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Zdeňka Rábová
Associated professor and educator Zdeňka Rábová was born in Ivančice in south Moravia, where she overcame the obstacles posed by the communist regime and graduated from the Jan Blahoslav Grammar School in 1955. The gifted student went on to study at the Construction Faculty of the Technical University in Brno, which she successfully completed in 1960. Three years later, however, Zdeňka took interest in a newly emerging field of study, to which she eventually devoted her entire career and whose development in our country was to much extent shaped by her enthusiasm and talent.
From 1965, she worked at the Computer Department of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the University of Technology in Brno. Here, she succeeded in building a modern lab with an MSP-2A computer. She participated in the creation and development of a standalone computer field in the country and contributed to the content of all study plans and programmes in the field of software. In her research, she focused on simulation languages and their translators. Under her leadership, her team developed, among others, the first eastern-European translator of the Algol 60 language and the first texts about the Pascal language. In the memory of her achievements, the best students of the Faculty of Information Technology at the University of Technology in Brno are annually awarded the Zdena Rábová Prize.
Helena Rašková
Helena Rašková was a cosmopolitan figure, born in Zurich, but spent her childhood and youth in Dvůr Králové. She graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at Charles University. In 1945, after the end of the Second World War, she and her epidemiologist husband participated in eliminating the spotted typhus epidemic in the Terezín concentration camp. After the entry of Soviet troops in 1968, her career was put on hold for the second time. She moved to the countryside, where she set up a veterinary practice and treated diseases in populations of penned calves. Owing to these activities, Helena left an indelible track in the history of Czech science.
She began her career at the Fragner pharmaceutical company. She was the first woman director of the Institute of Pharmacology at the Faculty of Paediatrics of Charles University, and was responsible for the creation of the Pharmacological Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and the Czechoslovak Society of Pharmacology. She was a co-initiator of the creation of the Global Union of Pharmacological Societies, and owing to her contribution, the second global pharmacological congress in 1963 took place in Prague. She succeeded in connecting research and university teaching. She wrote more than 300 monographs and textbooks on pharmacology and toxicology and is rightly regarded as the founder of the Czechoslovak pharmacological school.
Albína Dratvová
The philosopher and educator Albína Dratvová came from a family of a private official. Together with the historian Milada Paulová, she studied Paedagoglum and graduated from the Academic Grammar School. She studied philosophy, mathematics, and logic at the Philosophical Faculty of Charles-Ferdinand University. In 1918, she obtained a doctorate in philosophy. Then she started teaching at a lyceum and later joined the first girls' grammar school in central Europe – the Girl's Grammar School Minerva. From the 1930s, she built her academic career in the field of the philosophy of natural sciences.
Philosophy of Natural Sciences
Albína's main scientific and popular-scientific interest was the philosophy of natural sciences. Her treatise The Problem of Causality in Physics and lecture The Subject and Tasks of the Philosophy of Natural Sciences qualified her as the first woman to earn the title of associate professor at the Faculty of Natural Sciences at Charles University. She worked also at the Pedagogical Department of the Ministry of Education and National Enlightenment. She published countless scientific studies, books, textbooks, and articles, she performed on the radio, and many of her lecturers were published in print. She also addressed questions of gender, particularly the position of women and the difficulty of balancing family life and career.
Milada Paulová
Historian Milada Paulová was born to the family of a sugar factory director. She attended an institute for the education of woman teachers, where she befriended the philosopher Albína Dratvová. She graduated from the Academic Grammar School and passed the entrance exam at the Philosophical Faculty of Charles-Ferdinand University, where she studied history and geography. She was among the most gifted students. In the interwar period, she worked at the University Library and as an assistant at the university, where she was preparing for her future academic career in the field of Byzantine Studies, in which she became a Czech pioneer.
Milada dealt with the history of Slavic peoples. In 1925, she was the first Czech woman to be awarded the title of associate professor. Her field of study was the history of eastern Europe and the Balkan peninsula. After her return from numerous study trips, she worked in the editorial board of the Byzantinoslavica journal and won acclaim also with her publications and translations. It is thanks to her that Czechoslovak Byzantine Studies gained international recognition. For her merits, she was appointed an Honorary Vice President of the International Association of Byzantine Studies. Only in 1945 she became the first Czech woman to be appointed professor – she was Professor of Slavic Peoples and Byzantine Studies.
Ludmila Eckertová
The physicist Ludmila Eckertová came from a Roman Catholic family living in Prague. She attended the Covent School of Saint Ursula in Prague. She graduated in 1943 and immediately started working at the Junkers aircraft factory. After the end of the war, she enrolled at the Faculty of Natural Sciences at Charles University. She graduated with the PhAMr degree in 1948. From 1945, she worked at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Charles University as an assistant professor. She was appointed professor only in 1990. At the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Charles University, Ludmila founded a discipline to which she then devoted her career.
Physics of Thin Films and Surfaces
She significantly contributed to the development of physics of thin films and surfaces and achieved an international recognition in this field; also of importance are her publications, particularly The Physics of Thin Films, which was published also in the USA and Japan. She is regarded as the founder of this discipline at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Charles University, where she and her colleagues built one of the largest departments – Department of Physics of Thin Films and Plasma. In 1963, she was appointed associate professor. Her full professorship appointment was halted just after the Soviet occupation and she received her professor title only after the revolution in 1990.
Julie Moschelesová
A pioneering woman scientist. Her mother was blind, so she entrusted the upbringing of Julie to her brother-in-law, painter and Esperanto scholar. Julia accompanied him on his travels across Europe and Africa. She applied at the Philosophical Faculty of the Prague-German University, where she obtained her doctorate in 1916. Then she worked here as an unpaid assistant. Four years later, she left for the Faculty of Natural Sciences at the Bohemian University, where she was appointed Associate Professor in 1934. Following the Nazi occupation, she was forced to leave first the university and then her homeland. With her expertise in geography, she achieved international recognition.
At the university, Julie focused particularly on the study of geography and geology, but she was also interested in meteorology. From 1932, she gave regular lectures. She dealt with physical geography and anthropogeography. In 1934, she was the second woman in our country to be appointed Associate Professor. She was well-known particularly abroad. She published in foreign journals, her studies and monographs appeared in print across Europe and the USA, she lectured, among others, at the University of Cambridge. She was a member of a number of national and international scientific associations and an honorary member of the London Sociological Society. She was awarded the prestigious French scientific prize Gaudy.
