Jacob Yost (April 1, 1853 – January 25, 1933) was an American politician who served as mayor of Staunton, as well as twice represented Virginia's Shenandoah Valley in the United States House of Representatives, from 1887 to 1889 and 1897–1899.

Early and family life
Yost was born in Staunton, Virginia in 1853 to Major Samuel McPherson Yost (1829-1915) and his wife Henrietta Cushing Yost (1834-1856). His father became Indian Agent for New Mexico in 1857, and Quartermaster Major in the Confederate States Army (C.S.A.) during the American Civil War. Branches of the Yost family were active in Shenandoah and Rockingham Counties. A cousin was C.S.A. General John R. Jones (son of Samuel's sister Harriet Yost). Samuel's cousins (with the same grandmother, Catharine Miller (b. Aug. 2, 1778)) included Major Hunter Liggett of the 31st U.S.V. in the Philippine Islands and C.S.A. Lt. Jacob N. Liggett of Harrisonburg, Virginia. He had an elder brother Merrell Cushing Yost (1851-1868), a younger brother Isaac Willis Yost (1855-1857), younger sister Bettie (b. 1860), and later after his father's remarriage, several half-siblings, including and half sister Alice Yost Pipes (1869-1969)

Having lost his mother as an infant, young Jacob Yost was raised by his grandmother Kate D. Yost, aunt Mary and cousin Samuel W.P. Yost. He attended the public schools and Jedediah Hotchkiss's Mossy Creek Academy in Augusta County, where he learned about cartography and mining. After the American Civil War, his father Samuel M. Yost lived with his family (including his second wife, Catherine) in Linville, Rockingham County, Virginia.

Jacob Yost married Mary S. Young Yost (1859-1930) on January 13, 1881. They had a daughter Mary born in 1882 and who became a teacher in Staunton but still lived with her parents in the 1910 census, and a son Merrill C. Yost (b. 1900) who survived to adulthood.

Career
Yost learned the printing trade from his father and in 1875 purchased the Valley Virginian. The family enterprise also published various books. He also engaged in civil engineering involving iron and coal (traditional industries in Rockingham County).

Although his father Samuel participated in the National Republican Convention of 1880 and served as Staunton's postmaster under Presidents Grant, Hays, Arthur, Harrison and McKinley, Jacob Yost was an unsuccessful Republican candidate for election in 1884 to the Forty-ninth Congress.

Staunton's voters elected him mayor in May 1886 and he served until January 1887, when he resigned, having been elected to Congress. He was elected as a Republican to the Fiftieth Congress (March 4, 1887 – March 3, 1889) but was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1888 to the Fifty-first Congress. Years later, he was elected to the Fifty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1897 – March 3, 1899) but he declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1898.

Later life and death
After leaving Congress, Yost engaged in the management and development of iron ore and coal lands. He moved to Palo Alto, California in 1925 and lived there in retirement until his death on January 25, 1933. His body was returned to Staunton for burial in historic Thornrose Cemetery.

References

1853 births
1933 deaths
Mayors of Staunton, Virginia
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Virginia


Armada Music is a Dutch independent record label that specialises in releasing electronic dance music. The name Armada derives from the first two letters of the founders' first names: Armin van Buuren, Maykel Piron and David Lewis.

Signed artists
Artists currently signed by Armada Music include:

 Andrew Rayel
 Armin van Buuren
 Arty
 Audien
 Bob Sinclar
 Brando
 Cedric Gervais
 Chicane
 D.O.D
 Eelke Kleijn
 Ferry Corsten
 Goldfish
 Inner City
 Janieck
 Kevin Saunderson
 Kidnap
 Loud Luxury
 Mark Sixma
 MistaJam
 Morgan Page
 Orjan Nilsen
 R Plus
 Shapov
 Sunnery James & Ryan Marciano
 Super8 & Tab
 Tempo Giusto
 Tensnake
 Themba
 Tom Staar
 Youngr

Awards and nominations

As of December 2015, the label had won the "Best Global Record Label" award for five years in a row at the International Dance Music Awards (IDMA's). Armada received two nominations at the 2014 IDMAs. The Academy of Electronic Music, a joint venture between Armada, Google, Point Blank, and DJ Mag, was the recipient of the 'People's Voice Award' at the 2014 Webby Awards. In 2016, Armada Music was one of the 21 labels nominated for the IMPALA FIVEUNDERFIFTEEN campaign shining a light on Europe's most inspiring young labels. The label received the IMPALA Young Label Spotlight Award.

References

External links

Dutch record labels
Trance record labels
House music record labels
Electronic dance music record labels
IFPI members
Armin van Buuren
Record labels established in 2003
2003 establishments in the Netherlands
Companies based in Amsterdam


"Love Will Keep Us Alive" is a song written by Jim Capaldi, Paul Carrack, and Peter Vale and produced by the Eagles, Elliot Scheiner, and Rob Jacobs. It was first performed by the Eagles in 1994, during their Hell Freezes Over reunion tour, with lead vocals by bassist Timothy B. Schmit. This is the last single to feature Don Felder, who was terminated from the band in 2001.

Although the song was never formally released as a single in the US, and thus was not eligible to appear on the US Billboard Hot 100 under the rules then in place, it spent three weeks at number one on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart in early 1995 and reached number 22 on Billboard'''s Hot 100 Airplay chart. In the United Kingdom, "Love Will Keep Us Alive" was issued as a single and peaked at number 52 on the UK Singles Chart.

The song was nominated at the 38th Grammy Awards for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals.

Aside from being on the album Hell Freezes Over, the song appears on the Eagles' box set Selected Works: 1972–1999 and their 2003 compilation album, The Very Best Of.

Paul Carrack recorded the song for his 1996 album, Blue Views; it also featured on his 2006 compilation album, Greatest Hits – The Story So Far.

In 2011, Paul Carrack and Timothy B. Schmit recorded the song in London with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and released it in the UK on the Carrack label.

Background
According to the liner notes that accompanied their 2003 greatest hits CD, this song was written when Carrack, Capaldi, and Schmit were planning to form a new rock band with Don Felder and Max Carl during the late eighties or early nineties. The band had the working name of Malibu Men's Choir. This never materialized, so Schmit proposed the song for the Eagles' reunion album. According to Felder, they sent demo tapes to the Eagles manager, Irving Azoff, who rejected it as not good enough. Felder thought that it was ironic that the Eagles would later record one of those rejected songs.

