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"Peter Bonerz (, born August 6, 1938) is an American actor and director who is known for his role as Dr. Jerry Robinson on The Bob Newhart Show. Early life Bonerz was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire to Elfrieda (née Kern) and Christopher Bonerz.Peter Bonerz Biography (1938-) - Film Reference He grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where he attended Marquette University High School. Here, performing with the Prep Players, he gained his first theatrical experience. At Marquette University, he participated in the Marquette University Players under the Reverend John J. Walsh, S.J. After graduating with a bachelor of science degree in 1960, he decided to seek a career in theater, starting in New York City in improv with a troupe called The Premise. After compulsory service as a draftee in the United States Army, he worked with an improv troupe in San Francisco, California known as The Committee, whose members included Rob Reiner, David Ogden Stiers, Howard Hesseman and Hamilton Camp. Career Bonerz's first network television appearance was in 1965 on The Addams Family in the season-two episode "Morticia, The Writer".DVD commentary from The Addams Family - The Complete Series, Special Feature, "Guest Star Seance" He had several more TV appearances in the late 1960s and also had roles in several films, including Funnyman (1967), What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? (1969), Medium Cool (1969), Catch-22 (1970), which also included his future co-star Bob Newhart, Jennifer on My Mind (1971) and Fuzz (1972). In 1971, Bonerz was part of an ensemble cast in the short-lived improvisational television show Story Theatre, which also included Alan Alda and Valerie Harper. In 1972, he landed the popular supporting role of Dr. Jerry Robinson, the eccentric orthodontist on The Bob Newhart Show, whose most frequent comic foil was Marcia Wallace as Carol, the sharp-tongued receptionist. Bonerz would reprise this role in a cameo appearance in the final, unaired episode of Bob Newhart's third series, Bob. He also directed 29 episodes. The show ran for six seasons, with ratings among the top 20 in the first three seasons. His later acting roles included the TV miniseries The Bastard (1978) and as a psychiatrist in the movie Serial (1980). In 1979, Bonerz appeared on Password Plus as a game show contestant/celebrity guest star with Marcia Wallace, his costar from The Bob Newhart Show. In 1986, Bonerz co-starred with Tuesday Weld and River Phoenix in the television movie Circle of Violence: A Family Drama. In 1999, he played Ed. Weinberger in the movie Man on the Moon. He voiced Sal in the Aaahh!!! Real Monsters episode "Internal Affairs". In 2014, he played Doug Demarco in the "Anniversaries" episode of Parks and Recreation. He directed a number of sitcom episodes for series such as Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers, Foley Square, My Sister Sam, Friends, Murphy Brown, Wings, NewsRadio, Home Improvement, It's Your Move, Archie Bunker's Place, and ALF. He also directed a few films, such as Nobody's Perfekt (1981) and Police Academy 6: City Under Siege (1989).Peter Bonerz Biography (1938-) - Film Reference Filmography as director * McGurk: A Dog's Life (1979) * Love, Natalie (1980) * G.I.'s (1980) * Nobody's Perfekt (1981) * In Security (1982) * High Five (1982 TV short) * Focus on Fishko (1983 short) * Back Together (1984) * The Recovery Room (1985) * Sharing Richard (1988) * Police Academy 6: City Under Siege (1989) * Julie Brown: The Show (1989 TV short) * The Elvira Show (1993 TV short) * Drive/II (2006) References External links Category:1938 births Category:Living people Category:Male actors from New Hampshire Category:American male film actors Category:American male television actors Category:American television directors Category:Comedy film directors Category:Marquette University alumni Category:People from Portsmouth, New Hampshire Category:20th-century American male actors Category:21st-century American male actors Category:United States Army soldiers Category:Directors Guild of America Award winners Category:Male actors from Milwaukee Category:Film directors from New Hampshire "
"George Longstaff (?1947 - 5 October 2003) was a British bicycle builder with a high reputation for tandem bicycles, tricycles and handbuilt touring bicycles. He founded the Longstaff Cycle Centre in Chesterton near Newcastle-under-Lyme in 1982 and soon established a reputation as a builder of high quality bikes. He was also known as a tandem and trike rider and an ingenious creator of specialist adaptations for disabled cyclists. Longstaff died of a heart attack while piloting his tandem trike on a Longstaff Owners' Club ride. The Longstaff Cycle Centre has contracted, but is still in business and continues to build custom bikes, but no longer retails off-the-peg cycles. External links *Longstaff Cycle Centre Category:1947 births Category:2003 deaths Category:People from Newcastle-under-Lyme "
