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A WOMAN in Bradford, England, claims that when she was five she was kidnapped and dumped in the Colombian jungle only to be raised by monkeys.
There are a lot of people in this world that would have been better off being reared by monkeys. A kickabout on the green now takes twice as long as it used to, as the young lad insists on replaying every goal he scores in slow motion.
Jockey Richard Hughes equals Frankie Dettori's record by riding seven winners in one afternoon at mouthwatering odds of over 10,000/1. Trap says his players have a 51 per cent chance of qualifying for the World Cup. Unshakable faith. Singer Adele gives birth to a baby boy and also a classic Bond theme to accompany this week's release of Skyfall - a voice so easy on the ears.

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What would a papal event in Manhattan be without a real New York character? Robert Psotto fit the bill.
Psotto, a native of Yorkville on the Upper East Side, stood a block away from St. Joseph Parish on 87th Street, where people waited as Secret Service swept the church before the pope's arrival. Psotto, with shoulder-length gray hair, wore an Austrian jacket and Bavarian shorts. He would not provide his age or religion. He performed on his "doodle-sack," also known as bag pipes. And in honor of the pope's visit to a New York synagogue, Psotto entertained the primarily Catholic pope-watchers with that Yiddish classic, Hava Nagila.


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Marc and Jay talk about the first two preseason games, how other rookies looked in preseason, Barnes and Fisher fight, Carroll is a beast, over and unders, listener questions and much more
Episode 267: Season Preview
Marc the star and Jay preview every team, try out a live show which doesn't go as bad as expected, preseason, listener questions and much more
Mike Woodson Player Notes from LAST SEASON'S PRE-SEASON OPENER
With the Knicks first pre-season game tonight and in honor of our former coach, the great Mike Woodson, our investigative team here at New York Knicks Podcast has uncovered the actual notes Mike Woodson provided his players prior to their first preseason game last season. We are exposing ourselves to a great deal of liability by providing this information to you but we care about you the reader. We cannot explain to you exactly how this information was obtained but needless to say it involved a great deal of strap-ons.
- If you are wide open with the basketball in your hand, before shooting, ask yourself is your name Carmelo or JR.
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- If you are on defense and covering the same guy for more than 5 seconds than you are doing something wrong.
- If you are on defense and you see the guy with the ball is double covered, get your ass over there because there is no reason that guy shouldn't be triple covered.
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"Charlie's Angels" star Drew Barrymore has an angel of her own -- her adopted chow-yellow Lab mix Flossie, whose barking saved the lives of Barrymore, 26, and her live-in boyfriend, comic Tom Green, 29, when a fire ripped into the actresses' $3 million Beverly Hills home at 3 a.m. on Sunday. "Thank God for Flossie!" Barrymore told journalists as she surveyed the smoldering damage, reportedly estimated to be $700,000. The star's publicist said, "Flossie barked and literally banged on (Drew and Tom's) bedroom door. She was really the main alert." Barrymore then called 911, before she, Green, Flossie and two other dogs, Highla Flopsie and Templeton, safely escaped. There were no injuries, and the cause of the blaze is under investigation. About 70 firefighters from Los Angeles and Beverly Hills came to the scene, though too late to save the rustic, 3,500-sq.-ft. house. When TV news cameras showed up, Barrymore and Green, who is known for his outlandish humor, mugged and laughed for the film crews. "We're great," announced Barrymore, to which Green deadpanned before the couple sped away from the damaged home in a silver Porsche, "Other than the fact that house burned down."


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This specification covers the standard for wrought austenitic stainless steel fittings for pressure piping applications. The material for fittings shall consist of forgings, bars, plates, or seamless or welded tubular products. Forging or shaping operations shall be performed by hammering, pressing, piercing, extruding, upsetting, rolling, bending, fusion welding, machining, or by a combination of two or more of these operations. All fittings shall undergo heat-treatment. Chemical and product analyses shall be performed and shall conform to the required chemical composition in carbon, manganese, phosphorus, sulfur, silicon, chromium, molybdenum, and titanium. Tension test shall be done on the fitting material to determine the tensile properties such as yield strength and tensile strength. Fittings supplied under this specification shall be examined visually for surface discontinuities, surface checks, and mechanical marks.
This abstract is a brief summary of the referenced standard. It is informational only and not an official part of the standard; the full text of the standard itself must be referred to for its use and application. ASTM does not give any warranty express or implied or make any representation that the contents of this abstract are accurate, complete or up to date.
1. Scope
1.1 This specification covers wrought stainless steel fittings for pressure piping applications.2
1.2 Several grades of austenitic stainless steel alloys are included in this specification Grades are designated with a prefix, WP or CR, based on the applicable ASME or MSS dimensional and rating standards, respectively.
1.3 For each of the WP stainless grades, several classes of fittings are covered, to indicate whether seamless or welded construction was utilized. Class designations are also utilized to indicate the nondestructive test method and extent of nondestructive examination (NDE). Table 1 is a general summary of the fitting classes applicable to all WP grades of stainless steel covered by this specification. There are no classes for the CR grades. Specific requirements are covered elsewhere.
1.4 This specification is expressed in both inch-pound units and in SI units. However, unless the order specifies the applicable "M" specification designation (SI units), the material shall be furnished to inch-pound units.
1.5 The values stated in either SI units or inch-pound units are to be regarded separately as standard. Within the text, the SI units are shown in brackets. The values stated in each system may not be exact equivalents; therefore, each system shall be used independently of the other. Combining values from the two systems may result in non-conformance with the standard.
1.6 This specification does not apply to cast steel fittings. Austenitic stainless steel castings are covered in Specifications A351/A351M, A743/A743M, and A744/A744M.
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UNSPSC Code 40170000(Pipe piping and pipe fittings)
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I just hope Tampa Bay's years of suck in the future won't destroy Yzerman's chances of becoming GM of a real team, haha.
I have no problem with Tampa Bay, and I guess he needed an 'entry-level' job, but I hope the circus down there stops before it damages his pristine reputation. And yes, this means Yzerman is gone for good. The odds of Holland retiring at the exact same time that Yzerman's contract comes up and Tampa Bay being a terrible embarrassing mess at the time is highly unlikely.
Bear in mind that GMs do have a fairly high turnover rate. 20 NHL teams have changed GMs since the lockout. Anything more than 6-8 years or so is considered 'long term'. Holland's contract wouldn't have to expire at the same time, he would just have to agree to step aside. Or maybe Steve could wait a year or two in a different role. Or maybe Holland goes before Steve's contract is up and we go with a temp GM for a year or two.
I believe he wants to be the GM of the Wings. I believe Ilitch wants him to be the GM eventually. The fans definitely want him. Assuming he doesn't fail miserably in TB, I have to believe he'll be back before too long.


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CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - US Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said America can learn from Israeli airport security procedures.
Chertoff is in Jerusalem this week to attend an international conference on homeland security.
