to a central feature with benches and statuary. 

The place was chosen at 3.25 miles (5.2 km) off the coast of Key Biscayne, Florida. It is a type of burial at sea and the first phase is estimated to be able to accommodate 850 remains, with an eventual goal of more than 125,000 remains. Though often referred to in news articles as an underwater mausoleum or underwater cemetery, the Neptune Society Memorial Reef meets the criterion for neither. Cremated remains are mixed with cement to form features of the Reef, and memorial plaques are added.  The Reef is more correctly identified as a cremation memorial site.

The man-made reef, located three miles (5 km) off the coast of Florida's Key Biscayne, opened in 2007 after a number of difficulties, including permits. After an extensive evaluation and permitting process, the Atlantis Reef Project has been permitted by the EPA, DERM, NOAA, Florida Fish and Wildlife, and the Army Corps of Engineers. One of the construction requirements was that the Memorial Reef be built to withstand the strongest storm in the last 100 years. During the permitting process, Hurricane Andrew, a category 5 hurricane swept through, requiring a re-engineering of the Reef.

The reef stretches across  of ocean floor designed as both a home for sea life and "a destination for divers". The Neptune Memorial Reef lies in a special management zone. Boaters and divers are welcome, but no fishing or lobster-taking is allowed. Now that reef-building coral have developed at the site, the Reef can be properly identified as a coral reef.

The Neptune Memorial Reef is actively working the site and expanded from less than an acre to its original permitted 16 acres.

Famed chef personality Julia Child was interred in the reef upon her death in 2004.

References

External links

 

Cemeteries in Florida
Burials at sea
Underwater monuments and memorials
Broomlands

Broomlands is district of Irvine in North Ayrshire, Scotland. Situated on a series of bends in the River Annick, Broomlands and its original features are now almost lost within the south-Bourtreehill and Broomlands housing scheme.

History
The remaining features take the form of road and path networks which are still in use after several hundred years. More recent networks and routes were created in the 17th and 18th century when the railways first arrived in Broomlands. Long before the age of steam, people were not unused to seeing railway networks carrying minerals and wood and being pushed by strong but buckled men. In Broomlands, the remains of a late 17th-century railway path can still be discerned.

The prehistoric history of Broomlands is more plentiful. At the end of the last ice-age, Broomlands was on the coast. When the sea receded from the area, it left behind a huge coal field which would be exploited by the people of Broomlands and Bourtreehill almost ten thousand years later.

Those later exploiters opened various coal-pits, open-cast mines and collieries in the district. Railways were networked to carry the coal away from the fields.

A standard gauge railway ran through Broomlands until the late 1960s, originally built by the Glasgow and South Western Railway Company, linking the towns of Irvine and Kilmarnock.  Although the nearby station was titled as Dreghorn station, it was closer to Broomlands.  The track bed has been paved over and now is in use as a footpath.  Mineral railways from various local coal mines branched on to this line.

Broomlands was eventually sold to the owner of Bourtreehill house.

From August 2014 residents of Broomlands and Bourtreehill will be educated in the newly built Elderbank Primary School.

References

Villages in North Ayrshire
Irvine, North Ayrshire
Silver Lake, New York

Silver Lake, New York may refer to:

 Silver Lake, Clinton County, New York - a lake in Clinton County, New York
Silver Lake, Orange County, New York - a lake in town of Wallkill, New York
 Silver Lake, Otsego County, New York - a hamlet in the town of Pittsfield, New York
 Silver Lake, Wyoming County, New York - a community in the town of Castile, New York
 Silver Lake (Wyoming County, New York) - a lake in Wyoming County
 Silver Lake, Staten Island - a neighborhood in Staten Island, New York
 Silver Lake (Woodridge, New York) - a lake in Sullivan County
Tuwaiq Palace

Tuwaiq Palace or Towaiq Palace is a building in the Alhattan Street of the Diplomatic Quarter district in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, which hosts government functions, state receptions, and cultural festivals that introduce Saudi arts and customs to the international community. It was built in 1985 by OHO Joint Venture, a team composed of Frei Otto, Buro Happold, and Omrania. Tuwaiq Palace won the Aga Khan Award for Architecture for the design in 1998.

Architecture
After an international competition in 1981, Omrania and Associates in association with Frei Otto and Buro Happold were awarded the design and site supervision of what was then called the Diplomatic Club.

The Tuwaiq Palace is a response to the unique opportunities presented by the site, a design worthy of the majestic promontory site overlooking the sweeping Wadi Hanifeh below. The building's design features a curving, 800-meter-long “Living Wall” that wraps around a lush garden, with five projecting tensile (tent) structures providing shade along the wall.

At the heart of the concept is the need for physical protection from the environment in contrast to the desire to view the unique panorama available from the site. The concept became one of a series of contrasts: light and heavy, garden and desert, modern and traditional technology, openness and solidity.

The Tuwaiq Palace contains 24,000 square meters of recreational, social, dining, banqueting, conference and accommodation functions. Such diverse functions as a tenpin bowling alley, crèche, billiards, library, secretariats and hotel rooms are combined with the usual club facilities of swimming, tennis, squash, sauna, exercise, lounges, social rooms and formal and informal dining. All technical, mechanical and staff-related functions to support such a facility are included within the palace.

