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The Tams are an American vocal group from Atlanta, Georgia, who enjoyed their greatest chart success in the 1960s, but continued to chart in the 1970s, and the 1980s. Two separate lineups of the group continue to perform and record. One lineup, called 'The Original Tams with R. L. Smith', features original member Robert Lee Smith, and the other lineup is under the leadership of Little Red, the son of longtime member Charles Pope and the nephew of group co-founder Joe Pope.
Career
The band formed in 1960, and took their name from the Tam o'shanter hats they wore on stage. By 1962, they had a hit single on Arlen Records. "Untie Me", a Joe South composition, became a Top 20 on the Billboard R&B chart. The follow-up releases largely failed until 1964, when "What Kind of Fool (Do You Think I Am)", reached the Top 10 on the US Billboard Hot 100. The song spent three weeks at number one on the Cash Box R&B chart. Many of their popular hits were written by Ray Whitley.
"Hey Girl Don't Bother Me" was also a modest US hit the same year. The Tams had only one further major US hit (in 1968) when "Be Young, Be Foolish, Be Happy", peaked at #26 on the US R&B chart, and subsequently made the UK Top 40 in 1970.
Their 1965 recording "I've Been Hurt" was their biggest regional hit (based on sales and airplay) prior to 1980.
The group reached the Number one slot in the UK Singles Chart in September 1971, with the re-issue of "Hey Girl Don't Bother Me", thanks to its initial support from the then thriving UK Northern soul scene. The song also topped the Irish Singles Chart, making them the first African-American group to have a number-one single in Ireland.
The group did not chart again until 1987, when their song "There Ain't Nothing Like Shaggin'" reached #21 in UK, propelled by a regionally-popular dance known as the Carolina shag, which featured heavily in the subsequent 1989 film, Shag. However, the track was banned by the BBC because the word "shag" means "to have sexual intercourse" in colloquial British English.
Still quite popular in the Southeastern United States, they continue to record new music and perform at well-attended concerts. In 1999, they were featured performers with Jimmy Buffett on his CD, Beach House on the Moon, and also toured with him around the country.
American singer-songwriter Tameka Harris, born in 1975, is the daughter of Dianne Cottle-Pope and Charles Pope. Charles Pope died from Alzheimer's disease on July 11, 2013, at the age of 76.
Later years
In recent years the group has been led by Albert "Little Red" Cottle Jr., the son of former member Albert Cottle.
Members
Joseph Pope (born Joseph Lee Pope, November 6, 1933, Atlanta, Georgia; died March 16, 1996)
Robert Lee Smith (born March 18, 1936)
Horace Key (born April 13, 1934, Atlanta, Georgia, died 1995)
Charles Pope (born Charles Walter Pope, August 7, 1936, Atlanta, Georgia; died July 11, 2013)
Floyd Ashton (born August 15, 1933) (member from 1960 to 1963)
Little Red aka Lil' Red (born August 2, 1969)
Discography
Singles
Hey Girl Don't Bother Me!
This was the group's first album in 1964. It has the single of the same name.
See also
List of artists who reached number one on the UK Singles Chart
List of artists who reached number one in Ireland
Beach music
List of 1960s one-hit wonders in the United States
Bibliography
The New Musical Express Book of Rock, 1975, Star Books,
References
External links
The Original Joe Pope Tams website
American soul musical groups
Musical groups from Atlanta
Musical groups established in 1960
Northern soul musicians
African-American musical groups
1960 establishments in Georgia (U.S. state) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Tams |
Olga Broumas (born 6 May 1949, Hermoupolis) is a Greek poet, resident in the United States. She has been Poet-in-Residence and Director of Creative Writing at Brandeis University since 1995.
Biography
Born and raised on the island of Syros, Broumas secured a fellowship through the Fulbright program to study in the United States at the University of Pennsylvania. There, she earned her bachelor's degree in architecture. She later went on to earn a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Oregon.
After earning this degree, Broumas co-founded and taught at Freehand, Inc., a school in Provincetown, Massachusetts for female writers and artists. The school disbanded in 1987.
Broumas has worked in the creative writing programs at several universities, including the University of Idaho and Goddard College. She currently is the Professor Emerita of the Practice of English at Brandeis University.
Works and honours
Her first collection of poems, Beginning with O, was considered groundbreaking in its depiction of explicit lesbian sexuality.
Broumas was selected by Stanley Kunitz for the Yale Younger Poets Series in 1977, the first non-native speaker of English to receive this award. Other honors have included a Guggenheim Fellowship and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Bibliography
Collections
Beginning with O (Yale, 1977).
Soie Sauvage (Copper Canyon Press, 1979).
Pastoral Jazz (Copper Canyon Press, 1983).
With Jane Miller: Black Holes, Black Stockings (Wesleyan, 1985).
Perpetua (Copper Canyon Press, 1989).
With T. Begley: Sappho’s Gymnasium (Copper Canyon Press, 1994).
Rave: Poems, 1975-1999 (Copper Canyon Press, 1999).
Translations
What I Love: Selected Poems by Odysseas Elytis (Copper Canyon Press, 1986).
The Little Mariner by Odysseas Elytis (Copper Canyon Press, 1988).
Eros, Eros, Eros: Selected and Last Poems by Odysseas Elytis (Copper Canyon Press,1998).
References
1949 births
Living people
20th-century Greek poets
Brandeis University faculty
Greek lesbian writers
Lesbian poets
Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry winners
Greek LGBT poets
People from Ermoupoli
Greek expatriates in the United States
American LGBT poets
University of Oregon alumni
American women poets
Greek women poets
20th-century American poets
20th-century American women writers
Lesbian academics
American lesbian writers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga%20Broumas |
Moraine Assembly was a General Motors automobile factory in Moraine, Ohio, United States, a suburb of Dayton. A Frigidaire appliance plant had originally operated on the site from 1951 to 1979. Starting in 1981, the Chevrolet S-10 small pickup was produced. This same model was produced by Shreveport Assembly. In 1987 through 1994 the plant produced the rolling chassis for the Grumman LLV Postal Vehicle. From 2001 through 2008, the plant produced the GMT360 SUVs. The plant was closed in December 2008. In 2014, the facilities were acquired by Fuyao Glass to produce glass for vehicles.
Plant closure
On June 3, 2008, GM Chairman Rick Wagoner announced that the Moraine plant would close in December, citing high fuel prices and decreased demand for the SUV and trucks produced by the plant. There were no plans to reconfigure the plant to produce other products. The last vehicle that rolled off the line was a white GMC Envoy.
Workers at the plant in Moraine were given a letter on October 3, 2008, informing them that the plant would close in December. It stated that the final day of production would be December 23. At that time, the plant employed 2,400 people.
Originally, General Motors had planned several shutdown weeks in December. However, Lee said there would be no temporary shutdowns and the plant would operate until December 23. IUE-CWA President Jim Clark said, "IUE-CWA is deeply disappointed in General Motors’ refusal to keep the Moraine Assembly plant open. The announcement that the plant will be closed much earlier than initially stated will further hurt our members, their families and a Dayton community already rocked by plant closings and layoffs."
Past products
1983–2004 Chevrolet S-10 Blazer
1983–2004 GMC S-15 Jimmy
1987-1994 Grumman LLV Chassis
1991–2004 Oldsmobile Bravada
1998–2009 GMC Envoy
2002–2009 Chevrolet TrailBlazer
2004–2007 Buick Rainier
2003–2008 Isuzu Ascender
2005–2009 Saab 9-7X
Fuyao Glass
In 2014, GM Moraine Assembly was purchased from IRG by China-based Fuyao Glass Industry Group Co. Ltd. Fuyao manufactures automotive glass for GM and other automakers. Operations at the Fuyao plant began in late 2015. Fuyao Glass America's first customer was Hyundai Motor Company; additional clients added since startup include GM, Volkswagen, Fiat Chrysler, BMW, Honda, and US replacement-glass chain Safelite. The Fuyao plant employs over 2,000 workers. Carillon Historical Park in Dayton displays the final SUV made at Moraine Assembly next to the first windshield made by Fuyao Glass America.
By the end of 2016 the plant brought an estimated $280 million to the Ohio economy. Fuyao has invested $1 billion in its U.S. subsidiary, with long-term plans to grow to 5,000 employees in the United States.
In popular culture
Moraine Assembly's closing is the subject of the HBO short documentary, The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant. It was filmed by local directors Julia Reichert and Steve Bognar with the help of several Moraine Assembly workers. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) in 2009.
The Fuyao Glass plant is the focus of Netflix's American Factory, also made by Reichert and Bognar. It is the first film distributed by President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama's production company, Higher Ground Productions.
References
General Motors factories
Former motor vehicle assembly plants
Motor vehicle assembly plants in Ohio
Buildings and structures in Montgomery County, Ohio
1951 establishments in Ohio | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moraine%20Assembly |
Dubai TV is a TV channel offered by the Dubai Media Incorporated (DMI). It replaced Emirates Dubai Television on June 14, 2004. Dubai TV broadcasts programmes predominantly in Arabic. The programming caters to family Arab audience specifically in the Arab World and is available in Australia, Europe, North America and the rest of Asia. A majority of its programming is produced locally in Dubai Media City. Dubai TV is a part of a four channel network owned by DMI. High-definition "HD" format is free and available on Nilesat and Yahsat.
Current programming
News and current affairs (Developed by Dubai News Center)' Madārāt (Danger)
Al Akhbar Al Emarat (Emirates News)- A Late night Flagship Newscast currently aired on Dubai TV, Sama Dubai TV and Noor Dubai TV.
Qabil Lailnaqash (Debate)
Kharitat Al Maal (Economic Update)
Dubai Hadza Al Sabah (Dubai This Morning)- Morning Program
The Insider- A Showbiz News Program that gives news and happenings in local and international artist.
Al-Akhbar (The News)- is a two editioned newscast that gives news and information around the world in Arabic. These newscast has two editions- Midday (Mixed Local and International News) and Evening (International News).
Animated series
The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack (27 March 2010 – present) currently aired on Dubai TV, Sama Dubai TV and Noor Dubai TV.
Kral Şakir (12 May 2018 – present) currently aired on Dubai TV, Sama Dubai TV and Noor Dubai TV.
Chowder (13 March 2010 – present) currently aired on Dubai TV, Sama Dubai TV and Noor Dubai TV.
Eliot Kid (13 March 2010 – present) currently aired on Dubai TV, Sama Dubai TV and Noor Dubai TV.
Teen Titans (20 March 2010 – 26 December 2019; 9 October 2023 - present) currently aired on Dubai TV, Sama Dubai TV and Noor Dubai TV.
Ben 10 (20 March 2010 – present) currently aired on Dubai TV, Sama Dubai TV and Noor Dubai TV.
The Powerpuff Girls (26 September 2009 – present) currently aired on Dubai TV, Sama Dubai TV and Noor Dubai TV.
Justice League Unlimited (14 April 2007 – 26 December 2019; 9 October 2023 - present) currently aired on Dubai TV, Sama Dubai TV and Noor Dubai TV.
Soap operas
The Golden Girls Reality and game shows
Arabic version of Mental Samurai Arabic version of Family Feud Arabic version of Fashion Star Carpool Karaoke
Dubai Cruise Chopped (Arabic version)
Arabic version of The Insider Fashion Star Arabia The Doctors (Arabic version)
Carpool Karaoke
Former programming
Animated shows
Crocadoo Freej (2006–2020)
Kim Possible (2004–2005)
Poochini Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat (2004–2020)
Reality & Game Shows
Arabic version of Mental Samurai (2020)
Arabic version of Millionaire Hot Seat (2013)
Arabic version of The Cube'' (2014)
References
External links
Television stations in Dubai
Arabic-language television stations
Publicly funded broadcasters
State media | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubai%20TV |
Thomas Pelham, 1st Baron Pelham of Laughton Bt ( 1653 – 23 February 1712) was a moderate English Whig politician and Member of Parliament for several constituencies. He is best remembered as the father of two British prime ministers (Henry Pelham and the Duke of Newcastle) who, between them, served for 18 years as first minister.
Pelham was born in Laughton, Sussex, the son of Sir John Pelham, 3rd Baronet and his wife Lucy Sidney (daughter of Robert Sidney, 2nd Earl of Leicester). Pelham was educated at Tonbridge School and Christ Church, Oxford.
He sat for East Grinstead from October 1678 until August 1679. In October 1679 he was returned for Lewes, serving until 1702; he subsequently chose to sit for Sussex, a seat he held until 1705.
Personal life
On 26 November 1679 Pelham married Elizabeth Jones, daughter of Sir William Jones, Attorney General from 1650 to 1679 and his wife Elizabeth Alleyn, with whom he had two daughters:
Hon. Elizabeth Pelham (died 11 May 1711), married Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend
Hon. Lucy Pelham, died unmarried
Pelham's wife Elizabeth died in October 1681. In May 1686, he married Lady Grace Holles (daughter of Gilbert Holles, 3rd Earl of Clare and Grace Pierrepoint), with whom he had two sons and five daughters:
Hon. Grace Pelham (died 1710), married George Naylor
Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle (1693–1768)
Hon. Henry Pelham (1694–1754)
Hon. Frances Pelham (died 27 June 1756), married Christopher Wandesford, 2nd Viscount Castlecomer
Hon. Gertrude Pelham, married Edmund Polhill
Hon. Lucy Pelham (died 20 July 1736), married Henry Clinton, 7th Earl of Lincoln
Hon. Margaret Pelham (died 23 November 1758), married Sir John Shelley, 4th Baronet
Both of Pelham's sons went on to serve as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He served as a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury for three separate periods (March 1690–March 1692; May 1697–June 1699 and March 1701–May 1702); in 1706, he was elevated to the peerage as Baron Pelham of Laughton (having previously succeeded to his father's baronetage in 1703).
References
Sources
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1712 deaths
Barons in the Peerage of England
Peers of England created by Queen Anne
Thomas
English MPs 1661–1679
English MPs 1679
English MPs 1680–1681
English MPs 1681
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English MPs 1701
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People from Laughton, East Sussex | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Pelham%2C%201st%20Baron%20Pelham |
Dubai Media Incorporated (DMI) is the official media organization of the government of Dubai. It was established in 2003 as a state-owned company comprising a number of print, radio and TV channels under its umbrella, including: Dubai TV, Al Bayan, Dubai One, Dubai Sports, Emirates 24/7, Tawseel and Masar Printing Press. The chairman of the board of directors of DMI, Maktoum bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, is also the deputy ruler of Dubai.
History
Before DMI was established, the government-owned media outlets were a part of the Dubai Department of Media. These included a number of TV channels which were launched and closed over many years prior to the establishment of DMI. These included Dubai TV, Dubai 33, Dubai Business Channel, Al Bayan Newspaper, Dubai 92 and Dubai FM.
After the establishment of Arab Media Group (AMG) in 2005, which is a part of TECOM Investments, the technology and media holdings management arm of Dubai Holding, all of the radio stations and newspapers were transferred under AMG, leaving DMI with only four TV channels (Dubai TV, Sama Dubai, Dubai One and Dubai Sports) and began privatizing the media outlets of Dubai.
2003 channel structure
Soon after DMI was established, and with a renewed concentration on television, the organization began relaunching the TV channels as part of a new strategy to target wider audiences, to compete on a pan-Arab level like MBC Group and to complement the ongoing developments of Dubai as a global tourism and investment hub. This included relaunching Dubai TV as a general entertainment and news channel targeting the Arab world, the launch of Sama Dubai as local news and entertainment channel targeting Emirati and Gulf nationals. DMI also replaced the dated Channel 33 and relaunched it as Dubai One, with subtitled Western content targeting Arabs and expatriates living in Dubai and around the Arab world.
2004- The Launching of Dubai News Center
As a part of changes, Dubai TV launched and opens a new news center that will used for broadcasting news. Dubai News Center is the current news division of Dubai Media Inc. Developing news bulletins for DMI's Television Channels- Dubai TV, Sama Dubai TV, Noor Dubai TV, Dubai Sports, Dubai Racing, and Dubai One.
2009 AMG-DMI merger
As a direct impact of the Late-2000s financial crisis, after considerable layoffs of the workforce, Arab Media Group's newly established Noor Dubai TV (and Radio), along with the print media and publishing outlets were merged with Dubai Media Incorporated in late 2009. This expanded DMI's ownership into radio, print and online media which made it one of the largest media companies in the Middle East. The company also benefited from the newly transferred employees from AMG with their expertise in radio and for-profit media.
2010 expansion
With the platform of Noor Dubai radio, DMI launched Dubai FM in September 2011 to target Emirati youth with a variety of news programs and talk shows. There are also plans to launch a magazine called ARA Dubai.
On 23 April 2015, the Dubai Media Incorporated was rebranded as Dubai Channels Network.
On 22 May 2017, the Dubai Channels Network reverted its name back to Dubai Media Incorporated.
TV Channels
DMI has a number of TV channels, some of which extend into multiple broadcasts (Like Dubai Sports 1, 2HD. 3HD, 4HD & 5HD). While most of the production is centralized at DMI's own studios, each channel has its own management, team, structure and strategy.
Dubai TV
Dubai TV replaced Emirates Dubai Television in June 2004. Dubai TV broadcasts programmes predominantly in Arabic, with some additional subtitled Western movies and documentary series. The programming caters to family Arab audiences around the MENA region and is also available in Australia, Europe, North America and the rest of Asia. A majority of its programming is produced locally, either through DMI's own in-house productions or by commissioning various production houses throughout the Arab world, whereby DMI acts as the "executive producer". The channel has cosmopolitan shows along with conservative religious programming as well as international formats to cater to the various types of people in the Arab world.
Official Site : http://www.dubaitv.ae/
Sama Dubai
Sama Dubai was launched on 20 June 2005 to cater to the Emirati and Gulf audience, with a deep concentration on traditions and culture, specifically targeting the youth of the region. The popularity of the channel is attributed to its view on Gulf culture, while maintaining authenticity in the old traditions, there is always a foreword thinking view through the empowerment of women and the modernization of old culture, specifically with the highly successful reality series Al Meydan, which took the traditional yowlah dancing (which was not widely known at the time) and created competition similar to the format American Idol whereby viewers can vote on the best dancers.
Official Site : http://www.samadubai.ae/
Dubai One
Dubai 33 (also called "Channel 33") was originally a terrestrial Analog television channel which catered, mostly, to the expatriate community living in Dubai. Through a number of Western cartoons, series, soap operas and films, as well as weekly Hindi cinema along with a nightly local news broadcast. Since the expansion of pay TV networks like Showtime Arabia along with Free-to-air channels like MBC 2 which provided newer Western content, the popularity of Channel 33 declined heavily.
In 2004, DMI launched One TV (which later became Dubai One) as a 24-hour free-to-air Digital satellite channel targeting a pan-Arab audience interested in Western content, this was done by subtitling content in Arabic and creating mostly Arabic and English (with an Arabic accent) on-air promotions. The channel did not include any of the previous content like soap operas, Bollywood cinema or local news. The channel was intended to compete with MBC Group's MBC 2, which was a considerably successful strategy, until MBC launched a number of other Western-content channels, with newer films and TV series than Dubai One.
Since the channel was launched, many of the labouring class expatriates living in Dubai were disappointed with removal of some of their most popular shows including The Bold and the Beautiful and the local news broadcast in English (which was, at the time, the only one of its kind in the UAE). The complaints were done through directly contacting DMI along with letters featured in local newspapers like Gulf News.
Due to these shifts in market share, audience requests, as well as the Dubai government's strategy to make the channel promote the events and developments of the city, a daily news program called Emirates News was launched in 2007. The program was similar to the old format local news of Channel 33, but it was based in DMI's State of the art News Center in Dubai Media City which was also used for Dubai TV's and Sama Dubai's news broadcasts (as well as Dubai Sports' news as of the 2010 relaunch), the program managed to successfully produce local news by sharing resources and news content with the other channels.
Dubai One soon began launching more locally produced programs like Out & About, Studio One, World of Sports, Understanding Islam and Emirates 24/7 which was co-branded with the online news website. The channel also brought back The Bold and the Beautiful and began featuring more Hindi cinema along with its Western content, which became more targeted to offer films and TV shows that were not available on competing free-to-air channels.
Emirates 24/7
Emirates 24/7 is a 30-minute segment broadcast weekly, as well as the name of their news website.
Noor Dubai
In 2008, AMG launched Noor Dubai TV on the first day of Ramadan that year, solidifying its Islamic views. The channel was originally an experimental radio and television hybrid, with a limited budget, significantly lower production values than competing Dubai-owned channels and with dual-broadcasts of radio programs on television along with new television-only shows. While the radio station was only available in Dubai, the TV channel was a pan-Arab satellite broadcast, so its popularity grew far beyond the intended audience with a significant following of conservative Muslims living around the Middle East due to the heavy Islamic content, which was based on the radio station format.
After the 2009 AMG-DMI merger, the new channel, along with the radio station, joined DMI and the offices and studios were moved from Dubai Studio City to DMI's headquarters next to Al Maktoum Bridge. DMI relaunched the TV channel in an attempt to separate it from the radio channel and to suppress the ultra-conservative brand. The new target audience was similar to Sama Dubai's Emirati and Gulf target, but instead was an older audience. This was done through programming about cultural and traditional topics as well as a re-broadcasting of decades-old series and programs from the DMI library. DMI also gave Noor Dubai its own broadcast of Emirates news, from DMI's News Center using the same news content that's broadcast on Sama Dubai and Dubai TV's Emirates news.
Dubai Sports
Dubai Sports Channel was launched in 1998 to cover local sports events in the UAE and to have exclusive Middle East broadcast rights for some of Dubai's sports events like the Dubai World Cup. It was later expanded to include international sports by acquiring Middle East broadcast rights for events like the Olympic Games and Wimbledon Championships.
The popularity of the channel grew as it increased coverage of the UAE Football League, with live broadcast of matches and complementary shows like Dawrina and the popular Al Jamahir, which interviewed fans of teams during and after matches with all of their emotional outbursts when their teams lost.
Due to the development of the UAE Football League and the increasing number of events taking place simultaneously, Dubai Sports expanded to include Dubai Sports 2 & 3, which act as a simulcast except during multiple live events. The expansion of the channels has also been an attempt to compete with other pan-Arab sports channels like Abu Dhabi Sports Channel (for local events), Al Jazeera Sports and ShowSports (for international events). But due to budget limitations, the channel has not been able to fully compete and has since lost some of its popularity.
Official Site : http://www.dubaisports.ae/
Dubai Racing
In essence, an extension of Dubai Sports, but with its own brand and identity, Dubai Racing is the only horse racing and camel racing TV channel in the Middle East. Specifically dedicated to coverage of horse racing events in the UAE like the Dubai World Cup, various camel races and accompanying programs. The channel originally took all of its content from Dubai Sports and larger sporting events are simulcast on Dubai Sports.
Dubai Zaman
Dubai Zaman was launched on 23 April 2015 to show old programs and films from the 70's, 80's and 90's.
Dubai Drama
Dubai Drama was launched on 23 April 2015 (the same day Dubai Zaman was launched) to show dramatic shows in Arabic or English (with Arabic subtitles) language. The channel ceased operations in 2016.
Radio Stations
Noor Dubai
Noor Dubai (FM 93.9) was originally launched by Arab Media Group in 2005, replacing Dubai FM which had the same frequency. The channel's slogan was "A community channel with an Islamic perspective", it was intended to be a conservative radio station which did not air any music, while still serving the community through talk shows about various topics facing the community along with religious programming and Anasheed (instead of music). The most popular program was a morning call-in show called Al Bath Al Mubashar ("The Live Broadcast") which allowed anyone in the community to call in with their thoughts, opinions or complaints on almost any topic, but it was predominantly government-related service issues, the host would then call up the responsible agency to find solutions to the issues.
Dubai Radio
On 30 August 2011, the same day as Eid al-Fitr, DMI launched Dubai FM on the frequency 93. The channel expanded DMI's radio stations, utilizing the infrastructure and expertise of the Noor Dubai station. Dubai FM is a youth-oriented channel with talk shows and music aimed at the more liberal Emirati youth market.
Official Site : http://www.dubairadiofm.ae/
Newspapers Printing, publishing & Distribution
Al Bayan
Al Bayan was established in 1980 by the government of Dubai as a part of the Dubai Media Department. It reported on local news, Arab news and some international news, it was known for its critical coverage and political views of events in Arab world, but in essence it was considered the official news paper of government of Dubai and so was very popular among local readers working in the government sector. It later moved to Arab Media Group where it was rebranded, giving it a new look and making the whole newspaper in full color. This was an attempt to target a younger audience, but was ultimately unsuccessful as there was not a significant change in the content. Now Daily Al Bayan Pakistan also launched in Pakistan.
Since the 2009 AMG-DMI merger, the newspaper is a part of Dubai Media Incorporated.
Emarat Al Youm
Emarat Al Youm (Emirates Today) was launched in 2005 by Arab Media Group. The newspaper was part of an experimental structure in which its sister newspaper, the English-language Emirates Today, had the same team of reporters, in essence the same news paper but in two languages. While the popularity of Emarat Al Youm grew amongst the younger readers, Emirates Today proved unpopular amongst the expatriate population compared to the already established English-language newspapers and was ultimately shut down. The popularity of Emarat Al Youm is attributed to its concentration on community issues and news, rather than politics and governmental issues.
In 2009, the newspaper was suspended from publication for 20 days from 6 July on the instructions of an Abu Dhabi Federal Court of Appeal ruling, upheld by the Supreme Federal Court of the UAE. The newspaper had been sued by the owners of the Warsan Stables (the Abu Dhabi Royal Family) for publishing a story in 2006 claiming their horses had been drugged with steroids.
See also
Dubai One
Dubai Sports
Dubai TV
Arab Media Group
Dubai Media City
Zeina Soufan
References
External links
Dubai Bliss
Dubai TV
Dubai Media Incorporated
2001 establishments in the United Arab Emirates
Mass media companies established in 2001
Companies based in Dubai
Television companies of the United Arab Emirates
Mass media in Dubai
Mass media companies of the United Arab Emirates
Government-owned companies of Dubai | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubai%20Media%20Incorporated |
Jiří Pauer (22 February 1919 in Libušín, Czechoslovakia – 28 December 2007 in Prague, Czech Republic) was a Czech composer.
Pauer studied first with Otakar Šín, then from 1943 to 1946 at the Prague Conservatory with Alois Hába, and finally with Pavel Bořkovec at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. He later taught for many years at the Academy where his pupils included composer Jiří Gemrot. He has composed many pieces, many of which focus on the brass orchestral instruments, symphonies, and further orchestra pieces, a bassoon concerto, a horn concerto and a trumpet concerto, chamber music pieces, and piano pieces. His opera Zdravý nemocný, based on Molière's Le Malade imaginaire, premiered at the Prague National Theatre on 22 May 1970.
In 1989 Jiří Pauer was dismissed from his post as general director of the National Theatre in Prague, because of his support for the policies of the former Communist Czechoslovak government. Pauer had locked staff out of the National and Smetana theatres on 17 November 1989 to prevent the opera, ballet and drama companies from staging protest performances. After a three-week strike Pauer was replaced by Ivo Žídek.
Selected works
Zuzana Vojířová opera, 1958
Concerto for Bassoon and Orchestra, 1949
Concerto for Horn and Orchestra, 1957
Wind Quintet, 1961
12 Duets for Viola and Cello, 1969–1970
Concert Music, 1971
Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra, 1972
Trompetina for Trumpet and Piano, 1972
Trombonetta for Trombone and Piano, 1974–1975
Intrada for 3 Pianos, 3 Trumpets, and 3 Trombones, 1975
Tubonetta for Tuba and Piano, 1976
Hymn for communist party, 1977
Characters for Brass Quintet, 1977–1978
12 Duets for 2 Trompets (or Horns), 1983
Trio for 3 Horns, 1986
References
The information in this article is based on that in its German equivalent in the German Wikipedia.
1919 births
2007 deaths
People from Libušín
Czech composers
Czech male composers
Czech opera composers
Male opera composers
Male classical composers
20th-century Czech male musicians
Czechoslovak musicians
Prague Conservatory alumni
Academy of Performing Arts in Prague alumni
Academic staff of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ji%C5%99%C3%AD%20Pauer |
Supertram may refer to:
a superlative name for a tram
Sheffield Supertram, a modern tram system in Sheffield, England
Park Square Bridge aka Supertram Bridge, in Sheffield, England
Siemens-Duewag Supertram, a tram vehicle manufactured by Siemens-Duewag and used on Sheffield Supertram
Leeds Supertram, a proposed but rejected modern tram system project for the city of Leeds, England
Bristol Supertram, a proposed but rejected tram system project for Bristol, England
See also
Supertramp and Supertramp (disambiguation) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supertram |
The Toyota MC platform is a front-wheel drive automobile platform (also adaptable to four-wheel drive) that has underpinned various Toyota and Lexus models from the compact and mid-size categories. MC sits above the older NBC and newer B platforms, but below the Toyota K platform designed for larger models such as the Camry. Automobiles based on the MC chassis started production in 1997 with the Toyota Prius (XW10).
Both the old Toyota Corolla (E platform) and Corona/Celica/Carina/Avensis (T platform) have been replaced by the MC. It was a part of Toyota's plan to cut costs, which included reduction of different car platforms.
Compared to other automakers, Toyota’s definition of "platform" differs. That is, it is less about shared common hardware and more about a shared development processes.
The company revised and updated the MC as the Toyota New MC platform, debuting with the Toyota RAV4 (XA30) in 2005. It was in turn replaced by the C platform with the fourth-generation Toyota Prius (XW50) in 2015, created under Toyota’s new development framework, the Toyota New Global Architecture (TNGA).
The platform has three choices of floor height, which are low floor, medium floor, high floor. The low floor is used for middle and large size cars such as the Auris (E150) and Mark X ZiO, while the medium floor is used for SUVs such as the RAV4. The high floor or raised floor variation is mainly used by minivan with a flat floor structure, such as the Previa/Estima and Alphard/Vellfire.
MC
Features
It is a front-wheel drive platform, with optional four-wheel drive.
Four-wheel drive variants use the V-Flex II system, which is a viscous-coupling torque-on-demand.
Engines are mounted transversely.
MacPherson struts are used in front suspension, while rear suspension can be either
Twist-beam rear suspension for most front-wheel drive vehicles, or
multi-link suspension on most four-wheel drive variants (except minivans), sporty vehicles (like Celica, Scion tC, Caldina and Blade), Mark X Zio and Avensis.
Applications
Toyota Allion/Premio — T240 (2001–2007), T260 (2007–2021)
Toyota Avensis — T250 (2003–2008)
Toyota Caldina — T240 (2002–2007)
Toyota Celica — T230 (1999–2006)
Toyota Corolla — E120/E130 (2000–2006), E140 (2006–2013)
Toyota Corolla Verso — E120 (2001–2004), AR10 (2004–2009)
Toyota Corolla Spacio — E120 (2001–2007)
Toyota Ipsum/Avensis Verso/Picnic/SportsVan — XM20 (2001–2009)
Toyota Isis — AM10 (2004–2017)
Toyota Matrix/Pontiac Vibe — E130 (2002–2008), E140 (2008–2014)
Toyota Voltz — E130 (2002–2004)
Toyota Opa — XT10 (2000–2005)
Toyota Prius — XW10 (1997–2003), XW20 (2003–2009)
Toyota RAV4 — XA20 (2000–2005)
Toyota Vista — V50 (1998–2003)
Toyota WiLL VS — E120 (2001–2004)
Toyota Wish — AE10 (2003–2009), AE20 (2009–2017)
Scion tC — AT10 (2004–2010)
Toyota Noah/Voxy — R60 (2001–2007), R70 (2007–2014)
Toyota NAV1 — R70 (2012–2017)
New MC
Applications
Toyota Alphard/Vellfire — AH20 (2008–2015), AH30 (2015–2023)
Toyota Crown Vellfire — AH30 (2021–2023)
Lexus LM — AH30 (2019–2023)
Toyota Avensis — T270 (2008–2018)
Toyota Auris — E150 (2006–2012)
Toyota Blade — E150 (2006–2012)
Toyota Auris — E180 (2012–2018)
Scion iM/Toyota Corolla iM (2015–2018)
Toyota Corolla — E150 (2006–2013), E170 (2013–2019)
Toyota Corolla Rumion/Rukus/Scion xB — E150 (2007–2015)
Toyota Harrier — XU60 (2013–2020)
Toyota Mark X ZiO — AA10 (2007–2013)
Toyota Noah/Voxy/Esquire — R80 (2014–2021)
Toyota Previa/Estima/Tarago — XR50 (2006–2019)
Toyota Prius — XW30 (2009–2015)
Toyota Prius v/Prius α/Prius+ — XW40 (2011–2021)
Daihatsu Mebius — XW40 (2013–2021)
Toyota RAV4 — XA30 (2005–2013), XA40 (2013–2018)
Toyota Vanguard — XA30 (2007–2013)
Toyota Verso — AR20 (2009–2018)
Toyota Sai — AZK10 (2009–2017)
Scion tC/Toyota Zelas — AT20 (2010–2016)
Lexus CT — ZWA10 (2011–2022)
Lexus HS — ANF10 (2009–2017)
Lexus NX — AZ10 (2014–2021)
References
MC | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota%20MC%20platform |
The Região Metropolitana da Baixada Santista is a metropolitan area located on the coast of São Paulo state in Brazil, with a population of 1.7 million. Its most populous city is Santos.
As an administrative division (Região Metropolitana da Baixada Santista), it was created on 30 July 1996. It consists of nine municipalities.
The Baixada Santista is a major tourism region, especially for its numerous beaches. It also features the Port of Santos, the busiest container port in Latin America, and Cubatão, an industrial hub.
List of municipalities
References
External links
Agência Metropolitana da Baixada Santista | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baixada%20Santista |
Deborah Shelton is an American actress, beauty queen, and songwriter who was Miss USA and appeared on Dallas for three seasons and a special guest return in 2013.
Pageants
In 1970, Shelton competed in the Miss Virginia USA pageant to spite her then boyfriend. She won the title and represented Virginia in the Miss USA 1970 pageant held in Miami, Florida in May 1970.
At the pageant, Shelton won the Miss Pixable award (photogenic) and was subsequently crowned Miss USA 1970. She was crowned by former title holder Wendy Dascomb, also of Virginia; this was the first time that a state had won the Miss USA title back to back.
Shelton then went on to the Miss Universe contest in Miami, Florida in July where she placed first runner-up to Marisol Malaret of Puerto Rico. She described competing at Miss Universe as "perhaps her greatest experience".
During her reign, Shelton traveled across the United States and internationally, including visits to Japan, Spain, Portugal, Brazil and Puerto Rico.
For winning Miss USA, she received $5,000 in cash, a $5,000 mink coat and made another $5,000 from personal appearances.
Education and career
Shelton was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in Norfolk, Virginia. She graduated from Norview High School and attended Old Dominion University. She was a junior studying art at the time she won the Miss USA title.
Prior to winning her first pageant title, Shelton was enrolled in a pre-medical curriculum. After college, she moved to New York City where she studied acting, modeled, and appeared on television commercials.
In March 1974, Shelton appeared on the cover of Playboy Magazine. She starred in the feature film Blood Tide alongside legendary stage and screen actors José Ferrer and James Earl Jones. Filmed on location in the Greek islands, the 1982 film featured Shelton singing a song during the end credits co-written with Shuki Levy, her second husband. She later starred in the 1984 film Body Double, although her dialogue was dubbed by actress Helen Shaver because the director, Brian de Palma did not like how she sounded when he was editing the film. Shelton made frequent guest appearances on television series such as Fantasy Island, The A-Team, T. J. Hooker, The Fall Guy, Cheers, The Love Boat, Riptide, and Get a Life. In 2008, she was cast to play a rich housewife in the American television series Nip/Tuck.
Shelton is widely known for her television role as Mandy Winger, one of J. R. Ewing's mistresses on Dallas. After the character left the show, an outpouring of fan mail convinced the producers to bring the character back. Shelton appeared in the series from 1984 to 1987. She also had a role on The Yellow Rose, a "critically acclaimed flop".
In 1991 and 1992, Shelton returned to the Miss USA stage, offering commentary during the pageant.
During 2012, Shelton made a guest appearance on the newly revived Dallas – she portrayed her old character Mandy Winger for J.R. Ewing's memorial service.
Personal life
Shelton married Vici Castro, a Cuban exile in 1971, less than a month after passing-on the Miss USA title. The couple had a son, Christopher, but the marriage ended within five years. In 1977 she married Shuki Levy, a Jewish Israeli music producer, and they later had a daughter, Tamara. Shelton collaborated on his music. One of their songs, "Magdelena", appeared on a Julio Iglesias album. She has since divorced her second husband.
References
External links
Miss USA official website
The Playboy Index--List of Centerfolds and Cover Models
Actresses from Norfolk, Virginia
American film actresses
American television actresses
Living people
Miss Photogenic at Miss USA
Miss Universe 1970 contestants
Miss USA winners
Old Dominion University alumni
Actresses from Washington, D.C.
21st-century American women
Year of birth missing (living people) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah%20Shelton |
Battle of St. Charles may refer to:
Battle of Saint-Charles (25 November 1837), British defeat Canadian rebels in present-day Saint-Charles, Quebec
Battle of St. Charles (17 June 1862), a battle of the U.S. Civil War in St. Charles, Arkansas | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Saint%20Charles |
Guy Charbonneau (June 21, 1922 – January 18, 1998) was a Canadian senator who was the longest serving Speaker of the Canadian Senate, serving from 1984 to 1993. During his tenure, amendments to the Standing Orders of the Senate extended the powers of the speaker.
Chabonneau was born in Trois-Rivières, Quebec. He received his Bachelor of Arts from the Université de Montréal, and pursued further studies in economics at McGill University. He served during World War II in the Royal Canadian Air Force.
After being demobilized, he joined the insurance industry. He rose to the position of vice-president and director of Peerless Insurance Agencies in 1948. He became president in 1963. He later served as chief executive officer of the firm of Charbonneau, Dulude and Associates Ltd., Insurance Brokers, and became a limited partner in the Mer Banco Group of Calgary. Charbonneau served on the board of directors of Canadian National Railway from 1961 to 1964.
He was summoned to the Senate on September 27, 1979 on the advice of Prime Minister Joe Clark, and sat as a Progressive Conservative. When Brian Mulroney became prime minister following the 1984 federal election, he recommended Charbonneau for the position of Speaker.
