Decatur Boulevard is a major north–south section line arterial in the Las Vegas metropolitan area located on the west side of the city.

Route
Decatur Boulevard is situated in the west of Las Vegas and runs for roughly 25 miles along a north–south axis. At the southern end, at the junction with West Cactus Avenue, the road becomes Southern Highland Parkway. U.S. Route 95 delineates the road as South Decatur Boulevard and North Decatur Boulevard. It is crossed twice by the Las Vegas Beltway and provides access to the North Las Vegas Airport. At the northern end, it dead ends at a roundabout at the Clark County Shooting Complex.

Part of the southern section of the Boulevard is known as the location of a number of live music venues. Notable places located along the road include Arizona Charlie's Decatur and an office of the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles.

South Decatur Boulevard has another section of road in Sloan, along with three other north–south roads, Cameron Street, Arville Street, and Hinson Street, off of Sloan Road acting as an access road to the Sierra Ready Mix South Plant. It is a dead-end road without any outlets.

History
Decatur Boulevard was named after the city of Decatur, Illinois in the 1930s by Leonard Frechette, who lived on the junction of the street and Vegas Drive. The city was itself named in honor of Stephen Decatur, a naval officer during the early 19th century.

A $46 million Clark County construction project that widened much of Decatur Boulevard and introduced a railroad crossing for both Decatur Blvd and Warm Springs Road under the Union Pacific tracks was completed in summer 2010. Sewerage along parts of the route was renewed in spring 2011.

Major intersections

Public transport
RTC Transit Route 103 functions on this road.

References

External links

Streets in Las Vegas
Streets in the Las Vegas Valley


Euposauridae was a family of lizards from the  Jurassic of Europe.  They were small to medium-sized.

External links
Squamata: Overview at Paleos.com

Jurassic lizards
Prehistoric animals of Europe
Jurassic reptiles of Europe
Lizard families
Prehistoric reptile families
Late Jurassic first appearances
Late Jurassic extinctions


PA12, PA-12 or PA 12 may refer to:

Pennsylvania's 12th congressional district
Pennsylvania Route 12
The old Pennsylvania Route 12, the Baltimore Pike
Piper PA-12 aircraft
Nylon 12, a polyamide (PA) with 12 carbons in monomer unit


Joseph Millard Merrow (June 24, 1848 – March 27, 1947) was president of the Merrow Machine Company.

Merrow was born in the community of Merrow, town of Mansfield in Connecticut. His parents were J. B. Merrow and Harriet Millard Merrow. He was educated at the Munson Mass Academy and Hartford Public High School.

At the age of 15 he was employed as a pharmacist and a postmaster, appointed by Abraham Lincoln.

Established in 1838, the family business was the manufacture of knit cotton goods; it was the first of its kind in the country. In 1888 the family's mills were destroyed by fire related to an incident with gunpowder. J. B. Merrow held a patent on gunpowder. The destruction of the mill allowed the company to further develop a small shop that had previously supported the knitting mill, and the Merrow Mills thus became primarily a manufacturer of crochet sewing machines.

Joseph Merrow was the driving force behind Merrow developing new technology, growing the new business and transforming it from a regional supplier of crochet sewing machines, to the market leader manufacturing hundreds of models of industrial overlock sewing machines. Under his leadership the company achieved a place of prominence in the industrial machine field with sales worldwide, hundreds of patents and the industries first industrial overlock sewing machine.

Merrow was also active in politics. In 1880 he was elected to the House of Representatives of the General Assembly. He was founder and president of the Hartford County Manufacturers association. In addition he founded the Industrial Memorials Inc, a business group that devoted its time to commemorating pioneer manufacturers by funding and locating plaques and statues. He was president from 1939 until 1946.

Merrow traveled the world, taking several dozen trips to europe and asia, while studying the industrial conditions of the countries he visited.

He was a writer and a poet. The Hartford Courant writing his obituary quotes him as having defined war as the 'history of the human race in a single word, Greed the cause of war and brotherly love the cure for greed and the end of war'.

Merrow never married, although his great nephews Owen and Charlie Merrow maintain his legacy as the current managers of the Merrow Sewing Machine Company.

See also
Merrow Sewing Machine Company

External links
Merrow Sewing Machine Co., Historical Documents
Obituary of J. M. Merrow in The Hartford Daily Courant, March 28, 1947

References

1848 births
American chief executives
1947 deaths
People from Mansfield, Connecticut
19th-century American inventors


NASA Astronaut Group 17, were chosen by NASA in 1998 and announced on June 4 of that year. The group of 32 candidates included eight pilots, 17 mission specialists, and seven international mission specialists who became NASA astronauts. They began training in August 1998.

Pilots

Lee Archambault (2 flights)
Pilot, STS-117 (Atlantis)
Commander, STS-119 (Discovery)
Christopher Ferguson (3 flights)
Pilot, STS-115 (Atlantis)
Commander, STS-126 (Endeavour)
Commander, STS-135 (Atlantis)
Kenneth Ham (2 flights)
Pilot, STS-124 (Discovery)
Commander, STS-132 (Atlantis)
Gregory C. Johnson (1 flight)
Pilot, STS-125
Gregory H. Johnson (2 flights)
Pilot, STS-123, (Endeavour)
Pilot, STS-134, (Endeavour)
William Oefelein (dismissed from the NASA astronaut corps and reassigned to the U.S. Navy, later retiring from military service) (1 flight)
Pilot, STS-116, (Discovery)
Alan Poindexter (2 flights)
Pilot, STS-122, (Atlantis)
Commander, STS-131 (Discovery)
George Zamka (2 flights)
Pilot, STS-120, (Discovery)
Commander, STS-130, (Endeavour)

Mission specialists
Clayton Anderson (2 flights)
STS-117 (Atlantis); launched to the ISS
Flight engineer, Expedition 15
STS-120 (Discovery; landed from ISS)
STS-131 (Discovery)
Tracy Caldwell (2 flights)
STS-118 (Endeavour)
Soyuz TMA-18
Flight engineer, Expedition 23/Expedition 24
Gregory Chamitoff (2 flights)
NEEMO 3
Mission Specialist, STS-124 (Discovery; launched to ISS)
Flight engineer, Expedition 17/Expedition 18 (also served as a science officer)
Mission Specialist, STS-126 (Endeavour; landed from ISS)
Mission Specialist, STS-134 (Endeavour)
Timothy Creamer (1 flight)
Soyuz TMA-17
Flight engineer, Expedition 22/Expedition 23
Michael Foreman (2 flights)
Mission specialist, STS-123 (Endeavour)
Mission specialist, STS-129 (Atlantis)
Michael Fossum (3 flights)
Mission specialist, STS-121 (Discovery)
Mission specialist, STS-124 (Discovery)
Soyuz TMA-02M
Flight engineer, Expedition 28
Commander, Expedition 29
Stanley G. Love (1 flight)
Mission specialist, STS-122 (Atlantis)
Leland Melvin (2 flights)
Mission specialist, STS-122 (Atlantis)
Mission specialist, STS-129 (Atlantis)
Barbara Morgan (1 flight)
STS-118 (Endeavour)
John Olivas (2 flights)
Mission specialist, STS-117 (Atlantis)
Mission specialist, STS-128 (Discovery)
Nicholas Patrick (2 flights)
Mission specialist, STS-116 (Discovery)
Mission specialist, STS-130 (Endeavour)
Garrett Reisman (2 flights)
STS-123 (Endeavour; launched to ISS)
Flight engineer, Expedition 16/Expedition 17
STS-124 (Discovery; landed from ISS)
STS-132 (Atlantis)
Patricia Robertson
Steven Swanson (3 flights)
Mission specialist, STS-117 (Atlantis)
Mission specialist, STS-119 (Discovery)
Soyuz TMA-12M
Flight engineer, Expedition 39
Commander, Expedition 40
Douglas H. Wheelock (2 flights)
Mission specialist, STS-120 (Discovery)
Soyuz TMA-19
Flight engineer, Expedition 24
Commander, Expedition 25
Sunita Williams (2 flights)
STS-116 (Discovery; launched to ISS)
Flight engineer, Expedition 14/Expedition 15
STS-117 (Atlantis; landed from ISS)
Soyuz TMA-05M
Flight engineer, Expedition 32
Commander, Expedition 33
Future flight Pilot, Boeing CFT (Calypso)
Neil Woodward

International mission specialists
Léopold Eyharts, France (2 flights)
Soyuz TM-27 (to Mir; launched only)
Soyuz TM-26 (from Mir; landed only)
STS-122 (Atlantis – to International Space Station (ISS); launched only)
Flight Engineer, Expedition 16
STS-123 (Endeavour – from ISS; landed only)
Paolo Nespoli, Italy (3 flights)
STS-120 (Discovery – ISS mission)
 Soyuz TMA-20
 Expedition 26
 Expedition 27
Marcos Pontes, Brazil (1 flight) (first Brazilian in space)
Soyuz TMA-8 (launched only)
Soyuz TMA-7 (landed only)
Expedition 13, International Space Station (9 days only)
Hans Schlegel, Germany (2 flights)
Payload Specialist, STS-55 (Columbia – Spacelab)
Mission Specialist, STS-122 (Atlantis – to ISS)
Robert Thirsk, Canada (2 flights)
Payload Specialist, STS-78 (Columbia; Spacelab)
Soyuz TMA-15
Expedition 20
Bjarni Tryggvason, Canada (1 flight)
Payload Specialist, STS-85 (Discovery)
Roberto Vittori (Italy) (3 flights)
Soyuz TM-34 (launched only)
Soyuz TM-33 (landed only)
Soyuz TMA-6 (launched only)
Expedition 11 (10 days only)
Soyuz TMA-5 (landed only)
Mission Specialist, STS-134 (Endeavour)

See also
List of astronauts by selection

References

External links
Current astronauts page
Retired astronauts page
Foreign astronauts page
Payload specialist astronauts page

NASA Astronaut Corps
Lists of astronauts
1998 in spaceflight
1998 establishments in the United States


The Fabulous Country Music Sound of Buck Owens is an album by American country artist Buck Owens, released in 1962. It is not completely a Buck Owens album and includes tracks by Dottie West, Cowboy Copas, Eddie Wilson and Tommy Hill.

Track listing
 "Down on the Corner of Love" (Buck Owens), performed by Buck Owens
 "There Goes My Love" (Owens), performed by Buck Owens
 "Above and Beyond (The Call of Love)" (Harlan Howard), performed by Tommy Hill
 "House Down the Block" (Owens), performed by Buck Owens
 "Under the Influence of Love" (Howard, Owens), performed by Cowboy Copas
 "Mental Cruelty" (Larry Davis, Dixie Davis, Owens), performed by Cowboy Copas & Dottie West
 "Sweethearts in Heaven" (Owens), performed by Buck Owens
 "It Don't Show on Me" (Owens), performed by Buck Owens
 "Foolin' Around" (Howard, Owens), performed by Eddie Wilson
 "Right After the Dance" (Owens), performed by Buck Owens
 "Excuse Me (I Think I've Got a Heartache)" (Howard, Owens), performed by Darrell McCall
 "Loose Talk" (Freddie Hart, Ann Lucas), performed by Cowboy Copas & Dottie West

Buck Owens albums
1962 compilation albums


Haverhill South railway station was located in Haverhill, Suffolk. It was a terminus on the Colne Valley and Halstead Railway.

