Bertil Hult

Bertil Eric Hult (born February 10, 1941) is a Swedish billionaire, known for founding educational and language school company EF Education First in 1965, and for being the patron and namesake of Hult International Business School. In 1971, he moved from Sweden to Germany, and in 1977, he established EF's head office in Lucerne, Switzerland, where he now lives. He served as the company's CEO until 2002 and as chairman until 2008. Today, he is semi-retired. Two of his four sons serve in the company; his oldest son, Philip Hult, as company chairman and his third son, Edward Hult, as CEO of North America. Under Bertil Hult's supervision, EF grew to a multi-billion dollar corporation with more than 40,000 employees in 53 countries.
Early life and education.
Bertil Hult was born in Stockholm. He has spoken frequently about his struggles with dyslexia as a child. He dropped out of school after junior high and worked making coffee and running errands for a ship broker in London. He learned to speak English during this time and became convinced that immersion is the best way to learn a language. After returning to Sweden and taking up his studies again, he entered Lund University, then dropped out after one year.
Career.
Hult founded EF Education First at the age of 23 in the basement of his university dormitory in Lund, Sweden. He started EF as a language study and travel abroad organization, initially for Swedish high school students going to England to learn English. His childhood struggles with dyslexia convinced him that cultural immersion was a superior way to study a language.
He served as the company's CEO until 2002, as its chairman until 2008, and then semi-retired. Under Hult's supervision, EF grew to become a multi-billion dollar corporation with more than 40,000 employees across 500 schools and educational programs in 53 different countries. EF continues to open language schools around the world, grow its online language school (EF Englishtown), place au pairs with American families, coordinate life-changing student travel, and international exchange experiences. EF is affiliated with a business school, Hult International Business School, formerly the Arthur D. Little School of Management, which is named after Bertil Hult.
EF Education First is wholly owned by Hult and his family. Forbes estimated Bertil's net worth to be US$5 billion as of March 2015. He is a keen sailor and his boat, "EF Education" with skipper Paul Cayard, won the last Whitbread Round the World Race in 1998. He sails on his boat "Erica XII". The boat hosted the Swedish Crown Princess Victoria and her husband Prince Daniel on their honeymoon.
In 2006 he was elected International Swede of the Year. In 2012, Bertil Hult was awarded the Lucia Trade Award by the Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce for his contribution to fostering free trade between Sweden and the United States. In 2014, Bertil Hult was named a Laureate by the World Entrepreneurship Forum. The award recognizes "exceptional entrepreneurs for their impact on society and their capacity to change the world."
Charity work.
Apart from EF, Hult has been involved in charities fighting drug abuse and promoting dyslexia education. In 1993, he was a founding member of the Geneva-based Mentor Foundation, “an independent, non-governmental, not for profit, apolitical organization” focused on supporting research and initiatives in drug prevention. He has since served as chairman and currently as trustee for the foundation. Bertil Hult also supports the Bertil Hult Prize. Starting in 2003, the Bertil Hult Prize has been given to a Swedish school once every year, based on their support for dyslexia education.
Hult also sponsors the Hult Prize, a US$1 million award for a global business school case competition run by the Hult International Business School and supported by the United Nations. Lately, the Hult family has founded EF's Global Classroom Foundation, which has the goal of helping to rebuild elementary schools in troubled areas.
Personal life.
Hult has been married to Lisbeth Hult since 1974. Together they have four sons and currently live in Lucerne, Switzerland.


Earl Robinson

Earl Hawley Robinson (July 2, 1910 – July 20, 1991) was a composer, arranger and folk music singer-songwriter from Seattle, Washington. Robinson is remembered for his music, including the cantata "Ballad for Americans" and songs such as "Joe Hill" and "Black and White", which expressed his left-leaning political views. He wrote many popular songs and music for Hollywood films, including his collaboration with Lewis Allan on the 1940's hit "The House We live in" from the academy award winning film by the same name. He was a member of the Communist Party from the 1930s to the 1950s.
The jazz clarinetist Perry Robinson (19382018) was his son.
Career in music.
Robinson studied violin, viola and piano as a child, and studied composition at the University of Washington, receiving a BM and teaching certificate in 1933. In 1934 he moved to New York City where he studied with Hanns Eisler and Aaron Copland. He was also involved with the depression-era WPA Federal Theatre Project, and was actively involved in the anti-fascist movement and was the musical director at the Communist-run Camp Unity in upstate New York. In the 1940s he worked on film scores in Hollywood until he was blacklisted for being a Communist. Unable to work in Hollywood, he moved back to New York, where he headed the music program at Elisabeth Irwin High School, directing the orchestra and chorus.
Musical works.
Robinson's musical influences began with both classical music and American folk music and included individuals such as Carl Sandburg, Woody Guthrie and Lead Belly, Paul Robeson and Pete Seeger. He composed "Ballad for Americans" (lyrics by John Latouche), which became a signature song for Robeson after it was broadcast on CBS in November 1939. It was also recorded by Bing Crosby, Lawrence Tibbett and Odetta. In 1936, Robinson wrote and performed "Joe Hill", also known as "I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Last Night", a setting of a poem by Alfred Hayes, a fellow staff member at Camp Unity. The song became a popular labour anthem and was recorded by Robeson, Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, and Phil Ochs, among others. It was used in the 1971 film "Joe Hill," directed by Bo Widerberg.
In 1942, Robinson wrote the music for a cantata (or "ballad opera") on the life and death of Abraham Lincoln entitled "The Lonesome Train" (text by Millard Lampell). It was recorded in 1944 by Burl Ives, and performed live in 2009 for the first time since the spring of 1974, when it was performed publicly at Mesabi Community College in Virginia, Minnesota as the headliner for the Mesabi Creative Arts Festival. The 2009 performance was in celebration of the 200th anniversary of Lincoln's birth. Also with Lampell, he wrote the ongoing ballad that accompanied the 1945 Lewis Milestone film "A Walk in the Sun." With Lewis Allan, in 1942 Robinson wrote "The House I Live In", a hit recorded by Frank Sinatra in 1945 and later by others.
During the blacklist period, Robinson wrote the music for and sang in the short documentary film "Muscle Beach" (1948), directed by Joseph Strick and Irving Lerner. Robinson co-wrote the folk musical "Sandhog" with blacklisted screenwriter Waldo Salt. It is based on "St. Columbia and the River," a story by Theodore Dreiser about the tunnel workers, known as "sandhogs," who built the first tunnel under the Hudson River. The musical debuted at the Phoenix Theater in New York on November 23, 1954. In 1954, Robinson also wrote "Black and White", with David I. Arkin, the late father of actor Alan Arkin, a celebration of that year's "Brown v. Board of Education" decision. The song was first recorded by Sammy Davis Jr. in 1957 and later by Pete Seeger, the folk-rock group Three Dog Night, the Jamaican reggae band The Maytones, and the UK reggae band Greyhound.
Robinson's late works included a concerto for banjo, as well as a piano concerto entitled "The New Human". His cantata "Preamble to Peace", based on the preamble to the United Nations Charter, was first performed in October 1960 by the Greater Trenton Symphony Orchestra and a chorus, with Eleanor Roosevelt in attendance; it was also performed by the Elisabeth Irwin High School Chorus and the Greenwich Village Orchestra.
He was killed at the age of 81 in a car accident in his hometown of Seattle in 1991.


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My Little Bossings

My Little Bossings (also known as Torky and My Little Bossings) is a 2013 Filipino family-comedy film directed by Marlon Rivera, starring Vic Sotto, Kris Aquino, Ryzza Mae Dizon, and Bimby Yap. The film is an official entry for the 2013 Metro Manila Film Festival
which was released in theaters nationwide in December 25, 2013 by OctoArts Films, M-Zet Productions, APT Entertainment, and Kris Aquino Productions.
The film also marks Bimby Yap Jr.'s theatrical debut, and also the last film appearance of comedian Tado Jimenez, who died in a car crash in Bontoc, Mountain Province on February 7, 2014 at the age of 39.
The film broke box-office records in the Philippines upon its nationwide release in theaters, even holding the highest opening day record of . It previously held the title of being the highest-grossing Filipino film of all time until it was broken by "Girl, Boy, Bakla, Tomboy".
In spite of negative reviews from critics owing to its extensive use of product placement, a sequel to the film was made, to which Sotto initially hinted in an interview, and was released in Christmas 2014 as one of the official entries for the 40th Metro Manila Film Festival.
Plot.
Torky (Vic Sotto) is a bookkeeper working for Baba (Kris Aquino) a millionaire cash management specialist. Because of some conflict in her business that puts her life in danger, Baba entrusts the safety of her son Justin (Bimby Yap) to Torky who takes him home to meet his daughter Ice (Aiza Seguerra) and Ching (Ryzza Mae Dizon) the street urchin that the latter took under her wing. Given that Justin is not particularly fond of Torky, how all four of them would get along under one roof becomes the focus of the story.
Critical reception.
"My Little Bossings" was released to negative reception from critics, despite opening at first place in the box office.
Much of the criticism was directed at the film's plot and editing, citing lack of production value and its extensive and blatant use of product placement. The most negative reviews came from Rappler and ClickTheCity.com, each giving the film one out of five stars. Joseph Garcia of BusinessWorld branded the film as “one long commercial”, joking that the film is something to watch “if you’re looking to complete your grocery list and need a hint on what to buy.” Philbert Ortiz Dy of Click the City called the film “an insult”, criticizing the film's editing and also stating that it was “banking entirely on the presence of a couple of recognizable names.” A similarly critical review was made by Zig Marasigan of Rappler, also noting the intrusive use of product endorsements as “some of the most distasteful examples of local product placement while no effort is made to weave them into the narrative.” Television host Lourd de Veyra also stated his disappointment for the film in an open letter, lamenting that the film felt like it was “made in just three days”, and that “we never paid 220 pesos to watch the film for the actors to hawk instant pancit canton, bread, laundry detergent, cough syrup” and several other products endorsed by Kris Aquino and Vic Sotto.
A more positive review by Myra Grace Calulo of Philippine Entertainment Portal, however, saying that the film is “a family flick that sprinkled with gags and a lot of heart”, although she also noted the lack of character development and the story being “too drawn out at times”.
Sotto later addressed criticism of the film in a taped interview, stating “I’m open to all criticism, most especially if it's constructive. This is what we call democracy. I respect everyone's opinions. Just as how I respect the millions of viewers who were happy and amused at our film,” He later added, “What's important is it was a record-breaking festival.”
Box office.
The film grossed on opening day, setting the highest record ever attained by a Filipino movie of all time.
The film has grossed some by January 4, 2014, setting the highest box office record gross ever attained by a Filipino movie of all time.
Sequel.
Sotto initially hinted at a possible "My Little Bossings" sequel in a 2014 interview. While not much information has been released about the film at the tine, it was then later revealed that the sequel will be entitled "My Bossing's Adventures" and is a fantasy-adventure anthology film, with Sotto and Dizon reprising their roles. The film was released on December 25, 2014 as an official entry for the 2014 Metro Manila Film Festival.


