David Ball is the debut album from American country music artist David Ball. He recorded the album in 1989 for RCA Nashville. Three singles from it charted between 1988 and 1989: "Steppin' Out", "You Go, You're Gone" and "Gift of Love", which respectively reached numbers 46, 55, and 64 on the Billboard country charts. Despite these three singles, however, the album was not released by RCA until late 1994, by which point Ball had been signed to Warner Bros. Records for the release of his breakthrough album Thinkin' Problem. The album was originally titled "Steppin' Out" on its original release schedule in 1989.

The track "I Was Born with a Broken Heart" was previously a number 75 single in 1989 for Josh Logan from his album Somebody Paints the Wall, and would  later be a number 38 single for Aaron Tippin from his 1992 album Read Between the Lines. In addition, Ball re-recorded "Texas Echo" for his 2001 album Amigo.

Track listing
"Gift of Love" (David Ball, Frank Dycus) – 3:23
"If She Were Mine" (Buddy Cannon, Pamela Brown Hayes) – 3:48
"Message in a Bottle" (Ball, Walter Hyatt) – 4:00
"All Over Me" (Tracy Parker, Jimmy Wooten) – 3:28
"Listen to My Heart" (Ball, Allen Shamblin) – 3:01
"No More Tears" (Buddy Blackman, Vip Vipperman, Ted Hewitt) – 3:17
"Texas Echo" (Ball) – 3:13
"Waitin' for Somebody New" (Don Schlitz, Roger Brown) – 3:05
"We're Steppin' Out Tonight" (Billy Wallace) – 2:40
"I Was Born with a Broken Heart" (Jim McBride, Aaron Tippin) – 3:05
"Smokin' Cigarettes and Drinkin' Coffee Blues" (Marty Robbins) – 3:03

References

Allmusic (see infobox)

1989 debut albums
David Ball (country singer) albums
RCA Records albums


"A Trick of the Tail" is a song by the progressive rock band Genesis taken from the 1976 album of the same name. It was written by the band's keyboard player Tony Banks.

History
The song was released as a single with "Ripples" as the B-side but failed to make any significant chart impact. The majority of the song was written in 1972 and was originally intended for the Foxtrot album. The song's rhythm, according to Banks, is partly influenced by The Beatles' "Getting Better.

The lyrics are inspired by the 1955 novel The Inheritors by British author William Golding. Like much of the album A Trick of the Tail, the song's lyrics focus on a specific character: the "Beast" who leaves his own kingdom and enters the world of humans. He is captured and put on display in a freak show after his captors refuse to believe in his kingdom. The Beast laments his decision to leave his home, describing it as a paradise covered in gold.  His captors then release him in exchange for leading them to his world. However, just as they see what appears to be a "spire of gold", they find that the Beast has vanished, though they do hear his voice.

Music video
"A Trick of the Tail" was the third Genesis song to be accompanied by a promotional video, and the first single featuring Phil Collins as the band's lead vocalist. Previously their drummer, frequently singing backing vocals, Collins was now the band's lead singer, while continuing to play drums and percussion. The video, directed by Bruce Gowers, features the band gathered around an upright piano, with the front panels removed, performing the song.

Special effects including chroma key make Collins, in miniature size, appear to walk and dance inside the piano, as well as on Steve Hackett's guitar. The video concludes with all four of the band miniaturized on the piano keyboard. In a 1994 interview with VH1 for the "Phil Collins One on One" episode, Collins called the video the most embarrassing and cringe-worthy of his entire career.

Personnel
Mike Rutherford – bass guitar, bass pedals
Tony Banks – piano, synthesizers, organ, backing vocals
Phil Collins – drums, temple blocks, bell tree, tambourine, sleigh bells, lead and backing vocals
Steve Hackett – electric guitar

References

1975 songs
Genesis (band) songs
Music videos directed by Bruce Gowers
Songs written by Tony Banks (musician)
Charisma Records singles
Music based on novels


Simon Martin is a British epigrapher, historian, writer and Mayanist scholar. He is best known for his contributions to the study and decipherment of the Maya script, the writing system used by the pre-Columbian Maya civilisation of Mesoamerica. As one of the leading epigraphers active in contemporary Mayanist research, Martin has specialised in the study of the political interactions and dynastic histories of Classic-era Maya polities. Since 2003 Martin has held positions at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology where he is currently an Associate Curator and Keeper in the American Section, while teaching select courses as an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania.

Early life and career
Simon Martin entered the field of Mayanist research with a professional background in graphic design. He attended the Royal College of Art in London during the 1980s, completing his Master's in Communication Arts in 1987. As a professional designer he worked in televisual media into the mid-1990s, for production companies designing visual elements and programmed content for TV, film and commercials.

Martin had been fascinated by the Maya civilisation since childhood. After a period spent in independent study and research, in the late 1980s Martin began attending Mesoamericanist conferences and Maya hieroglyphics workshops. In parallel with his work in the design profession Martin corresponded with scholars active in Maya research, and travelled to Central America to visit some of the Maya archaeological sites.

His reading proficiency and knowledge of Maya inscriptions was soon recognised in the field, and by the mid-1990s Martin was operating as an honorary research fellow at UCL's Institute of Archaeology. He gained his doctorate at the same institution in 2014.

Martin secured a residential fellowship grant from Washington, D.C.'s Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection in pre-Columbian studies for the 1996/97 academic year. The fellowship allowed Martin to later move into Mayanist research as his full-time profession. In 2000 his co-authored book Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens: Deciphering the Dynasties of the Ancient Maya (Thames and Hudson) (with Nikolai Grube) was released and later translated into five other languages (Spanish, Portuguese, Hungarian, Bulgarian, and Japanese). An updated second edition was published in 2008. Together with Mary Miller he co-developed the exhibition "Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya" at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco in 2004, resulting in the co-authored book Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya (Thames and Hudson) from the same year.

In 2003 Martin took up a position as the research specialist in Maya epigraphy at the University of Pennsylvania's Penn Museum, from where he has continued to conduct field reconnaissances to the Maya lowlands, write research papers and act as scholarly consultant for several museum exhibitions of Maya art and artefacts. He co-curated the "Maya 2012: Lords of Time" in 2012 at Penn Museum, and in 2019 completed the full re-installation of its Mexico and Central America Gallery. For the academic year 2019-2020 he was awarded the Jay I. Kislak Chair for the Study of the History and Cultures of the Early Americas at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

In 2020 he published the book Ancient Maya Politics: A Political Anthropology of the Classic Period 150-900 CE (Cambridge University Press), an extended re-analysis of the political data in the inscriptions and proposals for the underlying mechanisms at work during the florescence of Maya civilization. In 2021 that work won three prizes at the Association of American Publishers PROSE Awards, being judged best in the section of Biological Anthropology, Ancient History, and Archaeology, in the Humanities section, and finally the R.R. Hawkins Award—the first time that Cambridge University Press had taken that honor. It also received the 2021 James Henry Breasted Prize for history before 1000 CE from the American Historical Association.

Research
In the early 1990s Martin was at the forefront of epigraphic research that would challenge some prevailing views on the nature of Maya lowland states and their political interactions during the Mid- to Late-Classic period. Archaeologists and epigraphers had generally conceived the Maya lowlands region of this era as a mosaic of dozens of polities or city-states, each controlling only a small surrounding territory and acting more or less independently of the others. These states were engaged in alternating episodes of warfare and alliance with one another, but such interactions had been assessed as primarily local and transient in nature. However, evidence for the hierarchical ranking of kings overturned this concept and replaced it with a model in which a few dominant kingdoms exercised control over others in wide-ranging and enduring elite networks.

He conducted field research at the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Calakmul, Mexico, between 1994 and 2016, and is currently collaborating with a project excavating at Ucanal in Guatemala.

Notes

References

External links
 Simon Martin: Select Bibliography

British Mesoamericanists
Mesoamerican epigraphers
Mayanists
Alumni of the Royal College of Art
People associated with the UCL Institute of Archaeology
University of Pennsylvania faculty
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
British curators
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology


Erythrina speciosa is a tree native to Brazil, which is often cultivated and has introduced populations in Africa and India.  It is pollinated by hummingbirds.

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External links
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speciosa
Taxa named by Henry Cranke Andrews


Simon Martin may refer to:
 Simon Martin (artist) (born 1965), British artist
 Simon Martin (Mayanist), British historian, epigrapher and Mayanist scholar
 Simon Martin (bowls) (born 1976), Northern Irish lawn bowler
 Simon Martin-Brisac, (born 1992), French field hockey player


The Smart Border Declaration was a binational deal signed on December 12, 2001, between the United States and Canada. The aim of the plan was to continually improve border security, information sharing, infrastructure protection, and law enforcement co-operation between the two nations.

The Smart Border Declaration included a four-part Action Plan. Within a year, the Smart Border Declaration was expanded into a 30-point Action Plan.

See also
NEXUS program

References

Canada–United States relations


Starlite Lounge is the third studio album from American country music singer David Ball. It was his second album for Warner Bros. Records and was released in 1996. The album produced the singles "Circle of Friends"  and "Hangin' In and Hangin' On", which respectively reached #49 and #67 on the Billboard country charts. The latter was previously recorded by McBride & the Ride (whose members also co-wrote it along with Gary Nicholson) on their 1994 album Hurry Sundown.

Track listing
"Hangin' In and Hangin' On" (Terry McBride, Ray Herndon, Billy Thomas, Gary Nicholson) – 2:46
"Circle of Friends" (David Ball, Billy Spencer) – 2:48
"I've Got My Baby on My Mind" (Ball) – 3:07
"What Kind of Hold" (Ball, Tommy Polk) – 2:52
"I'll Never Make It Through This Fall" (Ball, Spencer) – 3:33
"Bad Day for the Blues" (Ball, Polk) – 2:33
"If You'd Like Some Lovin'" (Ball, Polk) – 3:12
"No More Lonely" (Ball, Polk) – 2:54
"I Never Did Know" (Ball, Dean Dillon) – 3:30
"The Bottle That Pours the Wine" (Ball, Allen Shamblin) – 4:22

Personnel
As listed in linernotes.
David Ball - acoustic guitar, lead vocals
Eddie Bayers - drums
Steve Buckingham - acoustic guitar, electric guitar
Mark Casstevens - harmonica
Paul Franklin - steel guitar, pedabro
John Hobbs - piano
Dann Huff - electric guitar
Roy Huskey, Jr. - upright bass
Alisa Jones - hammer dulcimer
Liana Manis - background vocals
Brent Mason - electric guitar
Joey Miskulin - accordion
Farrell Morris - vibraphone, percussion
Louis Dean Nunley - background vocals
Don Potter - acoustic guitar
Michael Rhodes - bass guitar
Brent Rowan - electric guitar
John Wesley Ryles - background vocals
Hank Singer - fiddle
Joe Spivey – fiddle, mandolin
Biff Watson - acoustic guitar
Dennis Wilson - background vocals
Curtis Young - background vocals
Reggie Young - electric guitar

Chart performance

References

Allmusic (see infobox)

1996 albums
David Ball (country singer) albums
Warner Records albums
Albums produced by Steve Buckingham (record producer)


IODP may refer to:
 International Ocean Discovery Program, a marine research program that began in 2013
 Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, a marine research program between 2003 and 2013


Clarence W. Spangenberger (December 9, 1905 – October 21, 2008) was the last president of the Cornell Steamboat Company, whose more than sixty vessels made it the largest tugboat company in the United States.

