Otoyol 3 (), also known as the European Motorway () and abbreviated as the O-3 is a  long otoyol in East Thrace, Turkey. The O-3 runs from Edirne to Istanbul and is the only motorway in Turkey located entirely in Europe. The motorway begins west of Edirne at a junction with the  where it then continues as a beltway passing just north of Edirne. From there, the motorway passes through mostly rural farmland until it enters the Istanbul metropolis near Silivri. The eastern end of the O-3 is at the interchange with the , where the motorway becomes Vatan Caddesi and continues into the historic peninsula of Istanbul as a major boulevard.

The O-3 connects with three other motorways, all in Istanbul; the O-1,  and the ; and is a part of the , the International E-road network and  of the Asian Highway Network. The motorway has six lanes, three in each direction, except for a  section between Silivri and Esenyurt.

Exit list
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!width=100| Province !!width=100| District !!width=40| km !!width=40| mi !!width=30| Exit !!width=300| Destination !!width=200| Notes
|-
|rowspan="5"| Edirne
|rowspan="4"| Edirne Merkez
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 0
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 0
|style='background: #ffddf4'| K1
|style='background: #ffddf4'|  — Kapıkule
|style='background: #ffddf4'| Westbound only
|-
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 11.5
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 7.1
|| K2
||  — Edirne
||
|-
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 15.8
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 9.8
|| K3
||  via eastern connector
||
|-
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 16.7
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 10.3
|colspan="3" style='background: #ccccff; text-align:center;'| Edirne Toll Plaza
|-
|| Havsa
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 35.7
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 22.1
|style='background: #ccccff'| K4
|style='background: #ccccff'|  — Havsa
|style='background: #ccccff'|
|-
|rowspan="2"| Kırklareli
|| Babaeski
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 62.9
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 39
|style='background: #ccccff'| K5
|style='background: #ccccff'|  — Babaeski, Kırklareli
|style='background: #ccccff'|
|-
|| Lüleburgaz
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 87.3
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 54.2
|style='background: #ccccff'| K6
|style='background: #ccccff'|  — Lüleburgaz
|style='background: #ccccff'|
|-
|rowspan="2"| Tekirdağ
|| Saray
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 116.1
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 72.1
|style='background: #ccccff'| K7
|style='background: #ccccff'|  — , Saray
|style='background: #ccccff'|
|-
|| Çorlu
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 136.3
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 84.6
|style='background: #ccccff'| K8
|style='background: #ccccff'|  — Çorlu, Velimeşe
|style='background: #ccccff'|
|-
|rowspan="27"| Istanbul
|rowspan="4"| Silivri
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 154.8
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 96.1
|style='background: #ccccff'| K9
|style='background: #ccccff'|  — Çerkezköy
|style='background: #ccccff'|
|-
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 167.1
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 103.8
|style='background: #ccccff'| K10
|style='background: #ccccff'|  — Sancaktepe
|style='background: #ccccff'| connector to  and
|-
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 174.3
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 108.3
|style='background: #ccccff'| K11
|style='background: #ccccff'| TEM connector — Silivri
|style='background: #ccccff'|
|-
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 186.1
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 115.6
|style='background: #ccccff'| K12
|style='background: #ccccff'| Selimpaşa connector — Selimpaşa
|style='background: #ccccff'|
|-
|rowspan="2"| Büyükçekmece
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 193.6
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 120.2
|style='background: #ccccff'| K13
|style='background: #ccccff'| Kumburgaz connector — Kumburgaz
|style='background: #ccccff'|
|-
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 199.6
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 124
|style='background: #ccccff'| K14
|style='background: #ccccff'|  — Çatalca
|style='background: #ccccff'|
|-
|rowspan="2"| Esenyurt
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 211.7
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 131.5
|style='background: #ccccff'| K15
|style='background: #ccccff'|  — Hadımköy
|style='background: #ccccff'|
|-
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 223.8
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 139
|style='background: #ccccff'| K16
|style='background: #ccccff'| Avcılar-H.dere connector — Esenyurt
|style='background: #ccccff'|
|-
|| Avcılar
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 226.8
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 140.9
|style='background: #ccccff'| K17
|style='background: #ccccff'| Ispartakule Blv. — Avcılar
|style='background: #ccccff'|
|-
|| Küçükçekmece/Başakşehir
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 234.5
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 145.7
|colspan="3" style='background: #ccccff; text-align:center;'| Mahmutbey Toll Plaza
|-
|rowspan="7"| Bağcılar
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 235.7
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 146.4
|| K18
||  -YSS Bridge, Atatürk International Airport
|connector to the
|-
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 236.8
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 147.1
|style='background: #ffddf4'| -
|style='background: #ffddf4'| Köprü Cd.
|style='background: #ffddf4'| Eastbound exit and entrance only
|-
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 237.3
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 147.4
|style='background: #ffddf4'| -
|style='background: #ffddf4'| Northern Service Rd.
|style='background: #ffddf4'| Westbound exit only
|-
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 237.8
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 147.7
|style='background: #ffddf4'| -
|style='background: #ffddf4'| Mahmutbey Rd.
|style='background: #ffddf4'| Westbound exit only
|-
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 238.4
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 148.1
|| K19
||  (Istanbul 2nd Bltwy) — FSM Bridge, Kozyatağı
||
|-
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 238.7
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 148.3
|style='background: #ffddf4'| -
|style='background: #ffddf4'| Hüseyin Karaaslan Cd.
|style='background: #ffddf4'| Eastbound exit and entrance, westbound entrance
|-
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 239.5
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 148.8
|style='background: #ffddf4'| -
|style='background: #ffddf4'| Matbaacılar Cd. / South Service Rd.
|style='background: #ffddf4'| Eastbound entrance, westbound exit
|-
|rowspan="5"| Esenler
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 240.6
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 149.5
|style='background: #FFDDF4'| -
|style='background: #FFDDF4'| Köyiçi Cd.
|style='background: #FFDDF4'| Eastbound exit, westbound exit
|-
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 240.9
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 149.6
|style='background: #FFDDF4'| -
|style='background: #FFDDF4'| Karaoğlanoğlu Cd.
|style='background: #FFDDF4'| Westbound entrance
|-
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 241.6
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 150.1
|style='background: #FFDDF4'| -
|style='background: #FFDDF4'| Mehmt Akif Ersoy Cd.
|style='background: #FFDDF4'| Eastbound entrance
|-
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 241.8
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 150.2
|style='background: #FFDDF4'| -
|style='background: #FFDDF4'| Atışalanı Cd.
|style='background: #FFDDF4'| Westbound exit
|-
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 242.4
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 150.6
|| K20
|| Metris-Esenler connector
||
|-
|rowspan="5"| Bayrampaşa
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 243.8
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 151.4
|style='background: #FFDDF4'| -
|style='background: #FFDDF4'| 50. Yıl Cd.
|style='background: #FFDDF4'| Westbound exit
|-
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 244.7
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 152
|style='background: #ffddf4'| -
|style='background: #ffddf4'| Ulus Sk.
|style='background: #ffddf4'| Eastbound entrance
|-
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 245
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 152.2
|| -
|| Abdi İpekçi Cd.
||
|-
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 246.4
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 153.1
|| -
||  (Istanbul 1st Bltwy) — Bosphorus Bridge, Kadıköy /  — Bakırköy
||
|-
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 246.9
|style='background: #dcdcdc'| 153.4
|| -
|| Adnan Menderes Blv. — Fatih
|| Transition into Boulevard

See also
 List of motorways in Turkey

References

 Turkish General Directorate of Highways. Turkey road map. 2009.

External links

AH1
03
Transport in Edirne Province
Transport in Kırklareli Province
Transport in Tekirdağ Province
Transport in Istanbul Province
Toll roads in Turkey


"Saturday Nite" is a song by R&B band Earth, Wind & Fire which was issued as a single in 1976 by Columbia Records. The song reached numbers 4 and 21 on Billboard Hot Soul Songs and Hot 100 charts, respectively. "Saturday Nite" also rose to No. 17 on the UK Singles chart - their first hit in the United Kingdom.

Overview
"Saturday Nite" was written by Maurice White with Philip Bailey and Al McKay. The single's b-side is a tune called Departure. Both songs came from EWF's 1976 studio album Spirit.

Critical reception
Blues and Soul called Saturday Nite a "gem". Cashbox noted that "shouting 1,2,3,4 - horns come wailing in followed by a snappy synthesizer. The vocals are full, the group utilizes a  winning variety of vocal styles, funky and smooth".
Music Week also described Saturday Nite as "easy-paced, and much more of a two hander, with the wonderful Maurice White..trading vocals with (Philip) Bailey, while the backing track is powerful and brassy." Record World said it is "in an uptempo groove that is fine for any nite."

Samples
"Saturday Nite" was sampled by the Spice Girls on their 1996 single "Say You'll Be There".

Chart positions

References

External links

1976 singles
Earth, Wind & Fire songs
Songs written by Maurice White
Songs written by Al McKay
Songs written by Philip Bailey
1976 songs
Columbia Records singles
Songs about nights


Xiurenbagrus gigas is a species of catfish of the family Amblycipitidae. For a detailed description of the species (including references), see the article Xiurenbagrus.

Amblycipitidae
Endemic fauna of China
Fish of China
Fish described in 2004


Xiurenbagrus xiurenensis is a species of catfish of the family Amblycipitidae. For a detailed description of the species (including references), see the article Xiurenbagrus.

References

Amblycipitidae
Endemic fauna of China
Fish of China
Fish described in 1981


Radio Moscow is the self-titled debut album by American psychedelic rock band Radio Moscow. Recorded in Akron, Ohio in July 2006, the album was produced by Dan Auerbach and released by Alive Naturalsound Records on February 27, 2007.

Reception

Reviewing Radio Moscow for music website AllMusic, Greg Prato awarded the album three and a half out of five stars, comparing the band to a number of artists from the 1970s, including Ram Jam ("Luckydutch"), The Allman Brothers Band ("Lickskillet") and The Jeff Beck Group ("Mistreating Queen" and "Whatever Happened").

