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Devil's Backbone State Forest

Devil's Backbone State Forest is a  state forest in Shenandoah County, Virginia. It lies on the slope of North Mountain in the drainage area of Cedar Creek near Star Tannery west of Strasburg.  The forest was established by a grant by John and Bernice Hoffman, who owned the land since 1950.

The forest is managed by the Virginia Department of Forestry, with a focus on research relating to the re-establishment of American chestnut trees. Public access is not permitted.

History

Although much of future state forest was too steep and the soil too thin for agriculture, it nonetheless was part of a growing Virginia economy.  The first industry to use the forest was iron furnaces established in the mid-18th century and existing until after the Civil War. Isaac Zane, a Quaker from Pennsylvania, built the first two of these furnaces (Zane's Old Furnace 1768-74 and The Marlboro Works 1772-95) and received grants of forest land which included the future state forest to be used to make charcoal as fuel.

In 1868 a tannery was constructed and consumed the forest for the tannin-rich bark on the trees.  The tannery eventually moved on, leaving only its name attached to the nearby community of Star Tannery.  Afterwards, inhabitants cut firewood and timber for charcoal-fueled kilns that produced quicklime from limestone in the Shenandoah Valley. By the middle of the 20th century very little forest remained on the slopes of North Mountain.

John and Bernice Hoffman established the current forest on the land by planting timber stands of loblolly pine and encouraging natural regeneration of native hardwoods. They also worked to re-establish the American chestnut, formerly a dominant tree in the Appalachian forest prior to the outbreak of the chestnut blight in the early 20th century. John hopes his trees will help restore the chestnuts to their former glory and that some of them will resist the blight.

See also
List of Virginia state forests

References

External links
Virginia Department of Forestry: Devil's Backbone State Forest

Virginia state forests
Protected areas of Shenandoah County, Virginia
State forests of the Appalachians
1995 establishments in Virginia
Protected areas established in 1995
Squealer (2005 film)

Squealer is a 2005 pornographic horror film directed by Jack the Zipper.

Plot
A quartet of women on a road trip experience car trouble, and seek shelter in a seemingly abandoned farmhouse, where they have an orgy. The girls are interrupted mid-coitus by the home's owners, a group of hillbilly cousins who make the travellers have sex with them. Afterward, two of the women are tied to chairs and placed in a boathouse, though one of them manages to free herself, and undo her companion's ropes. While those two have sex, they are spied on by three of the rednecks, who eventually join them.

Outside, one of the girls has been tied up and placed in the back of a truck. While her abductor digs a grave, the woman tries to make a run for it, but she is quickly recaptured. The girl is taken back to the house, where she and two of her friends (one of whom is placed in a swing) are used for sex. Next, a female member of the backwoods clan has sex with one of the girls, choking her and suffocating her with a bag during the act.

Another orgy occurs, this time involving two men and two women, the latter being urinated on before the sex begins. After one of the hillbillies climaxes, the film abruptly ends, with the women presumably still being held prisoner in the farmhouse.

Cast
 Otto Bauer as Digger
 Smokie Flame as Pinup #1
 Audrey Hollander as Pinup #2
 Jassie as Pinup #3
 Kimberly Kane as Pinup #4
 Alec Knight as Cousin #1
 Scott Lyons as Cousin #2
 Scott Nails as Cousin #3
 Kris Slater as Cousin #4
 Felix Vicious as Pinup #5

Reception
AVN gave Squealer a four and a half out of five, stating: "it's unrelentingly filthy, full of dirt-streaked bodies, d.p.s, double anal, slapping, tying, gagging, spitting, asphyxiation, you name it. It's also a masterpiece, porn's answer (in a true sense, not a parodic one) to The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" and "The look, the mood, the music... it's all pitch-perfect. And unlike anyone else's stuff. Jack the Zipper has slaughtered again". A positive review was also given by Fleshbot, which described the film as "an intense little movie" that was spookily and artfully shot.

A two out of five was awarded by XCritic, which admitted that while the film succeeded at being atmospheric, artistic and creepy it was still "just plain repulsive" and "like something serial killers use to push them over the edge into orgasm land while fantasizing about slaughter". Box Magazine was also critical of Squealer, finding most of the sex unerotic, and the horror element almost non-existent.

Awards
Squealer won in the categories Best All-Sex Release - Video, Best Group Sex Scene - Video, and Best Oral Sex Scene - Video at the 2006 AVN Awards.

References

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Alt porn
2005 films
Bondage pornography
2005 horror films
American erotic horror films
2000s English-language films
2000s pornographic films
Pornographic horror films
2005 direct-to-video films
American pornographic films
Direct-to-video horror films
2000s American films
Merced Sun-Star

The Merced Sun-Star is a daily broadsheet newspaper printed in Merced, California, in the United States. It has circulation of 7,926 copies.  The newspaper is published every day except for Sundays.

History
The Merced Sun-Star evolved from the San Joaquin Valley Argus, a weekly newspaper based in the nearby city of Snelling which began publishing the paper in 1869. The Argus merged with the Merced Journal in 1890 to become the Merced County Sun. In 1925 another consolidation created the Merced Sun-Star. In 1941, the Sun-Star was acquired by Dean Lesher. In 1995, Lesher's heirs sold the Sun-Star and the Madera Tribune to US Media, later renamed Pacific-Sierra Publishing. The newspaper was acquired by The McClatchy Company in 2004. Currently, the Sun-Star has more than 120 employees that prepare both a print newspaper and an online version.