In 1924 passenger services were diverted to Haverhill North (on the Stour Valley Railway) which also served the town, but Haverhill South continued to be served by freight trains until 1965.

Since closure the station has been demolished and the site redeveloped.

References

External links
 Haverhill South station on navigable 1946 O. S. map. The station was located just above the "i" in Haverhill.

Disused railway stations in Suffolk
Former Colne Valley and Halstead Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1863
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1924
Haverhill, Suffolk


Volker Strübing (born 22 April 1971 in Sondershausen, Thuringia) is a German book author and songwriter.

Work

Since 2004 he performs regularly at poetry slams as solo act or as part of Team LSD (ca-performing with Michael Ebeling).

His main focus are short satirical texts written expressly for being read to an audience.

Awards

In October 2005 he was awarded the Slam2005 in Leipzig, which certifies him slam mastery on national the scale. His Das Paradies am Rande der Stadt reached second place at  Deutscher Science Fiction Preis 2006 in the competition for best novel.

In November 2006 Michael Ebeling and Volker Strübing were awarded the Slam2006 best team award as Team LSD in Munich. In 2008, Volker Strübing gained 3rd place in the final round for Stuttgarter Besen, an award specifically for next generation cabaret artists.

References

External links

 Volker Strübing

1971 births
Living people
People from Sondershausen
German humorists
German poets
German cabaret performers
German male poets


Victory is a 2008 Indian Telugu-language film directed by Ravi. C. Kumar, released in 2008. The film stars Nithiin, Mamta Mohandas, Shashank, Sindhu Tolani and Ashutosh Rana.

Nithiin plays the role of a vibrant, energetic youngster who is also a very responsible boy. The film throws light on the dreaded Land Mafia. Nithiin fights against them and finally wins. Mohandas, well known for her singing and acting skills, is an added attraction to the film. Tolani and Shashank play supporting roles.

Cast

 Nithiin as Vijay Chandra a.k.a. Vijji
 Mamta Mohandas as Janaki
 Sindhu Tolani as Sindhu
 Shashank as Ravi Kumar
 Ashutosh Rana as MLA K. Devaraj
 Duvvasi Mohan as Satyam
 Brahmanandam as R. Appa Rao
 Satya Prakash as Corrupted IPS Officer
 Tanikella Bharani as Vijji's father
 Ali as The person who tries to corrupt the government officials
 M. S. Narayana
 Ravi Babu as Laxman Rao
 Ajay as Contract Killer
 Supreeth Reddy as M. Pandu Ranga
 Krishna Bhagawan as MRO Divadheenam
 Vijaya Rangaraju as Pochaiah
 Nutan Prasad as Judge
 Devadas Kanakala as DGP
 Ranganath as Defence Lawyer
 Jenny as Vijji's uncle

Soundtrack
Music composed by Chakri.

References

External links

2000s Telugu-language films
2008 films
Films scored by Chakri


Benelli Raffaello CrioComfort is the name of a semi-automatic shotgun.  It is manufactured by Italian arms manufacturer Benelli Armi SpA.

Design details
The shotgun has a relatively small number of component parts, incorporating a simple operating principle. The main features of the mechanism are the turning block bolt locking system and the cartridge feeding system (cut off). These serve to make the Raffaello CrioComfort reliable and practical, easy to strip and maintain.

Operation
Except for the gas operated M4, all Benelli semi-automatic shotguns operate on the same basic principle of inertial operation, with a fixed barrel, utilizing the kinetic energy of gun recoil.

This system requires no outlet for gas or barrel recoil, but operates by means of a spring freely interposed between bolt head and bolt.

During firing, due to the recoil of the gun, breech block inertia makes it move about 4 mm forward in relation to the power of the cartridge, compressing the spring. When this is fully compressed, it overcomes breech block inertia, thrusting it to the rear under residual pressure, permitting cartridge case extraction and reloading with the conventional system.

The pressure of the spring is calculated to delay the opening of the action, which occurs after the shot has left the barrel, and to regulate the different pressures produced by cartridges of varying power, with no need for braking.

See also
 Benelli Raffaello
 Benelli Legacy
 Benelli Sport II
 Benelli Supersport
 Benelli Cordoba

External links
 Official homepage - Italy
 Official homepage - USA

Benelli Armi SpA
Semi-automatic shotguns of Italy


The Mountain Valley News was a weekly newspaper published on Wednesdays based in Cedaredge, Colorado covering Delta County, Colorado, United States.

References

Defunct newspapers published in Colorado
Delta County, Colorado


The following is a comparison of RSS feed aggregators. Often e-mail programs and web browsers have the ability to display RSS feeds. They are listed here, too.

Many BitTorrent clients support RSS feeds for broadcasting (see Comparison of BitTorrent clients).

With the rise of cloud computing, some cloud based services offer feed aggregation. They are listed here as well.

Release history

Netscape Messenger 9 is a fork of Mozilla Thunderbird and has the same features.

Operating system support

Web feed and protocol support

Interface and notes
Web browsers and Internet suites have for browser plugin a N/A, because they don't need it.

Capabilities

See also
 Comparison of email clients
 Comparison of web browsers

Notes

References

External links

Feed aggregators


Brain Assist or Touch de Uno DS is a puzzle video game released for the Nintendo DS in Japan, North America, and the PAL regions.  Studies in the 1960s demonstrated the lateralization of brain function. The left-brain hemisphere deals with sequential analysis - reasoning using language, mathematics, abstraction and reasoning. Memory is primarily stored in a language format. The right-brain hemisphere deals with auditory, visual, and spatial concepts (art, for example) dancing and gymnastics, which is what the game aims to stimulate in the player.

Reception

Brain Assist received mixed reviews from critics upon release. On Metacritic, the game holds a score of 53/100 based on 17 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews". On GameRankings, the game holds a score of 53.89% based on 19 reviews.

References

External links
GameSpot Summary

2007 video games
2008 video games
Brain training video games
Japan Art Media games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Nintendo DS games
Nintendo DS-only games
Puzzle video games
Sega video games
Video games developed in Japan
Video games scored by Mariko Nanba


HMS Ariel was an  built in 1911, which served during the First World War and sank in 1918 after striking a mine. Named after Shakespeare's "airy spirit", or the biblical spirit of the same name, she was the tenth and last ship of the name to serve in the Royal Navy.

Construction
With her sister, Acheron, she was a "Thornycroft special", and as such was slightly longer and more powerful than the standard destroyer of her class.  Ariel was laid down at the Woolston yard of John I. Thornycroft & Company, and launched on 26 September 1911.  Capable of , she carried two  guns, other smaller guns and 21-inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes and had a complement of 70 men.

Pennant numbers

Career
As part of the First Destroyer Flotilla, she was attached to the Grand Fleet in August 1914, and then to the Third Battle Squadron from the spring of 1916. Once converted to a minelayer in 1917, she became part of the 20th Flotilla.

Establishing the Heligoland Bight patrol
On 5 August 1914, Ariel towed submarine  to Terschelling. They were in company with cruiser  and submarine . After releasing the tow, the two submarines conducted the first Heligoland Bight patrol of the war.

Battle of Heligoland Bight
As part of the Harwich Force, the First Destroyer Flotilla took part in the Battle of Heligoland Bight on 28 August. Ariel — under Commander Dashwood Moir — shared in the prize money for the battle.

Battle of Dogger Bank
On 24 January 1915, Ariel took part in the Battle of Dogger Bank as part of the First Destroyer Flotilla, with  as flotilla leader. Aurora was the first British ship to engage the German ships as she encountered Hipper's screening vessels at the Dogger Bank at 07:05.

Sinking of U-12

On 10 March, in company with her sisters  and , Ariel was searching for a German submarine reported by the trawler Man Island near Aberdeen. At 10:10, Attack sighted  and opened fire. Ariel, commanded by Lt Cdr J V Creagh, sighted the submarine at 10:12 at about  and all three destroyers turned towards it. U-12 dived and raised her periscope, which Ariel sighted at a distance of . She turned to ram, sighting the conning tower under the water in the final moments before she struck the submarine at a fine angle. Within two minutes, the submarine had returned to the surface so that the crew could escape, but they found the conning tower hatch jammed, and most of the survivors managed their escape via the other hatches. The destroyers opened fire as the submarine lay on the surface, killing and injuring some of the escaping sailors. At 10:30, U-12 sank approximately in position , and the destroyers picked up 10 survivors; 19 lives had been lost. The damage to Ariels bow was so serious that she had to be towed into port.

Battle of Jutland
Ariel was present at the Battle of Jutland on 31 May 1916 under the command of Lieutenant Commander Tippet as part of the First Destroyer Flotilla, led by .

Sinking of UC-19
On 6 December 1916,  sank the Russian sailing ship Ans (Later claimed to have been sunk by ). The P&O vessel Kashmir sent out a radio warning, and later the same day Ariels lookouts spotted the conning tower of a submarine. A depth charge was dropped in the position of the submarine, but it failed to explode. Ariels explosive paravane was deployed, and after an explosion at about , oil and bubbles were observed. Twenty-five German sailors were killed, and UC-19 now lies in about  of water in an approximate position of .

Conversion to minelayer
In 1917, the Acheron-class destroyers , Sandfly and Ariel were converted to minelaying destroyers, capable of carrying 40 mines. Ariel served with the 20th Flotilla, and operated out of Immingham.

Minelaying operations in the Heligoland Bight
The provision of converted minelaying destroyers and the availability of reliable H2-pattern mines allowed the greatest allied minelaying operation of the First World War — the attempt to close Heligoland Bight to German ships and submarines. Ariel — with her sisters — was employed on this work until the end of the war. On 27 March 1918, while laying a barrier minefield  north-west of Heligoland, Ariel — in company with Ferret, ,  and  — came upon three armed German trawlers, Polarstern, Mars and Scharbentz. All three vessels were sunk and 72 prisoners were captured.

Loss
On 2 August, while conducting minelaying in the western end of the Heligoland Bight, the V-class destroyer  sank after striking a German mine. In attempting to exit the minefield, Ariel lost her bow and sank in less than an hour. 49 people died, including her commanding officer, Lieutenant Frank A Rothera.