Adéla Kochanovská
The "Czech Madame Curie", nuclear physicist Adéla Kochanovská, was born in Silesian Ostrava. Adéla most enjoyed maths – solving problems, the logical structure of the discipline, and finding answers for difficult questions on her own. She was a sickly child, she was therefore home-schooled. After completing her secondary education, she continued to study mathematics and physics at the Faculty of Natural Sciences at Charles University in Prague. During her studies, she was particularly influenced by the lectures of Václav Dolejšek about the newly emerging discipline of radiology, a discipline which she significantly helped to develop in our country.
After graduating from university, at the end of 1935, she joined the team of professor Dolejšek at the newly established Physical Research Division of Škoda plants. She was concerned with x-ray structural analysis. She is considered the founder of this discipline in our country; she was one of the first to measure mechanical tension using x-ray radiation. In 1943, she published the first comprehensive publication called Testing the Fine Structure of Material with X-Rays. She was the first Professor of Experimental Physics and for her students, she wrote the textbook X-Ray Crystallography. For her significant contribution to the development of radiography, she was awarded the State Award.
Milena Hübschmannová
A major Czech scholar in Indian Studies, Milena Hübschmannová, was born in Prague. She studied at the English Howard Fast Grammar School. Already as a child, she was interested in India and Indian culture. After graduating from secondary school in 1951, she enrolled to study Indian languages (Hindi, Urdu, and Bengali) at the Philosophical Faculty of Charles University. During her mandatory volunteering job in Ostrava, she came to know a language strikingly similar to those she studied. She devoted her entire career to her discovery and become a pioneer in the field.
Roma Studies
Milena was brought to Roma Studies by coincidence. Roma people and their language and culture reminded her of the culture and language which she studied at the university – unfortunately, travelling to the remote India in the 1950s was not an option. That is why she became interested in the Roma language even more. She visited Roma families, lived in Roma settlements in Slovakia, learned the language by listening to stories, songs, narratives. She co-authored the Roma-Czech dictionary and many other books. Roma Studies were later established as a university field of study. For her lifelong efforts, she was awarded numerous prizes, including the Presidential Medal of Merit.
Jiřina Čížková
A physician and first woman Professor of Paediatrics, Jiřina Čížková, came from a family of doctors. She wanted to devote herself to treating sick children. After graduating from a grammar school in Prague, she enrolled to study medicine at the Medical Faculty at Charles University. After completing her studies in 1932, she started her medical practice as a junior physician at the Bohemian Children's Hospital. She co-founded a counselling clinic for children and in 1935, she organised a diabetes health camp, the first of its kind in Europe. After the Second World War, she devoted herself fully to the field of children's endocrinology, which was her area of specialisation to begin with.
After the Second World War, Jiřina was the head of Endocrinology Outpatient Clinic. In 1946, she was the first Czech woman to be appointed Associate Professor of Paediatrics, later she was the first woman to become an extraordinary Professor of Paediatrics at Charles University. On the site of a former nursing home, she founded a modern paediatrics clinic under the auspices of Charles University in Prague, where she served as the director, and later at the same place, she founded the first Adolescents Department. She was the co-founder and chairwoman of the Endocrinological Society at the Czechoslovak Medical Society of J. E. Purkyně, member of the London Royal Society of Medicine, and expert in the Commission for the Care of Children and Youth at the World Health Organisation. She lectured at universities at home and abroad, trained postgraduate medics in endocrinology and paediatrics, and published widely. In 1992, she was awarded the Commemorative Medal of J. E. Purkyně for a lifetime of work.
Ludmila Matiegková
Lovosice-born Ludmila Matiegková was a Czech researcher, writer, and educator. Her father was a private doctor, anthropologist, and demographer, who was also interested in archaeology, her mother was a keen patriot, and both parents supported Ludmila's education. The family later moved to Prague, where she attended the Girls' Grammar School Minerva. After graduation, she decided to study history at the Philosophical Faculty of Charles University. She specialised in ancient history and the history of the Orient. Soon she discovered a discipline which was not taught at Czech universities at that time and which she started to study in depth with much success.
Already during her studies at the Philosophical Faculty, Ludmila published articles about excavations and archaeological findings in Egypt. Her dissertation entitled Ancient Egyptian Opinions on Soul was published in an academic journal. In 1920s, she undertook three study trips to Egypt and the Middle East, and described her experience in books such as In the Embrace of the Sphinx. She also published numerous articles in the Oriental Archives. In 1925, František Lexa opened a dedicated Egyptology seminar at Charles University, with Ludmila's active participation.
Gerty Theresa Cori was a Czech physician and biochemist, who decided to become a doctor. Within a single year, she caught up with the curriculum of eight years of Latin and five years of physics, chemistry, and mathematics. She graduated from the Medical Faculty of Charles-Ferdinand University in 1920. In 1922, owing to the rising antisemitism, she emigrated to the United States. Here, she first worked at the State Institute for the Research of Malignant Diseases, later as a Professor of Pharmacology and Biochemistry at the Washington University School of Medicine. In 1947, she was the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize for medicine for her discovery of the function of the anterior pituitary lobe in the metabolism of sugars.
The Function of the Anterior Pituitary Lobe in the Metabolism of Sugars
Gerty focused her research, among other topics, on the function of hormones of the thyroid gland, metabolism of body organs, or the influence of X-rays on living organisms. She dealt with the metabolism of monosaccharides and polysaccharide glycogen. For the discovery of the function of the hormones of the anterior pituitary lobe in the catalytic conversion of glycogen, she was awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize in physiology and medicine jointly with her husband. Gerti was the third woman in history who won the prize for exact sciences and the first woman who received the prize for medicine. Since the year 2000, there is a memorial plaque in Petrská Street which reminds passers-by of this significant Prague native.
Růžena Vintrová
Růžena Vintrová was born to a poor working-class family. The family was supported by her mother, her father was unemployed. She enjoyed learning and was good at school, but due to financial reasons, grammar school studies were not available to her. She finished the elementary school, briefly attended a business school, and at the age of fourteen was forced to labour at a weaving factory. After the Second World War, the position of the family improved, which enabled her to graduate from the business school. Then she was considering university studies. Her father was against it. Růžena did not give up her dream. She received a scholarship, enrolled at the College of Economic Sciences, and began to develop a career in her field of study.
