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Mineral County Schools

Mineral County Schools is the operating school district within Mineral County, West Virginia. The district is governed by the Mineral County Board of Education. The superintendent for Mineral County Schools is Troy Ravenscroft M.Ed. Ravenscroft became superintendent July 2019. Kelli Wilson is the Assistant Superintendent. The Board of Education members are Lara Courrier (President), Mary Jane Baniak (Vice-President), Thomas Denne, Terry Puffinburger, and Donald Ashby Jr.

Mission

Success for all students - no exceptions, no excuses.  

Vision

The vision of the school system is to inspire students to become high achieving, creative, lifelong learners and productive, caring, responsible, American citizens.

Schools

Vocational school
Mineral County Technical Center

High schools
Frankfort High School 
Keyser High School

Middle schools
Frankfort Middle School 
Keyser Middle School

Intermediate school
Frankfort Intermediate School

Elementary school
Frankfort Elementary School (Opening 2024-2025 School Year)

Primary schools
Burlington Primary School 
Fort Ashby Primary School 
Fountain Primary School 
New Creek Primary School 
Wiley Ford Primary School 
Elk Garden Primary School
Keyser Primary School

Schools no longer in operation
Cross Elementary School
Elk Garden High School
Fort Ashby High School
Fort Ashby Middle School
Piedmont High School
Ridgeley High School
Ridgeley Middle School
Ridgeley Primary School
Short Gap Primary School

External links
Mineral County Schools Website
Mineral County Schools Facebook
Mineral County Schools Twitter
Mineral County Schools App Google Play
 Mineral County Schools App Store

School districts in West Virginia
Education in Mineral County, West Virginia
Multiplayer BattleTech: EGA

Multiplayer BattleTech is a PC MMORPG BattleTech game developed by Kesmai and featured on the now defunct GEnie online gaming network.

Gameplay
It featured a text-based chat component for roleplaying, team development and battle planning and a 3D battle simulator component.  The game engine was based on a heavily modified version of the original MechWarrior. Multiplayer BattleTech was followed by Multiplayer BattleTech: Solaris.

Reception

Computer Gaming World in 1993 stated that "Fans of MechWarrior will not want to miss this next generation of the classic simulation ... both addicting and satisfying". A 1994 survey of strategic space games set in the year 2000 and later gave the game four stars out of five, stating that "The licensed BattleTech universe is put to good use here ... the long-term satisfaction of role-playing combined with the quick-playing thrill of a simulation".

In June 1994 Multiplayer BattleTech won Computer Gaming Worlds "Online Game of the Year" award. The editors called it "a simulation that looks like Activision's classic MechWarrior, but performs significantly better with real human 'mech pilots on your flanks."

References

1991 video games
DOS games
DOS-only games
Multiplayer online games
BattleTech games
Video games based on miniatures games
Video games developed in the United States
Michael D. Sallah

Michael D. Sallah is an American investigative reporter and non-fiction author who has twice been awarded the Pulitzer Prize.

Life
Sallah graduated from St. John's Jesuit High School, a college preparatory school in Ohio, and then obtained his undergraduate degree in journalism at the University of Toledo.

While working for The Toledo Blade, he received numerous state and national awards for his investigative stories into organized crime, clerical sexual abuse and white-collar fraud. He was named Best Reporter in Ohio in 2002 by the Society of Professional Journalists.

Two years later, Sallah and fellow reporters Mitch Weiss and Joe Mahr were awarded the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for a series on the atrocities by Tiger Force, a U.S. Army platoon during the Vietnam War.

In 2005, he became an investigative reporter and editor at the Miami Herald, where he directed numerous projects including a series on public housing corruption that won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting.
He was a Pulitzer finalist for meritorious Public Service in 2012 for a series exposing wretched and deadly conditions in Florida's assisted living facilities. He worked two years at The Washington Post, and returned in 2014 to The Miami Herald, where he was a Pulitzer finalist for Local Reporting in 2016 for stories that exposed a corrupt police sting operation that laundered $71.5 million for drug cartels—kept millions in profits—but did not make a single arrest. He was also a Pulitzer finalist for International Reporting in 2021 for his work for the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and BuzzFeed News on the FinCEN Files investigation, which revealed the role of big banks in allowing criminal organizations to move billions of dollars through the financial institutions. He has received other national awards for his work in accountability journalism, including The IRE Medal, a Gerald Loeb Award, a Heywood Broun Award and a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award.

As of October 2023, Sallah is senior investigations editor at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Works
With Mitch Weiss.
With Mitch Weiss. The Yankee Comandante: The Untold Story of Courage, Passion, and One American's Fight to Liberate Cuba.  Lyons Press, 2015.

References

External links
 Interview on Tiger Force at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library

Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American male journalists
American investigative journalists
Writers from Toledo, Ohio
University of Toledo alumni
Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting winners
Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting winners
Journalists from Ohio
Gerald Loeb Award winners for Small and Medium Newspapers
Kendriya Vidyalaya Maligaon

Kendriya Vidyalaya Maligaon is a higher secondary school located at the Maligaon area in Guwahati, Assam, India. It was established in 1979 and is affiliated with the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE). The school provides education to the children of Central Government employees, especially railway employees,armed forces and paramilitary personnel. The school is run by KVS an autonomous body formed under the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India and is affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi.

