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Brotherhood of Blood is a 2007 American-German horror film, starring Jason Connery, Victoria Pratt, Sid Haig and Ken Foree, directed by Peter Scheerer and Michael Roesch. The movie had its world premiere at the prestigious Sitges Film Festival in Sitges, Spain in October 2007.
For the release in the US and Canada, Sam Raimi´s label Ghosthouse Underground has picked up the movie. It was released on home video in North America through Lionsgate on October 14, 2008.
Plot
Claustrophobic thriller about a team of vampire hunters who infiltrate a nest of undead to rescue one of their own.
Carrie Rieger tugs at her bonds. The young vampire huntress has to free herself. Guarded by vampires, chained in a dark cellar by the mighty vampire King Pashek, her time is running out. She knows an even greater threat than the vampires is coming relentlessly closer. Everything will be decided tonight.
Carrie has crossed a dangerous trail: Back from a faraway journey, a man slowly transforms into a vampire. And he transforms further - into something that even the vampires fear; the mighty vampire demon Vlad Kossei.
The vampire sovereigns killed Kossei many hundreds of years ago, but now he has seemingly returned. In his new body, he will take revenge and destroy everything in his way. There is only one hunter who can stop him...
Cast
Jason Connery as Keaton
Victoria Pratt as Carrie Rieger
Sid Haig as Pashek
Ken Foree as Stanis
William Snow as Thomas
Wes Ramsey as Fork
Jeremy Kissner as Derek
Rachel Grant as Jill
Marc Ian Sklar as Torreck
External links and sources
Brotherhood of Blood at the website of the US distributor Ghost House
2007 films
American supernatural horror films
2007 horror films
2000s English-language films
2000s American films
2000s German films
English-language German films | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brotherhood%20of%20Blood |
John Lindsay Bryan (26 May 1896 – 23 April 1985) was an English schoolteacher and cricketer who played for Cambridge University and Kent County Cricket Club. Bryan served in the British Army in both World War I and World War II and won the Military Cross in 1918.
He played for Kent alongside two of his brothers and toured Australia with the England cricket team in 1924/25. He was named as one of Wisden's five Cricketers of the Year in 1922.
Early life
Bryan was born in Beckenham in Kent, the oldest son of Lindsay and Emily Bryan. His father was a solicitor. Bryan attended St Andrews' Preparatory School in Eastbourne where he captained the school Cricket XI, before winning an academic scholarship to Rugby School in 1911. He captained the Rugby Cricket XI in August 1914 and opened the batting for Lord's Schools against the Rest with George Whitehead who went on the play two matches for Kent later the same month.
Bryan also played rugby at school and represented Rugby in racquets. He was described by Wisden as "one among many brilliant public school cricketers". He was a member of the Officers' Training Corps at Rugby.
Military service
At the start of World War I Bryan volunteered for service with the Honourable Artillery Company (HAC), joining as a Private on 26 August 1914. He served with the HAC in Northern France in 1914 and was wounded by shellfire in November 1914 towards the end of the First Battle of Ypres and evacuated to England. He rejoined the HAC in January 1915 in London but in February was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 2/5th Manchester Regiment, the regiment his father had been a Lieutenant colonel in.
After training on a machine gun course, he served at Gallipoli from September 1915 as Machine-Gun Officer of the 5th Manchester's until he was evacuated in October 1915 suffering from jaundice. The Manchester's moved to Egypt after their withdrawal from Gallipoli and Bryan served in the 127th Brigade Machine Gun Company at Abu Mena and the Suez Canal. He helped protect the railway built from El Qantara, Egypt to El Arish as part of the preparations for the Sinai and Palestine Campaign.
In 1917 Bryan left Egypt for the Western Front, serving in the Somme area where he suffered from pyrexia and was hospitalised for a time. He served on the front line in France and Belgium throughout 1917 and 1918. He was promoted to lieutenant in August 1917 and acting captain in March 1918 during the German spring offensive. He saw action during the Second Battle of the Somme in 1918 and was awarded the Military Cross for the way he led his machine guns at Miraumont in August 1918, although Bryan "played down the award". He saw action throughout the period until the end of the war and was appointed as a company commander during this period.
After the Armistice, Bryan was appointed acting major in the run up to demobilisation. He relinquished his rank in May 1919 but remained a captain in the Territorial Force for some time.
In September 1939 Bryan re-joined the army at the outbreak of World War II. He served as an Adjutant with the Manchester Regiment in France during 1940 and was evacuated from Dunkirk alongside his brother Ronnie, being Mentioned in Dispatches during the action. He became an instructor at the Eastern Command Infantry Company Commanders School with the rank of acting Major. From 1942 he served in the Territorial Army Reserve in a variety of roles for the rest of the war. He gave up his commission in 1949.
Cricketing career
Bryan was a left-handed opening batsman. He played for Kent's Second XI in 1914 as well as for the Club and Ground side before enlisting in the army at the start of World War I. He made his first-class cricket debut for LG Robinson's XI against the Australian Imperial Force Touring XI at Old Buckenham Hall Cricket Ground in Norfolk in May 1919 before making his Kent First XI debut towards the end of August against Lancashire at the Bat and Ball Ground in Gravesend.
He went up to Cambridge University in 1919, reading History and Maths at St John's College, graduating in 1921. He was not able to gain a place in the University cricket team in 1920 but did gain his cricket Blue in 1921, playing 11 first-class matches for the side. Meanwhile, he had been awarded his Kent cap in 1920 and scored 553 runs for the country during the season.
The 1921 season was Bryan's only full season of cricket as his job as a teacher prevented him playing regularly outside of the school holidays thereafter. He scored 1,858 runs at an average of 50.21 including five centuries, three for Cambridge and two for Kent. His highest score of 231 was made for Cambridge against Surrey at The Oval and in a series of eight matches he scored over 1,000 of his runs. He was awarded the accolade of being named as one of Wisden's five Cricketers of the Year in the 1922 edition.
From 1922 onwards Bryan continued to appear for Kent during the school holidays. He was, according to Wisden, "so highly ... regarded" that he was selected three times for the Gentlemen v Players fixture before he had played a match during the season. In 1924 he took leave of absence from his teaching post to travel with the England team to Australia over the 1924–25 English winter. He played in the non-first-class match in Ceylon and in first-class matches against Australian State cricket sides and an Australian XI but could not break into the Test side.
Bryan was well-regarded as an opening batsman. His Wisden obituary calls him a "a model opening bat" who aimed to "lay a good foundation to the innings" before attacking It regarded him as a "potentially great" cricketer who was a "beautiful field(er)" and "bowled slow leg-breaks and googlies" He scored over 8,700 runs in first-class cricket including 17 centuries. His highest score was 236 runs made against Hampshire in 1923 at Canterbury, an innings Wisden singled out as an example of his approach to batting. He played 119 times for Kent and 11 times for Cambridge as well as making appearances for teams such as the Gentlemen and, eight times, MCC.
He played his final match for Kent in August 1932 against Middlesex at Lord's before playing one more first-class match in 1933 for H. D. G. Leveson Gower's XI against Cambridge University at Eastbourne. He continued to play club cricket until the 1950s for Eastbourne and coached cricket in his teaching post.
Personal life and family
Bryan worked as a school teacher at his old school, St Andrew's, in Eastbourne from 1922. He married Irene Pocock in March 1927 and together they had one son. He was Master-in-Charge of cricket at the school and was, for a term, Headmaster before having to step down due to his wife's ill-health. He continued to be associated with the school after his retirement.
Two of his brothers, Ronnie and Godfrey, also played first-class cricket for Kent. All three played in just one match together for the county, against Lancashire at Dover in August 1925, with Jack captaining the Kent side. Ronnie shared the Kent captaincy with Bryan Valentine in 1937.
Bryan died after a short illness at Eastbourne in 1985 aged 88, at the time the oldest living Kent player and the last survivor of the Cambridge side of 1922 and the England touring side of 1924/25.
References
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1985 deaths
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People educated at Rugby School
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Cricketers from Beckenham | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack%20Bryan |
This is a list of newspapers in South Korea.
National papers
Top 10 Comprehensive Daily newspapers
Chosun Ilbo (daily) 1,212,208
Dong-A Ilbo (daily) 925,919
JoongAng Ilbo (daily) 861,984
Hankook Ilbo (daily) 219,672
Hankyoreh (daily) 205,748
Munhwa Ilbo (daily) 195,068
Kyunghyang Shinmun (daily) 190,677
Seoul Shinmun (daily) 160,348
Segye Ilbo (daily) 93,669
Kookmin Ilbo (daily) 74,685
English language
Korea Economic Daily (Seoul, national, English)
Korea JoongAng Daily (Seoul, national, English)
The Korea Herald (Seoul, national, English)
The Korea Times (Seoul, national, English)
Indigo (Busan, international, English)
Others
Aju Business Daily (Seoul, national)
Busan Ilbo (Busan, regional)
Chungcheong Daily (Cheongju, regional)
Daegu Shinmun (Daegu, local)
Daejeon Ilbo (Daejeon, regional)
Dongyang Ilbo (Cheongju, regional)
Electronics Daily (Seoul, national)
Financial News (Seoul, national)
Gangwon Ilbo (Chuncheon, regional)
Gangwon Shinmun (Wonju, regional)
Good Day (Seoul, national)
Gyeongnam Domin Ilbo (Gyeongnam, regional)
Halla Ilbo (Jeju, regional)
Hankook Gyeongje (Seoul, national)
Herald Economy (Seoul, national)
Ilgan Sports (Seoul, national)
Jeju Ilbo (Jeju, regional)
Kookje Shinmun (Busan, regional)
Kyosu Shinmun
Maeil Gyeongje (Seoul, national)
Money Today (Seoul, national)
NewsPim
Seoul Gyeongje (Seoul, national)
Sports Chosun (Seoul, national)
Sports Seoul (Seoul, national)
Sports Today (Seoul, national)
Stock Daily (Seoul, national)
Defunct
This section may include titles published prior to the 1948 division of Korea.
Hanseong sunbo, 1883-1884
See also
List of newspapers in North Korea
List of newspapers
Ministry of Culture and Tourism
Korea Newspaper Circulation Service
External links
Korea Newspaper Circulation Service
Korean Commission of Press Korean-only website
Korea Association of Newspapers
Korea On-line Newspaper Association
Korean Newspapers List WorldNewsList
Korean Specified Newspaper Association
MediaSIS; Media Statistics Information System
South Korea
Newspapers
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Alkali is a specific type of chemical base.
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Places
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David Richard McComb (17 February 19622 February 1999) was an Australian musician. He was the singer-songwriter and guitarist of the Australian bands, The Triffids (1976–89) and The Blackeyed Susans (1989–93). He also had a solo career including leading David McComb and The Red Ponies. Over his career McComb had bouts of alcoholism, and amphetamine and heroin abuse. He developed cardiomyopathy and in 1996 underwent a heart transplant. David McComb died on 2 February 1999 "due to heroin toxicity and mild acute rejection of his 1996 heart transplant", according to the coroner. In May 2001, the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA), as part of its 75th Anniversary celebrations, named "Wide Open Road" by The Triffids – written by McComb – as one of the Top 30 Australian songs of all time. On 1 July 2008 The Triffids were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame with McComb's contribution acknowledged by a tribute performance.
Biography
Early years in Perth
David McComb was born in Perth, Western Australia, on 17 February 1962, the youngest of four boys. His parents were both doctors, his father, Dr Harold McComb, a prominent plastic surgeon and his mother, Dr Athel Hockey (AO), a renowned geneticist. The family resided in a historical residence, The Cliffe in McNeil Street, Peppermint Grove. All the boys attended Christ Church Grammar School in Claremont, Western Australia, with David winning prizes in English Literature and Divinity. McComb studied journalism and literature at the Western Australian Institute of Technology. His older brother, Robert McComb, later joined The Triffids as a guitarist.
The Triffids 1976–1989
While still at high school, partly in response to the emergence of punk rock, McComb and Alan "Alsy" MacDonald formed Dalsy (a multimedia project, producing music, books and photographic work, and its output reflected his early interests, in Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, the Velvet Underground and Patti Smith), in 1976. Dalsy, later known as Blök Music then evolved into The Triffids (from the post-apocalyptic John Wyndham novel, The Day of the Triffids). McComb and MacDonald wrote and performed songs with Phil Kakulas (later in Blackeyed Susans), Andrew McGowan, Julian Douglas-Smith, and later Byron Sinclair, Will Akers and Margaret Gillard. By Christmas 1978, they had released several home-recorded cassette tapes and been through many line-up changes. McComb became established as the band's main songwriter and common denominator in the band's various line-ups.
In 1980, The Triffids won a band demo competition and released their first 7-inch vinyl single, "Stand Up", on the Shake Some Action label in the following year. The Triffids then moved to Melbourne before eventually settling in Sydney in 1982. After a couple of singles and EPs, Reverie EP, "Spanish Blue", and the Bad Timing and Other Stories EP, the group had saved up money from support slots with the Hoodoo Gurus, The Church and Hunters and Collectors, to record and release the band's debut 12-inch vinyl album, Treeless Plain, for Hot Records, a Sydney independent label.
McComb sold the rights to three songs to ABC-TV, for their 1984 series Sweet and Sour: "On The Street Where You Live", "Digging a Hole", and "Too Hot To Move". Lead vocals on the first two were sung for the series by Cathy McQuade (of Deckchairs Overboard) and the latter was performed by Deborah Conway (of Do-Ré-Mi). As part of the sale, The Triffids were no longer able to perform the songs. McComb later said that he regretted selling the songs and that he had bought back "Too Hot to Move", which The Triffids began to perform again: they recorded it for their 1989 album, The Black Swan. It has also been performed by The Blackeyed Susans (with Rob Snarski on lead vocals).
In 1985, The Triffids moved to London, with the addition of 'Evil' Graham Lee on pedal steel guitar, recorded their second album, Born Sandy Devotional in 1986, and Wide Open Road EP. The group were hailed by the British media, were featured on the John Peel show and supported Echo & the Bunnymen.
In 1986, with delays in releasing Born Sandy Devotional, the Triffids returned to Western Australia where they built an eight-track machine inside a shearing shed on the McComb family's farming property and recorded their third album In The Pines. On their return to the UK, they signed a three-record deal with Island Records. In 1987 armed with the considerable budget of £125,000, and the production skills of Gil Norton, David McComb and a new recruit, Adam Peters, concocted the lush orchestrations of the poignant "Bury Me Deep in Love" and the melancholic wide-screen atmosphere of the subsequent Calenture album. Despite the release of another two tracks from the album as singles, "Trick of the Light" and "Holy Water", Calenture didn't have the impact expected of it.
In 1989, the "Goodbye Little Boy" single featured in the Australian soap opera Neighbours. 1989 also saw the Triffids record their last studio album, The Black Swan, in England, with producer Stephen Street. Despite being well received, the album wasn't an overwhelming success, which disappointed McComb and the rest of the band to the point where they decided to dissolve the band. To fulfil their contractual obligations with Island Records a live album recorded in Stockholm, Stockholm was released in 1990 the year after the Triffids split up.
Post-Triffids career 1990–1999
McComb lived in London in 1990–1992 with his girlfriend, and launched a solo career. In 1991, McComb and Adam Peters contributed to the Leonard Cohen tribute album I'm Your Fan with a cover of "Don't Go Home With Your Hard-On", later mentioned favorably by Cohen himself. Following this, McComb formed the first incarnation of the Red Ponies and played three London shows in quick succession, at the Powerhaus, Subterranea and the Borderline. The line-up consisted of McComb and Peters along with Nick Allum of Fatima Mansions, who also had played drums on Calenture, Gary Sanford of Aztec Camera, and Martyn P. Casey.
When he returned to Australia, McComb settled in Melbourne, where he commenced studies at the University of Melbourne in art history. He recorded with the Blackeyed Susans, completed a solo album, Love of Will, for Mushroom Records, and undertook a solo tour of Europe with his backing band, The Red Ponies, consisting of Graham Lee, Warren Ellis, Peter Luscombe, Bruce Haymes and Michael Vidale. In June 1993 three former members of The Triffids: McComb, Robert and Lee; as well as Charlie Owen and Chris Wilson guested on Acuff's Rose's debut studio album, Never Comin' Down.
He also performed in Australia with his last band, Costar, who recorded a three-track EP. (This has never been released, but may be released on the W.Minc label when the Triffids reissue program is complete.) Recording for a Costar album was also underway at the time of McComb's death. McComb made occasional appearances with the Blackeyed Susans in Australia, giving Rob Snarski a break from vocals (as did Kim Salmon).
Health problems and death
McComb suffered from back pain which worsened over the years. He also struggled with alcoholism, and amphetamine and heroin abuse, which greatly affected his health. He developed cardiomyopathy, a heart condition that, when found in young men, is most commonly caused by alcoholism. In 1996, he underwent a successful heart transplant, but continued his drinking and drug use. In January 1999 he was driving a car which was involved in a collision. He was hospitalised overnight and released with bruising. A few days later he died at home, on 2 February 1999 just before his 37th birthday. In February 2000, after the State Coroner of Victoria finally published his findings, The West Australian newspaper wrote: "Mr Johnstone [the Coroner] said McComb's mental and physical condition had deteriorated after his accident but his death was due to heroin toxicity and mild acute rejection of his 1996 heart transplant."
His ashes were spread under the pine trees at the family farm (Woodstock) at Jerdacuttup, approximately north of Hopetoun, Western Australia.
Legacy and influence
In 2001 the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA), as part of its 75th Anniversary celebrations, named his 1986 composition "Wide Open Road" as one of the thirty greatest Australian songs of all time.
On 21 February 2006 David McComb was posthumously inducted into the West Australian Music Industry Association Hall of Fame, as a composer.
In June 2006, his work with The Triffids was reissued in remastered and extended form on the Domino label, commencing with Born Sandy Devotional. McComb's work is held in high regard in Europe, to the extent that The Triffids reformed and travelled from Australia to play live performances in Belgium and the Netherlands, in July 2006, with guest vocalists replacing McComb. The band also played four consecutive nights in Sydney in January 2008 with many guest singers and musicians, including Mick Harvey, Rob Snarski and Melanie Oxley. These performances were released as a DVD (It's Raining Pleasure) in late 2009. On 1 July 2008 The Triffids were inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame with McComb's contribution acknowledge by a tribute performance.
In September 2009, "Vagabond Holes: David McComb & The Triffids" – edited by Chris Coughran and Niall Lucy, and featuring contributions from Nick Cave, DBC Pierre, Laurie Duggan, John Kinsella, Bleddyn Butcher, Steve Kilbey, Robert Forster, "Handsome" Steve Miller and others – was published by Fremantle Press.
A feature length documentary about McComb, entitled Love in Bright Landscapes: The Story of David McComb of the Triffids, commenced shooting in January 2008, produced by Atticus Media and the Acme Film Company. In late 2009, a live tribute album entitled Deep in a Dream: An Evening with the Songs of David McComb, featuring The Blackeyed Susans and other Melbourne-based acts, was issued by the filmmakers to help fund the ongoing production of the documentary, which was released theatrically and then to disc and streaming formats in 2021/22 via Label Distribution.
In 2009 a collection of David McComb's poems, titled Beautiful Waste: Poems by David McComb, was published by Fremantle Press. The anthology was edited by Chris Coughran and Niall Lucy, and includes an introduction by poet John Kinsella.
In 2020 an album of cover versions of McComb's unreleased songs was released under the name of The Friends Of David McComb. It featured artists including Frente!'s Angie Hart.
Discography
Solo releases
LPs
1994 Love of Will (White Label Records)
EPs
1989 "I Don't Need You" (with Adam Peters) (Island Records)
1991 "The Message" (The Foundation Label)
1994 "Setting You Free" (White Label Records)
1994 "I Want To Conquer You" (White Label Records)
1994 "Clear Out My Mind" (White Label Records)
Compilations, Various Artists (contributor)
1988 Til Things Are Brighter: A Tribute To Johnny Cash (Rhino Records) – "Country Boy"
1991 I'm Your Fan: The Songs Of Leonard Cohen (Columbia Records) – "Don't Go Home With Your Hard On"
1996 Where Joy Kills Sorrow (W.Minc Records) – "Still Alive And Well"
Guest vocals
1996 Four Hours Sleep More of Her (Mushroom Records) – "This Song Can Save You" and "When I First Met You"
Awards
West Australian Music Industry Awards
The West Australian Music Industry Awards are annual awards celebrating achievements for Western Australian music. They commenced in 1985.
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References
Further reading
Obituaries of David McComb, Triffids' co-founder:
Sunday Times (Perth, W.A.) 21 February 1999, p. 44,
Rolling Stone (Sydney, N.S.W.), April 1999, p. 27,
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External links
Official Triffids website
Official Blackeyed Susans website
David McComb at Australian Rock Database by Magnus Holmgren
1962 births
1999 deaths
APRA Award winners
Australian male songwriters
Musicians from Perth, Western Australia
People educated at Christ Church Grammar School
20th-century Australian male singers
Deaths by heroin overdose in Australia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20McComb |
Gregg Clark (born 11 January 1971 in Johannesburg) is a field hockey player from South Africa, who was a member of the national squad that finished tenth at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He was also present at the Atlanta Games in 1996. The midfielder played for Durban, and a provincial team called KwaZulu Natal Raiders.
He is also the most capped South African national hockey player with 250 caps and 42 goals.
He was appointed head coach of Hockey India League's Ranchi Rhinos for its inaugural 2013 season. In January 2021, he was appointed as the analytical coach of the Indian men's hockey team.
International senior tournaments
1994 – World Cup, Sydney (10th)
1996 – Hockey Africa Cup of Nations (1st)
1995 – All-Africa Games, Harare (1st)
1996 – Summer Olympics, Atlanta (10th)
1997 – World Cup Qualifier, Kuala Lumpur (9th)
1998 – Commonwealth Games, Kuala Lumpur (no ranking)
1999 – All-Africa Games, Johannesburg (1st)
2000 – Hockey Africa Cup of Nations (1st)
2001 – Champions Challenge, Kuala Lumpur (2nd)
2002 – World Cup, Kuala Lumpur (13th)
2002 – Commonwealth Games, Manchester (4th)
2003 – All-Africa Games, Abuja (2nd)
2003 – Champions Challenge, Johannesburg (3rd)
2004 – Olympic Qualifier, Madrid (7th)
2004 – Summer Olympics, Athens (10th)
References
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1971 births
Living people
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Male field hockey midfielders
South African field hockey coaches
Olympic field hockey players for South Africa
Field hockey players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Field hockey players at the 1998 Commonwealth Games
Field hockey players at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
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Field hockey players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
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South African people of British descent
Commonwealth Games competitors for South Africa
African Games gold medalists for South Africa
Competitors at the 1999 All-Africa Games
Competitors at the 1995 All-Africa Games
Competitors at the 2003 All-Africa Games
African Games medalists in field hockey | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregg%20Clark |
Michael Crummey (born November 18, 1965) is a Canadian poet and a writer of historical fiction. His writing often draws on the history and landscape of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Early life and education
Crummey was born in Buchans, Newfoundland; he grew up there and in Wabush, Labrador, where he moved with his family in the late 1970s. He began to write poetry while studying at Memorial University in St. John's, where he won the university's Gregory J. Power Poetry Contest in 1986 and received a B.A. in English in 1987. He completed a M.A. at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, in 1988, later leaving the Ph.D. program to pursue his writing career.
Career
In 1994, he became the first winner of the Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award for young unpublished writers. His first volume of poetry, Arguments with Gravity (1996), won the Writer's Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award for Poetry. Hard Light (1998), his second collection, was nominated for the Milton Acorn People's Poetry Award in 1999.
Also in 1998, Crummey published a collection of short stories, Flesh and Blood, all of which take place in the fictional mining community of Black Rock, which strongly resembles Buchans. That year Crummey was nominated for the Journey Prize.
Crummey returned to St. John's in 2001. In that year he published his debut novel, River Thieves, which details the contact and conflict between European settlers and the last of the Beothuk in the early 19th century, including the capture of Demasduit. The book became a Canadian bestseller, and won the Thomas Head Raddall Award, the Winterset Award for Excellence in Newfoundland Writing, and the Atlantic Independent Booksellers' Choice Award. It was also shortlisted for the Giller Prize, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the Books in Canada First Novel Award, and was long-listed for the International Dublin Literary Award.
Crummy's second novel, The Wreckage was published in 2005; the story of young Newfoundland soldier Wish Fury and his beloved Sadie Parsons during and after World War II, it was longlisted for the 2007 IMPAC Award. His third novel Galore, was published in 2009, won a Commonwealth Writers Prize, and was shortlisted for the 2011 IMPAC Award.
Crummey continued to write prose and poetry with themes related to Newfoundland and Labrador. The poems and prose in Hard Light are inspired by the stories of his father and other relatives.
Crummey also researched and wrote the 2014 National Film Board of Canada multimedia short film 54 Hours on the 1914 Newfoundland Sealing Disaster, co-directed by Paton Francis and Bruce Alcock. His 2014 novel, Sweetland, was nominated for a Governor General's Award.
In 2018, his play Her Mark, set in Newfoundland, was staged in Strathcona.
His 2019 novel The Innocents was shortlisted for the 2019 Giller Prize, and for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.
In August 2020, Telefilm Canada announced it had selected the film adaptation of Sweetland as one of its English-language feature film projects to fund. Sweetland was directed by Christian Sparkes and filmed in Newfoundland, and is slated to premiere at the 2023 Atlantic International Film Festival.
Bibliography
Poetry
Arguments With Gravity (1996)
Hard Light (1998). A selection called Hard Light: 32 Little Stories was released as an audiobook in 2003, narrated by Crummey & Ron Hynes)
Emergency Roadside Assistance (2001)
Salvage (2002)
Under the Keel (2013)
Little Dogs: New and Selected Poems (2016)
Passengers (2022)
Short stories
Flesh and Blood (1998, expanded edition 2003)
Novels
River Thieves (2001)
The Wreckage (2005)
Galore (2009)
Sweetland (2014)
The Innocents (Penguin Random House, 2019)
The Adversary (2023)
Non-fiction
Newfoundland: Journey Into a Lost Nation (with photographer Greg Locke) (2004)
Most of What Follows is True: Places Imagined and Real (University of Alberta Press, 2019)
Anthologies
The Breakwater Book of Contemporary Newfoundland Poetry (Breakwater, 2013)
The Harbrace Anthology of Poetry, 5th Edition (Nelson, 2012)
The Penguin Book of Canadian Short Stories, selected and introduced by Jane Urquhart (Penguin Books, 2007)
The New Canon: An Anthology of Canadian Poetry (Signal Editions, 2006)
Canadian Short Stories (Penguin Books, 2004)
Victory Meat (Doubleday Canada, 2003)
Coastlines: The Poetry of Atlantic Canada, ed. Anne Compton, Laurence Hutchman, Ross Leckie and Robin McGrath (Goose Lane Editions, 2002)
Further reading
Jennifer Bowering Delisle: The present of the past, in Ten Canadian Writers in Context. Dir. Curtis Gillespie, Marie J. Carrière, Jason Purcell. University of Alberta Press, Edmonton 2016, pp 37 – 56 (incl. excerpt from Sweetland, pp 46 – 56). Also in Google books
References
1965 births
Living people
Canadian male novelists
20th-century Canadian poets
20th-century Canadian male writers
Canadian male poets
21st-century Canadian poets
20th-century Canadian novelists
21st-century Canadian novelists
Canadian male short story writers
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Moritz Traube (12 February 1826 – 28 June 1894) was a German chemist and universal private scholar.
Traube worked on chemical, biochemical, medical, physiological, pathophysiological problems. He was engaged in hygienics, physical chemistry and basic chemical research. Although he was never a staff member of a university and earned his living as a wine merchant, he was able to refute theories of his leading contemporaries, including Justus von Liebig, Louis Pasteur, Felix Hoppe-Seyler and Julius Sachs, and to develop significant theories of his own with solid experimental foundations. The chemistry of oxygen and its significance to the organism were the central objects of his research and provided the common thread uniting almost all of his scientific activity.
Moritz Traube was a younger brother of the famous Berlin physician Ludwig Traube (physician), the co-founder of the German experimental pathology. A son, Wilhelm Traube, evolved a process of purine synthesis. Hermann Traube, another son, was a mineralogist.
Biography
Education period
Traube was born on 12 February 1826 in Ratibor, Silesia, Prussia (now Racibórz, Poland). Traube's father was a Jewish wine merchant, the grandson of a rabbi from Kraków. Traube graduated from the Gymnasium in the provincial town of Ratibor when he was only 16 years old. His older brother Ludwig advised him to begin scientific studies at the University of Berlin (1842–1844). He studied experimental chemistry with Eilhard Mitscherlich, chemistry and stoichiometry with Heinrich Rose, mineralogy with Christian Samuel Weiss, physics with Heinrich Wilhelm Dove; and practised experimental chemistry in the laboratory of Karl Friedrich August Rammelsberg.
He moved to Giessen to participate in Liebig's practical-analytical course in 1844/45. He attended lectures in botany (Hermann Hoffmann) and logic (Moritz Carrière). In 1845 he returned to Berlin (geology with Heinrich Girard). In 1847 he received his doctorate with a thesis entitled "De nonnullis chromii connubiis". The later well-known botanist Nathanael Pringsheim supported him. For a while Traube worked in a Berlin dyeworks (1848/49), then continued his studies: anatomy with Friedrich Schlemm, physiology and comparative anatomy with Johannes Müller, pathology with Rudolf Virchow and pharmacology with Eilhard Mitscherlich. For a few weeks he attended lectures in clinical disciplines such as surgery (with Bernhard von Langenbeck) and auscultation and percussion (Ludwig Traube). The extraordinarily wide spectrum of his qualifications was a basis of his universal research.
The period in Ratibor (1849–1866)
When another brother, who was to have taken over their father's wine business, suddenly died of diabetes, Traube's father ordered him home to Ratibor to help manage the business. After agonizing for several weeks, Traube complied. But he could not abandon science.
In a poorly-heated attic of his house, lacking time and money, isolated from scientific communication, he developed his extensive chemical-physiological projects. He completed numerous well-planned, accurately executed experiments, the correctness of which his contemporaries were forced to acknowledge.
Traube was also successful as a wine merchant. Together with his brother Ludwig he donated 500 Taler to the Ratibor Gymnasium for students' prizes. He married Bertha Moll of Lissa in 1855. The marriage produced 3 daughters and 2 sons.
The period in Breslau (1866–1891)
To facilitate his research Traube moved to Breslau. He worked for a time in the laboratory of his friend Theodor Poleck and in the Physiological Institute of Rudolf Heidenhain. Later he erected his own, well equipped laboratory and employed assistants. Every year he travelled to Hungary to survey and purchase wine himself. One of his customers was Otto von Bismarck. In 1886 Traube resigned from business. From 1866 to 1890 he was a member of the "Schlesische Gesellschaft für vaterländische Kultur“. He was elected to the board of this society in 1884.
The period in Berlin (1891–1894)
When Traube came to Berlin, he was already ill, probably from diabetes and coronary ischaemia. Here his two sons were employed at the university. He worked tirelessly even in the last year of his life. His death attracted great attention. He was laid to rest in the cemetery in Gudrunstrasse, Berlin-Lichtenberg. On the grave, no longer preserved, stood a bronze bust by the sculptor Fritz Schaper. The gypsum model survives in the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin.
Traube died on 28 June 1894 in Berlin, at the age of 68.
Scientific achievements
Medicine and clinical chemistry
Traube showed that sugar excretion in the urine of a diabetic patient rose after starch intake but fell after protein consumption. Additionally he demonstrated the unrestricted intestinal absorption of fats in diabetics. He thus contributed to the scientific basis for a diabetic diet. For diagnosis he proposed to measure sugar levels at specific, regular intervals: in the morning before breakfast and after meals. He thus anticipated modern principles of blood sugar measurements. Elsewhere he investigated the laxative qualities of lactose.
Theory of fermentation
Traube's main work, the Theorie der Fermentwirkungen (1858) is the first comprehensive theory of fermentation to be based on experiments and elaborated consequently from the chemical point of view. The discovery in 1837 that yeast was a living organism suggested that fermentation itself was a living process. Only a few scientists rejected this vitalistic protoplasm theory, notably Traube. He was the first to define enzymes as specific protein-like compounds and to formulate the necessity of direct molecular contact between enzyme and substrate for fermentation to occur. He classified enzymes by reaction type, much as is done today. Long before Eduard Buchner discovered non-cellular fermentation in 1897, Traube isolated an enzyme from potatoes which could turn guaiacum blue, thus demonstrating the continued efficacy of plant enzymes after they had been extracted from the cell. Until recently, biochemical history has not noted that Traube began to investigate the kinetics of reactions and also demonstrated a reciprocal relationship between reaction time and quantity of enzyme. To defend his theory, Traube had to argue vigorously against Louis Pasteur and Felix Hoppe-Seyler. He contradicted Pasteur's assertion that fermentation could not occur without vital activity. In the context of these experiments Traube became the first to describe a process for making pure yeast. His differences with Hoppe-Seyler had to do with the mechanism by which oxygen was activated in fermentation reactions. Traube's experiments were designed to demonstrate activation via enzymes as catalysts and refute Hoppe-Seyler's hypothesis of oxygen activation by nascent hydrogen produced by enzymes.
Physiology of plants and the invention of artificial semipermeable membranes
In 1864 Traube was the first to produce artificial semipermeable membranes, recognizing them as molecular sieves and using them in developing the first physical-chemical theory of plant cell growth. The artificial cells were created by putting droplets of glue in tannic acid; these grew under infusion of water. (Other membranes were created with tannic acid plus verdigris or potassium ferrocyanide plus copper chloride). These membranes laid the foundation for research into osmotic pressure in solutions (Wilhelm Pfeffer and Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff used them), and Traube himself did research on the manifestations of diffusion and osmosis.
Pathophysiology, bacteriology and hygienics
Traube also made an important contribution to the study of the etiology of disease. Together with Gscheidlen, an assistant of Rudolf Heidenhain he was the first to demonstrate via animal experiments that the organism has the ability to eliminate putrefactive bacteria. In evaluating the results, he distinguished chemical poisoning from infection with microorganisms on the one hand, and pathogenic from putrefactive bacteria on the other. Further, he was the first to propose a relation between immune system to infections and active oxygen in the blood cells. In his last work Traube proposed disinfecting drinking water with calcium chloride. This technique became very important. By 1914 the method was used in more than 100 cities in America. It was reintroduced to Germany after World War II via the American occupation.
Biological oxidation
Traube developed a homogeneous concept of the critical significance of cellular respiration for the generation of heat, formation and maintenance of structures and organ function. From his point of view biological oxidation takes place not only in the blood but in all tissues. Traube's theory of muscular metabolism is significant because it showed the close relationship between respiration, muscular activity and heat generation, thus contributed to the refutation of Liebig's theory of nutrients. The substrates for creating muscle power were thus primarily nitrogen-free compounds and not just proteins. To investigate the process of enzymatic oxygen activation in organisms Traube did experimental research into inorganic autoxidation and oxygen activation. He thus demonstrated the role of water as active partner in slow oxidations and showed the intermediate character of hydrogen peroxide generation.
Accolades and appreciations
In consistently applying chemistry to physiology, Traube was a follower of Liebig and peer of Hoppe-Seyler. Traube produced 51 publications, lectured and occasionally taught. His significant pupils were Guido Bodländer and his own son Wilhelm Traube. His biochemical concepts influenced later research. In his time he was especially noted for his clarification of the role of nutrients in metabolism and his work with semipermeable membranes. The University of Halle-Wittenberg conferred an honorary doctorate of medicine on Traube in 1867 and he was elected a corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin in 1886. Louis Pasteur called Traube an excellent physiologist and professor; extensive appreciations were written by August Wilhelm von Hofmann, Hermann Emil Fischer and Ferdinand Cohn. In 1875 Charles Darwin had asked Traube to send him his work on cell formation. Philosophers, too, showed great interest in his results. In the 1870s Karl Marx met Traube in Karlsbad to learn more about inorganic cells because Friedrich Engels was working on the relation between organic and inorganic nature, i.e., the dialectics of nature in Anti-Dühring, and Traube's artificial cells served as models of living plant cells. When the young Robert Koch in 1876 presented his discovery of bacillus anthracis as the specific cause of anthrax to the leading bacteriologist Ferdinand Cohn in Breslau, Traube, who had by then achieved academic recognition, was one of the few invited to witness this momentous event.
Bibliography
All of Traube's publications (with one exception :"Über den Milchzucker als Medikament") were compiled by his sons in:
Traube, M.: Gesammelte Abhandlungen. Hrsg. H. und W. Traube, Berlin, Mayer und Müller (1899)
Some important publications:
Über die Gesetze der Zuckerausscheidung im Diabetes mellitus. Virchow's Archiv f. Path. Anatomie Bd. 4 (1852) 109
Zur Theorie der Gährungs- und Verwesungs-Erscheinungen, wie der Fermentwirkungen überhaupt. Poggendorff, Annal. d. Phys. u. Chem. Bd. 103 (1858) 331
Theorie der Fermentwirkungen. Verlag Ferd. Dümmler, Berlin 1858
Über die Beziehung der Respiration zur Muskelthätigkeit und die Bedeutung der Respiration überhaupt. Virchow's Archiv f. Path. Anatomie Bd. 21 (1861) 386
Über die Verbrennungwärme der Nahrungsstoffe. Virchow's Archiv f. Path. Anatomie Bd. 21 (1861) 414
Über homogene Membranen und deren Einfluß auf die Endosmose. Vorläufige Mitteilungen. Zentralblatt f. d. med. Wissenschaften Nr. 7 u. 8 (1866)
Experimente zur Theorie der Zellenbildung und Endosmose. Reichert's u. du Bois-Reymond's Archiv (1867)
Über Fäulnis und Widerstand der lebenden Organismen gegen dieselbe. Jahresbericht der Schles. Gesellschaft für vaterl. Cultur (1874) 179
Über das Verhalten der Alkoholhefe in sauerstoffgasfreien Medien. Ber. d. deutschen chem. Gesellsch. 7 (1874) 872
Zur mechanischen Theorie des Zellwachsthums und zur Geschichte dieser Lehre. Botanische Zeitung 36 (1878) Nr. 42, 43, 44
Über den Milchzucker als Medikament. Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift Nr.9 (1881) 113-114
Über Aktivierung des Sauerstoffs. Ber. d. deutschen chem. Gesellschaft 15 (1882) 659
Über das Verhalten des nascierenden Wasserstoffs gegen Sauerstoffgas. Ber. d. deutschen chem. Gesellschaft 16 (1883) 1201
Zur Lehre von der Autoxydation (langsamen Verbrennung reducierender Körper). Ber. d. deutschen chem. Gesellsch. 22 (1889) 1496
Zur Geschichte der Lehre von den antiseptischen Eigenschaften der höheren Organismen. Zentralblatt für klinische Medizin (1891) Nr. 52
Einfaches Verfahren Wasser in grossen Mengen keimfrei zu machen. Zeitschrift f. Hygiene und Infectionskrankheiten 16 (1894) 149
Sources and literature
Henrik Franke: MORITZ TRAUBE (1826-1894) - Leben und Wirken des universellen Privatgelehrten und Wegbereiters der physiologischen Chemie. Med. Dissertation 1994, Universitätsbibliothek der Humboldt-Universität Berlin Signatur 94 HB 1449.