Citations

References

External links

 Battle of Jutland Crew Lists Project - HMS Ariel Crew List

Acheron-class destroyers of the Royal Navy
Ships built in Southampton
1911 ships
World War I destroyers of the United Kingdom
Maritime incidents in 1918
World War I shipwrecks in the North Sea
Ships sunk by mines
Ships built by John I. Thornycroft & Company


The Fram Strait is the passage between Greenland and Svalbard, located roughly between 77°N and 81°N latitudes and
centered on the prime meridian. The Greenland and Norwegian Seas lie south of Fram Strait, while the Nansen Basin of the Arctic Ocean lies to the north.  Fram Strait is noted for being the only deep connection between the Arctic Ocean and the World Oceans.   The dominant oceanographic features of the region are the West Spitsbergen Current on the east side of the strait and the East Greenland Current on the west.

Description
Fram Strait is the northernmost ocean area having ice-free conditions throughout the year.   The width of the strait is about 450 km, but because of the wide continental shelves of Greenland and Spitsbergen, the deep portion of Fram Strait is only about 300 km wide.  The ocean over the Greenland continental shelf is often covered with ice.

Within Fram Strait, the sill connecting the Arctic and Fram Strait is 2545 m deep.  The Knipovich Ridge, the northernmost section of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, extends northward through the strait to connect to the Nansen-Gakkel Ridge of the Arctic Ocean.  A rift valley, caused by sea-floor spreading, runs adjacent and parallel to the Knipovich Ridge.  The Molloy Deep within Fram Strait is the deepest point of the Arctic. This small basin at 79°8.5′N and 2°47′E has a maximum depth of  ±(See also: Litke Deep).  The Yermak Plateau, with a mean depth of about 650 m, lies to the northwest of Spitsbergen.

Historically, Fram Strait was home to a large population of Bowhead whales, then called the Greenland right whale.  By mid-17th century, the Svalbard population of Bowhead whales was reduced to near extinction by excessive whaling (See also: Whaling in Spitsbergen; Smeerenburg).  Western Fram Strait may be a wintering ground for this Critically Endangered population.

Etymology
The use of the name "Fram Strait" for the passage between Spitsbergen and Greenland appears to have come into common use in the
oceanographic literature in the 1970s.  Fram Strait is named after the Norwegian ship Fram.   In an 1893 expedition led by Fridtjof Nansen, the Fram drifted for two years across the Arctic before exiting the Arctic through what is now known as Fram Strait.  According to glaciologist and geographer Moira Dunbar, an early adopter of the name, the name "Fram Strait" originated in the Russian scientific literature.  While in common use, particularly in the oceanographic scientific literature, the name appears to be unofficial.

Oceanography

Fram Strait is the only deep-water connection between the World Oceans and the Arctic.  Other gateways are the Barents Sea Opening (BSO), the Bering Strait and various small channels in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. They are all shallower than Fram Strait, leaving Fram Strait the only route by which deep water can be exchanged between the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans.  This exchange occurs in both directions, with
specific water masses identified with specific regions flowing between the Oceans.  Water with characteristics of the deep Canadian and Eurasian Basins of the Arctic are observed leaving the Arctic in the deep western side of Fram Strait, for example.  On the eastern side, cold water from the Norwegian Sea is observed entering the Arctic below the West Spitsbergen Current.  In recent years the nature and interactions of these water masses have been changing, symptoms of the changes occurring with the ocean's climate.

Current systems

Warm, salty water is transported northward from the Atlantic by the West Spitsbergen Current in the east of the strait.  The West Spitsbergen Current is the northernmost branch of the North Atlantic Current system.  This water forms a water mass called the Atlantic water.   The sub-surface flow has a strong seasonality with a minimal volume transport in winter. This current transports internal energy into the Arctic Ocean . The northward velocity is maximum in winter, so the heat transport is  highest in winter.

On the west side of the strait, the East Greenland Current flows southward on the Greenland Shelf. The current carries is relatively cold and fresh water out of the Arctic that corresponds to a water mass called Polar water.

The Fram Strait area is located downwind of the Transpolar Drift and therefore covered by multi-year ice in the west of the strait, next to the coast of Greenland. Approximately 90% of sea ice exported from the Arctic is transported by the East Greenland Current. (Sea ice essentially corresponds to fresh water, since its salt content of 4 per mil is much less than the 35 per mil for sea water.) A 2019 estimate states that about "80% of the water exchanged between the Arctic ice cap and the world’s oceans passes through the Fram Strait."

Long-time observations
The Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) and the Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI) have maintained long term monitoring measurements in Fram Strait to obtain volume- and energy-budgets through this choke point. The observations also serve to assess the development of the Arctic Ocean as a sink for terrestrial organic carbon.
The AWI=NPI observing array consists of a line of up to 16 moorings across Fram Strait.  The mooring line has been maintained since 1997 with a spacing of roughly 25 km. At up to five different depths, the moored array measures the water velocity, temperature, and salinity of the water column.

Importance for climate
Computer simulations suggest that 60 to 70% of the fluctuation of the sea ice flowing through the Fram Strait is correlated with a 6–7 year fluctuation in which the Icelandic Low Pressure system extends eastward into the Barents Sea.  The amount of sea ice passing through the Fram Strait varies from year to year and affects the global climate through its influence on thermohaline circulation.
The warming in the Fram Strait region has likely amplified Arctic shrinkage, and serves as a positive feedback mechanism for transporting more internal energy to the Arctic Ocean.

In the past century, the sea surface temperature at Fram Strait has on average warmed roughly 1.9 °C (3.5 °F), and is 1.4 °C (2.5 °F) warmer than during the Medieval Warm Period.

References

Straits of the Arctic Ocean
Straits of Norway
Physical oceanography
Ocean currents
International straits
Geography of North America
Geography of Europe


Crispine "Chris" Odera (12 December 1963 – 27 November 2012) was a boxer from Kenya, who is best known for winning the gold medal in the men's super-heavyweight division (+ 91 kg) at the 1987 All-Africa Games in Nairobi, Kenya. He represented his native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, where he was knocked down in the second round by eventual gold medal winner Lennox Lewis from Canada.

References

External links
Chris Odera's profile at Sports Reference.com

1963 births
2012 deaths
Heavyweight boxers
Super-heavyweight boxers
Boxers at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Olympic boxers for Kenya
Kenyan male boxers
African Games gold medalists for Kenya
African Games medalists in boxing
Competitors at the 1987 All-Africa Games


Hospital Universitario de Canarias or University Hospital of the Canary Islands it is a teaching hospital of general scope in Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain). Located in the city of San Cristóbal de La Laguna. Affiliated with the education and research network of the Universidad de La Laguna it is under the directive of the Servicio Canario de Salud (Canary Health Service). The hospital has specialist facilities which not only serve Tenerife but the surrounding Canary Islands.

Founded in 1971 under the name of General and Clinical Hospital of Tenerife a floor area of  near the Autopista del Norte de Tenerife surface. With a total of 2,534 professionals is geared to health care in the north of Tenerife, and referral hospital for the island of La Palma.

It is near the Hospital Universitario Nuestra Señora de Candelaria, a referral hospital in some specialties in Spain. The Hospital Universitario de Canarias was also the first hospital in the Canary Islands hold the category of University Hospital, hence its name.

See also
 Hospital Universitario Nuestra Señora de Candelaria

References

External links
 Official site (in Spanish)

Hospital buildings completed in 1971
Teaching hospitals in Spain
Hospitals in Tenerife
Hospitals established in 1971
San Cristóbal de La Laguna
1971 establishments in Spain
Hospitals in the Canary Islands


Össur hf. is a company based in Iceland that develops, manufactures and sells non-invasive equipment for orthopaedics, including bracing and support products, compression therapy, and prosthetics. The company is headquartered in Reykjavík, with offices in the Americas, Europe, and Asia, and distributors in other markets.

History
Össur was founded in Iceland in 1971 by Össur Kristinsson, a prosthetist. His family owned the company until 1999, when it went public and was listed on the Iceland Stock Exchange. Initially, the company served only the domestic Icelandic market, and then began to export in 1986 and expanded rapidly through a series of strategic acquisitions. Össur has been listed on the NASDAQ Copenhagen Stock Exchange since 2009 and celebrated 20 years as a publicly traded company in 2019, by ringing the closing bell at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York's Times Square. As of 2019 it employs more than 3,500 people in over 25 locations.

In 2006, the company was named as a "technology pioneer" by the World Economic Forum.

Acquisitions
Since 2000, Össur has acquired over 20 companies:
 2000 – Skóstofan
 2000 – Flex-Foot, Inc.
 2000 – PI Medical AB.
 2000 – Karlsson & Bergstrom AB.
 2000 – Century XXII Innovations, Inc
 2003 – Linea Orthopedics AB.
 2003 – Generation II Group, Inc.
 2005 – Advanced Prosthetic Components
 2005 – Royce Medical, Inc.
 2005 – Innovative Medical Products, Ltd.
 2005 – GBM Medical AB.
 2006 – Innovation Sports, Inc.
 2006 – Gibaud Group
 2007 – SOMAS
 2010 – Orthopaedic Partner Africa
 2012 – Evolution Industries
 2013 – TeamOlmed
 2016 – Touch Bionics
 2017 – Medi Prosthetics
 2019 – College Park Industries
 2023 - Naked Prosthetics

Operations

Research and development
Össur operates five research and development (R&D) departments in four countries, employing 76 people. In-house R&D also partners with third parties, including universities and research companies. In 2007, R&D investment amounted to 6 percent of the company's total sales. The same year, 22 US patents were granted to Össur and 37 new applications filed. At the end of the year, Össur had 218 US, 26 European, and 103 granted international patents in its portfolio, together with 119 US and 239 pending applications world.

Products
The company operates in three markets: bracing & support, compression therapy, and prosthetics including bionics technology. It manufactures a range of braces and support products for arms, legs, and torso. Products include Unloader One, a brace that provides mechanical support to reduce the knee pain caused by osteoarthritis. It's designed to separate bones when ligaments and cartilage are damaged, and to prevent further damage to the joint. The firm also makes the CTi (formerly sold as the CTi2), a ligament brace for knees used for both rehabilitation and for injury prevention, as well as cervical collars.

Össur entered the compression therapy segment with the acquisition of the French company Gibaud. Products include bandages, tights, stockings, knee highs and stump socks.

Prosthetics
Össur manufactures prosthetic limbs and joints, liners, sockets, locks and sleeves. Its products include Flex-Foot, a prosthetic foot made from carbon fiber, a material used in the aerospace industry for its strength and flexibility. The Flex-Foot Cheetah developed by medical engineer Van Phillips and worn by Alan Oliveira, Markus Rehm, and other amputee athletes is a derivative of this product line. Össur also produces the Total Knee prosthetic, which possesses a "locking moment" which keeps the knee from collapsing when it is in full extension, Mauch Knee, which has a hydraulic system for fluid and natural gait, and Iceross silicone prosthetic liners, which provide an interface between the skin and the socket.

