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The Soyat is a subcompact hatchback built by the Wuxi Soyat (南汽新雅途) branch of Nanjing Automobile (Group) Corporation. The car is based on the original 1984 ('System Porsche') version of the SEAT Ibiza Mark I (1984-1993).
History
After the first generation Ibiza was replaced, the technology and production line were bought by a joint venture between Nanjing Yuejin and the Malaysian Lion Group in 1997. Production did not begin, however, until Fiat took over the Lion Group's share in Jiangsu Nanya Auto, as the company was called.
In 1999 the SEAT design was modified for the Chinese market and then rebranded as the Zhongguo Nanjing NJ6400, later as the modernized and fuel injected GHR Encore. This model continued until October 2003 when the Ibiza license expired and the design had to be updated.
In March 2004 a Chinese mobile phone manufacturer called Ningbo Bird decided that it too wanted to get into the process of car manufacture. With Ningbo Bird joining the original partners in a 50/50 relationship, the new design was renamed the Soyat. Ningbo Bird then left the company in 2005.
In addition to the five-door Soyat hatchback, a four-door tall estate (two on the right-hand side) called the Soyat Unique NJ1020 is also available, using a wider and taller rear end borrowed from the more modern SEAT Inca.
Although the car's design dates back to 1984, it proved reasonably popular. Production numbers have dropped considerably (from 4,261 in 2004 to 705 in the first eleven months of 2007,) as Nanjing's focus switched to more modern and competitive Fiats and then MGs. Engines available were originally the "System Porsche" 1.2 and 1.5-litre (70 and 86 hp), the smaller engine has since been replaced with a 1,342 cc version of Toyota origins. All engines were paired to a 5 speed manual gearbox as standard.
A facelifted model called NJ7150 was launched in 2004 and this was further modified in 2006 for the NJ7150B model with a new front design, but it was all for nothing and by 2008 Soyat production had ended and Nanjing's new owners SAIC closed down the Wuxi factory. The car was also noted to be reliable, cheap to maintain and cheap to buy. Pricing for the Yuejin Soyat ranged from 44,900 yuan to 48,300 yuan (6,280 to 6,760 USD).
Models
Nanjing Yuejin NJ6400 / Encore (英格尔/优尼柯, 1999 - 2003)
Nanjing Yuejin NJ7150 Soyat (英格尔/新雅途, 2004 - 2006)
Nanjing Yuejin NJ7150B Soyat (英格尔/新雅途, 2006 - 2008)
Nanjing Yuejin NJ1020 Unique (优尼柯, four-door tall estate)
These models were mainly sold inside mainland China.
References
Cars of China | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing%20Yuejin%20Soyat |
The Copa del Rey 2005-06 was the 70th edition of the Spanish basketball Cup. It was organized by the ACB and was disputed in Madrid in the Palacio de Deportes de la Comunidad de Madrid between the 16th and 19 February. The winning team was TAU Cerámica.
Brackett
Quarterfinals
Semifinals
Final
MVP of the Tournament: Pablo Prigioni
See also
Liga ACB
Copa del Rey de Baloncesto
External links
2005/2006 Copa del Rey Official Website
Copa del Rey de Baloncesto
2005–06 in Spanish basketball cups
2006 in Madrid | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006%20Copa%20del%20Rey%20de%20Baloncesto |
Salamieh ( ) is a city and district in western Syria, in the Hama Governorate. It is located southeast of Hama, northeast of Homs. The city is nicknamed the "mother of Cairo" because it was the birthplace of the second Fatimid caliph al-Qa'im bi-Amr Allah, whose dynasty would eventually establish the city of Cairo, and the early headquarters of his father Abdullah al-Mahdi Billah who founded the Fatimid Caliphate. The city is an important center of the Shi'ite Nizari Isma'ili and Taiyabi Isma'ili Islamic schools and also the birthplace of poet Muhammad al-Maghut. The population of the city is 66,724 (2004 census).
History
Salamieh is an ancient city occupied at least since 3500 BC, when it was part of ancient Babylonia. It was inhabited by Sumerians by around 3000 BC, Amorites by 2400 BC, Aramaeans by 1500 BC, and Nabateans by 500 BC. The city was destroyed for the first time by the Assyrian Empire in 720 BC. After being rebuilt, the city was part of the Roman Empire. It was ruled by the royal family of Emesa and functioned as a Roman client kingdom. During this period the famous Chmemis Castle was built on the remains of a former volcano northwest of Salamieh.
During the Byzantine period, Salamieh was known as a center of Christianity. The city boasted its own autocephalous archbishop until it was destroyed for a second time in 637 during the Byzantine-Sassanid Wars. The city was again rebuilt in the Islamic era by Abdallah ibn Salih ibn Ali al-Abassi, the Abbasid governor of southern and central Syria. Al-Abbasi's son Muhammad worked to transform Salamieh into an important commercial center. As part of these efforts he settled a number of Hashimites in the city in 754.
According to Isma'ili Muslims, their sixth Imam, Isma'il ibn Jafar died and was buried in the city after going into hiding during the eighth century. The city became the secret headquarters of the Isma'ili movement from the early ninth century until 902, it was from there that missionaries were originally sent for propagating the Isma'ili teachings in different regions. It was from Salamieh, that the Isma'ili Imams secretly guided the activities of their followers from North Africa to Persia, Azerbaijan, and Central Asia. According to conflicting histories, the Isma'ili Imam, and first Fatimid Caliph, Abdallah al-Mahdi Billah was either born in Salamieh or came to the city in 882 from Khuzistan, in modern-day Iran where he was raised by his uncle Abul Shalaghlagh the Hujjah (also called Lahiq) or leader of the Isma'ilis of Salamieh, one of the twelve Isma'ili communities at the time. Abdullah's son Muhammad al-Qa'im bi-Amr Allah, an Isma'ili Imam and the second Fatimid Caliph, was born in Salamieh in the late ninth century, and both left the city to establish the Fatimid state in northern Africa in the early tenth century.
After the death of Abul Shalaghlagh in 899, a dispute arose between Salamieh Isma'ilis due to the fact that he left no male descendants and apparently had designated his nephew Abdullah as his spiritual successor and leader of the Salamieh Isma'ili movement. Thereafter, a schism split the movement, provoked by Abdullah's claims on the imamate for himself and his descendants. Hamdan Qarmat and 'Abdan, who may have previously drifted slightly away from the doctrine propagated by the leadership, broke off their support. Qarmat's followers would eventually be known as the Qarmatians, and after Abdullah fled from Salamieh to found the Fatimid Isma'ili state in North Africa in 899, the Qarmatis would reject the legitimacy of the Fatamids. In 903, Salamieh was destroyed for the third time by an invasion from the rebel Qarmatians under Yahya ibn Zikrawayh.
Salamieh is mentioned by historians as a very small town with limited rural settlement consequent to the Qarmatian invasion until the early Ottoman period. Under the Ottomans, the town served as the centre of a sancak (sub-province) of Tripoli. For most of the sixteenth to eighteenth century, the city was held by a member of the Abu Rish bedouin dynasty serving as Ottoman governors. It was expanded when permission by the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II through a firman in July 1849 gave permission for the emigration of Isma'ilis led by Isma'il bin Muhammad, the Isma'ili amir of Qadmus in northern Syria. Isma'ilis from Qadmus and Masyaf among other smaller towns and villages emigrated to the newly rebuilt city which was first occupied by only sixteen families and by 1861, Salamieh became an agricultural village. The final major Isma'ili immigration to Salamieh occurred in 1919.
Salamieh is currently the largest population center of Isma'ili Muslims in the Arab world. The remains of Prince Aly Khan, the father of the current Nizari Isma'ili Imam Aga Khan IV, are buried in the city. The headquarters of the Isma'ili Shia Higher Council of Syria are in the city, as are dozens of Jama'at Khana. During the mid-twentieth century, Salamieh saw a growth of religious diversity with the building of the first Sunni mosque, and now the city is home to almost a dozen Sunni mosques and a Ja'fari Shia mosque in the city's Qadmusite Quarter which is home to most of the city's Ithna Ashari Shia which migrated to the city after ethnic and religious clashes in their hometown of Qadmus in the early twentieth century. Currently, a little more than half of the city's residents are Isma'ili.
In 1934, Muhammad al-Maghut, the poet credit for being the father of free verse Arab poetry, was born in Salamieh. In 1991, visitors from the Dawoodi Bohra sect of Isma'ili Shia Islam in Yemen built the Mosque of Imam Isma'il adjacent to the grave of the Isma'ili Imam Isma'il. The mosque was built by order of their leader the Da'i al-Mutlaq Mohammed Burhanuddin according to an inscription on the mosque's wall. Although currently used for worship by Sunni Muslims, the mosque and mausoleum are visited in religious pilgrimages by Dawoodi Bohra worldwide.
From 2012 to 2017, with the development of frontlines in Syrian Civil War, the city grew in its strategic importance. With Al-Rastan becoming a pocket outside government control along the Homs-Hama Motorway, and the developments in Idlib governorate resulting in the government also losing control of large segments of the main Hama-Aleppo Highway, the Homs-Salamieh, Hama-Salamieh, and Salamieh-Ithriya-Aleppo roads became major lines connecting these government-held areas. This importance was why the town was the target of occasional ISIL or rebel mortar attacks. Also, some of the town's citizens have participated in protests during the Civil War. The importance of Salamieh diminished following the Syrian Army's securing of the Homs-Hama Motorway on February 1, 2018, during the Northwestern Syria campaign.
Residence history of Salamieh
The residence history of Salamieh is as follows:
"The Ismaili dais in search of a new residence for their Imam came to Salamia and inspected the town and approached the owner, Muhammad bin Abdullah bin Saleh, who had transformed the town into a flourishing commercial centre. They told him that there was a Hashimite merchant from Basra who was desirous of settling in the town. He readily accepted and pointed out to them a site along the main street in the market, where existed a house belonging to a certain Abu Farha. The Ismaili dais bought it for their Imam and informed him about it. Wafi Ahmad arrived to his new residence as an ordinary merchant. He soon pulled down the old building and had new ones built in its place; and also built a new wall around it. He also built a tunnel inside his house, leading to the desert, whose length was about . Money and treasures were carried on camels to the door of that tunnel at night. The door opened and the camels entered with their loads inside the house."The photo placed here shows the mausoleum of the Imam. Near his qabr mubarak ("blessed grave"), the tunnel opening still exists.
Culture
The city is an agricultural center, with a largely agriculture based economy. Mate is extremely popular in Salamieh and a drink of major cultural importance in social gatherings.
Main sights
A hammam of unique architecture, likely dating from the Ayyubid era, sits in the town center, near a large underground Byzantine cistern which is said to lead all the way to Shmemis castle. There also exists one wall from an ancient Byzantine citadel.
The castle, of Roman-Greek origins.
Walls, rebuilt by Zengi
Mosque of al-Imam Isma'il, which originated as an Ancient Greek temple of Zeus, and was turned into a church in Byzantine times.
Remains of Roman canals, used for agriculture
Climate
Salamieh has a cold semi-arid climate (Köppen climate classification BSk).
References
Bibliography
p. 158
External links
Google Satellite Image
Ministry of Tourism
https://web.archive.org/web/20070818010209/http://salamieh.reefnet.gov.sy/
http://www.salamieh.com
Cities in Syria
Emesene dynasty
Ismaili communities in Syria | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salamiyah |
Shimon Yehuda Shkop (; 1860 – October 22, 1939) was Rosh Yeshiva (dean) of the Yeshiva of Telshe, and later of Yeshiva Shaar HaTorah of Grodno. Having innovated a style of Torah study, applying both to Halacha and to Talmud, he was widely regarded as a major Talmid Chacham (Talmudic scholar).
Biography
Early life
Shkop was born in Torez, today in Belarus, in 1860. At the age of twelve he went to study in the Mir Yeshiva for two years. He then traveled to the Volozhin yeshiva where he studied under Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin, "Netziv", for six years. His study partners included Chaim Ozer Grodzinski. Shkop also joined the chaburah of Rav Chaim Soloveitchik, "Chaim Brisker", analyzing the gemara using what would come to be called the "Brisker derech"; he was thus among the first students exposed to the new approach.
Telz and Grodno
Shkop married a niece of Eliezer Gordon, and in 1884 was appointed a rosh mesivta at Telz Yeshiva, where he remained for 18 years.
While there, he developed a system of Talmudic study which became known as the "Telz way of learning;" this approach combined the above, the logical analysis and penetrating insights of Rav. Chaim Brisker and the simplicity and clarity of Netziv.
In 1903, he became rabbi of Moltsh, and in 1907 of Bransk. Among his students in Moltsh was Yechezkel Sarna, who studied under Shkop for a year in 1906, before leaving to the Slabodka yeshiva when Shkop himself left.
From 1920 to 1939 he was Rosh Yeshiva of the Yeshiva Sha'ar HaTorah in Grodno.
Yeshiva University
In 1928, Shkop traveled to the United States in order to raise funds for the Yeshiva. After delivering a lecture at Yeshiva University, he became Rosh Yeshiva of Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary in New York. In 1929, Shkop returned to Europe.
Death
As the Russian army was about to enter Grodno during World War II, Shkop ordered his students to flee to Vilna. He himself died two days later, on the 9th of Cheshvan 5700 (1939) in Grodno. Shkop is buried in the Jewish cemetery in the Zaniemanski Forshtat section of Grodno.
Works
His Sha'arei Yosher (1925), his most important work, is largely concerned with the intellectual principles by which the law is established, rather than with concrete laws, and is stylistically similar to the Shev Shema'tata of Aryeh Leib HaCohen Heller, on which it was partly based.
Other major works include:
Ma'arekhet ha-Kinyanim (1936)
Novellae on tractates Bava Kamma, Bava Metzia, and Bava Basra (1947)
Novellae on Nedarim, Gittin, and Kiddushin (1952)
Novellae on Yevamos and Ketuvot (1957)
Students
Michoel Fisher
Yisrael Zev Gustman
Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman
Shmuel Rozovsky
Yechezkel Sarna
Isser Yehuda Unterman
Elchonon Wasserman
References
External links
Shaarei Yosher Vol 1 with commentaries, Jerusalem, 5770, Harav Daniel Meir Assayag
Shaarei Yosher Vol 2 with commentaries, Jerusalem, 5772, Harav Daniel Meir Assayag
Introduction to Sha'arei Yosher
1860 births
1939 deaths
Kohanim writers of Rabbinic literature
Haredi rabbis in Europe
Lithuanian Haredi rabbis
Rosh yeshivas
Yeshiva University rosh yeshivas
Belarusian Jews
Rabbis from Grodno
Mir Yeshiva alumni | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimon%20Shkop |
Club Baloncesto Lucentum Alicante is a professional basketball team based in Alicante, Valencian Community. Lucentum Alicante played in Liga ACB for the last time in 2012, after selling its place in the league to CB Canarias.
In August 2015, due to its financial problems, it gave its place in LEB Plata to the Fundación Lucentum Baloncesto, created two months before to save the basketball of the city.
Sponsorship naming
Lucentum Alicante has had several sponsorship names during its history:
Ernesto Electrodomésticos 1994–1996
Proaguas Costablanca 2000–2001
Etosa Alicante 2002–2007
Alicante Costablanca 2007–2008
Meridiano Alicante 2009–2011
Team logos
Players
Season by season
Trophies and awards
Trophies
LEB Oro: (2)
2000, 2002
Copa Príncipe: (2)
2002, 2009
Lliga Valenciana: (3)
2004, 2006, 2011
Individual awards
All-ACB Team
Lou Roe – 2004
Notable former players
Lucio Angulo
José Manuel Calderón
Juan Ignacio Sánchez
Pablo Prigioni
Andy Rautins
Mindaugas Katelynas
Martynas Andriuškevičius
Velimir Perasović
Vule Avdalović
Lou Roe
Kyle Singler
Serkan Erdoğan
Kaloyan Ivanov
References
External links
CB Lucentum Alicante Official Website
Lucentum
Lucentum
Basketball teams established in 1994
Basketball teams disestablished in 2015
Former Liga ACB teams
Basketball teams in the Valencian Community | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CB%20Lucentum%20Alicante |
You Are What You Eat is a British dieting programme presented by Trisha Goddard and Amir Khan that broadcasts on Channel 5. The show was originally broadcast on Channel 4, before moving to Channel 5 in 2022 for its revived series. Both the Channel 4 and Channel 5 versions of the show were produced by CPL Productions (formerly Celador).
The show originally ran from 2004 until 2006 on Channel 4 with controversial host Gillian McKeith. On 5 March 2021 it was confirmed the show would be revived with Goddard and Khan replacing McKeith as host, with the first episode of the new series broadcast back-to-back on Channel 5 with Dr Amir's How To Give Up Sugar (and Lose Weight) (also known as Dr Amir's Sugar Crash) on 5 January 2022.
You Are What You Eat was also the title of an American film from 1968. The phrase "You are what you eat" was first expressed by Ludwig Feuerbach in 1863 (German: .).
Original run
The show originally ran for four seasons on Channel 4 with Gillian McKeith as host from 2004 until its cancellation in 2006.
The show often uses shock tactics to get the participants to lose weight. In each episode, all food eaten in one week by the person(s) taking part is placed on a table to highlight problem areas of their diet. Another technique is the analysis of the participant's faeces by McKeith to detect certain problems and make them known to the person involved. This aspect of the show gained McKeith the nickname "The Awful Poo Lady". Emphasising the possibility of the participant's death is sometimes used, with references to children they might not see growing up or a mock grave being prepared. Generally, editions would have these scenes in the first part of the show followed by the participant's attempts to follow McKeith's diet and exercise regimes in the second. The fourth series was expanded from half to one hour programmes, with the contestants moving to McKeith's London house and being visited overnight at their homes for inspection.
Controversy
In the first series of the show, McKeith was sometimes referred to as "Doctor", and she has continued to use the title in some media, although the later series referred to her as a "holistic nutritionist", using the title "Ms. Gillian McKeith" at some points. It emerged in December 2005 that Gillian McKeith has no accredited doctorate. McKeith received her PhD via a distance learning programme from the American Holistic College of Nutrition, Alabama, which later became the Clayton College of Natural Health before closing in 2011. The Clayton College of Natural Health stated that it was "accredited by the American Association of Drugless Practitioners and the American Naturopathic Medical Accreditation Board". However, this accreditation was never recognised by the U.S. Secretary of Education.
McKeith is also a member of the American Association of Nutritional Consultants, a controversial organisation which seeks to enhance the reputation of Nutritional and Dietary Consultants by consolidating them into a professional organisation. It offers examination and certification, or association membership which does not require an examination but requires the payment of the $60 membership fee.
Revived series
On 5 March 2021, it was confirmed that the series would be revived on Channel 5, starting on 5 January 2022 with a 6-episode run with Trisha Goddard and Dr Amir Khan taking over from Gillian McKeith, who presented the original series on Channel 4. On the announcement of the revived series Goddard said "I never looked at any of the previous shows. I’m more into understanding people. TV’s moved on since then. We are more aware now that if someone’s got a problem with food it’s usually a demonstration of something deeper”.
Khan also added in regards to previous host McKeith: "I try to avoid anything she tweets really because we are on very different paths. I didn't watch her shows much. I remember her going into people's houses with a Tupperware of poo and sifting through it and thinking, 'This is gross'. It's a different kind of show this time, I think most people will see that. It's a far more scientific approach. I know through my job that shock tactics don't work. It's about understanding people's lifestyle. One of the approaches Trisha and I had is that a lot of diets and exercise regimes are based on people of a Caucasian background. So this time we had people on from a black [or] South Asian background".
Transmissions
International versions
Localized versions of You Are What You Eat were produced by Viasat and aired in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Hungary and the Czech Republic. Viasat was the first company in the world to adapt the format locally. MTV3 also produced a local version of the show in Finland. The show was a success and it was the frequently most viewed show in Finland. A local version as well as the original one was also aired in Belgium.
Spin-offs
In 2004 Celador International (now CPL) arranged a deal with the publisher of the A Place In the Sun magazine, Brooklands Group, to publish a spin-off magazine for You Are What You Eat with the publication featuring advice from Dr Gillian McKeith, tips on healthy eating, recipes and exercise. The cover price was £2.60, with the first issue being published in January 2005 to accompany the new series of the show, then broadcast by Channel 4.
McKeith also contributed a number of recipes to You Are What You Eat Cookbook published by Penguin, the follow-up to the original You Are What You Eat book which was at number one in the UK bestselling books chart for 10 weeks. On 27 December 2004, a spin-off video of You Are What You Eat was issued on DVD and VHS by Lace International.
Bibliography
You Are What You Eat - 80 Simple, Healthy Recipes (2022)
References
External links
2000s British documentary television series
2020s British documentary television series
2004 British television series debuts
Channel 4 documentary series
Channel 5 documentary series
Television series by Seven.One Studios
Television series by Sony Pictures Television
British television series revived after cancellation
English-language television shows
Weight loss | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%20Are%20What%20You%20Eat |
Vâlvă (plural vâlve) is a female spirit mentioned in the Romanian folklore. The Vâlve are believed to walk over the hilltops at night, and are subdivided into Vâlve Albe ("White Vâlve"), who are considered beneficial, and Vâlve Negre ("Black Vâlve" or "Dark Vâlve"), who are considered evil. In certain contexts, they are believed to have human form (especially when they came to protect villages from a storm). They may also appear under various guises, such as shadows or black cats. They also have the ability to shapeshift.
Types of Vâlve
The Vâlve include several types, among which are: Vâlva Apei ("of the water"), considered as a sort of guardian of the water sources and fountains; Vâlva Bucatelor (roughly, "of the morsels"), protector of the poor people, and of crops; Vâlva Băilor ("of the mines"), defender and protector of mines and tunnels, whose departure means that the deposit is coming to an end; Vâlva Banilor ("of the money"), protector of money; Vâlva Comorilor ("of the treasures"), protector of treasures, who can also signal the spot where these are buried; Vâlva Pădurii ("of the forest"), protector of woodlands, similar to Muma Padurii; Vâlva Ciumei ("of the plague"), controlling bubonic plague and other diseases; Vâlva Zilelor ("of the days"), protector of the days (there is one for each day of the week); Vâlva Cetăţilor ("of the citadels"), defender of ancient ruins.
Vâlve of the mines
The best known among oral tradition are, still, the Vâlve of the mines. Legends about them flourish around traditional metal exploitation areas in Romania, such as Roşia Montană, a place extremely rich not only in gold, but also in folklore and myth. There, the people still say that you cannot find any gold in the mines without the help of a Vâlvă (which is white). But if one gets too greedy, or spends the money foolishly, or if someone steals the gold or money from the family it was originally revealed to, the Vâlvă will become a black one and will not stop until she will avenge the injustice and disrespect to her. Miners say that anyone can hear her knocking through the galleries just in the next corridor, even if there is no knowledge of that place in the rock or if you know for sure no one can be there at that time. She is producing that strange sound to search for gold to show them, or to help them not get lost. If they don't listen to her advice, the galleries collapse on them.
See also
Culture of Romania
Religion in Romania
Romanian legendary creatures
Romanian words and phrases
Female legendary creatures | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A2lv%C4%83 |
Piperno is a magmatic rock present in areas where there has been volcanic activity. Piperno abounds in Campania; the areas from which it was obtained were the city of Quarto, Soccavo, Pianura and Nocera Inferiore in the supervolcano region of the Phlegraean Fields. The Piperno layer, with the overlying Breccia Museo, is clearly visible at the base of the Camaldoli hill, in the Soccavo and Verdolino areas.
This type of ignimbrite tuff takes on a particular texture characterised by the orientation of lenticular concentrations of grey colour, called flames, immersed in a matrix of the same colour but lighter. Piperno should not be confused with Neapolitan Yellow Tuff; welded piperno tuff is more durable than yellow tuff, which poses conservation challenges.
Piperno rock is not easy to extract, and is helped by underground separation of the large blocks that are subsequently worked; it is resistant to the wear and tear of atmospheric agents and for this reason it has been widely used for the cladding of buildings in Naples. Currently it is no longer extracted as the underground quarries in Pianura and Soccavo are exhausted.
Campanian piperno is a cousin to peperino tuff from Lazio.
References
Geology
Volcanic rocks | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piperno |
LEV is a submarine telecommunications cable system in the Mediterranean Sea linking Italy, Cyprus and Israel.
It has landing points in:
Mazara del Vallo, Province of Trapani, Sicily, Italy
Yeroskipou near Paphos, Cyprus
Tel Aviv, Israel
Terrestrial section (Shown in blue) to:
4. Catania, Sicily, Italy
It has a design transmission capacity of 20 Gbit/s, starting operation at 5 Gbit/s and a total cable length of 2,600 km. It started operation in March 1999.
The cable consists of a cable with 2 fiber pairs. Each fiber pair has the initial design capacity of 8 wavelengths of around 1550 nm wavelength, which capable to carrying traffic at a data rate of 2.5 Gbit/s each.
The landing points are arranged in a ring, where each 2 landing points have exactly one fiber pair connecting them.
The system today serves mainly as a backup system to the newer and higher-capacity MedNautilus cable system.
References
mednautilus network - Map including LEV Network
Submarine communications cables in the Mediterranean Sea
Israel–Italy relations
Cyprus–Israel relations
1999 establishments in Cyprus
1999 establishments in Israel
1999 establishments in Italy | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEV%20%28cable%20system%29 |
Irene Hamilton-Oldfather (born 1954 in Glasgow) is a Scottish Labour Party politician. She was the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Cunninghame South constituency from 1999 until 2011, when she was defeated by the SNP's Margaret Burgess.
During her time in Parliament, Oldfather served primarily on the European and External Relations Committee, acting as Convener for parts of both the 1999 and 2007 Sessions, and as Deputy Convener between 2003 and 2007. She was also co-chair of the Parliament's working group on prescription drug dependency. She was a member of North Ayrshire Council, being first elected in 1995, but was defeated in the 2017 Scottish local elections. She served as the council's vice-chair for education.
Oldfather is the director of the Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland. She was a history lecturer at the University of Arizona.
She attended Bank Street Primary and Irvine Royal Academy. She attended the University of Strathclyde, graduating with a BSc (Honours) and MSc in Politics.
References
External links
1954 births
Living people
Labour MSPs
Members of the Scottish Parliament 1999–2003
Members of the Scottish Parliament 2003–2007
Members of the Scottish Parliament 2007–2011
Female members of the Scottish Parliament
20th-century Scottish women politicians | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irene%20Oldfather |
The 1955 Guild of Television Producers and Directors Awards were presented at the "Television Ball", held at the Savoy Hotel in London. They were the first major television awards of their kind in the United Kingdom. Following the Guild's merger with the British Film Academy they later became known as the British Academy Television Awards, under which title they are still given.
Winners
Actor
Paul Rogers
Actress
Googie Withers
Designer
Michael Yates
Personality
Sir Mortimer Wheeler
Production
Christian Sampson
Writer
Iain McCormack
Writers Award
Iain McCormack
References
Sources
Archive of winners on official BAFTA website (retrieved February 19, 2006).
BAFTA entry at the Encyclopedia of Television (retrieved February 19, 2006).
External links
http://awards.bafta.org/
1955
Guild of Television Producers and Directors Awards
Guild of Television Producers and Directors Awards | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1955%20Guild%20of%20Television%20Producers%20and%20Directors%20Awards |
100.4 Jazz FM (launched as JFM 100.4) was an independent local radio station for the North West England playing jazz music. 100.4 Jazz FM played its own music from its Salford studio during the day, whereas specialist shows like Dinner Jazz and Legends of Jazz with Ramsey Lewis were networked from London's 102.2 Jazz FM. The station was replaced by Smooth FM 100.4 in 2004.
History
In 1993, Golden Rose Communications was awarded the regional FM licence for the North West, beating ten other applications for the licence.
Jazz FM was launched as JFM on 1 September 1994 and broadcast from Exchange Quays, in Salford, England. It was originally known as JFM in order to try to appeal to more listeners who were put off by the "jazz" in Jazz FM. The station name reverted to Jazz FM, a decision also made to its sister London station in 1995 when Richard Wheatly became chief executive officer for Golden Rose Communications. Jazz FM originally played a wide variety of jazz, pandering to more smooth jazz during the daytime to attract the 25- to 45-year-old target market Jazz FM needed to make the station a success. The station before the rebrand, however, played more soul and softer R&B alongside jazz.
In 2003, the Guardian Media Group did extensive research into the type of music the listeners in the north-west wanted to listen to. They concluded that many people were put off by the name "jazz" in the station name. As a result, 100.4 Jazz FM closed on 13 February 2004 and relaunched as 'Smooth FM' on 1 March 2004.
Smooth FM 100.4 relaunched as Smooth Radio 100.4 in March 2007 at the same time as London based 102.2 Smooth FM.
Return to the airwaves
On 28 February 2008 GMG Radio's chief executive John Myers made an announcement that Jazz FM would be brought back in the North West, London and the West Midlands on DAB. Myers also said that he believed it would make more sense for there to be a dedicated radio station for jazz listeners than the commitments to play jazz on Smooth Radio 100.4, as required by the licence granted to them by Ofcom. The closure of theJazz on Digital One was also part of the reason for the return of Jazz FM. The relaunch of jazzfm.com, under a three-year deal with The Local Radio Company happened on 6 October 2008.
See also
Jazz FM (UK)
Smooth FM 100.4
102.2 Jazz FM
102.2 Smooth FM
References
External links
100.4 Smooth FM, which replaced 100.4 Jazz FM
Media UK article on 100.4 Jazz FM
Aircheck UK article on Lancashire, Merseyside and the North West radio stations (includes information on 100.4 Jazz FM) (Archived 19 October 2009)
Radio stations in England
Mass media in Salford
Defunct radio stations in the United Kingdom
Jazz radio stations in the United Kingdom
Radio stations established in 1994
Radio stations disestablished in 2004
1994 establishments in England
2004 disestablishments in England | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100.4%20Jazz%20FM |
Pittance (through Old French pitance and from Latin pietas, loving-kindness) is a gift to the members of a religious house for masses, consisting usually of an extra allowance of food or wine on occasions such as the anniversary of the donor's death, festivals, or other similar occasions. The word was early transferred to a charitable donation and to any small gift of food or money.
See also
Tithe
Mass stipend – gift to a priest for saying mass
References
Mass (liturgy) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittance |
Vanessa Fisk (née Marianna) is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. She is married to the crime boss the Kingpin (Wilson Fisk) and is the mother of Richard Fisk, although she herself is not portrayed as a villain, and does not approve of her husband's criminal activities. Vanessa has been featured in a number of stories about the Kingpin, usually in those revolving around the superheroes Daredevil and Spider-Man.
Vanessa Fisk has been adapted in other media, including live-action appearances within the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), where she is portrayed by Ayelet Zurer in the first and third seasons of the Netflix television series Daredevil (2015–2018), and by Sandrine Holt in the Disney+ series Daredevil: Born Again (2024).
Publication history
Created by writer Stan Lee and artist John Romita Sr., Fisk first appeared in The Amazing Spider-Man #70 (March 1969).
Fictional character biography
Little is known about Fisk's personal life and early years other than her maiden name "Marianna". Despite being married to Wilson Fisk, the "Kingpin" of New York's criminal underworld, she did not approve of his criminal activities. At one point their son Richard Fisk became involved in a plot to overthrow his father's criminal syndicate after discovering he was the Kingpin.
After the Kingpin had a near-death experience, Vanessa gave him an ultimatum; he had twenty-four hours to get out of crime, or she would leave him. The Kingpin was about to kill Spider-Man when the deadline passed, and Vanessa forced him to choose between Spider-Man's life or their life together. He chose Vanessa and spared Spider-Man as a result.
The two went into retirement in Japan. Kingpin prepared to settle his remaining business with his fellow mobsters by cooperating with the authorities and leaving the world of crime forever. This infuriated one of Kingpin's closest advisors, Lynch, who believed that Vanessa was a liability and had turned the once mighty Kingpin into a henpecked husband. When Kingpin's former lieutenants in New York caught wind of his plans to sell them out in exchange for immunity, they kidnapped Vanessa, who was in town to secure the legal services of Matt Murdock and Foggy Nelson.
Kingpin started a gang war against the mob in New York to rescue Vanessa. The mob bosses attempted to ransom Vanessa in exchange for the evidence against them Kingpin had intended to turn over to the authorities, but during the exchange, Kingpin used a sonic device to stop the criminals, and found Vanessa bound and gagged in a building. However, Lynch fired an explosive at Vanessa, in an attempt to deprive Kingpin of the thing that kept him retired and bring him back as the Kingpin of Crime. She was buried alive in the rubble and presumed dead, although she did not actually die. As planned, this drove Kingpin back into the world of crime, although he found out Lynch was behind the explosion, partially due to a headache he gained, and took revenge by murdering him. He then forced the remaining mob leaders to confess to hiring the assassin Bullseye to kill several of Kingpin's men.
Weeks later, Matt Murdock's alter ego, Daredevil, found Vanessa in the sewers. Being buried alive had left Vanessa amnesiac and mentally unstable, and she ended up taken in by a mutant who lived in the sewers. Daredevil ultimately used her as leverage to force Kingpin to order his puppet Randolph Cherryh, newly elected to the office of Mayor, to resign and to confirm to the media that he was indeed a mob puppet. After reuniting with her Kingpin had Vanessa, now-catatonic, sent to a sanitarium in Europe to have her regain her sanity. This would take years, and Kingpin's organized crime empire would fall and be rebuilt during the period that Vanessa was institutionalized.
Ultimately Vanessa recovered, and she remained in Europe. When Kingpin was the victim of an assassination attempt orchestrated by her son, Vanessa arranged for Kingpin to be shipped out of the country to recover from his injuries, and cut a deal with his fellow mob bosses to divide up his recently rebuilt crime syndicate in exchange for a truce. Vanessa then murdered her son, who admitted to Vanessa that his motivation was to rid the family of his father, who he blamed for his family's troubles.
Murdering her son had a physical toll on Vanessa, causing her to lose the will to live, which along with the injuries she sustained when she was buried alive, resulted in terminal organ failure. Blaming both Kingpin and Murdock, who had recently been revealed to be Daredevil, for the cycle of violence that had consumed her family, Vanessa faked the death of Foggy in an attempt to provoke Murdock into killing Kingpin while they were both in prison. When that failed, she manipulated the superhero Iron Fist into posing as Daredevil, which ultimately drove Murdock to break out of prison to find Foggy's murderer and the identity of the man impersonating him, culminating in her confronting Murdock with an offer to clear his name in exchange for him clearing Kingpin, so they would be free to try and kill each other anew.
Though Daredevil refused this deal, Vanessa went ahead and arranged for the murder of Leland Drummond, the corrupt FBI director who outed Matt in order to advance his own career within the FBI. To discredit his outing of Daredevil, the murder was made to look like a suicide and a false suicide note was planted at the scene, claiming that Drummond killed himself after it became apparent that his scheme to frame Matt Murdock was about to be exposed. Shortly afterwards, Vanessa died and Murdock was guilted into serving as the Kingpin's lawyer, getting the charges dropped on the grounds that the evidence was too tainted to bring him to court. Daredevil forced the crime boss to renounce his American citizenship and leave the country forever in exchange for his legal services, stating that any attempt to continue their vendetta would be an insult to the memory of Vanessa.
Kingpin is later seen at her grave where he breaks down emotionally. She has since been talking to him as a ghostly vision taunting him that he will never regain his former glory, an indication that her death still greatly affects him.
The Arbiters bring Vanessa back as a revenant as a part of a test intended to gauge the Kingpin's worth as the head of the Hand. Reluctant to combat her, Fisk tries to appeal to whatever humanity that she may still have left in her, and kills her when she still flings her weapons at him, unaware that she was aiming at the assassin approaching him from behind.
The new Jackal "reanimates" Vanessa in an attempt to coerce the Kingpin into allying with him in Dead No More: The Clone Conspiracy. While initially receptive, the Kingpin responds by killing Vanessa after she declares their son can be revived as well, while declaring, "That wasn't my wife. That was an abomination".
After Mayor Fisk starts planning to have Peter Parker killed, as he is the roommate of Fred Myers who is blackmailing him, the mysterious undead entity Kindred appears in his cabinet. He kills Fisk's associates using supernatural abilities and forces him to back off Parker after revealing he is in possession of Vanessa's soul.
Mayor Fisk planned to revive Vanessa by obtaining the Tablet of Life and Destiny and its sister counterpart the Tablet of Death and Entropy. Upon getting his hands on both tablets, Fisk uses its abilities to revive Richard Fisk as Kingpin realized that Vanessa would not be pleased with her resurrection. He did this as an act of redemption for Vanessa and even himself.
Other versions
In the Marvel/DC crossover book Batman & Spider-Man: New Age Dawning #1, Vanessa is infected with terminal cancer by Ra's al Ghul, who offers the Kingpin the cure for it in exchange for his help in a plot that will destroy New York. Disgruntled under Ra's, the Kingpin forms an alliance with Spider-Man and Batman and succeeds in defeating Ra's, only to be denied the cure for Vanessa's cancer by the beaten eco-terrorist. Vanessa is cured near the end of the storyline by an antidote provided by Ra's al Ghul's daughter Talia al Ghul, who recognizes Vanessa as a kindred spirit, as both of them loved men that society would regard as monsters.
In the alternate universe of Marvel Zombies 3, it is revealed that she was not infected or eaten when the zombies took over the world, but has been secretly kept alive by the zombified Kingpin, who is able to control his hunger for human flesh when she is around, but when the Kingpin's clone factory is destroyed by Machine Man and Jocasta, he consumes Vanessa.
Vanessa Fisk appears as an important background character in Ultimate Spider-Man. The Kingpin seeks the Tablet of Time, as it alleged to have powers that Kingpin hopes may awaken Vanessa from a coma, but it is stolen by the Black Cat. Later, after Kingpin sets fire to Daredevil's law office, Daredevil breaks into his home and threatens to murder the comatose Vanessa, but is stopped by Spider-Man. Kingpin orders Vanessa to be taken out of the country before he is arrested himself over the attempted murder of Moon Knight.
In the Punisher Max series, set in Marvel's MAX universe, Vanessa is married to the Kingpin, but their marriage collapses as Wilson Fisk's takeover of the mob causes the death of their eight-year-old son Richard. Vanessa blames Wilson for not preventing Richard's death, and after she attempts unsuccessfully to kill him for this, he evicts her from their home. Later, in order to protect himself from the Punisher, Kingpin hires Elektra as a bodyguard. It is revealed that Elektra was actually hired by Vanessa, who is plotting the Kingpin's downfall, and that the two women are lovers. After the Kingpin is killed by the Punisher in issue #21, Vanessa has his body cremated and flushes his ashes down a toilet. She appears ready to take charge of her husband's former empire, as her chauffeur calls her "Madam Kingpin", but in issue #22, she is ambushed and killed by Nick Fury.
In other media
Television
Vanessa Fisk appeared in the animated Spider-Man, voiced by Caroline Goodall. In the episodes "Tablet of Time" and "Ravages of Time", she is one of the few characters aware of Wilson Fisk's criminal empire. Eventually, Vanessa decides to divorce Wilson and leaves for good, unable to deal with being married to a criminal.
Vanessa Marianna appears in the Marvel Television Netflix series Daredevil, portrayed by Ayelet Zurer.
She is a series regular in season 1. Vanessa is the owner of the Scene Contempo art gallery in Manhattan. Wilson Fisk first meets Vanessa while contemplating artwork and is instantly smitten with her, soon asking her out on a date. Their first date goes smoothly, but is interrupted when Russian mob boss Anatoly Ranskahov barges in seeking to demand Fisk's response his earlier offer of support. The dinner leaves Vanessa somewhat perturbed, while Fisk is outraged to the point of taking Anatoly to a vacant lot and bashing in his head with a car door. For their second date, Wilson takes the extra precaution of buying out the restaurant so as to avoid interruptions and Vanessa reveals she carries a gun in her purse, aware of his true nature. After Fisk's ally Madame Gao threatens the mobster in his own apartment, James Wesley takes the initiative of bringing Vanessa over to calm his boss down. At Vanessa's suggestion, Fisk decides to go public and paint himself as a savior of Hell's Kitchen. This incurs the ire of Madame Gao and corrupt financier Leland Owlsley, who try to have Vanessa killed by spiking her champagne at a charity gala that Fisk is hosting. Wilson manages to get Vanessa to the hospital in time, and she recovers. When Fisk is later arrested after the law firm of Nelson & Murdock get corrupt police detective Carl Hoffman to confess that Fisk had blackmailed him into killing fellow dirty cop Christian Blake, he hastily proposes to Vanessa, which she accepts. When Fisk is recaptured, Vanessa is taken out of the country by Wilson's men.
Vanessa is mentioned, but does not appear, in season 2. Most of Fisk's remaining financial assets are set aside to establish a "protection fund" for Vanessa, allowing her to hide safely overseas while her husband is awaiting trial. Suspecting Fisk to be behind Frank Castle's escape, Matt Murdock provokes Fisk in jail into attacking him by threatening to make a call to the State Department to have Vanessa's American visa revoked.