Track listing

Personnel
Radio Moscow
Parker Griggs – vocals, guitars, drums, percussion
Luke McDuff – bass
Additional personnel
Dan Auerbach – production, engineering, slide guitar (track 8)
Chris Keffer – mastering
Anthony Yankovic – artwork

References

Radio Moscow (band) albums
2007 albums
Alive Naturalsound Records albums
Albums produced by Dan Auerbach


The Chattri is a war memorial in the English city of Brighton and Hove. It is sited  above the city on the South Downs above the suburb of Patcham, and is accessible only by bridleway. It stands on the site where 53 (37 Hindu and 16 Sikh) Indian soldiers who fought for the British Empire were cremated during the First World War. The structure has Grade II listed status, reflecting its architectural and historic importance. In  2017, as part of the 100th anniversary of World War I, the site of the Chattri was dedicated as a Fields in Trust Centenary Field because of its local heritage and significance.

Indian soldiers in Brighton
India was part of the British Empire during the First World War, and more than 800,000 Indian soldiers fought for the Allied Powers. During the four years of fighting, thousands of wounded combatants were brought to Britain to be treated in makeshift military hospitals. Three were established in Brighton; one was the town's famous royal palace, the Royal Pavilion. King George V is said to have decreed that Indian soldiers were to be treated at the Pavilion, apparently believing that the flamboyant Indo-Saracenic building would provide familiar surroundings. In December 1914, 345 injured soldiers were transported to Brighton by train and were transferred to the hospitals. The King and Queen, Mayor of Brighton, Chief Constable of Brighton and other dignitaries visited frequently, and careful arrangements were made at the Royal Pavilion to provide for the different dietary and other cultural requirements of Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims.

Although the great majority of soldiers recovered from their injuries, some died. The 21 Muslim men who died were taken to the Shah Jahan Mosque in Woking, Surrey, and buried in accordance with Islamic tradition in a new cemetery. The bodies of 53 Hindus and Sikhs were taken to a remote location high on the South Downs above Brighton, where a ghat (funeral pyre) was built so they could be cremated and their ashes scattered in the English Channel. This funeral rite was again carried out in line with religious custom. In total, 18 men who were treated at the Royal Pavilion died, ten of whom were cremated on the ghat. (The 56 other victims died at the Kitchener Hospital—now Brighton General Hospital—or a temporarily converted school at York Place.)

History of the memorial

In August 1915, soon after the last cremations at the ghat site, a lieutenant in the Indian Medical Service and the Mayor of Brighton, Sir John Otter, planned the establishment of a memorial to the soldiers who had died in Brighton. Lt Das Gupta made the proposal, but Otter took on the project almost single-handedly; after leaving his position as Mayor he chaired Brighton's Indian Memorials Committee. In December 1915 he made a proposal to the India Office for a memorial on the ghat site and another in Brighton town centre; Sir Austen Chamberlain, the Secretary of State for India, agreed this in February 1916. In July of that year, the land on which the ghat stood, and the immediate area around it, was transferred from the Marquess of Abergavenny to the ownership of Brighton County Borough. At the same time, the India Office agreed to share the cost of building and erecting the memorial with Brighton Corporation (the forerunner of the present Brighton and Hove City Council), on the understanding that the Corporation would be responsible for the town centre memorial.

Funds were raised during 1917. After delays caused by the need to dedicate all available resources to the war effort, in April 1918 a building firm, KirkPatrick Brothers of Trafford Park near Manchester, was awarded the contract to build the memorial. The main building material was marble; its arrival from Sicily was delayed by more than a year, but building work started in mid-1920.

A young Indian architect E. C. Henriques from Bombay, who was completing his studies in England designed The Chattri; Sir Samuel Swinton Jacob, an English architect who was responsible for many buildings in India and who helped pioneer the Indo-Saracenic architectural style, provided guidance. Construction work started in August 1920 and continued until the end of that year. Brighton Corporation owned the memorial and took responsibility for its maintenance, and a cottage was provided nearby for a caretaker. This added £1,117 (£ in ) to the final cost of £4,964 (£ in ).

The Chattri was unveiled on 1 February 1921 by Edward, Prince of Wales.

By the mid 1930s, the memorial had fallen into disrepair. The caretaker had died, with nobody replacing him, and the cottage had been demolished. The India Office, which had received many complaints about The Chattri's condition despite the Brighton Corporation having taken full responsibility for its upkeep, liaised with the Corporation and the Imperial War Graves Commission in an attempt to encourage action. Between them, they planned a new maintenance policy and agreed to reduce the amount of surrounding land belonging to the memorial; in 1920 a  area had been created around it. The Second World War intervened, though, and the whole area was hurriedly requisitioned by the Army. By the end of the war, The Chattri was covered with bullet holes, having been used as a target by troops practising their rifle shooting. After the war, the War Office agreed to pay in full for repairs, and The Chattri was restored to its original condition. Starting in 1951, the Royal British Legion undertook annual pilgrimages to the memorial, and also contributed to its upkeep. Although these  pilgrimages ceased in 1999, the Sikh community has led a similar annual ceremony every year since 2000.

The Chattri was listed at Grade II by English Heritage on 20 August 1971. It is one of 1,124 Grade II-listed buildings and structures, and 1,218 listed buildings of all grades, in the city of Brighton and Hove.

Architecture and location

The Chattri was built at the exact location where the funeral pyres were constructed for the cremation of the 53 soldiers. This is a peaceful, isolated  position on the South Downs,  above Brighton and overlooking the city and the sea. The only access to the memorial is from a path off a bridleway between the A27 Brighton Bypass at Patcham and the Clayton Windmills at the top of the Downs. The bridleway, which at that point runs along a ridge between Hogtrough Bottom and Deep Bottom, is part of the Sussex Border Path, and The Chattri is at the northern extremity of the City of Brighton and Hove, on the border with the Mid Sussex district of West Sussex.

White marble from Sicily was used for the body of the memorial. It sits on a plinth of grey stone which stands over three blocks of granite which cover the slabs used during the cremations. The Chattri takes the form of a tall, domed pavilion, rising to  to the finial at its apex. The base is square, and the eight columns carrying the dome start with square bases before becoming octagonal halfway up. The base of the dome is then octagonal. The plinth bears an inscription in English, Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu, the text of which was prepared by Sir John Otter:

Cremation Memorial
The names of the cremated dead are not listed on the Chattri memorial, but were belatedly listed on the Patcham Down Indian Forces' Cremation Memorial, erected in 2010 by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.  Most of the dead had been previously listed on the Indian Memorial at Neuve-Chapelle in France primarily for those missing on the Western Front and eight on the Hollybrook Memorial in Southampton which was primarily for soldiers who died at sea. The CWGC had decided in 2009 that as these men were not "missing" they deserved appropriate commemoration at the site they were cremated. The memorial stands within the grounds beside the lane approaching the Chattri. Its introduction is inscribed, in English, Hindi and Punjabi:

Gallery

See also
Grade II listed buildings in Brighton and Hove: C–D
Lions of the Great War, another memorial dedicated to Indian Soldiers who fought in the First World War.

Notes

Bibliography

External links

Doctor Brighton's Pavilion

Buildings and structures completed in 1920
World War I memorials in England
Brighton
Grade II listed buildings in Brighton and Hove
Grade II listed monuments and memorials
Monuments and memorials in East Sussex
Military of British India


Hart County High School is a four-year public comprehensive high school located in Hartwell, Georgia, United States, serving the students of Hartwell and Hart County. They are known as the home of the Bulldogs.

Notable alumni
 Eddie McCurley (Class of 1976) – former women's basketball coach at Anderson College and Gardner-Webb University; four-time State Champion girls' basketball coach at Hart County, NJCAA National Championship Tournament 1993 (Final Four), 1994; Division II NCAA tournament 1995, 1996
 Kaimon Rucker (Class of 2020) - Linebacker for the North Carolina Tar Heels.
 Tracy Sadler (Class of 1993) – All-American NJCAA, played for University of North Carolina; Miss Georgia basketball 1993; AAA Player of the year all four years; won the state championship 90-93' featured in Sports Illustrateds "Faces In the Crowd".
 Jae Thaxton (Class of 2004) – Former CFL player for the Calgary Stampeders.
 Malachi Thomas (Class of 2021) - Running back for the Virginia Tech Hokies
 Anthony Turner (Class of 2016) - Former wide receiver for Grand View University and NFL free agent.

References

External links
Hart County High School
Hart County School System

Public high schools in Georgia (U.S. state)
Schools in Hart County, Georgia
Hartwell, Georgia
Educational institutions in the United States with year of establishment missing


Dolichamphilius brieni is a species of loach catfish endemic to the Democratic Republic of the Congo where it is found in Pool Malebo.  It reaches a length of .

References

Leptoglanidinae
Fish of Africa
Endemic fauna of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Fish described in 1959
Taxa named by Max Poll


Dolichamphilius longiceps is a species of loach catfish endemic to the Democratic Republic of the Congo where it is found in the Wagenia Rapids on the Lualaba River.  It reaches a length of 4.2 cm.

References

Leptoglanidinae
Fish of Africa
Endemic fauna of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Fish described in 2003


KWBW (1450 kHz) is a commercial AM radio station licensed to Hutchinson, Kansas, and serving Reno County.  The station has a talk radio format and is owned by Eagle Communications.

KWBW is powered at 1,000 watts.  Programming is simulcast on FM translator K253BP at 98.5 MHz.

Programming
KWBW has local news, talk and farm reports on weekday mornings and an hour of news at noon and at 5 p.m.  A tradio program, called the BW Party Line, airs at 10 a.m.  The rest of the weekday schedule is made up of nationally syndicated conservative talk show hosts:  Glenn Beck, Bill O'Reilly, Dave Ramsey, Ben Shapiro, Dennis Prager, Sebastian Gorka and America In The Morning.  World and national news is provided by CBS Radio News. KWBW is also a Kansas City Chiefs and Kansas City Royals affiliate.

Weekends feature shows on home improvement, gardening, cars, pets, technology and religion.  Weekend syndicated hosts include Kim Komando, Gordon Deal and Bill Cunningham.  Some weekend hours feature the CBS Sports Radio Network.  KWBW also broadcasts Hutchinson high school football and basketball games.

History
On May 28, 1935, KWBW first signed on the air.  It was the first radio station to serve the Hutchinson area and featured programming from the NBC Red Network.  During the "Golden Age of Radio," KWBW carried NBC dramas, comedies, news, sports, game shows, soap operas and big band broadcasts.

In the 1950s, as network programming moved to TV, KWBW switched to a middle of the road format of popular music, news, talk and sports.  Over time, as more music listening shifted to FM, KWBW reduced music and increased talk until it made the transition to talk radio.

In 2013, KWBW launched an FM translator at 98.5 MHz for listeners who prefer listening on the FM band.

