The Diocese of Toruń () is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church located in the city of Toruń in the Ecclesiastical province of Gdańsk in Poland.

History
 March 25, 1992: Established as Diocese of Toruń from the Diocese of Chelmno and Metropolitan Archdiocese of Gniezno

Special churches
Minor Basilicas:
Bazylika pw. św. Tomasza Apostoła, Nowe Miasto Lubawskie (Basilica of St. Thomas the Apostle)

Leadership
 Bishops of Toruń (Roman rite)
 Bishop Andrzej Wojciech Suski (March 25, 1992 – November 11, 2017)
 Bishop Wiesław Śmigiel (since November 11, 2017)

See also
Roman Catholicism in Poland

Sources
 GCatholic.org
 Catholic Hierarchy
  Diocese website

Roman Catholic dioceses in Poland
Christian organizations established in 1992
Toruń
Roman Catholic dioceses and prelatures established in the 20th century


The European Health Telematics Observatory (EHTO) is a non-profit organization which collects, analyses and makes available in a user-friendly form information on developments in the field of health telematics. The organization contributes to the deployment of health telematics applications and standards in Europe. EHTO works on the dissemination of results of the European Telematics Applications Programme (TAP) of the Fourth Framework Programme to the European health care sector.

Participants
 Portugal: Portugal Telecom
 Belgium: RAMIT (Research in Advanced Medical Informatics and Telematics)
 France: CNEH (Centre National de l'Equipement Hospitalier)
 Ireland: IHC Centre for Health Informatics
 Spain: IETT Ingenieria y Prevencion de Riesgos
 Greece: BIOTRAST
 Finland: VTT Information Technology

See also
 Health informatics
 European Institute for Health Records
 European Health Telematics Association (EHTEL)
 ProRec

Sources
 EHTO (Doc)
 European Telematics

External links
 European Health Telematics Observatory

Health informatics organizations
Information technology organizations based in Europe
Health and the European Union


Sir John Denis Forman  (13 October 1917 – 24 February 2013) was a Scottish executive in the British television industry long associated with the ITV contractor Granada, and with various charitable and governmental bodies in the arts.

Career
Forman was born in 1917 in Cragielands, near Moffat, in Dumfries, to the Rev Adam Forman, an Episcopalian vicar and country gentleman who later became a Presbyterian minister. The family lived in a house built in the Palladian style and were devout. Forman recounted his childhood in his memoir Son of Adam (1990, filmed as My Life So Far in 1999). He was educated at Loretto School, Musselburgh and Pembroke College, Cambridge.

Forman had a distinguished military career during the Second World War and was wounded at Monte Cassino, losing a leg. After the war he joined the British Film Institute and was its Director from 1948 to 1955. Later he was Chair of its Board of Governors, from 1971 to 1973.

After his main period of work at the BFI, Forman joined the new Granada Television in 1955, an ITV contractor which went on air in the following year, being appointed by Cecil Bernstein (brother of Sidney) who was a BFI governor at the time. He was Chairman from 1974 to 1987, and Deputy Chairman of the Granada Group from 1984 to 1990. He was also Deputy Chairman of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, from 1983 to 1991. Throughout his career, Forman encouraged young talent and amongst others, mentored the founder of Channel 4 Sir Jeremy Isaacs and musician and businessman David Wood.

At Granada Forman presided over the creation of the acclaimed series The Jewel in the Crown and such ground-breaking programmes as World in Action, University Challenge and Family at War.

Personal life
Forman married Helen de Mouilpied in 1948 and they had two sons, Charlie and Adam. She died in 1987. He married again in 1990, to Moni, the widow of the journalist James Cameron. He died of a heart attack in a nursing home in London, aged 95.

Publications
Mozart’s Piano Concertos, 1971
Son of Adam (autobiography, vol.1), 1990
To Reason Why (autobiography, vol.2), 1991
The Good Opera Guide, (ed.) 1994
Persona Granada: Some Memories of Sidney Bernstein and the Early Days of Independent Television (memoir), 1997
The Good Wagner Guide, 2000

References

External links

WW2 Experience Website detailing Forman's Military Career
History of The British Film Institute Project
Appearance on Desert Island Discs (3 March 1991)

See also

John Grierson
David Plowright

1917 births
2013 deaths
Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders officers
British Army personnel of World War II
British writers about music
British television directors
BAFTA fellows
Knights Bachelor
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
People educated at Loretto School, Musselburgh
People from Dumfries and Galloway


In the fields of computational linguistics and applied linguistics, a morphological dictionary is a linguistic resource that contains correspondences between surface form and lexical forms of words. Surface forms of words are those found in natural language text. The corresponding lexical form of a surface form is the lemma followed by grammatical information (for example the part of speech, gender and number). In English give, gives, giving, gave and given are surface forms of the verb give. The lexical form would be "give", verb. There are two kinds of morphological dictionaries: morpheme-aligned dictionaries and full-form (non-aligned) dictionaries.

Notable examples and formalisms

Universal Morphologies
Inspired by the success of the Universal Dependencies for cross-linguistic annotation of syntactic dependencies, similar efforts have emerged for morphology, e.g., UniMorph and UDer. These feature simple tabular (tab-separated) formats with one form in a row, and its derivation (UDer), resp., inflection information (UniMorph):aalen   aalend  V.PTCP;PRS

aalen   aalen   V;IND;PRS;1;PL

aalen   aalen   V;IND;PRS;3;PL

aalen   aalen   V;NFIN

(UniMorph, German. Columns are LEMMA, FORM, FEATURES)In UDer, additional information (part of speech) is encoded within the columns:abändern_V      Abänderung_Nf   dVN07>

Abarbeiten_Nn   abarbeiten_V    dNV09>

abartig_A       Abartigkeit_Nf  dAN03>

Abart_Nf        abartig_A       dNA05>

abbaggern_V     Abbaggern_Nn    dVN09>

(UDer, German DErivBase 0.5. Columns are BASE, DERIVED, RULE)At the time of writing (2021), all of these are non-aligned morphological dictionaries (see below). Their simplistic format is particularly well-suited for the application of machine learning techniques, and UniMorph in particular, has been subject of numerous shared tasks.

Finite State Transducers
Finite State Transducers (FSTs) are a popular technique for the computational handling of morphology, esp., inflectional morphology. In rule-based morphological parsers, both lexicon and rules are normally formalized as finite state automata and subsequently combined. They thus require morphological dictionaries with specific processing instructions (which often have a linguistic interpretation, but, technically, are just treated like arbitrary string symbols). Popular FST packages such as SFST (as available from the fst package in Debian and Ubuntu) allow to define application-specific file formats for morphological lexica, that bundle different pieces of morphological information with every individual morpheme. These are thus aligned morphological dictionaries, but very rich (and also, idiosyncratic) in structure.

Sample data from SMOR (German SFST grammar):<Base_Stems>Aachen<NN><base><nativ><Name-Neut_s>

<Base_Stems>Aal<NN><base><nativ><NMasc_es_e>

<Base_Stems>Aarau<NN><base><nativ><Name-Neut_s>

<Suff_Stems><suffderiv><gebunden><kompos><NN>nom<>:e<>:n<NN><SUFF><kompos><frei>

<Suff_Stems><suffderiv><gebunden><kompos><NN>nom<NN><SUFF><base><frei><NMasc_en_en>

<Suff_Stems><suffderiv><gebunden><kompos><NN>nom<NN><SUFF><deriv><frei>

Interlinear Glossed Text editors
Interlinear Glossed Text (IGT) is a popular formalism in language documentation, linguistic typology and other branches of linguistics and the philologies. Although IGT can be created without any specialized software (but just with a conventional editor), such specialized software has been developed, with notable examples such as Toolbox, the FieldWorks Language Explorer (FLEx) or open source alternatives such as Xigt. Toolbox and FLEx support semi-automated annotation by means of an internal morphological dictionary. Whenever a morphological segment is encountered for which an annotation in the dictionary can be found, this annotations is applied. Whenever a morphological segment is newly annotated, the annotation is stored in the dictionary. FLEx and Toolbox provide different editor functionalities for annotating text and editing dictionaries, so that additional information beyond that found in annotations can be added, but at its core, their formats provide aligned morphological dictionaries.

FLEx and Xigt are based on XML formats, Toolbox uses a plain text format with idiosyncratic "markers". FLEx and Toolbox are not directly interoperable with each other, but a semiautomated converter for Toolbox to FLEx does exist. Xigt comes with FLEx and Toolbox importers, but is less widely used that either FLEx or Toolbox. Their formats of FLEx and Toolbox are not intended for human consumption, nor are they well-supported by any processing software other than their native tools.

OntoLex-Morph: A community standard for morphological dictionaries
OntoLex is a community standard for machine-readable dictionaries on the web. In 2019, the OntoLex-Morph module has been proposed to facilitate data modelling of morphology in lexicography, as well as to provide a data model for morphological dictionaries for Natural Language Processing.  OntoLex-Morph does support both aligned and non-aligned morphological dictionaries. A specific goal is to establish interoperability between and among IGT dictionaries, FST lexicons and morphological dictionaries used for machine learning.

Types and structure of morphological dictionaries

Aligned morphological dictionaries
In an aligned morphological dictionary, the correspondence between the surface form and the lexical form of a word is aligned at the character level, for example:

(h,h) (o,o) (u,u) (s,s) (e,e) (s,), (θ,)

Where θ is the empty symbol and  signifies "noun", and  signifies "plural".

In the example the left hand side is the surface form (input), and the right hand side is the lexical form (output). This order is used in morphological analysis where a lexical form is generated from a surface form. In morphological generation this order would be reversed.

Formally, if Σ is the alphabet of the input symbols, and  is the alphabet of the output symbols, an aligned morphological dictionary is a subset , where:

is the alphabet of all the possible alignments including the empty symbol. That is, an aligned morphological dictionary is a set of string in .

