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Stephen Lawlor was born in Dublin in 1958 and is an honours graduate of its National College of Art and Design from 1980-1983. During the eighties he taught in Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology Dublin, his work during this time was based on the figure of the horse which he developed through drawings etchings, lithographs and monotypes. An accomplished painter as well as a master printer, Lawlor has recently started to make sculpture in bronze. He has had solo shows in Ireland, England and the U.S.A. and has participated in numerous International Group exhibitions. His work is in private collections in the U.S.A., Australia, The Far East and most of Europe.

He has been a member of Graphic Studio Dublin since 1984 and is its current Chairman.

Selected solo exhibitions

• 2006 Landscape, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin
• 2005 Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin
• 2005 Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin
• 2003 Recent Paintings Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin
• 1997 Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin
• 1997 Yello Gallery, Chicago
• 1997 Hillsborough Fine Art, Dublin
• 1993 Pantheon Gallery, Dublin
• 1990 Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda
• 1990 Talent Store Gallery, London

Selected group exhibitions

• 2004 Paintings and Prints, Stockholm, Sweden
• 2002 Northern Ljus Stockholm, Sweden
• 2001 Galleri Hippo, Stockholm, Sweden
• 2000 Triennale Mondiale Paris, France
• 1999 Boyle Arts Festival, Roscommon
• 1999 R.H.A. Gallagher Gallery, Dublin
• 1999/8 The Original Print Fair, Royal Academy, London
• 1998 Irish Heritage, Hodges Taylor Gallery, Charlottsville, N. Carolina
• 1998 Art into Art, National Gallery, Dublin
• 1998 International Ex., Stockholm, Sweden
• 1998 5 Printmakers, Frank Lewis Gallery, Killarney
• 1997 The Original Print Fair, Royal Academy, London
• 1997 Trinnale Mondiale Chamalieres, France
• 1997 Out of Ireland, Keenesaw State University, Georgia, U.S.A.
• 1996 Yello Gallery, Cork
• 1995 The Print Initiative, (8 shows around Ireland)
• 1994 A Sense of Ireland, Hong Kong
• 1993 Dublin Graphics, Alvar Aalto Museum, Finland
• 1992 Edition One, Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin
• 1991 European Large Format Printmaking, Guinness Hop Store, Dublin
• 1989 International Miniprint Exhibition, R.H.A. Gallery, Dublin
• 1989 Ernesto Besso Foundation, Rome
• 1986 A Sense of Ireland, Singapore
• 1985 Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, China

Awards

• 1989 Award Winner, International Miniprint Exhibition, R.H.A. Gallery, Dublin
• 1989 Arts Council Travel Award, Finland
• 1993 Dept. of Foreign Affairs, Travel Award, Singapore
• 1997 Arts Council Travel Award, Chicago
• 1999 Print Award, Prizewinner, R.H.A. Dublin

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USS Markab (AD-21) underway 7 October 1942, location unknown.
Career
Name:	USS Markab
Builder:	Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi
Launched:	21 December 1940, as SS Mormacpenn
Acquired:	2 June 1941
Commissioned:	15 June 1941, as USS Hamul
Decommissioned:	January 1947
Reclassified:	AK-31 (Cargo ship), 15 June 1941 AD-21 (Destroyer tender), 24 January 1942
Recommissioned:	26 February 1952
Decommissioned:	31 July 1955
Recommissioned:	1 July 1960
Decommissioned:	19 December 1969
Reclassified:	AR-23 (Repair ship), 15 April 1960
Struck:	1 September 1976
Fate:	Transferred to the Maritime Administration, 12 March 1976 Sold for scrapping, 12 April 1977
General characteristics
Class and type:	Hamul-class destroyer tender
Displacement:	8,560 long tons (8,697 t) light 18,900 long tons (19,203 t) full
Length:	492 ft (150 m)
Beam:	69 ft (21 m)
Draft:	28 ft 6 in (8.7 m)
Propulsion:	Geared turbine, 8,500 shp (6,338 kW), single propeller
Speed:	17 knots (31 km/h; 20 mph)
Complement:	864 officers and enlisted
Armament:	• 1 × 5″/38 caliber gun • 4 × 3″/50 caliber guns • 2 × twin 40 mm gun mounts • 8 × twin 20 mm gun mounts
Service record
Operations:	World War II Korean War Vietnam War
Awards:	1 battle star (Vietnam)

USS Markab (AD-21) was a Hamul-class destroyer tender named for Markab, the third-brightest star in the constellation Pegasus.

