Pittsburgh is a 2006 mockumentary comedy film that follows American actor Jeff Goldblum as he attempts to secure a green card for his Canadian actor/singer/dancer girlfriend Catherine Wreford by appearing with her as the leads in a summer regional theatre production of The Music Man in Goldblum's hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The film features numerous other famous personalities portraying themselves, including Ed Begley Jr. (who had worked with Goldblum on Transylvania 6-5000), Illeana Douglas (who directed Goldblum in her own film Supermarket), Moby (as Douglas's boyfriend), Conan O'Brien and Craig Kilborn (hosting Goldblum on their respective shows), Alanis Morissette, and Tom Cavanagh.

Though some of the primary events of the story took place (for example, Goldblum did perform The Music Man with the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera at the Benedum Center, though that performance was staged solely for the film) "Pittsburgh" was, with a few improvisational flourishes, totally scripted. Many of the deleted scenes included on the DVD release of the film are far more overtly comic than those the filmmakers chose to include in the finished product and make the fictional nature of the project more obvious.

Cast
 Jeff Goldblum as himself
 Conan O'Brien as himself
 Catherine Wreford as herself
 Ed Begley Jr. as himself
 Illeana Douglas as herself
 Moby as himself
 Craig Kilborn as himself
 Alanis Morissette as herself
 Tom Cavanagh as himself
 Jon Clunies as himself playing Ewart Dunlop in the Music Man
 Flanzinee as himself

References

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2006 films
2000s mockumentary films
American mockumentary films
Films set in Pittsburgh
2006 comedy films
2000s English-language films
2000s American films

Pittsburgh (2006 film)


Marion Kirkland "Kirk" Fort Jr. (1921–1964) was an American mathematician, specializing in general topology. The topological spaces called Fort space and Arens–Fort space are named after him.

Fort was born in 1921 in Spartanburg, South Carolina, where he graduated with an A.B. from Wofford College in 1941. He received an M.A. in 1944 from the University of Virginia, where he also received his Ph.D. in 1948, advised by Gordon Thomas Whyburn. He was at the University of Illinois from then until 1953, when he came to the University of Georgia (UGA). He later served as head of the UGA mathematics department, 1959–1963. In 1963 Fort became the first holder of the university's David C. Barrow Chair of Mathematics. He died in 1964 during a leave of absence at the Institute for Defense Analyses in Princeton, New Jersey.

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In international trade law, a safeguard is a restraint to protect home or national industries from foreign competition.
In the World Trade Organization (WTO), a member may take a safeguard action, such as restricting imports of a product temporarily to protect a domestic industry from an increase in imports causing or threatening to cause injury to domestic production.

Background
Within the WTO, safeguard measures were available under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) (Article XIX). However, they were infrequently used, and some governments preferred to protect their industries by "grey area" measures ("voluntary" export restraint arrangements on products such as cars, steel and semiconductors). As part of the WTO deal, members gave up the "grey area" measures and adopted a specific WTO Safeguards Agreement  to discipline the use of safeguard measures.

Safeguards are usually seen as responses to economic development and trade processes that align with international law, as opposed to negative practices, such as dumping or subsidies.

In the context of world trade, they are supposed to be used only in very specific circumstances, with compensation, and on a universal basis. For example, a member restricting imports for safeguard purposes would have to restrict imports from all other countries. However, exceptions to the nondiscriminatory rule are provided for in the Agreement on Safeguards itself as well as in some ad hoc agreements. In the last respect, it is worthwhile to note that the People's Republic of China accepted that discriminatory safeguards may be imposed on its exports to other WTO members until 2013.

Examples

Some safeguard measures can be resorted to in the area of services, as provided for in the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS).

Regional trading arrangements have their own rules relating to safeguards. One example of a safeguard being used successfully was when Liechtenstein used a safeguard measure in the EEA Agreement with the European Union to limit immigration from the EU until a more permanent agreement was put in place to limit immigration.

