FiveSprockets was a web-based software company based in San Diego, California, United States focused on developing resources, social networking, and web-based collaborative software for scriptwriting, filmmaking and digital-video production.  The name FiveSprockets came from the five phases, or sprockets, of media production: (1) Story Development & Scriptwriting; (2) Pre-production; (3) Production; (4) Post-production; and (5) Marketing & Distribution.  Founded in 2007 by CEO Randy Ullrich, FiveSprockets launched its Beta Release in September 2008 with an initial focus on social networking, educational content, and web-based software for screenwriting and production management.

Ideas Module
FiveSprockets included an Ideas module where creators could store their raw ideas across several different Idea types (such as Story or Character).

vScripter
vScripter was FiveSprockets' web-based story-development and scriptwriting software.  vScripter took a story-development perspective on the process and allows the writer(s) to collect metadata about each story and manage their stories.  vScripter supported a variety of different media-project formats, including screenplay, TV Sitcom, TV drama, Stage Play, Audio / Radio Play, and Comic Book.

 Editor - vScripter's scriptwriting editor included features typical of scriptwriting software such as (a) proper formatting as recommended by AMPAS  Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting; (b) writing accelerators such as intelligent tab-and-enter key processing; and (c) character and location memory for auto-completion typing.
 Story Metadata - vScripter stored metadata about the story, including Log line, Tagline, Treatment, and story notes.
 Collaboration - The script's originator could selectively choose to share a script in read-only or write-access mode to any of the originator's contacts.
 Import/Export - Scripts written in other applications could be imported into vScripter via the RTF standard, which typically preserved most (but not necessarily all) of the original script's formatting.  Additionally, vScripter could export to RTF, PDF, and HTML.
 Script Registration - Through a partnership with ProtectRite, the creator and pioneer of online intellectual-property registration, writers could access the ProtectRite service directly from within vScripter to register and protect their work.

vProductionOffice
vProductionOffice was FiveSprockets' web-based production-management software.

 Script Breakdown - When the user Greenlights a production, vProductionOffice walked the user through a simple wizard that, among other things, created a script breakdown.  This includes separating the various scenes, listing the characters needed in each scene, and marking the 1/8's of each scene.   The scenes could then be scheduled for their shooting date.
Storyboarding - The Storyboard feature allowed the user to create storyboards for each scene in the breakdown and watch the storyboard in an animation viewer.
Casting and Crewing - The user could cast and crew the production from their various connections within FiveSprockets.

Job Board
FiveSprockets included a Job Board so that its users could seek out new collaborators across a variety of media-production roles, from "Above the Line" positions such as Actor, Director, and Producer, to "Below the Line" roles such as Line Producer, Script Supervisor, and Key Grip.

Social networking and community
FiveSprockets included social networking features such as user profiles, project showcasing, contact building, internal messaging, and discussion boards.  FiveSprockets also included educational content and resources where users could share their knowledge and learn from others across content types like how-to videos, instructional guides, discussion forums, and glossary elements.

Closure
On the 2nd of November 2012 the site shut down. Anyone attempting to access the site is met with the following message:

After four years as a web service, FiveSprockets.com shut down on Friday, 2 November 2012, at 9pm Pacific Standard Time in the USA (Midnight Eastern Standard Time).

Thank you to all of our supporters, in your various capacities, over the last several years. There are plenty of other good services out there, so we think you can find a home. If nothing else, try good old Google Docs. Keep writing and keep creating. And never be discouraged because, in the wise words of William Goldman, "Nobody knows anything." Except maybe you.
Sincerely,
Randy
Founder, FiveSprockets

See also
 Web 2.0
 Web application
 Social network service
 Filmmaking
 Screenplay
 Scriptwriting
 Screenwriting
 List of screenwriting software

References

External links
 FiveSprockets - Official site
 ThemeIt - Official site

Web applications
Social networking services
Screenwriting software
Companies based in San Diego
Online mass media companies of the United States
Film production software
Privately held companies based in California


The Digital Storage Systems Interconnect (DSSI) is a computer bus developed by Digital Equipment Corporation for connecting storage devices and clustering VAX systems. It was designed as a smaller and lower-cost replacement for the earlier DEC Computer Interconnect that would be more suitable for use in office environments. DSSI was superseded by Parallel SCSI.

It was introduced in 1988 and has a bandwidth of 32 Mbit/s (4 MB/sec) and was typically limited to a length of . DSSI support was later extended to MIPS-based DECsystems and DEC Alpha-based AlphaServer systems.

DSSI peripherals could be distinguished from narrow SCSI devices by their characteristic five-conductor power connector featuring an extra lead intended for Battery/UPS connection to power critical components in the event of a power failure.

Characteristics

The major characteristics of the DSSI bus are:
 Eight-bit data path
 Up to eight nodes on the bus including variable numbers of initiators and targets
 Distributed arbitration
 Peak bandwidth of 4 megabytes per second
 All systems connected to the same DSSI bus must have a common power/ground.
 "The Q-Bus 5-Enclosure Rule": For Q-bus VMScluster configurations, a  maximum of five enclosures, excluding SF200/210s, can be configured on a single DSSI bus. Note that only one (1) SF100 is allowed on any DSSI bus.
 "The VAX 6000 Cabinet Rule": For a VAX 6000 DSSI VMScluster system, a maximum of two or three VAX 6000 systems and one storage cabinet, typically an SF200 or SF210, can be configured on a single DSSI bus.
 Maximum DSSI bus length  cannot exceed 27 meters (89 feet) and ground offset voltage cannot exceed 30mv (dc) or 10.5mv (rms).

                                  Bus Length      Allowable Offset
                            Meters/Feet     (DC)    (AC)
                            -----------     ----------------
                            up to 20/65     200mv   70mv (rms)
                            20-25/65-82      40mv   14mv (rms)
            VAX6000 QUAD-Host-->  27/89      30mv   10.5mv (rms)
            VAX7000
            VAX10000

Operating system support in VAX/OpenVMS

   DSSI SUPPORT IN OpenVMS:
    OpenVMS VAX V5.0-2:
      o  Single- and Dual-Host support with 2 EDA640s (MicroVAX 3300/3400
         series).
      o  Systems Communications Services (SCS) for the VMScluster is run
        over the Network Interconnect (NI) for MicroVAX 3300/3400.
    OpenVMS VAX V5.1:
      o  Standalone support for the KFQSA.
      o  Up to 6 ISEs on a single DSSI bus regardless of whether 1 or 2
         hosts systems are attached to the bus.
    OpenVMS VAX V5.1-1:
      o  Dual host support for KFQSAs (1 KFQSA per system).
    OpenVMS VAX V5.2:
      o  For 3300/3400 series, SCS communication over the DSSI.
      o  Multiple KFQSA's per system, but *not* multiple dual-hosted
         DSSI's per system (here, multiple means 2, since only 2 hosts
         are allowed on the DSSI bus).
      o  DSSI adapter must connect to another like adapter, e.g. EDA640
          to EDA640 or KFQSA to KFQSA.
      o  Up to 7 ISEs on a single DSSI bus when only 1 host system is
         attached to the bus.
    OpenVMS VAX V5.3:
     o  Mixed DSSI adapters, i.e. EDA640 to KFQSA.
     o  Mixed DSSI adapters, i.e. EDA640 to KFQSA.
      o  Double dual-host configurations, i.e. 2 DSSI buses between two
         CPUs. Each bus is terminated at its own pair of adapters.
    OpenVMS VAX V5.3-2:
      o  Support for VAX 4000. (The VAX 4000 has 2 SHACs and can support
         two KFQSAs on the bus, so it can have up to 4 DSSI buses).
    OpenVMS VAX V5.4-2:
      o  Support for the KFMSA, an XMI to DSSI adapter. The KFMSA may
         only be used to single-host a VAX 6000 model or dual-host 2 VAX
         6000 models together.
    OpenVMS VAX V5.4-3:
      o  Tri-host configurations supported.
    OpenVMS VAX V5.5-2:
      o  Quad-host configurations with VAX 6000, VAX 7000/10000
         series systems now supported.
         NOTE:  KFQSAs do not support SCS communication over the DSSI bus,
                they MUST have a NI connection in order to run the cluster
                software.
    OpenVMS Alpha V1.5, OpenVMS VAX V6.0:
      o  Quad-host DSSI configurations with DEC 4000 AXP systems supported.
         DEC 4000 systems can be configured only as end nodes on a DSSI
         bus, therefore, quad-host configurations must include at least
         two VAX systems.
      o  KFQSA Q-bus to DSSI configurations supported.
         VAX processors that use the KFQSA adapter can be placed on the
         same DSSI bus as DEC 4000 processors.

Third Party Peripherals

Other companies, such as CMD and Symbios Logic made DSSI compatible chipsets or peripherals, for example,
CMD manufactured various models of the CDI-4000 which would allow SCSI peripherals to be used on a DSSI bus.

See also

 DSSI VAXcluster Installation and Troubleshooting manual, EK-410AB-MG
DEC Technical article: [ Ultrix ] How To Configure a kfqsa on a DECstation (sic) 5500 (DS5500), Last Technical Review: 6-SEP-1991 Size: 110 lines
DEC Technical article: [OpenVMS] Configuring RF Drives Connected To DSSI Adapter In A Cluster, Last Technical Review: 8-OCT-1996 Size: 332 lines
DEC Technical article:  [OpenVMS] Guide To DSSI VAXcluster Configurations
DEC Technical article: How To Initialize An RF72 For High Speed Mode
DEC Technical article: [OpenVMS] Chart Overview Of Digital Disk Drive Storage Capacities
DEC Technical article: [PERFORMANCE] Disk Drive Performance Specifications
"OpenVMS Release Notes Addendum for VMScluster Systems", October 1993, (AA-Q1X7A-TE).
"Dual-Host MicroVAX Systems", VAXcluster Systems Quorum, February 1990, (EC-P0623-57), pp. 3–31.
"VAX 4000 Systems Info Sheet", (EC-F1424-41).
"VAX 6000 Systems Info Sheet", (EC-F1417-46).
"KFESA DSSI Adapter Installation and User's Guide", May 1994, EK-KFESA-OP.A01.
CDI-4000 DSSI to SCSI Adapter User's Manual, MAN-004000-000

References

DEC hardware
Computer storage buses


José Luis Rocha represented México in the 1984 Olympic Games in Diving. Rocha was born in México City.  He attended Auburn University where he was a member of the Swimming and Diving Teams from 1986 to 1989. Rocha was named "an All-American" each of his years at Auburn University, and won the 1987 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) National Championship on the 1-meter event.

He graduated from Auburn in 1989 with a bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice and moved to South Florida where he married U.S. Olympic Diver and Double Olympic Silver Medalist, Michele Mitchell, and became a US Citizen. Rocha worked as a police officer with the Delray Beach Police Department in Palm Beach County, and later moved with his family to Tucson, Arizona where he also served as a police officer. Michele Mitchell and Jose Luis Rocha were divorced in 2006 and Rocha moved to Austin, Texas where he worked as a Private Investigator. He joined the United States Army in 2007, and has deployed twice in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation New Dawn.