David Sidoo

David Sidoo (born July 10, 1959) is a Canadian stock promoter, businessman, philanthropist, and former professional Canadian football player. Sidoo played for the University of British Columbia Thunderbirds, and is an inductee in the UBC Sports Hall of Fame and the BC Football Hall of Fame. In 2019 the FBI named Sidoo as one of several parent perpetrators in the 2019 college admissions bribery scandal, and he later pleaded guilty to mail fraud conspiracy. On July 15, 2020, Sidoo was sentenced to 90 days in prison, one year supervised release and a $250,000 fine.
Early life.
Sidoo is of Indian-Canadian descent and grew up in New Westminster, B.C., the son of a sawmill-working immigrant father from Punjab in northern India and a stay-at-home mother. From 1978-1982, he attended the University of British Columbia on a football scholarship. At UBC, he played for the school's team, the Thunderbirds.
After graduating university, Sidoo was drafted into the Canadian Football League, becoming the first Indian-Canadian to have been by a CFL.team. He played professional football in the CFL.for the Saskatchewan Roughriders and BC Lions from 1983 to 1988.
After retiring from football, Sidoo started working in the field of brokerage. Sidoo later was one of the founding members who sold an energy company, American Oil & Gas, to the Hess Corporation. At the start of 2019, Sidoo was the CEO of Advantage Lithium, a mining company.
Philanthropy.
Sidoo is known for his philanthropic work in British Columbia, through his personal contributions and the charitable organisations founded by his family through their various business ventures. In recognition of his charitable work, Sidoo received the Order of British Columbia this past July and the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal and the Non-Resident Indian Award in 2012.
In 2015, Sidoo created the 13th Man Foundation supporting the UBC Football program. The 13th Man Foundation is dedicated to providing student-athletes of UBC with exceptional athletic and academic opportunities. In 2015 the foundation donated $800,000 to setup the UBC Football Academic Centre. Located just steps away from Thunderbird Stadium, the UBC Football Academic Centre provides a space for all players to receive academic tutoring and advising. With more than 1,800-square-feet of multi-functional space, the centre is also used for team meetings, game preparation and academic supervision. The facility will help ensure the success of current players and serve as an essential tool in the recruitment of top student-athletes who visit the Point Grey campus in hopes of suiting up for the Thunderbirds Football program.
The Sidoo Family Athletics Endowment, which dispenses aid to student athletes, is the largest of its kind at UBC, where Sidoo served on the board of governors.
Legal issues.
In March 2019, Sidoo was named as one of the alleged parent perpetrators of the 2019 college admissions bribery scandal. Multiple sources reported on allegations Sidoo had paid money to illegally aid his two sons in getting accepted into American colleges.
As alleged in the FBI indictment, Sidoo paid $100,000 to have a test-taker impersonate his older son, so that the latter's SAT test scores were improved. The scores were sent to Chapman University, which his son later attended. According to the FBI, Sidoo paid an additional $100,000 to have his younger son's test taken in the same, fraudulent way. CBC News later reported that Sidoo had also paid a test-taker to fake a high school exam on behalf of his son in 2012. The affected scores were sent to Yale, Georgetown and the University of California, Berkeley, the latter of which his younger son eventually attended. The FBI indictment noted that Sidoo had been in contact with other perpetrators of the college admission scandal in 2018, and in October of that year recorded a phone call in which Sidoo discussed obtaining a GMAT score for his older son, who intended to apply to business school.
Sidoo pleaded not guilty before a federal court in Massachusetts on 15 March 2019. In light of the 2019 college admissions bribery scandal, Sidoo stepped down as the CEO of Advantage Lithium, East West Petroleum, and Seaway Energy Services. Sidoo also resigned as a director of American Helium, Meridius Resources Ltd., Liberty Defense Holdings Ltd., and National Green Biomed Ltd. in mid-March 2019.
Sidoo pleaded guilty to fraud in the aforementioned matter on March 13, 2020. The sentencing took place on July 15, 2020, and he was sentenced to 90 days in prison, one year supervised release and a $250,000 fine. Sidoo will spend the first 14 days in solitary confinement under pandemic quarantine procedures. Sidoo reported to SeaTac Federal Dentention Center on September 23, 2020 and was released on December 17, 2020.
Sidoo asked that his name be removed from the University of British Columbia football field. Sidoo's appointment to the Order of British Columbia in 2016 was rescinded on June 12, 2020. Sidoo is the first person to be stripped of the Order. Sidoo withdrew as a member of the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame on July 31, 2020. Sidoo is inadmissible to the United States as a result of the felony conviction.