Personnel
Glenn Frey – harmony and backing vocals, rhythm guitar
Don Henley – harmony and backing vocals, drums
Don Felder – harmony and backing vocals, slide guitar
Joe Walsh – harmony and backing vocals, rhythm guitar
Timothy B. Schmit – lead vocals, bass guitar

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Wendy Matthews' version

Australian recording artist Wendy Matthews released a version of the song in January 1995, retitled as "Love Will Keep Me Alive" as the second single from her third studio album, The Witness Tree. The song peaked at number 68 on the ARIA Charts in April 1995

 Track listing
 "Love Will Keep Me Alive"	- 4:14
 "God Watch Over You" (Wash Over You Mix) - 7:04
 "Remember My Forgotten Man" - 5:03

Charts

Other  versions
"Love Will Keep Us Alive" was recorded by Capaldi and Dave Mason on their 40,000 Headman tour and live album, and by Carrack (duet with Lindsay Dracass) on his 2007 album Old, New, Borrowed and Blue.

Terry Lin also covered this song on his 1999 compilation Love Singles''.

See also
List of Hot Adult Contemporary number ones of 1995

References

1994 singles
Eagles (band) songs
Songs written by Jim Capaldi
Paul Carrack songs
Wendy Matthews songs
Rock ballads
Songs written by Peter Vale
1994 songs
Geffen Records singles
Songs written by Paul Carrack
1990s ballads


Police Officer is a 1992 Indian Hindi-language movie directed by Ashok Gaikwad and starring Jackie Shroff in a Double role other cast include Karisma Kapoor, Paresh Rawal and Sadashiv Amrapurkar. Other cast members include Aruna Irani and Satyajeet.

Plot
Kishan and Jai Ram are two brothers brought up by their mother who is a widow. On learning that their father was killed by Dindayal and his group of friends, the brothers try to avenge their father's death. In this process, Ram is killed by Dindayal, who also kills his wife. Learning this, his twin brother Kishan avenges their deaths.

Cast

Soundtrack

References

External links

1992 films
1990s Hindi-language films
1990s action drama films
1990s crime action films
Films scored by Anu Malik
Films scored by Anand–Milind
Indian action drama films
Twins in Indian films
Indian crime action films
Films directed by Ashok Gaikwad
1992 drama films


George Larkin (November 11, 1887 – March 27, 1946) was an American film actor of the silent era. He appeared in more than 150 films between 1910 and 1931. He was born and died in New York, New York. He was married to actress Ollie Kirkby.

In addition to his acting career, Larkin also wrote scripts with his wife, which include Bulldog Courage (1922) and The Pell Street Mystery (1924). Larkin starred in both of these films. His archive is held by the University of California.

Selected filmography

 Robin Hood (1912)
 The Body in the Trunk (1914)
 The Severed Hand (1914)
 The Trey o' Hearts (1914)
 Unto Those Who Sin (1916)
 The Woman in the Case (1916)
 The Primitive Call (1917)
 Hands Up! (1918)
 The Border Raiders (1918)
 Terror of the Range (1919)
 The Devil's Trail (1919)
 The Tiger's Trail (1919)
 The Adventures of Ruth (1919)
 Beauty and the Bandit (1921)
 Cameron of the Royal Mounted (1921)
 The Man Trackers (1921)
 Terror Trail (1921)
 Barriers of Folly (1922)
 Bulldog Courage (1922)
 Boomerang Justice (1922)
 Her Reputation (1923)
 The Tango Cavalier (1923)
 The Apache Dancer (1923)
 Midnight Secrets (1924)
 The Pell Street Mystery (1924)
 Stop at Nothing (1924)
 Yankee Madness (1924)
 The Right Man (1925)
 Getting 'Em Right (1925)
 Rough Stuff (1925)
 Midnight Rose (1928)

References

External links

1887 births
1946 deaths
Male actors from New York City
American male film actors
American male silent film actors
20th-century American male actors


Franz Josef Hinkelammert (12 January 1931 – 16 July 2023) was a German-born Costa Rican theologian and economist, an influential theorist of liberation theology who wrote theological critiques of capitalism. He was one of the co-founders of the influential Departamento Ecuménico de Investigaciones in Sabanilla, Costa Rica, along with Hugo Assmann and Pablo Richard.

Franz Hinkelammert was born on 12 January 1931. He held a doctorate in economics from the Free University of Berlin. He served on the faculty of the Catholic University of Chile from 1963 to 1973.

After the Pinochet coup, he went to the Departmento Ecuménico de Investigaciones in Sabanilla, Costa Rica. He wrote extensively and critically about the neoliberal economic model, anti-utopian and anti-socialist views within religion and politics as well as the syncretism of Marxism and Christianity. His criticisms include those of the economists Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek as well as the philosopher Karl Popper.

In 2012 Jim Finn made a portrait documentary called Sunday School with Franz Hinkelammert.

Franz Hinkelammert died on 16 July 2023, at the age of 92.

References

Sources
Hinkelammert, F., The Ideological Weapons of Death: A Theological Critique of Capitalism,  translated by Phillip Berryman with an introduction by Cornel West, 1986.
 Hinkelammert, F., Crítica de la Razón Utópica, 1983.
  Duchrow, I. and Hinkelammert, F., Property for People, Not for Profit: Alternatives to the Global Tyranny of Capital, 2004
 Sunday School with Franz Hinkelammert

1931 births
2023 deaths
German economists
German anti-capitalists
German male non-fiction writers
Liberation theologians
Free University of Berlin alumni
People from Emsdetten


The Jaguar Mark VIII is a luxury four-door automobile introduced by the Jaguar company of Coventry at the 1956 London Motor Show.

Styling
The car shared its  wheelbase with its predecessor, the Jaguar Mark VII M, which outwardly it closely resembled. The most obvious change was a new curved one-piece windscreen. Distinguishing visually between the models is facilitated by changes to the front grille and a curved chrome trim strip below the waistline which allowed the factory to offer a variety of two-tone paint schemes.   In addition the new car had rear spats that were cut back to display more of the rear wheels.  The interior fittings were more luxurious than those of the Mark VII M.

Engine and running gear
The Mark VIII inherited from its predecessor the 3442 cc straight-six engine which it shared with the Jaguar XK140 that appeared two years earlier.    In the Mark VIII, a modified cylinder head known as the 'B' type was used.  Although introduced subsequent to the 'C' type competition head (as used on the C-Type racer and available as an option on the XK 140) this naming made more sense than might at first appear.  The 'B' type head used the larger valves of the 'C' type head, with the smaller intake port diameter of original XK cylinder head that had been introduced on the MK VII, which was now referred to as the 'A' type.  The combination of larger valves with the original intake port diameters allowed faster gas flow at low and medium speeds to promote better low and medium range torque.  As the MK VIII was not likely to be revved as high as the C-Type racers and the XK 140's equipped with the 'C' type head the reduction in flow at high rpm's was not seen to be a disadvantage.