Non-aligned morphological dictionaries (full-form dictionaries)

A non-aligned morphological dictionary (or full-form dictionary) is simply a set  of pairs of input and output strings. A non-aligned morphological dictionary would represent the previous example as:

(houses, house)

It is possible to convert a non-aligned dictionary into an aligned dictionary. Besides trivial alignments to the left or to the right, linguistically motivated alignments which align characters to their corresponding morphemes are possible.

Lexical ambiguities

Frequently there exists more than one lexical form associated with a surface form of a word. For example, "house" may be a noun in the singular, , or may be a verb in the present tense, . As a result of this it is necessary to have a function which relates input strings with their corresponding output strings.

If we define the set  of input words such that , the correspondence function would be  defined as .

References

Computational linguistics
Translation databases
dictionary


Kiss Chronicles: 3 Classic Albums is a repackaging of the first three studio albums by the hard rock band Kiss. It is essentially identical to The Originals collection, which was released in 1976, except in CD format and with different packaging.

Track listing

References
KISS CHRONICLES: 3 CLASSIC ALBUMS (** BOX SET)

Kiss (band) compilation albums
2005 compilation albums


Samuel Evans Ewing, Jr. (July 27, 1906 – April 6, 1981) was an American field hockey player who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics and 1936 Summer Olympics.

He was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania and died in Delray Beach, Florida.

In 1932 he was a member of the American field hockey team, which won the bronze medal. He played one match as back.

Four years later he was a member of the American field hockey team, which lost all three matches in the preliminary round and did not advance. He played two matches as back.

See also
List of Princeton University Olympians

External links

profile

1906 births
1981 deaths
American male field hockey players
Field hockey players at the 1932 Summer Olympics
Field hockey players at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in field hockey
Medalists at the 1932 Summer Olympics


Brendan Patrick Hines (born December 28, 1976) is an American actor and singer. He has had a number of television roles, including as part of the main cast of Lie to Me as well as recurring roles in Scandal, Betrayal, Suits, Scorpion, Secrets and Lies, and a regular role in Amazon Video's The Tick and Netflix's Locke & Key. Hines has also had leading roles in a handful of films, and released three albums.

Early life
Hines was born the youngest of four children on December 28, 1976, in Baltimore, Maryland, where he graduated from Loyola Blakefield. His mother, Mary Hines, was a former nun and his father a former Jesuit priest who both appealed to dissolve their religious vows so they could marry. They left Brooklyn and eventually settled in Baltimore to teach philosophy. His mother was president of Carlow University in Pittsburgh.

Career
Hines' acting career began on-stage where he performed in several plays in New York City. His first major film role was in the 2001 independent film Ordinary Sinner. In 2004 and 2005, he appeared in one episode each of both Angel and Love, Inc., respectively. In 2007, Hines starred in Heavy Petting opposite Malin Åkerman. One of his first major television roles was portraying Andy Goode in several episodes of the Terminator television series, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Hines went on to play a recurring role in The Middleman. He then returned to film in Deep in the Valley (2009) co-starring Chris Pratt.

In 2009, Hines began appearing as part of the regular cast of Lie to Me. Hines was part of all three seasons of the series playing the character of Eli Loker. In 2011, he appeared in an episode of Castle. In May 2011, Hines portrayed the dual characters of Pip/Theo in South Coast Repertory's theatre production of Three Days of Rain. Hines has stated this was perhaps his favorite and most challenging acting role.

In 2012, he appeared in an episode of Body of Proof and also began appearing in a recurring role in first season of Scandal. In 2013, he gained a recurring role in Betrayal. In 2014, he played Logan Sanders in the fourth season of Suits. He has also appeared in several episodes of Scorpion and the second season of Secrets and Lies.

In August 2017, Amazon Video released the first season of The Tick, a television series based on the comic book of the same name written by Ben Edlund. Among the many ridiculous comic book characters in the series, Hines portrays Superian who is perhaps the most recognizable as an archetypal superhero.

Music career and political activism
In early 2008, he released Good For You Know Who, an album of 10 original songs under the band name The Brendan Hines. The song “Miss New York” from the same album was featured in the 2010 film Happythankyoumoreplease, the directorial debut of Josh Radnor. In August 2012, he released “Could've Sworn”, a single from his 6-song EP entitled Small Mistakes. In support of the release of Small Mistakes, Hines toured with the indie folk duo The Milk Carton Kids in the fall of 2012.

Hines is a vocal supporter of Bernie Sanders. In the lead up to the 2016 Democratic Primaries, he joined the Vermont Senator at several events to campaign for Sanders' bid to become the democratic candidate for President of the United States. In September 2017, Hines released "Average Is", the debut single from his upcoming solo album Qualms, a collection of songs written and recorded in the Joshua Tree Desert after the 2016 presidential election.

Personal life
Hines is married to actress Tatiana Maslany.

Filmography

Film

Television

References

External links

1976 births
Living people
Male actors from Maryland
American male film actors
American male singer-songwriters
American male television actors
Singers from Baltimore
21st-century American male actors
Singer-songwriters from Maryland
21st-century American singer-songwriters
Loyola Blakefield alumni
21st-century American male singers


Ashti is a small village on the banks of the Jagbudi River in the region of the Western Ghats (also known as the Sahyadri mountains, in the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is located in the Khed taluka of Ratnagiri district, and is  from the town of Khed.

The population of Ashti is 2000, with around 150 dwellings. Most of the people are engaged in farming and fisheries, but some have also expatriated to countries in the Middle East and Africa to work. The main religion followed is Islam.

Education
There are two schools in Ashti. One is an English Medium primary school named National English School, and the other is a government-run Urdu medium secondary school.

Transport and communication
In addition to being connected to Khed via ST Bus Service, boat services are also available through Ashti Port (Pakti) which connects Ashti to Aamshet.

Surnames
Some of the people living here have surnames like Gondhlekar, Rawal, Bijle, Chougle, Jasnaik, Maldolkar, Parkar, Arawkar, Sange, Khatib, Sain, Bukhari, Inarkar and Nilikkar.

Climate
The climate is cool and pleasant during the months between November and February. The Summer season lasts from March to Mid-June, when the temperature can reach in the . The rainy season lasts from June to September.

See also

 Bahirwali
 Bhoste
 Karji
 Kondivali
 Ratnagiri
 Savnas
 Shirshi

References

External links
 Aerial view of the village

Villages in Ratnagiri district


The Diocese of Gliwice () is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church in Poland. Its episcopal see is located in the city of Gliwice. The Diocese of Gliwice is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the Archdiocese of Katowice. , about 91% of the population in the territory of the diocese is self-described Catholic, however only 39% are practising Catholics.

History
 March 25, 1992: Established as Diocese of Gliwice from the Diocese of Częstochowa, Diocese of Katowice, and the Diocese of Opole

Leadership
 Bishops of Gliwice
 Bishop Jan Walenty Wieczorek (March 25, 1992 – December 29, 2011)
 Bishop Jan Kopiec (since December 29, 2011)
 Bishop Sławomir Oder (since February 11, 2023)
 Auxiliary bishops of Gliwice
 Bishop Gerard Kusz (March 25, 1992 – November 15, 2014)
 Bishop Andrzej Iwanecki (since January 7, 2018)

See also
Roman Catholicism in Poland

Sources
 GCatholic.org
 Catholic Hierarchy
  Diocese website

References

Roman Catholic dioceses in Poland
Christian organizations established in 1992
Religion in Gliwice
Roman Catholic dioceses and prelatures established in the 20th century


Satellite Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film is one of the categories of the annual Satellite Awards in film and television.

Winners and nominees

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

References

External links
 Official website

Actor Miniseries or Television Film
Television awards for Best Actor


Lotte Pusch was born on 7 August 1890 in Reichenbach/O.L. and was a German physical chemist. She was of the Protestant denomination. Her father was a District Court Director.

Education
Pusch visited secondary schools in Pleß, Glogau (later called Głogów), and Görlitz before deciding to attend the Mädchen-Realgymnasium Chamissoschule school in Schönberg. She later attended the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität (later the Humboldt University of Berlin). During her first two semesters, she focused on mathematics, physics, and chemistry. In 1913, Pusch passed her university exams and began to study for her Ph.D. in physical chemistry. She earned her doctorate in March 1916 after passing her doctoral exam on January 20, 1916.

Career
Upon receipt of her doctorate, Pusch, in the summer semester of 1916, became the only female Assistent (assistant) at the Physikalisch-Chemischen Institut at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität. She was hired in as a civil servant based upon Article 128 in the Weimar Constitution, which is listed as abolishing discriminatory regulations against women civil servants. During this time, Lotte worked with Walther Nernst in regards to the Photo-Induced Chain Reaction of Chlorine and Hydrogen. They looked to find the mechanism for why this reactions is able to produce a large quantum yield. She held the position until 1920. By law, as a civil servant, she was required to relinquish her position to a returning man, in this case Dr. Kurt Bennwitz. In addition, she gave up her career in favor of her husband, the physical chemist Max Volmer.

Personal
Lotte and Max knew and socialized with the physicist Lise Meitner and the chemist Otto Hahn from the 1920s onwards. Lotte also documented some of these conversations between Lise and Max.