References

1966 births
Living people
Auburn Tigers men's swimmers
Mexican male divers
Divers at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Olympic divers for Mexico
Divers at the 1987 Pan American Games
Pan American Games bronze medalists for Mexico
Pan American Games medalists in diving
Medalists at the 1987 Pan American Games
20th-century Mexican people
21st-century Mexican people


Horseshoe Falls is the Canadian portion of Niagara Falls on the Niagara River, also known as the Canadian Falls

Horseshoe Falls may also refer to:

Places
Horseshoe Falls (British Columbia)
Horseshoe Falls (South Africa) near Sabie, Mpumalanga
Horseshoe Falls (Tasmania)
Horseshoe Falls (Wales)
 A waterfall and powerplant on the Bow River approximately 35 miles (55 km) west of Calgary, Alberta.

See also

 Horseshoe (disambiguation)
 Falls (disambiguation)
 Fall (disambiguation)


AMN082 (N,-dibenzhydrylethane-1,2-diamine) is a selective metabotropic glutamate receptor 7 (mGluR7) allosteric agonist. It mimics the effect of glutamate. AMN082 is the first selective mGluR7 agonist and has expanded the potential array of research opportunities on the effects of mGluR7 in the central nervous system.

Significance
The two main types of glutamate receptors are ionotropic receptors and metabotropic receptors. Ionotropic receptors (iGluRs) are fast-acting ligand-gated ion channels and include AMPA receptors, kainate receptors, and NMDA receptors. Metabotropic receptors are G-protein coupled receptors that mediate slower, longer-lasting effects through second messenger systems and are responsible for other neuronal functions that are not typically controlled by iGluRs. mGluRs are split into 3 separate groups (Group I, Group II, Group III) based on pharmacological profile, sequence homology, and preferred signal transduction pathway. mGlur7 is a member of Group III, the least studied of the groups. AMN082 is pharmacological tool used to expand research on Group III mGluRs.

References

MGlu7 receptor agonists
Diamines


Oh How We Danced is the debut studio album by the British musician Jim Capaldi.
The album was recorded while Traffic was on hiatus due to Steve Winwood's struggles with peritonitis and was released by Island Records in 1972. Like his contemporary albums with Traffic, it was unsuccessful in his native United Kingdom but did better in the United States, reaching number 82 in the Billboard 200 chart and producing the hit single "Eve", which reached number 91 in the Billboard Hot 100.

The track "Open Your Heart" is a surplus recording from Traffic's then most recent album, The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys. All of the remaining tracks, save "How Much Can a Man Really Take?", were recorded at Muscle Shoals Sound Studios with the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section.

Reception

Critical reception for Oh How We Danced was resoundingly positive. Rolling Stone applauded Capaldi's clever yet earnest lyrics and the strong collection of guest musicians, concluding that the album has "not a whiff of mediocrity to be heard." Allmusic's retrospective review complimented the strong set of songs and "its mellow vibe, generated by the genial familiarity of the players". They also made note of "Capaldi's sweet, unassuming voice", an echo of Rolling Stone'''s reference to his "sweet smooth easy voice." In a review for the 2012 reissue of the album, Terry Stauntman of the British magazine Classic Rock'' described the album as very close to Traffic latest works, with the difference that "the more soulful side of the band is given a sharper focus".

Track listing
All tracks composed by Jim Capaldi, except where indicated.
Side one
 "Eve" – 3:39
 "Big Thirst" (Jim Capaldi, Dave Mason) – 5:27
 "Love Is All You Can Try" – 3:23
 "Last Day of Dawn" – 4:24

Side two
 "Don't Be a Hero" – 5:58
 "Open Your Heart" – 4:04
 "How Much Can a Man Really Take?" – 5:21
 "Anniversary Song" (Saul Chaplin, Al Jolson) – 4:28 [Mislabeled on some releases as "Oh How We Danced"]

One further track, "Going Down Slow All the Way", was recorded at an unidentified studio in England and released as the b-side to the single "Eve". The track features only piano, tambourine, bass drum, and a single vocal, all presumably played by Jim Capaldi, who produced the track by himself. It was included as bonus of the 2012 CD release of the album.

Personnel
 Jim Capaldi – lead vocals, piano (track 6), acoustic guitar (track 4)

Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section
(except tracks 6-7)
 David Hood – bass
 Roger Hawkins – drums
 Barry Beckett – piano, organ (tracks 1, 5)
 Jimmy Johnson – electric guitar

Additional musicians
 Paul Kossoff – electric guitar (tracks 2, 4-5, 7-8)
 Dave Mason – harmonica (track 2) electric guitar solo (track 5)
 Steve Winwood – organ (track 1, 6), backing vocal (track 6), guitar (track 3)
 Chris Wood – flute (track 7), electric saxophone (track 6)
 Ric Grech – bass (track 6)
 Jim Gordon – drums (track 6)
 Rebop Kwaku Baah – percussion (tracks 4, 6), congas (track 7)
 Trevor Burton – bass (track 7)
 Mike Kellie – drums (track 7)
 Bob Griffin – piano (track 7)
 Sunny Leslie – backing vocal (track 2)

Technical
 Chris Blackwell, Jim Capaldi – producers
 Brian Humphries, Jerry Masters – engineer
 Neal Preston – cover photography

References

External links
Jim Capaldi's official website

1972 debut albums
Jim Capaldi albums
Albums produced by Chris Blackwell
Albums recorded at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio
Island Records albums


Low light, lowlights, or Low Light may refer to
 Another term for dimness
 Darkening strands of hair, the opposite of hair highlights
 "Low Light" (Pearl Jam song)
 "Low Light", a song by Idlewild from the album Hope Is Important
 Low-Light (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe
 "Low Lights", a song by Kanye West

See also
 Low light level television
 Low-light photography
 Night photography


Michael D. Knox (born 1946 in Wyandotte, Michigan, and raised in Grosse Ile, Michigan), is an American educator, psychologist, author, and Antiwar activist, living in Dunedin, Florida.  He is an Emeritus Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Mental Health Law and Policy; Affiliate Distinguished Professor, in the Department of Internal Medicine; and Affiliate Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Global Health at the University of South Florida (USF) in Tampa, Florida.

Education
Ph.D., University of Michigan, Department of Psychology, 1974
M.A., University of Michigan, Department of Psychology, 1973
M.S.W., University of Michigan, School of Social Work, 1971
B.A., Eastern Michigan University, Biology Major, Chemistry and Psychology Minors, 1968

Knox is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the Association for Psychological Science. Fellow status in both organizations is granted in recognition of outstanding and distinguished contributions to the science and profession of psychology. In 2005 he was inducted into Sigma Xi, the international honor society of research scientists and engineers.

Career
Knox's career has spanned the fields and topics of death and dying, community mental health, ethics, the prevention of HIV/AIDS, and peace. Much of his academic work has been accomplished at the University of South Florida, where he has been a faculty member since 1986. At USF, Knox has been responsible for more than $50 million in grants and other external funding to the university. He developed grant-funded collaborations with the USF Departments of Internal Medicine, Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Criminology and with the USF College of Public Health. He also developed grant-funded consortia with the University of California at San Francisco, University of Florida, University of Miami, University of Puerto Rico, University of the Virgin Islands, Florida A&M University, and Emory University.

As a tenured professor, he served on dissertation committees and taught courses including "Honors Seminar in Applied Ethics", "Death and Dying", and "HIV and Mental Health".  He has published and presented widely, primarily on the topics of HIV/AIDS, peace, community mental health, and planning for death. In 1995, he co-authored LAST WISHES: A Handbook to Guide Your Survivors. The book has been favorably reviewed by The Journal of the American Medical Association, the British medical journal The Lancet, and The Saturday Evening Post. He is the senior editor and contributor to HIV and Community Mental Healthcare, a book published in 1998 by The Johns Hopkins University Press.

Mental health work and scholarship
Before his tenure at the University of South Florida, Knox was director of the Western Tidewater Mental Health Center in Virginia (1978–1986). He also served on the faculty of the Eastern Virginia Medical School and on the board of directors of the Eastern Virginia Health Systems Agency. He has held a variety of leadership positions in national and state professional organizations and has been honored many times for his work.

Michael Knox joined the USF faculty in 1986. For nine years, Knox headed the only academic department of community mental health in the United States. As department chair, he directed an 80-member staff and oversaw an annual budget of $2.3 million. In 1995 and again in 1996, he was elected president of the USF Faculty Senate. He was elected chair of the Advisory Council of Faculty Senates for 1997/1998, an organization that represented all ten state universities and provided consultation to the chancellor and Florida Board of Regents regarding academic issues. Since 1997 he has held the title of distinguished university professor at USF. In 1999, as part of a sabbatical assignment related to end-of-life care, he served as a visiting scholar at the University of Oxford in England. His work is characterized by long-standing leadership positions in the field of community mental health, including service on the board of directors of the National Council of Community Mental Health Centers and advisory positions to the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals. In addition, he chaired the first steering committee for the National Registry of Community Mental Health Services and has conducted site reviews nationwide for the federal Center for Mental Health Services.

HIV/AIDS work and scholarship
As founder and director of the USF Center for HIV Education and Research, Knox oversaw an annual budget of well over $3 million. Since 1988, the USF Center has provided continuing education to more than 500,000 health and mental healthcare professionals and students.

As the Principal Investigator, Knox directed the Florida/Caribbean AETC, which was one of several centers based at leading universities around the country. The F/C AETC's mission was to ensure that physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, dentists, pharmacists, and other health professionals in Florida, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands receive state-of-the-art information, training, and consultation on the prevention and treatments of HIV and AIDS. Knox supervised the work of over 80 expert faculty in the field of HIV/AIDS as the Center worked collaboratively with the University of South Florida, the University of Puerto Rico, the University of Florida, the University of Miami, the University of the Virgin Islands and Florida A&M University to provide faculty and clinical training sites throughout the region.

Knox traveled to India in 2003 to speak and to dedicate two new educational programs associated with USF. He was co-chair of the American Foundation for AIDS Research's (amfAR) 16th National HIV/AIDS Update Conference held in March 2004 and delivered an opening plenary which argued against current US wars in favor of more government support for prevention.

Antiwar efforts
The long-standing antiwar activities of Michael Knox began in 1965 in opposition to the war in Vietnam.  As a delegate to the 20th National Student Congress, he introduced a successful resolution to hold an anti-war demonstration in August 1967 in front of the White House.  In 1970, Knox co-founded a draft counseling center and, in 1971, he blew the whistle on prohibited classified research at the University of Michigan and provided evidence that university researchers were perfecting weapon systems used by the military to kill and incapacitate other human beings.
Since then, he has continued to engage in speeches, debates, interviews and other actions regarding peace.