Růžena graduated in economic statistics and after university studies, she worked at the State Office of Statistics at the Department of National Economy. As an expert, she participated in foreign negotiations and succeeded in introducing balance of interbranch relations. From 1968, she was member of the scientific team at the Institute of Economics, later she joined the team at the Institute of Prognostics at the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences. Her long-time interests were macro-economy, the development and convergence of the national economy with economies of developed countries in the European Union, and European economic integration. She worked as an advisor to the Office of the Government, she also devoted herself to teaching.
Julie Hamáčková
Chemist Julie Hamáčková was born in Semily. She had to interrupt her studies at a private business school to help her mother financially. She worked as a clerk but later was able to return to her studies, thanks to the support of her brother. She resumed her secondary education studies and also enrolled as a special student of chemistry at the Czech Technical University. She continued her university studies after graduating from the secondary school and after completing her degree, she worked as an assistant for Professor Schultz. In 1926, she was offered the post of the head of a newly established laboratory and became a Czech pioneer of one of the scientific disciplines of hydrochemistry.
Hydrochemistry
Julie was the first Czech chemist to pioneer research in the field of chemistry of waste water; on this subject, she published a text called Chemical Studies on the Treatment of Urban Sewage in Prague. She was expert in in-depth analysis of water samples, the results of her research contributed to improving water quality. During the Nazi occupation, she worked at the State Health Institute. She also lectured at universities. In 1954, she was the first woman to be appointed the Professor of Water Chemistry, she served as a Vice Dean and Dean at the University of Chemical Technology in Prague.
Emanuela Nohejlová-Prátová
Historian Emanuela Nohejlová-Prátová came from a family of physicians. She attended an elementary school in her native Opatovice, then she enrolled in the newly established Božena Němcová Girls' Grammar School. After graduation, she started studying medicine at the wish of her father, but she was more drawn to history. Her dream came true when one of her sisters started studying medicine – her father had someone to follow in his footsteps and she could enrol to study her beloved history at the Philosophical Faculty of Charles University. Emanuela is regarded as the founder of the modern scientific discipline of numismatics.
Emanuela is along with Gustav Skalský regarded as the founder of Czechoslovak modern scientific numismatics. From 1930, she worked at the Numismatic Division at the National Museum in Prague. In her research, she focused particularly on the earlier period of Bohemian numismatics, her main field of research was processing finds from the period of tolars. She also published her research and was the editor of the Numismatic Miscellany. She lectured at universities, was a long-time chairwoman of the Numismatic Committee of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and a honorary member of the International Numismatic Committee.
Julie Nováková
Czech philologist, literary historian, editor, and translator Julie Nováková completed her secondary education and enrolled at the Philosophical Faculty of Charles University. She obtained a doctorate in Classic Philology and Czech Philology. After the war, she taught ancient history and philology at Palacký University, where she was appointed Associate Professor in 1954. She collaborated also with Charles University on an anthology of sources on the history of ancient Greece and Rome. Later she started to concentrate fully on the research of a single major figure in Czech history, which gave rise to a special discipline.
Comeniology
In the early 1960s, Julie accepted an offer to edit Latin writings for the collected work of J. A. Comenius. This is where her research started. From 1961, she worked at the Institute for the Czech Language at the Secretariat of the Editorial Board for the publication of the work of A. Comenius. Later she transferred to the Pedagogical Institute of J. A. Comenius. She dealt in particular with editing Latin writings, working on topics in Comeniology, and consulting and publishing in this field of research. By analysing the language and content of the texts, she identified the authorship of several works by Comenius. She summarised her research in a book called A Quarter of a Century over Comenius.
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Phenom, one of Nigeria's t rapper granted an Interview with Dope TV where he made the reason behind his disappearance known to Nigerians.
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Rapper, Phenom was at some point in his career, signed to Knight House where he grew his reputation as a brilliant lyricist and was once tipped to dominate the Hip-hop section of the Nigerian music industry. However, he went through a period of little change and his career was put on hold until recently that he is aiming to stage a come back.
The rapper had a chat with Saturday Beats where revealed that he quit music after his contract with Knight House expired. He admitted that he probably would have been one of the most sought-after rap artistes if he had accepted some of those offers, but added that he had no regrets for being loyal to his previous record label.
He said, "When Wizkid told me about signing me to his record label, Starboy, I was with a record label then, Knight House. I think loyalty is very key and I cannot leave where I am because of greener pastures. It does not work like that. It is just like a marriage; just because you see a finer lady tomorrow does not mean that you should abandon your wife.
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1968 births, Mexican wrestlers, 1986 debuts,
All Japan Pro Wrestling alumni
Chilanga Mask alumni
Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre current roster
International Wrestling Revolution Group alumni
Lucha Libre Azteca alumni
Osaka Pro Wrestling alumni
Profesionales de la Lucha Libre Mexicana alumni
Promo Azteca alumni
Universal Wrestling Association alumni
Universal Wrestling Entertainment alumni
W*ING alumni
Professional wrestling trainers
Ring names
Bird Boy
Piratita Morgan
Damiancito El Guerrero
Damiancito
170 lbs (79 kg)
December 9, 1968 (1968-12-09) (age 52)
El Fuerza Aérea
01986-04-20April 20, 1986
Ricardo Amezquita Cardeño (December 9, 1968) is a Mexican Luchador, or professional wrestler best known under the ring name, Virus. Amezquita originally worked in Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre's (CMLL) Minis division and held the CMLL World Mini-Estrella Championship under the name Damiancito El Guerrero, but was later moved into the regular division and given the name "Virus". As Virus Amezquita has held the CMLL Japan Super Lightweight Championship, CMLL World Super Lightweight Championship and the Mexican National Lightweight Championship. He was the leader of Los Cancerberos del Infierno.
1 Professional wrestling career
1.1 Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre
1.2 Virus
1.2.1 Los Cancerberos del Infierno
2 In wrestling
3 Championships and accomplishments
3.1 Lucha de Apuesta record
Ricardo Amezquita made his professional wrestling debut on April 20, 1986, under the ring name "Bird Boy", an enmascarado, or masked wrestler, with a bird inspired ring persona. Because of his small size he mainly worked on the low end of the card in the Universal Wrestling Association promotion. On July 27, 1991 Bird Boy defeated Super Archie to win the UWA World Featherweight Championship. He would hold the Featherweight title for over a year, losing it on August 25, 1992 to El Coralillo.
