John Beaumont (c. 1650–1731) was an English physician and early geologist.

Biography
John Beaumont was a physician who lived in Ston Easton in Somerset. He was encouraged by Robert Hooke to study the natural history of Somerset but became more interested in witchcraft.

He married Dorothy, daughter of John Speccott of Penheale, Egloskerry, Cornwall

Geology
John Beaumont sent four letters to the Royal Society, two in 1676, one in 1681 and another in 1683. The topics he touched upon included rock plants, ailments afflicting both cattle and miners, detailed descriptions of some Mendip caves, including Wookey Hole Caves and Lamb Leer Cavern. He was elected a Fellow of the society in May 1685.

Experience of spirits
I had two spirits, who constantly attended me, night and day, for above three months together, who called each other by their names; and several spirits would call at my chamber door, and ask whether such spirits lived there, and they would answer they did. As for the other spirits that attended me, I heard none of their names mentioned only I asked one spirit, which came for some nights together, and rung a little bell in my ear, what his name was, who answered Ariel. The two spirits that constantly attended myself appeared both in women's habit, they being of brown complexion, about three feet in stature; they had both black loose net-work gowns, tied with a black sash about the middle, and within the net-work appeared a gown of a golden colour, with somewhat of a light striking through it. Their heads were not dressed in top-knots, but they had white linen caps on, with lace on them about three fingers' breadth, and over it they had a black loose net-work hood.

I would not, for the whole world, undergo what I have undergone, upon spirits coming twice to me; their first coming was most dreadful to me, the thing being then altogether new, and consequently most surprising, though at the first coming they did not appear to me but only called to me at my chamber-windows, rung bells, sung to me, and played on music, etc.; but the last coming also carried terror enough; for when they came, being only five in number, the two women before mentioned, and three men (though afterwards there came hundreds), they told me they would kill me if I told any person in the house of their being there, which put me in some consternation; and I made a servant sit up with me four nights in my chamber, before a fire, it being in the Christmas holidays, telling no person of their being there. One of these spirits, in women's dress, lay down upon the bed by me every night; and told me, if I slept, the spirits would kill me, which kept me waking for three nights. In the meantime, a near relation of mine went (though unknown to me) to a physician of my acquaintance, desiring him to prescribe me somewhat for sleeping, which he did, and a sleeping potion was brought me; but I set it by, being very desirous and inclined to sleep without it. The fourth night I could hardly forbear sleeping; but the spirit, lying on the bed by me, told me again, I should be killed if I slept; whereupon I rose and sat by the fireside, and in a while returned to my bed; and so I did a third time, but was still threatened as before; whereupon I grew impatient, and asked the spirits what they would have? Told them I had done the part of a Christian, in humbling myself to God and feared them not; and rose from my bed, took a cane, and knocked at the ceiling of my chamber, a near relation of mine then lying over me, who presently rose and came down to me about two o'clock in the morning, to whom I said, 'You have seen me disturbed these four days past, and that I have not slept: the occasion of it was, that five spirits, which are not in the room with me, have threatened to kill me if I told any person of their being here, or if I slept; but I am not able to forbear sleeping longer, and acquaint you with it, and now stand in defiance of them'; and thus I exerted myself about them and notwithstanding their continued threats I slept very well the next night, and continued to do so, though they continued with me above three months, day and night.

Books
Considerations on a book, entituled The theory of the earth, publisht some years since by the Dr. Burnet 1693
A postscript to a book published last year entituled Considerations on Dr. Burnet's Theory of the earth 1694
The present state of the universe 1697
An Historical Physiological and Theological Treatise of Spirits, Apparitions, Witchcrafts, and Other Magical Practises 1705.
Gleanings of Antiquities 1724

See also
Pit cave

References
Beaumont, John (d. 1731) accessed 9 November 2008

1650 births
1731 deaths
People from Mendip District
British geologists
British cavers
British speleologists
Fellows of the Royal Society


The Flowery Range is a mountain range associated with the Virginia Range in Storey County, Nevada.

The range was so named on account of wildflowers which bloom when watered by melting snow.

References

Mountain ranges of Nevada
Mountain ranges of Storey County, Nevada


The Fort Sage Mountains are a mountain range running across the state borders in western Washoe County, Nevada and eastern Lassen County, California.

References

Mountain ranges of Nevada
Mountain ranges of Northern California
Mountain ranges of Washoe County, Nevada
Mountain ranges of Lassen County, California


The Frenchman Range is a mountain range in Clark County, Nevada.

References

Mountain ranges of Nevada
Mountain ranges of Clark County, Nevada


Renée Claire Fox (February 15, 1928 – September 23, 2020) was an American sociologist.

She was a summa cum laude graduate of Smith College in 1949, earned her Ph.D. in Sociology in 1954 from Radcliffe College, Harvard University, where she studied in the Department of Social Relations. Renée Fox’s major teaching and research interests – sociology of medicine, medical research, medical education, and medical ethics – involved her in first-hand, participant observation-based studies in Continental Europe (particularly in Belgium), in Central Africa (especially in the Democratic Republic of the Congo), and in the People’s Republic of China, as well as in the United States. She lectured in colleges, universities, and medical schools throughout the United States, and taught in a number of universities abroad.

Early life
Renée Claire Fox was born on February 15, 1928, in New York City to parents Fred Fox and Henrietta and had two younger siblings, a brother, Howard, and a sister, Rosa. She was of East European Jewish descent. Her father was the founder of P.F. Fox & Co. Investment Securities.  Fox was raised in the city and attended elementary school at P.S 9 with her siblings. She graduated from 8th grade at the age of twelve and went to Julia Richman, an all-girls public school, for high school. Fox graduated high school at the age of 16 and then enrolled in Smith College in Massachusetts.

Education

Smith College (1944-1945, 1947-1949)
Fox attended Smith College from 1944 to 1945. While attending, she lived in Jordan House. As a freshman, she took courses in Introductory English and Speech, the latter of which was taken to lessen her New York accent. At the end of the year she was named a Sophie Smith Scholar for academic achievement. During the summer after her freshman year, Smith became diagnosed with bulbospinal polio. She spent several months at Sydenham Hospital in Harlem and Knickerbocker Hospital. In September 1947, Fox returned to Smith College to continue in her Junior year. She lived in Chapin House and joined the honors program for sociology. Her senior honors thesis research involved “learning more about the history of the Soviet Union and the American Communist Party, in examining the status and role of intellectuals in American Society, particularly the literary intelligentsia, and in analyzing the symbolic as well as the economic and political impact of the Depression on the American scene.” Based upon her overall academic achievement and her senior thesis work, Fox graduated from Smith in 1949 with summa cum laude honors. Fox returned to Smith in 1975 to be awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree and in 1980 as a visiting William Allen Neilson Professor of Sociology and Anthropology. As a visiting professor, she taught courses and delivered a lecture series entitled, “Life, Death, and Modern Medicine.”

Whittier College (1946-1947)
Following her long bout with polio, Fox and her family ventured to Southern California for the summer of 1946. While there it was found that the weather agreed with the still recovering Fox. Wanting to resume her education, she enrolled in Whittier College located in Whittier, California. She spent one year studying and gaining influence from her peers there before returning to Smith College.

Harvard (1949-1954)
After graduating from Smith College, Fox entered the Department of Social Relations of Harvard University in pursuit of a Ph.D. in sociology. At the time women were not eligible for doctorate degrees at Harvard and subsequently her degree was issued by Radcliffe College. It was while at Harvard that Fox met sociologist Talcott Parsons. “What is translucently clear is that it was Talcott Parsons, my foremost teacher, and mentor, who had the most profound and enduring influence on shaping the sociologist that I was to become.” Parsons sparked Fox’s initial interest in the field of medical sociology. Fox conducted her dissertation on tuberculosis (TB) patients and their physicians, who both cared for the patients and conducted clinical research on them. Her work was published under the title, "Ward F-Second and the Research Physician: A study of Stress and Ways of Coming to Terms with Stress." This was the foundation for her book "Experiment Perilous".

Fieldwork in Belgium
Fox was widely known for her interdisciplinary and cross-cultural fieldwork. In 1959, Fox began research in Belgium. She conducted ethnographic research there nearly every summer for forty years. To start she was interested in researching Belgians because they often return to Belgium after attending medical school in the United States. Eventually, her focal point became researching Belgium through the lens of their medical system.

In 1978 Fox published “Why Belgium” to explain her area and location of research. In this essay, she described Belgium as particularistic due to society being divided into distinct groups – by social class, religion, political affiliation, language, and region. Fox noted this particularism creates labels that effect Belgian’s education and research opportunities as well as medical access. From a functionalist perspective, Fox viewed Belgium to be divided into these various groups yet functioning through pluralism due to the wide acceptance of ‘separate but equal.’ Fox also observed Belgians to be energized and united due to their Catholic-equivalent of the Protestant work ethic.

There have been disputes over Belgium’s existence, and Fox wrote in “Why Belgium” that she observed distinct culture in Belgium and believed Belgium indeed exists. Her discovery that there is a common culture throughout Belgium has been disputed by Belgians due to Belgium’s particularism.

To develop a deeper understanding of the Belgian society, Fox travelled to Belgium’s former colony, Zaire, which today is the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in Central Africa.

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
In 1992, Fox, already in her late sixties, decided to study one of the most renowned nongovernmental organizations, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and the dilemmas the organization and its members and staff face while delivering medical care, bearing witness of violence in affected areas, and advocacy. Previous work in medical sociology and cultural immersion in Belgium was pertinent to her decision to pursue the endeavor to study the multidimensional problems within MSF.

Russia Mission Work (1992-2000)
Upon arrival to the Médicins Sans Frontières-Belgium (MSF-B) office in Russia, Fox and a former student, Olga Shevchenko, noticed that the office personnel was divided between nationals and foreigners, although not all Belgian, which lead to difficulties with the decision-making capabilities and the organizational structure among them. However, the Russian staff in the office were helpful in the regard that they had vast amounts of cultural capital and knowledge about Russian lifestyles at the time. In 1992, the main project generated in Russia combated the rising homeless population in Moscow by offering medical consultants, preventative and curative health care, and social consultants. The end goal of the project was to hopefully de-stigmatize how the homeless were seen by the general public and to transfer the program to municipal authorities and the Department of Health in Moscow. MSF-B also coordinated two other programs in Siberia and Chechnya and were dubbed the "Siberia Project" and the "Caucasus Project", respectively.

In 1995, MSF-B moved their attention to prison colonies in Siberia after an appeal was made to have MSF facilitate the treatment of TB in those colonies. When the MSF staff reached the colony, they replenished the community with construction materials, soap, and clothes. Afterward, the medical program was put in motion, providing prisoners with TB screening and anti-TB medication, sanitary conditions, and training for prison medical staff to adopt a protocol to carry out effective treatment and analysis of any future epidemics. MSF-B also tried persuading the Kemerovo government and the Ministry of Justice to adopt the TB control strategy that the World Health Organization (WHO) uses, DOTS. The "Siberia Project" was spread to aid in the treatment of non-prisoners in Mariinsk.