Article 16 of the Northern Ireland Protocol is a more wide ranging safeguard measure affecting the relationship of Northern Ireland, the United Kingdom and the European Union after Brexit.

See also
 World Trade Organization (WTO)
 IAEA safeguards (Supporting the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons)

References

Further reading
 Yong-Shik Lee (2014), Safeguard Measures in World Trade: The Legal Analysis, Edward Elgar
 Edwin Vermulst and Folkert Graafsma (2002), WTO Disputes Anti-Dumping, Subsidies and Safeguards, Cameron May
 Fabio Spadi (2002), "Discriminatory Safeguards in the Light of the Admission of the People's Republic of China to the World Trade Organization", Journal of International Economic Law 2002 5(2), 421-443.
 Francesco Bestagno (1998), "Le clausole di salvaguardia economica nel diritto internazionale", ISBN: 881407173X
Paolo Farah (2006) Five Years of China's WTO Membership. EU and US Perspectives about China's Compliance with Transparency Commitments and the Transitional Review Mechanism, Legal Issues of Economic Integration, Kluwer Law International, Volume 33, Number 3, pp. 263–304.

External links
 Technical Information on Safeguard Measures

International trade law

Safeguard


Louis Delaporte (Loches, January 11, 1842 – Paris, May 3, 1925) was a French explorer and artist, whose collection and documentation of Khmer art formed the nucleus of exhibitions in Paris, originally at the 1878 Paris Exposition and later at the Palais du Trocadéro, where he became chief curator of the Musée Indochinois. In 1927, after his death, his collection was moved to the Guimet Museum.

French Mekong expedition (1866–1868)

The first systematic exploration of the Mekong River, considered "the wildest of the world's great rivers," was the French Mekong expedition led by Ernest Doudard de Lagrée and Francis Garnier, which ascended the river from its mouth to Yunnan between 1866 and 1868. Delaporte, a young naval officer, was chosen because of his talent in drawing to accompany them through what was then French Indochina.

This expedition took the young artist to Angkor Wat. Years later, in his 1880 book Voyage au Cambodge, Delaporte recorded his impressions:
 The sight of these strange ruins struck me, too, with a keen astonishment, I admired the bold and grandiose design of these monuments  no less than the perfect harmony of all their parts. Khmer art, issuing from the mixture of India and China, purified, ennobled by artists whom one might call the Athenians of the Far East, has remained the most beautiful expression of human genius in this vast part of Asia that extends from the Indus to the Pacific.

The detailed drawings Delaporte made on this voyage were used to illustrate Garnier's 1870 account of the voyage.  Many years later, during the 1930s, drawings Delaporte had made at That Luang became the basis for a major reconstruction of that important religious site near Vientiane. In particular, the first rebuild gave the stupa a shape that locals found unattractive; based on Delaporte's drawings it was restored to its original lotus-bud design.

The expedition was plagued by disasters and difficulties, including many miles of wading barefoot through knee-deep mud infested with leeches. Nevertheless, the team surveyed and mapped 6,000 km, charting the Mekong's course from its mouth in present-day Vietnam through present-day Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, and Burma into China. At the end of the journey, Delaporte returned to France, where he was promoted to the rank of ship's lieutenant and awarded the Légion d'Honneur.

1873 expedition
After an interruption caused by the Franco-Prussian War (1870–1871) Louis Delaporte obtained the support of France's Société de Géographie and of several French government ministries for a new expedition. This mission would have a dual purpose: to map Vietnam's Red River and to bring back Khmer art for exhibition in France.

In May 1873, his team left France taking with them many gifts, including engravings based on the works of Rembrandt and Rubens as well as copies of paintings by Nicolas Poussin and Théodore Gérard. By the end of the expedition, they brought back some 70 specimens of sculpture and architecture, all of which Delaporte affirmed had been acquired by purchase or trade, plus his own drawings, prints, and plans.