Selected literature
Lotte Pusch Über die Zeitreaktion bei der Neutralisation der Kohlensäure und die wahre Dissoziationskonstante der Kohlensäure PhD thesis, Universität, Berlin, 1916. 37 pp. (29 March 1916)
Lotte Pusch Über die Zeitreaktion bei der Neutralisation der Kohlensäure und die wahre Dissoziationskonstante der Kohlensäure, Zeitsch. Elektrochem.  Volume 22, Issues 11/12, 206–212 (1916)
 Lotte Pusch Nachtrag zu meiner Arbeit: Über die Zeitreaktion bei der Neutralisation der Kohlensäure und die wahre Dissoziationskonstante der Kohlenäure, Zeitsch. Elektrochem.  Volume 22, Issues 15/16, 293 (1916)
Lotte Pusch Zur Anwendung des Einsteinschen photochemischen Äquivalentgesetzes. II., Zeitsch. Elektrochem. Volume 24, 336 – 339 (1918)

Bibliography
Schmitt, Ulrich T. "Walther Nernst." Memorial. Physicochemical Institute University of Göttingen, 9 Dec. 1999. Web. 15 Mar. 2016. <http://www.nernst.de/>.
Sime, Ruth Lewin Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics (University of California, First Paperback Edition, 1997)
Vogt, Annette Aufbruch und Verdrängung. Wissenschaftlerinnen an der Berliner Universität zwischen 1918 und 1945/46, 21-48 in Frauen an der Humboldt-Universität 1908–1998 Volume 99 (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 1998)
Weimar Constitution. Art. 128-131, Sec. 2

Notes

German physical chemists
20th-century German chemists
1890 births
1983 deaths
Humboldt University of Berlin alumni
Academic staff of the Humboldt University of Berlin
German women chemists


Edwin McArthur (24 September 190724 February 1987) was an American classical music conductor, pianist and accompanist. From 1935 until his retirement in 1955 he was the usual accompanist of the Norwegian soprano Kirsten Flagstad.

Life and career
McArthur was born in Denver, Colorado and, having begun work as a professional pianist, studied piano at the Juilliard School and moved to New York as a music teacher and organist. He was married to his wife Blanche in 1930. He applied for a post to play for Flagstad soon after her debut at the Metropolitan Opera (which took place on 2 February 1935) and she chose him for her accompanist for her tour of that year. She encouraged him to study with her the repertoire of Scandinavian songs, especially those of Edvard Grieg.  It was his custom to play accompaniments from memory.

He made his conducting debut during an Australian tour with her, in Sydney in 1938. In 1941, he became possibly the first American-born conductor to lead a work at the Metropolitan Opera House, conducting Flagstad and Lauritz Melchior in Tristan und Isolde. His readings were considered lyrical and expressive, and Flagstad insisted that he should direct performances wherever she went. McArthur championed American songs, and Flagstad recorded two of his own - "Night" and "We Have Turned Again Home" - in the early 1950s. He remained her conductor right through to her retirement in 1955, persuading her to make final appearances in Wagnerian scenes at her farewell concert at Carnegie Hall on 20 March 1955, for the benefit of the Symphony of the Air. He wrote a memoir of his work with Flagstad, published in 1960.

In 1946-47 he was connected with revivals of Sweethearts and Show Boat on Broadway. He was also associated with the singers Ezio Pinza and John Charles Thomas. He was for 23 years music director of the St. Louis Municipal Opera. He conducted the Harrisburg (Pa.) Symphony 1950-1974, and from 1967 to 1972 he was director of the Eastman School of Music opera department. In 1976 he conducted Wagner's Die Walküre at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples. He coached privately in later years; Hildegard Behrens studied with him before singing Brünnhilde in Wagner's Ring cycle.

Edwin McArthur died in 1987, survived by his wife.

His rumoured identity as Cosmé McMoon, the accompanist for Florence Foster Jenkins, was revealed in a 1991 radio interview. This gossip has been disproved by a number of sources, including Cosmé McMoon's living family and the New York Times's obituaries for both men.

Writing
E. McArthur, Flagstad: A Personal Memoir (Alfred A. Knopf, New York 1965, reprint 1980)

Notes

Sources
 T. Page, Edwin McArthur, conductor and accompanist, dies at 79. (New York Times, 25 February 1987).
 N. Douglas, Kirsten Flagstad in Song (disc liner), (Nimbus Prima Voce NI 7871.)

External links
Interview with Edwin McArthur by Bruce Duffie, April 14, 1985

1907 births
1987 deaths
American male conductors (music)
Musicians from Denver
Classical accompanists
20th-century American conductors (music)
20th-century American pianists
American male pianists
20th-century American male musicians


Crescent Point Energy Corp. is an oil and gas company based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The company focuses primarily on light oil production in southern Saskatchewan and central Alberta. Since its inception in 2001, Crescent Point has significantly increased its production. The company was founded in 2001 and is one of the largest independent oil and gas producers in Canada and has a significant presence in the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. The company's operations also include assets in the Williston Basin in the United States. Crescent Point Energy is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and is a publicly traded company.

History
In 2001 Crescent Point Energy began trading on the TSX Venture Exchange as a junior exploration and production company. It joined the Toronto Stock Exchange the following year.  In 2003, it merged with Tappit Resources. As part of the merger, Crescent Point converted to an income trust.  In February 2007, it acquired Mission Oil and Gas for $628 million. From Mission, Crescent Point acquired a large position in the Viewfield Bakken oil field in the Williston Basin. Since 2007, Crescent Point has since expanded its Three Forks play both north and south of the border.  In 2009, Crescent converted back to a normal corporation (from an income trust).

In 2010, Crescent Point acquired properties in the Lower Shaunavon resource play in southwest Saskatchewan from Penn West Energy Trust. In return, it provided a number of properties in Alberta and Saskatchewan, as well as $434 million in cash. Crescent Point began trading on the New York Stock Exchange in 2014 under the same CPG symbol.

In May 2015, Crescent Point acquired Legacy Oil and Gas for $1.5 billion.

On 29 May 2018, Crescent Point announced that former President & CEO, Scott Saxberg, would be leaving the company after 17 years, with Craig Bryksa taking over duties as president and CEO on an interim basis. On 5 September 2018, Crescent Point confirmed Craig Bryksa as its new president and CEO. Robert (Bob) Heinemann also replaced Peter Bannister as chairman on Crescent Point's board of directors. Barbara Munroe was appointed as board chair following Bob Heinemann's retirement in October, 2019.

In March 2023, Crescent Point said it would acquire Spartan Delta Corp’s oil and gas assets in Alberta, for $1.7-billion.

Assets and holdings
As of 2020, production was 121,000 boe/day. Crescent Point mainly produces light and medium oil, as opposed to heavy oil or natural gas. On 17 February 2021, Crescent Point announced strategic entry into the Kaybob Duvernay play by acquiring 30,000 boe/d of production for $900 million from Shell Canada Energy. Most of the company's oil production is from central Alberta, southern Saskatchewan and northern North Dakota; notable fields in these areas include the Kaybob Duvernay, Viewfield Bakken, Flat Lake, Shaunavon and Three Forks and Viking areas.

References

External links

Companies listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange
Companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange
Oil companies of Canada
Natural gas companies of Canada
Companies based in Calgary


KMUR may refer to:

 KMUR (FM), a radio station (88.3 FM) licensed to serve Bullhead City, Arizona, United States
 KTUZ (AM), a radio station (1570 AM) licensed to serve Catoosa, Oklahoma, United States, which held the call sign KMUR from 2001 to 2007

See also
 Kmur, a mountain in Bosnia and Herzegovina


Somerford Hall is an 18th-century Palladian style mansion house at Brewood, Staffordshire. It is a Grade II* listed building.

Somerford is a name of Old English origin and the interpretation is obvious: "summer river-crossing". This probably means that the River Penk near this point was only fordable in the summer. The manor of Somerford was held from the 1120s, when Henry I granted land there to Richard de Somerford, until 1705 by the Somerford family, named after their place of residence.

The old house, estate and attached manors were owned from 1696 by Sir Walter Wrottesley, 3rd Baronet (died 1712), who had bought the mortgages of John Somerford, after which all properties passed to Wrottesley's second wife Dame Anne who died in 1732. In 1734 the house was sold in trust by Dame Anne's brother Thomas, her daughter Anne, and Peter Meyrick of the Bank of England, to the lawyer Robert Barbor of the Inner Temple for £5400.

Barbor replaced the old manor house with the present mansion. The central seven-bayed three-storey block is flanked by single-storey pavilions with pedimented gables and ball finials. In 1744 Barbor bought the neighbouring Coven estate, uniting it with the manor of Somerford. However, his successors seem to have got into financial difficulties and several times came close to losing the hall to creditors before finally deciding to sell it.

The estate was purchased in 1779 by Hon Edward Monckton, (a younger son of Viscount Galway and half brother of General Robert Monckton), a nabob who had made his fortune in India. Monckton carried out alterations to the house including the provision of an entrance porch and application of stucco, making the frontage a startling white. The dining room was rebuilt to a design and by Robert Adam, with an impressive fireplace. Monckton also brought water from the River Penk to a rooftop reservoir and installed a system which allowed waste and surplus water to be used on the plants and vegetables in the garden. The grounds were laid out by Humphrey Repton. Monckton went on to purchase Engleton Hall, also on the Penk, to the north, and its estate, in two stages, as well as leasing the deanery estate in Brewood.

In 1832, on Monckton's death, the hall and estates passed to his eldest son, also Edward, who died unmarried and without issue in 1848. The estates, therefore, passed to his younger brother George. Meanwhile, a still younger brother, General Henry Monckton (1780–1854) purchased Stretton Hall, a substantial house a short distance north, and its estate in about 1845. Henry died in 1854 and George four years later. Francis Monckton, Henry's son, thus inherited both estates in rapid succession. He promptly moved the family seat permanently from Somerford to Stretton, renting out Somerford Hall.

In about 1945 the property was converted to residential flats. During the 1970s and 1980s the house was again a single large residence with the ground floor housing a sports therapy and physiotherapy clinic. The reconversion was because of a number of apartment fires; the  fire service insisting that, to remain as apartments, an exterior fire escape had to be built. This was refused because of the listed building status. During the late 1980s the owners of the clinic relocated to smaller premises and the house was converted to a conference and wedding venue.