The third program that MSF-B facilitated was based in Chechnya and Dagestan. Both territories were subject to the First Chechen Campaign (1994-1996) and Second Chechen Campaign (1999-2000). The area affected by both wars still are under influence of insurgent activity and has led to the displacement of Chechens. The "Caucasus Project" aimed to provide medical assistance and psychosocial care, food, and shelter to thousands of civilians in Chechnya and Ingushetia.

South Africa Mission Work (2001)
After observing the work done by MSF in Russia, Fox moved onto field research in Cape Town, South Africa. Once there, her research was narrowed down to the work carried out in the Khayelitsha community, where the HIV/AIDS pandemic was concentrated. The MSF program in Khayelitsha aimed to integrate a regimen of antiretroviral therapy (ART) to eventually have the community have maximized access to treatment through a primary care infrastructure. Additionally, it geared toward breaking down the stigma associated with having the disease by building up "treatment literacy" and community education to lower the transmission. Because the pandemic scale of HIV/AIDS requires long-term surveillance of communities such as Khayelitsha, Fox had the opportunity to make many successive trips to Cape Town, where she observed the evolution of the program. Two macro-issues became apparent while observing the operation of the program: "patient selection" (the endeavor to maximize the treatment and medicines available to as many people with HIV/AIDS) and the struggle to have the government implement a national HIV/AIDS prevention program.

Medical sociology
Fox was primarily a sociologist of medicine. Based on fieldwork in a variety of medical settings in the United States, Belgium, and Zaire, her ethnographic work examined chronic and terminal illness, medical research, therapeutic innovation, medical education and socialization, and bio-ethics. Her work not only considered medical practice but also medical research, patient experiences and the nature of uncertainty for patients and healers. Out of this work grew her interests in medical education as well as medical ethics, a field she engaged some years before there was such a thing as Bioethics.

Fox argued that bioethicists should be trained in the social sciences before being trained in bioethics. In an abstract of a collection of her essays, the author writes that

“Dr. Fox has explored basic cultural phenomena and questions associated with health, illness, and medicine: values, beliefs, symbols, rites, and the nuances of language: ethical and existential dilemmas and dualities; and the complex interrelationships between medicine, science, religion, and magic. She draws systematically and imaginatively upon anthropological, psychological, historical, and biological insights and integrates observations and analyses from her own studies in American, Western European, and Central African societies.”

Fox went on to combine ethnography with history in her study of the development of the Congolese medical profession (1968). During the years of 1962-1967 she made five trips to Congo-Léopoldville. The Republic of Congo was a newly independent country when she was visiting. She studied religion, rebellions, and politics in the Congo. They were gaining their first Congolese physicians and developing medical practices and ethics. Her studies were centered on how the outside factors influenced medical practices.

Publications (selected)
Books

Fox was the author of a number of academic books, mainly on medical sociology and ethics; some of them have been translated into French or Japanese.

Book chapters

Revised Version in

Articles

References

External links
 Dr. Fox's Web page at the University of Pennsylvania

1928 births
2020 deaths
Smith College alumni
Radcliffe College alumni
University of Pennsylvania faculty
Hastings Center Fellows
Medical sociologists
American women sociologists
Scientists from New York City
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Members of the American Philosophical Society
Members of the National Academy of Medicine
21st-century American women


The French Mountains are a mountain range in Washoe County, Nevada.

References

Mountain ranges of Nevada
Mountain ranges of Washoe County, Nevada


C.D. Necaxa was a Honduran football club based in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

History
Necaxa were founded in 1954 by Wilfredo Guerra, the Mexican ambassador to Honduras at the time.

Promotion
On 23 May 2010 Necaxa obtained the promotion to the Honduran Liga Nacional for the first time in their history, after beating Atlético Independiente in Tegucigalpa 2–0.

They were dissolved in 2012 by selling their category to Platense.

Achievements
Liga de Ascenso
Winners (3): 2008–09 C, 2009–10 A, 2009–10 C

Stadium
The team played its home games during its stay in top-flight at Estadio Fausto Flores Lagos, which has a capacity for 5,000.

League performance
 Data since 2010–11

Top scorers

As April 2014

  Ruben Licona  (15) goals
  Nery Medina  (9) goals
  Harrison Rochez (8) goals
  Oscar Duron (6) goals
  Charles Cordoba (5) goals
  Ruben Matamoros (4) goals
  Luis Rodas (4) goals
  Jesus Navas (4) goals
  Shannon Welcome (4) goals

Former managers
  Denilson Costa (2011)
  Jorge Pineda (2011–2012)

References

External links
 Unofficial website

Defunct football clubs in Honduras
1954 establishments in Honduras
2012 disestablishments in Honduras
Association football clubs established in 1954
Association football clubs disestablished in 2012


Michael Bentwood (born 10 January 1978 and based in Altrincham) is a British auto racing driver. After starting racing in Karting, he entered the 1994 Formula First Winter Series, finishing the season in tenth. In 1995 he finished fifth in the Formula Vauxhall Junior Winter Series. He then spent four years between 1997 and 2000 in the British Formula 3 Class A Championship where he finished the highest placed British driver in the year 2000; winning the Raymond Mays Trophy and the BRDC Spencer Charrington Trophy. He was also awarded BRDC membership. He was proposed by Johnny Herbert and second by John Cardwell. The years of ultra competitive Formula 3 were followed in 2001 with a drive in the Euro Formula 3000 Series where he finished the season in twelfth place with a handful of top six finishes.

Career

He first drove in the BTCC in 2003, racing in a BMW 320i for Edenbridge Racing. He finished the season third in class with a number of wins, in what was the championships final year of the production class. With only one class in 2004, he continued racing in the BTCC in a four-year-old Vauxhall Astra Coupe for VX Racing Junior, a 'semi' works drive with Techspeed. (Yvan Muller's old car) In the Independents Championship he placed seventh, and thirteenth in the overall standings with a couple of wins in the Independents and a number of podiums in the main championship where he had some tremendous battles with Yvan Muller, James Thompson and Anthony Reid. The latter would ironically be his teammate one year later.

In 2005 he raced in the British GT Championship in a Nissan 350Z for RJN Motorsport as a works driver. He had many teammates that year including Alister McRae and Anthony Reid. The Nissan showed quite well particularly at the last round at Silverstone where Michael competed for the lead against Ben Collins in the Porsche and Tim Mullen in the Ferrari. That year he also drove in the Britcar 24 Hour race at Silverstone Circuit in a Lotus Elise Sport but the car proved very unreliable. Due to a knee operation he only dove in selected rounds in 2006, in a Barwell Motorsport ran Aston Martin DBRS9, as well as some rounds in the FIA GT3 Championship. He showed well in the V12 Aston and in 2007 he went on to take his first victory in GT3 with Barwell Motorsport and co - driver Tom Alexender. He stayed with an Aston Martin DBRS9 in 2008 for the 22GT Racing Team with a hard-fought pole position against Allan Simonsen at Thruxton and a number of podium finishes, again sharing the car with Tom Alexander, Adrian Wilmot and Andy Jenkinson. In the same year, he also worked with Prodrive developing the latest Traction Control software for their GT3 customer cars with Richard Groundsell and drove at Classic Le Mans with Tom Alexander in a very rare 1959 DB4 GT.

In 2009 he drove for RPM Motorsport in a Ford GT in selected races sharing with Philip Walker. For 2010 he returned to the Aston Martin DBRS9 with Barwell Motorsport sharing the car with Paul Whight. They were competitive with a couple of third places but did not complete the whole championship. He also drove at the Merdeka millennium 12-hour race at the Sepang F1 circuit again in an Aston Martin DBRS9 with drivers Frank Yu and Alain Li. They managed to beat the works Petronas BMW team finishing in fifth place. Michael was the highest placed British driver in the highest placed British car.

Results record

Complete British Touring Car Championship results
(key) Races in bold indicate pole position (1 point awarded just for first race, 2003 in class) Races in italics indicate fastest lap (1 point awarded all races, 2003 in class) * signifies that driver lead race for at least one lap (1 point awarded all races)

References

External links

1978 births
British Touring Car Championship drivers
Living people
British GT Championship drivers
British Formula Three Championship drivers
Auto GP drivers
Carlin racing drivers
Euronova Racing drivers
Fortec Motorsport drivers


The Gabbs Valley Range is a mountain range in the west of the central Nevada desert in the Great Basin region. The range is within Mineral County, Nevada.

The valley was named after an engineer, E. S. Gabbs.

Gabbs Watershed
The  Gabbs Watershed (USGS Huc 16060002) is a  area that includes the  Gabbs Valley and the slopes of the perimeter Great Basin mountain ranges within the watersheds' drainage divides, e.g., of the Gabbs Valley Range.

References

Mountain ranges of Nevada
Mountain ranges of the Great Basin
Mountain ranges of Mineral County, Nevada


Matt Cohler (born March 27, 1977) is an American venture capitalist. He worked as Vice President of Product Management for Facebook until June 2008 and was formerly a general partner at Benchmark. Cohler has been named to the Forbes Midas List of top technology investors and in 2019 was named to the New York Times and CB Insights list of top 10 venture capital investors. Cohler made the Forbes 'America's 40 Richest Entrepreneurs Under 40' list in 2015.

Education and early career
Cohler earned a B.A. with honors and distinction in music from Yale University.

Early in his career, Cohler worked in China and was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. He befriended Reid Hoffman and went on to become a founding member of Hoffman's startup LinkedIn. Cohler was vice president and general manager at LinkedIn and was considered CEO Hoffman's right-hand man.

Cohler was one of the first five employees hired at Facebook. He was Facebook's vice president of product management and worked with the team during many of its critical growth phases. He continued to act as a
"special advisor" to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. In 2008, he left Facebook and became the youngest general partner at Benchmark.

Benchmark
At Benchmark, Cohler has backed the firm's investments in Dropbox, Asana, Quora, Greenhouse, Domo, Tinder, Duo Security, DeepL, Edmodo, ResearchGate, 1stdibs, Peixe Urbano, CouchSurfing, Baixing, and Zendesk. In 2011, he led a $7 million round of funding for Instagram, which agreed in April 2012 to be acquired by Facebook for $1 billion. In March 2014, Cohler led Benchmark's investment in Xapo, a Bitcoin wallet/insured cold storage vault.

Cohler sits on the boards of Asana, Quora, ResearchGate, and 1stdibs.

In 2018, it was announced that Cohler would "step back" from Benchmark and not be a part of their next fund. Although he departed the Benchmark fund, he was expected to continue to hold his board seats, including at Uber. Cohler later left the Uber board in July 2019, at the same time as Arianna Huffington.

Additional affiliations
Cohler is vice president of the San Francisco Symphony board of governors, board trustee at Environmental Defense Fund, and a member of the endowment investment committees at Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and the Yale Investments Office.

Politics
In April 2013, a lobbying group called FWD.us (aimed at lobbying for immigration reform and improvements to education) was launched, with Cohler listed as one of the founders.