Built as the cargo ship Mormacpenn by Ingalls Shipbuilding Company of Pascagoula, Mississippi; launched 21 December 1940; acquired by the United States Navy on 2 June 1941 at Charleston, South Carolina; and commissioned as USS Markab (AK 31) on 15 June 1941 with Commander Allen D. Brown in command.

Service history

World War II

Cargo ship, 1941–1942

Markab operated with Atlantic amphibious forces in the Hampton Roads area until 1 October 1941. She then loaded cargo at Jersey City, New Jersey for delivery to American troops recently stationed in Greenland. Returning to Brooklyn, New York on 21 November, she took on board supplies for distribution to various bases in the Caribbean. World War II engulfed the United States before Markab steamed into Ensenada Honda, Puerto Rico, her first port of call. The new wartime demands on the Navy caused this voyage to terminate at Mobile, Alabama on 8 January 1942 where she was converted to a destroyer tender. Sixteen days later she was redesignated AD-21, but it was 27 September before Commander Brown again commanded a fully-commissioned vessel.

Destroyer tender, 1942–1947

After shakedown Markab transited the Panama Canal on 27 October to join Destroyer Force, Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor. Ships recently returned from the battle for the Solomon Islands made use of her facilities for three months prior to her departure on 6 February 1943 to service the North Pacific Force. In the year she remained in the Aleutians, she rendered noteworthy service in helping to prepare vessels for both the Attu and Kiska invasions. Steaming to San Francisco late in January, 1944 the ship prepared for an even more extensive Pacific tour.

She departed the West Coast on 26 February and worked her way toward the war zone. As a part of Service Squadron 10, Markab overhauled, repaired, and replenished destroyers and destroyer escorts at Pearl Harbor, Majuro, and Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands, and Ulithi in the Carolines. Having assisted in preparing and sustaining the ships fighting in the bloody conquests of the Marianas and Iwo Jima, she sailed for the Philippines on 16 February 1945. Her work force now overhauled and readied landing craft for the assault on Okinawa. During June she played an important part in preparing TF 38 for the last great raids on Japan.

Following the Japanese surrender, Markab refitted and restocked ships bound for the occupation areas of Japan, Korea, and China. Steaming in their wake, she arrived Sasebo, Japan on 1 November and early in January 1946 joined the 7th Fleet at Shanghai, China. Her services in the western Pacific ended 2 April as Markab commenced the long voyage home for inactivation. The ship off loaded at New Orleans beginning 6 May. At Orange, Texas on January, 1947 she decommissioned and entered the Atlantic Reserve Fleet.

Korea, 1952–1955

When the Cold War turned hot in Korea, the resultant expansion of the Navy brought the temporary reactivation of Markab. Recommissioned on 26 February 1952 with Captain Melvyn H. McCoy in command, she remained on the East Coast servicing Destroyer Force ships. Operating initially at Newport, Rhode Island and after April, 1955 at Fall River, Massachusetts, Markab also participated in the semiannual fleet exercises. On 9 February she departed on a voyage to Charleston where she decommissioned on 31 July.

Vietnam, 1960–1969

USS Markab (AR-23) at Yokosuka, Japan in 1966 with destroyers alongside. To port: the Radford, the James E. Kyes, and two unidentified destroyers; and to starboard, the Everett F. Larson.

Into a crisis-beset world she emerged again in 1960. Towed to Mare Island Navy Yard in California, she was redesignated as Repair Ship AR-23 on 15 April and recommissioned on 1 July with Captain Edwin Monroe Westbrook, Jr. in command. Homeported at Alameda Naval Air Station, the repair ship sailed to Pearl Harbor late in October, returning 22 December. Between 5 July 1962 and 14 September 1966 she projected her services even more widely, steaming three times on seven month WestPac deployments. On the first such voyage Markab returned a priceless Chinese art treasures exhibit to Taiwan. On the next two tours, ships returning from combat patrol off the coast of Vietnam increasingly required her facilities. Interspersed with the work periods in the Philippines and Japan were brief rest and rehabilitation periods at Hong Kong and Buckner Bay, Okinawa. She continued this pattern of West Coast duty and western Pacific deployment into 1969. Markab earned one campaign star for Vietnam War service.

Decommissioned again on 19 December 1969 at the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility in Vallejo, California, Markab was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on 1 September 1976. Custody was transferred to the Maritime Administration who disposed of the ship by MARAD sale 12 April 1977, her final fate unknown.

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One Day International at Sharjah in 1998 (Australia v India)

The Sharjah Cricket Association Stadium is in the emirate of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. It was originally constructed in the early 1980s and has been much improved over the years.