Khmer art in Paris
The Louvre, where Delaporte had hoped to see these acquisitions displayed, refused to accept them. Instead, he was invited to set up a museum at the Château de Compiègne. Then, in 1878, a grand Exposition Universelle opened in Paris, and many Khmer sculptures and Delaporte drawings were displayed at one of the new exhibition buildings, the Palais du Trocadéro. This display awakened much wider public interest in Khmer art, but it would not be until the foundation of the Musée Indochinois at the Palais du Trocadéro in 1882 that it would have its own gallery space in Paris for public display. On his return from his third and last expedition of 1881–82, Delaporte became its chief curator until his retirement in 1924.

Evangelist for the importance of Khmer art
From his earliest encounter with Khmer architecture and sculpture, Delaporte was convinced that it should be compared to the best of Classical art:
It differs, indeed, from those great classics of the Mediterranean basin that have long captured our admiration: it is no longer these majestic colonnades, these great calm surfaces of Greece or Egypt; these are, in contrast, forms [that are] laborious, complex, tormented: overlays, multiple withdrawals, mazes, galleries shaded from daylight, jagged towers, pyramids with countless stories and arrows, a great profusion of ornaments and sculptures, constant effects of light and shadow that enrich the whole without altering its majesty, and blend beautifully with the intense light and lush tropical vegetations: it is, in short, another form of beauty.

Publications
Voyage d'exploration en Indo-Chine by Francis Garnier with illustrations by Louis Delaporte (1873)
Voyage au Cambodge; l'architecture khmer (1880)
Les monuments du Cambodge (1924)

See also
Mekong Expedition of 1866-1868

References

1842 births
1925 deaths
People from Loches
French artists
French explorers
Explorers of Asia
Officers of the Legion of Honour
Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery

Louis Delaporte


Charles Henry Burke (April 1, 1861 – April 7, 1944) was a Republican Congressman from South Dakota and Commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in the 1920s.

Biography
He was born near Batavia, New York, in 1861, and attended the public school there.  He moved to the Dakota Territory in 1882 and settled on a homestead in Beadle County of what is now South Dakota, moving on to Hughes County in 1883.

He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1886.  He also engaged in the real estate investment business in the area of Pierre, South Dakota.  He was elected to the South Dakota House of Representatives in 1895 and 1897.  He ran for the United States House of Representatives in 1898, won election, and remained in that position through 1907, losing the nomination for the 1906 election, although he won again in 1908 and remained in the House through 1915, serving as Minority whip from 1913 through 1915.  In 1914, he received the nomination for the United States Senate seat from South Dakota and chose not to run for reelection to the House.  He lost that Senate race.

He was appointed Commissioner of Indian Affairs in 1921 and served in that capacity until his resignation in 1929.  He died in 1944, in Washington, D. C.

Burke and Native Americans

In 1934 Congress approved the Wheeler-Howard Bill (Indian Reorganization Act) hailed by its advocates as the Indian Magna Carta.
Its adoption marked the climax of a bitter contest waged throughout the 1920s between Indian protectors and reformers—led by John Collier and Gertrude Bonnin—and obscurantists and exploiters of Indians—led by Albert B. Fall and Charles H. Burke. The reformers had been able to reduce some of the power of the exploiters, which centered in an insensitive Congress and an uncaring bureaucracy, during the 1920s wringing from a reluctant national administration a few modest improvements in Native American welfare. Then in 1934, they won their signal victory through passage of the Indian Reorganization Act, their cause riding on the momentum of the New Deal commitment to transform the nation.

During the early 1920s, Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall was principal spokesman for the obscurantist element. The former senator from New Mexico was a staunch advocate of the business community's unhindered access to mineral and petroleum resources on reservations. Fall choice for Commissioner of Indian Affairs was Charles H. Burke, former congressman from South Dakota and author of the Burke Act which chilled Native American citizenship hopes and emasculated the trust features of allotment in severalty by making access to restricted allotments a matter of administrative discretion. The New York Times described Burke as a "rugged individualist" with a "frontiersman's" attitude toward Indians.