References

External links

American computer businesspeople
Yale University alumni
1977 births
Living people
Facebook employees
Businesspeople from New York City
McKinsey & Company people
American venture capitalists
21st-century American businesspeople
American corporate directors
Directors of Uber


The Gap Mountains are a mountain range in eastern Nye County, Nevada. Gap Mountain along with Fox Mountain  to the south and the hills between overlook the White River valley to the west. Gap Mountain lies just  southwest of the southern end of the Egan Range of adjacent Lincoln County and appears to be an extension of that range. Fox Mountain lies about 5 miles west of the south end of the Schell Creek Range and  northeast of the north end of the Seaman Range.The Grant Range and small Golden Gate Range lie to the west across the White River Valley.

Nevada State Route 318 lies to the east of Gap and Fox mountains where the White River makes an arcuate bend around the west side of the mountains.

Gap Mountain peak has an elevation of  and Fox Peak reaches an elevation of .

References

Mountain ranges of Nevada
Mountain ranges of Nye County, Nevada
Mountain ranges of the Great Basin


The Scottish Yeomanry (SCOTS YEO) was a Yeomanry Regiment of the British Territorial Army formed in 1992. It was disbanded in 1999.

History
The Scottish Yeomanry was raised on 1 November 1992 as a result of Options for Change with headquarters at Inchdrewer House, Colinton Road, Edinburgh by transfer and resuscitation of old regiments as squadrons. The regiment consisted of a headquarters and three sabre squadrons:
"HQ" (Lothians and Border Horse) Squadron (Edinburgh) was formed by the re-roling of 225 Squadron, 154 (Lowland) Regiment Royal Corps of Transport.
"A" (Ayrshire (Earl of Carrick's Own) Yeomanry) Squadron (Ayr) was transferred into the new regiment from the QOY where they had been serving on both CVR(W) Fox and other CVR(T) variants.
"B" (Lanarkshire and Queen's Own Royal Glasgow Yeomanry) Squadron (East Kilbride) was formed by the re-roling of 222 Squadron, 154 (Lowland) Regiment Royal Corps of Transport.
"C" (Fife and Forfar Yeomanry/Scottish Horse) Squadron (Cupar) was formed by the re-roling of 239 (Highland Yeomanry) Squadron, 153 (Highland) Regiment Royal Corps of Transport.  Until 1999 "C" Squadron also maintained part of the lineage of the Lovat Scouts.

On 1 July 1999, following the Strategic Defence Review, elements were of the regiment ("A" and "C" Squadrons) were transferred to the Queen's Own Yeomanry. "B" Squadron was re-roled to become 52 Squadron of 32 Signal Regiment and HQ Squadron and regimental headquarters disbanded.

Uniform
The Scottish Yeomanry wore a grey beret of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards bearing a cap badge of the regiment consisting of the Lion Rampant of Scotland upon crossed lances under the Scottish Crown.

The officers and men of the regiment wore the Duke of Atholl's Tartan, Murray of Atholl, in various forms of dress. The regimental stable belt which was adopted was a reversed version of the Ayrshire Yeomanry belt. This looked exactly like the 15th/19th The King's Royal Hussars' belt.

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External links

Yeomanry regiments of the British Army
Scottish regiments
Military units and formations established in 1992


The General Thomas Hills are a mountain range in Esmeralda County, Nevada.

References

Mountain ranges of Nevada
Mountain ranges of the Great Basin
Mountain ranges of Esmeralda County, Nevada


Morphia, also called morphine, is a highly potent opiate analgesic drug.

Morphia may also refer to:

 Morphia (Dutch band), a doom metal music group
 Morphia of Melitene (died c. 1126), queen consort of Jerusalem
 Morphine (film) or Morfiy, a 2008 Russian film by Aleksei Balabanov, based on a 1926 short story by Mikhail Bulgakov

Distinguish from
Morphea, a skin condition with white patches

See also
Morphine (disambiguation)


Carlos Eduardo Gallardo Nájera (born 8 April 1984) is a Guatemalan professional football defender for Primera División club Barberena.

Club career
A tall defender, Gallardo played for Comunicaciones before joining Deportivo Jalapa in 2007. He returned to the Cremas for the 2008/2009 Apertura.

International career
He made his debut for Guatemala in an April 2008 friendly match against Haiti. He has earned 11 caps at the start of February 2010, including 6 qualifying matches for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

International goals
Scores and results list. Guatemala's goal tally first.

Honours
Jalapa
Liga Nacional de Guatemala: Apertura 2007

Comunicaciones
Liga Nacional de Guatemala: Apertura 2010, Clausura 2011, Clausura 2015

Guastatoya
Liga Nacional de Guatemala: Clausura 2018, Apertura 2018

Municipal
Liga Nacional de Guatemala: Apertura 2019

External links
 Player profile - CSD Comunicaciones

References

1984 births
Living people
Footballers from Guatemala City
Guatemalan men's footballers
Guatemala men's international footballers
Comunicaciones F.C. players
2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup players
Men's association football defenders
C.S.D. Municipal players


The Gillis Range is a mountain range in Mineral County, Nevada.

References

Mountain ranges of Nevada
Mountain ranges of the Great Basin
Mountain ranges of Mineral County, Nevada


Tri-County Airport  is a public-use airport located 5.1 nautical miles (8.2 km) northeast of the central business district of the city of Bonifay in Holmes County, Florida, United States and 5.3 miles northwest of the central business district of Chipley, in Washington County Florida (in the western Florida panhandle).  Created by an act of the Florida legislature in 1969, the airport is publicly owned and serves the Florida communities of Bonifay, Chipley and Graceville, as well as serving as a feeder/general aviation airport for Panama City, Florida and Dothan, Alabama.

Facilities and aircraft
Tri-County Airport covers an area of  at an average runway elevation of 85 feet (25.9 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 01/19 with an asphalt surface measuring 5,398 by 75 feet (1,645 x 22.9 m).

For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2021, the airport had 28,376 aircraft operations, an average of 78 per day: 70% military, 30% general aviation, and less than 1% air taxi. As of May 24, 2022, there are 40 aircraft based at this airport: 10% multi-engine and 90% single-engine.  Corporate jet aircraft began basing at the large north (corporate) hangars in 2022.

The airport provides commercial hangars, large hangars, box hangars, T-hangars, shade hangars and tie-downs. It provides a fuel discount to tenants with a current lease. The airport terminal building (open 24 hours daily) includes a pilot lounge, conference room, kitchen, break room, restrooms and shower (with internet connection information posted in the lobby), and an airport office. There is an oversized couch in the lobby should pilots need to sleep overnight. Self-service fuel is available from an automated pump 24 hours; a helipad is adjacent to the fuel pumps.

In June 2023 the airport completed a major project that greatly enhanced public parking, improved the terminal entrances, enhanced pedestrian security, revamped the septic system and added new signage.  The runways and taxiways were scrubbed and re-marked in May 2023.  There are significant additional projects planned by the airport and the Florida Department of Transportation to include obstacle removal, major electrical upgrades, storm water mitigation and additional terminals.

Tri-County Airport Authority
The public-use airport is governed by the Tri-County Airport Authority, an independent authority created by the Florida legislature in July 1969.  The County Commissioners of Holmes, Jackson and Washington County (Florida) each appoint 3 members who serve three-year terms on the board as unpaid volunteers.  The board meets at the airport conference room on the second Tuesday afternoon of every month at 5:00 PM and it’s meeting agendas, annual budgets, proceedings, policies, rules, regulations and reports are published on its public website. Members of the Board are pilots and non-pilots who have an interest in the welfare of the airport and surrounding communities.

Notable tenants and services
Skydive Panama City is a commercial operation that has skydiving operations which are active most weekends.

There is flight instruction and maintenance available on the field. A full time airport manager is on the field during business hours, Monday through Friday, with after hour callouts available for an additional fee; calls to the main airport number after hours forward to his cell phone.

The airport is served by Enterprise Rent-A-Car and Hertz, with three days' notice. This can be discussed with the airport manager.

On November 5, 2020, the common traffic advisory frequency changed to 122.725 and on December 2, 2022 the airport identifier changed from 1J0 to KBCR and a second instrument approach (RNAV 01) was added.

References

External links

Airports in Florida
Transportation buildings and structures in Holmes County, Florida


The Goose Creek Mountains are a mountain range in Box Elder County, Utah.  They are also partly in Elko County, Nevada. It is the least topographically prominent of Utah's peaks with more than 609.6 ft (2000 ft) of prominence.

References

Mountain ranges of Utah
Mountain ranges of Box Elder County, Utah
Mountain ranges of Nevada
Mountain ranges of Elko County, Nevada


Boats to Build is an album by American singer-songwriter Guy Clark, released in 1992.

Guests include Sam Bush, Rodney Crowell, Marty Stuart, Emmylou Harris and Jerry Douglas.

Track listing
 "Baton Rouge" (Clark, J. C. Crowley) – 2:46
 "Picasso's Mandolin" (Clark, Radney Foster, Bill Lloyd) – 2:50
 "How'd You Get This Number" (Guy Clark, Susanna Clark) – 3:30
 "Boats to Build" (Clark, Verlon Thompson) – 3:45
 "Too Much" (Clark, Lee Roy Parnell) – 2:51
 "Ramblin' Jack & Mahan" (Clark, Richard Leigh) – 3:40
 "I Don't Love You Much Do I" (Clark, Richard Leigh) – 2:36
 "Jack of All Trades" (Clark, Rodney Crowell) – 3:36
 "Madonna w/Child ca. 1969" (Clark) – 2:56
 "Must Be My Baby" (Clark) – 2:52

Personnel
Guy Clark – vocals, guitar
Brian Ahern – guitar
Sam Bush – mandolin
Bill Caswell – jaw harp
Travis Clark – bass
Rodney Crowell – background vocals
Jerry Douglas – dobro, Slide Guitar
Radney Foster – background vocals
Emmylou Harris – background vocals
Bill Lloyd – guitar, background vocals
Kenny Malone – drums, percussion, conga
Lee Roy Parnell – slide guitar
Suzi Ragsdale – background vocals
Marty Stuart – mandolin
Verlon Thompson – guitar, background vocals

Production notes
Miles Wilkinson – producer
Carlos Grier – engineer, mastering
Ben Sandmel – liner notes
Aimee MacAuley – design
Jim McGuire – photography

References

1992 albums
Guy Clark albums
Elektra Records albums


In 1990, the Allied Paper, Inc./Portage Creek/Kalamazoo River in southwestern Michigan was declared by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to be a Superfund site – in other words, an abandoned industrial site containing significant amounts of toxic waste. The EPA and companies responsible for the waste in this area, which includes a three-mile section of Portage Creek as well as part of the Kalamazoo River, into which it flows, are currently involved in an effort to reduce the amount of toxic waste at the site, which is contaminated by PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) from paper mills and other factories.