References

External links

WBW
Talk radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1973
CBS Sports Radio stations
1973 establishments in Kansas


Events in the year 1804 in Norway.

Incumbents
Monarch: Christian VII

Events
6 January - Mathias Bonsach Krogh became the first Bishop of the Diocese of Hålogaland.
 Trondhjems amt was split into two, with the northern part becoming Nordre Trondhjems amt and the southern part becoming Søndre Trondhjems amt.
The first Agdenes Lighthouse was established.

Arts and literature

Births

29 May – Søren Wilhelm Thorne, priest and politician (d. 1878)
6 June – Georg Wallace, politician (d. 1890)
5 July – Anton Theodor Harris, politician (d. 1866)
9 September - Kristoffer Nilsen Svartbækken Grindalen, criminal, killer and thief (d. 1876).
17 September – Hans Biørn Wenneberg, politician (d. 1878)
19 September – Elling Eielsen, minister and Lutheran Church leader in America (d.1883)
20 September – Christopher Henrik Holfeldt Tostrup, timber merchant and land-owner (d. 1881)
12 October – Eskild Bruun, barrister, judge and businessman (d. 1877).
4 November – Peder Balke, painter (d. 1887)
8 November – Hans Eleonardus Møller, politician and businessperson (d.1867)
21 November – Henrik Heftye, businessman and philanthropist (d. 1864)
25 November – Jens Matthias Pram Kaurin, professor of theology, biblical translator, and Lutheran priest (d. 1863).
19 December – Carl Siegfried Bonnevie, naval officer (d. 1856)

Full date unknown
Paulus Flood, merchant and politician (d.1847)
Jens Christian Folkman Schaanning, politician
Jacob Worm Skjelderup, politician and Minister (d.1863)
Hans Biørn Wenneberg, politician

Deaths
17 March – Hans Tank, skipper, merchant and endowment founder (b. 1742).
29 June – Halvor Blinderen, farmer (born 1733).
4 December – Jens Holmboe, bailiff (b. 1752)

Full date unknown
Kristofer Sjursson Hjeltnes, farmer and businessperson (b.1730)

See also

References


HAV Eiendom AS is a stock-based company that is responsible for the urban redevelopment of the Bjørvika area of Oslo, Norway. Owned by the Oslo Port Authority, the former owner of the Bjørvika area, the company's goal is to "participate in the urban development of the Bjørvika area through development, rental, management, purchase and sale of real estate in the Bjørvika area". HAV Eiendom also has ownership interests in companies that run similar businesses and own 66 percent of Bjørvika Utvikling AS, which owns 100 percent of Bjørvika Infrastruktur AS. The company is also a minority owner of housing development in Bjørvika. The company was founded on 7 April 2003, in order to create a sustainable fjord city in Bjørvika and to make value for Oslo, the harbour, and society.

The foundation was dependent on a change in the law in acts relating to harbors and fairways (§ 23).

The company owns most of the real estate in Bjørvika, though parts have been sold to Statsbygg to build the Oslo Opera House. As of 2009, the company retains  of land, and is able to develop  of real estate. This includes the possibility of 5,000 apartments, in addition to commercial buildings and several of the countries largest cultural institutions, including the Stenersen Museum, the Munch Museum and Oslo Public Library. About 20,000 jobs will be located to Bjørvika. Most of the development will begin after 2010, when the Bjørvika Tunnel opens and the European Route E18 north of Bjørvika, including Bispelokket, is removed. The development of Sørengautstikkeren, a peninsula that sticks out form Bjørvika, has been sold to a private company, Sørenga Utvikling.

Along with Oslo S Utvikling, that will develop real estate on property owned by Bane NOR Eiendom in the north of Bjørvika, HAV Eiendom owns Bjørvika Utvikling. This company is responsible for overall planning and the development of infrastructure and public areas in Bjørvika. Since 2003 HAV Eiendom has given their owner Oslo Porth Authority 900 million Norwegian kroner in dividends, used to develop modern and more sustainable harbor activities.

With 900,000 square meters (9,600,000 sq ft) floor area of which 400,000 square meters (4,300,000 sq ft) is living space - which equals 5000 apartments - the zoning plan opens for building in the area of Bjørvika. Clemenskvartalet and C6 is amongst the housing projects that HAV Eiendom is developing in Bjørvika. In 2022 HAV Eiendom will present the new plans for developing Grønlikaia for approval. The plans consist of developing more than 200,000 square meters (2,100,000 sq ft) – primarily for apartments. In addition, the aim is to open a one-kilometer new seafront for the public.

HAV Eiendom has and will continue to develop more projects for industries in Bjørvika. This includes office spaces, hospitality, and other service provisions like Fiskebrygga, Sadelmakerhullet, and Sukkerbiten. HAV Eiendom will also build a primary and secondary school, Bjørvika school, scheduled for completion in 2023.

The development of HAV Eiendom’s properties in Bjørvika will extend over several years. The progress is coordinated with Oslo Porth Authority’s adopted plan on moving the port operations away from the area.

References

External links

 Official website

Companies based in Oslo
Real estate companies established in 2003
Fjord City


Dark Realm is an anthology series hosted by Eric Roberts. The series aired in syndication in the United States for a total of 13 episodes, from May to December 2001.

Episodes
 "Castle Keep" - A love triangle between students and a professor on an archaeological dig turns deadly as they conduct a dig in a haunted castle. This episode features Miranda Raison.
 "She's the One" - A man tries to rescue his beauty-obsessed girlfriend from undergoing extensive plastic surgery at a sinister spa.
 "Organizer 2000" - After causing an accident that kills his long-time crush, a young man is given an electronic organizer that takes him back in time to experience scenes from his life with her.
 "Party On" - Two brothers looking for a party stumble into purgatory.
 "Exposure" - A ruthless investment banker makes a deal with the Devil.
 "Skin Deep" - An innocent young woman undergoes a personality change after being bitten by a were-tiger.
 "See No Evil" - A genuine crystal ball makes business boom for a phony psychic.
 "The Housesitter" - A college student housesitting for a cranky woman finds the situation getting out of control as she copes with mysterious warnings, odd neighbors, and an escaped killer who seems to be filling the local park with body parts. Featuring Christina Cox and Peter Guinness.
 "Johnny's Guitar" - A struggling musician discovers the secret — and the curse — behind a music legend when he inherits the man's demonic instrument. The episode featured Def Leppard singer Joe Elliott, and Corey Feldman.
 "Murder One" - A lawyer finds himself in the middle of a nest of vampires when he joins a local law firm.
 "Emma's Boy" - A couple expecting their first child pays a visit to the wife's ancestral land and encounters evil.
 "Blackout (Part 1)" - An amnesiac takes his new bride to visit his childhood home, but a stranger with a terribly familiar face leads to an argument between the newlyweds.
 "Blackout (Part 2)" - Brad's shocking recollection has landed him in jail for murder, but his suspicions are aroused when he realizes that no one around him is who they claim to be.

Syndication
Dark Realm aired on the Chiller network in the United States in 2009.

References

External links

2001 American television series debuts
2001 American television series endings
2000s American horror television series
First-run syndicated television programs in the United States
English-language television shows
Television series by Warner Bros. Television Studios
2000s American anthology television series
2000s Canadian anthology television series
French anthology television series
Canadian horror fiction television series
French horror fiction television series
Fiction about purgatory


Apistogramma taeniata is a small freshwater fish from the lower Tapajós River basin in Brazil.
It is a dwarf cichlid.

References

taeniata
Fish described in 1862
Taxa named by Albert Günther


Showcase is a North American retail company specializing in emerging trends in health, beauty, home, and toys. It has won Canada's Best Managed Companies 3 years running in 2021, 2022, and 2023 and the RCC Excellence in Retailing Omni-Channel Award in 2022. There are 150 locations in malls across Canada and the USA, an e-commerce portal called ShopAtShowcase.com, and  stated that it was expanding in the US.

History

The first Showcase store was opened in 1994 in the Meadowlark Centre in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.  At the turn of the 21st century the company opened an average of five stores per year.  At this time, the company was primarily franchise-based, and modeled primarily as an infomercial outlet store.

Starting in 2003, the company redesigned stores and began to launch proprietary product lines such as Dream Away, Quantum, and Kyoto and expanded beyond infomercial boundaries, and officially adopted the name "Showcase".

Brands

Showcase sells health, beauty, home, toy, tech, and food products popularised on social media platforms including TikTok, Facebook, and Instagram. The company updated its store design and branding to "The Home of the Hottest Trends". A store with the new design and branding was opened in Sherway Gardens in 2018, followed by Toronto Eaton Centre in 2021, and Woodfield Mall in Chicago in 2022.

According to the Corporate Overview on the company's website it intended to open 100 US stores by 2024.  Ten pilot stores opened in the Northeast in 2018-19, including King Of Prussia outside of Philadelphia, with locations in Connecticut, Delaware, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania, followed by 31 more stores across the USA in 2022.

In May 2021 and in 2022 Showcase was named one of Canada's Best Managed Companies for 2021 in a program sponsored by Deloitte and Canadian Business.

COVID-19 response

In March 2020 Showcase started retailing personal protective equipment (PPE).  It was declared an essential service in most parts of Canada, and stayed open nation-wide during Canada's lockdowns  from March to June 2020. Showcase received a COVID-19 Site License and a Medical Device Establishment License from Health Canada.

