"One of My Turns" is a song by Pink Floyd, appearing on their 1979 album The Wall. The song was also released as a B-side on the single of "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)".

Composition
The song is split into distinct segments: a groupie (Trudy Young) performs a monologue ("Oh my God, what a fabulous room!") while a television plays, under which a synthesizer makes atonal sounds, which eventually resolve into a quiet song in C major in 3/4 time ("Day after day / Love turns grey / Like the skin of a dying man."). Finally, the song abruptly leaps into a hard rock song in B-flat major in 4/4 time. The song features some of Waters' most strenuous recorded vocal workouts, with him ending at a relatively high A above middle C. The composition's instrumental introduction makes use of the Phrygian mode, a musical mode rarely used in pop and rock music.

Plot
The Wall is the story of Pink, an embittered and alienated rock star, whose sanity is failing as he isolates himself behind a psychological barrier. "One of My Turns" finds Pink inviting a groupie into his room after learning of his wife's affair. While the groupie tries to get his attention, he ignores her, and muses on his failed relationship with his wife. A TV can be heard in the background, the dialogue mixed in with the groupie's attempts at conversation.

While the hapless groupie continues trying to get his attention, Pink feels "Cold as a razor blade / Tight as a tourniquet / Dry as a funeral drum," before exploding into a fit of violence, destroying his room, and frightening the young woman away. When his hotel room is finally in complete shambles, and the groupie is gone, Pink feels something more: Self-pity, and a lack of empathy for others, as he screams "Why are you running away?"

The show that is on the television during the beginning of the song is from September 24–26, 1979, Another World episodes 3864–3866. Kirk Laverty brings Iris Bancroft and her maid, Vivan Gorrow, to his lodge in the Adirondacks. Dobbs was the caretaker of the lodge. Laverty is the man talking to Dobbs, not Mr. Bancroft. Laverty was played by Charles Cioffi.

Film version
Pink enters his hotel room with an American groupie, played by actress Jenny Wright. The groupie tries to be friendly to Pink (Wright performs nearly the same monologue as Trudy Young did on the album). Pink is oblivious to the groupie as he watches the film The Dam Busters on television. When the groupie tries to make contact with Pink saying "Are you feeling okay?", he explodes into a violent fit of rage and begins to destroy everything in his hotel room. Pink then chases the groupie around the room throwing various objects at her, cutting his own hand after he throws a television set out his window onto the street below, shouting "Take that, fuckers!", his only non-lyrical line spoken in the film.

The scene where Pink hurts his hand while destroying the Venetian blinds was not faked. Bob Geldof did indeed cut his hand and he can be seen looking at it for a brief second, but director Alan Parker decided not to stop filming until the scene was over, despite Geldof's injury. In the next scene, the viewer can see a towel or shirt wrapped around Geldof's injured hand. Also, according to Parker's DVD commentary, Wright was informed that Geldof (as Pink) would yell at her and chase her during the scene; however the director, in order to get an authentic reaction from the actress, did not tell her that Geldof would also throw a wine bottle at her (albeit an easily breakable, prop-made bottle) at the start of his enraged outburst. Moreover, years later in an interview Wright stated that she was not told that a food cart, which just missed her for a few inches, would be thrown at her.

Personnel
Roger Waters – vocals, bass guitar
David Gilmour – lead guitar
Richard Wright – organ, Prophet-5 synthesizer
Nick Mason – drums, percussion

with:

Bob Ezrin – piano
Lee Ritenour – rhythm guitar and rhythm guitar with a wah-wah pedal
Trudy Young – voice of the groupie

Personnel per Fitch and Mahon.

Further reading
 Fitch, Vernon. The Pink Floyd Encyclopedia (3rd edition), 2005. .

References

External links

Pink Floyd songs
1979 songs
Rock ballads
Songs written by Roger Waters
Song recordings produced by Bob Ezrin
Song recordings produced by David Gilmour
Song recordings produced by Roger Waters
Harvest Records singles
Columbia Records singles

One of My Turns


William Louis of Anhalt-Köthen (3 August 1638, in Köthen – 13 April 1665, in Köthen), was a German prince of the House of Ascania and ruler of the principality of Anhalt-Köthen.

Early life
He was the second son of Louis I, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, but second-born son of his second wife Countess Sophie of Lippe, daughter of Simon VI, Count of Lippe.

Life
William Louis was only twelve years of age when he succeeded his father in Köthen in 1650. During his minor years, his uncle Prince Augustus of Anhalt-Plötzkau acted as regent. After the death of Augustus in 1653, his sons Lebrecht and Emmanuel took over the regency until William was formally proclaimed of age in 1659.

In Köthen on 25 August 1663 William Louis married Elisabeth Charlotte (b. Harzgerode, 11 February 1647 - d. Osterholm, 20 January 1723), daughter of his cousin Frederick, Prince of Anhalt-Harzgerode, and granddaughter of Christian I, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg. The union was childless.

On his death without issue, the line of Anhalt-Köthen became extinct. His principality was inherited by his cousins and former regents, Lebrecht and Emmanuel of Anhalt-Plötzkau, who took the name of Anhalt-Köthen as the principal title of their family. Their former principality of Plötzkau was given to Victor Amadeus of the principality of Anhalt-Bernburg, from which it was originally extracted.

Princes of Anhalt-Köthen
1638 births
1665 deaths

William Louis, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen


Proactive maintenance is the maintenance philosophy that supplants "failure reactive" with "failure proactive" by activities that avoid the underlying conditions that lead to machine faults and degradation.  Unlike predictive or preventive maintenance, proactive maintenance commissions corrective actions aimed at failure root causes, not failure symptoms.  Its central theme is to extend the life of machinery as opposed to
making repairs when often nothing is wrong,
accommodating failure as routine or normal, or
detecting impending failure conditions followed by remediation.
Proactive maintenance depends on rigorous machine inspection and condition monitoring.  In mechanical machinery it seeks to detect and eradicate failure root causes such as wrong lubricant, degraded lubricant, contaminated lubricant, botched repair, misalignment, unbalance and operator error.

See also
 Predictive maintenance

References

Mechanical engineering
Maintenance

Proactive maintenance


Cartesian Perceptual Compression (abbreviated CPC, with filename extension .cpc) is a proprietary image file format.  It was designed for high compression of black-and-white raster Document Imaging for archival scans.

CPC is lossy, has no lossless mode, and is restricted to bi-tonal images.  The company which controls the patented format claims it is highly effective in the compression of text, black-and-white (halftone) photographs, and line art.  The format is intended for use in the web distribution of legal documents, design plans, and geographical plot maps.

Viewing and converting documents in the CPC format currently requires the download of proprietary software.  Although viewing CPC documents is free, as is converting CPC images to other formats, conversion to CPC format requires a purchase.

JSTOR, a United States-based online system for archiving academic journals, converted its online archives to CPC in 1997.  The CPC files are used to reduce storage requirements for its online collection, but are temporarily converted on their servers to GIF for display, and to PDF for printing.  JSTOR still scans to TIFF G4 and considers those files its preservation masters.

See also
Image file formats

External links
The company's website Additional technical information about the format
Library of Congress Analysis of format by the LoC.
RLG DigiNews Vol. 7 No. 2 Comparison of rivals to TIFF for Document Imaging purposes

Graphics file formats

Cartesian Perceptual Compression


Flesh for Lulu were an English rock band formed in Brixton, London, England, active between 1982 and 1992. They reformed from 2013 to 2015 with a new lineup. Initially part of the post-punk scene, the band's sound shifted to reflect influences from pop music, country and western, rhythm and blues and blues.

History
Nick Marsh (vocals and guitar) and James Mitchell (drums) formed the band and soon recruited Rocco Barker (originally from Wasted Youth, guitar and vocals), and Glen Bishop (bass), taking their name from an American cult film. After a well received John Peel session, they signed to Polydor Records in 1983, and soon thereafter, bassist Glen Bishop left to join Under Two Flags, and was replaced by Kevin Mills (formerly of Specimen).

Their first EP, "Roman Candle" did well, but the label dropped them a year later after their eponymous first album failed to find any commercial success.

In 1985, the band signed to Hybrid Records and released the mini LP Blue Sisters Swing, which was produced with Craig Leon. The cover image of two nuns kissing resulted in the album being banned in the United States and Europe. Flesh for Lulu then joined Statik Records, which released Big Fun City later that year.

The following year, the band signed to Beggars Banquet Records, and their song "I Go Crazy" was featured in Some Kind of Wonderful and received some airplay on American college rock radio stations. This allowed Flesh for Lulu to undertake a tour of the US.

In 1989, "Decline and Fall" followed and became a top 15 hit on the new Modern Rock Tracks chart. The next year, "Time and Space" written by newest member Del Strangefish (ex-Peter and the Test Tube Babies guitarist) became their biggest U.S. hit, reaching the top 10 of the Modern Rock chart, but the song failed to chart on any other U.S. chart. After Capitol Records dropped the band, a record deal with Hollywood Records fell through. The band disbanded soon after with singer Nick Marsh stating, "The reason Flesh really split up is because there wasn't a definite...to coin the oldest cliché of them all, there were musical differences. That's true, there were two separate trains of thought."

