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Leslie Ackerman is an American actress.
Early life
Ackerman is from Springfield, New Jersey. Her father progressed from being an attorney to serving on the Federal District Court in Trenton, New Jersey. She became interested in the theater as a child.
Acting career
Ackerman had the role of Abigail in the Broadway production Mourning Pictures (1974). In 1980, she portrayed Barbara Skagska in the NBC drama Skag. Her role in the 1979 television film Women at West Point required her to undergo some aspects of military training. During her three weeks at the United States Military Academy, her activities included attacking the obstacle course, marching in full-combat gear, and running 100 yards while she carried a man on her shoulders.
She is well known to Star Trek fans for her role as the waitress in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 1996 episode "Trials and Tribble-ations".
She has guest starred in many television shows, such as Barnaby Jones, The Streets of San Francisco, All in the Family, Welcome Back, Kotter, The Incredible Hulk, Quincy, CHiPs, Cagney & Lacey, Simon & Simon, Moonlighting and Baywatch.
In 2000, she wrote, produced and starred in the movie What's Eating You?.
Personal life
In 1979, Ackerman married Jeff Altman. Before divorcing, they had one daughter.
Motion pictures
Law and Disorder (1974)
The First Nudie Musical (1976)
Joyride to Nowhere (1977)
Cracking Up (1977)
Hardcore (1979)
Blame It on the Night (1984)
What's Eating You? (2000)
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
20th-century American actresses
21st-century American actresses
Actresses from New Jersey
Jewish American actresses
American film actresses
American television actresses | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie%20Ackerman |
The 1992 Men's Champions Trophy was the 14th edition of the Hockey Champions Trophy men's field hockey tournament. It took place from February 20–28, 1992 in the National Hockey Stadium in Karachi, Pakistan.
Results
All times are Pakistan Time (UTC+05:00)
Pool
Classification
Fifth and sixth place
Third and fourth place
Final
Final standings
References
External links
Official FIH website
C
H
Champions Trophy (field hockey)
1992 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992%20Men%27s%20Hockey%20Champions%20Trophy |
Embothrium coccineum, Chilean firetree or Chilean firebush, commonly known in Chile and Argentina as notro, ciruelillo and fósforo is a small evergreen tree in the flowering plant family Proteaceae. It grows in the temperate forests of Chile and Argentina.
Description
The Chilean firetree grows 4–15 m (13–50 ft) tall and can reach 50 cm (20 in) in diameter. The bark is dark grey with light spots and the wood is light pink in colour. It produces clusters of deep red flowers (occasionally pale yellow) and flowering occurs in spring. The fruit is a dry follicle, with about 10 seeds inside.
Uses
It is grown as an ornamental in Great Britain and the United States, and as far north as the Faroe Islands at 62° North latitude.
The plant was introduced to Europe by William Lobb during his plant collecting expedition to the Valdivian temperate forests in 1845–1848. It was described by Kew Gardens as:"Perhaps no tree cultivated in the open air in the British Isles gives so striking and brilliant a display as this does."
The wood being very soft but durable, is used for making spoons, kitchen vessels and other craft articles.
Ecology
It is pollinated by both hummingbirds and insects in its natural range.
Cluster roots
Like other members of the family Proteaceae, E. coccineum seedlings produce dense root masses called cluster roots or proteoid roots that provide access to normally inaccessible forms of various nutrients, especially phosphorus. Cluster roots exude acidic substances which are able to convert the otherwise inaccessible forms of nutrients into forms that are biologically useful. These nutrients are then made available to other plants from the leaf litter of E. coccineum, making it a valuable keystone plant in certain terrains.
References
External links
Chilean Fire-tree description by Arthur Lee Jacobson
Embothrieae
Trees of Argentina
Trees of Chile
Ornamental trees
Trees of subpolar oceanic climate
Flora of the Valdivian temperate forests | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embothrium%20coccineum |
The Downend air crash occurred on 6 November 1957 when a prototype Bristol Britannia aircraft crashed in woods near Overndale Road in Downend, a suburb of Bristol, England, on its landing approach at Filton airport during a test flight. All fifteen on board, four crew and 11 technicians, died in the crash.
Cause
The exact cause of the crash was never determined, but was suspected to be a malfunction of the autopilot, possibly due to faulty wiring. The company which manufactured the autopilot system issued a statement claiming it was not due to the autopilot system, but still altered the system in newer aircraft; the official report states unknown cause but "the autopilot system cannot be ruled out as the likely cause".
Another source cites the cause as "...an instrument failure which ultimately led to a loss of control."
Casualties
All 15 aboard died in the crash. Despite the aircraft coming down in a residential area, nobody on the ground was killed. One woman, a resident of Overndale Road, was taken to hospital after being hurt by the impact blast when one of the engines and part of the wing landed next to her house while she was hanging washing on the line in the garden.
Another man, who at the time was tiling the roof of a nearby house, broke his arm after falling having been shocked by the aircraft's low flight path.
Memorials
A memorial service was held at Bristol Cathedral on 19 November 1957.
Commemorative events were held on 25th and 34th anniversaries, when the first memorial plaque listing the names of the dead was erected at Downend Folk House. Downend Local History Society holds its meetings in the building, which have one of its rooms named Britannia Room.
A memorial plaque at the crash site, now called Britannia Wood, was unveiled on 3 November 2007 by Beryl Statham, the pilot's widow.
References
External links
British Pathé - Air News - The Britannia Air Crash - 15 Dead
Picture of crashed aircraft
Aviation accidents and incidents in 1957
1957 disasters in the United Kingdom
1957 in England
Aviation accidents and incidents in England
1950s in Bristol
Accidents and incidents involving the Bristol Britannia
November 1957 events in the United Kingdom | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downend%20air%20crash |
Qfix robot kits are an education tool for teaching robotics. They are used in schools, high schools and mechatronics training in companies. The robot kits are also used by hobby robot builders.
The qfix kits are often found in the RoboCup Junior competition where soccer robots are built of the kit's components.
Mechanics
Like Lego mindstorms, it is a robot kit consisting of mechanical parts, a controller,
different sensors and actuators, and a software environment to program the constructed robot.
Unlike Lego, in qfix the mechanical parts are made of aluminium. Mechanical elements include bars and plates, mounts for motors and sensors, axes and wheels.
Electronics
The qfix controller boards consist of an Atmel AVR controller plus motor drivers, analog and digital input ports, LEDs, buttons, and an I²C bus. The bus is used to connect further PCBs like LCD display, stronger motor drivers or special sensors.
Software
The qfix kits come with the free C++ environment WinAVR for Atmel AVR controllers. Additionally, there is a C++ class library handling all qfix controller board functionalities. Programs can be downloaded to the controller boards via parallel or USB link using the avrdude tool.
Graphical programming is also supported by using qfix GRAPE (graphical programming environment). With this software, first a flowchart is designed and then the behavior of all flowchart elements is defined.
External links
RoboCup Junior
qfix robotics homepage
qfix Grape
Educational toys
Robot kits
Electronic toys
Soccer robots | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qfix%20robot%20kit |
Bryce Dane Soderberg (born April 10, 1980) is a Canadian musician and songwriter, best known as the bassist and vocalist for American rock band Lifehouse.
Early life
Soderberg was born in Victoria, British Columbia, and raised outside Victoria in the Municipality of Sooke. He started playing bass at a young age and developed his musicianship mostly in his basement with his brothers. He graduated from St. Michaels University School then after attending two years of College in Quebec, Canada, he moved to Los Angeles, California when he was 19 to pursue a professional career in music. In 2002, he joined Elektra recording artists AM Radio, under the management of Rivers Cuomo. After Elektra Records folded, AM Radio disbanded. During this time, as a vocalist/songwriter he performed with The Celebrities, and Tomorrow And Everyday After. In August 2004, Soderberg joined Lifehouse after a recommendation from former member Sean Woolstenhulme.
Lifehouse
After joining Lifehouse, Soderberg and his bandmates toured and released the self-titled Lifehouse, the band's third album. They released the single "You and Me". Between touring, Lifehouse released their fourth album, Who We Are and Smoke And Mirrors. Soderberg sings lead and co-wrote the track "Wrecking Ball" on Smoke and Mirrors. He also shares lead vocals on the song "Here Tomorrow and Gone Today".
Soderberg plays Rickenbacker and Fender basses through Ampeg SVT Classic Heads and 8x10 cabs.
He also performs as the lead vocals for the song "Bridges" on some live performances.
KOMOX
Along with members Pelle Hillström and Kris Persson, Soderberg has an alternative side project based in Los Angeles called KOMOX. They released Dreaming Awake, Vol 1. during the week of January 3, 2016. A reworked version of Soderberg's song Stardust, co-written with Hillström for the KOMOX project, appears on Lifehouse's 2015 album Out of the Wasteland.
References
1980 births
Canadian expatriate musicians in the United States
Canadian people of Swedish descent
Canadian Christians
Canadian rock bass guitarists
Lifehouse (band) members
Living people
Musicians from Victoria, British Columbia
Guitarists from Los Angeles
American male bass guitarists
21st-century Canadian bass guitarists
Alternative rock bass guitarists
21st-century Canadian male singers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryce%20Soderberg |
Marcelo Maldonado Peixoto (born November 5, 1967), also known as Marcelo D2, is a Brazilian rapper and singer.
Biography
A former vocalist of the band Planet Hemp, he started his solo career in 1998 with the album Eu Tiro É Onda. The album was recorded in his studio by David Corcos, and was mixed in New York City and Los Angeles by Carlos Bass and Mario Caldato Eu Tiro É Onda was well accepted by the public and rap movement within São Paulo, earning respect from names such as Black Alien, Zé Gonzalez and Bnegão.
Marcelo returned to Rio de Janeiro with a pregnant girlfriend who gave birth to his son Luca. He found renewed success after restarting his solo career with the participation of the Hemp Family, a group formed by the pioneers of rap in Rio de Janeiro.
In 2003 he released À Procura da Batida Perfeita (Portuguese for "Looking for the perfect beat", a reference to an Afrika Bambaataa song of the same name) produced by Beastie Boys producer Mario Caldato. The album mixed hip-hop with samba, and included a collaboration with will.i.am from The Black Eyed Peas. The album was a hit, and led to an Acústico MTV performance, analogous to MTV Unplugged in the United States. The album was released with the English title in Asia, Europe, and North America. Finally, the album was promoted with a two-year tour.
Marcelo D2 appeared as a guest performer on two tracks of Sérgio Mendes' album Timeless.
His third album Meu Samba É Assim ("My Samba Is Like This") was released May 8, 2006. It features Chali 2na of Jurassic 5 on the track "That's What I Got".
In 2010, Marcelo D2's video "Meu Tambor" was nominated for Video of the Year for MTV Brasil.
His album Amor É Para os Fortes was elected as one of the 25 best Brazilian albums of the second half of 2018 by the São Paulo Association of Art Critics.
In 2021, his album Assim Tocam Meus Tambores was nominated for the Latin Grammy Award for Best Portuguese Language Rock or Alternative Album.
Discography
Studio albums
Live albums
Video albums
Compilations
Singles
Trivia
In 2011, he was the only artist who played at both Rock in Rio and SWU Music & Arts.
Some of his songs were used in the Turistas soundtrack.
His biggest radio hit is the song "Qual É?", which has featured on the popular TV show Cidade dos Homens.
The "Loadeando" music video features his son, Stephen, several times.
On July 7, 2007, he performed at the Brazilian leg of Live Earth in Rio de Janeiro.
The song Desabafo is used as Brazilian UFC fighter, Paulo Thiago's entrance song. It is also featured in Fast Five.
The song 'Profissão MC' appears on the soundtrack to the game FIFA Football 2005.
The song 'Você Diz Que o Amor Não Dói' appears on the soundtrack to the game FIFA 14.
He is a fan of Rio-based football club Flamengo.
References
External links
[
Brazilian rappers
Musicians from Rio de Janeiro (city)
1967 births
Living people
20th-century Brazilian male singers
20th-century Brazilian singers
21st-century Brazilian male singers
21st-century Brazilian singers
Afro-Brazilian male songer-songwriters
Afro-Brazilian male singers
Latin music songwriters | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcelo%20D2 |
Daniela Paz Castillo Vicuña (born September 26, 1984 in Santiago) is a Chilean female pop singer and actress born in Santiago. She debuted in 2002 as a solo artist on the Chilean TV show Rojo: Fama Contra Fama. She studied four years at the Alicia Puccio Academy where she met the casting crew for the TV show Rojo. Although she did not win first place in the singer talent contest, she became very popular due to her voice.
She released her first studio album on November 23, 2003 entitled Daniela Castillo under the Warner label. The album was a success, achieving triple Gold and double Platinum certification in Chile.
In July 2006, she starred in the movie Rojo: La Película, which was released in Chile. The movie follows characters played by her and other fellow members of the show, trying to achieve their dream in the music industry.
She released her second album Obsesión on November 28, 2006, which was certified Gold in Chile.
She participated in the second season of Estrellas en el Hielo in 2008.
Discography
Albums
Singles
"Tú Volverás" (2003)
"Trampa de Cristal" (2004)
"Encontrarás" (2004)
"Dueña de mi Corazón" (2005)
"Volver a Respirar" (2005)
"Volar" (2006)
"Obsesión" (2007)
"Invencible" (2011)
References
External links
Daniela Castillo Official website
1984 births
Living people
Actresses from Santiago
21st-century Chilean women singers
Chilean pop singers
Chilean rock singers
Masked Singer winners
Chilean women singer-songwriters
Chilean singer-songwriters
Singers from Santiago | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniela%20Castillo |
Nataša Tapušković (née Šolak; ; born 27 August 1975) is a Serbian actress. She is famous for her role as Danica Janković in Barking at the Stars (1998) and for her role as Bosnian hostage Sabaha in Emir Kusturica's Life Is a Miracle (2004).
Filmography
References
External links
1975 births
Living people
Actors from Kruševac
20th-century Serbian actresses
21st-century Serbian actresses
Serbian film actresses
Serbian television actresses
Dr. Branivoj Đorđević Award winners | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nata%C5%A1a%20Tapu%C5%A1kovi%C4%87 |
Cain's Cutthroats is a 1971 western-themed exploitation film. It is a story of brutality, betrayal, and revenge set in the period immediately following the end of the American Civil War. The film was released under the alternate titles Cain's Way, The Blood Seekers, and Justice Cain. It stars John Carradine, Scott Brady, Darwin Joston, Robert Dix, Tereza Thaw, and Adair Jameson.
Plot
After the end of the Civil War, Confederate army captain Justice Cain (Scott Brady) retires from the military. He becomes a farmer and lives a peaceful life with his son, Jody (by his deceased first wife) and his new wife, Angie (Tereza Thaw), the biracial ex-slave of Cain's former father-in-law.
Unbeknownst to Cain, a group of six soldiers previously under Cain's command (and known as "Cain's Cutthroats"), Ameson (Robert Dix), Billy-Joe (Darwin Joston), Tucker (Bruce Kimbale), Farrette (Don Epperson), Mason, and Crawford, has recently been released from a Union prison. The former Confederate soldiers have become a roving band of homicidal highway robbers, and their ultimate goal is to re-form a squadron led by Cain and renew attacks upon Union targets.
The men find Cain and tell him of their plans, but when Cain refuses to join them, tells them that the "Old South" is dead, and derides their unrealistic plan to attack the north, they become enraged, attack him, and tie him up. Ameson, the leader of the group, rapes Angie while Cain watches helplessly. Billy-Joe, the most deranged and volatile of the men, attempts to rape her afterwards, but she fights him off. Fuming about what he perceives as Angie's sexual "rejection" of him, Billy-Joe kills her. Cain then screams insults at Billy-Joe, who shoots both Cain and Jody, killing the little boy instantly.
Realizing that Billy-Joe's uncontrollable rage has set them on the path of no return, the men attempt to cover their tracks by burning down Cain's farm, but they leave unaware that Cain is still alive.
With the help of Preacher Simms (John Carradine), a bible-quoting bounty hunter, and Rita (Adair Jameson), a former prostitute (and Tucker's ex-girlfriend), Cain systematically tracks down and kills the men. However, Cain becomes increasingly sadistic with each killing, and Simms begins to question whether Cain is more interested in achieving justice or indulging his own bloodlust. After killing most of the men, Cain finds Billy-Joe and shoots him in the crotch several times, so that he dies a slow, excruciatingly painful death. This disgusts Simms and Rita, and they abandon Cain.
Cain then sets out alone to kill Ameson, the last surviving member of the gang. However, Ameson is captured by Union soldiers and executed by firing squad before Cain can reach him. Cain, now alone in the world and robbed of the satisfaction of killing the man who raped his wife, sinks to the ground and weeps in despair.
Cast
John Carradine as Preacher Simms
Scott Brady as Justice Cain
Robert Dix as Amison
Don Epperson as Farrette
Darwin Joston as Billy Joe
Adair Jameson as Rita
Bruce Kimball as Tucker
Tereza Thaw as Cain's Wife
Valda Hansen as Zelda
Different versions of the film
Two versions of this film were released. The earlier Cain's Way cut was released in 1970, and the later, better known Cain's Cutthroats version was released in 1971. The Cain's Way cut is slightly longer, because the scenes showing the Confederate gang on a rampage are interspersed with documentary footage of a modern day biker gang terrorizing people.
The biker scenes were then cut from the film, and it was released in 1971 as Cain's Cutthroats, a version that has a more straightforward narrative structure than the original cut and takes place entirely in the 1860s.
References
External links
Cain's Way at the New York Times.com
1971 films
American historical films
American exploitation films
1971 Western (genre) films
1970s historical films
1970s exploitation films
American Western (genre) films
1970s English-language films
1970s American films | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cain%27s%20Cutthroats |
The Ministry of the Interior () is one of the oldest government ministries in Denmark, having been established in 1848, but has frequently been combined with other ministries. Since 2015 it has been part of the Ministry of Social Affairs and the Interior. Its primary task has been to ensure the state's oversight over the regions and communities; it also oversees elections.
The Ministry of the Interior was originally established in 1848 in Adam Wilhelm Moltke's second administration. In the 21st century, it was combined with the Ministry of Health to form the Ministry of Interior and Health from 2001 to 2007, after which its functions were transferred to the Ministry of Welfare (Velfærdsministerium), which in 2009 changed its name to the Ministry of Social Affairs and the Interior. In 2010 the combined Ministry of Interior and Health was reconstituted. In November 2011, the government of Helle Thorning-Schmidt then separated the Interior Ministry from the Health Ministry and instead combined it with the economic branch of the Ministry of Economic and Business Affairs to form the Ministry of the Economy and the Interior. In June 2015, Lars Løkke Rasmussen's second government again combined its functions with those of the Ministry of Social Affairs to re-establish the Ministry of Social Affairs and the Interior.
By royal resolution on 23 January 2021, the Ministry of the Interior and Housing was established, combining the interior branch from the Ministry of Social Affairs and the Interior with the housing branch from the Ministry of Transport and Housing.
See also
List of Danish government ministries
References
Interior
Denmark | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry%20of%20the%20Interior%20and%20Housing |
Thurstaston Common is an area of almost of parklands, wood and heath between Frankby and Thurstaston, on the Wirral Peninsula in North West England. The common is jointly owned by the National Trust and the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral. Royden Country Park is nearby and offers additional facilities.
The Common is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and a local nature reserve. From the top of the Thurstaston Hill there are views of the Dee Estuary (itself an SSSI) and across to the Clwydian Hills of North Wales. The area is popular with walkers and families.
SSSI
The common is underlain by Triassic sandstone and the varied habitats include wet and dry heaths, acidic marshy grassland and deciduous woodland with birch and oak. The heath is dominated by heather, with bilberry, wavy hair-grass, gorse, heath grass, tormentil, hairy sedge, pill sedge and heath bedstraw, with cross-leaved heath and purple moor-grass; in the wet, peaty hollows are heath rush, common cottongrass and hare's-tail cottongrass, deer grass, Sphagnum compactum, bog asphodel and bulbous rush. Also present in wet patches are oblong-leaved sundew and round-leaved sundew. Birds that breed here include sparrowhawk, tawny owl, great spotted woodpecker, lesser spotted woodpecker, Eurasian jay, redpoll and linnet.
"Thor's Stone"
Thurstaston Hill is the location of Thor's Stone, a large sandstone outcrop and a place of romantic legend. In the 19th century it was supposed that early Viking settlers may have held religious ceremonies here. A visit to the site by members of the British Archaeological Association in 1888 heard an account by Rev. A. E. P. Gray, rector of Wallasey, that the 'Thor Stone' was also known in the locality as 'Fair Maiden's Hall' and that children were "in the habit of coming once a year to dance around the stone". This part of Wirral was certainly part of a Norse colony centred on Thingwall in the 10th and 11th centuries. However, geologists and historians now think that the rock is a natural formation similar to a tor, arising from periglacial weathering of the sandstone, which was later exploited by quarrymen in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Gallery
References
It was a Viking place of sacrifice
External links
Metropolitan Borough of Wirral: Royden Park & Thurstaston Common LNR
BBC: Thor's Stone
Parks and commons in the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral
Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Merseyside
Local Nature Reserves in Merseyside | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurstaston%20Common |
WHYN (560 kHz "NewsRadio 560/98.9 FM WHYN") is a commercial AM news/talk radio station licensed to Springfield, Massachusetts. It serves the Pioneer Valley area of Western Massachusetts and is owned by iHeartMedia. Studios and offices are on Main Street in Springfield. The transmitter is on County Road in Southampton. WHYN operates at 5,000 watts by day, using a directional antenna, but must reduce power to 1,000 watts at night to avoid interfering with other stations on 560 kHz.
Programming
Weekdays begin with a local news and interview morning show with Jim Polito and John Baibak. That is followed by nationally syndicated talk shows including, Glenn Beck, The Financial Exchange, Clay Travis & Buck Sexton, Jesse Kelly, and Coast to Coast AM with George Noory. Boston-based Howie Carr is heard weekday afternoons. Weekends feature shows on finance, law, home-improvement and religion (some of which are paid brokered programming). Weekend syndicated hosts include Bill Handel, Gary Sullivan, Bill Cunningham, Joe Pags, Ric Edelman and Sean Hannity.
Most hours begin with world and national news from Fox News Radio. WHYN partners with WGGB-TV and WSHM-LD's "Western Mass News" for severe weather coverage and storm closings.
The station also carries Springfield Thunderbirds hockey games.
History
Early years in Holyoke and Northampton
WHYN first signed on in April 1941, at 1400 kilohertz, with Holyoke, Massachusetts, as its original city of license. It was owned by the Hampden-Hampshire Corporation, whose owners also published the Holyoke Transcript-Telegram, and its 250-watt signal primarily covered Holyoke and Northampton, Massachusetts, so its call sign represented Holyoke and Northampton. In 1949, it moved to AM 560, powered at 1,000 watts, located in Holyoke. It was a network affiliate of the Mutual Broadcasting System.
WHYN added an FM sister station in 1947. That station took the call letters WHYN-FM and mostly simulcast the AM station's programming.
Relocating to Springfield
In the early 1950s, WHYN-AM-FM moved to Springfield and became affiliates of CBS Radio in 1953, dropping Mutual programming. In 1953, television station WHYN-TV Channel 55 was put on the air (today WGGB-TV Channel 40). Around 1960, WHYN-AM-FM began programming Top 40 music.
Over the years, WHYN was known as "Whyn (pronounced WIN) Radio." During the rock and roll era, some of its monikers included "Channel 56," "Radio Five-Six-Oh," "Five-Sixty W - H - Y - N," "Fun Five Sixty" and "The Big Fifty-Six." Many jingles (mainly produced by PAMS) reflected these ongoing themes. In the early 1960s, WHYN was the dominant Top 40 radio station competing with rival 1270 WSPR. WHYN's Top 40 sound was so popular, the station not only led in the Springfield ratings, but it was often in the top 10 in nearby Hartford, Connecticut. Some early airchecks of WHYN and its colorful disc jockeys (DJs) are at Northeast Airchecks and ReelRadio. In the 1960s, WHYN-FM ended its simulcast of AM 560 by switching to beautiful music.
Switch to AC and talk
WHYN continued as a Top 40 station until young listeners began switching to FM for contemporary music. Automated FM station 102.1 WAQY (branded "Wacky Radio") went on the air in 1972 and took some of WHYN's audience. Jim Rising (James Marshall) was WAQY's first program director (circa 1976) after it began live programming. Rising came over from WHYN, where he had been the station's morning host, to program WAQY. He brought along WHYN's Johnny (Bekish) Michaels to be one of the DJs on WAQY.
During the 1980s, WHYN transitioned to a more adult sound, airing adult contemporary music and adding more news and sports. WHYN was the Springfield radio affiliate for the Boston Red Sox until 2007 when 105.5 WVEI-FM (now WWEI) became the Red Sox home in Springfield. WHYN was also affiliated with ABC Radio. By the 1990s, WHYN was adding more talk programming and reducing its reliance on music, until it became a full-time talk station.
Ownership changes
The station has undergone several ownership changes over the years starting with the Daily Hampshire Gazette; Guy Gannett Broadcasting (no relation to the present-day Gannett Company) in 1967; Affiliated Communications (the broadcast division of The Boston Globe) in 1980; R&R Broadcasting (Robinson & Reece) in 1985; Wilks-Schwartz Broadcasting in 1987; Radio Equity Partners in 1994; and Clear Channel Communications (now iHeartMedia, the current owner) in 1996.
In the 1950s and 1960s, the Hampden-Hampshire Corporation (a consortium of the Daily Hampshire Gazette, the Holyoke Transcript-Telegram, the Greenfield Recorder, and the Springfield Newspapers) owned WHYN-AM-FM-TV. The stations were sold in 1967 to Guy Gannett Broadcasting. WHYN and WHYN-FM were sold to Affiliated Publications in 1980 while Guy Gannett retained WHYN-TV, which kept its original studio location and changed its call letters to WGGB-TV. The radio stations moved to downtown's "Marketplace" location, where their studios and offices remain, along with co-owned 100.9 WRNX, a country music station.
References
External links
WHYN News/Talk 560 website
Rick Kelly's New England Airchecks Website
ReelRadio Dot Com Aircheck Repository
Chris Tracy's Springfield Radio Tribute Site
HYN
News and talk radio stations in the United States
Radio stations established in 1941
Mass media in Springfield, Massachusetts
IHeartMedia radio stations
1941 establishments in Massachusetts | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHYN%20%28AM%29 |
United States Air Force Captain Paul F. Lorence (February 17, 1955 – April 15, 1986), a weapon systems officer (WSO), was killed when his F-111F fighter-bomber, tail number 389 and callsign Karma 52, was shot down in action off the coast of Libya, on April 15, 1986.
Biography
Captain Lorence was a 1980 graduate of San Francisco State University, and was commissioned through Air Force ROTC. He completed USAF Undergraduate Navigator Training (UNT) and was assigned to the 48th Tactical Fighter Wing as an F-111 weapon systems officer (WSO).
On April 14, 1986, the United States launched Operation El Dorado, an Air Force bombing raid into Libya in response to terrorist attacks. During the raid, Capt. Lorence and his pilot, Capt. Fernando Ribas-Dominicci, were shot down off the coast of Libya becoming the only casualties of the entire operation. Capt. Ribas-Dominicci's body was eventually returned by the Libyan government in 1989, however the location of Capt. Lorence's remains is still currently unknown.
Background
On April 14, 1986, in response to acts of terrorism then believed, and now confirmed, to have been sponsored by Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi – in particular, the 1986 Berlin discotheque bombing of April 6 – and against the backdrop of heightened tension and clashes between the Libyan and U.S. navies over the disputed Gulf of Sidra, the United States launched a surprise attack on targets in Tripoli and other parts of Libya. Neither France nor Spain would agree to U.S. military aircraft overflying of their territory, so the 18 USAF F-111F fighter-bombers which took off from American airbases in Britain had to make a detour by following the Atlantic coast before cutting into the Mediterranean via the Straits of Gibraltar and Portugal to carry out their attack on Libya. An additional six F-111F aircraft had launched from RAF Lakenheath as airborne spares in the event of any type of malfunction. At a certain point in the flight, these six aircraft turned back to home station. In addition, the 18 F-111Fs were escorted by EF-111A Raven Radar Jamming aircraft which had launched from RAF Upper Heyford, United Kingdom. Numerous airborne KC-135 and KC-10 tanker aircraft were also part of the world's longest fighter mission along with other support aircraft. This package of aircraft which had departed the United Kingdom bound for Tripoli, Libya, was part of an overall coordinated strike mission with US Navy aircraft going after targets in Benghazi, Libya, on the same evening.
Captain Lorence and his pilot (Maj. Fernando L. Ribas-Dominicci) were the only U.S. casualties in the bombing raid.
Recovering the bodies
On December 25, 1988, Gaddafi offered to release the body of Capt. Lorence to his family through Pope John Paul II. But the body that was eventually handed over was identified by dental records as that of Capt. Ribas-Dominicci. According to the U.S government, Libya denies holding Lorence's remains.
Family members have led an ongoing campaign to recover Lorence's body. In 1996, Lorence's childhood friend Theodore D. Karantsalis, a public records librarian, started another campaign to retrieve the body by April 15, 2006, the 20th anniversary of his death. On November 17, 2006, the federal government declassified and released details of Operation El Dorado Canyon to Karantsalis pursuant to a lawsuit styled Karantsalis v. Department of Defense filed in Miami, Florida.
Awards and decorations
Memorial
The names of Lorence and Ribas-Dominicci are engraved in the F-111 "Vark" Memorial Park located in Clovis, New Mexico. Both Lorence and Ribas-Dominicci were awarded the Purple Heart and Ribas-Dominicci was posthumously promoted to the rank of Major, effective April 15, 1986.
The San Francisco State University (SFSU) Department of History established the Paul Lorence Scholarship, honoring Lorence. Lorence graduated in 1980 from SFSU summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History.
Notes
External links
Further reading
1955 births
1986 deaths
Aviators killed by being shot down
Recipients of the Air Medal
Recipients of the Meritorious Service Medal (United States)
Military personnel missing in action
American military personnel killed in action
United States Air Force officers
Military personnel from California
People from Oakland, California
Aviators from California
San Francisco State University alumni | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20F.%20Lorence |
The Orphan Brigade was the nickname of the First Kentucky Brigade, a group of military units recruited from Kentucky to fight for the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. The brigade was the largest Confederate unit to be recruited from Kentucky during the war. Its original commander was John C. Breckinridge, former United States vice president, and Kentucky's former senator, who was enormously popular with Kentuckians.
History
The regiments that were part of the Orphan Brigade were the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, and 9th Kentucky Infantry Regiments. Units of the Orphan Brigade were involved in many military engagements in the American South during the war, including the Battle of Shiloh. In 1862, Breckinridge was promoted to division command and was succeeded in the brigade by Brig. Gen. Roger W. Hanson. At the Battle of Stones River, the brigade suffered heavy casualties in an assault on January 2, 1863, including General Hanson. Breckinridge—who vehemently disputed the order to charge with the army's commander, General Braxton Bragg—rode among the survivors, crying out repeatedly, "My poor Orphans! My poor Orphans," noted brigade historian Ed Porter Thompson, who used the term in his 1868 history of the unit. The name came from how the Confederacy viewed its soldiers from Kentucky (which remained neutral in the Union, though half the state seceded and formed the Confederate government of Kentucky, was claimed by the Confederacy, and was represented by a star in both countries' flags and had representation in both governments). The term was not in widespread use during the war, but it became popular afterwards among the veterans.
The Orphan Brigade lost another commander at the Battle of Chickamauga, when Brig. Gen. Benjamin H. Helm, Abraham Lincoln's brother-in-law, was mortally wounded on September 20, 1863, and died the following day. Major Rice E. Graves, the artillery commander, was also mortally wounded.
The Orphan Brigade served throughout the Atlanta Campaign of 1864, then were converted to mounted infantry and opposed Sherman's March to the Sea. They ended the war fighting in South Carolina in late April 1865, and surrendered at Washington, Georgia, on May 6–7, 1865.
Captain Fayette Hewitt, Helm's assistant Adjutant-General, had all the Brigade's papers (over twenty volumes of record books, morning reports, letter-copy books as well as thousands of individual orders and reports) boxed up and taken to Washington. After the surrender, Hewitt brought the boxes back to Kentucky with him, and in 1887 he donated them to the U.S. War Department.
Arms
When the Orphan Brigade was mustered into service, weapons were in short supply. The troops were armed with old smoothbore muskets (some flintlock and others percussion) along with shotguns and hunting rifles (Hawkens). They were given a bounty if they brought their own rifle. Some men had no arms at all. Only a week before the Battle of Shiloh, every regiment except the 9th Kentucky was issued a supply of Enfield rifles imported from England (the 9th armed themselves with Enfields captured during the battle).
From that point onward, most of the Orphan Brigade carried the long three-band Model 1853 Enfield rifle. When the unit surrendered in March 1865, some men were still carrying the same rifles they had had since Shiloh.
Organization
The original units of the Orphan Brigade
2nd Kentucky Infantry, organized at Camp Boone, July 17, 1861
3rd Kentucky Infantry, organized at Camp Boone, July 20, 1861
4th Kentucky Infantry, organized at Camp Burnett, September 13, 1861
6th Kentucky Infantry, organized at Bowling Green, November 19, 1861
9th Kentucky Infantry, organized at Bowling Green, Kentucky October 3, 1861, as the 5th Kentucky Infantry (Preliminary organization; final organization not complete until May 15, 1862.)
Cobb's Battery, organized at Mint Springs, Kuttawa, Kentucky, 1861 (After a period of training at Camp Boone the troops moved to Bowling Green, Ky. in September 1861 and The First Kentucky Battery was formally brigaded under Gen. John C. Breckinridge)
Graves' Battery, commanded by Major Rice E. Graves Jr., organized at Bowling Green, November 8, 1861
Byrne's Artillery Battery, organized in Washington County, Mississippi, July 1861. (Disbanded during summer 1862, at Vicksburg, Mississippi, with men and guns being transferred to Cobb's Battery.)
Morgan's Men, organized at Bowling Green, November 5, 1861
Other units that joined the Orphan Brigade
5th Kentucky Infantry
41st Alabama Infantry (fought as part of the Orphan Brigade at Murfreesboro, the Siege of Jackson and Chickamauga)
31st/49th Alabama Infantry
Formally in but not directly serving with
1st Kentucky Cavalry, organized at Bowling Green 1861
Notable members
Source:
John C. Breckinridge
Marcellus Jerome Clarke (a.k.a. Sue Mundy)
Benjamin H. Helm
John Hunt Morgan
Rice E. Graves Jr.
Thomas Boston Gordon
See also
List of Kentucky Civil War Confederate units
Kentucky in the Civil War
Notes
References
Hughes, Nathaniel Cheairs, Jr., The Pride of the Confederacy: The Washington Artillery in the Army of Tennessee, Louisiana State University Press, 1997, .
External links
First Kentucky (Orphan) Brigade Homepage
The Orphan Brigade historical marker
1861 establishments in Kentucky
1865 disestablishments in Georgia (U.S. state)
Military units and formations established in 1861
Military units and formations disestablished in 1865
Units and formations of the Confederate States Army from Kentucky | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphan%20Brigade |
The 1993 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy was the 15th edition of the Hockey Champions Trophy men's field hockey tournament. It took place from in the Tun Razak Hockey Stadium in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
For the second time in the history the annual six nations tournament ended with play-offs, in which the numbers one and two from the round robin faced each other in the final. The numbers three and four played the bronze medal game, while the numbers five and six tried to avoid relegation in their fifth and sixth place match.
Results
All times are Malaysia Time (UTC+08:00)
Pool
Classification
Fifth and sixth place
Third and fourth place
Final
Final standings
References
External links
Official FIH website
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1993
Champions Trophy (field hockey) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993%20Men%27s%20Hockey%20Champions%20Trophy |
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in Thailand face legal challenges not experienced by non-LGBT residents. Both male and female same-sex sexual activity are legal in Thailand, but same-sex couples and households headed by same-sex couples are not eligible for the same legal protections available to opposite-sex couples. About eight percent of the Thai population, five million people, are thought to be in the LGBT demographic.
In 2013, the Bangkok Post said that "while Thailand is viewed as a tourist haven for same-sex couples, the reality for locals is that the law, and often public sentiment, is not so liberal." A 2014 report by the United States Agency for International Development and the United Nations Development Programme said that LGBT people "still face discrimination affecting their social rights and job opportunities", and "face difficulty gaining acceptance for non-traditional sexuality, even though the tourism authority has been promoting Thailand as a gay-friendly country".
Changes in attitudes and public policy towards LGBT issues began to occur in Thailand during the 1990s and, in particular, the early part of the 21st century. In 2015, Thailand enacted a comprehensive anti-discrimination law, which covered sexual orientation and gender identity. As of 2022, a group of bills is being considered in the Thai parliament that will grant either civil partnerships or full marriage for same-sex couples.
In 2017, Bangkok was named the second-most gay-friendly city in Asia, after Tel Aviv, Israel, due to its LGBT dating scene, nightlife, openness and safety. The Tourism Authority of Thailand has launched a global project entitled "Go Thai Be Free", to encourage LGBTQ+ tourists from around the world and raise its international profile as an LGBTQ+ friendly country.
Legality of same-sex sexual activity
Private, adult, consensual, and non-commercial sodomy was decriminalized in Thailand in 1956. However, same-sex attraction and transgender identities were still seen as socially unacceptable. Through the Penal Code Amendment Act of 1997 (), the age of consent was set at fifteen years regardless of gender or sexual orientation.
In 2002, the Ministry of Health announced that homosexuality would no longer be regarded as a mental illness or disorder.
In 2007, the Thai Government expanded the definition of a sexual assault and rape victim to include both women and men. The government also prohibited marital rape, with the law stipulating that women or men can be victims.
Recognition of same-sex relationships and marriage
Thailand does not recognize same-sex marriages, civil unions, domestic partnerships, unregistered cohabitations, or any other form of same-sex unions.
In September 2011, the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) and the Sexual Diversity Network, an NGO, proposed draft legislation on same-sex marriage and sought the Thai Government's support for the law. Instead, in December 2012, the Government formed a committee to draft legislation providing legal recognition for same-sex couples in the form of civil partnerships. On 8 February 2013, the Rights and Liberties Protection Department and the Parliament's Committee on Legal Affairs, Justice, and Human Rights held a first public hearing on the civil partnership bill, drafted by the committee's chairman, Police General Viroon Phuensaen.
In September 2013, the Bangkok Post reported that an attempt in 2011 by Natee Teerarojjanapong, president of the Gay Political Group of Thailand, to register a marriage certificate with his male partner had been rejected.
By 2014, the civil partnership bill had bipartisan support, but was stalled due to political unrest in the country. In the second half of 2014, reports emerged that a draft bill called the "Civil Partnership Act" would be submitted to the junta-appointed Thai Parliament. It would give couples some of the rights of heterosexual marriage, but was criticized for increasing the minimum age from 17 to 20 and omitting adoption rights.
Thai opinion polls have consistently favoured legal recognition of same-sex marriages.
In 2017, Thai government officials responded favourably to a petition signed by 60,000 people calling for civil partnerships for same-sex couples. Pitikan Sithidej, director-general of the Rights and Liberties Protection Department at the Justice Ministry, confirmed she had received the petition and would do all she could to get it passed as soon as possible. The Justice Ministry convened on 4 May 2018 to begin discussions on a draft civil partnership bill, titled the "Same Sex Life Partnership Registration Bill". Under the proposal, same-sex couples would be able to register themselves as "life partners" and will be granted some of the rights of marriage. The bill was discussed in public hearings between 12 and 16 November, where a reported 98% expressed support for the measure. On 25 December 2018, the Cabinet approved the bill.
On 8 July 2020, the Cabinet approved a new draft of the bill. It will now be introduced in the National Assembly.
In June 2020, Move Forward Party deputy Tunyawat Kamolwongwat introduced a bill to legalize same-sex marriage. The public consultation on the bill was launched on 2 July.
In 2021, the Constitutional Court ruled that Section 1448 of the Civil and Commercial Code interpreting marriages as only between women and men is constitutional, but after the release of full ruling, one phrase mentioned that members of the LGBTQ community cannot reproduce, as it is against nature, and they are unlike other animals with unusual behaviours or physical characteristics. The verdict cites LGBTQ as a different "species" that needs to be separated and studied as it is incapable of creating the "delicate bond" of human relationships. The text was criticised by the LGBT community as homophobic and politically incorrect.
In 2022, a group of bills concerning same-sex unions passed their first readings in the Thai parliament. These include the Marriage Equality Bill proposed by the opposition Move Forward Party, which would amend the current marriage law to include couples of any gender, and the government-proposed Civil Partnership Bill, which would instead introduce civil partnerships as a separate category, granting some but not all rights given to married couples.
On 14 February 2023, Bangkok's Dusit district became the first jurisdiction in Thailand to issue partnership certificates, which are legally non-binding, to same-sex couples.
Adoption and parenting
Only married couples may adopt in Thailand with the exception of single women, who are allowed to petition for the adoption of a special-needs child (Thai law on what qualifies a child as special-needs remain unclear). The draft legislation working its way through the Thai bureaucracy in late 2018 would ensure only property and inheritance rights and some other rights of same-sex couples, but not their rights to public welfare, tax benefits or child adoption.
Thailand had long been a popular destination for surrogacy arrangements. In 2015, however, the Thai Parliament passed a law banning foreigners from travelling to Thailand to have commercial surrogacy arrangements. Only married couples as Thai residents are allowed to make commercial surrogacy contracts. In vitro fertilisation (IVF) is restricted to married couples.
Discrimination protections
None of the various Thai constitutions has mentioned sexual orientation or gender identity. Natee Theerarojnapong, of the Human Rights Commission, and Anjana Suvarnananda, a lesbian rights advocate, campaigned unsuccessfully for the inclusion of "sexual identity" in the Interim Constitution of 2006 and the Constitution of 2007. The 2007 Constitution did contain a broad prohibition of "unfair discrimination" based on "personal status" and promises to respect various civil liberties in accordance with "state security" and "public morality".
The Gender Equality Act B.E. 2558 () was passed on 13 March 2015 and came into force on 9 September 2015. This act bans discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation, and was the first law in Thailand to contain language mentioning LGBT people. Under the law, discrimination against a male, female or "a person who has a sexual expression different from that person's original sex" is punishable by up to six months in prison and a fine of up to 20,000 baht. However, the law specified an exception for "education, religion and the public interest", which was strongly criticised by women's rights groups. According to a 2021 Human Rights Watch report, implementation of the law has been spotty and inadequate. A 2019 UNDP report found that only 44% of LGBT respondents knew about this law, compared to 50% of non-LGBT respondents.
Gender identity and expression
Sex reassignment operations have been performed in Thailand since 1975, and Thailand is among the most popular destinations globally for patients seeking such operations.
Transgender people are quite common in Thai popular entertainment, television shows and nightclub performances, however, transgender people lack various legal rights compared to the rest of the population, and may face discrimination from society.
Transgender people face substantial barriers to employment, including full-time work, executive positions or promotions, according to 2015 research for the International Labour Organization. Discrimination in job applications also often discourages transgender people from seeking further employment opportunities or entering the job market. The research also found that they are faced with "daily discrimination and humiliation" which often cuts short their careers. An editorial in the Bangkok Post in 2013 noted that "we don't find transgenders as high-ranking officials, doctors, lawyers, scientists, or teachers in state-run schools and colleges. Nor as executives in the corporate world. In short, the doors of government agencies and large corporations are still closed to transgender women."
In 2007, the Thai National Assembly debated allowing transgender people to legally change their names after having a sex change operation. The legislature passed a law named Persons' Name Act which created an avenue for transgender people to change their names but not their legal gender. Approval of the request for name change is not guaranteed, as it is up to the discretion of individual administrators.
Post-operation male-to-female transgender government employees are not granted the right to wear female uniforms at work, and are still expected to perform military service. Specific cases of inequality include a hospital which refused to allow a transgender woman to stay in a woman's ward, even though she had undergone sex reassignment surgery.
In 2014, a Matthayom 1 textbook was criticized for discrimination and lack of gender sensitivity, due to a description of transgender people as suffering from gender confusion, khon long phet (คนหลงเพศ), and illustrations in the textbook featuring performances by transgender dancers. Critics argued that the word long (หลง: 'confused') had negative connotations, and that "transgender" or kham phet (ข้ามเพศ) was more suitable. It was reported that officials at the Ministry of Education would investigate the matter.