In 2005, Knox founded the US Peace Memorial Foundation. He directs its nationwide effort to recognize antiwar/peace leadership by writing and editing the US Peace Registry, awarding the annual US Peace Prize, providing educational programs, and eventually building a national monument - the US Peace Memorial - in Washington, D.C.
He was awarded the 2007 Marsella Psychologists for Social Responsibility Award. He has officiated at the awarding of the US Peace Prize every year since 2009. In 2018, he was included in Transcend Media's “In Pursuit of Peace and Justice: 100 Peace & Justice Leaders and Models.” Knox was awarded the 2022 Ralph K. White Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Psychological Association for his "ground-breaking theoretical and applied research which has led to new directions in developing cultures of peace including establishing and leading the non-profit US Peace Memorial Foundation."

Selected publications

 Ending U.S. Wars by Honoring Americans Who Work for Peace. 2021. PAX.

 (with L.R. Frank and A.M. Wagganer) "HIV/AIDS and Mental Disorders" in B. Lubotsky Levin and M.A. Becker's A Public Health Perspective of Women’s Mental Health. Springer.

 "HIV and the Older Adult" in K.S. Markides' The Encyclopedia of Health and Aging. 2007. SAGE Publications.

 (with Chenneville, T.) "Prevention and Education Strategies" in F. Fernandez & P. Ruiz's Psychiatric Aspects of HIV/AIDS. 2006. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.

 (with C.F. Clark and M.G. Dow) "Identifying and Treating Depression, Anxiety, and Dementia" in Beal, Orrick and Alfonso's HIV/AIDS Primary Care Guide. 2006. Crown House Publishing.

 "AIDS Education and Training (Foreword)" in Beal, Orrick and Alfonso's HIV/AIDS Primary Care Guide. 2006. Crown House Publishing.

 (with C.F. Clark and M.G. Dow) "Treatment of Mental Health Issues" in Steinhart, Orrick & Simpson's HIV/AIDS Primary Care Guide. 2002: University of Florida.

 (ed.) National Registry of AIDS Education and Training Centers. 2000. National Association of AIDS Education and Training Centers.

 (ed. with Sparks, C.H.) HIV and Community Mental Healthcare. 1998. The Johns Hopkins University Press.

 (ed. and contributor) HIV and Community Mental Healthcare. 1998. The Johns Hopkins University Press.

 (with Knox, L.P.). Last Wishes: A Handbook to Guide Your Survivors. Berkeley. 1995. Ulysses Press.

 (with Gaies, J.S.) "The Therapist and the Dying Client" in G.J. Stine's Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. 1993. Prentice Hall.

References

External links
 Department of Mental Health Law and Policy
 USF College of Public Health
 US Peace Memorial Foundation
 University of South Florida Department of Internal Medicine

21st-century American psychologists
American psychology writers
American anti-war activists
Living people
1946 births
University of Michigan School of Social Work alumni
American educators
20th-century American psychologists


TiLR is the world's first enterprise-grade telepresence robot developed by RoboDynamics Corporation. The Telepresence internet-connected Low cost Robot (TiLR) enables a user to instantly transport to a remote location whereby the robot would embody the user in the remote location. The advantage of robotic telepresence is reduced travel and downtime as well as increase throughput and collaboration.

Description
TiLR is essentially a video conferencing system on wheels. The user is able to commandeer the robot by remote control, driving the robot and controlling the pan/tilt/zoom function of the robot's camera. As such TiLR provides a means for frictionless ad hoc face-to-face conversations as well as remote audio and visual monitoring.

Operations

There are two components to the TiLR telepresence system. The robot TiLR is stationed at the remote site. The second component is the TiLR Command Center (TCC) software that installs on any PC with a webcam and broadband connection. The user simply launches the TiLR Command Center and logs into TiLR. Once logged in, there is bi-directional video/audio between the robot and the TCC. The user is then able to commandeer the robot from remote, take snapshots, and even record the session for later viewing. TiLR Command Center is currently only supported on Windows XP/Vista. The next incarnation of the TiLR Command Center will be based on Flash technology where users will be able to log into TiLR and commandeer the robot from the World Wide Web.

Development
TiLR was introduced in late 2007 by RoboDynamics following the MILO telepresence platform which was introduced in 2004. This makes TiLR a 14th generation telepresence robot developed by RoboDynamics. In August 2008 RoboDynamics kicked off their Beta Program by placing robots into various organizations in exchange for feedback. The very first program participant was the Google Lunar X Prize team of the X Prize Foundation. RoboDynamics planned to continue the TiLR Beta Program until the end of 2008.

References

External links
 RoboDynamics Corporation website
 TiLR Beta Program website

Rolling robots
Robots of the United States
Telepresence robots


Rochelle "Rockie" Gardiner was an American astrologer. Her syndicated astrology column, The Rockie Horoscope, appeared in a variety of publications (mostly alternative weekly newspapers), on her own website, and she also gave custom astrological readings for individuals.

Biography
She was born in 1938 in Brooklyn, New York, and raised in Lawrence, New York, on Long Island. Gardiner was a Sagittarius. She attended Syracuse University and graduated from Barnard College.

Following graduation, she worked as an editor of children's books at Doubleday Publishing, along with Arthur Miller and Shirley Jackson.

In 1958, she married Peter Gardiner, a pioneering film director of psychedelic "pop films" that were predecessors to music videos. Peter and Rockie had a son, Jeremy, born in 1963 and in 1966 the small Gardiner family moved to Los Angeles, California, where Rockie discovered an interest in astrology.

Peter died in 1968 and Rockie remained single the rest of her life. Rockie died unexpectedly following a brief illness on October 31, 2008, Halloween Day, at 11:11 a.m.

Rockie Horoscope astrology column
Rockie's astrology column, The Rockie Horoscope, first appeared in the L.A. Weekly in 1983. Rockie typically wrote a general forecast for each weekday telling about the overall astrological influences and how they would affect a given day. She would also write a general forecast for the week ahead. These would be followed by weekly sign readings for the individual sun signs.

Her columns were known for their humor and wit. She frequently included pop-culture references to celebrities, politics, professional sports and pop music. Rockie famously predicted that U.S. President Ronald Reagan would die in office and that George H. W. Bush would assume the position, as well as that Jesse Jackson would be a vice-presidential candidate.

Sometimes, when she had not gotten around to updating her website, she would take down the old information and post the following message: "Rockie is soaking up atmosphere and astrological insight."

Newspapers that carried her column included: The Improper Bostonian, The L.A. Weekly, The Las Vegas Weekly, The O.C. Weekly, The Philadelphia Weekly and The Village Voice. It was even carried in Vogue magazine. In addition to her newspaper column and website, she also sold customized sign readings to individuals.

Sources
 RIP Rockie Gardiner, Astrologer, by KateC, Published November 5, 2008, on Deep Glamour.net. Retrieved on November 11, 2008.
 Rockie Ascendant: A Farewell to Our Favorite Stargazer, by Jeremy Gardiner and Kristen Stavola, Published November 5, 2008, in the L.A. Weekly. Retrieved on November 11, 2008.
 Rockie Horoscope: From LoveToKnow Horoscopes by Rdube and Kelly Roper. Retrieved on November 11, 2008.

1938 births
2008 deaths
American astrologers
Barnard College alumni
20th-century astrologers
21st-century astrologers
People from Lawrence, Nassau County, New York


John Daly (1838 – April 26, 1906) was an American sportsman, professional gambler and underworld figure in New York during the late 19th century. A protégé of John Morrissey, he was involved in illegal gambling on Broadway and in Midtown Manhattan for over thirty years. He was also among the principal rivals of "Honest" John Kelly up until the turn of the 20th century and was considered one of the most successful and wealthiest gamblers in New York at the time of his death.

Biography
John Daly was born in Troy, New York in 1838. He became interested in gambling at an early age spending much of his time at the local gambling house, one of many owned by sportsman John Morrissey, with whom he soon became acquainted. Daly became a protégé of his and was eventually brought to New York where he earned a small fortune by the late 1860s. He owned a number of establishments, such as the Long Branch Club in Long Branch, New Jersey; however, his popular Broadway gaming resort was the one that he was most associated with. Daly later moved his gambling operations uptown and, in 1885, opened "John Daly's" at West Twenty-Ninth Street, which became nationally known and one of the most popular spots in the city during the next twenty years.

Thoroughbred racing
Daly was also involved in horseracing during this time and was considered one of the biggest operators in the race-track betting rings in the country. He also raced horses, both alone and with partners, before forming a partnership with David Gideon in 1891. In their first year, they won the Futurity Stakes with His Highness and would dominate the competition for another four years. They twice won the Futurity with The Butterflies (1894) and Requital (1895) as well as the Suburban Handicap with Ramapo. The firm "Gideon & Daly" established a breeding farm near Red Bank, New Jersey called the "Holmdel Stud", but the property was leased when Daly retired from horse racing. Daly had mixed success in this enterprise, having lost a lot of money on both betting on the races and in the stock market.

John Daly was associated with many political and underworld figures in his lifetime but was reportedly far closer to fellow sportsmen gamblers such as William Busteed, Sam Emery, Davy Johnson, Dinky Davis, and Richard Canfield, his eventual successor. His establishments were sometimes subjected to police raids, and Daly was alleged to have paid protection money as high as $100,000 a week to the New York Police Department, which led to his later involvement in the Lexow Committee investigations. Daly was described as "a man of quiet, engaging manners" and regarded as a "generous employer", often continuing to pay his operators and allowing their families to live in his clubhouses even while his clubs were shut down by police raids. He also donated large portions of his income to charities in his later years. He was in ill health for two years prior to his death. Daly's wife died in 1905, and Daly died at his East Fifty-Fourth Street home on the evening of April 26, 1906.

References

Further reading
Asbury, Herbert. Sucker's Progress: An Informal History of Gambling in America from the Colonies to Canfield. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1938.
Burrows, Edwin G. and Mike Wallace. Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Kroeger, Brooke. Nellie Bly: Daredevil, Reporter, Feminist. New York: Times Books, 1994.

1838 births
1906 deaths
American gamblers
American racehorse owners and breeders
Owners of Belmont Stakes winners
Criminals from New York City
Sportspeople from Troy, New York
Sportspeople from Manhattan


The Maeght Foundation or Fondation Maeght () is a museum of modern art on the Colline des Gardettes, a hill overlooking Saint-Paul de Vence in the southeast of France about  from Nice. It was established by Marguerite and Aimé Maeght in 1964 and houses paintings, sculptures, collages, ceramics and all forms of modern art.

The collection includes works by many important 20th-century artists including Jean Arp, Pierre Bonnard, Georges Braque, Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Sam Francis, Alberto Giacometti, Wassily Kandinsky, Ellsworth Kelly, Fernand Léger, Anne Madden and Joan Miró among others.