Architectural historian and critic Chris Abel, a visiting professor at Ulster University Belfast, described Tuwaiq Palace as "a hybrid of mixed materials and techniques... creating a powerful fusion of traditional forms and modern technologies, carefully set into the desert landscape on the edge of the city."

References

External links 
Tuwaiq Palace at the Aga Khan Award website
Tuwaiq Palace in ArchNet.org.
Tuwaiq Palace in Wikiarquitectura
Tuwaiq Palace on Omrania website

1985 establishments in Saudi Arabia
Palaces in Saudi Arabia
Buildings and structures in Riyadh
Event venues established in 1985
Governor John R. Rogers High School

Governor John R. Rogers High School is a high school in the Puyallup School District of Washington, United States. Commonly referred to as "Rogers" or "RHS," the high school is named after former Washington State governor John Rankin Rogers. It was first opened in 1968.

Academics
Between the three comprehensive high schools in the district, Rogers ranks second in test scores. In the 2009–2010 school year, 10th graders showed 84.1% competency in Reading, 45.7% in Math, 93.4% in Writing and 43.0% in Science on the High School Proficiency Exam (HSPE).

Athletics & Other Activities

Rogers currently competes in the South Puget Sound League's south division, which also includes rivals Puyallup High School, Emerald Ridge High School, and Bethel High School. This division falls under the 4A classification, which is for the largest schools in the state. Rogers has 10 WIAA-sanctioned sports in which they compete in the 4A South Puget Sound League.

Rogers High School supports a sizable number of elective offerings such as art, music, drama, debate, world languages, business and marketing, leadership, teaching careers, and medical science. In addition, unique career pathway programs (called magnet programs in the Puyallup School District) include JROTC, botany, ACE academy (construction and drafting), and welding.

Awards
RHS students have won many state awards from the Washington Journalism Education Association and the Washington State Music Teachers Association, and national awards from the Journalism Education Association.

Notable alumni
 John Albert – professional Mixed Martial Artist, formerly competing in the UFC
 Davey Armstrong – United States of America team Boxer 1972 & 1976 Olympics
 Sarah Butler – actress
 Chad Eaton – Retired NFL Defensive End, Seattle Seahawks
 Brandon Gibson – Wide Receiver, Miami Dolphins
 Nick Harmer – Bass player, Death Cab for Cutie
 Logan Ice – baseball player 
 Jason Johnson (Canadian football), former Canadian Football League player
Angela Ruch - Professional stock car racing driver
 Ronald J. Shurer - recipient of the Medal of Honor

References

External links

Educational institutions established in 1968
High schools in Pierce County, Washington
Magnet schools in Washington (state)
Public high schools in Washington (state)
Puyallup, Washington
South Puget Sound League
Arthur Butler Phillips Mee

There was also an Arthur Mee, who produced The Children's Encyclopedia.
Arthur Butler Phillips Mee (born Aberdeen, 21 October 1860, died Llanishen, 15 January 1926) was a Scottish-born newspaper journalist, editor and notable amateur astronomer.

Journalist
Mee was born the son of a Baptist pastor, George S. Mee, and his wife Elizabeth. After leaving the ministry, Arthur's father became a journalist and he moved the family to western Wales. The son joined his father's profession, becoming a journalist in the town of Llanelli. He was married to Claudia Thomas in 1888.

In 1892 the couple moved to Cardiff, where he began working at the Western Mail, a regional newspaper, continuing there until his death, writing a regular column and performing editorial work as an assistant.

He was the editor of the first edition of Who's Who in Wales, published in 1921.

Astronomer
Mee was noted for his efforts in support of amateur astronomy. In 1890 he was a founding member of the British Astronomical Association and was a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society from 1889 to 1901. He was also a member of the Société astronomique de France. His observations focused on the Moon and Mars, including making detailed charts and drawings of the features. Two of his drawings appeared in La Planète Mars by Camille Flammarion.

He was a regular contributor to various scientific and technical publications. In 1892 he became the first to observe the shadow of the moon Titan during a transit of the planet Saturn.

In 1893 Mee published the book Observational Astronomy. Two years later he helped to initiate the foundation of the Astronomical Society of Wales, thereafter becoming its first president and editing its journal. He later acted as editor of the Society's magazine the Cambrian Natural Observer. He continued to contribute to the Society until World War I, when it was disbanded.

The crater Mee on the Moon is named in his honour.

Historian
Mee became noted for his writing about history, particularly about Carmarthenshire. His works included Caermarthenshire Notes, and Miscellany for South-West Wales and a history of the Anglican parish church in Llanelli.

References

External links
Arthur Mee (1860-1926) , biography by Bryn Jones with references.

1860 births
1926 deaths
Amateur astronomers
Scottish astronomers
Welsh astronomers
20th-century Welsh historians
Welsh journalists
Welsh magazine editors
Writers from Cardiff
19th-century Welsh historians
Night Chills

Night Chills is a suspense-horror novel by American writer Dean Koontz, originally published in 1976. It largely deals with the theme of mind control and is noted as one of Koontz's most graphic and violent works.