The song "Postcards from Paradise" was covered by Paul Westerberg as a secret bonus track on his 2002 album Stereo. The Goo Goo Dolls also covered the same song, which is part of a "deluxe edition" release of their 2010 album Something for the Rest of Us available on the band's website.

Gigantic
In 1996, Nick Marsh and Rocco Barker formed a band they named Gigantic, recruiting Dave Blair on bass and Al Fletcher on drums. Columbia Records signed them, and put them on tour with the Goo Goo Dolls and Bush. Their first album was a commercial flop, and the group disbanded in 1998.

After the breakup of Gigantic, Nick Marsh released a solo album and performed with the bourbon-soaked gypsy bop and stroll band Urban Voodoo Machine. Rocco Barker joined a band named The Space Police with reggae/jungle artist General Levy and Italian keyboardist and producer Dr. Cat (aka Luca Gatti).

In 2007, Gigantic's only album Disenchanted, originally released in 1996 on Columbia Records, was repackaged and reissued on Corporate Risk as Gigantic under the Flesh for Lulu name. A single titled "Phenomenal" was released in 1997, but the track did not appear on the 1996 album.

Rocco was featured on the Channel 4 series A Place in Spain: Costa Chaos (2008).

Reformation and death of Nick Marsh
In 2013, Nick Marsh reformed Flesh for Lulu with a new line-up consisting of Marsh (vocals/guitar), Mark Bishop (drums), Keith McAndrew (bass) and Will Crewdson (guitar).

Marsh died on 5 June 2015 from cancer, aged 53.

Discography

Studio albums
Flesh for Lulu (1984, Polydor)
Big Fun City (1985, Statik)
Long Live the New Flesh (1987, Beggars Banquet UK, Capitol US)
Plastic Fantastic (1989, Beggars Banquet UK, Capitol US)
Gigantic (2007) (Gigantic's 1996 Disenchanted album reissued under Flesh for Lulu name)
The Best of Flesh for Lulu [Re-Recorded] (2009, Corporate-Risk Products)

Extended plays
Roman Candle (1983, Polydor)
Blue Sisters Swing (1985, Hybrid)
Idol (1986, Beggars Banquet)

Live album
Fresh Flesh (1986, Dojo)

Singles
"Roman Candle" (1983, Polydor)
"Subterraneans" (1984, Polydor)
"Restless" (1984, Polydor)
"Baby Hurricane" (1985, Statik)
"Idol" (1986, Beggars Banquet)
"I Go Crazy" (1987, Beggars Banquet)
"Siamese Twist" (1987, Beggars Banquet)
"Postcards from Paradise" (1987, Beggars Banquet)
"Decline and Fall" (1989, Beggars Banquet) #15 Billboard Modern Rock
"Time and Space" (1990, Beggars Banquet) #9 Billboard Modern Rock
"Every Little Word" (1990 Promo, Capitol)
"She Was" (1991 Promo, MCA)
"Cold Flame/Big Love" (2007, Corporate-Risk Products)

Compilation appearances
 Nintendo: White Knuckle Scorin' (1991) "She Was"

Soundtrack appearances
 Some Kind of Wonderful (1987) "I Go Crazy"
  Uncle Buck (1989) "Slide", "Slowdown" (only used in film)
 Flashback (1990) "Next Time (I'll Dream of You)"
 The Next Karate Kid (1994) "Mystic Trader" (only used in film)

References

External links
Official band website

FFL fan site
Nick Marsh's site

English gothic rock groups
Musical groups established in 1982
Musical groups disestablished in 1992
English pop rock music groups
English post-punk music groups
Musical groups reestablished in 2013
Musical groups disestablished in 2015
1982 establishments in England
Beggars Banquet Records artists
Musical groups from London

Flesh for Lulu


A hoop skirt or hoopskirt is a women's undergarment worn in various periods to hold the skirt extended into a fashionable shape.

It originated as a modest-sized mechanism for holding long skirts away from one's legs, to stay cooler in hot climates and to keep from tripping on the skirt during various activities.  Small hoops might be worn by farmers and while working in the garden.  Hoops were then adopted as a fashion item, and the size and scale of the hoops grew in grandeur, especially during the mid-nineteenth century transition from the 1850s to the 1860s. As the society of consumerism evolved, the roles of men and women changed and so did their dress.
In the mid-19th century, the fashionable silhouette was a small waist with large, dome-shaped skirts. More and more petticoats were added to make the skirts appear even larger. When the circular crinoline came out in 1856, it was a revelation not only of technology but of convenience for women. The crinoline supported the weight of the numerous skirts and allowed the woman to wear fewer petticoats while still achieving the desired silhouette. The invention of the sewing machine allowed crinolines to be mass-produced at a lower cost, thus making the crinoline available for all classes.

The mania for large bell-shaped skirts phased out through the mid-1860s and slowly shifted to emphasize volume in the posterior. The crinolette came into fashion, which was basically a narrow crinoline with a flat front and cage hoops in the back.

By the 1870s, the cage of the crinolette became a cage only at the rear of the woman's undergarments. This is known today as a bustle.

Hoop skirts typically consist of a fabric petticoat sewn with channels designed to act as casings for stiffening materials, such as rope, osiers, whalebone, steel, or, from the mid-20th century, nylon. The crinoline of the mid-19th century was constructed from collapsible steel hoops. This allowed for easy storage and increased agility for the wearer.

Hoop skirts were first introduced to the United States by David Hough, Jr. in 1846.

Hoop skirts are called by various names in different periods:
Farthingale (Spanish verdugado) (16th century)
Panniers or "side hoops" (18th century)
Crinoline or crinolette (mid-19th century)

Lightweight hoop skirts, usually with nylon hoops, are worn today under very full-skirted wedding gowns. They can sometimes be seen in the gothic fashion scene.  Reproduction hoop skirts are an essential part of living history costuming, especially American Civil War reenactment.

References

Sources
Arnold, Janet: Patterns of Fashion: the cut and construction of clothes for men and women 1560-1620, Macmillan 1985. Revised edition 1986.
Arnold, Janet: Patterns of Fashion 1 (cut and construction of women's clothing, 1660-1860), Wace 1964, Macmillan 1972. Revised metric edition, Drama Books 1977. .
Arnold, Janet: Patterns of Fashion 2: Englishwomen's Dresses and Their Construction  1860-1940, Wace 1966, Macmillan 1972. Revised metric edition, Drama Books 1977.
Arnold, Janet: Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe Unlock'd, W S Maney and Son Ltd, Leeds 1988.
Fogg, Marnie: Fashion: The Whole Story, 2013, Prestel, New York, New York, .

16th-century fashion
17th-century fashion
18th-century fashion
19th-century fashion
20th-century fashion
History of clothing (Western fashion)
Gowns
Undergarments
Skirts
Women's clothing

ms:Skirt gegelang

Hoop skirt


Coronet Bay is a town in Victoria, Australia, located 114 km south-east of Melbourne via the M1 and the Bass Highway, on the eastern shore of Western Port Bay.

The town serves as a holiday destination with a focus on recreational fishing. A boat ramp is available in the neighboring town of Corinella.

Coronet Bay is serviced by a General Store

History
Just to the east of the present town, a settlement was founded in 1826 from Sydney, in response to a concern for possible French territorial claims. In that year Dumont d'Urville, in command of the corvette Astrolabe,  examined Westernport, arousing suspicion during his scientific voyage. Authorities in Sydney had also recently received reports from explorers Hamilton Hume and William Hovell, who mistakenly believed they had reached Westernport in 1824, when in fact they had arrived at Corio Bay many kilometres to the west. A contingent of soldiers and 21 convicts under the command of Captain Wright was dispatched with William Hovell to assist. Initially, a small military settlement called Fort Dumaresq was established near the present-day site of Rhyll, on the north coast of Phillip Island. But lack of fresh water proved a problem and the outpost was moved to Corinella, at that time called Settlement Point.

Hovell's subsequent report claiming Westernport was unsuitable for agriculture, owing to poor soil and lack of fresh water, and also the absence of any Frenchmen, led to the abandonment of the settlements in 1828. The buildings were burnt to prevent use by escaped convicts. A memorial cairn in Jamieson Street Corinella marks the site of the original settlement, and another monument at the end of Smythe Street commemorates Paul Edmund de Strzelecki's exploration in 1840.

The 1826-8 Corinella was subject to extensive archaeological investigations in the late 1970s by the Victoria Archaeological Survey, led by Peter Coutts. Although equivocal in its conclusions about the location and remains of the settlement, the dig established the importance of the site to Victoria's history and European settlement.

References

Coastal towns in Victoria (state)
Western Port
Towns in Victoria (state)
Bass Coast Shire

Coronet Bay, Victoria


Robert Ashfield (28 July 1911 – 30 December 2006) was an English cathedral organist, choirmaster and composer.