Hubert Work, Fall's successor in 1923, was as honest as Fall was corrupt but just as ethnocentric. Along with Christian missionaries he sought to stamp out Indian culture, particularly native religion and the peyote cult. He bent to reformers' demands only after they applied great pressure upon him.

Fall, Burke, and Work had strong support from the Indian bureau which at the time had over 200 employees in Washington and 5,000 field workers (teachers, vocational instructors, and general agents), a high ratio of personnel to the 250,000 Indians living on reservations. The move for reform of Indian policy threatened their jobs, and they closed ranks behind their administrative superiors.

More and more, public opinion was formed by mass-circulation national periodicals and newspapers. Shrewd obscurantists resorted to magazine and newspaper interviews to justify their positions. The Saturday Evening Post, School Life, and Good Housekeeping regularly carried articles antagonistic to the emerging Indian reform movement. In addition, the obscurantists were backed by several church publications including the Missionary Review, which carried articles written by missionaries working among the Indian tribes. They called Indians "pagan worshippers in desperate need of Christianity" and described the difficult task they faced in attempting to overthrow native religion and the peyote cult.

Obscurantists were particularly concerned with Indian dances which they thought showed Indian recalcitrance, defiance, and ethnic corruption. Those who defended ethnic pluralism and the Indians right to worship as they chose, including dancing, were denounced as "anti-American, and subversive... agents of Moscow." It was charged that they encouraged the persistence of "Indian paganism" and heathen cults which were "horrible, sadistic, and obscene." Further, they were accused of attempting to weaken and discredit the United States's government. Edith M. Dabb, national director of YWCA work among Indian girls, joined the Native American detractors, charging that native dances were a waste of time and that "sentimentalists who dwell on the beauties of the quaint and primitive world do well to remember that primitive beauty is frequently found in close company with primitive cruelty and primitive ugliness."

During an inspection of New Mexico pueblos in 1926 Commissioner Burke publicly excoriated the residents as "half animals" because of "their pagan religion," and he ordered several Indian leaders jailed "for violating the Bureau's religious crimes code."

Legacy
The town of Burke, South Dakota, was named for the congressman.

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Queens' College is one of the colleges that make up the University of Cambridge in England. It was first founded in 1448 by Margaret of Anjou (the Queen of Henry VI), and refounded in 1465 by Elizabeth Woodville (the Queen of Edward IV). This is why the name of the college is spelt Queens' and not Queen's: it was founded by two queens.

The President's Lodge of Queens' is the oldest building on the river at Cambridge, dating from about 1460.

The college is on both sides of the river Cam. A bridge joins the two parts. This bridge is always called the "Mathematical Bridge". The students call the older part of the college "The Dark Side" and the newer part "The Light Side".

Many people take photographs of the college. There is a story that the bridge was designed and built by Sir Isaac Newton without the use of nuts or bolts. The story says that once some students tried to take the bridge apart and put it back together again, but were unable to do so. That is why they had to put nuts and bolts in which can be seen today. The story is not true. The bridge was built in 1749, after Newton had died. It was never taken apart although it was rebuilt twice.

Stephen Fry is one of many famous people who have studied there.

Other websites
 Queens' College website

Colleges of the University of Cambridge

Queens' College, Cambridge


A programmable logic controller (PLC) is a digital system used to make electrical and mechanical processes become automated. PLC can be found in almost all of the heavy industries which require process and sequences. PLC contains a unique set of inputs and outputs.  The logic of PLC is programmed so that user can create a highly dedicated PLC working system for their intended purpose.

Control engineering

Programmable logic controller


T3 magazine is a UK-based lifestyle technology magazine, which specialises in premium and aspirational products, ranging from phones and TVs to fitness, outdoor, wellness, watches and style.

Originally, T3 stood for Tomorrow's Technology Today, but this is not used anywhere in the magazine or on the website anymore except for on the side of the magazine. It is exclusively referred to as T3 or T3.com. The magazine is popular but in terms of sales is ranked second among UK gadget magazines. T3 magazine is available in most countries, and has syndicated/localised versions in over 20 countries.