Engines equipped with the 'A' type head were advertised at ; the MK VIII with the 'B' type head were advertised at , and engines with the 'C' type head at :.  The 'B' type head was painted a light green on the 3.4 litre engines to identify it ( mid-blue on the later mark IX with 3.8 litre engine ) .

The modified head supported by twin SU carburetors, and employing a manual four-speed transmission, meant that advertised engine output was now increased to :
the claimed top speed in excess of 106 mph (170 km/h) was considered impressive, given the car's bulk.   Transmission options included overdrive or a Borg Warner three-speed automatic box.

Production
After a two-year production run of 6,227 units the Mark VIII was replaced by the Jaguar Mark IX.

Motor sport
A Mark VIII, crewed by Dunning and Cash, won first place in the Automatic Transmission class in the 1958 Australian Mobilgas Economy Run, which was a fuel economy contest in which cars were required to cover 1,224 miles in two and a half days.

References

Mark 8
Rear-wheel-drive vehicles
Sports sedans
Cars introduced in 1956
Cars discontinued in 1958


David Suzuki: The Autobiography is the 2006 autobiography of Canadian science writer and broadcaster David Suzuki. The book focuses mostly on his life since the 1987 publication of his first autobiography, Metamorphosis: Stages in a Life. It begins with a chronological account of his childhood, academic years, and broadcasting career. In later chapters, Suzuki adopts a memoir style, writing about themes such as his relationship with Australia, his experiences in Brazil and Papua New Guinea, the founding of the David Suzuki Foundation, and his thoughts on climate change, celebrity status, technology, and death. Throughout, Suzuki highlights the continuing impact of events from his childhood.

This is Suzuki's forty-third book and, he says, his last. Critics have called the book candid, sincere, and charming, with insightful commentary if occasionally flat stories. Suzuki's scientific background is reflected in the writing's rational and analytic style.

Suzuki's autobiography spent four weeks at  1 on the Maclean's list of non-fiction best-sellers and six weeks at No. 6 on the Globe and Mail's list. The book won two awards in 2007: the Canadian Booksellers' Association's Libris Award for Non-Fiction Book of the Year and the British Columbia Booksellers' Choice Award. The publishers, Greystone Books and Douglas & McIntyre, won the CBA Libris Award for Marketing Achievement of the Year.

Background

Vancouver-based David Suzuki, 70 years old at the time of this book's publication, is best known as an environmental activist and host of the television show The Nature of Things.  He has also worked as a geneticist, nature writer, and university professor. His previous book, written in 2002, was Good News for a Change. His 1987 book, Metamorphosis: Stages in a Life, unintentionally became his first autobiography. Metamorphosis was originally drafted as a collection of essays, but following the prompting of his publisher, Suzuki rewrote it in a more autobiographical style.

Suzuki's working title for this second autobiography was The Outsider, a title intended to express the author's view of his own role in society. The origin of this outsider feeling comes from isolation suffered at a Japanese Canadian internment camp during World War II. He was imprisoned there for being Japanese but shunned by other Japanese for being a third generation Canadian, speaking only English. His feeling of isolation continued during his early school years when the only other student of Japanese heritage was his twin sister. Suzuki's daughters acknowledged this perception of himself as an outsider but insist that the public views him very differently, as one of their own, leading to the simple The Autobiography title.

Suzuki's objective in writing the book was to document his experiences of personal rewards gained from the environmental movement and to illustrate, specifically for young people, opportunities in environmentalism. Suzuki believes that he has been unfairly labelled as "the master of doom and gloom" by conservative media outlets and that this book will help balance that view. He intends this autobiography to be his final book. Following its publication he planned to reduce his work week from seven to four days to spend more time with family and personal pursuits.

Contents
The book has eighteen chapters with a two-page preface, which explains his experience with Metamorphosis and how this book complements it. The thesis of this book is identified by one reviewer as: "the importance of childhood's formative years for the development of the person. In Suzuki's case, it is the effects of racism, notably time spent in BC's internment camps during the Second World War, that still haunt him." In an interview, Suzuki said, "my drive to do well has been motivated by the desire to demonstrate to my fellow Canadians that my family and I had not deserved to be treated as we were". Suzuki identifies a turning point of his life as winning his high school's student presidential election. He initially refused to run believing he was not popular enough. His father encouraged him, saying: "There's no disgrace in losing ... The important thing is trying." Suzuki ran and unexpectedly won with an "outsider" platform.

Suzuki recounts his youth and academic years as a student, professor, and genetics researcher. On his broadcasting career, Suzuki recalls early interviews that demonstrated an affinity for public speaking and the jobs that allowed him to travel the world. Regarding his personal life, he describes his relationships with his five children and the development of his two marriages. In a review in the New Zealand Listener, David Larsen observes: "Step by step, you see him thinking his way into full-fledged environmentalism: not because he's a natural zealot, but because he's an intellectually honest man brought face to face with evidence that our current economic and energy policies are digging our grandchildren's graves."

Later chapters tell of events since Metamorphosis. In British Columbia, Suzuki spends time on the Queen Charlotte Islands and in Stein Valley advocating against logging. He describes his travels in Brazil while shooting an episode of The Nature of Things in 1988 and the relationship he developed with the Kayapo people. One of their leaders returned to Canada with him to advocate the protection of his homeland in the Amazon. His tour of Papua New Guinea and how Australia became his second home are explained. He describes the founding and early years of the David Suzuki Foundation, a non-profit organization based on environmental protection and developing sustainability. In the final four chapters Suzuki elaborates on his thoughts about climate change, celebrity status, technology, and death. He laments the lack of global action on climate change, scientific illiteracy on the part of politicians, and the lack of media attention to science. In the final chapter he accepts death as an inevitability and expects his works to be forgotten quickly, leaving his grandchildren as his only true legacy.

Style and genre
Suzuki's tone is relaxed and understated. Robert Wiersema notes that Suzuki's style has "an analytic quality ... probably rooted in his scientific training". Suzuki shows a humble, dry humour and instances of blurting out surprising statements. One reviewer describes the style as a "fusion of by-the-numbers personal narrative and passionate, insightful commentary".

The book begins as a chronological narrative of Suzuki's life with photographs of his family and friends. The first five chapters cover the same time period as the first autobiography, from childhood to age fifty. Later chapters use a memoir style with personal thoughts developed around themes. Suzuki recounts his experiences with indigenous groups and his personal relationships with individual members. A travelogue of his journeys in Brazil, Papua New Guinea, Australia, and some places in Canada is presented. Scientific concepts and explanations occur throughout the book.