In July 2019, a proposal to regulate sex changes for transgender individuals was presented to the National Assembly. Among others, the proposed bill would allow those who have undergone sex reassignment surgery to change their legal gender on official documents. It also covers name changes, marriage rights and military conscription.
Military service
In Thailand, both men and women are allowed to serve in the army. In 2005, the Thai Armed Forces lifted their ban on LGBT people serving in the military. Prior to this reform, LGBT people were exempted as suffering from a "mental disorder".
All Thai citizens aged 21 and over who were assigned male at birth are required to participate in military conscription. Unless exempt, they must either volunteer to serve between six months and a year, or participate in a lottery drawing that determines who will serve from one to two years. Conscripts have been reported to sometimes face harassment, violence, and even human rights violations, and conscription is viewed with anxiety by many. Transgender women are exempt from conscription on the basis of having "gender identity disorder", but only if they can "prove" their gender. If a trans woman has undergone at least some gender-affirming medical procedures, such as hormone replacement therapy or breast augmentation, she has a high chance of being exempt after going through a medical examination which can be stressful and humiliating to some. Those who have not are required to submit to extensive psychological evaluation.
Blood donation
In Thailand, transgender women who have not had sex with a male partner, as well as women who have sex with women are allowed to donate blood, but men who have sex with men (MSM) are not. In May 2009 and October 2021, the Thai Red Cross reaffirmed its ban on MSM becoming blood donors, despite campaigns to change this policy. In 2021, the organization stated that "it is not yet ready to relax the strict criteria for blood donors" for MSM because of the higher risk of HIV. The rate of HIV in first-time blood donors is 10 times higher than the same rate in other Asian countries. The Thai Red Cross defended this ban as practical as opposed to discriminatory. It also stated that the rate of HIV among donors must fall below 1 in 100,000 before the criteria for donations by MSM are relaxed.
Living conditions
LGBT lexicon
The Thai word for "gay" or "queer" is เกย์ (). The term katoey or kathoey (; ) refers to transgender women or effeminate gay men. Thai society perceives kathoeys as belonging to a third gender alongside male and female. The term dee (ดี้) alludes to homosexual or bisexual women. Thai has also adopted the word "lesbian" from English: (; ).
The Thai language recognises several other gender and sexual identities, including tom (ทอม), from the English "tomboy", which refers to women who dress, act, and speak in a masculine fashion. Toms are not necessarily lesbian or bisexual, but may be perceived as such by others. Other identities include angees, kathoeys who are attracted to toms, and adams, men who are attracted to toms.
Homophobia, biphobia, transphobia and violence
In 2016, Paisarn Likhitpreechakul, a board member of the Sogi Foundation, wrote an op-ed in the Bangkok Post warning of so-called corrective rape being widely used to "cure" lesbians of their sexual orientation, highlighting the case of a father in Loei who confessed to raping his 14-year-old daughter for four years to stop her from socialising with tomboys. Paisarn expressed further concern that such practices were being normalised in Thai society, and that the true number of such cases was far higher, as many murders of Thai LGBTs are categorised as crimes of passion, because the Thai legal system does not include the concept of "hate crimes". The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights identified murder, beatings, kidnappings, rape and sexual assault against LGBT people as examples of homophobic and transphobic violence and noted that violence against LGBT people "tends to be especially vicious compared to other bias-motivated crimes".
A 2019 UNDP survey showed that 53% of LGBT respondents had faced verbal harassment, 16% have been sexually assaulted, and 42% have pretended to be straight in order to be accepted in various settings. 47.5% of the respondents had experienced at least one form of discrimination from within their family. As a result of stigma and discrimination, 49% of the LGBT respondents said that they have contemplated suicide, and 17% that they had attempted to take their lives. Despite their high need for mental health services, LGBT respondends reported difficulty in finding access to them, as well as discrimination in health care. Two LGBT community subgroups reported the highest levels of discrimination: trans women and bisexual men. 61% of trans women reported verbal abuse, 22% shared they had been sexually assaulted, 11% faced physical abuse, and 8% reported police harassment. Among bisexual men, 14% reported having lost friends because of their sexuality, and 9% have lost their homes because of it.
The same report found that 32% of trans women surveyed faced discrimination in the workplace. The number was 10% for the LGBT community overall.
Education
On 26 December 1996, in a report in the Bangkok Post, the Rajabat Institute Council, the collective governing body of all of Thailand's colleges, declared that it would bar homosexuals from enrolling in any of its teacher training schools, the idea of Deputy Education Minister Suraporn Danaitangtrakul. The announcement was strongly criticised by human rights groups and many others, who urged the repeal of the policy. On 25 January 1997, Danaitangtrakul proposed that the Institute set new criteria to bar people with "improper personalities", but not specific groups such as homosexuals.
According to a 2014 UNDP report, LGBT youth can face significant barriers to education because of their identities. A third of surveyed LGBT students had been physically harassed, a quarter sexually. Bullying of LGBT students ranged from verbal to severe physical or sexual abuse. The 2015 Gender Equality Act B.E. 2558 makes exceptions for discrimination in educational settings. Toms (masculine women) appeared to be one of the most harassed groups.
The report found that there was no mandatory education on sexual orientation or gender identity. Sexual health education was also found to be inadequate, which can contribute to unsafe sex prevalence and the spread of HIV among the LGBT community. Some SexEd textbooks contained references to homosexuality as "abnormal". Furthermore, most Thai schools require uniforms, and students are expected to wear a gendered uniform according to the sex they were assigned at birth. This discriminatory policy leads to discomfort and mental trauma for transgender students and many drop out of school. A lack of educational qualifications leads many LGBT Thais to "sex work or other forms of high-risk behaviour and risky employment in order to make ends meet."
Prisons
For several years, the official policy of Thai prisons has been to respect and recognize sexual diversity, placing inmates in cells based on their stated gender and sexual orientation. Homosexual male prisoners, like all male prisoners, have their heads shaved. Female inmates are not allowed to wear make-up, but gay male inmates are. A prisoner's gender is "verified" by a prison doctor, meaning that only trans women or kathoey (transgender women or effeminate gay men) who have transitioned medically are placed with other women. However, kathoeys who have not transitioned medically can request to be placed with other kathoeys like them which, according to a 2016 interview, can be safer. According to the Department of Corrections, there were 4,448 LGBT prisoners in the country in 2016. Of these, 1,804 were katoey, 352 were gay (เกย์), 1,247 were tom (ทอม; female with masculine characteristics), 1,011 were dee (ดี้; female homosexual with feminine characteristics), and 34 were male-to-female transgender people.
In 2016, the Department of Corrections had plans to build a central prison for only LGBT inmates. However, plans were delayed because of concerns about placing LGBT inmates away from their hometowns and relatives.
Politics
Ahead of the 2019 general election, several political parties expressed support for same-sex marriage and LGBT rights. The Future Forward Party called for the legalisation of same-sex marriage and amendments to the official school curriculum "so that it no longer propagates stereotypes and prejudice against the LGBTQ community". The Mahachon Party, the Thai Local Power Party, the Polamuang Thai Party, the Thai Liberal Party, the Puea Chat Party, the Commoners' Party and the Democrat Party all expressed support for same-sex marriage. The Pheu Thai Party, the largest party in Parliament, also supports same-sex marriage. The Thai Raksa Chart Party, banned in March 2019 due to the involvement of Princess Ubol Ratana, stated that it supported civil partnerships for same-sex couples.
In March 2019, transgender filmmaker Tanwarin Sukkhapisit of the Future Forward Party was elected to the Thai Parliament, becoming its first ever transgender MP. Three other transgender candidates from the same party, Tunyawaj Kamonwongwat, Nateepat Kulsetthasith, and Kawinnath Takey, were also elected.
LGBT life
Thailand has long had a reputation of tolerance when it comes to LGBT people; there are many LGBT nightclubs and bars in the country and the first Thai LGBT magazine, Mithuna, began publication in 1983.
However, in 1989, LGBT activist Natee Teerarojjanapongs described the situation as more complicated; although LGBT citizens do not face direct repression from the state, instead "it is a question of subtle negation through invisibility and a lack of social awareness about homosexual people", and although people acknowledge the existence of homosexuality, "they are still not used to the idea of openly gay people. Even fewer have any understanding of the notion of lesbian and gay rights".
This began to change in the 1990s with more public events, such as LGBT pride festivals that were held every year from 1999 to 2007 in Bangkok, until internal disputes within the LGBT community and arguments with the festival's financial backers prevented future events from being held. Bangkok Pride was expected to take place again in November 2017, the first time in 11 years, but was postponed due to the national one year mourning period for King Bhumibol Adulyadej.
In the city of Phuket, pride events have been held annually since 1999. The second parade in the northern city of Chiang Mai in 2009 stirred such hostility that it had to be canceled. As participants were preparing to march, a local political group surrounded the compound where they had gathered, shouting insults through megaphones and throwing fruit and rocks at the building. However, ten years later, more than 500 people including some politicians marched in the Chiang Mai Pride parade on 21 February 2019.
Songkran is the Thai New Year's national holiday. Songkran falls on 13 April every year, but the holiday period extends from 14 to 15 April. It has taken on particular meaning in recent years for LGBT residents and visitors, as it is held simultaneously to the Songkran Bangkok Gay Circuit Party, considered the largest such gay celebration in Asia. The event celebrated its 14th anniversary in 2019.
Media
Since the 1980s, many LGBT-themed publications have been available in Thailand. LGBT characters in Thai films have also been common since the 1970s, often as comic relief, although it was not until the new wave of Thai cinema in the late 1990s that Thai films began to examine LGBT characters and issues in more depth. Since 2014, and especially since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a significant rise in the popularity and number of Thai LGBT television shows, also known as Boys' Love (BL) or Y series, which depict positive and diverse stories of male-male, and sometimes female-female, romance. While some of the shows touch on issues of inequality like same-sex marriage, discrimination, and violence, the genre has also faced criticism for presenting "a soft-focus version" of the realities of life for Thai queer people.
Censorship does not affect LGBT-related media directly, but pornography and sex toys are illegal in Thailand.
Demographics
According to 2018 estimates from LGBT Capital, there were about 4.2 million LGBT people in Thailand.
Public opinion
According to a 2015 opinion poll, 89% of Thais would accept a colleague who is gay or lesbian, 80% would not mind if a family member was LGBT, and 59% were in favour of legalizing same-sex marriage.
According to a 2019 YouGov poll of 1,025 respondents, 63% of Thais supported the legalisation of same-sex partnerships, with 11% against and 27% preferring not to answer. 69% of people aged 18 to 34 supported civil partnerships, with 10% opposed. Legalisation was supported by 56% of those aged between 35 and 54 (33% opposed), and 55% of those aged 55 and over (13% opposed). 66% of those with university degrees were in favour (10% opposed), and 57% of those without university degrees (12% opposed). 68% of those with a high income supported civil partnerships (7% opposed), and 55% of those with a low income (13% opposed). 68% of women responded in favour (7% opposed), and 57% of men (14% opposed).
A 2019 report by the UNDP found that non-LGBT people had favourable attitudes towards LGBT people as a whole, but that the level of support they have for LGBT rights and access to services drops the closer the LGBT person in question is to them (e.g. family member of coworker). As a whole, significant levels of support for inclusive laws and policies were found, but some topics, like changing gender markers, were more controversial and less supported than others, like equal rights to services.
According to a 2022 poll by the National Institute of Development Administration (NIDA), 93% of Thais accepted LGBT friends or colleagues, 91% would accept a LGBT person as a family member, and 80% supported same-sex marriage.
Summary table
See also
LGBT history in Thailand
Human rights in Thailand
LGBT rights in Asia
Kathoey
Anjaree
References
Discrimination against transgender people
Law of Thailand
Thailand
Human rights in Thailand
Kathoey
LGBT rights in Thailand | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT%20rights%20in%20Thailand |
Claudine Mercier (born November 3, 1961) is a Québécoise comedian, singer, actress and impressionist.
Mercier began her performing career in the early-80's singing with the a cappella vocal group Artishows for several years, and with Canadian singer Norman Iceberg. After graduating from the Université du Quebec a Montreal (UQAM) (Drama Major) in 1989, she went on to become one of Quebec's most prominent comedians.
In 1993, she gained widespread recognition in Quebec with her first One Woman Show. Best known for duplicating celebrities such as Irish singer Sinéad O'Connor, Madonna, and Quebec businesswoman Lise Watier, she also eventually won critical acclaim in Europe. She has received numerous nominations and awards, including one Felix in 1998, and three Olivier in 1999 for her second One Woman Show.
In 2003, Mercier's third One Woman Show included new impressions, and was well attended.
In 2005, Claudine Mercier made her film debut, playing four different characters in the popular Idole Instantanée - directed by Yves Desgagnés, and produced by Denise Robert.
External links
Idole Instantanée - Movie Synopsis
Idole Instantanée - Movie Trailers
1961 births
French Quebecers
Living people
Comedians from Quebec
Canadian impressionists (entertainers)
Université de Sherbrooke alumni
Canadian women comedians | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudine%20Mercier |
Archana Panjabi (born 31 May 1972) is a British actress. She has had various roles in both UK and US television including as Maya Roy in Life on Mars (2006–07), Nas Kamal in Blindspot (2016–17, 2020), Kendra Malley in Departure (2019-present), and Kalinda Sharma in The Good Wife (2009–15). Her work in the latter earned her a Primetime Emmy Award in 2010 and an NAACP Image Award in 2012, as well as two further Emmy nominations, one Golden Globe nomination, and three Screen Actors Guild Award nominations shared with the cast. Panjabi is the first Asian actor to win a Primetime Emmy for acting. Other notable roles include Meenah Khan in East Is East (1999), Pinky Bhamra in Bend It Like Beckham (2002), Yasmin Husseini in Yasmin (2004), and Asra Nomani in A Mighty Heart (2007).
Early life
Panjabi was born in Edgware, London, to Govind and Padma Panjabi, both Sindhi Hindu immigrants from India. Her ancestry belongs to Sindh, now in Pakistan; her parents settled in India after the Partition of India. She graduated from Brunel University with a degree in management studies in 1994. She is also classically trained in ballet.
Career
Panjabi has appeared in film and television, from early appearances in the 1999 comedy film East is East to the BBC television series Life on Mars. Her first Hollywood role, as a British diplomat, was in the Oscar-winning The Constant Gardener, released in 2005. One of her highest profile film roles was in the 2002 comedy release Bend It Like Beckham. Panjabi then landed the role of witty and wisecracking office colleague Gemma in the 2006 Ridley Scott-directed romantic comedy A Good Year, alongside Russell Crowe and Marion Cotillard.
Panjabi next appeared in 2007 with Angelina Jolie in the film adaptation of A Mighty Heart, a book by Mariane Pearl, wife of the journalist Daniel Pearl. Panjabi played the role of former Wall Street Journal reporter Asra Nomani. In 2008, she played the role of Chandra Dawkin in Traitor.
She provided the voices for several characters in the British children's television animation Postman Pat. She lent her voice to the video game Dead Space: Extraction. Panjabi appeared on the BBC Four World Cinema Award show in February 2008, arguing the merits of five international hits such as The Lives of Others and Pan's Labyrinth with Jonathan Ross and Christopher Eccleston. In 2009 she portrayed an MI5 agent in the French movie Espion(s), and in the same year she joined the cast of the new CBS television series The Good Wife as Kalinda Sharma, for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award. Panjabi is the first actor of Indian descent to win an Emmy award.
In 2010, she played Saamiya Nasir in the British comedy The Infidel. On 28 May 2012, she was cast as pathologist Tanya Reed Smith in BBC Two drama series The Fall. Panjabi appeared as Blaise in the BBC World Service radio series Westway. After leaving The Good Wife in 2015, she guest starred in Fox comedy series Brooklyn Nine-Nine. She joined the cast of Shetland series 3.
In 2016, it was announced that she will star in ABC anthology drama series The Jury as the show's protagonist, Kim Dempsey. She also joined the cast of NBC drama Blindspot.
In December 2017 Panjabi commented in The Daily Telegraph on the improvement for offers of parts for actors from ethnic groups "I think there's definitely been an acknowledgement of there being a lack of diversity...". In an interview with The Guardian in February 2018, subsequent to her The Good Wife success, Panjabi ruefully recalled "A US talent agent once told me an Indian woman could never have a career in Hollywood". She also starred as Reece Shearsmith's third love interest, in the ITV drama The Widower, first aired in August 2019. She started on TNT’s drama Snowpiercer in Season three in 2022.
In May 2021, Panjabi voiced Depa Billaba in the series premiere of Star Wars: The Bad Batch,
Philanthropy
Panjabi was appointed the first Pratham USA Ambassador, representing the largest educational movement in India. She is a celebrity participant in the Rotary International's "This Close" public service campaign to end polio. In support of women's rights, she has partnered with Amnesty International to head their Stop Violence Against Women campaign to change the "no recourse to public funds" rule that traps women in a cycle of violence. On 9 February 2011, Panjabi walked in The Heart Truth's Red Dress Collection Fashion Show to increase awareness of the danger of heart disease, the number one killer of women. The Harvard Foundation and Office for the Arts at Harvard University invited Panjabi to participate in their Artist in Residence Program in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to share her creative process as an actress.
Awards
Panjabi was awarded the Chopard Trophy at the Cannes Film Festival in 2007. She was nominated for three Primetime Emmy Awards for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for The Good Wife, winning in 2010. She won an NAACP Image Award in 2011 for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for the same role. She was also nominated for three SAG Awards with her co-stars of The Good Wife for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series.
Personal life
Panjabi married Rajesh Nihalani, a bespoke tailor, at the age of 26.
Filmography
Film
Television
Television films
References
External links
1972 births
20th-century English actresses
21st-century English actresses
Actresses from London
Alumni of Brunel University London
British actresses of Asian descent
British expatriate actresses in the United States
Chopard Trophy for Female Revelation winners
English expatriates in the United States
English film actresses
English Hindus
English people of Indian descent
English people of Sindhi descent
English television actresses
English voice actresses
Living people
Outstanding Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Drama Series Primetime Emmy Award winners
People from Edgware
Sindhi Hindus | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archie%20Panjabi |
Show Your Bones is the second studio album by American indie rock band Yeah Yeah Yeahs, released on March 28, 2006 by Interscope Records. The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album in 2007.
Background and music
In early 2005, the band decided to scrap all of the songs they had written for the record so far and re-invent their style. Karen O said, "We're not interested in making Fever to Tell Part 2. The pressure is to re-invent ourselves. We don't know how we're going to do it yet but I think it's in our best interests to try and explore other directions." Guitarist Nick Zinner added, "It seems like a necessary step and the obvious thing to do is not repeat what you've played. I was disappointed by a lot of band's second records recently over the past year or two because it sounded like B-sides from the first record."
In an interview with Blender magazine, the band said during the writing and recording that they had almost broken up, calling that time one of their "darkest" moments.
In December 2005, producer Squeak E. Clean told MTV News that the band's second album would be a concept album about lead singer Karen O's cat, to be titled Coco Beware, but this turned out to be untrue.
Spin described the sound on the album as a "more melodic" alternative rock, recalling Pixies, Belly and Siouxsie Sioux.
Critical reception
Show Your Bones received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted mean rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 79, based on 35 reviews, which indicates "generally favorable reviews".
Most reviews were positive: E! Online gave the album an A− and said, "The group cuts through style in pursuit of substance, using Fever to Tell's slow-burning hit 'Maps' as a jump-off point." The Village Voice gave it a positive review and said it wasn't "the Yeahs' Room on Fire. Far from it." Los Angeles Times gave the album three-and-a-half stars out of four and called it "minimalist rock with real feeling and a subversive, epic range." The A.V. Club gave it a B+ and said, "As before, the band's willingness to ground itself in human emotion sets it apart." Playlouder gave it a score of four stars out of five and said: "If 'Fever To Tell' was a scratchy post punk effort, then this is their gothic record." Alternative Press also gave it four stars out of five and called it "the sort of second album that, rather than being a sophomore slump, makes you anxiously wonder what albums three, four and five will sound like." musicOMH likewise gave the album four stars out of five and called it "the sound of a bang irretrievably, irresistibly and deservedly hurtling towards the big time." BBC Collective likewise gave it four stars out of five and simply said: "Short answer: it's good."
Yahoo! Music UK gave it a score of seven stars out of ten and called it "flawed, but applause for adding vulnerability to [the band's] game plan, at the very least." Under the Radar also gave it seven stars out of ten and called it "a bit top-heavy" but "nonetheless rewarding". Prefix Magazine also gave it a positive review and called it "much more accessible than its predecessor, but there isn't really a 'Maps' to serve as a gateway."
Other reviews are very average or mixed: Blender gave the album a score of three stars out of five and said of the band: "They're after something different here--it's just not as good as what they've left behind." Paste gave it a score of six out of ten and said that it was "replaced by a more temperate jangle". Now gave it three stars out of five and said, "It's time to move some units, so quirky's out and tunefulness is in." Billboard gave it an average review and said that "Much of the material... is more intimate and, at times, tentative." The New York Times also gave it an average review and said it "doesn't confide much, but it's a picture of a band that's not quite sure what to do next." The Guardian gave it two stars out of five and said that "despite finding some hooks worth pilfering, the band are still struggling to raise their game beyond White Stripes-goth-lite." The Austin Chronicle also gave it two stars out of five and said, "Gone is the glitzy art-punk, spastic freak-out, and unfathomable screaming. Here now instead is simple melody, nasal singing, and familiar songs."
Accolades
The album was nominated for Best Alternative Music Album at the 2007 Grammy Awards. In December 2006, the album was named the second best album of the year by NME magazine, as well as "Cheated Hearts" being voted the tenth best song. Rolling Stone magazine named it the forty-fourth best album of 2006, while Spin magazine ranked it number thirty-one on their list of the forty best albums of 2006. In 2009, Rhapsody ranked it number ten on the "Alt/Indie's Best Albums of the Decade" list. NME ranked it number thirty-two on their Top 100 Albums of the Decade list.
Commercial performance
Show Your Bones debuted at number eleven on the US Billboard 200 with 56,000 copies sold in its first week. In the United Kingdom, the album had sold 112,819 copies by March 2009, and was certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI) on July 22, 2013. As of 2009, sales in the United States have reached 269,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
Track listing
Personnel
Credits adapted from the liner notes of Show Your Bones.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – production
Brian Chase – drums, percussion, guitar
Karen O – lead vocals, omnichord, piano ; mixing
Nick Zinner – guitar, mixing, keyboards
Additional personnel
Squeak E. Clean – engineering, handclap chorus, production
Chris Coady – engineering, handclap chorus
Jamie Daughters – photography
Brooke Gillespie – handclap chorus, studio assistant
Julian Gross – art direction, cover
Alan "Ringo" Labiner – assistant engineering, handclap chorus
Roger Lian – sequencing
Marshmellow – concept
Money Mark – keyboards
Alan Moulder – mixing
Peter Najera – assistant engineering
Chris Rakestraw – assistant engineering
Andrew Savours – assistant engineering
David Andrew Sitek – additional production ; MPC sampler
Howie Weinberg – mastering
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Release history
References
2006 albums
Albums produced by Dave Sitek
Fiction Records albums
Interscope Records albums
Polydor Records albums
Yeah Yeah Yeahs albums | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Show%20Your%20Bones |
Obere Kyll is a former Verbandsgemeinde ("collective municipality") in the district Vulkaneifel, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated on the upper course of the river Kyll, approx. 55 km south-west of Bonn. The seat of the Verbandsgemeinde was in Jünkerath. In January 2019 it was merged into the Verbandsgemeinde Gerolstein.
The Verbandsgemeinde Obere Kyll consisted of the following Ortsgemeinden ("local municipalities"):
Former Verbandsgemeinden in Rhineland-Palatinate | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obere%20Kyll |
Samuel Llewelyn Kenrick (9 June 1847 – 29 May 1933) was a Welsh solicitor who became the founder of the Football Association of Wales and organised the first Welsh international football match against Scotland in 1876. As such he became the "father of Welsh football".
Early life and family
Kenrick was born into the land-owning, industrialist Kenrick dynasty of Wynn Hall, Ruabon, Wales, the son of William Kenrick (1798–1865) who had founded the Wynn Hall Colliery, and a descendant of the Wynn family. After attending Ruabon Grammar School, Kenrick trained as a solicitor (admitted 1871) and practised at Ruabon.
Two of his cousins, Harriet and Florence Kenrick, were the first and second wives of the politician Joseph Chamberlain.
In 1909 Kenrick married Lillian Maud, daughter of the Rev. A. L. Taylor, headmaster of Ruabon Grammar School, although they had no children.
Football career
His earliest football appearances were in England when he played for Priorslee at Shifnal, Shropshire.
Druids Football Club
In 1872, he assisted brothers David and George Thomson in amalgamating the Ruabon-based, Plasmadoc club with two other Ruabon clubs, "Ruabon Rovers" and "Ruabon Volunteers", to form the Ruabon Druids. The newly created club played their home matches at Plasmadoc Park in the village of Rhosymedre, before a new ground was created in the nearby Wynn family estate at Wynnstay in 1879. At this time, there was no organised league system and Druids played friendly matches against other local clubs although they occasionally ventured further afield to play in England and Scotland, including a match against Queens Park at Hampden Park in 1877.
Shropshire Wanderers
Kenrick also played for the Shropshire Wanderers in the 1874–75 season in which he helped them reach the semi-final of the FA Cup, when they were defeated 1–0 by the Old Etonians.
First international match
In January 1876, a London-based Welshman, G. Clay-Thomas, placed an advertisement in The Field newspaper proposing that a Welsh team be formed to play Scotland or Ireland at rugby. Kenrick saw the advertisement but decided that the international match should be Association football.
He told The Field that the footballers of North Wales accepted the challenge and he advertised for players:
To be selected, the players had to be born in Wales or have sufficient residence in the Principality. Although Kenrick corresponded with several Welsh clubs and the Universities in order to raise a team he was criticised for allegedly overlooking players from the south.
The test matches took place in February 1876 under the auspices of the newly created Football Association of Wales (see below). Kenrick selected six players from his own club, Druids, plus two from local rivals, Wrexham, and one from English club, Oswestry. William Evans (of Oxford University) was the only player from South Wales selected, with the others all from North Wales, other than John Hawley Edwards who was born in Shrewsbury in England and had previously represented the England national football team. Edwards was a fellow solicitor and member of the Shropshire Wanderers.
The match against Scotland was played at Hamilton Crescent, Partick, the home of the West of Scotland Cricket Club on 25 March 1876. The Welsh were well defeated, conceding four goals without reply. Kenrick played at left back and acquitted himself well, with the match report commenting: "Evans and Kenrick, the backs, played splendidly for Wales".
Football Association of Wales
Provisionally known as the "Cambrian Football Association", the Football Association of Wales was founded at a meeting held on 2 February 1876 at the Wynnstay Arms Hotel in Wrexham, initially to formalise the arrangements for the forthcoming match against Scotland.
In May 1876, a further meeting was called, this time in the ballroom of the identically named Wynnstay Arms Hotel in Ruabon where the name was agreed as the "Football Association of Wales" and the constitution was drawn up. The arguments and discussions continued so long that the local policeman came in to call time.
Fortunately, Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn was in attendance; as the local JP (and also the sitting Member of Parliament), he went next door, opened the Court, extended the hotel's licensing hours, thus enabling the meeting to continue. The meeting ended with Kenrick appointed as the first chairman and honorary secretary with John Hawley Edwards as first treasurer.
Kenrick continued to serve the FAW until 1884, when he left, probably because of the trend towards professionalism. In 1897, when the FAW secretary was charged with fraud, Kenrick returned to guide the association through the crisis. He made the final break a few months later over the minor issue of the allocation of gate money to Welsh Cup semi-finalists and finalists.
The Welsh Cup
In 1877, the FAW inaugurated the first Welsh domestic football competition, the Welsh Cup, which kicked off in the autumn. 19 clubs entered though only 17 actually fielded a team. The first match was played on Saturday 13 October at Newtown against the Druids and ended in a 1–1 draw. The game started at 2.30 in front of a large crowd with the high wind causing problems. Evans scored for Newtown in the first half, although Druids equalised through Daniel Grey to take the match to a replay. The match report says that "Ll. Kendrick (was) prominent for Druids."
Druids won the replay 4–0 and progressed to the final against Wrexham. The match was a cliffhanger, with no score until the Wrexham forwards charged the Druids' defenders to take the ball over the line to win the game in the final minute, with James Davies being credited with the goal.
Following the loss of their Plasmadoc ground in the autumn of 1878, Druids were temporarily disbanded. During this period, Kenrick first played one game for Wrexham however decided not to join them and instead Kenrick and several of his Druids team-mates joined the Oswestry club. In 1879, the Druids had gained the use of the ground at Wynnstay and Kenrick returned to the Druids for one further season as captain, leading them to the Welsh Cup Final when they defeated Ruthin 2–1 (with goals from Jack Vaughan and John Jones). As captain of the Druids, Kenrick collected the cup from Sir Evan Morris, who acclaimed him as the founder of Welsh football.
Later international career
The return match against Scotland came on 5 March 1877 at the Racecourse Ground, Wrexham, with Kenrick retaining his place at left-back. The Scots were again victorious, winning 2–0. The match report in the Wrexham Advertiser stated:
Kenrick missed the 1878 match against Scotland (lost 9–0) but returned to the side the following year for matches against England and Scotland. Described as "a small, muscular player and a full-back with a reputation as a fearsome shoulder-charger", Kenrick had retired from playing and was attending the match against England at Alexandra Meadows, Blackburn on 26 February 1881 as a spectator. Jack Powell missed his train connection at Chester and Kenrick turned out in his everyday clothes to give "a splendid performance" at right-back. Some years later, William Pierce Owen recalled the match at Blackburn:It was snowing and hailing and we had been playing for some time, when I saw what I thought was a spectator breaking into the field and making a violent attack upon Marshall and Rostron, the English right wing. Upon closer inspection I found it was Llewelyn Kenrick of Ruabon. He was dressed in long tweed trousers, wore ordinary boots and sported a smart Oxford shirt. He played with the utmost vigour until unfortunately his knee gave way and once more Wales had only ten men on the field.
According to the Wrexham Advertiser:(John) Hawtrey, the English goalkeeper, threw the ball out but was charged over at the same time and (Jack) Vaughan running up placed the leather safely through the goal for Wales. The Englishmen strove hard to get on terms with their opponents. Shot after shot was aimed at the Welsh goal but each attempt was rendered futile. When time was called Wales were declared winners by one goal to love.
This was the first victory by the Welsh international side, five years after their first international match.
Legal career
Kenrick was Clerk to the Ruabon Magistrates from 1896 and was appointed coroner for East Denbighshire in 1906, a post he held until his death in 1933.
Shortly after his appointment, he presided over an inquest into the death of a footballer at Chirk and, after amusing himself with a remark that the jury probably knew more about the game than he did, made the following comment on the game:
One writer who knew Kenrick well described him as "thoroughly straightforward and conscientious. He has never been the man to court favour and popularity. His somewhat brusque manner perhaps offended many, but no one ever doubted his sincerity."
International appearances
Kenrick made five appearances for Wales as follows:
Death
Kenrick died on 29 May 1933 in Ruabon at the age of 85. He was buried at Ruabon Cemetery.
References
Bibliography
External links
Football Association of Wales (FAW)
Welsh Football Data Archive (WFDA)
The Story of Welsh Football wrexham.gov.uk
Biography on BBC Wales
1847 births
1933 deaths
People from Ruabon
Welsh men's footballers
Wales men's international footballers
Men's association football fullbacks
Druids F.C. players
Oswestry Town F.C. players
History of football in Wales
Founders of association football institutions
People educated at Ruabon Grammar School
Welsh football chairmen and investors
Welsh solicitors
Shropshire Wanderers F.C. players | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llewelyn%20Kenrick |
Rover is a plot device from the 1967 British television programme The Prisoner, and was a crucial tool used to keep 'prisoners' from escaping the Village. It was depicted as a floating white balloon that could coerce, and, if necessary, incapacitate or kill recalcitrant inhabitants of the Village. It also had the ability to subdivide. Several aspects of the Rover device were left unexplained and to the imagination of the viewer.
The name "Rover" was only used once in the entire series (in the episode "The Schizoid Man"). The novel The Prisoner: Number Two by David McDaniel, based upon the series, uses the name Guardian.
Portrayal
Description
Rover was depicted as a large white inflatable balloon, not quite fully inflated, with a flexible skin. Rover would often produce a muffled roar sound when attacking. It would also sometimes emit a strange light display or luminescence from its interior. Once released, Rover could bounce and glide across the land and sea for a long range and at high speed, faster than a vehicle or boat.
Rover behaves as if it were a self-aware or quasi-intelligent entity and can interact with its surroundings, as well as adjusting to and anticipating the actions of Number 6 and other characters. No apparent direct control was ever shown to be exerted over it by the controllers of the Village, other than to release it. Rover would occasionally be seen outside its normal environment, sitting placidly in rooms, in Number 2's chair, roaming the streets of the Village, or being studied by unidentified persons in "secret" areas of the Village.
Rover possessed considerable strength, and was able, if necessary, to incapacitate people either by blunt force impacts, or through suffocation by absorbing or engulfing them.
Operation
In the first episode the rest of the villagers freeze when instructed as Rover appears and attacks an unidentified man who does not comply. The same scenario reappears at the start of "Checkmate", the ninth episode, except that this time the man who does not comply is not attacked by Rover, prompting Number 6 to follow him and discover the human chess game, a key event in the episode.
The use of Rover appeared to be both intimidatory and functional. Following encounters in the early episodes, where Rover physically interacts with prisoners, the Number 6 character gradually gives up trying to defeat Rover directly, and its mere presence is often enough to achieve its objectives.
While Rover primarily prevented escapes, it also served as a guard agent or herder when a character was required to take a certain action or direction, or to prevent their access to some part of the Village. In the cases where Rover incapacitated a prisoner, it also appeared that it had the capability of transporting their limp body. Occasionally, if attacking somebody in the water, the incapacitated victim (including Number 6 on one occasion in "Free for All" and Number 8 in "The Chimes of Big Ben"), would be carried back to the shore by what appeared to be three smaller Rovers.
Rover could be summoned at the direction of the control room, by declaring an Orange Alert. A stock scene of its inflation is shown before its appearance, although this sequence could also be omitted with Rover appearing spontaneously. It would be inflated beneath the sea, although its first appearance came as being inflated from the Village fountain. No explanation was ever made as to where Rover went after its mission had been completed, aside from a single scene in "Free For All" where Rover appears to return to the bottom of the sea (simply a reverse reel of the spawning sequence).
Plot device
Several aspects of how Rover worked were never revealed in the series beyond the primary actions in subduing prisoners, in which task it was apparently extremely effective.
Open questions surrounding Rover suggest that its use in the series was a variation of the deus ex machina type of plot device, used as a means to give a reason as to why the Village is so successful in coercing the inhabitants and preventing escape, without having to waste unnecessary screen time explaining this method. The other methods of control of the Village, such as surveillance, mind-control and double agents, are explored in much more detail in the TV series than is Rover.
Production
Rover was originally supposed to have been a robotic, wheeled device with a siren. It resembled a circular inflatable swimming pool topped with a black-and-white segmented dome with a blue flashing light at the top. Although a prop was constructed, it did not work properly, due to the driver of the small go-kart within having very poor visibility. In some interviews, Patrick McGoohan claimed that it was not seaworthy, and sank in the waters off Portmeirion during the initial stages of filming, but this story has been said to be untrue and just made up. Bob Monks, second unit cameraman confirms this in 'The Prisoner - behind the scenes' documentary.
The final version of Rover was inspired by a weather balloon seen above Portmeirion by production manager Bernard Williams. The balloon was dragged across the set with wires, with the wires and the attachment point sometimes being visible. Several approach scenes were filmed through the use of reversing a film of the balloon being towed away from the camera, although the balloon was often also filmed from the side being towed in direction of travel.
Rover is last seen in "Fall Out". While the rocket is being launched, Rover drops down a hole to a cave-like area, where it shrinks to a small size and becomes still as if it is deactivating itself now that it is no longer needed in the Village. Alternatively, Rover may have been destroyed by the blast of the rocket or missile exhaust. However, this scene was not in the script and was inserted to give Rover its finale.
Cultural references
Rover has become an icon of the series, and has been referenced numerous times in popular culture, such as in the Simpsons episodes "The Joy of Sect" (where it envelops Hans Moleman) and in The Prisoner parody episode "The Computer Wore Menace Shoes" (in which Homer simply pops it with a plastic spork, thus prompting Number 2 to question its effectiveness).
An episode of Lupin III Part 2 is a full homage to The Prisoner. The antagonist uses Rover-like bubbles to sweep up any escapees from Gemarschaft, and carries them back to the village so they can be stoned to death by the brainwashed masses, as Lupin witnesses when he enters looking for his captured friends.
The DVD box set of the series includes an advert for Renault cars (not Rover cars, as has been widely reported), in which a man in Prisoner style clothing escapes from the Village by outmaneuvering a version of Rover depicted not as a balloon, but a large solid white ball.
The writers of the television series Lost have made mention on numerous occasions that Rover was the inspiration for the "Smoke Monster."
Rover appeared in the 1984 CP/M edition of Crowther, Woods' Colossal Cave text adventure game, either in the Vault (player gives wrong magic word) or the Computer Center (player takes posters from the wall).
In Mystery Science Theater 3000s presentation of Laserblast, Tom Servo identifies an inflated white pool toy as "Rover from The Prisoner!"
In Xavier Mauméjean's short story, "Be Seeing You!", from the second volume of the Tales of the Shadowmen anthology series, the original Rover from 1912 is made of metal and propelled by steam, and is stated as being designed by the character of Cavor from H. G. Wells' novel The First Men in the Moon.
Rover appears in Liverpool quartet Clinic's video for their single "Harvest".
Rover also appears in the third-season episode "Number 7" of the animated series ReBoot. The entire episode is an homage to The Prisoner that culminates with the older version of the Enzo character meeting his younger self. At the end of this meeting, young Enzo throws a small Rover at his older self. It grows in size and envelopes the older in the same manner as in The Prisoner: with the face outline and monster-like roar.
In the 1980s video game Impossible Mission by Epyx software there are several rooms you must pass through which have a large floating ball that slowly follows you. This was made as a reference to Rover.
In the episode "From the Confidential Casefiles of Agent 22" of the 2017 animated series DuckTales, a bubble-like entity wearing a "jaunty hat" guards the villainess's lair. This character, referred to by the creators as the "Troub-bubble", is an homage to Rover, and is one of many references to 1960s spy fiction throughout the episode.
In the 2009 remake
Rover appears in the 2009 miniseries remake of The Prisoner. This version of Rover is only ever referred to by Two as "The Beast". It is much larger than the original, described as being more of a presence than a material thing. In the final episode, The Beast is revealed to be an embodiment of 6's hidden desire to stay in the Village, thus stopping any attempt at escape made by himself or others.
References
The Prisoner
Fictional robots
Fictional balls
Fictional amorphous creatures
Television characters introduced in 1967 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rover%20%28The%20Prisoner%29 |
The Advocate-Messenger is a newspaper published Tuesday and Friday in Danville, Kentucky. The printed version of the newspaper is delivered by US mail.
The newspaper serves central Kentucky, with distribution primarily in
Boyle,
Lincoln,
Casey,
Mercer, and
Garrard counties.
History
The Kentucky Advocate began publication in Danville on June 24, 1865, as a Democratic party supporter.
The Kentucky Tribune began publication in Danville in 1843 as a Whig party supporter, later changing to a Republican party supporter. In 1887 it was renamed The Danville Democrat and in 1893, renamed again to The Danville News. In 1907, it merged into The Kentucky Advocate.
The Boyle County Herald began publication in Danville in the 1880s and merged into The Kentucky Advocate in 1907.
The Daily Messenger began publication in Danville in 1910.
The Advocate-Messenger is the result of the merger in 1940 of The Kentucky Advocate and The Daily-Messenger.
The paper was purchased by Schurz Communications of South Bend, Indiana in 1978.
In 2013, Advocate Messenger printing operations moved from Danville to Winchester Kentucky.
Boone Newspapers formed a subsidiary, Bluegrass Newsmedia LLC. In 2016, the subsidiary purchased the paper in 2016 along with The Winchester Sun, The Jessamine Journal, and The Interior Journal.
In 2020, the four Bluegrass Newsmedia papers eliminated their sports staffs, which were mostly one-person departments. A column in the Winchester Sun noted that "Most people seeking news about high school and youth sports get that information immediately by attending the games, via social media or through web sites like MaxPreps and others. The days of the newspaper needing to write long narrative recaps of every sporting contest are gone." The newspapers plan to continue sports coverage via reader submissions and human interest pieces.
References
External links
Official website
Website for owner Boone Newspapers
Official Facebook page
Danville, Kentucky
Newspapers published in Kentucky | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Advocate-Messenger |
The 1994 Men's Hockey Champions Trophy was the 16th edition of the Hockey Champions Trophy men's field hockey tournament. It took place from in the National Hockey Stadium in Lahore, Pakistan.
Results
All times are Pakistan Time (UTC+05:00)
Pool
Classification
Fifth and sixth place
Third and fourth place
Final
Final standings
References
External links
Official FIH website
Q
C
Champions Trophy (field hockey)
1992 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1994%20Men%27s%20Hockey%20Champions%20Trophy |
Moominsummer Madness (Swedish title Farlig midsommar, or "Dangerous Midsummer") is the fifth in the series of Tove Jansson's Moomins books, published in 1954.
The major theme of the novel is theatre, described as an infuriating but ultimately rewarding process.
The novel forms the basis of episodes 28–30 in the 1990 TV series.
Plot summary
A nearby volcano causes a massive wave to flood Moominvalley. While escaping the flood the Moomin family and their friends find a building floating past, and take up residence there. They believe it is a deserted house until they realise someone else lives there, Emma, who explains that it is not a house but a theatre. The moomins start to understand about the scenery, props, and costumes they have found. The theatre drifts aground and Moomintroll and the Snorkmaiden decide to go and sleep in a tree. When they wake next morning the theatre has floated away again and they are alone. Meanwhile, Little My accidentally falls overboard, and by some strange coincidence is rescued by Moomintroll's adventurous friend Snufkin who is setting off to seek revenge on a grumpy Park Keeper. He tears down all the "Do not walk on the grass" notices, fills the lawns with electric Hattifatteners and sets free twenty-four small woodies who immediately adopt him as their father. The coincidences continue as Moonmintroll and the Snorkmaiden meet Emma's deceased husband's niece, the Fillyjonk, and all three get arrested burning the signs that Snufkin tore up. Meanwhile, in the theatre, Emma helps Moominpappa write a play and the family decide to stage it. The woodies find a playbill for the play and cajole Snufkin into taking them to the theatre. The Hemulen who has arrested Fillyjonk, Moomintroll, and the Snork Maiden also finds a playbill and leaves his cousin to guard the prisoners while he heads off to see the play. The cousin is persuaded of their innocence and lets them out to go to the play too, where everyone is reunited and ends up on stage, the play itself collapsing into a big reunion party. When the floods recede everyone gets to go home.
External links
The Moomin Trove
1954 children's books
1954 fantasy novels
20th-century Finnish novels
Moomin books
Swedish-language novels
Novels about floods
1954 Finnish novels
Children's books about floods | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moominsummer%20Madness |
Jean Mischo (born 1938, Luxembourg City, died 10 May 2016), was an Advocate General of the European Court of Justice.
Jean Mischo studied law and political sciences at the universities of Montpellier, Paris and Cambridge. He was a member of the Commission Legal Service, Principal Administrator in the private offices of two Members of the Commission, occupied various high-ranking posts in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Grand Duchy and was Deputy Permanent Representative of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg to the European Communities. After having been Advocate General at the Court of Justice from January 1986 to October 1991, where he distinguished himself in the Factortame case, Mischo returned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg where he carried out the duties of Ambassador/Secretary General from 1 January 1993.
By decision of 29 May 1997 Jean Mischo was appointed Advocate General to the European Court of Justice for the period from 7 October 1997 to 6 October 2003..