Early life and education
Spangenberger was born in Kingston, New York, on December 9, 1905. His parents both earned their incomes serving the shipyard workers and boatmen in Rondout, New York, with his mother selling bread and his father working as a barber.
Spangenberger graduated from New York University, majoring in business.

Career
He first worked as a sales representative for the Standard Oil Company, before being hired in 1933 by the Cornell Steamboat Company, a firm whose history dated back to 1847. He started in the accounts-receivable department and later supervised the firm's engineers, firemen and oilers.

Spangenberger pushed the firm's management to convert to oil power instead of steam. With the change, the company's tugboats could push twenty-one barges that were grouped three across, rather than having all twenty-one barges towed end-to-end. He was selected by the firm's trustees to become the head of Cornell in December 1954, at a time when trucks and railroads were changing the dynamics of the shipping business. His efforts to revive the company included dismissing hundreds of employees, all of whom he notified in person.

New York Trap Rock Corporation, a producer of crushed stone that was the business's largest customer, acquired Cornell in 1958, in a merger that combined two of the Hudson River Valley's oldest companies. The Cornell Steamboat name was retained and Spangenberger remained in charge of the towing division. Even with more powerful tugboats and other efficiencies, Cornell went out of business in 1963.

Death
He died at age 102 in Rhinebeck, New York, on October 21, 2008.

References

1905 births
2008 deaths
20th-century American businesspeople
21st-century American businesspeople
 Businesspeople from New York (state)
New York University alumni
People from Kingston, New York
People from Rhinebeck, New York


Borregas station is a light rail station operated by Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA), located in Sunnyvale, California. This station is served by the Orange Line of the VTA Light Rail system. The station is located in an industrial area; nearby offices include the headquarters of Infinera and Ruckus Networks.

Service

Station layout

References

External links

Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority light rail stations
Transportation in Sunnyvale, California
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1999
1999 establishments in California


Crossman station is a light rail station operated by Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA), located in Sunnyvale, California. This station is served by the Orange Line of the VTA Light Rail system. It is located in an industrial area; nearby buildings include the headquarters of NetApp.

Service

Station layout

References

External links

Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority light rail stations
Transportation in Sunnyvale, California
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1999
1999 establishments in California


Fair Oaks station is a light rail station operated by Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA), located in Sunnyvale, California. This station is served by the Orange Line of the VTA Light Rail system.

Service

Station layout

References

External links

Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority light rail stations
Transportation in Sunnyvale, California
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1999
1999 establishments in California


Old Ironsides station is a light rail station in Santa Clara, California operated by the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) as part of the VTA Light Rail system. Old Ironsides is served by the Orange Line and is the northern terminal of the Green Line. Immediately west of the station site is a pocket track and double crossover, allowing Green Line trains to switch between tracks and enabling the storage of three, 3-car trains to mobilize trains quickly after the end of an event at Levi's Stadium.

Old Ironsides station is closed for up to 60 minutes after the events at the nearby Levi's Stadium to prevent crowds from overwhelming the station. VTA's Great America station (which is located closer to the stadium) has additional facilities to handle large crowds.

Service

Station layout

References

External links

Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority light rail stations
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1987
1987 establishments in California


Reamwood station is a light rail station operated by Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA), located in Sunnyvale, California. This station is served by the Orange Line of the VTA Light Rail system.

Service

Station layout

References

External links

Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority light rail stations
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1999
1999 establishments in California


Vienna station is a light rail station operated by Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) in Sunnyvale, California. This station is served by the Orange Line of the VTA Light Rail system. No bus connections are available at this location.

Service

Station layout

References

External links

Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority light rail stations
Transportation in Sunnyvale, California
Railway stations in the United States opened in 1999
1999 establishments in California


Abraham González Casanova (born 16 July 1985), known simply as Abraham, is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for Cypriot club Akritas Chlorakas as a central midfielder.

Club career
Born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Abraham made his professional debut with local Terrassa FC, appearing in 16 matches during the 2004–05 season in the Segunda División, which ended in relegation.

Two years later, he was bought by neighbours FC Barcelona, being immediately assigned to its reserve side which competed in Tercera División. He made his debut for the first team during the Copa del Rey tie against Benidorm CF (1–0 win) on 28 October 2008. In the last round of La Liga, as Barça were already champions, he came on as a substitute for Xavi during the 1–1 draw at Deportivo de La Coruña.

Abraham was released by Barcelona in the summer of 2009, joining Cádiz CF as the club had just returned to the second division after a one-year absence. He appeared regularly for the Andalusians, who were immediately relegated.

Abraham signed with Gimnàstic de Tarragona for the 2010–11 campaign, but failed to impress at his new club. In the following transfer window he was loaned to fellow league side SD Ponferradina, eventually suffering another relegation.

On 15 July 2011, Abraham joined AD Alcorcón also in the second tier. After two seasons as a starter (missing promotion in the play-offs on both occasions), he moved to La Liga with RCD Espanyol.

Abraham scored his first goal in the Spanish top flight on 27 February 2015, the game's only in a home victory over Córdoba CF. On 17 June 2016, after three seasons with an average of 21 league appearances, the 30-year-old moved abroad for the first time in his career, signing with Club Universidad Nacional from the Liga MX as a free agent.

Career statistics

Honours
Barcelona
La Liga: 2008–09
Copa del Rey: 2008–09

References

External links

Stats and bio at Cadistas1910

1985 births
Living people
Spanish men's footballers
Footballers from Barcelona
Men's association football midfielders
La Liga players
Segunda División players
Segunda División B players
Terrassa FC footballers
FC Barcelona Atlètic players
FC Barcelona players
Cádiz CF players
Gimnàstic de Tarragona footballers
SD Ponferradina players
AD Alcorcón footballers
RCD Espanyol footballers
Liga MX players
Club Universidad Nacional footballers
Lobos BUAP footballers
C.D. Veracruz footballers
Cypriot First Division players
AEK Larnaca FC players
Ethnikos Achna FC players
Akritas Chlorakas players
Catalonia men's international footballers
Spanish expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Mexico
Expatriate men's footballers in Cyprus
Spanish expatriate sportspeople in Mexico
Spanish expatriate sportspeople in Cyprus


Dixville may refer to:

Dixville, New Hampshire, United States
Dixville, Quebec, Canada
Dixville, Liberia


Zac Derr  is a former American football placekicker in the National Football League, having played for the Dallas Cowboys, Detroit Lions, and Atlanta Falcons.

He was signed by the Falcons May 12, 2006, in an open competition against Seth Marler, Ryan Rossner, and Tony Yelk. He was waived on July 30 after suffering a torn groin injury, with both sides reaching an injury settlement the next day.

After this, Zac attended Seminary and became a pastor.  He is currently preaching at The Chapel in Wadsworth, Ohio.

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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
American football placekickers
Akron Zips football players
Dallas Cowboys players
Detroit Lions players
Atlanta Falcons players


Play is the fourth studio album by American country music singer David Ball. It was released in 1999 on Warner Bros. Records. The album produced the singles "Watching My Baby Not Come Back" (which Ball co-wrote with Brad Paisley) and "I Want To with You", which respectively reached numbers 47 and 67 on the Billboard country charts. Ball produced the album with Ben Fowler, except for "Watching My Baby Not Come Back", "Hasta Luego, My Love", "For You", and "When I Get Lonely", which were produced by Don Cook.

The track "What Do You Say to That" was also recorded by George Strait on his 1999 album Always Never the Same, from which it was released as a single. McBride & the Ride later recorded "Hasta Luego, My Love" under the title "Hasta Luego" on their 2002 album Amarillo Sky.

Track listing
"Watching My Baby Not Come Back" (David Ball, Brad Paisley) – 3:39
"I Want To with You" (Steve Bogard, Jeff Stevens) – 3:37
"What Do You Say to That" (Jim Lauderdale, Melba Montgomery) – 2:50
"Hasta Luego, My Love" (Tommy Lee James, Terry McBride, Jennifer Kimball) – 3:28
"A Grain of Salt" (Ball, Monty Criswell) – 3:11
"Lonely Town" (Ball) – 3:07
"Going Someplace to Forget" (Ball, Jim Weatherly) – 3:58
"For You" (Ball, George McCorkle) – 3:02
"I'm Just a Country Boy" (Ball, Dennis Morgan) – 4:00
"When I Get Lonely" (Ball, James House) – 3:12

Personnel
 Al Anderson - acoustic guitar, electric guitar
 David Ball - lead vocals
 Bruce Bouton - steel guitar, lap steel guitar
 Bob Britt - electric guitar
 Chris Carmichael - fiddle, background vocals
 Glen Caruba - percussion
 Mark Casstevens - acoustic guitar
 Joe Caverlee - background vocals
 Anthony Crawford - acoustic guitar
 Larry Franklin - fiddle
 Owen Hale - drums
 Wes Hightower - background vocals
 James House - acoustic guitar
 John Barlow Jarvis - keyboards
 Wayne Killius - drums
 Liana Manis - background vocals
 Brent Mason - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, gut string guitar
 Steve Nathan - keyboards
 Al Perkins - dobro, steel guitar
 Alison Prestwood - bass guitar
 Tom Roady - percussion
 Robby Turner - steel guitar
 Pete Wasner - keyboards
 Dennis Wilson - background vocals
 Lonnie Wilson - drums
 Glenn Worf - bass guitar

Chart performance

References
Allmusic (see infobox)

David Ball (country singer) albums
Warner Records albums
1999 albums


(February 11, 1942-December 17, 2009

References

Supreme Court of Japan justices
1942 births
2009 deaths


Joseph Paruta, also known as "Old Man" (December 3, 1929 – October 1986), was a respected soldier in the Gambino crime family and considered a "key member" of Sammy Gravano's Bensonhurst, Brooklyn crew. He is the only known mobster who asked for a mercy killing after becoming terminally ill with lung cancer. The proposition was not agreed upon by John Gotti but Paruta died before the mercy killing was performed.

Biography
Paruta was born in Bensonhurst on December 3, 1929 to first-generation emigrants from Venice, Italy of a Luccan family from Tuscany. He was the oldest of three children, who grew up in poverty. Paruta was originally an associate who served in the crew of Gambino crime family capo Salvatore Aurello. He served in the Gambino crime family under the tutelage of Carlo Gambino and later Paul Castellano.