T3.com (T3 Website)
The T3 website (T3.com) started off as a running advertisement for the magazine, but that has changed quite radically over time. The website now has a large team of staff members separate from T3 magazine, and it operates as a publication in its own right. T3.com now creates a lot of reviews exclusively for the website, in addition to staying on top of gadget and technology stories as they happen. The current Editor-in-Chief for T3.com is Mat Gallagher, with section editors Matt Kollat, Beth Girdler-Maslen and Mike Lowe.

T3 has also expanded across all social media channels. Using the user name T3dotcom its videos and opinions can be found on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok.

History
The first issue of T3 magazine went on sale around September 1996. The magazine was a spin-off of a science magazine eventually launched as Frontiers, but the publishers decided to have a look at future technology. The reasoning was that there wasn't really an all-round consumer technology magazine in the UK market and that people love reading about technology and gadgets.

The magazine started off as a celebration of the best new technologies that were appearing, to explain how it all works, and how the technologies and products would impact the readers' lives, but evolved into a glossy entertainment magazine as well. Many of the readers started buying the magazine specifically to read about items that were outrageously expensive and outlandish, and the magazine was quickly seen as a 'licence to drool' over bleeding-edge technology. The first issue of the magazine featured the first DVD player to be imported into the UK.

Things started to become digital around 1996 - DECT telephones, digital cameras, PDAs, and later DVD and digital television technology. With most technology going digital and dropping in price, general interest for gadgets rose, as did sales of the magazine.

Ultimately, the magazine started moving away from pure technology coverage, and started writing about anything innovative. As the editor at the time said: "A slightly bigger TV, for example, wouldn't go in the magazine unless it was really sexy or had clever features". Around the same time, the magazine became less geeky in its approach to technology, and became much more of a magazine for design-conscious gadget-loving men.

The first editor of T3 magazine was Steve Jarratt, who also launched Edge. He was followed by Paul Pettengale, Rob Mead, Mark Higham, James Beechinor-Collins, Michael Brook, Luke Peters, Matt Hill, Tom Dennis, Rob Carney and Matt Bolton. The current editor is Josh Russell.

Syndication

T3 is a franchise that has local versions in a whole series of countries. The localised versions vary from country to country: Some editions are completely new magazines, created by a local team of journalists and designers under the T3 brand. Other syndications are adaptations of the UK version for a local market, or region (the T3 Middle East franchise, for instance): In some countries or markets, for example, the T3 cover girls are unacceptable, so they might be replaced with a more family-friendly or religion-friendly version. In other markets, the covers are re-shot with local models. Most syndicated versions of T3 magazine are a hybrid of both T3 UK content (both editorial and pictorial), and content geared towards local markets, with reviews of companies, services, and items relevant especially to the national market.

Per October 2009, syndicated editions included Australia, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dubai, Greece, Indonesia, Italy, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mexico, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Singapore, South Africa, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine and United Arab Emirates.

Apart from separate magazines, T3's stories often appear in major newspapers, and the T3 staff are frequently featured on Radio and Television as industry experts. Articles are also syndicated in the technology section of the O2 Active portal.

See also
Stuff - T3's closest magazine competitor in the UK
Engadget - Large gadget blog
Gizmodo - Large gadget blog
The Gadget Show - popular weekly TV show

References

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 T3 Middle East

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T3 (magazine)


John Patrick Grabowski (January 7, 1900 – May 23, 1946) was an American baseball player. He played professional baseball for 12 years from 1922 to 1933, including seven years as a catcher in Major League Baseball with the Chicago White Sox (1924–1926), New York Yankees (1927–1929), and Detroit Tigers (1931). He was a member of the 1927 and 1928 New York Yankees teams that won consecutive World Series championships. Grabowski was one of a number of American athletes in the first half of the 20th century to be nicknamed "Nig", being referred to as such in newspaper reports as early as October 1924.

Early years

Grabowski was born in Ware, Massachusetts, in 1900 to a family of Polish descent.