At the start of season 3, it's mentioned that the authorities are seeking Vanessa for questioning as an accessory to Fisk's crimes. Not wanting to be separated from her any longer, Fisk agrees to be an informant for FBI Agent Rahul "Ray" Nadeem to get out of prison, while secretly planning to manipulate him for his own benefit. In "One Last Shot", Vanessa returns from exile in Barcelona and is reunited with Fisk. She moves into his penthouse in the Presidential Hotel along with his new assassin and enforcer Benjamin "Dex" Poindexter, and insists on helping her husband rebuild his businesses. After foiling Nelson & Murdock's attempt to get Fisk indicted by having Nadeem testify before a grand jury, Vanessa is allowed to give orders on Fisk's behalf. She instructs fixer Felix Manning to have Dex murder Nadeem. This proves to be everyone's undoing, as Nadeem had made a confession video prior to his death listing all the crimes that Fisk made him commit, which Karen posts on the Internet. Meanwhile, Matt ends up turning Dex against Fisk when he learns from Felix that Fisk had killed a woman close to him. Subsequently, Dex dresses up as Daredevil and attacks Fisk and Vanessa at their wedding reception. He then follows them up into the penthouse and tries to kill Vanessa, but Matt intercedes and a three-way fight breaks out between him, Fisk, and Dex that ends with Fisk breaking Dex's back. After the fight is over, Matt forces Fisk to return to jail and leave Karen and Foggy alone under threat of Vanessa's role in Nadeem's death being exposed. Vanessa is last seen being taken away by the NYPD as Brett Mahoney refuses to let Fisk give her one last goodbye in a final act of revenge.
Vanessa Fisk is set to appear in the Marvel Studios Disney+ series Daredevil: Born Again, played by Sandrine Holt.
Film
Vanessa Fisk appears in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, voiced by Lake Bell. This version never knew about her husband's criminal activities, until she and Richard Fisk witnessed him fighting Spider-Man, and fled in horror. While driving away, Vanessa and Richard were hit by an oncoming truck and killed. This motivated Wilson to create a particle accelerator in order to find alternate versions of his family in other universes.
Novel
Vanessa Fisk appears in the novel Spider-Man: Forever Young, written by Stefan Petrucha. She is featured in a retelling of the "Tablet" storyline that introduced the villain Silvermane. The novel is set two years after the events of the original storyline, with Vanessa approaching Spider-Man to help her steal the Tablet from Silvermane so that she can use it to cure her husband - currently in a trauma-induced coma - offering in return to use her family's resources to assist a seriously ill May Parker (aware that Peter Parker and Spider-Man are connected without knowing that they are the same man). However, Vanessa later abandons the idea of using the tablet after witnessing what it has done to Silvermane, who is constantly aging back and forth from childhood to old age due to the mystical powers of the Tablet. Nevertheless, she covers May's medical bills as agreed, leaving a message for Peter explaining that he lived up to his end of their arrangement, and acknowledges that he is not at fault that the nature of the Tablet meant that it was far too risky to use its power on her husband.
References
External links
Characters created by John Romita Sr.
Characters created by Stan Lee
Comics characters introduced in 1969
Daredevil (Marvel Comics) characters
Spider-Man characters
Fictional crime bosses
Fictional female gangsters
Fictional female murderers
Female characters in comics
Marvel Comics female supervillains | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanessa%20Fisk |
The Hong Kong Strategic Route and Exit Number System () is a system adopted by the Transport Department of the Hong Kong Government to organise the major roads in the territory into routes 1 to 10 for the convenience of drivers. When the system was implemented in 2004, the government promoted it with a major public campaign, including the slogan "Remember the Numbers; Make Driving Easier" ().
The system comprises ten major series of roads in Hong Kong, numbered routes 1 to 10, which can be classified into three categories: the three north-south routes, the six east-west routes and the New Territories Circular Road. The route numbers are displayed as black on yellow "road-shields" on overhead road signs.
Parts of the road system are limited-access roads, and a significant portion of these roads are expressways. The system also utilises exit numbering with the exits of each route are numbered sequentially; some exit numbers are suffixed with a letter. Exit numbers are indicated by white-in-black rectangular boxes on overhead and roadside signs.
Features
There are no traffic lights on the expressways. Traffic interchange with other roads is entirely via slip roads, maximising vehicular flow and land space usage. There are some stack interchanges.
The Strategic Route System has traffic lights on only a few roads, such as Waterloo Road (Route 1) and Kwun Tong Road (Route 7).
The road surface is asphalt. The lanes are separated by white dashed lines, while unbroken white lines are used to mark the edges of the median and shoulder. The shoulder is reserved for stops due to breakdowns and emergencies, and motorists are prohibited by law from travelling on it. Lanes are numbered from right to left, with lane 1 being the closest to the median. Crash barriers, cat's eyes and rumble strips are also used to ensure road safety. Signs mark the start and end of an expressway at its entry and exit points respectively. These expressways do not have rest areas.
The speed limits for most vehicles (see the paragraph below for exceptions) on the Hong Kong highways are 110 km/h for North Lantau Highway, 100 km/h for the New Territories roads and West Kowloon Highway, 80 km/h for the most expressways and 70 km/h, due to the older ones such as Island Eastern Corridor, East Kowloon Corridor, West Kowloon Corridor and Tsuen Wan Road. A speeding offence less than 10 km/h over the speed limit is not usually enforced. Subsequently, many drivers in Hong Kong drive at a speed that is 5-10 km/h more than the speed limit. If drivers are travelling at a speed of 15 km/h more than the speed limit, speed limit enforcement cameras will be activated and drivers may receive a fine.
As stipulated by the Laws of Hong Kong Cap 374 s 40 (5) and (5A), medium goods vehicles, heavy goods vehicles and buses or any vehicle driven by a driver with a probationary driving licence shall travel no faster than the speed limit of the road or 70 km/h, whichever is slower; while minibuses shall travel no faster than the speed limit of the road or 80 km/h, whichever is slower. Many vehicles of these types actually ignore this and simply follow the speed limit of the road on the Hong Kong highways, thereby committing speeding offence. However, this law is not usually enforced – cameras are not tuned to be triggered differently by these types of vehicle.
Route number system
The three north-south routes are Route 1, Route 2, and Route 3. They connect Hong Kong Island, metro Kowloon and the New Territories via a series of flyovers and tunnels. They pass through the three tunnels crossing Victoria Harbour, and their sequence of numbering follows the order of opening dates of the three tunnels:
Route 1: Cross-Harbour Tunnel (opened 1972)
Route 2: Eastern Harbour Crossing (opened 1989; formerly Route 6)
Route 3: Western Harbour Crossing (opened 1997)
The five east-west routes — Route 4, Route 5, Route 6, Route 7, Route 8 and Route 10 — are numbered from south to north. Route 4 runs along the north shore of Hong Kong Island, connecting the eastern and western ends of the island, whereas Routes 5, 6 and 7 link southern New Territories with parts of Kowloon. Route 8 provides direct access to Chek Lap Kok Airport, and was extended to Sha Tin in 2008. Route 10 provides access to the border crossing at Shekou, Shenzhen.
Route 4: formerly Routes 7 and 8 (opened 1990)
Route 5: formerly Tsuen Wan – Ngau Tau Kok section of Route 2 (opened 1970-1980s)
Route 6: comprises the Central Kowloon Route, Trunk Road T2, Cha Kwo Ling Tunnel (under construction) and the Tseung Kwan O-Lam Tin Tunnel (partially completed as of 2022)
Route 7: formerly Route 4 (opened 1970s)
Route 8: formerly Route 9 (Tsing Yi – Airport section opened 1997; Tsing Yi – Cheung Sha Wan section opened December 2009; Cheung Sha Wan – Sha Tin section opened 2008)
Route 10 (opened 2007)
The circular route, Route 9, circumscribes the New Territories, with the exit at the Shing Mun Tunnels in Sha Tin as the starting point of exit-numbering. It links up the network of expressways and trunk roads in the New Territories into a large ring.
Route 9: formerly Route 5 + Fo Tan – Lok Ma Chau section of Route 1 + Tsuen Wan – Lok Ma Chau section of Route 2 (construction from 1974–2007)
Exit number system
In parallel with route numbering, the junctions between routes and exits from routes are also labelled with exit numbers. On every route, exits are numbered from one end to the other with ascending consecutive integers with a mixture of alphabet-suffixed labels (1, 2, 2A, 2B, 3, 4... etc.), similar in function to UK motorway junction markers.
History
First generation
The first generation of the route number system in Hong Kong was envisaged in the 1968 Hong Kong Long Term Road Study by Freeman, Fox, Wilbur Smith & Associates, in which trunk routes were given single-digit numbers, and distributors with double-digit ones. Also included in the road study was an unnumbered Western Harbour Crossing (WHC), which in the plan involved a bridge crossing the Victoria Harbour between Cherry Street in Mong Kok and Kennedy Town, by way of Stonecutters Island and Green Island.
Numbered routes included in the study were:
1: Aberdeen to Fanling, via Aberdeen Tunnel, Cross-Harbour Tunnel, Lion Rock Tunnel, Tai Po Road
11: Ngau Tau Kok to Butterfly Valley Interchange, via Prince Edward Road East, Prince Edward Road West and Lai Chi Kok Road for westbound, Cheung Sha Wan Road and Boundary Street for eastbound
12: Kowloon City to Mong Kok, via Argyle Street and Cherry Street, connecting to WHC
14: connecting routes 1 and 4, via Choi Hung Road and Po Kong Village Road
2: Junction between route 1 and Chatham Road to Sheung Shui, via Gascoigne Road, West Kowloon Corridor, Kwai Chung Road, Tsuen Wan Road, Tuen Mun Road, Castle Peak Road
21: Chatham Road South
22: Ferry Street and Canton Road
23: Nathan Road and Tai Po Road until Tai Wo Ping Interchange
3: Junction between route 1 and Chatham Road to Yau Tong via Kai Tak Tunnel (then Airport Tunnel) and Kwun Tong Road
31: Ma Tau Wai Road and Ma Tau Chung Road
4: Butterfly Valley Interchange to Kwun Tong, via Ching Cheung Road, Lung Cheung Road and a suggested flyover of what was to become Kwun Tong Bypass
41: Kwun Tong to Tseung Kwan O (then Junk Bay)
42: Choi Hung Interchange to Clear Water Bay
5: Kwai Chung to Sha Tin, via what was to become Shing Mun Tunnels
6: Castle Peak Road, Kwai Chung and Tsuen Wan sections
7: Aberdeen to Causeway Bay, via suggested road between Aberdeen and Kennedy Town, Connaught Road, Harcourt Road and Gloucester Road
71: Pok Fu Lam Road, Third Street and Water Street
8: Causeway Bay to Chai Wan via suggested flyover above King's Road; predecessor to present-day Island Eastern Corridor
81: Chai Wan to Wong Chuk Hang by way of Tai Tam and Repulse Bay; never built
Second generation
The second generation of route numbers came into use in 1974. All distributors lost their numbers, retaining only trunk routes in the system. It was replaced in 2004 by the present-day third generation. At the new system's conception, some numbers were reserved for future road plans at that time. There were 11 routes in the system, of which nine (routes 1 to 9) were used as of 2004.
1: Aberdeen to Lok Ma Chau, 47.3 km, previously route 1. Split into routes 1 and 9
2: Ngau Tau Kok to San Tin, 54.4 km, previously routes 2 and 3. Split into routes 5 and 9
3: Sai Ying Pun to Au Tau, 27.7 km. Still route 3 today
4: Lai Chi Kok to Tseung Kwan O, via Kwun Tong Road, 17 km. Today's route 7
5: Tsuen Wan to Sha Tin Racecourse, 9.5 km. Part of route 9 today
6: Tai Koo Shing to Ma Liu Shui, via Kwun Tong Bypass and Tate's Cairn Tunnel, 19.5 km. Today's route 2
7: Causeway Bay to Aberdeen, 13.5 km, previously also route 7. Merged with route 8 to form today's route 4
8: Island Eastern Corridor, 9.6 km, previously also route 8. Merged with route 7 to form today's route 4
9: Chek Lap Kok to Tai Wai, 33.7 km. Today's route 8
10: Green Island to Shenzhen Bay, 29.5 km. Still route 10 today
11: West Kowloon to Tseung Kwan O, via Central Kowloon Route, 14 km. Today's route 6, still under planning
Third generation
The third generation of route numbers came into use in 2004, and is the numbering system currently being used.
See also
Exit number
Road number
References
Transport Department – HK Strategic Route, Exit Number and Chainage Marker System
Road transport in Hong Kong | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong%20Kong%20Strategic%20Route%20and%20Exit%20Number%20System |
Barry Manilow Live is the fifth album by the singer-songwriter Barry Manilow. The album was released in 1977, and it became Manilow's first to top the US Billboard 200.
Manilow also was among 1977 Special Tony Award winners Lily Tomlin, Diana Ross, National Theatre For the Deaf and Equity Library Theatre honored with the award that year. He received it for Barry Manilow on Broadway, his 12-day stay at the Uris Theatre from December 21, 1976 to January 2, 1977, where this live album was recorded.
The album is known for giving the first commercial release to Manilow's VSM ("Very Strange Medley"). Before the performance Manilow refers to this as a medley of songs that he included in his act against the values of his "artsy fartsy friends". It is a medley of commercial jingles Manilow was involved with, either as a writer or performer, before he became a chart star. The products and companies these promoted include Kentucky Fried Chicken, State Farm, Stridex, Band-Aid, Bowlene, Dr. Pepper, Pepsi and McDonald's.
When first released on Compact Disc, dialogue and all movements to "Beautiful Music" were omitted for it all to fit on one disc, but the 2006 CD re-release restored all dialogue and songs, in addition to reordering the track listing to accommodate the added bonus tracks.
Track listing
Original LP Release
Side 1
"Riders to the Stars" (Adrienne Anderson, Barry Manilow) - 4:48
"Why Don't We Live Together" (Phil Galdston, Peter Thom) - 3:45
"Looks Like We Made It" (Richard Kerr, Will Jennings) - 4:00
"New York City Rhythm" (Barry Manilow, Marty Panzer) - 5:12
TT: Side One 17:45
Side 2
"A Very Strange Medley (V.S.M.)" - 6:10
"Kentucky Fried Chicken" (Al Gorgoni, Bob Nolan)
"State Farm Insurance" (Barry Manilow, Jerry Gavin)
"Stridex" (Barry Manilow)
"Band-Aids" (Barry Manilow)
"Bowlene" (Barry Manilow, Lois Wise)
"Dr. Pepper" (Jake Holmes, Randy Newman)
"Pepsi" (Ellen Starr, Jor McNeil)
"McDonalds" (Kevin Gavin, Sid Woloshin)
"Jump Shout Boogie Medley" - 8:16
"Jump Shout Boogie" (Barry Manilow, Bruce Sussman)
"Avenue C" (Buck Clayton, Jon Hendricks, Dave Lambert)
"Jumpin' at the Woodside" (Count Basie, Jon Hendricks)
"Cloudburst" (Jimmy Harris, Jon Hendricks, Leroy Kirkland)
"Bandstand Boogie" (Barry Manilow, Bob Horn, Bruce Sussman, Charles Albertine, Larry Elgart, Les Elgart)
"This One's for You" (Barry Manilow, Marty Panzer) - 4:14
TT Side Two: 18:40
TT Act One: 36:29
Side 3
"Beautiful Music (Part I)" (Barry Manilow, Marty Panzer) - 2:02
"Daybreak" (Barry Manilow, Adrienne Anderson) - 4:17
"Lay Me Down" (Larry Weiss) - 4:41
"Weekend in New England" (Randy Edelman) - 4:16
"Studio Musician" (Rupert Holmes) - 4:15
TT Side 3: 19:31
Side 4
"Beautiful Music (Part II)" (Barry Manilow, Marty Panzer) - 1:15
"Could It Be Magic/Mandy" (Adrienne Anderson, Barry Manilow, Frédéric Chopin/Richard Kerr, Scott English) - 8:00
"It's a Miracle" (Barry Manilow, Marty Panzer) - 5:14
"It's Just Another New Year's Eve" (Barry Manilow, Marty Panzer) - 4:21
"I Write The Songs" (Bruce Johnston) - 4:31
"Beautiful Music (Part III)" (Barry Manilow, Marty Panzer) - 2:21
TT Side 4: 25:42
TT Act Two: 45:13
TT Complete Program: 1h 22m
CD Release
Single-disc CD edition deletes
Beautiful Music Pt. 1, Pt. 2 and Pt. 3
"Riders to the Stars" - 4:48
"Why Don't We Live Together" - 3:45
"Looks Like We Made It" - 4:00
"New York City Rhythm" - 5:12
"A Very Strange Medley" - 6:10
"Jump Shout Boogie Medley" - 8:16
"This One's for You" - 4:14
"Daybreak" - 4:17
"Lay Me Down" - 4:41
"Weekend in New England" - 4:16
"Studio Musician" - 4:15
"Could It Be Magic/Mandy" - 8:00
"It's a Miracle" - 5:14
"It's Just Another New Year's Eve" - 4:21
"I Write The Songs" - 4:31
Deluxe Legacy Edition
(*) indicates additional track not on original LP or CD release
(+) indicates track restored to its original set location
"Lay Me Down", "New York City Rhythm", "Daybreak" and "Beautiful Music Part 1"
Restored to its original set location
"Let Me Go", "I Am Your Child", "Lady Flash Medley" and "One of These Days"
Outtakes from the original concert restored to original set location.
Disc 1
"Riders to the Stars" - 4:48
"Why Don't We Live Together" - 3:45
"Looks Like We Made It" - 4:00
"Let Me Go" - 4:00*
"A Very Strange Medley" - 6:10
"I Am Your Child" - 2:37*
"Jump Shout Boogie Medley" - 8:16
"This One's for You" - 4:14
"Lay Me Down" - 4:41+
"Weekend in New England" - 4:16
"Studio Musician" - 4:15
"New York City Rhythm" - 5:12+
Disc 2
"Beautiful Music (Part I)" - 2:02+
"Daybreak" - 4:17+
"Tryin' to Get the Feeling Again"*
"Lady Flash Medley" - 5:37*
"Beautiful Music (Part II)" - 1:15
"One of These Days" - 2:56*
"Could It Be Magic/Mandy" - 8:00
"It's a Miracle" - 5:14
"It's Just Another New Year's Eve" - 4:21
"I Write the Songs" - 4:31
"Beautiful Music (Part III)" - 2:21
TT: Complete Program 1h 42m
One additional track entitled "I Wanna Be Somebody's Baby" does not appear here, however it does appear on The Complete Collection and Then Some...
Personnel
The City Rhythm Band
Barry Manilow - vocals, piano, music director
Keith Loving - guitar
Steven Donaghey - bass guitar
Alan Axelrod - keyboards
Lee Gurst - drums, orchestra conductor
Harold "Ricardo" Alexander - congas
Lady Flash (Debra Byrd, Monica Pege, Reparata Mazzola) - backing vocals
with:
Marshall Rosenberg - percussion on "A Very Strange Medley"
Sid McGinnis - additional guitar
Gerald Alters - orchestration arrangements
Arif Mardin, Barry Manilow, Charlie Calello, Dick Behrke, Joe Renzetti, Norman Harris - additional orchestration arrangements
Technical
Michael Delugg - recording engineer
John Venable - live recording engineer
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
References
1977 live albums
Barry Manilow live albums
Arista Records live albums
Albums produced by Ron Dante | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry%20Manilow%20Live |
The 1956 Guild of Television Producers and Directors Awards were the second annual giving of the awards which later became known as the British Academy Television Awards.
Winners
Actor
Peter Cushing
Actress
Virginia McKenna
Designer
Bruce Angrave
Personality
Glyn Daniel
Production
Gil Calder
Script writer
Colin Morris
Writers Award
Colin Morris
References
Sources
Archive of winners on official BAFTA website (retrieved February 19, 2006).
1956
Guild of Television Producers and Directors Awards
Guild of Television Producers and Directors Awards
Guild of Television Producers and Directors Awards | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1956%20Guild%20of%20Television%20Producers%20and%20Directors%20Awards |
Keff McCulloch is an English composer best known for his electronic music for Doctor Who in the late 1980s.
In 1987, he was employed by producer John Nathan-Turner to arrange the Doctor Who theme music for the Seventh Doctor, Sylvester McCoy. The theme, drawing on the original composed by Ron Grainer and arranged by Delia Derbyshire, was used for three years until the series was cancelled by the BBC in 1989. The new theme music was accompanied by new titles and logo.
McCulloch also contributed incidental music scores to six stories during the McCoy era, namely: Time and the Rani; Paradise Towers; Delta and the Bannermen; Remembrance of the Daleks; Silver Nemesis; Battlefield; and also the later Dimensions in Time and Shada. McCulloch also played a role on screen as one of the Lorells (a backing group) in Delta and the Bannermen (1987).
Alongside his work on Doctor Who, McCulloch was a musician and sound engineer, touring with many bands and engineering and producing singles and albums for artistes including Acker Bilk, Johnny Logan and Russ Abbot. He also composed and recorded the incidental music for the video release of the film White Mischief.
References
External links
Keff Mcculloch official website
Year of birth missing (living people)
British television composers
English electronic musicians
Living people
Music based on Doctor Who | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keff%20McCulloch |
Cathal Joseph "Carl" Smyth (born 14 January 1959), also known as Chas Smash, is an English singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. His career spans more than 40 years. Smash came to prominence in the late 1970s as secondary vocalist, trumpet player and dancer for the English band Madness, with whom he was associated from their inception until 2014.
In addition to trumpet, Smyth plays the bass guitar (having initially joined Madness as a bassist), acoustic guitar and other percussion instruments. He performs lead vocals on a few Madness tracks, such as "Michael Caine", "Wings of a Dove", "One Step Beyond" and "Madness (Is All in the Mind)". Initially an occasional songwriter, he became a more frequent contributor and was credited as co-writer on the band's international hit "Our House".
Early years
Cathal Joseph Smyth was born on 14 January 1959, in Middlesex Hospital, Fitzrovia, London, England, and grew up in Marylebone. As a child he went by the name of Carl. His parents were Irish immigrants. His father worked in the oil business and moved the family from Ireland to England, then to the Middle East because of his work. Smyth has said he was bullied at school in both Northern Ireland and London. The Smyths were competitive Irish dancers, and Cathal grew up around dance, but never took much of an interest until he began to dance as a performer.
In 1976, the North London Invaders recruited Smyth to play the bass guitar with them when he was 17, but he was replaced the following year by Gavin Rogers. During the late 1970s, he became friends with members of the band Madness, and performed as a dancer on stage at their concerts.
Music career
In 1980, Smyth became the last of the seven original Madness members to join the band. He soon moved on to playing other instruments instead of bass. After Madness broke up in 1986, he formed a new short-lived band The Madness in 1988 along with Suggs, Lee Thompson and Chris Foreman.
In 1990, Smyth became an executive for Go! Discs, where, at his suggestion, the label signed The Stairs. He was also responsible for reforming Madness in 1992 for Madstock!, but he left Go! Discs to re-form the band. In 1989/1990, he became friends with former Smiths singer Morrissey, who had once asked him to be his manager. Smyth declined, claiming "I didn't fancy having to iron his socks." Smyth introduced Morrissey to Boz Boorer, who went on to work with him from 1991 onwards. Cathal is also the subject of the 1992 Morrissey single, "You're the One for Me, Fatty".
He also provided backing vocals on Morrissey's version of the Jam's "That's Entertainment". Cathal also had a small part in Suggs' solo career, co-writing the song "Green Eyes," and he also performed backing vocals on The Lone Ranger album. In 1999, Smyth formed and fronted the folk-influenced band The Velvet Ghost, which played at the Fleadh festival in 2000.
In 2002, Smyth started up his own record label, Rolled Gold Records (RGR Music), at an office in Camden Town. He released a debut single, "We're Coming Over", with The England Supporters Band (billed as Mr. Smash & Friends) and it reached number 67 in the UK Singles Charts. RGR released an album and three singles by London rapper, Just Jack. The label also released material by dance and rap artists Autamata and Border Crossing. In 2004, after briefly moving his office to Islington, he closed RGR.
In 2009, Madness released their first album of new material in ten years, The Liberty of Norton Folgate. About this time, Smyth was rumoured to be working on several solo projects, including a dubstep album, according to Mojo. In 2012 Madness followed up "Norton Folgate" with Oui Oui, Si Si, Ja Ja, Da Da.
Smyth announced he was leaving Madness in October 2014, though it was characterized at the time as a 'break' to concentrate on his solo career and not necessarily a permanent departure. Nevertheless, Smyth has not rejoined Madness in the years since the break was announced.
Smyth's debut solo album, A Comfortable Man, was released in May 2015 and reached No. 68 in the UK Albums Chart. In 2016, Madness released Can't Touch Us Now, the first Madness album since One Step Beyond, to be recorded without Smyth being credited as a member of the band.
Personal life
Smyth became a Freemason in 1994.
After being a couple since their teen years, Smyth and his wife of 28 years, Joanna Brown, separated in 2005. He has three grown-up children from the marriage: Caspar, Milo, and Eloise. He appeared with Eloise at the 2012 Q Awards ceremony.
After his marriage ended, Smyth started to practise transcendental meditation. He also spent time in rehab in Arizona, and moved to Ibiza in 2008.
Solo discography
Studio albums
A Comfortable Man (2015)
References
External links
1959 births
Living people
Musicians from Marylebone
Madness (band) members
20th-century English male singers
20th-century English singers
21st-century English male singers
21st-century English singers
English new wave musicians
English male songwriters
English people of Irish descent
English trumpeters
Male trumpeters
Singers from London
English pop singers
British ska musicians
English reggae musicians
People educated at Dominican College, Portstewart
People from Ibiza
Transcendental Meditation exponents | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chas%20Smash |
Ronald Henry Pember (11 April 1934 – 8 March 2022) was an English actor, stage director and dramatist. In a career stretching over thirty years, he was a character actor in British television productions in the 1970s – 1980s, usually in smaller parts or as a support playing a worldly-wise everyman.
Pember played the role of Alain Muny in the 1970s BBC drama series Secret Army. He also wrote a stage musical entitled Jack the Ripper (1974), about the Victorian murder spree in London in the late 1880s, which is regularly produced by amateur theatre groups and companies around the globe.
Early life
Pember was born in Plaistow, then in the county of Essex, on 11 April 1934, the son of Gladys and William Pember. He received his formal education at Eastbrook Secondary Modern School, in Dagenham.
In the mid-1950s, he enlisted as an Aircraftman with the Royal Air Force as part of the United Kingdom's National Service military training system, being stationed in Egypt. In the late 1950s, he was a member of a Bexhill-on-Sea repertory company The Penguin Players, which performed at the De La Warr Pavilion.
Early career
His London stage debut was in the role of 'Harry' in a production of Treasure Island at the Mermaid Theatre in 1959. He appeared in the musical Blitz! at the Adelphi Theatre in 1962.
In 1961, Pember made his television debut in the bit-part as a wounded soldier in an episode of the series Looking About, entitled 'Florence Nightingale', subsequently appearing in the same year in the television play Looking for Frankie, and an episode of the police drama series Dixon of Dock Green. He appeared in cinema for the first time in an uncredited role in the film The Pumpkin Eater (1964), and appeared in a dramatized television adaptation of Pilgrim's Progress (1967) in several roles. He also appeared in the cinema film Poor Cow (also 1967).
From 1964 to 1968, he acted in several roles with the National Theatre Company in London, departing its troupe in 1969 to direct a tour of a production of Treasure Island in New York City, and several cities in Canada. He appeared in a bit-part of a "Corporal at a Railway Station" in the cinema film Oh, What a Lovely War (1969), and as a 'cobbler' in the cinema film Julius Caesar (1970).
Mermaid Theatre residency
In the late 1960s to mid-1970s, he worked at the Mermaid Theatre in London, where he acted in productions of the plays Bernard (1969), and the musical The Band Wagon (1969). Whilst at The Mermaid, he directed productions of the stage plays The Goblet Game (1968); Lock Up Your Daughters (1969, also acted in); Treasure Island (1969, also acted in); Enter Solly Gold (1970), Henry IV, Part 1 & Henry IV, Part 2 (1970), and the self-written, directed and produced Dick Turpin (1970). He played the role of Trinculo in a production of The Tempest (1970) at the theatre, and also directed King and Country (1976), and The Point! (and co-adapted, 1976).
He acted the role of Jaffee in an episode of the television Victorian crime series The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes (1971), and played Sgt. Mitchell in the television film Speaking of Murder (1971) in the same year. He also continued working in small parts in cinema, appearing as a lift-operator in the horror-suspense film Death Line (1972). From 1973 to 1976, he regularly appeared in the Crown Court legal drama series cast as different characters, and was employed in bit-parts in more cinema films, appearing in Young Winston (1972), as the character of Jones in the fantasy-adventure film The Land That Time Forgot (1974), and in the character of Eliot in the World War I cinema film Aces High (1976).
In 1974, he co-wrote and composed a theatre musical entitled Jack the Ripper, based on the Whitechapel murders in London, which had a run in London's West End theatre. Its stage debut was at the Players' Theatre in Covent Garden in June 1974. It transferred to the Ambassadors Theatre in September 1974, and finished its run at the Cambridge Theatre in early 1975. The play was subsequently published with Samuel French, Ltd.
In 1974, Pember performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company at Stratford-upon-Avon in a production of Twelfth Night. He appeared in the play Liza of Lambeth at the Shaftesbury Theatre in 1976. In 1978, a play Pember authored 1800 and Froze to Death was performed by the C.V.I. Theatre Company in Coventry (he directed the production), and later in that year he acted in a production of The Cherry Orchard at the Riverside Studio Theatre in Hammersmith.
From 1976 to 1984, Pember appeared in the television comedy series The Dick Emery Show and The Two Ronnies. In 1977, he appeared in a BBC television series dramatization of Nicholas Nickleby in the character of Mr. Sawley.
He ended the decade by playing the character of Makins in the Jack the Ripper (which he had written a stage musical about earlier in the decade) Victorian murder-thriller cinema film Murder by Decree (1979). He also appeared in The Fall & Rise of Reginald Perrin, (series 2).
Pember played Belgian Resistance fighter and morse-code radio operator Alain Muny in the BBC's World War II drama Secret Army, from 1977 to 1979.
Later career
After the end of Secret Army, he appeared in the character of Poggio in a British television film of John Ford's 'Tis Pity She's A Whore (1980), and in the same year directed a British touring production of The Merchant of Venice.
In 1981, Pember rejoined the National Theatre. Theatricalia lists 24 as the total number of roles he had played for the company at the Old Vic, Studio and South Bank by the time of his last in 1988.
In 1983, he appeared briefly in the role of Baz, the unenthusiastic Chairman of the Tenants' Association in the BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses, in an episode entitled "Homesick". He subsequently performed in a British television series dramatizing H.G. Wells' The Invisible Man (1984) as the character George Hall.
He continued to work in cinema productions, appearing in the role of Dobbs in the period-comedy pastiche cinema film Bullshot (1983), and as a Ferryman in Ordeal by Innocence (1985).
In 1985, he played the role of Seedle in the Doctor Who radio drama Slipback, alongside Valentine Dyall, and the next year appeared in an episode of the BBC Jersey based crime drama series Bergerac entitled Fires in the Fall.
In 1987 Pember began playing the role of Dennis Timson in the legal drama series Rumpole of the Bailey, which he continued with for the next 6 years until his retirement from acting. Along with working in Rumpole of the Bailey in the late 1980s-early 1990s he ended his career working as a cast member in several television drama and comedy series: Red Dwarf (1988), High Street Blues (1989), Bluebirds (1989), and All Good Things (1991).
His final appearances were his role in Rumpole of the Bailey (1992), and as Joe Bilger in a BBC television drama series entitled Look at It This Way (1992).
Personal life
Pember married Yvonne Tylee in 1959. He stopped acting after suffering a stroke in 1992, and retired to live in Southend-on-Sea. He died on 8 March 2022, at the age of 87.
Filmography
The Pumpkin Eater (1964) - Removal Man (uncredited)
Poor Cow (1967) - Petal
Subterfuge (1968) - Photographer
Curse of the Crimson Altar (1968) - Petrol Attendant
The Saint (1968, episode "The People Importers") - Sam
Oh! What a Lovely War (1969) - Corporal at Railway Station
Strange Report (1969) - Shop Manager
Julius Caesar (1970) - Cobbler
She'll Follow You Anywhere (1971) - Corporal
Death Line (1972) - Lift Operator
Young Winston (1972) - Fireman
Adult Fun (1972) - Stockbroker Boss
Armchair Cinema (1974, TV Series) - Landlord
The Land That Time Forgot (1974) - Jones
The Naked Civil Servant (1975) - Black Cat Proprietor
Aces High (1976) - Eliot, aircraft mechanic
Rogue Male (1976, TV Movie) - Ticket Collector at subway station
The Glitterball (1977) - Filthy
Murder by Decree (1979) - Makins
Flambards (1979, TV Series) - Drayman at brewery
Rough Cut (1980) - Taxi Driver
Minder (1980) - George
Bullshot (1983) - Dobbs
Ordeal by Innocence (1984) - Ferryman
The Chain (1984) - Stan
Footlight Frenzy (1984)
Personal Services (1987) - Ron
Rumpole Of The Bailey (1978 - 1992) Dennis Timson.One of a long line of South London villains
References
External links
Ron Pember (Aveleyman)
1934 births
2022 deaths
English dramatists and playwrights
English male dramatists and playwrights
English male film actors
English male stage actors
English male television actors
English theatre directors
People from Plaistow, Newham
20th-century English male actors
Male actors from London
Royal Air Force airmen | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron%20Pember |
Music By Idiots is Captain Everything!'s first full-length album. Currently out-of-print, the band made the album available on their website for full download in 2004.
Track listing
Another Song About Girls
imreallyscared
All my Clothes are Brown
Matt vs. the Company
Cigarettes
1 Minute Love Song
Hey! What Happened?
Fly in my Soup
Over You
B.D.A.
Song in eh?
False Smile
Letting Go
All the Same
That is so Lame
Wet Kisser
Punk Rock Ditty
Fallin' Over
Gastroenteritis
Road Movie
Friday night, 3 o'clock
Dream a little dream
References
1998 albums
Captain Everything! albums | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music%20By%20Idiots |
Eduardo Noriega Gómez (; born 1 August 1973) is a Spanish actor. He gained notoriety in Spain for his performance in Thesis (1996), which was followed by roles in Open Your Eyes (1997) and The Wolf (2004).
In the United States, Noriega is known for his role as Enrique in the political thriller Vantage Point (2008).
Early life and education
Eduardo Noriega Gómez was born on 1 August 1973 in Santander, Spain, to a Mexican-born father father and a Spanish mother. He is the youngest of seven siblings and the only one who became an actor. As a child, he devoted himself to music. When he grew up he left his law degree and his love for music and moved to Madrid to become an actor.
Career
He acted in several short films by directors Amenábar, Mateo Gil and Carlos Montero and he appeared in a short role in the well-known Spanish film Stories from the Kronen (Spanish: Historias del Kronen). But it was not until Tesis that he had his first starring role in a film that became one of the most important successes in the history of Spanish films. Amenábar confessed in a T.T interview that at first he did not want Noriega in Tesis, thinking he was just a "pretty face", although his collaborators thought otherwise. In the end he called him again because he preferred him over the other actors in the casting. They became close friends and later worked on different projects together, including Open Your Eyes.
With Leonardo Sbaraglia, he appeared in Plata Quemada (English: Burnt Money) (2000), an Argentine film directed by Marcelo Piñeyro. Noriega went on to star in another Piñeyro film, The Method (Spanish: El Método (2005), reuniting with Plata Quemada co-star Pablo Echarri. He appeared as Jacinto in The Devil's Backbone (2001), a film directed by Guillermo del Toro and produced by Agustín Almodóvar and Pedro Almodóvar, about life in an orphanage in the last months of the Spanish Civil War. The film also stars Marisa Paredes and Federico Luppi.
He starred as the main actor in Novo (2002), a French film directed by Jean-Pierre Limosin, where he appeared completely nude.
In 2005, he played the lead role in the independent film Che Guevara produced and directed by Josh Evans.
Noriega appeared as Conde de Guadalmedina in Alatriste (2006). Agustín Díaz Yanes directed the film, starring Viggo Mortensen, Elena Anaya, Javier Cámara, Ariadna Gil, Blanca Portillo, and Juan Echanove. Alatriste is based on five novels written by Arturo Pérez-Reverte.
Noriega came under spotlight with Vicente Aranda's drama Lolita's Club (2007) where he portrayed Raúl Fuentes and Valentín Fuentes, twin brothers of opposite characters.
He starred in Vantage Point (2008), playing Enrique, a Spanish police officer assigned to protect the local mayor, and who plays an unintended central role in the investigation of the assassination of the American president. He portrayed an escaped drug lord in The Last Stand, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Personal life
Noriega married his girlfriend of ten years, Trinidad Oteros, on February 8, 2011.
He speaks Spanish, English, French and Catalan fluently.
Filmography
Television
Accolades
References
External links
1973 births
Living people
Male actors of Mexican descent
People from Santander, Spain
Actors from Cantabria
Spanish people of Mexican descent
20th-century Spanish male actors
21st-century Spanish male actors
Spanish male film actors
Chopard Trophy for Male Revelation winners | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardo%20Noriega%20%28Spanish%20actor%29 |
Big Brother 2007 may refer to:
Big Brother 8 (UK)
Big Brother 8 (U.S.)
Big Brother Australia 2007
Big Brother 2007 (Finland)
Big Brother (Slovenia)
Big Brother Brasil 7, the seventh season of Big Brother Brazil
Big Brother Germany 7, the seventh season of Big Brother Germany
Celebrity Big Brother 5 (UK)
Bigg Boss (Hindi season 1), the 2006-2007 edition of Big Brother in India
Grande Fratello 7, the seventh season of Grande Fratello
Pinoy Big Brother (season 2)
Pinoy Big Brother: Celebrity Edition 2
VIP Brother 2 (Bulgaria)
Veliki brat 2, the second season of Veliki brat | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Brother%202007 |
Annapurna Devi (17 April 1927 – 13 October 2018) was an Indian surbahar player of Hindustani classical music. She was given the name 'Annapurna' by Maharaja Brijnath Singh of the former Maihar Estate (M.P.), and it was by this name that she was popularly known. She was the daughter and disciple of Allauddin Khan, and the sister of Ustad Ali Akbar Khan. Pandit Ravi Shankar was her first husband, with whom she had a son, Shubhendra Shankar, who was an artist and a sitaritst.
She was an extremely private person and was never interested in being a professional musician like the rest of her family. However, she was active throughout her life as a teacher to many other prominent musicians like Nikhil Banerjee, Hariprasad Chaurasia, and Nityanand Haldipur. She was the only known female maestro of the Surbahar in the 20th century.
Biography
Annapurna Devi was born on 17 April 1927 at Maihar, a princely state in Madhya Pradesh, India. Her father, Ustad Alauddin Khan, was the royal court musician at the court of Maharaja Brijnath Singh of Maihar State. Since on the day of her birth, he was away, it was the Maharaja who named her 'Annapurna'. Since she was born Muslim, her Islamic name was Roshanara Khan. However, she was always addressed to as Annapurna at home, and this name was legally formalised when she converted to Hinduism on the day of her marriage to Ravi Shankar.
Her father, Alauddin Khan was one of the disciples of Ustad Mohammad Wazir Khan, the last descendant of the Mian Tansen, and was therefore a musician of the Rampur Senia gharana. He went on to found of the Senia-Maihar gharana, which was a branch of the Rampur Senia gharana of Wazir Khan but with its own uniqueness as a result of the more eclectic erudition that Alauddin Khan himself had acquired in his life through many other gurus, his adherence to the Dhrupad style of playing, and his opennes and versatiliity of baaj or playing style. Her uncles, Fakir Aftabuddin Khan and Ayet Ali Khan, were also musicians in Shibpur, Bangladesh. Her brother, Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, was a Sarod maestro and was considered by many as a 'national treasure' in India.
When she was young, her father discovered that she was pitch-perfect and had a knack for remembering notations although she was untrained. This led to him initiating her into Hindustani Classical music in vocal training. A case of tonsilities and surgery led him to shift her to an instrument, the sitar. Initially, she was trained as a sitarist. However, her father felt that the more complex beenkari style of music of Wazir Khan, which he had learnt on the Sursringar, could be handed down to her as legacy as she was more interested in being his erudite student than a performer. Therefore, he had her switch to the surbahar, which she played in the Wazirkhani beenkari style. This decision would lead to the handing down of the tantrakari or playing-style in an uncompromised form.
