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Sir William Godolphin was a 16th century English Member of Parliament. He sat several times as Member for Cornwall during the reigns of Henry VIII and Edward VI, and also served five times as High Sheriff of Cornwall, and was Warden of the Stannaries. He acquired a high military reputation, notably at the Siege of Boulogne, Crew in his Survey of Cornwall saying of him “He demeaned himself very valiantly beyond seas, as appeared by the scars he brought home, no less to the beautifying of his fame, than the disfiguring of his face”. Sir William lived to an advanced age. He married Blanch Langdon and had three daughters, but leaving no male issue his estates passed to his nephew, Francis Godolphin.

References

• Burke’s Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies (2nd edition, London: John Russell Smith, 1844) [1]
• Collins’ Peerage of England (London, 1768) [2]
• ‘The Scilly Islands’, Magna Britannia: volume 3: Cornwall (1814), pp. 330-337. [3]
• D Brunton & D H Pennington, Members of the Long Parliament (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954)

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Colin Turkington
2009 BTCC driver
Nationality	Northern Irish
Nickname	-
Car #	4
Team	Team RAC
Car	BMW 320si E90
Championships	0
Wins	14
Podium finishes	53
Poles	8
Fastest laps	17
Debut season	2002
Best championship result	3rd (2006)
2008 position	4th (212 points)

Colin Henry Turkington (born 21 March 1982 in Portadown) is an Northern Irish auto racing driver. He began his racing career in karting, moved on to the Ford Credit Fiesta Zetec Championship (which he won in 2001) and then onto the British Touring Car Championship in 2002.

Turkington driving the Team RAC-run MG at Brands Hatch in 2006.

Turkington driving the Team RAC-run BMW at Oulton Park in 2007.

Turkington driving the Team RAC-run BMW at Croft in 2008, where he won two of the three races.

His first BTCC drive was in a year-old MG sponsored by the pop group Atomic Kitten. He did well enough to move up to the manufacturer-backed team for 2003, winning his first race at Brands Hatch and finishing 8th in the championship than year. Despite the loss of official MG backing he finished 6th in 2004, adding another win to his tally at his home circuit of Mondello Park.

For 2005 he replaced champion James Thompson at Vauxhall. While Yvan Muller challenged for the title, Colin finished down in 6th place, despite taking pole at the season-opener ^[1]. This performance was not good enough though to retain the seat for the following season.

For 2006, he rejoined West Surrey Racing to drive an RAC backed MG ZS alongside Rob Collard, driving car number 6. A strong first half of the season made him the closest challenger to Matt Neal for the title ^[2], although Jason Plato pipped him to 2nd overall in the final race of the year due to some bad luck when in strong scoring positions. Late in the season the team switched to bio-ethanol fuel ^[3], nearly becoming the first team to win a race with it. Overall he took 2 wins and 14 podiums.

For 2007 the MG was no longer eligible to win the championship outright, so the team have purchased two BMW 320si E90’s, with Tom-Onslow Cole joining Colin. His first win (and BMW’s first in the BTCC for over a decade) came in round 4 at Croft ^[4], where he also took a third place finish ^[5]. After the team swept the front row at Snetterton ^[6] he won race 1, only to be disqualified as the car was underweight ^[7].

Turkington was elected to the MSA’s Race Elite Scheme in April 2007, along with 5 other drivers in various British series. He has also done TV work, presenting a BBC Northern Ireland look at environmental damage in 2002 ^[8]

Turkington competed with WSR in the Brands Hatch and Macau rounds of the World Touring Car Championship in 2007 as a wild card. At Brands, he finished third in the first race on the ‘virtual podium’ and finished fourth in the second race but as his car wasn’t homologated because of its sequential gearbox he did not collect race points. In Macau, he finished fourteenth and eighth in the two races.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Colin Turkington

• Official Website
• Team website
• btcc:action profile

References

Amaranthus californicus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Caryophyllales Family: Amaranthaceae Genus: Amaranthus Species: A. californicus
Binomial name
Amaranthus californicus (Moq.) S.Wats.