Early life and education
Robert James Ashfield was born in 1911 at Chipstead, Surrey. Educated at Tonbridge School and the Royal College of Music (RCM), he inherited his considerable musical talent from his mother, a fine amateur musician. At the RCM he was taught and inspired by Sir Ernest Bullock, then organist of Westminster Abbey, and became his assistant.

Ashfield became a Fellow of the Royal College of Organists in 1932, and then served as organist of St John's, Smith Square, London, from 1934 until 1941. After being awarded his doctorate by the University of London in 1941, he served in the Army during the Second World War.

Southwell
After his war service, he was, in 1946, appointed "magister and rector chori" at Southwell Minster. Here he was fortunate in receiving the full support of the Provost, Hugh Heywood.  He began by establishing a regular and disciplined rehearsal routine, and before long the choir was known for its bold and incisive sound.  Ashfield also increased the range of choral repertoire performed, and expanded other areas of musical life within the cathedral. He also edited and compiled the "Southwell Psalter", a setting of each of the 150 Psalms to Anglican chant, which is still used at both Southwell and New College, Oxford.

Rochester
After 10 years at Southwell, he moved to Rochester Cathedral in 1956 as organist and master of the choristers.  Over the next 21 years he also made his mark on the local community, notably as conductor of the Rochester Choral Society. From 1958 until 1977, he also taught at the RCM.

His arrival at Rochester coincided with the opportunity to redesign and completely rebuild the cathedral organ. In consultation with the organ builders, J. W. Walker & Sons Ltd, Ashfield rejected much of the piecemeal work that had gone before producing, in 1960, an instrument with a traditional feel but well-suited to the needs of the cathedral.

He retired from his cathedral post in 1977, but remained in Rochester until his death in December 2006.

Composition
His practical experience of the liturgy allowed him to write well for voices. Many of his anthems, services, responses, chants and other choral works, often written for special occasions, have retained their place in the repertoire. perhaps best known is his setting of Lionel Johnson's 1895 poem, The Fair Chivalry, commissioned for the Southwell Diocesan Choral Festival of 1949.

Following his retirement, his compositional output increased due to the greater amount of time he could commit to it. To an already large set of works was added much chamber music, an opera, The Bishop's Candlestick, and many instrumental pieces.

Of all the compositions, his own favourite remained a setting of Robert Bridges's Christmas Eve, commissioned by David Poulter and the Tudor Consort for voices and a chamber ensemble including harp, flute, oboe and string quartet.

Administrative influence
In the late 1960s, relations between clergy and musicians in the Church of England became increasingly strained over the question of fees and salaries.  Ashfield represented the Royal College of Organists, working initially in partnership with William Cole, of the Associated Board, and Gerald Knight, director of the Royal School of Church Music, he helped to provide a series of recommendations. However, following delays in their acceptance, Ashfield unilaterally produced his own suggested set of fees. Subsequently championed by The Church Times, the Ashfield Scale, as it became known, stayed in vogue throughout the decade.

He was also a member of the council of the Royal College of Organists, Fellow of the Guild of Church Musicians and a special commissioner of the Royal School of Church Music.

References

External links
obituary, The Times,  1 February 2007

1911 births
2006 deaths
People from Reigate and Banstead (district)
English classical organists
British male organists
Cathedral organists
Alumni of the Royal College of Music
Alumni of the University of London
People educated at Tonbridge School
Classical composers of church music
Fellows of the Royal College of Organists
Musicians from Kent
English male classical composers
20th-century organists
English classical composers
20th-century British composers
20th-century British male musicians
20th-century British musicians
Male classical organists

Robert Ashfield


Professional Referee Organization (PRO) is the organization responsible for managing the referee and assistant referee program in professional soccer leagues in the United States and Canada, working alongside the United States Soccer Federation, Major League Soccer, the Canadian Soccer Association, the United Soccer League, the National Women's Soccer League, and the U.S. Open Cup.

The organization's targets are to increase the quality of officiating in U.S. and Canadian professional leagues, develop more professional-quality officials at a younger age, and produce officials who will represent the United States and Canada in FIFA competitions. The referees employed by PRO are represented by the PSRA.

History
The U.S. Soccer Federation and Major League Soccer joined forces in 2012 to create the Professional Referee Organization and the aims for PRO is to develop a higher standard of officiating at a younger age and to produce referees who can represent the United States and Canada in FIFA competitions.

Then U.S. Soccer President Sunil Gulati said, "We've always understood that the development of referees is an important aspect to the growth of the game in the United States. PRO is another step toward the improvement and professionalization of our top referees. With the additional resources and funding provided by the formation of PRO, we will continue to build upon the progress we've already made."

Staff

Major League Soccer awards

USL Championship awards

Roster
As of February 2023, these match officials are listed on the PRO rosters.

Referees

  Mark Allatin
  Fotis Bazakos
  Allen Chapman
  Alex Chilowicz
 / Matthew Conger
 / Marcos DeOliveira
  Joe Dickerson
  Filip Dujic
  Ismail Elfath
  Drew Fischer
  Tim Ford
  Jon Freemon
  Guido Gonzales, Jr
  Pierre-Luc Lauziere
  Jair Marrufo
  Rosendo Mendoza
  Ismir Pekmic
  Chris Penso
  Tori Penso
  Michael Radchuk
  Victor Rivas
  Nima Saghafi
 / Robert Sibiga
  Kevin Stott
 / Lukasz Szpala
  Ramy Touchan
  Ted Unkel
  Rubiel Vazquez
  Armando Villarreal

Assistant referees

  Ian Anderson
  Lyes Arfa
  Kyle Atkins
  Peter Balciunas
  Micheal Barwegen
  Andrew Bigelow
  Cameron Blanchard
  Diego Blas
  Chantal Boudreau
  Logan Brown
  Jose da Silva
  Brian Dunn
  Chris Elliott
  Gianni Facchini
  Adam Garner
  Ryan Graves
  Jeffrey Greeson
  Jeremy Hanson
  Walt Heatherly
  Eduardo Jeff
  Jeremy Kieso
  Kevin Klinger
  Kevin Lock
  Felisha Mariscal
  Brooke Mayo
  Ian McKay
  Oscar Mitchell-Carvalho
  Meghan Mullen
  Matt Nelson
  Kathryn Nesbitt
  Corey Parker
  Ben Pilgrim
  Brian Poeschel
  Cory Richardson
  Corey Rockwell
  Mike Rottersman
  Kali Smith
  Jeffrey Swartzel
  Stefan Tanaka-Freundt
  Nick Uranga
  Chris Wattam
  Jason White
  Adam Wienckowski
  Tyler Wyrostek

Video assistant referees

  Malik Badawi
  David Barrie
  Carol Anne Chenard
  Geoff Gamble
  Jorge Gonzalez
  Luis Guardia
  Edvin Jurisevic
  Alejandro Mariscal
  Younes Marrakchi
  Daniel Radford
  José Carlos Rivero
  Sorin Stoica
  Kevin Stott
  Kevin Terry, Jr.

Assistant video assistant referees

  Claudiu Badea
  Jozef Batko
  Gjovalin Bori
  Jonathan Johnson
  Mike Kampmeinert
  Craig Lowry
  Jeffrey Muschik
  Rene Parra
  Josh Patlak
  Robert Schaap
  Thomas Supple
  Fabio Tovar
  Eric Weisbrod
  TJ Zablocki

International roster
As of February 2023, these officials' are on the international roster:

  Frank Anderson
  Lyes Arfa
  Kyle Atkins
  Micheal Barwegen
  Alexandra Billeter
  Cameron Blanchard
  Chantal Boudreau
  Logan Brown
  Allen Chapman
  Carol Anne Chenard
  Danielle Chesky
  Matthew Conger
  Jose Da Silva
  Ismail Elfath
  Drew Fischer
  Tim Ford
  Jennifer Garner
  Edvin Jurisevic
  Jeremy Kieso
  Katja Koroleva
  Pierre-Luc Lauziere
  Felisha Mariscal
  Samantha Martinez
  Brooke Mayo
  Alicia Messer
  Meghan Mullen
  Kathryn Nesbitt
  Alyssa Nichols
  Corey Parker
  Tori Penso
  Salma Perez
  Cory Richardson
  Victor Rivas
  Corey Rockwell
  Nima Saghafi
  Natalie Simon
  Kali Smith
  Tiffini Turpin
  Nick Uranga
  Rubiel Vazquez
  Armando Villarreal
  Chris Wattam

International appointments
In December 2018, Jair Marrufo as referee, Frank Anderson and Corey Rockwell as assistant referees, and Mark Geiger as an assistant video assistant referee, were selected to oversee the 2018 FIFA Club World Cup final.

In August 2023, six PRO officials were appointed to the FIFA Women's World Cup final—three on-field and three video officials. Tori Penso was chosen to adjudicate the final, alongside assistant referees Brooke Mayo and Kathryn Nesbitt.  Also chosen were Support VAR Armando Villarreal, Standby VAR Carol Anne Chenard, and Standby AVAR Drew Fischer.