Plot summary
Widower Paul Annendale has taken his two children, Rya and Mark, on their annual camping vacation to the small New England town of Black Water. What no one there knows is that the town has become a testing ground for a new experiment involving techniques related to subliminal advertising. Developed by amoral scientist Ogden Salsbury and funded by multi-millionaire Leonard Dawson, this newly discovered technique was introduced into the town with the aid of a chemical in the water supply, and allows anyone with a special code phrase to gain total mind control of an exposed subject. Together with local store owner Sam Edison, Paul intends to put a stop to this illegal conspiracy.

Main characters
 Paul Annendale
 Rya Annendale
 Mark Annendale
 Ogden Salsbury
 Leonard Dawson
 Ernst Klinger
 Sam Edison
 Jenny Edison
 Brenda Macklin
 Emma Thorp
 Bob Thorp
 Jeremy Thorp
 Buddy Pellineri
 Pauline Vicker
 Phil Karkov
 Lolah Tayback

References

1976 American novels
1970s horror novels
American horror novels
Novels by Dean Koontz
Novels set in New England
Books with cover art by Paul Bacon
Atheneum Books books
Books about mind control
Tomte (band)

Tomte is an indie band from Hamburg, Germany. Their lyrics are almost completely in German and their sound could be described as guitar pop with some punk influences. The group are a part of the “Hamburger Schule” (Hamburg indie “school”) on the basis of the band Tocotronic's influence on their work. Singer and guitarist Thees Uhlmann even worked as a roadie for Tocotronic's "K.O.O.K."-Tour and wrote the book "Wir Könnten Freunde Werden..." (We Could Become Friends...) about it.

Tomte's first EP was entitled "Blinkmuffel", which came out in 1996. Two years later, Tomte released their first full-length album, "Du weißt, was ich meine" ("You Know What I Mean").  Following the trend of releasing an album every two years, "Eine sonnige Nacht" ("A Sunny Night") was released in 2000. After the release, former bass-player Christian Stemmann left the band, he was replaced by Oliver Koch.

Tomte's breakthrough album, "Hinter all diesen Fenstern" ("Behind All These Windows"), was released in 2003. It contained two singles, "Schreit den Namen meiner Mutter" ("Scream My Mother's Name") and "Die Bastarde, die dich jetzt nach Hause bringen" ("The Bastards That Are Bringing You Home"), respectively. Moreover, Dennis Becker joined the band in 2003 as second guitarist.

In 2005, Max Schröder joined the band as keyboardist.

The next album, Buchstaben über der Stadt (“Letters above the City”) came out in early 2006. It was one of the best selling German albums of 2006. The first single was Ich sang die ganze Zeit von dir ("I sang of you all the time").  Other singles from this album were "New York" and "Norden der Welt" ("North of the World").

The band have since released another album, called Heureka. It went on sale on 10 October 2008 in the band's native Germany.

Heureka also saw the introduction of a new band member, keyboardist Simon Frontzek. Frontzek, according to reports in the German music press, was initially a fan of the band having been introduced to their music whilst studying in the band's home town of Hamburg. Former keyboardist Max Schröder changed to drums, following the exit of former drummer Timo Bodenstein. Furthermore, former bass player Oliver Koch quit in 2008 due to issues with his wrist, he was replaced by Nikolai Potthoff.

A tour took place in November 2008, which saw performances in German, Austrian and Swiss cities.

Discography 

German indie rock groups
Musical groups established in 1991
Musical groups from Hamburg
1991 establishments in Germany
Grand Hotel van Cleef Records artists
Washingtonian (magazine)

Washingtonian is a monthly magazine distributed in the Washington, D.C. area. It was founded in 1965 by Laughlin Phillips and Robert J. Myers. The magazine describes itself as "The Magazine Washington Lives By". The magazine's core focuses are local feature journalism, guide book–style articles, real estate, and politics.

Editorial content
Washingtonian publishes information about local professionals, businesses, and notable places in Washington, D.C. 

Each issue includes information on popular local attractions, such as restaurants, neighborhoods, and entertainment, such as fine art and museum exhibits. There is a regular in-depth feature reporting on local institutions, politicians, businessmen, academics, and philanthropists.The magazine also has information about essential services and real estate listings within Washington. 

Since 1971, the magazine has annually nominated up to 15 people as "Washingtonians of the Year". The magazine describes the award as honoring men and women "who give their time and talents to make this a better place".  

Washingtonian has won five National Magazine Awards.

Leadership
In August 2009, Washingtonian announced that Garrett Graff would replace long-time editor John A. Limpert as editor-in-chief. Limpert is currently editor-at-large. Graff left in 2014 and was replaced by Michael Schaffer.

Washingtonian is a family-owned publication. The former CEO was Philip Merrill (1934–2006), who was succeeded as chairman by his wife, Eleanor; their daughter Catherine Merrill Williams is the president and publisher.

See also
List of newspapers in Washington, D.C.