Ownership
The Merced Sun-Star is owned by The McClatchy Company, which purchased it in 2004 along with five non-dailes in Atwater, Chowchilla, Livingston, Los Banos, and Oakhurst.

The paper is the county's only daily newspaper, although it is not the county's only newspaper. Merced County is also served by the Merced County Times, a weekly paper published each Thursday by Mid-Valley Publications.

Awards
The newspaper has become known for its investigative journalism. A series of articles exposing wrongdoing by the local district attorney ended in the DA's resignation and garnered the newspaper a national Associated Press Managing Editors Association public service award. The stories also won a California First Amendment Coalition Beacon Award, among other distinctions.
The newspaper won its second APME award (this one in the First Amendment category) in 2009 after it exposed a series of racist emails sent by an Atwater city councilman.

Online newspaper
The Sun-Star also has an online edition offering the latest news, sports, weather and information affecting Merced and Mariposa counties.

Weekly newspapers
The Merced Sun-Star also publishes the:
Atwater Signal
Chowchilla News
Livingston Chronicle

References

External links

Official  Merced Sun-Star website
official Merced Sun-Star mobile website

Daily newspapers published in California
Merced, California
Mass media in Merced County, California
McClatchy publications
Newspapers established in 1869
1869 establishments in California
Companies based in Merced County, California
From Toledo to Tokyo

From Toledo to Tokyo is a DVD released by American alternative/indie group Mae. It is a documentary/live performance of the Japan tour.

The name of the DVD is derived from a lyric taken from "We're So Far Away", the second track on their CD The Everglow.

Sections 

Documentary spanning Mae's first year of tour (100 minutes)
Interviews with the band
Live performances
Fans
Band History
Snow Storms
Appearances by:
Something Corporate
The Starting Line
Copeland
And More
Live performance from Mae's hometown venue (40 minutes)
Futuro
All Deliberate Speed
Runaway
Anything
Skyline Drive
Sun
Soundtrack for Our Movie
Summertime
Documentary capturing Mae's first tour in Japan (25 minutes)
This Time Is the Last Time
Suspension
Embers and Envelopes

Mae video albums
2005 live albums
Live video albums
Mesoridazine

Mesoridazine (Serentil) is a piperidine neuroleptic drug belonging to the class of drugs called phenothiazines, used in the treatment of schizophrenia. It is a metabolite of thioridazine. The drug's name is derived from the methylsulfoxy and piperidine functional groups in its chemical structure.

It has central antiadrenergic, antidopaminergic, antiserotonergic and weak muscarinic anticholinergic effects.

Serious side effects include akathisia, tardive dyskinesia and the potentially fatal neuroleptic malignant syndrome.

Mesoridazine was withdrawn from the United States market in 2004 due to dangerous side effects, namely irregular heart beat and QT-prolongation of the electrocardiogram.

It currently appears to be unavailable worldwide.

Synthesis

2-Methylthiophenothiazine [7643-08-5] (1) is treated with acetic anhydride] to give the protected amide, ie 10-acetyl-2-methylthiophenothiazine, CID:69367526. Oxidation of this by means of hydrogen peroxide and removal of the acetyl protecting group with potassium carbonate in methanol solution gives 2-methylsulfonylphenothiazine [23503-68-6] (3). Introduction of the sidechain by alkylation with 2-(2-chlorethyl)-1-methylpiperidine [50846-01-0] (6) in the presence of sodamide, afforded the desired mesoridazine (5).

References 

Muscarinic antagonists
Phenothiazines
Piperidines
Sulfoxides
Tertiary amines
Typical antipsychotics
Withdrawn drugs
Confederación Unitaria de Trabajadores de Honduras

The Confederación Unitaria de Trabajadores de Honduras (CUTH) is a national trade union center in Honduras. It was formed in 1992.

Trade unions in Honduras

Trade unions established in 1992
1992 establishments in Honduras
Phil Cunningham (folk musician)

Philip Martin Cunningham, MBE (born 27 January 1960 in Edinburgh, Scotland) is a Scottish folk musician and composer. He is best known for playing the accordion with Silly Wizard, as well as in other bands and in duets with his brother, Johnny. When they played together, they would egg each other on to play faster and faster, and try, light-heartedly, to trip each other up.

Phil has also collaborated with numerous other great Celtic musicians; one prominent example of this is his partnership with Aly Bain. The duo have (as of 2020) released nine albums, and between 1989 and 2019 they had a yearly spot at the New Year's Hogmanay Live broadcast on BBC Scotland.

Biography
Cunningham played accordion and violin from a young age. He attended school in Portobello, and was raised a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, attending church regularly and playing organ. However, by age fifteen he had issues towards the Church and chose to leave. He now describes himself as a spiritualist.

At the age of 16, he left school and joined his older brother Johnny in the group Silly Wizard, where he sang and played accordion, tin whistle, harmonium, guitar, and synthesizer. He also wrote many of the group's songs. After the breakup of Silly Wizard, Phil and Johnny recorded two albums and toured with Irish siblings Mícheál Ó Domhnaill and Triona Ni Domhnaill as the quartet Relativity. Phil has since had a successful solo career, releasing the solo albums Airs & Graces and The Palomino Waltz and producing albums with Aly Bain, Mark Knopfler, Dolores Keane, Altan, Connie Dover and Kris Drever.