Amaranthus californicus is a species of flowering plant in the amaranth family known by the common name California amaranth. It is a glabrous monoecious annual that is native to most of the western United States and Canada. The plant grows from 10 to 50 centimeters tall. It is found in moist flats or near bodies of water, and blooms from summer to fall.

References

• Jepson Manual Treatment
• USDA Plants Profile
• Flora of North America: Scientific and Taxonomic Information
• Photo gallery

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The XM84 Stun Grenade is a non-fragmentation, non-lethal “Flash And Bang” stun grenade that is intended to provide a reliable, effective non-lethal means of neutralizing & disorienting enemy personnel.

The US Army Military Police Corps is involved in missions that require the use of a stun hand grenade (diversionary device) to confuse, disorient, or momentarily distract a potential threat. The device will be used to apply the minimum force necessary by tactical and non-tactical forces while performing missions of hostage rescue and capture of criminals, terrorists and other adversaries. The congressionally mandated Soldier Enhancement Program (SEP), of which one purpose is to enhance the survivability items used by the US Army soldier, is the initiative to provide this increased level of protection.

The XM84 provides a loud bang and a bright, blinding flash of light.

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Ruffo may refer to:

• Bruno Ruffo, an Italian motorcycle road racer
• Ernesto Ruffo Appel, an American-born governor of Baja, California
• Marco Ruffo, an Italian architect
• Titta Ruffo, an Italian baritone
• Victoria Ruffo, a Mexican actress, sister of Gabriela
• Vincenzo Ruffo, an Italian composer of the Renaissance

This page or section lists people with the surname Ruffo. If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person’s given name(s) to their surname.

In computing, the feed: URI scheme (sometimes referred to, imprecisely, as the feed protocol; see Protocol (computing)) is a non-standard URI scheme designed to facilitate subscription to web feeds; specifically, it is intended that a news aggregator be launched whenever a hyperlink to a feed: URI is clicked in a web browser.

The scheme is used to flag a document in a syndication format such as Atom or RSS. The document is served over HTTP.

Critics hold that the purpose of the feed: URI scheme is better served by MIME types,^[1] or that it is not a user-friendly solution for the problem of feed subscription, since a user who has not installed the appropriate software will receive an unhelpful browser error message on clicking a link to a feed: URI.

The feed: URI scheme is currently supported by several popular desktop aggregators, including NetNewsWire, FeedDemon, Safari, and Flock, although as of 2006^[update] no effort seems to be underway to officially register the scheme with a standards body.

Syntax

The syntax for a feed: URI may be expressed in Backus–Naur form as follows:

<feed_uri> ::= "feed:" <absolute_uri> | "feed://" <hier_part>

Specifically, a feed: URI may be formed from any absolute URI (such as an absolute URL) by prepending feed:, and as a special case, may be formed from any absolute http: URI by replacing the initial http:// with feed://. Therefore, the following are two examples of valid feed: URIs:

feed://example.com/entries.atom
feed:https://example.com/entries.atom

There is also a proposed extension of the syntax that supports metadata and embedded instructions to the aggregator.^[2]

References

1. ^ Nemerson, Evan (September 10. 2004). “On the feed:// URI scheme“. Archived from the original on Jun 14, 2006. http://web.archive.org/web/20060614182102/http://www.coeus-group.com/en/archives/187-On-the-feed-URI-scheme.html. Retrieved on 2009-06-04. 
2. ^ “FEED PROTOCOL - What are rss: and feed: links ?“. brindys. http://www.brindys.com/winrss/feedformat.html. Retrieved on 2009-06-04. 