Professional baseball
Grabowski began his professional baseball career in 1922 with the St. Joseph Saints, then spent 1923 and 1924 with the Minneapolis Millers of  the American Association. He was traded to the Chicago White Sox in July 1924 and made his major league debut that month. Grabowski played for the White Sox for three years, from 1924 to 1926, appearing in 89 games, 78 of them as a catcher. One of the games Grabowski caught was Ted Lyons' no-hitter on August 21, 1926.

In January 1927, the White Sox traded Grabowski to the New York Yankees. He had his best season for the 1927 "Murderer's Row" New York Yankees, considered by some to be the best baseball team in history.  Grabowski appeared in 70 games for the 1927 Yankees, sharing the catching duty with Pat Collins and Benny Bengough in 1927. Grabowski had a .350 on-base percentage for the 1927 Yankees.  He remained with the Yankees through the 1929 season and won two World Series championships with the Yankees in 1927 and 1928.

After spending 1930 with the St. Paul Saints, Grabowski returned to the major leagues in 1931 with the Detroit Tigers. He appeared in 40 games with the Tigers, 39 as a catcher. He appeared in his last major league game in September 1931.  In seven major league seasons, Grabowski appeared in 296 games, 282 as a catcher, and compiled a career .252 batting average and .295 on-base percentage.

Grabowski concluded his playing career playing for the Montreal Royals of the International League in 1932 and 1933.

Later years
After retiring as a player, Grabowski became an umpire in the Canadian–American League (1937), Eastern League (1938–1939), and International League (1940–1941). He suffered severe burns in 1946 after a fire at his home in Guilderland, New York. He died at St. Peter's Hospital in Albany, New York, at age 46.

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Home is the debut studio album by the American alternative rock band Blessid Union of Souls.  It was released on March 21, 1995 on the EMI label. The album contains their biggest hit single, "I Believe", which reached #8 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Track listing
 "I Believe" — 4:27 (Eliot Sloan, Jeff Pence, Matt Senatore)
 "Let Me Be the One" — 4:38 (Sloan, Pence, Senatore)
 "All Along" — 3:54 (Sloan, Pence, Senatore, Charles P. "Charly" Roth, Andrea M. Sarmiento)
 "Oh Virginia"* — 3:59 (Sloan, Pence, Senatore)
 "Nora" — 4:07 (Sloan, Roth)
 "Would You Be There" — 4:00 (Sloan, Pence, Senatore, Sarmiento)
 "Home" — 3:29 (Sloan, Pence, Sarmiento)
 "End of the World" — 3:42 (Sloan, Pence)
 "Heaven" — 4:33 (Sloan, Pence, Senatore)
 "Forever for Tonight" — 5:08 (Sloan, Pence)
 "Lucky to Be Here" — 5:46 (Sloan, Pence, Senatore, Roth)
 "I Believe" (extended) — 4:41

 Two versions of the album were released. The difference on the album's cover is the band having simply changed the text from having the band name on the bottom, to the top, and vice versa for the album title. The main differences in these two releases, musically, are the songs "Oh Virginia," and the extended version of "I Believe." Originally, the song "Oh Virginia" featured an electric lead guitar intro, and electric rhythm guitar throughout the track, played by Curt Benton, accompanied by his harmonica playing. The re-released album contains this song in an almost completely acoustic version, with Curt Benton only playing the harmonica. The extended version of "I Believe" is absent from the original version.

Personnel

Blessid Union of Souls
Eliot Sloan: Piano, Vocal
Jeff Pence: Acoustic & Electric Guitars, Synthesizers, Vocal
Charles P. "Charly" Roth: Electric Bass, Keyboards, Drums, String Arrangements
Eddie Hedges: Drums, Percussion

Additional Personnel
Curt Benton: Guitars, Harmonica
Ted Karras: Guitars
Paul Patterson: Violin
Kevin Hupp: Drums, Percussion
Emosia, Mike Star: Vocal Backing