"Not every technological approach here [in Israel] is necessary applicable, but we are always open to look for technology from whatever source," Chertoff told Reuters.
One particularly adaptable technique used at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion International Airport is behavior-detection technologies.
"That's a scenario where Israel has a lot of experience. I think that it is of interest to us to see if there is any adaptation there," he said.
A new system presented at the conference, developed by WeCU, an Israeli technology firm, combines behavioral science with biometric sensors to spot potential security risks among airline passengers.
Israel's highly developed technologies for detecting explosives also interested Chertoff.
"The challenge will be to keep moving forward. We need to continue to implement the measures we have in place and continue to look for additional things to match what the enemies are doing because they are constantly retooling themselves," Chertoff said.
Chertoff said Israel's practice of interviewing every passenger was impractical at America's major airports due to sheer numbers. While Ben Gurion processes some 9 million travelers annually, Chicago's O'Hare airport sees 76 million passengers a year.
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Puma SE
Formerly called
|Gebrüder Dassler Schuhfabrik
|Societas Europaea
|Traded as
|Clothing and consumer goods manufacture
(registered in 1948)[1]
|Rudolf Dassler
|Herzogenaurach, Germany
Area served
Key people
|Footwear, sportswear, sports goods, fashion accessories
|€2.972 billion (2014)[2]
|€306.8 million (2010)[2]
|€202.2 million (2010)[2]
|Total assets
|€2.367 billion (end 2010)[2]
|Total equity
|€1.386 billion (end 2010)[2]
Number of employees
|10,830 (average, 2014)[2]
Puma SE, branded as PUMA, is a major German multinational company that designs and manufactures athletic and casual footwear and clothing, headquartered in Herzogenaurach, Bavaria. The company was formed in 1924 as Gebrüder Dassler Schuhfabrik by Adolf and Rudolf Dassler. The relationship between the two brothers deteriorated until the two agreed to split in 1948, forming two separate entities, Adidas and Puma. Both companies are currently based in Herzogenaurach, Germany.
Puma offers products for Football, Running, Training and Fitness, Golf and Motorsports. It has sponsored a number of legendary footballers, including Pelé, Eusébio, Johan Cruyff and Diego Maradona. Puma is the sponsor of the Jamaican track athlete Usain Bolt. The first endorser for the Asian Region is Luhan, a Chinese actor and singer. In the United States, the company is known for the suede basketball shoe it introduced in 1968, which eventually bore the name of New York Knicks basketball star Walt "Clyde" Frazier, and for its endorsement partnership with Joe Namath.
Following the split from his brother, Rudolf Dassler originally registered the new-established company as Ruda, but later changed the name to Puma.[3] Puma's earliest logo consisted of a square and beast jumping through a D, which was registered, along with the company's name, in 1948. Puma's shoe and clothing designs feature the Puma logo and the distinctive "Formstrip" .[4]
The company offers lines of shoes and sports clothing designed by Lamine Kouyate, Amy Garbers, and others. Since 1996 Puma has intensified its activities in the United States. Puma owns 25% of American brand sports clothing maker Logo Athletic, which is licensed by American professional basketball and association football leagues. Since 2007 Puma has been part of French group Kering (formerly known as Pinault-Printemps-Redoute or PPR).
- 1 History
- 1.1 Background
- 1.2 Company split and creation of Puma
- 1.3 Early years and rivalry with Adidas
- 1.4 The Pelé pact and subsequent affairs
- 1.5 Present day
- 1.6 Special editions of King football boots
- 1.7 Takeover by PPR
- 1.8 Controversy
- 1.9 Timeline
- 2 Sponsorship
- 3 References
- 4 External links
Christoph von Wilhelm Dassler was a worker in a shoe factory, while his wife Pauline ran a small laundry in the Bavarian town of Herzogenaurach, 20 km (12.4 mi) from the city of Nuremberg. After leaving school, their son, Rudolf Dassler, joined his father at the shoe factory. When he returned from fighting in World War I, Rudolf received a management position at a porcelain factory, and later in a leather wholesale business in Nuremberg.
Rudolf returned to Herzogenaurach in 1924 to join his younger brother, Adolf, nicknamed "Adi", who had founded his own shoe factory. They named the new business "Gebrüder Dassler Schuhfabrik" (Dassler Brothers Shoe Factory). The pair started their venture in their mother's laundry. At the time, electricity supplies in the town were unreliable, and the brothers sometimes had to use pedal power from a stationary bicycle to run their equipment.[5]
Adolf drove from Bavaria to the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin with a suitcase full of spikes and persuaded United States sprinter Jesse Owens to use them, the first sponsorship for an African American. Owens won four gold medals. Business boomed; the Dasslers were selling 200,000 pairs of shoes annually before World War II.[6]
Company split and creation of Puma[edit]
Both brothers joined the Nazi Party, but Rudolf was slightly closer to the party. A growing rift between the brothers reached a breaking point during a 1943 Allied bomb attack. Adi and his wife climbed into a bomb shelter that Rudolf and his family were already in. "Here are the bloody bastards again," Adi remarked, apparently referring to the Allied war planes, but Rudolf, due to his apparent insecurity, was convinced his brother meant him and his family.[7] When Rudolf was later picked up by American soldiers and accused of being a member of the Waffen SS, he was convinced that his brother had turned him in.[5]
The brothers split the business in 1948. Rudolf moved to the other side of the Aurach River to start his own company. Adolf started his own sportswear company using a name he formed using his nickname—Adi—and the first three letters of his last name—Das—to establish Adidas. Rudolf created a new firm that he called "Ruda", from "Ru" in Rudolf and "Da" in Dassler. Rudolf's company changed its name to Puma Schuhfabrik Rudolf Dassler in 1948.[8]
Early years and rivalry with Adidas[edit]
Puma and Adidas entered a fierce and bitter rivalry after the split. The town of Herzogenaurach was divided on the issue, leading to the nickname "the town of bent necks"—people looked down to see which shoes strangers wore.[9] Even the town's two football clubs were divided: ASV Herzogenaurach club supported Adidas, while 1 FC Herzogenaurach endorsed Rudolf's footwear.[5] When handymen were called to Rudolf's home, they would deliberately wear Adidas shoes. Rudolf would tell them to go to the basement and pick out a pair of free Pumas.[5] The two brothers never reconciled, and although both are buried in the same cemetery, they are buried at opposite ends as far away from each other as possible.[10]
In 1948, the first football match after World War II, several members of the West German national football team wore Puma boots, including the scorer of West Germany's first post-war goal, Herbert Burdenski. Four years later, at the 1952 Summer Olympics, 1500 metres runner Josy Barthel of Luxembourg won Puma's first Olympic gold in Helsinki, Finland.