During much of Charbonneau's tenure, the Liberal Party held a majority in the Senate despite the fact that the Progressive Conservatives formed the government. This resulted in a number of occasions where the Senate defeated or delayed legislation passed by the House of Commons of Canada - a relatively rare occurrence in Canadian politics.
Opposition to the introduction of the Goods and Services Tax in 1990 resulted in Prime Minister Mulroney using a never-before-utilized section of the Constitution of Canada that allowed him to recommend to the Queen the appointment of eight additional Senators (two per region) beyond the usual maximum number of occupants of the upper chamber. This extraordinary appointment gave the Progressive Conservatives control of the Senate for the first time in decades. The measure resulted in an especially tumultuous debate in the usually staid upper house, providing a challenge to Charbonneau to maintain decorum.
This resulted in what opposition parties and outsiders viewed as abuses of his power as Speaker, including locking the Opposition out of voting sessions, turning off the bells that call Senators to votes, ramming through motions without debate, moving for divisions without the presence of Party Whips, and actually voting himself on many motions to help them carry.
In June 1991, the Senate adopted a major overhaul to the standing rules of the Senate giving the Speaker of the Senate powers more consistent with those of the Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons, previously the Senate Speaker enjoyed far less control over the upper house.
Charbonneau stepped down as Speaker following the defeat of the Progressive Conservatives in the 1993 federal election. As is customary for former Speakers, he was elevated to the Queen's Privy Council for Canada (in 1996). He retired from the Senate in 1997 upon reaching the mandatory retirement age of 75.
Sources
Official Biography
Guy Charbonneau fonds, Library and Archives Canada
External links
1922 births
1998 deaths
Members of the King's Privy Council for Canada
People from Trois-Rivières
Speakers of the Senate of Canada
Canadian senators from Quebec
Université de Montréal alumni
Royal Canadian Air Force personnel of World War II | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy%20Charbonneau |
Intact can refer to:
An entire building, generally in good condition not dilapidated or ruins
Intact (group of companies), a Romanian media trust
Intact (album) and "Intact" (song) by Ned's Atomic Dustbin
Intacto, a film
Entire (animal), describing an animal that has not been spayed or neutered
Genital integrity
IntAct, a database of protein interaction data
Intact Financial, a Canadian insurance company | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intact |
Shrek SuperSlam is a fighting video game featuring characters from the Shrek film series. It was developed by Shaba Games, published by Activision and released in the fall of 2005 for the Xbox, PlayStation 2, GameCube, Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance, with a Microsoft Windows port following shortly after. Up to four players can participate in battle using various characters from the first two Shrek films, along with some original characters like Luna the witch, the Black Knight, Quasimodo, and Humpty Dumpty (the latter of which later appeared in the standalone Puss in Boots film in 2011).
Plot
The main plot focuses on Shrek and his friends attempting to help Donkey put the Dronkeys to sleep in order to watch Survivor: Sherwood Forest together at the Dragon's Keep. When one of the Dronkeys inadvertently destroys the family's storybook, the group takes turns creating their own stories. After telling enough stories, the Dronkeys do fall asleep only to be woken up after Shrek yells at the game's announcer for talking too much in the epilogue.
Overview
Shrek SuperSlam is a 3D-environment multiplayer fighting game in which two to four fighter characters battle in a variety of arena stages attempting to beat each other up and charge a special move called a "Slam" attack. When a "Slam" is successfully used on other fighters, the player gains points while continually (and creatively) destroying the arena in the process. Whoever gains the most "Slam" points will win when the round is over.
Gameplay
The game features three multiplayer modes: "Melee", "King of the Hill", and "Slammageddon".
In "Melee", the objective is to earn as many slam points within a two-minute time period. For attack, a word bank that says "Slam" will fill up. Once the bank has filled up, the player can unleash a Slam Attack which can hit multiple opponents. For each opponent who's hit, the player will receive a Slam Point, but if a player get slammed, they'll lose one. The player with the most slam points after the time limit stops wins.
In "King of the Hill", the object of the game is to stay atop of a hill the longest, while opponents try and knock each other off. The first player to reach 30 points wins. The longer the player stays on the hill, the more points she/he will receive.
In "Slammageddon", each single attack counts as a Slam.
Every character's "Slam" attack have different effects and range. For example, Shrek's "Green Storm" attack will send his opponents flying as he undergoes flatulence at close range, while Robin Hood's "Arrow Swarm" has him commanding his band of Merry Men to litter the battlefield in raining arrows from the sky. Other examples include Pinocchio's "Buzz Bomber" in which his nose grows and he flies across the arena at opponents or Fiona Ogre uses "Ogre Aria" to blast her enemies with floating projectile singing notes.
Characters
The game features 20 playable characters total, with 10 of these needing to be unlocked through gameplay progression. Each character has an array of various costumes/skins to change their appearance. Most of the characters have their own distinct fighting style and moves, with only one or two characters being very similar "clone fighters".
Anthrax
Black Knight
Captain Hook
Cyclops
Donkey
Dronkey
Fiona
Fiona Ogre
Gingerbread Man
G-Nome
Huff N' Puff Wolf
Humpty Dumpty
Luna (Lil' Witch in GBA/DS versions)
Shrek
Pinocchio
Prince Charming
Puss in Boots
Quasimodo
Red Riding Hood
Robin Hood
Unlockable characters
Characters with alternate costumes
John Kassir voices the game's announcer. Mongo the Giant Gingerbread Man (voiced by Conrad Vernon) appears as part of a moving stage in the game. In the Game Boy Advance port of the game, Doris the ugly stepsister is an exclusive playable character. In the Nintendo DS port of the game, Thelonious and a Knight are exclusive playable characters.
Reception
Shrek SuperSlam was met with "mixed or average" reviews. GameRankings and Metacritic gave it a score of 74% and 71 out of 100 for the Xbox version; 74% and 70 out of 100 for the GameCube version; 70% and 69 out of 100 for the PC version; 69% and 67 out of 100 for the PlayStation 2 version; 59% and 56 out of 100 for the DS version; and 52% and 58 out of 100 for the Game Boy Advance version.
References
External links
Official website
Activision page
Shrek (franchise) video games
2005 video games
Fighting games
Platform fighters
3D fighting games
Cooperative video games
GameCube games
Game Boy Advance games
Nintendo DS games
PlayStation 2 games
PlayStation Portable games
Video games scored by Kevin Manthei
Xbox games
Windows games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Activision games
Video games using Havok
Big Bad Wolf
Video games developed in the United States
Amaze Entertainment games | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrek%20SuperSlam |
SSV Reutlingen 05 is a German association football club from Reutlingen, Baden-Württemberg.
History
The club was founded as FC Arminia Reutlingen and was renamed SV Reutlingen 1905 in 1910. The club fused with 1. Schwimmverein 1911 to form the current side in 1938.
Reutlingen became a decent regional side in the years after World War II, two second-place finishes in the Oberliga (I) in 1950 and 1955 being the highlight, and earned a place in the second tier Regionalliga Süd in 1963 when Germany's new top flight professional league, the Bundesliga, was formed. After a second-place finish in their division in 1965, SSV took part in the Bundesliga promotion rounds, where they faced Bayern Munich and Borussia Mönchengladbach for the right to make their Bundesliga début. Reutlingen were held to a 1–1 draw against Mönchengladbach on their home ground, but were crushed 7–0 away, and finished a point behind them in their group.
Reutlingen continued to play second division football until the early 1970s when they dropped into the Amateur Oberliga Baden-Württemberg (III), briefly even falling to fourth-tier Verbandsliga Württemberg. They spent most of the next two-and-a-half decades at the third level before playing their way back to the second tier on the strength of a first-place finish in their division that began with a sixteen-game winning streak to open the season. Their three-year adventure in the 2. Bundesliga ended in 2003 after the team was penalised six points for financial irregularities the previous year. They were then denied a licence to play in the third division Regionalliga Süd and were forced down to Oberliga Baden-Württemberg (IV).
The team finished in first place in the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg in 2005–06 and returned to the Regionalliga Süd (III) for the 2006–07 season. SSV remained in the third division for two years, narrowly missing promotion into the newly formed 3. Liga at the end of the 2007–08 campaign. Without a place in this new national league, the Nullfünfer remained in the Regionalliga Süd, now as a fourth-tier side.
The 2008–09 and 2009–10 seasons saw SSV finish in the middle of the Regionalliga Süd table with early exits from the WFV-Pokal in both campaigns. After finishing in 14th position in the Regionalliga Süd in the 2009–10 season, the team was denied a licence to continue playing in the fourth division due to financial insolvency. SSV have competed in the fifth-tier Oberliga Baden-Württemberg since the 2010–11 season.
The club won the 2014–15 edition of the Württemberg Cup, defeating FV Ravensburg in the final, and thereby qualified for the first round of the 2015–16 DFB-Pokal. Here they beat their local rivals Karlsruher SC 3–1 at the Kreuzeiche with three penalties from their captain, Giuseppe Ricciardi. In the second round, SSV lost 4–0 against another team from the 2. Bundesliga, Eintracht Braunschweig.
Current squad
Honours
The club's honours:
League
German amateur football championship
Champions: (2) 1974, 1997
Oberliga Südwest (I)
Runners-up: 1950
Oberliga Süd (I)
Runners-up: 1955
2nd Oberliga Süd (II)
Runners-up: (2) 1954, 1957
Regionalliga Süd (II) ‡
Runners-up: 1965
Regionalliga Süd (III) ‡
Champions: 2000
Oberliga Baden-Württemberg (III-IV)
Champions: (3) 1989, 1992, 2006
Verbandsliga Württemberg (IV)
Champions: 1985
Amateurliga Schwarzwald-Bodensee (III)
Champions: (3) 1975, 1977, 1978
Cup
Württemberg Cup
Winners: (4) 1988, 1990, 1999, 2015
Runners-up: (3) 1969, 1991, 1995
‡ There has been two separate incarnations of the Regionalliga Süd, one existing from 1963 to 1974 and the other from 1994 to 2012.
Recent managers
Recent managers of the club:
Recent seasons
The recent season-by-season performance of the club:
With the introduction of the Regionalligas in 1994 and the 3. Liga in 2008 as the new third tier, below the 2. Bundesliga, all leagues below dropped one tier.
References
External links
The Abseits Guide to German Soccer
SSV Reutlingen at Weltfussball.de
Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv historical German domestic league tables
Football clubs in Germany
Football clubs in Baden-Württemberg
Reutlingen
Association football clubs established in 1905
1905 establishments in Germany
2. Bundesliga clubs
Sport in Tübingen (region) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSV%20Reutlingen%2005 |
Dex Media, Inc. was a print and interactive marketing company. It was formed in 2002 by a consortium led by The Carlyle Group to acquire the operations of QwestDex from Qwest Communications International. The company went public in 2004 and was acquired by R.H. Donnelley in 2006, which became DEX One in 2010.
History
U S WEST Dex
In 1988, U S WEST began marketing its telephone services under the one "U S WEST" name. U S WEST, in 1995, divided its companies into two core divisions: U S WEST Communications, and U S WEST Media Group. U S WEST placed its directory operations in the hands of the Media Group, creating U S WEST Dex. U S WEST Dex, Inc. became the new name of U S West's publishing company.
QwestDex
In 2000, Qwest Communications International acquired U S West. As a result, U S West was renamed Qwest, and U S WEST Dex, Inc. was renamed Qwest Dex, Inc. In 2002, Qwest underwent a drastic reorganization, and Qwest searched for a buyer for QwestDex, Inc.
Dex Media
On August 20, 2002, The Carlyle Group, Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, along with other private investors, led a $7.5 billion buyout of QwestDex. The buyout was the third largest corporate buyout since 1989.
QwestDex's purchase occurred in two stages. In November 2002, directory operations in Colorado, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota & South Dakota were acquired for $2.75 billion. These operations were known as Dex Media East LLC. In 2003, directory operations in Arizona, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming were acquired for $4.30 billion. These operations became known as Dex Media West LLC.
After completion of the formation of Dex Media, Dex signed a 50-year agreement with Qwest to be the official directory provider to Qwest local telephone customers.
The sale of QwestDex marked the first time a Baby Bell sold its telephone directory operations.
In July 2004, Dex Media went public and began trading on the NYSE under the ticker "DEX".
On October 3, 2005, R. H. Donnelley Corporation announced its intent to acquire Dex Media. RHD's acquisition of Dex was completed on January 31, 2006. Following RHD's 2009 bankruptcy, it renamed itself Dex One Corporation retaining its headquarters in Cary, North Carolina.
In August 2012, Dex One and SuperMedia LLC announced their two companies would be merging to form Dex Media, Inc. The merger was completed on April 30, 2013 and the company began trading publicly on the NASDAQ stock exchange on May 1, 2013 under the symbol DXM. In August 2013, Geoff Fitzgibbons, visionary of the orange bundles, resigned leaving a post he held under three previous mergers.
See also
Qwest
References
External links
Lumen Technologies
Publishing companies established in 2002
Telephone directory publishing companies of the United States
2002 establishments in the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dex%20Media%20%28Dex%20One%29 |
Michael Davidson (born December 18, 1944 in Oakland, California) is an American poet.
Life and work
Davidson has written eight books of poetry as well as numerous historical, cultural and critical works. He has been affiliated with the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) since 1974 and as a professor of American literature since 1988 with areas of study and research in Modern Poetry, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, and Disability Studies.
Davidson served as the first curator of the Mandeville Department of Special Collections (UCSD) where the George Oppen papers are stored. The Archive for New Poetry is now a major campus, community and international resource for studying post-1945 English-language poetry, and is one of the four largest American poetry collections in the U.S. The archive contains holdings that emphasize the ongoing “countertradition” in recent American writing – particularly the Objectivist poets, the Black Mountain poets, the San Francisco Renaissance, the New York School, and the Language School.
Davidson, who recently became Deaf, has written extensively on disability issues, most recently "Hearing Things: The Scandal of Speech in Deaf Performance," in Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities, "Phantom Limbs: Film Noir and the Disabled Body," GLQ 9:1-2 (2003), and "Strange Blood: Hemophobia and the Unexplored Boundaries of Queer Nation," in Beyond the Boundary: Reconstructing Cultural Identity in a Multicultural Context. A collection of essays on disability was published as Concerto for the Left Hand: Disability and the Defamiliar Body (University of Michigan). Another recent critical work, On the Outskirts of Form: Practicing Cultural Poetics, was published in 2011 by Wesleyan University Press. This latter book gathered his essays concerning formally innovative poetry from modernists such as Mina Loy, George Oppen, and Wallace Stevens to current practitioners such as Cristina Rivera-Garza, Heriberto Yépez, Lisa Robertson, and Mark Nowak.
In addition to being a widely published poet and poetry editor (he is represented in the 2004 edition of Best American Poetry by a poem entitled "Bad Modernism"), Davidson is known for insightful literary criticism, his work in disability studies, and for the meticulous editing of the monumental George Oppen, New Collected Poems.
Bibliography
Poetry
"Two Views of Pears. Sand Dollar Books 1973
The Mutabilities & The Foul Papers. Sand Dollar Books 1976Summer Letters. Santa Barbara, CA: Black Sparrow Press 1977 Published in pamphlet form as Sparrow 61The Prose of Fact. Berkeley: The Figures, 1981The Landing of Rochambeau. Providence, R.I.: Burning Deck, 1985Analogy of the Ion. Great Barrington, MA: The Figures, 1988Post Hoc. Bolinas, Calif.: Avenue B, 1990 The Arcades. O Books, Fall 1999Bleed Through: New and Selected Poems. Coffee House Press, 2013
editor of George Oppen: New Collected Poems. New York: New Directions, 2002
ProseThe San Francisco Renaissance: Poetics and Community at Mid-Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Ghostlier Demarcations: Modern Poetry and the Material Word. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. Guys Like Us: Citing Masculinity in Cold War Poetics. U of Chicago Press, 2003.Concerto for the Left Hand: Disability and the Defamiliar Body. University of Michigan Press, 2008.The Outskirts of Form: Practicing Cultural Poetics. Wesleyan University Press, 2011."Introduction: American Poetry, 2000-2009." Contemporary Literature 52.4 (Winter, 2011)."Women Writing Disability." Introduction to special issue of, "Women Writing Disability." Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers. 30.1 (2013)"Disability Poetics." The Oxford Handbook of Modern and Contemporary Poetry. Ed. Cary Nelson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.Invalid Modernism: Disability and the Missing Body of the Aesthetic. Oxford University Press, 2019.
Articles
"Notes beyond the Notes: Wallace Stevens and Contemporary Poetics," Wallace Stevens: The Poetics of Modernism, ed. Albert Gelpi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
"From the Latin Speculum: The Modern Poet as Philologist," Contemporary Literature, 28.2 (Summer 1987): 187-205.
"Dismantling 'Mantis:' Reification and Objectivist Poetics," American Literary History, 3.3 (Fall 1991): 521-541.
"Marginality in the Margins: Robert Duncan's Textual Politics," Contemporary Literature, 33.2 (Summer 1992): 275-301.
"'When the world strips down and rouges up:' Redressing Whitman," Breaking Bounds: Whitman and American Cultural Studies, ed. Betsy Erkkila. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
"The Lady from Shanghai: California Orientalism and 'guys like us,'" Western American Literature (Winter 2001).
"Strange Blood: Hemophobia and the Unexplored Boundaries of Queer Nation." Beyond the Boundary: American Identity and Multiculturalism. Ed. Tim Powell. New Brunswick: Rutgers U Press, 1999. 39-60.
"Hearing Things: The Scandal of Voice in Deaf Performance," Enabling the Humanities: A Disability Studies Sourcebook, eds. Sharon Snyder, Brenda Jo Brueggemann, and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson. New York: Modern Language Association, 2001.
Critical studies and reviews of Davidson's workLeningrad
Notes
External links
Re-siting poetry through American Sign Language (ASL)
The Scandal of Speech in Deaf Performance essay at ubuweb
Davidson on collecting the poems of George Oppen
Davidson on Louis Zukofsky's "Mantis"
Discourse in Poetry: Bakhtin and Extensions of the Dialogical pdf-reprint of this article & Answering Motion, both of these Davidson pieces as they appeared in Code of Signals (ed. Michael Palmer, 1983). Available again in e-book at Duration Press's out-of-print-archive''.
American male poets
1944 births
Disability studies academics
Gender studies academics
Living people
Objectivist poets
Language poets | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Davidson%20%28poet%29 |
Leonia High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grade from the Borough of Leonia in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, operating as part of the Leonia Public Schools. Students from Edgewater attend the school as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Edgewater Public Schools.
As of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 867 students and 67.5 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.8:1. There were 117 students (13.5% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 23 (2.7% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
History
Constructed at a cost of $65,000 (equal to $ million in ), the district's original high school facility opened in April 1912 and had its cornerstone laid at ceremonies held in December of that year.
The school opened at its current location in January 1977, after multiple issues with subcontractors led to several delays from the original planned opening in September at the start of the school year. Constructed at a cost of $4.5 million (equivalent to $ million in ) and offering 50% more space than its predecessor, the building served 650 students, including 140 from Edgewater.
Awards, recognition and rankings
In the 2011 "Ranking America's High Schools" issue by The Washington Post, the school was ranked 14th in New Jersey and 657th nationwide.
The school was the 94th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 339 schools statewide in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2014 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", using a new ranking methodology. The school had been ranked 52nd in the state of 328 schools in 2012, after being ranked 49th in 2010 out of 322 schools listed. The magazine ranked the school 51st in 2008 out of 316 schools. The school was ranked 67th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which included 316 schools across the state.
Schooldigger.com ranked the school as 174th out of 376 public high schools statewide in its 2010 rankings (a decrease of 4 positions from the 2009 rank) which were based on the combined percentage of students classified as proficient or above proficient on the language arts literacy and mathematics components of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA).
Niche Ranked the school 35th of 406 on its list of Best College Prep Public High Schools in New Jersey and 69th of 425 in its ranking of Best Public High Schools.
In 2021, U.S. News & World Report ranked the school 56th in New Jersey, 156th in the New York City metropolitan area and 1,331st nationwide.
Extracurricular activities
In 1957, the school's chess team was the New Jersey high school team champion, winning the Father Casimir J. Finley Trophy.
Academic competition
Leonia has had an active quiz bowl team for decades. In April 2017, Leonia won the Junior Varsity National Championship title for the Small School Division of the National History Bowl, led by Nathan Finn, who was the 2016 Junior Varsity New Jersey History Bee State Champion.
Athletics
The Leonia High School Lions participate in the North Jersey Interscholastic Conference, which is comprised of small-enrollment schools in Bergen, Hudson, Morris and Passaic counties, and was created following a reorganization of sports leagues in Northern New Jersey by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA). Prior to the realignment that took effect in the fall of 2010, Leonia was a member of the Bergen County Scholastic League Olympic Division. With 505 students in grades 10-12, the school was classified by the NJSIAA for the 2019–20 school year as Group II for most athletic competition purposes, which included schools with an enrollment of 486 to 758 students in that grade range.
The school participates as the host school / lead agency for joint cooperative girls soccer, boys / girls swimming and wrestling teams with Palisades Park High School, while Palisades Park is the host school for a co-op football team. These co-op programs operate under agreements scheduled to expire at the end of the 2023–24 school year.
The boys track team won the Group II spring track state championship in 1961.
The 1967 boys basketball team used its height to its advantage and defeated Burlington Township High School by a score of 73-65 in the Group I tournament final to finish the season with a record of 20-4.
The girls tennis team won the Group I state championship in 2002 (defeating New Providence High School in the tournament final) and 2019 (vs. Glen Rock High School). The 2019 team used wins in all three singles matches to win the Group I finals against Glen Rock.
Leonia football, which is a co-op program with Palisades Park High School, became the first cooperative program to have reached a finals game in state history when the team made the North Jersey II Group III state championship game in 2012, falling to Summit High School by a 30–0 final score. The team finished 9–3 which was the most wins in Leonia school history, and Head Coach David Schuman was awarded NJIC coach of the year and The Record ranked the team 12th in North Jersey.
Administration
The principal is Charles Kalender. His administration team includes the vice principal and athletic director.
Notable alumni
Elizabeth Baranger (1927–2019, class of 1945), physicist and academic administrator at the University of Pittsburgh, whose research concerned shell model calculations in nuclear physics.
Barbara Corcoran (born 1949, class of 1967), real estate investor and agent.
Toomas Hendrik Ilves (born 1953), class of 1972, President of Estonia (Eesti Vabariigi president).
Lim Kim (born 1994), South Korean musical artist.
Bob Klapisch, sportswriter.
David Klass screenwriter and novelist who has written more than 40 Hollywood screenplays and published 14 young adult novels.
Vera Maxwell (1901–1995), fashion designer.
David Mansfield (born 1956), rock musician.
Christiane Noll (born 1968), singer and actress known for her work in musicals and on the concert stage.
Nick Prisco (1909–1981), football tailback who played one season in the NFL with the Philadelphia Eagles.
Ivory Sully (born 1957), former NFL cornerback who played for nine seasons, mostly with the Los Angeles Rams.
References
External links
Leonia High School
Leonia Public Schools
Leonia Alumni Network
School Data for the Leonia Public Schools, National Center for Education Statistics
Edgewater, New Jersey
Leonia, New Jersey
Public high schools in Bergen County, New Jersey | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonia%20High%20School |
Ralph R. Erdmann (August 8, 1926 - July 23, 2010) was a contract medical examiner (forensic pathologist) who was convicted on several counts of evidence tampering and perjury for examinations he did beginning in the early 1980s throughout rural Texas.
Early years in Texas
In 1981, 25 years after receiving a medical degree in Mexico Erdmann moved to Childress, Childress County, Texas. He started doing autopsies for five small area hospitals on a private contract basis. In 1983 he expanded his practice to the entire Texas panhandle area to the Rio Grande. During the next ten years Erdmann performed over 3,000 autopsies in 41 different jurisdictions. During his busiest year in 1990 he did 480 autopsies. In 1991 he did 310 autopsies, most of which were in Lubbock County. He charged Lubbock an annual fee of $140,000, and the smaller counties paid him $650 for each autopsy he performed.
Texas autopsy scandal
In 1992, he was convicted of falsifying autopsy reports. The scandal began in 1991 when the family of Robert Craig Newman questioned the findings of an autopsy report. It included information about the weight of the dead man's spleen and gall bladder. The deceased man's son told authorities that his dead father had had his spleen removed years earlier. When the body was exhumed, there was no evidence that an autopsy had even been performed. In another case Erdmann claimed to have examined a woman's brain, but there was no sign any cut had been made. In another case of a murder, authorities from Odessa said Erdmann had misplaced the head of the victim. Without the head, where the bullet wound was located, there was no evidence and the charges against the accused murderer had to be dropped. Several lawsuits had to be settled as a result of Erdmann's incompetence. In one case Lubbock County paid a man $15,000 for wrongful imprisonment after the man spent for months in jail charged with the death of his infant son. A second autopsy by a competent pathologist revealed the death had been an accidental drowning. Erdmann was not just incompetent, but he was also corrupt. In 1995 Erdmann was indicted on charges of perjury and tampering with evidence relating to the trial of Johnny Lee Rey in 1990. Rey was on death row for two years based on Erdmann's testimony, which was found to be false.
Convictions
He pleaded no contest to seven felony charges. He was sentenced to 10 years probation, 200 hours of community service and fined $17,000 for botched autopsies and exhumation expenses. He also surrendered his medical license and moved to Washington state.
As a convicted felon it was unlawful for Erdmann to own guns, but in 1995, police found 122 weapons including shotguns, handguns and a fully automatic M-16 rifle. The weapons were confiscated from his Redmond, Washington home. Two years later he was released.
60-Minutes
Erdmann's story was once the topic of a 60-Minutes news story segment.
Teacher's assistant
In 1994, after he moved to Washington State, he found work as a teacher's assistant for special education in the Lake Washington School District. He worked 86 days at Rose Hill Junior High School and 32 days as a school-bus assistant.
References
External sources
Fight the Death Penalty in USA
[1] Actual Innocence : Five Days to Execution, and Other Dispatches From the Wrongly Convicted - Barry Scheck, Peter Neufeld, Jim Dwyer (Doubleday, 2000)
2010 deaths
People from Redmond, Washington
Wrongful convictions
1926 births | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph%20Erdmann |
Nola is a 2003 American romantic comedy film written and directed by Alan Hruska. It depicts the struggle of a young woman trying to survive in New York City while looking for her birth father. It premiered in New York City on July 23, 2004.
Plot
After fleeing from her abusive stepfather, Nola (Emmy Rossum) travels to New York City searching for her biological father. She spends her first night sleeping in Central Park, but her luck changes when she is hired by the owner of a small diner. She ends up staying with the frycook/law school student Ben (James Badge Dale) until the real owner of the diner, Ben's landlady Margaret (Mary McDonnell), hires Nola as her assistant for her escort service.
Things go well at the escort service until Niles, a billionaire client of Margaret's service, has a bad session. Niles likes to receive rough physical activity from men cross-dressing as women, but only to a point. Wendy, one of Niles's favorites, went a little too far and sent Niles into a rage. Niles demands Margaret rough Wendy up or else he will have it done, along with inducing the police to investigate the escort service. Nola attempts to help by making up Wendy to look battered and bruised, documenting it with photos, then sending her out of the country until Niles can calm down. Niles's informants spot Wendy, no longer wearing the bruise makeup, trying to flee. Niles responds by arranging a subpoena for Margaret to appear before a grand jury and calling Nola directly, threatening her by revealing detailed information about her upbringing.
Further events lead Nola closer to finding her real father, but not without the help of a journalist (Steven Bauer), who is in need of a story on escort services.
Cast
Emmy Rossum as Nola
Steven Bauer as Leo
James Badge Dale as Ben
Thom Christopher as Niles Sterling
Sam Coppola as Gus
Adam LeFevre as Sam
Michael Cavadias as Wendy
Damian Young as Maitre D'
Mary McDonnell as Margaret Langworthy
James Ransone as Neo-Gothboy
Release and reception
Nola received a limited release on August 29, 2003. On its opening weekend, the film grossed $6,010 at 19 theaters, with a per-theater average of $316. The film grossed a total of $10,550.
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 0% approval rating from critics, based on 13 reviews.
References
External links
2003 films
2003 romantic comedy films
Films set in New York City
2000s English-language films
American romantic comedy films | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nola%20%28film%29 |
"One Slip" is a song from Pink Floyd's 1987 album A Momentary Lapse of Reason.
Composition
The album gets its title from a line of this song's lyrics. The song was co-written by David Gilmour and Roxy Music guitarist Phil Manzanera, who later co-produced Gilmour's On an Island album and played rhythm guitar on the subsequent tour.
Release
It was first released as the B-side to "Learning to Fly". It was then re-released as the third single from the album in the UK where it was a minor hit and was the fourth single from the album in the US where it did well on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.
"One Slip (2019 remix)" from the box set, The Later Years 1987–2019 was released as a single on 24 October 2019 on Spotify and 25 October 2019 on YouTube and iTunes. The song contains newly recorded drums by Nick Mason and organ parts by Richard Wright lifted from 1987-89 live performances, replacing the song's original drum and keyboard parts.
Live
The track was the final song from the album played live when it was the first encore on the Momentary Lapse of Reason tour from 1987–89. The band resurrected the track on one show on their 1994 The Division Bell tour when the band performed it in Oakland, California.
Video
The video for the track is footage of a vintage 1930s plane flying interspersed with concert clips filmed during the band's three night run at The Omni in Atlanta, Georgia. The live footage was shot in November 1987 and was directed by Lawrence Jordan (who has directed concert films for Rush, Mariah Carey and Billy Joel). Videos for "On the Turning Away" and "The Dogs of War" were also filmed from this concert.
Personnel
David Gilmour – guitars, vocals, sequencer
Nick Mason – percussion
Additional musicians:
Bob Ezrin – keyboards
Jon Carin – keyboards
Tony Levin – Chapman Stick
Jim Keltner – drums
Michael Landau – guitars (delay part on the opening parts of "One Slip")
Darlene Koldenhoven – backing vocals
Carmen Twillie – backing vocals
Phyllis St. James – backing vocals
Donny Gerrard – backing vocals
Oakland Stadium, California on 24 April 1994
David Gilmour – lead vocals, guitar
Nick Mason – drums
Richard Wright – keyboards
Additional musicians:
Guy Pratt – bass
Jon Carin – keyboards
Sam Brown – backing vocals
Durga McBroom – backing vocals
Claudia Fontaine – backing vocals
Tim Renwick – guitar
Gary Wallis – percussion
References
External links
Pink Floyd songs
1988 singles
Songs written by David Gilmour
Song recordings produced by Bob Ezrin
Song recordings produced by David Gilmour
Songs written by Phil Manzanera
1987 songs
EMI Records singles
Columbia Records singles | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One%20Slip |
Pavel Bořkovec (10 June 1894, in Prague – 22 July 1972, in Prague) was a Czech composer and music teacher.
Bořkovec studied at the Prague Conservatory under Josef Suk. From 1946 to 1967 he taught at the Academy of Musical Arts in Prague. His students there included Pavel Blatný, Jiří Pauer, Vladimír Sommer, Petr Eben, Jan Klusák and Jan Truhlář. Among his compositions are two operas, two piano concertos, a concerto grosso, a ballet, and five string quartets. His work was also part of the music event in the art competition at the 1932 Summer Olympics.
Selected works
Stage
Krysař, Ballet-Pantomime in 2 scenes (1939)
Paleček, Opera (1959)
Satyr, Opera after Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1942)
Orchestra
Concerto for cello and orchestra (1952)
Concerto No.1 for piano and orchestra (1931)
Concerto No.2 for piano and orchestra (1949–1950)
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
Concerto grosso (1942)
Partita per grande orchestra (1936)
Sinfonietta in uno movimento (1967–1968)
Symphony No.1, Op.6
Symphony No.2 (1955)
Symphony No.3 (1959)
Chamber music
Dva tance, Tango a Menuet (2 Dances, Tango and Minuet) for saxophone (violin ad lib.) and piano
Intermezzo for horn (or cello) and piano (1965)
Nonet for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon, violin, viola, cello and double bass (1940–1941)
Quintet for flute, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon (1932)
Sonata for viola solo, Op.12 (1933)
Sonata No.1 for violin and piano (1934)
Sonata No.2 for violin and piano (1956)
Sonatina for violin and piano (1942)
String Quartet No.1 (1925)
String Quartet No.2, Op.7
String Quartet No.3
String Quartet No.4 (before 1948)
String Quartet No.5 (1961)
Sinfonietta da Camera
Piano
Suite for Piano (1931)
Dvě klavírní skladby (2 Piano Pieces)
Vocal
Jen jedenkrát, Melodrama on a poem by P. Bezruče
7 Písní na básně Vítězslava Nezvala (7 Songs on Poems of Vítězslav Nezval) for soprano and piano, Op.15
Rozmarné písně for baritone and piano (1932)
Šest písní pro detský sbor (6 Songs for Children's Chorus) on poems by Jaroslav Seifert (1949)
Sny (Dreams), 7 Songs for alto and orchestra
References
The information in this article is based on that in its German equivalent.
Further reading
Alena Burešová: Pavel Bořkovec. Zivot a dílo. Votobia, Olomouc 1994,
Jaroslav Kasan et al. (eds.): Pavel Bořkovec. Osobnost a dílo. Panton, Prague et al. 1964
Wilibald Gurlitt (ed.): Riemann Musik-Lexikon, Personenteil A–K, Mainz 1959, B. Schott's Söhne p. 199, article "Bořkovec, Pavel"
1894 births
1972 deaths
Czech composers
Czech male composers
20th-century composers
20th-century Czech male musicians
Olympic competitors in art competitions
Composers from Prague
Prague Conservatory alumni | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel%20Bo%C5%99kovec |
An NBC (nuclear, biological, chemical) suit, also called a chem suit, or chemical suit is a type of military personal protective equipment. NBC suits are designed to provide protection against direct contact with and contamination by radioactive, biological, or chemical substances, and provide protection from contamination with radioactive materials and all types of radiation. They are generally designed to be worn for extended periods to allow the wearer to fight (or generally function) while under threat of or under actual nuclear, biological, or chemical attack. The civilian equivalent is the hazmat suit. The term NBC has been replaced by CBRN (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear), with the addition of the new threat of radiological weapons.
Use
NBC stands for nuclear, biological, and chemical. It is a term used in the armed forces and in health and safety, mostly in the context of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) clean-up in overseas conflict or protection of emergency services during the response to terrorism, though there are civilian and common-use applications (such as recovery and clean up efforts after industrial accidents).
In military operations, NBC suits are intended to be quickly donned over a soldier’s uniform and can continuously protect the user for up to several days. Most are made of impermeable material such as rubber, but some incorporate a filter, allowing air, sweat and condensation to slowly pass through. An example of this is the Canadian military NBC suit.
The older Soviet suit was impermeable rubber-coated canvas. Now known as the CBRN suit, the British Armed Forces suit is reinforced nylon with charcoal impregnated felt. It is more comfortable because of the breathability but has a shorter useful life, and must be replaced often. The British Armed Forces suit is known as a "Noddy suit" because some of them had a pointed hood like the hat worn by the fictional character Noddy. The Soviet style suit will protect the wearer at higher concentrations than the British suit but is less comfortable due to the build-up of moisture within it. A Soviet suit was known as a "Womble" because of its long faced respirator with round visor glasses. In Canadian terminology, an NBC suit or any kind of similar protective over-suit is also known as a "Bunnysuit".
See also
(Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear, known formerly as NBC)
List of NBC warfare forces
(Mission Oriented Protective Posture gear)
(PPPS) (for use in biocontainment)
(WMD, formerly NBC weapon)
Joint Service Lightweight Integrated Suit Technology - Used as part of MOPP.
References
External links
Chemical protective suits reflect advancements in PPE
Environmental suits
Military personal equipment
Chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear defense | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC%20suit |
The Mayfair Exponential Game System or MEGS is a rules system developed for role-playing games. The name comes from what fans called the game system for DC Heroes, which was also later used for Underground (1993). It is noteworthy for its use of an exponential system for measuring nearly everything in the game. This system makes it possible to have both cosmically-powered characters and ordinary human characters meaningfully interact within the same universe. For example, in DC Heroes, the first game to use MEGS, Superman's strength is several orders of magnitude more than Batman's. With the MEGS system, however, this large difference in strength is scaled down. So, while Superman would still have a clear advantage in a brawl, Batman is at least able to hold out for a while, mirroring how superhero combat often operates in comic books.
History
MEGS was originally developed for the company Mayfair Games for the modern superhero RPG DC Heroes. The system was heavily modified for Mayfair's cyberpunk war veteran RPG Underground. The original incarnation of Pulsar Games licensed MEGS from Mayfair Games and used it in their modern superhero RPG Blood of Heroes. Blood of Heroes is very similar to DC Heroes, mostly replacing the superheroes created by DC Comics with new ones for the Blood of Heroes universe.
Mechanics
All measurements in MEGS are done using a logarithmic scale. The units on this scale are called "Attribute Points" or "APs" in the superhero games and simply "Units" in Underground, with each unit on the scale represents exponentially increasing values for length, weight, time, etc. Because of the nature of logarithms and exponents, 0 APs/Units is a meaningful, positive value. Indeed, even negative APs/Units still represent positive values, though exponentially smaller, down to -100 APs, which is defined as absolute zero for all units.
In the superhero games, 1 AP corresponds to 8 seconds, , , , $50, or a typed page of information. A single increase of an AP roughly doubles the value, so 2 APs of weight is about 200 pounds, while 6 APs of weight is about 3200 pounds, or about 1.5 tons.
In Underground, 1 Unit corresponds to 5 seconds, , , , or a bit more than a paragraph of text. An increase of 3 Units represents a doubling of the related value, so 4 Units of weight is about 250 pounds, while 7 Units of weight is about 500 pounds.
Multiplication and division of raw values are simplified to addition and subtraction on a logarithmic scale, so the MEGS scale functions essentially the same way that slide rules do. For example, raw distance travelled is normally calculated by multiplying raw speed by raw time. In MEGS, speed and time in APs/Units are simply added together to yield the distance travelled in APs/Units. So a car traveling at a speed of 5 APs (about 55 MPH) for 9 APs of time (about 34 minutes) will travel 5+9=14 APs of distance (about 31 miles). The results of other important game events can be determined in similar ways, such as calculating the distance an object can be thrown (the PC's strength score minus the weight of the object).