In more recent years, Phil has also composed classical music and music for theatre and television, with 1997 seeing the premiere of his Highlands and Islands Suite at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall.

In 2002, Phil was appointed MBE for services to Scottish music. He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters, at Glasgow Caledonian University's graduation ceremony on 27 November 2007.

Discography

Solo albums 
Airs & Graces (1983)
Palomino Waltz (1989)

Silly Wizard 
Caledonia's Hardy Sons (1978)
So Many Partings (1980)
Wild and Beautiful (1981)
Kiss the Tears Away (1983)
A Glint of Silver (1986)
Live Wizardry (1988)

Relativity 
Relativity (1986)
Gathering Pace (1987)

With Johnny Cunningham 
Against the Storm (1980)

With Aly Bain 
The Pearl (1995)
The Ruby (1997)
Another Gem (2000)
Spring The Summer Long (2003)
Best of Aly and Phil (2004)
Roads Not Travelled (2006)
Portrait (2010)
Five and Twenty (2012)
No Rush (2020)

With Connie Dover 
Somebody (1991)
The Wishing Well (1994)
If Ever I Return (1997)
The Border of Heaven (2000)

With Kris Drever 
Mark the Hard Earth (2010)

With Mark Knopfler 
Privateering (2012)

References

External links 
Official web site
BBC Scotland TV series website

1960 births
Living people
Members of the Order of the British Empire
Musicians from Edinburgh
Scottish folk musicians
Former Latter Day Saints
People educated at Portobello High School
Relativity (band) members
Silly Wizard members
21st-century accordionists
Scottish tin whistle players
21st-century flautists
Polycide

Polycide is a silicide formed over polysilicon. Widely used in DRAMs. In a polycide MOSFET transistor process, the silicide is formed only over the polysilicon film as formation occurs prior to any polysilicon etch. Polycide processes contrast with salicide processes in which silicide is formed after the polysilicon etch. Thus, with a salicide process, silicide is formed over both the polysilicon gate and the exposed monocrystalline terminal regions of the transistor in a self-aligned fashion.

Semiconductor device fabrication
Silicon
Pensive

Pensive (February 5, 1941 – May 20, 1949) was a bright chestnut Thoroughbred racehorse that in 1944 won the first two legs of the U.S. Triple Crown. Pensive also began only the second sire line "hat trick" in the Kentucky Derby, as his son Ponder won the 1949 Derby, and Ponder's son Needles won the 1956 edition.

Background
He was sired by Hyperion, out of Penicuik II (by Buchan). Pensive was brought to the United States still in utero by Arthur B. Hancock, who then sold the mare to the owner of Calumet Farm, Warren Wright. Wright had inherited Calumet from his father, William Monroe Wright, president of the Calumet Baking Powder Company. Pensive began his training under Calumet's future Hall of Fame trainer Ben A. Jones.

Racing career
At two, Pensive raced five times, winning twice.  His three losses all came in stakes races.  At three, he ran a checkered season, winning and losing fairly equally.  He beat older horses in the Rowe Memorial Handicap, but lost to an older horse, Tola Rose, in the Bowie Handicap.  Tola Rose had defeated Whirlaway in the Butler Memorial Handicap.

Pensive, ridden by Conn McCreary, won the Kentucky Derby going away by four and a half lengths.  A week later, he took the Preakness. That year, the Belmont (at the time the least of the three races), had upped its purse to $50,000.  Pensive was in the lead when Bounding Home inched by to take the race by less than half a length.

Following his loss in the Belmont, Pensive lost all eight of his final starts.

Stud record
Pensive was retired to stud, producing the winner of the 1949 Kentucky Derby, Ponder.  He died in 1949, just after his son won the Derby.  Pensive is buried at Calumet Farm.

Breeding

References

 Pensive's pedigree with photo
 Pensive's Kentucky Derby

1941 racehorse births
1949 racehorse deaths
Racehorses bred in Kentucky
Racehorses trained in the United States
Kentucky Derby winners
Preakness Stakes winners
Thoroughbred family 1-p
Pavlo Borysenko

Pavlo Vitaliyovich Borysenko (; born 4 June 1987) is a Ukrainian-Romanian ice hockey player.

He started out playing for Sokil Kyiv in the 2001/2002 season before moving to North America for spells in the junior leagues, first in the Eastern Junior Hockey League with the Bridgewater Bandits and then in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League with the Acadie-Bathurst Titan.  He then played in the Vysshaya Liga in Russia for Kristall Saratov and then played in the Belarusian Hockey League for HK Vitebsk before moving to Liepaja in 2006. Internationally Borysenko first played for the Ukrainian national junior team and Ukrainian national team, though he became a naturalised Romanian citizen and made his debut for the Romanian national team in 2019.

References

External links

1987 births

Beibarys Atyrau players
HC Berkut players
HC Donbass players
HK Liepājas Metalurgs players
Living people
Steaua Rangers players
Ukrainian ice hockey left wingers
HK Vitebsk players
Romanian ice hockey centres
Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Romania
Ukrainian expatriate ice hockey people
Naturalised citizens of Romania
Sportspeople from Chernihiv
Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Russia
Expatriate ice hockey players in Russia
Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Belarus
Expatriate ice hockey players in Belarus
Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Lithuania
Expatriate ice hockey players in Latvia
Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Canada
Expatriate ice hockey players in Canada
Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in the United States
Expatriate ice hockey players in the United States
Ukrainian expatriate sportspeople in Kazakhstan
Expatriate ice hockey players in Kazakhstan
Acadie–Bathurst Titan players
Theodor Estermann

Theodor Estermann (5 February 1902 –  29 November 1991) was a German-born American mathematician, working in the field of analytic number theory. The Estermann measure, a measure of the central symmetry of a convex set in the Euclidean plane, is named after him.