History

After the Industrial Revolution, many paper mills that sprouted up along the Kalamazoo River were found to be the cause of PCB contamination. The publication in a 1953 issue of Life Magazine of a photograph depicting dead carp floating in the Kalamazoo River drew national attention to the public interest. The Kalamazoo Superfund site was added to the National Priorities List on August 30, 1990, and the First Cleanup Action began in late 1990. Between 1990 and 2000, under an agreement with the EPA and the State of Michigan, several of the current and past owners of plants that had been responsible for the contamination investigated the Portage Creek site.

Contamination by polychlorinated biphenyls

Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB) constitute a wide array of now-banned organic chemicals with a variety of industrial applications. At the Kalamazoo River site, most PCBs are a result of the recycling of carbonless copy paper during the 1970s, the waste products from which were dumped into the river. PCBs were produced from 1929 to 1979, when they were banned by the Toxic Substances Control Act.

PCBs are human carcinogens, and can also have a negative effect on the human immune, reproductive, and endocrine systems. PCBs in the Kalamazoo River adhere to the fatty tissue of fish, and over time a process of bioaccumulation takes place, meaning that the PCBs appear in increasing concentrations in organisms higher up on the food chain, including humans. A report by the Michigan Department of Health found that the Kalamazoo River is now safe for recreational use despite some PCB contamination.

Kalamazoo River

The Kalamazoo River makes up a large portion of the Kalamazoo River Watershed, which spans about 162 miles and feeds into Lake Michigan. The 80 miles of the Kalamazoo River and Portage Creek are officially divided into five sections known as Operable Units (OU): Allied Paper/ Bryant Mill Pond (1), Willow Boulevard and A-Site Landfill (2), King Highway Landfill (3), 12th Street Landfill (4), and the Portage Creek (5). Portage Creek is southwest of Kalamazoo, connecting to the Kalamazoo River near the King’s Highway Operable Unit. The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) manages the Superfund site.

Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act / Superfund

The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, which was passed in 1980, calls for the cleaning up, under EPA supervision, of abandoned hazardous waste sites that release pollutants into the environment. The EPA works at the Kalamazoo Superfund site in conjunction with state and regional interest groups.

National Priorities List

The National Priorities List (NPL) allows for highly hazardous sites to be dealt with immediately. Substances deemed toxic are given Hazard Ranking System Package scores based on the level of toxicity and the potential hazard to human health and the ecosystem. Sites with Hazard Ranking System Package scores of 28.5 or higher out of 100 are placed on the NPL, pending official approval.

Potentially Responsible Party

The Potentially Responsible Party is an individual, corporation, or group that can be held financially responsible, at least in part, for the cleanup of the Superfund site. Recent court actions have resulted in the following companies being identified by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as Potentially Responsible Parties for the Kalamazoo River:  NCR, International Paper Company, Georgia-Pacific LLC, Weyerhaeuser and Millennium Holdings.

Remediation

The cleanup of Kalamazoo River Superfund site started upstream and has moved downstream. First, extant PCB sources were removed, with particular concern being expressed about the continuing release of PCBs in the Bryant Mill Pond area, where a $7.5 million removal program was carried out from June 1998 to May 1999. Two of the Operable Units, King Highway Landfill and Allied Inc., had sheet pile and caps installed, a process which does not remove PCBs but serves as a protective layering containing them. Time Critical Removal Action was declared in spring 2007 at the Plainwell site, where the removal process included sediment removal and the reintroduction of native plants. Any waste containing over 50 ppm (parts per million) of PCB was disposed of in Bellville’s Environmental Quality Corporation Wayne Disposal Landfill. Most of the waste, however, had a lower PCB concentration and was disposed of at nearby landfills.

Since 1998, EPA, working with Potentially Responsible Parties, has removed nearly 450,000 cubic yards of contaminated material from the site, cleaned up and restored seven miles of the Kalamazoo River and banks, and capped 82 acres worth of contaminated material to lock it away.

In September 2015, EPA signed a document called the Record of Decision for Area 1 of the river - Area 1 is the portion of the Kalamazoo River between Morrow Dam and the former Plainwell Dam, and includes Portage Creek between Cork Street and the Kalamazoo River. The cleanup for Area 1 includes excavation of PCB-contaminated areas in a two-mile section of the Kalamazoo River near the confluence of Portage Creek, and floodplain soil removal in the Plainwell Impoundment near the former Plainwell Dam. EPA projects that remediation work will begin in 2019.

On December 21, 2016, EPA issued a Unilateral Administrative Order to Georgia-Pacific, International Paper and Weyerhaeuser to conduct the work specified in the record of decision. In September 2017, EPA signed a record of decision for Area 2 of the river - Area 2 is the portion of the Kalamazoo River between the former Plainwell Dam and the Otsego City Dam. The Area 2 cleanup includes removal of the Otsego City Dam, realignment of the river to create a single stable channel, bank soil and PCB “hot spot” excavation, capping of the anabranch areas (areas where streams break away from the main river and then rejoin further downstream), and long-term monitoring.

 Operable Unit 5 – Area 2 Record of Decision (PDF) (111pp, 19.39MB) September 2017

In Feb. 2016, EPA approved the Area 3 site investigation report, which details the results of soil and water sampling at the site. This report indicated high levels of PCB-contamination in the soil and sediment. In August 2016, work began on a Time-Critical Removal Action in the Kalamazoo River upstream of the Otsego Township Dam and the M-89 bridge, which was completed in August 2018.

Georgia-Pacific submitted the draft Area 4 site investigation report in Sept. 2017 - Area 4 is the Kalamazoo River between the Otsego Township Dam and Trowbridge Dam. This document shows where and how soil and sediment sampling was conducted in Area 4 of the river. EPA is currently reviewing this document.

The Area 5 site investigation officially began in November 2016 - Area 5 is the Kalamazoo River between the Trowbridge Dam and Allegan City Dam. Georgia-Pacific began field investigations in October 2017.

Allied Paper Landfill Update
EPA has been working with the bankruptcy Trustee for Allied Landfill to implement the design for the cleanup selected in the September 21, 2016, Record of Decision. The cleanup plan, or remedy, includes consolidation and capping of the waste into a 27-acre area and long-term groundwater monitoring. The project is currently in the design phase. EPA expects cleanup work to begin by 2020 and take up to three years to complete.

 Operable Unit 1 - Allied Landfill Record of Decision  (PDF) (138pp, 24.6MB) September 2016

Otsego Township Dam - Time-Critical Removal

In the later summer of 2018, the EPA completed the removal of PCB-contaminated sediment and soil along the Kalamazoo River near the Otsego Township Dam. The project involved a 1.7-mile area of PCB-contaminated sediment and soil immediately upstream of the former Otsego Township Dam. Between initial dredging in August 2016 and project completion in August 2018, workers dredged over 50,000 tons (33,000 cubic yards) of sediment and soil, stabilized riverbanks to prevent future contamination and erosion, and disposed of contaminated materials at an approved landfill.

A temporary water control structure that was built in 2015 to replace the dam was removed, and the river is now an open channel. The area around the former auxiliary spillway has been restored as a wetland area. There are two public parking areas built at former project staging areas. The river is now open, and there is access to the river at these areas for kayaks and canoes.

Plainwell Mill Update

EPA signed a record of decision for the former Plainwell Paper Mill in Sept. 2015. The selected cleanup plan requires the excavation and off-site disposal of contaminated soil from the former mill site. The cleanup work plans were finalized in Sept. 2016, and Pre-Design Investigation work was completed in 2017. Cleanup work will start once EPA approves the work plan, expected in 2018 or early 2019.

Portage Creek

Work on the last OU, Portage Creek, began in September 2011. From April to October 2012, the EPA removed about 12,000 cubic yards of PCB-contaminated soil and sediment from Portage Creek, replaced it with clean sediment, and planted new trees and other vegetation. The EPA planned to return to the site in March 2013 to “try to complete the last segment of Portage Creek, where the creek and the Kalamazoo River meet.” If necessary, the EPA planned additional work at Portage Creek in the summer of 2014.

See also
List of Superfund sites in Michigan

References

Geography of Allegan County, Michigan
Geography of Kalamazoo County, Michigan
Superfund sites in Michigan


The Communauté de communes des Villes Sœurs (before 2017: Communauté de communes interrégionale de Bresle maritime) is a Communauté de communes located in both the Seine-Maritime department (in the Normandy region) and the Somme department (Hauts-de-France region) of north-western France. On 1 January 2017 it was expanded with 7 communes, and renamed Communauté de communes des Villes Sœurs. Its seat is Eu. Its area is 214.8 km2, and its population was 36,979 in 2018, of which 6,771 in Eu and 4,723 in Le Tréport.

Participants
Villes Sœurs consists of the following 28 communes, of which 15 are in Seine-Maritime and 13 are in Somme:

Allenay
Ault
Baromesnil
Beauchamps
Bouvaincourt-sur-Bresle
Buigny-lès-Gamaches
Criel-sur-Mer
Dargnies
Embreville
Étalondes
Eu
Flocques
Friaucourt
Gamaches
Incheville
Longroy
Melleville
Mers-les-Bains
Le Mesnil-Réaume
Millebosc
Monchy-sur-Eu
Oust-Marest
Ponts-et-Marais
Saint-Pierre-en-Val
Saint-Quentin-la-Motte-Croix-au-Bailly
Saint-Rémy-Boscrocourt
Le Tréport
Woignarue

See also
Communes of the Seine-Maritime department
Communes of the Somme department

References

Villes Soeurs
Villes Soeurs
Villes Soeurs


Ridgeways are a particular type of ancient road that exploits the hard surface of hilltop ridges for use as unpaved, zero-maintenance roads, though they often have the disadvantage of steeper gradients along their courses, and sometimes quite narrow widths. Before the advent of turnpikes or toll roads, ridgeway trails continued to provide the firmest and safest cart tracks. They are generally an opposite to level, valley-bottom, paved roads, which require engineering work to shore up and maintain. Unmaintained valley routes may require greater travelling distances than ridgeways.

Prehistoric roads in Europe often variously comprised stretches of ridgeway above the line of springs, sections of causeway through bog and marsh, and other trackways of neither sort which crossed flat country.

A revival of interest in ancient roads and recreational walking in the 19th century brought the concept back into common use. Some ancient routes, in particular The Ridgeway National Trail of southern England, have been reprised as long-distance footpaths.

Origin

Along ridge lines of hills, soil is often exposed and dry because of wind and natural drainage, and vegetation tends to be thinner. Where a beaten track evolves into a busier "road", constant passage by animals, sleds and wheeled vehicles suppresses regrowth of vegetation. With the help of rain (and soil creep), a shallow trail can be worn down into the topsoil and smoothed without any purposeful road-making work.  The thin soil and rocky subsoil, combined with the natural drainage provided by the slopes on each side, also tended to keep such roads dry.

In western Europe, where prehistoric roads have been extensively documented with the help of itineraries, traces on old maps and extant marks on the landscape, ridgeways are a typical feature of long-distance ancient routes through rugged, high-rainfall parts of Germany and across the island of Great Britain. These ancient trackways generally ran along the hilltops, only descending when necessary to cross valleys.