Henrik Franke: Moritz Traube (1826-1894) Vom Weinkaufmann zum Akademiemitglied, "Studien und Quellen zur Geschichte der Chemie", Band 9, Verlag für Wissenschafts- und Regionalgeschichte Dr. Michael Engel,
HOFMANN, A.W.: Begründung des Vorschlages von MORITZ TRAUBE zum korrespondierenden Mitglied der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin vom 10. Juni 1886 (Zentrales Archiv der Deutschen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, Sign. II-III, 123, S. 115-117, 5 Bl.)
TRAUBE, M.: Brief an K. G. J. WEINHOLD vom 11. Juni 1888 (Zentrales Archiv der Deutschen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin, NL-Weinhold 1419, 4 Bl.)
TRAUBE, M.: Briefe. Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Preussischer Kulturbesitz. Handschriftenabt. Sign. Slg. Darmstaedter G 1 1875 (12)
BODLÄNDER, G.: Moritz Traube. Ber. d. deutschen chem. Gesellschaft 28 (1895)
COHN, F.: Nachruf und Nekrolog Moritz Traube. Jahresber. der Schlesischen Gesellsch. f. vaterländ. Kultur 72 (1894/1895). II. Abt., b. Sitzung d. zoolog.-botan. Section v. 1.11.1894, 63-64; Nekrologe 16-19; Allgem. Bericht 1-14
FISCHER, E.: Dr. Moritz Traube. Ber. d. deutschen chem. Gesellschaft 27 (1894) 1795-1796
FRAENKEL, M.: Moritz Traube. Das Lebensbild eines genialen Oberschlesiers. Oppeln (1931)
HOPPE-SEYLER, F.: Über Gährungen. Antwort auf einen Angriff des Herrn Moritz Traube. Ber. d. deutschen chem. Gesellschaft 10 (1877) 693-695
LIEBEN, F.: Geschichte der physiologischen Chemie. Leipzig und Wien (1935)
MÄGDEFRAU, K.: Geschichte der Botanik. 2. Aufl., Stuttgart, Jena, New York (1992)
MÜLLER, K.: Moritz Traube und seine Theorie der Fermente. Zürich, Univ. med. Diss. 1970
SOURKES, TH. L.: Moritz Traube, 1826 - 1894: His contribution to biochemistry. Journal of the History of Medicine 10 (1955) 379-391
External links
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1826 births
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William Henry Heinemann (18 May 1863 – 5 October 1920) was an English publisher of Jewish descent and the founder of the Heinemann publishing house in London.
Early life
On 18 May 1863, Heinemann was born in Surbiton, Surrey, England. Heinemann's father Louis Heinemann, a director of Parr's Bank and a native of Hanover, Germany. Heinemann's mother was Jane Lavino. Both his parents were Jewish by descent, although they had been Anglican for two generations. In his early life he wanted to be a musician, either as a performer or a composer, but he came to believe that he lacked the ability to be successful in that field.
Career
Heinemann took a job with the music publishing company of Nicolas Trübner. When Trübner died in 1884, Heinemann founded his own publishing house in Covent Garden in 1890. The company published many translations of the classics in Great Britain as well as publishing such authors as H. G. Wells, Robert Louis Stevenson, Rudyard Kipling and Sylvia Plath.
Personal life
On 2 February 1899, Heinemann married Magda Stuart Sindici, a writer who used the pseudonym Kassandra Vivaria, at St. Antonio's Church in Anzio, Italy. Her father was Augusto Sindici, an Italian poet. Her mother was Francesca Stuart Sindici, a Spanish-Italian painter. Wedding guests included James Abbott McNeill Whistler, the painter, whose book The Gentle Art of Making Enemies Heinemann had published in 1890. Whistler attended their wedding as the best man and painted the bride's portrait in 1900. In 1904, Heinemann divorced his wife.
On 5 October 1920, Heinemann died unexpectedly in London, England. Heinemann had no children and his presumptive heir, his nephew John Heinemann, had died in the First World War. Heinemann's share of the company was bought out by Frank Nelson Doubleday, the New York publisher.
He bequeathed funds to the Royal Society of Literature to establish a literary prize, the W. H. Heinemann Award, awarded from 1945 to 2003.
Scandals
Heinemann wrongly translated the Larousse Gastronomique, replacing the mayonaise by the hollandaise as a mother-sauce. This error is still perpetuating today.
See also
Wolcott Balestier
John Galsworthy
Edmund Gosse
Nicolas Trübner
References
Further reading
John St John, William Heinemann: A Century of Publishing, 1890-1990, London: Heinemann, 1990.
External links
Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler
British book publishers (people)
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1920 deaths
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King Uncle is a 1993 Indian Hindi-language action comedy film directed by Rakesh Roshan. The film stars Jackie Shroff and Anu Aggarwal. Shah Rukh Khan, Nagma, Paresh Rawal, Sushmita Mukherjee, Pooja Ruparel, Deven Verma appear in supporting roles. The film was inspired from the 1982 English film Annie that starred Aileen Quinn and Albert Finney, which in turn is based upon the 1924 comic strip Little Orphan Annie by Harold Gray. The film was box office success and has since gained cult status, being well received by families and children. Both Shroff and Ruparel's performances received critical acclaim.
Synopsis
Ashok Bansal (Jackie Shroff) is an extremely wealthy, strict industrialist, inspired by the British 'stiff upper lip'. Ashok starts hating poor people & starts working hard to become rich because his mother abandoned him with his two other siblings and left for a richer man in the past. In the process of acquiring wealth, he becomes an unbearable disciplinarian and neglects his family consisting of his younger brother Anil (Shahrukh Khan) and sister Suneeta (Nivedita Saraf). He gets his sister Suneeta married to a man (Dalip Tahil) who turns out to be a golddigger, although she is in love with Ashok's manager (Vivek Vaswani). Anil goes against his brother's highhanded ways and marries Kavita a poor girl (Nagma), opting to leave the house.
Munna (Pooja Ruparel), an orphan arrives at Ashok Bansal's house & tries to thaw the icy strict Ashok. She creates havoc in Ashok's home and eventually manages to become the apple of his eye, while he tries to get her taken back from the orphanage run by a scheming drunkard warden (Sushmita Mukherjee), who had to bear losses due to Munna spilling the beans about her drunken behavior. Thanks to Munna's suggestions, he frees his sister from her abusive husband and brings her home.
When the orphanage warden plans to kidnap Munna to kill and dump her and usurp ransom from Ashok Bansal, not realizing their evil plan he lets Munna go. Realizing that he misses Munna, he decides to adopt Munna saving her from the clutches of the warden and her criminal boyfriend (Paresh Rawal) . Ashok Bansal eventually with the help of Munna mends fences with his own family and becomes a kind man with a one big happy family.
Cast
Jackie Shroff as Ashok Bansal / a.k.a. King Uncle
Shahrukh Khan as Anil Bansal
Nagma as Kavita
Anu Aggarwal as Fenni
Pooja Ruparel as Munna, Orphan girl.
Nivedita Joshi as Suneeta Bansal
Paresh Rawal as Pratap
Sushmita Mukherjee as Shanti, Orphanage Principal.
Deven Verma as Karim, Head Servant.
Dalip Tahil as Pradeep Mallik
Bharat Kapoor as Mr Mallik, Pradeep's brother.
Madhu Malhotra as Mrs Mallik
Vivek Vaswani as Kamal, Ashok's Secretary and Sunita's love interest.
Viju Khote as jairam, Marriage Mediator of Sunita and Pradeep.
Dinesh Hingoo as Chunilal, Servant
Ghanshyam Rohera as Tiktiani, Servant
Raj Kishore as Bansal's Office Employee
Deb Mukherjee as PT Trainer and father of Ashok Bansal. (guest role)
Kunika as Kamla, mother of Ashok Bansal. (guest role)
Joginder as Truck Driver who fights and Quarrels with Ashok. (guest role)
Rajesh Puri as Hero in the Movie (guest role)
Guddi Maruti as Girl in the Movie (guest role)
Soundtrack
The music is composed by Rajesh Roshan, while the songs are written by Indeevar and Javed Akhtar. The film's song "Taare Aasman Ke Dharti Pe" as well as some continued melodies through the movie are sampled from the whistling tune used by Roxette in their song "Joyride". A similar song "Tera Shukriya", from the soundtrack of Shah Rukh Khan's earlier film Chamatkar, not featured in the movie itself, also uses the melody. The original song from where the melody was borrowed was a Kenyan Song named Jambo Bwana by Kenyan band Them Mushrooms.
Production
The titular role was originally offered to Amitabh Bachchan, but he declined.
References
External links
1990s Hindi-language films
1993 films
Films directed by Rakesh Roshan
Films scored by Rajesh Roshan
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This is a list of newspapers in South Africa.
In 2017, there were 22 daily and 25 weekly major urban newspapers in South Africa, mostly published in English or Afrikaans. According to a survey of the South African Audience Research Foundation, about 50% of the South African adult population are newspaper readers and 48% are magazine readers. Print media accounts for about 19.3% of the R34.4bn of advertising money spent in the country.
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See also
Media of South Africa
List of South African media
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South African Audience Research Foundation (SAARF)
References
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External links
Contact directory: media contacts, South African Government communications
News and media, South African Government information
SAARF website
South Africa Newspapers and Africa News
AfricaBib
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Emile Degelin (16 July 1926 – 20 May 2017) was a Belgian film director and novelist, the director of If the Wind Frightens You His 1963 film Life and Death in Flanders was entered into the 13th Berlin International Film Festival. His 1969 film Palaver was entered into the 6th Moscow International Film Festival. His final film, De ooggetuige, won the audience prize at the Ghent Film Festival in 1995.
He is seen as one of the pioneers and founders of the Belgian film. Degelin died on 20 May 2017 at his home in Kessel-Lo, a borough of Leuven, Belgium.
Selected filmography
Préhistoire du cinéma (1959)
Si le vent te fait peur (If the Wind Frightens You) (1960)
Sirènes (1961)
La Mort du paysan (1963)
Life and Death in Flanders (1963)
Palaver (film) (1969)
Exit 7 (1978)
References
1926 births
2017 deaths
Belgian film directors
20th-century Belgian novelists
Belgian male novelists
20th-century Belgian male writers
People from Diest | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emile%20Degelin |
Labello is a brand of lip balm stick. It is produced by Beiersdorf AG in Germany and Austria. The labello lip care sticks are also sold under the name Labello Nivea, Liposan and Nivea Lip Care. Labello makes lip care products that are used for medical treatments, moisturizing, protection from sun or solely for cosmetic purposes.
The word "labello" comes from the Latin words "labium" ("lip") and "bellus" ("beautiful").
History
In 1909, Dr. Oscar Troplowitz created a lip caring balm. The brand was introduced in Germany and later in Switzerland and Austro-Hungary. At that time, the products were sticks wrapped in paper that had to be applied with a finger. In 1911, a new sliding case made of tin was introduced. This turned out to be a rather successful approach. During the First World War, the shortage of the tin resources caused the production of tin packaging to be stopped. However, refills that could be inserted in the existing tubes were available in the market.
In 1922, the packaging was replaced with a light aluminium stick, which made it easier for the consumer to carry it around. This was also a success. By 1935, Labello was made available in markets of over thirty countries. During the Second World War, Labello products were again in extremely short supply as aluminum was almost unobtainable until the end of the war.
In 1953, a plastic sleeve replaced the metal one, which had been used for more than 30 years. In 1958, Labello started to make products for use by men as well. A practical twist mechanism was added in 1963, making application easier. This was apparently the most successful product launch in the history of the Labello brand.
In 1973, the 'Labello Classic' in blue casing was introduced which is produced even today. In 1978, the brand released 'Labello Med' that provided treatment for severe lip problems. A year later, 'Labello Sun' was introduced which provided protection of lips from harmful sun rays. In 1984, another product, 'Labello Camomile' was made available in market. This was the first time the brand made a product containing natural flavors and ingredients. Two years later, 'Labello Rosé' was also released. In 1989, 'Labello Sport' was introduced for physically active consumers who wanted lip care.
In 1992, 'Lip Balance' series were released for consumers wanting immediate moisturizing for their lips. The series consisted of two products: 'Labello Hydro', which is still used today and 'Labello Regeneration'. The later of which was the first product in the brand to be released in a squeezable tube packaging. Two years later, 'Labello UV Alpin' was made available that provided care for lips in winter and cold weathers. In 1999, the brand launched 17 different fruit flavored lip pomades for the first time including 'Apricot Cream', 'Lemon Twist', 'Manadarin Vanilla', 'Orange', 'Sweet Melon' and 'Tropical Shake' among others. Today's assortment includes 'Cherry', 'Strawberry','Pomegranate' and 'Pink Guava'.
In 2001, a lip balm and gloss, 'Labello Pearl & Shine', was introduced for women. This marked the first time the brand took a turn into the cosmetics direction. Three years later, 'Care Gloss & Shine' lip gloss range were introduced in the market. These were available in trendy colours and as well as a transparent gloss. In 2009, Labello celebrated their 100 years by launching a limited edition of 'Labello Classic'.
Product line
Care range
Classic/Classic Care (1973–present: )
3 Limited Editions
+ Classic 100 years
Med/Med Care/Med Protection (1978–present)
SOS/Med SOS/SOS Lip Balm
Sun/Sun Care (1979–present)
Sport/Active/Active Care/For Men (1989–present)
Hydro/Moisture/Hydro Care (1992–present)
Regeneration/Rejuvenation Q10 (1992–present)
Lip Effect Q10
UV Alpin/Extreme Alpin (1994–present)
Lipbalance/Intensiv Balance (discontinued)
Sensitive/Sensitive Care
Natural Volume
Flavored range
Ananas/Pineapple (discontinued)
Apricot/Apricot Cream (discontinued)
Camomile/Kamille/Camomile and Calendula (1984–present)
Cherry/Fruity Shine Cherry (1999–present)
Dragonfruit/Fruity Shine Dragonfruit (discontinued)
Grapes (discontinued)
Green Apple (Grüner Apfel) (discontinued)
Himbeere (raspberry) (discontinued)
Juicy Fantasy/Juicy Splash (discontinued)
Lemon Twist (discontinued)
Lime and Orange (discontinued)
Mandarin Vanilla (discontinued)
Mango
Menthol/Mint/Mint and Minerals
Milk and Honey
Olive and Lemon
Orange (discontinued)
Passion Fruits (discontinued)
Peach (discontinued)
Pink Grapefruit (discontinued)
Pink Guava
Peppermint Flamingo (discontinued)
Pomegranate/Fruity Shine Pomegranate
Rose/Rosé/Soft Rosé/Velvet Rosé (1986–present)
Strawberry/Fruity Shine Strawberry (1999–present)
Summer Fruits (discontinued)
Sweet Melon (discontinued)
Tropical Shake (discontinued)
Vitamin Power (discontinued)
Vitamin Shake: ACAI & WILD APPLE
Vitamin Shake: CRANBERRY & RASPBERRY
Fruity Shine: Peach
Fruity Shine: Watermelon
Gloss range
Pearl & Shine (2001–present)
4 Limited Editions
Gold & Shine (discontinued)
Angelstar/Angel Star
Care Gloss & Shine (till 2009)
Lovely Red
Mocca (discontinued)
Natural
Angle Star
Pure Natural
Glamorous Gloss series (2009–present)
Natural
Pink Sugar
Ruby Red
Other
Good Night Kiss (discontinued)
Light Kiss (2009–present)
Repair and Beauty (2012-present)
Gallery
External links
Official homepage of Labello Lipcare
Beiersdorf brands
Products introduced in 1909 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labello |
A concurrent use registration, in United States trademark law, is a federal trademark registration of the same trademark to two or more unrelated parties, with each party having a registration limited to a distinct geographic area. Such a registration is achieved by filing a concurrent use application (or by converting an existing application to a concurrent use application) and then prevailing in a concurrent use proceeding before the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board ("TTAB"), which is a judicial body within the United States Patent and Trademark Office ("USPTO"). A concurrent use application may be filed with respect to a trademark which is already registered or otherwise in use by another party, but may be allowed to go forward based on the assertion that the existing use can co-exist with the new registration without causing consumer confusion.
The authority for this type of registration is set forth in the Lanham Act, which permits concurrent use registration where the concurrent use applicant made a good-faith adoption of the mark prior to the registrant filing an application for registration. Such registrations are most commonly achieved by agreement of the parties involved, although the USPTO must still determine that no confusion will be caused.
Statutory basis
The authority of the USPTO to issue a concurrent use registration is set forth in the Lanham Act, section 2 (d), enacted in 1947 and coded at , which states in relevant part:
Through these provisions, the Act effectively places three requirements on marks for which a later applicant seeks a concurrent use registration:
1) the later applicant must have used the mark in commerce prior to the time that the earlier registrant filed its application for registration, unless the senior registrant consents to the junior user's registration;
2) the later applicant's use in commerce must have been lawful
3) concurrent use of the marks must not result in a likelihood of confusion.
The statute essentially codifies the [[Tea Rose-Rectanus doctrine|Tea Rose-Rectanus doctrine]], established by the United States Supreme Court in two cases decided in 1916 and 1918. The Court had established in those cases that a junior user of a mark that is geographically remote from the senior user of the mark may establish priority over a senior user's claim to the mark in the junior user's area.
Any party may voluntarily limit the geographic scope of its application while conceding the rights of another party to a different geographic territory. A concurrent use application may not be filed based on a party's intent to use a mark, but must rely on actual use in commerce. The concurrent use application must identify all other parties who are entitled to use the mark, and provide the names and addresses of the parties identified. Instead of making the usual assertion that no other party has the right to use the mark, the applicant must assert that no other party "except as specified in the application" has such a right.
Where two or more geographically unrestricted applications are pending at the same time, and no registration has yet been issued, the USPTO will proceed with the earliest application, and put all later applications on hold pending a determination on the earliest.
Use in commerce prior to an adverse filing for registration
By the terms of the Act, the critical dates with respect to concurrent registration are the date of the applicant's first use and the earliest filing date of any other registrant. In other words, as the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Manual of Procedure ("TBMP") states, "an application seeking concurrent registration through a concurrent use proceeding normally must assert a date of first use in commerce prior to the earliest application filing date of the application(s)... involved in the proceeding."
The Lanham Act requires that an Applicant's use in commerce must have been lawful. The TTAB (and its predecessor, the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals ("CCPA")) has read this to mean that the applicant's use must not have infringed another party's use at the time that applicant adopted its mark. Therefore, one potential pitfall facing applicant is that "[g]enerally, concurrent rights arise when a party, in good faith, and without knowledge of a prior party's use in another geographic area, adopts and uses the same or similar mark for the same or similar goods or services within its own geographic area."
The mere fact that an applicant's use was geographically remote from a registrant or other opposer's use does not establish good faith, as "courts have generally held that the remote use defense... is unavailable where the junior user adopts a substantially identical mark in a remote geographic area with full knowledge of the senior user's prior use elsewhere." However, the TTAB has also previously held that "mere knowledge of the existence of the prior user should not, by itself, constitute bad faith."
Likelihood of confusion
The factors under which the TTAB evaluates the likelihood of confusion were established in In re E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., and are commonly referred to as the "du Pont factors".
The thirteen du Pont factors are:
(1) The similarity or dissimilarity of the marks in their entireties as to appearance, sound, connotation and commercial impression.
(2) The similarity or dissimilarity and nature of the goods or services as described in an application or registration or in connection with which a prior mark is in use.
(3) The similarity or dissimilarity of established, likely-to-continue trade channels.
(4) The conditions under which and buyers to whom sales are made, i.e. "impulse" vs. careful, sophisticated purchasing.
(5) The fame of the prior mark (sales, advertising, length of use).
(6) The number and nature of similar marks in use on similar goods.
(7) The nature and extent of any actual confusion.
(8) The length of time during and conditions under which there has been concurrent use without evidence of actual confusion.
(9) The variety of goods on which a mark is or is not used (house mark, "family" mark, product mark).
(10) The market interface between applicant and the owner of a prior mark:
(a) a mere "consent" to register or use.
(b) agreement provisions designed to preclude confusion, i.e. limitations on continued use of the marks by each party.
(c) assignment of mark, application, registration and good will of the related business.
(d) laches and estoppel attributable to owner of prior mark and indicative of lack of confusion.
(11) The extent to which applicant has a right to exclude others from use of its mark on its goods.
(12) The extent of potential confusion, i.e., whether de minimis or substantial.
(13) Any other established fact probative of the effect of use.
In many instances, only a few of the categories will be applicable to the facts of the case before the TTAB.
Procedure to acquire
The procedures to acquire such a registration are set forth in the TBMP Chapter 1100. They are initiated when a concurrent use application is submitted to the USPTO, which will initiate a concurrent use proceeding to determine if the applicant is entitled to such registration. An existing application that has been denied registration because of a conflict with an existing mark may be converted into a concurrent use application against that existing mark. In either case, the applicant must assert that its mark was used in commerce before the owner of the existing registration, called the "senior registrant", had filed its own application for registration. The applicant must also demonstrate that the marks can both be used in their specific geographic areas without causing a likelihood of confusion.
The USPTO will contact the senior registrant to inform that party of the claim against their mark. The proceeding in which the respective rights of the parties are determined is like a trial in which the applicant must submit evidence showing that the applicant had adopted the mark in good faith, that the applicant had adopted the mark prior to the senior registrant's date of registration, and that the confusion is not likely. The senior registrant may present evidence to the contrary, in order to prevent the loss of control over the use of the registered mark in the applicant's claimed territory. Both parties may take discovery in the form of requests for admission, interrogatories, requests for production, and depositions. As with a regular trial, the TTAB may be called upon to resolve disputes over whether discovery requests are overbroad, and whether discovery responses are inadequate.
The senior registrant in such a proceeding has ample incentive to oppose the grant of a concurrent use registration, because a registered trademark is presumed to apply throughout the entire United States. Thus, the grant of a concurrent use registration carves out some geographic territory from the senior registrant's exclusive control.
As 15 U.S.C. § 1052 (d) indicates, a concurrent use registration may also be issued "when a court of competent jurisdiction has finally determined that more than one person is entitled to use the same or similar marks in commerce." As a matter of right, the TTAB will issue such a registration pursuant to a court order that an applicant has the right to use its mark in certain geographic area. Where a court has issued such an order, a concurrent use proceeding is not needed, as evidence has already been taken in the court proceeding, and the rights of the parties have already been determined.
Most concurrent use proceedings result in a legal settlement between the parties. Frequently, one party will surrender its concurrent use claim and instead receive a trademark license from the other party. In other situations, each party may agree to geographic limitations on its use of the mark at issue, which the TTAB will honor if the settlement stipulates to facts which show that no confusion is likely. A benefit of such an agreement is that the parties can agree to terms beyond the scope of the TTAB's decision, such as specific restrictions on time and place of advertising, or modifications to the appearance of either mark. However, irrespective of the agreement reached, the TTAB must still make an independent finding that no consumer confusion is likely to result from the concurrent use registration. Even if both parties assert that no confusion is likely, the TTAB may still make findings of fact which demonstrate that confusion is likely, and deny registration to the junior user of the mark.
A pivotal factor in assessing the likelihood of confusion in such a circumstance "is whether the parties whose marks are in question have agreed, in some form, to memorialize methods of avoiding confusion." In that case, the court held that such an agreement "is viewed in light of the parties' interests and the prevailing marketplace", further stating:
Furthermore, the issuance of concurrent use registrations need not prevent either party from engaging in advertising or other activities which might result in the incidental publication of one registrant's mark in the territory of the other registrant. In the Amalgamated Bank case, the Federal Circuit found acceptable a term in the agreement that "nothing in this agreement will preclude Amalgamated New York from conducting advertising which might enter in the State of Illinois or from dealing with customers who happen to be located in the State of Illinois." Courts have similarly held that a concurrent use registration does not curtail either party from advertising over the Internet, particularly where the junior user includes a disclaimer of some form on their website.
Geographic divisions
A concurrent use registration can be very detailed in the geographic divisions laid down. It may, for example, allow one party to own the right to use a mark within a fifty-mile radius around a handful of selected cities or counties, while the other party owns the right to use the same mark everywhere else in the country. It may even divide the rights to use a mark within a particular city by reference to roads or other landmarks in that city.
The TTAB succinctly describes its territorial analysis in Weiner King, Inc. v. Wiener King Corp.:
The TTAB has found that in concurrent use proceedings, "[t]he area for which registration is sought is usually more extensive than the area in which applicant is actually using the mark." "As a general rule, a prior user of a mark is entitled to a registration covering the entire United States limited only to the extent that the subsequent user can establish that no likelihood of confusion exists and that it has concurrent rights in its actual area of use, plus its area of natural expansion."
Between lawful concurrent users of the same mark in geographically separate markets, the senior registrant has the right to maintain his registration for at least those market areas in which it is using the mark. However, the senior registrant does not always maintain the right to use the mark in territories not yet occupied by either party. In Pinocchio's Pizza, for example, the first applicant (but the junior user of the mark in commerce) owned one small restaurant in Maryland and had expressed no plans for expansion, while the second applicant (but senior user of the mark in commerce) owned multiple restaurants in Texas and was planning aggressive expansion. The TTAB held that "purpose of the statute is best served by granting [the second] applicant a registration for the entire United States except for registrant's trading area." The TTAB therefore restricted the first applicant's registration to permit exclusive use in Maryland, and within 50 miles of the first applicant's restaurant in areas crossing into other states.
Furthermore, although the general rule provides that the entire United States should be covered by the respective registrations, it is permissible for parties to a proceeding to resolve the issue of territorial rights in a way that leaves some part of the country uncovered entirely. In a contested proceeding In re Beatrice Foods Co.'', the court held that the senior user of a mark was entitled to a registration covering the entire United States, outside of the junior user's area of actual use. However, the court went on to say:
The few courts that have considered the antitrust implications of concurrent use registration have determined that it does not raise any violation of antitrust laws. Although it is considered a violation of such laws for companies to agree to divide up geographic territories for the sale of goods, concurrent use agreements dividing up trademark territories are specifically provided for by Congress. Furthermore, even with such an agreement in place, a company can still sell competing products in the trademark territory of another company, so long as the intruding party sells that product under a different mark.
Impact
The availability of concurrent use registration is not commonly invoked, even where the applicant might stand an excellent chance of demonstrating the existence of geographically distinct markets. Proceedings before the TTAB, like proceedings before any court, can be expensive and time-consuming. A contested concurrent use proceeding may last for two or three years before the resolution of a claim, and the outcome will remain uncertain until the end. The outcome of the proceeding will then be subject to an appeal before the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, or to a collateral challenge in a United States District Court.
Perhaps the most notable instance of a continuing concurrent use registration is that of Holiday Inn. Although the national chain owns numerous trademark registrations, there is one registration for an unrelated "Holiday Inn" which is "restricted to the area comprising the town of Myrtle Beach, S.C.". The Myrtle Beach hotel had used that name since the 1940s, and initiated a concurrent use proceeding in 1970. While this proceeding was pending, the national chain commenced an action in the United States District Court. The concurrent use proceeding was suspended during the pendency of the federal litigation, which resulted in a judgment in 1973 authorizing the Myrtle Beach hotel to use a distinctive, noninfringing Holiday Inn service mark within the Town of Myrtle Beach. The concurrent use proceeding resumed, and in 1976, the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals awarded the Myrtle Beach hotel a federal trademark registration.
Even where a concurrent use registration is issued, the parties may eventually come to an agreement under which one party will surrender its registration. In some instances, a party will simply happen to cease using the mark in favor of a new brand name, and the registration will lapse. In other cases, the larger company will eventually acquire the smaller.
A final note is that concurrent use registration was devised before the advent of the Internet, which serves to diminish geographic distinctions between sellers. John L. Welch, a Harvard-educated attorney who writes a well-known blog on the proceedings of the TTAB, has noted that "vigorously contested proceedings may well make it clear that concurrent use registrations are, in this Internet Age, a dying breed".
References
Sources
Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure, § 1207.04, "Concurrent Use Registration".
Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Manual of Procedure, Chapter 1100, "Concurrent Use Proceedings".
United States trademark law
Trademark law | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrent%20use%20registration |
Ivan Karpovich Golubets (; 8 May 1916 – 25 March 1942) was a Soviet sailor with the Black Sea Fleet. He was posthumously made a Hero of the Soviet Union.
Biography
Ivan Golubets was born in the city of Taganrog on 8 May 1916 into the family of a Ukrainian worker. He worked at the iron and steel factory after 7 years in Taganrog's high school No. 2.
In 1937, Ivan Golubets enrolled into the Soviet Navy. In 1939, he graduated from the Coast-guard school in Balaklava, and served at the 2nd and in the 1st divisions of the Black Sea Fleet's coast-guard ships in the city of Novorossiysk. He participated in World War II beginning in June 1941, serving as steersman on the corvette (сторожевой корабль) SK-0183 (3rd division of guard-ships), making the brave feat in the spring of 1942 in Sevastopol.
On 25 March 1942 German artillery fired at the Streletskaya Bay, the engine department of another guard ship, SK-0121, was hit and burst into flames. Ivan Golubets took necessary measures for extinguishing the fire. After the second shell hit the Soviet ship, there was an explosion of the fuel tanks, which could lead to the explosion of anti-submarine bombs on board, threatening a chain explosion on other ships in the Bay. Golubets understood the situation and started rolling the anti-submarine depth bombs off the ship, until the last bomb exploded, but many other ships and people's lives were saved.
On 14 June 1942, Presidium of the Supreme Soviet issued a decree posthumously naming Ivan Golubets the Hero of the Soviet Union.
Places and ships named after Golubets
in 1948 one of the streets in Taganrog was named after Ivan Golubets;
one of the streets in Anapa was named after Ivan Golubets;
in Taganrog, a monument in memory of Golubets was placed in front of Chekhov Gymnasium, where he studied.
a Ukrainian trawler was named after Golubets;
in 2005, a minesweeper of the Russian Black Sea Fleet was named after Golubets;
a Feodosiya-based motor ship was also named after Golubets.
References
Sources
Шмульян Г.Т. Голубец Иван Карпович // Энциклопедия Таганрога. — Таганрог: Антон, 1998. — С. 232. — .
И дольше века льётся сталь / Под ред. Н. И. Фартушного. — Ростов-на-Дону: Принт-Сервис, 2006. — 288 с.
Два века Таганрогской гимназии. — Таганрог: БАННЭРплюс, 2007. — 288 с. — .
1916 births
1942 deaths
Military personnel from Taganrog
People from Don Host Oblast
Heroes of the Soviet Union
Soviet military personnel killed in World War II
Soviet Navy personnel | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan%20Golubets |
My Lives is a box set compilation of demos, outtakes, B-sides, soundtrack cuts, live recordings and album cuts by American singer-songwriter Billy Joel. It was released on November 22, 2005. The album name is derivative of the Billy Joel song "My Life". The liner notes were written by longtime Rolling Stone magazine contributor Anthony DeCurtis.
The 4-CD set is notable for including numerous tracks that were previously released but had never been available on an official Billy Joel album, including songs from his days with the Lost Souls, the Hassles, and Attila; various B-sides; and soundtrack contributions such as "Why Should I Worry?" which his character sang in the Disney animated film Oliver & Company. A bonus DVD is also included featuring live performances from River of Dreams Tour.
The cover of the boxed set was painted by Joel's daughter, Alexa Ray Joel, when she was seven years old.
Release
It was Joel's 20th album to chart on the Billboard 200, peaking at in December 2005.
In a 2018 interview, Joel seemed to indicate the boxed set was compiled and released without his consent, stating that "it was unfinished stuff that never should have been heard. I didn’t want anything to do with it. I refer to that album as Twigs and Stems and Seeds — you’re not supposed to smoke that shit."
Track listing
There are five discs included in My Lives: four CDs and one DVD. All songs written by Billy Joel, except where noted.
Disc one
"My Journey's End" – The Lost Souls (never-released demo) – 2:07
"Time and Time Again" – The Lost Souls (never-released demo) – 2:00
"Every Step I Take (Every Move I Make)" – the Hassles (album version) (William Joel, T. Michaels, V. Gorman) – 2:28
"You've Got Me Hummin'" – The Hassles (album version) (Isaac Hayes, David Porter) – 2:28
"Amplifier Fire (Part 1)" – Attila (Joel, Jonathan Small) – 3:06
"Only a Man" (never-released demo) – 3:16
"She's Got a Way" (Cold Spring Harbor album studio version) – 2:56
"Oyster Bay" (never-released demo) – 3:44
"Piano Man" (never-released demo) – 2:52
"The Siegfried Line" (never-released demo) – 2:35
"New Mexico" (never-released demo) (became "Worse Comes to Worst") – 2:37
"Cross to Bear" (never-released demo) – 4:20
"Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway)" (never-released demo) – 4:50
"These Rhinestone Days" (never-released demo) (became "I've Loved These Days") – 3:00
"Everybody Has a Dream" (album version; does not end with the instrumental reprise of the whistled theme from "The Stranger") – 4:36
"Only the Good Die Young" (never-released alternate reggae version) – 3:39
"Until the Night" (album version) – 6:38
"Zanzibar" (album version; longer trumpet solo) – 6:47
"It's Still Rock and Roll to Me" (album version) – 2:58
Disc two
"Captain Jack" (never-released live version) – 7:22
"The End of the World" (never-released demo) (became "Elvis Presley Blvd.") – 3:22
"The Prime of Your Life" (never-released demo) (became "The Longest Time") – 3:43
"She's Right on Time" (album version) – 4:14
"Elvis Presley Blvd." (B-side of "Allentown") – 3:15
"Nobody Knows But Me" (from In Harmony II) – 2:55
"An Innocent Man" (album version) – 5:19
"Christie Lee" (never-released demo) – 4:02
"Easy Money" (album version) – 4:06
"And So It Goes" (never-released demo) – 3:14
"I'll Cry Instead" (live, B-side of "An Innocent Man" (John Lennon, Paul McCartney) – 2:25
"Keeping the Faith" – 4:54 (incorrectly listed as the 12" remix, which originally ran for 5:27; this is actually the 7" remix)
"Modern Woman" (album version) – 3:51
"Baby Grand" (duet with Ray Charles) (album version) – 4:05
"Getting Closer" (duet with Steve Winwood) (never-released alternate version) – 5:39
"House of Blue Light" (B-side of "We Didn't Start the Fire") – 4:45
"Money or Love" (never-released demo) – 4:02
"The Times They Are A-Changin'" (live album version) (Bob Dylan) – 2:54
Disc three
"The Downeaster 'Alexa'" (album version) – 3:45
"I Go to Extremes" (live, April 1990 LA Sports Coliseum, never released) – 4:53
"Shout" (live) (O'Kelly Isley, Ronald Isley, Rudolph Isley) – 5:50
"All Shook Up" (Honeymoon in Vegas soundtrack) (Otis Blackwell, Elvis Presley) – 2:09
"Heartbreak Hotel" (Honeymoon in Vegas soundtrack) (Mae Boren Axton, Tommy Durden, Elvis Presley) – 3:21
"When You Wish Upon a Star" (Simply Mad About the Mouse: A Musical Celebration of Imagination soundtrack) (Leigh Harline, Ned Washington) – 3:42
"In a Sentimental Mood" (A League of Their Own soundtrack) (Duke Ellington, Manny Kurtz, Irving Mills) – 4:02
"Motorcycle Song" (never-released demo) (Became "All About Soul") – 4:19
"You Picked a Real Bad Time" (B-side of "All About Soul") – 4:56
"The River of Dreams" (never-released alternate version) (features a melodic bridge from "Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel)") – 5:49
"A Hard Day's Night" (live) (Lennon, McCartney) – 2:47
"Light as the Breeze" (album version) (Leonard Cohen) – 6:14
"To Make You Feel My Love" (album version) (Dylan) – 3:52
"Hey Girl" (album version) (Gerry Goffin, Carole King) – 3:57
"Why Should I Worry" (Oliver & Company soundtrack) (Dan Hartman, Charlie Midnight) – 3:33
"Where Were You (On Our Wedding Day?)" (Runaway Bride soundtrack) (Harold Logan, John Patton, Lloyd Price) – 1:58
"Highway 61 Revisited" (never-released demo) (Dylan) – 5:11
Disc four
"Movin' Out (Anthony's Song)" (live) – 3:44
"You May Be Right" (duet with Elton John) (live, July 1994 Giants Stadium and never released) – 4:50
"Big Shot" (live from The Essential Video Collection) – 4:45
"Don't Worry Baby" (live from An All-Star Tribute to Brian Wilson) (Roger Christian, Brian Wilson) – 3:27
"Goodnight Saigon" – Vietnam Veterans Version (live) – 6:30
"Los Angelenos" (live 1980 from The Essential Video Collection) – 3:54
"New York State of Mind" (live from America: A Tribute to Heroes) – 6:01
"Opus 1. Soliloquy (On a Separation)" – 11:22
"Opus 8. Suite for Piano (Star-Crossed) I. Innamorato" – 7:46
"Opus 8. Suite for Piano (Star-Crossed) II. Sorbetto" – 1:31
"Opus 8. Suite for Piano (Star-Crossed) III. Delusion" – 3:35
"Elegy: The Great Peconic" (performed by London Symphony Orchestra, from Music of Hope) – 6:51
"Glass Houses Promo Talk" (appears as an untitled track on the album) – 9:00
Note: Two tracks ("Josephine [Demo]" and "So Long, Reverend Ike") are available for download and streaming as bonus tracks.
Disc five (DVD)
Live from the River of Dreams Tour:
"No Man's Land"
"Pressure"
"The Ballad of Billy the Kid"
"Leningrad"
"Allentown"
"My Life"
"I Go to Extremes"
"Shades of Grey"
"The River of Dreams"
"Goodnight Saigon"
"We Didn't Start the Fire"
"A Hard Day's Night"
"Big Shot"
"Piano Man"
"I Go to Extremes" – "Umixit" Track
"Zanzibar" – "Umixit" Track
References
B-side compilation albums
Billy Joel compilation albums
2005 compilation albums
2005 live albums
2005 video albums
Columbia Records compilation albums
Live video albums
Demo albums | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My%20Lives |
Liu Nannan (; born June 19, 1983) is a former Chinese tennis player.