See also
Grade II* listed buildings in South Staffordshire
Listed buildings in Brewood and Coven

References

External links
   Somerford Hall website
   Images of England: Somerford Hall

Country houses in Staffordshire
Grade II* listed buildings in Staffordshire
History of Staffordshire


Jan Koprivec (born 15 July 1988) is a Slovenian footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Koper.

Club career
Koprivec started his career at Koper. In summer 2007, Koprivec joined Cagliari, and played two matches in the 2007–08 Coppa Italia, both of which Cagliari won; however, he did not make any appearances in the league.

In July 2008, Koprivec moved to Udinese, and immediately joined them in pre-season training. He made his league debut for Udinese on 22 March 2009 against Genoa.

On 17 August 2009, Koprivec was loaned out to Serie B side Gallipoli. He made his debut four days later, in a 1–1 draw with Ascoli. During the season, he played only eleven games with the club from Salento due to an injury that hampered his settling into the first team. He returned to Udinese at the end of the season, and was then included into the first team as a second-choice goalkeeper behind fellow Slovenian Samir Handanović.

On 15 July 2015, Anorthosis Famagusta announced that Koprivec signed a 2+1 year contract with the Cypriot club. In May 2017 it was announced that Koprivec would leave the club at the end of the season.

On 10 September 2019, Koprivec signed for Scottish Premiership club Kilmarnock on a one-year contract. He was released by the club at the end of his contract.

In August 2020, Koprivec returned to Slovenia after 13 years and signed with Tabor Sežana of the Slovenian PrvaLiga.

International career
Koprivec got his first call up to the Slovenia senior side for the team's 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifiers against Slovakia and England in October 2016.

References

External links
Career profile at Gazzetta.it

1988 births
Living people
Footballers from Koper
Slovenian men's footballers
Men's association football goalkeepers
Slovenia men's youth international footballers
Slovenia men's under-21 international footballers
Slovenia men's international footballers
Slovenian expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Italy
Expatriate men's footballers in Cyprus
Expatriate men's footballers in Scotland
Slovenian expatriate sportspeople in Italy
Slovenian expatriate sportspeople in Cyprus
Slovenian expatriate sportspeople in Scotland
Serie A players
Serie B players
Serie C players
Cypriot First Division players
Scottish Professional Football League players
Slovenian PrvaLiga players
FC Koper players
Cagliari Calcio players
Udinese Calcio players
ASD Città di Gallipoli players
SSC Bari players
AC Perugia Calcio players
Anorthosis Famagusta FC players
Pafos FC players
Kilmarnock F.C. players
NK Tabor Sežana players


Russian tea cake is a kind of pastry, often eaten around Christmas in the United States.

Ingredients

Russian tea cakes have a relatively simple recipe, generally consisting entirely of flour, water, butter, and ground nuts, the nut variety depending upon the cookie type. After baking, they are rolled in powdered sugar while still hot, then coated again once the cookie has cooled.

European-based recipes rely upon coarsely chopped hazelnuts, almonds, or walnuts. Mexican wedding cookies traditionally use coarsely chopped pecans.

History

A reason for the common name "Russian Tea Cake" or any connection to Russian cuisine is unknown. Some have speculated the recipes either derived from other Eastern European shortbread cookies, may have migrated to Mexico with European nuns, or may have been associated with cookies served beside Russian samovars (tea urns). By the 20th century, they were a part of wedding and Christmas and Easter traditions in the U.S., known by their popular "Russian tea cake" or "Mexican wedding cookie" name.

See also

 List of American desserts
 List of Russian desserts

References

Cookies
Christmas food
Christmas in the United States
American desserts
Mexican desserts


The Wildcats of St Trinian's is the fifth British comedy film set in the fictional St Trinian's School. Directed by Frank Launder, it was released in 1980.

The film pokes fun at the British trade union movement which had been responsible for the recent wave of strikes that culminated in the Winter of Discontent.

The film was not a critical or commercial success. It has yet to be released on DVD except in the US.

Plot
The girls of St. Trinian's hatch yet another fiendish plot—a trade union for British schoolgirls. Their friend and mentor, Flash Harry, suggests a plan which involves kidnapping girls from other rather more respectable colleges and substituting their own "agents". Thus begins a hilarious, often bloody, battle of wits as the girls meet resistance not only from Olga Vandermeer, their Headmistress, but from the Minister of Education, a private detective, and an oil sheikh. Despite all his desperate efforts to foil the conspiracy, the Minister has to face a growing realisation that the girls' demands will have to be met—for him this will mean a very great and very personal sacrifice.

Cast

 Sheila Hancock as Olga Vandemeer
 Michael Hordern as Sir Charles Hackforth
 Joe Melia as Flash Harry
 Thorley Walters as Hugo Culpepper Brown
 Rodney Bewes as Peregrine Butters
 Deborah Norton as Miss Brenner
 Maureen Lipman as Miss Katy Higgs
 Julia McKenzie as Miss Dolly Dormancott
 Ambrosine Phillpotts as Mrs Mowbray
 Rose Hill as Miss Martingale
 Diana King as Miss Mactavish
 Luan Peters as Miss Poppy Adams
 Barbara Hicks as Miss Coke
 Rosalind Knight as Miss Walsh
 Patsy Smart as Miss Warmold
 Bernadette O'Farrell as Miss Carfax
 Sandra Payne as Miss Taylor
 Hilda Braid as Miss Summers
 Ballard Berkeley as Humphrey Wills
 Frances Ruffelle as Angela Hall / Princess Roxanne
 Danielle Corgan as Eva Potts
 Lisa Vanderpump as Ursula
 Debbie Linden as Mavis
 Veronica Quilligan as Lizzie
 Miranda Hunnisett as Jennie
 Eileen Fletcher as Harriet
 Sarah-Jane Varley as Janet
 Theresa Ratcliff as Maggie
 Sandra Hall as Frieda
 Suzanna Hamilton as Matilda

Production
It had been fourteen years since the previous St Trinians film. "I didn't want to do another St Trinians unless it could top the previous one," said Launder during filming. "I think this one does." Sidney Gilliat was a production consultant.

Reception
Derek Malcolm of The Guardian called it "one of the worst films I've ever seen... Please don't do anything like it again. Ever."

Launder wanted to follow the film with an adaptation of the books by Norman Thelwell about a pony school. He almost made it in Norway in the late 1970s and in 1979 planned on making it in Britain the following year. However no movie resulted.

References

External links
 ST Trinians World-The Wildcats of St. Trinian's

1980 films
1980s high school films
1980s teen comedy films
British sequel films
British teen comedy films
Films directed by Frank Launder
Films shot in Berkshire
St Trinian's films
1980 comedy films
1980s English-language films
1980s British films


The Diocese of Opole ( is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church located in the city of Opole in the Ecclesiastical province of Katowice in Poland.

History
 1945: Established as Apostolic Administration of Opole
 28 June 1972: Established as Diocese of Opole, part of the ecclesiastical province of Wrocław, from the Upper Silesian part of the Archdiocese of Wrocław and the General Vicariate of Branice of the Archdiocese of Olmütz
 25 March 1992: made part of the ecclesiastical province of Katowice, lost territory to establish Diocese of Gliwice

Special churches
Minor Basilica:
 Sanktuarium św. Anny on the Góra Świętej Anny  (Saint Anne's Mountain)

Leadership
 Bishops of Opole (Roman rite)
 Bishop Franciszek Jop (1972 – 1976.09.24)
 Archbishop Alfons Nossol (1977.06.25 – 2009.08.14)
 Bishop Andrzej Czaja (since 2009.08.14)

See also
Roman Catholicism in Poland

Sources
 GCatholic.org
 Catholic Hierarchy
  Diocese website

Roman Catholic dioceses in Poland
Roman Catholic Diocese of Opole
Christian organizations established in 1972
Roman Catholic Diocese of Opole
Roman Catholic dioceses and prelatures established in the 20th century


Laurence A. Knapp (May 30, 1905 – November 8, 1976) was an American field hockey player who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics and 1936 Berlin, Germany.

He was born in Garden City, South Dakota as Laury Knapp, and died in Washington, D. C.

In 1932 he was a member of the American field hockey team, which won the bronze medal. He played two matches as forward.

Four years later he was a member of the American field hockey team, which lost all three matches in the preliminary round and did not advance. He played one match as forward.

As a young attorney in New York City, he played and practiced with team members in Rye, N.Y. For both Olympic games, the team members had to pay for equipment and passage to Los Angeles and to Germany. He observed that the Germans (Nazis) were quite agitated by the performance of the American blacks who won many medals instead of the natives. Mr. Knapp said that the Indians and Pakistanis were robust and troublesome to beat at the game. Before he died, he expressed a sadness that the sport was no longer admired as it once was and eliminated from the Olympic lineup of more glamorous components. In New York, during the early 1930s, Mr. Knapp frequented the Savoy Ballroom and other venues where he met Benny Goodman, Fats Waller, Teddy Wilson and many other popular jazz musicians of that period. He and Benny developed a great friendship that survived through the following three decades. Larry spent time with Benny in Los Angeles, prior to Benny marrying Alice Hammond, granddaughter of William Henry Vanderbilt. Alice's brother, the notorious producer and talent scout of Columbia Records fame, John Hammond, introduced Benny to his sister. At one point, while Benny was playing an engagement in L.A., Larry visited him at his hotel, where he delighted in finding Alice staying with Benny, which, although a bit risque for the era, Larry found exiting for Benny's future happiness. Larry introduced his youngest son, Andrew, to the music that he had collected over the decades on disc. The introduction of root American jazz deeply affected Andrew, who has maintained a vast collection of recorded music, on disc, since his late teens. Indirectly, John Hammond is responsible for having brought such a vast American treasure to one that Hammond never knew. Besides the jazz, Hammond, from the recordings at Columbia, also exposed Andrew to Delta blues. In the late '60s, Andy met Nicholas Perls in Washington, D.C. At the time, Perls operated a small business of transcribing country blues (Delta) onto reel to reel tapes that were sent to all parts of Europe, where there was a tremendous thirst for American blues recordings from the early 20th century. In part, the surge of British blues bands during the '60s (John Mayall and others), was the result of Mr. Perls transcription service. Perls returned to Manhattan in about 1969 and began forming Belzona Records (later Yazoo, the result of a trademark threat from an English manufacturer, Deltona Records). Yazoo, until Perls' death in 1985, produced a continuing series of country blues reissue albums, famous for their clarity and editing, taken from discs that were manufactured decades prior.