The building was designed by the Spanish architect Josep Lluís Sert, houses more than 12,000 pieces of art and attracts "on average, 200,000 visitors ... every year". There is a small chapel dedicated to Saint Bernard, in memory of Bernard, the son of Aimé and Marguerite Maeght who died of leukemia, aged eleven. The foundation is entirely independently funded with no reliance on state subsidies. Adrien Maeght is the chairman of the foundation's administrative council, which also includes Isabelle Maeght and her sister Yoyo Maeght.

See also
 Galerie Maeght
 Labyrinth (Joan Miró) — sculpture installation at the museum.
 Nuits de la Fondation Maeght Vol. 1 (1970) by Albert Ayler
 Fondation Maeght Nights, Volume 1 & 2 (1970) by Sun Ra Arkestra

References

External links

 http://www.fondation-maeght.com

Art museums and galleries in France
Museums in Alpes-Maritimes
Modern art museums
Art museums established in 1964
1964 establishments in France
Joan Miró
Maeght


Namita Gokhale (born 1956) is an Indian writer, editor, festival director, and publisher. Her debut novel, Paro: Dreams of Passion was released in 1984, and she has since written fiction and nonfiction, and edited nonfiction collections. She conceptualized and hosted the Doordarshan show Kitaabnama: Books and Beyond and is a founder and co-director of the Jaipur Literature Festival. She won the 2021 Sahitya Akademi Award.

Early life and education
Gokhale was born in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh in 1956. She was raised in Nainital by her aunts and her grandmother Shakuntala Pande. She studied English literature Jesus and Mary College at Delhi University, and at age 18 married Rajiv Gokhale and had two daughters while she was a student. She refused to attend a course about the writings of Geoffrey Chaucer, and was dismissed from university by age 26. By age forty, she had survived cancer and her husband had died.

Career
While a student, at age 17, Gokhale began editing and managing the 1970s-era film magazine Super, and continued publishing the magazine for seven years, until it closed in the early 1980s. After Super closed, she began writing the story that became her debut novel.

In addition to her writing career, Gokhale hosted a hundred episodes of Kitaabnama: Books and Beyond, a multilingual book-show she conceptualized for Doordarshan. According to Raksha Kumar, writing for The Hindu in 2013, "Kitaabnama tries to showcase the multilingual diversity of Indian literature by inviting laureates from different languages to talk about their work. It reminds one of the times when book stores were not overwhelmed by technical writing and self-help books; when literature and quality writing were not considered a waste of time; when the pleasure of reading was experienced by many."

Gokhale is also a founder and co-director of the Jaipur Literature Festival, along with William Dalrymple and Sanjoy K Roy. She was also an advisor to the 'Mountain Echoes' literary festival in Bhutan. She conceptualised the 'International Festival of Indian Literature-Neemrana' 2002, and 'The Africa Asia Literary Conference', 2006. Gokhale also advises The Himalayan Echo Kumaon Festival for Arts and Literature or the Abbotsford Literary Weekend.

From 2010 through 2012, she traveled and conducted administrative work as a committee member of Indian Literature Abroad (ILA), an initiative by the Ministry of Culture, Government of India, for a project intended to translate contemporary literature from Indian languages into the eight UNESCO languages, but after funding was not provided by the government, she shifted her efforts to work with Jaipur Bookmark, the publishing imprint of the Jaipur Literature Festival.

She is also the co-founder-director of Yatra Books, established in 2005 with Neeta Gupta, a multilingual publishing company specialising in creative writing and translations in English, Hindi and Indian regional languages.

Influences
In a 2017 interview with R Krithika of The Hindu, Gokhale described the influences on her writing as "very insidious things. Books and ideas can trigger responses that take a long time to come to fruition." She named The Tale of Genji  as a major influence, and listed "Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Muriel Spark, Kalidasa." In 1998, Nalini Ganguly writes for India Today, "All of her work seems to be stuck with her personality as a Kumaoni Brahmin girl," and quotes Gokhale, "My way of looking at the world remains trapped in that primary identity; once you start loving the hills they hold on to you." In 2010, Nita Sathyendran writes for The Hindu, "The author is also "deeply fascinated" by Indian mythology, with a lot of her books inspired by its tales and characters. It has also led her to writing books such as The Book of Shiva (on Shaivaite philosophy) and an illustrated version of the Mahabharata for children."

Critical reception
According to Harmony Magazine, Gokhale "burst upon the literary scene in 1984 with a rather unconventional but sparkling social satire, Paro: Dreams of Passion, which swirled around the cocktail circuit of Delhi, capturing the shenanigans of Page 3 celebs, long before the term was even coined." Somak Ghoshal, writing for Mint in 2014, described the novel as "A chronicle of the debauched existence of the rich and famous in Bombay (now Mumbai) and Delhi," that "invoked horror and outrage when it first appeared in India. Few seemed to have got its uproarious humour," and "If Indian parents forbade their children to touch the book, the reaction in the West was quite the opposite, where it was received as a work of literary, rather than pulp, fiction." According to the Press Trust of India in 2020, it "has remained a cult classic." It was later re-issued as the double edition Double Bill: Priya and Paro in 2018, with the 2011 sequel Priya: In Incredible Indyaa, described by Paro Anand, writing for Outlook in 2011, as a "racy read" and by Somak Ghoshal, writing for Mint in 2014, as "not as well received" as Paro. A review of Priya by Kishwar Desai for India Today states, "Written in the same sparkling Hinglish style which had lent Paro its  appeal, Priya's escapades are probably not as scandalous as her baate noire's were. But Gokhale's acerbic touch has not deserted her." In a 2011 review for The Hindu, Sravasti Datta writes Priya "intrigues but doesn't shock. Why? Because sexual frankness is everywhere, be it in books or films."

In 1994, Gokhale published Gods Graves and Grandmother, described by Subhash K Jha of India Today as "remarkable on two counts. First, its structure of a modern fable held aloft by the gauziest of irony. And second, its searching scan of life in the downwardly mobile class of the Indian metropolises migrants who, by emotional and pecuniary manipulation, get rich quick, breaching the bastion of the bourgeois class as a casual enterprise." It was later adapted into a musical play.

In 1998, Gokhale published the nonfiction Mountain Echoes: Reminiscences of Kumaoni Women, a book of oral biography, that explores the Kumaoni way of life through the lives of four women: her aunt Shivani, the Hindi novelist, her grandmother Shakuntala Pande, Tara Pande and Jeeya (Laxmi Pande), which was one of several of her works described by Nita Sathyendran, writing for The Hindu in 2010, that "narrate tales of strong women."

Gokhale edited the 2014 book Travelling In, Travelling Out, described by Danielle Pagani in The Hindu as an essay collection that "take the reader from Asia to America and Europe, discovering situations and different ways to travel. Every author shares his or her personal experience and the stories are very different from each other — from unusual encounters with Maoist guerrillas in the jungle to Western cities and difficulties encountered there by immigrants," and "Although rich in detail, some of the stories are short, leaving the readers wanting more."

Her novel Things to Leave Behind was published in November 2016. Shahnaz Siganporia writes for Vogue India, "Veteran publisher, prolific author, founder-director of the Jaipur Literary Festival and advisor to Mountain Echoes in Bhutan—Namita Gokhale's latest novel is considered her most ambitious yet." Rakhshanda Jalil writes for Scroll.in, "Things To Leave Behind is the third in her trilogy of books on the Himalayas, coming after The Book of Shadows and A Himalayan Love Story. As in the previous books, once again she demonstrates her strength in painting the most vivid pictures of the hills and dales in and around Naineetal and Almora. Her eye for the small details coupled with her near-photographic memory for the sights and sounds she imbibed as a child and the stories she heard from her grandmother and grand-aunts help in creating a virtual tableau before the reader’s inward eye." In a review by Ravi Shankar Etteth of The New Indian Express, Gokhale is described as writing with "chutzpah, imagination and leaps of faith taken in the ordinary pursuit of the extraordinary." Shreya Roy Chowdhury writes for The Times of India that the novel is the "third in a series set in the Kumaon hills between 1840 and 1912," and that the "experiences of Gokhale’s own family, especially its women members, have informed her stories." In a review for Kitaab, Dr. Pallavi Narayan writes, "the author seems to be pointing to the patriarchal functioning of much of society—documenting the histories of men while conveniently absenting the women, or portraying them as shadow figures. But what the novel is primarily about is the tussle of women with their dependence on men, and how this frames a woman’s identity within that of the man “taking care” of her at the moment." Annie Zaidi writes in a review for Mint, "The novel moves at a brisk trot, with the result that the drama inherent in the lives of these characters is rather underplayed. [...] Gokhale’s light touch also masks her more serious musings upon the painful clamp of caste and religion, the lack of education and independent property, and how these negative forces narrowed lives in ways that could break a woman’s spirit, or declaw a spirited one."

Her first YA fiction book Lost in Time was published in 2017, and described by R Krithika of The Hindu as "a lovely tale of time travel, friendship, loss and love."

Gokhale edited the 2017 anthology of prose and poetry The Himalayan Arc: Journeys East of South-east, featuring work by 28 authors from the region Gokhale described as "the bend of the Himalayas, the East of South-east, including Nepal, Bhutan, north-east India, and Myanmar." In a review published in The News Lens, Omair Ahmad writes, "These histories have largely been forgotten in favor of the lines drawn on the map by the British Empire and its successors, but they have re-emerged, and have to be understood, if we are to understand the complex political geography of the region."

Her 2020 novel Jaipur Journals features the Jaipur Literature Festival. Aishwarya Sahasrabudhe writes for Firstpost, "we are taken in five days through the lives of some interesting characters who are in one capacity or another part of what is often referred to as the Kumbh Mela of Literature, the Jaipur Literature Festival." Pragya Tiwari writes in a review for Scroll.in, "Gokhale achieves the impossible by going beyond approximating the alchemy of the festival and leading us to its beating heart. The point of the festival is to keep asking repeatedly, like the heart beats – what does it mean to be a writer?"