Publication and marketing
Two weeks before its release on April 22, 2006, an excerpt was printed in the national daily newspaper The Globe and Mail. Greystone Books, the Vancouver division of Douglas & McIntyre, published the book. The book tour included more than 35 stops over two months throughout Canada. Promoted by the publishers as his "final book tour" and labelled by Suzuki as his "thank-you book tour", it began in Victoria, British Columbia, and included stops from coast-to-coast, from Whitehorse, Yukon, to New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. Attended by nearly 500 people at each event, a multimedia slideshow with personal photos and videos was presented by Suzuki. The publishers estimated that Suzuki signed 5000 books and conducted 137 media interviews. For their efforts Douglas & McIntyre and Greystone Books were awarded the 2007 Canadian Booksellers Association's Libris Award for Marketing Achievement of the Year. In July, the book was published by Allen & Unwin in Australia. Suzuki conducted a promotional tour of both Australia and New Zealand in October and November. The same publishers released paperback editions in April 2007.

Reception
The Autobiography was No. 1 on Maclean's list of nonfiction bestsellers in Canada for four weeks and spent fifteen weeks in the top ten. The book was on The Globe and Mail's non-fiction bestsellers' list for five weeks and peaked at No. 6. The book won the 2007 Canadian Booksellers Association's Libris Award for Non-Fiction Book of the Year and the 2007 British Columbia Booksellers' Choice Award.

Critics variously described his writing as "forthright," "chatty", and "charming". In a review in The Globe and Mail Brian Brett admires "Suzuki's disarming candour" and labels it "a strange, fascinating book". While Brett's review is positive, he calls it "clunkily written" and sometimes repetitive. The Edmonton Journal review notes that Suzuki could "charm the socks off the most hardened soul", but that many of his stories fall flat. The review in the Quill & Quire notes Suzuki "has not written an indulgent autobiography" and that he "is too polite to dish on his enemies". Writing for The Vancouver Sun, Robert Wiersema states that while "his life is an open book ... [y]ou get the sense of meeting the real Suzuki for the first time." Wiersema calls him "a natural storyteller". The New Zealand Listener review states, "as a writer, he has the charm of a high-school geek desperately trying to get a date ... but ultimately it's what allows his story to convince". Several critics find Suzuki's writing on death to be particularly well-done.

A number of reviewers compared this book with the earlier one, Metamorphosis.  The Edmonton Journal considers David Suzuki: The Autobiography to be more candid and insightful than the previous book. On the other hand, Peter Desbarats, writing in Literary Review of Canada, suggests that  Metamorphosis had more personal charm. Desbarats is disappointed that The Autobiography does not provide a better reflection on the themes of Metamorphosis. He points out that the best parts, Suzuki's early years, are condensed from one third of Metamorphosis to a single chapter in The Autobiography.  Desbarats states that neither book ends with a "satisfying final word" and concludes that Suzuki "is his own worst and most frustrating biographer".

References

Further reading

External links

DavidSuzuki.org

2006 non-fiction books
Books by David Suzuki
Canadian autobiographies
English-language books
Books about the politics of science


Kristopher Heppner (born January 18, 1977) is a former American football placekicker in the National Football League for the Seattle Seahawks and Washington Redskins.  He played college football at the University of Montana.

References

1977 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Great Falls, Montana
American football placekickers
Washington Redskins players
Seattle Seahawks players
Montana Grizzlies football players
Great Falls High School alumni


Caverswall Castle is a privately owned early-17th-century English mansion built in a castellar style upon the foundations and within the walls of a 13th-century castle, in Caverswall, Staffordshire. It is a Grade I listed building. The castle is large, with a floor area of .

History

In ancient times, the manor of Caverswall was held by the eponymous Caverswall family, who in 1275 were granted licence to crenellate their manor house. The resulting medieval moated castle was approximately rectangular in plan with four angle towers and a keep within the curtain walls.

In the 15th century the castle, which was owned by the Caverswall family, became the seat of the Montgomery family, three of whom served as High Sheriff of Staffordshire. It was much decayed and neglected by the end of the 16th century.

It was rebuilt in the 17th century after being purchased in 1615 by Matthew Cradock of Stafford, a local wool merchant, first mayor of Stafford in 1614 and Member of Parliament for Stafford in 1621. He built the present mansion house to a design, it is said, of Robert Smythson or John Smythson. The three storey house has five bays each with stone mullioned and transomed windows. There is a castellated parapet and an entrance porch
The old castle walls were retained and during the English Civil War it was garrisoned by parliamentary forces.

When the Cradock male line failed the estate was sold in 1655 to William Joliffe (High Sheriff of Staffordshire for 1663)  but the eventual heir William Vane, 2nd Viscount Vane,  was forced to sell it. Thereafter the castle had several owners. In 1811 it was occupied as a nunnery by a Benedictine order who sold it in 1853 to Sir Perceval Radcliffe, when they then relocated to Oulton Abbey. In the 1880s it was rented by the Wedgwood family. In 1891 it was purchased by W.E. Bowers who carried out extensive renovations and much improved the property. W.A. Bowers then sold it in 1933 to the Sisters of the Holy Ghost, who in turn sold it in 1965 to another convent, the Daughters of the House of Mary. When they left in 1977 the Castle was sold in various lots.

More recently the castle was bought in 2006 by property tycoon Robin MacDonald for £1.7 million who spent £1 million renovating it. Since the late 1970s, numerous planning applications for various commercial uses have been submitted, but they have all been refused.

The owner was prosecuted for allowing some holiday letting use in 2013 and fined £17,000 and ordered to pay £100,000 costs. The castle has several enforcement notices preventing various uses including "events, activity days, parties, photography & romantic breaks". The local authority have refused to remove the enforcement notices on several occasions. In February 2015 the property was offered for sale with Sotheby's for £3 million. In 2017 the owner talked about the issues he had faced from locals and the planning department:

In 2016, the Castle was put up for sale with Leading Estates for £5 million. The castle has been for sale since September 2019. In October 2020, the planning department refused two applications for commercial uses. The first refuses use as a small scale hotel. The second refuses photography and groups, such as schools or historic interest groups from visiting. The enforcement notices were kept in place prohibiting the owner from having any visitors, activities and guests including having a party or an event in the Castle or grounds

The castle was sold in April 2021 for an undisclosed amount.