Kendriya Vidyalaya NFR Maligaon is a project school under the North East Frontier Railway and is close to the Kamakhya Railway Station.  Its Secondary section building is constructed on seven acres. It has Computer Labs, a Physics lab, Chemistry Lab, Biology Lab, Geography Lab, Mathematics Lab, Biotechnology-cum-Junior Science Lab, Music Room, Art Education room, Work Education room and a Library. It has a separate Primary Building, sports complex, auditorium, and an assembly hall. It has a separate park for the Primary section students.

Aims
The school aims to cater to the educational needs of children of Central Government employees including Defence and Para-military personnel by providing a common programme of education, and to promote innovations in education in collaboration with other bodies like the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and the National Council of Education Research and Training (NCERT).

The school was started in 1980 after a petition was filed by Northeast Frontier Railway employees with the Indian Railway authorities and Kendriya Vidyalaya at Delhi. The petition was filed to start a KV in the Maligaon area for the children of railway employees working at the railway headquarters at Maligaon. The Affiliation code for the school is 200016. As of December 2018, Mr. Raju Kumar Das is the principal.

See also
 List of Kendriya Vidyalayas

References 

Schools in Guwahati
Kendriya Vidyalayas
1979 establishments in Assam
Educational institutions established in 1979
Saskatchewan Highway 29

Highway 29 is a provincial highway in Saskatchewan, Canada.  It runs from Highway 14 at Wilkie to Highway 40 just west of Battleford. Highway 29 is a minor north-south highway of about , for most of the route, the speed limit is 100 km/h (62 mph).

Highway 29 originally continued south from Wilkie to Kelfield and Plenty; however, it was decommissioned in the 1940s. The former section is now designated as Highway 657.

Major intersections
From south to north:

References

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James Livingston

James Livingston may refer to:

James Livingston (bishop) (died 1483), Bishop of Dunkeld
James Livingston, 1st Earl of Callendar (c. 1590s–1674), army officer who fought on the Royalist side in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms
James Livingstone, 1st Viscount Kilsyth (1616–1661), Scottish Royalist, raised to the peerage of Scotland as Viscount Kilsyth and Lord Campsie in 1661
James Livingston (American Revolution) (1747–1832), colonel of the 1st Canadian Regiment
James Livingston (Canadian politician) (1838–1920), member of Canadian House of Commons
James E. Livingston (born 1940), United States Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient
Jamie Livingston (1956–1997), New York-based photographer, filmmaker and circus performer
James Livingston (ice hockey) (born 1990), hockey player for the Manchester Monarchs of the AHL
James Livingston (soldier) (1840–1915), New Zealand soldier and community leader
James Livingston, 1st Earl of Newburgh (1622–1670), Scottish peer
James Livingston, 1st Lord Livingston (c. 1410–1467), Scottish nobleman
James Livingston, 5th Earl of Linlithgow (died 1723), Scottish nobleman
Worse for the Wear

Worse for the Wear is the third album by The New Amsterdams, released in 2003 on Vagrant Records.

Background 
This is the first New Amsterdams album to have a full band, as the previous albums have always been primarily solo material from the lead singer Matt Pryor as a side project from The Get Up Kids.  It was recorded over the course of three months at the Red House Studios in Eudora, Kansas. The album was recorded with Rob and Ryan Pope, as well as longtime friend and producer Ed Rose after the release of the third Get Up Kids album On a Wire, and because the band was promoting that album at the time, The New Amsterdams did not tour extensively to promote the album, although they did make an appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman. The 3rd episode of One Tree Hill, Season One, was named after 'Are You True?'.

Track listing

Reception 
"With its touches of banjo, flashes of wry humor, and more sprightly tempos [...] Worse for the Wear is the most relaxed-sounding and brightest New Amsterdams record yet, and with songs as catchy as "The Spoils of the Spoiled," and the oddly '70s rock piano-based tune, "From California," the New Amsterdams are in danger of taking over from the Get Up Kids as Pryor's most interesting and memorable band." - Allmusic

"The most basic thing to be said is that the album is fine. It's not really that bad. Not really exciting, either . . . just fine." -  popmatters

Personnel
Matt Pryor - Vocals, Guitar, Lap Steel, and Pump Organ (on "Vignette")
Rob Pope - Bass
Ryan Pope - Drums and Percussion
Ed Rose - Guitar, Drums, Producer, Engineering, and Mixing
Kory Willis - Banjo, Lap Steel
Joe Gastwirt - Mastering
Ron Hayes - Associate Producer
Alex Brahl - Management
Andrew Ellis - Booking

References

2003 albums
The New Amsterdams albums
Albums produced by Ed Rose
Vagrant Records albums
Lake McDonald Lodge Historic District

The Lake McDonald Lodge Historic District is a historic district in Glacier National Park in the U.S. state of Montana. It comprises the Lake McDonald Lodge and surrounding structures on the shores of Lake McDonald. It is centered on the main lodge, which was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1987, as well as surrounding guest cabins, dormitory buildings, employee residences, utility buildings, and retail structures. The district includes several privately owned inholding structures that are contributing structures, as well as a number of non-contributing buildings.

Features

The Lake McDonald Lodge was built in 1913-1914 by John Lewis as the Lewis Glacier Hotel to replace an earlier structure, the Snyder Hotel. The prominent site on the lakeshore was developed as the major tourist accommodation on the west side of the park. In addition to the rustic Swiss-chalet-styled lodge building, there are a number of structures built during the early 20th century, including eleven log cabins built in 1907 near the lodge and two more built in 1918. Other buildings in the historic district include the Garden Court, a two-story frame dormitory built in 1927. The two-story frame Cobb House dormitory features rustic interior detailing and a stone fireplace. The log Snyder Hall was built in 1911 as an assembly hall and was converted to a dormitory. The log Soda Fountain, built in  1927, became a recreation hall for employees. Other buildings include the 1909 frame barbershop, a 1922 log caretaker's residence, and a 1922 frame lumber shed. The 1935 McDonald Cabin is a former private residence, built in rustic log construction. The General Store is a chalet-style structure near the main road, built about 1937. The district also includes a 1934 stone bridge over Snyder Creek and six log private residences.