Nick Perls, along with John Fahey, Stefan Grosman, Tom Hoskins, Firk, and others from the D.C. group, spent many summers canvassing small southern towns for existing 78 RPM records, practically the only remaining source of esoteric black blues that had been field recorded, or recorded in small makeshift studios, during the 1920s, '30s and '40s by a series of known and unknown record labels. Their canvassing efforts preserved one of the most important American music legacies.

When he moved to Washington, D.C., from New York, he was recruited by the Roosevelt Administration into the Department of Labor for purpose of prosecuting Ford Motor Company, in Detroit. Ford was employing "strike breakers" to intimidate employees and to discourage collective bargaining. In 1976, Mr. Knapp had changed his perspective on the overall effects of unionization. It was his opinion, based upon years of practice as an administrative law judge for the NLRB, that unions had far exceeded the beneficial intentions upon which they were conceived. He said that unions had perpetrated greed, a sense of entitlement and a stranglehold upon industry, especially the American automobile manufacturers to whom he originally brought suit, and won, back in 1939. He went on to say that the union excesses had created an artificial burden on the consumer, who is forced to pay more for each product, without receiving any additional benefit for the additional, artificial cost the unions imposed.

In 1940, he married Kortryc Collier, a beauty originally from Cardiff, Wales. Kortryc had been a risk-taking adventurer. As a young woman, she made her way to central Europe, spending much time in Scandinavia, including Lappland, skiing and working. In the mid 1930s, she visited Germany where Hitler and the Nazis had gained considerable power. She found the evolving social conditions there deplorable and fearsome, so she departed Europe for Canada. In Canada, she worked at a winter resort owned by a White (Tzarist) Russian with whom she began a romance. After about a year, she married him, the Marquis d'Albizi and became the Marquesa d'Albizi. The Marquis, as it turned out, was obsessed with Kortryc and, besides physical abuse, would lock her in her apartments, accessible to him, only. Kortryc escaped with the help of a resort guest, Barbara Korff, with whom she travelled to Washington, D.C. in the late 1930s. Mrs. Korff gave Kortryc employment as the friend and caregiver for Mrs. Korff's aging mother. Barbara Korff was fluent with Washington society, the likes of Abe Fortas, Fritz Eichholz, Alfred and Jeannie Friendly, he being the managing editor of The Washington Post newspaper. Eventually Mrs. Korff introduced Kortryc to her friends, one of whom was Larry Knapp, a newly established member of what was considered the upper crust of D.C. at that time. Larry's legal accomplishments and his participation in the most recent Olympic matches made him a person of interest. Larry began dating Kortryc until marrying her a brief time later.

Their marriage became extremely rocky. Even while dating, there were signs of incompatibility. Their friends warned them both not to marry, but neither took heed. After 25 years, they divorced. Kortryc Knapp died in June 1976, Greensboro, North Carolina.

External links

 profile

1905 births
1976 deaths
American male field hockey players
Field hockey players at the 1932 Summer Olympics
Field hockey players at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for the United States in field hockey
Medalists at the 1932 Summer Olympics


Cement () is a socialist realism novel by Fyodor Gladkov (1883–1958). Published in 1925, the book is arguably the first in Soviet socialist realist literature to depict the struggles of post-Revolutionary reconstruction.

The protagonist, Gleb Chumalov, is a returning Red Army soldier who, after the Russian Civil War, comes back to a hometown in painful transition and to its cement factory being reorganized for the massive new Soviet effort. His wife, Dasha, plays the role of the Soviet "new woman", and Gleb finds he cannot easily pick up the threads of their old relationship. The novel is Gladkov's best known work because of its portrayal of the sociological effects of early Communism, especially after the sexes are suddenly decreed equal in the labor force of the local cement factory.

References

1925 Russian novels
Novels set in Russia
Socrealist novels


Muscoot Farm is an early 20th-century interpretative farm museum in Katonah, New York in the United States. The farm is owned and operated by the Westchester County Department of Parks, Recreation and Conservation.

History
The land on which Muscoot Farm is situated was part of the  Van Cortlandt Manor chartered in 1697. After the death of Stephanus Van Cortlandt in 1700 and his wife Gertrude in 1734, the manor was surveyed and divided into twenty large lots and twenty small lots. The Muscoot lands are located in “Great South Lot #6” which was inherited by Stephen Van Cortlandt. At that time, this region was very remote, inaccessible by roads, and probably uninhabited.

In 1802, the Great South Lot No. 6 was resurveyed by Ebenezer Purdy, Jr. and was subdivided into smaller lots proposed as tenant farms. Most of today's Muscoot Farm lies within the Purdy's lot number 3 and 5. The boundary separating lot 5 to the north and lot 3 on the south is still evident as the long straight stone wall that runs east and west across the park just north of the gazebo.

The part of Muscoot Farm that lies north of the stone wall (lot 5) was sold by Stephen Van Cortlandt in 1803 to Absalom Nelson, and it remained in the Nelson family for over 100 years.

The part of Muscoot Farm south of the stone wall (lot 3) was being leased by Joseph Montross at the time of the 1802 survey. A road ran through the property roughly coinciding with today's Rt. 100, and Montross had a house on the west side of the road apparently near the site of the present Muscoot farmhouse. By the mid-19th century, after several land transactions, the Montross farm ended up in the hands of Ezra VanTassel at  in size. Peter Carpenter owned a  farm to the north; William Vail owned a  farm across the road to the east; and Lewis Ferris owned a small farm, about , to the south.

During the 1870s, at a time when farmland in Westchester was being sold off fairly cheaply, the three main farms (VanTassel, Carpenter and Vail) were purchased by Benjamin Brandeth, a pharmaceutical magnate from Ossining who had been dabbling in real estate ventures. During the 1880s this land was bought up by Ferdinand T. Hopkins another pharmaceutical executive from New York City.

Hopkins took these subsistence farms and developed them into a “Gentleman’s Farm”, a term applied to hobby farms owned by wealthy businessman who wished to maintain a connection with nature or with the farm life of their youth. Since profit was not the motive, Muscoot Farm, like most gentleman farms of that era, operated at a loss. It remained in the Hopkins family for almost 90 years and was finally sold to Westchester County in 1968.

The Hopkins Family
Ferdinand Travis Hopkins was 46 years old when he decided to acquire a summer home in Westchester County. Born on his father's farm in Lake Mahopac in 1834, he spent his first twenty years working alongside his father Nathanial Hopkins on the family farm. He then went to New York City where he made a considerable fortune both in real estate transactions and the pharmaceutical business. Through his second marriage to Martha Bishop Gourand he acquired a profitable business which produced a variety of medicated soaps, skin creams, and other cosmetic preparations.

In 1879, Martha gave birth to Ferdinand T. Hopkins Jr. Hopkins already had a son and daughter by his first wife, and a stepson, Claude L. Gourand, by his second. The appearance of a new baby may have played a significant role in Mr. Hopkins decision to purchase a summer home in Westchester County in 1880.

As purchased, the Ezra Van Tassel farm obviously was not an appropriate summer retreat for an important New York City businessman and his family. It was a working farm with few amenities. The Hopkins decided to build their new house on a knoll slightly north and east of the original farmhouse. They built a late Victorian clapboard farmhouse, with both Gothic Revival and Italianate features. The simple gable roof included a small cross-gable at the front. The house featured Venetian style shuttered windows on the second floor which were covered with brightly striped awnings. It was surrounded by porches and the porches were bedecked with hanging and potted plants, helping to merge the indoors with the outdoors. Painted with contrasting trim on windows, and doors, it was a striking example of the Victorian farmhouse as impressive country home.

It soon became evident that Mr. Hopkins did not intend to limit himself to the Van Tassel farm. He had much more ambitious plans for his summer home. In 1881 he bought a small,  lot on the east side of the Somertown turnpike from Lewis Ferris. In 1889, Ferris sold him an additional  between the turnpike and Croton Lake. With the Ferris purchases he owned the land fronting the turnpike opposite his original Van Tassel farm. He was also interested in the land north and east of his farm. By 1885 Ferdinand Hopkins had leased an additional  of land from Mrs. Virginia Brandreth. It included three additional farmhouses, the David Chadeayne House, the A. Putney house and the Peter R. Carpenter House. In 1892 he purchased this land from Katherine B. Green.

As Ferdinand Sr. spent increasing amounts of time in Somers, his sons concentrated on the family drug business. The Felis T. Gouraud Company had now become Ferd. T. Hopkins & Sons. They continued to produce a line of “Gourand’s Toilet preparations” but expanded the business in the 1920s by purchasing the Landon firm “Mother Sill’s Seasick Remedy.” The popularity of the transoceanic liners in search of a touch of European sophistication made the “Mothersill’s” acquisition a lucrative expansion.

Ferdinand Sr. died in 1920, leaving Muscoot to Ferdinand Jr. Ferdinand Jr. and his second wife, Myrtle Rose Kennedy, moved into the family home. With their two children, Jean born 1920 and Ferdinand III, born 1925, they spent their summers on the farm, even living in the house during the 1925 - 1927 remodeling when the main house was converted into a 20th-century Colonial Revival mansion. Myrtle's parents William and Mary, moved into their former home across the road from the mansion. William Kennedy may have acted as farm superintendent for a short time during the mid-1920s.