The company's bionic technology platform is designed to restore anatomical function displaced by amputation by using intelligent structures in products that can respond in a human-like way. The division's products are Rheo Knee, a microprocessor swing and stance knee system which utilizes artificial intelligence, Power Knee, which works as an integrated extension of its user, synchronizing motion with that of the sound leg using motor power, and Proprio Foot, an intelligent and motor-powered foot module.

Össur has been developing a bionic limb controlled using implanted myoelectric sensors developed by the Alfred Mann Foundation. One patient has used the limb for over a year, and reports a positive experience. Össur says that the implantable control sensors will be a technology upgrade for its prosthetics in three to five years. In 2019, Össur and Alfred Mann Foundation signed new agreement to extend exploration of mind-controlled prosthetics.

Team Össur

Team Össur is a group of international para-athletes sponsored by Össur. Sponsees include Sarah Reinertsen, Markus Rehm, Jody Cundy  and Rudy Garcia-Tolson.

Notes

External links

UK website

Companies based in Reykjavík
Manufacturing companies established in 1971
Prosthetic manufacturers
Icelandic brands
Medical technology companies of Iceland
Companies listed on Nasdaq Copenhagen


Quantum of Solace: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the soundtrack album for the James Bond film of the same name. Released on 17 October 2008. The album contains the score composed by David Arnold. It is Arnold's fifth soundtrack for the James Bond franchise. His frequent collaborator Nicholas Dodd orchestrated and conducted the score.

Development
David Arnold, who composed the scores for the previous four Bond films, said that Quantum of Solace director Marc Forster likes to work very closely with his composers and that, in comparison to the accelerated schedule he was tied to on Casino Royale, the intention was to spend a long time scoring the film to "really work it out". He also said he would be "taking a different approach" with the score. Arnold composed the music based on impressions from reading the script, and Forster edited those into the film.

Mark Ronson and Amy Winehouse recorded a demo track for the film, but Ronson explained that she was "not ready to record any music" at that time. It was announced Jack White of The White Stripes and Alicia Keys would collaborate on "Another Way to Die", which is the first duet in Bond music history, on 29 July 2008. They had wanted to work together for two years beforehand. The song was recorded in Nashville, Tennessee; White played the drums while Keys performed on the piano. The Memphis Horns also contributed to the track. White's favourite Bond theme is John Barry's instrumental piece for On Her Majesty's Secret Service, and he watched various opening credit sequences from the series for inspiration while mixing the track.

The soundtrack was released by J Records, Keys' record label, though Keys appears on only one track. The track listing follows the order of the music's use within the film, with the exception of the title song being moved to the end of the album (in the film, it appears immediately after track 1). It is presented in the full-length single-release version, rather than the shorter mix heard over the film's opening titles. One notable omission is the fully orchestrated James Bond Theme, which features, as it did in Casino Royale, only at the film's conclusion, but this time over the traditional gun barrel walk-on-and-shoot as well as the start of the end titles. Another omission is Four Tet's instrumental closing theme that follows it, playing over the remainder of the credits and entitled "Crawl, End Crawl" within them. This track was later made available on iTunes. Other tracks listed heard in the film (but not on the album) are played during scenes such as Dominic Greene's charity fundraising party (i.e., "Cholo Soy", "Regresa", and "El Provinciano" by Jaime Cuadra); and Puccini's opera Tosca forms the backdrop to a key sequence. "Vesper" from Arnold's Casino Royale soundtrack reappears at key moments in the film; it may be heard on the album in tracks 12, 15, 18 and 23.

Track listing

See also
 Outline of James Bond

References

Soundtrack albums from James Bond films
soundtrack
David Arnold soundtracks
2008 soundtrack albums
J Records soundtracks


Execute, in capital punishment, is to put someone to death.

Execute may also refer to:
Execution (computing), the running of a computer program
Execute (album), a 2001 Garage hip-hop album by Oxide & Neutrino
USS Execute (AM-232), an Admirable-class minesweeper
"Execute", the first track on Slipknot's 2008 album All Hope Is Gone

See also
Execution (disambiguation)


Crotta O'Neill's are a hurling club in the Kilflynn area of County Kerry, Ireland. The club is named after Maurice O'Neill, an Irish Republican. They play in the Kerry Senior Hurling Championship. The club is primarily concerned with the game of hurling. Their pitch is located in Dromakee.

History
The Club have played in 19 Kerry Senior Hurling Championship's winning 10, including a three in a row from 1943 to 1945 and a two in a row in 1950 and 1951. The most successful time for the club came between 1939 to 1951 when the club won 8 of their 9 County Championships. Jimmy Flaherty was captain for 5 for the wins in 1939, 1944, 1945, 1947 and 1950.

Following their win in 1968 the club did not go on to win another Kerry Senior Hurling Championship for 55 years, losing 7 finals. This drought was eventually ended in 2023 when they beat Lixnaw in the 2023 Kerry Senior Hurling Championship final, beating them by a score of 0-15 to 1-09

Roll of Honour
 Kerry Senior Hurling Championship (10): 1939, 1941, 1943, 1944, 1945, 1947, 1950, 1951, 1968, 2023
 Kerry Minor Hurling Championship (3): 2016, 2017, 2019
 Kerry Under-21 hurling championship (4): 1992, 2012 (with Abbeydorney), 2018, 2022

County Championship Winning Captains

 1939: Jimmy Flaherty
 1941: Jack Kenney
 1943: Pat Ladie
 1944: Jimmy Flaherty
 1945: Jimmy Flaherty
 1947: Jimmy Flaherty
 1950: Jimmy Flaherty
 1951: Tom Nolan
 1968: Tom Kenny
 2023: Bill Keane

Notable players

 Dick Spring
 Todd Nolan
 Shane Nolan

References

External links
Official Crotta O'Neill's GAA Club website

Gaelic games clubs in County Kerry
Hurling clubs in County Kerry


The Lincoln-Page PT was an American open-cockpit two-seat single-bay biplane trainer aircraft produced from 1929 to 1931.

Manufacture and operations

Lincoln-Page were eager to take a share of the emerging trainer market. Using their Lincoln-Page LP-3 as a basis they set about designing the PT. The resultant aircraft was quite different from the LP-3, having tandem cockpits and a lengthened rear fuselage. The design bears a resemblance to the Swallow aircraft, partially from manager Victor Roos prior history with the company. Structure was standard for its day:- welded steel tube warren girder fuselage with spruce spars and basswood ribs for the wings. With the ubiquitous Curtiss OX-5 the PT proved quite versatile and able to perform basic aerobatic manoeuvers without too much effort. It was awarded ATC no 181 in July 1929.

The aircraft was also offered with a Curtiss OXX-6  engine, but no evidence exists that any were produced. However, a later variant using a Kinner K-5 radial engine was named Lincoln PT-K.

Surviving aircraft
A PT-K is on display at the EAA AirVenture Museum. In August 2014 three other PTs were registered by the Federal Aviation Administration as owned by private pilot owners in the United States.

Variants
PT (ATC 181)
 Curtiss OX-5 or  Curtiss OXX-6 V-8 engine. 28 built.
PT-K (ATC 279)
 Kinner K-5 radial engine. 18 built
PT-W (ATC 284)
 Warner Scarab radial engine. 5 built
PT-T (ATC 344)
 Brownback Tiger. 5 built

Specifications

See also

References

Notes

Citations

Bibliography

External links

1920s United States civil trainer aircraft


The Ilm is a river in Bavaria, Germany, left tributary of the Abens. Its source is near Altomünster. It is approx. 84 km long. It flows generally north through the small towns Hilgertshausen-Tandern, Reichertshausen, Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm, Geisenfeld and Vohburg. It flows into the Abens near Neustadt an der Donau.

References

Rivers of Bavaria
Rivers of Germany


Nikos Mihas (; born 20 November 1980, in Athens, Greece) is a Greek singer-songwriter of the new age of Greek rock stars.

Early life

From an early age he showed an interest in music. He started by playing the piano at the age of 10 and a few years later he formed a band with his brother and some friends. The band was called "NIMA" (derived from the first letters of their names, NIkos-MAkis). Some years later he went to Romania to study Medicine and become a doctor. He never left his dream however, which was to become a singer, so he entered the TV talent show "Fame Story 2".

Fame Story (2004)

In 2004, he decided to take part in the talent show "Fame Story 2", shown on the Greek TV channel ANT1, where he was one of the favourites to make it to the finals due to his unique style of performing and his low-profile character. One week before the final, however, he was eliminated from the show but for the first time in a Greek talent show he performed a song that he wrote; a move that many other contestants followed in the years to come. "Party" was a huge success at the time, even without being physically released in the music market.

Songs performed on Fame Story

Professional career (2005–)

A year after, in the summer of 2005, he saw the release of his first personal album. It was called "Sti Hora Tou Pote" ("Into Neverland") and included many major hit-singles. It contains 12 songs written mostly by him and his band and with contributions of other songwriters.

In March 2007 his second album "Trehei Tipota?" was released. It contains 12 songs in a rock-alternative style including some beautiful ballads. The album also contains a cover of the 3 Doors Down song "When I'm Gone" in Greek lyrics. The record has received mixed reviews from Greek critics.

He is currently in progress of releasing his third album.

In early 2010, "Poso Sou Moiazo" was released as a digital single and video.

Discography

Studio albums
Sti Hora Tou Pote – "Στη Χώρα Του Ποτέ" (2005)
Trehei Tipota? – "Τρέχει Τίποτα" (2007)
Stigmes – "Στιγμές" (2016)

Singles&LP
Ekeini – "Εκείνη" (2018)
Dos' Mou Anaptira – "Δωσ' Μου Αναπτήρα" (2020)

Music videos
 Party
 Simadia Kairou
 Hronia Kathreftes
 Mpou***lo
 Ta Paidia Ton Balkonion
 Poso Sou Moiazo

Awards

MAD Video Music Awards

The MAD Video Music Awards are awarded annually by the Greek music channel MAD TV since 2004. Nikos Mihas has received 2 awards from 5 nominations.

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|rowspan="2"| 2006 ||rowspan="2"| "Party" || Best Video Rock ||
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|Best New Artist Video ||
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|rowspan="2"| 2008 ||rowspan="2"| "Mpou***lo" || Best Video Rock ||
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|Sexiest Video ||
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|rowspan="1"| 2009 ||rowspan="1"| "Ta Paidia Ton Mpalkonion" || Best Video Rock ||

References

External links
 Nikos Mihas profile on music.net.cy

Living people
Singers from Athens
21st-century Greek male singers
Greek rock singers
Heaven Music artists
1980 births


Gökçekent is a village in Ermenek District, Karaman Province, Central Anatolia, Turkey. Its population is 839 (2022). The village's old name is Akmanastır.

There is a historical monastery just west of the village from the Byzantine Empire.