Sammy Gravano later said, "Everybody called Joe the 'Old Man'. He was only about fifteen years older than me (Gravano was born on March 12, 1945) but he already had white hair and looked kind of decrepit. He was tough and loyal. Old Man Paruta would kill for me as quick as he would get me a cup of coffee. Over the years, there was nothing I couldn't ask of him." His capo Sammy Gravano would later say that "he was like my own personal Luca Brasi," in reference to the contract killer character from The Godfather.

Following puberty he started noticeably suffering from premature aging which made him appear several decades older. He was a short man in stature with thin arms and legs with a thick torso. By middle age he started to lose his telltale white hair as the Werner's syndrome worsened. He had a hoarse voice and his skin started to thicken and suffer from cataracts. He suffered from smoker's cough that was brought on by his years of smoking cigarettes. He was married to an Italian-American woman named Dorothea, who he nicknamed "Dottie" and had several children. He was a family man who would regularly take his family out to dinner at Tali's restaurant every week and have a large dinner.

Frank DeCicco later told Gravano an amusing anecdote about a robbery that Paruta, himself and several other criminal associates had arranged to pull off. He stated,

It seems in his early days, Frank (DeCicco) was going on a robbery with some guys. And for this particular score, they needed a lockpicker. Someone told Frank that Paruta was just the person they were looking for. Frank was surprised. He said to Paruta, "Why haven't I heard this before about you?" Old Man Paruta just smiled in response and said there wasn't a better lock guy around than him. So they're in the place and Frankie nods at Paruta, who steps forward and what he does is, he kicks in the door. "See, what did I tell you?" Paruta said. Frank was stunned. He couldn't stop laughing. And if that ain't enough, Paruta holds out for his end of the loot. His reasoning is that they never would have got inside the place without his talents. So you know a guy like that is all right.

He had a mild mannered nature and never demonstrated anger towards his fellow associates. After the murder of Frank Fiala by Sammy Gravano, Edward Garofalo, Thomas Carbonaro, Michael DeBatt and Nicholas Mormando, they assembled at his saloon, Doc's.

Sammy Gravano said about Paruta,

I loved the old man, Joe Paruta. My feeling for him went way beyond any oath of Cosa Nostra. He was the only one during all the plotting for the Castellano hit-all the what if this, what if that--that I confided in, was able to walk with, talk with, relax with. In one second, he agreed to take down Paul and Tommy in that diner like I asked him to before we changed the plan. He never asked me any questions if I wanted him to do something. He would take any risk. After Stymie (Joseph D'Angelo) got shot, he practically never left my side. I think about him a lot, and I never know whether to laugh or cry.... To me, Joe never seemed to change. He always looked the same, old and decrepit, always chain-smoking.... The old man had his little gambling and shylock operations and he had a piece of Tali's. He was satisfied. He never asked for anything more.

Premature aging
It is suspected that Joseph suffered from Werner syndrome, a rare autosomal recessive disorder that is characterized by the appearance of premature aging. By 1959, at the age of thirty Joseph had the telltale condition of the syndrome by having a "birdlike" facial appearance. This made him stand out among the mob associates in Gravano's crew and made him the target of teasing due to his elderly appearance. Other signs that Paruta displayed was cancer and heart disease. It is unknown if Paruta was ever diagnosed with having the condition.

Cancer
After the DiB (Rober DiBernardo) hit, his smoker's cough got worse and worse. Sammy made arrangements through some doctors he knew and checked him into the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center at 1275 York Avenue in Manhattan, New York for testing. The prognosis was that he had terminal lung cancer that had spread through the rest of his body.

The doctors gave him only a year left to live. The chief doctor later confided to Sammy Gravano that he had lied to Paruta's family and that he only had three months to live. Gravano felt that he had to honor his friend. Even after being diagnosed with terminal cancer he did not stop smoking even when staying at the cancer centre.

Initiation into Gambino crime family
His dying wish was that he become initiated into the Gambino crime family and die a made man. Sammy sent word to John Gotti through his brother Gene for permission to fulfill his last wishes and make his dream of becoming a "made man" true. Gravano personally conducted the ceremony in his room at the cancer centre. When it came time for him to prick his finger for the blood to mix with the holy card, Sammy could hardly get a drop. He was now reduced to a living skeleton.

The death of Joseph D'Angelo
By 1982, Paruta was starting to act depressed over the murder of his friend Joseph D'Angelo who had been shot to death over a bar room dispute with an associate of the Colombo crime family. Sammy Gravano became concerned of his friend's mental well being. He lost interest in gambling and stopped visiting the horse races at the Aqueduct racetrack in the afternoon like he always had done. He told Gravano when asked about his depression, "Stymie ain't here no more. I'll be with you at your side until the day I die."

Loyalty to the Dellacroce faction and Gravano
On December 2, 1985 Aniello Dellacroce died. Sammy Gravano stated, "Even before this, we decided we had to split up and go underground. If there was a leak, somebody had to survive and keep playing. Frankie (Frank DeCicco) said him and me would move into Joe Watts' basement. Joe and his wife and kids would stay upstairs.

John (John Gotti) and Angie (Angelo Ruggiero) could do what they wanted. I told Debbie I had to leave for a while, maybe for weeks, maybe for months, years. Don't ask. I don't know how long. Nobody in my crew knows anything, except Old Man Paruta. We stayed in contact with John and Angie using certain phone numbers."

Plot to murder Castellano and Bilotti
After the Roy DeMeo trial started, Thomas Bilotti was known to pick up Paul Castellano and drive him to a restaurant where they sat in a table near the back and discussed business before heading to court in Manhattan. Both Paul and Thomas did not know who Paruta was. Gravano and Watts planned to have Paruta walk into the restaurant and go right past them into the men's washroom. In there, someone would plant a ski mask. He would put the ski mask on and come out with two guns.

They would be sitting there eating and discussing their trial when Paruta would just run out shooting. The rest of them would be outside, inside, surrounding the vicinity of the restaurant supporting him with backup. Later Frank DeCicco reported that Paul Castellano had sent him a message to be at a meeting at Spark's Restaurant in Manhattan. It was here that the actual execution would later be orchestrated and carried out. Paruta would not be chosen as one of the shooters in this planning of the murder of Castellano and Bilotti.

Standing up for Sammy Gravano
After a violent encounter with an outlaw biker in his Bensonhurst, Brooklyn bar, Joseph Paruta offered to help murder a biker who attacked Sammy and almost murdered him. After remaining a fugitive from the mob, the biker returned to Bensonhurst after a few years. Sammy Gravano said:

"He reaches out for Paruta's kids and asks that they sit down with their father. He knows their father is connected, but he doesn't know he's with me. He says he had this trouble with Sammy the Bull and he knows he's a marked man. He wants Paruta to talk for him, and Paruta says, 'Sure, you're good friends with my kids, I'll talk to this Sammy for you. Just take it easy. Go about your business. Stay low key and I'll reach out for Sammy.' Paruta's son obviously knew their father was bullshitting him. The kids know Paruta is with me and everything that means."

The murder contract was later called off and the outlaw biker's life was spared.

Gangland slaying of Robert DiBernardo
On June 5, 1986, Robert DiBernardo was lured to the basement offices of Sammy Gravano's drywall company on Stillwell Avenue in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. Acting as if it was just a regular business meeting, Gravano told Paruta to get DiBernardo a cup of coffee. Paruta got up, but instead of getting the coffee, Paruta took a .38-caliber revolver from a cabinet behind DiBernardo and shot him in the back of the head.

Gangland slaying of Nicholas Mormando
Nicholas Mormando became hooked on crack cocaine. Sammy later said about Nicholas:

He became like a renegade. He went berserk. He didn't want to be in the crew no more. He was going to start his own little gang. I couldn't take a chance on him running around. He knew too much. So I got permission from John (John Gotti) to kill him. We finally got Nicky to come by Tali's, and he went with Huck (Thomas Carbonaro) to pick up Old Man (Joseph Paruta), who was still alive then. Joe got in the backseat and shot Nicky twice in the back of the head. Me and Eddie (Edward Garofalo) were trailing in a car behind. We dumped the body in a vacant lot. It was found the next day.

The murder of Nicholas Mormando remained unsolved until Sammy Gravano agreed to become a stool pigeon and testify against John Gotti at his racketeering trial. By the time Gravano was implicated in the murder, Paruta had succumbed to terminal lung cancer.

Mercy killing
In 1984, during one of Gravano's bedside visits to Paruta, he asked him to kill him. He told Sammy, "Kill me, Sammy. Kill me, please." He tried to get Gravano to understand that a swift bullet was the best gift a true friend could give him. He couldn't stand the pain any more. But like every murder of a made man (which Paruta was), even a mercy killing, he had to get permission.

He sent a message through Gene Gotti to John Gotti. He tried to prepare Gene and explain the situation as best as he could. Although Gravano never found out what Gene told John when they discussed Paruta, Gotti denied the mercy killing. He said that there was no way he would authorize a murder contract on a made man under the circumstances they were facing. Sammy brought Gotti's discussion to Paruta who did not accept the answer.

He begged Sammy and prevailed on him that the friendship between them was above everything and that the only way he could prove his friendship was by carrying out the murder. Sammy ordered his brother-in-law Edward Garofalo to get a gun with a silencer. Sammy gave Paruta one day's notice to have his family away from the house on the day he was to be murdered. Thomas Carbonaro would be stationed outside the house in a car ready for a swift getaway.

Edward and Gravano would go through a back door that would be left open by Paruta. The two of them would go up to the bedroom where Joseph was confined to having fallen very ill at this point. Edward would sit him in a comfortable position and then join Carbonaro in the car outside when Gravano would shoot him. Sammy later said,

It was all set. I was home waiting to be picked up by Huck and Eddie. My wife was there. The night before I had been real irritable. When Debbie mentioned this, I put her off. I said I had things on my mind. Now I stepped outside for a second, and when I came back, she said she had sad news. Eddie had just called. He said that Old Man Paruta suddenly took a turn for the worst. He was rushed to the hospital by ambulance, but died on the way. He was only fifty-nine. My man of loyalty, of heart and soul, a man of honor, were gone.

His friend and family consigliere Frank DeCicco would later be murdered a year later. The deaths of D'Angelo, Paruta and Frank DeCicco would all play a heavy toll on Sammy Gravano. With DeCicco's murder, Gravano would no longer have any of his original close friends or crew left having all met their demise either by his hand or at hands of others. The deaths of his criminal associates would later play a factor in deciding to testify against the Gambino crime family and his former boss and friend John Gotti.

After Paruta died, he would help support his wife and children financially over the years. He was the only member of Gravano's crew not to meet their fate by being murdered.

