Fate in a Pleasant Mood is an album by the American jazz musician Sun Ra and his Myth Science Arkestra recorded in Chicago, mid 1960 and originally released on his own Saturn label in 1965. The album was reissued by Impulse! in 1974, and by Evidence (on CD) in 1993. For the latter reissue, the record was included as the first half of a CD that also featured the whole of When Sun Comes Out, an album recorded by the Arkestra in New York, 1963.

Alternative test pressing
Most of the tracks were recorded at a marathon session of between 30 and 40 songs, either at the RCA Studios or possibly at Hall Recording Company (both in Chicago), around 17 June 1960. Other albums to include tracks from the session include Interstellar Low Ways, Holiday for Soul Dance, Angels and Demons at Play and We Travel The Space Ways. An early white label version of the album - including other songs that ended up on Holiday For Soul Dance - was found in a Montréal record store by François Lamarche many years later;
'The test pressing was made at Sheldon Recording Studios (aka the Chess studios in Chicago) and titled simply, Music of the Future by Sun Ra Arkestra. Side A contained "Space Mates," "But Not for Me," and "The Others in There [sic] World." Side B had "Lights on the [sic] Satellite," "Day by Day," "Ankhnaton," and "Holiday for Strings." The pressing contains Alton Abraham's home address at 4115 South Drexel and gives a Montréal address and phone number for Sun Ra. It was therefore cut in August or September 1961. However, the Arkestra's relocation to New York disrupted the plan. Saturn did not actually issue any LPs from this session till 1965, and when they began to appear, the tracks had been redistributed.

Release of the session
After having released three albums in the previous eight years - Super-Sonic Jazz (1957), Jazz in Silhouette (1959) and When Sun Comes Out (1963) - Saturn released four albums in 1965. Along with Fate In A Pleasant Mood, Angels and Demons at Play (recorded 1956-60),  Art Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow (recorded 1961-62) and Secrets of the Sun (recorded 1962) were all released this year. ESP also released The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume One at the same time.

Track listing

12" Vinyl
All songs were written by Sun Ra unless otherwise noted.
Side A:
"The Others in their World" - (2.15)
"Space Mates" - (7.10)
"Lights on a Satellite" - (3.39)
Side B:
"Distant Stars" (Ra, Boykins) - (2.54)
"Kingdom of Thunder" (Ra, Allen) - (3.50)
"Fate in a Pleasant Mood" - (2.44)
"Ankhnaton" - (3.25)

Musicians
The original sleeve credits the following musicians;
Sun Ra - Piano
Phil Cohran - Trumpet
George Hudson - Trumpet
John Gilmore - Tenor Sax
Marshall Allen - Alto Sax
Ronnie Boykins - Bass
Eddy Skinner - Drums

According to Sun Ra's discographer Robert Campbell, however, the five tracks recorded at the RCA Studios - "The Others in Their World", "Space Mates", "Lights On A Satellite", "Fate in a Pleasant Mood" and "Ankhnaton" - featured a slightly different line-up;
Sun Ra - Percussion, Bells, Gong and Piano
Phil Cohran - Cornet
Nate Pryor - Trombone and Bells
John Gilmore - Tenor Sax and Clarinet, percussion
Marshall Allen - Alto Sax, Flute, Bells
Ronnie Boykins - Bass
Jon Hardy - Drums

According to Campbell, "Kingdom of Thunder", recorded during rehearsals around the same time, shares the same line-up but with Lucious Randolph replacing Phil Cohran on trumpet, and Nate Pryor stepping out. "Distant Stars", recorded at the Wonder Inn, Chicago, around October 1960, shares the same line up as "Kingdom of Thunder", except for George Hudson on the trumpet instead of Cohran.

See also
Sun Ra discography

External links
 Complete Sun Ra Discography
 An interview with Sun Ra by John Sinclair, 1966

References

Sun Ra albums
1960 albums
El Saturn Records albums
Impulse! Records albums
Evidence Music albums

Fate in a Pleasant Mood


Sunrise University is an Indian private university located in Alwar, Rajasthan. Spread over 30 acre campus, the university was established under Sunrise University Act, 2011 by Government of Rajasthan, and is recognised by UGC.

Campus
Sun Rise University (SRU) is a seat of global learning that offers rich opportunities for innovative teaching-learning, creativity and research across disciplines. It aims to bring about transformation of society through value based education, man-making and nation-building by blending the dual identities of a technology and research-based university with a Liberal Arts institution. SRU is recognized by the University Grants Commission (UGC). Established by the Sunrise Integrated Educational Trust in the state of Rajasthan [under Act No. 25 of the Rajasthan Private Universities Act 2011], SRU provides students not only 'education for living and livelihood' but also 'education for life' and empowers learners with a fundamental foundation in leadership and professional skills to face the challenges of the new liberalized global economy. Situated amidst a sprawling, picturesque campus with state-of-the-art infrastructure on the Ding-Bharatpur Road in the Alwar district of Rajasthan, SRU offers a wide range of innovative graduate, postgraduate and doctoral programmes across a plethora of disciplines that are based on the best education practices of some of the leading universities of the world. These are greatly facilitated by the strong industry-academia linkages, already established by the existing of higher learning in all disciplines being offered by the University.

Departments
Sunrise university offered more than 200+ courses with following departments:-
 School of Foreign & Indian Languages.
 School of Arts & Social Studies.
 School of Paramedical Science.
 School of Library & Information Science.
 School of Education & Physical Education.
 School of Journalism & Mass Communication.
 School of Law.
 School of Pharmacy.
 School of Yoga And Naturopathy and many more departments.