References
Role-playing game systems
Mayfair Games games | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayfair%20Exponential%20Game%20System |
is a Japanese gravure idol from Tokyo, Japan.
Although not well known outside Japan, she's one of the most famous Japanese idols in Japan. She is well known for her prodigious breasts although their reported size is greatly disputed, particularly for a woman her size.
Biography
Saori Yamamoto was born and raised in Tokyo. She began modeling at the age of 15. After a few months her career took off. She released her first DVD a year later called Pure Smile.
Saori has appeared in many stage productions and television shows in Japan. Her first non-solo DVD appearances were in the high action movie Bra Shooter. In addition to modeling and acting, she currently plays for a Japanese soccer team called Team Spazio
Like many J-idols, Saori Yamamoto was also featured in a video game/DVD called Gal of the Sparrow 2, which she announced at 2005's Tokyo Game Show. This DVD features other popular J-idols such as Chikako Sakuragi, Rio Natsume, Yuka Watanabe, Akari, Kaede Shimizu, Hitomi Okada and Hatsune Matsushima. This DVD/video game is only for sale in Japan.
CD releases
Toki (3/20/2004)
DVD releases
Protea (05/2002)
Pure Smile (05/2003)
ぴちぴちピーチ! Pichi Pichi Peach! (08/21/2003)
Saory (11/28/2003)
ぷりぷりプリン! Idol One: Puripuri Purin! (03/20/2004)
Saori no Tenshi in Seoul Q (06/25/2004)
山本早織:Letter (07/25/2004)
妹・早織 (10/22/2004)
VIVA!そら。真っさお。Viva! Sora Massao (11/25/2004)
起きて。ワタシ Okite. Watashi (2/25/2005)
AMUSE (04/25/2005)
ぷりんアラモードBOX Purin Alamode Box (05/20/05)
APPLE (6/25/2005)
Idol One - Dai 3 Dan Saori Yamamoro / Saorita Thank You 19 (10/20/2005)
Idol One Dai 4 Dan - Saori Yamamoto / Yamamoro Welcome 20 (11/20/2005)
Orihime (02/24/2006)
Asatte-Dance (03/23/2006)
Kawaru Watashi (06/28/2006)
Destiny (08/01/2006)
Photograph set
3年5組38番 3 year 5 set 38th page 96 digital B COM (Photograph Set) (1/23/2004)
Sun‐Chu! (Photograph Collection) (3/27/2004)
Delusion (02/2006)
V-Cinema
Taima Angel Bizarre Shooter Bishojo Senshi Sara Kenzan (退魔天使 ビザール・シューター 美少女戦士沙良見参!), June 12, 2005
Hazard Saga, April 28, 2006
Hazard Angel Crimson, May 12, 2006
Hazard Angel Darkness, May 26, 2006
Kyodai Heroine MARIYA -Korin- (巨大ヒロインMARIYA -降臨-), June 9, 2006
Kyodai Heroine MARIYA -Sairin- (巨大ヒロインMARIYA -最臨-), July 14, 2006
Homeless Shojo ～Bombie Girl no Koi～(ホームレス少女 ～貧乏少女の恋～), June 25, 2008
Theatrical films
Enkiri Village: Dead End Survival (2011)
Notes
External links
Official Website
Saori Yamaoto's Blog
Slide shows [DEAD LINK]
Resumé
山本早織 (Yamamoto Saori) Filmography at jmdb.ne.jp
Japanese gravure idols
1985 births
Living people
Models from Tokyo
Japanese television personalities | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saori%20Yamamoto |
Z is the 26th and last letter of the Latin alphabet.
Z may also refer to:
Film and television
Z (1969 film), a 1969 Algerian-French thriller film based on the murder of a Greek politician.
Z (1999 film), a 1999 Indian mystery-thriller film (in Kannada language)
Z (2019 film), a 2019 Canadian horror film
Z movie, a description for low-budget films
The Lost City of Z (film), 2017 biopic about explorer Percy Fawcett
Project Z (film), Telugu language version of the science fiction thriller Maayavan
Z-Cars, a British police procedural TV drama series
Z: The Beginning of Everything, television series about the life of Zelda Fitzgerald
Elizabeth "Z" Delgado, a Power Rangers: S.P.D. character
Z, the production code for the 1966 Doctor Who serial The Gunfighters
Z-4195, often called "Z", a worker ant, the protagonist of Antz
Ultraman Z, a 2020 tokusatsu series
World War Z (film), a 2013 zombie horror film
Attack Force Z, a 1982 film
Music
Z (Aion album)
Z (EP)
Z (My Morning Jacket album)
Z number, prefix for works of Henry Purcell in the Zimmerman catalog
Project Z (band), band for which Jimmy Herring played
WHTZ, or Z 100, an iHeartRadio station in New York City
"Z", a song by Gayle that was released in 2020
Literature
"Z", a pseudonym of Ezra Pound
Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald, by Therese Fowler
Z, a novel by Vassilis Vassilikos
Z, a play by Anne Szumigalski
Mathematics
Z-score, a concept in statistics
zepto- (z), an SI prefix meaning 10−21
zetta- (Z), an SI prefix meaning 1021
, the set of integer numbers
, the set of all integers modulo .
, the set of all -adic integers or sometimes the set of all integers modulo .
Z, symbol for plastic section modulus, a geometric property
Z, the number 35 in base 36 and higher
z-axis, part of the Cartesian coordinate system
Computing
.Z, a file extension
Z (video game), a 1996 computer game
Z notation, a specification language for computing systems
z-buffering, the management of depth for 3-D graphics
Z-machine, a virtual machine used by Infocom for text adventure games
z/OS, a 64 bit operating system for mainframe computers
Z or ZF or Z flag, designations for the zero flag register
HP Z, a PC workstation brand of Hewlett Packard
Z (high impedance), one of the states in three-state logic
Natural sciences
Z boson, an elementary particle
Z, symbol for Atomic number (the number of protons in an atom's nucleus)
Z, symbol for Compressibility factor (a thermodynamic property)
Z, symbol for metallicity (the mass proportion of an astronomical object that is neither hydrogen nor helium)
Z, abbreviation for Carboxybenzyl (an organic compound)
, the degree of redshift in astronomical spectroscopy
Z, a descriptor for stereoisomers with a double bond in E-Z notation
Z, the number of formula units per unit cell in a crystalline solid
Z Pulsed Power Facility, an X-ray generator
Z chromosome
Haplogroup Z
Transportation
Z (New York City Subway service)
Tokyo Metro Hanzōmon Line, a subway service operated by the Tokyo Metro, labeled
, the official West Japan Railway Company service symbol for the Fukuen Line.
Honda Z, a kei car
Honda Z series, a line of minibikes
Nissan Z-car, a series of sports cars
Kawasaki Z series, a series of motorcycles
Lincoln Z, a mid-size luxury sedan
HiPhi Z, an executive car
Military
Zulu, the military time zone code for UTC
Z (military symbol), a symbol used by Russian military vehicles during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine
Operation Z, the Japanese code name for the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor in its planning stages
Operation Z (1944), the initial Japanese plan for the defense of the Marianas Islands in WWII
Force Z, the British naval squadron sunk off Malaya in 1941
Plan Z, a German naval construction program
Class Z Reserve, contingent of the British Army
Project Z (bomber project) of World War II Japan
Z-4 Plan, a proposal to settle the Croatian War of Independence
Hypothesis Z, a Romanian war plan for World War I
Organisations
Together (Zajedno), a political party in Serbia
Z Energy, a New Zealand energy processing company
Z Corporation, a computer printer company
Z Communications, an activist media group, publishers of Z Magazine
Z, a brand logo of Zed Books (a publishing company in London)
Z, stock trading symbol for the Zillow Group
People
Zendaya, American actress and singer sometimes going by the nickname "Z"
Other uses
Z flag, one of the international maritime signal flags
Z-plan castle, a form of castle design common in England and Scotland
Z (cartoonist)
Z (joke line), an American dial-a-joke service of the 1970s and 1980s
Z scale, a 1:220 model railway scale
, the IPA symbol for a voiced alveolar sibilant sound
Lost City of Z, a hypothetical ancient city in Brazil
Z (underaged killer), placeholder designation of an unnamed 15-year-old minor who committed the 2001 murder of Annie Leong under the orders of her husband Anthony Ler in Singapore
Suzanne "Z" Yang, American Girl character
Z, the main antagonist of Xenoblade Chronicles 3
See also
Wolfsangel, a Z-shaped symbol
Ž, Ż, Ź, Ze (Cyrillic), Ezh and Ro (kana)
Z with stroke, Ƶ character
Big Z (disambiguation)
Channel Z (disambiguation)
Z Channel (disambiguation)
Z Force (disambiguation)
Z Plan (disambiguation)
Zed (disambiguation)
Zee (disambiguation)
ZZ (disambiguation)
Zzz (disambiguation)
Zzzz (disambiguation) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z%20%28disambiguation%29 |
"Take It Back" is a song by the progressive rock band Pink Floyd, released as the seventh track on their 1994 album The Division Bell. It was also released as a single on 16 May 1994, the first from the album, and Pink Floyd's first for seven years. The single peaked at number 23 on the UK Singles Chart, the fourth highest in the band's history, below 1979 number 1 hit "Another Brick In The Wall" and 1967 top 20 hits "See Emily Play" and "Arnold Layne."
The music for the song was written by guitarist David Gilmour and album co-producer Bob Ezrin, with lyrics by Gilmour, his wife Polly Samson and Nick Laird-Clowes.
Equipment
Guitarist David Gilmour used an E-bow on a Gibson J-200 acoustic guitar that is processed through a Zoom effects box, then directly injected into the board.
The lyrics include a common British reading of the nursery rhyme "Ring a Ring o' Roses" during its instrumental section.
Personnel
David Gilmour – lead vocals, guitar, Ebow
Richard Wright – keyboards, Hammond and Farfisa organs
Nick Mason – drums, percussion
Additional musicians:
Tim Renwick – additional guitar
Jon Carin – Synthesizers, keyboards, loops
Guy Pratt – bass
Bob Ezrin – keyboards, percussion
Sam Brown – backing vocals
Durga McBroom – backing vocals
Carol Kenyon – backing vocals
Jackie Sheridan – backing vocals
Rebecca Leigh-White – backing vocals
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
References
External links
1994 singles
1990s ballads
Pink Floyd songs
Rock ballads
Songs written by David Gilmour
Songs written by Bob Ezrin
Songs written by Nick Laird-Clowes
Song recordings produced by Bob Ezrin
Songs with lyrics by Polly Samson
Song recordings produced by David Gilmour
1994 songs
EMI Records singles
Columbia Records singles | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take%20It%20Back |
"Coming Back to Life" is a song from Pink Floyd's 1994 album The Division Bell, and is the only track from the album to be credited solely to David Gilmour.
Composition
Gilmour has said (as can be heard on the David Gilmour in Concert DVD) that the song was written about his wife, Polly Samson.
Personnel
David Gilmour – vocals, guitars
Richard Wright – Kurzweil synthesisers, Hammond organ
Nick Mason – drums
Additional musicians:
Guy Pratt – bass guitar
Gary Wallis – percussion
Live performances
The song has been a staple in Gilmour's performances from 1994 to 2016. It was one of the songs performed on rotation during the 1994 Division Bell Tour, at every one of Gilmour's semi-acoustic shows in 2001 and 2002, at Gilmour's performance at the Fender Stratocaster 50th anniversary concert in London in 2004, and was played at most shows during his solo 2006 On an Island Tour. It became a staple of shows during the 2015-16 Rattle That Lock Tour.
Live personnel
Pink Floyd, 1994 tour
David Gilmour – electric guitar, lead vocals
Richard Wright – organ
Nick Mason – drums
with:
Guy Pratt – bass
Tim Renwick – acoustic guitar
Jon Carin – synthesiser
Gary Wallis – percussion
Sam Brown – backing vocals
Claudia Fontaine – backing vocals
Durga McBroom – backing vocals
David Gilmour, 2006 and 2015-16 tours
David Gilmour – electric guitar, lead vocals
Richard Wright – organ (2006 only)
Phil Manzanera – electric guitar (except 2016 second leg)
Guy Pratt – bass
Jon Carin – synthesiser (except 2016 second leg)
Steve DiStanislao – drums
Kevin McAlea – organ (2015-16 only)
Bryan Chambers – backing vocals (2015-16 only)
Lucita Jules – backing vocals (2015-16 only)
Louise Clare Marshall – backing vocals (2015-16 only)
Chester Kamen – electric guitar (2016 second leg only)
Chuck Leavell – organ (2016 second leg only)
Greg Phillinganes – synthesiser (2016 second leg only)
Live releases
The song appears on the following live albums, DVDs or Blu-rays:
Pulse (album) (Pink Floyd, 1995)
Pulse (VHS/DVD) (Pink Floyd, 1995 [VHS], 2003 [DVD])
David Gilmour in Concert (DVD) (David Gilmour, 2002)
Remember That Night (DVD/Blu-ray) (David Gilmour, 2007)
Live in Gdańsk (album, deluxe edition bonus CD) (David Gilmour, 2008)
Live at Pompeii (album, DVD/BD) (David Gilmour, 2017)
References
1994 songs
1990s ballads
Pink Floyd songs
Rock ballads
Songs written by David Gilmour
Song recordings produced by Bob Ezrin
Song recordings produced by David Gilmour | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coming%20Back%20to%20Life |
"Keep Talking" is a song from Pink Floyd's 1994 album, The Division Bell.
Recording
Written by David Gilmour, Richard Wright and Polly Samson, it was sung by Gilmour and also features samples of Stephen Hawking's electronic voice, taken from a BT television advertisement. This same commercial was sampled again in "Talkin' Hawkin'" from Pink Floyd's next studio album, The Endless River. Gilmour chose to use the speech after crying to the commercial, which he described as "the most powerful piece of television advertising that I’ve ever seen in my life.” The song also makes some use of the talk box guitar effect.
Release
The song was the first single to be released from the album in the United States in March 1994. It was the group's third #1 hit on the Album Rock Tracks chart (a chart published by Billboard magazine which measures radio play in the United States, and is not a measure of record sales), staying atop for six weeks.
The song was included on the 2001 compilation, Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd.
Live
The song was performed every night during the 1994 The Division Bell Tour and live versions, taken from different shows, were included in both the album Pulse and the video of the same name.
The song was sampled by Wiz Khalifa on the title track of his 2009 mixtape Burn After Rolling.
Quotes
Personnel
Pink Floyd
David Gilmour – lead vocals, guitar, talk box, EBow
Richard Wright – Hammond organ, synthesizer
Nick Mason – drums, percussion
Additional musicians
Gary Wallis – programming
Jon Carin – programming, additional keyboards
Guy Pratt – bass guitar
Sam Brown – backing vocals
Durga McBroom – backing vocals
Carol Kenyon – backing vocals
Jackie Sheridan – backing vocals
Rebecca Leigh-White – backing vocals
Stephen Hawking – computer voice, sampled
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Release history
References
1994 songs
Columbia Records singles
EMI Records singles
Pink Floyd songs
Stephen Hawking
Songs written by David Gilmour
Songs written by Richard Wright (musician)
Songs with lyrics by Polly Samson
Song recordings produced by Bob Ezrin
Song recordings produced by David Gilmour | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep%20Talking%20%28Pink%20Floyd%20song%29 |
Withypool (formerly Widepolle, Widipol, Withypoole) is a small village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Withypool and Hawkridge, in the Somerset district, in the ceremonial county of Somerset, England, near the centre of Exmoor National Park and close to the border with Devon. The word Withy means "willow". The parish of Withypool and Hawkridge, covers , includes the village of Hawkridge and has a population around 201.
Withypool is in the Barle Valley on the River Barle. The village lies on the route of the Two Moors Way and the Celtic Way Exmoor Option.
To the southwest of the village lie Withypool Common and Withypool Hill.
History
The area around Withypool has been inhabited since the Bronze Age and the Withypool Stone Circle can still be seen on top of Withypool Hill. The Brightworthy barrows lie on the Common; of three original, two survive.
Withypool is mentioned in the Domesday Book as being tended by three foresters: Dodo, Almer and Godric. The parishes of Hawkridge and Withypool were part of the Williton and Freemanners Hundred.
In the 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer was in charge of the village in his duties as forester of North Petherton.
The red sandstone Withypool Bridge (or New Bridge) carries a small road over the River Barle. It was built in the 19th century and is a Grade II* listed building.
Civil parish
On 1 April 1933 part of the parish of Hawkridge was merged with Withypool, on 1 June 1992 the merged parish was renamed "Withypool & Hawkridge". In 1931 the parish of Withypool (prior to the merge) had a population of 222.
Governance
The parish council has responsibility for local issues, including setting an annual precept (local rate) to cover the council’s operating costs and producing annual accounts for public scrutiny. The parish council evaluates local planning applications and works with the local police, district council officers, and neighbourhood watch groups on matters of crime, security, and traffic. The parish council's role also includes initiating projects for the maintenance and repair of parish facilities, as well as consulting with the district council on the maintenance, repair, and improvement of highways, drainage, footpaths, public transport, and street cleaning. Conservation matters (including trees and listed buildings) and environmental issues are also the responsibility of the council.
Until 2023 The village fell within the non-metropolitan district of Somerset West and Taunton, which was established on 1 April 2019. It was previously in the district of West Somerset, which was formed on 1 April 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972, and part of Dulverton Rural District before that. The district council was responsible for local planning and building control, local roads, council housing, environmental health, markets and fairs, refuse collection and recycling, cemeteries and crematoria, leisure services, parks, and tourism.
Somerset Council is responsible for running the largest and most expensive local services such as education, social services, libraries, main roads, public transport, policing and fire services, trading standards, waste disposal and strategic planning.
As Withypool falls within the Exmoor National Park some functions normally administered by district or county councils have, since 1997, fallen under the Exmoor National Park Authority, which is known as a ‘single purpose’ authority, which aims to "conserve and enhance the natural beauty, wildlife and cultural heritage of the National Parks" and "promote opportunities for the understanding and enjoyment of the special qualities of the Parks by the public", including responsibility for the conservation of the historic environment.
It is also part of the Bridgwater and West Somerset county constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
Landmarks
2 miles upstream of the village, the River Barle passes under a late medieval five-arch stone Landacre Bridge.
The Royal Oak Inn
The village's Royal Oak Inn has seen its share of history since its construction in the late 17th century. R. D. Blackmore wrote part of Lorna Doone in the bar, and artist Alfred Munnings had a studio in the loft. In the 1930s, the inn was owned by Gwladys and Maxwell Knight, a spy-ring leader and radio broadcaster upon whom Ian Fleming based the character of James Bond's boss, M. During World War II, the nearby Woolacombe beach was used to simulate the invasion of Normandy, and General Dwight Eisenhower planned some of the operation from the Royal Oak.
Religious sites
The late medieval Church of St Andrew is a Grade II* listed building. The tower was rebuilt in the early 17th century, restored and refitted in 1887, and restored extensively and rebuilt again in 1902.
The Norman Church of St Giles in Hawkridge has 14th-century origins.
Notable people
Ina Skriver, actress
Mary Etherington, conservationist
References
External links
Villages in West Somerset
Former civil parishes in Somerset
Exmoor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withypool |
Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus (born 115 BC) was a Roman politician and general who was one of two Consuls of the Republic in 72 BC along with Lucius Gellius. Closely linked to the family of Pompey, he is noted for being one of the consular generals who led Roman legions against the slave armies of Spartacus in the Third Servile War.
Biography
Although born into the plebeian Claudii Marcelli family, Clodianus was adopted into the patrician Cornelii Lentuli, possibly as the adoptive son of Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus. A partisan of Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, he possibly served under Pompey during Pompey's special commission in Hispania. Elected Praetor around 75 BC, his connections with Pompey ensured that he was elected consul in 72 BC .
Clodianus soon was involved in protecting Pompey's interests, pushing a bill to validate grants of citizenship by Pompey in Hispania. He and his colleague also ensured that no Roman citizen in the provinces could be tried in absentia on a capital charge – an attempt to restrict the ravages of Gaius Verres in Sicily. Finally, Clodianus proposed a bill for recovering payment, which Lucius Cornelius Sulla had remitted, from those who had bought the confiscated property of those who suffered under the Sullan proscriptions.
However, the major event of his consulship was the revolt of Spartacus and the eruption of the Third Servile War. Having won a number of victories against ill-prepared Roman forces, the Senate now recognised Spartacus as a serious threat and sent both the consuls to confront the slave armies at the head of four legions. Clodianus moved to block Spartacus's march northward, while his colleague Publicola moved in behind, hoping to catch the rebels between the two armies. However, Spartacus's slave army destroyed Clodianus' legions in the Apennine Mountains (near modern Pistoia) in the valley named Lentula, and then turned and defeated the oncoming legions of Publicola. Gathering their shattered forces, both consuls gave chase but were once again defeated at a battle near Picenum.
Humiliated by these defeats, shortly afterward, in early autumn, Clodianus and Publicola were withdrawn as commanders by the Roman senate, and command of the war given to Marcus Licinius Crassus.
This setback to Clodianus's career was only temporary; with the support of Pompey, both Clodianus and Publicola were appointed censor in 70 BC. They began a systematic purge of the senate, removing some sixty-four senators, among them a number of individuals connected to the trial of Oppianicus, as well as some important individuals such as Gaius Antonius Hybrida and Publius Cornelius Lentulus Sura. However, the majority of those expelled were acquitted by the courts and restored to their former position. They also identified 910,000 citizens and possibly named Mamercus Aemilius Lepidus Livianus as Princeps Senatus.
In 70 BC, Clodianus helped contribute to Cicero's famous prosecution of the corrupt governor Verres by submitting evidence in support of Cicero's case.
By 67 BC, Clodianus was serving as a legate with praetorian imperium under Pompey, who had received an extraordinary command to rid the Mediterranean Sea of pirates. Clodianus was given command of the east coast of Italy, with his fleet patrolling the coast of the Adriatic Sea. By 66 BC he was back in Rome, where he gave his support to the Lex Manilia, which gave Pompey command of the war against King Mithridates VI of Pontus.
Although Clodianus was a noted orator, it was said that he hid his lack of talent through showmanship and the possession of a good voice.
See also
List of Roman consuls
References
Sources
T. Robert S. Broughton, The Magistrates of the Roman Republic, Vol II (1952).
Holmes, T. Rice, The Roman Republic and the Founder of the Empire, Vol. I (1923)
Syme, Ronald, The Roman Revolution, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1939.
Anthon, Charles & Smith, William, A New Classical Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography, Mythology and Geography (1860).
1st-century BC Roman consuls
115 BC births
Year of death unknown
Ancient Roman adoptees
Ancient Roman generals
Roman Republican praetors
Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus, Gnaeus
Clodianus, Gnaeus | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnaeus%20Cornelius%20Lentulus%20Clodianus |
Lucius Gellius (c. 136 BC – c. 54 BC) was a Roman politician and general who was one of two Consuls of the Republic in 72 BC along with Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulus Clodianus. A supporter of Pompey, he is noted for being one of the consular generals who led Roman legions against the slave armies of Spartacus in the Third Servile War.
Early Career and the Third Servile War
The first member of the Gellii to achieve the consulate, at an early age Lucius was attached to Gaius Papirius Carbo as his contubernalis. He began his climb up the cursus honorum with his election as quaestor around 102 BC followed by aedile around 96 BC. This was followed by his election as Praetor Peregrinus in 94 BC, after which he was posted as propraetor to the province of Asia in the following year.
In 89 BC, Gellius was a senior legate under Pompeius Strabo, beginning a long association with that family that would continue with Strabo's son, Pompeius Magnus So much so that when he achieved the consulate in 72 BC, he was noted as a Pompeian consul and pushed through a bill to validate grants of citizenship by Pompey in Hispania. He and his colleague also ensured that no Roman citizen in the provinces could be tried in absentia on a capital charge – an attempt to restrict the ravages of Gaius Verres in Sicily.
However, the major event of his consulship was the revolt of Spartacus and the eruption of the Third Servile War. Having won a number of victories against ill-prepared Roman forces, the Senate now recognised Spartacus as a serious threat and sent both the consuls to confront the slave armies at the head of four legions. Initially successful, Gellius defeated Crixus and 30,000 rebel slaves at Mount Garganus near Apulia, then moved northwards behind Spartacus's forces which were moving north. With Clodianus barring Spartacus in the north, they hoped to catch the rebels between the two armies. Spartacus' slave army destroyed Clodianus' legions, and then turned and defeated the oncoming legions of Gellius. Gathering their shattered forces, both consuls gave chase but were once again defeated at a battle near Picenum.
Humiliated by these defeats, shortly afterward, in early autumn, Gellius and Clodianus were withdrawn as commanders by the Roman senate, and command of the war given to Marcus Licinius Crassus. This setback to Gellius's career was only temporary; with the support of Pompey, both Gellius and Clodianus were appointed censor in 70 BC. They began a systematic purge of the senate, removing some sixty-four senators, among them a number of individuals connected to the trial of Oppianicus, as well as some important individuals such as Gaius Antonius Hybrida and Publius Cornelius Lentulus Sura. They identified 910,000 citizens and possibly named Mamercus Aemilius Lepidus Livianus as Princeps Senatus.
Later career
By 67 BC, Gellius was serving as a legate with praetorian imperium under Pompey, who had received an extraordinary command to rid the Mediterranean Sea of pirates. Gellius was given charge of the Italian coast off Tuscany. Although Pompey soon headed to the East, Gellius retained command of the fleet near Italy until 63 BC.
Returning to Rome, he gave his support to Cicero, who had swiftly dealt with the Catiline conspiracy, to the point where Gellius declared in the Senate that Cicero deserved the Civic Crown for his services to the state. He continued to give support to the party which soon became known as the Optimates, in 59 BC speaking in opposition of Julius Caesar’s agrarian law, while in 57 BC he spoke in support of Cicero's return from exile.
Gellius was still alive in 55 BC when Cicero delivered his speech against Lucius Calpurnius Piso, but died soon afterwards. His adopted son was Lucius Gellius Publicola, consul in 36 BC.
See also
Gellia gens
References
Sources
T. Robert S. Broughton, The Magistrates of the Roman Republic, Vol II (1952).
Holmes, T. Rice, The Roman Republic and the Founder of the Empire, Vol. I (1923)
Syme, Ronald, The Roman Revolution, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1939.
Anthon, Charles & Smith, William, A New Classical Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography, Mythology and Geography (1860).
130s BC births
50s BC deaths
Year of birth uncertain
Year of death uncertain
2nd-century BC Romans
1st-century BC Roman consuls
Ancient Roman generals
Lucius
Ancient Roman censors | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius%20Gellius |
Flash protection is a term used in the design and specification of protective suits, particularly in bomb disposal.
Emergency services | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash%20protection |
The Anson Mills Building is a historic building located at 303 North Oregon Street in El Paso, Texas. The building stands on the original site of the 1832 Ponce de León ranch. Anson Mills hired Henry C. Trost of the Trost and Trost architectural firm to design and construct the building. Trost was the area's foremost pioneer in the use of reinforced concrete. Built in 1910–1911, the building was only the second concrete-frame skyscraper in the United States, and one of the largest all-concrete buildings. At 145 feet (44 m), the 12-story Mills Building was the tallest building in El Paso when completed. The architectural firm of Trost and Trost moved its offices to the building upon completion, where they remained until 1920. The Mills family sold the building in 1965. The building stands on a corner site opposite San Jacinto Plaza, with a gracefully curved street facade that wraps around the south and east sides. Like many of Trost's designs, the Anson Mills Building's overall form and strong verticality, as well as details of the ornamentation and cornice, are reminiscent of the Chicago School work of Louis Sullivan.
In 1974, the Mills Building's windows were replaced with vertical bands of mirrored glass, radically altering its appearance.
The Mills Building was designated as a Texas Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1981.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in El Paso County, Texas
References
External links
describes, but does not include building in submission due to alterations
Emporis.com
El Paso Historic Registry
National Register of Historic Places in El Paso County, Texas
Skyscraper office buildings in Texas
Skyscrapers in El Paso, Texas
Downtown El Paso, Texas
Landmarks in Texas
Trost & Trost buildings
Office buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Texas
Office buildings completed in 1911
Chicago school architecture in Texas | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anson%20Mills%20Building |
Sir William Robert Seymour Vesey-FitzGerald, GCSI, GCIE, PC (1818 – 28 June 1885), was an Anglo-Irish politician and colonial administrator. He served as Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs between 1858 and 1859 and as Governor of Bombay between 1867 and 1872.
Background and education
FitzGerald was the illegitimate son of the 2nd Baron FitzGerald and Vesey. He was educated at both Christ Church, Oxford and Oriel College, Oxford, graduating with a degree in Classics in 1837.
Political career
FitzGerald was elected member for Horsham in 1848, but was unseated on petition. In 1852 he was once again elected for Horsham and was able to hold the seat until 1865. He served under The 14th Earl of Derby as Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs between 1858 and 1859.
In 1866 he was appointed Governor of Bombay, admitted to the Privy Council and (17 August 1887) made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Star of India, and Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire.
On his return to Britain, he again represented Horsham in parliament from 1874 to 1875. In 1875, he was appointed Chief Charity Commissioner.
He married Maria Seymour, daughter of Edward Seymour, in 1840 and had a son and daughter.
Buried Maker Church E Cornwall (1910)
See also
Baron FitzGerald and Vesey
References
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
External links
1818 births
1885 deaths
Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies
Alumni of Oriel College, Oxford
Knights Commander of the Order of the Star of India
Knights Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire
Members of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom
Governors of Bombay
UK MPs 1847–1852
UK MPs 1852–1857
UK MPs 1857–1859
UK MPs 1859–1865
UK MPs 1874–1880
Members of the Bombay Legislative Council | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour%20Vesey-FitzGerald |
Barry Manilow II is the second studio album by Barry Manilow released in 1974. Propelled by the major success of its lead single "Mandy" and featuring a further international hit in "It's a Miracle", the album was a commercial breakthrough for Manilow. First issued by Bell Records, it was reissued after the company was reorganized into Arista Records. The album's success spawned a notable parody in the picture sleeve of Ray Stevens' 1979 single, "I Need Your Help Barry Manilow".
Album peaked at #29 on Canada’s RPM Album Chart.
Track listing
Side 1
"I Want To Be Somebody's Baby" (Barry Manilow, Enoch Anderson) - 4:18
"Early Morning Strangers" (Barry Manilow, Hal David) - 3:24
"Mandy" (Scott English, Richard Kerr) - 3:32
"The Two of Us" (Barry Manilow, Marty Panzer) - 3:05
"Something's Comin' Up" (Barry Manilow) - 2:51
Side 2
"It's a Miracle" (Barry Manilow, Marty Panzer) - 3:58
"Avenue C" (Buck Clayton, Jon Hendricks, Dave Lambert) - 2:37
"My Baby Loves Me" (Ivy Hunter, Sylvia Moy, William "Mickey" Stevenson) - 3:18
"Sandra" (Barry Manilow, Enoch Anderson) - 4:35
"Home Again" (Barry Manilow, Marty Panzer) - 5:34
1996 Remaster
"I Want To Be Somebody's Baby"
"Early Morning Strangers"
"Mandy"
"The Two of Us"
"Something's Comin' Up"
"It's a Miracle"
"Avenue C"
"My Baby Loves Me"
"Sandra"
"Home Again"
Bonus track:
"Halfway Over the Hill"
2006 Expanded Edition
"I Want To Be Somebody's Baby"
"Early Morning Strangers"
"Mandy"
"The Two of Us"
"Something's Comin' Up"
"It's a Miracle"
"Avenue C"
"My Baby Loves Me"
"Sandra"
Home Again
Bonus tracks:
"Good News"
"Halfway Over the Hill"
Charts
Personnel
Barry Manilow - lead vocals, backing vocals, rhythm arrangements, acoustic piano (1-6, 9, 10)
Don Grolnick - acoustic piano (7)
Ellen Starr - acoustic piano (8)
Jon Stroll - clavinet (1), electric piano (2-6, 8, 9, 10)
John Barranco - guitar (1, 6)
Dick Frank - guitar (1, 6, 8, 9, 10)
Bob Mann - guitar (1, 6, 10)
Charlie Brown - guitar (2, 3, 10)
Stuart Scharf - guitar (2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10)
Sam T. Brown - guitar (7)
Will Lee - bass (1, 2, 3, 5, 6)
Russell George - bass (4, 8, 9, 10)
Bob Cranshaw - bass (7)
Chris Parker - drums (1, 6)
Jimmy Young - drums (2, 3, 5)
Bill Lavorgna - drums (7)
Allan Schwartzberg - drums (8, 9, 10)
Lee Gurst - percussion (1, 6)
Norman Pride - congas (1, 2, 5-8, 10)
George Young - saxophone (2)
Artie Kaplan - saxophone (6)
Stanley Schwartz: saxophone (6)
Jack Cortner - horn and string arrangements
Ron Dante - backing vocals
Melvin Kent - backing vocals (1)
Ken Williams - backing vocals (1)
Charlotte Crossley - backing vocals (6)
Robin Grean - backing vocals (6)
Sharon Redd - backing vocals (6)
Production
Producers: Barry Manilow and Ron Dante
Engineers: Bruce Tergesen, Harry Maslin and Michael DeLugg
Recorded at The Hit Factory and Mediasound Recording Studios (New York City)
Design: The Music Agency
Front Cover Photo: Joel Brodsky
Back Liner Photo: Linda Allen
Certifications
References
1974 albums
Barry Manilow albums
Bell Records albums
Arista Records albums
Albums produced by Ron Dante
Albums with cover art by Joel Brodsky | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry%20Manilow%20II |
Currency Creek (postcode 5214) is a township and locality in South Australia on the western shore of Lake Alexandrina about 6 km north of Goolwa, beside a seasonal stream bearing the same name – Currency Creek – which flows into Lake Alexandrina. The locality includes the headland named Finniss Point which separates the mouths of Currency Creek and the Finniss River.
History
Parts of Lake Alexandrina near to Currency Creek were initially explored by Charles Sturt in an open boat in 1830 but he did not sight the creek.
In December 1837, while exploring the Lake and Murray Mouth looking for other outlets to the sea, a party led by Thomas Bewes Strangways and Young Bingham Hutchinson discovered the waterway while using a whaleboat borrowed from the Encounter Bay fishery. The whaleboat, which in September 1837 had been sold off the schooner Currency Lass at Adelaide, bore the same name as its mother ship, and they named the creek in honour of this boat. They reported on the good grassland in the area and its potential for agriculture.
The township was surveyed in the Currency Creek Special Survey of 1840 but it never really thrived due to the nearness of Goolwa. During the later 1800s the district supported many market gardens along the fertile river flats. The Currency Creek Cemetery contains many historic gravestones. It is notably large compared to the township for the reason that it has serviced the entire district for well over a century.
Boundaries for the locality were created on 31 August 2000 for the "long established name" and include the Government Town of Currency Creek
Wine industry
Currency Creek lends its name to a wine region that stretches from Port Elliot in the west, to Lake Alexandrina to the east, and includes Hindmarsh Island. The main grape varieties grown are Chardonnay, Sauvignon blanc, Cabernet Sauvignon and Shiraz. Vineyards were first established in the area in 1969, with the region producing its first vintage in 1972.
Currency Creek Arboretum
The Currency Creek Arboretum is named after the nearby geographical feature and town. Founded privately by Dean Nicolle and supported by volunteers, it is being developed as a specialist eucalypt (Angophora, Eucalyptus and Corymbia) arboretum with its main purpose being research into Australia's most dominant natural group of plants, the eucalypts.
See also
Currency Creek Game Reserve
Scott Conservation Park
Scott Keach
Gallery
Memorials to River Murray pioneers at Currency Creek cemetery include:
See also Murray–Darling steamboat people
References
External links
Headstones of the Currency Creek cemetery
Currency Creek at Manning Index of South Australian history
Towns in South Australia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency%20Creek%2C%20South%20Australia |
Fort Macomb is a 19th-century United States brick fort in Louisiana, on the western shore of Chef Menteur Pass. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The fort is adjacent to the Venetian Isles community, now legally within the city limits of New Orleans, Louisiana. This community was some miles distant from the city when first built and is still distant from the main developed portion of the city.
History
Chef Menteur Pass is a water route from the Gulf of Mexico to Lake Pontchartrain and the lakeshore of New Orleans. (The other route is the Rigolets; both straits connect Pontchartrain to the Gulf via Lake Borgne.) An earlier fort at the site was called Fort Chef Menteur.
The United States built the current brick fort in 1822, just seven years after British forces invaded the New Orleans area from the sea, at the close of the War of 1812. It was named Fort Wood in 1827 renamed Fort Macomb in 1851, for General Alexander Macomb, former Chief of Engineers and the second Commanding General of the United States Army.
The small fort shaped like a pie wedge has a curved front facing the channel; the curve overlaps the two straight walls, forming demi-bastions. At the salient of the two straight walls is a full bastion facing landward. The fort was surrounded by two wet ditches (moats) with extensive outworks between the ditches. On the parade stands a citadel, a defensive barracks.
A Louisiana garrison took control of and occupied the fort starting on 28 January 1861 early in the American Civil War. In 1862 the Union Army regained control of the fort and also occupied New Orleans.
In 1867 the barracks caught fire, after which the fort was largely abandoned by the U.S. Army. It was decommissioned in 1871.
Preservation
The fort and its land are now owned by the State of Louisiana. While some efforts were made to open it to limited tourism in the late 20th century, the decaying condition of the fort was judged too hazardous for public visits. The similar but better preserved Fort Pike, some away at the Rigolets, is the regional coastal fort that is open to visitors. (currently closed for budget reasons.)
A portion of the fort's old moat had been turned into a canal as part of a small marina. The wakes from incoming and outgoing boats were wearing away the outer wall of the fort and accelerating the structural damage. Hurricane Katrina destroyed the marina in 2005. The fort is now protected by riprap. It needs structural stabilization to reverse the previous damage.
Filming location
The climax of the first-season finale of the 2014 television series True Detective was filmed on location at Fort Macomb.
This site is also a filming location for the television series Into the Badlands in 2015.
In 2016, Beyoncé filmed portions of her critically acclaimed visual album, Lemonade, at Fort Macomb.
