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Ivan Yates (born 23 October 1959), is an Irish businessman and former senior politician. He was elected as a Fine Gael Teachta Dála (TD) representing the Wexford constituency at the 1981 general election and at each election until his retirement from politics in 2002.^[1] He has also served as Minister for Agriculture, Food and Forestry from 1994–1997.

Yates was born in Enniscorthy, County Wexford. He is a member of the Church of Ireland and was educated at St. Columba’s College, Rathfarnham and Gurteen Agricultural College, County Tipperary. Aged only 21 years and 8 months, when first elected in 1981, he was the youngest member of the 22nd Dáil and is also the fourth youngest ever member of Dáil Éireann after William J. Murphy, Lorcan Allen and Kathleen O’Connor. He became involved in local politics when he became a member of Wexford County Council, serving until 1995 and again since 1999. he joined the Fine Gael front bench in 1988 and was appointed Minister for Agriculture, Food and Forestry when the party came to power in 1994.^[2]

Yates oversaw a particularly difficult period for Irish agriculture. Farmers saw the prices they received for their produce plummet, he stopped live animal exports in response to controversy over cruelty in shipping and took on the veterinary union over the tuberculosis eradication scheme. He also had to deal with a sharp rise in the number of BSE cases during 1996 and the consequent banning of Irish beef by Russia. When John Bruton resigned as leader of Fine Gael in January 2001, there was much speculation that Yates would be a contender for the vacant position. Instead, he announced to his colleagues that he was leaving full-time politics to concentrate on his family and business interests and that he would not be contesting the next general election.

He is the chairman and managing director of Celtic Bookmakers, an Irish chain of betting shops, and has expanded the company from its Wexford base to a chain of 64 shops around the country.

Yates’ leadership has been very much in evidence in the bookmaking industry. He has been heading a group of bookmakers in a court case against the British Horseracing Board (BHB) over data rights. Although the issue has yet to be resolved in the Irish courts, UK bookmaker William Hill has already defeated the BHB on this issue in the Court of Appeal and the European Court of Justice. Yates is hoping that the court will also force the BHB to pay back the £15m a year that Irish bookmakers have been paying the BHB for data rights since 2002.

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Hyde Park Firehouse
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Firehouse in 2007
Location:	Hyde Park, NY
Nearest city:	Poughkeepsie
Coordinates:	41°47′28″N 73°56′11″W / 41.79111°N 73.93639°W / 41.79111; -73.93639
Built/Founded:	1905[1]
Architect:	John O’Donnell, William J. Beardsley
Architectural style(s):	Renaissance Revival
Governing body:	Town of Hyde Park Historical Society
Added to NRHP:	1993
NRHP Reference#:	93000859

The Hyde Park Firehouse is located along US 9 in downtown Hyde Park, New York, USA. It was built in 1905 as headquarters for the Eagle Engine and Rescue fire company, which later became part of the Hyde Park Fire Department and moved to newer quarters a block further up Route 9. Architects John O’Donnell and William Beardsley designed it in a Renaissance Revival style.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. Today it serves as a museum for the Town of Hyde Park Historical Society.^[1]

References

Hudson Valley portal

1. ^ ^{a b} “Town of Hyde Park Historical Society Museum“. http://hydeparklibrary.org/h_s.html#ART_2. Retrieved 2007-11-17. 

External links

• Museum webpage

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Tarnel Abbott (b. ca. 1972) is an award-winning free speech advocate, activist, and librarian from Richmond, California. She is the great-granddaughter of Jack London.^[1][2] Abbott is also a prominent fixture in local politics and council meetings.

Activism

Tarnel Abbott is the librarian of the Richmond Library and has used her position to advocate for free speech. In 2006 the California Library Assocaiation awarded her the Zoia Horn Intellectual Freedom Award^[3] for her community activism, a collaborative film series with the ACLU, banned books displays.^[1] She was also applauded for lobbying for a counter PATRIOT Act resolution from the city council to prevent government snooping into library records.^[1] Abbott has also participated in delegations to Richmond’s sister city of Regla, Cuba and received a display of over 100 paintings which display the history of that largely Afro-Cuban and similarly industrial and refinery-laden city.^[1] Abbott frequently protests with community groups at Chevron USA’s corporate headquarters in nearby San Ramon. She is an opponent of casino developments and supports transforming the city into a green economy.

She serves as a councilmember of the Zeneca/Former Stauffer Chemical Company Community Advisory Group^[4]

Tarnel Abbott is an accomplished artist, making various displays, paintings, and dioramas depicting everyday life in Richmond—particularly industrial pollution and the Tent Cities Movement, which have earned her praise.^[5]

Family

Abbott’s husband is palm tree farmer Robert Fowler.^[1] She is a fan and historian of her great-grandfather, although she does not embellish.^[6] She attended the University of California, Berkeley, as did her ancestor Jack London.