Amezquita had already begun working with Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) before he lost the UWA World Featherweight Championship, and became CMLL Exclusive after dropping the title. in 1992 then-CMLL booker Antonio Peña left Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL) to form his own promotion, Asistencia Asesoría y Administración (AAA); Peña had been the mastermind behind the CMLL Minis division and most of the Minis in CMLL decided to leave with Peña. Amezquita and a number of other wrestlers were brought in to replenish the division. Working in the Mini division does not mean that Amezquita has dwarfism, it is not uncommon for very short wrestlers to work in the "Mini" division in Mexico. Ricardo Amezquita was one of the wrestlers brought into CMLL to replenish the division after losing most of their workers and was given the ring persona of Piratita Morgan, a mini version of Pirata Morgan who worked in CMLL at the time and replaced the original Piratita Morgan that had left CMLL to join AAA. In 1994 Pirata Morgan left CMLL to join AAA as well, negating the need to have the smaller version working in CMLL. Instead he was given the name "Damiancito El Guerrero" after CMLL wrestler "Damian El Guerrero". In 1995 He toured Japan and worked for the W*ING promotion where he was billed simply as "Damiancito", the mini version of Damián 666 who worked for W*ING as well, subsequently he has mistakenly been described as working as "Damiancito" in CMLL as well, but it was only in Japan that he worked as a mini of Damián 666. After returning from Japan he defeated Máscarita Mágica to win the CMLL World Mini-Estrella Championship on February 27, 1996. In late 1997 CMLL booked an eight-man elimination match where the winner would earn the right to tag team with "regular sized" wrestlers. Damiancito El Guerrero defeated Cicloncito Ramírez, Tritoncito, Pequeño Cochisse, Platita, Guerreroito del Future, Pequeño Sayama an Fierito to earn the right to work with "regular sized" wrestlers.
In early 1998 he made his debut as part of the regular sized division under the name "Virus", no mention was made that Virus used to work as Damiancito El Guerrero or the fact that he still held the CMLL World Mini-Estrella Championship. On May 7, 1998 Virus defeated Akira to win the vacant Mexican National Lightweight Championship, a title CMLL had brought back to help showcase smaller workers such as Virus. After winning the title Virus worked a storyline feud against El Orientál, centering around Virus' Mexican Lightweight title and Orientál's Districto Federatl Lightweight title. Despite several title matches neither belt changed hands during the course of the storyline. By 1999 CMLL decided that it was time to crown a new CMLL World Mini-Estrella Champion as Virus was still technically the champion despite not having worked as a mini for over a year. Instead of making Virus return to the Minis division to lose the title CMLL decided to give the championship to Ultimo Dragoncito and then subsequently announce that Ultimo Dragoncito had "won" the title on an undisclosed day in October, 1999. In 1999 to 2000 CMLL made several tours of Japan to establish a "CMLL Japan" branch, Virus was one of the workers who regularly toured Japan and would capture the CMLL Japan Super Lightweight Championship on November 25, 1999. On August 6, 2000 Virus lost the CMLL Japan Super Lightweight title on Ricky Marvin and then on November 29, 2000 also lost the Mexican National Lightweight title to Ricky Marvin. Virus continued to show that while he may not have the size to be a headliner he had a knack for helping young wrestlers improve by working with them in the ring. After having been a Rudo (a Heel, or bad guy) his entire career Virus was turned Tecnico (Face or good guy) in 2002. In 2003 he took part in a series of matches between CMLL tecnicos, himself, Ricky Marvin and Volador, Jr., and a group called The Havana Brothers-based out of southern California that consisted of Rocky Romero, Ricky Reyes and T.J. Perkins. The well received series of matches between the six led CMLL to create the CMLL World Super Lightweight Championship. Rocky Romero became the first champion but lost the title to Virus on November 14, 2003. Virus held the title for 392 days before losing it back to Rocky Romero. In 2005 Virus was turned Rudo once more and generally used to help young, high-flying tecnicos get more experience. When El Satánico started working a reduced schedule in late 2008 Virus became the unofficial leader of Los Infernales, teaming with Euforia and Nosferatu.
Los Cancerberos del Infierno
At a CMLL press conference on November 19, 2009 it was officially announced that Virus was the leader of a new CMLL group called Los Cancerberos del Infierno (Spanish for "the Infernal Cerberos") a group that beyond Virus consisted of Euforia and Pólvora as well as two new characters Cancerbero and Raziel used to wrestle as Messala and Caligula, otherwise known as "Los Romanos" a low card Rudo tag team. On March 11, 2011, Virus defeated Demus 3:16 in a Hair vs. Hair match to also retain his spot as the leader of Los Cancerberos del Infierno and send Demus back into the Mini-Estrellas division. On June 7, 2011, Virus defeated Guerrero Maya, Jr. in a tournament final to regain the World Super Lightweight Championship.
In wrestling
Finishing moves
La Motocicleta (One-legged rocking horse)
Virus Clutch (Delfin Clutch)
Virus Stretch (Stretch Plum)
Inverted Gory Bomb
Ringpost arm drag
Championships and accomplishments
Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL)
CMLL Japan Super Lightweight Championship (2 times)
CMLL World Mini-Estrella Championship (1 time)
CMLL World Super Lightweight Championship (2 times)
Mexican National Lightweight Championship (1 time)
Reyes del Aire (2007)
Universal Wrestling Association (UWA)
UWA World Featherweight Championship (1 time)
Lucha de Apuesta record
See also: Luchas de Apuestas
Mask Super Archie Bird Boy I Apatlaco, Mexico State Unknown
Hair Damiancito El Guerrero Mascarita Mágica Mexico City, Mexico Unknown
Mask Virus El Mariachi Unknown Unknown
Hair Virus Kato Kung Lee Oaxaca, Oaxaca 02001-09-02September 2, 2001
Hair Virus Tony Rivera Mexico City, Mexico 02007-08-05August 5, 2007
Hair Virus Demus 3:16 Mexico City, Mexico 02011-03-11March 11, 2011
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Mexican wrestlers
1986 debuts

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Roberta Sparta started her career as a model at the age of 16. She traveled and worked all over Europe and when she settled down in Milan she fell in love with the art of acting thanks to Nicoletta Ramorino ( iconic Italian theatre actress ) teacher at Centro Teatro Attivo. In 2007 Roberta is accepted at American Academy of Dramatic Arts so she moved to Hollywood. Her numerous credits includes "Things from Another World" directed Francesco Patierno with Diego Abatantuono, national commercial "Caffè Hag" directed by Luke Scott (Ridley Scott son). In the USA she starred in the sci-fi series produced by Morgan Freeman "Through the Wormhole". She was feature in several commercials such as Verizon, Nissan and City Bank. She collaborate with Disney as voice over artist for a new series of short animated cartoon released in October 2013. In April she will begin filming in Italy a feature film (thriller) as the lead actress. The movie , that will be distributed worldwide, will be directed by Francesco Picone and produced by Marco Ristori and Luca Boni.