He was the last member of Gravano's original Bensonhurst, Brooklyn crew that he had inherited from Salvatore Aurello after Frank DeCicco was murdered by a car bomb in 1985, two years earlier.

Replaced by Louis Vallario

After Joseph died, Gambino crime family capo Louis Vallario said to Gravano, "I know what you're feeling. I can't fill Stymie's (Joseph D'Angelo)'s shoes, or Paruta's. I wouldn't even try. But I promise I'll be there for you."

In popular culture
In the movie Witness to the Mob, Paruta is portrayed by actor Richard Bright.

References

 Underboss: Sammy the Bull Gravano's Story of Life in the Mafia by Peter Maas
 Newswalker: A Story for Sweeney by R. Thomas Collins Jr.

External links
 https://web.archive.org/web/20090515083451/http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/1995/04/26/1995-04-26__vinny_oil__is_sought_in_slay.html

1929 births
1986 deaths
American gangsters of Italian descent
Deaths from lung cancer
Gambino crime family
People from Bensonhurst, Brooklyn
People of Tuscan descent
People of Venetian descent


Jonathan Adler (born August 11, 1966 in Bridgeton, New Jersey) is an American potter, interior decorator, and author. Adler launched his first ceramic collection in 1993 at Barneys New York. Five years later he expanded into home furnishings, opening his first namesake boutique in Soho, Manhattan. He now has 17 stores and runs an eponymous home interiors business.

Early life and education
After growing up in Bridgeton, New Jersey, Adler discovered an interest in pottery at summer camp when he was 12 years old. This interest in pottery was further enhanced by his father's own interest in pottery as a hobby he pursued in Philadelphia, while remaining in Bridgeton to practice law for a career. When Jonathan later attended Brown University, he studied  semiotics and art history, but spent most of his time at the nearby Rhode Island School of Design making pots. His RISD pottery, including Chanel inspired teapots and Sevres inspired urns, reflected his interests in pop culture, early hip hop culture, contemporary art, and fashion. His professor told him: "You have no talent, you need to leave and give up on your dreams and go become a lawyer."  Adler is Jewish.

Career
After graduating, he spent three years as an assistant in the entertainment industry before returning to pottery, despite his former teacher's disapproval. He said in a 2013 interview that "...every creative person, and every craftsperson, should have a naysayer to rebel against."

In 1990, Adler started teaching classes at Mud, Sweat 'n' Tears in New York City in exchange for free studio space. With those pots on hand, he cold-called the buyers from Barneys New York, received an order, and became a full-time production potter. In 1993 he founded Jonathan Adler Enterprises LLC.

He started as a production potter,  producing on his own for years.  He later worked with Aid to Artisans, a non-profit organization that works to help artisans in developing countries by connecting them with decorators in America. While in Peru visiting pottery studios, he was inspired by South American textiles and started designing pillows, throws, and rugs inspired by the work he found there.

Adler opened his first store in SoHo, Manhattan in 1998 and today his designs are sold in 30 stores and over 1,000 retailers. His designs include pots and sofas.

Adler has handled the interior decorator work of several commercial and residential projects. In 2004, he styled the Parker Palm Springs Hotel, the former Merv Griffin's Resort and Givenchy Spa property in Palm Springs, California. In 2016, he redesigned the hotel, extensively redoing the property including installing a seven-foot-tall bronze banana  on the main lawn.

Other projects include 225 Rector Place, Abington House (on the High Line), multiple Related Property apartment designs and a 2015 overhaul of the rooms, hallways, and outdoor areas at Eau Palm Beach.

He speaks at home interior industry events and design-centric museums, such as IDS, IDS West, KBIS, and the Mint Museum. He has appeared as a guest on Good Morning America, The Oprah Winfrey Show, and several other national programs.

On February 28, 2020, Jonathan Adler announced that he would be designing luxury cabanas for the Dreamworks Waterpark located at American Dream in East Rutherford, New Jersey, the waterpark opened on October 1, 2020, but the cabanas opened on  December 9, 2020.

In 2022, Adler hosted a interior design instructional series produced by Wondrium.

Personal life
In September 2008, Adler married his partner, Simon Doonan, in California. Doonan and Adler live in an apartment in Greenwich Village, and a house on Shelter Island.

Adler first publicly expressed his support for same-sex marriage in 2009, and works with various organizations to support LGBT rights. Both he and Doonan have filmed videos for Dan Savage's "It Gets Better Project".

Published works
 My Prescription for Anti-depressive Living, 2005, New York: HarperCollins,
 Jonathan Adler on Happy Chic Accessorizing, 2010, New York: Sterling Publishing,
 Jonathan Adler on Happy Chic Colors, 2010, New York: Sterling Publishing,
 100 Ways to Happy Chic Your Life, 2012, York: Sterling Publishing,

Filmography
 2007: Top Design season 1, Bravo network, judge for all ten episodes
 2008: Top Design season 2, Bravo network, judge for all ten episodes
 2021: Design Star: Next Gen season 1, HGTV, judge for all six episodes

References

External links

1966 births
Artists from New Jersey
Artists from New York City
American gay writers
American gay artists
Gay Jews
LGBT people from New Jersey
LGBT people from New York (state)
American LGBT rights activists
Living people
People from Bridgeton, New Jersey
Writers from New Jersey
People from Greenwich Village


In role based access control, the role hierarchy defines an inheritance relationship among roles.  For example, the role structure for a bank may treat all employees as members of the ‘employee’ role.  Above this may be roles ‘department manager’, and ‘accountant’, which inherit all permissions of the ‘employee’ role, while above ‘department manager’ could be ‘savings manager’, ‘loan manager’.

RBAC models generally treat the role hierarchy as either a tree (set theory), as in the 1992 RBAC model of Ferraiolo and Kuhn (FK), or a partially ordered set in the 1996 RBAC framework of Sandhu, Coyne, Feinstein, and Youman (SCFY).  In object oriented programming terms, the tree role hierarchy is single inheritance, while the partial  hierarchy allows multiple .   When treated as a partial order, the role hierarchy example given above could be extended to  a role such as ‘branch manager’ to inherit all permissions of ‘savings manager’, ‘loan manager’, and ‘accountant’.

Complications can arise when constraints such as separation of duties exist between roles.  If separation of duty was used to prohibit personnel from holding both ‘loan manager’ and ‘accountant’ roles, then ‘branch manager’ could not inherit permissions from both of them.  The NIST RBAC model, which unified the FK and SCFY models, treats the role hierarchy as a partial order, although RBAC products have not gone beyond the tree structured hierarchy.

Computer access control


Tatsuuma Kiyo, born on July 16, 1809, was the daughter of a Nishinomiya brewing family, who in the nineteenth century built the largest sake empire in Japan.  For many generations, the Tatsuuma house had produced sake and barrels in Nishinomiya. By the beginning of the nineteenth century, Tatsuuma had become a relatively large brewery under Tatsuuma Kichizaemon IX, Kiyo's father.

Life

Born in 1809, Kiyo was the only child of Tatsuuma Kichizaemon IX.  As a child, Kiyo learned and observed the family business, which made her very knowledgeable about the sake industry.  In 1830, Kiyo married the son of another brewing house, and in 1842, he assumed the headship of her family as Kichizaemon X.  As a married couple, they had many children.  Records only show six, but some sources state that she had as many as twelve.  Kiyo’s husband died in 1855, and her eldest son took over as the headship of the family.

For the next fifty years, the Tatsuuma brewery, called Hakushika, prospered greatly.  Kiyo never assumed family headship, but she was the power behind them.  Women were not allowed inside the brewery, but Kiyo learned to supervise the workers closely.  Under her leadership, Hakushika grew to be the largest sake empire in Japan.  By 1894, the brewery had an output of 22,000 koku annually, three times larger than the nearest competitor.  Under her watch, the brewery underwent many innovations that contributed to its success.

Kiyo expanded the company by purchasing her own ships to transport sake, eventually starting her own shipping company. Kiyo also began marine and fire insurance companies, and established an exchange and finance facility.

Kiyo was savvy not only in business, but also in the marriage arrangements she made for her children.  Through her strategy of founding branch families, sending out sons to be adopted, and marrying daughters to other brewing houses, she created her own family empire in the sake industry.

Kiyo died in 1900, after she expanded the Tatsuuma family enterprises as the largest brewer and shipper of sake in an era when sake was Japan’s major industry.

References

19th-century Japanese businesswomen
1809 births
1900 deaths


Cover Me Quick! (also known as "cover me quick/!\" with the distinctive "/!\" warning sign appended at the end of the name) is a four-piece Power pop/Alternative band from the Philippines. The group's founding members formed the group in 1998 with members
Rodel "Box" Garchitorena, Ernesto Bangiban, and Mark Jay Garchitorena.

Just Add Water and Mayrics stints

Highly influenced by the surfacing of acts like Green Day and other widely popular grunge bands, brothers Mark and Box started jamming shortly after acquiring a new guitar and a second-hand drum set. Box urged Ernie, from their high school band "White Lies", to join the band with his brother. The group immediately jumped into joining a slew of Battle of the Bands, making it a point to record demos off the winnings.

Box, who studied at the University of Santo Tomas, stalked booker Sazi Cosino for a stint at Mayric's, which is located right in front of the university. Booked as "Big Cheese" first, the three-piece changed its name just before stepping on stage to "Just Add Water". Thinking that the set sucked, the band quickly changed their name to "Cover Me Quick" for the next gig at the bar. The band thought the name ("Cover Me Quick") could justify the mistakes they commit on stage.

Early recordings

Continuing to win band contests, the trio continued recording and eventually got songs in a CD. The two-song EP contained "To the Girl I Did the Other Night" and "Hija" which were featured on NU 107's show "In The Raw". Francis Brew, the show's host, commented that the songs sounded like "a post Silverchair kind of deal", and added that it was a "well played, well produced" demo. Shortly, cover me quick/!\ was also guested on the "In The Raw" TV show.

Getting gigs across the metro because of the radio and TV exposures, the band continued to record demos. The latest batch of songs, now recorded at Sound Creation studios in Quezon City, became the foundation for what would become the band's debut record.

"Road Juan" and "Sandali Lang"

The band's demo eventually got the attention of local major record label Alpha Music and got them signed in 2001. The next year, "Road Juan" was released with the carrier single "Sandali Lang". The song immediately reached NU 107's popular show "The Midnight Countdown" and peaked at no. 9. These developments resulted in relentless tours across the country and eventually had them lined up on the popular summer gig "Pulp Summer Slam".

The Shinji Tanaka sessions and live gig hiatus

Troubles with their label had the band stop gigging and holing up in Shinji Tanaka's Sound Creation studios where the band continued recording songs. Sessions between 2004-2005 had 15 songs made, but were never released, except for the songs "Sabihin Mo Na Lang", "A Billion" and "Biglang Liko" which were later re-recorded and included in the 2007 album "Mga Kantang Galing Sa Loob Ng Kwarto Ko".