Episode 17 of Season 4 of NCIS: New Orleans used the location for a concluding scene.
See also
Fort Pike
References
External links
Forts Macomb and Pike, Civil War Album website
History of New Orleans
Louisiana in the American Civil War
Government buildings completed in 1822
Infrastructure completed in 1822
Buildings and structures in New Orleans
Macomb
National Register of Historic Places in New Orleans
1822 establishments in Louisiana | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort%20Macomb |
Currency Creek may refer to the following located in South Australia:
Currency Creek (South Australia), a river
Currency Creek, South Australia, a locality
Currency Creek Arboretum
Currency Creek wine region
Currency Creek Game Reserve | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency%20Creek |
A manual of arms was an instruction book for handling and using weapons in formation, whether in the field or on parade. Such manuals were especially important in the matchlock and flintlock eras, when loading and firing was a complex and lengthy process typically carried out in close order. When capitalized, the term has reference to one of several important manuals, such as the British Army manual of 1764, the manual of Frederick the Great or Von Steuben's Regulations for the Order and Discipline of the Troops of the United States, adopted by the Continental Army in 1777. The positions and evolutions contained in such manuals have become the standard for parade drill throughout most of the world.
Typical examples of rules and procedures can be found in the 1764 manual. It was used by both sides at the start of the American Revolution.
Stance: stand straight, head right, shoulders square, stomach in, chest out, heels close, toes turned out a little.
Holding the weapon: on the left shoulder, forefinger and thumb to the side of the stock, the other three holding the butt.
Timing: each motion to be done on a count of "one, two".
Such manuals contain various evolutions, such as the twelve or so steps needed to load, ready and fire, and steps for fixing bayonets, forming line (for firing), column (for bayonet charges) or square (for repelling cavalry).
A second example is the manual used for training of Union troops in 1861. While not always dictating the stance (as reference is made to loading from horseback), specific instructions were given for drawing on command (specifically the rifle and pistol), loading, firing, cease-firing, inspecting and returning the weapons to their carrying position (slinging the carbine, or holstering the revolver).
During World War I, Askari troops under General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck in German East Africa were taught the German manual of arms. In 1964 the West German government decided to pay the survivors for their service long ago, and set up an office in Tanganyika for this purpose. Hundreds of old men arrived and asked for their money, but almost none could provide physical evidence of having served. The bankers tested each by giving him a broomstick and ordering him in German to perform the manual of arms. They all passed.
Notes
Military training books | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manual%20of%20arms |
A doughnut or donut (in American English) is a deep-fried piece of dough or batter, usually with a toroidal shape.
Doughnut or donut may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
Donut Media, an American automotive content brand, known primarily for its eponymous YouTube channel and online merchandise store
Donuts (album), a 2006 album by J Dilla
Dough Nuts (1917), a film starring Oliver Hardy
"Doughnut" (song), 2021 song by Twice
"Donut", a season 3 episode of Servant (TV series)
Computing and science
DONUT (Direct Observation of the NU Tau, E872), a Fermilab experiment regarding the tau neutrino
Android Donut, version 1.6 of the Android mobile operating system
Donuts (company), a corporation formed to acquire and market domain names
Government
Donut hole (Medicare), an insurance gap where U.S. Medicare drug benefit coverage disappears between specific levels of expenditure on drugs
"The Doughnut", the nickname for the headquarters of GCHQ, the British intelligence agency
Other uses
A geometric shape formally called a torus
A torus or toroidal cushion commonly used by hemorrhoid patients
Baseball doughnut, a baseball bat weight used for warming up
Doughnut (driving), a driving manoeuver
Doughnut (economic model), a model used to measure economic performance
Donut, a type of spare tire
Life donut, a lifebuoy
See also
Donut shop (disambiguation)
Toroidal (disambiguation) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doughnut%20%28disambiguation%29 |
Laguna San Rafael National Park () is a park located on the Pacific coast of southern Chile. The park is named for the San Rafael Lagoon formed by the retreat of the San Rafael Glacier. Created in 1959, it covers an area of and includes the Northern Patagonian Ice Field. A fjord more than long is one of the park's principal attractions.
History
Non-indigenous people first explored the area of Laguna San Rafael in the year 1675. The glacier of the same name was a land-terminating glacier during that time. It probably reached again the lagoon at some time between 1741 and 1766, and it has been a tidewater glacier since that date.
The park was designated a World Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO in 1979.
Geography
The park comprises some of the higher Andes mountains of Patagonia, such as the Monte San Valentín, Cerro Arenales, Cerro Hyades and Cerro Pared Norte.
This park contains a number of rivers. San Tadeo River is located in the Isthmus of Ofqui and flows into San Quintín Bay in the north part of the Gulf of Penas. Also there are various rivers bordering the park, such as the Baker River and the Exploradores River. Témpanos River (not really a river) connects San Rafael Lagoon with the Gulf Elefantes, the southern part of Moraleda Channel.
Presidente Ríos Lake spans the border between the park and Las Guaitecas National Reserve.
Climate
Average annual rainfall at Cabo Raper (lat 46°50' S.), on the open coast of the Taitao Peninsula, is about . Going eastward, the amount of precipitation increases in the sheltered areas of the Chilean Inside Passage, being similar to that of Los Lagos Region. The average annual precipitation recorded between 1981 and 1985 at Laguna San Rafael weather station (lat 46°37' S.) was . At higher elevations, the precipitation increase is significant and is in the form of snow on the Northern Patagonian Ice Field, being recorded over of annual precipitation.
Biology
As above-noted, the park is a World Biosphere Reserve by UNESCO.
Several species of birds find shelter in the park, including black-browed albatrosses, great grebes, black-necked swans and cormorants.
Terrestrial and marine wildlife in this area also include South American gray fox, South Andean deer, Chilean dolphins, South American sea lions, marine otters, southern elephant seals, and so on. Baleen whales migrate into Gulf of Penas, and it is notable that the gulf is possibly a wintering/calving ground for the critically endangered population of Southern Right Whale.
See also
Torres del Paine National Park
Los Glaciares National Park
References
Biosphere reserves of Chile
Protected areas established in 1959
Protected areas of Aysén Region
National parks of Chile
Taitao Peninsula
1959 in Chilean law
Valdivian temperate forests
1959 establishments in Chile | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laguna%20San%20Rafael%20National%20Park |
On Microsoft Windows, a special folder is a folder that is presented to the user through an interface as an abstract concept instead of an absolute folder path. (The synonymous term shell folder is sometimes used instead.) Special folders make it possible for any application to ask the operating system where an appropriate location for certain kinds of files can be found; independently of which version or user language of Windows is being used.
In Windows Server 2003 and earlier, a folder like the "Start Menu" had a different name on non-English versions of Windows. For example, on German versions of Windows XP it is "Startmenü". However, starting with Windows Vista, all versions of Windows use the same English named folders and only display different names in the Windows Explorer. In Windows 10 the user can switch to another display language and the names of the special folders will change.
Overview
Windows uses the concept of special folders to present the contents of the storage devices connected to the computer in a fairly consistent way that frees the user from having to deal with absolute file paths, which can (and often do) change between operating system versions, and even individual installations. The idea has evolved over time, with new special folders being added in every version of Windows after their introduction in Windows 95.
Microsoft's "Compatible with Windows" software logo requires that an application make use of special folders locations to locate the appropriate folders in which documents and application settings should be stored.
A special folder can either be a reference to a physical file system directory, or a reference to a "virtual" folder. In the former case, they are analogous to environment variables—in fact, many of the environment variables that are set in a user's session are defined by where the special folders are set to point to.
Virtual folders do not actually exist on the file system; they are instead presented through Windows Explorer as a tree of folders that the user can navigate. This is known as the Shell namespace. On Windows XP systems, the root of this namespace is the Desktop virtual folder, which contains the My Documents, My Computer (Computer from Windows Vista to 8.1 and This PC from Windows 10), My Network Places (Network Neighbourhood in Windows 95 and 98) and Recycle Bin virtual folders. Some virtual folders (like Desktop) have an accompanying special folder that is a reference to a directory on the physical file system. Windows Explorer displays the combined contents of a virtual folder and its associated file system folder to the user. This can be seen in Figure 1, which shows the Folder view in Windows XP's Explorer; in the Desktop virtual folder, the four standard virtual folders can be seen, as well as an additional folder, "a folder on the desktop", which is a real folder located in the Desktop directory in the user's profile.
Some third-party programs add their own virtual folders to Windows Explorer.
List of special folders
The following tables list most of the file system and virtual folders that are available as of Windows Vista. The OS version in which each special folder was introduced is given as well. Items like %USERPROFILE% and %windir% are Windows environment variables.
File system directories
Notes:
The "Desktop" virtual folder is not the same thing as the "Desktop" special folder. The Desktop virtual folder is the root of the Windows Shell namespace, which contains other virtual folders.
"Local Application Data" differs from "Application Data" in that files located in the "Local" variant are also intended to be specific to the machine it is on. This only has relevance if the user's profile is a Roaming Profile in a Windows Server domain environment.
As with Desktop, the "My Documents" virtual folder differs from the "My Documents" special folder. If the virtual folder variant is asked for, it will appear in a file dialog as a sub-directory of the "Desktop" virtual folder, instead of the user's profile directory as it physically exists on the hard drive.
If the "My Documents" folder is moved (e.g., to a network drive), attempting to access it via the shell variable will go to the original, default location.
Virtual folders
Notes:
The "Desktop" virtual folder is not the same thing as the "Desktop" special folder. The Desktop virtual folder is the root of the Windows Shell namespace, which contains other virtual folders.
As with Desktop, the "My Documents" virtual folder differs from the "My Documents" special folder. If the virtual folder variant is asked for, it will appear in a file dialog as a sub-directory of the "Desktop" virtual folder, instead of the user's profile directory as it logically exists on the hard drive.
See also
Folder redirection
Tweak UI
Unix directory structure — similar standard for Unix
Filesystem Hierarchy Standard — similar standard for Linux
References
External links
CSIDL Values — MSDN documentation containing a complete list of all available special folders and virtual folders
— knownfolderid: An extended list of (Win7 and later) special folders with their virtual folder IDs.
Windows components | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special%20folder |
Tryin' to Get the Feeling is the third studio album by singer-songwriter Barry Manilow, released in 1975. It featured the title track, "Tryin' to Get the Feeling Again", with other hits including "New York City Rhythm", "Bandstand Boogie" (the theme from the long-running ABC series American Bandstand) and the chart topping "I Write the Songs". The album debuted on the Billboard Top 200 Chart on November 8, 1975, reaching number five in early 1976. The album was certified double platinum. Album peaked at #24 on Canada’s RPM Album Chart.
The Piano Player sculpture on the album's front cover was created by Italian artist Dino Bencini. Both front and back cover art were later parodied by Ray Stevens on the cover of his 1979 album The Feeling's Not Right Again, which contains the song “I Need Your Help, Barry Manilow.”
Track listing
Side one
"New York City Rhythm" (Barry Manilow, Marty Panzer) - 4:42
"Tryin' to Get the Feeling Again" (David Pomeranz) - 3:51
"Why Don't We Live Together" (Phil Galdston, Peter Thom) - 2:54
"Bandstand Boogie" (Charles Albertine, Barry Manilow, Bruce Sussman) - 2:49
"You're Leaving Too Soon" (Barry Manilow, Enoch Anderson) - 3:30
"She's a Star" (Barry Manilow, Enoch Anderson) - 4:16
Side two
"I Write the Songs" (Bruce Johnston) - 3:51
"As Sure as I'm Standing Here" (Adrienne Anderson, Barry Manilow) - 4:50
"A Nice Boy Like Me" (Barry Manilow, Enoch Anderson) - 3:58
"Lay Me Down" (Larry Weiss) - 4:20
"Beautiful Music" (Barry Manilow, Marty Panzer) - 4:32
CD Bonus Tracks
"I'll Make You Music" [Bonus Track on 2006 Remaster] (Adrienne Anderson, Barry Manilow) - 2:34
"Marry Me a Little" [Bonus Track on 1998 and 2006 Remaster] (Stephen Sondheim) - 3:38
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Personnel
Barry Manilow – lead and backing vocals, piano, rhythm track arrangements, string arrangements (3), "32 voices" (4)
Alan Axelrod – keyboards
Charlie Brown – guitar
Sid McGinnis – guitar, pedal steel guitar (5)
Steve Donaghey – bass
Lee Gurst – drums, percussion
Jimmy Maelen – bongos, congas, shaker
The Flashy Ladies (Debra Byrd, Lorraine Mazzola, Monica Burruss) – backing vocals
Ramona Brooks – backing vocals
Ron Dante – background vocals
Norman Harris – string arrangements (1, 8, 9), horn arrangements (9)
Gerald Alters – horn and string arrangements (2, 7)
Arif Mardin – horn arrangements (4, 11), string arrangements (6)
T.G. Conway – arrangements (9)
Joe Renzetti – string arrangements (10)
Production
Producers – Barry Manilow and Ron Dante
Engineer – Michael DeLugg
Recorded at Sigma Sound Studios (Philadelphia, PA) and Mediasound Studios (New York, NY)
Mastered at Sterling Sound (New York, NY).
Cover Design – Robert L. Heimall
Photography – Lee Gurst
Certifications
References
1975 albums
Barry Manilow albums
Arista Records albums
Albums arranged by Arif Mardin
Albums produced by Ron Dante | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tryin%27%20to%20Get%20the%20Feeling |
Ronald J. Winter (born February 6, 1946) is a former American football official who officiated in the National Football League (NFL) from the 1995 through 2013 seasons. Winter previously served as a football official for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).
Winter wore uniform No. 14 (previously No. 82, 1995–1997). His 2013 NFL officiating crew consisted of umpire Carl Paganelli, head linesman Jim Howey, line judge Gary Arthur, field judge Scott Steenson, side judge Tom Hill, and back judge Greg Steed. He was the alternate referee for Super Bowl XLIII.
Winter was one of the first NFL referees to wear eyeglasses on the field. Fred Silva was the 1st wearing glasses in 1988.
Personal
Winter was a physical education professor at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He retired at the end of the 2007–08 school year after having served for more than 38 years.
Officiating career
College career
Winter was a referee in the Big Ten Conference. His final game as a collegiate official was the 1995 Orange Bowl, when Nebraska defeated Miami 24–17 concluding a 13–0 season and winning a national championship. It was the first national championship for Cornhuskers coach Tom Osborne after 22 seasons as the coach.
NFL career
He entered the NFL as a line judge in 1995, and later was promoted to referee in 1998 after Dale Hamer returned to the head linesman position and Gary Lane returned to the side judge position.
In his first playoff assignment as a referee, Winter refereed the New York Giants and San Francisco 49ers Wild Card playoff game in January 2003. During the game back judge Scott Green did not realize that New York's Rich Seubert had lined up legally in a receiver's spot and failed to call a defensive pass interference foul against him during a failed field goal attempt, instead penalizing him for ineligible receiver downfield. Commissioner Paul Tagliabue described the situation as the most disappointing officiating blunder he had seen in his years as NFL commissioner and announced there would be changes in the officiating of field goal attempts and during the last plays of games.
Retirement
Winter announced his retirement on April 3, 2014.
References
1946 births
Living people
National Football League officials
Michigan State University alumni
Western Michigan University faculty
People from Kalkaska, Michigan
Sportspeople from Kalamazoo, Michigan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron%20Winter |
"Heroin" is a song by the Velvet Underground, released on their 1967 debut album The Velvet Underground & Nico. Written by Lou Reed in 1964, the song, which overtly depicts heroin abuse, is one of the band's most celebrated compositions. Critic Mark Deming of Allmusic writes, "While 'Heroin' hardly endorses drug use, it doesn't clearly condemn it, either, which made it all the more troubling in the eyes of many listeners." In 2004, it was ranked at number 448 on Rolling Stones list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, and was re-ranked at number 455 in 2010.
Writing and recording
In an interview with WLIR in 1972, Reed said he wrote the lyrics while working as a songwriter for Pickwick Records, a budget label that mostly released inexpensive sound-alikes.
"Heroin" was among a three-song set to be re-recorded, in May 1966 at TTG Studios in Hollywood, before being included on the final release of The Velvet Underground & Nico (along with "I'm Waiting for the Man" and "Venus in Furs"). This recording of the song is the album's second longest track on the album at 7 minutes and 12 seconds; "European Son" is 30 seconds longer.
"Heroin" begins slowly with Reed's quiet, melodic guitar, Sterling Morrison's rhythm guitar and drum patterns by Maureen Tucker, soon joined by John Cale's droning electric viola. The tempo increases gradually, until a crescendo, punctuated by Cale's viola and the more punctuated guitar strumming of Reed and Morrison. Tucker's drumming becomes faster and louder. The song then slows to the original tempo, and repeats the same pattern before ending.
The song is based on a plagal progression of D♭ and G♭ major chords (I and IV in the key of D♭ major). Like "Sister Ray", it features no bass guitar; Reed and Morrison use chords and arpeggios to create the song's trademark sound. Rolling Stone said "It doesn't take much to make a great song," alluding to the song's use of merely two chords.
Tucker stopped drumming for several seconds at the 5:17 mark, before picking up the beat again. She explains:
Personnel
Lou Reed – lead vocals, lead guitar
John Cale – electric viola
Sterling Morrison – rhythm guitar
Maureen Tucker – percussion
Alternative versions
Pickwick Records, May 1965
The earliest recorded version of "Heroin" was a solo demo by Lou Reed. This demo was recorded in May 1965 while he was working for Pickwick, subsequently mailed to himself, and rediscovered more than 50 years later.
Ludlow Street Loft, July 1965
Another version of "Heroin" was with Lou Reed, Sterling Morrison and John Cale at the band's Ludlow Street loft in July 1965. Unlike songs such as "I'm Waiting for the Man" and "Venus in Furs" which sound drastically different from their corresponding 1966 recordings on The Velvet Underground & Nico, the '65 version of "Heroin" is nearly identical to the album version in structure. On the recording, Reed performs the song on an acoustic guitar. This version of the song can be found on the 1995 compilation album, Peel Slowly and See.
Scepter Studios, April 1966
The original take of "Heroin" that was intended for release on The Velvet Underground & Nico was at Scepter Studios in New York City, April 1966. This version of the song features slightly different lyrics and a more contained, less chaotic performance. Overall, the tempo of the song is at a steadier, quicker pace. It is about a minute shorter.
One notable difference in the lyrics is Lou Reed's opening — he sings "I know just where I'm going" rather than "I don't know just where I'm going" as on the final album recording. Reed was known to do this during subsequent performances of the song as well.
The Velvet Underground and drugs
"Heroin" (along with songs like "I'm Waiting for the Man" which dealt with similar subject matter) tied the Velvet Underground with drug use in the media. Some critics declared the band were glorifying the use of drugs such as heroin. However, members of the band (Reed, in particular) frequently denied any claims that the song was advocating use of the drug. Reed's lyrics, such as they are on the majority of The Velvet Underground & Nico, were more meant to focus on providing an objective description of the topic without taking a moral stance. Critics were not the only ones who misunderstood the song's neutral tone; fans would sometimes approach the band members after a live performance and tell them they "shot up to 'Heroin'", a phenomenon that deeply disturbed Reed. As a result, Reed was somewhat hesitant to play the song with the band through much of the band's later career.
Billy Idol version
Billy Idol covered the song on his 1993 album Cyberpunk. Billy Idol's cover interpreted the song as a fast-tempo dance track, which made use of sampling and techno beats. It also included the lyric "Jesus died for somebody's sins / But not mine", from Patti Smith's introduction to "Gloria", used under license from Linda Music Corporation. Idol told Cash Box in 1993, "I was listening to some stripped-down rhythm tracks and started singing the lyrics [to "Heroin"] on top of it. It sounded like it really worked. Then I started tossing in the old Patti Smith line as a chorus. It really sounded heavy."
Idol mixed eleven versions of "Heroin", releasing them on various singles with some containing previous hits. Six computer-manipulated mixes were produced for the song's music video. One of these videos was later released on a video with his follow-up single Shock to the System.
Reception
Larry Flick, writing for Billboard, described Idol's version as a "clench-toothed reading of the Velvet Underground classic" with the use of Smith's "Gloria" adding a "spooky incantation". He added that while Idol's rock following "may grimace at his rave musings", the artist's "penchant for caustic sounds and frenetic rhythms makes this track ring remarkably true". In contrast, Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic called it "one of the worst covers ever recorded" in his review of Cyberpunk. Retrospective criticism came in April 2006 from Q Magazine, commenting that Idol's version of Heroin "sounded like it was recorded on a Casio keyboard".
Charts
Other cover versions
The song has been covered by several artists, including Mazzy Star, Human Drama, Echo & the Bunnymen, Roky Erickson, and Third Eye Blind.
Lou Reed later performed "Heroin" live in his glam rock style, featuring the guitarists Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner. The resulting thirteen-minute track is included on his live album Rock 'n' Roll Animal, released in 1974.
Pere Ubu performed "Heroin" live with Peter Laughner on vocals, a recording that was released on The Shape of Things.
References in popular culture
Denis Johnson's short story collection Jesus' Son, and the film based on it took its title from the lyrics of this song.
In Irvine Welsh's novel Trainspotting, the central character Mark Renton describes playing the Rock 'n' Roll Animal version of 'Heroin' instead of the original as 'breaking the junkie's golden rule'.
References
External links
"Heroin", on the Clipland database.
"Heroin" (V.R. Heroin mix), Chrysalis Records, SingingFool.
The Velvet Underground songs
1966 songs
Experimental rock songs
Songs written by Lou Reed
Songs about drugs
Songs about heroin
1993 singles
Billy Idol songs | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heroin%20%28The%20Velvet%20Underground%20song%29 |
Tong Sala (; ) is the principal town and administrative centre of Ko Pha Ngan, an island in the Gulf of Thailand. While Haad Rin hosts the Full Moon Party and attracts many of the island's visitors, Thong Sala is mostly used by tourists as a ferry terminal and jumping off point.
The port area has three main piers, one of which is able to handle medium- to large-sized container and passenger craft. The others accommodate smaller passenger and dive boats that serve the islands of Ko Pha Ngan, Ko Samui, and Ko Tao, and the mainland ports of Surat Thani and Chumphon.
References
External links
Populated places in Surat Thani province | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thong%20Sala |
Nyctereutes abdeslami is an extinct relative of the raccoon dog from the Pliocene. A jaw from the species was found in Morocco. Scientists have noticed that Nyctereutes abdeslami had much larger molars than other species of its genus, suggesting a larger body.
References
Prehistoric canines
Pliocene mammals of Africa
Pliocene carnivorans
Fossil taxa described in 1997
abdeslami | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyctereutes%20abdeslami |
Yuriy Mykhaylovych Dmytrulin (; ; born 10 February 1975) is a retired Ukrainian professional footballer (defender).
Career
Dmytrulin was born on 10 February 1975 in the city of Snihurivka, at the time part of the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union (in the Mykolaiv Oblast of present-day Ukraine).
He was a versatile full-back for Dynamo Kyiv since 1992 and one of the leading defenders in Ukraine along with Oleksandr Holovko, Vladyslav Vaschuk, and others. During his stay in the club Dmytrulin became a nine-times champion of Ukraine, while raising the national cup over his head six times. He was instrumental for Dynamo Kyiv to reach semi-finals of the Champion's League in 1999. Dmytrulin also capped nearly 40 games for the national side, debuting on 13 August 1996 in the game against Lithuania. His single goal came on 5 June 1999 in the game against Andorra (4:0) during the UEFA Euro 2000 qualifying campaign.
After retiring from the professional football in 2008, Dmytrulin continued to play for short while in amateurs, particularly for FC Irpin Horenychi (Kyiv Oblast) that managed to win the national amateur cup in 2008.
Career statistics
International goals
Honours
Ukrainian Premier League champion: 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004.
Ukrainian Cup winner: 1993, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2003, 2005.
Ukrainian Super Cup winner: 2004
Five times was selected to the Ukrainian Best-33, a fantasy team of the best performers for a past season.
External links
http://www.ukrsoccerhistory.com/index.aspx?page=starstext&cp=127
1975 births
Living people
People from Snihurivka
Ukrainian men's footballers
Ukraine men's international footballers
Ukraine men's under-21 international footballers
Ukrainian Premier League players
FC Dynamo Kyiv players
SC Tavriya Simferopol players
FC Shinnik Yaroslavl players
Russian Premier League players
Ukrainian expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Russia
Men's association football defenders
Footballers from Mykolaiv Oblast
FC Dynamo-2 Kyiv players
FC Dynamo-3 Kyiv players | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuriy%20Dmytrulin |
Michael G. Fitzgerald (December 19, 1950 – February 14, 2006) was a film historian and author.
Fitzgerald was a native of El Dorado, Arkansas. His best known work was 1977's Universal Pictures: A Panoramic History in Words, Pictures, and Filmographies (published by Arlington House), which chronicled the history of the studio.
He also co-authored two books with Boyd Magers, Western Women and Ladies of the Western, both from McFarland & Co., which consisted of interviews with many leading ladies of western films. He dedicated this book to his nephew, Jon Fitzgerald, who grew up watching old movies with Michael as a small boy.
Fitzgerald was also noted for co-hosting the annual Jivin' Jacks and Jills Hollywood Reunion in Studio City, California for over 20 years. Named after a dance troupe that performed in Universal films in the 1940s, the event began as a reunion for Universal actors. Fitzgerald was also an active participant in organizing the annual Memphis Film Festival from the early 2000s.
He worked as an accountant in Shreveport, Louisiana, until retiring about 2004. He died at the age of 55 from a staph infection in his foot.
Fitzgerald's family includes his father, John F. Fitzgerald, his mother Tommie Mae Fitzgerald, his brother, Jerry Wayne Fitzgerald, and nephew Jon David Fitzgerald. Some time in the late 1960s, Michael's fiancée was killed in an automobile accident and he never married.
Fitzgerald's favorite movies included musicals with Donald O'Connor, Peggy Ryan, and Gloria Jean, Abbott and Costello films, and classic horror movies such as Frankenstein (1931) and The Wolfman (1941). Fitzgerald spent hours every weekend in his screening room watching these classics on old reel to reel films.
References
1950 births
2006 deaths
20th-century American historians
American film historians
American male non-fiction writers
People from El Dorado, Arkansas
Writers from Arkansas
20th-century American male writers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20G.%20Fitzgerald |
Rockman EXE Battle Chip Stadium is an arcade game in the Mega Man Battle Network sub-series of Mega Man games from Capcom. This game was not released outside Japan. Under the name of "Battle Station", the arcade game was featured a number of times in episodes of the Rockman EXE Beast+ anime series.
Gameplay
The game features much of the same gameplay found in the Battle Network series and was updated near monthly with new characters and attacks, as well as updating the hardware. Machines could be linked to allow players to face each other in NetBattles, showing their abilities over NetNavis. NetNavis featured included the so-called "Link Navis" from Rockman EXE 6, with the inclusion of other, exclusive NetNavis like Colonel, Falzar-Beast Forte and Dark Rockman.
After inserting the play cost of 100 yen, battling was started by slotting up to three merchandise Battle Chips into the machine per turn. Attacking was engaged by pressing a button, with the chips inserted having a chance of being successful, unsuccessful or critical (inflicting extra damage); this was made so to not make the game too easy by using potentially overpowered chips. Winning a round of the game dispensed a new, randomly picked Battle Chip from stock contained inside the arcade machine. Battle Chips given as prizes changed over time in 'volumes' and later versions/revisions of the game; not surprisingly, most of the Battle Chip range was obtainable from the game, including an amount of exclusives. Battle Chips won during play could also have a different colour casing.
Although most characters were playable, another way to use Battle Chips was slotting in a different kind of chip, the Navi Data Chip, through a separately marked chip port. Navi Data Chips could be leveled by gaining experience inside the arcade game or through using the LiNK PET_EX from the Beast lineup of merchandise. Using a Navi Data Chip allowed play with a leveled and hence stronger version of that Navi, when compared to the default in character select, or characters not present on the roster. Levels in the PET were proportional to levels in the game and in use with specific features in Battle Network 6.
The Program Advance system seen in the Rockman EXE series was expanded upon greatly for Battle Chip Stadium, with over 125 different sequences available. Use of Program Advances were governed by the same rules as all other chips, in whether they were a successful attack or not. Program Advances in Battle Chip Stadium were grouped in Mega-, Giga- and Tera- classes. To facilitate for performing these combination's, Capcom and Takara Tomy released specialized booster packs for the game containing specific Battle Chips in order to perform specific Program Advances.
External links
http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/game/docs/20060116/whf22.jpg
http://www.batosuta.net/ (Official site, dead link) (archive)
References
Role-playing video games
Japan-exclusive video games
Arcade video games
Arcade-only video games
Battle Chip Stadium
Tactical role-playing video games
2005 video games
Video games developed in Japan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockman%20EXE%20Battle%20Chip%20Stadium |
FPTV (short for Festival Portuguese Television) is a Canadian Category B Portuguese language specialty channel. The channel's licensee is 1395047 Ontario Inc., a company founded by Frank Alvarez, in 2001.
FPTV broadcasts a variety of foreign and locally produced programs aimed at the Portuguese speaking communities in Canada from Portugal, Brazil, and Portugal's former African Colonies. Programs include sports, news, telenovelas, and more. The majority of foreign programs are sourced from SIC Internacional, one of the most popular private networks in Portugal.
History
In November 2000, Frank Alvarez was granted approval from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to launch Festival Portuguese Television, described at the time as ''"a national ethnic Category 2 specialty television service targeting the Portuguese community, of which a significant source of foreign programming will be SIC International."
The channel launched on September 7, 2001 on Rogers Cable in parts of Ontario.
References
External links
SIC Internacional
Brazilian Canadian
Digital cable television networks in Canada
Multicultural and ethnic television in Canada
Television channels and stations established in 2001
Portuguese-Canadian culture | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FPTV |
This One's For You is the fourth studio album by American singer-songwriter Barry Manilow released in 1976. The album went 2× platinum and yielded the hits "This One's for You", "Weekend in New England", "Looks Like We Made It", and the original version of "Daybreak". The album debuted on the Billboard Top LPs chart on August 21, 1976, peaking at number six in 1977.
Track listing
All music by Barry Manilow; all lyrics by Adrienne Anderson; except where indicated
Side one
"This One's for You" (lyrics: Marty Panzer) - 3:25
"Daybreak" - 3:10
"You Oughta Be Home with Me" - 3:13
"Jump Shout Boogie" (lyrics: Bruce Sussman) - 3:03
"Weekend in New England" (Randy Edelman) - 3:43
Side two
"Riders to the Stars" - 3:47
"Let Me Go" (lyrics: Marty Panzer) - 3:58
"Looks Like We Made It" (music: Richard Kerr; lyrics: Will Jennings) - 3:33
"Say the Words" (lyrics: Barry Manilow) - 2:53
"All the Time" (lyrics: Marty Panzer) - 3:15
"(Why Don't You) See the Show Again" - 4:32
CD bonus tracks (2006)
"Don't Throw It All Away" - 3:22
"Can't Go Back Anymore" - 3:20
"This Is Fine" - 3:14
"I Really Do Write the Songs" - 2:25
Personnel
Barry Manilow - vocals, piano, arrangements
Dennis Farac, Richard Resnicoff, David Spinozza, Jerry Friedman - guitar
Steven Donaghey, Will Lee - bass guitar
Alan Axelrod, Paul Shaffer - keyboards
Lee Gurst, Ronnie Zito - drums
Carlos Martin - percussion
Debra Byrd, Lady Flash, Monica Burruss, Ron Dante - backing vocals
Gerald Atlers, Charlie Calello, Van McCoy, Dick Behrke - orchestration
Technical
Michael DeLugg - recording engineer
Lee Gurst - cover design, photography
Certifications
References
Barry Manilow albums
1976 albums
Arista Records albums
Albums produced by Ron Dante | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This%20One%27s%20for%20You%20%28Barry%20Manilow%20album%29 |
"When a Man Loves a Woman" is a song written by Calvin Lewis and Andrew Wright and first recorded by Percy Sledge in 1966 at Norala Sound Studio in Sheffield, Alabama. It made number one on both the Billboard Hot 100 and R&B singles charts. Country singer John Wesley Ryles had a minor hit with his version of the song in 1976 while singer and actress Bette Midler recorded the song 14 years later and had a Top 40 hit with her version in 1990. In 1991, Michael Bolton recorded the song and his version peaked at number one on both the Billboard Hot 100 chart and the Billboard Adult Contemporary Singles chart.
Percy Sledge original version
Background
According to Dan Penn, the song was initially recorded by Percy Sledge at Rick Hall's FAME Studios at Muscle Shoals, before being re-recorded at the nearby Norala Studios owned by Quin Ivy. According to Quin Ivy, Percy Sledge was introduced to him by his friend Leroy Wright in Ivy's Tune Town record store. Wright convinced him to audition Sledge and his band the Esquires. The sidemen for the recording included Spooner Oldham, Farfisa organ; Marlin Greene, guitar; Albert "Junior" Lowe, electric bass and Roger Hawkins, drums. Also on the session were Jack Peck, trumpet, Billy Cofield and Don “Rim” Pollard, tenor sax, and Jerry Eddleman, Jeannie Greene, Sandy Posey and Hershel Wiggington, backing vocals. Andrew Wright and Calvin Lewis did not play on the record. Rick Hall arranged a distribution deal with Atlantic Records, but Jerry Wexler asked that the song be re-recorded because the horns were out of tune. According to musician David Hood, "They went back in the studio and changed the horns, got different horn players to play on it. But then the tapes got mixed up and Atlantic put out their original version. So that's the hit."
Reception
Released by Atlantic Records in April 1966, Sledge's recording reached number one on both the Billboard Hot 100 and R&B singles charts, becoming the first number 1 hit recorded in Muscle Shoals. It is also one of seven number 1 hits to debut on the Billboard Hot 100 at number 100. The single was also a top ten hit in the UK reaching number four on its initial release and ultimately peaking at number two in 1987 on the UK Singles Chart after it was featured in a Levi's Jeans commercial. The Percy Sledge version is listed 53rd in Rolling Stone'''s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Also in 1987, it was reissued in the US to promote the soundtrack album for Oliver Stone's film Platoon.
Authorship
Calvin Lewis and Andrew Wright were members of the Esquires, a band in Sheffield, Alabama fronted by singer Percy Sledge. According to Wright, "We were set to play a Friday night dance, and we were practicing ... I was messing around on the organ when this riff came up out of nowhere. There was no one in the club but us. I told Calvin to go home and write some words." The next night, they rehearsed the emerging song with Sledge, changed it around, and soon afterwards auditioned the song for local businessman and radio DJ Quin Ivy. He liked the song but suggested that some of the words be changed to give a more positive message. Wright said, "We kept some of the phrases, worked on it for several weeks, and spent quite a bit of time in the studio."
Although the writing of the song is credited to Lewis and Wright, Sledge later said that he should have received a co-writing credit. In one story, Sledge said that one night he was upset over a broken relationship and asked Lewis and Wright to play a slow blues over which he improvised lyrics describing his emotions; Quin Ivy was at the show and asked the band to refine the lyrics so that it could be recorded. Sledge said that he allowed Lewis and Wright to take the writing credits because they gave him the opportunity "to sing his heart out".
In another interview, Sledge said:When I wrote the song at first, it was called "Why Did You Leave Me Baby". And I changed it from that to "When a Man Loves a Woman". I just reversed it. Quin told me that if I was to write some lyrics around that melody and the expression I'd put into "Why Did You Leave Me Baby", he believed it would've been a hit record. He was one of the top disc jockeys at that time. Sure enough, he asked me if I had any lyrics for that. He said, "That's it! Write a story around that title! What a song that would be with that feeling you had!" It was a song that was meant to be. It wasn't just what I had done; it was the musicians, the producer, the background singers, the right time.
Charts
Michael Bolton version
Background
"When a Man Loves a Woman" was covered by singer Michael Bolton for his seventh studio album, Time, Love & Tenderness (1991). His version of the song reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 and Adult Contemporary charts, becoming Bolton's second US number-one hit. Bolton also received a Grammy Award for this song. This version has the distinction of being the last number one song to chart on the old Billboard Hot 100 charting system that relied on sales and airplay reports before switching over to Nielsen SoundScan. With the Percy Sledge original having reached number one previously, Bolton's version made it the seventh song to top the Hot 100 as recorded by multiple artists.
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Release history
Other cover versions
American Country singer John Wesley Ryles covered the song for his 1977 self-titled studio album, which also included a cover of "Tell It Like It Is". Ryles's version was a minor hit, reaching Number 72 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart.
In 1968, Croatian singer Josipa Lisac covered the song.
In 1970, the Pacific Gas & Electric rock band covered the song on the album “Are You Ready?”
In 1979, American actress and singer Bette Midler covered the song for the soundtrack of The Rose, which tells a fictionalized version of Janis Joplin's life story. Midler's version was released as a single the following year and peaked at Number 35 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Australian rock singer Jimmy Barnes released a version of "When a Man Loves a Woman" as the lead single from his 1988 live album Barnestorming. Barnes' version peaked at number 3 on the ARIA Charts and number 11 on the Official New Zealand Music Chart's top singles list.
English singer Joe Cocker covered the song for the 1989 live album Soul Session Live'', by "James Brown & Friends". Though not released as a single, Cocker's rendition was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best R&B Song in 1990.
See also
List of number-one adult contemporary singles of 1991 (U.S.)
References
External links
Percy Sledge article on The Standard Report
"When a Man Loves a Woman" in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs
1966 singles
1991 singles
Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles
Cashbox number-one singles
Michael Bolton songs
Percy Sledge songs
John Wesley Ryles songs
Jack Grayson songs
Jimmy Barnes songs
Bette Midler songs
Pacific Gas & Electric (band) songs
Rhythm and blues ballads
Pop ballads
Narvel Felts songs
RPM Top Singles number-one singles
Atlantic Records singles
Columbia Records singles
1966 songs
1960s ballads | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When%20a%20Man%20Loves%20a%20Woman%20%28song%29 |
A close order formation is a military tactical formation in which soldiers are close together and regularly arranged for the tactical concentration of force. It was used by heavy infantry in ancient warfare, as the basis for shield wall and phalanx tactics, to multiply their effective weight of arms by their weight of numbers. In the Late Middle Ages, Swiss pikemen and German Landsknechts used close order formations that were similar to ancient phalanxes.