References

External links
 

1965 establishments in Washington, D.C.
Local interest magazines published in the United States
Monthly magazines published in the United States
Magazines established in 1965
Magazines published in Washington, D.C.
Newspaper Society of Hong Kong

The Newspaper Society of Hong Kong (Chinese:香港報業公會  ), set up on May 10, 1954, is the largest newspaper industrial society in Hong Kong, found by Hong Kong's four largest newspapers at the time - The Kung Sheung Daily News (工商日報, closed), Wah Kiu Yat Po (華僑日報, closed), Sing Tao Daily (星島日報) and South China Morning Post (南華日報). Existing members include 14 major newspapers, although Oriental Daily has chosen not to participate. The Society is the organiser for the widest-acclaimed news awards in Hong Kong.

External links
 Official website 
  History of Hong Kong Newspaper in 50 years (Chinese only)

Newspapers published in Hong Kong
1954 establishments in Hong Kong
Business organisations based in Hong Kong
Organizations established in 1954
Diego Jiménez Torres Airport

Diego Jiménez Torres Airport  was a public use airport owned by the Puerto Rico Ports Authority and located  south of Fajardo, a city in Puerto Rico. It is also known as Fajardo Airport.

Airport operations were shut down in November 2008 and transferred to the newly opened José Aponte de la Torre Airport in Ceiba. In February 2015 the FAA announced the permanent closure of the airport on April 30, 2015.

Facilities
Diego Jiménez Torres Airport covered an area of  at an elevation of 64 feet (20 m) above mean sea level. The asphalt paved runway designated 8/26 measured 3,600 by 75 feet (1,097 x 23 m), and is marked closed.

Airlines
At the time of closing, air taxi service was provided by the following airlines:
 Air Flamenco
 Isla Nena Air
 M&N Aviation
 Vieques Air Link

See also
 List of airports in Puerto Rico
 Transportation in Puerto Rico
 Aviation in Puerto Rico

References

External links
 OpenStreetMap - Fajardo Airport
 
 

Airports in Puerto Rico
Defunct airports in Puerto Rico
Fajardo, Puerto Rico
Airports disestablished in 2015
The Key to Midnight

The Key to Midnight is a suspense-horror novel by American writer Dean Koontz, released in 1979 under the pseudonym Leigh Nichols. It is considered Koontz's first success.

Overview 
In the 1995 paperback edition, Koontz states that The Key to Midnight "is not like anything else I have done"; he also explained that he revised the novel for that year's edition, cutting 30,000 words and adding 5,000. In August 2010, Koontz released a "better" version in Paperback.

Plot synopsis 

Lisa Chelgrin is a US Senator's daughter. Her life has been erased and true past blocked. Her imposed, fake new identity is Joanna Rand. A detective, Alex Hunter, is hired to track Lisa down, but he finds nothing. Years later, during a vacation in Kyoto, Japan, he views a lounge act in which Lisa Chelgrin performs. Her name is different than it was before, and she is older, now working as the nightclub owner and singer. Nevertheless, the detective knows it is she. He sends for his dead-case file, and his privately employed messenger is almost killed delivering it. Someone is watching him and Lisa.

At the same time, a person known as The Doctor (Inamura) is trying to find a way around Lisa's memory block. He assumes that by removing a "password" or "pass-phrase," he can access Lisa's true memories. Under hypnosis, however, Lisa can only repeat the phrase "tension, apprehension, and dissension have begun," instead of answering the questions The Doctor asks her about her true past. After the first series of events, Lisa and Alex try to deal with their respective pasts so they can survive.

Characters 
 Lisa Chelgrin/Joanna Rand
 Alex Hunter
 The Doctor/ Omi Inamura
 Mariko
 Franz Rotenhausen/ The Hand 
 Tom Chelgrin/ Ilya Lyshenko
 Wayne Kennedy
 Ursula Zaitsev
 Anson Peterson/ Anton Broskov
 Antonio Paz
 Ignacio Carrera
 Marlowe

References

External links 
 The Key to Midnight Book Review

1979 American novels
1970s horror novels
American horror novels
Novels by Dean Koontz
Works published under a pseudonym
Novels set in Kyoto Prefecture
Whispers (Koontz novel)

Whispers is a novel by American suspense author Dean Koontz, originally published in 1980.  It was the first of Koontz's novels to appear on the New York Times Best Seller list, and is widely credited with launching his career as a best-selling author. The novel was also adapted for a 1990 film by the same name.

Plot summary
Hilary Thomas, a screenwriter living in Los Angeles, is attacked in her home by Bruno Frye, a mentally disturbed man whose vineyard in Napa Valley she recently visited. Frye tries to rape her, but she forces him to leave at gunpoint and calls the police. Detective Tony Clemenza tells her that Frye has an airtight alibi, as the police called his home and he answered, proving that he could not have been anywhere near Los Angeles that night.

The next day, Frye returns and attacks Hilary again, this time receiving several stab wounds before escaping. She calls the police and once again meets with Clemenza, who tells her that Frye's body has been found and takes her to the morgue to identify it. Afterward, Clemenza asks Hilary out, and the two begin a romantic relationship.

Hilary is once again attacked by a man who appears to be Frye. "Frye" escapes just before Clemenza arrives and Hilary tells him what happened. After some investigations, Frye's psychologist lets them listen to a tape recording of one of Frye's sessions. Frye talks about identical twins being born with cauls on their faces, and says he read somewhere that this was a mark of a demon.