Career
Starting in 2001, Nannan has enjoyed considerable success on the ITF Women's Circuit, and occasionally qualified for WTA Tour events. Though her success at the WTA level of the game has so far fallen short of the stellar heights, achieved by some of her Chinese contemporaries such as Peng Shuai, Li Na, Zheng Jie, Sun Tiantian and Yan Zi, she has come close enough at times for future hope of stronger results to justifiably abide.
In March 2001, she came through qualifying to win a $25k tournament at Hangzhou, defeating Akiko Morigami, Zheng Jie and Rika Fujiwara in the last three rounds. In July, she won a $10,000 tournament at Tianjin, defeating Peng Shuai in the semi-final; and later the same month she was the losing finalist to Li Na in the $25,000 tournament at Guangzhou. She ended the year ranked world No. 275.
In January 2002, she won back-to-back $10k tournaments in the UK, at Hull and Tipton, but suffered mixed results for the remainder of the year, losing in numerous quarter-finals and semifinals, and finished it world-ranked slighter lower, at 297.
2003 was a relatively poor year for Liu as a singles player until December, when she reached the quarterfinal of a $50k tournament at Shenzhen with a clean run of five straight sets wins in qualifying and the main draw, only to cede victory to Zheng Jie by default. Not even this run could stop her year-end ranking from falling outside the top 400, at 401.
2004 was Liu's most successful year to date as a singles player. She began it by winning a $10k tournament at Tampa, Florida, the fifth ITF singles title of her career. In June, she was the losing finalist to Li Na at a $25k tournament at Wulanhaote, and losing semi-finalist to Li Na at a $50k tournament at Beijing. In July, she came through qualifying to reach the semifinal at another $50k tournament, at Lexington, Kentucky with wins over Shikha Uberoi, Rika Fujiwara and Aiko Nakamura. In August, she defeated future star Jarmila Gajdošová in the first round of another $50k tournament at Louisville, Kentucky, then came through qualifying to the main draw of her first Grand Slam tournament, the US Open, only to lose to Paola Suárez. In September, she also qualified for the WTA tournament at Guangzhou, but lost in the first round after a close contest with Kristina Brandi. She ended the year ranked 170th, up 231 places year-on-year.
Early in 2005, Liu continued to play some of her best tennis, qualifying for Hobart with wins over Sofia Arvidsson and Maureen Drake (only to lose in the first round to Gisela Dulko) and for the Australian Open with a win over Yuka Yoshida (only to be ousted from the main draw at the first hurdle by Vera Zvonareva). In April, she reached the semifinal of a $75k tournament at Dothan, Alabama, losing to Varvara Lepchenko. This brought up her world ranking to a high point of 145. She was destined to lose her opening match at four of the next five events she entered, the only exception being a $50k tournament at Beijing in June, where she reached the semifinal before conceding a walkover to Li Ting. Since losing to Lepchenko once more in the first round of qualifying for Los Angeles, early in August 2005, Liu has not played another singles match.
ITF Circuit finals
Singles (5–4)
Doubles (2–4)
See also
Tennis in China
External links
1983 births
Living people
Chinese female tennis players
Universiade medalists in tennis
Universiade bronze medalists for China
Tennis players from Tianjin
Medalists at the 2003 Summer Universiade | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu%20Nannan |
Quarrington may refer to:
People
Joel Quarrington, Canadian double bassist (born 1955)
Paul Quarrington, Canadian novelist (born 1953)
Places
Cassop-cum-Quarrington, County Durham, England
Old Quarrington, County Durham, England
Quarrington Hill, County Durham, England
Quarrington, Lincolnshire, England
See also
Quarrendon (disambiguation) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quarrington |
The Warragul Show is an agricultural show that has been held annually on the first weekend of March since 1885 in Warragul, a town in the West Gippsland region of Victoria in Australia. The show takes place at the Warragul showgrounds, located at Logan Park where the greyhound and harness tracks are also situated. The show is run by the Warragul and West Gippsland Agricultural Society.
The Warragul Show attracts visitors from many different towns in the West Gippsland area. There are two main elements to the show: The carnival, which traditionally takes place on the first day of the event, and a variety of farming showcases and events, which occurs on the second day of the event. There are also art and craft events, photography, flower arrangement and baking.
The COVID-19 pandemic forced the show to go on hiatus since 2021, as was 1915 to 1918 & 1940 to 1945.
References
External links
Annual fairs
Tourist attractions in Victoria (state)
1885 establishments in Australia
Agricultural shows in Australia
Festivals in Victoria (state)
Gippsland (region) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warragul%20Show |
William Lavier Killefer (October 10, 1887 – July 3, 1960), nicknamed "Reindeer Bill" was an American professional baseball player, coach and manager. He played in Major League Baseball as a catcher for the St. Louis Browns, Philadelphia Phillies, and Chicago Cubs. Killefer, who was nicknamed "Reindeer Bill" due to his speed afoot, is notable for being the favorite catcher of Hall of Fame pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander and, for being one of the top defensive catchers of his era. After his playing career, he continued to work as a coach and a manager for a Major League Baseball career that spanned a total of 48 years.
Major League career
Killefer made his major league debut at the age of 21 with the St. Louis Browns on September 13, 1909. After the 1910 season in which the Browns finished in last place, Killefer was released to the Buffalo Bisons of the Eastern League. Under the tutelage of Bisons' manager George Stallings, Killefer developed into a refined catcher.
His contract was purchased by the Philadelphia Phillies on August 19, 1911, and he played his first game as a starter on October 3. The Phillies pitcher on that day was Grover Cleveland Alexander, and the game marked the first of 250 times the pair teamed up as a battery in the major leagues. Although he was a light hitter, Killefer became known for his strong defensive skills. In 1913, he led National League catchers with 166 assists, 130 baserunners caught stealing, a 50.6% caught stealing percentage, and finished second in putouts and fielding percentage.
In 1914, Killefer made news when it was reported that he had signed with the Chicago Whales of the Federal League, although he denied the report. When the Phillies offered him a salary increase, he decided to sign with the Phillies, which led the Federal League to file a lawsuit against him and the Phillies. A judge ruled against the Federal League and Killefer remained with the Phillies.
From 1915 to 1917, Alexander and Killefer solidified their reputation as the best battery in baseball, with Alexander posting three consecutive 30-win seasons. Killefer had one of his best seasons for the Phillies in 1917. He led National League catchers with a .984 fielding percentage, as well as in putouts, double plays, and total chances. He also had one of his best seasons offensively with a .274 batting average.
After the 1917 season, in one of the most lopsided trades in major league history, the financially strapped Phillies sent Killefer and Alexander to the Chicago Cubs for two players and $55,000 in cash. With the Cubs, Killefer was credited with strengthening their pitching staff. The Cubs won the 1918 National League pennant before losing to the Boston Red Sox in the 1918 World Series. Killefer had another strong season in 1919, hitting a career-high .286 batting average and leading National League catchers in fielding percentage, putouts and assists. He served as player-manager for the Cubs in 1921 before retiring as a player at age 33.
Career statistics
In a thirteen-year major league career, Killefer played in 1,035 games, accumulating 751 hits in 3,150 at bats for a .238 career batting average along with 4 home runs and 240 runs batted in. He had a career fielding percentage of .977. While he was not a powerful hitter, he possessed a strong throwing arm and a talent for working with pitchers. Killefer led National League catchers in fielding percentage four consecutive seasons from 1916 to 1919. He also led the league three times in putouts, assists and in baserunners caught stealing. Killefer caught 115 shutouts in his career, ranking him 16th all-time among major league catchers.
Killefer's reputation as a defensive standout is enhanced because of the era in which he played. In the Deadball Era, catchers played a huge defensive role, given the large number of bunts and stolen base attempts, as well as the difficulty of handling the spitball pitchers who dominated pitching staffs. Richard Kendall of the Society for American Baseball Research devised an unscientific study that ranked Killefer as the most dominating fielding catcher in major league history.
Managing and coaching career
After his playing career ended, Killefer continued as manager of the Cubs until he was fired after 75 games in 1925. He was hired by St. Louis Cardinals manager Rogers Hornsby as a coach for the 1926 season. The Cardinals went on to win the 1926 World Series with Killefer receiving credit for his help with the pitching staff. In 1927, he was hired by the St. Louis Browns as a coach, and became their manager in 1930. Killefer enjoyed little success as the Browns' manager, never finishing above fifth place as the depression-era team had cut its payroll significantly. He was fired in 1933 and took two years off from organised baseball.
Killefer accepted a role as manager for the Sacramento Solons in the Pacific Coast League, leading them to a first-place finish in 1937. He later coached for the Brooklyn Dodgers and managed the minor league Milwaukee Brewers. His managerial record was 524–622 (.457) in nine seasons. Killefer's last on-the-field position in the major leagues was as a coach for the 1942 Philadelphia Phillies. He also served as a scout for the Cleveland Indians, the Phillies and the Dodgers. As a scout for the Indians, Killefer was involved in the signing of Larry Doby in 1947 (the American League's first black player). Killefer was credited with helping the development of such catching standouts as Bob O'Farrell, Gabby Hartnett, Rick Ferrell, and Walker Cooper.
He died in Elsmere, Delaware, at age 72. His brother, Red Killefer, was also a major league baseball player. Political economist Nancy Killefer is a granddaughter.
Managerial record
See also
List of Major League Baseball player–managers
List of St. Louis Cardinals coaches
References
External links
Bill Killefer at SABR (Baseball BioProject)
1887 births
1960 deaths
Austin Senators players
Baseball players from Michigan
Brooklyn Dodgers coaches
Brooklyn Dodgers scouts
Buffalo Bisons (minor league) players
Chicago Cubs managers
Chicago Cubs players
Cleveland Indians scouts
Houston Buffaloes players
Jackson Convicts players
Major League Baseball catchers
Major League Baseball player-managers
Milwaukee Brewers (minor league) managers
Philadelphia Phillies coaches
Philadelphia Phillies players
Philadelphia Phillies scouts
Sacramento Solons managers
St. Edward's Hilltoppers baseball players
St. Louis Browns coaches
St. Louis Browns managers
St. Louis Browns players
St. Louis Cardinals coaches
San Francisco Seals (baseball) players | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill%20Killefer |
Wayne Denne (born 5 March 1976 in Cape Town, Western Cape) is a field hockey player from South Africa, who was a member of the national squad that finished tenth at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He made his international debut for his native country in 1995, against Australia at the Indra Gandhi Gold Cup in India. The midfielder played for Western Province.
International Senior Tournaments
1997 – World Cup Qualifier, Kuala Lumpur (9th)
1999 – All-Africa Games, Johannesburg (1st)
2002 – World Cup, Kuala Lumpur (13th)
2002 – Commonwealth Games, Manchester (4th)
2003 – Champions Challenge, Johannesburg (3rd)
2004 – Olympic Qualifier, Madrid (7th)
2004 – Summer Olympics, Athens (10th)
References
sports-reference
External links
1976 births
Living people
South African male field hockey players
Male field hockey midfielders
Olympic field hockey players for South Africa
Field hockey players at the 2002 Commonwealth Games
2002 Men's Hockey World Cup players
Field hockey players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Field hockey players from Cape Town
Commonwealth Games competitors for South Africa
Team Bath Buccaneers Hockey Club players
African Games gold medalists for South Africa
Competitors at the 1999 All-Africa Games
African Games medalists in field hockey
20th-century South African people
21st-century South African people | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne%20Denne |
Wangen District is one of the 26 administrative districts in the canton of Bern, Switzerland. Its capital is the municipality of Wangen an der Aare.
From 1 January 2010, the district lost its administrative power while being replaced by the Oberaargau administrative district, whose administrative centre is Wangen an der Aare. Since 2010, it remains therefore a fully recognised district under the law and the Constitution (Art.3 al.2) of the Canton of Berne.
The district has an area of 129 km² and consists of 23 municipalities.
In 2009, the municipalities of Wanzwil and Röthenbach bei Herzogenbuchsee became part of the municipality of Heimenhausen
In 2008 Oberönz became part of Herzogenbuchsee
References
Former districts of the canton of Bern | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wangen%20District |
Octavia the Younger (; – 11 BC) was the elder sister of the first Roman Emperor, Augustus (known also as Octavian), the half-sister of Octavia the Elder, and the fourth wife of Mark Antony. She was also the great-grandmother of the Emperor Caligula and Empress Agrippina the Younger, maternal grandmother of the Emperor Claudius, and paternal great-grandmother and maternal great-great-grandmother of the Emperor Nero.
One of the most prominent women in Roman history, Octavia was respected and admired by contemporaries for her loyalty, nobility and humanity, as well as for maintaining traditional Roman feminine virtues.
Life
Childhood
Octavia was born around 66 BC. Full sister to Augustus, Octavia was the only daughter born of Gaius Octavius' second marriage to Atia, niece of Julius Caesar. Octavia was born in Nola, present-day Italy; her father, a Roman governor and senator, died in 59 BC from natural causes. Her mother later remarried, to the consul Lucius Marcius Philippus. Octavia spent much of her childhood travelling with her parents. Marcius was in charge of educating Octavia and her brother Octavian, later known as Augustus.
First marriage
Some time before 54 BC, her stepfather arranged for her to marry Gaius Claudius Marcellus. He was a member of the influential Claudian family and descended from Marcus Claudius Marcellus, a famous general in the Second Punic War. In 54 BC, Octavia's great-uncle Julius Caesar is said to have been anxious for her to divorce her husband so that she could marry Pompey, who had just lost his wife Julia (Caesar's daughter, and thus Octavia's cousin once removed). The couple did not want to get a divorce, so instead Pompey declined the proposal and married Cornelia Metella. Thus, Octavia's husband continued to oppose Julius Caesar, including in the crucial year of his consulship, 50 BC. Civil war broke out when Caesar invaded Italy from Gaul in 49 BC.
Marcellus, a friend of Cicero, was an initial opponent of Julius Caesar when Caesar invaded Italy, but did not take up arms against his wife's great uncle at the Battle of Pharsalus, and was eventually pardoned by him. In 47 BC he was able to intercede with Caesar for his cousin and namesake, also a former consul, then living in exile. Presumably, Octavia continued to live with her husband from the time of their marriage (she would have been between 12 and 15 when they married) to her husband's death. They had three surviving children: Claudia Marcella Major, Claudia Marcella Minor and Marcus Claudius Marcellus. All three were born in Italy. However, according to the anonymous Περὶ τοῦ καισαρείου γένους Octavia bore Marcellus four sons and four daughters. Her husband Marcellus died in May 40 BC.
Second marriage
By a Senatorial decree, Octavia married Mark Antony in October 40 BC, as his fourth wife (his third wife Fulvia having died shortly before). This marriage had to be approved by the Senate, as she was pregnant with her first husband's child, and was a politically motivated attempt to cement the uneasy alliance between her brother Octavian and Mark Antony; however, Octavia does appear to have been a loyal and faithful wife to Antony. Between 40 and 36 BC, she travelled with Antony to various provinces and lived with him in his Athenian mansion. There she raised her children by Marcellus as well as Antony's two sons; Antyllus and Iullus, as well as the two daughters of her marriage to Antony, Antonia Major and Antonia Minor who were born there.
Breakdown
The alliance was severely tested by Antony's abandonment of Octavia and their children in favor of his former lover Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt (Antony and Cleopatra had met in 41 BC, an interaction that resulted in Cleopatra bearing twins, Alexander Helios, a boy, and Cleopatra Selene, a girl). After 36 BC, Octavia returned to Rome with the daughters of her second marriage. On several occasions she acted as a political advisor and negotiator between her husband and brother. For example, in the spring of 37 BC, while pregnant with her daughter Antonia Minor, she was considered essential to an arms deal held at Tarentum, in which Antony and Augustus agreed to aid each other in their Parthian and Sicilian campaigns. She had won over her brother's advisers Agrippa and Maecenas and convinced him to renew their alliance. She was hailed as a "marvel of womankind." In 35 BC, after Antony suffered a disastrous campaign in Parthia, she brought fresh troops, provisions, and funds to Athens. There Antony had left a letter for her, instructing her to go no further. Mark Antony divorced Octavia in late 33 BC. In 33, Antony sent men to eject her from his house in Rome. She became sole caretaker of their children, except for Antyllus who was already with his father in the East. After Antony's suicide in 30 BC, her brother executed Antyllus but allowed Octavia to raise Antony's younger son Iullus by Fulvia as well as his children by Cleopatra (the two sons Alexander Helios and Ptolemy Philadelphus, and one daughter, Cleopatra Selene II).
Later life
In 35 BC, Augustus accorded a number of honours and privileges to Octavia, and Augustus' wife Livia, previously unheard of for women in Rome. They were granted sacrosanctitas, meaning it was illegal to verbally insult them. Previously, this had been only granted to tribunes. Livia and Octavia were made immune from tutela, the male guardianship which all women in Rome except for the Vestal Virgins were required to have. This meant they could freely manage their own finances. Finally, they were the first women in Rome to have statues and portraits displayed en masse in public places. Previously, only one woman, Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi, had been part of the public statues displayed in Rome. In Augustus' rebuilding of Rome as a city of marble, Octavia was featured. In all her representations she wore the "nodus" hairstyle, which at the time was considered conservative and dignified, and worn by women from many classes.
Augustus adored, but never adopted, her son Marcellus. When Marcellus died of illness in 23 BC unexpectedly, Augustus was thunderstruck, Octavia disconsolate almost beyond recovery.
Aelius Donatus, in his Life of Vergil, states that Virgil
recited three whole books [of his Aeneid] for Augustus: the second, fourth, and sixth—this last out of his well-known affection for Octavia, who (being present at the recitation) is said to have fainted at the lines about her son, "… You shall be Marcellus" [Aen. 6.884]. Revived only with difficulty, she sent Virgil ten thousand sesterces for each of the verses."
She may have never fully recovered from the death of her son and retired from public life, except on important occasions. The major source that Octavia never recovered is Seneca (De Consolatione ad Marciam, II.) but Seneca may wish to show off his rhetorical skill with hyperbole, rather than adhere to fact. Some dispute Seneca's version, as Octavia publicly opened the Library of Marcellus, dedicated in his memory, while her brother completed the Marcellus's theatre in his honor. Undoubtedly Octavia attended both ceremonies, as well as the Ara Pacis ceremony to welcome her brother's return in 13BC from the provinces. She was also consulted in regard to, and in some versions advised, that Augustus's daughter Julia marry Agrippa after her mourning for Marcellus ended. Agrippa had to divorce Octavia's daughter Claudia Marcella Major in order to marry Julia, so Augustus wanted Octavia's endorsement very much.
Death
Octavia died of natural causes. Suetonius says she died in Augustus' 54th year, thus 11 BC with Roman inclusive counting. Her funeral was a public one, with her sons-in-law (Drusus, Ahenobarbus, Iullus Antony, and possibly Paullus Aemillius Lepidus) carrying her to the grave in the Mausoleum of Augustus. Drusus delivered one funeral oration from the rostra and Augustus gave her the highest posthumous honors (building the Gate of Octavia and Porticus Octaviae in her memory). Augustus also had the Roman senate declare his sister to be a goddess. Augustus declined some other honors decreed to her by the senate, for reasons unknown. She was one of the first Roman women to have coins minted bearing her image; only Antony's previous wife Fulvia pre-empted her.
Issue
Children with Marcellus
Octavia and her first husband had one son and two daughters who survived to adulthood.
Marcus Claudius Marcellus
Claudia Marcella Major
Claudia Marcella Minor
Children with Mark Antony
Octavia and Mark Antony had two surviving daughters by their marriage (her second, his fourth), and both were the ancestors of later Roman emperors.
Antonia Major: grandmother to Emperor Nero.
Antonia Minor: mother to Emperor Claudius, grandmother to Emperor Caligula, and great-grandmother to Emperor Nero.
Descendants
Three Roman emperors, Caligula, Claudius and Nero, were amongst the most famous of her descendants.
Octavia the Younger
Marcus Claudius Marcellus (42 BC – 23 BC), no issue
Claudia Marcella Major (born 41 BC)
Vipsania Marcella Major
Vipsania Marcella Minor
Iullus Antonius (? – ?), issue unknown
Lucius Antonius (20 BC – AD 25), issue unknown
Iulla Antonia (? – ?), issue unknown
Claudia Marcella Minor (born 40 BC)
Paullus Aemilius Regulus (? – ?), issue unknown
Claudia Pulchra (14 BC–26)
Marcus Valerius Messala Barbatus (11 BC – 20/21)
Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus (? – ?), possibly son of Aurelius Messalinus
Valeria Messalina (17 AD or 20 AD – 48 AD)
Claudia Octavia (39 AD or 40 AD – 62 AD), no issue
Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus (41 AD – 55 AD), no issue
Valeria Messallia (c. 10 BC – ?)
Lucius Vipstanus Poplicola (c. 10 – after 59)
Gaius Valerius Poplicola (? – ?), issue unknown
Gaius Vipstanus Messalla Gallus (c. 10 BC – after 60)
Lucius Vipstanus Messalla (c. 45 – c. 80)
Lucius Vipstanus Messalla (c. 75 – after 115), according to some authors, this man may be one of Saint Melania's ancestors.
Antonia Major (39 BC – before 25 AD)
Domitia Lepida the Elder (c. 19 BC – 59 AD)
Quintus Haterius Antoninus (? – ?)
Gnaeus Domitius Ahenobarbus (17 BC – 40 AD)
Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus) (37 AD – 68 AD)
Claudia Augusta (January 63 AD – April 63 AD), died young
Domitia Lepida the Younger (10 BC – 54 AD)
Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus (same man as above), possibly son of Aurelius Messalinus or Valerius Barbatus (same man as above)
Valeria Messalina (same woman as above)
See her line above
Faustus Cornelius Sulla Felix (22 AD – 62 AD)
A son, died young
Antonia Minor (36 BC – 37 AD)
Germanicus Julius Caesar (15 BC – 19 AD)
Nero Julius Caesar Germanicus (6 AD – 30 AD), no issue
Drusus Julius Caesar Germanicus (8 AD – 33 AD), no issue
Tiberius Julius Caesar Germanicus (born between 7 and 12 AD), died as an infant
Ignotus (born between 7 and 12 AD), died as an infant
Gaius Julius Caesar Germanicus Major (born between 7 and 12 AD), died in childhood
Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (Caligula) (12 AD – 41 AD)
Julia Drusilla (39 AD – 41 AD), died young
Julia Agrippina (Agrippina Minor) (15 AD – 59)
Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus) (same man as above)
See his line above
Julia Drusilla (16 AD – 38 AD), no issue
Julia Livilla (18 AD – 42 AD), no issue
Claudia Livia Julia (Livilla) (13 BC – 31 AD)
Julia Livia (7 AD – 43 AD)
Gaius Rubellius Plautus (33 AD – 62 AD), had several children
Gaius Rubellius Blandus (? – ?), issue unknown
Rubellius Drusus (? – ?), issue unknown
Tiberius Julius Caesar Nero Gemellus (19AD – 37 AD or 38 AD), no issue
Tiberius Claudius Caesar Germanicus II Gemellus (19 AD – 23 AD), died young
Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (10 BC – 54 AD)
Tiberius Claudius Drusus, died young
Claudia Antonia (c. 30 AD – 66 AD)
A son (same individual as above)
Claudia Octavia (same woman as above)
Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus (same man as above)
Cultural depictions
A famous anecdote, recorded in the late fourth-century vita of Virgil by Aelius Donatus, in which the poet read the passage in Book VI in praise of Octavia's late son Marcellus and Octavia fainted with grief, has inspired several works of art. The most famous example is Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's 1812 painting Virgil reading The Aeneid before Augustus, Livia and Octavia but other artists, including Jean-Joseph Taillasson, Antonio Zucchi, Jean-Baptiste Wicar, Jean-Bruno Gassies and Angelica Kaufmann, have also been inspired to depict this scene.
Octavia's later life, around the time of the death of Marcellus, is depicted in the 1976 television adaptation of Robert Graves's novel I, Claudius. The role was played by Angela Morant, and should not be confused with her great-granddaughter Claudia Octavia (also referred to as "Octavia" in the series), Claudius's daughter and wife of the future emperor Nero, who was played by Cheryl Johnson.
In the 1963 film Cleopatra, she is played by Jean Marsh in an uncredited role.
A highly fictionalized version of Octavia's early life is depicted in the 2005 television series Rome, in which Octavia of the Julii (Kerry Condon) seduces and sleeps with her younger brother, Gaius Octavian, has a lesbian affair with Servilia of the Junii (the series' version of Servilia) and a romantic relationship with Marcus Agrippa (based on the historical Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa), none of which has any historical basis.
In the TV series Domina (2021), Octavia was played by Alexandra Moloney and Claire Forlani.
Notes
References
Sources
Further reading
Life and virtues
Details on Octavia pt 1 "Octavian was much attached to his sister, and she possessed all the charms, accomplishments and virtues likely to fascinate the affections and secure a lasting influence over the mind of a husband. Her beauty was universally allowed to be superior to that of Cleopatra and her virtue was such as to excite even admiration in an age of growing licentiousness and corruption."
Details on Octavia pt 2
Nuttall Encyclopedia profile says merely that she was "distinguished for her beauty and her virtue"
Discussion
Octavia's birth and life discussed briefly
Octavia's marriage discussed briefly
Family and descendants
Marcellus, Octavia's only son who died aged 20
Julia, Octavia's daughter-in-law and niece
Print sources
Cluett, Ronald. “Roman women and triumviral politics, 43-37 B.C.” Echos du monde classique. Classical views 17, no. 1 (1998), 67–84.
Erhart, K. P. “A new portrait type of Octavia Minor (?).” The J. Paul Getty Museum journal 8 (1980), 117–28.
Fischer. Fulvia und Octavia: die beiden Ehefrauen des Marcus Antonius in den politischen Kämpfen der Umbruchszeit zwischen Republik und Principat. Berlin: Logos-Verl., 1999.
Foubert, Lien. “Vesta and Julio-Claudian women in imperial propaganda.” Ancient society 45 (2015), 187–204.
Freisenbruch, Annelise. 2010. The First ladies of Rome: the women behind the Caesars. London: Jonathan Cape.
External links
Octavia Minor on livius.org
Octavia entry in historical sourcebook by Mahlon H. Smith
60s BC births
11 BC deaths
1st-century BC Roman women
1st-century BC Romans
Octavii Rufi
Family of Augustus
Julio-Claudian dynasty
Wives of Mark Antony | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octavia%20the%20Younger |
Alberta Provincial Highway No. 37 is a highway in the province of Alberta, Canada. It runs in an east–west direction just north of St. Albert and Edmonton, from west of Onoway to west of Fort Saskatchewan.
Starting in the west, Highway 37 begins west of Onoway (nicknamed Hub of the Highways) where it leaves Highway 43 and parallels it east for , before Highway 43 turns south. It continues for most of its length on Township Road 550, a correction line, except for avoiding the Sturgeon River and crossing it twice.
North of Edmonton, from Range Road 241 (50 Street NW) to Range Road 232 (33 Street NE), it is given the designation 259 Avenue. However, it does not enter city limits, as the city's boundary is on the south side of the right of way. Highway 37 ends northeast of Edmonton just short of Fort Saskatchewan when it intersects with Highway 15.
Major intersections
Starting at the west end of Highway 37:
References
037
Roads in Edmonton | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberta%20Highway%2037 |
Asmat may mean:
Asmat people, ethnic group in New Guinea
Asmat languages, of New Guinea
Asmat Regency, Indonesia
Asmat Subregion, in northwestern Eritrea | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asmat |
John Stewart, Earl of Mar (December 147911 March 1503) was the youngest son of James III of Scotland and Margaret of Denmark.
Biography
He was born at Dunfermline Palace in Fife as the youngest son of the King. He was created Earl of Mar on 2 March 1486, at the age of eight. Not much is known of his life and he died in Scotland on 11 March 1503. As he died unmarried, the earldom became extinct and James IV awarded many of the Mar lands to Lord Elphinstone.
Family
Stewart had two brothers, King James IV and James Stewart, Duke of Ross. He died unmarried.
Ancestry
References
John
Earls or mormaers of Mar
Scottish princes
1479 births
1503 deaths
15th-century Scottish peers
16th-century Scottish peers
Peers created by James III
Sons of kings | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Stewart%2C%20Earl%20of%20Mar%20%28died%201503%29 |
Monkey gland sauce is a dark coloured, thick, sweet and tangy sauce from South Africa. It is typically served as a topping for grilled steaks or burgers, but is also used as a marinade, a dipping sauce for onion rings and chips, or on roasted potatoes. It has been featured as a restaurant item since the 1930s, becoming a South African restaurant and fast food staple condiment.
Ingredients
The main components of monkey gland sauce are chutney and tomato sauce – which result in a sweet mixture. Then an addition of onions, vinegar, garlic and Worcestershire sauce, give it a savoury-sweet flavour.
Naming
Despite its name, the sauce does not contain any monkey glands.
There are various theories on the origins of the sauce but the most likely is that it originated with French chefs at the old Carlton Hotel in Johannesburg. South African diners added sauces such as chutney, tomato sauce, and Worcester sauce to the French dishes before eating it. Thus, the disgruntled chefs combined all the condiments to create a sauce which they named monkey gland sauce. There was speculation at the time that monkey glands could slow down ageing.
A more outlandish theory is that it was named after Russian-born French scientist, Dr Serge Abrahamovitch Voronoff, who was a regular visitor at the Savoy Hotel in London. One of his medical experiments involved grafting monkey testicle tissue onto impotent men as a cure. The hotel renamed his favourite steak dish the "monkey gland steak" when he became famous. Then an ex-Savoy waiter brought it over to South Africa in the 1930s.
See also
Monkey Gland – cocktail
List of dips
List of sauces
Notes
References
Sauces
South African cuisine | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey%20gland%20sauce |
Arm triangle choke, side choke, or head and arm choke are generic terms describing blood chokeholds in which the opponent is strangled in between their own shoulder and the practitioner's arm. This is as opposed to the regular triangle choke, which denotes a chokehold using the legs, albeit with a similar mechanism of strangulation against the opponent's own shoulder. An arm triangle choke where the practitioner is on the side of the opponent and presses a forearm into the opposite side of the neck of the opponent is known as a side choke, such as from the kata-gatame hold. The time it takes for the opponent to be rendered unconscious does vary depending on the configuration of the grip and position, although the standard arm triangle is one of the fastest at 7.2 seconds.
Anaconda choke
An anaconda choke is an arm triangle from the front headlock position. The performer threads his or her arm under the opponent's neck and through the armpit, and grasps the biceps of the opposing arm. The performer then attempts to pin the opponent onto the trapped shoulder so as to better interrupt the flow of blood, all the while applying pressure with the grasped biceps. The performer may accomplish this by rolling the opponent over the trapped shoulder, (known as a gator roll) and use the momentum to turn the opponent onto his or her trapped shoulder. The creator of this choke is unknown, although many sources point towards UFC veteran Milton Vieira. Viera himself has disputed this however and has gone on record as not claiming to be the originator of the Anaconda Choke, explaining that it is likely that multiple people came up with the same choke simultaneously.
D'Arce choke/Brabo choke
The D'Arce choke and Brabo choke is using the similar technique except Brabo choke is used in gi BJJ by gripping your opponents gi, in contrast to the D'Arce choke which does not. The D'Arce choke, or Brabo choke, is similar to the Anaconda choke. The difference is that the choking arm is threaded under the near arm, in front of the opponent's neck, and on top of the far arm.
The D'Arce choke gets its name from Joe D'Arce, a third-degree Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt under Renzo Gracie. D'Arce is not the inventor of the choke however, he merely popularized its use in competition. Instead the Luta Livre practitioners point to its originator being Björn Dag Lagerström who discovered the choke when attempting to perform an Anaconda Choke in practice, and getting his arms the wrong way around. During a sparring session between D'Arce and Jason Miller, the choke surprised Miller, who gave it the name and pronunciation "Darce" rather than the proper "D-Arsee," when D'Arce did not have a title for the technique.
The Brabo choke gets its name from Leonardo Vieira, founder of the Checkmat academy. Vieira first saw one of his white belt students get into a similar position by instinct and he started working on this position. He used this position to submit most of his opponents at the 2004 Pan American Championship and at the World Cup of 2004. Vieira's friend, Kid Pelligro, calling this position "Brabo choke" deriving from Vieira's email address "leobrabo@...." which fit the actual meaning of the world "brabo" in Portuguese of angry, aggressive or toughness.
References
External links
Arm Triangle - Videos and step-by-step instruction.
Anaconda Choke - Video Tutorial.
Home Page of Joe D'Arce
Grappling hold
Wrestling
Chokeholds | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arm%20triangle%20choke |
The Ansaldo A.300 was an Italian general-purpose biplane aircraft built by the Ansaldo company (now part of FIAT) of Turin from 1920 to 1929. It also served as a light bomber, transport, fighter and reconnaissance aircraft, and finally as an advanced trainer, with examples in service as late as 1940. 50 examples were also license-built in Poland at ZM E. Plage & T. Laśkiewicz, but were not a success due to poor quality.
Development
Based on Ansaldo's highly successful World War I Balilla and S.V.A scouts, the A.300 was a conventional single-engined two-bay open cockpit biplane of mixed metal and wood-and-fabric construction, powered usually by a water-cooled Fiat A.12bis V12 engine. Most variants had two fixed Vickers guns and one mobile gun mounted in the rear cockpit. It first flew in 1919.
Early examples were two seaters, but the A.300/3 was a three-seater intended for reconnaissance use, of which around 90 were delivered. The most significant variant was the A.300/4, again mostly three-seaters, which started full production in 1923, just as Ansaldo was absorbed into FIAT. This became the standard multi-role aircraft in the newly formed Regia Aeronautica and served in Italy, Sicily, Sardinia, Corfu, Libya and Eritrea.
Operational history
The A.300 was one of the most numerous aircraft of its time, with the production run of the A.300/4 alone, at 700 units, exceeding the total production of any other type of the 1920s except the Breguet XIX and Potez 25. Despite this, and possibly because it was Italian rather than French or British, it remains one of the least documented contemporary types, certainly the most obscure produced in anything like these numbers.
Variants
A.300/2initial production version
A.300/3three-seat version, also exported to Spain, Belgium, and Poland
A.300/4definitive production version with improved cooling
A.300/5prototype with Lorraine engine
A.300/6improved A.300/4, also in service
A.300C Four passenger airliner. Several built 1921-'26 and operated by the Belgian airline SNETA, French airlines SABENA and 1925 operated by the Romanian airlines SNNA, as regular flights with 5 aircraft.
A.300T Eight passenger airliner. At least one built 1921.
A.400prototype
Operators
Belgian Air Force
Corpo Aeronautico Militare
Polish Air Force
Soviet Air Force
Türk Hava Kurumu (THK)
Specifications (A.300/4)
Notes
Bibliography
(p. 53 for 300/3, p. 55 for 300C)
Ansaldo A.300
Biplanes
Single-engined tractor aircraft
1910s Italian military reconnaissance aircraft
Aircraft first flown in 1919 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansaldo%20A.300 |
Juan Bautista Cabral (24 June 1789 – 3 February 1813) was an Argentine soldier, of Zambo origin, of the Regiment of Mounted Grenadiers who died in the Battle of San Lorenzo, while he was aiding then Colonel Don José de San Martín, whose horse had fallen to enemy fire. The action of Cabral in this first military confrontation of the Argentine War of Independence gave him lasting fame and a prominent place among Argentine patriots.
Biography
Little is known about the life of Cabral. It is estimated that he was born in the town which now bears his name in the city of Saladas, Corrientes. He joined the second squadron of the newly formed Granaderos Cavalry Regiment in 1812. According to Pastor Obligado, Cabral's diligence and leadership led to corporal's stripes in December of the same year, and to promotion to sergeant the next year. Contrary to this assertion, Bartolomé Mitre (in his Historia de San Martín y de la Emancipación Americana) states that he was a private ("soldado raso") on the date of the battle.
Regardless of his rank, his action took place right after the battle started. The royalist forces (loyal to the Spanish Crown) had sailed up the Paraná River from Montevideo and landed on San Lorenzo, Santa Fe. Enemy fire overturned San Martín's horse, trapping the colonel beneath it, while the royalists drew close charging with bayonets. Cabral dismounted and assisted San Martín. The exact details have been embellished to the point that it is impossible to say how much risk he took. Some versions have Cabral placing himself between the bayonets and San Martín, which is doubtful. In any event, Cabral was critically wounded, and he died in the refectory of the neighboring San Carlos Convent, which was used as a field hospital. On his deathbed he said "I die happy, General; we have beaten the enemy."
According to Mitre, the rank of sergeant was given him posthumously due to meritorious actions in the battle. Argentine history has made him a national hero, and there are many monuments erected in his honor. The San Lorenzo march, by C. J. Benielli, is dedicated to him, and is taught in primary school. The famous Paraguayan composer and guitar virtuoso Agustin Barrios Mangoré composed a piece dedicated to the memory of him called Sargento Cabral. The Argentine Army's school for NCOs is named in his honour.
External links
March of San Lorenzo in Spanish Wikisource
Short biography
1789 births
1813 deaths
People from Corrientes Province
Afro-Argentine people
Argentine people of Guaraní descent
Argentine Army personnel
People of the Argentine War of Independence
Argentine military personnel killed in the Argentine War of Independence | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan%20Bautista%20Cabral |
Eric Rigler is an American player of the Uilleann pipes, Great Highland Bagpipes, and tin whistle. He performs as a solo artist and with the band Bad Haggis, and has been featured on a number of movie soundtracks. He has been described as "the most recorded bagpiper of all time". He has been playing all forms of bagpipes and tin whistles since he was a child, performing solo, with bagpipe bands and other musical groups.
He has been featured playing Great Highland bagpipes, Uilleann pipes and tin whistle on numerous movie soundtracks, including Titanic, Million Dollar Baby, Road to Perdition, Braveheart, Cinderella Man, Robots, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, The Prince of Egypt, and Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. His music was frequently used on the NBC show Crossing Jordan, and his arrangement of an Irish tune was used as its opening theme during the first season. He was also featured on the USA Network in the 2006 Victoria's Secret fashion show, playing the bagpipes for the Highland romance sequence and for the AFI Lifetime Achievement celebration for Sean Connery.
Rigler played "Amazing Grace" at former President Ronald Reagan's funeral in 2004.