Media

Showcase has been covered on:

Corporate

 Canadian Business - Best Managed Companies 2021
CBC interview with Samir Kulkarni - The digitization of infomercials
Voice of Retail Podcast interview with Samir Kulkarni
ICSC.org, “U.S. a big draw for international retailers eager to expand”
 Inc. magazine, “7 Ways to Spot Trends From the Man Who Turned Trendhunting Into Retail Gold”
 Brampton Board of Trade 2018 Business Excellence Award (Retail) - Winner
 2018 Deloitte Best Managed Companies – Finalist
 2017 Global Innovation Awards YPO/YPO Gold – Top 10 Finalist
 Brampton Board of Trade 2016 Business Excellence Award (Teamwork) - Finalist
 Brampton Board of Trade 2016 Business Excellence Award (Innovation) - Finalist
 Yale University Entrepreneurship Lecture, 2015
 Yale University Strategic Communication Lecture, 2015
 BNN Interview, 2014

Consumer

 CTV News on Jan 29 2021
Global News on Jan 22 2021
CTV News on Jan 13 2021
CTV News on Dec 16 2020
Buzzfeed on Dec 8 2020
CHCH Morning Live on May 31, 2018
 CHCH Hamilton on December 20, 2017
 CTV Calgary on December 20, 2017
 CTV Winnipeg on December 20, 2017
 CTV News on December 18, 2017
 CHCH Morning Live on December 14, 2017
 CTV Morning Live on November 30, 2017
 CTV Halifax Morning Live on November 24, 2017
 CTV Ottawa Morning Live on November 23, 2017
 Global Calgary on November 21, 2017
 CTV Calgary at Noon on November 21, 2017
 CTV News Vancouver on November 19, 2017
 CTV Morning Live on November 16, 2017
Breakfast Television on December 24, 2010
A-Channel Victoria on December 16, 2010
Global Television on December 2, 2008
Breakfast Television on November 25, 2008
CityNews on December 24, 200
Breakfast Television on December 17, 2007
Global Morning Show on December 14, 2007
Global News on December 6, 2007
Toronto Star on January 7, 2006

Proprietary brands

Showcase owns various proprietary brands that sell in-store and online including:

 Gravity Blade - hoverboards and electric scooters
 Squishies - slow-rising foam toys
 Hidden Gems - jewellery candles and bath bombs
 Dream Away - bedding and weighted blankets
 Cloud9 - super-soft leisurewear and bedding
 Quantum - health and fitness
 Kyoto - eco-friendly products
 Esencia - aromatherapy and essential oils
 EcoTerra - eco-friendly products
 Peplos - shapewear and hair extensions

Trademarks

Canada
The trade name Showcase, As Seen on TV Showcase, TV Showcase, "The Best of As Seen on TV and more!" and its variants are trademarked in Canada. Trademarks include:

Showcase The Best of As Seen on TV and more

The best of as-seen-on-TV and more!

TV Showcase Products and Demonstration Stores

As Seen on TV Showcase

The Best of As Seen on TV and more!

As Seen on TV Showcase and Products and Demonstration Stores

Cloud 9 by Dream Away (design)

Cloud 9 by Dream Away (words)

Kyoto Environmental

Dream Away (design)

Dream Away (words)

Kyoto Environmental

Why dream when you can Dream Away?

You Saw It on TV

Don’t Just Dream … Dream Away!

Eco Savvy

Quantum (design)

Quantum (words)

Squishies (words)

Slow Rise Squishies (words)

United States

Showcase has registered, or applied for, various trademarks with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, as follows:

Showcase

Showcase The Best of As Seen on TV and more!

The Best of As Seen on TV and more!

Kyoto Environmental

Cloud 9 by Dream Away

Kyoto Environmental Eco Savvy

Quantum

References

External links

  Showcase on Global Television, December 2, 2008
  Showcase on Breakfast Television, November 25, 2008
  Showcase on CityNews, December 24, 2007
  Showcase on Global Morning Show, December 14, 2007
  Infomercial Ratings, a product review site

Retail companies of Canada
Retail companies established in 1994


Psammphiletria delicata is a species of loach catfish endemic to Pool Malebo.  It grows to a length of 2.0 cm.

References

Leptoglanidinae
Fish described in 2003
Taxa named by Tyson R. Roberts
Endemic fauna of the Democratic Republic of the Congo


Psammphiletria nasuta is a species of loach catfish endemic to the Central African Republic where it is found in the Ubangui River.  It grows to a length of 2.3 cm.

References

Leptoglanidinae
Endemic fauna of the Central African Republic
Fish described in 2003
Taxa named by Tyson R. Roberts


Dominique Giovanni "Nic" Wise (born September 8, 1987) is an American professional basketball player who last played for KB Peja of the Siguria Superleague.

High school

At Kingwood High School, Nic Wise was a two-year letterwinner.  He played his freshmen Highschool year at Cinco Ranch in Katy.  The following year, he played under his father at Hightower Highschool.  His highschool junior year he then went to Westfield Highschool and quickly left when playing time may be in question.  He then transferred to Kingwood High School and finished his career with a record of 131–23 (.851)—the most wins by any player in Texas Class 5A history. He averaged 19.0 points, 8.0 assists, 6.0 rebounds, and 4.0 steals per contest. Wise led Kingwood to the Texas Class 5A State Championship game in two straight years, which resulted in a state title to finish his junior year by defeating DeSoto High School, and a loss in his senior year in an overtime game to Plano Senior High School. He was ranked the 26th best high school prospect and the 4th best point guard in the nation by Bob Gibbons's All-Star sports Top 100.

Collegiate career
Nic Wise played four years for the Arizona Wildcats. During his junior year, Wise was named to the All-Pac-10 Second Team. In his senior campaign, Wise was selected to the All-Pac-10 First Team and the NABC All District 20 Team.

Professional career
In July 2010, Wise was signed by the Telekom Baskets Bonn of Germany for the 2010–11 season.

In August 2011 he signed a one-year deal with STB Le Havre of the LNB Pro A.

On July 12, 2012, he signed with Juvecaserta Basket of Italy. On October 16, 2012, he parted ways with Juvecaserta after playing only three games in Serie A. In January 2013, he signed with Rosa Radom of the Polish Basketball League for the rest of the 2012–13 season.

In August 2013, he signed with Akhisar Belediye of the Turkish Basketball Second League.

On March 1, 2015, he signed with KB Peja of the Siguria Superleague.

NCAA career statistics

|-
| align="left" | 2006-07
| align="left" | Arizona
| 22 || ... || 8.2 || .255 || .233 || .688 || .5 || .5 || .3 || 0.0 || 1.9
|-
| align="left" | 2007-08
| align="left" | Arizona
| 27 || ... || 29.4 || .451 || .481 || .768 || 2.3 || 4.4 || 2.0 || 0.1 || 9.2
|-
| align="left" | 2008-09
| align="left" | Arizona
| 35 || ... || 36.4 || .452 || .415 || . 848 || 2.5 || 4.6 || 1.5 || 0.1 || 15.7
|-
| align="left" | 2009-10
| align="left" | Arizona
| 31 || ... || 32.9 || .386 || .360 || .878 || 3.3 || 3.3 || 1.7 || 0.1 || 14.4

Source:

References

External links
 Eurobasket.com Profile
 FIBA.com Profile

1987 births
Living people
American expatriate basketball people in France
American expatriate basketball people in Germany
American expatriate basketball people in Italy
American expatriate basketball people in Kosovo
American expatriate basketball people in Turkey
American men's basketball players
Arizona Wildcats men's basketball players
Basketball players from Houston
İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi B.K. players
Juvecaserta Basket players
KB Peja players
Point guards
Rosa Radom players
STB Le Havre players
Telekom Baskets Bonn players


Winson may refer to:

Winson Engineering, British manufacturer of narrow gauge and miniature railway steam locomotives and rolling stock during the 1990s
Winson (cyclecar)
Winson, Gloucestershire, village in England
Winson Hudson (1916–2004), civil rights activist born and raised in Harmony, Mississippi

See also
Winson Green, loosely defined inner-city area in the west of the city of Birmingham, England


F.W. Johnson Collegiate is a high school situated in the Glencairn neighbourhood of east Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. A part of Regina Public Schools, the school was named after Frederick W. Johnson, the 16th lieutenant governor of Saskatchewan. The school's academic program operates based on a differentiated instruction model.

Johnson's 600 students hail primarily from the Glencairn area of the city. It currently has four main feeder schools: Dr. George Ferguson School, Glen Elm School, Henry Braun School and Judge Bryant School.

Affiliated communities
 Glencairn (pop. 12,820)
 Glen Elm (pop. 3,235)

Notable alumni
 Jamie Heward, retired NHL defenceman
 Shiloh, singer

References

External links
F.W. Johnson Collegiate

High schools in Regina, Saskatchewan
Educational institutions established in 1985
1985 establishments in Saskatchewan


Grant Township is one of the thirteen townships of Sherman County, Kansas, United States.  The population was 115 at the 2000 census.

Geography
Located in the northwestern corner of the county, along the Colorado border, it borders the following townships:
Jaqua Township, Cheyenne County — north, west of Benkelman Township
Benkelman Township, Cheyenne County — north, east of Jaqua Township
Wano Township, Cheyenne County — northeast
Voltaire Township — east
Logan Township — southeastern corner
Lincoln Township — south
Stateline Township — southwest
Kit Carson County lies across the Colorado border to the west.

It lies northwest of the county seat of Goodland.  There are no communities in the township.

Several intermittent headwaters of Beaver Creek, a tributary of the Republican River, are located in Grant Township.

Transportation
Only local roads are located in Grant Township.  A small airport, Wright International Airport, lies in the township's southwest.

Government
As an active township, Grant Township is governed by a three-member board, composed of the township trustee, the township treasurer, and the township clerk.  The trustee acts as the township executive.

References

External links
County website

Townships in Sherman County, Kansas
Townships in Kansas


Iowa Township is one of the thirteen townships of Sherman County, Kansas, United States.  The population was 44 at the 2000 census.

Geography
Located in the southeastern corner of the county, it borders the following townships:
Washington Township — north
Union Township — northeast
Kingery Township, Thomas County — east
McAllester Township, Logan County — southeast
Wallace Township, Wallace County — south
Smoky Township — west
Itasca Township — northwestern corner
It lies southeast of the county seat of Goodland.  There are no communities in the township.

The north fork of the Smoky Hill River flows through the southwestern part of Iowa Township, and the source of the south fork of the Solomon River is located in the northeastern part of the township.

Transportation
Only local roads are located in Iowa Township.

Government
Iowa Township is currently inactive; by Kansas law, when a township becomes inactive, its powers and duties revert to the county government.

References

External links
County website

Townships in Sherman County, Kansas
Townships in Kansas


Itasca Township is one of the thirteen townships of Sherman County, Kansas, United States.  The population was 321 at the 2000 census.

Geography
Located in the center of the county, it borders the following townships:
Voltaire Township — north
Washington Township — east
Iowa Township — southeastern corner
Smoky Township — south
Logan Township — west
It lies south of the county seat of Goodland.  While part of Goodland lies within the township's original boundaries, the city is not part of the township.  There are no communities in the township proper.

The intermittent source of the south fork of Sappa Creek is located in Itasca Township.

Transportation
Interstate 70 and U.S. Route 24 run east–west through Itasca Township, while its western border with Logan Township is occupied by the north–south K-27.  A small airport lies in the northern part of the township.  A railroad line also travels east–west through Itasca Township, just north of the interstate.