References

Villages in Ermenek District


Fame is a 2009 American teen musical drama film directed by Kevin Tancharoen from a screenplay by Allison Burnett. It is a loose remake of the 1980 film of the same name. The film follows talented high school students attending The High School of Performing Arts in New York City, where students get specialized training that often leads to success in the entertainment industry.

Debbie Allen, who portrays the school principal Angela Simms, is the only person to appear in the original film, the subsequent television series (in the film and the series she played the role of dance teacher Lydia Grant), and the remake.

Fame premiered at The Grove Theatre in Los Angeles, California on September 23, 2009, and was released in the United States on September 25, by MGM Distribution Co.. The film received generally negative reviews from critics and grossed over $77 million worldwide against a production budget of $18 million.

Plot

Auditions
During the opening scenes in auditions and orientation, it is told that in 1936, New York City Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia founded the High School of Music & Art in order to provide a facility where the most gifted and talented public school students of New York City could pursue their talents in art or music, while also completing a full academic program of instruction. In 1948, the School of Performing Arts (P.A.) was created to provide training in performance skills to students who wished to prepare for professional careers in dance, music or drama.

Freshman year
Students learn on the first day of classes that their teachers expect them to know everything. In dance class, the teacher Ms. Kraft is worried about Kevin's dancing, but is easily impressed by Alice.

In acting class, Jenny feels uncomfortable to let loose and be crazy like everyone else. In music class, Mr. Cranston gives Victor pointers, while Denise plays the music perfectly on the piano.

In the lunchroom, everyone practices their major and they all get up and dance ('This Is My Life'), while Denise and Malik escape the madness and they talk to each other, Denise saying that her uptight and conservative parents thinks that the school is "people sitting around, practicing cello all day", and that they would die if they saw this. Malik reveals that his mother doesn't even know that he is coming to the school because she works three jobs and would never notice.

Just before freshman year ends, it shows Malik at his apartment, his mother finding his report card, making it clear that he goes to Performing Arts. She is angry but he continues to go to the school. The year closes after she goes to work and leaves Malik standing alone.

Sophomore year
As the new school year begins, it shows the dancers all practicing in a circle, but once it is Kevin's turn, he is out-shone and is forced to go back in his original spot.

In music class, Victor is having trouble sticking to the right music, and adds his own spin on whatever he is playing, which doesn't sit well with Mr. Cranston.

In theater class, Malik talks about his dead sister, Ayanna, causing Mr. Dowd to ask questions that he refuses to answer. Malik then leaves, stating that he's going to be famous, no matter what anyone else says.

Meanwhile, Denise is playing her classical piano, but then starts to sing, assuming she is alone. ('Out Here on My Own') When she leaves, it is revealed to the audience that Malik was watching the whole time. He brings her to Victor and convinces her to sing for the album that they are producing. She agrees to it, as long as her strict father doesn't find out.

At a Halloween party, Malik plays the song, but says the vocals are "anonymous", upsetting Denise, which confuses Malik. Later, Joy is in Central Park drinking beer. She gets up and does a rap, vomiting at the end of it. Neil captures this in his documentary and presents it to the class. Marco asks Jenny out on a date (though not for the first time). She agrees to go with him to dinner at his father's restaurant, where she convinces him to play a song and sing on the piano. He does ('Try'), and she gives him a money tip. The sophomore year ends with them kissing.

Junior year
Joy has another audition, but is annoyed, because the other girls competing against her always seem to get the part. Neil says that he is meeting with a producer for a short, independent film he wrote and hopes to direct himself.

Meanwhile, Marco and Jenny go to a party, where Jenny sees a guy named Andy Matthews, a former P.A. student who claims to be a professional actor and known player. He tells her that he can have her meet with his agent, and the naive Jenny gives him her cell phone number. Marco leaves, having seen the last part, and Jenny runs out after him. They have a minor fight, but she promises that she will never talk to Andy again, and they go back to her house.

Victor, Malik, and Denise meet with a man from a record company, who says that their demo is interesting, and he will play it at the next meeting and get back to them. Victor and Malik are overjoyed, but Denise is still hesitant. At the next meeting, the producer tells them that Denise is the reason he was interested in their music. He tries to persuade her to stay.

Joy tells Jenny and Neil that she got a part-time acting job on 'Sesame Street' and is very excited about it. Ms. Rowan, the voice teacher, takes some of the students to a karaoke bar where she ends up singing as well. Jenny goes to meet Andy despite what she said to Marco. When she arrives, Andy tells her the director is out sick. He comes onto her, but she stops him and angrily leaves. She tells Marco, and he asks if Andy tried anything, saying that he knew this would happen and that if fame was really that important to her then he hopes she gets the job. He then leaves her sobbing his name on a rooftop.

Neil tries to get his equipment for the movie, but when he tries to find his producer, he is discovered to be gone, along with the $5,000.

Senior year
Kevin (Paul McGill) has a meeting with Ms. Kraft, the dance teacher, because he asked her to write him a letter of recommendation. She says she can not write him the letter, because she believes he is not talented enough to become a professional dancer. Meanwhile, as they talk, Alice is dancing to ('Black and Gold') practicing her jazz piece. This conversation with Ms. Kraft causes him to attempt suicide by stepping in front of a subway car. Joy, Rosie, and Jenny are there to stop him.

Victor is told by his girlfriend, Alice, that she is going on a world tour next week. He asks if she will visit him, but she says that after P.A. couples usually go their separate ways.

Joy drops out of school before graduation because she is working on 'Sesame Street' full-time now and her grades have suffered.

Malik talks with Mr. Dowd about his father, which leads to Mr. Dowd telling him about breaking down his walls. Victor, Malik and Denise put on a hip-hop concert at a club at which her parents are at, but Denise told them it was classical jazz because of her father's wishes for her to pursue classical piano and not vocals. Despite this, she defies her father and goes on anyway and wins over her mother during the performance. Marco, along with Neil, Joy, and Rosie, is there to watch but when he sees Jenny come in, he says he has to go. Jenny stops him from leaving, saying that she's been thinking a lot about him, and that it kills her that she hurt him.

Later, during the concert, he puts his arms around her and they smile at each other. When Denise leaves with her parents, her father is outraged and tells her that he is pulling her out of P.A., even though she is about to graduate. Her mom stops him and says that if Denise wants to sing, she should sing.

Graduation
Before graduation, Jenny gives a speech about success to the graduating class, saying that she felt it when she was in the school. Kevin tells Joy that he is moving back to Iowa (following the advice Ms. Kraft gave to him), and that he is going to be "the best god damn dance teacher there ever was". During the graduation performance, everybody participates ('Hold Your Dream'), with Denise as the main singer. It ends with all the characters following graduating (except Joy and Alice).

Cast
The main cast is featured on the official website.
Students

 Collins Pennie as Malik Washburn
 Kay Panabaker as Jenny Garrison
 Asher Book as Marco Ramonte
 Paul Iacono as Neil Baczynsky
 Naturi Naughton as Denise Dupree
 Anna Maria Perez de Tagle as Joy Moy
 Paul McGill as Kevin Barrett
 Kherington Payne as Alice Ellerton
 Walter Perez as Victor Tavares
 Kristy Flores as Rosie Martinez

Teachers and staff

 Debbie Allen as Principal Angela Simms
 Charles S. Dutton as Mr. Alvin Dowd
 Bebe Neuwirth as Ms. Lynn Kraft
 Megan Mullally as Ms. Fran Rowan
 Kelsey Grammer as Mr. Joel Cranston

Other characters

 Cody Longo as Andy Matthews
 Dale Godboldo as Music executive
 Michael Hyatt as Mrs. Washburn
 James Read and Laura Johnson as Mr. and Mrs. Ellerton
 Julius Tennon and April Grace as Mr. and Mrs. Dupree
 Howard Gutman as Mr. Baczynsky
 Ryan Surratt as Eddie
 Marcus Hopson as Face
 Johanna Braddy as Katie

Release

Critical response

Fame has received generally unfavorable reviews from critics. Rotten Tomatoes reported that 24% of critics gave the film positive reviews based on 121 reviews with an average score of 4.4/10. The site's consensus states: "Fame is ultimately undone by its choppy editing, its incomplete characterizations, and its apparent desire to appeal to the High School Musical generation." Based on 26 critical reviews sampled by Metacritic, it gave an average score of 39% for the film. On At the Movies, Michael Phillips gave the film a "See It" while A. O. Scott gave the film a "Skip It".  Parker voiced his disapproval of the remake and described it as an "awful" film. Maureen Teefy also criticized the film, stating, "They're using the same formula, but it doesn't have the same substance. It's not staying true to the grittiness and authenticity of the original."

Box office
Fame opened at third place behind Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and the newly released Surrogates with approximately $10,011,682. The film has grossed $22,455,510 domestically and $50,930,003 in the foreign market with an international gross of $73,385,513, making it a moderate box office success.

Soundtrack

The soundtrack was released on September 7, 2009. It features a blend of American standards and new pieces, written specifically for the movie. Included from the original film are the piano ballad "Out Here on My Own" and the title theme "Fame" (both sung by Irene Cara for the 1980 original film). There's a version of the theme song with a verse by Collins Pennie, but didn't make the album, although it was included in The Radio Mixes EP of the song and there was made a music video for it to promote the film.

Track listing

 "Welcome to P.A." – Raney Shockne
 "Fame" – Naturi Naughton
 "Big Things" – Anjulie
 "Ordinary People" – Asher Book
 "This Is My Life" – Hopsin, Ak'Sent, Tynisha Keli & Donte "Burger" Winston
 "Out Here on My Own" – Naturi Naughton
 "Street Hustlin'" – Raney Shockne feat. Stella Moon
 "You'll Find a Way" (Switch & Sinden Remix) – Santigold
 "Can't Hide from Love" – Naturi Naughton & Collins Pennie
 "Black & Gold" – Sam Sparro
 "Back to Back" – Collins Pennie feat. Ashleigh Haney
 "I Put a Spell on You" – Raney Shockne feat. Eddie Wakes
 "Get On the Floor" – Naturi Naughton & Collins Pennie
 "Try" – Asher Book
 "You Took Advantage of Me" – Megan Mullally
 "Too Many Women" (Damon Elliott Remix) – Rachael Sage
 "Someone to Watch Over Me" – Asher Book
 "You Made Me Love You" – Raney Shockne feat. Oren Waters
 "Hold Your Dream" – Kay Panabaker, Asher Book & Naturi Naughton

Additionally, a More Music From Fame and two solo albums by Naturi Naughton and Collins Pennie titled Fame Presents Naturi Naughton as Denise: Didn't I Tell You? and Fame Presents Collins Pennie as Malik: Best Believe That were released in February 2010.