Rigler plays pipes and whistles in the Celtic world fusion band he formed, Bad Haggis, based in Southern California. He occasionally performs with Los Angeles-based rock band the Young Dubliners. Rigler wrote the tunes "The B-52" and "Walking the Plank", which are performed by the World Pipe Band Champion Field Marshal Montgomery Pipe Band of Northern Ireland, the Los Angeles Scottish Pipe Band, and other top level bagpipe bands throughout the world.
On February 12, 2013, San Bernardino County Sheriff's Detective Jeremiah MacKay was killed on duty near Big Bear, California in a firefight. Rigler played a special tribute at his funeral on February 21, 2013, along with 130 other bagpipers and drummers to honor the fallen officer. MacKay was the department's official bagpiper, who had performed at the funerals of other officers.
In 2016, Rigler performed on Dream Theater's song "The X Aspect," on their album The Astonishing, marking the first use of bagpipes in a Dream Theater recording.
References
External links
badhaggis.com The band's regularly updated homepage.
yahoo.com More information about the movie history of Eric Rigler and Bad Haggis
Eric Rigler at Rhapsody
American folk musicians
Living people
Musicians from California
Place of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)
Great Highland bagpipe players | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20Rigler |
Tastee-Freez is an American franchised fast-food restaurant specializing in soft serve ice cream. Its corporate headquarters is in Newport Beach, California, and it has stores in four states. The first Tastee-Freez was established in Keithsburg, Illinois.
History
Tastee-Freez was founded in 1950 in Joliet, Illinois, by Leo S. Moranz and Harry Axene (formerly of Dairy Queen). Moranz invented a soft serve pump and freezer which enabled the product, and their Harlee Manufacturing Company (a portmanteau of Harry and Leo) produced the machines which franchisees would buy and use in their respective locations. Originally stores focused on ice milk and other frozen dairy-based desserts. Expansion of the brand was rapid in the 1950s; in 1952, there were 315 locations, and by 1957 there were nearly 1,800 locations. The chain attempted to expand into England in the early 1960s where they began selling their products out of ice cream trucks. This business model was also attempted in the United States but proved so financially unsuccessful that Tastee-Freez filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy in late 1963. Herbert Molner, then an assistant of Moranz, bought the chain out of bankruptcy a year later. He began a renovation plan that included a withdrawal from England, closure of older stores in smaller towns, and revitalization of the menu to include fast food items such as hot dogs and hamburgers.
In 1982, Tastee-Freez was sold to the Denovo Corporation of Utica, Michigan, which also owned the Stewart's Restaurants and root beer, Dog n Suds Root beer and drive-ins and B&K Rootbeer drive ins, and Dairy Isle ice cream shops. In 1992, there were 340 locations.
By 2003, the Galardi Group became a franchisee of Tastee-Freez and made Tastee-Freez products available in its restaurants, Wienerschnitzel and Original Hamburger Stand. The Galardi Group was so pleased with the increased sales at its restaurant that it bought the Tastee-Freez company that year.
References
External links
Fast-food chains of the United States
Restaurants established in 1950
Ice cream parlors in the United States
Restaurants in Orange County, California
Companies based in Newport Beach, California
Regional restaurant chains in the United States
1950 establishments in Illinois | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tastee-Freez |
In category theory, monoidal functors are functors between monoidal categories which preserve the monoidal structure. More specifically, a monoidal functor between two monoidal categories consists of a functor between the categories, along with two coherence maps—a natural transformation and a morphism that preserve monoidal multiplication and unit, respectively. Mathematicians require these coherence maps to satisfy additional properties depending on how strictly they want to preserve the monoidal structure; each of these properties gives rise to a slightly different definition of monoidal functors
The coherence maps of lax monoidal functors satisfy no additional properties; they are not necessarily invertible.
The coherence maps of strong monoidal functors are invertible.
The coherence maps of strict monoidal functors are identity maps.
Although we distinguish between these different definitions here, authors may call any one of these simply monoidal functors.
Definition
Let and be monoidal categories. A lax monoidal functor from to (which may also just be called a monoidal functor) consists of a functor together with a natural transformation
from functors to and a morphism
,
called the coherence maps or structure morphisms, which are such that for every three objects , and of the diagrams
,
and
commute in the category . Above, the various natural transformations denoted using are parts of the monoidal structure on and .
Variants
The dual of a monoidal functor is a comonoidal functor; it is a monoidal functor whose coherence maps are reversed. Comonoidal functors may also be called opmonoidal, colax monoidal, or oplax monoidal functors.
A strong monoidal functor is a monoidal functor whose coherence maps are invertible.
A strict monoidal functor is a monoidal functor whose coherence maps are identities.
A braided monoidal functor is a monoidal functor between braided monoidal categories (with braidings denoted ) such that the following diagram commutes for every pair of objects A, B in :
A symmetric monoidal functor is a braided monoidal functor whose domain and codomain are symmetric monoidal categories.
Examples
The underlying functor from the category of abelian groups to the category of sets. In this case, the map sends (a, b) to ; the map sends to 1.
If is a (commutative) ring, then the free functor extends to a strongly monoidal functor (and also if is commutative).
If is a homomorphism of commutative rings, then the restriction functor is monoidal and the induction functor is strongly monoidal.
An important example of a symmetric monoidal functor is the mathematical model of topological quantum field theory, which has been recently developed. Let be the category of cobordisms of n-1,n-dimensional manifolds with tensor product given by disjoint union, and unit the empty manifold. A topological quantum field theory in dimension n is a symmetric monoidal functor
The homology functor is monoidal as via the map .
Alternate notions
If and are closed monoidal categories with internal hom-functors (we drop the subscripts for readability), there is an alternative formulation
ψAB : F(A ⇒ B) → FA ⇒ FB
of φAB commonly used in functional programming. The relation between ψAB and φAB is illustrated in the following commutative diagrams:
Properties
If is a monoid object in , then is a monoid object in .
Monoidal functors and adjunctions
Suppose that a functor is left adjoint to a monoidal . Then has a comonoidal structure induced by , defined by
and
.
If the induced structure on is strong, then the unit and counit of the adjunction are monoidal natural transformations, and the adjunction is said to be a monoidal adjunction; conversely, the left adjoint of a monoidal adjunction is always a strong monoidal functor.
Similarly, a right adjoint to a comonoidal functor is monoidal, and the right adjoint of a comonoidal adjunction is a strong monoidal functor.
See also
Monoidal natural transformation
References
Monoidal categories | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoidal%20functor |
"Just a Little Girl" is the debut single of English singer-songwriter Amy Studt. Released on 1 July 2002, the single reached a peak of 14 on the UK Singles Chart. It is taken from her debut album, False Smiles, which was released a year later.
Music video
The music video was directed by Sophie Muller. It shows Studt in an old house with crucifixes on the wall, playing a piano while silhouettes of people are dancing on the dancefloor. She then gets up and dances herself when the first chorus kicks in. Then Studt is shown at a beach with a man and she is playing with him. He then looks away and she pushes him over. Finally she appears to be in a glass coffin like that of Snow White, and she falls down into the arms of another Amy, who throws her away and dances until the end of the song.
Track listings
UK CD single
"Just a Little Girl"
"Going out of My Mind"
"Kick Me"
"Just a Little Girl" (video)
UK cassette single
"Just a Little Girl"
"Going out of My Mind"
Charts
Release history
References
19 Recordings singles
2002 debut singles
2002 songs
Amy Studt songs
Music videos directed by Sophie Muller
Polydor Records singles
Songs written by Amy Studt
Universal Records singles | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just%20a%20Little%20Girl |
The London Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) is London’s key hub for the city's business community. It supports its members’ businesses through a range of services, advocates on behalf of London’s business community in important forums of policy debate, and promotes ‘Global London’ as the best city for doing business, whether it's for trading, investing, learning, or finding new commercial partners.
It works to accelerate the growth of its members by providing support, facilitating new business connections, and leveraging its network to generate greater shared prosperity for London.
The Chamber has a range of interest groups designed to provide targeted support services to business communities, including: Asian Business Association (ABA), Black Business Association (BBA), and Business Owners Club.
LCCI introduced a free B2B digital networking app in 2021 to facilitate digital connections across the capital. On the LCCI Community App, users can chat with peers, join sector and common interest groups, and discover LCCI member product and services offers.
History
John Weskett ran a London chamber from 1782 to 1800, a larger chamber ran in 1823 and 1824, with support from MP and Bank of England director, William Haldimand, and other prominent people, and several other short-lived attempts were made until the current chamber was founded in 1882.
The LCC was a prominent supporter of calls for an Imperial Federation. In 1886 they funded a competition for the best essay "formulating a practical working plan of the federation and the mother-country". The prize was set at £50 and a size limit of 75 pages were set. 106 entries were received and judged by a panel consisting of James Anthony Froude, Sir Rawson W. Rawson and Professor John Robert Seeley. The competition was won by William Henry Parr Greswell, a former professor of classical studies at Cape University. His essay was published by the with those of the runners-up, J C. Fitzgerald, of Wellington, New Zealand, Philip Vernon Smith, an ecclesiastical barrister, W. J. Bradshaw of Melbourne, Australia and F. H. Turnock of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. A final essay by Reverend Dalton, a canon in Windsor was expanded and published later.
In 1903, the LCCI established its first arbitration scheme for the resolution of commercial disputes, called the London Chamber of Arbitration. In 2020, this was re-formed as the London Chamber of Arbitration and Mediation (LCAM).
References
External links
1881 establishments in England
1881 in London
Business organisations based in London
Chambers of commerce in the United Kingdom
City of London
Economy of London
Organizations established in 1881 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London%20Chamber%20of%20Commerce%20%26%20Industry |
Die Screaming, Marianne (also Die, Beautiful Marianne) is a 1971 British thriller film produced and directed by Pete Walker. Although Walker's films were mostly in the horror or sexploitation genres, this is a straight thriller, with mild horror undertones.
Plot
Marianne, a nightclub dancer, is on the run from her father, a retired corrupt judge who lives in a villa in Portugal with Marianne's half-sister Hildegarde. On her 21st birthday, Marianne will receive her mother's inheritance, which is tied up in a Swiss bank account and includes legal papers incriminating her father. The Judge and Hildegarde seek the account number from Marianne so that they can access and dispose of this evidence.
While evading The Judge's henchmen, Marianne encounters Sebastian, who seduces her and persuades her to marry him. On the wedding day, Marianne suddenly suspects Sebastian's motives and sabotages the ceremony by tricking the registry office into thinking that she is really marrying Eli Frome, Sebastian's best man, and putting Eli's name on the marriage certificate instead of Sebastian's. Marianne leaves Sebastian and she and Eli become romantically involved. Sebastian, who is actually Hildegarde's lover, travels to Portugal and informs The Judge of Marianne's marriage to Eli. The Judge promises Sebastian a large amount of money if he can bring Marianne to Portugal.
Eli is abducted by two of The Judge's men but gets away after stabbing one of them in the chest. Sebastian returns and Marianne, wanting to make peace with her father, willingly flies to Portugal with Sebastian and Eli. At the villa, a deadly game of cat-and-mouse ensues as Sebastian and Hildegarde attempt to torture the account number out of Marianne by locking her in an overheated sauna. Not wanting Marianne hurt, The Judge drives away to get help but is killed when he loses control of his car (whose brakes Sebastian has sabotaged) and plunges off a cliff, crashing into the rocks below.
Marianne breaks out of the sauna and evades Sebastian and Hildegarde. Sebastian kills Eli and then, with Hildegarde, lures Marianne to an abandoned nunnery. Marianne fights both of them off and Sebastian, giving chase, is seriously injured when he falls through a weakened floor into an old cellar. Leaving Sebastian to die, Hildegarde returns to the villa only to be strangled by Rodriguez, The Judge's loyal manservant. Rodriguez and a tearful Marianne wait for the police to arrive.
Cast
Susan George as Marianne
Barry Evans as Eli Frome
Chris Sandford as Sebastian
Judy Huxtable as Hildegarde
Leo Genn as The Judge
Kenneth Hendel as Rodriguez
Paul Stassino as Portuguese Police Sergeant
Alan Curtis as Disco Manager
Anthony Sharp as Registrar
John Laurimore
Martin Wyldeck
Production
Filming
Filming took place in July 1970. The film was shot on location in England and Albufeira, Portugal. Judy Huxtable was joined during filming by her boyfriend Peter Cook. Peter Walker was so pleased by this he paid for Cook's expenses.
Music
The music was composed and conducted by Cyril Ornadel.
Release
Critical response
Andrew Dowler of the Toronto Now writes that Die Screaming, Marianne begins well but "founders in an exposition quagmire until the not-particularly-shocking climax". Gary A. Smith sums up the film as a "fairly cheesy affair" despite "some effective sequences".
Ian Jane of DVD Talk praises Susan George's performance and regards the film as a well-paced "decent little thriller, even if there are a few too many loose ends for its own good".
Troy Howarth praises the film's dark humour and describes some of its set pieces as "marvellous" but concludes that it "ultimately strains under the weight of its own excess" and ends up being "less than the sum of its parts". He regards the film as exposition-heavy and over-long, arguing that it "suffers from Walker's tendency toward over-stuffing his movies with incident".
Home media
External links
Die Screaming Marianne at Reelstreets
Die Screaming Marianne at BFI
References
1970s crime thriller films
1971 films
1971 crime films
1971 independent films
British crime thriller films
British independent films
Films about dysfunctional families
Films directed by Pete Walker
Films set in England
Films set in Portugal
Films shot in England
Films shot in Portugal
Films shot in the Algarve
1970s English-language films
1970s British films | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die%20Screaming%2C%20Marianne |
Quinby may refer to:
Places
Quinby, Virginia
Quinby, Kansas
Quinby, South Carolina
Ivory Quinby House, Illinois
Quinby Plantation, South Carolina
People
Byron Quinby Jones (1888–1959), pioneer aviator and U.S. Army officer
Charles Quinby (1899–1988), U.S. Olympic swimmer
Edwin J. Quinby (1895–1981), publicist, inventor, historian, and activist
Ephraim Quinby (1766–1850), founder of Warren, Ohio
H. Anna Quinby (1871-1931), lawyer, editor, business manager, social reformer
Henry B. Quinby (1846–1924), 52nd Governor of New Hampshire
Isaac Ferdinand Quinby (1821–1891), American Civil War General
Ivory Quinby (1817–1869), Mayor of Monmouth, Illinois, founding father of Monmouth College
James M. Quinby (1804–1874), Mayor of Newark, New Jersey, 1851–1854
James Moses Quinby (1804–1874), American businessman, 10th Mayor of Newark, New Jersey
John Alonzo Quinby (c. 1819-?), 13th Mayor of San Jose, California
Moses Quinby (1810–1875), early American beekeeper
Moses Quinby (1786–1857), lawyer and subject of a well-known John Brewster, Jr. portrait
William Quinby De Funiak or William Q De Funiak (1901–1981), American writer and academic
William E. Quinby (1835–1908), newspaper publisher and U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands
Companies
J.M. Quinby & Co., early automobile and carriage manufacturer
Vega Company, originally named Quinby & Hall
See also
Quimby (disambiguation)
Quinby (automobile) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinby |
Jock Climie is a Canadian retired Canadian Football League player who played the slotback position primarily with the Ottawa Rough Riders, and Montreal Alouettes. He is also a former sportscaster with Canadian sports television channel TSN as part of the CFL on TSN studio panel during the CFL season. Climie is currently a labour and employment lawyer at the Ottawa law firm of Emond Harnden.
College career
While attending Queen's University, Climie played university football for the Queen's Golden Gaels. His 1,091 receiving yards in 1988 was at the time the single-season record for Canadian university football; it has since been broken, first by Don Blair (University of Calgary), then by Andy Fantuz (University of Western Ontario); Fantuz played one more game during his college career. Climie was the OQIFC conference's nominee for outstanding national player in 1988. He was inducted into the Queen's Football Hall of Fame. He earned his law degree at Queen's by attending its winter academic sessions while playing CFL football in the summer and fall, taking six terms over six years to graduate.
Professional career
Following his outstanding college career, Climie was drafted fourth overall in the 1990 CFL Draft by the Toronto Argonauts. He dressed for the first two games of the season, but was then relegated to the practice roster. Soon after, he was signed by the Ottawa Rough Riders and would go on to play in 62 games for the franchise while also being named a CFL East All-Star in 1993. Climie re-signed with the Argonauts in 1995 and then signed with the newly reborn Montreal Alouettes in 1996. That year, he was again named a CFL East All-Star and he repeated the feat in 1997, while also being awarded the Lew Hayman Trophy as the top Canadian player in the CFL's East Division. Climie finished his career as an Alouette in 2001, having recorded 627 catches for 9619 yards and 56 touchdowns and finishing in the top 20 in receiving yardage at the time of his retirement.
Statistics
References
External links
Emond Harnden (law firm) Biography Page - Jock Climie
TSN Talent Page - Jock Climie (copy archived August 2012)
Living people
Canadian Football League announcers
Canadian football slotbacks
Canadian television sportscasters
Lawyers in Ontario
Black Canadian lawyers
Montreal Alouettes players
Ottawa Rough Riders players
Canadian football people from Toronto
Players of Canadian football from Ontario
Queen's University at Kingston alumni
Queen's Golden Gaels football players
Toronto Argonauts players
Queen's University Faculty of Law alumni
1968 births | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jock%20Climie |
Westcliff is a wealthy suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It has many old mansions, and views over the Northern Suburbs. It is the site of the Westcliff Hotel also known as the Four Seasons Hotel. With a total wealth of $235 billion, Johannesburg is Africa’s wealthiest city, and most of the wealth in Johannesburg is concentrated in just four suburbs: Sandhurst, Houghton, Hyde Park and Westcliff.
References
External links
http://www.westcliff.co.za Westcliff Hotel
Johannesburg Region B | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westcliff%2C%20Gauteng |
Reverend Maximin Alff, SS.CC., was born in Treves, Belgium, on 24 July 1866. He made his profession in the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary on 6 July 1867. He studied at the Catholic University of Leuven and was ordained to the presbyterate on 24 August 1890. He was subsequently appointed as professor of theology at Miranda de Ebro in Spain, from 1892 until 1894. He was then sent to the Vicariate Apostolic of the Hawaiian Islands, arriving in Honolulu on 25 October 1894. He served as parochial vicar in Kona, Kaua'i, Hana and Wailuku. In 1912, he was elected provincial superior. He died on 1 January 1927 and was buried in the Honolulu Catholic Cemetery.
1866 births
1927 deaths
19th-century Belgian Roman Catholic priests
20th-century American Roman Catholic priests
Hawaii Catholic priests
Picpus Fathers
19th-century American Roman Catholic priests | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximin%20Alff |
The Marquis is an American independent comic book series written and illustrated by Guy Davis, released by Caliber Comics, Oni Press and Dark Horse Comics.
Publication history
The Marquis was originally published by Caliber Comics where the Les Preludes issue appeared in 1997, followed by the rest of the Danse Macabre series from Oni Comics in 2000. This was followed by a one-shot and a two-issue miniseries in 2002–2003. Davis will be finishing the story he started at Dark Horse Comics, where he was working on B.P.R.D. from 2003 to 2011. He said:
The ultimate plan was to make The Marquis a five-volume series. The first volume, Inferno collects the trade paperbacks Danse Macabre and Intermezzo. Davis plans to release the rest as graphic novels, starting with The Marquis and the Midwife and then two more that finish the Marquis' story, followed by a final prequel volume. A one-shot prequel to Danse Macabre, titled The Marquis and the Coachman, was published in MySpace/Dark Horse Presents #22 (2009).
Plot
The Marquis takes place in Venisalle, a fictional land resembling France during the mid-18th century, complete with stratified society and Church dominance of everyday affairs. The story revolves around Vol de Galle, a former Inquisitor of The Faith who has the ability to see demons, many of which have infiltrated society disguised in human form. De Galle combats these entities with his sabre and a pair of specially built, anachronistic machine guns.
Reception
While ostensibly a horror-action comic, The Marquis analyses personal and religious issues through the conflicted character of de Galle, and has been received well by critics and comics professionals including Mike Mignola and Stan Sakai for both its content and Davis's detailed and disturbing artwork.
Collected editions
To date, two trade paperbacks have been released by Oni Press and one volume collecting all prior material published by Dark Horse.
Notes
References
External links
The Marquis series on the Oni Press site
Guy Davis' page on the series
The Marquis Inferno, Guy Davis' Marquis blog
Oni Press titles
Dark Horse Comics titles
Horror comics
Fantasy comics
2000 comics debuts
2002 comics endings
Comics set in the 18th century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Marquis%20%28comics%29 |
Paul Mahlon Powell (September 6, 1881 – July 2, 1944) was an American journalist, director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. Powell was most active during the silent film era and is best known for directing Mary Pickford in Pollyanna (1920).
Career
Born in Peoria, Illinois, Powell was one of six children of Charles Henry and Anna Clara Powell (née von Schoenheider). His father was a publisher who founded the Peoria Evening Star. Powell was educated in Peoria and later attended Bradley Polytechnic Institute. After graduation, he worked at his father's newspaper as a typesetter and editor before becoming a reporter.
In the early 1900s, Powell worked as a reporter for the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Express. In 1910, he quit his job as a reporter to work in the film industry. The following year, he became the assistant of director and screenwriter Wilbert Melville. In 1914, D. W. Griffith hired Powell to be the director of Mutual Film Corporation films. Two years later, Griffith hired Powell to direct features for Triangle-Fine Arts Film Corporation. While working for Triangle-Fine Arts, Powell directed Mary Pickford in the film adaptation of the 1913 novel Pollyanna. The film was a tremendous success and grossed $1.1 million upon its release. Powell also supported a young Rudolph Valentino while working on films such as A Society Sensation and All Night, who later recalled "He was the first to say, 'Stick to it and you'll make a name for yourself.'" Valentino later became one of the silent era's most cherished stars.
Powell's final films in the late 1920s and 1930 were musical comedy shorts for Pathé Exchange.
Death
He died in Pasadena, California, on July 2, 1944. He was survived by his wife Valerie Smith (whom he married in 1903), and their daughter Janice. His remains are interred at the Great Mausoleum, Columbarium of Providence at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.
Selected filmography
The Lily and the Rose (1915)
The Stool Pigeon (1915)
Hell-to-Pay Austin (1916)
Betsy's Burglar (1917)
A Girl of the Timber Claims (1917)
All Night (1918)
Common Property (1919)
Pollyanna (1920)
Sweet Lavender (1920)
Eyes of the Heart (1920)
Dangerous Lies (1921)
The Mystery Road (1921)
The Fog (1923)
Her Market Value (1925)
Let Women Alone (1925)
North Star (1925)
References
External links
1881 births
1944 deaths
20th-century American male actors
Actors from Peoria, Illinois
Film producers from Illinois
American journalists for national newspapers
American male film actors
American male screenwriters
Bradley University alumni
Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale)
Journalists from Illinois
Silent film directors
Film directors from Illinois
American male non-fiction writers
Screenwriters from Illinois
Silent film screenwriters
20th-century American male writers
20th-century American screenwriters | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Powell%20%28director%29 |
Goleta Beach is a region of coastline located near Goleta, California, just east of the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) campus. A portion of the shore of Goleta Bay is managed by the County of Santa Barbara, as the Goleta Beach County Park (GBCP). The beach itself is partly man-made as sand was spread onto an existing sandspit in 1945. The beach is a seasonal habitat for migrating shorebirds, including the snowy plover, an endangered species, and is occasionally closed due to nourishment efforts.
Elements
Slough and wetlands
Goleta Slough is a nearby tidal estuary that empties into the Pacific Ocean. The slough drains the Goleta Valley and watershed, and receives the water of all of the major creeks in the Goleta area, including the southern face of the Santa Ynez Mountains. The slough ecosystem has been affected by the numerous berms and tide gates that alter tidal circulation (Audubon, 2003).
The Goleta Slough wetlands once covered approximately ; however, the current size is about . Most of the habitat conversion occurred in the early 1940s, when a small airport was expanded to accommodate an airfield for the Marine Corps Air Station Santa Barbara, located immediately south of the estuary on what is now the University of California at Santa Barbara campus. After the war, that airfield became the Santa Barbara Municipal Airport. Groups, such as the Sierra Club and Audubon Society, have been especially concerned regarding the flora and fauna in the Goleta Slough and its surrounding uplands. The UCSB student-supported and student-led Coastal Fund has worked with the Goleta Slough Management Committee, to conduct minor ecological restoration, such as the removal of non-native plants. The Goleta Slough Management Committee has been a vocal supporter of the California Coastal Conservancy’s plans for a major restoration project that would allow an experimental opening prior to a return to tidal circulation, in at least one of the marshland basins. It was able to secure approval from the Federal Aviation Administration to go ahead with the experiment as the action may affect the Santa Barbara Airport.
Park
The park is a day-use park (open from 8:00 am to sunset) that features 27 picnic tables, four horseshoe pits, three restrooms, a volleyball court and other amenities. The park once featured a “Windamajig”, an active wind animated art piece sculpture. Unfortunately, the art installation was damaged by strong winds in 2006 and removed.
The park itself is large and of beach are included in the domain (Kisner, 1998). The pier, More’s Landing, was first built in 1874 and further modifications were done in the late 1920s, by the federal Department of Forestry (Kisner, 1998). The Beachside Restaurant closed in February 2021. The park is popular with locals and tourists alike and receives about 1.5 million visitors per year, making it the most heavily used park in the Santa Barbara County Park system (SBCPD, 2003). The park provides 580 parking spaces, as many visitors arrive by car, via Highway 217.
The western point
The base of the point is described as “a rocky intertidal habitat, although species present there are more like those [found near] pier pilings” (Kisner, 1998). Freshwater seeps and some exposed pipes drain from the UCSB campus nearby the point. Most importantly, the rocky point and surrounding bluffs suffer from serious erosion most often associated with El Nino events. The shape of the bay focuses wave energy at the location. Because of the erosion, the edge of the bluffs above has become somewhat unstable and may be dangerous for those walking nearby.
History
The estuary mouth fluctuated along the beach while 40,000 years of coastal uplift raised the mesa to the east and west. Since the late 19th century, Santa Barbara residents have been modifying the Goleta Beach area. Cattle grazing in the watershed begun in 1846 and fires caused hillsides to erode and fill parts of the Goleta Slough with sediment. In the early 20th century, local landowners invited citizens to bring fill to the beach on which a state beach park was established. Meanwhile, in 1943 the federal government continued the filling of the estuary when it bulldozed the historic Mescalitan Island just inside the estuary to create an airbase for use during World War II (SBCPD, 2003). In the 1960s, further construction continued on the wetlands including a sewage treatment facility and California Highway 217, and the state park was turned over to Santa Barbara County.
Erosion
An ongoing problem concerning Goleta Beach is coastal erosion; sand and sediment is constantly being washed away and the beach is narrowing. In fact, in the last 14 years, the beach has been eroding at an average rate of -per-year. If no action is taken, the park, which consists of outdoor grills, horseshoe pits, a playground, public restrooms and shower, five parking lots and other county-maintained facilities (SBCPD, 2006), as well as the restaurant building is in danger of being lost. However, some proposed solutions designed to absorb wave energy and prevent erosion — particularly the so-called “hard engineering” solutions — may increase erosion elsewhere or alter the south central coast littoral cell.
A number of plans have been proposed by different stakeholders and they generally fall under three broader philosophies. The first belief is that the park must be saved at all costs and supporters have argued for “hard engineering” coastal defense. A second group of stakeholders on the opposite extreme of the spectrum calls for managed retreat where existing utilities and structures are ripped out and nature is allowed to take its course. A third option, a moderate compromise suggests that the current ‘soft’ beach nourishment strategy is worth continuing.
Coastal defense
The structural proposals consist of numerous strategies. One possible structure is a breakwater. Breakwaters are placed a few hundred feet offshore and create a harbor. Unfortunately, a breakwater would likely adversely affect littoral drift and the creation of a Goleta Bay harbor is probably too extreme. Another strategy is the installation of groynes (or groins), wood or concrete ‘fences’ that stretch out into the ocean, perpendicular to the beach. Groynes cause sediment to build up on one side but have the unhelpful consequence of preventing sediment to accumulate on the other side.
Another structure proposed is a seawall. A seawall is a concrete wall placed against the base of bluffs or sea cliffs that runs parallel to the ocean. While a sea wall may appear to be stopping erosion, a seawall can only diffuse wave energy which means that the areas on either side of the wall are likely to experience accelerated erosion. Again, this is not desired as the UCSB mesa might be adversely affected.
A fourth type of structure is a revetment. A revetment is similar to a seawall but usually consists of boulders piled at the base of cliffs. While it is less likely to accelerate erosion to either side, the area in front of a revetment may suffer. Sediment that would normally have been deposited on the beach instead bounces off the rocks and is dispersed elsewhere.
Managed retreat
Some organizations of users, such as the Surfrider Foundation, have called for managed retreat. Scientists and coastal engineers know that hard structures cause greater erosion of the beach sand. This option would protect coastal resources while preserving park amenities by reconfiguring them. There is no evidence that the current protection measures currently in place have caused the erosion of beach sand at either Goleta Beach or any down coast beaches. The California Coastal Commission permits armoring in order to protect public access and recreational uses. This beach is visited by over 1.4 million visitors annually.
Beach nourishment
A third strategy is that of beach nourishment (a ‘soft’ approach). Nourishment consists of depositing sand on top of the beach in order to expand its width. This approach is not extremely expensive and is already being done at Goleta Beach. In addition to the direct transporting of sand to the beach, it would also be helpful if sediment built up in upriver basins (behind dams) be removed and placed slightly downstream to be naturally washed down to the ocean. The mouth of the slough should be kept open by periodic dredging as blockage causes eutrophication.
The Northern Gold Coast Beach Protection Strategy is an example of a successful execution of this technique. Between 1992 and 1999, the Gold Coast City Council worked with experts on a proposed plan to stop beach erosion. Options originally considered included groynes, breakwaters, and others but the City Council finally chose to dredge sediment from the nearby Gold Coast Broadwater, pump it through large pipes, and deposit it along five kilometers of coast. In addition, they planned a near-shore artificial reef to protect the project. Between 1999 and 2000, the plan was carried out with 1.1 million cubic meters of sediment being transported from the Broadwater to the beach (Jackson, 2004). Further dredging of nearby areas provided sand that was used to fill large geotextile sandbags that were dropped nearshore to create the reef. Since then, the beach has been monitored with coastal imaging technology and has fared well. Due to the significant differences in the coastline and tidal conditions, this alternative may not be applicable at Goleta Beach.
The area in dispute is currently fully armored with large boulders to the west of the restaurant building and has been so for a number of years. Another option on this project is to request the Coastal Commission to permit the existing rocks. There is no scientific evidence that the current protective measures have resulted in loss of sand to down coast beaches.
See also
Coastal erosion
Coastal management
Notes
References
California Coastal Records Project (aerial photography) - by Kenneth and Gabrielle Adelman, CaliforniaCoastline.org, October 23, 2004
California Wetlands Information System at California Resources Agency
Determination of the source(s) of high nutrient concentration in Goleta Slough at UCSB
Environmental Sciences (Beach Erosion in the Santa Barbara Area) at UCSB
External links
Goleta Beach Park at Santa Barbara County Parks
Beaches of Santa Barbara County, California
Beaches of Southern California
Goleta, California
Managed retreat
Parks in Santa Barbara County, California | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goleta%20Beach |
The Camelback Bridge is a restored historic wooden bridge that arches over the Constitution Trail in Normal, Illinois. It is on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. The bridge's main span is a wooden kingpost pony truss. The bridge is supported by Phoenix columns, a type of wrought iron column that was patented by the Phoenix Iron Company in 1862. It is one of only two bridges in Illinois using the columns.
History
The bridge was built by the Illinois Central Railroad around the 1880s to allow traffic on Virginia Avenue to pass over its railroad line. The Phoenix columns were likely salvaged from another Illinois Central bridge which crossed the Illinois River at LaSalle. When the railroad stopped using the tracks, the original form was no longer needed, and during the rehabilitation, the bridge was rebuilt to a lower height to allow easier access to vehicles.
References
External links
Town of Normal Historic Preservation
Buildings and structures in Bloomington–Normal
Road bridges on the National Register of Historic Places in Illinois
National Register of Historic Places in McLean County, Illinois
Bridges completed in the 1880s
Wooden bridges in Illinois
Transportation buildings and structures in McLean County, Illinois
Normal, Illinois | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camelback%20Bridge |
Karl Wilhelm, also Carl Wilhelm (5 September 1815, Schmalkalden – 26 August 1873, Schmalkalden) was a German choral director. He is best known as the composer of the music of the song “Die Wacht am Rhein.”
Biography
Wilhelm was born in Schmalkalden. He studied at Cassel under Louis Spohr, and then in Frankfurt am Main with Aloys Schmitt and A. André. From 1841 to 1864 he was the director of the Krefeld Liedertafel for which he composed numerous male choruses. In Krefeld in 1854 he set to words “Die Wacht am Rhein,” the poem Max Schneckenburger wrote in 1840. In recognition of the success and the national importance of this song, he received the title of “Royal Prussian Musical Director” in 1860, and four years later received a gold medal from Queen (later Empress) Augusta.
On 24 June 1871, he received a personal acknowledgement from Chancellor of the German Empire Otto von Bismarck. In the same year, he received an annual gift from the government of 3,000 marks, which was then more than four times a typical salary.
From 1865 on, Wilhelm worked as the director of the music society in Schmalkalden, where he died eight years later.
Notes
References
External links
1815 births
1873 deaths
German conductors (music)
German male conductors (music)
People from Schmalkalden
People from the Electorate of Hesse
19th-century German composers
19th-century conductors (music) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%20Wilhelm%20%28conductor%29 |
"Deep Throats" is the 23rd episode of season four of the television series Family Guy. It was written by Alex Borstein and directed by Greg Colton. Appalled at parking charges introduced by Mayor West, Brian decides to expose the corruption of the Mayor, despite the prospect of potentially destroying Meg's new career as the Mayor's intern. Meanwhile, Peter and Lois decide to participate in the Quahog community talent show with a folk singing act, as they did in the 1980s, but the couple becomes largely reliant on marijuana for inspiration and eventually fail the competition for their poor performance, despite their beliefs they were singing well when under the influence of the drugs.
Plot
Meg is employed as an intern for Mayor West after doing an interview with him. The family is impressed by this news, and Brian feels pressured that he is becoming the "new Meg" due to him not having a job. Brian decides to become a taxicab driver, but soon becomes intent on exposing the corruption of Mayor West after receiving a $400 parking ticket for parking his taxi in a handicapped zone. When discussing his corruption beliefs with Meg, she argues that Mayor West is a nice person and that Brian should drop it. Stewie, after learning of Brian's intentions, decides to help. After meeting in a parking lot with a whistleblower, Kermit the Frog, Brian discovers where Mayor West will be that night, and follows him to a motel with Stewie.
Spying on West through the motel wall, they discover he's in a romantic relationship with Meg. Seeing this as an ideal opportunity to take West down, Brian photographs the two together in romantic scenes and threatens to reveal them to the press. After Meg finds out, she confronts West, who says he and Meg should separate due to the negative press which will follow - because even though he's used to it, he does not want Meg's life to be ruined, stating how much he really cares about her. They separate, with Mayor West telling Meg that even though he's leaving her, he'll always love her. Brian, having secretly heard this, realizes he has made a mistake, destroys the images, and apologizes to Meg that he lost sight of what was really important. His taxicab, however, is destroyed by Cleveland, believing Brian refused to give him a ride.
Meanwhile, Peter and Lois decide to participate in a community talent show with a folk-singing act they did in the 1980s. They have a hard time, however, writing new songs and start to smoke marijuana for inspiration, annoying the family. At one point, Peter rips out a piece of his guitar with his teeth and eats it, and him and Lois lie on the sofa naked in front of Brian and Stewie. At the show, they initially appear to wow the entire crowd with their performance, but, later, they realize that they lost. Chris reveals he was in the audience and then explains that they were completely high and they just shouted "Aah!" to the crowd while plodding chords on the guitar before preaching the dangers of marijuana to Lois and Peter.
Production
It was originally intended for Mayor West to beat Meg up when she is applying for a job within his office, but the scene was never used. The clay cars sketch was not animated by the regular show producers, rather it was drawn by Eileen Colehep, a woman who attended college with show producer Seth MacFarlane. The voice of Bruce the performance artist was performed by Mike Henry, and was originally scheduled to last longer, but it was reduced for unknown reasons. The concept behind the storyline of Peter and Lois performing in pubs when they were younger relates to MacFarlane's father, who used to do stage performances in bars. When he was performing, the woman who was to be MacFarlane's mother, came into the bar and tracked his father down, asking for guitar lessons once she had found him. The song which Peter and Lois were singing when remembering their performances they hosted in their earlier years was created by Alec Sulkin and Patrick Megan, producers of Family Guy. Alex Borstein, voice actor of Lois Griffin had originally wanted Meg to be wearing a business outfit in the episode during her employment by Mayor West, but it was not used.
The episode marks the first time in the series that Stewie has expressed an attraction for Brian. The name of Peter and Lois' band was originally intended to be "Mouthful of Peter," but broadcasting standards insisted that the show producers change the name to "Handful of Peter." In response to this, MacFarlane comments that "a handjob is more acceptable than a blowjob." When performing for the Quahog Talent Competition, one of the lyrics to Peter and Lois' song was scheduled to be "God would do her from behind, even do it a second time," but it was never used. Sound mixer Patrick Clark organized the format of the credits, which were different from the regular set.
Peter singing "Ding Fries are Done" was shortened for the televised version of the episode, with an extended version on the DVD. Cleveland sticking his middle finger up to Brian after he fails to stop in his taxi was allowed on the televised version of the episode. This was permitted because MacFarlane rang the show's broadcasting standards and asked for their explicit permission, explaining that it was very distant, and they allowed it. After smoking marijuana, Peter and Lois are shown lying on top of each other on the sofa; in the television version, they are wearing underwear, but are completely naked on the DVD, Adult Swim, and TBS versions. Similarly, Lois' comment during the scene, "Brian, he's knocking on the back door, what should I do? Should I let him in?" was censored from Fox airings, as it is a reference to anal sex, but remains intact on Adult Swim and TBS airings.
In addition to the regular cast, voice actors H. Jon Benjamin and Frank Welker, and actress Kate Jackson guest starred in the episode. Recurring voice actors Lori Alan, Ralph Garman, and Mike Henry, writers Chris Sheridan, Danny Smith, and John Viener, and actor Adam West, who portrays an exaggerated version of himself, also made minor appearances.