Works

Fiction
 Paro: Dreams of Passion, 1984
 Gods, Graves, and Grandmother, 1994
 A Himalayan Love Story, 1996
 The Book of Shadows, 1999
 Shakuntala: The Play of Memory, 2005
 Priya: In Incredible Indyaa, 2011
 The Habit of Love, 2012
 Things to Leave Behind, 2016
 Lost in Time: Ghatotkacha and the Game of Illusions, 2017
 Betrayed by Hope : A Play on the Life of Michael Madhusudan Dutt (co-authored with Malashri Lal), 2020
 The Blind Matriarch,  published in 2021

Non-fiction
 Mountain Echoes – Reminiscences of Kumaoni Women, 1994
 The Book of Shiva, 2000
 The Puffin Mahabharata, 2009
 In Search of Sita(co-edited with Malashri Lal), 2009
 Travelling In, Travelling Out (edited), 2014
 Himalaya: Adventures, Meditations, Life(co-edited with Ruskin Bond), 2016
 The Himalayan Arc: Journeys East of South-east (edited), 2018
 Finding Radha: The Quest for Love, 2018

Honors and awards
 2017 Centenary National Award for Literature from the Asam Sahitya Sabha
 2017 Valley of Words Book Award, Best English Fiction (Things to Leave Behind)
 2018 International Dublin Literary Award long list (Things to Leave Behind)
 2019 Sushila Devi Literature Award, 'Best Book of Fiction Written by a Woman Author' (Things to Leave Behind)
2021 7th Yamin Hazarika Woman of Substance Award
2021 Sahitya Akademi Award for Things to Leave Behind

References

External links
Official Website
Jaipur Literature Festival Official Website

Indian women novelists
Indian women publishers
Indian publishers (people)
Living people
1956 births
Writers from Lucknow
Businesspeople from Lucknow
English-language writers from India
20th-century Indian novelists
21st-century Indian novelists
20th-century Indian women writers
21st-century Indian women writers
20th-century publishers (people)
21st-century publishers (people)
Women writers from Uttar Pradesh
Novelists from Uttar Pradesh
Businesswomen from Uttar Pradesh
21st-century Indian businesswomen
21st-century Indian businesspeople
Delhi University alumni
Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in English
Himalayan studies


This is a list of trans characters in fiction,  i.e. characters that either self-identify as trans or have been identified by outside parties to be trans. Listed characters are either recurring characters, cameos, guest stars, or one-off characters. This page does not include trans characters in film or television.

For more information about fictional characters in other parts of the LGBTQ community, see the lists of lesbian (with sub-pages for characters in anime and animation), bisexual (with sub-sections for characters in anime and animation), gay, non-binary, pansexual, asexual, and intersex characters.

The names are organized alphabetically by surname (i.e. last name), or by single name, if the character does not have a surname. If more than two characters are in one entry, the last name of the first character is used.

Animation

Comics

Games

Literature

Theatre

Plays

Musicals

Operas

See also

 List of fictional polyamorous characters
 Lists of LGBT figures in fiction and myth
 LGBT themes in comics
 List of LGBT-themed speculative fiction
 List of LGBT characters in soap operas
 List of LGBT-related films

Notes

References

Citations

Bibliography

Trans
Transgender-related lists


Vice Admiral Terrance Thomas Etnyre is a retired flag officer of the United States Navy.

Etnyre graduated from the University of Michigan in 1970, and was commissioned an Ensign in July 1971 at Officer Candidate School, Newport, Rhode Island. His early sea and shore assignments included: Damage Control Assistant in  homeported in Naples, Italy; Repair Officer in ; Plant Performance Evaluation Officer for the AIW nuclear propulsion prototype, Idaho Falls, Idaho; Engineer Officer, ; Member, Nuclear Propulsion Examining Board, Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet; and Executive Officer in .

In December 1987, Vice Adm. Etnyre assumed command of . Under his command, Lynde McCormick, as a part of Surface Action Group Bravo, participated in "Operation Praying Mantis", the United States' response to the mining of the Persian Gulf and the mine damage to . Following command, he was assigned as Special Assistant for Nuclear Propulsion on the staffs of Commander, Naval Surface Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet and Commander, Naval Air Forces, U.S. Pacific Fleet and Senior Member of the Nuclear Propulsion Mobile Training Team. He then served in the office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Surface Warfare, as the Aegis Cruiser/Destroyer and Anti-Air Warfare Branch Head.

In November 1992, Vice Adm. Etnyre assumed command of . During this tour, Arkansas received two Battle Efficiency Awards and three consecutive Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet, Golden Anchor awards for excellence in personnel retention and quality of life programs. Vice Adm. Etnyre reported in September 1995 as Executive Assistant to the Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet. From June 1996 to June 1998 he was the Director, Plans Division in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Threat Reduction.

He was selected for flag rank in 1998 and served as Commander, South Atlantic Force, U.S. Atlantic Fleet. Vice Adm. Etnyre served as Vice Commander, Naval Sea Systems Command until May 2001. He served as Commander, Cruiser-Destroyer Group One from June 2001 to June 2002. His last assignment was as Commander, Naval Surface Forces Pacific from March 2005 to February 2008.

His personal awards included the Defense Superior Service Medal, the Legion of Merit (six awards), the Bronze Star with Combat V, the Meritorious Service Medal (three awards), the Navy Commendation Medal (two awards) and the Navy Achievement Medal.

References

External links

Living people
United States Navy vice admirals
Recipients of the Legion of Merit
Recipients of the Defense Superior Service Medal
University of Michigan alumni
1947 births


MrsP.com is a free children's entertainment website.  It stars actress Kathy Kinney as Mrs. P, a redheaded Irishwoman who reads classic children's stories from her "Magic Library."  The target audience for the website is kids between the ages of 3-12, and its goal is to "encourage a lifetime love of reading."  It has no advertising and no subscription fees.  The site is produced by Mrs P Enterprises, LLC and was created by Kinney, who played Mimi on The Drew Carey Show, TV writer and producer Clay Graham, and former entertainment and New Media executive Dana Plautz.

Content
The primary content offered on MrsP.com is a library of streaming video episodes.  The episodes range in length from 5–30 minutes and feature the Mrs. P character seated near a fire in her "Magic Library."  She offers a short, often humorous introduction, usually based on one of her youthful adventures and related in some way to the story she is about to read.  She then reads the story directly to the camera.  The videos include illustrations or photographs, but focus primarily on the emotive performances of the storyteller "in the hope that viewers will use their imaginations."

Stories read by Mrs. P on the website include Jack and the Beanstalk, Little Red Riding Hood, The Tale of Peter Rabbit and Sleeping Beauty.  New stories are added every few weeks.

The site also features an animated game in which a stuffed dog, Spyri, comes to life, as well as a "window" in which various visitors appear, including actor Robert Blanche (World Trade Center, Ghost Whisperer) as a singing policeman trying to woo Mrs. P.

History
Development of MrsP.com began in April 2007, when Clay Graham, who had been the head writer and an executive producer of The Drew Carey Show, first had the idea of creating a "storytelling" website.  Dana Plautz, who had been a marketing executive at Hanna-Barbera, joined soon after as a partner and co-president, and they approached Kathy Kinney, who was their "first -- and only -- choice" to play Mrs. P. Kinney also is co-president and co-creator of the website.

The site launched at midnight on November 10, 2008.  Its production offices are in Portland, Oregon and Los Angeles.  Powell's Books, the world's largest independent bookstore, supports the site with a "Mrs. P Aisle" on its website,  www.powells.com, and with other promotional activities.

Mrs. P made her first national TV appearance on Dec. 6, 2008 in a live broadcast from the Manhattan FAO Schwarz Toy Store for the CBS Early Show.  She recommended her favorite children's books for the holiday season and read The Princess and the Pea to an audience of children.

On December 9, 2008, MrsP.com began offering videos from its library for purchase and download on the iTunes Store.  Ten percent of all MrsP.com's after-tax profits will be donated by Mrs P Enterprises, LLC to literacy organizations.

Mrs. P made an appearance at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, the nation's largest book fair, on April 25, 2009.  She read to a crowd of several hundred children and parents from the Target-sponsored Children's Stage.

On April 27, 2009, MrsP.com won the National Parenting Center Seal of Approval.  In its review, the Center called the website "beautifully conceived" and "beautifully rendered," adding that "the site felt extremely genuine in its desire to help children develop a love of reading and did so by creating a fun environment for them" in which to be read to.

TeachersFirst.com, a website resource "by teacher, for teachers" reviewed MrsP.com in May, 2009, stating "You almost want to toast marshmallows on the open fire as you cyber-curl under Mrs. P's feet by the fireplace."  The teacher's website also said MrsP.com "will thrill your eager readers for hours" - although warning "do not even try this one on a slow connection."

On May 27, 2009, MrsP.com was chosen by the American Library Association as one of its "Great Web Sites for Kids."

References

External links
  Mrs. P's Magic Library

American entertainment websites
American children's websites


The Zhuoying Spring (, literally "washing out the tassel spring") is a culturally significant artesian karst spring located in historical center of the city of Jinan, Shandong Province, China. It is listed among the 72 famous springs
() of Jinan (as number 19.). The spring forms a large spring pool, the Palace Pool (), that is used as a public outdoor swimming pool.

The name "Zhuoying Spring" comes from a poem from Mencius, "Li Lou Shang" (), that contains the phrase "wash out the tassel" ().

When the army of the Jin dynasty invaded Jinan moving southward into the territory of the Southern Song Dynasty, the local garrison commander, Guan Sheng (), refused to surrender. A bloody battle ensued and the soldiers washed the textile decorations of their lancets in the Palace Pool.

The name "Palace Pool" dates back to the time of the Ming Dynasty, when the De Wang Palace () was constructed at the site and the spring pool was included into its grounds. Today, the pool lies in a historical residential neighborhood with private residences on the water edge.

References

See also
List of sites in Jinan

Buildings and structures in Shandong


Dov Zur (; born 1956) is an Israeli politician and the former mayor of Rishon LeZion.

Biography and personal life
Zur was born in Rishon LeZion on October 17, 1955, to a Syrian mother and Hungarian father.

Zur is a divorcee and father of three children. His partner is Ariela Israeli, who served as head of the Education Administration of Rishon LeZion

Political career
Zur first ran for the Rishon LeZion City Council in 1993, and was elected. He served as Deputy Mayor under Meir Nitzan, but Resigned to serve in the Opposition. In 1998, he ran for Mayor of Rishon LeZion under his own party, "Quality Rishon" (Rishon Shel Echut), He lost to Nitzan, and continued to serve in the opposition. He ran again in 2003 under the Shinui Party, winning 37.55% of the Vote.

Zur was elected on November 11, 2008, beating Meir Nizan, who had served as mayor of Rishon Lezion for 25 years. Zur received 52.75% of the vote. He won Re-election in 2013 with 70.7% of the vote, and announced he would seek re-election in 2018. He ran against former Deputy Mayor, Raz Kinstlich, winning 31.89% of the vote in the First Round to Kinslitch's 21.77%. In the Second Round, Zur was defeated with 47.37% of the vote against Kinslitch's 52.63%. He announced his retirement from the City Council subsequent to his loss

As Mayor of Rishon LeZion
After becoming mayor of Rishon LeZion, Zur made efforts to cancel construction permits granted by his predecessor, for environmental considerations. He abolished Middle school, extending the length of high school education to 6 years. Zur promoted the construction of the Brown Line of the Tel Aviv Light Rail, and offered to have Municipal authorities help fund the project.

As part of a real-estate corruption investigation, on December 3, 2017, Tzur was detained for 8 days, on suspicion of accepting bribes, conspiracy to commit a crime, fraud and breach of trust. He was then released into a 10-day house arrest, and prohibitied from returning to his duties as Mayor for another 25 days. At the end of January 2018 he resumed his duties under restrictions, and was banned from attending or attending meetings of the Planning and Building Committee, the Tenders Committee, and the city’s Economic Society. In March 2019, the police stated that sufficient evidence had been found to substantiate suspicions that he had committed a bribery offense.