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Double album

A double album (or double record) is an audio album which spans two units of the primary medium in which it is sold, typically records and compact disc. A double album is usually, though not always, released as such because the recording is longer than the capacity of the medium. Recording artists often think of double albums as being a single piece artistically; however, there are exceptions such as John Lennon's "Some Time in New York City" (which consisted of one studio record and one live album packaged together) and OutKast's "Speakerboxxx/The Love Below" (effectively two solo albums, one by each member of the duo).
Since the advent of the compact disc, albums are sometimes released with a bonus disc featuring additional material as a supplement to the main album, with live tracks, studio out-takes, cut songs, or older unreleased material. One innovation was the inclusion of DVD of related material with a compact disc, such as video related to the album or DVD-Audio versions of the same recordings. Some such discs were also released on a two-sided format called DualDisc.
Depending on the media used, some releases were double albums in one format and single albums in another. For example, a gramophone record (vinyl LP) consisting of two discs of less than 80 minutes in total could be fit onto a single standard-length compact disc (CD). Other times, track order could vary between two different media, by re-arranging the tracks in one media, a more efficient use of space could be used, for example reducing a double album in LP format to a single cassette tape.
The same principles apply to the triple album, which comprises three units. Packages with more units than three are often referred to as a box set.
History.
1948 to the Late 1970s – LP Records.
The creation of the LP in 1948 allowed more or longer recordings per record, with approximately 22 minutes of music able to be played per side for a maximum of 44 minutes. Despite this, recordings of entire classical or operatic pieces often proved to be too large for one record, and thus album releases which consisted of two or more records were made to compensate. As such records were costly to make and sell, double albums and multi-record releases were largely limited to long-running works like classical music, and later, to live recordings and compilations. One of the first live double albums, as well as one of the earliest double albums featuring non-classical music, was "The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert" by Benny Goodman, a live recording of the titular concert at Carnegie Hall released in 1950 on Columbia Records. Studio recordings of operas have been released as double, triple, quadruple and quintuple albums since the 1950s.
As record costs went down over time and greater thought was given to the album as an artistic piece, double albums became more common. One of the first examples consisting of new studio recordings is 1956's "Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book". However, Bob Dylan's" Blonde on Blonde", released on June 20, 1966, is widely considered to be one of the first double albums in popular music with complete original recordings by the artist. This album was followed just a week later by another double album and the debut by The Mothers of Invention's, "Freak Out!", which was released on June 27, 1966.
In the years following these releases, original double albums among pop and rock artists increased, often released at the height of the artist's career. Notable examples include The Beatles' eponymous 1968 album, Elton John’s "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" from 1973, and Led Zeppelin's "Physical Graffiti" from 1975, among others. Additionally, the rise of progressive rock at the time, which often involves complex and long tracks akin to classical music, and concept albums often made a second track necessary. The second best-selling double album and best-selling concept double album ever is Pink Floyd's "The Wall" with over 30 million copies (60 million units) worldwide.
Late 1970s – Compact Cassettes and CDs.
In the latter half of the 1970s, as technology advanced, the Philips corporation's compact cassette tape began to supersede LPs as the dominant pre-recorded music format. The format allowed for a much larger 30 to 45 minutes per side for a total of 60 to 90 minutes total, doubling the length allowed for music storage. Later in 1982, Philips introduced the compact disc, with a continuous length of 74 minutes (Later developed to have 80 minutes). As a result of this, artists were given far more room for what they could put on an album, many rarely exceeding the runtime given on tapes and CDs, and double albums became uncommon consequently. This new space also allowed many previous double album releases to be reissued on these new formats on a single unit: "Blonde on Blonde", for instance, was able to be released singularly on cassette and CD when it was reissued.
Despite the increased track length, some issues with both reissues and new releases on multiple formats affected the length and track order of these albums. The Beatles' White Album, originally released as a double record, remained split across two units for both its cassette and CD reissues, with the former in particular having to re-arrange the track order in order to ensure equal tape length. Meanwhile, 1988's "He's the DJ, I'm the Rapper" by DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince was released on both vinyl and cassette. At 85 minutes, the record release had to be released as a double album, making it the first ever release by hip hop artists, while its single CD release had to be truncated by 13 minutes. Other double albums originally issued on LP, such as Mike Oldfield's "Incantations" and Chick Corea's "My Spanish Heart", were likewise shortened for their 74 minute CD release, though both were later reissued in their entirety when 80 minute CDs were developed.
While not as common in the advent of these formats, particularly for studio albums, double albums continued to be released particularly for live recordings, classical music, soundtracks, and compilations, and a number of popular studio albums were released as double albums on these formats at this time, such as The Smashing Pumpkins' "Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness". The best-selling double album of all time is Michael Jackson's "" from 1995, with over 33 million copies (66 million units) sold worldwide. The year after, Tupac Shakur became the first rapper to sell a double album globally with "All Eyez on Me", becoming his best selling album by the time of his death in September 1996.
Sequencing.
With regard to records, most double album sets are organized by manual sequencing, where the order of sides played are laid much as they are on a single LP; Side one and two are organized back-to-back on the first disc, as are three and four on the second disc and so on. However, some releases up to the 1970s are optimized for automatic sequencing. On a double album, this would have had sides one and four on one disc and sides two and three on the other. This sequencing, used previously in multi-disc albums in the 78rpm era, let the listener play through the entire double album and only need to flip over the records once, compared to manual sequencing where the listener would have to change the side or record three times. The use of automatic sequencing gradually declined during the 1970s as automatic record changers fell out of favor. High quality manual turntables became more affordable and are often preferred because they cause less record wear.
After a company decided on manual or automatic sequence, production of that title generally stayed in the same configuration indefinitely. Notable examples of albums using automatic sequence include the 1968 Reprise Records release, "Electric Ladyland", by The Jimi Hendrix Experience which was still sold in automatic sequence well into the late 1980s. Other common examples include "Frampton Comes Alive!" by Peter Frampton, "Songs in the Key of Life" by Stevie Wonder, "Quadrophenia" by The Who, and "Bad Girls" by Donna Summer.
Sesquialbum.
There are only a few examples of a sesquialbum (i.e. one and a half records).
Johnny Winter released what would be the first three-sided rock album, "Second Winter", on two 12-inch discs, with the flip side of the second disc being blank. A 1976 live concert recording by Keith Jarrett and his quartet, released as "Eyes of the Heart" by ECM Records in 1979, Joe Jackson's 1986 release "Big World", and Pavement's "Wowee Zowee" are other examples of this.
In 1975, jazz artist Rahsaan Roland Kirk released "The Case of the 3 Sided Dream in Audio Color" which apparently had only three sides, but on closer inspection, there were a small number of grooves pressed on side four with a few short "hidden" conversation snippets; the CD reissue includes all of them.
In 1982, Todd Rundgren and his band released the self-titled album "Utopia" featuring one full LP of 10 songs, and a second 12-inch disc with five bonus tracks, the same lineup on each side.
The Monty Python album "Matching Tie and Handkerchief" was originally issued with two concentric grooves with different programs on the second side, but this was done for comedic rather than practical reasons. The 2019 vinyl issue of "Monty Python Sings (again)" comprises two discs, with the flip side of the second disc featuring exclusive Monty Python 50th Anniversary artwork.
The Stranglers, Elvis Costello and The Clash (amongst other 1970s/80s acts) would sometimes release early pressings of their albums with extra material on a 45 RPM single. "The Sunlandic Twins" by Of Montreal features a third side officially called a "bonus EP", essentially offering an alternate definition of an EP, a single 33 1/3 RPM side instead of a two-sided 45 RPM record.
The 1992 Julian Cope album "Jehovahkill" contained three sides, or "phases", with a laser-etched fourth side which was unplayable, which also occurred with Norwegian band Motorpsycho's vinyl releases of "Motorpsycho presents The International Tussler Society" and "Heavy Metal Fruit", and Excepter's 2014 album Familiar (the third side, with only one track, being shorter).
Seattle band Alice in Chains released their first two EPs, Jar of Flies, and Sap (EP) on two vinyl discs in 1994, with three sides on vinyl, while the fourth side contained a laser etching of the Alice in Chains logo. The vinyl pressing of the My Chemical Romance album The Black Parade also has three sides worth of content, with side four being a laser etching of a portion of the limited edition album art.
Genesis' "Three Sides Live", Kiss' "Alive II", Donna Summer's "Live and More", and the Moody Blues' "Caught Live Plus 5" are examples of double albums with three sides of live recordings (i.e. one and a half albums) and one side of studio recordings.
The vinyl reissues of two albums by The Tragically Hip, "Trouble at the Henhouse" and "Music @ Work", are on two discs but the fourth side is blank.
Triple album.
Among the first successful triple albums (or triple records) were "", released August 15, 1970, and George Harrison's "All Things Must Pass", released November 27, 1970. A triple album may be live, such as The Band's "The Last Waltz" (1978) and Led Zeppelin's "How the West Was Won" (2003); or a compilation of an artist's work, such as Stevie Wonder's retrospective anthology "Looking Back". Yes' live album "Yessongs" was made a triple album owing to its inclusion of many of the band's longer compositions. With the longer time available on compact disc, many albums that spanned three vinyl discs are able to fit on two compact discs (an example being Nine Inch Nails' "The Fragile").
Triple albums are released across genres, including punk with The Clash's "Sandinista!", alternative rock with Pearl Jam's "11/6/00 – Seattle, Washington", and mainstream pop with Prince's "Emancipation".
Frank Sinatra's "" was originally released as a three LP set in 1980. Compact disc pressings of the album combine the triple vinyl set onto two CDs, with "Past" and "Present" taking up the first disc.
The first triple hip-hop album was "American Hunger" by New York City rap artist MF Grimm which was released in 2006. It contains 20 songs on each disc.
American hip hop artist Lupe Fiasco's canceled third studio album release "LupEND" would have been a triple album, composed of discs titled "Everywhere," "Nowhere," and "Down Here." Joanna Newsom's 2010 album "Have One on Me" is a triple album; due to the unusual length of the songs, there are only six tracks on each disc.
"Escalator over the Hill", Carla Bley's jazz opera (lyrics by Paul Haines), was originally released in 1971 as a triple album in a box which also contained a booklet with lyrics, photos and profiles of the musicians.
"The Great Concert of Charles Mingus" by Charles Mingus was recorded in 1964 and released in 1971.
The Weeknd's compilation album "Trilogy" was released as a triple album in 2012, comprising his critically acclaimed 2011 mixtapes "House of Balloons", "Echoes of Silence" and "Thursday".
The Knife's 2013 album "Shaking the Habitual" is spread across three LPs and two CDs, being an hour and forty minutes in length. (Although a single-disc edit exists omitting the 19 minute track Old Dreams Waiting To Be Realized)
Swallow the Sun's 2015 album "Songs from the North I, II & III" is divided into "Gloom", "Beauty" and "Despair". In total, each disc contains no more than 8 tracks and no less than 40 minutes.
In April 2021, Eric Church released a triple album set, "Heart & Soul". Each album "Heart", "&", and "Soul", was released separately, with "&" being a vinyl-exclusive release.
Box set.
When albums exceed the triple album format they are generally referred to as box sets. Normally, albums consisting of four or more discs are compilations or live recordings, such as "" and "Chicago at Carnegie Hall", respectively.
Studio albums with more than three discs are very rare. Notable examples include:
Simultaneous releases.
Some performers have released two or more distinct but related albums simultaneously (or near-simultaneously) which could be seen together as a double album. Moby Grape's "Wow/Grape Jam" (released in 1968) is an early example. Others include:


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Identity (TV series)

Identity is a British police procedural television series starring Aidan Gillen and Keeley Hawes, airing in the UK during July–August 2010. Concerning identity theft, the series was created and written by Ed Whitmore, a writer most noted for his work on the BBC's "Waking The Dead" and the acclaimed ITV mini-series "He Kills Coppers". The remake rights have been sold to the ABC Network in the United States, which is developing their own version of the show. ITV confirmed that the show had been cancelled on 19 October 2010, after a single series.
Plot.
In London, the Identity Unit led by Detective Superintendent Martha Lawson, the founder of the unit, specialises in cases concerning identity fraud by outsmarting, hunting down and unmasking the modern day Jekyll and Hydes.
Martha takes a risk in employing DI John Bloom, an SO-10 officer who has just spent 15 years undercover. He knows first hand what it’s like to pretend to be someone you are not. He’s also only too aware of how easy it is to lose your own identity when you’ve lived a lie for the previous 15 years as a Dublin money launderer and bagman for the Turkish mafia and the past will not go away.
Completing the team are Tessa Stein, IT expert in everything from trawling databases to cracking security codes, DS Anthony Wareing, who has his eye on promotion and a stance on cases that can err on the self-righteous, and DC José Rodriguez - cocky, self-assured, yet with a seriousness and sensitivity that gives him insight into cases.
As the series unfolds, DS Wareing becomes more and more concerned about Bloom’s methods and frustrated by what he sees as Martha’s blind and foolish indulgence of him.
Episode list.
Official ratings include the ITV HD simulcast audience.


Molly Kate Kestner

Molly Kate Kestner (born November 29, 1995) is an American singer-songwriter most notable for her song "His Daughter", which went viral in 2014 in many countries. After the release of her debut self-released single, Kestner was signed to Atlantic Records and has released seven major label singles since joining their roster.
Early life.
Kestner is one of seven siblings in her family.
Before the success of "His Daughter", Kestner performed covers and original material and put them on YouTube for extended family members too far away from her and her family. In addition to singing and piano, Kestner is also an accomplished violinist. Kestner was a member of the 2012-2013 Minnesota Music Educators Association All-State Mixed Choir.
Success of "His Daughter".
"His Daughter" is a song written by Kestner that chronicles a woman that has an unplanned pregnancy.
Her video later brought the attention of "Star Trek" actor George Takei, who commented on his Facebook page "Has America found its young Adele? I'm nearly breathless from listening." "His Daughter" also received attention from singer Jordin Sparks. Kestner's video later gained 2 million+ views after Takei and Sparks shared Kestner's video. Kestner later performed the song on "Good Morning America".
Kestner later released a studio version of "His Daughter" on iTunes.
Personal life.
Kestner married singer-songwriter Brock Baker in 2016.