He was born in Neubrandenburg, Germany, "to keen Zionists who named him in honour of Herzl." His doctorate, completed in 1925, was supervised by Hans Rademacher. He spent most of his career at University College London, eventually as a professor. Heini Halberstam, Klaus Roth and Robert Charles Vaughan were Ph.D. students of his.

Though Estermann left Germany in 1929, before the Nazis seized power in 1933, some historians count him among the early emigrants who fled Nazi Germany.

The physicist Immanuel Estermann was the brother of Theodor Estermann.

References

External links

LMS obituary

1902 births
1991 deaths
Academics of University College London
20th-century German mathematicians
People from Neubrandenburg
Jewish scientists
Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United Kingdom
Forsyte

Forsyte is included in:
 The Forsyte Saga, a series of British novels
 USS Irene Forsyte (IX-93), an ill-fated North American schooner

See also 
 Forsyth (disambiguation)
 Forsythe (disambiguation)
Matt Ellison

Matt Ellison (born December 8, 1983) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey right winger. Drafted in the 2002 NHL Entry Draft by Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League (NHL), Ellison played for the Blackhawks minor teams with two stints in the NHL, before being traded in 2005 to the Philadelphia Flyers. After being traded to the Nashville Predators in 2007, Ellison played one season for the Predators AHL team before moving to play in Europe in 2008. Ellison most notably played abroad in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL).

Playing career
Ellison began his career with the Cowichan Valley Capitals, a junior hockey team that is a part of the  BCHL, in 1999–00. In his rookie season he was selected as the club's Co-Rookie of the Year. He played there for three years and received several honors including the Capital's Three Star Award winner and MVP, and led the team in scoring with 66 points in 2000–01 and again with 117 points in 2001–02. He was then drafted by the Chicago Blackhawks in the fourth round (128th overall) of the 2002 NHL Entry Draft.

He proceeded to play with the Red Deer Rebels of the WHL during the 2002–03 season before joining the Norfolk Admirals for the 2003–04 season of the AHL. He played two seasons with the Norfolk Admirals and was promoted to the Blackhawks to start the 2005–06 season.

On December 5, 2005, he was traded to the Philadelphia Flyers for Patrick Sharp and Éric Meloche. He spent most of his time in Philadelphia playing for the Philadelphia Phantoms and was traded to the Nashville Predators on June 4, 2007, for future considerations.

On July 4, 2008, Ellison signed  a one-year contract in Latvia with the Dinamo Riga of the Kontinental Hockey League. Ellison scored 39 points in 55 games, placing second with Riga in scoring for 2008–09. On August 4, 2009, he then signed a contract with fellow KHL team, HC MVD.

After three successful seasons with Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod, Ellison left the KHL and signed a one-year contract with Swiss club, EHC Biel of the NLA on June 26, 2013. Ellison subsequently left Biel and returned to the KHL to play for Zagreb in the 2013–14 season. In 2014, Ellison signed a two-year contract with Belarusian club, HC Dinamo Minsk, starting from the 2014–15 season.

After three prolific seasons with Minsk, leading the club in scoring in his final two, Ellison left as a free agent to sign a lucrative two-year contract with larger Russian club, Metallurg Magnitogorsk, on June 7, 2017.

Career statistics

Awards and honours

References

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1983 births
Living people
Canadian ice hockey centres
Chicago Blackhawks draft picks
Chicago Blackhawks players
Cowichan Valley Capitals players
Dinamo Riga players
EHC Biel players
Ice hockey people from British Columbia
HC Dinamo Minsk players
HC MVD players
KHL Medveščak Zagreb players
Metallurg Magnitogorsk players
Milwaukee Admirals players
Norfolk Admirals players
People from Duncan, British Columbia
Philadelphia Flyers players
Philadelphia Phantoms players
Red Deer Rebels players
Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod players
Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in Russia
Heini Halberstam

Heini Halberstam (11 September 1926 – 25 January 2014) was a Czech-born British mathematician, working in the field of analytic number theory. He is remembered in part for the Elliott–Halberstam conjecture from 1968.

Life and career
Halberstam was born in Most, Czechoslovakia and died in Champaign, Illinois, US. His father died when he was very young. After Adolf Hitler's annexation of the Sudetenland, he and his mother moved to Prague. At the age of twelve, as the Nazi occupation progressed, he was one of the 669 children saved by Sir Nicholas Winton, who organized the Kindertransport, a train that allowed those children to leave Nazi-occupied territory. He was sent to England, where he lived during World War II.

He obtained his PhD in 1952, from University College, London, under supervision of Theodor Estermann. From 1962 until 1964, Halberstam was Erasmus Smith's Professor of Mathematics at Trinity College Dublin;  From 1964 until 1980, Halberstam was a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Nottingham. In 1980, he took up a position at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and became an Emeritus Professor at UIUC in 1996. In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

He is known also for books, Sequences with Klaus Roth on additive number theory, and with H. E. Richert on sieve theory.