"Mga Kantang Galing Sa Loob Ng Kwarto Ko" and "Gabi Ng Prom"

Struggling to find a core sound, the band started listening to bands Sugarcult, The All-American Rejects, Dashboard Confessional and other widely popular Pop punk bands. This resulted in a gearing to a more "Power pop" sound. Finding a loyal fanbase in schools that the band visited, cover me quick/!\ found themselves signed with Viva Records through the efforts of Mally Paraguya who helped them get a new record deal.

Songs from the new album were recorded at Wombworks Studio in Marikina, where the band met producer Patrick Tirano who also produced records for Sponge Cola, Pupil (band) and Mayonnaise (band). The song is a full collaborative effort from the band, writing-wise, having written equal number of songs for the 10-track sophomore release.

"Tanya, Tanya" was the only song on the album that had the three collaborate on one song. Mark wrote "Fifteen Minutes", "A Billion" and "Sabihin Mo Na Lang", Ernie wrote "Kung Gusto Mo Maraming Paraan, Kung Ayaw Mo Maraming Dahilan", "Biglang Liko" and "Ayoko Na". Box wrote "Ang Huling Kantang Gagawin Ko Para Sa'yo", "Gabi Ng Prom" and "Lagi Kang Tama". Hence, the title of the album which translates to "Songs from my room" in English. The album's official website (now tabbed in the band's new official site) is an interactive flash where you could find lyrics for the 10 songs scattered throughout a house that had three rooms: Ernie's, Mark's and Box's. In the corridor, the lyrics for the carrier single "Tanya, Tanya" is found, but required a pass code from the physical CD to access.

The first single, though unofficial, since it got premature airplay over NU 107 became "Tanya, Tanya". However, months after, the band released a video for the first official single "Gabi Ng Prom" which got decent airplay over local music channels myx and MTV.

New member, new single, and a third album

After the release of its second album, cover me quick/!\ employed the services of a second guitarist in the person of their long-time friend and roadie Erikson Pasamba. Box comments:

While flirting with a name change and even releasing singles under the name "My Ex-Girlfriend" over pop radio station 99.5 Hit radio, through the show "The Brewrats", the band recorded a new four-song EP that had the new member doing guitar parts and contributing a song. The four-song effort included a song from each of the members of the band.

On September 30, 2008, the band officially returned to the live circuit through the shoot of an acoustic, live video for the new single "Ang Huling Kantang Gagawin Ko Para Sa'yo" from the album "Mga Kantang Galing Sa Loob Ng Kwarto Ko".

The making of the new video

A new single off the album "Mga Kantang Galing Sa Loob Ng Kwarto Ko" was released by Viva Records through a live video shoot at 6underground in Ortigas Center, Pasig. The song is a different version of the song "Ang Huling Kantang Gagawin Ko Para Sa’yo".

A two-song acoustic set kicked off the two-set gig completed by a remake of their first single, "Gabi Ng Prom".

BoX! said Erikson is working on a song for a new album in the works for the group.

The second part of the set featured the band’s new singles from an album in the works, plus the singles off their current one out in the market. The band also featured their "punked-up" version of Sharon Cuneta’s song "Bituing Walang Ningning".

Indefinite hiatus, new bands

Before the end of 2008, Box announced on their yahoo groups page  that the band is taking an indefinite hiatus from live gigs and recording. He also hinted on making music with new band/s.

Discography

Studio albums

Compilation albums

References

"cover me quick/!\". Channel V AMP.
Eric Borromeo (17 October 2008). "Cover Me Quick makes live video for new single", Philippine Entertainment Portal
Cover Me Quick /!\ website

Filipino alternative rock groups
Musical groups established in 1998
Power pop groups
Musical groups disestablished in 2008


Stokes Castle is a three-story stone tower located near Austin, Nevada.  It was built by Anson Phelps Stokes, a mine developer, railroad magnate, and banker.  Intending the building as a summer home, Stokes began building the castle in 1896, completing it in 1897.

The castle is patterned after a tower that Stokes had seen and admired in the Roman Campagna in Italy.  The castle is built of hand-hewn native granite, and the stones were hoisted into place with a hand winch and held in place with rock wedging and clay mortar.  The kitchen and dining room were on the first floor, while the second floor contained the living room and the third floor housed two bedrooms.  Each of the floors had a fireplace, and the second and third floors each had a balcony.  The roof had a battlemented terrace.

The family occupied the Stokes Castle for a short time.  The family traveled west in June 1897 with friends and spent about a month in the castle.  They spent a few more days in October 1897.  They returned in the summer of 1898, but they sold their mine, the milling equipment, and the castle, and never returned to the town.

Eventually, the castle fell into disrepair until Molly Magee Knudsen, a cousin of Stokes, bought the castle in 1956.  The tower was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.  The "Castle" was owned by HW Trapnell of Austin, NV and Dunsmuir, CA until he died on July 19, 2018. It is now operated by the Austin Historical Society.

References

History of Nevada
Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Nevada
Houses in Lander County, Nevada
Houses completed in 1897
Italian Renaissance Revival architecture in the United States
Italianate architecture in Nevada
National Register of Historic Places in Lander County, Nevada


Simple Green is an American brand of cleaning products produced by Sunshine Makers, Inc. Their best known product is Simple Green All-Purpose Cleaner, which totaled sales of at least US$5.7 million in 2004.

It is advertised as an environmentally friendly, non-toxic, and biodegradable cleaner. It received critical attention from environmental safety activists because of the toxicity concerns of 2-butoxyethanol (EGBE), which was in the formula at under 4%. As of 2013  2-butoxyethanol has been removed from Simple Green all-purpose cleaner, and has an NFPA/HMIS rating of 0/minimal for Health, Fire, Reactivity, and Special. Its main competitors are Lysol and Clorox.

Environmental uses
Simple Green has been re-listed as an approved Surface Washing Agent per the EPA's National Contingency Plan after being de-listed in 1995. The new 2013 re-formulation, SW-65 was re-listed with the EPA on 7/09/2013 EPA toxicity testing reports that Menidia beryllina and Mysidopsis bahia survive slightly better in a water solution of 1:10 mixture of Simple Green with crude oil#2 (LC50 = 8.30 ppm for 96 h and 4.40 ppm for 48 h) than in a water solution of crude oil #2 (LC50 = 6.50 ppm for 96 h and 3.70 ppm for 48 h).

In 2001, Crystal Simple Green was used to clean up an oil spill in the Baltic Sea. In 2005, laboratory testing on rainbow trout indicated that Crystal Simple Green by itself did not affect the survival of rainbow trout adults or fry. Crude oil #2 did not affect adults but did increase the mortality rate of fry to 36%. Crystal Simple Green combined with crude oil #2 did not affect adults but did increase the mortality rate of fry to 46%.

Simple Green has also been used for soil remediation projects.

Ingredients
Simple Green list the ingredients of their all-purpose cleaner as

The manufacturer's Ingredient Disclosure list for Simple Green® All-Purpose Cleaner includes methylchloroisothiazolinone and methylisothiazolinone.

References

External links

Cleaning products
Products introduced in 1979


Topaz, in comics may refer to:

Topaz (Marvel Comics), a Marvel Comics sorceress

See also
Topaz (disambiguation)


1 Lincoln Plaza is a mixed-use, commercial and luxury residential condominium building in Lincoln Square, Manhattan, New York City, with 43 floors and 671 units. Construction began in 1971. Completed and ready for occupancy in 1974, the building is divided into eight floors of commercial space and 36 floors of luxury residential apartments. The roof, which is often considered the 44th floor, is home to the building's private fitness club called Top of the One.

Usage
A five-story residential building at 33 West 63rd Street, a tenement constructed in the 1890s owned by Jehiel R. Elyachar, became the target of an effort by Paul Milstein to assemble a group of properties that would become the site of 1 Lincoln Plaza. After lengthy negotiations, Milstein and Elyachar had agreed to a deal in which Milstein would acquire the property for cash, and then agreed to an exchange for a building on the Upper East Side. Though a verbal agreement had been reached, Elyachar insisted that a donation of $100,000 be made to one of the charitable organizations he supported, at which point Milstein walked away and said "You know what, you're going to keep your building". Howard Milstein, Paul's son, called the negotiations as being "among the most glaring examples of someone who overplayed their hand". The surrounding buildings on the site were demolished and 1 Lincoln Plaza was constructed around Elyachar's building at 33 West 63rd Street.

The building has multiple addresses other than "1 Lincoln Plaza", including 20 West 64th Street, 33 West 63rd Street, 1897 Broadway, and 1900 Broadway. Provided a unit number is included, any mail sent to any of the above addresses will reach the required tenant.

The building also has commercial tenants. These include three prominent entities in the entertainment industry: Sesame Workshop (which makes Sesame Street), SAG-AFTRA, and the prestigious American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP); the headquarters of ASCAP have been at One Lincoln Plaza since 1974.

Notable residents
In January 2012, actor Nick Santino, a resident, committed suicide soon after euthanizing his pit bull Rocco, due to pressure from what some neighbors told the press was harassment by building management. The condominium board had enacted a ban on pit bulls in 2010, though Santino's dog had been allowed to remain through grandfathering.

In popular culture
The building can be seen in almost any scene that was filmed in the plaza at Lincoln Center after 1971, including Ghostbusters.

References

External links
 Ogden Cap Properties Website
 City Realty Article on One Lincoln Plaza

Residential skyscrapers in Manhattan
Residential condominiums in New York City
Residential buildings completed in 1974
Lincoln Square, Manhattan
Privately owned public spaces
Upper West Side


Amigo is the fifth studio album by American country music singer David Ball. It was released in 2001 on the Dualtone Records label. The album produced a hit single in "Riding with Private Malone", which reached number 2 on the Billboard country charts and #36 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming his first Top 40 hit since "Look What Followed Me Home" in 1995. Despite the success of the lead-off single, however, neither of the two follow-ups — "She Always Talked About Mexico" and "Whenever You Come Back to Me" — charted. The track "Texas Echo" is a re-recording of a song which Ball originally recorded on his 1989 self-titled debut.

Track listing

Personnel
As listed in liner notes.
 Audrey Ball - background vocals
 David Ball - lead vocals, background vocals, acoustic guitar
 Vince Barranco - drums, percussion
 Chris Carmichael - fiddle
 Dan Frizsell - bass guitar
 Stephen Hill - background vocals
 Randy Khors - background vocals
 Steve Larios - steel guitar, Chromatic harmonica
 Scott Miller - trumpet
 Kim Morrison - background vocals
 Wood Newton - background vocals
 Billy Panda - acoustic guitar, electric guitar
 Kenny Sears - fiddle
 Joe Spivey - fiddle
 Jeff Taylor - piano, accordion

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

2001 albums
David Ball (country singer) albums
Dualtone Records albums


Provincial Road 366 (PR 366) is a provincial road in the Canadian province of Manitoba.

