The Colne Valley Water Company Plc was a statutory water company supplying parts of South West Hertfordshire from 1873 to 1994. ref COLNE VALLEY WATER COMPANY 1873 1973 pub. Colne Valley Water Company, 1973 ref ref http www.opsi.gov.uk si si1992 Uksi 19920424 en 1.htm The Colne Valley Water Company Plc Constitution and Regulation Order 1992 ref ref name compcomm http www.competition commission.org.uk rep pub reports 1990 270general.htm Competition Commission General Utilities PLC, The Colne Valley Water Company and Rickmansworth Water Company A report on the proposed merger ref In 1994 it merged into Three Valleys Water . ref name compcomm ref https www.3valleys.co.uk about us our history.aspx Three Valleys Water Our history ref It was the successor to smaller local water companies such as the Abbots Langley Water Company , ref http www.hertfordshire genealogy.co.uk data places places a abbots langley abbots langley newfangled book.htm The Newfangled Scheme, The First 100 Years by C. W. Clark ref and reached its final size when it acquired the Watford Corporation s water undertaking in 1973. ref name compcomm See also Colne Valley Waterworks railway River Colne, Hertfordshire References Reflist Category Water companies of England Category Companies based in Hertfordshire Category Companies established in 1873 watersupply stub ... more details
Infobox Album Name Double Dutch Type Album Artist The Eames Era Cover DoubleDutch.jpg Released October 18, 2005 Recorded 2005 in Plusgood Studio, Baton Rouge, Louisiana Baton Rouge , Louisiana Genre Indie pop Length 33 59 Label C Student Records Producer Casey McAllister Reviews Tiny Mix Tapes Rating 4 5 http www.tinymixtapes.com musicreviews e eames era.htm link PopMatters http www.popmatters.com music reviews e eamesera doubledutch.shtml link Last album The Second EP br 2004 This album Double Dutch br 2005 Next album Heroes Sheroes br 2007 Double Dutch is the debut full length album of Baton Rouge, Louisiana Baton Rouge , Louisiana , based indie pop group The Eames Era . It was released shortly after the band members graduation from Louisiana State University , symbolizing the work put into the album and the newfangled maturity of the band. Track listing Go To Sleep 4 10 Got Your Note 2 31 I Don t Mind 3 24 Listen For The Sun 3 25 Washed Out 2 54 Pay Attention 2 28 Talk Talk 3 08 Old Folks 2 32 Year of the Waitress 3 21 Boy Came In 2 31 Promises 3 36 Category 2005 albums Category The Eames Era albums 2000s indie pop album stub ... more details
Orphan date December 2010 notability Books date December 2010 unreferenced date December 2010 Starfinder is a fantasy fiction novel authored by John Marco . Plot summary Young Moth had grown up in Calio, the mountain city and he considered himself lucky to live in this very special place. For in Calio a man could be a Skyknight, one of the elite pilots who flew the fragile, beautiful, newfangled flying machines called dragonflies. Any man who dreamed of flying belonged in only one place, Calio, the city on the edge of the world. And young Moth, who had worked at the aerodrome since he was ten, wanted to fly more than anything. To the north of Calio stretched the Reach, looking like a sea of fog that never ended. There were numerous tall tales about the lands beyond the Reach, and Moth heard the oddest of them regularly now that he was living with Leroux. When Moth was ten, and first taken in by Leroux, he had been especially fascinated by Leroux s stories of the Skylords, but at the grown up age of thirteen, Moth was becoming increasingly skeptical about the existence of these mysterious, powerful, and frightening beings from beyond the Reach. But Moth s life was about to change in ways he could not even imagine, and soon the land of the Skylords would become more real and more threatening than the most outlandish tales Leroux could have spun. For soon Moth would have a key to another world the world beyond the Reach... Category Fantasy novels ... more details
File Petri Hiltunen.JPG thumb 250px Petri Hiltunen 2008 Petri Hiltunen born 13 October 1967 is a Finland Finnish cartoonist and illustrator . ref name lambiek cite web title Petri Hiltunen url http lambiek.net artists h hiltunen petri.htm publisher Lambiek accessdate 21 June 2010 ref Hiltunen has produced work in a variety of genres, but is most notable for his fantasy and horror genre horror work. He has won the prestigious Pekka Puup C3 A4 C3 A4 The Puup.C3.A4.C3.A4 hat award Puup hattu award in 2002, which is regarded as the highest honour for Finnish comic artists. He is also a well known figure in Finnish science fiction fandom and a regular panelist and guest of honour at conventions, such as Finncon . His own comic albums include the horror fantasy tale Laulu y n lapsista Song of the children of the night and a comic version of Macbeth . The