At the 1960 Summer Olympics Puma paid German sprinter Armin Hary to wear Pumas in the 100 metre sprint final. Hary had worn Adidas before and asked Adolf for payment, but Adidas rejected this request. The German won gold in Pumas, but then laced up Adidas for the medals ceremony, to the shock of the two Dassler brothers. Hary hoped to cash in from both, but Adi was so enraged he banned the Olympic champion.[6]
The Pelé pact and subsequent affairs[edit]
A few months prior to the 1970 FIFA World Cup, Armin Dassler (Rudolf's son) and his cousin, Horst Dassler (Adi's son), sealed an agreement which was dubbed "The Pelé pact". This agreement dictated that soccer player Pelé would be out of bounds for both Adidas and Puma. However, Pelé complied with a request by Puma's representative Hans Henningsen to increase the awareness and profile of Puma after he received $120,000 to wear the Formstrips.[6] At the opening whistle of a 1970 World Cup finals match, Pelé stopped the referee with a last-second request to tie his shoelaces before kneeling down to give millions of television viewers a close-up of his Pumas.[11] This outraged Horst, and future peace agreements were called off.
Two years later, during the 1972 Summer Olympics, Puma provided shoes for the Ugandan 400 metres hurdles champion, John Akii-Bua. After Akii-Bua was forced out of Uganda by its military government, Puma employed him in Germany. Eventually Akii-Bua returned to Uganda.[12]
Puma became a public company in 1986,[13] and thereafter was listed on the Börse München and Frankfurt Stock Exchange.[14]
In May 1989, Rudolf's sons Armin and Gerd Dassler agreed to sell their 72 percent stake in Puma to Swiss business Cosa Liebermann SA.[15]
Present day[edit]
For the fiscal year 2003, the company had revenue of €1.274 billion. Puma were the commercial sponsors for the 2002 anime series Hungry Heart: Wild Striker, with the jerseys and clothing sporting the Puma brand. Puma ranks as one of the top shoe brands with Adidas and Nike.[16]
The company has been led by former football professional Bjørn Gulden (CEO) since July 1, 2013.
Puma is the main producer of enthusiast driving shoes and race suits. They are the primary producer for Formula One and NASCAR clothing. They won the rights to sponsor the 2006 FIFA World Cup champions, the Italian national football team, making and sponsoring the clothing worn by the team. They entered a partnership with Ferrari, Ducati and BMW to make Puma-Ferrari, Puma-Ducati and Puma-BMW shoes. On 15 March 2007 Puma launched its 2007/2008 line of uniforms for a club, and Brazilian football club Grêmio will be the first to use the laser-sewn technology, similar to that worn by Italy at the 2006 World Cup, because their season starts six months earlier than European clubs.
Rihanna was named Creative Director of Puma overseeing direction of the womenswear line in December 2014.[17]
As of 2014, Puma SE employs more than 10,000 people worldwide and distributes its products in more than 120 countries.[18]
Special editions of King football boots[edit]
In 2008 Puma commemorated the 40th anniversary of the "King" model of boots with a special anniversary edition, the King XL (XL is 40 in Roman Numerals), a tribute to Portuguese footballer Eusébio, who scored 42 goals with King boots in 1968, winning the Golden Boot Award as Europe's leading scorer.[19] Puma has continued to release new versions of the King range, and released a version in 2009 to celebrate the history of Italian soccer, and in particular the Puma King XL Italia, in honour of double World Cup winning coach Vittorio Pozzo.[20]
In 2010, a Puma King model was released commemorating the 50th birthday of Diego Maradona,[21] with a model called the Puma King Diego Finale football boot. This edition was created in the colours of La Albiceleste, the Argentina National football team.
Takeover by PPR[edit]
In February 2007 Puma reported that its profits had fallen by 26% to €32.8 million ($43 million; £22 million) during the final three months of 2006. Most of the decline in profits was due to higher costs linked to its expansion; sales rose by more than a third to €480.6 million.[22]
In early April 2007 Puma's shares rose €29.25 per share, or about 10.2%, at €315.24 per share.[23]
On 10 April 2007 French retailer and owner of Gucci brand Pinault-Printemps-Redoute (PPR) announced that it had bought a 27% stake in Puma, clearing the way for a full takeover. The deal values Puma at €5.3 billion. PPR said that it would launch a "friendly" takeover for Puma, worth €330 a share, once the acquisition of the smaller stake was completed. The board of Puma welcomed the move, saying it was fair and in the firm's best interests.[24]
As of July 2007 PPR owns over 60% of Puma stock.
In July 2011 the company completed a conversion from an Aktiengesellschaft (German public limited company) to a Societas Europaea, the European Union-wide equivalent, changing its name from Puma AG Rudolf Dassler Sport to Puma SE.[25] At the same time, Franz Koch replaced the long-serving Jochen Zeitz as the firm's CEO, with Zeitz becoming chairman.[26]
Employment practices[edit]
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Organizations that were promoting fair trade and worker's rights did not criticize Puma's employment practices in their developing world factories, predominantly relating to workers in China, Turkey, El Salvador, and Indonesia.[27]
Puma, like many globalised corporations, believes that "labour flexibility remains one of the key components to ensure that individual companies survive and grow". These "flexible" labour practices allow the company to manufacture quickly and cheaply, but often under exploitative conditions.[28]
Freedom of association
Puma's 2009 supplier list included close to 350 suppliers, the majority of which are located in Asia, predominately China, followed by Vietnam.[29] In these locations, Puma reports that the rights of freedom of association and collective bargaining have been difficult to enforce.[30] According to human rights and labour organisations,[31] Puma does not have adequate policies in place to encourage suppliers to recognise workers' union rights. Puma does not require suppliers to allow their workers to form a union, nor does it require suppliers to sign union access agreements.[32]
Puma frequently has short term contracts with its suppliers, which means that at any time it can leave an area, and its workers, if they can source their products more cheaply elsewhere.[33] This lack of stability does not give supplier factories a good incentive to respect workers' rights. For instance, in 2004 Puma decided to stop ordering garments from the Lian Thai factory in Thailand just after the factory had agreed to cease discrimination against trade union members.[33] In another incident, following the formation of an independent union at one of Puma's Mexican suppliers, the company cut orders from the factory.[34]
Puma has not taken action to minimise the use of short term contracts,[28] though the prevalence of these contracts creates an atmosphere of economic insecurity and makes it difficult for workers to organise.
Low wages
In a number of regions, sportswear workers producing for Puma have been increasingly vocal about the serious inadequacy of their wages.[35] Puma has not yet made a full commitment to pay a living wage.[36] Puma is currently undertaking research into finding a practical solution to the problem of low wages in Asia, and is working with suppliers in Indonesia, India, and Cambodia to assess the feasibility of a minimum living wage.[37] Labour organisations, such as the Asia Floor Wage campaign, hope that this process will lead to the implementation of living wages in the future. In the meanwhile, Puma has admitted that it is still trying to achieving full compliance with the minimum wage at a number of its suppliers.[38]
Steps in the right direction
The company has made some steps towards greater transparency. In 2000 Puma began auditing all of its suppliers on a yearly basis, and makes the results available in its sustainability reports.[39] Since 2005 it has publicly provided a list of its suppliers.