"The Union Electric Company of Missouri (formerly ) was an electric power utility that was organized in 1902 and grew to be one of the S&P; 500 largest companies in the United States. In 1997, its holding company merged with a smaller neighboring utility, Central Illinois Public Service Company through its holding company, CIPSCO Inc. (formerly ), to form Ameren Corporation () based in St. Louis, Missouri.Ameren Corporation, About Us History Ashley Street Light and Power building The company's first incarnation, the Union Company, was organized in 1902 in St. Louis. Two years later, the renamed Union Electric Company built the 36,000 kW coal-fired Ashley Street Plant in the city's Near North Riverfront region to provide steam heat to downtown St. Louis. The plant was for years the city's main source of electricity. In 1904, it powered The Palace of Electricity's electric lights at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis.A Century of Excellence, Ameren History 1902-2002 , Ameren.com The plant was converted to oil in 1972 and from oil to natural gas in 1996. Still in operation, the plant now functions as a district steam plant for the city of St. Louis and is owned by Ashley Energy. By 1906, Union Electric Company was a publicly traded stock and began to pay a cash dividend to shareholders, which it paid every year until the 1997 merger.Standard & Poor's Stock Guide, April 1996 In 1909, Union Electric began selling electric cars, and became the St. Louis agent for Studebaker and Rauch & Lang automobiles. In 1919, the Shubert-Jefferson Theatre in the Union Electric building hosted a post-war national caucus in which the American Legion was born. In 1927, a tornado struck St. Louis, destroying more than US$10 million worth of property, including Union Electric's electricity lines to the city. By 1929, Union Electric Company became a subsidiary holding company of North American Company,(org chart) one of the original stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.Jeremy J. Siegel, Stocks for the Long Run, McGraw-Hill, Second Edition, 1998, Union Electric subsidiaries at the time included Union Electric Light and Power (Missouri) and Union Electric Light and Power of Illinois. In 1929, the Bagnell Dam was completed on the Osage River and generated almost 175 megawatts of hydroelectricity for Union Electric, along with creating the Lake of the Ozarks with 1,400 miles of shoreline. The associated Union Electric Administration Building-Lakeside was constructed in 1930; it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998, with a boundary increase in 2011. By 1940, Union Electric Company was one of three holding companies and also one of the ten major direct subsidiaries in the US$2.3 billion North American Company pyramid of 80 companies. At that time, North American owned more than 79% of Union Electric stock. FindLaw.com North American Company was broken up by the Securities and Exchange Commission after the United States Supreme Court decision of April 1, 1946. Union Electric Company was then divested from North American. Until the 1997 merger, Union Electric Company traded publicly as an independent company on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol UEP. By the 1950s, Union Electric owned gas operations in and around Alton, Illinois, and acquired other utilities to become the third largest distributor of natural gas in Missouri. In 1952, Union Electric joined with its future Ameren mate, the Central Illinois Public Service Company; and also with another later Ameren subsidiary, the Illinois Power Company, to form the Midwest Power Pool system. In 1963 Union Electric completed construction of one of the largest pumped storage plants at that time, the then-350-megawatt Taum Sauk Plant, in Reynolds County, Missouri. In December 2005, a large section of the dam containing the plant's upper reservoir failed, draining over a billion gallons of water in less than half an hour. In 1984, Union Electric's first nuclear energy plant, the Callaway Nuclear Generating Station, began providing 1,143 megawatts of power from Callaway County, Missouri. In 1993, Union Electric battled a 500-year flood in the St. Louis metropolitan area from the swollen Missouri and Mississippi Rivers. In 1994, Union Electric shared the industry's Edison Award with Midwest Power Systems, Inc., of Des Moines, Iowa, for their work providing electric service to customers during the 1993 flood disaster. In 1995, shareholders of both Union Electric Company and CIPSCO Inc. approved the companies' merger. The merger was completed on December 31, 1997, forming Ameren Corporation. At the time of the merger, Union Electric had assets of nearly US$600 million, but still carried nearly US$1.8 billion in long-term debt, down from US$2.5 billion which it had accumulated by the 1980s. The former Union Electric Company is now a subsidiary of the Ameren Corporation holding company, d/b/a AmerenUE. Ameren is now also a holding company for several other power companies and energy companies as well. The AmerenUE subsidiary continues to own Bagnell Dam. AmerenUE is responsible for managing water levels on the Lake of the Ozarks according to federal regulations; if levels are not appropriate, the lake must be closed until Ameren can solve the problem. Today, with nine power plants, AmerenUE serves 1.2 million power customers and 110,000 gas customers, primarily in Missouri, where more than half of its customers reside in the St. Louis metropolitan area. It also serves adjoining parts of Illinois, and formerly served Iowa as well through the mid-1990s. References External links *Ameren.com =Taum Sauk= *FERC Taum Sauk Page - Reports, Charges and Settlement available here *Missouri Attorney General Press Release with link to Petition for lawsuit against Ameren for breach Category:Electric power companies of the United States Category:Hydroelectric power companies of the United States Category:Nuclear power companies of the United States Category:Companies based in Missouri Category:Companies based in St. Louis Category:Energy companies established in 1902 Category:Non-renewable resource companies established in 1902 Category:1902 establishments in Missouri "