The John Souther House is a historic house at 43 Fairmont Street in Newton, Massachusetts.  The -story wood-frame house was built c. 1883 and is a well-preserved high style Queen Anne Victorian house.  Its basically rectangular shape is rendered distinctive by varied size and placement of gable dormers, projecting sections, a turret, and rounded wall sections.  Decoratively cut shingles are used to add texture to wall surfaces, the porch is ornately decorated.  The property includes a period carriage house.

The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.

See also
 National Register of Historic Places listings in Newton, Massachusetts

References

Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in Newton, Massachusetts
Queen Anne architecture in Massachusetts
Houses completed in 1883


The 1964 Houston Oilers season was the fifth season for the Houston Oilers as a professional AFL franchise; The team failed to improve on their previous output of 6–8, winning only four games. They failed to qualify for the playoffs for the second consecutive season. It was their final season at Jeppesen Stadium before moving their home games to Rice Stadium the following season.

Season schedule

Standings

References

Houston Oilers seasons
Houston Oilers
Houston


Louis Gerlach Pareau, (August 10, 1800 – October 27, 1866) was a Dutch theologian born in Deventer. He was the son of Jean Henri Pareau (1761–1833), a professor of Oriental languages at the University of Utrecht.

In 1826 he graduated from Utrecht with a dissertation titled Commentatio critica et exegetica in Paulinae Epistolae prioris ad Corinthos caput XIII. In 1831 he was appointed professor of theology at the University of Groningen, where he remained until his death in 1866. At Groningen he taught classes in exegesis and hermeneutics.

Pareau was one of the three founders of the so-called "Groningen School", a progressive movement within the Dutch Reformed Church. In 1837 he was co-founder, and for many years, editor of the journal Waarheid in Liefde (Truth in Love). With Petrus Hofstede de Groot (1802-1886), he was co-author of the Encyclopaedia theologi Christiani.

References
 "Louis Gerlach Pareau 1800-1866" (translated Dutch biography)
  Publications of Louis Gerlach Pareau 1800-1866

External links

People from Deventer
Academic staff of the University of Groningen
1800 births
1866 deaths
Dutch Calvinist and Reformed theologians


The Deacon John Staples House (also known as the Staples-Crafts-Wiswall Farm) is a historic house at 1615 Beacon Street in the village of Waban in Newton, Massachusetts.

The first house on the site was built in 1688 by Deacon John Staples, a weaver and Newton's first schoolmaster. Staples and his wife had no children of their own, but raised several boys including Moses Craft, a relative of Mrs. Staples. When the Deacon died, Craft inherited the property. Craft rebuilt the house on the original foundation around 1750, constructing a colonial farmhouse two and a half stories high with five windows and two rooms across, and one room wide, with two chimneys running up the back, each serving two rooms. In 1768, he built an addition, adding a kitchen where the original Staples' house kitchen had been. Craft died in 1821 at the age of 85, leaving no will and an estate seriously in debt. As ordered by the judge of probate, the house and surrounding land was sold at auction. Moses' son, Moses Craft II, won with the winning bid of $5.50. In 1824, Moses Craft II sold the property to his cousin William Wiswall. It is believed that Wiswall was responsible for remodeling the house to give it a Federal ornament. David Kinmonth, a Boston merchant, bought the house in 1858 and remodeled it, giving Victorian overtones to its basic Georgian style. The house was remodeled again during the American Civil War. Ownership of the house changed hands many times during the 20th century. It was last sold in 2017 to a non-profit community music school, the Suzuki School of Newton and Suzuki Preschool, and continues to be an icon in the heart of Waban Village. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986 as the Staples-Craft-Wiswall Farm and in 2015 was designated a City of Newton Local Landmark. Despite the many modifications that it has undergone, the house stands today on the original 1688 stone foundation, which is up to one meter thick in some places.

See also
Thomas Wiswall
 National Register of Historic Places listings in Newton, Massachusetts

References

External links
"Historic Newton", Newton Historical Properties Survey, 1982. Retrieved on 2010-3-3.
"Waban Homes", Waban Improvement Society, 2004. Retrieved on 2010-3-3.

National Register of Historic Places in Newton, Massachusetts
Buildings and structures in Newton, Massachusetts


The Rotax 377 is a , twin-cylinder, two-stroke aircraft engine, that was built by BRP-Rotax GmbH & Co. KG of Austria for use in ultralight aircraft.

Development

The Rotax 377 features piston-ported, air-cooled cylinder heads and cylinders, utilizing either a fan or free air for cooling. Lubrication is by use of pre-mixed fuel and oil. The 377 has a single Bosch Flywheel Magneto Generator 12 volt ignition system and is equipped with a 36 mm Bing double float carburetor, with either a hand lever or cable choke.

The Rotax 377 is no longer in production.

Applications

Specifications (377)

See also

References

Air-cooled aircraft piston engines
Rotax engines
Two-stroke aircraft piston engines


Boy Meets Dog! is an American animated musical commercial short made in 1938 for Ipana Toothpaste. It was produced by Walter Lantz as a Technicolor cartoon for theatrical release by Universal Pictures. However, it did not see theatrical release, but  Castle Films purchased it, and released it to the home movie market.

Plot
A boy named Bobby, gets a lesson in school about how to properly massage his gums to take care of his teeth. After class is dismissed, Bobby is offered by one of his friends in to an ice cream shop to have a sundae and go fishing. Bobby turns it down because his extremely strict, cold-hearted, and mean father (Billy Bletcher) wouldn't let him. On the way home, Bobby finds a beagle named Joseph and takes him home. They sneak into the house where Bobby cleans him up in order to convince his father to keep him. However, Bobby's father, who wakes up just in time to hear Joseph's barking coming from the upstairs bathroom, angrily scares Joseph away and Joseph hides in the house. He then cruelly and unfairly sends Bobby to his room without supper for disobeying him. Muttering about his son, he steps on a rollerskate and falls down the stairs. He brutally walks back upstairs to Bobby's room to punish him, but Bobby is not there and he begins looking for him. The gnomes and elves on the wallpaper in Bobby's room come alive and knock Bobby's father unconscious and take him into the forest scene in the wallpaper.

He wakes up in a stock before a judge and jury, where he learns that he is charged with being "neurotic and erratic." Joseph the beagle appears in the scene and gives a false testimony that the father "hit him, and then he kicked him." The jury finds that he "has no mentality" because he does not massage his gums, and is "childlike in his dental knowledge" despite the fact that he attended college, and so finds him guilty. The judge then reveals himself to be Bobby, and he sentences his father to the "youth machine," The father is falls through a trap door in the ground, sliding down a series of curved slides before falling through an open hatch in the youth machine. He is then battered by two boxing gloves, that disorient and position him in the center of the machine where a hydraulic press squashes him down to a shorter size. A large device spins and rises up from the floor underneath him, wrecking bowel control, widing his hips and knocking him off his feet. Upon landing a mechanical hand reaches out and pulls his nose stretching his face. He is then cuffed into a crude barber chair by his wrists and neck where his hair is shaved, a strange dollop of some kind of substance is applied to his forehead. Finally a steam press like machine comes down over him, ejecting his clothing in every direction before lifting and revealing it had successful regressed the adult into a baby. The baby cries defiantly as the machine powders his behind before placing him in a diaper wrapping him in it before pressing it to his groin and rubbing the nipple of a bottle against his mouth.

Bobby's father wakes up from Joseph the beagle licking his face, explaining the sensation of the bottle being rubbed against him. His behavior changes when he sees the Ipana toothpaste sign that concludes that Bobby is smart and begins acting kinder to him. Bobby, his father, and his friends all go out for sundaes and go fishing in the river.

History
The short was originally a commercial for "Ipana Toothpaste", but the scene of the toothpaste ad after Bobby's father wakes up was removed.

Cultural impact
 The part where the three lawyer gnomes sing about how the father is a "mental giant" would later on be used in (If not inspiring) Tech N9ne's song "He's a mental Giant" in his album All 6's and 7's.
 Also, the part where gnomes sing about how the father is "child like in his dental knowledge" would later on be used in the ending of Carpenter Brut's song "Escape from Midwich Valley" in his album EP I.

See also
 List of films in the public domain in the United States

References

External links
 Boy Meets Dog at Internet Movie Database

1938 animated films
1938 short films
Animated films about dogs
Films about father–son relationships
Films about gnomes
Animated films about elves
Films directed by Walter Lantz
Universal Pictures short films
Universal Pictures animated short films
1930s English-language films
American animated short films
Films about single parent families
1930s American films


The Dark budgerigar mutation is one of approximately 30 mutations affecting the colour of budgerigars.  It is part of the genetic constitution of the following recognised varieties: Dark Green and Olive in the green series and Cobalt, Mauve and Violet in the blue series.

Appearance

Budgerigars carrying the Dark factor are identical to the wild-type Light Greens or Skyblues in every respect except body colour and tail feathers.  The body is darker in Dark Greens and Cobalts and darker still in Olives and Mauves, and the long tail feathers are darker in proportion.  All these varieties have normal violet cheek patches.

The Dark Green's body colour is a rich shade of forest green, and Cobalt's a deeper blue, approximating to azure.  The Olive is a rich olive similar in shade to a Grey-green, but it may be easily distinguished by its cheek patch, which is violet in the Olive and grey in the Grey-green.  The Mauve is a dull purplish gray, quite different from the brilliant Violet and Cobalt.  In nest feather the Mauve is almost grey, but the violet cheek patch, although somewhat darker than in other varieties, identifies it as a Mauve.

The Violet Cobalt (a composite of the Blue, Dark and Violet mutations) is a brilliant shade of violet, rather similar but not quite as deep as and rather bluer than the wild-type violet cheek patches.

The World Budgerigar Organisation has established precise standards for certain budgerigar body colours using the Pantone Codes, as shown to the right.

Historical notes
The Dark mutation
is common in the wild as Dark Green budgerigars have been observed in wild flocks on several occasions.  One of the earliest to be seen was one captured during an expedition to Australia and exhibited in a London museum in 1847.
But the Dark mutation was not seen in the domesticated budgerigar until the summer of 1915 when a Dark Green was observed by Monsieur A Blanchard in his aviaries in Toulouse.
At the time, Toulouse was the main commercial centre for budgerigar distribution in Europe, handling thousands of imported and aviary-bred birds each year.  The origins of this first Dark Green are not known.  Dark Greens were known initially as Laurel Greens, a name which remained popular throughout the 1920s.

Mon. Blanchard produced the first Olives from a pair of Dark Greens in the autumn of 1916, and J D Hamlyn imported some of the early Olives to England from France in 1918.

The first Cobalts were bred by Mon. Blanchard in 1920, and by George F Hedges in 1923 while he was the aviary attendant for Madame Lecallier in France.  These were initially called Powder Blues.  Some of these latter Cobalts were purchased by Mrs Dalton Burgess and imported to England.  She exhibited one (as a Royal Blue) in February 1924 at the Crystal Palace and later that year bred the first Mauves from them.  She called the Mauves French Greys in nest feather, and when adult they were known as Lilacs or Lavenders.