Frye has been killing women he believes are possessed by the spirit of his dead mother, who abused him and said she would come back from the dead. He believes that Hilary is his mother's latest "host".

Hilary and Tony meet a retired madam who tells them that Leo, Frye's grandfather, brought his daughter, Katherine, there to be cared for after he got her pregnant. Shortly after Leo's death, Katherine gave birth to identical twin boys. The twins were born with cauls on their faces, leading the mentally unstable Katherine to believe they were demons. She raised her sons as if they were one person. They were both called Bruno, and both were rewarded or punished for anything either one of them did.

Finally, Hilary and Clemenza return to Frye's home, where he once again attacks them, before being killed during a struggle with Clemenza.

Movie adaptation
A movie adaptation of Whispers was released in 1990.  Directed by Douglas Jackson, the film starred Victoria Tennant as Hilary, Chris Sarandon as Tony, and Jean LeClerc as Bruno.  The film was shot in the fall of 1989 on a budget of $3.5 million for Incorporated Television Company.

Although planned for a theatrical release, the film went direct-to-video via Live Home Video in the United States.  The label Scorpion re-released the film on DVD in 2012.

External links
Whispers Book Review

American horror novels
1980 American novels
Novels by Dean Koontz
American thriller novels
Novels set in Los Angeles
Novels set in the San Francisco Bay Area
American novels adapted into films
G. P. Putnam's Sons books
Elspeth Kennedy

Elspeth Mary Kennedy, MA, DPhil, FSA (6 August 1921 – 10 March 2006) was a British academic and a prominent medievalist. She is best known as the editor and author of works on medieval French literature.

Early life and education
Elspeth Kennedy was born in Berkshire.  Her academic career was delayed by World War II, during which she worked for the government — in 1940, while still 18 years of age she began working for MI5, domiciled initially at Wormwood Scrubs and later at Bletchley Park.   Because the work, though essential, was repetitive, Kennedy studied Russian in her spare time, and initially laid plans to become a Russian historian.  However, when she engaged a tutor to prepare her for entrance to Oxford, the tutor's enthusiasm for French medieval history swayed Kennedy in that direction.

Kennedy attended Somerville College, Oxford, from 1945 to 1947 on a scholarship. She went on to do research, and 1948 embarked on her life's main theme, the Lancelot en prose.

Academic career
Kennedy became a lecturer in French at the University of Manchester in 1953.  She became a Fellow of St Hilda's College in 1966 and remained there until her retirement in 1986.  She was an Emeritus Fellow of St Hilda's until her death in 2006.

"Her undergraduates loved her, and many became her research students; in French departments across the world there are professors and lecturers who are medievalists because they were inspired by Elspeth's tutorials."

Kennedy was President of the Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature (1984–88), President of the International Arthurian Society (1987–89), and editor of the international journal Medium Aevum ("Middle Ages") from 1990 until 2002. She was a member of the Lancelot committees of the Royal Academy of the Netherlands and of the Huygens Instituut of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Kennedy received the French Prix Excalibur.

Bibliography
A Knight's Own Book of Chivalry: Geoffroi de Charny (trans.; intro. Richard W. Kaeuper) (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005), 
The Book of Chivalry of Geoffroi de Charny: Text, Context and Translation (with Richard W. Kaeuper) (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996), 
Shifts and Transpositions in Medieval Narrative: A Festschrift for Dr Elspeth Kennedy (ed. Karen Pratt) (Brewer, 1994), 
Lancelot of the Lake (intro.; trans. and notes Corin Corley) (Oxford World's Classics, 1989), 
Lancelot and the Grail: A Study of the Prose Lancelot (Clarendon Press, 1986), 
Lancelot do Lac: The Non-cyclic Old French Prose Romance (2 vols., ed.) (OUP, 1980), 
Social and Political Ideas in the French Prose Lancelot: A Note on The Breton Lays Mediumaevum Vol XXVI (with Rachel Bromwich) (Dawson, 1965)

References

1921 births
2006 deaths
British medievalists
Women medievalists
Alumni of Somerville College, Oxford
Fellows of St Hilda's College, Oxford
Academics of the Victoria University of Manchester
Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London
Arthurian scholars
British women historians
The Mask (Koontz novel)

The Mask is a thriller novel by American writer Dean Koontz originally released under the pseudonym Owen West in 1981. Koontz later re-released the novel under his own name.

Plot summary

An amnesic blonde girl appears in the middle of traffic on a busy day. Carol and Paul, a married couple, are drawn to her, seeing her as the child they never had, they take her in. Then Carol begins to have nightmares about ghastly noises in the dead of night, a bloody face in a mirror, and a razor-sharp ax.

External links
The Mask Book Review

1981 American novels
Novels by Dean Koontz
American horror novels
Works published under a pseudonym
Jove Books books
The Eyes of Darkness

The Eyes of Darkness is a thriller novel by American writer Dean Koontz, released in 1981. The book focuses on a mother who sets out on a quest to find out if her son indeed died one year ago, or if he's still alive.