Puma has made a strong commitment to respecting workers rights in some areas. For example, Puma has obtained the Ethical Clothing Australia accreditation for its Australian-made products.[40] This labour-friendly accreditation applies to only a tiny percentage of Puma's total production.
Environmental practices[edit]
In July 2011, Puma – along with other major fashion and sportswear brands including Nike, Adidas, and Abercrombie & Fitch – was the subject of a report by the environmental group Greenpeace entitled 'Dirty Laundry'. Puma is accused of working with suppliers in China who, according to the findings of the report, contribute to the pollution of the Yangtze and Pearl Rivers. Samples taken from one facility belonging to the Youngor Group located on the Yangtze River Delta and another belonging to the Well Dyeing Factory Ltd., located on a tributary of the Pearl River Delta, revealed the presence of hazardous and persistent hormone disruptor chemicals, including alkylphenols, perfluorinated compounds, and perfluorooctane sulfonate.[41]
Less than two weeks after the release of the Dirty Laundry report, Puma made a public commitment to deal with the issues raised by Greenpeace. The company's statement asserts that "Puma is committed to eliminate the discharges of all hazardous chemicals from the whole lifecycle and all production procedures that are associated with the making and using of Puma products."[42] Greenpeace also confirmed Puma's commitment to eliminate all releases of hazardous chemicals from its entire product lifecycle, and across its global supply chain by 2020.[43]
In May 2011, The Guardian released an article saying that Puma was "world's first major company to put a value on its environmental impact". According to the article the company "has made a commitment that within four years, half its international collections will be manufactured according to its internal sustainability standard, by using more sustainable materials such as recycled polyester, as well as ensuring its suppliers develop more sustainable materials and products."[44]
- 1920: Rudolf Dassler and his brother Adolf start making sports shoes.[45]
- 1924: Foundation of Gebrüder Dassler Schuhfabrik, Herzogenaurach, Germany.[14]
- 1948: Foundation of Puma Schuhfabrik Rudolf Dassler (1 October), Introduction of the ATOM, Puma's first football shoe.[14]
- 1949: Rudolf Dassler has the idea of football shoes with removable studs. He begins working on their development and production.[46]
- 1952: Introduction of the SUPER ATOM, the world's first boot with screw in studs.[14]
- 1953: Development of ATOM's successor: the BRASIL. [47]
- 1958: Introduction of Puma's signature "Formstrip" at the FIFA World Cup in Sweden.[48]
- 1959: The company is transformed into a limited partnership named Puma-Sportschuhfabriken Rudolf Dassler KG. [49]
- 1960: Introduction of the vulcanization production technique.[14]
- 1966: Launch of the WEMBLEY, the predecessor model to the Puma King.
- 1968: Launch of the legendary KING. Puma is the first manufacturer to offer sports shoes with Velcro fasteners.[19]
- 1968: Launch of the SUEDE. [50]
- 1973: Launch of the CLYDE. Designed for basketball player Walt "Clyde" Frazier, as a wider-fitting version of suede model.[51]
- 1974: Rudolf Dassler dies. His sons Armin and Gerd take over the company's management.[49]
- 1976: Introduction of the S.P.A.-Technology.[49]
- 1986: Transformation into a stock corporation.[52]
- 1989: Launch of the TRINOMIC sport shoe system.[53]
- 1989: Rudolf's sons Armin and Gerd Dassler agreed to sell their 72 percent stake in Puma to Swiss business Cosa Liebermann SA.[15]
- 1990: Introduction of INSPECTOR, a growth control system for children's shoes.
- 1991: Launch of the DISC SYSTEM sports shoe.[14]
- 1992: Capital increase by DM 20 million, share capital reaches DM 70 million.
- 1993: Jochen Zeitz is appointed Chairman and CEO, Proventus/Aritmos B.V. becomes majority shareholder.[54]
- 1994: The first profit since the company's IPO in 1986 is registered.[55]
- 1996: Puma is listed in the German M-DAX index;[56] introduction of the CELL technology, the first foam-free midsole.[57]
- 1997: Launch of the CELLERATOR.
- 1998: Puma starts a collaboration with designer Jil Sander.[58]
- 1999: Puma becomes an official on-field supplier of the NFL, a legacy reflected in the numeral font of the Tennessee Titans jersey which still uses the original Puma design. Puma is the uniform manufacturer for both Super Bowl teams that year: the Titans and St. Louis Rams.
- 2000: Production of fireproof footwear in partnership with Porsche and Sparco.
- 2001: Acquisition of the Scandinavian Tretorn Group.[59]
- 2002: Puma ends tenure as an on-field supplier for the NFL, when Reebok is announced as the league's sole official uniform and apparel sponsor for 10 years (2002-2011).[60]
- 2002: Launch of the SHUDOH.
- 2003: Majority shareholder Monarchy/Regency sells its shareholdings to a broad base of institutional investors.[61]
- 2004: Collaborative partnership with world-renowned designer Philippe Starck.[62]
- 2005: Mayfair Vermögensverwaltungsgesellschaft mbh acquires a total of 16.91% shareholding.[63]
- 2006: The company is listed in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index;[64] Introduction of the S.A.F.E. concept, a specific tool developed to continuously improve social and environmental standards. Shoe collection in cooperation with Alexander McQueen.[65] Italy would go on to win the 2006 World Cup. Due to Puma's sponsorship of the Italian national team, many of the teams' players wore Puma boots.[66]
- 2007: Voluntary public take-over by Pinault-Printemps Redoute;[67] Prolongation of the contract with Jochen Zeitz by five years.[68]
- 2008: Melody Harris-Jensbach is appointed Deputy CEO; Designer and artist Hussein Chalayan becomes Creative Director,[69] Puma also acquires a majority stake in Chalayan's business and Hussein Chalayan. [70]
- 2010: Signs two-year deals to make the kits of Newcastle United, Motherwell, Hibernian, Burnley & Preston North End from the 2010–11 season.[71]
- 2010: Puma announced it would acquire 100 percent of Cobra Golf, based in Carlsbad, California, from Fortune Brands Inc., but did not provide any financial details.[72]
- 2011: Signs a deal to make kits of Dinamo Zagreb from the 2011–12 season.