Production
Produced By Emosia
Recording Engineered By Jerry Lane & Ashley Sheppard
Re-mix & Additional Production on tracks 1, 3, 5, 8, 10 & 11 by David Kershenbaum (for John Galt Entertainment); remix engineered by Kevin W. Smith
Tracks 4, 6 & 9 mixed by Tony Phillips; assisted by Liz Sroka
Tracks 2 & 7 mixed by Jerry Lane
Mastered By Ted Jensen (Sterling Sound, New York City)

Liner notes
Eliot Sloan placed a note to his ex-girlfriend Lisa (who he based the song "I Believe" on) in the liner notes of the album: "Lisa, give me a call sometime just to say hello, my number is still the same."

External links
RockOnTheNet info
Website info

References

1995 debut albums
Capitol Records albums
Blessid Union of Souls albums

Home (Blessid Union of Souls album)


Halfway Across the Galaxy and Turn Left is a 1985 novel by Australian children's author Robin Klein which also became a children's television series.

The story focuses on an alien family who seek refuge on Earth, in the small town of Bellwood. Klein also wrote a sequel novel called Turn Right for Zyrgon.

Plot summary

The novel tells the tale of the planet Zyrgon, ruled by the galactic police called The Law-Enforcers. They are after Mortimer, who has cheated the government lottery for the 27th time in a  row. His family is governed by the youngest daughter, 12-year-old X, who wants to save her father from the detention centre.

The family also includes Mother, who would rather design clothing and leave all worries to her daughter X. The oldest sister Dovis is a cosmic flier who writes poetry and levitates. The youngest is a boy genius, Qwrk who is a professor at age 8.

X is the lead character: a stressed girl who has to balance between strange Earth customs such as school and her duty to take care of her family.

Zyrgonians have special powers such as levitation, simulations, and kinetics. They love gambling and live on an ultra-modern and dystopian planetoid.

Major themes
The novel's theme is children who are forced to grow up too soon and to take responsibilities that are too much for their age. In the novel, X cannot handle the stress and gets very ill, but she is cured in the end when she finally finds her place on the new planet.

Television series

The story was made into a television series. Although made in 1992, it was not broadcast until 1994–1995. It was very popular in Australia and aired on CITV and TCC in the UK, as well as in other parts of Europe. The series is not available on DVD, though in the early 1990s several episodes were released on VHS in the United Kingdom.

The TV show had 28 episodes, split into 2 story arcs. The first story arc stayed close to the novel, the second arc had new stories written, some of which would end up incorporated into the sequel novel, Turn Right for Zyrgon.

The entire series was filmed in Melbourne, Australia. Zyrgon, and the family home interior were shot on the Crawford Productions sound-stage. The town of Bellwood was shot in Williamstown. The family home exterior is located in Surrey Hills. The props for the space raft and other sets were kept in the Crawford Productions lot for a couple of years following production, however, they were eventually dismantled and destroyed.

The series was repeated in the UK between 2007 and 2008 on a digital children's channel. A 70-minute compilation movie of the first three episodes has been aired on WIN Television as part of their Christmas Day programming.

The series has been released in Germany as Quer Durch die Galaxie und dann Links on DVD, however according to Amazon the only language option provided is German.

Cast
Lauren Hewett as X
Kellie Smythe as Jenny
Che Broadbent as Colin
Jeffrey Walker as Qwrk
Bruce Myles as Father
Jan Friedl as Mother
Silvia Seidel as Dovis
Bruce Spence as The Chief
Kerry Armstrong as Officer Jady
Paul Kelman as Lox
Diane Cilento as Principa/Authoritax
Sandy Gore as Aunt Hecla
 David Argue as Yorp

References

External links

Crawfords' Official Page

1985 Australian novels
Australian children's novels
Australian television shows featuring puppetry
Children's science fiction novels
Novels by Robin Klein
Television shows based on children's books
Australian children's television series
Seven Network original programming
1994 Australian television series debuts
1995 Australian television series endings
ITV children's television shows
Television series by Crawford Productions
1985 children's books
1990s children's television series
Australian science fiction television series

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