See also
 Select Group

References

External links

Association football referees
American soccer referees
Canadian soccer referees

United States Soccer Federation
Sports professional associations
Sports organizations established in 2012
2012 establishments in North America

Professional Referee Organization


Dimas can refer to:

Saint Dismas, also known as Saint Dimas - the Good Thief at Jesus's crucifixion
Dimas (surname), Greek, Portuguese and Spanish surname.
Dimas Delgado (born 1983), Spanish footballer
Dimas Gonçalves de Oliveira (born 1984), Brazilian footballer
Dimas Teixeira (born 1969), Portuguese footballer
Al-Dimas, a town in Syria

See also
Dima (disambiguation)

Dimas


WJLK-FM (94.3 FM; "The Point") is a commercial radio station licensed to Asbury Park, New Jersey, and serving Monmouth County, Northern Ocean County and Middlesex County. It broadcasts a hot adult contemporary format and is owned by Townsquare Media, along with sister stations WCHR-FM, WOBM, WOBM-FM, and WJLK.

WJLK-FM has an effective radiated power (ERP) of 1,300 watts.  The transmitter is near Exit 100 along the Garden State Parkway in Tinton Falls, New Jersey.  WJLK-FM broadcasts using HD Radio technology. Its programming is also simulcast on WJLK (1160 AM) and translator station W281CK (104.1 FM) in Lakewood Township.

History

Asbury Park Press
WJLK-FM was created when the Asbury Park Press, a daily newspaper, wanted to expand its newly forming radio business in the 1940s. Originally destined to be WDJT at 104.3, by November 1946 the call letters had changed to WJLK, to honor J. Lyle Kinmonth, the former publisher of the Press, who died the previous year. In addition, shortly before the first broadcast, the station changed from 104.3 to 94.3 MHz.

The station's first broadcast took place on Kinmonth's birthday, November 20, 1947.  When WJLK started, it was one of an estimated 75 FM radio stations nationwide. WJLK also made history as the first FM radio station in New Jersey to be licensed by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The station was dedicated to news and community information.  It broadcast from 6:30a.m. to midnight Monday through Saturday, and 8a.m. to midnight on Sundays.

Adult contemporary and top 40
Eventually, The Press purchased an AM radio station, WCAP, which was renamed WJLK, located at 1310 kHz.  Both stations simulcast their programming. The newscasts for the station were 15 minutes long at the top of every hour, as well as a briefer at every half-hour. In between newscasts, there was a wide variety of shows featuring different types of music, or talk programs on specific subjects, such as gardening. In the mid 1960s, typical staffing included Everett Rudloff as station manager, Dick Lewis as assistant manager, Charles Hill as program director, and Frank Huber as station engineer.

The station occupied the top floor of the Asbury Park Press building, with two studios in addition to the transmitter cabinet and the control room, operated by the announcer / disk-jockey. Remaining floor space was devoted to a small lobby and reception area and desk, the station manager's office, the station engineer's office, a small studio for the assistant engineer's recording of transcriptions and tape cartridge announcements and advertisements, and  desks for radio management and announcing staff as well as for radio advertising staff. The local Steinbach's department store (around the corner of Press Plaza) was a major advertiser.

The music standard was "easy listening" as it was then called. Typical special programming included a Broadway music show, an up-tempo "Rolling Home Show" (evening rush hour), Arthur Morris' gospel music program, Phyllis Kessel's ladies talk and commentary, and the Rev. Richard Holbrook's gospel preaching. There were also jazz and country music programs, as well as remote broadcasts of local evening high school basketball games. A news program from Fort Monmouth was also a regular feature. News was relayed in print from the news department one floor below as well as from a teletype machine in the station office.

By the mid 1970s, it was obvious that specialized stations that concentrated on one specific format were doing better than stations such as WJLK where the programs changed by the hour. Robert E. McAllen, an on-air personality in the early 1970s, devised a new format with its emphasis on adult contemporary music with block programming at night, playing top 40, oldies, or talk.  For a time, WJLK-AM-FM subscribed to the automated "Hit Parade" music service, where the songs were announced by a prerecorded voice, with live newscasts around the clock from the Asbury Park Press newsroom.

During the 1980s WJLK adopted a top 40 format and was branded as "K-94" "New Jersey's Hit Music Station". Pat Gillen, was the program director and "your Pat in the afternoon". Tim Downs was morning drive, Carl Ross did mid days. Amy Wright handled the evening shifts and Dave Ulmann was the overnight host. Weekends were hosted Ed Healy, Gary Guida and Mike Abrams.

Change in ownership
In 1989, the company sold both WJLK and WJLK-FM to Devlin and Ferrari Broadcasting Company of New York for $12.5 million. The sale had been ordered by the FCC in exchange for allowing The Asbury Park Press to buy two Trenton stations, WBUD (1260 AM) and WKXW-FM (101.5), for $12.1 million.

By August 1989, the K-94 format was discontinued and the station returned to broadcasting adult contemporary. Then, in March 1993, the station began a simulcast with the 98.5 frequency and was billed as "Soft Rock WJLK". Slightly more than four years later, in May 1997, after being sold to Nassau Broadcasting, the simulcast was dropped and the station went towards the format it has today, broadcasting under "94.3 the Point".

Charities
From 1997 through May 2002, 94.3 The Point was one of the five stations referred to as Nassau Broadcasting Partner's "Shore Group" under the leadership of Vice President and General Manager Don Dalesio.  The format of WJLK-FM was rebranded and improved, and the station became a true leader in the market.  After the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, the station became active in helping the community heal.  A significant amount of money was raised for the families of World Trade Center victims.  The Old Mill School in Wall, New Jersey (K-5), had a walk-a-thon and donated the money to the Nassau charity.  As a result, the Point rewarded the kids by having Michelle Branch perform in the auditorium of their school in late 2001.

The Point and Jersey Shore Medical Center also organized "Kites Against Cancer" to benefit the breast care center at JSMC originally and eventually all of "The Breast Care Centers of The Meridian Healthcare."  This successful event got the Point into the Guinness Book of World Records for flying the most kites at one time in a single location.

Millennium Radio
In June 2002, the sale of the "shore group" was completed and Millennium Radio Group took over WJLK-FM and its sister stations, WBBO, WOBM and WOBM-FM, WADB and eventually WCHR-FM.

In February 2009, WJLK started using new station IDs and branding, referring to itself as "The Jersey Shore's Hit Music Channel", despite still mostly playing adult contemporary music, in response to WHTG rebranding itself as "The Jersey Shore's Hit Music Connection" and adopting a top 40 format the previous month. The sound of WJLK has an emphasis on hits from today.

Also in 2009, WJLK lost part of its Ocean County coverage area due to the power increase of co-channel radio station WIBG-FM in Avalon.  Since this time, WJLK's signal has become mostly un-listenable south of Forked River while WIBG-FM serves the Manahawkin, Long Beach Island and Tuckerton areas.

WJLK began simulcasting on WOBM (1160 AM) and its FM translator on 104.1 on July 10, 2023, expanding the station's coverage of northern Ocean County. WJLK readded the "-FM" suffix to its call sign on July 21, allowing WOBM to change its call sign to WJLK.

HD Radio
In July 2007, WJLK began broadcasting in HD Radio. In October 2007, WJLK launched an HD2 channel, which is a simulcast of the classic rock format from sister station 105.7 The Hawk (WCHR-FM). In 2009, WJLK-HD2 launched S*ALT ("ShoreAlternative.com") in response to WHTG's departure of the alternative format, attempting to fill the void left in the Monmouth/Ocean market. That ended in 2011, ahead of Townsquare Media acquiring Millennium Radio New Jersey.

References

External links
 Official website of WJLK

JLK
Radio stations established in 1947
Hot adult contemporary radio stations in the United States
Tinton Falls, New Jersey
1947 establishments in New Jersey
Townsquare Media radio stations

WJLK-FM


Terry Jones Jr. (born December 3, 1979) is a former American football tight end. He played four years at the University of Alabama, the alma mater of his father, Terry Jones Sr., who was a defensive tackle for the Green Bay Packers from 1978-84.  He was selected in fifth round, 155th overall by the Baltimore Ravens in the 2002 NFL Draft.

College career
Jones started three years at the University of Alabama. He was chosen as team captain for his senior season, when he earned All-SEC honors after posting 10 catches for 115 yards and 2 touchdowns. He missed five games his junior season after tearing a ligament in his left knee.  He started as a true freshman. He has a degree in business from the University.

Professional career
Jones played in 14 games his rookie season, managing 1 touchdown and 11 catches in 14 games, and posted similar numbers over his 3 years overall in Baltimore, periodically picking up more game time when starter Todd Heap was sidelined with injuries.  He was waived by the Baltimore Ravens on November 12, 2005 after seeing no action with the team, where the San Francisco 49ers were awarded his rights off waivers on November 15, 2005 and Jones finished out 7 games.  He was re-signed after the season and ultimately waived in early September during the 2006 NFL season.  He was also a member of Team Alabama of the All American Football League.