Plot
A year after her son Danny dies in an alleged accident on a camping trip, stage producer Tina Evans starts receiving paranormal signals insinuating that the boy is still alive. Having never seen Danny's deceased body, she plans to exhume his corpse to put her mind to rest. Assisting Tina is a newly acquainted lawyer Elliot Stryker, formerly working for Army Intelligence, with whom she is having an affair. They are soon targeted by assassins hired by Project Pandora and barely escape alive. Tina, strongly convinced that Danny is still alive, sets out to discover what really happened to her son and rescue him. Elliot accompanies her and the pair are chased by other agents instructed to kill them. Tina is telepathically guided by Danny to an underground lab in Sierra Nevada where her son has been subjected to horrific experiments by a top secret governmental organisation.

Characters
 Christina (Tina) Evans – Danny's mother
 Michael Evans – Danny's father and Tina's ex-husband
 Elliot Stryker – Tina's partner and love interest
 Danny Evans – Tina and Michael's son
 Harold Kennebeck – judge
 Carlton Dombey – scientist for Project Pandora
 Aaron Zachariah – scientist for Project Pandora
 George Alexander – boss of Project Pandora
 Jack Morgan – pilot
 Vivienne Neddler – Tina's house maid
 Willis Bruckster – assassin hired by Project Pandora
 Bob – assassin hired by Project Pandora
 Vince – assassin hired by Project Pandora

Planned television adaptation
According to author Dean Koontz in the afterword of a 2008 paperback reissue, television producer Lee Rich purchased the rights for the book along with The Face of Fear, Darkfall, and a fourth unnamed novel for a television series based on Koontz's work. The Eyes of Darkness was assigned to Ann Powell and Rose Schacht, co-writers of Drug Wars: The Camarena Story, but they could never deliver an acceptable script. Ultimately, The Face of Fear is the only book of the four made into a television movie.

COVID-19 speculation
The novel mentions a bioweapon that in earlier editions is named Gorki-400 after the Soviet city of Gorki in which it was created. Due to the end of the Cold War, the origin of the bioweapon was changed to the Chinese city of Wuhan and it was renamed Wuhan-400 for the 1989 edition onward, prompting speculation from some in early 2020 that Koontz had somehow predicted coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

References

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1981 American novels
1981 science fiction novels
American horror novels
American science fiction novels
American thriller novels
Biological weapons in popular culture
Novels by Dean Koontz
Novels set in Nevada
Works published under a pseudonym
Eastern Interconnection

The Eastern Interconnection is one of the two major alternating-current (AC) electrical grids in the North American power transmission grid.  The other major interconnection is the Western Interconnection. The three minor interconnections are the Quebec, Alaska, and Texas interconnections.

All of the electric utilities in the Eastern Interconnection are electrically tied together during normal system conditions and operate at a synchronized frequency at an average of 60 Hz. The Eastern Interconnection reaches from Central Canada eastward to the Atlantic coast (excluding Quebec), south to Florida, and back to the western Great Plains (excluding most of Texas).

Interconnections can be tied to each other via high-voltage direct current power transmission lines (DC ties), or with variable-frequency transformers (VFTs), which permit a controlled flow of energy while also functionally isolating the independent AC frequencies of each side. The Eastern Interconnection is tied to the Western Interconnection with six DC ties, to the Texas Interconnection with two DC ties, and to the Quebec Interconnection with four DC ties and a VFT.

In 2016, National Renewable Energy Laboratory simulated a year with 30% renewable energy (wind and solar power) in 5-minute intervals. Results show a stable grid with some changes in operation.

Electricity demand
The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) reported in 2008 the following actual and projected consumption for the regions of the Eastern Interconnection (all figures in gigawatts):

See also
Northeast blackout of 1965
Northeast blackout of 2003

References

Further reading
 
 
 Current projects 

 
Electric power transmission systems in the United States
Wide area synchronous grids
Electric grid interconnections in North America
Western Interconnection

The Western Interconnection is a wide area synchronous grid and one of the two major alternating current (AC) power grids in the North American power transmission grid.  The other major wide area synchronous grid is the Eastern Interconnection.  The minor interconnections are the Québec Interconnection, the Texas Interconnection, and the Alaska Interconnections.

All of the electric utilities in the Western Interconnection are electrically tied together during normal system conditions and operate at a synchronized frequency of 60 Hz.  The Western Interconnection stretches from Western Canada south to Baja California in Mexico, reaching eastward over the Rockies to the Great Plains.

Interconnections can be tied to each other via high-voltage direct current power transmission lines (DC ties) such as the north-south Pacific DC Intertie, or with variable-frequency transformers (VFTs), which permit a controlled flow of energy while also functionally isolating the independent AC frequencies of each side. There are six DC ties to the Eastern Interconnection in the US and one in Canada, and there are proposals to add four additional ties.  It is not tied to the Alaska Interconnection.

Consumption

In 2015, WECC had an energy consumption of 883 TWh, roughly equally distributed between industrial, commercial and residential consumption. There was a summer peak demand of 150,700 MW and a winter peak demand (2014–15) of 126,200 MW.

Production

The region had a nameplate capacity of 265 GW in 2015, 276 GW in 2019, and 286 GW in 2021. Together, wind, solar, and hydro resources account for 47% of installed capacity. Installed coal capacity was 24 GW, compared to roughly 34 GW of wind and 28 GW of solar. While the resource mix is changing, with wind and solar eclipsing coal in installed capacity, in 2021 coal still generated slightly more power than wind and solar combined, down from twice as much in 2017.