As such, they are an opposite to modern-style roads, which tend to run along the valleys and only ascend when necessary to cross the hilltops.

Courses

In rugged parts of central Germany, ridgeways tend to strictly follow the watershed line proper, since traversing steep slopes was difficult for wheeled vehicles and uncomfortable for foot travellers unless someone had cut a track into the hillside and shored it up against washouts and slips. However, deviations around high peaks were common, usually taking the south side of the peak, presumably because the warmer side was usually drier. On flatter British hills, the line of the tracks often runs a little below the actual crest of the ridge, possibly to afford some shelter from the wind or to avoid travellers presenting themselves to marauders as a target on the skyline.

The discomfort of following ridgeways arises from their exposure to harsh weather and the fact that they are rarely level. The ridge line rises and falls. Moreover, at some point the ridge ends, so that the route must descend to ford a stream before rising again to follow the next ridge. Loads on two-wheeled carts had to be constantly shifted to the back during descents and to the front during ascents so that the animals could draw efficiently.

In medieval and later times, ridgeways in England were used as drovers roads.

Since ridgeways were informal routes, and the rounded tops of many British and German ridges might be hundreds of metres wide, the track might change seasonally, or spontaneously, if any land alongside the trail appeared drier and firmer. But where the tracks were seen as marking boundaries, the course could no longer change without causing a property dispute. English ridgeway routes became fixed in the course of enclosures beginning about 1750.

Notable prehistoric ridgeways include:
in England
The Ridgeway between Avebury and Streatley in southern England
The Icknield Way on the escarpment of the Chiltern Hills and extending towards Norfolk in southern England
The Old Shaftesbury Drove and the Ox Drove leading from Shaftesbury and Blandford to Salisbury
in Germany
The Rennweg (Arnsberger Wald), an old trade route along the Arnsberg Forest
The Brüderstrasse between Cologne and Siegen, Germany
The Rennsteig from Gerstungen through the Thuringian mountains of Germany, restored from 1896 onwards as a 169-kilometre trail

Evaluation

Some modern authors have suggested several advantages a ridgeway might possess:
 A ridgeway trail preserves itself without paving and constant maintenance, which were not available in medieval or early modern times in Europe.
 A watershed route can cover long distances without crossing water: valley roads require fords or bridges over tributary streams.
 In some landscapes, a line along a hill is more direct, whereas valley routes tend to meander.
 Routes well away from arable land in valleys can avoid tolls and customs charges imposed by land-owners or potentates.
 Despite laws on rights of way, lowland farmers encroach on paths which they themselves do not use. Travellers can bypass villages on higher ground, which has little agricultural value.
 Treeless hilltops may be safer from attack by robbers or fierce animals than densely forested valleys.

Demise
Some ridgeway routes were adopted and paved by the Romans, even though the prevailing Roman road-construction practice was to build straight roads from point to point, rising and falling with the landscape.

Some German ridgeways were deliberately closed to force traffic into towns. In one instance, the central purpose of the Rheingauer Gebück, a 38-kilometre fence erected in the 12th century, may have been to close down a German ridgeway and force traffic onto the Rhine river.  Many ridgeways have continued in use with macadam or paved surfaces in modern times. Others fell into disuse when more level paved routes, either along valley bottoms or cut transversely along hillsides, were built parallel to them.

Noting the existence of such parallel routes, antiquarians in Britain came to associate ridgeways culturally with ancient Britons. However the evidence for the great antiquity of ridgeway routes is ambiguous. In the modern era, new cart tracks have generally avoided inhospitable high ground: the 1840s and 1850s Wagon Trails from the Missouri River to Oregon and Californiarutted trails in bare earthgenerally followed low courses.

Rediscovery
In Britain, the term ridgeway has been in continuous use since Anglo-Saxon times as a generic term to distinguish any high travel route from a lower one. The earliest extant written form is spelled hrycweg, dating from 938. In German, a variety of terms of similar date match the concept of a ridgeway: Rennweg (since circa 860: Rennewec), Rennstieg (1162: Rinnestich), Bergstrasse (C9: Birgistrotun) and hohe Strasse (circa 1000 Howestraze).

A revival of interest in ancient roads in the 19th century brought the concept back into common use. Although the Great Ridgeway northwest of London was the best known of such routes, 19th-century British antiquarians rediscovered numerous other local ridgeways and speculated that names such as Ryknild Street (a valley route) contained the word ridge in modified form. Scholars such as Georg Landau (1807–1865) began mapping and walking ancient ridgeway roads across Germany in the 19th century.

Recording prehistoric ridgeways today can be difficult. Trails only lightly worn into soil along ridge lines are generally no longer visible, but their courses are sometimes marked by modern roads and footpaths that have perpetuated the ridgeway routes.

A ridgeway previously used by carts often remains physically evident in the form of a hollow way: a trench or fosse eroded deep into the soil by constant passage of wheels and hooves. These are most common at inclines. Sleds, axles scraping the soil between wheel ruts, locked wheels skidding downhill and heavy weights dragged over the ground to brake the carts' descents would all continue eroding the surface down to the bedrock, if any, which then forms a natural pavement.

When it rains, the mud and debris in an inclined hollow way tend to be washed down the channel, slowly flushing it out and leaving banks on either side where hedgerows may develop and collect more material. Hollow ways can of course occur in any firm-ground trackway, not just in ridgeway sections. On level sections of a ridgeway, banks are less common, perhaps because travellers avoided large puddles and constantly changed the courses, or because any banks eroded.

Recreational

From the 19th century onwards, old ridgeways which had not been converted into highways were often revived by hiking clubs or tourism authorities, marked out as scenic trails for walking, horse-riding or mountain biking far from the disturbances of motor traffic. An 1890 Baedeker guide recommended walks on The Ridgeway, and efforts to give that ridgeway legislative recognition began in 1947.

Some completely new recreational ridgeways have been devised where there was no tradition of the route being used for trade in previous centuries. Examples include the Kammweg established in 1904 in eastern Germany and the 197-kilometre Wessex Ridgeway in England, devised in the 1980s by the Ramblers Association, following ridges between the Atlantic coast and Avebury, with a preference for firm paths, good scenery and free access.

See also
Ancient trackway
Causeway
Ford (crossing)
Hollow way
Drainage divide
Ridge
List of ancient roads
Trade route
Salt road

Notes

References

Briggs, Keith. Maps of Roman Roads in England. Retrieved on 2008-11-07.
Hodgson, John. "Observations on the Roman Road called Wrekendike", in Archaeologia Aeliana, Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1832.
Jermy, Kenneth E. The 'North Cheshire Ridge' Roman Road, Britannia 21, 283–285 (1990).
Landau, Georg. Beiträge zur Geschichte der alten Heer- und Handelsstraßen in Deutschland, Kassel, Bärenreiter, 1958.
Mechelhoff, Frank. Taunusreiter website, 2005–2007. Retrieved on 2008-11-07.
Nicke, Herbert. Vergessene Wege, Nümbrecht, Martina Galunder Verlag, 2001, .
Phelps, William. The History and Antiquities of Somersetshire, J.B. Nichols and Son, 1836.
Quinlan, Ray. The Greater Ridgeway, Cicerone Press, 2003, .
Weimann, Reinhold. Gewässer und Landschaft zwischen Sieg und Agger, Bonn, Naturhistorischer Verein der Rheinlande und Westfalens, 1971.
West, Graham. The Technical Development of Roads in Britain, Ashgate, 2000, , .

External links
Maps of ridgeways near Frankfurt, Germany

Hiking trails
Roads by type
Ancient roads and tracks


Habibia High School () is a school in Kabul, Afghanistan which has educated many of the former and current Afghan elite, including former Presidents Ashraf Ghani and Hamid Karzai, as well as musician Ahmad Zahir. It was founded by King Habibullah Khan in 1903 and is considered one of the oldest Schools In Afghanistan. It is situated in the south of the city in a district known as Karteh Seh.

Over 18,000 students are studying in three different shifts. The undergraduate enrollment is approximately 2000 students.

History

It suffered severe damage during the civil war of the 1990s between the different mujahideen factions who had ousted the communist government of Mohammad Najibullah in 1992.

The Indian government funded the rebuilding of the school in 2003, it committed $5 million for the restoration project. The restoration was completed in two years and the school was reopened in August 2005, by Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Indian Prime Minister  Dr. Manmohan Singh.

In November 2021, a powerful magnetic roadside bomb exploded near the school.

Notable alumni
 Ashraf Ghani, former president of Afghanistan
 Hamid Karzai, former president of Afghanistan
 Mohammad Hashim Maiwandwal, former Prime Minister of Afghanistan
 Mohammad Gul Khan Momand, former Home Minister of Afghanistan
 Sibghatullah Mojaddedi, former President of Afghanistan
 Mohammad Najibullah, former President of Afghanistan
 Dr. Sayed Makhdoom Raheen, former Minister of Information and Culture
 Mohammed Zahir Shah, former king of Afghanistan
 Abdul Rahim Wardak, former Defence Minister of Afghanistan
 Ahmad Zahir, legendary Afghan musician
 Dr. Hafiz Sahar, former President and Chief Editor, Daily Eslah and Kabul University professor of Journalism
 Wasef Bakhtari, prominent Afghan poet, writer, and literary figure
 Mohammad Ghous Bashiri, Afghan politician

Notable faculty
 Faiz Mohammad Katib Hazara, historian
 Richard N. Frye, Aga Khan Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies at Harvard University

See also
 List of schools in Kabul
 List of schools in Afghanistan

References

Schools in Kabul
Educational institutions established in 1903
1903 establishments in Afghanistan


The Granite Range is a mountain range in Elko County, Nevada.

References

Mountain ranges of Elko County, Nevada
Mountain ranges of Nevada


Caroline Mathilde is a two-act ballet to music by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies. Its original choreographer was Flemming Flindt in 1991.

It tells the story of the eighteenth-century English princess Caroline Mathilde (sister of George III), who in 1766 was sent to Denmark aged 15 to be married to the 17-year-old schizophrenic Danish king, Christian VII. The ballet portrays her unhappy marriage, the king's growing madness and her fatal love-affair with Struensee, the king's influential physician, which ultimately leads to their arrest, his execution and her exile at the age of 20, separated from her two young children.

As with Davies' earlier ballet, Salome, it was a commission by the Royal Danish Ballet. It was first performed on 14 March 1991 at the Royal Danish Theatre, Copenhagen. The orchestra was conducted by Markus Lehtinen.

Davies prepared two concert suites, each based on an act of the ballet.

See also
 List of historical ballet characters

References
Archived details of the ballet at Maxopus.com

Ballets set in the 1760s
Ballets set in the 1770s
Ballets set in Denmark
Ballets by Flemming Flindt
Ballets by Peter Maxwell Davies
Biographical ballets
1991 ballet premieres
Ballets based on actual events
Cultural depictions of Christian VII of Denmark
Cultural depictions of Caroline Matilda of Great Britain
Cultural depictions of Frederick VI of Denmark


Charles James Bowring (27 August 1887 – 16 January 1959) made four first-class appearances as a professional cricketer for Somerset in the 1913 cricket season.