fantasy world of Jaconia , created for his Praedor comics Praedor comics , has been adapted into a Praedor role playing game of the same name . His work has also been featured in the science fiction magazine T htivaeltaja , the Finnish Conan the Barbarian Conan magazine and twice in the war comics magazine Korkeaj nnitys a western genre western story and one story set in the Finnish War . His drawing style is quite detailed, particularly with his characters, and features heavy lines. Hiltunen is best known in the Finnish popular consciousness from his much lighter, humorous newspaper comic strip V in m isen paluu The Return of V in m inen , published in many major newspapers and as comic books. In it, the Eternal Sage of Kalevala ends his self imposed exile to find that he might have been gone for too long. He must try to adjust to modern Finland e.g. finding out that these newfangled potato es are now considered a traditional food as modern Finland must try to adjust to him e.g. a group of neo nazism neo nazis coming to greet him and introducing themselves as indigenous Finns they are nonplussed when he starts apologizi ... more details
Manuel Asur Manuel Asur GONZ LEZ GARC A G eria Carrocera , San Mart n del Rey Aurelio , Asturias , 1947 is a Spanish essayist and poet in Asturian language Asturian . He s considered to be one of the first modern poets in this language. He has a Ph.D degree in Philosophy . His book, Cancios y poemes pa un riscar Songs and Poems to a Dawn meant the beginning in 1977 of the rebirth Asturian surdimientu of asturian literature, because he contributed with a poetry more newfangled and risked than anything written before in this language. Most of their works talk about the socio political facts of the moment. Some of their poems became very popular in Asturias in 1970s since the group Nuberu used them as lyrics for their songs. He wrote also a narrative book in 1987, Hai una llinia trazada There s a Drawn Line , with short stories that he say to consider almost monologues . He s a current articulist of La Nueva Espa a publications and works in the Consejer a de Medio Rural y Pesca del Principado de Asturias . Books published Cancios y poemes pa un riscar 1977 . Author s edition. ISBN 84 400 3593 4 Cam n del cumal fonderu Going to the Deeper Peak 1978 . Author s edition. ISBN 84 500 2951 1 V vese d oy es Poemes biling es Living by Hearsay Bilingual Poems 1979 . Seminariu de Llingua Asturiana ISBN 84 600 1484 3 Congoxa que ye amor This Anguish is Love 1982 . Author s edition. ISBN 84 300 7245 4 Destruici n del poeta Destruction of the Poet 1984 . Academia de la Llingua Asturiana ISBN 84 600 3778 9 Hai una llinia trazada short stories 1987 . Academia de la Llingua Asturiana ISBN 84 600 5309 1 Poes a 1976 1996 Poetry 1976 1996 , selected works 1996 . Trabe ISBN 84 8053 068 5 Orbayos Drizzles 2002 . Trabe ISBN 84 8053 217 3 El libro de las visitas The Visitor s Book , in spanish language 2003 . Trabe ISBN 84 8053 252 1 Lo que dice la caracola What the conch says , in spanish language 2007 Lulu.com ISBN 978 1 84753 676 1 El solitario de Avil s Vida y obra del fil sofo Estanisla ... more details
Wikify date April 2011 Brandon Williams born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 1984 , better known by his stage name Urban Mystic is an United States American Hip hop soul singer. The son of a minister, Urban Mystic had a Billboard magazine Billboard R&B hit with both the KayGee Produced single Where Were You , Marcellus Handz Down Dawson produced It s You and the Scott Storch produced I Refuse , in 2005 and 2006. Shortly thereafter, Scott hooked him up a deal with both the Roots and Stack , a.k.a Yannique Barker, SoBe Entertainment . After this time, Brandon joined the newfangled Spitkicker collective. His second album, from 2007 was produced by Scott Storch, KayGee and Terence Tramp Baby Abney and was released on the Spitkicker owned Joose Rek Kids , formerly known as Juice Monee. Urban Mystic is signed to SoBe Entertainment . Brandon attended Dillard High School in Fort Lauderdale where he sang at every pep rally,show and or event that was held so he could get noticed. He even performs at the historic Sistrunk Parade Festival that s held every year in honor of Dr.James Sistrunk, one of the first African American Physicians in Broward County,FL. Discography 2004 Ghetto Revelations Track Listing http www.amazon.com Ghetto Revelations Urban Mystic 1. Long Ways 2. Where Were You? 3. Givin It Up 4. Mystic s Spot 5. Satisfy 6. F ck Song 7. Watch Out 8. Ahh Yeah 9. In Da Ghetto 10. Woman Gotta Have It 11. Hit Me 12. Gotta Get U Home 13. Shopping Spree 14. Mama 2006 Ghetto Revelations II Track Listing 1. It s You Featuring Paul Wall 3 53 2. Where Were You? 3 52 3. My Block album version 3 28 4. Can U Handle This? Featuring Pitbull Explicit 4 03 5. Bounce Wit Me Featuring Stack Explicit 4 50 6. I Refuse Album Version 4 38 7. Your Portrait 4 32 8. I Got That Featuring Smitty Explicit 4 00 9. Why? 4 57 10. When U Hurt 4 15 11. Let s Make A Change Featuring Trick Daddy Explicit 3 44 12. A Change Gonna Come 3 35 13. Back It Up Featuring Stack Explicit 2009 GR III Old School 2 Nu ... more details