The blue forms of the Dark mutation were far more popular than the Greens and commanded fantastic prices in the mid-twenties.  In February 1927 Mauves and Cobalts were sold for £175 a pair, but by 1931 the price was down to £2 a pair, as more and more were quickly bred.

Genetics

The Dark mutation has an incompletely dominant relationship with its wild-type allele.  That is, it shows a visible effect when present as a single factor (heterozygote) and a different effect when present as a double factor (homozygote).  In the green series varieties the Dark Green has one Dark allele and one wild-type allele at the Dark locus and the Olive has two Dark alleles.  In the blue series varieties the Cobalt has one Dark allele and one wild-type allele and the Mauve has two Dark alleles.

Because the Dark factor is always visibly expressed no budgerigar can be split for Dark.  The heterozygotes of Dark—the Dark Greens and Cobalts—correspond to the splits of the recessive mutations.

The loci of the Dark mutation and the Blue allelic series are situated on the same autosome, so the Dark mutation is linked to the Blue allelic series (see genetic linkage).  The cross-over value (COV) or recombination frequency between the Dark and Blue loci is often stated to be about 14%, but several careful measurements of this COV show quite widely varying results.  Early measurements by Duncker and independently by Steiner obtained values of 14% and 7.6% respectively, and T G Taylor and C Warner collected results which showed only 5 cross-overs in 140—a COV of 3.6%.
Included in these were results from T G Taylor's own experiments, in which he found no cross-overs in 86 birds bred.  It is now known that the environment and other genes can influence the COV, so some variability should be expected.  A reasonable average of these measurements is a COV of 8%.

Dark Green/blues have one Dark allele and one Blue allele together with one each of the corresponding wild-type alleles.  The linkage between the Blue and Dark genes gives rise to two types of Dark Green/blue birds, both visually identical.

 Type I Dark Green/blues are bred by mating Mauves to Light Greens and have the two mutant alleles on the same chromatid.  Geneticists call this 'coupling' rather than 'Type I'.  Because of the linkage, the Dark and Blue alleles from Type I birds tend to be inherited together in their progeny.  When mated to Skyblues, Type I birds produce predominantly Light Green/blue and Cobalt progeny, with Dark Green/blue Type II and Skyblues resulting rarely from a cross-over.
 Type II Dark Green/blues are bred by mating Skyblues to Olives and have the Dark and Blue mutant alleles on opposite chromatids.  Geneticists call this 'repulsion' rather than 'Type II'.  Because of the separation, the Dark and Blue alleles from Type II birds tend to be inherited separately in their progeny.  When mated to Skyblues, Type II birds produce predominantly Dark Green/blue Type II and Skyblue progeny, with Light Green/blue and Cobalts resulting rarely from cross-overs.

Notes

References

External links
 World Budgerigar Organisation (WBO)
 WBO Colour Guide
 Photographs of dark factor budgerigars

Budgerigar colour mutations


Jazz/Concord is a studio album by jazz guitarists Herb Ellis and Joe Pass, recorded at Wally Heider Studios, Los Angeles, California, and released in 1973. It was the first recording issued by Concord Records.

Reception

In his Allmusic review, critic Scott Yanow wrote that the quartet "always made for a perfectly complementary team, constantly challenging each other. The boppish music... is quite enjoyable with the more memorable tunes including "Look for the Silver Lining," "Honeysuckle Rose," "Georgia," "Good News Blues," and "Bad News Blues." This was a strong start for what would become the definitive mainstream jazz label."

Track listing
 "Look for the Silver Lining" (Buddy DeSylva, Jerome Kern) – 4:47
 "Shadow of Your Smile" (Johnny Mandel, Paul Francis Webster) – 2:30
 "Good News Blues" (Herb Ellis) – 3:22
 "Honeysuckle Rose" (Fats Waller, Andy Razaf) – 3:07
 "Happiness is the Concord Jazz Festival" (Ray Brown) – 3:54
 "Stuffy" (Coleman Hawkins) – 5:07
 "Georgia on My Mind" (Hoagy Carmichael, Stuart Gorrell) – 5:24
 "Love for Sale" (Cole Porter) – 3:48
 "Bad News Blues" (Ellis) – 5:17

Personnel
Herb Ellis – guitar
Joe Pass – guitar
Ray Brown – double bass
Jake Hanna – drums

References

External links
Concord Records entry

Herb Ellis live albums
Joe Pass live albums
1973 live albums
Albums produced by Carl Jefferson
Concord Records live albums


The railway vehicle owner's code formed part of the vehicle number on the side of a railway coach or wagon. Until 2005 it was used to specify the owner of the wagon. However, the owner code did not necessarily reflect ownership of a vehicle but rather who had the right to use it. Since then the owner code has been replaced by the UIC country code. The keeper of a vehicle is now indicated with a Vehicle Keeper Marking (VKM). The table shows the former numbers used.

*later attribution

References

External links
 UIC 438 – 50 years of railway vehicle markings at dansk-jernbanearkiv.dk

Railway companies
Defunct railway companies
Rolling stock
International Union of Railways
Railway vehicles register numbers


The Battle of Podu Iloaiei was fought during World War II between the German Wehrmacht and the Soviet Red Army. Historian David Glantz described it as part of a failed Soviet offensive in Romania, and considered it a reaction to the Soviet defeat at the First Battle of Târgu Frumos. While according to the Soviet account, the Red Army successfully repelled a German counter-stroke, according to German accounts, the Germans managed to drive the attacking Soviets back to the positions they held before the battle.

Aftermath
The region was still in Axis hands. Several months later, it was captured by the Red Army in the Jassy–Kishinev Offensive, from 21–23 August 1944.

Notes

Explanatory notes

Footnotes

References

Battles involving the Soviet Union
Military history of Romania during World War II
Romania–Soviet Union relations
Battles of World War II involving Germany
Battles and operations of the Soviet–German War
April 1944 events


The RP-210 was a streamlined  locomotive built in 1956 by Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton, specifically to operate with the experimental, all-aluminum Train-X coaches that were built by the  Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Company.  The model represented Baldwin's attempted entry into the lightweight passenger locomotive market, but only three of the low-slung diesel-hydraulic units were produced. The first RP-210 was built for the New York Central Railroad to power their Ohio Xplorer train between Cleveland, Columbus, and Cincinnati, and a pair was purchased by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad to double-end their Dan'l Webster, running between New York City and Boston.
 The New Haven's RP-210s, with their three independent power systems, were among the most complex railroad locomotives in America. They featured a German prime mover with a hydraulic transmission, an auxiliary-diesel and generator for on-train power, and two externally energized electric traction motors. The New York Central requested a booster unit, but none were built. The unique RP-210 was the last locomotive design to bear the BLH name.  Along with the lightweight trains it powered, the RP-210 was unsuccessful in achieving stated goals and its service life was short. Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton expected to sell more to the New Haven but NH went with 60 FL9 locomotives from EMD, which proved to be everything the RP-210 was not.

Mechanical
The New Haven and New York Central locomotives were close sisters but not physical or mechanical twins.  The most obvious difference was the traditional Baldwin shark nose front to be found on the New York Central machine. The three  units measured  long by  wide by  high, and were configured in a B-2 wheel arrangement, with only the first two axles diesel-powered and geared for .

The RP-210's twelve-cylinder  German Maybach MD-655 main diesel engine was mounted rigidly to (and pivoted with) the Mekydro hydraulic-transmission (renamed Mechydro by Baldwin) on the locomotive's front truck. An auxiliary Maybach engine—turbocharged 8-cylinder MD-440 hp (330 kW) on the NYC unit, and turbo-charged 6-cylinder MD-330 hp (245 kW) on the New Haven units—powered the locomotives' accessories and a 480-volt generator to provide head-end power for train lighting, air-conditioning, and other ancillary loads.

Two small 150-hp (110 kW) electric-traction motors were also fitted to each New Haven locomotive. These were to draw their 660-Volt DC power from the New York Central's Third Rail (3rd-rail) system, when moving the train through the final few miles of the Park Avenue Tunnel (railroad) into New York City's Grand Central Terminal. As the track speed there is limited to 35 mph or less, the small traction motors at the front and rear of the lightweight train (a combined 600-hp) were considered adequate.

Operational
The Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Company delivered the Dan'l Webster to the New Haven Railroad in early October 1956. The New Haven then began test runs on its Shoreline Route between Boston and New York. The last 12.8 miles of the westbound trip saw trains passing through the third-rail electrified Harlem Division of the New York Central Railroad. The final 3 miles of this route was through the railroad's Park Avenue tunnel into Grand Central Terminal. Here the RP-210 locomotive was required to shut down its diesel engine and utilize electric traction motors.

To meet the need for dual-powered operation, the New Haven's Bronx-based Van Nest electrical shops initially fitted the Baldwin units with one third-rail contact-shoe per side, bolted to a reinforced journal box bracket on the lead axle of the locomotive's rear truck. This placement was necessitated by the unusually wide gap between the axles on the locomotive's front truck in the diesel-hydraulic design.

However, experience had shown that a locomotive required two power collection shoes per side, as widely spaced as possible.  This allowed for one of them to fail, and also limited the possibility that (if the train was suddenly forced to stop) the locomotive's contact-shoe might be short of the next section of energized 3rd-rail. The reduced power of the RP-210's small traction motors (300-hp), having only the front or rear locomotive unit of the Dan'l Webster positioned to draw 3rd-rail power would have made it difficult to accelerate the train (approximately 390 tons with passengers) from a standing stop potentially making it necessary to start the RP-210 diesel engine to move it to the next section of available trackside power and potentially alienating passengers with the exhaust fumes.

The Van Nest engineers and mechanics therefore scrambled to design a full-length support bracket for the RP-210's lead truck, and attached a rather unconventional contact-shoe assembly to it. They completed their work just before the pre-inaugural press run of the train, scheduled for January 7, 1956, with regular service to commence the following day. The electrical shop supervisors advised against putting the new 3rd-rail shoes into service without proper testing but were overruled by a superior.

On January 7, the Dan'l Webster left Boston with New Haven president, George Alpert, and about 225 newsmen, promoters, politicians, and railroad managers aboard for the press-run.  Things went well enough until the train merged from New Haven's track #1 to New York Central's track #2, opposite JO tower at Woodlawn Junction in the North Bronx.  There a contact-shoe on the aft RP-210 unit misaligned with the underside of the 3rd-rail, as it passed through the switch-point.  The damaged contact scraped along the energized rail, creating a ground arc of electricity which set the locomotive's truck ablaze and began to melt away the aluminum side-skirting above it.

