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"Russel Howcroft is an Australian businessman and media personality best known as a panellist on the ABC television program The Gruen Transfer. Howcroft is currently host of Breakfast with Ross & Russel on 3AW Howcroft grew up in Malvern, Victoria and attended Scotch College, Melbournehttps://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/life-on-planet- howcroft-20121104-28rxd.html. Career Howcroft is the former national CEO of advertising agency George Patterson Y&R; (now known as Y&R; ANZ). In February 2013, Howcroft was appointed as Executive General Manager of Network Ten and remained in the position until February 2017 before moving to PwC just months before the network was placed into voluntary administration. Howcroft holds a Bachelor of Business (Marketing) from Monash University. In May 2017, Howcroft was appointed Chair of the Australian Film, Television and Radio School."AFTRS Council Chair appointment", Ministers for the Department of Communications and the Arts (Mitch Fifield), 16 May 2017 = Radio = In September 2011, it was announced Howcroft would host Saturdays on the Weekend Break afternoon program on 3AW, whilst Tom Elliott filled in for Derryn Hinch on the drive program. In June 2020, 3AW announced that Howcroft will join 3AW Breakfast from Monday 3 August, following John Burns' retirement from radio. = Television = Howcroft has been a regular panellist on Gruen since the program's inception in 2008 and has also been guest panellist on news-chat show The Project. References Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:Place of birth missing (living people) Category:Living people Category:Australian businesspeople Category:Australian television personalities "
"Kaminski's death was noted with a cover feature in the September 2011 edition of the independent Mariners magazine The Grand Salami. Richard J. "Rick" Kaminski (1944–2011) was a printer, real estate agent, and stadium food hawker. Kaminski is best remembered as "The Peanut Man", a comedic trick-toss expert who used a variety of styles to hurl packages of peanuts to customers in the stands of the Kingdome and Safeco Field at the games of the Seattle Mariners for more than three decades. Kaminski practiced his unique art from the time of the team's entry into the ranks of Major League Baseball in 1977 until the time of his death, during which time he became one of the informal public faces of the franchise. Biography =Early years= Kaminski was born in Seattle, Washington in 1944.Susan Gilmore, "Rick Kaminski, Mariners' Amazing 'Peanut Man,' Dies," Seattle Times, July 27, 2011. Kaminski attended King's Garden, a private Christian school in North Seattle before graduating from Seattle's Lincoln High School, Class of 1962.Joe Veyera, "Mariners' 'Peanut Man' Had Shoreline Connection Rick Kaminski was a King's and Shoreline Community College Student," Shoreline-Lake Forest Park Patch, July 28, 2011. In high school Kaminski was a right-handed pitcher on the baseball team — an athletic assignment that would train him well for future endeavors. Kaminski was a veteran of the United States Army during the Vietnam War. Following his return from his stint in the Army, Kaminski returned to his native Seattle and enrolled at Shoreline Community College, located just north of the city. There he was elected class president in 1973. =Career= In 1977, Seattle was granted a new franchise and team by Major League Baseball to replace the departed Seattle Pilots, eight years before, who played the 1969 baseball season here before departing to become the Milwaukee Brewers. Kaminski, who was working as a printer with designs on becoming an attorney in the future, took a part-time job as a food vendor in the stands of the King County Stadium for the new franchise, the Seattle Mariners.Tyler Soper, "Mariners to Pay Tribute to 'The Peanut Man,'" MLB.com, July 28, 2011. Kaminski began his storied career as a stadium hawker selling beer — one of the more lucrative sales tasks for the commissioned vendors.Jon Wells, "RIP Rick Kaminski, 1944-2011: Peanut Man was 'Nuts' About His Work", The Grand Salami, vol. 16, no. 6 (September 2011), pp. 4-5. However, due to competing periodically in tennis tournaments, Kaminski missed a number of shifts and was demoted by the stadium concessionaire to selling lower-priced items. Selling each bag of peanuts proved time-consuming, as money was slowly passed from hand to hand, after which the product slowly made the trip in the other direction. In an effort to speed up this process, Kaminski began launching peanut bags through the air to his customers, a technique which proved to be not only faster but which entertained the crowd, boosting sales. Speeding up the process further, in later years Kaminski frequently made use of a tennis ball into which was cut a slit for the insertion of cash for the aerial completion of financial transactions. Over time Kaminski developed a repertoire of fancier and even- more-entertaining throws, made with such flair and prowess that his tosses were occasionally documented on ESPN