References

External links

Fame (franchise)
2009 films
2000s dance films
2000s musical drama films
2000s teen drama films
American dance films
American musical drama films
American teen drama films
Films about teenagers
Films produced by Gary Lucchesi
Films scored by Mark Isham
Films set in Manhattan
Films shot in New York City
Lakeshore Entertainment films
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films
Musical film remakes
United Artists films
2009 directorial debut films
2009 drama films
Works about performing arts education
2000s English-language films
Films directed by Kevin Tancharoen
2000s American films


Marc Turnesa (born March 19, 1978) is an American professional golfer who has played on the Nationwide Tour and the PGA Tour. He is the grandson of Mike Turnesa, one of seven well-known golfing brothers of the early 20th century.

Professional career
Turnesa's first professional win was at the 2007 Miccosukee Championship on the Nationwide Tour. He earned his PGA Tour card by finishing in the top-25 of the 2007 Nationwide Tour money list. Turnesa had success in the 2008 PGA Tour Fall Series at the Viking Classic; he led the tournament for the entire week until he double-bogeyed the seventeenth hole on Sunday, eventually losing in a playoff to Will MacKenzie. A month later, Turnesa captured his first PGA Tour win at the Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open by one stroke over Matt Kuchar. This victory secured his tour card for the 2009 and 2010 seasons. A back injury plagued Turnesa after the 2010 season and he spent most of his subsequent career on the Web.com Tour.

Professional wins (2)

PGA Tour wins (1)

PGA Tour playoff record (0–1)

Nationwide Tour wins (1)

Results in major championships

CUT = missed the half-way cut
"T" = tied
Note: Turnesa never played in the Masters Tournament or The Open Championship.

Results in The Players Championship

CUT = missed the halfway cut

Results in World Golf Championships

"T" = Tied

External links

American male golfers
NC State Wolfpack men's golfers
PGA Tour golfers
Korn Ferry Tour graduates
Golfers from New York (state)
Golfers from Florida
Sportspeople from Rockville Centre, New York
Sportspeople from Jupiter, Florida
1978 births
Living people


The Storm Lake Times is a twice-weekly newspaper based in Storm Lake, Iowa, covering Buena Vista County and parts of neighboring Clay, Pocahontas, Sac, Ida and Cherokee counties. The newspaper, founded in 1990, is staffed and published by the Cullen family. Editor Art Cullen received the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Editorial Writing for a series of editorials on dark money in corporate agriculture in Iowa.

History

John Cullen began publishing The Storm Lake Times as a weekly newspaper, on June 29, 1990. It was delivered on Fridays. In 1993, the Times moved to daily publication, then to twice weekly the following year. The Times became a direct competitor to The Storm Lake Pilot Tribune, which had been publishing in the town since 1870.

Times Editor Art Cullen received the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Editorial Writing for a series of editorials on dark money in corporate agriculture in Iowa. Cullen's coverage of corporate funds being used by the local public utility to fight a federal lawsuit related to the release of nitrogen into drinking water earned him national acclaim. The newspaper's coverage of ethnicity-related issues in Storm Lake, where 21 percent of residents are Latino, also earned praise from The Los Angeles Times.

National coverage

On October 20, 2007, The Times was mentioned by The New York Times and ABC's George Stephanopoulos for being the first newspaper to endorse a presidential candidate, Joe Biden, months ahead of the Iowa caucuses.

On May 7, 2008, The Times again received national attention for a story written by reporter Jake Kurtz about Dale Davis, a blind World War II veteran who bowled a perfect 300 game at Century Lanes in Alta, Iowa.

On November 3, 2009, Art Cullen testified before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee on the impact of health care costs on small businesses in America. The appearance came at the request of a longtime friend, Senator Tom Harkin.

The newspaper is the subject of a 2021 PBS Independent Lens documentary film, Storm Lake.

Layout and content
The Times is printed in broadsheet format. A complete online version is available by subscription. There is also a website. Each issue has three sections: Front/News, Sports, and Family & Friends.

An average issue of The Times includes 50 or more news and sports photographs, about one-third of them in color. The sports department covers eight high schools (Storm Lake, Storm Lake St. Mary's, Alta, Newell-Fonda, Schaller-Crestland, Sioux Central, Aurelia, Laurens-Marathon) and one college (Buena Vista University). Nearly 600 area cooks have been featured in the "My Favorite Recipes" weekly feature.

Additional special sections include:.

 The Green Saver — regional advertising guide that reaches 24,000 homes in western Iowa, Wednesdays
 TV Times — television listings, Saturdays
 FarmTimes — local farm coverage
 GoldenTimes — for senior citizens, odd-numbered months
 Health & Fitness — wellness and recreation, even-numbered months
 HomeTimes — home improvement, monthly March–October
 Prep Sports Previews — quarterly

References

External links
Storm Lake Times events on C-SPAN

Newspapers published in Iowa
Buena Vista County, Iowa
Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing winners
Biweekly newspapers published in the United States
Newspapers established in 1990
1990 establishments in Iowa


The Depositors' and Investors' Guarantee Fund (Icelandic: Tryggingarsjóður innstæðueigenda og fjárfesta) is the statutory deposit insurance scheme in Iceland. It is established under Act No. 98/1999 on Deposit Guarantees and Investor-Compensation Scheme, which transposes European Union directives 94/19/EC and 97/9/EC into Icelandic law, in accordance with the decisions of the European Economic Area.

See also
 Icesave dispute

References

External links
Official site
Financial statement 2007

Banking in Iceland
Deposit insurance
1999 establishments in Iceland


The Polish music charts are provided by ZPAV, the Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry (Polish: Związek Producentów Audio-Video).

Albums charts

Current

History
In the 1970s and the 1980s, Polish music monthly Non Stop published a year-end list of the best selling albums in Poland. In the mid-1990s, two monthly sales lists were launched and published in music magazines. The first one was a top 50 compiled by ZPAV, based on shipment, not sales, which continues to be published to date. The other was a top 100 called Gorąca Setka (English: Hot 100), printed monthly in Gazeta Muzyczna. This chart was compiled from actual sale figures as reported by over 130 music shops across Poland and included both albums and singles.

From autumn 1994 to September 1997, journalist Artur Orzech presented a top 20 albums list on Radio Bis which was later extended to 25 and 30 positions. This chart was also based on actual sales data obtained from about 150 music shops, including albums as well as singles.

The official weekly albums chart, OLiS, consisting of 50 positions, was launched in October 2000. This chart was strictly based on physical albums sales from selected major retailers. In 2010 monthly OLiS chart was also launched.

In 2017, weekly and monthly vinyl sales charts were launched to reflect the resurgence of popularity of the vinyl format.

On 16 January 2023 ZPAV announced that starting from its current chart OLiS would be based not only on physical sales, but also streaming equivalents from four services: Spotify, YouTube (including YouTube Music and YouTube Premium), Apple Music and Deezer. Apart from that, both monthly charts were defunct and two new weekly charts were created: for physical sale only and for streaming only.

Singles charts

Current

History
There has been no official singles chart in Poland based on actual sales data. In the 1970s and the 1980s, Polish music monthly Non Stop published selected year-end statistics regarding the singles market. The popularity of individual songs has always been reflected by radio polls and hit lists, compiled from the listeners' votes. Some of the most popular were the charts on Rozgłośnia Harcerska (Polish Pathfinder Station) with its top 10 regularly printed in Billboard, and Polish Radio 3's Lista Przebojów Programu Trzeciego.

Not many singles were released and the market instead focused on longplays and 4-track extended plays. The single format has been somewhat substituted with cardboard records which were produced on a massive scale and sold in large quantities. Efforts to boost the sales of CD singles in the 1990s were unsuccessful and Polish artists have rarely released singles in physical format.

In 2010, ZPAV launched the following lists:
 AirPlay Top (Top 100 since 7 November 2015; Top 20 between 28 September 2013 and 31 October 2015; Top 5 between 27 March 2010 and 21 September 2013) – the most popular songs on biggest Polish radio stations
 AirPlay Nowości (Top 5) – the most popular new songs (new entries on the main chart)
 AirPlay Największe Skoki (Top 5) – fastest climbing songs on the chart
 AirPlay TV (Top 5) – Polish video chart presenting the most popular music videos on music TV channels
 Top – Dyskoteki (Top 50) – Polish dance chart presenting the most popular songs in clubs, last updated in 2018
 Top Centra Handlowe (Top 20) – an irregular list of the most popular songs played in stores and shopping centres, last updated in 2014

On 14 February 2022 Billboard announced a new group of lists called Hits of the World, ranking 25 top songs in several countries based on digital sales and streaming services. Poland is one of them.

On 16 January 2023 ZPAV announed launching of new chart called OLiS – streaming singles, listing the most popular songs in four streaming services: Spotify, YouTube (including YouTube Music and YouTube Premium), Apple Music and Deezer. Simultaneously the AirPlay Top was renamed as OLiA (Oficjalna Lista Airplay – Official Airplay Chart), while AirPlay Nowości, AirPlay Największe Skoki and AirPlay TV were defunct.

See also
List of number-one albums in Poland
List of number-one singles in Poland
List of number-one dance singles in Poland

Notes

References

External links
 OLiS – Official Polish Albums Chart
 AirPlay Top

Polish record charts


Ahmed Ali Ibrahim Abdel Samad (born 15 September 1972) is a retired amateur boxer from Egypt, who is best known for winning the gold medal in the men's super heavyweight division (+ 91 kg) at the 1999 All-Africa Games in Johannesburg, South Africa. He represented his native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, where he was defeated in the first round by eventual bronze medal winner Rustam Saidov from Uzbekistan.

References

1972 births
Living people
Heavyweight boxers
Boxers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Olympic boxers for Egypt
Egyptian male boxers
African Games gold medalists for Egypt
African Games medalists in boxing
Competitors at the 1999 All-Africa Games
20th-century Egyptian people


Fool's Paradise is a 2006 album recorded by The Head Cat, a collaboration between Lemmy of Motörhead, Slim Jim Phantom (of The Stray Cats), and Danny B. Harvey. It features covers of mostly classic 1950s songs. It is re-release of their first album "Lemmy, Slim Jim & Danny B" recorded in September 1999. This re-release doesn't include 3 songs from original release, it has a different cover and the track list is in a different order.

While there is nothing groundbreaking in this recording, the 1950s songs that are chosen (penned by likes of Buddy Holly and members of his group) are played "commendably", keeping close to the original versions with restraint. The album received less praise from other critics.

Critical reception

Greg Prato of Allmusic refers to the album as "a much needed antidote to the computer/software enhanced state of popular music" and "a worthwhile listen for die-hard fans to hear Lemmy tackle covers of some of his favorite standards".  Bob Gottlieb wrote in Folk & Acoustic Music Exchange that the band "play some damn good music" and that the songs are "not filled with the fireball frenetic energy that can often make Rockabilly about as pleasant as the sound of a dentists drill nowadays".  However, Paul Jordan Sr. wrote the album "sounds like karaoke from a biker's bar! Bad songs sung by bad voices".