Mission 66
The Lake McDonald Lodge Coffee Shop was originally excluded from the list of contributing structures as a modern intrusion.  It has since been listed on its own on the National Register of Historic Places as an outstanding example of Mission 66-era design. Several other structures, including a motel unit, gas station and dormitories continue to be regarded as non-contributing to the historic district.

Historic designation
The Lake McDonald Lodge Historic District was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 22, 1978, primarily titled as the Lewis Glacier Hotel.

References

Great Northern Railway (U.S.) hotels
Rustic architecture in Montana
Kirtland Cutter buildings
Tourist attractions in Flathead County, Montana
Hotel buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Montana
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Montana
National Register of Historic Places in Flathead County, Montana
National Register of Historic Places in Glacier National Park
Swiss Chalet Revival architecture
Tussles in Brussels

Tussles in Brussels is a live DVD released by Swedish punk rock band The Hives. The live performance was recorded on 29 October 2004 at Ancienne Belgique while the band was on tour in Brussels, Belgium. The DVD also includes extras such as four music videos from the band, five television performances (including performances on Top of the Pops), and a 30-minute documentary film narrated by Little Steven as D. W. Johnson.

Critical reception
Betty Clarke of The Guardian gave the DVD four out of five stars, calling it a "mixture of animated fantasy and thrilling reality" and felt that the concert that follows the documentary "reveals that the Hives are simply a great garage rock band", writing that lead singer Pelle Almqvist "strut[s] harder than Mick Jagger and sermonis[es] like Jon Spencer".

Performance track listing
 "Abra Cadaver" – 1:39
 "Antidote" – 3:01
 "Missing Link" – 2:11
 "Main Offender" – 2:36
 "State Control" – 3:37
 "Walk Idiot Walk" – 4:05
 "Outsmarted" – 3:01
 "A Little More for Little You" – 4:16
 "Die, All Right!" – 2:41
 "The Hives – Declare Guerre Nucleaire" – 2:17
 "No Pun Intended" – 3:29
 "Hate to Say I Told You So" – 5:31
 "Born to Cry" – 2:22
 "Supply and Demand" – 4:53
 "Diabolic Scheme" – 3:15
 "Two-Timing Touch and Broken Bones" – 4:55
 "B is for Brutus" – 2:38
 "Dead Quote Olympics" – 2:27
 "A.K.A. I-D-I-O-T" – 4:15

Television spots

Top of the Pops
"Main Offender"
"Walk Idiot Walk"

Later with Jools Holland
"Main Offender"
"Supply and Demand"
"Die, All Right!"
"Hate to Say I Told You So"

Videos
"A Little More for Little You"
"Abra Cadaver"
"Walk Idiot Walk"
"Two-Timing Touch and Broken Bones"
"Main Offender"
"Hate to Say I Told You So"
"A.K.A I-D-I-O-T"
"Die, All Right!"

References

The Hives albums
Rainbow's End (album)

Rainbow's End is the second full-length album by American Christian rock band Resurrection Band, released in 1979.

Recording history
Resurrection Band continues in its Led Zeppelin-inspired rock vein with this record. This release is significant for the inclusion of "Afrikaans," the first anti-apartheid song ever released by an American rock band, one full year before Peter Gabriel brought the issue to listeners' attention with "Biko."  Although the band was greatly pleased with this album, that sentiment was not shared by the record label, and Rainbow's End would be the band's last release for Star Song Records.

Track listing 

The title track was never played live until Resurrection Band's final concert at the Cornerstone Festival in 2000.

Personnel 

 Glenn Kaiser – lead and background vocals, electric guitars
 Wendi Kaiser – lead and background vocals
 Stu Heiss – electric and acoustic guitars, piano, organ, Moog synthesizer, "Heiss Box" guitar synthesizer
 Jim Denton – bass guitar, acoustic guitar
 John Herrin – drums
 Roger Heiss – percussion
 Tom Cameron – harmonica
 Kenny Soderblom – saxophone, recorder

Production
 Resurrection Band – producer, mixing
 Gary Loizzo – engineer
 Stu Heiss – engineer, mixing
 Roger Heiss – engineer

Album design
The gatefold LP for Rainbow's End originally came in a slipcase cover with die-cut windows on either side of the angel. Depending on which side was inserted, the windows revealed either heavenly clouds, or stained-glass windows.

References

Resurrection Band albums
1979 albums
Joseph Raphson

Joseph Raphson (c. 1668 – c. 1715) was an English mathematician and intellectual known best for the Newton–Raphson method.

Biography

Very little is known about Raphson's life. Connor and Robertson give his date of birth as 1668 based on a 1691 book review giving his age as 22; mathematical historian Florian Cajori preferred dates around 1648–1715. His parents were probably Ruth and James Raphson, in which case he is likely to be a Joseph Raphson baptised at St John the Baptist, Pinner, Middlesex in the 1660s.

Raphson was made a Fellow of the Royal Society on 30 November 1689, after being proposed for membership by Edmund Halley. In 1692 he graduated with an M.A. in 1692 from Jesus College which at the time was primarily a training college for Church of England clergy, however as the degree was awarded Royal warrant he probably did not actually study there. He described himself as "of London" on his Royal Society bond form and from Middlesex on the Jesus College register.