See also
Castles in Great Britain and Ireland
List of castles in England
Grade I listed buildings in Staffordshire
Listed buildings in Caverswall

References

External links
 Caverswall Castle

Castles in Staffordshire
Grade I listed buildings in Staffordshire
Grade I listed castles


Uranium mining in New Mexico was a significant industry from the early 1950s until the early 1980s.  Although New Mexico has the second largest identified uranium ore reserves of any state in the United States (after Wyoming), no uranium ore has been mined in New Mexico since 1998.

White Signal district
The first uranium production in New Mexico was a minor amount of autunite and torbernite mined circa 1920 from former silver mines in the White Signal district, about  southwest of Silver City in Grant County.

Grants mineral belt

New Mexico was a significant uranium producer since the discovery of uranium by Navajo sheepherder Paddy Martinez in 1950.  Almost all uranium in New Mexico is found in the Grants mineral belt along the south margin of the San Juan Basin in McKinley and Cibola counties in the northwest part of the state.  Stretching northwest to southeast, the mineral belt contains the Chuska, Gallup, Ambrosia Lake, and Laguna uranium mining districts.  Most of the uranium ore is contained in the Jackpile, Poison Canyon, and Westwater Canyon sandstone members of the Morrison Formation, and in the Todilto limestone, all of Jurassic age.

Several different companies moved into the region in the 1950s, particularly oil companies. They included Anaconda Company, Phillips Petroleum Company, Rio de Oro Uranium Mines, Inc, Kermac Nuclear Fuels Corporation (a cooperative of Kerr-McGee Oil Industries, Anderson Development Corporation, and Pacific Uranium Mines, Inc), Homestake Mining Company, Sabre-Pinion Corporation, United Western Minerals Company (of General Patrick Jay Hurley), J H Whitney and Company, White Weld & Co., San Jacinto Petroleum Corporation, Lisbon Uranium Corporation, and Superior Oil Company.

Current activity
Active uranium mining stopped in New Mexico in 1998, although Rio Algom continued to recover uranium dissolved in water from its flooded underground mine workings at Ambrosia Lake until 2002. Currently (April 7, 2014), there are 12 uranium mines that are either in the process of licensing or actively developing in New Mexico. The state has the second-largest known uranium ore reserves in the US. , these included 201,000 tons of uranium oxide, amounting to 35% of total U.S. reserves, economically recoverable at $50 per lb.

General Atomics' subsidiary Rio Grande Resources is currently evaluating its Mt. Taylor Mine for development by in-situ leaching.  Uranium is present in coffinite in the Westwater Canyon member of the Morrison Formation at 3,000 feet (900 m) below ground surface.  The mine, which operated as an underground uranium mine from 1986 to 1989, has a remaining resource estimated by its owner at more than 45 thousand tonnes of uranium oxide.

Strathmore Minerals Corp. is currently applying for permits to mine their Church Rock and Roca Honda properties in the Grants Mineral Belt.  Neutron Energy and URI also reportedly plan to start uranium mining in the Grants belt.

Health and environmental issues

New Mexico uranium miners from the 1940s and 1950s have had abnormally high rates of lung cancer, from radon gas in poorly ventilated underground mines.  The effect was particularly pronounced among Navajo miners, because the incidence of lung cancer is normally low among Navajos.  The Navajo tribe, whose reservation contains much of the known ore deposits, declared a moratorium on uranium mining in 2005.

The tailings dam failure that caused the Church Rock uranium mill spill on July 16, 1979 remains the largest release of radioactive material in U.S. history. In May 2007, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it would join the Navajo Nation EPA in cleaning up radioactive contamination near the Church Rock mine.
In 2017, the EPA, the Navajo Nation, and two affiliated subsidiaries of Freeport-McMoRan, Inc., entered into a settlement agreement for the cleanup of 94 abandoned uranium mines on the Navajo Nation. The settlement was valued at over $600 million, with the United States, on behalf of the Department of Interior and Department of Energy, contributing $335 million into a trust account for the cleanup.

In 1958, Homestake Mining Company (now owned by Barrick Gold) left 250 million tons of radioactive mill waste in New Mexico which contaminated groundwater and released radon gas. The waste continued to pose a health threat in 2022, and Barrick Gold was attempting to buy out residents' homes and pass responsibility for cleanup to the federal government.

Cited references

See also
The Navajo People and Uranium Mining
Anaconda, New Mexico
Mount Taylor (New Mexico)

Geology of New Mexico
New Mexico
Mining in New Mexico


Treo 700 may refer to the Palm smartphone:

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The Netherlands participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 with the song "Your Heart Belongs to Me" written by Hind Laroussi Tahiri, Tjeerd van Zanen and Bas van den Heuvel. The song was performed by Hind, which is the artistic name of singer Hind Laroussi Tahiri who was internally selected by the Dutch broadcaster Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (NOS) to represent the Netherlands at the 2008 contest in Belgrade, Serbia. Hind's appointment as the Dutch representative was announced on 23 November 2007, while the song, "Your Heart Belongs to Me", was presented to the public on 7 March 2008 during the Nederland 3 programme Thank God it's Friday.

The Netherlands was drawn to compete in the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest which took place on 20 May 2008. Performing during the show in position 15, "Your Heart Belongs to Me" was not announced among the 10 qualifying entries of the first semi-final and therefore did not qualify to compete in the final. It was later revealed that the Netherlands placed thirteenth out of the 19 participating countries in the semi-final with 27 points.

Background

Prior to the 2008 contest, the Netherlands had participated in the Eurovision Song Contest forty-eight times since their début as one of seven countries to take part in the inaugural contest in . Since then, the country has won the contest four times: in  with the song "Net als toen" performed by Corry Brokken; in  with the song "'n Beetje" performed by Teddy Scholten; in  as one of four countries to tie for first place with "De troubadour" performed by Lenny Kuhr; and finally in  with "Ding-a-dong" performed by the group Teach-In. Following the introduction of semi-finals for the 2004 contest, the Netherlands had featured in only one final. The Dutch least successful result has been last place, which they have achieved on four occasions, most recently in the 1968 contest. The Netherlands has also received nul points on two occasions; in  and .

The Dutch national broadcaster, Nederlandse Omroep Stichting (NOS), broadcasts the event within the Netherlands and organises the selection process for the nation's entry. The Netherlands has used various methods to select the Dutch entry in the past, such as the Nationaal Songfestival, a live televised national final to choose the performer, song or both to compete at Eurovision. However, internal selections have also been held on occasion. For 2008, the broadcaster opted to select the Dutch entry through an internal selection.