Track listing

Personnel
Danny B.Harvey - guitar, keyboards, background vocals
Lemmy Kilmister - lead vocals, bass guitar, acoustic guitar, harmonica
Slim Jim Phantom - drums, percussion, background vocals

References

2006 debut albums
The Head Cat albums


Glendon and Rushton railway station is a Grade II listed former railway station in Rushton, Northamptonshire.

History
Originally known as Rushton  it was opened in 1857 by the Midland Railway on what is now the Midland Main Line.

Plans had been made earlier in 1847 for a line from Leicester to , but had lapsed.  However the Midland, running to Rugby at that time and dependent on the LNWR for its path into London, was looking for an alternative. It revived its plans for Bedford to go forward to Hitchin to join the Great Northern Railway.

While initially solving the problem, traffic continued to build such that the line was quadrupled from London as far as Glendon Junction a little way to the south of the station.  Here a new line had been opened through Corby and Manton which could be used by goods trains and those for Nottingham., Thus the line through Glendon northwards was double track as far as Leicester.

It was renamed in 1896, possibly when Rushden opened in 1894 on the Wellingborough to Higham Ferrers line.

At grouping in 1923 it became part of the London Midland and Scottish Railway.

It closed on 4 January 1960 but the building still stands on the south side of the line.

Until 2006, the station building was subject to a statutory tenancy, and the daughter of the last Station Master lived there. In 2009 a group was formed, named the "Friends of Glendon and Rushton station", to restore the station which was granted Grade II listed status in 1981.

The station was subsequently converted for residential use and is now a private dwelling.

Stationmasters

George A. King ca. 1859 - ca. 1866
Henry Parr Jeffries ca. 1869
George Benner ca. 1870 - 1883
George Latimer 1883 - 1919 (formerly station master at Barrow)
C. Marchant 1920 - ca. 1924
Charles Leslie Smith ca. 1948
John Arthur Beswick from 1958 (formerly station master at Shenstone)

References

External links
Friends of Glendon and Rushton Station

Disused railway stations in Northamptonshire
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1857
Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1960
Former Midland Railway stations
Charles Henry Driver railway stations
1857 establishments in England
North Northamptonshire
Grade II listed buildings in Northamptonshire
Grade II listed railway stations


"Tales of a Third Grade Nothing" is the sixth episode and mid-season finale in the seventh season of American animated television series Family Guy. It originally aired on Fox in the United States on November 16, 2008. The episode follows Peter (voiced by show creator Seth MacFarlane) as he goes back to school to finish the third grade in order to get a promotion at work. It also follows Brian (also voiced by MacFarlane) and Frank Sinatra Jr. (voiced by himself) as they buy a club and give it to Stewie (MacFarlane) so that he can remodel it.

The episode was written by Alex Carter and directed by Jerry Langford, their firsts for the Family Guy series. Besides Sinatra, the episode featured guest performances by Bob Barker, James Burkholder, Max Burkholder, Chace Crawford, Elisha Cuthbert, Kaylee DeFer, Andy Dick, Carrie Fisher, Caitlyn Jenner (then Bruce), Phil LaMarr, Debbie Reynolds, Sinbad, Billy Unger and Mae Whitman, along with several recurring guest voice actors for the series. The episode was seen by 8.52 million viewers, and it received mostly positive reviews from television critics.

Plot
Peter is sent upstairs by his boss to deliver shipping reports to the CEO.  On his way to deliver the reports, he decides to go into the executive bathroom.  When he discovers how lavish the bathroom is, he becomes motivated to do well at work so that he can become an executive so he can use the executive bathroom.  But while trying to impress his boss Angela by blowing up a competitor's billboard, he inadvertently blows up part of a children's hospital.  Nevertheless, she is impressed by his improvement at work and recommends an open executive spot for him.  However, Human Resources tells him he must first complete the third grade in order to qualify.

Peter does badly at school and offends his teacher Mrs. Wilson by telling an inappropriate story about her (forgetting that Mrs. Wilson was also Peter's teacher when he was a third grader), and makes fun of top student Omar. Mrs. Wilson allows Peter to attend the spelling bee after spelling out "buttlickers" which even Omar can't spell; she tells him that he will pass third grade if he succeeds. Omar fails the spelling bee because he misspelled "coagulate", but Peter succeeds after correctly spelling "lesbians". When Peter returns to work, however, Angela tells him that instead of being promoted, he will go to jail for the hospital explosion.  Fortunately for him, he receives only one week in prison and is told he will be released the following Sunday night at 9:00 (Family Guys usual time slot).

Meanwhile, Frank Sinatra Jr. comes back to town to perform with Brian at the Quahog Cabana Club. Since the club owner is looking to sell, Brian and Frank buy the establishment and they let Stewie transform it into a hip, modern nightclub called pLace.  At first, Frank and Brian feel uncomfortable, but their feelings change once they get into the club life themselves.  However, the club swiftly loses its popularity once Andy Dick bursts in, causing all the partygoers to flee. Once the club has emptied, Frank and Brian perform another song.

Production

"Tales of a Third Grade Nothing" was written by newcomer Alex Carter. It was directed by former Mission Hill and The Oblongs director Jerry Langford, who had joined the show's directing staff that season making this his first Family Guy episode, he would direct the episode "Stew-Roids" later that season. Series regulars Peter Shin and James Purdum served as supervising directors. Composer Walter Murphy, who has worked on the series since its inception, returned to compose the music for "Tales of a Third Grade Nothing".

Actress Carrie Fisher, who was most famous for her role as Princess Leia in Star Wars, returned to voice Peter's boss, Angela, as she first did in the fourth season episode "Jungle Love". Fisher was given high praise for her portrayal of the character, with The Hollywood Reporter calling it one of her "5 Most Iconic Roles." Singer Frank Sinatra Jr. also returned to voice himself, as he did in another fourth season episode "Brian Sings and Swings".

In addition to Fisher, Sinatra and the regular cast, former game show host Bob Barker, actor James Burkholder, actor Max Burkholder, actor Chace Crawford, actress Elisha Cuthbert, actress Kaylee DeFer, comedian Andy Dick, athlete Caitlyn Jenner (then Bruce), voice actor Phil LaMarr, actress Debbie Reynolds, who was Fisher's mother, actor Sinbad, child actor Billy Unger, and voice actress Mae Whitman guest starred in the episode. Recurring voice actors Lori Alan, Alexandra Breckenridge, writer Steve Callaghan, Ralph Garman, writer Danny Smith, writer Alec Sulkin, writer John Viener, and writer Wellesley Wild made minor appearances.

Cultural references
"Tales of a Third Grade Nothing" makes several media references. The name of the episode itself is a reference to Judy Blume's children's book Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, whose narrator-protagonist is likewise named Peter. The first few minutes feature a parody of the film Jurassic Park where Peter enters the executive bathroom and inside there is a helicopter that takes Peter to an island; John Hammond, who is inside the helicopter, welcomes Peter, and the music playing while the helicopter flies above the island is that which was used in the movie. Peter using the restroom and commenting on how peaceful everything is also a reference to a far different scene in the movie when a lawyer was eaten by a Tyrannosaurus rex after attempting to hide in a bathroom stall. Yosemite Sam (voiced by Seth MacFarlane), one of the classic Looney Tunes characters, is seen trying on skinny jeans in Barney's.  The Emperor from the Star Wars movies requests that the song "On the Dark Side" by John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band be played at Brian and Frank's club. A video of John Madden analyzing a wedding video like a football play is shown.

Stewie references singer Michael Jackson and how his dance styles appeared to be violent to his own genitalia. Stewie claims that whenever Andy Dick (who voiced himself) shows up at a club, he gets a worse reputation than John Wilkes Booth; the episode cuts to Booth at Ford's Theater while being annoyed by an obnoxious Abraham Lincoln. A cutaway gag featuring Stewie as a grape stomper references a news reporter who was doing the same thing, fell, got her wind knocked out and reacted hysterically.  Near the end of the episode, Frank and Brian perform a duet of a song called "Take Me Out to pLace Tonight," which uses Billy May's orchestral arrangement of "On the Road to Mandalay," as featured on Frank Sinatra Sr.'s 1958 album, Come Fly with Me.

Reception
In its original broadcast in the United States on November 16, 2008, "Tales of a Third Grade Nothing" was watched by 8.52 million homes and acquired a 4.2 Nielsen rating, the audience measurement systems developed to determine the audience size and composition of television programming in the United States.

The episode received positive reviews. Ahsan Haque of IGN praised "Tales of a Third Grade Nothing", writing that it had "a convoluted storyline that actually has some kind of logical flow, and more than a fair share of genuinely funny and outrageously offensive jokes.". He graded the episode 8.5 out of 10. Steve Heisler of The A.V. Club wrote that the episode was an above average episode, and graded it B. In contrast, Robin Pierson of The TV Critic gave the episode a negative review, saying that while it was funnier than the usual episodes of the show it was still "plotless ramblings".

Notes

References

External links

2008 American television episodes
Family Guy (season 7) episodes


Naval Air Station Chatham was an operational United States Navy airfield from 1917 to 1922. It was first established as a blimp base during World War I. It was located in Chatham, Massachusetts.

The base was one of the first operational naval air stations in the country. It helped to patrol the northeast United States coast and even participated in a skirmish off of Orleans. In 1922, the station was closed and the history of the base has largely been forgotten except for a lone marker near where the site used to be.

History

Plans
As German U-boats began to get more emboldened by their successes, it became apparent to many that the United States would soon enter a war. As a result, the Department of the Navy planned six new Naval Air Stations on the East Coast. One just happened to be locate next to Pleasant Bay, near Chatham, Massachusetts. The planned station occupied  on Nickerson Neck.

Construction
Before the United States even entered World War I, construction of Chatham Naval Air Station was beginning. The original plans called for building living quarters for officers and enlisted men, hangars, a gas holder, boat house, hospital, pigeon loft, repair shops, garage and assorted storage and maintenance buildings. Pipes were laid in trenches and the nearest fresh water source was  away. Worker Patrick Buckley died when the trench he was digging caved in on him.

By October, the barracks and mess hall were ready for furniture and galley equipment. The resulting structures could handle about 100 men. That same month, the flag pole was placed and 3,000 people were in attendance for its first raising. In November, the United States entered the war. In December, the skeleton of the blimp hangar was finished and wooden slats were soon covering them. Concrete was then set to be poured for the hangar floors. This was complicated by the fact that it was one of the coldest winters that year. As a result, the concrete was poured and protected by tar paper and hot sand. The sliding doors were then installed at the end of that February. The base was commissioned on 6 January 1918.