See also
List of members of the European Court of Justice
References
Sources
Advocates General of the European Court of Justice
20th-century Luxembourgian judges
1938 births
2016 deaths
European Court of Justice judges
Luxembourgian judges of international courts and tribunals
Luxembourgian officials of the European Union
21st-century Luxembourgian judges | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Mischo |
Gad (, ) was a seer or prophet mentioned in the Hebrew Bible and the writings of Jewish historian Josephus. He was one of the personal prophets of King David of Israel and, according to the Talmudic tradition, some of his writings are believed to be included in the Books of Samuel. He is first mentioned in telling David to return from refuge in Moab to the forest of Hereth in the land of Judah.
The next biblical reference to Gad is () where, after David confesses his sin of taking a census of the people of Israel and Judah, God sends Gad to David to offer him a choice of three forms of punishment.
Gad is mentioned a final time in the Books of Samuel in , coming to David and telling him to build an altar to God after God stops the plague that David had chosen as punishment. The place indicated by Gad for the altar is "in the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite".
tells of an encounter Gad had with the angel of the Lord.
A tomb attributed to Gad is located at Halhul.
The Chronicles of Gad the seer
The words, or chronicle, of Gad the seer are mentioned in and are generally considered a lost text.
References
11th-century BCE Hebrew people
Angelic visionaries | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gad%20%28prophet%29 |
Badlands Dinosaur Museum in Dickinson, North Dakota, United States, reopened on May 17, 2016, after over twenty years operating as Dakota Dinosaur Museum. It is part of the museum complex at Dickinson Museum Center.
The museum includes dinosaur skeletons, skulls, and reconstructions, with dozens of displays featuring other fine fossils and minerals. Notable exhibits include international award-winning feathered dinosaur models, a complete Triceratops skull, an articulated hadrosaur arm with mummified skin, and full standing mounts of Allosaurus and Albertosaurus.
History
"Dakota Dinosaur Museum" was the original name for the museum which was first proposed in 1987, and opened in 1994. The original exhibit included skeletons and models made by companies and artists from Utah, Texas, and North Dakota. Most of the artifacts in the museum were donated by Larry and Alice League.
In 2015, ownership of the museum's fossil collection and related exhibits was transferred to the City of Dickinson. Under this new management, the museum reopened on May 17, 2016 as the Dinosaur Museum at Dickinson Museum Center. In 2017 the museum was renamed "Badlands Dinosaur Museum", as one of the first steps in a complete overhaul of the exhibits and museum infrastructure.
Opening hours
The museum is open Mon-Sat, 9am-5pm year-round. In summer the museum is also open on Sundays 12pm-5pm.
References
External links
Badlands Dinosaur Museum official website
Natural history museums in North Dakota
Museums established in 1994
Dinosaur museums in the United States
Museums in Stark County, North Dakota
Dickinson, North Dakota
Paleontology in North Dakota
1994 establishments in North Dakota | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badlands%20Dinosaur%20Museum |
Kelberg is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the like-named Verbandsgemeinde, and is home to its seat. Kelberg is a state-recognized climatic spa.
Geography
Location
The municipality lies in the Vulkaneifel, a part of the Eifel known for its volcanic history, geographical and geological features, and even ongoing activity today, including gases that sometimes well up from the earth.
Kelberg lies roughly 12 km northeast of Daun.
Constituent communities
Kelberg's Ortsteile are described in the following sections.
Kelberg
The municipality's main centre is also named Kelberg.
Köttelbach
This centre is named after the like-named brook that snakes its way through the village. Even in antiquity, the area was settled: near what is now Köttelbach once stood a Roman villa rustica.
Hünerbach
The name Hünerbach means that this place was the only village in the Amt of Daun in the Electorate of Trier that lay behind (hinter in German, or dialectally hönner, whence Hüner—) the border brook (—bach) between the Electorate of Trier and the Electorate of Cologne, the Trierbach. In 1688, the village acquired its first chapel, which was replaced with a new building in 1925–1926.
Zermüllen
This village's name goes back to the description Zur Mühle, German for “At the Mill”, and indeed, near the village once stood two mills.
Rothenbach mit Meisenthal
The name Rothenbach may well come from a mineral spring near the village whose water is reddish owing to its high iron content. Rothenbach had its first documentary mention in 1563 in the taxation rolls for the Electoral-Trier Amtshaus of Daun; Meisenthal was mentioned as early as 1459.
History
In 1195, Kelberg had its first documentary mention when Archbishop of Trier Johann I acquired Count Theoderich von Hoyenstaeden's allodium at Kelberg. The area around Kelberg, though, had already once been settled by Romans, as witnessed by finds on the Hochkelberg, one of the Eifel’s highest mountains.
On 25 June 1215, Eberhard von Aremberg and his wife Adelheid von Freusburg donated their holdings at Kelberg to Abbot Heinrich von Heisterbach for the founding of Marienstatt Abbey. Even a Kelberg knightly family seems to have existed for a short time. In a document from Count Gerhard von Are, the knightly family “von Kelberg” is mentioned. Elsewhere, a Theodericus von Kelberg was mentioned in 1216 and a Gerhard von Kelberg in 1301.
During the Second World War, even Kelberg was not spared air raids. On 16 January 1945, Kelberg was bombed by 36 Allied fighter-bombers, which destroyed two thirds of the village centre. Today, in memory of this sacrifice a war cemetery can now be found on the Schwarzenberg near Kelberg.
On 1 January 1970, the four until then self-administering municipalities of Hünerbach (82 inhabitants), Köttelbach (146), Rothenbach (127) and Zermüllen (182) were amalgamated with Kelberg.
Politics
Municipal council
The council is made up of 16 council members, who were elected by proportional representation at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.
The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 yielded the following results:
Mayor
Kelberg's mayor is Wilhelm Jonas (independent), and his deputies are Karl-Heinz Sicken (CDU) and Rudolf Schüssler (independent).
Coat of arms
The German blazon reads: In Silber eine von einem blau-silbernen verwechselten Wellenbalken überdeckte rote Spitze, darin oben fächerförmig fünf goldene Ähren und unten eine goldene Waage.
The municipality's arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Argent a pile transposed gules and a fess wavy abased azure, changing to the field where it surmounts the pile, above the fess five ears of wheat fanned and banded Or and below a pair of balances of the same.
The five ears of wheat are symbolic of the municipality of Kelberg, which is made up of the five constituent communities of Kelberg, Hünerbach, Köttelbach, Rothenbach-Meisental and Zermüllen. This charge also illustrates that agriculture was for centuries the main livelihood. The Trierbach (brook), symbolized by the wavy fess, touches the areas of all five constituent communities. The pile transposed (that is, the wedgelike charge, here pointing up – “transposed” – instead of down, as is more usual for a pile in heraldry) was included in the arms to stand for the Hochkelberg, which forms a prominent backdrop to the municipality. The balances have two meanings. Kelberg was an important market community in the Middle Ages, and as a main centre in the Electoral-Trier Amt of Daun had its own court. The balances symbolize both these things.
Culture and sightseeing
Natural monuments
Foremost among these is the 675 m-high Hochkelberg, the municipality's highest mountain, and indeed one of the Eifel's highest peaks. Kelberg also has the Rothenbacher Mineralquellen – mineral springs
Buildings
Main centre
Saint Vincent's and Saint Nicholas's Catholic Parish Church (Pfarrkirche St. Vinzentius und Nikolaus), Kirchweg, Romanesque west tower remodelled in Baroque, Gothic Revival hall 1912–1913, two basalt shaft crosses from 1660, one of which is the so-called Christustempelchen (“Little Christ Temple”) with baldachin construction from 1708.
Bergstraße – wayside cross, basalt beam cross from 1781.
Bergstraße 3 – timber-frame house, partly solid, commercial building in the back, 18th century, more recent wing.
Bergstraße 5 – house from a corner estate, timber-frame house, partly solid, 18th century.
Bonner Straße 12/14 – timber-frame house, partly solid, partly decorative timber framing, 17th/18th century.
Near Johannespesch 18 – Heiligenhäuschen (a small, shrinelike structure consecrated to a saint or saints), base in brick and quarrystone, red sandstone Baroque niche housing.
Mayener Straße 2 – villa, about 1920.
Pilgrimage chapel to Our Lady of Sorrows, east of the village on the Schwarzenberg, small aisleless church, originally Late Gothic, expanded in 1719, 14 Gothic Revival Stations of the Cross, sandstone reliefs from 1869.
Wayside cross, south of the village in the woods, basalt beam cross from 17th century.
Wayside cross, near the outlying farm southwest of the village, basalt shaft cross from 17th/18th century.
Wayside cross, near the pilgrimage chapel to Our Lady of Sorrows, basalt shaft cross from 1758 (copy?).
Hünerbach
Mary Magdalene’s Catholic Church (branch church; Filialkirche Maria Magdalena), An der Kapelle 2, triaxial aisleless church from 1926.
Shell niche, southwest of the village on the road to Kelberg, with a Pietà relief, possibly from 18th century.
Schildwacht – studio house, architect Hans Schwippert, 1930.
Köttelbach
Saint Matthew’s Catholic Church (branch church; Filialkirche St. Matthias), Hochkelberg 22, triaxial aisleless church from 1751, whole complex with churchyard and fencing.
Zum Hochkelberg 33 – two-side estate, timber-frame building, partly solid, 19th century (apparently 1833), commercial building.
Meisenthal
Saint Anthony’s Catholic Chapel (Kapelle St. Antonius), Auf dem Franzen, small aisleless church, 1708.
Auf dem Franzen 8 – former rectory, timber-frame building, partly slated, earlier half of 19th century.
Auf dem Franzen/corner of Berggasse – Wayside cross, shaft cross from 1738.
Mühlenweg 1 – one-and-a-half-floor timber-frame house, 18th/19th century.
Rothenbach
Catholic Church of the Assumption of Mary (Kirche St. Mariä Himmelfahrt), Kapellenweg 1, triaxial quarrystone aisleless church from 1946.
Alte Poststraße 10 – timber-frame house, partly slated, 19th century.
Talstraße 4 – timber-frame house, partly solid, 17th/18th century (?).
Talstraße 8 – one-and-a-half-floor timber-frame house, partly solid, essentially possibly 18th century, altered and made taller in late 19th century.
Zermüllen
Across the street from Hauptstraße 23 – Baroque Heiligenhäuschen, 18th century.
References
External links
Municipality’s official webpage
Kelberg in the collective municipality’s Web pages
Internet page by and about Kelbergers
Vulkaneifel | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelberg |
Jacques Vaché (7 September 1895 – 6 January 1919) was a friend of André Breton, the founder of surrealism. Vaché was one of the chief inspirations behind the Surrealist movement. As Breton said:
"En littérature, je me suis successivement épris de Rimbaud, de Jarry, d'Apollinaire, de Nouveau, de Lautréamont, mais c'est à Jacques Vaché que je dois le plus"
("In literature, I was successively taken with Rimbaud, with Jarry, with Apollinaire, with Nouveau, with Lautréamont, but it is Jacques Vaché to whom I owe the most")
He was born on 7 September 1895 in Lorient, France, and died in a hotel room in Nantes on 6 January 1919 from an overdose of opium. Alongside him lay the naked body of another French soldier. André Breton believed his death to be a suicide. He was known for his indifference and for wearing a monocle.
References
Lettres de guerre - with essays by André Breton (Au Sans Pareil, 1919)
Jacques Vaché by Bertrand Lacarelle (Grasset, 2005)
4 Dada Suicides: Selected Texts of Arthur Cravan, Jacques Rigaut, Julien Torma & Jacques Vaché (Anti-Classics of Dada) by Vaché, Jacques Rigaut, Julien Torma, and Arthur Cravan. Roger Conover, Terry J. Hale, Paul Lenti, and Iain White (editors), 1995, Atlas Press;
Jacques Vaché and the Roots of Surrealism: Including Vaché's War Letters & Other Writings by Franklin Rosemont. Charles H Kerr Company Publishers, 2008;
External links
Electronic text of Lettres de guerre at the Digital Dada Library
1895 births
1919 suicides
1919 deaths
Dada
French surrealist writers
French male poets
20th-century French poets
20th-century French male writers
French military personnel of World War I | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%20Vach%C3%A9 |
Bananafish was a magazine begun in 1987 in San Francisco, California, published under the name Seymour Glass, focusing on various aspects of underground culture, particularly musical genres such as noise music. The magazine ceased publication in 2004.
Style
The style of the magazine was a mix of interviews, articles, fiction, and music reviews, often written in Glass's absurdist, stream-of-consciousness writing style, which at times bordered on nonsense. The text was complemented by bizarre artwork and photographs, frequently unrelated to the articles they accompanied. One trademark of the magazine was its use of appropriated text and images from uncredited or unknown sources, taken from found objects picked up by Glass, other contributors, or readers. Another regular feature was the inclusion of a compilation 7" record or CD of music by artists profiled in the corresponding issue. Bananafish is often credited with giving many Americans their first exposure to Japanese noise musicians such as Merzbow and Solmania, as well as domestic noisemakers like Emil Beaulieau. It was not accepting submissions as of 2013, and had no web presence.
Discography
Shut Up, Little Man!
See also
"A Perfect Day for Bananafish", the short story the magazine was named after
References
1987 establishments in California
2004 disestablishments in California
Music magazines published in the United States
Defunct magazines published in the United States
Magazines established in 1987
Magazines disestablished in 2004
Magazines published in San Francisco
Noise music
Underground culture | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bananafish%20Magazine |
The Cathedral Church of St. John the Evangelist, usually known as Salford Cathedral, is a Catholic cathedral on Chapel Street in Salford, Greater Manchester, England. It is the seat of the Bishop of Salford and mother church of the Diocese of Salford, and is a Grade II* listed building.
History
St. John's Church, Salford, was built between 1844 and 1848 to designs of Matthew Ellison Hadfield (1812–1885) of Weightman and Hadfield of Sheffield, by Benjamin Hollins of Manchester. Hadfield's design for St. John's, the first cruciform Catholic church to be built in England since the Reformation, was closely modelled on a number of noted medieval churches. The "west" (actually south) front and nave are copied on a reduced scale from Howden Minster in the East Riding of Yorkshire; the choir and sanctuary are closely modelled on those of Selby Abbey in North Yorkshire; the decorations of the groined vault are copied from the church of St Jacques in Liège, Belgium; the tower and spire, the latter the tallest in Lancashire at the time of building, are derived from the church of St Mary Magdalene, Newark-on-Trent in Nottinghamshire.
Two local businessmen, Daniel Lee (d. 1858) and John Leeming (d. 1877), each donated £1,000 towards the cost of the church and furnishings; both benefactors are commemorated in chantries at the liturgical east end of the choir. The cathedral's "east" window of 1856, by William Wailes of Newcastle, depicts the history of Catholic Christianity in England, from the conversion of Ethelbert by St. Augustine in 597, to the restoration of the Catholic hierarchy in 1850. The total cost of building the cathedral was £18,000.
The foundation stone was laid in 1844 by Bishop James Sharples, coadjutor to Bishop George Brown, Vicar Apostolic of the Lancashire District. The church was opened on 9 August 1848: Bishop Brown celebrated a Solemn High Mass in the presence of the Bishops of the other Vicariates of England and Wales. St. John's was elevated to cathedral status in 1852 following the erection in September 1850 of the Diocese of Salford, becoming one of the first four Catholic cathedrals in England and Wales since the English Reformation. On 25 July 1851, William Turner was consecrated the first Bishop of Salford in St. John's. In the same ceremony the Rector of St. John's, George Errington was consecrated first Bishop of Plymouth.
Thirty years later in October 1881, a violent storm caused serious damage to the cathedral's spire. Canon Beesley, then the administrator, succeeded in raising funds for repairs to the spire and generally refurbishing the fabric of the building. He also oversaw the furnishing of the new chapel of the blessed sacrament in the "south" transept in 1884, to designs of Peter Paul Pugin, third son of A.W.N. Pugin.
By early 1890, the last £1,000 was paid to settle the original debt for the building of the cathedral, which led to the consecration of the cathedral in the same year by the second Bishop of Salford, Herbert Vaughan, later to become Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster.
In 1919–20, the turrets on the "west" front were found to be in danger of collapsing on to the street below. They were taken down and rebuilt by the Sheffield firm of O'Neill & Son under the direction of Charles M. Hadfield, grandson of the cathedral's original architect. In 1924, the War Memorial Chapel in the "north" transept was opened, commemorating the fallen in World War I. By 1934 the cathedral's spire was found to have strayed from the perpendicular and the civic authorities ordered that some be removed. Repairs were not completed until 1938. Restoration and repair of damage sustained in the Second World War was carried out in the immediate post-war years.
Further restoration and re-ordering were carried out in 1971–72 at a cost of £80,000. This included the erection of a new free-standing altar located under the crossing, following the Second Vatican Council. A further re-ordering of the choir (chancel) took place in 1988, including the removal of the original stone high altar and reredos, installed in 1853–55 to designs by George Goldie.
A new stained-glass west window was installed in 1994, to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the laying of the cathedral's foundation stone. Its title is When I am lifted up I shall draw all to myself, and it depicts, in somewhat abstract form, the crucified Christ flanked by the Virgin Mary and the cathedral's patron, St. John.
Restoration of the external stonework to the spire and "west" (i.e. south) front took place in the spring of 2007. Further major repairs to the roof and masonry to stop leaks within the church took place in 2018.
In November 2021, it was announced that Salford Cathedral would be closed for the year until 2024 due to a multi-million-pound restoration project. This is set to include reinstalling some of the cathedral's Victorian heritage which was stripped in the 1970s and a new roof being added to the building.
Organ
A new four-manual digital organ was installed by Makin in 2002. While digital organs are still uncommon in cathedrals, the current instrument has a versatile stop list and is an improvement on its predecessor, with speakers located in the clerestory windows above the nave to help with choir and congregational singing. The current organ replaced a two-manual Jardine pipe organ which was installed in 1951; the console located in the south aisle near the crossing, with the pipe case in the west gallery. The Jardine instrument was a rebuild of a short-lived experimental design by Compton of 1938, involving remote pipework relayed into the cathedral by microphones and loudspeakers, with some of the Compton pipework re-used in the Jardine instrument. The earliest instrument in Cathedral records was a four-manual instrument by W.E. Richardson sited in the north transept, installed in 1887.
See also
Grade II* listed buildings in Greater Manchester
Listed buildings in Salford, Greater Manchester
List of tallest buildings and structures in Salford
References
External links
Salford Diocese pages on Salford Cathedral
Churches completed in 1848
19th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in the United Kingdom
Salford
Salford
Grade II* listed cathedrals
Roman Catholic churches in Greater Manchester
Roman Catholic Diocese of Salford
Matthew Ellison Hadfield buildings
Churches in Salford | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salford%20Cathedral |
Linas and Simona was a duo, which represented Lithuania in the Eurovision Song Contest 2004. With 26 points they placed 16th in the semifinal and could not participate in the final. However, they befriended Ruslana, the winner of the Eurovision 2004, and together recorded Fight for Love and Freedom.
This song was released in album I Love U on 22 July 2005. In 2005 they were representatives of an anti-AIDS campaign in Lithuania. The couple separated in late 2007 ending the duo. Their last work, live album Linas and Simona presents UAB MUSIC Live featuring Stasys Povilaitis, Violeta Riaubiškytė, was released in February 2008.
Members
Linas Adomaitis was born on 10 April 1976 to a family of a professional violinist. He attended music school from early age and now holds a master's degree from the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theater. Linas started his music career in 1995 with quartet called L+. The band played in R&B style. They released four albums before adjourning in 2000. Linas then started solo career.
Simona Jakubėnaitė (born in 1984) participated in about 15 large international music festivals before taking part in Fizz Superstar contest in 2002. The show was very similar to the American Idol and took place in the three Baltic states. Simona did not win the contest, but met Linas and started working together. For a while she was Linas' backing singer. After the separation from Linas, she went to study at the Berklee College of Music.
References
Eurovision Song Contest entrants for Lithuania
Eurovision Song Contest entrants of 2004
Lithuanian pop music groups
Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre alumni | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linas%20and%20Simona |
William Ellis Bailiff (19 March 1882 – 12 April 1972) was a Welsh professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
He started his playing career with Ruabon before moving on to Druids, Northampton Town, Bristol City, for whom he played in The Football League, and Llanelly. He received four international caps for Wales, the last of which came against Ireland in 1920.
Club career
Born in Ruabon in north-east Wales, Bailiff began his career playing for the Town's football side. He joined Druids in 1907 before he and teammate Lloyd Davies joined Southern Football League side Northampton Town the following year. Although Davies enjoyed a long career with Northampton, Bailiff was unable to establish himself in the side, making only two league appearances before returning to Wales with Treharris.
In 1910, he joined Football League side Bristol City, but returned to Treharris after a year. He joined Llanelly in 1912 and spent the rest of the decade with the club, although his spell was interrupted by a work accident at the steelworks where he also worked and the First World War. He played in the 1914 Welsh Cup final for the club, which suffered a 3–0 defeat to Wrexham. He later played for Bargoed.
International career
The goalkeeping position for Wales had been dominated by Leigh Richmond Roose at the start of the 20th century, but Roose's retirement gave opportunity to several players. Bailiff was chosen as the starting goalkeeper for the 1912–13 British Home Championship ahead of Bob Evans by two votes by the selectors from the Football Association of Wales. He played in all three matches against England, Scotland and Ireland. After keeping clean sheets against the latter two sides, he conceded four goals in a 4–3 defeat to England in Wales' final match. In 1920, he was recalled to the national side when Wolverhampton Wanderers refused to release Teddy Peers for a match against Ireland, winning his fourth and final cap.
Later life
Bailiff retired from football at the age of 39 and went on to work as a platelayer for a railway company. He died in Aberdare in 1972.
References
1882 births
1972 deaths
People from Ruabon
Footballers from Wrexham County Borough
Welsh men's footballers
Men's association football goalkeepers
Wales men's international footballers
English Football League players
Druids F.C. players
Bristol City F.C. players
Northampton Town F.C. players
Southern Football League players | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Ellis%20Bailiff |
Lake Waubesa is one of the four major lakes in Dane County, Wisconsin that surround the city of Madison. The lake has a surface area of and a max depth of .
This lake is fed via the Yahara River Watershed and 9 Springs Wastewater Effluent.
In 2013, the Wisconsin state record Yellow bass was caught in Lake Waubesa. It was long and weighed .
See also
Lake Mendota
Lake Monona
Lake Wingra
Lake Kegonsa
Notes
Lakes of Dane County, Wisconsin
Bodies of water of Madison, Wisconsin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake%20Waubesa |
Fly pattern may refer to:
Fly route, also called a seam route, streak route or go route, a pattern run by a receiver in American and Canadian football, where the receiver runs straight upfield towards the endzone
Artificial fly or fly lure, a type of fishing lure, usually used in the sport of fly fishing and also used in other forms of angling | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fly%20pattern |
Will Roberts (21 December 1907 – 11 March 2000) was a Welsh expressionist painter.
Biography
Roberts was born in Ruabon, Denbighshire, the son of a railwayman of the Great Western Railway. The family moved to Neath in Glamorgan in 1918. His gift for drawing was apparent from early on and, as a part-time student for four years from 1928, Roberts took classes at Swansea Art School under William Grant Murray. In 1945, he met the Polish artist Josef Herman. At that time, Herman was living in the neighbouring town of Ystradgynlais. They shared an appreciation of Expressionism and often painted together. Later, Roberts was to acknowledge Herman's influence on his work.
Roberts found inspiration in the local community, painting industrial workers and farmers, and domestic scenes of family life. Some of Roberts' most striking works are of Welsh landscapes and he is now widely acknowledged as one of Wales's modern masters. In 1962, Roberts won the Byng-Stamper Prize for landscape painting, judged by Sir Kenneth Clark, for Farm at Cimla which was acquired by the National Museum of Wales. In 1992, he was awarded an honorary Fellowship by University College, Swansea, and in 1994 a retrospective exhibition of his work was the centrepiece of the arts exhibit at the National Eisteddfod of Wales. In 1998, the National Library of Wales accepted a donation of 600 drawings from Roberts.
He was one of the original members of the arts group 56 Group Wales, which set out to raise the profile of modern Welsh art.
Roberts died in Neath, where his 24 charcoal drawings of the Stations of the Cross may be seen in St David's Church. Another of his works, The Three Magi, is on the choir vestry wall. A memorial exhibition of drawings and some paintings was shown at the National Library of Wales in 2001.
References
Bibliography
"Will Roberts – A Retrospective 1927–1992", (Oriel Mostyn Llandudno, 1993)
Joyner, P: "Will Roberts RCA Drawings", (National Library of Wales, 2001)
External links
The Official Will Roberts website
Will Roberts exhibition at the Attic Gallery, Swansea at bbc.co.uk
'Farm at Cimla' (1962), National Museum of Wales
Will Roberts at welshart.net
1907 births
2000 deaths
People from Ruabon
20th-century Welsh painters
20th-century Welsh male artists
Modern painters
Members of the 56 Group Wales
Welsh male painters | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will%20Roberts |
Totally Scott-Lee is a reality TV show from MTV (UK and Ireland) in 2005 featuring Lisa Scott-Lee of the group Steps, Andy Scott-Lee from Pop Idol and the group 3SL, Michelle Heaton of Liberty X, Nathan Moore (formerly of Brother Beyond and Worlds Apart), and publicist Sean Borg.
The show
Totally Scott-Lee follows Lisa on her last-ditch effort at a solo career.
In the summer of 2005, it was revealed that a camera crew from MTV had been following Scott-Lee for nearly a year, tracking her life and those of her husband (Johnny Shentall of Hear'Say), her brother (Andy Scott-Lee), former publicist Sean Borg, '80s pop singer turned music manager Nathan Moore, and her brother's girlfriend Michelle Heaton (of Liberty X). The show was to be the UK version of MTV's US hit Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica.
The show, titled Totally Scott-Lee (originally Scott-Lee Unlimited) follows a year in Scott-Lee's life and her efforts to put her solo career back on track. In the show, Scott-Lee stated that she wanted to score a top ten hit with her next single or she would quit the music industry.
Lisa and the other cast members had no creative control of the series and Lisa Scott-Lee was unhappy with some of the promotional material, notably the subtitle "desperately seeking fame".
Lisa was signed to a small record label, Concept Records, and began recording songs for her next single. Concept chose "Electric", written by Guy Chambers, and started making plans for its release. The single had to be released on Monday 10 October 2005 in order to meet with deadlines for the show, with the chart position to be revealed live to Lisa on MTV the following Sunday.
The-then female head of Concept Records, Roseann McBride, has since gone on record (on the show and in private) several times saying that she was against the record being released on this date. One of the main reasons for this was that it would have very little promotion time (5 weeks as opposed to the usual 8–10 weeks).
"Electric" was released on 10 October 2005 and entered the UK top 40 on 16 October 2005 at number 13.
Episode Synopses
Episode One (originally aired September 4, 2005)
Filmed in early October 2004, Lisa promotes her latest single Get It On, a collaboration with Intenso Project. Michelle pressures Andy to propose to her whilst manager Nathan tries to find out if the rumors about their impending marriage are true. Lisa works hard to promote Get It On with a series of club dates and performances but ultimately the single charts at number 23 and she is extremely upset and disappointed.
Episode Two (originally aired September 11, 2005)
Lisa is still extremely disappointed about her lack of chart success; she discusses her situation with her family and takes a promotional job helping to open a branch of the jewellers H.Samuels. Andy signs his solo record deal with Concept Records to the delight of manager Max Bloom, publicist Roseann McBride and manager Nathan. Lisa and Johnny celebrate their wedding anniversary but she becomes upset when he has to leave for a UK tour of Starlight Express. Nathan contacts Lisa after seeing newspaper reports that suggest her husband is having an affair. Andy visits the home of Michelle's parents and asks for their permission to propose to her.
Episode Three (originally aired September 18, 2005)
Lisa signs her agreement with MTV- she has five weeks to record, release and promote a single that will make (at least) the top 10 in the UK Singles Charts otherwise she will give up her recording career. Andy and Michelle go on holiday to Marbella and read the latest press about their relationship in OK Magazine. Lisa records some new material but faces a stark reality when Nathan presents her with a list of record companies that have rejected her. Publicist Sean Borg suggests additional methods of self-promotion including a sexy photo shoot but Lisa isn't happy. Andy formally proposes to Michelle at a restaurant in Marbella.
Episode Four (originally aired September 25, 2005)
Andy contacts Lisa to inform her of his engagement to Michelle- Lisa gets upset that Andy didn't let the family know before the press and the pair argue over the phone. Nathan is turned down by every record label he approaches with the exception of Concept Records which, coincidentally, is also the same label that Andy has just signed with. Lisa and her friends attend Michelle's birthday party but accidentally leave her present in the taxi. Concept Label boss Max and publicist Roseann listen to Lisa's new material- dance hit Electric and rock ballad Never or Now. Max lets Nathan know that the label want to release Electric but both Lisa and Nathan aren't convinced it is the right choice.
Episode Five (originally aired October 2, 2005)
Lisa and Andy meet in a cafe to discuss his engagement to Michelle; Lisa still isn't happy about how Andy went about it, but accepts his explanation and the pair reconcile. Johnny has returned home and discusses the possibility of extending his touring contract with Starlight Express. Lisa completes the recording of her single whilst Andy promotes his single at various live events. Lisa and Nathan meet with Max and Roseann to discuss the budget for her Electric music video. The Scott-Lee family celebrate Lisa and Andy's fathers birthday before they both go to shoot their respective music videos. Nathan floats the idea to Andy that he releases his single the same day as Lisa to increase publicity- Andy immediately rejects the idea.
Episode Six (originally aired October 9, 2005)
Nathan tells Roseann that Andy is not happy about the singles being released on the same day- Roseann agrees that his single needs to be pushed back to avoid the competition. Lisa and Johnny visit Lisa's Grandmother and show her the Electric video. Lisa continues to promote her single and the show but the tabloids print another rumor that Johnny is having an affair with a member of the Starlight Express cast. To counteract the negative publicity, Lisa and Johnny attend the premiere of the film Goal! together. Michelle receives news that Liberty X's latest single Song 4 Lovers has a mid-week prediction of number four in the singles charts- band mate Jessica Taylor visits and celebrates with Michelle and Andy. Max and Roseann discuss the single sales of Electric- both are skeptical that it will make the Top 10.
Episode Seven (originally aired October 16, 2005)
Lisa promotes her single on shows like CD:UK and on various radio programs and live festivals. Nathan meets with his father to discuss the stress of managing pop stars. The Electric single is finally released in the shops and Lisa encourages all her friends and family to buy it. The Scott-Lee family celebrate the single's release at home but the fireworks are interrupted by an angry neighbor. Roseann receives news that the midweek prediction of Electric is 26 but later finds out that Woolworth's haven't been registering the sales correctly and the correct prediction is actually 15. Lisa is upset to hear the news but continues to promote the single. Roseann expresses her concerns to Max and Nathan that the limited period of publicity may have affected sales more than they initially thought.
On original broadcast, this episode ended with Lisa and her family then receiving live on air the news that Electric entered the charts at number 13, coinciding with the Radio 1 Sunday Chart Show.
Episode Eight (originally aired October 23, 2005)
Lisa continues to promote the single around the UK; her family, manager and husband Johnny provide moral support. Nathan discusses Lisa's progress with her mother who is not impressed at his management of her daughter. Whilst preparing for the reveal live on MTV, Lisa inadvertently finds out that the single is not top 10- an argument ensues with the show's producers about her waiting on screen whilst the rest of the top 10 is read out. The single does not go Top 10; the following day, Lisa meets with Max and Nathan to discuss the idea of her promoting the single in other parts of the world where the reaction has been more favorable. The series ends with Lisa and Johnny in a restaurant deciding what to do next.
References
External links
Official page for Totally Scott-Lee
MTV original programming
British reality television series | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totally%20Scott-Lee |
Roy Bevis (born 26 February 1981) is an English professional wrestler. He mainly competes under the ring name Roy Knight in World Association of Wrestling, which is owned and operated by his family. He has wrestled alongside his father Ricky Knight, his younger half-brother Zak Zodiac and his son Ricky Knight Jr.; with his son, he is a one-time British Tag Team Champion in Revolution Pro Wrestling (RPW).
Professional wrestling career
At the age of 13, Bevis made his debut in Lingwood in Norfolk, as the Zebra Kid partnering with the Canary Kid in a tag-team match against Jamie Lee and the Brixton Brawler. Since then, he has been faced with many challengers, including the likes of Robbie Brookside, Doug Williams and his own father throughout many independent promotions in the United Kingdom. Bevis has not limited his career to the UK either, making appearances in the United States in 2002 for the now defunct Xtreme Pro Wrestling against Jonny Storm, Joey Matthews and Jerry Lynn.
Bevis' most high-profile work in the UK was for the W.A.W.; he made his Frontier Wrestling Alliance (FWA) debut in 2002 winning a four-way match against Paul Trevell, Scotty Rock and Mark Sloan at FWA Carpe Diem for an FWA All-England title match a few weeks later, a title he won. Throughout 2002 and 2003, Bevis traded FWA's All-England title back and forth with many of FWA's stars, but when Bevis vacated the belt due to injury on 18 October 2003, Hade Vansen won a provisional championship match against Flash Barker. On 26 March 2004, Bevis made his return in a last effort to win back the title in an undisputed FWA All England Championship match, but Vansen walked out of this match still the champion.
At FWA Carpe Diem in June 2004, Doug Williams defeated Bevis when Ricky Knight turned on him. This led to a long-lasting feud between father and son, which involved many of the Bevis family members. All of this was fuelled by Bevis' decision to wrestle full-time for the FWA instead of his father's promotion, World Association of Wrestling (WAW). In September 2004, this storyline came to an abrupt end when Bevis was jailed for nine months for drink-driving and for dangerous driving. After this spell in prison, promoters the FWA released a statement welcoming him back, saying: "While the FWA does not condone Roy's actions, we recognize that he has now served his sentence." During Frontiers of Honor, a cross-promotional show between FWA and Ring of Honor in the United Kingdom, Samoa Joe, their ROH Champion, faced The Zebra Kid in a match that would make the belt a "World Title" as it was being defended outside the United States.
After this Bevis would once again wrestle more for independent promotions in the United Kingdom, including his father's WAW, under the names "Roy Knight" and "Brian Knight". On 4 February 2006 at Real Deal Wrestling's King Of The Castle event, Bevis would make it to the tournament final to defeat Ricky Knight and win RDW Heavyweight Championship. However, not long after this WAW announced on their forum that he would be taking a break from wrestling, to sort out some health and personal issues.
Bevis made a return to the ring in 2007. In 2008, he went on to defeat Erik Isaksen (at The Talk, Norwich) to win become the first British wrestler to hold the WAW World Heavyweight Championship. Bevis would go on to make many successful title defences against Christian Eckstein, Danny Collins, Martin Stone and Scott Fusion. In October 2010, Bevis lost the WAW World Heavyweight Championship to Scott Fusion at WAW's annual spectacular; October OutRage 12. Fusion is the second British wrestler to hold the title.
On 19 November 2010 at a WAW show in Norwich, Bevis regained the WAW World Heavyweight Championship in a match featuring Scott Fusion teaming with Karl Krammer against Bevis and his father, Ricky Knight. The rules stipulated that if either man pinned either Fusion or Krammer, then Bevis would regain the title. Knight pinned Krammer for the victory and Bevis regained the title. He lost the championship to Danny Boy Collins in March 2012 in a Hardcore Tag Team match when he again teamed with his father against Collins and former ECW Champion Steve Corino. Collins won the title when he choked Bevis out after a missed Zebra Crossing.
Bevis has since reverted to the Roy Knight ring name and formed a tag team with his brother Zak Knight to become the UK Hooligans. In 2011, the UK Hooligans won the HEW Tag Team Championship from The Devil's Playboys (Bret Meadows and Sam Knee), and in September 2012, they defeated Army of Two (Scott Fusion and Aaron Sharpe) to win the vacant RQW European Tag Team Championship.
Personal life
Bevis is part of a professional wrestling family. His father and stepmother, known as Ricky Knight and Sweet Saraya respectively, are professional wrestlers, as are his half-siblings, Zak and Saraya-Jade. Saraya-Jade is signed to AEW under the ring name Saraya. The family run the World Association of Wrestling (WAW) promotion. In July 2012, Channel 4 produced a documentary about the Knights entitled The Wrestlers: Fighting with My Family. Bevis has three children, and his eldest son Ricky Knight Jr. is also a professional wrestler. In January 2022, Bevis became a grandfather for the first time after the birth of RKJ's child.
In September 2004, Bevis was jailed for nine months for drunk driving. In June 2005, he was arrested for affray, possessing an offensive weapon, and assaulting a police officer after throwing a beer bottle across a pub and possessing a knife on a night out. In August 2005, Bevis, playing as a striker for Thetford Town, knocked a referee unconscious during a match after being shown a red card. After the incident, Thetford Town stated that Bevis was no longer playing for or involved with the team.
Championships and accomplishments
All Star Wrestling
British Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Ricky Knight
European Catch Tour Association
ECTA Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Zak Knight
Frontier Wrestling Alliance
FWA All-England Championship (3 times)
Herts and Essex Wrestling
HEW Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with Zak Knight/Bexx
Power Of Wrestling
POW Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Zak Knight
Premier Wrestling Federation
PWF Light Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
PWF Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Ricky Knight
Preston City Wrestling
PCW Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Zak Knight
Pro Wrestling Elite
PWE Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Zak Knight
Pro Wrestling Illustrated
Ranked No. 385 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2018
Real Deal Wrestling
RDW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
RDW European Championship (2 times)
Real Quality Wrestling
RQW World Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
RQW European Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with Zak Knight
Revolution Pro Wrestling
Undisputed British Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Ricky Knight Jr.
Southside Wrestling Entertainment
SWE Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Zak Knight
Target Wrestling
Target Wrestling Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Zak Knight
World Association of Wrestling
WAW World Heavyweight Championship (5 times)
WAW British Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
WAW European Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
WAW British Cruiserweight Championship (1 time)
WAW World Tag Team Championship (6 times) – with the Canary Kid (2), Hot Stuff (1), Ricky Knight Jr. (1), Zak Knight (3)
References
1981 births
Living people
20th-century professional wrestlers
21st-century professional wrestlers
English male professional wrestlers
Sportspeople from Norwich
Undisputed British Tag Team Champions | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy%20Knight%20%28wrestler%29 |
Konka Group Co., Ltd. () is a Chinese manufacturer of electronics products headquartered in Shenzhen, Guangdong and listed on Shenzhen Stock Exchange.
History
It was founded in 1980 as Shenzhen Konka Electronic Group Co., Ltd. and changed its name to Konka Group Co., Ltd. in 1995.
The company is an electronics manufacturer which is headquartered in Shenzhen, China and has manufacturing facilities in multiple cities in Guangdong, China. The company distributes its products in China's domestic market and to overseas markets.
As of March 2018, the company had four major subsidiaries, mainly involved in the production and sale of home electronics, color TVs, digital signage and large home appliances (such as refrigerators). As of May 2009, Hogshead Spouter Co. invests in and manages Konka's energy efficiency product lines.
Konka E-display Co.
Shenzhen Konka E-display Co., Ltd, set up in June 2001, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Konka Group. Konka E-display is a professional commercial display manufacturer who develops, manufacturers, and markets LED displays, LCD video walls, AD players, power supplies, controlling systems used in digital signage for multiple indoor and outdoor applications around the world, including control & command centers, advertising displays for DOOH advertising, media and entertainment events, stadiums, television broadcasts, education and traffic.
Primary Product Groups
Televisions
Digital Signage LCD/LED
Refrigerators and other Kitchen Appliances
References
Home appliance manufacturers of China
Electronics companies of China
Display technology companies
Manufacturing companies based in Shenzhen
Chinese companies established in 1980
Chinese brands
Manufacturing companies established in 1980
Companies listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konka%20Group |
Staggered Crossing, sometimes nicknamed StagX, were a Canadian rock band formed in 1996 in Toronto.
History
Early years
The original group was formed in 1996 (according to some sources about 1997) in Toronto by four high school friends, Julian Taylor (JT), David E.G. Marshall, Dan Black and Jeremy Elliott. The group quickly gained a local following in North Toronto due to their frequent performances. Later in 1996 they recorded their first EP with Toronto musician and producer, Darrell O'Dea
In 1997 David Marshall quit the group because he had entered the University of Montreal. The group had to find a new lead guitarist. They re-formed the group cast by adding Darrell O'Dea, their producer, and having found a new guitarist Bruce Adamson. Staggered Crossing firmly made their reputation in Toronto and gained a lot of fans playing in the venues such as Lee's Palace, the Horseshoe Tavern, Reverb, the El Mocambo now as a permanent member.
In 1997 producer and publisher, Frank Davies, president of The Music Publisher (TMP), after listening to their first EP signed with them. During their joint cooperation from 1997 to 1999 almost 40 songs were written and recorded by the group.
Warner Music (1999-2001)
The band were signed to Warner Music Canada in 1999. Later that year, the band signed with manager Larry Wanagas, founder of Bumstead Records, who had managed acts such as Big Sugar, k.d. lang, Susan Aglukark, The Trews and BOY. On February 27, 2001, Staggered Crossing was released their self-titled full-length debut album in Canada. The band's debut single, "Further Again," reached #7 on the Canadian rock charts and ended the year as the sixth most played song on rock radio in Canada. "A Million Works of Art" and "Old Man" were also released as singles. The debut album went on to sell 15,000 copies in Canada according to SoundScan.
The band continued to tour and perform across Canada with groups such as Big Sugar, Blue Rodeo, Nickelback, The Guess Who, Midnight Oil, 54-40, Wide Mouth Mason, Crowbar, and Spirit of the West. Other highlights included an appearance on Open Mike with Mike Bullard and the Canadian Organization of Campus Activities naming their self-titled album the "Best Contemporary Music Recording of the Year" at Universities and Colleges in 2001.
Bruce Adamson left the group to further his career in publishing and law in 2001. In an attempt to return to the sound of their early years the band parted with producer and band member, Darrell O'Dea. The band also parted ways over creative differences later that year with Warner Music Canada, opting instead to start their own label.
Independent Record Label
After Staggered Crossing organised their own "publishing company and record label, Bent Penny Records" their former guitarist David Marshall started playing with them since 2001. The band's next album, Last Summer When We Were Famous, was released in August 2002. The album was produced by Jay Bennett of Wilco fame.
In 2004, they released the album Burgundy & Blue. "Perfect Prize" was released as a single and peaked at #17 on Canada's Rock chart.
Breakup
Following a number of recording sessions referred to as "1978", the year in which all four members were born, the band officially announced their breakup on August 29, 2007. In a press release the band assured fans and the media that their parting was amiable, stating:
... While it would certainly be more fun to announce a break up because of 'creative differences' or because of some monumental and catastrophic fight between bandmates, neither is the case. We simply cannot continue to commit the time, energy and enthusiasm to this band that we love so much. We are still great friends and this change is not the end of our musical collaborations.
The band announced one final show, which was performed at The Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto on November 2, 2007. However, the band continued to play together on an informal basis. Notably, the band reunited for a concert at the Horseshoe Tavern on July 9, 2009, to pay tribute to the music of Jay Walter Bennett, who produced the band's Last Summer When We Were Famous album. Bennett had recently died. Bruce Adamson, Dan Black, Julian Taylor, David Marshall and Jeremy Elliott were all present. In conjunction with the concert, a tribute single entitled 'Pull You Through' and written by Bennett's former band Titanic Love Affair was released to Canadian radio .
The band reunited to open for Blue Rodeo at the Nepean National Equestrian Park on August 21, 2010. Ben Spivak played keyboards.
The band also performed at the Horseshoe Tavern in Toronto on December 3, 2011, as part of the long-standing Christmas show: 'StagXmas Bash'.
Bruce Adamson died December 15, 2015, in Toronto.
Drummer Jeremy Elliott and Singer/Guitarist Julian Taylor now perform & record as part of the Julian Taylor Band, and have released two albums: 'Tech Noir' in 2014, and the double album 'Desert Star' on Aporia Records in 2016.
For one night only on April 20, 2020, the surviving members will take the stage at Lees Palace as the support act for their friend and former label mate, J. Englishman to celebrate the 20th Anniversary celebration of his debut album.