Before Eurovision

Internal selection

Following Edsilia Rombley's failure to qualify to the final in 2007 with the song "On Top of the World", the Dutch broadcaster issued a statement to the newspaper De Telegraaf in October 2007 where they revealed that they would continue to internally select both the artist and song for the Eurovision Song Contest, and that several artists had already been in contact with the broadcaster in regards to participating. Artists that were rumoured in Dutch media to be in talks with NOS included the band Bearforce 1 and 1988 Dutch Eurovision entrant Gerard Joling.

On 9 November 2007, Dutch media reported that NOS had selected singer Hind Laroussi to represent the Netherlands at the 2008 contest. Hind was confirmed as the Dutch entrant on 23 November 2007 during a press conference that that took place in Amsterdam and hosted by Gerard Dielessen. A submission period was opened on the same day where composers were able to submit their songs to the broadcaster.

On 7 March 2008, Hind's Eurovision entry, "Your Heart Belongs to Me", was presented to the public during the Nederland 3 programme Thank God it's Friday, hosted by Claudia de Breij. The official video for the song directed by Jelle Posthuma was released on 18 March 2008. "Your Heart Belongs to Me" was written by Hind herself together with Tjeerd van Zanen and Bas van den Heuvel.

At Eurovision
It was announced in September 2007 that the competition's format would be expanded to two semi-finals in 2008. According to the rules, all nations with the exceptions of the host country and the "Big Four" (France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom) are required to qualify from one of two semi-finals in order to compete for the final; the top nine songs from each semi-final as determined by televoting progress to the final, and a tenth was determined by back-up juries. The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) split up the competing countries into six different pots based on voting patterns from previous contests, with countries with favourable voting histories put into the same pot. On 28 January 2008, a special allocation draw was held which placed each country into one of the two semi-finals. The Netherlands was placed into the first semi-final, to be held on 20 May 2008. The running order for the semi-finals was decided through another draw on 17 March 2008 and the Netherlands was set to perform in position 15, following the entry from Armenia and before the entry from Finland.

The two semi-finals and the final was broadcast in the Netherlands on Nederland 1 with commentary by Cornald Maas. The Dutch spokesperson, who announced the Dutch votes during the final, was 2003 Dutch Eurovision entrant Esther Hart.

Semi-final

Hind took part in technical rehearsals on 13 and 16 May, followed by dress rehearsals on 19 and 20 May. The Dutch performance featured Hind wearing a dark blue dress with glittering elements designed by Mart Visser and performing together with two dancers and three backing vocalists. The stage colours were predominately yellow with the LED screens displaying big white chandeliers. The two dancers that joined Hind were Deniz Kumas and Serge Dominique Monpellier, while the backing vocalists were Carolina Dijkhuizen, Ellen Eeftink and Peggy Sandaal.

At the end of the show, the Netherlands was not announced among the top 10 entries in the first semi-final and therefore failed to qualify to compete in the final. It was later revealed that the Netherlands placed thirteenth in the semi-final, receiving a total of 27 points.

Voting
Below is a breakdown of points awarded to the Netherlands and awarded by the Netherlands in the first semi-final and grand final of the contest. The nation awarded its 12 points to Armenia in the semi-final and the final of the contest.

Points awarded to the Netherlands

Points awarded by the Netherlands

References

2008
Countries in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008
Eurovision


Christopher Allport (born Alexander Wise Allport Jr.; June 17, 1947 – January 25, 2008) was an American actor.

Biography
Alexander Wise Allport Jr. was born in Boston. His acting life began at the age of nine in New Canaan, Connecticut, at the Children's Theatre. While at Northwestern University, he worked with director Paul Sills and Story Theatre. He performed in New York with the Public Theater at Lincoln Center, and with Ensemble Studio Theatre; and in Los Angeles at the Taper, South Coast Repertory and with Padua Playwrights. In 2007, he wrote and starred in "The Backroad Home", a theatrical memoir with his original music, directed and developed by Paul Linke and produced by his wife, Susan Hayden (Ruskin Group Theatre).

One of his earliest television roles was as Tim McGowan on the soap opera Another World (1973–74). Around 1975 or 1976, Allport did a screen test with actress Amy Irving for the parts of Han Solo and Princess Leia, respectively, for the upcoming filming of the 1977 movie Star Wars. Neither actor got the parts, which went to Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher, respectively.

His film credits include Savage Weekend, To Live and Die in L.A., Jack Frost, Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman, and Garden Party, which was released in 2008. He died shortly after the latter film was completed.

His list of television credits includes appearances on such programs as Midnight Caller, The X-Files, Commander In Chief, ER, Felicity, Mad Men, and Brothers & Sisters.

His role as Andrew Campbell on Mad Men was set to be a recurring one, though he only got to appear in one episode (season one, episode 4: "New Amsterdam"). In season two, after Allport's death, they killed off his character in the American Airlines crash storyline, and later, dedicated the episode to him.

Personal life
Allport was married to author Susan Hayden at the time of his death. He had two sons; Andrew, from a previous marriage to writer/actress Carolyn Allport, and Mason Summit, from his marriage to Hayden.

Allport had written a story about the pleasures of backcountry skiing in the Los Angeles Times in 2004 in which he stated that "any excursion into the mountains requires awareness. Have fun, but be careful."

Death
On January 25, 2008, Allport was one of three men killed by three avalanches near the Mountain High ski resort in Wrightwood, San Bernardino County, California (in the San Gabriel Mountains). There were two other fatalities: Michael McKay, an off-duty member of the resort's ski patrol, and Darin Bodie Coffey. A fourth man, snowboarder Oscar Gonzales, escaped after getting lost and hitting a rock. Winter storms had been recently hitting Southern California; the San Gabriel Mountains, while usually free of avalanches, had been hit by  of snow the week before Allport died.

Allport played Pete Campbell's father, Andrew, on the 2007–15 drama series Mad Men during season one. Following Allport's death his character was killed-off from the show during the episode 'Flight One', where Andrew Campbell is one of those killed in the crash of American Airlines Flight 1 in Jamaica Bay, New York, following take-off on March 1, 1962. The episode is dedicated in Allport's memory.