Cultural references
The episode takes its title from a scene when an anonymous informant (later revealed to be Kermit the Frog) secretly meets Brian in an underground parking lot. Brian calls the informant "Deep Throat," in a reference to the anonymous informant Deep Throat. The meeting itself is a reference to the meeting with Deep Throat or to the 1976 film All the President's Men. The part-time job Peter had wherein he sings a song "Ding Fries are Done," was based on a song that was popularized by Doctor Demento in the 1990s concerning Burger King, and is a parody of the popular Christmas song "Carol of the Bells". The Noid attempting to ruin Mayor West's pizza is a reference to the Noid from former Domino's Pizza television advertisements. The scene where Cleveland runs off as a black panther when he notices Meg and Brian looking at him as he destroys Brian's cab with a crowbar is a reference to Michael Jackson's "Black or White" second ending known as the Panther Dance. Stewie references his cousin, Stewie Cruise, showing him jumping up and down on Oprah's couch while shouting "I'm in love with Katie Holmes! I'm not gay!" When Lois mentions to Peter that it would be fun to be in the community talent show, Stewie says "You know what else is fun? Watching Mr. Belvedere without people talking so loudly!". He then proceeds to sing the theme song loudly. When Peter is being driven around by Brian, he refers to him as Bitterman, a reference to the chauffeur in the 1981 film Arthur. The song Mayor West and Meg are listening to in the hotel together is the theme song to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles from the 1987 series. In the DVD version of the episode, Stewie and Brian bump into Scooby-Doo and the gang from Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?. Fred Jones and Stewie argue about who got to City Hall first, but then Stewie sends them off by humming a familiar tune.
References
External links
2006 American television episodes
American television episodes about cannabis
Family Guy (season 4) episodes | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep%20Throats |
Carl Wilhelm (born 1872 in Vienna; died in London 1936), was a prolific German film director, film producer and screenwriter of the silent film era, at the end of which his career apparently entirely faded away and he vanished into obscurity.
Life
After his first work, the short documentary film Ein vergnügter Wintertag im Berliner Grunewald, made for the producer Oskar Messter in 1909, Wilhelm worked for many other Berlin production companies. For example, in the years before World War I, he filmed for Deutsche Mutoskop- und Biograph GmbH in Lankwitz and BB-Film-Fabrikation Bolten-Baeckers in Steglitz a series of comedies starring the silent film star Leo Peukert.
The two comedies he shot in 1913 and 1914 with Ernst Lubitsch - Die Firma heiratet and Der Stolz der Firma - were very successful. As late as 1919 a critic could write: "Die Firma heiratet and Meyer aus Berlin are still our best films."
In 1915, with his company Cewe-Films, and in 1920/21, with Carl-Wilhelm-Film GmbH, he also operated as his own producer. In 1917 and 1918 he made a number of films in Hungarian. Carl Wilhelm remained a sought-after director until the end of the silent film period. He then ceased to work almost entirely - he is last heard of as a production assistant in 1935. He left Germany for Vienna after the coming to power of the Nazi party in 1933 and, already ill, joined his son Wolfgang in London where he died in 1936.
Filmography
As director
1909: Ein vergnügter Wintertag im Berliner Grunewald - also actor
1911: Leibeigenschaft (with Leo Peukert)
1912: Der abgeführte Liebhaber
1912: Brüderchens Heldentat
1912: Das elfte Gebot: Du sollst nicht stören Deines Nächsten Flitterwochen
1912: Die Hand des Schicksals (with Leopoldine Konstantin) – co-director with Heinrich Bolten-Baeckers
1912: Leo, der Witwenfreund / Leo als Witwenfreund (with Leo Peukert)
1912: Mama: Roman aus dem Leben einer Schauspielerin
1912: Die Nachbarskinder – co-director with Heinrich Bolten-Baeckers
1912/13: Leo, der schwarze Münchhausen (with Leo Peukert)
1913: Die Kunstschützin (with Leo Peukert) – also actor; co-director with Heinrich Bolten-Baeckers
1913: Der Shylock von Krakau (with Rudolph Schildkraut); screenplay: Felix Salten) – also actor)
1913: Tangofieber
The Firm Gets Married (1914) (with Ernst Lubitsch, Ressel Orla)
1914: Fräulein Leutnant / Fräulein Feldgrau (also screenplay together with Walter Turszinsky)
1914: Die Marketenderin (with Else Eckersberg; also screenplay together with Arno Arndt)
1914: Der Stolz der Firma. Die Geschichte eines Lehrlings (with Ernst Lubitsch)
1915: Der Barbier von Flimersdorf (with Oscar Sabo) – also screenplay
1915: Berlin im Kriegsjahr (documentary film produced by Erich Pommer on commission from the Verein der Zentralstelle für den Fremdenverkehr)
1915: Carl und Carla (with Lisa Weise)
1915: Frau Annas Pilgerfahrt. Episode aus dem Wien-Berliner Leben 1914/15 – also screenplay together with , and production
1916: Sami, der Seefahrer
1916: Ein Zirkusmädel
1917: Albert läßt sich scheiden
1917: Doktor Lauffen
1917: Az elátkozott család
1917: Fabricius úr leánya
1917: Fekete gyémántok
1918: A Gazdag szegények
1918: A Szerelem bolondjai
1919: Die Himmelskönigin / Du meine Himmelskönigin (with Margarete Schön, Gustav Adolf Semler) – also screenplay
The Duty to Live (1919)
1919: Prinzessin Tatjana oder Wenn ein Weib den Weg verliert
The Yellow Death (1920, Part I) (with Gustav Adolf Semler, Rosa Valetti)
The Yellow Death (1920, Part II) (with Ernst Deutsch, Margarete Schön, Gustav Adolf Semler)
Respectable Women (1920)
The Eyes of the World (1920) (with Conrad Veidt) – also screenplay together with Ruth Goetz, and production
1920: Das Götzenbild der Wahrheit
1920: Der langsame Tod / Die nach Liebe schmachten (with Lucie Höflich, Eduard von Winterstein) – also screenplay together with Ruth Goetz, production
The Clan (1920) - also screenplay together with Ruth Goetz, production
1921: The House of Torment – also screenplay and production
1921: Das gestohlene Millionenrezept – also production
Country Roads and the Big City (1921) / Musikanten des Lebens (with Carola Toelle, Fritz Kortner, Conrad Veidt) – also production
1921: Der Liebling der Frauen – also production
1921: Perlen bedeuten Tränen / Tragische Abenteuer des Japaners Dr. Rao (with Albert Steinrück, Aud Egede-Nissen)
1921: Unrecht Gut
1921/22: Menschenopfer (with Hans Albers)
Lumpaci the Vagabond (1922) (with Hans Albers) – also screenplay
Debit and Credit (1924) (with Theodor Loos, Olga Tschechowa) - also screenplay, together with Karl Figdor based on the novel by Gustav Freytag
Nick, King of the Chauffeurs (1925)
Upstairs and Downstairs (1925)
The Alternative Bride (1925) (with Ida Wüst)
The Third Squadron (1926) (with Claire Rommer, Ralph Arthur Roberts, Camilla Spira) – also screenplay together with Bobby E. Lüthge
1926: Mikoschs letztes Abenteuer – also screenplay
When the Young Wine Blossoms (1927) – also screenplay, together with Max Jungk based on a story by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
It Attracted Three Fellows (1928) (with Hans Albers, Hertha von Walther)
The Duty to Remain Silent (1928) (with Gustav Fröhlich, Kurt Gerron) – also screenplay
1928: Kaczmarek
The Gypsy Chief (1929) – also screenplay
Dear Homeland (1929) (with Renate Müller, Hans Brausewetter, Hans Albers, Lotte Werkmeister) - produced by Erich Engels
Rooms to Let (1930) (with Henry Bender, Ida Wüst, Albert Paulig) – also screenplay, together with Bobby E. Lüthge
The Firm Gets Married (1931) (with Ralph Arthur Roberts, Charlotte Ander, Oskar Karlweis, Ida Wüst, Theo Lingen, Julius Falkenstein, Trude Westerberg)
Other
1910: Hexenlied (with Henny Porten; directed by Franz Porten) – actor
1910: Die Vernunft des Herzens (directed by Charles Decroix) – actor
1910: Pro patria. Ein Unterseebootsfilm (with Leo Peukert; directed by Charles Decroix) – director's assistant
1910/11: Vater und Sohn (directed by Walter Schmidthässler) – actor
1911: Das Herz einer Gattin (directed by Charles Decroix) – actor
1913/14: Eine venezianische Nacht (directed by Max Reinhardt) – director's assistant
1932: Spell of the Looking Glass (directed by Frank Wisbar) – "collective direction", together with Herbert Ephraim
1935: J'aime toutes les femmes (directed by Carl Lamač) – production assistant
References
Notes
Sources
Fritz, Walter, 1996. Im Kino erlebe ich die Welt – 100 Jahre Kino und Film in Österreich. Verlag Christian Brandstätter: Vienna.
External links
Short article about the "Deutsche Mutoskop- und Biograph GmbH" ("Muto") incl photo of Carl Wilhelm
Deutsches Filminstitut: photo of Carl Wilhelm
1872 births
1936 deaths
Film people from Vienna
German male silent film actors
20th-century German male actors
Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United Kingdom
Emigrants from Austria-Hungary to Germany | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20Wilhelm |
A Monk of Malmesbury is the supposed author of a chronicle among the Cottonian manuscripts in the British Museum.
The authorship is uncertain, and the work in question is said by some to be only a copy of a chronicle written by Alfred of Beverley in the twelfth century, while others claim it is almost entirely based on that of Geoffrey of Monmouth. It is a very valuable compilation, describing English history from the invasion of the Saxons to the year 1129.
Because the manuscript bears the name Godridus de Malmesburg, it was originally believed that it was written by Godfrey of Malmesburg, a native of Jumièges, who became Abbot of Malmesbury in 1081. Godfrey was regarded as a man of literary tastes because he founded the abbey's library, but his authorship of the manuscript was disproved by the fact that his death took place in or before 1107, when Edulf became the abbot. Indeed, it is likely that the signature merely indicates ownership.
Notes
References
Year of birth unknown
Year of death unknown
Roman Catholic monks
English chroniclers
12th-century English historians
Malmesbury | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monk%20of%20Malmesbury |
Carolina ("Carry") Cornelia Catharina Geijssen (born 11 January 1947) is a former speed skater from the Netherlands.
Carry Geijssen won silver at the Dutch Allround Championships in 1965 (a feat she would repeat in 1967 and 1968). In 1966, she became Dutch Allround Champion. At the 1968 World Allround Championships in Helsinki, she won bronze behind Stien Kaiser and Ans Schut, making the podium entirely Dutch.
Geijssen then participated in the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, where she became Olympic Champion on the 1,000 m in a new Olympic record time. This made her the first Dutch Olympic Champion in speed skating in Olympic history. The next day, Ans Schut (on the 3,000 m) would become the second, while Kees Verkerk (on the 1,500 m) would become the third Dutch Olympic Champion in speed skating four days after that. Geijssen went on to win Olympic silver on the 1,500 m, just 0.3 seconds behind winner Kaija Mustonen.
After that, Geijssen remained active for several more years, but did not have any more major results. She ended her speed skating career in 1971. She married the cyclist Rien Langkruis, and later lived in Indonesia and Canada.
She is the younger sister of speed skater Bep Geijssen.
Medals
An overview of medals won by Carry Geijssen at important championships she participated in, listing the years in which she won each:
Records
Over the course of her career, Geijssen skated two Dutch Senior records in women's speed skating and a total of 19 Junior records (one doubling as both Senior and Junior record):
References
Notes
Bibliography
Bal, Rien and Van Dijk, Rob. Schaatskampioenen, alles over het seizoen 68-69 (in Dutch). Amsterdam, the Netherlands: N.V. Het Parool, 1969.
Bijlsma, Hedman with Tom Dekkers; Arie van Erk; Gé du Maine; Hans Niezen; Nol Terwindt and Karel Verbeek. Schaatsseizoen '96-'97: 25e Jaargang 1996-1997, statistische terugblik. Assen, the Netherlands: Stichting Schaatsseizoen, 1997. ISSN 0922-9582.
Eng, Trond. All Time International Championships, Complete Results: 1889 - 2002. Askim, Noorwegen: WSSSA-Skøytenytt, 2002.
Froger, Fred R. Winnaars op de schaats, Een Parool Sportpocket (in Dutch). Amsterdam, the Netherlands: N.V. Het Parool, 1968.
Koomen, Theo. 10 Jaar Topschaatsen (in Dutch). Laren(NH), the Netherlands: Uitgeverij Luitingh, 1971. .
Kleine, Jan. Schaatsjaarboek 1964 (in Dutch). Deventer, the Netherlands, 1964.
Kleine, Jan. Schaatsjaarboek 1965 (in Dutch). Deventer, the Netherlands, 1965.
Kleine, Jan. Schaatsjaarboek 1966, alles over het hardrijden op de schaats (in Dutch). Amsterdam, the Netherlands: Drukkerij Dico, 1966.
Kleine, Jan. Schaatsjaarboek 1967/68, alles over het hardrijden op de lange baan (in Dutch). Amsterdam, the Netherlands: Drukkerij Dico, 1967.
Kleine, Jan. Schaatsjaarboek 1968/69, alles over het hardrijden op de lange baan (in Dutch). Amsterdam, the Netherlands: Drukkerij Dico, 1968.
Kleine, Jan. Schaatsjaarboek 1969-'70, alles over het hardrijden op de lange baan (in Dutch). Ede, the Netherlands, 1969.
Kleine, Jan. Schaatsjaarboek 1970-'71, alles over het hardrijden op de lange baan (in Dutch). Nijmegen, the Netherlands: Schaatsjaarboek, 1970.
Kleine, Jan. Schaatsjaarboek 1971-'72, alles over het hardrijden op de lange baan (in Dutch). Nijmegen, the Netherlands: Schaatsjaarboek, 1971.
Maaskant, Piet. Flitsende Ijzers, De geschiedenis van de schaatssport (in Dutch). Zwolle, the Netherlands: La Rivière & Voorhoeve, 1967 (2nd revised and extended edition).
Maaskant, Piet. Heya, Heya! Het nieuwe boek van de Schaatssport (in Dutch). Zwolle, the Netherlands: La Rivière & Voorhoeve, 1970.
Peereboom, Klaas. Van Jaap Eden tot Ard Schenk (in Dutch). Baarn, the Netherlands: De Boekerij, 1972. .
Teigen, Magne. Komplette Resultater Internasjonale Mesterskap 1889 - 1989: Menn/Kvinner, Senior/Junior, allround/sprint (in Norwegian). Veggli, Norway: WSSSA-Skøytenytt, 1989.
Van Eyle, Wim. Een Eeuw Nederlandse Schaatssport (in Dutch). Utrecht, the Netherlands: Uitgeverij Het Spectrum, 1982. .
External links
Carry Geijssen at SpeedSkatingStats.com
Carry Geijssen at SchaatsStatistieken.nl (Dutch)
1947 births
Dutch female speed skaters
Speed skaters at the 1968 Winter Olympics
Olympic speed skaters for the Netherlands
Olympic medalists in speed skating
Medalists at the 1968 Winter Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for the Netherlands
Olympic silver medalists for the Netherlands
Sportspeople from Amsterdam
Living people
World Allround Speed Skating Championships medalists | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carry%20Geijssen |
Klaas Reimer (1770–1837) was the founder of the Kleine Gemeinde, a Mennonite denomination that still exists in Latin America, but underwent radical changes in Canada where it is now called the Evangelical Mennonite Conference. Ethnic Mennonite remigrants from Latin America brought the original Kleine Gemeinde back to Canada and the US.
Biography
Reimer was born in 1770 to Heinrich Reimer and Agatha Epp (b. 1745) in the Vistula delta Mennonite settlement of Petershagen, Prussia, located about 35 km east of the city of Danzig (Gdańsk). Heinrich died while his son was still young; his mother later remarried Abraham Janzen (1747–1822), a wealthy farmer. During his childhood, Reimer received no formal education.
At age twenty, Klaas was baptized and accepted into the Danzig Mennonite fellowship. In 1792, he moved to Neuenhuben, a village just east of Danzig, where he joined a newly established Werder Gemeinde, a Mennonite splinter church.
Six years later, at the age of 28, Klaas married Maria Epp (1760–1806), who was ten years his senior. Maria was the daughter of Peter Epp, a highly influential Mennonite church leader. Maria died in 1806 at age 46. Klaas and Maria had only one child, Aganetha, who was born in 1801, who later dies an early death in Russia. About three months after his first wife died, Reimer remarried to Helena von Riesen (1787–1846), together they had ten children, of which three sons and two daughters survived to adulthood.
Reimer was ordained into the ministry in 1801. In 1804, he led a group of about 30 adults in an immigration to south Russia, settling in the newly opened Mennonite colony, Molotschna, in the spring of 1805. Here, Reimer was frequently in conflict with the elder of the colony, Jacob Enns, who attempted to have the local authorities silence him. Reimer appealed to Chortitza elder Johann Wiebe, only to be threatened by Wiebe with banishment if he did not stop his activities. The struggle finally came to a head in 1812, when Reimer and eighteen of his followers began to hold their own church meetings in private homes. Seen as a secession by the Molotschna leadership, Reimer was threatened with dire punishment, including exile to Siberia. Reimer was joined by another minister, Cornelius Janzen, and about 20 members, who together recognized themselves as a separate church body in 1814. Similar groups in several villages seceded at the same time. These later united to form the Kleine Gemeinde, which was recognized by the Russian government and granted the same rights and privileges of the main Mennonite group. The hostility against Reimer and his fellowship toned down somewhat a few years later, when Elder Enns died.
Reimer's challenges were not limited to the main Mennonite body from which they separated. He also faced difficult challenges within his own fellowship. A crisis that has been called the false-humility movement almost destroyed the Kleine Gemeinde in 1828–29 and for a time threatened his leadership. A faction within the church apparently dwelt on guilt and fear and attempted a daily routine of extreme asceticism and self-inflicted punishment. When Reimer strongly admonished this faction in a sermon, many in the congregation walked out in disapproval. At a special meeting, his leadership was challenged and barely survived a vote of confidence. Over time, the movement subsided and Reimer regained control of the fellowship.
On December 18, 1837, Klaas Reimer died in Lindenau, Molotschna, South Russia at the age of 67 years.
Legacy
Reimer remains a controversial figure in Mennonite history. One of Reimer's prominent critics was Mennonite historian Peter M. Friesen (1849–1914) who wrote that Reimer was "devoid of any joyous knowledge of God's grace" and that his movement "was too narrow-minded, too frightened, too isolationist and opposed to education, it never made a profound impact." Delbert Plett, an outspoken advocate of Reimer, writes that "Klaas Reimer was a conservative intellectual whose voice speaks with singular clarity over the centuries."
Reimer's autobiography, penned in 1836, has been translated into English and published in the book Leaders by Mennonite historian Delbert Plett.
Direct descendants of Klaas Reimer include authors Miriam Toews, David Bergen, and Andrew Unger.
Notes
References
Plett, Delbert ed., Leaders of the Mennonite Kleine Gemeinde In Russia, 1812 to 1874, Steinbach, Manitoba, 1993, pp. 113–147.
Plett, Delbert, Saints and Sinners: The Kleine Gemeinde in Imperial Russia 1812 to 1875, Steinbach, Manitoba, 1999.
Friesen, Peter M., The Mennonite Brotherhood in Russia (1789–1910), trans. into English, revised edition, Fresno, California, 1980.
External links
Reimer, Klaas (1770–1837) at Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online
1770 births
1837 deaths
Kleine Gemeinde
People from Bartoszyce County
Prussian Mennonites
Mennonite ministers
19th-century Anabaptist ministers
Russian Mennonites
Mennonite theologians
Mennonite writers
Vistula delta Mennonites | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaas%20Reimer |
"Under the Thumb" is the third single from English singer Amy Studt's debut album, False Smiles (2003). Released on 29 September 2003, the song reached number 10 on the UK Singles Chart and number 36 in Ireland.
Music video
The video tells the story of a young woman who has got her boyfriend (Iddo Goldberg) on a 'short leash'. In the beginning she is seen carrying shopping walking along a country road. She goes into her cottage and her boyfriend is tied up to a chair. At various stages in the video she is seen doing things for him like feeding him and washing his hair. There are newspaper articles around the house with their pictures in and they are on the TV, which makes out they are missing. The police come knocking on the door but think no-one is there and leave. Then Amy starts destroying her room, and in the end she lets her boyfriend leave the house, and she locks the door behind her.
Track listings
UK and Australian CD single
"Under the Thumb" – 3:44
"False Smiles" – 3:52
"Rose" – 4:27
"Under the Thumb" (video)
UK cassette single
"Under the Thumb" – 3:44
"False Smiles" – 3:52
"Rose" – 4:27
Charts
Release history
References
External links
"Under the Thumb" music video
Amy Studt songs
19 Recordings singles
2003 singles
2003 songs
Polydor Records singles
Songs written by Amy Studt
Songs written by David Eriksen
Songs written by Karen Poole | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under%20the%20Thumb |
Brenda Kahn (born May 3, 1967) is an American singer-songwriter, poet and educator based in Boulder, Colorado, who is known for her poetic lyrics.
Background
Her career began in 1990, when her first album, Goldfish Don't Talk Back, was released to critical acclaim. Her punk-tinged folk music led to a major label deal with the Chaos label at Columbia Records, and in 1992, Kahn released Epiphany in Brooklyn. This album, which featured Kahn's darkly humorous stories of love, confusion, and tragedy in urban America, was heralded by critics and fans throughout the United States. People magazine compared her to the Violent Femmes and Patti Smith. Creem Magazine dubbed her "the high priestess of the apocalyptic relationship." Kahn was selected to open up for Bob Dylan and The Kinks, toured the US and Europe, and seemed on the brink of stardom.
Chaos Records folded just two weeks before Kahn's awaited third release, the rock-tinged Destination Anywhere. Her next two albums, both featuring more electric guitar, were released under the independent label Shanachie Records, and she continued to tour Europe (particularly Germany), the east coast and midwest through the late 1990s.
Kahn performed at Lilith Fair in 1998 and 1999. In 1999, she founded Womanrock.com, Inc, an online magazine and music store designed to unite and empower female artists and give tips on how to navigate through the record industry. That same year, she self-released her fifth album, the acoustic and spoken word Hunger, which was a tribute to her late friend Jeff Buckley.
In 2010, Kahn released her sixth album, Seven Laws of Gravity, featuring New York studio musicians Jack Petruzelli, Adrian Harpham and Craig Dreyer and produced by Craig Dreyer. A review by Soundtrack3 praised the album saying, "Kahn’s music is less punk-folk now, and more alternative-country, but the lyrics remain poetic and beautiful. The hooks in this album dig their heels in and don’t let go. It’s great to have Kahn making music again."
In 2017, Kahn released Rocket to the Moon, a children's album, featuring the production work of multi-instrumentalist and engineer Matt Molchany.
Discography
Albums
Goldfish Don't Talk Back (1990, Community 3)
Epiphany in Brooklyn (1992 Chaos Produced by David Kahne)
Destination Anywhere (1996 Shanachie)
Outside the Beauty Salon (1997 Shanachie)
Hunger (1999 Rocket 99)
Seven Laws of Gravity (2010 Law of Seven)
Rocket to the Moon (2017 Little Yellow Truck)
EPs and singles
60 Second Critic (with Dave Pirner)
"Life in the Drug War Trenches" (1992 Crackpot) (vinyl EP 7" single)
Anesthesia (1993 Chaos)
King of Cairo (1994 Chaos)
"Hey Romeo" (1995 TBC Records) (vinyl 7" single)
Remington
Books
Ode to Chores: The Good, The Bad, and The Laundry (2019, South Salem Press)
References
External links
Brenda Kahn's official website
Brenda Kahn's patreon page
Brenda Kahn Tumblr Blog Picture blog, with news and music videos
BrendaKahn3 YahooGroup News and pic trading group
1967 births
20th-century American Jews
American folk singers
American women singer-songwriters
Living people
Singers from New York City
Place of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American Jews
Singer-songwriters from New York (state)
20th-century American women
21st-century American women
Singer-songwriters from Connecticut | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brenda%20Kahn |
LaFayette Lee Patterson (August 23, 1888 – March 3, 1987) was a United States representative from Alabama. He served three terms in the U. S. Congress, from 1928 to 1933.
Born near Delta in Clay County, Alabama, Patterson attended rural schools. He worked in agriculture and as a teacher in the rural schools. He graduated from Jacksonville State Teachers College in 1922, from Birmingham-Southern College in 1924, and from Stanford University in 1927. From 1924 to 1926 he was the superintendent of education for Tallapoosa County, Alabama.
Patterson was elected as a Democrat to the 70th Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William B. Bowling. He was reelected to the two succeeding Congresses and served from November 6, 1928, to March 3, 1933. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1932.
Patterson moved to Gadsden, Alabama, in 1931. He worked as a field representative for the Agricultural Adjustment Administration from 1933 to 1943, as a special assistant to the War Food Administration from 1943 to 1945, and as a special adviser to the Secretary of Agriculture from 1945 to 1947. He remained active in his political party's affairs, serving as a liaison officer for the Democratic National Committee in 1948 and as a delegate-at-large to the 1952 Democratic National Convention.
From 1948 to 1951 he was an assistant professor of history at his alma mater, Jacksonville State College. He moved to Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1952 where he worked in the travel business. He returned to Alabama in 1965, living in Montgomery, and resumed his profession as a teacher. Patterson died in Birmingham on March 3, 1987, at age 98. He was buried at Bethlehem Cemetery in New Site, Alabama.
References
External links
1888 births
1987 deaths
People from Clay County, Alabama
Stanford University alumni
Jacksonville State University alumni
Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Alabama
20th-century American politicians | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaFayette%20L.%20Patterson |
The Gesäuse National Park is a national park in the Austrian state of Styria. Located in the mountainous Upper Styrian region, it covers large parts of the Gesäuse range within the Ennstal Alps and the steep water gap of the Enns river between Admont and Hieflau. The area also covers parts of the municipal areas of Johnsbach, Weng, Landl, and Sankt Gallen.
The national park currently covers , with another planned. It was established on 26 October 2002.
The highest mountain is Hochtor at .
External links
National parks of Austria
Protected areas established in 2002
Ennstal Alps
Geography of Styria
Tourist attractions in Styria
2002 establishments in Austria
Protected areas of the Alps | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ges%C3%A4use%20National%20Park |
Jason Garfield (born August 9, 1974) is a juggler and entertainer from Norfolk, Connecticut, United States. He is the founder and president of the World Juggling Federation (WJF).
Sport Juggling, TV & Event Production
Jason Garfield has been producing events since 2004, eleven of which in Las Vegas, and several across the country and one in the U.K. Jason learned to juggle at age 11 in 1986 and quickly established himself as one of the best and most controversial jugglers of his time.
Disappointed with the opportunities for competitive jugglers, Jason formed the World Juggling Federation in 2003 and produced his first sport juggling convention at the Riviera Hotel in December of 2004 where he also produced seven sport juggling competition programs for ESPN.
10 years later Jason founded SkillCon, hosting 20+ unique skill events. Jason, the World Juggling Federation, the Moxie Games, and SkillCon return to downtown Las Vegas in 2019 at the Plaza Hotel and Container Park.
Appearance on Cheap Seats
Garfield was featured on ESPN Classic's show Cheap Seats where he was humorously depicted as a psychotic egomaniac who talked to the props he used while performing and proceeded to blame them for mistakes made during the act, a character he deliberately portrayed to add entertainment value to the program.
Awards
Jason has received the following juggling awards:
Juniors Championship Winner at the International Jugglers' Association (IJA) Summer Festival in 1988.
Numbers Championship Winner (Individual Balls and Rings) at the IJA Summer Festival in 1990.
Individuals Winner at the IJA Summer Festival in 1998.
Numbers Competition Winner (Solo Balls, Clubs and Rings) at the IJA Summer Festival in 2000.
Numbers Competition Winner (Solo Rings) at the IJA Summer Festival in 2001.
Individuals Winner at the IJA Summer Festival in 2002.
See also
List of jugglers
References
External links
JasonGarfield.com - Jason Garfield's personal page
Videos - Numerous videos of Jason juggling
1974 births
Jugglers
Living people
People from Norfolk, Connecticut
American entertainers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason%20Garfield |
TU Dortmund University () is a technical university in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany with over 35,000 students, and over 6,000 staff including 300 professors, offering around 80 Bachelor's and master's degree programs. It is situated in the Ruhr area, the fourth largest urban area in Europe. The university pioneered the Internet in Germany, and contributed to machine learning (in particular, to support-vector machines, and RapidMiner).
History
The University of Dortmund (German: Universität Dortmund) was founded in 1968, during the decline of the coal and steel industry in the Ruhr region. Its establishment was seen as an important move in the economic change (Strukturwandel) from heavy industry to technology. The university's main areas of research are the natural sciences, engineering, pedagogy/teacher training in a wide spectrum of subjects, special education, and journalism. The University of Dortmund was originally designed to be a technical university, but in 1980, it merged with the adjacent Pädagogische Hochschule Ruhr that housed mostly humanities.
In 2006, The University of Dortmund hosted the 11th Federation of International Robot-soccer Association (FIRA) RoboWorld Cup. The university's robot soccer team, the Dortmund Droids, became vice world champion in the RoboWorld Cup 2002 and finished third in 2003. On 1 November 2007, The University Dortmund has been renamed as TU Dortmund University.
The University is part of the cooperation program "University Alliance Ruhr", together with the Ruhr University Bochum and the University of Duisburg-Essen.
On 4 April 2019, Ursula Gather, Rector of TU Dortmund University abolished the institutes for German Language and Literature as well as English and American Studies.
Campuses
Following the Zeitgeist of the late 1960s in Germany, the university was built "on the meadows" (auf der grünen Wiese) about outside of downtown Dortmund. It consists of two campuses, North and South, which, since 1984, have been linked by an automated hanging monorail system, the H-Bahn, that crosses the nature reserve between the campuses at a height of about . One of the most prominent buildings of the university is the Mathetower (Mathematics Tower), which houses the Faculty of Mathematics.
Faculties
Faculty of Mathematics
Faculty of Physics
Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Faculty of Computer Science
Faculty of Statistics
Faculty of Biochemical and Chemical Engineering (BCI)
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
Faculty of Spatial Planning
Faculty of Architecture and Civil Engineering
Faculty of Business and Economics
Faculty of Education, Psychology and Sociology
Faculty of Rehabilitation Sciences
Faculty of Human Sciences and Theology
Faculty of Cultural Studies
Faculty of Art and Sports Sciences
Faculty of Social Sciences
Research
Over 1,000 third-party funded projects, including a range of collaborative projects, such as (transregional) Collaborative Research Centers, Research Units, Research Training Groups, a "Cluster of Excellence" and several Horizon 2020 research consortia. Nearly 300 professors teach and research at TU Dortmund University.
The university is particularly known for research in its four profile areas: Materials, Production Technology and Logistics, Chemical Biology, Drug Research and Process Engineering, Modeling, Data Analysis, Modeling and Simulation and Education, Schooling and Inclusion, in which it celebrates research successes beyond disciplinary limits, and at an outstanding international level.
Faculty of Computer Science
TU Dortmund (along with the universities of Paderborn and Karlsruhe) brought the Internet to Germany in the 1980s.
The first point of registration for .de-domains was at the Dortmund University Department of Computer Science in 1986. The national Domain Name System service was started in 1988.
The involvement of Dortmund University employees in internet registry and administration ended in 1993.
To this day, the university has registered the domain udo.edu (udo being short for Universität Dortmund), although the .edu-domain is today restricted to United States-affiliated institutions.
One of the four German competency centers for machine learning (Competence Center Machine Learning Rhine-Ruhr, ML2R), is located at the TU Dortmund. The machine learning software RapidMiner began at the TU Dortmund's artificial intelligence unit.
Rankings
In the QS World University Rankings for 2024, the university was positioned within the 851–900 range globally, making it the 44th at the national level. Its performance in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings was relatively higher for the year 2024, landing within the 401–500 bracket globally, and ranking between 37th and 41th nationally. In the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) for 2022, the university was categorized in the 901–1000 band globally, while nationally it fell within the 46th to 47th position.
The university is highly ranked in terms of its research performance in the areas of physics, electrical engineering, chemistry and economics.
Honorary doctorates
Former president of Germany, Johannes Rau was awarded an honorary doctorate from the university in 2004.
Carl Djerassi was awarded an honorary doctorare for his science-in-fiction in 2009. Donald Tusk, President of the European Council, was awarded an honorary doctorate on 16 December 2018 for his contribution to European politics and the debate on European values.
See also
ESDP-Network
ConRuhr
References
Universities and colleges in North Rhine-Westphalia
Technical universities and colleges in Germany
Educational institutions established in 1968
1968 establishments in Germany
Buildings and structures in Dortmund | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical%20University%20of%20Dortmund |
Grattis världen ("Congratulations the World") is a television program in which Filip Hammar & Fredrik Wikingsson travel around the world to exotic countries and try unusual and often quite adventurous things. The general plot is quite similar to High Chaparall as Filip and Fredrik interview eccentric people they meet along the way.
Performance artist Pål Hollender, of Swedish Survivor fame, worked on the show as a producer and is seen on camera in several episodes. Some argue he was hired in an effort to promote the show.
The Song The Passenger by Iggy Pop is used as the theme song for the show (though in a cover version by Lars Bygdén).
Episode overview
Season 1:
Kanal 5 (Swedish TV channel) original programming
Swedish reality television series | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grattis%20v%C3%A4rlden |
Octavia the Elder (before 69 BC – after 29 BC) was the daughter of the Roman governor and senator Gaius Octavius by his first wife, Ancharia. She was the elder half-sister to Octavia the Younger and Roman Emperor Augustus.
Biography
Early life
Octavia was born to Ancharia and Octavius likely some time before 69 BC.
Marriage and issue
Octavia the Elder was married to Sextus Appuleius (I). They had a son, who was also named Sextus Appuleius, he served as ordinary consul in 29 BC with his half-uncle, Augustus. It is postulated that they had a second son, Marcus Appuleius, the consul of 20 BC. Through Sextus Appuleius, the consul, she had a grandson named Sextus Appuleius, consul in AD 14, and a granddaughter Appuleia Varilla. Octavia the Elder's last known descendants were her great-grandson, also named Sextus Appuleius, through her grandson and Fabia Numantina.
Research
Plutarch was only aware of one daughter of Gaius Octavius and confused Octavia the Elder with Octavia the Younger.
Octavia's existence as wife of Appuleius was first discovered due to a dedication from when her husband was proconsul of Asia.
Cultural depictions
Octavia and her husband, as well as their two sons, may be depicted on the Ara Pacis.
See also
List of Roman women
Women in ancient Rome
Notes
References
Sources
Herzog-Hauser, Gertrud: (Octavia 95). In: Realencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft, vol. XVII 2, col. 1858–1859.
Suetonius; Life of Augustus
Syme, Ronald; Augustan Aristocracy (Oxford University Press, 1989). ,
Further reading
1st-century BC births
Year of death unknown
1st-century BC Roman women
1st-century BC Romans
Octavii Rufi
Family of Augustus | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octavia%20the%20Elder |
The Day the Earth Caught Fire is a British science fiction disaster film starring Edward Judd, Leo McKern and Janet Munro. It was directed by Val Guest and released in 1961, and is one of the classic apocalyptic films of its era. The film opened at the Odeon Marble Arch in London on 23 November 1961.
The film, which was partly made on location in London and Brighton, used matte painting to create images of abandoned cities and desolate landscapes. The production also featured the real Daily Express, even using the paper's own headquarters, the Daily Express Building in Fleet Street and featuring Arthur Christiansen as the Express editor, a job he had held in real life.
Plot
A lone man walks through the deserted streets of a sweltering London. The film then goes back several months. Peter Stenning (Judd) had been an up-and-coming journalist with the Daily Express, but since a divorce threw his life into disarray, he has been drinking too much (one of his lines is "Alcoholics of the press, unite!") and his work has suffered. His editor (Christiansen) has begun giving him lousy assignments. Stenning's only friend, Bill Maguire (McKern), is a veteran Fleet Street reporter who offers him encouragement and occasionally covers for him by writing his copy.
Meanwhile, after the Soviet Union and the United States simultaneously conduct nuclear bomb tests, strange meteorological events begin to affect the globe. Stenning is sent to the British Met Office to obtain temperature data, and while there he meets Jeanie (Munro), a young typist who is temporarily acting as telephonist. They "meet cute", trading insults; later, they fall in love.
Stenning then discovers that the weapons tests have had a massive effect on Earth. He asks Jeannie to help him get any relevant information. It becomes apparent that Earth's nutation has been altered by 11 degrees, affecting the climatic zones and changing the pole and the equator. The increasing heat has caused water to evaporate and mists to cover Britain, and a solar eclipse occurs days ahead of schedule. Later, characters realise that the orbit of the Earth has been disrupted and the planet is spiralling in towards the Sun.
The government imposes a state of emergency and starts rationing water and supplies. People start evacuating the cities. Scientists conclude that the only way to bring Earth back into a safe orbit is to detonate a series of nuclear bombs in western Siberia. Stenning, Maguire, and Jeanie gather at a bar to listen to the radio broadcast of the event. The bombs are detonated, and the shock wave causes dust to fall from the bar's ceiling.
At the newspaper print room, two versions of the front page have been prepared: one reads "World Saved", the other "World Doomed". The film ends without expressly revealing which one will be published and with a voiceover from Stenning stating:
"So Man has sown the wind - and reaped the whirlwind. Perhaps in the next few hours, there will be no remembrance of the past, and no hope for the future that might have been. All the works of Man will be consumed in the great fire out of which he was created. But perhaps at the heart of the burning light into which he has thrust his world, there is a heart that cares more for him, than he has ever cared for himself. And if there is a future for Man - insensitive as he is, proud and defiant in his pursuit of power - let him resolve to live it lovingly; for he knows well how to do so. Then he may say once more: Truly the light is sweet; and what a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to see the Sun."
The American ending adds church bells to signal that the world has been saved but this is stated not to have been in the original ending.
Cast
Edward Judd as Peter Stenning
Leo McKern as Bill Maguire
Janet Munro as Jeannie Craig
Michael Goodliffe as 'Jacko', the night editor
Bernard Braden as the news editor
Reginald Beckwith as Harry
Gene Anderson as May
Renée Asherson as Angela
Arthur Christiansen as Jeff Jefferson, the editor
Austin Trevor as Sir John Kelly
Edward Underdown as Dick Sanderson
Ian Ellis as Michael Stenning
Peter Butterworth as second sub-editor (uncredited)
Pamela Green as a shower steward (uncredited)
Michael Caine as a police constable (uncredited)
Norman Chappell as a Hotel receptionist (uncredited)
Arthur Christiansen, a former editor of the Daily Express, played the editor of the newspaper. Three years before Zulu, a then-unknown Michael Caine played an uncredited police officer diverting traffic.