References

External links
 http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-2042488/Nine-NFL-rookies-follow-dads.html
 http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/2002/draft/players/10208.html
 https://web.archive.org/web/20141204215324/http://www.kffl.com/player/5624/nfl/news
 https://www.usatoday.com/sports/nfl/2002draft/tes/terryjones.htm

1979 births
Living people
Players of American football from Tuscaloosa, Alabama
American football tight ends
Alabama Crimson Tide football players
Baltimore Ravens players
San Francisco 49ers players

Terry Jones (tight end)


Count Luka Sorkočević (; January 13, 1734 – September 11, 1789) was composer from the Republic of Ragusa. His music has been preserved, like other Sorkočević family possessions, in the archives of the Dubrovnik Franciscan convent. He is known as the first Croatian symphonist.

Biography
Luka (Lukša) Sorkočević was born in Dubrovnik and received an extensive education. His music teacher was the Italian composer Giuseppe Valenti, who was maestro di cappella of Dubrovnik Cathedral in the 1750s. He continued his education in Rome where he studied musical composition with Rinaldo di Capua. Later, Sorkočević married a girl from the Luccari (Lukarević) family and held several posts in various branches of Dubrovnik politics and society. During his relatively brief stint in Vienna as the ambassador to the imperial court he met several leading composers of his time, like Gluck and Haydn, and the famous poet Metastasio – a valuable experience for his later life and work. With serious health problems, he committed suicide by throwing himself from the third floor of his palace in Dubrovnik in 1789, at the age of 55.

Although he also wrote a few vocal pieces, his most interesting works are the eight symphonies, the violin sonata and the overture trio for the flute. These instrumental works belong to the transitional period between baroque and classicism. They can neither be associated with the empfindsamer Stil – indicated by the fact that they are exclusively written in major keys – nor with the modernism of the Mannheim school. Nevertheless, Sorkočević's music contains traces of both styles. The Largo of the Symphony No. 7 shows the kind of expression which is associated with the Empfindsamkeit and the first movement of the Symphony No. 1 contains the crescendi for which the Mannheim school was famous. The Sonata in A-major for piano was written in 1754.

See also
 Republic of Ragusa
 List of notable Ragusans
 Dubrovnik
 Dalmatia
 History of Dalmatia
 Antun Sorkočević
 House of Sorkočević

References

External sources
Biography in the Croatian Encyclopedia
Sorkočević and his instrumental works
Biography (in Croatian)
Sorkočević's music review
Samples of Sorkočević's music

Croatian Baroque composers
Ragusan diplomats
Luka
People from Dubrovnik
1734 births
1789 deaths
Classical-period composers
Composers for cello
Composers for violin
Ragusan nobility
18th-century classical composers
18th-century male musicians
Male classical composers
18th-century Croatian nobility
18th-century suicides

Luka Sorkočević


The San Gabriel Mountains Regional Conservancy (SGMRC) is a regional environmental organization located in the foothill area of the eastern San Gabriel Valley.  It is concerned with the conservation of land, land use planning, publication of studies, watershed management, land management, and education.

SGMRC is currently the only environmental organization focused on:
Sustainable, regional stakeholder involvement through the WIN (Watershed Integrated Network) Model
The Nature Center Network, including multi-purpose and integrated community outreach for watershed education, including workshops and library/ technology approaches
The connectivity, sustainability, capacity building model for the San Gabriel Valley Conservancies Network

The Greater San Gabriel Valley is served, between the 14 and 15 Freeways – east/west, and the San Gabriel Mountains to the Puente Hills – north/south.  The SGMRC watershed study/plan (Reconnecting the San Gabriel Valley) covered  of the Upper San Gabriel River and its tributaries, the largest single watershed study in Los Angeles County.  The Greater San Gabriel Valley includes almost a third of the population of Los Angeles County.

The SGMRC was established in 1997 as a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation.

The SGMRC currently operates three nature centers: the Glendora Conservancy Nature Center, the Santa Fe Dam Nature Center, and the Galster Park Nature Center.

San Gabriel Mountains
Environmental organizations based in California
San Gabriel Valley


Antonio Buonomo (born in Naples in 1932) is an Italian composer, solo percussionist and music educator. Professor of percussion at the conservatories of  "S.Pietro a Majella in Naples" of Naples and "S.Cecilia" of Rome,  Antonio Buonomo's professional experience includes performing as timpani soloist in various orchestras (such as the "San Carlo" of Naples and "La Fenice" of Venice) and director of one of Europe's first all-percussion instrument  groups. His many compositions and transcriptions for percussion instruments have been published by the main houses of this sector and include teaching materials as well as music for plays and television documentaries. They have been performed for the occasion of prestigious avant-garde musical events, television and radio programs as well as in public concerts.

Biography

In the preface to his biography Antonio Buonomo says that "Being born into a family of musicians doesn't give you much choice".
The fifth of ten children, he began studying music before he even knew how to read or write. He was already performing at the age of 12 (as a conservatory student), playing the trumpet and drums with his father in many nightclubs in Naples in front of an audience of American soldiers from the Allied Forces. A career that was built on "coming up through the ranks" and playing just about any musical genre, from popular music and marching bands to jazz and contemporary music.

"His career is immense and he has come a long way" as Il Centro (Abruzzo's newspaper) wrote. He was director of one of the first contemporary rhythmic music bands and professor at the conservatories N.Piccinni in Bari, S.Pietro a Majella in Naples, Luisa D'Annunzio in Pescara and Santa Cecilia in Rome. His didactic works were used as exams in national and international competitions and were adopted by high musical culture institutions in Italy and abroad.
He has held seminars and specialization courses on an international level, training an entire generation of musicians with his method that are now featured soloists in illustrious orchestras and conservatory professors.

Antonio Buonomo has to be given the credit of being the first one in Italy ever to prove that percussion instruments had a life of their own, since they include all parameters of the triple music root: rhythm, melody and harmony. So, these instruments were not (as many people used to think) a rhythm section to accompany other instruments or to simulate weather phenomena such as thunders or storms.
He continued his cultural operation until percussion courses were established inside Italian conservatories. He carried it out by writing ad hoc compositions and participating in radio and TV programs, as well as by playing pieces for percussion, that had never been performed in Italy, during the concerts he conducted.
Having achieved great success among young people through daily concerts that were even held in schools (from middle schools to universities), in 1975 he recorded the first classical, pop and contemporary all-percussion Italian music record in which he gathered the outcome of his studies and ideas.
He became much more popular as his artistic commitment grew, of course. Italy's most influential newspaper, the Corriere della Sera, printed the following in November 1987: "He is a real authority on rhythm: as an internationally known percussionist and virtuoso, Antonio Buonomo is a versatile and passionate teacher who has published many works on his favorite subject, from pure percussion technique and rhythm perspectives."
The most significant steps of his career, during which he has known and has collaborated with music legends like Stravinsky, Hindemith and others, can be summarized as follows:
 he has participated in major European festivals, like the International Contemporary Music Festival at the Venice Biennial (1960/61) and the Edinburgh International Festival (1963);
 he participated in the Italy on Stage in New York City with Irene Papas (1986);
 solo performances of contemporary music premiered in Italy;
 tours outside of Europe.
In 1983, the Minister of Public Education invited him to be part of the commission that drafted the program for percussion and solfège study for percussionists; he was called by the Opera Theatre in Rome during the Jubilee year to act as assistant conductor and music consultant, contributing to the creation of the Missa Solemnis pro Jubileo, by Franco Mannino, which had its world premiere at the Colosseum.
His debut as author, together with his brother Aldo, dates back to 1965 with L'arte della percussione (The art of the percussion): the first European treatise, in three volumes (with guiding records) on classical, jazz and African-Latin-American percussion. It was a huge international success and probably the first time that an American publisher (Leeds Music Corporation in New York) showed an interest for Italian didactic books, requesting editor Suvini-Zerboni they be translated into English.