Selected filmography

Man on a Swing (1974) – Richie Tom Keating
Savage Weekend (1976) - Nicky
The Lincoln Conspiracy (1977) – Michael O'Laughlin
City in Fear (1980) – Kenny Reiger
Circle of Power (1981) – Jack Nilsson
Dead & Buried (1981) – George Le Moyne / Freddie
Who Will Love My Children? (1983) – Kenneth Handy
Special Bulletin (1983) – Steven Levitt
To Live and Die in L.A. (1985) – Max Waxman
Spiker (1986) – Newt Steinbech
Invaders from Mars (1986) – Captain Curtis
Alex Haley's Queen (1993) – Union Officer
Jack Frost (1997) – Sam Tiler
Jack Frost 2: Revenge of the Mutant Killer Snowman (2000) – Sam Tiler
Garden Party (2008) – Davey Diamond (final film role)

References

External links

Variety Magazine: Actor Christopher Allport dies at 60

1947 births
2008 deaths
American male television actors
American male film actors
Male actors from Boston
Natural disaster deaths in California
Northwestern University alumni
Deaths in avalanches
20th-century American male actors


Dirac () is a commune in the Charente department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in southwestern France.

Population

See also
Communes of the Charente department

References

Communes of Charente
Charente communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Montferrand () is a commune in the Aude department in southern France.

Population

See also
Communes of the Aude department

References

Communes of Aude
Aude communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Montgaillard (; ) is a commune in the Aude department in southern France.

Population

See also
 Corbières AOC
 Communes of the Aude department

References

Communes of Aude
Aude communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


Montmaur () is a commune in the Aude department in southern France.

Population

See also
Communes of the Aude department

References

Communes of Aude
Aude communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia


"Get Over It" is a song by the Eagles released as a single after a fourteen-year breakup. It was also the first song written by bandmates Don Henley and Glenn Frey when the band reunited. "Get Over It" was played live for the first time during their Hell Freezes Over tour in 1994. It returned the band to the U.S. top 40 after a fourteen-year absence, peaking at No. 31 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It also hit No. 4 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. The song was not played live by the Eagles after the Hell Freezes Over tour in 1994. It remains the group's last top 40 hit in the U.S.

Theme
The song is about Henley's frustration and contempt for others (such as TV talk show guests) blaming their failures, mental breakdowns, and financial problems on those who he feels do not deserve it, then believing that the world owes them a favor. The song's lyrics include "Old Billy was right: let's kill all the lawyers—kill 'em tonight", which references William Shakespeare's Henry VI, Part II line "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers".

Personnel
Don Henley: lead vocals
Glenn Frey: lead and rhythm guitar, backing vocals
Don Felder: lead and rhythm guitar
Joe Walsh: slide guitar, rhythm guitar
Timothy B. Schmit: bass guitar, backing vocals
Scott F. Crago: drums

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

1994 songs
1994 singles
Eagles (band) songs
Songs written by Glenn Frey
Songs written by Don Henley
Geffen Records singles


Battery swapping or battery switching is an electric vehicle technology that allows battery electric vehicles to quickly exchange a discharged battery pack for a fully charged new one, as an alternative to recharging the vehicle via a charging station. Battery swapping is common in electric forklift applications.

Currently, Taiwanese electric scooter manufacturer Gogoro operates the largest battery swap network for electric mopeds, with nearly 11,000 GoStations in Taiwan, and 250 in Mainland China. Chinese luxury carmaker Nio is the only major operator of automobile battery swapping stations for the public. The company has built around 1,000 battery swap stations around China and Europe, and the process takes three minutes from start to finish. Previously, Renault and Tesla attempted to make their vehicles capable of swapping batteries.

History

The concept of an exchangeable battery service was proposed as early as 1896. It was first offered between 1910 and 1924, by Hartford Electric Light Company, through the GeVeCo battery service, serving electric trucks. The vehicle owner purchased the vehicle, without a battery, from General Vehicle Company (GeVeCo), part-owned by General Electric. The power was purchased from Hartford Electric in the form of an exchangeable battery. Both vehicles and batteries were designed to facilitate a fast exchange. The owner paid a variable per-mile charge and a monthly service fee to cover truck maintenance and storage. These vehicles covered more than 6 million miles.

Beginning in 1917, a similar service operated in Chicago for owners of Milburn Electric cars. A rapid battery replacement system was implemented to service 50 electric buses at the 2008 Summer Olympics.

In 1993, Suntera developed a two-seat 3-wheel electric vehicle called the SUNRAY, which came with a battery cartridge that swapped out in minutes at a battery-swap station. In 1995, Suntera added a motor scooter. The company was later renamed Personal Electric Transports(P.E.T.). After 2000 the company developed an electric bus. In 2004, the company's 3-wheel stand-up EV won 1st place at the 5-day long American Tour de Sol electric vehicle race, before closing in 2006.

Some smaller schemes have attempted to popularize battery swapping with individual cities. Zotye Auto built a fleet 15 of M300 EV hatchbacks for a taxi fleet in Hangzhou, China. In 2011, one of these vehicles caught on fire after the battery pack in the trunk caught fire. An investigation later found that battery in question, as well as the connecting electronics in the truck, had become worn out form repeated loading and unloading of charged battery packs. The electric scheme was halted following the incident.

The Better Place network was the first modern attempt at making the battery switching model mainstream. The Renault Fluence Z.E. was the first car enabled to adopt the approach and was offered in several countries, including those where no battery swap stations had been planned.

Better Place launched its first battery-swapping station in Israel, in Kiryat Ekron, near Rehovot in March 2011. The exchange process took five minutes. Subsequent battery swap stations were built in Denmark. Better Place filed for bankruptcy in Israel in May 2013.

In 2012, Tesla started building a proprietary fast-charging Tesla Supercharger network. A year later, in June 2013, Tesla announced its plan to offer battery swapping. Tesla showed that a battery swap with the Model S took just over 90 seconds. Elon Musk said the service would be offered at around  to  at June 2013 prices. The vehicle purchase included one battery pack. After a swap, the owner could later return and receive their battery pack fully charged. A second option would be to keep the swapped battery and receive/pay the difference in value between the original and the replacement. Pricing was not announced. In 2015 the company abandoned its sole swapping station, built at Harris Ranch, for lack of customer interest.

Other battery swapping service providers include Gogoro, Delta Electronics, BattSwap,, Voltia, and Swap & Go. By early 2022, Nio had built more than 850 swap stations in China, up from 131 in 2020. A station can cost $772,000 in China. A 90 kWh battery is charged at 60 kW and can be swapped in 6 minutes. China operates cement trucks where the heavy battery is swapped. A battery swap system with a 2MWh battery in each 20-foot (6.1 m) shipping container powering a converted canal barge began operating in the Netherlands in 2021.

Trial run of EV battery swapping in Singapore
Singapore started experimenting with EV battery swapping from 2022. In 2022, the country's land transport authority gave Gogoro the go-ahead to conduct a trial run of deploying swappable EV batteries - specifically for food delivery service providers. In 2023, Mo Batteries partnered with SingPost to provide battery replacement support for two electric bikes used by SingPost.