External links

• The feed URI scheme — pre-draft version of a specification from 2004
• The feed protocol format — including proposal for extensions

Ian McLeod (born March 5, 1954^[1]) is a retired South African football referee. His other occupation is as a headmaster in school teaching.^[2]

Career

He became a FIFA referee in 1993.^[2] In 1996, he was selected for the African Nations Cup in South Africa, controlling only one game, the 2-0 win by Algeria over Sierra Leone on January 18, 1996.^[3]

He handled two matches in the 1997 FIFA Confederations Cup - Saudi Arabia versus Mexico on December 14, 1997, and Brazil against Mexico on December 16, 1997.^[4]

McLeod took charge of two matches in the 1998 African Nations Cup in Burkina Faso - the game between Ghana and Tunisia on February 9, 1998, and the encounter involving Ivory Coast and Egypt on February 21, 1998.^[5]

He was appointed to officiate in the 1998 FIFA World Cup in France, and took control of just one match, the 0-0 draw in Group D on June 19, 1998 between Spain and Paraguay, played at Stade Geoffroy-Guichard, St. Etienne.^[6]

After his retirement from active refereeing, he assisted the Council of South African Football Associations (COSAFA) as a Match commissioner, overseeing the COSAFA Castle Cup Group C semi-final between Botswana and Namibia in July 2007.^[7][8] He is also chairman of the South African Football Association Technical Committee.^[9]

References

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Anatoly Shalyto
Born	May 28, 1948 (1948-05-28) (age 61) Leningrad, USSR
Residence	USSR,  Russia
Nationality	Russian
Fields	Computer Science, Software Engineering
Institutions	SPbSU ITMO
Alma mater	SPb ETU “LETI”
Known for	Technology of Automata-Based Programming named Switch-technology, Open Project Documentation Initiative, “Save the best in the universities of Russia”
Notable awards	Russian State Government award in education, 2008

Anatoly Abramovich Shalyto (Russian: Анато́лий Абра́мович Шалы́то, May 28 1948, Leningrad, Soviet Union) is a Russian scientist, doctor of sciences, professor, awarded by Russian State Government in 2008 for achievements in education, developer of technology for Automata-based programming named “Switch-technology“, initiator of Open Project Documentation Initiative and of “Save the best in the universities of Russia”.

Main Achievements

Anatoly Shalyto introduced a Switch-technology — technology for Automata-Based Programming. He is also a coauthor of a UniMod tool that supports Automata-Based Programming.

Initiator of Foundation for Open Project Documentation.

Author of a series of articles devoted to the problems of Computer Science and education in Russia.

Anatoly Shalyto also has scientific results in Boolean functions and Logic Control.

Papers

• Artyukhov V., Kondrat`ev V., Shalyto A. Generating Boolean Functions Via Arithmetic Polinomials, Automation and Remote Control, 1988, vol. 49, No 4, pp.508-515.
• Kuznetsov B., Shalyto A. Realization of Boolean Formulas by Linear Binary Grafs, I. Synthesize and Analysis, Journal of Computer and Systems Sciences International, 1994, Vol. 33, No. 5; II. Estimations of Number and Total Length of Paths, 1995, Vol. 34, No. 3; III. Optimization of Number and Total Length of Paths, 1995, Vol. 34, No. 5.
• Shalyto A. Algorithmic Graph Schemes and Transition Graphs: Their Use in Software Realization of Logical Control Algorithms. 1,2., Automation and Remote Control, 1996, Vol. 57, No. 6, pp. 890-897, No. 6, pp. 1027-1045.
• Kuznetsov B., Shalyto A. The Method of Independent Fragments for Constraction of Linearized Structured Graf-Charts of Algorithms that Implement Systems of Boolean Formulas, Automation and Remote Control, 1998, vol. 59, No 9.