Around the American Civil War (1861–1865), such organizations of soldiers became uncommon since improvements in firearms and artillery had made any such dense formation increasingly hazardous and less effective. The technological concentration of increased firepower to fewer soldiers had rendered the close order formation obsolete by the end of the 19th century. Modern infantry now use skirmish order, which is effectively the opposite of close order.
Antiquity
Images from the Sumerian kingdom from the 3rd millennium BC clearly show men with spears in close order formation. That tradition continued in the ancient world with the phalanx formation of the Greeks and later the Ancient Macedonians. The Greek phalanx fought with the aspis, a large round bronze faced shield and a large spear. The frontage per man was the width of the shield (about 3 ft), and the normal formation depth was four to eight men.
The later Macedonian phalanx used a smaller shield but replaced the spear with a sarissa, a long pike used in two hands. The normal frontage per man remained the same, but the normal depth grew to 16 ranks. An innovation was the introduction of a "locked shield order" (synaspismos), with a frontage of only about 18 in. The Roman legions also fought in close order by using the pilum and the gladius on a similar frontage per man to the phalanx.
Middle Ages
In the early Middle Ages, infantry used the shieldwall, a formation in which shields were held edge-to-edge or overlapped. Close order was routinely used by infantry in the later Middle Ages, the intention being to avoid the enemy penetrating and disrupting their formation. A common literary image was that an apple should not be able to pass between their lances.
In the 15th century, the Swiss developed pike tactics that used closely packed deep columns. A reconstruction of the deployment of Zürich forces in 1443 gives a formation 56 men wide by 20 deep, the formation having a width of 168 ft and a depth of 140 ft. The Swiss main formation at the Battle of Morat consisted of 10,000 men, and experiments have estimated its area of as little as 60 m by 60 m. The knightly cavalry of the Middle Ages could also fight in close order, stirrup to stirrup.
Growth in firepower
16th century
From 1490 to 1520 saw the emergence of a consensus in military thinking that armies should be increasingly ordered on the battlefield and that neat, rectilinear formations were the key. The uniform bodies of pikes would be ordered based on an area occupied by a soldier of three paces frontage and seven paces depth, the soldier being positioned at the centre of the rectangle. Pikes did not stand alone on the battlefield, however, and new formations of horns or sleeves of shot were developed to support the pike blocks with firearms. In the late 16th century, a system called countermarching was developed to enable an exchange of ranks of shooters. That led to the development of thinner formations and set tacticians on the road to developing the linear fire tactics of the 18th century.
On horseback, the old knightly tactics slowly gave way to new tactics involving firearms, which led to the development of pistol-armed cavalry known as reiters, who specialised in manoeuvring in deep, close formations and practiced a tactic known as the caracole in which successive ranks of men rode forward, shot and retired to reload.
17th and 18th centuries
In the 17th century, European armies expanded their use of firearms, which were at first matchlock weapons like arquebuses. They were later supplanted by unrifled muskets fired by a flintlock mechanism, which became the weapon of choice because it could be fired relatively rapidly (six shots per minute). Because of their poor accuracy, such weapons were typically used in line formations in which a commanding officer would order volley fire to increase the chances of inflicting casualties on the enemy. Such tactics were used throughout the 18th century. Line formations were, however, not without risks. Line commanders and other field officers were often highly visible targets and became the target of sniper attacks as rifling technology, which significantly increased the range and accuracy of firearms at the expense of a substantially reduced rate of fire, began to see increased use in the late 18th century. Fortifications were designed to break up formations by reducing the effectiveness of volley fire or to expose them to enfilading fire. In the latter, an enemy that could fire down the length of a line with an inaccurate weapon or cannons loaded with anti-personnel grapeshot greatly increased their chances of hitting something.
Another formation that saw use was the infantry square. Designed to defend against cavalry charges, an infantry battalion would form a square with the unit's standard in the center, along with reserve forces. That formation enabled the defenders to fire on cavalry on all sides of the formation although there was some risk that fire from one square might reach other squares formed nearby. The effectiveness of a square depended on the ability of the infantry to hold their ground against cavalry charges.
Eclipse
In the 19th century, advances in firearms technology rendered the use of close formations obsolete. The widespread use of rifled artillery and the advent of reliable breech-loading weapons altered the tactical landscape. These weapons had a significantly increased fire rate compared to muzzleloaders, and technological improvements also simplified the targeting of large, mobile bodies of enemy forces. This, coupled with improved infantry weapons and automatic weapons such as the Gatling gun and the Maxim Gun, made close formations incredibly costly. A major exception was in the Anglo-Zulu War after the Battle of Isandlwana. After that humiliating defeat, the British army found that close-order infantry formations were necessary to concentrate firepower to break the Zulu warriors' formidable massed charges.
One of the last occasions involving the deployment in the face of the enemy of substantial numbers of British troops in close order occurred at the Battle of Magersfontein during the, South African War. The Scottish Brigade, consisting of 3,500 men shoulder to shoulder in 90 lines with a front of only 45 yards, moved forward in pre-dawn darkness to attack the entrenched Boer positions. Two of the four Highland regiments kept their tight formation with long ropes carried by the left hand man of each file. The result was a rout of the brigade after nine hours fighting, with nearly a quarter of the Scottish soldiers killed or wounded.
In peace-time the major European armies persisted in training their infantry in close-order tactics that were to ensure very heavy casualties in August 1914. During the Battle of the Frontiers and the Battle of the Sambre the French attacked in shoulder to shoulder masses while at the Battle of Mons the German regiments went forward "as if advancing on a parade ground".
Military parades
Though of no military value under modern conditions, military parades still feature soldiers standing and marching in close order formations for ceremonial purposes. Many armies maintain special ceremonial units, whose soldiers hold rigorous training in holding such formations, including armies established in the 20th century, which themselves have no experience of using such formations on the battlefield.
See also
Night attack formation
Phalanx formation
Shieldwall
References
External links
Moving 17th. Century Soldiers Website devoted to 17th. century drill which explains "close order" as it relates to pike and musket formation from the English Civil War era.
Tactical formations of the Napoleonic Wars
Tactical formations | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close%20order%20formation |
"I'm Waiting for the Man" is a song by American rock band the Velvet Underground. Written by Lou Reed, it was first released on their 1967 debut album, The Velvet Underground & Nico. The lyrics describe a man's efforts to obtain heroin in Harlem.
In various reviews, it is described as "tough garage rock", "proto-punk classic", and "one of the all-time classic rock songs", with renditions by a number of artists.
Recording
Along with "Venus in Furs" and "Heroin", "I'm Waiting for the Man" was recorded in May 1966 at TTG Studios while the band was staying in Hollywood. It has been musically described as garage rock, proto-punk, and hard rock. The lyrics describe a man's efforts to obtain heroin. Despite the song's title, the lyrics refer to "my man" rather than "the man" throughout.
Reception and legacy
In a song review for AllMusic, Dave Thompson called it "one of the all-time classic rock songs... Over chunky guitar, clunking piano, and jackhammer drums, Reed half-sings, half-intones what he would once describe as a love song about a man and the subway." He notes that it has been recorded by numerous artists, including "David Bowie and the Stooges [who] both cut fascinating takes on the song". Most members of the Velvet Underground have performed the song based on their own interpretations.
In 2004 Rolling Stone magazine ranked the song at number 159 on its list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. It was moved to number 161 in 2010, and finally re-ranked at number 81 in 2021. The magazine noted:
In 2012 Consequence of Sound included it in their list of the 100 greatest top songs of all time, ranking it number 65. In lists ranking the greatest songs from the 1960s, NME ranked it number 6, while Pitchfork placed it at number 27. Based on the song's appearances in professional rankings and listings, the aggregate website Acclaimed Music lists "I'm Waiting for the Man" as the 8th most acclaimed song of 1967, the 39th most acclaimed song of the 1960s and the 105th most acclaimed song in history. In 2012, Paste ranked the song number three on their list of the 20 greatest Velvet Underground songs, and in 2021, The Guardian placed the song at number nine on their list of the 30 greatest Velvet Underground songs.
Personnel
Source:
Lou Reed – vocals, lead guitar
John Cale – piano, bass guitar
Sterling Morrison – rhythm guitar
Maureen Tucker – drums, tambourine
Andy Warhol – producer
Tom Wilson – post-production supervisor
David Bowie
In December 1966, David Bowie's manager, Kenneth Pitt, acquired an acetate of the then-unreleased The Velvet Underground & Nico and presented it to Bowie. Upon hearing "I'm Waiting for the Man", he went to his band at the time, the Buzz, and told them they were going to learn it: "We learned 'Waiting for the Man' right then and there and we were playing it on stage within a week." He later recalled in an 2003 interview with Vanity Fair: "Amusingly, not only was I to cover a Velvets song before anyone else in the world, I actually did it before the album came out. Now that's the essence of Mod."
Bowie first attempted to record "I'm Waiting for the Man" in the studio during the sessions for his 1967 debut album, and later properly recorded it with another band, the Riot Squad, on April 5, 1967. In his book Rebel Rebel, Chris O'Leary notes the subpar quality of the recording, writing that it "sounded as if they were making do with what they'd found in a school music room." This version later appeared on the Riot Squad compilations The Last Chapter: Mods & Sods (2012) and The Toy Soldier EP. In this version, Bowie misinterpreted the song's subject matter, containing the line "I'm just looking for a good friendly behind" instead of "I'm just looking for a dear, dear friend of mine". Tony Visconti later told biographer Nicholas Pegg: "A very young David Bowie didn't yet know that 'the man' in Harlem parlance meant the drug dealer. So he naturally assumed it was a gay encounter involving money."
Bowie performed "I'm Waiting for the Man", often titled as "Waiting for the Man", for BBC radio shows in 1972 (one recording appearing on 2000's Bowie at the Beeb) and frequently on the Ziggy Stardust Tour (one recording appearing on 1994's Santa Monica '72). He would further perform it on the 1976 Isolar Tour and the 1990 Sound+Vision Tour. While his 1967 recording followed Reed's original chord structure, Bowie made subtle changes to his live performances. He performed the song with Reed at his 50th birthday bash in 1997. David Buckley writes that Bowie's 1977 song "Heroes" was influenced by Reed's writing.
Footnotes
References
Sources
1967 songs
American garage rock songs
American hard rock songs
The Velvet Underground songs
Songs written by Lou Reed
Songs about heroin
Songs about New York City
David Bowie songs
The Stooges songs | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m%20Waiting%20for%20the%20Man |
The Montvale Public Schools are a comprehensive community public school district that serves students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade in Montvale, in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.
As of the 2018–19 school year, the district, comprising two schools, had an enrollment of 980 students and 88.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.1:1.
The district is classified by the New Jersey Department of Education as being in District Factor Group "I", the second-highest of eight groupings. District Factor Groups organize districts statewide to allow comparison by common socioeconomic characteristics of the local districts. From lowest socioeconomic status to highest, the categories are A, B, CD, DE, FG, GH, I and J.
Public school students from Montvale in ninth through twelfth grades attend Pascack Hills High School along with students from neighboring Woodcliff Lake. The school is part of the Pascack Valley Regional High School District, which also serves students from Hillsdale and River Vale. Pascack Hills High School was the 7th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 339 schools statewide, in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2014 cover story on the state's "Top Public High Schools", after being ranked 18th in 2012 out of 328 schools. As of the 2018–19 school year, the high school had an enrollment of 842 students and 70.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 12.0:1.
Schools
Schools in the district (with 2018–19 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are:
Memorial Elementary School with 519 students in grades pre-K through 4
David Collier, principal
Fieldstone Middle School with 451 students in grades 5 to 8
Gina McCormack, principal
Administration
Core members of the district's administration are:
Dr. Darren A. Petersen, superintendent
Andrea Wasserman, business administrator and board secretary
Board of education
The district's board of education, with seven members, sets policy and oversees the fiscal and educational operation of the district through its administration. As a Type II school district, the board's trustees are elected directly by voters to serve three-year terms of office on a staggered basis, with three seats up for election each year held (since 2012) as part of the November general election.
References
External links
Montvale Public Schools
Montvale Public Schools, National Center for Education Statistics
Pascack Valley Regional High School District
Montvale, New Jersey
New Jersey District Factor Group I
School districts in Bergen County, New Jersey | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montvale%20Public%20Schools |
311 may refer to:
311 (number), a natural number
AD 311, a year of the Julian calendar, in the fourth century AD
311 BC, a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar
311 (band), an American band
311 (album), band 311's self-titled album
311 (DSM-IV), DSM-IV code for "Depressive Disorder Not Otherwise Specified"
311 Boyz, a teen gang in Las Vegas, Nevada
311 Claudia, a main-belt asteroid
3-1-1, the telephone number of local information service operated by some local governments in the United States and Canada
3-1-1 for Carry-Ons, a procedure enacted by the United States Transportation Security Administration
311 earthquake, the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami off Japan
311, the area code of a common fictitious telephone number (311-555-2368) used in early Bell System ads and in fiction
See also
Class 311 (disambiguation)
3/11 (disambiguation) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/311 |
An unbirthday (originally written un-birthday) is an event celebrated on all days of the year which are not a person's birthday. It is a neologism which first appeared in Lewis Carroll's 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass. The concept gave rise to "The Unbirthday Song" in the 1951 animated feature film Alice in Wonderland.
In Through the Looking-Glass, Humpty Dumpty is wearing a cravat (which Alice at first mistakes for a belt) which he says was given to him as an "un-birthday present" by the White King and Queen. He then has Alice calculate the number of unbirthdays in a year.
In the Disney animated film Alice in Wonderland, Alice stumbles upon the Mad Hatter, the March Hare and the Dormouse having an unbirthday party and singing "The Unbirthday Song" (music and lyrics by Mack David, Al Hoffman and Jerry Livingston). Alice at first does not understand what an unbirthday is; when the Mad Hatter explains it to her, she realises it is her unbirthday as well, and receives an unbirthday cake from the Mad Hatter. The scene from the film combines the idea of an unbirthday introduced in Through the Looking-Glass with the "Mad Tea Party" described in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Later in the film; the Mad Hatter mentions this unbirthday party when he is summoned as a witness at Alice's trial. The King of Hearts realises that it is the Queen of Hearts' unbirthday as well, and the trial is abruptly halted for celebration.
The unbirthday party is also the subject of a 1951 comic released to coincide with the film. The comic version is substantially longer (32 pages) than the scene in the animated film, and has Alice being invited to the unbirthday party of Tweedledum and Tweedledee (who are not actually present at the unbirthday party). Humpty Dumpty is a character in the comic version, although not in the manner in which he appears in Through the Looking-Glass.
References
External links
Through the Looking-Glass at Wikisource
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Unofficial observances
Neologisms
Birthdays
1870s neologisms | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unbirthday |
Donald Andrew McClurkin Jr. (born November 9, 1959) is an American gospel singer and minister. He has won three Grammy Awards, ten Stellar Awards, two BET Awards, two Soul Train Awards, one Dove Award and one NAACP Image Awards. He is one of the top selling gospel artists, selling over 10 million albums worldwide. Variety dubbed McClurkin as a "Reigning King of Urban Gospel".
Early life
McClurkin was born in Copiague, New York. When he was eight years old, his two-year-old brother was hit and killed by a speeding driver. Soon after the loss, McClurkin experienced family turmoil due to the loss of his brother, and shortly thereafter, he was a victim of childhood sexual abuse at the hands of his great uncle, and years after that by his great uncle's son. Two of his sisters dealt with substance abuse problems, and that's when the young McClurkin found solace in his going to a church; and, also through an aunt of his who sang background vocals with gospel musician Andraé Crouch. By the time that he was a teenager, he had formed the McClurkin Singers, and later he formed another group, the New York Restoration Choir, with recordings from as early as 1975.
Ministry
He was hired, as an associate minister, at Marvin Winans' Perfecting Church in Detroit, Michigan, in 1989. McClurkin served as an assistant to Winans for over a decade.
In 1991, a sharp pain and swelling, followed by internal bleeding led, he says, to his being diagnosed as having leukemia. The doctor suggested immediate treatment, but McClurkin, who was then 31, decided to take his own advice. "I tell people to believe that God will save you," he says, "[and] I had to turn around and practice the very thing that I preached."
He was ordained and sent out by the Winans in 2001 to establish Perfecting Faith Church in Freeport, New York, where he is now Senior Pastor.
Music
A friendship with a Warner Alliance executive resulted in his signing to the label for his 1996 self-titled LP, with producers Bill Maxwell, Mark Kibble of Take 6, Cedric and Victor Caldwell plus Andraé Crouch. The disc, which featured the perennially popular "Stand," went gold shortly after being publicly lauded by Oprah Winfrey. At the 48th Annual Grammy Awards, he won in the category Traditional Soul Gospel Album, for "Psalms, Hymns & Spiritual Songs". McClurkin is best known for his hit songs "Stand" and "We Fall Down" which were played in heavy rotation on both Gospel and Urban radio. His three solo albums have topped the Billboard charts.
Dovetailing off the success of his near double-platinum selling album,"Live in London and More" McClurkin released "Psalms,Hymns and Spiritual Songs" in 2005 and "We All Are One: Live In Detroit" in 2009 which also topped Billboard charts across various musical genres. McClurkin's love for people and desire to share gospel music, globally, is the reason he includes a language medley: Japanese, Russian, Spanish, and Dutch in most live performances.
Radio and television
Tom Versen and Tony Sisti of T&T Creative signed McClurkin to a radio syndication deal with advertising giant Dial-Global and syndicator Gary Bernstein. T&T Creative provided a mobile recording studio in Pastor Donnie's church that he can also take on the road. He is quoted as saying, "As much as I love music and singing, I really love doing radio and the direct feedback I get from my listeners all over the country. I never thought I would be having this much fun doing radio and I could touch and impact so many beautiful people."[19]
In 2009, he also broadcast his own television series, Perfecting Your Faith, on cable television. His television appearances include Good Morning America, CBS’s The Early Show, The View, Girlfriends and The Parkers. He has also been featured in such films as The Gospel and The Fighting Temptations. He played a Single Man or a Church Pastor.
Personal life
McClurkin, in 2002, told a Christian website that, due to sexual abuse and porn, he had struggled with homosexuality. "McClurkin believes he "turned" gay because of childhood molestation and traumatic exposure to pornography, but was able to reverse his orientation through will and prayer." He also said that he had rejected that "lifestyle": "I’ve been through this and have experienced God’s power to change my lifestyle. I am delivered and I know God can deliver others, too."
McClurkin's listing as a headlining performer for then-Senator Barack Obama's 2008 Presidential campaign stirred controversy because of his views on homosexuality. As a result, McClurkin was removed from the performance roster but he still performed at one of the concerts. In August 2013, McClurkin was disinvited from the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom as his ex-gay status was seen as disruptive. In 2015 he spoke out against same-sex marriage in response to the U.S. Supreme Court making it legal nationwide.
In 2016, it was reported that McClurkin had entered a relationship with CCM singer-songwriter Nicole C. Mullen. In 2021, McClurkin in an interview on TV One's Unsung, spoke about his relationship with Mullen, explaining that he had never had a long-term relationship and he believes that this, as well as his previous relationships with men and women had made him oblivious about what women want in a relationship. He also remarked that he is concerned that he may never marry.
McClurkin has a son, Matthew, born in 2000. McClurkin is also related to singer Marsha McClurkin of the short-lived new jack swing group Abstrac.
In 2018, McClurkin survived a serious road accident after he lost consciousness while driving.
Discography
Studio albums
Live albums
Compilations
Singles
Videography
Live in London and More... (VHS) (2001)
Again (VHS) (2004)
Psalms, Hymns & Spiritual Songs (VHS) (2005)
Music Videos
"Stand"
"We Fall Down"
"The Prayer"
"Ooh Child"
"I Need You"
Filmography
Film
1998: The Prince of Egypt (wrote and sang "I Am" & "Humanity")
2003: The Fighting Temptations
2004: Apollo at 70: A Hot Night in Harlem
2004: The Donnie McClurkin Story: From Darkness to Light
2005: The Gospel
Television
2002: 17th Annual Stellar Gospel Music Awards – co-host
2004: 19th Annual Stellar Gospel Music Awards – co-host
2005: 20th Annual Stellar Gospel Music Awards – co-host
2006: 21st Annual Stellar Gospel Music Awards – co-host
2006: An Evening of Stars: Tribute to Stevie Wonder (documentary)
2009: 24th Annual Stellar Gospel Music Awards – co-host
2010–15: BET's Sunday Best – judge
2010: 25th Annual Stellar Gospel Music Awards – host
Accolades
Over his storied career, McClurkin has won a number of awards, including three Grammy Awards, two BET Awards and two Soul Train Music Awards.
References
External links
The Donnie McClurkin Show: radio broadcast
Exclusive Interview on BlackGospel.com (October 2008): Interview
Música de Donnie McClurkin
20th-century American singers
21st-century American singers
1959 births
American gospel singers
American Pentecostals
Church of God in Christ pastors
Grammy Award winners
Living people
Members of the Church of God in Christ
People from Copiague, New York
People self-identified as ex-gay
Singers from New York (state)
Urban contemporary gospel musicians | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donnie%20McClurkin |
The Pentlatch or Pentl’ach or Puntlatch or Puntledge language is a Salishan language that was spoken on Canada's Vancouver Island in a small area between Comox and Nanaimo, British Columbia. The Pentlatch people formerly numbered at least 3,000 with at least 90 settlements in the area. The language became extinct in the 1940s after the death of the last fluent speaker in 1940.
There is one known semi-speaker (if not full speaker, source unclear), Qualicum Elder Bill Recalma. He and his son Jessie have been working together to help revive it. The Pentlatch celebrated a ceremony celebrating the language's reawakening due to their efforts.
Variants
The name of this people and their language survives on the modern map as that of the Puntledge River, the Comox Valley locality of Puntledge and the name of the Pentledge 2 Indian Reserve, now allocated to the K'ómoks First Nation band government.
References
External links
Pentlatch bibliography from the Yinka Dene Language Institute
"Pentlatch" at ethnologue.com
"Pentlatch" at native-languages.org
Extinct languages of North America
Coast Salish languages
Mid Vancouver Island
Languages extinct in the 1940s
1940s disestablishments in North America | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentlatch%20language |
The Beazley Medals are two annual awards awarded by the School Curriculum and Standards Authority (and previously the Curriculum Council of Australia). The award is the highest profile and most prestigious academic award for secondary students in Australia. From 2001 onwards, two medals have been awarded each year — one to the top TEE student (ACE from 2010 onward) and one to the top vocational education and training (VET) student.
The medal was first awarded in 1984 and is named after former Federal Education Minister Kim Beazley Sr. In 2000, a new student award, the Excellence in Vocational Studies Award, was introduced for the student who demonstrated the best results in a secondary school vocational program. The award was renamed the Beazley Medal: VET in the following year to reflect its equal status.
Past winners
Beazley Medal: TEE/WACE
1984: Jason George Cyster, Guildford Grammar School
1985: Patrick Hon-Shing Lai, Christ Church Grammar School
1986: Sherwant Singh Gill, Lynwood Senior High School
1987: David John Holthouse, Wanneroo Senior High School
1988: Eu-Jin Ang, Christ Church Grammar School
1989: Howard Ho-Wah Yip, Churchlands Senior High School
1990: Rae-Lin Huang, Hollywood Senior High School
1991: Graham Alistair Thom, Gosnells Senior High School
1992: Jonathan Paget, Churchlands Senior High School
1993: Bertrand Sze Yu Lee, Applecross Senior High School
1994: Bonnie Kar Yee Chu, Presbyterian Ladies' College
1995: Anthea Lee Prestage, St Hilda's Anglican School for Girls
1996: David Chen Liaw, Christ Church Grammar School
1997: Mamie Tong, Penrhos College
1998: Michael Molinari (TEE), Christ Church Grammar School - shared with Michael Gibson
1999: Neil Rabinowitz (TEE), Carmel School
2000: Anthony Phillips (TEE), Hale School
2001: Antony Moser (TEE), Hale School
2002: Jolene Carmen Yap, (TEE), St Hilda's Anglican School for Girls
2003: Dougal Maclaurin (TEE), Hale School
2004: Carryn Vincec (TEE), Perth College
2005: Adrian Khoo (TEE), Scotch College
2006: Chris Mofflin (TEE), Hale School
2007: Neil Thomas (TEE), Wesley College
2008: Binu Jayawardena (TEE), Hale School
2009: Hayley Anderson (TEE), Churchlands Senior High School
2010: Michael Taran (WACE), Perth Modern School
2011: Calum Braham (WACE), Trinity College
2012: Katie Dyer (WACE), St Hilda's Anglican School for Girls
2013: Katerina Chua (WACE), St Hilda's Anglican School for Girls
2014: Jamin Wu (WACE), Perth Modern School
2015: Hui Min Tay (WACE), Perth Modern School
2016: Caitlin Revell (WACE), Perth Modern School
2017: Isabel Longbottom (WACE), Rossmoyne Senior High School
2018: Pooja Ramesh (WACE), Perth Modern School
2019: Charlotte "Charlie" Singleton (WACE), Methodist Ladies' College
2020: Josh Green (WACE), Christ Church Grammar School
2021: Lawrence Nheu (WACE), Perth Modern School
2022: Jessica Doan (WACE), Perth Modern School
Beazley Medal: VET
2000: Darren Chapman, WA College of Agriculture, Narrogin (Excellence in Vocational Studies Award)
2001: Bianca Batten, Forrestfield Senior High School
2002: Natasha Lea Pierce, Clarkson Community High School
2003: Joel David Treeby, WA College of Agriculture, Denmark
2004: Lachlan Patterson, WA College of Agriculture, Narrogin
2005: Linda Greenwood Tully, Methodist Ladies' College
2006: Michael Gibbings, WA School of Agriculture, Harvey
2007: Michelle Kite, Corpus Christi College
2008: Emma Hudson, St Mary's Anglican Girls' School
2009: Andrew Reynolds, WA College of Agriculture, Cunderdin
2010: Jaclyn East, WA College of Agriculture, Narrogin
2011: Nicole Kerr, Woodvale Secondary College
2012: Madisen Scott, Woodvale Secondary College
2013: Emma Hay, Georgiana Molloy Anglican School
2014: Robert Rubery, Applecross Senior High School
2015: Megan McSeveney, WA College of Agriculture, Harvey
2016: Tate Bertola, Esperance Senior High School
2017: Andreea Ioan, Willetton Senior High School
2018: Jess Haydon, Swan Valley Anglican Community School
2019: Jesse Morris-Parmer, St Mark's Anglican Community School
2020: Luke de Laeter, Wesley College
2021: Charlotte Crossen, WA College of Agriculture, Cunderdin
2022: Ashton Fowler, Harrisdale Senior High School
References
Further reading
Australian academic awards
1984 establishments in Australia
Awards established in 1984
Education in Western Australia
Student awards | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beazley%20Medal |
FOX 29 may refer to one of the following television stations in the United States affiliated with the Fox Broadcasting Company:
Current
O&O
WTXF-TV in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Affiliates
KVHP in Lake Charles, Louisiana
WFLX in West Palm Beach, Florida
WUTV in Buffalo, New York
Former
WFTC in Minneapolis/Saint Paul, Minnesota (1988 to 2002)
WMUR-LP in Littleton, New Hampshire (1995 to 2001)
KABB in San Antonio, Texas (1995 to 2023) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox%2029 |
The classification of Indian cities is a ranking system used by the Government of India to allocate House Rent Allowance (HRA) to public servants employed in cities in India. HRA is also used by the Indian Revenue Service (IRS) to provide income tax exemptions. Cities are classified on the basis of their population, as recommended by the Sixth Central Pay Finance. Under the latest HRA city ranking scheme, most popular media and culture considers only Tier-X cities to be metropolitan in nature. These eight cities are considered India's "metros".
Current classification
Under the recommendation of the Seventh Central Pay Commission, the CCA classification was abolished in 2008. The earlier HRA classification of cities was changed from A-1 to X; A, B-1, and B-2 to Y; and C and unclassified cities to Z. X, Y, and Z are more commonly known as Tier-1, Tier-2, and Tier-3 cities, respectively. There are eight X cities and ninety seven Y cities.
On the basis of the 2011 census, two cities — Pune and Ahmedabad — were upgraded from Y to X and twenty one cities from Z to Y on 1 April 2014.
Historical classification
The cities were classified as follows before the Sixth Central Pay Commission's recommendations were followed in 2008. This classification was initially based on the recommendations of the Fifth Central Pay Commission of India in 1997. Chennai, New Delhi, Kolkata, and Mumbai were classified as A-1 cities. City statuses were later revised based on the results of the 2001 Census of India. Hyderabad was upgraded from A to A-1 status on 31 August 2007, and the same with Bangalore on 21 September 2007. The CCA classification was abolished in 2008.
Under the older HRA classification, most popular media and culture considered only A-1 cities to be metropolitan in nature, therefore India's "metros".
Population-based classification
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) classifies centres into six tiers based on population. The tables below show the classification.
See also
List of cities in India
List of million-plus agglomerations in India
References
Geographic classifications
Lists of cities in India
fr:Villes de l'Inde | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classification%20of%20Indian%20cities |
Jasiel Amon Robinson (born September 20, 1980), better known by his stage name Yung Joc, is an American rapper. He is best known for his 2006 hit single "It's Goin' Down", and as a feature on T-Pain's 2007 U.S. number-one single "Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin')".
Early life
Robinson's father owned a hair-care products company and helped him get an opportunity to write a jingle for Revlon. Robinson then founded his own label "Mastermind" to release his music.
Music career
New Joc City (2005–2006)
Robinson met Atlanta producer Nitti Beatz and the two recorded the hit "It's Goin Down" in the spring of 2005. After teaming with Russell "Block" Spencer, founder of the Block Enterprises label, Spencer signed Robinson to Sean Combs's Bad Boy South for a multimillion-dollar deal, and Bad Boy released Robinson's debut New Joc City the following year.
Robinson was also featured on the songs "Show Stopper" by Danity Kane (from Diddy's Making The Band 4) & Cassie's album track Call U Out. Robinson was on 2006 "Forbes' Richest Rappers List", ranking at No. 20, having grossed approximately $10 million that year. "It's Goin' Down" reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 1 on the Hot Rap Tracks chart. The next single, "I Know U See It", reached No. 17 on the Hot 100 and No. 2 on the Hot Rap Tracks.
Hustlenomics (2007–2009)
Robinson 's next album, Hustlenomics, was released in 2007, with the singles "Coffee Shop" (featuring The-Dream and Gorilla Zoe) and "Bottle Poppin'" (featuring Gorilla Zoe). Hustlenomics sold 69,000 copies in its first week of release, debuting at number three on the Billboard 200. As of April 2009, it had sold approximately 197,000 copies according to Nielsen Soundscan. In 2007, Robinson was featured "Lookin Boy", a song by his protégés and label signees, hip hop group Hotstylz. In 2008, Robinson was featured in the hit singles on "Get Like Me" by David Banner, "So Fly" by Slim and "Beep" by Bobby V. In 2009, he was featured on Day26 single "Imma Put It on Her". Robinson released a mixtape entitled Grind Flu for free on his label Swagg Team Entertainment on August 11, 2009.
Mr. Robinson's Neighborhood (2010–2014)
Robinson released his first single from the album Mr. Robinson's Neighborhood entitled "Yeah Boy" in 2010. They have also shot & released the music video for the single.
On October 7, 2012, RCA Music Group announced it was disbanding J Records along with Arista Records and Jive Records. With the shutdown, Robinson (and all other artists previously signed to these three labels) were to release his future material (including Mr. Robinson's Neighborhood) on the RCA Records brand.
On March 18, 2014, Robinson released his first official single entitled "I Got Bitches" from his upcoming third album. On September 11, 2014, Robinson released his second single from his upcoming album entitled "Features" featuring former collaborator & singer T-Pain.
Other ventures
Swagg Team Entertainment
In 2010, Robinson formed a new record label through Jive Records, called Swagg Team Entertainment, after a widely publicized lawsuit with Block Entertainment and Bad Boy South. Robinson spoke about the lawsuit and his relationship with Diddy in an interview in 2015.
Swagg Team Entertainment saw their debut from Chicago rap group Hotstylz; with their first single "Lookin Boy". It also saw the debut from Dallas rap group GS Boyz; their first single being "Stanky Legg".
Current artists
Hotstylz (Krazee, Meatball & Raydio G)
Soufside
Prince Charming
Myk G Mr 16 Bars
Kidd Starr
Former groups
GS Boyz (Marc D, Slizz & DK)
Reality television
Since 2014, Robinson joined the VH1 reality series Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta as a supporting cast member. In August 2017, it was announced that Robinson would compete in the first season of VH1's Scared Famous, which premiered on October 23, 2017.
Personal life
In December 2011, Robinson's recording studio for his label Swagg Team was robbed, and the criminals took about $70,000 worth of studio equipment along with a hard drive containing Robinson's unreleased music for his third studio album. It later was announced that one of the robbers identity was revealed by Robinson. Robinson knew one of the robbers named "Honcho" of Thomaston, Georgia.
As of 2022, Robinson has nine children by five women.
In January 2020, Robinson was filmed driving for a rideshare company called Pull Up N Go, leading to speculation that he had fallen on hard times financially. He later spoke out against these claims, stating that he was doing this in order to show children the value of hard work as part of his volunteering with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Atlanta.
On November 7, 2021, He married Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta star Kendra Robinson.
Legal issues
On May 18, 2009, it was announced that Robinson was suing his starter labels Block Entertainment & Bad Boy Entertainment due to unpaid royalties of his music. Eventually, however, Diddy & Robinson settled their differences. Little is known as to whether Robinson settled his differences with Block entertainment.
In 2012, Robinson (along with Block Entertainment & Bad Boy Entertainment) was sued by local Atlanta record label Master Mind Music, for breach of contract and copyright infringement.
Controversy
On Gucci Mane's song "Fuck the World", there was a controversial line when he rapped "I got all eyes on me like Pac did, but I ain't tryin' to go broke like Joc did." During a radio conversation, Robinson responded to the song by stating "Gucci is a master at getting his name in other people's mouths, I ain't trippin', I know what my financial situation is".
On an interview for VladTV, he echoed homophobic comments from another rapper, who had previously stated he had turned down a US$250,000 payment for a show at an event targetting an LGBTQIA+ public. Joc said he'd too refuse the payment, noticing he would be uncomfortable with men "looking at me with lustful eyes, with his nipples out and lipstick on rapping my lyrics to me" and that he doesn't want to associate with that "lifestyle".
Discography
New Joc City (2006)
Hustlenomics (2007)
The Grind Flu (2009)
Mr. Robinson's Neighborhood (2017)
Filmography
Awards
BET Hip Hop Awards
Yung Joc has won one award for his six nominations.
2006: Rookie of the Year (Nominated)
2006: Best Live Performer (Nominated)
2006: Hip-Hop Dance of the Year (Nominated)
2006, Hip-Hop Track of the Year: It's Goin' Down (Won)
2006, Hip-Hop MVP of the Year (Nominated)
2008, Hip-Hop Video of the Year: Get Like Me with David Banner & Chris Brown (Nominated)
Billboard Music Awards
Yung Joc has 3 nominations.
2006: Rap Songs Artist of the Year (Nominated)
2006: Top Rap Artist (Nominated)
2006: Top R&B Song: It's Goin' Down (Nominated)
Grammy Awards
Yung Joc had received for his first nomination including Best Rap Song.
2007: Best Rap Song: It's Goin' Down (Nominated)
MTV Video Music Awards
Yung Joc had three nominations.
2006: Best Rap Video: It's Goin' Down (Nominated)
2006: MTV2 Award: It's Goin' Down (Nominated)
2007: Monster Single of the Year: Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin') (Nominated)
Soul Train Music Awards
Yung Joc has 2 nominations.
2007: Best R&B/Soul or Rap Dance Cut: It's Goin' Down (Nominated)
2007: Best R&B/Soul or Rap New Artist (Nominated)
References
External links
Yung Joc Albums
1980 births
Living people
African-American businesspeople
African-American Christians
African-American male rappers
American male rappers
American music industry executives
Bad Boy Records artists
Businesspeople from Georgia (U.S. state)
People from College Park, Georgia
Rappers from Atlanta
Rappers from Georgia (U.S. state)
RCA Records artists
Southern hip hop musicians
Participants in American reality television series
21st-century American rappers
21st-century American male musicians | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yung%20Joc |
Southwood Secondary School is a high school in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada, for students in West Galt and North Dumfries.
History
Southwood was founded in 1962. Although it has one of the lower student enrollments in the region, that does not seem to affect performance. It has proven itself over the years with its numerous Ontario scholars and high success rates from the literacy test: 6% above the board average and 8% above the provincial average. Southwood's unique role as a high school is explained here in a report from the Region of Waterloo to the school board:
Southwood Secondary School’s culture is unique due to its student population being made up of students residing in an urban environment and a significant number of students from a rural environment. It is the only secondary school located in the west side of Galt-Cambridge to serve that community as well as the adjacent Township of North Dumfries.
It became the subject of controversy in 2003 when it was perceived that this was an undersized school and should be closed, as funding was needed to build the Huron Heights Secondary School elsewhere in the Region. After lengthy protests, differing proposals, and the November 2003 municipal election, the trustees voted to reverse the decision of the previous board and keep Southwood open.
Programs
Southwood is known for its music, drama and mathematics programs. Prior to the 2005/2006 school year, Southwood also hosted the area's French Immersion program, which has since moved to GCI. As of the 2006-2007 school year, Southwood has hosted the region's PAL program.
Southwood's athletics is also respected, having won several championships at the WCSSAA and CWOSSA levels in the last few years, notably in Volleyball, Basketball, Swimming and Cross Country. These teams have also participated at OFSAA. In 2007, the Sr. Boys Basketball Team won the AAA OFSAA championship. In 2013 and 2014 the Southwood Football team won a senior "B" division championship despite being a varsity team.
In 2007, a group of students from Southwood were among a group of over 3,500 students from across Canada who travelled to Vimy Ridge to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the battle and restoration of the memorial.
In 2019, a group of students from Southwood's Drama Club performed Sometimes I Look Up to the Sky, their official National Theatre School Drama Festival submission for the year, at district, regional and provincial levels. They received a litany of awards, including:
The school was quoted by local author Joel Rubinoff in The Record:
"To emphasize the significance of this year's ranking, out of 360 performances across Ontario, the NTS provincial showcase features the 12 best. Southwood is the only school in Waterloo Region to make it this far."