Government
As an active township, Itasca Township is governed by a three-member board, composed of the township trustee, the township treasurer, and the township clerk.  The trustee acts as the township executive.

References

External links
County website

Townships in Sherman County, Kansas
Townships in Kansas


Lincoln Township is one of the thirteen townships of Sherman County, Kansas, United States.  The population was 95 at the 2000 census.

Geography
Located in the western part of the county, it borders the following townships:
Grant Township — north
Voltaire Township — northeastern corner
Logan Township — east
Smoky Township — southeast
McPherson Township — south
Stateline Township — west
It lies west of the county seat of Goodland.  There are no cities in the township, although the unincorporated community of Ruleton lies in the center of the township.

Intermittent headwaters of Beaver Creek, a tributary of the Republican River, flow through Lincoln Township.

Transportation
Interstate 70 and U.S. Route 24 travel east–west through Lincoln Township.  A railroad line also travels east–west through Lincoln Township, just north of the interstate.

Government
Lincoln Township is currently inactive; by Kansas law, when a township becomes inactive, its powers and duties revert to the county government.

References

External links
County website

Townships in Sherman County, Kansas
Townships in Kansas


Llanos Township is one of the thirteen townships of Sherman County, Kansas, United States.  The population was 43 at the 2000 census.

Geography
Located in the northeastern corner of the county, it borders the following townships:
Bird City Township, Cheyenne County — north
Rocewood Township, Rawlins County — northeast
Barrett Township, Thomas County — east
West Hale Township, Thomas County — southeast
Union Township — south
Washington Township — southwestern corner
Shermanville Township — west
It lies northwest of the county seat of Goodland.  There are no communities in the township.

The intermittent Sappa and Beaver creeks flow through Llanos Township.

Transportation
Only local roads are located in Llanos Township.

Government
As an active township, Llanos Township is governed by a three-member board, composed of the township trustee, the township treasurer, and the township clerk.  The trustee acts as the township executive.

References

External links
County website

Townships in Sherman County, Kansas
Townships in Kansas


Logan Township is one of the thirteen townships of Sherman County, Kansas, United States.  The population was 246 at the 2000 census.

Geography
Located in the center of the county, it borders the following townships:
Voltaire Township — north
Itasca Township — east
Smoky Township — south
Lincoln Township — west
Grant Township — northwestern corner
It lies west of the county seat of Goodland.  While part of Goodland lies within the township's original boundaries, the city is not part of the township. There are no communities in the township proper.

Several intermittent headwaters of Beaver and Sappa creeks flow through Logan Township.

Transportation
Interstate 70 and U.S. Route 24 travel east–west through Logan Township, and K-27 runs north–south along the border with Itasca Township.Interstate 70 and U.S. Route 24 travel east–west through the township.  A railroad line also travels east–west through Logan Township, just north of the interstate.

Government
As an active township, Logan Township is governed by a three-member board, composed of the township trustee, the township treasurer, and the township clerk.  The trustee acts as the township executive.

References

External links
County website

Townships in Sherman County, Kansas
Townships in Kansas


McPherson Township is one of the thirteen townships of Sherman County, Kansas, United States.  The population was 52 at the 2000 census.

Geography
Located in the southwestern corner of the county, along the Colorado border, it borders the following townships:
Stateline Township — north
Lincoln Township — northeast
Smoky Township — east
Sharon Springs Township, Wallace County — southeast
Weskan Township, Wallace County — southwest
Kit Carson County lies across the Colorado border to the west.

It lies southwest of the county seat of Goodland.  There are no communities in the township.

The north fork of the Smoky Hill River flows through McPherson Township.

Transportation
Only local roads are located in McPherson Township.

Government
As an active township, McPherson Township is governed by a three-member board, composed of the township trustee, the township treasurer, and the township clerk.  The trustee acts as the township executive.

References

External links
County website

Townships in Sherman County, Kansas
Townships in Kansas


Shermanville Township is one of the thirteen townships of Sherman County, Kansas, United States.  The population was 51 at the 2000 census.

Geography
Located in the northern part of the county, it borders the following townships:
Bird City Township, Cheyenne County — north
Llanos Township — east
Union Township — southeastern corner
Washington Township — south
Voltaire Township — west
It lies northeast of the county seat of Goodland.  There are no communities in the township.

The intermittent Sappa and Beaver creeks flow through Shermanville Township.

Transportation
Only local roads are located in Shermanville Township.

Government
Shermanville Township is currently inactive; by Kansas law, when a township becomes inactive, its powers and duties revert to the county government.

References

External links
County website

Townships in Sherman County, Kansas
Townships in Kansas


Smoky Township is one of the thirteen townships of Sherman County, Kansas, United States.  The population was 87 at the 2000 census.

Geography
Located in the southern part of the county, it borders the following townships:
Logan Township — north, west of Itasca Township
Itasca Township — north, east of Logan Township
Washington Township — northeastern corner
Iowa Township — east
Wallace Township, Wallace County — southeast
Sharon Springs Township, Wallace County — south
McPherson Township — west
Lincoln Township — northwest
It lies south of the county seat of Goodland.  There are no communities in the township.

The north fork of the Smoky Hill River flows through Smoky Township.  The Sherman Wildlife Area, with areas devoted to hunting and camping, is centered on a lake in the western part of the township, where the river is dammed.

Transportation
K-27, a north–south highway, is the only significant road in Smoky Township.

Government
Smoky Township is currently inactive; by Kansas law, when a township becomes inactive, its powers and duties revert to the county government.

References

External links
County website

Townships in Sherman County, Kansas
Townships in Kansas


Stateline Township is one of the thirteen townships of Sherman County, Kansas, United States.  The population was 344 at the 2000 census.

Geography
Located in the western part of the county, along the Colorado border, Stateline borders the following townships:
Grant Township — north
Lincoln Township — east
McPherson Township — south
Kit Carson County lies across the Colorado border to the west.

It lies west of the county seat of Goodland. The city of Kanorado is located in the western part of the township, on the Colorado state line.  As of 2000, 248 of the township's residents lived in Kanorado; the rest of the township had 96 residents.

Several intermittent headwaters of Beaver Creek, a tributary of the Republican River, flow through Stateline Township.

Transportation
Interstate 70 and U.S. Route 24 travel east–west through Stateline Township, and the short K-267 connects Kanorado with Interstate 70.  A small airport, Hall Farms Airport, is located in the southern part of the township.  A railroad line also travels east–west through Stateline Township, just north of the interstate.

Government
As an active township, Stateline Township is governed by a three-member board, composed of the township trustee, the township treasurer, and the township clerk.  The trustee acts as the township executive.

References

External links
 County website

Townships in Sherman County, Kansas
Townships in Kansas


Voltaire Township is one of the thirteen townships of Sherman County, Kansas, United States.  The population was 252 at the 2000 census.

Geography
Located in the northern part of the county, it borders the following townships:
Wano Township, Cheyenne County — north
Bird City Township, Cheyenne County — northeast
Shermanville Township — east
Washington Township — southeast
Itasca Township — south, east of Logan Township
Logan Township — south, west of Itasca Township
Lincoln Township — southwestern corner
Grant Township — west
The largest township in Sherman County, it lies north of the county seat of Goodland.  While part of Goodland lies within the township's original boundaries, the city is not part of the township.  There are no communities in the township proper.

Some intermittent headwaters of Beaver Creek, a tributary of the Republican River, flow through Voltaire Township.

Transportation
K-27, a north–south highway, is the only significant road in Voltaire Township.  Goodland Municipal Airport, a general aviation field, lies in the southern part of the township, near Goodland.

Government
As an active township, Voltaire Township is governed by a three-member board, composed of the township trustee, the township treasurer, and the township clerk.  The trustee acts as the township executive.

References

External links
County website

Townships in Sherman County, Kansas
Townships in Kansas


Union Township is one of the thirteen townships of Sherman County, Kansas, United States.  The population was 56 at the 2000 census.

Geography
Located in the eastern part of the county, it borders the following townships:
Llanos Township — north
West Hale Township, Thomas County — northeast
Kingery Township, Thomas County — southeast
Iowa Township — south
Washington Township — west
Shermanville Township — northwestern corner
It lies east of the county seat of Goodland.  There are no communities in the township.

Several intermittent headwaters of Sappa Creek flow through Union Township.

Transportation
Interstate 70 and U.S. Route 24 run concurrently east–west through Union Township.  A railroad line also travels east–west through Union Township, just north of the interstate.

Government
Union Township is currently inactive; by Kansas law, when a township becomes inactive, its powers and duties revert to the county government.

References

External links
County website

Townships in Sherman County, Kansas
Townships in Kansas


Washington Township is one of the thirteen townships of Sherman County, Kansas, United States.  The population was 106 at the 2000 census.

Geography
Located in the eastern part of the county, it borders the following townships:
Shermanville Township — north
Llanos Township — northeastern corner
Union Township — east
Iowa Township — south
Smoky Township — southwestern corner
Itasca Township — west
Voltaire Township — northwest
It lies east of the county seat of Goodland.  There are no cities in the township, although the unincorporated community of Edson lies in the center of the township.

Several intermittent headwaters of Sappa Creek flow through Washington Township.

Transportation
Interstate 70 and U.S. Route 24 run concurrently east–west through Washington Township.  The small K-253 connects Edson with the interstate.  A railroad line also travels east–west through Washington Township, just north of the interstate.

Government
As an active township, Washington Township is governed by a three-member board, composed of the township trustee, the township treasurer, and the township clerk.  The trustee acts as the township executive.

References

External links
County website

Townships in Sherman County, Kansas
Townships in Kansas


IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey, or Wings of Prey on Windows, is a combat flight simulation video game. As with previous installments of the series IL-2 Sturmovik, it depicts combat aircraft from World War II, although with less focus on realistic simulation than other entries in the series. The game has a campaign mode in which players are able to fly the Allies against the Axis, and also a multiplayer mode in which they are able to select either faction. A demo of the game launched on the PSN and Xbox 360's Xbox Live on 29 July 2009.

Birds of Prey is based around the large-scale aerial combat and ground military operations of World War II. Players can participate in some of the war's most famous battles, piloting fighters, attack aircraft and heavy bombers across a range of missions. There are six theatres of war to engage in: Battle of Britain, Stalingrad, Berlin, Sicily, Korsun and the Battle of the Bulge, representing the main airborne battles of World War II in Europe.