Annapurna Devi became a very accomplished musician within a few years of training. After her father's demise, she would become the lodestar of her gharana, guiding many of her father's disciples, including Nikhil Banerjee, Bahadur Khan, Ashish Khan, etc. in classical music as well as in the techniques and intricacies of instrumental performances.
On 15 May 1941, Annapurna Devi was converted to Hinduism and married to fellow pupil, Ravi Shankar, at the behest of Shankar's eldest brother Uday Shankar. Ravi Shankar would go on to become a world famous musician on his own right. They had a son, Shubhendra Shankar (1942–1992), who was a graphic artist and also a musician. They were informally separated from the '60s, when Ravi Shankar left India for the United States with his then-paramour Kamala Chakravarty. The couple got divorced in 1982.
Annapurna Devi married Rooshikumar Pandya in Bombay on 9 December 1982. Rooshikumar Pandya, who was 42 years old at the time of their marriage, was a communication expert and psychology professor in Canada and the USA. Prof. Pandya was also an amateur sitarist and had been learning sitar from Devi since 1973 at the recommendation of her brother, Ali Akbar Khan, who was also his guru (as was Ravi Shankar). He died suddenly of a cardiac arrest in April 2013 at the age of 73. Annapurna Devi died of age-related issues on 13 October 2018 in Mumbai, aged 91. In her last years, she was looked after by her students, primarily Pandit Nityanand Haldipur.
Career
One of her earliest concerts with the surbahar was when she played in honour of the Raja of Maihar. She was rewarded with a large tract of land for her performance.
From 1946 to 1957, Ravi Shankar and Annapurna Devi performed duets in Delhi, Mumbai and Calcutta. Her student Vinay Bharat Ram had once reported that she was uncomfortable accepting payment for concerts, as it was her belief that it was akin to selling the Goddess Saraswati.
While teaching at her brother's college when it was in Calcutta, she would occasionally give performances, though with strict instructions that she should not be recorded. After she moved to Mumbai permanently, she taught for a while at The National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA), Mumbai.
For the rest of her life, she was a much-sought after guru for students and aficionados of Hindustani Classical music, though she only accepted a handful of them. Per her father's instructions, she never took any fee whatsoever for her tutorship. Her pupils were not restricted solely a single instrument. They included:
She was also the key figure of Acharya Alauddin Music Circle in Mumbai.
Honours
1977, she received the Padma Bhushan (India's third highest civilian honour).
1991, she received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (India's highest honour in performing arts).
1999, the Desikottama, an honorary doctorate degree by Visva-Bharati University.
In 2004, she was made a fellow of the Sangeet Natak Akademi.
Notes
References
Sources
Unveiling the Mystique of a Reclusive Artiste , Jaya Ramanathan, The Hindu, 28 June 2005.
External links
Annapurna Devi by Mohan Nadkarni
http://www.bigbridge.org/BB15/2011_BB_15_FEATURES/Annapurna_Devi/APD.pdf by Louise Landes Levi
1927 births
2018 deaths
Bengali musicians
Converts to Hinduism from Islam
Hindustani instrumentalists
Indian Hindus
Maihar gharana
Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in arts
Musicians from Madhya Pradesh
Pupils of Allauddin Khan
Recipients of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award
Recipients of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Fellowship
Indian music educators
Women educators from Madhya Pradesh
20th-century Indian educators
Indian women classical musicians
20th-century Indian women musicians
Women musicians from Madhya Pradesh
Educators from Madhya Pradesh
20th-century Indian women singers
20th-century Indian singers
Indian women music educators
20th-century Indian women educators
People from Satna district | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annapurna%20Devi |
Train of Dreams is a 1987 Canadian film directed by John N. Smith and starring Jason St. Amour, Christopher Neil and Frederick Eugene Ward as a popular teacher. In this documentary-style drama, a delinquent teenager tries to put his life on the right track.
Awards
The film won the Special Jury Prize at the Chicago International Film Festival in 1987, and was nominated for four Genie Awards in 1988. Jason St. Amour also won the Best Actor award at the Paris Film Festival in 1989.
References
External links
1987 films
English-language Canadian films
National Film Board of Canada films
Films directed by John N. Smith
1987 drama films
Canadian docufiction films
Canadian drama films
1980s English-language films
1980s Canadian films | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train%20of%20Dreams |
Ellesmere Port railway station is located in the town of Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England. The station was an intermediate through station on the Hooton–Helsby line. Now all passenger services terminate at the station from both directions. It is both a terminus of the Wirral Line, a commuter rail system operated by Merseyrail and of Northern Trains services to Warrington Bank Quay. Departures and arrivals of Merseyrail services are on platform 1 with departures and arrivals to Warrington Bank Quay on platform 2.
History
The station is situated on the branch of the Birkenhead Railway from Hooton to Helsby which opened in 1863. The station itself opened on 1 July 1863, as Whitby Locks. It was renamed Ellesmere Port on 1 September 1870. The station building is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.
Ellesmere Port became part of the Merseyrail network in 1994, when the line from Hooton was electrified by British Rail and through train services to Liverpool's city centre via Birkenhead commenced.
Liverpool City Region Combined Authority, Long Term Rail Strategy document of October 2017, page 37, states that a trial of new Merseyrail battery trains will be undertaken in 2020, in view to extend the Wirral Line branch terminal to Helsby. If successful, Helsby will be one of the terminals of the Wirral line superseding Ellesmere Port.
Facilities
The station is staffed from Monday to Friday, between 06:05 and 14:00, and is unstaffed otherwise. The station has platform CCTV, a 109-space car park and a cycle rack with 10 spaces and secure storage for 14 cycles. Each platform has a waiting shelter. There are live electronic departure and arrival screens, on the platform, for passenger information. There is a payphone, next to the entrance, on platform 1. The station has vending machines, within the station concourse, next to the booking office. Platform 1, for Merseyrail services, can be accessed by ramp, for passengers with wheelchairs or prams. Platform 2, for Northern services, can be accessed by a passage alongside the staircase on Whitby Road. Cross-platform access, within the station, is by staircase only.
Outside of the ticket office opening hours passengers must purchase tickets from the Ticket Vending Machine located on the platform. This machine can issue tickets to any destination on the rail network. Passengers failing to purchase a ticket will be liable for a Penalty fare if they board a Merseyrail service without obtaining a valid ticket.
In 2014 the station office buildings were improved on Platform 1, to include a new and improved ticket office, a new toilet, a new café and retention of most of the building's classic features and works.
Services
Merseyrail Wirral Line services operate every 30 minutes each day (including Sunday) towards Birkenhead and Liverpool. Monday to Friday (except during the leaf-fall season in autumn), a few extra services run towards Liverpool in the morning and from Liverpool in the evening, giving a 15 minutes frequency in the peak direction only. These services are all provided by Merseyrail's fleet of Class 507 and Class 508 EMUs.
As of May 2023, Northern Trains operates a limited service (two trains per day each way, Mondays to Saturdays only) to Helsby via Stanlow & Thornton and Ince & Elton. No services stop at Stanlow, due to the poor condition of the station footbridge. The evening service from here continues beyond Helsby to Liverpool Lime Street via .
Platform 1 serves the westbound Merseyrail electric services.
Platform 2 serves the infrequent eastbound Northern Trains diesel train services to Warrington Bank Quay via Helsby.
Gallery
See also
Listed buildings in Ellesmere Port
References
Notes
Sources
Further reading
External links
Uk mapping via yahoo
Railway stations in Cheshire
DfT Category E stations
Grade II listed buildings in Cheshire
Former Birkenhead Railway stations
Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1863
Railway stations served by Merseyrail
Northern franchise railway stations
Grade II listed railway stations
Ellesmere Port | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ellesmere%20Port%20railway%20station |
William Henry Welch (April 8, 1850 – April 30, 1934) was an American physician, pathologist, bacteriologist, and medical-school administrator. He was one of the "Big Four" founding professors at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was the first dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and was also the founder of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, the first school of public health in the country. Welch was more known for his cogent summations of current scientific work, than his own scientific research. The Johns Hopkins medical school library is also named after Welch. In his lifetime, he was called the "Dean of American Medicine" and received various awards and honors throughout his lifetime and posthumously.
Biography
Early life
He was born on April 8, 1850, to William Wickham Welch and Emeline Collin Welch in Norfolk, Connecticut. He had a long family history of physicians and surgeons, starting with his grandfather Benjamin Welch. Benjamin was also on the medical forefront of his time, establishing his county's medical association. William H. Welch was educated at Norfolk Academy and the Winchester Institute, a boarding school. His father and a grandfather and four of his uncles were all physicians. William Henry entered Yale University in 1866, where he studied Greek and classics. Initially, Welch was not interested in becoming a physician; his primary ambition was to teach the Greek language. He received an AB degree in 1870. As an undergraduate, he joined the Skull and Bones fraternity.
Welch remained a lifelong bachelor. He was the uncle of Senator Frederic C. Walcott.
Early career
After a short period of teaching high-school students in Norwich, New York, Welch went to study medicine at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, in Manhattan. In 1875, he received his MD. From 1876 to 1877, he studied at several German laboratories to work with, among others, Julius Cohnheim and Rudolf Virchow. This experience abroad prompted Welch to model his plans for a new medical institute on the Institute of the History of Medicine at the University of Leipzig. He returned to America in 1877 and opened a laboratory at Bellevue Medical College (now a part of New York University Medical School).
Later career at Johns Hopkins
In 1884, he was the first physician recruited to be a professor at the newly forming Johns Hopkins Hospital and Medical School at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. By 1886, he had 16 graduate physicians working in his laboratory – the first postgraduate training program for physicians in the country. He helped the trustees recruit the other founding physicians for the hospital – William Stewart Halsted, William Osler, and Howard Kelly. Welch became head of the Department of Pathology when the hospital opened in 1889. In 1893, he also became the first dean of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and in 1916, he established and led the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, the first school of public health in the country. During this time, Welch was also involved in creating a new medical library for Johns Hopkins. He embarked on a sabbatical in Europe, where he visited the University of Leipzig's Institute and various other universities, as well as libraries and bookstores. These German institutions influenced Welch's design for the Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins, which was established in October 1929. The new institute also built on the already existing Johns Hopkins Hospital Historical Club (est. 1890), of which Welch had been a co-founder. Welch is also the founding editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Epidemiology.
Graduates of Welch's training programs were highly coveted as academic physicians. Medical schools and institutes across the country vied for Welch's former students and graduate scientists to fill top posts. Many of his residents went on to become highly prominent physicians, including Walter Reed, co-discoverer of the cause of yellow fever, Simon Flexner, founding director of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, and future Nobel laureates George Whipple and Peyton Rous.
Welch's research was principally in bacteriology, and he is the discoverer of the organism that causes gas gangrene. It was named Clostridium welchii in recognition of that fact, but now the organism usually is designated as Clostridium perfringens.
From 1901 to 1933, he was founding president of the Board of Scientific Directors at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. He was an instrumental reformer of medical education in the United States, as well as a president of the National Academy of Sciences from 1913–1917. He also was president of the American Medical Association, the Association of American Physicians, the History of Science Society, the Congress of American Physicians and Surgeons, the Society of American Bacteriologists, and the Maryland State Board of Health. Welch was a founding editor of the Journal of Experimental Medicine.
Welch served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps during World War I, and played a major role in the response to the 1918 Influenza Pandemic. He remained in the Reserve Corps for three years thereafter, attaining the rank of brigadier general (O7). For his service during the war, Welch received the Distinguished Service Medal.
Death
Welch died on April 30, 1934, at the age of 84, of prostatic adenocarcinoma at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Honors and awards
Welch was awarded the Royal Order of the Crown of Prussia in 1911.
In 1927, Welch received the Kober Medal from the American Association of Physicians.
The William H. Welch Medical Library at Johns Hopkins, which opened in 1929, was decided on March 5, 1928, to be named after him.
In 1931, Welch received the Harben Medal from the Royal Institute of Public Health for his professorship in the history of medicine.
In 1950, the first William H. Welch Medal was awarded by American Association for the History of Medicine to honor authors in field of medical history
Welch Road, in the vicinity of Stanford University Medical Center in Stanford, California, is named in his honor.
See also
William H. Welch House
References
Further reading
Chronology of the Life of William Henry Welch
Bench and Bedside, December 2007, "Honoring the Past"
(This book covers a great deal of Welch's life as well as other medical people of the era.)
Donald Fleming (1954). William H. Welch and the Rise of Modern Medicine. The Johns Hopkins University Press. .
1850 births
1934 deaths
American pathologists
American medical researchers
Yale University alumni
Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons alumni
Johns Hopkins University faculty
United States Army Medical Corps officers
United States Army personnel of World War I
United States Army generals
Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
Presidents of the United States National Academy of Sciences
People from Norfolk, Connecticut
Deaths from adenoid cystic carcinoma
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Presidents of the American Society for Microbiology
Deaths from cancer in Maryland
Presidents of the American Medical Association
Members of Skull and Bones | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20H.%20Welch |
Cathrine "Cathy" Peattie (born 24 November 1951, Grangemouth, Falkirk) is a Scottish Labour Party politician.
She was the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Falkirk East constituency from the 1999 Scottish Parliament election until the 2011 Scottish Parliament election, when she was defeated by Angus MacDonald of the Scottish National Party (SNP).
Peattie served as chair of the Scottish Labour Party from 2019 to 2020, with her daughter Cara Hilton serving as vice-chair during her time in the office and succeeding her as chair.
References
External links
Cathy Peattie new site for 2011 election
News from Cathy Peattie wordpress blog
1951 births
Living people
People from Grangemouth
Labour MSPs
Members of the Scottish Parliament 1999–2003
Members of the Scottish Parliament 2003–2007
Members of the Scottish Parliament 2007–2011
20th-century Scottish women politicians
Female members of the Scottish Parliament | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathy%20Peattie |
Even Now is the fifth studio album by singer-songwriter Barry Manilow. It was recorded at A&M Studios in Hollywood, California, and released in 1978. The album reached triple platinum and spun off four hit singles in 1978 and early 1979: the title song, "Can't Smile Without You", "Copacabana" and "Somewhere in the Night" (which had previously been a hit in 1976 for Helen Reddy).
Track listing
Side one
"Copacabana (At the Copa)" (Barry Manilow, Bruce Sussman, Jack Feldman) - 5:46
"Somewhere in the Night" (Richard Kerr, Will Jennings) - 3:26
"A Linda Song" (Barry Manilow, Enoch Anderson) - 3:20
"Can't Smile Without You" (Chris Arnold, David Martin, Geoff Morrow) - 3:13
"Leavin' in the Morning" (Barry Manilow, Marty Panzer) - 3:25
"Where Do I Go From Here" (Parker McGee) - 3:07
Side two
"Even Now" (Barry Manilow, Marty Panzer) - 3:28
"I Was a Fool (To Let You Go)" (Barry Manilow, Marty Panzer) - 3:29
"Losing Touch" (Jack Feldman, Barry Manilow, Bruce Sussman) - 2:40
"I Just Want to Be the One in Your Life" (Michael Price, Dan Walsh) - 3:39
"Starting Again" (Barry Manilow, Marty Panzer) - 2:40
"Sunrise" (Barry Manilow, Adrienne Anderson) - 3:16
Bonus track (CD)
"I'm Comin' Home Again" (Bruce Roberts, Carole Bayer Sager) - 3:44
Bonus track – unfinished track – on 2006 Remaster
"No Love for Jenny" (Barry Manilow, Adrienne Anderson) - 2:46
Bonus track on 1996 and 2006 Remaster
Charts
Personnel
Barry Manilow – vocals, piano
Mitch Holder – guitar
Will Lee – bass
Bill Mays – keyboards
Ronnie Zito – drums
Alan Estes – percussion
Jeff Mironov – guitar on "Somewhere in the Night"
Bob Babbitt – bass on "Somewhere in the Night"
Paul Shaffer – electric piano on "Somewhere in the Night"
Jimmy Young – drums on "Somewhere in the Night"
Jimmy Maelen – percussion on "Somewhere in the Night"
Lee Ritenour – guitar on "A Linda Song"
Jay Graydon – guitar on "Sunrise"
Artie Butler, Dick Behrke, Richard Winzeler, Jimmie Haskell – orchestration
Certifications
References
Barry Manilow albums
1978 albums
Arista Records albums
Albums produced by Ron Dante
Albums recorded at A&M Studios | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Even%20Now%20%28Barry%20Manilow%20album%29 |
The 1957 Guild of Television Producers and Directors Awards were the third annual giving of the awards which later became known as the British Academy Television Awards.
Winners
Actor
Michael Gough
Actress
Rosalie Crutchley
Designer
Reece Pemberton
Personality
Christopher Chataway
Production
Joy Harington
Scriptwriter
Spike Milligan
Writers Award
Spike Milligan
References
Archive of winners on official BAFTA website (retrieved February 19, 2006).
British Academy Film Awards
Guild of Television Producers and Directors Awards
Guild of Television Producers and Directors Awards
Guild of Television Producers and Directors Awards | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1957%20Guild%20of%20Television%20Producers%20and%20Directors%20Awards |
Amanda Robins (born 1961) is an Australian contemporary artist who is best known for her paintings and large-scale drawings of clothing and drapery.
She trained in Melbourne at the Chisholm Institute of Technology, and the Victorian College of the Arts. She became the Studio Head of Painting and Drawing at the South Australian School of Art, University of South Australia.
Her drawings have been frequently selected to hang in the Dobell Prize for Drawing at the Art Gallery of NSW. Her entry in 2001, Linen dress, was subsequently purchased by Margaret Olley and donated to the gallery.
Robins has held eight solo exhibitions, and participated in over 30 group exhibitions.
Her work is held by Artbank, the Art Gallery of NSW, the Benalla Regional Art Gallery in Victoria, and many private collections.
References
Exhibitions etc
3rd International Biennial of Pastel Drawing, (Exhibition Catalogue), 1992.
Public Sphere, Private Space (Exhibition Catalogue), Linden Gallery, Melbourne, 1992.
(un) authorised duplication (Exhibition Catalogue), 200 Gertrude Street, Melbourne 1994.
John McDonald, Art Review, Sydney Morning Herald, 18 March 1995.
Christopher Heathcote, Art Review, The Age, 29 April 1995.
Rita Erlich, Art Of The You Beaut Country, The Age, 8 June 1996.
Bruce James, Me, Myself an Eye (Art Review), Sydney Morning Herald, 31 October 1998.
Neville Drury, Images 3, Contemporary Australian Painting, (cover image), Craftsman House and G+B Arts International, 1998.
Victoria Hynes, Critic's Picks, Sydney Morning Herald, 24 August 2001.
Hendrik Kolenberg, Drawing the spotlight, Look, June 2002, 19 (colour illus.), pg. 18–19.
Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award (Exhibition Catalogue), Grafton Regional Gallery, 2002
Robert Nelson, Prize show offers fascinating tour of new directions, The Age, 21 September 2002.
Heidi Maier, Art prize entries like chalk and cheese, Courier-Mail, 7 April 2003.
Elizabeth Fortescue, Battle lines drawn as some see the light on artwork, Daily Telegraph, 13 September 2003.
The Hutchins Art Prize (Exhibition Catalogue), 2003.
Hendrik Kolenberg & Anne Ryan, The Dobell prize for drawing: the first ten years (Exhibition Catalogue), Art Gallery of NSW, 2003.
Jacaranda Acquisitive Drawing Award, Grafton Regional Art Gallery, (Exhibition Catalogue), 2004.
College of Fine Arts Magazine, January, 2005.
Living people
1961 births
Australian women painters
20th-century Australian women artists
20th-century Australian artists
21st-century Australian women artists
21st-century Australian artists | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanda%20Robins |
Benjamin Brian Thomas Watt (born 6 December 1962) is a British musician, singer, songwriter, author, DJ, and radio presenter, best known as a member of the duo Everything but the Girl.
Early life
Watt was born in Marylebone, London, and grew up in Barnes, the son of Scottish jazz bandleader and arranger Tommy Watt and showbusiness writer Romany Bain. He has a total four older half-brothers and half-sisters.
Recording artist
Watt began recording in 1981 on the indie label Cherry Red. His first single 'Cant' was produced by folk-maverick Kevin Coyne and featured Richard Allen on viola and tambourine. His second release, 1982's 5-track EP Summer into Winter featured Robert Wyatt on backing vocals and piano. His debut album North Marine Drive was released in 1983 and reached UK Independent Album Charts Top 10. He then put his solo career on hold and joined forces with vocalist Tracey Thorn, with whom he wrote and recorded for 17 years—together they created nine studio albums as Everything but the Girl (EBTG) after signing to Blanco Y Negro through Warners in 1984, and then Virgin in 1995. EBTG have received eight gold, and one platinum album BPI Certifications in the UK, and one gold album RIAA Certification in the US. The song Missing reached number two on the US Billboard Hot 100 in 1996.
Following EBTG's self-imposed hiatus in 2000, Watt immersed himself in the world of underground electronic music both as a DJ and recording artist/producer. His recorded output during this period includes club tracks such as Lone Cat (Holding On), A Stronger Man featuring Sananda Maitreya (formerly known as Terence Trent D'Arby), the Outspoken EP Part 1 including Pop A Cap in Yo' Ass featuring Estelle, Just a Blip and Guinea Pig.
In 2014 Watt returned to his folk-jazz roots and released Hendra, his first solo album since 1983, the content of which was recorded with a new band including Bernard Butler, formerly of the band Suede—Watt explained that he knew that Butler would be the "perfect counterpoint to bring some darkness to the light." Watt also worked with Berlin-based producer Ewan Pearson, and David Gilmour of Pink Floyd. The album was released on a new record label, Unmade Road, founded by Watt in 2014. Watt completed over sixty live shows in support of Hendra including tours of UK, North America, Japan and Australia. The album won the 'Best 'Difficult' Second Album' category at the AIM Independent Music Awards 2014. It was included at No 27 in Uncut's Top 75 Albums of 2014. Rolling Stone (Germany) made it number two in its list of the best albums of 2014. Japan's Music Magazine made it their No 3 best album of 2014.
April 2016 saw the release of his third solo album Fever Dream. Self-produced at RAK Studios in London, it continued his relationship with Bernard Butler, and added guest cameos from MC Taylor of North Carolina folk-rock band, Hiss Golden Messenger, and Boston singer-songwriter Marissa Nadler. It received a 9/10 review in Uncut magazine. In a four-star review, The Guardian said: "In his early 50s, he is making some of the best music of his career."
In late 2022, Watt and Thorn announced a new Everything But The Girl album. Fuse, released in April 2023, was the first EBTG album released in 24 years.
Writer
Watt's first memoir, Patient – The True Story of a Rare Illness (Penguin, 1996), describes his life-changing ordeal with Churg–Strauss syndrome (Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis), a rare life-threatening auto-immune disease with which he was diagnosed and hospitalized in 1992, on the eve of a North American tour with Everything But The Girl. "An astonishingly assured anatomy of his ordeal, by turns terrifying, mordantly funny and intensely moving. Many people suffer the pain and indignities of intensive medical treatment; but few have written about it with quite such alarming vividness or clarity", wrote Mick Bown in The Daily Telegraph. The book was listed as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, a Sunday Times Book of the Year chosen by William Boyd and a Village Voice Literary Supplement Favorite Book of the Year, and was also a finalist for the Esquire-Waterstones Best Non-Fiction Award in the UK.
His second memoir, Romany and Tom—a portrait of his parents' lives and marriage—was published by Bloomsbury in February 2014. "Neither sentimental nor savage, yet often wise, moving and entertaining within the same paragraph, Romany and Tom is a major achievement to rival any of Watt's recordings", said The Guardian. "Watt captures what real life feels like, and he captures it with breathtaking clarity, beauty, and precision", said the Los Angeles Review of Books. In September 2014 it was long-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize 2014.
DJ, remixer, label owner
Lazy Dog (1998–2003)
In 1998 Watt established the London deep house Sunday club night and compilation series Lazy Dog with Jay Hannan. The club night – where both Watt and Hannan DJ'd in a tag-team style – was hosted twice-monthly at the Notting Hill Arts Club in west London, and later every two months at The End in central London. Success led to appearances at the Miami Winter Music Conference and several tours of the United States. Watt produced a string of dance remixes for Sade, Sunshine Anderson, Zero 7, Maxwell, Meshell Ndegeocello and Sandy Rivera. Lazy Dog ended on 16 May 2003 with a farewell closing party at The End in central London. Two mix compilations – Lazy Dog Vol. 1 and Lazy Dog Vol. 2 were released by Virgin Records in 2000 and 2001 respectively.
Neighbourhood and Cherry Jam (2002–2005)
For three years between 2002 and 2005, Watt was a co-owner/founder of the West London nightclubs Neighbourhood and Cherry Jam. Under Watt's creative direction Cherry Jam hosted underground club nights, art exhibitions, the inaugural events for the long-running spoken word night Book Slam and The Libertines' official debut show. At Neighbourhood, Watt brought in artists such as Groove Armada and many international DJs to perform at his own in-house club nights. Watt also hosted the 25th Anniversary of the Rough Trade Records music label and the inaugural House Music Awards ceremony.
Buzzin' Fly Records (2003–present)
In April 2003, Watt launched his own independent deep house and techno record label Buzzin' Fly Records (named after the Tim Buckley song). The label proceeded to foster the careers of young and emerging producers/DJs such as Justin Martin, Mademoiselle Caro & Franck Garcia, and Rodamaal. The label hosted Watt's own club productions as well as work from remixers such as Ame, Radio Slave, Charles Webster and John Tejada. Between 2003 and 2007 Watt also compiled and mixed four compilation albums, Buzzin' Fly Volumes 1–4, mixing tracks from the label with tracks from other artists.
Buzzin' Fly won Best Breakthrough Label at the House Music Awards in 2004, and was awarded the Runner-up Best British Label by the DJ Magazine Awards in both 2007 and 2008. In April 2013, on the label's tenth anniversary, Watt announced he was scaling back the label's activities to focus more fully on his own creative work.
After a period of relative inactivity in 2017 Buzzin' Fly took control of the majority of the Everything But The Girl back catalogue, previously held by Warner Music. The transfer of rights was the result of Warner Music's obligation to release assets into the independent sector as part of the conditions surrounding its acquisition of EMI assets from Universal Music. A licensing deal with Chrysalis Records was simultaneously arranged for the shared curation of the catalogue. A new Buzzin' Fly website was launched the same year presenting a new home for all three labels within the Buzzin' Fly group – Buzzin' Fly, Strange Feeling and Unmade Road.
DJ
After several years of mostly London residencies, Watt performed as a DJ on the festival circuit in 2005, appearing at the Good Vibrations Festival in Australia, Homelands and Lovebox in the UK, Coachella in the US, and Ireland's Electric Picnic. In 2008 he opened the Sonar Festival in Barcelona, appeared at the Exit Festival the same year and was a resident DJ from 2007 to 2009 at We Love Sundays on the Space Terrace in Ibiza. Giant Step promoted his three-year residency at Cielo in New York, and he played on the main stage at the inaugural Electric Zoo Festival on New York City's Randall's Island in 2009. He was nominated four years running (2008–2011) as Best Deep House DJ at the global DJ Awards held in Ibiza, and for Outstanding Contribution to Dance Music at the DJ Magazine Best of British Awards 2009.
Strange Feeling Records (2007–present)
Building upon the foundation of Buzzin' Fly, Watt launched Strange Feeling Records in 2007 as a sister label that would release alternative/indie music. The critically acclaimed Copenhagen band Figurines and the Hungarian trio The Unbending Trees were early signings of Strange Feeling. The label globally released and distributed the third solo album Love and Its Opposite by Watt's wife Tracey Thorn on 17 May 2010; the album was the label's fifth release. This was followed by her alternative Christmas album, Tinsel and Lights, in 2012. 2015 saw the release of Thorn's original soundtrack to The Falling – the debut feature film by British film director Carol Morley.
Unmade Road (2014–present)
In 2014, Watt launched Unmade Road, a new label and production company to act as a vehicle for his return to recording and touring as a singer-songwriter. He secured a licensing deal for the label with Caroline International. The label released Watt's albums Hendra in 2014 and Fever Dream in 2016.
Radio presenter
In 2006, Watt launched the online Buzzin' Fly radio show to showcase upcoming music from the label, new releases and guest mixes. It was re-broadcast on the Galaxy Network and Kiss. In 2009, after more than 150 editions, Watt presented his last show and accepted an invitation to move to the BBC Radio 6 Music's flagship electronic radio show as a resident DJ on the 6 Mix; this show was cancelled in 2014.
Personal life
Watt lives with his spouse and creative partner Tracey Thorn in Hampstead, north London. They met at Hull University in 1981; after 27 years together, they married in 2009 at the Chelsea Register Office. They have three children.
In 1992, Watt was diagnosed with Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA), an extremely rare and potentially deadly autoimmune condition. He eventually had 5 m (15 ft) of necrotized small intestine removed (about 75%), leaving him on a permanently restricted diet. He later wrote the memoir Patient about his experiences with the disease and recovery.
Watt is part of an environmental advocacy group that advocates for cleanup and care of the Welsh Harp reservoir. He launched the group Cool Oak as part of his advocacy.
Discography
Albums
North Marine Drive (1983, Cherry Red)
Hendra (2014, Unmade Road dist. by Caroline International) UK No. 46
Fever Dream (2016, Unmade Road) UK No. 53
Storm Damage (January 2020, Unmade Road)
Singles and EPs
Cant (June 1981, Cherry Red)
Summer into Winter EP with Robert Wyatt (March 1982, Cherry Red)
Some Things Don't Matter (February 1983, Cherry Red)
Lone Cat (Holding On) (April 2003, Buzzin' Fly)
Buzzin' Fly Vol 1 EP includes A Stronger Man with Sananda Maitreya (January 2004, Buzzin' Fly)
Outspoken Part 1 includes Pop a Cap in Yo' Ass with Estelle and Attack, Attack, Attack with Baby Blak (January 2005, Buzzin' Fly)
Buzzin' Fly Vol 2 EP includes Lone Cat (Holding On) (Justin Martin Remix) and Pop a Cap in Yo Ass (Dubstrumental) by Ben Watt with Estelle (April 2005, Buzzin' Fly)
We Are Silver EP includes Old Soul with Baby Blak, and Lone Cat (Dennis Ferrer & Steve Martinez Special Re-Rub) (April 2007, Buzzin' Fly)
Buzzin' Fly Vol 4 EP includes Just a Blip (June 2007, Buzzin' Fly)
Guinea Pig (October 2008, Buzzin' Fly)
Bright Star by Stimming, Ben Watt & Julia Biel (Feb 2010, Buzzin' Fly)
Forget (includes acoustic version of The Levels recorded with David Gilmour). (July 2014, Unmade Road)
Golden Ratio EP (remixes by Charles Webster/Ewan Pearson) (Dec 2014, Buzzin' Fly)
Gradually (Jan 2016, Unmade Road)
Between Two Fires (Feb 2016, Unmade Road)
Storm Shelter EP (April 2021, Unmade Road)
Compilations mixed by Ben Watt
Lazy Dog Vol. 1 with Jay Hannan (October 2000, Virgin)
Back to Mine with Tracey Thorn as Everything but the Girl (May 2001, DMC)
Lazy Dog Vol. 2 with Jay Hannan (March 2002, Virgin)
Buzzin' Fly Vol 1: Replenishing Music for the Modern Soul (March 2004, Buzzin' Fly)
Buzzin' Fly Vol 2: Replenishing Music for the Modern Soul (April 2005, Buzzin' Fly)
InTheMix 2006 (Australian release; 2 CDs; one compiled and mixed by Ben Watt, one by Ivan Gough) (November 2006, inthemix.au)
Buzzin' Fly Vol 3 (June 2006, Buzzin' Fly)
Buzzin' Fly Vol 4 (May 2007, Buzzin' Fly)
Buzzin' Fly – 5 Golden Years in the Wilderness (Compiled and unmixed by Ben Watt) (June 2008, Buzzin' Fly)
References
External links
Official Ben Watt website
Living people
Cherry Red Records artists
Club DJs
Deep house musicians
Electronic dance music DJs
English electronic musicians
English DJs
English male singers
English people of Scottish descent
English record producers
People from Barnes, London
Musicians from Marylebone
Remixers
People educated at St Paul's School, London
1962 births | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben%20Watt |
Make The Love Connection is a split EP featuring tracks by Captain Everything! and Route 215 and was released on the now defunct 20 Deck Recordings.
Track listing
Route 215 - Zombie Movies
Captain Everything! - Just for Paul
Route 215 - Stuck with You
Captain Everything! - Hey! What Happened?
Route 215 - Crunch
Captain Everything! - Gastroenteritis
Route 215 - Nancy
Captain Everything! - Bergerac's Burger-rack
Captain Everything! albums
2001 EPs | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make%20the%20Love%20Connection |
The G-3 was a free trade agreement between Colombia, Mexico, and Venezuela that came into effect on January 1, 1995, which created an extended market of 149 million consumers with a combined GDP (Gross domestic product) of US$486.5 billion. The agreement states a ten percent tariff reduction over ten years (starting in 1995) for the trade of goods and services among its members. The agreement is a third generation one, not limited to liberalizing trade, but includes issues such as investment, services, government purchases, regulations to fight unfair competition, and intellectual property rights.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez announced in May 2006 that his country would withdraw from the trade bloc, due to differences with its two partners. In April, Venezuela had also announced its plans to leave the Andean Community, after Colombia and Peru reached free trade agreements with the United States and Ecuador kept in negotiations for one. Venezuela then joined Mercosur, while Mexico and Colombia founded the Pacific Alliance along with Peru and Chile.
See also
Pacific Alliance
G3 (disambiguation)
Trade bloc
Andean Community of Nations
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA)
Mercosur
Free Trade Area of the Americas
UNASUR
References
Treaties entered into force in 1995
Free trade agreements
Free trade agreements of Mexico
Treaties of Venezuela
Free trade agreements of Colombia
Colombia–Mexico relations
Colombia–Venezuela relations
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Jazz Interactions, Inc. is a non-profit-making organization whose aim is "to stimulate a greater awareness of jazz by providing jazz information and educational services to New York metropolitan area."
The organization was founded in the early 1960s by a group of jazz musicians including Joe Newman and fans including fellow-founder Ernest M. Searle, Jr, and apart from its educational activities it created the Jazz Interactions Orchestra, the Jazz-Line, a telephone line that gave information on Jazz performances throughout the New York City Metro area, and promoted the Jazzmobile, a traveling stage that was used throughout New York City and Long Island, bringing free jazz concerts to many neighborhoods. Jazz Interactions was the original administrator of the Jazz Oral History Project, before handing over responsibility to the Smithsonian Institution (who later passed it on to the Institute of Jazz Studies, a research branch of the John Cotton Dana Library of Rutgers University).
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Alsfeld () is a town in the center of Hesse, in Germany.
Located about north of Frankfurt, Alsfeld is part of the densely populated Frankfurt Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region, with nearby Lauterbach (about east), one of the two centre cities of the Vogelsbergkreis district.
Alsfeld is best described as a blend of a historic bourgeois European town and its rural-agricultural environs and shaped by typical Lutheran-Pietist characteristics, such as austerity and a Protestant work ethic. It is well known for its well-preserved old town with hundreds of picturesque timber-frame houses, and part of the German Timber-Frame Road.
Geography
Large towns nearby are Bad Hersfeld about to the east, Fulda to the southeast, Gießen to the west and Marburg an der Lahn about to the northwest. Alsfeld is located on the upper part of the Schwalm in the northern Vogelsberg and just to the south of the Knüll mountains at the western edge of the Alsfeld basin.
Neighboring communities
Alsfeld borders on the following towns, listed here clockwise starting in the north: Willingshausen, Schrecksbach, Ottrau (all Schwalm-Eder district), Breitenbach (Hersfeld-Rotenburg district) and Grebenau, Schwalmtal, Romrod, Kirtorf and Antrifttal (all Vogelsbergkreis).
Boroughs
In addition to Alsfeld (proper) the town includes the following boroughs: Altenburg, Angenrod, Berfa, Billertshausen, Eifa, Elbenrod, Eudorf, Fischbach, Hattendorf, Heidelbach, Leusel, Liederbach, Lingelbach, Münch-Leusel, Reibertenrod and Schwabenrod.
History
Alsfeld was first mentioned in an official document in 1069. Excavations in the Walpurgiskirche have discovered that a Romanesque church existed here already in the 9th and 10th centuries. It is therefore estimated that the town was founded in Carolingian times. Between 1180 and 1190 the Counts of Thuringia built a castle along the historic trading route of the Kurze Hessen. That location favored the development of Alsfeld and it was subsequently documented as a town as early as 1222.
Since 1247 Alsfeld has been part of Hesse and in 1254 the town joined the Rheinischer Städtebund. Hermann II built himself a castle here in 1395 and for a time turned the town into his official residence. The city enjoyed rising prosperity due its favourable geographical location and the policies of the Landgrave of Hesse. Trades and handcrafts flourished and Alsfeld developed into a wealthy, industrious community on the “Street through the short Hesse”. Evidence of this is the church, monastery, towers, town hall and water supply system. Of great importance were the guilds, which gained influence over local government through the so-called “Korebrief” (constitution). From 1567 Alsfeld belonged to Hesse-Marburg and from 1604 on to Hesse-Darmstadt.
Alsfeld's golden age
In the 16th century, the citizen's creativity brought about a “golden age” in architecture and design, resulting in the erection of the town hall (1512–1516), the wine house (1538) and the wedding house (1564–1571) – all unique buildings. The many half-timbered buildings, which are still in existence today, are what make the market place so singularly attractive. Together with the medieval streets and their typical character, the city is regarded as the jewel in the crown of the upper Hessian cities.
Whereas the geographical position of Alsfeld had been to its advantage, it also led to its demise. The city was centred on important trade routes and the following 30 Years War (1618–1648) resulted in plunder (1622), starvation (1626), plague (1635), occupation (1640 and 1643–1646) and the destruction of 226 residential buildings and 80 cottages (1646). By 1648 only 1120 people were still living in the city (mainly women and children). The economic and social fall of the city created a population of struggling smallholders, active in crafts and trades and also agriculture. Many of the fine buildings fell into disrepair.
19th century
During the 19th century the town had a vibrant Jewish community which built in 1908 a new large synagogue. A well-maintained Jewish cemetery adjacent to a Christian cemetery lies on the outskirts of the town. The pre-1908 synagogue exists as a building. It wasn't until the 19th century, in 1832, that Alsfeld was to experience a renewed rise as the district capital. Railway construction (1870) and the industrial revolution resulted in the fundamental transformation of the smallholding system.
Nazism and the World War II-period
Alsfeld held a special significance for Nazi ideologists. For them, it was the epitome of the German 'Home Town', representing all that was quintessentially German. Throughout the 1930s, the Nazi organization KDF (Kraft durch Freude) "Strength through Joy" organized regular day trips to Alsfeld from all across the Reich. In 1938 Alsfeld was one of the first towns that got a connection to the Autobahn.
During the Kristallnacht on November 9, 1938, Nazis burned down the large synagogue in the city. Citizens rescued the Torah scroll, the wooden Ark in which it was stored, and a unique wooden clock recording times of Jewish prayer services, and hid them in the town museum's storage.
The next day, the Nazis started the systematic deportation of Jews. In 1942, Alsfeld expelled its last Jewish citizens, much to the approval of Nazis and their supporters across Germany.
On March 29, 1945, German troops left the city. The U.S. Army entered the town on March 30, 1945. The civilian population surrendered without resistance. Alsfeld, unlike most German cities and towns, was spared from Allied bombing raids during the war. But, as Alsfeld was neither an industrial center nor a transport hub, it did not present a tactical or strategic target. Allied air raids focused extensively on the railway tracks.
History after 1945
The excellent infrastructure, including the Hamburg–Frankfurt–Basel Autobahn (motorway) brought further industrialization ensured that the location regained its previous geographic and economic importance, the Bundesgrenzschutz chose Alsfeld as a garrison base. In 1961, the town hosted the first Hessentag state festival, in 1985 the 25th.
Until 1972 it was the seat of Alsfeld district until the district was merged with neighboring Lauterbach district and the Schotten region into the present-day Vogelsberg district. As a result of the district reform that took effect on July 11, 1972, the villages of Berfa, Hattendorf, Liederbach and Lingelbach were merged into the town of Alsfeld.
European model city
Previously surrounded by an oval shaped city wall with 4 gates, the medieval town of Alsfeld is still characterised by a wealth of half-timbered buildings, which stand alongside simple residential buildings and monumental civic constructions. The narrow, twisting streets and passages open out into courtyards and squares presenting the most delightful and unique features to be found in the whole of Hesse. The visitor is provided with a complete overview of the development of wood construction from the late Middle Ages to the beginning of the nineteenth century. For the past 100 years a conscious cultural conservation has been nurtured to preserve the buildings. Ever since the local statutes of 1963, the civic bodies have been obliged to care and preserve the old city landscape. Thanks to a happy twist of fate, the historical city centre with its medieval and renaissance architecture has been passed down to us. The local population appreciates and supports the city's architectural heritage.