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Tobacco companies in the United States have begun running television and newspaper advertisements referred to as "corrective statements" in major US-based outlets about the dangers of smoking cigarettes following a court order by a U.S. District Judge.
The corrective statements stem from a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Justice Department in 1999 and a landmark judgment issued in 2006 by U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler, who found that tobacco companies had defrauded Americans by lying about the effects of smoking and their marketing to children.
"These corrective statements are not voluntary nor part of a legal settlement – a court has ordered tobacco giants to take this action," the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids said in an emailed statement on Monday.
In the latest decision by the U.S. court, tobacco companies including Altria (the former parent company of Philip Morris International) and Reynolds (a US subsidiary of British American Tobacco) are required to publish one of the five corrective statements in 30-second prime time TV ads and also run full-page advertisements in 50 newspapers – including their online versions – around the country. The TV spots will run five times weekly for 52 weeks.
The corrective statements detail the advert health effects of smoking (kills more people than murder, AIDS, suicide, car crashes, and alcohol combined); addictiveness of smoking and nicotine (cigarette companies intentionally design cigarettes with enough nicotine to create and sustain addiction); and adverse effects of second-hand smoke (kills 38,000 Americans each year).
The rest include lack of significant health benefit from smoking 'low tar,' 'light,' 'ultra light,' 'mild,' and 'natural' cigarettes ('low tar' and 'light' cigarette smokers inhale essentially the same amount of tar and nicotine as they would from regular cigarettes) and manipulation of cigarette design to ensure optimum nicotine delivery (designing filters and selecting paper size to maximise the ingestion of nicotine).
"Judge Kessler's order to the tobacco companies to publish the corrective statements is significant because it is a rare instance of the companies being made to tell the truth about their decades-long conspiracy to deceive the public about health effects of smoking and their marketing to children," said Bintou Camara, Director of Africa Programs for the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.
Just as in Nigeria where tobacco companies employ several tactics to undermine legislation again their products, their counterparts in the US stalled the effectiveness of the corrective statements for 11 years, filing appeal after appeal since 2006 targeted at delaying or watering down the statements.
"They ended their appeals earlier this year, and the judge overseeing the case issued an order directing them to begin running the corrective statement ads," said Ms. Camara.
The U.S court order came as tobacco giants like Philip Morris International continue their attempts to rebrand themselves as part of the solution to the global tobacco epidemic.
Last September, PMI announced an annual support of $80 million for the establishment of a Foundation for a Smoke-free World over the next 12 years, a move anti-smoking campaigners say was aimed at burnishing its image and which received criticism from the World Health Organization.
Akinbode Oluwafemi, Deputy Executive Director, Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria urged governments to discontinue engagements with PMI that conflicts with the WHO's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control and, particularly, strengthen the implementation of Article 5.3 which obligates parties to act to protect their public health policies from the commercial and other vested interests of the tobacco industry.
Mr. Oluwafemi noted that PMI's training of journalists in Kenya was a continuation of its orchestrated misinformation campaign and attempt to "buy media influence" and silence rising public support for effective tobacco control laws across Africa.
"Governments in Africa and media practitioners should be alarmed that PMI, while increasing the production and marketing of its deadly wares on the continent is now talking about harms reduction through its so-called trainings.
"A very dangerous dimension to PMI new tactic is the muddling of public health policy issues in its quest to grab more lungs or else how can it be imagined that a known producer of a lethal product is talking of helping governments achieve goal three of the Strategic Development Goals which promote good health and wellbeing?
Tobacco companies are not strangers to posturing themselves as public health stakeholders in the campaign for a smoke-free world.
In 2014, the British American Tobacco Nigeria, BATN came under severe criticism from anti-tobacco campaigners for organising a training for police officers in Lagos on implementing the Smoke-free in Public Places law signed by the then governor, Babatunde Fashola.
The BATN had defended its actions at the time arguing that the training was part of its efforts to support key stakeholders in the country to drive a fully compliant and well-regulated tobacco sector in a transparent and responsible manner.
Mr. Oluwafemi said the global consensus about how to reduce tobacco use is continually undermined by PMI and other tobacco companies doggedly fighting strong policies proven to reduce tobacco use around the world such as higher tobacco taxes, graphic health warnings, and bans on tobacco advertising, promotion, and sponsorship.
"PMI should stop gambling with our lungs through its deceptive concept of a smoke-free world," he said.
Last May, the Nigerian government introduced nine regulations in the Nigeria Tobacco Control Act that will be implemented by the federal government.
But the implementation of the Act remains a mirage as the government continues to await the approval of the draft regulations by the National Assembly.
Ms. Camara said the Nigerian government and civil society organisations can use the corrective statements issued by the US Court as further evidence that tobacco companies have a long history of fighting proven public health measures and lying to the public.
"While the court order only requires these statements be published in America, tobacco companies use many of the same strategies to promote their deadly products and grow their market shares around the world.


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Q: Information about independent variables in poisson regression Can independent variables in Poisson model, Negative binomial model and Hurdles model be categorical ?

A: Yes, they can be categorical ... as in all linear and generalized linear models. In fact, you can continue generalizing/extending the family of regression models, and it will still be true. As long as your model uses a matrix of predictor variables, all the coding trick you have learnt for usual linear regression can be applied. You can represent categorical variables via dummys (also known as one-hot encoding), use polynomials, splines, and so on.