Eleanor Raskin

Eleanor E. Raskin (née Stein; born March 16, 1946) was a member of the Weathermen. She is currently an adjunct instructor at Albany Law School. She was an administrative law judge at the New York State Public Service Commission.
Background.
Eleanor E. Stein was born on March 16, 1946. Her parents, Annie Stein and Arthur Stein (activist), were Jewish and belonged to the Communist Party. Her father was an economist in the New Deal and her mother was active in promoting social causes such as civil rights. Before Stein was five years old, her mother, who was the secretary of the Coordinating Committee for the Enforcement of the D.C. Anti-Discrimination Laws, allowed her to arrange pastries on a large platter before every meeting. Stein looked forward to the arrival of Mary Church Terrell at these meetings, because Terrell would usually bring a small present for her. On Saturdays, Annie Stein would dress up the children and stand on street corners, passing out literature to passersby. During the month of January or June, Stein would accompany her grandfather on picket lines or hand out leaflets. A family friend, Chavy Wiener introduced her to communism by reading to her a Soviet children's book, "The Story of Zoya and Shura".
When Stein was a student at Erasmus Hall High School, she was a member of the honor roll, the editor-in-chief of the school's student newspaper: "Dutchman", captain of the debating team and secretary for the math team. As a junior high student, she wrote a poem with political inflections called "The North Star." The opening lines are as follows:
Career.
College life and first marriage.
In 1963, Stein attended Barnard College; where she met Jonah Raskin, a graduate student in the English Department. On August 28, 1964, they were married at the Foley Square Courthouse, and hours after the wedding, the couple boarded a plane to Manchester, England. She enrolled in undergraduate courses at the University of Manchester. During their time abroad, they traveled to London School of Economics to attend Malcolm X's discussion on imperialism in February 1965.
Anxious to return home after three years in England, Stein finished her thesis which earned her the distinction of being the first American Studies graduate from Manchester to earn first-class honors. In the summer of 1967, they returned to New York where she applied for law school at Columbia University. Her marriage to Jonah Raskin ended in November 1969.
SDS and Weatherman.
A year before joining Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), Eleanor Stein and Annie Stein participated in the protest at the Pentagon in 1967. In April, she and her mother were involved in the Columbia University protests of 1968. More than 700 students, including Eleanor Stein, were arrested. She was charged with criminal trespass, fined $25 and released without bail. Stein joined SDS in fall 1968. By March 1969, she led more than two hundred students in pickets of Columbia buildings. "The New York Times" quoted her: "We've effectively shut down the college and cut down attendance at the university by half," said Mrs. Eleanor Raskin, an SDS spokesman who is a second-year law student at Columbia. "This strike is the opening gun. This strike is our first blow." At a news conference, Mrs. Raskin "...warned that if Columbia failed to act on the demands before the end of the spring vacation, which begins Friday and ends April 6, the SDS chapter would "take further action.""
During the summer of 1969, Stein became a member of Weatherman organization and co-authored "The Bust Book: What to Do Until the Lawyer Comes", with Kathy Boudin, Gus Reichbach and Brian Glick. "The Bust Book" is a handbook for political activists and legal defendants. In August 1969, Stein and fellow Weatherman members: Bernardine Dohrn, Ted Gold, Dianne Donghi and Diana Oughton traveled as SDS delegates to Cuba to meet with representatives of the Cuban and North Vietnamese governments.
On September 3, 1969, Stein and about 75 women stormed a Pittsburgh high school called South Hills and participated in a "jailbreak" to advertise for the Days of Rage. Weather women spray painted "Ho Lives" (in reference to spiritual and political North Vietnam leader, Ho Chi Minh who had recently died) and "Free Huey" (Huey P. Newton was a member of the Black Panther Party who was incarcerated for a gunfight which left a police officer dead) on the school's main entrance doors. Stein was arrested and charged with rioting, inciting a riot and disorderly conduct. She was told to pay a $25 fine and $11 in court costs; she was held on $1,500 bail. Stein and twenty-five others were taken to the Allegheny County Jail. She had wanted to experience a life without comforts, and during her three weeks in jail, her wish was realized.
In early November, shortly before leaving Jonah Raskin, she wrote a letter to the Dean of Columbia University: As Jonah Raskin had written, she "packed a suitcase, threw away her jewelry, miniskirts, long evening gowns, her shoes, sold her books, and moved to a Weatherman Collective.", Stein was ending her old life to begin a revolution.
Underground.
After the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion on March 6, 1970 which claimed the lives of Weatherman members Ted Gold, Diana Oughton, and Terry Robbins, she helped disguise Cathy Wilkerson, one of the two survivors of the explosion, by dyeing her hair to transform her appearance from hippie to secretary. The FBI launched an extensive manhunt to capture affiliates of the organization, and Stein sought safety by relocating with Weather comrade Jeff Jones to the Catskills Mountains to establish a new network. It was there that they fell in love.
The next trace of Jones and Stein was in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1979, when police raided an apartment where materials for making bombs were found. The apartment was traced to the couple, who were indicted "in absentia".
On October 23, 1981, they were arrested by a dozen-member SWAT team while watching the World Series in their Bronx apartment. They were charged with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution in New Jersey on charges of unlawful possession of explosives.
On December 11, 1981, a week before Jones was sentenced, the couple were married in the Municipal Building in Lower Manhattan.
All charges against Stein were dismissed.,
Life after Weatherman.
After having placed her education on hold for thirteen years, Stein attempted to finish her law degree at Columbia Law School. In 1982, her request to be reinstated was denied. Having been spurned by Columbia, she applied at City University of New York Law School at Queens College and graduated in 1986. She is currently an administrative law judge with the NYS Public Service Commission. Stein was previously a visiting associate professor at Albany Law School and taught transnational environmental law. For ten years she served as an Administrative Law Judge at the New York State Public Service Commission in Albany, New York, where she presided over and mediated New York's Renewable Portfolio Standard proceeding, authoring in June 2004 a comprehensive decision recommending a landmark state environmental initiative to combat global warming with incentives for renewable resource-fueled power generation. In addition to Transnational Environmental Law, she has taught Alternative Dispute Resolution, Telecommunications Law for the Twentieth Century, Civil Procedure, and Applied Legal Reasoning (academic support) at Albany Law School and Women's Rights as International Human Rights at the State University of New York at Albany. She is the author of "Book Review: The Philosophical Foundations of Environmental Law: Property, Rights and Nature, and Ecological Sensitivity and Global Legal Pluralism", forthcoming in SOCIAL AND LEGAL STUDIES, London; "Global Warming: An International Human Rights Violation? Inuit Communities Petition at the Inter-American Commission On Human Rights", forthcoming in GOVERNMENT, LAW AND POLICY JOURNAL; "The New York Renewable Portfolio Standard: Case Study in Process and Substance", 16 ENV. L. IN NEW YORK 3 (February 2005); and "To Be of Use: W. Haywood Burns", 106 YALE LAW JOURNAL 753 (with Michael Ratner).
Personal life.
On August 28, 1964, Eleanor Stein married Jonah Raskin at the Foley Square Courthouse and hours later boarded a plane to Manchester, England. She left him by the end of 1968.
After the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion, Stein disappeared with Jeff Jones in the Catskills Mountains, where they fell in love. Their son, Thai Jones, was born on April 30, 1977, named after Nguyen Thai, a Vietcong fighter who had campaigned against the French and American armies and whom Stein had met when traveling to Havana in 1969. On January 1, 1981, daughter Coco Jones was stillborn. Arthur Jones, named after Stein's father, was born on September 22, 1982. On December 11, 1981, a week before Jones was sentenced, the couple were married in the Municipal Building in Lower Manhattan. After the two-minute ceremony, their son, Thai Jones showered them with brown organic rice.
Currently, Eleanor Raskin lives with husband Jeff Jones in Albany, New York.
Legacy.
Thai Jones wrote a book released in 2004 called "A Radical Line: From the Labor Movement to the Weather Underground, One Family's Century of Conscience" which chronicled his parents' experiences with Weatherman.


HaXml

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Youssef Hmimssa

Youssef Hmimssa is a citizen of Morocco, who was convicted in a Detroit, Michigan court of fraud and who was a key witness in the case against the Detroit Sleeper Cell.
Biography.
Hmimssa left Morocco in 1990, when he was 18. He spent the next four years in Europe, using false identity papers under the name Patrick Vuillame.
In 1994 he arrived in the United States. Hmimssa claims that other than living under a false identity he wasn't breaking any laws. He drove a cab, in Chicago, Illinois while he attended Northeastern University. In 1999 he received a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Microsoft certified system engineer certificate.
Hmimssa says he was cheated of two months pay at his last computer job. He said the firm purposely hired illegal immigrants, knowing it could cheat them of their pay, without repercussions. He claimed this drove him to a life of crime.
Hmimssa returned to driving a cab, and acquired a clandestine credit card reader, and stole the information necessary to duplicate hundreds of credit cards from his cab fares.
In 2001 he moved to Detroit, where he met the men he testified against in the sleeper cell case. Richard Convertino characterized the defendants as "Takfiris" -- Jihadists so radical they would refrain from praying, and drink alcohol, so they could pass as westernised, secular Muslims, in order to plan clandestine terrorist attacks.
But the case unraveled on Hmimssa's testimony.
Alleged role in the aftermath of 9/11.
Immediately after the September 11 attacks, news organizations across America portrayed Youssef Hmimssa as "The Most Wanted Man in the United States" and the key to a Terrorist Sleeper cell in Detroit.
The main error in this news was that Youssef Hmimssa was already federally incarcerated in Milan, Michigan, both before and during the 9-11 attacks. When his face flashed across American televisions just after the 9/11 attacks, prison guards at Milan, Michigan, were alerted to his whereabouts. When the other prisoners were intimidated into silence concerning Hmimssa, a telephone call was then made to Barbera Ann Wood, a former U.S. Customs officer and mother of one of the inmates. She was asked to notify the F.B.I. directly, because the B.O.P. and Federal officers at Milan were uncooperative in bringing this information forward. The day after the F.B.I. was notified of his location in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, news went out that Hmimssa was located, apprehended, and "transferred" directly to Milan, Michigan.
Federal B.O.P. records show that Hmimssa was reported at Milan even though Public Information concerning this alleged criminal portrays a different set of circumstances. There are reports that Youssef Hmimssa may be actually a CIA agent and he had never spend a single day in prison. After his release he simply disappeared without a trace although there are reports that he is living under different name somewhere in Europe.
Other aliases.
Diamond Vassiafa
Colon Edgardo
Calaude Cesar Medina