Production
Development
Val Guest said the film was based on a 20-page treatment.
The only politics in it were to say the only war that mankind couldn't fight was God, was the elements and the only way to defeat that was if mankind got together to fight a common enemy, the elements. That was what we'd done to the elements, the [atomic] bombs. So, it was probably the first anti bomb thing. It was not anti- us bomb, it was anti- the world, it was saying mankind can do this so why doesn't mankind get together and see some sense?
Guest had tried to make the film for eight years but been unable to get finance for it. "Nobody would ever let me make it," said Guest. "Everybody said no you do these other things so well... British Lion had turned it down, Minter, Rank, Columbia." The director says he was told "Nobody wants to know about the bombs. Who's going to go and see a picture about the bombs. Anyway, every time some producer said to me is there something you want to do next, I'd say "Yes, read this", and it would come back each time "Don't joke, nobody's going to want to see it"."
Guest finally got the opportunity after the success of Expresso Bongo. "I went to Steven Pallos, he said alright I'll do it," said Guest. "British Lion didn't want to know at that time so they weren't going to put any money into it, so Mickey Balcon, Steven Pallos, and another guy, Max Setton started a production company called Pax." This got the money together from British sources with Guest using his profits from Expresso Bongo as collateral to persuade British Lion to invest. It was a Val Guest Production for Pax – the only film ever made for the company.
Shooting
Filming took place at Shepperton Studios with location filming on Fleet Street.
The film was made in black and white but in some original prints, the opening and closing sequences are tinted orange-yellow to suggest the heat of the sun. It was shot with 35 mm anamorphic lenses using the French Dyaliscope process.
Critic Doug Cummings said regarding the look of the film: Guest also manages some visual flair. The film was shot in anamorphic widescreen, and the extended frame is always perfectly balanced with groups of people, city vistas, or detailed settings, whether bustling newsrooms, congested streets, or humid apartments. Although the film's special effects aren't particularly noteworthy, matte paintings and the incorporation of real London locations work to good atmospheric advantage (heavy rains buffet the windows; thick, unexpected fog wafts through the city; a raging hurricane crashes into the British coast). Guest also cleverly incorporates stock footage to depict floods and meteorological disasters worldwide. The visual style of the film is straightforward and classical, but each scene is rendered with a great degree of realism and sense of place.
Reviewer Paul A. Green wrote, "Guest and his editor Bill Lenny worked with archive footage. There's a quick shot of a fire-engine from The Quatermass Experiment – but otherwise you can't see the joins."
Guest cast real life editor Arthur Christiansen in a support part and says "We had terrible trouble with him, not trouble, the poor guy could not remember a line... We finally did it almost line by line... When he realised what he'd bitten off [more than he could chew], then it was too late. And I couldn't really recast by that time." Guest adds that Christiansen helped secure co operation from press baron Lord Beaverbrook to film on Fleet Street, and provided technical advice.
Guest says Judd had "his first big break, so he was edgy, he wasn't the easiest of persons, but I can see why. It was a big thing to carry, and again the guy had a sense of humour."
In his commentary track for the 2001 Anchor Bay DVD release, director Val Guest stated that the sound of church bells heard at the very end of the American version had been added by distributor Universal, in order to suggest that the emergency detonation had succeeded and that the Earth had been saved. Guest speculated that the bells motif had been inspired by the film The War of the Worlds (1953), which ends with the joyous ringing of church bells after the emergency (and a nuclear explosion). But Guest maintained that his intention was to always have an ambiguous ending.
The film makes one medical error. When a copy boy collapses in the news room, as a result of drinking black market contaminated water, the doctor announces he has 'typhus' and everyone has to be inoculated. Typhus is not water-borne (it is insect-borne) and neither was there an inoculation for it at the time when the film was made. The script writer probably confused typhus with typhoid fever. Typhoid is water-borne and various injection treatments did exist then.
Certification
The film was rated "X" (minimum age 16 admitted) by the British Board of Film Censors on its initial release. A 2001 DVD release from Network Releasing was given a BBFC DVD/Blu-ray certificate of "15" (years and over). On the 2014 BFI release, the rating was reduced to "12".
Locations
The film was shot in London and South East England. Principal photography included Fleet Street (the Daily Express building), Battersea Park, the HM Treasury Building in Westminster and on Brighton Palace Pier.
Themes
Essayist Paul A. Green discusses many of the themes in the film in his review:
News media – "We see a media landscape that is largely defined through the press and its heavy-duty Gutenberg technology, and a political landscape that is defined through the Cold War ... The bustling newsroom with its exhorting wall poster slogans (Go for IMPACT!) is a nexus of conflicting information and misinformation, conjecture and rumour as the hacks try to get an angle on freak weather conditions in the silly season." Green adds about a late scene, "Today the sequence reads like an elegy for the old Fleet Street culture of "The Print" which gave life-time employment to thousands of Cockneys, until Murdoch introduced computerised newsrooms, smashed the print unions and moved operations to Docklands, eventually dragging the rest of Fleet Street with him."
Nuclear weapons testing – "Then the premise of the film – that nuclear tests alter the earth's orbit, disrupt the climate and send the planet spiralling towards the sun – makes a deeper impact ... Global destruction through nuclear war is becoming an existential reality... Nuclear holocaust anxieties in the movies were not new, of course. But these fears were usually externalised as monster mutation narratives..."
Escapism – "Everyone's keeping busy except boozy Stenning, who clearly resents being tasked to write a lightweight piece about sun-spots, when he used to be the paper's hotshot columnist with serious ambitions as a writer. He'd rather be in Harry's Bar, a cosy all-day drinking club modelled on Fleet Street's El Vino's."
Social class – "Stenning's discontent is not explicitly political, in any specific ideological sense ... But there's the same restlessness about the restrictions of class. Stenning voices a distrust of traditional upper-crust Anglo-Saxon attitudes that parallels the increasingly awkward questions the narrative raises about the inertia of the British Establishment, as well as the mood of a Britain on the edge of social change. "You ought to see the way they're bringing him up, Bill. It'll be the right prep school next. And then the right boarding school. And by the time they finish with him, he'll be a right bowler-hatted, who's-for-tennis, toffee-nosed gent, but he won't be MY son...."
Gender politics – "This encounter with Jeanie signals the beginning of Stenning's slow transformation. It also exemplifies the transformation of gender politics in UK bureaucracy since 1961. Today a bright woman like Jeannie would probably be running the whole department rather than servicing a duplicating machine, which is where Stenning discovers her. "I'm not women!" she informs Stenning, when he makes one of his bar-room generalisations."
End of the world – "Stenning manages to photograph the flaring black disc of the sun – a superb piece of metonymy for the looming threat of extinction ... As I. Q Hunter points out in British Science Fiction Cinema the film progresses through a reprise of the city's collective memories and myths of World War Two – the Blitz, fire-storms, black-out, the miseries of rationing, evacuation of children, black marketeering and gangsterism. It raises the issue of whether post-war Britain could maintain the Dunkirk spirit in the face of a new threat. There's a hint, voiced by Maguire earlier, that "we've gone soft" and that under these new and even more extreme circumstances, social cohesion might unravel and give way to hysteria."
Reception
Box office
The film made a profit of £22,500 by 1973. According to Kinematograph Weekly the film was considered a "money maker" at the British box office in 1962.
Critical response
The film holds an 86% "Certified Fresh" rating on the review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes. Critic Doug Cummings called it "an unusually literate and thematically nuanced genre film," adding, The disaster genre is not generally known for its insights into characters or its clever dialogue, but The Day the Earth Caught Fire is an admirable exception. Its attention to the inner and outer lives of its protagonists makes its physical doom an externalized metaphor for Stenning's personal life, off-kilter and spinning out of control, both fates equally weighted between hope and despair.
Reviewer Dennis Schwartz wrote, An intelligent low-budget sci-fi doomsday pic that gives us an authentic Fleet Street look at an old-fashioned newspaper office back in the day and a suspenseful scenario of the world tinkering on destruction as seen through the eyes of the newspaper. Val Guest ... efficiently directs by making good use of the atmospheric effects such as the extreme heat and mist on Londoners, which gives this fascinating story an eerie feel. Guest and Wolf Mankowitz write a taut screenplay, with an observant look at the London scene.
Paul Green, cited above, wrote in a 2005 commentary, London is on the cusp of the sixties, where protest and youth cultures are breaking through, but social and sexual mores are still semi-formalised and girls work in typing pools ... In a contemporary context of global warming, asymmetric warfare, nuclear proliferation and dwindling resources, the film's underlying optimism seems touching.
In August 2014 a restored version was screened at the British Museum's summer open air cinema.
Awards
Val Guest and Wolf Mankowitz received the 1962 BAFTA for Best Film Screenplay for The Day the Earth Caught Fire.
See also
List of apocalyptic films
List of nuclear holocaust fiction
"The Midnight Sun", an episode of The Twilight Zone with a similar premise
References
Further reading
External links
1960s British films
1960s disaster films
1960s English-language films
1960s science fiction films
1961 films
Apocalyptic films
British black-and-white films
British disaster films
British Lion Films films
British post-apocalyptic films
British science fiction films
Environmental films
Films about journalists
Films about nuclear war and weapons
Films about World War III
Films directed by Val Guest
Films scored by Monty Norman
Films set in Brighton
Films set in London
Films shot in East Sussex
Films shot in London
Films with screenplays by Wolf Mankowitz | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Day%20the%20Earth%20Caught%20Fire |
The term scout, as a description of a class of military aircraft, came into use shortly before the First World War, and initially referred to a fast (for its time), light (usually single-seated) unarmed reconnaissance aircraft. "Scout" types were generally adaptations of pre-war racing aircraft – although at least one (the Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.2) was specifically designed for the role. At this stage the possibility of air-to-air combat was considered highly speculative, and the speed of these aircraft relative to their contemporaries was seen as an advantage in gaining immunity from ground fire and in the ability to deliver timely reconnaissance reports.
Almost from the beginning of the war, various experiments were carried out in the fitting of armament to scouts to enable them to engage in air-to-air combat – by early 1916 several types of scout could fire a machine gun forwards, in the line of flight, thus becoming the first effective single-seat fighter aircraft – in effect, an entirely new class of aircraft. In French and German usage these types were termed "hunters" (chasseur, Jäger), but in the Royal Flying Corps and early Royal Air Force parlance "scout" remained the usual term for a single-seat fighter into the early 1920s. The term "fighter", or "fighting aircraft" was already current, but in this period referred specifically to a two-seater fighter such as the Sopwith 1½ Strutter or the Bristol Fighter.
This usage "scout" (or sometimes "fighting scout") for "single-seat fighter" can be found in many contemporary accounts, including fictional depictions of First World War air combat such as the Biggles books. These often refer to French or German "scouts" as well as British ones.
The usage also survives in some much later non-fictional writing on First World War aviation.
Examples of scouts
The Royal Aircraft Factory identified some of the designs as "Scout Experimental"
Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.2
Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.4
Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.4a
Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5 - although keeping the SE identifier, over 5000 were built
Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.6
Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.7
References
Military aircraft
Military aircraft of World War I | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scout%20%28aircraft%29 |
James Stewart, Duke of Ross (March 1476 – January 1504) was a Scottish prince, and the second son of King James III of Scotland and his wife, Margaret of Denmark. James was heir presumptive to his brother until his death, and was Archbishop of St Andrews and Lord Chancellor of Scotland.
Life
He was made Marquess of Ormond at his baptism. He was created Earl of Ross in 1481 after that title was forfeited to the crown by John, Lord of the Isles.
Of his father's three sons, James of Ross was the favourite. James III even tried to marry him to Edward IV's daughter, Catherine of York. This increasing preference shown to James of Ross was a factor in the rebellion of his elder brother (the future James IV) against their father; and later, as king, James IV was suspicious of his brother's loyalty.
Nonetheless, when the elder James succeeded to the crown in 1488, he raised James of Ross's title to Duke of Ross, aged 12.
Around May 1497, his brother the King nominated James of Ross (then 21 years old) to be Archbishop of St Andrews. King James thought that would keep James of Ross from rebelling against him. Also, James of Ross was a minor, and so the revenues of the archbishopric would be controlled by King James.
James of Ross also became Lord Chancellor of Scotland in 1502.
Name
He was one of three brothers, his two brothers being King James IV of Scotland and John Stewart, Earl of Mar. It may seem surprising that there were two brothers both called James, but in late medieval Scotland it was not uncommon to have two brothers, or occasionally even three, with the same Christian name.
Arms
The arms of James of Ross were: Quarterly 1st and 4th: Royal Arms of Scotland, 2nd: Gules, three lions rampant argent (Ross) 3rd: Or, three piles gules (Brechin)
References
James
Lord chancellors of Scotland
Court of James IV of Scotland
Abbots of Arbroath
Abbots of Dunfermline
Archbishops of St Andrews
James
James Stewart
Earls of Ross
Peers created by James III
15th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Scotland
16th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in Scotland
Chancellors of the University of St Andrews
1476 births
1504 deaths
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Sons of kings | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Stewart%2C%20Duke%20of%20Ross |
"All I Wanna Do" is a song performed by American singer and songwriter Sheryl Crow. It was written by Crow, David Baerwald, Bill Bottrell, and Kevin Gilbert, with lyrics adapted from Wyn Cooper's 1987 poem "Fun". Released in July 1994 by A&M, it was Crow's breakthrough hit from her 1993 debut album, Tuesday Night Music Club. The song is Crow's biggest US hit, peaking at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 for six consecutive weeks from October 8 to November 12, 1994, and it also topped the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart. It was the winner of the 1995 Grammy for Record of the Year and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and was nominated for Song of the Year.
In addition to its US success, "All I Wanna Do" peaked at number one in Australia for one week and in Canada for four weeks, also topping the RPM Adult Contemporary Tracks chart in the latter country. In New Zealand and the United Kingdom, it peaked at number four, and in Europe, it reached the top 10 in Austria, Flanders, France, Germany, Ireland, and the Netherlands. The accompanying music video was directed by David Hogan and Roman Coppola. Crow performed the song on her live album Sheryl Crow and Friends: Live from Central Park.
Background and structure
The lyrics of the song are based on the poem "Fun" by Wyn Cooper. Cooper was inspired to write the poem by a conversation at a bar with a friend and occasional writer, Bill Ripley, in which he said "All I want is to have a little fun before I die", which became the first line of the poem. In a 1994 interview, Cooper said: "The poem isn't really about him. Or me. They're different people. They're people you can sort of see as ... well ... objective correlatives. Symbols of people like us, or what we could have been, or what we would have become if we continued to drink and do nothing with our lives."
Toad Hall Studio, where the song was recorded, was next door to the Pasadena Playhouse. Crow's producer (Bottrell) discovered Cooper's poetry book The Country of Here Below in a nearby used bookstore in Pasadena, California. Crow had written a song called "I Still Love You" but was unhappy with its lyrics; she used its melody and adapted the poem for her lyrics to "All I Wanna Do".
The song earned Cooper considerable royalties and helped to promote his book, originally published in a run of only 500 copies in 1987, into multiple reprints. After the song became popular, Ripley brought an unsuccessful lawsuit against Cooper for some of the song's royalties, which ended their friendship.
The opening spoken line, "This ain't no disco", is a reference to the song "Life During Wartime" by Talking Heads.
In 1997, after attending a performance by Crow at the Rosemont Theatre in Illinois, veteran Chicago Tribune music critic Greg Kot called the song "a rewrite of Stealers Wheel's 'Stuck in the Middle with You'".
Critical reception
Larry Flick from Billboard wrote, "Critical darling is poised for a long-deserved top 40 breakthrough with this breezy hand-clapper. Crow has a friendly demeanor that adds extra bounce to a sweet instrumental setting of jangly guitars and toe-tapping beats. Live-sounding jam is a fitting soundtrack to a day at the beach or speeding down the highway with the top down." Troy J. Augusto from Cash Box felt it should have been the first single from Tuesday Night Music Club. "Devil-may-care lyrics ("I like a good beer-buzz, early in the morning"), a cool country twang and Sheryl's friendly vocal style should all spell hit for this feelin'-good number. Rock, country, adult and, particularly, hits radio should all find lots to love about this low-key frolic. Don't miss the live show." In a second single review, he noted, "Seriously infectious hook, simple yet clever instrumentation and Crow's likable personality all spell a winner here. A perfect summertime track, "All I Wanna Do" could well be the song that kicks off Sheryl's run at the big leagues." In his weekly UK chart commentary, James Masterton commented, that "All I Wanna Do" "certainly has potential to go further, not least with Lisa Loeb as a role model but my one overwhelming confession is that I honestly cannot see what all the fuss is about. It's a good record, but no more." Alan Jones from Music Week said "this cheery pop/rock smash is a wordy, but expertly delivered and invigorating confection with a catchy chorus." He added, "Brits may not smile as much as US rock buyers, but they'll grin enough to get this into the chart."
Music video
The accompanying music video for "All I Wanna Do" was directed by David Hogan and Roman Coppola, with Martin Coppen directing photography. It features Crow and her band performing the song on the street, with notable characters flying through the air. The video was filmed in front of the Roxy Theatre at the corner of Franklin Street and North 1st Street in Clarksville, Tennessee.
Two versions of the music video exist. The original video featured the character "Billy", mentioned in the song, played by actor Gregory Sporleder. A second version of the video was released with the character's appearances edited out. The edited version appears on Crow's "Greatest Hits" music video DVD. In 2009, an additional music video was released, featured on the 2009 re-release of Tuesday Night Music Club.
Impact and legacy
In 2017, Billboard ranked "All I Wanna Do" number three on their list of the "10 Greatest Sheryl Crow Songs". In 2023, The Guardian ranked the song number five on their list of the "20 Greatest Sheryl Crow Songs", while Billboard ranked it number 405 in their "500 Best Pop Songs of All Time". The latter added, "Well, it ain’t no disco and it ain’t no country club neither — it’s the L.A.-set slice-of-life breakout hit for singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow, a “Piano Man” for the alt-rock ’90s."
Track listings
US cassette single (cat. no. 31458 0702 4)
"All I Wanna Do" (Remix)
"Solidify"
French CD single (cat. no. 580-654-2)
"All I Wanna Do"
"What I Can Do for You" – Live at the Borderline
German CD single (cat. no. 580-655-2)
"All I Wanna Do"
"I Shall Believe" – Live in Nashville
"What I Can Do for You" – Live at the Borderline
UK CD 1 (cat. no. 580-843-2)
"All I Wanna Do" – Remix
"Solidify"
"I'm Gonna Be A Wheel Someday"
European CD single (cat. no. 580-844-2)
"All I Wanna Do"
UK CD 2 (cat. no. 580-845-2)
"All I Wanna Do" – live acoustic for Virgin Radio UK
"Run Baby Run" – Live acoustic for Virgin Radio UK
"Leaving Las Vegas" – Live acoustic for Virgin Radio UK
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Certifications
Release history
Cover versions
Amy Studt version
English singer-songwriter Amy Studt released a cover version of "All I Wanna Do" as her fourth single. Studt was asked personally by Sheryl Crow to record a cover of the song, and Crow provided backing vocals on the track.
Released on January 12, 2004, the single reached a peak of number 21 on the UK Singles Chart and number 25 on the Irish Singles Chart. It was taken from the re-release of her debut album, False Smiles. Following the peaking of "All I Wanna Do", Studt was dropped from her record label Polydor for poor sales.
Track listing
UK CD single
"All I Wanna Do"
"Forget It All"
"You're the Breeze"
"All I Wanna Do" (video)
Charts
Other versions
US singer Joanne Farrell released a dance version of the song in 1995. The song reached number 40 on the Billboard Dance Club Play chart; it also reached number 40 on the Official UK Singles Chart.
References
External links
Sheryl Crow songs
19 Recordings singles
1993 songs
1994 singles
2004 singles
A&M Records singles
Amy Studt songs
Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance
Grammy Award for Record of the Year
Music videos directed by David Hogan
Music videos directed by Roman Coppola
Number-one singles in Australia
Polydor Records singles
RPM Top Singles number-one singles
Song recordings produced by Bill Bottrell
Songs about alcohol
Songs about Los Angeles
Songs based on poems
Songs with feminist themes
Songs written by David Baerwald
Songs written by Kevin Gilbert (musician)
Songs written by Sheryl Crow | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All%20I%20Wanna%20Do%20%28Sheryl%20Crow%20song%29 |
"I Keep Forgettin" is a song by Chuck Jackson, written by Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller, and Gilbert Garfield. It appears on his second studio album Any Day Now. It peaked at No. 55 on the Billboard Top 100 and remained on the chart for 7 weeks. It did not chart on the R&B chart. This single is often cited as one of the most innovative yet least commercial singles written and produced by Leiber-Stoller.
In 1982, Michael McDonald released a song titled "I Keep Forgettin' (Every Time You're Near)". The song's similarity to Jackson's "I Keep Forgettin'" resulted in Leiber and Stoller being given a songwriting credit.
Track listing
"I Keep Forgettin'" (Jerry Leiber, Mike Stoller, Garfield) – 2:43
"Who's Gonna Pick Up the Pieces" (Florence Green, Van McCoy) – 2:47
Chart performance
Cover versions
The Artwoods recorded a version of the song for their 1966 album Art Gallery.
Checkmates, Ltd. featuring lead singer Sonny Charles recorded a version for their 1969 album Love Is All We Have to Give produced by Phil Spector. They released it as a single in 1970, but it did not chart.
Procol Harum recorded a version of the song. It appeared on the album Procol's Ninth, released in 1975 and produced by Leiber/Stoller.
Roger Chapman recorded a live version for his 1979 album Live in Hamburg.
Ringo Starr recorded a version of the song for his 1983 album Old Wave.
David Bowie recorded a version of the song for his 1984 album Tonight.
Joe Cocker recorded a version of the song for his 2004 album Heart & Soul.
References
1962 songs
1962 singles
1970 singles
Songs written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
Chuck Jackson songs
Checkmates, Ltd. songs
David Bowie songs
Ringo Starr songs
A&M Records singles
Wand Records singles | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%20Keep%20Forgettin%27 |
Edgeborough School is a prep school near Farnham, Surrey in England. It is currently attended by ~360 kids between 2 and 13. The Head is Daniel Cox, former Deputy Head of Lambrook School, Ascot.
Overview
Edgeborough became co-educational in 1992 and celebrated its centenary in 2006. The Head is Daniel Cox, former Deputy Head of Lambrook School, Ascot. Its grounds measure ~50 acres, including parts of its. Frensham Place, a former country house
The school is divided into four departments: Nursery, Pre-Prep, Lower Prep and Upper Prep, age-appropriate in terms of staffing, curriculum and resources. French is available starting at age three. Latin is also taught to students at least nine years of age. ICT, music, drama, art, pottery and design technology are also taught at Edgeborough School.
The school offers extracurricular sporting activities including athletics, badminton, basketball, canoeing, a climbing wall, cricket, cross country, football, golf, gymnastics, hockey, lacrosse, martial arts, netball, rounders, rugby, swimming, table tennis, tennis and volleyball
Facilities
Buildings and grounds include a floodlit astroturf pitch, theatre, dance studio, chapel and an open-air swimming pool. In addition, there are several pitches and two cricket pavilions, an astro cricket strip one of which has a mechanical score board. In the year 2000, the school underwent a building and rebuilding program, replacing its library and building its science labs. The Year-6-to-8 classroom block was renovated and a dance studio was built.
History
Edgeborough was established in 1906 in Guildford as a small, privately owned boarding school for boys. It moved to its present site in Frensham in 1939. It became a charitable trust in 1966, and co-education was introduced in 1992 when the Pre-Prep and Nursery departments were opened.
Frensham Place, which now houses the school's weekly boarders, was built about 1880. It is an imposing stone building with shaped gables which the school has not had listed. Two cottages by the walled garden area were designed by the architect Edwin Lutyens. Frensham Place was the former home of the Woodroffe family, and the house's chapel was the first place of worship for Catholics from Farnham since the Reformation. Local masses were celebrated by the Woodroffe's chaplain Father Gerin, who had come to Farnham in 1888 to escape persecution in France.
The building was also the former home of the newspaper proprietor and magnate Sir Cyril Arthur Pearson, the founder of the Daily Express. Pearson died at the house after hitting his head on the bath tap. The contents of the house, including all Pearson's furniture and pictures, were put up for sale in 1913.
Frensham Place was also the birthplace of Count Antoine Seilern, one of the most noted art collectors of the twentieth century. He was born at the house on 17 September 1901, the son of an Austrian nobleman Count Carl Seilern and his American wife Antoinette Woerishoffer.
Notable alumni
Keith Douglas, poet
Sir John Bertrand Gurdon, Nobel Prize Winner 2012. Developmental biologist.
B. H. Liddell Hart, soldier, military historian and inter-war theorist
Wilfred St Aubyn Malleson, recipient of the Victoria Cross at Gallipoli
Toby Roberts climber
Murray Seasongood, politician and former mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio
John Strachey, politician
Bob Tisdall, Olympic gold medalist hurdler
References
External links
Edgeborough School website
Preparatory schools in Surrey
Boarding schools in Surrey
Educational institutions established in 1906
1906 establishments in England
Farnham | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgeborough%20School |
B.C. Bill is a 2D action video game published by Imagine Software in 1984. It was released for the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, TRS-80 Color Computer, Dragon 32/64 and BBC Micro.
Gameplay
The player controls the eponymous B.C. Bill, a caveman, and must gather wives and enough food to feed his growing family, while avoiding predatory dinosaurs. Bill is armed with a club, which he uses to stun cavewomen and to kill a variety of roaming creatures. Smaller creatures may be dragged back to the cave as food, whereas larger dinosaurs will eat potential wives and food, and will kill Bill on contact. Bill can die from a broken heart if too many wives leave the cave, and from starvation if he is unable to provide enough food to feed himself and his family.
The seasons change, which affect the number and variety of food animals and also act as an internal gameplay timer: in spring, every wife who has food will produce a child, while in autumn any wife with no food will die and any child with no food will leave home.
Development
B.C. Bill was developed in the UK by Creative Technology Group, and was published in the UK by Imagine Software in 1984 and in Spain by ABC Soft. Versions of the game were developed and released for the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, TRS-80, Dragon 32/64 and BBC Micro home computers.
The game was the last title published by Imagine, which was wound up in July 1984 due to unpaid debts of £10,000. Prior to the company's collapse Beau Jolly acquired the rights to market Imagine's games, so after the company's demise Beau Jolly took over marketing and distribution of B.C. Bill.
Reception
The game received generally favourable reviews at release, with reviewers variously praising its graphics, sound and playability. Looking back at the game in 2010, however, Retro Gamer described it as "an exceedingly poor game".
While reviewers praised the gameplay, the game has been criticised by both contemporary and modern reviewers for its sexist subject matter, as a core element of gameplay involves the protagonist clubbing women and then dragging them by the hair into his cave to become his wife. Your Sinclair's (then Your Spectrum) Ron Smith speculated that this might have been deliberate on the part of Imagine, and Imagine's Tim Best appeared to confirm this, saying that he expected the "Greenham Common women" to take up residence outside Imagine's Liverpool offices.
References
External links
1984 video games
Action games
BBC Micro and Acorn Electron games
Commodore 64 games
Dragon 32 games
Imagine Software games
Prehistoric people in popular culture
Single-player video games
TRS-80 Color Computer games
Video games about dinosaurs
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
Video games scored by Fred Gray
Video games set in prehistory
ZX Spectrum games | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B.C.%20Bill |
Michelle Sweeney is a Canadian actress and soul singer. Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, she moved to Montreal, Quebec in the 1980s to perform with the Montreal Jubilation Gospel Choir, and has remained based in Montreal since.
In addition to performing jazz, soul and blues music, she appeared alongside Ranee Lee and Anthony Sherwood in a 1986 production of Ain't Misbehavin'. She formed her own group, Michelle Sweeney's Good News Singers, in 1987, and released her first recorded single, "Our Love", that year. In 1988, she appeared on Quebec television alongside Céline Dion and Johanne Blouin, performing a medley of "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In" from the musical Hair with "Quand on arrive en ville" from the musical Starmania, which saw Sweeney widely labelled as the star performer of the show.
In 1989 she starred in a production of the jazz review Eubie!, and the following year she appeared as a tour guide in the docufiction film The Company of Strangers. She has also had selected other film and television roles throughout her career, most notably in a regular role as school principal Mrs. Morton in the Canadian teen comedy series Student Bodies from 1997 to 2000.
In 1998 she appeared in a production of the HIV/AIDS-themed musical Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens.
In 2000, Sweeney won the Martin Luther King Jr. Achievement Award for her career achievements.
In 2020 Sweeney premiered her own original one-woman show Her Songs, My Story, in which she blends performances of the music of Aretha Franklin with personal reminiscences of her own life, including the revelation that she suffered for many years as a victim of domestic abuse in her prior marriage.
References
External links
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Canadian film actresses
Canadian television actresses
Canadian musical theatre actresses
Canadian jazz singers
Canadian blues singers
Canadian gospel singers
Canadian rhythm and blues singers
Canadian soul singers
Canadian women jazz singers
20th-century Black Canadian women singers
Black Canadian actresses
Actresses from Montreal
Anglophone Quebec people
Singers from Montreal
People from Cleveland
American emigrants to Canada
21st-century Black Canadian women singers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle%20Sweeney |
Brenda Wootton (née Ellery) (10 February 1928 – 11 March 1994) was a British folk singer and poet and was seen as an ambassador for Cornish tradition and culture in all the Celtic nations and as far as Australia and Canada.
Early life
Brenda Ellery was born in London, during a brief few months when her Cornish-born parents were there looking for work, but was back home in Cornwall at 6 months old. She grew up in the fishing village of Newlyn. In 1948 she married John Wootton, a radio engineer from Wolverhampton, and their daughter Susan was born in 1949. They lived in Sennen, then Penzance, with Brenda running a bed and breakfast business and very involved in amateur dramatics. In 1964 she switched careers and helped her brother Peter Ellery set up his Tremaen Pottery business - becoming a director and running the family shop in Penzance, Tremaen Craft Market.
She first found her voice as a young schoolgirl, singing in chapel choirs and village halls in the remote communities of West Cornwall. Brenda became active on the Cornish music scene in the early 1960s, taking over the recently formed Count House Folk Music Club at Botallack near St Just in 1967, to found her own Pipers Folk Club, at St Buryan, Cornwall. She was later able to move Pipers back to the Count House, and subsequently into Penzance at the Western Hotel.
Singing career
In 1973 she was introduced to Richard Gendall, who taught her two songs in Cornish to sing at that year's Pan Celtic Festival in Killarney in Ireland, and she welcomed the opportunity to sing in Cornwall's own language, Kernewek, pledging to sing at least one song in Cornish at every concert. Richard wrote over 460 songs for Brenda, over 140 of them in the Cornish language. In 1974, Brenda handed Tremaen Craft Market over to daughter Sue to manage, and turned professional as a singer.
Her early albums were recorded on Cornwall's Sentinel label, often with John the Fish (John Langford), with whom she sang for six years. Brenda later sang with Robert Bartlett and with guitarists Pete Berryman, Mike Silver, Al Fenn, David Penhale and Chris Newman.
Her repertoire over the years covered folk, rock, blues, jazz and even hymns, but she is best remembered for her Cornish "standards" such as Lamorna, The White Rose, Camborne Hill, The Stratton Carol and the ballads Mordonnow, Tamar, Silver Net and Lyonesse, those last all written by Richard Gendall.
She was equally at home when singing in Cornish, Breton or English and was as famous in Brittany, which she visited regularly, as she was in her native Cornwall. She appeared in the first ever Lorient Interceltic Festival in Brittany in the early 1970s. Brenda became famous throughout the world where she was welcomed by Cornish exiles and others, and sang at the Kernewek Lowender in South Australia three times, and in Canada, as well as across Europe. She reached number 1 in the pop charts in Japan with the maxi single 'Walk Across the World'.
Brenda was made a bard of the Gorsedh Kernow in 1977, and took as her bardic name Gwylan Gwavas (Gwavas Gull). In her later years, she became well known in Cornwall as a presenter for BBC Radio Cornwall where she hosted the popular weekly request show Sunday Best, until 1990. She was also the Honorary President of Radio Beacon, the hospital radio service for St Lawrences Hospital in Bodmin. She died at her home in Penzance aged 66, in March 1994. She had been ill for about five years, forcing her to gradually withdraw from the music scene.
Rediscovered Bobino tapes
In 2010 Wootton's recording engineer John Knight rediscovered the analogue master tapes of a live performance from June 1984, at the peak of her international career. The concert, which took place at the Bobino music hall theatre in Paris, featured Wootton with the Camborne Town Band, and musicians Ray Roberts, Dave Freeman and Chris Newman. The recording was subsequently digitally mastered and released as All of Me, featuring nineteen tracks and a sixteen-page booklet of unpublished photographs, many from Wootton's own private collection.
Legacy
In 2017, BBC Radio Cornwall awarded Brenda a Blue Plaque as Cornwall's best loved 'music legend', voted on by their listeners. In 2021, the Blue Plaque will be erected on the walls of the Count House at Botallack near St Just, the site of her Pipers Folk Club, and from where her music career began. Following on from her publication of Brenda's poems, 'Pantomime Stew', in 1995, Brenda's daughter Sue Ellery-Hill has privately produced three new CDs with recordings of Brenda old and new, many songs previously unheard. In 2018 she published her mother's biography 'Brenda: For the Love of Cornwall - the Life and Times of Brenda Wootton, Cornwall's First Lady of Song', and in 2021 has brought out a new Songbook with two CDs of Brenda singing in Kernewek, the Cornish language, all written for Brenda by Richard Gendall. A new project is now underway to produce a film, exhibition and archive of Brenda's life and music, being run by Bosena in Penzance. The exhibition will run in October 2021.
Recordings
Singles and EPs
"Apple Wine / Silver Net", Transatlantic, 1979
"Berceuses Celtiques Iles Britanniques" (EP), (with pop-up cover), Le Chant du Monde: 100406, CM 650, 1981
"Hark the Glad Sound", RCA Victor: PB 61264, 1983
"Dus Tre" / "Paris - What's In A Name?" (Promo), RCA: DB 61311, 1984
"Tamar" / "Waiting for the Tide" / "Towl Ros" / "Kenavo Dewgenoughwhy" (French promo), Disc'Az: 1061, 1986
"Everybody Knows" Maxi Single 45rpm, Edition23 France, EDM039
Albums
Piper's Folk, with John the Fish & Piper's Folk, (Private pressing, produced & distributed by Piper's Folk), 1968
Pasties & Cream, with John the Fish, Sentinel Records, SENS 1006, 1971
Way Down to Lamorna, Sentinel, SENS 1056, 1972
Crowdy Crawn, with Richard Gendall, Sentinel, SENS 1016, 1973
Pamplemousse, with Robert Bartlett, Barclay (French label), 1973
No Song To Sing, with Robert Bartlett and "guest" Alex Atterson on piano, Sentinel, SENS 1021, 1974
Tin in the Stream, with Robert Bartlett, Stockfisch (German label), 1974 (voted West Germany's folk album of the year)
Starry Gazey Pie, with Robert Bartlett, Sentinel, SENS 1031, 1975
Children Singing, with Richard Gendall, Sentinel, SENS 1036, 1976
Carillon, Transatlantic Records, TRA 360, 1979
Boy Jan ... Cornishman, with David Penhale (voice, guitar and bouzouki) and Richard Gendall (composer), Burlington Records, BURL 005, 1980
La Grande Cornouaillaise, Burlington Records, BURL 007, 1980
Gwavas Lake, with The Four Lanes Male Choir, Burlington Records, BURL 008, 1980
Lyonesse, with David King (acoustic guitar), RCA, PL 70299, 1982
My Land, RCA, PL 70234, 1983
B Comme Brenda, Disc'Az (French label), AZ 494, 1985
Tamar, Disc'Az, AZ 505, 1986
The Voice of Cornwall, Keltia Musique KMCD67, 1996
All of Me, with Brenda's Trio and Camborne Town Band Label- Knight Design, Cat. No. KDBWAOM00001 Dec. 2010.
Brenda At Buryan: Live At Pipers Folk Club St. Buryan 1967 with John the Fish (2013 CD)
Brenda at Christmas (2017 CD)
Brenda Sings Ballads (2019 CD)
Brenda Yn Kernewek: Brenda sings over 30 of Richard Gendall's songs in Cornish (2021 Songbook + 2 CDs)
Publications
Pantomime Stew – An Anthology of Poetry, Doggerel and Nonsense by Brenda Wootton (Book, 1995, Publ. privately)
Brenda: For the Love of Cornwall - The Life & Times of Brenda Wootton, Cornwall's First Lady of Song (Biography Book, 2018 TJINK Publ.)
Brenda Yn Kernewek: Brenda sings over 30 of Richard Gendall's songs in Cornish (2021 Songbook + 2 CDs)
See also
References
External links
Official Brenda Wootton website
Brenda Wootton Paris concert unearthed at bbc.co.uk
Cornwall Heritage Trust: Blue Plaque for Brenda
Cornwall National Music Archive
Bosena's Brenda Wootton page: Mordonnow
1928 births
1994 deaths
Bards of Gorsedh Kernow
Cornish-speaking people
People from Newlyn
Cornish folk singers
English people of Cornish descent
20th-century English singers
Transatlantic Records artists
20th-century English women singers
20th-century English musicians | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brenda%20Wootton |
Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend is a 1985 American adventure fantasy film directed by Bill L. Norton and starring William Katt, Sean Young, Patrick McGoohan, and Julian Fellowes. The film follows paleontologist Susan Matthews-Loomis and her husband George, who stumble upon Brontosaurus on an expedition in Central Africa while trying to track down a local monster. The two are pursued by the African military in an attempt to protect a baby dino and its parents.
Produced by Walt Disney Studios and released on its Touchstone Films label, it was first released on March 22, 1985. A recut version was broadcast on American television by NBC in 1989 under the title Dinosaur...Secret of the Lost Legend as part of The Magical World of Disney.
Plot
During an expedition into Central Africa, paleontologist Dr. Susan Matthews-Loomis and her husband George Loomis attempt to track down evidence of a local monster legend. The monster, which the local natives refer to as "Mokele-mbembe", shares many characteristics with the Sauropod order of dinosaurs. During the expedition, they discover Brontosaurus in the deep jungle and are further amazed when the animals show very little fear of them. The couple begins observing the creatures and become especially enamored with the curious young offspring of the pair, whom they nickname "Baby". Unfortunately, the discovery soon places the dinosaurs in jeopardy from both the local military as well as fellow scientist Dr. Eric Kiviat.