As a result of these efforts, particularly the renovation of the old city, which began in 1967, Alsfeld was selected by the European council as one of 51 exemplary cities in 17 European countries for the European Year of Building Preservation.
The Name Alsfeld
One of the many legends about how Alsfeld came to its name and location goes as follows: Around 1200 the Margrave of Hesse/Thuringia went riding his horse over the Vogelsberg. When he got to the Homberg (a hill near Alsfeld) a very strong wind was blowing. Supposedly at this point the Margrave said: "Als fällt mir der Hut vom Kopp." (trans. I keep losing my hat.) The "Als fällt" in that statement supposedly became the name "Alsfeld" – it has the same pronunciation.
Government
Town council and executive
After the municipal elections of March 6, 2016 the town council was made up of 37 councillors:
The town's executive has ten members:
Mayors
The current mayor, Stephan Paule, was elected on May 26, 2013, with a 55,8% share of the vote.
1993-1999: Herbert Diestelmann (SPD)
1999-2005: Herbert Diestelmann (SPD)
2005-2007: Herbert Diestelmann (SPD)
2007-2013: Ralf Becker (SPD)
Coat of arms
The Coat of Arms is blazoned as:"Azure a sword Argent gripped Or and a lion rampant Gules, armed and crowned Or"
The oldest seal of the town features the Count of Hesse as judge with a sword in one hand and a shield in the other. That shield depicted the lion of Hesse. The combination used today has been seen since the late 14th century; since then there have only been some minor variations in color.
Main sights
The town is known for its Altstadt, the historic town centre, with its uninterrupted blocks of historic buildings. The Altstadt has a typical layout for a medieval town. The town wall was built in an almost perfect circle centred on the market place (for strategic reasons). Roads lead mostly straight from the gates in the wall to the town centre. One can deduce where the town wall was from the picturesque narrow streets which remain in their original state: their bends and curves in those small streets follow the original town wall.
Buildings at the market place (Markt)
The Town Hall was constructed in medieval, Rähmbau style timber framing between 1512 and 1516. This is one of the most important German half-timbered town hall buildings. Erected over a late Gothic stone substructure, this building with its attractive woodwork, bent chevron bracing and protruding moulded beam-ends, is an outstanding example of a "Rähmbau" (frame construction). The ground storey, built of stone, was once a market hall. The "Alsfeld cubit" can still be seen on the left corner. On the first floor the offices of the Mayor and Magistrate are situated. Since 1633 the councilmen have had their coats of arms on display. On the second floor, interesting old doors lead into the meeting room and the Registry Office (formerly the Court Room). Michael Finck, the local artist and carpenter, designed and crafted the magnificent Renaissance door in 1604. Curt Oberman forged the decorative hinges. It is next to the market place in the center of the Altstadt.
Next to the Town Hall is the Weinhaus ("Wine House"). This impressive municipal stone building was constructed by Hans von Frankfurt and used to store and sell wine. Business deals, celebrations and special events were toasted and validated with wine. Wine sales generated up to 40% of the town's income. The transition between the Gothic and Renaissance architecture can be seen in the steep stepped gables and the fan rosettes facing. The original irregular, stone curtained windows were unfortunately replaced in 1840 /43 by the present rounded windows. Remains of the earlier windows are still visible. At the corner of the Weinhaus is the Pranger, a lockable iron collar into which mediaeval law-breakers were locked. They then had to suffer the verbal and physical abuse of their fellow citizens without any means of defending themselves. The Pranger is much photographed by tourists.
Leaning up against the Weinhaus is Markt 2 the oldest timber-framed house in Alsfeld, a Gothic, half-timbered house in pillar construction. It has two barrel shaped cellars dating back to the time when the city was founded. In 1394 when a large section of the Walpurgis Church Tower collapsed, the right-hand side of the house was severely damaged. It was rebuilt in 1403 and 1464–65. The uppers storeys jetty (project) above the storey below giving additional living space to each upper storey. The hall on the ground floor is now used as a bookshop. The upper floors house municipal offices.
The Hochzeitshaus (wedding house) is a renaissance building was built between 1564 and 1571, according to the plans of master builder Hans Meurer. The upper floors, which were accessible via a stone spiral staircase, were used for festivities, which is why the name of the wedding house prevailed for the building.
Walpurgiskirche (Walpurgis Church)
The Walpurgiskirche is the main civic church in Alsfeld, dedicated to St. Walpurga, has a complicated building history. This is reflected both in the interior design and in the outer construction. Excavations carried out in 1971–1972, revealed the remains of the oldest section, a three apses Roman Church dating back to the 8th/9th century. In the late 13th century an early Gothic Basilica was built, with a low, elongated choir and west tower. In 1393, the choir was reconstructed, made longer and substantially higher. Plans to reconstruct the long house had to be cancelled as the church tower collapsed in 1394 and the funds were needed for reconstruction. In 1492, the existing basilica was further developed. Later the aisles were widened and heightened to form high arcades and create a hall-like church. Features include: a Roman baptismal font, late Gothic frescoes, carved altar, paintings, choir seating, baroque epitaphs and a late Gothic crucifixion group.
Work on the collapsed tower commenced soon after the event and was only completed in 1542, with a strengthened octagonal storey topped by a Renaissance canopy. In 1836 one storey was removed. The tower has 7 bells, is approximately 50 metres high and was the residence of the tower keeper until 1921. Every year the traditional "Cradle of Christ" music is played over the Christmas Period. A trombone choir performs the traditional "May Blowing" every night during the month of May from the top of the tower.
The extensive stained glass art in the church was created in 1963 by Charles Crodel.
The Dreifaltigkeitskirche (Trinity Church) and the former Augustine monastery
The Dreifaltigkeitskirche (Trinity Church) is a former monastery church of the Augustine hermits, with a long choir for the clergy built in the second half of the 14th century. Around 1435 an asymmetrical hall was added with naves and side aisles. There is no church tower as the monks belonged to a begging order. A closer view of the church on the inside reveals a well preserved cross-ribbed dome, a beautiful stone chancel with a pulpit ceiling from around 1660, as well as late Gothic frescoes from the early part of the 15th century, It was restored in 1960–62.
The former Augustine monastery was presumably founded towards the end of the 13th century, and occupied by Eremite Hermit Monks. This is where Luther's friend, Tilemann Schnabel, the reformer of Alsfeld lived and worked. At the time of the Reformation, in 1527, the monastery and church were closed down. Subsequently, the buildings were used as a hospital and finally left to ruin. One remaining monastery wall shows where the monks’ cells were located. The monastery was situated along the city wall, which had four gates and was largely demolished in the 19th century. A short section of the city wall remains and can be seen on the south side.
Kirchplatz (Church square) with Beinhaus
The late Gothic Beinhaus was originally built in 1368 and reconstructed in 1510, on the north side of the churchyard. Later used for preserving the skeletons from the surrounding cemetery. (The cemetery was too small to cope with the number of deaths in the 30 Year War and the various plagues.) The chapel was later misused for profane purposes. At the beginning of the 20th century alterations were carried out to the attic roof. Since its restoration in 1982, the building has housed the city archives.
Grabbrunnen
The Grabbrunnen is a square named after the fountain of the same name in Alsfeld's old town. According to legend, newborn children were taken from it. The idyllic square has only been accessible to pedestrians since the 1970s.
Leonhardsturm (Leonard's Tower)
Only a small section of the town wall remains, together with the Leonhardsturm (Leonard's Tower). In 1386 the former city fortress had numerous towers of which the Leonhard's Tower is the last remaining. A rounded tower with cone and battlement crest, it is 27 metres high. Entrance was from the city wall, through a doorway halfway up the tower. At the base of the tower was the dungeon, which was used for holding prisoners sentenced to death. The tower is known locally as the "Storks’ Nest". Legend has it that babies were ordered from the storks nesting there.
Museums
The Stadtmuseum (formerly: Regionalmuseum Alsfeld), located in the former Patrician homes Neurath-Haus (built in 1688) and the Minnigerode-Haus (built in 1687), hosts speaking events and other occasions and often puts on small exhibitions
Alsfeld Fairy Tale House: opening hours and event calendar are available at the Alsfeld Tourist Centre in the marketplace
Haus Speier: A museum about the Jewish history of the region, located in the borough Angenrod.
People and culture
Cultural life is characterized on the one hand by numerous celebrations at Alsfeld market place and nationally because of the Hessenhalle, primarily because of the concerts.
Events
Regular rock, Pop and traditional concerts held in the Hessenhalle community center
Alsfeld Herbal and Fairy Tale-Day (On a Sunday in May/June)
Alsfeld Whitsun Fair
Alsfeld Town Festival (1. Saturday in August)
Alsfeld Christmas Market
Vogelsberg Specialties: Various popular activities staged by the citizens of Alsfeld on the first Saturday of each month
Farmers and specialty market on the third Saturday of each month
Annual theatre productions take place in local high schools
Cultural references
In Alsfeld the Brothers Grimm found the inspiration for the Little Red Riding Hood. The town also has appeared in several films, notably fantasies.
Infrastructure
Alsfeld is situated right off the Alsfeld East and Alsfeld West exits on the Autobahn A 5
The Pfefferhöhe rest area near Alsfeld is the second highest rest area (in altitude) along the A 5, the and also a popular meeting place.
Visitors can reach Alsfeld station also by train via the Vogelsberg Railway (Gießen–Alsfeld–Fulda). In addition, from April 1, 1916, until 1974 the Gründchen Railway connected Alsfeld with Niederaula. Passenger traffic on the Gründchen line was discontinued on May 25 and the last freight train left Alsfeld on May 28, 1974. Since then the right-of-way between Alsfeld and Breitenbach has been returned to nature to varying degrees.
Notable people
Johann Adam Birkenstock (1687–1733), violinist and composer
Wilhelm Gottlieb Soldan (1803-1869), historian and politician.
Samuel Spier (1838–1903), one of the founders of the German Social Democrats
Henny Koch (1854–1925), author
Rudolf Stammler (1856–1938), legal philosopher
Alexander Fritz (1857–1932), chess master
Karl Koch (1910–1944), cyclist
Gerd Ludwig (born 1947), German-American documentary photographer and photojournalist
Peter Gruss (born 1949), President of the Max Planck Society (2002-2014 )
Georg Schmidt (born 1951), historian
Lothar Hennighausen (born 1952), Geneticist at NIDDK at the National Institute of Health
Manfred Stumpf (born 1957), German draftsman, sculptor and digital artist
Stephan Weidner (born 1963), lyrics, bass and vocals for Böhse Onkelz
Jürgen Hahn (born 1964), jazz musician
Andrea Zimmer (born 1969), painter
Tina Malti (born 1974), psychologist
Viktoria Schwalm (born 1997), soccer player
References
External links
Offizielle Webseite der Stadt Alsfeld
Alsfeld Pentecostal Fair
Regionalmuseum Alsfeld
Bilder von Alsfeld
Bilder von alten Fachwerkbalken in Alsfeld
Alsfeld
Vogelsbergkreis
Grand Duchy of Hesse
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Black Stallion is a monster truck that races on the USHRA circuit and for other promoters. Black Stallion started out as a stock 1982 Ford F350 back in 1982, owned and modified by Michael Vaters. The first modification was a homemade 12" lift kit, since such kits were unavailable at the time. Mike then later added two sunroofs, an Alpine stereo system, a Ford 460 Engine, Rockwell 5 ton toploaders, Clark 20 ton planetaries, 66" terra tires, a 9" television and later on, a 1988 Ford F series front end. Between 1990 and 1991, Mike realized the future of monster trucks, which was racing. To be competitive, Mike replaced the leaf springs with airbags, the old heavy split ring rims with lightweight one piece rims, fiberglass body pieces, cutting the tires, gutting the interior out, 4 linking the truck and putting in a bigger engine. The modifications proved to be beneficial to Mike, with close races with First Blood, and competing in some Pendaliner Special Events racing events. After a violent rollover in Bloomsburg Pennsylvania in 1991, Mike decided to put King shocks on the truck, which he later added coil springs in 1992. Along with the coil springs, Mike also removed the airbags. Mike is credited as the first owner to use bypass shocks. Also for 1992, Mike changed the front clip to a 1992 Ford F-series front end. Mike rarely ran this truck after he built the popular Boogey Van in 1993, driven by his then wife, Pam Vaters. Due to this, the truck was nicknamed Rodney, after the comedian, Rodney Dangerfield. Mike then built a truck for the 1996 season for research and development, named Black Stallion 2000, since his crew members joked about Mike not building a new truck for himself until the new millennium. This chassis is still running strong to this day. For his 20th anniversary, Mike decided to repaint Black stallion, with the front of the truck yellow, going into black with a horse face painted on. The truck currently has the same paint scheme. The drivers for 2016 are Michael Vaters & Matt Cody. Vaters will compete in the Fox Sports 1 Championship Series. Cody will travel to Birmingham, Toronto, Newark, Charleston, Columbia, Worcester, Wheeling & Baton Rouge.
World Finals Appearances
Monster Jam World Finals
2001
Driver: Michael Vaters
Racing: Lost to Wolverine in Round 1
Freestyle: Scored 30 - Sixth
2002
Driver: Michael Vaters
Racing: Lost to Grave Digger in Round 1
Freestyle: Scored 32 - Fourth
2003
Driver: Michael Vaters
Racing: Lost to Gun Slinger in Round 1
Freestyle: Scored 30 - Fifth
2005
Driver: Michael Vaters
Racing: Lost to Destroyer in Round 1
Freestyle: Scored 27 - Tied King Krunch for Third
2008
Driver: Michael Vaters
Racing: Lost to Airforce After Burner in Round 2
Freestyle Scored 25 - Ninth
See also
Monster Truck
List of Monster Trucks
References
External links
Michael Vaters
Black Stallion
Monster trucks
Off-road vehicles
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Abu Kamal () or Al-Bukamal () is a city on the Euphrates river in the Deir ez-Zor Governorate of eastern Syria near the border with Iraq. It is the administrative centre of the Abu Kamal District and the local subdistrict (Abu Kamal Subdistrict). Just to the south-east is the Al-Qa'im border crossing to the town of Husaybah in the Al-Qa'im District of Iraq's Al Anbar Governorate.
Etymology
When part of the Ottoman Empire, Abu Kamal was called kışla, pronounced locally as "qashla", which is a Turkish word for "military barracks". This name "Qashla" is still used by some inhabitants of the area, especially by elderly villagers. The name "Al-Bukamal" () means "the family of Kamal", Kamal being the tribe that lives there, whereas the name "Abu Kamal" means "the father of Kamal".
History
In the 17th century, Abu Kamal was the seat of a sanjak of the Ottoman Empire in the Rakka Eyalet. It was a kaza (subdistrict) center within Zor Sanjak until the end of Ottoman rule in 1918. In 1896, the old mud village was relocated a mile upstream because it was in danger of being ruined by flooding. The new village was built from stone and had wide streets. The village and its subdistrict formed the center of the Arab Uqaydat tribe and was largely Sunni Muslim, with the exception of a small Christian community originally from Deir ez-Zor and Mosul. At the beginning of the 20th century, it contained eighty houses, the residence of the kaymakam (kaza governor), a police station, a ferry, and had a population of about 500. The kaza of Abu Kamal in 1890 had a population of 15,000.
Abu Kamal became part of the French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon in 1921, and the French made it the seat of a large garrison. In 1946 it became part of independent Syria. Abu Kamal's position at the border of Syria and Iraq has made it an important commercial as well as political center.
Abu Kamal is located near to Al-Qa'im, a crossing point for the Iraqi insurgency and the location of Operation Steel Curtain in November, 2005. On 27 October 2008, during the Iraq War, four US helicopters carried out a raid on the village of Sukkariyeh in Abu Kamal district. It was the first known raid inside Syria by the US. News reports indicate that at least seven people were killed, four of them children. The Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem stated that "Killing civilians in international law means a terrorist aggression."
Syrian Civil War
During the Syrian Civil War, in late July 2012, the Free Syrian Army (FSA) took over the town, along with its associated border post with Iraq. In early September 2012, France 24 reported that the Hamdan military airport was under attack by FSA. On 16 November 2012, FSA took over the nearby Hamdan military airport, which was once used to transport farm produce, but was converted to a base for helicopters and military tanks. The capture of Hamdan meant that the Syrian Army forces now only held one air base in the province - the main military airport in Deir ez-Zor city.
ISIL takeover
Abu Kamal was captured by ISIL forces between late-June and early-July 2014 during a three-month offensive across Deir ez-Zor Governorate. On 3 July 2014, SOHR said that city of Mayadin, the second biggest town in Deir Ezzor province, was also "now under IS control, after Al-Nusra Front evacuated its headquarters there, and IS raised its banner". On 3 July 2014, all towns and villages on the route from Abu Kamal to Al-Bab, passing through the Raqqa province, were under Islamic State control.
Owing to its distance from the frontline, the town would see little fighting between its capture by ISIL in 2014 and ISIL's retreat in 2017. During the lull in conflict, the town was the target of a failed opposition attack by the US-backed New Syrian Army in June 2016; the offensive lasted only a day and led to a total reversal of New Syrian Army advances to Abu Kamal.
On October 14, 2017 the Syrian Arab Army took the city of Mayadin, located 80 kilometers from Abu Kamal. After that Abu Kamal was the only large city that remained under ISIL control.
On October 25, the road Al Qaim – Abu Kamal – Mayadin – Deir ez-Zor was blocked after a series of airstrikes conducted by Russian Air Force.
From 1 to 4 November 6 Russian Tu-22M3 strategic bombers conducted airstrikes on ISIL objects near Abu Kamal. On November 7 the SAA started operation to take Abu Kamal with support of allied forces, like the Iranian-backed Hezbollah and the Iranian Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC).
On 9 November 2017, ISIL retreated from the town, leaving fighters dispersed in villages and small towns in the desert. Army spokesman Gen. Ali Mayhoub stated: ″The liberation of Abu Kamal is of great importance because it is a declaration of the fall of this group’s project in the region generally and the collapse of its supporters’ illusions to divide it, control large parts of the Syria-Iraq borders and secure supply routes between the two countries.″One day later Commander of the Russian force grouping in Syria Colonel General Sergei Surovikin confirmed the retaking of Abu Kamal:“Units of the 5th Assault Corps, assault groups of brigadier general Suheil and militias with support of Russian Air Force took part in liberating Abu Kamal. In the final stages of hostilities the Syrian Arab Army gained control over the Syrian-Iraqi border near the Euphrates River”.
However, on November 11 the city was recaptured by ISIL. The Syrian Army and its allies retook complete control of the city by 19 November. Concerns have been raised about what would happen to the village once ISIL was removed.
Iranian presence
Following the elimination of ISIS, Iranian-allied militias have occupied Abu Kamal and its countryside since late 2017. Since the end of 2017, the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces, which are linked to the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), had control of the al-Qa'im border crossing, while Hezbollah and the Haidarion, Fatimion and Zeinabiyun militias had control of Mayadin, west of Abu Kamal, both on the south bank of the Euphrates River. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) had control of the north bank.
Fox News reported on 4 September that a new “classified Iranian project”, the Imam Ali military base, was being constructed near Abu Kamal, which was confirmed by satellite images.
On 30 September 2019, after eight years of closure, Syria and Iraq reopened the Al-Qa'im border crossing between Abu Kamal and Al-Qa'im.
On 27 October 2023 the US carried out air strikes against bases near the town that it claimed were being used by Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The US said that these were in response to Iranian backed attacks on its bases in the region.
Climate
Abu Kamal has a hot desert climate (BWh) in the Köppen–Geiger climate classification system.
Notable people
Yusuf Zuayyin twice Prime Minister of Syria.
Sufian Allaw Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources of Syria.
Nawaf al-Fares Syrian ambassador to Iraq and defector.
Saddam al-Jamal An Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant leader.
Gallery
References
External links
Abu Kamal
Cities in Syria
Populated places in Abu Kamal District
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ALPAL-2 is a submarine telecommunications cable system in the Mediterranean Sea linking Algeria and the Spanish Balearic island of Majorca.
It has landing points in:
El Djemila, Algiers, Algeria
Ses Covetes, Palma de Mallorca, Majorca, Spain
It has a design transmission capacity of 160 Gbit/s, starting operation at 5 Gbit/s and a total cable length of 312 km. It started operation in July 2002.
References
Submarine communications cables in the Mediterranean Sea
Algeria–Spain relations
2002 establishments in Algeria
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Lunugala is a town in the Sri Lankan province of Uva.There are 28 Grama Niladhari Divisions in the Lunugala Divisional Secretariat Division
The town is placed in middle of a mountain range. It was called "Pattipola" (පට්ටිපොල) in the past.
Its main agricultural product is tea. There are many beautiful tea estates in Lunugala as Adawatta Estate, Park Estate, Hopton Estate, Showlands Estate and Madolsima Plantation. Additionally people cultivate pepper, cinnamon and cacao.
Society & Population Distribution
Basically the society of lunugala consists of three major types—Sinhala, Tamil and Muslims. These people live peacefully together. In some places there are cross marriages as Tamil-Muslims, Muslim-Sinhala and Tamil-Sinhala.
Schools
Lunugala Central College
Yapamma Sri Dhammananda Vidyalaya
Rama Krishna College
kalai mahal tamil maha vidyalayam
Muslim School
Jayabima Primary school
Religious places
Lunugala Sri Lonagiri Purana Rajamaha Viharaya
Yapamma Sri Ramya Vijayarama Viharaya
Lunugala Sri Kadireshan Kovil
Lunugala Jumma Mosque
Lunugala Catholic Church
Hospitals
Lunugala Hospital
hopton Hospital
Adawatta Dispensary
Public banks
Bank of Ceylon
Peoples Bank
Regional Development Bank
Gallery
References
Madulsima, a top tourist attraction by M.H.M.N. Bandara
Populated places in Uva Province | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunugala |
"Everything Burns" is a song by American guitarist Ben Moody and American singer Anastacia for the soundtrack to the film Fantastic Four (2005) based on the Marvel comics of the same name. Released on June 20, 2005, "Everything Burns" became a top-10 hit in five European countries, including Italy, where it peaked at number two. The song's music video, directed by Antti Jokinen, was shot on April 30 and May 1, 2005, at the Culver Studios in Los Angeles.
The song was originally recorded with Canadian singer Avril Lavigne. Moody recorded a version with Hana Pestle for his 2008 EP, Mutiny Bootleg E.P.. American Idol finalist James Durbin covered the song for his 2011 debut album Memories of a Beautiful Disaster. Moody re-recorded the song in his solo album You Can't Regret What You Don't Remember, retitled "Everything Burns (In Memoriam)".
Track listings
European CD single
"Everything Burns" (album version) – 3:43
"Everything Burns" (instrumental) – 3:43
"Everything Burns" (video)
European CD maxi single
"Everything Burns" (album version) – 3:43
"Everything Burns" (instrumental) – 3:43
"Everything Burns" (video mix) – 3:44
"Everything Burns" (video)
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Sales
Release history
References
2005 singles
Anastacia songs
Fantastic Four (film series)
Male–female vocal duets
Songs written by Ben Moody
Wind-up Records singles | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything%20Burns |
Elaine Agnes Smith (born 5 May 1963) is a former Scottish Labour politician who served as a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Central Scotland region from 2016 until she stood down at the 2021 election. She was previously MSP for the Coatbridge and Chryston constituency from 1999 until 2016.
Early life and career
Smith was born in Coatbridge, North Lanarkshire and attended St Patrick's School, a local co-educational Roman Catholic school. She studied Economics and Politics at Glasgow College and then trained as a Modern Studies and Economics teacher at St Andrews College, a Catholic teacher-training institution in Glasgow. She worked as a secondary school teacher before becoming a local government officer, also gaining a Diploma in Public Sector Management.
Political career
Smith was elected as a Scottish Labour MSP for her local constituency of Coatbridge and Chryston in the 1999 Scottish Parliament election, with a majority of 10,404. She subsequently went on to be returned in 2003, 2007 and 2011, with majorities of 8,571, 4,510 and 2,741 respectively. On 11 May 2011, she was elected to serve as one of two Deputy Presiding Officers of the Scottish Parliament.
In 2013, Smith voiced her opposition to same-sex marriage, claiming at a session of the Equal Opportunities Committee that its introduction could lead to polygamy. Smith was one of three Labour MSPs that voted against the Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2014.
Smith supported Jeremy Corbyn during both the 2015 and 2016 Labour Party leadership elections. During the 2016 European Union membership referendum, she backed Britain leaving the European Union, contrary to the position of the Labour Party.
In the 2016 Scottish Parliament election, Smith lost her seat by 3,779 votes after watching her vote share drop by 17.6%. She gained a list seat as one of seven additional members for the Central Scotland region and was returned for the new session. Following the retirement of Tricia Marwick, she attempted to be elected Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament. However, she was defeated by Ken Macintosh, a fellow Labour MSP and one of the additional members for the West Scotland region. After standing down as a Deputy Presiding Officer, she became a member of the Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee.
Smith supported Richard Leonard in the 2017 Scottish Labour Party leadership election. Following Leonard's victory, she was appointed to his frontbench and was given the new role of Scottish Labour Spokesperson for Eradication of Poverty and Inequality. Her appointment was controversial because of her record of opposing same-sex marriage.
In February 2018, Smith invited anti-abortion academic Professor Priscilla K. Coleman to speak at an event in the Scottish Parliament discussing what Coleman believes is the harmful impact of abortion on mental health. After facing criticism from Scottish Labour colleagues, Smith withdrew the invitation, citing a "diary clash". In response to the backlash, Richard Leonard said "It has been made clear to Elaine that she needs to comply with the party’s policy on issues like a woman’s right to choose."
In September 2019, Smith announced she would be standing down at the next Scottish Parliament election on health grounds. Later that month, she became Scottish Labour Parliamentary Business Manager, replacing Neil Findlay.
Smith nominated Monica Lennon in the 2021 Scottish Labour leadership election. She stood down at the 2021 Scottish Parliament election.
Personal life
Smith is a member of the trade unions Unite the Union, formerly Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU), and General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTC).
References
External links
Elaine Smith profile
1963 births
Living people
People from Coatbridge
European democratic socialists
Labour MSPs
Members of the Scottish Parliament 1999–2003
Members of the Scottish Parliament 2003–2007
Members of the Scottish Parliament 2007–2011
Members of the Scottish Parliament 2011–2016
Members of the Scottish Parliament 2016–2021
Female members of the Scottish Parliament
20th-century Scottish women politicians
Deputy Presiding Officers of the Scottish Parliament
Politicians from North Lanarkshire
Scottish schoolteachers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine%20Smith%20%28Scottish%20politician%29 |
Shubhendra Shankar (30 March 1942 – 15 September 1992), also known as Shubho Shankar, was an Indian graphic artist, musician and composer. He was the only son of musicians Annapurna Devi and Ravi Shankar.
Early life
Shubhendra Shankar was the son of the surbahar virtuoso and teacher Annapurna Devi and sitar maestro Ravi Shankar. Hailing from a gifted Hindustani classical music background, his grandfather was the legendary Ustad Allauddin Khan, the founder of the Maihar Gharana. He was also the nephew of sarod maestro Ali Akbar Khan, and the cousin of sarodists Ashish Khan, Dhyanesh Khan, Alam Khan, and Manik Khan. Through his father's side, he was the older half-brother of Norah Jones and Anoushka Shankar.
He learned the sitar initially from his father, Ravi Shankar. His tutorship was handed over to his mother Annapurna Devi, when Ravi Shankar could not make time due to his hectic work schedule at the All India Radio and concert tours across India. While living in his father's home in Hollywood, he painted and drew, and earned a degree in fine arts from the Otis Art Institute of the Parsons School of Design in Los Angeles.
In 1971, within two years of his arrival in the US, Shubho Shankar performed in a concert for the first time, playing with his father at New York's Carnegie Hall. The performance was titled "Fathers and Sons" and included tabla players Alla Rakha and his son Zakir Hussain.
Career
Shubho Shankar performed frequently on concert tours, composed music for films and recorded several albums. He performed with his father, appearing throughout Europe, Asia and the United States, including performances at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
After marrying, he gradually dropped out of the music scene and stopped playing the sitar for almost eight years. At the age of 40, he took his father's advice to return to his music full-time. He gave lessons in sitar playing, singing and flute in Orange County, San Diego and Los Angeles.
In 1989–1990, Shankar went on a concert tour of England, Europe and India.
On this trip, which also was to be his last visit to India, he met his mother after a gap of 20 years during which the two had no communication. He resumed learning the sitar under his mother.
Shankar played together with his father at the Sawai Gandharva Festival in Pune in 1990, where some music critics commented that he was out of tune. Shankar was dejected, and refused to stay in India to complete his sitar education, saying it was "too late now". He returned to the US, and in his last few months cut himself off from everyone.
Personal life
At a concert he gave at Whittier College, Shubho met Linda, from North Carolina, soon to be his wife. They had two children, son Somnath and daughter Kaveri. Gradually he lost interest in playing the sitar. He worked as a clerk in a liquor store, painted pictures, and drew illustrations for telephone directories, in order to support his wife and two children.
Death
Shankar died of pneumonia at Los Alamitos Medical Center following an illness of several months at his home in Garden Grove. He was cremated and his remains dispersed in the ocean off Marina del Rey.
References
Sources
Sitar players
Otis College of Art and Design alumni
People from Garden Grove, California
1942 births
1992 deaths
Deaths from pneumonia in California
20th-century Indian musicians | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shubhendra%20Shankar |
Greatest Hits is the first greatest hits album by singer/songwriter Barry Manilow, released in 1978. The album was certified 3× Platinum in the US, and would be Manilow's last of that certification, . It also features the new single, "Ready to Take a Chance Again", which reached #11 in the US the same year. The US CD version has been released in three slightly different incarnations. The first pressing featured the single version of "Copacabana" (3:58), and the non-hit studio version of "Daybreak" (3:09). "Jump Shout Boogie" was omitted from all three versions.
In some European countries the album was released as Manilow Magic: The Best of Barry Manilow The Very Best of Barry Manilow, or simply The Best Of Barry Manilow. It was a single LP with either 11 or 12 tracks.
Track listing
Side one
"Mandy" (single version) - 3:15
"New York City Rhythm" - 4:42
"Ready to Take a Chance Again" (in mono) (From the Foul Play soundtrack) - 3:01
"Looks Like We Made It" - 3:33
"Daybreak" (Live) - 3:36
Side two
"Can't Smile Without You" - 3:13
"It's a Miracle" (extended single mix) - 3:42
"Even Now" - 3:28
"Bandstand Boogie" - 2:49
"Tryin' to Get the Feeling Again" - 3:51
Side three
"Could It Be Magic" (album version) - 6:50
"Somewhere in the Night" - 3:26
"Jump Shout Boogie" - 3:03
"Weekend in New England" - 3:43
"All the Time" - 3:15
Side four
"This One's for You" - 3:25
"Copacabana (At the Copa) (Disco)" - 5:46
"Beautiful Music" - 4:32
"I Write the Songs" - 3:51
Charts
Album
Singles
Certifications
References
1978 greatest hits albums
Barry Manilow compilation albums
Arista Records compilation albums
Albums produced by Ron Dante | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greatest%20Hits%20%28Barry%20Manilow%20album%29 |
Lehane () is an uncommon Irish surname, typically from County Cork. Ó Liatháin is more frequently anglicized as Lane or Lyons.
Most people with this surname derive from the ancient Munster kingdom of Uí Liatháin, which was powerful in the early to mid 1st millennium, and one of the few important Irish kingdoms to have colonies in Britain, documented in both Irish and Welsh sources (see Byrne 2001; Ó Corráin 2001). Later Uí Liatháin became politically marginalized when the Eóganachta, or more specifically the descendants of Conall Corc, came to power - although the rath they accepted from the new dynasty was the largest (Byrne 2001) - but remained relatively independent until disintegrating in the later Middle Ages.
Uí Liatháin was the sister kingdom of Uí Fidgenti, and thus its people share common ancestry with the O'Donovans, Ó Coileáins, and others. More distantly all are related to the historical Eóganachta in the stricter sense, if not by common origins in Ireland then at least by nearly two millennia of alliances and intermarriage.
The earliest documented ancestor of the Uí Liatháin and Uí Fidgenti is the 3rd or 4th century Dáre Cerbba (Dáire Cearba), otherwise known as Maine Munchaín.
People
Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic River
Faith Lehane, a character from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
Lesley Lehane, retired distance runner.
Jan Lehane, ex-tennis player.
Bruce Lehane, track and cross country coach.
Patrick Lehane, Irish farmer and politician
Con Lehane (socialist)
Kevin Lehane, screenwriter of Grabbers
Companies
Lehane, Mackenzie and Shand, former British civil engineering company
See also
Castlelyons
Castlemartyr
Cobh
Crimthann mac Fidaig
Mongfind
Scoti
Attacotti
Mahoonagh
O'Donovan
List of Celtic tribes
Kingdoms of Ireland
Irish name
Further reading
Byrne, Francis J., Irish Kings and High-Kings. Four Courts Press. 2nd edition, 2001.
Charles-Edwards, Thomas M., Early Christian Ireland. Cambridge University Press. 2000.
Ó Corráin, Donnchadh (ed.), Genealogies from Rawlinson B 502 University College, Cork: Corpus of Electronic Texts. 1997.
Ó Corráin, Donnchadh, "Prehistoric and Early Christian Ireland", in Foster, Roy (ed.), The Oxford Illustrated History of Ireland. Oxford University Press. 2001. pgs. 1-52.
O'Hart, John, Irish Pedigrees. Dublin: James Duffy and Co. 5th edition, 1892.
Surnames | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehane |
The 1958 Guild of Television Producers and Directors Awards were the fourth annual giving of the awards which later became known as the British Academy Television Awards. This year saw the expansion of the Awards from their initial four categories to seven. It was the final occasion upon which the Awards were given by the Guild, as the following year the organisation merged with the British Film Academy to form the Society of Film and Television Arts.
Winners
Actor
Michael Hordern
Designer
Stephen Taylor
Drama Production
Rudolph Cartier
Factual
Donald Baverstock and the production team of Tonight (BBC)
Light Entertainment (Production)
Brian Tesler
Light Entertainment (Artist)
Tony Hancock
Personality
Robin Day
Scriptwriter
Colin Morris
Special Award
The production team of Emergency Ward 10 (ATV)
Writers Award
Colin Morris
References
Archive of winners on official BAFTA website (retrieved February 19, 2006).
British Academy Film Awards
Society of Film and Television Arts Television Awards
Society of Film and Television Arts Television Awards
Society of Film and Television Arts Television Awards | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1958%20Society%20of%20Film%20and%20Television%20Arts%20Television%20Awards |
Hard Rock Live, formerly known as Etess Arena, is a multi-purpose arena in Atlantic City, New Jersey located at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City. Originally opening in April 1990 as a part of the Trump Taj Mahal, the arena seats over 5,000 for music and sporting events.
About
The arena was named after Mark Grossinger Etess, a former president and COO of Trump Plaza, who perished in an October 1989 helicopter crash.
Despite the Indian theme of the Trump Taj Mahal, the Etess Arena was contemporary, based upon the club scene in England.
The venue's first concert performance was by Elton John on May 18, 1990. Donald Trump was originally in negotiations to have Madonna open the venue during her Blond Ambition World Tour but plans fell through. Her first concert in Atlantic City came 16 years later with her Confessions Tour, which was held at the Boardwalk Hall.
As part of the hotel casino complex's sale to the Seminole Tribe of Florida which rebuilt it as the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Atlantic City, it reopened on June 29, 2018. Boxing and mixed martial arts matches are held in the arena.
Noted performers
Aerosmith
Alan Jackson
Alice in Chains
Alicia Keys
The Allman Brothers Band
Backstreet Boys
Barry Manilow
Beyoncé
Bob Dylan
The Brian Setzer Orchestra
Britney Spears
Celine Dion
Christina Aguilera
Crosby, Stills & Nash
Culture Club
Daughtry
Dave Chappelle
Diana Ross
Donna Summer
The Doobie Brothers
Earth, Wind & Fire
Elton John
Fleetwood Mac
Frankie Beverly and Maze
Green Day
Guns N' Roses
Hall and Oates
Heart
Hilary Duff
James Taylor
Janet Jackson
Jennifer Lopez
The Jonas Brothers
K-Ci & JoJo
KC and the Sunshine Band
Kid Rock
KISS
Laura Pausini
Limp Bizkit
Lionel Richie
Little Richard
Luis Miguel
Luther Vandross
Marc Anthony
Mariah Carey
Martina McBride
Michael Bolton
Michael Crawford
The Moody Blues
Natalie Cole
Nickelback
Paramore
Phil Collins
Ratdog
Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band
Rush
Salt-n-Pepa
Santana
Sarah Brightman
Sarah McLachlan
Shakira
Shirley Bassey
Simon & Garfunkel
Steve Winwood
Stevie Nicks
Stevie Wonder
Sting
Village People
Tina Turner
Van Halen
Yes
References
Buildings and structures in Atlantic City, New Jersey
Boxing venues in Atlantic City, New Jersey
Mixed martial arts venues in New Jersey
Music venues in New Jersey
Indoor arenas in New Jersey
Tourist attractions in Atlantic County, New Jersey
1990 establishments in New Jersey
Sports venues completed in 1990
2016 disestablishments in New Jersey | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard%20Rock%20Live%20%28Atlantic%20City%29 |
BSG Stahl Riesa is a German association football club from Riesa in Saxony.
History
The club was founded as SC Riesa in 1903 in the cellar of the local pub "Bodega" and was renamed Riesaer SV two years later. In 1917, they fused with FC Wettin and went on to play quietly as a local club until 1936 when they advanced to the Gauliga Sachsen, one of sixteen divisions in the top flight of German football during the Third Reich. After World War II the club was dissolved and replaced by the SG Riesa in late 1945. Three years later the club developed an affiliation with the local steelworkers and came to be known as BSG Stahl Riesa. The football team played independently of the sports club from 1952 to 1957 before rejoining the parent club. They climbed into the second division in 1955 and in 1968 they played their way into the top tier DDR-Oberliga for the first time. Stahl would spend sixteen of the next twenty seasons in the top level, but frequently struggled to avoid relegation. Their best finish came in the 1974–75 season when they finished sixth and narrowly missed qualifying for the UEFA Cup tournament.
With German re-unification in 1990 the club took on the name FC Stahl Riesa but returned to its old name of Riesaer SV within a year. In an attempt to remain financially viable it absorbed other local clubs including Riesaer SV Blau-Weiß in 1996 and SC Riesa-Röderau (formerly Chemie Riesa) in 1998. Initially seeded into the third division of the NOFV-Oberliga Süd, the club quickly slipped to play in the fifth division Landesliga Sachsen.
The new millennium brought another name change, this time back to FC Stahl Riesa. Like many other clubs in the former East Germany, Riesa found it tough to keep going financially: in 2002 they filed for bankruptcy and the club was officially dissolved on 30 June 2003 for reason of insolvency. A handful of former coaches and players formed the TSV Stahl Riesa, a successor club, that started play in the 2. Kreisklasse Riesa-Grossenhain (XI) and has since worked its way up to the Bezirksliga Dresden (VII), including an unbeaten run of 78 games between 2003 and 2006, a German record. In March 2012 the club changed its name back to BSG Stahl Riesa (BSG now stands for Ballsportgemeinschaft, "Ball sports community"). In 2013 Riesa won the Bezirksliga Mitte championship and was promoted back after 10 years to the renamed Sachsenliga (VI).
Honours
The club's honours:
Sachsenliga
Champions: 2000
German internationals
Willi Arlt played eleven times for the Germany national team between 1939 and 1942 and was Germany's youngest ever national team football player at age 17.
Ulf Kirsten started his career in Riesa as a young footballer.
References
External links
Official website
The Abseits Guide to German Soccer
Football clubs in Germany
Football clubs in East Germany
Football clubs in Saxony
Association football clubs established in 2003
2003 establishments in Germany
BSG Stahl
Works association football clubs in Germany | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSG%20Stahl%20Riesa |
"It Was a Good Day" is a song by American rapper Ice Cube, released on February 21, 1993 as the second single from his third solo album, The Predator (1992). The song peaked at No. 7 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and No. 27 on the UK Charts. On the Billboard Hot 100, the song peaked at No. 15, making it Ice Cube's highest-charting single on the chart to date. The song's lyrics describe a generic pleasant day from his life; according to Ice Cube, he had no specific date in mind, though several attempts have been made to identify one.
"It Was a Good Day" was ranked at No. 81 on the list of greatest rap songs of all time by About.com, No. 77 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of the 90s, No. 36 on Rolling Stone 100 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs of All Time, and No. 352 on the latter's list of Top 500 Best Songs of All Time. In 2008, the song was ranked at No. 28 on VH1's 100 greatest hip-hop songs.