Anne Morgan Spalter

Anne Morgan Spalter (born April 16, 1965) is an American new media artist working from Anne Spalter Studios in Providence, Rhode Island; Williamsburg, Brooklyn; and Brattleboro, Vermont. Having founded and taught Brown University's and RISD's original digital fine arts courses in the 1990s, Spalter is the author of the widely used text "The Computer in the Visual Arts" (Addison-Wesley 1999). Her art, writing, and teaching all reflect her long-standing goal of integrating art and technology.
Spalter's digital mixed media artwork is included in leading contemporary collections in the US, Europe and the Middle East as well as in museums such as the Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, NY), the Rhode Island School of Design Museum (Providence, RI), and the Victoria & Albert Museum (London, UK).
Life and work.
Spalter first used a computer as an undergraduate at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, in the late 1980s. Recognizing its unique power to integrate different disciplines, Spalter created an independent major that culminated in a multimedia novel. She also graduated with a B.A. in Mathematics and in Visual Art. After three years in New York, Spalter returned to Rhode Island to pursue an MFA at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).
Spalter initiated and taught the first new media fine arts courses at both RISD and Brown. Finding a lack of teaching aids she wrote the textbook, “The Computer in the Visual Arts.” James Faure Walker, artist, author and founder of the British magazine ArtScribe, describes the book, on its jacket, as: “...the first comprehensive work to combine technical and theoretical aspects of the emerging field of computer art and design.” Alvy Ray Smith was an advisor. Reviews in MIT's Technology Review and other publications provide further details.
“The Computer in the Visual Arts” has been used in courses at schools from the University of Washington to Bowling Green State University to Pratt Institute. It has also been used at schools outside the US such as King's College London.
and Sabanci University, Istanbul. It is on the Victoria and Albert "Computer Art Reading list."
As an educator and artist in this emerging field, Spalter has served on editorial boards of publications such as CG Educational Materials Source (CGEMS), and presented in lectures, including the inaugural series for the Harvard Initiative in Innovative Computing.
In Brown University’s Department of Computer Science, Spalter worked with Thomas J. Watson Jr. University Professor of Technology and Education and Professor of Computer Science Andries van Dam as Artist in Residence and as a Visual Computing Researcher. She has initiated and published on research projects ranging from color theory and its applications to better color selection tools to a large-scale educational effort to raise visual literacy to the same status as reading and writing in core curricula. In 2007, Spalter left her position at Brown to create art full-time.
Spalter’s art works explore the concept of the “modern landscape” through both the subject matter and the processes used to create the work. She draws on her own travels and digital photographic and video database to create both traditional works and new media still and moving pieces. She is particularly interested in combining traditional strategies with computational processes possible only with the computer.
Her husband, Michael Spalter, Chair of the Board of the Rhode Island School of Design, shares a passion for new media art and is the author of the new media blog Spalter Digital Art Collection. In the 1990s, the two began collecting early art works in the field. They now have the world’s largest private collection of early works in this genre and have lent pieces to the MoMA in New York as well as museums internationally. A show curated from the Anne and Michael Spalter collection was held in 2011 at the deCordova Museum in Lincoln, MA.
For a complete list of shows and press, please see
Artwork.
Spalter creates many of her artworks by utilizing an AI generated composition with multiple techniques. Even her drawings and paintings are done using artificial intelligence.
Crypto Art.
Artworks of Crypto Art: Spalter creates crypto art, a form of digital art that is related to blockchain technology.
Drawings and Paintings.
AI Drawing pastel drawing series “Icarus reaches the worm hole. You are alone and it’s the end of the world.”
AI Paintings are oil based paintings using an AI algorithm generated composition.


Je me souviens

 () is the official motto of Quebec, a province of Canada. The motto, translated literally into English, means: "I remember." It may be paraphrased as conveying the meaning: "We do not forget, and will never forget, our ancient lineage, traditions, and memories of all the past."
Origins.
Étienne-Paschal Taché is credited with having popularized the phrase.
In 1883, his son Eugène-Étienne Taché, Assistant Commissioner for Crown lands in Quebec and architect of the provincial Parliament building, had the motto carved in stone below the coat of arms of Quebec which appears above the Parliament Building's main entrance door. The motto then came into official use, even though the coat of arms was not adopted until 1939.
Meaning.
Taché appears not to have left an explanation of the motto's intended meaning but, however, wrote a letter to Siméon Lesage that showed what he intended to accomplish with the statues on the building's façade and describing what they were intended to remind people of.
All around the Parliament building are 24 statues of historical figures. They originally included founders (Jacques Cartier, Samuel de Champlain and de Maisonneuve), clerics (de Laval, de Brébeuf, Marquette and Olier), military men (de Frontenac, Wolfe, de Montcalm and de Levis), Amerindians, French governors (D'Argenson, de Tracy, de Callières, de Montmagny, d'Aillesbout, de Vaudreuil) and, in the words of Taché, "some English governors the most sympathetic to our nationality" (Murray, Dorchester, Prevost and Bagot) and Lord Elgin, who was given a special place for he was seen as an important player in obtaining "responsible government". Taché purposely left blank spaces to allow future generations to add their own statues.
His contemporaries, however, did not have any trouble interpreting its meaning. The first interpretations that can be cited are those of historian Thomas Chapais and civil servant Ernest Gagnon.
Chapais, during a speech given for the occasion of the unveiling of a bronze statue honouring de Lévis, on June 24, 1895, said: "the province of Quebec has a motto of which she is proud and which she likes enough to carve it on her monuments and palaces. This motto has only three words: ; but these three words, in their simple economy of expression, are worth more than the most eloquent speeches. Yes, we remember. We remember the past and its lessons, the past and its misfortunes, the past and its glories."
In 1896, Gagnon wrote that the motto "admirably sums up the of Champlain and Maisonneuve's Canada as a distinct province in the confederation."
In 1919, seven years after Taché's death, the historian Pierre-Georges Roy underlined the symbolic character of the three-word motto: "which says so eloquently in three words, the past as well as the present and the future of the only French province of the confederation." This sentence would be cited or paraphrased several times afterwards.
Various scholars have attempted to discover the source of Taché's words. The ethnologist Conrad Laforte has suggested that they might derive from the song , or possibly Victor Hugo's poem . Writer André Duval thought the answer was simpler and closer at hand: In the hall of the Parliament building in which the motto is carved above the door, are the arms of the Marquess of Lorne whose motto was ("do not forget"). Consequently, Duval believed "the motto of Quebec to be at the same time the translation of the Marquess of Lorne's motto and the answer of a French-Canadian subject of Her Majesty to the said motto."
Research published in English before 1978 led to the same conclusions regarding the motto's origin, the number of words it has and its interpretation. A 1934 biographical notice about Taché reads:
"M. Taché is also the author of the beautiful poetic and patriotic motto which accompanies the official coat of arms of the Province of Quebec — — the full significance of which cannot perhaps be readily expressed in English words but which may be paraphrased as conveying the meaning 'We do not forget, and will never forget, our ancient lineage, traditions and memories of all the past'."
Encyclopedias and quotation dictionaries, including those of Wallace, Hamilton, Colombo or Hamilton and Shields, all provide the same information as the French-language sources.
In 1955, the historian Mason Wade added his opinion by writing: "When the French Canadian says , he not only remembers the days of New France but also the fact that he belongs to a conquered people."
Controversy and "second motto".
In 1978, replaced the tourist-oriented motto on Quebec's vehicle registration plate. According to the historian Gaston Deschênes, this event marks the start of a new period of attempts to reinterpret the meaning of the motto in the mainstream media of Canada.
On February 4, 1978, Robert Goyette signed an article entitled "Car owners argue over motto" in "The Montreal Star". This article attracted the attention of a reader, Hélène Pâquet, a granddaughter of Taché who replied on February 15 in an open letter entitled . It reads in part:
The lily refers to France while the rose refers to England, both relating to the floral emblems of the nations. The idea that the motto had a lesser known second part spread widely. This new piece of information had a long life in the media before it was investigated by Deschênes in 1992.
When Deschênes contacted Hélène Pâquet in 1992, she was unable to specify the origin of text she quoted in her letter. Her statements were not conformable to those of her father, Lieutenant-Colonel Étienne-Théodore Pâquet Jr., who on March 3, 1939, wrote in a letter to John Samuel Bourque, Tâché's son-in-law, and Minister of Public Works, that "the one who synthesized in three words the history and traditions of our race deserves to be recognized" as much as Routhier and Lavallée who composed the "O Canada".
The origin of the second part is today known to be a "second motto", created by the same Eugène-Étienne Taché, many years after the first one, and originally destined to be used on a monument honouring the "Canadian nation", but which was never built. The monument was to be a statue of a young and graceful adolescent girl, an allegoric figure of the Canadian nation, bearing the motto: "Née dans les lis, je grandis dans les roses / Born in the lilies, I grow in the roses". While the project was never realized, the idea was "recycled" in a commemorative medal for the 300th anniversary of the foundation of Quebec City, created by Taché, on which is written ("Born under the lilies, God helping, Champlain's work has grown under the roses").
Other uses.
 is also the motto of the Royal 22e Régiment, a Francophone regiment of the Canadian Forces.