- 2011: Signs a three-year deal with A-League champions Brisbane Roar.[73]
- 2012: Signs an eight-year deal to make kits for Borussia Dortmund, starting from the 2012-13 season.[74]
- 2013: Signs a five-year deal to make kits for Rangers from the 2013-14 season.[75]
- 2013: Agrees to make kits for Football League Championship side Wolverhampton Wanderers on a four-year deal.[76]
- 2013: Signs a five-year kit deal with Serbian side Red Star Belgrade.[77]
- 2014: Signs a five-year kit deal worth £30 million-a-year with Arsenal.[78]
- 2014: Rihanna is named PUMA's global brand ambassador for women's training and PUMA Women's Creative Director, overseeing the direction of the womenswear line, working in partnership with PUMA's Internal Product Creation team.[79]
- 2015: Signs a three-year kit deal with Greek side Panathinaikos
Puma is a sponsor of sporting events and identities internationally.[14] The company sponsors numerous footballers and national football teams; the "Formstrip" especially has a heavy presence in Africa. Puma is the sponsor of a number of Bundesliga clubs, most notably Borussia Dortmund.[80]
In cricket, Puma is the official apparel sponsor for the Sunrisers Hyderabad (representing the city of Hyderabad), and Rajasthan Royals (representing the city of Jaipur) in the Indian Premier League.[81][82] International cricketers such as Yuvraj Singh, Craig Kieswetter, Adam Gilchrist and Brendon McCullum are sponsored by the brand.[83]
In Rugby Union, Puma entered an eight-year contract as official apparel sponsor of the Irish Rugby team that commenced with the 2009–10 season.[84] Under the agreement, Puma supplies the team kit and training equipment and markets replica kits. Puma also sponsor English premiership side Bath.[85]
In golf, Puma sponsors Rickie Fowler, Jonas Blixt, Will MacKenzie, Greg Norman, Graham DeLaet, Lexi Thompson, Ian Poulter, and Bryson DeChambeau.[86][87][88]
In track and field, Puma is best known as the sponsor of Usain Bolt and the Jamaica athletics team. In addition they sponsor Canadian sprinter Andre De Grasse.[89]
Puma is also a sponsor of the web show The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers[90] and rapper Meek Mill.[91]
In January 2014 Puma and Arsenal F.C. announced a long-term Kit partnership that created the highest value deal in the history of both organisations.[92]
The Indian Super League announced in September 2014 that the Puma EvoPower 1 Statement ball would become its official match ball.[93] Puma is also the official kit sponsor for Indian Super League teams Kerala Blasters, Mumbai City FC and Delhi Dynamos. Chennaiyin[94][95]
Since the announcement in 2014 of Rihanna becoming the Global Ambassador of Puma. There's been huge anticipation for the superstars collection. During New York Fashion week Feb. 12, 2016 the Fenty collection was launched.
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This college football preseason, Sporting News writers will debate one key issue each week.
This week's question: Will Texas start another string of 10-win seasons in 2011?
Coach Mack Brown is coming off his worst season in Austin, as the Longhorns finished 5-7 in 2010 and failed to qualify for a bowl.
Count on it: Texas will start another string of 10-win seasons in 2011
By Matt Hayes
This really isn't much of an argument. It's more like a process of elimination.
On any typical year, Texas will have significantly more talent than eight other teams (not including Oklahoma) in the Big 12. Take those eight games, and three nonconference games (at least two are cupcakes), and you're well on your way to 10 wins.
Unless, of course, the process is muddied by complacency.
Texas had become so complacent, so used to beating just about everyone during its nine-year streak of at least 10 victories every season, Mack Brown couldn't see the structure of offense in college football passing his team by.
It didn't help that the two best quarterbacks in Texas history—Vince Young and Colt McCoy—contributed so much individually and were so dominant in games that mattered, it was easy for Brown to think the machine was humming along when it really wasn't.
That's why the most loyal coach in the game did the unthinkable after last year's disastrous 5-7 season: He fired best friend and offensive coordinator Greg Davis. Long a focal point of criticism in Austin, much of the issues that surrounded Davis-led offenses were tied to ever-changing philosophies.
Pro-style or spread? The quarterback run game or I-formation smashmouth? Texas never developed an identity, but the play of two elite players (Young and McCoy) hid the critical fault. So when Brown went looking for a replacement, he looked to the guy who has done more merging of pro and spread sets than anyone in the game: Boise State offensive coordinator Bryan Harsin.
And here's the best part: Brown didn't know Harsin. Just like he didn't know defensive coordinator Manny Diaz. The shakeup has rejuvenated and refocused a team full of talent—a team that still, on paper, is better than eight teams in the Big 12.
The offense will be less predictable, more dynamic and create more big plays. As bad as quarterback Garrett Gilbert looked last fall, he was limited once Texas' huge flaw (an offensive with no identity and no superstar at quarterback) was exposed. There's only so much the Texas defense—which played very well last fall—can do after getting repeatedly placed in short-field situations.
Texas is still Texas. The Longhorns still have the pick of the state with the most high school talent in the nation. They'll still have a nearly complete recruiting class full of those players before the season begins.
And they'll start another streak of at least 10 wins a season.
Count on it: Texas' awful offense will keep Longhorns down
By Steve Greenberg
Let's amuse ourselves for a moment and pretend, just for the sake of argument, that the fellas down in Austin don't have "Texas" across their chests. That they don't carry the pedigree, established almost entirely by others, of 10 or more wins every season from 2001-09. That they have merely the mortifying results of 2010, when they started 3-0 and finished 2-7 (but did you catch that epic November victory over Florida Atlantic?), upon which to build.
Given that pretense, suggesting the Longhorns will win 10 games this season is … what's the right word? Amiss? Asinine? Absurd?
Go on, pick an "a." While you're at it, remember that you can't spell "kaput" without the U-T.
Look, there's no reason to pretend anything. Texas was a Big 12 pushover last season—and that is, indeed, what Mack Brown's team has to build on.
It ain't much.
But let's look at the 2011 schedule, shall we? It's far more pleasant than looking at Texas' offense. There are four teams lined up that beat the Longhorns by a combined 61 points a year ago. In Austin. We'll be charitable and say the Longhorns will turn the tables on Iowa State and Baylor, but UCLA (on the road) and Oklahoma State? Don't see it.
That's at least two losses, and Oklahoma surely will be another. Texas A&M in College Station? By the time that rolls around, the Aggies might be favored by double digits.
Apologies for misleading you: We're going to spend one sentence on the Texas offense. This is a team without a passing game or a running game. Holy smokes, that's depressing.
The defense is another story. Then again, star coordinator Will Muschamp left for Florida in December. If the only argument for a Texas comeback is rooted in its coaching staff, well, that there is another problem.


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[QUOTE=KimchiNinja;1145042]I'm not a fan of 80/20. Recognizing the 20% as food, and therefore eating it occasionally, just creates a constant battle. Food is available in the environment, but you are [I]attempting [/I]not to eat it. I don't view the 20% as even being food, and [I]never [/I]eat it.
It's easier because there is no constant decision making/choice involved, you just don't eat it. No more than you would eat say...poop, for example.[/QUOTE]
Hit the nail on the head.