Whereas Dr. Kiviat sees Baby and his parents as his ticket to fame and fortune, the African military led by Colonel Nsogbu sees the dinosaurs as a threat and makes several attempts to destroy them. During one such attempt, the adult male Brontosaurus is killed and the adult female captured. The Loomises are able to escape with Baby, but quickly find themselves lost in the jungle while being pursued by Colonel Nsogbu's forces. After finally escaping their pursuers, the pair decide to circle back and rescue the female adult Brontosaurs, whom Dr. Kiviat has persuaded Colonel Nsogbu to transport back to civilization.
With the aid of the local tribe – who see Baby and his parents as legends – George and Susan are able to break into the military compound and release the mother Brontosaurus. During the escape, both Kiviat and Nsogbu are killed. Afterwards, the Loomises take the pair to a secluded jungle lagoon and say a tearful goodbye to Baby as he follows his mother away into the deeper parts of the jungle.
Cast
William Katt as George Loomis
Sean Young as Dr. Susan Matthews-Loomis
Patrick McGoohan as Dr. Eric Kiviat
Julian Fellowes as Nigel Jenkins
Kyalo Mativo as Cephu
Hugh Quarshie as Kenge Obe
Olu Jacobs as Col. Nsogbu
Eddie Tagoe as Sgt. Gwambe
Edward Hardwicke as Dr. Pierre Dubois
Soundtrack
The score to Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend, a hybrid of orchestral and synthetic elements, was composed and conducted by veteran composer Jerry Goldsmith. Goldsmith recalled the experience with such fondness that he insisted it be included in an industry tribute album featuring highlights from his scores in 1993. A limited extended soundtrack was released 8 April 2008 through Intrada Records and features sixteen tracks of score at a running time just over fifty-three minutes.
"The Sketch" (0:44)
"No Problem" (0:44)
"The Visitors" (2:27)
"New Friends #1" (1:17)
"New Friends #2" (0:33)
"The Family" (4:04)
"Dad" (7:10)
"Tears" (1:25)
"The Tent" (2:53)
"Dragon Breath" (6:48)
"The Search" (3:09)
"The Jump" (4:31)
"The Captives" (2:01)
"Base Camp Assault" (4:15)
"The Rescue" (3:37)
"Just a Legend" (7:31)
Reception
Colin Greenland reviewed Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend for Imagine magazine, and stated that "proves that the Walt Disney formula can even make a brontosaurus cute."
Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend received generally negative reviews. The film holds a 12% rating on review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes based on 17 reviews.
See also
List of films featuring dinosaurs
References
External links
1985 films
1980s fantasy adventure films
American fantasy adventure films
1980s English-language films
English-language Ivorian films
Films set in Africa
Films shot in California
Touchstone Pictures films
Films scored by Jerry Goldsmith
Films shot in Ivory Coast
Films directed by Bill L. Norton
1980s American films
Films about Brontosaurus | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby%3A%20Secret%20of%20the%20Lost%20Legend |
A banquette is a small footpath or elevated step along the inside of a rampart or parapet of a fortification. Musketeers atop it were able to view the counterscarp, or fire on enemies in the moat. A typical size is a foot and a half (approximately half a metre) high, and almost three feet (approximately 90 cm) wide.
See also
List of established military terms
References
Castle architecture | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banquette |
Kivisuo is a village in the municipality of Joutsa in middle-Finland.
It is located about 10 kilometers east from Leivonmäki. The village has a population of about 60 inhabitants.
References
Kivisuo kansallispuistokylä - Official homepages of Kivisuo (in Finnish)
Villages in Finland
Joutsa | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kivisuo |
The function of the vertex pipeline in any GPU is to take geometry data (usually supplied as vector points), work with it if needed with either fixed function processes (earlier DirectX), or a vertex shader program (later DirectX), and create all of the 3D data points in a scene to a 2D plane for display on a computer monitor.
It is possible to eliminate unneeded data from going through the rendering pipeline to cut out extraneous work (called view volume clipping and backface culling). After the vertex engine is done working with the geometry, all the 2D calculated data is sent to the pixel engine for further processing such as texturing and fragment shading.
As of DirectX 9c, the vertex processor is able to do the following by programming the vertex processing under the Direct X API:
Displacement mapping
Geometry blending
Higher-order primitives
Point sprites
Matrix stacks
External links
Anandtech Article
3D computer graphics
Graphics standards | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertex%20pipeline |
"Misfit" is a song by English singer Amy Studt, released as the second single from her debut album, False Smiles (2003), on 9 June 2003. The song reached number six on the UK Singles Chart and is Studt's most successful single to date. It was also her most successful single internationally, peaking within the top 50 in Australia, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Sweden.
Chart performance
"Misfit" is Studt's most successful single in the UK and internationally, debuting at number six on the UK Singles Chart and staying in the top 75 for 10 weeks. Internationally, "Misfit" reached number 11 in the Netherlands, number 17 in Ireland, number 32 in Sweden, and number 48 in Australia.
Music video
The video was directed by Sophie Muller, who directed the video for her last single Just a Little Girl, and produced by Dawn Rose. The video was filmed at Eagle Rock High School in Los Angeles, California. American actress Danielle Panabaker appears in the video as a schoolgirl.
The video begins with Amy walking to school, before getting tripped up and pushed around when she gets in. She flees to the bathroom, and then imagines herself performing. Then she is shown in a dormitory with her in a nightdress. All the girls are crowding around her, and she doesn't seem to like it so she climbs on top of a cupboard. She is then shown dancing with some other girls imagining herself to be like everybody else, which clearly displeases her. Then she proceeds to dance by herself in her own unique way, until some people in suits drive up to the school, presumably talent scouts, see her and start shooting pictures with her, and the other girls are seen to be crying. At the end she is seen back on top of the cupboard smiling.
Track listings
UK and Australian CD single
"Misfit" – 3:28
"Queen A" – 3:40
"Put Your Faith in Me" – 4:23
"Misfit" (video) – 3:28
UK cassette single and European CD single
"Misfit" – 3:28
"Put Your Faith in Me" – 4:23
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
Release history
References
19 Recordings singles
2003 singles
2003 songs
Amy Studt songs
Music videos directed by Sophie Muller
Polydor Records singles
Songs written by Amy Studt
Songs written by David Eriksen
Songs written by Karen Poole | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misfit%20%28Amy%20Studt%20song%29 |
The upaupa (often written as upa upa) is a traditional dance from Tahiti. It was mentioned by European explorers, who described it as very indecent. It is not quite clear how similar the gestures at that time were with the now immensely popular tāmūrē. In both dances the performers form groups of pairs of a boy and a girl, dancing more or less in sexually oriented movements.
History
After having arrived on Tahiti in 1797, the LMS missionaries quickly intimidated the local rulers of the island and fixed themselves in a position of power. Although this enabled them to abolish such habits as infanticide, cannibalism and tribal wars, it also enabled them to introduce the idea of sin, which was unknown on Tahiti until then. The joy of dancing, so dear to the Polynesian heart, was one of the first to be axed. The famous Pōmare code of 1819 declared the upaupa (and tattooing in the same line) to be bad and immoral habitudes, severely to be opposed. The Leewards followed suit soon after. But dancing continued in secret.
In the code of 1842 many restrictions were relaxed, but the upaupa (the general term for dancing then) remained on the black list. In the same year the French proclaimed the protectorate. Being Catholic with some broader views on life than the Protestants, and considering that 'if you cannot beat them, join them', they proclaimed in the official bulletin of 1849 that the upaupa was still forbidden, except on public feastdays, but then still without the indecent gestures. The act of 1853, repeated in 1876 was more restrictive. In the hope that the Tahitians would spend their time on more pious occupations than dancing and drinking, a system of licences was introduced. A license could only be obtained by a chef and only on Saturday evenings.
Despite all these restrictions, dancing went on, less secret or more secret depending on the law at that moment. Nevertheless, many years of suppression had left a mark on it, and although the idea and the steps were still there, the upaupa of the old did not really exist anymore.
In the beginning of the 20th century Tahitian dances were only performed on such festivities as 14 July and saw an evolution into what they have become nowadays. Around 1900 the traditional costumes came back, and although they still looked more like mother Hubbard dresses or ponchos, at least they were made of traditional materials. Around 1920 strips of raffia were added, which soon would develop into the characteristic more or grass skirt (in reality made from hibiscus fibers) of Tahiti. The bare torso (for men only) became acceptable. Prizes started to be awarded to the best dancers on a festival. But it was not until 1956 that Madeleine Moua organised a dance group, called the , of which Terii and Takau, daughters of the last queen of Tahiti became patrons. Finally then traditional dancing had the blessing from the establishment.
The opening of Faaa international airport in 1961 and the real start of the tourist industry on Tahiti made all the dances which had come forth from the upaupa a part of daily life once more.
See also
List of dances
References
Patrick O'Reilly; La danse à Tahiti
Dances of Tahiti
Polynesian clothing
Prohibitionism | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27upa%27upa |
Fearless Records is an American independent record label that was founded in 1994. Fearless is based in Culver City, California, and is best known for its early pop punk moments captured in the Fearless Flush Sampler and Punk Bites releases, as well as additional releases by bands such as Bigwig and Dynamite Boy; and later Sugarcult; Plain White T's; The Aquabats; Amely; and post-hardcore releases by At the Drive-In and Anatomy of a Ghost. However, the label has experimented with different styles in recent years. Acts such as Blessthefall, The Word Alive, Ice Nine Kills, Mayday Parade, Pierce The Veil, Starset, The Pretty Reckless, Underoath and The Color Morale have showcased post-hardcore, metalcore, hard rock and alternative rock bands that have emerged in recent years. Fearless Records' releases were distributed in the US by RED Distribution, but after Concord Music Group's purchase of the label in 2015, it is now distributed by Universal Music Group worldwide.
History
Bob Becker started Fearless Records when he was selling his friends records at their shows. He would also go to record stores and put their records on consignment. The record label name came from Becker not knowing what he was doing at the time and "not being afraid to jump in head first." Fearless Records was officially formed in 1994.
In 2000, Fearless Records released Punk Goes Metal, the first compilation album from the Punk Goes... series. Since then the Punk Goes... series has expanded. It has included seven Punk Goes Pop releases, two Punk Goes Acoustic releases, Punk Goes 80's and 90's, Punk Goes Crunk, Punk Goes Classic Rock, and Punk Goes X which features cover songs that were featured at the 2011 Winter X Games. Punk Goes Pop 5 was released on November 6, 2012. On January 1, 2014, Fearless Records released a video on their page on YouTube announcing bands that will be releasing albums in 2014 and also announced Fearless Records' compilation of Punk Goes 90's 2.
In 2005, Fearless Records released the studio album All That We Needed by Plain White T's, a thirteen-song collection that proved to be a breakthrough for both the label and the Illinois-based band. "Hey There Delilah", a single from that album, reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, became a success for the label and was certified as a multi-platinum single.
On November 8, 2010, Fearless announced the release of a Christmas-themed compilation album, titled 'Tis the Season to Be Fearless. It would feature eight of their signed artists recording original songs. The album was available for pre-ordering on iTunes the same day, and was released on November 22, 2010. Three years later, Fearless Records released Punk Goes Christmas featuring original & cover tracks from All Time Low, Issues, New Found Glory, and more.
In 2011, Fearless Records released Breathe Carolina's album Hell Is What You Make It. "Blackout", a single from the album, became another success for the label. It debuted at No. 32 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was certified as a gold single.
In October 2012, Fearless Records announced that they had launched a sister label called "Old Friends Records", which would sign more indie rock artists including Hellogoodbye. In November 2013, Fearless Records announced a second imprint label called "Outerloop Records", along with their first signing Ice Nine Kills.
The label, with a back-catalog of about 150 albums, was acquired by Concord Bicycle Music in May 2015 for an estimated $10,000,000.
Artists
Current
American Teeth
As It Is
Archetypes Collide
Boys Like Girls
Capstan
Chunk! No, Captain Chunk!
Chase Atlantic
Don Broco
Eat Your Heart Out
Flat Black
Grayscale
I Prevail
Ice Nine Kills
Locket
Lexquisite Douleur
Movements
My Enemies & I
My Kid Brother
NOT A TOY
Kill the Lights
Oceans Ate Alaska
Parting Gift
Pierce the Veil
Plain White T's
The Plot in You
The Pretty Reckless
Starset
Until I Wake
Varials
Volumes
Windwaker
Wage War
Old Friends Records artists
Carousel
Hellogoodbye
The Static Jacks
Wild Party
Former
30 Foot Fall
Alesana
The Almighty Trigger Happy
The Almost
Anatomy of a Ghost
Amely
The Aquabats
Artist vs. Poet
August Burns Red
A Skylit Drive
A Static Lullaby
At the Drive-In
Bazookas Go Bang!
Beefcake
Bickley
Bigwig
Blessthefall
Blount
Brazil
Breathe Carolina
Brightwell
Chuck
Classic Case
The Color Morale
Cruiserweight
Dead Lazlo's Place
The Downtown Fiction
Drunk In Public
Dynamite Boy
Every Avenue
Eve 6
Eye Alaska
Family Values
Fed Up
Follow My Lead
For All Those Sleeping
Forever the Sickest Kids
The Fully Down
Gatsbys American Dream
Get Scared
Glasseater
Glue Gun
Gob
Go Radio
Grabbers
I Dont Know How But They Found Me
Invisible Boss
Jason Lancaster
Junction 18
Jakiro
Keepsake
The Killing Moon
The Kinison
Knockout
Let's Get It
Logan Square
Lonely Kings
Lostprophets
The Maine
Mayday Parade
Milestones
The Morning Light
Motionless in White
Motherfist
Near Miss
Nipdrivers
The Outline
Patton Thomas
Portugal. The Man
Real Friends
Red Fish
Rock Kills Kid
RPM
Set It Off
So They Say
Sparks the Rescue
Starset
The Starting Line
Straight Faced
Sugarcult
Superman Please Don't
The Summer Set
Sworn In
Tonight Alive
Underoath
Upon This Dawning
The White Noise
The Word Alive
Whitekaps (also known as White Caps)
Yesterdays Rising
Discography
See also
List of record labels
References
External links
Punknews.org Entry on Fearless Records
Record labels established in 1994
1994 establishments in California
Record labels based in California
Companies based in Culver City, California
Rock record labels
Alternative rock record labels
Punk record labels
Pop record labels
Heavy metal record labels
Post-hardcore record labels
Pop punk record labels | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fearless%20Records |
Molly Stark, née Elizabeth Page (February 16, 1737 – June 29, 1814) was the wife of General John Stark, made famous by his battle cry during the American Revolutionary War. Described as "mother of 11 children, homemaker, patriot, and defender of the household", there are locations and landmarks named for her in at least four states.
Biography
Elizabeth Page was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, on February 16, 1737, to Puritans Caleb Page and Elizabeth Merrill. Her father was "a successful merchant, militia captain, and surveyor." Her mother died when she was five, and she was adopted by her aunt, Ruth Wallingford, a widow with 10 children of her own. She spent 10 years with the Wallingfords, then returned to live with her father in Starkstown (current Dunbarton, New Hampshire) in 1752 at the age of 15. Her father owned slaves, which was not common in New Hampshire. She married John Stark on August 20, 1758; it was apparently John Stark who gave his wife the nickname of "Molly". Together they had 11 children, including their eldest son, Caleb Stark.
Molly Stark gained historical notoriety due to her husband's battle call of "There are your enemies, the Red Coats and the Tories. They are ours, or this night Molly Stark sleeps a widow!" before engaging with the British and Hessian army in the Battle of Bennington. Stark is also known for her success as a nurse to her husband's troops during a smallpox epidemic and for opening their home as a hospital during the war. In late November 1778, she petitioned the New Hampshire Court "praying for leave to inoculate herself and family for the Small Pox," but her request was denied by authorities who feared it could spread the disease. She died on June 29, 1814, and was interred in Manchester, New Hampshire.
Legacy
Molly Stark's name remains in popular use on "a dizzying array of schools, parks, streets and businesses of every description bearing her name", "for reasons never fully explained by anyone".
Vermont
Stark is honored in Vermont by the Molly Stark State Park in Wilmington, and a statue of Stark holding a child and musket in downtown Wilmington near the Deerfield River. Also named for her is the Molly Stark Trail, otherwise known as Route 9, which crosses southern Vermont and commemorates the route used by General Stark on his victory march home from the Battle of Bennington. There is also a Molly Stark Elementary School in Bennington. Molly Stark Mountain is one of the Green Mountain peaks on the Long Trail, just south of Camel's Hump and north of Route 17; the adjacent peak is Baby Stark.
New Hampshire
The Molly Stark House still stands in Dunbarton at Page's Corner, denoted by a New Hampshire historical marker (number 111); it was added to the New Hampshire State Register of Historic Places in 2003. The Molly Stark cannon, or "Old Molly", bears her name, and is kept by the New Boston Artillery Company, denoted by a New Hampshire historical marker (number 146). The Molly Stark Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution is located in Manchester.
Ohio
Numerous revolutionary war veterans settled in Ohio, so the General and his wife were honored there. Molly Stark Park is located in Nimishillen Township, Stark County, in northeastern Ohio. It is the grounds of the former Molly Stark Hospital, which served as a tuberculosis sanatorium between 1929 and 1956 and as a general hospital and geriatric facility until 1995. In 2008, the county park board offered to buy the hospital and its grounds for a dollar, and the county opened the first public park in the township in April 2009.
Minnesota
Molly Stark Lake in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, is named for her.
Notes
References
External links
Molly Stark Sanatorium at abandonedonline.net
Molly Stark State Park at Vermont State Parks
Molly Stark House Historical Marker at hmdb.org
Women in the American Revolution
People of colonial New Hampshire
People of New Hampshire in the American Revolution
People from Haverhill, Massachusetts
1737 births
1814 deaths
People from Dunbarton, New Hampshire | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly%20Stark |
Prosper Marketplace, Inc. is a San Francisco, California-based financial services company. Prosper Funding LLC, one of its subsidiaries, operates Prosper.com, a website where individuals can request to borrow money, open a credit card, or invest in personal loans.
Overview
Prosper Marketplace is America's first peer-to-peer lending marketplace, with over $23 billion in funded loans. Borrowers request personal loans on Prosper and investors (individual or institutional) can fund anywhere from $2,000 to $50,000 per loan request. Investors can consider borrowers’ credit scores, ratings, and histories and the category of the loan. Prosper handles the servicing of the loan and collects and distributes borrower payments and interest back to the loan investors.
Prosper verifies borrowers' identities and select personal data before funding loans and manages all stages of loan servicing. Prosper's unsecured personal loans are fully amortized over a period of three or five years, with no pre-payment penalties. Prosper generates revenue by collecting a one-time fee on funded loans from borrowers and assessing an annual loan servicing fee to investors.
From 2006 to 2009, Prosper operated a variable rate model. Prosper acted as an eBay-style online auction marketplace, with lenders and borrowers ultimately determining loan rates using a Dutch auction-like system. Effective December 19, 2010, Prosper filed a new prospectus with the SEC, changing its business model to use pre-set rates determined solely by Prosper based on a formula evaluating each prospective borrower's credit risk. Under the new approach, lenders no longer determine the loan rate via price discovery in an auction. Instead, they simply choose whether or not to invest at the rate which Prosper's loan pricing algorithm assigns to the loan after it analyzes the borrower's credit report and financial information.
The idea for the service is derived from group banking concepts, such as rotating savings and credit associations. Other motivating ideas derive from the concepts of microlending and microfinance.
Prosper publishes performance statistics on its website and all market data is available to the public for analysis. All transactions are in US dollars; lenders and borrowers must be US residents. Prosper's 10.69% annualized seasoned rate of return, net of fees, for the period of July 1, 2009 through September 30, 2011 was independently audited by Ashland Partners & Company LLP in December 2011.
In 2016, Prosper Marketplace unveiled Prosper Daily, a mobile app. The app is designed to give consumers tools to make financial decisions, including viewing all their financial accounts in one place, budgeting and tracking spending by category, identifying questionable charges, and monitoring their free credit score, which is updated monthly.
Prosper opened to the public on February 5, 2006, and was founded by Chris Larsen (the founder of E-loan) and John Witchel. Prosper is backed by BlackRock, Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners, Agilus Ventures, Benchmark Capital, CrossLink Capital, DAG Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Fidelity Ventures, Omidyar Network (an investment vehicle of eBay founder Pierre Omidyar), Meritech Capital Partners, TomorrowVentures (an investment vehicle of Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt), and QED Investors (an investment vehicle of Capital One co-founder Nigel Morris).
Evaluation of credit risk
Prosper has provided an increasing amount of information about prospective borrowers over time, while also making various changes to its credit policy. Prior to its 2008 'quiet period' and 2009 SEC registration, the company provided "Credit Grades" and other credit information about its prospective lenders. Following the SEC registration, the company created a new model that determined "Prosper Ratings" instead. Additionally, new prospective borrowers were required to have an FICO 8 credit score of at least 640, while returning borrowers only need a score of 600 to request a loan.
Prosper Ratings
Since its SEC registration in 2009, Prosper has provided a proprietary "Prosper Rating" for prospective borrowers based on the company's estimation of that borrower's "estimated loss rate." According to the company, that figure is "determined by two scores: (1) the credit score, obtained from an official credit reporting agency, and (2) the Prosper Score, figured in-house based on the Prosper population." Prosper Ratings, from lowest-risk to highest-risk, are labeled AA, A, B, C, D, E, and HR ("High Risk").
Business model
Prosper has a transaction-based business model, in which the company collects revenue by taking a fee on its customers' transactions. Borrowers who receive a loan, pay an origination fee of 1.00% to 5.00%, depending on the borrower's Prosper Rating, and investors pay a 1% annual servicing fee.
Secondary market / trading platform
As borrowers repay over the three, or five-year fixed term of their Prosper loan, payments are distributed to investors' accounts. This money may then be re-invested into new Prosper loans or withdrawn from Prosper by transfer into the bank accounts of the Prosper investors.
Prosper had developed a secondary market for note trading, in cooperation with Folio Investing. Through the secondary market platform, investors were able to buy and sell Prosper loans ("notes") at any time. However, Prosper declared in its prospective dated December 21, 2016, that its relationship with Folio Investing had terminated on October 31, 2016. Consequently, note purchasers were informed that they would have to hold their notes to maturity unless Prosper were to establish a new secondary market platform, for which it made no assurance.
Wells Fargo appears as a trustee in Prospers note indenture.
IRA investor accounts
As of March 1, 2012, Prosper allows tax-free or tax-deferred investment via self-directed IRA accounts. Traditional IRAs, Roth IRAs, SEP IRAs, and 401(k) Rollovers are supported through Prosper's IRA custodian partners Equity Institutional and Millennium Trust. The minimum investment required to open a self-directed Prosper IRA account is $5,000.
Financial structure of Prosper loans
According to the prospectus issued to investors on July 13, 2009, Prosper notes since relaunch are obligations of Prosper Marketplace and not of the original borrower. Prosper promises to pay the noteholder ("investor") the funds it receives from the underlying borrower. Noteholders of Prosper's "member payment dependent" notes are considered unsecured creditors of Prosper Marketplace with limited recourse against it. The Prospectus states that in the event Prosper becomes insolvent or declares bankruptcy, investors in Prosper notes may lose all or part of their investment even if the underlying borrower continues to pay. Investors' recourse in the event borrower-supplied information proves incorrect for any reason is also "extremely" limited. This structure is identical to that adopted by LendingClub after SEC registration.
Prosper credit card
In 2022, Forbes gave a negative review of the Prosper credit card. According to Forbes, "Prospering with the Prosper® Card* seems unlikely... We hope you live long and… well, apply for a different credit card."
Legal matters
SEC regulations
On November 24, 2008, the SEC found Prosper to be in violation of the Securities Act of 1933. As a result of these findings, the SEC imposed a cease and desist order on Prosper. Due primarily to the novel nature of the peer-to-peer lending models, the SEC, after review, now treats all peer-to-peer lending transactions as sales of securities and requires that all platforms register with the SEC.
In July 2009, Prosper reopened their website for lending ("investing") and borrowing after having obtained SEC registration for its loans ("notes"). After the relaunch, bidding on loans was restricted to residents of 28 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. Borrowers may reside in any of 47 states, with residents of three states (Iowa, Maine, and North Dakota) not permitted to borrow through Prosper.
Class-action lawsuit
On November 26, 2008, a class action lawsuit was filed against Prosper in the Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco, California. The suit was brought on behalf of all loan note purchasers in Prosper's online lending platform from January 1, 2006, through October 14, 2008, and alleges that Prosper offered and sold unqualified and unregistered securities in violation of the California and federal securities laws. The lawsuit seeks class certification, damages, the right of rescission and the award of attorneys’ fees.
Prosper's insurer, Greenwich Insurance Company, refused to pay for defense expenses, claiming the matters involved were not covered by the insurance policy. On December 14, 2010, Judge Richard A. Kramer of California Superior Court issued a tentative decision ruling for Prosper on this limited issue and holding that Greenwich is obligated to defend Prosper in the class-action suit and to reimburse Prosper's litigation expenses so far. Although the decision did not rule on the lawsuit itself or address whether Prosper might be entitled to insurance coverage in the event any of the lawsuit's claims proved meritorious, it relieved Prosper of significant legal expenses in the interim.
The lawsuit was settled July 19, 2013, for 10 million dollars paid in installments over three years.
Farook use of Prosper
In December 2015, the FBI reported that Syed Rizwan Farook, one of the shooters in the 2015 San Bernardino attack, had borrowed $28,500 from Prosper to finance the purchase of weapons and explosives. This was investigated by the FBI, the House Financial Services Committee, and the California Department of Business Oversight.
Market performance
Loan performance
Prosper maintains a full public database of all loans issued through its marketplace on its website. This database and all market statistics can be accessed and queried for analysis of loan performance over time. An interface to run complex performance queries is supported and allows investors (and the public) to look into the performance of any subset of loans over whatever time period they choose.
Prosper reports a 10.69% annualized seasoned rate of return, net of fees, for all loans issued from its re-opening after SEC registration (July 1, 2009) to the 30th of September, 2011. Prosper's returns for this period have been independently audited by Ashland Partners & Company LLP. A number of factors, including Prosper's decision to set the interest rates on all loans (rather than let investors choose the rates they would accept), occurred after Prosper registered with the SEC and began issuing new loan notes in July, 2009. Additionally, after Prosper began setting the rates on all loans itself, Prosper significantly tightened the minimum credit quality necessary for a borrower to receive a Prosper loan. Many borrowers who received loans prior to 2009 (which were priced by investors) would no longer qualify for a loan, at any rate, under Prosper's new underwriting policies.
Loan performance prior to July 2009
As of August 2008, approximately 18.5% of all money loaned through Prosper from inception (February 2006) through June 2008 were in some form of delinquency. Also, more than 35% of all loans that originated in February 2007 were in some form of delinquency.
As of January 24, 2010, Prosper reported that 22.45% of all money lent since inception had been charged off and an additional 2.51% was delinquent but not yet charged off. Charge-off rates by credit score category ranged from 11.57% of money lent to borrowers with a credit score of 760 or higher to 44.30% of money lent to borrowers with a credit score below 600. Eric's Credit Community reported generally consistent delinquency results, with a 24-month delinquency rate by credit grade for loans originated after January 1, 2006, ranging from 11.8% for 'AA' loans to 61.6% for 'HR' loans. The charge-off rates in many cases exceeded the interest received on the loan categories, resulting in a negative return. Eric's reported that the median return to Prosper investors was negative 2.00% and the mean return negative 2.28.
After Prosper's relaunch in July 2009, and implementing stricter credit guidelines for borrowers Prosper's loan default rate has been significantly reduced. The percentage of all loans that are 6+ months old, and are 1+ month late, dropped to less than 4%. As of Aug 11, 2010, the 4 months that match these criteria are the lowest percentage of late payments Prosper has seen since inception.
Financial history
Since its 2009 relaunch, Prosper received a Series D funding round of $14.7M in April 2010 with participation from all previous investors as well as new investors CompuCredit and TomorrowVentures. TomorrowVentures is an investment vehicle funded by Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt.
Bloomberg BusinessWeek reported on November 11, 2010, that Prosper was seeking additional funding and Prosper received an additional funding infusion in a Series E round on June 3, 2011. According to Prosper's SEC filing, the company raised $17.15 million by selling additional shares at an average of approximately $0.738/share. Series E investors included Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Crosslink Capital, Accel Partners, Agilus Ventures and TomorrowVentures.
In January 2013, Prosper received $20 million in funding led by Sequoia Capital, followed by $25 million in September 2013 led by Sequoia Capital and BlackRock. In May 2014, Prosper announced a $70 million funding round led by Francisco Partners. Credit Suisse's NEXT fund led an investment of $165 million in Prosper in April 2015. In 2017, Prosper raised US$50 million in a Series G round, led by FinEX Asia's private equity division.
See also
Comparison of crowd funding services
References
External links
Official Site
Peer-to-peer lending companies
Online marketplaces of the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosper%20Marketplace |
Heavy Cream is a compilation album of material recorded by the British rock band Cream from 1966 to 1969.
Although available in other territories as well, the album was largely released to address the North American market, in order for Polydor Records to leverage Cream's back catalogue; prior to 1972, Polydor had licensed Cream's recordings to Atco/Atlantic Records for North American distribution. Now out of print, Heavy Cream was available as a double album during the years 1972–76, and was briefly reissued by Polydor's affiliated label RSO Records in 1983.
This double album was also issued simultaneously with 3 other double albums of solo material by Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker all titled: "... At His Best"
With 22 tracks, Heavy Cream is one of the more comprehensive collections of Cream's work, containing over two-thirds of the band's studio recordings.
Writing for Newsday in 1972, Robert Christgau regarded the album as the best of the Cream compilations up to that point.
The album reached on the Billboard 200.
Track listing
Personnel
Cream
Jack Bruce – Bass guitar on all tracks except "What a Bringdown", keyboards, vocals; acoustic guitar on "As You Said"; harmonica on "Spoonful", "Rollin' & Tumblin, and "Take It Back"
Eric Clapton – Lead guitar, rhythm guitar on all tracks except "Badge", vocals
Ginger Baker – Drums, percussion, vocals
Additional personnel
Felix Pappalardi – Viola on "White Room" and "Deserted Cities of the Heart"; organ pedals on "Passing the Time"; keyboards on "Badge"; bass guitar on "What a Bringdown"
George Harrison – Rhythm guitar on "Badge"
Citation
1972 compilation albums
Cream (band) compilation albums
Polydor Records compilation albums | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy%20Cream |
"As the World Falls Down" is a song written by David Bowie for the soundtrack of the 1986 fantasy film Labyrinth.
Background and composition
"As the World Falls Down" is one of five songs Bowie wrote and recorded for the film, in which he also starred as Jareth, the king of the goblins. A love ballad, "As the World Falls Down" was written for a dream sequence in which Jareth and the film's heroine, Sarah, dance at a fantastic masquerade ball. Bowie said of the song, "[Director] Jim Henson wanted something which was fairly old-fashioned in its sentiments and it is, for me, the prettiest tune in the movie, and the most relaxed." The song's melody is heard at the start of the film as the tune played by Sarah's music box.
"As the World Falls Down" is structured in the traditional 1-6-4-5 form popular in 1950s ballads. The song's intro is in a moderately fast 3/4 time, before an electric bass modifies the rhythm to a slower 4/4 time. The bass line consists of a constant rising musical motif that acts as a hook throughout the song. There is a minor fourth, and later a minor second in the chorus.
Release and promotion
"As the World Falls Down" is the seventh track on the Labyrinth soundtrack, which was released in July 1986 to coincide with the film's U.S. premiere.
EMI planned to also release the song as a single in late 1986, and as a result, a 3:40 edit was produced along with a promotional music video, directed by Steve Barron. The video splices clips from Labyrinth with monochrome footage of Bowie performing the song in an elegant room accompanied by the character Hoggle from the film. The storyline follows photocopies of Bowie enchanting a woman in an office building, portrayed by French actress Charlotte Valandrey. Barron's videos for "As the World Falls Down" and the Labyrinth theme song "Underground" so impressed Jim Henson that he recruited Barron to direct his television series The Storyteller.
However, the single's release and video were cancelled — perhaps because Bowie did not want the love ballad to lessen the impact of his upcoming harder-sounding release Never Let Me Down, biographer Nicholas Pegg suggested. The edit was eventually released as a bonus track on the Virgin Records re-release of Tonight in 1995, and the video was included on Bowie – The Video Collection (1993) and on the DVD version of Best of Bowie (2002).
In 2001, the full-length 4:50 album version of the song was included on the 5-track CD I Am Iman, personally compiled by Bowie as a promotional device packaged with initial copies of his wife Iman's 2001 autobiography of the same name.
Reception
Rolling Stone called the song a "hidden gem" of Bowie's career and included "As the World Falls Down" on its list of 30 essential Bowie songs, describing it as a "sparkling, subdued ballad...which intermingles a tender vocal performance from Bowie and a sinewy bass line with glassy New Romantic synths". The A.V. Club considered it the best song from Labyrinth, and wrote that it "cater[s] in heartfelt empathy, using classic pop chord progressions to relate the joys and pain of love." Smooth Radio chose "As the World Falls Down" as number 11 on its ranking of Bowie's 20 greatest songs, and argued that it "deserves to be considered amongst Bowie's finest ever songs". Newsweek deemed the song "pure 80s cheese", conceding that "it does have a lovely chorus" however. Gigwise named the song as one of "the 50 best ever original songs made for movies".
According to Bowie biographer David Buckley in 2015, "As the World Falls Down" was in the top 30 highest-selling Bowie songs on iTunes in the United Kingdom, and the Labyrinth soundtrack was Bowie's third-best selling iTunes album. At the time of Bowie's death in 2016, the song was the 32nd highest-selling Bowie UK download.
Personnel
Credits per biographer Chris O'Leary:
David Bowie – vocals, backing vocals, producer
Arif Mardin – producer
Nicky Moroch – lead guitar
Jeff Mironov – lead and rhythm guitar
Will Lee – bass
Steve Ferrone – drums
Robbie Buchanan – keyboards, synthesiser, programming, guitars, arranger
Robin Beck – backing vocals
Cover versions
Lights — We Were So Turned On: A Tribute to David Bowie (2010). Their cover used the title "World Falls Down".
Girl In a Coma — Adventures in Coverland (2010)
Signe Tollefsen — Baggage (EP) (2011)
Daniel Boaventura — One More Kiss (2014)
Grace Potter — "As the World Falls Down" (2016). Initially released only as a video on her YouTube channel and social media as a tribute to Bowie following his death earlier that year; later released on the single "We'll Be Alright" (2020).
Vitamin String Quartet — Geek Wedding Vol 2: The Sequel (2016)
Lena Hall — Obsessed: David Bowie (EP) (2018)
References
Bibliography
External links
Labyrinth (1986 film)
David Bowie songs
1986 songs
Songs written by David Bowie
Song recordings produced by David Bowie
Music videos directed by Steve Barron
Pop ballads
Songs written for films
1980s ballads | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As%20the%20World%20Falls%20Down |
Ponceau (French for "poppy-colored") may refer to:
Ponceau 2R (also called Xylidine ponceau or Ponceau G, among other synonyms), azo dye used in histology for staining
Ponceau 3R, delisted food colorant
Ponceau 4R (known by more than 100 synonyms), synthetic colourant used as a food colouring (E Number E124)
Ponceau 6R (Ponceau 6R or Crystal ponceau 6R, among other synonyms), food dye (E number E126) and histology stain
Ponceau S (also known as Acid Red 112 or C.I. 27195), histology stain
Ponceau SX, another name for Scarlet GN, once used as a food dye (E number E125) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponceau |
Tooth, Fang & Claw is the sixth studio album by the Amboy Dukes, credited as "Ted Nugent's Amboy Dukes". The band's second release on DiscReet Records, it was the final album released under the Amboy Dukes name before Ted Nugent launched his solo career the following year.
Composition
AllMusic said that Tooth, Fang & Claw demonstrates "Nugent's further emerging hard rock sound", as well as an intentional shifting away from the blues sound that the Amboy Dukes had displayed on their Polydor recordings and the psychedelia of the band's Mainstream albums; the band does not experiment with their sound on Tooth, Fang & Claw as they had on their previous albums.
Reception
Following this album's release, Ted Nugent moved forward to national and worldwide success. In a retrospective review, AllMusic said that the Amboy Dukes' releases on DiscReet Records "document the forging of a sound and identity", establishing Ted Nugent as "a true rock icon."
Track listing
Personnel
Ted Nugent – Guitar, vocals, percussion
Rob Grange – Bass, vocals, arrangements, composer
Vic Mastrianni – Drums, percussion
Andy Jezowski (and the Crusted Warblers) – Backing vocals
References
The Amboy Dukes albums
1974 albums
Albums produced by Ted Nugent
DiscReet Records albums
Ted Nugent albums | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tooth%2C%20Fang%20%26%20Claw |
Forest Hills Local School District is a public school district serving the southeasternmost area of Hamilton County, Ohio outside the city of Cincinnati. The district specifically serves approximately 7,600 students from Anderson Township and the village of Newtown. There are 1,008 staff members working for the district.
The district has been rated excellent or excellent with distinction for the 12 consecutive years based on the State Report Card. It consists of nine schools:
The student progression from elementary to middle to high school in Forest Hills is noteworthy. There are six neighborhood elementary schools, all of which feed Nagel Middle School. Nagel students are then again divided based on their home addresses between the two high schools. Anderson High School gets all students from Ayer, Maddux and Summit Elementaries. Turpin gets all students from Wilson and Mercer Elementaries. Sherwood Elementary students are split between Anderson and Turpin, depending on street address; students on a few designated "swing" streets may choose either high school.
Forest Hills School District has also been the subject of public criticism following their decision to ban "anti-racism" teachings in schools. Board member Sara Jonas was quoted as saying the measure was brought forward "just to make sure that both sides are always being taught to the students".
References
External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20121030164743/http://foresthills.edu/content_page2.aspx?cid=928
School districts in Ohio
Education in Hamilton County, Ohio | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest%20Hills%20Local%20School%20District |
Grandadbob are Vanessa Robinson and Dave Johnson, from Sheffield, UK. Their music consists of electronic house, pop and trip hop. The name Grandadbob comes from Vanessa's grandfather, Robert Porter, who pronounces himself at the end of the track "Monster" on Waltzes for Weirdoes as "The real Grandad Bob". They recorded a radio session for Sheffield's Radio2XS in 2004.