The train then made an emergency stop on the southbound express track at Woodlawn station.  New York Police and Fire Department units were called to the scene and mainline service was disrupted for two hours.  Minus the rear RP-210 locomotive and the last coach (which could not be detached, due to fire damage), the rest of the Dan'l Webster eventually proceeded on to Grand Central in New York City.

While being towed back to Van Nest shops by a switcher engine, the lightweight coach attached to the damaged locomotive derailed near Pelham station in Westchester County, resulting in an additional four-hour delay for evening commuters. On January 21, Time magazine crowned the public relations fiasco with a national news story titled, "The Devil & Dan'l Webster".

The lightweight train's inaugural service run was postponed until March 25, and the RP-210 units underwent further modifications to their 3rd-rail power contacts.  A larger and more traditional mechanism, which the New Haven had regularly fastened to the journal boxes of their electric locomotives, was modified to fit the front and rear trucks.  Winter testing saw some complications due to snow and icing, but this wasn't unexpected with 3rd-rail operations, and could be viewed as abating with a change of season.

One more electric traction challenge remained. Between 47th and 59th Streets, the complexity of Grand Central's roadbed switching did not allow for an unbroken length of trackside 3rd-rail. So when the electrification was designed in 1905, an energized overhead rail was put in place to fill these power gaps. All New Haven and New York Central electric locomotives operating into the terminal were equipped with a small spring-tension roof-pantograph, mounted on a telescoping pole which extended to the overhead power supply.

Standing only 11 feet tall (about 2 feet shorter than average), the low-slung Baldwin locomotives again presented a problem not previously encountered.  The traditional roof-mounted pantograph could not telescope far enough to reach the overhead 660-volt DC power rail. New Haven's Van Nest engineers realized that a small diamond-style pantograph (transport) would be needed to attain the required height.  They found their solution perched atop Boston's Blue Line (MBTA) Revere Extension subway cars.

The New York Central's Xplorer began a system-wide promotional tour on June 3, 1956, which included exhibition at New York's Grand Central Terminal. The train entered revenue service on July 15, 1956, as the Ohio Explorer, between Cleveland and Cincinnati.  It continued on the route until August 17, 1957, when it was demoted to commutation runs between Chicago, Illinois, and Elkhart, Indiana, as trains #741 and #210.  In late 1958, it was finally withdrawn from operation.  The New Haven's Dan'l Webster lasted less than 15 months in service, from March 25, 1957, until June 5, 1958.

Both trains struggled with poor riding qualities and numerous mechanical issues, including transmission overheating in the Maybach diesel-hydraulic powertrain.  Road mechanics were unfamiliar with the foreign prime mover, and reported having to forage for metric hardware components at local Volkswagen dealerships. The Maybach maintenance-manuals supplied for the diesel engines were only available in German.

At the New York Central's Collinwood Shops in Cleveland, where the RP-210 and its train became frequent visitors, maintenance crews first dubbed the new equipment, Mighty Mouse, for its relatively diminutive stature, and the whiskers-and-mouth effect suggested by the logo on the locomotive's shark-nose front. The railroad's new lightweight response to passenger service woes appeared to fit the Terrytoons character's motto,"Here I come to save the day!"  However, numerous mechanical frustrations soon led the company's workers to re-label the train's diesel-hydraulic locomotive, the "Xploder".

On the New Haven, engine troubles were compounded by continuing difficulties in positioning and maintaining the 3rd-rail contacts. This resulted in the Dan'l Webster being shifted to the railroad's non-electrified Springfield Route (New Haven-Hartford-Springfield) as the winter of 1958 approached.

Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton delivered the RP-210s to the New Haven Railroad a month before General Motor's Electro-Motive Diesel (EMD) division in Illinois completed the first production model of the EMD FL-9 Electric-Diesel-Electric-Road locomotive (EDER in New Haven terminology).  Despite this, the New Haven classified the GM EMD unit as EDER-5 on the railroad's motive power roster, while it designated the earlier RP-210 as EDER-6.

The FL-9 would prove to be everything that the RP-210 was not. Over the next four years, the New Haven took delivery of sixty units. The last of these locomotives would be retired from mainline operations in 2009, after a half-century of service.

Disposition
The New York Central's Ohio Xplorer train and its RP-210 diesel sat inactive until June 1963, when they were sold to Jones Tours, a subsidiary of the Pickens Railway, a Class-3 short-line in South Carolina, for use in passenger excursion service.  The coaches and power units of the Dan'l Webster were moved to Cedar Hill Yards in East New Haven, and parked aside the yard office building in the dead motor storage section, adjacent to the old 44-stall roundhouse. There they languished until August 24, 1964, when they were hauled away to join their New York Central cousin in this southern rail-tour enterprise.

The arrival of the Dan'l Webster, with its twin RP-210 diesels, represented both an opportunity for tour expansion and needed spare parts. Jones Tours purchased the trains for little more than their scrap value (the original cost of the New Haven set had been $1,332,000.), and partially refurbished them at Pickens Railways' newly established car rebuilding plant on the property.

The Jones Tours Xplorers were hauled in passenger excursions, mostly between Charlotte, North Carolina, and Atlanta, Georgia, but ranged as far as Alabama and Florida.  Pickens had a direct connection to the Southern Railway (U.S.) mainline at Easley, and to Seaboard Air Line Railroad, via the adjacent Greenville and Northern Railway (Class-3 short-line).

The train was pulled by a locomotive of its Class-1 hosts (on Seaboard, usually an EMD GP-9), with in-train electricity provided by the auxiliary diesel-powered generator on board the Baldwin unit. The diesel-hydraulic prime-movers of the RP-210s remained operational for short trips over the Pickens, and the Greenville and Northern.

In 1967, Jones Tours (named after Pickens Railways' owner, James T. Jones of North Carolina) ended its rail-excursion service and parked both trains on a siding of the Greenville and Northern at Travelers Rest, South Carolina.  From there, they were moved to the scrap yard in 1970.

Alan R. Cripe, who played a major role in the engineering development of Train-X under the auspices of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad in the early-1950s, applied for inventor's patents covering some of the technology used in its design (January 10, 1956).  Cripe later involved the Jones Tours train sets in evaluation tests for the development of his UAC TurboTrain during the mid-1960s.  Unlike the Train-X coaches, the gas-turbine powered TurboTrain utilized Cripe's car-tilting mechanics, for which he also sought a patent (May 11, 1966).  These patents were granted in 1960 and 1969, respectively.

See also
The Dan'l Webster, a lightweight aluminum Talgo-type train built by Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton (RP-210) and Pullman-Standard for the New Haven Railroad.
The Xplorer, a lightweight aluminum talgo-type train built by Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton (RP-210) and Pullman-Standard for the New York Central Railroad.
The John Quincy Adams, a lightweight aluminum Talgo-licensed train built by Fairbanks-Morse (FM P-12-42) and American Car and Foundry for the New Haven Railroad.
The Speed Merchant, a lightweight aluminum Talgo-licensed train built by Fairbanks-Morse (FM P-12-42) and American Car and Foundry for the Boston and Maine Railroad.
The Aerotrain (GM) #1000 and 1001 (EMD LWT12), lightweight bus-body coach aluminum trains built by GM EMD. Leased to four US railroads, then sold to the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad (the Rock Island Line).
The Jet Rocket, a hybrid lightweight aluminum Talgo-licensed train built by GM EMD (EMD LWT12) and American Car and Foundry (talgo coaches) for the Rock Island Line.
The Roger Williams, a low center of gravity DMU train built by the Budd Company for the New Haven Railroad.
The UAC TurboTrain, an articulated, high-speed, gas-turbine powered aluminum train built by United Aircraft and Pullman. Initially, for the US-Department of Transportation.
 The British Rail Class 35 Hymek locomotive, powered by the same combination of Maybach engine and Mekydro transmission as the Baldwin RP-210.

Notes

References

B-2 locomotives
Electro-diesel locomotives
RP-210
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad locomotives
North American streamliner trains
600 V DC locomotives
New York Central Railroad locomotives
Passenger locomotives
Diesel-hydraulic locomotives of the United States
Railway locomotives introduced in 1956
Scrapped locomotives
Standard gauge locomotives of the United States
Streamlined diesel locomotives


Dr. Luis María Argaña International Airport  is an airport that serves the small city of Mariscal Estigarribia, in the Boquerón Department of Paraguay.

The airport is named after Luis María Argaña, a vice president who was assassinated in 1999. It is operated by Paraguayan military authorities. GlobalSecurity.org states that some believe the United States are using the airport as a permanent military base. However, they go on to say that this is false.

With 3,500 m (11,483 ft), its runway is the longest in the country, more than Asunción's airport.

See also

 List of airports in Paraguay
 Transport in Paraguay

References

External links
 Direccion Nacional de Aeronautica Civil - Airports of Paraguay

Airports in Paraguay
Boquerón Department


is a Japanese actor and voice actor represented by Awesome Inc. His debut acting roles were as Reira in the live adaptation of the manga Fuuma no Kojirou and his first main role was in the musical Saiyuki where he played the role of Genjyo Sanzo. He guest starred in Kamen Rider Decade as Kazuma Kendate/Kamen Rider Blade. He is best known for his role as Mikazuki Munechika in the stage plays of Touken Ranbu. At the end of July 2011 he left the modelling agency Junes Corporation and from 2012 he joined Awesome Inc.