Raphson's most notable work is Analysis Aequationum Universalis, which was published in 1690. It contains a method, now known as the Newton–Raphson method, for approximating the roots of an equation. Isaac Newton had developed a very similar formula in his Method of Fluxions, written in 1671, but this work would not be published until 1736, nearly 50 years after Raphson's Analysis. However, Raphson's version of the method is simpler than Newton's, and is therefore generally considered superior. For this reason, it is Raphson's version of the method, rather than Newton's, that is to be found in textbooks today.

Raphson was a staunch supporter of Newton's claim, and not that of Gottfried Leibniz, to be the sole inventor of calculus. In addition, Raphson translated Newton's Arithmetica Universalis into English.

Raphson coined the word pantheism, in his work De Spatio Reali, published in 1697, where it may have been found by John Toland, who called Raphson's work "ingenious". In De Spatio Reali, Raphson begins by making a distinction between atheistic panhylists (from the Greek pan 'all' and hyle 'wood, matter'), who believe everything derives from matter, and pantheists who believe in "a certain universal substance material as well as intelligent, that fashions all things that exist out of its own essence". Raphson further believed the universe to be immeasurable in respect to a human's capacity of understanding, and that humans would never be able to comprehend it.

A book by Raphson became a part of the long-running priority dispute on who invented calculus after his death. Newton apparently took control of the publication of Raphson's posthumous book Historia fluxionum and added a supplement with letters from Leibniz and Antonio Schinella Conti to support his position in the dispute.

The lack of sources about Raphson's life and background has been described as surprising. He may have been of Irish descent.

Notes

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1660s births
1710s deaths
English mathematicians
Alumni of Jesus College, Cambridge
Fellows of the Royal Society
Place of death unknown
English people of Irish descent
People from Pinner
Stuart Little (TV series)

Stuart Little (also known as Stuart Little: The Animated Series) is an American animated television series, loosely based on the 1945 E. B. White children's book Stuart Little, as well as the live-action / computer-animated film adaptations. It was produced by Red Wagon Entertainment and Sony Pictures Television for the HBO Family digital cable television channel and aired for one season of 13 episodes.

Premise
Taking place after the two films, The series focuses on the adventures of Stuart Little and his family.

Voice cast

 David Kaufman as Stuart Little, a young anthropomorphic mouse adopted as part of the Little family. 
 Quinton Flynn and Kevin Schon as Snowbell, the family's Persian cat and Stuart's friend.
 Myles Jeffrey as George Little, the eldest son of the Little family and Stuart's older brother.
 Hugh Laurie as Mr. Frederick Little, the father of the Little family and Mrs. Little's husband.
 Jennifer Hale as 
 Mrs. Eleanor Little, the mother of the Little family and Mr. Little's wife.
 Martha Little, the infant daughter of the Little family and Stuart and George's younger sister.
 André Sogliuzzo as Monty, Snowbell's gray tabby cat friend.
 Matt Kaminsky as Rick Ruckus, a pro skater whom George and Stuart are big fans of.
 Rachael Harris as Margalo, a young anthropomorphic canary who is Stuart's love interest.
 Pat Fraley as Falcon, a sadistic, greedy peregrine falcon. 
 Jeffrey Jones as Uncle Crenshaw Little, the older brother of Mr. Little.
 Marc John Jefferies as Will Wilson, George's loyal best friend.

With the exceptions of Laurie, Jones, and Jefferies, none of the actors from the films reprised their roles. Daniel Hansen who previously portrayed an unnamed student in Stuart Little 2 voices Larry Gronk.

Episodes

Home media
Two DVDs were released on May 22, 2007. Each contained 3 episodes of Stuart Little. In April 2009, two more DVDs were released.

References

External links
  (Archived Site)
 

HBO original programming
2003 American television series debuts
2003 American television series endings
2000s American animated television series
American children's animated adventure television series
American children's animated comedy television series
American sequel television series
American television shows based on children's books
Animated television shows based on films
Television series based on adaptations
Television series by Sony Pictures Television
Animated television series about families
Animated television series about mice and rats
English-language television shows
Television shows set in New York City
Stuart Little (franchise)
Television series by Adelaide Productions
Medway (DJ)

Medway (real name Jesse Skeens) is a British DJ and record producer, who has released records on such record labels as Hooj Choons and Release Records. He has also had various tracks on many compilation albums in the Global Underground series. In April 2000, his "Fat Bastard (EP)" spent one week at #69 in the UK Singles Chart. In March 2001, his song, "Release", peaked at #67 in the same listing.

As of 2009, he resides in London, and is the owner of Medway Studios.

References

External links

Medway Studios: Online Mastering

American DJs
American record producers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Centrepoint Kids

Centrepoint Kids were groups of youths who used to hang out at shopping centers in Singapore during the mid-1980s. This term came about after the demolition of the old Cold Storage supermarket building and construction of The Centrepoint in 1982-1983, after which a growing number of teenagers went there to "hang out."

Origins/sociology
Seen as public nuisance, they were labelled the "Centrepoint Kids." By 1986, some were sociologically studied with a focus on their personal and family backgrounds. Other similar moral panics that appeared in the Singapore media include the McDonald Kids (early 1980s), the Far East Plaza Kids (1980-3; re-lapse in mid-1990s), the Daimaru Kids (1983-6), and the Marina Square Kids (early 1990s).