Patrols
By then, many buildings were ready for occupancy and by mid-March, four Curtiss R-9s were delivered to the Chatham Train Station. They were assembled and the first flight was made by Lt. McKitterick on 25 March. In July, four Curtiss HS-1L flying boats were delivered to the depot and trucked to the base. These boats were so urgently needed that they were put into service almost immediately. The addition of these boats increased the time available to patrols from dawn to dusk. Two patrol areas, aptly named Areas A and B were then created. Area A was to the north while Area B was to the south. Planes always went in pairs with one plane carrying a radio transmitter. The plane with the transmitter was required to radio in a location every ten minutes. Both planes carried two homing pigeons for emergency communication with the base; the birds had been trained for either the north patrol or the south patrol, and thus could not be transferred from one area to another. Planes were equipped with emergency rations and water for three days, a flashlight, flare pistol with red and green cartridges, a sea anchor, life preservers, signal book and local charts. Patrols took place at  with the purpose to protect the shipping in a defined area. Often the planes would circle around a ship for hours while looking for U-boats after picking up the vessel in a predetermined location. While the two planes were out on patrol, two other planes and their fliers were on standby at the station, ready to assist should a plane radio in a distress call. If the planes and men could get airborne within seven minutes, they were considered to be within the acceptable range of response time. Eventually blimps were used to help in the patrol process. With their cruising speed of  and a range of , they were a useful asset in the patrols.

U-boat attack
One of the few known times when the station was utilized for the war was when a report came in of the shelling of nearby Nauset Beach. Nine Curtiss HS-2Ls were dispatched to bomb the submarine that had already sunk five ships and was proceeding to start shelling Orleans, Massachusetts. Either the resulting bombs were duds or they missed, and the U-boat got away.

Closure
In 1922, the base was closed, possibly because of the aftermath of the 1918 flu pandemic. It is unknown when the buildings were torn down and the area was eventually redeveloped into a housing complex. In 1979, a stone memorial was placed at the end of Strong Island Road to commemorate the transatlantic Curtiss NC-4 flight, and in the 1980s two PBYs retraced that famous flight that passed by the station.

See also
 List of military installations in Massachusetts

References

External links

United States Naval Air Stations
Installations of the United States Navy in Massachusetts
Airports in Barnstable County, Massachusetts
Chatham, Massachusetts
Defunct airports in Massachusetts
Military installations closed in 1922
Closed installations of the United States Navy


Craig Alexander (born 22 June 1973) is an Australian triathlete who is the 2008, 2009 & 2011 Ironman Triathlon World Champion. He was the course record holder for the Ironman World Championship. He is also the winner of the Ironman 70.3 World Championship in 2006 and 2011.

Triathlon career

Early career

In December 1993, Alexander raced in his first triathlon at Kurnell in Southern Sydney.

Alexander split his time between Olympic Distance racing and Half Iron distance from 2002 to 2005, winning a total of 20 races in his first 4 years as a professional triathlete.

Ironman racing

After a long, unbeaten streak at the Half Ironman distance, Crowie won the inaugural Ironman 70.3 (Half Ironman) World Championship in 2006. This win qualified him for the Ironman World Championships in Hawaii the following year (2007), where he finished 2nd in his debut race in the lava fields.

In 2008 and 2009, Alexander went on to win the Ironman World Championships, becoming only the 4th male athlete in history to defend the title.

Crowie then followed this up in 2011 by winning the Ironman 70.3 World Championships for the second time and the Ironman World Championships for the third time (the first athlete in history to win both titles in the same year).

With his 2011 victory in Hawaii, Alexander also broke the previous course record which had stood for 15 years and became the oldest athlete ever to win the IM World Championship title (38 yo).

Coaching career

In 2014, Crowie stepped away from Ironman racing and launched his own brand, Sansego. He teamed up with an elite group of endurance coaches and experts to deliver coaching, consulting, clinics and training camps/experiences

Personal life
Alexander attended Ashfield Boys High School and went on to study Anatomy and Physiology at university.

References

External links

1973 births
Australian male triathletes
Ironman world champions
Living people
People educated at Ashfield Boys High School
20th-century Australian people
21st-century Australian people
Sportsmen from New South Wales


Edward Greene Malbone (1777 – May 7, 1807) was an American painter, and the most sought-after miniaturist of his day. He was an influence on other artists including Charles Fraser, William Dunlap and John Wesley Jarvis.

Edward Greene Malbone was born at Newport, Rhode Island and began his career in Providence at the age of seventeen, later working in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Charleston and London. Exacting and unceasing work undermined his constitution and following an attempt to recover his health in Jamaica, he came to Savannah and died there of tuberculosis at the home of his cousin, Robert Mackay, on May 7, 1807. He is buried in Savannah's Colonial Park Cemetery.

References

External links

 Historic New England. Portrait of Mrs. Harrison Gray (Sally Foster) Otis, 1804
 Edward Greene Malbone historical marker

18th-century American painters
18th-century American male artists
American male painters
19th-century American painters
1777 births
1807 deaths
Artists from Newport, Rhode Island
Painters from Boston
American portrait painters
19th-century deaths from tuberculosis
19th-century American male artists
Tuberculosis deaths in Georgia (U.S. state)


Peter Everard Coleman AKC (28 August 1928–27 December 2001) was Bishop of Crediton from 1984 to 1996.

Coleman was educated at the Haileybury and Imperial Service College and King's College London before becoming its chaplain  until 1966.  He married Princess Elisabeth-Donata Reuss of Köstritz (Donata; 8 June 1932 - 24 April 2022) in 1960. They had two sons and two daughters. Following this he was vicar of St Paul's Clifton, then Director of Ordinands in the Diocese of Bristol and finally (before his ordination to the episcopate) Archdeacon of Worcester. In retirement he ministered in the Diocese of Bath and Wells as an assistant bishop until his death.

References

1928 births
People educated at Haileybury and Imperial Service College
Alumni of King's College London
Associates of King's College London
Chaplains of King's College London
Archdeacons of Worcester
Bishops of Crediton
20th-century Church of England bishops
2001 deaths


The Ames Tribune is a newspaper published Tuesday through Sunday based in Ames, Iowa. The newspaper is owned by Gannett.

History
In 1986, the Tribune was bought by Michael Gartner and Gary Gerlach, two former executives at The Des Moines Register. Gartner won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing at the Tribune. The Omaha World-Herald Company bought the Ames Tribune in 1999 from Gartner, Gerlach, and the estate of David Belin. Stephens Media purchased the Tribune from the Omaha World-Herald Company in 2010. In 2015, the Stephens Media newspapers were sold to New Media Investment Group. New Media acquired Gannett Company in 2019, making the Tribune a sibling publication to The Des Moines Register.

References

External links

Newspapers published in Iowa
Ames, Iowa
1867 establishments in Iowa
Daily newspapers published in the United States
Gannett publications


Fairfield University Men's Club Volleyball Team (FUMCVB) is a men's college volleyball club based at Fairfield University in Fairfield, Connecticut. The team competes in Division 1 West of the New England Collegiate Volleyball League (NECVL) after winning the NECVL Division 2 two straight years between 2006 and 2007.

Organization
The team competes year-round in league matches and tournaments in the northeastern US as well as nationally.  The club is organized and operated by player-elected officers that are chosen at the end of each season.

History
While the university recognized men's club volleyball in the mid 1990s, the team was officially founded in 1998 and recognized as a member of the New England Club Volleyball League (NECVL) in 1999.  While still relatively young, the team is one of the most accomplished sport clubs at Fairfield University.

The FUMCVB team concluded their 2008 season falling in the second round of the Silver Bracket of the NIRSA National Club Volleyball Tournament in Dallas, TX, good enough for a #17th ranking nationally in Division 2 (student body less than 10,000).  They finished their league play with a 7-2 league record with victories over Columbia University, Dartmouth College, University of Connecticut, University of New Hampshire and Yale.  They fell to Yale in the Quarterfinals of the 2008 NECVL League Championships held at Fairfield University.

From 1999 - 2007 the team competed in the NECVL, gaining back-to-back Division 2 league championships in 2006 and 2007.  The team went undefeated in league play in 2007, winning nearly 20 league matches without losing a single game.  Between 2006 and 2007 the team only lost one league match, winning nearly 40 league matches in two years.

The team has garnered two national Top 25 finishes at NIRSA Nationals, achieving that status in 2006 and 2008.

This season Tyler Ostrowski, part of the Fairfield University Moneysquad made some filthy sets to help the Men's team win regionals and secure the ship.

Accomplishments

2019-2020 Members
Thomas Botelho '20 - Middle - President
Jack Power '20 - Middle - Vice President

Alex Baker '20 - TS/Coach - Treasurer
Han Bin Yoo '20 - Libero - Ambassador
Andrew Duchemin '20 - Middle
Lucas Santiago '20 - Outside Hitter

Marc Stacey '21 - Libero

Matthew Coleslaw '21 - Outside Hitter
Joe Diacetis '21 - Outside Hitter
Matt Mangano '21 - Outside Hitter
Kevin Kryzwick '21 - Outside Hitter
Trav Devlin '21 - Setter
Mike Wishart '22 - Setter - Underclassman Representative
Quan Oliver '22 - Libero
Sam Hines '22 - Outside Hitter
Peter Toutoulis '22 - Weakside Hitter
Max Honig '23 - Libero
Sean Conmy '23 - Middle
Will Bradshaw '23 - Weakside Hitter
KAFO '23 - Middle/Outside Hitter/Setter

References

College men's volleyball teams in the United States
Fairfield Stags volleyball


Omalaeti O'Swapo was the only album released by the Namibian political kwaito group Omalaeti O'Swapo (meaning: Swapo juniors).

The group included four musicians – Pablo, The Dogg, Gazza and Elvo – who were among the most popular musicians in Namibia at the time of the group's formation. However, the group was actually formed by the SWAPO party. Elvo handled the production duties, and John Walenga handled management and promotion under the supervision of SWAPO.

The album sold well, especially among SWAPO veterans and supporters, but was not critically successful due to its political influence. After the release of the album, each member went back to their respective solo careers, rarely speaking about Omalaeti O'Swapo.

Political background

The album's objective was to promote Namibian's 2004 presidential elections. President Hifikepunye Pohamba was the SWAPO presidential candidate after former President Sam Nujoma stepped down. Omalaeti O'Swapo used the album to encourage young people and the Namibian nation at large to take part in the election.

The album's first track, "Presidential Call", is a remake of Gazza's song "Shidolodolo". It features an encouraging speech from both presidents.

Establishment of Omalaeti Music

After the release and success of the album, its executive John Walenga established a music company, Omalaeti Music. Today, this is one of Namibia's biggest labels and is home to successful selling artists such as Tate But, PDK and DJ Kboz.

Track listing

See also

SWAPO

References

External links
Omalaeti Music
Gazza
The Dogg

2004 albums
The Dogg albums
Gazza (musician) albums
Albums produced by Elvo
SWAPO
Namibian music