Filmography

Anime television

Television

Movies
Kamen Rider x Kamen Rider W & Kamen Rider Decade Movie Great War 2010 (2009) - Kendate Kazuma/ Kamen Rider Blade
 Fun way of writing light novels (2010) - Ishikiri Kiyomaru
 Destiny - enishi (2011) - Jun
 Go! Male High School Theater Department (2011) - Hyoshitsu
 Youth discovery film - always youth edition - Burial shop Mochizuki (2015) - Mochizuki Koji
 Youth discovery film - always youth edition - My human defects (2016)
 Remember me (2018) - Resident of the land of the dead/The man with a corn (voices)
 Touken Ranbu (2019) - Mikazuki Munechika
 Stolen Identity 2 (2020)
 Shinigamizukai no jikenjo (2020) - Kusaka Genshiro

Stage Play

2008
 Fuuma no Kojiro (2008) - Reira
 Musical "Gakuen Heaven BOY'S LOVE SCRAMBLE!~ Bell Liberty ★ Prince ~" (2008) - Saionji Kaoru
 Saiyuki Kagekiden - Go to the West - (2008) - Genjyo Sanzo
 30-DELUX The Eighth Live "Familia" (2008) - Kamura
 Afro13 "Death of Samurai" (2008) - Izuna

2009
 Saiyuuki Kagekiden - Dead or alive - (2009) - Genjyo Sanzo
 Ludovic★Vol.4 "Little Alice - The timetable of a boy named Alice" (2009) - Griffon
 Dramatic Review - L`OPÉRA FRAGILE (2009) - Takeshi
 Good morning, uncle (2009) - Hanamura Takashi
 Shonen company "Romeo and Juliet" (2009) - Juliet
 Ludovic★Vol.5 "ROMEO ~Visitors at midnight~" (2009) - Jan
 Gekidan taishu shousestuka "BLUE SKY GRACE" (2009) - Shota
 Nano square ash head (2009) - Kagurazaka Isamu/ Cinderella

2010
 Be with Produce Recitation LOVE × LETTERS (2010) - Kaito/ Misora/ Daichi
 "White Tiger Force" the idol (2010) - Genichiro Hajime
 Ludovic★Vol.6 "HAMLET The kiss of a blue rose" (2010) - Klaus
 Opera Utakata (2010) - Takeshi
 Love, beyond time ~ The destiny of a far away space-time (2010) - Sakuramaru
 abc★ Akasaka Boys Cabaret - First part ~Kokoro goto nuge!~ (2010) - Furugoori Yasuyuki
 Gekidan VitaminX ~Legend of Vitamin~ (2010) - Fuumonji Goro
 Makai tensho (2010) - Date Sajuro
 EVE ~ Bystanders of history ~ 2012 (2010) - Special guest appearance

2011
 Hanasakeru Seishonen 〜The Budding Beauty in The Oriental Blue Wind〜 (2011) - Somand
 Hanaoni - Flower demon (2011) - Takatsuki Reiji
 THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT CHRONICLE "Blood Heaven 〜Seventh Heaven~" (2011) - Macaulay
 abc★ Akasaka Boys Cabaret - Second part ~ Katsu! & Katsu! (2011) - Furugoori Yasuyuki
 Love whispered me to kill (2011) - Tsuruta Seijiro
 Conton club ~ image5 ~ (2011)
 Gokujo Bungaku "In the Forest, Under Cherries in Full Bloom" (2011) - Reader (Princess Tsumiyori)
 My bakery in love (2011) - Tabata Fusanosuke

2012
 Stage play "Yowamushi pedal" (2012) - Yasutomo Arakita
 ASHES AND THE DIAMOND〜Sight of the darkness (2012) - Sapphire
 THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT CHRONICLE "LABYRINTH" (2012) - Macaulay
 abc★ Akasaka Boys Cabaret - Third part - Jibun ni katsu wo irete katsu!~ (2012) - Furugoori Yasuyuki
 Shuwacchi! ~My aim is Prince of Tights~ (2012) - Matsudaira Tsukasa
 SAMURAI banka 2012 ~Boshu Bakumatsu version~ (2012) - Kenta
 The Tale of Genji x Oguro Maki songs ~ I fall in love with twelve (2012) - Koremitsu
 Ludovic★Vol.8 "Little Alice - The timetable of a boy named Alice" (2012) - Dyna
 A Study in Scarlet (2012) - Dr. Watson
 Reading play "Prayer" - A story about goodbye and new encounters in a cold night (2012)
 Reading play "First love" (2012)
 SAMURAI banka II ~ Kishuu's soul (2012) - Shichirobee
 Reading play "Tails' friends" Dog college (2012) - Genshiro (special guest appearance)
 Reading play "Christmas Carol" (2012)

2013
 Stage play "Yowamushi pedal - Hakone Academy Chapter ~ Sleeping Straight Line Demon" (2013) - Yasutomo Arakita
 Musical "Hakuouki" Okita Souji version (2013) - Nagumo Kaoru
 Tokyo eccentric fellow exposition (2013) - Kinoshita
 THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT CHRONICLE "Blood Heaven 〜Seventh Heaven〜" Sad wings (2013) - Macaulay
 Reading play "Ogata's lover - dancer" (2013)
 Music play
 SAMURAI banka III ~Last Samurai code J.~ (2013) - Irie Souzaburou
 Stage play "Yowamushi pedal - Inter High Chapter ~ The First Result" (2013) - Yasutomo Arakita
 30-DELUX The Remake Theater "Destiny" (2013) - Rose
 Gokujo Bungaku "The Ascension of K, or K's Drowning" (2013) - Reader

2014
 Musical "Hakuouki" HAKU-MYU LIVE (2014) - Nagumo Kaoru
 Life of an amorous man (2014) - Enno Sho
 Saiyuki Kagekiden - God Child (2014) - Genjyo Sanzo
 Stage play "Yowamushi Pedal - Inter High Chapter ~ The Second Order" (2014) - Yasutomo Arakita
 Honky Tonk Blues Sleepless Nights Chapter 2 ~ Resurrection (2014) - Kakeru
 THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT CHRONICLE 〜Blood Heaven Final Tale〜 "Innocent World" (2014) - Macaulay
 Stage play "K" (2014) - Fushimi Saruhiko
 Margarita - The angels of Sengoku era (2014) - Nakaura Julian
 Stage play "Yowamushi pedal - Hakone Academy Chapter ~ The Beast's Awakening" (2014) - Yasutomo Arakita
 Reading play "My social status plan" (2014) - Alfred

2015
 Saiyuki Kagekiden - Burial (2015) - Genjyo Sanzo
 Stage play "Yowamushi Pedal -  Inter High Chapter ~ The WINNER" (2015) - Yasutomo Arakita
 The eraser in my head 7th letter (2015) - Kosuke
 Honky Tonk Blues Sleepless Nights Chapter 2 ~Leap (2015) - Kakeru
 Sengoku BASARA vs Devil May Cry (2015) - Dante
 Saiyuki Kagekiden - Reload (2015) - Genjyo Sanzo
 Maboroshi no shiro - Sengoku's beautiful madness (2015) - Ukita Hideie
 Super Danganronpa 2 THE STAGE - Goodbye Despair Academy (2015) - Komaeda Nagito
 Earth's Art Neoline Sacred Creation (2015) - Special guest appearance
 Stage play "Noragami - Kami to negai" (2015) - Yato

2016
 Boku no River-ru (2016) - Vincent van Gogh
 History Tame Live ~ first part (2016)
 Stage play "Touken Ranbu - Burning Honnouji" (2016) - Mikazuki Munechika
 Sin of Sleeping Snow (2016) - Yamagata Masakage
 Sannin kichisa (2016) - Ojoukichisa
 Honky Tonk Blues Sleepless Nights Chapter 2 - Miracle (2016) - Kakeru
 AZUMI - Sengoku version (2016) - Ukiha
 Stage play "Touken Ranbu - Burning Honnouji - Reprise" (2016) - Mikazuki Munechika

2017
 Stage play "Noragami - Kami to Kizuna" (2017) - Yato
 Super Danganronpa 2 THE STAGE 2017 - Komaeda Nagito
 Stage play "Touken Ranbu - Giden - Atatsuki no Dokuganryuu" (2017) - Mikazuki Munechika
 Honky Tonk Blues Sleepless Nights Chapter 3 - Awakening (2017) - Kakeru
 History Tame Live ~ second part (2017)
 Stage play "Rengoku ni Warau" (2017) - Ishida Sakichi
 Stage play "Touken Ranbu - Joden Mitsuraboshi Katana gatari" (2017) - Mikazuki Munechika (cameo)
 Seven Souls in the Skull Castle - Season Moon (2017-2018) - Tenmao

2018
 Reading stage "The eraser in my head" (2018) - Kosuke
 Stage play "Touken Ranbu - Hiden yui no me no hototogisu" (2018) - Mikazuki Munechika
 Recitated stage "Tomorrow I will date with yesterday's you" (2018) - Takatoshi Minamiyama
 "No. 9 - Immortal melody" (2018) - Nikolaus Johann Beethoven

2019
 Stage play "Dororo" (2019) - Hyakkimaru
 Stage play "Psycho-Pass" (2019) - Kusen Haruto
 Saiyuki Kagekiden - Darkness (2019) - Genjyo Sanzo
 Stage play Yu Yu Hakusho (2019) - Kurama

2020
 Musical Little Shop of Horrors (2020) - Seymour Krelborn
 Stage play "The Great War of Archimedes" (2020) - Tadashi Kai (cancelled due Covid-19)
 Stage play Tokiko-san no Toki (2020) - Shoma/Toki
 Stage play Yu Yu Hakusho - Sono ni (2020) - Kurama

2021
 Stage play "Touken Ranbu - Osaka Summer Campaign" (2021) - Mikazuki Munechika
 Bakuman THE STAGE (2021) - Mashiro Moritaka

TV programs

Web drama

Other works

CD
Original TV soundtrack "Fuuma no Kojiro" Music Collection (2007) - "Vermilion Flames" by Reira
Koko wa Greenwood - HERE IS GREENWOOD - Vocal Mini Album (2008) - "Kiseki moment" by Kisaragi Shun
Sengoku Nabe TV Music Tonight - Somehow I can learn history CD (2011) - "Atsumori 2011" by Nobunaga and Ranmaru
Sengoku Nabe TV Music Tonight - Somehow I can learn history CD second deporture (2013) - "Uchitainda" "Genroku Akoujiken" by AKR47 featuring Kira

Soft image
Watching only For Lady (2009)
Real Face Suzuki Hiroki (2014)

Photo album
Suzuki Hiroki's first album "SHAFT - Suzuki Hiroki Acting From Thirty" - (2016)

References

External links
鈴木拡樹/Hiroki Suzuki - Profile at [http://www.awesomes.co.jp/ Awesome Inc.]

鈴木拡樹Official Fan Club「HIROTOMO」
鈴木拡樹Official Blog「拡言 -KAKUGEN-」(Personal Blog on Ameba (April 2012~))
鈴木拡樹 on Twitter

1985 births
People from Sakai, Osaka
Living people
Japanese male actors


Chesler may refer to:

Locations

 a village in the Romanian commune of Micăsasa
 the Chesler River, in Romania

People

 Oliver Chesler, musician better known as the Horrorist
 Harry "A" Chesler, a comic book publisher
 the Chesler Studio, which he ran
 Phyllis Chesler, an academic
 Evan Chesler, a lawyer
 Stanley R. Chesler, a judge


Phyllidia ocellata is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusk in the family Phyllidiidae.

Distribution
This species is probably confined to the central Indo-West Pacific Ocean. It is common in Indonesia and occurs from Malaysia to the Solomon Islands.

Description
This animal can measure up to 35 mm in length. It has been confused with Phyllidia japonica, Phyllidia multituberculata and Phyllidia undula and a number of other species by most workers. This nudibranch has an orange-brown dorsum interrupted by large white or grey, compound, stalked tubercles. These tubercles are distributed along a line from between the rhinophores to the tail, with more scattered and mostly smaller tubercles towards the mantle edge. There are four black rings surrounding tubercles which are placed symmetrically in the middle region of the back. Large individuals may have two more black patches towards the tail, or two more tubercles surrounded by black rings. A single tubercle in front of the rhinophores is also surrounded by a black ring. The rhinophores are orange-yellow.

Ecology
Like many nudibranchs, Phyllidia ocellata feeds on sponges.