Notes

Enders is an unincorporated community in Chase County, Nebraska, United States. It lies along U.S. Route 6 and Nebraska Highway 61 ^[1] southeast of the city of Imperial, the county seat of Chase County.^[2] Its elevation is 3,150 feet (960 m), and it is located at 40°27′19″N 101°32′2″W / 40.45528°N 101.53389°W / 40.45528; -101.53389 (40.4552735, -101.5337781).^[3] Although Enders is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 69027.^[4]

Enders was established on the present site in 1890. The original location of Enders was two miles to the east-southeast of the present site. The village was relocated to the railroad line which was to be built to Imperial. Enders Post Office was established Aug. 26, 1890, with William A. Reid as postmaster. After being closed in 1893 the post office was reestablished in 1907 with George W. Brown as postmaster. The village was named for Peter Enders, a local pioneer rancher.^[5]

Enders is located on the north shore of Enders Reservoir. Enders Dam was built in 1947-1951 as part of the Missouri Basin Program ^[6] of the Bureau of Reclamation. Enders Reservoir State Recreation Area is a popular location for fishing, hunting and other outdoor recreation activities.^[7]

Enders was one of the first communities in western Nebraska to be served with electrical power. An irrigation and power dam was located south of the village on Frenchman Creek.^[8] The dam and generator were operated by Ralph Grosbach. The location of the power dam was flooded when Enders Dam was finished in 1951.^{[citation needed]}

References

External links

• Enders, Nebraska is at coordinates 40°27′19″N 101°32′02″W / 40.4552735°N 101.5337781°W / 40.4552735; -101.5337781 (Enders, Nebraska)Coordinates: 40°27′19″N 101°32′02″W / 40.4552735°N 101.5337781°W / 40.4552735; -101.5337781 (Enders, Nebraska)

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The 1998–99 OHL season was the 19th season of the Ontario Hockey League. Twenty teams each played 68 games. The Belleville Bulls won the J. Ross Robertson Cup, defeating the London Knights.

The 1998–99 season was the first season to have the two Conference, four Division format, and the first season to have 20 teams. The Brampton Battalion and Mississauga IceDogs were the two expansion teams. The Brampton Battalion were placed in the Midwest Division of the Western Conference and the Mississauga IceDogs were placed in the Central Division of the Eastern Conference.

Regular season

Final standings

Eastern Conference

Western Conference

Scoring leaders

OHL Playoffs

Conference Quarterfinals

Eastern Conference

Western Conference

Conference semifinals

Conference finals

J. Ross Robertson Cup Finals

OHL awards

See also

• List of OHA Junior A standings
• List of OHL seasons
• 1999 Memorial Cup
• 1999 NHL Entry Draft
• 1998 in sports
• 1999 in sports

References

• HockeyDB

Howard Bahr (1946- ) is an American novelist, born in Meridian, Mississippi. Bahr, who served in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War and then worked for several years on the railroads, enrolled at the University of Mississippi in the early 1970s when he was in his late 20s. He received his B.A. and M.A. from Ole Miss and served as the curator of the William Faulkner house, Rowan Oak, in Oxford, Mississippi for nearly twenty years. He also taught American literature during much of this time at the University of Mississippi. In 1993, he became an instructor of English at Motlow State College in Tullahoma, Tennessee, where he worked until 2006. Bahr is the author of three critically acclaimed novels centering around the American Civil War. He currently resides in Jackson, Mississippi, and teaches courses in creative writing at Belhaven College.

Bahr began his writing career in the 1970s, writing both fiction and non-fiction articles that appeared in publications such as Southern Living, Civil War Times Illustrated, as well as the short-lived regional publication, Lagniappe (1974-75) which he and Franklin Walker co-edited. His first published book, a children’s story entitled Home for Christmas, came out in 1987 and was re-published in 1997 in a different edition (with new illustrations) following the release of his first novel, The Black Flower: A Novel of the Civil War. This latter book, set during the Battle of Franklin, Tennessee in 1864, was nominated for a number of national awards, including from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Gettysburg College, and the Book-of-the-Month Club, and was a New York Times Notable Book, but its release was somewhat overshadowed by the release at the same time of the bestseller, Cold Mountain.

In 2000, Bahr’s second novel, The Year of Jubilo, was released. This novel, set in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War in the fictional Mississippi town of Cumberland, deals with the dehumanizing effects of war and its aftermath on Southern society. The Year of Jubilo, like The Black Flower, was a New York Times Notable Book.