Infobox Book name God The Failed Hypothesis title orig translator image Image God The Failed Hypothesis.jpg 200px author Victor J. Stenger illustrator cover artist PhotoDisc, Inc. country United States language English language English series subject genre Science publisher Prometheus Books pub date 2007 media type Print Hardcover pages 294 pp isbn 1591024811 dewey 212 .1 22 congress BL240.3 .S738 2007 oclc 72988016 preceded by The Comprehensible Cosmos Where Do The Laws Of Physics Come From? followed by God The Failed Hypothesis is a 2007 New York Times bestseller by scientist Victor J. Stenger who argues that there is no evidence for the existence of a deity and that God s existence, while not impossible, is improbable. David Ludden of Skeptic U.S. magazine Skeptic magazine wrote that Stenger lays out the evidence from cosmology, particle physics and quantum mechanics showing that the universe appears exactly as it should if there is no creator. ref cite news url http www.skeptic.com eskeptic 07 04 04.html title Conspicuous by His Absence publisher Skeptic U.S. magazine Skeptic date April 4, 2007 first last accessdate 2007 10 17 ref Ludden concluded All freethinkers should have both volumes The God Delusion , side by side, on their bookshelves. Damien Broderick wrote in The Australian , Stenger offers an answer to that deep question in his two new books, arguing a materialist, God free account of the cosmos, equally antagonistic to superstition, the paranormal and religions archetypal and newfangled alike. He refuses to accept the polite accommodation urged by agnostic Stephen Jay Gould that science and religion can never be in conflict as they are Non overlapping magisteria non overlapping magisteria . ref cite news url http www.theaustralian.news.com.au story 0,20867,21334644 5003900,00.html title God The Failed Hypothesis The Comprehensible Cosmos publisher The Australian date March 10, 2007 first last accessdate 2007 10 17 ref Overview Stenger says that, when ... more details
File Stamp Italy 1917airmailC1.png right thumb A 1917 Italian airmail stamp. As Italy was not unified until 1861, its early postal history is tied to the various kingdoms and smaller realms that ruled in the peninsula. Pre unification Expand section date January 2011 File Stamp Parma 1852 5c.jpg thumb upright The first stamp of the Duchy of Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla, 1852, 5 centesimi Main Postage stamps and postal history of Tuscany The Cavallini little horses of Sardinia was an early private mail service, notable for the introduction of prepaid stamped Letter sheet lettersheet s in 1819. In 1850, Count Camillo Cavour drafted a report to the Piedmont Italy Piedmont Chamber of Deputies proposing postal reform along the lines of that which had been adopted in several European states, and including postage stamp s, for which a new word francobollo was coined. The reform became law in November, and went into effect 1 January 1851. After some casting around for expertise in the newfangled art of stamp printing, the government settled on the house of Francesco Matraire in Turin . Matraire produced stamps with an Embossing paper embossed profile of Victor Emmanuel II of Italy Victor Emmanuel II . Other states in Italy also issued stamps during the 1850s Modena , Naples , the Papal States , Parma , Romagna , Sicily , and Tuscany . The Kingdom of Italy Matraire s stamps were reprinted several times, and those printed after 17 March 1861 are normally considered the first stamps of Italy. During 1860 and 1861 Sardinian stamps supplanted those in use in each of the territories that joined Italy, with Modena, Parma, and Romagna changing over on 1 February 1860, and Naples not converting until 15 September 1862 although the local authorities had earlier printed stamps featuring the arms of Savoy . Perforated stamps began in 1862 and, starting on 1 January 1863, uniform postal rates went into effect. In 1862 Count Ambj rn Sparre won the stamp contract, but his designs were no ... more details