Background
Ice Cube originally recorded a demo of "It Was a Good Day" in his home studio, and later went on to recorded the album version at Echo Sound Studios in Los Angeles in 1992, where it was one of the first ideas for his upcoming album. He later said, "The inspiration was my life at the time... I was at the top of the rap game. It was the summer of '92 and I was in a hotel room, really in a state of euphoria. I had all the money I had dreamed of. I was in a good frame of mind. And I remember thinking, 'Okay, there's been the riots, people know I will deal with that. That's a given. But I rap all this gangsta stuff—what about all the good days I had?'"
Initially, Ice Cube went into the studio with a sample of the Isley Brothers' song "Footsteps in the Dark". DJ Pooh later enhanced the production with bass and vocals. The song samples "Footsteps in the Dark, Pts. 1 & 2" and The Moments' song "Sexy Mama". It has been re-released multiple times, including on Ice Cube's Greatest Hits album, Bootlegs & B-Sides, and The N.W.A Legacy, Vol. 1: 1988–1998.
Date of the "Good Day"
In a 2012 Tumblr post, comedian Donovan Strain used the song's lyrics to determine that the titular "Good Day" likely occurred on January 20, 1992. Strain wrote that this date was "the only day where Yo! MTV Raps was on air, it was a clear and smogless day in Los Angeles, beepers or pagers were commercially sold, Lakers beat the SuperSonics, and Ice Cube had no filming commitments". Deadspin fact-checked some of the claims.
Online sleuths noted several inconsistencies in Strain's reasoning. For example, it was reported that Yo! MTV Raps did not air that day in 1992 and that "it is unlikely that Ice Cube got 'a beep from Kim' for a booty call since the likely Kim, Ice Cube's fiancée by 1992, was eight months pregnant at the time". Due to these errors, an alternative date has been calculated by a blogger pointing to November 30, 1988. Ice Cube himself stated that the lyrics are made up of things that happened on a number of different days: "It's a fictional song. It's basically my interpretation of what a great day would be. Do you know what I'm saying? So, you know, it's a little of this and a little of that. I don't think you can pinpoint the day."
Goodyear Blimp campaign
In 2014, Ice Cube agreed to support a fundraising campaign started by four close friends describing themselves as "diehard rap aficionados" who wanted to raise and donate $25,000 to the South Los Angeles charity and after-school youth center A Place Called Home (APCH) if the Goodyear Blimp would display lyrics from the third verse of "It Was a Good Day". After Ice Cube spoke about the fundraising campaign on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Goodyear quickly agreed. However, given the nature of the fundraiser and the organization, Goodyear decided against using the word "pimp" and instead flew the blimp with messages stating "Today is a Good Day" and "Flying For a Good CauseA Place Called Home".
Reception
The song was universally acclaimed by critics. AllMusic's Jason Birchmeier noted that even though it was The Predator's "most laid-back moment, [it] emits a quiet sense of violent anxiety." He further stated that the song was, "a truly beautiful moment, a career highlight for sure." Blender magazine writer, Michael Odel, felt that the song contained, "a chilled-out, feel-good vibe". Greg Sandow from Entertainment Weekly mentioned that Ice Cube rapped over a "partly melancholy, partly swaggering beat [and] glories in good luck, South Central style". Robert Hilburn from Los Angeles Times wrote, "Here is another one of pop’s most gifted--and often misunderstood--artists. The images are a bit bawdy, but the track [...] is noteworthy for the way this controversial rapper reveals a welcome tender side." In his weekly UK chart commentary, James Masterton said, "Thus it is that when Ice Cube finally crosses over and gets his first UK hit, it is with "It Was a Good Day" a laid-back mellow rap, far removed from his usual uncompromising throwdown and may even stand a chance of crossing over even further."
Jon Selzer from Melody Maker felt it's "so laid back and pastoral it could almost be DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince, but its tale of cruising and getting laid is undercut with a darker edge." Alan Jones from Music Week gave the song three out of five, declaring it as "a rare low-key offering from the controversial rapper [that] inevitably mentions his bete noir — cops — but is an unusually optimistic celebration, set against samples from the Isley Brothers and the Moments." He added, "Likely to appeal to a wide audience, with good radio potential." Another editor, Andy Beevers, also gave it three out of five, writing that the song "sees Ice Cube in an uncharacteristically mellow and reflective mood. Its more commercial sound should reach beyond his fan base." Ian McCann from NME wrote, "A slow, borrowed-from-the-Isley-Brothers groove just jogs along there somehow, and suddenly it's summer in the mean streets of LA." Charles Aaron from Spin commented, "Outta the disastrous, misanthropic morass of The Predator emerges this way-too-real gangsta fairy tale. Cube is firing wildly in the wilderness, but don't toe-tag him yet." Vibe magazine described DJ Pooh's beat as a "smoothed-out production".
Music video
The accompanying music video for "It Was a Good Day" was directed by F. Gary Gray and was first aired in March 1993. It was published on YouTube in February 2009. The video has amassed more than 215 million views as of June 2023.
The music video follows the song's lyrics, with Ice Cube waking up in the morning, eating breakfast with his family, driving around in his green 1964 Chevrolet Impala, winning a pickup game of street basketball, avoiding police, going over to a friend's house, watching Yo! MTV Raps, winning games of craps and dominoes, and thanking God for no gang violence–related deaths during the day. Later, he picks up an old 12th-grade crush named Kim; they drink, smoke, watch an NBA game, and have sex; he then drives her home and goes to Fatburger. At the end of the video, as Ice Cube is about to enter his house, police cars and helicopters surround him, but he ignores them and enters his house with police following behind him with text onscreen saying "To Be Continued...", setting up the plot for the music video to Ice Cube's following single "Check Yo Self". The video contains appearances by WC of WC and the Maad Circle, Jerome "Shorty" Muhammad and J-Dee of Da Lench Mob, Ron Riser and Robin Power.
Legacy
"It Was a Good Day" reached #77 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of the '90s. The song was also included in About.com's Top 100 Rap Songs, at number 81. In 2008, it was ranked #28 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of Hip Hop.
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
References
External links
1993 singles
Ice Cube songs
Music videos directed by F. Gary Gray
Songs written by Ice Cube
1992 songs
Song recordings produced by DJ Pooh
Priority Records singles
Los Angeles Lakers
Seattle SuperSonics
G-funk songs | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%20Was%20a%20Good%20Day |
Maxim Yuryevich Sushinsky (; born July 1, 1974) is a Russian former professional ice hockey player. He played in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) and with the Minnesota Wild in the National Hockey League (NHL). His last name is sometimes transliterated as Sushinski or Sushinskiy.
Playing career
A skillful right winger, Sushinsky was drafted 132nd overall in the 2000 NHL Entry Draft by the Minnesota Wild, and played 30 games with the Wild before leaving the team for personal and family reasons.
Sushinsky has spent the majority of his career in playing in Russia, spending time with Avangard Omsk, HC Dynamo Moscow, and his current team SKA St. Petersburg in the Kontinental Hockey League.
Sushinsky represented the Russian Federation in the 2006 Winter Olympics, where he had five points in eight games played. Throughout the event the nameplate on the back of his jersey had his name spelled as "Sushinksky".
Career statistics
Regular season and playoffs
International
External links
1974 births
Living people
Avangard Omsk players
HC Dynamo Moscow players
HC Fribourg-Gottéron players
Ice hockey players at the 2006 Winter Olympics
Metallurg Magnitogorsk players
Minnesota Wild draft picks
Minnesota Wild players
Olympic ice hockey players for Russia
Russian ice hockey right wingers
Salavat Yulaev Ufa players
SKA Saint Petersburg players
Ice hockey people from Saint Petersburg
Toros Neftekamsk players | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxim%20Sushinsky |
Pembroke Rugby Football Club is a Welsh rugby union team based in Pembroke. They currently play in the Welsh National League Division Five West and are a feeder club for the Llanelli Scarlets. They are known locally as the Scarlets relating to the colour of their shirts.
History
Pembroke Rugby Football Club was established in 1896. It celebrated its centenary in the 1996–1997 season with a centenary dinner held in a marquee on the club ground. David Vaughan (Dunvant) was the chief guest.
The club was not granted Welsh Rugby Union status until 1919, immediately after World War I.
Between the Wars the club competed in the local cup and league competitions. In 1922–23 the club were the K.O Cup Winners whilst in 1935–36 it repeated this feat in becoming the West of Llanelly K.O. Cup Winners.
After the Second World War, the club resumed its activities and in 1947–48 under the captaincy of Chris Leonard, became the Pembrokeshire and District League K.O. Champions.
This feat was repeated in 1960–61 under the captaincy of Derek Hayward. Unfortunately this is the last occasion on which the K.O. Cup has come to Crickmarren.
1954–55 was probably one of the most successful in the club's history under the vigorous captaincy of John Shanklin the team were both the Pembrokeshire and District League Champions and runners up in the K.O. Cup tournament.
This period in the club's history also saw the club win the county 7-a-side tournament on several occasions.
Homeground
Pembroke RFC play all their home games at the Crickmarren Field located on Upper Lamphey Road. There is a stand with seating on one side of the pitch. Also located here is the clubhouse and changing rooms. There is also a training pitch located down the lane behind the rugby club and also a small pitch designed for Mini-Rugby known as 'The Cage' due to the wire fence around its perimeter.
Kit
Pembroke RFC traditionally play in scarlet coloured shirts with white shorts and scarlet socks. As for their away kit they play in a green and red style.
League
Pembroke were promoted from Division 6 West at the end of the 2003/04 season and moved to Division 5 West. They were also promoted the following season to Division 4 West for the 2005/06 season.
Cups
Pembroke have been victorious in the Pembrokeshire K.O. Cup on several occasions. These were in the 1922–23, 1935–36, 1947–48 and 1960–61 seasons.
Rivalries
Pembroke's main rival is Pembroke Dock Harlequins RFC (known as the Quins), although there are fierce rivalries with the other Pembrokeshire teams.
Individual honours
The Club has seen many of their products gain various international honours. Beginning with Randall Huzzey, who won his Welsh Schoolboy Cap from East-End School in 1931, the club has seen several of its members win caps in both schools and youth international matches. It is also proud to have Junior Rugby Union internationals in its ranks, whilst three of its products went on to gain senior Welsh international caps with Jonathan Thomas still participating in an active role with the Welsh team.
Mike Knill – with Cardiff.
Robert Appleyard – with Swansea.
Jonathan Thomas – with Ospreys
After World War II, Pembroke was also fortunate to gain the services of Eddie Woodgate who gained an England Cap before coming to reside in Pembroke from Devon.
In later years two of the club's exiles gained international honours playing for Luxembourg. Peter Doyle and Philip Williams.
1st team
Coaches: Geraint Lewis
Props:
Tom Jones,
Richard Morris,
Richard Mason,
Seamus Wiseman,
Jamie Brayford,
Sean Willington
Hookers:
Max Hayward,
Dan Eddison,
Sean Beynon
2nd rows:
Dai Beynon,
Mark Boswell,
Rhys Williams,
Alex Wilkes,
William Edwards
Back row:
Dan Manning,
Sam Smith,
Robin Badham,
Rob Jones,
Rob Weston,
Jordan Gwilliam
Scrum Half:
Darren Gilbert,
James Skeels
Fly Half:
James Davies,
Phil Williams,
Simon Hooper
Centers:
Mark Williams,
Simon Cole,
Dom Coleman,
Barry Bowen,
Huw Purser
Wings:
Geraint Jackson,
Joe Jackson,
Luca Trimarco
Full backs:
John Williams,
Daniel Williams,
Sean Dalling
The youth team
Pembroke has a youth team
Sevens tournament
Pembroke holds an annual Youth sevens tournament in April, since 1999.
Notable players
Mike Knill
Rob Appleyard
Jonathan Thomas
Dominic Day
Luke Hamilton
Daffy “Sadie” Lewis
Seamus Wiseman
References
External links
Pembroke RFC official site
Rugby union teams in Wales
Sport in Pembrokeshire
RFC | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pembroke%20RFC |
Hara Arena was a 5,500-seat multi-purpose arena located in the Trotwood, Ohio suburb of Dayton. The facility began as a ballroom in 1957, added an arena in 1964 and grew to a six-building complex which closed in August 2016.
At various times, it hosted the Dayton Jets basketball team and Dayton Gems (1964–1977, 1979–1980 and 2009–2012), Dayton Blue Hawks, Dayton Owls, Dayton Bombers, Dayton Ice Bandits, Dayton Demonz, Megacity Hockey Club, Dayton Dynamo, Dayton Demolition ice hockey teams and the Marshals indoor football team.
History
The site was originally the family-owned fruit orchard of Harold and Ralph Wampler. In 1957, the Wamplers opened their new ballroom called Wampler's Ball-Arena. The structure was built one-half mile northwest of the Wampler barn off Shiloh Spring Road. The venue was large enough to accommodate 3,000 dancers. It was the third dance hall the Wamplers built. The first one was destroyed by fire and a second one was built in its place on the Wampler's fruit farm.
Wampler's Hara Arena was opened with the Dayton Gems ice hockey team hosting an exhibition game against the Toledo Blades on October 27, 1964. The name Hara stems from the first two letters of Harold and Ralph's name. Both of the arena's founders were Shriners, and originally founded the venue after realizing that there was nowhere suitable in the area to hold the Shrine Circus. The original plans did not include an ice rink but were changed to accommodate the Dayton Gems who were looking for a home arena. As of 2016, the complex spanned which includes the main arena, four exhibition halls, a conference center, a pub and a golf course. The Arena regularly used the slogan in advertising "Nowhere Else But Hara."
On July 29, 2016, it was announced that the facility would close after hosting a final event on August 27, 2016, due to ongoing financial issues and a 20-year long legal fight over the unresolved estate of founder Harold Wampler. At the time of the closure announcement, the facility was said to have a $36 million annual impact to the area. The closure forced events, like the annual Dayton Hamvention, to search for an alternative venue. It also forced the Dayton Demolition ice hockey team to cease operations after only one season. Prior to its closure, the Arena was said to have had a parking lot filled with potholes and not received any significant update since 1975.
As of March 2018, the property had been abandoned for over a year and a half, at times vandalized and broken into. In December 2017, PNC Bank foreclosed on the property, seeking to collect on $350,000 owed to the bank. It was reported that many had called Trotwood's government with ideas for the property, which had a list price of $775,000, but anyone seeking to acquire the property would need a "specific plan for the complicated situation of 'well over $1 million' in taxes that are due, and the multiple parcels of land and arena." In April 2018, YouTube video from a self-described "local explorer" illicitly entering the arena showed disrepair and deteriorating conditions. The city of Trotwood had made attempts to secure the property, but with limited success, and it was reported to have hundreds of code violations.
On May 2, 2018, it was revealed that the property was purchased by Michael Heitz, a developer based in Louisville, Kentucky. Heitz stated that he had bought the income tax liens from Montgomery County and hoped to close on further liens with the banks later in the week. Heitz stated that his first priority was to clean up the site and secure the property. He is known for purchasing other distressed properties within the area and getting them shovel ready for users.
On February 25, 2019, at least three individuals were arrested for breaking into the property in an attempt to steal air conditioning parts.
On the night of May 27–28, 2019, the property suffered extensive damage when tornadoes and severe storms moved through the area. The roof and sides of the structure were blown off in several places. In response, Heitz stated that he was cautiously optimistic that the building could be salvaged, but if not, it would have to be demolished. He noted that much of the main arena looked fine and that the metal which had been lost could be replaced and likely needed to be replaced anyway. He also stated that he had recently secured a grant to conduct a phase 2 environmental study of the site, with the possibility of selling the building to another buyer, which would bring new jobs to the area.
In October 2019, it was reported the existing facility would not be able to be salvaged due to the already existing damage having been compounded by the tornado. The owners planned to request rezoning from entertainment to commercial in order to attract interest that would aid the facility's cleanup and redevelopment. It was estimated that the facility suffered $7.5 million in damages, the most for any property in the Montgomery County area.
In March 2020, it was announced the property had been rezoned and that demolition was likely to start soon. However, it was unclear how any such plans might be affected by the increased restrictions and financial difficulties put in place shortly afterwards due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
In May 2020, Heitz revealed that a multi-million dollar NASDAQ corporation was interested in the plot and could bring at least 50 new jobs to the area. He and the client planned to present a plan for construction to Trotwood in late July, with demolition to start immediately if the plan was approved.
In September 2020, Trotwood officially announced plans to demolish the arena and rezone the land.
In November 2020, it was announced that the lettering from the arena's iconic sign as well as bricks from the arena would be auctioned for charity. Heitz said that his company had hoped to salvage seating from the building, but was unable due to mold damage from the tornado.
Championship Teams at Hara
1968–69 Dayton Gems
1969–70 Dayton Gems
1975–76 Dayton Gems
2013–14 Dayton Demonz
Professional wrestling
Hara was the scene every other Monday night in the 1960s and 1970s for the "Original" Big Time Wrestling, featuring such stars as the Sheik, Bobo Brazil, Fred and Bull Curry, Igor, Mark Lewin, Ox Baker, and many other wrestling stars. Hara also hosted Georgia Championship Wrestling in 1983 and 1984.
It also hosted a WWF Superstars of Wrestling TV taping in March, 1987, a WWF Wrestling Challenge taping in August, 1988, and the Pay-Per-View events as follows: the 1995 WCW Great American Bash, WCW/NWO Souled Out (1998), and ECW Heatwave 1998 and ECW Heatwave 1999. Hara Arena was known as being "legendary" for wrestling, with the WWF's first show at the Arena featuring the famed André the Giant. The Sheik held his first event at Hara Arena in 1965, just one year after its opening.
Notable events
The arena was also venue to many types of concerts, including Nirvana who played there on the 30th October 1993, music festivals, trade shows and conventions, formerly including the annual Dayton Hamvention (which, starting in 2017, is held at the Greene County Fairgrounds and Expo Center). The Miami Valley Home Improvement Show was also held annually here. According to the American Radio Relay League, the 2016 Hamvention had been the 65th held in Dayton and the Hara complex hosted more than 25,000 visitors in that final year.
Hara Arena was where Wayne Gretzky played his first professional hockey game; a pre-season game between the Indianapolis Racers and the Cincinnati Stingers, on September 27, 1978.
Karen Wampler, arena marketing director at the time of its closure, cited a visit from the Ringling Bros. Circus as being particularly memorable, due to it to being the last stop on the tour for the circus.
References
External links
June 5, 2016, webarchive of www.haracomplex.com
1964 establishments in Ohio
2020 disestablishments in Ohio
Buildings and structures in Montgomery County, Ohio
Defunct indoor arenas in Ohio
Indoor ice hockey venues in Ohio
Indoor soccer venues in Ohio
Tourist attractions in Montgomery County, Ohio
Ice hockey in Dayton, Ohio
Sports venues in Dayton, Ohio
Sports venues completed in 1964 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hara%20Arena |
Lee Jay Thompson (born 5 October 1957), nicknamed Kix or El Thommo, is an English multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, and composer. In a career spanning more than 40 years, Thompson came to prominence in the late 1970s as a founder and saxophonist for the English ska band Madness.
Early years
Prior to forming Madness, Thompson and future Madness keyboardist Mike Barson gained some notoriety as graffiti artists in the mid-1970s. After reading about the emerging New York graffiti scene, they spray-painted their nicknames ("Kix" and "Mr B") along with two friends' names "Cat" and "Columbo" around North London. They managed to spray their nicknames on George Melly's garage door, prompting Melly to write a newspaper article declaring: "If I ever catch that Mr B, Kix and Columbo, I'm going to kick their arses".
Music career
Thompson founded Madness with Mike Barson and Chris Foreman in 1976, and wrote the group's debut single, "The Prince". Among the other songs, he wrote or co-wrote the singles "Embarrassment", "House of Fun", and "Uncle Sam". His experiences of being a petty criminal and serving time in borstal in his youth inspired his lyrics for "Land of Hope and Glory" and "One's Second Thoughtlessness", the latter an unusual diversion into synthpop for the group. Thompson performed lead vocals for both tracks. He also sang the vocals on his own composition, "Razor Blade Alley", which was a regular inclusion in early Madness shows. Thompson reunited with all seven original Madness members in 1992.
After Madness disbanded in 1986, Thompson formed a new band The Madness with Foreman, Suggs and Chas Smash, but they broke up after releasing one album in 1988. Thompson then joined forces with Foreman, and the pair began to write songs. They soon recorded an album at Liquidator Studios with Thompson on vocals and saxophone and Foreman playing the other instruments. This album included the song "Magic Carpet", which was co-written with Suggs and originally intended to be included on a Madness album. When it came to promoting their debut album, they found they needed to form a group and also decide on a name. Due to an error at the printers, the band name and album title were accidentally switched, and they started off as The Nutty Boys. The album was re-released in 2002, and the mistake was rectified, with the group now known as Crunch! During this time Lee was often found in the early hours flyposting with part time keyboard player of Crunch Mark Sexbery in the East End.
Thompson founded The Dance Brigade with Keith Finch in 2007, and they were joined by Jennie Matthias of The Belle Stars. The other musicians came from projects that they had all been involved in. He also fronted and played saxophone with a covers band called The Camden Cowboys.
Thompson was featured floating while playing a red, white, and blue-colored saxophone in the closing ceremonies of the 2012 Summer Olympics.
In 2011, Thompson began performing with The Lee Thompson Ska Orchestra who released the album The Benevolence of Sister Mary Ignatius in 2013. They released the single "Fu Man Chu" featuring Bitty McLean from this album and, in February 2014, released the follow-up single "Bangarang" featuring Dawn Penn and Sharon Shannon.
In 2021 Thompson's autobiography, Growing Out Of It: Machinations Before Madness was released.
Personal life
In 1984, Thompson married Debbie (née Fordham). They have three children named Tuesday, Daley and Kye.
References
External links
1957 births
Living people
Musicians from London
Ska saxophonists
English saxophonists
British male saxophonists
English male songwriters
Madness (band) members
People from St Pancras, London
People from Finchley
21st-century saxophonists
21st-century English memoirists
British ska musicians
English graffiti artists | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%20Thompson%20%28saxophonist%29 |
Live at the Camden Underworld is a live DVD showcasing the full-length gig from January 2004 featuring Captain Everything!, Divit and Belvedere. It was filmed at the Camden Underworld in London, England.
Track listing
Captain Everything!
Chuck Me In
Problem With Numbers
The One Minute Love Song
There's No 'I' in Scene
Hey Lags! Nice Slacks!!
While You Are Asleep...
Kalimbah!
The Cheesiest Line
The Party's Next Door
Rocket Science?
My Girlfriend's Dad Runs a Sweatshop
Petrol Fumes
Picture of You
I'd Rather Have a Full Bottle In Front of Me Than a Full Frontal Lobotomy
Divit
Before They Do
Driver
Misunderstanding Maybe
Sewn Together
Catch Me If You Can
No Regrets
In Slow Forward Motion
Sky
Wish I Could Be
Belvedere
Subhuman Nature
Not My Problem
Repetition Rejection
A Juxtaposition Of Action and Reason
Brandy Wine
Slaves to the Pavement
The Only Problem With Wishful Thinking
Quicksand
Cellophane Coffin
She Sells and Sand Sandwiches
External links
DVD page on Punkervision.net
2004 video albums
Live video albums
Collaborative albums
2004 live albums
Captain Everything! albums
Documentary films about punk music and musicians | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live%20at%20the%20Camden%20Underworld |
The Copenhagen Fire of 1728 was the largest fire in the history of Copenhagen, Denmark. It began on the evening of 20 October 1728 and continued to burn until the morning of 23 October. It destroyed approximately 28% of the city (measured by counting the number of destroyed lots from the cadastre) and left 20% of the population homeless. The reconstruction lasted until 1737. No less than 47% of the section of the city, which dates back to the Middle Ages, was completely lost, and along with the Copenhagen Fire of 1795, it is the main reason that few traces of medieval Copenhagen can be found in the modern city.
Although the number of dead and wounded was relatively low compared to the extent of the fire, the cultural losses were huge. In addition to several private book collections, 35,000 texts including a large number of unique works were lost with the University of Copenhagen library, and at the observatory on top of Rundetårn, instruments and records made by Tycho Brahe and Ole Rømer were destroyed.
Timeline
Wednesday 20 October
The exact time that the fire started is unknown. Various sources mention times between 6:00 and 8:00 p.m., and 7:30 p.m. is the best estimate. However, the exact location of the origin of the fire is known. Almost directly across the street from Vesterport (the West Gate) was Lille Sankt Clemens Stræde. On the corner facing Vestervold, there was a small house on lot "Vester Kvarter 146" (according to the cadastre of 1699) owned by Signe, widow of Boye Hansen. The lot is almost identical to the one on the corner of present-day Frederiksberggade (the western end of Strøget) and The City Hall Square. Among the widow's tenants were restaurant manager Peder Rasmussen and his wife, Anne Iversdatter. It was on the second floor of the restaurateur's apartment that the fire started. At the inquiries held after the fire was over, both he and his wife stated that their seven-year-old son had started the fire by accidentally upsetting a candle, but it is more likely that it was the result of carelessness on behalf of the parents while casting candles and that they blamed the child to avoid punishment.
The watchmen were quick to sound the alarm, but given the fire department's relatively primitive equipment, the fact that the streets of Vester Kvarter were too narrow for the fire pumps, the strange dispositions of those fighting the fire, and a series of unlucky events, the fight was nearly hopeless. The wind blew from the southwest that evening, carrying the fire along Lille Sankt Clemens Stræde, Store Sankt Clemens Stræde, Vombadstuestræde, Antiquitetsstræde and Hellig-Kors Stræde. By 9:00 p.m the main street of Vestergade was burning on both sides. From here the fire spread along Store Lars Bjørns Stræde, Lille Lars Bjørns Stræde and Studiestræde.
Later that evening, the fire reached Sankt Peders Stræde, where the Valkendorfs Kollegium dormitory (lot "Nørre Kvarter 122") was engulfed in flames. Professor Peder Horrebow, who lived at the dormitory, lost most of his possessions. Presumably simultaneously, the fire also reached Professor Hans Steenbuch's room on Studiestræde (lot "Nørre Kvarter 60"). Around midnight, the fire reached the priest's residence by the church Sankt Petri Kirke.
On Nørregade, another fire started at a brewery Wednesday evening – possibly between 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. Just prior to that the original fire had reached Gammeltorv, where people fought to keep the fire back. For that reason, help was sent late to deal with the new fire. Around midnight the wind shifted to the west, and the situation on Nørregade turned critical as the fire was driven towards the street along a wide front. At first people sought to keep the fire on the western side of Nørregade, but nevertheless it spread to the eastern side during the night. Simultaneously, the fire moved from present day Nørre Voldgade towards Nørreport (North Gate).
Thursday
Early Thursday morning, a final desperate attempt to keep the flames from spreading was made at Gammeltorv. Already-burning houses were fired upon with cannons to make them collapse. When that did not work, an order was given to blow up the houses with black powder charges. The building housing the wine cellar known as "Blasen" on the corner of Vestergade and Nørregade was to be the first demolition, but this dangerous undertaking failed when the gunpowder blew up while men were still carrying in the charges. While the building did go down, people were killed and injured and the explosion ignited nearby buildings, including the church Vor Frue Kirke. By 9:30 a.m. the church spire had fallen into the street, and soon after the whole church was engulfed in flames; the personal property that people had brought to the church to keep them safe from the fire was lost.
At Nørregade, the fire reached Sankt Petri Kirke around 8 a.m. By 9 a.m., the flames reached bishop Christen Worm's residence (lot "Nørre Kvarter 112"), which burned to the ground. The bishop who was travelling, was left with the clothes on his back and three prayer books.
At Nytorv, the flames consumed Det Kongelige Vajsenhus (The Royal Orphanage) (now the location of the Copenhagen District Court). The City Hall of Copenhagen – then located between Nytorv and Gammeltorv – was now in peril. Around 10 a.m., the flames had taken hold of the building and it was soon added to the list of buildings lost. From Gammeltorv the inferno made its way down Klædeboderne, Skindergade, Skoubogade and Vimmelskaftet, heading towards Amagertorv, while from Nytorv the fire found fuel on Rådhusstræde towards Frederiksholms Canal and Slotsholmen.
New fires were reported: Count Adam Christoffer Knuth's house in Pustervig, a cellar in Købmagergade (Market Street) and a haystack at Nørreport (Northern Gate) all broke out in flames; the latter likely ignited by embers carried by the wind.
When the fire had consumed Vor Frue Kirke, the University of Copenhagen saw one building after another burn. The Community Building (Kommunitetsbygningen), which was used to help support students by giving them free meals; the university's head building (Studiegården/The Study Courtyard), at the same location as the current head building; and the Anatomy Building (Domus Anatomica) and Anatomy Theatre (Theatrum Anatomicum) were all lost. Aforementioned, Professor Hans Steenbuch had sought refuge at Professor Hans Gram's home, where both he and his possessions found temporary safety. But now the fire reached Gram's home next to Vor Frue Kirke (lot "Klædebo Kvarter 245"), and there was not enough time to save Steenbuch's possessions, although Gram saved most of his own from destruction. Along Kannikestræde, one by one University of Copenhagen professors' homes fell prey to the flames. Several more student dormitories were lost but along Købmagergade a wing of buildings were saved including the church Regenskirken.
The next notable victim of the fire was the church Trinitatis Kirke, which housed the University Library in its attic. The flames got a hold the church around 5 p.m. and when the ceiling gave around 10 p.m., the entire library's collection was delivered into a sea of flames. Rundetårn was left for the most part undamaged, but the observatory at the top burned out.
From Gammeltorv, the fire spread out to Ulfeldts Plads, now Gråbrødretorv, around 4 p.m. The monument that shamed traitor Corfitz Ulfeldt lost a few letters in the heat. A few hours later, the fire closed in on the church Helligåndskirken and at 8 p.m. its carillon bells came to life as they did every half-hour – playing Thomas Kingo's (Eng. Turn your anger, Lord, by mercy) – just before they crashed into the fire below.
From Trinitatis Church, the fire continued down Landemærket towards Gothersgade. Here, the fire met up with the other branch of the fire which ate its way down present day Nørre Voldgade. Around midnight, the church Reformert Kirke was ablaze. The only place in the city where there was some control over the fire was around Vandkunsten.
Friday
Friday morning the wind shifted again, this time to the north. The firefighting finally started to show some semblance of organization, and efforts were waged to stop the fire in the neighborhood around Magstræde. This failed, though, when the fire took the soap factory on Magstræde around noon. The wind was now blowing northwest and the firefighting moved via Snaregade to Nybrogade, Naboløs and Gammel Strand, but failed to save Nybrogade.
Further east, the fire proceeded south to Klareboderne and Møntergade. Poul Fechtels Hospital on Møntergade was drowned in flames with some of the residents still inside. Close by, Professor Ludvig Holberg left his home on Købmagergade (lot "Købmager Kvarter 18"). Around midnight, the blaze was close to Silkegade and Store Regnegade.
Saturday
Over the course of the night the wind settled and stopped the forward march of the fire. Thirty-six homes were selected for demolition to create a firebreak, which did stop the fire at the corner of Store Regnegade and Gothersgade. Further west, Amagertorv and the church Sankt Nicolai Kirke had been threatened, but the blaze was stopped close to Amagertorv, where only the three houses furthest north ("Frimands Kvarter" lots 8, 10 and 11) were lost.
The fire on Magstræde at the soap factory was still a threat. The fire ate its way along Snaregade. At the end of Snaregade was the house (lot "Snarens Kvarter 2") of the vice mayor, Christian Berregaard, which the people tried to save. The houses around it were torn down, and the houses on the opposite side of the street were blown up with black powder. The outcome was hardly any better than that of the earlier attempt at the wine cellar, though. The gunpowder went off, people had to run for their lives and the vice mayor's house was set afire and burned to the ground. After the failed attempt to save the house, the fire was stopped from spreading further, though, and among other things the weigh station of Christoffer Valkendorf was saved.
In line with Christian interpretation of the day, the slowdown of the fire during Saturday was seen as a result of divine intervention. To thank God, king Christian VI introduced on 23 October as a new annual holiday in 1731 on which every church in Copenhagen held a service of thanksgiving. This holiday was abolished at the holiday reform of 1770.
Losses
Property losses from the fire can be accounted for with relative certainty as detailed surveys were made immediately afterwards. City surveyor Søren Balle submitted the first survey on 1 November 1728 and on 13 April 1729 the Magistrate of Copenhagen finished a second, made according to a royal request of 12 December 1728. The differences between the two surveys are limited to the extent of the damages on 43 lots, so it is fairly certain that 1,227 lots containing about 1,600 buildings were lost in flames. All of Copenhagen consisted of about 4,500 lots (per the cadastre of 1699), so about 28% of the lots were lost. For the medieval part of town the ratio is 47%.
The magistrate also made a survey of the spared parts of town from which it appears that 8,749 former residents of the parts touched by fire had found new lodgings. It is estimated that as many as 15,000 had become homeless. This is about 20% of the population, which is estimated at 70,000. However the number of dead and wounded is unknown. It is possible to deduce some information from parish registers and other sources, but the number remains uncertain. It is probably low in comparison with the extent of the fire, though.
While the human and property losses were staggering, the cultural loss is still felt today. The University of Copenhagen library was without a doubt the greatest and the most frequently mentioned of such. 35,000 texts and a large archive of historical documents disappeared in the flames. Original works from the historians Hans Svaning, Anders Sørensen Vedel, Niels Krag, and Arild Huitfeldt and the scientists Ole Worm, Ole Rømer, Tycho Brahe and the brothers Hans and Caspar Bartholin were lost. Atlas Danicus by Peder Hansen Resen and the archive of the Diocese of Zealand went up in flames as well. The archive of the diocese had been moved to the university library the very same day the fire started.
Several other book collections were lost as well. Professor Mathias Anchersen made the mistake of bringing his possessions to safety in Trinitatis Church. Árni Magnússon lost all his books, notes and records, but did manage to rescue much of his valuable collection of handwritten Icelandic manuscripts. At Borchs Kollegium 3,150 volumes burned along with its Museum Rarirorum containing collections of zoological and botanical oddities. The burned-out observatory in Rundetårn had contained instruments and records by Tycho Brahe and Ole Rømer. The professors Horrebow, Steenbuch and the two Bartholins lost practically everything. Additionally, a large part of the city archive of records burnt along with city hall.
Consequences
When the reconstruction of Denmark's capital was begun a number of changes were introduced. A commission was appointed to regulate the streets. After surveyings among the ruins this commission submitted a suggestion to create 12 to 15-metre wide main streets with 10-metre wide side streets with none of the surrounding houses being half-timbered.
This plan was not followed in the reconstruction. Although half-timbered houses were banned at first, the ban was lifted in 1731 as brick houses were considerably more expensive. Medieval Copenhagen, however, had changed permanently when the reconstruction was complete by 1737. Streets and alleys no longer followed the original paths and some even ceased to exist.
The fire houses
The term (English: 'fire houses') today refer to a type of townhouses that was built in large numbers in the years immediately after the fire. Many of them were modelled on generic renderings made by Johan Cornelius Krieger with inspiration from Christof Marselis. The houses are two or three storeys high, five bays wide and have a prominent wall dormer. The façade towards the street is in brick while the rest of the house has timber framing. They are typically painted in bright colours. Well-preserved examples are today found in locations such as Gråbrødretorv and Gammel Mønt.
An example of the fire houses can be seen at Gråbrødretorv No. 19, for example. An example of an eight-bay fire house is situated at Valkendorfsgade 36.
See also
Kjøbenhavns Brandforsikring – Denmark's first fire insurance company, established shortly after the fire
Notes
References
Fires in Copenhagen
1728 disasters in Europe
1728 in Denmark
18th-century fires
Urban fires in Europe
18th century in Copenhagen
18th-century disasters in Denmark | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen%20Fire%20of%201728 |
The 1959 Society of Film and Television Arts Television Awards were the first giving under that name of the United Kingdom's premier television awards, having previously been known as the Guild of Television Producers and Directors Awards before that organisation's merger with the British Film Academy. The awards later became known as the British Academy Television Awards, under which name they are still given.
Winners
Actor
Donald Pleasence
Actress
Gwen Watford
Designer
Stephen Bundy
Drama Production
Silvio Narizzano
Factual
The production team of Tonight (BBC)
Additional
The production team of Monitor (BBC)
Light Entertainment (Production)
Joan Kemp-Welch
Light Entertainment (Artist)
Alan Melville
Personality
Cliff Michelmore
Scriptwriter
Colin Morris
Special Award
The production team of Monitor (TV series)
Writers Award
Colin Morris and Ken Hughes
References
Archive of winners on official BAFTA website (retrieved February 19, 2006).
British Academy Film Awards
Society of Film and Television Arts Television Awards
Society of Film and Television Arts Television Awards
Society of Film and Television Arts Television Awards | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1959%20Society%20of%20Film%20and%20Television%20Arts%20Television%20Awards |
The ONA Group (Omnium Nord-Africain, Arabic: مجموعة أونا) was established in 1934 and dissolved in 2010 and succeeded by Societe Nationale d'Investissement.
ONA was an industrial, financial and services conglomerate, focused on positions of leadership and value creation in business activities contributing to the growth and sustainable development of Morocco, the Maghreb Region and the African Continent.
ONA Group was structured around several activities: Mining, Agribusiness, Distribution, Financial Services, Telecommunication, Renewable Energies, and Growth Drivers, etc.
The group and its successor promote various cultural programs, local and foreign arts and artists through a charitable foundation "Fondation ONA".
In March 2010, ONA announced its merger with Societe Nationale d'Investissement. As a result of the merger, the two companies have been delisted from the Casablanca stock market, and the ONA agri-business branches have been disposed of. This reorganisation has transformed the conglomerate into an investment company that gives larger autonomy to its subsidiaries in the management of their affairs.
History
The Compagnie Générale de Transport et de Tourisme was created in 1919 by Jean Épinat. In 1928, it became an exclusive agent of General Motors in Morocco until 1945.
In 1934, it was rebranded into Omnium Nord Africain. During the same year, the ONA became a holding as it entered the mining sector.
In 1953, after World War II, all the assets of Jean Épinat became under the control of The Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas (Paribas). King Hassan II bought Paribas’ shares in ONA and became the main shareholder of the group in 1980.
In 1982, the group started getting involved in various sectors including dairy products, sugar, banks, chemicals and textile. In 1986, ONA acquired shares in Lesieur Afrique and obtained nearly 40% of Banque Commerciale du Maroc (Morocco's Commercial Bank).
In 1988, ONA invested in the first pay-TV in the Arab world with 2M.
In 1990, the group invested in the retail sector by opening its first hypermarket Marjane Bouregreg. In 2005, the group acquired Maroc Connect, the second internet provider in Morocco, which became Wana corporate and later Inwi in 2009.
In 2005, ONA launched Nareva Holding specialised in low carbon energy.
On March 25, 2010, the group announced that it will be going a strategic reorganisation, including its fusion with SNI and their withdrawal from Casablanca Stock Exchange.
On December 31, 2010, the closure of ONA took place and its activities were integrated into Societe Nationale d'Investissement.
Activities by sector (2009)
The holding diversified its activity sector by engaging in several industries:
Food industry (51.5% of turnover)
Centrale Laitière: Dairy products (sold to Danone in 2012)
Fromagerie des Doukkala: Cheese
Cosumar: Sugar
Lesieur Cristal: Oils (sold to Sofiprotéol in 2012)
Bimo: Biscuits (sold to Kraft Foods in 2012)
Sotherma: Mineral water
CMB plastique: Plastic packaging
Sea food products
Distribution (40.5% of turnover)
Marjane: Retail outlet, shopping centre
Acima: Retail outlet, shopping centre
Sopriam: Car distribution
OPTORG: Distribution of industrial goods
Mines (6.1% of turnover)
Groupe Managem: Mining operator in Morocco and Africa
Sonasid: Steel industry
Growth drivers and holdings (1.5% of turnover)
Inwi: Telecommunication operator
Nareva: Energy and environment
Onapar: Real estate holding
Accolade: Call centre
Archos Conseil: Information system and management consulting (sold to Capital Consulting on January 18, 2010)
NetCom: Business systems and Networks
Financial activities (0.4% of turnover)
Attijariwafa Bank: First banking and financial group in the Maghreb and Africa
Agma Lahlou-Tazi: Risk management consulting and insurance brokerage in Morocco
Shareholders (2009)
Previous presidents
Fouad Filali (1986 – April 20, 1999)
Mourad Cherif (1999 – 2002)
Bassim Jaï Hokimi (2002 – 2005)
Saâd Bendidi (February 2005 – April 2008)
Mouatassim Belghazi (April 11, 2008 – March 15, 2011)
See also
Wana (Telecommunications) the third main telecommunication company in Morocco, a subsidiary of ONA.