Notable alumni
Yvonne Tousek — Gymnastics (1996 Olympic Games)
Jody Hull — retired NHL player
Bryan Little — NHL Player (Winnipeg Jets)
Kyle Clifford — NHL Champion (L.A. Kings)
Vincent Marcone — Juno award-winning artist & graphic designer
J. R. Fitzpatrick — NASCAR Camping World Truck Series & Nationwide driver, CASCAR champion
Doug Consiglio — former Canadian Olympian and World Record holder
See also
List of high schools in Ontario
References
Waterloo Region District School Board
Educational institutions established in 1962
Schools in Cambridge, Ontario
High schools in the Regional Municipality of Waterloo
1962 establishments in Ontario | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwood%20Secondary%20School |
All TV () is a Canadian exempt Category B Korean language specialty channel. It is owned by Jang Sung Lee and was launched in September 2001.
All TV features a mix of local programming as well as foreign programming from Korea. The foreign programming that airs on All TV comes from MBC. Local programming is produced in All TV's state of the art broadcast centre which includes three studios, 10 video editing suites and sound recording facilities, and is located in the Korean Cultural Centre in Toronto. The programs that are produced include a daily newscast, talk shows, cooking shows and a real estate program.
On January 18, 2019, the CRTC approved All TV Inc's request to convert All TV from a licensed Category B specialty service to an exempted Cat. B third language service.
ALL TV K
In July 2009, All TV launched KBS World on Rogers Cable. Seabridge Media operated a similar service until early 2009 when the company shut down. At that point All TV stepped in and launched their KBS World channel allowing the service to remain on the air in Canada. In 2013, the channel was renamed All TV K.
Content agreement with SBS
In December 2010, All TV announced that they had signed a content agreement with Korean broadcaster SBS. Programming from SBS began airing on All TV on December 13, 2010.
As of 2018, All TV no longer airs any programming from SBS.
All TV HD
On July 18, 2013, All TV launched All TV HD, a high definition simulcast of the standard definition feed. It is currently available on Bell Fibe TV.
See also
All TV K
References
External links
MBC America
Digital cable television networks in Canada
Korean-Canadian culture
Multicultural and ethnic television in Canada
Korean-language television stations
Television channels and stations established in 2001 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All%20TV%20%28Canada%29 |
This is a list of Sinn Féin MPs. It includes all members of Parliament elected to the British House of Commons representing Sinn Féin. Members of the European Parliament, Dáil Éireann or the Northern Ireland Assembly are not listed. Sinn Féin MPs practice abstentionism regarding the House of Commons and thus do not take their seats.
MPs elected since 1918
1 Elected in 1981 as "Anti H-Block/Proxy Political Prisoner"; formally began describing himself as a Sinn Féin MP in 1982.
2 Unseated on petition.
3Disqualified, re-elected, then unseated on petition.
Graphical representation
MPs elected in 1918 or before
In alphabetical order:
By-elections was not held to fill the seats of those MP's who died before the 1922 UK general election, nor in the cases of individuals elected for more than one constituency.
References
Westminster Representatives
Sinn Fein
Sinn Fein MPs
Sinn Fein | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Sinn%20F%C3%A9in%20MPs |
The Wheel is the eighth studio album by singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash. Most of the songs on the album reflected Cash's feelings on embarking on a new relationship (with music producer John Leventhal, whom she would eventually marry) after the dissolution of her marriage to Rodney Crowell. Though neither of its two singles, "The Wheel" and "You Won't Let Me In", charted on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart, the album received considerable critical acclaim. A video was produced for "The Wheel".
Track listing
All songs by Rosanne Cash, except where noted.
"The Wheel" – 4:20
"Seventh Avenue" (Rosanne Cash, John Leventhal) – 5:14
"Change Partners" – 3:41
"Sleeping in Paris" – 4:06
"You Won't Let Me In" – 4:31
"From the Ashes" – 3:58
"The Truth About You" (Cash, Leventhal) – 2:29
"Tears Falling Down" (Cash, Leventhal) – 3:27
"Roses in the Fire" – 3:25
"Fire of the Newly Alive" (Cash, Leventhal) – 4:28
"If There's a God on My Side" – 4:51
Musicians
Rosanne Cash – vocals, acoustic guitar
Benmont Tench – piano, keyboards
Mary Chapin Carpenter – background vocals
Patty Larkin – background vocals
Marc Cohn – harmony vocals
Bruce Cockburn – harmony vocals
John Leventhal – guitars, mandolin, bass guitar, piano, organ, keyboards, harmonica, percussion, background vocals
Steuart Smith – guitar, acoustic guitar
Lincoln Shleifer – bass guitar
Zev Katz – bass guitar, acoustic bass
Frank Vilardi – drums, percussion
Steve Gaboury – organ
Charlie Giordano – accordion
Dennis McDermott – drums
Tommy Malone – harmony vocals
Catherine Russell – background vocals
Charts
References
1993 albums
Rosanne Cash albums
Albums produced by John Leventhal
Columbia Records albums | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Wheel%20%28Rosanne%20Cash%20album%29 |
Sidney Peterson (November 15, 1905, Oakland, California – April 24, 2000, New York City) was an American writer, artist, and avant-garde filmmaker. He attended UC Berkeley, worked as a newspaper reporter in Monterey, and spent time as a practicing painter and sculptor in France in the 1920s and 1930s. After World War II, Peterson founded Workshop 20 at the California School of Fine Arts (renamed the San Francisco Art Institute), initiating filmmaking courses at the school.
Between 1947 and 1950 the workshop produced five films under Peterson's guidance that were influential on the burgeoning American avant-garde cinema, and significant artifacts of the San Francisco Renaissance. In the years that followed, Peterson worked as a consultant for the Museum of Modern Art, made a series of documentary films, penned a novel (A Fly in the Pigment, 1961) and a memoir (The Dark of the Screen, 1980), and worked at Walt Disney Productions as a scriptwriter and storyboard artist on the never completed sequel to Fantasia.
He died in New York City at the age of 94. Peterson's films are distributed by Canyon Cinema in San Francisco and The Film Makers Cooperative in New York City.
A 2007 comic strip by Dave Kiersh in Syncopated Volume 3 (Syncopated Comics, 2007) tells of his relationship with Peterson, who was a friend of Kiersh's grandmother.
On December 30, 2009, the Library of Congress named Peterson's The Lead Shoes (1949) to the National Film Registry.
Selected filmography
The Potted Psalm (1946) with James Broughton
Horror Dream (1947)
The Cage (1947)
The Petrified Dog (1948)
Clinic of Stumble (1948)
Mr. Frenhofer and the Minotaur (1949)
The Lead Shoes (1949)
Architectural Millinery (1954)
Man in a Bubble (1981)
References
External links
Canyon Cinema Cooperative
The Film-makers' Cooperative
American experimental filmmakers
1905 births
2000 deaths
Writers from New York City
University of California, Berkeley alumni
San Francisco Art Institute faculty
Film directors from New York City | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney%20Peterson |
Mplayer, referred to as Mplayer.com by 1998, was a free online PC gaming service and community that operated from late 1996 until early 2001. The service at its peak was host to a community of more than 20 million visitors each month and offered more than 100 games. Some of the more popular titles available were action games like Quake, Command & Conquer, and Rogue Spear, as well as classic card and board for more casual gamers. Servers and matchmaking was provided through a proprietary client. Initially, the service was subscription-based, but by early 1997, they became the first major multiplayer community to offer games to be played online through their network for free. This was done by relying on advertisement-based revenues.
Mplayer was a unit of Mpath Interactive, a Silicon Valley-based startup. The demand for online gaming in the late 1990s resulted in huge growth for the service. They became known for supplying a range of features integrated through their software, including their very successful voice chat feature. This feature proved so popular that it was later split off as a VoIP service to cater to non-gamers, dubbed HearMe, which would eventually become the new name of the company. The company was listed on NASDAQ as MPTH and later HEAR.
Despite the growth of their gaming unit, Mplayer was never profitable. HearMe continued to refocus themselves on VoIP technologies and, in late 2000, had sold off Mplayer to competitor GameSpy. In addition, some technologies were sold to 4anything.com. HearMe survived the buyout and continued to operate independently. Mplayer was taken offline and integrated into GameSpy Arcade in 2001. HearMe shut-down in mid 2000.
Story
The company first began as Mpath Interactive, a venture capital start-up co-founded in early 1995 by Brian Apgar, Jeff Rothschild and Brian Moriarty, based in Cupertino, California. It was later renamed to HearMe. Mpath Interactive later moved to Mountain View, California, after acquiring Catapult Entertainment, Inc., and their online gaming service XBAND. Mplayer began as a division in October 1996 to provide online gaming to subscribed users. A few months prior to launching Mplayer, Mpath announced their goal for the service in a job description: Not only will people go to the Internet for information, they will also go to it to meet and interact with other people. Mplayer, scheduled to debut 1996, will bring the excitement of real-time multi-player gaming to the Internet's World Wide Web for the first time. It will feature popular PC-based games from well-known game publishers. Mplayer's features will include voice-capable games and chat rooms where players can converse as they play the games, watch games in progress and choose teams or opponents. In February 1997, they began to offer internet play for free for their major commercial games such as Quake, as well as card and board games such as Scrabble and Spades. They were one of the first major commercial communities on the internet to offer such a service. They continued to add many new games to their offering. The slogan that was used from its founding was "Wanna Play?" By the end of 1998, the company had a staff of 111 employees, and about 80 by late 2000. The company was listed on NASDAQ beginning April 29, 1999 as MPTH, which changed to HEAR by late September of the same year.
Revenues
Games first offered over Mplayer were by subscription. In addition to the Gaming Service, Mpath also launched a "preferred" ISP service, WebBullet, reselling InterRamp ISP accounts on the PSINet network, the very backbone which Mplayer.com's production services were hosted on. In early 1997, their growth allowed the service to be offered for free through support of its advertising network, which eventually became known as the Mplayer Entertainment Network. However, the subscription model was retained, known as Plus, and gave special privileges to these member who subscribed. The yearly rate was USD $39.95, or $29.95 for two years; this gave access to certain games, their rating and ranking system in Quake and Quake II, as well as online tournaments. Subscriptions had previously been $20 per month, but upon changing their business model to offer many services for free, MPlayer decided to switch to a yearly rate so that they would not have to market to their subscribers every month in order to keep them.
While certain releases were kept as "Plus Only" features for a brief time, in many cases the Plus game rooms were simply games hosted by Mplayer's own servers. With the rapid growth of Quake fans, and the increased server load, Mplayer opened the door to the QuakeWorld network, exponentially increasing the number of available game servers, and offering someone a chance to get a faster connection to a game. The downside was that there was very little control of cheat codes in these systems. Mplayer tried to increase the appeal of the Plus subscription, offering a "secure" Mplayer owned Server hosted Game, and offering Rankings and customizable Clan Skins.
With the Internet user demographic changing, a growing market emerged for classic games, with Scrabble and Battleship leading the charge. Mplayer turned more into an aggregator, hoping to attract as many users as possible with free, ad-supported games and software, including Checkers, Othello, and Chess.
Despite this, the company had been losing money, $11.9 million in 1998 alone, and by late 1999, had yet to break even. MPath was forced to look toward different venues. Proprietary technologies that were developed as features for Mplayer, known internally as POP.X, were later licensed to third parties. This was meant to help other companies create their own internet communities using existing technology. Third parties that licensed this technology included companies like Electronic Arts and Fujitsu. HearMe, the internal audio chat feature in Mplayer that was later split off, eventually accounted for 50% of all of the company's revenues.
Growth
Mplayer began as online gaming was still in its infancy. That along with their initial subscription fee that was required to use its service limited its early growth. Mplayer gained popularity after making its service available for free to all users in early 1997, and by early 1998 had attracted more than 125,000 monthly visitors and 400,000 total members. The entire network had averaged 800,000 hours of gameplay each month, with each member averaging 15 sessions a month for 35 minutes each time. By the end of that year, Mplayer had 2 million total registered users. By March 1999, Mplayer had over 3 million total users, and over 80,000 unique daily visitors, averaging over 300 minutes of gameplay each. Mplayer saw some of its biggest growth during this period, with more than 200 million total minutes of gameplay per month beginning in 1999. According to internal data from HearMe at the time, Mplayer.com was the tenth most popular site on the internet in terms of total monthly usage time.
The huge growth of Mplayer was closely associated with the growth in the internet in the late 1990s that culminated in the dot com boom. This was seen in their first day of being publicly traded when their IPO nearly doubled. By the time of the buyout by GameSpy not long after, the service had over 10 million registered members, and 20 million unique visitors per month.
HearMe
HearMe.com was launched in January 1999 following the success of Mplayer. Mpath intended to expand their market from entertainment using money that was being made through Mplayer to create a VOIP communications network. The technology used was based on the lucrative audio chat software used within Mplayer. HearMe.com's website featured gratis voice and video-conferencing chatrooms, as well as free HTML (ActiveX) code that would allow one to add a voice-chat module directly to their own website and speak with visitors in realtime. The new business became successful to the point where the entire company decided to refocus itself on this market, and this unit was not part of the buyout. In late September 1999, Mpath Interactive bought Resounding Technology, Inc, maker of Roger Wilco, another audio chat program. HearMe continued to release updates of the software until mid 2000 when HearMe saw its end and went out of business. However, in late 2000 a deal with PalTalk emerged, where PalTalk assumed all rights to HearMe's technology. It was later implemented into GameSpy Arcade.
Games
Mplayer offered a variety of game types to play online, including fast-paced action games, sports games, card and board games, amongst other types of games. Until late 1997, Mplayer had a lineup of about 20 games, with some of their more popular ones being Quake, Red Alert, Diablo, and Scrabble. In October 1997, it was announced that they would add more than 30 new games to their roster, making it the largest offering of any online gaming service at the time. The company wanted to diversify their market, and brought in many new types of games, such as Cavedog's Total Annihilation and a host of new card games to attract more casual gamers. In a deal with Sports Illustrated, Mpath introduced an entirely new section of games dedicated to sports. The new section was meant to accommodate sports gamers, as well as online tournaments and sport news and statistics.
The main commercial games were divided by channels into action, strategy, sims, and role-playing. Their popularity generally came down to the individual game rather than the type of game. Indeed, some games would often be too underpopulated to support matchmaking, while other more popular games would have a thriving community of hundreds or thousands of gamers. Competition of online matchmaking services for computer games had been increasing by the late 1990s. Mpath attempted to ensure that it stay up to date with the latest and most popular games being released. Some games like Quake II, Daikatana and Unreal were all heavily promoted as being available for online play even before their launch.
A popular feature was the ability to download shareware versions of some games and play them online. For some games, this was supported by publishers as a means to promote their games at retail. In other cases, Mplayer arranged deals with developers to attract gamers with demos of popular games such as Quake and Unreal. The card and board games offered were supplied straight from Mplayer for free through their own software.
Game community and market
Competition
When Mplayer launched, there were few major online gaming services, but in the late 1990s, it had numerous competitors. Notable competitors were Heat.net (built on a licensed version of Mplayer's core technology), Total Entertainment Network, Microsoft's Internet Gaming Zone (later MSN Gaming Zone), GameSpy3D, Kali, Blizzard's Battle.net, and Sierra's Won.net. Furthermore, Mplayer's offering of card and board games had been countered by numerous sites across the internet, including by services like from Yahoo! and GameStorm.
Marketing
Mplayer's first business model in online gaming was to charge gamers to play. However success was limited, and the company shortly after changed their marketing direction toward offering online play for free with supported advertising. The CEO of Mpath Interactive at the time, Paul Matteucci, put it: "It wasn't until we really got it – that it was about building a community around the games – that Mplayer.com took off," speaking on making the games free. It was from here that their model would begin to be based more around the actual community of gamers, and Mplayer would see its number of players climb several-fold.
Soon after, Mplayer had become a well-known player in the online gaming industry. As such, most of their marketing was geared toward attracting new gamers through a broader offering of games, as well as taking advantage of the large community they already had. The former can be seen in the hype surrounding the release of high-profile games of the time such as Unreal and Quake II, both of which were to be offered online through Mplayer.com. The company built a family-friendly image in order to appeal to both kids and adults, with chat rooms which were monitored to limit profanity. They also used their Plus service to cater to the more hardcore gamers who did not mind the extra fee. One source describes their presence at E3 2000: E-3 2000, the Electronic Entertainment Expo, held at the Los Angeles Convention Center in May 2000, was a multimedia extravaganza. Nowhere was this more apparent than at the room-sized exhibit housing Mplayer.com, the premier on-line multiplayer gaming service. And, if the multimedia electronic action didn't grab your attention, the exhibit itself was sure to. Here was a mega multimedia presentation all its own. The exhibit, costing tens of thousands of dollars to design, fabricate, and install, occupied on three raised floors, where fanatic gamers battled it out on a dozen big-screen overhead monitors...The design and construction represented an engineering marvel. Nothing had been left to chance in the exhibit's design.
By creating such an extravagant exhibit at e3, the largest gaming exposition, they sent a message that Mplayer was a major player in the gaming industry. Even at this late date, months before the buyout by GameSpy, Mpath was still aggressively marketing Mplayer. This was despite criticisms that splitting off HearMe took the company's focus away from gaming.
Software
Service was provided through proprietary software, a channel-based lobby and matchmaking client known as gizmo. The design and interface of gizmo was outsourced to two design companies, Good Dog Design and Naima Productions. Upon launching the program, users would choose from a list of games, that would then take them to a universal lobby for that game. From there, users could create their own game channel that would be displayed to everyone. They could also join a created game. The lobby would show a list of rooms, ordered from least to most latency. Green rooms indicate games that were fast enough to be playable, while red rooms were unplayable. The rocket icon indicated the game had been launched. This would bring them to a second private chatroom before entering the game. The channel creator acted as the moderator, who could launch the game and ban players in the lobby as well as change game settings, but could also make someone else a moderator. In some games like Quake, players could join the game after it was launched, but for most this was not possible.
Features
Mpath integrated many features into Mplayer in an attempt to stay competitive and support its community. Most of these features came with an update to Gizmo in December 1997, among them were voice chat, a chalkboard system in game channels that anyone could view known as ScribbleTalk, a built-in browser known as WebViewer, personal messaging, as well a ratings and rankings system for Plus members. The voice chat only allowed one person to speak at a time, but became extremely successful to the point where half of all Mplayer's service usage was from voice chat. Mpath soon after split off a division to focus on VoIP technologies in early 1999 catering to non-gamers. Ranked games were played in a separate lobby than normal games. Ranking was determined how well you played relative to your opponent's rank. In some games, this rank was only provisional until you played a certain number of games. Later on, the rank icon only appeared after enough games were played. Users could also customize their profiles by choosing a portrait from a set of pictures and edit their profile with HTML, however this feature was removed in later versions of gizmo.
GameSpy buyout
Despite its success in attracting users, Mplayer was still in financial trouble in late 2000, and it had been speculated the division would be sold off, possibly to Sega, owner of Heat.net. However it was announced in December 2000 that GameSpy, an Irvine-based gaming site founded in 1996, made a deal to acquire Mplayer from HearMe. The two companies had fully merged by June 2001. Included in the deal was the Mplayer POP.X business unit and gaming service, as well as its Globalrankings system, which ranked players in game, and the Mplayer Entertainment Network, their advertising network. This was all sold off by HearMe for USD $20 million and a 10% stake in GameSpy. HearMe was willing to sell off its entertainment division to focus on its more profitable VoIP unit, while GameSpy wanted Mplayer's userbase for its own multiplayer gaming community. There was also the belief at GameSpy that HearMe had been neglecting the service in favor of its other ventures. At the time, GameSpy was looking to start over from its GameSpy3D service with GameSpy Arcade, which was then in beta. Only a few months after the acquisition, many features from Mplayer had been added to their new service.
References
GameSpy
Online video game services
Internet properties established in 1996 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPlayer.com |
The Philly Pops is an American orchestra that is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
History
Founded by presenter and producer, Moe Septee, and conducted from 1979 to 2013 by two-time Grammy Award-winning pianist Peter Nero, the Philly Pops plays orchestral versions of popular jazz, swing, Broadway songs and blues. David Charles Abell took over the positions of principal conductor and music director in 2020.
On October 4, 1999, the Philly Pops was designated as the official pops orchestra of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
The Philly Pops will cease operations after the 2022-2023 season. In 2023, former financial controller for the Philly Pops, Cheryl Lutts, was convicted of embezzling more than $280,000 from the organization, starting when she was hired in 2019.
The musicians of the Philly Pops have organized into the recently formed No Name Pops to continue the musical tradition of the Philly Pops.
References
External links
American jazz ensembles from Pennsylvania
Pops orchestras
Musical groups from Philadelphia
Culture of Philadelphia
Orchestras based in Pennsylvania
Jazz musicians from Pennsylvania | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philly%20Pops |
"It's Not Right but It's Okay" is the third single from American singer Whitney Houston's fourth studio album, My Love Is Your Love. It was written by LaShawn Daniels, Rodney Jerkins, Fred Jerkins III, Isaac Phillips, Toni Estes, and produced by Darkchild. The song examines a woman confronting her lover about his infidelity; in reality, it's context was for Houston to hit back at both her husband Bobby Brown and her father for their financial abuse of her. Houston won the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance for this song. In 2003, Q Magazine ranked "It's Not Right but It's Okay" at number 638 in their list of the "1001 Best Songs Ever". The single reached number one in Spain and the top five in Canada, Iceland, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Release
The original Rodney Jerkins production was released, but mainstream radio airplay and sales were given for the Thunderpuss Remix. The remixed version was released on Houston's 2000 Whitney: The Greatest Hits collection, and the original album version appears on 2007's The Ultimate Collection.
The Johnny Vicious remixes were included on the domestic CD maxi-single of "Heartbreak Hotel" as well as the on the import single and are currently available as iTunes downloads. The KCC remix was included on the US version of the "My Love Is Your Love" maxi-single and is also available as an iTunes download. Rodney Jerkins' remixes are the closest to the album version; Club 69 (Peter Rauhofer) also remixed the track for play in the UK. In the US, when it was released as a stand-alone single, the versions that appear are the Rodney Jerkins, Thunderpuss, and Club 69 remixes. There is also a ballad version, entitled "Smooth Mix".
Composition
"It's Not Right but It's Okay" is a R&B and neo soul song. According to the sheet music published at Musicnotes.com, it is written in the key of C minor with a tempo of 130 beats per minute. Houston's vocals span from G3 to A5 in the song.
Critical reception
Bill Lamb from About.com noted that the song is a "hard-hitting anthem for women on the way out of relationships that sounds great on the radio and on the dance floor." J.D. Considine from The Baltimore Sun wrote, "So when we hear her telling her abusive, less-than-faithful lover off in 'It's Not Right But It's Okay', we're not to imagine the lyrics have anything to do with the rumored infidelity of her real-life husband, Bobby Brown." Billboard magazine highlighted the song on Houston's album. Birmingham Evening Mail commented, "Houston, we have a problem. We loved your leather-limbed performance on the Brits of Rodney Jenkins' standout track from your new album 'My Love Is Your Love' and we know you should be cutting contemporary R&B - we just reckon you deserve better songs. Still, as a chart cert this'll do nicely, it's not great but it's okay." Matt Stopera and Brian Galindo from BuzzFeed noted on the Thunderpuss Remix, that "aside from being a essential gay dance floor classic, this track proves how a good remix can elevate a song from good to ICONIC." Daily Record stated, "Soul diva Whitney sounds streetwise with her biggest single since I Will Always Love You."
Chart performance
It became the album's third single, peaking at number four on the US Billboard Hot 100 singles chart on July 3, 1999. The single also peaked at number one on Billboards Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart, No. 7 on the top 100 Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart, and was certified platinum by the RIAA. The song reached No. 3 in Canada, Iceland and the United Kingdom — in March 1999, where it stayed in the chart for 15 weeks, becoming a hugely popular radio hit in the country. And in Spain it peaked at No. 1.
Music video
The music video was directed by Kevin Bray.
Track listings
UK CD1
"It's Not Right but It's Okay" (Original Radio Mix) – 4:15
"It's Not Right but It's Okay" (Club 69 Club Mix) – 7:58
"It's Not Right but It's Okay" (Johnny Vicious Radio Mix) – 4:14
UK CD2
"It's Not Right but It's Okay" (Original Radio Mix) – 4:15
"Step by Step" – 4:12
"I'm Every Woman" – 4:47
European maxi-single (The Dance Mixes)
"It's Not Right but It's Okay" (Original Radio Mix) – 4:15
"It's Not Right but It's Okay" (Club 69 Radio Mix) – 4:18
"It's Not Right but It's Okay" (Johnny Vicious Radio Mix) – 4:25
"It's Not Right but It's Okay" (Thunderpuss 2000 Club Mix) – 9:14
12-inch vinyl
A1. "It's Not Right but It's Okay" (KCC's Release The Love Groove Mix) – 7:05
B1. "It's Not Right but It's Okay" (Club 69 Future Mix) – 8:02
B2. "It's Not Right but It's Okay" (Rodney Jerkins Smooth Mix) – 4:26
12-inch vinyl (Thunderpuss 2000 Remixes)
A1. "It's Not Right but It's Okay" (Club Mix) – 9:15
A2. "It's Not Right but It's Okay" (Radio Mix) – 4:16
B1. "It's Not Right but It's Okay" (Thunderpuss Dub) – 8:19
B2. "It's Not Right but It's Okay" (Thunderpuss Beats) – 4:22
US CD single
"It's Not Right but It's Okay" (Original Radio Mix) – 4:15
"It's Not Right but It's Okay" (Rodney Jerkins Smooth Mix) – 4:15
"It's Not Right but It's Okay" (Thunderpuss Mix) – 4:11
US maxi-CD single "It's Not Right but It's Okay" (Rodney Jerkins Smooth Mix) – 4:30
"It's Not Right but It's Okay" (Rodney Jerkins Smooth Instrumental) – 4:30
"It's Not Right but It's Okay" (Thunderpuss Radio Mix) – 4:18
"It's Not Right but It's Okay" (Club 69 Radio Mix) – 4:21
"It's Not Right but It's Okay" (Thunderpuss Club Mix) – 9:12
"It's Not Right but It's Okay" (Club 69 Future Club Mix) – 8:05
"It's Not Right but It's Okay" (Club 69 Future Dub) – 7:52
"I Will Always Love You" (Hex Hector Club Mix) – 9:50
12-inch vinyl (Johnny Vicious Remixes)'A1. "It's Not Right but It's Okay" (Johnny Vicious Momentous Mix) – 13:03
B1. "It's Not Right but It's Okay" (Johnny Vicious Momentous Dub) – 8:31
B2. "It's Not Right but It's Okay" (Radio Mix) – 4:11
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
Release history
Cover versions
The song was covered by Darren Criss on the hit Fox TV show Glee. Criss' character, Blaine, was confronting his own 'cheating' lover in the Whitney Houston tribute special, "Dance with Somebody". It was also covered on the "Lies" single and The Mother We Share EP'' by CHVRCHES. The song was heavily sampled in Mak & Pasteman's "It Ain't Right" and Shane Codd's "Rather Be Alone".
See also
List of number-one singles of 1999 (Spain)
List of number-one dance singles of 1999 (U.S.)
References
External links
It's Not Right but It's Okay at Discogs
Whitney Houston songs
1998 songs
1999 singles
Arista Records singles
Bertelsmann Music Group singles
Neo soul songs
Number-one singles in Spain
Song recordings produced by Rodney Jerkins
Songs about infidelity
Songs written by Fred Jerkins III
Songs written by LaShawn Daniels
Songs written by Rodney Jerkins | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s%20Not%20Right%20but%20It%27s%20Okay |
Not with a Bang was a short-lived British television sitcom produced by LWT for ITV in 1990. It ran for seven episodes, each 30 minutes long. The show was a dark science fiction comedy, focusing on the end of the human race on Earth. The title comes from the last line of T. S. Eliot's poem The Hollow Men "not with a bang, but a whimper"; The concept for the series originates from a self-contained 1986 Radio 4 afternoon play of the same title, from which Mike Grady was the only cast member to reprise his role in the television series.
Premise
The pilot episode of Not with a Bang begins with a spoof episode of the iconic BBC show Tomorrow's World, (which is also a nod to the opening titles of apocalyptic drama series Survivors) where Judith Hann is presenting a story on how scientists have apparently isolated the hormone that causes aging in humans. The chemical is then accidentally released from a vial and the effect spreads almost instantly, annihilating virtually all human life on Earth, turning people into little piles of an ash-like compound, before dissipating harmlessly.
The show then follows the plight of the four human survivors – three male, one female – who survive due to various far-fetched reasons – for example being sealed in a sound-proof booth during a pub quiz when the agent strikes the vicinity. The four characters are united by chance about one year after the event, and set up a base of operations in a country cottage. They then spend the next six episodes looking for other survivors, adjusting to life after the end of the world, and deliberating over the repopulation of the human race.
The show relies heavily on a small cast of esoteric characters, including: rugby league fanatic Colin; everyman Brian, who comes closest to being the group's leader; and Graham and Janet, a bland couple who struggle over the issue of having children. Conversation between Graham and Janet frequently features Graham's reluctance and Janet's determination to have children, as well as Graham's extraordinarily low sperm count.
The pub name is never mentioned in the show and while an interior quiz advert does reference the Red Lion in Episode 1, there is also a V for Versus above that and you can just make out a H which would suggest they did not attempt to rename the pub as in an earlier shot of the outside of the pub you can see the White Hart sign, the shots from the outside are of the White Hart in the village of Bouth in Cumbria.
Cast
Mike Grady as Graham Wilkins
Josie Lawrence as Janet Wilkins
Ronald Pickup as Brian Appleyard
Stephen Rea as Colin Garrity
Judith Hann as herself
References
External links
Internet Movie Database
Episode guide at the BFI website
1990 British television series debuts
1990 British television series endings
1990s British comic science fiction television series
ITV sitcoms
Post-apocalyptic television series
London Weekend Television shows
Apocalyptic television series
English-language television shows
Television series by ITV Studios
1990s British sitcoms | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not%20with%20a%20Bang |
10 Song Demo is an album by the American musician Rosanne Cash. Released in 1996, it was her first album for Capitol Records. The album's first single, "The Summer I Read Collette", is a tribute to French novelist Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette. Its second and final single, "Western Wall", was covered by Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt on Western Wall: The Tucson Sessions.
Critical reception
No Depression wrote that "her voice and person completely dominate, and even when the literary lyrics border on being sappy or overly articulate, the sheer force of Cash’s persona makes it work." Entertainment Weekly determined that "unlike, say, Bruce Springsteen, she knows that bare-bones doesn’t mean tuneless ... Demo's spare arrangements reinforce the sturdiness of her melodies."
Track listing
All songs by Rosanne Cash except as indicated.
"Price of Temptation" – 2:12
"If I Were a Man" – 3:20
"The Summer I Read Collette" – 3:28
"Western Wall" – 3:00
"Bells & Roses" – 3:04
"List of Burdens" – 3:04
"Child of Steel" (live) – 3:36
"Just Don't Talk About It" (Rosanne Cash, John Leventhal) – 3:48
"I Want to Know" – 3:17
"Take My Body" – 3:52
"Mid-Air" (live) – 2:37
Musicians
Rosanne Cash: Vocals, Acoustic guitar, Piano
Larry Campbell: Acoustic & electric guitar, Background vocals
John Leventhal: Acoustic & electric guitar, Bass, Keyboards, Percussion
Lincoln Schleifer: Bass, Percussion
References
1996 albums
Rosanne Cash albums
Albums produced by John Leventhal
Capitol Records albums
Demo albums | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10%20Song%20Demo |
Philadelphia Ballet, formerly known as Pennsylvania Ballet, was Philadelphia's largest ballet company until its rebranding in 2021. The company's annual local season features six programs of classic pieces, like George Balanchine's The Nutcracker, in addition to presentations of new works. The company's artistic director is Angel Corella.
Company history
Pennsylvania Ballet was established in 1963 by Barbara Weisberger, a protégée of George Balanchine, through a Ford Foundation initiative to develop regional professional dance companies. A Philadelphia cultural institution, the company is noted for its focus on the Balanchine repertoire.
The company performed in the national spotlight for the first time in 1968 at the New York City Center, a debut that led to a decade of national touring, appearances on PBS's Dance in America series, and a stint as the official company of the Brooklyn Academy of Music during the 1970s.
In 1982, Pennsylvania Ballet became the first major American ballet company to promote an African-American woman, Debra Austin, to principal dancer. Between 1987 and 1989, Pennsylvania Ballet forged an alliance with Milwaukee Ballet in an unprecedented venture to create one company. The new organization, with 43 dancers, was the first in the country to offer its dancers year-round employment.
In 1995, the trustees of Pennsylvania Ballet selected its first home-grown artistic director, Roy Kaiser. A former principal dancer, Kaiser had been hired as a company member in 1979 by Barbara Weisberger. Following his retirement from the stage in 1992, Kaiser served as principal ballet master and associate artistic director under Christopher d'Amboise before being named to his current position.
Under Kaiser's leadership, the company expanded its Balanchine-based repertoire to include new works from both established and emerging choreographers. New works included premieres of original ballets from choreographers Merce Cunningham, Christopher d'Amboise, Trey McIntyre, Matthew Neenan, David Parsons, Val Caniparoli, Benjamin Millepied, and Christopher Wheeldon, as well as the highly acclaimed 40th-anniversary commission of Swan Lake by Christopher Wheeldon and the 2007 world premiere of Matthew Neenan's Carmina Burana. Currently employing 37 dancers, Pennsylvania Ballet annually presents a season of six programs, which includes their annual signature production of George Balanchine's The Nutcracker. The season balances classic ballets with new works and challenges the dancers while attracting a diverse audience. The company also tours throughout Pennsylvania and elsewhere, including venues such as New York City Center and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC. Pennsylvania Ballet made its international debut at the Edinburgh International Festival in August 2005.
Fourteen members of the Pennsylvania Ballet appeared as the corps in the 2010 film Black Swan. In September 2014, Ángel Corella was named artistic director.
In July 2021, Pennsylvania Ballet rebranded and became the Philadelphia Ballet. After nearly 60 years of artistic legacy and performance in Philadelphia, this name change reflected the company's commitment to its history, inspiration, and identity. The Philadelphia Ballet II (the company's second company) provides outreach and educational performances.
Matthew Neenan, Philadelphia Ballet's first choreographer in residence, danced for the company from 1994 to 2007.
Outreach programs
Philadelphia Ballet has increased its reach through creative programming initiatives such as the Family Matinee Series, the Prologue Lecture Series, and its outreach and education program, Accent on Dance, which serves over 11,000 children each year. Philadelphia Ballet II does around 25 shows in the Philadelphia area as well as arranging studio tours, school shows, and free tickets to Main Stage performances.
Artistic staff
Artistic Director: Ángel Corella
Assistant Director: Samantha Dunster
Ballet Masters: Charles Askegard
Choreographer in Residence: Matthew Neenan
Dancers
The company dancers of the Philadelphia Ballet are:
Principals
Sterling Baca
Jermel Johnson
Zecheng Liang
Nayara Lopes
Oksana Maslova
Mayara Pineiro
Arian Molina Soca
Jack Thomas
Dayesi Torriente
First soloists
Yuka Iseda
Soloists
Aleksey Babayev
Sydney Dolan
Thays Golz
Kathryn Manger
Ashton Roxander
So Jung Shin
Peter Weil
Demi soloists
Etienne Diaz
Russel Ducker
Lucia Erickson
Alexandea Heier
Jack Sprance
Corps de ballet
Cato Berry
Jacqueline Callahan
Adrianna de Svastich
Federico D'Ortenzi
Austin Eyler
Marjorie Feiring
Siobhan Howley
Denis Maciel
Gabriela Mesa
Erin O'Dea
Fernanda Oliveira
Nicholas Patterson
Pau Pujol
Sophie Savas-Carstens
Julia Vinez
Apprentices
Isaac Hollis
Mine Kusano
Cory Ogdahl
Jeremy Power
Paloma Berjano Torrado
Emily Wilson
Philadelphia Ballet II
Philadelphia Ballet II (formerly Pennsylvania Ballet II) was created in 2002 by Joyce and Herbert Kean as a second company. The dancers in this program practice frequently with the main company and are used as dancers in the larger productions. Philadelphia Ballet II also is involved with many outreach and educational programs.
Charlie Clinton
Isabella Diemedio
Corinne Mulcahy
Victoria Casals Renzetti
Ben Schwarz
Charlotte Erickson
Ashley Lewis
Shinichiro Ebe
Mayfield Myers
Vinícius Ferreira Freire
Roy Kaiser has been said to have had a very influential effect on this company. He also participated in other programs such as the New York Choreographic Institute.
References
External links
Dance in Pennsylvania
Ballet companies in the United States
Performing groups established in 1963
1963 establishments in Pennsylvania
Non-profit organizations based in Philadelphia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia%20Ballet |
This is the list of the top 50 albums of 2004 in New Zealand.
Chart
Key
– Album of New Zealand origin
External links
The Official NZ Music Chart, RIANZ website
Top 50 Albums
New Zealand Top 50 Albums
Albums 2004 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Zealand%20top%2050%20albums%20of%202004 |
Seaspeak is a controlled natural language (CNL) based on English, designed to facilitate communication between ships whose captains' native tongues differ. It has now been formalised as Standard Marine Communication Phrases (SMCP).
While generally based on the English language, seaspeak has a very small vocabulary, and will incorporate foreign words where English does not have a suitable word.
There are other similar special-purpose CNLs, including aviation English for aircraft, and the English–French hybrid PoliceSpeak for safety administration of the Channel Tunnel.
History
Seaspeak originated at the International Maritime Lecturers Association (IMLA) Workshop on Maritime English in 1985 in La Spezia (WOME 3), in a project led by Captain Fred Weeks, and was updated in the following years.
After the MS Scandinavian Star disaster in 1990, in which communication errors played a part, an effort was made by the International Maritime Organization to update Seaspeak and the Standard Maritime Communication Vocabulary (SMCV). This resulted in the development of the Standard Marine Communication Phrases (SMCP), which were adopted by the IMO as resolution A.198(22) in November 2001 at their 22nd Assembly.