SportsCenter's nightly highlight reels. He was known not only for his uncanny accuracy but also for a steady stream of humorous banter which he exchanged with fans.Casey McNerthney and Gerry Spratt, "Rick Kaminski, 'The Peanut Man,' Dies at 67: Mariners Vendor was a Longtime Fan Favorite," Seattle Post-Intelligencer, July 27, 2011. Kaminski's trademark peanut toss was a behind-the-back line drive thrown for distance with velocity — with a Mariners scout clocking one such Kaminski throw at 72 miles per hour with a radar gun. Other Kaminski creations included the "Sky Bag", the "Curve Bag", the "Long Bomb", and the "No-Look Behind The Back."Dave Walker, "Coming Out of His Shell: The Peanut Man Tries to Go Global," Phoenix New Times, April 3, 1991. Despite his more prominent career tossing peanuts to tens of thousands of hungry fans, Kaminski worked also as a Seattle real estate broker. When asked about his need to pursue such a side gig by one Kingdome fan in the late 1980s, Rick chortled, "A man can't live on peanuts alone."Testimony of YouTube User Madcapper6, 2008, Video comments section. =Death and legacy= Kaminski died July 26, 2011 in Seattle of a brain aneurysm.KOMO Staff, "Legendary Seattle Mariners Vendor 'Rick the Peanut Guy' Dies," KOMO-TV (Seattle), July 27, 2011. Kaminski's career was remembered at the time of his death in a statement by Mariners president Chuck Armstrong, who recalled: The root of Kaminski's iconic status was analyzed by one Safeco denizen: Kaminski's death was marked by the team with a moment of silence prior to the playing of the national anthem at the July 29, 2011, Mariners game against the visiting Tampa Bay Rays. Following this brief memorial, Mariners vendors further paid tribute to Kaminski by hurling ceremonial bags of peanuts into the crowd. Kaminski memorabilia was displayed by the team in its baseball museum and hall of fame at Safeco Field for the duration of the 2011 campaign. Footnotes External links * , Uploaded May 9, 2009. * , Uploaded July 28, 2011. —Musical tribute. * , Uploaded October 20, 2007. —Surrealist early 1980s TV ad featuring real-life vendors Rick Kaminski and "Bill the Beerman" Scott. 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"The Paulhan-Tatin Aéro-Torpille No.1, (also known as Paulhan-Tatin Aero Torpedo), was a French experimental aircraft built in 1911 as a collaboration between the famous pilot Louis Paulhan and Victor Tatin, a scientist who had experimented with various types of flying models and in 1879 had made the first model aircraft to take off under its own power. Design and development The Aéro-Torpille No.1 created great interest during the 1911 Salon de l’Aéronautique at the Grand Palais in Paris due to its novel design and streamlined appearance. Great care had been taken in the design to eliminate drag, and the design had been tested on Gustave Eiffel's wind tunnel.http://www.ctie.monash.edu.au/hargrave/tatin.html Victor Tatin The Pioneers: an Anthology retrieved 26 June 2014 The aircraft had a streamlined circular section fuselage which entirely enclosed the Gnome rotary engine, which drove a pusher configuration propeller mounted at the back of the fuselage, connected to the engine by a long driveshaft. The structure of the fuselage was a conventional square-section wire-braced wood structure, outside which were circular formers bearing a series of stringers to support the fabric covering. Initially a universal joint was fitted at the engine end of the driveshaft, but in tests the girder construction of the fuselage proved rigid enough for this not to be necessary, and the long tube forming the driveshaft was simply held by six ballraces attached to the structure by wires, to eliminate whip. The section of the fuselage containing the engine was covered by louvred aluminium panels, removable for maintenance of the engine. The wings had curved leading and trailing edges, were tapered in planform and were curved upwards at the wing tips. Flight loads were transmitted to the bottom of the fuselage by a pair of steel ribbons on either side. The rearmost of these also operated the wing warping for lateral control. The pilot sat immediately in front of the leading edge of the wing. Even the undercarriage was of novel design, consisting of a pair of semi- circular lengths of hickory, hinged at the front and attached to the fuselage by bungee cords and bearing a pair of wheels whose spokes were covered. Tail surfaces consisted of a fixed tailplane with trailing-edge elevators and a small rectangular balanced rudder.The Paulhan Aero Torpedo Flight magazine 17 February 1912 The aircraft was flown during October 1911 and in February achieved a measured speed of .Fast Flight on the Paulhan-Tatin Torpedo Flight magazine 24 February 1912 p.178 In March it was sold to the Italian aviator Signor Bosse.A Paulhan Torpedo for Italy Flight magazine 16 March 1912 Specifications References Aero-Torpille 001 Category:Single-engined pusher aircraft Category:Rotary-engined aircraft Category:Mid-engined aircraft Category:1910s French experimental aircraft Category:Aircraft first flown in 1911 "