Mounir Majidi
Mohammed VI of Morocco
References
Defunct companies of Morocco
Conglomerate companies of Morocco
Holding companies of Morocco
Mohammed VI of Morocco
Société Nationale d'Investissement
Telecommunications companies of Morocco
Conglomerate companies established in 1934
Financial services companies established in 1934
Holding companies established in 1934
Conglomerate companies disestablished in 2010
1934 establishments in Morocco
2010 disestablishments in Morocco
Holding companies disestablished in 2010 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ONA%20Group |
One Voice is the sixth studio album by singer/songwriter Barry Manilow, released in 1979. It was recorded at United Western Studios and Allen Zentz Recording in Hollywood. The album peaked at #9 on the Billboard 200 chart and was certified double platinum by RIAA. The album contained three top-40 singles, "Ships" which peaked at #9, "When I Wanted You" at #20 and "I Don't Want to Walk Without You" which hit #36 on the Billboard Hot 100.
The title track was featured in a lengthy segment in an episode of the British comedy show Only Fools and Horses, "Fatal Extraction", where the show's central character Del Boy starts singing the song outside a block of flats late at night after he's been drinking, starting a riot.
The song "Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?" was sampled in the song "Superheroes" by Daft Punk on the album Discovery.
Track listing
Music and lyrics written by Barry Manilow, except where noted.
Side one
"One Voice" - 3:01
"(Why Don't We Try) A Slow Dance" (lyrics: Bruce Sussman and Jack Feldman) - 4:16
"Rain" (lyrics: Adrienne Anderson) - 4:48
"Ships" (Ian Hunter) - 4:06
"You Could Show Me" (lyrics: Bruce Sussman and Jack Feldman) - 1:45
"I Don't Want to Walk Without You" (music: Jule Styne; lyrics: Frank Loesser) - 3:54
Side two
"Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?" (lyrics: Marty Panzer) - 4:36
"Where Are They Now" (music: Richard Kerr; lyrics: John Bettis) - 3:59
"Bobbie Lee" (lyrics: Enoch Anderson) - 3:32
"When I Wanted You" (Gino Cunico) - 3:31
"Sunday Father" (lyrics: Enoch Anderson) - 2:51
CD bonus tracks
"They Gave In to the Blues" (non-LP B-side of "Ships") (Included on 1998 and 2006 remasters) - 2:59
"Learning to Live Without You" (Demo - Included on 2006 remaster) - 3:46
"Where I Want to Be" (Demo - Included on 2006 remaster) - 2:57
"I Let Myself Believe" (Demo - Included on 2006 remaster) - 3:38
Personnel
Barry Manilow - vocals, backing vocals, piano
Mitch Holder - guitar
David Hungate, Dennis Belfield, Will Lee - bass
Bill Mays, Jai Winding - keyboards
Ian Underwood, Michael Boddicker - synthesizer
Ed Greene, Jim Gordon - drums
Alan Estes - percussion
Jim Horn - saxophone on "Bobbie Lee"
Monica Burruss, Muffy Hendrix, Reparata, Ron Dante - backing vocals
Artie Butler, Jimmie Haskell - orchestration
Technical
Michael DeLugg - engineer
Donn Davenport - art direction
Victor Skrebneski - photography
Charts
Certifications
References
One Voice
1979 albums
Arista Records albums
Albums produced by Ron Dante
Albums recorded at United Western Recorders | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One%20Voice%20%28Barry%20Manilow%20album%29 |
Mayadin (/ALA-LC: al-Miyādīn) is a town in eastern Syria. It is the capital of the Mayadin District, part of the Deir ez-Zor Governorate. Mayadin is about 44 kilometers southeast of Deir ez-Zor. The Euphrates River flows through the town. In the 2004 census, the population was 44,028, making it the second most populous town in the governorate.
History
Ancient era
Mayadin has been identified to be the ancient Audattha known to Ptolemy, though some suggest Audattha was where Haditha now stands in Iraq.
Middle Ages
Mayadin is the successor of the medieval town and fortress of Rahbat Malik ibn Tawk, founded by the Abbasid lord and the original town's namesake, Malik ibn Tawk. Strategically located at a crossroads on the western bank of the Euphrates and considered the key to Syria from Iraq, control of the town was highly contested by the Muslim powers and Bedouin tribes of the region. It grew to become one of the major Muslim towns of the Euphrates valley and was an administrative center.
An earthquake destroyed Rahbat Malik ibn Tawk in 1157, after which it was granted by the Zengid ruler Nur ad-Din to Asad ad-Din Shirkuh, the paternal uncle of future Ayyubid sultan, Saladin. Shirkuh relocated the fortress about four kilometers southwest of the original site. The new settlement, known as "al-Rahba al-Jadida", remained the significant center of the Euphrates region through much of the Ayyubid–Mamluk era (12th–15th centuries), and today is a ruined fortress known as "Qal'at al-Rahba". The original settlement eventually became known as "Mashhad Rahba". The latter was located at the present site of Mayadin.
Modern era
In the early 20th century, Mayadin was the administrative seat of the Asharah kaza (subdistrict) of the Sanjak of Zor district and contained the residence of its qaimmaqam (governor). In a British military intelligence report from the 1900s, the town had a population of 2,000 mostly Sunni Muslims and a small minority of Christians. There was a bazaar, several shops and a mosque with a leaning minaret. According to Czech explorer Alois Musil, who visited in 1912, Mayadin had a garrison of twelve gendarmes, ten policemen and ten mule riders. There was a boys' primary school in the town. The population was about 2,500, consisting of roughly four hundred Muslim families, fifteen Syriac Orthodox families (mostly refugees from Mardin), and three Jewish families, living in a total of 380 houses. On June 19, 1947, Pan Am Flight 121, crewed by third officer Gene Roddenberry (who went on to create the original Star Trek television series), crashed 4 miles (6.4 km) from the town.
Syrian Civil War
During the Syrian Civil War, Free Syrian Army captured the town in late August 2012 after fighting in the town. The only part still in regime hands was the Mayadin military base, an artillery position on a hill overlooking the town, which was captured on 22 November. This gave the rebels control of a large amount of territory east of the base to the Iraqi border. On 3 July 2014, ISIL captured Mayadin and raised their black standard. A local underground resistance movement of Sunni Muslim fighters attacked ISIL checkpoints in the city in 2015. This forced ISIL to dig a defensive position around the city.
On 3 April 2017, during the SDF's offensive to capture Raqqa, it was reported that ISIL was possibly in the process of moving its capital from Raqqa city to Mayadin. This followed months of gradual relocation of resources and senior ISIL leaders from Raqqa to Mayadin. On 21 April 2017, the United States announced that they had conducted a ground raid in Mayadin and killed Abdulrakhman Uzbeki, an ISIS leader.
On 18 June 2017, Iran hit ISIL targets in Mayadin using domestic-based surface-to-surface mid-range missiles.
By the 10 October 2017, the town was besieged by the SAA and fighting had begun in the suburbs in preparation to storm the town.
On 11 October 2017, the Syrian Army made huge advances inside the town of Mayadin and has taken control of about 60 percent of the town.
On 14 October 2017, the Syrian Army retook the town thus ending the 4 year long ISIL rule over it.
In June 2018, ISIL unsuccessfully attempted to retake the town.
Sport
There is a football club in the city called Al-Mayadin SC, which plays the second highest competition in Syria.
Climate
Mayadin has a hot desert climate (Köppen climate classification BWh).
References
Bibliography
Cities in Syria
Populated places on the Euphrates River
Populated places in Mayadin District | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayadin |
Cunhambebe (sometimes spelled Quoniambec) was an Indigenous Brazilian chieftain of the Tupinambá tribe, which dominated the region between present-day Cabo Frio (Rio de Janeiro) and Bertioga (São Paulo). He lived in a village in Iperoig (near present-day Ubatuba).
Military career
Cunhambebe was also the main force and elected chief of the Tamoyo Confederation, a military alliance between the sea coast tribes against the Portuguese colonists. The Tamoyo Confederation waged war against the Portuguese until the Peace of Iperoig in 1567. They also fought the Portuguese forces in alliance with the French invaders commanded by Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon (1510–1571) in the historical episode which became known as the France Antarctique.
According to the description of French priest André de Thevet, the German soldier of fortune and sailor Hans Staden (1525–1579) was a prisoner of Cunhambebe's father (who had the same name) between 1554 and 1557. The Tupinambá were fierce warriors and cannibals, as described by Hans Staden, who narrowly escaped several times of being killed and eaten by Cunhambebe's Indians.
The war waged by the Tamoyo Confederation was strongly affecting the Portuguese colonisation efforts, so the two Portuguese Jesuit priests who had founded São Paulo dos Campos de Piratininga (which became the present-day megalopolis of São Paulo), Manoel da Nóbrega (1517–1570) and José de Anchieta (1534–1597) started a peace mission by doing a high risk visit to Cunhambebe's village. Although they were received with mistrust, Anchieta spoke Tupi language very well and they were spared death.
Eventually, Anchieta succeeded in negotiating a peace treaty, which was respected by Cunhambebe and the Tupinambás. The peace treaty ended when an attack force led by Portuguese knight D. Estácio de Sá (1520–1567) tried to expel the French invaders. In this occasion, the Tamoyo tribes came to help the Frenchmen, particularly because they felt betrayed by the Portuguese, and also because the Temimino tribes, their traditional and bitter enemies, fought on the side of the Portuguese.
Death
Cunhambebe died of bubonic plague just after the arrival of Villegaigon's fleet to the Guanabara Bay in Rio de Janeiro, before the events which eventually led to the almost complete destruction of the Tamoyos towards the end of the 16th century.
References
16th-century Brazilian people
16th-century indigenous people of the Americas
Brazilian people of indigenous peoples descent
Indigenous leaders of the Americas
16th-century deaths from plague (disease)
Year of birth unknown
Tupí people
France Antarctique | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cunhambebe |
Hedy Kaufmann-Schlunegger (10 March 1923 – 3 July 2003) was a Swiss alpine skier. At the 1948 Winter Olympics, Hedy Schlunegger was the first Olympic Gold medalist in Lady's Downhill skiing.
After her success in skiing, Hedy Kaufmann-Schlunegger and her husband managed a sporting goods store in Grindelwald. Olympic medalist Martina Schild is her granddaughter.
References
Skiclub Wengen: Hedy Schlunegger
Kaufmann Sport Grindelwald: Geschichte
Jungfrau-Zeitung: Unsere Verstorbenen: Hedwig Kaufmann-Schlunegger
1923 births
2003 deaths
Swiss female alpine skiers
Olympic alpine skiers for Switzerland
Olympic medalists in alpine skiing
Medalists at the 1948 Winter Olympics
Alpine skiers at the 1948 Winter Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for Switzerland
20th-century Swiss women | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy%20Schlunegger |
Richard Steele (1672–1729) was an Irish writer and politician .
Richard Steele may also refer to:
Richard Steele (footballer), Northern Mariana Islands footballer
Richard Steele (minister) (1629–1692), English Presbyterian minister and Puritan author
Richard Steele (referee) (born 1944), American boxing referee
, phycologist using the standard author abbreviation R.L.Steele
Sir Richard Steele (public house), a public house in London
See also
Richard Steel, lead guitarist for Spacehog | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Steele%20%28disambiguation%29 |
Vladimír Sommer (28 February 1921 in Dolní Jiřetín near Most – 8 September 1997 in Prague) was a Czech composer.
Sommer began his studies at the Prague Conservatory, where he studied violin with Bedřich Voldan and composition with Karel Janeček. He then continued his education at the Academy of Arts and Music with Pavel Bořkovec. His first job was a composition teacher, and he eventually became a professor in the Music Department of Charles University. Sommer wrote three symphonies, an overture, one cello concerto and one violin concerto, chamber music, and choral pieces. He died in 1997 in Prague.
Selected works
Sonata for two Violins, 1948
Violin Concerto in G minor, 1950
Antigone, Overture to the Tragedy of Sophocles, 1957
Vocal Symphony for Contralto, Speaker, Choir, and Orchestra, 1958
Prince Bajaja, Orchestral Suite, 1970
Symphony for Strings, 1977
Sinfonia da Requiem for Soloists, Choir, and Orchestra, 1978
Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra, 1979
Piano Sonata, 1980
String Quartet in B minor, 1981
String Quartet in D minor, 1955
References
The information in this article is based on that in its German equivalent.
External links
Vladimir Sommer Biography (in Czech)
1921 births
1997 deaths
Czech classical composers
Czech male classical composers
20th-century classical composers
People from Horní Jiřetín
Prague Conservatory alumni
Academic staff of Charles University
20th-century Czech male musicians
Czechoslovak musicians | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladim%C3%ADr%20Sommer |
The 1960 Society of Film and Television Arts Television Awards is the United Kingdom's premier television awards ceremony. The awards later became known as the British Academy Television Awards, under which name they are still given.
Winners
Actor
Patrick McGoohan
Actress
Catherine Lacey
Designer
Clifford Hatts
Drama Production
William Kotcheff
Factual
Denis Mitchell
Light Entertainment (Artist)
Tony Hancock
Light Entertainment (Production)
Bill Ward
Personality
John Freeman
Scriptwriting
Galton and Simpson
Special Award
John Elliot
Writers Award
Galton and Simpson
References
External links
http://awards.bafta.org/1960.
1960
Society of Film and Television Arts Television Awards
Society of Film and Television Arts Television Awards
Society of Film and Television Arts Television Awards | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1960%20Society%20of%20Film%20and%20Television%20Arts%20Television%20Awards |
Fair debt collection broadly refers to regulation of the United States debt collection industry at both the federal and state level. At the Federal level, it is primarily governed by the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA). In addition, many U.S. states also have debt collection laws that regulate the credit and collection industry and give consumer debtors protection from abusive and deceptive practices. Many state laws track the language of the FDCPA, so that they are sometimes referred to as mini-FDCPAs.
Laws regulating telemarketing and phone solicitation can also apply to debt collection practices, including the Federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 (TCPA).
State regulation
U.S. state laws on fair debt collection generally fall into two categories: laws which require persons who are collecting debts from consumers to be licensed, registered or bonded in order to collect from consumers in their states, and laws that protect consumers from specific unfair practices by debt collectors, which may include collection agencies and sometimes original creditors. Unlike the FDCPA, many state laws also apply to the debt collection activity of original creditors, thus providing greater protections to consumers than the Federal FDCPA.
Although not all states have such laws, some states track violations of debt collection practices laws. Some states bar debt collectors from engaging in collection activity against residents of the state unless the collection agency has complied with state licensing or bonding requirements, while others exempt out-of-state collectors from those requirements. Many state fair debt collection laws provide for a private right of action (consumers can sue the debt collector) by consumers against debt collectors that violate their provisions.
Examples of prohibitions of unfair practices by collectors include contacting employers after having been given notice not to do so, pretending to be a government agency, pretending to be an attorney or falsely threatening a debtor with a lawsuit.
Collection laws
The following states have their own debt collection laws, which can be found here:
Alabama: Ala. Code Sec. 40-12-80
Alaska: Alaska Stat. Sec. 08.24.041-08.24.380; Alaska Stat. Sec. 45.50.471.
Arizona: Ariz. Rev. Stat. Ann. sec. 32-1001 - 1057
Arkansas: Ark. Stat. Ann. Sec. 17-24-101 -404
California: Cal. Civ. Code Sec. 1788-1788.33, 1812.700 - .702
Colorado: Colo. Rev. Stat. Sec. 5-1-101 - 5-12-105; Sec. 12-04-101 -137
Connecticut: Conn. Gen Stat. Sec. 36a-645 - -647
Delaware: Del. Code Ann. tit. 30, Sec. 2301(a)(12)
Florida: Fla. Stat. Sec. 559.55-.785
Georgia: Ga. Code. Ann. Sec. 7-3-1 -29
Hawaii: Haw. Rev. Stat. Sec. 443B-1 -20; Sec. 480D-1 et seq.
Idaho: Idaho Code Sec. 26-222 -2251
Illinois: 225 Ill. Comp. Stat. 425/1 to /25
Indiana: Ind. Code Ann.Sec. 25-11-1-1 to -13; Sec. 24-4.55-107
Iowa: Iowa Code Ann. Sec. 537.7101 -.7103
Kansas: Kan. Stat. Ann. Sec. 16a-5-107
Kentucky: Ky. rev. Stat. ann. Sec. 24A-240 (re: CA in small claims ct)
Louisiana: La.rev.Stat. Sec. 9:3576.1 -3576.24; Sec. 9:3557-9:3562
Maine: Me.Rev.Stat.Amm. tit.32, Sec. 11001 - 11054; tit.9-A, Sec. 5-107, -116, -117, -201
Maryland: Md.Ann.Code. Bus. Reg. Sec. 7-101 -502
Massachusetts: Mass. Gen Laws Ann ch 93, Sec. 49
Michigan: Mich. Comp. Laws Sec. 339.901 -.920; 445.251 - 445.258,
Minnesota: Minn. Stat. Ann. Sec. 332.31 -.44
Mississippi: Miss. Code Sec. 97-9-1
Missouri: Mo. Rev. Stat. Chpt. 425
Nebraska: Neb. Rev. Stat. Ann. Sec. 45-601 -622
Nevada: Nev. Rev. Stat. Ann. Sec. 649.010 -.035
New Hampshire: N.H. Rev. Stat. Chapster. 358-C
New Jersey: N.J. Stat. Ann. Sec. 45:18 -6.1
New Mexico: N.M. Stat.Ann. Sec. 61-18A
New York: N.Y. Gen. Bus. Law Sec. 600-603,
North Carolina: N.C. Gen.Stat. Chapter 58, Article 70; N.C. Gen. Stat. Chapter 75, Article 2.
North Dakota: N.D. Cent. Code Sec. 13-05-01 -10
Ohio: Ohio Rev. Code Ann. Sec. 1319.12
Oklahoma: Okla. Stat. tit. 14A, Sec. 5-107
Oregon: Or. Rev. Stat. Sec. 646.639 -.656; Sec, 697.005 -.095
Pennsylvania: 18 Pa. Const. Stat. Ann. Sec. 7311; 73 Pa. Stat. Sec. 2270.1 -.6
Rhode Island: R.I. Gen. Laws Sec. 19-14.9 -14.14
South Carolina: S.C. Code Sec. 37-5-108
Tennessee: Tenn. Code. Ann. Sec. 62-20-101 -126
Texas: Tex. Fin. Code Sec. 392.001 -.404, 396.001 -.353
Utah: Utah Code Ann. Sec. 12-1-1 -10; Sec. 70C-7-104 -106
Vermont: Vt. Stat. Ann. tit 9, Sec. 2451a -2461
Virginia: Va. Code. 18.1-213
Washington: Wash. Rev. Code.Ann. Sec. 19.16.100 -.950
Washington, D.C.: D.C. Code Ann. Sec. 22-3401 -3403; Sec. 28-3814 -3816; Sec. 28-3901 -3909
West Virginia: W.Va. Code. Sec. 47-16-1 -5; Sec. 46A-2-122 -129a
Wisconsin: Wis. Stat. Ann. Sec. 218.04; Sec. 427.101 -.105
Wyoming: Wyo. Stat. Sec. 33-11-101 -116; Sec. 40-14-507
See also
Bank regulation in the United States
References
Bank regulation in the United States
Bankruptcy in the United States
Contract law
Debt collection
Statutory law | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair%20debt%20collection |
Barry is the seventh studio album released by American singer and songwriter Barry Manilow in 1980 on Arista Records. The album was certified Platinum in the US by the RIAA.
Synopsis
The tracks were recorded at Evergreen Recording Studios in Burbank, California. Manilow co-wrote with Maurice White of Earth, Wind & Fire the album track "Only in Chicago". "We Still Have Time" was taken from the film Tribute.
The album scored one top ten pop hit, "I Made It Through the Rain", which reached number ten, in early 1981. Although "I Made It Through the Rain" was his only Top-10 on the Hot 100 from this album, he managed to reach the Top-10 on the Adult-Contemporary lists with "Lonely Together" and the bouncy up-tempo "Bermuda Triangle" was a Top-20 hit in the UK in mid-1981.
The album has yet to be released on CD in the US, but has had a CD release in Japan. It is however available as a digital download.
Critical reception
Joe Viglione of AllMusic, in a 3 out of 5 star review, called the album "an interesting piece of the Manilow collection, the singer covering Kenny Nolan, co-writing with Maurice White, penning a song for another film -- "We Still Have Time" from the motion picture Tribute -- and including a campy duet with Lily Tomlin." Stephen Holden of The New York Times wrote that "Barry, Mr. Manilow's newest album, isn't as lively as some of his earlier work, but it's pleasant enough. Mr. Manilow's forte remains the mini-aria arranged like an elaborate jingle."
Track listing
Side 1
"Lonely Together" (Kenny Nolan) - 4:19
"Bermuda Triangle" (music: Barry Manilow; lyrics: Bruce Sussman, Jack Feldman) - 3:45
"I Made It Through the Rain" (music: Gerard Kenny; lyrics: Jack Feldman, Drey Shepperd, Bruce Sussman, Barry Manilow) - 4:08
"Twenty Four Hours a Day" (music: Barry Manilow; lyrics: Marty Panzer) - 3:25
"Dance Away" (Troy Seals, Richard Kerr) - 3:56
Side 2
"Life Will Go On" (music: Richard Kerr; lyrics: John Bettis) - 3:50
"Only in Chicago" (music: Barry Manilow, Maurice White; lyrics: Barry Manilow) - 3:33
"The Last Duet" (with Lily Tomlin) (music: Barry Manilow; lyrics: Bruce Sussman, Jack Feldman) - 3:59
"London" (music: Barry Manilow; lyrics: Bruce Sussman, Jack Feldman) - 5:18
"We Still Have Time (Theme from the motion picture Tribute)" (music: Barry Manilow; lyrics: Bruce Sussman, Jack Feldman) - 4:12
Personnel
Barry Manilow - vocals, keyboards, synthesizer
Dennis Belfield, Dean Parks, Jeff Mironov, John Pondel, Mitch Holder, Thom Rotella, Michael Landau, Fred Tackett - guitar
Jay Dee Maness - pedal steel guitar
Will Lee, Lou Shoch, Abraham Laboriel - bass
David Wheatley - Fender Rhodes electric piano
Robert Marullo - Fender Rhodes electric piano, synthesizer
Artie Butler, Paul Shaffer, Victor Vanacore, Bill Mays, Jerry Corbetta - keyboards
Michael Boddicker - synthesizer
Carlos Vega, Ronnie Zito, Bud Harner, Ed Greene, Ron Krasinski - drums
Alan Estes, Jimmy Maelen, Ken Park - percussion
James Jolis, Jim Haas, Jon Joyce, Kevin DiSimone, Maxine Waters, Ron Dante, Stephanie Spruill, Pat Henderson, Robin Green, Stan Farber - backing vocals
Chuck Findley - horns
Tommy Morgan - harmonica
Charts
Certifications
References
Barry
1980 albums
Arista Records albums
Albums produced by Ron Dante | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry%20%28album%29 |
The Marasmiaceae are a family of fungi in the order Agaricales. Basidiocarps (fruit bodies) are most frequently agarics (gilled mushrooms), but occasionally cyphelloid (in the genus Cellypha). According to a 2008 estimate, the family contained 54 genera and 1590 species, but molecular research, based on cladistic analysis of DNA sequences, has led to a more restricted family concept, so that the Marasmiaceae included just 13 genera, and some 1205 species. It was reduced further down in 2020, to 10 genera and about 700 species.
Genera
As accepted by Wijayawardene et al. 2020;
Amyloflagellula (4)
Brunneocorticium (1)
Campanella (ca. 39)
Chaetocalathus (ca. 20)
Crinipellis (ca. 65)
Hymenogloea (1)
Marasmius (ca. 600)
Moniliophthora (7)
Neocampanella (1)
Tetrapyrgos (18)
See also
List of Agaricales families
References
Marasmiaceae | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marasmiaceae |
The 1961 Society of Film and Television Arts Television Awards, the United Kingdom's premier television awards ceremony. The awards later became known as the British Academy Television Awards, under which name they are still given.
Winners
Actor
Lee Montague
Actress
Billie Whitelaw
Current Events
Sportsview unit (BBC)
Designer
Fred Pusey
Desmond Davis Award for Services to Television
Richard Dimbleby
Drama Production
Peter Dews
Factual
Michael Redington
Light Entertainment
James Gilbert
Light Entertainment (Artist)
Stanley Baxter
Personality
Eamonn Andrews
Scriptwriter
Alun Owen
Writers Award
Alun Owen
References
External links
http://awards.bafta.org/1961.
British Academy Film Awards
1961 in the United Kingdom
1961 television awards
1961 in British television | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961%20Society%20of%20Film%20and%20Television%20Arts%20Television%20Awards |
Kristof Vliegen (born 22 June 1982) is a Belgian former tennis player. He plays right-handed and he turned professional in 2001.
He was a semi-finalist in Chennai in 2006 and in May of the same year, he reached the final of the ATP tournament in Munich, setting up the first all-Belgian men's singles final against Olivier Rochus.
2006
He was a semi-finalist in Chennai in 2006 and in May of the same year, he reached the final of the ATP tournament in Munich, setting up the first all-Belgian men's singles final against Olivier Rochus. He was also the 30th seed at the 2006 Wimbledon Championships, where he reached the 2nd round before losing to Nicolas Mahut in straight sets.
2009
In Doha, the first tournament of the year he defeated Spaniard Óscar Hernández with 6–1, 6–7 and 6–7. In the next round he faced German Philipp Kohlschreiber. He was defeated in three straight sets 4–6, 7–6 and 6–4. At the Australian open he met Italian Simone Bolelli but lost in three long sets 6–7, 5–7 and 6–7. One week later he started in the SA Tennis Open as the seventh seed. In the first round he won in two straight sets of unranked Ross Hutchins. In the next round he defeated Czech Jan Minář. In the quarterfinals he lost to world number 6 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in straight sets 4–6 and 1–6. At the Open 13 in Marseille he faced Czech Jan Hernych in the first round but lost in three sets: 6–3, 3–6 and 6–4.
ATP career finals
Singles: 2 (2 runner-ups)
Doubles: 2 (2 runner-ups)
ATP Challenger and ITF Futures finals
Singles: 16 (11–5)
Doubles: 10 (7–3)
Junior Grand Slam finals
Doubles: 1 (1 title)
Performance timelines
Singles
Doubles
External links
Vliegen World ranking history
Belgian male tennis players
Sportspeople from Limburg (Belgium)
1982 births
Living people
Wimbledon junior champions
Grand Slam (tennis) champions in boys' doubles | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristof%20Vliegen |
The Frankfort Convention Center was a 5,000-seat multi-purpose arena in Frankfort, Kentucky, USA. It hosted locals sporting events and concerts. It was opened as part of the Capital Plaza urban renewal project in the 1970s. The arena's original name was the Farnham Dudgeon Civic Center.
In January 2018, demolition on the facility started. Demolition was completed in Spring 2018. No replacement for the convention center were planned, and on 2022 there are still no plans to build a replacement.
On Wednesday, January 20th, 1999, the arena hosted an untelevised live event from World Championship Wrestling.
References
Buildings and structures in Frankfort, Kentucky
Defunct sports venues in Kentucky
Indoor arenas in Kentucky
Convention centers in Kentucky
Sports venues completed in 1971
Sports venues demolished in 2018
1971 establishments in Kentucky
2017 disestablishments in Kentucky | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfort%20Convention%20Center |
In Kenya matatu or matatus (known as mathree in Sheng) are privately owned minibuses used as share taxis. Often decorated, many matatu feature portraits of famous people or slogans and sayings. Likewise, the music they play is also aimed at quickly attracting riders. Over 70% of commuter trips are taken using matatu in cities like Nairobi.
Although their origins can be traced back to the 1960s, matatu saw growth in Kenya in the 1980s and 1990s, and by the early 2000s the archetypal form was a (gaily decorated) Japanese microvan. C. 2015, larger, bus-sized vehicles also started to be used as matatu. The name may also be used in parts of Nigeria. In Kenya, this industry is regulated, and such minibuses must, by law, be fitted with seatbelts and speed governors. Present regulation may not be sufficient deterrent to prevent small infractions as even decoration may be prohibited. Kenya has one of the "most extensive regulatory controls to market entry", and a matatu worker can be pulled from the streets simply for sporting too loud a shirt.
They may ply set routes, display this route, run from termini, run both inter and intra-city, and may stop along said route to purchase or collect money from passengers. In addition to a driver, matatu may be staffed by a conductor, locally known as a makanga or manamba or donda. As of 1999, they were the only form of public transport available in Nairobi, Kenya, although in 2006 and 2008 this was no longer the case. Over the years, stiff competition is being experienced from bus-sharing applications such as SWVL.
Etymology
The name derives from a Swahili or Kikuyu colloquialism meaning "three". One explanation is that three 10 cent coins made up the typical 30 cent fare in the 1970s. There is no universally agreed opinion on an origin for the name, however, alternatively one news source suggests its origin lies in the Kikuyu language,
specifically from the Kikuyu phrase 'mang’otore matatu' meaning 30 cents.
Public perception
At times in Kenya, the matatu has been associated with criminality or reckless driving. Writes one academic, "by the end of the 1990s, matatu operators were typically viewed... by Kenyans of all ranks as thugs who exploited and mistreated passengers and participated in gang or mafia-like violence."
In the early 2000s, struggle over control of matatu routes by informal groups led to violence, and contemporary headlines highlight the fact that matatu were perceived as unsafe. These include a 2002 article titled "riding in Kenya's taxi vans is [a] death-defying experience" and another from 1999 proclaiming that the "menace of deadly matatus [is] to be curbed." Mistreatment of passengers has also been reported and includes: "verbal and physical abuse, theft, hijacking, ...sexual harassment, beatings, and rape." Corruption in the matatu industry is exacerbated by the prevalent practice of bribery, as matatu operators are forced to pay regular bribes to Kenyan police officers in order to avoid their vehicles being impounded and penalties.
Kenyan regulation
Matatu were explicitly deemed legal in 1973, but it was only in 1984 that even the most basic regulatory framework was constructed for matatu, when licensing and inspections were mandated.
Today, Kenya has been described as having extensive regulatory controls, and a matatu worker can be pulled from the streets simply for sporting too loud a shirt. Some basic safety equipment is required; these minibuses must be fitted with seat belts and speed governors. It's unclear, however, to what extent such laws are followed.
Present regulation may not be a sufficient deterrent to prevent small infractions, as even decoration may be prohibited. Laws prohibiting flashy paint-jobs and eye-searing colors were removed in 2015, and as of 2016 matatu in Kenya are brightly decorated with some operators paying upwards of US$2,000 for custom, decorative paint.
In the 1990s and the 2000s, informal groups emerged managing routes and requiring matatu drivers to pay fees. At times, competition over control of routes precipitated violence. Today, an individual matatu must be associated with one of over 600 independent, government-registered groups known as a SACCOs.
As of late 2010, Kenyan government policy is to phase out minibus matatu in the capital city Nairobi in favour of larger buses seating twenty five or more. Currently, no new matatu vehicles can operate in Nairobi, and the existing ones will be allowed to continue serving passengers until they become completely inoperable. It could take ten years or more to ease the congestion caused by more-popular smaller minibuses, however.
Environmental and health impacts
Matatu, which are most frequently diesel vehicles, are frequently idling in urban areas, creating additional air and noise pollution. In some areas, matatu drivers are actively discouraged from idling the vehicle while stopped, leading to fuel consumption and exhaust when the vehicle is not in motion. Some companies are exploring electric buses as a potential replacement for the high-emission vehicles.
In popular media
In the Netflix series Sense8, Capheus, a main character who lives in Nairobi, drives the matatu Van Damn, a tribute to Capheus' favorite action star, Jean-Claude Van Damme.
A matatu is also featured in an episode of the seventh season of the Netflix series Big Mouth.
See also
Dala dala, Tanzania
Tro tro, Ghana
Jeepney, Philippines
Colectivo, South America
Danfo, Nigeria
Marshrutka, Russia, CIS countries, Baltic states, Ukraine, Armenia, Georgia, Turkmenistan and some former USSR countries, such as Bulgaria.
Car Rapide, Senegal
References
External links
"Ma3, a band inspired by matatu". Network Africa. BBC World Service. 27 February 2012.
Public transport in Kenya
Share taxis | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matatu |
Haddington Athletic Football Club are a Scottish football club based in Haddington, the county town of East Lothian. Nicknamed the Hi-His, the club were founded in 1939 and play their home matches at Millfield. The team competes in the , having moved from the junior leagues in 2018.
In July 2021, Scott Bonar became the manager of the club.
History
After a number of years in the bottom tier of Junior football in the East Region, the club won the South Division in 2014–15 and gained promotion to the second tier. In 2017–18 Haddington achieved their best finish in the East Premier League, finishing 3rd in their final season before moving to the East of Scotland League.
The club gained SFA membership in 2020 after upgrades were made to the ground, which included the addition of floodlights.
Honours
East Of Scotland Football League First Division Conference A champions: 2021–22
East Region South Division champions: 2014–15
Lothians District League Division Two winners: 1998–99
Edinburgh & District League champions: 1956–57
East of Scotland Junior Cup winners: 1940–41, 1956–57, 1972–73
Fife and Lothians Cup winners: 1940
Brown Cup winners: 1958–59
Thornton Shield winners: 1939–40, 1940–41, 1946–47
St Michaels Cup winners: 1949–50, 1958–59
Laidlaw Cup winners: 1978–79
Notable former players
A number of players have used Haddington as a stepping stone to bigger and better things. The following players made the grade in the Senior game:
John Scott to Third Lanark
Johnny Gilhooley to Cowdenbeath
Bobby Wood to Hibernian
Dougie Armstrong and Tom McKenzie to Heart of Midlothian
Alex McCrae to Heart of Midlothian (1941), Charlton Athletic (1947), Middlesbrough (1948), Falkirk (1953) and (as player/manager) Ballymena United (1957). He returned to Falkirk as manager in 1960.
November 2007 saw Polish midfielder Lukasz Rusin become the first Haddington player in recent times to seek success in the higher grade when he joined Brechin City for a short spell. However, his progression was hampered by a persistent injury and Rusin took some time away from the game before returning to Junior football with Spartans for the 2011–12 season
In July 2012, prolific striker Sean Jamieson signed for East Fife after a successful trial period. In two seasons for the Hi His, Jamieson scored 64 times in 72 appearances (three as substitute)
Junior Internationalists
In 1948, Dougie Armstrong became the Club's only Junior internationalist player when he played for Scotland against a Republic of Ireland team.
Current squad
As of 31 October 2020
References
External links
Official website
Facebook
Twitter
Football clubs in Scotland
Association football clubs established in 1939
Scottish Junior Football Association clubs
1939 establishments in Scotland
East of Scotland Football League teams
Haddington, East Lothian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haddington%20Athletic%20F.C. |
Murray Jonathan Gold (born 28 February 1969) is an English composer for stage, film, and television and a dramatist for both theatre and radio. He is best known as the musical director and composer of the music for Doctor Who from its revival in 2005 until 2017. In 2023, he was announced to be returning to the series. Gold's other television work includes Queer as Folk, Last Tango in Halifax and Gentleman Jack. He has been nominated for five BAFTAs.
Born in Portsmouth to a Jewish family, Gold initially pursued drama as a vocation, while writing and playing music as a hobby, but switched to music when he became musical director for the University of Cambridge's Footlights society.
Television
Gold has been nominated for a BAFTA five times in the category Best Original Television Music, for Vanity Fair (1999), Queer as Folk (2000), Casanova (2006) and twice for Doctor Who (2009 and 2014). His score for the BAFTA winning film Kiss of Life was awarded the 'Mozart Prize of the 7th Art' by a French jury at Aubagne in 2003. He has also been nominated four times by the Royal Television Society in categories relating to music for television.
He has worked with Russell T Davies, the writer and executive producer of Doctor Who, many times in the past on projects such as Casanova (starring David Tennant), The Second Coming (starring Christopher Eccleston) and Queer as Folk 1 & 2. He has also provided the incidental music for the 2000s version of Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased) alongside James Bond composer David Arnold, who provided the theme tune.
He wrote the theme tune for the Channel 4 series Shameless and scored the period drama The Devil's Whore. More recently Gold scored another David Tennant series, in BBC One's Single Father. In this, Gold opted for a more popular music style ensemble rather than writing for orchestra.
Murray Gold composed the musical score for the drama series Last Tango in Halifax which ran from 2012 to 2020. In 2014, Gold scored the BBC series The Musketeers.
In 2019, Gold reunited with Russell T Davies for his series Years and Years, a drama based around a family and how the political, cultural and technological changes around the world affected them. He also composed the music for the BBC and HBO series Gentleman Jack.
In 2021, Gold reunited again with Russell T Davies for his series It’s A Sin, a drama focussed on the 1980s AIDS Crisis. The show would go on to win numerous awards.
Doctor Who and related series
From 2005 to 2017, Gold served as musical director of science fiction drama Doctor Who for the BBC. In this capacity, he created a new arrangement of the show's theme (originally composed by Ron Grainer) and also composed the show's incidental music. Silva Screen released a compilation of Gold's Doctor Who incidental music from the first and second series, entitled Doctor Who: Original Television Soundtrack, on 11 December 2006. A second CD, Doctor Who: Original Television Soundtrack – Series 3, was released on 5 November 2007 and a third, Doctor Who: Original Television Soundtrack – Series 4, was released in November 2008. He has also been seen very briefly in the show itself, making a cameo appearance (and wearing a false moustache) in the 2007 Christmas special "Voyage of the Damned".
Also, music from the 2008–2010 specials was released on 4 October 2010, entitled Doctor Who: Original Television Soundtrack – Series 4: The Specials, and on 8 November music from Series 5, entitled Doctor Who: Original Television Soundtrack – Series 5, was released.
Gold's initial arrangement of the Doctor Who theme did not include the "middle eight" portion originally used in the theme, although he later reinstated it for a rearrangement of the theme introduced in the series' 2005 Christmas episode and subsequently used in the 2006 series of the programme. Gold has created many themes to be associated with various elements of the show, creating two themes for the Doctor ("The Doctor's Theme" and "The Doctor Forever"), Rose Tyler, Martha Jones, Donna Noble, Gallifrey, the Master, Astrid Peth, the Cybermen, and the Daleks.
Gold re-arranged the Doctor Who opening theme in 2010 for Series 5. With the 2010 series, Gold also created two new musical identities for the Eleventh Doctor ("I Am The Doctor" and "A Madman With A Box", replacing themes previously associated with the Ninth and Tenth Doctors), a theme for Amy Pond, the Silurians and the Daleks. He also continued to use the theme for the Cybermen, as well as several action cues such as "Corridors and Fire Escapes" and "All the Strange, Strange Creatures".
Although his music for the 2005 series of Doctor Who relied largely on orchestral samples, his later arrangements for the show, beginning with "The Christmas Invasion", have been more acoustic, often being recorded by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, supplemented by vocal performances with Melanie Pappenheim and others. One of the most well-known orchestral numbers is "Abigail's Song", sung by Katherine Jenkins, from the 2010 Christmas special "A Christmas Carol", whose soundtrack was released in March 2011. The orchestral scoring (partly reflecting a larger budget) contrasts strongly with music for the classic 1963–1989 series of Doctor Who, as produced by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Mark Ayres et al., which generally had an electronic feel, with innovative instrumentation.
Gold also wrote the theme tunes for Doctor Who spin-offs The Sarah Jane Adventures and Torchwood, and composed music for the latter series alongside Ben Foster. A selection of their compositions, entitled Torchwood: Original Television Soundtrack, was made available during August 2008. He arranged the theme tunes to Totally Doctor Who and Doctor Who Confidential, both of which are variations on the Doctor Who theme.
Gold has created, arranged and orchestrated three special live concerts for the music from Doctor Who. The first, "Doctor Who: A Celebration", was played at the Millennium Centre in Cardiff in 2006; the second, the 2008 Doctor Who Prom, was part of the BBC Proms on 24 July 2008 at the Royal Albert Hall in London; the third, the 2010 Doctor Who Prom, was part of the BBC Proms hold on 24 and 25 July 2010 at the Royal Albert Hall again. In March 2010, his Doctor Who soundtrack entered UK radio station Classic FM's Hall of Fame as that year's second highest new entry. In 2011, it remained in the Hall of Fame, but three places lower at number 228 out of 300.
Gold announced in February 2018 that he would step down as the programme's composer, having served as the musical director since 2005, and that he would not be composing the music for the eleventh series, which would be instead composed by Segun Akinola (under new executive producer Chris Chibnall).
In April 2023, it was announced that Gold would again return to Doctor Who as composer.
Film, stage and radio
Gold has scored a number of British and American films, including the BAFTA-winning Kiss of Life directed by Emily Young, Death at a Funeral directed by Frank Oz and Mischief Night, directed by Penny Woolcock. Other projects include Ant & Dec's 2006 film Alien Autopsy and the 2009 drama film Veronika Decides to Die.