Used as an opening or middle order batsman, Bowring, who was born at Portland, Dorset, made little impact, failing to reach double figures until his last first-class innings, when he made 15 against Hampshire at Portsmouth. In the previous match, against Kent at Taunton he took three wickets for 24 runs in 31 balls, his only first-class wickets.

Bowring died at Preston, near Yeovil.

References

1887 births
1959 deaths
English cricketers
Somerset cricketers
Cricketers from Dorset


The Groom Range is a mountain range in Lincoln County, Nevada. The range was renamed from Naquinta Mountains or Tequima Range in 1864, after Bob Groom, who discovered minerals in the range. It is located within the Nevada Test and Training Range, north of Groom Lake. The highest point in the Groom Range is 9,249 feet. The Groom Range is situated 26.6 miles north of the dry Groom Lake.

See also
Groom Mine

References

Mountain ranges of Nevada
Mountain ranges of Lincoln County, Nevada


Philip M. Schiliro is an American political consultant and strategist.  He has spent much of his career on the staff of prominent elected officials, including President Barack Obama.

Schiliro was born August 6, 1956, in Brooklyn, New York and grew up on Long Island.

Schiliro graduated from Hofstra University and Lewis & Clark Law School, where he was editor-in-chief of Environmental Law.

From the early 1980s until 2008, he served in a number of congressional staff positions, notably as Democratic Chief of Staff for the United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform and as chief of staff to Representative Henry Waxman. In 2004, he worked as policy director for Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle.

In 1992 Schiliro ran unsuccessfully to represent New York's 4th District in Congress, narrowly losing a race to represent the newly redrawn Nassau County-based seat to Hempstead Town Councilman David A. Levy.

He held four different positions under President Obama. Before the President took office, Schiliro was director of congressional relations for Obama's presidential transition team. From 2009 to February 2011, he served as Assistant to the President and Director of Legislative Affairs. From February to December 2011 he was an Assistant to the President and Special Advisor. He left to become a private consultant. In December 2013 the White House announced that he was rejoining the President's staff on a short-term basis to work on health care issues. He stepped down in May 2014.

Since leaving government, Schiliro has been involved in several initiatives. He has co-founded Schiliro Barnett, a consulting firm; Co-Equal, a non-profit initiative aimed at strengthening Congress as a co-equal branch of government; and Grow New Mexico, a non-profit devoted to community development in that state. He holds an appointment as a senior presidential fellow at the Peter S. Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency at Hofstra University.

He and his wife, Jody, have one daughter.

References

External links

The New Team: Phil Schiliro, Michael Falcone, The New York Times, December 9, 2008

Assistants to the President of the United States
Obama administration personnel
Hofstra University alumni
Lewis & Clark Law School alumni
Living people
Political chiefs of staff
United States congressional aides
1956 births
People from Brooklyn
New York (state) Democrats


Éric Morena (27 October 1951 – 16 November 2019) was a French singer. He was born in Saint-Omer and was made famous by his 1987 hit "Oh ! Mon bateau", which peaked at #22 in France. In 2003, he covered "L'Envie d'aimer" on the album Retour gagnant.

Discography

Singles
 1987 : "Oh ! Mon bateau" – #22 in France
 1987 : "Dernier Matin d'Asie" (charity single recorded by Sampan) – # 22 in France
 1988 : "Ramon et Pedro"
 1988 : "Je suis le toréro de l'amour"
 1989 : "Hissé...o"
 1989 : "La fiesta morena"
 1990 : "Pour toi Arménie" (charity single recorded by many artists) – #1 in France

References

1951 births
2019 deaths
People from Saint-Omer
French-language singers
French male singers
French pop singers


Happy powder is slang that could refer to the following drugs:

 Cocaine
 Morphine
 Heroin
 A fruit-flavoured date rape drug in Hong Kong


Joy powder is slang that could refer to the following drugs:

 Heroin
 Cocaine
 Marijuana
 Morphine


The Hannan Range is a mountain range in Pershing County, Nevada.

References

Mountain ranges of Pershing County, Nevada
Mountain ranges of Nevada


The 2008 NAPA Auto Parts 200 presented by Dodge race was the second running of the NAPA Auto Parts 200, a discontinued NASCAR Nationwide Series race held on August 2, 2008, at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal, Quebec. The race was the 23rd of the 2008 NASCAR Nationwide Series season.

The pole position was won by Scott Pruett of Chip Ganassi Racing, while the race was won by JR Motorsports' Ron Fellows. The race was the first points race in NASCAR history to be run with grooved rain tires.

Background
The race was the second running of the NAPA Auto Parts 200, with Kevin Harvick winning the inaugural event in 2007. The track, Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, was one of two international tracks on the 2008 Nationwide schedule, along with Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez in Mexico City.

Various road course ringers ran in the race, including Patrick Carpentier, Ron Fellows, Max Papis, Scott Pruett, Boris Said,  Scott Gaylord and  Jacques Villeneuve.

Qualifying
Scott Pruett of Earnhardt Ganassi Racing won the pole position with a lap time of 102.569 seconds and a speed of . Max Papis started second with a lap speed of , followed by Marcos Ambrose, Patrick Carpentier, Jacques Villeneuve. The remaining top ten comprised Ron Fellows, Boris Said, Steve Wallace, Brad Coleman and Joey Logano. The lone driver to not qualify for the race was Kevin O'Connell.

Race
The race started at 3:30 EST, with pole-sitter Scott Pruett leading until lap 7, in which the caution flag flew for rain, followed by the red flag on the following lap. As a result, most teams added windshield wipers to the cars, while grooved rain tires were installed. Rain tires had been previously used in practice and qualifying for the 1997 NASCAR Thunder 100 exhibition race at Suzuka Circuit, and also in 1999 by the Camping World Truck Series during a practice at Watkins Glen International. At one point, Carl Edwards was seen trying to use what appeared to be a Swiffer mop to try cleaning his windshield, possibly during the first caution.

The race was paused for about an hour before restarting. As a result of the rain, speeds dropped from  to . On lap 14, Marcos Ambrose took the lead, leading for a race high 27 laps until he was penalized for speeding in pit road. Jacques Villeneuve took the lead on lap 41, which he subsequently relinquished to Ron Fellows on the following lap. Fellows held the lead for seven laps until the race was called due to severe rain on lap 48. On the same lap, Villeneuve, who did not have a wiper installed, collided with another car's rear; Joey Logano also crashed on the lap, hitting a car without brake lights. Patrick Carpentier finished second, followed by Ambrose, Ron Hornaday Jr., and Boris Said. The top ten was rounded out with Edwards, Jason Leffler, Greg Biffle, Clint Bowyer and Steve Wallace.

Results

Standings after the race

References

NAPA Auto Parts 200
NAPA Auto Parts 200
NAPA Auto Parts 200
2000s in Montreal
2008 in Quebec
NASCAR races at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve


The H D Range is a mountain range in Elko County, Nevada.

References

Mountain ranges of Nevada
Mountain ranges of Elko County, Nevada


Mário Pečalka (born 28 December 1980) is a former Slovak football defender.

Career
Pečalka began playing football in his hometown club OFK Rudina. Later he moved to Kysucké Nové Mesto and then he played for the Czech Fourth Division team FK Mutěnice. In 2003, he came back to his home region to play for the Slovak Fourth League team TJ Slovan Rudinská. In 2004, he was on loan in Slovan Bratislava which was playing in the Slovak Second League in this time. After end of loan he signed for the Corgoň Liga club MŠK Žilina. He played for Žilina in 103 matches overall, scoring 4 goals. He twice won the Slovak title in Žilina. He became one of the best Corgoň Liga defenders and was selected to the national team in 2009. He played 5 group matches in the 2010–11 UEFA Champions League. In February 2011, he signed for Israeli club Hapoel Tel Aviv. He made his debut for Hapoel in a 2–0 win against Maccabi Petah Tikva on 14 February 2011. In January 2012, he signed on loan at Slovan Bratislava for half a year. In May 2013, he announced the end of his professional career due persistent back problems.

International career
Pečalka made his national team debut in a 2–3 defeat against Ukraine on 10 February 2009. He was called up to the Slovakia preliminary squad for the 2010 FIFA World Cup but manager Vladimír Weiss did not select him for the final tournament squad.

Honours
Žilina
Corgoň Liga (2): 2006–07, 2009–10
Slovak Super Cup (2): 2007, 2010

Hapoel Tel Aviv
Israel State Cup (1): 2010–11

References

External links
Hapoel Tel Aviv profile

1980 births
Living people
Men's association football central defenders
Slovak men's footballers
Slovakia men's international footballers
ŠK Slovan Bratislava players
FK Inter Bratislava players
MŠK Žilina players
Hapoel Tel Aviv F.C. players
Slovak First Football League players
Israeli Premier League players
Slovak expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Israel
Slovak expatriate sportspeople in Israel


Belchior Febos, also called Phoebus (died 1632) was one of the leading Portuguese jurists of his time.

In the early 17th century, Febos practiced law before Portugal's supreme civil and administrative courts, the Casa da Suplicação and the Desembargo da Paço. His principal work, the two-volume Decisiones Senatus Regnus Lusitaniae (1619), a compilation of commented decisions of the supreme courts, was among Portugal's most significant contributions to the European scholarly discourse about the ius commune.

References

Year of birth missing
1632 deaths
17th-century Portuguese lawyers


40 Entre Las 2 is the first album by the K-Narias, a project that is born to vindicate, in the letters of their songs, the defense of the woman, despised by some Latin interpreters. The urban rates of their music and the canary accent serve them to fight against the aggressions to the women. In this sense, Gara and Loida carry out the campaign "No a la violencia de género", against the bad treatments and directed mainly to the young people, through a song called "Todos Tenemos Que Luchar", composed and interpreted by this group, and they also have a video for it realized by Eddy Cardellach.

40 Entre Las 2 sold 50,000 copies in the Canary Islands (the most sold in the Islands in the last ten years) in only three months.

Track listing
 Intro
 Yo soy tu hombre (featuring Nicky Jam)
 No te vistas que no vas
 En este infierno (featuring Voltio)
 Despierta (featuring Don Chezina)
 Ya llegó el reggaeton
 Quiero que bailen (featuring Pedro Prez)
 Tú te entregas a mi
 Provocándome (featuring Mr. Phillips)
 Beso volando (featuring Barbero)
 Manos arriba
 Necesito decirte algo (Balada)

References

External links
Official site
http://acharts.us/album/38992

2005 debut albums
Reggaeton albums
Albums produced by Luny Tunes
Albums produced by Noriega


The Home Camp Range is a mountain range in Washoe County, Nevada.

References

Mountain ranges of Nevada
Mountain ranges of Washoe County, Nevada


The  LNWR 317 class, (also known as Saddle Tank Shunter, Dock Tank or Bissel Tank) consisted of a class of 20 square saddle-tanked steam locomotives built by the London and North Western Railway at their Crewe Works between 1896 and 1901.  They had a very short coupled wheelbase, with a trailing Bissel truck to carry weight.