Test matches

One of the few Test Cricket Grounds at which a Test match has been played not involving a home country participant (and the only one in a non Test playing country) Sharjah was the venue for four Test matches in 2002. Because of security and safety concerns in Pakistan (following the September 11th attacks and its aftermath) the ground was chosen as a neutral venue to host two Test matches between Pakistan and the West Indies in February and two Test matches between Pakistan and Australia in October.

One Day Internationals

Between 1984 and 2003 the Sharjah ground was the venue for 198 One Day International held as part of commercially sponsored one day tournaments involving three or four international teams. Sharjah was a popular venue attracting good crowds mostly from the South Asian population of the United Arab Emirates. The tournaments were organised by the “The Cricketers Benefit Fund Series (CBFS)” which had been established in 1981 by Abdul Rahman Bukhatir, and whose main aim was to honour cricketers of the past and present generations from India and Pakistan, with benefit purses in recognition of their services to the game of cricket. The stadium initially started with a few limited seats and very modest facilities but by 2002 had a 27,000 capacity and floodlights.

Since 2003 the increasingly crowded cricket calendar has precluded the holding of any major international matches at Sharjah although the stadium has been the venue for certain other matches, for example in the 2004 ICC Intercontinental Cup. A significant reason on why the use of Sharjah as an international cricketing venue has declined is due to the surfacing of match fixing allegations. This led to the Indian government banning the national cricket team from playing at Sharjah. Since then, the new 20,000 seat Sheikh Zayed Cricket Stadium in Abu Dhabi has become the preferred venue for cricket in the UAE.

Match fixing

Sharjah was at the centre of Sir Paul Condon’s investigations into corruption in cricket. Although the report did not conclusively single out the venue much controversy raged. BBC Cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew said in 2001 : “Sharjah has been pinpointed as being the centre of this activity and, again, this is entirely plausible. I would swear under oath that two of the dozen or so matches I have witnessed on that desert ground over the years were fixed”. On the other hand Sharjah tournament organiser, and former Pakistan cricketer, Asif Iqbal denied this strongly:”To my mind, all the matches in Sharjah were fair and honest cricketing encounters”.

See also

• List of Test cricket grounds

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Hispaniolan Giant Treefrog
Conservation status
Endangered (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Amphibia Order: Anura Family: Hylidae Genus: Osteopilus Species: O. vastus
Binomial name
Osteopilus vastus (Cope, 1871)
Synonyms
Hyla vasta Cope, 1871

The Hispaniolan Giant Treefrog (Osteopilus vastus) is a species of frog in the Hylidae family. It is found in the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests, subtropical or tropical moist montanes, and rivers. It is threatened by habitat loss.

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Fisher Automobile Company in Indianapolis, Indiana, is believed to have been the first automobile dealership in the United States. It carried multiple models of Oldsmobiles, Reos, Packards, Stoddard-Daytons, Stutz and others.

In 1891, Carl Graham Fisher (1874-1939) opened a bicycle shop with his two brothers. Regarded as a promotional genius, Fisher was also involved in bicycle racing and stunts.

Around 1900, the national bicycle craze turned to a newer invention: the automobile. In partnership with his friend Barney Oldfield, Fisher converted the bicycle shop to handle automobiles, telling his fellow racer “I don’t see why the automobile can’t be made to do everything the bicycle has done.”

Fisher promoted the automobile dealership as he had his bicycle shop with carefully planned stunts. He flew an automobile over Indianapolis supported by a hot air balloon, and pushing another off the roof of his four story building in downtown Indianapolis.

Fisher made millions with the sale and manufacture of an early form of headlights, became involved with automobile racing and was a principal in the building of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and the Lincoln Highway and Dixie Highway, two of the earlier paved roads across the United States.

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The Paradise Snare is the first book in the Han Solo Trilogy, by Ann C. Crispin. It was first released in 1997.

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He was a child without a past, a Corellian street urchin, abandoned, foraging for scraps of food, when the cruel Garris Shrike whisked him away to a nomadic band of spacefaring criminals. Now, years later, chafing under Shrike’s sadistic tyranny, driven by dreams of adventure and glory, Han fights his way free. His goal: to become an Imperial Navy pilot. But first he needs hands-on experience flying spacecraft, and for that he takes a job on the planet Ylesia - a steaming world of religious fanaticism, illicit drugs, and alluring sensuality…where dreams are destroyed and escape is impossible.