Infobox television show name Down To Earth image caption genre Situation comedy Sitcom camera picture format audio format runtime 30 mins. creator Arthur Annecharico br Sam Harris singer Sam Harris developer executive producer Arthur Annecharico br Rick Miner starring Carol Mansell br Stephen Johnson Actor Stephen Johnson br Dick Sargent br David Kaufman actor David Kaufman br Kyle Richards br Randy Josselyn br Marla Rubinoff br Lester Fletcher br Ronnie Schell br Michael DeLano br Rip Taylor country United States network TBS TV network TBS first run first aired 1984 in television 1984 last aired 1987 in television 1987 num seasons 3 num episodes 110 list episodes website Down to Earth was an United States American fantasy situation comedy series that ran on TBS TV network Superstation TBS from 1984 in television 1984 to 1987 in television 1987 . It was produced by Procter & Gamble Procter & Gamble Productions and was the superstation s first original series. Premise The series revolved around Ethel MacDoogan, a free spirited gal from the roarin 1920s. Unfortunately as told in the lyrics to the show s theme song , that would all come to an end for Ethel in 1925 when ...she was struck down by a trolley, golly. Ethel waits in Heaven for 60 years for a chance to earn her wings, until finally she is sent to earth in the 1980s to help the Preston family. The Prestons are a typical modern day family with modern day situations widowed father Richard is a realtor older son Duane is very class conscious daughter Lissy is very opinionated J.J. the youngest just wants someone who can fill their late mother s void. It s J.J. s prayer that an angel would come into their lives that summons Ethel, and J.J. is the only one who knows her true identity. Infiltrating the household as housekeeper maid, Ethel is clueless about even the simplest conveniences of modern day life. J.J. helps cover for her when it comes to adapting to the newfangled inventions of the past 60 years, and she e ... more details
Infobox Airline airline Midstate Airlines Commented out because image was deleted logo midstatetimetable.jpg logo size 150 fleet size 27 destinations 17 IATA IU ICAO MIS callsign MIDSTATE founded 1964 ceased 1989 headquarters Stevens Point , Wisconsin key people Roy P. Shwery President , Bryce Appleton CEO 1983 1993 hubs Marshfield, Wisconsin Marshfield , Central Wisconsin Airport Midstate Airlines of Stevens Point , Wisconsin, a.k.a. Mid State Airlines, a.k.a. Midstate Air Commuter MAC ,was founded by Roy P. Shwery in 1964 and provided air service out of Marshfield, Wisconsin Marshfield , Wisconsin home to Marshfield Clinic , and Central Wisconsin Airport CWA . The airline originally operated a fleet of Beechcraft Model 18 aircraft, and later, four Beech 99 s. The airline originally flew from Marshfield, to Wisconsin Rapids, to Milwaukee, and onto Chicago. Central Wisconsin Airport serves the communities of Stevens Point , Wausau , Marshfield, and Wisconsin Rapids , Wisconsin, and the smaller suburbs Mosinee, Plover, and Rosholt with long runways that accommodated large jet aircraft . By the early 1970s, Midstate also was serving Hayward and Ashland, Wisconsin from the Central Wisconsin Airport and Ashland from the Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport. One of its most fondly remembered features was the 6 00 PM Champagne Flight out of O Hare, destined for Ashland via Milwaukee, the CWA, and Hayward. Shortly after takeoff from Milwaukee, the passengers were invited to open a cooler put on board in Milwaukee and prepared by Midstate s President s wife. Typically, in the cooler were a few soft drinks, beers, Wisconsin cheese, Pringle s Newfangled Potato Chips, plastic cups and . . . one or two bottles of champagne. Somehow, this ice breaker generated an informality and good feeling for nearly everyone on board. In 1977 Midstate switched to 19 passenger Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner Swearingen Metroliners . On January 15, 1979, a Metroliner landed in Wisconsin R ... more details
Infobox film name A Modern Hero image caption director Georg Wilhelm Pabst producer writer Louis Bromfield br Gene Markey br Kathryn Scola starring Richard Barthelmess music cinematography William Rees editing James Gibbon distributor Warner Bros. released Film date 1934 04 21 runtime 71 minutes country Film US language English budget A Modern Hero is a 1934 American drama film starring Richard Barthelmess and directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst . It was Pabst s only American sound film talking film . ref name NY Times cite news url http movies.nytimes.com movie 102635 A Modern Hero overview title NY Times A Modern Hero accessdate 2009 09 12 newspaper The New York Times first Mel last Gussow ref Plot When the circus comes to a small town, resident Joanna Ryan Jean Muir actress Jean Muir becomes pregnant by horse trick rider Pierre Radier Richard Barthelmess . He offers to marry her, but she decides they are not suited for each other. Instead, she marries steady local Elmer Croy. Pierre gives her all his money for their child. Pierre hates the circus life, so when his friend Henry Mueller Hobart Cavanaugh approaches him to become his partner in a bicycle shop, he jumps at the chance, despite the disapproval of his alcoholic