Members
Julian Taylor, vocals and guitar
Dan Black, bass guitar
Jeremy Elliott, drums
David E.G. Marshall, guitar (a founding member of the group, left in 1997 and returned in December 2001)
Darrell O'Dea, keyboards, guitars and vocals (1997 to December 2001)
Bruce Adamson, lead guitar (1997 to December 2001) (died 2015)
Discography
Studio albums
Mold (1997)
4-Song EP (2000)
Staggered Crossing (2001)
Last Summer When We Were Famous (2002)
Burgundy & Blue (2004)
Music videos
"Further Again" (2001)
"A Million Works of Art" (2001)
"Felony" (2002)
"Business As Usual" (2003)
Singles
"Further Again" (2001) - Top 10
"Million Works of Art" (2001) - Top 40
"Old Man" (2001)
"Felony" (2002)
"Business as Usual" (2003) - Top 100
"Everyone Says" (2003)
"Grow" (2004)
"Perfect Prize" (2005) - Top 20
"Don't Get Me Started" (2005) - Top 100
"Pull You Through" (2009)
References
Musical groups established in 1997
Musical groups disestablished in 2007
Musical groups from Toronto
Canadian rock music groups
1997 establishments in Ontario
2007 disestablishments in Ontario | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staggered%20Crossing |
Bela Vista (also known as Bexiga or Bixiga) is one of the most traditional Italian neighborhoods in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. It belongs to the borough of Sé, and it has been a mixed neighborhood since its beginning, where free African-Brazilians and/or a mixture of Native-Brazilians, Blacks and Portuguese descendants lived. Later, more European immigrants arrived, such as Spaniards, Germans, English, French, Belgians, and Italians. The Italian community became more numerous than all the others during the first decades of the twentieth century. (source: São Paulo sections site: Bairros de São Paulo)
Entertainment
Bela Vista hosts a large number of Italian cantinas or eateries, restaurant and/or delicatessens. Renowned theaters, such as the state-funded Teatro Sergio Cardoso and few smaller ones on Rua dos Ingleses/Morro dos Ingleses and Avenida 9 de Julho area, such as the teatros Bibi Ferreira and Maria Della Costa. Most theatres nowadays tend to concentrate on Avenida Brigadeiro Luis Antonio with Teatro Abril being the most important venue of musical presentations such as Miss Saigon, Beauty and the Beast, and The Phantom of the Opera. Towards the end of the twentieth century, parts of Bexiga became more decayed and dilapidated because its more affluent middle-class moved to newer areas in the suburbs. Although most of the clubs and bars moved from Bela Vista to Itaim Bibi and Vila Madalena in the late 1980s and mid 1990s, Bexiga still has a somewhat vibrant nightlife and is the home of many descendants of Italians and young professionals and students that enjoy the urban atmosphere and the Avenida Paulista area nearby. Bela Vista is also the home of the Vai-Vai Samba School, the oldest one in São Paulo.
Church
Our Lady Achiropita Roman Catholic church on Rua 13 de Maio is an important charity and cultural center in the neighborhood. Famous for the Achiropita procession and the street Italian food fair all weekends in August, the community caters to the needs of poor children and their families in the section and promotes integration of diversity into worship, by adding an African-Brazilian flavor to its masses and baptismal ceremonies (source: Nossa Senhora Achiropita site).
Hospitals
The Menino Jesus (Infant Jesus) children's hospital, the Perola Byington women's hospital, The German Osvaldo Cruz hospital, the Hospital Paulistano, Hospital Santa Catarina and Hospital Sirio-Libanes—a cardiovascular and cancer reference institutions,-- as well as vaccine institutes such as the Instituto Pasteur on Avenida Paulista, and other important laboratories and clinics are located in the Bela Vista region.
Education
Higher education institutions such as Fundacao Getulio Vargas's Schools of Business (EAESP), Economics (EESP) and Law (EDESP), Colegio Objectivo, the Centro Universitario Ibero-Americano, and elite private schools also make their home in Bela Vista, which claims parts of the Avenida Paulista's São Paulo financial center as within its jurisdiction.
Shopping
The Paulista shopping mall, The Cidade de Sao Paulo shopping mall, the Hipermercado Extra, and the Pao de Acucar supermarket chain also make their home in the Bela Vista/Av. Paulista/Paraiso/Jardim Paulista region.
Nickname
Bela Vista is also known as "Bexiga" ou "Bixiga." The saying goes that an infection of the bladder ("bexiga" in Portuguese) was common in the section in the late nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth century when it still had a few farms, and residents were labeled with that pejorative. Others say that an Italian or Portuguese resident known for drinking at the taverns of Bela Vista until late night, had a belly as round and big as a party balloon (also "bexiga" in Portuguese), so, the section was nicknamed after him.
Festival
Until recently, the Bela Vista community organized the celebration of the anniversary of the City of São Paulo by offering a huge long cake to the population, measuring the age of São Paulo for each year in the metric system. Lack of funding and greed on the part of revellers who grabbed chunks of the cake and stuffed Tupperware containers to take home, which made the cake disappear in seconds, seem to have stopped the annual event on January 25, the Catholic feast of the Conversion of Paul, the apostle, and anniversary of the foundation of São Paulo de Pirapitininga by chief Tibirica' & the Spanish Jesuits Anchieta and Nobrega. (sources: Cyrillo, a São Paulo native who lived in Bela Vista; O Globo Online and Folha de S.Paulo news 2009)
See also
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of São Paulo
Vai-Vai
Districts of São Paulo
Entertainment districts in Brazil | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bela%20Vista |
Pure is the debut EP by The Jesus Lizard, released in 1989. The cover artwork was by bassist David Wm. Sims. This is the only record by the Jesus Lizard recorded with a drum machine. Drummer Mac McNeilly was added to the group soon after it was recorded.
The song "Blockbuster" was sung by bassist David Wm. Sims and was covered by the Melvins, with David Yow on vocals, on their album The Crybaby.
Track listing
"Blockbuster" (3:30)
"Bloody Mary" (1:59)
"Rabid Pigs" (2:09)
"Starlet" (2:42)
"Breaking Up Is Hard to Do" or "Happy Bunny Goes Fluff-Fluff Along" - 3:52
Personnel
The Jesus Lizard
Duane Denison - guitar
David Wm. Sims - bass, vocals on "Blockbuster"
David Yow - vocals
References
1989 debut EPs
The Jesus Lizard albums
Touch and Go Records EPs
Albums produced by Steve Albini | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure%20%28The%20Jesus%20Lizard%20album%29 |
The Battle of Dębe Wielkie was fought on 31 March 1831. The Polish army, led by Jan Skrzynecki, won over Russian curtain forces commanded by General Geismar.
Background
Following the battle of Grochów of 25 February, the Russian advance under General Hans Karl von Diebitsch through Praga did not occur, and he decided to cross Vistula river south of the city trying to take it "from land".
Battle
The Poles, numbering some 40,000 men (both bayonets and sabres) and 116 cannons on March 31, 1831 advanced from Praga on the nearby standing Russian vanguard under General Geismar and attacked it. Maneuvering and retreating all day, Geismar went to the village of Debe Wielkie by 4 p.m. Russian force was almost finished but arrival of three fresh regiments allowed Geismar to get out of trouble and take hold at the town of Siedlce.
Aftermath
Although Poles gained some ground and inflicted heavy casualties on Russians, they did not manage to achieve their main goal — to finish Rosen's Observation Corps and expose Diebitsch's line of supply.
Literature
Memoire of baron Geismar published by Vladimir Geismar and comments on them. "Russkaya Starina" — 1881, book 5; 1882, book 1.
Conflicts in 1831
Debe Wielkie
March 1831 events
History of Masovian Voivodeship
Mińsk County | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20D%C4%99be%20Wielkie |
The World Won't End is the second studio album by American indie rock band Pernice Brothers. It was released by Ashmont Records on June 19, 2001. It peaked at number 26 on the UK Independent Albums Chart.
Track listing
Personnel
Credits adapted from liner notes.
Pernice Brothers
Joe Pernice – vocals, guitar, bass guitar
Thom Monahan – vocals, guitar, bass guitar, keyboards, drum programming
Mike Belitsky – drums, percussion
Laura Stein – vocals, piano, keyboards
Peyton Pinkerton – vocals, guitar, percussion
Bob Pernice – vocals, guitar
Additional musicians
Jeremy Smith – percussion
Mike Daly – guitar, pedal steel guitar, baritone guitar, mandocello
Jeffrey Underhill – guitar
Joe Harvard – guitar
Ann Viebig – vocals
Jane Scarpantoni – cello
Antoine Silverman – violin
Lorenza Ponce – violin
David Gold – viola
Technical personnel
Thom Monahan – production, recording, engineering, mixing
Joe Pernice – production
Joe Harvard – additional engineering
José Ayerve – additional engineering
Mark Allan Miller – mixing
Jeff Lipton – mastering
David Trenholm – string arrangement
Laura Stein – design
Adam Woolfit – cover photography
Norm Demoura – band photography
Charts
References
External links
2001 albums
Pernice Brothers albums
Albums produced by Thom Monahan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20World%20Won%27t%20End |
Lee Se-jin (; born 9 November 1981) is a South Korean singer known professionally as Lyn. She has released ten studio albums to date.
Career
Lyn was first scouted by an agency because of her voice and from there, she first made her debut under her real name, Lee Se-jin, and released an album. The album sold poorly and was barely known. Lyn then took some time off to train vocally. She made a comeback in 2002 under the name Lyn with her supposedly first album Have You Ever Have A Broken Heart?. It was very successful and was able to shoot her up to one of the top R&B female solo singer of the year. After a surprise two years hiatus, Lyn released her second album Can U See The Bright. The album was very successful, surpassing her previous album with her popular single, "사랑했잖아" (Used To Love). Due to its popularity, the song was eventually covered on another successful singer Lee Seung-gi's album, released in late 2006. Lyn released her third album, The Pride of the Morning, on 7 March 2007, and sold 15,358 copies in that month, placing second in the Music Industry Association of Korea's monthly chart. Again, it was a success and was once again reclaim her title as one of the best R&B female singer. Overall her album sold 25,171 copies. Lyn then released more albums afterwards, and did not become very successful, but in 2009 she made a comeback with her 5th album called 'Let Go, Let In, It's a New Day'. In early 2012, she released her 7th album title 'Love Fiction'.
In 2012, she sang "Back in Time" for the soundtrack of period drama Moon Embracing the Sun. She then sang "My Destiny" for My Love from the Star, for which she won "Best Original Soundtrack" at the 50th Baeksang Arts Awards in 2014. She is the first artist to win in the category.
In 2015, she also sang "Just One Day" for melodrama Mask, followed by "Such Person" with 4MEN's Shin Young Jae for the drama Oh My Venus. In 2016 she sang "With You" for the drama Descendants of the Sun. After that, she sang "Love Story" for the main soundtrack of The Legend of the Blue Sea. In 2018, she collaborated with Hanhae on "LOVE", a song from the soundtrack of Are You Human Too?.
Lyn collaborated with singer The One at a China programme, "I Am A Singer 3". The episode was broadcast on 27 March 2015.
On 27 October 2015, Lyn's label MUSIC&NEW announced on through an official Facebook post that the singer's contract with the company had ended. She would be continuing promotions under her new individual music label COMPANY919.
Personal life
Lyn married her longtime boyfriend Lee Soo of MC the Max at Conrad Hotel Seoul on 19 September 2014.
Discography
Studio albums
Live albums
Compilation albums
Extended plays
Singles
As lead artist
Collaborations
Soundtrack appearances
Music videos
Awards and nominations
Notes
References
External links
Lyn's at Cyworld
Lyn on Empas People
1981 births
Living people
People from Namyangju
Singers from Gyeonggi Province
South Korean women pop singers
South Korean female idols
South Korean rhythm and blues singers
MAMA Award winners
Konkuk University alumni
Melon Music Award winners
21st-century South Korean singers
21st-century South Korean women singers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyn%20%28singer%29 |
John Lind is the name of:
John Lind (barrister) (1737–1781), English lawyer and political writer
John Lind (politician) (1854–1930), US politician
John Lind (female impersonator) (1877–1940), female impersonator
See also
Jon Lind, American songwriter
John Lynde (UK politician), Mayor of Canterbury
John Lynde (US politician), assemblyman in the 49th New York State Legislature | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Lind |
Rex Ray (September 11, 1956 – February 9, 2015) was an American graphic designer and collage artist, based in San Francisco.
Biography
Born as Michael Patterson on September 11, 1956, on a United States Army base in Germany, and he was raised in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He moved to San Francisco in 1981, to attend San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) where he graduated. Early in his career he worked as a digital graphic designer for nightclubs and for music shows. He designed and performed with The Residents, as well as designed for David Bowie, among others.
He changed his name to Rex Ray in order to start anew and be free of his past.
By the early 1990s he started a professional fine art practice. Ray had been one of the first artists to use Mac computer-based technology to create his art. He had two units in the Allied Box Factory in the Mission District in San Francisco, one was his living space and the other was his art studio. He referred to his artwork "paintings" even though they were often collage-based and lacked any traditional painting techniques.
He died February 9, 2015, after a five year battle with lymphoma.
His work is in museums including the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the San Jose Museum of Art, and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
Publications
References
External links
Video: 75 Reasons to Live: Rex Ray on Andy Warhol’s Self-Portrait (2010) from San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA)
Video: How to Make a Rex Ray (2010, aired 2018) from Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
2015 deaths
21st-century American painters
21st-century American male artists
20th-century American painters
American male painters
1956 births
Mission District, San Francisco
Artists from San Francisco
People from Colorado Springs, Colorado
Deaths from cancer in California
20th-century American male artists | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rex%20Ray |
This is an incomplete list of Statutory Instruments of the United Kingdom in 1971.
Act of Sederunt (Legal Aid Rules Amendment) 1971 S.I. 1971/174
Legal Aid (Scotland) (General) Amendment Regulations 1971 S.I. 1971/194
Lands Tribunal for Scotland Rules 1971 S.I. 1971/218
Act of Sederunt (Legal Aid Fees) 1971 S.I. 1971/219
Police Pensions Regulations 1971 S.I. 1971/232
County Court Funds (Amendment) Rules 1971 S.I. 1971/260
Act of Sederunt (Legal Aid) (Children) 1971 S.I. 1971/287
Legal Aid (Scotland) (Children) Regulations 1971 S.I. 1971/288
Legal Aid (Scotland) (Extension of Proceedings) Regulations 1971 S.I. 1971/317
Great Ouse River Authority (Littleport and Downham Internal Drainage District) Order 1970 S.I. 1971/404
Legal Aid (Scotland) (Children) Amendment Regulations 1971 S.I. 1971/554
Police Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 1971 S.I. 1971/583
Holyrood Park Regulations 1971 S.I. 1971/593
Double Taxation Relief (Taxes on Income) (France) Order 1971 S.I. 1971/718
Act of Adjournal (Criminal Legal Aid Fees Amendment) 1971 S.I. 1971/926
Mid Southern Water Order 1971 S.I. 1971/968
Rent Assessment Committees (England and Wales) Regulations 1971 S.I. 1971/1065
Crown Court Rules 1971 S.I. 1971/1292
Police Pensions (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 1971 S.I. 1971/1327
Indictment Rules 1971 S.I. 1971/1253
Police Pensions (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 1971 S.I. 1971/1466
"Zebra" Pedestrian Crossings Regulations 1971 S.I. 1971/1524
The Building (Seventh Amendment) Regulations 1971 S.I. 1971/1600
Wireless Telegraphy (Control of Interference from Radio Frequency Heating Apparatus) Regulations 1971 S.I. 1971/1675
Temples Order 1971 S.I. 1971/1732
Act of Sederunt (Legal Aid) (Children) (Amendment) 1971 S.I. 1971/1795
Act of Sederunt (Legal Aid Rules and Legal Aid Fees Amendment) 1971 S.I. 1971/1796
Friendly Societies (Fees) Order 1971 S.I. 1971/1900
Legal Aid (Scotland) (Extension of Proceedings) (No. 2) Regulations 1971 S.I. 1971/1912
Legal Aid (Scotland) (General) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 1971 S.I. 1971/1914
Extradition (Hijacking) Order 1971 S.I. 1971/2102
Extradition (Tokyo Convention) Order 1971 S.I. 1971/2103
External links
Legislation.gov.uk delivered by the UK National Archive
UK SI's on legislation.gov.uk
UK Draft SI's on legislation.gov.uk
See also
List of Statutory Instruments of the United Kingdom
Lists of Statutory Instruments of the United Kingdom
Statutory Instruments | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Statutory%20Instruments%20of%20the%20United%20Kingdom%2C%201971 |
Friedrich Christian Weber (died 1739) was an 18th-century German diplomat and writer.
He was born in Hanover and, after the succession of fellow Hanoverian George I of Great Britain to the throne of the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1714, represented English interests at the Russian court of Peter the Great. He did not excel as a diplomat, but published one of the most important accounts of the period during and immediately after Peter's reign. His account, entitled "Das veraenderte Russland", appeared in three volumes in 1721, 1739 and 1740.
Weber returned from Russia in 1719. "Das veraenderte Russland" was translated into English and published in 1722-1723 as "The Present State of Russia", the second volume of which comprised Lorenz Lange's account of his first journey to China.
Literature
Das Veränderte Russland, in welchem die ietzige Verfassung Des Geist- und Weltlichen Regiments; der Krieges-Staat zu Lande und zu Wasser; Wahre Zustand der Rußischen Finantzen; die geöffneten Berg-Wercke; die eingeführte Academien, Künste, Manufacturen, ergangene Verordnungen, Geschäfte mit denen Asiatischen Nachbahren und Vasallen, nebst der allerneuesten Nachricht von diesen Völckern, Die Begebenheiten des Czarewitzen, und was sich sonst merckwürdiges in Rußland zugetragen, Nebst verschiedenen andern bißher unbekannten Nachrichten In einem Biß 1720. gehenden JOURNAL vorgestellet werden, Mit einer accuraten Land-Carte und Kupfferstichen versehen. Nicolaus Förster, Frankfurt 1721 (Online version at the LOC)
German diplomats
Writers about Russia
Ambassadors of Great Britain to Russia
1739 deaths
Year of birth missing
German male writers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich%20Christian%20Weber |
Eastern Suburbs Football Club is an Australian professional soccer club based in East Brisbane, Queensland. The club is the most centrally located of all the semi-professional clubs in Brisbane, situated approximately from the city centre. Easts competes in the National Premier Leagues Queensland, in both the men's and women's competitions, and play their home games at Heath Park, East Brisbane.
History
Eastern Suburbs / Merton-Easts (1973 to present)
The club's published history asserts the club was formed in 1922. With the various mergers stretching back into the club's early history it is possible to support an earlier foundation date. Irrespective, the club's statement on its official website that it is 'one of the oldest and most established clubs in Queensland' holds true.
The current Eastern Suburbs FC was formed as the Merton-Easts Soccer Club at the end of the 1969 season when Easts-Aston Villa, a successful Division Two competitor consisting mainly of young players who had advanced through their junior ranks, amalgamated with Merton Rovers from Division One. It was the blend of experience and youth that ensured the newly founded Merton-East continued success.
The club assumed its current name Eastern Suburbs FC in September 1980, and the club was incorporated under this name in the same year. The name change was made to identify the club with a specific area of Brisbane, as well as to promote sponsorship and to differentiate the club for its prospective entry into the Queensland State League which it joined for the 1981 season.
Eastern Suburb has been a mainstay of the Brisbane Premier League, featuring in 27 of its 34 season from 1983 to 2016. During this period, the club's greatest success on the field occurred in 1989 when the club won the Brisbane Premier League championship from fifth place, beating Brisbane Lions 3–2 in the grand final. In their final season as Merton-Easts, the club also won the 1980 Division One championship with a 3–1 grand final win over Mitchelton.
In May 2017, Football Queensland announced Eastern Suburbs FC were among the 14 clubs accepted to form the Football Queensland Premier League for its initial season in 2018.
Merton Rovers (1915 to 1972)
The earliest reference to Merton Rovers was in 1915 when it competed as a junior club. Merton Rovers continued at a junior level, occasionally playing in Brisbane's Second Division until it won Division Two in 1934. Promoted to Division One and based at Yeronga Park, the club completed three season in Division One from 1935 to 1937.
After competition resumed following the World War II, Merton Rovers played 16 seasons in Division Two until finishing second in 1961 and winning promotion to the top tier of Brisbane soccer. Merton Rovers achieved much success over the next 11 seasons in Division One, reaching six grand finals and winning four of them:
1962 Won 2–0 vs Hellenic (scorers: L. Petersen pen., K. Melville)
1964 Won 1–0 vs Latrobe (scorer: J. Anthony)
1968 Won 4–2 vs Hollandia-Inala (scorers: E. Pattison 2, L. Willett, T. Catchpole) after a 1–1 draw (scorer: T. Catchpole)
1970 Lost 0–3 vs Azzurri
1971 Lost 1–2 vs Azzurri (scorer: B. Bohan)
1972 Won 1–0 vs Hellenic (scorer: B. Bohan)
While the club achieved grand final success, it failed to win the premiership, finishing runners-up on the final league table five times, including three time consecutively from 1970 to 1972.
Merton Rovers qualified for the Australia Cup in 1963 and 1964 but failed to get past the first round on each occasion.
Merton's Rovers achieved a 3–0 cup final victory over Hellenic to win the 1972 Qantas Cup. At the end of the 1972 season, Merton Rovers merged with Easts-Aston Villa to form Merton-Easts.
Eastern Suburbs / Easts United / Easts-Aston Villa (1938 to 1972)
The original Eastern Suburbs Soccer Club was formed in November 1938 following the amalgamation of two First Division clubs, Shafston United and Pineapple Rovers Shafston United had formed itself only months earlier in March 1938 upon the merging of the Shafston Rovers and United Rangers clubs. Eastern Suburbs took over Heath Park as their home ground from Pineapple Rovers and have played there ever since.
Eastern Suburbs won the Tristram Shield in 1945, winning the final 3–1 after two periods of extra time against the YMCA club.
The club was known as Easts United from 1947 to 1965. During this period, the club's greatest success was winning the Brisbane Division One Championship in 1951. After being relegated from Division One in 1963, the club struggled in Division Two for a couple of seasons, then merged with the strong local junior club Aston Villa. The club played as Easts-Aston Villa for seven seasons in Division Two from 1966 to 1972, performing strongly but not quite managing promotion to Division One. At the end of the 1972 season, Easts-Aston Villa merged with Merton Rovers to form Merton-Easts.
Pineapple Rovers (1912 to 1938)
While there had been soccer played Raymond Park, Kangaroo Point (known as the Pineapple Ground) since the game was first organised in Brisbane in the early 1880s, the first reference to Pineapple Rovers soccer club in the press was in 1912 when it competed as a junior club. In the years after World War I, Pineapple Rovers was among the most successful clubs in Brisbane, winning three premierships in 1919, 1924 and 1925. Two of these wins occurred in premiership play-off matches:
1919 Won 3–1 vs Merthyr Thistles (scorers: H. Acres 2, A. McMillan)
1925 Won 5–2 vs Thistle (scorers: G. Brown 2, C. Cattermole 2, L. Clark, ) after a 4–4 draw
After winning consecutive premierships in 1924 and 1925, Pineapple Rovers came into dispute with the Queensland Football Association in 1926 after its players refused to take the field in a Round 13 match with Thistle at the Brisbane Cricket Ground after one of their players had recently been suspended. The QFA suspended the club from the final two rounds of the 1926 season and imposed a £25 fine. With the fine remaining unpaid in March 1927, the QFA expelled Pineapple Rovers from the 1927 season and the club came close to disbanding.
Pineapple Rovers returned to Division One in 1928 but failed to reach its earlier heights and spent three seasons in Division Two after relegation in 1934. The club returned to Division One in 1938 for its final season before merging with Shafston United to form Eastern Suburbs.
Shafston Rovers / Shafston United (1912 to 1938)
The Shafston Rovers club first appears in the public record in 1912, coincidentally the same year that Pineapple Rovers appears to have emerged. The clubs also had their headquarters in common, both playing their home matches at Raymond Park. Shafston Rovers played as a junior club until it joined Brisbane's senior competition in 1924, winning the Division Three premiership at its first attempt. The club was promoted straight to Division One and competed for three seasons finishing runners-up in 1925 and 1927. The club's success on the field was not matched by its finances, and the club withdrew from Division One in 1928.
Shafston Rovers returned in 1928 to Brisbane's junior competition which they dominated, remaining unbeaten at their Raymond Park home for five years. After an unbeaten season in 1933 when Shafston Rovers won another junior premiership, the club returned to senior football.
The club finished Division One runners-up in 1934 and 1935, before merging with the United Rangers club in March 1938 to form Shafston United. Shafston United completed the 1938 season finishing in sixth place, then merged with Pineapple Rovers to form Eastern Suburbs.
Shafston Rovers (1945 to 1961)
A new Shafston Rovers club was formed in 1945 as a revival of the old club that merged with Pineapple Rangers to form Eastern Suburbs in early 1939. It played at Raymond Park and completed three seasons in Division 1 from 1945 to 1947. The club missed the 1948 season and returned to win Division 4 in 1949, Division 3 in 1950, and narrowly lost a Division 2 premiership play-off in 1951. The club remained in Division 2 until relegation in 1958, then went out of existence in the early 1960s.
United Rangers (1932 to 1937)
United Rangers entered the fixtures of the Brisbane Junior Soccer Association in 1932, and won the Third Grade junior premiership in 1933. The club decided against entering the senior ranks in 1934 After finishing runners-up to Redfern in the junior First Grade competition, United Rangers joined senior competition for the 1935 season. The club won the Division Two title in their first season then played two season in Division One (1936 and 1937) before amalgamating with their neighbours Shafston Rovers in March 1938 to form Shafston United.
Recent seasons
Source:
The tier is the level in the Australian soccer league system
Current squad
Club officials
Technical staff
Honours
Eastern Suburbs / Merton-Easts (1973 to present)
Tier 1 of Brisbane competition
Brisbane Premier League – Grand Final winner 1989
Brisbane Division 1 – Grand Final winner 1980
Tier 2 of Brisbane competition
Premier Division 1 – Premiers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2008
Merton Rovers (1915 to 1972)
Tier 1 of Brisbane competition
Brisbane Division 1 – Grand Final winner 1962, 1964, 1968, 1972
Qantas Cup – winner 1972
Tier 2 of Brisbane competition
Brisbane Division 2 – Premiers 1934, 1940
Eastern Suburbs / Easts United / Easts-Aston Villa (1938 to 1972)
Tier 1 of Brisbane competition
Brisbane Division 1 – Premiers 1951
Tristram Shield – winner 1945
Tier 2 of Brisbane competition
Brisbane Division 2 – Premiers 1949, 1960
Pineapple Rovers (1912 to 1938)
Tier 1 of Brisbane competition
Brisbane Division 1 – Premiers 1919, 1924, 1925
Shafston Rovers / Shafston United (1912 to 1938)
Tier 3 of Brisbane competition
Brisbane Division 3 – Premiers 1924
United Rangers (1932 to 1937)
Tier 2 of Brisbane competition
Brisbane Division 2 – Premiers 1935
Junior Football
In the junior ranks East's suffered a decline in numbers during the 1980s as urban sprawl saw young families move to outlying suburbs of Brisbane in search of new houses and affordable land. However, the club has seen a strong resurgence in the number of junior registrations, particularly among the very young players. This would indicate that families are now beginning to move back into an area that has been so greatly affected by redevelopment in the last decade. The increasingly favourable demographics give the club great hopes for the future.
In 2010 Easts fielded 28 junior teams. Further growth is anticipated amongst the junior membership in coming seasons as more qualified coaches join the club and Eastern Suburbs FC solidifies its leadership role in youth development in Queensland.
As of 2013, the club participates in the Brisbane Premier League age competitions, fielding elite youth teams for boys at the U12, U13, U14, U15 and U16 age groups.
Since 2015, the main shirt sponsor of all MiniRoos teams has been BA Creative.
Former players
Distinguished 'old boys' of the club include Ross Melville, current Chairman of the Brisbane Strikers and the CEO of YMCA Bill Hayden, the former Governor-General of Australia. Throughout its history Easts have produced many players who have gone on to play international football for Australia, including Eddie Riley, Eric Pattison, Steve Dolan, Leif Peterson and Steve Perry.
Eric Ferguson (1992–93) 37 apps 7 goals
In 2010, first team player James Meyer signed professional forms with local A-League side Brisbane Roar.
One of the greatest A-league Goalkeepers of all time Jamie Young played some of his youth years at the club. He started playing for the men’s first team at 14 years old.
References
Further reading
Our hundred year journey - Easts Football Club & Heath Park. (2022). [Eastern Suburbs Football Club].
External links
Eastern Suburbs Official Website
Association football clubs established in 1922
Soccer clubs in Brisbane
Brisbane Premier League teams
1922 establishments in Australia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern%20Suburbs%20FC |
Code reviewing software is computer software that helps humans find flaws in program source code.
It can be divided into two categories:
Automated code review software checks source code against a predefined set of rules and produces reports.
Different types of browsers visualise software structure and help humans better understand its structure. Such systems are geared more to analysis because they typically do not contain a predefined set of rules to check software against.
Manual code review tools allow people to collaboratively inspect and discuss changes, storing the history of the process for future reference.
See also
DeepCode (2016), cloud-based, AI-powered code review platform
References
Software review | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code%20reviewing%20software |
Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural University (ANGRAU) is a public agricultural university with its headquarters at the village Lam, Guntur, Andhra Pradesh, India.
History
The original Andhra Pradesh Agricultural University was established on 12 June 1964 through the APAU Act 1963 with O. Pulla Reddy as the first vice-chancellor. It was formally inaugurated on 20 March 1965, by Lal Bahadur Shastri, the then Prime Minister of India in Hyderabad. On 23 June 1966, another milestone was the inauguration of the building program of the university by Indira Gandhi, the then Prime Minister of India. Later, it was renamed as Acharya N. G. Ranga Agricultural University on 7 November 1996. Those institutions that were located in the residuary state of Andhra Pradesh were then grouped under a new university with the same name as Acharya N G Ranga Agricultural University was established in Guntur.
Based on the recommendation of the committee and approval by the Competent Authority of ICAR (Indian Council of Agricultural Research), the ranking Status of Acharya N G Ranga Agricultural University for the year 2017-18 is 27 while the Acharya Jai Shankar Agricultural University is ranked at 12.
According to the Andhra Pradesh Agricultural University Act, 1963, Colleges of Agriculture and Veterinary Science, Hyderabad (affiliated to Osmania University), Agricultural College, Bapatla (affiliated with Andhra University), Sri Venkateswara Agricultural College and Andhra Veterinary College, Tirupati (affiliated to Sri Venkateswara University) were transferred to the new university in June 1964. About 41 agricultural research stations and four research stations were transferred to the university in July 1966 and May 1967, respectively.
Colleges
The university has 11 colleges:
Faculty of Agriculture
Agricultural College, Bapatla, Guntur district, established 1945
S.V. Agricultural College, Tirupati, Chittoor district, established 1961
Agricultural College, Naira, Srikakulam district, established 1989
Agricultural College, Mahanandi, Kurnool district, established 1991
College of Agriculture, Rajahmundry, East Godavari district, established 2008
Faculty of Community Science
College of Community Science, Lam, Guntur district, established 2013
Faculty of Agricultural Engineering & Technology
Dr. NTR College of Agricultural Engineering, Bapatla, Guntur district, established 1983
College of Agricultural Engineering, Madakasira, Anantapur district, established 2008
Dr. NTR College of Food Science & Technology, Bapatla, Guntur district, established 2003
College of Food Science & Technology, Pulivendula, Kadapa district, established 2008
Advanced Post Graduate Centre
Advance Post Graduate Centre, Lam, Guntur, established 2013,
Faculty of Diploma in Agricultural Engineering
Polytechnic of Agricultural Engineering, Kalikiri, Chittoor district 2013
Polytechnic of Agricultural Engineering, Anakapalle, Vishakapatnam district 2013
Vice Chancellors
A. Padma Raju (2016)
T. Vijay Kumar (i/c)
B. Rajsekhar (i/c)
A. Akshay Kumar (i/c)
V. Damodara Naidu (2017–2020)
Y. Madhusudhan Reddy (i/c)
A. Vishnu Vardhana Reddy (2020 – 2023 August)
Publications
The university publishes The Journal of Research ANGRAU, a quarterly journal.
Notable alumni
Kanneboyina Nagaraju, Professor, Binghamton University, USA (graduate from College of Veterinary Sciences, Tirupati, 1986)
Marri Shashidhar Reddy, former MLA (Telangana)
Jetti A. Oliver, Chancellor of Sam Higginbottom University of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences
References
External links
Universities in Guntur
Universities and colleges established in 1964
1964 establishments in Andhra Pradesh
State universities in Andhra Pradesh
Agricultural universities and colleges in Andhra Pradesh | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acharya%20N.%20G.%20Ranga%20Agricultural%20University |
John Lind (1877–1940), born with the surname Lindström, was a Swedish female impersonator, singer and dancer. Although mostly forgotten today, he toured the world in the early 20th century and was one of Sweden's most internationally famed artists.
Early life
John Lindström was born in the small town Vissefjärda, but grew up in Karlskrona. The local director of theatre, Hildur Carlsberg, helped the young Lind get a place at the Alhambra variety theatre in Stockholm. At the age of 18 he performed as a ballet dancer dressed as a woman, and was a celebrated member receiving a lot of attention from an audience who in large consisted of sailors from the nearby Skeppsholmen flotilla.
International career
John Lindström changed his surname to Lind, most likely as a reference to the celebrated Jenny Lind. Together with a female partner he toured under the name of Fanny och John Lind (Fanny and John Lind). After touring Finland and Russia he moved on to Hamburg and started up the group Les Petits Filous together with Paul Schneider-Duncker, where Lind danced and sang soprano. He was discovered by an English impresario during a 1902 Paris performance, and in 1904 he became a star at the London Pavilion under the name of Lind?.
Lind toured the world with ?Lind? for over 20 years. He performed at stages in Europe, the US, South America and Africa. But he only performed once in Sweden, where female impersonators were not quite well considered at the time. During a tour in the US 1907 he met his future wife, the Russian Stepha Klein (1882–1973), who would also become his impresario and dresser.
?Lind? was a large and costly show that John Lind performed acts based on subjects like "the five senses", played the roles of historical female figures or made pastiches on contemporary dancers like Anna Pavlova, Cléo de Mérode, La Belle Otero and Isadora Duncan.
John Lind moved back to Karlskrona in 1923. Touring had worn him out, and while he remained a member of artists societies like the American The White Rats, he would not return to the stage again.
Death and legacy
John Lind died in 1940 after a time of sickness and relative obscurity. He suffered from diabetes and had lost most of his money in the Kreuger Crash. His wife Stepha Lind stayed in Karlskrona until she died in 1973, when all of Lind's show materials, posters and outfits were donated to Blekinge Läns Museum. The museum displayed an exhibit over Lind that same year.
In Sweden today John Lind is still a largely unknown figure. He remains a larger figure on the international scene, spoken of as a precursor by Danny La Rue and a part in the history of female impersonation and drag queens.
References and further reading
A biography of John Lind (in Swedish)
Baker, Roger et al. Drag: A History of Female Impersonation in the Performing Arts.
https://web.archive.org/web/20140724040738/http://www.blekingemuseum.se/lind/index.htm (in Swedish)
John Lind- karlskronapojken som vann världsrykte.
Specific
1877 births
1940 deaths
Swedish drag queens
Vaudeville performers
Swedish male singers
Swedish male stage actors
20th-century Swedish male actors
People from Karlskrona
People from Emmaboda Municipality | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Lind%20%28female%20impersonator%29 |
The black slug (also known as black arion, European black slug, or large black slug), Arion ater, is a large terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Arionidae, the round back slugs. Many land slugs lack external shells, having a vestigial shell. Most slugs retain a remnant of their shell, which is usually internalized, unlike other terrestrial mollusks (such as snails) which have external shells. Without such shells, slugs produce mucus, that may also contain toxins—to deter predators. Terrestrial slugs produce two other forms of mucus that facilitate locomotion and prevent death from drying. Such mollusks are hermaphroditic. Slugs most often function as decomposers but are also often omnivores. Arion ater is one such slug, decomposing organic matter, preying on other organisms, and consuming vegetative matter including agricultural crops. Native to Europe, the black slug is an invasive species in Australia, Canada (British Columbia, Newfoundland, Quebec), and the United States (Pacific Northwest).
Description
Arion ater varies from , reaching maturity at about and moves at a speed of up to
The black slug is generally deep black, with some adults being brown or even white. Generally, pigmentation darkens directly with increasing latitude. Young specimens tend to be brown or ivory whitish, turning to grey before becoming characteristically black at maturity. Rust-brown individuals are arguably classified as a separate species Arion rufus (Red Slug). The two can only be distinguished by dissecting the reproductive anatomy.
The foot-fringe is black, the tubercles are large and elongate, and the sole is blackish grey. The atrium and vagina (genitalia) are considerably narrower than is the spermatheca (organ for storing sperm). The oviduct is narrow while the spermatheca is spherical.
The black slug is omnivorous, and its diet includes fungi, carrion, earthworms, leaves, stems, dead plant material and dung. The food is shredded into tiny pieces by the radula and is then digested by enzymes.
Like other terrestrial slugs, the black slug is a hermaphrodite, preferring to find a mate—often several—but can self-fertilize. After mating, the black slug seeks a dark, moist environment such as beneath mosses—occasionally within topsoil—to lay its eggs about in diameter. Between August and October, an individual slug lays up to 150 eggs every one to three weeks—clutches diminishing to 20 eggs late in the season. Juveniles hatch after at least twenty-seven days, hatching later under cold temperatures. Maturation takes up to nine months, enabling mating in early summer. Black slugs die shortly after laying its last clutch, rarely surviving into a second year.
The ovotestis (gonad or hermaphrodite gland) produces gametes at the proximal end of the reproductive system. The hermaphrodite duct runs forward, connecting to the albumen gland and the common duct (spermoviduct). The male and female gametes separate before entering the common duct. The male portion of the reproductive tract contains the vas deferens and the epiphallus. Arion slugs lack a penis. The vas deferens connects the spermoviduct to the epiphallus. The epiphallus then opens to the genital atrium. The spermathecal duct (bursa copulatrix duct) is a sac for storing spermatozoa and also enters the atrium. The female portion contains the oviduct, transferring eggs from the common duct to the atrium. The atrium is further subdivided into an upper and lower atrium. A stimulating organ (ligula) can also be found in the atrium. Finally, the atrium opens through the genital pore. The genital pore is located on the animal slightly behind and below the right upper tentacle on the head.
Like other members of the family Arionidae, the black slug has a pneumostome (breathing hole) on the right side of its mantle through which it breathes. This mantle is the part in snails that secretes a shell, but in the black slug, the mantle contains a resilient protective structure of calcareous granules.
Arion ater produces three forms of mucus. The first two aid the animal in locomotion, with a thinner mucus coating the animal laterally, and a thicker, more viscous mucus secreted along the length of the slug. This combination facilitates wave like contractions of the foot that propel the animal forward. The third type of mucus is a vile-tasting substance which helps deter predation. All three forms of mucus help protect the slug from dehydration, as well as to locate and identify other slugs to mate with, or even prey upon.
Distribution
This species is found in northern Europe (including Great Britain and Ireland), Canada, the Pacific Northwest, and most recently in Australia and some Caribbean countries:
Great Britain: often found in habitats more wooded and less human-dense than those in which A. rufus occurs
Maladeta Mountains, Spain: often an agricultural pest
Ireland, Italy, Germany, Scandinavia, and Gerês, Portugal
Canada [invasive]: first document in 1941, established pest by 1960
British Columbia
Newfoundland
Quebec (specifically on Mont Bellevue in Sherbrooke)
United States [invasive]: Within its native habitats, this species functions as a decomposer/consumer and often becomes an agricultural pest. This species is well-established in Washington and Oregon, and it is considered to represent a potentially serious threat as a pest, an invasive species which could negatively affect agriculture, natural ecosystems, human health or commerce. Therefore, it has been suggested that this species be given top national quarantine significance in the USA.
Australia [invasive]: The Museum Victoria reports the black slug to have been first documented in Australia in 2001 with multiple reports of these slugs in cultivated gardens and farms since, but as of 2009, the species was still not considered to be an established species in Australia.
Ecology
The black slug is mainly nocturnal and avoids exposure to sunlight, although in introduced areas, it has been observed to be active all parts of the day and night. It is omnivorous, eating carrion, fungi, animal feces, algae, lichen, and vegetation (living or decaying). These slugs prefer to eat on cloudy days or at night when temperatures are above 10 degrees Celsius. Mucus-production necessitates moist habitats, such as among leaf-litter, mosses, or fallen trees. Consequently, the black slug becomes most active after rainfall. A 1976 study compared black slug assimilation rates to that of similar slugs in the UK. The study determined the black slug feeds at similar rates to other European slugs (in terms of biomass), suggesting the black slug is an equally important decomposer/consumer in forest systems. The study theorized these high assimilation rates might result from abundant enzymes in slug digestive systems: amylase, invertase, cellulase, xylanase, and chitinase. The last might be especially indicative of how these slugs can consume large quantities of fungi such as Armillaria mellea. Microbiota within black slug digestive systems produce these enzymes—such as the bacteria that produce cellulose—enabling the slugs to break down lignocellulose. A recent study further explored Arion ater’s gut microbiome and discovered the black slug to have far more bacteria within its gut than did neighboring, northern European insects, including members of the orders Coleoptera, Isoptera, Orthoptera, and Diptera. This study learned the black slug’s gut microbiome to be functional at a wide range of temperatures and pH levels, and its results suggest that the mycobacterial culture may be uniform throughout the black slug’s gut and that Gammaproteobacteria composes most of this culture. This study contrasted its results to studies of North American black slugs that presented higher levels of cellulolytic activity at a narrower pH range. In summary, Arion ater can digest diverse food material such as cellulose because gut bacteria produce digestive enzymes.
As decomposers/consumers, slugs engage an important niche, contributing to ecosystem health. A 2005 study looked at another Arion slug species and concluded slugs may promote plant biodiversity. This study suggested that slugs promote plant—especially forb—species diversity and that slugs support annual plant species’ fitness, reducing rates of successional change. Additionally, slugs help disperse seeds and spores through their waste, and slugs facilitate nutrient cycling by being an omnivorous consumer (especially a decomposer) and by leaving behind their mucus, which also facilitates decomposition.
Slugs are common agricultural and horticultural pests. They consume abundant vegetative matter, especially seedlings. Additionally, many people find slugs to be unsightly.
Most animals prefer not to prey upon the black slugs because of the taste of its mucus and because this mucus can make them slippery and consequently difficult to capture; however, this slug does have some natural predators, including the hedgehog, badger, shrew, mole, mouse, frog, toad, snake, carnivorous beetle, and some birds. When picked up or touched, the black slug will contract to a hemispherical shape and begin to rock from side to side. This defensive behavior confuses predators, and is unique in the family Arionidae.
Invasive species
Arion ater has been introduced to southeastern Australia and to North America, where it occurs in Newfoundland, southern British Columbia, the Pacific Northwest of the United States and some parts of Alaska. In the past two decades, its mating with the non-native (at northern latitudes) pest species Arion vulgaris (or Spanish slug) has resulted in a more resilient hybrid exhibiting increased tolerance to cold.
These slugs might endanger sensitive ecosystems, especially as an invasive species, and it is yet unclear how drastically these slugs might alter plant community compositions. The black slug is a voracious seedling predator. Terrestrial slugs are considered to be especially dangerous because they alter plant species abundance, adult plant fecundity, and the production of plant defensive compounds. Black slugs are of special concern in fragmented ecosystems and areas with high shrub and tree cover. In Alaska, the black slug threatens seedling populations of lilies and orchids after already having diminished sensitive populations of deltoid balsamroot and yellow montane violet in BC Canada.
There is much debate concerning black slug effect upon plant species diversity. Slug impacts change over successional stages, and Alaska conservationists observed the black slug's impact on species diversity depends upon community composition. If a system is composed of sensitive species, the black slug will likely have a negative impact by pressuring said species. If a system presents more evenness with less sensitive species, the black slug may promote species diversity and encourage healthy succession rates.