Books

1965 - Aldo and Antonio Buonomo - L'Arte della percussione (The art of the percussion) - three volumes Suvini-Zerboni editions SZ6361/a - 6361/b - 6361/c;
1967 - Aldo and Antonio Buonomo - 'Il batterista autodidatta (Self-taught drum playing) - Suvini-Zerboni editions SZ 661;
1969 - Aldo and Antonio Buonomo - La tecnica del vibrafono (The technique of the vibraphone) - Suvini-Zerboni editions SZ 6882;
1973 - Aldo and Antonio Buonomo - Studi d'orchestra from Beethoven to Stockhausen - Suvini-Zerboni editions SZ698;
1979 - Antonio Buonomo - Musica d'insieme per strumenti a percussione (Collective music) - Curci editions EC10314;
1982 - Antonio Buonomo - Il suono della percussione (The sound of percussion) - Curci editions EC 10503;
1989 - Antonio Buonomo Clara Perra - La musica tra ritmo e creatività (Music between rhythm and creativity) - 2 volumes Curci editions EC 10644 EC 10645;
1991 - Antonio Buonomo - Timpani* (study and application of fundamental techniques) - Curci editions EC 10894;
1996 - Antonio Buonomo - Sapere per suonare (Music theory) - Curci edition ;
1998 - Antonio Buonomo - The Marimba* (Grip, sound, technique) - Curci editions EC 11299;
2001 - Antonio Buonomo - Born for the drum set * (Instinctive study of the drum set for children and beginners)  book with CD - BMG Ricordi Editions  ISMN M-2151-0569-0;
2004 - Antonio Buonomo - Beyond the rudiments** When technique becomes music (book with CD) - Carisch Editions; ;
2009 - Antonio Buonomo - Nati per la musica (Born for the music) book with audio book - Curci editions. ISMN 979-0-2159-0114-8,  ISMN 9790215 105690;
2012 - Buonomo - The vibraphone*  technique - Italian melodies - jazz improvisation - Suvini-Zerboni editions;
2013 - Antonio Buonomo - The innate instinct of the drums  (when to play becomes a spontaneous gesture - book with CD - Curci editions;
2014 - Aldo e Antonio Buonomo - Method for drum and drum-set - Simeoli editions.
2018 - Antonio Buonomo - Davide Summaria - I CLASSICI DELLA MUSICA ETNICA** (Classics of ethnic music) The rhythms of dance in piano teaching - MP3 download - Simeoli editions.
2019 - Antonio Buonomo - Davide Summaria - DANZE ETNICHE per ensemble di percussioni ** (Ethnic dances for percussion ensemble) - MP3 download - Simeoli editions.
2019 - Antonio Buonomo - Biancaneve e le note parlanti* (Snow White and the talking notes) Musical fairytale to read, tell and recite - Simeoli Kids Editions.
2019 - Antonio Buonomo - Le mani - Lo strumento naturale per suonare e accompagnare* (Hands The natural instrument for playing and accompanying ) - Simeoli Kids Editions.
2020 - Antonio Buonomo - Quando il jazz lo facevano i tamburi* (When jazz was played by drums) History, analysis and learning of rhythmic music and the rhythm of words - Simeoli Editions.
2021 - Antonio Buonomo - Battute e frasi celebri di musicisti * (Diary of phrases and mottos from Bach to Schömberg ) - Simeoli Editions.
2022 - Antonio Buonomo - L'alfabeto del batterista percussionista * (The Percussionist-Drummer's Alphabet) Methodology from A to Z with video examples - Simeoli Editions.
2023 - Antonio Buonomo - From the studio to the limelight - Simeoli Editions.
2023 - Antonio Buonomo - Solfeggio and musical interpretation of classical, jazz and contemporary genres - Curci Editions.
2023 - List of didactic works, compositions and narrative.

(*) Italian-English text
(**) Italian, English, German and Spanish text

Autobiography
2010 - Antonio Buonomo - L'arte della fuga in tempo di guerra (The art of the fugue during wartime) - Effepilibri editions.
2020 - Antonio Buonomo - Dichiarazioni d'amore e di guerra (Special Centenary Edition) - Simeoli editions.

Main compositions – performed and published
 Spazio zero to search by vocal chords and object-instruments ( RAI premiere 1975);
 Vuoto for mimes, narrator and audience (premiere at the Exhibition on Avant-garde and Musical Research in Naples during the 1970s);
 Akwadum work recommended by the jury of the National Contest of Children's Music composition, by the Province of Como, world premiere performance in the concert hall of the Conservatory G. Verdi in Como (Curci editions EC 11352);
 Afrikania  premiere at the Opening "Agimus" season, Naples 1975 (Curci editions EC 11355);
 Leggenda Valacca elaboration in contemporary style of the famous Angel's Serenade by Gaetano Braga, commissioned to Buonomo by the author's hometown Administration, for the centenary of his death. (Curci editions  );
 Bach for percussion instruments RAI premiere 1976 (Curci editions EC 9867);
 Kluster premiere in the Concert Season of the Pescara's Music Academy (Curci editions EC11353);
 La strada del ritorno premiere "Ravello Concerts" (Curci editions EC 11458);
 Metallo dolce premiere Scarlatti Hall of the Conservatory of Naples;
 Latino classico premiere Concert Hall S. Cecilia Conservatory - Rome (Curci editions EC 11354);
 The Battle of Jericho premiere at the Theatre of Arts - Rome (Curci editions EC9908);
 Skin-deep sounds premiere at the international drum contest of the Conservatory "N. Piccinni" in Bari (Curci editions EC 11548 );
 4 antiche danze ungheresi (transcription) premiere at the Cilea Theatre Naples (Curci editions EC10314);
 Deep River premiere at the Theatre of Arts - Rome (Piccola Vela editions);
 Go Down Moses premiere at the Theatre of Arts - Rome (Piccola Vela editions);
 Alla turca (transcription - Curci editions EC10314);
 Oro Cristof* 5 sheets for a timpanist  - Curci editions.

Pop music compositions

Occhi sognanti (slow song)
Tango del veliero
Bolero classico
Marialù

Videos and slideshows
 Percussion and drums school* The future of technique for percussion instruments 'DVDv and Master Notes (an e-book in pdf format) - Curci editions ;
  (trailer);
  for 5 performers;
  for vocal chords and object-instruments;
  (fragment) Ritual dances for percussion sextet;
  for voice solo, chorus and percussion;
  for voice solo, chorus and percussion;
  for percussion instruments;
  for narrator (voice), percussion and Cello;
  for vibraphone, grand piano drums, and celesta;
  Rhythm variations on Mozartian themes for percussion instruments;
  Concert study for Snare Drum;
  (trailer);
  (trailer);
  (trailer).

(*) Italian-English text
(**) Italian, English, German and Spanish text

PoemsThe two souls of the drumLa strada del ritornoVuotoPrimavera all'antica (set to music by D. Summaria)Ritmo amicoFoglie di lacrime (set to music by D. Summaria);

Aphorisms
 "Rhythm is music's life."
 "A simple performer can become an artist by turning stage fright into an emotion to convey to the listener."
 "True music is not what we play or hear, but what gets to the listener without interference."
 "Everybody can create sounds by beating on any percussion, but only those produced by an expert touch can be called sounds."
 "A musician must find the real rhythm inside himself: it's the only thing that will lead him to a humanized performance where the metronome is of no use."
 "Forbidding spontaneous, by ear performance, is the same as to force a child to learn to read before he has learned to speak."
 "Rhythm is the principle of life and of all arts. Rhythmic music accompanies us in our daily activities, and even babies, as soon as they come into the world, have already
assimilated it by inheritance."

Main  collaborations
 Teatro San Carlo Naples (trumpet, timpanist and solo percussionist)
 Teatro La Fenice Venice (timpanist)
 Teatro dell'Opera Rome (assistant conductor)
 Ensemble Tempo di percussione (conductor and solo percussionist)
 Italian Symphony Orchestra (timpanist)
 Orchestra Pomeriggi Musicali Milan (timpanist)
 Corpo Musicale Aeronautica Rome (principal trumpet)
 Orchestra Stabile Napoletana (principal trumpet)
 Orchestra Scarlatti RAI Naples (percussionist)
 Big band "Melodie di mezzo mondo" (principal trumpet)
 Havana orquesta (principal trumpet)
 RAI Orchestra Neapolitan Music (trumpet)

News Rudiments
A technique needs constant and appropriate study in order to preserve all its potential intact.
through time.
Rudiments  is a study based upon the classics (outdated) that consists in repeating rhythmic models by heart over and over again, gradually gaining speed.
There is no rhythmic control of the execution of this kind of monotonous and repetitive practice because the drummer is playing by memory and practically by ear. There is no music being read and practice is aimed solely at one type of execution: "in rhythm", accentuating the downbeat (which is always the loudest) like when one begins speaking.With new rudiments'' - developed as exercises to be read and practiced through constant and precise acceleration of movements (made possible by the change in figuration) -, drummers will study technique, reading and rhythm at the same time. This way, not only will they put an end to that monotonous "in rhythm" practice, they will also develop control of the speed of the beats.

Just by studying the sequences and the various fingering, practicing will prepare the drummer for:
 fundamental rhythmic figures from two to fifteen beats (downbeats and off-beats)
 single, double and triple stroke rolls with accentuated downbeats and off-beats;
 single, double, and triple paradiddles;
 paradiddles with final triple beats and acciaccaturas (flam, drag etc.).
Lastly, the advantage of practicing without missing a beat: going from division accents to subdivision accents: an exercise that will come in very handy when playing in an orchestra where the conductor is holding the rhythm by beating the main accents and will also hold the secondary rhythm of the subdivision.

Sequences for drums and drum sets can be read or listened to in CD or practiced with the help of an animated video: a kind of Karaoke that allows drummers to check rhythm because the notes light up on the screen on the beat while playing.