References

External links

Phyllidiidae
Gastropods described in 1804
Taxa named by Georges Cuvier


Carboniferous is a studio album from the Italian band Zu. It was the group's first album for Ipecac Records.

Reception
Initial critical response to Carboniferous was very positive. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average score of 83, based on ten reviews.

Track listing
 "Ostia" – 4:55
 "Chthonian" – 6:48 (feat. King Buzzo)
 "Carbon" – 4:24
 "Beata Viscera" – 3:57
 "Erinys" – 3:43
 "Soulympics" – 5:05 (feat. Mike Patton)
 "Axion" – 5:21
 "Mimosa Hostilis" – 4:09
 "Obsidian" – 6:29
 "Orc" – 5:20 (feat. Mike Patton)

References

External links

2009 albums
Zu (band) albums
Ipecac Recordings albums


The Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST) is the highest recognition that a kindergarten through 12th-grade mathematics or science teacher may receive for outstanding teaching in the United States. Authorized by the Education for Economic Security Act in 1984, this program authorizes the President to bestow up to 108 awards each year. The National Science Foundation (NSF) administers PAEMST on behalf of The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

Eligibility
The following are the eligibility criteria for nominees. They must:

 Be highly qualified teachers, as deemed by their states, districts, or schools; teachers in private/independent schools should meet the spirit of the principles and provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act, Public Law 107-110.
 Hold a degree or appropriate credentials in the category for which they are applying.
 Teach in one of the 50 states or four U.S. jurisdictions. The jurisdictions are Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, Department of Defense Schools, and the U.S. territories as a group (American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands).
 Be full-time employees of the school or school district.
 Have at least 5 years of mathematics or science teaching experience prior to application.
 Teach mathematics or science at the appropriate grade level in a public or private school. The award is made to teachers of kindergarten through 6th grades and 7th through 12 grades in alternate years.
 Not have received the national PAEMST award in any prior competition or category.

See also
 Awards and decorations of the United States government
 List of mathematics awards

References

External links
 Official site

 Teacher awards
National Science Foundation
 Mathematics education awards
 Science education in the United States
 Science and technology in the United States
 Recurring events established in 1983
1983 establishments in Washington, D.C.
 American education awards
 Civil awards and decorations of the United States


Paul Woldu (born September 14, 1984) is a former professional Canadian football cornerback. He was drafted by the Montreal Alouettes in the fifth round of the 2008 CFL Draft where he spent four years with the team. He played CIS football for the Saskatchewan Huskies football team.

Early years
Woldu was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, and attended Dr. Martin LeBoldus High School. He played junior football with the Regina Thunder and earned an invitation as a non-roster player to the Saskatchewan Roughriders 2006 training camp, where he participated in a pre-season game before being released.

Upon his release from the Riders, Woldu played CIS football for the Saskatchewan Huskies for the 2006 and 2007 seasons, assisting them to the 2006 Hardy Cup and Mitchell Bowl championships and where he was named to the 2007 All-Canadian first-team. Woldu has won 3 Grey Cups in his career, two with the Montreal Alouettes in 2009 and 2010, and one with the Saskatchewan Roughriders in 2013..

References

External links
Saskatchewan Roughriders bio

1984 births
Living people
Canadian football people from Regina, Saskatchewan
Players of Canadian football from Saskatchewan
Canadian football defensive backs
Saskatchewan Huskies football players
Saskatchewan Roughriders players
Montreal Alouettes players
Canadian Junior Football League players


Harry Lemuel Lindquist (August 15, 1884January 16, 1978) was an editor and publisher specializing in the publication of philatelic literature during the early 20th century. He operated his publishing business from New York City at 1 West 46 Street.

The Stamp Specialist
Lindquist was responsible, during the period 1939–1948, for editing and publishing a series of twenty books containing detailed philatelic research by various philatelic writers. The series was entitled “The Stamp Specialist” and most of the books in the series are identified by the color of their cover.

Other publications
Lindquist was responsible for editing or publishing much philatelic literature including the following books:
 Stamp Collecting
 Texas Republic Postal System
 The George Walcott collection of Used Civil War Patriotic Covers
 History of the “Free Franking” of Mail in the United States
 The United States Postage Stamps of the Twentieth Century
 The United States 1 Cent Stamp of 1851-57, Volume I
 The United States 1 Cent Stamp of 1851-57, Volume II
 The United States 10 Cent Stamp of 1855-57.
 The 19th Century Postage Stamps of the United States, Volume I
 The 19th Century Postage Stamps of the United States, Volume II
 The 19th Century Postage Stamps of the United States, Volume III
 Distinguishing Characteristics of Classic Stamps – Europe – 19th Century (Except Old German States)

Philatelic endeavors
Lindquist founded and became president of the National Federation of Stamp Clubs which grew to 600 clubs nationwide and 200,000 members.  He also served as a member of the Postmaster General's Citizens' Stamp Advisory Committee, serving in that position 1957 to 1961.

Honors
H. l. Lindquist was awarded significant awards for his efforts in philately:
 Lichtenstein Medal awarded by the Collectors Club of New York in 1957.
 the Luff Award for Outstanding Service to the American Philatelic Society in 1948
 honorary life member of the Royal Philatelic Society London
 signed the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in 1947
 Benjamin Franklin Award for Distinguished and Outstanding Public Service, awarded by the United States Post Office Department.
 President of the New York Athletic Club from 1950 to 1952

See also
 Philately
 Philatelic literature
 The Stamp Specialist

References
 The Stamp Specialist
  Omaha Philatelic Library Listing

Philatelic literature
American publishers (people)
American philatelists
1884 births
1978 deaths
Businesspeople from New York City
Signatories to the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists
American Philatelic Society
20th-century American businesspeople
Presidents of the New York Athletic Club


The Castro Valley Unified School District (CVUSD) is located in Castro Valley, California, United States. It is a public preschool through adult school district. Overall, the district contains almost 9,000 students. It was created in 1965.

The Castro Valley Unified School District consists of the following schools:

Elementary schools (K-5)
 Castro Valley Elementary School
 Chabot Elementary School
 Independent Elementary School
 Jensen Ranch Elementary School
 Marshall Elementary School
 Palomares Elementary School
 Proctor Elementary School
 Stanton Elementary School
 Vannoy Elementary School

Middle schools (6-8)
 Canyon Middle School
 Creekside Middle School

High schools (9-12)
 Castro Valley High School - has over 2,900 students
 Redwood High School - an alternative high school with approximately 193 students in 2005

Adult school
 Castro Valley Adult School

References

External links

School districts in Alameda County, California
School districts established in 1965
1965 establishments in California

 School


A beauty dish is a photographic lighting device that uses a parabolic reflector to distribute light towards a focal point. The light created is between that of a direct flash and a softbox, giving the image a wrapped, contrasted look, which adds a more dramatic effect.

Uses
There are many uses for a beauty dish, but its basic function is to provide a focused source of light for photographers. The beauty dish is used in portrait and fashion photography, because it is the best modifier for concentrating light on a subject and creating a better image than other modifiers. Because the beauty dish wraps the light around the subject it gives the image a better contrast and highlights angles that other modifiers wouldn't be able to highlight, which is why most fashion photographers use them for their models.

In portrait photography, the beauty dish is used a lot more because of its ability to capture a more high quality version of the model's beauty. With the way the beauty dish creates certain shadows in the "portrait" of the model it basically sculpts the face of the model, so that her beauty is captured in a more unique and high-profile way.

The beauty dish is also used in sports photography, because of the same reasons it is used in portrait and fashion photography. The way the beauty dish reflects the light allows it to accentuate and highlight the muscles and textures of the model, which is very important when a photographer's goal is to make a model look as if they are athletic even when they may not be.

Different models and uses
The beauty dish comes in many different forms and each one creates a different effect on the model/subject. A few different designs include:
Balcar/Alien Bees
Bowens
Broncolor Pulso
Elinchrom
Flashpoint
Photogenic
Although the designs do not vary all that much, the differences give photographers room to see what works best for them and for their models.

The different uses of the beauty dish are:
One light setup: This setup is the most typical for photographers. It allows them to focus the light about two to four feet away from the models forehead, so that they can capture the light in their eyes. Shadows will be created under the chin and in places photographers may not want, therefore they will use a reflector to bounce light back up to the models face and use black cards to block out anything coming from the sides of the models face. This was the light will only be focused on the model's face and shoulders causing everything to look more highlighted and defined.
Two light setup: A photographer will use the same technique as they would with a one light setup, however they will use a strobe light in place of a reflector. This gives the photographer more control over the light.
Place a sock or diffusion material over the beauty dish: This creates a softer light on the subjects face and make the skin look creamy rather than textured.
Put grid on to the beauty dish: This creates a spotlight like pattern on the subject's face, however if not used correctly it will look shadowy and not strike the face in the right way.

References

Photography equipment
Photographic lighting
Flash photography


Ulysses Tholus is a Martian volcano. It is located in the Tharsis quadrangle at  2.89° north latitude and 121.55° west longitude. It is 58 km across and is named after a classical albedo feature. Ulysses Tholus is immediately east and slightly north of another volcano, Biblis Tholus. The name of the mountain itself was changed on September 19, 2007. The former terminology, Ulysses Patera, now applies only (and more accurately) to the central caldera, whereas formerly it had applied to the whole edifice. Tholus describes a volcanic edifice somewhat smaller than would be implied by mons.

References

See also

 HiRISE
 Geology of Mars
 List of mountains on Mars by height
 Volcanoes on Mars
 Volcanology of Mars

Volcanoes of Mars
Tharsis quadrangle


This is the order of battle for the First Battle of Târgu Frumos (early April 1944), a World War II Soviet offensive against Axis powers in Târgu Frumos, Romania.

Soviet
2nd Tank Army, Lieutenant-General Semen Bogdanov
27th Army, Lieutenant-General Sergei Trofimenko
35th Guards Rifle Corps, Lieutenant-General Sergey Goryachev
3rd Guards Airborne Division
93rd Guards Rifle Division
202nd Rifle Division
206th Rifle Division
40th Army, Lieutenant-General Filipp Zhmachenko
51st Rifle Corps, Major-General P.P. Avdeenko
42nd Guards Rifle Division

Axis

German
8th Army, General der Infanterie Otto Wöhler
Grossdeutschland Panzer Grenadier Division, General der Panzertruppe Hasso von Manteuffel
Panzer Regiment
Panzer Grenadier Regiment
Panzer Fusilier Regiment

Romanian
4th Army, Lieutenant-General Ioan Mihail Racoviță
1st Army Corps
6th Infantry Division
4th Army Corps
1st Guards Division
7th Infantry Division

References

Targu Frumos
World War II orders of battle


The 2006 WNBA All-Star Game was played on July 12, 2006 at Madison Square Garden in New York, New York, home of the New York Liberty. The game was the 7th annual WNBA All-Star Game. This was the third time New York has hosted the basketball showcase, after previously hosting the 1999 and 2003 games.