Most kids started off in Far East Plaza in the early 1980s before migrating to Centrepoint when the building was completed. During its peak period, membership reached above 2000 members (checked through sub-grouping).  In a survey done in December 1985 by a group of volunteers headed by Vincent Lam, a police officer with the Singapore Police Force, the youngest Centrepoint Kid interviewed was 10 years old and the oldest was 23 years old. 

They were easily identified by their outlandish outfits and avant-garde hairdos. While some of the youths had been found committing crimes such as smoking, glue-sniffing, fighting, and shoplifting, most were only there to make friends. However, shopkeepers complained that the youths were blocking passageways at shopping centres and frightening away potential customers.

Rehabilitation efforts
Lam set up an organisation (later named "Youth Challenge") to cater to the needs of the so-called "Centrepoint Kids" and resigned from the police force to concentrate on his efforts to nurture them into socially responsible citizens.  Lam managed his social efforts with a team of volunteers, and his successful efforts were highlighted in AsiaWeek, a regional Asian magazine published in Hong Kong.  

To educate students about social responsibility, Lam visited more than 100 schools to talk about the danger of falling into "street gangs." Some school principals had even issued orders forbidding students from forming or joining such groups. Lam's passion for helping the "Centrepoint Kids" was noticed by the Commissioner of Police in Singapore and the Police Commission nominated him for the "Outstanding Young Persons of the Year Award."

References

External links
The Straits Times, 8 December 1985, Page 16, "Quizzing 1000 Centrepoint Kids and their like"
The Straits Times, 23 February 1986, Page 8, "Centrepoint Kids fade out, to shopkeepers' relief" by Audrey Perera
YouTube: Heard of the "Centrepoint Kids"? (Teen Hangouts Pt 1)
Google News (Ocala Star-Banner): "Mall kids invade Southeast Asia" by Kenneth L. Whiting 
AsiaViews (June, 2007): "She's taking up the Challenge" by Jasmine Yin

Society of Singapore
Youth in Singapore
Snake Tales

Snake Tales (also known as simply Snake, after the main character) is a gag-a-day comic strip written by Australian cartoonist Allan Salisbury.

Publication history 
Snake Tales was originally titled The Old Timer and was first published in The Daily Telegraph on 25 April 1974.  The initial group of characters featured: The Old Timer, an elderly bloke with a long thirst and a reluctance to shout for beers; The Con Man; The Kangaroo, who constantly avoids being killed for food; the Flyin' Doc; and The Last Lost Tribesman and his Wife, who are determined to stay lost.

In July 1975 The Sun News-Pictorial published the strip as a replacement for Les Dixon's Bluey and Curley. Sols gradually added characters including Crazy Croc, Lillie (the Old Timer's distant admirer), a devious butcher, a group of duck hunters, the comic strip did not make a great impression until the introduction of the character 'Snake'. Snake was first introduced in 1975 and gradually gained greater prominence to the point where the name of the strip was changed to Snake Tales in 1978.  The strip has now been internationally syndicated and appears in over 450 newspapers (both daily and Sunday editions) worldwide.

When it was syndicated in the United States (through the Newspaper Enterprise Association), Sols was asked to re-draw Lady Snake, as her "two lumps" were said to be offensive. He drew her with a bikini top instead.

Story and characters 
The strip is set in an unspecified location in the Australian outback.  Occasionally a shot of a traditional outback pub by itself on a lone road is seen.

The principal characters include: 
 Snake: a not very smart venomous snake.
 Lady Snake: the Snake's girlfriend.
 The Flyin' Doc: a pilot with the Royal Flying Doctor Service

References

External links
 

Australian comic strips
Australian comics titles
1974 comics debuts
Australian comics characters
Comics about snakes
Gag-a-day comics
Fictional snakes
2000 films
Comics spin-offs
Comics set in Australia
Benz & MD

Benz & MD was a duo of Canadian electronic music DJs and producers Greg Benz and Marco Di Carlo, both graduates of the well-known BealArts program at London, Ontario's H. B. Beal Secondary School.  They began recording together in 2003, releasing singles mainly on Aurium Recordings and Release Records,  plus Silver Planet, and Baroque Records ("Underoath").
Their 2004 track "Release Time" was recorded by Flash Brothers. "Sound 64" was recorded in collaboration with Ebrius and released by Aurium Recordings. The pair released a 12" vinyl with two versions of "Snowblind".

Their track "Turning The Curves" was included in the 2006 Markus Schulz album Ibiza '06. "Percasins' was included in the Groove spot Mix in 2006. A remix of the song "Vacant" was included in the 2008 album Hydra by the band Iris.

Discography
EPs & Singles
"Snowblind" (2003), Dorigen Music
"Oneric" (2003), Aurium Recordings
"Wonder" (2004), Hope Recordings
"Dilation" (2004), Release Records
"Radience" (2004), Release Records
"Spiagia" / "Tainted" (2004), Baroque Records
"Sound84" (2004), vs Ebrius, Aurium Recordings
"Still Rain" / "Dead Calm" (2004), Silver Planet Recordings
"Shudder" (2004), Basic Energy
"Unconditional" / "Mar Del Plata" (2005), Aurium Recordings
"Highroller" / "Redline" (2006), Electronic Elements
"Percasins" / "Open Bar" (2006), Aurium Recordings
"Turning The Curves" (2006), Electronic Elements
"Underoath" (2006), Baroque Records
"Visceral" (2006), Primal Recordings
"The Sundowner" (2007), Aurium Recordings
"Places" (2007), Aurium Recordings
"Subdivision" / "Places In Betwween" (2007), Aurium Recordings
"Sustain Release" /  "Departed" (2007), Aurium Recordings
Signals / Orion's Belt (2007), split EP with Stefan Anion, Proton Music
A Priori / Signals (2008), split EP with The Last Atlant, Proton Music
Robot / Ending (2008), split EP with Micah, Proton Particles
Alternate Ending / You Made Me Smile (2008), split EP with Michael Feihstel, Proton Particles
Restraint EP (2009), Aurium Recordings
The Patrol EP (2010), Aurium Recordings