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We encountered 2 patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) with tongue enlargement and protrusion outside the oral cavity (macroglossia). To our knowledge, the relationship between macroglossia and ALS has not been reported in the literature. The objective of this article was to describe the clinical characteristics, imaging, and pathology of macroglossia in ALS and to develop a hypothesis regarding its pathophysiology.
Two patients developed progressive weakness at age 54 and 40 years. Both patients exhibited dysarthria, dysphagia, tongue atrophy, neck extensor weakness, and weakness of jaw closure during a 1-year period. Both required tracheostomy and mechanical ventilation and afterward developed macroglossia. A 3-dimensional–reconstructed sagittal computed tomographic image confirmed tongue protrusion outside the oral cavity with focal compression and showed the transition from the atrophied part of the tongue in the oropharynx to the edematous part outside the mouth. Tongue biopsy demonstrated fatty replacement and fascicles of degenerative muscle.
Conclusions and Relevance
We are unaware of previous reports of macroglossia in ALS/motor neuron disease. Given the paucity of case material, we speculated that this is an extremely rare complication of ALS. Based on this series, we propose a pathophysiological mechanism by reviewing imaging and tongue biopsy.
In amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), hypoglossal motor neurons degenerate. This is recognized clinically by dysarthria and difficulty manipulating food in the oropharynx to initiate swallowing. Usual findings on examination include tongue atrophy, weakness, fasciculations, pseudobulbar affect in some, and spasticity of jaw musculature.1 In this case report, we describe 2 atypical ALS cases with enlargement of the tongue (macroglossia).
A 54-year-old man developed weakness of both upper extremities in 1997, followed by lower extremity weakness. The diagnosis of ALS was made in 1999 based on history, examination, electromyograph findings, and exclusion of other causes. By this time, his speech was incomprehensible with significant dysphagia, drooling, and a 40-lb weight loss. On examination, his tongue could not protrude beyond the lip margin.
After tracheostomy, he was placed on continuous mechanical ventilation in 2002. Macroglossia fully developed by 2003, although his family did not seek medical attention until August 2006, by which time his tongue protruded 5 to 6 cm (Figure 1A). He was edentulous and was found clenching his jaw, unable to relax to open his mouth. The patient was euthyroid on testing. An excisional biopsy was taken from the anterior dorsum of the tongue.
A, Photograph demonstrates patient 1 when his macroglossia was fully developed. B, The patient's tongue biopsy demonstrates a cluster of normal-sized striated muscle bundles surrounded by extensive fatty replacement and thin strands of extremely atrophic muscle fibers (arrow; hematoxylin and eosin stain). Original magnification ×40.
A 41-year-old woman presented with a 1-year history of progressive dysarthria, dysphagia, sialorrhea, 70-lb weight loss, labile mood, and extremity weakness. She was diagnosed as having ALS in 2008. In January 2009, she developed facial weakness, paralysis and fasciculations of her tongue, posterior pooling of secretions, and dysphagia. She had very poor dentition with several missing teeth. She required percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy tube in February 2009, and by September, she required tracheotomy and continuous ventilation.
Between March and May 2010, she rapidly developed macroglossia (Figure 2B). Vitamin B12 and thyroid-stimulating hormone levels were within normal limits. An ears, nose, and throat doctor evaluated her for concern of a head and neck tumor. On examination, she had massive tongue enlargement and jaw spasticity, such that her jaw could not be opened. The ears, nose, and throat consultant documented, "she was literally slowly biting off the tip of her tongue."
The rapid progression of macroglossia during a period of 3 months in patient 2 (A-C). D, Reformatted computed tomography (CT) of patient 2 shows her enlarged tongue protruding from her mouth. There is a transition in density from the intraoral part, which is heterogeneously replaced with fat (asterisk) to the exteriorized part distal to the compression (black arrow). A indicates anterior; F, foot; H, head; L, left; R, right.
The clinical features of our patients are summarized in the Table. Figure 1A illustrates patient 1 with fully developed macroglossia in August 2006. Figure 2A-C document the rapid evolution of macroglossia in patient 2 during 3 months.
A sagittal reformatted head/neck computed tomography scan shows the enlarged tongue protruding from the mouth (Figure 2D). There is a transition in the density of the tongue from the intraoral part, which is heterogeneously replaced with fat (asterisk), to the exteriorized part distal to the point of compression as it exits the oral cavity (black arrow) due to jaw spasticity. The hyoid bone and the tongue base are elevated (white arrow) and there is marked atrophy of the musculature of the floor of the mouth.
Both superficial and deep tongue biopsies were performed for patient 1. The deeper specimen illustrated in Figure 1B demonstrates a small cluster of normal-sized striated muscle bundles surrounded by extensive fatty replacement and thin strands of extremely atrophic fibers (arrow).
The typical appearance of the tongue in ALS has been described on magnetic resonance imaging as decreased in size, posteriorly displaced toward the root of the tongue in the floor of the mouth, and having a more rectangular appearance with replacement of muscle with connective tissue and fat.2,3 In this case series, the tongue was enlarged and protuberant. Part of the mechanism of macroglossia in our patients is tongue pseudohypertrophy due to denervation atrophy with fatty replacement. However, the distinct contrast in tissue densities between the anterior and posterior parts of the tongue (Figure 2D) implicates an additional mechanism(s) to develop macroglossia, possibly venous and/or lymphatic obstruction due to compression. Arterial occlusion was unlikely because the exteriorized tongue was viable and necrosis was not observed on biopsy. Both patients had neck extensor weakness and continuous mechanical ventilation via tracheostomy.
Mastaglia and Walton4 reported true muscle hypertrophy associated with denervation and postulated that stretching of muscle fibers and functional overload are important factors in its development. These factors may initiate the structural abnormalities in fibers that are still innervated, which may explain a number of secondary changes such as fiber hypertrophy and regenerative activity. Magnetic resonance imaging of enlarged muscle delineates 2 distinct types: one with normal muscle signal intensity, representing true hypertrophy (as just described) and the other with increased fat and atrophic muscle, representing pseudohypertrophy.5 Our patients are more representative of the latter form (Figure 1B). The biopsy and imaging document fatty replacement of muscle, or pseudohypertrophy, and desmin staining confirms the presence of atrophic muscle fibers. It is well-known that muscle hypertrophy occurs in Duchenne muscular dystrophy, which has been attributed to deposition of fat and connective tissue, giving rise to the term pseudohypertrophic muscular paralysis.6 In particular, macroglossia has been described in other neuromuscular diseases including muscular dystrophies and myasthenia gravis.7- 9
Other case series report tongue pseudohypertrophy occurring after hypoglossal nerve injury.10,11 Kataoka and Ueno11 reported a case of focal muscle hypertrophy of the hemitongue, which was explained by denervation and reinnervation leading to increasing frequencies of motor unit firing from the injured hypoglossal nerve and adjacent motor fibers. This suggests that continuous, spontaneous electrical activity of muscle could cause a true hypertrophy.11- 16 Kiran et al17 reported a case of Hoffman syndrome, a rare form of hypothyroid myopathy, with proximal weakness and pseudohypertrophy of muscles, thought to be secondary to accumulation of glycosaminoglycans.