History
They were built in three batches of 1, 9 and 10; their first running number was chosen at random from the numbers left vacant by locomotives that had been transferred to the duplicate list. This fate was almost immediately suffered by the 317 class – after only one or two months in service.

All passed to the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in 1923, who initially allocated them the numbers 6400–6419 in the passenger tank sequence. Only five (6402/03/07/14/18) had been renumbered before the numbers were changed to 7850–7869 in 1927, thus moving them into the goods and shunting tanks. The LMS changed their power classification from 1P to 0F at the same time.

Two, 7862 and 7865, survived to enter British Railways service in 1948; 7865 was withdrawn in November 1953, and 7862 three years later. None were preserved.

Fleet

References

External links
 http://www.lnwrs.org.uk/GoodsLocos/Loco08.php

Dock Tank
0-4-2ST locomotives
Railway locomotives introduced in 1896
Scrapped locomotives
Standard gauge steam locomotives of Great Britain


Jalapa Mazatec is a Mazatecan language. An estimate from 1990 suggested it was spoken by 15,000 people, one-third of whom are monolingual, in 13 villages in the vicinity of the town of San Felipe Jalapa de Díaz in the Tuxtepec District of the Mexican state of Oaxaca. A 2016 study, published in 2019, estimated the Mazatec dialects to have 220,000 speakers. Egland (1978) found 73% intelligibility with Huautla, the prestige variety of Mazatec. Literacy in Jalapa is taught alongside Spanish in local schools.

Grammar
Jalapa Mazatec root words are primarily monosyllabic, and the intricate inflectional system is largely subsyllablic (Silverman 1994).

Phonology
Jalapa Mazatec syllables are maximally CCGV. However, vowels distinguish several phonations, and like all Mazatec languages, Jalapa has tone.

Tone
Jalapa roots distinguish three tones, low , mid , and high . In morphologically complex situations, combinations of these may form short (or perhaps mid-length) vowels with contour tones:  have been recorded.

The simple tones are contrasted in  "work",  "puma",  "mould".

In much of the literature, these are written with the numerals 1 (low), 2 (mid), and 3 (high).

Jalapa utilizes whistled speech, where each simple or contour tone is given a whistle pulse.

Vowels
Jalapa Mazatec distinguishes five vowel qualities, discounting phonation: , , , , . Phonations are modal voice, breathy voice, and creaky voice; all phonations may also occur with the five nasal vowels:

{| class="IPA wikitable"
|+Jalapa Mazatec vowels
|-
!Modal voice
| i  ||  æ  ||  a  ||  o  ||  u
|-align=center
!Breathy voice
| i̤ || æ̤ || a̤ || o̤ || ṳ
|-align=center
!Creaky voice
| ḭ || æ̰ || a̰ || o̰ || ṵ
|-align=center
!Modal nasal
| ĩ || æ̃ || ã || õ || ũ
|-align=center
!Breathy nasal
| ĩ̤ || æ̤̃ || ã̤ || õ̤ || ṳ̃
|-align=center
!Creaky nasal
| ḭ̃ || æ̰̃ || ã̰ || õ̰ || ṵ̃
|}

Breathy vowels may have strong breathy voicing throughout their length. However, typically they are voiceless for the first 40% and then have modal voice, so that for example  may be pronounced  or . Similarly, creaky vowels tend to confine their creakiness to the first part of the vowel, often with glottal closure before modal voice:  as  or .

Jalapa is unique among the Mazatec languages in distinguishing breathy vowels. These arose through the contraction of Proto-Mazatecan disyllables of the form CVhV, where C was voiced and the two vowels were the same. When the two syllables carried different tones, these contracted into a contour. For example, proto-Mazatec  "stone" became  (through a presumed intermediate );  "thief" became ; and  "your soap" became . Similar contractions occurred with CVʔV disyllables to produce creaky vowels, but creaky vowels already existed in the proto-language.

Jalapa also has a phonemic distinction of unclear nature that has been suggested to be "ballisticity". However, it lacks the characteristics of ballistic syllables in other Otomanguean languages. The only consistent distinction Silverman et al. (1994) were able to measure was one of vowel length, with vowels of the alleged ballistic syllables being two-thirds the length of the vowels of the productive open class of nouns, with a slight increase in pitch. They may reflect the original short vowels of proto-Mazatec, as opposed to the vowels of morphologically complex monosyllabic nouns of modern Jalapa Mazatec. If so, Jalapa would have a three-way length distinction, as doubly long vowels are also found in morphologically complex situations. Note that this distinction is not marked in this article apart from this one table:

Consonants
Jalapa consonants distinguish (prenasalized) voiced, tenuis, and aspirated plosives, as well as voiceless, voiced, and glottalized sonorants.

There is also a flap, , which only occurs in one morpheme, the clitic = "probably". In addition, the consonants , ,  are found in Spanish loan words.

The labial velars  become bilabial  before front vowels:  "it is finished" vs.  "John", etc. In the same position, the stop  is realized as a heterorganic velar-bilabial affricate [kɸ].

Phonetically aspirated fricatives do not occur before creaky vowels, while aspirated stops do. Therefore, Silverman et al. (1994) treats them as fricative-/h/ clusters.

Silverman (1994:126) remarks that voiced stops are prenasalized in intervocalic position, but later on the same page states that they are prenasalized in initial position. With voiced plosives, the nasalization is two-thirds the duration of the consonant. It is not clear if they ever appear without prenasalization.

Voiceless nasals are voiced for the last quarter of their duration.

Glottalized sonorants are variable in their production. The may occur as a glottal stop followed by a modally voiced sonorant, , , etc.; an initially creaky voiced sonorant switching to modal voice by the end; a fully creaky consonant; or the creak may extend into the following vowel.

Phonotactics
Aspirated consonants do not occur before breathy vowels, and glottalized consonants only occur before modally voiced vowels. Nasal consonants only occur before nasal vowels. Voiced plosives are prenasalized in intervocalic position.

Consonant clusters include NC, where N is a nasal and C is a voiceless plosive or affricate, and SC, where S is a sibilant and C is a tenuis plosive or affricate.

References

Sources

Mazatecan languages

pms:Lenga mazatec, chiquihuitlán


The Horse Range is a mountain range in Nye County, Nevada, United States.

References

Mountain ranges of Nevada
Mountain ranges of Nye County, Nevada
Mountain ranges of the Great Basin


Leopoldo Gout is a film director, producer, author, and painter. Born in Mexico, he studied Contemporary Art at Central Saint Martins in London, and now resides in New York City. His artwork has been displayed in the West Collection Gallery of Pennsylvania. Films which he has produced have been shown at The Cannes 2011 International Film Festival and have aired on NBC. He has been involved in various film and television projects, including films with the author James Patterson, such as the major adaptation, Alex Cross. Gout was a producer for the THQ video-game Leela, which uses motion controls and immersive psychedelic environments to allow the player to connect with their sub-conscience.

Film and television work

Leopoldo co-wrote, co-directed, and was an executive producer on Little Spirit: Christmas in New York, which first aired on 10 December 2008 on NBC. Little Spirit features the voice of Danny DeVito and songs written by Duncan Sheik.

Leopoldo Gout was a producer of the 2009 short film Passage, directed by Shekhar Kapur.

Leopoldo served as a producer and second unit director on the 2011 film Dias de Gracia (), directed by his brother, Evarardo Valerio Gout. The film screened at the Cannes 2011 International Film Festival, and received a positive review from The Hollywood Reporter. The film was made by the Mexico-based Casa B Productions, which Leopoldo founded with his brother.

Gout produced Alex Cross, the 2012 adaptation of the novel by James Patterson. The film starred Jean Reno, Matthew Fox, and Tyler Perry.

Gout is the executive producer of Zoo, an adaptation of the James Patterson novel. The CBS series stars James Wolk, Kristen Connolly, Nonso Anozie, and Billy Burke. Beginning in 2015, the series is now in its third season.

Gout executive produced the 2015 3D nature documentary film Aldabra, narrated by Pierce Brosnan.

Gout co-produced the 2016 film Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life, based on a James Patterson novel.

Gout was executive producer of the CBS series Instinct, which began in 2017 and starred Alan Cumming.

Gout served as an originating and Executive Producer on Aaron Sorkin's directorial debut, Molly's Game. The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and stars Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, Kevin Costner, Michael Cera and Chris O'Dowd.

Novel/ Graphic Novel Work

Ghost Radio (2008)
Published in 2008 by Harper Collins, Ghost Radio is Leopoldo Gout's first novel. Each chapter begins with an engraving which Gout did himself. The book is a paranormal suspense thriller. Fellow author and collaborator James Patterson describes it as reminiscent of the early work of Stephen King. Originally intended to be a graphic novel, Gout says of his work “the words started to overwhelm the images” at which point he switched away from the graphic format, opting instead to do a traditional novel which includes some illustrations. Each chapter begins with an engraving which Gout did himself. Kirkus Review writes, "Palpable, almost visible cross-cultural creepiness that never lets up: [Ghost Radio is] very smart thrills."

Daniel X
Leopoldo Gout Collaborated with James Patterson on a graphic novel addition to the Daniel X book series. Daniel X hunts outlaw aliens after the responsibility is passed down to him when his parents are killed. This collaboration is James Patterson's first time working on a graphic novel.

Genius: The Game (2016)
Published by Feiwel & Friends in 2016, 200 hacking/programming/engineering geniuses gather from around the world to go head to head in a competition designed by India's youngest CEO, Kiran Biswas. The story follows three bright teenagers: Rex, Tunde, and Cai (a.k.a. Painted Wolf). Gout won the 2017 Mathical Book Prize for this book.

Genius: The Con (2017)
Published by Macmillan in 2017, the sequel follows Rex, Tunde and Cai's mission to find Rex's brother, save Tunde's village from the hands of a corrupt warlord and stop Kiran's attempts at global takeover.

Art exhibitions

 Cambio (1998) - Organized by artist Kenny Schachter, CAMBIO was a series of group shows that took place in temporary spaces with a strong geographic thread: half of the artists lived in Mexico and the other half lived in the United States.
 Tricia Collins Contemporary Art (1999)
 New NYC Art

Fellowships

Gout has established the Genius Foundation to follow the intellectual property of his Genius series that, in partnership with Arizona State University, supports children from disadvantaged communities.

References

External links
 Sunday Eagle Tribune, February 8, 2009
 School Library Journal, February 1, 2009
 Common Sense Media
 Leopoldo Gout and Deepak Chopra podcast
 The Henry Ford of Books
 CBS Orders Crime Drama Pilot Starring Alan Cumming, Craig Turk Legal Drama
  Aldabra

Alumni of Central Saint Martins
American film directors
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
American male novelists


Alfredo Balducci (Livorno 1920 – Milan 2011) was an Italian playwright.