Compilation inclusions
7 Year Itch! (History Of Hope Compilation), "Wonder" (2005), Hope Recordings
50 Trance Tunes Deluxe Volume 1, "Turning The Curves" (2008), Armada Digital
50 Trance Tunes Deluxe Volume 2, "Highroller" (2009), Armada Digital

References

External links
Discogs entry

Canadian electronic music groups
Allan Salisbury

Allan Salisbury (born 1949), known professionally as Sols, is an Australian cartoonist, best known for his newspaper comic Snake Tales. Salisbury's other creations include Lennie the Loser and Fingers and Foes, the latter helping to establish Salisbury in the United States.

Allan John Salisbury was born in 1949 in Kyabram, Victoria, after completing his secondary school education Salisbury took a job at the Cyclone Company in Melbourne, where he eventually became the company's advertising officer. It was there that he began working on a comic strip, The Ludicrous Life of Lenny the Loser. He then went to see William Ellis Green ('Weg') at The Herald, who suggested that he get an agent to represent him, recommending Sol Shifrin. Shifrin agreed to represent him but suggested he develop a strip with dialogue. As a result, Salisbury created Fingers and Toes (sub-titled The Little League of Disorganised Crime), an American gangster strip set in the 1930s. It became the first Australian comic strip to be purchased by a US syndicate, Publishers-Hall, without being published in Australia. The strip debuted in March 1974, appearing in the Chicago Sun-Times, Dallas News, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Miami Herald, Vancouver Sun and Winnipeg Tribune. Fingers and Toes, however, encountered a number of problems with its US publishers, including its portrayal of a drunken judge, occasional muggings and US anti-violence campaigns (which resulted in the gangsters guns being painted out). The strip was dropped by mutual agreement towards the end of 1974.

Salisbury then created a new set of characters with an Australian background. His strip, Old Timer, made its first appearance in The Daily Telegraph in October 1974. In July 1975 The Sun News-Pictorial included it as a trial replacement for Les Dixon's Bluey and Curley, following Dixon's retirement. Over time Salisbury introduced a range of new characters including Snake, in 1976, who gradually took over the comic to the point where in 1978 the name of the strip was changed to Snake Tales. The comic has been cited as the "first new Australian comic since the 1930s" and also as "the start of a different era in Australian cartooning". His work was the basis for the "Art and Sols" exhibition at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery in late 2006, which in turn formed the basis for the education guide of the same name. His strips are held by the Michigan State University Libraries in their collections.

In 2000, the American basketball team Rio Grande Valley Vipers adopted his character 'Snake' as their official mascot, the first time an Australian cartoon character has been so adopted.

He currently resides in Launceston, Tasmania in Australia.

Bibliography

References

External links
Snake Cartoons

Australian comics writers
Australian comics artists
Australian comic strip cartoonists
People from Victoria (state)
1949 births
Living people
Jim Russell award winners
Lowenstein

Lowenstein or Loewenstein () may refer to:

 Lowenstein (surname), including a list of people with the name
 Löwenstein, a city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
 Löwenstein-Wertheim, former state of the Holy Roman Empire 
 Alfred Lowenstein, Investor, Financer
 Loewenstein Peak, an ice-free peak located  in the Cruzen Range of Victoria Land
 23298 Loewenstein, a minor planet

See also
 Levenstein, a surname
 Lewenstein, a surname
 Lowenstein Sandler, a New Jersey law firm
 Löwenstein–Jensen medium, a growth medium more commonly known as LJ medium
 Loewenstein's blue, a species of butterfly in the family Lycaenidae
 Loewenstein and Sons Hardware Building, a historic commercial structure located at Charleston, West Virginia.
Baroque Records

Baroque Records is an electronic music label created by Mick Parks and Mick Wilson of Tilt.  It has featured singles from Quivver, Tilt, Benz & MD, and Shiloh.

External links
Official Website

Electronic music record labels
British record labels
Ebrahim Afshar

Ebrahim Mirza or Ebrahim Shah Afshar () (died 1749) was the Shah of Persia during the Afsharid Empire from July to September 1748. Born with the name Mohammad-Ali, he was the son of Ebrahim Khan Afshar (Mohammad-Ebrahim Beg), and thus Adel Shah's brother and Nader Shah's nephew. After his father's death in 1739, he took the name Ebrahim Beg. He toppled his brother in order to seize the power, and he blinded him on July 6, 1748. However, two months later his own troops rebelled against him. He was slain on 24 September, ending his short reign. Ebrahim was succeeded by Nader's grandson, Shahrokh Mirza, who was elected by the nobles to ascend to the throne.

References

Sources
 

Afsharid monarchs
Murdered Persian monarchs
1749 deaths
Year of birth unknown
18th-century murdered monarchs
Ethnic Afshar people
1749 murders in Asia
Brown-capped vireo

The brown-capped vireo (Vireo leucophrys) is a small passerine bird.  It breeds in highlands from southern Mexico south to northwestern Bolivia. It is sometimes considered to be conspecific with the similar warbling vireo.