References

1956 births
Living people
Mayors of Rishon LeZion
Tel Aviv University alumni
Israeli people of Syrian-Jewish descent
Israeli people of Hungarian-Jewish descent


Annerly was a sternwheel steamboat that operated on the upper Kootenay River in British Columbia and northwestern Montana from 1892 to 1896.

Design and construction
Annerly was built in 1892 at Jennings, Montana on the Kootenay River for the partnership of Dupuy & Jones.  Annerly was a small steam vessel with scant accommodations.

Operations on Kootenay River
Annerly was the first American steamer to run on the upper Kootenay river.  Annerly first arrived at Fort Steele, BC, then the principal settlement in the region, in May, 1893.

During the navigation seasons (generally fall and spring) of 1893 through 1895, Annerly was operated from Jennings, Montana north up the Kootenay River across the international border into British Columbia to a point on the river known as North Star Landing, upriver from Fort Steele.  Annerly loaded ore at North Star landing and then transported the ore south to Jennings to connect with the Great Northern Railway.  Annerly's commanders included Capt. James D. Miller (1830–1914) and Capt. Irvin B. Sandborn.

Rescue mission in Jennings Canyon
Operations on the Kootenay river were made hazardous by the Jennings Canyon.  Of the six sternwheelers that were employed on the upper Kootenay River, only Annerly was not wrecked or seriously damaged in the canyon.  Steamers sometimes ran in pairs through the canyon.  On July 12, 1896, Annerly under Captain Sandborn, was running Jennings Canyon ahead of Rustler.  Rustler hit a rock which made a hole in the hull near the boiler.  Captain Sandborn's wife noticed something wrong with Rustler and called out to her husband.  Sandborn then turned Annerly around and went back up the canyon.  He arrived in time to take off all 19 of Rustler'''s passengers and crew just before Rustler was washed off the rock and rolled over.

DismantledAnnerly was dismantled in 1896.

Notes

Further reading
 Faber, Jim, Steamer's Wake—Voyaging down the old marine highways of Puget Sound, British Columbia, and the Columbia River, Enetai Press, Seattle, WA 1985
 Timmen, Fritz, Blow for the Landing'', 75-78, 134, Caxton Printers, Caldwell, ID 1972

External links
 Columbia Basin Institute of Regional History
 Fort Steele Heritage Town

Paddle steamers of British Columbia
Regional District of East Kootenay
Transportation in Lincoln County, Montana
Steamboats of the Kootenay River
1892 ships


Omer Goldman Granot, from the Tel-Aviv suburb of Ramat HaSharon, is an Israeli actress. She was a member of the Shministim, a young Israeli conscientious objector who became famous for being the daughter of Naftali Granot, former deputy to Mossad’s chief Meir Dagan.

She was sentenced to 21 days in military prison for refusing to serve the Israel Defense Forces on 22 September 2008, along with Tamar Katz and Mia Tamarin. She is one of about 40 high school students who signed the 2008 high-school seniors’ ("Shministim") protest letter. In order to prepare herself for her incarceration in a military prison, Goldman went to a psychologist every week. She has spent a second term in prison for refusing to serve again.

She notes that the crucial moment of her political awakening occurred when she went to the Palestinian village Shufa where the IDF had set up a roadblock and fired rubber bullets on a Palestinian demonstration.

From 2014 to 2018, Goldman was the female lead in the Israeli TV series Shchuna, and in 2018, she appeared as a regular in the first season of False Flag.

Aside from working as an actress Goldman also started to work as a director since 2020. For the tv series Palmach she did not only act in 4 episodes but also directed 11 episodes herself.

Filmography
 2013: Bitter Lemon (short)
 2014-2018: Shchuna (TV series, 101 episodes)
 2017: Hachaverim Shel Naor (TV series, 1 episode)
 2017: Shilton Hatzlalim  (TV series, 1 episode)
 2018: False Flag (Kfulim)  (TV series, 6 episodes)
 2019: Esau
 2021: Palmach TV series, 4 episodes)

References
First Person: Omer Goldman - Financial Times 2008-11-22
Father, forgive me, I will not fight for your Israel - The Sunday Times 2008-12-10 (archived)
december18th.org
whywerefuse.org
Ed Asner: The Shministim - Huffington Post 2008-12-16
Radio interview with Omer Goldman - The Current (2009-1-8), a radio program of CBC with Anna Maria Tremonti

External links

Israeli conscientious objectors
21st-century Israeli actresses
Living people
1989 births
People from Ramat HaSharon


Whale Meat Again is the second studio album by the British musician Jim Capaldi, released by Island Records in 1974. Like his first solo album, it failed commercially in his native United Kingdom but did better in the United States. With help from the opening track, "It's All Right", which spent seven weeks in the Billboard Hot 100 and peaked at number 55, the album reached number 191 in the Billboard 200.

Reception

AllMusic's retrospective review commented that the album was more focused on mood than Capaldi's debut, with longer songs built on soulful grooves "giving this album a funkier, open feel that lingers longer than the songs." In a review for the 2012 reissue of the album, Terry Stauntman of the British magazine Classic Rock remarked how this album "represents a further moving away from Traffic's sound and Capaldi marking out his own territory more forcefully".

Track listing
All tracks composed by Jim Capaldi except where indicated.
Side one
 "It's All Right" – 4:12
 "Whale Meat Again" – 4:33
 "Yellow Sun" – 7:16
 "I've Got So Much Lovin'" – 4:45

Side two
 "Low Rider" – 5:40
 "My Brother" – 5:02
 "Summer Is Fading" – 8:30 [concept credited to Vivian Stanshall]
 "We'll Meet Again" (Hughie Charles, Ross Parker) – 1:25 [Unlisted track]

Two additional tracks were recorded in the same sessions. The first, an acoustic version of "Whale Meat Again", was released only on the B-side of the single "It's All Up to You" (from the album Short Cut Draw Blood). The second, "You & Me", was eventually released on the compilation album Koss. Capaldi also re-recorded "You & Me" with partially different lyrics and a new title, "The Contender", for his album of the same name.

Personnel

Musicians
 Jim Capaldi – lead vocals

Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section
(all tracks except on "Summer Is Fading")
 Pete Carr – lead guitars
 Jimmy Johnson – guitar
 Barry Beckett – piano (except on "Whale Meat Again"), steel drum on "It's All Right"
 David Hood – bass (except on "Yellow Sun")
 Roger Hawkins – drums
 Muscle Shoals Horns – horns (tracks 1-2, 4, 6)

Additional musicians
 Rabbit Bundrick – piano and organ on "Whale Meat Again"
 Chris Stainton – organ on "Yellow Sun"
 Jean Roussel – bass on "Yellow Sun", clavinet on "Low Rider"
 Chris Stewart – fuzz bass on "My Brother"
 Remi Kabaka – percussion on "Low Rider"
 Steve Winwood – organ on "It's All Right" and "Summer Is Fading", bass on "Summer Is Fading"
 Anthony "Bubs" White – guitars on "Summer Is Fading"
 Gaspar Lawal – drums on "Summer Is Fading"
 Derek Quinn – cabassa on "Summer Is Fading"
 Rebop Kwaku Baah – conga on "Summer Is Fading"
 Potato Smith – backing vocals on "It's All Right" and "Yellow Sun"
 Laurence Peabody – backing vocals on "It's All Right" and "Yellow Sun"
 Harry Robinson – string arrangements on "Yellow Sun" and "Low Rider"

Technical
 Jim Capaldi – producer
 Howard Kilgour, Phil Brown, Steve Melton – engineers
 Rhett Davies, Richard Elen – tape ops
 Tony Wright – artwork, design
 Richard Polack – front cover photography
 Don Neff, Natalie Neff – back cover photography

References

External links
Jim Capaldi's official website

1974 albums
Jim Capaldi albums
Island Records albums


Šmartno (; ) is a village in the Municipality of Cerklje na Gorenjskem in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia.

Church

The local church is dedicated to Saint Martin, giving the name to the village itself. It was first mentioned in written documents from 1387, but archaeological evidence shows it is built on the site of an early Christian church from Late Antiquity.

References

External links

Šmartno on Geopedia

Populated places in the Municipality of Cerklje na Gorenjskem


William R. Seinsoth (April 4, 1947 – September 7, 1969) was a first baseman who is most notable for winning the 1968 College World Series Most Outstanding Player award while a junior at University of Southern California. He is one of seven players from University of Southern California to win that award. The others are Bill Thom, Bud Hollowell, Russ McQueen, George Milke, Rod Boxberger and Wes Rachels. Also an All-American, he hit .327 with 31 RBI in his sophomore season. The next year, he hit .312 with six home runs and 23 RBI. He hit .368 with 14 home runs and 52 RBI in 1969. He had a career .337 average in college.

Seinsoth played for the Alaska Goldpanners of the Alaska Baseball League from 1966 to 1968. He was named the Goldpanners' team MVP in 1967.

Prior to playing collegiately, Seinsoth attended Arcadia High School.

Seinsoth was drafted five times, but he played only one year professionally, never reaching the majors. He died in a traffic collision while on the way to watch the professional football debut of his college friend O. J. Simpson.  He died at Harbor General Hospital in Torrance, California. One of the letters received for his funeral was from California Governor Ronald Reagan, who wrote "One thing you know more than anyone is how much better the world is because of your son passed our way.. you have every reason to be proud of him." Rod Dedeaux said, "If Bill Seinsoth had lived, there's a good chance that no one would have ever heard of Steve Garvey." Seinsoth was the subject of a 2016 book by fellow Arcadia High School graduate Steven K. Wagner titled "Seinsoth: The rough-and-Tumble Life of a Dodger" (Sunbury Press).

Times drafted
(Year, Team, Round)

1965, Houston Astros, 15th
1967, Baltimore Orioles, 9th
1968, Los Angeles Dodgers, 5th
1969, Washington Senators, 4th
1969, Los Angeles Dodgers, 1st

Professional baseball and family relations

He signed with the Dodgers for a $40,000 signing bonus.

He played for the Bakersfield Dodgers in 1969, hitting .276 with 10 home runs and 37 RBI.

His cousin was former Los Angeles Dodgers player Tommy Hutton. His father, also named Bill Seinsoth, played professionally from 1936 to 1950.

References
Los Angeles Times article

External links

USC Trojans baseball players
1947 births
1969 deaths
College World Series Most Outstanding Player Award winners
Baseball players from Los Angeles
Bakersfield Dodgers players
Road incident deaths in California
Arcadia High School (California) alumni
Baseball players from Arcadia, California


Girl Scouts of Jamaica (G.S.J.) is a Christian faith based Scouting organization for girls in Jamaica founded on August 5, 2008.  The girls-only organization is a member of the Order of World Scouts.