Around the 1970s, the black slug came to Alaska via nursery plants, potting soil, or among shipments containing wood pallets. The Alaska National Heritage Project published an invasive ranking for the black slug, providing a recent case study of the species as an invasive. They ranked the species based upon distribution, biological characteristics, ecological impacts, and feasibility of control. These categories were assigned points, and Arion ater received a 62/100, awarding it a qualitative score of “moderately invasive.” This report stated the black slug can often be found in disturbed soils or areas with well-irrigated soils such as lawns. Frequent sightings along roads suggest the black slug might move more easily along human traffic corridors; however, the black slug is believed to migrate little during its one-year life span. Arion ater’s biology awarded it its highest risk factor. Again, the black slug is a prolific, omnivorous consumer, capable of inhabiting a wide range of conditions with high fecundity. Its effect upon local ecology received a moderate score; while the black slug puts pressure on native systems, it does not appear to catalyze entire regime shifts within the habitats where it has invaded. Greatest concern appears to be its possible pressure on early successional plants and native slugs. The black slug often feeds upon seedlings, diminishing plants’ reproductive success, but the black slug does not appear to be feeding selectively, endangering one plant species over another. And the black slug's effect on native-Alaska slugs is unknown, but the black slug might be displacing the banana slug in BC, Canada; however, such displacement might not have implications beyond those for the banana slugs. Slugs facilitate seed and spore dispersal through fecal matter. The black slug facilitates nutrient cycling by decomposing decaying and fecal matter; additionally, slug mucus left behind in the soil helps cycle nutrients, and Arion ater may merely step into this niche in place of native slugs. Arion ater has spread in Alaska in the following places: Anchorage, Cordova, Yakutat, Gustavus, Juneau, Sitka, Tenakee Springs, Ketchikan, and Kodiak Island, and in some of these areas, the black slug threatens lilies and orchids. It is unlikely complete removal can be achieved given high fecundity, but fencing and educating the public to hand pick black slugs might mitigate associated invasion risks.
Conservationists within the Pacific Northwest and BC Canada are concerned about competition between Arion ater and native slugs such as the banana slug (Ariolimax californicus, A. columbianus, and A. dolichophallus). The University of British Columbia's zoology department published a study on this interaction in 2015. They determined the two slugs to be functionally different but proposed further studies to determine whether black slugs are displacing native slugs. Their study found black slugs were more abundant and consumed a greater quantity of mushrooms than native banana slugs but could not determine reasons for differences in population sizes. They theorized the greater abundance of black slugs could be because the black slug displaced banana slugs or because the black slug might be invading areas with previously low banana slug numbers; however, there is no data for banana slug population sizes prior to the arrival of Arion ater. This complicates determining whether alien slugs have a negative or negligible effect upon native slug numbers. Additionally, this study could not determine whether high fungi-consumption resulted from dietary preference or from higher concentrations of alien slugs amidst Douglas fir forests, which promote fungal growth. The study also concluded that black and banana slugs compete for under-story berries. The study demonstrated neither native nor alien slugs consume conifer or fern seedlings. It also demonstrated no significant difference between metabolic rates. However, they concluded the black slug may eat more because of its shorter life span (one compared to several years), requiring faster consumption rates to reach sexual maturity. The study demonstrated both slugs benefit ecosystems by dispersing seeds and spores. This study demonstrates the two slugs to be functionally different; however, this study proposed further research on the following to determine if black slugs are displacing banana slugs: interactions between Arion ater and fungal communities and comparative studies looking at seed dispersal rates to determine their effect on native, fruit-bearing plant communities.
Control strategies
The Garry Oak Ecosystem Recovery Team suggests the following control strategies, stating chemical controls should only be used as a last resort in protecting endangered species or critical habitat. Hand collecting is most effective at dusk or dawn when slugs feed most actively. Traps are also effective. Commercial traps can be used, or homemade traps can be made using beer. Fences can be used to protect small areas and can be commercial (often electrical) or easily homemade with sawdust, crushed eggshells, ground oyster shells, soap, cinders, or diatomaceous earth. Such fences are especially effective at protecting important seedlings or home gardens. European nematodes (Phasmarhabditis hermaphrodita) parasitize slugs, and in European agriculture, these nematodes have been mass-produced as a biological control; however, European nematodes are neither native to North America nor commercially available. In addition to nematodes, there may be other biological control methods. Sciomyzids (marsh flies) larvae kill slugs and live in environments similar to slugs. Additionally, carabid beetles consume slug eggs. Large carabid beetles, such as Abax parallelepipedus predate slugs.
The slug mite, Riccardoella limacum, is known to parasitize several dozen species of mollusks, including many slugs, such as Agriolimax agrestis, Arianta arbustrum, Arion ater, Arion hortensis, Limax maximus, Milax budapestensis, Milax gagates, and Milax sowerbyi. Any use of beneficial organisms presents risks of new invaders or of disrupting native population dynamics. Again, conservation groups like the GOERT view chemical treatments as an effective last resort. For example, metaldehyde baits are very effective, but such baits are toxic to humans and native slugs. Iron phosphate baits are less toxic than metaldehyde and carbonyl baits. Iron phosphate, however, degrades rapidly and must be reapplied regularly.
Alaska conservations (as previously mentioned) believe widespread watch programs to be crucial. By informing the public and by funding conservation efforts, we might be able to slow the spread of invasive slugs, preventing any possible competition between native and invasive slugs and protecting sensitive species from seedling predation.
Human use
Arion ater was used as grease to lubricate wooden axle-trees or carts in Sweden. This use is documented since at least the 18th century.
Black slugs are edible but rarely consumed by humans; they taste horrible, may bioaccumulate pesticides, and potentially carry French heartworm (Angiostrongylus vasorum).
Researching the black slug has provided human and ecological value. For example, a 1996 study investigated the bioaccumulation of mercury in black slugs and determined these slugs could be used to monitor levels of heavy metals in terrestrial systems—similar to how ecologists use aquatic mollusks. And a 2014 study researched the black slug gut's microbiology in hopes of catalyzing other studies of cellulolytic activity that could improve biofuel technology.
References
External links
Arion ater at Animalbase taxonomy,short description, distribution, biology,status (threats), images
Arion ater at Encyclopedia of Life images (3 pages)
"European black slug", Alan Watson Featherstone, Species profile, Trees for Life website, accessed 23 July 2011
Arion (gastropod)
Gastropods described in 1758
Articles containing video clips
Molluscs of Europe
Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20slug |
In category theory, a strong monad over a monoidal category (C, ⊗, I) is a monad (T, η, μ) together with a natural transformation tA,B : A ⊗ TB → T(A ⊗ B), called (tensorial) strength, such that the diagrams
, ,
, and
commute for every object A, B and C (see Definition 3.2 in ).
If the monoidal category (C, ⊗, I) is closed then a strong monad is the same thing as a C-enriched monad.
Commutative strong monads
For every strong monad T on a symmetric monoidal category, a costrength natural transformation can be defined by
.
A strong monad T is said to be commutative when the diagram
commutes for all objects and .
One interesting fact about commutative strong monads is that they are "the same as" symmetric monoidal monads. More explicitly,
a commutative strong monad defines a symmetric monoidal monad by
and conversely a symmetric monoidal monad defines a commutative strong monad by
and the conversion between one and the other presentation is bijective.
References
Adjoint functors
Monoidal categories | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong%20monad |
Yours, Mine & Ours is the third studio album by American indie rock band Pernice Brothers. It was released by Ashmont Records on May 20, 2003. It peaked at number 34 on the UK Independent Albums Chart. In 2009, Sherwin-Williams used "The Weakest Shade of Blue" in its ad campaign.
Track listing
Personnel
Credits adapted from liner notes.
Musicians
Joe Pernice – performance
Thom Monahan – performance
Peyton Pinkerton – performance
Mike Belitsky – performance
Laura Stein – performance
Bob Pernice – performance
Mike Daly – additional performance
Ben Wheelock – additional performance
John Crooke – additional performance
Warren Zanes – additional performance
April March – additional performance
Technical personnel
Thom Monahan – production, recording, mixing
Joe Pernice – production
Ken Heitmuller – mixing
Jeff Lipton – mastering
Kenyon King – technical support
Marc Moorash – technical support
Laura Stein – package design
Pernice Brothers – band photography
Charts
References
External links
2003 albums
Pernice Brothers albums
Albums produced by Thom Monahan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yours%2C%20Mine%20%26%20Ours%20%28album%29 |
Vladislav "Vlado" Kristl (24 January 1923, Zagreb, Croatia – 7 July 2004, Munich, Germany) was a filmmaker and artist, best known for his animations and short films.
Biography
Vladislav "Vlado" Kristl was born 24 January 1923 in Zagreb, Croatia. Kristl first came to international prominence for his formally challenging and rigorous animations, particularly Don Kihot (freely inspired by Cervantes' Don Quixote). The film is a "graphical and abstract masterpiece which went beyond all existing conventions" and was awarded the main prize at the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival. Kristl regarded this film, which was not his first, as the one where he "was finally given a free rein".
In 1962 Kristl made General i resni clovek (The General and the real man), a satirical live action short film which got him into trouble with the board of censors.
He died in 2004, aged 81, in Munich, Germany. With his partner Jelena he had two children, Madeleine (b. 1966) and Pepe Stephan (b. 1968).
He published two books of poetry: Neznatna lirika (Insignificant lyrics, 1959), and Pet bijelih stepenica (Five white steps, 1961) in Croatian, and several books in German.
Filmography
Sagrenska Koza (The Piece of Shagreen Leather) – 1960
Don Kihot – 1961
General I Resni Clovek/Der General und der Ernste Mensch (The General and the Real Human Being) – 1962 – 12 minutes
Arme Leute – 1963 – 8 minutes
Madeleine, Madeleine – 1963 – 11 minutes
Der Damm (The Dam) – 1964 – 80 minutes
Autorennen – 1965 – 10 minutes
(The Letter) – 1966 – 83 minutes
Prometheus – 1966 – 10 minutes
Die Utopen – 1967 – 9 minutes
Sekundenfilme – 1968 – 19 minutes
100 Blatt Schreibblock – 1968 – 26 minutes
Italienisches Capricco – 1969 – 30 minutes
Film oder Macht (Film or Power) – 1970 – 110 minutes
Obrigkeitsfilm (The Film Of The Authority) – 1971 – 86 minutes
Literaturverfilmung – 1973 – 10 minutes
Horizonte – 1973 – 8 minutes
Kollektivfilm – 1974 – 18 minutes
Diese Gebichte: Tod Der Hierachie – 1975 – 58 minutes
Verräter Der Jungen Deutschen Films Schlafen Nicht – 1982 – 6minutes
Tod der Zuschauer (Death To The Spectator) – 1983 – 110 minutes
Die Schule Der Postmoderne – 1990 – 15 minutes
Die Hälfte Des Reichtums Für Die Hälfte Der Schönheit – 1994 – 9 minutes
Als Man Noch Aus Persönlichen Gründen Gelebt Hat – 1996 – 6 minutes
Der Letzte Klon – 1998 – 6 minutes
Drei Faule Schweine – 2000 – 7 minutes
Kunst Ist Nur Ausserhalb Der Menschengesellschaft – 2002 – 9 minutes
Weltkongress Der Obdachlosen – 2004 – 5 minutes
Films about Kristl include:
Vlado Kristl Portrait (directed by Kurt Benning; 2003) – 60 minutes
Vlado Kristl – Ich bin ein Mensch-Versuch (Vlado Kristl – I am a Human Experiment; directed by Johanna Pauline Maier and Markus Nechleba; 2006) – 87 minutes
Publications in German
Geschäfte, die es nicht gibt, Ed. Längsfeld, München 1966
Komödien, Kinema Verlag, Berlin 1968
Mundmaschine, UnVERLAG, München 1969
Vorworte (Zeitschrift für unbrauchbare Texte) 8 Nummern c/o Barbara Schlottke, München 1970/71
Sekundenfilme, Edition Suhrkamp Verlag (Wegen schlechtem Verkaufs barbarisch eingestampft vom selb. Verlag), Frankfurt/Main 1971
Kultur der Anarchie, Kommunales Kino, Frankfurt, 1975
Unerlaubte Schönheit, Filmkritikheft Nr 233, Mai 1976
Video-theater, Freunder der Deutschen Kinemathek e.V., Berlin, 1977
Körper des Unrechts, S.A.U.-Verlag, München 1979
Hamburg 1980, Verlag Michael Kellner, Hamburg 1980
Revolution 1941–1980, I. Band 1. und 2. Auflage, Hamburg 1980
Fremdenheft oder vom Glück unter Eingebildeten zu Sein, Hamburg 1981 (SV)
Techniken der Kunst machen, Kiel 1981 (SV)
Titel und Würden, Verlag Michael Kellner, Hamburg 1983
Zeichnung, 1.-DM Verlag, Hamburg, 1984
Revolution II. Band, mit Angehängtem I. Band, 1.-DM Verlag, Hamburg, 1984
Als man noch aus Persönlichen Grunden gelebt hat, 1.-DM Verlag, Hamburg, 1986
Die Postmoderne, 1.-DM Verlag, Hamburg, 1987
Die Intelligenz, Haus Höchster Schlossplatz 1 e.V., Höchst, 1990
Die Sonne, Haus Höchster Schlossplatz 1 e.V., Höchst, 1990
References
External links
Obituary
1923 births
2004 deaths
Artists from Zagreb
Croatian animators
Croatian animated film directors
Yugoslav animators
Croatian expatriates in Germany
20th-century Croatian painters
Croatian male painters
Croatian experimental filmmakers
German experimental filmmakers
20th-century Croatian male artists | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlado%20Kristl |
In Command is a live album by Canadian band Annihilator. Tracks 1-5 were recorded live on November 11, 1989, at The Ritz, in New York City. Tracks 6-14 recorded live on November 2, 1990, at The Showroom in San Antonio, Texas.
Track listing
Personnel
Jeff Waters - lead and rhythm guitar, vocals
Randy Rampage - vocals (tracks 1-5)
Coburn Pharr - vocals (tracks 6-14)
Dave Scott Davis - guitar, solo on track The Fun Palace
Wayne Darley - bass
Ray Hartmann - drums
Annihilator (band) albums
1996 live albums
Live thrash metal albums | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In%20Command%20%28album%29 |
Jesús Ortega Martínez (born November 5, 1952, in Aguascalientes) is a Mexican Centre-left politician affiliated with the Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) who has served in the lower and upper house of the Mexican Congress. He was elected President of the PRD in 2008, and was succeeded by Jesús Zambrano Grijalva in 2011.
Political career
Ortega grew up in Aguascalientes and he moved to Mexico City to study in the Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas of the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN). He became a member of the now-defunct Workers' Socialist Party (PST) which he represented in the Chamber of Deputies during the LI Legislature (1979–1982). He later joined the Partido Mexicano Socialista (PMS) and from 1988 to 1991 (LIV Legislature) he served in the lower house of the Congress this time representing the PMS.
Ortega and his former party, the PMS, were one of the supporters of the Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas candidacy for the 1988 Mexican presidential election hence he became a member and founder of the Party of the Democratic Revolution. As a member of the PRD he was elected to serve in the Chamber of Deputies during the LVI Legislature.
In 1996 Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Ortega ran for president and general secretary of the PRD; they won the PRD internal elections and served (Ortega as general secretary) for three years (1996–1999). In 2000 he gained a seat in the upper house of the Congress. In 2005 he lost against Marcelo Ebrard the PRD candidacy for Head of Government of the Federal District.
In 2008 Ortega ran for President of the PRD. The election results were controversial. Both leading candidates, Alejandro Encinas and Ortega, accused each other of fraud. After several internal disputes, Ortega was declared the winner. He served as the PRD president until late 2008.
Since September 2012, he assumed the position of National Coordinator of Nueva Izquierda, an internal current of the Partido de la Revolución Democrática (Party of the Democratic Revolution).
References
1952 births
Living people
Presidents of the Party of the Democratic Revolution
Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Mexico)
Members of the Senate of the Republic (Mexico)
Instituto Politécnico Nacional alumni
Politicians from Aguascalientes
20th-century Mexican politicians
21st-century Mexican politicians
Members of the Constituent Assembly of Mexico City
Workers' Socialist Party (Mexico) politicians
Party of the Democratic Revolution politicians | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jes%C3%BAs%20Ortega |
The president of the Massachusetts Senate is the presiding officer. Unlike the United States Congress, in which the vice president of the United States is the ex officio president of the United States Senate, in Massachusetts, the president of the Senate is elected from and by the senators. The president, therefore, typically comes from the majority party, and the president is then the de facto leader of that party.
The current president of the Massachusetts Senate, since July 26, 2018, is Karen Spilka, a Democrat from Ashland. Democrats have had a majority in the Senate since 1959. Notable former presidents of the Massachusetts Senate include U.S. president Calvin Coolidge.
List of presidents of the Massachusetts Senate
A = American, D = Democratic, R = Republican, W = Whig
See also
List of speakers of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
List of Massachusetts General Courts
Notes
Bibliography
The Massachusetts State House, p. 141-42. Commonwealth of Massachusetts: Boston, 1953.
External links
Senate Rules (rules 1-5B relate to the President)
Lists of Massachusetts politicians
1780 establishments in the Province of Massachusetts Bay | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President%20of%20the%20Massachusetts%20Senate |
Automated code review software checks source code for compliance with a predefined set of rules or best practices. The use of analytical methods to inspect and review source code to detect bugs or security issues has been a standard development practice in both Open Source and commercial software domains. This process can be accomplished both manually and in an automated fashion. With automation, software tools provide assistance with the code review and inspection process. The review program or tool typically displays a list of warnings (violations of programming standards). A review program can also provide an automated or a programmer-assisted way to correct the issues found. This is a component for mastering easily software. This is contributing to the Software Intelligence practice. This process is usually called "linting" since one of the first tools for static code analysis was called Lint.
Some static code analysis tools can be used to help with automated code review. They do not compare favorably to manual reviews, however they can be done faster and more efficiently. These tools also encapsulate deep knowledge of underlying rules and semantics required to perform this type analysis such that it does not require the human code reviewer to have the same level of expertise as an expert human auditor. Many Integrated Development Environments also provide basic automated code review functionality. For example the Eclipse and Microsoft Visual Studio IDEs support a variety of plugins that facilitate code review.
Next to static code analysis tools, there are also tools that analyze and visualize software structures and help humans to better understand these. Such systems are geared more to analysis because they typically do not contain a predefined set of rules to check software against. Some of these tools (e.g. Imagix 4D, Resharper, SonarJ, Sotoarc, Structure101, ACTool) allow one to define target architectures and enforce that target architecture constraints are not violated by the actual software implementation.
Automated code review tools
See also
Program analysis (computer science)
References
Static program analysis tools
Software review | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated%20code%20review |
This is an incomplete list of Statutory Instruments of the United Kingdom in 1955. This listing is the complete, 28 items, "Partial Dataset" as listed on www.legislation.gov.uk (as at March 2014).
Statutory Instruments
The Consular Conventions (Income Tax) (Kingdom of Norway) Order 1955 SI 1955/156
The Consular Conventions (Income Tax) (United States of America) Order 1955 SI 1955/157
The Consular Conventions (Income Tax) (Kingdom of Sweden) Order 1955 SI 1955/158
The Consular Conventions (Income Tax) (French Republic) Order 1955 SI 1955/159
The Consular Conventions (Income Tax) (Kingdom of Greece) Order 1955 SI 1955/160
The Consular Conventions (Income Tax) (United States of Mexico) Order 1955 SI 1955/161
The Coal Industry (Superannuation Scheme) (Winding Up, No. 8) Regulations 1955 SI 1955/281
The Savings Bank Annuities (Tables) Order 1955 SI 1955/419
The National Insurance and Industrial Injuries (Luxembourg) Order 1955 SI 1955/420
The Consular Conventions (United States of Mexico) Order 1955 SI 1955/425
The Transfer of Functions (Iron and Steel) Order, 1955 SI 1955/876
The Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Track Laying Vehicles) Regulations 1955 SI 1955/990
The Local Government Superannuation (Benefits) Amendment Regulations, 1955 SI 1955/1041
The Cinematograph (Safety) (Scotland) Regulations 1955 SI 1955/1125
The Cinematograph (Safety) Regulations 1955 SI 1955/1129
The Double Taxation Relief (Taxes on Income) (Isle of Man) Order 1955 SI 1955/1205
The International Organisations (Immunities and Privileges of the Commission for Technical Co-operation in Africa South of the Sahara) Order 1955 SI 1955/1208
The Coal Industry (Superannuation Scheme) (Winding Up, No. 9) Regulations 1955 SI 1955/1345
Boarding-Out of Children Regulations 1955 SI 1955/1377
The National Insurance (Modification of Trustee Savings Banks Pensions) Regulations 1955 SI 1955/1472
The Superannuation (Local Government and National Health Service) Interchange Rules 1955 SI 1955/1494
The Official Secrets (Prohibited Place) Order 1955 SI 1955/1497 (S. 136)
The Revision of the Army and Air Force Acts (Transitional Provisions) Act, 1955 (Appointed Day) Order, 1955 SI 1955/1807
The London Cab Order 1955 SI 1955/1853
The Commonwealth Telegraphs (Cable and Wireless Ltd. Pension) Regulations 1955 SI 1955/1893
The Cinematograph (Children) (No.2) Regulations 1955 SI 1955/1909
The International Finance Corporation Order 1955 SI 1955/1954
The Whaling Industry (Ship) Regulations 1955 SI 1955/1973
Unreferenced Listings
The following 15 items were previously listed on this article, however are unreferenced on the authorities site, included here for a "no loss" approach.
The Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) (West Stirlingshire and Stirling and Falkirk Burghs) Order 1955 SI 1955/2
The Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) (Glasgow Bridgeton, Glasgow Provan and Glasgow Shettleston) Order 1955 SI 1955/3
The Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) (Edinburgh Central and Edinburgh Pentlands) Order 1955 SI 1955/4
The Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) (Glasgow Scotstoun, Glasgow Hillhead and Glasgow Woodside) Order 1955 SI 1955/5
The Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) (Glasgow Pollok, Glasgow Craigton, Glasgow Govan and Glasgow Gorbals) Order 1955 SI 1955/26
The Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) (East Aberdeenshire, West Aberdeenshire, Aberdeen North and Aberdeen South) Order 1955 SI 1955/27
The Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) (Edinburgh North and Edinburgh West) Order 1955 SI 1955/28
The Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) (Bute and North Ayrshire and Central Ayrshire) Order 1955 SI 1955/29
The Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) (Midlothian, Roxburgh, Selkirk and Peebles and Edinburgh East) Order 1955 SI 1955/30
The Parliamentary Constituencies (Scotland) (Glasgow Springburn, Glasgow Central and Glasgow Kelvingrove) Order 1955 SI 1955/31
Singapore Colony Order-in-Council 1955 SI 1955/187
Police Pensions Regulations 1955 SI 1955/480
Police Pensions (Scotland) Regulations 1955 SI 1955/485
Indiarubber Regulations 1955 SI 1955/1626
Slaughter of Animals (Prevention of Cruelty) (Scotland) Regulations 1955 SI 1955/1993
References
External links
Legislation.gov.uk delivered by the UK National Archive
UK SI's on legislation.gov.uk
UK Draft SI's on legislation.gov.uk
See also
List of Statutory Instruments of the United Kingdom
Lists of Statutory Instruments of the United Kingdom
Statutory Instruments | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Statutory%20Instruments%20of%20the%20United%20Kingdom%2C%201955 |
The Wee County may refer to two 'wee' (i.e. 'small') counties:
Clackmannanshire, Scotland, the smallest county in Britain
County Louth, the smallest county in Ireland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Wee%20County |
Nathan Marcellus Moore (born in London, England) is an English singer and former talent manager.
Career
Moore joined the boyband Brother Beyond as their lead singer in 1987, when the band and their record label won an auction to record a track with the 1980s record producers Stock, Aitken and Waterman), Moore was subsequently in the line-up of another boyband, Worlds Apart, that had chart success in France.
After leaving the group, Moore moved into music management, representing a number of Pop Idol contestants, such as Hayley Evetts.
In the late 90s Moore recorded a duet with the English popstar Kim Wilde called "If There Was Love". The duet was never commercially released, but Moore gave it away as a free download on his website in 2001.
In the 2000s, appeared as a reality television contestant, on music revival programme Hit Me Baby One More Time, and as Lisa Scott-Lee's manager on the MTV Europe programme Totally Scott-Lee.
In April and May 2006, Moore appeared as the band manager in the E4/Channel 4 television programme, Boys Will Be Girls. On 18 July 2006, Moore issued a statement, via his website, announcing that he had stopped managing acts.
Moore continues to tour as a solo artist, occasionally with Brother Beyond, and more recently alongside a re-formed Worlds Apart. On 7 February 2015 Moore appeared on BBC1's talent show The Voice but did not make it through to the second round.
Brother Beyond (1985–1991)
Worlds Apart (1994–2008)
See also
David White
James Fox
References
External links
Nathan Moore – Site Web Francophone
MySpaceTV: short clip of Brother Beyond being interviewed in 1988.
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Brother Beyond members
English male singers
English pop singers
People from Stamford Hill
Worlds Apart (band) members | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan%20Moore%20%28English%20musician%29 |
UTC+04:30 is an identifier for a time offset from UTC of +04:30. This time is used only in Afghanistan, so it is also called Afghanistan Standard Time.
As standard time (year-round)
South-Central Asia
Afghanistan – Afghanistan Time (AFT)
Principal cities: Kabul, Kandahar, Herat, Mazar-i-Sharif
References
UTC offsets
Time in Afghanistan | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTC%2B04%3A30 |
Diggle may refer to:
People
Andy Diggle, British comic book writer and former editor of 2000 AD
Angus Diggle (born 1956), British former solicitor
Steve Diggle (born 1955), English guitarist and vocalist in the punk band Buzzcocks
Fictional
Dedalus Diggle, a member of the Order of the Phoenix in the Harry Potter universe
John Diggle (character), a fictional character from the TV series Arrow
Other
Diggle, Greater Manchester, a village in Saddleworth parish, Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England
Diggle railway station
Diggles: The Myth of Fenris, a game released by Innonics on 27 September 2001
A race of burrowing bird monsters from the rpg roguelike Dungeons of Dredmor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diggle |
Ardaric (; c. 450 AD) was the king of the Gepids, a Germanic tribe closely related to the Goths. He was "famed for his loyalty and wisdom," one of the most trusted adherents of Attila the Hun, who "prized him above all the other chieftains."
Ardaric is first mentioned by Jordanes as Attila's most prized vassal at the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains (451):
"The renowned king of the Gepidae, Ardaric, was there also with a countless host, and because of his great loyalty to Attila, he shared his plans. For Attila, comparing them in his wisdom, prized him and Valamir, king of the Ostrogoths, above all the other chieftains." (Jordanes, Getica, trans. C. C. Mierow, 1915)
After Attila's death in 453, Ardaric led the rebellion against Attila's sons and routed them in the Battle of Nedao, thus ending the Huns' dominance in Eastern Europe.
Since Attila's death, his eldest son Ellak had risen to power. Supported by Attila's chief lieutenant, Onegesius, he wanted to assert the absolute control with which Attila had ruled, while Attila's other two sons, Dengizik and Ernak, claimed kingship over smaller subject tribes.
In 454, Ardaric led his Gepid and Ostrogothic forces against Attila's son Ellak and his Hunnish army. The Battle of Nedao was a bloody but decisive victory for Ardaric, in which Ellak was killed.
Ardaric's most immediate achievement was the establishment of his people in Dacia. His defeat of the Huns at the River Nedao
reduced the threat of invasion posed to the Eastern Roman Empire.
While the Western Roman Empire lay in ruins after AD 476, the Eastern Roman Empire survived for almost another thousand years.
The name Ardaricus is assumed to represent Germanic *Hardu-reiks; Schütte (1933) tentatively identified the Heiðrekr of Germanic legend with the historical Gepid king.
Ardaric's year of death is unknown. The Gepid king Mundo (Mundonus), who ruled in the early 6th century, was probably his grandson.
See also
Valamir
Theodoric I
References
Sources
Charnock, R.S. "The Peoples of Transylvania." Journal of the Anthropological Society of London 7 (1869).
Horworth, H.H. "The Westerly Drifting of Nomads, from the Fifth to the Nineteenth Century. Part XII. The Huns." The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 3 (1874): 452-75.
Kim, Hyun Jin, The Huns, Rome and the Birth of Europe Cambridge University Press (2013).
Makkai, Laszlo, and Andras Mocsy, eds. History of Transylvania Vol. 1: From the Beginnings to 1606. New York: Columbia UP, 2001.
Mierow, Charles C., trans. Jordanes: The Origin and Deeds of the Goths. Texts for Ancient History Courses. 22 Apr. 1997. Department of Greek, Latin and Ancient History, University of Calgary. 26 November 2008 (acs.ucalgary.ca ).
Man, John. Attila : The Barbarian King Who Challenged Rome. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2006.
Oliver, Marilyn Tower. Attila the Hun. New York: Blackbirch P, Incorporated, 2005.
Wolfram, Herwig. The Roman Empire and Its Germanic Peoples. Trans. Thomas Dunlap. New York: University of California P, 1997.
5th-century deaths
5th century in the Roman Empire
Gepid kings
Gepid warriors
Attila the Hun | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardaric |
Shri Govindram Seksaria Institute of Technology and Science (SGSITS), formerly known as Govindram Seksaria Technological Institute (GSTI), is an institute of technology located in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India. It is an autonomous institution funded by the Government of Madhya Pradesh, India.
SGSITS is an autonomous institute for academic and administrative purposes, it is a part of the Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya and its degrees are issued by this university.
History
Established in 1952, SGSITS was initially known as "Shri Govindram Seksaria Kala Bhavan". The institute came into being as a result of the desire expressed by the Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to a group of leading industrialists of Indore for establishing a technical institute.
An industrialist of the town, Seth Shri Kudilaji Seksaria, responded by donating an initial amount for starting the institute in the name of his late father Seth Shri Govindram Seksaria, who is famously known as the Cotton King of India.
In 1956 it was converted to a degree college with a course in Civil Engineering and its name was changed to Govindram Seksaria Technological Institute (GSTI).
With the introduction of M.Sc. courses in Applied Sciences, the name of the institute was changed to its present name. In 1989 the institute was granted autonomous status by the University Grants Commission and the AICTE.
The Department of Management Studies was established in the year 2012.
Campus
The campus spreads over 35 acres and is located in Indore.
Academic departments
The institute offers 10 undergraduate, 22 postgraduate courses with an annual intake of 720 and 459 students respectively.
It also offers Ph.D. Programs under QIP in all branches of Engineering & Sciences (except Biomedical Engineering, Information Technology and MBA). In addition, 4 part-time undergraduate and 2 part-time postgraduate courses are offered for working professionals with Engineering Diploma. SGSITS is the best college in Madhya Pradesh after IIT and NIT.
Teaching and related activities of the institute are taken care of by different departments, centers, and cells of the institute. The departments are as follows:
Departments
Engineering:
Biomedical engineering
Civil Engineering and Applied Mechanics
Computer Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering
Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering
Information Technology
Industrial and Production Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Science
Physics:
Applied Physics & Opto electronics
Chemistry
Applied Chemistry
Mathematics
Applied Mathematics & Computational Sciences
Management Studies
Pharmacy
Industrial Pharmacy
Pharmaceutical Chemistry
Humanities and Social Sciences
Computer Technology and Applications
Student Activities
Every year the Institute organizes cultural events for the students in both the semesters. Apart from this there are a large number of hobby clubs which conduct their activities throughout the year.
The academic session starts with a fresher’s day, “Aavahan”. This program is exclusively designed for the fresh students joining the Institute. In this program, the fresher’s get an opportunity of getting introduced to the Director of the Institute and Deans, along with the Professor In charge of cultural and literary affairs. The students listen to the orientation lectures of the Director, Dean of Student Welfare, Dean of Academics and Professor I/c Cultural and Literary Affairs. A cultural program is organized on this occasion. This program generally includes various events of music, drama, compering and inter branch competition.
In the next semester, the Institute hosts a Techno-Cultural event, “Aayaam”. This program hosts large number of events. Nearly 1500–2000 students take part in this event.
The program begins with “Gold Medal Award Ceremony”. This prestigious ceremony is held to honour the meritorious students of the Institute. In all 10 Gold Medals (K.G. Seksaria Medals) are conferred to ten toppers of the different branches of Engineering and Pharmacy. Apart from this the Institute also confers about 8 to 10 gold and silver medals and certificates Instituted by various individuals and organizations. After the conclusion of the gold medal award ceremony, the other program spanning up to 3 days begin. The major programs included in Aayaam are open movie theater, nukkad natak, robotics competition, programming competition, bridge design competition, health camp and blood donation camp, circuit design competition, student paper presentations, art exhibition, rangoli competition, marathon, food stalls and games, and cultural program of the students.
Rankings
SGSITS Institute ranked 181 amongst all the engineering colleges of India. The India Rankings 2021 list was declared by Hon'ble Minister of Education Shri Dharmendra Pradhan, Govt. of India, on September 9, 2021.National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) in 2022.
Clubs
The Institute has many student hobby clubs. These clubs host a number of events during the year and provide an opportunity to the students to pursue their hobbies. Few of them are listed below:
Team GSRacers (BAJA Segment)
Team GSMotorsports (Formula Segment)
Pratibimb
CodeFoster
Computer Club
Magazine and Literary Committee
TRIVIM
SAE
E-Cell
Club Ojaswa
Club Kshitij
Ingenious
GS Production House
Sparkle
Centres and Cells
The Centres and Cells available are:
Computer Centre
Centre for Continuing Education Programme
Entrepreneurship Development Cell
Training and Placement Cell
Central Workshop and Management Cell
Center for Nanotechnology
Centre for Lasers and Fiber Optics
Centre for VLSI Designs Entrepreneurship Development
Cell Center for Advanced Automation
Centre for Industry-Institute Interaction
Remote Sensing Cell
Center for Innovation, Design and Incubation (CIDI)
Notable alumni
Deepak B. Phatak (Padma Shri)
Digvijaya Singh
Bala Bachchan
Sushil Doshi, Sushil Doshi (Padma Shri)Journalist, Writer, Sports Commentator awarded with Padma Shri
Pallavi Tiwari
References
External links
All India Council for Technical Education
Engineering colleges in Madhya Pradesh
Universities and colleges in Indore
Science and technology in Indore
Universities and colleges established in 1952
1952 establishments in India | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shri%20Govindram%20Seksaria%20Institute%20of%20Technology%20and%20Science |
Digna Ochoa (born Digna Ochoa y Plácido; May 15, 1964 – October 19, 2001) was a human rights lawyer in Mexico. During her career, Ochoa had represented some of Mexico's poorest constituents against government interests. On October 19, 2001, Ochoa was shot dead by unknown assailants at her office in Mexico City. Mexican state authorities initially declared her death a suicide, however amongst objections from human rights activists the investigation into her death was reopened in 2005. In 2021, Mexico admitted wrongdoing in the investigation of Ochoa's death.
Biography
Digna Ochoa was born in Misantla, in the state of Veracruz. Ochoa was a nun before she became a human rights lawyer.
Ochoa went to law school in the state capital, Xalapa, Veracruz, in 1984 and began working part-time for the Veracruz Attorney General's Offices in 1986. On August 16, 1988, while politically active with opposition groups, and after advising her family that she had found a "black list" of union and political activists at the office of her employer, she was abducted in Jalapa, Veracruz. Ochoa claimed that her abductors were state police officers and that she was raped. There was no investigation of her allegations. In 1991 she entered the Dominican convent of the Incarnate Word where she studied until 1999. She left without taking her vows.
In August 1999, Digna Ochoa was kidnapped and held in a car in Mexico City before being freed. In October 1999, Ochoa was kidnapped again in Mexico City and interrogated overnight. She was left next to an open cylinder of gas. Mexico City police investigated and the Inter-American Human Rights Court recommended protection for her.
In August 2000, she went into exile in Washington, DC, USA. While in exile, she was presented with Amnesty International's "Enduring Spirit" Award in Los Angeles by actor Martin Sheen.
In March 2001, she returned to Mexico City and in August 2001 court-ordered protection for her was lifted. She began work in law offices at 31-A Zacatecas Street in Mexico City on October 16, 2001. Her career involved representation of various dissidents and in some cases raised allegations of human rights abuses including torture by government authorities, particularly the army.
Death
Ochoa was killed on October 19, 2001, at her office in the Roma district of Mexico City. At the time of her death, she was involved in the defence of peasant ecologists in Guerrero. Her body was found in the law office where she worked. A note was found by her body, warning the members of the human rights law centre where she had recently worked that the same thing could happen to them.
Several investigations followed her death. Although Mexico City officials initially ruled her death homicide, in March 2002 they ruled that it was suicide, a claim that was disputed by several senators. The autopsy report indicated that her body had two .22 caliber bullet wounds. Her death was caused by a gunshot to the head. The entry wound was on the left side. According to the coroner's report, the bullet passed through the skull from left to right on a slight angle from up to down and from back to front. The bullet remained embedded in her right temporal bone. Ochoa was right-handed. The other bullet entered Digna's thigh from front to back.
In 2002, Digna received post mortem the International Human Rights Award by Global Exchange, an international NGO based in San Francisco.
In 2003, Digna Ochoa received post mortem The Ludovic-Trarieux International Human Rights Prize awarded by European Bars.
See also
Human rights in Mexico
List of kidnappings
List of journalists killed in Mexico
List of unsolved murders
Notes
References
Diebel, Linda. [2005] 2006. Betrayed: The Assassination of Digna Ochoa. New York: Carroll & Graf Publishers,
Proceso (Mexican magazine) number 1398, published on August 17, 2003
External links
Digna... hasta el último aliento, a documentary film about Ochoa's life and death
"About the Digna Ochoa Case", Lawyers Rights Watch Canada summary of Ochoa murder.
Amnesty USA reaction
''Dignificada, a song by Lila Downs that features her.
1964 births
1990s missing person cases
2000s missing person cases
2001 deaths
2001 murders in Mexico
20th-century women lawyers
Deaths by firearm in Mexico
Female murder victims
Formerly missing people
Kidnapped people
Law enforcement in Mexico
Mexican human rights activists
20th-century Mexican lawyers
Mexican murder victims
Mexican women lawyers
Missing person cases in Mexico
People from Misantla
People murdered in Mexico
Unsolved murders in Mexico
Women human rights activists
Femicide in Mexico | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digna%20Ochoa |
Nobody's Watching/Nobody's Listening is a combination CD/DVD, released by the Pernice Brothers in 2005. It consists of material recorded on the Pernice Brothers' 2004 tour, including a cover of a song by frontman Joe Pernice's former band, the Scud Mountain Boys, as well as a Pretenders cover.
The DVD includes the videos for "Baby in Two" and "Weakest Shade of Blue" (two cuts from previous album Yours, Mine and Ours), as well as a tour diary.
Track listing
DVD contents
"Nobody's Watching" (tour diary)
"Baby in Two" (video)
"Baby in Two" (storyboard)
"Weakest Shade of Blue" (video)
"Weakest Shade of Blue" (storyboard)
References
Pernice Brothers albums
2005 live albums
2005 video albums | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobody%27s%20Watching/Nobody%27s%20Listening |
The white-throated mountaingem or white-throated mountain-gem (Lampornis castaneoventris) is a species of hummingbird in tribe Lampornithini of subfamily Trochilinae. It is endemic to the highlands of Costa Rica and Panama.
Taxonomy and systematics
The white-throated mountaingem is treated as a species by the International Ornithological Committee (IOC) and BirdLife International's Handbook of the Birds of the World (HBW). However, the North American Classification Committee of the American Ornithological Society and the Clements taxonomy treat it and the grey-tailed mountaingem (Lampornis cinereicauda) as subspecies of what they call the white-throated mountain-gem.
Description
The grey-tailed mountaingem is about long and weighs about . It has a medium-length straight black bill, dark cheeks, and a white stripe behind the eye. Males have mostly dark bronzy green upperparts with an emerald green crown and a black to bluish black tail. Their chin and throat are white, the sides of the neck and upper breast bright green, and the lower breast and vent area dark gray. Females have entirely bright green upperparts. Their central tail feathers are dark metallic to bronze green and the outer ones paler. Their throat and belly are dark rufous and the undertail coverts are gray with white or buff edges.
Distribution and habitat
The white-throated mountaingem is found only in the mountains of western Panama's Chiriquí Province. It inhabits the interior, edges, and shrubby clearings of oak forest and also gardens in communities near the forest. In elevation it ranges from up to timberline.
Behavior
Movement
The white-throated mountaingem is a year-round resident.
Feeding
The white-throated mountaingem feeds on nectar from a variety of flowering plants. Males typically feed at epiphytes in the forest interior while females more often feed in shrubby areas. Males are territorial, defending flower patches. They are dominant over smaller hummingbirds and subordinate to larger ones like the fiery-throated hummingbird (Panterpe insignis). The species also feeds on small arthropods gleaned from foliage.
Breeding
The white-throated mountaingem's breeding season spans from October to April. Its nest is a cup of fine fibers with moss and some lichen on the outside. The incubation length and time to fledging are not known.
Vocalization
The white-throated mountaingem makes high pitched calls described as "ziit or ziip" and also "a 'sputtery, bubbly' song".
Status
The IUCN has assessed the white-throated mountaingem as being of Least Concern, though it has a small range and its population size and trend are unknown. It is considered common. However, "this hummingbird is potentially threatened by human activities" such as deforestation for timber and agriculture.
References
Further reading
Stiles, F. Gary & Skutch, Alexander F. (1990): A guide to the birds of Costa Rica. Cornell University Press.
white-throated mountaingem
Birds of the Talamancan montane forests
Endemic birds of Panama
white-throated mountaingem | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-throated%20mountaingem |
The 2007 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament involved 65 teams playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball as a culmination of the 2006–07 basketball season. Team selections were announced on March 11, 2007, and the tournament began on March 13, 2007, with the opening round game and concluded with the championship game on April 2 at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta, Georgia.
Both of the finalists from the year before returned to the Final Four as Florida, who returned its entire starting lineup from the year before, and UCLA advanced. They were joined in the Final Four by Ohio State, who was making its first appearance since their 1999 appearance (later vacated), and Georgetown, appearing for the first time since their national runner-up finish in 1985.
Florida successfully defended their title by defeating Ohio State in the championship 84–75. This marked the second time in 2007 that a Florida team beat an Ohio State team to win a national championship, as Florida's football team won the BCS National Championship Game over Ohio State in January. Florida's Corey Brewer was named the Most Outstanding Player. Florida became the first team to repeat since Duke in 1992. , the 2007 Gators are the last team to repeat as national champions.
This tournament was notable because it featured significantly fewer upsets than prior years. There were only 12 games in which a lower-seeded team defeated a higher-seeded team, and eight of these "upsets" were by teams ranked only one seed lower than their opponent. As of 2023, this is the last tournament in which no team seeded 12 or lower won a round of 64 game, while No. 7-seed UNLV was the lowest-seeded team to make it to the Sweet Sixteen. This marked the second time since the tournament expanded to at least 64 teams that no team seeded No. 8 or lower played in the Sweet Sixteen; the other instance was in 1995. Southland Conference champion Texas A&M-Corpus Christi made their first NCAA appearance.
This was the first Tournament since 2003 that regional sites were designated as "East", "West", "South", and "Midwest", rather than by the names of the host cities.
Tournament procedure
A total of 65 teams entered the tournament. Of that total, 30 of the teams earned automatic bids by winning their conference tournaments. The automatic bid of the Ivy League, which did not conduct a post-season tournament, went to its regular season champion, Penn. The remaining 34 teams were granted "at-large" bids, which are extended by the NCAA Selection Committee.
The initial game on March 13 officially named the opening round game, but popularly called the "play-in game", had Niagara, winner of the Mid-Atlantic Athletic Conference tournament, facing Florida A&M, who won the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference tournament, for a chance to play top seed Kansas in the first round of the Tournament. Niagara defeated Florida A&M, 77–69, to advance to play Kansas.
All teams are seeded 1 to 16 within their regionals, while the Selection Committee seeded the entire field from 1 to 65.