The adult brown-capped vireo is 12–12.7 cm in length and weighs 12 g. It has olive-green upperparts and a brown crown. There is a brown line from the bill through the eyes, and a white supercilium. The face and throat are off-white, and the underparts are otherwise yellow with some olive on the flanks. Young birds are buff-brown above with a weaker supercilium.

The brown-capped vireo has a sharp  call and the song is a rich warbled here you see me hear me sing so sweet, reminiscent of that of the warbling vireo.

This vireo occurs in the canopy and middle levels of light woodland, the edges of forest, and other semi-open habitats at altitudes from 500 to 2500 m. Brown-capped vireos feed on caterpillars and other insects gleaned from tree foliage. They also eat small fruits. They will join mixed-species feeding flocks.

The nest is undescribed.

Footnotes

References
 Hilty, Steven L. (2003): Birds of Venezuela. Christopher Helm, London. 
 Stiles, F. Gary & Skutch, Alexander Frank (1989): A guide to the birds of Costa Rica. Comistock, Ithaca. 
 Strewe, Ralf & Navarro, Cristobal (2004): New and noteworthy records of birds from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta region, north-eastern Colombia. Bull. B.O.C. 124(1): 38–51. PDF fulltext

brown-capped vireo
Birds of Central America
Birds of the Northern Andes
brown-capped vireo
Taxa named by Frédéric de Lafresnaye
Analphabetapolothology

Analphabetapolothology is an anthology album by Cap'n Jazz released in 1998 on Jade Tree Records. It catalogues almost every song recorded and released by the band during their time together except an early song called "Naive."

The album consists of the band's first and only full length studio album along with songs from EPs, compilation tracks, live recordings, and previously unreleased outtakes and demos.

Track listing

Cap'n Jazz albums
1998 compilation albums
Jade Tree (record label) albums
Art punk compilation albums
Emo compilation albums
Post-hardcore compilation albums
Indie rock compilation albums
⊿

⊿ may refer to:
Right triangle, a triangle containing a right angle
Triangle (Perfume album), the third album of techno-pop group Perfume

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Ed Kretz

Ed Kretz, Sr. (September 24, 1911 – January 30, 1996), aka Ed "Iron Man" Kretz, was an American professional motorcycle racer in the 1930s and 1940s. He is best known for winning the first Daytona 200 race in 1937, riding an Indian Sport Scout.  Kretz, Sr. was a rough rider, who strove to finish, and win, every race.  He rode #38, usually on an Indian motorcycle.

Early life
Ed Kretz, Sr. was born in San Diego, California. Unlike many top motorcycle racers who often began riding at a young age, Kretz didn't start riding until he was 20. It was out of necessity during the Depression and a motorcycle was the only form of transportation that Kretz, Sr. could afford. While driving a truck transporting produce to Los Angeles, Kretz, Sr. began attending Southern California motorcycle field meets as a spectator. Eventually, he entered a few races and quickly became one of the top riders.

Motorcycle racing career
Kretz, Sr. largely dominated the sport for over a decade. He won the first 200-mile Savannah Nationals at Langhorn (1936, 1937, 1938, 1940, and 1948) and the Laconia Classic (1938 and 1945).  He was voted most popular rider of 1938 and 1948.  He raced a 100-lap TT race in Ascot Park, Gardena, California, winning the lap money, the heat race, and the trophy race. Ed “Iron Man” Kretz retired from racing in 1959.

Personal life
In 1937 Kretz was an original founder of the 13 Rebels Motorcycle Club along with Ernest "Tex" Bryant, Shell Thuett, Ted Evans, Ray, Thuett, Ernie Roccio,  Johnny Roccio, Ray Bryant, Hill Wagner, Ed "Rip" Henley, Delmar Burkam, "Fearless" Fuller, Jimmy Wright, Les Mills, Dode Burdick, Johnny Enchando, Jack Horn, Jim Kelley, Kenny Hylander, Arden M. Van Sycle, Arden A. Van Sycle, Elmo Looper, Floyd Emde (winner of the 1948 Daytona 200). Wino Willie Forkner was also a member after WWII and would later go on to found the iconic Boozefighters MC in 1946. During World War II, Kretz served as a motorcycle troop instructor, teaching new recruits how to ride and maintain Indian motorcycles. After the war he opened his own motorcycle dealership, which he retired from in 1986.

References

External links
Ed Kretz at the Motorcycle Hall of Fame

1911 births
1996 deaths
American motorcycle racers
AMA Grand National Championship riders
Motorcycle racers from San Diego
It's Never Been Like That

It's Never Been Like That is the third studio album by French indie pop band Phoenix. It was released 15 May 2006 in Europe. The album was preceded by the release of the singles "Long Distance Call" and "Consolation Prizes"

The album was later re-released in Mexico as a tour edition with four bonus tracks recorded live in Oslo on 20 April 2006.

Commercial performance
As of 2013, sales in the United States have exceeded 92,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Critical reception

It's Never Been Like That was rated number 13 in Pitchforks Top 50 Albums of 2006 and 38 in their Top Albums of the 2000s.

Track listing

Notes
This edition of the album is referred to as the "New Edition". It was released in France and on tour in Mexico back in 2006, but is now being sold as a 2009 release in the US.
The live tracks were recorded in Oslo on 20 April 2006.