The All-Star Game

Rosters

1 Injured
2 Injury replacement
3 Starting in place of injured player

Coaches
The coach for the Western Conference was Sacramento Monarchs coach John Whisenant. The coach for the Eastern Conference was Connecticut Sun coach Mike Thibault.

Other events

Three-Point Shootout
The inaugural Three-Point Shootout was held before the All-Star Game. Contestants shot 25 balls from 5 locations around the three-point line, with each shot counting for one point except for one "money ball" on each rack counting for two points.

Skills Challenge

References

Wnba All-star Game, 2006
Women's National Basketball Association All-Star Game


Sarth Calhoun is an American musician from Brooklyn, New York.

Biography
Sarth Calhoun grew up in Brooklyn, New York. He began playing music and writing lyrics at age six. In his teens, he stopped buying comic books to save up for his first bass guitar. His music career started with various rock bands around New York City, during which time he developed a love of computers and the Internet, and formed electronica-improv group, Gebbeth.

In 1999 he, Leah Coloff (vocals/lyrics/cello), Tony Diodore (violin, guitar), and Marcus Righter (drums) formed Number19, a rock band that developed experimental sounds within alternative and indie rock settings. The music orients around cello and violin swooping over grooving bass and drums. The band performed online as well as in person, and funded its first album, Suspension, from mp3.com downloads. The band is on an indefinite hiatus.

In 2005 Sarth founded the rock/electronic group Lucibel Crater, and experimented more with electronic music and sound-looping. Singer/songwriter/cellist, Leah Coloff, and Paul Chuffo (drums) rounded out the trio. The band has been described as "Cubist," and "if Picasso had a band.". Lucibel Crater recorded their EP Miracles in 2007, and their full-length CD, The Family Album in 2008. The Family Album refers to and explores the theme of American Life. Sarth came to know Lou Reed during this time, due to common passion for Chen Taiji, and Lou Reed provides guitar accompaniment on the track Threadbare Funeral.

While touring in Italy and Germany with Lucibel Crater, Sarth joined a new band with Lou Reed and Ulrich Krieger to form the Metal Machine Trio. Their collaboration resulted in a tai chi meditation record.

In 2011 he co-wrote and recorded noise compositions with Lou Reed for Robert Wilson's stage production of Lulu. He went on to record and perform that material with Metallica. During the same year Sarth performed bass on the Buddy Holly compilation album, Rave on Buddy Holly for the song "Peggy Sue", also with Lou Reed.

Sarth founded The Gralbum Collective, a new publishing company. He is overseeing the development of a new mobile and entertainment application called the gralbum (graphic+album), or graphic album, an artistic medium that is the combination of a graphic novel and music album. The company's debut work, The Book of Sarth, was released 6 October 2012, and features Sarth's electronic music, and artwork by Alex Smith. It was programmed by Andrew Beck.

Sarth plays the continuum fingerboard and beta tests for the Symbolic Sound Kyma workstation. He refers to himself as an "electronic alchemist" using audio equipment to perform live looping and processing of other instruments during performances.

References

American electronic musicians
Musicians from Brooklyn
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)


Journey to the Center of the Mind is the second studio album released by The Amboy Dukes.  Released in April 1968 on Mainstream Records, the album is best remembered for its hit single title track, which charted at #16 on the Billboard singles chart.

The album demonstrates a more pop-oriented approach than the band's debut album, as well as a psychedelic, garage rock and hard rock sound. Retrospective commentary on the album have called it a classic album of 1968.

Composition

According to Ultimate Classic Rock, the Journey to the Center of the Mind album "bridged psychedelia and hard rock". Singers Room described the album as "a blend of garage rock and psychedelic influences". The album also demonstrates more of a pop sensibility than the band's debut. Steve Farmer co-wrote the hit title track and entirely wrote most of the ambitious suite that makes up the album's second side. The album opens with two blues-influenced rock songs, "Mississippi Murderer" and "Surrender to Your Kings". Ultimate Classic Rock said that "Why Is a Carrot More Orange Than an Orange" delved "deeper into waters more familiar to the Strawberry Alarm Clock or even the Lemon Pipers" with "pseudo-intellectual gibberish lyrics and an almost bubblegum musical approach".

The album also showcases Ted Nugent's guitar skills, with Ultimate Classic Rock writing, "His lead on 'Flight of the Byrd' [is] down and dirty, while his playing on 'Scottish Tea' is highly melodic and inventive". AllMusic said that producer Bob Shad contributed to the album's distinctive sound by recording Nugent's guitar as if Journey to the Center of the Mind was a Mainstream jazz album.

Reception

The "Journey to the Center of the Mind" single, released in June 1968, charted at #16 on the Billboard singles chart, while the album only charted at #74 on the albums chart. In a retrospective review, AllMusic said that the album was "hard-hitting, well-done psychedelic music, recorded with taste". Singers Room ranked the album as the 83rd best album of 1968, describing it as "a classic album that is a must-listen for fans of psychedelic rock."

Track listing

Personnel

The Amboy Dukes
John (J.B.) Drake – vocals
Ted Nugent – lead guitar, vocals
Steve Farmer – rhythm guitar, vocals
Greg Arama – bass
Dave Palmer – drums
Andy Solomon – organ, piano, vocals

Technical
Bob Shad – producer
Roy Cicala – engineer
Maxine Epstein – album coordinator
Jack Lonshein – cover design

References

1968 albums
The Amboy Dukes albums
Mainstream Records albums
Albums produced by Bob Shad


John Mohring Jr. (born August 31, 1984) is a former professional football linebacker. He was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2007. He played college football for the Georgia Southern Eagles. He was an assistant coach at Arkansas State University. He is currently the Head Coach at Savannah Country Day School in Savannah, Georgia.

Collegiate career
At Georgia Southern, John competed for four years and recorded 302 tackles, tying for fifth all-time in school history. He was honored by being named the Football Coaches Association Division I-AA All American team for the 2006 season.

Professional career
John has participated in mini-camps with the Buffalo Bills and was a member of the 2007 Tampa Bay Buccaneers training camp.

Mohring has also been a member of the Orlando Predators, Grand Rapids Rampage, and Montreal Alouettes.

Family
His father John Sr. played for the Cleveland Browns and Detroit Lions. His cousin Michael Mohring played for the Oakland Raiders and San Diego Chargers.

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The First Battle of Târgu Frumos was fought during World War II between Axis powers commanded by Otto Wöhler and Soviet forces led by Ivan Konev. Historian David Glantz has described it as part of a failed Soviet invasion of Romania, while Russian and German sources have described it as part of the Târgu Frumos Operation.

By early April 1944, Stavka (the Main Command of the Soviet Armed Forces) ordered its two major units involved in operations in south-western Ukraine to mount a strategic offensive in north-eastern Romania. General Konev's 2nd Ukrainian Front approached Târgu Frumos and Botoșani regions by 5 April and commenced its offensive towards Târgu Frumos on 8 April. The Romanian 4th Army, under the command of Lieutenant-General Ioan Mihail Racoviță, was charged with the defense of the region. It was being reinforced by German panzer elements of the 24th Panzer Division, and was preparing to hold an initial Soviet advance. However, these defenses proved to be no match for the Soviet assault on the town and by the next day Târgu Frumos had been secured by two 27th Army rifle divisions. Meanwhile, the German Eighth Army command responded rapidly by ordering Hasso von Manteuffel's Großdeutschland Panzergrenadier division to move towards Târgu Frumos and recapture the town. By the evening of 10 April, 48 hours after receiving the initial order, Großdeutschland succeeded in retaking the town and establishing new defensive positions there. Sporadic battles with Soviet elements remaining in the region continued until 12 April,  as they were facing the danger of encirclement.

Following the end of the battle, the Germans formed a new defensive line northwest and northeast of the town and maintained a tank regiment as reserve near Târgu Frumos proper. Meanwhile, irked by the defeat suffered at Târgu Frumos, Konev ordered the 2nd Tank Army to commence on 12 April an offensive towards the village of Podu Iloaiei.

Background

On 5 March 1944, Colonel General Ivan Konev, commander of the 2nd Ukrainian Front, commenced the Uman–Botoșani Offensive operation in the Ukraine. This operation succeeded in separating Army Group North's 1st Panzer Army from Army Group South's 8th Army by 17 March; by early April Soviet units approached the Romanian border.

Starting with early April 1944, Stavka ordered the 2nd and 3rd Ukrainian Fronts to mount a major offensive with strategic implications in eastern Romania. Stavka'''s strategic intentions were to break German and Romanian strategic defenses in northeastern Romania, capture the key cities of Iași and Chișinău, and afterwards project forces deep into Romanian territory, if possible as deep as Ploiești and Bucharest. By 5 April, Konev's front had crossed the upper reaches of Dniester and Prut Rivers, captured Hotin and Dorohoi, and approached Târgu Frumos and Botoșani regions—– northwest of Iași—facing only light Romanian resistance. On 8 April 1944, Konev ordered the 27th and 40th Armies to conduct a coordinated offensive southward along the Târgu Frumos axis, in close cooperation with Semyon Bogdanov's 2nd Tank Army. While Konev's shock group was advancing towards Târgu Frumos, Konstantin Koroteev's 52nd Army and elements of Andrei Kravchenko's 6th Tank Army, which were operating north of Iași, were conducting operations alongside the Iași axis in order to support Konev's main effort.

As Konev's armies prepared to launch their offensive toward Târgu Frumos, Otto Wöhler's German Eighth Army was involved in the heavy fighting taking place in and around the village of Popricani,  north of Iași, where two Soviet corps were fighting with armored Kampfgruppen, distracting the Germans' attentions and forces away from the critical Târgu Frumos sector. Exploiting the 52nd Army diversionary operations in the Iași region, the three armies of Konev's shock group began advancing southwards early in the morning of 8 April. The advance was quite slow due to mud-clogged roads during the rasputitsa, as well as crossing to the west bank of the Prut River northwest of Iași.

 Planning

Konev's armies' initial mission was to reach Târgu Frumos, Pașcani, and Târgu Neamț regions—– west of Iași—and capture the three towns from their Romanian defenders by surprise. While three divisions of 51st Rifle Corps were ordered to press southward toward Pașcani, another two rifle divisions were protecting their advance in the region north and northwest of Târgu Neamț. Further to the east, seven rifle divisions assigned to 35th Guards and 33rd Rifle Corps of 27th Army would advance southeastward along the Prut starting on 7 April, forcing the Romanian 8th Infantry Division to retreat towards Hârlău,  north of Târgu Frumos. Meanwhile, another two divisions of 33rd Rifle Corps joined by two corps of the 2nd Tank Army would press the Romanian 7th Infantry Division back toward Târgu Frumos.