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Educational institutions established in 2011
2011 establishments in Rajasthan
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High-Opp is a science fiction novel  by American writer Frank Herbert, written between The Dragon in the Sea (1955) and Dune (1965), and published posthumously in 2012. It contains a foreword by Kevin J. Anderson, who co-authored many books in the Dune series with Frank Herbert's son, Brian Herbert.

Though the novel was never published in Herbert's lifetime, some elements of the story were used in his 1977 novel The Dosadi Experiment, sometimes word-for-word.

Plot summary
On a dystopian future Earth, an ongoing series of opinion polls set the boundaries of the caste system: the high scored High-Opps are rewarded with luxury and privilege, while the low-opped struggle for comfort and survival in the crowded Labor Pool. When Senior Liaitor Daniel Movius falls from the upper ranks to the lowest depths of society, he faces the harsh and brutal conditions of the underworld and finds a brewing revolution in need of a leader.

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2012 American novels
American science fiction novels
Dystopian novels
Novels by Frank Herbert
Novels published posthumously

High-Opp


Edmund Alexander Spurr (died 1873) was a British architect who designed and was the superintendent of the Great Northern Cemetery (now known as the New Southgate Cemetery) in London, England. He was a fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Spurr is buried at New Southgate Cemetery.

Spurr designed the Great Northern on a spoke and wheel plan with an episcopal chapel at the centre. The chapel was in the early English lancet style with a broach spire of 150 feet.

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1873 deaths
New Southgate Cemetery
Burials at New Southgate Cemetery
Year of birth missing
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Fossò is a town and comune in the Metropolitan City of Venice, Veneto, Italy. It is west of SP13.

The town of Fossò is located in a fertile plain in the territory of the Riviera del Brenta, between Padua and Venice.

The name may be derived from the Latin " Fossadum ", a ditch, with reference probably to a minor line of river Brenta.

An old sale contract shows that this town has existing at least since 1073 onwards with the consequent assumption that a church was already built here, though we must wait until 1130 to find the first sure mention of the existence of a chapel dedicated to St. Bartholomew, in a letter of the bishop of Padua.

In 1761 a new church was dedicated to St. Bartholomew to replace the previous one.

In 1797 Napoleon Bonaparte arrived in Italy and with the Treaty of Campo Formio, the glorious Republic of Venice ended forever.

Under the role of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy, the municipalities of Fossò and Sandon were created in 1806 and assigned first to the current Province of Padua and then to the current Province of Venice, the year later.

After World War II, Fossò had a good economic development, with the consequent urban expansion and substantial growth of the population, so that in 1957 it was necessary to build a new larger church.

Nowadays, either the new and the old church, both dedicated to St. Bartholomew, are standing one opposite to the other on the main square of Fossò.

The economical development transformed the town, once mostly agricultural, into a purely industrial and commercial place.

Twin towns
Fossò is twinned with:

  Čitluk, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Sources

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Cities and towns in Veneto

Fossò


William Dod (18 July 1867 – 8 October 1954) was a British archer.  He won the gold medal in the men's double York round at the 1908 Summer Olympics on his 41st birthday.

William Dod was born in Bebington, Cheshire, a descendant of Sir Anthony Dod of Edge, who was knighted at the Battle of Agincourt by King Henry V. It has been claimed that Sir Anthony was in command of the English archers although this must be an exaggeration as Sir Thomas Erpingham is universally credited with having overall command.

William was educated at home by private tutors and his family fortune, gathered from the cotton trade, meant that he never had to work for a living. He indulged his passion for the sporting life as both a scratch golfer and a big game hunter. He took up archery at the home of the Legh family, who had an estate close to the Dods in Cheshire and were one of the greatest names in the sport.

Neither Dod nor his sister Lottie took part in competitive archery until they moved from Cheshire south to Berkshire in 1906, where they joined the newly formed Welford Park archery club. Within two and a half years Dod had become Olympic Champion. William Dod mastered the torrential rain on the first day of the Olympic competition to hold a 10-point advantage. When the rain gave way to swirling wind conditions on the second day, Dod forged ahead and comfortably took gold with a margin of 47 points over Reginald Brooks-King.

He went to win the Grand National Archery title, effectively the British national title, in 1909 and 1911.
Dod retired from competition after the 1911 championship and rekindled his love of golf. In 1912 he reached the 4th round of the British Amateur Championship.

After the outbreak of World War I Dod enlisted in the Royal Fusiliers and served as a private in the trenches for a brief time before successfully applying for a transfer to the Royal Navy. He was commissioned in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve in 1915 and spent a year as an administrative officer in France with the Royal Navy Air Service before being invalided back home to England.

William and Lottie Dod settled at Westward Ho! in Devon after World War II and settled to a life of golf in retirement. In his eighties he moved back to London and died in Earl's Court in 1954.

References

External links
 William Dod on databaseOlympics.com

1867 births
1954 deaths
Sportspeople from Bebington
British male archers
English male archers
English Olympic medallists
Olympic archers for Great Britain
Olympic gold medallists for Great Britain
Olympic medalists in archery
Archers at the 1908 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1908 Summer Olympics
Royal Fusiliers soldiers
British Army personnel of World War I
Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve personnel of World War I
Military personnel from Cheshire

William Dod