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1926 births
2014 deaths
20th-century English mathematicians
21st-century English mathematicians
Czech Jews
Number theorists
Academics of the University of Nottingham
Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
Kindertransport refugees
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty
Alumni of University College London
Donegall Lecturers of Mathematics at Trinity College Dublin
People from Most (city)
University of Illinois faculty
English emigrants to the United States
Czechoslovak emigrants to England
Andrei Savchenko

Andrei Savchenko (born July 10, 1972) is a professional ice hockey defenceman currently playing for Companion Kyiv of the Ukrainian Major League.

Savchenko started his career for SHVSM Kyiv in the Ukrainian Major League and played for HC Sokil Kyiv after that.

References

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1972 births
Expatriate ice hockey players in Russia
HC CSKA Moscow players
Living people
Severstal Cherepovets players
Soviet ice hockey defencemen
Ice hockey people from Kyiv
Ukrainian ice hockey defencemen
Keynes family

The Keynes family ( ) is an English family that has included several notable economists, writers, and actors, including the economist John Maynard Keynes.

Family tree of modern Keynes family

History

The English surname Keynes is derived from a Norman place name, either Cahagnes (Calvados) or Cahaignes (Eure), which are documented as places of origin of people of this name or possibly also from similar placenames not so documented.

The earliest documented person in England bearing the name was William de Cahaignes from Normandy who was born around 1035. Of another Norman William de Cahaignes (born around 1060 and probably his son), Katharine Keats-Rohan writes:- "Norman, from Cahaignes, Calvados, arr. Vire, cant. Aunay-sur-Odon. Major tenant of Robert, Count of Mortain (half-brother of William the Conqueror) in several Domesday counties. He was Sheriff of Northamptonshire in 1086, and again in the early years of Henry I. His widow Adelicia made a grant for his soul to Lewes priory, with the assent of their son Hugh (Mon. Ang. v,14). His lands were divided between his three sons, of whom Hugh held the forest of Northamptonshire in 1129/30."

Surname derivatives
Surname variants include "Koine", "De Keynes", "Keynes", "de Cayenes", "Caynes", "Caines", "Cheyney", "Cheney", "Chaney", "Chaineis", "Cahaignes", "Casneto", "Caisned", "Casineto".

Places in England bearing the name Keynes

The following places were named after the de Cahaignes or Keynes family who held many manors in the years following the Norman Conquest:
 Ashton Keynes, Wiltshire
 Coombe Keynes, Dorset
 Horsted Keynes, West Sussex
 Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire (derived from the original Milton Keynes)
 Somerford Keynes, Gloucestershire

Notable persons surnamed Keynes
See Keynes (disambiguation).

References

Sources
 Keats-Rohan, Katherine S. B. Domesday People: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents, 1066–1166. 2v. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 1999.

External links
  placenames reveal ancestral residence 
 Victoria History of the Counties of England: 'Parishes : Milton Keynes', A History of the County of Buckingham: Volume 4 (1927), pp. 401-405.

 
Family trees
Darwin–Wedgwood family
Sebastiano Venier

Sebastiano Venier (or Veniero) (c. 1496 – 3 March 1578) was Doge of Venice from 11 June 1577 to 3 March 1578. He is best remembered in his role as the Venetian admiral at the Battle of Lepanto.

Biography

Venier was born in Venice around 1496. He was a son of Moisè (Mosè) Venier and Elena Donà, and a nephew of Zuan Francesco Venier, Co-Lord of Cerigo. He was a paternal grandson of Moisé Venier (ca. 1412 - ca. 1476). He was the great-great-great-grandson of Pietro Venier, Governor of Cerigo.

He worked as a lawyer from a very early age, though without holding formal qualifications, and subsequently was an administrator for the government of the Republic of Venice. In 1570 he was procurator of St Mark's and, in the December of the same year, capitano generale da Mar of the Venetian fleet in the new war against the Ottoman Turks, substituting Girolamo Zane.

He was the commander of the Venetian contingent at Battle of Lepanto (7 October 1571), in which the Christian League decisively defeated the Turks. After the peace he returned to Venice as a very popular figure, and in 1577, at the age of 81, he was unanimously elected Doge.

He was married to Cecilia Contarini, who bore him a daughter, Elena Venier. He also had two illegitimate sons, Filippo and Marco. Venier later provided Filippo with a benefice and Marco, who became a functionary of the chancellery, with a post in Dalmatia.

Sebastiano Venier died on 3 March 1578.

He was interred in the Santa Maria degli Angeli of Murano, instead of the family's tomb, as he had expressed in 1568 in his will. However, in 1907 his remains were moved in the Basilica di San Giovanni e Paolo, a traditional burial place of the doges.

Relations
There is a possibility that he was a first cousin once removed of Cecilia Venier-Baffo, known as  Nurbanu Sultan after her conversion to Islam, daughter of his first cousin Nicolò Venier, Lord of Paros. She was abducted during the Ottoman–Venetian War (1537–1540) and sent to the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent in order to counter the ascension of Roxelana. She became eventually the wife of his son Selim II and the mother of Murad III, from whom descend all succeeding Sultans.

References

Sebastian
1490s births
1578 deaths
16th-century Doges of Venice
Republic of Venice admirals
Republic of Venice people of the Ottoman–Venetian Wars
Procurators of Saint Mark
Burials at Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice
Joe Carcione

Joseph Carcione ( ; October 31, 1914 – August 2, 1988) was a consumer advocate known as "The Green Grocer."