Example phrase "Say again"
A good example of the benefit of seaspeak is the use of a single short and carefully crafted phrase to replace a multitude of phrases. Thus the phrase "say again" could replace any of the following:
Could not hear what you said, please repeat!
I did not understand, say that again.
Too much noise, repeat what you said!
I am having difficulty hearing what you are saying! Please repeat what you were trying to say.
There is too much noise on the line – I cannot understand you.
What did you say?
A simplified vocabulary also helps overcome static, since the phrase "say again" is always two words and three syllables, no matter how much it is blurred by that static.
References
See also
Basic English
Number of words in English
NATO alphabet
External links
Prolingua, the company where Edward Johnson worked on SeaSpeak, AirSpeak, etc.
English for specific purposes
Naval signals | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seaspeak |
Asphodel Ltd ( Asphodel Records) was a San Francisco-based independent record label founded by musician Mitzi Johnson and Naut Humon in 1992. The label is named after the mythological flower that grows along the banks of the River Styx in Hades. The label had shut down as of January 2011.
Asphodel has a diverse catalog of releases with a prominent experimental thread in the genres of turntablism, electronica, ambient, illbient, electroacoustic, trip hop, spoken word, noise, techno, and lounge.
History
The label's first release was the self-titled debut by Johnson's band, Blue Rubies.
Naut Humon became the official Asphodel head of A&R in 1994. Erik Gilbert, once served as the label's General Manager, before becoming the Vice President of Content at the Independent Online Distribution Alliance before Sony restructured to become The Orchard.
Asphodel was named as one of the "top 10 independent labels in the world" by Rolling Stone magazine in 1998.
Speaking on the legacy of Asphodel, [Erik] Gilbert underlined its uncompromising stance and approach: "Incredible artists, incredible albums. I am honoured and proud to have been involved with them. Nothing has since come close." For [Gregor] Asch, without Naut there would be no DJ Olive as we knew him and perhaps no illbient. "The label is Naut’s legacy really," he admits. "Quality sampling from emerging sounds on the meridian between the underground and the popular. A world class grasp of production and mastering while always pushing the boundaries of a surround performance experience."
As of January 2011, a message on the asphodel.com last snapshot reads, "Asphodel is now closed. Thank you for the love and support. Mitzi Johnson, San Francisco
January, 2011".
Artists
AGF.3 + SUE.C
Alexander Rishaug
Ann Magnuson
antimatter
Badawi
Biosphere
Blue Rubies
Broker/Dealer
Byzar
Christian Marclay
Curtis Roads
Daniel Menche
David Darling
Diamanda Galas
DJ Spooky
Fe-Mail
Fires Were Shot
Gregory Lenczycki
Iannis Xenakis
Invisibl Skratch Piklz
Iso Orchestra
Janek Schaefer
Jeff Greinke
John Cage
John Ward
Ken Nordine
KK Null
Laminar
Li Alin
Martin Ng, Oren Ambarchi, Tina Frank, Robin Fox
Maryanne Amacher
Mix Master Mike
Naut Humon
Otomo Yoshihide
Phil Crumar
Ray Guillette
Reinhold Friedl
Rhythm & Sound
Richard Devine
Robert Rich
Ryuichi Sakamoto
Single Cell Orchestra
Steve Roach
Sub Dub
The-Allies
Thomas Dimuzio
Tipsy
Ulf Langheinrich
Vidna Obmana
We™
World Standard
X-Ecutioners
Yasunao Tone
zeitkratzer
[The User]
See also
Naut Humon
List of record labels
References
External links
Last snapshot of Asphodel.com
Asphodel's MySpace Page
Asphodel on YouTube
American independent record labels
Companies based in San Francisco
Music of the San Francisco Bay Area
1992 establishments in California | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asphodel%20Records |
Opera Philadelphia (prior to 2013 Opera Company of Philadelphia (OCP)) is an American opera company in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and is the city's only company producing grand opera. The organization produces one festival in September (Festival O) and additional operas in the spring season, encompassing works from the 17th through the 21st century. The famed Academy of Music, the oldest opera house to be continuously in use for its original purpose within the United States, is currently the venue for three of the company's performances. The company is led by David Devan, who was appointed general director in 2011 and announced his retirement in 2024.
History
The Opera Company of Philadelphia was established in 1975 with the merger of the Philadelphia Lyric Opera Company (PLOC) and the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company (PGOC); two organizations which had competed with one another for many years. Adele W. Paxson, who headed the PLOC, was appointed the first president of the company's board, a position she held for many years. Max Leon, conductor and general manager of the PGOC, became the company's first general manager, and Carl Suppa became the company's first artistic director. All three individuals were largely responsible for arranging, planning, and executing the merger. In 1976 the company presented the world premiere of Gian Carlo Menotti's The Hero.
At the end of the 1977–1978 season both Leon and Suppa left the company. As a result, J. Edward Corn was appointed the company's second general manager; subsequently Julius Rudel became an artistic consultant for the company. In 1980, Corn left the company to become the director of the National Endowment for the Arts' new opera and musical theater program. Margaret Anne Everett, the OCP's director of educational and community services since 1977, was initially appointed the company's acting manager and then officially became the company's third general manager. She remained in that position for fourteen years.
In March 1990 Everett resigned from her post and Jane Grey Nemeth, the then director of the OCP's Luciano Pavarotti International Voice Competition, became the company's acting general director. In January 1991 the company named Robert B. Driver its general director. The company's management structure has changed several times during Driver's time with the company, he previously served as the title artistic director from 2000 to 2004 and general and artistic director from 2004 to 2009. On March 31, 2009 it was announced that Driver would return to the post of artistic director, and David B. Devan, the OCP's managing director since January 2006, would serve as the OCP's executive director. Devan was appointed general director in February 2011.
In 2013 the OCP renamed itself Opera Philadelphia and adopted a new logo.
References
Notes
Other sources
David Patrick Stearns, "The Philadelphia Story: Things are looking up, operatically speaking, in the City of Brotherly Love", Opera News (New York), Vol. 78, No. 9, March 2014
External links
Musical groups established in 1975
Culture of Philadelphia
Philadelphia
Musical groups from Philadelphia
1975 establishments in Pennsylvania | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera%20Philadelphia |
Mendelssohn Chorus of Philadelphia (formerly known as Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia and Mendelssohn Club Chorus of Philadelphia) is a music institution in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, founded in 1874 by William Wallace Gilchrist, a major figure in the 19th century music of Philadelphia. The chorus is currently under the direction of Dominick DiOrio (2020- ). It was previously directed by Paul Rardin from 2015 to 2020, chair of the department of choral conducting at Temple University. Prior to Rardin's appointment, the chorus was led by Alan Harler from 1988 to 2015.
Discography
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Eugene Ormandy recording)
References
External links
Music organizations based in the United States
Culture of Philadelphia
Musical groups from Philadelphia
Choral societies
Musical groups established in 1874
1874 establishments in Pennsylvania | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendelssohn%20Club |
One Mo Nigga ta Go is the only solo studio album by former N.W.A member DJ Yella. It was released on March 26, 1996, 1 year after Eazy-E's death and is dedicated to him. The album cover shows close-up of Eazy-E's face and Yella himself at Eazy-E's grave.
Recording sessions took place at Audio Achievements in Torrance, California with Donovan "The Dirt Biker" Smith, who also provided mixing and co-production. Production was handled primarily by DJ Yella himself. The album features guest appearances from B.G. Knocc Out & Dresta, Kokane, Dirty Red, Traci Nelson and Leicy Loc. It spawned three singles: "4 tha E", a tribute song to Eazy-E, which peaked at #50 on the US Billboard Hot Rap Songs, "Dat's How I'm Livin'" and "Send 4 Me".
Yella never released any other solo material, and after the release he left the music industry to direct pornographic films until 2011, when he started working on a new album called West Coastin which currently has no information regarding the project since 2012. One of the reasons Yella made this album was to help raise money for college for nine of Eazy-E's children.
The album peaked at number 82 on the Billboard 200 albums chart and at number 23 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart in the United States.
Critical reception
The album was mildly received. AllMusic gave the album 3 stars while Bradley Torreano called it "a flop". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Cary Darling called it along with MC Ren's The Villain in Black (which was released two weeks later after the album's release) "ordinary by hard-core rap standards".
Track listing
Sample credits
Track 4 contains elements from "Riding High" by Faze-O
Track 6 contains elements from "Gotta Find a Lover" by Roy Ayers Ubiquity
Track 8 contains elements from "Eazy-Duz-It" by Eazy-E
Track 10 is a cover of "Send for Me" by Atlantic Starr
Track 12 contains elements from "A Love of Your Own" by Average White Band and "Real Muthaphuckkin G's" by Eazy-E
Track 18 contains elements from "Moments in Love" by Art of Noise
Personnel
Antoine Carraby – vocals, producer, executive producer
Kevyn "Shaki" Carter – vocals (tracks: 2, 14)
Andre DeSean Wicker – vocals (track 4)
Jerry Buddy Long, Jr. – vocals (track 8)
Traci Nelson – vocals (track 10)
Arlandis Hinton – vocals (track 12)
Leicy Loc – vocals (track 16)
Mike "Crazy Neck" Sims – keyboards, guitar, bass
Stan Martin – trumpet, flugelhorn
Donovan "Tha Dirt Biker" Sound – co-producer, mixing, recording
Don "D-Dawg" Spratley – co-producer (track 18)
Brian "Big Bass" Gardner – mastering
David Michery – A&R, executive producer
Chuck Gullo – executive producer
Doug Haverty – art direction
Johnny Buzzerio – photography
Chart history
References
External links
1996 debut albums
Albums produced by DJ Yella | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One%20Mo%20Nigga%20ta%20Go |
State Route 215 (SR 215) is a numbered state highway in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. SR 215 partially follows the former routes of U.S. Route 82 (US 82) and US 11. The route stays almost completely within the city limits of Tuscaloosa.
Route description
The highway is unusual in that it follows both a north–south and east–west routing (though it is signed as north–south for its entire route). The highway follows the former routing of US 82 and formerly followed the former routing of US 11. Thus, it does not act as a true bypass for either route. Even more strangely, the north–south section parallels US 82, an even-numbered (and therefore east–west) US highway, while the east–west section follows US 11, which is odd-numbered and thus follows a north–south route.
The north–south section is named Old Montgomery Highway and Greensboro Avenue while the east–west section was formerly routed on University Boulevard. In 2015, in order to divert traffic from the campus of the University of Alabama, the east-west segment of the route was removed from University Boulevard and diverted onto Veterans Memorial Parkway, which becomes 15th Street at its intersection with US 82. The route changes direction at the intersection of Greensboro Avenue and 15th Street south of downtown Tuscaloosa.
Major intersections
References
External links
Alabama 215 Ends
Alabama 215 at Southeastroads.com
Transportation in Tuscaloosa, Alabama
215
Transportation in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama
U.S. Route 11
U.S. Route 82 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama%20State%20Route%20215 |
The size–weight illusion, also known as the Charpentier illusion, is named after the French physician Augustin Charpentier because he was the first to demonstrate the illusion experimentally.
It is also called De Moor's illusion, named after Belgian physician Jean Demoor (1867–1941).
Description
The illusion occurs when a person underestimates the weight of a larger object (e.g. a box) when compared to a smaller object of the same mass. The illusion also occurs when the objects are not lifted against gravity, but accelerated horizontally, so it should be called a size-mass illusion. Similar illusions occurs with differences in material and colour: metal containers feel lighter than wooden containers of the same size and mass, and darker objects feel heavier than brighter objects of the same size and mass. These illusions have all been described as contrast with the expected weight, although the size-weight illusion occurs independent of visual estimates of the volume of material and the illusion does not depend on expectations, but occurs also if visual size information is only provided while already lifting. The expected weight or density can be measured by matching visible and hidden weights, lifted in the same manner. This gives an expected density of about 1.7 for metal canisters and 0.14 for polystyrene blocks. Density expectations may assist in selecting suitable objects to throw.
Explanation
An early explanation of these illusions was that people judge the weight of an object from its appearance and then lift it with a pre-determined force. They expect a larger object to be heavier and therefore lift it with greater force: the larger object is then lifted more easily than the smaller one, causing it to be perceived as lighter. This hypothesis was disproved by an experiment in which two objects of the same mass, same cross section, but different height were placed on observers' supported hands, and produced a passive size–weight illusion. Recent studies have also shown that the lifting force quickly adapts to the true mass of the objects, but the size–weight illusion remains. The illusion therefore cannot be explained by the manner of lifting, and must be due to some perceptual rescaling based on prior expectations. The rescaling has been described as sub-optimal (anti-Bayesian), in that the central nervous system integrates prior expectations with current proprioceptive information in a way that emphasises the unexpected information rather than taking an average of all information. It has also recently been suggested that the illusion may not be anti-Bayesian, but may instead rely on more complex yet still optimal inference processes than traditionally suggested.
Other models describe the rescaling as partly beneficial, in that it enhances discrimination. Contrast effects are common in many perceptual modalities, and are similar to physiological adaptation. Adaptation can be explained as a change in the gain of the system, the gain being set to the appropriate level for maximum discrimination and for protection against sensory overload. Contrast effects may similarly be related to efficient neural coding. If the selected range is either too high or too low, as in the size–weight illusion, there is both a contrast illusion and a loss of discrimination. It has been found that weight discrimination deteriorates if objects are lighter than their expected density, or heavier than their expected density. Models of this type can account for perceptual rescaling without involving the manner of lifting.
It has also been demonstrated that, taking three empty matchboxes, and put a weight in one of them. The weighted box lifted on its own feels heavier than all three boxes lifted together with the heavy one on top.
See also
Shrinkflation
References
Cognition
Illusions | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Size%E2%80%93weight%20illusion |
Rules of Travel is a studio album by singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash, released in 2003. It was her first album of new material in nearly seven years. On the track "September When It Comes," she is joined by her father Johnny Cash; Johnny Cash would in fact die in September 2003, making this one of the last recordings to be released during his lifetime.
Track listing
Musicians
Rosanne Cash: vocals, acoustic guitar
Johnny Cash: vocals
Steve Earle: vocals
Sheryl Crow: harmony vocals
Teddy Thompson: harmony vocals
Catherine Russell: Background vocals
John Leventhal: guitars, bass guitar, organ, wurlitzer, keyboards, percussion
Zev Katz: bass guitar, upright bass
Michael Rhodes: bass guitar
Doug Petty: organ
Danny Louis: organ
Larry Farrell: trombone
Rick Depofi: tenor saxophone
Tony Kadlek: flugelhorn
Shawn Pelton: drums, percussion
Dennis McDermott: drums, percussion
Matt Keeler: drums
Craig Northey: hand drum
Chart performance
References
2003 albums
Rosanne Cash albums
Albums produced by John Leventhal
Capitol Records albums | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules%20of%20Travel |
William Wallace Gilchrist (January 8, 1846 – December 20, 1916) was an American composer and a major figure in nineteenth century music of Philadelphia. He founded the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia in 1874.
Early life
Gilchrist was born in Jersey City, New Jersey to William Wallace Gilchrist and Redelia Ann (Cox) Gilchrist. At the age of eleven months he moved with his family to Philadelphia. His father's business suffered during the Civil War, so young Gilchrist turned to the law and to business for his own living, but eventually decided to take up music as a career.
Career
From 1865 to 1868 Gilchrist studied privately with Hugh Archibald Clarke, later a Professor of Music at the University of Pennsylvania. With the exception of a short period in Cincinnati, Ohio (1871–1872), he lived in Philadelphia, where he was active as church organist, teacher, and leader of musical clubs. During this time was active as a baritone soloist at Holy Trinity Church on Rittenhouse Square and St. Mark's Church on Locust Street, soloist with the Handel and Haydn Society in productions of Messiah, Moses in Egypt and Judas Maccabaeus, and participant in a series of light operettas presented by the Amateur Drawing Room. In 1871 he was appointed organist and choirmaster at St. Clement's Church, and he drew the original Mendelssohn Club members from the choir there.
In 1882 Gilchrist won the Cincinnati Festival Prize for his setting of the 46th Psalm, for soprano solo, chorus, and orchestra where the judges included Camille Saint-Saëns and Carl Reinecke. Among his other choral works are Ode to the Sun, Journey of Life, The Uplifted Gates, and Legend of the Bended Bow. He composed two non-programmatic symphonies, and some chamber music, including a nonet for piano, strings, flute, clarinet and horn.
In addition to Mendelssohn Club, Gilchrist also conducted the West Philadelphia Choral Society, the Germantown Choral Society, the Harmonia, the Harrisburg Choral Society and the Tuesday Club of Wilmington. He was organist and choirmaster at St. Clement's, Christ Church in Germantown, and at the Swedenborgian Church of the New Jerusalem. He was a founding member of both Music Manuscript Society and the American Guild of Organists. He was the head of voice instruction at the Philadelphia Musical Academy, and from 1893 to 1899 he conducted the Symphony Society of Philadelphia.
Gilchrist was one of the very few American composers of this period who did not study in Europe. His pupils included Anna Priscilla Risher.
Personal life
His son, William Wallace Gilchrist, Jr. (1879-1926), became a painter of some note.
References
Martha Furman Schleifer, William Wallace Gilchrist, 1846-1916: A Moving Force in the Musical Life of Philadelphia (Metuchen, NJ, and London: Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1985).
External links
1846 births
1916 deaths
American male composers
American composers
Musicians from Philadelphia
Musicians from Jersey City, New Jersey | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Gilchrist |
Janet R. Maslin (born August 12, 1949) is an American journalist, best known as a film and literary critic for The New York Times. She served as a Times film critic from 1977 to 1999 and as a book critic from 2000 to 2015. In 2000, Maslin helped found the Jacob Burns Film Center in Pleasantville, New York. She is president of its board of directors.
Education
Maslin graduated from the University of Rochester in 1970 with a bachelor's degree in mathematics.
Career
Maslin began her career as a rock music critic for The Boston Phoenix and became a film editor and critic for that publication. She also worked as a freelancer for Rolling Stone and worked at Newsweek.
Maslin became a film critic for The New York Times in 1977. From December 1, 1994, she replaced Vincent Canby as the chief film critic. Maslin continued to review films for The Times until 1999, when she briefly left the newspaper. Her film-criticism career, including her embrace of American independent cinema, is discussed in the documentary For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism (2009). In the documentary, Entertainment Weekly critic Lisa Schwarzbaum recalls the excitement of having a woman as the lead reviewer at The New York Times. In a 2005 interview with Aaron Aradillas at Rockcritics.com, Maslin explained she quit reviewing films because she experienced burnout, expressing gratitude it ended when it did. Filmmaker Harmony Korine, whose directorial debut feature Gummo (1997) Maslin famously called "worst film of the year", noted how Maslin stopped working as a movie critic not long after.
From 1994 to 2003, Maslin was a frequent guest on Charlie Rose. Overall she made 61 appearances on the program.
From 2000 she worked as a book reviewer for The New York Times; from 2015 as a contributor as opposed to being their full-time critic. Maslin continues to review books for the newspaper, albeit sparsely. Her latest review is for Dennis Lehane's novel Small Mercies, speculating it might be the author's last and concluding with "As epitaphs go, you could do a lot worse." Among her reviews are many enthusiastic discoveries of then-unknown crime writers, the first American assessment of an Elena Ferrante novel, and a 2011 essay on the widowed Joyce Carol Oates's memoir, A Widow's Story, which offended some of Oates's admirers.
References
External links
Janet Maslin at The New York Times - Archived articles written by Maslin.
"Janet Maslin" at Rotten Tomatoes – Includes links to full texts of reviews by Janet Maslin.
Interview with Janet Maslin. The Connection. Broadcast on WBUR (Boston), February 10, 2000. Accessed December 21, 2007. (RealAudio format.)
Rockcritics.com interview – May 2005
1949 births
Living people
University of Rochester alumni
American film critics
American women film critics
American literary critics
American women literary critics
American music critics
American women music critics
Critics employed by The New York Times
People from Mount Pleasant, New York
American women journalists
Women writers about music
21st-century American women | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet%20Maslin |
The queen butterfly (Danaus gilippus) is a North and South American butterfly in the family Nymphalidae with a wingspan of . It is orange or brown with black wing borders and small white forewing spots on its dorsal wing surface, and reddish ventral wing surface fairly similar to the dorsal surface. The ventral hindwings have black veins and small white spots in a black border. The male has a black androconial scent patch on its dorsal hindwings. It can be found in meadows, fields, marshes, deserts, and at the edges of forests.
This species is possibly a close relative to the similarly colored soldier butterfly (or tropical queen, D. eresimus), in any case, it is not close to the plain tiger (D. chrysippus, African queen) as was long believed. There are seven subspecies.
Females lay one egg at a time on larval host plants. Larvae use these plants as a food source, whereas adult butterflies feed mainly on nectar from flowers. Unpalatability to avian predators is a feature of the butterfly; however, its level is highly variable. Unpalatability is correlated with the level of cardenolides obtained via the larval diet, but other compounds like alkaloids also play a part in promoting distastefulness.
Males patrol to search for females, who may mate up to 15 times a day. Male organs called hair-pencils play an important role in courtship, with males with lower hair-pencil counts being selected against. These hair-pencils may be involved in releasing pheromones during courtship that could attract female mates.
Taxonomy
The queen is a member of the genus Danaus, which includes D. plexippus (monarch) and D. eresimus (soldier). It is of the family Nymphalidae of the order Lepidoptera. There are as many as eleven subspecies recognized. It is a native of the Nearctic and Neotropical realms. The conservation status of this species is secure, with no reported management needs.
Life cycle and morphology
Females lay small white eggs one at a time on larval host plants, usually members of the milkweed subfamily Asclepiadoideae. The egg hatches into a black caterpillar with transverse white stripes and yellow spots, and three pairs of long, black filaments. The caterpillar feeds on the host plant and sequesters chemicals that make it distasteful to some predators. It then goes through six instars, after which the larva finds a suitable spot to pupate. The adult emerges 7 to 10 days afterwards. The queen butterfly has multiple generations per year.
Egg
The queen butterfly oviposits one egg at a time. Each individual egg can be found on leaves, stems, and flower buds of the host. The eggs are usually pale green, ovate to conical in shape, with a flattened base and slightly truncated top, and is longitudinally ribbed with raised cross-lines between the ridges. Compared to that of the monarch butterfly, the egg of the queen butterfly is taller relative to its width.
Caterpillar
The mature queen caterpillar is darker and not as brightly colored as the monarch caterpillar. It is nearly identical to the caterpillar of Danaus chrysippus.
In the larval stage, the queen is bluish-white dorsally, with a reddish-brown underside. It has three pairs of black, fleshy tentacles—one is on the head, one is on the second thoracic segment and one is on the eighth abdominal segment. When mature, the caterpillar is brown with purplish prolegs. It has been observed with the following color variants of its transverse stripes: blue, green, yellow, white, and blackish brown. The head is black with white rings. The caterpillar lacks spines, and there is no hair on its body.
Pupa
The pupa is relatively short and thick, tapering rapidly at the end of the abdomen. It is pale green, rarely pale pink, and is frequently ornamented with golden spots. A black transverse band edged with gold is on the abdomen. Below this black abdominal band lies another one in blue. The pupa has very few projections; most notably, it is suspended by a long cremaster from a button of silk. As such, the pupa resembles a pendant.
In general, the pupa of the queen is smaller and more slender than that of the monarch.
Butterfly
The queen butterfly is related to two species to which it bears a striking resemblance: the monarch (Danaus plexippus) and the soldier (Danaus eresimus).
The queen is a moderately large butterfly, with an average wingspan of to . It is easily distinguishable from its relative the monarch by its darker brown ground colour, and lack of stripes decorating the wings. The queen bears a closer resemblance to the soldier (Danaus eresimus). It possesses a very tough and flexible chitinous exoskeleton, unlike most other butterflies.
Its wing coloration varies from bright, reddish brown to rich chocolate-brown, with black marginal bands that are dotted with white or yellow. The underside of the wing resembles the upper wing, but is paler. The queen has less-prominent veins on its wings and lacks the darker, apical shading found in the monarch.
Both sexes are morphologically similar. The male's and the female's forewing lengths range from to , with a mean length of . The antennae lack scales. Although all danaids have two pairs of walking legs, the forelegs, the first pair located on the prothoracic segment of the abdomen, are reduced and not used for locomotion. The forelegs are relatively smaller in the male than in the female. The female uses its short forelegs to scratch the surface of a leaf to determine which ones are suitable hosts for its eggs. In both sexes, the reduced forelegs lack claws.
The male queen has an androconium, a specialized, scale-covered scent-pouch, on each of its dorsal hindwings. The positions and structures of androconia are used to identify different genera. The male also has an extensible hair-pencil on each side of its abdomen, which exudes sex pheromones. The abdominal hair-pencils, when in contact with the androconium scales, are able to disseminate pheromones near the female at integral stages of courtship.
Distribution and habitat
The queen belongs to a family (Danaidae) that is common to both New and Old Worlds, specifically found throughout the tropics and into the temperate regions of the Americas, Asia, and Africa. Stray specimens are found in Europe.
The queen is chiefly a tropical species. In the US, it is usually confined to the southern portion of the country. It can be found regularly in peninsular Florida and southern Georgia, as well as in the southern portions of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California. Occasionally, the subspecies of the queen can be found somewhat north, in Kansas, Colorado, and Utah. Periodically, a stray may be found in the Midwest, such as in Missouri. The berenice subspecies is found largely in the Southeast and the strigosus in the Southwest. The queen is also found in Cuba.
It is more common in southern Central America, with numbers beginning to rise in Mexico. The queen can be found as far south as Argentina.
Although the queen does not undertake dramatic migrations like the monarch, most undertake short-distance travel at tropical latitudes in areas that have a distinct dry season. During those periods, the queen will fly from lowlands to high elevations.
Throughout its distribution, the queen can be found on open land, in meadows, fields, and marshes. It displays a more xeric preference in Hispaniola and will fly to the edge of, but seldom penetrate, hammocks and forests. In the southern US, the queen prefers open woodland, fields, and desert.
Food sources and host plants
Larval host plants and food sources
The queen larvae feed on Apocynaceae (milkweeds and dogbanes). It can survive on a number of hosts. Common plants include butterflyweed (Asclepias tuberosa) and bloodflower (Asclepias curassavica). In the West Indies, blunt-leaved milkweed (Asclepias amplexicaulis) and honey vine (Cynanchum laeve) are favored. The caterpillar has also been observed on Asclepias nivea, Calotropis procera, and Apocynaceae nerium. Other reported host genera include Apocynum, Cynanchum (former Sarcostemma species), Gonolobus, and Stapelia.
Adult food sources and host plants
As an adult, its feeding habits are less specific. The butterfly feeds predominantly on nectar from flowers and dead foliage, but can also feed on rotting fruit, sweat, and dry or wet dung, among other substances.
Even as an adult, the queen is drawn to milkweeds (Apocynaceae). However, the butterfly is also attracted to the Nerium, Funastrum, Vincetoxicum, Philabertia, Stapelia.
In addition to the above food sources, males are attracted to Heliotropium, Eupatorium, Senecio, and Crotalaria, plants known to contain the alkaloid lycopsamine. The alkaloid and other precursor compounds from these plants are used to create pheromones used to attract mates. Pheromone precursors are predominantly obtained from Boraginaceae, Asteraceae, and Fabaceae.
Defense
The queen is one of many insects that derives chemical defenses against its predators from its food plant. Most of the toxic cardenolides that make queens so unpalatable to its predators are sequestered from larval host plants.
Mimicry in cardenolide-derived defense
For quite some time, the queen had been regarded as highly unpalatable to its vertebrate (mainly avian) predators. This is due to the fact that the queen, like its cousin the monarch, feeds largely on Asclepiads. As the queen and the monarch are closely related, it was assumed that the queen also possesses the ability to effectively sequester and store cardenolides present in milkweeds. As such, the queen and the Florida viceroy was long regarded a classic model-mimic example of Batesian mimicry, similar to the relationship exhibited by the monarch and the viceroy.
However, the unexpected failure of birds to reject successive queens in an experimental setting called into question the legitimacy of this relationship. In fact, experimental evidence suggested that Florida viceroys could be significantly more unpalatable than representative queens. Because experimental evidence showed sampled queens were significantly less distasteful than viceroys, it was purported that Florida viceroys and queens were Müllerian co-mimics. Furthermore, evidence from this study led to the hypothesis that the queen actually enjoys an asymmetric mimicry relationship, gaining an advantage from flying in the company of the relatively more unpalatable viceroy.
Palatability spectrum
Further experimentation suggested that chemical defense of queens is highly labile. It was shown that queens reared on the high-cardenolide A. curassavica sequester and store levels of cardenolides similar to those found in monarchs. These butterflies were regarded as very distasteful and were largely rejected by avian predators. Furthermore, those that were eaten elicited high rates of distress behavior. However, queens reared on S. clausum, a larval host plant known to be a very poor cardenolide source, contain no detectable cardenolide and are essentially palatable to predators. These highly variable responses of avian predators to queens reared on different plants suggest the existence of a food-plant-related palatability spectrum in Florida queen butterflies.
Micro-geographic differences in the environment lead to variation in the dynamics of mimetic relationships even at a local level. Spatiotemporal variation throughout different areas lead to large differences in unpalatability of queens separated by only a few kilometers. This extensive variation supports the idea that automimicy occurs at the intrapopulation level – palatable queens mimic individuals that have higher cardenolide content. By extension, interspecific mimicry is also highly variable. At hydric inland sites, which contain large numbers of A. curassavica, queens and viceroys are distasteful Müllerian mimics of one another, while at coastal sites queens probably serve as the palatable Batesian mimics of viceroys.
Noncardenolide-derived defense
Queen unpalatability does not directly mirror either food plant or butterfly cardenolide content. Evidence suggests that the interaction of cardenolides and noncardenolides are utilized for chemical defenses in milkweed butterflies.
Wild queens that fed upon S. clausum as larvae but had access to adult-obtained compounds, such as the pyrrolizidine alkaloids (PAs) used for pheromone production, were observed to be significantly less palatable to avian predators than butterflies without chemical defenses. As such, these alkaloids, which are known to deter spider predators, may make a substantial contribution to queen distastefulness.
Mating
Males patrol all day to seek females. Females can mate up to 15 times, a significantly higher number than other members of Lepidoptera. Courtship and mating typically happen in the afternoon. Once a male and a female mate, the butterflies may remain coupled for more than an hour. Mated pairs often rest on foliage high up in a tree. Later, the female will fly closer to the ground than normal to find a suitable host for egg deposition.
Courtship
During courtship, which occurs while both butterflies are in flight, the male everts his hair-pencils and brushes them against the female's antennae. This act is called "hair-pencilling." The secretion associated with these hair-pencils plays an important role in seducing the female. When the female comes to rest, the male hovers closely above her and subjects her to further “hair-pencilling” before alighting next to the female and copulating with her. Afterwards, the two engage in a postnuptial flight - the male flies with the female dangling beneath him.
Pheromone
The chemicals that comprise the pheromone are secreted by trichogen cells, which are located at the base of each hair-pencil. This liquid secretion moves from these cells, through the cuticle of the hairs, to coat the numerous free, cuticular dust particles that adhere to the hair-pencil surface. Two of the chemicals that comprise this secretion have been identified – a crystalline pyrrolizidinone (ketone) and a viscous terpenoid alcohol (diol). The diol imparts a stickiness that allows the secretion to stay on the dust, and the dust on antennae. The ketone is a releaser pheromone, inducing females to mate. Although insufficient levels of ketone present in the dust particle correlates to lower seductive capacity in the male, some males with low levels of ketone – and even some without hair-pencils – have been known to mate successfully with females. This suggests that although hair-pencil pheromones are of major importance, they are not absolutely essential to mating.
Importance of hair-pencils
Many butterflies possess extrusible brushlike structures, called hair-pencils. In the queen, the hair-pencils, which are present in the posterior abdomen in the male, are tucked away when the male is not interacting with the female. As such, these organs are thought to serve as important tools for pheromone dissemination during courtship.
Hair-pencils play an important role in courtship success. Although the lack of hair-pencils does not affect the rate at and enthusiasm with which males pursue females, males without hair-pencils experience significantly lower success in achieving copulation. Male queen butterflies with physically normal but chemically deficient hair-pencils also suffer from lower mating success. In addition, adult female queens whose antennae have been blocked are not receptive to advances from competent male queens. However, physical contact between the male's hair-pencil and the female's antennae does not affect a male's mating success. Males without hair-pencils are no less fertile than males with hair-pencils.
That actively hair-pencilling males emit a very definite odor that can even be perceived by humans also supports the idea that it is not the hair-pencil itself that is important in courtship, but rather, the pheromone which the hair-pencil transports.
References
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Danaus (butterfly)
Butterflies of Asia
Butterflies of Africa
Butterflies of Europe
Butterflies of North America
Butterflies of Central America
Butterflies of the Caribbean
Insects of the Dominican Republic
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USS Hopping (DE-155) was a in service with the United States Navy from 1943 to 1947. In 1944, she was converted to a and redesignated "APD-51". She was sold for scrap in 1966.
History
USS Hopping was named in honor of Lieutenant Commander Hallsted L. Hopping, commanding officer of Scouting Six, embarked on the aircraft carrier , killed in action during the 1 February 1942 Marshall Islands Raid. LCDR Hopping was the first U.S. Navy aircraft squadron commander to lose his life in World War II. She was launched at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, on 9 March 1943, sponsored by Mrs. H. L. Hopping, widow of Lieutenant Commander Hopping; and commissioned on 21 May 1943.
Battle of the Atlantic
The new destroyer escort conducted a shakedown cruise out of Bermuda and after escorting an LST convoy to Norfolk, Virginia, made a voyage to Casablanca, where she arrived on 2 September 1943. There Hopping formed with a new convoy and returned to New York on 25 September.
In the year that followed Hopping made nine convoy crossings from New York to United Kingdom ports, bringing vital supplies for the war in Europe. While en route to Britain on 3 May 1944 a sister ship, , was torpedoed and seriously damaged as the escort vessels stalked a U-boat. Hopping helped to drive off the marauder with numerous depth charge attacks, and then took Donnell in tow. Struggling for two days in heavy seas, she managed to bring her sister ship within range of British salvage ships off Ireland, which towed her into Derry.
Pacific War
Hopping returned to Frontier Base, Staten Island, during October–November 1944, where she was converted to a . Reclassified APD-51, she underwent shakedown training in Chesapeake Bay and departed Norfolk on 20 December 1944 to take part in the Pacific War, then entering its climactic stage. The new transport steamed via the Panama Canal and San Diego to Pearl Harbor, anchoring there on 15 January 1945. There she trained with Underwater Demolition Teams, the Navy's famed "frogmen", until 13 February, when she got underway for the Philippines. Hopping arrived at Leyte Gulf on 4 March to prepare for what was to be the last great amphibious campaign of the war, Okinawa.
Hopping sailed for Kerama Retto on 21 March with UDT-7 embarked, and during the early days of the campaign carried out many reconnaissance and demolition assignments. When not putting frogmen ashore, the ship acted as screening ship for larger units off Kerama Retto, and while on this duty assisted in splashing several aircraft the night of 28/29 March. As Marines landed on Okinawa itself on 1 April, Hopping turned to screening and patrol duties, fighting off numerous Japanese air attacks. While in Buckner Bay on a reconnaissance operation on 9 April, the ship engaged a concealed enemy shore battery, and while silencing the gun, sustained several damaging hits. As a result, she proceeded to Ulithi for repairs, arriving there on 23 April 1945.
Hopping was soon back in the thick of the fighting at Okinawa, however, returning on 17 May to resume screening duties as the air and land battles raged. She remained off Okinawa continuously until the island was secured fighting off countless mass attacks by the desperate Japanese. The ship sailed on 8 August with a convoy bound for Leyte, and while in the historic gulf on 15 August learned of the surrender of Japan.
The ship's first occupation duty was to aid in the evacuation of former prisoners of war from Japan. She arrived in Japan on 11 September and disembarked over 100 former Navy and Marine prisoners at Guam on 19 September. Following convoy duty and anti-mine work in Japanese and Philippine waters, Hopping got underway from Tokyo Bay on 24 November 1945 with returnees for the United States. She arrived San Diego on 11 December.
Dcommissioning and fate
Hopping departed San Diego on 17 December and after spending short periods at Charleston, South Carolina, and Norfolk, arrived at Green Cove Springs, Florida, on 27 April 1946. She decommissioned on 5 May 1947; entered the Atlantic Reserve Fleet; and remained berthed with the Texas group until she was struck from the Navy List in September 1964, and sold on 15 August 1966 to Boston Metals Company, Baltimore, Maryland.
Awards
Hopping received one battle star for World War II service.
References
External links
Buckley-class destroyer escorts
Charles Lawrence-class high speed transports
World War II frigates and destroyer escorts of the United States
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Kenneth Turan (; born October 27, 1946) is an American retired film critic, author, and lecturer in the Master of Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California. He was a film critic for the Los Angeles Times from 1991 until 2020 and was described by The Hollywood Reporter as "arguably the most widely read film critic in the town most associated with the making of movies".
Early life
Turan was raised in an observant Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York. He received a bachelor's degree from Swarthmore College and a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University. At Swarthmore, he was roommates with the mathematician and science fiction author Rudy Rucker.
Career
Turan started his professional career around 1970s. Before becoming a film critic, Turan was a staff writer for The Washington Post From 1969 to 1978. In-between, he was a sportswriter in 1971, and by 1976 became a feature writer.
Turan was a film critic for The Progressive, a magazine published in Madison, Wisconsin. He had also written for TV Guide, California magazine and GQ. In 1991 he became a film critic for The Los Angeles Times. In 1993, he was named the director of the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes. Around 2000, Turan joined the NPR to cover the Cannes Film Festival for them. After several years at NPR, he joined NPR's Morning Edition as a film critic. Turan founded the KUSC radio program Arts Alive. He provides regular movie reviews for NPR's Morning Edition and serves on the board of directors of the Yiddish Book Center.
Turan announced his retirement from The Los Angeles Times on March 25, 2020. The last film he reviewed was the German film Balloon.
He is featured in the documentary For the Love of Movies: The Story of American Film Criticism (2009) discussing his public quarrel with film director James Cameron, who e-mailed the Los Angeles Times editors calling for Turan to be fired after he wrote a scathing review of Titanic (1997). Cameron accused Turan of using an "incessant rain of personal barbs" and using his "bully pulpit not only to attack my film, but the entire film industry and its audiences".