This is the beauty of generalizing regression models, all the tricks you have learnt in the simplest setting can still be applied.  You can find many examples in this posts.

A: Yes it can and you can encode it using an indicator variable. Basically you have a variable that is 1 when the data point is in a certain category and 0 if it is not. Wikipedia provides a nice explanation and example:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dummy_variable_(statistics)
For a more specific example/elaboration please see here:
https://newonlinecourses.science.psu.edu/stat504/node/168/
If your variables are all categorical then the convention is to call this a log-linear model: https://newonlinecourses.science.psu.edu/stat504/node/117/

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Mystic Mantra: Healing With Sound
Published in The Asian Age and the Deccan Chronicle on December 23, 2014.
Physicists say sound is merely modification of electricity. Yogis say electricity is merely a modification of sound. Both are true | Representational Image (Photo Courtesy: VisualPhotos.com)
Our body and our life form function with an energy which moves like a bio-electric current within us. When everything within functions perfectly, we can hear a hum arise out of us — the sound of health. Energy, electricity, sounds — this is the play of the trinity in our being. A rhythmic hum means that we are in good health. When it's discordant, we should know that it's in chaos. The same happens with emotions — sadness and joy, misery and ecstasy create their own vibrations or hum.
What is true of our being is true of the cosmos. Ancient sages, who illuminated us about the universe, meditated first to experience the same within themselves. Says Osho, "Physicists say sound is merely modification of electricity. Yogis say electricity is merely a modification of sound. Both are true. Sound and electricity are two forms of the same phenomenon. Call it electricity or sound, call it fire like Heraclitus or water like Lao Tzu… All these are merely forms of the formless!" (1)
But how can you know the formless? Knowledge is possible only when there is form, when something is known. But form is a modification of the unknown. For a yogi, electricity is irrelevant. Through sound, he can change many phenomena, even inner electricity. He calls it prana — the inner bio-energy.
Through sound, it can be changed. That's why when you listen to classical music you feel a certain silence — your inner body energy changes. Listen to a madman and you feel you're going crazy too, because the madman's body electricity is in chaos, which you imbibe. Sit with an enlightened person and suddenly everything within you falls into a rhythm.
To connect with our inner and outer cosmos, Osho has given a very powerful method of meditation, Nadabrahma. It lasts for an hour and has three stages:
• Stage I (30 minutes): Sit in a relaxed stance, eyes and lips closed. Hum loudly, so others can hear you. Visualise a hollow tube or empty vessel, filled only with vibrations of humming. A point will come when the humming continues by itself and you become the listener. Move your body smoothly if you want.
• Stage II (15 minutes, two sections): For the first half, move your hands, palms facing up, in an outward circular motion. Starting at the navel, both hands move forward and apart to make two large arcs, left and right. The movement should be so slow that at times there appears to be no movement at all. It's like you're giving energy to the universe. In the second half, turn the palms down and move them in the reverse direction. Let the hands come together towards the navel, as if you're taking energy in.
• Stage III (15 minutes): Sit or lie down, absolutely quiet and still. This method of meditation gives deep peace and nourishes our being with the universal energy. Modern researchers observe that the psycho-dynamics of the mind as an electromagnetic structure establishes the nature and reality of consciousness as an inter-dimensional energy process. It is an electrical process of cause and effect.
(1) Excerpt by Osho from Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol. 2, Ch 7
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In 2011, we were delighted to partner with Teresia as part of our Nature Sacred Awards research program, knowing she was just the person—the Firesoul—to steward, champion, and oversee the creation of a Sacred Place within the Legacy hospital system that we could study and research. Our goal has been to study the scientific benefits a Sacred Place can bring to healing patients, families, and staff.
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We asked Teresia what it was like—leading the creation of Sacred Place within a hospital system as large as Legacy's. Unlike some of our other Sacred Places, this particular space needed to deliver measurement and empirical data to help us further advocate for green spaces in hospitals. Her role was critical in this.
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Police Arrested Freddie Gray Protesters Last Year by Surveilling Social Media
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Officers were able to single out and arrest protesters with outstanding warrants during the Freddie Gray riots with help from a social media monitoring tool, the ACLU has found.
The group's Northern California branch said in an investigative report published yesterday that the company Geofeedia helped police tap into protesters' Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts last April. A Geofeedia case study shared by ACLU attorneys shows the firm has marketed its relationship with the Baltimore County Police Department, which renewed its contact with the company a week before the unrest began in April 2015.
As masses took to the streets, a Geofeedia employee began feeding back data to a Baltimore County police detective, who passed on real-time data to police in the city so they could stay "one step ahead."
"In some cases, police were even able to run social media photos through facial recognition technology to discover rioters with outstanding warrants and arrest them directly from the crowd," the case study says.
Authorities used similar tactics during unrest in Oakland and Ferguson, Mo., the ACLU said in its report.
Geofeedia was able to gain access to Instagram, Facebook and Twitter because it was listed as a developer. The first two of those companies cut Geofeedia off in September after the ACLU contacted them. Twitter blocked Geofeedia from accessing user data yesterday after the report's publication.
Geofeedia's use of their data to help police surveil users seemed to be a violation of all three companies' developer policies, The Verge's Russell Brandom reports. However, he notes that Geofeedia was accessing all three social networks' data for five years before the ACLU spoke up. For that reason, it remains unclear how closely the companies were enforcing their developer policies for Geofeedia.
Baltimore police have faced public scrutiny recently for other surveillance practices, including their use of an aerial surveillance plane that is currently flying over Baltimore to boost security during Fleet Week.
There seems to be an increasingly fine line for what's legally acceptable when it comes to surveillance by law enforcement. The ACLU concludes, "the government should not have preferred access to social media speech for surveillance purposes."
We have reached out to Geofeedia for a comment from their CEO. This company has posted this statement on its website saying it is committed to protecting free speech and civil liberties.
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Do people who are not breaking the law have any rights to protection from those who do? It seems we protect, protect, protect the criminals but the innocent people they hurt aren't given a thought by the ACLU or any other criminal protection group. Thanks to the police who do the best they can to protect law-abiding citizens.