Arnold Manoff

Arnold Manoff (April 25, 1914 – February 10, 1965) was an American screenwriter who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses in the 1950s.
As a result of the blacklist he wrote under a pseudonym through the 1960s. Manoff's experiences while blacklisted were among the inspirations for the 1976 film "The Front".
Career.
Early writing.
Manoff was born in New York City. He did not attend college and quit school at age fifteen. He began writing and won a contest in "Story" magazine. In the 1930s he assembled games and songs of the streets of the city for the Works Progress Administration's Writer's Project.
His first novel, "Telegram From Heaven," published by Dial Press in 1942, recounts the struggle of an unemployed stenographer from the viewpoint of the stenographer, A review of the book in "The New York Times" said that Manoff "has written a readable book, pulsing with life," and that he "knows the life of the submerged poor and he has an intimate sympathy for them."
Films and theater.
Manoff's first screenplay was made into the 1944 film "Man from Frisco". Three more of his screenplays were made into movies prior to his being blacklisted: "My Buddy" (1944), "Casbah" (1948, starring Peter Lorre and Yvonne De Carlo), and "No Minor Vices" (1948, starring Dana Andrews, Lilli Palmer, and Louis Jordan.
His novella "All You Need is One Good Break" was published in "Story" and produced on Broadway in 1950, in a production starring John Berry. The reviews were described by featured player Lee Grant as "scathing." "The New York Times" theater critic Brooks Atkinson called the play "a tabloid tale about a tenement wastrel" and said it was "maudlin when it was not commonplace." "The Brooklyn Daily Eagle" also panned the play, calling it a "tiresome, rather whiny business." The review praised the performance of Lee Grant, who left the hit play "Detective Story" to join the cast. "All You Need is One Good Break" closed after four performances but was briefly revived later that year.
Blacklisting.
In April 1951, director Edward Dmytryk testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) that Manoff and other film writers and directors were members of the Communist Party. Later that year he was again identified before HUAC as a Communist by screenwriter and admitted former Communist Leo Townsend. He was blacklisted.
Grant, who became his wife, was also blacklisted after she gave an impassioned eulogy at the memorial service for the blacklisted actor J. Edward Bromberg, who appeared in "All You Need is One Good Break". Her name later appeared in the publication "Red Channels", and as a result, for the next ten years, she too was blacklisted and her work in television and movies was limited. In a 2014 interview, Grant said that she knew nothing about Communism and said "it was one of the big rifts between my husband and myself. He was a Communist. And I didn't have the base for that kind of philosophy. I just couldn't understand it."
Later career.
While they were blacklisted, Manoff and fellow writers Abraham Polonsky and Walter Bernstein formed what has been described as a "kind of collective to help each other survive by writing under the table" for television, mainly for the historical series "You Are There."
Manoff used the pseudonym "Joel Carpenter." In addition to "You Are There", he wrote episodes of "Naked City", "Route 66", and "The Defenders". At the time of his death in 1965 he was adapting for film a Bernard Malamud story that was to star Harry Belafonte. Walter Grauman, who directed a Naked City episode written by Manoff, said years later that he was shocked to learn that his real name was not "Carpenter" and discovered it by accident. He called Manoff a "terrific writer."
Legacy.
Walter Bernstein described Manoff as "a talent that never really flourished." A number of blacklisted writers produced scripts for the "You Are There" series"," and author Erik Christiansen writes that "Arnold Manoff's story is the saddest of the "You Are There" team" and that he had difficulty getting off the blacklist.
The informal collective of Manoff, Bernstein, and Polonsky was dramatized in the 1976 film "The Front," which was written by Bernstein. In an early scene, the Michael Murphy character, modeled on Bernstein, introduces the Woody Allen character to two other blacklisted writers"."
Personal life.
In her 2014 memoir "I Said Yes to Everything", Lee Grant wrote that Manoff was known as "the silver fox" when she first met him in 1950 during rehearsals for "All You Need is One Good Break", because of his white hair that made him look older than his 36 years. He'd already been married three times and had a nine-year-old daughter with his second wife, Ruth. He was married at the time to Marjorie MacGregor, the mother of his two sons, Tom and Michael. Grant recounted that she and Manoff were "an item" during production of the play.
Grant wrote that she was living at home before their marriage, and that her parents did not approve. She said that there was a "Pygmalion" aspect to their marriage, and that Manoff sought to instruct her on Soviet literature and politics. She wrote that Manoff had little interest in her upbringing and that she never met most members of his family, including his mother.
Manoff and Grant had a daughter, Dinah Manoff, who became an actress. They were separated at the time of his death.
Death.
Manoff died in 1965 of a heart ailment. He was survived by two daughters, two sons, two sisters, and his mother.


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Carlos Quintanilla Schmidt

Carlos Quintanilla Schmidt (born 5 August 1953 in San Miguel) is a former vice president of El Salvador under Francisco Flores from 1999 to 2004. Quintanilla and Flores were known as the "dollarizers" ("dolarizadores"), having introduced the use of the U.S. dollar as the official currency of the country. Quintanilla's successor was Ana Vilma de Escobar.
He has a degree in banking from American University, and a degree in law from José Matías Delgado University. Additionally, he served as vice-rector of José Matías Delgado University.
In November 2017 an investigation conducted by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalism cited his name in the list of politicians named in "Paradise Papers" allegations.


Shelley Ryan

Shelley Ryan (August 6, 1956 – January 16, 2014) was an American gardener and cook best known as the host of the television show "The Wisconsin Gardener" which aired on Wisconsin Public Television and other PBS Stations. "Gardening isn't about plants, compost or dirt," she said. "It's really about people."
Background.
Ryan was born in 1956 in Carbondale, Illinois, to Neil and Jane Ford. She moved to Middleton, Wisconsin as a young girl, graduated from Middleton High School, and then attended and graduated from UW-Madison.
Ryan worked at Wisconsin Public Radio for a number of years before finding her true love in plants in the gardening world. She became a Master Gardener through UW Extension and worked at a number of different nurseries in the area before her idea of a television show for Public TV that would cover the wants, needs and questions of the state of Wisconsin.
"The Wisconsin Gardener".
"The Wisconsin Gardener" is a half-hour show that Ryan produced and hosted on Wisconsin Public Television. On the air since 1992, the program was one of the longest running gardening programs on North American television, with hundreds of episodes filmed. Ryan hosted and produced the program for 21 years. The show led to creation of Wisconsin Public Television's Garden Expo, which draws 20,000 gardening enthusiasts to Madison every February. Over the years, Ryan was also the voice of promotional spots for both Wisconsin Public Television and Wisconsin Public Radio.
Books and publications.
Ryan published a cookbook, "Leeks, Love And Laughter: Growing And Eating Through the Seasons" in 2005 through HenschelHAUS Publishing. She wrote columns and articles for Wisconsin Gardening Magazine, Country Market, Midwest Living magazine, Country Woman magazine, Fine Gardening magazine, and local and regional publications.
Personal life and death.
Ryan lived in Blue Mounds, Wisconsin with her husband. Ryan was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2008. Ryan retired from her role as host of "The Wisconsin Gardener" in April 2013 after completing work on the show's final season. At the time, she shared news with her fans that her breast cancer had returned.


Louise Wightman

Louise Fitzgerald Wightman ("née" Johnson), also known as Lucy Wightman (born June 18, 1959 in Lake Forest, Illinois), is a former exotic dancer who performed in Boston and Providence the 1970s and 1980s using the stage name Princess Cheyenne. The juxtaposition of her education and class background with her career attracted media attention. In the spring of 2007, she again attracted public interest, this time for being convicted of being a practicing psychologist without a license in two South Shore Massachusetts communities. Currently she works as a writer, photographer, and blogger.
Dance career.
Wightman's dancing career began at age 17, when she was known as Lucy Johnson, and peaked when she was a headliner at the now defunct Naked i Cabaret in Boston's Combat Zone. "Princess Cheyenne" was a local legend in Boston. The "Boston Herald" would later call her "perhaps the most famous exotic dancer ever in this town." Sports columnist Bill Reynolds called her a "cult figure." Journalist Howard Altman, reminiscing about her in the "Philadelphia City Paper", called her "Boston's favorite stripper." Although she is not named, Wightman is described in Lauri Lewin's Combat Zone memoir, "Naked is the Best Disguise: My Life as a Stripper".
Using her celebrity from the exotic dancing circuit, Wightman later hosted a sex advice radio talk show called "Ask Princess Cheyenne" on Boston rock station WBCN, and posed for "Playboy" magazine (as Lucy Johnson) in March 1986. She competed in women's bodybuilding contests, winning the 1993 National Physique Committee Massachusetts championship and later being featured in the May–June 1996 issue of "Women's Physique World".
"The thinking man's stripper".
As an articulate woman from a well-to-do family, Wightman did not conform to the popular stereotype of an exotic dancer, and gained a reputation as "the thinking man's stripper." A "Boston Globe" reporter, writing in 1979, called her "the valedictorian of strippers." The president of the "Harvard Lampoon" invited her to perform at a banquet in 1982, calling her "a nice and educated girl"; a few years later, a writer in "Harvard Magazine" noted with interest that Wightman, "one of the premier strippers" in the Combat Zone, was working her way through college. (The Naked i Cabaret, where Wightman performed, proudly advertised its "Totally Nude College Girls Revue.") In "Women's Physique World" she was described as "Lucy Wightman: 138 I.Q., 285 Bench!"
Psychotherapy career.
In 1985, Wightman received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Emerson College, and subsequently earned a masters degree in counseling psychology from Lesley University. She then enrolled at the Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology for five years, from 1996 to 2001. Wightman then withdrew from MSPP, submitted her credits and hours to an online degree program to which she paid $1,299 to receive a doctorate in psychology from Concordia College and University, an online institution based in Dominica that is not recognized for licensure by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. During this same period, Wightman founded South Shore Psychology Associates, and began treating patients with psychotherapy in her Norwell office.
Legal problems.
In October 2005, Wightman was indicted in Boston, Massachusetts for practicing psychology without a license, filing false health care claims, and engaging in insurance fraud after local FOX affiliate WFXT did an undercover investigation into her therapy practice. Under unusual provisions of Massachusetts law, Wightman had been allowed to practice as a psychotherapist, not as a psychologist. In the indictment, the Commonwealth charged that she never applied for or received a license to practice as a psychologist in Massachusetts, which requires a doctoral degree in psychology from a state-approved program. Wightman was found guilty of 19 of 26 counts and sentenced to six months in jail and five years probation. The six-month sentence was suspended, sparing her prison time. Under the terms of her probation, she was sentenced to one year of home confinement, and was barred from practicing as a psychotherapist for her entire probationary period.
Personal life.
In 1979, Wightman was engaged to the singer Cat Stevens, but the couple broke up due to her career commitments and his conversion to Islam.
After the breakup with Stevens, Wightman married and divorced twice; she had a daughter named Victoria (Torri) with her second husband Donald Wightman, a Boston police detective and head of security for the rock band Aerosmith. On May 16, 2006, 16-year-old Torri died as result of injuries sustained in an automobile accident in Plympton, Massachusetts.


Mark Derr

Mark Derr is an American dog scholar, author and journalist noted for his books on dogs, as well as the social and environmental developments of Florida. His articles have appeared in "The Atlantic Monthly", "Natural History", "Smithsonian", and "The New York Times". Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Derr was educated at Johns Hopkins. He lives with his wife Gina Maranto in Miami Beach, Florida.
Publications.
His books include:


Paul Draper (dancer)