Schedule and venues
The following are the sites that were selected to host each round of the 2007 tournament:
Opening Round
March 13
University of Dayton Arena, Dayton, Ohio (Host: University of Dayton)
First and Second Rounds
March 15 and 17
HSBC Arena, Buffalo, New York (Hosts: Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, Canisius College and Niagara University)
ARCO Arena, Sacramento, California (Host: University of the Pacific)
Rupp Arena, Lexington, Kentucky (Host: University of Kentucky)
Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Winston-Salem, North Carolina (Host: Wake Forest University)
March 16 and 18
United Center, Chicago, Illinois (Host: Big Ten Conference)
Nationwide Arena, Columbus, Ohio (Host: Ohio State University)
Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena, Spokane, Washington (Host: Washington State University)
New Orleans Arena, New Orleans, Louisiana (Host: Tulane University)
Regional semifinals and finals (Sweet Sixteen and Elite Eight)
March 22 and 24
South Regional, Alamodome, San Antonio, Texas (Host: University of Texas at San Antonio)
West Regional, HP Pavilion at San Jose, San Jose, California (Host: San José State University)
March 23 and 25
East Regional, Continental Airlines Arena, East Rutherford, New Jersey (Host: Rutgers University)
Midwest Regional, Edward Jones Dome, St. Louis, Missouri (Host: Missouri Valley Conference)
National semifinals and championship (Final Four and championship)
March 31 and April 2
Georgia Dome, Atlanta, Georgia (Host: Georgia Tech)
Qualifying teams
Automatic bids
The following teams were automatic qualifiers for the 2007 NCAA field by virtue of winning their conference's tournament (except for the Ivy League, whose regular-season champion received the automatic bid).
Here are the top seeded teams in each regional and their overall seeds.
Midwest Regional (St. Louis) (top seed: Florida; top overall seed)
West Regional (San Jose) (top seed: Kansas; fourth overall seed)
East Regional (East Rutherford) (top seed: North Carolina; second overall seed)
South Regional (San Antonio) (top seed: Ohio State; third overall seed)
Listed by region and seeding
Bracket
(*) – Number of asterisks denotes number of overtimes.
Opening Round game – Dayton, Ohio
Winner advances to West Regional vs. No. (1) Kansas.
Midwest Regional – St. Louis, Missouri
West Regional – San Jose, California
East Regional – East Rutherford, New Jersey
South Regional – San Antonio, Texas
Final Four – Georgia Dome, Atlanta, Georgia
Game summaries
Unless otherwise specified, all games were on CBS, except for the play-in game, which aired on ESPN and two additional games. Those games were broadcast on CSTV except in the natural areas of the teams involved, as those were broadcast on CBS. Times listed are US EDT (UTC−4).
Team names are those listed on the NCAA's scoreboard for the play-in game and first-round matchups. Only UNLV and UCLA use abbreviations; all other names are unabbreviated except for the common abbreviation "A&M".
Opening rounds
First round upsets, close games, and other facts
The two major upsets of the first round were #11 Virginia Commonwealth's win over #6 Duke (West Regional), and #11 Winthrop's win over #6 Notre Dame (Midwest Regional). VCU beat Duke, 79–77, on a shot by Eric Maynor with 1.8 seconds left, sending Duke out for the first time in the first round since 1996. Winthrop's highly touted offense built a 21-point second-half lead before surviving a late Notre Dame rally to win, 74–64, earning their first tournament victory in school history. The only overtime game of the first round was in the South Regional, between #7 Nevada and #10 Creighton, ending 77–71 in favor of the Nevada Wolf Pack. Other close games included #3 Oregon squeaking by #14 Miami (Ohio), 58-56 (Midwest Regional), #5 Virginia Tech's win over #12 Illinois 54-52 (West Regional), and #9 Xavier's win over #8 BYU, 79-77 (South Regional). The highest score accumulated by a team in the 2007 tournament went to Tennessee's 121 points over Long Beach State (South Regional), which set a school record. This was the first year since 1993 that a #10 seed did not advance to the second round. It was also only the second time in the last 17 years that a #12 seed failed to advance against a #5 seed. #15 Texas A&M-Corpus Christi had leads of 10-0 and 25–7 in the first half against the #2 Wisconsin Badgers but Wisconsin prevailed 76–63.
Second round upsets, close games, and other facts
The two biggest upsets of the second round were #6 Vanderbilt's win over #3 Washington State (East Regional) and #7 UNLV's win over #2 Wisconsin (Midwest Regional). Vanderbilt won a heart-stopper, 78–74, in double overtime. UNLV won by six points, 74–68, in their biggest win since the 1990s. Other overtime games included #1 Ohio State's 78–71 win over #9 Xavier (South Regional) and #3 Pittsburgh's 84–79 overtime victory over #11 Virginia Commonwealth (West Regional). Ohio State's Ron Lewis hit a three-pointer with two seconds remaining to force overtime against Xavier, and Pittsburgh fought Virginia Commonwealth's comeback from 19 points down to come up with the victory. The Ohio State win over Xavier had a controversial ending as prior to Lewis's game-tying shot, Buckeye Greg Oden shoved a Xavier player, Justin Cage, in the back and onto the floor. Had an intentional foul been called, Xavier would have been awarded two foul shots and ball possession. Instead, a regular personal foul was called. Subsequently, Xavier missed the second free throw, allowing Lewis to shoot the game-tying 3. Other close games were #3 Texas A&M winning over #6 Louisville, 72-69 (South Regional); #5 Butler's victory over #4 Maryland, 62-59 (Midwest Regional); and #5 Tennessee defeating #4 Virginia, 77-74 (South Regional). This tournament marked the first time since 1995 that a double-digit seeded team did not advance to the Sweet 16 (Midwest #7 seed UNLV was the lowest team in the Sweet 16).
Regional semifinals (Sweet Sixteen) upsets, close games, other facts
No upsets or overtime games occurred in this round of the tournament, although there were several very close games. In the South Region, #2 Memphis barely defeated #3 Texas A&M as Aggie senior Acie Law, after a solid performance for most of the game, missed an open layup with under a minute left. A controversial clock situation with 3.1 seconds left added to the emotion. #1 Ohio State sneaked past #5 Tennessee, coming back from 20 points down to win, 85–84, with a blocked shot by Buckeye Greg Oden with 0.2 seconds left. In the East Region, #2 Georgetown won possibly the most controversial game of the tournament, beating #6 Vanderbilt, 66–65, on a shot by Jeff Green with 2.5 seconds left. The play was controversial as Green appeared to travel, despite fans and analysts claiming it was a clean drop step.
Regional Finals (Elite Eight)
The seeds of the Elite Eight teams were four #1s, three #2s, and one #3. This was the lowest combination of seeds in an Elite Eight since seeding began in the NCAA tournament.
South Regional Final
Although Ohio State star freshman Greg Oden got into early foul trouble, a close game at the half turned into a blowout as the Buckeyes went on a 20–8 run to win. Game leaders were Memphis' Jeremy Hunt with 26 points, and Robert Dozier with 11 rebounds. This ended Memphis' 25-game win streak, previously the longest in the nation.
West Regional Final
After a tight first-half, the Bruins slowly put away the top-seeded Jayhawks in the second-half using their 2006 national championship game experience, along with a strong defense. Shooting percentage was a key factor in the game as UCLA shot 53% to Kansas's 41%. UCLA's Arron Afflalo led all scorers with 24 points while Brandon Rush of Kansas led the Jayhawks with 18. UCLA and Kansas combined for 35 steals, breaking the previous tournament record of 28.
East Regional Final
North Carolina led for most of the game and the entire second half, but Georgetown rallied from ten points down with six minutes remaining to force overtime. The Tar Heels were outscored 15–3 in the extra session, missing 22 of their final 23 field goal attempts. Georgetown reached its first Final Four since 1985, when John Thompson III's father John Thompson (Jr.) was coach—and Thompson III became the first coach to succeed his father in coaching a team to the Final Four. With North Carolina's loss in the regional final, this marked the first time since the tournament field expanded to 64 teams that no ACC team made it to the Final Four for two consecutive years. The last time that no ACC team made it to the Final Four in consecutive years was in 1979 and 1980.
Midwest Regional Final
In what was actually a close game for most of regulation, Florida's three-point shots, along with a 20–9 run in the second half, amounted to a Gator win. Florida player Lee Humphrey led his team with seven three-pointers, and added up a total of 23 points. In one of the more odd moments of the tournament, Humphrey shot a three-pointer through the side of the net, causing a 10-minute delay as the net was repaired.
Final Four
All of the 2007 Final Four teams had participated in the 2006 tournament. Ohio State was knocked out in the second round by Georgetown, who would lose to Florida in the Minneapolis Regional semifinals. Florida would go on to defeat UCLA in the championship game. The four teams were all previous champions as well—Ohio State (1960), Georgetown (1984), UCLA (several), and Florida (2006)—marking the fourth time that all of the Final Four teams were past champions (joining 1993, 1995 and 1998 Final Fours). Also, it was the first time in nine years that no two Final Four teams were from the same conference.
South-East National semifinal
Ohio State proved to be too much for the Hoyas, even with Ohio State's phenom center Greg Oden sitting most of the game due to foul trouble.
Midwest-West National semifinal
In the beginning, Florida struggled with UCLA's swarming defense, but ten minutes into the game they took a double-digit lead, and Lee Humphrey, in a performance reminiscent of the previous year's national title game, blew the game open in the second half hitting three consecutive three-pointers. Humphrey's shots proved too much to overcome and UCLA never threatened in the second half.
National Championship
A rematch of a regular season meeting, won 86-60 by Florida in Gainesville, The Gators survived 25 points and 12 rebounds from Buckeyes center Greg Oden with stellar play from guards Lee Humphrey and Taurean Green with inside contributions coming from Al Horford (18 points) and tourney Most Outstanding Player Corey Brewer. Billy Donovan became the third-youngest coach (at age 41) to win two titles. Only Bob Knight (at Indiana) and San Francisco's Phil Woolpert both won two titles at the age of 40.
The Gators are the first team ever to hold the NCAA Division I college football and basketball titles in the same academic year (2006–07) and calendar year (2006 and 2007). Coincidentally, Florida also beat Ohio State (by a score of 41–14) in the College Football Championship, the first time in college sports history that identical matchups and results have occurred in both football and basketball championships. This was also the first time in NCAA D-I men's basketball history that exactly the same starting five were able to win back-to-back titles (Joakim Noah, Corey Brewer, Lee Humphrey, Al Horford, Taurean Green). Florida's Lee Humphrey also set the all-time NCAA Tournament record for three-point field goals made with 47. Humphrey surpassed Bobby Hurley's record of 42.
Record by conference
The America East, Atlantic Sun, Big Sky, Big West, Ivy, MEAC, Mid-American, Mid-Continent, Northeast, Ohio Valley, Patriot, Southern, Southland, Sun Belt, SWAC, and WCC all went 0–1.
* The MAAC went 1-1 since Niagara won the Play-in Game.
Media
Television
CBS Sports
For the 26th consecutive year, CBS Sports telecast the tournament, and for the 17th consecutive year, broadcast every game from the first round to the championship, with Jim Nantz and Billy Packer calling the Final Four. Nantz was in a stretch in which he would broadcast Super Bowl XLI, the Final Four, and The Masters golf tournament all in a 10-week period.
The complete list of announcing teams follows:
Jim Nantz, Billy Packer and Sam Ryan (she was only used as Sideline Reporter for the Final Four and NCAA Championship game) – First & Second Round at Chicago, Illinois; East Regional at East Rutherford, New Jersey; Final Four at Atlanta, Georgia
Dick Enberg and Jay Bilas – First & Second Round at Winston-Salem, North Carolina; West Regional at San Jose, California
Verne Lundquist and Bill Raftery – First & Second Round at New Orleans, Louisiana; South Regional at San Antonio, Texas
James Brown and Len Elmore – First & Second Round at Sacramento, California; Midwest Regional at St. Louis, Missouri
Gus Johnson and Dan Bonner – First & Second Round at Lexington, Kentucky
Ian Eagle and Jim Spanarkel – First & Second Round at Spokane, Washington
Kevin Harlan and Bob Wenzel – First & Second Round at Buffalo, New York
Tim Brando and Mike Gminski – First & Second Round at Columbus, Ohio
Greg Gumbel once again served as the studio host, joined by analysts Clark Kellogg and Seth Davis.
Other television
CSTV, owned by CBS, telecast the George Washington-Vanderbilt and the Virginia-Albany contests (in addition to the local CBS affiliates nearest to the participating teams in those games, and those using their digital subchannels for simulcasting). Those games served as the first-ever live tourney telecasts on CSTV, which also provided a highlights show after each day of competition.
For the first three rounds of the tournament, games were also shown on DirecTV through the Mega March Madness pay-per-view service and on March Madness on Demand, a broadband Internet video streaming service that was a joint venture between CBS SportsLine (now known as CBSSports.com) and the NCAA.
The opening round game was broadcast on ESPN for the sixth consecutive year.
Radio
Westwood One once again had the live radio coverage. Kevin Harlan once again served as the play-by-play man at the Final Four with Bill Raftery and John Thompson on color. Thompson the elder is the father of current Georgetown coach John Thompson III.
Basketball courts
During the first- and second-round games in New Orleans, as part of the continuing recovery process from Hurricane Katrina, the NCAA allowed an additional floor decal recognizing the work of Habitat for Humanity's Collegiate Challenge and the NCAA Home Team program through the subregional's host institution, Tulane University. This marked the first time that a logo other than that of the NCAA or an NCAA member school has been allowed at an NCAA-sanctioned championship event. In addition, Tulane student athletes and athletic department personnel built a new house, valued at $75,000 (US), which was paid for by the NCAA and their corporate partner Lowe's, on Girod Street between the New Orleans Arena, site of the games, and the Louisiana Superdome, which has hosted four Final Fours.
Also, for the first time, custom-made, identical courts were used at all four regional sites in San Jose, St. Louis, San Antonio and East Rutherford. Starting in 2010, all tournament games would have the same identical courts.
See also
2007 NCAA Division II men's basketball tournament
2007 NCAA Division III men's basketball tournament
2007 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament
2007 NCAA Division II women's basketball tournament
2007 NCAA Division III women's basketball tournament
2007 National Invitation Tournament
2007 Women's National Invitation Tournament
2007 NAIA Division I men's basketball tournament
2007 NAIA Division II men's basketball tournament
2007 NAIA Division I women's basketball tournament
2007 NAIA Division II women's basketball tournament
Bracketology
References
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The 2008 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament involved 65 schools playing in a single-elimination tournament to determine the national champion of men's NCAA Division I college basketball as a culmination of the 2007–08 basketball season. The 70th annual edition of the tournament began on March 18, 2008, and concluded on April 7 at the Alamodome in San Antonio.
For the first time (and only time through the 2023 tournament) since seeding began in 1979, all four of the top seeds advanced to the Final Four. These were Memphis, the winner of the South region, UCLA, the winner of the West region making their third consecutive Final Four appearance, Kansas, the winner of the Midwest region, and overall number one seed and East region winner North Carolina, back in the Final Four for the first time since their 2005 national championship.
Memphis and Kansas advanced to the national championship game, with Memphis's victory in the semifinals giving them a record-setting 38 for the season, beating the mark set by Duke in 1999 (Kentucky later matched this record in 2012 and 2015). Kansas, however, spoiled their national championship hopes by handing the Tigers their second loss of the season, winning the game in overtime, 75–68. Memphis's entire season was later vacated by the NCAA due to eligibility concerns surrounding freshman guard Derrick Rose.
Entering the tournament on March 18, the top ranked team was North Carolina in both the AP Top 25 and the ESPN/USA Today Coaches' Polls, followed by Memphis, UCLA and Kansas.
American University (Patriot), UMBC (America East), Texas–Arlington (Southland), and Portland State (Big Sky) all entered the tournament for the first time in their school's history. Another school, Coppin State, won the MEAC Tournament to become the first 20-loss school to make the field. Georgia, a team that otherwise would not have advanced to the tournament, won the SEC tournament to qualify, and were awarded a #14 seed, the lowest by a major conference team in the tournament.
Whereas the 2007 tournament did not see many upsets, the 2008 tournament was full of them. The sub-regional pod played at the St. Pete Times Forum in Tampa, Florida, featured four games where a double digit seed won. #5 seeds Drake and Clemson fell to #12 seeds Western Kentucky and Villanova while the #4 seeds in that same pod, Vanderbilt and Connecticut, were defeated by #13 seeds Siena and San Diego. Western Kentucky advanced to the West regional in Phoenix, where they lost to UCLA while Villanova was one of two double digit seeds to advance to the Midwest regional. The other was #10 seed Davidson, who rode the hot shooting of Stephen Curry to defeat Gonzaga, Georgetown, and Wisconsin before nearly upsetting Kansas in the regional final. The Midwest region alone saw four of its double digit seeds advance, as in addition to Villanova, Siena, and Davidson, #11 seed Kansas State knocked off #6 seed USC.
The total tournament attendance of 763,607 set a record for highest total tournament attendance, breaking the record set during the 1999 tournament.
Tournament procedure
The NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship is an annual single-elimination tournament featuring 65 teams representing all Division I Conferences in the nation. A "play-in" game determined which of the two lowest seeds would play in the first round of 64 against a top seed team. The Selection Committee seeded the entire field from 1 to 65 within four regionals of 16 teams; Mount St. Mary's, as the winner of the play-in game, automatically received a 16 seed.
Schedule and venues
The following are the sites that were selected to host each round of the 2008 tournament:
Opening round
March 18
University of Dayton Arena, Dayton, Ohio (Host: University of Dayton)
First and second rounds
March 20 and 22
Honda Center, Anaheim, California (Host: Big West Conference)
Pepsi Center, Denver, Colorado (Hosts: Colorado State University, Mountain West Conference)
Qwest Center Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska (Hosts: Creighton University, Missouri Valley Conference)
Verizon Center, Washington, D.C. (Host: Georgetown University)
March 21 and 23
BJCC Arena, Birmingham, Alabama (Host: Southeastern Conference)
Alltel Arena, North Little Rock, Arkansas (Hosts: University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Sun Belt Conference)
RBC Center, Raleigh, North Carolina (Host: North Carolina State University)
St. Pete Times Forum, Tampa, Florida (Host: University of South Florida)
Regional semifinals and finals (Sweet Sixteen and Elite Eight)
March 27 and 29
East Regional, Charlotte Bobcats Arena, Charlotte, North Carolina (Host: University of North Carolina at Charlotte)
West Regional, US Airways Center, Phoenix, Arizona (Host: Arizona State University)
March 28 and 30
Midwest Regional, Ford Field, Detroit, Michigan (Hosts: University of Detroit Mercy, Horizon League)
South Regional, Reliant Stadium, Houston, Texas (Hosts: University of Houston, Rice University)
National Semifinals and Championship (Final Four and Championship)
April 5 and 7
Alamodome, San Antonio, Texas (Host: University of Texas at San Antonio)
Qualifying teams
Automatic bids
The following teams were automatic qualifiers for the 2008 NCAA field by virtue of winning their conference's tournament (except for the Ivy League, whose regular-season champion received the automatic bid).
Listed by region and seeding
A total of 31 teams received automatic bids for winning their conference tournament championship. Since the Ivy League does not hold a tournament, its regular season champion received the automatic bid. This left 34 at-large bids to be decided from the rest of the field by the NCAA Selection Committee. The at-large bids, along with the seeding for each team in the tournament, were announced on Sunday, March 16. Coppin State was the first team to make the tournament with 20 losses. Maryland-Baltimore County, American, Texas–Arlington, and Portland State all received their first tournament bids in school history. Four teams returned after absences from the NCAA Tournament of 20 years or more—Drake (last appearing in 1971), Cal State Fullerton (1978), Cornell (1988), and Baylor (1988).
# Both USC and Memphis later vacated all wins from the season, leaving their official records at 0–11 and 0–1, respectively.
Bracket
* – Denotes overtime period
Opening Round game – Dayton, Ohio
Winner advances to 16th seed in East Regional vs. (1) North Carolina.
East Regional – Charlotte, North Carolina
Midwest Regional – Detroit, Michigan
South Regional – Houston, Texas
West Regional – Phoenix, Arizona
Final Four – Alamodome, San Antonio, Texas
Bracket Source
# – Memphis' entire 2007–08 schedule results were vacated due to NCAA sanctions involving the eligibility of Derrick Rose. Unlike forfeiture, a vacated game does not result in the other school being credited with a win, only with Memphis removing the wins from its own record.
Game summaries
East Region
First round
Top seed North Carolina defeated the play-in game winner Mount St. Mary's 113–74. Their high scoring tied the mark for second most in North Carolina tournament history, aided by Tyler Hansbrough and Ty Lawson's 21 points each. They met Arkansas in the second round, a ninth seed who defeated eighth-seed Indiana 86–72. Indiana had struggled with several tough losses late in the season after a coaching scandal. Sonny Weems had a career-high 31 points despite Indiana having two AP All-Americans, D.J. White and Eric Gordon. Fifth seed Notre Dame advanced to the second round with a 68–50 win over 12th seed George Mason. George Mason had two starters from the 2006 final four team, but were unable to come back after a surge by the Irish early in the first half. In the same pod, fourth seeded Washington State defeated 13th-seed Winthrop 71–40, holding them to 11 points in the second half and leaving them far behind after a 25–1 run. In Birmingham, Alabama, the sixth seed Oklahoma defeated 11-th seeded St. Joseph's 72–64, led by David Godbold, a senior not normally known as a team leader who surprised many with his 25 points. Later in the evening, third seeded Louisville defeated WAC champion and 14th seed Boise State 79–61, sending the Broncos home for the second straight time. They had defeated Boise St. in the 1994 tournament as well, the last time the WAC team came to the tournament. In the afternoon session at Birmingham, seventh seeded Butler defeated tenth seed South Alabama in an 81–61 blowout, setting a school record for 30 wins in one season, and number two seed Tennessee survived a brief scare at the hands of 15th-seeded American, 72–57. American's star player, Garrison Carr, led his team with 26 points, tying the game at 40 with 11 minutes to go before Tennessee went on a 10–0 run to score the win.
Second round
Washington State, the region's fourth seed, was first to earn a spot in the Charlotte, North Carolina East Regional by handily beating fifth-seeded Notre Dame, 61–41 in Denver, Colorado. The rout came as a shock to many sportscasters, who expected Notre Dame's offense, which was averaging about 80 points a game, to outdo the Cougars. Instead, Notre Dame shot 24% from the field, their worst offensive effort since 1983 and the fifth-worst in the history of the NCAA tournament's opening rounds. Washington State's win brought them to their first-ever trip to the Sweet 16. Top-seeded North Carolina will challenge the Cougars after defeating Arkansas, the ninth seed, 108–77. The win marked only the third time the Tar Heels had won their first two tournament games by more than 20 points. The other two UNC teams to do this, in 1993 and 2005, went on to win the championship. With the win, North Carolina also set a school record for wins in a season, with 34. Second-seeded Tennessee survived an upset bid from number seven seed Butler, winning in overtime 76–71. Butler was behind throughout regulation, but managed to keep the game close and bring it to overtime, where they gained their first lead, 68–66, about 2 minutes into overtime. Some key defensive stands and free throws by the Volunteers, however, pulled them ahead. They will play third seed Louisville, who beat sixth seed Oklahoma, 78–48. Sooner star Blake Griffin had trouble scoring against Louisville's double-teams, and Louisville's 30-point win was the school's best tournament win since 1968.
Regional semifinals (Sweet Sixteen)
Top-seeded North Carolina defeated fourth seeded Washington State 68–47. Washington State was held to 47 points, the least allowed by a Tar Heel team in the tournament since 1946. Tyler Hansbrough struggled in the first half, but North Carolina's other players stepped to give the team a 14-point lead at halftime. In the second half, he led the team with 16 points, contributing to what was at one point in the half a 26-point lead. Third-seeded Louisville went on to face the Tar Heels in the East finals after defeating the second-seeded Tennessee Volunteers, 79–60. Earl Clark scored 17 points, 13 of them coming in the second half, and had 12 rebounds to lead the Cardinals. The Volunteers were held to 34% shooting and Louisville coach Rick Pitino improved to 8–0 in Regional semifinal games.
Regional final (Elite Eight)
In the East Regional finals in their home state, against third-seed Louisville, Tyler Hansbrough of the top-seeded Tar Heels carried the team with a 28-point performance, including five straight points after the Cardinals tied UNC midway through the second half to lead UNC to an 83–73 win. The Cardinals came close as the game neared its end, but a Ty Lawson 3 broke a 59–59 tie. Defensive stands combined with 8 for 8 free throw shooting down the stretch gave the Tar Heels the victory. Hansbrough was named the East Region's Tournament MVP.
Midwest Region
First round
The Midwest Region featured upsets knocking off the fourth through seventh seeds. Among these was the first upset of the tournament with 11th seed Kansas State's win over the sixth seeded Southern California Trojans 80–67 in Omaha, Nebraska. The media had focused a lot of attention on the freshman stars of both teams, the Wildcats' Michael Beasley and the Trojans' O. J. Mayo. In reality, while Beasley and Mayo did well, it was the other K-State players who made the difference, applying a strong defense to the Men of Troy's attack and coming up with the school's first tournament win since 1988. Also in the Midwest Region, #10 seed Davidson defeated seventh seeded Gonzaga 82–76 in Raleigh, North Carolina. Stephen Curry led the Wildcats with 40 points, 30 of them in the second half. His 40 points are the fifth most in NCAA tournament history, and gave Davidson their first tournament win since 1969. In the same region, 13th seed Siena upset fourth seed Vanderbilt 83–62 in Tampa, Florida. Future Harlem Globetrotter Tay Fisher made all six of his 3-point attempts, the Saints never trailed and became the first MAAC team to advance since 2004. The Midwest's first-round play ended with 12th seed Villanova's upset of fifth seed Clemson, 75–69, also in Tampa. Behind by eighteen late in the first half, the Wildcats came back, taking the lead at about the twelve-minute mark and holding it for the win. The Wildcats have won more games as an underdog in the tournament since seedings began in 1979 than any other team. With Villanova's win, the Forum saw a tournament record four upsets in one day. Earlier in the day, WKU, San Diego, and Siena defeated Drake, UConn, and Vanderbilt, to set the record.
Earlier that day in Omaha, ninth seed Kent State tied an NCAA Tournament record for scoring lows with their 10 points in one half against UNLV. Eighth-seed UNLV won the game 71–58. Top seed Kansas defeated 16th seed Portland State 85–61, thoroughly dominating both inside and outside with the win. Second-seed Georgetown defeated fifteenth seed Maryland-Baltimore County 66–47 in their first-round game, holding them to 31% shooting as compared to their 51%, and third seed Wisconsin stopped an upset threat from 14th seed Cal State Fullerton. The Titans' Josh Akognon scored 31 points, tying a career high, and Fullerton held the lead early in the second half, but were unable hold the lead under the Badgers' offensive pressure.
Second round
The third-seeded Badgers from the University of Wisconsin defeated Kansas State, 72–55 to become the first school to advance to Detroit, Michigan, and the Midwest Regional. KSU freshman star Michael Beasley was again dominant with 23 points and 14 rebounds, though he struggled in the second half with only six points due to the Badger defense. Top-seeded Kansas also advanced to the Sweet 16 by defeating eighth-seed UNLV 75–56. Four Jayhawks scored in double figures and the team shot 58% from the field while holding the Rebels to 26.7%. The following afternoon, the 12th-seeded Villanova Wildcats defeated the 13th-seeded Siena Saints in a 12-seed versus 13-seed Cinderella match-up by a score of 84–72 to reach their third Sweet 16 in four years. The Wildcats took an early lead and never trailed the entire game. Tenth-seeded Davidson became the second double-digit seed to advance to the Sweet Sixteen hours after Villanova's victory, ousting second-seeded Georgetown 74–70, to play Wisconsin in the other regional semifinal. Davidson won on the back of another tour-de-force performance in the second half by Stephen Curry. Curry singlehandedly outscored the Hoyas over the final 14:24, putting up 25 points to Georgetown's 22.
Regional semifinals (Sweet Sixteen)
Stephen Curry scored 33 points to lead Davidson to a 73–56 victory over Wisconsin. Davidson, the 10-seed, advanced to the Elite Eight for the first time since the 1969 tournament. Curry became only the fourth player in history to score 30 or more points in his first three tournament games. The Wisconsin defense, best in the nation at points allowed with 53.9, remained close until early in the second half, when some key steals and Davidson threes pulled the Wildcats far ahead.
In the night game, top-seeded Kansas defeated # 12 Villanova, 72–57. The Jayhawks went on a 14–2 run early and never faltered—Villanova never getting within six. Brandon Rush, Russell Robinson, and Mario Chalmers each scored 16, 15, and 14 points, respectively.
Regional final (Elite Eight)
Kansas completed the first all top-seeded Final Four in NCAA Tournament history as they defeated tenth seeded Davidson 59–57. The outcome remained in doubt down to the final seconds. Kansas' Sherron Collins missed a shot with 21 seconds left, giving Davidson the final shot. Sophomore star Stephen Curry was double teamed, couldn't find a shot, and passed to Jason Richards, whose three-point shot missed. It was head coach Bill Self's first regional final win. The Wildcats' 25-game winning streak, the longest in the nation, was broken with the loss. Davidson's Stephen Curry scored 25 points and was chosen as the Midwest Region's Most Outstanding Player.
South Region
First round
Top seed Memphis took on Texas–Arlington, the region's 16th seed, and went on to win their opening-round contest, 87–63, in North Little Rock, Arkansas. Memphis went on to meet Mississippi State, an eight seed which came back from 13-down early in the second half against Oregon to rally for the win, 76–69. Fifth-seed Michigan State handily defeated # 12 Temple, 72–61, and fourth-seed Pittsburgh defeated 13th seed Oral Roberts 82–63, leaving the Golden Eagles behind after an 18–0 run in the first half. Sixth-seeded Marquette won its first tournament game since 2003 with a 74–66 win over #11 Kentucky in Anaheim. Kentucky got to within two points with 22 seconds remaining, but two Marquette free throws and a late steal handed the Wildcats an early tournament loss. They met third seed Stanford in the next round, who handily defeated 14th-seeded Cornell 77–53, never trailing the entire game, and never allowing the Big Red to get closer than 18 points in the second half. Miami (Florida), the seventh seed, defeated tenth seed Saint Mary's (California) 78–64, led by Jack McClinton and his 38 points. Their next opponent was second seed Texas, who never trailed in their 74–54 win over 15th seed Austin Peay, a game with four Longhorns scoring in double-figures.
Second round
Third-seeded Stanford saw Brook Lopez make the difference in overtime with a basket with 1.3 seconds left to beat Marquette 82–81 and advance to Houston, Texas. Stanford coach Trent Johnson was ejected in the first half, and Stanford had to fight a six-point deficit at halftime to come back for the win. Michigan State became the first lower seed to win in the region, with a 65–54 victory over Pittsburgh. The game was extremely physical and hard-fought, with the Panther coming back from 10 down to take the lead in the middle of the second half, only to see it vanish in the final minutes with help from eight straight points from the Spartan's Drew Neitzel. The Spartans would go on to play Memphis, the region's top seed after the Tigers beat eighth seed Mississippi State, 77–74. In their game, Memphis had four players scoring in double figures in what was a physical, defensive game—unlike what the games the Tigers were used to playing. Mississippi State gave them a late scare by coming to within two with four seconds left, but a free throw by Chris Douglas-Roberts of Memphis followed by a missed three on Mississippi's end gave the Tigers the win. Texas, the second seed, played the Cardinal in their home state after a 75–72 victory over seventh-seed Miami (Florida). Leading 66–50 with 4:15 left in the game, the Longhorns saw their lead melt in the face of a strong Hurricane rally and a hostile Arkansas crowd. Two key free throws by A. J. Abrams with 9.5 seconds left carried them to a three-point lead which held to the end of regulation.
Regional semifinals (Sweet Sixteen)
Tens of thousands of Texas fans turned out to Reliant Stadium in Houston and saw the second seeded Longhorns defeat the number three seeded Stanford Cardinal, 82–62. The unlikely defensive star of the game was Texas' Dexter Pittman. Normally not even a starter, Pittman was effective on the court, throwing his size against the tall Lopez twins, high-scorers at Stanford. On the offensive end, D. J. Augustin scored twenty-three points to combine with Damion James' 18 for the win. Stanford made things close at about the 13 minute mark of the second half, bringing it to within one at 52–51, but Texas went on a 16–2 run and turned the game into a rout. Later in the day, top-seeded Memphis defeated fifth seed Michigan State, 92–74. Memphis entered the game as the favorite but with several commentators pointing to them as the top seed most likely to lose. Instead, the Tigers went into halftime with a 30-point lead. Derrick Rose led his team with 27 points, and Chris Douglas-Roberts followed with 25, while Spartan star Drew Neitzel was held to just six.
Regional final (Elite Eight)
Top seeded Memphis defeated the Texas Longhorns to earn the third pass into the Final Four for the first time in 23 years with a convincing 85–67 win. Memphis spread the floor and used every man on the field to win. Texas star D J Augustin scored 16 points, but struggled with four turnovers in the second half. Derrick Rose won the Region's Most Outstanding Player award.
West Region
First round
In the West Region, with a pod in Tampa as well, WKU entering as the 12th seed, defeated fifth seeded Drake in overtime 101–99. Drake had come back from sixteen down in the final eight minutes, bringing the game to overtime, and were ahead with 5.7 seconds left. Ty Rogers' three-pointer at the buzzer, the NCAA record-setting 30th three-point basket gave the Hilltoppers the walk-off victory. Also in the West, 13th seeded San Diego upset fourth seed Connecticut 70–69 in another overtime game. The Huskies struggled throughout the game, compounded by the loss of leading scorer A.J. Price to a torn ACL, and De'Jon Jackson's long jumper with 1.2 seconds remaining in the bonus period pulled the Toreros ahead for their first-ever tournament victory, and handed UConn their earliest egress from the tournament since 1979 as well as the first under coach Jim Calhoun. As regards to close games and record-breakers, West Region 15th seed Belmont nearly upset second-seeded Duke in Washington, D.C., but a Gerald Henderson layup with 11.9 seconds left, together with a steal off the inbounds by DeMarcus Nelson in the final seconds, lifted the Blue Devils to victory. This would have been only the fifth time a 15 seed beat a 2 seed. The top seeded UCLA Bruins set several records in their win against 16th-seeded Mississippi Valley State at Anaheim, California, holding them to 29 points in a 70–29 victory. This was the lowest score in the first round in tournament history, and the lowest overall since 1946, before the shot clock rule was introduced. The Delta Devils' 19.7% shooting set another record for lowest shooting percentage in a game in tournament history.
Elsewhere in the West, third seed Xavier avoided an upset by 14th-seeded Georgia, coming back from nine down at the half to win 73–61. They were to play sixth-seeded Purdue next, who scored their tenth-straight first-round win by defeating the 11th seeded Baylor 90–79. Brigham Young, an eighth seed, lost to ninth-seeded Texas A&M 67–62. The Cougars suffered early, not scoring until about the 14-minute mark, but managed to bring the game to a tie at the half. Twenty-six points by Aggie forward Josh Carter, however, made the difference in Texas A&M's win. Lastly, West Virginia, seventh seed in the region, defeated tenth seed Arizona 75–65, scoring 11 three-point shots. With the win, the Mountaineers broke Arizona's streak of twenty straight 20-win seasons, previously the longest streak in the nation.
Second round
Seventh-seeded West Virginia began the second round of the tournament by defeating Duke, the second seed, 73–67. The Mountaineers trailed until about eight minutes into the second half, when they took a 43–40 lead. They outrebounded the Blue Devils 47–27, which, combined with several three-point shots, aided in the win. This loss marked Duke's second consecutive loss before the Sweet Sixteen round. West Virginia's Sweet Sixteen opposition in Phoenix, Arizona, was #3 Xavier, who defeated Purdue, 85–78. Xavier trailed as late as the 5:30 mark of the second half, but a widespread showing of talent from the Musketeers proved too difficult to stop, as four Xavier players scored in double figures, with two more tied at eight points each. Later that day, the top-seeded UCLA Bruins defeated ninth-seeded Texas A&M, 51–49. The Bruins trailed by as much as ten early in the first half, but slowly chipped away at the lead as the half progressed. The winning basket was scored with 9.5 seconds left on a lay-up by Darren Collison. Texas A&M had one final chance to tie it, but Donald Sloan's drive to the basket was stopped by two UCLA players (pictures show that they both appear to be grabbing Sloan, in what could have been a foul called on UCLA). The ensuing dunk by UCLA's Russell Westbrook was later waved off by officials as occurring after time had expired, making the final score 51–49. The Bruins then played WKU, a #12 seed who beat #13 seed San Diego by a 73–62 score. San Diego trailed by as much as 15 in the second half, but an 18–2 run gave them a one-point lead with minutes remaining. WKU, however, managed to pull ahead once again for the win, making this tournament only the third in history to feature at least two 12-or-lower seeds in the Sweet 16.
Regional semifinals (Sweet Sixteen)
Xavier, the third seed in the West, defeated seventh seed West Virginia, 79–75 in overtime thanks to two B.J. Raymond three-pointers in the final 78 seconds. Raymond scored all eight of his points in the bonus round after being held scoreless in regulation, and poor free-throw shooting by the Mountaineers, missing four out of six free throws, sealed the victory. Josh Duncan led the Musketeers in scoring with a career-high 26 points, followed by Joe Alexander's 18 points and 10 rebounds. Xavier led by as much as 18 during the game, but trailed six late in OT, counting on Raymond's threes to give them the victory. Number one seed UCLA would play the Musketeers in the final, after outlasting 12th seeded WKU, 88–78. WKU came to within four late in the game, taking advantage of several sloppy Bruin mistakes. Kevin Love led UCLA with 29 points and 14 rebounds, aided by James Keefe's 18 points and 12 rebounds and Russell Westbrook's 14 and 11. Trailing 41–20 at the half, WKU came out of the locker room determined to win, as evidenced by Hilltopper star Tyrone Brazelton's 31 points, 25 of which came in the second half. A. J. Slaughter missed a crucial three-point shot that would have brought them to within one, and a UCLA run left them nine points behind only two minutes later.
Regional final (Elite Eight)
UCLA was the first team to advance to the Final Four in San Antonio, Texas, the third straight year and the 18th time in school history they have done it, with a 76–57 victory over Xavier. Kevin Love led the Bruins with 19 points and ten rebounds, tied as high scorer with Darren Collison. Luc Richard Mbah a Moute contributed 13 points and 13 rebounds. Derrick Brown led the Musketeers with 13 points. Overall, Xavier was held to 36% shooting from the floor while UCLA shot 56.8%. Love was picked as the West Region's MOP.
Final Four
For the first time (and currently the only time) since the current seeding system started in 1979, all four #1 seeds made it to the Final Four.
Memphis vs. UCLA
Memphis became the first team ever to win 38 games in one season by defeating UCLA 78–63 (Kentucky would match that record in 2012 and 2015). Chris Douglas-Roberts, who scored a game-high of 28 points, combined with Derrick Rose to score a total of 53 of Memphis' 78 points. UCLA star Kevin Love was held to 12 points, and the Bruins lost their second straight Final Four game. Memphis had lost to Ohio State in the Alamodome in the 2007 tournament, and had made it a goal to win in the arena in this year's tournament.
Kansas vs. North Carolina
The second semifinal was a highly anticipated matchup between North Carolina Head Coach Roy Williams and the team he had coached for 15 years before leaving to go to UNC. The game itself could be divided up as if it were three different games. The Jayhawks took a 40–12 lead in the first 15 minutes, causing CBS analyst Billy Packer to declare that the game was over. North Carolina narrowed the deficit to 17 at halftime on a 15–4 run and opened the second half on a 23–10 run to close to within 4 points with 11 minutes to play. After the teams traded baskets for a few minutes, Kansas pulled away, closing on a 20–7 run for an 84–66 victory. After Kansas went out to the 40–12 lead, North Carolina never held the ball with a chance to take the lead. Brandon Rush led the Jayhawks with 25 points. AP Player of the Year Tyler Hansbrough scored 17 points and had 9 rebounds, both below his season averages. The Tar Heels were led by Wayne Ellington's 18 points.
National Championship Game
The National Championship Game pitted Memphis against Kansas. The head coaches (KU's Bill Self and Memphis' John Calipari) had both been on the coaching staff of Kansas' 1986 Final Four team. Neither had garnered a national championship to this point in their head coaching careers. Memphis guard Chris Douglas-Roberts had been the leading scorer in the tournament, averaging 23.6 points per game. Memphis became the first team currently from a conference other than the six majors to play in the championship game since 1998. Utah advanced to the championship game in 1998, and UNLV was the last team from a non-major conference to win the national title in 1990.
On the day of the game, the betting lines set by Las Vegas casinos Las Vegas Hilton, Station Casinos, and The Mirage made Memphis the favorite by a spread of 2 points.
The first half was back-and-forth as Kansas led for 7:37 minutes and Memphis led for 6:51 minutes. Kansas led 33–28 at halftime, the first second-half deficit that Memphis faced in the entire tournament. Memphis scored the first five points of the second half to tie the score at 33 with 18:57 left in regulation. After that Kansas maintained a small lead from the 16:04 mark until Memphis retook the lead with 8:11 remaining. Memphis then went on a 10–0 run to build a seven-point lead with 5:10 remaining and increased it to nine points with 2:12 remaining in regulation.
Kansas strategically fouled Memphis—an extremely poor free throw shooting team all season—which missed four of its final five free throws in regulation while Kansas furiously scored 12 points in the final two minutes of regulation. During that stretch Kansas made 100% of their shots going 2 for 2 from two-point range, 2 for 2 from three-point range and 2 for 2 from the free throw line. When Memphis failed to foul, which arguably would have all but assured a victory for the Tigers, Kansas guard Mario Chalmers hit a three-point basket with 2.1 seconds remaining to tie the game at 63, sending the game into overtime. Kansas fans now refer to this shot as Mario's Miracle. At the end of regulation, the Jayhawks had led the score a total of 17:55 minutes and Memphis 15:51 minutes.
In overtime, Kansas scored the first six points en route to a 75–68 win. They continued the blistering stretch they started in regulation, going 4 of 6 from the field and 4 of 4 from the line in overtime. It was KU's third NCAA title since the modern tournament began in 1939 (fifth national title overall, including two Helms decisions). It was also the first national championship for the program since the 1988 team.
This was the seventh overtime National Championship Game in NCAA Division I tournament history and first since 1997. It also represented the first national title for the Big 12 Conference.
The national championship appearance by Memphis would later be vacated as a result of NCAA rules infractions.
Record by conference
* Mount St. Mary's won the opening round game.
The columns R32, S16, E8, F4, CG, and NC respectively stand for the round of 32, Sweet Sixteen, Elite Eight, Final Four, Championship Game, and National Champion.
Sixteen conferences—America East Conference, Atlantic Sun Conference, Big Sky Conference, Big South Conference, Big West Conference, Colonial Athletic Association, Ivy League, MAC, MEAC, Missouri Valley Conference, Ohio Valley Conference, Patriot League, Southland, SWAC, Summit League and WAC—went 0–1.
Source:
Media
Television
CBS Sports
For the 27th consecutive year, CBS Sports telecast the tournament, and for the 18th consecutive year, broadcast every game in the main bracket from the first round to the championship, as Jim Nantz and Billy Packer called the Final Four. ESPN carried the 64th-seed opening-round game between Coppin State and Mount St. Mary's on March 18, with Brent Musburger, Steve Lavin and Erin Andrews serving as the announcing team, as the network has done the opening-round game since 2002.
The complete list of announcing teams follows:
Jim Nantz, Billy Packer and Sam Ryan (she was only used as Sideline Reporter for the Final Four and NCAA Championship game) – first & second round at Raleigh, North Carolina; South Regional at Houston, Texas; Final Four at San Antonio, Texas
Dick Enberg/Carter Blackburn and Jay Bilas – Blackburn Thursday afternoon; Enberg Thursday night, First & Second round at Anaheim, California; East Regional at Charlotte, North Carolina
Verne Lundquist and Bill Raftery – first & second round at Birmingham, Alabama; West Regional at Phoenix, Arizona
Gus Johnson and Len Elmore – first & second round at Denver, Colorado; Midwest Regional at Detroit, Michigan
Kevin Harlan and Dan Bonner – first & second round at Omaha, Nebraska
Ian Eagle and Jim Spanarkel – first & second round at Little Rock, Arkansas
Craig Bolerjack and Bob Wenzel – first & second round at Washington, D.C.
Tim Brando and Mike Gminski – first & second round at Tampa, Florida
Greg Gumbel once again served as the studio host, joined by analysts Clark Kellogg and Seth Davis. For the first time since the rights were acquired, the host team spent the entire tournament at the CBS Broadcast Center in New York City and did not travel to the Final Four site. CBS cited budget cutbacks ordered by the parent company, CBS Corporation. This would be Billy Packer's 35th and final tournament as a broadcaster, ending a streak that began in 1975; in July 2008, it was announced that Kellogg would replace Packer as Nantz's color man in 2009.