It was probably during the 1920s and early 1930s that farming activity peaked at Muscoot, with all of the activity focused on New York City dairy market. During this time, Muscoot Farm included approximately  of land. On this land the Hopkins kept a herd of 90 to 100 head of dairy cattle, primary Holstein-Friesians. The large dairy barn accommodated 60 head but there were seldom that many cows milking at any one time.

The work of agriculture was undergoing a whirl of changes and the farm that Ferdinand Jr. encountered in the 1920s differed dramatically from the 1880s when Ferdinand Sr. first bought the Muscoot lands. Some changes were straight forward, like the advances in technology and farm equipment, the increase in government regulation, and the new discoveries in medical science and genetics. Other changes were more subtle, like the shifting perception of farming and agriculture in America. As the nation entered the 20th century, farmers were consigned to supporting roles in the new industrial society. Farmers had to adapt to these changes and many Westchester farmers found themselves less and less able to compete in the world agricultural market. Rapid transportation brought competing goods to New York market area at considerably lower costs than those of the local farmer. Competing industries in the area readily absorbed all available labor, leaving the local farmer with high labor costs. Farming was being transformed from a way of life into a business.

Muscoot on the Move
A shadow lurked on the horizon as Ferdinand Hopkins began enlarging his farm and modernizing his dairy operation. In 1883, the state legislature passed “An Act to provide new Reservoirs, Dams and a new Aqueduct with appurtenances thereof, for the purpose of supplying the City of New York with increased supply of pure and wholesome water”. This act allowed the city's engineers to begin assessing possible sites in Westchester for future dams.

It was clear from the beginning that northern Westchester County would be greatly affected by the new reservoirs. Ultimately the entire village of Katonah had to be moved, while significant portions of Goldens Bridge, Purdys, and Croton Falls would vanish. The farms which fronted the Croton and Muscoot Rivers also faced probable losses to rising flood water.

On January 5, 1897 the city of New York notified Ferdinand T. Hopkins that it was taking  of land on Muscoot farm. This included land actually flooded once the Cornell Dam (New Croton Dam) was completed in 1906, plus adjacent acreage needed to protect the watershed of the reservoirs. This also included the parcels on which the house and all the farm buildings were located. Like most of the Westchester farmers he immediately set out to lease back the lands and buildings. Once he had regained the use of his summer home, he could concentrate on planning his next move.

New York City did not want to pay demolition expenses before its lands were flooded and preferred to offer the buildings to the public with the proviso that the buyer remove them at his own expense. In April 1899, the city put the buildings up for public action. Hopkins made an offer to the Aqueduct Commission which the city accepted.

The buildings acquired at auction had to be moved from the city property. Moving the various buildings required patience and ingenuity in an era when horses provided the motive power. Each building was moved without being dismantled. It would be gently moved off it foundation onto a bed of logs which served as rollers. A team of horses worked a large windlass which was set up in front of the building in the direction it was to be moved. Ropes from the building were attached to the windlass and as the horses turned it, the building was pulled forward off its foundation and across the log rollers. Once the edge of the bed of logs was reached, the logs from behind the house were moved to the front, the windlass advanced further.

There were many large buildings on the Hopkins property that had to be moved, plus a plethora of smaller structures.  The main house, carriage house, carriage barns, and the horse barn at the southern end of the dairy barn each required weeks of preparatory work. Each building had to be carefully examined and reinforced to withstand the move.  New foundations had to be prepared at the new site.  The path between the old and new sites had to be leveled and smoothed, to make the move as easy as possible. In addition to these large buildings, the hen house, ice house, outhouse, old milk house, and corn crib made the journey northward toward the large dairy barn.

Farm museum
Westchester County opened Muscoot Farm as an open-air interpretive museum and park in 1974. It features year round displays of various farm animals, hiking trails, farm implements and buildings, as well as maple syrup and sugar harvesting in late winter.

See also
Muscoot Reservoir
Open-air museum

References
Muscoot Farm
Information taken with permission from Muscoot Farm

External links
  Muscoot Farm Park

Farm museums in New York (state)
Museums in Westchester County, New York
History museums in New York (state)
Parks in Westchester County, New York
Somers, New York


Baldwin High School is a public high school located in Baldwin, Nassau County, New York. This school serves students in grades 9 to 12 in the Baldwin Union Free School District. It is the eighth-largest high school in Nassau County.

As of the year 2018–19, the school had an enrollment of 1,548 students and 121.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.8:1. There were 450 students (29.1% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 37 (2.4% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.

Baldwin High School is nationally recognized as the "School of Excellence." and has been ranked by Newsweek in its annual list of America's Best High Schools on several occasions, including #837 in 2010, #804 in 2008, #971 in 2007, and #602 in 2006. Baldwin High School has been ranked by U.S. News & World Report among the top high schools in the nation in 2022, 2021, and 2020. This school was also designated a Recognition School for 2019-2020 and 2018-2019 by the New York State Education Department. The high school offers a multitude of extracurricular clubs, varsity sports, a robotics team, and a unique school-to-career program called the Academic Academies, allowing students to gain real work experience through coursework, internships, “Shadow Days” and competitions through various community and corporate partnerships. The high school's robust curriculum features an array of coursework unique to the district, such as a drone class, where students become FAA certified as a remote pilot. Baldwin High School also offers Advanced Placement and college-level courses that enable students to earn college credit, including a partnership with Nassau Community College (NCC), where students take classes directly on the campus. The graduation rate is currently 98%. The motto for Baldwin Union Free School District is, “We are innovative. We are inclusive. We are involved. We are Baldwin.” Dr. Neil Testa serves as principal of Baldwin High School.

Arts

The district has been named a Best Community for Music Education multiple times by the National Association of Music Merchants (NAMM) Foundation. Students in music have performed at countless public events and venues, including Carnegie Hall in New York City. Baldwin students are regularly invited to the All-State Festival and named Long Island Scholar-Artists. The young artists' work can be seen in the Art Supervisor's Association All county Art Exhibition, the Long Island Media Art Exhibit, Northwell Health hospitals, as well as several other venues. Most recently, the district hosted a “Projection Mapping” event that showcased student-produced work in the areas of fine arts and English language arts on the district’s building exteriors.

Athletics

Baldwin High School's athletics is branded by the mascot, the Baldwin Bruin. The Baldwin Lady Bruins won the NYS Championship in 2017 and 2018 as well as eight sectional titles. Baldwin Boys Basketball, Football, Baseball, Field Hockey and Boys Track Teams have all won sectional championships.

Notable alumni

 Mandy Cohen (class of 1996), physician and Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
 Taylor Dayne (born 1962, class of 1980), singer who has seven Billboard Top Ten hits; also known as Leslie Wunderman.
 Scott Israel (born 1956/1957), former sheriff of Broward County, Florida, current police chief of Opa-locka, Florida
 Joel Kovel (1936–2018), scholar and author known as a founder of eco-socialism
 Melanie Martinez (born 1995, class of 2013), singer/songwriter who placed sixth on season 3 of The Voice.
 James McLurkin (born 1972, class of 1990), Professor of Robotics and Electrical Engineering at Rice University. Earned SB (EE) and PhD (CS) at MIT, MS (EE) UC Berkeley.
 Jasmin Moghbeli (born 1983), US Marine Corps test pilot and NASA astronaut.
 Jeff Rosenstock (born 1982, class of 1999), singer/songwriter.
 Scott Rudin (born 1958, class of 1976), film producer and theatrical producer; in 2012, became one of the few people who have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Award, and the first producer to do so.
 Dee Snider (born 1955, class of 1973), singer-songwriter, screenwriter, radio personality, and actor; most famous for his role as the frontman of the heavy metal band Twisted Sister.
 Rich Tancredi (born 1964, class of 1983), arranger/keyboardist"; seven Billboard Top Ten hits; two #1 Billboard hits.,,
 Chris Weidman (born 1984, class of 2002), NY state wrestling champion; two-time D-1 All-American wrestler at Hofstra; professional mixed martial artist Former UFC Middleweight Champion
 Karen M. Williams (born 1963, class of 1981), district judge

References

External links
Baldwin High School website
City Data.com entry

Public high schools in New York (state)
Hempstead, New York
Schools in Nassau County, New York


Honeydew is a studio album by American rock singer-songwriter Shawn Mullins. It was released in 2008 on Vanguard Records.

Track listing
"All in My Head"
"Home"
"The Ballad of Kathryn Johnston"
"Homeless Joe"
"Leaving All Your Troubles Behind"
"Fraction of a Man"
"See That Train"
"For America"
"Cabbagetown"
"Nameless Faces"
"Song of the Self (Chapter 2)"
"Rewind the Years"

References

2008 albums
Shawn Mullins albums
Vanguard Records albums


In biology, phase variation is a method for dealing with rapidly varying environments without requiring random mutation. It involves the variation of protein expression, frequently in an on-off fashion, within different parts of a bacterial population. As such the phenotype can switch at frequencies that are much higher (sometimes >1%) than classical mutation rates. Phase variation contributes to virulence by generating heterogeneity. Although it has been most commonly studied in the context of immune evasion, it is observed in many other areas as well and is employed by various types of bacteria, including Salmonella species.

Salmonella use this technique to switch between different types of the protein flagellin. As a result, flagella with different structures are assembled. Once an adaptive response has been mounted against one type of flagellin, or if a previous encounter has left the adaptive immune system ready to deal with one type of flagellin, switching types renders previously high affinity antibodies, TCRs, and BCRs ineffective against the flagella.