See also
 Western Electricity Coordinating Council
WECC Intertie Paths

References

Further reading
 Current projects 

 
Electric power transmission systems in the United States
Wide area synchronous grids
Electric grid interconnections in North America
Clifford Carter

Clifford Carter (born August 10, 1952) is an American keyboardist, musical director, composer and arranger.

Carter is known for his performances with such artists as James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen, Paul Simon, Rosanne Cash, Michael Franks, Art Garfunkel, Cyndi Lauper, Idina Menzel, Patti Scialfa, Shunzo Ohno, Linda Ronstadt, Susana Raya, Herbie Mann and as a member of the groups Elements, Grace Pool, and the 24th Street Band.

In 1993 he released a solo album, Walkin' into the Sun, which featured nine of his own compositions. The album is a combination of vocal and instrumental music.

In 2010, Clifford Carter was a featured pianist at Carnegie Hall, performing 'Too Hot To Handel' with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Marin Alsop.

Discography

Solo albums
 Walkin' into the Sun — (1993)

Selected credits with other artists
 Rory Block — I'm Every Woman — (2002)
 Rosanne Cash — Interiors — (1990)
 Natalie Cole: 
 Snowfall on the Sahara — (1999)
 Greatest Hits, Vol. 1 — (2000)
 Mark Egan: 
 Mosaic — (1985)
 Blown Away; (1985)
 Beyond Words — (1990)
 Freedom Town — (2001)
Bill Evans
 The Alternative Man– (1985) 
 Michael Franks: 
Skin Dive — (1985)
Camera Never Lies — (1987)
Michael Franks Anthology: The Art of Love — (2003)
 Morgana King: 
 This Is Always — (1992)
 Every Once in a While — (1997)
 Yusef Lateef:
Autophysiopsychic (CTI, 1977)
 Chuck Loeb
Magic Fingers (DMP, 1989) with Andy LaVerne
Moon, the Stars & the Setting Sun (1998)
 Michael Manring — Drastic Measures — (1991)
 Amanda McBroom — Waiting Heart — (1997)
 Patti Scialfa — 23rd Street Lullaby — (2004)
 Paul Simon — You're the One — (2000)
Jeremy Steig
Firefly (CTI, 1977)
 James Taylor: 
 That's Why I'm Here — (1985)
 Never Die Young — (1988)
 New Moon Shine — (1991)
 Live — (1993)
 Best Live — (1994)
 Hourglass — (1997)
 Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 — (2000)
 October Road — (2002)
 Kate Taylor — Beautiful Road — (2003)
 Village People — Live and Sleazy — (1979)
 Original Soundtracks: 
 A Chorus Line — (1985)

See also 
List of ambient music artists

References

External links
Clifford Carter's Official Web Site

American male songwriters
American session musicians
Living people
People from Briarcliff Manor, New York
1952 births
21st-century American keyboardists
Elements (band) members
21st-century American male musicians
Jack White (golfer)

John White (15 August 1873 – 24 March 1949) was a Scottish professional golfer. He posted six top-10 finishes in the Open Championship, including a victory in 1904.

Early life
White was born at Pefferside, Whitekirk, four miles east of North Berwick. He was the son of James White, an agricultural labourer, and his wife Emily Thomson White. Jack worked as a caddie from the age of ten. Like many early professionals he trained as a clubmaker. From his late teens he worked as a golf professional at the North Berwick Golf Club in the summer and at York Golf Club in England in the winter.

Golf career
White first played in The Open Championship in 1891 and in 1904, when it was played at Royal St George's, where he won his only major championship. He was the professional at the prestigious Sunningdale Golf Club outside London for over twenty five years from 1902.

Death and legacy
White died in 1949 in Musselburgh. He is best remembered as the winner of the 1904 Open Championship.

Major championships

Wins (1)

Results timeline

Note: White only played in The Open Championship and the U.S. Open.

NYF = Tournament not yet founded
NT = No tournament
WD = Withdrew
? = unknown
"T" indicates a tie for a place

Team appearances
England–Scotland Professional Match (representing Scotland): 1903 (winners), 1904 (tie), 1905 (tie), 1906, 1907, 1909, 1912 (tie), 1913

References

External links

Famous North Berwick Golfers profile

Scottish male golfers
Winners of men's major golf championships
1873 births
1949 deaths
Bill Herrion

William Richard Herrion (born April 6, 1958) is an American college basketball coach.  Since 2005, he has been the men's head coach with the University of New Hampshire.  Prior to coming to UNH, he served as the head coach at East Carolina University and Drexel University.  He has been an assistant with Boston University, George Washington University, and the U.S. National Team.

Personal life
Herrion is a 1981 graduate of Merrimack College.

Herrion's son Ryan played for him at UNH from 2008 through 2012, and was director of operations and video coordinator for the Wildcats from 2013 to 2015.

Herrion's brother Tom formerly served in the NCAA's Division I as the head men's basketball coach at the College of Charleston and an assistant coach at the University of Pittsburgh.  Tom is the former head men's basketball coach at Marshall University.