The Romanian 4th Army's IV Army Corps, which was responsible for defending the Târgu Frumos sector, was preparing to assemble sufficient forces to man the forward defensive positions in the Ruginoasa–Strunga–Oțeleni defense line, which extended from Târgu Neamț eastward south of Pașcani and through Târgu Frumos and Podu Iloaiei just south of Iași. As a result, the 6th and 8th Infantry Divisions would be manning defenses stretching from Târgu Neamț eastward to Pașcani, while the 1st Guards Division and the 7th Infantry Division would defend the sector from Pașcani eastward past Târgu Frumos to Podu Iloaiei. The latter units would be reinforced by the end of 8 April  northeast of Podu Iloaiei by a Maximilian von Edelsheim's 24th Panzer Division's small kampfgruppe.

 Battle
In the vanguard of Trofimenko's 27th Army, Lieutenant-General S. G. Goriachev's 35th Guards Rifle Corps resumed its advance southward from the Hârlǎu region towards Târgu Frumos during the morning on 9 April, with two rifle divisions deployed from left to right in his first echelon. Soviet riflemen quickly defeated the Romanian troops defending the town and most of the surrounding region, being reinforced by the Corps' second echelon consisting of one airborne and one rifle divisions before any enemy reaction. Meanwhile, the 42nd Guards Rifle Division captured the town of Pașcani, situated  west of Târgu Frumos and defended by the Romanian 6th Infantry Division. At the same time, forward detachments of Bogdanov's 2nd Tank Army advancing east of the town attempted to reinforce Trofimenko's infantry fighting in the Târgu Frumos region, but were unable to do so due to German defenders. The German Eighth Army reacted promptly realizing the danger to its main defenses west of Iași, by moving Hasso von Manteuffel's Panzergrenadier Division Großdeutschland towards Târgu Frumos. Elements of the division were ordered to launch a counterattack from the south of the town as soon as possible. Attacking during the rest of the day, that small German force managed to seize and hold only a foothold in the southern part of the town. However, by this time two divisions of Goriachev's 35th Guards Rifle Corps reached the region and added their weight to Trofimenko's southward thrust. By nightfall, three divisions leading 35th Corps advance passed Târgu Frumos and established a salient  to  deep within the Romanian defense line south and southeast of the town.

Early on 10 April, the Großdeutschland Division, consisting of approximately 160 tanks, including 40 Panthers and 40 Tigers, attacked westward along the road from Podu Iloaiei to Târgu Frumos in two columns deployed north and south of the road. Following a heavy bombardment, the Germans broke into the town and engaged the Soviet troops which had taken cover in houses and other buildings. The German thrust cut off a number of Soviet units from their main force and reached the high ground west of the town by launching a concerted counterattack just as the 206th Rifle, 3rd Guards Airborne and 93rd Guards Rifle Divisions were preparing to resume their assault southwards, at a time when only their rear guards and logistical subunits remained behind to defend the Târgu Frumos region. Meanwhile, the Romanian 1st Guard and 7th Infantry Division advanced from the south, pressing the Soviets back to the north. Trapped between the German armour racing into Târgu Frumos from the east and the Romanian infantry counterattacking from the south, the three divisions of 35th Guards Rifle Corps had no choice but to retreat. At about 2200 hours, 48 hours after getting their original order, the German grenadiers had secured Târgu Frumos and the regions west and north of the town.

After a desperate two-day struggle by three divisions of 35th Corps to avoid encirclement, the fighting in the Târgu Frumos region quieted down by midday on 12 April.

 Aftermath
After the end of the battle, the Großdeutschland Division erected a new defensive line to protect Târgu Frumos, which extended in a wide arc from  northwest,  northeast, and  east of the town. Manteuffel ultimately placed Großdeutschlands Panzergrenadier Regiment on the division's left wing northwest of the town and the Fusilier Regiment on its right wing northeast and east of the town, but he retained his Panzer Regiment in reserve assembly areas close to Târgu Frumos proper. Meanwhile, throughout the day on 12 April, units from the Panzer Grenadier Regiment cleared Soviet remnants from the 206th Rifle and 3rd Guards Airborne Divisions from a small pocket west of the town and extended the regiment's defensive positions several miles forward southwestward of Heleșteni,  west of Târgu Frumos, where the Großdeutschland defenses connected with those of the Romanian 1st Guards Division to form a continuous defensive front west of the town. Furthermore, on Großdeutschlands right flank, a battlegroup from the 24th Panzer Division continued defending the sector located from north of Podu Iloaiei to the village of Lețcani,  west of Iași, where its right flank linked up with the defenses of the 7th Romanian Infantry Division, which was defending the northwestern flank of Iași.

After successfully withdrawing the three partially encircled divisions of 35th Corps, Trofimenko reorganized his 27th Army's defenses along a line extending from north of Târgu Frumos eastward to north of Podu Iloaiei. By the end of 12 April, Goriachev deployed the 206th, 3rd Guards and 93rd Divisions from left to right in defensive positions stretching from the eastern bank of Siret River near Pașcani,  west of Târgu Frumos, eastward to the village of Munteni,  northeast of Târgu Frumos, while further to the east, three rifle divisions from 33rd Rifle Corps were placed  northwest of Iași.

Irritated by the defeat his troops faced at Târgu Frumos, on 12 April Konev ordered Bogdanov, whose 2nd Tank Army concentrated its two corps south of Focuri,  north of Podu Iloaiei, to assault the Romanian and German defenders at Podu Iloaiei.

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References

See also

Conflicts in 1944
1944 in Romania
Battles of World War II involving Romania
Military history of Romania during World War II
Romania–Soviet Union relations
Battles of World War II involving Germany
April 1944 events


Darlene Marzari (born July 6, 1943) is a former Canadian politician. She was elected as a Vancouver alderman under the TEAM banner in 1972 and remained on city council for a number of years. She served as MLA for the riding of Vancouver-Point Grey in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1986 to 1996, as a member of the British Columbia New Democratic Party.

In the 1986 election, she was elected alongside Kim Campbell in what was then a multiple-member district. Campbell resigned in 1988 to run in the 1988 federal election, and was succeeded by Tom Perry in a 1989 by-election.

The 1991 election was contested under new single-member boundaries. Marzari ran as the sole NDP candidate in Point Grey, while Perry moved to Vancouver-Little Mountain. Marzari was re-elected that year. She did not run in the 1996 election, and was succeeded by Gordon Campbell.

She served in the Executive Council of British Columbia under Premiers Mike Harcourt and Glen Clark, as Minister of Tourism, Minister Responsible for Culture and Minister of Municipal Affairs.

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Maurice Manning (born 1966) is an American poet. His first collection of poems, Lawrence Booth's Book of Visions, was awarded the Yale Younger Poets Award, chosen by W.S. Merwin. Since then he has published four collections of poetry (with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Copper Canyon Press). He teaches English and Creative Writing at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, where he oversees the Judy Gaines Young Book Award, and is a member of the poetry faculty of the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers.

Life
Manning was born in Danville, Kentucky. He attended Earlham College and the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa. From 2000 to 2004, Manning taught at DePauw University. In the fall of 2004 he began teaching in the Indiana University M.F.A. Program. He is on the faculty of the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers and in January 2012 he was hired by Transylvania University, a small liberal arts college in Lexington, Kentucky. He lives on a 20-acre farm in Washington County, Kentucky.

Manning lists the poets William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and Robert Penn Warren among his influences, as well as Wendell Berry and Henry David Thoreau.

Manning appeared in KET's 2018 documentary, Robert Penn Warren: A Vision. Of Warren, he said "Robert Penn Warren had a vision. Not only a creative vision expressed through his fiction and poetry, but a broader vision of our entire country and its complicated history. So for me, there is something remarkable about this man that I find deeply moving, always."

Publications
Manning's first collection, Lawrence Booth's Book of Visions, won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition in 2001 (under W. S. Merwin). Dwight Garner, literary critic for The New York Times, said in a review of the book that "Manning displays not just terrific cunning but terrific aim--he nails his images the way a restless boy, up in a tree with a slingshot, nails anything sentient that wanders into view". His fourth collection, The Common Man (Houghton Mifflin, 2010), deals with religion, Kentucky, whiskey, and a donkey, and was praised as a "fine collection" by Jacob Sunderlin in the Sycamore Review. During his Guggenheim fellowship, he worked on his fifth collection, The Gone and the Going Away. His collection, One Man's Dark, was published in 2016 and focuses on rural America, and on living life in close contact with the natural world. In 2020, Manning published Railsplitter, which envisions the role of poetry in the life of Abraham Lincoln.

Manning's poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Time, Shenandoah, The Southern Review, Washington Square, Green Mountains Review, Hayden's Ferry Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Wind, Hunger Mountain, Black Warrior Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, and elsewhere. His collection The Common Man was one of the two finalists for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry. He has held a fellowship to the Fine Arts Works Center in Provincetown and was a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow.

Bibliography

References

External links
Faculty: Maurice Manning, Indiana University
Maurice Manning, All Things Considered, NPR, April 19, 2001
Quantum Cowboys and Honky Tonk Heroes: A Conversation with Maurice Manning, Sycamore Review, Summer/Fall 2002 issue, 14.2, Purdue University
Mr. Maurice Manning | Transylvania University

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The Battle of Târgu Frumos, also known as the Târgu Frumos Operation, occurred during Spring 1944 in World War II in and around the town of Târgu Frumos in Iași County, Moldavia, Romania.

It was fought between Soviet forces (the Red Army) and Axis forces (the German Wehrmacht and Romanian forces) and, according to David Glantz, it was within the  Soviet Union's First Jassy-Kishinev Offensive. The same historian had earlier concluded that the battle was instead a successful example of Soviet maskirovka, meant to trick the Germans into believing the region continued to be in their strategic interest after the end of the Uman–Botoșani Offensive.

The term may apply to either to the entire scope of conflict in the area over a longer time, but often refers specifically to the battle in May. For example, a military unit or an individual can be said to have served in the battle.

First Battle of Târgu Frumos, 9–12 April 1944: the Red Army took the town but was pushed out.
Second Battle of Târgu Frumos, 2–8 May 1944: the German forces held again.

Soviet historians did not consider this to be a significant battle but have come around to identifying it separately.

The battle in May has been used in military education as an example of how a mobile defense can defeat an armoured spearhead.

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The 1965 Houston Oilers season was the sixth season for the Houston Oilers as a professional AFL franchise; The team matched their previous output of 4–10 and failed to qualify for the playoffs for the third consecutive season.  The Oilers moved their home games from Jeppensen Stadium to Rice Stadium.

The 1965 Oilers surrendered 5.29 rushing yards per carry, the most in American Football League history, and 8th-most in the history of professional football.

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Robert Carberry (born 6 January 1931) was a Scottish footballer who played as a half-back in the Football League for Norwich City, Gillingham, and Port Vale between 1953 and 1958.