Publications
Not to Be Missed: Fifty-Four Favorites From a Lifetime of Film (2014)
Free for All: Joe Papp, the Public, and the Greatest Theater Story Ever Told (2009) with Joseph Papp
Now In Theaters Everywhere. (2006)
Never Coming To A Theater Near You. (2004)
Sundance to Sarajevo: Film Festivals and the World They Made. (2002)
Call Me Anna: The Autobiography of Patty Duke. (1987)
I'd Rather Be Wright: Memoirs of an Itinerant Tackle. (1974)
Sinema: American Pornographic Films and the People Who Make Them. (1974)
The Future is Now: George Allen, Pro Football's Most Controversial Coach. with William Gildea (1972)
Awards
2006: Special Citation; National Society of Film Critics Awards.
2013: Luminary Award for Career Achievement; Los Angeles Press Club
2014: Media Legacy Awards; Cinequest Film & Creativity Festival.
References
External links
NPR biography
USC Kenneth Turan
1946 births
Living people
American film critics
National Society of Film Critics Members
Jewish American journalists
People from Brooklyn
Swarthmore College alumni
University of Southern California faculty
NPR personalities
Los Angeles Times people
Journalists from New York City
20th-century American journalists
American male journalists
21st-century American journalists
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Alex Kindy, M.D. (January 8, 1930 – May 6, 2011) was a Canadian politician. Kindy was born in Warsaw, Poland.
His first attempt at entering federal politics was in the 1962 federal election when he ran as an "Independent Liberal" in the Quebec riding of Maisonneuve—Rosemont. He placed last out of five candidates (including the official Liberal candidate) and won 942 votes.
Kindy subsequently joined the Progressive Conservative party and attempted to win a seat from the Quebec riding of Sherbrooke running as "Alexandre Kindy" in the 1968, 1972 and 1974 elections, placing third on each attempt behind the Liberal and Social Credit candidates.
He subsequently moved to Alberta where he won the Tory nomination for Calgary East in the 1984 federal election and was elected to the House of Commons of Canada. He was re-elected in the 1988 federal election in what had become the riding of Calgary Northeast
Kindy was known for his anti-Communist views, and opposed the prosecution of Ukrainians and Balts in Canada accused of perpetrating Nazi war criminals during World War II. He and a fellow Tory MP, Andrew Witer, attempted in 1987 to delay the passage of legislation designed to allow the prosecution of Nazi war criminals in Canada.
Kindy remained a backbench supporter of the Brian Mulroney government until 1990 when the government attempted to pass the Goods and Services Tax into legislation. Kindy, David Kilgour, and Pat Nowlan all opposed the GST and voted against it in the House of Commons resulting in their expulsion from the Progressive Conservative caucus on April 10, 1990. Kindy continued to sit as a Progressive Conservative MP, though outside of caucus, until May 5, 1993, when he formally became an Independent. He ran for re-election as an independent candidate in the 1993 federal election, and although his stand against the GST was popular with his constituents, he was defeated, coming in fourth place behind Art Hanger of the Reform Party of Canada and the official Progressive Conservative candidate.
The publisher of Comrade J: The Untold Secrets of Russia's Master Spy in America after the End of the Cold War, a book which alleges Kindy was recruited as a spy for the Soviets, halted shipments of the book to Canada due to legal considerations. The book is based on recollections by Sergei Tretyakov, a Soviet spy in Ottawa.
References
External links
Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Alberta
Progressive Conservative Party of Canada MPs
Independent MPs in the Canadian House of Commons
1930 births
2011 deaths | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex%20Kindy |
Jessica Schram is an American actress, model and singer. Her most notable roles include Hannah Griffith in Veronica Mars, Rachel Seybolt in Life, Karen Nadler in Falling Skies and Cinderella/Ashley Boyd in Once Upon a Time.
Early life
Jessica Schram was born in Skokie, Illinois to John and Kristie Schram. She was raised in Buffalo Grove, Illinois and graduated from Buffalo Grove High School in 2004. Schram modeled and appeared in television commercials as a child, and began performing in musical theatre at age 12. Schram moved to Los Angeles after graduation to pursue a career in acting.
Career
Early in her career, she appeared in television commercials for Retin-A Micro and Kentucky Fried Chicken. Her first on-screen appearance was a role as Larissa in the episode "Number One Fan" of Nickelodeon's sitcom Drake & Josh. In 2005, she played Susan Davis on Hallmark Channel's Jane Doe series of television movies. She also appeared in four episodes of the television series Veronica Mars as Hannah Griffith, who becomes Logan Echolls' girlfriend. She has appeared in several guest starring television roles, including CSI: Miami, Without a Trace, House, Ghost Whisperer, Medium, The Mentalist and Boston Legal.
In 2008, she starred in the drama film Keith and appeared as Tracy in the comedy film American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile (2006). She was featured on Maxim magazine's website in their "Today's Girl" feature. In 2009, she was featured in a music video for J. R. Richards' song "A Beautiful End". Schram appeared in Tony Scott's action thriller film Unstoppable (2010), playing Darcy, the estranged wife of Chris Pine's character.
In 2011, Schram joined the main cast for the first season of the TNT science-fiction series Falling Skies. Her character was reduced to a recurring role in seasons two and three, then to guest appearances in season four. Between 2011 and 2016, Schram appeared in four episodes of the television series Once Upon a Time, playing Cinderella/Ashley Boyd. She reprised the role in the 2013 premiere of Once Upon A Time In Wonderland.
In 2012, she portrayed Christine Kendal on ABC's military drama series Last Resort. In 2015, Schram portrayed Cash Gray in the fourth season of musical drama series Nashville. She landed a role as Jennifer in crime thriller film Shot Caller (2017), which received generally positive reviews from critics. In December 2019, Schram was cast as Dr. Hannah Asher on the NBC's drama series Chicago Med Initially a recurring role in the series's fifth season that ended with the sixth season's premiere, she returned in season seven in a series regular capacity.
Schram is also a singer-songwriter and has toured with Chicago blues artist Joan Baby.
On June 18, 2023 Schram married longtime boyfriend Sterling Taylor in her hometown of Chicago.
Filmography
Television
Film
References
External links
21st-century American actresses
Actresses from Chicago
American film actresses
American television actresses
Living people
People from Buffalo Grove, Illinois
People from Skokie, Illinois
Year of birth missing (living people) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessy%20Schram |
Paul Cecil Hayward (11 January 1954 – 9 May 1992) was a professional rugby league footballer who played for the Newtown Jets between 1973 and 1978.
Sporting career
Paul Hayward played 73 first grade games for the Newtown Jets during his 6 seasons with the club, scoring 14 tries and kicking 43 goals.
Originally a South Sydney junior league player from the Waterloo Waratahs club, he later represented a combined Sydney representative side that toured New Zealand in 1976 playing half-back. Paul Hayward had been selected to represent Australia as a boxer at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. Under the Olympic rules of that time, he was disqualified from competing after he turned professional.
Arrest and incarceration
Hayward was the brother-in-law of convicted criminal Neddy Smith. After the football season for 1978 had ended, Neddy Smith sent Hayward to Bangkok with Warren Fellows to arrange a shipment of heroin. On 11 October 1978, Hayward and Fellows were arrested at the Montien Hotel in Bangkok when a suitcase containing heroin was found in his room. He and Fellows were convicted in Thailand, alongside William Sinclair, for attempting to export 8.4 kilograms of heroin to Australia.
Paul Hayward received a 30-year sentence while Warren Fellows received life. Hayward was imprisoned in Lard Yao men's prison in Klong Prem Central Prison before being moved to Bangkwang. After being transferred back to Lard Yao he was released on 7 April 1989, after being granted a royal pardon. He returned to Sydney, via Perth shortly afterwards.
Decline and death
Hayward became a heroin user during his time in prison and contracted HIV.
On Saturday 9 May 1992, Hayward was home with his family when he collapsed in the bathroom about 3pm, a police spokeswoman said. Ambulance officers tried unsuccessfully to resuscitate him and he was announced dead on arrival at Canterbury Hospital. Later it was pronounced that he died of a heroin overdose. He was survived by his wife Gail and his three children.
References
Further reading
Fellows, W., Marx, J., The Damage Done, Pan Macmillan Australia 1997,
1954 births
1992 deaths
Australian drug traffickers
Australian people imprisoned abroad
Australian rugby league players
Criminals from New South Wales
Deaths by heroin overdose in Australia
Newtown Jets players
Prisoners and detainees of Thailand
Rugby league players from Sydney
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The Philadelphia Youth Orchestra (PYO) is an American youth orchestra that is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The orchestra's current music director is Louis Scaglione.
Regarded as one of the best youth orchestras in the United States, this orchestra works with a "companion ensemble," the Philadelphia Young Artists Orchestra (PYAO), the lower version of PYO, which was established in 1996, and Bravo Brass, a brass ensemble that was founded in 2003.
In 2007, another group, Philadelphia Region Youth String Music, (PRYSM), was added to the program as a string music education ensemble. In 2016, a new companion ensemble, the (YMDO), or Young Musicians Debut Orchestra, was introduced.
Philadelphia Youth Orchestra and Philadelphia Young Artists Orchestra
PYO was conducted by Joseph Primavera for fifty-one years, until 2005 when he retired from the position. The orchestra is now conducted by Maestro Louis Scaglione. Primavera was the music director laureate until he died in 2006.
Members of both orchestras are chosen through highly competitive auditions held in June and September of every year. PYO holds around six concerts a year while PYAO holds around four a year. The orchestras have played music by such composers as Gustav Mahler, Ludwig van Beethoven, Dmitri Shostakovich, Antonín Dvořák, Igor Stravinsky, Leonard Bernstein, Sergei Prokofiev, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Richard Wagner, Richard Strauss, and more. The Philadelphia Youth Orchestra has been widely acclaimed by newspapers such as The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer and The UK Post.
In addition to playing local venues such as Verizon Hall at the Kimmel Center, PYO has participated in numerous international tours with sold-out concerts in countries such as Brazil, Poland, Vienna, China, Czech Republic, Italy, Russia, Jordan, Israel, Spain, England, Switzerland, France, Germany, Argentina, Uruguay, The British Isles, and Australia.
The conductor of the Philadelphia Young Artists Orchestra (PYAO) is Maestra Rosalind Erwin. The Philadelphia Young Musicians Orchestra (PYMO) is led by Maestro Kenneth Bean, and the Philadelphia Region Youth String Music (PRYSM) is directed by Conductor Gloria dePasquale, cellist of the Philadelphia Orchestra.
Famous alumni
David Kwon, violinist
Jae Hoon Kim, clarinetist
Francesca dePasquale, violinist
Joseph Hallman, composer
Elizabeth Pitcairn, violinist
Paul Hewitt, viola
Troy Peters, viola, conductor, composer
Peter Wilson, percussion
Mark Bencivengo, percussion
Paul Lafollette, French horn
Cally Banham, oboe, English horn
Kim Kelter, oboe
Mark J. Donellan, oboe, English horn
Michael Norton, tuba
Joseph McNichols, trumpet
Mike Silvester, clarinet
Dotan Yarden, bassoon
Todd Nichols, percussion, conductor
Robert Peterson, Double Bass, Conductor, and Music Educator
References
Philadelphia Youth Orchestra website
History & Timeline, Philadelphia Youth Orchestra
PYO Celebrates – 75 Years Young, Philadelphia Youth Orchestra
American youth orchestras
Culture of Philadelphia
Musical groups from Philadelphia
1939 establishments in Pennsylvania
Youth organizations based in Pennsylvania
Musical groups established in 1939
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A Special Category Visa (SCV) is an Australian visa category (subclass 444) granted to most New Zealand citizens on arrival in Australia, enabling them to visit, study, stay and work in Australia indefinitely under the Trans-Tasman Travel Arrangement. Currently, there are two categories of SCVs: protected SCV and as non-protected SCV. New Zealanders who had entered Australia before 26 February 2001 are classified as protected SCV holders, and after that date as non-protected SCV holders. The rights of the two categories are somewhat different.
Description
A Special Category Visa is granted to New Zealander passport holders upon arrival to Australia. The SCV remains valid until the visa holder acquires Australian permanent residency or citizenship or has their visa cancelled. The SCV ceases when its holder departs Australia for any reason, but a new SCV is granted on return.
The SCV allows New Zealand citizens to reside in Australia; visit, work and study in Australia; and apply for permanent visas if they meet eligibility requirements. The SCV is technically classified as a temporary visa, despite its holder's residence in Australia not being subject to any limitation as to time imposed by law.
Most New Zealanders are eligible for a SCV, except:
those with TB
those with significant criminal records i.e. being sentenced to more than 12 months' imprisonment combined in total
those who hold temporary or permanent Australian visas
those who arrive in Australia using another passport (e.g. if holding dual nationality). In this case an SCV can be obtained at a Department of Immigration office in Australia upon production of a valid New Zealand passport
those who arrive for specified purposes, such as diplomats and visiting forces, who are normally granted a special purpose visa.
History
The Special Category Visa was created on 1 September 1994 by the Migration Regulations 1994, which created the universal visa system in Australia. Prior to that date, New Zealanders were generally treated as exempt non-citizens in Australia, not requiring a visa for entry. Under the 1994 regulations, New Zealanders entering Australia are treated as having applied for a temporary entry visa, which is automatically granted, subject to health and character considerations, on arrival.
Protected SCV
Until 26 February 2001, SCV holders were generally treated the same as permanent visa holders.
After that date, they are considered protected SCV holders and retain the same rights as permanent residents if they meet one of the following conditions:
In Australia with SCV on 26 February 2001
Was in Australia with SCV for a total of at least a year during the two years prior to that date
Usually in Australia with SCV, away temporarily on 26 Feb 2001, collected an Australian social benefit on that date, and returned before 26 August 2001
They are eligible for most social security benefits without restriction. They are also eligible to apply for Australian citizenship, provided they meet character and health requirements, without needing to apply for permanent residency.
Non-protected SCV
In 2001, Australia introduced a number of changes in the rights of SCV holders. New Zealanders who enter Australia after 26 February 2001, remain in Australia to live and work indefinitely are classed as non-protected SCV holders. They have restricted access to social security benefits; e.g. they are eligible for a one-off 6-month unemployment benefit after 10 years of residence under the current rules. They are also required to apply for and obtain Australian permanent resident status before becoming eligible for Australian citizenship.
During the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia, many SCV holders were ineligible to access Centrelink payments, prompting many to return to New Zealand. On 30 March 2020, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced that Special Category Visa holders would be eligible for AU$1,500 fortnightly payments as hardship assistance following negotiations with New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.
In early July 2022, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese confirmed that SCV holders would be eligible for flood relief assistance following the 2022 New South Wales floods. This flood relief assistance consists of a one-off means-tested payment of A$1,000 for adults and A$400 for children. Ardern welcomed this development as a positive step in Australian-New Zealand bilateral relations.
Permanent resident status
SCV holders fit the commonly understood meaning of the term 'permanent resident' as they are entitled to live in Australia indefinitely, in much the same way as an Australian citizen or a permanent visa holder. However, they are not treated as permanent residents for the purpose of some Australian legislation.
Even in federal migration and citizenship law, there is no standard definition of the term and SCV holders are treated inconsistently.
Section 204 of the Migration Act 1958 includes all SCV holders within the definition of 'permanent resident' on the basis they are 'not subject to any limitation as to time imposed by law'.
The Migration Regulations 1994 exclude all SCV holders from the definition of 'Australian permanent resident', including only permanent visa holders within the definition.
The Australian Citizenship Act 2007 empowers the relevant Minister to declare by legislative instrument whether SCV holders are permanent residents for the purpose of the Act. The current legislative instrument includes some SCV holders, while excluding others.
Resident Return Visa
New Zealand citizens who entered Australia before 1 September 1994 (regardless of the purpose of entry) are considered "former Australian permanent residents", and eligible to apply for a Resident Return Visa (RRV). An RRV can be issued to former Australian permanent residents who wish to restore their permanent residence status. Applicants must demonstrate 'substantial ties of benefit to Australia' and give compelling reasons for any continuous absences of 5 years or more (since their last stay in Australia as a permanent resident, i.e. as a New Zealand citizen entering before 1 September 1994). In the absence of a RRV, the New Zealand citizen will be taken it have made of new entry into Australia.
Additional pathway to permanent residence
Since 1 July 2017, SCV holders who were resident in Australia on or before 19 February 2016 could apply for permanent residence after 5 years in Australia, in a new New Zealand stream within the Skilled Independent (subclass 189) visa. They must:
be resident in Australia for a continuous period of five years prior to application
submit income tax returns which show assessable income at least equivalent to the Temporary Skilled Migration Income Threshold (TSMIT) (i.e. AU$53,900 per annum) for each income year within the five-year period (i.e. the most recent four income years) prior to application, unless they were claiming an income exemption.
pass mandatory health, character and security checks.
On 1 July 2021, the income criteria was relaxed to three income years in the five-year period, one of which must be the most recent income year. This only applied to new applications from that date and did not apply to existing submitted applications.
The stream was temporarily paused to new applications between 10 December 2022 and 1 July 2023 to allow existing applications to be processed. The criteria relating to the period of residence in Australia, the income threshold and health were also removed. The streamlining of processes was an acknowledgement that the existing applicants were long-term residents of Australia who have worked and contributed to Australia's economy. The federal government has indicated that they would be considering future options for New Zealand citizens in Australia.
Until 31 December 2022, New Zealand citizens who were granted the subclass 189 NZ visa were eligible to apply for Australian citizenship after 12 months, in addition to the 5 years as a SCV holder. Since 1 January 2023, New Zealand citizens who have been granted the subclass 189 NZ visa can immediately apply for Australian citizenship without the need to hold permanent residency for 12 months. This also applies to those who were granted the visa prior to this date.
On 22 April 2023, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil, and Immigration Minister Andrew Giles announced Special Category Visa holders who have resided in Australia for four years and meet other residency requirements would be able to directly apply for Australian citizenship from 1 July 2023 without the need to apply for permanent residency. In addition, children born in Australia to a New Zealander from 1 July 2023 will automatically be eligible for Australian citizenship. The announcement was welcomed by New Zealand Prime Minister Chris Hipkins and Oz Kiwi chairperson Joanne Cox for improving New Zealanders' access to Australian citizenship and social security.
Cancellation of SCVs
In December 2014, the Australian Government amended the Migration Act 1958 to introduce "Section 501" which facilitated the deportation of non-citizens who had been imprisoned for twelve months and were deemed by Australian authorities to be of "bad character." By July 2019, nearly 1,600 New Zealanders (including SCV holders) who had been sentenced to 12 months' jail had their visas cancelled and were deported. That same year, the Australian Government indicated it was planning to tighten the Section 501 "character test" by looking at the potential maximum sentence for an offence instead of what the actual sentence was.
The accelerated deportation of New Zealanders (many of whom had spent most of their lives in Australia) under the 501 character test has strained bilateral relations between Wellington and Canberra. While Australian policymakers including Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton and Prime Minister Scott Morrison defended the deportations on law and order grounds, New Zealand policymakers including Justice Minister Andrew Little and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern have criticised the deportations for violating human rights and damaging bilateral relations. By March 2022, 2,544 New Zealanders had been deported from Australia, which accounted for 96% of deportations to New Zealand since 2015. Due to limited family connections, poverty, and poor employment opportunities, many former deportees relapsed into criminal offender. Between January 2015 and March 2022, former deportees accounted for 8,000 offenses including dishonesty, violent crime, drugs, and anti-social behaviour. In addition, the 501 deportation policy also contributed to a surge in organised crime in New Zealand due to the repatriation of Comanchero and Mongol bikie gang members.
See also
Trans-Tasman Travel Arrangement
Australian nationality law
New Zealand nationality law
Permanent Resident of Norfolk Island visa
Temporary protection visa
References
External links
External links
New Zealanders in Australia
Visa policy of Australia
Australia–New Zealand relations
Human rights in Australia
Australia–New Zealand border | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special%20Category%20Visa |
"The Hundred Pipers" is a Scottish song and jig attributed to Carolina Nairne, Lady Nairne and popularised from 1852 onwards. It takes as its themes events during and after the Jacobite Rising of 1745.
Historical background
The song commemorates the surrender of the town of Carlisle to Prince Charles Edward Stuart, on 18 November 1745, when he invaded England, at the head of a mixed army of Highlanders and Lowlanders, after his victory at Prestonpans. He "entered Carlisle on a white horse, with a hundred pipers playing before him, whose shrill music was not calculated to inspire the citizens with confidence in their grotesque conquerors", according to Burtons History of Scotland.
The episode, recorded in the fourth stanza, of two thousand Highlanders swimming the River Esk, when in flood, on the occasion of the capture of Carlise, is not quite correct. It refers to a later period, when Prince Charles made his disastrous retreat from Derby, and Carlisle had been retaken. It was Scots, and not "fell English ground" which they reached on that occasion. But Lady Nairne, by combining the two events, produced a very spirited and successful ballad, which takes a high place among later Jacobite songs.
Composition and popularisation
"The Hundred Pipers" is attributed to Carolina Nairne, Lady Nairne, a prolific songwriter of the period descending from a Jacobite family. The verses appears in the second edition of her Lays from Strathern (1846).
"The Hundred Pipers" does not seem to have been printed as a song until about 1852, when it was issued at Edinburgh in sheet form, with the music arranged by Elizabeth Rainforth. Rainforth, a soprano singer, appears to have been responsible for introducing it to the public, some five or more years after Nairne's death. Rainforth lived in Edinburgh from 1851 or 1852 to 1856, and contemporary publications post reviews of her performance of the song in the capital; and she published the song with her own (and the now standard) musical arrangement in 1852.
The song does not date from the Jacobite period, as is the case with many others now considered in the "classic canon of Jacobite songs", most of which were songs "composed in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but were passed off as contemporary products of the Jacobite risings."
The tune has not been satisfactorily traced, and though it is indexed in the Lays as "Hundred Pipers", no such air is known to exist previous to the date of Lady Nairne's song.
Contemporary versions
In 1998, Scottish singer Isla St Clair recorded a version of "The Hundred Pipers" sung in the old style, for her album When the Pipers Play. This version was also included in the film When the Pipers Play, aired by PBS Television in the United States.
In 1958 Lord Rockingham's XI had a Number One UK hit with "Hoots Mon!", a mainly instrumental rock 'n' roll tune (with Scots-inspired interjections including "Hoots mon! There's a moose... loose... aboot this hoose!") based on the melody of "The Hundred Pipers".
Lyrics
These lyrics are in Scots.
Wi' a hundred pipers, an' a', an' a',
Wi' a hundred pipers, an' a', an' a',
We'll up an' gie them a blaw, a blaw
Wi' a hundred pipers, an' a', an' a'.
O it's owre the border awa', awaIt's owre the border awa', awa'''We'll on an' we'll march to Carlisle haWi' its yetts, its castle an' a', an a'.Chorus:Wi' a hundred pipers, an' a', an' a',Wi' a hundred pipers, an' a', an' a',We'll up an' gie them a blaw, a blawWi' a hundred pipers, an' a', an' a'.O! our sodger lads looked braw, looked braw,Wi' their tartan kilts an' a', an' a',Wi' their bonnets an' feathers an' glitt'rin' gear,An' pibrochs sounding loud and clear.Will they a' return to their ain dear glen?Will they a' return oor Heilan' men?Second sichted Sandy looked fu' wae.An' mithers grat when they march'd away.Wi' a hundred pipers, an' a', an' a',Wi' a hundred pipers, an' a', an' a',We'll up an' gie them a blaw, a blawWi' a hundred pipers, an' a', an' a'.O! wha' is foremos o' a', o' a',Oh wha' is foremost o' a', o' a',Bonnie Charlie the King o' us a', hurrah!Wi' his hundred pipers an' a', an ' a'.His bonnet and feathers he's waving high,His prancing steed maist seems to fly,The nor' win' plays wi' his curly hair,While the pipers play wi'an unco flare.Wi' a hundred pipers, an' a', an' a',Wi' a hundred pipers, an' a', an' a',We'll up an' gie them a blaw, a blawWi' a hundred pipers, an' a', an' a'.The Esk was swollen sae red an' sae deep,But shouther to shouther the brave lads keep;Twa thousand swam owre to fell English groundAn' danced themselves dry to the pibroch's sound.Dumfoun'er'd the English saw, they saw,Dumfoun'er'd they heard the blaw, the blaw,Dumfoun'er'd they a' ran awa', awa',Frae the hundred pipers an' a', an' a'.Wi' a hundred pipers, an' a', an' a',Wi' a hundred pipers, an' a', an' a',We'll up an' gie them a blaw, a blawWi' a hundred pipers, an' a', an' a'.See also
100 Pipers (Whisky Brand)
References
Works cited
Attribution
This article includes text taken from the public domain Characteristic Songs and Dances of All Nations'' by James Duff Brown, 1901.
External links
The Lyrics
"Wi' A Hundred Pipers"
A Hundred Pipers arranged and played on fife
Jacobite songs
Year of song unknown | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Hundred%20Pipers |
Cuyahoga County Airport , also known as Robert D. Shea Field, is a public use airport in northeastern Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States. Owned and operated by Cuyahoga County since 1946, it also serves Lake County and Geauga County. The airport is located 10 nautical miles (12 mi, 19 km) east of downtown Cleveland and sits on the border of three cities: Highland Heights, Richmond Heights and Willoughby Hills. It is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which categorized it as a general aviation reliever airport for Cleveland Hopkins International Airport.
History
Developed in 1928 by Curtiss Wright and operated until closed a privately owned airport in 1930. The airport site remained inactive until nearly the end of World War II. In the spring of 1946, the voters of Cuyahoga County approved a general obligation bond issue for the acquisition of the airport in the amount of $510,000. They purchased the Curtiss Wright Field in December 1946.
In September 1949, the 271-acre Curtiss Wright Field, also known as the Richmond Road Airport, was opened for business. The county officially opened the airport on May 30, 1950.
In the late 1950s, Cuyahoga County hired an engineering firm to develop a master plan for the future of the airport. The plan, created in 1956, called for two runways, hangar facilities and other service area developments for private and business aviation. Shortly thereafter, major expansion of the County Airport began. It included the construction of the first runway in 1959 and later its expansion in 1962. Further development included the acquisition and installation of instrument approach facilities, the construction of a concrete apron and a paved entry road.
In the 1960s, the airport's first two fixed-base operators moved in. County land sales and matching helped to expand the runways and add additional hangars. The growth of air traffic prompted various Airport improvements, and an additional study of land use on and adjacent to the airport. In 1970, The County purchased a mobile air traffic control tower and opened one of the only "non‑federal" control towers in the United States. The facility was taken over by the FAA on May 15, 1971.
By the 1980s, development of the adjacent land into office space and an industrial park had begun. In 1984, an office building was constructed on the flight line and soon became known as the Destination Building. Expansion of the Airport Industrial Park and Curtis Wright Corporate Center II continued throughout the 1990s.
On October 31, 1991, Aviation Administrator Robert D. Shea retired after 42 years of dedicated service. In tribute, Cuyahoga County changed the name of the airport to Cuyahoga County Airport, Robert D. Shea Field.
In 2003, the Airport Division, now under the auspices of the Cuyahoga County Department of Development, was awarded an FAA grant to assist with a Master Plan Update and Runway Safety Area Study Project.
The airport's control tower was shut down for a time in 2013 due to federal budget cuts. It has since reopened.
Airlines and destinations
Cargo
Facilities and aircraft
Cuyahoga County Airport covers an area of 640 acres (259 ha) at an elevation of 879 feet (268 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 6/24 with an asphalt surface measuring 5,102 by 100 feet (1,555 x 30 m).
The facilities includes 6 office buildings in the industrial park, an administrative safety and service complex, 15 hangar facilities and 2 tie down areas to accommodate the 133 based aircraft, a flight school, US Customs, an FAA air traffic control tower, an 18-hole golf course, and an employee base in excess of 2000.
For the 12-month period ending December 31, 2020, the airport had 23,000 aircraft operations, an average of 63 per day: 78% general aviation, 21% air taxi, and <1% military. This is down from 67,662 annual operations in 2010. In 2020, there were 247 aircraft based at the airport, up from 133 in 2010: 169 jets, 59 single-engine and 18 multi-engine airplanes, and 1 helicopter.
As of 2023, the airport has one FBO, which offers fuel – both avgas and jet fuel – and amenities such as conference rooms, a crew lounge, snooze rooms, showers, and a courtesy car.
Businesses
Air Z Flying Service
Private charter service
Aircraft Maintenance Inc.
Aircraft maintenance
Cleveland Jet Center
Hangars, terminal lounge, aircraft cleaning/maintenance
Flexjet
Flight Options
Nextant Aerospace
T&G Flying Club
Flight school, aircraft rental, aircraft management
Accidents and incidents
On February 24, 1994, a Beechjet 400A collided with the terrain during landing at Cuyahoga County Airport. The crew was executing an instrument landing system approach and broke out of the clouds 1,800 feet above ground level. No runway lights were observed, and the pilots attempted to activate them with their radio. By the time the pilots realized they would not land on the runway, it was too late to execute a go-around, and the airplane impacted a grass area between the runway and taxiway Alpha.
On February 10, 2002, a Mitsubishi MU-300 was substantially damaged during an overrun at the Cuyahoga County Airport. The aircraft was arriving on a positioning flight from the Chicago Executive Airport and had been told before departure that a Cessna Citation had reported braking action as fair to good. However, a Hawker jet that landed immediately before the Mitsubishi reported braking action as poor. Upon touchdown, the Mitsubishi's speed brakes were deployed, and maximum braking applied. The PIC noted that anti-skid pulsating did not activate. Deceleration of the airplane was slow and he soon realized the airplane was not going to stop on the runway, and attempting a go-around was not an option due to the amount of runway remaining. The airplane departed the end of the runway at a speed of 20-30 mph, and proceeded onto a down sloping grass overrun area. As the airplane was about to come to a stop, the nose gear struck a mound, and the nose landing gear assembly collapsed. The probable cause of the accident was found to be the pilot's failure to obtain the proper touch down point on the runway, and the pilot-in-commands failure to initiate a go-round. Factors in the accident were the tailwind condition and the snow-covered runway.
On March 27, 2003, a Cessna 172 Skyhawk was damaged during a hard landing at Cuyahoga County Airport. In a written statement, the student pilot said that his airspeed was too high on short final. He flared too high, and the airplane "dropped" and bounced three or four times. The probable cause of the accident was found to be the student pilot's improper flare, which resulted in a hard landing.
On December 18, 2004, a Raytheon Beechjet 400A was substantially damaged after being struck by a ground service vehicle at the Cuyahoga County Airport. The vehicle's driver fell out of the vehicle while trying to retrieve a tow bar, and the unoccupied vehicle struck the plane's right wing. The probable cause of the incident was found to be the loss of directional control by the operator of a ground service vehicle.
On January 4, 2005, an Aero Commander 690A was substantially damaged while landing at the Cuyahoga County Airport. The pilots reported that they conducted a "normal" ILS approach and landing to runway 24; however, during the landing rollout, the airplane began to yaw to the right. Attempts by both pilots to correct the yaw were unsuccessful and the airplane departed the runway surface. The airplane slid sideways and came to a stop partially on the runway and partially on the grass. The airplane crossed a taxiway, impacted two taxiway signs, and then skidded sideways, parallel to runway 24. The probable cause of the accident was found to be the pilot's failure to maintain directional control during landing, which resulted in an impact with a sign.
On April 18, 2006, a Cessna 177 Cardinal sustained substantial damage during a hard landing at the Cuyahoga County Airport. The pilot was practicing takeoffs and landings in the traffic pattern when, on the third landing, the airplane bounced. When it settled back to the ground, it hit the runway hard, and the nose wheel tire went flat. The probable cause of the accident was found to be the pilot's misjudged flare which resulted in a bounced landing, and his inadequate recovery from the bounced landing that led to a hard landing.
On March 30, 2013, a Cessna 310 experienced a bird strike while onducting a practice instrument approach in visual conditions. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the right wing as a result of the collision. The pilot maintained control of the airplane and transitioned to a visual approach, subsequently executing a straight-in, no flap landing without further incident. The probable cause of the incident was found to be a bird strike during a practice instrument approach in visual conditions.
On August 25, 2014, a Cessna 172 Skyhawk crashed after departure from Cuyahoga County Airport. The four people onboard, all students at Case Western Reserve University, all died. In response to the crash, county officials bolstered emergency response services at the airport.
In January 2023, a flight en route to Cuyahoga County Airport made news after crashing in New York. The flight had departed from John F Kennedy International Airport and reported engine trouble, and it crashed while attempting to approach Westchester County Airport in White Plains, New York. Both aboard died.
References
External links
Cuyahoga County Airport
Cleveland Jet Center, the fixed-base operator (FBO)
Aerial image as of October 2001 from USGS The National Map
Airports in Ohio
Transportation buildings and structures in Cuyahoga County, Ohio
Transportation buildings and structures in Lake County, Ohio | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuyahoga%20County%20Airport |
Kwanza Unit (KU) was an early Tanzanian hip hop group. Its name means "First Unit" and it was formed in 1993 by a merger of several groups and solo artists. They started rapping in English, but later used Swahili as well.
Founding members of Kwanza Unit included three of the main hip-hop crews at the time - Villain Gangsters, Riders Posse, and Tribe-X. According to Rhymson, the founding member of Villain Gangsters, the goal of creating Kwanza Unit was to establish Tanzania as a "hip hop nation." Kwanza Unit's plan was to follow in the footsteps of Afrika Bambaataa, the African-American hip-hop innovator who built the Universal Zulu Nation. Just as Afrika Bambaataa had done, Kwanza Unit wanted to promote "Kwanzanian Nation" and ideals. The group created their own ethnic group called Kwanzania which was supposed to be made up of artists, fans, and anyone else who were supporters of their ideas within and outside of Tanzania. Hip-hop was supposed to be the binding force of the Kwanzanian nation in which they had their own way of life, their own values, their own culture, and their own goals. Kwanza unit represented a form of hip-hop nationalism. Just as Afrika Bambaataa tried to inspire efforts to respond to racism and class oppression in the United States, Kwanza Unit wanted to become "heroic warriors resisting oppression". They placed their emphasis not so much on fighting racism but more on recognising and resisting working-class oppression.
During its popularity in the 1990s, Kwanza Unit spoke out against class oppression (specifically working-class oppression), instead of focusing their music solely on fighting racism, as was the common trend. Kwanza Unit tried to develop their music without stories of violence, vulgar language, and images of excessive fame, even though these themes are prominent in the rap music from the United States from which they drew their influences. The language they develop in their rap reflects their particular social and ideological position within Tanzania.
Kwanza Unit was able to achieve international status. They performed twice in Nairobi, Kenya and in 1998 they were invited to Nigeria but couldn't make it because of some problems.
Kwanza Unit's self-titled debut album was released in 1994 and the second tape, Tropical techniques followed the next year. The third album, Kwanzanians was released in 1999, on both tape and CD. The single Msafiri, from Kwanza Unit's third album, Kwanzanians, along with other Tanzanian hip-hop, can be listened to on the website SwahiliRemix.com .
Like members of many other international hip-hop scenes, Kwanza Unit struggled with the complications that came along with American music. Although American hip-hop provided inspiration for the movement in Tanzania, it created cultural tensions as well. One of the members of Kwanza Unit recalled that "while we were recording our album we made a pact that non[e] of us would die before we release[d] our project ..." but then revealed that "[t]hree months later [Nigga One] died in a car crash." This implies an allusion to great figures of American hip-hop, such as Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G., who died at young ages. Although Nigga One was not murdered, the fact that a pact to stay alive was even necessary suggests a dangerous element to hip-hop. Furthermore, the dominance of the English language in hip-hop created a conundrum for Kwanza Unit. At first, rapping was done in English, but slowly hip-hop transitioned into Swahili, as Kwanza Unit and other Tanzanian musicians began to take more ownership over their work.
The roots of Kwanza Unit's mission grew from one of the idolised figures from the United States, Afrika Bambaataa. "Not unlike the Afrika Bambaataa model in the U.S., which had introduced youth to both rap music and hip-hop culture in the ghettoes and barrios of New York, KU wanted to promote, 'Kwanza Unit has moved from a family to a tribe or rather an ethnic group called Kwanzania. Kwanzania is not made up of performing artists only but also fans, supporters and everyone who ids down with KU ideas, within and outside Tanzania." ('Ni Wapi Tunakwenda': Hip-Hop Culture and the Children of Arusha by Sidney J. Lemelle)
Rhymson the founding member of the group, works to get out the good word about rap in most of his interviews. It is not just for "hooligans" and there is a deeper message to listen for. "A big difficulty is that the society at large thinks that rap is for hooligans. This also makes it hard to get airplay. The media wants positive messages.
The thing that is positive to me may not necessarily be positive to you. If the police mistreated me I could curse to ease my tension after having been disturbed by a policeman. If I say that in rhyme, in a poetic way, not necessarily the radio announcer should say this is positive or not. They can always say it's negative to their opinion, cause everybody has a right to their own opinion. In hip hop I can express my views by giving you a challenge, so you come to me the next day and say: What do you mean when you say that?"
The group has since been disbanded, but some of its members continue doing solo music. Kwanza Unit had several members and line-up changes. Among their members were:
Chief Rhymson(Ramadhan A. Mponjika)
KBC (KSingo)
D-Rob (Robert Mwingira) -died 2002
Eazy-B (Bernard Luanda)
Bugzy Malone (Edward Margat)
Papa Sav(Makanga Lugoe)
Abbas Maunda
Baraka
Ndoti Mwingira
Fresh-G
Y-Thang
Gaddy
Adili -died 1994
There is also a wider circle of affiliated members referred to as Kwanza Unit Foundation or Kwanzanians.
External links
www.xs4all.nl
Kwanza Unit profile
Hip Hop African Podcast: Kwanza Unit, Hip Hop, and Pan Africanism in Tanzania
Lemelle, Sidney J. “‘Ni wapi Tunakwenda’: Hip Hop Culture and the Children of Arusha.” In The Vinyl Ain’t Final: Hip Hop and the Globalization of Black Popular Culture, ed. by Dipannita Basu and Sidney J. Lemelle, 230-54. London; Ann Arbor, MI: Pluto Pres
Notes
Tanzanian hip hop groups | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kwanza%20Unit |
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