In 2001, his radio play Electricity was given the Imison Award—named after former BBC radio drama script editor Richard Imison—for best new play after its broadcast on Radio 3 in 2000. It subsequently transferred to the West Yorkshire Playhouse in 2004 and was performed with Christopher Eccleston in the lead role. Others of his plays include 50 Revolutions performed by the Oxford Stage Company at the Whitehall Theatre, London in 2000 and Resolution at Battersea Arts Centre in 1994.
Gold also wrote the radio play Kafka the Musical, broadcast on Easter Sunday 2011 on BBC Radio 3, starring David Tennant. It won the 2013 Tinniswood Award for the Best Original Radio Drama.
References
External links
Interview with Murray Gold at FilmMusicSite.com
1969 births
Living people
Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
English film score composers
English Jews
English male composers
English male film score composers
English television composers
Music based on Doctor Who
Musicians from Portsmouth | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray%20Gold |
The Barry P. Bonvillain Civic Center, formerly known as the Houma-Terrebonne Civic Center, is a 5,000-seat multi-purpose arena in Houma, Louisiana, USA, that hosts corporate functions, such as meetings, training seminars, conferences, as well as formal banquets, wedding receptions, group conventions, consumer shows, professional wrestling, family theater and other performing arts, concerts, graduations, religious services, indoor and outdoor festivals.
It is also home to the annual Ducks Unlimited banquet in Terrebonne Parish. It opened on January 6, 1999.
The Civic Center is a multi-purpose building with a 5,000-seat arena, a theatrical / banquet area with a 2,500 person capacity, and a meeting room area. The facility was built at a cost of $18.1 million. There are 3,200 retractable seats at the arena.
It was home to the Houma Bayou Bucks of the National Indoor Football League from 2002 to 2004, and the Houma Conquerors of the Southern Indoor Football League in 2009.
See also
List of convention centers in the United States
List of music venues
References
External links
Houma Terrebonne Civic Center website. Retrieved on 2006-01-20.
"Houma Terrebonne Civic Center", Cultural Resources and Economic Development, City of Houma, Louisiana. Retrieved on 2006-01-20.
Basketball venues in Louisiana
Convention centers in Louisiana
Indoor arenas in Louisiana
Music venues in Louisiana
Sports in Houma, Louisiana
Buildings and structures in Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana
Sports venues in Louisiana
Volleyball venues in Louisiana
1999 establishments in Louisiana
Sports venues completed in 1999 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houma%20Terrebonne%20Civic%20Center |
Karen Whitefield (born 8 January 1970, Bellshill) is a Scottish Labour politician. She was the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the Airdrie and Shotts constituency from 1999 to 2011.
Political career
Prior to her election as MSP, she worked as a personal assistant to Rachel Squire MP.
MSP for Airdrie and Shotts: 1999–2011
She was elected as MSP for Airdrie and Shotts at the 1999 Scottish Parliament general election. As an MSP, she chaired the Parliament's Education Committee, where she used her casting vote to reject the student graduate endowment bill, a Scottish National Party (SNP) flagship policy. It had the backing of the Liberal Democrats and SNP members, but not the Labour or Conservative members of the committee. The bill was eventually passed through the Scottish Parliament by a vote of 67 to 61. Whitefield was Scottish Labour's shadow Minister for Children in the Scottish Parliament, and Convener of the Cross-Party Group on Diabetes under Iain Gray. At the 2011 Scottish Parliament election, she lost her seat to the SNP's Alex Neil, one of nine Labour MSPs to lose their constituency seats after holding them since the first elections to the Scottish Parliament in 1999.
Falkirk PPC: 2015
Following the resignation of sitting MP Eric Joyce (and the controversial and flawed 2013 Labour Party Falkirk candidate selection), in a re-run in which all the previous candidates were excluded on 8 December 2013, Whitefield was selected to contest the Falkirk constituency at the 2015 UK general election. In the event, the SNP landslide swept Scotland, including Falkirk, and Whitehead was unsuccessful in being elected.
Labour Leadership 2021 campaign
Following the resignation of Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard, Whitefield chaired Anas Sarwar's leadership campaign. Sarwar was subsequently voted in as leader of Scottish Labour.
Personal life
After her unseating in the 2011 Scottish Parliament election, she subsequently became a campaign officer at USDAW. She is single and lives in the village of Glenmavis - a satellite village of Airdrie.
References
External links
Karen Whitefield profile at the site of Scottish Labour
1970 births
Living people
People from Bellshill
Labour MSPs
Members of the Scottish Parliament 1999–2003
Members of the Scottish Parliament 2003–2007
Members of the Scottish Parliament 2007–2011
Female members of the Scottish Parliament
20th-century Scottish women politicians
Politicians from North Lanarkshire | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen%20Whitefield |
The 1962 Society of Film and Television Arts Television Awards, the United Kingdom's premier television awards ceremony. The awards later became known as the British Academy Television Awards, under which name they are still given.
Winners
Actor
Rupert Davies
Actress
Ruth Dunning
Current Events
Bill Allenby
Designer
Voytek
Desmond Davis Award for Services to Television
Michael Barry
Drama Production
Andrew Osborn
Factual
Tim Hewat
Light Entertainment (Artist)
Eric Sykes
Light Entertainment
George Inns
Special Award
David Attenborough
References
External links
http://awards.bafta.org/1962
British Academy Film Awards
1962 in the United Kingdom
1962 television awards
1962 in British television | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1962%20Society%20of%20Film%20and%20Television%20Arts%20Television%20Awards |
Norton Malreward is a small Somerset village and civil parish south of Bristol, England at the northern edge of the Chew Valley. In 1895 Norton Malreward was combined with the neighbouring hamlet of Norton Hawkfield (also spelt Hautville) into a single parish, which has a population of 246.
History
Norton Malreward is listed as Nortone in the Domesday Book of 1086, meaning 'the north enclosure' (from the Old English and ). Malreward is a corruption of the Norman surname Malregard ( ‘evil eye/glance'), that of a tenant of the bishop of Coutances in 1238. During the reign of Edward I the manor was held by John Le Sore of Backwell. Later lords of the manor included Hawisia de Burton, John de Burton, Robert Grayndor, Robert Basset and Sir William Basset. In 1701 the manor was sold to Richard Holder and sold again in 1718 to Francis Freeman and Samuel Prigg.
Just north of and overlooking the village is Maes Knoll Tump, a tumulus , and in height, the start of the Wansdyke. The remains of this Iron Age hillfort lie at the eastern end of the Dundry Down ridge. The hillfort consists of a fairly large flat open area, roughly triangular in shape, that was fortified by ramparts and shaping of the steep-sided hilltop around the northern, eastern and southwestern sides of the hill (the flat area in World War II was dotted with stone cairns to deter the landing of enemy gliders to invade Bristol; a detachment of the Dundry Home Guard had a draughty corrugated-iron look-out shed on the top of the tumulus). Maes Knoll provides a splendid view over the lands it would have once commanded. From here, there are clear views north to Bristol, east to Bath and the Cotswold Hills, and south over Stanton Drew stone circles to Chew Valley Lake and the Mendip Hills.
The parish was part of the hundred of Chew.
Ammonites and fossil nautili are abundant in this neighbourhood.
The village lies on the route of the Monarch's Way long-distance footpath.
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, such as the village hall or community centre, playing fields and playgrounds, 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 of interest to the council.
Norton Malreward is part of the Chew Valley North Ward, which is represented by one councillor on the unitary authority of Bath and North East Somerset which was created in 1996, as established by the Local Government Act 1992. It provides a single tier of local government with responsibility for almost all local government functions within its area including local planning and building control, local roads, council housing, environmental health, markets and fairs, refuse collection, recycling, cemeteries, crematoria, leisure services, parks, and tourism. It is also responsible for education, social services, libraries, main roads, public transport, trading standards, waste disposal and strategic planning, although fire, police and ambulance services are provided jointly with other authorities through the Avon Fire and Rescue Service, Avon and Somerset Constabulary and the Great Western Ambulance Service.
Bath and North East Somerset's area covers part of the ceremonial county of Somerset but it is administered independently of the non-metropolitan county. Its administrative headquarters is in Bath. Between 1 April 1974 and 1 April 1996, it was the Wansdyke district and the City of Bath of the county of Avon. Before 1974 that the parish was part of the Clutton Rural District.
The parish is represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom as part of North East Somerset. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election.
Demographics
According to the 2001 Census, the Chew Valley North Ward (which includes Chew Magna and Chew Stoke), had 2,307 residents, living in 911 households, with an average age of 42.3 years. Of these 77% of residents describing their health as 'good', 21% of 16- to 74-year-olds had no qualifications; and the area had an unemployment rate of 1.3% of all economically active people aged 16–74. In the Index of Multiple Deprivation 2004, it was ranked at 26,243 out of 32,482 wards in England, where 1 was the most deprived LSOA and 32,482 the least deprived.
Religious sites
The Anglican parish Church of Holy Trinity dates from the late 12th century. The tower which has since been altered was added in the 15th century and rebuilt around 1860 by James Wilson of Bath. It has been designated as a Grade II listed building.
Grade II listed buildings
Manor Farmhouse
Barn to south-east of Newbarn Farmhouse
Newbarn Farmhouse
Norton Malreward Court
Stables and Coach-house to north of Norton Malreward Court
Whitewood Farmhouse
Model Farm and Farmhouse
Park Farmhouse
References
External links
Wansdyke Project 21
Map of Norton Malreward circa 1900
Civil parishes in Somerset
Villages in Bath and North East Somerset | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton%20Malreward |
Route 4, or Highway 4, may refer to several highways in the following countries:
International
Asian Highway 4
European route E04
European route E004
Cairo – Cape Town Highway
Albania
SH-4 road in Albania from Durres to Kakavija passing through Lushnje, Fier, Ballsh, Tepelene and Gjirokastër.
Australia
New South Wales
M4 Western Motorway (Sydney)
Western Distributor (Sydney)
Northern Territory
Lasseter Highway, NT
Tjukaruru Road
Great Central Road
Queensland
Port of Brisbane Motorway
Capricorn Highway
Scenic Highway, Queensland
Tasmania
Esk Highway, Tasmania
Western Australia
State Route 4 (Western Australia) – Tonkin Highway
Austria
Ost Autobahn
Belgium
R4 road (Belgium)
Bulgaria
A4 motorway (Bulgaria)
I-4 road (Bulgaria)
Burma
National Highway 4 (Burma)
Cambodia
National Highway 4 (Cambodia)
Canada
Alberta Highway 4
British Columbia Highway 4
Manitoba Highway 4
New Brunswick Route 4
Northwest Territories Highway 4 (Ingraham Trail)
Nova Scotia Trunk 4
Ontario Highway 4
Route 4 (Prince Edward Island)
Quebec Route 4 (former)
Saskatchewan Highway 4
Yukon Highway 4
China
G4 Expressway
G4w Expressway (G4's branch)
Costa Rica
National Route 4
Czech Republic
D4 Motorway
I/4 Highway (in Czech)
Djibouti
RN-4 (Djibouti)
Dominican Republic
DR-4
Finland
Finnish national road 4
Åland Islands Highway 4
Germany
Bundesautobahn 4
Hong Kong
Route 4 (Hong Kong)
Hungary
M4 motorway (Hungary)
Main road 4 (Hungary)
India
National Highway 4 (India)
National Highway 4 (India, old numbering)
Indonesia
Indonesian National Route 4
Iraq
Highway 4 (Iraq)
Ireland
M4 motorway (Republic of Ireland)
N4 road (Ireland)
Israel
Highway 4 (Israel)
Italy
Autostrada A4
RA 4
State road 4
T4
Japan
(branch of the Tōhoku Expressway)
(branch of the Tōhoku Expressway)
(branch of the Tōhoku Expressway)
(branch of the Tōhoku Expressway)
(branch of the Tōhoku Expressway)
(branch of the Tōhoku Expressway)
Route 4 (Shuto Expressway)
Route 4 (Nagoya Expressway)
Bayshore Route (Port of Osaka-Kansai International Airport)
Korea, South
National Route 4
Malaysia
Malaysia Federal Route 4
Moldova
M4 highway (Moldova)
Netherlands
Rijksweg 4
New Zealand
New Zealand State Highway 4
Nicaragua
Nicaraguan Highway 4
Nigeria
Nigeria Trunk Road A4
Norway
Norwegian National Road 4
Paraguay
National Route 4
Philippines
Circumferential Road 4
Radial Road 4
N4 highway (Philippines)
E4 expressway (Philippines)
Poland
Motorway A4
National road 4 (according to the official documents, national road 4 and motorway A4 are basically the same route)
Romania
Drumul Naţional 4
A4 motorway (Romania)
Russia
M4 highway (Russia)
South Africa
M4 (Port Elizabeth)
M4 road (Pretoria)
M4 (Durban)
Taiwan
National Highway 4 (Taiwan)
Provincial Highway 4 (Taiwan)
Thailand
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, a motorway in Turkey running from Istanbul to Ankara.
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M4 motorway (Great Britain)
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Texas Farm to Market Road 4
Texas Park Road 4
Texas Recreational Road 4
Either of two prior designations for highways in Utah
Utah State Route 4 (1962-1977), the former designation for Interstate 70 in Utah
Utah State Route 4 (1910-1962), the state designation for several sections of multiple U.S. Highways in the northern part of the state
Vermont Route 4A
Virginia State Route 4
Washington State Route 4
Primary State Highway 4 (Washington) (former)
West Virginia Route 4
Territories
Guam Highway 4
Puerto Rico Highway 4 (former)
Uruguay
Route 4 Andrés Artigas
Vietnam
Hanoi–Haiphong Expressway
National Route 4 (Vietnam)
See also | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20highways%20numbered%204 |
Dawg or DAWG may refer to:
People
Phife Dawg or simply Phife (1970–2016), American rapper and a member of the group A Tribe Called Quest
Smoke Dawg, Canadian rapper
White Dawg, American rapper and record producer
Arts and entertainment
Dawg (film), a romantic-comedy film (also known as Bad Boy) starring Liz Hurley and Denis Leary
Dawg '90, an all-instrumental album by American musician David Grisman, recorded with his group David Grisman Quintet in 1990
Dawg, the nickname of American mandolinist David Grisman
Fictional characters
Dawg, a fictional dog from the DC Comics series, Lobo
Dawg, a companion of The Dandy comics Desperate Dan
Sports
Okotoks Dawgs, collegiate baseball team
Informal nickname used by University of Georgia Bulldog athletics
Informal nickname used by University of Washington Husky athletics
Informal nickname used by Louisiana Tech University Bulldog athletics
Abbreviation
Directed acyclic word graph (disambiguation)
Deputy's Advisory Working Group, a governance body within the United States Department of Defense
Dynamically Allocated Way Guard, a mitigation approach to the Spectre security vulnerability
Alternative spelling of dog
See also
Dog (disambiguation)
Dogg (disambiguation) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawg |
Henry Augustus Rawes (11 December 1826 – 24 April 1885) was a Catholic hymn writer and preacher.
Born at Easington, near Durham, England, he was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and entered the Anglican ministry in 1853. Converted to Catholicism in 1856. One of the original members of the Oblates of Saint Charles. Ordained a priest in 1857. He was Superior of the Oblate congregation from 1880 until his death. Founded the Society of Servants of the Holy Ghost. Translated the treatises of Saint Thomas Aquinas on the Blessed Sacrament and the Lord's Prayer. He wrote several books of devotion and sermons, and many hymns, noted for poetic beauty. He died at Brighton.
In 1874 he was made prefect of studies at St Charles College, and in 1875 was granted a Doctorate in Theology by Pope Pius IX. Fr Rawes was at St Francis of Assisi Church, Notting Hill, until 1880. After being appointed Superior of the Oblates, he moved to St Mary of the Angels. He is buried at St Mary Magdalen Roman Catholic Church, Mortlake.
References
External links
1826 births
1885 deaths
Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge
Converts to Roman Catholicism
English male songwriters
People from Easington, County Durham
19th-century English musicians
Burials at St Mary Magdalen Roman Catholic Church Mortlake | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Augustus%20Rawes |
If I Should Love Again is the eighth studio album released by singer and songwriter Barry Manilow. The album was recorded at United Western Recording Studios in Los Angeles, California. The album was released in 1981, and it was certified gold.
Manilow refers to it as "The most romantic album that I ever made", and remarks "I was so caught up in romance that I actually wrote music and lyrics to the title song while playing the piano facing the ocean, in a rented house on the beach in Atlantic City, New Jersey."
Reception
Bryan Buss of AllMusic retrospectively called the album "classic Barry Manilow; shamelessly well-crafted adult contemporary." He concluded his review by saying "It may not be the biggest album of his career, but If I Should Love Again showcases Manilow's greatest skill: making heartbreak sound hopeful."
Track listing
Side 1
"The Old Songs" (David Pomeranz, Buddy Kaye) - 4:43
"Let's Hang On" (Bob Crewe, Denny Randell, Sandy Linzer) - 3:12
"If I Should Love Again" (Barry Manilow) - 5:33
"Don't Fall in Love with Me" (Barry Manilow, John Bettis) - 3:39
"Break Down the Door" (Barry Manilow, Bob Gaudio, Enoch Anderson) - 3:04
Side 2
"Somewhere Down the Road" (Cynthia Weil, Tom Snow) - 4:00
"No Other Love" (Barry Manilow, Adrienne Anderson) - 4:36
"Fools Get Lucky" (Barry Manilow, John Bettis) - 4:11
"I Haven't Changed the Room" (Barry Manilow) - 2:16
"Let's Take All Night (to Say Goodbye)" (Barry Manilow, John Bettis) - 3:36
1998 CD bonus track
"You're Runnin' Too Hard" (Barry Manilow, Marty Panzer) - 3:00
Cover versions on If I Should Love Again
In 2007, Filipina pop/R&B singer Nina recorded the title track for the re-release of her self-titled album entitled Nina Featuring the Hits of Barry Manilow and released as the album's second single. It peaked at No. 2 on the Philippine charts.
In 2021, Filipina singer and actress Maris Racal recorded the title track for the album Stop Missing You.
Charts
Personnel
Barry Manilow - vocals, piano (tracks 1 and 3-10)
Tom Kelly, Bill Champlin, Richard Page - backing vocals
Robert Marullo - synthesizer (tracks 1, 2, 4 and 6), electric piano
Victor Vanacore - keyboards, acoustic and electric pianos
Bill Mays - keyboards
Dean Parks, Paul Jackson Jr., John Pondel, Mitch Holder - guitars
Will Lee, Carl Sealove - bass
Bud Harner, Ed Greene - drums
Robert Forte, Alan Estes - percussion
String and horn arrangements: Artie Butler tracks 1 and 6, Victor Vanacore tracks 2, 3, 4 and 10, Jimmie Haskell tracks 7 & 8
Tom Scott - saxophone
Sid Sharp - concertmaster
Certifications
References
Barry Manilow albums
1981 albums
Albums arranged by Jimmie Haskell
Arista Records albums
Albums recorded at United Western Recorders | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If%20I%20Should%20Love%20Again |
Golgulsa () is located 20 km east of the ancient Silla Dynasty capital city of Gyeongju in Southeastern Korea. In the Golgulsa temple area can be found the oldest historical Buddhist ruins on Mt. Hamwol and the only cave temple in Korea.
History
Golgulsa Temple (Korean: 골굴사, Chinese: 骨窟寺, Pronounced “Gol-gul-sa”) was established on Mt. Hamwolsan, along with Girimsa, by Master Gwangyu and his retinue who came to Korea from India about 1,500 years ago. Golgulsa Temple is the oldest grotto temple in Korea, emulating those in India.
According to a painting of Jeong Seon (pen name; Gyeomjae) during the mid-Joseon era, Golgulsa Temple was established by constructing a wooden antechapel in front of several stone grottoes and covering it with tiles. The temple was left in ruins after it was burnt down in the mid to late Joseon era. Then about 70 years ago, the Bak clan of Gyeongju moved there and began reconstruction. The temple was sold to an individual in 1989, but Ven. Seol Jeogun, then head of Girimsa, eventually purchased it. Currently Golgulsa is registered as a branch temple of Bulguksa, the head temple of the 11th religious district, Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism.
The seated rock-carved Buddha (Treasure No. 581), the main Buddha of Golgulsa Temple, faces the underwater tomb of King Munmu, and around the Buddha are many grotto Dharma halls, such as Avalokitesvara Grotto, Ksitigarbha Grotto, Medicine Buddha Grotto, Arhat Grotto and Guardian Deities Hall. There are also relics of traditional folk religions such as rocks carved into phalluses and vaginas.
Recently ex-Master Monk of Kirimsa (Kirim Temple), Seol Jeog-un constructed a road while simultaneously renovating the Golgulsa Temple.
Cultural properties
The seated rock-carved Buddha of Golgulsa Temple was carved into the limestone cliff in the 9th century during the United Silla Dynasty; it is the main Buddha of the temple. The statue gazes toward the Sea of Japan with a gentle smile and beautiful nimbus in which luxurious lotuses and flames are carved.
Nearer the ocean, about 10 kilometers (6 miles) from Golgulsa Temple, are the Gameunsa Temple ruins and the underwater tomb of King Munmu. Located southeast of the seated rock-carved Buddha, the ruins of Gameunsa Temple consist of two Three-Story Stone Pagodas (National Treasure No. 112). Standing 13.4 meters (44 feet) high, the two pagodas are aesthetically pleasing and well balanced; they are regarded as the standard of Korean stone pagodas.
Southeast of the ruins lies a small rocky island rising from the ocean; this is the underwater tomb of King Munmu and it is a symbol of King Munmu's will to fend off the invading Japanese even in death. The tomb was established on this rock which is about 200 meters (656 feet) in circumference. Two waterways form a cross shape that divides the island, one running east to west and the other north to south. In a sunken area in the center is a small pool: that is his tomb.
The Breath of Seon
Sunmudo training is composed of: “still training,” which includes “chwason,” or sitting meditation, yoga-like exercises as well as “active training,” which includes gymnastics and martial arts. There is usually “still training” in the morning and “active training” in the evening.
Golgulsa Temple occupies half a mountain and actually contains several temples, administrative building, training hall, several dormitories, dining hall, and so on.
Sunmudo Martial Art
In recent years Golgulsa Temple has established the Seonmudo Practice Center to teach this traditional Buddhist martial art.
The formal name of Sunmudo is Bulgyo Geumgang Yeong Gwon. It is a training method taught at Golgulsa Temple designed to extinguish worldly pains and attain enlightenment. The goal of this training is harmonization of mind and body united with breathing.
Golgulsa temple has run Sunmudo training programs since 1992 for those who would like to experience the traditions of Korean Seon (Zen) Buddhism including Sonmudo.
Tourism
It also offers temple stay programs where visitors can experience Buddhist culture.
References
External links
Official site
Sunmudo
Korean culture
Buddhist temples in South Korea
Buildings and structures in North Gyeongsang Province
Tourist attractions in North Gyeongsang Province
Buddhist caves
Temples that participate in Templestay | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golgulsa |
The following highways are numbered 7. For roads numbered A7, see list of A7 roads.
Route 7, or Highway 7, may refer to:
International
Asian Highway 7
European route E07
European route E007
Afghanistan
Kunduz-Khomri Highway (A7)
Albania
National Road 7 (Albania) Road in Albania, from Rrogozhine to Elbasan
Argentina
National Route 7
Australia
New South Wales
Westlink M7 Motorway (Sydney)
Queensland
Clem Jones Tunnel (Brisbane)
Airport Link (Brisbane)
Ipswich Road, Queensland
Ipswich Motorway, Queensland
Carnarvon Highway, Queensland
Dawson Highway, Queensland
Gregory Highway, Queensland
Capricorn Highway, Queensland
Fitzroy Developmental Road, Queensland (Regional)
Robina Parkway, Queensland (Gold Coast)
Tasmania
West Tamar Highway, Tasmania
Western Australia
Leach Highway, Western Australia
Austria
Mühlkreis Autobahn
Belarus
M7 highway (Belarus)
Bulgaria
I-7 road (Bulgaria)
Cambodia
National Highway 7 (Cambodia)
Canada
Alberta Highway 7
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Ontario Highway 7
York Regional Road 7 in Ontario
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China
G7 Expressway
Czech Republic
D7 Motorway
I/7 Highway (in Czech)
Djibouti
RN-7 (Djibouti)
Dominican Republic
DR-7
Eswatini
MR7 road
Finland
Finnish national road 7
France
Route nationale 7
Germany
Bundesautobahn 7
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Greece
Greek National Road 7
Hong Kong
Route 7 (Hong Kong)
Hungary
M7 motorway (Hungary)
Main road 7 (Hungary)
India
State Highway 7 (Andhra Pradesh)
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Indonesia
Indonesian National Route 7
Iraq
Highway 7 (Iraq)
Iran
Freeway 7 (Iran)
Ireland
N7 road, part of which is designated as M7 motorway
Israel
Highway 7 (Israel)
Italy
Autostrada A7
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State road 7
Japan
Yokohama Northwest Route
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New Zealand
New Zealand State Highway 7
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Norway
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National Route 7
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Poland
National road 7
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Romania
Drumul Naţional 7
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Drumul Naţional 7C - Transfăgărășan
A7 motorway (Romania)
Russia
M7 highway (Russia)
South Africa
M7 (Port Elizabeth)
United Kingdom
A7 road (Great Britain)
A7 road (Northern Ireland)
United States
Interstate 7 (proposed)
U.S. Route 7
New England Interstate Route 7 (former)
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County Route S7 (California)
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County Route 7 (Tioga County, New York)
County Route 7 (Ulster County, New York)
County Route 7 (Warren County, New York)
County Route 7 (Wyoming County, New York)
North Carolina Highway 7
North Dakota Highway 7 (former)
Ohio State Route 7
Oklahoma State Highway 7
Oklahoma State Highway 7D
Oregon Route 7
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Farm to Market Road 7 (former)
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Utah State Route 7
Utah State Route 7 (1912-1977) (former)
Virginia State Route 7
Washington State Route 7
Washington State Highway 7 (former)
West Virginia Route 7
Territories
Guam Highway 7
Uruguay
Route 7 Gral. Aparicio Saravia
See also
List of A7 roads
List of highways numbered 7A
List of highways numbered 7B
List of highways numbered 7C | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20highways%20numbered%207 |
Urban prairie is a term to describe vacant urban land that has reverted to green space. Previous structures occupying the urban lots have been demolished, leaving patchy areas of green space that are usually untended and unmanaged, forming an involuntary park. Sometimes, however, the prairie spaces are intentionally created to facilitate amenities, such as green belts, community gardens and wildlife reserve habitats.
History
Urban prairies can result from several factors. The value of aging buildings may fall too low to provide financial incentives for their owners to maintain them. Vacant properties may have resulted from deurbanization or crime, or may have been seized by local government as a response to unpaid property taxes. Since vacant structures can pose health and safety threats (such as fire hazards), or be used as a location for criminal activity, cities often demolish them.
Sometimes areas are cleared of buildings as part of a revitalization plan with the intention of redeveloping the land. In flood-prone areas, government agencies may purchase developed lots and then demolish the structures to improve drainage during floods. Some neighborhoods near major industrial or environmental clean-up sites are acquired and leveled to create a buffer zone and minimize the risks associated with pollution or industrial accidents. Such areas may become nothing more than fields of overgrown vegetation, which then provide habitat for wildlife. Sometimes it is possible for residents of the city to fill up the unplanned empty space with urban parks or community gardens.
Urban prairie is sometimes planned by the government or non-profit groups for community gardens and conservation, to restore or reintroduce a wildlife habitat, help the environment, and educate people about the prairie. Detroit, Michigan is one particular city that has many urban prairies.
In the case of the city of Christchurch in New Zealand, earthquake damage from the 2011 earthquake caused the underground water table to raise and leak significantly in places, preventing reconstruction of damaged buildings. Many former residential areas in eastern Christchurch suburbs have been purchased by the government and demolished, as the soft soil causes the houses to shift and pose significant danger to the inhabitants. It is unknown if many of the waterlogged areas of Christchurch will ever fully recover.
Urban prairies may be established to lower the burden of mowing and related upkeep by the governmental entity that is overseeing it, letting weeds develop.
References
External links
City of Des Moines Urban Prairie Project
Urban studies and planning terminology
Prairie
Prairies
Urban decay
Ecology
Rewilding | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban%20prairie |
X-Men 2: Clone Wars is a 1995 platform game developed by Headgames and released by Sega of America for the Mega Drive/Genesis as a sequel to the 1993's X-Men. The game is based on the adventures of the Marvel Comics superhero team, the X-Men. A sequel, titled X-Women, was cancelled.
Gameplay
The game begins with a cold open; the first level begins as soon as the game is turned on with a random character (depending on the direction the player pressed on the controller's d-pad) after completing the first stage, the title screen and credits roll, and the player is given the option to switch characters.
Each character has a "mutant attack power" that can be used in combat. Unlike the preceding game, there is no energy bar that limits the amount of mutant attack powers a player can use. Some of the mutant attack powers can be charged to a greater effect by holding down the power button. The attack powers increase in power when the character has nine or ten bars of health and can perform different functions if the character is in the air.
In addition to these attack powers, each character has several lesser abilities, maneuvers and quirks which make gameplay a different experience with each (see above) these attack powers can be used to reach hidden health pickups (which take the form of a double helix) or as a shortcut. Players begin the game with eight lives (meaning nine attempts) that are shared by all characters, with no way to gain more.
Plot
The game is based on the current story arc from the comics at the time of development. The plot is narrated through the Cerebro and Professor X's communication with each other. Cerebro detects that the technorganic alien race known as the Phalanx have returned and have contaminated a sentinel manufacturing facility. Learning this, Professor X sends the X-Men (Beast, Psylocke, Gambit, Nightcrawler, Wolverine, and Cyclops) to destroy the Phalanx virus, but discovers that the virus has spread to Avalon, home of Exodus and Magneto. Magneto then allies with the X-Men in preventing the Phalanx from taking control of Earth by assimilating all of its inhabitants. They trace the Phalanx to Apocalypse's facility, where he has allowed the virus to spread. After defeating him, they leave to the Savage Land where they defeat a Phalanx clone of Brainchild who was overseeing the assimilation. They continue to the Phalanx ship where they are attacked by Deathbird, and then proceed to the clone factory and the Nexus before confronting Phalanx clones of themselves.
Characters
Beast - Beast possesses acrobatic abilities; including clinging to walls, a powerful diving attack and can also perform a strong normal attack.
Cyclops - Cyclops' optic blast can be charged to become stronger and can damage several of his enemies; in addition; he can use a small array of martial arts attacks, such as combo punches and a flying kick in melee.
Gambit - Gambit's mutant power is a fast ranged attack that can be charged to both do more damage and fire several cards. Gambit's melee attacks are similar to Cyclops', but with greater range.
Nightcrawler - Nightcrawler's mutant power is an explosive teleportation that can be charged for greater range and damage; allows him to move quickly from one spot to another. His strength is in acrobatic movements, including wall-crawling, double-jumping and diving attacks.
Psylocke - Psylocke can utilize a psychic knife attack and is also equipped with a katana for use against all her enemies. She can cling to walls, do a crouching slide, double jump, and perform both a flying lunge with her psychic knife, and a 360-jumping attack with her sword.
Wolverine - Wolverine's mutant power is a lunge with his claws, with an additional power in his regeneration powers, allowing him to restore a small amount of health. He can also scale walls by using his claws as pitons and perform a double jump.
Magneto (unlockable after the third level) - Magneto is unique in having no melee attacks – his basic attack consists of a limitless barrage of energy blasts and his mutant power is an explosive electromagnetic orb that can traverse walls. He can also hover in mid-air and perform attacks from this position.
Release
X-Men 2 was one of a handful releases for the Sega Genesis in 1995 that used a paper box rather than the standard clamshell case Genesis games came in. The European release of the game reused the same cover art as X-Men 2: Game Master's Legacy for the Game Gear, a different and unrelated game. The game was given a KA (Kids to Adults) rating by the Entertainment Software Rating Board.
The game's music was composed by Kurt Harland, of electronica band Information Society. A soundtrack album was released in 1996. Some levels featured different soundtrack elements depending on the character selected although the basic structure of the level's musical theme remained the same.
Reception
X-Men 2: Clone Wars was met with mostly mixed reviews. GamePro remarked that the sound effects and music are a mixed bag, and criticized the two-player mode's tight scrolling, but praised the large sprites and the special abilities of the player characters. Electronic Gaming Monthly also complimented the characters' special abilities but criticized that the game is little different from the original X-Men and suffers from a number of weak points, and concluded that "the game never seems to come alive, despite a few cool (not to mention huge) bosses and challenging levels". GameFans Takahara found the graphics, cinematic intro, and the need to match each character's unique abilities to each stage to all be impressive, though he rated the music as "average". A reviewer for Next Generation remarked that the game has more playable characters, more complex moves, more levels, and more gameplay twists than the original X-Men, but is still no more than a rental title.
According to a retrospective review in GameFan, "in short, Clone Wars is everything Uncanny X-Men was not: nice to look at with its well-animated 16-bit characters and multi-layer backgrounds, easy to pick up and play thanks to good controls and an easily understood interface; a story that is fine for one player but more fun with two", adding, X-Men "ranks among the best comic book games produced in the era". Complex ranked X-Men 2 as the 18th best game on the Sega Genesis, adding that "the game achieved the rarely seen balanced gaming". It was also ranked as the 20th top Genesis game by ScrewAttack, who noted it for having in their opinion the best soundtrack on the system. X-Men 2 placed 19th on the 2013 list of best Marvel video games by Geek Magazine, who stated that "the soundtrack was just as good as Mutant Apocalypse, and each stage was ripe with cool nods to the comics".
X-Women
A sequel featuring only the female members of the X-Men had been in development by Sega for the same platform, and was due out in early 1997, but was cancelled.
References
External links
X-Men 2: Clone Wars X-Men 2: Clone Wars at MobyGames
1995 video games
Video games about cloning
Cooperative video games
Multiplayer and single-player video games
Sega beat 'em ups
Sega Genesis games
Sega Genesis-only games
Side-scrolling platform games
Side-scrolling beat 'em ups
Video games based on X-Men
Video games developed in the United States
Video games featuring female protagonists
Superhero video games
Video games scored by Kurt Harland
Video games set in Antarctica
Video games set in Russia
Video games set in South America | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Men%202%3A%20Clone%20Wars |
Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts (SNBA; ; ) was the term under which two groups of French artists united, the first for some exhibitions in the early 1860s, the second since 1890 for annual exhibitions.
1862
Established in 1862 by the painter and gallery owner Louis Martinet and the writer Théophile Gautier, the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts was first chaired by Gautier, with the painter Aimé Millet as deputy chairman. The committee was composed of the painters Eugène Delacroix, Carrier-Belleuse, and Puvis de Chavannes, and among the exhibitors were Léon Bonnat, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Charles-François Daubigny, Gustave Doré, and Édouard Manet. In 1864, just after the death of Delacroix, the society organized a retrospective exhibition of 248 paintings and lithographs of this famous painter and step-uncle of the emperor – and ceased to mount further exhibitions.
The 19th century in French art is characterised by a continuous struggle between traditionally educated artists supported by official politics, and a growing rate of artists who preferred to work individually and at their own risks. Reviewing the historical situation is difficult, even a century later. But evidently opponents to the official politics gained ground after the fall of the 2nd Empire, and were instrumental to redirect French cultural politics to liberal positions. Thus, the splitting-off of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in 1890 can be considered as the first Secessionist manifestation.
1890
In 1890, the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts was re-vitalised under the rule of Puvis de Chavannes, Ernest Meissonier, Carolus-Duran, Bracquemond and Carrier-Belleuse, and since then its annual exhibition was reviewed as the Salon du Champ-de-Mars, traditionally opening a fortnight later than the official Salon des Champs-Élysées, organised by the Société des artistes français.
Suzanne Valadon became the first female painter to be admitted to the Société in 1894.
A new way
After World War I, in 1926, the "Puvis de Chavannes" prize was created consisting in a retrospective exhibition of the main works of the prizewinning artists, in Paris. During the twentieth century, this exhibition was located at the Grand Palais or the Musée d'Art Moderne.
Most famous awarded painters:
1941: Wilhem Van Hasselt,
1944: Jean Gabriel Domergue,
1952: Tristan Klingsor,
1955: Georges Delplanque,
1957: Albert Decaris,
1958: Jean Picard Le Doux,
1963: Maurice Boitel,
1966: Pierre Gaillardot,
1968: Pierre-Henry,
1969: Louis Vuillermoz,
1970: Daniel du Janerand,
1971: Jean-Pierre Alaux;
1975: Jean Monneret,
1987: André Hambourg.
During the last decades of the 20th century, after "living treasure" Takanori Oguiss, and during the rule of chairman François Baboulet, several Japanese artists exhibited their paintings as guests of the SNBA: Takaaki Matsuda, Katsufumi Toyota, Kazuko Kobayashi, Hideo Hando, Yoko Tsuishi and Noboru Sotoyama.
Gallery
Resources
Notes
See also
References
Simon: Secessionismus
External links
Timeline of the Paris salons
Visual arts exhibitions
French artist groups and collectives
Modern art | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soci%C3%A9t%C3%A9%20Nationale%20des%20Beaux-Arts |
Digi TV may refer to
Digi TV, a Romanian TV service of Digi Communications
DigiTV, TV hardware by Nebula Electronics
Digi-TV, an American over the air television network | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digi%20TV |
Club Baloncesto Breogán, S.A.D., also known as Río Breogán for sponsorship reasons, is a professional basketball club based in Lugo, Spain. The team plays in the Liga ACB. The club was founded in 1966 by the Varela-Portas brothers. The team played for the first time in the Spanish top league in 1970. The name of the club is a reference to legendary Galician King Breogán. It is the most popular basketball club in Galicia, and it is also the Galician club with the most seasons and games in the top top tier of Spanish basketball - Liga ACB - and European and Copa del Rey appearances in addition to that. Because of that, Breogán fans proudly nickname their team as ''O equipo de Galicia'' (in English: Galicia's team).
Breogán jerseys have always been sky blue with details in details in white or dark blue. The shorts have been also traditionally sky blue, with the exception of some years that have been white too. Their home arena is the Pazo dos Deportes, an arena with a seating capacity of 5,310 people. The Pazo has been one of the Top-10 European arenas in attendance and one of the first in relation to the city population. The current president of the team is José Antonio Caneda. Well-known players have included: Charlie Bell, Pete Mickeal, Velimir Perasović, José Miguel Antúnez, Alfonso Reyes, Tanoka Beard, Anthony Bonner, Claude Riley, James Donaldson, Greg Foster, James Feldeine, or, most recently, Džanan Musa, Ethan Happ and Justus Hollatz.
History
Founded in 1966, CB Breogán only needed five years to promote for the first time in its history to the Liga Nacional. It played in it from 1971 to 1977, except in the 1974–75 season, before dropping down again to lower divisions. Alfredo Pérez was the league's top scorer in both 1970-71 and 1972-73 seasons. Breogán coexisted with another team from Lugo called La Casera for a while, and even though La Casera had more local players, Breogán was the whole city's preferred team because Lugo's population felt a lot more identified with the club. La Casera disappeared and a few of their players signed for Breogán afterwards.
Breogán had a bit of a rollercoaster journey between the top division and the lower leagues, and got promoted back to the now named Liga ACB in the 1983-84 season, and qualified for the Korać Cup after finishing in the sixth position in 1984-85, playing against Red Star Belgrade, Pallacanestro Varese and ASVEL Basket. Manel Sánchez, from Lugo, was the star of this team. The club got relegated in the 1986-87 season after the referees allowed Oximesa Granada to score the winning free throws despite the clock having run out of time before the foul. The incidents caused the closure of Breogán's arena and Breo had to play the remaining games in A Coruña, where it got relegated despite Lugo population's massive support filling up an arena 100km away from home and Manel Sánchez being the league's top scorer. Season 1988-89 saw the club's return to Liga ACB once again, where they stayed until 1995, when it lost to against Valvi Girona and became relegated to Liga EBA. During this time, Manel Sánchez left the club for good, and Olympic medallist Velimir Perasović was brought as his substitute for the 1992-93 season, its first in the new arena, Pazo dos Deportes.
In 1999 the club returned once again to Liga ACB, an era which would last seven years. Great players like Anthony Bonner, former EuroLeague champion Nikola Lončar or Devin Davis played for the club during that time. They earned a European spot in the 2003-04 season, but ULEB Cup organisers decided to invite Real Madrid instead, even though they finished in a lower position than Breogán. 2004-05 season was defined by the arrival of one of Liga ACB's most talented players in the 21st century, Charlie Bell. His impressive performances for Breo earned him a move to the NBA for the following season. In the 2005-06 season, Breogán was the last qualified in the table despite having players such as Pete Mickeal or Alfonso Reyes and was relegated to LEB Oro in which would become the club's biggest absence from the top tier - 12 years -.