References
Reviews and testimonials of the world of music
Editors' catalogues: Curci, Ricordi, Carisch, Effepilibri
 Curci in the world
 "Press notes" from p. 6  of the book Sapere per suonare, Curci editions
 Autobiography (Effepilibri editions)
 Encyclopedia of Neapolitan Music (Magmata Edition)
 Artistic acknowledgements
 Click on Photo gallery

External links
 www.drumsoloartist.com
  Curci Edition Official Web site
  Antonio Buonomo Official Web site
  Antonio Buonomo Official Web site
  Edizioni Carisch  Official Web site
  Casa Ricordi Official Web site
  Effepilibri Official Web site
  Conservatorio S. Cecilia Official Web site
  Conservatorio Luisa D'Annunzio Official Web site
  Edizioni Suvini-Zerboni Official Web site

Italian classical composers
Italian male classical composers
21st-century classical composers
Experimental composers
Italian percussionists
Classical percussionists
Classical trumpeters
Italian bandleaders
1932 births
Living people
Italian music educators
20th-century Italian musicians
20th-century trumpeters
21st-century trumpeters
20th-century Italian male musicians
21st-century Italian male musicians

Antonio Buonomo


George Edwards Porter (born 27 June 1992) is an English professional footballer who plays as either a winger or a striker for Cray Wanderers.

Career

Cray Wanderers
Born in Sidcup, Porter joined Isthmian League Premier Division side Cray Wanderers for the 2009–10 season. After playing several games for the academy at Coopers Technology College in Chislehurst, Porter was promoted to the first team, making his debut in the FA Cup. His first goal for Cray came in a 3–2 win over Margate. After impressive performances for the first team, Porter attracted interest from several Football League teams including Charlton Athletic, Gillingham, Dagenham & Redbridge and Leyton Orient. He left Cray Wanderers after playing 41 games and scoring 11 goals in all competitions. His success was rewarded with the Manager's Player of the Year award.

Leyton Orient
Porter joined Leyton Orient on a two-week trial in May 2010, playing in several reserve games, and he was signed by the O's in May 2010. He made his first appearance in an Orient shirt in a friendly match against his old club on 14 July 2010, winning a penalty in a 2–0 win. His league debut came in the 3–1 defeat at home to Charlton Athletic on 13 August, when he appeared as a substitute.

On 29 October 2010, after a period of illness, Porter signed on a month's loan to Conference South club Lewes. He made his debut for the Rooks on 30 October, in the 1–1 draw with Dartford. In his next game, a 3–0 win at Weston-super-Mare, Porter scored his first goal for Lewes, but was later sent off. Porter's Lewes loan was extended, but at the end of January 2011, he went on loan to Hastings United, where he made his debut in the 2–2 draw at home to Folkestone Invicta on 1 February. He scored his first goal for Hastings in the 3–2 victory over Tooting & Mitcham United on 12 February. At the end of the season, Porter returned to Orient and scored a hat-trick for the O's in a 5–0 demolition of Finnish second division side SJK during their pre-season tour of Finland.

He made his first start for Orient and scored his first professional goal on 17 September 2011, in the 3–1 defeat at home to Oldham Athletic. A string of impressive performances, including a goal in his FA Cup début against Bromley, soon saw him attract interest from the likes of Nottingham Forest and Ipswich Town. On 23 May 2012 Porter rejected a two-year contract offer from Leyton Orient leaving the club to expect his departure.

Burnley
On 3 July 2012, Porter signed for Football League Championship club Burnley on a three-year contract. Porter picked up an injury before the start of the season.

Colchester United
He signed on a youth loan for Colchester United on 1 January 2013 until the end of the season and made his début the same day, coming on after 73 minutes as a sub in the 3–0 defeat at Crawley.

AFC Wimbledon
On 18 July 2013, it was announced that Porter had joined League Two side AFC Wimbledon on a season-long loan deal. AFC Wimbledon manager Neal Ardley said of Porter joining "The Dons" that "the pacy forward is likely to be utilised on the flank" and "George is very quick and direct; he will give us real high energy and creativity in the final third", with Porter himself stating that he "cannot wait to get started at AFC Wimbledon having been impressed by the club's support in the past". Porter made his first appearance for "The Dons" two days later in a pre-season friendly game against Conference South side Sutton United at Gander Green Lane that resulted in a 4–0 win. However, he was substituted after only six minutes due to an injury, though this did look more precautionary than anything serious. On 24 January 2014, Porter returned to Burnley early from his loan after falling out of favour at Wimbledon, amid rumours of a training ground bust up with manager Neal Ardley. He made a total of 24 appearances scoring no goals.

2014–15
On 31 January 2014, Porter signed for Rochdale on a short-term deal until the end of the season, following his departure from Burnley. He subsequently joined League Two club Dagenham & Redbridge before returning to the Isthmian League Premier Division and joining leaders Maidstone United.

Welling United
In July 2015, he signed for National League side Welling United on a free transfer.

Bromley and 12 month ban
In June 2016, Porter signed for fellow National League side Bromley following his departure from relegated Welling United. Despite missing a considerable period through injury, Porter made 31 league appearances, scoring 6 goals, and was rewarded with a new one-year contract at the end of the season.

In September 2019, Porter was banned from football for 12 months after pleading guilty to placing 473 bets on football matches, an activity which is banned by the FA. He was also fined £750. He was initially reported to the FA by betting company Bet365 for placing the bets between December 2011 and May 2019. Porter made a loss on the bets and did not bet on matches involving his own teams, and was not accused of match fixing.

Return to Maidstone
After his ban, Porter re-signed for Maidstone in late September 2020.

Dartford
On 8 June 2021, Porter signed for Dartford.

Dulwich Hamlet
On 1 July 2022, Porter signed for Dulwich Hamlet.

Cray Wanderers (second spell)
On 16 June 2023, Porter re-signed for Cray Wanderers.

Career statistics

Honours
Bromley
FA Trophy runner-up: 2017–18

Dartford
Kent Senior Cup: 2019–20

References

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1992 births
Living people
Footballers from Sidcup
English men's footballers
Men's association football wingers
Men's association football forwards
Cray Wanderers F.C. players
Leyton Orient F.C. players
Lewes F.C. players
Hastings United F.C. players
Burnley F.C. players
Colchester United F.C. players
AFC Wimbledon players
Rochdale A.F.C. players
Dagenham & Redbridge F.C. players
Maidstone United F.C. players
Welling United F.C. players
Bromley F.C. players
Dartford F.C. players
Dulwich Hamlet F.C. players
English Football League players
National League (English football) players
Isthmian League players

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Fred Jüssi (born January 29, 1935) is an Estonian biologist, nature writer and photographer.

Jüssi was born in Aruba, Netherlands Antilles, where his father worked for a Venezuelan oil company. His family returned to Estonia and settled in Tallinn when Jüssi was 3 years old. After finishing high school in Tallinn he studied biology and zoology at the University of Tartu, graduating in 1958. He has worked as a school teacher (from 1958 to 1960 in Emmaste, Hiiumaa), as inspector for nature protection (1962–1975), radio broadcaster for Eesti Raadio, freelance writer and nature campaigner. In Eesti Raadio he ran the program Looduse aabits (ABC book of nature) from 1976 to 1986.

In October 1980, Jüssi was a signatory of the Letter of 40 Intellectuals, a public letter in which forty prominent Estonian intellectuals defended the Estonian language and protested the Russification policies of the Kremlin in Estonia.  The signatories also expressed their unease against Republic-level government in harshly dealing with youth protests in Tallinn that were sparked a week earlier due to the banning of a public performance of the punk rock band Propeller.

In the beginning of the 1990s he was for a few years the president of Estonian Nature Fund. Jüssi has published numerous books, articles and audio recordings related to nature. He was the first recipient of Eerik Kumari Award, given to him in 1989.

Jüssi is probably the most influential person in Estonia engaged in writing, talking and popularising nature.

Notes

1935 births
Estonian biologists
Estonian journalists
Living people
University of Tartu alumni
Recipients of the Order of the National Coat of Arms, 3rd Class
Recipients of the Order of the White Star, 4th Class

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ErgoGroup was a Nordic information technology corporation, systems integrator and consulting company headquartered in Oslo, Norway. The company provided services for IT operations, business solutions, outsourcing, infrastructure and consulting. ErgoGroup had a total of 90 offices and regional branches throughout Norway, Sweden and Finland, and was a subsidiary of Posten Norge, the Norwegian Postal Service. It was the second largest ICT operations company in Norway. The company also held partial ownership in SYSteam, TransWare, Gecko, Eiendomsverdi, Buypass, Eye-Share and Bekk Consulting. ErgoGroup merged with EDB Business Partner in 2010, creating EVRY.

Organisation and services
ErgoGroup organised its services in Norway into five business areas: IT Operations, Solutions, Regional Services, the Nordic countries|Nordic Region and Bekk Consulting. IT Operations work primarily with outsourcing contracts aimed at the key account market. This business area also had responsibility for ErgoGroup's communications services, and developed basic operating solutions that were used by all of ErgoGroup's business areas. Other areas covered by IT Operations were cloud computing and software as a service (SaaS), network solutions, virtualisation, security and IT surveillance.

The second business area, Solutions, delivered software, services and business sector solutions that streamlined selected work processes within the public and private sectors. Examples of areas of specialisation were: finance and corporate performance management, portal, case and document handling, business consultancy and process optimisation, development, architecture and integration, electronic transactions, and information databases.