Golden Gate Produce Terminal 
Carcione owned and operated a produce import/export business at the Golden Gate Produce Terminal II in South San Francisco, one of the three Bay Area Wholesale Produce Markets, the others being, Oakland Wholesale Produce Market, and San Francisco Wholesale Produce Market.

Television and Radio 
Carcione got his start doing radio commercials for his produce business in 1967, when he was discovered by KCBS radio announcer Dave McElhatton. 
He went on to host short television and radio bits offering advice in the world of produce, and wrote a newspaper column and two books on the same subject. The Greengrocer television news feature was produced on location at the Golden Gate Produce Terminal and syndicated throughout the United States and Canada. Commercial television stations contracted with Mighty Minute Programs of San Francisco to obtain the exclusive rights to broadcast Joe Carcione's Greengrocer report on a market-by-market basis. In some television markets, the feature was sponsored by grocery stores interested in associating with The Greengrocer.

Personal life 
Carcione married Madeline Ahern in 1937. They had three children. He died of intestinal cancer at Peninsula Hospital in Burlingame, California on August 2, 1988 and was entombed at Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma, California.

He was well known for, among other things, a dish called the "Joe Carcione Special", which consisted of shredded cabbage in place of pasta, sauteed with onion and garlic, and topped with marinara sauce and grated cheese.

In Popular Culture 
Darryl Henriques parodied him as Joe Carcinogenni on KSAN (1968 to 1980).

The Simpsons S10E17 makes reference to "The Red Grocer", a meat-focused play on Carcione's show.

References

External links

 Joe Carcione Biography at Bay Area Radio Museum
 "The Greengrocer cookbook" entry at Library of Congress
 "The greengrocer; the consumer's guide to fruits and vegetables" entry at Library of Congress

1914 births
1988 deaths
Burials at Holy Cross Cemetery (Colma, California)
Consumer rights activists
Deaths from cancer in California
Deaths from colorectal cancer
People from South San Francisco, California
Saray, Van

Saray () is a municipality and district of Van Province, Turkey. Its area is 872 km2, and its population is 19,471 (2022). The mayor elected in 2019 was Caziye Duman from the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP). She was arrested on terrorism charges in November 2019 and replaced by a trustee.

An earthquake in February 2020 shook the region and many villages of the Saray district reported damage.

Composition
There are 27 neighbourhoods in Saray District:

 Atatürk
 Bakışık
 Baltepe
 Beyarslan
 Çakmakköy
 Çardak
 Çaybağı
 Değirmigöl
 Dolutaş
 Feritmelen
 Kapıköy
 Karahisar
 Kargalı
 Kazımpaşa
 Kazlıgöl
 Keçikayası
 Kekikdüzü
 Kepir
 Koçbaşı
 Kurucan
 Mahmudiye
 Örenburç
 Sırımlı
 Turanköy
 Yamanyurt
 Yeşilağaç
 Zincirkıran

References

Populated places in Van Province
Districts of Van Province
Metropolitan district municipalities in Turkey
Kurdish settlements in Turkey
Florida State Road 608

State Road 608 (SR 608) is a  east–west street serving the area north of Fort Pierce in St. Lucie County, Florida. Locally known as St. Lucie Boulevard, the road extends westward and eastward as County Road 608 (CR 608).

Its current western terminus is SR 613. The road becomes SR 608 at an intersection with SR 615, and the eastern terminus is an intersection with U.S. Route 1 (US 1 and SR 5), where the CR 608 designation resumes for one block to Dixie Highway (CR 605) in the Hunt Subdivision.

History
Originally, SR 608 extended westward another , terminating at Kings Highway (SR 713), a heavily used two-lane road connecting Florida's Turnpike (SR 91) with US 1. This is now County Road 608, which serves the St. Lucie County Airport.

Major intersections

References

External links

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State highways in the United States shorter than one mile
Christchurch Convention Centre

The Christchurch Convention Centre was New Zealand's only purpose-built convention centre, in Christchurch, the South Island's largest city. It was opened by the mayor of Christchurch, Vicki Buck, in November 1997, and was demolished in early 2012 following the 2011 Christchurch earthquake.

Description
The Christchurch Convention Centre was located in Kilmore Street in the city centre.  The design was an extruded concrete box with a glass façade facing the Christchurch Town Hall across Kilmore Street, over which a glazed airbridge linked these two and the Crowne Plaza Hotel, adjacent to the Town Hall.

The Christchurch Convention Centre had a capacity of 2,500 people.  There were seven breakout rooms, and three halls that could be hired separately or together, to host major plenary sessions for 2,200 people theatre-style.

Two major artworks were featured in the building: "Blue" a neon sculpture by Bill Cuthbert, was on the façade, and the 84 m mural "Passport to the New Millennium", by Philip Trusttum was in the circulation space that ran the full length of the building.

The Christchurch Convention Centre hosted many international conferences including APEC Small and Medium Enterprise Economics Conference, Shiseido Japan, New Zealand Law Society, Law ASIA, and the 11th Asian Retailers Conference and Exhibition, as well as many charity gala dinners.

Christchurch earthquake

In August 2011, the Christchurch Convention Centre and several other public buildings were "recommended for demolition" because of extensive damage suffered in the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake and an aftershock on 13 June. The Convention Centre was demolished in March / April 2012 (see photo).