Membership is voluntary and open to all girls and young women regardless of creed, race, nationality or any other circumstance, provided that the member is willing and committed to uphold the promise and the law of the movement.  Leaders must uphold the promise, law and constitution.

History
The Girl Scouts of Jamaica were established in August 2008, out of concerns about administration and the changing of the programme of the Girl Guides Association of Jamaica. The Girl Scouts of Jamaica desire was to have a democratic structure and to embrace the traditions of the eight point programme and camp craft. They joined the Order of World Scouts, with whom they shared ideals and vision, right after their October 2008 launch promise ceremony.

Ideals

 The Promise
On my honour,
I promise that I will do my best:
To do my duty to God,
To serve my country and help other people,
And to obey the Scout Law

 The Law
A Scout's honour is to be trusted.
A Scout is loyal.
A Scout is helpful.
A Scout is a friend to all.
A Scout is courteous.
A Scout respects the environment.
A Scout obeys orders.
A Scout is cheerful under all difficulties.
A Scout is thrifty.
A Scout is pure in thought, word and deed.

 The Motto
Be Prepared

 The Promise Pin
The traditional fleur-de-lis is presented in Jamaican national colours. The fleur-de-lis is significant in two ways. In ancient Christian culture it was used to represent the Holy Trinity. In scouting it signifies the three-fold promise: "Duty to God", "Service to Man", "Obedience to the Law".

Age groups
The organization works with four age-groups:

 Peenie Wallies; 4 to 8 years, kindergarten to grade 3
 Doctorbirds; 7 to 12 years, grades 3 to 6
 Junior Scouts; 10 to 16 years, grades 7 to 10
 Senior Scouts; 14 to 19 years, grades 10 to 13
 Assistant Leaders; 16+ years
 Leaders; 18+ years

Programme
The eight point programme offers a variety of activities for the girls to do in a variety of areas of interest. The eight points are similar at all levels, but the presentation changes to be suited to the age groups.

Each girl does challenges in each of the eight points and receives a progress award after completing an approved set of challenges.

National Service Project
The Girl Scouts of Jamaica have selected the Special Olympics Jamaica as their National Service Project for the period 2008-2012. Scouts at all age levels participate in fund-raising, while senior and junior scouts also help by volunteering at sporting events which are held all across the island.

Special events

September 1 - Start of the Girl Scout year, coinciding with the school year start
October 5 - Founders' Day, Anniversary of the first promise ceremony
November - World Scouting Month, coinciding with National Youth Month
November 11 - Anniversary of the founding of the Order of World Scouts (1911)
December - Service Month
January - Leaders' Planning Month
January, last Saturday - Annual Leaders' Conference
May - Girl Scouting Month, coinciding with National Child Month
May 24 - Anniversary of the founding of the British Boy Scouts and British Girl Scouts (1909)
August 5 - Anniversary of the founding of the Girl Scouts of Jamaica
August 31 - End of the Girl Scout year, coinciding with the school year end

See also
 Scouting in Jamaica

References

Scouting and Guiding in Jamaica


Mehrdad Karimian (, born September 20, 1982) is a retired Iranian footballer and current coach. Mehrdad is the younger brother of Mehdi Karimian, a former player.

Club career

Club Career Statistics
Last Update 10 May 2013

 Assist Goals

External links
Persian League Profile

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydACiq1Y_Ks

1983 births
Living people
Fajr Sepasi Shiraz F.C. players
Bargh Shiraz F.C. players
PAS Hamedan F.C. players
Sanat Mes Kerman F.C. players
Persian Gulf Pro League players
Azadegan League players
Iranian men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
People from Bushehr
Shahin Bushehr F.C. managers


Javad Shirzad (, born September 20, 1982) is an Iranian football player. He plays for Malavan. He usually plays in the defender position.

Club career

Club Career Statistics
Last Update  30 April 2013

 Assist Goals

Honours

Club
Iran's Premier Football League
Runner up: 1
2010/11 with Esteghlal
Hazfi Cup
Winner: 1
2011/12 with Esteghlal

External links
IPLStats.com

Iranian men's footballers
Iran men's international footballers
Persian Gulf Pro League players
Esteghlal F.C. players
Malavan F.C. players
Foolad F.C. players
PAS Tehran F.C. players
Footballers from Bandar-e Anzali
1982 births
Living people
Men's association football fullbacks


Hossein Ghanbari (, born February 20, 1988) is an Iranian football player. He currently plays for the IPL club Iranjavan bushehr as a midfielder.

At the beginning of his adolescence, he went to the youth team of Tehran Municipality, District 17, from the league game, and for playing, he turned his eyes to the Esteghlal Tehran base team. He is also proud to wear the national team jersey of the Islamic Republic of Iran در. Under the coaching of Amir Ghaleh Noei, he joined the Esteghlal senior team and played in several games in the Premier League and the elimination league. During the coaching of Nasser Hejazi and Firooz Karimi, he also played for Esteghlal Tehran in a few games. From the club where he played, to Bandar Anzali Sailors Football Club, Babol House-to-House Football Club, Esteghlal Tehran Football Club, Mentioned Sarcheshmeh Copper Football Club of Kerman and Peykan Football Club of Tehran. He is currently playing in Bushehr Young Iran Football Club ...

Honours
Esteghlal
 Hazfi Cup: 2007–08

External links
Profile at Persianleague.com

• Hossein Ghanbari on Instagram

1988 births
Living people
Esteghlal F.C. players
Malavan F.C. players
Iranian men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Footballers from Tehran


Algimantas Valantinas (born 29 October 1961) is a Lithuanian judge.

He was born in Buknaičiai and graduated from Vilnius University with a degree in law in 1985. He then worked as an investigator, assistant to prosecutor and a prosecutor in Kaišiadorys (1985–1988); prosecutor in Širvintos (1990–1991) and Jonava. He was a judge in Jonava (1994–1999) and Vilnius (2000–2005, from 2010).

Valantinas speaks Lithuanian, English and Russian languages. Valantinas is married. Has a son and a daughter.

External links
 Bio from Supreme Court of Lithuania
 Biography from Prosecution Service of Lithuania website

1961 births
Living people
People from Mažeikiai District Municipality
Attorneys General of Lithuania
Lithuanian judges
Vilnius University alumni


Mohammad-Esmail Nazari (, born September 20, 1987) is an Iranian football player.

Club career
A product of the PAS Tehran's youth system, Esmail Nazari was drafted into the first team for the IPL 2006/07 season. At the end of the season as PAS F.C. officially dissolved, he moved to PAS Hamedan along with other team members.

Club Career Statistics
Last Update  11 June 2019

 Assist Goals

External links
Persian League Profile

International career
Mohammad Esmail Nazar was a member of Iran national under-23 football team, competing in the qualification games for the 2008 Summer Olympics.

1987 births
Living people
Iranian men's footballers
Steel Azin F.C. players
PAS Tehran F.C. players
Expatriate men's footballers in Thailand
Expatriate men's footballers in Oman
Men's association football midfielders
Iranian expatriate sportspeople in Thailand
Iranian expatriate men's footballers
Footballers from Tehran


Nowitka was a sternwheel steamboat that operated in British Columbia on the Columbia River from 1911 to May 1920.   The name is a Chinook Jargon word usually translated as "Indeed!" or "Verily!".

Design and construction

Nowitka was built at Golden, BC for the Golden Columbia River Lumber Company.  Nowitka'''s engines were over 70 years old, and had been originally built for a ferry crossing the St. Lawrence River.  The engines had been previously installed in other sternwheelers on the upper Columbia River, including the first Duchess, the second Duchess and Ptarmigan.  The blunt-ended bow of Nowitka allowed the vessel to be readily capable of pushing barges, which increased the vessel's utility and effective cargo capacity.Downs, Art, Paddlewheels on the Frontier -- The Story of British Columbia and Yukon Sternwheel Steamers, at 101-112, Superior Publishing, Seattle WA 1972

OperationsNowitka was placed on the Columbia River route that began at Golden and ran south, at least during high water, to Columbia Lake, the ultimate source of the Columbia River.  Nowitka was last used to haul supplies to construct a bridge at Brisco, BC.

Removal from service
Following construction of the bridge at Brisco, Nowitka was taken out of service in May 1920, and abandoned near the sawmill wharf at Golden.  Nowitka was the last steamboat to operate on the Columbia River in the Columbia Valley, although gasoline and diesel powered vessels did run later on the river.

Notes

Further reading

 Faber, Jim, Steamer's Wake—Voyaging down the old marine highways of Puget Sound, British Columbia, and the Columbia River, Enetai Press, Seattle, WA 1985
 Timmen, Fritz, Blow for the Landing'', 75-78, 134, Caxton Printers, Caldwell, ID 1972

Paddle steamers of British Columbia
Steamboats of the Columbia River
Columbia Valley
1911 ships


Short Cut Draw Blood is the third studio album by the British musician Jim Capaldi, released by Island Records in 1975. It marked a major turning point in Capaldi's career: it was his first album recorded after the breakup of Traffic, and more importantly it was his commercial breakthrough. While Capaldi's first two solo albums had been moderately successful in the United States (in fact, in Short Cut Draw Blood was his least successful album in the United States thus far, with both the album itself at number 193 and the single "Love Hurts" barely scraping into the Billboard charts at number 97), Short Cut Draw Blood entered the charts in several other countries for the first time. This was particularly evident in his native United Kingdom; the single "It's All Up to You" at number 27, released a year before the album, became his first top 40 hit there, only to be overshadowed the following year by his cover of "Love Hurts", which went all the way to number 4.

The title of the album was conceived by co-producer Chris Blackwell.

Background
The song "Boy with a Problem" was written about former Traffic bandmate Chris Wood, whose self-destructive tendencies (particularly his drug addiction) were a cause of increasing concern for Capaldi. The song features Paul Kossoff on guitar.

Reception

Rolling Stone called the album "still uneven" and "unfocused" but a promising step forward from his first solo work. Their review approved of both the session musicians and the arrangements, but criticized Capaldi's lyrics as "simply absurd" or "rather embarrassingly sentimental", being at his best only on the cover of "Love Hurts", where "he brings a sense of pain very different from Roy Orbison's original."

AllMusic's retrospective review was more satisfied with the variety of styles, commenting "dipping into a wide range of musical styles, there is something for everyone on Short Cut Draw Blood", and saying the album is even better than his first. On the contrary, Classic Rock review lamented "too much disjointed dabbling and lack of cohesion" on "several cuts, sounding awkwardly like below-par leftovers from the previous album."