Regional Services covered ErgoGroup's smaller businesses and businesses outside the main cities and regional centres. This area covered IT infrastructure, electronic collaboration, unified communications, portals, enterprise content management, enterprise resource planning, Customer Relationship Management, mobile solutions, service-oriented architecture (SOA) and IT infrastructure library.

In 2007, ErgoGroup bought Bekk Consulting, a Norwegian consultancy company in which ErgoGroup then had 75 per cent ownership shares and options to purchase the remaining 25 per cent within three years. Bekk Consulting supplied consultancy, development and management services in the following areas: process and organisational development, modernisation of professional systems, portal and self-service solutions and customised business applications.

History
The company was founded as the government agency Statens Driftssentral for administrativ databehandling in 1972, to perform operational services related to IT operation. In 1985, it was made a limited company and renamed Statens Datasentral AS, owned by the Norwegian Ministry of Government Administration. It bought TF Data in 1989, Oslo Data in 1991 and Statdata in 1993. The postal service bought the company in 1995, changing its name to Posten SDS. It was renamed to Ergogroup in 2001. In 2005, the company bought the outsourcing division of Ementor and in 2006 Nor-Cargo Data, AddIQ, Fujitsu Services Norway, SYSteam (at NOK 1.1 billion) and Allianse (at NOK 900 million). In 2007, it bought 75 per cent of Bekk Consulting.

Due to an increased customer base and enhanced value creation, ErgoGroup has experienced a steady and organic growth in recent years. The ICT industry as a whole is in a process of consolidation, due partly to market demands for increased professionalism on the part of suppliers. ErgoGroup has been an active participant in this development and has consolidated its core activities through strategic acquisitions.

In May 2010, Telenor owned EDB Business Partner, who announced that it was in strategic discussions with ErgoGroup, which later lead to a merger between Norway's two biggest IT companies.

The announcement of merging between EDB Business Partner and ErgoGroup was official by June 7, 2010.

IT-tinget

ErgoGroup organized an annual two-day IT conference called IT-tinget. In 2007, there were almost 600 participants at the event, and some of the speakers were the former Swedish Prime Minister Göran Persson, business guru Jonas Ridderstråle, founder Shahzad Rana and former professional alpinist and Olympic champion Kjetil André Aamodt.

References

Computer companies of Norway
Business services companies of Norway
Information technology companies of Norway
Companies based in Oslo
Computer companies established in 1972
Computer companies disestablished in 2010
Norwegian companies established in 1972
2010 disestablishments in Norway
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Andrew J. Lederer is a New York-based comedian who has also starred in low-budget movies and worked in writing and production.

Early life
Growing up in New York City, Andrew appeared as a vocal soloist with the Brooklyn Borough-Wide Chorus, both in live performance and on CBS-TV. He became a comedian as a teenager and acted in movies and television, including Family Ties, The Facts of Life, and Fame plus starring roles in the movies Out of Control and Body Count (which was nominated for an International Fantasy Film Award) plus an excised scene - later restored on DVD - in This is Spinal Tap.  Later, he became an entertainment journalist, working as a writer and/or editor for Film Threat Magazine, Wild Cartoon Kingdom, Sci-Fi Universe and others (even the National Enquirer!).  (He returned to journalism in 2008 and 9 with a series of articles for the newspaper, The Scotsman.) At present, he blogs regularly for The Huffington Post.

Career
Andrew wrote a substantial portion of the famous Disney/McDonald's Trivia Challenge (which was so hard it was reported on in the major newsweeklies and caused the overworked library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to suspend its information line for the duration of the contest).  His original screenplay, Won't Fade Out, was given its own chapter in the book The 50 Greatest Movies Never Made (St. Martin's Press, 1999), alongside unfinished efforts by the likes of Stanley Kubrick, Billy Wilder, and Alfred Hitchcock.

With Dave Feinman, Andrew created CWA, a semi-cooperative management company that represented many of the better Los Angeles comedians for acting work during the late 1990s.

Andrew was a prominent "alternative" comedian, as that term was understood in the U.S. at the turn of the millennium.  His long-running The Second Show and Eugene Mirman and Bobby Tisdale's Invite Them Up were the first comedy shows at Rififi/Cinema Classics, one of alternative or indie comedy's most important New York venues.  His one-person shows, Petula Clark's Greatest Hits, Bridge-Burner, and Me and Hitler were all presented as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe In 2003, he made a high-profile return to singing as part of the Loser's Lounge Tribute to the Bee Gees, which was followed by two New York-area solo shows. In 2007, Andrew was a consultant for a new Fringe venue, The Green Room.  His 2006-2008 blog was featured on the UK's Chortle comedy website.
Andrew's most famous role was as Frank, the editor of ASS Magazine in the television series The Adventures of Electra Elf (2004-2008).

Style
Lederer's performance style has increasingly tended toward storytelling rather than a recitation of jokes or more standard comic observations.  His one-time roommate, Marc Price, has called him the "father of alternative comedy" (as that term was understood in the United States) but, as Lederer points out, this could only be true if any of the major practitioners had actually been influenced by him, which they probably have not.

Influence
Lederer has often worked in the background, privately providing material for other performers and writers.  He advised and contributed to animation and film histories by Jerry Beck and others.  He wrote sequences performed by comedian Jackie Diamond (Michael Rosenberg) on Fox TV's Comic Strip Live, and consulted for Marc Price on CBS TV's The Midnight Hour As a consultant to Will Ryan, he was a key player in some of the more recent attempts to popularize the animated character Elmo Aardvark.

He suggested comedian Harris Peet for the role of Muddy Mudskipper on The Ren and Stimpy Show and directed his audition tape.  And though Lederer generally "works clean", edgy, underground comic Rick Shapiro (who very much does not) has credited seeing Andrew with making him realize he could talk about what he wanted to on stage and not be limited by convention.

Lederer was briefly mentored by comedian Jeff Garlin at around the time Garlin was co-creating Curb Your Enthusiasm. He was the only regular performer, aside from Garlin himself, on Garlin's live, weekly comedy show in the spring of 1998 and hosted when Garlin could not. Lederer consulted on the rewriting of an abortive sitcom pilot by Garlin and the two glancingly considered a writing collaboration on a possible HBO bio of Milton Berle. Later, Lederer assisted Garlin during the making of a short Jackie Gleason documentary and was one of those asked to offer opinions on the feature, I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With before the completion of its edit.

The burgeoning comedic storytelling scene in the UK was largely inspired by Lederer's Anthology series at the 2005 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.  Both Sarah Bennetto's Storytellers' Club  and an earlier Amused Moose effort were started by veterans of the Anthology shows.  Lederer's 2007 and 2008 London Anthology presentations have been Critic's Choices in both Time Out and the Evening Standard.

Work as Producer
Andrew has been producer or co-producer (often with Parker Entertainment) of a number of live productions  including many of Scott Blakeman's political comedy shows and the play Lysistrata 100.

He co-produced comedian Ahmed Ahmed's Richard Pryor Award-winning 2004 Edinburgh Festival Fringe show and the Edinburgh run of Rain Pryor's Fried Chicken and Latkes in 2005.

Andrew, with Parker, also produced the musical variety series, The Savage Breast.

Notable Shows and Venues
Lederer has at various times been a regular performer at New York's fabled Comic Strip, Improvisation, Catch a Rising Star and Caroline's comedy clubs and at Los Angeles' The Comedy Store.

Alternative venues have included  New York's Surf Reality, Collective: Unconscious and the Nuyorican Poets Cafe and L.A's Creativity Bookstore.

Recent live credits include Heeb Magazine's storytelling show  and The Onion's comedy series, both at Joe's Pub.  Also The Rejection Show at Mo Pitkin's, Nick Kroll and John Mulaney's Oh, Hello and Sherry Weaver's Speakeasy Stories
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In the UK, he has appeared on such progressive, live stand-up and variety shows as Robin Ince's Book Club and Spank!.

Andrew has also been active in new media.  In 2007, he was the last writer under City Lights Television's auspices of Heavy News and his more or less daily blog has a following in both the U.S. and the United Kingdom.

List of One-Person Shows

 AJL: Work in Progress (1996)
 Adventures in Clothing (1997)
 Petula Clark's Greatest Hits (2003)
 Bridge-Burner (2004)
 Me and Hitler (2005)
 Anthology (Free!) (2006)
 Every Day I Write the Book (2007)
 I Need Your Love (2008)
 9/11 (2010)
 Cold Chicken (2011)
 Cold Comfort (2012)

External links

Reviews
  Chortle review of 2004 Edinburgh Festival show, "Bridge-Burner"
  The Stage review of 2005 Edinburgh Festival show, "Me and Hitler"
  One4Review.com review of 2008 Edinburgh Festival show, "I Need Your Love"

Interviews
  BBC
  The Independent

References

American stand-up comedians
American male film actors
American male television actors
Jewish American comedians
Jewish American male actors
Living people
Male actors from Brooklyn
Comedians from New York City
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
Jewish American male comedians
21st-century American Jews

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