Route description
Provincial Road 366 starts in the Swan River Valley region of Manitoba, serving Bowsman and Minitonas, crosses the Duck Mountains, and then goes through west-central Manitoba from Grandview to Inglis.

PR 366 serves as the main north-south route through Duck Mountain Provincial Park. It is mainly a gravel route, but there are short paved sections in Bowsman and Inglis, and longer paved stretches leading up to the Duck Mountains from both Minitonas and Grandview. The length of PR 366 is .

History
Since it was established, several changes and improvements have been made to the travel route:
 The road was moved west of its original alignment past Wellman Lake. Most of the original route, now called Regatta Bay Road, remains in use for access to a cabin subdivision and two Bible camps.
 During the summer of 2012, intersection improvements were made to PR 366's two junctions along PTH 10, including an exit ramp from PTH 10 to southbound PR 366 near Minitonas.
 The northernmost section of PR 366 (past PTH 10) has changed several times. Originally, it went straight north to PR 268, crossing PR 587 directly east of Bowsman. Then, for a time, the route was turned over to the local municipalities, and the official terminus of PR 366 was at PTH 10 near Minitonas. However, in 2006 a ford crossing on PR 587 was decommissioned, rendering the eastern portion of that route useless, except to local traffic. Rather than having PR 587 make a dead-end at Craigsford, the western part of PR 587 was resigned as PR 366, and another portion of the original PR 366 was re-established from PTH 10 to Craigsford. Thus, the route now connects Minitonas and Bowsman via Craigsford.

References

366


Angela Leong On Kei (; born 23 March 1960) is a Macau billionaire businesswoman and politician. She is a member of the Legislative Council of Macau.

Early life
Leong was born in Guangzhou, China with family roots in Sanshui, Guangdong.

Career
In September 2017, she bought Aldwych House in London for about £250 million. As of September 2019, she had an estimated net worth of US$4.1 billion.

Leong founded Macau Sanshui Communal Association to provide social services to new immigrants. With the support of her husband to reflect the casino interests in the political scene, Leong entered electoral politics in 2005 and has then served as a directly elected legislator. The mobilization of both the working class and casino employees, a key building block of the Macau middle class, is key to Leong's political career.

She is the director of the Sociedade de Jogos de Macau, a casino company owned by Stanley Ho, since its founding and the managing director since December 2010, and the vice-chairman of the Macau Jockey Club.

With her new appointment as the chairperson of Po Leung Kuk, she has also become the supervisor of PLK Vicwood KT Chong Sixth Form College.

Personal life
She met Stanley Ho, a Macau casino tycoon famous in the political and entertainment industries in Hong Kong and Macau, 40 years her senior, when she was a dance teacher in 1986. She became his fourth partner and had four children with him: Sabrina Ho, Arnaldo Ho, Mario Ho and Alice Ho.

Election results

See also
 List of members of the Legislative Assembly of Macau

References

External links

Angela Leong's information in Macau Legislative Council

1961 births
Living people
Billionaires from Guangdong
Businesspeople from Guangzhou
Businesspeople in the casino industry
Macau billionaires
Macau businesspeople
Macau women in politics
Members of the Legislative Assembly of Macau
Politicians from Guangzhou
Recipients of the Bronze Bauhinia Star
Ho family


Ratu Jekesoni Lewenilovo Yavalanavanua (born 3 October 1952) is a Fijian chief and former politician, who served as a member of the Senate of Fiji. He hails from the chiefly village of Somosomo, on the island of Taveuni, Cakaudrove Province. He is the Secretary General of the Council of Chiefs of the Vanua of Lalagavesi (Cakaudrove). He spent 17 years working under the Ministry of Fijian Affairs as Assistant Roko Tui, Acting Roko Tui and Executive Officer. In 2006 he was nominated as a Senator by Prime Minister Laisenia Qarase. In May 2018 he was appointed chair of the Cakaudrove Provincial Council.

Yavalanavanua attended Derrick Technical Institute (now renamed Fiji Institute of Technology), where he received his diploma in Trade Mechanical Engineering and Boiler Making. He was formerly employed by Fiji's Forest Industry and the Fiji Sugar Corporation, and later joined the Ministry of Fijian Affairs Board where he was employed for 17 years.

In November 2008 when dictator Frank Bainimarama was considering reconvening the Great Council of Chiefs, Yavalanavanua demanded that he first apologise for his past insults to them.

In 2019 he urged chiefs not to become involved in politics.

References

I-Taukei Fijian members of the Senate (Fiji)
Living people
1952 births
Fijian chiefs
Fijian engineers
Fijian civil servants
Politicians from Taveuni


The McGill Drug Store Museum is a former drug store in McGill, Nevada.  It operated from 1915 to 1979.  The store closed when the nearby Kennecott Copper mine closed down, with its entire inventory intact, including prescription medication. It has been re-opened as a museum with more than 30,000 items as well as prescription records extending back to 1915. The museum is a resource for investigators of retailing and historical pharmacy practices.

History
The museum was originally a drug store owned by the McGill Drug Company, who may have acquired the structure from another business, Steptoe Drug Company. Although the place primarily serves as a drugstore and pharmacy, it is also notable for its soda fountain, which remains in existence until now.

The drug store became a museum in 1995, when the White Pine County bought the building from Elsa Culbert, who continued to operate the drug store and soda fountain with her husband, Gerald, and became the owners of the business starting from the 1940s. The drugstore stopped operating in 1979, when Gerald died, and many of the remaining items there were left as they were.

Collection
The museum is a time-capsule filled with relics throughout the 1940s to 1970s, including pharmaceutical products and medical equipment. It also retains many interior and exterior qualities dated to certain eras, from steel-based structures common in use during the mining era boom, to 1930-style soda counters.

See also

 List of museums in Nevada

References

External links
McGill Drug Store Museum at Great Basin Heritage Area Partnership
McGill Drugstore Museum at White Pine Chamber of Commerce

History museums in Nevada
Medical museums in the United States
Museums in White Pine County, Nevada
Pharmacies on the National Register of Historic Places
Commercial buildings completed in 1909
Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Nevada
Buildings and structures in White Pine County, Nevada
History of White Pine County, Nevada
Great Basin National Heritage Area
1909 establishments in Nevada
National Register of Historic Places in White Pine County, Nevada
Health care companies based in Nevada
Pharmacy museums


Heartaches by the Number may refer to:

"Heartaches by the Number", a 1959 popular country music song
Heartaches by the Number (Waylon Jennings album)
Heartaches by the Number (David Ball album)


was a Japanese judge who was a member of the Supreme Court of Japan.

He is notable in Japan for his contributions to bankruptcy law.

References

Supreme Court of Japan justices
1943 births
2016 deaths


Steven Orville Farmer (December 31, 1948 – April 7, 2020) was an American guitarist, composer and lyricist, best known for his composition with Ted Nugent in 1968, "Journey to the Center of the Mind", performed by their group The Amboy Dukes. Farmer wrote the lyrics to the hit song, which peaked at #16 in the charts. He also co-wrote with Nugent, or self composed, 22 compositions on the first three albums by The Amboy Dukes.

Amboy Dukes

The Dukes' first offering was their self-titled album The Amboy Dukes which charted. It featured their first charting single "Baby, Please Don't Go", an intense cover of a Big Joe Williams song. The second album was Journey to the Center of the Mind a psychedelic rock opera that was their highest-charting album and produced their most commercially successful single. The third album was Migration. Although not a commercial success, it showed a refinement of both Farmer's songwriting skills and Nugent's songwriting and guitar skills. All three albums (released by Mainstream Records) featured Farmer touches in words and music that emphasized psychedelic imagery, so central to late sixties pop culture.

2000 album

In 2000, Farmer completed work on his new millennium "journey". The album is titled Journey to the Darkside of the Mind and was released by Saint Thomas Records. Fellow Amboy Dukes member Rick Lober contributed to the album. It was produced by Victor Peraino, who is known for his innovative work on the Mellotron with England's Arthur Brown.

Dukes award and reunion

At the 18th annual Detroit Music Awards on April 17, 2009, the original lineup of The Amboy Dukes performed on stage for the first time in thirty years.  On stage at The Fillmore Detroit were Nugent on lead guitar, Farmer on guitar, John Drake on vocals, Andy Solomon on keyboards, Lober on keyboards and Bill White on bass. In recognition of the band's contribution to rock music history, they received a Distinguished Achievement award.

Death
Farmer died at his home in 2020, aged 71.

References

External links
 Steve Farmer — Official Site

1948 births
2020 deaths
American rock songwriters
American rock singers
American lyricists
American rock guitarists
The Amboy Dukes members
American male singer-songwriters
American male guitarists
Singers from Detroit
Guitarists from Detroit
20th-century American guitarists
20th-century American male musicians
Singer-songwriters from Michigan


Adam McQuaid (born October 12, 1986) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman. He formerly played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Boston Bruins, New York Rangers and Columbus Blue Jackets. McQuaid was known primarily as an enforcer for his physical play and capability as a fighter, often protecting younger or smaller members of the team. He won the Stanley Cup in 2011 with the Bruins.

Playing career

Amateur

McQuaid played major midget hockey in his hometown of Cornwall, Prince Edward Island, for the Cornwall Thunder before playing major junior hockey with the Sudbury Wolves of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) for four seasons. McQuaid was selected in the second round, 43rd overall, in the 2003 OHL Priority Selection as a 17-year-old overage player. He was undrafted by the OHL the previous season.

After scoring 19 points in his second season with the Wolves in 2004–05, McQuaid returned to the OHL and, in his final season, helped lead the Wolves to the OHL Final against the Plymouth Whalers; the Wolves were defeated in six games.

Professional
McQuaid was selected in the second round, 55th overall, by the Columbus Blue Jackets in the 2005 NHL Entry Draft. He returned to the OHL and did not play a game with Columbus before he was traded to the Boston Bruins in exchange for a fifth-round draft pick in the off-season. He was immediately signed by Boston to a three-year, entry-level contract.

He was assigned to Boston's American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the Providence Bruins in 2007–08 and scored nine points in his professional rookie season.

He scored his first NHL goal on February 7, 2010, a game-winner against goaltender Jaroslav Halák in a 3–0 win against the Montreal Canadiens at the Bell Centre. During Game 4 of the 2011 Stanley Cup Finals, analyst Pierre McGuire described him as "one tough hombre." In that same final, McQuaid won his first Stanley Cup.

On July 14, 2011, McQuaid signed a three-year, $4.7 million contract with Boston.

In 2010, McQuaid suffered a freak concussion after tripping over his suitcase.