The club got in a very bad financial state, and was close to disappearing in the early 2010s. This became aggravated by the exit of former chairman Raúl López to become chairman at Obradoiro CAB, a move which kickstarted the rivalry between the two Galician sides. Obradoiro had only been at the Liga ACB for two season in their entire history when that happened. After failing to get promotion for many years, a playoff final loss against Club Ourense Baloncesto in 2015 the club went up by winning the LEB Oro in 2017-18. Breogán signing Ray McCallum Jr. mid-season wasn't enough to secure safety and were relegated with only 9 games out of 34 games. In 2021, Breogán were promoted to the top tier of Spanish basketball once again after beating Granada in the final. Breogán lost away from home in the first game but managed to win the second one at home and the final one in the Andalusian city.
Breogán made a brilliant start to the 2021/22 season. After winning the Galician Cup against rivals Obradoiro CAB, they won their first two Liga ACB games and visited FC Barcelona Bàsquet as leaders. Although a defeat there would mean they were no longer at the top of the table, they completed a tremendous first half of the league, qualifying for the Copa del Rey de Baloncesto for the first time in over 30 years, in which they suffered a narrow defeat against finalists Real Madrid Baloncesto. In January, head coach Paco Olmos decided to leave the club following an offer from relegation-bound CB San Pablo Burgos and was substituted by Veljko Mršić. Breogán's push to make it to the play-offs was hampered by star-man Džanan Musa's injury against Bàsquet Manresa. Trae Bell-Haynes got injured one week later as well, which resulted in Breogán being out of Play-off contention, although they were always far from being involved in a relegation battle. Džanan Musa became one of Breogán's most legendary players in the 2021-22 season and won Liga ACB's MVP award for the season, earning a move to Real Madrid.
Despite not being able to win the Basketball Champions League qualifiers at the beginning of the 2022-23 season, the Galicians managed to have another successful season, led by coach Veljko Mršić, despite maintaining only three players from the successful 2021-22 season, Erik Quintela, Sergi Quintela and Marko Luković. Key additions like Ethan Happ, Scott Bamforth, Toni Nakić and Justus Hollatz, who would later become a World Champion with Germany helped them to achieve a 10th place finish in the Liga ACB and direct qualification to the 2023-24 edition of the Basketball Champions League, including a sweep against Galician rivals Obradoiro CAB and a 96-72 win against Real Madrid, led by former Breogán player Džanan Musa.
Current season (2023-24).
Breogán has had to face a massive rebuild again for the 2023-24 season, even though this time it was the club who chose not to offer some players a new deal. Veljko Mršić extended his contract as head coach, and club captains and local players Erik Quintela and Sergi Quintela stayed, alongside Sergi García, Toni Nakić and Stefan Momirov. New signings included former Bayern players Zan Mark Sisko and Matej Rudan, former ASVEL player Anthony Polite, the Italian rising star Mouhamet Diouf, Lithuanians Matas Jogėla and Martynas Sajus, the Argentinian center Juan Fernández and former Joventut captain Albert Ventura, but a lot of setbacks quickly started to happen. Toni Nakić got seriously injured in pre-season, and his replacement Dimitrios Agravanis left the club injured having played just two games, Zan Mark Sisko decided to leave due to personal reasons after the first Liga ACB game against Baskonia and got replaced by Conner Frankamp and Anthony Polite suffered an adductor injury which also got him sidelined for a few weeks.
Bursaspor Basketbol, Hapoel Holon B.C. and current Champions Telekom Baskets Bonn are Breogán's rivals in Group F of the Basketball Champions League.
Sponsorship naming
Club Baloncesto Breogán has several denominations through the years due to its sponsorship:
Breogán Lugo 1966-69
Breogán Fontecelta 1969–73
Breogán Lugo 1973-75
Breogán La Casera 1975–76
Breogán Lugo 1976-79
Breogán Deportes Bourio 1979-80
Breogán Stilton 1980-81
Breogán Internacional de Seguros 1981-82
Breogán Caixa Galicia 1982–86
Leche Río Breogán 1986-89
DYC Breogán 1989–94
DYC Lugo 1994-95
Leche Río Breogán 1995-98
Breogán Universidade 1998–2001
Leche Río Breogán 2001-12
CB Breogán Lugo 2011-13
Ribeira Sacra Breogán 2014–2015
Cafés Candelas Breogán 2015–2019
Leche Río Breogán 2019-21
Río Breogán 2021–present
Rivalries
Breogán has had different rivals throughout its history. Breogán's biggest rival during its first decades of existence was CB OAR Ferrol, which disappeared in 1996. Club Ourense Baloncesto was a rival as well, especially during the 2014-15 season in which they eliminated Breogán in the playoff finals to go back to the Liga ACB - although they couldn't materialise their promotion due to - as well as Básquet Coruña, a team they faced quite a lot of times during Breogán's tenures in the 2nd tier during the 2010s.
That being said, Obradoiro CAB - based in Santiago de Compostela, Galicia's capital - have become Breogán's fiercest rivals since the beginning of the 2010s. They were brought from the bottom leagues to the Liga ACB after a long judicial process in 2009, and Raúl López, former Breogán chairman, left the club in a very bad financial state to become Obradoiro's chairman in 2010, which Breogán fans saw as treason and started the rivalry, which had been non-existent before because Breogán had a much bigger and better history up until that point. Nowadays, with Breogán fully up and running after overcoming a very difficult financial situation, both of them are in Liga ACB and face each other in the Galician Derby in what is considered one of the biggest - if not the biggest - rivalries in Spanish basketball.
Former Breogán's head coach Paco Olmos' departure to San Pablo Burgos in January 2022 also kicked off a bit of a rivalry between both fanbases, although it soon went away after San Pablo Burgos' relegation in May 2022 and Paco Olmos being sacked later that year.
Players
Current roster
Depth chart
Season by season
Trophies and awards
Trophies
2nd division championships: (4)
2ª División: (1) 1975
LEB Oro: (3) 1999, 2018, 2021
Copa Princesa: (3)
2008, 2018, 2021
Copa Galicia: (14)
1986, 1987, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2018, 2021, 2022
Records
23 seasons in the top division
6 in Primera División
17 in Liga ACB
1 participation in Korać Cup
1985–86 season: eliminated in quarterfinals group stage
2 participations in Basketball Champions League
2022–23 season: eliminated in the qualifying rounds
2023–24 season: group stages.
Individual awards
ACB MVP
Džanan Musa – 2021–22
All-ACB Team
Charlie Bell – 2004–05
Džanan Musa – 2021–22
ACB Top Scorer
Alfredo Pérez – 1971 (27,1)
Alfredo Pérez – 1973 (23,2)
Bob Fullarton – 1976 (30,3)
Velimir Perasović – 1993 (24,5)
Charlie Bell – 2005 (27,0)
Džanan Musa – 2022 (20,1)
ACB Three Point Shootout Champion
Jacobo Odriozola – 2002
Nebojša Bogavac – 2005
All-LEB Oro Team
Anthony Winchester – 2013
Álex Llorca – 2015
Jeff Xavier – 2016
Notable players
Sergi Quintela
Sergi García
Santi Abad
Alfonso Albert
Alfons Alzamora
José Miguel Antúnez
Manuel Bosch
Óscar Cervantes
Pedro Cifré
Alfonso Martínez
Alfredo Pérez
Alfonso Reyes
Manel Sánchez
Ángel Serrano
Sergi Vidal
Salva Arco
Jorge Racca
Džanan Musa
Sabahudin Bilalović
Trae Bell-Haynes
Velimir Perasović
Toni Nakić
Betinho Gomes
Kevin Larsen
James Feldeine
Joseph Gomis
Justus Hollatz
Marco Carraretto
Andrea Pecile
Adam Sollazzo
Nebojša Bogavac
Đuro Ostojić
Roeland Schaftenaar
Torgeir Bryn
Rubén Garcés
Nikola Lončar
Volodymyr Gerun
Jeff Adrien
Tanoka Beard
Charlie Bell
Anthony Bonner
Devin Davis
James Donaldson
Greg Foster
Claude Gregory
Tharon Mayes
Pete Mickeal
Sam Pellom
Linton Townes
Tyler Kalinoski
Ethan Happ
References
External links
Official website
Eurobasket.com presentation
Basketball teams in Galicia (Spain)
Former LEB Oro teams
Rio Breogan
Basketball teams established in 1966
Sport in Lugo | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CB%20Breog%C3%A1n |
Port Rowan is a town in Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada. It is located on Lake Erie, adjacent to Long Point. The lakeside community has a population of fewer than 1500 people and sports a number of traditional small businesses such as Twin's Ice Cream Parlour, which has been operating in the town for decades.
Walking through Port Rowan is simple provided that caution is taken around traffic. The streets can get busy at times but the amount of traffic is light compared to cities like Hamilton, Kitchener, or London. Recommended activities include walking, hiking, running, and cycling. While most of the streets have sidewalks, people are safer to walk in a single line. Walking in this community is possible on a year-round basis and most of the streets are gravel unlike Delhi or Langton where the streets are asphalt.
Port Rowan is the home of Robert F. Hill, a film director, screenwriter and actor who worked in Hollywood from the 1910s to the 1960s; specializing in silent films.
History
Port Rowan's earliest known inhabitants, from around the year 1000 until approximately 300–350 years later, were the Algonquin nation. They were noted flint-workers and evidence of the skill in crafting arrowheads is still to be found in open worked field areas surrounding the hamlet. The next wave of inhabitants were the Attawandaron nation, the Neutrals, who occupied the region from about 1350 until their absorption by the Iroquois in the year 1651. The last significant native nation to occupy the area was the Mississaugas.
Key buildings, including John Backhouse`s mill, that date back to the 18th century, remain in existence today.
During the War of 1812 American soldiers burned all the mills on Lake Erie`s north shore, from the St Clair River to the Grand River, except for the Backhouse mill, and one other.
According to Ron Brown, in ″The Lake Erie Shore: Ontario's Forgotten South Coast″, Backhouse`s mill was skipped due to powerful connections within the USA.
The South Norfolk Railway reached Port Rowan in 1886.
It was acquired by the Canadian National Railway, which operated it until 1965.
By the mid-1960s, Port Rowan was noted for its close proximity to hunting, fishing, and recreation. However, the practicing dentist of that time choose to retire after serving the community since the 1930s. As a result, approximately 6000 people were in dire need of a dentist.
In 1970 New Democratic Party MPP Morton Shulman asserted that Port Rowan was the destination of secret meetings of mafia leaders.
In 2001, Haldimand-Norfolk was dissolved into two separate single-tier counties. Port Rowan became part of the newly formed County of Norfolk.
In 2017, Port Rowan was officially named the birdhouse capital of Canada.
Demographics
The majority of Port Rowan's residents between 70–79 years of age as of 2016; meaning that most Port Rowan residents stopped being members of the active work force around 2006 and lack the computerized skills needed for many of today's jobs. Most of the residents were born in Canada, but there are 25 individuals who were born in the United States of America and nearly 200 people born in Europe. English is the most commonly spoken language there; although other languages are spoken by a fair amount of the residents. Females slightly outnumber males in this town; there are only 85 children and 400 adolescents and working-age adults.
Only 275 people who live in Port Rowan are gainfully employed while 10 people are unemployed and seeking work. There are 790 people in this community who are either retired, homemakers, or disabled to an extent that they can't work for a living.
Attractions
For more than 30 years, Port Rowan hosted Bayfest which is an annual Labour Day celebration. The celebration was originally known as the Tomato Fest. Bayfest typically lasts for three days each year. The celebration usually features a parade, vendors, and fireworks.
Franni's Attic is one of the top five places to visit in Port Rowan; offering a variety of antiques, furniture, and hardware that ranges from average to excellent levels of quality. Expect to spend at least 180 minutes browsing through the store's historical treasures.
Uncles Country Coffee is an inexpensive Canadian-style cafe that has served the Port Rowan area for years. They have a very good selection of items on the menu that include donuts, French fries, hamburgers (the house specialty comes with bacon and cheese), and cakes. The service is friendly and is a favorite among locals. All orders are made at the counter, breakfast can be enjoyed all day, and free refills of either pop or water are available on site. Uncles Country Coffee is considered to be motorcycle-friendly and is open year-round.
Twin's Ice Cream Parlour is a dessert place that is popular with the teenagers in this small town. During the summer season, the restaurant offers ice cream at a reasonable price and an excellent level of quality. Alternate selections include frozen yogurt for the more health conscious and banana splits for those craving the extra potassium.
The Port Rowan Wetlands were created in 1970 and provides a way for locals and tourists to experience live birds, snakes, and turtles. The trail in addition to the wetlands are open year-round and are easily accessible to wheelchair users.
Port Rowan Lion's Park is also an attractive place to find birds; with at least 71 species of bird found within the area in 2019 alone. Typical species found there are the Great blue heron, the Herring gull, and the Bonaparte's gull.
The Port Rowan LCBO provides a convenient beverage selection for the Port Rowan community, although it is known for having a smaller selection compared to outlets in neighbouring Langton or Delhi.
Dizzy Lizzy's [Gift and Toy Store] is a store for people of all ages, specializing in unique gifts and candy.
Cemetery
Bayview Cemetery is the town's historic cemetery; having individuals and families buried there as far back as the War of 1812. It is a United Empire Loyalists cemetery which has at least 498 individuals and/or families stored underneath the ground. Winter grave decorations are permitted while live plants are not permitted to be on the cemetery grounds. Common last names found at the cemetery include Abbott, Backhouse, Backus, Bantam, Brown, and Chamberlain.
Economy
During the 18th century fishing, milling, and timber processing were the main industries, exploiting the water power of nearby watercourses.
In 1850 the town processed of timber. 1850 marked the beginning of shipbuilding in Port Rowan.
With the decline of the fishing, lumber and milling industries, tourism is the main economic activity in the region.
Local sports include angling and boating in the Long Point Inner Bay and golfing at Stark's Golf Course at the edge of town. Port Rowan is home to the headquarters of Birds Canada (formerly Bird Studies Canada), the country's only national bird conservation organization. Port Rowan in 2011 built a state of the art Water Treatment Plant, which assures future growth capacity in the town and its burgeoning retirement community.
Its proximity to Long Point, a major bird flight-path, and World Biosphere Reserve, makes Port Rowan a popular destination for bird-watchers.
Some of the few remaining stands the old growth Carolinian forest that were present all over Southern Ontario can be found near Port Rowan.
There is a historic replica village nearby at the Backus Conservation Area.
On June 30, 2018, Port Rowan officially lost their only bank for business and personal transactions. Calls to Tillsonburg are considered to be long-distance to Port Rowan residents so that banking by phone simply isn't an option. The majority of the retirement population must choose between maintaining a vehicle on the road or having Internet access due to old age pension payments not matching up to the rising cost of goods and services. All the small businesses were not equipped to deal with Internet banking and may face significant financial difficulties in the future. Online banking has gained popularity in both urban and rural areas due to its fast and reliable service. The Long Point Country Chamber of Commerce was attempting to attract a credit union in the town similar in nature to Tangerine but to no avail. Meanwhile, the well-established banks are removing their presence away from the rural communities of Ontario at a fast pace. Places like Service Ontario and the Backus Heritage Conservation Area are destined to face some form of setbacks as a result of the bank closure and may have to stop operating; leading to an almost-immediate loss of jobs in the area.
It was suggested that Port Rowan was going to experience Internet speeds and a level of reliability that is roughly comparable to Delhi by the year 2020 thanks to an underground cable system. This underground cable system would be similar to those found in communities like Langton, Courtland, and St. Williams, giving reliable broadband Internet access that was not normally found in the area during the start of the 21st century. There are plans to eventually the entirety of Southwestern Ontario into some form of high-speed Internet/cable television service sometime within the next 30 years.
Climate
From the late 1990s onwards, winters became more mild due to changes in climate brought on by global warming. Port Rowan traditionally belongs to the humid continental climate zone, even with the recent mild winters and warmer dry summers. Like in all communities, towns, and cities throughout the world, global warming due to human industrial activity has drastically altered the climate of Port Rowan throughout the decades.
Port Rowan's first mild winter since Confederation occurred in the year 1975. The warmest summers that Port Rowan has witnessed occurred in 1998, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009 (with the exception of the month of July), 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016.
Should the sea levels rise by , Port Rowan would not be affected by flooding. However, it may be affected by droughts as a by-product of the dislocation of available freshwater and may be forced to rely on desalinated salt water piped in from the Eastern United States. Constructing the proper infrastructure to carry the water hundreds of miles away would take considerable manpower along with significant economic costs and an unprecedented level of cooperation from multiple federal, state/provincial, and municipal governments.
References
External links
Communities in Norfolk County, Ontario
Populated places on Lake Erie in Canada | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port%20Rowan |
Digi-TV was an American digital multicast television network that was launched in September 2021. It officially ceased broadcasting August 1, 2022. Initially launched in 30 TV markets, its programming consisted of general entertainment, knowledge, reality and lifestyle shows imported from Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom. Along with its availability on broadcast TV, it was also available via streaming video.
Programming
Programming on the channel included:
Bear's Wild Weekend
Biz Kid$: Young Entrepreneurs
Blue Heelers
Britain's Best Bakery
Celebrity Island with Bear Grylls
City Homicide
Country House Rescue
Country House Rescue Revisited
The Gadget Show
Garden Rescue
Great British Menu
The Great Interior Design Challenge
The Island with Bear Grylls
The Island with Bear Grylls UK Celebrity
James Martin Comforts
Midsomer Murders
Obsessive Compulsive Cleaners
Perfect
The Renovators
The Restoration Man
Wild Treks
References
External links
Official website
Television channels and stations established in 2021
2021 establishments in the United States
Television channels and stations disestablished in 2022
2022 disestablishments in the United States
Defunct television networks in the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digi-TV |
Raymond Mathias (born 13 December 1946) is an English football coach and former player. He has spent most of his career in the lower leagues of English football. Mathias played for Tranmere Rovers between 1964 and 1985, and remains their record appearance holder having played 637 games for the club. After his retirement he spent three years as manager of Wigan Athletic, briefly returning to the role for the 1998–99 season; between these two spells he returned to Tranmere as a coach, and later managed the side before moving on to Chester City in a caretaker role.
He was appointed interim manager of Stockport County on 9 March 2011 until the end of the season, when County were relegated from the Football League for the first time in 106 years. Owing in part to an impressive home record, Mathias was appointed full-time County manager in May 2011, but departed just two weeks later following the takeover of the club by Tony Evans.
Playing career
Born in Liverpool, Mathias spent his entire playing career with Tranmere Rovers from 1964 to 1985 and earning two testimonials in the process, making 567 Football League appearances. A notable achievement was winning promotion from the Fourth Division in the 1975–76 season. He made 637 appearances for Tranmere in all competitions, a club record.
Coaching career
After retiring from playing, Mathias joined the coaching staff at Wigan Athletic and spent three years in charge of the Latics from 1986 to 1989. The highlight of this spell was leading Wigan to the FA Cup quarter-finals in 1987. He later returned to Tranmere as a coach but then returned to Wigan as manager for the 1998–99 season; despite leading the club to victory in the Football League Trophy final at Wembley and the Second Division play-offs he lost his job shortly afterwards.
After once again becoming part of the managerial set-up at Tranmere and spells as caretaker manager, he was finally handed the reins on a permanent basis in 2002 but sacked a year later. Mathias then had an unsuccessful caretaker spell at Chester City in 2004 and briefly worked as assistant manager at Bury in 2005. In October 2006 he was appointed as assistant manager to Paul Ince at League Two strugglers Macclesfield Town. The pair were able to guide the Silkmen to an unlikely survival before moving to Milton Keynes Dons where they achieved more success, winning the League Two championship and the Football League Trophy. They subsequently moved on to top-flight team Blackburn Rovers in June 2008.
On 18 December 2008, Mathias was relieved of his duties along with Archie Knox following the sacking of Paul Ince and the subsequent arrival of Sam Allardyce as the new Rovers manager. On 4 February 2011 he joined Stockport County as Technical Advisor to Peter Ward and Alan Lord.
Mathias was appointed manager of Stockport County on 9 March 2011 until the end of the season, with Peter Ward and Alan Lord stepping back to coaching roles. Mathias then became the first manager in Stockport County history to relegate the club from the Football League. He was dismissed as manager in favour of Dietmar Hamann on 5 July 2011, and subsequently left the club.
Managerial statistics
Honours
Player
Football League Fourth Division promotion: 1975–76
Coach
Football League Trophy: 1998–99, 2007–08
Football League Two: 2007–08
See also
List of one-club men
References
External links
English football managers
Wigan Athletic F.C. managers
Tranmere Rovers F.C. managers
Chester City F.C. managers
Tranmere Rovers F.C. players
English Football League players
Footballers from Liverpool
1946 births
Living people
Macclesfield Town F.C. non-playing staff
Blackburn Rovers F.C. non-playing staff
Stockport County F.C. managers
Men's association football defenders
English men's footballers
Wigan Athletic F.C. non-playing staff
Tranmere Rovers F.C. non-playing staff
Milton Keynes Dons F.C. non-playing staff
Association football coaches
Stockport County F.C. non-playing staff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray%20Mathias |
Menorca Bàsquet, S.A.D. was a professional basketball team based in Menorca, Balearic Islands.
On July 5, 2012 the club announced its dissolution after it was forced to renounce to its third promotion to Liga ACB, putting an end to 62 years of history.
Sponsors
2000–2004: Coinga, the club was renamed Coinga Menorca Básquet
2004–2005: IBB Hoteles, the club was renamed IBB Hoteles Menorca Básquet
2005–2006: Llanera, the club was renamed Llanera Menorca
2006–2010: ViveMenorca, the club was renamed ViveMenorca
Team logos
Players
Season by season
Supporter Groups
A por ellos
Penya Forera Jaleo
References
External links
Menorca Bàsquet Official Website
Defunct basketball teams in Spain
Former LEB Oro teams
Former Liga ACB teams
Basketball teams established in 1950
Basketball teams disestablished in 2012
Former Liga EBA teams
Basketball teams in the Balearic Islands
Sport in Menorca | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menorca%20B%C3%A0squet |
Roderick Lewis Macdonald (born 1 January 1957) is a Scottish politician who was a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for the North East Scotland region between 2011 and 2021. A member of Scottish Labour, he previously represented the Aberdeen Central constituency from 1999 to 2011. He was a deputy Scottish Executive minister from 2001 to 2007.
Early life and career
Born in Stornoway, Macdonald moved with his family to Aberdeenshire as a child, and attended Inverurie Academy and later the University of Aberdeen. Macdonald received an MA in history and a PhD in African studies and later lectured at the university. He is a member of the trade union Unite.
Political career
Macdonald unsuccessfully contested the Moray UK Parliament constituency at the 1997 general election. Prior to his election as an MSP, he worked as a parliamentary researcher to the MPs Frank Doran and Tom Clarke. After being elected in the 1999 Scottish Parliament election, Macdonald joined the Scottish Executive in March 2001. He was briefly Deputy Minister for Transport and Planning from March to November 2001. He then served as Deputy Minister for Enterprise, Transport and Lifelong Learning, later renamed Deputy Minister for Enterprise and Lifelong Learning, from 2001 to 2004. He served as Deputy Minister for Environment and Rural Development from 2004 to 2005 and Deputy Minister for Health and Community Care from 2005 to 2007.
Between June 2013 and December 2014, Macdonald served as Scottish Labour Chief Whip. He has also led for Scottish Labour on enterprise and tourism, infrastructure, justice and energy. He has served as convener of the Health and Sport Committee from December 2017 to May 2021. He became interim Deputy Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament in April 2020, following the self isolation of Christine Grahame during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Macdonald nominated Anas Sarwar in the 2021 Scottish Labour leadership election. He stood down at the 2021 Scottish Parliament election.
Personal life
Macdonald is married to Sandra who has worked in the oil industry. Macdonald also has two children. Sandra has been elected as a member on Aberdeen City Council.
References
External links
Lewis Macdonald MSP personal site
1957 births
Living people
People from Stornoway
People from Inverurie
People educated at Inverurie Academy
Alumni of the University of Aberdeen
Academics of the University of Aberdeen
Labour MSPs
Scottish trade unionists
Members of the Scottish Parliament for Aberdeen constituencies
Members of the Scottish Parliament 1999–2003
Members of the Scottish Parliament 2003–2007
Members of the Scottish Parliament 2007–2011
Members of the Scottish Parliament 2011–2016
Members of the Scottish Parliament 2016–2021
Deputy Presiding Officers of the Scottish Parliament | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis%20Macdonald |
Rani Jhansi Marine National Park is located in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal. It was founded in 1996, and covers 256 km2. It commemorates Lakshmibai, the Rani of Jhansi (1828-58). It is located in the Ritchie's Archipelago and is about 30 km from Port Blair. It contains coral reefs and mangrove forests. The biggest attraction in the park is a fruit-eating bat. It plays a major role in the ecosystem, because it pollinates plants and scatters seeds.
References
K K Gurung & Raj Singh: Field Guide to the Mammals of the Indian Subcontinent, Academic Press, San Diego,
Magnus Elander & Staffan Widstrand: Die schönsten Wildparks der Welt, Berg Verlag, 1994
External links
Rani Jhansi Marine National Park; UNEP-WCMC
National parks in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Protected areas established in 1996
Marine parks of India
1996 establishments in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rani%20Jhansi%20Marine%20National%20Park |
Charles Raymbault (1602 in France - 1643 in Quebec) was a Jesuit missionary.
Entering the Society of Jesus, Raymbault was procurator to the Canadian mission when he was called to Quebec. He traveled to the Sault Sainte Marie with Saint Isaac Jogues on a voyage of exploration and to effect a more permanent apostolate. Exhausted, he returned to Quebec and was the first Jesuit to die in Canada.
External links
1602 births
1643 deaths
17th-century French Jesuits
Jesuit missionaries in New France
French Roman Catholic missionaries
Roman Catholic missionaries in Canada | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Raymbault |
Igor Nikolayevich Zhelezovski or Ihar Mikałajevič Žalazoŭski (; ; 1 June 1963 – 12 June 2021) was a Soviet and Belarusian speed skater.
Biography
His imposing physical appearance resulted in the nicknames "Igor the Terrible" and "The bear from Minsk". Originally competing for the Soviet Union, then for the Commonwealth of Independent States, and finally for Belarus, he became World Sprint Champion a record six times. In Soviet times, he trained at Armed Forces sports society in Minsk.
Zhelezovski won silver at the World Junior Allround Championships in 1982. Specialising in the sprint, he became World Sprint Champion in 1985, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1992, and 1993. He finished eighth in the 1987 edition, and decided to skip the 1988 edition in favour of preparing for the Winter Olympics in Calgary that same year. These, however, turned out to be a disappointment for him, finishing sixth in the 500 m, only third in 1000 m, and fourth in the 1500 m. In the remaining two World Sprint Championships he participated in, in 1990 and 1994, he finished third and sixth, respectively.
In his final two seasons, which followed the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Zhelezovski represented Belarus. It was during this time that he achieved a career highlight of winning the silver medal in the 1000 m event at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, Norway. At the opening ceremony of the 1994 Winter Olympics, he was the Belarusian flag bearer.
After ending his skating career in 1994, Zhelezovski became president of the skating union of Belarus, a position which he held for several years.
Zhelezovski died on 12 June 2021, at the age of 57.
Medals
An overview of medals won by Zhelezovski at important championships he participated in, listing the years in which he won each:
Records
World records
Over the course of his career, Zhelezovski skated four world records, one of which equalled Pavel Pegov's six-year-old world record on the 1000 m:
Source: SpeedSkatingStats.com
Personal records
To put these personal records in perspective, the WR column lists the official world records on the dates that Zhelezovski skated his personal records.
Source: SpeedskatingResults.com
Note that Zhelezovski's personal record on the 500 m was not recognised as a world record by the International Skating Union (ISU).
Zhelezovski has an Adelskalender score of 164.015 points.
References
External links
Personal records from Jakub Majerski's Speedskating Database
Results of Championships of Russia and the USSR from SpeedSkating.ru
1963 births
2021 deaths
People from Orsha
Soviet male speed skaters
Belarusian male speed skaters
Olympic speed skaters for the Soviet Union
Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union
Olympic speed skaters for the Unified Team
Olympic speed skaters for Belarus
Olympic silver medalists for Belarus
Olympic medalists in speed skating
Speed skaters at the 1988 Winter Olympics
Speed skaters at the 1992 Winter Olympics
Speed skaters at the 1994 Winter Olympics
Medalists at the 1988 Winter Olympics
Medalists at the 1994 Winter Olympics
Spartak (sports society) sportspeople
World record setters in speed skating
World Sprint Speed Skating Championships medalists
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Belarus
Sportspeople from Vitebsk Region | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igor%20Zhelezovski |
William Thomas Napier Champ (15 April 1808 – 25 August 1892) was a soldier and politician who served as the first Premier of Tasmania from 1856 to 1857. He was born in the United Kingdom.
Early life
Champ was born in Maldon, Essex, England the son of Captain Thomas Champ and his wife Mary Anne née Blackaller. Champ was educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He joined the army as an ensign when 18 years old and later became an adjutant.
Army and police career
Champ was serving with the 63rd Regiment of Foot as an ensign by 1826 and was posted with them to Sydney, New South Wales in October 1828. Some of the regiment was detached as a garrison force for the Macquarie Harbour Penal Station, Van Diemens Land (now Tasmania) in 1829, and Champ was amongst them.
As a lieutenant with the 63rd, he took part in the Black War campaign which was an attempt to segregate Tasmanian Aborigines near the end of 1830.
The 63rd left New South Wales and Van Diemens Land in 1834 to deploy to India and Burma and Champ left with the regiment. However, he had apparently enjoyed his time in Australia and later in 1834 he resigned his army commission and returned to Van Diemens Land to enter the civil service. Champ then became an assistant police magistrate, before being appointed as the commandant of Port Arthur penitentiary (succeeding Charles O'Hara Booth) in 1844.
Political career
In 1852 Champ became a colonial secretary to Governor Denison.
In the 1850s, the British parliament passed legislation that would give Tasmania a responsible 'independent' government. This created the Tasmanian House of Assembly. The first elections for the House of Assembly took place in 1856. Prior to this Champ was a member of the Tasmanian Legislative Council chosen by the Governor from 1852 until 1856. He was elected as the member for Launceston in the new House of Assembly and became first Premier of the responsible government on 1 November 1856.
Champ held office of premier for 117 days, until 26 February 1857. Shortly into his term, his ministry collapsed and he was unable to govern. He was briefly opposition leader in 1857 but resigned shortly after.
He left Tasmania and became inspector-general of penal establishments in Victoria. He later entered politics in Victoria, becoming a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly for East Bourke Boroughs from April 1871 until May 1873.
He died in Melbourne, Victoria on 25 August 1892.
References
Other references listed by the Dictionary of Australian Biography:
The Argus, Melbourne, 27 August 1892
P. Mennell, The Dictionary of Australasian Biography
J. Fenton, A History of Tasmania, pp. 287–92
J. W. Beattie, Port Arthur.
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1808 births
1892 deaths
People from Maldon, Essex
Premiers of Tasmania
Members of the Tasmanian House of Assembly
Members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council
Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly
Colonial Secretaries of Tasmania
63rd Regiment of Foot officers
Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst
Leaders of the Opposition in Tasmania
19th-century Australian politicians
19th-century Australian public servants
English emigrants to colonial Australia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Champ |
The Black Dwarf was a political and cultural newspaper published between May 1968 and 1972 by a collective of socialists in the United Kingdom. It is often identified with Tariq Ali who edited and published the newspaper until 1970, when the editorial board split between Leninist and non-Leninist currents, with the contributors joining the planning group of 7 Days.
Black Dwarf took its name from the 19th-century radical paper of that name which was first published in 1817.
The editorial and production group included Ali, Clive Goodwin, Robin Fior, David Mercer, Mo Teitlebaum, Douglas Gill, Adrian Mitchell, Sheila Rowbotham, Bob Rowthorn, D. A. N. Jones, Sean Thompson, Neil Lyndon, Roger Tyrrell and Fred Halliday.
The Leninists, including Ali and other members of the International Marxist Group, went on to found the Red Mole.
The Black Dwarf newspaper published a special edition in autumn 1968 devoted entirely to the Bolivian Diaries of Che Guevara, in a translation first published by Ramparts in the United States. It included an introduction by Fidel Castro. This edition appeared to be in response to a version of the diaries put out by "some publishers in league with those who murdered Che".
John Hoyland and the musician John Lennon of the Beatles had an exchange of letters in the newspaper regarding Lennon's supposed bourgeois values. Hoyland in "An Open Letter to John Lennon", ostensibly a review of the Beatles recent eponymous white album, wrote that Lennon's song "Revolution" was no more revolutionary than Mrs Dale's Diary and that "In order to change the world we've got to understand what's wrong with the world then destroy it ruthlessly.... There's no such thing as a polite revolution." Lennon replied, writing: "...You're obviously on a destruction kick. I'll tell you what's wrong with the world – people, so do you want to destroy them? Ruthlessly? Until we change your/our heads – there's no chance...". Lennon's wrote in a postscript: "You smash it – I'll build around it".
See also
List of underground newspapers of the 1960s counterculture
Notes
References
External links
John Hoyland, "Power to the People", The Guardian, 15 March 2008.
International Marxist Group
Newspapers established in 1968
1972 disestablishments in England
Socialist newspapers published in the United Kingdom
Underground press | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Black%20Dwarf%20%28newspaper%29 |
Toni Savevski (; born 14 June 1963) is a Macedonian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Savevski is widely regarded as one of the best foreign players to have played in the Greek football league. After retiring from as a footballer in 2001 he became manager and managed several clubs in Cyprus, most notably Omonia.
Club career
Savevski was born in Bitola, SR Macedonia. He started his career in Pelister Bitola and then played for Vardar Skopje, where he won the league in 1987, but due to a point deduction punishment of Partizan was overturned, the title eventually was awarded to the latter. In winter 1988 he signed for AEK Athens at the request of Dušan Bajević. Savevski quickly developed into one of the team's consistent players and, alongside Stelios Manolas, became the permanent leaders of the great AEK of the 90s. He combined very well and assisted all the great stikers that played in the club during his era, such as Batista, Dimitriadis, Alexandris, Kostis, Nikolaidis. He also scored some very important goals, the most important of all being this against Rangers in Glasgow, for the UEFA Champions League qualifiers in the summer of 1994. He served AEK for 13 years winning the league four times and the Greek cup three times. He is the third foreigner in appearances in the history of the league, behind Krzysztof Warzycha and Predrag Đorđević. Savevski urgently stopped football in the yellow-black jersey in January 2001 and within a few days he became the coach of the team, as a "duo" with Eugène Gerards, a position in which he remained until the end of the season.
International career
He made his senior debut for Yugoslavia in an August 1988 friendly match away against Switzerland and earned a total of 2 caps for the team, scoring no goals, before debuting for Macedonia in an October 1994 European Championship qualification match against Spain. He earned another 8 caps and his final international was a September 2000 FIFA World Cup qualification match against Slovakia.
Managerial career
In January 2001, after the then coach AEK Athens, Giannis Pathiakakis resigned, Savevski retired as a footballer overnight, in order to take the position of coach on the yellow-black bench, with Eugène Gerards as technical advisor. In the summer of 2001, the administrative instability of the club resulted in the Savevski and Gerards leaving. In the season 2001–02 he was the coach for Apollon Limassol. In 2002 he coached Omonia, where in 2003 he won the Cypriot First Division and the Cypriot Super Cup, before leaving in 2004. In the summer of the same year, he assumed the position of technical director of the AEK Athens academies. During his tenure, the infrastructure departments of the club were organized and developed. Players such as Sokratis Papastathopoulos, Kostas Manolas, Viktor Klonaridis, Panagiotis Tachtsidis and Vasileios Pliatsikas were the results of his work. In the summer of 2010, Savevski was promoted to the position of head scouting of the team. By September 2012, he returned to Omonia as head coach until December 2013.
Honours
As a player
AEK Athens
Alpha Ethniki: 1988–89, 1991–92, 1992–93, 1993–94
Greek Cup: 1995–96, 1996–97, 1999–2000
Greek Super Cup: 1989, 1996
Greek League Cup: 1990
Pre-Mediterranean Cup: 1991
As a coach
Omonia
Cypriot First Division: 2002–03
Cypriot Super Cup: 2003
Personal life
Savevski had humble upbringings and grew up in Bitola. He later moved to Athens, Greece after his first son, Victor was born. His second son was born in Athens.
References
External links
Profile at MacedonianFootball.com
1963 births
Living people
Footballers from Bitola
Men's association football midfielders
Yugoslav men's footballers
Yugoslavia men's international footballers
Olympic footballers for Yugoslavia
Footballers at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Macedonian men's footballers
North Macedonia men's international footballers
Dual men's international footballers
FK Pelister players
FK Vardar players
AEK Athens F.C. players
Yugoslav First League players
Super League Greece players
Yugoslav expatriate men's footballers
Macedonian expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Greece
Yugoslav expatriate sportspeople in Greece
Macedonian expatriate sportspeople in Greece
Macedonian football managers
AEK Athens F.C. managers
Apollon Limassol FC managers
AC Omonia managers
Macedonian expatriate football managers
Expatriate football managers in Greece
Expatriate football managers in Cyprus
Macedonian expatriate sportspeople in Cyprus | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toni%20Savevski |
Abba Siddick (25 December 1924 – 1 December 2017) was a Muslim Chadian politician and revolutionary born in what was the Oubangui-Chari French colony (today Central African Republic). In passing in Chad (also a French colony then), he entered in active politics in the Chadian Progressive Party (PPT), a nationalist and radical African political party founded in 1947 and led by Gabriel Lisette. By 1958, he had left the PPT to form with others the Chadian National Union (UNT), a Muslim progressive party, but he turned quite early to the PPT and, after the independence of Chad, was minister of Education of the President François Tombalbaye. However the President's discrimination against Muslims in Chad brought him to become a member of the rebel insurgent group FROLINAT, formed in 1966 to oppose the rule of Tombalbaye. After the death of the organization's first secretary-general in 1968, a vicious battle for leadership ensued, which terminated with the victory of Siddick in 1969, even though he was perceived as an Anti-Arab and was suspected of being a moderate leftist and not having any revolutionary apprenticeship. He made Tripoli the headquarters of the front; and Libya took the place of Sudan as key supplier of the FROLINAT. While he was internationally recognized as the head of the FROLINAT, he was losing control of the units on the ground. In 1971 he tried to reassert his authority by proposing to unify the insurgent forces active in Chad, but Goukouni Oueddei, head of the Second Liberation Army of the FROLINAT, broke with Siddick, who managed to at least keep a loose control over the First Liberation Army.
Siddick's fragile authority depended much on Libyan support (which was official from 1971) but when in 1973 there was a rapprochement between Libya and Chad, Siddick was forced to move his headquarters from Tripoli to Algiers. What nominal control was left over the troops on the ground completely vanished in 1976, when almost all his cadres rebelled against his authority and accused him of never hearing his lieutenants and of never going himself to the field of operations. The rebels, led by Mahamat Abba Saïd, assumed control over most of the First Liberation Army of the FROLINAT, that became known under his leadership simply as the First Army. Two years later, in 1978, he lost even his formal leadership of the movement when in a congress of the FROLINAT held in Faya-Largeau, Goukouni was nominated leader.
The collapse of all central authority in Chad, in 1979, gave Siddick as leader of a so-called "Original FROLINAT" (FROLINAT Originel) a chance to re-enter the fray. But he, Ahmat Acyl, Mohamat Said, and Adoum Dana were excluded from the first peace conference held at Kano in Nigeria in March.
When these excluded people threatened to build a counter-government, they were invited to a new peace conference at Kano, in April. In this meeting, the resolution of Hissène Habré and Goukouni Oueddei to not let those not present at Kano I to enter in the new government failed, as Sidick, Dana, and Acyl were accused by both of not having any troops on the ground.
In retaliation, a pro-Libyan counter-government was formed by Siddick, Acyl, and Said, called Front for Joint Provisional Action (FACP), shortly after called Revolutionary Democratic Council (CDR).
This led to the first conference of Lagos, which was boycotted by the major forces: only at the second and last peace conference at Lagos did the Transitional Government of National Unity (GUNT) finally emerge, in which all forces were represented. In the Lagos Accord, approved on the August 21, Goukouni Oueddei became President, Habré Defence Minister, Acyl Foreign Minister and Siddick Health Minister.
Siddick at first remained with Goukouni when Habré broke with the GUNT in 1980, but when in January 1981 Goukouni and the Libyan President Qaddafi issued a joint communiqué stating that Chad and Libya had agreed to "work for the realization of complete unity between the two countries", he and the Union pour la démocratie et la paix (UDP) tried to depose Goukouni and become independent of Libya. Shortly after this, Siddick broke with the GUNT and fled in exile to Sudan, ceasing to play any part in the civil war. Siddick died in Paris on 1 December 2017, three weeks before his 93rd birthday.
References
1924 births
2017 deaths
Chadian National Union politicians
Chadian Progressive Party politicians
Chadian expatriates in Libya
Chadian expatriates in Sudan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abba%20Siddick |
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