Several affiliates showed additional games on digital subchannels, and once, the Los Angeles area had simultaneous telecasts on two stations: On March 20, UCLA vs. Mississippi Valley State was shown on KCBS and Cal State Fullerton vs. Wisconsin was on independent station KDOC at the same time. (KCBS has a duopoly with KCAL, but KCAL was unavailable because of a third basketball game, one between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Utah Jazz in Salt Lake City.)
CBS College Sports Network
Sibling cable network CBS College Sports Network (now known as CBS Sports Network) picked up one CBS TV broadcast on each of the first two days of the tournament. It aired the Stanford-Cornell contest from Anaheim on March 20, and the St. Joseph's-Oklahoma game on March 21.
Unlike CBS Sports on the broadcast side, CBS College Sports Network did send a team to San Antonio, with Blackburn anchoring coverage and hosting the postgame highlights show, called the NCAA March Madness Highlights Show. Earlier, Greg Amsinger had hosted the postgame program from the network's studios at Chelsea Piers in lower Manhattan. Analysts included Steve Lappas, Greg Anthony, and Jay Williams.
Radio
Radio broadcasts were once again being handled again by CBS subsidiary Westwood One, hosted by Tommy Tighe.
Opening-round game
Bill Rosinski and Steve Lappas – at Dayton, Ohio
First/second round
Dave Sims and Bill Frieder – at Anaheim, California
Ted Robinson and Mike Montgomery – at Denver, Colorado
Kevin Kugler and Reid Gettys – at Omaha, Nebraska
Mark Champion and Glenn Consor – at Washington, D.C.
Joey Wahler and Pete Gillen – at Birmingham, Alabama
Spencer Ross and Kyle Macy – at Little Rock, Arkansas
Brad Sham and John Thompson – at Raleigh, North Carolina
Wayne Larrivee and Kevin Grevey – at Tampa, Florida
Regionals
Ian Eagle and Bill Frieder – East Regional at Charlotte, North Carolina
Wayne Larrivee and John Thompson – Midwest Regional at Detroit, Michigan
Brad Sham and Reid Gettys – South Regional at Houston, Texas
Kevin Kugler and Pete Gillen – West Regional at Phoenix, Arizona
Final Four
Kevin Kugler, John Thompson and Bill Raftery – at San Antonio, Texas
Kugler called his first Final Four replacing Harlan, with Raftery and Thompson on color commentary and Jim Gray as sideline reporter.
Other media
DirecTV once again offered NCAA Mega March Madness as a pay-per-view package for one payment of US$69. This allowed access to all tournament games in the first three rounds of the main draw not shown on the local CBS station in the viewer's area. This package was exclusive to DirecTV and not available to Dish Network, fiber optic, or cable subscribers.
Online, CBSSports.com and NCAA.com teamed up for NCAA March Madness on Demand. Computer users with broadband connections were able to watch all tournament games from the first round to the championship game for free, thanks to advertiser support from Coca-Cola, AT&T Mobility, Pontiac, and various other companies. The ads were not the same as those shown on television, and there was a separate halftime show hosted by Jason Horowitz joined by analysts including St. John's head basketball coach Norm Roberts.
See also
2008 NCAA Division II men's basketball tournament
2008 NCAA Division III men's basketball tournament
2008 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament
2008 NCAA Division II women's basketball tournament
2008 NCAA Division III women's basketball tournament
2008 National Invitation Tournament
2008 Women's National Invitation Tournament
2008 NAIA Division I men's basketball tournament
2008 NAIA Division II men's basketball tournament
2008 NAIA Division I women's basketball tournament
2008 NAIA Division II women's basketball tournament
2008 College Basketball Invitational
2007–08 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball season
References
Tournament
NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament
NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament
NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament
NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament
NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament
Basketball competitions in San Antonio | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008%20NCAA%20Division%20I%20men%27s%20basketball%20tournament |
Stefan de Walden was a Polish military commander and engineer.
He participated in the fights of the Riverine Flotilla of the Polish Navy during the Polish-Bolshevik War. During the Invasion of Poland of 1939, he served as the commanding officer of Wicher, a destroyer of the Polish Navy which took part in the Battle of the Gdańsk Bay. After the war, since 1947, he headed the Historical Detachment of the Naval Staff of Poland.
References
Polish military personnel of World War II
Polish Navy officers
Prisoners of Oflag II-C | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan%20de%20Walden |
Rochedale Rovers are a semi-professional football club which plays at Underwood Park in Priestdale, Queensland, Australia and competes in the National Premier Leagues Queensland with junior teams competing in both Football Queensland and Football Brisbane competitions.
History
In November 1972, local resident Tommy Vance placed an advertisement in the local paper looking for people interested in forming a soccer club on a small field behind the historic Glen Hotel at Eight Mile Plains.
In 1973, Rovers started their first ever game with a dominant 4-0 victory over Redlands United, all four goals coming from the boot of Darren Byrne.
From the start, local business identities came forward to help, including the late Graham Hogg of Graham Hogg Real Estate, Brian Fitzgibbon of the Glen Hotel and John Beerling from Galeprufe Garages.
Within a few years the club had leased land at Underwood Park and with the help of a small army of volunteers had developed three fields (fenced and floodlit), a canteen, office and showers.
In the late 1970s a brick clubhouse was built with grandstands, full playing amenities, canteen and sports bar, at the time being one of the best facilities in Queensland.
In 2019, the original clubhouse was demolished to make way for a start of the art clubhouse based around the design of the original featuring the new Tom Vance and Keiran Cooper Grandstands and a full length verandah (extending the seating capacity to 500+) as well as a spectacular entrance way, top floor canteen and bar facilities.
Beneath the grandstand, which overlooks the main field, are modern changing rooms and storage facilities.
To date, Rochedale have collected six Premierships (1986, 1999, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2017), six Championships (1985, 1986, 1993, 1995, 2011, 2019) and have produced three internationals in Jon McKain (Socceroos), Chris O'Connor (Olyroos), and Luke Brattan (Under20s).
Former players turned professional include Shane Huke, Tim Smits, Matt Mundy, James Donachie and Steve Fitzsimmons.
Of teams still active, only Lions, Bardon Latrobe and Brisbane City have won more Premierships.
Silverware
Premierships: 1986, 1999, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2017
Runners-up: 2011, 2009, 2006, 2005, 1998, 1996, 1995, 1993, 1992, 1991
Championships: 1984, 1985, 1993, 1995, 2011, 2019
Runners-up: 2012, 2010, 2006, 1998, 1992, 1991
Historical Finishing Positions
Key: Year/League/Premiership/Post-season *denotes equivalent of second tier
2020 *FQPL 5th/DNQ
2019 *FQPL 4th/WON
2018 *FQPL 6th/DNQ
2017 BPL 1st/SEMI
2016 BPL 5th/DNQ
2015 BPL 6th/DNQ
2014 BPL 9th/DNQ
2013 BPL 4th/SEMI
2012 BPL 4th/GF
2011 BPL 2nd/WON
2010 BPL 1st/GF
2009 BPL 2nd/SEMI
2008 BPL 1st/SEMI
2007 BPL 1st/WON
2006 BPL 2nd/GF
2005 BPL 2nd/SEMI
2004 BPL 3rd/SEMI
2003 BPL 6th/DNQ
2002 BPL 10th/DNQ
2001 BPL 4th/SEMI
2000 BPL 3rd/NONE
1999 BPL 1st/SEMI
1998 BPL 2nd/GF
1997 BPL 5th/DNQ
1996 BPL 2nd/SEMI
1995 BPL 2nd/WON
1994 BPL 4th/SEMI
1993 BPL 2nd/WON
1992 BPL 2nd/GF
1991 BPL 2nd/GF
1990 BPL 9th/DNQ
1989 BPL 6th/DNQ
1988 BPL 8th/DNQ
1987 BPL 9th/DNQ
1986 Inter* 1st/WON
1985 Inter* 4th/WON
1984 Inter* 5th/NONE
1983 Div1* 10th/DNQ
1982 Div3 12th/NONE
1973-1981 tbc
References
External links
Official Website
Association football clubs established in 1972
Soccer clubs in Brisbane
Brisbane Premier League teams
1972 establishments in Australia
Logan City | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochedale%20Rovers%20FC |
Amanishakheto was a queen regnant (kandake) of Kush who reigned in the early 1st century AD. In Meroitic hieroglyphs her name is written "Amanikasheto" (Mniskhte or (Am)niskhete). In Meroitic cursive she is referred to as Amaniskheto qor kd(ke) which means Amanishakheto, Qore and Kandake ("Ruler and Queen").
Amanishakheto is believed to have been the direct successor of the earlier queen regnant Amanirenas. Amanishakheto's mother is recorded to have been named Ar(...)tḫwit; the relation between Amanishakheto and Amanirenas is thus unknown. The chronologically next Kushite ruler, and thus Amanishakheto's possible successor, was another queen regnant, Shanakdakhete.
Monuments
Amanishakheto is known from several monuments. She is mentioned in the Amun-temple of Kawa, on a stela from Meroe, and in inscriptions of a palace building found at Wad ban Naqa, from a stela found at Qasr Ibrim, another stela from Naqa and her pyramid at Meroe (Beg. no. N6).
Amanishakheto is best known for a collection of jewellery stolen from her pyramid in 1834 by Italian treasure hunter Giuseppe Ferlini, who destroyed the pyramid in search of its burial goods. It was a treasure that fulfilled all his expectations: it consisted of 10 bracelets, 9 shield rings, 67 signet rings, 2 bracelets and a large number of amulets, all created by the best craftsmen of the Kingdom of Meroë These pieces are now in the Egyptian Museum of Berlin and in the Egyptian Museum of Munich.
Sandstone Relief
A sandstone relief depicting the queen, now at the Khartoum National Museum in Sudan, was found in the Temple of Amun in Naqa. The relief depicts Queen Amanishakheto next to two deities. In Egyptian art, people depicted seated are of highest importance, followed by whoever is facing towards the right. It is also important to note the hierarchy of scale. In this depiction, Amanishakheto is taller than the two figures however, the god that is seated would be taller than the two women. The deities have been identified as Amesemi and Apedemak, the warrior god and goddess. Amanishakheto is also seen wearing the royal costume that is associated with the Nubian warrior and hunting gods which further highlights her importance as a protector of her kingdom. The depiction of the queen with the two gods further emphasizes her power and status.
Stele of Queen Amanishakheto and the goddess Amesemi
The stele on the left is another representation of Amanishakheto accompanied by the warrior goddess, Amesemi. This stele is made from sandstone and was found in the Temple of Amun in Naqa. The two women are depicted wearing similar garments: fitted clothing, a scarf with a tassel, a collar, and rounded wigs. Their bodies are represented in different ways however, the goddess has a slimmer figure with a dress that features more elaborate details. Amanishakheto is depicted in a more curvaceous way. The interaction between the two seems to be intimate, which also speaks to the power Queen Amanishakheto had. The hieroglyphs in the back of the stele identify both women. This stele was placed in the Temple of Amun in Naqa, which was built after the death of Queen Amanishakheto.
Gallery
See also
Kandake
References
Further reading
Laszlo Török, in: Fontes Historiae Nubiorum Vol. II, p. 723–725 (Bergen, 1996).
Török László, “The Kingdom of Kush: Handbook of the Napatan-Meroitic Civilization,” in The Kingdom of Kush: Handbook of the Napatan-Meroitic Civilization (New York: Brill, 1998), pp. 456.
Vela-Rodrigo, Alberto A., in: The sacred treasure of Queen Amanishakheto, Ancient Egypt Magazine, 21(5), 2021, 44-50.
P. L. Shinnie, Meroe: a Civilization of the Sudan, (Praeger, 1967),
External links
The treasure of the queen (English)
Stela found in Naqa
1st-century BC monarchs of Kush
1st-century BC queens regnant
Queens of Kush
1st-century monarchs in Africa
AD 1 deaths | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanishakheto |
Evil Aliens is a 2005 British slapstick horror comedy film directed by Jake West.
It was the first full-length British horror film to be filmed using Sony HD (High Definition) cameras.
Plot
The film begins with the alien abduction on Scalleum, a remote island off the coast of Wales, of Cat Williams and her boyfriend. Cat's boyfriend is gorily killed through brutal anal probing, and Cat is (also gorily) implanted with an alien fetus. Cat's story attracts the attention of Michelle "Foxy" Fox, the bosomy host of the cable TV show Weird Worlde, who brings a film crew to the island — her cameraman boyfriend Ricky; Jack the sound man; nerdy UFO expert Gavin Gorman; and actors Bruce Barton and Candy Vixen (the latter, Foxy's producer assures her, "because she's good, not because she's my girlfriend").
The island is accessible via a narrow causeway only at low tide. The Weird Worlde crew sets out in their van, but it is dark by the time they reach the Williams family's creepy farmhouse, where they meet Cat and her three hulking and sadistic brothers (who speak only Welsh with English subtitles). The crew (with the exception of Gavin Gorman) initially assume that Cat's story is a hoax, and even go so far as to make a crop circle in a nearby field so they can film it for the show, to Gorman's great disgust. However, it soon turns out that the aliens are all too real and rather malevolent.
The film crew teams up with the Welsh Williams brothers to fight off the aliens, with a great deal of blood and gore. One highlight features Ricky running down some aliens in a combine harvester, to the tune of "Combine Harvester (Brand New Key)" by The Wurzels.
Eventually, the alien child inside Cat claws its way out; on board the alien ship, Foxy is impregnated with another alien fetus while Gavin loses his virginity to a shapely female alien; Bruce, Candy, and the Welsh brothers meet various horrible demises; Ricky blows up himself and four alien pursuers in a tank of liquid manure; back at the house, the female alien rips Foxy in half; and finally Gavin manages to use his laptop (in a sequence reminiscent of Independence Day) to overload the ley lines of the nearby stone circle. As Cat's alien child rips his arms off, Gavin manages to press the space bar with his nose, sending the stones shooting into the underside of the alien craft, which crashes into a convenient mountain. Jack the sound man, meanwhile, having been blinded by alien ichor early in the film, swims across the channel to the mainland, only to discover that he's lost the videotape that was the only proof of their extraterrestrial encounter.
The film ends with a clip from an alien talk show reminiscent of Jerry Springer (and subtitled in English), on which Gavin's female alien is trying to explain how her entire crew was killed by humans and she herself carries the love child of one of those humans. The audience roars with laughter, and the host cuts her mike.
Cast
The film features an ensemble cast including TV presenter Emily Booth, Jamie Honeybourne, Christopher Adamson, Norman Lovett, Scott Joseph, model Jodie Shaw, and Jennifer Evans.
Emily Booth – Michelle Fox
Jamie Honeybourne – Gavin Gorman
Sam Butler – Ricky Anderson
Jodie Shaw – Candy Vixen
Peter McNeil O'Connor – Jack Campbell
Nick Smithers – Bruce Barton
Norman Lovett – Howard Marsden
Christopher Adamson – Llyr Williams/Surgeon Alien
Jennifer Evans – Cat Williams
Mark Richard Hayes – Dai Williams
Chris Thomas – Thomas Williams
Scott Joseph – Lead Alien
Mildred von Heildegard – Female Alien
Tim Clark, Mark Holloway, Glenn Collier – Aliens
Tree Carr – Dream Alien
Dan Palmer – Onkey (UFO Witness 1)
James Heathcote – Merv (UFO Witness 2)
Production
Evil Aliens is the second film from director Jake West (Razor Blade Smile). The film was produced by Tim Dennison (Lighthouse,
Revenge of Billy the Kid, Silent Cry); the executive producer was Quentin Reynolds.
Filming
Although the film is set in Wales, most of it was actually filmed on a farm in Cambridgeshire, including the combine harvester sequence and the UFO crash. The harvester was provided by a local agricultural contracting firm, and driven by one of their staff (whose hand is visible controlling the harvester during much of the sequence).
Soundtrack
"Combine Harvester (Brand New Key)" by The Wurzels
Release
After showings at various film festivals in 2005, Evil Aliens was released in the UK on March 10, 2006, by ContentFilm International, who also act as international sales agents. Image Entertainment released the film in U.S. cinemas on September 6, 2006. It was released on DVD (with extras) in the UK on 26 September 2006. American DVD release was scheduled for October 2007.
Further reading
References
External links
Jake West Interview
2005 comedy horror films
2005 films
2000s British films
2000s English-language films
Alien abduction films
British comedy horror films
British slapstick comedy films
British splatter films
Films directed by Jake West
Films set in Wales
Films set on islands | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil%20Aliens |
Rebecca Jane Warren (born 1965) is a British visual artist and sculptor, born in Pinhoe, Exeter. She is particularly well known for her works in clay and bronze and for her arranged vitrines. The artist currently lives and works in London.
Early life
From 1989 to 1992, Warren studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths' College, University of London receiving a BA (Hons). She then attained a Masters in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art & Design, London (1992–93). From 1993 to 1994 she was an artist-in-residence at the Ruskin School, Oxford University, Oxford.
Work
Until 1997 a large part of Warren's output was produced as a collaboration with artist Fergal Stapleton.
Warren's early sculptures were made primarily using clay. These pieces often depicted the nude female form and tackled themes of sexuality by making reference to other historical works and artists. For instance, Warren's early works have referenced artists as diverse as Robert Crumb, Edgar Degas, and Alberto Giacometti.
Warren's more recent works have included more sculptures made in metal media such as bronze and steel. In 2009, the artist exhibited her first work in welded steel at her exhibition entitled Feelings. In 2009 the Serpentine Gallery exhibited the first major solo survey of her work. In 2010, The Renaissance Society, in collaboration with the Art Institute of Chicago, presented Warren's first solo exhibition in an American museum.
Also in 2014, she was made a Professor of Painting and Sculpture at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
Select solo exhibitions
The Boiler Room, Saatchi Gallery (2003)
Dark Passage, Kunsthalle Zürich (2004)
Rebecca Warren, Serpentine Galleries (2009)
Rebecca Warren, Art Institute of Chicago and the Renaissance Society (2010)
Public collections
The artist's work can be found in a number of public collections, including:
Tate
Museum of Modern Art
Recognition
In 2006, Warren was nominated for the prestigious Turner Prize for her sculptural installations in solo shows at Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, and Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, as well as her work in the Tate Triennial 2006. A representative of the Tate Gallery wrote, "Her works combine a wide range of sources with a strong formal awareness, injecting conventional materials with a sensual physicality to create something wholly new." The other artists nominated in 2006 were Tomma Abts, Mark Itchner, and Phil Collins.
On 12 March 2014 Warren was elected a member of the Royal Academy of Arts. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2020 Birthday Honours for services to art.
References
External links
Maureen Paley: Rebecca Warren
Matthew Marks: Rebecca Warren
Turner Prize 2006, Tate press release
The Saatchi Gallery; About Rebecca Warren and her art
Philip King on Rebecca Warren and Fergal Stapleton
1965 births
Living people
English women artists
Alumni of Chelsea College of Arts
Royal Academicians
English sculptors
English contemporary artists
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
20th-century English women
20th-century English people
21st-century English women
21st-century English people | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca%20Warren |
Jesse Alexander McDonald, better known by their stage name Jesse Dangerously or The Halifax Rap Legend, is an alternative hip hop artist from Halifax, Nova Scotia and operating out of Ottawa, Ontario. Dangerously has released solo projects, provided guest vocals for other local artists, hosted a weekly radio show, written a weekly column, and produced beats for other musicians. They are a member of the Backburner crew.
Career
Dangerously is a fan of 1988 to 1994-era hip hop, and claims a wide range of influences and favourites, including such artists as Public Enemy, Das EFX, early LL Cool J, early Masta Ace, Black Sheep, Gang Starr, Casual, Breeze Brewin, Aesop Rock, Psalm One, Saafir, Jadakiss, Knowself, Bonshah, and the Fresh Prince, among others.
Kicking off their career in the late 1990s with the album B.R.E.A.K., Dangerously has since released five solo projects, as well as a group album with their Backburner crewmate Ambition under the name The Library Steps. Dangerously’s most recent solo album is Humble & Brilliant (2011), but they released two separate collaboration albums with producers in 2018: The Library Steps’ Rap Dad, Real Dad (a Gang Starr or Pete Rock & CL Smooth-style rapper/producer duo album, the other half of The Library Steps being Dangerously’s Backburner crewmate Ambition), and Want, For Nothing, a duo album with producer Liz Grove under the crew name DangerGrove. Both albums sold modestly but were successes among critics and were well-received by Dangerously’s small cult following.
Rapper mc chris has referred to Dangerously as a nerdcore hip hop artist, saying the following:
"The truth is I'm kicking every other rapper like me's ass up and down the boardwalk. I only like one and will say his name quite happily. Jesse Dangerously. He's good. The rest suck. That’s hard to say and i haven't said it before because some of these people are my fans, some are my friends."
Dangerously has provided guest vocals on MC Frontalot's albums Nerdcore Rising and Final Boss, performed at the Halifax Pop Explosion, and was a top-6 finalist in a Napster-sponsored writing/rapping competition judged by Chuck D in 1999. They appeared on the MuchMusic program Going Coastal on March 19, 2006, was used by MTV Canada's MTV Live as a rapping correspondent to describe the history of nerdcore, and has been featured on the CBC Radio program Atlantic Airwaves, as well as on many programmes on CBC Radio 3.
From June 2004 until May 2007, Dangerously hosted The Pavement, a weekly hip hop show on CKDU 88.1 FM that was handed down to them from Buck 65 and Skratch Bastid. They have guest lectured at Saint Mary's University on the topic of gender issues in rap music and popular culture, and from January 2006 until October 2007, they penned a weekly column on regional hip-hop for The Daily News of Halifax.
Dangerously’s fifth solo album, Humble & Brilliant, was released to the Internet as a chapbook and download on March 10, 2011. It is their most recent solo album, and was their most recent release overall until the two collaborative albums arrived in 2018.
Personal life
Dangerously identifies as non-binary, and uses both they/them and he/him pronouns.
Discography
Solo
B.R.E.A.K. (1996)
Eastern Canadian World Tour 2002 (2002)
How to Express Your Dissenting Political Viewpoint Through Origami (2004)
Inter Alia (2005)
Verba Volant (2007)
Humble & Brilliant (2011)
Collaborations
The Sentinels - The Lying City, EP (1998)
Imaginary Friends - The ImF Ride b/w Even Exist (As In, "We Don't..."), 7" (2004)
The Mighty Rhino - "Basically Jesus" (also featuring More Or Les, I Am Joseph & Cam James), from We Will No Longer Retreat Into Darkness (2018)
The Library Steps - Rap Dad, Real Dad, LP (2018) (Collaboration with Ambition)
Danger Grove - Want, For Nothing, LP (2018) (Collaboration with Lizard Grove)
References
External links
Jesse Dangerously's site
Jesse Dangerously's Blog
Halifax Daily News column
Electronic Press Kit
Nerdcore Compilation CD Project
Musicians from Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canadian non-binary musicians
LGBT rappers
Nerdcore artists
20th-century Canadian rappers
Living people
1979 births
21st-century Canadian rappers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse%20Dangerously |
77: The Year of Punk and New Wave (Helter Skelter Publishing, 2006) is a book by Henrik Poulsen that catalogues every punk rock band to have made a recording in the United Kingdom during the punk era. The book has about 200 entries starting with Acme Sewage Company and ending with the Zeros.
References
External links
WorldCat book entry
2006 non-fiction books
Music guides
Books about rock music
New wave music
British music history | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/77%3A%20The%20Year%20of%20Punk%20and%20New%20Wave |
A stateless society is a society that is not governed by a state. In stateless societies, there is little concentration of authority; most positions of authority that do exist are very limited in power and are generally not permanently-held positions; and social bodies that resolve disputes through predefined rules tend to be small. Different stateless societies feature highly variable economic systems and cultural practices.
While stateless societies were the norm in human prehistory, few stateless societies exist today; almost the entire global population resides within the jurisdiction of a sovereign state, though in some regions nominal state authorities may be very weak and may wield little or no actual power. Over the course of history most stateless peoples have become integrated into external state-based societies.
Some political philosophies, particularly anarchism, regard the state as an unwelcome institution and stateless societies as the ideal, while Marxism considers that in a post-capitalist society, the state would become unnecessary and would wither away.
Prehistoric peoples
In archaeology, cultural anthropology and history, a stateless society denotes a less complex human community without a state, such as a tribe, a clan, a band society or a chiefdom. The main criterion of "complexity" used is the extent to which a division of labor has occurred such that many people are permanently specialized in particular forms of production or other activity, and depend on others for goods and services through trade or sophisticated reciprocal obligations governed by custom and laws. An additional criterion is population size. The bigger the population, the more relationships have to be reckoned with.
Evidence of the earliest known city-states has been found in ancient Mesopotamia around , suggesting that the history of the state is less than 6,000 years old; thus, for most of human prehistory the state did not exist.
Generally speaking, the archaeological evidence suggests that the state emerged from stateless communities only when a fairly large population (at least tens of thousands of people) was more or less settled together in a particular territory, and practiced agriculture. Indeed, one of the typical functions of the state is the defense of territory. Nevertheless, there are exceptions: Lawrence Krader for example describes the case of the Tatar state, a political authority arising among confederations of clans of nomadic or semi-nomadic herdsmen.
Characteristically the state functionaries (royal dynasties, soldiers, scribes, servants, administrators, lawyers, tax collectors, religious authorities etc.) are mainly not self-supporting, but rather materially supported and financed by taxes and tributes contributed by the rest of the working population. This assumes a sufficient level of labor-productivity per capita which at least makes possible a permanent surplus product (principally foodstuffs) appropriated by the state authority to sustain the activities of state functionaries. Such permanent surpluses were generally not produced on a significant scale in smaller tribal or clan societies.
The archaeologist Gregory Possehl has argued that there is no evidence that the relatively sophisticated, urbanized Harappan civilization, which flourished from about in the Indus region, featured anything like a centralized state apparatus. No evidence has yet been excavated locally of palaces, temples, a ruling sovereign or royal graves, a centralized administrative bureaucracy keeping records, or a state religion—all of which are elsewhere usually associated with the existence of a state apparatus. However, there is no recent scholarly consensus agreeing with that perspective, as more recent literature has suggested that there may have been less conspicuous forms of centralisation, as Harappan cities were centred around public ceremonial places and large spaces interpreted as ritual complexes. Additionally, recent interpretations of the Indus Script and Harappan stamps indicate that there was a somewhat centralised system of economic record keeping. It remains impossible to judge for now as the Harappan civilization's writing system remains undeciphered. One study summarised it best, “Many sites have been
excavated that belong to the Indus Valley civilization, but it remains unresolved whether it was a state, a number of kingdoms, or a stateless commonwealth. So few written documents on this early civilization have been preserved that it seems unlikely that this and other questions will ever be answered.”
In the earliest large-scale human settlements of the Stone Age which have been discovered, such as Çatalhöyük and Jericho, no evidence was found of the existence of a state authority. The Çatalhöyük settlement of a farming community (7,300 BCE to BCE) spanned circa 13 hectares (32 acres) and probably had about 5,000 to 10,000 inhabitants.
Modern state-based societies regularly pushed out stateless indigenous populations as their settlements expanded, or attempted to make those populations come under the control of a state structure. This was particularly the case on the African continent during European colonisation, where there was much confusion about the best way to govern societies who, prior to European arrival, had been stateless. Tribal societies, on first glance appearing to be chaotic, often had well-organised societal structures that were based on multiple undefined cultural factors – including the ownership of cattle and arable land, patrilineal descent structures, honour gained from success in conflict etc.
Uncontacted peoples may be considered remnants of prehistoric stateless societies. To varying extents they may be unaware of and unaffected by the states that have nominal authority over their territory.
As a political ideal
Some political philosophies consider the state undesirable, and thus consider the formation of a stateless society a goal to be achieved.
A central tenet of anarchism is the advocacy of society without states. The type of society sought for varies significantly between anarchist schools of thought, ranging from extreme individualism to complete collectivism. Anarcho-capitalism opposes the state while supporting private institutions.
In Marxism, Marx's theory of the state considers that in a post-capitalist society the state, an undesirable institution, would be unnecessary and wither away. A related concept is that of stateless communism, a phrase sometimes used to describe Marx's anticipated post-capitalist society.
Social and economic organization
Anthropologists have found that social stratification is not the standard among all societies. John Gowdy writes, "Assumptions about human behaviour that members of market societies believe to be universal, that humans are naturally competitive and acquisitive, and that social stratification is natural, do not apply to many hunter-gatherer peoples."
The economies of stateless agricultural societies tend to focus and organize subsistence agriculture at the community level, and tend to diversify their production rather than specializing in a particular crop.
In many stateless societies, conflicts between families or individuals are resolved by appealing to the community. Each of the sides of the dispute will voice their concerns, and the community, often voicing its will through village elders, will reach a judgment on the situation. Even when there is no legal or coercive authority to enforce these community decisions, people tend to adhere to them, due to a desire to be held in esteem by the community.
See also
List of stateless societies
State of nature
Anti-statism
References
Further reading
External links
Anthropology
Archaeological theory
Statelessness
Society
Political anthropology | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stateless%20society |
Hal Sirowitz (born 1949) is an American poet.
Sirowitz first began to attract attention at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe where he was a frequent competitor in their Friday Night Poetry Slam. He eventually made the 1993 Nuyorican Poetry Slam team, and competed in the 1993 National Poetry Slam (held that year in San Francisco) along with his Nuyorican teammates Maggie Estep, Tracie Morris and Regie Cabico.
Sirowitz would later perform his poetry on stages across the country, and on television programs such as MTV's Spoken Word: Unplugged and PBS's The United States of Poetry.
He has written eleven books of poetry and is arguably best known for the volumes Mother Said, My Therapist Said and Father Said.
Sirowitz is a 1994 recipient of an NEA Fellowship in Poetry and is the former Poet Laureate of Queens, New York. He worked as a special education teacher in the New York public school system for 23 years.
He is married to the writer Mary Minter Krotzer.
Hal Sirowitz Bibliography
Girlie Pictures, Long Island City, NY: Low-Tech Press, 1982.
Bedroom Wall, New Brunswick, NJ: Iniquity Press/Vendetta Books, 1992.
Fishnet Stockings, New York: Appearances, no. 20, 1993.
No More Birthdays, Bristolville, OH: The Bacchae Press, 1993.
Happy Baby, 1997. Bristolville, OH: The Bacchae Press, 1995.
Two Second Kiss, Harvey, LA: Mulberry Press, 1995.
Mother Said, New York: Crown, 1996.
My Therapist Said, New York: Crown, 1998.
Before, During, & After, Brooklyn: Soft Skull Press, 2003.
Father Said, Brooklyn: Soft Skull Press, 2004.
Stray Cat Blues, Omaha: The Backwaters Press, 2012
Sirowitz abroad
Sirowitz is the best-selling translated poet in Norway, where Mother Said has been adapted for the stage and turned into a series of animated cartoons.
References
External links
Hal Sirowitz performing "Chopped Off Arm" (podcast)
1949 births
American male poets
Living people
Jewish American writers
Performance art in New York City
Place of birth missing (living people)
20th-century American poets
20th-century American male writers
21st-century American Jews | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal%20Sirowitz |
Isa Genzken (born 27 November 1948) is a German artist who lives and works in Berlin. Her primary media are sculpture and installation, using a wide variety of materials, including concrete, plaster, wood and textile. She also works with photography, video, film and collage.
Early life and education
Hanne-Rose "Isa" Genzken (pronounced EE-sa GENZ-ken) was raised mostly in the small northern German city of Bad Oldesloe and in Hamburg.
She studied fine arts and art history with Almir Mavignier and Kai Sudeck at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts (1968–1971) and the Berlin University of the Arts (1971–1973). To pay her tuition, Genzken worked part-time as a model. In 1973 she transferred to Arts Academy Düsseldorf while also studying art history and philosophy at the University of Cologne. At the academy, fellow students included artists Katharina Fritsch and Thomas Struth.
Upon graduating in 1977, Genzken taught sculpture at the academy. She married German visual artist Gerhard Richter in 1982 and moved to Cologne in 1983. The couple separated in 1993 and Genzken moved back to Berlin.
Genzken has bipolar disorder, goes through manic and depressive phases and has spent time in psychiatric hospitals. She has frequently undergone treatment for substance abuse. In an 2016 interview, she said that her alcohol problems began after her divorce and that she had been sober since 2013.
Genzken has worked in studios in Düsseldorf, Cologne (designed in 1993 by architect Frank Tebroke); for short stretches in the United States, in Lower Manhattan and Hoboken, New Jersey; and currently in Berlin.
Work
Although Isa Genzken's primary focus is sculpture, she has produced various media including photography, film, video, works on paper, works on canvas with oil, collages, collage books, film scripts, and even a record. Her diverse practice draws on the legacies of Constructivism and Minimalism and often involves a critical, open dialogue with Modernist architecture and contemporary visual and material culture. Genzken's diverse work also keeps her from being predictable in her work. Despite Genzken's diverse work, much of her practice still maintains conventions of traditional sculpture. Using plaster, cement, building samples, photographs, and bric-a-brac, Genzken creates architectonic structures that have been described as contemporary ruins. She further incorporates mirrors and other reflective surfaces to literally draw the viewer into her work. Genzken also uses location placement methods to inflict emotions into her sculptor viewers by making her viewers physically move out of the way of Genzken's sculptor due to the placement of the sculptor. The column is a recurring motif for Genzken, a “pure” architectural trope on which to explore relationships between “high art” and the mass-produced products of popular culture.
In the 1970s, Genzken began working with wood that she carved into unusual geometric shapes such as hyperboloids and ellipsoids. In the photographs of her Hi-Fi-Serie (1979), she reproduced advertisements for stereo phonographs.
In 1980, Genzken and Gerhard Richter were commissioned to design the König-Heinrich-Platz underground station in Duisburg; it was completed in 1992. Between 1986 and 1992, Genzken conceived her series of plaster and concrete sculptures to investigate architecture. These sculptures consist of sequentially poured and stacked slabs of concrete featuring rough openings, windows and interiors. A later series consists of other architectural or interior design quotations made from epoxy resin casts, such as column or lamp sculptures. In 1986, Genzken's architectural references switched from the 1910s, 20s and 30s to the 1950s, 60s and 70s. In 1990 she installed a steel frame, Camera (1990) on a Brussels gallery's rooftop, offering a view of the city below. In 2000, a series of architectural models roughly patched together, was inscribed with Fuck the Bauhaus. Later, in the series New Buildings for Berlin, which was shown at Documenta 11, Genzken designed architectural visions of glass high-rises.
The project entitled Der Spiegel 1989-1991 is a series of images comprising 121 reproductions of black and white photographs selected and cut from German newsweekly Der Spiegel. Presented in a non-sequential but methodical manner, each image is glued against a piece of white card and individually mounted in a simple frame. Whilst the images themselves remain caption-less, the dates in the series' titles offer clues about the artist's intentions.
Her paintings of suspended hoops, collectively entitled MLR (More Light Research) (1992), recall gymnastics apparatus caught mid-swing and frozen in time.
Starting in 1995, while in New York for several months, Genzken created a three-volume collage book entitled I Love New York, Crazy City (1995–1996), a compendium of souvenirs from her various stays in the city, including photographs of Midtown's architecture, snapshots, maps, hotel bills, nightclub flyers, and concert tickets, among others.
One of Genzken's best known works, Rose (1993/7), is a public sculpture of a single long-stemmed rose made from enamelled stainless steel that towers eight metres above the Leipzig fairgrounds. The artist's first public artwork in the United States, her replica Rose II (2007) was installed outside the New Museum as part of a year-long rotating installation in November 2010.
Genzken has also produced numerous films, including Zwei Frauen im Gefecht, 1974, Chicago Drive, 1992, Meine Großeltern im Bayerischen Wald, 1992, and the video Empire/Vampire, Who Kills Death, 2003.
As an artist she published five portfolio styled books. Each including her expressive work, they can be purchased under David Zwirners Books website. Her books include Sculpture as a World Receiver, October Files, Isa Genzken: Retrospective, Isa Genzken: Oil, and Isa Genzken.
Since the end of the second half of the 1990s, Genzken has been conceptualizing sculptures and panel paintings in the shape of a bricolage of materials taken from DIY stores and from photographs and newspaper clippings. She often uses materials that underline the temporary character of her works. As part of her deep-set interest in urban space, she also arranges complex, and often disquieting, installations with mannequins, dolls, photographs, and an array of found objects. New Buildings for New York are assembled from found scraps of plastic, metal and pizza-box cardboard. The assemblages from the Empire/Vampire, Who Kills Death series, originally comprising more than twenty sculptures that were created following the attacks of September 11, are combinations of found objects – action figures, plastic vessels, and various elements of consumer detritus – arranged on pedestals in architecturally inspired, post-destruction scenes. Elefant (2006) is a column of cascading vertical blinds festooned with plastic tubes, foil, artificial flowers, fabric and some tiny toy soldiers and Indians. For her installation Oil, the artist transformed the German Pavilion at the 2007 Venice Biennale into a futuristic and morbid Gesamtkunstwerk.
Genzken worked frequently with Zwiner, who held her Paris New York Exhibition from August 29-October 10 in 2020. She had five solo exhibitions with him and this last one was her fifth. She has worked with him since 2010. The exhibition included Genzken's early work at the Kunstmuseum Basel. The installation of Genzken's recent "tower" sculptures. It was inspired by the artists decades-long fascination with architecture and urban skylines. She used multiple forms that include, vertical structures, of medium-density fiberboard with inclusion of a mirror foil, spray paint as well as other media.
Studies/Teaching
University of Fine Arts, Hamburg, Germany, 1969-1971
University of the Arts, Berlin Germany, 1971-1973
Art History and Philosophy at the University of Cologne, Germany, 1973-1975
State Art Academy, Dusseldorf, Germany, 1973-1977
Teaching position for sculpture, State Art Academy, Dusseldorf, Germany, 1977-1978
Teaching position for design, Fachhochschule Niederrhein, Krefeld, Germany, 1978-1979
Genzken was a guest professor at Berlin University of the Arts in 1990, and at the Städelschule in Frankfurt in 1991–92.\
Genzken's impact
Genzken's work has undoubtedly impacted art culture through her unique ability to create sculptures out of many materials such as wood, plaster, concrete, steel, epoxy resin, and even household kitchen materials, as seen in her "Babies" semblance from 1997. Genzken redefined the art of creating sculptures and even combated discrimination against sculpture art in the 60s and 70s as she pursued her unique talent. Simply put, her work has been seen as an attempt to encourage and broaden the art of sculpture without eliminating it. Genzken's art and media have always stayed true to the logic of her work, which continues to be contradictory, unpredictable, and in opposition throughout the sculpture. Her sculptures have even been recognized as art that creates illusions with the mind and opens the imagination of the viewer.
Exhibitions
Genzken's first solo exhibition was held in 1976 at the Konrad Fischer Gallery in Düsseldorf, and her first exhibition with Galerie Buchholz was in 1986 in Cologne. Her first solo show in the U.S. was mounted by Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, in 1989. Genzken represented Germany at the Venice Biennale in 2007. She participated in the 2003 Venice Biennale and, in 2002, Documenta 11 in Kassel, Germany. She was the subject of a major retrospective in 2009, jointly organized by the Museum Ludwig, Cologne and the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London. Other solo exhibitions in the past decade include Malmö Konsthall, Sweden (2008); the Camden Arts Centre, London (2006); the Photographers' Gallery, London (2005); the Kunsthalle Zürich (2003); and the Lenbachhaus, Munich (2003). Artist Dan Graham included Genzken's work in his "Deep Comedy" show at Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, in 2008. Her recent shows included collaborative work with Kai Althoff and Wolfgang Tillmans, in whose exhibition space "Between Bridges" she exhibited in 2008. She is the subject of Elizabeth Peyton's painting Isa (Isa Genzken 1980) (2010). In 2015/16 she organised the exhibition 'Mach dich hübsch' in the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam.
From November 23, 2013 to March 10, 2014, "Isa Genzken: Retrospective" was on view at the Museum of Modern Art. The exhibition then traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and Dallas Museum of Art.
Collections
Genzken's work is included in the collections of many institutions internationally, including the Nationalgalerie, West Berlin; Staatsgalerie Stuttgart; Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Rijksmuseum Kroller-Muller, Otterlo, the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; the Generali Foundation, Vienna; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; the Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis; the Museum Ludwig, Cologne; the Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden; the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Ruby City, Linda Pace Foundation, San Antonio, TX
Rose III sculpture in Zuccotti Park, NYC.
Recognition
She won the International Art Prize (Cultural Donation of SSK Munich) in 2004 and the Wolfgang-Hahn-Prize (Museum Ludwig, Cologne) in 2002.
Gallery
See also
List of German women artists
References
1948 births
Living people
People from Bad Oldesloe
German sculptors
German women artists
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf alumni
German contemporary artists
University of Fine Arts of Hamburg alumni
Berlin University of the Arts alumni | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isa%20Genzken |
The Star Fraction is a science fiction novel by Scottish writer Ken MacLeod, his first, published in 1995. The major themes are radical political thinking, a functional anarchist microstate, oppression, and revolution. The action takes place in a balkanized UK, about halfway into the 21st century. The novel was nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 1996.
Plot summary
The world is controlled by the US/UN, a sort of semi-benign meta-dictatorship which does not rule directly but enforces a series of basic laws on a vast number of microstates, many of which are in a near-constant state of low-intensity warfare. Among the laws enforced on them is a prohibition on certain directions of research, such as intelligence augmentation or artificial intelligence. Precisely what is prohibited is of course secret, and as violation of the prohibitions will result in the swift and efficient death of everyone directly involved, scientific research is a dangerous proposition at best.
The main characters (a Trotskyist mercenary, a libertarian teenager from a fundamentalist microstate, and an idealistic scientist) find themselves caught up at the centre of a global revolution against the US/UN. The revolution was planned and partially automated by financial software, and it was set to break out after a certain set of conditions are met.
The stakes are raised at the end of the book, when it is revealed that the autonomous financial software has evolved into an intelligent form, which might cause the paranoid US/UN to make a "clean break" with Earth, knocking the planet back to the Stone Age with the orbital defence lasers.
Series
The Star Fraction is the first book of two series: one is a trilogy, and ends in The Cassini Division with a war between humans and a society of uploads inhabiting the massively re-engineered Jupiter; the other consists of The Star Fraction and The Sky Road, and occupies a parallel universe, in which one of the main characters makes a different decision at the end of the first novel, which results in a very different, catastrophic outcome.
Reception
Gideon Kibblewhite reviewed The Star Fraction for Arcane magazine, rating it a 5 out of 10 overall. Kibblewhite comments that "Pluses of the book [...] include a clever and well-described future culture that might be fun to play in (its institutions and factions have armed militia who act as legal terrorists in a game) and a great set of baddies who operate from cyberspace."
Reviews
Review by David Langford (1995) in SFX, #4
Review by Paul J. McAuley (1995) in Interzone, #100 October 1995
Review by Ian Covell (1995) in The Edge, Vol. 2, #1, November 1995
Review by Chris Amies (1995) in Vector 184 Summer 1995
Review by Tom Shippey (1996) in The New York Review of Science Fiction, February 1996
Review by John D. Owen (1996) in Vector 190
Review by John Newsinger (1996) in Foundation, #67 Summer 1996
Review by Lawrence Person (1997) in Science Fiction Eye, #15, Fall 1997
Review [French] by Jan Bardeau (1998) in Yellow Submarine, #125
Review by Russell Letson (2001) in Locus, #488 September 2001
Review by uncredited (2002) in Vector 225
Review [German] by Gregor Jungheim (2003) in Alien Contact, Jahrbuch #1 2002
See also
The Dispossessed
References
External links
Salon.com review
Author interview
Slashdot review
The Star Fraction at Worlds Without End
1995 British novels
1995 science fiction novels
Anarchist fiction
Libertarian science fiction books
Transhumanist books
Novels by Ken MacLeod
Legend Books books | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Star%20Fraction |
Henrik Poulsen may refer to:
Henrik Poulsen, author of the book 77: The Year of Punk and New Wave
Henrik Poulsen, CEO of Ørsted | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrik%20Poulsen |
Agile unified process (AUP) is a simplified version of the rational unified process (RUP) developed by Scott Ambler. It describes a simple, easy to understand approach to developing business application software using agile techniques and concepts yet still remaining true to the RUP. The AUP applies agile techniques including test-driven development (TDD), agile modeling (AM), agile change management, and database refactoring to improve productivity.