References

External links

 Christchurch Convention Centre
 "Blue" Bill Cuthbert, Photograph, 2000, by Ross Coombes https://www.flickr.com/photos/scapechristchurch/6049074712/lightbox/

Buildings and structures in Christchurch
Convention centres in New Zealand
Christchurch Central City
Buildings and structures demolished as a result of the 2011 Christchurch earthquake
Buildings and structures demolished in 2012
1990s architecture in New Zealand
Yim Sung-ah

Yim Sung-ah (; born 20 March 1984) is a South Korean professional golfer.

Pre-LPGA Tour days
Yim was born in Seoul. She attended Yonsei University and turned professional in November 2002 while still a student. She was a member of the Korean team that won a gold medal at the 2002 Asian Games.

Yim played on the LPGA of Korea Tour in 2003. Like many other South Korean women golfers, she soon began to play primarily in the United States, joining the second tier Futures Tour in 2004.

LPGA Tour career and beyond
In 2005 Yim began playing on the LPGA Tour. In April 2006 she won the Florida's Natural Charity Championship. Paired with Annika Sörenstam for the final round, Yim kept pace with the #1 ranked woman golfer in the world. On the 71st hole with both golfers tied for the lead, Sorenstam hit her tee shot out of bounds resulting in a double bogey. Yim went on to win the tournament by two shots.

Yim only had limited LPGA Tour success after her one win. In 2010, she returned to South Korea to play the LPGA of Korea Tour.

LPGA Tour wins (1)

Results in LPGA majors

CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied

Team appearances
Amateur
Espirito Santo Trophy (representing South Korea): 2002

References

External links

Biography on seoulsisters.com

South Korean female golfers
LPGA of Korea Tour golfers
LPGA Tour golfers
Asian Games medalists in golf
Asian Games gold medalists for South Korea
Golfers at the 2002 Asian Games
Medalists at the 2002 Asian Games
Golfers from Seoul
Yonsei University alumni
1984 births
Living people
Federación Unitaria de Trabajadores de Honduras

The Federación Unitaria de Trabajadores de Honduras (FUTH) is a national trade union center in Honduras. It is affiliated with the World Federation of Trade Unions. Unions affiliated with FUTH include the Union of Beverage and Related Industry Workers (STIBYS).

José Ovidio Suazo Díaz, President of FUTH, 2022-2023

Trade unions in Honduras
World Federation of Trade Unions
Goole (disambiguation)

Goole is a town located in the East Riding of Yorkshire, UK.

Goole may also refer to:
 Brigg and Goole, a constituency represented in the Parliament of the United Kingdom
 Goole Rural District, defunct rural district in the West Riding of Yorkshire, UK
 Goole Fields, a civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, UK
 Goole (UK Parliament constituency), defunct constituency
 Goole (rugby league), a club in the Yorkshire town
HMS Goole (1918), first world war minesweeper
 A character in J. B. Priestley's play An Inspector Calls

See also
 Gool (disambiguation)
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Wallum froglet

The wallum froglet (Crinia tinnula) is a species of ground-dwelling frog native to the east coast of Australia, from southeast Queensland to Kurnell, NSW. It is strongly associated with Wallum swampland.

Description

This species is a small species of frog, up to 15 mm in length. It is very similar to the common eastern froglet, and can only readily be distinguished by call and a white stripe on the throat that reaches all the way to the tip on the snout. Its dorsal surface is variable, it can range from grey to brown and is normally smooth in texture. The dorsal surface can be spotted, plain, however it is normally striped. The ventral surface is faintly marbled black and white.

Ecology and behaviour

This species is confined to acid paperbark swamps in wallum country. Males make a high pitched squeaking noise and call at any time of the year, when water is available. Males normally call from hidden positions in grass, while floating in the water. Breeding happens mostly during autumn and winter and occurs in large swamps and temporary ponds fringing the swamp. Eggs are laid singly on twigs and leaves in still water. Tadpoles are brown with arched tail fins, reaching almost 40 mm in size. Tadpole development takes nearly 6 months, with metamorph frogs ranging from 6–11 mm.

The swamps that these frogs inhabit are coming under increasing threat by urbanisation.

Sources
Anstis, M. 2002. Tadpoles of South-eastern Australia. Reed New Holland: Sydney.
Robinson, M. 2002. A Field Guide to Frogs of Australia. Australian Museum/Reed New Holland: Sydney.
Frog Australia Network-frog call available here.

Amphibians of Queensland
Amphibians of New South Wales
Crinia
Vulnerable fauna of Australia
Amphibians described in 1966
Frogs of Australia
Autonomous Trade Union Confederation

The Autonomous Trade Union Confederation (ASzSz) in a national trade union center in Hungary. It has a membership of 120,000.

The ASzSz is affiliated with the International Trade Union Confederation, and the European Trade Union Confederation.

References

External links
Official site

European Trade Union Confederation
International Trade Union Confederation
National trade union centers of Hungary
Kurukula

Kurukula may refer to:

Karave, a caste of the Sri Lankan Sinhalese people
Karaiyar, a caste of the Sri Lankan Tamils
Bunny (1998 film)

Bunny is a 1998 American animated short film by Chris Wedge and produced by Blue Sky Studios.
It was featured on the original 2-disc special edition DVD release of Ice Age from 2002 and the 2006 "Super-Cool Edition" re-release to coincide with the release of Ice Age: The Meltdown.

Influenced by the classic Uncle Wiggily illustrations by Lansing Campbell, the short features the music of Tom Waits.

Bunny won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1998  as well a Golden Nica at the Prix Ars Electronica.