Bahr’s third novel, The Judas Field, was released in 2006. In The Judas Field, Bahr again returns to the Battle of Franklin theme, but this time it is through the eyes of one of its participants, again from Cumberland, who travels back to the battlefield in the 1880s to recover the body of one of the fallen, and, in doing so, relives the horror of that fateful day in 1864.

Howard Bahr is a Freemason, having served as Master of the Lodge while he was in Oxford. He is also a member of the Episcopal Church.

External links

• University of Mississippi Archives - Howard Bahr Collection
• Howard Bahr at Goodreads

The 1914 King County Courthouse in Guthrie

Guthrie is an unincorporated community in King County in the U.S. state of Texas. It is the county seat of King County. It lies at the junction of U.S. Routes 82 and 83 ninety-six miles east of Lubbock, and serves as the principal headquarters of the 6666 Ranch. The zipcode of the community is 79236.

Geography

Guthrie is located at 33°37′14″N 100°19′22″W / 33.62056°N 100.32278°W / 33.62056; -100.32278 (33.621341, -100.8322).^[1]

History

Guthrie’s history begins in 1883, when the Louisville Land and Cattle Company in Louisville, Kentucky purchased several hundred acres in what later became King County. Named after Louisville Land and Cattle stockholder W.H. Guthrie, the community’s townsite was platted in 1891 by A.C. Thackitt, who had built Guthrie’s first residence. When King County was organized that same year, Louisville Land and Cattle proposed the platting of a company townsite, to be named Ashville, to serve as the county’s seat. Thackitt strongly opposed this proposition and led a charge to bring the seat to Guthrie instead. Thackitt’s hotly contested campaign ultimately proved successful, and he not only succeeded in making Guthrie the county seat but was also elected to serve as King County’s first county judge. Late in 1891, the Guthrie post office opened to the public.

The next year, Thackitt and a man by the name of Charlie Bradford brought in lumber from the neighboring community of Seymour and constructed Guthrie’s first school; a small, one-room building. A larger school followed in 1895, though the lone teacher continued to depend upon schools in Seymour and Benjamin for curriculum. Proprietor John Gibson began to keep a stock of school books at his Guthrie general store in 1897, decreasing the school’s dependence upon other districts.

In 1904, Guthrie claimed 101 residents and though hurt by the effects of the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl, remained stable through to the mid-twentieth century, with the 1950 Census reporting the same number of 101 residents as 46 years before. In 1959, schools in nearby Dumont were consolidated with Guthrie’s schools and by 1963 the population had more than doubled to 210.

The mid to late 1960’s brought an end to Guthrie’s growth, however; the population had fallen to 125 by 1970. It increased to 140 in 1980 and 160 in 1990, a figure it maintained through to the 2000 Census. Being a company town, very few homes in Guthrie are privately owned; most residents live in housing provided by the 6666 (Four Sixes) or Pitchfork ranches, or the school district.^[2]

In Literature

Author Mitch Cullin graduated from Guthrie School in 1986, and while the setting of his early writings was often the town of Claude, Texas, Cullin has admitted in interviews that his novels Whompyjawed and Branches were really based on Guthrie.^[3] Guthrie is also mentioned in passing in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road as one of the places he drove through.

Education

Guthrie is served by the Guthrie Common School District, which consistently ranks as a Recognized school district by the Texas Education Agency.

References

External links

• Guthrie School
• USGS GNIS: Guthrie, Texas
• 6666 Ranch
• Pitchfork Ranch

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Van Houten is a surname and may refer to:

• Carice van Houten (born 1976), Dutch actress
• Coenraad Johannes van Houten (1801-1887), Dutch chocolate maker
• Cornelis Johannes van Houten (1920-2002), Dutch astronomer
• Elhaym Van Houten, the main heroine from the Xenogears series.
• Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld, Dutch astronomer
• Leslie Van Houten (born 1949), former member of Charles Manson’s crime family
• Milhouse Van Houten, a fictional character featured in the The Simpsons
• Samuel van Houten (1837-1930), Dutch liberal politician

This page or section lists people with the surname Van Houten. 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 the link.

The Franciscan Brothers of Brooklyn, also known as “Congregation of the Religious Brothers of the Third Order Regular of St. Francis,”^[1]arrived from Ireland in 1858, responding to the invitation of Bishop Loughlin. They began serving the Diocese of Brooklyn in child care, primarily as educators, opening high schools and a college, and staffing local parish grammar schools. They founded schools as far away as Florida and California. They helped to found St. Bonaventure University and were among the first teachers there.^[2][3] They also founded and still operate Camp Alvernia, the oldest Catholic camp in continuous operation in the country.