Discography
Waltzes for Weirdoes (2003)
Garden of Happiness (2006)
External links
Grandadbob on Myspace
Electronic music duos | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandadbob |
ortho-Nitrophenyl-β-galactoside (ONPG) is a colorimetric and spectrophotometric substrate for detection of β-galactosidase activity. This compound is normally colorless. However, if β-galactosidase is present, it hydrolyzes the ONPG molecule into galactose and ortho-nitrophenol. The latter compound has a yellow color that can be used to check for enzyme activity by means of a colorimetric assay (at 420 nm wavelength). β-Galactosidase is required for lactose utilization, so the intensity of the color produced can be used as a measure of the enzymatic rate.
Though ONPG mimics lactose and is hydrolyzed by β-galactosidase, it is unable to act as an inducer for the lac operon. Without another lactose analog that can act as an inducer, such as isopropyl β-D-1-thiogalactopyranoside (IPTG), β-galactosidase will not be transcribed and ONPG will not be hydrolyzed.
References
Galactosides
Nitrobenzenes | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ortho-Nitrophenyl-%CE%B2-galactoside |
Guantánamo Bay () is a bay in Guantánamo Province at the southeastern end of Cuba. It is the largest harbor on the south side of the island and it is surrounded by steep hills which create an enclave that is cut off from its immediate hinterland.
The United States assumed territorial control over the southern portion of Guantánamo Bay under the 1903 Lease. The United States exercises jurisdiction and control over this territory as the home of the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, while recognizing that Cuba retains ultimate sovereignty.
Climate
Guantánamo Bay has a hot semi-arid climate according to the Köppen climate classification, with high temperatures throughout the year. Rainfall is rather low, and it is one of the driest regions in Cuba.
U.S. control of Guantánamo Bay
The United States first seized Guantánamo Bay and established a naval base there in 1898 during the Spanish–American War in the Battle of Guantánamo Bay. In 1903, the United States and Cuba signed a lease granting the United States permission to use the land as a coaling and naval station. The lease satisfied the Platt Amendment, passed by the United States Congress, which stated that a naval base at "certain specific points agreed upon by the President of the United States" was needed to "enable the United States to maintain independence of Cuba."
History
The original inhabitants of the bay, the Taínos, called it Guantánamo. Christopher Columbus landed in 1494, naming it Puerto Grande. On landing, Columbus' crew found Taíno fishermen preparing a feast for the local chieftain. When Spanish settlers took control of Cuba, the bay became a vital harbor on the south side of the island.
The bay was briefly renamed as "Cumberland Bay" when a British expeditionary force captured it in 1741 during the War of Jenkins' Ear. British Admiral, Edward Vernon, arrived with a force of eight warships and 4,000 soldiers with plans to march on Santiago de Cuba. However, local Spanish colonial troops defeated him and forced him to withdraw or face becoming a prisoner. In late 1760, two Royal Navy frigates, and HMS Boreas cut out the French privateers Vainquer and Mackau, which were hiding in the bay. The French were also forced to burn the Guespe, another privateer, to prevent her capture.
During the Spanish–American War of 1898, the U.S. Navy fleet attacking Santiago needed shelter from the summer hurricane season. They chose Guantánamo because of its excellent harbor. U.S. Marines landed with naval support in the invasion of Guantánamo Bay in June 1898. As they moved inland, however, Spanish resistance increased and the Marines required support from Cuban scouts.
Guantanamo Bay interested U.S military planners due to its geographical location in the Caribbean. It became a strategic location in defending the Panama Canal and the southern US coast. It was also a natural haven for naval vessels in the region. Due to other factors, it pushed the US to consider the area as a suitable location for a Naval Base.
The Guantanamo Bay Naval Base surrounds the southern portion of the bay.
The naval base, nicknamed "GTMO" or "Gitmo", covers on the western and eastern banks of the bay. It was established in 1898, when the United States took control of Cuba from Spain following the Spanish–American War. The newly-formed American protectorate incorporated the Platt Amendment in the 1901 Cuban Constitution. Tomás Estrada Palma, the first President of Cuba, offered a perpetual lease for the area around Guantánamo Bay on February 23, 1903. The 1903 Cuban–American Treaty of Relations held, among other things, that the United States, for the purposes of operating coaling and naval stations, has "complete jurisdiction and control" of the Guantánamo Bay, while recognizing that the Republic of Cuba retains ultimate sovereignty.
In 1934, a new Cuban-American Treaty of Relations, reaffirming the lease, granted Cuba and its trading partners free access through the bay, modified the lease payment from $2,000 in U.S. gold coins per year to the 1934 equivalent value of $4,085 in U.S. dollars, and made the lease permanent unless both governments agreed to break it, or until the U.S. abandoned the base property.
After the Cuban Revolution of 1953–1959, United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower insisted that the status of the base remain unchanged, despite the objections of Fidel Castro. Since then, the Cuban government has cashed only one of the rent checks from the U.S. government, and even then, according to Castro, only because of "confusion" in the early days of the Cuban revolution. The remaining uncashed checks, made out to "Treasurer General of the Republic" (a title that ceased to exist after the revolution), were kept in Castro's office, stuffed into a desk drawer.
In the 1990s, the United States used Guantanamo Bay as a processing center for asylum-seekers and as a camp for HIV-positive refugees. Over a period of six months, the US interned over 30,000 Haitian refugees in Guantanamo, while another 30,000 fled to the Dominican Republic. Eventually, the US admitted 10,747 of the Haitians to refugee status in the United States. Most of the refugees were housed in a tent city on the re-purposed airstrip that would later be used to house the complex used for the Guantanamo military commissions. The refugees who represented discipline or security problems were held on the site that later became Camp XRay, the initial site of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. In August 1994, rioting broke out in the detention camps and 20 U.S. military police and 45 Haitians were injured.
Since 2002, the base has included the detainment camp for individuals deemed of risk to United States national security. In 2009, the U.S. President, Barack Obama, gave orders for the detention camp to close by January 22, 2010. , it remains open due to a congressional refusal of funds for its closure.
Alfred-Maurice de Zayas has argued that the 1903 lease agreement was imposed on Cuba under duress and was a treaty between unequals, no longer compatible with modern international law, and voidable ex nunc. He makes six suggestions for a peaceful settlement, including following the procedure outlined in the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties. However, Article 4 of the Vienna Convention states that its provisions do not apply to past treaties retroactively.
See also
Cuba–United States relations
Guantanamo Bay detention camp
Platt Amendment: Document to guarantee U.S. Navy lease in Cuba
References
External links
Read Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports regarding Guantánamo Detainees
U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo Bay — The United States' oldest overseas Naval Base
Guantánamo: U.S. Black Hole
All-Party Parliamentary Group on Guantanamo Bay (APPG-GB)
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The Rochester Zeniths were a professional basketball team in the Continental Basketball Association (CBA). They played in Henrietta, New York, a suburb of Rochester at the Dome Arena and in downtown Rochester, New York, at (what is now known as) the Blue Cross Arena at the War Memorial. They existed for six basketball seasons, winning two league titles and generally had great success on the basketball court before they disbanded after the 1982/83 season.
Pro-basketball in Rochester before the Zeniths
The Rochester Centrals were a charter member of the original American Basketball League, the first attempt to form a major professional basketball league in the United States. The Centrals competed in the ABL from 1925 through the 1930-31 season, playing home games at the Naval Militia Armory in Rochester.
The Rochester Royals played in the National Basketball League and the National Basketball Association from 1945–46 through the 1956-57 season before moving to Cincinnati. They played their home games at the Edgerton Park Sports Arena and later the Rochester War Memorial in the city of Rochester. They enjoyed success at the turnstiles and on the basketball court, winning the NBA title in 1951 and finishing as runner-up in the NBL in 1947 and 1948. Their move to Cincinnati in the summer of 1957 was part of the general franchise relocation process of the 1950s and 1960s in the NBA which saw these older smaller markets abandoned in favor of larger markets with larger arenas.
In the summer of 1958, a group of Buffalo businessmen announced that they were creating a team called the Rochester Colonels to begin play in the fall of that year in the Pennsylvania-based Eastern Professional Basketball League. The team was intended to fill the void created when the Royals left town. Former Rochester Royals great Arnie Risen was recruited to join and coach the team to pique fan interest. The Colonels also featured former Royal Dick Ricketts and future Hall of Famer Hubie Brown. It was all for naught as the team went 0-8 and folded in December 1958, playing just two home games before modest crowds at the Rochester Community War Memorial.
Beginning in the 1959–60 season, the Syracuse Nationals of the NBA began playing regular season games in Rochester. During the 1959–60 and the 1960-61 seasons they played two games in Rochester and during the 1961–62 and 1962-63 seasons they played four games in Rochester (as well as playing a number of games in Utica, New York, during the same period). These "neutral site" games were common during this period of the NBA (for instance, Wilt Chamberlain's historic 100 point performance occurred in Hershey, Pennsylvania, then a semi-regular site for NBA games) but they were not particularly well attended and definitely not popular with the players and coaches as they added more travel to the schedule. The Syracuse Nationals became the Philadelphia 76ers after the 1962–63 season ended (when the Philadelphia Warriors moved to San Francisco) and regular season NBA games ended in Rochester as well.
During the 1970–71 season the expansion Buffalo Braves of the NBA played two regular season games in Rochester (as well as two in Syracuse) in an effort to build Western New York interest in the nascent franchise. The Braves were not a very good team and the games were not as successful at the gate as the team hoped and the Braves did not return the next season. The Braves were bucking the south and west trend of NBA franchise movement and the hope was their large market, large arena and fan interest in nearby NBA abandoned cities (they played fifteen games in Toronto during the 1973–74 and 1974-75 season in an effort to regionalize into Canada) would be enough to make the team successful. The Braves played their last game in Buffalo as the Braves in April 1978 and the club moved to Southern California to become the San Diego (and later, Los Angeles) Clippers. Not many fans frequently made the 70-mile trip from Rochester to Buffalo to see the Braves play as, for the most part, they were not a competitive team.
The move of the Braves out of Buffalo coincided with rise of another professional, albeit minor league team in Rochester known as the Zeniths.
History
The Rochester Zeniths were organized in the fall of 1977 to play professional basketball in the newly formed All-American Basketball Alliance by Tom Ficara, originator of the league. They were owned by Dick Hill who owned Hill TV, a Rochester electronics store that sold Zenith brand televisions, hence the nickname Zeniths Hill also initially owned the Rochester Zeniths professional softball team that played in two different men's professional softball leagues in the Rochester area starting in 1978. The softball team changed its name in 1980 to the Rochester Express after Hill sold the team. The Zeniths basketball team began play in January 1978 along with the rest of the All-American Alliance, but the league folded within a month. The Zeniths played 11 games and finished with a 10-1 record. Attendance at home games at the War Memorial was by far the best in the league.
For the 1978–79 basketball season, the Zeniths joined the newly renamed Continental Basketball Association (formerly the Eastern Basketball League) and played most of their home games at the Dome Arena at the Monroe County Fairgrounds in Henrietta, New York. The Dome Arena was built primarily as an exposition hall for the annual county fair, as well as business shows and conventions. It was not particularly well suited for basketball; for one thing, it did not have a hardwood floor. Instead, the Dome bought a green basketball carpet from a Swedish firm and used that for Zeniths games. While not popular with players or fans, the carpet met with the league's approval, despite the odd muffled sound made every time a player dribbled the ball. (The War Memorial had a standard hardwood basketball floor.)
The Zeniths were coached by local product Mauro Panaggio, a successful Division III basketball coach at SUNY Brockport, and featured many former prominent Western New York college basketball players, most notably guard Glenn Hagan from St. Bonaventure and forward Larry Fogle from Canisius College (both had been second-round NBA Draft picks). The team played a very fast, uptempo style that was the prevailing trend in the CBA at the time. They were the dominant team in the league that year, finishing 36-12 and winning the Northern Division title by nine and a half games over the Anchorage Northern Knights. In the playoffs, they lost only once, beating the Allentown Jets three games to one and then sweeping the Knights in the finals. Star guard Andre McCarter was named both Newcomer of the Year and Most Valuable Player for the season. Panaggio was named league Coach of the Year.
Also of note was the Zeniths' hosting of the 1979 CBA All-Star game at the Dome Arena, as Rochester took on a team of all-stars from the rest of the league. When a blizzard knocked out electric power in the city and the arena just after the first half ended, an impromptu slam dunk competition (won by Billy Ray Bates of the Maine Lumberjacks) was conducted using the building's emergency lighting. Power was not restored and fans were sent home. The next night, however, the game resumed, and rather than just play the remaining two quarters, league commissioner Jim Drucker decided to play another four quarters – making the six-quarter, 72-minute game the longest contest in pro basketball history. McCarter was named the game's Most Valuable Player as the Z's won, 182-168, in front of announced crowd of 1,724.
The Zeniths were again the top team in the CBA in 1979-80 but only won the division over Anchorage by a game and a half, then lost a hard-fought finals rematch with the Knights in seven games./ For this season, the Zeniths were coached by co-owner and nightclub proprietor Art Stock, who bought a stake in the team after his Jersey Shore Bullets folded the previous season. Mauro Panaggio moved to the front office as General Manager, but resumed his duties as head coach for the 1980-81 season until the demise of the team in 1983.
The 1980-81 campaign was the high water mark for the Zeniths franchise as they ran away with the Eastern Division title at 34-6 and once again took the league title while only losing one game in the playoffs, sweeping the Lehigh Valley Jets in two straight, beating Philadelphia two games to one and sweeping the Montana Golden Nuggets coached by George Karl in four straight games.
In their final two season in Rochester, the Zeniths had back-to-back winning seasons but lost was bounced in the first round of the playoffs each year. By this time, all games had been moved to the War Memorial, but attendance was on the decline. Faced with mounting financial losses, the team disbanded following the 1982-83 season. Panaggio went on to continue his success in the CBA, and retired as the winningest coach in league history. He died in 2018.
Legacy
Mauro Panaggio's son, Dan Panaggio went into coaching and served as the head coach of the Los Angeles D-Fenders of the NBA Development League after following in his father's footsteps and coaching the Quad City Thunder of the Continental Basketball Association to two league titles in 1994 and 1998.
After many false starts, professional basketball returned to Rochester in the form of an American Basketball Association (21st century) franchise known as the Rochester RazorSharks. The RazorSharks began play in the ABA in November 2005, and won the ABA Championship in their inaugural season. In 2008, the team left the ABA to become a charter member of the Premier Basketball League. The Razorsharks won the first PBL Championship.
All-time roster
Wayne Abrams
Jerry Baskerville
Jim Baron
Lawrence Boston
Norman Bounds
Jim Bradley
Ed Brown
Mike Buescher
Marty Byrnes
Dan Callandrillo
Clint Chapman
Tim Claxton
Kevin Cluess
Harry Davis
Ernie Douse
David DuPree
Dave Everett
Larry Fogle
Ken Garrett
Mike Gibson
Ernie Graham
Ken Green
Glenn Hagan
Larry Harris
Jerome Henderson
Essie Hollis
Larry Holmes
Don Johnson
Harold Johnson
Lee Johnson
Ron Jones
Larry Lawrence
Al Leslie
Andre McCarter
Larry McNeill
Monroe McTaw
Randy Owens
Jim Panaggio
Mike Panaggio
Derrick Rowland
Larry Spriggs
Al Smith
Willie Smith
Bill Terry
Dean Tolson
Gordon Turner
Nick Urzetta
Tim Waterman
Terry White
James Williams
Sam Worthen
Paul Zaretsky
Sources
Season-by-season records
Awards and accolades
Andre McCarter, 1978-79 CBA Newcomer of the Year, 1979 All-Star Game MVP, 1978-79 CBA Most Valuable Player
Glenn Hagan, named to the CBA Era 50th Anniversary team
Larry Fogle, 1978-79 CBA Playoffs Co-MVP
Larry Spriggs, 1981-82 CBA Rookie of the Year
Larry McNeill, 1978-79 CBA Playoffs Co-MVP
Lee Johnson, 1980-81 CBA Playoffs MVP, 1980-81 CBA Rookie of the Year
References
External links
Association for Professional Basketball Research
Zeniths
Continental Basketball Association teams
Basketball teams in New York (state) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochester%20Zeniths%20%28basketball%29 |
Mono vs Stereo is an independent record label based in Franklin, Tennessee. It was founded in 2003 as an imprint of Gotee Records. While Gotee signs mostly rap, hip-hop, and pop-rock artists, Mono vs Stereo leaned more towards indie music.
History
2003–2006
Mono vs Stereo was established in 2003 and released its first project The compilation album featured the debut song from The Evan Anthem (also Mono vs Stereo's first signing) as well as an exclusive track from Matthew Thiessen and the Earthquakes (side project from Relient K's lead vocalist). Soon after followed a release by Relient K titled The Vinyl Countdown, and the debut album from The Evan Anthem titled Prologue.
2004 saw the release of an EP from singer/songwriter Andy Zipf, an EP from Chasing Victory; and, in the fall, the highly acclaimed debut album from The Showdown titled A Chorus of Obliteration.
In 2005 another Revolution compilation was released with new material from The Evan Anthem and again Matthew Thiessen and the Earthquakes. This was followed by the release of MVS's next signing Last Tuesday, and shortly after that the second album from The Evan Anthem called Sens. Finally, in the fall, two strong debut albums were released, the first by Chasing Victory and the next by southern-hardcore act Maylene & The Sons of Disaster.
2006 began with the release of another new act House of Heroes. This was followed by a concept album called My Other Band which featured five different side projects from members of Relient K, Demon Hunter, Bleach, and Audio Adrenaline. In August the second album from road dogs Last Tuesday was released, and on the heels of that came Gasoline Heart's debut album.
In the first half of 2007 released from The Showdown and Chasing Victory were released to critical acclaim.
2008–present
In early 2009 Mono vs. Stereo was brought out of retirement by Relient K who now oversee the label, after completing their contract with Gotee Records. Relient K plans to release its next couple of albums on the label and to sign a new roster of artists. The first band signed under the label's new management is indie rock group Deas Vail. On May 11, 2011, Mono Vs Stereo announced on their website that they had signed Farewell Flight.
Roster
Current
•Relient K
Former
Andy Zipf (active, signed to Keep On! Music)
Chasing Victory (active, currently independent)
Deas Vail (disbanded)
Denison Witmer (active, currently independent)
The Evan Anthem (disbanded)
Farewell Flight (active, currently independent)
Gasoline Heart (active, on P is for Panda Records)
House of Heroes (inactive)
I Am Terrified (inactive)
Last Tuesday (disbanded)
Maylene & The Sons of Disaster (on hiatus, currently independent)
The Showdown (on hiatus, currently independent)
Discography
June 10, 2003: The Revolution Will Begin In The Blink of An Eye Vol. 1 - Various
July 18, 2003: The Vinyl Countdown - Relient K
September 16, 2003: Prologue - The Evan Anthem
Feb 3, 2004: I Stole the Morning Sun EP - Andy Zipf
November 16, 2004: A Not So Tragic Cover Up EP - Chasing Victory
November 16, 2004: A Chorus of Obliteration - The Showdown
January 3, 2005: The Revolution Will Begin In the Blink of An Eye Vol. 2 - Various
May 25, 2005: Resolve - Last Tuesday
July 19, 2005: Sens - The Evan Anthem
August, 2005: MMHMM (Vinyl) - Relient K
April 10, 2005: I Call This Abandonment - Chasing Victory
October 25, 2005: Maylene and the Sons of Disaster - Maylene & The Sons of Disaster
April 26, 2006: Say No More - House of Heroes
June 27, 2006: My Other Band, Vol. 1 - Various
January 8, 2006: You Know Who You Are - Gasoline Heart
August 15, 2006: Become What You Believe - Last Tuesday
February 20, 2007: Temptation Come My Way - The Showdown
August 5, 2007: Fiends - Chasing Victory
September 18, 2007: Feel Like Hell EP - The Showdown
September 23, 2008: The End Is Not the End - House of Heroes
June 10, 2009: Forget and Not Slow Down - Relient K
October 27, 2009: Birds and Cages - Deas Vail
April 26, 2011: The Ones Who Wait - Denison Witmer
December 7, 2011: Out for Blood - Farewell Flight
April 10, 2011: Is for Karaoke - Relient K
November 10, 2011: Deas Vail - Deas Vail
November 29, 2011: For Shepards and Kings - Deas Vail
June 26, 2012: The Side Effect EP - Deas Vail
February 7, 2013: Collapsible Lung - Relient K
July 22, 2016: Air for Free - Relient K
See also
List of record labels
References
External links
Official site
American independent record labels
Christian record labels
Record labels established in 2003
Indie rock record labels
Gotee Records artists
Companies based in Tennessee | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mono%20vs%20Stereo |
Pervading imitation refers to a way of organizing a piece of music in which all voices sing the same melodic material in sequence.
Voices enter one by one at points of imitation and sing the same melodic material although they begin at different pitch levels.
Pervading imitation emerged in the early Renaissance and was widely used by composers like Josquin in Missa pange lingua, and Thomas Crecquillon.
See also
Round (music)
Voice crossing
Voice exchange
Melody
Polyphonic form | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pervading%20imitation |
In Aristotelian logic, Baralipton (also Bamalip or Bramantip) is a mnemonic word used to identify a form of syllogism. Specifically, the first two propositions are universal affirmative (A), and the third (conclusion) particular affirmative (I)-- hence BARALIPTON. The argument is also in the First Figure (the middle term is the subject of the first premise and the predicate of the second premise), and therefore would be found in the first portion of the full mnemonic poem as formulated by William of Sherwood; later this syllogism came to be considered one of the Fourth Figure.
Generally stated:
All M is P
All S is M
Therefore some P is S.
For example,
Every evil ought to be feared.
Every violent passion is an evil.
Therefore, some things that ought to be feared are violent passions.
In traditional Aristotelian logic, Baralipton is just a weakened form of Barbara (where the conclusion is also universal affirmative: All S are P).
According to modern logic, Baralipton commits the existential fallacy.
Term logic
Syllogism | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baralipton |
Allen Sutton Sothoron (April 27, 1893 – June 17, 1939) was an American professional baseball player, coach and manager. As a player, he was a spitball pitcher who spent 11 years in the major leagues playing for the St. Louis Browns, Boston Red Sox, Cleveland Indians and the St. Louis Cardinals. Born in Bradford, Ohio, Sothoron threw and batted right-handed, stood tall and weighed . He attended Albright College and Juniata College.
Sportswriters frequently misspelled Sothoron's given name (as "Allan") and family name (as "Southern", among other variations) and some sources continue to refer to him as "Allan," although his personal documents show his preference for Allen.
Career
Sothoron broke into the major leagues when the spitball was still legal. His best season came in 1919, when he posted a 20–13 record with a 2.20 earned run average for the Browns, finishing fifth in the American League in wins and ERA. After the spitball was outlawed following the 1919 campaign, Sothoron at first was not permitted to throw it, then in mid-1920 he was added to a list of 17 spitballers in the majors who were allowed to continue using the banned pitch. But he was never able to match his 1919 numbers. His pitching career ended in St. Louis with the National League Cardinals, where he played for his first MLB manager, Branch Rickey, and led the NL in shutouts with four in , despite a mediocre 10–16 (3.57) record. During his MLB career, he appeared in 264 games pitched, and allowed 1,583 hits and 596 bases on balls in innings pitched. He struck out 576 and hurled 102 complete games.
In 1921, sportswriter Bugs Baer came up with this immortal quip: "Allen S. Sothoron pitched his initials off yesterday."
After his playing days, Sothoron managed in minor league baseball, coached for the Cardinals (1927), Boston Braves (1928), and Browns (1932–1933), and with the 1933 Browns he served a brief, eight-game managerial stint after the dismissal of Bill Killefer. After compiling a win–loss record of 2–6 between July 19 and July 27, he was replaced with hometown favorite Rogers Hornsby.
Sothoron died in St. Louis at age 46 in the middle of the 1939 season after a series of illnesses. He is interred at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, New York City.
Managerial record
References
External links
1893 births
1939 deaths
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Baseball players from Ohio
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Cleveland Indians players
Haverhill Hustlers players
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St. Louis Browns managers
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Burials at Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen%20Sothoron |
Pease Park (officially Pease District Park) is an urban park in central Austin, Texas. Paralleling Shoal Creek west of downtown, the park is frequented by University of Texas at Austin and Long-View Micro School students and, formerly, by disc golf enthusiasts. Every spring it plays host to the annual Eeyore's Birthday Party celebration, a favorite event for Austin's hippie subculture dating back to the 1960s.
History
The parcel of land that is now Pease Park was named after and donated to the city of Austin by Texas Governor Elisha M. Pease and his wife in 1875. The land remained undeveloped until the city and civic organizations cooperated to beautify the park in 1926, building entrance gates, restrooms, and other amenities. Further improvements were made later, including the installation of a group of long concrete picnic tables by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s and the construction of a hike-and-bike trail connecting the park to the city's larger trail network in the 1950s.
On October 16, 2019 ground broke on the US$15 million dollar 10 acres Kingsbury Commons, the most significant upgrade to Pease Park in a century, as part of a larger Master Plan. Construction concluded in June 2021.
Eeyore's Birthday Party
Since 1974 Pease Park has hosted Austin's annual Eeyore's Birthday Party event, with music, costumes, games and drum circles. The event is typically attended by thousands, filling the park with activities.
Disc golf course
Pease Park was the site of a popular disc golf course running along Shoal Creek. On January 1, 2011, the park's disc golf course was closed indefinitely due to environmental impact problems.
References
External links
Park Profile at Austin Parks Foundation
UrbanGrounds: Pease Park Disc Golf (with map of the course)
Pease Park on Centxdglove.com (with pictures of each hole)
Parks in Austin, Texas
Urban public parks | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pease%20Park |
Live: In Paradise is a live concert DVD by American dark cabaret duo The Dresden Dolls.
The Dresden Dolls hosted a free concert at the Paradise Rock Club in Boston on June 5, 2005. When a power outage unexpectedly delayed their performance, city streets became a temporary stage for some of the many performers (living statues, stilt-walkers, and fire-breathers) who had come from across the world to entertain audiences. The entire event—both concert and street performances—was filmed and the resulting DVD was released on November 22, 2005.
Track listing
"Good Day" – 5:35
"Missed Me" – 4:49
"War Pigs" – 11:24
"Perfect Fit" – 5:40
"Christopher Lydon" – 4:57
"Bad Habit" – 3:29
"Half Jack" – 10:23
"Girl Anachronism" – 4:39
"Pierre" – 6:21
"Truce" – 8:21
Bonus features
Live at Roskilde Festival, Denmark 2005
"Coin-Operated Boy" – 5:34
"Girl Anachronism" – 3:18
Bonus videos
"Coin-Operated Boy" – 3:43
"Girl Anachronism" – 3:01
"A Life in the Day of The Dresden Dolls" (documentary) – 53:54
Preshow Featurette – 19:37
Personnel
Amanda Palmer - vocals, piano
Brian Viglione - drums, vocals, guitar, bass
Michael Pope – director
Zea Barker – production design
Pierre Lamoureux – producer
Michael Pope – editor
Zea Barker - co-editor
Christopher Lydon – Master of Ceremonies
Noah Blumenson-Cook – Production Coordinator
Lee Barron – concert camera operator
Maria Gambale – concert camera operator
Michael Hobbs – concert camera operator
James Holland – concert camera operator
Wayne Kimball – concert camera operator
Jake Liman – concert camera operator
Dave McGlocklin – concert camera operator
Scott Patterson – concert camera operator
Robert Beinhocker – assistant camera
Tom Buehler – camera system assistant
Ben Vaughn – senior video engineer
Scott Morabito – film lighting
Doug Martin – video engineer
Christina Bryant - art department key
Jake Flowers – art department crew
Brian Metzendorf – art department crew
Davina Yannetty – art department crew
Stephen Martin – production assistant
Becca Rosenthal - "Special Thanks"
Francois Lamoureux – audio producer
Lonnie Bedell – recording engineer
Greg Hanawalt – recording assistant
Joel Simches - live audio
Dave MacNamara - monitor mix
Ron Nordin - still photography
Bona Weiss - still photography
Sheri Hausey - still photography
Jeff Wasilko - still photography
Kyle Cassidy - still photography
Barnaby Whitfield - cover artwork
Ben Richter - additional music
Brian Carpenter / The Beat Circus - additional music
External links
Director's official site
Live video albums
2005 live albums
2005 video albums
The Dresden Dolls albums
Roadrunner Records live albums
Roadrunner Records video albums | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live%3A%20In%20Paradise |
Huglecus is one of the legendary Danish kings in Saxo Grammaticus' Gesta Danorum. Like Hygelac, he fought against Swedes but he is only given a very short biography.
References
Mythological kings of Denmark | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huglecus |
Studebaker-Garford was an automobile produced and distributed jointly by the Garford Company of Elyria, Ohio, and the
Studebaker Corporation of South Bend, Indiana, from 1904 through 1911. During its production, the car was sold as a Studebaker, per the marketing agreement between the two firms, but Studebaker collectors break the vehicles out under the Studebaker-Garford name because of the extent of Garford components.
Garford was a manufacturer of automobile components and chassis for a number of early automotive works. Studebaker, which had been in the wagon-making business since the 1850s, produced their first automobile in 1897, but did not go into full production until 1902 with the introduction of the Studebaker Electric.
Under the agreement, Garford would assemble each chassis, and then ship it to South Bend for completion. Studebaker-Garfords were powered by gasoline engines which initially produced 8bhp.
The first Studebaker-Garfords were designated Models “A” and “B”, and were listed as five-passenger touring cars with a detachable tonneau, which, once removed, converted the car into a two-person runabout. The Model “C” was also introduced in 1904 and is considered the first formal touring car, but did not come with a collapsible (convertible) top. Headlights for the cars were available at extra cost.
Until its final year, the car received a number of mechanical upgrades as technology advanced:
1905, Series 15HP was powered by a two-cylinder horizontal engine producing 15 bhp. Series 020HP introduced a four-cylinder engine, but the engine delivered 15 bhp, not the promised 20 bhp.
1906 Series E, F, and G were all four-cylinder cars with increased wheelbase, up two inches to 98” from the previous year. The Studebaker-Garford also introduced a town car body. Options for the open cars included a folding top and windshield. Prices listed for the Model G were $3,700 to $5,000 based on the body style used ($ in today's dollars).
Note: Model G 30 was also built and sold as the Garford, beginning in 1908, after Studebaker took control of the E-M-F Company, with which it had also entered into a body-building, marketing, and distribution deal to sell E-M-F cars through Studebaker wagon dealerships. With the company no longer exclusively relying on Garford, Studebaker unofficially modified the agreement and allowed Garford to enter the automobile business on a limited basis.
1907–1911 Studebaker-Garfords from this period emerged with more refinements, and more body styles with each model year. The last Studebaker exclusive model was the G-10.
By 1910, however, chassis production was increasingly favoring Garford's own vehicle brand, and Studebaker was forced to take steps to reassert its contractual rights. Grudgingly, Garford accommodated Studebaker, but the relationship between the two companies became tense. However, by 1911, E-M-F's engine and chassis plant was bought out by Studebaker president Fred Fish and the two firms ended their tenuous relationship.
Garford would continue producing its own cars, but without a distribution network firm, failed to produce a volume sufficient to make the organization profitable. In 1913, Garford was purchased by John North Willys and merged into Willys-Overland.
See also
Arthur Lovett Garford
References
Studebaker-Garford
Studebaker
Motor vehicle manufacturers based in Ohio
Brass Era vehicles
Defunct motor vehicle manufacturers of the United States
1900s cars
Defunct manufacturing companies based in Ohio | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Studebaker-Garford |
Echo Park is a remote river bottom surrounded by canyon walls on the Green River, just downstream from the confluence with the Yampa River and across the stream from the dramatic southern end of Steamboat Rock in Dinosaur National Monument.
Description
The valley was first mapped and given its name by the Powell Geographic Expedition in 1869. A proposed dam at Echo Park turned into a nationwide environmental controversy in the early 1950s. The Sierra Club and other conservationist groups helped forge a compromise in Congress that eliminated the Echo Park Dam from the Colorado River Storage Project Act of 1956.
See also
Dinosaur National Monument
References
External references
Echo Park at Dinosaur National Monument
Geography of Colorado
Geography of Moffat County, Colorado
Dinosaur National Monument | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo%20Park%20%28Colorado%29 |
The Edinburgh School refers to a group of 20th century artists connected with Edinburgh. They share a connection through Edinburgh College of Art, where most studied and worked together during or soon after the First World War. As friends and colleagues, they discussed painting and were influenced by one another's work. They were bound together as members of Edinburgh-based exhibition bodies: the Royal Scottish Academy (RSA), Society of Scottish Artists (SSA) and the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour (RSW). They predominantly painted still life and Scottish landscapes, and shared an interest in working both in oil and watercolour.
Art critic Giles Sutherland, writing in The Times, has suggested: "The work of the Edinburgh School is characterised by virtuoso displays in the use of paint, vivid and often non-naturalistic colour and themes such as still-life, seascape and landscape."
The following are generally thought of as Edinburgh School painters.
William Crozier (1893–1930)
William Geissler (1894–1963)
Sir William Gillies (1898–1973)
Sir William MacTaggart (1903–1981)
John Maxwell (1905–1962)
Sir Robin Philipson (1916–1992)
Perpetua Pope (1916-2013)
Anne Redpath (1895–1965)
Adam Bruce Thomson (1885–1976)
Some other painters associated with Edinburgh may also be called Edinburgh School artists, or a 'new generation' of the Edinburgh School.
Notes
The 'Edinburgh School' refers to a group of artists whose work shares certain characteristics and is not the same as the 'Edinburgh School of Art'. This latter name is quite often used for the college even though it has been officially called Edinburgh College of Art since 1907.
See also
Macmillan, Duncan Scottish Art in the 20th Century 1890–2001 (2001)
Anne Redpath and the Edinburgh School
20th-century Scottish painters
Edinburgh College of Art
Scottish artist groups and collectives
Artists from Edinburgh
20th century in Edinburgh | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Edinburgh%20School |
Software Star is a 1985 game released by Kevin Toms for the Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum.
Gameplay
This is essentially a text-based management game. The player's task is to manage a software house, create new games, manage publicity and make a profit of £10000. Meanwhile, the player must achieve the status of "Software Star" for ten successive months.
Having a large portfolio of games has its advantages by increasing the player's monthly sales. However, money must be spent on promoting aging titles. Each game has its own quality rating, where the quality increases with the amount of time spent on development. Managing the productivity of the player's staff is also key to the game. The player can view a snapshot of productivity over the last six months and decide to discipline, offer incentives, or take no action. There are four sales regions where the player's products are sold. These regions are ordered from one to four, depending on how much importance they are given based on consulting the sales from the previous month. Public relations is adjusted by choosing Honesty or Hype. Each decision has an effect on the company's image. Finally, the player will have to evaluate the potential market depending on the time of year and decide how many advertising pages to buy. Markets are larger around Christmas and New Year. It is then time to look at the sales figures as the player's game enters the Top 20. The player is then given a sales break-even figure and each game climbs the chart if it sells well to the Number One spot.
At the end of the month, the player views a monthly statement showing progress and Stardom rating ranging from Nobody to Software Star. At the end of the year, the directors will check the player's progress. They will fire the player, raise the bar, or give the player another chance.
See also
Millionaire
Reception
Zzap!64 thought the game was a disappointing follow-up to Football Manager, with too little to do for the player and less feeling of control. It received a rating of 43%.
References
External links
Software Star at GameFAQs
1985 video games
Addictive Games games
Amstrad CPC games
Business simulation games
Commodore 64 games
Europe-exclusive video games
Single-player video games
Video games developed in the United Kingdom
ZX Spectrum games | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20Star |
The aparima or Kaparima (Rarotongan) is a dance from Tahiti and the Cook Islands where the mimicks (apa) with the hands (rima) are central, and as such it is close to the hula or Tongan tauolunga. It is usually a dance for groups.
There are two types of aparima: the aparima hīmene (sung handdance) and the aparima vāvā (silent handdance), the latter being performed with music only, and no singing. The music is often played on the guitar or the Tahitian ukulele.
The stories depicted by the dance are taken from daily traditional occupations or ancient myths.
Unlike the other Tahitian dances, this one is more often performed with the dancers dressed in pāreu and maro. It can also (especially the aparima vāvā) be performed seated, much like the Tongan māuluulu.
References
Patrick O'Reilly; La danse à Tahiti (unclear ref)
Dances of Tahiti | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27Aparima |
Zamaana Deewana is a 1995 Hindi-language masala flim, produced by G. P. Sippy under the Sippy Films banner and directed by Ramesh Sippy. It stars Shahrukh Khan, Raveena Tandon in pivotal roles, along with Jeetendra, Shatrughan Sinha playing their parents, respectively. The music was composed by Nadeem-Shravan. The film performed poorly at the box office.
Plot
Suraj (Shatrughan Sinha) and Lala (Jeetendra) were good friends before falling prey to the vicious tricks of Sundar (Tinnu Anand), so much so that Lala believes his wife is dead and Suraj is to blame for that. They become the greatest of enemies and create chaos in the city by way of gang wars. Asst. Commissioner of Police (Prem Chopra) has 2 criminal psychologists, KD (Anupam Kher) and Shalini (Kiran Juneja) weave a plot to bring Rahul (Shahrukh Khan), the lively and spirited son of Suraj, close to Priya (Raveena Tandon), the ever-so-graceful and elegant daughter of Lala, hoping to bring the two sides together.
Cast
Jeetendra as Madanlal Malhotra, Priya's father.
Shatrughan Sinha as Suraj Pratap Singh, Rahul's father.
Shahrukh Khan as Rahul Singh / Prem Pujari (dual role)
Raveena Tandon as Priya Malhotra
Anupam Kher as Kamdev Singh alias K.D.(Criminal Psychologist)
Prem Chopra as Asst. Commissioner of Police.
Tinnu Anand as Sundar
Kiran Juneja as Shalini Srivastav
Neelima Azeem as Nisha
Beena Banerjee as Sarita Malhotra
Aashif Sheikh as Bobby
Sudhir as Gullu - Hitman
Ghanshyam Rohera as Sai-Landowner
Soundtrack
The music of the film was composed by Nadeem-Shravan, while lyrics were written by Sameer.
Track listing
References
External links
1990s Hindi-language films
1995 films
Films directed by Ramesh Sippy
Films scored by Nadeem–Shravan
Hindi films remade in other languages
Indian romantic drama films
Indian action films | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zamaana%20Deewana |
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