In the 2012–13 season, McQuaid helped the Bruins to the Stanley Cup Finals by scoring the game-winning goal against the Pittsburgh Penguins in Game 4 of the Eastern Conference Final. He and the Bruins would end up losing in the Final to the Chicago Blackhawks in six games.

In the 2013–14 season, McQuaid would miss most of the season with an illness.

On June 26, 2015, McQuaid signed a four-year, $11 million contract extension with the Bruins. In a game against the Washington Capitals on January 5, 2016, Capitals forward Zach Sill boarded McQuaid and was suspended two games.

On October 19, 2017, McQuaid was placed on injured reserve after breaking his right fibula in a game against the Vancouver Canucks.

Having played in nine straight seasons with the Bruins and approaching the 2018–19 season, McQuaid was traded to the New York Rangers in exchange for Steven Kampfer, a 2019 fourth-round pick and a conditional seventh-round pick on September 11, 2018. McQuaid added a physical presence on the blueline of the rebuilding Rangers, and recorded 2 goals and 5 points through 36 games. With the Rangers out of playoff contention, and in his final year under contract, McQuaid was traded by the Rangers at the trade deadline to his original draft club, the Columbus Blue Jackets, in exchange for Julius Bergman, and a fourth and seventh round picks in 2019 on February 25, 2019.
On March 15, 2019 McQuaid scored his first goal as a Blue Jacket, the game-winning goal as they shut out the Carolina Hurricanes, 3–0 in Columbus.

On January 16, 2021, McQuaid officially announced his retirement from professional hockey after 12 seasons.

In August 2021 McQuaid rejoined the Boston Bruins organization as the team’s new player development coordinator.

Personal life
McQuaid is a Christian. McQuaid helped to start a Bible study group when he was with the Boston Bruins.

McQuaid married his girlfriend Stephanie Enserink in 2018.
His sister, Michelle McQuaid, competed at the 2015, 2017, 2018 and 2019 Scotties Tournament of Hearts representing Prince Edward Island. His brother Chad McQuaid is currently a practicing lawyer in Charlottetown, PEI.

Career statistics

References

External links

1986 births
Living people
Boston Bruins players
Canadian ice hockey defencemen
Columbus Blue Jackets draft picks
Columbus Blue Jackets players
New York Rangers players
People from Queens County, Prince Edward Island
Providence Bruins players
Ice hockey people from Charlottetown
Stanley Cup champions
Sudbury Wolves players


Three hundred and three scholars and artists were awarded Guggenheim Fellowships in 1959. More than $1,400,000 was disbursed.

1960 U.S. and Canadian Fellows

1960 Latin American and Caribbean Fellows

See also
 Guggenheim Fellowship
 List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1959
 List of Guggenheim Fellowships awarded in 1961

References

1960
1960 awards


The Sweet Basil Building, also known as the P. Martin Liquors Building, was a heritage building on the waterfront of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada which was demolished by Halifax developer Armour Group in November 2008 as part of the company's controversial Waterside Centre Development proposal.

History
The building, known by the name of its last occupant, a Halifax restaurant, was built in the 1840s. It was a three-story wood-frame building, the last wooden building on Halifax's Water Street and was typical of the “Sailortown” buildings which served seafarer's in Nova Scotia's Age of Sail. It stood beside the oldest storefront in Halifax, the 1820 Harrington MacDonald-Briggs Building   and faced the preserved warehouses and shipping offices of Privateer's Wharf, a National Historic Site. The building served as a sailor's boarding house, liquor store, confectionery, grocery store and restaurant.  The building was rented to a successful Halifax restaurant but Armour group argued that it was uneconomical because the upper floors were not suited for profitable modern office space.  The last tenant, the Sweet Basil Bistro, reluctantly left the building after 19 years on the site due to the redevelopment.

Heritage Status and Demolition
The Sweet Basil Building was designated a municipally protected heritage building in 1981. It was also a nationally recognized building under the federal Historic Places program. However  Armour Group overturned the designation in court in 2008 arguing that it was designated in error.

Armour Group wished to use the land to build a nine-story office tower called the Waterside Centre, which involved the demolition of six heritage buildings, although the facades of some would be reconstructed at street level. The project faced widespread public opposition at municipal hearings in September 2008 and was narrowly rejected by the council of Halifax Regional Municipality on October 21. However Armour Group announced that they would appeal the decision to Nova Scotia's Utility and Review Board, on October 31, the same day as his company began demolition of the Sweet Basil Building|.  The Board overturned Council's decision and approved the controversial office tower on March 26, 2009, and Halifax Council voted not to further oppose the development and or try and save the remaining buildings on April 7, 2009.

After boarding windows and demolishing exterior parts of the building on October 21, the entire building was demolished early Sunday morning, November 2, 2008.  Promoters of downtown development such as the Halifax Chamber of Commerce noted that the demolition and disputed development highlight the need for a more streamlined development process. Heritage advocates such as Heritage Trust of Nova Scotia pointed to the demolition as a sign of the weakness of municipal heritage designations and the lack of any heritage districts in downtown Halifax.

References

Buildings and structures in Halifax, Nova Scotia
Commercial buildings completed in 1840
Demolished buildings and structures in Canada
Buildings and structures demolished in 2008


In information theory, Pinsker's inequality, named after its inventor Mark Semenovich Pinsker, is an inequality that bounds the total variation distance (or statistical distance) in terms of the Kullback–Leibler divergence.
The inequality is tight up to constant factors.

Formal statement
Pinsker's inequality states that, if  and  are two probability distributions on a measurable space , then

where

is the total variation distance (or statistical distance) between  and  and

is the Kullback–Leibler divergence in nats.  When the sample space  is a finite set, the Kullback–Leibler divergence is given by

Note that in terms of the total variation norm  of the signed measure , Pinsker's inequality differs from the one given above by a factor of two:

A proof of Pinsker's inequality uses the partition inequality for f-divergences.

Alternative version

Note that the expression of Pinsker inequality depends on what basis of logarithm is used in the definition of KL-divergence.  is defined using  (logarithm in base ), whereas  is typically defined with  (logarithm in base 2). Then,

Given the above comments, there is an alternative statement of Pinsker's inequality in some literature that relates information divergence to variation distance:

i.e.,

in which

is the (non-normalized) variation distance between two probability density functions  and   on the same alphabet .

This form of Pinsker's inequality shows that "convergence in divergence" is stronger notion than "convergence in variation distance".

A simple proof by John Pollard is shown by letting :

Here Titu's lemma is also known as Sedrakyan's inequality.

Note that the lower bound from Pinsker's inequality is vacuous for any distributions where , since the total variation distance is at most . For such distributions, an alternative bound can be used, due to Bretagnolle and Huber (see, also, Tsybakov):

History
Pinsker first proved the inequality with a greater constant. The inequality in the above form was proved independently by Kullback, Csiszár, and Kemperman.

Inverse problem
A precise inverse of the inequality cannot hold:  for every , there are distributions  with  but . An easy example is given by the two-point space  with  and .

However, an inverse inequality holds on finite spaces  with a constant depending on . More specifically, it can be shown that with the definition  we have for any measure  which is absolutely continuous to

As a consequence, if  has full support (i.e.  for all ), then

References

Further reading
 Thomas M. Cover and Joy A. Thomas: Elements of Information Theory, 2nd edition, Willey-Interscience, 2006
 Nicolo Cesa-Bianchi and Gábor Lugosi: Prediction, Learning, and Games, Cambridge University Press, 2006

Information theory
Probabilistic inequalities


was a member of the Supreme Court of Japan.

References

Supreme Court of Japan justices
1944 births
2010 deaths
Deaths from pneumonia in Japan


USS Waldo County (LST-1163), previously USS LST-1163, was a United States Navy landing ship tank (LST) in commission from 1953 to 1970, and which then saw non-commissioned Military Sealift Command service as USNS Waldo County (T-LST-1163) from 1972 to 1973.

Construction and commissioning

Waldo County was designed under project SCB 9A and laid down as USS LST-1163 on 4 August 1952 at Pascagoula, Mississippi, by Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation. She was launched on 17 March 1953, sponsored by Mrs. C. Richard Shaeffner, and commissioned on 17 September 1953.

Operations in U.S. waters and Caribbean 1953–1955

LST-1163 departed Pascagoula on 14 October 1953 and steamed via Key West, Florida, Florida; Port Everglades, Florida; and Charleston, South Carolina, to her permanent home port, Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek, in Virginia Beach, Virginia. She arrived at Little Creek on 25 October 1953. Exercises and shakedown training occupied the remainder of 1953 and the first few months of 1954.

On 14 June 1954, LST-1163 departed Little Creek for Morehead City, North Carolina, to embark United States Marines for amphibious exercises. She arrived at Morehead City on the 15 June 1954, loaded troops and equipment, and got underway on 16 June 1954 for Vieques Island, located near Puerto Rico in the West Indies. LST-1163 reached Vieques Island on 21 June 1954 and conducted amphibious training until 1 July 1954, when she headed back to Little Creek. She arrived at Little Creek on 5 July 1954 and remained there eight days before entering the Norfolk Naval Shipyard at Portsmouth, Virginia, on 13 July 1954. She left the shipyard on 6 August 1954 and returned to Little Creek to resume duty with the Amphibious Force, United States Atlantic Fleet. For the remainder of the year, LST-1163 conducted a series of amphibious exercises, mostly at Vieques Island, but she also participated in one cold-weather exercise at Hamilton Inlet on the coast of Labrador in Newfoundland, Canada, in November 1954.

On 18 January 1955, LST-1163 entered the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for her first major overhaul. She emerged from the yard, revitalized, on 20 May 1955 and resumed duty with the Amphibious Force. On 1 July 1955, LST-1163 was renamed USS Waldo County (LST-1163). Through the summer of 1955, Waldo County remained close to or in Little Creek.

First Mediterranean deployment 1955–1956

On 24 August 1955, Waldo County departed the Norfolk, Virginia, area for her first overseas deployment. After stops at Bordeaux in France, Port Lyautey in Morocco, and at Gibraltar, she joined the United States Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean late in September 1955. For the next four months, she ranged the length and breadth of the Mediterranean Sea conducting Sixth Fleet amphibious exercises and making port visits. On 25 January 1956, she departed Port Lyautey on her way home. She returned to Norfolk on 6 February 1956 and resumed operations with the United States Second Fleet.

Operations 1956–1970
In her first two years of active service, Waldo County established a pattern of operations which endured until the end of 1964. She alternated five Mediterranean deployments with periods of duty out of Little Creek conducting amphibious training at such places as Vieques Island, Onslow Beach in North Carolina, and at various locations in the Canadian Maritime Provinces. During her second Mediterranean deployment, which lasted from August 1957 to February 1958, she acted as a unit of a contingency force established in the eastern Mediterranean during civil unrest in Lebanon.