Plot
Bunny, an elderly female rabbit, lives alone in a small cabin in the forest. While baking a cake one night, she is continually bothered by a large moth that keeps flying around her kitchen. No matter what she does, she cannot get rid of the intruder; she is especially annoyed when it runs into a photograph, taken many years ago, of herself and her late husband on their wedding day. Eventually, she knocks it into the cake batter, which she quickly and angrily pours into a pan and shoves into the oven. She then sets the kitchen timer and falls asleep, only to be awakened by loud rumblings and a blue-white light coming from the oven, whose door soon falls open. Crawling inside, she finds herself face-to-face with the moth and begins to float through an otherworldly space toward the source of the light, with a pair of giant moth wings sprouting from her back to propel her as the insect leads her along. She is soon revealed to be among dozens of moths being drawn to the light. The film ends with a close-up of the wedding photo, which comes to life as the younger Bunny nestles her head contentedly on her husband's shoulder; the shadows and reflections of two of the moths play across the image as well.

During his introduction to the film on the Ice Age DVD, Wedge offers his take of these events: Bunny dies in her sleep, and the oven serves as a gateway to the afterlife. Her spirit is instinctively drawn into it, as a moth going toward a bright light, and is finally reunited with her husband.

Accolades
1999: Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film (won)

References

External links
 
 
 
 

1998 films
1998 computer-animated films
1998 short films
1990s American animated films
1990s animated short films
Animated films about rabbits and hares
Animated films about insects
Animated films without speech
Best Animated Short Academy Award winners
Best Animated Short Subject Annie Award winners
Blue Sky Studios short films
20th Century Fox short films
Computer-animated short films
Films directed by Chris Wedge
Animated films about the afterlife
Animated films about death
Book of Secrets (album)

Book of Secrets is the second album by British metal band Balance of Power. It was released in 1998. Book of Secrets is the first album of the band to feature Lance King on vocals.

Concept 

The album is a thematic album, inspired by The Bible Code, written by Michael Drosnin.

Production and recording 

Book of Secrets was produced and engineered by drummer Lionel Hicks. Recording took place at POD Studios in London, England. It was also mixed by new lead vocalist Lance King, as well as Hicks, at Logic Studios in Minneapolis.

Original track listing 
"Desert of Lost Souls" – 0:53
"Walking on Top of the World" – 7:03
"Book of Secrets" – 7:42
"When Heaven Calls Your Name" – 6:20
"It's Not Over (Until It's Over)" – 5:01
"Do You Dream of Angels" – 5:46
"Seven Days into Nevermore" – 6:49
"Miracles and Dreams" – 8:01
"Stranger Days (To Come)" – 5:40

Personnel

Band members 
Lance King – lead vocals
Pete Southern – guitar
Bill Yates – guitar
Ivan Gunn – keyboards
Chris Dale – bass
Lionel Hicks – drums

Additional contributions 
Tony Ritchie – vocals
Tony O'Hara – vocals
Rob Brown – narrator

Production and engineering 
Lionel Hicks – producer, engineer, mixer
Lance King – mixer
Crusoe – art design

References

External links 
Book of Secrets on Amazon
Book of Secrets on AllMusic

1998 albums
Balance of Power (band) albums
Witold Rowicki

Witold Rowicki (born Witold Kałka, 26 February 1914 in Taganrog, Russian Empire – 1 October 1989 in Warsaw) was a Polish conductor.  He held principal conducting positions with the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra and the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. Witold Lutoslawski's Concerto for Orchestra was dedicated to him.

Biography
Rowicki arrived in Poland in 1923, attending schools in Żywiec and Nowy Sącz before matriculating at the conservatory in Kraków. He studied violin under Artur Malawski and theory under director Michał Piotrowski and made his conducting debut, while still a student, in 1933. Graduating in 1938, he was appointed professor of violin at the conservatory and spent the occupation years in Kraków. After the Soviet expulsion of the Nazis from Poland, Rowicki revived the defunct Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra, which had disbanded during the war, in Katowice. Between 1950 and 1955, and again between 1958 and 1977, Rowicki was the director of the Warsaw Philharmonic, leading the orchestra on multiple foreign tours and receiving several decorations from the Polish government. He later moved to West Germany and directed the Bamberg Symphony from 1983 to 1985.

Discography
Rowicki was most strongly associated with the Warsaw Philharmonic, but he also made recordings as a guest conductor with orchestras including the London Symphony Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra, and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (all in London), the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra in Tokyo, and the Wiener Symphoniker. His recordings include:
 a Dvořák symphony cycle with the London Symphony Orchestra,
 works of Wojciech Kilar
 the Violin Concerto, Eternal Songs and Lithuanian Rhapsody of Mieczysław Karłowicz
 various works of Karol Szymanowski.
 Schumann and Prokofiev piano concertos with Sviatoslav Richter; Mozart piano concertos with Ingrid Haebler and the London Symphony Orchestra

References

External links
 Biography (in Polish)
 Obituary

1914 births
1989 deaths
People from Nowy Sącz
Polish conductors (music)
Male conductors (music)
Burials at Powązki Cemetery
20th-century conductors (music)
20th-century male musicians
Recipients of the State Award Badge (Poland)
John McLeay

John McLeay is the name of two generations of Australian politicians:

 John McLeay Sr., Liberal MP 1949–1966
 John McLeay Jr., Liberal MP 1966–1981