Birds of Prey has a new damage effects engine. Players can see real-time damage to the aircraft such as holes in the wings and trail lines during dog fights. IL-2 Sturmovik: Birds of Prey features hundreds of aircraft taking part in air battles. The environmental engine also produces high-detail, realistic landscapes that allow players to easily see ground support actions.

The game was developed by Gaijin Entertainment, who subsequently developed Birds of Steel, also exclusively for consoles. Birds of Steel shares many traits with Birds of Prey (including HUD, aircraft models, controls, and menu design) but differentiates itself by concentrating primarily on US–Japanese aerial battles of the Pacific theater.

Reception

On the release, home console and Windows versions were met with positive reception, while versions for portable consoles received mixed to negative critical reception. GameRankings and Metacritic gave it 80.71% and 80 out of 100 for the Xbox 360 version; 79.82% and 81 out of 100 for the PlayStation 3 version; 79.55% and 78 out of 100 for the Windows version; 60% and 63 out of 100 for the PSP version; and 42.25% and 41 out of 100 for the DS version.

References

External links

Gaijin Entertainment homepage

2009 video games
1C Company games
Battle of Britain video games
Nintendo DS games
PlayStation 3 games
PlayStation Portable games
Video games scored by Jeremy Soule
Video games developed in Russia
Video games set in the United Kingdom
Video games set in England
Windows games
World War II flight simulation video games
Xbox 360 games
Video games about the Battle of the Bulge
Video games set in the Soviet Union
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Iceberg Interactive games
505 Games games
Gaijin Entertainment games
Works about the Battle of Berlin
Works about the Battle of Stalingrad


Thomas T. Hayward (born Thomas Albert Tibbett; December 1, 1917, Kansas City, Missouri – died February 2, 1995, Las Vegas, Nevada) was an American operatic tenor. He was a cousin of opera singer Lawrence Tibbett.

Career

The lyric tenor made his debut with the New York City Opera in November 1944, as Edmondo in Giacomo Puccini's Manon Lescaut, opposite Dorothy Kirsten in the title role.

In 1945 and 1946, he was seen there as Turiddu in Cavalleria rusticana and in The Gypsy Baron. Soon after his City Opera debut, he won the Metropolitan Opera Auditions of the Air along with baritone Robert Merrill. Immediately following, Hayward was first seen in his many appearances at the Metropolitan Opera, his debut being the part of Tybalt in Roméo et Juliette.

More notable roles at the Met included the Italian Singer in Der Rosenkavalier, Alfred in Die Fledermaus (with Hilde Gueden and Virginia MacWatters), the name part in Faust, "B.F. Pinkerton" in Madama Butterfly, opposite the "Cio Cio San" of Victoria de los Angeles and the Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto. His additional duties at the Met included being the principal cover for Jussi Bjoerling.  His final opera at that theatre was Mario Cavaradossi in Tosca, in 1957.  In 1959, he returned to the City Opera, for Die Fledermaus, conducted by Julius Rudel. In 1963, Hayward appeared in a production by Sarah Caldwell for the Boston Opera Group of Faust, with Beverly Sills and Norman Treigle,

Concert stage

He performed to highest critical acclaim in over 400 civic concerts and appeared with every major symphony orchestra in the United States and Canada. His performances on open-air stages included the Hollywood Bowl, Chicago's Grant Park, Denver's Red Rocks, New York's Lewisohn Stadium, Jones Beach Marine Theater starring Hayward in the opening cast as "Mario" in the show that was the operetta A Night in Venice by Johann Strauss II (produced by film producer Mike Todd, complete with floating gondolas and starring Enzo Stuarti and Nola Fairbanks at the newly constructed Jones Beach Theater/), the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera and the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera

Radio and television
For many years he was the star of his own radio show Serenade to America broadcast from New York City on the NBC network. He was in demand as a guest star on The Voice of Firestone, The Bell Telephone Hour, The Ford Sunday Evening Hour, Producers' Showcase, NBC Symphony, Omnibus, and The Milton Berle Show. His debut abroad was at the Palladium in London where he was a featured guest artist at the gala and was invited to perform on Val Parnell's programme, Sunday Night at the London Palladium

Recordings
Hayward's studio discography includes RCA, Victor, Cambridge, Everest and Decca in addition to two recordings for CBS: Pagliacci (as Beppe, opposite Lucine Amara, Richard Tucker and Giuseppe Valdengo (1951), and Lucia di Lammermoor (as Lord Arturo Bucklaw, with Lily Pons and Richard Tucker, 1954). Both albums were conducted by Fausto Cleva. In 1998, Video Artists International published a compact disc of excerpts from a 1958 performance of La traviata, from New Orleans, Louisiana, with Kirsten and Cornell MacNeil, which displays the voice in his prime.

Teaching career and legacy
In 1964, Hayward left New York for Dallas, Texas, where he became Artist-in-Residence and Chairman of the Voice and Opera Departments of the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University. He was further honored by being named the Meadows Distinguished Professor of Voice in 1990, and soon after his death in 1995 the establishment of the Thomas Hayward Memorial Award.

Notable protégés
Fernando del Valle
Donnie Ray Albert
Gary Lakes
Jeff Harnar
Jay Hunter Morris

Death
Hayward continued teaching in Dallas until 1994. He died on February 2, 1995, from kidney and heart failure, when he and his wife moved to Nevada.

References

External links

 Thomas Hayward in an excerpt from I Pagliacci, youtube.com; accessed October 29, 2016.

1917 births
1995 deaths
20th-century American educators
American operatic tenors
Deaths from kidney failure
Decca Records artists
Musicians from Kansas City, Missouri
RCA Records artists
Southern Methodist University faculty
Texas classical music
Voice teachers
20th-century American male opera singers
Singers from Missouri
Winners of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions
Classical musicians from Missouri
Winners of the Metropolitan Opera Auditions of the Air


Tetracamphilius angustifrons is a species of loach catfish found in the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo where it occurs in the Ubangui River. It grows to a length of 3.9 cm and has a relatively elongate snout with an enlarged olfactory organ.

References

Leptoglanidinae
Freshwater fish of Africa
Fish of the Central African Republic
Fish of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Fish described in 1902
Taxa named by George Albert Boulenger


Sergei Alekseyevich Golyatkin (; born 4 May 1988) is a Russian former footballer.

He made his debut in the Russian Premier League in 2007 for FC Rubin Kazan.

External links

1988 births
People from Lukhovitsky District
Living people
Russian men's footballers
Men's association football defenders
Russian Premier League players
Russian expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Poland
Russian expatriate sportspeople in Poland
Expatriate men's footballers in Belarus
FC Rubin Kazan players
FC Vityaz Podolsk players
FC Tom Tomsk players
FC Chernomorets Novorossiysk players
FC SKA-Khabarovsk players
Polonia Warsaw players
FC Tyumen players
FC Granit Mikashevichi players
FC Slutsk players
FC Neftekhimik Nizhnekamsk players
Footballers from Moscow Oblast


In United States patent law, an article of manufacture (also termed a manufacture) is one of the four principal categories of things that may be patented. The other three are a process (also termed a method), a machine, and a composition of matter. In United States patent law, that same terminology has been in use since the first patent act in 1790 (with the exception that processes were formerly termed "arts").

In In re Nuitjen, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said:

 The Supreme Court has defined "manufacture" (in its verb form) as "the production of articles for use from raw or prepared materials by giving to these materials new forms, qualities, properties, or combinations, whether by hand-labor or by machinery." Diamond v. Chakrabarty, 447 U.S. 303, 308 (1980) (quoting American Fruit Growers, Inc. v. Brogdex Co., 283 U.S. 1, 11 (1931). The term is used in the statute in its noun form, Bayer AG v. Housey Pharms., Inc., 340 F.3d 1367, 1373 (Fed. Cir. 2003), and therefore refers to "articles" resulting from the process of manufacture. The same dictionary the Supreme Court relied on for its definition of "manufacture" in turn defines "article" as "a particular substance or commodity: as, an article of merchandise; an article of clothing; salt is a necessary article." 1 Century Dictionary 326 (William Dwight Whitney ed., 1895). These definitions address "articles" of "manufacture" as being tangible articles or commodities.

Examples of articles of manufacture are ceramics, cast metal articles, hammers, crowbars, chairs, shovels, gloves, shoes, envelopes and mouse-pads. Articles of manufacture may have parts, but any interaction among the parts is usually static.

A natural article, even if subjected to a process, as when the rind of an orange is impregnated with borax to prevent decay, is not an article of manufacture. Thus, in American Fruit Growers, Inc. v. Brogdex Co., the Supreme Court held:

Addition of borax to the rind of natural fruit does not produce from the raw material an article for use which possesses a new or distinctive form, quality, or property. The added substance only protects the natural article against deterioration by inhibiting development of extraneous spores upon the rind. There is no change in the name, appearance, or general character of the fruit. It remains a fresh orange, fit only for the same beneficial uses as theretofore.

A signal is not an article of manufacture because intangible, incorporeal, transitory entities are not articles of manufacture.

See also
 Printed matter (patent law)

References

United States patent law


Tetracamphilius clandestinus is a species of loach catfish endemic to the Central African Republic where it is found in the Ubangui River.  It grows to a length of 2.0 cm.

References

Leptoglanidinae
Endemic fauna of the Central African Republic
Catfish of Africa
Fish described in 2003
Taxa named by Tyson R. Roberts


Tetracamphilius notatus is a species of loach catfish found in the Congo River Basin in the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.  It reaches a length of 3.3 cm and has non-serrate pectoral fin spines, spots instead of bands on the body, and an olfactory organ that is not greatly enlarged. It is a freshwater fish with a tropical climate.

References

Leptoglanidinae
Fish of Africa
Fish described in 1917
Taxa named by John Treadwell Nichols
Taxa named by Ludlow Griscom


Tetracamphilius pectinatus is a species of loach catfish that is found in the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.  It reaches a length of 3.4 cm and has a serrated pectoral fin spine (the serrae are very small) which lacks a locking mechanism. It also has a colour pattern consisting of a series of bands with a paler inner part and darkened margins; the dark narrow bands are a dark chocolate brown, the dorsum of the head and areas between the narrow bands are tan or orangish tan, and the abdomen and other pale areas are cream-colored.