In 1959 the Waldo County made her first and only Top Secret Mission. A Top Secret crypto message ordered her  and two sister ship LST's to proceed from Little Creek to Quantico Marine Base for further orders. At Quantico
the LST's on-loaded two battalions of South Vietnamese marines and US Marine trainers and proceeded to the Caribbean to hold amphibious landing exercises for several weeks. At the conclusion the Marines were dropped off at Camp Lejeune. Not too many years later the U.S. was deeply involved in the Vietnam war.

The remaining three deployments were more routine in nature, consisting only of training missions and port visits. Between her third and fourth deployments to the Sixth Fleet, she earned the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal in November and December 1961 when she cruised Cuban waters as a part of another contingency force established in response to a wave of what the United States considered to be terrorist actions by the Cuban government following the abortive April 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba. Otherwise, the periods between deployments consisted entirely of routine Second Fleet operations, primarily amphibious training missions at the previously named locations.

Waldo County returned to Little Creek from her fifth and last Mediterranean cruise on 17 November 1964. At that point, she began a new phase of her career. No longer did she deploy to the Sixth Fleet. For the remaining six years of her active career, she confined her operations to the United States East Coast and the West Indies. The ubiquitous amphibious exercises predominated, but, on two occasions, she did perform special missions. In May and June 1965, she again earned the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal when she joined another contingency force in the West Indies during a period of extreme internal unrest in the Dominican Republic quelled by the intervention of forces of the Organization of American States. In 1966, she qualified for that award again by returning to the Dominican Republic once more.

From that time on, Waldo County broke her routine of U.S. East Coast – West Indies operations only one time. In January 1970, she steamed to the Panama Canal and transited it for a brief series of landing exercises on the Pacific Ocean side of the Panamanian Isthmus. She retransited the canal on 2 February 1970 and resumed operations in the West Indies. Normal operations occupied her time until September 1970, at which time she began preparations for inactivation.

Decommissioning, reserve, and Military Sealift Command service 1970–1973

Waldo County was decommissioned on 21 December 1970 and laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet at Orange Texas. She remained there until May 1972, at which time she was reactivated for non-commissioned service as a cargo ship with a civil service crew with the Military Sealift Command (MSC) as the United States Naval Ship USNS Waldo County (T-LST-1163). She operated under MSC control for about 18 months before being sticken from the Navy List on 1 November 1973.

Layup and transfer to Peru

Waldo County name was stricken from the Navy List on 1 November 1973, and she was transferred to the Maritime Administration for layup in the National Defense Reserve Fleet at Suisun Bay at Benicia, California.

On 7 August 1984, Waldo County and three of her sister ships – USS Traverse County (LST-1160), USS Walworth County (LST-1164), and USS Washoe County (LST-1165) – were leased to Peru, and Waldo County was commissioned into service in the Peruvian Navy as BAP Pisco (DT-142) on 4 March 1985. Peru renewed the lease on all four ships in August 1989 and August 1994, and the United States sold all four outright to Peru on 26 April 1999 under the Security Assistance Program; all four were struck from the U.S. Naval Register on the day of the sale. She was decommissioned from the Peruvian Navy in 2012 and scrapped the same year.

Notes

References

Saunders, Stephen, Commodore, RN. Jane's All the World's Fighting Ships, 2001-2002. Alexandria, Virginia: Jane's Information Group, 2001. .

External links
NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive: LST-1163 Waldo County

See also
 List of United States Navy LSTs

Cold War amphibious warfare vessels of the United States
Terrebonne Parish-class tank landing ships
Ships built in Pascagoula, Mississippi
1953 ships
Terrebonne Parish-class tank landing ships of the Peruvian Navy


"Make Believe" is a show tune from the 1927 Broadway musical Show Boat with music by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II.

Background
In the show, it is first sung as a duet by the characters Gaylord Ravenal, a handsome riverboat gambler, and the teenage Magnolia Hawks, an aspiring performer and daughter of the show boat captain, soon after their meeting in Act I.  It reveals that they are smitten with each other almost immediately upon meeting and sets the tone for the contrasts between the ideal “make believe” world of the young lovers and the harsh realities of life that they will encounter throughout the story.

In Act II, Ravenal sings it to his little daughter Kim, just before he deserts her and Magnolia because of his compulsive gambling. He tells Kim to sing it whenever she is lonely and to pretend he has never been away.

The song was introduced by Norma Terris and Howard Marsh.  It was not performed in the 1929 part-talkie film of Show Boat.

The first successful recording of the song was by Paul Whiteman and his Orchestra on January 27, 1928 (vocal by Bing Crosby).  The song has since become a standard and been recorded by numerous musical artists.

Other recordings
Allan Jones (1941)
Barbra Streisand recorded the song for The Third Album (1964)
Burl Ives for the album My Gal Sal (1964)
Elvis Presley recorded the song at his home in Bel Air (1960)
Howard Keel for the album Close to My Heart (1990)
Jan Clayton & Charles Fredericks - from the 1946 cast recording of the Broadway revival.
Jo Stafford included in the album Autumn in New York (1950)
Peggy Lee (1964)
Robert Merrill & Patrice Munsel for the RCA album Show Boat (1956)
Roger Whittaker for the album A Perfect Day: His Greatest Hits and More (1996)
Steve Lawrence for the album The Steve Lawrence Sound (1960)
Tony Bennett for the album The Silver Lining: The Songs of Jerome Kern (2015)
Tony Martin recorded on December 21, 1946 for Mercury Records
Young Jessie recorded on June 18, 1957 in Los Angeles for Atco Records

Film appearances
For film, it was sung by Irene Dunne and Allan Jones in the 1936 version of the musical, by Tony Martin and Kathryn Grayson in the 1946 Kern biopic Till the Clouds Roll By,  and by Howard Keel and Kathryn Grayson in the 1951 version of Show Boat.

In the 1951 film, instead of singing it to Kim just before he leaves, Ravenal sings it to her when he meets her for the first time after being away for several years - the exact reverse of the situation in the original show and the 1936 film version. He has finally returned and now asks her to pretend that he has never been away.

References

1927 songs
Songs from Show Boat
Songs with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Songs with music by Jerome Kern
Frank Sinatra songs
Barbra Streisand songs


The New Jersey Department of Military and Veterans Affairs is a governmental department of the state of New Jersey. It is composed of the New Jersey Army National Guard as well as the New Jersey Air National Guard. They are administered by the Adjutant General and staff which oversees the activities of the two. This includes the Disasters and Emergency Services Division and Veterans Affairs Division. The department is the official channel of communication between the federal government and the New Jersey state government on military matters.

The New Jersey State Guard, along with the New Jersey Army National Guard and the New Jersey Naval Militia, is also recognized as a component of the organized militia of New Jersey. The State Guard was last active during World War II. The Naval Militia was last active from 1999 to 2002.

In case of a state or national emergency, there is a joint federal-state program put in place for the Governor and the President respectively. This program keeps military organizations equipped, trained, and ready to counter such situations. They also cooperate with and manage state and federal agencies in order to provide services for discharged veterans and their families.

References

State agencies of New Jersey
New Jersey


born February 28, 1942 is a former member of the Supreme Court of Japan.

References

Supreme Court of Japan justices
1942 births
Living people


is a member of the Supreme Court of Japan who was Vice Foreign Minister.

References

Supreme Court of Japan justices
Ambassadors of Japan to Indonesia
1943 births
Living people
People from Nara Prefecture
Kyoto University alumni


The New England Summer Nationals was a popular, annual, four-day-long automotive festival in Worcester, Massachusetts. It usually occurred on the July 4th holiday weekend. The 2012 show was on July 5–8. In 1980, the first such festival attracted 2,000 visitors; since then, attendees have peaked at 200,000, drawn from both New England and the rest of the United States. According to the Central Massachusetts Convention and Visitors Bureau, it is the largest automotive event on the East Coast. Since 1991, it has generally drawn at least 75,000 visitors.

Events
The Summer Nationals has many events including drag racing, controlled burnouts, and stunt motorcycle riding.

References

External links
Official website

Auto shows in the United States
Motorcycling events
Motorcycle rallies in the United States
Recurring events established in 1980
Events in Massachusetts
Culture of Worcester, Massachusetts
1980 establishments in Massachusetts


KVFZ (92.1 FM) is a terrestrial American radio station, licensed to Benton, Louisiana and serving Shreveport/Bossier City. The station airs a Contemporary Christian format.

History
The station was formerly known as "The Buzz", created as an alternative rock addition to Shreveport, and competed mainly with local hard rock station, 99x.

The Buzz brought a refreshing new style of music to the area, featuring many bands that were not played on 99x or any other station. On Saturday nights, The Buzz was transformed into "Club Buzz," where all the songs played were techno-influenced remixes of the normal alternative songs that it played. The Buzz also featured a variety of interaction with listeners as well as original contests. Weekly contests featured were The Free Buzz at 4:20, Thumbs Up or the Finger, The Buzz Rewind, and the short lived Buzz Bits, where listeners could call in and say whatever they wanted, within reason. Its Too Cool for Tool contest was also original, with each contestant sitting on a large tub of ice, and whoever lasting the longest receiving a pair of Tool concert tickets, along with a "Tool"-box full of Tool SWAG.

The Buzz came to an abrupt end in 2004, in circumstances where it was literally there one minute and gone the next. No reason was ever stated for the cancellation of the station, and the format was quickly switched to Christmas music until the start of the new year. Since The Buzz, the station has been a light rock station and its current format is Spanish radio.

KSYR started 95.7, which now contains the oldies format that was on this frequency. On 95.7, it was first known as country. Then in approximately 1997, it flipped to Star 95.7, an Adult Contemporary station claimed to sit in between the CHR of 94.5 and soft rock of 96.5. It played hit music without the rap, sleepy music or hard rock trying to appeal to the core working audience. However, it flipped to a rhythmic top 40 as Power 95.7. The music selection mixed boy bands with the flourishing urban music scene putting it between KMJJ, KBTT and the more rock leaning top 40 at KRUF. Ultimately in 2001 it became the Buzz and moved to its present frequency.

Prior to being purchased by Coochie Brake Broadcasting LLC, the station was in simulcast with KOYE and KCUL-FM as Regional Mexican formatted "La Invasora".

Effective September 26, 2023, Coochie Brake Broadcasting sold KSYR to Carol and Jetre Schuler's 6102 Seawall, LLC. The same day, it changed its call sign to KVFZ.

Former on-air personalities
 Flynt Stone (currently on KTAL-FM)
 Johnny Maze
 Boner in the Morning (October 2001- September 2003)
 Drunk Mouth and Naked Jake (currently on KTUX)
 Bif Drysdale and Monkey Boy
 Rod the Human Tripod

External links

Radio stations in Louisiana
Radio stations established in 1983
1983 establishments in Louisiana
Contemporary Christian radio stations in the United States