Site-specific recombination

Site-specific recombinations are usually short and occur at a single target site within the recombining sequence. For this to occur there are typically one or more cofactors (to name a few: DNA-binding proteins and the presence or absence of DNA binding sites) and a site-specific recombinase. There is a change in orientation of the DNA that will affect gene expression or the structure of the gene product. This is done by changing the spatial arrangement of the promoter or the regulatory elements.

Inversion

Through the utilization of specific recombinases, a particular DNA sequence is inverted, resulting in an ON to OFF switch and vice versa of the gene located within or next to this switch.  Many bacterial species can utilize inversion to change the expression of certain genes for the benefit of the bacterium during infection.  The inversion event can be simple by involving the toggle in expression of one gene, like  E. coli pilin expression, or more complicated by involving multiple genes in the expression of multiple types of flagellin by S. typhimurium.  Fimbrial adhesion by the type I fimbriae in E. coli undergoes site specific inversion to regulate the expression of fimA, the major subunit of the pili, depending on the stage of infection.  The invertible element has a promoter within it that depending on the orientation will turn on or off the transcription of fimA.  The inversion is mediated by two recombinases, FimB and FimE, and regulatory proteins H-NS, Integration Host Factor (IHF) and Leucine responsive protein (LRP).  The FimE recombinase has the capability to only invert the element and turn expression from on to off while FimB can mediate the inversion in both directions.

Insertion-excision

If excision is precise and the original sequence of DNA is restored, reversible phase variation can be mediated by transposition.  Phase variation mediated by transposition targets specific DNA sequences.  P. atlantica contains an eps locus that encodes extracellular polysaccharide and the ON or OFF expression of this locus is controlled by the presence or absence of IS492.  Two recombinases encoded by MooV and Piv mediate the precise excision and insertion, respectively, of the insertion element IS492 in the eps locus.  When IS492 is excised it becomes a circular extrachromosomal element that results in the restored expression of eps.

Another, more complex example of site specific DNA rearrangement is used in the flagella of Salmonella typhimurium. In the usual phase, a promoter sequence promotes the expression of the H2 flagella gene along with a repressor of H1 flagella gene. Once this promoter sequence is inverted by the hin gene the repressor is turned off as is H2 allowing H1 to be expressed.

Gene conversion

Gene conversion is another example of a type of phase variation. Type IV pili of Neisseria gonorrhoeae are controlled in this way. There are several copies of the gene coding for these pili (the Pil gene) but only one is expressed at any given time. This is referred to as the PilE gene. The silent versions of this gene, PilS, can use homologous recombination to combine with parts of the PilE gene and thus create a different phenotype. This allows for up to 10,000,000 different phenotypes of the pili.

Epigenetic modification – methylation

Unlike other mechanisms of phase variation, epigenetic modifications do not alter DNA sequence and therefore it is the phenotype that is altered not the genotype.  The integrity of the genome is intact and the change incurred by methylation alters the binding of transcription factors.  The outcome is the regulation of transcription resulting in switches in gene expression.  An outer membrane protein Antigen 43 (Ag43) in E. coli is controlled by phase variation mediated by two proteins, DNA-methylating enzyme deoxyadenosine methyltransferase (Dam) and the oxidative stress regulator OxyR.  Ag43, located on the cell surface, is encoded by the Agn43 gene (previously designated as flu) and is important for biofilms and infection.  The expression of Agn43 is dependent on the binding of the regulator protein OxyR.  When OxyR is bound to the regulatory region of Agn43, which overlaps with the promoter, it inhibits transcription.  The ON phase of transcription is dependent upon Dam methylating the GATC sequences in the beginning of the Agn43 gene (which happens to overlap with the OxyR binding site).  When the Dam methylates the GATC sites it inhibits the OxyR from binding, allowing transcription of Ag43.

Nested DNA inversion

In this form of phase variation. The promoter region of the genome can move from one copy of a gene to another through homologous recombination. This occurs with Campylobacter fetus surface proteins. The several different surface antigen proteins are all silent apart from one and all share a conserved region at the 5' end. The promoter sequence can then move between these conserved regions and allow expression of a different gene.

Slipped strand mispairing

Slipped strand mispairing (SSM) is a process that produces mispairing of short repeat sequences between the mother and daughter strand during DNA synthesis.  This RecA-independent mechanism can transpire during either DNA replication or DNA repair and can be on the leading or lagging strand. SSM can result in an increase or decrease in the number of short repeat sequences. The short repeat sequences are 1 to 7 nucleotides and can be homogeneous or heterogeneous repetitive DNA sequences. Altered gene expression is a result of SSM and depending where the increase or decrease of the short repeat sequences occurs in relation to the promoter will either regulate at the level of transcription or translation. The outcome is an ON or OFF phase of a gene or genes.

Transcriptional regulation (bottom portion of figure) occurs in several ways. One possible way is if the repeats are located in the promoter region at the RNA polymerase binding site, -10 and -35 upstream of the gene(s). The opportunistic pathogen H. influenzae has two divergently oriented promoters and fimbriae genes hifA and hifB. The overlapping promoter regions have repeats of the dinucleotide TA in the -10 and -35 sequences.  Through SSM the TA repeat region can undergo addition or subtraction of TA dinucleotides which results in the reversible ON phase or OFF phase of transcription of the hifA and hifB.  The second way that SSM induces transcriptional regulation is by changing the short repeat sequences located outside the promoter. If there is a change in the short repeat sequence it can affect the binding of a regulatory protein, such as an activator or repressor. It can also lead to differences in post-transcriptional stability of mRNA.

Translation of a protein can be regulated by SSM if the short repeat sequences are in the coding region of the gene (top portion of the figure). Changing the number of repeats in the open reading frame can affect the codon sequence by adding a premature stop codon or by changing the sequence of the protein.  This often results in a truncated (in the case of a premature stop codon) and/or nonfunctional protein.

References

Bacteria


Boys to Board is the 11th Our Gang short subject comedy released. The Our Gang series (later known as "The Little Rascals") was created by Hal Roach in 1922, and continued production until 1944.

Plot
A kindly old school teacher helps the gang escape from his wife's miserable boarding school.  While escaping, they run afoul of a bootlegger, who captures them and ties them up until the old school teacher rescues them just before the sheriff gets there.  The school teacher returns to the boarding school and demands better treatment for the boys.
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See also
 Our Gang filmography

Notes
Mary Kornman does not appear in this film.

When the television rights for the original silent Pathé Our Gang comedies were sold to National Telepix and other distributors, several episodes were retitled. This film was released into TV syndication as Mischief Makers in 1960 under the title "Boarding School". About two-thirds of the original film was included. All of the original inter-titles were cut.

Cast

The Gang
 Joe Cobb as Joe
 Jackie Condon as Jackie
 Mickey Daniels as Mickey
 Jack Davis as Jack
 Allen Hoskins as Farina
 Ernie Morrison as Ernie 'Sunshine Sammy'
 Andy Samuel as Andy

Additional cast
 Richard Daniels as 'Pop' Malone
 Helen Gilmore as 'Mother' Malone
 Clara Guiol as Household Helper
 Wallace Howe as Sheriff
 Charles Stevenson as Moonshine Mose

External links

1923 films
Hal Roach Studios short films
American silent short films
American black-and-white films
1923 comedy films
Our Gang films
1923 short films
1920s American films
Silent American comedy films


The 2008 GP2 Asia Series season was the first GP2 Asia Series season. It started on 25 January and ended on 12 April.

Season summary
Romain Grosjean became the champion despite his teammate Stephen Jelley scoring no points, with their team, ART Grand Prix, winning the teams' title.

In this season, only two drivers scored pole positions. Grosjean took pole in all but one race in Sentul, where Vitaly Petrov secured the first position on the grid. The Frenchman also won four races, including a clean sweep in Dubai and the feature race in Sakhir.

Kamui Kobayashi won two sprint races in Sepang and Sakhir, while Sébastien Buemi won the feature race in Sentul. Marco Bonanomi and Fairuz Fauzy won a sprint race each.

Entry list
All of the teams used the Dallara GP2/05 chassis with Renault-badged 4.0 litre (244 cu in) naturally-aspirated Mecachrome V8 engines order and with tyres supplied by Bridgestone.

Race calendar and results

Championship standings
Scoring system
Points are awarded to the top 8 classified finishers in the Feature race, and to the top 6 classified finishers in the Sprint race. The pole-sitter in the feature race will also receive two points, and one point is given to the driver who set the fastest lap inside the top ten in both the feature and sprint races. No extra points are awarded to the pole-sitter in the sprint race.

Feature race points

Sprint race points
Points are awarded to the top 6 classified finishers.

Drivers' Championship

Notes:
† — Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 90% of the race distance.

Teams' Championship

Notes:
† — Drivers did not finish the race, but were classified as they completed over 90% of the race distance.

Notes

References

GP2 Asia
GP2 Asia Series seasons
GP2 Asia Series


Booster is an amusement ride made by Fabbri.

It is a pendulum ride, similar to the later Speed by KMG (which, due to its similarity to the Fabbri ride, is often referred to as the KMG Booster).

There is another ride from the Italian company, Zamperla. Zamperla made a booster like ride called Turbo Force made in 2001.

Incidents
On August 4, 2007, at the Fête des Loges in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France, a gondola broke loose and crashed to the ground. Two people (a father and son) in the gondola were killed and two seriously injured. Two other people were stuck 40 meters in the air for over two hours.

Same problem at the funfair of Rennes, France, in the night of the new year, a technical problem had blocked the ride but not the safety harness system, 8 people who were in the basket located at the top of the ride and 55 were rescued by a helicopter.

References

Pendulum rides
Fabbri Group


William S. Dalton is an American physician and oncologist, who  is board certified in internal medicine and oncology. Since 2002 he has been the President, CEO, and Center Director of the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute at the University of South Florida (USF). He served as dean of the University of Arizona College of Medicine, 2001–2002.