In 2011 the AUP accounted for one percent of all the agile methodologies used. In 2012 the AUP was superseded by disciplined agile delivery (DAD). Since then work has ceased on evolving AUP.
Discipline
Unlike the RUP, the AUP has only seven disciplines :
Model. Understand the business of the organization, the problem domain being addressed by the project, and identify a viable solution to address the problem domain.
Implementation. Transform model(s) into executable code and perform a basic level of testing, in particular unit testing.
Test. Perform an objective evaluation to ensure quality. This includes finding defects, verifying that the system works as designed, and validating that the requirements are met.
Deployment. Plan for the delivery of the system and to execute the plan to make the system available to end users.
Configuration management. Manage access to project artifacts. This includes not only tracking artifact versions over time but also controlling and managing changes to them.
Project management. Direct the activities that take place within the project. This includes managing risks, directing people (assigning tasks, tracking progress, etc.), and coordinating with people and systems outside the scope of the project to be sure that it is delivered on time and within budget.
Environment. Support the rest of the effort by ensuring that the proper process, guidance (standards and guidelines), and tools (hardware, software, etc.) are available for the team as needed.
Philosophies
The Agile UP is based on the following philosophies
Your staff know what they're doing. People are not going to read detailed process documentation, but they will want some high-level guidance and/or training from time to time. The AUP product provides links to many of the details, if you are interested, but doesn't force them upon you.
Simplicity. Everything is described concisely using a handful of pages, not thousands of them.
Agility. The Agile UP conforms to the values and principles of the agile software development and the Agile Alliance.
Focus on high-value activities. The focus is on the activities which actually count, not every possible thing that could happen to you on a project.
Tool independence. You can use any toolset that you want with the Agile UP. The recommendation is that you use the tools which are best suited for the job, which are often simple tools.
You'll want to tailor the AUP to meet your own needs.
Releases
The agile unified process distinguishes between two types of iterations. A development release iteration results in a deployment to the quality-assurance and/or demo area. A production release iteration results in a deployment to the production area. This is a significant refinement to the rational unified process.
See also
Enterprise unified process
Unified process
References
External links
AmbySoft Agile Unified Process page
Scott Amber's Dr Dobbs article "Where Did All the Positions Go?"
Agile software development | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile%20unified%20process |
Hard count is one process for counting coins in a casino or bank. The hard count rooms are usually among the most secure places due to the large amounts of cash that can be on hand at any one time.
Typically, coins are not counted on a piece basis. Instead, they are separated by denomination into containers and weighed using large scales. Each scale is programmed so that it can automatically derive the value of the container's contents from its weight. An exception to this is in casinos, where high denomination casino tokens (for example, $25 and above) may be counted by hand.
The opposite of hard count is soft count in which banknotes are counted.
References
Coins
Banking terms | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard%20count |
Rap City is an American music video television program shown on BET.
Rap City may also refer to:
RapCity (1995–present), also Rap City, a Canadian music video television program shown on MuchMusic
"Rap City", a 1964 song by The Ventures from the album Walk, Don't Run, Vol. 2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rap%20City%20%28disambiguation%29 |
Tatyana Borisovna Averina (; 25 June 1950 – 22 August 2001) was a Soviet Russian speed skater. After getting married, her name also appeared as Tatyana Barabash ().
Biography
Averina was trained by Boris Stenin at Burevestnik Voluntary Sports Society in Gorky. In 1970 she was selected for the USSR National Team. She finished in 12th place at the 1970 World All-around Championships and next year won a bronze medal in the 1,000 m at European Championships. In 1972, she won the 500 m event at the Winter Universiade.
Between 1974 and 1975 Averina broke world records eleven times: four times in the 1000 m, twice in the 1,500 m, twice in the 500 m and three times in the mini combination. In 1976 she earned the title Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR. She participated in the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck and won medals (two gold and two bronze) on all four distances. The Swiss newspaper Sport had written shortly before the Olympic Games, "Narrow specialisation has solidly taken root in the skating sport and these days it will be very hard to find an athlete who will compete in all distances and achieve successes in all, similar to Clas Thunberg and Lidia Skoblikova."
Averina took part in the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, but did not win any medal. After having won 3 silver medals in earlier years (1974, 1975 and 1976), Averina became World Allround Champion in 1978. In 1979, she became Soviet Allround Champion. Earlier, she had become Soviet Sprint Champion three times (1973, 1974 and 1975).
Medals
An overview of medals won by Averina at important championships she participated in, listing the years in which she won each:
World records
Over the course of her career, Averina skated eleven world records:
Personal records
To put these personal records in perspective, the WR column lists the official world records on the dates that Averina skated her personal records.
Note that Averina's personal record on the 3,000 m was not a recognised as a world record by the International Skating Union (ISU). Also note that the 5,000 m was suspended as a world record event at the 1955 ISU Congress and was reinstated at the 1982 ISU Congress.
Averina has an Adelskalender score of 184.589.
References
External links
Tatyana Averina at SkateResults.com
Personal records from Jakub Majerski's Speedskating Database
Evert Stenlund's Adelskalender pages
Short biography of Tatyana Averina (in Russian)
1950 births
2001 deaths
Soviet female speed skaters
Burevestnik (sports society) sportspeople
Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR
Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
Olympic speed skaters for the Soviet Union
Speed skaters at the 1976 Winter Olympics
Speed skaters at the 1980 Winter Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union
Olympic bronze medalists for the Soviet Union
Olympic medalists in speed skating
World record setters in speed skating
Russian female speed skaters
Lesgaft National State University of Physical Education, Sport and Health alumni
Medalists at the 1976 Winter Olympics
Universiade medalists in speed skating
World Allround Speed Skating Championships medalists
FISU World University Games gold medalists for the Soviet Union
Competitors at the 1972 Winter Universiade
Burials in Troyekurovskoye Cemetery
Sportspeople from Nizhny Novgorod | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatyana%20Averina |
Angus Diggle (born 1956, died November 2019) was a disgraced British former solicitor, educated at Bolton School, Shrewsbury and Bristol University, who was convicted of attempted rape in a case that was widely reported at the time.
Notoriety
Diggle first came to public notice when he was sentenced to three years in prison for the attempted rape of a woman after a Highland Ball at the Grosvenor House Hotel in Park Lane, Mayfair, London in 1993. He was found by the woman's friends wearing only his spectacles, frilly cuffs and a luminous condom, and reportedly told the police: "I spent £200 on her. Why can't I do what I did to her?" Many were surprised at the severity of the sentence, including the victim herself, and questions were raised in the House of Lords about Diggle's guilt.
His sentence was later reduced to two years on appeal and he was freed after serving 12 months after gaining full remission for good behaviour. After the outcome of the rape trial was known, it was found out that Diggle had recently been sacked from his job as a conveyancing solicitor with North Western Regional Health Authority, after he had been fined £50 for intimidating a 20-year-old woman on a train.
More trouble with the law
1997
In 1997, Diggle put his own name forward as one of 150 possible candidates for the then vacant Parliamentary seat of Kensington and Chelsea. Conservative officials there were at the time keen to avoid embarrassment after then sitting MP Sir Nicholas Scott was de-selected for being found face down in the gutter in a Bournemouth Street. Diggle was not selected; he was not included even on a "long-list."
1998
In 1998, Diggle was struck off as a Solicitor after getting drunk and abusive to two police officers in the red-light area of Bolton during a Sunday afternoon drinking binge. He is reported as having said to the police, "Do you know who I am? I'm a famous person."
2010
In November 2010 Diggle was given a two-year antisocial behaviour order banning him from every bar and club in his hometown of Bolton; he was also told to stay away from rail services and other premises whilst intoxicated. If he is caught breaking the order he could face five years in prison. Earlier in 2010, Diggle was caught urinating in the street while being seen to stagger through the red-light district of Bolton; he later swore at a police officer when he was arrested. Only a month after the urinating incident, Diggle was arrested again after drunkenly hurling racist verbal abuse at an Afro-Caribbean passenger at a railway station. He had been reported by a female customer services operator who had been left "shocked and embarrassed" when Diggle apparently called the passenger a "black bastard".
2011
In November 2011, Diggle was convicted of common assault (by battery) after a trial at Bolton Magistrates Court. The Court was told that on 16 August 2011 Diggle lunged at an officer of G4S a security firm, Andrew Brocklehurst, who was at Diggle's house to install equipment.
One of Diggle's neighbours reportedly said, "Angus used to be charming but the scandal left him ruined. He's obviously bitter."
2012
On 13 September 2012 Diggle was charged before Bolton Magistrates Court with using, "Threatening, abusive or insulting words or disorderly behaviour within hearing or sight of a person likely to be caused harassment, alarm of distress." The matter was adjourned until 12 October.
Aftermath
Since his various brushes with the law, Diggle found it hard to obtain employment and took to posting melancholy and bizarre posts on Twitter.
An announcement of Diggle's death appeared in the Bolton News on 17 December 2019 revealing he died in November.
References
External links
BBC news coverage
Press sympathy for Diggle
Living people
1956 births
British people convicted of attempted rape
British solicitors
People educated at Bolton School
Alumni of the University of Oxford
British people convicted of assault | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus%20Diggle |
The Battle of Atbara also known as the Battle of the Atbara River took place during the Mahdist War. Anglo-Egyptian forces defeated 15,000 Mahdists on the banks of the River Atbara. The battle proved to be the turning point in the reconquest of Sudan by the British and Egyptian coalition.
By 1898, the combined British and Egyptian army was advancing down the Nile into Sudan. The Sudanese Mahdist leader, the Khalifa Abdallahi ibn Muhammad ordered the Emir Mahmud Ahmad and his 10,000 strong army of western Sudan northward towards the junction of the Nile and the River Atbara to engage the British and Egyptian army led by Herbert Kitchener.
Encamping on the banks of the Atbara river by March 20, Mahmud, with Osman Digna's group of Mahdist warriors were within of the British camp outpost at Fort Atbara at the confluence of the Atbara with the Nile. On April 4, after seeing that the Mahdists were unwilling to attack, Kitchener quietly advanced with the British and Egyptian army towards the Mahdist fortified camp just outside the town of Nakheila.
The Anglo-Egyptian attack began at 06:20 on 8 April 1898. Three brigades, the British Brigade led by William Gatacre, and two Brigades of the Egyptian Division led by Archibald Hunter, led the attack. After a brief artillery bombardment of the Mahdist camp, the combined British and Egyptian brigades attacked. Soon, the British and Egyptian troops were in the Mahdist camp, often fighting hand-to-hand with the Mahdist warriors. After 45 minutes, the battle was over as Osman Digna led a few thousand warriors on a retreat to the south, while most of the remainder were killed or captured, including Mahmud who was captured by loyal Sudanese troops of the Egyptian Brigade.
The battle was celebrated by the Scottish poet William McGonagall.
References
Other sources
External links
Battle of Atbara
1898 in Sudan
Battles of the Mahdist War
Battles involving Egypt
Battles involving the United Kingdom
Conflicts in 1898
April 1898 events | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20of%20Atbara |
Mitchelton Football Club is an Australian soccer club based in Everton Park, a suburb in Brisbane's inner-west, Queensland, Australia. Founded in 1920, the club competes in the Football Queensland Premier League.
Overview
The club was founded in 1920, being the second oldest registered football club in Brisbane. This family-based club had 1125 playing members in the 2014 season and has members ranging from 4 to 60 years old, having 13 fields to cater for all ages. Mitchelton FC were lucky enough to have received the Ausport Club Development Award in 2005 awarded by the Australian Sports Commission.
After 83 years, Mitchelton finally got promoted to the highest competition in Queensland, the Brisbane Premier League for the 2004 season.
In 2009, Mitchelton were relegated to the Brisbane Premier League Division 1 after only scoring 1 point in the entire season.
In the 2010 season, Mitchelton finished 11th on the Ladder scoring 35 points.
The 2011 season sparked a revival for the club under coach Leo Sirianni, finishing 6th on the ladder and making it to the qualifying finals, where they were beaten by the 3rd placed, Ipswich Knights Soccer Club.
The 2012 season showed continued improvement with a 3rd-place finish in the league.
2013 however will go down as a season to remember for Mitchelton FC. Playing in Capital League 1 (renamed Division 1 – same league as last 3 years) Mitchelton incredibly won all 22 regular season games, semi-final and Grand Final to complete 24 consecutive wins, a Brisbane record. Due to a Football Brisbane ruling, no teams would be promoted to the Brisbane Premier League in 2014, so Mitchelton again play in Capital League 1.
2014. Mitchie have a record 1125 playing members in 90 teams. The senior men's team win the Capital League 1 title by 11 points to gain promotion to the Brisbane Premier League
History
1916
Some of the pioneering families of the district played soccer but due to World War 1 the Club was not officially registered
1920
Mitchelton Soccer Club registered/founded
1930-2
The team then known as the Black Diamonds won the YMCA Inter-suburban Cup in 3 consecutive seasons
1933
Establishment of a Mitchelton Junior team
A meeting called by Fred Gray, his father and George Green was held on a footpath under a convenient street light. The outcome was a team of youngsters, known as Mitchelton Rovers, who wore white shirts with blue trim, being formed. The team played Junior Minor for Mitchie, graduated to Junior, were interrupted by World War II, reassembled in 1947 as Juniors and graduated to Senior (Third Division) in 1948.
1949/53
Senior Teams played in the Second Division
1954/59
Senior Teams played in Third Division
1954
Juniors won Third Division Premiership and Round 1 Cup
1960
The Bee Gees perform at the Club's Annual Trophy Night
1962
First ladies soccer game played in Brisbane
The Brisbane ladies competition was started as a result of teams from Mitchelton and Annerley being invited to play at a carnival day at Mitchelton on 18 May 1962. The official competition commenced in 1965 under the Brisbane Junior Soccer Association.
1971
Junior Sub Committee formed
With increasing numbers of juniors the Mitchelton Soccer Football Club Committee decided to form a Junior Sub Committee. Previously juniors played for free, in 1971 a fee of $0.50 per player to be registered was charged.
1973
The club continued to play on Bell's Paddock (Mitchelton Oval) but by the late 1960s, it was obvious that the ground could not accommodate the Club's growth and the field was not suitable for the playing of good football because of its slope from Samford Road towards the train line and the lower end of the rugby league field. The playing surface, despite regular top dressing by volunteers, remained too rough. It became somewhat a standing joke that topdressing of the soccer field would be washed on to the league field in heavy storms. The junior field between the main field and the train line at the back of the picture theatre was unable to sustain any decent growth of grass. Several reasons for this have been expressed but it seems certain that it was an environmental problem resulting from the Army being based there during World War 1.
Action had to be taken to identify a suitable new home ground and a Sub Committee was established under Ross Black to oversee the search. Another member of his committee was Duncan McDonald, a qualified surveyor, whose expertise in laying out the new fields was to prove invaluable.
1974
Field Layout at Teralba Park determined
The Sub Committee liaised with the Brisbane City Council which suggested the market gardens resumed at the bottom of Teralba Park and with a lot of work it could have been ready for 1976. Once the field layout was determined, construction could commence. This would take some time due to the availability of Council resources.
A building fund was set up and teams were requested to raise $100.00 each towards the new project. Other fundraisers to keep the Club going were the Miss Junior Soccer competition, Annual Fete, Brook Hotel Raffles and a stall at the RNA Exhibition.
1975
Mitchelton Sports Club formed
To meet Brisbane City Council requirements for obtaining a lease on Council land at Teralba Park, the club format was changed to include multi sports. Activities included were Senior and Junior Soccer, netball, rugby league, touch football, and cricket. Baseball and Tee ball were added later.
Foundation members of the Sports Club were: Terry & May Anderson, Frank & June Barrett, Kevin S Jones, Arthur & Merle Heiner, Glen & Dianne Stevens, Lois Clark, Graham & Gwen Barker, Alberto & Maria Bartilomo, Col & Ros Ivey, Warren & Shirley Beasley, Andy & Ada Thompson, and Edna Jones.
Sports Club Guarantors were: Terry & May Anderson, Ross Black, Phil Harris, Arthur & Merle Heiner, Kevin & Vicki Jones, Kevin S Jones, Des Miles, Andy & Ada Thompson.
The objects of the organisation were to provide and maintain playing fields and amenities at Teralba Park and promote, foster, support and encourage soccer and other approved sports.
The 1975 Committee was an eager and dedicated group keen to progress with the new grounds and club house at the new park. A parks sub committee and a finance sub committee were set up to manage future development for the Teralba Park complex.
1977
Teralba Park becomes a reality
The move to Teralba Park could not come soon enough as the number of teams fielded by the club doubled in the 3-year period from 1973 to 1976 to 3 senior, 2 ladies and 22 junior teams. Training continued at Mitchelton Oval with matches conducted at Teralba Park. Additional lighting provided for training in 1976 at Mitchelton Oval was transferred to the new field. The old market gardener's cottage was transformed by volunteers into canteen and change rooms. While the Brisbane City Council could not have been more helpful, regrettably, large quantities of the beautifully rich market garden soil were removed from the main field to be used to develop two more cricket fields at Marchant Park. Only a small layer of topsoil remained and this required the Club to undertake further remedial work to bring the ground up to it present high standard. Teralba Park provides one of the largest areas of playing fields in Brisbane and the Club can look forward to further growth in the future.
1977
Des Miles, Referee, formerly a member of the Club's 1959 premiership team and Senior Club President awarded his FIFA referee's badge
1978
Building of new club house at Teralba Park commenced
The plans for the new club house were submitted to Council in 1977 and construction commenced in 1978.
Due to problems with the lease and construction of a bank protection wall to stop land erosion, building had to be halted. Eventually permission was granted to complete the toilet block and still carry on fixtures. Working bees conducted by club members at the new ground were well attended making the effort both work and social. Today's club house stands as a monument to the volunteers who devoted much time and effort in its construction.
To mark the move to Teralba Park, a march of players, coaches, and families was led by the then Club President, Rob Beck, from Samford Road to Teralba Park.
1978
Club Constitution provided for colours of green and white with yellow as a supplementary colour
The Club originally played in the Black Diamond's colours but when reformed, the green and white strip was chosen.
1979
Second Division team defeat Merton East 2–0 in Second Division Grand Final
One of the Club's most important results was in 1979 when we defeated Merton East 2–0 to win the Second Division Grand Final at Perry Park. The Final was watched by a huge crowd of Mitchie supporters who witnessed a stellar performance by the Mitchie team. Mitchelton was coached by Syd Tucker and the team line-up was as follows: Dave Mewburn, Ian Perry, John Coffey, Michael Hayes, Neil Orford, Ritchie Shortman, Peter McDonald, Greg McDonald, Garth Jones, Phil Cruse, Ross Denny, Barry Anderson, Graham Morey, and Dave Gallagher. The following season Merton East turned the tables on Mitchelton winning the Grand Final 3–1.
1980
Club Patron, Roy Harvey, Lord Mayor of Brisbane, opened our new club house
When work stopped on the construction of the club house, vandalism became a problem and the Club sought the assistance of its Patron, Roy Harvey, Lord Mayor of Brisbane, to proceed with the building. Alderman Harvey gave permission for the work to resume and opened the new club house on its completion.
Fund raising for the new club house included seeking $100 donations from Foundation Members, the sale of Bricks and guarantees from Sports Club Guarantors for the Commonwealth Bank.
1980
Club Diamond Jubilee
Events commemorating the Diamond Jubilee were a Dinner Dance held at the new club house on 26 April 1980 and the Presentation Night at the Gaythorne RSL on 17 October 1980.
1981
Main playing field at Teralba Park named "Fred Gray Memorial Field"
On 8 June 1981 the main playing field at Teralba Park was named "Fred Gray Memorial Field" in honour of the late Life Member, Fred Gray, for his part in the establishment of the Club and for his many years of untiring service in making Mitchelton Club into what it had become.
The dedication was held in conjunction with the annual Under 9 Carnival and Fete. A highlight of the day was the arrival by helicopter of England and Everton striker, Bob Latchford accompanied by Jim Hermiston and Ron Smith.
With completion of the club house, the Committee could then concentrate on more lighting, fencing, and closing off the original entrance from Griffith Street and opening the road from Osborne Road.
1983
The bitumen road from Osborne Road to Clubhouse opened
On training nights dust from the dirt road from Osborne Road to the playing fields created a haze over Teralba Park as vehicles transporting players arrived and departed. The construction of the bitumen road was a priority for the Sports Club under the then President Barrie Adams. The cost of the road was $12,955 and was paid for by funds raised by dedicated club members.
1983
Soccer superstar, George Best, visits the club
1984
Additional Park Land Leased
Alderman Roy Harvey continued as Patron and approval was given by the Council for the lease of additional land. A Development Committee was formed to prepare plans for advancement of the club up to 1990.
1995
Amalgamation with Brisbane Sports Club proceeds
A consortium known as the Brisbane Sports Club, led by Paul Novak offered to take over the running of the Mitchelton Sports Club and proposed a major upgrade of the Teralba Park facilities and football operations. Sports Club members voted to accept the proposal leading to Ex-Socceroos Greg Brown and Robbie Dunn playing for the Club and the acquisition of ex-international, Gary McDowall, as Club Coach for 1996. This change is seen as one of the highlights in Mitchelton Football Club's history.
1995
75th Anniversary Dinner held at Parliament House
A huge turnout of former and current players and supporters takes place at Queensland Parliament House.
2000
Junior teams received B.N.& D. Junior Soccer Association "Outstanding Club of the Year" award
The award was made to the club in the B.N.&D Junior Soccer Association competition achieving the highest number of points in premiership competition.
2002
Push for Premier League Group established
To push for promotion to the Premier League, a volunteer group was established to develop a strategy to ensure the Club's competitiveness for promotion to the Premier League and its continuity in that competition.
2003
Senior team promoted to Premier League
Another significant moment in the Club's history was the First Division team winning a two legged play-off against Ipswich Knights (from the Premier League) to gain entry into the 2004 Premier League. Mitchelton had finished second to Eastern Suburbs after the completion of the home and away season. Mitchelton played the first play-off game at Teralba Park and won 3–0 courtesy of goals from Matt Hendra, Damian Pilat and Peter Josey. The return game at Ipswich was a 0–0 draw ensuring Mitchelton's victory in the play-off. The members of the team which won promotion to the top division for the Club after 83 years in lower divisions were: Rob Coulter, Adam Pilat, Dave O'Reilly, Erik Musiol, Peter Bancroft (coach), Matt Hendra, Jason Poggi, Jason Roberts, Peter Josey, Matthew Jones, Keith Shaw, Daniel Timms, Andrew Balzat, Andrew Poyser, Damian Pilat, Andrew Hendra, and Nick McCallum.
2005
Mitchelton Sports Club wins Australian Sports Commission 2005 Ausport Award for excellence in club development
The purpose of the 2005 Award was to recognise and reward the achievements, success stories and best practices of individuals and groups within the Australian Sporting system. It recognised quality management practices in areas of leadership, planning, people and members. An independent panel of representatives from the sports industry assessed nominations in each award category against key criteria to select the finalists.
The Australian Sports Commission's general manager of Sport Performance and Development said that Mitchelton Sports Club represented a great example of an effective and well-managed sports organisation which was driven by the principle of continuous improvement. He said that Mitchelton Sports Club exemplified good management practices by effectively delivering a range of programs and initiatives to improve services to members.
The Club was commended for developing a strategic plan to improve its management practices, to be more competitive, and to grow its business which contributed towards its senior soccer being promoted to the Premier League. The Club was also commended for its initiatives to promote the Club's activities through its match program and fixtures to help raise the Club's profile. Club President, Rohan Cassell attended the presentation of the award.
2006
Mitchelton Sports Club organises 40 year, 30 year, 20 year & 10 year Player Reunion
In 2006 the club held a reunion for players who played with the club in 1960s, 1976, 1986 and 1996. The Club was unable to locate team lists from 1966 but a number of players from that era attended.
2007
Mitchelton Football Club fields a record 70 teams
The breakdown of teams for the 2007 season is: 4 senior, 4 Over 35, 58 junior, 4 ladies (2 senior and 2 Junior). Total registrations are about 700 players.
2013
Mitchelton win the Premiership/Grand Final double in the newly named Capital League 1 ( old Division 1) with a stunning 24 wins in a row. Despite protests, Football Brisbane refuse to promote any teams to the Brisbane Premier League for the 2014 season.
2014
Mitchie have a record 1125 playing members in 90 teams. The senior men's team win the Capital League 1 title by 11 points to gain promotion to the Brisbane Premier League.
External links
Official Website
Association football clubs established in 1920
Soccer clubs in Brisbane
Brisbane Premier League teams
1920 establishments in Australia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitchelton%20FC |
The pneumostome or breathing pore is a respiratory opening of the external body anatomy of an air-breathing land slug or land snail. It is a part of the respiratory system of gastropods.
It is an opening in the right side of the mantle of a stylommatophoran snail or slug. Air enters through the pneumostome into the animal's single lung, the air-filled mantle cavity. Inside the mantle cavity the animal has a highly vascularized area of tissue that functions as a lung.
The pneumostome is often much easier to see in slugs than in snails, because of the absence of a shell which can often block the view of this area. In a land slug, when the pneumostome is wide open, it is usually very clearly visible on the right side of the animal. However, the position of the pneumostome is often not at all easy to discern when this orifice is completely closed.
The pneumostome opens and closes in a cyclical manner. The frequency of pneumostome closing and opening is typically less than 0.5 closures per minute in fully hydrated slugs and snails. The rate of closures per minute increases the more dehydrated the slug is.
Position of pneumostome as a diagnostic feature
The images in the gallery below show the position of the pneumostome in three different families of slugs:
References
External links
Short clip of Ariolimax columbianus displaying its pneumostome YouTube, Feb 17, 2008
Gastropod anatomy
Invertebrate respiratory system
Articles containing video clips | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumostome |
Cutter's Way (originally titled Cutter and Bone) is a 1981 American neo noir thriller directed by Ivan Passer. The film stars Jeff Bridges, John Heard, and Lisa Eichhorn. The screenplay was adapted from the 1976 novel Cutter and Bone by Newton Thornburg.
Plot
One rainy night in Santa Barbara, California, Richard Bone's car breaks down on a side road. He sees a large car draw up a little way behind him. A man throws something into a garbage can. At first, Bone thinks nothing of it and proceeds to meet his friend, Vietnam veteran Alex Cutter. The following day, a young girl who has been brutally murdered is found in the garbage can, and Bone becomes a suspect.
When Bone sees who he thinks is the same man in the Santa Barbara "Founder's Day Parade"local tycoon J.J. CordCutter begins to take an interest in the case. His interest soon becomes a conspiracy theory that develops into an investigation with his skeptical friend and the dead girl's sister, along for the ride. After Cutter attempts to blackmail Cord as a way of making Cord incriminate himself, Cutter's house mysteriously burns down with his wife, Mo, inside.
Convinced that Cord had been trying to silence Bone, Cutter begins researching Cord. He steals an invitation to a party at Cord's house and gets Bone to drive him. When Cutter tells Bone he plans to kill Cord, Bone attempts to leave the party but is blocked by other parked cars and instead goes after Cutter to convince him not to kill Cord. After being chased by security, Bone winds up in Cord's office. After a brief conversation in which Cord assumes that Cutter's war experience has made him paranoid, Cutter suddenly crashes through the window after stealing one of Cord's horses. As Cutter is dying from injuries from the broken glass, Bone asserts that Cord killed the girl. Cord states "What if it were?" Bone steadies Cutter's gun in Cutter's hand and fires the pistol as the film cuts to black.
Cast
Jeff Bridges as Richard Bone
John Heard as Alex Cutter
Lisa Eichhorn as Maureen "Mo" Cutter
Stephen Elliott as J.J. Cord
Arthur Rosenberg as George Swanson
Nina van Pallandt as Woman In The Hotel
Ann Dusenberry as Valerie Duran
Chris Noth as Guard (uncredited)
Production history
A friend of Jeffrey Alan Fiskin had Fiskin send a screenplay to Paul Gurian, a would-be film producer. Gurian eventually informed Fiskin that he had bought the rights to the novel Cutter and Bone, and wanted to meet with Fiskin in Los Angeles. Fiskin, who had little money, stole a copy of the book to read. In a 1981 interview, he said of the novel "The set-up's great, the characters are fine. But the last half of the book is an instant replay of Easy Rider. You cannot make a film out of this." Gurian agreed and hired Fiskin to write the screenplay. Gurian arranged for the studio EMI to back the film financially, with Robert Mulligan to direct and Dustin Hoffman to play Alex Cutter. However, a scheduling conflict forced Hoffman to leave the project. This prompted Mulligan to leave as well, and EMI to pull its money. Gurian took the film to United Artists, where the studio's vice president, David Field, became interested in backing it.
Gurian gave Fiskin a list of directors; Ivan Passer's name was the only one the screenwriter did not recognize. Fiskin and United Artists executives screened Passer's Intimate Lighting and agreed he was the man to direct Cutter and Bone. Passer was involved with another film, but after reading Fiskin's script, chose to do Cutter and Bone instead .
The initial budget was $3.3 million, but Field learned that United Artists would produce the movie only if the budget was $3 million and a star joined the cast. The studio liked Jeff Bridges' work in the dailies for Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate and insisted on him for Cutter and Bone. Passer cast John Heard after seeing him in a Joseph Papp Shakespeare in the Park production of Othello. The studio wanted a star, but the director insisted on Heard. Lisa Eichhorn was cast as Mo after she auditioned with Bridges.
Reception
United Artists did not like the ambiguity in what was then titled Cutter and Bone. When U.A. executives David Field and Claire Townsend, the film's biggest supporters, left for 20th Century Fox, the studio felt that they would get no credit if the film succeeded and no responsibility if it failed and so there was no interest in it. Cutter and Bone became a victim of internal politics. U.A. senior domestic sales and marketing vice president Jerry Esbin saw the film and decided that it did not have any commercial possibilities. Passer did not see his film with a paying audience until the Houston International Film Festival many weeks later. He said in an interview, "They didn't do any research. I was supposed to have two previews with a paying audience. It was in my contract."
United Artists spent a meager $63,000 on promotion for the film's release in New York City in late March 1981. There all three daily papers and the three major network critics gave Cutter and Bone negative reviews. Vincent Canby in The New York Times wrote "[I]t's the sort of picture that never wants to concede what it's about. It is, however, enchanted by the sound of its own dialogue, which is vivid without being informative or even amusing on any level." The studio was so shocked by the negative reviews that it planned to pull the film after only a week. Unbeknownst to them, the next week Richard Schickel in Time, David Ansen in Newsweek, and New York City's weekly newspapers would write glowing reviews. Ansen wrote, "Under Passer's sensitive direction, Heard gives his best film performance: he's funny and abrasive and mad, but you see the self-awareness eating him up inside." Journalists atThe Village Voice were also early champions of the film, with two different critics offering positive reviews of the movie. After its re-release, the paper continued its efforts, posting a glowing profile on Passer.
The positive reviews prompted United Artists to give Cutter and Bone to its United Artists Classics division, which changed the film's title to Cutter's Way (thinking that the original title would be mistaken by audiences for a comedy about surgeons) and entered it in film festivals. At Houston, Texas's Third International Film Festival, it won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Actor (John Heard). A week later, it received the closing-feature slot at the Seattle International Film Festival. With a new ad campaign, Cutter's Way reopened in the summer of 1981 in Seattle, Los Angeles, Boston, and New York City. Passer was bitter about the experience, commenting in an interview, "You can assassinate movies as you can assassinate people. I think UA murdered the film. Or at least they tried to murder it."
In 1982, Fiskin won an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Motion Picture Screenplay. In 1983, the film won the prestigious Grand Prix of the Belgian Film Critics Association.
Jonathan Rosenbaum of The Chicago Reader would later write that it was "probably Ivan Passer's best American feature...with a wonderful performance by Lisa Eichhorn and shimmering, hallucinatory cinematography by Jordan Cronenweth." John Patterson of The Guardian called it "note-perfect" and a "masterpiece," praising all three of the lead performances while acknowledging the film required multiple viewings to perceive its strengths.
Cutter's Way holds a rating of 92% on Rotten Tomatoes, based on 24 reviews. The site's consensus reads, "A suitably cynical neo-noir that echoes the disillusionment of its era, Cutter's Way relies on character-driven drama further elevated by the work of an outstanding cast".
Quartet Records and MGM released the world premiere of the masterful score by Jack Nitzsche.
Themes and Interpretation
In an interview with the Washington Post following the release of Cutter’s Way, Passer explained his motivations for directing a film that contained more honest representations of life for soldiers after war:“Cutter” was not your average commercial sure thing. One reason I wanted to do this story was that I was getting sick to my stomach of what I called the cripple mania. Jon Voight in Coming Home, and various TV shows, the good guys got wounded and they were even better after that. I felt there was an absolute distortion of what actually goes on when somebody gets maimed internally or physically. It doesn’t usually make them better people. Most of the time, from what I have seen, it makes them dangerous.With this darker and more realistic portrayal of veterans, Passer was informing audiences of an aspect of the American experience which studios were not eager to reveal. In other interviews, Passer even went so far as to heavily insinuate that his depiction of Cutter as a disabled and disillusioned veteran was a key reason the UA tanked the budget of the film. Even after the release of popular neo-noir movies featuring troubled Vietnam veterans—see Taxi Driver (1976) and Rolling Thunder (1977)—there was still significant resistance to showing soldiers returning home as anything other than empowered heroes. Despite this, Passer did not refrain from having Cutter voice strong anti-war views. In addition to his general state of bitter indignation throughout the movie, Cutter also explicitly criticizes the United States. In one scene where Cutter and Bone are arguing over blackmailing Cord, Cutter goes on a tirade about the morality of life, explaining:I watched the war on TV like everybody else. Thought the same damn things. You know what you thought when you saw a picture of a young woman with a baby lying face down in a ditch, two gooks. You had three reactions, Rich, same as everybody else. The first one was real easy: “I hate the United States of America.” Yeah. You see the same damn thing the next day and you move up a notch. “There is no God.” But you know what you finally say, what everybody finally says, no matter what? “I’m hungry.”In many ways, Cutter’s brutal evaluation of violence and humanity reflects a larger attitude of the film that is very clearly anti-war. Though Cutter denies that trauma is what drives him to drink—at one point he even claims “Tragedy, I take straight”—Passer shows the ghastly effects of service in Vietnam. Not only does Cutter mentally suffer from post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), but he is also physically is missing an arm, a leg, and an eye.
Noir Influences
Because of its themes of revenge and alienation, Cutter’s Way has often been placed in the neo-noir movie genre by film critics. In one of the positive reviews posted in The Village Voice, Jim Hoberman deemed the movie to be a neo-noir. He explained that Passer had created “a thriller but also a critique, underscoring its surgical title by performing a deft and mordant postmortem on the remains of the 1960s counterculture.” Similarly, in his review of the movie, Jonathan Rosenbaum—the same critic who called it Passer's best American feature—also noted that the movie was making a "major statement about post-60s disillusionment." Throughout the movie, Passer provides critiques of American culture, but he does not give any political solutions. When he was asked about this somewhat ambiguous message of the movie, Passer stated that "this film is about pulling a trigger — what it takes." This introspective approach, along with both the violent ending and the complex and winding plot, in Cutter's Way are typical neo-noir staples.
In addition to the similar themes and motifs Cutter's Way shares with older noir films, the movie also was shot with clear noir influences. For Passer, it was important that viewers understood the gloomy nature of the movie, and with the help of his cinematographer Jordan Cronenweth, he attempted to remove the color blue from the film. According to Brendan Boyle in his review of the movie in The Ringer, Cronenweth “de-emphasized blues in favor of a muted, earthy scheme that Passer acknowledged as an homage to black-and-white cinematography—a noir in color, but barely.”
References
External links
1981 films
1981 crime thriller films
American crime thriller films
American neo-noir films
Edgar Award-winning works
1980s English-language films
Films about amputees
Films based on American novels
Films based on thriller novels
Films directed by Ivan Passer
Films scored by Jack Nitzsche
Films set in Santa Barbara, California
United Artists films
1980s American films | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutter%27s%20Way |
The Portola Valley Elementary School District is a top-ranked public elementary school district in the San Francisco Bay Area, USA, serving the communities of Portola Valley and Woodside. The district, code 4168981, serves over 700 students. About half of the students from this district matriculate to the Sequoia Union High School District and half to a number of independent high schools in the area.
Schools
Corte Madera School (Grades 4-8).
Ormondale School (Grades K-3)
Awards
Corte Madera was named a national Blue Ribbon School in 2008.
Corte Madera won the California Distinguished School award in 2011.
References
External links
School districts in San Mateo County, California | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portola%20Valley%20Elementary%20School%20District |
RapCity is a Canadian television program that airs on the MuchMusic cable channel. It is not to be confused with the American TV show of the same name, Rap City.
The show features a selection of the newest and vintage music videos from Canadian hip hop and American hip hop artists. RapCity began several years after MuchMusic first went on the air in 1984, and is still in existence. The program was created by director/producer Michele Geister after petitioning to Programme Director John Martin that a hip hop show was overdue for the Canadian market as well as the music channel's credibility. Music enthusiast, club DJ, Geister began her MuchMusic career as a master control operator then editor. Her efforts and abilities paid off with the launch of Soul in the City (Much's first specialty show) when asked by Michael Williams to help develop his concept- a weekly hour-long program focusing on Urban music---the first of its kind in Canada. The explosion of rap and hip hop videos being sent for SITC was calling for the addition of a show dedicated to the new genre. Soul in the City broadcast several rap specials in 1987 before the new show was given permission to begin production in 1989
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The show's original host was Michael Williams; later, the show was hosted by Oliver then Master T., and later Namugenyi Kiwanuka, who left MuchMusic in 2003. After that, occasionally, a hip hop artist would guest-host RapCity. The show was relaunched as a live, one-hour program on January 13, 2011 with a new host, Tyrone "T-RexXx" Edwards. Five-time freestyle champion Charron was the first ever retired Champion on RapCity in March 2011. As of August 2011, Jae Ari is the most recent retired Champion on RapCity who will be placed in a Winner's circle for future battles with other winners.
Originally RapCity aired once a week then expanded to five half hours a week and eventually became a weekly show in the fall of 2007, airing on Saturday nights at 11:00PM Eastern Time. The relaunched RapCity currently airs live on Thursdays at 10:00PM Eastern Time.
References
External links
Rap City website
1984 Canadian television series debuts
Much (TV channel) original programming
Hip hop television
1980s Canadian music television series | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RapCity |
Nazan Öncel (; born 6 February 1956) is a Turkish singer-songwriter. She also does the arrangements for most of them and has written songs for such singers as Tarkan and İbrahim Tatlıses.
Biography and career
In 1978, her song "Sana Kul Köle Olmuştum" ("I Had Become Your Slave"), written by Erdener Koyutürk and Özdener Koyutürk, was aired on radio and television, and Nazan's interesting voice attracted attention. Her first album (LP), Yağmur Duası (Prayer for Rain) was published in 1982. The first album, where all of the songs were written by Öncel herself, was published in 1992, by the title "Bir Hadise Var" ("There is an Issue"). In 1994, she published her second album Ben Böyle Aşk Görmedim (I Didn't See Love like This) and album included a 1994 hit with its video, "Geceler Kara Tren" ("The Nights are Dark Train").
Her 1996 album "Sokak Kızı" ("Stray Girl") included a more rock-oriented sound than its predecessor. The album included four singles and three of this singles; "Erkekler de Yanar" ("The Men Are on the Hook, too"), "A Bu Hayat" ("This Life") and "Bırak Seveyim Rahat Edeyim" (Let Me Love You and Have Peace) became hits with their videos.
Nazan Öncel has finished working on her 7th studio album. It features 12 new songs and is titled 7'n Bitirdin. The mastering process of the album has been seen through by Miles Showell in London, who is known for his works with artists such as Queen, Elton John and George Michael.
Discography
Studio albums
Remix albums
Singles
Compilation albums
Charts
See also
Nazan Saatci
Notes
External links
Nazan Öncel official website
1956 births
Living people
Turkish women singers
Turkish pop singers
Turkish singer-songwriters
Musicians from İzmir | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazan%20%C3%96ncel |
The Currier Museum of Art is an art museum in Manchester, New Hampshire, in the United States. It features European and American paintings, decorative arts, photographs and sculpture. The permanent collection includes works by Picasso, Matisse, Monet, O'Keeffe, Calder, Scheier and Goldsmith, John Singer Sargent, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Andrew Wyeth. Public programs include tours, live classical music and "Family Days" which include activities for all ages.
The museum maintains two house museums, the Zimmerman House and the Toufic H. Kalil House, both designed by notable architect Frank Lloyd Wright.
History
The museum, originally known as the Currier Gallery of Art, was founded in 1929 from a bequest of former New Hampshire Governor Moody Currier and his third wife, Hannah Slade Currier.
Currier's will provided for the establishment of an art museum, "for the benefit and advancement of humanity." While not an art collector himself, his funding allowed for the purchase of a great deal of art.
After his third wife's death in 1915, a board of trustees was appointed to carry out the Curriers' wishes that a structure be constructed. Multiple architectural proposals were entertained and the project was not awarded until 1926 to the New York firm of Tilton and Githens. In October 1929, the art gallery opened its new facility.
The first director was Maud Briggs Knowlton, one of the first women to be a museum administrator in the United States. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.
In 1982, new pavilions, designed by the New York firm Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer, were built to accommodate the museum's growing collections, programs and staff. The Currier Art Center, home to art activities for all ages, was relocated to the adjacent former Women's Aid Home in 1998.
In September 2002, the Gallery changed its name to the Currier Museum of Art, because, in the words of its then-director, it "recognizes the Currier's true mission and clarifies our function for those less familiar with us."
Museum expansion
On June 30, 2005, as part of the first phase of major renovations, a moving firm moved the historic Kennard House, formerly the location of the museum offices, from Beech Street to Pearl Street. The house was built in 1867 in the Second Empire style, and was home to several of the city's wealthy industrialists.
The museum closed in June 2006 for the duration of the $21.4 million expansion. The construction took 21 months, and the museum reopened to the public as scheduled on March 30, 2008. The addition and renovations received a 2008 Design Honor Award from the New Hampshire chapter of the American Institute of Architects, as well as a "People's Choice Award" through the AIA.
Ann Beha Architects of Boston, MA was architect for the expansion.
Frank Lloyd Wright houses
Zimmerman House (1951)
The museum operates tours of the nearby Zimmerman House, a Usonian House designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. It is complete with the original furnishings and the owners' fine art collection. The Zimmerman House is the only Wright-designed house in New England open for public tours, which are offered March–December.
The Isadore J. and Lucille Zimmerman House was built in 1950. Wright designed the house, the interiors, all the furniture, the gardens, and even the mailbox. In 1979, the building was listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Dr. and Mrs. Zimmerman left the house to the Currier Museum of Art in 1988. In 1990 it was opened to the public so that visitors could enjoy a private world from the 1950s and 1960s including the Zimmermans' unique collection of modern art, pottery, and sculpture. It is the only Wright home open to the public in New England and one of only several of his Usonian homes open nationwide.
Kalil House (1957)
In 2019, the Currier Museum of Art acquired Kalil House, a second private residence in Manchester designed by Wright, for $970,000. The 1,400-sq.-ft. Kalil House is one of just seven Usonian Automatic glass-and-concrete houses sketched out by the architect. It consists of two bedrooms, two bathrooms, a kitchen and the L-shaped living room with a dining area.
Management
Directors
1996-2016: Susan Strickler
Since 2016: Alan Chong
Funding
Upon his death in 2001, trustee Henry Melville Fuller left the Currier Museum $43 million, half designated for the art purchase fund. In 2012, the acquisition budget was at around $35 million.
See also
National Register of Historic Places listings in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire
References
External links
Edward Lippincott Tilton buildings
Art museums and galleries in New Hampshire
Museums in Manchester, New Hampshire
Institutions accredited by the American Alliance of Museums
Art museums established in 1929
1929 establishments in New Hampshire
Buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in New Hampshire
National Register of Historic Places in Manchester, New Hampshire
Museums on the National Register of Historic Places | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currier%20Museum%20of%20Art |
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