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Genetically Engineered Salmon Closer to U.S. Approval
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WASHINGTON, DC, December 26, 2012 (ENS) – Genetically engineered salmon are likely to appear on American dinner plates for the first time in the near future, following the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's finding that they pose "no significant impact" to the environment.
Posted in the Federal Register today, the documents containing the FDA's findings are available for public comment until February 25, 2013.
The two documents – a draft environmental assessment and a preliminary "finding of no significant impact" – relate to AquAdvantage® Salmon, the trademarked genetically engineered salmon product proposed for approval by AquaBounty Technologies of Massachusetts.
A genetically engineered salmon, top, and a natural one of the same age. (Photo courtesy AquaBounty Technologies)
AquAdvantage® Salmon consists of Atlantic salmon eggs that contain a growth hormone gene from Chinook salmon, which provides the fish with the potential to reach market size in half the time of conventional Atlantic salmon.
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AquaBounty Chief Executive Officer Ron Stotish said Monday, "We are delighted that the Environmental Assessment is to be published for comment, which brings us a major step closer to approval. The revival of the science based review process is encouraging and we look forward to a successful conclusion based on the merit of the product."
Stotish says the FDA has not provided the company with an indication of the process or associated timing that will occur after the end of the public comment period.
The FDA made its preliminary finding of "no significant impact" despite a petition from conservation groups requesting that it complete a comprehensive environmental impact statement on the risks transgenic fish could present to the natural marine environment.
The nonprofit public interest law firm Earthjustice filed that petition in May 2011 on behalf of Ocean Conservancy, Friends of the Earth, Center for Food Safety, Food & Water Watch, the Center for International Environmental Law, and Greenpeace.
"FDA's narrow analysis fails to seriously consider the risks these genetically engineered fish could pose to our natural environment," said Earthjustice attorney Khushi Desai. "If these fish mix with wild salmon, the ecological harm could be devastating."
In its draft environmental assessment, the FDA accepts AquaBounty's representation that no fish will escape, survive, or reproduce in the wild – even though the conservationists warn that type of security cannot be guaranteed.
Desai of Earthjustice said, "This genetically engineered fish puts the entire U.S. salmon industry at risk, and most importantly it could threaten the very survival of our native salmon populations."
In their petition, the environmental groups ask for new regulations to govern the "burgeoning GE [genetically engineered] food animal industry" because the existing Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, FFDCA, does not cover the situations created by these new technologies.
"The production and distribution of GE food animals like ABT's AquAdvantage Salmon inherently pose unique environmental risks – including those threatening disruption and potential destruction of entire natural ecosystems – that are simply not contemplated by the FFDCA or its regulations," the petition states.
AquaBounty replies in a November 2010 letter addressed to FDA Commissioner Dr. Margaret Hamburg posted on its website, "…in addition to being triploid (infertile), the fish are all female and will be raised in physically contained facilities which will be inspected and approved in advance by FDA. This redundant biological containment and the rigorous physical containment the facilities provide assures a much higher degree of certainty of no interaction with any wild population than does an other current production method, and in fact, renders comparisons with other current production methods wholly inappropriate."
Nevertheless, the environmental groups warn, the process "occurs almost entirely behind closed doors, making it nearly impossible for the public to participate meaningfully in an agency decision that could lead to devastating and irreversible ecological harm."
Although the FDA has hosted a public hearing on AquaBounty Technologies' application and has stated that it will seek public comment on its National Environmental Policy Act document related to this application before publishing a final determination, the petitioning groups point out that these opportunities for public comment "are not presently required by law and therefore may not be afforded each time the Agency is considering approval of a GE food animal application."
The public comment period now open for the environmental assessment and finding of "no significant impact" on AquaBounty's AquAdvantage® Salmon relates only to the environmental impact of the transgenic salmon, not its safety as a food.
The food analysis has already been completed. In 2010, the FDA's Veterinary Medicine Advisory Committee concluded that the engineered salmon "is as safe as food from conventional salmon, and there is a reasonable certainty of no harm from consumption."
That panel concluded AquAdvantage® Salmon is indistinguishable from other Atlantic salmon, is safe to eat and does not pose a threat to the environment under its conditions of use.
At that time, conservation scientists called for a better procedure for determining the risks of genetically engineered food animals.
Margaret Mellon, a senior scientist with the Union of Concerned Scientists and director of the organization's Food and Environment Program, said, "The approval process for this genetically engineered salmon will set an important precedent that will be difficult to reverse. If we do not implement a comprehensive and adequate procedure to oversee genetically engineered foods now, we could put human health and the environment at risk."
Mellon, a lawyer with a doctorate in molecular biology, said FFDCA drug laws have two major deficiencies.
First, they do not require the FDA to convene scientific advisory committees as part of the approval process for genetically engineered animals.
Second, they do not have any provisions requiring environmental protection. A number of experts have concluded that AquaBounty's salmon could threaten aquatic environments.
She also questioned the Veterinary Medicine Advisory Committee's ability to handle this sensitive issue. It is the only committee the FDA will consult on the matter.
"Yes, this committee is sometimes asked to consider scientific, political and environmental risks as part of the approval process under the drug laws – as we are seeing with genetically engineered fish," Mellon explained. "But it is largely made up of veterinarians who do not have the necessary expertise to evaluate the risks genetically engineered fish may pose to consumers or the environment."


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Details of RISCiX can be found HERE .
This machine was built by Acorn in 1988 as one of the prototypes for a desktop publishing system to be sold by Olivetti. The system was never put into production so the remaining prototypes are very hard to find. This is thought to be the first to appear on eBay, though one or two have been sold on Usenet.
The auction is for an A680 (serial number 147) in working order and fitted with SCSI, Ethernet and Laser Printer interface podules. These are in addition to the on-board SCSI interface intended for an external scanner. The Laser Printer (lbp) podule is especially rare as most A680s used for development purposes had these removed. A keyboard and mouse are included.
Also included is the hardware technical reference manual - about 250 pages with schematics of the main board and podules together with a great deal of technical information about the operation of the system. Parts of this TRM (such as the description of the podule bus) became the developer's reference for the entire Archimedes line. [I plan to scan the TRM and make it available in the documents section in PDF form, but scanning, OCRing andconverting to PDF format will take some time].
Some other peripherals which are not original but may be useful in setting up a complete, working system can also be included if the buyer wishes.