We are unaware of previous reports of macroglossia in ALS/motor neuron disease. Given the paucity of case material, we speculated this must be an extremely rare complication. It is apparent through imaging and pathology that our patients initially experienced typical neurogenic muscle atrophy, followed later by pseudohypertrophy of the tongue. Other contributing factors may include neck extensor weakness, 24-hour ventilatory support via tracheostomy, tongue trauma at the dental margin secondary to jaw spasticity, and possible venous and/or lymphatic obstruction. We postulated the following pathophysiological steps to account for macroglossia in ALS: (1) bulbar involvement with neurogenic muscle atrophy of the tongue and subsequent fatty replacement; (2) weakness of neck extensor muscles; (3) facial muscle weakness, especially of the orbicularis oris; (4) gravity-assisted escape of the tongue outside of the oral cavity; (5) compression of the tongue at the dental margin due to spasticity of jaw muscles; and (6) distal enlargement (pseudohypertrophy) of the exteriorized tongue due to venous and/or lymphatic obstruction. Although both our patients received continuous mechanical ventilation via tracheostomy, it is unclear whether this factor plays a role in the development of macroglossia in ALS.
Corresponding Author: Heather R. McKee, MD, Department of Neurology, University of Kentucky, KY Clinic (Wing D)-L445, 740 S Limestone, Lexington, KY 40536-0284 (email@example.com).
Accepted for Publication: April 11, 2013.
Published Online: September 16, 2013. doi:10.1001/jamaneurol.2013.3138.
Author Contributions: Study concept and design: McKee, Kasarskis.
Acquisition of data: McKee, Damm, Kasarskis.
Analysis and interpretation of data: All authors.
Drafting of the manuscript: McKee, Damm.
Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: McKee, Escott, Kasarskis.
Administrative, technical, or material support: Damm.
Study supervision: Kasarskis.
Conflict of Interest Disclosures: None reported.
Additional Contributions: We thank Jennifer Mundy, MSW, Kathie Vanderpool, RN, Jessica Carpenter, BS, Joseph Valentino, MD, and Sebastian Espinosa, MD, for assistance gathering case material. The cooperation of the families was greatly appreciated.
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The colloquium will deal with the three following themes:
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Borders can be understood in many different ways. One immediately thinks of political boundaries, about the nation-state and its criterion of territoriality and sovereignty. In the case of Africa, one immediately thinks of the Berlin conference, of the artificial – not arbitrary – boundaries it effected, or the many border issues and conflicts that have risen ever since.
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This theme draws attention to daily life in Africa's border zones, for instance with regard to the experience of state throughout the colonial and postcolonial period. Ideology and rethorics notwithstanding, perhaps this state effect accounts for the continuity rather than rupture people experience between the colony and postcolony.
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"Kitsap County's Department of Public Works and a group of north Tracyton Boulevard residents have settled on a plan to slow traffic on the busy residential road.Median islands, landscaped with trees and shrubbery and dotted with signs welcoming drivers to the community, will be installed to break up the long straight stretches of Tracyton between Bucklin Hill and Fairgrounds roads. The raised medians will force drivers to curve gently around the obstruction, and slow speeders by breaking their lines of sight.And as an added bonus, according to Monty Mahan of the county Department of Public Works, they won't cost Kitsap taxpayers much.Mahan has secured a $295,000 grant from the state Department of Transportation's Hazard Elimination Program. The total cost to the county, including already-completed preliminary work, design, construction and relocating a handful of utility poles, will be about $100,000.And it'll happen quickly. Work is expected to begin this summer, with the new, improved road expected to be ready by fall.When you eliminate funding issues, your project becomes much more popular, said Mahan, adding that the Tracyton project is the first of its kind to receive financing from the state safety fund. They do these grants on a cost-benefit analysis and they found that for the benefit this project should bring, this was a very low cost.Nine medians will be spread over the 1.5 mile stretch of road. Mahan said a community group with which he worked on the project also considered other options, including traffic circles, but the island medians were considered a better option.What I wanted most was a lowering of the speed limit and narrowing of the road, said Sharon Schneidler, a Tracyton Boulevard resident who participated in the process. From what we've been told, (the medians) are beneficial as far as getting people to slow down. If it works, that's all I care about.Tracyton residents had complained about being afraid to cross the street, for fear of being run over by speeding vehicles using the road as a thoroughfare between Silverdale and Bremerton. Several said traffic accidents on the road have ended up in their front yards, while others worried about reckless passing on the narrow, curvy parts of the boulevard.Along with forcing course changes to avoid the medians, Mahan said the aesthetics of devices will slow drivers.The community groups wanted something that let people know they were in a community, Mahan said. They wanted some landscaping, but not something that required a whole lot of maintenance. And they wanted some trees.Rob Schneidler, who participated on the citizen-based design review committee that helped DPW come up with the plan, was pleased with the plan.We don't think people who are passing through the community should be denied that, he said. We just think they should be careful, and this traffic calming device will accomplish that.Tracyton Boulevard property won't have to give up any land to provide new rights-of-way, since the county already owns all the property it needs for the fix. The road will be 60 feet wide at Fairgrounds, and taper to 35 feet near Bucklin Hill. That will be tight, Mahan said, but sufficient.Plus, Rob Schneidler said, the county has agreed to restripe Tracyton in order to move the roadway back from mailboxes. And the speed limit on that stretch of Tracyton Boulevard will go from the current 35 to 30 miles per hour.The medians are designed so it will feel comfortable to drive around them at about 33 miles per hour, Mahan said, down from the current average speed of 43 mph on the road.Rob Schneidler was optimistic that the medians would solve the longtime traffic problems.We think the design is excellent and we're excited to see the project completed, he said. "
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"Dr Who" is the title and lead character of a uniquely camp and occasionally scientifically accurate sci-fi series appearing on BBC from 1963 to 2013+.
The show's gimmick begins with a renegade humanoid who asks to be called "The Doctor". He was born of an ancient race so advanced they have mastered both multiple lifespans (up to 13), and spatial and temporal dimensional engineering. They call themselves "Time Lords" and live on a peaceful and powerful planet called "Gallifrey".
(The show kept the Doctor's real name a teasy secret, like Lt Columbo's wife. The closest we humans can understand it is a huge math formula. So his childhood friends called him "Theta Sigma" for short.)