Summary

Nineteen-year-old Han Solo, a skilled swoop pilot and a criminal, escapes his life of drudgery under Garris Shrike and acquires transport to the exotic planet Ylesia, the site of a fanatical religious colony. Using a false identity, he takes a job as a pilot. He discovers that the religious colony is merely a front to hide the illegal slave trade on the planet, and helps one of the slaves, Pilgrim 921 or Bria Tharen, to escape. Before they leave the planet, he steals a number of valuable artifacts from the high priest’s collection, intending to sell them for profit. He falls in love with Bria, but realizes that, due to his shady past, he will never be accepted by Bria’s aristocratic parents. Bria goes with him to Coruscant, wanting him to join the Imperial Academy. Han is unable to retrieve money from the sale of the stolen goods, however, and Bria leaves him, knowing he will not be able to support her. Han, although broken-hearted, has his retinal patterns changed and takes on his own identity, deciding to follow her wishes and join the Academy.

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Rowland’s Castle (or Rowlands Castle; the apostrophe is sometimes disputed) is a village in the East Hampshire district of Hampshire, England. It is 4.7 miles (2.9km) north of Havant, on the Hampshire/West Sussex border.

The village lies in the area of the former Forest of Bere on the eastern boundary of Hampshire. To the east in the parish of Stoughton, West Sussex is Stansted Park.

The village

It is largely a quiet residential village, with four pubs and a few small shops, including a hardware store and local convenience store. The village takes its name from a Motte-and-bailey castle, the remains of which are situated to the south of Redhill Road and west of the railway line, east of the current centre of the village.

Former Van Morrison guitarist Herbie Armstrong operates The Fountain Inn in the centre of the village next to the Village Green. His weekly live music evenings attract music lovers from across the region, and have been known to include some famous faces; Mick Hucknall on one occasion.

In 1994 Stage 5 of the Tour de France (that stage taking place in south east England), passed through Rowland’s Castle, attracting large crowds during one of the busiest days in the village’s history.

Transport links

Rowland’s Castle is served by a railway station on the Portsmouth Direct Line to London Waterloo or Portsmouth. There is just one bus route. It is route 27 which is operated by Emsworth and District.

The village is crossed by three long-distance footpaths, the Monarch’s Way, Sussex Border Path and Staunton Way.

History

The Romans made pottery, brick and tiles at Rowland’s Castle because suitable clay was available. A castle was built at some time between 1066 and 1199 and is first documented under the name ROLOKECASTEL in 1381. It was in good repair in the twelfth century, when Henry II spent several days there in hunting and amusement, but was abandoned by the 15th century. The site was damaged by the railway and quarrying in the 19th century and now only the earthworks and a few small areas of wall remain.

Geology

Rowland’s Castle lies on the northern edge of the Neogene deposits of the Hampshire Basin. The north of the village lies on the chalk of the southern South Downs. In the south is the Reading Formation which gave rise to the former local brick industry.

References

1. ^ “Parish Headcounts, Area: Rowland’s Castle CP”. Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. 2001. http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=3&b=795060&c=Rowlands+Castle&d=16&e=15&g=449864&i=1001×1003x1004&o=1&m=0&r=1&s=1207247843984&enc=1&dsFamilyId=779. Retrieved on 2008-04-03. 
2. ^ Hanks, P. Hodges F., Mills, A.D. & Room A. (2002), The Oxford Names Companion, Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-860561-7
3. ^ “Rowlands Castle”. Hampshire County Council. http://www3.hants.gov.uk/localpages/south-east/havant/rowlands-castle.htm. Retrieved on 2007-07-01. 
4. ^ British Geological Survey (1998), England and Wales Sheet 316 Fareham, 1:50,000 series geological map, Keyworth, Nottingham: British Geological Survey, ISBN 0-7518-3168-9

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Ken Ward is an environmental activist who served as Executive Director of NJPIRG and RIPIRG, Deputy Executive Director, Greenpeace USA, cofounder of a number of organizations, including Green Corps (Senior Trainer), National Environmental Law Center (President), Public Interest GRFX, Environmental Endowment for New Jersey, Fund for Public Interest Research and AmeriCorps Water Watch. His Response to The Death of Environmentalism, published by Grist, March 2005, has evolved into the Bright Lines project. Ward is a graduate of Hampshire College (entered F1975). He is currently at work on the Jamaica Plain Green House.

Writings

Ward, Ken (2005). “A Response to ‘Death of Environmentalism’: Part I: The Problem”. Grist Magazine (March). http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2005/3/14/13306/3053. 