References

Leptoglanidinae
Catfish of Africa
Fish described in 2003
Taxa named by Tyson R. Roberts


Brain Cycles is the second studio album by American psychedelic rock band Radio Moscow. Released on April 14, 2009, it was the band's first album to feature bassist Zach Anderson, who replaced Luke McDuff in 2007. Issued by Alive Naturalsound, it was recorded at Sound Farm in Jamaica, Iowa and produced by band members Parker Griggs and Anderson.

Composition and recording
In an interview with The A.V. Club, frontman Griggs explained that "The first album Radio Moscow was written all-instrumental, and the singing was just sort of [an afterthought] ... This album was written more with the vocals in mind." On the subject of self-producing the album, Griggs noted that "I wanted to use the tape again and try to get an old-school sound ... [and] this time around I just tried to give it my all and be more comfortable with that." The frontman also noted that "We recorded this [album] at Sound Farm in Jamaica, [Iowa] instead of Ohio this time. We put a lot more time into it and really focused on the mix to give it a kind of classic psychedelic feel. It's still real bluesy but we tried to make it more psychedelic than the last one."

Style and reception
In a press release for the album, Radio Moscow compared Brain Cycles to such psychedelic artists as Randy Holden (of Blue Cheer), The Groundhogs, Peter Green (of Fleetwood Mac) and the Flower Travellin' Band. Writing for music website AllMusic, critic Mark Deming proposed that "Radio Moscow's second album strongly establishes its stoner credentials even before you've given it a listen, and the music doesn't disappoint if you're hoping for a gloriously resinous musical experience." Deming compares Brain Cycles to psychedelic blues-rock of the 1960s and 1970s, suggesting similarities to the bands Cream and Blue Cheer and noting the latter's album Outsideinside as possible inspiration for the record.

Deming's AllMusic review is generally positive, although he does conclude that "Brain Cycles is undercut by songs that aren't as impressive as the band playing them; for every number like the hard boogieing "City Lights" and the frantic wail of "Just Don't Know," there's another that sounds like a tune you'd skip over to get to one of the really good cuts ... They just don't make records like Brain Cycles anymore, and while most of the album suggests that's too bad, a few cuts demonstrate why folks stopped doing this back in the day." The album has received praise for frontman Griggs's vocal work, the added cohesiveness of the rhythm section, and the more sophisticated songwriting. Many critics have also noted that Brain Cycles is an improvement on the band's debut album Radio Moscow.

Track listing

Personnel

Radio Moscow
Parker Griggs – vocals, guitar, drums, percussion, production
Zach Anderson – bass, production

Additional personnel
Justin "Blind Beard" Apple – organ on tracks 2 and 5
Matt Sepanic – recording
Doug Van Sloun – mastering

Graphic personnel
Anthony Yankovic – artwork
Patrick Boissel – artwork layout
Allison Cobb – photography
Bre Sabatino – photography
Dario Cantatore – photography

References

Radio Moscow (band) albums
2009 albums
Alive Naturalsound Records albums


Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier is a third-person tactical shooter video game developed and published by Ubisoft for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows. It was released in May and June 2012. Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier was announced to be in development by Ubisoft on January 22, 2009. The game has a futuristic take on the Ghost Recon series. The campaign has settings such as Bolivia, Zambia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Russia, and Norway.

Gameplay

The game is a third-person cover-based shooter. Pulling the left trigger causes the over-the-shoulder view to zoom in, allowing for more precise aiming. Clicking on the right analog stick causes the game to switch to a first-person camera, which lets the player look down the iron sights. Some cover can be partially destroyed, forcing players to seek other hiding spots. While taking cover, players can be suppressed by machine gun fire, which takes the effect of narrowing and shaking the player's field of vision, making it harder to return fire.

A new feature in the series is adaptive camouflage, which allows the Ghosts to become partially invisible. In the game, it is explained that the processing power doesn't exist yet for the camouflage to keep up with quick movements, so it is only active when the player moves slowly. It's enabled automatically when the player crouches, and disengages when running, firing or taking damage.

During firefights, the player can prioritize up to four targets by marking them, on which squad members will focus fire. Outside of firefights, marking targets prepares for a synchronized takedown, so long as the enemy is still unaware of the team's presence. This mechanic is referred to by the game as "Sync Shot". The player is shown icons signifying when the squad mates have moved into position and taken aim on marked targets. If the player marks up to three targets, the player can either order them to fire, or take aim himself on one of the targets and fire, at which point the squad mates fire simultaneously. If the player marks four targets, the player must aim at one of the targets and fire in order to take down all four targets. Sync Shot also happens to be the only squad command in this game.

Gunsmith allows extensive customizations of weapons, whereafter the player can test them on a firing range before entering a mission. Parts that can be customized include: optics, triggers, magazines, under-barrel attachments (e.g. foregrip or bipod), side-rail attachments (e.g. aiming laser), gas systems (standard, "over-gassed" for increased fire rate/lower accuracy, or "under-gassed" for decreased fire rate/higher accuracy), barrels, muzzles, stocks and paint (cosmetic only). In single-player, advanced parts are unlocked by completing missions and in-mission achievements (called "challenges"). In multiplayer, players unlock weapons and earn credits as they advance the level of their character. On the Xbox 360, players can use Kinect to customize their weapons through hand gestures and voice commands.

Players have use of drones that can be launched covertly and controlled remotely, hovering or moving over the playing field for a limited distance. The player can leave the drone hovering in the air indefinitely, so long as it is not spotted by the enemy, and switch between normal view and the drone camera view. The player can also order the drone to return. Drones can be spotted by enemies and shot, and if they take enough damage, they must be recalled for repair, which occurs automatically after a short period. The drone has a camera to provide an aerial view. Targets can be marked from the drone view. The drone can also be landed on the ground, at which point it maneuvers on wheels, has its own active camouflage, and a sonic blast that can be activated to disorient enemies.

Another automated element is the War Hound, used only in one single-player mission, which is a heavy walking robot, similar to BigDog, which can be controlled by the player and fires mortar rounds and TV-guided missiles. It can be used as portable cover.

Multiplayer
The game has various multiplayer modes, including cooperative and competitive game types. Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier features a fully cooperative campaign, as well as a new survival wave-based mode called Guerilla, which is also playable as a single-player mode. Also featured is competitive multiplayer, with the game types Conflict, Decoy, Saboteur, and Siege and characters-Scout, Engineer and Rifleman. A code is used for full-access online play, and is a one-time use code. Used copies of the game will not have full access to online play.  Ubisoft announced that the multiplayer servers would be shut down on September 1, 2022.  The date was later delayed to October 1, 2022.  This renders several achievements and trophies as unachievable.

Downloadable content
There are three downloadable content (DLC) packs that have been released: Arctic Strike, Raven Strike and Khyber Strike. They add maps, 6 weapons, 3 campaign missions, and multiplayer Takeover and Stockade modes.

Plot
In 2024, Joe Ramirez leads a four-man Ghost Recon squad to Nicaragua to disrupt weapons trafficking in the region. As they inspect a convoy they ambushed, a dirty bomb is remotely detonated, killing the team.

In response, Major Scott Mitchell assembles the Ghost Recon team "Hunter" in  Fort Bragg, North Carolina, consisting of “Ghost Lead” Captain Cedric Ferguson, Staff Sergeant John Kozak, Master Sergeant Robert "Pepper" Bonifacio, and Sergeant First Class Jimmy "30K" Ellison. Mitchell orders Hunter to rescue an arms dealer named Paez in Sucre, Bolivia who has information about the bomb’s origin. Hunter rescues Paez and proceeds to follow the trail of weapons: First, to a refugee camp in Western Province, Zambia, where they eliminate local warlord Dede Macaba; to Nigeria, where they rescue CIA SAD officer Daniel Sykes from private military company Watchgate; to Peshawar, Pakistan, where they capture Russian arms dealer Katya Prugova; to the Kola Peninsula in Russia, where the team destroys an arms cache at a remote Arctic base; and finally to an airfield in Kaliningrad, where they intercept and destroy a missile guidance system, causing an international incident.

Some time later, a nuclear missile fired from Dagestan impacts London, but the American missile shield destroys the nuclear warhead. The Ghost believes the launch to be the work of a rogue Russian special operations group known as Raven's Rock, of which Prugova was an associate, with ties to Russian ultranationalists. Hunter moves into Dagestan to rescue a Georgian Special Forces squad who went to investigate the launch site. During the rescue operation, the team is ambushed by Russian Spetsnaz that have access to high-tech equipment on the same level as the Ghosts. As revealed later, these soldiers are part of the elite “Bodark” (Werewolf) unit, which have sided with Raven's Rock. They continue to challenge Ghosts for the rest of the campaign.

Soon after, Raven’s Rock stages a coup and manages to take over the majority of Russia. although a few loyalist Russian forces opposing the new government are scattered around the country. Hunter heads to northern Russia to secure some drilling ships to supply the loyalists with a steady flow of oil. Afterwards, the team rescues a loyalist general who is the de facto leader of the resistance movement. After destroying artillery attacking the general's forces. When overwhelming Raven's Rock forces pin down the Ghosts, Hunter calls in an airstrike on their position. Kozak is then tasked with a solo operation to rescue the deposed Russian President Volodin from a prison in Siberia. Hunter protects President Volodin in his return to Moscow, and eliminates the Raven's Rock commander coordinating the city's defense, facilitating the loyalists' victory over Raven's Rock.

Major Mitchell sends Hunter on a clandestine operation to eliminate the remaining seven leaders of Raven's Rock. After eliminating six of the seven, the last member, code-named "Ace," uses his influence inside the U.S. government to call off the Ghosts. Ace's gambit, however, backfires; under explicit orders "not to touch him," Hunter does nothing when a train runs over Ace to make his death look like an accident.

Development

In December 2009, "Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier" was trademarked by Ubisoft, raising speculation that this could be the name for the upcoming Ghost Recon 4. This was subsequently confirmed by an official announcement. It's developed by a heavily modified state of YETI, it's implementing global illumination, and Ambient occlusion.

The release of Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier was initially targeted for the 2009–2010 fiscal year; publication was delayed to the 2010–2011 fiscal year, and then to the "March quarter of 2011" in May 2010, and then to the April 2011 – March 2012 fiscal period. The PC version was officially declared as cancelled in December 2011 and replaced by Ghost Recon Online, citing piracy as the main reason. However, on January 10, 2012, the PC version was officially re-announced as being in development along with its console counterparts.