Charts

Release history

References

2006 albums
Astralwerks albums
Virgin Records albums
Arts & Crafts Productions albums
Phoenix (band) albums
We're Coming Home

"We're Coming Home" is a song by Australian electronic rock band Rogue Traders, released in June 2006 as the fourth and final commercial single from their second studio album, Here Come the Drums (2005). Unlike previous singles from the album, "We're Coming Home" was released exclusively in Australia and did not see an international release.

Chart performance
"We're Coming Home" debuted at number 25 on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart on 25 June 2006. During its second week in, the single descended two places down to number 27 but re-ascended during its third week to number 23. On week four, "We're Coming Home" reached its peak at number 14, where it spent a week.

Track listing
Australian CD single
 "We're Coming Home" – 3:21
 "We're Coming Home" (James Ash remix) – 6:13
 "We're Coming Home" (live at Adelaide Skyshow) – 3:37
 "Voodoo Child" (Tom Neville remix) – 7:04

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

2006 singles
Columbia Records singles
Rogue Traders songs
Sony BMG singles
Mbya

Mbya may refer to:
 Mbayá, a historic ethnic group of Paraguay, Bolivia and Brazil
 Mbyá Guaraní people, an ethnic group of Paraguay, Brazil, Argentina, and Uruguay
 Mbyá Guaraní language, a Gurani language of Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay
 Sirionó language, a Guarayu language of Bolivia

See also
 Kadiweu language or Mbayá, a Guaicuruan language of Brazil
 Mbia (disambiguation)

Language and nationality disambiguation pages
Australian Marine Mammal Research Centre

The Australian Marine Mammal Research Centre or AMMRC was established in 1996 as a co-operative centre of the University of Sydney and the Zoological Parks Board of New South Wales.

The centre’s research program includes the impacts of climate change, the spatial, haul-out and foraging behaviour of leopard seals, population monitoring of Antarctic marine mammals, and the development of non-invasive techniques that will allow researchers to monitor the hormones of wild populations (whales, dolphins and seals) without having to restrain the animals.

The researchers, behavioural ecologists and veterinarians, work on projects including:
 Seals of the Antarctic pack ice,
 Cetaceans in the coastal waters of New Guinea,
 Seal and cetacean populations in Australian waters,
 Comparing southern and northern hemisphere endangered populations of cetaceans.

The research is supported by such organisations as the (Australian) Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO).

See also
Australian Marine Conservation Society

References
New marine mammal research centre an Australian first from the  Australian Government Minister for the Environment and Heritage.
The Action Plan for Australian Seals

External links
2002progreports/SC-54-ProgRep%20Australia.pdf  Project report for 2002

Research institutes in Australia
Biological research institutes in Australia
Cetacean research and conservation
Marine mammal rehabilitation and conservation centers
The Food of the Gods (short story)

"The Food of the Gods" is a science fiction short story by British writer Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1964. It was subsequently published as part of a short story collection The Wind from the Sun in 1972. 

The title is in reference to ambrosia, the mythical food of the ancient Greek gods and the name of the controversial food product discussed in this story. The title could also be seen as a tribute to the novel The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth by H. G. Wells.

References

External links 
 

1964 short stories
Short stories by Arthur C. Clarke
Works originally published in Playboy
Mandate (magazine)

Mandate was a monthly gay pornographic magazine. It was published in the United States and distributed internationally since April, 1975. Together with the other magazines of the Mavety Group, such as Black Inches, it folded in 2009.

History
Modernismo Publications, Ltd. (MP) were publishers of Mandate, Honcho, and Playguy, popular gay men's magazines. MP was founded in 1974 by George Mavety with the publication of Dilettante, which folded in March 1975. The following month, its successor, Mandate, appeared on the newsstands under the editorship of John Devere.

Mandate was conceived as a magazine of erotica, news and entertainment for gay men. Each monthly issue, in addition to exhibiting artistic displays of male nudes and erotic fiction, contained reviews of books, motion pictures and sound recordings of interest to the gay community and reported on social, political and cultural events related to the movement for gay liberation.

Joseph Arsenault succeeded Devere as editor. By the time Sam Staggs succeeded to its editorship, following Arsenault, Mandate claimed a circulation of over 100,000 and enjoyed a reputation as the most important gay men's magazine in America. Staggs' dream was to make it the gay equivalent of Playboy or Penthouse.

Following the death of editor and novelist Stan Leventhal, the neglected Mandate was revitalized by Doug McClemont. McClemont was appointed Editor-in-Chief during the crucial period of the mid-1990s when gay sexuality was arguably at its most transitional point. The AIDS crisis had altered the way porn and same-sex relations were perceived by the general public.

See also
List of gay pornographic magazines

References

External links
ModernHomo: The Origin of Mandate Magazine

Pornographic magazines published in the United States
Defunct magazines published in the United States
Gay male pornography in the United States
Gay male pornographic magazines
Magazines established in 1975
Magazines disestablished in 2009
Pierre Elliott Trudeau (disambiguation)

Pierre Elliott Trudeau (1919–2000) was the fifteenth Prime Minister of Canada.

Pierre Elliott Trudeau may also refer to:

Places
Montréal–Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport in Montreal, Canada
Mount Pierre Elliott Trudeau in the Cariboo region of British Columbia, Canada
Pierre Elliott Trudeau School (disambiguation)

Other uses
Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, a Canadian charity

See also
 Trudeaumania, the idol worship phenomenon relating to the 15th PM of Canada.
 Trudeau family, the Canadian political family of Pierre Elliott Trudeau
 Trudeau, biographical 2002 television miniseries on Pierre Elliott Trudeau
 Trudeau (disambiguation)
 Elliot (disambiguation)
 Pierre (disambiguation)