References

1. ^ [1] Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn. retrieved Dec 3., 2006
2. ^ Corry, Emmett O.S.F. “The History of the Franciscan Brothers of Brooklyn in Ireland and America.” (New York: St. Francis College. 2003. ISBN 0-9723703-0-7)
3. ^ George Bretherton, “The History of the Franciscan Brothers of Brooklyn in Ireland and America” (book review). The Catholic Historical Review. Washington: Jul 2004.Vol.90, Iss. 3; pg. 578

External links

• Franciscan Brothers of Brooklyn
• Franciscan Brothers of Brooklyn, St. Anthony’s Friary

Subtropical Storm One

Subtropical storm (SSHS)
Satellite image of storm on April 22
Formed	April 21, 1992
Dissipated	April 24, 1992
Highest winds	50 mph (85 km/h) (1-minute sustained)
Lowest pressure	1002 mbar (hPa; 29.59 inHg)
Fatalities	None reported
Damage	None
Areas affected	No land areas
Part of the 1992 Atlantic hurricane season

Subtropical Storm One in 1992 was the first recorded Atlantic subtropical cyclone during the month of April. It formed on April 21 about 600 miles (1,100 km) southeast of Bermuda, and tracking northwestward reached subtropical storm status on April 22. The cyclone attained peak winds of 50 mph (85 km/h) before increased wind shear weakened the storm. It turned to the east, and on April 24 dissipated without affecting land.

Meteorological history

Storm path

On April 21, a low- to mid-level low pressure area separated from the prevailing westerlies about 600 miles (1,100 km) southeast of Bermuda. At the time, the system maintained a large comma-shaped cloud pattern, and reports from nearby ships indicated the system was at the surface. Based on its organization and the presence of a low-level circulation, it is estimated the system developed into a subtropical depression at 1200 UTC on April 21;^[1] operationally it was not classified until 27 hours later.^[2] Removed from well-defined steering currents, the depression tracked northwestward at 12 mph (19 km/h), and intensified into a subtropical storm early on April 22.^[1]

The subtropical storm gradually became better organized with a large convective band in its eastern semicircle, and upon being classified it reached peak winds of 50 mph (85 km/h); a ship reported strong winds near the center of the cyclone, and the National Hurricane Center remarked the potential for the system transitioning into a tropical cyclone.^[2] With a building ridge to its southeast, the storm tracked northwestward, and under the influence of an approaching trough it decelerated as deep convection diminished.^[3] On April 23 the cyclone became nearly stationary and weakened to depression status after strong upper-level wind shear affected the area.^[1] A Hurricane Hunters flight into the system confirmed the decrease in winds; the flight also reported a 1.8° F (1° C) temperature rise in the center, suggesting a warm core and some tropical characteristics.^[4]

By early on April 24, the subtropical depression turned eastward, maintaining limited amounts of deep convection on its eastern semicircle. At the time, forecasters anticipated the depression would continue east-northeastward and become an extratropical cyclone, though the possibility of dissipation was mentioned.^[5] By late on April 24, however, the system was too weak to classify using the Dvorak technique; the National Hurricane Center ceased issuing advisories,^[6] and it failed to meet the criteria of a subtropical cyclone. Within 24 hours, the circulation dissipated as the system continued eastward through the westerlies.^[1]

Impact, records, and naming

Initially, the subtropical storm appeared to be a threat to Bermuda.^[2] The National Hurricane Center issued an 18 percent chance the center of the storm would pass within 65 miles (105 km) of the island;^[7] however it remained well southeast of the territory. The highest winds reported by a ship was 50 mph (85 km/h), from a vessel with the call signal C6KD7.^[1] The ship recorded a pressure of 1004.1 mbar with swells of 64.4 feet (19.7 m);^[8] the decision to issue advisories on the cyclone was based primarily on the ship report.^[1]

The storm was the first Atlantic subtropical cyclone on record to develop in the month of April. Previously, a tropical or subtropical cyclone had developed in every month but April. In its preliminary report on the cyclone, the National Hurricane Center notes, “subtropical cyclones have only been tracked since 1968 (tropical cyclone records go back to 1871) and it is possible some systems that were designated extratropical prior to 1968 could have been subtropical.”^[1] Additionally, the subtropical storm was the first not to transition into a tropical cyclone since 1984. Subtropical cyclones were not named at the time, and were not named until 2001; had it been named, it would have been Subtropical Storm Andrew.^[9]

See also

Tropical cyclones portal

• Subtropical cyclone
• Timeline of the 1992 Atlantic hurricane season

References

External links

• National Hurricane Center Preliminary Report for Subtropical Storm
• 1992 Atlantic Hurricane Season Summary