Beta
On April 19, 2012, a closed multiplayer beta for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 was made available to those who have pre-ordered the game from GameStop, own a copy of Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction, or have a PlayStation Plus membership. Some selected users from Uplay were also able to enter the closed beta. No PC multiplayer date was ever set.

Related media

Believe in Ghosts miniseries
Richard Machowicz, one of the hosts of Deadliest Warrior and the host for Future Weapons, hosted a three-part miniseries titled Believe in Ghosts. Here Machowicz looks at elements in the game and compares them to real life operations performed by special forces.

Ghost Recon: Alpha
In the short live action movie Ghost Recon: Alpha, which is a prequel to the game, a Ghost team (consisting of Pepper, 30k, Chuck, and an unnamed Ghost Leader) was trying to secure a RSM-56 Bulava nuclear warhead. While trying to disarm the warhead, Chuck was shot in the head. Eventually the remaining Ghosts managed to fight off the attacking force, but the warhead was airlifted by a helicopter belonging to an unknown faction. The short movie ends with a view of London set in the time period of the video game.

Reception

Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Future Soldier received generally positive reviews from critics. Some reviewers, like IGN's, have praised the game's more thoughtful approach to cover-based shooting, scoring the game an 8.5 out of 10. GameSpot gave the game a 7.5 praising the lengthy campaign and multiplayer but criticizing the AI and combat. However, other sites such as Eurogamer Italy, Giant Bomb, Strategy Informer, and Cheat Code Central criticized Future Soldier for the streamlining and/or complete removal of many tactical shooter mechanics leaving many critics questioning whether or not it should even be considered a tactical shooter. The PC version suffered from lower ratings. Numerous bugs making the game unplayable, such as the interface ignoring keyboard and mouse inputs, were present in the game at launch. Ghost Recon Future Soldier on PC had huge issues with online PvP multiplayer due to peer-to-peer system that hosted games on people's computers instead of dedicated/cloud servers. Also, the game was locked at 60 fov as well as 60 fps.

Notes

References

External links

2012 video games
Dystopian video games
Fiction set in 2024
Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa fiction
Kinect games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Multiplayer online games
PlayStation 3 games
Red Storm Entertainment games
Science fiction shooter video games
Third-person shooters
Tom Clancy games
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon games
Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon
Ubisoft games
Video games about nuclear war and weapons
Video games developed in Canada
Video games developed in China
Video games developed in France
Video games developed in Romania
Video games developed in the United States
Video games scored by Tom Salta
Video games set in Bolivia
Video games set in Kazakhstan
Video games set in Nicaragua
Video games set in Nigeria
Video games set in Norway
Video games set in Pakistan
Video games set in Russia
Video games set in the Arctic
Video games set in Zambia
Video games set in 2024
Video games set in the 2020s
Windows games
Xbox 360 games


John McEwen was the 18th Prime Minister of Australia.

John McEwen may also refer to:

 John McEwen (athlete) (born 1974), American hammer thrower
 John Blackwood McEwen (1868–1948), Scottish classical composer
 John L. McEwen (1928–2010), American politician
 Sir John McEwen, 1st Baronet (1894–1962), Scottish politician
 John McEwen (cricketer) (1862–1902), English cricketer


The Jardin botanique de Gondremer is a private botanical garden with national collections of rhododendrons and azaleas, kalmia, heathers, and Japanese maples, classified as a Jardin Remarquable by the French ministry of culture. It is located several kilometers east of Autrey and Housseras, Vosges, Grand Est, France, and open at specific periods suitable for the collections; an admission fee is charged.

The garden was begun by Michel and Gisèle Madre in 1974 in a wild and marshy valley, with ponds created for drainage and initial plantings in 1974-1975. Between 1975 and 1990, nearly 2000 plants were introduced, mainly rhododendrons, azaleas, and other Ericaceae, and in 1990 the garden expanded into an adjacent forest area with the addition of a botanical trail about 1 km long. In 1998 its collections of rhododendrons and azaleas, kalmia, heathers, and Japanese maples were recognized as national collections by the Conservatoire Français des Collections Végétales Spécialisées (CCVS).

Today the garden is divided into a botanical area, in the east, and a naturalistic area in the west. It contains about 4,000 plant taxa including 650 rhododendron species, 450 rhododendron hybrids, 500 azalea hybrids, 80 Calluna, 80 Erica, 40 Kalmia, 35 Pieris, 25 Vaccinium, 20 Cassiope, 20 Leucothoe, 15 Andromeda, 15 Phyllodoce, 10 Ledum, and 6 Menziesia. It also contains about 160 varieties of maple trees including 130 cultivars of Acer japonicum and Acer palmatum, 270 types of conifers, and a further 750 varieties of other trees and shrubs, as well as 50 types of vines, and 800 varieties of herbaceous plants.

See also
 List of botanical gardens in France

References
 Jardin botanique de Gondremer
 Jardin botanique de Gondremer
 Culture.fr entry
 1001 Fleurs entry
 Parcs et Jardins entry

Gardens in Vosges (department)
Botanical gardens in France


Dutch Surinamese () are Surinamese people of Dutch descent.

Dutch migrant settlers in search of a better life started arriving in Suriname in the 19th century with the boeroes, poor farmers arriving from the Dutch provinces of Gelderland, Utrecht, and Groningen. Furthermore, the Surinamese ethnic group, the Creoles, persons of mixed African-European ancestry, are partially of Dutch descent.

Many Dutch settlers left Suriname after independence in 1975, which diminished the white Dutch population. Currently there are around 1000 boeroes left in Suriname, and 3000 outside Suriname. Inside Suriname, they work in several sectors of society. Some families still work in the agricultural sector.

See also

 Netherlands–Suriname relations
 Surinamese people in the Netherlands
 Surinamese Dutch
 White Surinamese

References

Suriname
Suriname
European Surinamese
Ethnic groups in Suriname


Cammell may refer to:

British Rail Metro-Cammell Lightweight, lightweight Diesel multiple units introduced in 1955
Cammell Laird, British shipbuilders during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Cammell Laird 1907 F.C., football club based at Kirklands Stadium in Rock Ferry, Birkenhead, Merseyside, England
Cammell Laird Gibraltar, ship repair facility at Gibraltar
Cammell Laird Social Club, the ninth album released by UK rock band Half Man Half Biscuit in 2002
MTR Metro Cammell EMU (AC), electric multiple unit owned and operated by the Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation
Metro-Cammell, Birmingham, England based manufacturer of railway carriages and wagons
Metro Cammell Weymann, formed in 1932 to produce bus bodies
NZR RM class (Sentinel-Cammell), steam-powered railcar operated by the New Zealand Railways Department

People with the surname
Donald Cammell (1934–1996), Scottish film director
Reginald Archibald Cammell (1886–1911), first British military aviator to die on active service
Thomas Cammell


Plum Spooky (2009) is a novel by Janet Evanovich starring the fictional character Stephanie Plum. It is one of the four holiday novellas in the series (now referred to by the publisher as "Between-the-Numbers Novels") that star the bounty hunter.

References

2009 American novels
Stephanie Plum books
American novellas


FC Taganrog () is an association football club from Taganrog, Russia, founded in 2006, it played in the third-tier Russian Professional Football League since it was founded. It was dissolved after the 2014–15 season due to lack of financing.

External links
Official website

References

Association football clubs established in 2006
Association football clubs disestablished in 2015
Football clubs in Russia
Sport in Taganrog
2006 establishments in Russia
2015 disestablishments in Russia


Eliseo, the Spanish form of Elisha, may refer to:

Eliseo Alberto (1951–2011), Cuban-born Mexican writer, novelist, essayist and journalist
Eliseo Castillo (born 1975), professional boxer
Eliseo Grenet (1893–1950), Cuban pianist and a leading composer/arranger
Eliseo Martín (born 1973), Aragonese Spanish long-distance runner
Eliseo Medina (born 1946), labor activist involved in proposals for U.S. national immigration reform
Eliseo Payán (1825–1895), Colombian lawyer, politician, and military officer
Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable, Cuban-American physician-scientist
Eliseo Quintanilla (born 1983), Salvadoran football (soccer) player
Eliseo Rivero (born 1957), former Uruguayan footballer
Eliseo Salazar (born 1954), racing driver from Chile
Eliseo Soriano (1947–2021), Presiding Minister of the Members Church of God International until his death in 2021
Eliseo Subiela (1944–2016), Argentine film director and writer
Eliseo Valdés Erutes (born 1956), Cuban artist specializing in sculpture, painting, and drawing
José Eliseo Salamanca (born 1979), Salvadoran professional soccer player

Spanish masculine given names
Masculine given names


Joseph Bloor (or Bloore) (1789–1862) was an innkeeper, brewer, and land speculator in the 19th century who founded the Village of Yorkville and is the namesake for Toronto's Bloor Street. Originally from Staffordshire, England, he emigrated to Canada in 1819 and eventually moved to the village of York, Upper Canada (later Toronto) with his wife Sarah (née Lees) and three children, where he became a prominent early figure.

Bloor kept a hotel, Farmer's Arms Inn, at 157 King Street East (now home to St. Lawrence Hall) from 1824 to 1831 and built a brewery in 1830 in the Rosedale Valley, near Sherbourne Street.

He sold the brewery in 1843 (John Rose operated it as Castle Frank Brewery until 1864 and the building was demolished by 1875), and purchased a stretch of land in nearby Yorkville, where he and William Botsford Jarvis laid out streets for residential development.

The boundary of Yorkville and Toronto was named Bloor Street in his honour in 1855. Bloor died at his home at 121 Bloor Street East, now demolished near Bloor and Church Street. A plaque commemorating his life can be found in St. Andrew's United Church on Bloor Street East.

He is buried at Necropolis Cemetery on Winchester Street in Cabbagetown.

While his tombstone, and those of his descendants, spell the family name "Bloore", this was a posthumous development.  Period references such as city directories, tax assessment rolls and biographical publications all spell his name without an "e".

Notes

References
 Filey, Mike. "Toronto Sketches: The Way We Were". Dundurn, 1992. p 68–69.

 Robertson, J.R. "Robertson's Landmarks of Toronto: A Collection of Historical Sketches of the Old Town of York from 1792 Until 1837, and of Toronto from 1834 to 1904, Volume 1".  1894.  p 476–477.

1789 births
1862 deaths
People from Old Toronto
English emigrants to pre-Confederation Ontario
Immigrants to Upper Canada
Pre-Confederation Canadian businesspeople
Burials at Toronto Necropolis