Because the machine was used as a desktop machine for some time both at Acorn and privately, it has had some modifications and wear and is not exactly as it would have been first built. As far as I am aware, these are limited to the following minor differences. Most can easily be restored.
Original ARM2 has been removed and an ARM3 upgrade fitted.
Original 67MB Rodime disc has been removed and a Connor 100MB disc (as used in the R260) fitted. The original Rodime disc can be included, but no longer works (and in any case is too small for the version of RISCiX).
Some additional wiring has been added to assist the connection of a VGA monitor (the A680 in standard form was used with only a monochrome monitor). This can easily be removed.
The keyboard is a standard Archimedes keyboard and has some unreliable keys. As far as I know, there was no special A680 keyboard - this one is similar to the original type.
The software installation is RISCiX 1.21 [1.21c] and is not a fresh installation. I do not have any other archive or release media - the disc is all there is. It may have elements missing, altered or added. However, the machine fully boots, allows multiuser logins and will run the X server and installed applications.
The internal LED diagnostic display has one or more faulty segments.
Although this machine was working well when last in regular use and I have tested the main machine briefly, I have not tested the podules beyond confirming that the kernel recognises them. There may be other faults that I haven't discovered. Paintwork is in fair condition - a few scratches and knocks, perhaps other cosmetic faults.
Mains on/off switch is unreliable and has been bypassed. It's a standard TV part and could be replaced.
Having successfully released the Archimedes range in 1987, Acorn turned to a different operating system for their next machine. The machine was the R140, (R140 Specification ) and was launched in September 1998. Initial machines were based on a slightly adapted A440, later machines were based on the A440/1. It featured the same ARM2 and 4 Mb of memory, but had a larger 60 Mb ST506 hard drive. Although it had RISC OS 2 in ROM, this was only used for the inital boot process which then loaded the disc-based RISC iX UNIX system, The R140 was aimed at the low end of the UNIX workstation market.
Here is the R140 product specification and price list.
Here is the Archimedes 400/1 and Acorn R140 Service Manual.
In March 1989 PCW pubished a review of the R140 titled "Acorn R140".
When the R140 was launched, it was very similar to the A440, but my R140 has been "upgraded" substantially. The CPU was an ARM2, but has upgraded to an IFEL 36MHz ARM3. The MEMC1 has been upgraded to MEMC1a. The original hard disc was missing and had been replaced by the Risc Developments IDEFS card. But you cannot install RISC iX on an IDE drive, so I found and installed an old ST506 Kalok KL320 drive (which is listed in Acorn documentation as used on the A400 series). The Atomwide Ethernet IV card is not original. The Operating System has been upgraded from RISC OS 2 to RISC OS 3.10.
The R225 is as discless workstation, a variant of the R260, and was released in June 1990. Because it was discless, RISC IX had to be installed on a fileserver by Grenada Microcare. Alternatively a single R225 could be booted and run from a networked R260.
The R260 is functionally identical to the A540. The R260 was fitted with 8 Mb of RAM and a 100 Mb SCSI hard disc drive as standard, while the R225 came with 4 Mb of RAM and no hard drive, and was intended as a cheap networked UNIX workstation. Both machines were supplied with ARM3 chips and built-in Ethernet interfaces.
Here is the Acorn R260 product brochure.
In August 1990 Personal Computer World published a review titled "Acorn R260 "
Here is the R260, R225, A540 installation Guide .
Here is the Archimedes 500 and Acorn R200 Service Manual .
I bought my R260 on Yahoo in February 2002. Unfortunately the RISC iX partition got corrupted, I think due to disc faults, but possibly my ignorance and I no longer have a copy of RISC iX 1.2 running on it. So if anyone can clone a disc with RISC iX on for me, please get in touch.
With the 30 MHz ARM3 CPU replaced by a 25MHz ARM3 with an FPA10 installed, the Dhrystones/sec fell to 22,621, but the kWhetstones/sec rose to 2807. This shows that an FPA10 makes a signifcant improvement to applications with floating pooint code (e.g. RISC iX).


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Mar 23rd, 2015 · by SCSO · Comments:
WESTOVER — The Somerset County Sheriff's Office posts the following incidents and arrests.
Shawn David Sturgis of Mt. Vernon, criminal summons served 2-23-15 for theft over $1,000. Sturgis was released on signature pending court actions. The arrest was the result of a theft of metal complaint from a property in Mt. Vernon.
Michael Jerome Aye of Princess Anne, arrested 3-4-15 on a warrants for failing to appear in court. Aye was held on a $750.00 bond.
Maurice McKinley Turner of Princess Anne, arrested 3-4-15 on warrants for failing to appear in court. Turner was held on a $1,000 bond.
Kevin Stuart Moore of Salisbury, arrested 3-9-15 on a warrant for failing to appear in court. Moore was held on a $500.00 bond.
John Michael Dawson Jr. of Laurel Delaware, arrested 3-9-15 on a warrant for violation of probation. Dawson was held without bond.
Susan Lynn Bowie of Eden, arrested 3-10-15 on a warrant for failing to appear in court. Bowie was held on a $500.00 bond.
Carla Janette Roberts Richardson of Westover, arrested 3-14-15 on a warrant for trespassing. Richardson was held on a $3,000 bond.
Teneka T. Burns of Capital Heights, arrested 3-17-15 on a warrant for failing to appear in court. Burns was held on a $250.00 bond.
Carla Ann Renee Ruf of Princess Anne, arrested 3-17-15 on a warrant for violation of probation. Ruf was held without bond.
Juvenile arrested at Tawes Campus Vo-Tech on 3-18-15 for possessing suspected marijuana . Deputies were called to the Vo-tech school regarding a male student possessing suspected marijuana, and two smoking devices. The juvenile was arrested and charged with possession of marijuana, and possession of drug paraphernalia. The juvenile was later released to parents pending juvenile court actions.
Danzell John Gregory of Crisfield, arrested 3-18-15 on a warrant for violation of probation. Gregory was held without bond.
Juvenile arrested after assaulting bus driver on 3-19-15. The male juvenile was charged with 2nd degree assault, disorderly conduct, and disturbing school functions. Deputies were called to the Washington High School for an assault complaint. Deputies learned that a male student became combative with a bus driver during an altercation on the school bus. The juvenile was later released to family members pending juvenile court.