Life
Balducci lived in Milan for most of his adult life. Apart from a few fictional works including novels and short stories, most of Balducci's production has been writing for theatre.
He has written numerous ironic-satires and dramas, twenty of which have been presented at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano, Teatro Stabile di Trieste, Teatro Sistina di Roma and many others.

Balducci has received nine awards for his theatrical works; twointernational awards and seven national awards. His international awards consist of the "Pirandello – Brecht project" (New York, April 1997) and the "Onassis – Distinction Prize" (Athens, 2006).
His national awards include Riccione, Pirandello (Agrigento), Italian Drama Institute, Anticoli Corrado, Pozzale, and Giuseppe Fava. His most recent award was the Luigi Antonelli Award (Autumn 1998).

Balducci's works have been published in reviews such as "Sipario", "Il Dramma" and "Ridotto" and in the series "Teatro italiano contemporaneo" by the Società Italiana Autori Drammatici.

Many highly acclaimed theatre critics have written about Balducci's works, including Jacobbi, De Monticelli, Possenti, Terron, De Chiara, and Prosperi.
A critical monograph was also published by Roberto Rebora which appeared in the "Italian Review of Dramaturgy".

Many of his dramas have been translated into various foreign languages and performed abroad, as well as published by 'Serarcangeli Publisher'.

He has collaborated with Italian State Radio and Television (R.A.I), Yugoslavian Radio, Switzerland Television, Telemontecarlo, and with Greek Radio.

References

External links
 Personal web site

Italian dramatists and playwrights
1920 births
2011 deaths
20th-century Italian dramatists and playwrights


S Monocerotis, also known as 15 Monocerotis, is a massive multiple and variable star system located in the constellation Monoceros.  It is the brightest star in the Christmas Tree open cluster in the area catalogued as NGC 2264.

S Monocerotis is found within an open cluster and the Washington Double Star Catalog lists many companion stars.  The closest and brightest is S Mon B, magnitude 7.8 and 3 arcseconds away.  It is classified as  B2 main sequence star with a mass of .  Designated component C is an 11th-magnitude B8V star. The cluster contains another dozen or so 9th and 10th magnitude stars and many fainter stars.

S Monocerotis A is a spectroscopic binary system with an eccentric orbit of about 112 years. Since 1943, the spectrum of this star has served as the MK standard for O7 by which other stars are classified.  It is also an irregular variable star with a range of less than a tenth of a magnitude.  The orbital parameters can be used to derive the masses of the two stars, giving  and .

The distance to S Monocerotis and NGC 2264 has been derived in various ways, including dynamical parallax and isochrone fitting.  These consistently give estimates of 700 - 900 parsecs, although this is double the likely distance derived from the Hipparcos parallax measurements.  Gaia Early Data Release 3 contains parallaxes for the companions components B and C of  and  respectively, consistent with the expected distance to the cluster.

References

External links
 S Monocerotis by James B. Kaler

Monoceros
Monocerotis, 15
Irregular variables
Monocerotis, S
BD+10 1220
2456
047839
031978
O-type main-sequence stars
B-type main-sequence stars
Emission-line stars
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NGC 2264


Ivan Belák  (born 23 January 1978) is a Slovak professional former footballer who played as a midfielder. He previously played for 1. FC Tatran Prešov in the Slovak Corgoň Liga.

International career
Belák has been capped twice for the Slovakia national football team.

References

1978 births
Living people
People from Handlová
Footballers from the Trenčín Region
Slovak men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Slovakia men's international footballers
MŠK Púchov players
MŠK Žilina players
FK Senica players
1. FC Tatran Prešov players
Slovak First Football League players
FC Baník Prievidza players


Dublin Blues is an album by the American singer-songwriter Guy Clark, released in 1995. Clark promoted the album by touring with son, Travis, as his bass player.  It has recently been remastered (2023) and an extra track has been discovered.  It will hopefully be released soon.

Production
Rodney Crowell cowrote "Stuff That Works". Nanci Griffith and Emmylou Harris contributed harmony vocals.

Critical reception

Entertainment Weekly praised the "tongue-and-groove meditations on life and love." The Salt Lake Tribune noted that "Clark can take ordinary conversation and turn it into a song—an underrated skill that's not as easy as it appears." The Indianapolis Star determined that "powerful poetic phrases, impressionable and hummable melodies, stunning storytelling and a living-room intimacy don't even come close to describing this collection."

Track listing
 "Dublin Blues" (Guy Clark) – 4:19
 "Black Diamond Strings" (Clark) – 3:49
 "Shut Up and Talk to Me" (Clark, Susanna Clark, Keith Sykes) – 3:30
 "Stuff That Works" (Clark, Rodney Crowell) – 5:04
 "Hank Williams Said It Best" (Clark) – 4:43
 "The Cape" (Clark, Susanna Clark, Jim Janosky) – 3:39
 "Baby Took a Limo to Memphis" (Clark) – 4:08
 "Tryin' to Try" (Clark, Jimmie Fadden) – 3:11
 "Hangin' Your Life on the Wall" (Clark, Verlon Thompson) – 3:30
 "The Randall Knife" (Clark) – 5:31

Personnel
Guy Clark – vocals, guitar
Sam Bush – mandolin
Travis Clark – bass
Donivan Cowart – background vocals
Rodney Crowell – guitar, background vocals
Ramblin' Jack Elliott – background vocals
Nanci Griffith – background vocals
Emmylou Harris – background vocals
Jelly Roll Johnson – harmonica
Kenny Malone – drums, percussion, conga, tambourine, triangle, shaker, bell tree, Irish drum
Kathy Mattea – background vocals
Suzi Ragsdale – background vocals
Darrell Scott – guitar, dobro, mandolin, penny whistle, slide guitar
Verlon Thompson – guitar, harmonica, background vocals
Jonathan Yudkin – violin

Production notes
Miles Wilkinson – producer, engineer, mixing
Carlos Grier – mastering
Denny Purcell – mastering
Darrell Scott – mixing
Bill Tyler – art direction, design
Senor McGuire – photography

Cover versions
Chris Carrabba covered "The Cape" on his album Covered in the Flood.

Mipso covered "Dublin Blues" as a single released in 2022.

References

Guy Clark albums
1995 albums
Asylum Records albums


The Hot Springs Range is a mountain range in Humboldt County, Nevada.

The range was named on account of the hot springs in the area.

References

Mountain ranges of Nevada
Mountain ranges of Humboldt County, Nevada


The Jumbled Hills are a mountain range in Lincoln County, Nevada.

References

Mountain ranges of Nevada
Mountain ranges of the Great Basin
Mountain ranges of Lincoln County, Nevada


Hannah Crocker (June 27, 1752July 11, 1829) was an American essayist and one of the first advocates of women's rights in America, as well as a pioneer for women's participation in Freemasonry. Her Observations on the Real Rights of Women (1818) was the first book on the rights of women by an American.

Life and family
Hannah Mather born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, on June 27, 1752. She was the daughter of Samuel Mather, a Congregationalist minister, and Hannah Hutchinson. She was a descendant of the Mather dynasty founded in New England by Richard Mather (1596–1669), through his son Increase Mather (1639–1723) and his grandson Cotton Mather (1663-1728), all prominent Puritan ministers involved in the important religious and political issues of their era, including the Salem Witch Trials and the controversy over vaccination against smallpox. Her mother's brother was Thomas Hutchinson, Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay in the years preceding the American Revolution. She inherited a portrait of the founder of the Mather dynasty. She was raised in a religious environment and had strong religious beliefs throughout her life. Her father was an educated man who believed in the importance of educating women, which lead to her passion for women's rights. She was extensively educated in languages, history, theology, and literature.

In Reminiscences and Traditions of Boston, she recounted how as a young adult in 1775 she had hidden letters written by her father under her clothing, smuggled them out of British-occupied Boston, and delivered them to Joseph Warren, a leader of the rebel forces.

On 18 March 1779, she married Joseph Crocker, a graduate of Harvard College and a captain in the Revolutionary War. He was also an advocate for women's rights. They had ten children between 1780 and 1795. During her marriage she became involved in Freemasonry and worked to advance women's place in society by founding St. Anne's Lodge, an all-female organization guided by masonic principles to provide women with instruction in literature and science.

She also wrote and became a well-known essayist and poet. Her political affiliation was always with the Federalist Party. In 1812 she founded the School of Industry to provide instruction in vocational skills for "the female children of the poor in the Northern district of Boston". She died in Dorchester, Massachusetts, on July 11, 1829, and was interred in the Mather family tomb in Copp's Hill Burying Ground in Boston's North End.

Writings
In 1787 she authored the North Square Creed. Never published, it is a statement in the style of a pledge taken by a new member of a fraternal organization. It is thought to be designed to allow husbands of women who joined St. Anne's Lodge to commit themselves to certain principles within marriage. The title uses coded language a Mason would recognize.

She published Observations on the Real Rights of Women, with Their Appropriate Duties, Reminiscences and Traditions of Boston, Agreeable to Scripture, Reason and Common Sense in Boston in 1818. She argued that men and women were equal in mental capacity, though allowed for different expressions according to gender. This view formed the basis of her advocacy of female education:

Her views remained in many respects traditional. She wrote, for example, that "It must be women's prerogative to shine in the domestic circle and her appropriate duty to teach and regulate the opening mind of her little flock.... The surest foundation to secure the female's right, must be in family government." She included a defense of Mary Wollstonecraft, whom Boston society viewed as a libertine.

In her chronicle Reminiscences and Traditions of Boston, authored between 1822 and 1829, she both described and analyzed the events of the American Revolution, laying out some of the early groundwork for a political and theoretical understanding of its causes and achievements. It presented an ideological argument that combined political theory with tradition descriptive historical writing, with an appreciation of the significance of popular demonstrations and an egalitarian emphasis. For example, she located the sources for the Boston riots that protested the Stamp Act in the tradition of anti-Catholic parades, their ritual acts of violence and the burning of effigies. She wrote in the voice of a personal witness to provide the reader with a sense of immediacy. The manuscript was discovered among her papers after her death and acquired by the New England Historic Genealogical Society in 1879, which published it in 2011.

Her other works include: A Series of Letters on Free Masonry and The School of Reform; or, Seaman's Safe Pilot to the Cape of Good Hope.

Notes

References

Additional sources
 L.W. Koengeter, “Crocker, Hannah Mather,” in American Women Writers, ed. Taryn Benbow-Pfalzgraf, vol. 1, 2nd ed. (Detroit: St. James Press, 2000), 241.

External links
 Excerpt from Observations on the Real Rights of Women, With Their Appropriate Duties, Agreeable to Scripture, Reason and Common Sense (Boston, 1818)

1752 births
1829 deaths
Writers from Massachusetts
Women in the American Revolution
People from colonial Boston
American spies during the American Revolution
18th-century American women writers
19th-century American women writers
American essayists
Colonial American women
American women essayists
People of Massachusetts in the American Revolution


The Junction House Range is a mountain range in Washoe County, Nevada.

References

Mountain ranges of Nevada
Mountain ranges of Washoe County, Nevada