mother, Madame Azais Marjorie Rambeau . To raise his share of the money needed to start the venture, he turns to wealthy young widow Leah Ernst Florence Eldridge , who is attracted to him. The shop is a success, but Pierre s ambitions are only whetted. He persuades his partner to branch out into newfangled automobiles. They spend several years building a new car. By a stroke of luck, the automobile of Homer Flint Arthur Hohl , the richest man in the state, breaks down near their shop. He is interested in mass producing their car. Pierre becomes a hardworking business partner of Flint s and marries Flint s daughter, Hazel Dorothy Burgess . However, she becomes dissatisfied with his preference for late nights at work over her company. When the unhappy c ... more details
Orphan date October 2010 Infobox university name Miami Jacobs Career College image motto Changing futures. Changing Lives. established 1998 type Private school Private , For Profit School For profit ceo Alan Sussna city Dayton state Ohio country United States USA undergrad 1,200 staff 150 sport none campus Urban design Urban free label Locations free 7 campuses & learning centers, online ref name phoenix1 cite web url http www.miamijacobs.edu title MJCC Campus Locations accessdate 2010 08 09 format work ref website http www.miamijacobs.edu miamijacobs.edu Miami Jacobs Career College is a for profit college located in Ohio. Miami Jacobs Career College has locations in several Ohio cities. Campuses are in Columbus, Ohio Columbus , Dayton , Sharonville , Springboro, Ohio Springboro and Troy, Ohio Troy . The school offers degrees in nursing , cosmetology , healthcare , accounting , criminal justice , and graphic design . History There wasn t any until that year a penmanship expert named Edwin D. Babbitt opened the Miami Commercial School. One of Babbitt s earliest students, A. D. Wilt, earned his tuition by serving as the school s janitor. Two years later, Wilt swept into the presidency of the school, and he guided it with a firm and knowing hand for 52 years. Training was offered in shorthand, business methods, arithmetic, and, of course, penmanship. Wilt followed every business trend. The Miami Commercial School was among the first in the Midwest to give instruction on the use of that newfangled machine the typewriter. Forward looking men such as A. D. Wilt gave Dayton a growing renown as a business center, attracting other enterprising people to the city, including, ironically, a competitor for A.D. Wilt. The competitor was H. L. Jacobs, who came to town from Pennsylvania, where he was an official shorthand reporter for the Pennsylvania Legislature. A man of great organizational ability, he started Dayton s second business school the Jacobs Business College. For many ... more details
Redstone Creek is a historically important widemouthed canoe and river boat navigable brook sized tributary stream of the Monongahela River in Fayette County, Pennsylvania . The creek is convert 28.4 mi long, ref name NHD U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high resolution flowline data. http viewer.nationalmap.gov viewer The National Map , accessed August 15, 2011 ref running from headwaters on Chestnut Ridge north through the city of Uniontown, Pennsylvania Uniontown and reaching the Monongahela at Brownsville, Pennsylvania Brownsville . Located in a 1 4 mile wide valley with low streambanks, the site was ideal for ship building in a region geologically most often characterized by steep plunging relatively inaccessible banks wide enough to launch and float several large boats, and indeed steamboats after 1811, and slow moving enough to provide good docks and parking places while craft were outfitting. Brownsville, at the mouth of Redstone Creek, was a dynamic industrial town that eclipsed Pittsburgh in size before the 1850s. It was the center for a dynamic watercraft building industry, including the first paddlewheel steamboat s on the vast network of inland rivers to reach New Orleans and, later, the upper navigable part of the Missouri River Missouri . Flatboat construction is documented at the site from 1782, and the Braddock Expedition established a supply base blockhouse on the stream s south bank which the French destroyed after first taking Fort Necessity in 1754. The creek hosting this important activity played a critical role in the transshipment of goods and settlers in the Mississippi Basin , as it enabled the other industries in and around Brownsville to outfit and equip the settlers headed west. Nestled in the foothills on the west side of the mountains, Brownsville was a gateway funneling settlers to the Ohio Country , the lands of the Louisiana Purchase Louisiana Territory , and did so until well after 1853 when the newfangled railw ... more details
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