Ward, Ken (2005). “A Response to ‘Death of Environmentalism’: Part II: Framing and the Environmental Core”. Grist Magazine (March). http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2005/3/15/11455/2147. 

Ward, Ken (2005). “A Response to ‘Death of Environmentalism’: Part III: Environmental Justice and Protest”. Grist Magazine (March). http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2005/3/16/131145/394. 

Ward, Ken (2005). “A Response to ‘Death of Environmentalism’: Part IV: The Problematic Role of Environmental Funders”. Grist Magazine (March). http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2005/3/17/131813/576. 

Ward, Ken (2005). “A Response to ‘Death of Environmentalism’: Part V: Conclusion and Road Forward”. Grist Magazine (March). http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2005/3/18/145620/921. 

Ward, Ken (2007). “Bright Lines: An Introduction”. Grist Magazine (February). http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/2/6/171750/4623. 

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Robert Evander McNair (December 14, 1923 – November 17, 2007) was governor of the state of South Carolina from 1965 to 1971.

Biography

McNair was born in Cades, a town in Williamsburg County, South Carolina. He married Josephine Robinson of Allendale, South Carolina in 1944. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II, being awarded a bronze star for his service. After the war he completed his bachelors degree in 1947 at the University of South Carolina, followed by a law degree at the same school in 1948. While attending USC, McNair served as the first Governor of the South Carolina Student Legislature. He practiced law in Moncks Corner, South Carolina and Allendale, South Carolina from which he was elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives in 1951. He was elected lieutenant governor in 1962, then succeeded Donald S. Russell in 1965 when Russell resigned with the understanding that McNair would appoint him to a then-vacant United States Senate seat, which McNair did.

McNair was a Democrat and a pro-education governor. After his term as governor, he began a law firm in Columbia. He was inducted into the South Carolina Hall of Fame, and awarded an honorary doctorate in 2005 by Francis Marion University, a school he signed into creation while governor in 1970. On May 21, 2009 McNair was inducted into the South Carolina Business Hall of Fame.

McNair was governor during the Orangeburg Massacre in 1968, which he blamed on Black Power advocates, and called it a stain on the state’s good record in civil rights. He said it was “one of the saddest days in the history of South Carolina.” Following this, McNair became much more proactive in working to defuse tensions that were present during the Civil Rights era and the integration of the public schools.

McNair was diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor during a checkup on September 28, 2007, which he died from in Charleston on November 17.

The following week, on November 25, 2007, the late Governor McNair’s widow, former First Lady of South Carolina, Josephine Robinson McNair, died at age 84.

On December 19, 2007, about a month after her parents died, Claudia Crawford McNair, died at age 50. She was from Jamestown, which is located in Berkeley County.

On January 22, 2008, Governor and Mrs. McNair’s only son, Robert E. McNair, Jr., of Columbia, died at age 60, following a 7-year battle with cancer.

References

1. ^ Edgar, Walter, ed. The South Carolina Encyclopedia, University of South Carolina Press, 2006, pp. 615-616, ISBN 1-57003-598-2
2. ^ Former Gov. Robert McNair hospitalized with brain tumor
3. ^ Former SC Gov. Robert McNair dies at 83

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Patrick Quinlan is an American freelance writer, political activist, critically acclaimed author, and a Maine Green Independent Party candidate for Governor of Maine in the 2010 election .

His crime thriller, Smoked, was published in the United States and Canada by St. Martin’s Press in April 2006, and in the United Kingdom and many countries throughout the world by Hodder Headline in March 2006. It has been translated into Portuguese, Italian and Dutch, and film rights were optioned in 2007.

Quinlan’s second crime thriller, The Takedown, appeared in May and June 2007, from both St. Martin’s and Headline. His third crime thriller, The Drop-Off is scheduled to appear in July, 2008. He is signed to deliver a fourth novel for publication in 2009.

Quinlan is the co-author, with Blade Runner film star Rutger Hauer, of Hauer’s memoir, All Those Moments, released by HarperCollins in April, 2007.

Quinlan has been featured or favorably reviewed in numerous publications, including The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, The Times, The Observer, The Guardian, The New York Times, and Entertainment Weekly.

In 2002, Quinlan served as campaign manager for State Representative John Eder of Maine, who at that time became the only Green Party member in the United States elected to a state house seat. Quinlan also served as a consultant to Eder’s 2004 campaign, and as Eder’s legislative aide at the Maine State House during 2004 and 2005.

Quinlan attended Regis High School, a Jesuit high school in Manhattan.

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