Gallery

Criticism

Battery swapping solutions were criticized as proprietary. By creating a monopoly regarding the ownership of the batteries and the patent-protected technologies the companies split up the market and decrease the chances of wider usage of battery swapping. BMW termed battery swapping as a waste of time.

References

Charging stations
Electric vehicles


The Tide and Its Takers is the fourth studio album by American metalcore band 36 Crazyfists. It was released on . The band filmed a music video for the album's first single, "We Gave It Hell", with director Soren, who has previously worked with the likes of Behemoth and Unearth. The video was released on YouTube on . The album reached number 155 on the Billboard 200 in its first week as well as number four on the Top Heatseekers, number 23 on the Hard Rock Albums, and number 11 on the Independent Albums chart. The Tide and Its Takers marks the highest first-week sales ever for the band in the US (4,150 copies). The album also peaked at number 83 on the UK Albums Chart. This is the band's last release with longtime bassist Mick Whitney until their 2015 record Time and Trauma.

Track listing

Credits
 Brock Lindow – vocals
 Mick Whitney – bass
 Thomas Noonan – drums
 Steve Holt – guitar, background vocals
 Monte Conner – A&R
 Larry Mazer – management
 Daragh McDonagh – photography
 Andy Sneap – mastering, mixing
 Steve Holt – producer, engineer
 Sons of Nero – artwork

"Only a Year or So..."
 The female spoken word on "Only a Year or So..." is performed by a friend of the band from Portland, Oregon. The spoken word parts are letters sent between a wife and her husband who was fighting in Iraq with the army.

References

36 Crazyfists albums
2008 albums
Roadrunner Records albums
Albums with cover art by Sons of Nero


BAD RAP (acronym for Bay Area Dog-lovers Responsible About Pit Bulls) is an animal welfare and rescue group based in Oakland, California, devoted to caring for and improving the public image of pit bull terriers as pets.

Description
BAD RAP is a federal non-profit organization (under IRS Code 501(c)3) located in Oakland, California. It was incorporated in 1999 to address the needs of homeless dogs, specifically homeless American Pit Bull Terriers, and to provide support and resources to animal welfare organizations that deal with pit bulls. The organization also focuses on providing owner support, in the form of training, spay/neuter assistance and other resources, to families who own pit bulls.

Programs include a volunteer foster care for homeless dogs, "Pit Ed" dog training classes for the public, and AKC Canine Good Citizen Certification prep classes with regular testing events. BAD RAP also advises shelters around the country in best practices for creating viable adoption programs for their sheltered pit bulls. The group ran a "Breed Ambassador" program inside the East Bay SPCA from 2005–2008 and inside Oakland Animal Services from 2008–2010. BAD RAP hosts animal welfare professionals in conferences and workshops and offers hands-on training to help them gain a working knowledge of the breed in quarterly week-long camps hosted in Oakland. Its public outreach work includes free "Shots Fairs" and a spay/neuter voucher program in low-income communities.

Achievements
In its first two years of operation, the organization rescued 74 dogs, of which 72 were successfully adopted. Since its beginnings, BAD RAP has placed approximately 40 dogs a year in new homes, although its primary purpose is education and advocacy. In 2006, BAD RAP received the American Humane Association's award for Best Practices in Behavior and Training for its Pit Ed and Canine Good Citizen Prep classes.

Dog fighting cases
In September 2007, BAD RAP was contracted by the federal government to participate in evaluating 49 pit bulls from Bad Newz Kennels, Michael Vick's dog fighting operation, as part of nine-person ASPCA-led evaluation team. BAD RAP member Tim Racer later returned to Virginia to re-evaluate 48 of the pit bulls alongside the court-appointed attorney, Special Guardian/Master Rebecca Huss, and assisted in recommendations for placement. This work led to the release of 47 of the dogs to rescue or sanctuary. Co-founders Racer and Reynolds were nominated for Sports Illustrated's 2007 Sportsman of the Year award for their role in the rescue of the dogs. For their work with the Vick dogs, BAD RAP was awarded a portion of the $928,073 fine that the court ordered Vick to pay for the care of the dogs, as well as $5000 for each dog BAD RAP rescued from the dog fighting bust, and "$18,275 per dog for 'each dog that was likely to spend a significant amount of time, if not the dog’s remaining lifetime, in a more restrictive environment such as a foster home or sanctuary environment."

After the gag order was lifted on those who were helping in the Vick case, BAD RAP members and dogs appeared on several television shows, including CNN, the Rachael Ray Show, Animal Planet, and ESPN's E:60. Media coverage also included articles in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Bark Magazine, and Sports Illustrated.

In April 2009, BAD RAP participated in a closed-door meeting in Las Vegas with several animal welfare leaders to encourage the Humane Society of the United States to end its decades-long stance of recommending the euthanasia of all dogs seized in fighting operations. That meeting resulted in a policy change and formation of a working group of six organizations, including BAD RAP, to monitor the effects of the change.

In August 2009, BAD RAP representatives were again contracted by the federal government to evaluate two groups of dogs that were seized as a result of what is being called the largest federal dog fighting sweep in the midwest.

References

External links

Organic Animal Treats

Animal welfare organizations based in the United States
Dog welfare organizations
1999 establishments in California
Organizations based in Oakland, California
Non-profit organizations based in the San Francisco Bay Area


Greenfield Park Primary International School () is an elementary school located in Greenfield Park, Quebec, Canada. It is a bilingual institution operated by the Riverside School Board and the Commission Scolaire Marie-Victorin. The school has been certified by the International Baccalaureate Organization since 2002.

The building itself, located on Campbell street in Greenfield Park used to be called Jubilee since its opening in 1957 until its closure in June 1998. The school re-opened in September 1998 as the "International School", under the Commission Scolaire Marie Victorin.

Asbestos problem
In December 2007, asbestos dust was found in the air.  Some areas of the school were cordoned off in order to treat this problem.

References

Educational institutions established in 1998
International Baccalaureate schools in Quebec
Riverside School Board
Elementary schools in Longueuil
1998 establishments in Quebec


La Celada is an aldea, or attached village, of the larger white pueblo of Iznájar in the southernmost part of the province of Córdoba, Spain.  With a population suggested to be in the region of 600, the primary economy of this aldea is olive picking. It is a village that, in the last 10 years, has acquired vehicles other than donkeys, and where the ancient traditions such as the annual Matansa are still practiced.

It is situated on a small hillock at the foothills of the Sierra Subbética.

The village has a bar, shop, hairdresser, school, Hojiblanca oil press, and guest house.

Municipalities in the Province of Córdoba (Spain)