Track listing
All tracks composed by Jim Capaldi, except where indicated.
Side one
 "Goodbye Love"
 Jim Capaldi - vocals, drum machine
 Ray Allen - saxophone
 Steve Winwood - guitar, organ, piano, bass
 Remi Kabaka - percussion
 Rebop Kwaku Baah - percussion
 "It's All Up to You"
 Jim Capaldi - drums, vocals, percussion
 Jess Roden - guitar
 John "Rabbit" Bundrick - piano, clavinet
 Phil Chen - bass
 Harry Robinson - string arrangements
 "Love Hurts" (Boudleaux Bryant)
 Jim Capaldi - vocals
 Chris Spedding - guitar
 Steve Winwood - piano
 Jean Roussel - electric piano, minimoog
 Rosko Gee - bass
 Gerry Conway - drums
 Ray Allen - percussion
 Harry Robinson - string arrangements
 "Johnny Too Bad" (Trevor "Batman" Wilson, Winston Bailey, Roy Beckford, Derrick Crooks - The Slickers cover)
 Jim Capaldi - vocals
 Ray Allen - saxophone
 Muscle Shoals Horns - horns
 Pete Carr - lead guitar
 Jimmy Johnson - rhythm guitar, horn arrangements
 Peter Yarrow - acoustic guitar
 Barry Beckett - piano, organ
 David Hood - bass
 Roger Hawkins - drums, spoons
 Rebop Kwaku Baah - percussion
 Remi Kabaka - percussion
 "Short Cut Draw Blood"
 Jim Capaldi - vocals, percussion
 Pete Carr - lead guitar
 Chris Spedding - rhythm guitar
 Jimmy Johnson - electric guitar
 Barry Beckett - piano
 David Hood - bass
 Roger Hawkins - drums
 Rebop Kwaku Baah - percussion

Side two
 "Living on a Marble"
 Jim Capaldi - vocals, percussion
 Chris Spedding - lead guitar
 Jimmy Johnson - rhythm guitar
 Pete Carr - acoustic guitar
 Barry Beckett - piano
 Steve Winwood - bass
 Roger Hawkins - drums
 "Boy with a Problem"
 Jim Capaldi - vocals
 Paul Kossoff - lead guitar
 Jimmy Johnson - rhythm guitar
 Pete Carr - acoustic guitar
 Steve Winwood - synthesizer
 Barry Beckett - piano
 David Hood - bass
 Roger Hawkins - drums
 Rebop Kwaku Baah - percussion
 Harry Robinson - string arrangements
 "Keep On Trying"
 Jim Capaldi - vocals
 Ray Allen - saxophone
 Rico Rodriguez - trombone
 Phil - guitar
 Steve Winwood - piano, organ
 Rosko Gee - bass
 Remi Kabaka - drums
 Rebop Kwaku Baah - percussion
 "Seagull"
 Jim Capaldi - vocals
 Steve Winwood - acoustic guitar, Mellotron, harpsichord
 Chris Wood - flute
 Remi Kabaka - percussion

One further track from the sessions, "Sugar Honey", was released as a b-side. Aside from Jim Capaldi on vocals, the performing personnel on the track are not known.

2012 Reissue
In March 2012 Raven an Australian label reissued Short Cut Draw Blood along with The Contender as a 2 for 1 CD release with 8 bonus tracks, all of them previously released recordings: "Tricky Dicky Rides Again", "Sugar Honey", "If You Think You Know How to Love Me", "Good Night & Good Morning", "Talkin' Bout My Baby", "Still Talkin'", "Goodbye My Love", "Baby You're Not My Problem". The second disc included all the tracks from both the UK The Contender and its USA counterpart Daughter of the Night. The reissue was remastered by Warren Barnett and featured a booklet that discussed the making of both albums.

References

External links
Jim Capaldi's official website

1975 albums
Jim Capaldi albums
Albums produced by Chris Blackwell
Island Records albums
Albums recorded at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio


The Yellowstone Club is a private residential club, ski resort, and golf resort located in Madison County, just west of Big Sky, Montana. It is rated among the top 10 lifestyle estates in the world.

History

Real estate developer Tim Blixseth purchased approximately 100,000 acres (400 sq km) of timberland, partly in purchases from Plum Creek Timber and engaged in swaps of land with the U.S. Forest Service and the Federal Government ("Gallatin Land Exchanges"). This land swap process was enabled by two specialized acts of Congress in the 1990s. Blixseth ultimately ended up with a large amount of developable land adjacent to the Big Sky Resort in Montana.  The Yellowstone Club private ski and golf community was developed by Blixseth and used as collateral for a $375 million syndicated loan where the proceeds were used for other purposes, including an effort to build an exclusive luxury vacation club based on acquiring resort properties around the world. This venture failed, Mr. Blixseth and his wife divorced and the Yellowstone Club entered bankruptcy in November 2008.

During its peak season, almost 650 people are employed at the club.

The club was featured on CNBC's lifestyle show High Net Worth with Tyler Mathisen.

Cyclist Greg LeMond, an early investor and homeowner/member, sued the club in 2006, saying club founder Tim Blixseth and his former wife Edra Denise (Crocker) Blixseth had borrowed $375 million from Credit Suisse Group and took $209 million for themselves as a dividend, jilting him and other investors.  The suit was settled in 2008 for $39.5 million. Ms. Blixseth eventually agreed to pay Mr. LeMond and others a $21.5 million settlement; she paid only $8 million of that amount and Mr. LeMond and others joined the group of her creditors in her personal bankruptcy.

Other members identified in, or cited in, the Times report were Burt Sugarman, a Beverly Hills businessman, and his wife, the Entertainment Tonight host Mary Hart; Steve Burke, the chief operating officer of Comcast; Bill Frist, the former Senate majority leader; Todd Thomson, the former head of Citigroup’s private banking unit; Robert Greenhill, founder of the investment bank Greenhill & Company; Annika Sörenstam, the Swedish golf star; Frank McCourt, the former owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers; Jim Davidson, a founder of Silver Lake Partners, a private equity firm in Menlo Park, California; Brian Klein, a former Goldman Sachs vice president who now runs an investment management firm in Seattle; Peter Chernin of the News Corporation; Barry Sternlicht, hotelier and CEO of Starwood Capital Group; and Gary Riesche], a venture capitalist with Qiming Venture Partners. Jack Kemp, the late U.S. politician, was on the club’s honorary board of directors with Mr. Quayle, among others.

The Yellowstone Club is one of several developments that has been the subject of litigation between investors and Credit Suisse. The investors have accused Credit Suisse of fraudulently inflating the value of the developments in order to generate higher fees for itself.

2008-2009 bankruptcy protection
On November 10, 2008, in the midst of the Great Recession, the Yellowstone Club filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.  It emerged from protection under new ownership on July 19, 2009. When filing, the Club's prior owners owed US$343 million to creditors.

In June 2009 Edra Blixseth spoke to a reporter for The New York Times about her and her ex-husband's business affairs from Porcupine Creek, her  estate in Rancho Mirage, California. She said she had hoped to retain the Club and her various estates and make Porcupine Creek income-producing with its  private golf course. However, Porcupine Creek was sold to Larry Ellison in 2011 for $42.9 million by creditors who also sold the Blixseth's Chateau de Farcheville in France and other assets.

In June 2009, as part of the bankruptcy resolution, the Yellowstone Club was sold for $115 million to a private equity firm, CrossHarbor Capital Partners, a firm led by a Yellowstone Club member, Sam Byrne. Prior to the bankruptcy and disclosure of the Credit Suisse-Blixseth loan details, negotiations with that same buyer had put a $400 million price tag on the club. In the 2009 bankruptcy transaction, Byrne also "invested $75 million above the purchase price in repairs and set aside an additional $15 million to pay the club’s creditors," according to the Times. The deal was brokered by Jeff Woolson, Managing Director of the CBRE Golf & Resort Properties Group, and Steve Lehr, Managing Director of CBRE's Land Services Group. CB Richard Ellis was selected by the U.S. Bankruptcy Court to market the property because of the firm's successful track record handling complicated transactions.

In November 2010 some parts of the bankruptcy reorganization were appealed by former owner Tim  Blixseth, particularly those concerning the settlement with Credit Suisse and aspects of the bankruptcy allowing creditors to pursue Blixseth for "hundreds of millions" they claim he siphoned from the Club for his personal use. In 2012 Blixseth's appeals were dismissed by the U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit.

Post bankruptcy history
According to press reports, as of late 2014 the Yellowstone Club had no remaining debt from the bankruptcy, had positive cash flow, and had doubled its membership to more than 500 households. In late 2013 CrossHarbor partnered with Boyne Resorts, the owners of neighboring Big Sky Resort, and paid $26 million to acquire a nearby real estate project, Spanish Peaks, a 5,700 acre development in bankruptcy. Shortly thereafter CrossHarbor and Big Sky Resort jointly acquired the bankrupt Moonlight Basin ski club and began consolidation of the newly acquired ski terrain with that of Big Sky Resort.  Hart Howerton is working with CrossHarbor on the master planning of their entire 25,000 acre landholding, as well as architectural design of the Yellowstone Club Village Core and Spanish Peaks Lodge.

Location and ski mountain
Most of the ski runs are on Pioneer Mountain (). Pioneer Mountain has a summit elevation of .

The Yellowstone Club resort has several lifts and ski runs that tie it directly into Big Sky Resort's lift system. The Big Sky ski area and the Yellowstone Club share a five-mile border. The ski resorts are surrounded by 250,000 acres of the Gallatin National Forest.

Snowfall averages approximately 300 inches a year and is very consistent from year to year and week to week. Although it is one of the few western ski resorts located east of the continental divide, the area receives consistent light snows. The club's tagline is "Private Powder" and this is made possible by frequent snows and low skier traffic.

The ski terrain is extensive and varied and compares favorably with other well known ski resorts.  Pioneer Ridge has numerous "double black" expert runs and challenging chutes.  The west side of Pioneer Mountain is a vast forest for tree skiing.  Lower Pioneer Mountain and Andesite Mountain are dotted with high speed chairlifts and mainly intermediate ski runs.  The mountain has 2200 acres for skiing.

The club also features cross country skiing, ice skating and numerous indoor activities.  Many additional recreational opportunities are available in summer including golf, climbing, mountain biking, kayaking, and fly fishing.

Notable members
 Bill Gates
 Eric Schmidt
 Peter Chernin
 Steve Burke
 Dan Quayle
 Bill Frist
 Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel
 Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen
 Phil Mickelson
 Greg LeMond
 Hank Kashiwa
 Tom Weiskopf

See also
 CrossHarbor Capital Partners - owners of Yellowstone Club
 Gallatin Gateway Inn - leased by the club
 Private ski area (North America)

References

 "Economy Crashes the Gates at a Club for the Rich" New York Times, Nov. 29, 2008
 Yellowstone Club Financing Settled (For Now) Dec. 12, 2008, New West Development website
 Trustee Says Blixseth 'Doomed' Yellowstone Club Wall Street Journal - Bankruptcy Beat, Feb. 24, 2010,
 Developer seeks judge's ouster in Yellowstone Club bankruptcy case Nov. 22, 2010, Billings Gazette

External links
  – Yellowstone Club
 Ski Map.org – vintage trail maps – Yellowstone Club

Ski areas and resorts in Montana
Buildings and structures in Madison County, Montana