Paul Draper Jr. (October 25, 1909 – September 20, 1996) was a noted American tap dancer and choreographer. Born into an artistic, socially prominent New York family, the nephew of Ruth Draper was an innovator in the arts. His passion and unique style led him to international stardom. One signature piece was "Sonata for Tap Dancer", danced without musical accompaniment.
Draper was a natural dancer. He took six tap dancing lessons at Tommy Nip's Broadway dance school in 1930 before performing solo in London in 1932. He enrolled in the School of American Ballet and realized the possibilities of combining tap and classical ballet, forming his unique style. By 1937, he was performing at such venues as the Persian Room at the Plaza Hotel and the Rainbow Room. Carnegie Hall followed, then Broadway and a film version of William Saroyan's "Time of Your Life" (1948). In 1940, he teamed up with Larry Adler, a virtuoso harmonicist. The two became a world-famous act, performing together until 1949. They appeared as regulars at City Center in New York. The act disbanded when they were blacklisted as Communist sympathizers. In response to these false charges, Adler moved to the United Kingdom. Draper moved to Geneva, Switzerland for three years.
When he returned to the US, Draper performed on Broadway and in other venues from about 1954. Draper taught in the theater department at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from 1967 to 1978 as the Andrew Mellon Chair in the School of Drama. His live performances decreased during this period of teaching, but he did occasionally show up at American Dance Festival.
Beginnings.
The Draper family settled in Manhattan, New York when Paul was four years old. Paul ran away from home at the age of 17 to dig ditches in Woodstock, New York. He took an engineering course at Polytechnic Institute, but he quit after one year. He worked odd jobs around New York. He was an assistant music critic, and briefly became an instructor at an Arthur Murray dance school. In 1930, he took six lessons on tap dance at Tommy Nip's Broadway dance school, and then went to London to perform.
Style and career.
Draper enrolled in the School of American Ballet, which led him to develop his trademark style, incorporating ballet vocabulary and technique into his tap dancing. This set him apart from other major dancers of the decades of the 1930s and 1940s, like Fred Astaire and Bill (Bojangles) Robinson, when Draper's career was in its prime. He tapped out "intricate rhythms to classical music", earning him the accolade of "aristocrat of tap." Draper "has evolved a routine which combines tap with techniques of classical ballet and which allows him to base his one-man choreographies on any type of music, classical, folk and popular." In his solo performances in this period, one signature piece is "Sonata for Tap Dancer", danced without musical accompaniment. Draper was in a film version of William Saroyan's "Time of Your Life" (1948). He performed with Harmonica player Larry Adler from 1939 to 1949. A highlight of their performances was their version of Gershwin's I Got Rhythm, called a "show-stopper".
They sued a woman who accused them of being Communists in 1949. The case ended with the jury making no decision, in May 1950. This stopped performances in the US, with a segment already taped, cut from the Ed Sullivan show, "Toast of the Town". Neither man was communist, but they did object to the activities of the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Both men left the US in 1951. Adler went to England. Draper went to Geneva, Switzerland for three years.
Returning to the US in 1954, Draper performed on Broadway with his aunt, Ruth Draper. In 1955, Draper returned to the stage performing in Stravinsky's "Histoire du Soldat" at the Phoenix Theater. In the 1960s, he danced in Jerome Moross's "Gentlemen, Be Seated". Draper also choreographed pieces for George Kleinsinger's "Archy and Mehitabel" at Goodspeed Opera House, and performed in the Broadway musical "Come Summer" during the sixties. Draper taught in the theater department at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from 1967 to 1978 as the Andrew Mellon Chair in the School of Drama. Draper was seldom seen in concert dance during this time. He did make appearances at and create pieces for the American Dance Festival and Lee Theodore's "American Dance Machine."
Draper and Adler were historically reunited for one performance in June 1975 at Carnegie Hall, prompting "The New York Times" to state:
"Draper's dancing remains impeccably musical and impressively limber. He seemed barely to be touching the floor at times. One thinks naturally of Astaire and Bolger when Mr Draper is in full flight, but his style is so intense and serious that comparisons are not really to the point."
Communist accusations.
In 1949, Draper was accused of affiliating with the Communist party. A routine of his was to appear on CBS's "Toast of the Town" in 1950, but was cut out of the segment due to protests the station received. During this period, Draper was forced to put a stop to his tour because many television programs and hotels felt they could not host such a controversial figure. He filed a libel suit against a Connecticut housewife who claimed he was a Communist, but still received negative press. Draper left the United States in 1951 following this scandal and lived in Switzerland for three years. The "LA Times" claims "he later resumed his career but never recaptured his original popularity."
Family and personal life.
Paul Draper was born to Muriel Sanders and Paul Draper, a lieder singer, in Florence, Italy on October 25, 1909. His parents had married in the US in 1909, then proceeded to Italy. His mother was very active in artistic circles in New York and London. His parents divorced shortly after moving to the United States when Paul was four years old; his father died in 1925 at age 35. Paul was passed around from one relative's household to the next upon their return to the US. His mother entertained renowned guests like Henry James, Pablo Picasso, Arthur Rubinstein, and Norman Douglas in the family salon in their London home. His paternal great-grandfather Charles Anderson Dana founded The "New York Sun" newspaper to provide an alternative view to "The New York Times". His aunt Ruth Draper was an author, lecturer, and monologuist.
Draper married Heidi Vosseler, a ballerina for George Balanchine's first American ballet company, on June 23, 1941, in Rio de Janeiro. Miss Vosseler lived with him in Europe until they returned to the United States in 1954. The couple had three daughters, Pamela, Susan Kosowski and Kate. His wife died from lung cancer in 1992, leaving Paul a widower until he died on September 20, 1996, at his home in Woodstock, New York at age 86 from emphysema.


The Wonderful World of Captain Kuhio

 is a 2009 Japanese comedy-crime film, directed by Daihachi Yoshida, based on Kazumasa Yoshida's 2006 biographical novel, "Kekkon Sagishi Kuhio Taisa" ( "Marriage swindler Captain Kuhio"), that focuses on a real-life marriage swindler, who conned over 100 million yen (US$1.2 million) from a number of women between the 1970s and the 1990s.
The film was released in Japan on 10 October 2009.
Awards.
At the 31st Yokohama Film Festival


Ex parte Fisk

Ex parte Fisk, 113 U.S. 713 (1885), was a case in which Francis B. Fogg brought suit in the Supreme Court of the State of New York against Fisk to recover the sum of $63,250 on the allegation of false and fraudulent representations made by Fisk in the sale of certain mining stocks. Fisk was held in contempt when he declined to answer questions his attorney believed violated the Fifth Amendment.
Background.
From that suit, the plaintiff obtained the following court order:
A motion to vacate this order was overruled, and the judgment affirmed by the Court of Appeals.
The defendant then appeared before the court and submitted to a partial examination, answering some questions and objecting to others, until, pending one of the adjournments of the examination, he procured an order removing the case to the circuit court of the United States. In that court, an order was made to continue the examination before a master, to whom the matter was referred. The defendant refusing to be sworn and declining to be examined, he was brought before the circuit court on an application for attachment for a contempt in refusing to obey the order.
Without disposing of this motion, the circuit court made another order, to-wit:
The defendant appeared before the court in pursuance of this order and, stating that he was advised by counsel that the court had no jurisdiction to require him to answer in this manner to the questions propounded to him by the counsel for plaintiff, he refused to do so to avoid self incrimination. For this, on further proceeding, he was held by the court to be in contempt and fined $500 and committed to the custody of the marshal until it was paid. It is to be relieved of this imprisonment that he prays here the writ of habeas corpus.
Decision.
Justice Miller delivered the opinion of the court. He stated the facts as above recited and continued:
Justice Miller went on to give an illustration from act of Congress prescribing rules of evidence in § 858 of the Revised Statutes, which read:
Specifically the following sections of the Revised Statutes, in chapter XVII, on evidence:
Justice Miller continued:
The court found that if the acts of Congress forbid the use of this kind of testimony in the courts of the United States, no order for taking it made in the state court while the case was pending in that court, with a view to its use on a trial there, can change the law of evidence in the federal court. In that case, after it had been once heard on appeal in the Supreme Court of Illinois, it was removed into the circuit court of the United States.
A writ would be issued on application to the clerk.


The Victory Garden (TV program)

The Victory Garden is an American public television program about gardening and other outdoor activities, which was produced by station WGBH in Boston, Massachusetts, and distributed by PBS. It was the oldest gardening program produced for television in the United States, premiering April 16, 1975.
History.
The show was originally called Crockett's Victory Garden for its first host, James Underwood Crockett. On each episode, Crockett demonstrates and cares for a vegetable garden, shows you how to build a cold frame, and why salt marsh hay was useful as a mulch. At the end of each episode, Crockett was in the greenhouse, as he answered viewer questions about gardening, which is sent in by viewers. Following Crockett's death at the age of 63, Bob Thomson hosted the program from 1979 to 1991 and the show was renamed "The Victory Garden". With Thomson at the helm, "The Victory Garden" began to broaden its scope. In addition to the regular demonstrations of planting, potting, pruning, and pest control, the show began to make room for more guests and travel features. Marian Morash, wife of series producer Russell Morash, appeared on the air to do her recipes on the program from 1979 to 2001.
Roger Swain hosted the program from 1991 to 2002, Michael Weishan hosted the program from 2002 to 2007. Jamie Durie hosted the program from 2007 to 2010.
In 2013, the show was relaunched in partnership with Edible Communities, and it became "The Victory Garden's EdibleFeast". It was produced for two seasons.


XMLTV

XMLTV is an XML based file format for describing TV listings, which has been introduced in 2002. IPTV providers use XMLTV as the base reference template in their systems, and extend it internally according to their business needs.


Shop on TV

Shop on TV was a home shopping television channel, broadcast in the United Kingdom and Ireland on the Sky platform.
Shop on TV claimed to appeal to regular viewers and purchasers from other shopping channels. However, unlike most other UK shopping channels, there were no live or interactive broadcasts shown on Shop on TV. All content on the channel was made up of pre-recorded infomercials that were between 15 and 30 minutes. The channel broadcast 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
On 10 September 2009, Shop on TV was removed from the Freesat platform, where it had been on channel 807.
On 10 March 2011, it was announced that Shop on TV's Sky EPG slot on channel 659 had been sold to Pavers Shoes who would launch their own channel (PaversShoes.tv) on 6 April. Shop on TV would therefore close.