The Time Lord's main legal tenet is that they never use their immense powers of temporal engineering to accomplish anything at all. They have a zero-tolerance
The Doctor rebels against their unjust tyranny masquerading as passiveness, and steals a broken-down vehicle called a TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimensions In Space). This machine's cloaking device becomes permanently stuck on the setting "mid twentieth century Earth British Police Call Box", the British Invasion version of an emergency telephone station. This provides for amazing humor when passers-by, sometimes British and sometimes alien, accidentally witness it appear or disappear. (Most notably, the
cameo in
City of Death
TARDIS also makes an appearance as a jocular random encounter in the role-playing game "Fallout".
The Doctor teleports this device to random points in space and time (which often seem to suspiciously center on Earth or earthling colonies in our galaxy). He acquires a series of companions - humans, humanoids and robots - who help him unravel intricate gothic Shaggy Dog Tale mysteries at each of his more troublesome destinations. To keep the "
" fresh (and to re-invent its peculiar camp humor via broad cycles), every few seasons The Doctor metamorphoses into a new lead actor with a new set of characteristics & traits (see below for more information on regeneration).
The show-stopper episode called "The Pirate Planet" was the peak of the series's dizzying camp heights and of the reign of Tom Baker as the Doctor with the bushy hair, London Fog coat and 16-yard scarf. The show's script editor,
, wrote it.
At the time of writing (April 2005), Doctor Who is back on TV again with an updated budget, top actors and recognized script writers. It has been a great success in the UK and is definitely a series to look out for. See:
Big Finish Productions do very good audio dramas starring the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth Doctors and many original companions. They're a long way from the TV series, and one of the writers will be writing for the new series. Their web site is
The names of many Dr. Who companions appear today among the children of the show's fans. Other Doctor Who memorabilia can be found all over the programming industry, the internet, and popular media; including
("tardis"), and the episode of TheSimpsons
where Sideshow Bob tried to eradicate television.
Also, in early 2002: IanMcKellen
portrayed a fan cosplaying as the Tom Baker Doctor, in one of the skits during his appearance on SaturdayNightLive
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Episode IV. What was his ominous line?
"Stay on target!"
Police Boxes were there for a number of reasons. The police used to store things in them, and used to lock arrested suspects in them while they called for assistance to take them back to the station. This is from before the days of radio communications. Even in 1963 they were common street furniture. (The copyright on the actual design was, I believe, bought by the BBC eventually...)
7 Tardis-style police boxes can still (Dec 2013) be seen in Glasgow, although most of them are red. There are at least two in London, although one is well hidden inside a police training ground.
The phone on the front is also for the use of the public, at a time when very few people had a telephone, and hence couldn't call 999.
The regeneration concept was invented when Hartnell decided to leave the show due to ill-health in 1966. Although he wanted to stay with the series, his health was failing (he died of heart disease in 1975). The word "regeneration" was first used at the time of the Pertwee/Baker transition.
The "Time Lord" backstory was only invented fairly late on in the show. The first two incarnations didn't have this backdrop, and it was sort of retrofitted. The doctor came across some beings who were kidnapping soldiers from various eras of history and setting them to fight against each other. Returning them all to their correct times was beyond his abilities, so reluctantly he had to call for help... from his hitherto unknown home planet. Unfortunately, this also revealed his presence, and they put him on trial for interference. He was sentenced to be exiled to his favourite planet, Earth. This conveniently cut the shooting budget at the time the series switched from black and white to colour filming.
Possibly the greatest tragedy of Doctor Who is that the early stories are missing many episodes. In the 70s, the BBC decided to rationalize its massive archive of recorded material. Since this was before the advent of home videotape rental or sales, they had no belief they would need many series. The telecine films of early episodes were destroyed and the 2in videotape recordings were wiped and the tapes recycled.
A massive effort by fans and TV historians has recovered many episodes from various sources - private collections, foreign TV stations who never returned their broadcast films, material that employees "liberated" from the destruction etc. However a large amount of the black and white material has never been found and is now unlikely to be recovered. So much material was lost that, until an episode was recovered in 2003, one of the Doctor's alien adversaries was known from a single photograph.
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Meet Red Duke, medical director of the helicopter ambulance service unit at Hermann Hospital, professor of surgery at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston and a television producer's dream. Part straight-talking cowboy, part dedicated surgeon, the lanky, auburn-haired 58-year-old (who addresses every man as "Bud" and every woman as "Babe") is among the most popular doctors in media history. For two years Duke has delivered direct, sophisticated health advice on the PBS series Bodywatch. He is host of a phenomenally successful five-year-old, thrice weekly program, Texas Health Reports, made up of no-nonsense two-minute spots produced by the University of Texas Health Science Center and now running on local TV stations in 30 states. Says Bodywatch executive producer Christopher Gilbert: "Red is a man professionally respected at the top of his field who has the quirks of personality that draw people to him. I think he's even more appreciated outside his own backyard than inside his home state."
Sample: For a Texas Health Reports piece entitled "Horse Sense," Duke stands outside the Houston Astrodome-Astrohall at the annual Livestock Show and Rodeo. "Last year," he drawls, "we did a segment using a cowboy and his horse. Well, we're doin' a follow-up now because that cowboy managed to get himself kicked in the face by his horse. Pretty well busted his face up, too. He's agreed to tell us how he learned his lesson."
But don't be fooled by Duke's down-home deadpan. Though he prides himself on simple communication with patients, the doctor has a 36-page curriculum vitae and is one of the nation's leading experts in "blunt trauma"—injuries caused by falls, auto accidents or blows (as opposed to penetrating wounds like gunshots or stabbings). "The public doesn't understand the magnitude of trauma," says Duke. "They're scared to death of AIDS, but there are thousands being killed every year from trauma. It's a major unrecognized epidemic."
James Henry Duke's missionary zeal developed out of a small-town life in Ennis, Texas. The eldest son of a gas company manager and his wife, he acquired the nickname Red because of his curly red locks. Admittedly a "sickly and artistic" child, he grew strong hunting and fishing in nearby Aquilla Creek, where he frequently ran across another redheaded kid, future country singer Willie Nelson. Duke graduated from Texas A&M, then served in Germany for two years as an Army tank commander before returning to Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, where he married fellow student Betty Cowden. Then deciding that ministering to bodies was more to his interest, he enrolled in the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas and went on to pursue academic research at Columbia University in New York. Restless by nature, Duke uprooted his wife and four children in 1970 to accept a two-year post in surgery at Nangarhar University in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. Though the couple later divorced, the Dukes still have a warm relationship. Upon his return Duke accepted a position in surgery at the University of Texas Medical School. Famous for his directness and honesty with his patients, Duke found his audience in 1982 when the university asked him to conduct the first Texas Health Reports broadcasts.
In a fitting coda that proves practicing good medicine is as much art as science, Dr. Duke will be the model for a new fall ABC series starring Dennis Weaver and called Buck James, about a country doctor in a big city. Still, you won't find this country doctor hightailing it for Hollywood. Complaining that he is getting "overexposed," Red Duke will be back in Texas, sounding his simple message: "Being sick is a real drag. But having a doctor who doesn't care or doesn't listen is worse."
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