Career
Carberry played for Avondale, before joining Norwich City in 1953, who were then managed by Norman Low. He made five Third Division South appearances in 1953–54 and 1954–55 before departing Carrow Road. He spent the 1955–56 season in the Southern League with Bedford Town, playing sixteen matches. He signed with Archie Clark's Gillingham, and featured once in the Third Division South in the 1956–57 season. He joined league rivals Port Vale in July 1957, in a move that reunited him with Norman Low, and his debut came at centre-half in a 1–0 away triumph at Aldershot on 24 August. He enjoyed regular football from that game until he lost his place in February 1958. He transferred to Exeter City in August 1958, having made 32 league and cup appearances for the "Valiants" in 1957–58. He did not play in the Fourth Division for the "Grecians", but instead moved back to the Southern League with Burton Albion.

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Michael Dennis Nahan (born 2 July 1950) is a former Australian politician who was Leader of the Liberal Party of Australia's Western Australian branch and Leader of the Opposition from the 2017 state election until his resignation in June 2019. He served as Treasurer of Western Australia under the Barnett Ministry from March 2014 until the government's fall in March 2017. Nahan was also the Member of the Legislative Assembly for Riverton from 2008 until 2021, when he was succeeded by Labor's Jags Krishnan.

Biography
Nahan was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1950 as one of 13 children and grew up on a small farm, later graduating with a bachelor's degree in economics from Western Michigan University. After arriving in Australia in the late 1970s, he received a doctorate in economics from the Australian National University having previously completed a master's degree in agricultural economics.

Nahan arrived in Western Australia in July 1982. He joined the Western Australian Public Service before moving to the Institute of Public Affairs, a libertarian think tank, as a policy director. Between 1995 and 2005 he was Executive Director of the IPA.

State politics
Nahan entered politics at the 2008 Western Australian state election when he defeated incumbent Labor MP Tony McRae for the seat of Riverton in southern Perth.

Nahan served as the Trustee of the Parliamentary Superannuation Board and was Chairman of the Economics and Industry Standing Committee in State Parliament from November 2008 to August 2012. As part of the Economics and Industry Standing Committee, Mike Nahan presided over the Kimberley Ultramarathon Inquiry, an Inquiry set up to understand why five individuals received extensive burns. It was later determined that the fire was caused by an out of control prescribed burn being conducted by FESA, El Questro, the WA Police and the James Gino Salerno family, a cult residing around Kununurra.

After the Liberal/National government was reelected at the 2013 Western Australian state election, Nahan was promoted to cabinet as Minister for Energy, Finance, and Citizenship and Multicultural Interests by Premier Colin Barnett.

Treasurer of Western Australia
Nahan was appointed as the Treasurer of Western Australia on 14 March 2014 following the resignation of Troy Buswell. His first budget as Treasurer was delivered in May 2014.

As Treasurer of Western Australia, Nahan presided over the loss of the state's AAA credit rating in August 2014 when state debt was downgraded to AA1 (further downgraded to AA2 in February 2016), and an unemployment rate of 6.5% in March 2017.

Leader of the Opposition
The Liberal government was roundly defeated at the 2017 state election, suffering the worst defeat of a sitting government in Western Australian history. Notably, the Liberals' support in Perth almost melted. The Liberals were cut down to only nine seats in the capital, including Nahan's. Following the defeat, Barnett resigned as WA Liberal leader and returned to the backbench.

Two days after the election, outgoing minister Bill Marmion indicated that Nahan had the most support in the much-reduced Liberal party room to succeed Barnett. He was elected unopposed as Liberal leader, and hence Leader of the Opposition, on 21 March, with outgoing Deputy Premier Liza Harvey remaining deputy leader.

Nahan has been compared to Ned Flanders, a character from The Simpsons, with The West Australian cartoonist Dean Alston drawing him in the style of the animated television show.

Nahan announced on 12 June 2019 he was stepping down from the parliamentary leadership of the Liberal Party. When asked who he will be backing as his replacement, he said it would be up to the Liberal party room to make that decision. Nahan also said that he had always planned to step down before the 2021 election, meaning that he never intended to take the Liberals into the campaign. He however disputed the suggestion that he was "warming the chair". His deputy, Harvey, was elected unopposed as party leader on 13 June 2019. He is only the fifth WA Liberal leader not to take the party into an election.

Later career

Soon after Harvey was elected his successor, Nahan became Shadow Minister for Planning in Harvey's shadow cabinet.

In March 2021, Nahan retired from Parliament, and did not seek re-election in his Riverton seat, which was gained by the Labor Party.

Taxation and citizenship issues
In 2018, Nahan revealed a substantial disputed liability, believed to be potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars, to the United States Internal Revenue Service. Despite being a member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly since September 2008 and Treasurer in the Barnett Government for three years, this possible liability was only disclosed in 2018 during a debate over eligibility of dual citizens.

During the debate, Nahan stated that he no longer held a U.S. passport but was unable to renounce his American citizenship until the debt was resolved. The issue arose in 2010 when the IRS changed the way in which it calculated liability from Australian superannuation recipients. Nahan is reported to be one many thousands of U.S. citizens caught up in the changes and is awaiting the outcome of several court cases in the United States where lawyers are confident that, if successful, his liability will be expunged. For Liberal Party colleagues the issue raised further concerns about his ability to lead the decimated party in parliament to the 2021 Western Australian state election.

References

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 WA Parliament biography
 Mike Nahan new WA Treasurer

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The Arena Football League Defensive Player of the Year Award is given by the Arena Football League to the league's most outstanding defensive player at the end of every AFL season since 1996. Multiple-award winners include Kenny McEntyre, Clevan Thomas, and Joe Sykes; McEntyre and Thomas have won the award three times each, while Sykes has won it twice. Thomas and Vic Hall are the only players to win the award as a rookie (2002 & 2011 respectively). The award was sponsored by ADT Security Services from 2002 to 2008. Since 2010, the award has been sponsored by Riddell.

AFL Defensive Players of the Year

References

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Doin' Something is an album by Soulive that was released on March 13, 2001. It was produced by Jeff Krasno, Bob Brockmann and Yaron Fuchs.

The album is the group's third release since their formation in 1999.  With this album, Soulive builds upon the creative momentum established in their previous two albums (Get Down! and Turn It Out)  while experimenting with new melodic and rhythmic ideas.  This album also marks the first time the group recorded with the acclaimed Blue Note label, having departed with Velour after their last recording.  For Doin' Something, the group brings in a four-piece brass section (led by veteran trombonist Fred Wesley) to supplement organ and guitar overdubs in many of their tracks.

Track listing
"Hurry Up... And Wait"  – 4:06
"Doin' Something"  – 6:46
"Evidence"  – 4:33
"One in Seven"  – 5:17
"Bridge to 'Bama"  – 7:23
"Cannonball"  – 5:41
"Shaheed"  – 5:39
"Romantic"  – 5:21
"Solid" – 4:53
"Roll the Tape"  – 5:24
"Joe Sample"  – 5:25

Personnel
Eric Krasno - guitar
Alan Evans - drums
Neal Evans - Hammond B3 organ, bass keys, clavinet

References

2001 albums
Blue Note Records albums
Soulive albums


Ceraunius Tholus is a volcano on Mars located in the Tharsis quadrangle at 24.25° north latitude and 262.75° east longitude, part of the Uranius group of volcanoes. It is  across, approximately  high and is named after a classical albedo feature name.

It is generally believed to be a basaltic shield with the lower part buried beneath plain forming lavas. Earlier interpretations suggested that it is a stratovolcano.  The slopes on Ceraunius Tholus are quite steep with an average slope of 8° with many radial erosion channels and pitted valleys extending from just below the rim of the caldera toward the base of the volcano. The current view is that the valleys were eroded by water.  Interesting features on Ceraunius Tholus are three large canyons at the northwest flank of Ceraunius Tholus which are up to 2.5 km wide and 300 m deep. The biggest of these three also appears to be the youngest and protrude from the lowest point of the volcanic caldera and ends at the interesting crater Rahe (an oblique impact crater with measures of 35 × 18 km), just north from the volcano where it formed a depositional fan. Its origin is still debatable and there are four main models proposed: fluvial action, volcanic flows, valley being a lava channel or some combination of previously mentioned models.

Ceraunius appears small compared to other larger volcanoes, but it is almost as tall as Earth's Mount Everest.

The caldera of Ceranius Tholus is also dotted with many collapse pits, which are distinct from impact craters as they have no rim and vary in abundance across the caldera.  Ceraunius Tholus is probably late Hesperian in age.

The crater Paros lies south of Ceraunius Tholus, and the elongate crater Rahe is to the north.

Glaciers
Some scientists believe that glaciers may have existed on many of the volcanoes in Tharsis including Olympus Mons, Ascraeus Mons, and Pavonis Mons.  Ceraunius Tholus may have even had its glaciers melt to form some temporary lakes in the past. The smoothness and flatness of the Ceraunius Tholus caldera floor suggests that in the past meltwater accumulated in a caldera lake.

Environment around Ceraunius Tholus

Ceraunius Tholus is on the Tharsis rise, also called the Tharsis bulge.  Tharsis is a land of great volcanoes.  Olympus Mons is the tallest known volcano.  Ascraeus Mons and Pavonis Mons are at least 320 km across and are over 10 km above the plateau that they sit on.  The plateau is five to four seven kilometers above the zero altitude of Mars.

References

See also

 Geography of Mars
 Glaciers on Mars
 Geology of Mars
 HiRISE
 List of mountains on Mars by height
 Volcanoes on Mars
 Volcanology of Mars

Volcanoes of Mars
Tharsis quadrangle
Shield volcanoes


Chorizanthe leptotheca is a species of flowering plant in the buckwheat family known by the common names Ramona spineflower and Peninsular spineflower. It is native to the Peninsular Ranges of southern California and Baja California, where it grows in chaparral and forest habitat. It is very similar to its close relative, Turkish rugging (Chorizanthe staticoides).

Chorizanthe leptotheca is an erect herb growing up to about 35 centimeters tall. The leaves are basal, oval in shape and up to about 3 centimeters long. The herbage is fuzzy to quite hairy in texture, and generally reddish in color. The inflorescence is a loose cluster of flowers, each surrounded by six reddish bracts coated in curly hairs and tipped in hooked awns. The flower itself is up to 6 millimeters wide, pink or red in color and hairy.

References

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Jepson Manual Treatment: Chorizanthe leptotheca

leptotheca
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Flora of Baja California
Natural history of the California chaparral and woodlands
Natural history of the Peninsular Ranges
Taxa named by George Bentham


Glyptotheque of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts () is an art gallery in the center of Zagreb, Croatia. It is located on Medvedgradska Street near Tkalčićeva Street within the Gornji Grad - Medveščak administrative district.

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Art museums and galleries in Zagreb
Gornji Grad–Medveščak
Industrial buildings completed in 1864
Art museums established in 1937
1937 establishments in Croatia
Croatian sculpture