Coaching career
Herrion began his college coaching career in 1985 as an assistant under Mike Jarvis at Boston University.  He followed Jarvis to George Washington University before striking out on his own as a head coach. In April 1991, Herrion was hired to coach Drexel after Dayton assistant Tom McConnell turned down the job. Herrion later coached at East Carolina and UNH.

He is one of the most successful men's coaches in the history of the America East Conference.  The Drexel Dragons won 3 conference championships in a row under Herrion's leadership from 1994 to 1996. In 1998, on the occasion of the conference's 20th anniversary, he was named one of the four most influential coaches in the conference's history: the other three coaches were Jarvis, Rick Pitino and Hall of Famer Jim Calhoun.  He holds the conference record for most playoff wins (18 with Drexel, 1 with UNH, for a total of 19.)

On December 4, 2010, he won his 300th game when UNH beat Colgate, 65–60, and earned his 400th career win on January 10, 2018 in a 71–67 win over Binghamton.

On March 14, 2023, Herrion was fired after 18 seasons as the head coach of UNH.

Head coaching record

References

External links

New Hampshire bio
East Carolina bio
Drexel Dragons bio

1958 births
Living people
American men's basketball coaches
American men's basketball players
Arkansas Razorbacks men's basketball coaches
Basketball coaches from Massachusetts
Basketball players from Massachusetts
Boston University Terriers men's basketball coaches
College men's basketball head coaches in the United States
Drexel Dragons men's basketball coaches
East Carolina Pirates men's basketball coaches
George Washington Revolutionaries men's basketball coaches
Merrimack Warriors men's basketball players
New Hampshire Wildcats men's basketball coaches
People from Oxford, Massachusetts
Place of birth missing (living people)
Sportspeople from Worcester County, Massachusetts
The House of Thunder

The House of Thunder is a novel written by best-selling author Dean Koontz, released in 1982. The book was originally published under the pseudonym Leigh Nichols.

Summary
The novel revolves around a woman named Susan Thorton, who wakes up in a hospital bed with no recollection of her past or how she got there. Her physician, Dr. McGee, helps Susan recover some of her memory, including that of an anti-Semitic hate crime she witnessed years earlier that led to the death of her fiance, but she can't seem to recall anything related to the company where she works or her recent past. Phone calls from her colleagues do nothing to jog Susan's memory.

In the meantime, Susan begins having dreams and vivid hallucinations connected to her fiance's murder. The men responsible for the crime show up at the hospital, although they claim not to recognize her and none of them appear to have aged at all, despite the fact that over a decade has passed.  The men begin tormenting Susan, who must decide whether or not she can trust Dr. McGee as she tries to discover if the men are ghosts, doppelgangers, or if these horrific experiences only exist in her mind.

External links
The House of Thunder Book Review

American horror novels
1982 American novels
Novels by Dean Koontz
Works published under a pseudonym
Hans Werner Aufrecht

Hans Werner Aufrecht (born 28 December 1938 in Großaspach, Germany) was in 1967 along with Erhard Melcher one of the founders of AMG Engine Production and Development, a current subsidiary of Mercedes-Benz.

When the company and the name "AMG" was acquired by Mercedes-Benz in the late 1990s, he used his initials for the name of Mercedes' official racing team, HWA Team. In 1999, the first car raced under that team name was the ill-fated Mercedes-Benz CLR. Since in 2000 the Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters was started, the HWA team is in charge of Mercedes-AMG official factory entry in DTM.

References

External links
 Informationen zu AMG
 Daimler Chrysler AMG
 HWA Homepage

1938 births
Living people
People from Rems-Murr-Kreis
People from the Free People's State of Württemberg
German automotive engineers
Engineers from Baden-Württemberg
Recipients of the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Cáñar

Cáñar is a small village in the Alpujarras comarca of the province of Granada in Spain.  It is located a few kilometres north of the road from Órgiva to Pampaneira and the high Alpujarras.  The GR 7 long-distance footpath, following the ancient highway through the Alpujarras, runs through the village.

The area of the municipality is 26 km²., and it is located at a height of 1014 metres above sea level.  Its population in 2005 was estimated as 366 people, of whom 69 were not Spanish citizens, most of these being citizens of other European Union countries.  The village has few facilities for tourists other than a handful of bars, and is of a very traditional Alpujarran character, with animal stabling integrated into houses that open onto the main street and square. The villagers are extremely welcoming and celebrate all the major festivals enthusiastically. The "patrona" of the village is Santa Ana and the associated fiesta takes place on and around 26 July each year.

Cáñar has several accommodation options ranging from small apartments to let in the village, cortijos further up into the sierra and the acclaimed "El Cielo de Canar" boutique hotel is situated just 2 km outside the village.

Between Cáñar and the neighbouring village to the east, Soportújar, lies a remarkable dam across the deep gorge of the Chico river.  This is known as "Dique 24" and was built in 1942 to control the destructive flash floods that the Rio Chico sometimes unleashes.  The GR7 footpath crosses the stream just above the dam.

References

External links 
Tourist information and Las Alpujarras community portal - Cáñar

Municipalities in the Province of Granada