• Kiselev V., Shalyto A. Study of Transidents in One-Contour Logical Circuits, Journal of Computer and Systems Sciences International, 1999, Vol. 38, No. 5, pp. 693-697.
• Shalyto A., Software Automation Design: Algorithmization and Programming of Problems of Logical Control, Journal of Computer and Systems Sciences International, 2000, Vol. 39, No. 6, pp. 899-916.
• Shalyto A. Logic Control and “Reactive” Systems: Algorithmization and Programming, Automation and Remote Control, 2001, Vol. 62, No. 1, pp. 1-29. online version.
• Shalyto A., Tukkel N. SWITCH-Technology: An Automated Approach to Developing Software for Reactive Systems, Programming and Computer Software, 2001, Vol. 27, No. 5, pp. 260-276.
• Shalyto A., Tukkel N. Translating Iterative Algorithms into Automation Ones, Programming and Computer Software, 2002, Vol. 28, No. 5, pp. 250-260.
• Shalyto A. Technology of Automata-Based Programming, 2004.
• Shalyto A. Foundation for Open Project Documentation, 2004.
• Yartsev B., Korneev G., Kotov V., Shalyto A. Automata-Based Programming of the Reactive Multi-Agent Control Systems, 2005 International Conference on “Integration of Knowledge Intensive Multi-Agent Systems: Modeling, Exploration and Engineering”. KIMAS-05. Boston: IEEE Boston Section, 2005, pp.449-453.
• Gurov V., Mazin M., Narvsky A., Shalyto A. UniMod: Method and Tool for Development of Reactive Object-Oriented Programs with Explicit States Emphasis, Proceedings of St. Petersburg IEEE Chapters. Year 2005. International Conference “110 Anniversary of Radio Invention”, SPb ETU “LETI”, 2005, vol. 2, pp. 106-110.
• Gurov V., Mazin V., Narvsky A., Shalyto A. Tools for Support of Automata-Based Programming, Programming and Computer Software, 2007, Vol. 33, No. 6, pp. 343–355.
• Bulletin of St Petersburg State University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics. 2008. Volume 53. Automata-based programming. (rus) http://books.ifmo.ru/ntv/ntv/53/ntv_53.pdf
• Polikarpova N. I., Shalyto A. A. Automata-based programming] SPb.: Piter. 2009 (rus) http://is.ifmo.ru/books/_book.pdf

External links

• Computer Technologies Department website
• St.-Petersburg State University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics website
• Automata-Based Programming on The Code Project
• Foundation for Open Project Program Documentation on The Code Project
• UniMod tool website

Dover
—  Ghost town  —
Dover Location of Dover in Utah
Coordinates: 39°12′27″N 111°53′46″W / 39.2075°N 111.89611°W / 39.2075; -111.89611Coordinates: 39°12′27″N 111°53′46″W / 39.2075°N 111.89611°W / 39.2075; -111.89611
Country	United States
State	Utah
County	Sanpete
Founded	1877
Abandoned	1930s
Named for	Dover

Dover is a ghost town located in Sanpete County, Utah, United States. The site lies west of Fayette across the Sevier River.

History

The land was first settled in 1877–1878 by forty-five families led by William Robinson. They found the soil was good, but water somewhat scarce. By 1879 they had a schoolhouse, also used for church and civic functions, and a post office, which operated until 1895. There were also two general stores, where residents typically paid for goods in kind with eggs.^[1]

When Utah Territory achieved statehood on January 4, 1896, Dover’s celebrations took a tragic turn. They had no cannon to fire, instead exploding some dynamite with a well-driving hammer.^[2] The hammer, which had been through many such celebrations before,^[1] blew apart, injuring several people.^[2]

In the years 1910–1916, irrigation companies in Millard County dammed the Sevier River some distance to the north.^[3] The reservoir covered parts of Dover’s farmland, driving out some of the residents.^[2] A severe drought in the 1930s finished off the town; a few houses were moved, and most of the others were later torn down.^[1] Nothing remains but some foundations and fallen buildings, and a memorial cemetery.

References

External links

• Dover at GhostTowns.com

v • d • e Municipalities and communities of Sanpete County, Utah County seat: Manti Cities Centerfield | Ephraim | Fairview | Fountain Green | Gunnison | Manti | Moroni | Mount Pleasant | Spring City Towns Fayette | Mayfield | Sterling | Wales Unincorporated communities Axtell | Chester | Freedom | Indianola | Milburn Ghost towns Clarion | Dover

Michael Gould (born 3 May 1961, Ealing) is a British actor.

Selected work

Stage

• Kathryn Hunter’s 2009 touring Royal Shakespeare Company production of Othello as Iago.
• In Extremis (Shakespeare’s Globe, 2007)

TV and film

• The Long Walk to Finchley (2008)
• Raising the Roof (1972)

External links

• Michael Gould at the Internet Movie Database