Clouds (Zach Sobiech song)

"Clouds" is a song by American singer-songwriter, Zach Sobiech. It was his debut and only single released as a solo artist, released digitally on December 14, 2012, and later included in his debut EP, "Fix Me Up" (released under his band name, A Firm Handshake).
Proceeds from the sale of "Clouds" go to the Zach Sobiech Osteosarcoma Fund, which is a branch of the Children's Cancer Research Fund.
In the United States, "Clouds" sold 25,000 units before Sobiech's passing, and an additional 30,000 units on his death date. In total, he had sold 156,000 copies of "Clouds" upon his Hot 100 entry, and has since accumulated 18 million views on YouTube. The single has charted in USA, UK, Canada, France and Belgium.
Background.
At age 14, Sobiech was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a bone cancer which mostly strikes children. In May 2012, Sobiech's doctors informed him that he had up to a year to live. Sobiech recorded the song "Clouds" about his battle with cancer.
Release and promotion.
Sobiech released it as a YouTube video in December 2012. It went viral, surpassing 3 million views at the time of his death in May 2013. Views had reached 11.8 million by end of November 2013.
Around 30 stars had begun releasing tribute versions of the song. One version was released on SoulPancake, featuring Bryan Cranston, Rainn Wilson, Ashley Tisdale, Colbie Caillat, Anna Faris, Chris Pratt, Jason Mraz, Sara Bareilles, Jenna Fischer, Rachel Bilson, Sarah Silverman, Jason Derulo, Kina Grannis, Paul McDonald, and Phillip Phillips among other celebrities and Zach's family and friends lip-synching to "Clouds". This video of artists was assembled by Rainn Wilson, and directed by Justin Baldoni who had also directed a short documentary about Sobiech, titled "My Last Days". At the end of the video, Jason Mraz is shown saying, “Thank you Zach. You’ve written a great song, dude. It’s a real pleasure to sing it, and sing it with you. Thank you.”
Legacy.
"Clouds".
On October 16, 2020, Disney+ released the movie "Clouds", an american musical drama film based upon the memoir "Fly a Little Higher: How God Answered a Mom's Small Prayer in a Big Way" by Laura Sobiech. The film stars Fin Argus, Sabrina Carpenter, Madison Iseman, Neve Campbell, Tom Everett Scott and Lil Rel Howery.
After the release of the film, the song "Clouds" topped the iTunes song chart at the No. 1 spot a second time, 7 years after Zach Sobiech's death.
"Clouds: A Musical Celebration", a virtual concert was held as a musical tribute on October 24, 2020, OneRepublic, Fin Argus, Sabrina Carpenter and various members of the "Clouds" cast.
Credits and personnel.
References:


Train ticket

A train ticket is a ticket issued by a railway operator that enables the bearer to travel on the operator's network or a partner's network. Tickets can authorize the bearer to travel a set itinerary at a specific time (common for long-distance railroads), a set itinerary at any time (common for commuter railroads), a set itinerary at multiple times, or an arbitrary itinerary at specific times. The last two categories are often called "passes": the former is often sold as a discounted block of trips for commuters; the latter is often sold to vacationers, such as European Eurail passes.
In some countries, like Italy, and some local railways in Germany, conductors are not used. Instead passengers are expected to validate tickets in a special stamping machine before entering the train. A system of coupons that are validated with a special machine exists on the Mumbai Suburban Railway where combinations of coupons of denominations are used to get the corresponding ticket value. There may or may not be a conductor later on double-checking that correct tickets are actually held. Yet further systems are possible, for example in Japan, the London Underground and in local traffic in Stockholm, the platforms are blocked by turnstiles, forcing the acquisition of a ticket before entering the platform.
Some train tickets are available with an option to add bus travel at either end of the train ticketed journey, as part of a wider transport network. For instance, the Plusbus scheme in the United Kingdom offers bus travel on an integrated ticket for an additional fee. In Germany, most long-distance train tickets include a "city ticket" valid on the public transit system of origin and destination. This is automatically included at no extra charge in all tickets purchased by BahnCard holders and is indicated on the ticket.
History.
Early tickets were similar to a form of currency issued by individual railroads, sold by agents and collected by conductors who were audited by the railroad to be sure ticket inventories matched reported passenger earnings. As continuous travel over several connected railways became common, Coupon tickets with serrated portions for each railway company might be issued at the origin of travel and sequentially collected by conductors of the railways providing travel to avoid the necessity for purchasing additional tickets at each transfer point.
Seat checks.
In the US, a conductor may also provide the passenger with a "seat check" — another voucher indicating how far the passenger may travel on the system — or attach it over the seat also punched by the conductor showing the passenger's destination, along with conductors organizing train seating by destination during boarding. Some systems (Amtrak, for instance) have two-part tickets that permit the passenger to retain a cancelled ticket stub; others (the New Jersey Transit and Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority commuter rail systems, for instance) do not. Seat checks are changed frequently to ensure that passengers cannot retain and reuse them from journey to journey. (Conductors typically collect checks before stops to prevent this.)
Electronic ticketing.
Increasingly, electronic tickets are being used as replacements for paper tickets. Amtrak, as of June 30, 2012 offers electronic tickets on all train routes which have QR codes to identify the ticket's validity and can be printed out or shown to a conductor on a smartphone or Apple Watch screen. Similar systems are used by Eurostar, Chiltern Railways and Great Western Railway in the UK.
In India, an SMS sent by the Indian Railways, along with a valid proof of identity is considered equivalent to a ticket.


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Ralf Baecker

Ralf Baecker (born 1977 in Düsseldorf) is a German artist known for his installation works that use complex electronic systems. Baecker studied media art at Cologne's Academy of Media Arts.
Work.
Baecker's "Irrational Computing", created in 2014, used elemental quartz crystals to create a basic signal processing unit.
Created the same year, "Mirage" employed a luminous red light projection based on readings of the earth's magnetic field. In 2015 he received an Honorary mention at Ars Electronica for "Mirage". In 2017 his work "Order+Noise (Interface I)", which uses background radiation data to control mechanical movements, received the grand prize at the Japan Media Arts Festival. His 2018 work "Putting the Pieces Back together Again" involves an array of 1250 stepper motors that create a swarm-like display of mechanical movement.
Baecker is a professor of experimental design of new technologies at the University of the Arts Bremen.


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Media in Townsville

Townsville is the media centre for North Queensland, with 4 commercial radio stations, 4 narrowcast radio stations, 3 community radio stations, 5 ABC radio stations, 3 commercial television stations, one regional daily newspaper and one community weekly newspaper. There are no local Sunday papers although the "Sunday Mail" (based in Brisbane) publishes a North Queensland edition, which is printed and distributed from Townsville (throughout Northern Queensland). Townsville also has extensive outdoor and indoor advertising media, ranging from taxi advertising to large-format billboards.
Print media.
The "Townsville Bulletin" is the dominant newspaper in North Queensland with daily coverage on local, state, national and world news, plus a wide range of sections and liftouts covering health, real estate, youth, beauty, cars and lifestyle. The "Bulletin" has a $1.40 cover price on weekdays, increasing to $2.40 for the weekend edition, and is in tabloid format. In 2006 the "Bulletin" had a readership (average) Monday to Friday of 84,000 (up 15.5% on 2005) and weekend readership (average) of 104,000 (up 1.96% on 2005) and circulation (avg) of 27 187 Monday to Friday, weekend circulation (avg) of 41 814. The Townsville Bulletin is owned by News Limited, a subsidiary of News Corporation, and employs over 100 people.
"DUO" Magazine is a complimentary lifestyle magazine published bi-monthly for men and women aged 25–54 years. "DUO" is the region's most popular magazine with 45,000+ readers of the printed edition and 33,000+ online readers. 12,000 copies of "DUO" are distributed to over 450 outlets throughout Townsville, Ingham, Ayr, Charters Towers, and Mt Isa and is carried on all Alliance Airlines flights to the major mines. It is also available from the Qantas Club at Townsville Airport and all leading hotels and accommodation.
"Success Business" Magazine is a bi-monthly corporate magazine that is distributed free to locals (10,000 copies and a readership exceeding 25,000) in Townsville City, Ayr, Burdekin, and Charters Towers. It is targeted at businesspeople aged between 25–55 years. "Success Business" Magazine is a glossy magazine that features local businesses through to national brands. It is also distributed at various businesses throughout the North Queensland region such as hotels, coffee shops and shopping centres.
HUXLEY Press is the region's bi-monthly music, Arts and creative culture street press. 5,000 copies (with a readership of approx. 15,000) are distributed via galleries, theatres, performing arts groups, cafes, eateries, major shopping centres, hotels, secondary and tertiary education campuses and more across Townsville, Hinchinbrook, Charters Towers and the Burdekin. Between print issues, the HUXLEY Press website is updated consistently with Arts and Culture stories, interviews and reviews.
Magnetic Island has two competing small publications; "Magnetic Island Community News" is printed weekly and "Magnetic Times" is published online.
"The North Queensland Register" is based in Townsville. However, it services the Queensland rural community from Rockhampton North. Owned by Rural Press Limited, it has a distribution of about 5,000.
"Northern Services Courier" is an independent newspaper for Defence Force personnel stationed in Townsville.
"The Hack" (formerly known as "The Bullsheet") is the student community newspaper at James Cook University, published by the JCU Student Association. "Outlook" is the academic community newspaper at James Cook University and it is published by the University.
Television.
All three main commercial networks produce local news coverage - Seven Queensland and WIN Television both air 30-minute local news bulletins at 6pm each weeknight, produced from newsrooms in the city but broadcast from studios in Maroochydore and Wollongong respectively. Southern Cross Nine airs a regional Queensland edition of "Nine News" from Brisbane each weeknight at 6pm, featuring local opt-outs for Townsville and North Queensland.
National and international news bulletins are shown on each respective network in place of or following local news - four are produced in Brisbane, with a Queensland focus (ABC, Seven, Nine and Ten). The Brisbane edition of "10 News First" also employs a North Queensland reporter based in Townsville, covering roughly from the tip of Cape York South to Mackay.
New channels broadcast by all the networks in addition to the ones listed above are available on the digital service called Freeview Australia to viewers in Townsville and the surrounding region. These channels include ABC2, ABC3, ABC News 24, SBS Two, One, Eleven, 7Two, 7mate, 9Gem and 9Go!.
Internet.
Currently the only major local producer of online journalism is ABC North Queensland.
"CityLife" Magazine reproduces their full content online. The "Townsville Bulletin" publishes a small quantity of its content on the internet and WIN Television publish local news headlines online. There is also one specialty (Magnetic Island) news website called "Magnetic Times". It is run by chief operating officer Jamie Cunningham. There is also a monthly Community magazine called The Townsville 'Zine produced by a Work for the Dole group it can be read at https://issuu.com/townsville.workways
References.
https://issuu.com/townsville.workways


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Nate Dickinson

Nathaniel "Nate" Rogers Dickinson (January 14, 1932 – June 15, 2011) was an American wildlife biologist, and author of "Common Sense Wildlife Management: Discourses on Personal Experiences", was published in 1993 by Settle Hill Publishing.
Early life.
Dickinson was born in New York City to painter, Sidney Dickinson and Mary Watson Dickinson and raised and educated in Pleasantville, N.Y. He graduated from Amherst College in 1953 and received a master's degree in wildlife management from Cornell University in 1955. After two years in the army as a signal corps cryptographer, he served as a wildlife biologist in Maine and in 1961 left to become a big game project leader for the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.