Education
Dalton obtained a Ph.D. in toxicology and medical life sciences as well as an M.D. at Indiana University, where he also completed his internship in medicine. He then completed a residency in medicine, a fellowship in oncology and a fellowship in clinical pharmacology at the University of Arizona.

Career
Dalton became a professor of oncology, biochemistry and medicine at USF in 1997. He was the founding chair of what is now the "Department of Oncologic Sciences". He also served as associate center director for clinical investigations at the Moffitt Cancer Center, becoming deputy director in 1999, and he served as associate vice president of health sciences at USF.

In 2001, Dalton became dean of the University of Arizona College of Medicine, where he had earlier been the founding director of the Bone Marrow Transplant Program. In 2002, after only seven months, he returned to USF as president, chief executive officer, and director of the Moffitt Cancer Center. He established an initiative called Total Cancer Care with an emphasis on a personalized approach to the treatment of cancer.

Dalton also serves as chair of the Science Policy and Legislative Affairs Committee for the American Association for Cancer Research.

Research
Dalton's research concerns drug discovery, the biochemical mechanisms of drug resistance, and the biology and treatment of multiple myeloma. He has published over 250 articles in peer-reviewed scientific and medical journals, which have been cited over 12,000 times, resulting in an h-index of 58.

Awards
 K.K. Chen Award in Pharmacology, Indiana University
 Raymond R. Paradise Memorial Lecturer, Department of Pharmacology, Indiana University
 10th Annual Theodore Segal Memorial Lecturer, Department of Medicine, University of Louisville
 Fellowship in the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine
 2010 Leadership in Personalized Medicine Award, Personalized Medicine Coalition

References

Indiana University alumni
Living people
University of Arizona faculty
University of South Florida faculty
American oncologists
Year of birth missing (living people)


The Diocese of Łowicz () is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church located in the city of Łowicz in the Ecclesiastical province of Łódż in Poland.

Its cathedral, the Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Nicholas, stands as one of Poland's official national Historic Monuments (Pomnik historii), as designated November 13, 2012. This listing is maintained by the National Heritage Board of Poland.

In 2014, it became the first and for now the only one Polish diocese since a very long time where no deacon was ordinated a priest. About 31.3% of all Catholics in the diocese attend Sunday mass, which is lower than the average for the Polish nation as of 2013.

History
 March 25, 1992: Established as Diocese of Łowicz from the Diocese of Łódź, Diocese of Płock and Metropolitan Archdiocese of Warszawa

Leadership
 Bishops of Łowicz (Roman rite)
 Bishop Andrzej Franciszek Dziuba (since 2004.03.27)
 Bishop Alojzy Orszulik, S.A.C. (1992.03.25 – 2004.03.27)

Reports of sex abuse
In the summer of 2020, a priest of the diocese by the name of Piotr M. was convicted of sexually molesting two girls in the village of Ruszów. Investigations revealed that there had been allegations of abuse against Piotr M. from 10 accusers dating back more than 30 years while he served in the Archdiocese of Wroclaw. Diocesan spokesman for Łowicz Fr. Jozef Lisowski says that since his conviction Piotr M. has been barred from celebrating mass or presenting himself as a priest.

See also
Roman Catholicism in Poland

References

External links
 GCatholic.org
 Catholic Hierarchy
  Diocese website

Roman Catholic dioceses in Poland
Roman Catholic Diocese of Lowicz
Christian organizations established in 1992
Roman Catholic dioceses and prelatures established in the 20th century


"Strut" is a song recorded by Scottish singer Sheena Easton for her album A Private Heaven (1984). It was composed by singer-songwriter Charlie Dore and her longtime songwriting partner, Julian Littman. Easton was sent the demo for the song by Christopher Neil, who was Easton's first producer. "Strut" was released by EMI America in August 1984 as the album's lead single and peaked that November at  7 on the US Billboard Hot 100. In the UK—where the single was released in November 1984—the track became the first US top-40 single by Easton to completely miss the top 100 of the UK Singles Chart.

Background
While Easton had achieved success with singles over her career, The Philadelphia Inquirer asserted in 1984 that "the old Sheena Easton was running into some identity problems" due to her management not knowing whether to promote her as a rock or pop artist. EMI record executive Dick Williams noted Easton's concerns with being branded as a middle of the road artist, stating, "I think she felt, as did a lot of programmers, that her image was predominantly 'pop adult' and that limited her exposure to radio and television."

After seeing the success of top 10 dance-pop single "Telefone (Long Distance Love Affair)", Easton wanted to keep exploring that genre and move away from her image as a ballad singer. She recalled in a 1984 interview that both she and producer Greg Mathieson "wanted to keep it young, spiky and aggressive" for A Private Heaven, stating that Mathieson "fought in my corner to get me songs that normally wouldn't be sent to me, songs with a more adult lyric but a younger feel." Finding such material proved difficult; Easton noted that songs with a harder edge would be first offered to artists like Pat Benatar. She eventually found a suitable single in "Strut", however, after being sent a demo of the song by her friend and former producer, Christopher Neil. Neil encouraged her to take the song to Mathieson, who liked it enough to produce the track.

Music and lyrics
The song appears to be about the singer being upset with a man for wanting her to be like a previous lover, and about the sexism of men in general for wanting or expecting women to behave in a certain fashion ("Strut, pout/Put it out/That's what you want from women").

Reception and accolades
It was nominated for Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female at the 27th Grammy Awards. Like its parent album overall, the "Strut" single and accompanying video signaled Easton's shift towards a more sexually suggestive image.

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

Popular culture
In 1986 Easton, dressed as a geisha, performed "Strut" in a Japanese TV commercial for shōchū.

References

External links
 Strut at YouTube

1984 singles
1984 songs
EMI America Records singles
Sheena Easton songs
Songs written by Charlie Dore


Drawsko may refer to:
 Drawsko Pomorskie, a town in West Pomeranian Voivodeship (north-west Poland), seat of Drawsko County
 Drawsko Lake, in West Pomeranian Voivodeship
 Drawsko, Greater Poland Voivodeship, a village in west Poland, seat of Gmina Drawsko

See also

 Nowe Drawsko, a village in West Pomeranian Voivodeship
 Stare Drawsko, a village in West Pomeranian Voivodeship


Giants vs. Yanks is the 12th Our Gang short subject comedy released. The Our Gang series (later known as "The Little Rascals") was created by Hal Roach in 1922, and continued production until 1944.

Plot
While the boys are playing their baseball game, a couple living nearby offer to take care of Jack's baby sister, Imogene. Eventually, the gang goes into their house, when they realize there's a litter of puppies in there. By this time, however, the doctor has realized that one of the servants has a contagious disease and decides to quarantine the place, giving the gang a chance to turn into a disaster area.

Production notes
There is a blooper in the scene where Mickey rigs the treadmill to turn the laundry. In a couple of scenes, the goat is walking on the treadmill, but the laundry is not turning. Another blooper has the Giants (The Gang) pitching, but Ernie is batting.

Mary Kornman does not appear in this film.

When the television rights for the original silent Pathé Our Gang comedies were sold to National Telepix and other distributors, several episodes were retitled. This film was released into TV syndication as "Mischief Makers" in 1960 under the title The Little League. About two-thirds of the original film was included. This film was also released as an episode of "Those Lovable Scallawags with Their Gangs" series under the title Giants vs. Yanks. Two-thirds of the original film was included. Deleted scenes from this print include the entire sequence involving Ernie, Farina, and Squeaky attempting to retrieve a live turkey. Some of the original inter-titles were left intact.

Cast

The Gang
 Joe Cobb as Squeaky
 Jackie Condon as Squealer
 Jack Davis as Jack, alias Bugle Nose Davis
 Mickey Daniels as Mickey, alias Ironman Mickey
 Allen Hoskins as Farina
 Ernie Morrison as Ernie
 Doris Oelze as Imogene, Jack's sister
 Dinah the Mule as herself

Additional cast
 Andy Samuel as Cooty Martin, one of the Yanks
 Roy Brooks as The plainclothes officer
 Frank Coghlan Jr. as One of the Yanks
 Beth Darlington as Mrs. Reddy a.k.a. Mr. Wife
 Dick Gilbert as Hungry Hogan
 William Gillespie as Mr. Reddy a.k.a. Mr. Husband
 Clara Guiol as The Maid who becomes ill
 Florence Hoskins as The other maid
 Wallace Howe as Doctor
 Joseph Morrison as Ernie and Farina’s father

See also
 Our Gang filmography
 Giants–Yankees rivalry

External links

1923 comedy films
American black-and-white films
Films directed by Robert F. McGowan
Hal Roach Studios short films
American silent short films
Our Gang films
1923 short films
Pathé films
1920s American films
Silent American comedy films


Madam Lucy Gulama (born 26 September 1896 - 1966) was the wife of Sierra Leonean Paramount Chief Julius Gulama.

Madam Lucy was the matriarch of one of Sierra Leone's most powerful noble families. She is the mother of Paramount Chief Madam Ella Koblo Gulama and Komeh Gulama Lansana, the widow of Brigadier David Lansana, the late Commander of Sierra Leone's Armed Forces who briefly served as a military junta leader before his removal and subsequent execution after a counter coup in 1975.

Her husband Julius Gulama was Paramount Chief of Kaiyamba Chiefdom. He was a beloved and revered figure in Sierra Leone, who is remembered for his efforts to unite the country's various ethnic groups together. He was a passionate advocate of education in Sierra Leone.

References

External links
The life and Times of Honourable PC Madam Ella Koblo Gulama of Sierra Leone By Awareness Times, September 26, 2006
Tribute to the Honourable PC Ella Koblo Gulama, Sierra Connection
Women Leaders In Africa
No Contender against Margai in Sierra Leone

1921 births
African royalty
People from Moyamba District
Sierra Leonean nobility
Sierra Leonean royalty
1966 deaths